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Daytime stress triggers nightmares
Last reviewed: 01.07.2025
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If a person has had to experience some very intense and important events during the day, in general, gets stressed, then at night he will most likely see dreams, full of various nightmares. In other words, nightmares are a kind of remedy that can relieve the disorder that has befallen a person during wakefulness.
This is the main reason for the occurrence of nightmares after you watch movies, the plot of which is full of unpleasant pictures, horrors, scenes of violence and other negative content. Thus, it can be said with complete confidence that a person is able to attract nightmares to himself.
Nightmarish dreams are a fairly common occurrence for people who suffer from any disease (often inflammatory processes in the body) accompanied by a high body temperature. In addition, if you are taking medications that belong to a certain group, this can also provoke the appearance of terrible scenes in your dreams. If you experience such "side effects" of the medications you are taking, you must, first of all, inform your doctor who prescribed the course of treatment for you.
So, first of all, let's find out why a person needs to sleep at all? The first person who attempted to answer this question, which has not lost its relevance at all times, was the ancient Greek philosopher and thinker Aristotle. He believed that when a person completely immerses himself in sleep, he gets a truly unique opportunity to see his future.
At the very beginning of the last century, a theory was widely spread, which was as follows: when a person is awake, chemical compounds that are capable of poisoning him are supposedly concentrated in his body. And when a person sleeps, these substances enter the blood and dissolve in it, after which they are safely excreted from the body along with waste products.
Today, experts claim that none of the previously proposed theories that existed before can be considered the only correct one. It should also be noted that as of today, the most probable theory of such phenomena as sleep in general and dreams in particular is recognized. It consists in the fact that sleep is such a period of time that is required for the body, and to be precise - for the brain, to carry out the process of the so-called "information reboot". In other words, sleep is a kind of "liberator" of the brain, during which the accumulated information "garbage" is eliminated and really important events, facts and simply information are remembered. Thanks to this, preparation is carried out to start receiving new information data the next morning.
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