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Are you on any medications? Ask your doctor or a pharmacist what the contraindications are or Google it and look for side effects. I took a medication once that gave me whopper nightmares and that was considered normal.
What kind of books or movies do you read or watch before going to bed?
What do you listen to while you sleep? I left my radio on once and never do that any more. Dreamed I was lost in space and dying woke up scared silly to some university scientist guy on talk radio discussing black holes!
During our waking hours, our five senses are constantly conveying information and images to the brain, but during sleep this is not the case. The brain generates images within itself without any external sensory input. Therefore, what we see in dreams and the actions we experience in them are at times like hallucinations.
Disturbing experiences while we are awake can emerge in our dreams, causing nightmares. Common things that are on our minds when we go to sleep can surface in our dreams.
Sometimes when we are trying to solve a problem, the solution comes to us during sleep. This may reflect that not all sleep consists of dreaming. A portion of it is thinking. Since it seems that dreams originate principally within the brain, it is not reasonable to think that they have special messages for us. We should view them as a normal function of the brain that helps maintain it in a healthful condition.
On the other hand, if your sleep is often disturbed by nightmares, rather than looking for any meaning in them, it might be better to look for possible causes of them in your way of life. How true what the Bible says: “For because of abundance of occupation there are dreams”!—Eccl. 5:7 .Be aware of what you focus on during the day. Prayer is good.
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