While everybody would want to see the dreams that take them into a magical and happy world, some people also face tragic and disturbing nightmares while they are deep asleep. Actually, dreams only come when you are into a deeper phase of your sleep that is also called the REM (random eye movement) sleep. However, let us try to understand why some people often see nightmares instead of sweet dreams and wake up terrified and scared.
The human mind is a complex structure that would forever remain a mystery in spite of countless attempts by several scientists to unscramble it and find the underlying cause of certain mysterious details like dreams. Everyone has dreams while sleeping! Many even tend to remember their dreams vividly even after waking up. And while the frequency of occurrence of these dreams would vary from individual to individual, the basic question of ‘Why do we dream?’ remains unanswered!Several researches conducted in the matter reveal several theories for the same, the more common of which are given below.
