Anxiety dreams
How many of your dreams are delightful, inspiring, creative, and uplifting? How many are mundane? How many are terrifying nightmares? And how many are stressful – not exactly in the scary nightmare category, but unsettling, anxiety-ridden dreams? It’s estimated that over half our dreams are ‘anxiety dreams’, although it’s possible that we sleep through many of our more pleasant dreams and tend to remember those that wake us up: the nightmares and stressful dreams. When
Nightmares and lost sleep
In my work as a dream therapist, I’ve noticed that more than half of first time appointments are booked by people suffering nightmares and lost sleep, or on behalf of their children who are plagued by scary dreams and fear of going to bed. Sometimes all it takes is one chilling nightmare for someone to seek out a professional consultation, especially a dream that scares the dreamer into wondering if they, or the person they’ve