Bad Dreams-Causes and Solutions

When I was a kid we used to go to our grandmothers house every year. But I always try to avoid a long stay at her place. The reason behind it was a nightmare. I used to get the same nightmare every night and it used to come only when I was there at her place. It was so scary that I used to wake up at midnight and hold my mother tight so that I won't see that dream again. This carried on for a long time and after some years I stopped getting that dream. This always made me wonder why do we have bad breams. But today after searching on this topic I have come up with lots of possibility on the causes of bad dreams and their relation with our daily life. So, let's have a peep into our dreams to find out the reasons and facts about their occurrence.

What Causes Bad Dreams

Bad dreams are very common in children than in adults. This is because children are exposed to new things everyday and they look at them according to their perception. But this doesn't mean that the adults do not have bad dreams. Approximately 70% of the adults have bad dreams at least once in a month. We have different stages of sleep and we get nightmare in the REM sleep or rapid eye moment sleep.