“A nightmare? That’s actually a failed dream”: where do scary dreams come from and what do they mean? | sleep better

Do you know that feeling? In the middle of the night you suddenly dream of a dead end street in a strange city where you are being chased by shady characters? And just before a shot goes off, you wake up. In other words: you fall off a cliff and you keep falling. Until suddenly you get up on the bed. Psychoanalyst Carmen Duytschaever explains the phenomenon of nightmares – because it keeps you awake, of course: “If the things you dream about become too real, you wake up. And that’s actually not the intention.