Although the average person forgets 90 percent of their dreams, there are some that we can simply never forget. One of those kinds of dreams is the nightmare, or a disturbing and emotionally intense dream that wakes up from sleep. In fact, if you don't wake up, your dream is not considered a nightmare, but just a regular bad dream. So what is the most common nightmare that all of us have? It depends on which study you look at.
In one of the earliest studies on nightmares conducted by psychologist Hulsey Cason in the 1930s, a group of 258 were surveyed for degrees of similarity in their nightmares. It was revealed that: |
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