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Nightmares, those terrifying memories that resurface in dreams, can become regular occurrences, visiting people multiple times per week for months on end.
Get latest articles and stories on Science at LatestLY. In therapy, dreamers may be coached to rehearse positive versions of their most frequent nightmares, but in a study of such patients published in the journal Current Biology, researchers in Switzerland take this a step further. They found that also playing a sound one associated with a positive daytime experience Science News | Scientists Manipulate Emotions in Dreams in Attempt to Ease Nightmares.
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Leave it to the Swiss, with their Army knives, cheese and Nazi gold. Leave it, specifically, to Swiss artist Henry Fuseli whose 1781 oil painting
The Nightmare perfectly captures both the horror and helplessness of being embroiled in the muck of a bad dream. And the real genius of bad dreams? They take exterior miseries and make them interior, so parking meters become monsters. And vice versa: Your partner cheats on you in a dream, and they’re catching shade all the next day. So here’s our tribute to nights (and sometimes days) of no peace at all. Sleep tight. Or don’t.