falling, being chased, teeth falling out.

During these particularly stressful times,

you may be having more nightmares than usual and nightmares can

really seriously ruin a good night's sleep but worry not there are ways to beat

them and get back to restful nights. Welcome back to savvy psychologist.

I'm your host Dr. Jade Wu,

and every week I'll help you meet life's challenges

with evidence-based research,

a sympathetic ear, and zero judgment. You are being chased by a monster. It always

seems to be just two steps behind. You run and run and your whole body on fire

with fear and you cannot shake your pursuer.

Your teeth start rattling and falling out.

Then somehow you're on stage under a spotlight and you realize you're not wearing pants and everyone in the audience is staring at you.

Hopefully you haven't experienced any of these events in real life,

but I wouldn't be surprised to hear you've gone through at least one of these common themes in dreamland and woken up in a cold sweat with your heart pounding.

Nightmare are mysterious. Folklore from around the world has attributed nightmares to be demons, the souls of dead people who are wronged in life, and spirits with all sorts of malicious intent.

Nowadays, although we haven't fully self-tilled all sorts of malicious intent.

Nowadays, although we haven't fully solved the mystery of why nightmares exist and how they

come about, we know that there are intense mental activity that happens mostly during rapid eye movement sleep.

Or REM sleep for short. Usually we experience nightmares as very vivid dreams that are

terrifying or upsetting.

And naturally, they can disrupt our sleep

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