Good afternoon, everyone. It's Dr. Niagara again, our next episode of Psychology Unplugged. Thank you, as always, to all of our followers, both nationally and internationally. It's a pleasure and a privilege to be able to do this program every week, covering a wide array of topics, both clinical in nature, some existential in nature,

educational, because we have such a broad audience. Like I say, I do my best to talk in a way

that people who want to take notes or using this for their education or helping

themselves to better understand a condition that they may be struggling with or someone

that in relationship may be struggling with.

So I appreciate the continued feedback.

And as always, it is a pleasure to do this and thank you for continuing to embark

on this as we begin to enter our fourth year of psychology implugged next year never thinking it

will get to the level that it has and true sincere appreciation to all of you guys

who follow this program. So today's topic is going to be kind of interesting because I'm going

something I really haven't talked about before, but one that I've diagnosed a couple times

in the last few weeks.

And it's not a very common diagnosis, but one that does exist.

And I think everybody can relate to this at some level is nightmare disorder.

Yes, we do actually have a disorder in the DSM for nightmares.

So let me give you some of the diagnostic criteria to actually meet the criteria to be formally diagnosed with nightmare disorder.

So nightmares, if you've had them a bad dream, they're scary.

And they feel like, they feel real. And dreams are something that we really don't understand.

The classic book, Forage interpretation of of dreams I think you can easily get carried away with symbolism and you know what's that uh yeah Carl young the big

red book if you have that or have access to look at that young was he

was an interesting fellow but he was you talked about no the archiotypes but the

big red book it actually it actually is a big red book I have a copy of one of our

...