0 a very frightening dream -- mareritt [ neuter ]
I used to have nightmares about ghosts. Jeg pleide å ha mareritt om spøkelser.
1 [ singular ]a very bad situation -- mareritt [ neuter ]
2 a frightening dream -- mareritt
I had a nightmare about being strangled.
Another 21% of the veterans' war nightmares contained plausible war sequences that conceivably could have happened but had not actually occurred.
Gradually, the nightmares change into increasingly modified versions of the event.
First, dreams and especially nightmares consist of vivid images that seem perfectly real.
Images of youth were as potent in dreams of a stable past as they were in nightmares of a disordered present.
The swearing of a ntam oath reminded the elders or others present of their past shame, misfor tune, nightmares, or sorrowful historical events.
Recurrent dreams and nightmares are often like this.
In sum, the data indicate that many recurrent dreams, and possibly nightmares, do not include situations critical for physical survival and reproductive success.
I agree, but would rather say that the threat-simulation system is more sensitive or more highly activated in individuals with chronic nightmares.
