Does it mean anything when you have nightmares more often than usual?

I think if you are having nightmares you must have something heavy on your mind. One thing that you might do to relax your mind during your sleep, is to watch what you eat or drink before you go to bed. I know a lot of times if I drink joice or something citrusy, I will have crazy dreams and a lot of them. Maybe you could relax and watch a funny show before you go to bed. This might help what is weighing on your thoughts at night. Do you have a lot of worries? I know a lot of us do in this day and age. I hope the nightmares will stop, because I for one know that they are not any fun. Good luck to you and take care!

Very intersting answers. I never thought about the eating part as PP's have mentioned.

It clearly means thhat you're eating too much cheese before bed!

It might mean that there are many things in your mind that needs sorting out. I used to have lots of nightmares and they involved fear. I worked on that and the nightmares disappeared. Cheers!!

i think nightmares are there maybe you are stressed or distrubed by something , maybe you were worrying about something right before you sleep. try to drink some water and think of something happy before sleeping always make me dream something nice, or maybe think of something taht you are earger to look towards to like party or special diner

I do believe that dreams do have meaning. I don't know how I distinguish dreams that are just continuation of our sub conscious and dreams that do actually imply something.

I rarely have nightmares but I do have them and sometimes even wake up crying. There was this one time I went on a sci-fi/horror spree of watching tons of scarey movies oh boy not a good thing to do...lol I wouldn't even have to be asleep I would just close my eyes and see floating heads. I ended up watching disney to counter the scarey. Now I watch scarey once in awhile. I was told that the brain stores the events of the day of what we've seen and talked about and come out in our dreams all mixed up and some of them end up being nihtmares.

When I start having nightmares it usually means I'm eating too many carbs too close to bedtime. Even juice will do it to me. So I just make sure I don't have anything to eat or anything to drink but water or herbal tea about 4 hours before bedtime.