Nightmares more happens to kids than adults

If the child had the episodes of nightmares, he or she might be traumatized into something. Same thing with adult people, they are in this kind of situation if they are overloaded of stress.

I don't know of which age level had more nightmares, adult or kids. I know that dreams are subconscious messages to the person. Also some manifestations towards the physical status. Children probably feel physical pain, and the are conscious about it, so the have nightmares about it. Adults just ignore the pains and may have this nightmares but totally unaware of it. Children probably is more outspoken of what they dream, and adults don't. An adult mind perhaps have more "baggage" like, worries at work, relationship, troubles, happiness, excitement and all, when waking, forgetting about the dreams or nightmares that they had been into. As for kids, since their brains are still fresh still can remember what dreams or nightmares they had. Children remember what they watched so they create these imagery to their minds and these are becoming the nightmares. Adult can already process, the reality and fantasy.

Yes, I kinda believe in this research. I think this has something to do with the child's more active brain activities. They tend to imagine and think of so many things before they sleep and they cannot control themselves thinking these, unlike adults. Haha I don't know. I'm not reall sure.

Yeap,I do think so,I think the reason is that they just have the ability to imagine something and have the sense of fear.So when they heard a story about ghosts or something terrible,they cannot easily forget and feel worried about it,which brings to their dreams.But I should say when we adults who are highly stressed from the work or have something heavy in mind,they may have nightmare also.

Nightmare is an unpleasant dream.. Now, why do we get dreams ? when some situation or something happened during the day which was not pleasant to us or we were not able to achieve a particular one which we wanted. So, adults can get nightmares . Now why do children get nightmares ? during their growing ages, children have every oppurtunity to learn/see / gauge / judge new things .. One amongst them can be a situation / person / thing which could make the children scared and they same image would come in the nightmares.. I used to get nightmares while I was a child as though I am drowning in the water because river / pool was a fantasy for me.. ( yeah, there were not much cartoon shows for me to get afraid of few of the characters. ) Now, I get nightmares as though my job is gone and I am financially deserted .

Nightmare is an unpleasant dream.. Now, why do we get dreams ? when some situation or something happened during the day which was not pleasant to us or we were not able to achieve a particular one which we wanted. So, adults can get nightmares . Now why do children get nightmares ? during their growing ages, children have every oppurtunity to learn/see / gauge / judge new things .. One amongst them can be a situation / person / thing which could make the children scared and they same image would come in the nightmares.. I used to get nightmares while I was a child as though I am drowning in the water because river / pool was a fantasy for me.. ( yeah, there were not much cartoon shows for me to get afraid of few of the characters. ) Now, I get nightmares as though my job is gone and I am financially deserted .

I disagree, I have found that I have had more nightmares as an adult than as a child, mind you I blame that mostly on medication, some medications have nightmares as side affects, and boy did I experience some horrific ones, I had to change the medication because they were soooo bad.

I think statistically, yes. Children typically have more nightmares than adults do. Though I do believe you'll find some adults who have lots of nightmares and some children who have close to none. Personally, I had much more nightmares when I was a kid. Sometime in middle school, I had nightmares every night for weeks on end and then suddenly they stopped. It was like someone had flipped a switch in my head, it was the strangest thing. I rarely have nightmares anymore, and when I do they're less scary-monster nightmares and more situational nightmares that I could actually find myself in during real day-to-day life.

I agree, as a child I was scared of more things therefore I had more nightmares about them; Now that I am and adult I am not scared of the things that scared me when I was a child, so I don't have nightmares anymore.