Nightmares In The Daytime
As a child I suffered from occasional nightmares. And for a period of time after each, I’d be anxious about falling asleep, for fear of having another. This was not a clinical condition, but an experience common among children of a certain age. I’m talking garden variety, “there’s a monster under my bed”-type stuff. Problems, worries, a scary film, an encounter with a barking dog that suddenly lunges, all can manifest themselves in the visions produced in the subconscious, as we sleep. These nocturnal…