: Why do we get nightmares ? What decides the exact events that occur in them ?

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: Why do we get nightmares ? What decides the exact events that occur in them ?

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One of the theories around dreaming is your brain trying to have its stretching and exercise.

While dreaming, you are usually doing something real enough to be a routine based on memory mixed with somethings that are imaginary and can make you do things you don’t do.

So maybe the nightmare makes you run, swim, jump, cry, use your memory, ect, but all of this is the same as a good dream, our own personal virtual reality to make our brain run through known and forgotten memory/skills.