Dreamways

Is there anything good to be said about sleep nightmares? Typically, the response to this would be a thunderous and incredulous: "NO!  ARE YOU KIDDING?!?  Nightmares are confusing, disturbing, terrifying!  They are unpleasant - PERIOD!"  Nightmares fall way outside the control of our rational mind.  They throw us into uncomfortable  and threatening situations, where we are not in control, But there can be value in these sleep events, precisely in the fact that they upset our equilibrium.  Nightmares tell us that something about a status quo is not beneficial for us and needs to be examined.  If we learn to explore their content, we can learn about what it is that we are ignoring threatens our well-being, and what we need to do in order to create a new, more resilient balance.