Definitions for nightmares
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1. nightmares

   A nightmare, also known as a bad dream, is an unpleasant dream that can cause a strong emotional response from the mind, typically fear but also despair, anxiety or great sadness. The dream may contain situations of discomfort, psychological or physical terror, or panic. After a nightmare, a person will often awaken in a state of distress and may be unable to return to sleep for a short period of time. Recurrent nightmares may require medical help, as they can interfere with sleeping patterns and cause insomnia. Nightmares can have physical causes such as sleeping in an uncomfortable position or having a fever, or psychological causes such as stress or anxiety. Eating before going to sleep, which triggers an increase in the body's metabolism and brain activity, can be a potential stimulus for nightmares.The prevalence of nightmares in children (5–12 years old) is between 20 and 30%, and for adults is between 8 and 30%. In common language, the meaning of nightmare has extended as a metaphor to many bad things, such as a bad situation or a scary monster or person.

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1. Nightmares

   When strange things begin happening to the students at Sunnydale High, it seems that everyone is living their worst nightmares. Buffy and the gang must hold together to stop the phenomena before reality and the nightmare world become one.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of nightmares in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of nightmares in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of nightmares in a Sentence

1. President Obama on Thursday:

   For many of them, the war goes on in the flashbacks that come rushing forward, and the nightmares that don't go away.

2. Abu Khdeir:

   I told the judge that you need to give the maximum punishment for these murderers and not to be lenient with them, my wife and I are having nightmares in the middle of the night when we think about what has happened to our son.

3. Commissioner Michael S. Piwowar:

   The rules will spin a complex web of provisions and requirements for compliance. I fear that many traps for the unwary are hidden in the regulations, creating potential nightmares for small business owners that fail to place regulatory compliance at the top of their business plans, such burdens will spook many small businesses from pursuing crowdfunding as a viable path to raising capital.

4. Antonette Acupinpin:

   Until now, I still have nightmares, i had to balance my psychological well-being, my mental battles, by talking to psychologists. At some points, it still comes back to me.

5. Anne Germain:

   There are plenty of data supporting the idea that nightmares that become chronic are very detrimental to well-being -- sleep is disrupted, we think about dreams during the day and become distressed.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmares
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=nightmares