"Don't let your little sister watch this horror movie." Mom told me. "Why not?" I asked. Mom looked at me like I was brain dead. “Because she’ll end up having nightmares.” I'm sure if you have a much younger sibling, you've heard this statement at one point or another; or something more similar. However, many of us have nightmares, not just with small children; and I believe that nightmares in everyone are caused by fears and emotions that occur in our unconscious minds when we are awake, which when we dream become conchious. During my research, I came across an article by Michale Schredl which contained several very interesting tables. Understood. One of these tables explained that "42.2% of people who were asked how often they had nightmares said they NEVER had nightmares." Schredl, (2010). However, a major flaw with this article was that they never talked about those who simply couldn't remember their dreams, so they might have assumed that they never had them. This could explain why this “42.2%” was very far from my initial estimate. I thought this percentage would have been significantly lower, but, now thinking about the fact that those who don't remember their dreams, it makes a little more sense as to why this percentage is so high. Before I thought about it, I assumed that with all the media and ways we can now see and read horror stories and movies, it would definitely have caused a huge increase in the number of people having nightmares . However, when we look at another graph, we see that "horror movies only contribute to 18.9% of all nightmares." Schredl, M. (2010). But we find that “something as common as a fall causes 39.5% of all nightmares.” Schredl, M. (2010). Agian, if we look at another of Schredl's graphs we see that he...... middle of paper...... now you are not supposed to stay in that place. I can see, I feel like the main cause of nightmares is due to outside stressors and/or fears that may or may not be conchieve while you are awake. Although few people have nightmares like I originally thought, some may have interpersonal nightmares that can still be explained by interpreting the metaphors that come from your daily stressors and fears. Works Cited Hill, CE, Spangler, P., Sim, W. and Baumann, E. (2007). Interpersonal dream content in relation to the process and outcome of single sessions using the Hill Dream model. Dreaming, 17 (1), 1-19. Schredl, M. (2010). Nightmare frequency and nightmare topics in a representative German sample. European Archives of Psychiatry & Clinical Neuroscience, 260(8), 569. Retrieved November 20, 2013 from the Academic One File database.