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| Raising awareness of sleep healthWhat are Nightmares ? Nightmares are vivid scary dreams. They tend to wakeyou up. They may often also stop you going back to sleepdue to fear. Many children have them, but they tend tostop between ages 9 to 11. If they keep going past thisage and are not due to stress or trauma, then the personmight keep having them for the rest of their life. Theseare known as idiopathic Nightmares (start in childhoodand not from trauma). They can also start at any age afterperiods of stress, trauma, and the start of a mental orphysical illness. A child will often dream of frighteningimaginary creatures monsters or ghosts. An adult maydream images of events which either threatening orharmful in some way.

Nightmares www.sleephealthfoundation.org.au | Raising awareness of sleep health What are nightmares? Nightmares are vivid scary dreams.

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