Sleep More Than 9 Hours? You May Have More Nightmares

Nightmares after a traumatizing experience might not have anything to do with stress. 

That's just one surprising finding to come out of what New Scientist calls "one of the largest ever studies of nightmares in the general population." 

To better understand why some people who've suffered trauma have bad dreams and some don't, Oxford researchers gathered information on 846 people—including alcohol intake, amount of sleep, life struggles, and tendency to worry—then asked them to answer questions about the frequency and severity of their nightmares. They discovered that worrying before sleep boosted the chance of a person having a nightmare. But so did too much sleep, per the study in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.

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