how do atheists explain nightmare

[Gano21]

Sorta have one explaination. Influence by day, pressure, bad stuff emm... images of stuff that gets put into a dream

Here is my dream

(I had sorta weird dream where i was watching a movie called SAW though the plot had zero to do with that movie. Two guys are on a raft, but their face morph into demonic things. So they assume its a demon, but it turns out its themselves. Then there is some goth person in a city who speaks in a dialect and has the power to hear stuff from afar by putting finger to their ears. Then there is Christian group who can remove evil by doing some rituals there, while hearing demons approaching.


And i remember i commented "Well i prefer movies that are short than long... 1 hour and 11 minutes.")


And then i woke up.


So i do wonder after i woke up. How could Richard Dawkins explain that or Atheists? Of supernatural aka evil thoughts entering into you such as aka supernatural things? If evil things arent affecting us, then why do they exist like that?

[Fake Messiah]

So your question is how atheists explain that you dream of monsters? Maybe because you watched horror movies and/ or you were immersed into religion which is full of scary stuff which you then dreamed about.

You should watch lots of porn because then you will have much better and more calming dreams.

[Astreja]

Atheists live in the same world as believers, Gano. We're exposed to the same cultural memes, and those memes include monsters and demons. A character doesn't have to be real to affect our thoughts and emotions.

[ignoramus]

A nightmare -by definition, is a dream you didn't enjoy. You didn't enjoy it because it consisted of things or topics you are not comfortable with.
Whether something is a dream or a nightmare is strictly personal.I don't believe in spooky stuff, so I don't dream about them ever. But I hate dentists! So getting root canal is a nightmare for me! No godly demons necessary... Dentists ARE my REAL demons!

[no one]

Why do imaginations work? Is that what this crackpot is babbling on about?


Is the asshat factory skimping on parts in order to receive a year end bonus?

[The Valkyrie]

As a bad dream.

Case closed.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Self-important twatwaffles who can’t seem to grasp that they’ve been banned once are the TRUE nightmare.

Boru

[Rahn127]

Dreams tap memories stored in connections between brain cells, which the hippocampus tracks as they form.
Activity increases in brain regions that control movement and process optical inputs, like the visual and motor cortices, which likely create what we “see” and “do” in our dreams.
The almond-shaped amygdala helps generate feelings like fear, anger, and anxiety.
The anterior, or front, portion of the cingulate, a semicircle in the brain’s center, influences motivation and decision-making—and can switch on while we’re snoozing.
During REM, neuroscientists see suppression of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, which is critical for executive functions like directing attention, solving problems, and reasoning.

Basically, your brain is still working but it's not operating as it normally would while you are awake.
Your visual cortex can create all kinds of images and then your amygdala reacts to those images causing you to feel certain emotions.

Bad dreams can have many sources, but in my own life, I notice bad dreams when there is chaos in my life, things out of my control. My grandson has bad dreams and I've been trying to help him through it the same way I got through mine and this may not work for everyone but seems to have worked for the two of us. He tells me he hasn't had any bad dreams for at least a week and that's a beginning.

I dealt with mine by creating powers in my dreams and by realizing that they were dreams. In the dream world, I was king. I had the ability to stand up to anything and anyone in my dreams. Knowing that you can do anything you want, you still have to enact it. You still have to provide the will to do it. You have to be brave in the face of fear.

Once you can brave in difficult situations, then you can harness other attributes of your mind and help control bad dreams, even when you don't remember having them.

I don't know if this will help anyone else, but once you take control of any situation you have in your life, your fear of the unknown should diminish.

[brewer]

They are the opposite of daymare.

[zebo-the-fat]

What has having a nightmare got to do with believing in a god??