Please do not use in the place of a mental health professional's diagnosis.
Nightmares are definitely nags -- they can interrupt your sleep, rattle your nerves and set your heart pounding. Loosing sleep and having your body tense and ready for either fight or flight is not conducive to stress management, let alone getting back to sleep.
Getting seven or eight hours of sleep a night is crucial to your overall health and natural abilities to cope with stress. A study from the University of Warwick in London has shown that not getting enough sleep could increase your chances of an early death. And, almost perversely, getting too much sleep can also be dangerous to your health.
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