Care For Your Sleep

According to a recent research of British specialists at the University of the West of England, women see more terrible and destructive nightmares than men. The scientists assure that this is the first serious scientific study on the differences between the dreams of men and the ones of women. However, in 1993 Joe Griffin, an Irish psychologist proposed a theory that women are more affected by their nightmares than men since modern women generally suffer about twice as much depression as men.

193 volunteers of both genders were asked to tell in details about the dreams they see. According to the research, women sleep more restlessly and tend to transfer their daily worries and troubles into their dreams. “It appears that men and women differ in the frequency of nightmares – women have more – and women perceive those nightmares to be more emotionally intense..”, says Jennifer Parker, the leader of the research. “In the emotional information’s transformation process, women are much close to reflect their unsolved problems to their dreams then men,” she added.

After a continuous study of the patterns and specifics of the women’s nightmares, Jennifer Parker came up with the idea to classify the most common types of bad dreams that today’s women see at night: a loss of someone woman loves, chasing and life threatening situations, and the effects of various unexpected problems. “I believe these results show that women carry over their waking concerns into their dream life more so than men do, and they appear to have more difficulty with ’switching off’ their concerns,” Parker comments.