re: What's up with having all these crazy realistic nightmares?

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Maybe it's just a thing?

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It may be and it possibly is just a stage of adjustment in your life. The nightmares will probably go away on their own.

However, I've always felt that when a person is having nightmares consistently for a lengthy period, he has something in his life that needs to be confronted and put into perspective. Nightmares are not normal. They can be debilitating and should be looked at as symptoms of a problem.

Now, having made that dark comment, it's important to say that the problem causing the nightmares isn't necessarily as ominous as you might think. Someone asked when you ate. It could be as simple as eating food too close to bedtime, for example.

Nightmares can be caused by both mental and physical disturbances to the rhythm of life we need for good sleep. While they're common, they're not good for you and should be seen as a reason to examine your life's patterns.

The opposite of nightmares are those dreams that make us look forward to going to sleep. My personal favorite is flying. After a night about dreaming of flying, I have an incredibly positive attitude that little can disrupt in my waking hours.