Can watching a scary movie or eating certain types of food before bed give you bad dreams?
Sometimes yes, because our dreams try to make sense of our daytime experiences. It is easy to say “That dream wasn’t important. I only dreamt about that monster because I saw the movie before bed” – but all dreams are important. Have a think about ALL the things you experience in one day. Why would you only dream about some of these? Have a think about a movie and all the things which happen in it. Why would you only dream about one of the monsters? Why didn’t you dream about something else you saw on TV that night? Of course you know the answer. You probably dreamt about the monster because it made you feel fear -even though you KNEW it was a movie. (You got goosebumps, right?!) So that fear you felt while watching the movie matched with other fears in your mind and you went to bed to dream about ‘fear and the best way to handle it’. The monster slipped easily into your dream as a dramatic SYMBOL of ‘something that I fear’. See how it works? A good dream interpreter can look at this k
