How many times do you wake up from a scary dream and think “what a lousy sleep, I had such a terrible nightmare!” 

Do you stop and think about why you had a nightmare?  What kind of stress is going on in your life at the moment?  Do you find that you have nightmares when you are under stress?
Here’s a creepy one for you:

My daughter is having a year where every direction in her life is changing.  Change, good or bad, always brings a certain level of stress with it. 

n her dream she is standing in the living room of her house.  On the floor there is a black puffy ball of what appears to be lint.  She pokes at it with a stick.  Suddenly, the ball of lint falls apart into hundreds of black spiders that run everywhere.  This is where she wakes up.   CREEPY!!!!  Made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up when she told me. 

What about dreams that occur over and over again when you are under stress?  In my recurring dream I wake up because I have an important meeting to get to.  As I raise my head from the pillow I look down and all my teeth have fallen out of my mouth.  They are scattered all over the pillow!  Not just some of my teeth………all of them.  In my dream I panic thinking “what am I going to do?  How can I go to this meeting with no teeth?”  Weird, I know, but that is one I have repeatedly when I have stress and generally when I have a decision I need to make.  When I really do wake up I feel rattled from having the dream…..again.