Nightmares Linked to Faster Ageing and Premature Mortality (emjreviews.com)

Sounds like the kind of thing that, if the people with nightmares know this, it could give them more nightmares.

For the last maybe 20 years, I rarely even dream, or rarely remember my dreams. But I'm also fairly accepting of, and reactive to, the reality with which I'm presented, no matter how dark the timeline seems to be. I don't know if these things are correlated though.

Interesting how I was reading an article yesterday talking about how cheese/dairy might give people nightmares, linked to GI distress and lactose intolerance.

It could be a factor that GI distress and food intolerances contribute to nightmares due to additional stress and inflammation within the body, causing premature mortality over the course of someone's life.

In most of my dreams, I die. So probably the dreams are telling my future

A lot of people have reported that taking Elysium Health's Basis, an NAD+ supplement, made their dreams more boring. Perhaps Basis/NAD+ has some potential for reducing nightmares? Anecdata: it happened to me, took years after I stopped for my dreams to start getting interesting again.

Something interesting I noticed is that when I cut all caffeine from my diet, I started to remember my dreams again (and sleep much better).

Before I had children, I regularly had nightmares in which I felt an incredible, consuming guilt. Usually the dream started quite normal, and suddenly I "remembered" in the dream that I had killed many, many people in the past and that I had just suppressed this memory for years. The rest of the dream was then usually spent in agony because of the guilt, or in disbelief that the police still hadn't found me. Sometimes some investigator suspected me, and I had to flee from the police or invent alibis.

The dreams stopped right around when my first child was born. Never had them since.

Interesting. I've had nonstop nightmares, or nightly entertainment as I view it most nights, for 45 years.

I don't think I've aged faster than expected that cannot be explained by a lack of serious exercise.