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Nightmare vs. Nightmarey — What's the Difference?

Nightmare vs. Nightmarey — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Nightmare and Nightmarey

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Nightmare

A nightmare, also called a bad dream, is an unpleasant dream that can cause a strong emotional response from the mind, typically fear but also despair, anxiety or great sadness. However, psychological nomenclature differentiates between nightmares and bad dreams; specifically, people remain asleep during bad dreams, whereas nightmares can awaken individuals.

Nightmarey

Alternative spelling of nightmary.

Nightmare

A dream arousing feelings of intense fear, horror, and distress.

Nightmare

An event or experience that is intensely distressing.

Nightmare

A demon or spirit once thought to plague sleeping people.
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Nightmare

A demon or monster, thought to plague people while they slept and cause a feeling of suffocation and terror during sleep.

Nightmare

A feeling of extreme anxiety or suffocation experienced during sleep; Sleep paralysis.

Nightmare

A very bad or frightening dream.
I had a nightmare that I tried to run but could neither move nor breathe.

Nightmare

(figuratively) Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure.
Cleaning up after identity theft can be a nightmare of phone calls and letters.

Nightmare

To have a nightmare.

Nightmare

A fiend or incubus formerly supposed to cause trouble in sleep.

Nightmare

A trerrifying or oppressive dream characterized by a sense of helplessness in the face of danger, extreme uneasiness or discomfort (as of weight on the chest or stomach, impossibility of motion or speech, etc.) or extreme anxiety, from which one wakes in a troubled state of mind.

Nightmare

Any overwhelming, oppressive, or terrifying experience resembling a nightmare{2} especially in the inability to escape from an unpleasant situation.

Nightmare

A situation resembling a terrifying dream

Nightmare

A terrifying or deeply upsetting dream

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