Pavor Nocturnus - embrace your darkness

The frequency of parasomnias and their importance in adults is often underestimated. Sleepwalking and sleep terror cause daytime sleepiness due to frequent nocturnal arousals. Night terror attacks you unexpectedly. Follow my visual path of a Nightmare. In ancient myths and legends, people are haunted by the Nightmare. The Nightmare appears in many forms and is very eerie. It attacks people at night, sits on them and presses on their chests to take their breath away. The Nightmare can therefore trigger fear of death. Shortness of breath and anxiety have a disturbing effect and you feel like you're drowning. Nowadays the phenomenon is called Pavor Nocturnus - and it is no less frightening with a scientific name. From a philosophical point of view, one is not afraid of something specific, but rather is confronted with the “nothingness of one's own existence” (Heidegger). Emotions are repressed and converted into fear. The Nightmare personifies these fears and gives the horror a face. This remains indistinct and diffuse, you cannot face the fear and therefore cannot defeat it. You are haunted by the Nightmare again and again. You stare into the familiar corners of the night and there is - nothing. But you see all the horrors of the night. Embrace your darkness to escape the Nightmare.