Is there anything more tedious than when someone says: “I had the weirdest dream last night…”? That’s always my cue to go somewhere else in my head and eye the nearest exit. All dreams are weird, OK? That’s their job. I don’t CARE about your aunt who wasn’t really your aunt but lived in a house that you used to live in as a kid and then she turned into a horse and eating her fingernails and then it was suddenly night time and you were at work except it wasn’t really work it was a soccer field and then………

Even if I was in your dream, please don’t tell me about them. ESPECIALLY if I was in your dream. People do this a lot on Twitter. I wish they wouldn’t. Please stop.

Anyway. The other day I read some interesting research on nightmares.  Very different to dreams. People tend to share them less, which is a good thing, but they can be terribly distressing. Read this……

Mamamia reader Jane Teresa Anderson is as an  internationally acclaimed dream analyst and personal development coach based in Brisbane. She writes