Take heart, it happens to all of us. By John Bittleston We all get nightmares. When you're young they can frighten you badly. As you get older you normally learn to cope with them, though they can be a source of real anxiety for some. The worst nightmares are those in which you are falling, falling, or running desperately with very heavy feet, seeming to make no progress in escaping from the pursuer.
Some people get daymares, too.
They can be even worse. They are usually the culmination of a series of individually quite trivial events - rejections, stupid mistakes, forgotten schedules, aggressive contacts. They pile on top of each other until you begin to wonder if there is something wrong with you. Mostly we call it 'having a bad day' or 'not my week'. Sometimes it gets more serious than that.