Women Have Nightmares, Men Dream of Sex

[HopeHoops]

Source: Live Science, via Yahoo News

Women have more nightmares than men, a British researcher says, but men are more likely to dream about sex.
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Women's nightmares can be broadly divided into three categories: fearful dreams (being chased or life threatened), losing a loved one or confused dreams, Parker said.
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Men's dreams contained more references to sexual activity, Parker said, and men reported more actual intercourse, while women reported more kissing and sexual fantasies about other dream characters.


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I've been with my wife 24 years and while I don't particularly dream about sex, she definitely has more nightmares. This has been speculated for a long time so it is interesting to see a study that validates the perception.

[mcctatas]

1. I used to dream about having sex with Tucker Carlson

which pretty much qualifies as a nightmare, right?

[HopeHoops]

7. OUCH!

[BlueCaliDem]

17. ROFLMBO!

:spray: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[cosmicone]

30. In a related research, it was determined that men are

more likely to pee standing up.

[Dr.Phool]

34. You're lucky. I had a nightmare about Michelle Malkin.

:puke:

[Hello_Kitty]

2. Jesus Tap Dancing Christ, the bullshit they give grant money to.

Not a damn day goes by where there's not yet another study about The Differences Between Men And Women.

[RandomKoolzip]

6. Seriously. Can't this money be spent on something that actually benefits people?

[happygoluckytoyou]

19. in a related story---- MEN were found to act like MEN, women on the other hand, much more like women

[happygoluckytoyou]

20. *** A LIST OF OTHER IMPORTANT STUDIES AND THEIR RESULTS****

dogs were found to eat more meat than they eat vegetables
sarah palin was found to eat more meat than vegetables
................conclusion---- sarah palin IS a pitbull

a year was found to have 365 days

people were found to get tired of askin THE SAME question

taller people were found to have more height than shorter people

------------------ dont worry america... we got a study for everyone who wants one

[Runcible Spoon]

21. Totally agreed.

Disgusting waste of money and, arguably, "brainpower".

[Behind the Aegis]

56. Totally disagree.

I don't see it as a waste of money. Rather, it is an insight into issues and concerns of the "sexual divide." Also, it was part of a dissertation, and I saw nothing that indicated money was used. It is possibly no money was used at all, if this were the case, does that change your opinion? I feel things like this expose an on-going, and IMHO, disturbing division between the sexes.

[xocet]

24. Across the Channel

I read the article, but obviously missed the outrageous sum of money frittered away on this study. I need to focus my outrage a little more intensely, so could one of my fine fellows here please provide the sum total of frittered-away grant money to me?

Also, I am damn mad about the money wasted on the study of tulips in Holland!!

[knixphan]

52. seconded!

[guitar man]

3. lol at that headline

does that mean my wife and I are having the same dreams? :rofl:

[TwilightGardener]

4. Really, is there any instance where women have it better?

Answer is no--except maybe when it comes down to who has to go into the crawlspace to thaw a frozen pipe. I would think most men usually lose that one.

[Elidor]

5. Odd, I've only dreamt of sex maybe 3 times in my life

WHY AM I BEING LEFT OUT?

[HopeHoops]

8. (that was my thought)

[YOY]

9. I dream both frequently...usually not at the same time.

n.t.

[Lucian]

10. I don't dream of sex all that much and I'm a male.

Hell, I have more nightmares than dreams about sex.

:scared: @ the Zombie Apocalypse nightmares...

[Zynx]

11. I maybe have a sex dream once every three or four months.

I have nightmares much more frequently than that. Sometimes about weird sex. ;-)

[Warpy]

12. I can laugh at nightmares when I wake up

which is probably why I have so few. In fact, sometimes I've laughed during the nightmare, just at the sheer absurdity of the situation.

The dreams I can't stand are what I call the "counting dreams," when I'm under pressure to count something and keep being distracted and having to start at the beginning, or of being stuck on an endless phone tree, having to enter too many numbers on a tiny keypad with arthritic fingers and having to start over again and again. These dreams are exhausting and I wake up in worse shape than I was in when I went to bed. While I have often been lucid enough to exit a nightmare through laughter, I have never been able to exit one of those damned, endless counting things.

[Political_Junkie]

27. I've had those dreams in the past.

Usually when I'm under a lot of stress.

[sakabatou]

13. How odd

My SO, Mia, dreams good dreams ;)

[Blue_Tires]

14. i'm always falling, being chased, or lost in a maze

[snooper2]

15. I usually dream of running from the cops...

Riding on a riding lawnmower down 55 South in the snow :rofl:



at least that was the other night :)

[benld74]

16. I have dreams that I am dreaming!?

[foxfeet]

47. It's called "lucid dreaming." Google it.

[conspirator]

59. Interesting. I used to have those. You need literally to wake up twice

In the dream and then for real

[happygoluckytoyou]

18. As a gay man---- I have nightmares about having sex...

[Texano78704]

22. Could it be...

Because men dream about sex, that women have nightmares? I hope not.

[Seedersandleechers]

23. What about violent dreams?

I have a lot of dreams that are extremely violent; and I'm a very peaceful, passive kinda person.

I guess violent dreams could be considered nightmares, huh..

[alfredo]

25. For Malkin and Coulter: May all your dreams come true.

Women's nightmares can be broadly divided into three categories: fearful dreams (being chased or life threatened), losing a loved one or confused dreams, Parker said.

[Botany]

26. I dream that I am addicted to site called D.U.

Where one post is too many ... and 10,000 is to few

:rofl:

[Political_Junkie]

28. As women get older

they have will have more nightmares triggered by a rise in body temperature due to menopause. If you see your wife is having a nightmare try stealing her blankets! ;)

[nebenaube]

33. bunk.... n/t

[Political_Junkie]

37. I was speaking from experience.

.

[NashVegas]

51. I Have More Dreams About Things That

*Could* be nightmares, but lucky for me my 'fight or flight' now works more towards the 'fight' end. Most of the bad guys get dispatched.

[GliderGuider]

29. In real life, however...

On the eighth day God was looking down over his creation when he spotted Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. He says to them, "I've got a couple of leftovers which I might as well hand out to you. I can't decide who should have what, so the person who shouts loudest gets the first choice. The first item is the ability to pee standing up."
Adam immediately jumps up and down shouting, "Me me me! I want that!"
So God gives it to him.
"Damn," thinks Eve, "that sounds really good. I should've shouted louder."
"Well Eve," says God, "I guess you get the multiple orgasms."

[cobalt1999]

31. I think it depends more on the age of the guys

As a teenager, I dreamed about sex fairly often (especially if I wasn't getting any).

As a middle-aged married guy, RARELY do I dream about sex.

[dugaresa]

32. The failing to attend class all semester dream....I finally have gotten past that one

it has taken decades...

now that is a nightmare

[PassingFair]

35. Ha ha.

I never had those in school, but in
my job we are "evaluated" eight times
a year in front of our co-workers.

I have frequently had dreams of being
in those "meetings" totally unprepared.

[Dumak]

39. I have had the same dream many times.

Completely *forgetting* to every attend a particular class.
I have also had recurring dreams about loose/broken teeth.
I almost never dream about sex, and if I do they end way too early.
Most nights, I don't have any dream that I recall. Otherwise they are mostly confused dreams, and that's fine with me.

[Bonescrat]

48. Wow. I have the same dreams...

Forgot a class and never went.
Teeth loose and falling out (although I don't think they've ever actually fallen out in a dream).
Very rarely sexual.

I also have dreams where I need to move quickly either to get to somewhere/thing or to get away from somewhere/thing. But I can't move quickly. Like trying to run through waist deep molasses...

And most nights, no dreams at all (that I remember anyway)...

Weird...

[Lorien]

63. I have the very same dreams, plus "end of the world" dreams

ever since Reagan. I've heard that the teeth dream is about the fear of growing older or losing our looks, and the missing the class all semester dream is about unfinished business and missed opportunities. Not sure about the others. :shrug:

[No Elephants]

40. I missed that class that semester, too!

[NickB79]

49. Oh God, that one has had me waking up hyperventilating

I was out with my old RA from college last week and he started talking about the exact same dream!

[blonndee]

60. I still have that one. I can imagine it's going to come back more frequently

once I re-enter grad school this fall. Yikes. I HATE that one.

[Lorien]

62. Hey, I just had that one a few nights ago! And I'm 43

college was a long time ago, but I still keep having that nightmare!

[Sultana]

36. I dreamt about sex last night

But it was so disappointing :D

I also dreamt that I missed my flight, ohhhhhh nooooooo...

[vanamonde]

38. If I dream I'm having sex with Ann Coulter, does that count as a nightmare too?

Ghoulish...

[Yavapai]

46. No,

If you are dreaming about having sex with Ann Coulter, you are probably dreaming about her giving you a blow job, and that means she isn't talking during that time! I would think of that as pleasant dreams about how you are helping to save America's airwaves from her venomous pollution and such.

Thank you for your sacrifice!!!

[No Elephants]

41. Next year's study on dreams will contradict this study.

[glinda]

42. I dreamt about Raum Emanuel and the whole staff last week and

it was weird. They were all just conducting business seriously. Not a nightmare but definitely not sexual. I think it was a stress release dream.

[AnneD]

43. RN's have

Nursemares.

1) they wake up to a beeping pump.

2) they wake up dreaming that it is the end of the shift and they didn't realize that they have the patient in room so and so and they haven't been there for the entire shift.

3) wake up reliving the latest traumatic event that happened to them.

I am sure there are more but those I remember.

[JayMusgrove]

44. What if I'm a guy and I have both kinds of dreams????

Does this mean I am half man half woman?

[Occam Bandage]

45. I dream in mostly nightmares. nt

[MadMaddie]

50. I wonder how they selected the women....

I rarely have nightmares.....just sayin!!:smoke:

[treestar]

53. LOL, Women always have it worse when there is a "scientific" study

[Lilith Velkor]

54. I have way more sex dreams than nightmares

I must be a guy. :eyes:

[BreweryYardRat]

55. Uh, not in my case.

Lots of screaming nightmares and thrashing in my sleep, very little in the way of sex dreams.

[mnhtnbb]

57. Very interesting. I reported a dream to hubby (who is a shrink)

recently in which my interpretation related to being vulnerable. (I dreamed I was in a car accident
and on the spot surgery was necessary) He interpreted it as a dream wanting sex! If that didn't reinforce to me that all shrinks think about is sex, well, then, it must be because he's male!

:rofl:

[onager]

58. "Life threatened" dream just last night

I'm a male, BTW.

Usually I don't, or barely, remember dreams. This one was so scary it woke me up. I was surrounded, trapped and absolutely convinced I was going to die.

I often have fun trying to figure out the source of my dreams, and this one was easy. Late last night I watched the 2007 movie An American Crime.

It's based on a true and absolutely horrifying story--the 1965 torture/murder of 16-year-old Sylvia Likens.

I can watch all manner of traditional horror/gore movies and not think twice about them. This one was more affecting, maybe, because it was true. In fact, today I looked up some web sites about the case. If anything, the movie minimized the actual horror of what took place.

[struggle4progress]

61. He: "I dreamed I had sex with her." Her: "I had the same dream. It was a nightmare."

[mokawanis]

64. I married Barbara Striesand

and I also had graphc dreams about Heather Locklear and Farrah Fawcett, odd because I was never found any of them particularly attractive.