Nightmares A nightmare is frequently defined as a long, frightening dream that awakens the sleeper. The assumption underlying the use of the waking criterion in defining nightmares is that sleepers awaken from a nightmare because of the extreme intensity of the emotions experienced within it. If the magnitude of negative emotions in a dream is…

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“The only thing we have to fear is fear it’self – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified,terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”—-FDR – First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933 “One of the things which danger does to you after a time is -, well, to kill emotion.I don’t think I shall ever feel anything…

Fear (Fear) (?), n. A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion. [Obs.] Spenser.————————————————————————Fear (Fear), n. [OE. fer, feer, fere, AS. før a coming suddenly upon, fear, danger; akin to D. vaar, OHG. faØra danger, G. gefahr, Icel. faØr harm, mischief, plague, and to E. fare, peril. See Fare.] 1. A painful emotion or passion…

A- Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or bathing.Acarophobia- Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching.Acerophobia- Fear of sourness.Achluophobia- Fear of darkness.Acousticophobia- Fear of noise.Acrophobia- Fear of heights.Aerophobia- Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airbourne noxious substances.Aeroacrophobia- Fear of open high places.Aeronausiphobia- Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness.Agliophobia- Fear of pain.Agoraphobia- Fear of open…