Nightmares—Original Scary Story

Johns Hopkins Hospital, one of the leading centers in terms of Neurological research, and home to Neurologist Dr. Ben Carson, conducted a study some years ago.

They had test subjects sleep in chambers for extended periods of times. When someone woke up and said they had a nightmare, they would hook their heads up to a few different machines and then have the person recall their dream.

They noticed a startling trend though. Whenever a person recounted a nightmare, there was a certain part of the brain that lit up. It was the part of the brain that stores traumatic memories. But not just any memories�"memories that actually happened.

The brain was remembering a nightmare from the portion that stores real life events.

Then they tested recounting regular dreams. It came from a part of the brain that remembers fantasies and daydreams and things.

So, those nightmares you have that you think are not real...

Reviews

[Butters]

lol, I'm sure this scares the hell out of some people but as a RPSGT it kinda funny. I should tell my patients this story while I'm hooking all the electrodes to there heads. (RPSGT= sleep technician)

[Steven Cash]

oooh you should do that

[No More Angels]

owo I hope none of my nightmares come true! very creepy and it sounds like it could be real!!

[Steven Cash]

glad you enjoyed

[Amanda]

Short and nice, and probably true, which is really weird, because I would probably be dead if my nightmares really happened. :P Keep writing :)

[Steven Cash]

yep yep thanks