{"id":212096,"date":"2025-04-22T14:19:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T19:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/why-are-recurring-dreams-usually-nightmares"},"modified":"2025-04-22T14:19:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T19:19:35","slug":"why-are-recurring-dreams-usually-nightmares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/why-are-recurring-dreams-usually-nightmares","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Recurring Dreams Usually Nightmares?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-are-recurring-dreams-usually-nightmares2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recurring dreams may feature taking a test the dreamer didn\u2019t study for, having to make a speech or being attacked. Here\u2019s why our sleeping brain comes back to these unpleasant dreams again and again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recurring dreams may feature taking a test the dreamer didn\u2019t study for, having to make a speech or being attacked. Here\u2019s why our sleeping brain comes back to these unpleasant dreams again and again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}