We all get the occasional nightmare. For people with nightmare disorder, however, nightmares become a nightly parade of terror.
Therapy is the answer, typically something called imagery redirection therapy, where you mentally rehearse your nightmares and then change them to something better.
But a new study shows that associating a pleasant sound with something good and then playing it into your ears during REM sleep dramatically reduces nightmares.
Amusingly, they used the piano chord C9. But I suppose you could use any sound you liked. Because ya gotta hack your brain to get rid of nightmares.
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