Monday, December 17, 2007

Nightmares

Posted by Jordan Krage at 12:30 AM

Why are they called Nightmares? Was the first one about a horse?

1 comment:

Kevin Rach said...

That is unlikely. According to the Oxford English Dictionary--

1. a. A female spirit or monster supposed to settle on and produce a feeling of suffocation in a sleeping person or animal. Also fig. Now rare.

I don't know much about the topic, but having shared sleeping space with members of the opposite sex, I am not at all surprised to find that this arose from feelings of crowdedness, suffocation, and terror-- particularly upon waking up the next morning.

...It also doesn't help if she is, in fact, a horse.

December 17, 2007 at 12:39 AM

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