Are Nightmares Better Than Pleasant Dreams?

Are dreams more real when you are vulnerable? Right after a breakup we worry about everything. Our brain tries to calm us down and organize our thoughts

...but these fears come out in dreams.

They mix themselves up with something ordinary that has happened to us perhaps that same day,
or
something obscure
we have seen
on TV, like a
frothy dress.

Our thoughts are all over the place doing a two-step with our emotions causing a strange story to emerge that we call a dream.

Or
 a
 nightmare.

 Our dreams don’t make too much sense but they are a way of calming our emotions and organizing and cleansing our confused minds. After a separation, every day is a healing day and we often don’t recognize that our body and brain are doing everything they can to help us recover. We go to bed thinking about the one we loved and lost and we have wonderful dreams about them. We dream that we are still together and slowly, as we open our eyes we remember hard, cold reality – we broke up and we miss them.

Is it worth having just a taste of something we can’t have? Is it better to wake up after spending a few minutes of a dream with the one you love, only to lose them again once the dream fades away, or is it better just to have a scary dream?

Here’s what I think – I’d rather have a dream where I am chased by an axe murderer with three eyes and a drooling smile than to dream that I was walking hand in hand with my ex, only to lose them again when reality kicks in.

...So tell that axe murderer I’ll meet him tonight in my dreams.