I stay up late more often than not. Usually I'll sleep at around 2am even if I have to get up early for work.

When I was studying for my A-levels, I used to stay up until around 5am before sleeping. Around that time I had a fair few disturbing dreams a week.

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I really do think that having nightmares varies from person to person, and it's about the person alot, confidence, experience affect this.
First time I read this I thought it was actually about Owls... ergh.
There are definitely other factors involved. In psychology, it's extremely difficult to separate causation from correlation. If there is a link, then people who stay up are more likely to experience nightmares. It's not a case of if you stay up late you will have nightmares.

It could just be a correltion. For example, nightmares could be due to stress. The stress could cause one to stay up late. So the stress could be causing one to experience nightmares and also be causing one to stay up later. So the late nights and nightmares would be correlated but they wouldn't have a causal relationship. This is the kind of research which is necessary.

It's very interesting stuff and it does take me back to my A-level days (which I seem to keep mentioning... sorry).

Thanks for sharing