Many people have the same or a similar dream many times, over either a short period of time or their lifetime. Recurring dreams usually mean there is something in your life you've not acknowledged what is causing stress of some sort. The dream 【M1】 ______ repeats because you have not corrected the problem. Other theory is 【M2】 ______ that people who experience recurring dreams have some sort of trauma(创伤)in their past they are trying to deal. In this case, 【M3】 ______ the dreams tend to less with time. 【M4】 ______ Nightmares are dreams that are so distressing that they usually wake us up, at most partially. Nightmares can occur at any age 【M5】 ______ and are seen in children with the most frequency. Nightmares 【M6】 ______ usually cause strong feelings of fear, sad or anxiety. Their causes 【M7】 ______ are varied. Some medications cause nightmares(or cause them if you discontinue the medication abruptly). Traumatic events also cause nightmares. Treatment for recurring nightmares usually starts with interpreting what is going on in the dream and compare that with 【M8】 ______ what is happening in the person's life. Then, the person undergoes counseling address the problems that are presumably causing the 【M9】 ______ nightmare. Some sleep centers offer nightmare therapy and counseling. Another method of treating nightmares is through lucid dreaming. Through lucid dreaming, the dreamer can confront with 【M10】______ his or her attacker and, in some cases, end the nightmares. 【M1】