Bad dreams can adversely affect your morning mood, but not if a little joy is sprinkled into your slumber, a recent study reveals.
People who had bad dreams due to poor sleep were more likely to be in a rotten state of mind the following morning, according to a study published by scholars at the University of Kasnas on March 13, 2026.
According to the researchers, if dreams mixed fear and joy, people had a 20% higher likelihood of waking with a placid state of mind. Interestingly, people who were better at managing their emotions tended to experience greater fear in their dreams. One of the experts mentioned that they had found two distinct results in their research. On the day-to-day level, more acute fear in dreams was linked to a worse mood the following morning. However, people who reported using more adaptive emotion regulation strategies showed, on average, higher levels of fear in their dreams.
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The American Psychological Association has more insights on the issue of nightmares in adults. For the study, their team evaluated dream efforts from more than 500 individuals, compared their emotions, and compared their emotional state the next morning. The results showed that people with insomnia or other sleep problems have more difficulty falling asleep. In case they fell asleep, they experienced bad dreams. As long as sleep is not disrupted, it does not really affect dream patterns or morning mood.
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