Nightmares Trending In r/Toddlers: Why Are So Many Dreaming Of The Same Bad Guys?

These posts seem to pop up in waves across r/toddlers, r/beyondthebump, r/mommit, r/daddit, r/newparents, r/paranormal.

At first they were entertaining, but at some point the amount of similarities in the specifics became too weird. I haven't tallied up any numbers yet, but I can tell you the frequency of these has increased tremendously over the last 2 years.

We're born as blank slates - so how are all these babies getting their heads filled with fear so quickly? Why isn't this fear on the level of creative imagination we'd imagine from this age?

Why isn't it just like, mean unicorn? Or maybe getting left somewhere alone? Why is it specifically "scary shadow man in the corner with red eyes", across so many children? And why is there so much synchronization in the time that the nightmares occur?

If all of these are only happening in their heads, how are their innocent baby brains coming up with identical experiences that no child would ever choose to experience?

What's driving their minds to be forced to experience this horror world during dreams, so constantly?

What's keeping these babies from having control over their dreams , what's keeping them from having good dreams?

It's interesting to note that at 4pm and 4am, our brains reach peak biophoton emission, the light emitted by our DNA.

So it's really interesting that hundreds of babies and toddlers are having meltdowns or claiming to see shadows at that time - because that's also the time when their bodies would be emitting the brightest light.

4AEM?

Red eyes, yellow eyes, scary man and shadow people

.....I mean....

Spiderman

Now, this one I actually don't see too often across baby/child specific subs, but it's interesting because one time I asked my dad if he had any nightmares when he was a kid that he still remembers today.

He told me it was about giant spiders covering his ceiling and coming down onto him. He was hysterical and his parents couldn't figure out why. It freaked me out because I had read posts on Reddit from people experiencing the exact same thing - and he's in his 70s.

Why are babies and toddlers so fixated on bedroom corners?

Here it's also interesting to note that all religious buildings historically were constructed to have no corners in any ceilings. Not just for the sound resonance, but also so that there was no stagnant energy - nothing brought in that didn't flow out.

The "other mama"

This one is just weird as hell.

Sudden, middle of the night hysterics

What's even weirder about the descriptions of the "bad guys" is that their descriptions normal align, down to the detail, with SO MANY posts and comments made in in r/sleepparalysis, r/schizophrenia, r/paranormal and r/visualsnow.