Nightmares

Sigmund Freud believed that dreams give people a way to deal with painful material that we cannot deal with consciously. Other psychologists assert that nightmares prepare us for the stress and anxiety which we face in waking life. Perhaps nightmares should not elicit feelings of dread but rather solace in the idea that these “bad dreams” serve a beneficial purpose in our conscious minds. This series explores our darkest dreams as photographic images, ranging from the “typical” nightmares experienced universally to the deeply personal.