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But you can rest easy knowing that the fascinating origin of the word nightmare makes it clear humans have been having them for hundreds of years.In Old English, a mare was a kind of evil or cursed spirit. Mares appear in all kinds of folklore, including German and Slavic stories. Mares were said to ride on people's chests at night, causing suffocation and bad dreams. These mares, often female, were known as nightmares (because they came at night).By the 16th century, the word nightmare came to refer to a sensation of suffocation or anxiety during sleep, and now simply a bad dream. While nightmares are terrifying, there is good news: at least most of us don't worry about evil spirits trying to suffocate us in our sleep anymore.The roots of these other words may get a rise—of laughter or surprise—out of you. Run on over to our roundup of them at \"Weird Word Origins That Will Make Your Family Laugh.\"","type":"usage-wordpress"}],"ordinal":1,"origin":{"id":"55680c4e00000003a0004210","source":"dcom","text":"Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; night, mare ²","type":"origin"},"partOfSpeechBlocks":[{"definitions":[{"id":"55680c4e00000003a0004206","ordinal":1,"source":"random-house","synonyms":[{"entry":{"headword":"phantasmagoria","slug":"phantasmagoria"}}],"text":"a terrifying dream in which the dreamer experiences feelings of helplessness, extreme anxiety, sorrow, etc."},{"examples":[{"sentence":"the nightmare of his years in prison."}],"id":"55680c4e00000003a0004208","ordinal":2,"source":"random-house","text":"a condition, thought, or experience suggestive of a nightmare."},{"id":"55680c4e00000003a000420b","ordinal":3,"source":"random-house","tags":[{"tag":"Mythology","type":"category"}],"text":"(formerly) a monster or evil spirit believed to oppress persons during sleep."}],"id":"55680c4e00000003a0004203","ordinal":1,"partOfSpeech":"noun"}],"pronunciationSets":[{"id":"55680c4e00000003a00041fd","lang":"en","ordinal":1,"pronunciations":[{"audio":{"flac":"N01/N0140600/N0140600.flac","mpeg":"N01/N0140600/N0140600.mp3","ogg":"N01/N0140600/N0140600.ogg","wav":"N01/N0140600/N0140600.wav"},"id":"55680c4e00000003a00041fe","ipa":{"text":"ˈnaɪtˌmɛər"},"phonetic":{"boldIndices":[0,1,2,3,4],"html":"nahyt-mair","text":"nahyt-mair"}}],"region":"us"}],"slug":"nightmare","source":"dcom","type":"dcom"}],"type":"dcom"}],"meta":{"arg":"nightmare","requestId":"SB-bYn1f8IMGJK-_Dh_Zo","requestStatus":"fulfilled"}},{"type":"fetchSpellSuggestions/fulfilled","payload":{"data":{"lunaWithSlug":[{"displayForm":"nightmare","slug":"nightmare"},{"displayForm":"nightjar","slug":"nightjar"},{"displayForm":"nightmarish","slug":"nightmarish"},{"displayForm":"night safe","slug":"night-safe"},{"displayForm":"nightscape","slug":"nightscape"},{"displayForm":"nightshade","slug":"nightshade"},{"displayForm":"Wightman","slug":"wightman"},{"displayForm":"nightcap","slug":"nightcap"},{"displayForm":"nightfall","slug":"nightfall"},{"displayForm":"nighthawk","slug":"nighthawk"},{"displayForm":"nightie","slug":"nightie"}],"tunaWithSlug":[{"displayForm":"nightmare","slug":"nightmare"},{"displayForm":"nightmares","slug":"nightmares"},{"displayForm":"nightmarish","slug":"nightmarish"},{"displayForm":"nightcap","slug":"nightcap"},{"displayForm":"nightery","slug":"nightery"},{"displayForm":"nightfall","slug":"nightfall"},{"displayForm":"nighthawk","slug":"nighthawk"},{"displayForm":"nightie","slug":"nightie"},{"displayForm":"nightrobe","slug":"nightrobe"},{"displayForm":"nighttide","slug":"nighttide"},{"displayForm":"nighttime","slug":"nighttime"}]}},"meta":{"arg":{"word":"nightmare"},"requestId":"Q7KZ8JE9bTvq6btXEPKBe","requestStatus":"fulfilled"}}]},"actionData":null,"errors":null}

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