Foreclosures and Unemployment Nightmares Haunting People More and More in the Post Recession Period

Doctors and psychologists have noticed that there has been an increase in their clients reporting nightmares related to foreclosures and unemployment haunting them during the post recession period. Financial insecurity and fears of losing their homes – the basic need of human beings since pristine days are leading to these disturbances. Work is the key to security and thus it is not surprising that many of the nightmares revolve around jobs and colleagues.

Forty year old Sonia D'Alarcao of Bridge-water in Massachusetts came to know in 2009 that massive cuts in budget could lead to the axing of many jobs in the non-profit agency where she is employed.

For months she had nightmares about her own worth and capability. In one notable scene there was a garden sale where she took for the chief financial officer of her agency many sized baskets to contain flowers, urging this person to make use of the most costly flower, an orchid, in the smallest basket.

D'Alarcao being only 5’1" typified her feelings in the dream with an item having a high value being pushed into a container that was small. In the dream she also found herself unable to buy knickknacks as the coins that she had was not legal tender – useless Portuguese coins. She herself is partly Portuguese. It hinted that her qualities were not of much value in the present scenario.

Clinical psychologist Deirdre Barrett of Harvard Medical School and editor of Dreaming said that what people have on their minds is translated into dreams. Those who have survived traumatic situations like accident or rape often have nightmares about tidal waves etc. Those strongly inclined towards sports will see athletic themed dreams. One close to the family will see family members in their dreams.

Some researchers and psychologists however opine that dreams are something more than mirrors. They illuminate what is worrying people and prompt solutions to it – something that has failed them during hours of waking.

Till now there has been no scientific study published on dreams assisting people cope with problems relating to dreams. Research is going on about how dreams can help or harm people during times of crisis like a divorce.

Although scientific evidence is still lacking, dreams could help in the understanding the deep seated reactions of people during these troubled days when the economy is battered. Rosalind Cartwright of Rush University Medical Center (Professor Emeritus) said that wakeful attention and dreams while sleeping "are collaborative and interdependent".

Karen Anne, has been working on ForeclosureListings.com studying the foreclosures market, helping buyers on the finer points of foreclosures. Try to visit ForeclosureListings.com and search foreclosure listings.