The science behind dreams can be used to discover the different types of dreams and how different age groups dream and how different genders dream. Different types of dreams consist of daydreams, nightmares, lucid dreams, normal dreams, etc. Both men and women dream somewhat differently about what they dream about. Adults and children also tend to dream differently. There are different types of dreams. There are nightmares and daydreams. Daydreams are technically not dreams because they are only when someone is awake and simply daydreaming. A nightmare or night terror, on the other hand, occurs when someone experiences feelings of great terror and intense fear in a dream. In fact, many people daydream regularly, “studies indicate that as many as 96% of adults engage in at least one attack of daily fantasies” (Whitbourne 1). Sometimes the bad dreams are scary enough to wake the person of startle. Almost everyone can have nightmares or night terrors. People who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder can suffer from night terrors. Traumatic events are often addressed in dreams , his nightmares would be more likely related to this. “About 25% of children ages 5 to 12 report being woken up by bad dreams at least once a week.” (Anger 1) When you have night terrors, you usually scream and writhe and it is usually difficult to wake the person. When people know they are dreaming, it is called lucid dreaming. Sometimes they are able to direct their dreams in a certain direction . If you can check it, it's shiny. People can do pretty much anything they want in a dream with practice. “Dreams that mimic real-life trauma indicate… halfway through the article… what researchers have studied for reader to learn the science behind dreaming. The brain during the dreaming process is different from the brain of someone who is awake. “Sigmund Freud theorized that dreams are the expression of unconscious desires often arising from childhood.” (Kantrowitz 2) Pain can also occur from your dreams. Whatever the sensations of your dreams, they can reflect how you feel during the day. “A dream is an intermediate product of the thought process. It is a phenomenon that occurs at the threshold of consciousness in the process of awakening or falling asleep. It appears when the lights of consciousness dim or when they are about to light up and is characteristic of this state of mind (Gutheil 17).