Dear Editor, Nightmare disorder is a mental health condition characterized by repeated occurrences of extended, well-remembered, dysphoric dreams, often involving themes of threat, that result in awakening from sleep and significant distress and impairment1 . A typical sleep occurs in two phases namely rapid eye movement stage (REM) and nonrapid eye movement stage (NREM), nightmares usually occur during REM stage of sleep cycle when brain activity nears the level of that when an individual is awake causing the experience to feel real. Research points to factors such as traumatic experiences, childhood adversities, suppression of thoughts, maladaptive beliefs, other medical conditions such as sleep apnea2. Though research points to multiple reasons for occurrence of nightmares, Spoormaker’s cognitive model explains persistence of nightmares due to formation of nightmare scripts, the repeated elements in nightmares form structures patterns in dreamers experience. The scripts contain specific expected responses that get activated to dream elements, the cycle continues even after the original stressor fades