The withdrawal process that comes with going off of drugs, alcohol, or certain medications can cause nightmares and a whole host of other physical and mental symptoms. The brain is used to depending on a regularly administered substance to feel a certain way, and when that substance is gone, the brain goes to war, trying to re-establish some sort of balance. A brain at war with itself is a brain that is more prone to nightmares and other sleep disturbances.

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