Nightmares, a glitch in the system

I agree with Freud's notion on dreams.  I agree that there are ways our minds work to protect us from sleep.  However, like glitches in a system, our minds aren't perfect.  We dream in odd ways to perplex our minds, as if we're distracting ourselves from the idea that is bothering us so that we aren't woken up and disturbed from our sleep.  Maybe, sometimes our minds work in the wrong direction and in the process of creating a dream that will not awake us, our minds accidentally create a something that does the opposite, a nightmare. It is not as if the process as stopped, but rather just went in the wrong direction.  

Any thoughts?

Response to "Another Class-Influenced Thought Experiment"

This post regards a really interesting way of viewing our conversation on the way consumerism and production run our society.  It is true, holidays have taken a turn  away from  their religious meanings and have become a huge part of our society in a consumerism way.  Certain products come out in massive amounts during certain holidays and then you rarely see them on the self until the holiday is back again.  I wonder how this effects the producers who make these products, do the candy corn makers or Santa hat companies only get one shot at making  the big bucks a year?