Dreams try to change the attitude of the dreamer. When the dreamer is stubborn and fights against the dream, this causes a nightmare.

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How To Stop Nightmares

If the dreamer holds onto their attitude and fights against the dream, then the dream will increase its intensity to overpower the dreamer.

A high level of intensity or tension in a dream suggests the dreamer is dealing with a stressful neurosis – a one-sided development of the personality – which the dream is aggressively trying to fix.

Nightmares can use shock, violence, death, or extreme stress against the dreamer.

The dream wants to force the dreamer into a change in attitude about the psychological situation – symbolically expressed in the dream.

The dreamer should reflect on what caused the escalation in the dream intensity, such as an argument turning into a physical fight, and trace the symbols in the dream to ideas in their mind.

Often dreams address serious moral problems in the life of the dreamer. 

These problems are difficult to face and the harder the dreamer pushes away these problems from their mind, the harder the nightmare can bring them back.