Are Negative Dreams Preparing You to Solve Problems?

A few of my participants told me they broke up with their significant others because of the dreams that they were having during the study. So I think that people were having those types of dreams to prepare themselves for the new world we found ourselves in. And it's not just relationship problems, right? If a quarter of the time we dream about our partners, the other three quarters of the timewe could be dreaming about any number of stressful scenarios.