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Among the crises highlighted was AI encroachment, the subject of science and technology category winner Karen Hao’s “Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026

The 17-year-old student's "silly little song" Nightmares has been included alongside the likes of Coldplay, Billie Eilish and Kasabian on the soundtrack of one of the country's best-selling video games, FC 25.

From BBC • Oct. 21, 2024

Nightmares can be echoes of the stressful experiences people are having in their waking hours.

From Scientific American • Oct. 5, 2023

This year’s Seattle Film Festival has many fabulous programs, and one of 2023’s crown jewels is the retrospective “Dreams and Nightmares: The Films of David Lynch.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 24, 2023

Nightmares of the day Princess Myrcella had sailed still troubled her sleep; dark suffocating dreams that woke her in the black of night, struggling for breath.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin