The Nightmare is an oil on canvas painting by Henry Fuseli made in 1781. This was made during the Enlightenment movement in the 17th century or the “Age of Reason” in England. This oil painting depicts a sleeping woman with an incubus sitting on her chest, with a mare in the background, looking upon the scene. Different interpretations of this art piece relate to different beliefs, which most relate to some form of a Christian religion. One interpretation states that this is what occurs if someone were to sleep alone, especially a woman. An incubus, demons who rape women and impregnates them, sits upon the woman. When men slept alone, they were visited by a horse and women who slept alone were raped by the devil. Another interpretation would