Quote Originally Posted by MoonageDaydream View Post
...But nightmares (with intense fear) can trigger lucidity for me. Do they ever trigger it for you?
I suppose they do, sort of. As an arguable side-effect to my LD'ing practice, I haven't had a full-blown nightmare in decades. Should nightmarish images or emotions appear these days, I immediately know that those images are not real, and that this is a dream, and the terror that accompanies a nightmare simply does not well up in me (I think you really must believe an image is real in order for it to truly scare you).

Also, it's been a while so I could be wrong, but I don't believe nightmares triggered lucidity for me back in the beginning (and I used to have them quite often when I was young).