Oddly enough, I seem to be completely unable to invoke nightmares, or anything reasonably "scary" in the typical sense of the word for that matter.
Half of my lucid dreams are dark. Black as night. Walking around in these is dreadful; the "off" feeling, a terrible air of apprehension and suspense, is omnipresent. I'll always try to find a light area (and it has to have been lit beforehand, as light switches rarely work) but rarely do I manage to. Either way, though, the result is always the same: I never get attacked. For all the eerie atmosphere it's worth, there are no monsters of any sort lurking with me.
Sometimes I try to will such a monster into existence, just to get it over with. This too always fails. Sometimes I'll be reminded of the possibility of a LD turning into a nightmare, and will immediately try to will a monster into existence (since then it can't surprise me) but this fails as well.
In hindsight, my nightmares are likely not haunted by boogeymen but by their absence. And the absence of everything else, for that matter. The worst dreams are either the ones where I am alone and cannot find anyone (and in the "dark" dreams, finding light always means finding people as well) or I am with people, typically ones I know, that ignore me. That might be why I can't will monsters into existence in those; if my darkest fear is being alone, shoving a monster in there would contradict the point.
To put it more plainly: I've tried, and failed. The closest I got was one particular LD where staying in a certain place for too long would result in being attacked (after which you would die and "respawn" somewhat nearby), and I decided to stay in that area For Science. The first time, I was surrounded and attacked by an army of skeletons and killed (painlessly). The second time, the skeletons "teleported" to me and slew me again, also painlessly. The third time was apparently my brain telling me to get a move on, because it summoned massive, ridiculously muscular horses that trampled me while gibbering in a demonic language. Fun! But aside from that one instance, no, I haven't invoked nightmares.
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