Well, I have a few (hopefully helpful) ideas.
Back when I used to have nightmares a lot, I developed these, and they worked pretty good. I didn't used to start a nightmare from the beginning, my dreams would just morph into one. Like, the sky/ lights would go dim and dark, the people in the dream would turn malicious or into a nightmare thing, like zombies. It was pretty terrifying, and annoying at the same time, like that time I got nightmare jacked while riding on a bike down a dirt road. Light changed to almost complete darkness and I couldn't see well, I kept riding though because I didn't want to stop in that darkness. I eventually got out of it, and was in my elementary schools playground, staring at an elf that had it's head stuck under a car.
Anyway, on to my ideas:
1. If things get too hairy, do what I used to do and kill yourself. Find something to do in the dream that would kill you in real life, and do it. Like, jumping off a really tall building (works every time), shooting yourself in the head etc. I'd always get out of nightmares like that, and my friend who doesn't actively dream has done it before. You'll either end up waking up, or moving into a different dream.
2. Ignore it. I think there's a saying somewhere that says something like "Fear only has as much power over you, as you give it" I used to use this to stop nightmares from even starting. I'd be walking along, see something frightening that was getting more and more scary, then just turn around and walk the other way and it wouldn't bother me.
3. Develop control over dreams, to the extent where you can change nightmares. I was riding down a street one day, on a bike, when the sky started to dim. I began to panic because I knew it was changing into a nightmare, the people on the sidewalks began to turn dark and come after me. I just concentrated as hard as I could, and the darkness lifted and it went back to normal. Hard to do though.
4. Or you can do my personal favorite way of dealing with nightmares: just completely rage snap on them. I don't like being forcibly scared by something, to the point where it terrifies me, it pisses me off. When I was a kid, and I'd watch a really scary movie, I'd be afraid that the monster or whatever was in the movie was around the next corner, or in the closet, and I wouldn't turn my back to open doorways and closets. Eventually I got tired of this and just went "You know what?" one day and walked directly into a closet with the lights off, and stood there, calmly telling the thing to come out.
Likewise with dreams. I was in a factory, it was night outside. There was this entire mass of smoky darkness on the streets, I could see it from the doorway. It felt like it was the embodiment of fear, I was completely scared just looking at it. After awhile though, I just left the doorway, and strode directly into it. I was completely covered in this black, smog thing, with nothing but negative, purely terrifying feelings swirling around me, and I was screaming and cursing at it, yelling for whatever was behind to come out and face me.
Another one, one of my favorite ones, involved zombies. Zombies in real life don't scare me much, but being face to face with one in a dream does. They are my most recurring nightmare creature, the second is Godzilla or a T-rex.
Anyway, I was running from some of them in the beginning. I'd had people with me I think, but not anymore. It switched and I was suddenly standing at a pencil sharpener in my old classroom. I looked over the room which was a bit bigger then a classroom. There wasn't much light. There were two groups of zombies there, one on the right with light on them, which apparently were good zombies, and one on the left with darkness on them, which were the bad ones. They were screaming and shaking their fists at each other. It sounds funny but in the dream, I was terrified because I knew I wouldn't be able to go anywhere without being killed.
I just snapped at this point. I screamed once, then started marching up the middle of the room. It was like an auditorium now, with long tables and chairs. As I was going up there, this female zombie came from my left side and tried killing me. I just pulled my hand back and backhanded her to the floor. Then I walked the rest of the way to the front. When I got there, I screamed again and yelled "Why does every dream I have, have to turn into this! I am so sick of zombies always coming into my dreams and changing them to nightmares!" then I turned towards the darkness zombies and pulled my hands back for an energy attack from Dragonball Z, like this:
http://www.e-monsite.com/dbfinal2/14...1973870750.jpg
I went "Ka-Me-Ha-Me-" while I was doing it, there was this tiny blue ball in my hands. I went "HA!" and it like flew out of my hands and hit one of the zombies in the chest. He jerked back a bit, and looked down to where I hit him. It was smoking a little. He looked back up and started laughing. Then the other zombies started. This made me even angrier so I did it again, except this time while I was doing it, I looked at the ball and thought "get bigger, get bigger" and it did. "Ka-Me-Ha-Me-HA!" and this huge blue beam ripped from my hands and blasted across the room and hit all of them like this:
http://www.revistagamer.com/wp-conte...kamehameha.jpg
It killed all of the zombies, except for the one who had I had hit first. He said "I'm a zombie, aren't you afraid of me?" and I went "Nope" and leaped forward and started slashing and cutting him with my fingernails which were long in the dream. I cut most of his skin off til he was almost a skeleton. He looked at me again and said "I'm a skeleton, aren't you afraid of me?" " and I went "Nope" again, and scratched until there was nothing left of him.
So anyway, that's all I have. Hope those help
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