Quote Originally Posted by Sageous View Post
^^ Nope, I'm not nuts -- as far as I know.

I'm pretty sure that most of the discussion of nightmares is about having them, and not a listing or discussion of the nightmares themselves... I think there might be lots of people who are discussing nightmares and what to do about them who, like you, never want to revisit them by writing them down again; just as there are lots of people who rarely or never have nightmares but may feel that talking about them, and even imagining having them lucidly*, is exciting.

I never said that having the nightmares was a fun roller-coaster; I said that talking about them was "scary" fun. By saying that scary is fun, what I meant was that it seems to me that there is much more interest in talking about the scary stuff than there is in talking about pleasant stuff. I could be wrong, but, given the wealth of threads on these forums with topics like "Help me stop my nightmares," "How to incubate nightmares," "Lucid nightmares," "SP scares me," "There are demons in my dreams," etc., I think think my opinion might be well supported.

I hope you might reread my post while keeping in mind the fact that I wasn't calling the nightmares themselves fun, and maybe you'll better understand what I had to say.

Also, this was not my point may be but worth considering: Though your experience and perspective are certainly valid, keep in mind that yours is not the only sort of experience or perspective of nightmares that drive these forums. There are a few people out there who do indeed draw excitement from their nightmares, and there are more than a few people who think their dreaming lives will be more exciting -- more fun -- if they could have a nightmare now and then.



* As an aside, I believe that lucid nightmares are impossible, because the driving force behind a nightmare is that the dreamer believes they are real, and by definition a lucid dreamer knows they are not real -- but, per my point, creating nightmares in LD's is a fairly popular pursuit -- just like going to scary movies is very popular.
I see that you enjoy posting long post

As for the people you talk about, only one word come to my mind - *Masochists*.

Nah your post is fine aside from what I had bolded.

For your side note, you are right, but wrong.

I had many nightmarish lucid dreams. They started as normal DILD, but I go with the scenario instead of changing it, as second type(induced from NM's), I am too busy running to be able to change it.(let's see what you gonna do if giant spider chase you around in the dark woods)

If I try to categorize them, it will be in this order: Normal NM->vivid NM->FA NM->semi-lucid NM
There is one dark side of Semi-Lucid and Lucid Nightmare, in normal scary dreams there are some safety measures, when you are about to die,be biten,eaten they turn on-> you wake up, also most of the time pain is off. But in any lucid form, you got eaten,die or torn apart with alot of pain(aka like real world). Sorry if I scare some of the new guys on the forum They must be warned.