Originally posted by MartinB

Anyways, I was just wondering if this is a normal reaction to such situations? It just seems weird that I get scared in dreams set within a war scenario or a killer alien scenario, but I have no problems when Armageddon is about to occur or even the entire universe is about to collapse.
Perhaps this is not as symbolic as you may be thinking it is. Getting killed in a war or even by killer aliens are both a lot more likely than the universe ending, and therefore easier to be scared by.