I guess the dreams I remember that scared me the most happened when I was 6-8 years old. They were both inspired by episodes of TV shows that I watched.

The first was like the episode of "Lost in Space" where the Robot grows to large economy size, and Will and Dr. Smith have to go inside the Robot to fix what's wrong. When they get inside they discover that Robot has an "immune system" of sorts; roving laser cannons ready to blast any "infection". In the dream, I'm don't recall if I was myself, or one of the characters, but I remember running and hiding from those frackin' lasers!

The other I recall even less about, but it had to do with the lava-creature from the Star Trek episode (original series) where they apparently meet Abraham Lincoln and several other historical figures. That alien was creepy!

Ever since my first lucid at 8-9 years-old, I think my mind has decided that, lucid or not, my dreams can't hurt me -- so it doesn't allow me to get scared when I'm dreaming. Mind you, I've had a lot of dreams about being in situations that would be scare in real life. But for some reason, even if I'm not lucid, it doesn't really frighten me.

Strangely, about the closest I've come to being scared during a dream anytime in recent history was last night. I dreamt that I was driving down one of our local freeways, in the high-speed lane. Suddenly, I saw headlights coming at me in my lane. I couldn't change to the right, so I moved left into the HOV lane, and passed about four cars all in a row going the wrong way, but all in that same lane. Then I found myself going too fast approaching a curve, and I couldn't keep it on the road. The car went sailing through the air at which point I began to feel scared in the dream. But also at that point, the dream switched to 3rd person -- still a relatively new thing for me -- and I think that eliminated the fear (though I still didn't become lucid ), because I certainly didn't wake up in a panic.

OFF-TOPIC: I also had my first LD in a while last night (early Fri. morning). Unfortunately I was too lazy to get up and write it down, so I don't recall much. But I do recall being with someone else, and I get the impression it was a DV member. I remember saying something like "You know we're both dreaming.", getting a positive response, and both of us going flying together.

Hrm... sorry, that went on longer than I intended.