Anyone enjoy nightmares?

yeah- seems there is a tendency of oneironaughts to enjoy "nightmares" more. I am one of them- I enjoy most of mine because of the vibrant emotions they bring out that I might not have otherwise have gotten to feel, even though I get very few dreams that I'd classify as nightmares.

I wonder if all this "practice" has made us able to have more control even in nightmares, or indeed simply perceive them in a more detached way, or perhaps it's just that we view the same experience differently simply because we understand it more.

Perhaps it's a combination of those things and it also depends on the person and dream in question.

Personally, I don't even like the name "nightmare", what I have is "highly emotional scary dreams" ,and I practically never have even those- since I started LDing out of all my dreams I maybe had 1-2 that would qualify.

In a way I somewhat enjoy nightmares because nightmares instantly allow me to become fully lucid.

omygosh dood

nightmares are the fuckin bomb
love em
but i never have them :(((

i wish i knew how to induce them.....

Depends. I had one dream where my family was being terrorized by a cleaver-weilding poltergeist. I woke up with an adrenaline feuled grin on my face. This kind of dream I enjoy.

I also had a dream in which one of my best friends died. This one I did not enjoy so much.

yea i do not like the ones where someone i care about dies...but i dont refer to those as nightmares, i just call them sad dreams. To me, a nightmare is like being chased by a werewolf,vamp,zombie or whatever..im a huge horror movie fan, and for me its like being in the film rather than watching it.

I have never had nightmares after I discovered lucid dreaming. Even in normal dreams, I seem to be somewhat aware that they are just dreams, since I am never scared. I have had many monstrous and horrible dreams, but without the feeling of fear, they are not nightmares. I am more of interested and excited than afraid of them.

I like that kind of dreams though, even they haven't scared me for almost decade now :)

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I wonder if all this "practice" has made us able to have more control even in nightmares, or indeed simply perceive them in a more detached way, or perhaps it's just that we view the same experience differently simply because we understand it more.

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This is exactly what I was pondering about :)

I guess it depends on what the nightmares are about. If they are just normal random ideas mixed up in your head, then they arent all that bad really,well, when you wake up. But if they are memories or different scenarios of something that actually happened, then I think its a completely different thing.

I for one don't enjoy either.

I had a dream/nightmare last night. Me and my friends were in some kind of prison and there was a werewolf chasing us, slaughtering one by one (they didn't really die, it was like a game or something, I don't know its hard to explain). However NEVER through my dream was I scared, but I still got the thrill from it :D

It's like a rollercoaster ride. Such intense emotions and terror, I always get a rush from them, even if it totally freaks me out for hours after I wake up. Also I usually get lucid during nightmares so I'd rather have them than not :)