Thread: Anyone enjoy nightmares?

Right here, my man. I don't often have nightmares, but the few I do have I'm more fascinated with than scared of. I had one a few weeks ago with this kamikaze earwig thing that actually woke me up, and when it did, I was like, "Did that seriously just wake me up? Awesome!"

For those with recurring nightmares, however, I imagine it would get on your nerves a bit. Of course, giving up dreams altogether is madness! Why not learn lucid dreaming and take control, and enjoy yourself along the way?

Usually when I have a nightmare , when I wake up i'm usually super happy that it was
just a dream, xD

I agree nightmares are awesome just after you wake up. I'm more surpised when I wake up because since I can't lucid dream yet I had thought it was real.

I HEAR YOU
I actually love nightmares, when I was little I used to hate them,
and I can actually kind of "choose" when to have a nightmare, its weird to explain
but yeah =D
AND YOU JUST GAVE ME A GREAT IDEA
I have been having trouble to become lucid in my dreams, and I haven't had a nightmare in a long time. Tonight I'll try to have a nightmare and I usually become lucid in nightmares waaay easier than in "normal" dreams (4 times lucid in nightmares, only once in lucid dreams), so tonight, I'll see if I can have a nightmare and become lucid

I rarely have nightmares but like you said, it can scare the shit out of you in the moment but when you wake up you feel such a rush. But it also sucks when you wake up from it cause then, if you're like me, you'll be too afraid to get out of bed to take to take a leak .

yea but i like that part also..idk, i guess i just like being scared...ive always been like that..when i was a kid i was addicted to horror movies.

I hate nightmares/horror movies. It usually takes me about an hour to get back to sleep xD. But give up dreams??? 0_0 no way.

I love nightmares =] and horror movies and all things scary.
For me, nightmares help induce lucids too. So that makes em doubly awesome

What other people call nightmares, never bothered me much because I was always semi-lucid since there were these impossible monsters chasing me. Its always like a great adventure.

True nightmares are things that make me cry when I wake up, or things that are depressing.

Originally Posted by amusicalheart

I love nightmares =] and horror movies and all things scary.
For me, nightmares help induce lucids too. So that makes em doubly awesome

You sound like me

Nightmares are goodtimes for sure. I have felt pain in a few of my nightmares while still in the dream and when I wake up I'm like... woah.

i like the ones when their so scary...after you wake, your scared to get up and walk through the house..ahh i love being scared though

Originally Posted by rockerboy90

i like the ones when their so scary...after you wake, your scared to get up and walk through the house..ahh i love being scared though

omg yeah those are crazy... darkness can be creep thats for sure. OMG listen to this one. I once woke up out of a deep sleep, or maybe REM sleep... whatever, and I opened my eyes and saw a figure at the end of my bed I was so scared... and I looked away and looked back, and it was still there and then I said "Hello?" I went under the blankets and composed myself and looked back out there and there was no one standing there. I saw the darkness of where the features were supposed to be as well. I was so scared, I just closed my eyes and fell asleep in fear.this happened last year and I'm 21 and I love horror movies. I wanted to literally cry. I know I was awake for sure.

lol yea..hallucination happens to me alot after i first wake up..i usually hear scary shit after i wake..but sometimes i see figures..but after i completely wake up and shake the fear off...im like "that was fuckin COOL" lol i love it

yeah but at that time I didn't even know about lucid dreaming.... and I was learning about ghosts! A few nights before that happened I had researched the shit out of them, and I never knew about dreams... well hardly. So in my mind it was real... I wanted to kill myself lmao well not really, like not in the emo way type thign.

Im not really a believer in ghosts..i think there is a rational explanation for all the paranormal things people talk about..ghosts,UFO's and all of that stuff

I fucking love the feeling in your chest when you're having nightmares,
KNOW YOU'RE ALIVE! fuckkyeah.

I hated having nightmares. Once I learned about lucid dreaming every nightmare easily became a lucid dream, and once I got used to hoping for nightmares they stopped.

My, so many who don't hate nightmares, I wonder if its because of the thrill, exctiting situations, adrenaline, etc, etc in them. My fav kind of lucid, a nightmare one! Which is why I created that DC.

Heh. I actually talked to a friend of mine the other day who has recurring nightmares, and really suffers from them. And I told her that I think it's a shame she can't look at them like I do. Because whenever I have a "textbook" nightmare, I just think they're cool and exciting when I wake up. Like when i'm chased by a bunch of zombies, or a big hungry bear.

but then a few nights later I randomly dreamt that I killed my own brother in cold blood for some reason. And when I woke up from that dream I remembered what it feels like to have an "actual" nightmare. I was a mess the entire day after that. That made me feel bad about the fact that I had thought she could just find a way to "enjoy" her nightmares. Atleast now I can understand what she's going through. It's hard to enjoy nightmares when they project your worst inner fears.

yea those kind are kinda sad...but im more talking about the kinds where something is chasing me or any other typical nightmare...like the other night i had a non-lucid about a witch..it was very horrifying..but after i woke up..i was so pumped with adrenaline and still scared...but i thought it was awesome..like i said earlier..for me, its kinda like a haunted house ya know?

Originally Posted by WakingNomad

What other people call nightmares, never bothered me much because I was always semi-lucid since there were these impossible monsters chasing me. Its always like a great adventure.

True nightmares are things that make me cry when I wake up, or things that are depressing.

Stole the words right out of my post.

Nightmares sometimes make me lucid which is awesome, and even then its just like an adventure to me. I don't scare easily at all, in my dreams I always know that I am the master (even when I'm not lucid, its just like a sort of knowing that it can't really hurt me, etc., I have absolutely nothing to even remotely fear).

As you said, however, on very rare occasions dreams can turn into something genuinely horrible... stirring up an old, forgotten memory of something terrible in your life... making you horrified with yourself.

For example, IRL you are in love with this girl who you go to class with. She is so beautiful and friendly, you think about her every ay. You have a lot of dreams with her in them. In your dreams, you two spend time together, and each one feels like the romance of a lifetime. You just want to get lost in those dreams.

Then, one day, you have a different sort of dream.

It starts out like a lovely dream with this girl you like. You are walking on a beach with her at twilight, she looks at you and smiles that lovely smile, with that beutiful sparkle in her eye... and then, suddenly, she screams. Your blood run cold. You turn to her, and suddenly red gashes appear all over her body and the falls to gory bits right before your eyes.

Ugggh... those ones disturb me.

It depends on the nightmare. Some nightmares are very enjoyable afterwards but some left you feel uneasy even aften waking up and that is no fun. For instance, I had a dream last month about Vladimir Putin taking a roomful of people - inclunding me - as a hostage, asking us questions and killing us if he didn't like the answer. I was really afraid during it, but waking up was a relief but also it was funny etc. But the other end is dream's like someone close to you dying or something really dark like that that gives you a disturbing feeling are not something I can enjoy.

Wow, lots of people here enjoy nightmares. I don't. But then again, I don't really count dreams as nightmares unless I'm still freaking out when I wake up. If it's scary during the dream and then I wake up thinking, "that was awesome!" it's not really a nightmare.

The only reason I like nightmares is because they make me lucid. I don't like the actual nightmare, just the lucidity after it.