Sorry to read that you have been having nightmares recently. =/ I don't think I have ever died in a dream or nightmare, so any frightening dream I consider a nightmare. A lot of people use nightmares to become lucid, so maybe you can use that to your advantage if it happens again. I can understand why you wouldn't want to write down your nightmares in your DJ.

If you dream about lucid dreaming, that means that you're close to having another LD. How often do you dream about LDing?