Welcome to DV, DancingShadow! Sounds like you are already well on your way, but if you have any questions, feel free to ask.

I guess I don't have to tell you that one person's nightmare is another person's dream, and nightmares are indeed in the eyes of the beholder. Some of my most disturbing dreams have been among my favorites, although my least favorite are those that I call "nightmares after the fact" where I do not think that anything is wrong in the dream but after I wake up I am upset about them - do you ever have any of those? Those I find not fun. But yes, there are nightmares that actually are more cool dreams than nightmares really.

Personally, I am not sure that controlling other dream characters is a good idea. First of all I also am into dream interpretation, and would like to leave some room for my subconscious ideas to express themselves even in lucid dreams. But also I disagree with people who say that moral values do not apply in dreams. For example, if one manipulates other people in dreams isn't there a danger that one might be building a subconscious habit of manipulating others which might have repercussions in waking life? That's anyway my thinking when I am awake, alas during my latest successful lucid dream I had no memory of such high folutin' intensions, and I simply disintegrated a dream character because I thought I did not need him anymore. And to be honest I did not feel guilty about it because I was quite aware that he was completely not a real person. So I guess I contradict myself.

I look forward to interacting with you on the forum, DancingShadows!