Hi Ainsley!

I'm sorry to hear about your nightmares....the good news is, lucid dreaming is incredibly helpful for dealing with nightmares. Once you are lucid, you can confront those nightmares--eve ask them why they exist and what they mean. Once confronted, a nightmare will typically disappear forever.

It's good that you laready have great dream recall though. That's pretty much the first step to lucid dreaming. Do you keep a dream journal yet? Dream journals are extremely helpful in getting lucids. You can even keep one here for DVers to read and comment on in the Dream Journal section.