Thread: Why don't I have nightmares?

I never have any nightmares except while lucid following terrifying episodes of SP, and that only started in adulthood. So why don't I have regular nightmares? I thought everyone was supposed to have nightmares from time to time. I've even had non-lucid dreams with zombies and ghosts in them, but I wasn't afraid. Is this the case with anyone else?

I never have nightmares and I watch every horror movie that I can. I think you just dont have nightmares because you dont think of things that are scary before you fall asleep. That or, you do have nightmares, they just dont scare you. which is good i guess

btw, you're name is alex and you're from orange county?? sweet! same with me! (although I dont live there anymore.) we're like two peas in a pod! lol

Two Alexes on DV from OC, eh? Actually . . . my name is Alexis and no one calls me Alex . . .

Anyway:
Sometimes I do go to bed thinking about things that scare me. Like a couple weeks ago I watched 28 weeks later and went straight to bed afterwards. The movie scared me and I was afraid that I'd have SP or something with 28 days/weeks style zombies. And I did dream about zombies. In my dream everyone was hiding in boarded up houses like in the movie, but I was just walking around outside with the zombies like everything was cool.

I quit having nightmares when I discovered lucid dreaming. I think once you realize on a fundamental level that you are the master of your dreams, you also realize that nothing in your dreams can scare you. I used to have these really twisted psychological nightmares, where nothing appeared wrong, but I could just feel the terrible wrongness. I'd wake up in a cold sweat, and not want to go back to sleep.

Then I found out about lucid dreaming, and haven't had anything I could call a nightmare since. Just learning that I could control my dreams--whether I do or not--freed me from those dreams. Aren't you a natural lucid dreamer? That could very well be the reason you do not have nightmares.

I used to have nightmares a lot when I was a kid and when I was a preteen and now I don't have them anymore. It has to do with how protected you feel. I used to be scared at night when I was a small kid and I always had nightmares and then I went in the middle of the night to my parents' room and I slept in between them and I NEVER had nightmares. Now I feel safe in bed and I don't have nightmares.

I have would-be nightmares all the time. They just haven't scared me since I was about twelve.

Originally Posted by Man of Steel

I quit having nightmares when I discovered lucid dreaming. I think once you realize on a fundamental level that you are the master of your dreams, you also realize that nothing in your dreams can scare you. I used to have these really twisted psychological nightmares, where nothing appeared wrong, but I could just feel the terrible wrongness. I'd wake up in a cold sweat, and not want to go back to sleep.

Then I found out about lucid dreaming, and haven't had anything I could call a nightmare since. Just learning that I could control my dreams--whether I do or not--freed me from those dreams. Aren't you a natural lucid dreamer? That could very well be the reason you do not have nightmares.

I never had nightmares, not even when I was a kid (before I ever had a lucid dream). The only nightmares I've had are lucid and induced by SP. I just asked my mom to confirm in case I've forgotten something and all she remembers are my first episodes of SP; no nightmares.

Originally Posted by kingofclutch

I used to have nightmares a lot when I was a kid and when I was a preteen and now I don't have them anymore. It has to do with how protected you feel. I used to be scared at night when I was a small kid and I always had nightmares and then I went in the middle of the night to my parents' room and I slept in between them and I NEVER had nightmares. Now I feel safe in bed and I don't have nightmares.

I feel safe now when I go to bed, but when I was a kid I'd imagine monsters in my closet and skeletons under my bed. If my closet door was left open, I'd see the outline of a monster waiting to get me and I'd stay still so that it wouldn't notice me and watch it as I fell asleep. Yet I had no nightmares.

Hmm, interesting. It seems you were just blessed with an absence of nightmares, then.

I think maybe the old adage applies here, "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth."

Its a good sign. You have no worries.

I am in a very fishy situation, and I sometimes get horrible nightmares.

Being accused of murder,

Forgetting to bring my passport to an airport, and therefore missing my important flight

Failing a test

I dont dream often but when I do 20 percent are nightmares

Maybe because you forget all of your nightmares.

I enjoy them... but wouldn't that make them not really true nightmares?
They're interesting to me, because they're so much different and plot driven than anything else in real life (or dreaming).

I often have scary dreams, where I have to run away from or fight with monsters , but I'm never scared in them. It's like a game or a challenge or something. Just not scary. I had some nightmares when I was really small, usually to do with drowning.

But like nightmares are like the worst case scenarios so i cant enjoy them

but I get a great relief when I wake up

Also after I wake up from a horrible dream I think about it for a while.