Been quite a while for me too. I’ve only had weird dreams for a long time. For some reason, even with the feeling of impeding death/suffering/doom/etc, I never got really scared. It was sort of like playing a game or watching a movie.
woah, i got goosebumps now… 
well, here is my worst nightmare…
i almost get some sort of tears in my eyes when i recall it, i dreamt this dream couple years ago but still it is as clear as RL itself…
it was war, me and my brother was child soldiers, we start in the training room, the army leader was writing tactics at the billboard… it was all unreal but real in the same time…
we hear screams and bombs everywhere… when the man is done he tell us to get some sleep before we march to war, it was approximately 50 children in the small “classroom” with us… we all slept very close on the floor in sleeping bags…
after sleeping for couple of hours we wake up with screams and terror… we run outside where a guard toss weapons to us… the children… as soon as we run out there are men everywhere, shooting, killing, dieing… me and my brother try to stick together as much as we can… but suddenly when i look at my side he isnt there anymore, i look everywhere for him…
atlast i found him behind a rock, i saw him, lying on the ground… all the sounds became faint… screams and shots in the background, the sky is all red… its night and dark, but at the same time everything is red, skies are filled with bloodlike colors, red shadows…
and there on the ground my brother lies breething heavily, i walk over to him in despair, he is shot multiple times, he is in shock and cant talk… i cry at his side over him… and he looks at me, with wild scared eyes, he cant manage to say a word, then suddenly…
he stops moving, his eyes stare blankly at me, my eyes are now full with tears as i turn towards the blood red heaven and scream loud… then i wake up…
still stirs me alot to think about it…
Whoa…Sureal…you have…well, surreal dreams. 
I had a pretty scary nightmare the other night, I had a FA, and I was late for work. I get up to fix my lunch for work, when I look in the refridgerator I saw these purple buritos, I grabed them, and ran out the door. I was going to a airport to pick up my car. On my way to the airport I was trying to decide rather I wanted to fly, or drive. When I finaly arrived I was still undecided. I got on a I walk into a small triangaled room, and there were two elevator doors. One elevator went to the plane, and the other one, went to the car. I still couldnt decide. So both of the doors closed, and the room I was in started going up to the celling. I realized I was actualy in the elevator shaft, and it kept getting closer to the celing. I banged on the elevator door screaming…“Stop the elevator, Im going to be crushed” but no one stoped, I woke up right before I was crushed. I think the dream has to do with some anxiety.
This is one I have a lot.
It usually is spawned by a failed reality check. When the reality check says, “This is reality”, I say to myself, “I can’t believe it! I just saw a humongous dreamsign, no it has to be a dream!” At this point, I find myself lying down, sensing something wrong, as this pulsing starts. I try to get control, but nothing happens, I then get scared into a FA, or a real awakening.
Normally I don’t have nightmares, but today I had one. In fact it was a lucid nightmare.
I was lying in my bed and realised I was dreaming. The sun was shining bright and I was lying on the bed and just looking at my room, amazed by how real everything looked. But then I lost lucidity and the dream adjusted itself to reality (In rl I closed the blinds before going to sleep) and the whole house got dark.
Something was after me. At first I screamed as loud as I could but nothing happened. Then I think I got lucid again because I tried to jump through my wall or my window to end the nightmare. It didn’t work, I jumped against the wall and it hurt pretty bad (I guess it’s my own fault because I was expecting that I couldn’t escape that easy), I even thought about writing that down when I would wake up.
My last chance was waking myself up, I had to try it a few times and when I woke up I was in SP for a few seconds.
This one was very scary for me. I absolutely hate normal screamers, but this one was too much…
ARGH! SCREAMER!
I was sitting at my computer with my cousin, and we were both happy about what was on the computer. 
Then a countdown started, a 5 second countdown. I knew what would happen, so i went semi-lucid and covered my eyes. However, when the countdown was complete i forgot to cover my ears, and all i heard was a piercing scream. I looked up and saw a mutilated face on the screen, which was the face of my cousin. I woke up absolutely terrified.
Heres a nightmare I had that was terryfing on the moment but funny at awaken.
Nightmare - A strange camping - Apr 8, 2006
We were in a big camper that we have. You know camper thhat you go with to camping. Anyway I was
in a strange parking and we were parked there. My mother and father were sitting outdoor and there
was some other old friend of my parents (JandJo,De…) . I look at them and I find one women very
attractive but I dont mind.
Im in the camper a litterally playing PSP into it. This moment last very long . I play a lot and don’y
yhink about my surrounding. Dont rememevbr however what I was playing.
Suddenly the door from the driver chair open. I look at it and its a man with two other people that need
to take the CB (you know the object that big truck have to communicat eon the road with each other)
to talk to someone. I dont mind and they say nothing at all . I just was thinking that if he just have to
take the CB theres nothing dangerous.
False thinking of mine ! Suddenly the camper begin to move really fast. My mother jump into the
camper for whatever reason (maybe save me) and my father is still at the camping. We jump into the
command and wheel but nothing work. Brakes and wheel dont work.
We are checking our surrounding and its was exactly like the man from before haved put a micro virus
into the camper that can control it. I was terrifying. The surrounding landscape is very like european
country. Theres big narrow that turn everywhere road , theres tree everywhere and look like a lots of
camping site. Theres the ocean at some point that are right beside us so its very dangerous.
Suddenly we pass by a strange camping and I know its the camping site of the enemy that put a virus
into the camper. I remember that there always a Baseball bat into the camper so if thing get rough on
vacation we could use it. So I take it and say to myself that I will fight the one that did this to us.
Suddenly we go straight into the river . We couldnt do anything. . The road is straight ahead and go into
the river for a big altitude distance. So in moment of danger I open the side door to jump into the river
if we hit it. So I dont jump while we are in the air.
I wait till the water flood and I swim throughout out of it. It was very hard to swim to the surface. It
took me 3 to 4 time to pass through the door. The camper was very moving.
After that I awake glad that I did not die.
Id like to start off by saying hi, my name is noah, but you can call me Hissy. My Nightmare is really one of the first things i can remember, and definately one of the about 3 lucid dreams I can remember.
Ok. So it happened sometime around when i was 3-4. I wake up from a nap. Its late in the evening…and I go downstairs and talk to my family and grab a snack. I take another nap, but wake up soon after it. I check around for somebody, something, but nobodys there. Not my brothers, or my parents. In despiration, I run to my parents bedroom, but no ones there. Im all alone, in the dark, and incrediably scared. This is where i woke up, panting and sweating, and run quickly downstairs, and to my delight, my familys setting on the couch. Still one of the scariest memories I have. Im sure it doesnt seem too scary to you, but its an indescrible feeling of descertedness, total helplessness. I don’t know why it freaks me out, but it does…
moved into nightmare diary since it was becoming another topic filled with nightmares 
(5 June)
Well first I have been lurking on these forums for as long as I have been trying to lucid dream, about a 2 months. Anyway last night I had a VERY vivid ND, I was in this forest that I now recognize as the one behind a family friends farm, anyway I was walking down this path and I was looking at the sky which was a brilliant dark green color, all of a sudden there were a bunch of spinning lights in the sky and the most menacing horror music I ever heard pounding through the woods, I started running and running, I can’t even explain how scared I was, it was 100X more intense then any fear I have felt in real life, I was running and running through the woods and I didint even know what I was scared of. Then I woke up in my bed, I was dripping in sweat and breathing hard, worst and most embarassing of all was I had pissed in my shorts… I don’t have a clue why I was so scared but I couldnt get back to sleep after that.
i think this type of dream must be quite common. you have the most frightening dream of your life, and wake up thinking “huh?”
your dream setting does seem quite eerie though. dark green sky, deep in a forest. what i don’t understand about dreams is why your brain does not work as it would in real life. if it did, you would (obviously?) have run to your friends house at even the slightest feeling of danger…
when i have nightmares, i sometimes wake up sweating, scared to the point of sweat. when i wake up and think about why i’m actually sweating, i realise it’s nothing and think to myself “what am i on?!”
one example is in my dream journal. lemme fetch it.
fetch
okay, so the koala bear hissed. but it’s a koala bear >.>
I have a history of being terrified of extremely stupid things in dreams. Once, for example, I was unable to get back to sleep after a dream where a girl looked at me from inside a TV set, and her eye swiveled around hand had another eye in the back. There was also one where I was scared half to death when a bead that I had dropped on the floor screamed at me and started to move. I kind of stopped telling my dreams after my parents laughed at me for that one.
Basically what I’ve found is that it really doesn’t have to be scary at all for it to scare you.
the first one was when i was being chased by someone and it felt as though as hard as i tried it was hard to run. really hard. and i was chased by a dead relative.
2nd one was when i came home from school at night ( dont know why ) and i opened the door and my family was sitting together on a very long couch and their eyes were rolled back and with bloody tears. and then i said… GUYS ??? and my whole family turned around at me in unison rapidly and thats when i was jolted awake
Oh man this reminded me of the most disturbing dream I ever had, I walked into this abandon barn out in the middle of no where, you know those things with the metal balls that you pull one back and let it fall then it bumps the rest and it keeps going? Well there was a huge one of those, but instead of metal balls there were disfigured dead babys bouncing off eachother really fast, it was a horribly evil sight.
wow that must have been terrifying
I watched the movie “Journey to the Center of the Earth”, based off a novel. I was much younger, but I had 4 dreams in the 4 consecuive nights following the movie where lava was going to kill me. You see, the thing is, the ending scene of the movie shows our heroes in a lost city under a volcano. I suppose if there’s one thing I’m scared of, it is not having anything solid beneath my feet to run on. So when the ground breaks and gives way to the lava, I get the funny feeling it could happen to me.
It was night, and a surveyor was in the street inspecting a recent crack in it with a faint orange glow coming from it. I ran out of the house after our cat in the direction of the surveyor. He warned of danger, and then the ground in front of me started breaking up. The ground was as floating icebergs in a sea of lava. I ran back home, where the ground hadn’t broken up yet. I went to the 2nd floor of the house (which also was a lighthouse or aircraft control tower. I was watching as the ground broke up all the way down the street and approached our house. I saw mom and dad in the drieway. I was like, “run guys, run!” They stood there staring up at me probably wondering, wtf? I decided to take action. I grabbed the car keys and got in the car, started it up, and took off the road perpendicular to the one that was breaking up. At this point a giant lava wave had formed and was in close pursuit. The road I was on hit a dead end, and I hit the brakes at the end. I looked out the back window of the car right as the wave of lava come crashing down on me.
Before and after going to sleep, I was hallucinating about lava pouring over the bookshelves and the ground breaking up. Totally scarry.
These days I try to fight whatever would usually scare me. I had a dream where I punched the boogyman’s face flat.
Fight what scares you. Pull out a knife and say, “you want a piece of me? I’ll cut you!!!11!1!one”
That’s my solution nowadays.
Hehe, I hope you’re not like that in real life 
My dream last night was kind of like a flashback to my grandfather’s funeral in '96, his last wishes were to see my sister and I before he died, but we couldn’t make it happen (he was ~2,000 miles away and I was in school). Since he was always dear to me it was hard going to his funeral, I was a kid so I didn’t understand death. But last night I was back in the funeral home with my family and grandmother, except all the walls floor resembeled rivited sheet metal and the body was just lying on a metal altar with a sheet over it. I was trying to speak to my grandmother but her and everyone else were just staring straight ahead, an uneasy silence set in and it felt like I was alone. I looked over at the body and he was sitting up staring me directly in the eye ( 
), then I woke up.
I wouldn’t call this a nightmare because I was more startled and shocked instead of scared. I also believe that it didn’t click that I was dreaming since it was based on a past experience (except for the really strange parts), so I wouldn’t call this a bonafide nightmare but it certainly was spooky…
I used to have recurring dreams about dinosaurs. The last dream I had of dinosaurs was a nice one though, it contained a t-rex and it was friendly. This dream, however, was quite scary.
I was in a deserted theme park with a my best friend (Steph), my brother (Neil) and some other people I didn’t recognize. The first dinosaur was a t-rex. He chased us around but there were little secret places where we could hide. We dodged him and we all fell down this dark hole and landed in a kind of cave. In the centre of it was another hole which was the top of a red slide. We had no other choice but to go down this slide.
Everyone vanished apart from Neil and I. The end of the slide was in a dark house. The t-rex was in the kitchen (behind us, I don’t know how he fitted in the room) and we were in the corner of the living room. I decided to run for it, out of the house. I would have made it but my brother ran after me. The dinosaur saw us, it sort of roared and ran after us. I woke up at this point.
I lay down in bed for a while before I decided to go back to sleep.
This time, I was with Steph and the dinosaur was an velociraptor. We both hid. Even though velociraptors can see properly (their vision isn’t based on movement like t-rexes) in the dream the dinosaur’s vision was based on movement. Steph stayed still but I moved because I didn’t want to stay anywhere near the dinosaur. It walked straight past Steph and came towards me. I woke up before it actually saw me or got the chance to kill me.
The dreams don’t feel scary now but when I dreamt them they were terrifying.