I know it sounds strang purposley wanting to have a nightmare, but I havnt had one in a good while. I might have nightmares, but I dont think they scare me as much. Of corse if i do have a nightmare, ill be scared as hell at the time, and Ill probley cut some lights on, and wish I never had it. I think nightmares have away of making you stronger, and plus it would be nice to have one loged in my DJ.
Hello kava,
It is not strange to purposley want to nightmare. I use to crave nighmares. Well, maybe I am a freak at times.
I’ll tell you what works for me. When I do this, I am 99.9%gauranteed a great nightmare:
Do what-ever it takes to be very exaughsted at the end of the day. (Waking up way too early and excercizing like a vicious maniac for 6 hours striaght usually works for me.)
Then, when you feel that you will drop dead into your bed…first, eat a whole lot of food. more than your stomach could possibly hold. Eat untill it is so painful that you cannot take another bite.
Go to bed and have
“Sweet” dreams.
…Six…
Watch a really scary movie perhaps 
Interesting technique #Six, never heard of that. Do you have any tips on how to induce nightmares with slightly less effort though, because that’s quite an ordeal.
I agree it’s not strange to want nightmares. For a lot of people (me included), I find that they are the only times when I feel any real fear, because lots of people’s lives in the west are so safe now (i’m not saying this is bad though!). What’s your worst nightmare ever? I was once happily walking along a street pondering whether to go into a fast food restuarant when I turned around instinctively due to a scream to see a woman get crushed to death by a bus. Her body bounced about under the wheels. I woke up instantly and the emotion of sheer horror was still very strong after half an hour, now that was an interesting experience that I hope I don’t ever get when i’m awake!
Eat cheese…
Lots of it…
Though this could backfire and you could just end up dreaming about eating cheese…
One of my favourite nightmares was when I was being chased by this weird monster thing. Though being me, I eventually succeeded in killing it (when it jumped for me, I ducked and it fell right off the large building).
I woke up feeling really good about myself 
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Though I admit, most nightmares usualy end with you dying (for me, I usually just give and walk towards whatever it is trying to kill me).
Nightmares I DON’T like though are the ones where I have no control over the situation (so I can’t run away or whatever).
I [u][i]HATE[/u][/i] true nightmares (by my definition). The last one I had was when I was in high school and I watched the first three “Nightmare on Elm Street” movies in succession. The first was pretty stupid, the second one was worse, but the third was so… disturbing shudders I can’t walk past anything NOES related without some sort of recollection of the nightmares I had. They were bad enough to make me not want to go to sleep, and that never happens!
So, movies with “disturbing” images or ideas should do the trick. About the most I can handle nowadays w/out getting too creeped out is “13 Ghosts”, but for the most part, I shy away from horror flicks. Hoped that… helped.
(I should write about that experience in my DJ…)
incubate something scary while falling asleep… just constantly think of things that make you scared, if your thoughts wander bring them back to whatever it was you were thinking.
if you kept it on your mind well enough, theres a much better chance it will show up in your dream.
I remember starting same topic long time ago.This has very similar replies (cheese , movies, incubation) and to be honest it never worked for me(might be not the methods but my insensitivity).
Whats new here is "Waking up way too early and excercizing like a vicious maniac for 6 hours striaght "- but that seems like a way to NDE more than nighmare:)I pass on it.
I remember also the post advicing to go out at night and wander in dark,scary suspicious places where creatures of the night crawl…heheh…smart idea but the chance of ending up in hospital with a knife in your neck is just too big.
Anyways,its good topic,we know its much more easier to have ld from a nightmare,additionally those dreams are usually vivid and easy to remember.Plus the adrenaline rush.
Keep posting your ideas.
Man, I want to have nightmares too! The worst I’ve ever had was seeing a haunted house. I probably don’t have nightmares because I’m not afraid of the media. I just don’t see how anybody can be afraid of something that says “this is a work of fiction” at the end.
I find that the majority of times that I have nightmares is when the temperature of my room is very high.
So a hot room temp might help to induce a nightmare.
this seems to be true for a lot of people. my girlfriend has a lot of nightmares when the temperature is high.
i used to get them from awkward sleeping positions too, where i couldn’t breathe right or my hand would be tangled up in sheets. hasn’t happened in a while.
I went to rotten.com, and viewed some horrofing pics, and believe me they were intence. I never go there, I only went there this time to try, and have a nightmare. I allso went to a funeral websight, and viewed caskets, because they give me the creeps. No nightmare. I would suggest not visiting rotten.com, its a pretty freaky websight.
Been there (most teens in my school have) years ago. It’s disgusting, but not especially scary.
Pet cemetary, and alot of Stephen King movies may be good to induce one. I remmber a nightmare I had a long time ago about a haunted house, and everything in the house was black, the pictures were spinning on the wall, I woke up screaming…“stop”
lol pet cemetary that was a good movie, it hurt me when he got his foot cut by the scalple 
I think the scarest part in pet cemetary, was when they were at the funeral of his son, and his father in law starts fighting, and the coffin gets knoked over. Stephen King has away of bringing out the darkside of humans, and thats what makes his storys so scary.
I don’t know how this is possible. When it comes to lucid dreaming, I think all you have to have is doubt. Like if you see someone, an immediat thought that they are a killer, might actually make them start to act like a killer and come after you. I don’t know how well that would actually work while dreaming, because how can you be scared of something you know is not real. I say just watch scary movies or something.
tell a dream character he is a killer, then scream at him and run away, running makes it even more horrifying…
I just thought about something that might work. You can manifest a killer like we have said, and then somehow make yourself non-lucid.
Lol
“Have an ld,then go into nonld to have ld out of it”
One of the reasons we want nighmares is that its easier to become lucid in them.
As to ppl wanting lucid nightmares,i dont know.