User blog comment:Insanity Creeps/Your nightmares?/@comment-6761334-20130704080739

Anymore, when I have nightmares they tend to be fairly mundane. Missing a test, late for work, back in highschool or some other petty thing not worth going into detail about. A few months ago I did have a semi-lucid nightmare where my mind realized it was a nightmare and then turned everything that was going on (I don't recall what) into a garish cartoon world. I actually woke up because the cartoon world was more scary. I also recently had a dream that suddenly transformed into a musical. Once my brain realized it was concentrating on making all the characters in the dream sing and dance hte illusion was broken and I woke up.

It's been awhile since I had a nightmare that was really earthshattering. I should mention that I always dream in color, almost always my dreams are in the first person (though I may believe myself to be a different individual), and my dreams usually have a plot of sorts. When I do have a recuring dream I can sometimes realize that I am in a plot I have seen before. My dreams may included elements that are surreal, but usually they are fairly grounded or maintain some level of internal plausability.

The dreams I had as a kid were sometimes a bit different. One of the more vivid dreams that I can still recall was essentially a zombie movie, before I knew what a zombie movie was. If someone in the dream stubbed their toe, their body would inflate and swell until they looked like humansized balloony bowling balls. I ran around trying to avoid them and watching all the people I cared about turning into those things. For someone who was about 5, this was the most terrifying thing imaginable.