I need to write them down or tell them into a tape recorder. Steven King has written a lot of his works based on his nightmares. If you want to induce nightmares sleep in a cold room.

Now that I think about it... my nightmares ended when I gave up trying to be religious like my family and parents.

I can't share the article from a paid CME site but nightmares are common across the lifespan and occur more commonly with stress. THey are only considered to be pathological if they interfere with a person's function

Rarely.

I still have dreams about, or related to when my father beat me as a child. Dreams of helplessness to defend myself are bad, but the ones where I’m unable to help my friends a family are worse.

I used to have very vivid dreams and nightmares in color every night, not so much any more. But I still have dreams that carry the same theme and occasional nightmares.

As a child, I had recurring nightmares that were like a Salvador Dali painting. After my divorce from my first wife (who had borderline personality disorder and made life miserable), I had nightmares involving her for almost 20 years.

I don't remember my dreams - and I'm okay with that. That means no bad ones.

Not often. Maybe if I have the flu. Or a bad taco.

I dream often, have repetitive and serial dreams, with nightmare events occasionally remembering them.

I have a lot of dreams every night, and some of them are negative, and some are positive. Quite often something triggers and I realize I'm dreaming while in the dream and that's a lot of fun because I become all-powerful for about five or ten minutes. But to answer your question, yes I have "bad dreams," but I don't use the word nightmare because to me that implies boogyman type dreams and they're not that. My bad dreams are like falling off a cliff, or living with my x-wife (not joking) or being shackled to a young earth creationist. (not kidding, an actual dream I had)

Seriously though...... night before last I dreamed I was in a hotel room with an old woman. She was taking a bath, and the phone rang. I answered, and a man said he was coming over. I told him he had the wrong number and hung up. A few seconds later I feel a tap on my shoulder and the same voice said "I'm here". I woke up immediately, and didn't go back to sleep for hours.