Have you ever had a nightmare?

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I have never had a nightmare. Checking with some friends, I find that all have had at least one. So I was wondering if this could possibly be an aspie trait, or if it's just me being strange again

That is truly unusual to me! I have had plenty of nightmares. I can even remember some nightmares from childhood. I'd say I have three categories of nightmares:
* scary
* sad
* tedious (e.g. dreaming about work)

As a child I had some occasional nightmares about being trapped in a house fire, as an adult I have had a few very nasty dreams in which I was doing things which I consider to be offensive. In the latter case I was glad to wake up and then understand that the vivid events I had expereinced were just a horrible dream.

I've had many nightmares.

Well I have had some dreams about work but I never considered them to be nightmares. They were just odd dreams like the time I had a dream that my glass equipment had come to life and was dancing about. It was quite nice to go into the lab while awake and remind my self that pyrex glass flasks can not gyrate.

Oh! I forgot about those, I have had them too. I feel so guilty in those dreams, and I wake up emotionally drained, even if I am intellectually relieved that they are not true.

Strangely enough, through, the dreams in which I commit acts of violence are usually pleasant.

I never had a nightmare, ever. Weird dreams yes, but never once a nightmare. I know this in unusual.

That is strange, I thought everyone did. At one time I had them almost every night. Now, maybe every month or so. The every night was maybe when I was about 9 through 14 - often about nuclear war - the Cold War was still going on at the time and it seemed Reagan was trying to start WWIII.

I tend to hallucinate just before i fall asleep and just after waking up, never usually lasts too long, it's as if my dreams overlap with reality slightly. I've only ever had bad experiences while i'm concious, so i don't know if these technically count as dreams or not.

I've had many nightmares over the years. A lot of them involve my mother, both when she was alive and now that she is deceased.

yes, mostly involving dinosaurs at least they're the ones i remember, this was when i was younger.
my "dreams" now are confusing & incredibly hard to remember.

I can easily do what I have discovered is called lucid dreaming, but the first time I had a hallucination was recently when I tried to wake myself from a nightmare. I deliberately opened my eyes so that I would stop seeing the nightmare (to wipe it out before going back to sleep), but it seemed to be projected at a distance of about two feet from me for a while.

Gee, even some of my DREAMS could be considered nightmares.

I've had nightmares so bad that my housemates have been woken up from me screaming. Luckily I don't remember much of it, but they sure do.

I used to have weird nightmares as a child. I dreamt that I was inside of my own body and that it was a sort of menacing, overpowering nuclear plant having a meltdown. The word which repeated in my mind was "irreversible", over and over again. The feeling that I had fiddled with some advanced technology which was far beyond my understanding and that something had gone irreversably wrong was very strong. As if I had unplugged the universe. These dreams used to continue when I was awake and I ran around in the house for some time with extreme levels of anxiety. I felt as if I had gone to hell and that there was no way out. This is connected to rem sleep and is called "night horrors" or something. Feelings of anxiety is multiplied. I'm just glad it passed with age. After age 7-8 something I never had those dreams again.

I had a few nightmares when I was young, but I haven't had any proper nightmares for a long time now. Although, I have a feeling I may have one tonight;, because I've managed to completely freak myself out today.

Anyway, the only thing I've had recently that has come anywhere close to a nightmare is very hard to describe. I'll have a go, anyhow:

It's more of a feeling than a dream. I get a sense of an object, either shrinking into oblivion or moving along a conveyor belt type thing. I have no idea what the object is, or the setting or anything else for that matter, because I can't see anything. I think that's why this 'dream' is so very terrifying. I just can't explain it, I can't define it, it's illogical, and that really scares me. It won't last long, the 'object' will shrink so small, or move into the distance, so I can't feel it any more. That's when I'll wake up, shaking and sweaty. It'll take a long time to shake that awful, awful feeling off and it definitely isn't a good start to the day.

I normally get it when I have a fever, although I have on occasion experienced it without any fever or illness. It really, really unsettles me, however trivial it may sound. It's a horrible, indescribable feeling and even thinking about it now makes me feel sick.

Does anyone else get this feeling? I met someone a while ago online who described it so perfectly I knew it was the same thing that I get. I can't understand it and I haven't found anyone else who's experienced it. Any insight would be wonderful.