A rare reoccuring nightmare I have since childhood features me in a neverending storm avoiding and surviving a barrage of tornadoes, most being close calls and some hitting the area/building I'm in. I sometimes get them even as an adult.
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I dont have nightmares, nightmares have me 
Funny nightmare story while we're here: I had one as a kid where some guy with a gun entered our house and told us to get out. We were forced out of our house and we had nothing we could do about it. For years I remembered this nightmare as a kinda absurd thing that your kid mind makes up, wouldn't it be scary if someone stole your house and you couldn't do anything about it?
Anyway, then I found out about Palestine.
I have a reoccurring nightmare where something is in the woods behind my house and it sounds human and it's calling out to me to come to it, but I have this dreadful feeling it's going to kill me. I've had this dream reoccur for years now.
That's interesting and it falls somewhere between supernatural and not.
nah, weird gravity and eternal darkness aside not supernatural as such (had a funny one where i opened my door into black hole (like stars and blackhole looming below the door) and i fell into it and things of that nature)
*(vague threats of something following do happen though, like dilapidated building with red splashes and noises behind, but i find them easier to reel in cause they are much less believable than my building collapsing or whatever), but i think i can vaguely remember this happening like 2-3 times, compared to falling down nightmares
I've trained my dream self to go action hero mode anytime a nightmare tries to start shit, and it usually goes supernatural from there
had a recent dream where I was in a survival horror mansion full of ghosts and zombies throwing knives (just press dodge), managed to kite a boss zombie onto the roof where there was another boss; turns out, they were brothers, and so happy I reunited them that they both joined my party as allies 
dang I be dreaming about planes crashing
No monsters ever since I learned to go sicko mode on them 
dream gorey
Last one a vampire disemboweled me and I still kept ripping him apart even more so
Worst dreams are when I'm all alone 
I don't think I have nightmares at all. My dreams are like extremely long-winded nonsensical movie plots
Edit: actually I'm starting to remember some nightmares I had. My nightmares is when the movie plot turns into some abstract horror with loud noises and weird shapes
I love Inland Empire.
lol I think this is the exact movie playing in my brain every night
I've had a surprising amount of zombie apocalypse nightmares. It's strange. As a kid, I used to have various nightmares on the monster from Tremors, too, even though that's not exactly the scariest movie lol.
I've had other more mundane nightmares, too (spiders, losing teeth, didn't study for a test, etc).
I had a nightmare a few days ago that I was digging tunnels during a war, set explosives under an area, but then I took a peak above to see what was my target and I saw children.
Another nightmare I had was seeing NATO tanks (Leclerc) committing massacres and blowing up cars.
Other than war themes, most of my nightmares have me as the monster, hurting strangers and people close to me without being able to stop myself.
Also I saw a deathclaw in my nightmares once, which is close enough to a monster in a nightmare.