It's odd though, b/c my nightmares almost always revolve around me being in serious danger one way or another. Either there's an intruder in the house (and it's the exact same house I'm physically in) and I'm hiding or getting weapons together to protect myself, or my dogs are being hurt by someone, or I'm just in the precence of someone terribly bad and mean and I fear for my life -- you know the types where you instantly know you are in danger or else you'll be killed. When I was in high school I had so many nightmares of my friends getting in horrible accidents and dying, blood and all! It was awful. Some are lucid. I know I'm in a dream, sometimes I can control them and start screaming (well, trying as hard as I can) to try to wake myself up. That is what my husband always hears, me trying to scream which sounds more like a low pitched wounded animal. It scares the *hell* of out him, and then I'mm just happy to be awake and out of the dream. They're terrifying and so real and sometimes extremely gory.
For me, they're not typicaly related to medications, b/c I've had these types of dreams all my life. Occasionally I've had some awful ones that are due to meds. Those were terrible and I went back to sleep just to find myself in the same one again, they went on and on, I couldn't get out of them. But that was just the meds talking.
I guess I stress about intruders and violence that could potentially occur to me or my loved ones more then I know. I'm always cautious of what's around me in case I need to protect myself or something. I have images in real life of possible things going wrong, dangerous things, like if I'm parked somewhere I could be aware that someone might come up from behind me, etc....these thoughts do run through my mind often in every day scenarios. So maybe that's part of it. Maybe that's what it is more then just stresing about cf, I don't know. Thanks for your responses!