I'm such a wuss when I get nightmares.
Usually I just wake my poor, long-suffering hubby up and tell him all about it. And he listens and gives me cuddles, then if it's really bad, sometimes he reads something nice to me while I fall back asleep so that I dream about what he was reading instead of going back into the nightmare.
If I have a nightmare about my kid, I have to go and give her a cuddle, too.

I've always been that way. Bad dreams really effect me, I can't just forget about it and go back to sleep.
My brothers still laugh at me for it. They both talk about how when we were kids, me coming into their room in the middle of the night, beating them with a pillow until they woke up, then collapsing on them sobbing, "I N-N-NEED A HUUUUGG! I D-D-DREAMED YOU DIIIIIIIEEEEEDD!"

Just last night I had a dream where I couldn't breathe. It freaked my Mom out, saying it was an Incubus, so we said the rosary. So, basically, when I get a bad dream, I tell my Mom. She freaks and then does the rosary and sprays my room with holy water.
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And yup that's it :D.

I turn it into a short story. I know it's weird but I have bad dreams all the time or a continuation of another; which is another novel in the making. Though thats another topic for another day. :)

Depends on how bad it is. I've sought counseling for bad dreams before, for how badly they affected me. It's been a while, though, since I've had a truly terrible dream.

I used to tell people about them, but lately I've just kept them to myself. I usually forget any dreams I've had by the end of the day anyways.

Most the time I wake up then think "wtf?" then go back to sleep. If it's a dream that bugged me then I write it down and try not to put too much thought into it unless something similar happens in real life then I get kind of weird about it.

well, when i first wake up, the first thing i do is ask myself over and over, 'did that really happen?' when i can finally confidently assure myself that the answer is no (this may take as little as 10 seconds or as long as 10 minutes). for the next 10 - 30 minutes (depending on how long the dream was) i stay as still as possible so i can try to remember everything i can about the dream. i find that dreams (especially the scary, vivid ones) can be very insightful in my conscious life. i keep an open notebook and pen beside my bed on the floor so after my 'remember period' is up, i slowly get up and write everything i remember down. when i write, my thought (and dreams) get out of my head and get transferred to the paper. and even though the majority of my dreams scare me initially, the more i think about them, the more cool i think they are. so this is my way of facing something that scares me, dreams in particular.

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Originally Posted by Faded Beauty

I turn it into a short story. I know it's weird but I have bad dreams all the time or a continuation of another; which is another novel in the making. Though thats another topic for another day. :)

wow really?! i do the same thing. it's very interesting really. i've never had a dream continue from night to night before though. that's pretty cool, taking into consideration what the dream happens to be about, anyway. scary dreams attract me for some reason. eh, we're both weirdly awesome lol

I had a bad dream that I got a C in Maths. Really, really bad dream!

I have one almost every night. ;-;

I rarely have bad dreams, or at least that I remember, but when I do I stay in where I was, think about it, rationalize it, and go back to bed. The only time that didn't completely work was when I fell asleep but I was still completely lucid(Body was asleep; mind was not). It was horrible. It felt like somebody/thing was trying to choke me and I couldn't move or speak. I was able to stay calm and after thinking it through I read a book and went back to bed.

I get really frazzled. And the dreams stick with me. They're like an inkblot staining
my mind. I can ignore them for quite some time, but I often think back to them.
Especially when I'm down. Erm...I've tried writing about them, and I guess it helps
some.