re: How often do you have a nightmare(s)?

If things start to get hairy in my dreams, I force myself to look in a mirror. That usually tells me if it's a dream or not.

I then do whatever I want and wake up feeling bad for whatever villian or entity was trying to attack me in my dream.

I'm a pretty sick bastard.

Last night was a nightmare about leeches. In the dream, I genetically modified the leeches to increase their intelligence level and then engaged on a genocidal campaign against them.

I think increasing their intelligence level was so they could get to a point where they understood what was happening.

Not often but I had the coolest dream last night. I was a soldier in WWII who was going into battle for the first time. The dream started with me as a new soldier dispatched to a unit in a mountainous region. It was an artillery unit. All the guys in the unit were veterans of battle and were telling me what to expect in a short while. We could see enemy troops moving their artillery into position onto a hill across a valley and we were the most exposed position in our battalion. Guy was telling me we were going to be their primary target and to get ready for hell. I watched the guys in my unit as they wrapped their faces in bandages and rags for protection from I don't know what but I followed suit. The whole buildup was intense but not frightening like a nightmare. Probably the coolest dream I have ever had.