This thread is welcome...for me---I too have bouts of nightmares, often work-related now that I am retired (sometimes older stuff)---I've decided that it may be happening because I am retired (...like somewhere I feel "safe" having these because I don't have to be there anymore...but it sucks)---[when I was very young I had nightmares, then I had lovely dreams for years, full of symbols and colors and...then I saw a T and immediately began having nightmares--and growing younger in said nightmares--I was in my 30's then. Now, 67, work...I think when I am living something I just run on fumes and react later...if that makes any sense