The first few nights of nightmares weren't quite like when I was a child, where I'd wake up still afraid of what was going on. More just disconcerting, in the sense that I preferred to fully wake myself up, drink some water and reset before trying to sleep more. That's really part of the motivation to ask the question because if the unresolved frustrations could be the cause, or the quitting smoking, I know there are other things that can generate more vivid dreams, but not that I've been doing recently to justify the shift.

Usually, I'm aware that I had dreams, just don't really remember the content. This past week or so, after the nightmares, the dreams have been almost so vivid that I would wake up still thinking about what was going on in 'real' terms and took a moment to shake that I had been dreaming.