Bad dreams I have wrestled with nearly all of my life, but even now despite my recent complaints about bad dreams it was WAY worse in terms of frequency as a child between 8 and 14 or so years old. And to be honest, I have a good idea of where that all began ... which is why I despise the memory of my bedroom in South Carolina more than probably any other location I have been to on the entire planet. I even remember spending some nights begging my parents and sister to allow me to keep the door to the hall open and the overhead light on - that they just deal with the intrusiveness of it - to feel more at ease when sleeping in that damned room, and that they not make me settle with having just the light from the closet on (all it did was cast shadows about the room in my imagination that probably made it worse for me than being in complete darkness would have, but of course as a child I was not mature enough to think that and see that total darkness might have been less spooky for me. My parents told me once that they would be heavily startled to hear me just screaming all of a sudden from that room and send them running over, some nights, and I can barely even remember that, which makes me hate the room all the more because it's as though it were so nightmarish to me that I wouldn't even be fully conscious yet as I was waking up screaming from a nightmare.
There are a couple of good memories that took place in that room, but overall it is definitely a "dark" place for me (in the sense that I mean "dark" in my #30764 post above. I don't really know how I can explain myself on that, my association of places where I have lived, worked, etc. with "Light" and "Darkness", but I actually talked about this with my boy Lantis when I went to hang out with him yesterday and inform him of my decision to move).
Anyways, it may be counterproductive for me to talk more on that here, just keeping the visuals of that bedroom in South Carolina and other "dark" places fresh in my memory, but hopefully I said enough so far to help you understand more on my psyche when it comes to places that I hate remembering or being in, and why a particular kind of unpleasant dream or nightmare affects me like this.