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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wolfpunk" data-source="post: 116573" data-attributes="member: 699">Love has a definite dark side, several easy ways for this to come to be.  When a person loves someone, and sees them in a situation with a tragic ending, they could in essence be willing to do evil things to save the person they love.  This is a debateable example, and I am not saying it is perfect, but the movie "John Q" is a sort of example of this.However, I think that is way off base of what you are trying to create.I look at it like this...A bad dream is something that is bad, and you know it is bad, doing bad things, this is an axe murderer chasing you in your dreams for example.A nightmare is something that is good, and you know it is good, but it is doing bad things.  This is your wife chasing you and trying to kill you with an axe.So, a nightmare based on love, should be the good aspects of love twisted into evil things.  The setting should start serene, peaceful, beautiful, perfect.  And slowly little elements of it should begin to twist and change until the beauty is a glossy coating over an underlying web of evil.</blockquote>