It wasn't so much a struggle of self value... it was more of a realization of inevitability --- I will inevitably hit the ground... I will be burned alive... I will be capture.. and there is nothing I can do to stop it... That's the theme for most of my nightmares...
Some of my other nightmares involved being abandoned... humiliated... beaten to a bloody pulp.. and even murdered...
All of them were incredibly vivid, very real, and sometimes I was a 'different person' with memories of 'another life'.. etc.
Needless to say, I have quite an overactive imagination... which is probably why I draw so much.
"The weakest soul, knowing its own weakness, and believing this truth that strength can only be developed by effort and practice, will, thus believing, at once begin to exert itself, and, adding effort to effort, patience to patience, and strength to strength, will never cease to develop, and will at last grow divinely strong."
- James Allen