I don't really remember the content of the first nightmare all too well, aside from (I think) some sort of maternal figure hurting me, but I realized a lot of my nightmares seem to follow a pattern -- me waking up, horrified and unable to get back to sleep without the light on for a while, usually at the same time sometime in the early morning or so. As for the second dream, I think I was acting out a bit of a videogame (Star Wars-related), complete with slaves on a cart, and my main characters fighting their way through a tunnel to get to a freighter. (I'm...a bit of a KOTOR fan. It's how I got my username -- that and I was stumped for usernames)

So I guess the question is (a) what does this mean and (b) how can I stop waking up scared at the same time in the early morning, because those nightmares can get bad.