I actually quite enjoy nightmares (possibly not while I am actually having them) but having woken up you have a memory of an exciting adventure of dread and peril without having been exposed to actual danger or suffered any harm.
The sense of relief of waking up from a nightmare and realising...
Last night I dreamed I was standing in a supermarket queue by the fresh bakery counter. I wasn't practicing social distancing and was stood up close to the person in front of me. Then I absent mindedly started to cough in the general direction of an uncovered loaf of bread on the fresh loaf...