Maybe you only remember nightmares? I have many, and they obviously stand out.
Sometimes they are funny. I had a walk in my former school district (actually I was able to jump very high and jumped around instead) and knew there are 6 humanoid monsters. But my revolver only had 5 bullets, so I had to find the armed one to take a bullet from him first.
I often have offense/defense dreams, like when I was in a room full of people, but one of them grinned at me holding a knife. I disarmed him, pushed to the pretty high window sill and carved crosses on his knees. Everyone pretended not to notice us. I hate dreams of punching someone, because my arms feel weak and slow, but when I have a gun or a "fingersniper", all enemy men become dead quickly.
I also was beaten, burning, shot, drowning, bitten, falling, stabbed. Often it's not as terrific as it sounds. Bites usually come from my recurring friend, a dog with no body, instead it's all a large mouth on legs, which can contain your entire arm. It is ~friendly.
But the worst nightmare is sort of a poltergeist. Things subtly move on their own, body gravity changes in an "intentional" way, and space becomes filled with some sort of unpleasant numbing sound. Sometimes doors don't want you to come out of them by catching my feet, I fall down and then "fall" back up paralyzed. This one is recurring from my childhood, and I (falsely) remember to experience it awake few times.
Also, lucid dreaming techniques help with detecting nightmares and turning them into something funny, or simply moving the scene far enough.