I'm wondering, can a caster using dream message or nightmare control the nature of the dream or nightmare?
I'm considering using it as a means of messing with the minds of other characters (both as a player and as a GM). For example, sending a nightmare in which the target "awoke" in the night and overheard loved ones plotting to kill them in the near future. Something twisted and/or manipulative like that.
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That seems entirely up to the GM. The spells themselves don't have mechanical rules for anything other than the results of the Save or 150 word message.
I would lean towards no, just because I find it more funny for the GM to mess with the players. Fear, particularly the highly specific kind seen in dream scapes, can be highly personalized and specific in nature.
While the caster might desire for some foul beast dripping in blood to terrorize the person, it might actually be more effect if the person is stalked by the totally-not-copyrighted-original-character "Ricky Rat" (....they have a childhood trauma when their parents hired a particularly unskilled bard for their 3rd birthday party)