[quote=Animus] He likes the nightmares, always keeps it fresh in his mind how wretched the current state of the world is.
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Those aren't really nightmares then if he isn't... oh I don't know, terrified of them. Or he's gone insane. Or he was insane from the start. 

Not to mention what other people have said. A curse that benefits its victim is a pretty retarded curse, and consequently whoever designed it is evidently a complete idiot.