Hello everyone, I'm new to this forum! Nice to meet you! I have always been very fascinated with dreams because i have as far as i remember been able to remember my dreams fairly well. I have had one lucid dream about 7 years ago, i still remember it clearly but i have never really dived into the subject any further. I have only found my dreams fascinating and enjoyed being able to remember them.

Anyhow, recently i started reading about lucid dreams alot and decided that i really want to take my dream interest to a new level and take control over my dreams. So i have started keeping a dream journal. Actually i have only used it for 2 nights yet but i have 2,5 dreams typed down in it so far. This last night though i noticed something weird. It's a really cheesy dream but i dreamed that i was batman and the house i lived in got invaded by bad guys. First i panicked and locked all the doors(at this point i didn't have any crazy batgear) as i ran up towards the second floor i stopped and reminded myself that "hey I'm batman, i can beat these guys" so i focused and suddenly had my batgear. It was a active choice that controlled a part of the dream but it wasn't a lucid dream. I kept going but it didn't go very well for me, these bad guys had installed traps and stuff in my house but suddenly i remembered that i had gone through this before, it was like i knew that i had dreamed this dream before but kind of failed and got beaten. I even got like a flash of how it looked like when i died when i dreamed this dream before. And suddenly i was able to recall the trick they had used to beat me before and could beat them this time.

When i woke up i recalled having the same kind of feelings before in dreams, the feeling of having dreamed it before and using those memories to my advantage. But i still didn't go lucid, which i find kind of weird. Especially now when i have spent quite some time thinking and reading about lucidity and dreams. It was so weird because it was like i knew that i recalled something from a dream in the dream but i still wasn't able to break the plot and take control, i was so focused on just using the information to survive and couldn't collect myself enough to fully realize it was a dream.

If other people have experienced the same thing, do you have any tips or thoughts on how to be able to use these moments to actually break the plot of the dream and increase your chances of going lucid. I fear that i might be too swept away by the dream that even if i know it's obviously a dream i can't really grip it and go lucid.