Sorry that you had such an awful dream! I've had some similar experiences, wanting to "wake up" but not really being able to. I was talking to Canis about this the other day. Seems like you need to recognize you're dreaming, know you're supposed to do something with that knowledge, then actually apply the knowledge and become lucid. I've had several dreams where I recognized it was a dream, but never did anything about it. You can guess that I was kicking myself when I woke up. There was one dream I had where I was telling myself "I'm dreaming, I'm dreaming" over and over again because everything was so awful. I didn't become lucid and I think it might have been because there was a fear that the dream was real, and I was trying to fly and stuff because I didn't want to face facts. It never really clicked. But like JoannaB said, lucid dreaming probably isn't far off! Your brain just needs to apply the knowledge.
Sorry to hear you had an unpleasant dream. You know our minds during sleep are not fully rationally functional, so there are times when we dream of things that are so weird that our waking life would never accept them, but our dreaming mind just reacts to them as if they were real. Now, I suspect that the fact that you wanted to wake up is a good sign and that perhaps lucid dreaming is not far away. Since I am a Christian, I hope you realize that not all Christians are into scaring others with eternal punishment in hell. Some Christians would be as disturbed as you by this idea, probably for similar reasons. I wish you better dreams next time!
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