I've had around a dozen of what I believe to be lucid dreams in my whole life. I was describing this pattern to one of my friends who had some problems with sleep paralysis earlier in his life and he said it sounded like a lucid dream, so after some searching I ended up here.

After having two more recently in my life, I realized that there is definitely a pattern in these dreams. It seems like something always ticks me off that I'm dreaming(in these past someone went to answer a doorbell while we were on a pier, and I noticed a doorknob to a family members closet was on the wrong side of a door). I instantly realized in both of these dreams that these occurrences were impossible and that I was dreaming. It seems like I have control for a really short period of time, and then all of the sudden I loose control of what is happening and my dream spirals out of control into a sort nightmare where a different frightening character appears before me. For every dream that this has happened to me I always seem to resort to screaming in my dream but for some reason I can't and as soon as I realized that I'm not actually screaming I wake up.

Is this normal at all, or is there anything I can do to try and control these dreams for longer without them turning so chaotic?

Sorry if this has been answered elsewhere, thanks!