I just woke up from a pretty freaky dream and I wonder if anyone else typically has the same problems when they begin to obtain lucidity. Basically, there are two problems that I typically experience when I begin to control a dream:

1) If I do not like the way the dream is going, or it is just freaking me out, I try to wake up; however, I usually end up "waking" into another dream.

2) Sometimes when I gain lucidity, I think that I begin to wake up; however, I get "stuck" somewhere between the sleeping and waking state. This usually enters my body in a form of sleep paralysis in which, in the dream, I cannot open my eyes (or if I do, I still cannot see anything). It is like I know that in the waking world my eyes are closed, but I cannot control that from within the dream.

Here is the dream that I had last night that combined both of these for a quite disturbing experience:

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