My dreams are usually stressful and intense dreams. Often, they involve myself or somebody else being in danger (or it feels like they could be). Even when I'm lucid, and I say things like "it's just a dream, I can do whatever I want. It's not real", dream logic still applies to me quite heavily, and I feel like the people are real, or the danger is real, and I still lack quite some capacity to think. The problem is that when I believe danger is real, it doesn't leave me any time to collect my wits and take control.

Any advice?