Thread: Intense, Unwanted SP Experiences - Why?

Okay, as of late (past few weeks) i have been trying to get back into LD'ing. All im doing is saying an "i am dreaming" mantra while attempting to sleep, RCs and WBTB. What i am about to describe i'm sure is not the "old hag" syndrome but i dont know.

So i had very little sleep in the 24 hours before last night (three) so was very tired and went to bed much earlier then i would do. However i woke up after three hours with no dream recall and was struggling to get back to sleep. I canceled all my WBTB alarms and had some water, a sandwich and watched some TV. I decided to try and sleep again after about three hours.

So i have some dreams after that, ones that started normal but became increasingly realistically terrifying, by which i mean, real terrifying things that could happen and other stuff like getting caught by parents doing shit im not supposed to, comitting social suicide etc.

And then in one instance, i get a blur and all of sudden it feels like im seeing everything through a layer of static. I dream im in my bed and i'm being prodded all over by someone i know (in real life, im very sensitive to "tickling" to the point of actual pain) and its the most uncomfortable thing ever. I realise that this is just a dream and i'm in SP, i try and open my eyelids and i see my father coming into the room and i think "yes, he'll wake me up and end this" but he disappeared. I know im dreaming by this point and i think i'm moving my arms slowly. I dont remember how, but i managed to snap out and bolt upright, struggling to breath and physically exhausted. I go into the next room and ask my dad if he just came in. He didn't.

Went back to sleep and had the same experience.

Now, i have had this sensation before, and nightmares of being put through physical trauma through prodding,poking and tickling, but nothing this intense. Those times, i had been trying to WILD before sleeping and i have never, ever, ever been aware i was entering SP and dreaming before, just waiting to wake up. I guess that it was the fact i had stimulated myself and giving myself chemical energy before sleeping the second time and caused a delayed, involuntary WILD, but i need to know how to fight this quickly by either

A) Snapping out of the SP and returning to full wakefulness
B) Turning the situation into an LD or something positive.

What are the best possible ways to do either, as this has been happening more often lately?

Thanks!

PS After i wake up each time, i'm not terrified of going back to bed, i think they are intense and exciting in retrospect. However, while it happens, they're the worst experiences of my life.