Ok, so tonight I've had a couple lucids. One of them faded into nothing but me just laying in my bed, so I went back to sleep. The other, at around 5am, I was laying on my grandparents couch and saw a colorful sloth type thing standing in front of a porcelain statue of itself, and I did a reality check. I rubbed my hands together and moved slowly, trying not to put too much thought into it. I didn't do anything to change the dream except will the sloth away, because it was very annoying. Although, the sloth looked very sad and I felt bad, so I motioned with my head that he could follow me. Ok, point is I didn't do anything that should make the dream unstable, but towards the end, while talking to my grandpa, I wake up in my bed, wide awake and can't fall back asleep. Now my concern is this reminds me of when I was little. I would get nightmares, and I learned to wake myself up from them. I would just wake myself up, in my bed, wide awake. Sometimes when I get lucid, the dream doesn't fade away like usual, I'm just instantly wide awake in my bed. Any similar experiences? Any advice? I'm so sick of losing potential lucids.