Glad I'm not the only one who gets anxious upon realizing I'm dreaming. Like Blitzy, I also suffer from anxiety in waking life.

Voldmer, thanks for the tip on mindfulness meditation. I'm actually not unfamiliar with it, and should make more of a practice of it.

Mimihigurashi, think I'll try one or both of those.

I did become lucid last night/early this morning. I did get the anxiety but remembered to try to stabilize. What I did was grabbed the counter in front of me, braced myself on it, and just focused on what was immediately in front of me.

The good news is, the anxiety faded. The bad news is, so did the dream and I woke up.

While waking up was kind of disappointing, it was presumably my method of grounding myself that caused the dream to fade and not the anxiety itself as that was settling. I actually did think to ground myself, and it was working on the anxiety, so while I did wake up, I think it's fair to say I made a bit of progress.

Mimihigurashi, question about shouting. Would that cause my sleeping body to sleep-talk? Like could someone else in the house here me shouting?