So I have successfully developed the ability to lucid dream for over a year maybe two now (lucid dreaming didn't come natural for me). For a while after I developed the ability I was successfully going lucid 2-3 times a few months. I now have stopped almost all of my previous methods to make lucid dreaming more common, it was becoming to much I kept feeling paranoid that I was in a dream even though I knew I wasn't and I would feel somewhat derealized. Anyways I can still lucid dream it's just not as frequent of a experience now. In happens randomly now or if I have it via sleep paralysis aka wild. In fact I just had a random lucid dream this morning it came off at the end of a particularly adventurous dream, I won't say all of it because there was to much to state but I'll tell the last things that led to going lucid. Me and my friend who I came across at some point during a dream broke into a warehouse from the ceiling we jumped down onto a unrealistically large stack of empty boxes which broke the fall. I then jumped from that stack to the smaller stack and then to the floor, it was such a big jump I kinda felt fear doing it but I was ok. When I reached the floor I said in my head "..you know this tends to happen a lot in my dreams". I stopped abruptly feeling stunned the thought caught me off guard and then while seeing two warehouse workers walking past me seeming to not even notice me I vocally stated "I am dreaming!" Almost immediately the dream started fading out and going black except a few large holes where I could still see fuzzy images of the dream. I said "no no no you can't do this to me again!" I started threw out my arms and tried to stabilize the dream but the destabilization was too far ahead and I woke up into sleep paralysis. So anyways I said no you can't do this to me again because almost every single time I ever vocally stated "I'm dreaming" the dream would suddenly destabilize. Does anyone else have problems with this is it common for beginners? My problem is when I was learning how to lucid dream before I could I went over a few things to the point I now do them everytime I go lucid without thinking, vocally stating I'm dreaming is one of the things that got drilled into me while I was learning how. I don't even think about and I can't seem to help it I just blurt out that I'm dreaming every time I realize it without trying to. I was thinking of trying to go to sleep repeating to myself to not do that, but I don't always lucid dream anymore so that probably won't help. It probably be easier in a wild because you don't completely go unconscious actually I have successfully remembered not to state I was dreaming before in a wild and the stabilization was fine. It doesn't seem to effect the dream if I say I'm dreaming in my mind only if I vocally state it. So was wondering what other people think is this a common experience for people when they try to vocalize something when lucid, and why do I feel like I can't help saying I'm dreaming even though I'm already lucid?