About a month or two ago I had my first false awakening that I actually spotted and turned into another lucid dream. Lately I've been having a lot of nightmares again (as in, I pretty much only have nightmares), even if they used to stop for a while after I had a lucid dream.

Problem is, I've been having weird dreams where I just can't wake up and things get progressively worst and worst and I just can't wake up and make it stop. The dream tends to start normally I guess, and I realize I am dreaming. Something bad happens, and I guess I am not completely aware, or maybe it's because I'm not really confident on my abilities yet, so I try to wake myself up. I wake up, and I'm in my bed and do a reality check, and I'm still dreaming, then I try doing something to wake me up again, and I do, except I do a reality check and surprise, still dreaming. This happens so many times (about five to ten times I'd say), and is really frustrating and scary, especially because I end up "waking up" in the same scene except a little bit more scary than last time. The dream degrades into something really worrying and scary because I want to wake up but I can't and the urgency of running from something bad makes it even worst because it feels like it is catching up to me I guess. It has been getting pretty ridiculous.

What makes it even worst is that I'm really not too focus on lucid dreaming at all, it just happens. I haven't even logged any of those dreams (even thought I maybe should've).

All my life I've always had pretty much only nightmares until I started lucid dreaming, but right now it's the first time I actually feel scared of going to sleep because of this. They are not very fun...

So yeah, I'm looking for some tips on how to avoid false awakenings, and hopefully I'll remember them when I find myself in this situation again. Thank you very much for the help in advance.