Thread: Are there lucid nightmares?

Hello everyone. I'm writing a post in this forum because id like to understand more of what is happening to me.

A lot of times I have dreams in which I gain awereness that I am dreaming. Even though Im aware that its a dream, I have close to no control of what I do in my dreams, the people present or where I am.

Most of these dreams are harmless, but sometimes I get what Im calling lucid nightmares, in which I am aware that I'm in a nightmare but can't stop being terrified of everything Im seeing. Normally its just terror stuff like kids with dead faces or ghosts with terrible shapes. When I become aware I try to force myself wake up but it takes a long time, and I can feel in reality that I am pressing my teeth because they really hurt. Other thing is the music., these dreams come with incredible sophisticated music that I can't understand how I am making that up in my mind.

When I wake up normally I am so frightened that I avoid falling asleep again, and it takes a while until I am sure I am no longer dreaming, since everything feels so real that it becomes really hard to tell de difference.

Does anyone have anything to say about this? It happens more when I am really tired but for some reason am having trouble sleeping (jet lag, preoccupation, stress, etc).