I agree with those who say experience usually helps. Also, some other things to consider:
When you are lucid in a dream, you actively recognize that you are dreaming. Thus, you should be able to remember that the whole content of your dream is just you—your imagination, etc. Remembering this should help things not be as scary (especially after enough experience). It's kind of like if you were to zone out during the day and start daydreaming, and suddenly you start imagining scary things happen. It can be disconcerting for a moment, but then you might suddenly realize, “Oh, why I am I thinking about this?”, and simply change your attention to something else. Dreams are quite open to being directed by your conscious thoughts in this way, too.
Also, if you're not prone to your normal dreams being scary, it's probably safe to assume that lucid dreams won't be any different. The only thing different about a lucid dream is that you know you're dreaming. If anything, the lucidity will give you more of an opportunity to steer your conscious thoughts and keep them away from anything fearful or negative, if you wish. And as long as you remember that it's just a dream, it's less likely that you will find any “scary” imagery that may appear actually that scary.
I can relate to a somewhat similar experience I had with exploring non-dream sleep (like that experienced during WILD and such). I was always fascinated by it and started experiencing it at random on occasion during sleep, but for years, as much as I wanted to explore it, I was always nervous because I had heard people describe having some super-funky experiences (in the form of hallucination-like imagery kind of like dreams, but without actually dreaming) that I thought would be really scary to go through. So for a long time I would have a bit of trouble because I was always a bit uncomfortable going into that state, and it would cause me to get nervous and wake up. Finally, once I started having a few “funky” experiences of my own, I realized that they were never actually scary at all because I was aware of what was going on the entire time and that there was never any actual danger. So then I finally thought, “Okay, so this is cool. No problem”, and now I'm quite comfortable with it. I really like it, in fact. There have been times where I've felt soothed and relaxed to the point where I can almost say I felt even more safe and “at home” resting deep within my sleeping mind like that than I normally do just sitting in my house when I'm awake.
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