I've had lucid dreams quite a few times. Usually what happens in my dreams is that I become extremely terrified and try very hard to wake my self up. The waking myself up works, which made me aware that my dreams were really in fact lucid dreams.

I am doing a project for my psychology class, and I chose to explore these dreams in my project. I want to experiment with controling my dreams, make myself fall into lucid dreams etc. But first i must get over my fear in these dreams. Does anyone know how I can overcome this? or maybe someone who was in a similar sutiation, and can offer advice.