I've seen chairs move across rooms, evil faces on the television. I've been pinned to the floor, and to my bed - not able to move a single muscle. I've watched my room turn to fire and fall as ash.

I only see these apparitions when I'm lucid dreaming. It's like turning on a scary movie - you know it is not real, but that does not make you fearless. Your skin can still crawl, the hair on your arms and neck can still stand on end.

Every lucid experience I've ever had was terrifying. And yet part of me continues to want this, as if it's ever actually going to improve and not be so strange and foreign. Yes. Lucids can be scary.