Haha thanks. It's strange because I never thought of these nightmares as lucid dreams.. In a normal lucid dream I realise I am dreaming before anything bad happens then if it happens I can usually deal with it or spin. With these I just automatically wake myself up.

I don't always find it easy to DILD. If I'm stressed (which is most of the time ), have a bad night's sleep or sometimes just randomly I go for a while without having any.

I'm glad I went back to this site. I think I can learn some good things here.