Welcome to dreamviews tbonetyler!
What everyone else has said is more than true, try not to fight SP. But i just wanted to tell you to not get discouraged because you did fight SP. It feels unnatural and can be scary, of course you will try to fight it. What you will have to do is just experience SP a few more times and eventually you will be natural at ignoring everything because you've experienced it before.

Dont be put off because its weird, many people here are experienced lucid dreamers so this part is easy for them, but it doesn't mean it always was! For us newbies, we just have to get used to it, its a new thing.
Good luck man!