Hello I have been seeing this forum for a couple of days now, I think I have lucid dreamed over 5 times in my life without noticing. My whole life a have a lot of nightmares, but I got used to it. I can almost quit every dream whenever i want. I can even clap my hands in the real world during a dream ( I tryed this for a long time when I spend a week at my friends house, he said that I clapped in my sleep the next day I tried to clap again, and he said he saw me struggling with my hands the fourth day I mannaged to clap in the real world during my dream!). But lately my dream recall is going down to only 1 remembered dream a week . And I only lucid dream once in two weeks or something. The change in my recall and the amount of lucid dreams was after a nightmae that I had many times when I was like 6-10, In the dream Im laying in my bed (I didnt reallly knew the difference between dreaming and reality back then because I didnt remember dream signs and did no RC) I always want to get to my dad because I know he is down stairs. But if I am spotted by a sort of black gohst (or monster) I have to run back to my bed quick and pretend like nothing happens. The gohst will go to my room and bow over me. Then I cant really move, kinda scarey. at that moment I want to scream to my dad but I cant scream. I think, why cant I scream! Oh I know, damn this is a dream! And I say to myself: OK, this is a dream open youre eyes. Then I wake up, sometimes scared, sometimes happy because I woke myself up. I want to know why I have this dream and how I can go back to lucid dreaming. Thanx for reading.