Hey guys! I'm new to this forum (obviously), but I have been enjoying the effects and experiences of lucid dreaming since I was a little kid (I'm 18 now). I've gone through months without having a LD before, but usually I just start doing RC's more frequently and I can induce them again pretty easily.

I was in such a slump for almost the entire summer (busy summer, moving away from the family, stuff like that, so LD'ing and doing RC's weren't really high on me to-do list), until one night last week. It was a weird dream, and I'm not so sure if it was lucid, which is why I came here!

Note: the ideas in this dream are a little f*cked up, I'm usually a very happy, positive dreamer, so this was sort of a change of pace...but yet it still had a very happy, positive atmosphere.

Apparently I was a "human exterminator," kind of like how we have bug exterminators now. It sounds gruesome, but apparently it is very respected (in my dream world) and my victims have come to terms with the fact that they *need* to be exterminated...weird, I know. The way I did this was by shooting balls of energy out of the palm of my hand, which would dispatch my target silently and painlessly (like I said, I don't like inflicting pain and this is probably a manifestation of that fact), a la Dragonball Z or something.

Here's where it gets really weird--I came upon my next target, who immediately started praising me for what I was doing, telling me that I had to do it (for reasons I still don't know), but then I tried to comfort her by saying:

"Don't worry! You won't actually die, you know why? This is just a DREAM!" Then, just to prove it, I shot her with the ball of energy and then told her to just open her eyes...she did and was very happy.

Fast forward through some stuff I don't really remember, but then I got a phone call from a friend who was standing RIGHT NEXT TO ME...I then handed him the phone to "talk to himself" but no one was there. I then realized that the dream might be morphing into a nightmare and woke up.

Could I have just been dreaming ABOUT having a lucid dream? I don't think I had the kind of lucid control that I normall did, but it still seemed really odd...I woke with a cold sweat and breathing very heavily.

Thanks in advance! This has been confusing to me for a while (well, a whole week)

And thanks for not judging on the subject matter of the dream...it's the first of it's kind and hopefully the last.

--Z