Thread: Newbie With A Question

Hello everyone who's reading this ! =p

I'm new to lucid dreaming and this website, I find the subject intriguing and I really want to try, yet all attempts have failed. Maybe I should give it more time, so let's not talk about that right now. I want to ask a question...

When I was younger (8 years old or so) I kept having very frightening dreams, witches scared the life out of me back then. There was one dream which I remember clearly. I was at my grandparent's house and there was a witch outside the windows, every window I went to had her outside it. It was dark and cold, I sensed things were going to get scary and I didn't want to experience any more, so I forced myself awake by opening my eyes, and thus out of the dream.

I think it happened again a couple of times during that period of a couple of months but then stopped.

So, I was wondering if that is a form of Lucid Dreaming? I realised that something I didn't want to experience was going to happen so I forced myself awake.