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Hei!

Actually, I've read that only a small fraction of all people are natural lucid dreamers, though I'm curious about actual statitics. Even when I was a kid, lucid dream and nightmares could last for a while. I specifially recall dreaming about befriending a vampire on a train. He was trying to attack me, and as I knew he wasn't real, I asked him to become my friend. He accepted it.
Hei!

I don't know if you've read "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming" by Stephen LaBerge, but there is a chapter in that book that explains how to use lucidity to deal with nightmares. What you are describing here is exactly the right way to do it. In my case I would become lucid and then make myself wake up, which is exactly how you're not supposed to do it.