I have just registered and hope that I will learn to control my dreams which though lucid are very frightening. They always start in my own bed in my darkened room. My reality check is the light switch (yes , I know, very common) and it never works. That's when I think - here we go again - and try to wake up because the physical sensations are really painful. I yell, but it comes out as a croak and beg my husband to wake me up. I would just love not to panic. Such dreams always occur within the first half hour of falling asleep.