Hello. Hope I can get some insight here. I tend to lucid dream by accident, but when it happens I truly enjoy it. There is only one problem...when I decide I am done I have an extremely hard time waking up sometimes.
I just took a nap a few minutes ago and it happened again. I realized I was dreaming and decided to forgo this trip, but when I tried to wake up I couldn't. I can only describe the physical feeling of the failed process of waking like trying to swim upward to the surface of a lake through a thick mire.
This time my mind tried to fool me into thinking I had waken by putting me into a setting of "my house"....but once I got up and walked around a bit, I realized I was not in my house, and that I was in fact still dreaming. I tried to wake again, and it was a very intense . I even tried shouting as I fought for consciousness as that sometimes helps to push me on out of it.
It didn't work this time, and I ended up just sitting on the dream couch and waiting for my body to decide to wake on it's own lol.
Why can I lucid dream so easily at times yet cannot always get out of it when I want? And is it normal for your mind to fight you like this?
Any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks for listening
SD