Quote Originally Posted by Dawn. View Post
Are you ever able to wake yourself up from a nightmare? Whenever I have a really bad dream, riught before something bad is about to happen to me, I think to myself, "No, I'm not gonna take this!" (Kind of becoming lucid at the last second of the dream and forcing myself to wake up) And I pull myself out of the dream. When I do that, I usually wake up in partial SP. (Can't move, but I can see most of what's around me) It takes a while for me to get out of it. It's weird :/
YES! Isn't that the scariest thing ever??? I always felt like I was clawing my way out of my own grave. That's exactly how I started lucidity and dream control. Next time you have a nightmare, change it instead of waking yourself up. At the moment you know it's a nightmare and you have the waking up option, tell yourself, "no, no, i'm not going to have this nightmare anymore," and think of something more pleasant. Your dream should change instantly.

But you're right, the fact that you are waking yourself up means you are lucid. It's really much more simple than a lot of these people are making it out to be.