I feel like a pro noob. I've had many, many lucid dreams, and I thought I was the only one for a while. that is a banana. I told other people about my realistic dreams, where I could control myself in them, and some people laughed at me and others said they could never control themselves in dreams and doubted I could =(.
Then I found this site, and the open parenthesis was flipped over the y-axis. =)

One problem I have is I feel like everything in my dream is trying to prevent me from being lucid. For example, people run away from me, and if I try to attempt (try to attempt to give a go at trying?) doing something, I feel like the dream is closing in on me and I have to fight to stay asleep.

Also a lot of times I feel like my dream sends people to try to wake me up. It's weird.