About an hour ago I had a very disturbing lucid dream after about 3 hours of sleep. I've had quite a lot of lucid dreams when I was young, but that was only just after I went to bed.

The dream started (or at least what I remember of it) when I'm standing next to my brother's bed (even though I don't remember seeing his face, I for some reason have a strong feeling it was him), but at that time it was still quite vague.

Then all of the sudden the dream seemed very real. When I turned my head I found myself looking in the mirror, and I saw a woman's face (I'm a male). Then I (still with the woman's face) see myself saying "I forfeit", and the room starts turning darker as I'm pulled outside of my body. I then see myself falling on the bed. At that time it felt like I had to use all my energy to stay alive which made me want to scream, and that's when I woke up with a very rapid and strong heartbeat.

I was pretty shocked becuase of this, so I decided to look for a forum about dreaming, just to share this with someone, so thank you for making that possible.

If you could give me any insight of why this would happen it'd be very welcome.

Max