mix of lucidity and lack of control..

Ok, I put this in the interpretation section...but it appears to be in the wrong place, I thought it might get more attention here since it is technically a nightmare.

This dream mixed being lucid with quickly turning in to a nightmare. In my dream, it was night time and snowing. I didnt feel very cold because I am use to snow, and I actually enjoy snow.

However, this time I was feeling annoyed, because it was night and I couldnt find my car. Well, Lo' and behold I found my car at the end of a row...It is a green bonneville, and it was under the front of some yellow and blue car with a yellow spoiler.

However, I didnt feel rage, as soon as I saw that, I was like "this must be a dream". As soon as I knew it, the dream started to fade...and I had already woken up from one dream as soon as I turned lucid. So, I tried the dream spinning technique. When I did, it took me to another room. I suddenly found myself on my hands and knees, with two other people. A fat white chick who I didnt know, and a skinnier black guy I also didnt know. The room was only big enough so that we could be on our hands and knees. It was colored in orange and green squares and you could see holes all over the place. the room split in to two paths. I checked one and I could see a dead end at the end, the other guy checked the other way and said there was a path. I didnt feel scared at this point in time, it was just like a maze so I went with it.

Big mistake. while we were crawling, a spear shot out through one of the holes. I was scared frozen, and none of us had any idea who triggered it. then we moved around and more spears came out, not hitting any of us, but I was trapped down by them in kind of like a box. I was really scared, and the only thing i could think was that I was lucid still so I could get out of it. Suddenly, this woman came on, I cant remember what she looked like except she had blonde hair, the rest was hidden. She told me I couldnt use my lucid abilities in here, and stupid me listened to her. I got really freaked out. The other two people did too apparently, because the black guy went running off and just got killed from panicking and racing through. The woman then said something to the fat chick...and all I could make out was parents...but whatever she said the girl went off and killed herself. I decided to try and see if this woman was serious and I just tried to wake up, but I couldnt. so, I cautiously crawled through the area the guy had gone through, which wasnt hard because he had sprung every trap on his way. The only thing going through my head was this woman watched saw 2 one too many times, and I had never even seen it, and that she must have thought this was ok to do since we were all dreaming.

when I came out of the little area, there was a huge in-ground pool, like the kind you see in the Sandals commercials. An attractive black woman came out of the pool and I tried to say high, but she just looked at me angerly and walked away, I didnt follow her because her face scared me a little. Then, this little girls with dirty hands started chasing me. Fearing it was a trick from the woman in the small rooms, I ran from the girl, thinking the dirt might be poison or something. When I lost her I had run in to a pool house, where there was a ledge, and down below was a big deep indoor pool. I suddenly felt very calm and I decided...well, Im lucid any ways, why not take a dive since I know it wont hurt? So I dived, and I felt myself turning on to my back and when I would have splashed my back against the water, I woke up.

hmm, about myself...Ive been trying to get controlled lucids for like half a year now...19, male, stable family, just finished my second year of college...I have only seen saw 1 and I never think about those movies and I havnt seen the first one since it came to dvd, but that is what it reminded me of, as I said in the description...and in the past I have had two other trials involving this woman with blond hair. I dont remember what those trials were anymore but I remember last year I had two other dreams involving her, and neither was good. The little girl wasnt someone I knew...but I do have 6 nieces if that helps, lol

I would really like to know thoughts on this dream because I find it weird I had this woman giving me crap before and it just seemed completely random in comparison to how calm my life is.

Contrary to popular belief, being lucid in a dream does NOT always mean you'll have dream control, even if you're an experienced lucid dreamer.

Most people, and even scientists will insist that the "cure" for a nightmare is lucidity. As you have learned the hard way, being lucid is only part of what might help turn the nightmare back into a regular dream, and not the end-all cure.

In any case, it's interesting that the blonde DC knew you were lucid dreaming, but the other two did not. It makes me wonder if maybe this DC was either a dream guide, or some other entity. You probably don't believe in that sort of thing, but of course neither did I until years and years of complete faith, skill and belief in my abilities failed to have control over certain DCs, and those DCs showed an eerie ability to tell me things about my life that were otherwise hidden to me.

My advice would be to not believe a DC who tells you that you can't use your abilities. Keep trying anyway--what've you got to lose?

Something else to try is starting a conversation with a DC like that. If she knows you're dreaming, what else does she know? Ask why you can't use your abilities, ask who she is, ect.