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has waking up during an bad lucid dream ever been an issue??? i dont have tons of these dreams..but as i started working on them, i get them more. ive had 5 or 6 in the past year or so. neway, in a couple of them...including the one i just had...i cant wake myself up. i usually dont have bad dreams...but when i do, they are sometimes lucid. how can i wake up? i tried alot of stuff...even pinching myself lol. ne advice??

I don't know how to force yourself to wake up, but perhaps you can change something in the dream so it's not such a bad dream?

i can work on that..but i alwasy seem to forget that option when im asleep. thanks!

If you can't change the dream, at least since you are lucid it can't be so bad, because you know it's only a dream, you don't have to take it so seriously. Just think of it as like watching a scary movie.

they are 10 times scarier when they are lucid and i cant wake up. its scary because i feel trapped. its not so much whats going on...its that i know its not real but im stuck. does that make sense?

I think you'll more than likely just get used to it, your brain will get sick of the situation of being scared and either send you into a normal dream or let you remember that you can change pretty much anything in the dream that you want.