Last night I achieved lucidity for the first time since actually being interested in lucid dreaming. I have been lucid many times before, but this is my first lucid dream while keeping a dream journal.

I seem to be very good at controlling lucidity when I come to the realisation I'm dreaming. Last night in particular was extraordinarily vivid and when I became lucid I felt like I was in Stage 4 lucidity straight away. I know that I could have levitated and flown away within nanoseconds because that is just the degree of lucidity and control that I felt. I am very very good at summoning people, objects and scenery. They materialise almost instantly when I think of them.

But I have a problem when I achieve lucidity, and that's an urge to think about my demon. My demon happens to be the girl from The Ring. I don't know why it happens, but when I have full control over my dream some part of me has to think of this evil girl... almost as if to prove to myself that I'm dreaming. So what tends to happen is I will picture the girl in my mind's eye and then BAM... I turn around and she's standing RIGHT in front of me, as vivid and real as ever, about to kill me... accompanied by screaming sound effects. This is enough to scare the skin off anybody, and I wake up in a sweat and heart racing as soon as it happens.

My question is how can I stop myself from thinking about her and what techniques can I use when lucid to take my mind off her? Does it help to spin around as soon as you're lucid to clear the slate? I'd like to hear what people have to say on this, and whether anyone has had the same problem.

Thanks