Thread: I can never wake up from lucid dreams (intentionally or not). What about you?

I can usually wake up whenever I want to. I can only think of one exception.

Originally Posted by Matte87

One part of me would love not being able to wake up as I'd have so much time to do whatever I wanted. I've never experienced it though and I'm pretty sure a small voice in the back of my head would whisper something like: "You're trapped here forever" if it would happen.

Have you tried turning those nightmares around every way possible? If you have I'm sorry for you. Must be hard to watch something you love turn into something unpleasant.

I've never felt like I was going to be stuck in my dream for a long time; I don't really get horrible premonitions like that, just those involving immediate or upcoming events in the dream itself.

Occasionally a lucid will start to get out of hand and in this case I'll try to exert force and command the dream with total confidence, saying something like "stop or else".

The dreams I actually deem nightmares are the ones in which I cannot stop the nightmare from actually occurring. In these, I always just think "ugh, for crying out loud... I'll just have to suck it up," and then I endure whatever the nightmare may involve. I maintain a sense of aggravated authority in case the dream decides to lighten, but this usually doesn't happen.

Nightmares are a normal part of dreaming, lucid or not, so they don't really make me want to stop LDing.