I signed up to this forum after achieving to wake up in my dream. I've been reading a lot of techniques but thought I would post my trouble. In the dream, I walked into my parents kitchen. I havent lived at home for 4 years ( I'm 22) so this was strange. Then in the kitchen, there was a car parked with flames comming out of the windows. My dad seemed to be working on the car. In the kitchen! It was at that moment I became lucid. For some reason, I told myself to run to a room where I knew a mirror was hanging on the back of the door. I looked at myself and my face was so weird and mushy. Instantly, like a dramatic movie scene just took place, intense music plays and my face start swirling as I fade from the dream and wake up. I do not have questions about lucid techniques, but its seems impossible to stay awake in my dream once I realize I'm there. It is too dramatic and shocking.