Originally posted by Squish
I've been quite good with my recall for weeks now, and a few lucids have appered also. I've just been walking around, exploring the world. I've tried some things like flying and jumping, and it's really fun.

But this night, I once again experienced a lucid dream. They come to me naturally, "I think I'm sleeping" -way. I mean, suddenly I realize I'm dreaming. No reality checks or anything. Though I've done them for weeks, and they've become quite a habit.

But this dream had some elements of a nightmare, so I decided to wake up. But I also decided to go explore that dream, for some reason. I opened the door. I went inside. I was in a apartmen house's stair section, where you see all the other people's doors and stuff. There were these mirrors. I freaked out. I started yelling like a grandmother on an oven. I tried to close my eyes (I usually wake up because of that), but instead I saw myself yelling to myself, from the mirror, eyes closed. I must've done that for minutes. I wasn't scared, more like frustrated because I didn't wake up. I can't remember anything else. I think I woke up after some time.

Now I'm pissed because I just wasted a fine dream because of stupid actions. But huhhuh, I can't wait for tonight.
It sounds as though your spiritual reality is a bit on the gloomy side. You know, at a certain point you really must aim higher, or you will stuck in a kind of Nightmare Noir as a chronic condition.

A Lucid Dream Checklist might help, particularly if you include an intonation of an AUM. The AUM Mantra is very elevating. In fact, Elevation is in itself Elevating, and to intone an AUM and then to get into a good Lotus Position (the Yogic cross-legged position or asana) and then to fly away -- leave you dark nightmares behind and below.

Also, acquiring some Spiritual Sponsorship from the Other Side might help. But the problem there is that most of the people who post here are strict materialists who presuppose that dreams are just arbitrary gurgles from the brain, and they reject any sense of the importance of their own subjective experience, or the possibility that their subjective experience may have some real connect into the Universal Collective. It is difficult to apply for any Spiritual Sponsorship while rejecting the possibility of any Spiritual Reality. And then there are those who wish to cultivate the Independent go it alone Bad Boy attitude, and they feel better about themselves by dismissing help, spirituality, community, etc. They think it embarrassing or humiliating to have to join up with a team.

But the Spiritual Realms are full of spirits willing to help.