When I was a kid I used to have a lot of lucid dreams, I thought that it was normal and that everyone could control them freely. The main rule for me was to NEVER say or think "this is a dream" when I realized it, if I did, I would get sucked into a black hole and then spin around earth for like 15 minutes or so before I woke up. Either that or there would be tons of nightmarish creatures eating me.

This scared the shit out of me as a kid so I decided to never utter those words again. My lucid dreaming ability went away as I forgot about it, but I tried hard yesterday and worked on reality checks and such and I had 3 LDs during the night, including one false-awakening.

I'm still scared shitless of saying the words "this is a dream" have anyone else had the same problem when saying those very important words to remind you that it is in fact a dream? I might try to say something like "this is not reality" instead but I'll just have to try that tonight. I know that since I've gone lucid I could change what happens afterwards, but as soon as that hole appears and I start spinning around the earth my mind goes blank.