Hi dreamviews, I am reasonably new to the forums... I remember creating this account back when I had a few lucid dreams myself, even know they were quite short.

The first lucid dream I had was perhaps months ago. I had just woken up, when the night before I had been reading about this strange phenomena, and had not yet opened my eyes... I fell straight back to sleep. When I re-opened them I appeared to be in my dining room, I thought "Wait a minute, how did I get here?" and became lucid. At first I was exited but fear started to creep in as I realised I was in full control. This aspect scares me, since I get the feeling that my mind would acknowledge this fear and manifest itself into what I think COULD happen- for example; I might think of a bear running into the house and clawing my face off (silly, I know...).

I tried to leave the dream before anything could be manifested into god knows what.
When I tried closing my eyes I re-opened them to find nothing happened, I was still in a dream... I panicked and tried to find something that would undoubtably wake me up. I saw my sister cooking something so after a quick consideration I jumped on top of the boiling hot cooker hoping it would wake me up. lol.

And it worked! When I opened my eyes I was covered in sweat and my heart was beating erratically- so, to be frank, I was scared ****less.

Now every time I think I am dreaming (even when I am really not) I get really and I mean REALLY scared... this might all sound stupid, but I panic when I realise ANYTHING can happen in a dream.

Is there anyway to overcome this fear? Who remembers the part in Inception where the woman runs up to the girl with a knife inside the dream... if that happened to me I... I don't know... that for me just pushes the panic button- even if I know it isn't real.

Sorry for all the writing... I ramble