Recently, I've been having very realistic nightmares. Pain and everything, just like it was real. But at the end, I usually become lucid, but the nightmare is so frightning that I just want to get out of it. However, in those nightmares, it becomes nearly impossible to get out of. When I try to wake up, usually by opening my eyes, it feels like I'm trying to move my body through a barrier of some sort. As if I was trying to move through molasses or something thick like that. And even when I finnally open my eyes and see my room, the dream still lingers for a while and it's still hard to move my body.

Any thoughts on what to do in this situation? One of my ideas is to try to stay in the dream despite the terror. Most ideas involving control won't work(or won't work reliably) since I don't have direct control over my dreams.