AWKWARD ZOMBIE

I was a banana in my dream once

The closest thing I have had to a lucid dream is this one dream I had a long time ago when I really wanted a Gamecube for some reason. I dreamed I had finally gotten one, and was about to play when suddenly I thought, "Oh, wait, what if this is all a dream?". I then decided I'd better play it before I woke up then.

I woke up as soon as I hit the power button. I was slightly vexed. Oddly enough, despite how many video games I play, that's the only game related dream I can remember at the moment.

I've had many lucid dreams and.....god, they're horrible.... Most of the time I see people that I care about dying horrible, violent deaths. Zombies, traffic accidents, it doesn't matter. I feel scared and at my wits end in them, usually because I'm powerless to stop any of the events once they're in motion. Sometimes I'm the one being hunted (usually by the ones I love), and sometimes I'm like a spectator that's been pulled into the arena of gladiators; only able to watch in terror but never able to fight back. I almost always wake up in tears when I have them.

...but if you know it is just a dream, why is it so much more horrible than having that kind of stuff happen in regular dreams?

But...
If you know you're lucid dreaming doesn't that take quite a bit of sting out of it?
Also, I just noticed i haven't answered my own question.
Usually when I have Lucid dreams I have complete control in them.

That's the thing. I don't really know that it's a dream until I wake up. And when I do wake up, I realize what's happened, and the general feeling of isolation and terror continues to hover around me before a more powerful feeling, such as joy, replaces it.

I don't think I've ever had any lucid dreams but I do remember a dream where I kept switching from Sonic (who was walking on the side of a skyscraper) and myself (Walking inside said skyscraper). The sky was a really bright blue and had huge fluffy clouds in it.

Only game-related dream I remember.

I never have lucid dreams. I am always trapped in my nightmares with no way out.

My turn to share a dream: This one time I dreamed I was walking through a hanger full of gundams and I saw one with it's cockpit open so I walked into it and all five Gundam Wing pilots were inside sitting in a circle playing the Pokemon card game and they wouldn't let me play with them because they said I wasn't good enough.

I've had a couple sorta-lucid dreams before... like, once I was being chased by a clown in a house of mirrors or something, and I somehow knew I was dreaming so I was like "ha ha, you can't get me cause I can just wake up!"

Also, once I had a really weird dream that I wrote down when I woke up. It took up like, two sheets of paper. I still have it.

The weirdest dreams are when you dream you're falling, and when you wake up, it feels like you landed on your bed.

I love falling dreams, because when I wake up, I feel like I'm on a roller coaster.

the only Lucid dreams I seem to have anymore have to do with Darkrai ^^; -fail-

I realize it's a dream and Scream myself awake. scares my mom, too. x3333

I never sleep... *shifty eyes*

I get that sort of thing a lot. You can't sense anything except yourself falling.

I seem to have "semi-lucid" dreams, I can manipulate the dream, but sometimes what I want to do doesn't work, and I don't know that I'm in a dream, it's quite a scary feeling when I want to do doesn't happen. I prefer not having lucid dreams though, because normal dreaming feels like a story is being writen for me, and "semi-lucid" dreams feel like I'm playing a game, and despite the scary feelings it sometimes causes, it actually feels a little nice too.
But now I'm worried that thinking about dreams will cause them to not happen, similar to the "you are now breathing manually" thing.

I generally sleep on my side/half on my stomach, with my arm on the pillow bent back towards my body and my head resting upon that. My other arm lies next to me/across my torso, and I typically have one leg extended with the other drawn in closer to my body. That's how I fall asleep, anyways. I move around in my sleep, so I wake in a number of positions. Sometimes I fall asleep on my back, but not regularly.

Also, to conform with the new topic this thread seems to have taken on, I've never had a lucid dream, much to my dismay, and I can't even share an interesting dream because the only way I can remember my dreams is if I wake on my own terms, in my own time, yet I have to use an alarm because if I don't, I don't wake up until 1500 or later, which, while nice, just doesn't work for me at all.

Also also, defenstrator doesn't understand what a lucid dream is.

A lucid dream is a dream wherein the dreamer is aware that they are, in fact, dreaming (I keep using that word...I do not think it means what I think it means...no wait, it does.) So if you don't realize you're dreaming until after you've woken up, it's just a normal dream, or nightmare as the case may be. Another thing that sets lucid dreams apart is that the dreamer, aware that they are dreaming, is often able to control and manipulate the dream, which you don't make any mention of. It seems to me that you are simply mistaking "lucid" for 'vivid."