In the past couple months I have sporadically started having lucid dreams. My biggest problem is I dream that I woke up, although I am still sleeping. This repeats itself a number of times until I actually do wake up. Sometimes in my dreams I get nervous and start breathing heavily even though I don't want to. Other times I go from dream to dream and feel like my dreams are on "repeat." I'm used to how it was before this all started, when I'd go to sleep, have a maybe five second dream, then wake up. I also have been dealing with sleep paralysis lately (where I see my room and can't move even though I feel awake). But, with the sleep paralysis, I learned to wiggle my big toe(s), and that usually helps me wake up sooner.
At times I feel like I'm in a Freddy Krueger movie, since I'm afraid to go to sleep, lol. The biggest thing that freaks me out is when I try to wake up and I keep dreaming that I'm waking up, but I'm not. Should I try to use reverse psychology on it and say "I'm not ready to wake up, I want to sleep more!" Or can I say to myself, "Big deal, I'm still sleeping. Eventually I'll wake up."
Any advice for a newbie to this would be helpful!
