 One time I had a lucid dream in which I was so completely aware of what I was doing And I was so clear that I found it hard to wake up And I found it like almost like I was Being held there by myself and it was you know It was a really weird dream because I was so lucid and so aware of what I was doing that When I decided I wanted to wake up it felt like I was struggling, you know it felt like I couldn't wake up and I think this is a dream that a lot of people actually have this is the sort of dream that Can feel like a lucid nightmare when you're more aware of it and when you've had it more often You know that it's not really a nightmare It's actually just a really clear lucid dream and you can't really escape it because you're too aware This is one of the higher levels of lucid dreaming I would say in which you're so You know awake in the dream You're so close to being awake in real life, but you're not and that is what holds you in the dream That's what makes you feel like you almost like you can't escape the dream And so the recent dream I've had is where I've been lucid But I've also wanted to wake up and not been able to and it's not that I was trapped there or you know Held in dream suspension like an inception that doesn't exist. It's not that's not real But what did happen is? I found it difficult to wake up even though I knew I could wake up and I knew I was lucid And I don't think that's a problem. I think this is something that you know, you're gonna have as a lucid dreamer It's not really an issue and I don't think you should be worried about it but you know, I just wanted to explain that this is something that can happen and you can sometimes feel like you're So deep within the dream levels so deep in the dream storyline That waking up can seem like a far distant memory. It almost feels like you're you're aware of your waking body And you're aware of yourself being asleep in you know in waking life But you just can't seem to get back to Reality and wake up and it's not that you're trapped It's just you're deep in the dream and so because you're so engaged with the dream and it's so deep You lose sense of time you lose track of how much time is actually passing and it feels like more time is passing than it is Time dilation right it feels like you're experiencing hours in the dream and that's why it feels like you're trapped but really what's actually happening is you're just experiencing a few seconds or minutes and For those few seconds or minutes. You just can't seem to wake up. That's fine That's normal and that's nothing to be worried about that's that happens to everyone and it certainly happens to me So if this has happened to you don't worry, you know, you're not stuck in the lucid dream It's just because you're deep in the dream and engaged with it time feels like it's going slower for you