For the past year or so, I've been trying to lucid dream. Not exactly something that I've been putting all my will into doing. But I've been paying attention to it enough that I think I've succeeded. Recently, I've often found myself in the middle of a dream realizing that I was asleep. I'm pretty sure I have at least some control of my dream self.
The problem is I haven't been able to wake up when I wanted to. For example, this morning I dreaming of myself back in college. Then I realized that I was dreaming. A little later, I realized that I had to wake up because I had some things to do very early in the morning (5 am). In the dream, I tried everything to wake up. I tried running around, slapping myself in the face, jumping, yelling, etc. I just couldn't wake up.
Two questions. Do you think I've achieved lucid dreaming or do you think it's part of the hallucination? If I indeed have some control over my dream, or at least myself in the dream, how do I make myself wake up from the dream?
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