I was once able to deliberately escape an unpleasant dream by thinking to myself, I don’t like this, I want to be somewhere else now.
And then I closed my eyes, opened them, and awoke in my bed.
Is that normal?
Totally.
That is how I make myself wake up too. Closing the eyes and opening them again works every time for me.
Did you know that it was a dream when you wanted to escape it, btw?
I’m not actually sure. I was aware that the events in the dream weren’t normal, but I don’t think I put two and two together- I was kind of rushed at the time. Running away from something bigger than me is not an environment in which I can calmly figure out oh, that doesn’t make any sense at all. I must be dreaming.
And I asked because I have never been able to repeat it.
…Come to think of it, the really odd thing is not the idea that I woke up on purpose, but the kind of dream I had. Has anybody ever heard of a dream with the plot of a nightmare that isn’t scary?
Of course, I use this when I want to wake up.
It things get too unpleasant in an LD, I can jerk my leg and wake myself up. I’ve done it several times.