How to quit a nightmare

Hi people… I’m somewhat new to lucid dreaming, I only remember I had a similar experience when I was 8 or 9. I’m training my brain to learn to lucid dream now, maybe in a few days I write about my first LD :smile:. Well, this is my first post, so I thought writing about a dream I had about 5 years ago. This is a normal dream, not a lucid one (not that I recall, at least).

It was night. I was outside, going to enter my building where I live. I somehow felt if odd (note: I on the occasion I had no idea that lucid dreaming exists), as if something inside me was telling “This is going to be a nightmare, beware…”. Well, I don’t really like nightmares, so what I do?
Somehow, I summon Unreal Tournament’s menu (I used to play that a lot, when I had this dream), I press Game (or something like that, I can’t recall), Quit, answer “Yes” to the dialogue and POP! I wake up and no nightmare :smile:

Well, do you have anything to say about this odd dream?

That’s handy. Next time, tell yourself that its going to be a fun dream.