Yesterday morning, I woke up, and tried to go back to sleep. Soon I was in a dream. It was set in my grandmother’s basement (a really creepy place). My mother was there. She asked me to follow her into the darkness. At the time, I knew I was dreaming, but I was incapable of doing anything. I told my mother I wouldn’t go (I knew it would turn into a nightmare, my nightmares often involve following someone into the darkness), and turned away. I struggled to do an RC (my finger went to my hand in slow motion, I couldn’t control anything!). The RC worked, my finger sort of went into my hand. Behind me, my mother started turning into a dry corpse, and furiously asked me to follow her into the darkness again. I ignored her and started rubbing my hands to increase vividity. The dry corpse started coming towards me, and the rubbing wasn’t helping (it was going really slowly). I tried to say something, but I couldn’t. I kind of felt I was asleep, and trying to speak felt like trying to speak when you’re, like, reallly really really tired?! Then I tried to push the dry corpse away with my arm, but that woke me up. It seems like my sleep was extremely ‘shallow’, I could actually feel the pillow against my head while I was dreaming!!! 
If I can get rid of this problem, then I think I will be able to LD. Please help me solve this problem once and for all!!! I need your help!!!
Appended “(Shallow dreams, with no control)” to the topic title for clarification. 
I’m not a proffesional by any means… I wonder if subconciously you worry about having these nightmares everytime you try and attempt a LD. I mean to me, they sound pretty intense and frightening. I can see how that can dwell in the back of your mind everytime you try to go back to sleep. I know it’s easier said than done, but I guess by simplnig willing positive dreams before you go to sleep might help get rid of these dreams. The fact that you can barely move although you know you’re dreaming shows that deep inside you feel trapped by these dreams.
The nightmares aren’t the problem. In fact, I very rarely have nightmares. I don’t really consider this dream as a nightmare, it wasn’t really that scary, since I knew I was dreaming. The problem is how my dreams are ‘shallow’.
I am in fact quite happy now when I get these dreams, since they are the easiest to turn into LDs, and are (IMO) the most interesting. Of course when I was young I was traumatized by a recurring nightmare (over 30 times!!!), but now I am fine with them. They’re just dreams after all.
I’m glad to hear it isn’t a problem… I have these “shallow” dreams too. Whenever I seem to be aware of the fact I’m dreaming, my physical bodies senses is still present in my dreams, lay on my stomach, and I can only crawl, if my arms folded behind my head I feel like I’m handcuffed, sometimes I can barely walk almost feeling like I’m forcing my (awake SP legs) to move. Each time I was able to have a succesfull LD, it seems to get less and less. It seems to me more like a focus issue, something I can’t seem to get over, but as long as you can focus on the dream, and just the dream, and ignore your sleeping physical self, you can probably have more control over the dream. The more aware you are of your physical body means you may still be thinking too logically. Hope that helps.
Yeah, I posted this in the topic below(or above, I don’t know) this one:Sometimes you can get lucid but you won’t be able to do anything.It also happened to me too.I was lucid, but the dream just continued normally.I don’t know what causes this.
Try focusing on lucid dreaming, like onemike said
Edit:
Ok! So if I keep on studying LDing, it should go away?
I think that’s fair enough… it seems to be true with myself. The more and more I do it, the better it gets each time.
I’m not sure.
If you had that only that one night, it’s not a problem, it happens rarely, but if it happens frequently, then I guess you should focus on the dream, make it more vivid.