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If I know I'm in a dream, they usually aren't bad so I don't want to wake up. If I have a nightmare, I almost always perceive it as being reality.

^Being reality while I'm in the dream that is.
While I'm on the topic of waking up though...
If I tell myself that I need to wake up at a certain time the night before, I can wake up within a few minutes of that time. Although, I don't always get up then

I wake up. That always gets me out of a dream.

I wake up. That always gets me out of a dream.

I always try to get out of a bad dream but it usally doesn't work. When I'm in a bad dream I try to reconise it as a bad dream because unfortunatly I also usally think it's reality.

The more pragmatic people will often land themselves in bad dreams only to realize these things cannot happen and wake up. Of course, you can get the nightmares that can be real. If that happens to me, then I suppose I would just jolt up and be awake. I'm not really sure how I actually land myself out of dreams. This is probably why I'm not a very good lucid dreamer. As soon as I realize I'm in a dream, poof, there goes the awesome.

I always know when i'm in a dream, although usually I don't wake myself up if it's a bad one, I just change what's happening. If I want to wake up though, I open my eyes.

I don't have bad dreams. I had one or two when I was like 6 or something but that was all.

I've fought myself awake. I've also taken control and began altering the dream.

I keep trying to blink until I wake up. Works about 80% of the time (if I can remember it!)

It definitely is all about taking control of the dream.
Once you realize this isn't real-time, you tend to wake up.

Wake up ?????

But most of the time when it gets bad or scary i wake up and go back to sleep

well i usually dont have dreams but when i have normally they are nightmares and i get really scared (my nightmares are horible) i wake up

I don't have nightmares anymore. Even when I do, there is usually dancing bananas or something that'll cheer me up anyways.

When I was little and had bad dreams, I curled in a ball, held my breath, and closed my eyes. I'd wake up 80% of the time.

I've known people who can force their bad dream to become a good dream. It's mainly sheer willpower. I do it a bit differently. Usually i'm able to incorporate something silly into the dream.