I have only lucid dreamed a couple times in my life. This was many years ago, and I was being chased by Freddy Kreuger (morphed with the person who abused me when I was a child). In the dreams, when he’d get too close, I’d bring myself back to an earlier part of the dream, and choose a different action or direction to run in. Now the closest I get is when I tell myself, “I don’t like this dream; I’m going to wake up now”. When I do wake up – even from those dreams, I barely ever remember what I was dreaming about. I was discussing this with a friend recently, and will try to notice when the opportunity arises again, so I might attempt to lucid dream.