Of Lucid Dreams, attacks, and things.

Dreams and lucid dreaming have always fascinated me. The ability to roughly control and shape your experience inside a dream allowing yourself to fly, truly, if that is what you wish. As of late though, my dreams have become sinister, my dreams are wanting to control me, not allowing me to leave, and at points, outright attacking me. Reading up on this topic, apparently this "demonic" dream is not uncommon when one dreams lucidly nor is being attacked by yourself or being pulled further in. Frightening that your dream state has so much control and that your sub-conscious is so powerful as to be able to hold you in a dream even if you wish to turn about and run away. Very few papers have been written on this, and the discussion level of this topic is fairly low key. A website where this discussion is still on going has definitely helped me understand at least some of this phenomena and discussion of it can be found here: http://dreamstudies.org/ . What I don't see discussion of, and perhaps I notice this simply because I'm Pagan, is spell casting in your lucid dreams. Personally I can think of at least 5 different dreams where I was invoking or banishing as a core dream aspect. Every last one of those dreams were not prophetic, were not precursors, nor did they follow any major events personally or spiritually. The dreams were definitely not mundane and one was down right terrifying and left me breathing heavily and wide awake filled with adrenaline. While I don't care to recount that particular dream, I will recount the first one where I was lucid and actually performed ritual work. The setting was definitely eerie, a crescent moon, a high plain, and a fire. I was being asked to invoke ... something. I was handed a scroll and on it were runes of some variety, and while I could easily read them in my dream, I couldn't recall them now if I tried. I spoke the words, the world in my dream literally shook, and that was the end of it, the dream moved on and I was back "in control" of my environment again. For those few crucial moments of invocation though I had no environmental controls, it was a locked step sequence that I had to carry out. Who, or what, I invoked, I don't know, but interestingly enough my other dreams of invocation carry a similar theme. I become lock stepped into the invocation then my dream moves on. I have however also performed banishments in my dreams and when I'm exorcising my environment, I am in complete control. Normally I'd just chalk the invocation bits up to internal strife, but these dreams carry some significance and weight in the dreamscape. Yes, my personal self, home, and spirit are all well protected against influences, and these do not appear to be past selves catching up, if anything they feel more akin to alternate realities bleeding through and into my dreams. Now, I ask those of you who have read this far, share your experiences, and oddly, for once, the negative ones count for more than the positives. Lucid nightmare workers, ritual sleep workers, and deeper dreamers speak up.