The topic situation seldom happens to me, although the highlighted part applies to me!!
If i have a nightmare i can wake myself out of them now, in my dream i close my eyes and try to force them open but holding them down(if ya get me?) and ill actually wake up, the main problem then is to keep me eyes open for about 10-15secs to avoid going straight back into the same nightmare again!! :D
I know im dreaming most of them time, but i can't just say to myself ''ill rob a car'' but id still agree with the statement
One time i met my now deceased(6yrs) grandad(this was about a yr ago) and i was chatting to him as we walked, got to a point where i could'nt pass(since he had died and i had not) and he was just about to disappear and i remember saying ''Tell me something i can say to someone to prove this is real'' and he told me ''Tell your mother its ok/im not mad'' something similiar to that. One night i was drinking with all the family and at the end of the night it popped into my head, so i decided to just tell her, she started roaring crying, i asked her did it make sense and she told me they had a big fight before he died and they never made up:eek:..... Needless to say i was freaked out!!