I assume that you cleared your mind and tried to get yourself out of the dream, which is why everything started going black and you got scared? Easier said than done, but try keeping your emotions under control next time and see what happens. Emotions, whether getting overly scared or even overly excited, tends to cut any dream or astral projection short.
Just a little note... you may not want to discuss any of your dreams that are highly symbolic in nature, etc. Some people believe that this conveys very private information and knowledge about yourself/that is intended for you only, and that if you go sharing this out with the world, you may not get any more dreams for a while because you cannot be trusted with the info, etc. Higher beings, go figure
. So anyway yeah, keep a dream journal
and keep it hidden, and then try to just discuss the generic stuff of your dream with other people. But it's up to you, just giving you future
reference so if you mysteriously stop dreaming for a while, you know why =). Ergh, I just woke up myself, and now I have forgotten what else I wanted to say
[edit on 13-8-2005 by Yarcofin]


So anyway, I got into
the elevator. Once I got into the elevator I quickly remembered something, look at your hands. (I remembered this because there was a thread here
discussing about your hands in your dreams) I put my hands in front of my face, and there they were. They looked very odd, they had a shade of blue
and they were morphing into disfigured shapes. So I looked at my hand, and then I started pulling on my middle finger. It came off just like that and
reattached. Thats when I realized, I'M DREAMING, THIS IS FAKE. Then all of the sudden I heard this sound, I can't really explain the sound but it
was kind of like a loud hum, and it was short. Everything around me went black, I was so scared I immedietly woke up.
) but now, either I don't remember them, or I don't have them.