So I designed my own lock screen and for a couple of days if worked completely fine. During this time I had changed absolutely nothing, I just kept using it. Then it started getting a bit laggy. Then all of i sudden I was having trouble doing anything on my lock screen. Not even unlock my phone with the simple vertical scroll function. May I just say I'm so glad that you can use the bottom left corner as a fail safe. Turns out that only the top half of my screen is actually responding to my touch commands, toggling variables and opening notifications like it should, but the bottom half won't. Keep in mind that in every other situation my screen is fine and I can even still trigger animations with the scroll feature, however no touch functions.
Please help...