Sounds like an excellent title for a book eh?

Hey all.

Is the logical part of the brain mostly disabled whilst dreaming, does anyone know?

The reason I ask is that I'm a pretty logical thinker now and have been more so the older I get ( all those episodes of Star Trek watching Spock paid off ).

Now, I'll use a dream I had the other night as an example, I was playing cricket in the back yard... with my mother of all people ( lol @ that for a start ) and I saw a large Snake go past me, now I know we don't have snakes in New Zealand but anyway I ended up running into the house to call the cops and I ran into a small Tiger in my room as well.

At this point I would have thought that my logical brain would kick in and have said " hang on, we don't have snakes in NZ and WTF is a tiger doing in my room?"
You'd think that they'd be pretty bloody obvious dream signs wouldn't ya?... but for some reason my brain just took it all as normal and the dream continued.

After I woke up and thought about this dream I was really annoyed that I'm such a logical thinker, yet I just don't seem to be able to click to this when I'm dreaming and become lucid.

This is most annoying and happens frequently.

The one and only time my logical brain did kick in is mentioned in my Intro in the noobies forums where I meet my late father and my logical brain said hang on he's dead he can't be here, you must be dreaming.

Comments? Ideas?