I hope someone could shed some light on this. I hope to trigger these experiences again, because they were interesting and fun.

Basically I have a normal dream history of the 'average person'. I've allways had very psychadelic dreams, but the odd stuff only started happening when I was 20 years old.

I used to go on a bus from college that was old and the engine used to hum quite loudly. I can never usually sleep whilst traveling, but I always could on this one for some reason. Anyway, one day I was sitting my chair, looking around looking out of the window, when I realised my phycial eyelids were closed!!! Yes this was real and NOT a normal dream where you think you are awake when you're not. At first I couldn't believe it, becuase everything seemed real and normal, and I could hear the conversations going on around me from the other people on the bus. I thought how odd it was, that I could 'see' everything, but my eyelids were closed. I suppose I was in a heavy trance or something?

This experience was repeated several times until I learnt I could move my head and neck to look around. I then started to do this with my hands. Whilst I 'saw' throught my closed eyelids, I would hold my physical hands up to my face, open my eyes quickly, and my hand would be there, in front my face. I was doing it for real whilst having a dream.

I know that people control their dreams, and I know that people sleep walk, but I've never heard or read about someone being able to dream and control their physical bodies like this at the same time.

I was able to do something slimilar with hypnagogic imagery. Whilst listening to music I would fall into a trance state, and I would start to dream whilst awake and see REALLY WEIRD psychadelic stuff. Like weird faces, creatures, landscapes. It's happened to me before (like it happens to many people before falling alseep), the only difference with this is that I could talk out loud at the same time. I started to describe what I was seeing to my boyfriend, so he could then verify that I really had been talking clearly and coherently whilst supposedly n a trace.

I'd really like to work more with lucid dreams, and I would like to work with my strengths. Do you think I have a good ability to fall in to the theta brain wave stage? I just wandered what a good starting point would be for me?