Thread: Giving up Control

Since I was a little kid I've had lucid dreams. As a matter of fact, a had a dream friend, a girl from somewhere else (It had giraffes, and other animals like that) that I would hang out with when I dreamed.
Kind of like an invisible friend, except I could really play with her. We used to try to wake each other up. I remember one time she handed me a twenty dollar bill and told me to try to keep it with me when I woke up.
Didn't work, but we kept on trying. Eventually I stopped dreaming about her.
This doesn't mean I always have lucid dreams, just often.
My dreams are strange, static sometimes, but changing too. I have a few dreams that are reaccurring, but change as I age.
In one, I'm in a city, but its been abandoned. I never knew why, but I know that I always go into the same building, looking for other people. I think I was barely a teenager when that dream started, and the building always seemed freshly abandoned. You know, beds unmade, tea cups still with tea in them. In one room is an unopened present. I always wanted to know what was in it, but never opened it, in case the people came back.
Its been a few years since I had that dream, but the last time I went into the building, there was dust on everything. The flowers had wilted, tea turned to a stain at the bottom of the cup. I opened the present, only to find some rotten chocolate. I remember wishing I'd opened it before, then at least I could have ate the stuff.
I dont have nightmares, because I always know I'm dreaming, and I remember three laws I've built into my dream worlds. One, I can fly. This law changes in each dream. Flying can mean simpling floating down from a great height, or sort of pulling myself through the air on invisible bars. Once I turned into a sparrow and flew so fast I could barely control my flight. Itwas awesome. ^_^
Law Two: I breathe under water. Self explanatory, and often handy. I simply know I'm alseep, the water isn't really there, and I'll keep breathing no matter what.
Law Three: This is the newest law, and I've only needed it a few times. Its that I can leave my dream body when I need to. The first time I used it was as a prank. I left my body, floated up by the ceiling, and waited till a friend found me. Then I entered my body as she was freaking out, and scared the bejeesus out of her. Heh, its still funny. I dont usually need this law, because I rarely control just my own body in my dreams. Usually, instead of being me, I'm a group of people. So if one of me dies, I just switch perspective over to another.
Anyway, my point is, my dreams are truly fascinating. They're adventures, like books or movies, usually reasonably linear, although not always.
When I try to control them, I miss out on some of the spontaneous plot twists that come with my dreams, and I miss that.
So for now, I give up control of my dreams. I still know I'm asleep, usually, but I'm not ready to give up the adventures I have.