Thread: Soft Paw's Dream Journal

I had been looking through my written journal, and I realised that some of the things in them will need explaining, so I will get it out of the way now. Ever since that boy told me how to walk through walls in dreams, I have had ever-increasing control without breaking into lucidity. A good example of this is a dream I had quite recently...

I was in a very tall building, mostly made of glass. It reminded me of the building in I, Robot. I knew exactly what the main part of the building looked like, but I wasn't there. I was in a small room off to the side. It was a plain metal room, with only a single door. In the middle was and object which I had never seen before, but I knew that it was some sort of vehicle, and I had built it. My old D.T teacher was talking to me about my 'project'. He said that although my project was very good, he needed one of the crucial parts for another students' work. When I looked back at it, I saw objects floating in front of it... sort of purple blocks. I knew that if I touched one, something along the lines of great pain would occur. I also knew that the piece he needed would stop them from working. I didn't want to give it to him, so he started throwing insults at me, and I just ran to a corner and curled up in a ball.

This is the important bit:

I (as in me, my conscious mind, not me in the dream) decided that I had had enough, and even though I didn't KNOW it was a dream, I knew that I wanted to stop it, to wake up, so in my mind, I moved my hand and pushed the ` key on a non-existent keyboard (also known as the console key). As soon as I did that, I saw a box appear in front of me. Once again, I used my mind to type the word 'exit' then enter. And I woke up.

I expect some of you will recognise this from Half-Life 2. For those of you who don't know, it's a game. I actually get this quite a lot - I don't like how a dream is going so I 'exit' and wake up. So far it has NEVER failed me. It's kinda weird though. Well, the fact that I do that suggests that I play games too much, but the strange bit is HOW I do it. I don't create a keyboard in front of me, or even find one in the dream. I just imagine it. Another weird sensation is when I can only SEE one place (whatever I see through my 'dream eyes', but then at the same time, I know exactly what another place in the dream looks like (the other side of a wall for example) AND also be imagining other places (either from real life or just an imaginary place). Like this, I can sometimes see up to about 10 places at once, but only ever be in one place, and it has never been confusing, which is confusing in its self.

Anyway, please tell me if this is normal, unusual or if I am just completely insane.