I thought so too at first my friend! Ever since I was a child I have been having lucid dreams. Not as often when I was younger, but then I could SERIOUSLY control them. Yes, going into REM so quickly when I sleep is the major problem of the disorder I think, because of that I don't get any deep sleep and the sleep I do get is insufficient. Its very hard for me to make it 8 hours without having to take a 15 minute nap or so during the day (after which I feel fine, only when I try to sleep at night for 8 hours or so is it painful and exhausting). And to gab, what you said about lucid dreams making you happy, I agree. They were always awesome. At first. But I think having 4 or 5 of them on a nightly basis, and not being able to control them, has twisted the benefits. Many times - because I've lost control of them - the dream will end and I will wake up before I do what I want to do, and this makes me extremely frustrated and angry. And I try to go back to sleep a lot of times, so I can finish the dream. Sometimes it works. But rarely.

Now, my dreams have become more and more strange as time has passed. Like I said I used to have full control of them. But it has lessened to the point now where there is barely any control at all. I think this could be for a number of reasons. For one, having every dream be a lucid dream, perhaps changes the experience somehow. I know most people have to learn how to lucid dream, whereas mine just kinda started happening. And since I have them so frequently, I dunno, I'm not sure how that would affect someone. Anyway, here's what I usually TRY to do. Due to sleep paralysis episodes and the possibility of really intense nightmares, what I usually try to do when I'm dreaming is.. and this may be a little odd.. But I try to focus on sex, and lead the dream somewhere towards that. I do this because its easiest to focus on, and to avoid a bad dream, because when they're bad, they're really bad