Thread: Newb with Long-Term Sleep Weirdisms

Hello, all...

First time looking into a dream-centric forum, before, but I've apparently been a fairly bizarre dreamer for some time. I fairly regularly experience sleep paralysis and dream with various levels of lucidity. I've had dreams that seem to last years, with my brain providing endless amounts of backstory, and I've died more times than I can easily recall. My recall is, from what I've been reading, pretty exceptional.

I've never kept dream journals, nor have I done any sort of 'training' or practice -- It's just been a lifelong oddity. I used to be fairly anxious about it all, having had a long stretch of time where my SP had a distinct 'Succubus' theme going on. It got to be such a familiar presence that "we" would have some rather loaded conversations. (For a while, it got pretty violent, until we "came to an understanding", heh.)

A common cycle for me is, from what I've been reading, a form of WILD. I have to lie flat on my back, and there are certainly cycles where it's more/less common, but I have gone through entire sleep cycles fully aware.

It usually starts with a ringing/buzzing in my head, which is my 'I'm falling asleep' signal. At that point, I can start trying to "move". Sometimes I'll float away from the bed, other times I'll just sort of roll off of it. Levels of control fluctuates. From there, I'm usually in a house/my room... I'll float/walk/crawl to the nearest window or door, and going through whatever portal it happens to be at the time takes me into the 'dream world'.

I think my favorite types of these dreams involve in-depth conversations with other dream characters. Usually, I can initiate a pretty fascinating chat by just confronting the first dream character that comes along, talk to them about being an aspect of my subconscious, etc.

Once in a while, they're a little more feisty than normal, seeming to be a little more free-willed. That's quite a bit of fun, as well.

Anyway, just popping my head in to say hello.