Hello,

i'm new here and just happened to find this website after looking around on howstuffworks.com.

I overall have had only one dream which i remember being lucid. I woke up and immediantly told everyone i saw about it and therefore have remembered it to this day. Now i've run into a couple questions about actually making these dreams happen.

first, often in my dreams (this happened in teh lucid one too) the surroundings are where i have been before, but dramatically altered. for example i dream i'm in science class but the classroom is different. then i may dream about the beach but there is a huge trench on the beach!!!! i wondered why this is was happening so much

second, about trying to go to sleep trying to remember dreams. i mean as in thinking about dreams while going to sleep. the 2 times i tried it i could tell i was sinking into sleep but i was filled with blind terror about...well...nothing. i wasn't afraid of nightmares (i've never had one) i just felt like i was losing control. then i woke myself up. it was wierd, is this normal? it wasn't a dream it just was like i was sinking and then BAND i was awake.

thanks for anything....