I have had perhaps one or two dreams in my life (currently 22) that I have felt as if I had....unnatural amounts of control of my dreams. But not complete control, I could sort of make decisions, and even think logically, but I didn't reshape the world or do anything really strange.

I had heard other people, average people, talk about dreams where they knew they were awake, and could do anything. I thought they were full of crap. However, recent events prompted me to do some research, and while looking for info that I found this.

See, I had been suffering from a recurring sleep paralysis. When I was a child, I had a recurring nightmare that the reaper opened the back door and walked down the hallway to my room, and turned the knob. The dream always ended there. However, my mom caught me trying to sleepwalk out that same door and out of the house, often during the same dream. Creepy.

The sleep paralysis started only in the last year. Every few weeks I would have a dream, except that something was paralyzing me, I could not move or scream, but instead was terrified by a presence. The last one I had was so terrifying, the first words that escaped my lips as I broke the paralysis was "mommy." I haven't called for my mom like that since I was 8.

Anyway, having found this, and what seems like proof that lucid dreams really exist, I think I would like to learn more. But let me ask you, are there any bad side effects? Greater frequency or risk of sleep walking? Anything else?