Thread: Hello!

Hello!

I'm from Germany, but I hope my English is understandable.

I had a strange dream some weeks ago, and someone told me about lucid dreaming. I thought this might be interesting, so I looked it up in Wikipedia yesterday and there was a link to dreamviews.com.

I decided to start a dream journal, but I thougt I would be lucky, if I could write down a dream, because I usually can't remember my dreams. But I was wrong: During the night, I could write down six different dreams, at least partially.

I noticed that there seem to be two different kinds of dreams: One kind I have shortly before waking up, probably in REM, and the other kind while falling asleep.

But in the dreams I have while or shortly after falling asleep, I can't interact with the things I see, I can't even think about them, I just see them happen like watching a video. (It's somehow hard to describe.) Are these "real" dreams, too?