Hello all. Came upon this site last night and read through the main pages. For the most part, I dont remember my dreams. Every couple weeks I will actually remember something when I wake up, but usually it gets so garbled by waking and hitting the snooze button and going back to sleep that Im never sure what it was I was dreaming of in the first place. If the logic centres of your brain shut off while dreaming, mine must stay like that until I hop in the shower because 7:23 never makes any sense to me as I look at my clock in the morning. "The Russians attack the Chinese at 7:23? Huh? What are those numbers for? Are they numbers?" Anyway...

I have had lucid dreams before, but I never knew how to classify them. Sometimes I would realize that I was dreaming, sometimes I would just discover I could control everything. Very rare though, and most of the time I just wake up after realizing I am dreaming. Im not entirely sure what 'sleep paralysis' is, but the closest thing I can relate it to is after I have left a dream, immediately before I wake up. I can tell the dream is over, and I know that if I open my eyes I will wake up. No 'buzzing' or anything like that, just blackness. I also dont understant Hypnotic Imaging. I dont recall having any stages to falling asleep, I just remember being awake, them nothing. If I consciously think about remembering my dreams, 1/2 the time I will. I even wrote down what I willed myself not to forget.

I have the odd nightmare too. The last one I had was very geometric, I guess youd call it. The scenery appeared to be made of squares and the sky was grey (i think), and we were floating on water in small boats. I remember that off in one direction everything was slightly darker than everything else. There was something wrong over there, like it was evil, only worse somehow. I got the heebee jeebees just looking that way. Then, it was like the darkness started to grow larger and darker. I realised that someone had drifted into the darkness, I called for them to come back, but they couldnt hear me. Then I woke up. I know it doesnt sound scary, but it scared me shitless.

Anyway, its 1 AM and I have to get up in an ungodly 6 hours. So much for staying up late over Christmas. Cheers.