Since I can remember I have Wake Induced Lucid Dreams to counter a condition I had as a child of dreaming whatever I drew. Thanks to this forum I now know what has been going on all these 35 years and counting.

Basically I would dream before going to sleep fully and it would be a nightmare of sorts created from things I drew as a kid. To stop this I learned at a young age to distinguish a dream from reality and take control.

I would be in dream that was starting to go bad and I would pause the dream like a VCR and change the outcome by creating some nicer situation just to sleep at night. Normally it would be some tranquil meadow or water deal and I use to call this my "Happy Space".

I have been doing this since I was about 12 and I am 47 now. After all these years it caused one weird by product that I have used for years in my profession as an engineer. My of my shared patents working for Black & Decker and Bell Labs have come from seeding my dreams before sleeping with problems to be solved just to wake with the answers. I would quickly write them down before I lost most or all of the answers or designs in my case.

For years now I have traveled the world by flying like superman, feeling and tasting food from all over and done amazing things in my dreams on purpose. I have played out many fantasies at will by seeding my mind before going to sleep of whatever I wanted for that night. I never watch horror movies or that night would become real to me in my dream which is a curse really.

My latest business was started by an invention created in my dreams one night on purpose from seeding my mind before sleeping about the subject.

Thanks again for helping me to know I am not alone in this skill or curse depending on how you look at it.

Darnell