I've had a few, rare lucid dreams. The best one was when I could fly. I was aware that I was dreaming and that I couldn't normally 'fly', but was delighted at the dream and experimented with my capablilities. At one point, a storm was bearing down on me, so I changed direction and sped up to avoid it. I was able to swoop down, fly into crevices and tunnels, stop when I wanted and adjust my elevation. I remember thinking how different everything looked from up there and following a road along when it suddenly occured to me that since i could fly, I didn't have to take the long route...I could zoom straight across everything...to hell with the road! Very cool.

Stormie

A while back Mrs CF was on some medication that had the side effect of creating vivid and 'realistic' dreams. Those were strange nights resulting in interrupted (and usually startled) slumber for yours truly.

The first I'd know about these hallucinations was when my wife became either very vocal or else started moving about a lot. To give an example or three....

I was awoken one night (actually the first time the dreams happened) by my wife suddenly sitting bolt upright, waving her arms around and shouting: 'Look out for the plastic! look out for the plastic! ' after which she promptly lay down again and continued with her usual snoring. Meantime I was left toatally awake and wondering what the hell was happening ...

The next morning she remembered the dream but not the sitting up and shouting bit. She had been walking across a field and, looking up at the sky, she noticed that all the clouds had turned to plastic film and were now starting to fall earthwards towards children who were playing in the field. So naturally she shouted and waved to warn them....

Then there was the time I was awoken to the sound of my wife crashing around the bedroom - first against the dressing table next to her side of the bed, and then bumpily heading through an adjacent archway and then banging her way through the door inside the archway that leads to the bathroom. By this time I was used to these disturbances, but not to this particular walking bumping result. Anyway, she woke up in the bathroom as she turned the light on.

Seems in this dream she had been aboard a ship in a bad storm and finding the boat beginning to fill with water she'd decided to make her way along the corridor below decks to try to escape. she came to a bulkhead that was blocking her way so banged against it wit her fists and it luckily gave. Behind the bulkhead door it was dark so she reached towards a light switch on the wall and turned the light on...

Last but not least, I was woken by a scream and just managed to stop her, out of bed and about to lob a silver hand mirror through the glass of the bedroom window.

In her dream, she had found herself encased in a sealed glass room and air was running out. She foud a metal bar on the floor and was about to throw it to break the glass when I interrupted her and woke her up.

Luckily she no longer takes the offending tablets, and, while she did, I always used to check that she hadn't taken a knife to bed before we dropped off to sleep!

Wow, Cylcefrance, that sounds like it was quite an adventure, when you didn't want to be having one.

When I get sick and have a fever, I have dreams just like that, except im usually half-awake so its more like a reeeeal bad trip. It's like, take a dream, then overlay it on whats actually there, then turn off all speech controls in my head... I wander around mumbling and yelling about nothing, freaking the fuck out at stuff that isnt even there.

Sparkie, I can lucid dream anytime during the nite, but have been doing it for years. I even wake up, think about the dream, decide where I want it to lead, go back to sleep and then continue on.

All that said, I'm not the best sleeper (without some kind of aid) so never fall into a totally deep deep sleep.

Would you say it's night time "daydreaming"?

This should be a Cellar tagline. And, it occurs to me that we may finally have an explanation for Dan Rather's attacker shouting, "Whats the frequency, Kenneth."

Perhaps, but the server was named after someone, wasn't it?

I thought that Spider Robinson covered that one.

Hmmm, not really, because often the dreams start off all random and almost nitemarish ....but I can easily turn them around and make the ending what I like.

Its just that I am consciously changing the way my dream runs, rather than being a passenger.

Sure, some television show character, maybe from Seinfeld? All of the servers had a theme, which was chosen before he started working there.

I sometimes have this experience where I am wide awake, aware fof everything in the room, sounds outside, etc etc. trying like mad to fall asleep, really pissed that I can't sleep, tossing and turning, the whole bit and SWMBO will tell me to stop snoring and trun over.

It's weird. I was sure I was a wake, it's not restful.

I have lucid dreams usually right before I wake up- Kind of like daydreaming except instead of imagining it you're really experiencing it!

Usually they happen becuase the alarm has gone of and I've hit snooze but I'm not quite sleeping.

Fever dreams are the opposite- you're aware that you're dreaming but you can't wake up and you can't control the dream. They're horrible.

Has anyone ever dreamt that they woke up and got completely ready for work, possibly even left for work, and then really woken up?

Not only that, I went through my complete work day. I woke up just as I was getting home. I woke up and realized I had to do it all again, I was not happy.