i cant stand night terrors personally i do have lucid dreams they are interesting to say the least but they usually do not last a very long time for me because i usually wake up after a certain time. i also have very vivid dreams where i cant necessarily control what i am doing but remember exactly whats going on. like last night was dreaming my company was in a different building really close to the swank of hollywood and there was all this security there because the academy awards committee was having their meeting down the hall from our office regarding final nominations. i was riding a bike to work and just doing all sorts of stupid tricks and all. it made no sense but every bit of detail i remember
I have lucid dreams sometimes, where I figure out that I'm dreaming. As soon as I realize that, it's cool because I immediately go running around doing whatever I want, while I have the chance. I don't have control of the whole environment, but I think I have some choice in it because things I want often tend to appear sooner or later. Things don't always go my way but I think that is important too, not to have complete control and to leave some to chance. It's really fun actually, I just wish it happened more often. I don't remember that many of my dreams, and most of them are kind of fragmented and I don't ever figure out I'm dreaming.
Have you or anyone else here read The Teachings of Don Juan, A Separate Reality, and Journey to Ixtlan by Carlos Castaneda? I read Don Juan in 1968 and it was pretty powerful stuff for someone with the lifestyle I had back then. All I'll say is that I didn't just toss it away as fiction. If nothing else, they are an enjoyable read. The first 3 books are the best, IMO. This is from Wikipedia: Castaneda’s first three books, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, A Separate Reality, and Journey to Ixtlan were written while Castaneda was an anthropology student at UCLA. He wrote these books as if they were his research log describing his apprenticeship with a traditional "Man of Knowledge" identified as Don Juan Matus, a Yaqui Indian from northern Mexico. Castaneda was awarded his bachelor's and doctoral degrees based on the work described in these books. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Castaneda
