Writer's Block: Daydream believer

[omorka]

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I do occasionally go lucid. I could probably do it more often if I, you know, actually practiced. Typically, when I have, I've gone for flying - with the wings and the proper form and all - or for sex dreams. The former usually works better than the latter, damn my unconscious.

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[awbryan.livejournal.com]

I have occcassional full lucid dreams, but I find myself much more commonly in a semi-lucid state where I am both actor and director-scriptwriter. I can't escape the plotline of my dream, but I can change where the dream goes. Once this happens, I also tend to flip more uncontrollably between first and third person perspective; i.e., watching my character vs. seeing through his eyes. I can have real bang-up Hollywood productions in my head when I go semi-lucid; some of them would make better movies than actual blockbusters I could name but won't.

I've also noticed a state of _false_ lucidity, where I think I have control of the dream but I really don't. The best example is when you command to wake out of the dream... and go into another dream. Once, I woke from a nap and wandered around my hometown for a subjective half hour before finding an intersection that I knew didn't exist... thereby realizing I was actually asleep in Boston.