From: me@privacy.net   
      
   Stacey Whaley wrote:   
      
   >Does anyone care to share what they've done and experienced in their lucid   
   >dreams?   
      
   I have only once realized that I was dreaming while dreaming.   
   At that point I was walking through a subway tunnel, passing by a door   
   (those metal doors). Upon realizing that I was lucid, I immediately   
   decided to open that door.   
      
   When I grabbed the doorknob and pulled the door open, I awoke instantly:   
   I was lying on my back on my futon in my sun-flooded room - or at least   
   that's what I thought happened, because I was in fact still dreaming:   
      
   While I was surprised about having dreamt lucidly first time and at the   
   same time being somewhat disappointed about the shortness of that   
   experience, I did suddenly *really* wake up - lying on my back on my   
   futon in my sun-flooded room. :-)   
      
   (I couldn't catch a glimpse of what was behind that metal door in the   
   underpass).   
      
   This was a few years ago when I actually tried to become lucid (looking   
   at my hands a couple of times every day, then looking around while   
   asking myself if I was dreaming or awake, and doing reality checks to   
   verify). I haven't done this training since. I do dream wildly every   
   night and remember a lot.   
      
   Because of terrible nightmares and other emotional pain I take lots of   
   methadone (synthetic opiate receptor agonist), and I took other opiates   
   back then when I tried to have lucid dreams. I am sure that those   
   opiates have an effect on my dreams and on everything that is related to   
   dreaming, among other things.   
      
   Regards,   
   Fred   
      
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