From: internetstuff47129@yahoo.com   
      
   Hi Fred,   
      
   > >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.   
      
   Your lucid dream in particular caught my attention.  Two reasons for this:   
   One, you've only realized you were dreaming once.  That is the same for me.   
   Only once, a few years ago, did I realize I was dreaming.  Two, you dreamed   
   of doors, especially with the intent of opening one of them.  I'm wondering   
   if this dream of doors and the opportunity of exploring them is a common   
   theme?   
      
   > 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:   
      
   This is one difference between our dreams.  I didn't have a waking dream.   
      
   > 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. :-)   
      
   While the circumstances are quite different, the same thing happened to me.   
   I was so excited about being aware in my dream that I woke up before seeing   
   what was inside the door I chose to open.   
      
   > (I couldn't catch a glimpse of what was behind that metal door in the   
   > underpass).   
      
   The similarities in our lucid dream experiences are almost uncanny.   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Me, too!  I'm badly out of practice.  I'm trying to retrain myself.  Right   
   now I'm still attempting to remember all my dreams.  It's as if I had to   
   start school all over again.   
      
   > 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.   
      
   I'm thinking that some of my medicines might have an effect on my dreams.   
   For better or worse, though, I do not know.  It does seem I have nightmares   
   more often than good dreams, or it could just be that nightmares are more   
   vivid and easier to remember.   
      
   > Regards,   
   > Fred   
      
   Thank you, Fred, for sharing your experience with me.   
      
   Yours,   
      
   Stacey   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)