I have very colorful, vivid, realistic dreams every night. And it SUCKS. The dreams themselves arent bad, but even though I sleep 7-8 hours I wake up exhausted. It's like my brain won't shut down. I would kill just to fall asleep and then wake up and not remember anything. I've been like this for years. Plus I get up 1-2 times to pee every night no matter what so that doesn't help either.

I am jealous of those of you who regularly have lucid dreams. The only time I was ever able to have them was when I was taking anti-malaria medication.

It's completely normal for a person who experiences sleep paralysis to feel this way. I've had lucid dreams and sleep paralysis since I was a kid, and lemme tell ya, I know how terrifying it can be. I thought a demon was trying to kill me, and believed for years that I'd been abducted by aliens. If this happens to you, when you lay down, consciously set the intention that nothing can touch you; anything negative around you is banished and you're protected by *insert whatever you believe in* Angels, God, Jesus, guides, etc. You might even smudge your house with sage. It's the belief and intention behind the action that counts. We have more control/power over our minds than we think.

I'm a lucid dreamer. Recently, I've been listening to binaural beats while I sleep, and holy balls. My dreams are 10x more lucid. Like, having in depth conversations with dead people lucid.

I don't speak to the dead, but I've had psychic dreams about dead loved ones since I was a kid. Every time a person or pet dies, I dream that I'm with them. It usually takes a week or two after their death, but they always show up. I've also dreamed about hanging out with my spirit guides.

I still wonder if my hs BF of 7 years was "the one"..I've been happily married to someone else for 15 years but I still think/have dreams about this ex. He lives across the country and have had no contact at all with him. I tell myself if we truly are soulmates and its meant to be then the universe will reunite us someday...

I have a dream about 2-3x a year that I watch an airplane explode. I'm always on the ground looking up and the airplane is always in the sky. There are never people riding in it either (that I remember ). I can't coincide it with any events or stresses in my life, it's just totally random when it occurs. I've not flown since the dreams began, several years ago. Not because of the dream--just have had no reason to fly. Makes me kinda leery to get on a plane again though. Even though it's probably symbolic anyway.

I have a recurring dream that I am at a store and I see a little toddler wandering around, so I take him with me to find his mother. When I do find the boy's mom (it's always a little boy), she always tells me that the baby is mine now and he's my problem. Then she disappears and I become an instant parent and I feel both overwhelmed and happy at the same time. I tend to have this dream when I'm about to start something very stressful. I think it's amazing that dreams can tell us so much about what we're going through.

It may not be a dream. Have you ever heard of astral travel? But I know exactly what you mean. My dreams/travels are so pleasant that I look forward to going to sleep.

I've had gifts since I was born, as does everyone in my family. I first realized when I was 15, when I heard - in my head - someone say something seconds before they actually said it. There are a lot of different aspects to it. I've had precognitive dreams. I can feel what others are feeling; their mood becomes mine, whether happy, sad, angry, depressed, whatever. I can see peoples' auras. I can sometimes taste what my friends and family are eating - dh will be on a business trip and I'll text, "Are you eating (thing) right now?" and he is. The other day, a client called while I was in the bath, and as I listened to her VM, I heard, "I'm at the dentist" in my head. I called her and she said she'd have to call later - because she was at the dentist. The good thing is I always know when people are lying to me, and I can sense danger. The bad thing, as dh says, is he can't surprise me with anything. He just asked if I know what my bday present is. I'm pretty sure I do...