Many people may not believe in lucid dreaming and if I told someone that I could do that, many would not believe me. Lucid dreaming is when you are aware that you are dreaming and you may even be able to manipulate what happens in the dream. This is not scientifically proven to be true or false because there is so little evidence other than the reports that people make who can lucid dream. Well let me add to the list of reports.

I cannot tell you how often I lucid dream, but I know that it is not all the time. I remember at least one dream a night, sometimes more. So if I was aware that I was dreaming, I would remember, I always do. For me, when I first start to go to sleep I shut my eyes and lay down. As soon as I shut my eyes I start to create a story that I didn’t think of to start dreaming about but usually I am ok with it. Sometimes I don’t like the story and I try to change the story to something else. By then I am not awake, my boyfriend knows when I am sleeping by the way I breathe and sometimes twitch. The dreams at the beginning of the night are the easiest to manipulate to suit what I want to think about. Now, I don’t control every movement or detail, but I can change who is in the dream, and what major events happen, and even the location. For an example one of my dreams started out as a picnic on a grassy hill and to every side you could not see anything but grass, the horizon was half grass and half sky. Then the weather changed to a storm with no shelter and a boss from a video game appeared. I didn’t like this so I changed it to another location, a rocky mountain and I was holding a sword. That was my change because I was aware of what was happening, I needed better ground and a weapon to defeat the boss, but then without me changing it, someone else appeared. A little girl was behind the boss and the only way to get to her was to kill the boss. The boss was huge, and I recognized him as the first boss Valus from Shadow of the Colossus, he was a giant Minotaur made of stone and has grassy patches on him. Again I manipulated the dream by making myself the same size as him. I have had many other dreams that I was able to manipulate, many of them at the beginning of the night, but also quite a few in the morning before I woke up. I am usually aware of the dreams that happen about an hour to two hours before I wake up. I think I remember them because I was aware of them, I don’t seem to forget them like other dreams. I don’t always lucid dream, that would not be something I would like.

If you want to know what it is like, watch Divergent the movie about a girl who can manipulate simulations. It is basically the same concept.