Soyo

I heard the "my dream" garden thing was a little disappointing. Which sucks because I miss the chao system and was hoping this would fill my void in a way ;/

I happened to love sonic riders. But I like steep learning curves =/

I hope this game is just as hard. I can deal with alittle bit easier, or a little bit harder, but I hope it doesnt change a whole lot.

What usually happens is that when I listen to music while I sleep, I don't dream at all. But, instead of instantly waking up, I slide out of sleep, and while this happens, I am still listening to my music, which for some reason sounds a whole lot better during this wake-up period then when I'm awake.

This same exact thing happens to me. I fell asleep to some of my favorite piano music one time and I slide out of sleeping into this half awake state, and it was like the music somehow fused with my consciousness and senses. Like the music was a part of me, like my thoughts and vision. It was absolutely incredible.

Sadly, I have a very hard time actually falling asleep when listening to music. I'm not sure why. Perhaps its because music stimulates my mind, and my mind is already going so fast that its hard to fall asleep.

On a final note... any tips for wannabe lucids like me, Soyo?

I wish I did. But like I said, its something that happened to me before I even knew exactly what it was. My mind is always going 100mph at any given moment. It makes it really hard for me to fall asleep, even when I'm totally exhausted. All I can really say is try the tips other people give, the whole talking to yourself before falling asleep thing and reality checks. Other than that, I think it'd probably really help to get more in touch with your subconscious as a whole, in and out of dreams.

I feel for you on the whole sleep issue though. I only get to sleep 8 hours or more on the weekend. On the weekend I sleep an average of 15 hours :x but during the week I sleep an average of like 5.

Back on subject, if you fall back asleep really easy in the morning.. one thing I highly recommend trying, is setting your alarm clock like 40 minutes before you really have to get up, and then hitting the sleep button and going back to sleep 4 times. My clock sleeps for like 9 minutes or something weird when I hit the sleep button. But I go to sleep after each time I hit it, and I have little mini dreams. Since my mind starts going again when I wake up and see what time it is, It makes me have very vivid dreams. They tend to be easy to remember too, since you wake up right after them.

I'm a very unique case when it comes to dreaming, because I've always had a sleep schedule thats anything but normal. I've slept 23 hours straight on a few occasions, and at one point in my life, could sleep a whole day, stay up for two, then sleep again for around 20 hours, and repeat.

I experience WILDs constantly, and I get sleep paralysis, but its not like what other people describe. I don't really get that uncomfortable foot asleep feeling. I cant move, but I'm perfectly relaxed. Maybe its because I haven't really attempted to move while having the crazy half awake dreams and abstract thoughts that don't make any sense. Maybe it isn't a true WILD, or maybe I'm just weird.

But another odd thing is, nearly 80% of my dreams are lucid. There's just something inside me that knows I'm dreaming, but I rarely have control of the dream. Often times I don't really desire control, but am happy just watching it like a movie. Sure there are things in dreams that trigger me to recognize its unrealistic, but I usually already know I'm dreaming.

I feel bad, most people try so hard for things like WILD and lucid dreams. These things I've always assumed were perfectly normal and not rare at all.