Thread: Vivid dreams, sometimes lucid, usually running/fighting-constant dreaming

Hi, I found this forum through google and hope soemone can help/advise about how to take more control of my dreams or how to stop them so i can get some decent sleep. Or wonder if anyone else has this sort of thng, because i feel very weird when describing it to people who don't remember/have many dreams mainly because they look at me like i'm odd.

I haven't yet intended to lucid dream but have taken control of the dreams myself by frocing an action during dreams that i was being led again. Most of my dreams are 'action dreams' - i'm running, fighting, surviving or working through a puzzle or maze. I've often stopped myself from completing on purpose and going another way to what my dream people/situations try to push (which tends to make the dreams go a bit wonky and the dream peoples/situations less friendly).

I have very vivid dreams almost every night and can almost always remember in great detail, and often remember more than one and the 'switch' between dreams. I can also snooze my alarm, feeling a great legathy' and continue the dream' when awake, yet not force myself to end it or get up.

I am constantly exhausted and can only get decent sleep if i've worked my butt off to almost keeling over by running, am drunk as a skunk or have taken sleep tablets (yet still sometimes i dream with these, just less likely). My doctor gave me sleeping tablets, but i don't have many (apparently they are addictive) and they make me feel more tired and sluggish during the day aalthough i don't often dream with them.

During the day i have lapses of concentration and often find myself somewhere not remembering how i got there (for example, I walked on autopilot to my car, got in and backed out of the driver, only to suddenly 'come to' when on the road). I also have occassional lapses of judgement and feel very tired during the day.