Lucid dreams.

[Brian]

Another trick that I have practiced is to make a conscious effort to check clocks twice while I am awake.
When you are dreaming and notice certain things it will become a reflex to check a second time.
If something changes abnormally the second time you check you might realize you are dreaming.
I remember the time I checked the clock in my dream last night was 3:15 pm and knew something was off because I had missed da whole day of work. 

Wow-I'd never thought of that! I can't recall ever seeing a clock in any of my dreams.

[Brian]

I remember nightmares when I started in this trade.
I machine would crash and I would hit the emergency stop button and the machine would keep crashing.
I would go to the back of the machine and turn off the breaker and the machine would keep going.
That is worse then the falling out of a plane dream.

Wow-I get that, too! Like you hit feed hold and it doesn't do a damn thing! I'll have to try the e-stop, and the breaker next time, but it sounds like that doesn't work either!

It's a good thing I verify all of my code, and am really careful with new setups! LOL

[Del.]

I seem to have recurring dreams 

[JakeL]

3 lucid dreams to date. Only one where I didn't wake up immediately.

years ago I kept a dream journal for a couple months in an effort to lucid dream. Along with the check the clock thing. the couple weeks before I stopped I was remembering 3-5 dreams per night. I looked forward to sleeping just to see what I dreamt.

Now a days I remember a dream a couple times a week at most.

I did have it happen once where I sat straight up in bed with a solution to a work problem. That was pretty cool.

[Flycut]

I tried to convince a friend once that I was in a dream and they were part of my dream.
They argued that I could not be dreaming because they were right there talking to me.
I told them I would make the building in front of us blow up.
It didn't blow up but it simply disappeared.
My friend said my prediction was wrong so I clearly wasn't dreaming.
 

[mowens]

It seems to come in waves for me.
Many factors come into play.
2 major factors are stress and alcohol.
I haven't had had a drink in 2 weeks and this new machine has my mind in constant overdrive.
I sleep like a rock and dream like crazy.

Beyond a certain point, alcohol is terrible for sleep. I would go to sleep (some might call it passing out) and, about 3 hours later, wake up and stay awake. And the quality of sleep is poor. Not the kind that refreshes you.

[Jim at Gentex]

I seem to have recurring dreams 

Yeah that is my experience as well.
I have noticed that sometimes a dream develops from a snippet of something I was consciously thinking about earlier in the day.

Just a couple of weeks ago I had a strong memory of something my Dad and I did when he was still with us, and that very night I had a dream with him in it, but totally unrelated to the events of earlier memory.

Weird, huh?

Beyond a certain point, alcohol is terrible for sleep. I would go to sleep (some might call it passing out) and, about 3 hours later, wake up and stay awake. And the quality of sleep is poor. Not the kind that refreshes you.

Yeah I think that's because even though you are sleeping, your body is still working overtime trying to process the alcohol in your system.

That's why hangover symptoms after a night of heavy drinking almost always include tiredness (feeling as if you didn't sleep at all), and headache, which I have found is simply due to dehydration.

I have learned that even if I just have a beer or two watching a hockey game at night, I always drink a bottle of water before going to sleep.  I may need to get up to pee during the night, but I almost never get a headache in the morning. 

[mowens]

I always looked at it like Propofil. Even though you're unconscious the brain doesn't reach the deep sleep where it does housekeeping and maintenance.

[Flycut]

Here is what makes last nights dream all the more interesting.

It was a long and detailed dream and at some point I realize that I'm at the house of one of my co-workers.
There was many people at his house but no one I recognized.
(I had no prior knowledge of where he lived)
I realized that from his back yard there was a perfect view of the mountains.
When I mentioned this to him this morning he said he had a party at his place that day and he has the best view of the mountains.
Dreams are very significant in his religion.
Him and I don't usually chat much but we had a good 20 minute conversation today.

[JParis]

Dreams are very significant in his religion.

He is Native American?

[Flycut]

I'd have to ask again.
Definitely not Native American.

[mowens]

After my mom died, I had a dream where I was in a diner and a guy tells me I have a phone call. I went to the phone and it was my mom. We had a conversation where I asked if she was happy and she said "oh yes, very". The next night, I had another dream. In this one, we were in a bleachers like would be at some sort of youth sports event. This time a could see her. I got the impression it was a bit of an effort on her part. She looked different than I remembered her and realized this was what she had looked like before I was born. She Had some extensive dental work before I was born. She then introduced me to a woman named Paula. I don't understand Paula, unless she was the baby my mom miscarried before I was born.

After my mom passed, I was alone with her in the hospital and got very emotional and apologized to her. I truly believe this was her way of letting me know she was okay.

[YoDoug]

I dream of eating cheeseburgers and fried chicken.

[Incogneeto]

My most Lucid Dream is the Afghan girl next door I can smell her Musk.

Her warm and sensual Body next to me.

I wake Up and I can hear her starting her Car.

Oh Well anyhow.

[Elmer Fudd]

^^^ Time to change yur sheets.