Yeah, stop having sex dreams about Hec, Sean. You REM-state homewrecker! Plus, you'll upset JZ.

Snerkitty.

Actually some of the weirdest dream weridness I've had is....

....first let me back up. I usually keep my bed wedged in a corner. Holdover from childhood or something, two sides a monster can't get at me from, and all that.

Anyway, I have occasionally had dreams where someone hits me in the head with a baseball bat or something, but the weird part is that the moment of contact exactly coincides with my real self rolling my head swiftly into the wall, so that when I dream a baseball bat has hit me in the head, I get hit in my actual waking head.

Very weird. Luckily never hard enough to leave more than a light bruise, but creepy nonetheless.

t sits in jail cell, dragging tin cup across bars

moment of contact exactly coincides with my real self rolling my head swiftly into the wall

illustration of the speed of thought. Or some external passive sensor sees what's about to happen and feeds it to the brain.

I've read dream theories about time compressions which would suggest that hitting your head may have been the cause of your dream, Sean, not the result.

sits in jail cell, dragging tin cup across bars

You're in there for a year, so you might as well just shut up and think about what you've done. Maybe August won't notice you and make you its bitch.

I'm about to start my day, but Connie just made me laugh very loudly on the way out. SNERK!

I've read dream theories about time compressions which would suggest that hitting your head may have been the cause of your dream, Sean, not the result.

Actually, for a while now, that's been my prevailing working theory -- that the whole seemingly extended dream occurs entirely within or in the brief moment after my head's contact with the wall.

I usually keep my bed wedged in a corner. Holdover from childhood or something, two sides a monster can't get at me from, and all that.

I've had this fear, too, except the two sides of the bed that the wall are against only give me slightly more assurance. I used to get the feeling that the monsters have supernatural powers and de-merge from the wall and get me when my back is turned. I also have to have the closet doors closed. This was a problem when I was in college and the the closets in the dorms didn't even have doors.

I had one dream in which I became lucid. I knew I was consciously making a decision to walk in a certain direction and look at my surroundings. I was so excited when I woke up because I wasn't sure I could ever have a lucid dream.

I wear a NightGuard (yuck) and I constantly have dreams about my mouth being full of gum or some gum-like substance that I pull out and pull out but can't get all the way out of my mouth. Hate those.

I have flying dreams, too.

If I had lucid dreams, I would be flying over beautiful countryside and then randomly landing to have great sex with cute guys EVERY NIGHT.