I have a nickel allergy, too, but I also have gold and silver jewelry too(Entitlements people love this, btw...I guess Real Americans who can't take their rings off just, like, hack the finger off, too...they don't care if i'm mute) And my lucky bear claw necklace...must be, I haven't been attacked by a bear in the twelve years I had it)

I never have flying dreams, but I lucid dream all the time. A lot of times when I have a particular costume problem (patterning or trying to find a solution to something unworkable) I can make myself dream about it and figure it out. But even in my regular dreams I tend to realize I am dreaming about halfway through when things cease to make sense.

I don't think you're thinking of my dreams.....

Admittedly, the Big Valley had a surprising influence on my life.

I used to have night terrors when I was a kid - [link] - but unlike what they say here, I used to babble about what I was scared of and I'd also get up and pace around furiously. I never remembered them the next day, but they scared the shit out of my parents. One of the worst ones I was going on about "They're melting people down to make bullets!"

Seriously - Soylent Guns are people? And this is well before I did any drugs.

They only lasted about a year though.

I've come close to lucid dreaming, but most of the time when I realize it's a dream, I wake up.

Except for the time I dreamt I invented a potato that could transcend time and space.

Dear god I want that potato.

And my lucky bear claw necklace...must be, I haven't been attacked by a bear in the twelve years I had it)

Please tell me it's a bear claw pastry. I just like the image of a pastry necklace.

I've come close to lucid dreaming, but most of the time when I realize it's a dream, I wake up.

Me too. Once when I was about five, I dreamt I was swimming underwater. Then I remembered that you can't breath underwater. So I held my breath until I woke up.

I thought everyone dreamt like that, just like I thought everyone read by looking at the whole paragraph, not by reading word by word.

I've had many lucid flying dreams which were fantastic. I have superpowers until I wake up.

And my lucky bear claw necklace...must be, I haven't been attacked by a bear in the twelve years I had it)

OMG, this made me think of the Simpsons episode where the Bear Patrol is working, according to Homer, who is exhibiting specious reasoning, according to Lisa. Clip here.

In conclusion, "Let the bears pay the bear tax! And let Homer pay the Homer tax!" "That's the HOME OWNER tax, dad."