[jiggyboy]

If they're just looking at brain injury, they're going down the wrong path. For example, how can a man, maybe in his 40s, dream that he's still in college or even high school, naked, walking down the hallway, wondering how it is that he's going to the final exam for a class he just remembered he had but never went to the entire semester?

Or that he can fly, and somehow just figured this out?

Figure out how we dream these crazy things that we believe completely (while asleep), and you've taken a big first step. And you've got plenty of available subjects.

[Twotone]

I’ve had dreams that seemed so real that I had a hard time realizing that they didn’t actually happen. The brain is an amazing thing!

[Kommodor]

So, you went to Michigan Tech too?

[rjsimmon]

For example, how can a man, maybe in his 40s, dream that he's still in college or even high school, naked, walking down the hallway, wondering how it is that he's going to the final exam for a class he just remembered he had but never went to the entire semester?

And all this time I thought it was just me...

Or when I dream about a person that I have known all of my life but had never met before.

[Defiant]

I hate that dream.

[RegulatorCountry]

Those are actually not all that uncommon, I’ve dreamed them myself. I went through a period of years when I was fascinated by lucid dreaming, though, and did manage to take control of my dreams, which could be very amusing up to a point, for instance “remembering” that I could fly by holding my arms straight out, clenching my fists and thinking really hard to will myself up. Sometimes had to jump a bit to get it going but it always worked. But, there was a point not to go beyond when dabbling with this, kind of like staring into the abyss too long and discovering that it’s staring back at you. I stopped doing it, found it disturbing. I think that’s what drove Carlos Castaneda nuts. Merging the dream state and the waking state is ultimately a dangerous thing.