Well, I've got a crazy one for you. I have extremely lucid and realistic dreams. So real, in fact, that I sometimes have trouble telling dream from reality. There are only a few indicators that I can use to discern consciousness from dreams.

Consciousness:
-Spiritual Connection (God)
-Mortality (cuts and bruises I've had stays with me, but when I dream, they don't; I run a lot, get sore, but when I dream, I do much more than run, but never sore afterwards)

Dreams:
-My (semi) control over reality while dreaming
-Drastic changes in dreams

This isn't your normal dream. Like, I can get hurt pretty badly sometimes in my dream, and I would react accordingly while conscious. I'll give you an example:

About 7 years ago, I dreamed that I was riding my bike, and I got hit by a van going ~70mph. (The van was one of those aquamarine family vans, don't recall the make... [LOL]) I was hit with such force that my left arm had been severed. The rest of me was fine, aside from being cut, bruised, and road-rashed. I had awaken right after coming to a stop. I only saw a bit of my mother's face, when my memory failed me there. I came to about two hours later, covered in sweat, asking what had happened. Turns out, I had been in shock, screaming about my arm and the accident that I had had. My mother had called a doctor friend while I had this "episode" and he has no idea what happened, other than I had indeed been in shock.

I've had many many (less serious) experiences like this where I get a huge gash on my arm or leg, immediately wake up, actually feeling pain. It's gradually getting to the point where I can contain the less-serious ones in my dreams,

Another huge thing about this is the fact that I can remember every bit of my dreams. I remember full-color images, smells, touches, tastes, and every other extremely minuscule detail that you might remember in reality. I go to sleep and wake up the next morning with almost two days' worth of memories sometimes.

Seriously, is there a place online where I could explain this to a doctor, one that would actually listen to me? Perhaps get some testing done? I don't really have a doctor myself.

What do you guys think?

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Well, really, I'm not at all "scared" to have these dreams, nor do I think they'll hurt me in the long run. I'm more or less interested to see if this is just a case of someone using more of their brain than normal, or some extreme medical feat like that. I just know that it's not normal, and I'm a little curious as to what a professional thinks.

I do get mauled pretty badly, however, this happens once in a great while. Most of my dreams are pretty awesome. They're usually influenced by games I play a lot, which are most recently Metroid Prime games.

Posted by KP9000 in another thread

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I picture myself in Samus' suit, in a First Person perspective. I look out through my visor and see myself amidst an abandoned power plant. Ridged pipes, rusted railing, and dented catwalks make up several series of buildings, each placed in a disorderly fashion. There are two moons that give a unique sepia tone to the metal, but light up the crumbling concrete ground as a pale blue. Moonlight glistens off of power wires, which, surprisingly, are very neat and orderly.

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This is as plain as I can be regarding this. There's so much more that goes on while I dream. The feelings, the smells, the incredible detail of my environment totally engrosses me in my dream.

I almost don't want to call it a "dream" anymore, because I still have regular dreams once in a while.

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