Lucid Dreams: Prologue

This is a subject I've always wanted to write about, but I've never been able to decide what I want to write. So a blog is the ideal place to do it.

I'm going to spam out some thoughts as they occur, then maybe later I'll do a 'link post' so they can be followed through in some more coherent order.

Before I begin, I'll just note one thing about my lucid dreaming that appears to be slightly atypical. Many studies I've seen indicate that most people who experience lucid dreams do so in the early morning, after a restful nights' sleep either just before waking or having woken briefly and returned to sleep. My lucid dreams invariably occur within the first two hours of sleep, sometimes directly from the waking state. Sometimes they continue through most of the night, sometimes I return to normal sleep, and sometimes I'm so refreshed from the lucid dream I remain awake all night only to be tired again five or six hours later.