Not that it's happened before, but if I was lucid I'd do it and dodge the bullet Matrix/Albert Wesker style

The worst dreams I've recently been having is when I spend the night at a friends house and end up playing certain games until exhaustion and have dreams of tactically playing (Usually dying and learning endlessly from our mistakes) but I dream that I am awake and hallucinating (Or I am) and am trying to fall asleep like 'Just give me peace! I'm tired of getting pwned by this boss!'

Also I'm weary of 'Endless Roller Coaster' dreams of going up and down so much. I usually wake up and throw up from these. (When they occur) I had food poisoning from Burger King last month and before that I don't know the last time I vomitted. I had forgotten just how horrible the feeling is.

There is an immeasurable difference between possibly being lucid and actually being in that state. For me, that moment when I achieve lucidity is always very pronounced. Everything in the dream comes into focus, whereas normally much of the dreamscape is blurry and indistinct when you really stop to think about it. The entire area is razor sharp and amazingly detailed... it just seems to snap into focus. This is probably more noticeable as my vision is deteriorating slightly as I get older. In a dream, however, my vision is 20/20 or better.

I should also note it is possible to dream about being lucid, without actually being so. One easy way to tell is to try using a "power", such as flying or telekinesis. If it works, you're lucid. If you're not fully lucid your dream powers won't work. I have these events fairly often.

If you're ever lucid in a dream and can't figure out how to do something, ask another character in the dream for help. As long as you're not a total dick they will do whatever you ask. This is useful during your first few dreams when you might not be able to do things like summoning people/items, or changing scenes.

Lucid dreaming is pretty much you're conscious mind (The thinker and observer) coexists with the subconscious mind (The creative part) in which physics and the like do not apply at all. (Unless, you want them to, or default to having them) Usually the subconscious rules in doing things you're accustomed to doing over and over and observing very little detail (basically anything recognized by subconscious), a 'passive dream' Whereas in an 'active' lucid dream you are master of your dream world in which you may command any aspect, since the whole dream merely exists in your imagination. You can do anything you want. I'm thinking about buying one of the machines I mentioned to induce lucid dreams. It truly is an alternate dimension -- dreamland. You need to come the the part of realizing you can master your dream to do what you want. Doesn't always happen. He suggested taking routes that seem more normal to 'learn' how to be abnormal

Pretty much in subconscious dreams things passively 'happen' to you whereas in a conscious (lucid) dream you decide what happens.

Heh, when you put it that way, it sounds that if lucid dreaming was easy to do in the future, it could get addictive. If real life isn't good, go and make your own dreamland? I mean, a personal playground where you can do whatever the hell you please? Sounds like the perfect form of entertainment, but a dangerous one too IMO.

So it's basically The Matrix? Sounds awesome.

EDIT: BTW, sorry about thinking you were being sarcastic, it just sounded like you were practicing some Lucid dreaming secret art.

Wow, that's kind of freaky, but thanks for the link! I don't know if I could ever achieve something like this(my dreams are normally an unorganized mess, and I tend to have tons of them in 1 night, I only remember if something REALLY prominent happens on them), but it's interesting that they novelize them. Though I wonder if they make up some parts of them just to give it a flow. :X

I read that you can consciously enter a lucid dreaming state by laying on your back and resisting the urge to roll over. Apparently your brain tests whether you're still awake by telling you to roll over, and if you don't roll over then it starts super happy dream time. (Also sleep paralysis.)

I tried it last night; I definitely experienced part of sleep that I had never experienced before, but I completely failed the test and jolted awake as soon as I felt the urge to roll over.

To the original post... High voltage, like that from a neon sign transformer can burn the skin like that. I was messing around with an old lightning ball a long time ago and I was suddenly getting in arc onto the edge of my hand... It didn't hurt but it burned the skin pretty well. Crazy as I am, I took it apart and continued to poke the edge of the main wire with my finger tip until you could no longer make out my fingerprint. I had to stop because the smell of vaporized flesh is not pleasant... I don't recommend trying it.

[edit] Now that I'm logged in that picture looks a lot bigger... It does look like altered... Or maybe it's some kind of wart like infection...

@Ron Novy: It's photoshopped/potatochopped with the mouth of a lamprey.

For those who get sleep paralysis

You don't have much to worry about in sleep unless you're Joseph Stalin (Paranoid guy, slept in a different room every night with identical looks)

I frequently wake up under the effects of sleep paralysis . The worst part is that, most of the time, it feels like I can't breathe, and it seems to take an eternity to be able to move again.

Regarding lucid dreaming, I don't believe I've ever experienced such a thing.

I like to pinch my nose shut and try to breathe. In a dream you have no problem breathing. Its the most fool proof method I have encountered. Clocks are not always blurry. The same goes for faces in mirrors. I also frequently feel pain in dreams, so the nose thing works best.

No joke. I had a dream that was comparable to Call of Duty. The guy I was looking at was like dying on the floor in front of me and a noobie player poked around the corner caustiously, slowly walked to him and his pistol was like a freakin handcannon. It shot rapidly and when it did all the colors inverted and the [screen?] shook. I had to wake up cause I was scared. That was right when I was falling asleep -- 'Oh snap I'm dreaming!' But this is bad! So I woke myself up (Not fully aware that I was fine)