Who said you can't have all three things at the same time?

It's probably banging your neighbor's daughter or murdering your boss or something else people don't want to admit to.

I've been working on lucid dreaming since I took up hypnosis; so far I've been able to remember my dreams at all (which I haven't for years). I can induce the ability to lucid dream in other people though, which is such a gyp ...

I sometimes have non-lucid dreams that I'm flying, but I'm too much of a wussy to climb more than 4 meters altitude. And it makes my arms tired, even though all I have to do is hold them out sideways.

Some researchers already have a dream recorder.

Why not just use the Allegro 5 mind-control interface?

Nah, they are actually starting to get pictures and video. Its far from clear and crisp, but its a start.

As for writing, keep your machine away from me

Really? Care to provide a link? The only thing I could find was when a man saw a shape and they were able to scan what he saw by scanning the visual cortex. Even with primitive symbols like + and O the images were very blurry... So yeah, kind of hard to believe they have a dream recorder.

Thats what I saw in a video. Scanning the visual cortex and recognizing letters (look how blurry they are) is very far from dream recording.

piccolo, use / instead of \ in the quote tags.

I'm still doubtful about lucid dreaming.

I've had it frequenty, and emotionally I'd swear that I was fully conscious. However, when I later reflect on how illogically I acted, it becomes clear that I was far from my actual self. Possibly you're just dreaming that you're conscious of the dream, which is far from actually being there.

Does anyone else have sleep paralysis (or whatever it's called)? It's where you're aware that you're asleep, but you can't move or wake up. It's an absolutely horrendous experience. It most frequently occurs if I sleep during the day. Hence I now never sleep during the day in fear of it.

Another thing that I often "experience" in dreams are other-worldly emotions. For example, an intense emotional sense of something being ancient, or vast, or tragic. Sometimes they're so intense that I wake up feeling that reality is subdued, insignificant even. luckily the feelings never last longer than a few minutes though.

In Popular Science magazine they had an article about how they were retrieving images from a man's brain and lower quality video too.

I've had one lucid dream that I remember, but all I did was fly. Funny thing is, I was flying in Super Mario 64's bonus level where you fly with the winged cap around castle towers. Apparently I'm hard to please (Although that kind of flying isn't exactly common) because I remember being completely ecstatic. By the time I was like (Hey I need to dream about something else) I either woke up or losed consciousness.

Also, if you ever lucid dream, do not ever look into a mirror. Your face can be horrifically distorted, turning your dream into a nightmare and/or losing lucidness.

They sell machines that beep and show a light when you have entered REM sleep, you can consciously recognize these to restore consciousness in a dream making it lucid.

Lucid dreaming sounds fucking awesome. I've just never been able to do it

Most of my dreams are short, stupid, and completely pointless; 'cept for once I had a dream that my dad shot me 6 times in the chest with a handgun

The most exhaustive dreams for me are code-based ones (generally UNIX-y). These usually occur after a night or two of working on the command line for long periods of time. The dream takes place as normal (strange things happening, various ideas flowing into one another), except that I'm convinced that I "control" everything with commands. I end up exhausting myself trying to figure out the command to go and find somebody, for example. Or the command to open a door, etc. They can be Vim-themed as well. It's very exhausting, but also quite pleasant. I always wake up and try to remember what "command" I last had in mind (because I'm sure it'll work), but I never can. I'm sure they're not commands at all, but incomprehensible ideas.

I've had numerous lucid dreams. Flying is pretty normal. I've also had the opportunity to meet friends in dreams while lucid. I'd often find myself trying to find her and when I become lucid I am better able to do it (when I'm not lucid I generally have a hard time keeping up with her). Even though it's a dream, it still feels good to just see her again. Any dream with her in it is usually heartbreaking when it ends (or I lose her in the dream).

I seem to have a lot of nightmares lately. Not like clown nightmares. Everyday life nightmares. For example, people I love leave or die, or I hurt them in some way. Sometimes they're enjoyable nightmares, similar to how it feels good when a horror movie is truly terrifying.

I occasionally have dreams where I play the "hero". Not Superman, but selfless suicidal citizen that takes on the gunmen single-handedly, etc. Those are some of the funnest dreams, especially when lucid.

I'm not one to be afraid of dying in my dreams. I often get shot or stabbed or otherwise maimed (slow, painful deaths terrify me though). I've had people in dreams put a gun to my head and threaten me and (unaware it's a dream) tell them to go ahead and pull the trigger.

Felix-The-Ghost, I know what you mean about the seriously disappointed or seriously relieved. Most of my dreams probably end that way.