Hello Michael, as far back as I can remember age 3-4. I have always had lucid dreams as if I am watching TV. I can recall pretty much any one these dreams as if they are real memories.

Sometimes I dreamt in vibrant colours, monotone colours, black and white, or black and white with little bits of colour here and there. I have never felt physical pain, but I can smell, taste, feel emotions good and bad, feel breeze, feel heat, and suffocate.

I was plagued with night mares for roughly ten years and near the end of the night mares before I sought help. I would wake in different rooms or my closet, dream with eyes open, sleep walk, talk, sleep run... search for weapons for protection in kitchen or lock self in bathroom and awake suddenly because of the racket I was creating.

Also, something else extremely bizarre and quite interesting to me is something I have not heard of other people doing, I somehow taught myself how to wake from terrible dreams by tossing myself out of bed while in a middle of night mare onto the floor while to wake self.

Cher