Nightmares are just your brain doing combat readiness drills

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I often can "will" myself telekinetic powers, but only if I've noticed it's a dream, which means I will quickly wake up.

Dream monsters too pussy to fight me with powers.

I love when I realize I can float. Like, not fly high in the sky. But I can just kinda… float around. Above people a little. It happens every few dreams, which is like once or twice a month. I don’t dream often. Or use cannabis very often. But this drink only has 5mg and I feel very

Lucid dreams lie right on the boundary between awake and a normal dream. It's very easy to either wake, or fall back into a non lucid state. Best bet is not to try and change too much, unless you want to wake up. A few nudges, and relax and let it roll onwards (for normal dreams, not nightmares).

I should try something like that next time I try to go lucid. Somehow I only stuck to flying around and flying through walls whenever I knew I was dreaming... feels like a waste now that I think of firing guns or using telekinesis.