@CK
The admin will be away until the 20th for sure. Once applications open up at the end of the month, they'll be remaining open indefinitely. For your application, most of it is filled out via text, plus one artwork sample of your character. So you'll be able to take as long as you please.

I can provide you with the application template if you want to look it over ahead of time.

About dreams incorporating real life pain... I don't think it's always true. If the mind believes it's really happening, sometimes that's all it takes. There have been cases (although rare) of females who want to become pregnant so badly, their brain starts giving the orders to stimulate the experience of pregnancy (minus the fetus).

@PandaPon
I hear that self-hypnotization before going to sleep works. It involves laying in bed and telling yourself what kind of dream you want to have... It'll be programmed into your brain, and the chance of dreaming what you want rises a bit. Then there's also learning to take control of your actions while dreaming.

Last option... you could just forgo the dreams and go with daydreaming. >.>

You're being stalked by Freddy Kruger! Well... unless you have a pet of some sort... 8D

That sounds interesting. :3 Feel free to send me that PM!

That's also true, though. The human mind is a very powerful thing. I think it's very possible that half the time it's your mind incorporating something that's actually happening into the dream (ie: you scratch yourself in your sleep and your mind translates that into a vividly real and painful sword slash) and half your mind being so convinced you've been hurt that it produces a welt.

I'm being dragged off, so I'm making this post a little short. >_>;