@Aoi: Oh, god. So you wake up but you can't open your eyes and you end up staying asleep? That's awful. But you could still try blanking the dream and starting it over. I can't do it myself, but I hear it works. One of my friends has lucid dreams all the time, and he really likes blanking out his dreams and starting them over as epic sword fights. xD

That makes some sense. Though, in a game, you usually can only control your own character, and in a lucid dream, you can often control other people and objects. So it seems like a game could be more similar to real life than to a lucid dream. And haha, that's a little like the theory that video games desensitize people to violence. Your nightmares aren't as scary to you if you are used to seeing blood and gore all the time in video games. :P

Yeah, I would agree with that. As long as it's few enough that you can keep track of it, it's not that bad. Like in Inception, I think it would be so scary to not know whether you were asleep or awake after a simple assessment, just because of the risk of thinking your reality is a dream and doing something drastic. o_o

@Wolf: Haha, it was a great episode!

Flying is one of my favorite things to do in a lucid dream. Flying or magic. Sometimes both. It sounds like you're already halfway to being able to control your dreams! You should try starting with small stuff like changing how people and objects look. It is tricky to get the hang of it at first, so don't get discouraged! I remember one lucid dream I had where I tried to fly away from something, but I just kept getting sucked backward and I couldn't control it. But it is all happening in your own head, so you are in charge of it. Don't forget that!

@Darkness: Wow, I didn't know any of that! Is it really true that you're paralyzed when you're asleep? That's scary. How does your body know to turn itself back on so fast when you're woken up abruptly? Man, I am so glad I've never experienced this. o_o