Thanks a lot! And thanks @elricmoonslayer for organizing! Funny today's topic is dreaming. I just woke up from this super intense dream about being part of a tax fraud gang haha. According to my partner I was even talking in my sleep. I find sleep and dreams fascinating: people who sleep poorly or hardly dream have severe health problems. Insomnia is one of the worst things your body can go through. So we need dreams, the theory is to digest all the things that happen to us and give them a proper place in our memories. But I always wonder when I have a funky dream what the hell that says about my day or about how I feel at that time. I'm pretty sure I am not currently involved in a tax fraud scheme haha.
What I also find interesting is how we remember dreams. I for example always remember mine. For years I even wrote them down and when I read them back most of them I still remember. My partner however almost never remembers his dreams, not even a vague memory. According to science this depends on where in your sleep cycle you wake up. The closer to the dream stage you wake up, the more you remember.
About lucid dreaming I can't say that I have ever experienced that. Has anyone here ever had it? Apparently you can train it and be more conscious in your dreams. I always wonder if that is truly the case or if it is just about tricking the brain into thinking its awake during the dream. Human perception and consciousness is great at fooling itself and in making wishful thinking seem true... But would love to hear someones experiences with it!