Michelob used to give me bad hangovers, no matter how little I drank of it, even one bottle, and I'd wake up all groggy the next day.

That's strange. That's like the only thing that doesn't give me hangovers.....s'why I love it so:p

great you got me scared now

Haha..of?

not being reborn

Has anybody ever had a lucid dream that they are completely in control of?

Every once in awhile it happens to me, I guess you could say it's like Nightmare on Elm Street, I'm dreaming but awake at the same time in the sense that I control what I do instead of just watching myself do things.

ill have to grok that and get back to you

I did it once intentionally. I practiced a method of dream control my buddy showed me and after a few different tries, it actually worked. Here's the story...

I laid down in my bed, not tired, but with the sole intention of trying to make this work. I don't remember the exact time but for the sake of this story, it doesn't really matter what time it was. The important time is what elapses from start ti finish...

So I laid down, let's say at about 4 o'clock. I practiced the method I had been shown, putting my physical self to sleep piece by piece with my mind being the last. Before I knew it, I was in my backyard. I ascended the steps to my deck and looked in to see a party full of preppy people I knew in high school. Not waning to hang out with them, I wandered through my backyard to my neighbors house. My neighbor was also having a party, but his consisted of the goth population of my high school. I hung out at that party a bit before deciding to go back to the preppy one to see if had gotten any better. Halfway through my backyard, I took a step that seemed to stop in midair. Then another, which seemed to stop in midair. (If your counting, that's 2 feet off the ground at this point...) I walked a few more steps, seemingly ascending an invisible staircase but as I reached about the height of my house, I began to get scared of the height and the fact that there was nothing beneath me so I tried to go down. No matter which direction I turned and stepped though, I kept going higher and higher. Then, I said to myself... "I can't go down. If I can't go down, then I must be-"

Just then I woke up in my bed and finished the sentence out loud as I was waking up...

"...Dreaming."

I looked at my clock. It was 4:15. The fact that I was aware of my surroundings the entire time and controlling my actions coupled with the fact that it would take the human body more than 15 minutes to fall asleep and get into REM in order to dream naturally, lead me to believe that that was my first successful attempt at lucid dreaming. It was certainly a freaky expreience and I have not done it again since. It was one of those things that I wanted to try out, but then once I did it, I was actually kind of creeped out by it.

I never really attempted to do it, it just happens to me sometimes I don't think it's that big a deal it probably happens to alot of people.

I had a recurring nightmare when I was a child about being locked in a day care for the rest of my life. Every night when I went to bed I found myself dreaming I was trapped by a robot man and I could never make it to the door on time, until one night I decided I could controll what happend thanks to some advice from an aunt. Anyhow, I slept one night and dreamed there where hundreds of kids in there with me and we had the robot man surrounded when a little boy gave the robot a baseball card and he let us all go free. I don't think thats what your where talking about though.