*Yawn*

Could we go back to the dreams of trigonometry please? What I remember form last night (may have happened, may have just been a dream, but I sure am tired right now) is deliberately shorting myself on sleep. It starting at around 5:30, I think, this is part of why it may have been a dream, I looked at the clock, but had trouble reading it at the angle my head was at, so I turned my head until it was upside down, not really the act of someone who's awake. Anyway, I was still in a hypnagogic state, and this was somehow a good thing for the dream I woke out of, so I dedicated myself to staying in that state. If I felt myself drifting deeper into sleep, I'd move, if I got closer to actual awakeness, I'd shift back to the most comfortable position. As far as I can tell this lasted until 7ish, when i woke up tired. I hate that.

What's worse is that I can no longer remember what the dream was about. I don't do lucid dreaming per se, but that is most likely because of my desire to find out where a dream would have gone without my interference. I almost always have quite a bit of influence within the framework of the dream, up to and including editing out elements that I don't think belong as long as I can come up with a reason why I could remove it. Furthermore, As far as I know I retain all of my capabilities in my dreams. My answer to "meme" questions of "can you do X in your dreams" is yes. See colors, hear, smell, touch, read, it actually strikes me as odd when someone says that they can't do something. Thus I'd like to know just what I needed to be half awake in order to do. Was I supposed to be acting as a bridge between realms, giving the dreams a way into the real world? Or maybe I was trying to trap the dream into a single state, not letting it move on like dreams usually do? At this point I doubt I'll ever know.

P.S. Livejournal thinks Hypnagogic = spongecake :)