BeaconOfBacon

That's very interesting. It is possible to focus on the hallucinations and try to turn them into dreams. Also, next time you wake up from your dream do the thing where you think about it but also repeat to yourself "I'm dreaming, I'm dreaming." You have the potential to have a lot of lucid dreams!!! SP for me is really scary and I always sense a menacing presence near me and start breathing really fast trying to call out or scream and then I break out of it and realize what was happening.

One more question, how often do you dream? During your naps? Only at night? I am obviously a dream enthusiast...

What are your hypnagogic hallucinations like? Shapes and colors? Sounds? Do they ever progress into dreams or actual scenarios?

Do you ever lucid dream?

You must be very familiar with sleep paralysis at this point. Do you know what's happening when it occurs? When I first experienced SP I was terrified and now I know what it is but find myself still getting very scared.

Thanks for the AMA!

Sure! Start reality checking as much as you can every day. This can be as simple as pausing for a few seconds to notice your surroundings and asking yourself "am I dreaming?" Keeping a dream journal really helps but that's a little more time consuming...

In order to get past your block of waking up you'll need to have more lucid dreams. But next time you realize you are dreaming RELAX! Hold still, take deep breaths, and rub your hands together or feel your surroundings, this anchors you in the dream. Other than that the quality of dreams gets better with experience. I still have big problems with keeping the dreams and making them stable and stuff!! Hope this helps.

It is really awesome how you interact with the crowd. What is the one thing you do that usually impresses or entertains the crowd the most? And what are some more examples of crowd interaction besides writing down what they say, pretending to film them, etc..