A funny thing happens wehn there's a lot on my mind, I can see it bubble up in my dreams. I find that I dream more often and more lucidly, and I can tell that I'm thinking about things in my sleep. So what's weird about this is when you start noticing what one might call meta data being used in the dream. That is to say when someone in the dream controls something or gains information from outside the context of the dream. A few examples.
I had a dream where I was with a group of baha'is and we were hanging out and walking somewhere, and I was talking to this girl. In the course of the conversation, I say something to her that was meant to be a joke, but wasn't especially funny. From outside the context of me in the dream I thought "I want her to laugh" and she did. Stranger still, I remmeber that, but that's not even all that weird by comparison to the other two dreams.
About a month or so ago, I had a dream that some friends and I were out adventuring. This was because earlier that night we were actually out adventuring. I kid you not, I have geeky friends. Anyway, in the dream we're out adventuring, but we're doing crazier stuff than we were in the dream. At one point we stop in front of this car and we're trying to decide if we should steal it when this old japanese guy comes out of this sushi resteraunt and starts yelling at us in Japanese. At this point Dan freaks out and is like "he knows, he knows, we gotta' get out of here." So we start walking away. Now, here's where it get's weird. As we're walking away, everything this guy is saying is being subtitled. I am able to read these subtitles, but not me in the dream, like me personally watching the dream. Having read what the guy said, me in the dream was like "yeah, he doesn' know, he's just going on about aliens from mars or something," cuz apparently the old guy was crazy. Maybe I am too, I don't know.
Anyway, third dream was last night. This one was weird because I totally played my dream. We're standing in a neighborhood in the middle of the street, and there's a trebuchet (a medieval engine of war with a sling for hurling missiles, according to dictionary.com, how geeky is that definition?). So, somehow I'm aware that this is a dream, right, so I'm like if I get in the trebuchet and have it fling me I'll be okay. I remember looking around and seeing trees and houses and stuff that I might hit, but I was totally like, this is a dream, I'm sure I won't get hurt. So I climb into this thing and some guy cuts the rope, and I go flipping head over heels, and I'm thinking "oh shit!" cuz it was terrifying but then I got a hold of my self and straightened out. I've never to my knowledge played a dream like that before. In case you're wondering, I ended up landing on the roof of a moving scion (xB) and I jumped from that onto the roof of a van. I smashed the window of the van and jacked it from the people driving. I took the van to a drop of point and got like $500. Yeah, I've been playing a bit too much GTA IV. Still though, if you have never had the chance to fire yourself from a catapult in a dream, do it, totally cool.