10-11-2010, 06:38 PM
Ali, I think I've done this before. Not so much going back into the dream after waking up, but turning back time and doing things over while in the dream and seeing them turn out differently. When I lucid dream I'll simply command the individuals in my dreams to do something else if they're bothering me. They'll go to attack me and I'll say "Stop. This is my dream. You cannot do that." and they don't. I always remember one particular dream I had where I was being electrocuted, and I sort of realized I was dreaming, so I just started bending the electricity around myself and shaping it into a field. It felt awesome...pretty cool. Of course, as is obvious above, this doesn't always happen, but nightmares tend to intrigue me more than frighten me. There might be some initial emotional reaction, but afterward I have more fun contemplating the messages in nightmares because they're usually so much more dramatic. In the words of Clive Barker: "I've had nightmares that I thought were jolly good fun."