Am I awake or am I dreaming that I am filling out this week’s Friday Five?

• What’s the last vivid dream that you remember having? – I… can’t seem to remember now. I know I had a couple within the last three weeks, but as is typical for my feeble brain I can’t recall anything that was in either of them. Maybe I’ll come back and edit this one.
  
• Do you have any recurring dreams? – Not as such. There are elements that pop up in different dreams, a particular location or bit of dialog perhaps. I think I’ve had one particular portion of a dream more than once over the years but I’m not absolutely certain that it wasn’t just a case of deja-vu-while-dreaming.
  
• What’s the scariest nightmare you’ve ever had? – Every couple of months, apparently, my brain decides that I need a good scary “let’s wander through the spider mansion” dream. Big spiders, cobwebs, the whole nine yards. Sometimes I have the ability to deal with them. Sometimes I’m powerless.
  
• Have you ever written your dreams down or considered it? Why or why not? – Sometimes I’ll dream something that looks and feels like a really, really good story idea. I’ve only written down a couple of those, and now I can’t find the notebook I wrote them down in. Silly me. I’ve had a couple more “good story” dreams this year but don’t keep a notebook by the bed. Again, silly me.
  
• Have you ever had a lucid dream? What did you do in it? – A lot of those “story dreams” are lucid or semi-lucid in nature. It has a lot to do with the dreamworld in my mind, the one I spend time building when I’m awake and sometimes appears in my sleeping dreams. When I’m in that familiar territory, part of me wakes up and takes control of my dream-persona to actively manipulate the situation. It’s a lot of fun, really. Again, if I were smart I’d be jotting down elements of those dreams for later use. I’m probably a better storyteller in my sleep than I am awake. Sad, really.