[somnabulis]

The first time I heard about lucid dreaming, I was a freshman in college. This guy was explaining it to me in this salacious manner, which he claimed was easily accessible to him now that he had gotten the hang of it, and I just found myself completely unimpressed by his masturbatory fantasies.

Thinking it over, I've never been able to conceive of an obvious benefit to it, other than as a means to avoid bad dreams. But beyond that, why bother? What kind of absurd escapism is this? And then, just to wake up to a piss-poor reality, where I'd rather be asleep? Feh!

In the long run, I found that my diet had a strong relationship with the bad dreams I was having, and after I got out of college, and started buying food with my own money, when I purchased the foods I actually felt hungry for, instead of just raiding the refidgerator for whatever my parents had stocked with (or otherwise resorting to fast food), that bad dreams disappeared, and now I rarely have memorable dreams.

Sleep is restful and uneventful, when I get enough of it, and I'm thankful for that.