'Lo everybody.
So I’ve been wondering for a while now about certain recurring frustrations in my dreams. Particularly, whether or not anyone else has these same things happen and whether or not they’ve managed to overcome them. The frustrations are these:
- Not being able to hit someone when having a violent dream, or being able to hit them and it simply not affecting them.
- Having serious trouble stopping or turning when driving a vehicle, flying, running, or even walking.
- Being sucked or pulled toward an object against my will.
- Thick clothing (often multiple layers) suddenly appearing, constricting my movement, limiting my sense of touch, and just making me uncomfortable. Even when I remove the extra layers the clothes often reappear. Most often this manifests as multiple pairs of gloves, a heavy hat, and a thick coat or two.
While more often than not these bring me to lucidity, once I’m lucid I still have to deal with these elements. I’ve had some success with the first issue by ignoring the DC once they’ve been hit (I’ll sometimes explain to them that as it’s my dream they have to obey the reality I come up with, but it’s usually easier and more effective to just ignore them), but the others I’ve as yet been unable to fix. They usually continue until I lose lucidity and the dream shifts to something else.
Has anybody had similar experiences? If so, any luck in overcoming these problems? And does anybody have any idea what could be causing these?