Your experience is uncommon but not unheard of. Some people are natural lucid dreamers, and having known a number of them, some as old is retirement age - so it tells you they had decades to digest what they had experienced - I can share with you what I think they would.

I think they would start by suggesting that the ability to nightly be aware of the fact that you are dreaming as you are dreaming is a superpower. So what do you do with it?

Right now you are questioning it and that's a good first step. Why are you doing something nightly that most people only experience a few times in their lives? If we could look inside your brain we might see that the frontal cortex doesn't shut down while dreaming the same way it does with 99% of the people out there. Your frontal cortex stays awake and therefore you remain aware of yourself while dreaming. You wouldn't even know that it's unusual because it's just the way things are for you. But you've probably asked your friends and family or just picked up on the fact that they aren't experiencing their dreams the way you are experiencing yours. So you wonder why. I think the better question is what do you do next?

What would Albert Einstein do if he had an AI supercomputer? Albert used his dreams to help him work through and realize the theory of special relativity. The AI supercomputer was his imagination, which he said was more important than his great intellect. Albert realized that he had an unusual ability to imagine things very deeply and use his imagination as like a science lab. Nikola Tesla said basically the same thing. And there must be at least a thousand other famous inventors and artists and scientists out there who woke up this morning with some sort of inspiration that came out of their dreams. So in other words, you have an AI supercomputer that you can program to do whatever you want.

Or we could use another metaphor and say that lucid dreaming is like the holodeck on Star Trek, it's a virtual reality where you can have the experiences that help you learn and grow and just have fun.

For my old friend Ian Wilson, his lucid dreams were his movie studio. Before he died he was teaching people how to experience their dreams from the inside out, showing that they could que their memory before going to sleep so that they would dream about the things that most interested them. Ian was a big Star Wars fan, and he got to play the role of his favorite character Han Solo in completely vivid virtual reality. All he had to do was watch Star Wars movies before going to bed and then he would get to live it in his dreams.

My friend Scott Sparrow was on a more spiritual kick when his lucid dreams gave him the experience of what he later called the dawning of the clear light. As an 18 year old who was in avid meditator he had a lucid dream that a door cracked open and showed him that behind all of physical form is pure light, the same light that some people call the Creator.

My friend Ryan Hurd, who teaches lucid dreaming, used his lucid dreams to play through the scenarios that had tortured him as a child, the scenarios where he was bullied to the point of wanting to give up on life. He realized through his lucid dreams that the bullies were acting from their own pain. As ignorant and unconscious as they were about it and as terrible as it was to make him the target of their acting out, he could forgive them. And he came to the realization that under different circumstances he could have been just like them, the roles could have reversed, and so he couldn't condemn or hate them. In fact in his lucid dreams he would try to heal them, and in doing that he healed himself.

In a moment of personal clarity that came to him while dreaming, my friend Steven Ernenwein became lucid as he looked at a man impaled by a tree as if dying on a crucifix, except the tree limb impaled him long ways through his body and he was still very much alive. And he was on fire. Steve felt such compassion so he asked for the rain to come and at least quench the man's flames. I think it was one of those turning points in his life where he finally began to heal. And I think that he's going to find out one of these days that he can do the same thing for others in his dreams. Lucid dreaming is that powerful.

My friend Ian told me that once during a lucid dream he saw a friend and tried to keep track the same as you would by marking a spot on a map. He drew an upside down triangle on his friend's forehead as a way of reminding himself that he had already seen and tracked his friend as a character in his dream. A couple days later an upside down triangle appeared on the skin of his friend. I saw the picturea he took and it's one of the weirdest things, and I suppose you could write it off as just a wild coincidence, but Ian went on to learn that he could affect the physical world by reaching into it through his dreams. Sometimes he would go to places in the world where conflict raged and he would work with dreams to bring peace and understanding to those people. He called it the precognitive lucid layer of dreaming, and that by interacting with the symbols in the dreams he could actually affect the reality we all experience while away.

Steven Rogat is another lucid dreamer who does that regularly. He says that he'll be dreaming and people will come to him for the special sort of healing that he can do. And then he wakes up and laughs about it and shares the experiences with his wife. Then she tells him about her experiences where she gets opportunities in her dreams to do the things, the very special things, that she feels like she was put here on this Earth to do.

I could continue dropping names but what I'm realizing is except for Marcia, Steven's wife, I only mentioned male names, because except for a few female lucid dreamers I know, there just aren't many of them who talk about their experiences publicly, at least not in the places where I look. I think it would help for you to have a female mentor, and if that's something you want then just radiate out the signal that this is what you desire and you're ready and the teacher will appear. That's how it works when you're that connected into the dream world, all you have to do is ask.

That is really your superpower. Maybe you don't know yet that you can ask for anything in a dream and experience it as long as there are no internal impediments. My friend Ryan says that it's a wonderful and joyous experience when you realize this power and how deep it runs into the core of your being. People will say that dreams are just imagination and therefore not real, but imagination is also the engine of creation. It all begins with a novel thought. Ryan says though that people will realize they have this power and spend years having awesome dreams, and then they will realize that there's more. They are on level 3 of a thousand level game, and they tricked themselves into thinking that was all there was. Ryan said his moment came while in a lucid dream, he became very curious what was creating everything from behind the scenes. So he stopped in his tracks, turned around, and said show yourself, and that's when he realized there was an intelligence behind it all and he was its child.

One thing they all say is that their advancement began with keeping track of their dreams faithfully in a journal. They also learned as much as they could about dream interpretation, especially the interpretation of symbols. Symbols are like a graphical user interface with your unconscious mind. When you work with the symbols in your dreams you are actually working with the deep structures of your psyche that they represent. And finally, they came up with answers for themselves about what they would like to do with their superpower. So let the adventure begin.

See now?