Speaking of sleeping and dreaming, learn early to stop drinking fluids late at night. Sounds cray and is but I would focus on stopping between 8-9. Older you get and later you drink something regularly, the less undisturbed sleep you may get. Here I am up at 4 cause had to tinkle

As for dreaming, ahhhh I remember the days. Chronic herb

use eventually leads to lack of dream recall. May be wrong but I feel we always dream, we just rarely recall. If I stopped all herb for a week or 2 I would likely have a dream I remember a piece of.
When I was about 5-6 I lived with my brother and my mom in Mundelein, IL. I had to sleep with the door cracked and bathroom light on and closet door SHUT, ya know, cause the shit from Time Bandits could happen at any moment, and I also had to run and jump onto my bed some nights because of that evil creature that for sure lived under there


When I would have a scary nightmare I would run into my mom's room screaming bloody murder and she would console and let me sleep in her bed. I had been having the same dream a few times where a huge grizzly bear kept chasing me.
Whelp this brings me to said dream and point of story. I had a nightmare-ish dream, where I was on the top of a beautiful flat mountain top surrounded by shear cliffs. It was a stunning place. I was walking and I see a bunch of tall cattails. I walk around them and see Bambi and her mom cuddled up in a safe spot they made behind the cattails. Then all the sudden the dream goes from great to shit and feelings of anxiety and fear set in. The fkin Bear is back and Bambi, her mom and I are done for. I panic and I wake up and fly into my moms room like a sugar-glider. She is startled at my spazzing and semi-incoherently tells me it is a dream and that I'm in control there, and to go back to sleep. I remember feeling like she was cutting me off from sleeping in her bed as a child a bit which scared me but I also felt a wee bit of confidence from what she said. I went back to sleep and slipped right back into the same dream exactly.

The bear could see me but not Bambi. I used the cattails as a blocker so they would be safe and bear started chasing me at mock speed. Chased me onto a cliff with a long tree broken over it just like the movies. Pretty much was DiCaprio in Revenant but I'm on a log he is about to snap it and I fall 3000 feet-ish lmao to my death. This is when the revelation in my dreams hit me. While in the dream my mom's voice came "it is just a dream, you are in control" and I looked at the bear and said see ya and flew away

That was 40 years ago. Speaking of 40 years ago, about a year or 2 later my babysitters were doin a seance on me("light as a feather, stiff as a board, on the count of 3 you will rise"), and that was after a 10-15 min deep state mediation where said person is rubbing my temples telling scary story while 2 people are on each side of me with only 2 fingers from each hand under me. We had tried this like 5 other times with me and other people. Never nothing but dead weight. Until this time

I was levitated to about a foot or 2 shy of the ceiling


and then a girl on my left lost concentration and I feel like I was 200lbs.
Can't make this shit up folks

and stay away from Ouija boards




unless somehow really know what are doing