I talk in my sleep. When I was younger I would walk and talk in my sleep. And unlike what the media portrays of sleepwalkers, we don't wander aimlessly with our eyes shut. We walk about as if we were awake, but some are not as responsive as others.

Almost everyone that I know, after they've figured out that I'm sleep walking or talking, would ask me questions. I think partly out of curiousity and partly because they suspect that the sleeping me will be more forthcoming than the awake me and spill all of my secrets or something like that. I don't really know because I have no memory of anything that happens and I have to pry information from the person who tells me the next morning, "You were talking in your sleep."

Last night was the first night that I can recall on my own that I was sleep talking. I was dreaming that I was talking with someone and answering a question, when all of a sudden the dream became confusing because I heard Matt's voice asking, "Are you dreaming?" And then I realized that I was and I must have been talking out loud, not just in my dream. I remember looking around hazily in my dream and saying, "Yes." And then I must have fell back into a dreamless sleep because I don't remember either actually waking up or the dream continuing on. The next morning, Matt confirmed that I was sleep talking and he asked me if I was dreaming.

I wonder what I would have done if I had been able to hold onto that moment of lucid dreaming. Are people really able to control their own dreams? If I could I don't know if I'd want to. I think it takes away from the experience. I like being immersed in my dreams feeling it as real. I think for me lucid dreaming would be like reading fiction while consciously reminding yourself this is a work written by [whoever the author is] instead of letting yourself simply go for the ride.