The On-Off Tap of Dream Activity

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I was amazed at how effective it was just experiencing the dream and not doing any "extracurricular" work.

Yeah, the experience alone is often quite enough for me & seems to accomplish exactly what it was meant for.

For instance, it's common for me to dream of things I fear/desire then after waking I no longer have as much fear/desire for w/e bc the dream has given me this kinda 'been there, done that' feeling about it.

It's interesting, when I'm in that place between waking and sleeping, I can actually sometimes remember dreams I had clear back in childhood.  It always blows my mind how you can access certain memories in certain specific states but not others.

I'm unfamiliar with this half-in half-out thing...but I do notice different levels of lucidness in dreams.

I recalled my high school 6 digit lunch # in a dream (when put under pressure) & I'm certain that's something I wouldn't have recalled in my normal waking state.

My dreams are usually very vivid and I can easily recall them. At times I have visited other dimensions, they felt like parallel realities! 
I worked in healthcare and have met several departed souls in my dream state. They seem to come to let me know they are alright.  I met with my beautiful  cat after she passed away.  I was in a semi-conscious dreamstate and she came up on my bed to be petted.  It felt sooooo real! 

I don't have the ability to interpret my dreams, the symbolism (the way Jim McCarty does on his blog) but the encounters are very vivid and the realism cannot be ignored. 

I see a pet I had from ages 5-18 a lot & that's a great example of a dream I deem not meant be interpreted. My dreams often feel like just time for communion with loved ones...not msgs with cryptic symbols I should spend any time thinking about in waking life.