I have never been aware of a dream unless it was one I was going to wake up from. Only occasionally have I done so to decide to go back in and alter it and been able to do so. Other than that I haven't had lucid dreams, and I'm not sure I want to. The BGI I experience is so good when I am not consciously controlling it that I think letting my conscious mind in on the act would only spoil it.

And I too have the hunting for the loo ones - I think the brain is very clever at those - the range of toilets it designs that make it absolutely imperative to go somewhere else is very impressive. Holes in muddy floors, infant school sized pans, ans so on. Oddly, it never conjures up the sort of thing one may actually find in a public loo with real soiling.

And the going on with my job - teaching - is really irritating now I have retired. Either doing supply in a strange school and failing to get to the class on time, or back in time in the school I used to teach in, and things going wrong there. I wish it would stop. But what else does my brain know?

Penny