According to my psychosis (at the time...which differs from my normal weird), when my brother would go to sleep, he'd wake up in this tower where I never saw who "they" were, I just knew "they" had him and were experimenting on him.

The old tv show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" had an episode where Buffy was in the hospital but when she'd go to sleep she was in another world where she was awake. She couldn't tell which one was the real world. That's what it was like for me.

I hate Gabapentin, but Doc you actually made me laugh about it. Gotta love a smart *****.

Have you read any/much H.P. Lovecraft? Dream worlds (and dream argument) are very old literary plot devices. The (dream worlds) article doesn't mention it specifically, but I suspect the concept has origins in recurring dreams.

I've never had a psychotic episode (I think after forty-mumble years together, my wife would have mentioned something... ) and I've never gotten into dream interpretation, but I've had my share of recurring dreams (and hence, dream worlds), and I'm (quite often) a lucid dreamer.

Gotta love "normal weird" too...

Doc

I've not read much Lovecraft but am aware of the concept of dream worlds.

I, too, am a lucid dreamer. I actually had to learn to be one to deal with recurring nightmares that ended up playing out a scenario of something tragic that happened to me as a very young child. My family never got help for me and never spoke of it after it happened so I spent nearly 20 years having horrible "dreams". Finally I started therapy and was taught the theory of lucid dreaming and how to "take charge" in my dreams and how to wake myself, and completely move body positions so that I would not drop back into the terrifying dream when I went right back to sleep.

Finally, with lots of guidance from my counselor, the dream "played" itself out and the repressed memory came forward and was able to be dealt with. But since then I've been a lucid dreamer. Of course I talk about dreaming when I'm a World Class Insomniac, but when I AM capable of a few hours of sleep I can choose to be in charge after years of training.

Of course, none of this has to do with Lyrica, but I appreciate the questions Doc. I've read around the site a bit and you always crack me up AND educate me on different subjects.