h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Color or black and white:

Both, sometimes in the same dream. Also I dream in cartoon and technical drawing line diagramatics. Sometimes I dream in silhouettes. This last was conditioned by a period of my late preadolescent years during which I had serious problems of episodic blindness... consequence of an unusually difficult preadolescent adjustment crisis I eventually grew out of, related to echolation. The silhouettes are the same type generated by echolation (gray on gray).

Sound:

Yes. Music, voices, background noise.

Lucid dreaming:

Yes, buts its like winding a wind up toy, eventually an uncontrolled unwind must come.

Dream diary:

I don't keep a dream diary, but have had a habit since I was seven years of age of reviewing the events of the day before when I have a disturbing dream. Usually I find the conditioning stress in the events of the preceding day. For example, having dreams of going naked in a new school, thinking over the events of the day before, I remembered experiencing anxiety over difficulty finding some article of clothing I needed. I got into the habit of laying out my clothing the night before and haven't had a dream like that since. Occasionally I make a record of a dream I find unusually interesting.

Dream of a specific person:

Yes. Usually with unbidden accompaniments of other personalities.

Nightmares I can't wake up from:

Yes, related to a diagnosed problem of sleep paralysis. My neurologist tells me its not a serious problem.

Talking or walking in my sleep:

No.

Theme of especial interest to me: Dreams of Contraries. There is a lot of literature on them. I'm personally given to an interpretation founded on opponent process mechanisms of compensation.

Related interests: Oracles and Auguries. (Taken in terms of the mechanics of the phenomenology.)