Hey, look, it's a Friday Five. Now we know the procrastination's getting intense.

1. What's the last vivid dream that you remember having?
Vivid? I dunno. Vividity is relative. I had something weird involving Obi-Wan a few nights back. Maybe Monday night. Hardly surprising, really. Just subconscious reshuffling.

2. Do you have any recurring dreams?
I used to have (way back in childhood) this recurring dream about glowing white ghost snakes invading my back yard. Then I heard that if you have a dream more than once it means it's going to come true. I decided that was bollocks, but just to be on the safe side, I never had that dream ever again.

3. What's the scariest nightmare you've ever had?
I had this way back when I was about 13, and it still makes me shiver. At the time, it made me wake up gasping. Set in my primary school, where I'm playing on the oval or something like that. It's a sort of twilight, and suddenly there's no one else around. I turn around, and there's an old-style, like, 1920s car, all black, and a tall, thin man in black overcoat and hat (this was well before Dark City, let me add, but maybe my memory is adding the detail of its own accord). He holds out a hand, and I go to him, put my hand in his. And then, with a knife in his other hand, he scrapes the skin off the back of my hand like he's peeling a potato.

4. Have you ever written your dreams down or considered it? Why or why not?
Yep. In fact, they're scattered all through this site. (Oh, this one was a doozy.) I write them down because I have the weirdest dreams of anyone I know, and I like to share random shit like that. Haven't you noticed? There really is no other reason. I don't particularly think there's some deep insight to my soul, and I haven't noticed any recurring themes that aren't recurring themes in my real life, and hence highly explicable.

5. Have you ever had a lucid dream? What did you do in it?
Note: 'Lucid' being a dream in which you know you're dreaming. See, here, I have a problem. The dreams I remember upon waking, I always know I'm dreaming during. Conscious enough to commit to memory=conscious enough to realise it's a dream. So, effectively, all my dreams are lucid. Normally, I just go wth the flow. Occasionally, I say: "Enough already!" and either consciously perform an action, or decide to wake up. (And no, I've never had a fantasy dream-like moment where I go: "I'll wake up now" and then don't. Honestly, if you can't have control of your subconscious, what can you have control of?)