Knocking

1. I dream I am working at a nursing home. I take care of an old lady, and take her to a doctor appointment, but forget to actually take her in to see the doctor. I send her off (to somewhere) and then remember that the doctor has not actually seen her, and start worrying that even though she is healthy she may have health problems that are not so obvious... but there is no way to fix it without getting in a lot of trouble. 2. One of my less comfortable OBEs. I partially woke up, but my body was still 'paralyzed' and I was half asleep. I tried to settle down and catch onto a dreamlet or something. That is not working and I am not entirely lucid, so I try to sit up out of my body. My body "sticks" to me like it is glue, so I try to roll over out of it. I feel like I am tipping and sinking backwards into the bed. I am in the "wind tunnel". I start to panic, and after a lot of flailing around and struggling, I lapse back into unawareness. 3. I dream that there is a huge snowstorm and the whole city has shut down. The city I live in is one I have never seen before in my life. I go outside and start trying to shovel snow with everybody else. 4. I dream I am in a castle. I am moving through room after room. The floor has diamond floor tiles in various brown colors. I can get on top of the walls and run along them, and jump down into other rooms. As I am crossing a hallway, I see a mirror. Mirrors always make me lucid - I approach it, see my reflection, and 'push' into lucidity. Unfortunately, I am sleeping too lightly, and it wakes me up (not a false awakening). I grumble and roll over. A few minutes pass. Someone lightly knocks on my door, twice. I ignore it because if my brother is trying to wake me up on the morning I have a day off work, he is being a jerk. Someone knocks on my door again, a little louder, twice. I say "what?" but there is no answer. I get up and open my door, but nobody is there. I hear someone in the kitchen. I go into the kitchen and ask my roommate, "Did you knock on my door?" She says, "No, I would not do that." My brother is asleep... my other roommate is not home. My roommate verified that she was, in fact, making breakfast, and that I did ask her if she knocked on my door. Even though it was a hypnopompic hallucination, it still sounded very real, and was pretty creepy. Review: Last night was semi-productive, I guess. I am having more lucids, but the quality has gone down. I do not think it is because I am getting "worse" at lucid dreaming, so much as I am having a lot more lucid dreams lately and the quality will slowly improve again. When I say OBE, I do not really mean that I believe it is an actual out of body experience. I mean that it is a specific kind of lucid dream I have where it feels like I am rising/rolling/whatever out of my body, and either end up in the void or end up in a facsimile of my bedroom, while my "body" remains in bed. I do not believe anything paranormal is going on, it is just a really specific kind of dream with a really specific feeling... and a specific set of challenges that I still have not overcome. Clues I was dreaming: - I do not work in a nursing home - We do not have blizzards where I live - I do not generally wander around castles