Have you ever had a dream that was so good (or so terrible) that it stuck with you like a real memory? Most people play passenger princess in their dreams, going along with whatever your sub-conscious has in mind for the night, but did you know there’s another way? Well, a long time ago, I was interested in learning how to control my own dreaming and trying to figure out how to be in charge of not only my sleeping habits, but the actual dreams themselves. Enter ‘lucid dreaming’. After learning that it’s possible to navigate your own dreams like you’re the orchestrator of every detail, I decided to learn how to be more lucid.

However, in the process of learning how to become a lucid dreamer– basically a conscious dreamer –you run the risk of getting cursed with sleep paralysis, which is apparently an adjacent skill. With great power, comes even greater pitfalls. So if you’ve ever had a spooky boy loom over you in your frozen nightmares (or even if you’ve accidentally thought the pile of clothes in your room was evil), these memes are for you.