[Ophelia's Snorkel]

My dreams are in watered-down colours and my vision is often obscured by objects or dim lights. I think this only happens because I am not fully in sleep paralysis and am attempting to open my eyes in real life. I usually know when I am dreaming, and if I find the dream boring, too frightening, or tiring, I'll switch to another "story". However, under stress I tend to have long, realistic nightmares and not realise I'm dreaming. Sometimes when I wake up, I have to confirm that it was only a dream by, for example, finding and talking to a person I dreamt had died. Fortunately, those dreams are fairly rare.