BlairBros' Adventures

12/2/16:
Dream 1: I had to go back to high school for a few weeks before uni started to redo part of my media subject. I don't know if it was because I failed some part of it or what, but my little brother was laughing at me and I wasn't too happy.

Dream 2: I was at basketball training, and it was much more serious than normal. The coach was yelling at us and threatening to drop us if we didn't perform. He set up a 9 foot ring for us all to dunk on, and whoever couldn't would be dropped. I did it an so did most people, but there was a lot of tension. I was walking outside and back home with my brother and mum.

Dream 3: My family was with my grandma at a retirement village sort of place. There was another old woman there who seemed suspicious. We caught her at night stealing some stuff from the place, so my grandma went crazy and started screaming at here, about how she didn't deserve to be there and didn't build the place or spend any money on it. We tried to calm her down as the other woman was very scared but to little effect.

Fragment: Playing a card game of some sort.

A nice mix of dreams tonight. 4/12/2015

Dream 1: I was with a group of school friends and family at the cinema, watching a dodgy, old style James Bond movie. I remember there being some strange romance and intrigue.

Dream 2: I was graduating from high school, having a nice fancy dinner with everyone. I remember going to school on the morning of that last day, heading into a classroom with all the other year twelves, everyone acting really nervously. For some reason I think the talk in the room went to some dota tournament. Anyway we all packed up our stuff from our lockers, although most people had to come back the day after to get everything. On the next day, my whole family were catching a tram to the school to pick up all this last stuff and say goodbye, however my younger brother had the uniform on from another school, saying that the day before had been first day at that new school.

Dream 3: I was watching the Biggest Loser with my dad and there was some serious fighting between the contestants. They had had a makeover and someone surprisingly had lost a lot of weight to kick some strong competitor out. After that there was furore about the elimination, breaking apart families and stuff like that.

Dream 4: Peter Garrett and a famous actress (may have been Angelina Jolie, not sure) met at some fancy awards ceremony and they hit it right off. I think George Clooney was also involved in this love triangle.

Dream 5: Some sort of medieval fight, I was instructing two recruits on how to fight properly, use their shields etc. Fragment.

I slept terribly last night, got a few less hours than normal and kept on waking up through the night but I've remembered 4 dreams and a fragment, so its all good hehe.
1: I was a character inside a video game, sort of a cross between Minecraft and Skyrim. I sorta chose my character and then was told of my mission, to infiltrate the enemy city and see what was going on there. I had a fake name and everything, Greta Blair, even though im male(lol?), and I set off hiking through the forest to get to the city. I eventually arrived and went into a cafe/hotel to find a place to stay the night. he owner became suspicious upon seeing me, demanding my name and citizenship papers etc. I stumbled saying "Matthew Bla.. uh, Greta Blair (pronounced Gree-ta Blair), but when I showed them the papers they accepted me a bit. I retired to my room and set about hatching a plan for what to do next.
FRAGMENT: I found my brother had started a facebook account, checked out what was on it.
2: My brother and I caught the tram to school for a few days in a row, and every day a friend would have bought me a pie for breakfast. The first few times I was like, ooo yummy thanks but after a while I got suspicious, asking him why he was buying only me pies and not my brother etc. He said it was a social experiment, seeing if he could fatten me up and seeing what my brothers reaction would be. From then on I refused to eat anymore and things got a bit sour lol.
3: I was driving a car with the rest of my family in it. The brakes weren't working properly and I kept on just crashing into other cars where i would normally have stopped before them. When we got home however the brakes failed completely and I crunched into the wall. I then tried reversing back a bit so the car was in the normal spot but again I couldn't stop it. They were yelling at me about how I was doing it wrong etc and I was trying everything, but stamping on the brakes, handbrake, tapping; nothing worked. We managed to stop rolling just before backing out onto incoming traffic on the road, phew.
4: A sort of montage of me playing basketball, being somewhat the cause/involved in us losing a few games in a row horribly. I resolved myself to improve, and slowly but surely over the next few games, although we still lost, got closer and closer. In the final game, we were neck and neck with the other team well into the dying stages of the game. Finally we managed to pulla 4 point lead on them with a minute to go. Timeout was called and the coach gave an inspiring speech, the contents completely forgotten but I'm sure it was good . We went back out to play then, but I oke up as the game was finishing.I think we won though hehe.

1: I was playing a MOBA, some sort of cross between dota and smite. My friend was telling me to play this Athena character, so I obliged and started a game. The teams met in the jungle right off the bat and there was a crazy fight where I got around 3 kills. The scene then shifted so I was playing starwars battlefield 2 with my brother and friend, I think this was a re-imagining of an actual thing that happened many years ago.
2: My mum and I were packed up to stay at a hotel near our house. My brother was sick so he couldn't come, so my grandma came over to look after him/the house. We eventually found the weird pink hotel but we went back to the house, not sure if we'd forgotten anything or had a feeling or whatnot. Anyway when I got back I found all of the pots and pans being stacked inside of eachother trying to cook stuff. There were three pots inside eachother, all warped out completely with burnt pasta and sauce filling them. All of the cookware was ruined, so I tried to arrange everything and turn off the heat to salvage what I could when my grandma entered the room. She was super confused, asked me what I was doing, so I obviously yelled at her, "WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU DOING!!!". She said she was trying to make a Thermomix out of our pots and stuff, and I kinda went on a rant about how stupid that was and how she was crazy etc. It got tense when my mum entered the scene as well, but then the dream started to dissolve. As it was I realized that it was a dream, but by then it was too late and I woke up.
I wanted to have a lucid so badly as I woke up lol, so I attempted for the first time to try a WILD/DEILD. Within a few seconds of me visualizing the dream continuing on I started feeling really heavy with vibrations. This triggered my gravity awareness RC which I've been practicing the last few days, which might of contributed to my failure as I got too aware/awake too early, idk. Anyway these super intense vibrations washed over me and I felt myself starting to get sucked into sleep/dream, when a voice appeared in my head sort of explaining what that dream had been about and the lesson I had learned from it. While this was really cool it brought me back and I couldn't complete the attempt. Factor in a noisy brother who was going to the toilet at the time and meh. For my first attempt though, it was a case of close but no cigar .

Wowee! I remembered 8 different dream scenes last night, which is insane for me! I woke up twice throughout the night and had 4 scenes each time.

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Sleep time: 9:00 PM Awake times: 2:00 AM, 4:30-5:00AM
REM Period 1:
-I was playing a game with a German woman and two other people called 'Extreme Parkour" or something similar, where we were jumping around a Mayan ruin bouncing between the walls and breaking off some things,generally having whale of a time.
-I was at Disneyland riding around one of those little trams that they have there, and there was a man there who got off and played this shooting game, where he shot small bullets into a leather saddle like thing. Afterwards he complained saying "how big are these bullets?" which the woman replied "7mm" and he went crazy, yelling "WHAT! Those aren't bullets, these are bullets!" and pulled out giant bullets the size of his hands. (My own Crocodile Dundee moment ). After that the tram sorta morphed into a bus a bit and there were some rather racist acts going on against african americans, can't quite remember how that turned out.
-I was in a persons house and they had 3 children, their natural son, and adopted Chinese boy and a boy who appeared to have a mental condition/disability. Very little detail in this one.
-I was at my Dad's house and when I walked out of my room I could hear (I think my little brother) playing a song from Agalloch's The Mantle (Great ablum by the way ) on the keyboard. I was amazaed and asked my Dad what was going on. He said he'd found the cd on a bench and taught my brother to play it. I asked my dad whether he liked it or not but before he could answer the dream dissolved.

REM Period 2:
-I was in a post apocalyptic sort of Hollywood, where Soviet Russia were trying to invade. There were tanks and debris everywhere and me and several other people were playing some sort of wargame there. I remember the landscape was really vivid and well constructed, it looked a little bit like a desert from Mars crossed with a abandoned city.
-I was having a swimming race with 2 members of the Yogscast (I don't even) in a crazy long aircraft hanger style place decorated like the bottom of the ocean and I ended up beating them.
-I was having a weird sort of Chinese exam were the room was split into different sections for the different parts and there were random substitute teachers coming in to take it. I was rather stressed as I thought I wasn't ready and I couldn't bring my dictionary and didn't know how it worked and yada yada. I can't remember too well how it went too well, but I think I did alright hehe.
-I was playing a sort of extreme minigolf with about 20 other people at least and it was fairly competitive, with the rules being super tight. The competition had to go on until tomorrow but I didn't get the message and continued playing a little bit anyway. Some people realised and I had to try and set all my stuff back up so it was like it was before, which was a bit hectic.

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Theres my record number of dreams recalled, hopefully this is a good sign of things to come. Unfortunately no lucids but tomorrow's the day!

1: Fragments, something to do with darts I think
2: (non-lucid) I arrive back at school,starting the new year, and I go to a room with lockers in them to find my own. I worry aboit forgetting to bring my lock, but it turns out good, so I set about finding my new locker. Unfortunately it turns out that only the bottom locker is left, which is a real pain (I'm 6 foot 5/6 iwl), so I complain about it trying to persuade someone to swap, but no luck. I see a friend from primary school there as well, which should have set me alarm bells off, but alas. Anyway, I then collect some for of payment in an envelope and get it signed by classmate, then head oer to my English class and remind everyone else that thye have it to. When I arrive I take a seat near the front and a girl sits down next to me. At this point I wake up rather suddenly.

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This breaks my rather long drought of dream recall, I think it is my first in over a fortnight, so hopefully this trend continues. Being at school is basically my only dream sign and considering I'm on holidays at the moment I should have known it was a dream but oh well, next time I will be more aware

Back into my lucid dreaming journey, and surprise surprise I remembered a dream last night. My recall has been fairly good for me personally even when I'm not trying to do anything dream related, I'm generally remembering either a dream fragment or dream every 2 days or so, which is a whole lot better than where I was at the beginning of this year. On a side note I am also going to start sorting out and categorizing these dream journal entries. Anyway...
Dream 1:
Length: Decently Long
Detail: Above Average
Awareness: Practically none unfortunately, was too caught up in the moment.
It began with me and my brother playing a 3D Mario game with someone else I think, who I might know IRL or not, I don't know, anyway we finished the game, and then he said that we had to find something to be able to keep on playing, maybe for some bonus levels or something. We set about searching for this, but then the dream scene changed. I was now in a cottage/house with someone who I think was my dad and we were watching cricket (which I normally don't like to do). He was telling me all about the game and stuff while I was half listening. The dream scene once again changed, and I was at an Olympic diving pool thing. I'm pretty sure I was still searching for the Mario thing, because I climbed to the top of the platform and dived off, and it felt really important. The dream scene changed for the final time, this time in my old house with my brother and the other guy. We had narrowed down our search for the Mario code or whatever it was, and a ghost/spirit of evil intentions appeared at the front door. We quickly reasoned that we had to have one of us lead him to where the code was, while the other two hid, or something like that. I reasoned it as me and the other guy were like positive and negative charges, and my brother as neutral, so the spirit wouldn't attack him (I know this doesn't make any sense at all. This dream makes no sense to me now, and I blame starting physics this week ). What ensued was a very tense, yet slow chase of sorts, because the spirit was being led directly after us, because it turned out our hiding spot in a wardrobe was where the code was. I distinctly remember before we woke up Me and the other guy hid in the wardrobe, then we pressed this light button thing 4 times and held our breath (I could actually here tense violin music like in horror films here). Then through the gap in the door I saw the spirit, more like a reanimated person then anything else, turn and stare directly at me. He held my gaze yet did nothing, so after 5/10 seconds I slowly ducked out of the line of sight from the opening, then he turned and went to the code. The dream fizzled away after that.
This wasn't a nightmare at all really, just very tense at the end and I woke up with a hammering heartbeat, but it was more exhillirating than scary. I also blame watching Children of Men for that, as that movie was intense