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<SIDE NOTES> Had quite a busy and MAJORLY WIERD dream last night (Non Lucid)
Had clear recall in the morning, but didn't note anything down at the time
Dream content lost (its now 15:55)

Non-lucid dream, [Commentary made while awake]

[Fragment:] I'm sorting through laundry, separating out the things that need to be washed. [Heh. Apparently, anything you've been avoiding dealing with in real life can show up in a dream, even if it's something completely mundane. ]

[The following is a different dream. I'm writing this at the end of the day after I woke up from it, rather than in the morning, right after waking up for it, so I've probably forgotten a lot by now. What I'm about to write here is all I remember now. Sorry.]

I'm a member of a group of Chosen Children [from the Digimon anime series; these people are otherwise known as Digidestined in the English dub]. Everyone in the group is around my own age. [Yes, I was the same age in my dream as I am in real life. Yes, I'm way too old to be a Chosen Child by the standards of any of the anime series. Evidently, my subconscious doesn't care about that.] There are at least 20 people in the group. We all go into a fairly small cabin, the kind that would be at a summer camp, in which we all have to find a space to lie down in, because we're all going to enter a dream together [Inception-style. No, I never once realized I was dreaming throughout this entire dream. Yes, I feel silly now.]. I climb into the upper bunk of one of the many bunk beds in the room. Addressing the group at large, I say something like, “Try to make space on the floor for everyone.”

With my right hand, I push up the left sleeve of my shirt to expose the inside of my left elbow. I wait for someone to come around with an IV needle for me. I'm not looking forward to having the needle put in, and want to just get it over with already. [Exactly how I feel about them in real life.]

I'm now in the first dream level, with the same group of people. Once again, we're all lying down, waiting to get IV needles put in. I think, We need to go into the deeper dream levels so that we can get into our stronger Digimon forms. I have the following knowledge about our current situation: We're in the midst of a mission to defeat some enemy, and in order to transform into the strongest Digimon forms we have available to us, we have to be several dream levels deep.

This time, I actually feel the needle being stuck in, but not into my elbow - it gets stuck into the tip of my left thumb. It's still not a pleasant experience, of course. I can feel it in there, and can feel my pulse throbbing in the tip of my thumb.

[Awesome. I love the premise of this dream. I'm slightly tempted to write crossover fanfic based on it, but I don't have time to write fanfic.]

ok tried cheddar that lead to a thrift store dream very vivid but not lucid
b vit not much sleep and I kept waking up will try again a friend was in the hospital so it might have been due to stress not sure
oranges first time was great very lucid faded in the end though
tried oranges again and nothing
Trying oranges again tonight hoping for good results

WBTB 5am
Woke 10am

Had some recollection but not too much now.

As the title said, this wasn't lucid, but this is what happened.

I remember being in my French class, and we had just finished a test. I hadn't finished it, but the teacher was talking and I was hoping that she wouldn't notice me finishing it. She then got angry and said
"I know you have finished the test, but you still shouldn't be talking" by then, I had finished the test and I said
"Actually, I finished mine minus four minutes before we finished" (as in four minutes late)
The class laughed and then I remember walking with my friends and seeing some people from my class and they started laughing, and so did I, and then it just blurred and I woke up.

Now, I'm quite frustrated with myself about this, because I missed some obvious dream signs.

First of all, my French teacher is a man. This teacher was a woman, and the students spoke to her as if she was a regular teacher, not a substitute. Come to think of it, this teacher may have been an evil teacher from one of my primary schools, which would make sense because she hated me, and so does my French teacher (don't judge me, anyone in my class will agree, and I'm not even a troublemaker)

Secondly, and this is the one that annoys me most.
All the other events in my dream happened in my secondary school. but I realized that the classroom I was in was one from my more difficult years in my other primary school. Even when I left the classroom, instead of being in the assembly hall of my primary school, I was in the corridor outside my french class, because that is what I expected to happen I guess.

Over the two recent dreams that I remember, there were a few similarities, the main one being that France was involved, and one of them happened in a place with negative experiences (this one, difficult areas of my primary school life and in a French test). Also, the other happened in a boat, so although it was a nice experience, I don't like boats in real life, which I guess was a dream sign for my other dream, me enjoying being on a boat.

I may have been having dreams involving France (lesson, and Monaco coast-not strictly French but next to it and French is the main language) and that were in negative places because recently I had a French oral exam, which I spent almost my entire Easter holiday practicing, and then my nerves got to me and I screwed up and was devastated. It may be lingering in my mind because I haven't had my results back yet.

Hm, that's quite a wall of text I have built up, as I wrote it all down, I noticed new things about the dreams and made the connections.

Earliest moment I can recall is riding in a car down the highway then we came to an intersection and The dream took a quick change as I became a driver behind the car I was just in, yet I was able to look ahead and view the car's cockpit while still mantaining normal view, it was strange. We drove to a local school in the area, which I suddenly appeared in It was entirely dark as I walked down the halls looking into the black abysses that were the doors. I walked down farther finding a lit room while i called the office. I then walked out of the office and appeared farther away, however still in the same area at a strip mall. I walked down the road and saw some girls from school. we all started talking at the corner where other DCs had mysteriously joined us. I then became lucid and looked around to take in my surroundings my dream quickly begun to destabilize. I rubbed my hands together, it helped however it was still destabilizing; I then focused on a new dream-scene trying to at least salvage my lucidity realizing that the dream had faded and I was in the "Void" between dreams. Spinning around to try to create a new dream-scene (Looking back I need focus more on the SCENE itself and not the name of it..) unfortunetly I don't recall anything after this.

So this will be my entry for all or most Dream Cartography related things. Right now I have to figure out my personal way to do this so for now I will put some personal notes here, which are to be expanded upon later:

Frequent Occuring places:
Buildings
Talenta (My first boarding school)
Space (Isn't as frequent as I'd like it to be, but it gets better)

Buildings:
Weird, huge and complex buildings appear frequently in my dreams, it is safe to say that 75% of my dreams at least involve one building and at least 30% of my dreams involve huge or really special buildings.

Space:
ISIM: This is a system I was headed for in one of my recent space dreams. I was getting there through hyperspace by entering a wormhole. I don't know from where I started. Since this one of the few places with a specific name I suppose it might become an important location, otherwise I will try to make it one.

Other Dimensions/Exceptional Places:
Most notable here would be the place of #3 in this post: My craziest night yet

Coon City: Coon city is a forest where people with a few raccoon features live, it seems to be a dangerous place for normal humans. Coon City

Lower levels of consciousness:
Most notable here is this dream: Post apocalypse building with several different high ground floors

A certain city:
This is a place I don't know much about but I feel it popped up more than once. Most recently when I went to a BDSM sex shop due to some absolutely unknown reason (06.06.14). The city looks largely normal but the streets are exceptionally big, creating wide open spaces between buildings. As might be expected the amount of people and cars is really low here.

Update: 06.04.2013
Well the recent months were really bad and essentially nothing now on the field happened, just felt like noting that down because Im still up on this project, I don't get any input.

Update: 06.06.2014
14 months later and nothing much more happened, thanks to my working place, or rather the insane time consumption of work and everyone just generally helping themselves on my reserve of time. Only added the certain city section.

I see a cute DC. We play.

Awake|Dreaming|Lucid

So this morning I had a magical dream at last. I usually dream about school or non-magical dreams, but I felt this was one of the best I have had in a long time.

I was in a field, similar to the one near a pond in my area. I was walking through it and saw a tree a couple of meters near the lake. I somehow got into a fight with this tree, I was determined to beat this tree for some odd reason. I was slicing the tree with an orange chainsaw, branch by branch, avoiding the attacks it made. The tree was gradually moving away from the water so I ran away from it and reached a small hill with a decent spot to hide in. I think I remember a fragment about a guy hiding in this particular spot. It was like a small crack in the hill, but wide enough for me to sit in. I then ran back to the tree and continued attacking the tree with the chainsaw. I then retreated back to the spot and watch the tree transform into a large stump. I was scared to go near the stump incase it attacked me. I then decided to go up and stab the tree with the chainsaw, but ran back for the third time. I watched it transform again, but this time into a floating tree. It was almost as if it was hanging from something. It was just under a meter from the ground and was longer than it was wide, but still smaller than the last two forms. I then saw the tree fall to the ground and transform a fourth time. It was similar to the stump, but had a red haired girl half in it. She was wearing green clothes and was not moving. For the last time, the tree transformed again, but back to the first form. There was a beautiful blue-haired girl half in it. She seemed alive and was welcoming me to talk to her. I walked over to her and noticed she had scaled clothes on. They were coloured with all sorts of nice colours, like cyan, light green and purple. She also had some of these colours in her hair to match her clothing. She looked like she could be a goddess or something. She made the tree disappear and I walked with her to the lake, where we sat down in the shallow water and observed the lake. I asked her if we should build a bridge across the lake. I said something like "Shall we build a bridge across there, then to the platform?". She replied with a nod. We then changed the topic and noticed a McDonalds appear on the left hand side. It was flooded from the lake and there were a few woman sweeping the water away. By this point, a guy had appeared left of me, but he was quiet and I didn't pay attention to him. We were discussing about working at this McDonalds, then the dream faded.

I loved this dream, it had many wierd things happen in it. First it seemed like I had to tame the tree in order to talk to the water spirit. The water spirit seemed hard to get, but she eventually came to me. I sure hope she is my dream guide, so great to look at . I have always been interested in water anyway, so it'd be a bonus. The other weird thing that happened was when I went to the spot where some guy hid before. It seemed so familiar when I woke up. Maybe the guy by the lake was him? That'd be really wierd. I mentioned in my workbook that the blue haired lady (the water spirit) was someone that I wanted to know more about. So from now on, she remains 2 titles. The blue haired lady and the water spirit. I also think that the tree abducted her and the other red haired girl was the wood spirit or something. But either way, it was great to have met this woman.

I fly along pleasantly with the dream until I saw a girl.

It's been a while, and yes, I've been slacking off.

Anywho, this first dream occurred two nights back. It was certainly interesting, and certainly enjoyable. Water seemed to be the main theme of it. It began with me starting to play some online flash game of some sort. It was for three players, and each got to be Tom & Jerry-esque characters, either a dog, a cat, or a mouse. I was a mouse, and the other two were the cat and the dog. The person playing the cat's voice was strikingly familiar, though I can't recall who. It was a strange, yet fun game where we'd be zooming through streets on miscellaneous objects, flying through pipes and construction sites. Things in the like. The part I remember most vividly is when we were on a board attached to a boat that was going considerably fast. We got pushed underwater, and were still on the board and attached as well. I saw many creatures that concerned me, having a strong fear of going underwater in the ocean. There was a sea turtle that was much larger than us, and it tried snapping us as we passed by. I then closed my eyes, and waited for use to reach the surface again. I don't remember much after that, besides me leaving the game and walking around, only to find an apartment where I could hear people mumbling about where the mouse went. The next part was strange, but very relaxing. We were at a concert, one that was much like "Woodstock", except we weren't in a field or a forest or anything. Instead, we were in tree-huts that were stationed in tropical palms. We stayed in these for a couple of days. The stage wasn't far off from our huts, quite nice of a distance, really. Each one of our huts had a title of sorts. Mine had to do with lizards and my mom's, who's hut was right next to mine, had to do something with houses. My brother's was farther off, and he kept making fun of the names of our huts, though the insults weren't quite clever. He said things like "You hear of cats and dogs, but never lizards!" which, I didn't take much offense to, really. We stood over the ocean in the day, a good 100 feet over it, and it never seemed to be sunny, but only cloudy, which is my visualization of paradise; a cloudy beach. From a small window in my hut, I could see large and lavish hotels with pools and quality service. I kept saying "That's a beautiful home." for some reason. When we were to sleep, for some reason our huts would move lower towards the ocean. My hut had a bit of water flooding into it, but I could still sleep on the ground, though I kept waking up in fear of this leopard shark that seemed to wander near our area. I never did hear a single band play though.

I'll try to be more consistent with these.

I've been lazy recently. I haven't done any reality checks and I'm just now getting back into doing dream recall (Along with my special dream listing method).

I have had a massive lack of DILDs and they have had poor lucidity. It doesn't even feel like a real lucid dream. I don't think this is what your average DILD is like, but that doesn't matter. I'd say it's time to move on to WILD.

I have done some weak attempts to do WILD, all of which failed. I'm usually a VERY patient person, but this seems to be an exception. I'm trying again tonight. I will have a WILD.

...I have a feeling tonight is going to be quite a WILD night.

Key:
{Curly brace & blue} .... Relevent waking life details before entry, if appropriate

Black .... Dream body/narative text

(Standard braces & dark green, bold) .... Dream notes, lucidity, time. method etc

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{This one is from last night.... 02 June 2012... Have posted an earlier fragment from same night}

(Lucid.... ??WILD with FA?? or WILD fail ---> DILD
Failed a WILD... I got to HI, visualised a scene of being at a fireworks display to have somewhere to goto
(Lots of the colour Orange and Yellow in the bonfire I imagined!!!)
but couldn't transition to full dream scene, gave up & went to sleep, ended up in DILD)

I’m in a mobile phone store (Orange), sat on a tall 'trendy stool' at a tall fake wood effect table.
The assistant (female, shoulder length natural blond) sat opposite me is pointing to important clause(s)
on the contract paperwork in front of me, and verbally stressing a few points
I'm not really reading the paperwork, instead I'm looking at the assistant, nodding my head, acknowledging what I'm being told... (shes pretty!! BTW)
I'm told the usual stuff about my talk plan.. Which I say I'm happy with, then ...
I'm told something about "blah blah blah section 921 of your agreement covers the Orange LUCIDITY subscription you've added, and how to access these services"
I said something like... "Yeah Yeah, I'm all OK with that... I think I know how it works, and what I'm doing..."
I laugh out load and say... "For all I know I could be dreaming right now"

I look down, and sign the paperwork... Then I try to REALLY read bits of it, but the words keep on 'evolving' and make no sense!! <LUCID>
(The feel of the stool I'm sat on, the table and the paper under my hands, and the warmth from the stores' pin-spot lights above me are my 'grounding points')
I look up again. The assistant doesn't acknowledge my 'I could be dreaming' comment, but instead tells me about
"ringing 921 from your handset for customer services"..
The assistant then gives me a copy of the paperwork and wishes me well in a "bye for now.. good luck" kind of way

I leave the store, and walk along the street a while. I walk along a normal street, then a tree lined avenue.
I find a bus stop, with four men and two women who are waiting at it...
... I decide it would be good to question them about dreams, and if they know they are in a dream...
... I talk to them for a while.. The different people have different 'individual' reactions...

A couple of them seemed hostile & annoyed that I suggested that "you are a figment of my imagination in a dream. You dont really exist"
... One tried changing the subject to his tropical fish?!?, the other hissed something about "Dealing with crazy people"
One of them blankly ignored me..
One of them thought it was funny, and laughed at it (but still evaded answering)
One of them acknowledged she was in a dream, but seemed more concerned what will happen to her when I wake..
One of them acknowledged he was in a dream, and he found it interesting... We engaged in a little conversation over it

I'm too busy chatting (& winding up) the DC's ... Soon it just goes fogs out to black

Ok I figured I would give y'all a bit of info about my dreaming styles and habits so that some of this made sense I plan on using this journal to recall some of the past dreams in my life stuff that just stuck with me plus new dreams
characters
the native american spirit I am going to start calling him helpful spirit since he has never given me a name. he first started coming to me in the first post but he continues to help me out though sometimes he comes when I am wide awake obes but with out sleep I probably wont post them here since they where not dreams I was not asleep I just couldnt move or talk so the only out of bodies I will post are dream related ones but he has been in both and I believe his warnings have saved my life a few times ..
My dead friends I probably will just put their names and a D at the end almost every friend has come to me in a dream after they have died I have had alot of friends pass away I used to travel alot and have always had friends much older than me so over time things happen
Names that sound like they shouldnt be names will be in here alot
types of dreams
Possible shared dreams will be noted I havent figured out how I will note them yet maybe just a psd sometimes I feel as if it was a shared dream even if I do not know the person I seem to feel different when I wake up from these dreams I have had others confirmed in the past .
healingpsd The majority of my shared dreams is to help people I havent gone into anyones dreams in a very long time It seems only when someone needs me I am able to be there witch is fine with me usually these dreams are someone random needing emotional support or advice ..
soul hug its when I hug someone in a shared dream its a healing process of helping someone or connecting to their soul and it is awesome..
I have a series of dreams that happen that I then see in real life I know they are called deja vu but I have allways called them the right track since they always give me enough to chose the correct path in life they started when I was 13
and of course theres everything else the random dreams witch fill most of my dream time lucid or not when I am lucid I let the dream lead me where ever and just enjoy the ride
Places
theres a few landscapes i have that always reapear
Austin tx its home so my dreams seem to know it
colorado woods usually around nederlands I did spend some time there but the dream one is very different I usually have my hippies in the woods dreams in this place and its usually got a lot of houses thena few stores then woods alot closer than they really are in real life
The house of many rooms its a maze its got elevators its got tunnels and basements stairs that lead in weird ways and a tunnel at the top that leads to the really scarey part of the house theres a hospital and offices in it and a fun house I have no clue why but its an odd house and usually its a dream trying to find my way out of it
The healing center it first appeared a while ago but it has since come a few times it has a house and a big drive way but I have only been in the playground on looking a lake i think
The house from my childhood we all have those dontt we ? this one was a trailer not in the best of shape
my house I try to not have dreams in my place but sometimes it happens I live in a travel trailer so its small i prefer to have dreams elsewhere
Congrats you just read all of this wow you must think I am nuts well your right but thats besides the point its my birthday be nice

Let my body rest till 5pm, rested at night, bed at sunset.