side notes

ehehehe... sorry about my extended absence, guys. A lot of stuff was going on, and I didn't really get around to posting here... but none of that matters anymore, because IM BACK. Well, there's no way in hell I'll be able to catch up on all my dreams, so here's a run-down of what happened to me while i was gone...

- Amenei taught me some more stuff: now I can burn things up with ease
- I had about 30 dreams about cats...
- My brother stopped showing up in my dreams
- I can continue dreams after I wake up from them and go back to sleep (I'm still working on this)
- I upgraded the appearance (and usefullness) of my trusty katana
- I can effectively change the setting of my dreams at will

and more that is not important. Well, now that I'm back to stay, stay tuned for more of Okami's adventures in the dream realm!!!

I was Batman in the Justice League and we were all in the sky really high up on platforms. My suit kept changing from the normal suit to Batman Beyond just like this.



There was a huge villain (I can't remember what he looked like) but there was a shape-shifting clone of sorts and DeadPool. Me and Superman and 'Pool went to the center of Cybertron for some reason, saved the day and walked away through a tunnel.

Side Notes
Throughout the dream Transformers War For Cybertron images kept popping up.

I can only remember seein my friend Zaine. I was lucid though. We were in some room that looked like it was from a Star Wars movie. I also recall doing a Super Kamehameha.

[COLOR="red"]Lucid[/COLOR]
[COLOR="blue"]Dream[/COLOR]
[COLOR="silver"]Thoughts[/COLOR]

[COLOR="silver"]Normally I would say, I were out last night and went to bed late.. So I did no attempt because I was to tired.
Or .. The battery of my Iphone died so the alarms didn't wake me up all the way. But this time I did all the misstakes that I have allways blamed my not succesful attempt on, but I still succeeded![/COLOR]

[COLOR="silver"]I got to bed really late! But I just changed the timer so I slept the same amount of hours.
When the alarm wakes me up. I feltl really uncomfortable so I moved.. and then I fell back to sleep again.[/COLOR]

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[COLOR="blue"]Then I had 4 False awakenings in a row. I know that they were false awakenings, because my Iphone died long before those awakenings... But I dreamt my own alarms! On the fourth false awakening I thought about vaccation, and the exact same words that I thought about I now heard my mom say in the other room "We should go to Spain". But I didn't become lucid...
Then I woke up and saw that m Iphone had died... So I thought "Ok I failed no big deal, I know that it would have worked if my Iphone hadn't died.[/COLOR] [COLOR="red"]Then I close my eyes and I see that it's a yellow cloud on the back of my eyes! I observed it and my last thought of a location I were on the previous day becomes my dream.
Either it was a False awakening that I WILDED in, or it was a normal awakening I don't know, but it doesn't matter because I got lucid anyway. I was now standing on a parking lot and (I'm am chocked and ashamed over what I did) my bestfriends crush M. is looking with horny eyes at me and my dreamy me thinks "This is a dream, it wont hurt my friend". I don't even like her that much in reality... But then she jumps at me and tells me that she want to have sex. I stabilise the dream by feeling her lips when we kiss and touching her body, and rubbing the.. hands haha. I scream I am dreaming! It stabilise only for a bit. But I am still in a dizzy feeling, then I just forget that I want to stabilise and I have sex with her. Then my friend shows up next to me not even bothering! And then he joins and that feels a little weird so I left. But he followed me so I thought hmm the last day we were bragging about how we knew how to impress girls, even if he didn't know them. So I tried to imagine the location we had been at. And the dream changed, but then it morphed into something random. I thought "Were do I find nice girls?"
Then it started to appear lot of McDonals restaurants! And was like "WTF?!" Then I just went into one of them, and there were nice girls alright :shock: I walk up to one of the girls, and say "Hey what's yor name?" and she answers "Annie". But then she says alkjhaaöhwfwaf :? ... And then I say to my friend "Come man you have to dare to fail to succeed.
Then I pushed him to talk to someone and I talked to a girl that was 15 years older than me, it felt weird to hit on her :/ Yeah I was a total jerk in this dream... [/COLOR]

[COLOR="silver"]I think it's pretty interesting that dreams tend to draw my attention to forbidden thoughts
Sex with my bestfriends crush, hitting on older girls. Maybe that is the stuff my subconscious is fighting with holding back. The norms and my conscious mind believes it wrong, but my subconscious loves and hates what my conscious hates and love.
I did stabilise properly in this dream, but it still didn't work, it got stable only when I stabiised, the second I stopped the dream become more unstable. Subconscious VS Conscious 1 - 0 ...
I think I am going to try the spinning technique next morning, because that is something that many people have talked about and sais that it works. The truth shall be told![/COLOR]

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[COLOR="red"]Lucid[/COLOR]
[COLOR="blue"]Dream[/COLOR]
[COLOR="silver"]Thoughts[/COLOR]


[COLOR="silver"]This morning I had 3 lucid dreams and got own experienced knowledge about how the dream environment is. I had one false awakening, but I didn't reality check, in that moment I were so motivated that I wanted to WILD, instead I switched position in the dream and fell asleep. Then I woke up to the alarm and realised that I had a false awakening, although I didn't reality checked on this awakening either, so I am not completely sure if it was a dream or reality. I started to think about my previous dream , but I wasn't trying to WILD. [/COLOR]

[COLOR="red"]I felt a switch of consciousnes and I was now standing in a store, I immediatelly remembered to stabilise so I started to touch a brown desk that was infront of me. I took my hands and touched my legs and used my body as a stabilisation technique through the sense of touch. Then I saw a girl and even though I was lucid and didn't had to care about her, I did... So she told me that we should steal some of the watches that were behind the glas. I thought to myself this is a dream I can do whatever I want, so I broke the glas and she pointed out one of the watches and I grabbed that and gave it to her.
I wanted something cooler so I looked for a really cool clock, and I found one (I didn't find any real picture of this watch design, so I am going to try to explain it) it was like a big stone and the design of the screen was looking like a shining star.
Golden spikes pointing in all directions.[/COLOR]

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[COLOR="silver"]Short after this I heard the next alarm and I woke up. I was surprised to my behaviour in the dream, why did I wasted my precious time on a girl that I didn't even know, to steal a watch? Normally I would be satisfied with this dream, because it was vivid and lucid, so I usually just went up and wrote down the dream, Not this time.
I were still perfectly still and thought that maybe I can chain this dream, because I will still remember this dream, so no reason to worry about that.[/COLOR]

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[COLOR="red"]So I started to think about the same dream again, and felt the switch of consciousnes again! I was now standing at the same spot that I woke up from. A little more aware of that I don't need to follow that girl I remembered that I had told a fried in reality that I wanted to go to the universe and find out what my subconscious mind believed that was out there.
So took pace and started to running out the street and then I jumped and levitated. But I wanted to get speed, but it was hard to imagine, so I did a sound with my mouth that reminded me of Ironman flystyle. I started to accelrate through the sky, really fast it almost felt like I had engines on my back, I couldn't even control it. Then it felt like I flew straight into an invisible wall and I fell. And I fell ... I fell really hard and I closed my eyes and I were in my bed and I still felt like falling.
I knew that this sensation must be a dream so I imagined myself getting out of my bed.
And the imagination become real as usual, and I went down to the door. And I remembered that I wanted to visit a waking life location to see if it felt as real as reality. So I flew (calmly) to my first school, but it didn't look anything like it so I tried to visualise how it really looked like, but I just made it change texture to red brick. I associated school with my old interest which was Harry Potter, so I saw castle textures and buildings appear. [/COLOR]
[COLOR="red"]I woke up again and chained the dream again, but I think I thought about Narnia for one second, because the dream started out in the room were the locker is located (the one they use to get to Narnia). Although the locker wasn't there!
All I saw was a woodwall I ran through it and imagined myself gettig to platform 9 / 3/4.
And I was suddenly looking at the Hogwarts express! I stepped into the train and remembered that I wanted to complete the Hogwarts Challenge on Dreamviews, but then I was on the wrong place. I needed to go to the Diagonalley to get a wand.
Instead I started to ask people n the train in panic if they had a wand I could borrow.
For some weird reason the Requiem for a dream music started to play in the background.
I later decided to wake up, and I associated the woodwall with waking up, but when I walked through the wall I woke up![/COLOR]

[COLOR="silver"]I learned alot from these dreams. Some of these things I have allready heard from Stephen LaBerge and other, but this attempt prooved that it was true. Robert Waggoner: "The sailor never controls the sea".
Likeways the dreamer never controls the dream, the dream (your subconscious) control about 90 % of the dream while the dreamer control 10 %. You just control where to go and what you might experience, but the dream is what creates everything that you see and experience, it might give you some information, but you just flow along what the dream creates.
Which is a good thing, because what if I was a watch designer, if I controlled everything then it wouldn't be anything different compared to reality except you might be able to control the elements and physics better. But now I asked to see a cool watch and then it just appears! Another thing that I got confirmed was that dreams are built of thoughts and associations and emotions and that is why it's hard to have good control, because who can control both their thoughts, associations and thoughts? Although my goal is to use lucid dreams as a paradise and to be able to do that I need more control. So I am going to work on how to do that. And last but not least, chaing dreams might give you more lucids, but they are harder to remember each time you do it. For example I forgot to mention that I met the Harry Potter characters on the train =)
Hermione :loveyou: :content:[/COLOR]

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[COLOR="red"]Lucid[/COLOR]
[COLOR="royalblue"]Semi-Lucid (I'll erase this one)[/COLOR]
[COLOR="blue"]Dream[/COLOR]
[COLOR="silver"]Thoughts[/COLOR]

[COLOR="silver"]I decided to try to become lucid without any reality check at all, but that was a stupid idea because I got lots of false awakenings so I could have become lucid much earlier. So tomorrow I will use visualisations as a reality check.[/COLOR]

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[COLOR="red"]But on one of the awakenings I started to visualise that I went out of my bed, but in the visualisation I lost myself!
I started to dream very vivid, but ignored that I was lucid even if I was, but when I come out to the yard and saw a really hot girl walking by I remembered that I was lucid. I have never had lucid dream sex, so I wanted to try.
So I flew over to her looked her in the eye and well we did it on the grass. This sex lasted for 40 seconds or so, so yeah a quick one,[/COLOR][COLOR="silver"] but the next alarm woke me up. I am going to continue to use these alarms to see if it's 100 % sure to become lucid with them, one downside is that I only lucid dream for a short period of time, until the alarm wakes me up.[/COLOR]
[COLOR="silver"]So if it really is a 100 % sure way to lucid dream, I am going to make the alarms longer.[/COLOR]

[COLOR="silver"]I just want you to be aware of that a dream is a thought! At first it feels like a visualisation, then it becomes vivid and then it's a dream the trick is to stay aware long enough to experience the switch between these two, but with the timer method it's like a DEILD so it only takes a few seconds, but if I am lazy and fail the DEILD attempt the dream is still so vivid that I might become lucid in the dream. I will call the inductions different names depending on how I become lucid, but it's basically all EILDS, because I am doing nothning, but the alarms does everything. But I am going to start reality checking on every awakening to notice my FA:s.[/COLOR]

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I concluded that for my LDs, it is more crucial to wake up (and then go back to sleep) 2-3 hours before the time to get up, than it is to sleep a lot.
I am now going to bed around midnight (instead of the usual 10-11 pm) and I try to get up around 4-5 am and walk around a bit) for at least 15 mins and then go back to sleep until around 6-7 am. At least in this last part of my sleep, I sometimes have an explosion of LDs, even sleeping less hours.
Last night I counted at least 5 LDs in sequence, separated by conscious SP. Not much to tell, tough. My focus level was a bit down. I tried to complete an RPG task, but I entered SP in the moment I got to "wear" my character.
During a moment between dreams I though there was an earthquake, because I could feel the bed shaking violently, but then I concluded it was SP effects. I also felt a presence in the bed with me (I was sleeping alone and my cats were locked outside). I felt it touching me and it was uncomfortable, but it no longer freaks me out (much).

Forth DJ entry. I'm going to try to see if I can post everyday from now on. Its good to get into a habit.

Anyway, I haven't posted in quite a while and because of that I also haven't really ade much progress in my LDing. I guess I just need to try harder.

Some Things that I would like to implement regularly:

- Regular Schedualed Dream Journal + DJ post on DV.
- 3 types of Reality checks
- Meditation
- Vitamin B + Apple Juice (We'll see if this works )

Anyway I've got recall and my insomnia up to par so I'm good with that. Anyway, if anyone has any advice let me know.

That's it for news today!

- Cheers!

August 30 - 31, 2011 - Duck Duck Goose in a Pagoda?

Vividness: 5 / 10
Lucid?: No
# of Dreams: 1 (With 2 Different Segments)

Guide:

[-] Lucid
[-] Non - Lucid
[-] DC talk
[-] Notes

Basically its a dream about my old class from grade 10. Its pretty bizarre considering the fact the dream was totally cluttered with random segments that made little sense what so ever.

Segment 1
Hundreds of students were sitting under a hollow Asian style large Pagoda type of structure. The flooring was light hardwood and we all sat in a square like formation around the structure. Students were sitting on the floor and teachers were standing around in various places. The teachers told us to clap along with whatever clapping pattern they were doing. I was confused. I sat there and at first it seemed like the students refused such a dumb demand but as the clapping got louder (obviously more people joined in eventually), I realised that this wasn't a group clap but instead a giant game of duck duck goose only by pointing instead of touching someone. I sat behind S.D. and she was chosen. She then pointed at H.M. and he seemed to point at me but someone else got up and I became slightly embarrassed.

Segment 2
The next thing I remember was a yellow memo being handed out to our class from my grade 10 teacher. We were in class having a discussion about aliens and some people said they believed they existed so just before we left we were given this memo. On the third paragraph it said "Oh and by the way, if anyone still believes in aliens visit this YouTube video." It was a short video with what I believe to be Jim Carey in it for some reason.

August 31, 2011

Woke up around 3:30 AM thirsty as hell, beside having cottonmouth nothing I recall dream related.

[COLOR="red"]Lucid[/COLOR]
[COLOR="royalblue"]Semi-Lucid[/COLOR]
[COLOR="blue"]Dream[/COLOR]
[COLOR="silver"]Thoughts[/COLOR]

[COLOR="silver"]This morning I got two lucid dreams! And I would actually call the WILDs, they were DEILDs but the transitions I did was WILDs.
And they were also the most vivid and real dreams that I have ever had.[/COLOR]
[COLOR="silver"]
The alarm wokes me up and I hadn't yet decided what reality check to use, so I ignore that and just start thinking about something.[/COLOR]

[COLOR="silver"]I thought about a girl, let's call her A. Nothing happens I am just thinking about her.
It becomes a little more vivid, but when I concentrate on it it dissapears.[/COLOR]
[COLOR="red"]I stop thinking about her and I get an impression of seeig a mall. And then I feel that I am still thinking about A without consciously doing it.
Suddenly I see that two other people that I didn't think of is sitting next to her, and then a table and a cofe shop appears! I get surprised.
Everything becomes SO VIVID (The most vivid experience I have experienced!) and I am standing there! I can fell, see, hear and smell everything. If you want to know the feeling, it was like a dizzy image, becomes clear.
It almost felt like reality ! This is a real WILD with a real transition, but from an awakening so I guess it was a DEILD, but my DEILDs are never that cool.
Anyway I am standing in the mall and I am looking at A. I am so excited and I feel my feet touching the ground as I walk.
I then found a mirror and I wave to myself in the mirror, and it matches my movement, so that was pretty cool.
Then I walk into a store and see some weird clothes and I decide to fly just for fun. But then..[/COLOR]
[COLOR="silver"]The next alarm wakes me up. [/COLOR]

[COLOR="silver"]I turn of the alarm and go back to sleep.[/COLOR]

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[COLOR="silver"]I noticed one of my awakenings! And I try the visualisation thing again. [/COLOR][COLOR="red"]and now i am standing in a inventory I think it's called.
Anyway this was also really vivid, I see a piano and I try to play "Linkin park - New Dive" intro and for some weird reason I manage to do that! Then I remember the Hogwarts task again and I think about Harry, Ron and Hermione and they appeared in the other room! I shake hands with Ron and Harry, but with Hermione I get to an embarrassing moment. We can't decide if we are going to hug or shake hands, but it ends up with an awkward hug. Then I ask if they know how to get to the Diagonalley and they told me to follow them. We go to a pub, next to the building I were in. And then I see it, the wall!
I see the wall and get excited, maybe to excited...[/COLOR] [COLOR="silver"]Because I woke up..[/COLOR]

[COLOR="silver"]Tomorrow I am going to stabilize the dream as much as I can![/COLOR]

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In this segment of the dream, I've just managed to pry a bat off my shoulderblade. (Note: I have chronic pain in my shoulderblade and last night, for the first time, I tried an Icy Hot patch on the area. It seemed to be making my bed cold and wet whenever I woke up during the night, so I was worried about it.) I've also seen a mini-bat, a sort of cross between a black bat and a dragonfly, slip under the door to try to get to me. Then I feel sharp pains in my left shoulder. (Note: The Icy Hot Patch is on my right.) It feels like something is biting me. When I turn around, I see that there is a snake looking up at me from the floor. She's a pale-orangey kind of colour, the colour of a cake baked with orange zest. (Note: I'd baked madeleines the other day and part of the recipe called for orange zest, and I'd been unsure whether that meant all of the orange peel or just the inner flesh under the peel, so that had worried me.) The snake is looking intently at me as if she's on a mission. I try to shoo her away. I try to run away. She keeps getting to me and rhythmically striking at me - in the same spot. She finally says to me, "Look, I'm trying to help you. I need to give you the scars for the electrolysis." I think about it for a moment, but I don't know what she means. I'm not even planning to get electrolysis done. So I continue to run away. She always catches up with me. When I get out of the house - which looks a lot like my grandmother's house from when I was a kid - I'm finally rid of her. I go around to the back to get into the kitchen, which I do from an upper window. The people in the cast of my film are there, cooking on the stove, and Aunt Janet from the Road to Avonlea series is there baking. Aunt Janet starts to scream bloody murder when she sees me come in. The ceiling corners above me are dirty and covered with strands of cobwebs.

[COLOR="red"]Lucid[/COLOR]
[COLOR="royalblue"]Semi-Lucid[/COLOR]
[COLOR="blue"]Dream[/COLOR]
[COLOR="silver"]Thoughts[/COLOR]

[COLOR="silver"]I am almost 100 % sure that I will start to have atleast one short lucid dream per day. Because I just discovered that every awakening from the timer, is an oppurunity to DILD, WILD DEILD, MILD you name it.
But the timer method made me have 8 false awakenings this time, and I did a reality check on all of them, but I didn't become lucid. The reason was that the reality check I used didn't worked for me. I did atkins breathe through mouth reality check, but when I did everything appeared normal, no air came out of my mouth. But I am grateful to that it didn't worked, because I discovered that false awakenings is the best oppurtunity to have a lucid dream.
And now I know that the timer method induces it.[/COLOR]

Lucidity: 8/10
Vividness: 9/10
Length: ~5 Min.

I was in my room and I tried to turn on my lamp, it didn't work. I thought "well, that's weird" so I went over to my bedroom ceiling light and tried to turn that on, that didn't work either. I turned the hallway light on and I saw my brother playing games. I went back into my room and finally was able to turn my bedroom light on. Suddenly, the scenery changed around me. I was standing in the middle of a jungle. I thought "it was dark in my brother's room, so why is it so bright outside?" I found out that I was dreaming and I saw my bother and told him "Cameron, guess what. We're dreaming!" He didn't seem very thrilled of the idea, so I just floated off for a little while and saw a cabin, I flew into the cabin and stuff started disappearing. I made stuff disappear by waving my hand across my face and trying to ignore the flaws on the wall and it worked. The cabin looked much better. So, I looked to my left and imagined a hot girl sitting there and she was. She had very nice big tits so we both got on the bed and she started to get to work. I was concentrating very hard so I wouldn't wake up. When I started to feel my physical body in real life, I got prepared to DEILD. When I woke up, I sucked in a bunch of air because my nostrils were clogged, I was like "god, damn it!" and didn't fall asleep for a while.

[COLOR="red"]Lucid[/COLOR]
[COLOR="royalblue"]Semi-Lucid[/COLOR]
[COLOR="blue"]Dream[/COLOR]
[COLOR="silver"]Thoughts[/COLOR]

[COLOR="silver"]I become aware that I was dreaming this night, but this time I didn't try to become lucid, I just wanted to sleep because I went to bed late. So I didn't wrote down my dream upon awakening. I was lucid for just a brief moment, then I was semi-lucid then it become a normal dream again.[/COLOR]

I was in a warehouse (some kind of storage building).
I saw Mordecai and Rigby.
I was fighting some guy.
He ran out onto the street.

Side Notes
Its like Memento, I can't remember anything. I need to piece together the fragments.