side notes

shit. =) I'm so excited, I just had several lucids and false awakenings within a two hour period! I guess MILD really does work, two a few days of it! Too much happened in the dreams, but this was the most LUCID I've ever been. I finally could clear my vision and really communicate with the people in my dreams, even though none of them seemed interested in talking to me =(

I'll give you the highlights! My favorite part was me and a couple of friends were in an apartment building going UP and the elevator was tuggin along slowly and we were all looking at eachother wondering if it was about to give out. Sure enough, it started falling slowly at first back down, I told them not to move too much and as we neared the bottom, or after so much suspense, I was like WAIT A MINUTE. I put my hand out flat in front of me and willed the elevator to stop. It stopped and then I started pushing us up towards the top, but I told them to crawl out this window real quick just in case.

Another part I'm at my house and a bunch of family is coming over. I knew I was dreaming when my uncle showed up, cause he would NEVER come here, I doubt it anyway. He walked to the door and handed me two bags of trash that have been sitting on our porch for a day. (No, really, it's our trailer trash... =/) Anyway, I rolled my eyes and noticed it was all wet outside, I grabbed the trash and said "I was JUST getting ready to take this out." I go out of the house and sit down by a puddle of water. Just enjoying the lucidity. Looking around. Unfortunately I can't remember what I saw. Anyway, a lot of things happened, but I'm gonna quit right here. Just saying MILD was a SUCCESS.

[This is a catch-up post. These dreams are from the night of July 10-11, 2011.]

I'm in Sunday school, and we're playing a game-show-style game in which I am the lovely assistant. The contestant on the game show is creating a piece of ceramic art using a pottery wheel.

I'm in a large van that has stone benches instead of regular seats. The van is filled with good friends of mine, and we're watching something good on TV. The van morphs into an airplane, and I disembark.

The interior of the airport where I've landed is windowless, and the walls, floor, and ceiling are all a flat, industrial, dark gray color. The building has multiple, unequal, uneven levels with stairs leading from one to another. There is one very tangled staircase that takes you up, down, around, and across, turning several corners and going in several different directions, as you go from the bottom of it to the top. [It doesn't loop, though; it has a beginning and an end that are on different levels of floor, but it also has a ridiculous number of convolutions in between that make no sense.] I walk this entire staircase, from beginning to end.

I'm walking around trying to find baggage claim, but I can't; I get lost. I'm carrying three plastic tokens, which I'm supposed to use to claim my bags. I pass a large bag inspection checkpoint, and another checkpoint specifically for people who are traveling with marijuana plants. There are lines of people waiting at both checkpoints. Each person in the line for the latter checkpoint is carrying either a marijuana plant, or some cuttings from one. They're not forbidden on flights, they just have to be inspected first. I also pass behind the back side of the security checkpoint.

I try to climb into an area full of junk. I meet a small boy who decides to follow me into the area.

[Separate dream.] P. and I [I think] are fighting over the scheduling of our showers and hair-drying. I apologize for the fact that I have to wash my hair every day because it's so hot. I try to rush through my shower.

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Side notes:
This night was my very first night in my new place of residence. When I woke up in my new room for the first time and recalled my first dream there, my reaction was, “Hmm. I got lost in a confusing place. That isn't very reassuring.”

Well I was in bed trying to remember my dream for 3 hours. When I looked deep into my eyelids and I saw some dots instead of my standard colours and a feeling that I've felt before.

I tried to get up but I felt a barrier and heard a sound like the one when you just drop onto your bed.

Has anyone else felt this feeling?

Notes:
*Went to bed around 7:00 PM and woke up around 3:00 AM.
*A dream within a dream. If you never seen this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception then do so. It may help you if you happen to be on this forum reading this.
*Was not lucid but in a way I was. You define lucid as "you know when you are dreaming while in the dream" bluntly. In the dream within the dream I was lucid in that sense but never became aware of being lucid in the full dream itself. For this reason I am marking it lucid.
*Had a dream fragment before this and forgot as soon I woke up.
*Major note: This dream entries is clean and safe for work but not the full story. I took out a few major parts of it and put it in my private journal.

Dream: [layer 1]

Eddie Murphy is the main character. To make it quicker to write MC = Eddie Murphy while me/myself/etc = me. This dream was like watching a movie.

MC walk into a collage-like place...Total freedom though importation place. Maybe a place to test dreaming science? Anyway he saw a young girl (about 21) wearing a white T-shirt and have huge boobs (simple saying boobs is still safe for work right?) and asked what is going on. She hand him a book which basically steal an idea from the movie Inception. The idea of spending most of your life asleep to be gods or have fun in your little dreamland. (Remember the scene where a ton of people were just laying in beds while the main characters were looking for a drug strong enough to do the job?)

Basically this book will knock you out forever or close to it. That or you dream so long that it felt like it...For whatever reason the book was bad news for the long term and can even be seen as deadly for the MC. I guessing the book was the MC.

The next scene (this dream felt like a movie for the most part) have the young women with the godly pair sitting on a log in the middle of a forest with a pond in front of her. I remember so clearly of how clean and clear the pond was. MC complained and the girl ask him something about the book which MC quickly reply something like "Yea, I already got me another one!" which then he toss the book in the pond.

Dream: [Layer 2]

The girl and MC somehow enter a dream for whatever reason. I was a DC (lol ironic and funny enough I was lucid but I guess I wasn't personally) MC and the girl were both of course were lucid...Else the book would been close to useless.

The girl fell in love with me for a reason. The dream ended with me, MC, girl, and like two other(?) dream characters/people who join in with the MC when it came to searching for the girl. The landscape was close to before but with a volcano in the background and being in a colorful rain forest.

Lucidity: 8/10
Vividness: 9/10
Length: ~15 Min.

[NOTE] I took 100mg of Vitamin B6 an hour before bed last night, I can remember everything all so clearer and I was much aware than normal.

I was on the school bus and I realized that school doesn't start for another 4 weeks. So I tried to force my right finger into my left hand and it worked. I was like "yep, this is a dream." So I flew out of the bus and hovered over the land around me. It was very beautiful. Then I flew as fast as I could up and forward. I was as high as two mountains put on top of each other and it was very vivid and I was filled with joy. To my left was a very fertile land and to my right was the desert. I flew left and gently went down. There was a small hill so I jumped really high and grabbed on the ledge, I actually felt pain because my back still hurts in real life from Hobart. I got up and was looking at the view when I heard a gunshot, I looked behind me and an old man wearing old western clothes was shooting at some sort of animal. I flew past him and stole his shotgun, although he didn't really seem to mind. So I found a few boars and shot at them, but they wouldn't die. I said "fuck it!" and flew below the highway I was under. I saw a boat where Emma Watson was so I went next to her and she crouched while I took my "thingy" out. When I got it out, she said that it looked like a lizard on top. Then she stood up again, so I grabbed her shoulders and made her kneel. Then she started to suck it and then I woke up. I obviously tried to DEILD and obviously it didn't work.

im still new at this. im going to try to have another lucid dream tonight. wish me luck.

Each category's date will be counted as the night's NEXT DAY after the dream.


7/18/11

Bi-staged/layered dream / NO RECALL

18-07-11 I am playing some sort of baldur's gate. I am looking at a guie for the ending fight. I am getting there and although I could have explored bit more I decide to just go for it. I seem to be a wizard of some description and the final fight is me vs. a council of other wizards. I primarily use timestop and sommoning spelss and AoE to try and interrupt their spell casting as much as possible.
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I am in some weird scenario that incorporates three different tv shows at once. I know actors from all shootings and eventually the seperate shows merge into one because the various actors move from one set to the other. There is no script for this, so the director tells the actors to simply improvise.

I am also getting married to someone, it is somewhat arranged or being kept secret though I think I am happy enough with her. It could be that I have met her on the internet.

We are walking across a narrow bit of water, over to two girls. They want beer and Daryl tells them that he can provide that so we go back and get them. We start with giving them half a crate in a cardboard box and talk about the fact that we can get them more if needed. They would like that and I am supprised they haven't asked for the price yet.

There is a magician and he is sort of demonstrating an aldo cardtrick besides the point that he does not include someone from the audience or use a full deck. The instruction goes on how math is used to complete the trick. However he is always in dialouge with the audience and he seems to slip up a couple of times although I have the feeling that it is intentional. Towards the end he is setting his sofa oin fire and asks someone to come and blow the smoke. I volunteer, but unfortunately I wake up as I am making my way behind the couch.

Notes: Haven't slept well at all over the past couple of nights. This one is no different as I spent probably half of my nine hours worth of sleeping on being eaten by mosquitos (Which inevitably lead me to move sleeping spots and generally being awake trying to fend them off).

I was playing CSS on my laptop, except I was on a large field, I could sprint, I had no weapons, it lagged, and a large godzilladinosaurthing was trying to kill me and about 20 others.
Next thing I remember is that I was in some 'international' game. Apparently a massive free-for-all war with small squads. I found a hideout and entered it. On the floor was a pile of golden coins, which I picked up. On the way out, I saw a dead-looking ghost. It was hanging on a spear stuck through it's throat. I left the hideout.
I now found myself in a clearing in the woods. There was a obstacle-racing track and lots of people cheering.
On the left I saw a cute girl standing on a platform, jumping, cheering, and persuading people into participating in the race. She saw me, and with a just as happy voice said;
"Hey I know you! You're the one who stole our gold. I tell you what. Don't you want to light up that guilty conscience? Just take the track and we'll forget about the whole thing" and pointed to the abstract wooden obstacle-course.
At first I was like "NOPE" but moved against the entrance anyways.
I started running the course, and my one competitor was ready on the track as well. I was in front of him the whole time, while he taunted me by talking to me as if I were a woman. By the end, he somehow managed to slip past me at an inhuman speed, meaning he won the race.
By the exit of the course, I saw Will Smith and his son (named 'Jesus' in my dream), as well as the cute girl whose name I don't know .. The girl said "Don't be so sad. Cmon, let's see how Jesus does". Her spirit, happiness and enthusiasm was really inspiring. I can't really believe she came from my mind, because I am completely different. I should be more like her.
The girl walked back to her platform, as seven-year old Jesus was about to compete against another seven-year old. I walked up to her and we held an arm around each other. She had a nice perfume and a rain-jacket on. We cheered for Jesus who was now running the course. The competing kid banged it's head into an obstacle, and I shouted "RUN JESUS", but the girl said "Be fair". Not much further into the course, Jesus banged his head too, sat down, and started crying as well. The other kid kept running, so Will Smith went onto the track and grabbed him.
Jesus completed the course, and I was now at the exit with him, Will, and the girl. A heavy swarm of those thin wasp-looking bees (flowerbees) that can't actually sting, surrounded the girl. They lifted her up in the air and they all disappeared. Will and I then went on joking about how she was a niggerbee. (No racism intended!)

I seem to be having a lot of dreams recently having to do with rather school, video games or cartoons, maybe my dream signs?

I don't truly remember how this dream even started out, though I remember it happened as I took a nap at about 4:11 pm. I remember the smallest bit about being in my friends grandma's pool, a place I had been to quite a lot as a child. In the pool, I saw that SpongeBob had been drowning (which seems just dumb) while the cast of Family Guy happened to be drowning with them. After looking back on this, that is strange because I have not watched those shows in about three years. They were eventually captured at some point in which then they were tied to wooden planks, and I recall something causing the planks to hurt them in a certain amount of time. Spongebob got free, somehow, and rescued the rest of the characters, except for Lois Griffin who was saved only after she had been slightly injured from the planks breaking on her leg. A credits screen soon came up, at the seemingly perfect time as I woke up only four hours later.

15-07-11 No recall. Been drunk and stoned.

Whooooo, another MILD attempt last night. I woke up around 630 AM, stayed up 10 minutes, and the result was a sort of lucid dream about an hour later. The 10 minute thing seems to be working pretty well, but I may need to stay up a little longer or be a bit more active during the 10 minutes, because I still feel like I'm falling asleep almost instantly when I lie down again.

Then, this morning when I got out of bed, at first I didn't remember that many dreams, but I got into a strange half-sleepy mode where I could suddenly remember a LOT of dreams from last night. This happens to me sometimes at night when I'm falling asleep, I'll suddenly start remembering a bunch of old dreams in a chain. Anyways, here they all are!



#1011:
Date: July 13th, 2011
Length: 6 minutes

I began the dream in a sort of grocery store. After a few moments, I was (partially) lucid; I think I did a nose-plug RC. I tried to stabilize everything and get into a clear mindset. I remembered one idea I had to help me focus and become fully conscious: remembering some things I'm doing in the coming week IRL. I only managed to recall two of them before losing attention, and I don't remember exactly what they were. I also switched to thinking in French for a while.

A friend of mine appeared to my left, and showed me a table with a whole bunch of food and stuff, inviting me to dig in. I started with a weird sort of bar of hard candy, but it tasted very strange so I spit it out. I think I had a slice of pizza and just generally pigged out because I knew it didn't matter and it's always interesting to see how things will taste in a dream.

After this, my recall of the dream is blurry for a while, I remember an Asian girl, a large lake that I considered swimming in but eventually decided not to, and some alternation between day and night. Eventually I ended up in a sort of motel room. The dream got pretty strange from there, so I'll pass on writing up the rest.



#1012:
Date: July 13th, 2011
Length: 4 minutes

This whole dream occurred in some kind of large underground mall/subway station. In the dream, I would repeatedly have to run and jump really fast to get from one side of the station to another. There was an elevator on both ends of the mall that I would go into. I would sprint, slide along rails and doing a whole bunch of acrobatic stuff I probably couldn't pull off in real life.

It was all pretty fun, but I was also scared because I was being chased (by police and other characters), so basically running for my life. Sometimes there was this sort of witch/hag dressed all in black after me. She would occasionally catch up with me and grab me. She had a kind of magical touch and whenever I came into contact with her it was like I was being electrocuted -- I could barely move and it was quite painful. Thankfully, I would get rescued by a mysterious woman who would fight off the hag whenever this happened, buying just enough time for me to run to the escape elevator, which took me back to the start.


Once, while in the elevator I saw a tiny inscription near the buttons, that said something about how this "game" worked: every 3 rounds there would be a more difficult, advanced round (which is where the hag usually showed up). Apparently after 3 advanced rounds it would all be finished. On the last run that I remember, near the start I was approached by a well-dressed Asian man. He apparently worked for the evil corporation that was after me, but had decided to betray them. He led me into a secret area of the mall, and I don't remember what he showed me there.


#1013:
Date: July 13th, 2011
Length: 3 minutes

I was in a city, though at times I was semi-aware of it all being part of a video game. I knew there was some sort of fixed plot I was to follow, somehow related to the movie the Sorcerer's Apprentice (which I haven't seen but whose title I saw the other day). There was a weird tension to the dream, so for a while I was intentionally just walking around doing nothing, kind of afraid of actually starting the plot. I rode on a bus for a while and just looked around, surprised that the city was so big (ie, that the game had such a vast area to explore).

Eventually, I ended up in a dark, creepy bathroom. The stalls were filled with junk, and in one of them I found a really strange pencil. It was somewhat pink and decorated, and it was apparently a wand of great power. I remember taking it, but nothing after that.



And some fragments:

- I was at home, juggling a soccer ball in the back yard. I accidentally kicked it too hard though and it went over the fence. I was about to go get the ball, but the dream ended.

- I was looking on facebook, and I was surprised to see that an old friend was participating in a competition that I'm entering.

- A strange dream where I was exploring what was supposed to be a college campus, but it really just seemed to be some place in the mountains. I think I had a few moments of lucidity, then the rest of the dream just got blurry and weird.

- I was "in" a game similar to minecraft. In front of me was a long bridge, and at the end of the bridge was a giant red sort of laser beam. My friends told me that it was a portal to hell, and that I should just jump into it. When I did, I died and all my stuff dropped down far below. I respawned and tried to go get my stuff, but down where it had fallen was a whole bunch of lava and only a few stepping stones and water. I managed to get down there but struggled to escape and I think I died a few more times.

- A dream where I ended up back at several old places where I supposedly used to live (they were somewhat similar, but none of them actually exist): one was a tiny place with two beds, with another room down the hall for doing things besides sleeping. There was also a depressing 1-room lodge.

Damn that was annoying, I'm walking around my house and suddenly I'm thinking about my underwater inner world, then I'm in it.

The armored figure had a lot of friends, I had caught glimpses, but I didn't believe it, I was exploring the ocean floor, there were apperantly dead armored figures everywhere. they came to life, I gutted one of them after I opened its armor with an exploding ice crystal. I knew there were too many to fight, the were all relatively powerful, I switched to reploid form and Jetted to the surface of the water, they grabbed my feet and tried to pull me down, I yanked them out with me, as a giant spherical mass of enemies. I threw them out of the shield, attached thrusters to them, and forced them out a portal that I think went to the moon. I now have a headache from closing the portal behind them, and the worst part is there may still be more of the fuckers.

I am a grandfather!

http://www.dreamviews.com/f107/zelkova-dj-76069/

Yesh.

I am hoping I will be able to edit this post for importation information like dream signs in the future.

Edit: It seem like I can indeed edit but this system have a description area...I still keeping this post for the reason above. The description should just be that, there no need to list all of my information on it. So with this thought I believe I am using the system correctly and did ok. Yay.

I think i recall dreaming about a TV talkshow. And they where hosting Shared dreamers to come tell their shared dream experiences on TV.

Took a nap this morning.

I dreamed i was in a park talking to people. I was thinking about lucid dreaming and i hopped on my bike to ride away. Then i noticed this huge billboard sign saying : "NOTHING BEATS LUCID DREAMING, DV FORUM"

I'm like.. wow how didn't i notice that sign. I guess lucid dreaming is getting populair if there are billboards like that noawadays. Wait a minute ! I pinch my nose and i'm able to breathe.
But fuck.. i'm back in my bed. I was vaguely aware of that the whole time actually. Seeing both scenes at the same time. I didn't bother pinching my nose in bed. I was pretty sure i woke up. I just tried to get back in the dream, without success.