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    Forgotten Flying (LD #126), The Connection to Nature (LD #127)

    by , 10-24-2014 at 01:15 PM (704 Views)
    Fragment: Something to do with Jack Black. He is in this really bad comedy partially centered around lucid dreaming.

    Spoiler for slightly sexy:

    I FA'd. I was at college and started walking to class. For some reason my dad showed up and he started talking about Ebola. I didn't want to hear it, so I had to change the subject. But the only thing I could think of was the porn dream. So I told him about it and he listened intently, as if he was enjoying it.
    ...
    This somehow led to lucid flying above campus. I wish I remembered more than flying and hoping that my dream would know what the rooftops of the campus buildings looked like.


    I woke up around 5:00am and wanted to 'go back'. This is happening more and more frequently.

    I was having some dream where my roommate had been replaced by an old lady, and I had to take care of her because she had memory loss and forgot her pills and what not.
    At least she was not grumpy.
    Anyways, she has to take her pills every day, and today we have to go get refills for her. She also has to do her 'hearing' everyday that has something to do with her hearing aid and projecting a frequency that helps her to hear better.
    But my favorite thing to do is help her with her fruit smoothie that she drinks twice a day. She gets her fruit through the government and gets this big basket of fresh fruit everyday, more than enough for her smoothies.
    So I decided to be healthy and start drinking the smoothies with her. I have this juicer/smoothie maker in my room, and when you put the fruit in, a game comes up like fruit ninja. You have to slice the fruit for it to be added to your smoothie. I ended up getting a bunch of mangoes and kiwis in mine.
    There was some aspect to it like the smoothie could be used as rocket fuel. I had this tiny prototype rocket engine attached to the bottom of my smoothie.
    I somehow find myself at this exhibition where this native tribe is visiting from a far-away land and showing off rare herbs and spices. The lady that I am taking care of wants those added to her smoothie. I find this other lady (who was really just an older version of Manei, guess she wanted me taking her seriously in this dream.) She asks me to come over and do something.
    She has a small garden with all of the herbs in it, but there is a pathway running diagonal through it. The garden is like a sandbox, about 3ft by 3ft, and the soil in it is kind of sandy.
    Anyways, she tells me to look down, take two steps and then stop. I take two steps and walk nearly to the other side of the garden. She then somehow shifts me back to the opposite corner and asks me to take two more steps. I follow. This repeats two or three more times. I look up and we are now on a beach.
    She changes to her original age and smiles at me. I do a nose pinch, but strangely, the airflow is 'glitching' on and off. I feel like it is starting and stopping very quickly.
    Nevertheless I become lucid.
    Manei is sitting in the lotus position, and I recognize the beach we are on; the one from my first LD that we used to return to often. It is nighttime and the beach is moonlit.
    "It's time you learned about nature. Everything in nature is connected, though it's hard to look and see the connections. Take this garden for example."
    I look back at the remnants of the Herb garden from the transition. All of the plants are uprooted and ruined. I sit down in front of it. Somehow I decide that I want to make the plants regrow and repair themselves with my mind. I start to focus on the sand and a strong wind comes in blowing all of this dry sand over the plants. Then a bunch of new sprouts came up.
    "Good, now move over there. You're going to use your energy to create a plant from scratch now. Visualize the sand grains as full of life, like each one is a seed."
    For some reason I partially sink into the sand. I focus in on the ground in front of me and try to picture a plant growing. Nothing seems to be happening. I start to get disheartened. Just as I do, I see a bump in the sand and a little sprout comes out. I send my energy to it and it grows into a bushy fern-like plant.
    "You see, this is what the Buddha was talking about. Everyone has a connection to nature!"

    Er... I might not be the most up-to-date on Buddhist scriptures, but isn't he all about inner peace of mind and finding oneself and all that?
    Regardless, she stops talking. I decide to test the 'connection to nature' aspect of this. And somehow, I get from my 'connection to nature' to 'Let's practice waterbending!'. I look out at the ocean, and the waves rolling into the coast. I hold out my hands in front of me, palms down and try to picture the waves stopping.
    Slowly, all of the waves come to a stop and the ocean is a mirror surface. I see the moon and stars reflecting on it. So beautiful. I then release my grip and run into the water.
    I begin moving with the flow of the waves, that come back small at first, and then big. I feel like I am waterbending, but this feels a little more... (oh for heaven's sake) natural. I try to move with the flow of the waves using them to increase my motions rather than fight them. I try to make one of the waves splash Manei and it works. She chases me into the water and tries bending back at me. We are about to get into an all out, for-fun waterbending fight (Because dream guides can have fun too, you know.) when she gets the "oh, sh*t" look and tells me to run.
    I turn around, back out over the sea, and see a tsunami rolling in. Nope, nope! We don't run. I turn and face the wave as it swells into a white-cap and prepares to crash right on me. I hold up both my arms crossed and split the wave down either side. Both sides pass me harmlessly. This feels more like the original water bending, more forceful and less flow-ish. But it's all I can do at this point.
    The gap in the wave continues to widen and Manei passes through the gap as well. I turn back to see her standing on the shore. The wave crashes on either side of her but doesn't dare go near her. I turn around and see another, larger tsunami rolling in. I realize this is becoming one of those 'drowning' dreams that I used to have as a kid. There's no sense in fighting it any longer.
    I send a telepathic shout to Manei saying "Get the heck out of here, I'm gonna wake up." I look to the shore and she becomes blurry and fades away. I turn and face the wave, that is barreling in at impossible speeds. I start thinking that I should wake up, and manage to do so right before the wave hits me.

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    Updated 10-25-2014 at 12:22 AM by 53527

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    1. RedKali's Avatar
      I enjoyed the themes. Funny sex, garden, memory loss, smoothies, rocket engine, nature. Meets my ADHD needs, for sure. And I'm not all that up-to-speed on the Buddha stuff myself, but if Buddha is all about inner peace of mind and oneness, would attaining oneness with nature be a contradictory notion?
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    2. JadeGreen's Avatar
      Well I suppose that there is discussion to be had there, because this is a dream after all, and the dream world along with the nature in it is part of my mind. So being at peace with nature and having happy, healthy dreams is in a sense creating inner peace and oneness. But in another sense you could argue that the only part of me that is really me is myself, even in the dream world. So she's both right and wrong there.
    3. JLScrolls's Avatar
      It sucks how your dreams put you into situation you could not do anything about, are you sure there was nothing you could have done to escape drowning?
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    4. JadeGreen's Avatar
      Looking back there were plenty of ways that situation could have been avoided. For one, I could have stayed out of the water in the first place, because I knew full well that being in the water and having big waves crash on me and try to drown me is a common dream that I have. But even though I'm fully lucid, That doesn't mean I'm thinking at 100%.

      Second, I probably could have continued fighting the waves. (I split one of them with mah water-bending) but to me that seemed sort of pointless. If a second wave was coming then chances are they would keep coming, and the whole dream would just be me trying to fend of the waves as they continued to get bigger and faster. No thanks.

      Third, I probably could have (instead of waking myself up) simply changed the scene. Scene changes have never been my forte, and I usually end up just waking myself up anyways, so I overtime, I subconsciously taught myself that If I find myself in a sour lucid dream, just wake up.

      I would really like to change that. It's kind of cowardly when you think about it.
    5. JLScrolls's Avatar
      Well they say hindsight is 20/20
    6. ~Dreamer~'s Avatar
      Yikes, "sexy" was an overstatement! I'm sorry that part wasn't very pleasant for you...

      I loved seeing your recurring location and DG!

      The nature scene sounded very serene!
      I bet anotherdreamer would like this dream too, I'm going to point this entry out to him.

      Maybe you could approach this water scene again for the 'face your fear' TotM?
      I think you were onto something great when you were sort of becoming one with the ocean waves. Maybe the water won't feel like a threat if you mould yourself into it, rather than fighting against it?
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    7. JadeGreen's Avatar
      Maybe you could approach this water scene again for the 'face your fear' TotM?
      I think you were onto something great when you were sort of becoming one with the ocean waves. Maybe the water won't feel like a threat if you mould yourself into it, rather than fighting against it?
      I already attempted the 'face your fear' TotM. Apparently my biggest fear wasn't drowning in waves. (That or the dream was wrong.) Something to do with a bunch of faces flashing really fast.

      I actually dream about this all the time; the big waves of water that crash down on me and try to make me drown. It's a good dream sign, but I never understood quite why I dreamed it. IWL, I'm a good swimmer and love the water. Maybe it's a subconscious fear...

      If you ask me, consciously, my biggest fear is either being swarmed and stung by bees/wasps or being in a grave transportation accident (car/train/airplane). But I almost never dream about those themes.
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    8. ~Dreamer~'s Avatar
      Oh, congrats! I'll have to check out your DJ entry for that one.

      I'm the opposite, I'm pretty anxious about water IWL but I've always been totally fearless in dreams.

      Interesting that the fears you can identify don't show up much in dreams.
      My negative dream signs come and go, and they're often a really useful lucidity trigger! I experience stress way more often in dreams than I do IWL, so I'll sometimes RC out of habit when I'm feeling uncomfortable.