Thread: Drmrgrl Dream Journal

Whoever gave you the advice is right - in my opinion, dream journals are some of the most effective ways to improve dream recall and frequency of lucid dreams.

My journal has done wonders for me... except for when I'm sick. Then nothing works for my recall, haha. Too bad all your friends kept distracting you from recognizing it as a dream. It seemed as if each sign kept getting bigger and bigger... from you boyfriend coming from the wrong building, to your friend's hair, to the other friend wearing a bright pink shirt!

Monday, March 11: 2 Dreams!

FIRST LUCID!

My first dreams always end up the same way: i always forget the first half of the dream, so the second part is a little odd. It faded into where I am sitting in my friends house and my arms and chest are itching very badly... I ask my mom what I should do and she says to go to her room(dream sign) and get some very strong lotion medicine to put on it.

My mind starts asking questions, like how can i go to her room if im over here? as I start rubbing it over my itches, I realize in horror that odd bumps are starting to appear... the first clump is on my right arm. I trace a path down my right arm onto my foot... which is strange... and which I realize is strange. Then more bumps appear on my arm and they are more like pimples than a rash related bump... and they hurt really badly!

So I decide to go for a walk up to my park, which I start to realize shouldnt be possible because im still at my friends house..... I am sudenly standing in the park field holding a chiuaua. I don't own a chiuaua so its very very very odd.... and it suddnely appeard in my hand. something clicks in my mind....

then I look down the street and see my boyfriend and his mom walking up to the park with his dog Boe, followed by a pure white labrador. He stops and says hi to me. I ask him about the white dog. he replies "Oh, this is my new dog, Early. Boe died and we replaced him with her. We named her that because getting up early is something im starting to do alot" (everything thats going on with the dogs is so bizarre i am realizing this has to be a dream, or my boyfriend is insane.) I look down and see Boe sitting right behind Early... Speaking of dogs, I look down at the chiuaua I was holding and realize it turned into a big, tan brush. Thats what gives away the dream.

So now I know i am dreaming, but try as hard as I might, I cant do anything! So Kevin (boyfreind) tells me he is meeting his baseball team for a game up here and they need to wait at the park until their bus arrives. Kevin walks away and sits with a group of his baseball friends. Suddenly, I am in a movie. I am sitting up in the sky, like in a chair, watching what is happening. This camp counciler guy (if any of you have seen Holes, my counciler in the dream looks like that counciler from Camp GreenLake) comes and starts giving a speech about math camp... and now the baseball players are going to math camp instead of a game... But I knew weird stuff would happen. So Then he finishes and everyone cheers for him by laughing or blowing whistles which suddenly appeared, and one kid even plays the trumpet.

then the group starts talking and it turns into crazy loud talking and I described it really cool in my dream but I forgot what i said when I started writing then suddenly the counciler falls down dead, for no reason. and then its like he is the president because Secret Service picks him up and takes him away. and then I wake up.

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My second dream of the night started out with like I was on a boat with people i didnt know... but i knew them. and we were watching this guy adam sail out in a little raft and he got to the middle of the ocean, and shot himself. then the people on my boat went out and brought him in and then he was just a skull chewing gum

and then suddenly i warped to my house, and my mom leaves me home alone at night and I go outside to throw away the skull of adam (somehow i have it) and when i walk outside a white jeep drives slowly by and my boyfriends stepdad is inside looking at me (the man creeps me out!)and suddenly in my head i realize if he gets me he is going to kill me

so I run inside and at the top suddenly i loose my ability to run. Like, no matter how hard I push I cant move fast! so I have to drag myself up and run to my room. My room suddenly turns into my old elementary schools gym and that warped into a plane runway... and my old best friends Sammi and Nikki were there and we werre best friends again (which should have totally clued me in it was a dream) and we were about to ride off in an airplane when I fell off my bed and woke up

You already got a lucid dream? Congratulations!

I don't have time to read the whole thing now, because I'm already late, but I'll read it later.

thank you! yeah, i can have lucid dreams i usually either just wake up right when i realize it or i cant control them, or i end up forgetting

thanks wavefunction!!!!!

oh yeah i forgot to mention the second dream isnt a lucid. i was completely clueless to the fct it was a dream even though there were huge dream signs

March 11, 2008: IN SCHOOL!!

I took advice from Luminous about napping to enhance lucid dreams, and it sure did work! I dozed off in math class while day dreaming,and even though it was short, it was lucid! I felt like I had woke up, and to make sure i did a reality check. I looked at my friend Nick, and noted what he was wearing. I turned back a second and his outfit and hair completely changed!!! I knew I was dreaming. I didn't do much, except make numbers on the board move around. I don't know how I did it, but I did and im so proud!!! Then I woke up, did an RC and made sure I was awake. It was awesome!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by drmrgrl

March 11, 2008: IN SCHOOL!!

I took advice from Luminous about napping to enhance lucid dreams, and it sure did work! I dozed off in math class while day dreaming,and even though it was short, it was lucid! I felt like I had woke up, and to make sure i did a reality check. I looked at my friend Nick, and noted what he was wearing. I turned back a second and his outfit and hair completely changed!!! I knew I was dreaming. I didn't do much, except make numbers on the board move around. I don't know how I did it, but I did and im so proud!!! Then I woke up, did an RC and made sure I was awake. It was awesome!!!!!!!!!

You had a lucid dream at school! That's wasn't exactly what I meant, but still awesome! And congrats on the control!

Um, sleeping in class is bad and all that...

Originally Posted by Luminous

Um, sleeping in class is bad and all that...

hahahahahaa yeah i know but still lol it worked! my math teacher put me right to sleep...

Originally Posted by drmrgrl

March 11, 2008: IN SCHOOL!!

I took advice from Luminous about napping to enhance lucid dreams, and it sure did work! I dozed off in math class while day dreaming,and even though it was short, it was lucid! I felt like I had woke up, and to make sure i did a reality check. I looked at my friend Nick, and noted what he was wearing. I turned back a second and his outfit and hair completely changed!!! I knew I was dreaming. I didn't do much, except make numbers on the board move around. I don't know how I did it, but I did and im so proud!!! Then I woke up, did an RC and made sure I was awake. It was awesome!!!!!!!!!

Nice Job! Although tut tut to luminous at telling you to nap in class

May I just make a suggestion that you tidy up your DJ a bit though, the block text gets a bit hard to read sometimes! So splitting it up from just single large blocks per dream into paragraphs might make it easier for others (or yourself when looking back)

But otherwise, great job on starting a DJ, they really do help. My own recall improved massivly when I started mine!

Originally Posted by PeteB

Nice Job! Although tut tut to luminous at telling you to nap in class

I told her to nap... In general! Not in class!

lol okay, let the fact be known that i sleep in class anyways, and luminous didnt encourage me lol. i have a B in it though so yup yup yup!!!

ANYWAYS

okay, i'll go back and edit it. i was in a hurry this morning so i bet its hard to read

March 12, 2008: One Dream

My dream was very odd and peculiar last night. My friend Estrella and I are at what I think is a movie. In the dream it was supposed to be a movie theatre, but it was really my old elementary classroom. It was set up for Around the World day. My mom and grandma are there too, they're dressed really fancy. I'm wearing what I wore yesterday, and Estrella is dressed like a biker chick. Which is odd. She is a really sweet girl, so her outfit doesn't match what she usually wears.

Somehow Estrella gets a tattoo of the word "Europe" on her right arm. It's more like an engraving, really. She said she wanted to get it colored, and the way to do that was by walking under an elephant (there were several, about seven i think. all different colors) She walks under the first elephant and the trunk sprays it red. she doesn't like that, and so she moves to the next color. All the time she is getting different colors, the tattoo is changing from "Europe" to things like "Asia" and "England".

As if that isn't weird enough. Estrella suddenly stops walking, and she begins to smack herself in the eye. It made perfect sense in my dream, and I am not sure why. When I woke up to write this dream I only jotted afew words. They were "Mom, Gramma, Movies. Estrella smacking self in face like monkey".

Last night I was really out of it. I was upset and tired, and in a pissy mood. So I wasn't in my "calm, peace of mind" state I usually am in for LDing. I didn't do a reality check, or I would have caught the first dream sign. I wish I had been able to LD, because this would have been a fun dream!!!

But you feel better now, so I'm sure you will be back to it in no time.

lol yup! thanks, Luminous

Last night was sucky for my LDing. I had like six dreams but forgot all but one, and some parts of others. I fell asleep attempting my WBTB. I woke up, then fell asleep at my computer typical me. my result of that on a school night is now im super tired. anyways my dream and a few parts of others will be up. one was pretty exciting!!!!!

!!!!!

Hey drmrgrl, dreamviews fastest rising superstar! I used to sleep in class all the time... some of the best times in school.

At least you recognized you had about six dreams. That's more than most people can say. You'll hit the mark tonight for sure.

hello!

I was reading through some of your dreams which by the way are great, so full of dream signs.

Your first lucid was great especially how the chiuaua turned into a brush lol, it was strange how the councilor dropped dead randomly

You actually fell asleep in class and had a lucid thats just brilliant ha ha

Originally Posted by GestaltAlteration

Hey drmrgrl, dreamviews fastest rising superstar! I used to sleep in class all the time... some of the best times in school.

hahahahaha lol why, thank you! i hope to keep my title

lol anyways i have csaps so after i finish my tests i usually fall asleep
hopefully i can make something out of those naps!!!

BTW, thanks for all the feedback everyone!

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Wednesday, March 12: One full dream, two half dreams

i KNOW i had at least four dreams, and i can remember parts of them. but i can really only remember the end of my main one.

((full dream))My friends and I (Kevin, Roger, Aendri, Estrella, Jasmine and Nick) are in my back yard. its dusk, and its getting darker really quickly. My friends are sitting on my back steps and I am playing in the yard with my dog Rey. Let it be known I have an unrational fear of deer.

Anyways, my mom comes outside, and she is mad at me for something. We get in a fight, screaming at the top of our lungs. Rey starts barking at my mom and my mom screams at him and begins to try to hurt him. he runs back, and suddenly, he turns and begins to chase something. that something is a deer.

Its HUGE! like, not real life size. the size of a horse, and in my dream i freeze. im not moving for the world, because im terrified of a monstorous deer. Rey begins to chase it and the deer jumps over our fence. And Rey jumps up to run after it. He gets to the top and struggles for a few minutes trying to get over. I have now run forward and am desperately trying to pull him back down, but I just cant grab him. It's like my hand is going right through him.And then he leaps over the fence and takes off up the street.our fence is suddenly at least twelve feet high, and I cant climb it, which is odd because im excellent at climbing my fence.

I turn around and I'm crying. my mom is trying to apologize for Rey running away. I scream at her "You just f**king hate me!" and I run into our house.

((half dream 1)) I can't remember all this, but I remember being at my old day care, and instead of being a counciler like i was (its the YMCA day care), I am ten years old and im coloring. Im sitting by the desk and there is a teacher. i dont know who he is but he has been in other YMCA daycare dreams i've had in the past. He is mad at someone and he is yelling. i dont remember why but he takes my coloring and... eats it.

then suddenly im at my old middle school and its sixth grade. my friend chelsea (who i didn't meet till eighth grade) is locked in a classroom attempting to kill herself. Its weird because I m on the outside of the door but my vision (how im viewing my dream) is im watching chelsea. i can see her, but my body is on the other side of the door. if that makes sense. She has chocolate cupcakes.

((half dream 2)) this was the closest i have ever been to a WILD or WBTB i think! I had just woke up to record my dream, and when i laid back down I began to drift asleep. and as I was drifiting to sleep i rememer thinking to myself "hey... wait. im falling asleep" and when i began to dream (i was sitting at my boyfriends house in my dream) i said out loud, "so, cool. im in a dream!" but then it got weird. suddenly my vision got black, and all i could see were words (i cant remember them) and I felt like i couldnt breath. i tried really hard and i just couldnt take in a breath! i freaked out, woke myself up, then fell asleep again. does anyone know what the hell happened?????

Originally Posted by drmrgrl

Wednesday, March 12: One full dream, two half dreams

ha ha ha I am sorry but that deer part is just hilarious ha ha

cool dream though sounds like it was emotionally intense

Originally Posted by drmrgrl

does anyone know what the hell happened?????

Well WILDing is different for every one but it sounds like you were experience hypnogogic imagery and then you started to go into sleep paralysis. Its perfectly normal but it takes a lot of getting used to...or so I hear im not to good at WILD lol

try it again but just let it happen, who knows it may turn out your a natural WILDer

Originally Posted by mark

ha ha ha I am sorry but that deer part is just hilarious ha ha

try it again but just let it happen, who knows it may turn out your a natural WILDer

thanks for youe advice mark! and let it be known deer are viscious, man eating animals. i hate them!!!
im gonna try that. i tried last night but it failed ... or, at least my WILDing did

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Friday, March 14: LUCID!!!!!

My dream opened up, and I was at my school, Coronado. But, it wasn't really Coronado. It looked nothing like it, but in my subconscious I knew it was my school. I was standing outside my school with some people from the show "Zoey 101". If any of you know that show, I was with the two guys Michael and Chase. Michael was making fun of me and so I was going to my room (which was right on our campus, and that was odd) but anyways I reached my room, and thats where the LD starts.

I entered my room, and I'm not sure if maybe I thought I had woken up in my room, or if it was some of the dream signs, but I walked up to my window, and I suddenly thought "I'm dreaming." and nothing in my room provoked it, nothing outside... Everything looked like real life. And I think I did the stupidest thing possible. For my RC, since I couldn't tell if it was a dream, I decided "Hmm, jumping out the window and seeing if I can fly is the best RC I can remember!" So I climbed onto my window sill, and opened my window. I shoved out my screen and it fell normally- not in slow motion, didn't turn into a bird...- and even though it was seeming more real, I wanted to try.

I knew that if this was real life, I'd seriously hurt myself. But I didn't care. Because I knew if this was a LD I'd be in for the time of my life. I did another RC, right before I jumped. I needed more room in my window, and so I said to myself, "If this is a dream, I'll be able to push these into my room easily." well, I shoved them as hard as possible, and finally broke them. Which was alot like what would happen in real life... By now I was terrified, but I didn't wanna loose my courage. I have never jumped from anything on purpose in my dreams. So this was terrifying! I perched at the edge of my window, spread my arms, and threw myself down.

I am thanking God that was a Lucid Dream. As I fell, I got that butterfly feeling in my stomach. And as I reached the ground, I didn't know whether to pull up or flap or what. I smacked into the ground, and a voice in my head was screaming flap flap flap!I flapped my arms and they got a tingling sensation, and then I was flying I flew up a bit, and then I was running into problems. I couldn't get that high. I flapped harder and as I did, a cute little rain drop appeared above me and said, "I was made from your flapping " It has no importance in my dream but I thought it was cute. anyways, I "flew" over to where Michael and Chase were, to show them I could be cool. As I began to fly towards them, I suddenly stopped. A guy stood in front of my and handed me a list. It said "Help BRianna" and then "Take the bullies down". And the guy told me how to do each and I went on my way.

I flew over to where Chase and Michael were. They werer makin fun of this chubby girl I knew in elementary school, and I had to stop them. I flew over, and I'm not sure what I did but I warded them off and helped her. Once I completed one task I could fly better! So I flew to where these bullies were, that had made fun of me in school. I am chubby, I admit. So when I flew over to them (they're really thin girls), I showed them that I didn't care hown fat they thought I was and they screamed when I showed them how fat I was compared to them and I guess that got them back for good in my dreams, cuz then got really good at flying. but then my dog woke me up

Congratulations! Sounds like a great dream. Jumping out the window as a RC... Gotta love dream logic.

Originally Posted by Luminous

Congratulations! Sounds like a great dream. Jumping out the window as a RC... Gotta love dream logic.

hahaha lol thanks Lumi.
im so relieved i wasnt awake or i'd be screwed

My, you seem to have quite a popular dream journal!

And with dreams like those, it's no wonder! Flying around is a basic and fun thing to do in a lucid dream. And doing that kind of stuff in front of dream characters is fun for their reactions. It sounded cool to do something without even really trying, (creating the thing from flapping) I oughta try that!

Anyways, it's awesome that you're off to a great start! I'll be expecting more...

thanks! lol im also popular for being a post-whore !!!

i am going to my boyfriends house in a little with some friends, and i usually doze off there, expect more soon!!! thanks for reading eveyone it means alot!!!