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Mindfulness. Presence. Here & Now. Important things to keep in mind. Don't get distracted and discouraged with other techniques.

I was in the bathroom with my past dog that died in 2015. Max was in the tub and i was going to bathe him but i couldn't find the soap. I shouted to my brother to bring the soap than hugged Max.

The dream than shifted and i appeared in the living room with my younger brother. There was a video on the t.v. of a giraffe. I than asked him if he thought the girrafes reminded him of the herbivore dinosaurs with the long necks. He said yeah.

Next thing I recall i'm on my bed unable to move with fuzzy vision but now I'm lucid. I hear a voice say how weak minded humans are as i lay there. It told me it was going to disect me with scissors.
I call for assistance and after a bit the thing hears a person coming and runs away. I wait than move freely and can see better.

I'm in a big room covered with wooden flooring and white walls. It appears to be a living room. I see no one around but a blonde little girl with a small curly ponytail. She looks four and is wearing her uniform. I than feel something behind a door and open it. It almost looks like my mom deceased grandma walking up the steps. I give her my hand for assistance but than i let go and go back into the room i was in before.

I felt like the dream was going in a weird direction. Afterwards I see a door with light showing around it. The little girl is still around and watches to see what i do. I walk up to the door than lay on the floor to look under it What seemed interesting became a classroom where anime students were waiting for their teacher to arrive. I let the momemt sink in as I thought of the feeling of laying down on the floor within the dream. Felt close to real.

Notes: I only had 30 minutes to have this lucid dream before I had to get up and before the alarm rang on my phone. I ended up getting lucid and woke up 1 minute before my alarm rang. Tonight i might have a chance for a long one but idk if I'll get lucid again. I also dislike alarms. I put them just in case but i always like to wake up before it rings.

I'm labeling it memorable because Max was in it, i was able to get lucid and cause i woke up 1 minute before the alarm.

Date of Dream: TUE 27 FEB - 2018



Dream No. 287 - Separated Sections

Dream 287 A - Find The Terminal
I don't remember how the dream started. From where I do remember, I was in some unknown public area. WB was in the distance when some random woman approached her and led her to me. The woman said that WB was looking for the computer terminal and that the lady knew I'd be the one for the job. She specified that we had to work as a team; WB didn't look happy but I was beaming from ear to ear.

The events of the next scene are slightly blurry. I discovered that it was a massive train station that we were in. Although WB wasn't happy, she did finally learn to put up with the fact that I was there to help her and she gave me small tasks. Eventually, she went to a doughnut shop in the station and she ordered this massive doughnut with caramel coloured icing on it. I was tempted to get a big doughnut as well but I said that my mum would kill me if she found out, so I went for not one, but two little ones with purple icing on them, which made up to be just a bit less than WB's big doughnut.

While WB was still in the area of the doughnut shop, I wandered off by myself to continue to find the terminal. As I was wandering around, I was talking to myself and asking myself where it could be. Eventually, I got to an area that looked like it should've had the terminal there... But it wasn't there. I was so convinced that it should be there and so I kept examining the little corner non-stop and questioning myself about it. The dream ended there.

Dream 287 B - Trusted Stationary Supplier
The dream started with me by myself on the grounds of Camelot Rise Primary School. I was walking around and thinking to myself whether I should return to school or not. Soon, this stranger lady was talking to me as I looked out onto the asphalt area. I started to call for Dreamy WB and as I was doing so, the lady commented something like “wow, you're calling her really loud and clear”. I don't know why the lady was so impressed with my ability to call Dreamy WB.

Eventually, I seemed to have gotten Dreamy WB's attention as she walked over from the direction of the prep playground in human form... By then, no one else was around anymore. So it just ended up being me and Dreamy WB on the asphalt area. I have forgotten her appearance but what I do know is that it was slightly different from the real life entity. When I got close enough to her, she gave me a really big hug and I was locked in her arms, I asked her “Dreamy WB, do you think I'm ready to go back to school?”. She then released me and gave me some sound practical advice but I forgot what she said specifically. Her overall response was in agreement that I was ready.

The next dream scene took place in the 5/6 classrooms and the teacher was Mrs Wo. who had a slightly distorted appearance in the dream from when I remember her in 2009 in real life. She was asking me questions about how my schooling had gone before. So this is weird, I have already completed VCE and yet I am going back to year 5. Back to the dream, this boy came up to us and Mrs Wo. compares him to me, to someone who was in my year 5 class in real life; this boy surprisingly also had a physical resemblance to him.

She then tells me what the class are doing. I look around the room and I see them doing different things. Some are on the computers, some are playing with music instruments, some are reading story books, some are writing in exercise books. Mrs Wo. then told me that from 9:00 AM – 11:00, the class was scheduled to have “free time”. I did realise though that I would need school supplies for later in the day as I currently had none. Since it was free time, I thought I could go out and try to get some school supplies from somewhere.

My first idea was to try from Dreamy WB. There was a scene where I rehearsed how I was going to get her and what I was going to ask her for. It was playing as a second projection at the back of my mind, while my physical dream state was still in the classroom. I was at another asphalt area and I said something like, “Dreamy WB, I need you to appear so you can give me some stationary; in holographic form! You are to supply pencils, an eraser, a sharpener, a ruler, and an exercise book!”.

Then the real scene began as the secondary projection faded and I actually exited the classroom. I walked around a large area of the school yard, looking for Dreamy WB. Eventually, I came across this portable truck-like thing where heaps of students were lined up. I lined up along with them and very soon found out that Dreamy WB hired the truck and she was actually running stationary distributions to all these needy students.

Everyone was getting a beautiful looking bag with a silver design on it but when she came to me, I got the same bag but with a glittery red design on it. She said to me that she was originally going to give the red bag to someone else so it wouldn't look like she was watching over me all the time but I guess she gave the special red bag to me anyway. After speaking to her for a while, I walked away from the truck while examining the contents of the bag. There was evidence that it was stationary as I saw a black, one-holed sharpener at the top of the pile. Before I reached the classroom again, I woke up.



Dream Trophies Achieved:
- None

Morning of February 27, 2018. Tuesday.



I am in an unfamiliar store and looking at a large wooden display unit for magazines. It has four shelf sections and is as long as the aisle.

I notice an American Mad Magazine on the third shelf up, the front cover of which resembles that of issue 145 from September 1971 (with the original’s cover price being 40 cents), though the art is somewhat sketchy, seemingly by Don Martin, and drawn smaller and lower than the real version. It also seems to be implied to be a hot air balloon with a male character hanging from the basket’s gunwale on the left side and a female character facing left in profile and looking down at him with a question mark over her head.

I pick it up with my left hand but I never open it. Still, I perceive that some of the pages are stiffer than usual, perhaps due to several different thin cardboard pages throughout. I consider that it may be a special issue. I assume it is two dollars and prepare to buy it, discovering that I have an Australian two-dollar coin in my right hand.

Zsuzsanna is also soon present and she finds a magazine that she plans to buy. It seems to be a different issue of Mad Magazine, but I do not see the cover.

I go to the singular checkout counter, which looks somewhat like the type in a convenience store, although there is no display unit at the front. I prepare to pay for the magazine when I notice that I am also carrying, in my left hand (and below the magazine), what looks like three VHS cases, though smaller than real ones and ambiguously associated with DVD cases. Looking at them, they all seem to be folk music albums.

Their covers are all in brown and beige hues and feature mostly print (apparently lists of song titles). I put them in a display bin in which others are strewn, at the end of the aisle near the checkout. Going back, I notice that I still have one case in my hand, and wonder how I had missed putting it back. I feel somewhat annoyed by my absentmindedness.

When I am at the checkout (Zsuzsanna standing on my left), the unfamiliar male cashier tells me it will be twelve dollars. Looking at the cover, even seeing that the price in the upper right corner reads as $3.12 (three dollars and twelve cents), I still exclaim, “How can a two dollar magazine be twelve dollars?” I consider that I might pay the amount, as I start to remember that American magazines in Australia are much more expensive than their printed cover price, but I wake at this point.

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Zsuzsanna is usually on my left in the last segment of a dream. This is subliminal awareness that she is on my left as we are sleeping, and as such, is a common DSI (Dream State Indicator).

The Mad Magazine cover depicts static “failed flight waking symbolism”, suggesting that the character is about to fall, potentially precursory symbolism of my dream self in waking transition (the typical biological jolt of waking). However, these common dynamics had been quashed in this case, both in being featured on a liminal space divider (magazine cover) and oriented incorrectly. This is otherwise based on the biological vestibular system ambiguity of being unconscious, unrelated to waking life. There has been at least one VSA factor in at least one of my dreams of each sleeping period for over fifty years, so pretending that VSA autosymbolism is relevant to waking life is asinine (other than when literally prescient, though I doubt I will be in a hot air balloon or buying a Mad Magazine in the future).

This dream is the typical checkout scenario, which is autosymbolism of consciousness reascension (leaving the dream state), one of my most common factors of waking autosymbolism since childhood. The confusion about prices (as well as having to do the same thing more than once) is a common dream state dynamic (as the non-lucid dream self does not usually possess or maintain viable thinking skills or temporality) of which is unrelated to waking life and the conscious self.

The preconscious personification (the cashier) is an unfamliar male to prevent my dream from having waking life associations. (However, in direct contrast, this factor is sometimes inexplicably prescient.)

RAS mediation renders the store as unfamiliar to prevent my conscious mind from mistaking it as being related to waking life (for prevention of false or ambiguous memories). (There is always the possibility that it may be visually prescient, but it is probably only the usual unique fictitious composite.)

In summary, this dream features the usual components and autosymbolism. The Mad Magazine cover is similar to the first issue that my mother bought me when I began to collect them in 1971, thus this represents the induction marker of my dream, while the checkout is the exit marker.

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I met someone I know at a tube station they asked me where I was going to. I said whatever station is yours (lol). When they got off I came up behind them and gave them a hug, it was nice

Next I remember having a hang nail (ugh) I pulled it and the whole thing almost came off Oo aaaaaaaaaaa.

Last dream I remember my dad turned up unannounced with some friends and our cat. Susan was wanting to leave them outside, but it started to rain xD so I couldn't.

So far, there have been 10+ recorded dreams throughout this 14 day trial. So where does the newest one fit in? Let's just go over that real quick.

And yes I know this is a little late. Accidentally forgot to turn on "Publish On" when I was working on this post.

Day 14:

Fell asleep at: 11:00

Woke up at: 6:35


Dream 10: Double Digits, Finally!

The dream plays out much akin to a cutscene from Sonic Mania. Sprite-based animation is at the forefront, and animations are smooth and crisp. There's a gardener tending to 5 differently looking flowers, all of them red in color. The gardener is planting the last flower, a star-shaped one called the "Flower of Paranoia". I don't understand why it was given that name, but it did look pretty cool.



Anyways, so far there have been:


6 school related dreams

4 home related dreams

4 video game related dreams

And 7 abstract locale dreams



A lot of these dreams kinda weave together into the same dream, and as such are counted in more than one category.

Both my school and my home are prominent locations in my dreams, as well as video games. Now, I don't know how I can identify those more abstract dreams in locations I haven't really been to before, but I can safely say that doing a RC and staying more aware during both school and when playing video games are prime times to have them.

I read on Howtolucid.com that, when utterly immersed in a video game or movie, to occasionally pull yourself out of that state of mind and observe your surroundings. Dreams are often quite like watching a movie, and taking this approach helps a ton. This is the link to that specific article I'm talking about:http://howtolucid.com/cinema-techniq...ing-awareness/

So far, there have been no false awakenings, lucid dreams, or sleep paralysis episodes. Kind of disappointing honestly, since I'm about a month overdue for my lucid. Usually I can muster at least once a month, but umm... not this month.

Storm

Just remember getting off work but I was in a strange city. I noticed a huge storm was brewing and it was getting really windy. I saw V from work walking by herself as she was literally disappearing in a cloud. I ran after her. I became lucid somehow and wanted to look for Jamie. but my vision went all purple and then black. I have no memory after.

Leaving work again

Almost a repeat of the last dream. But I was walking down a longer hallway before I got outside and with a different girl this time.

Homeless shelter

Brief dream of following my friend into an abandoned homeless shelter. Can't remember much after something about getting lost going home....

Youtubers

Various dreams about youtubers. Mainly remember being in a cave with exploring with josh.

Haunted

I was walking around downstairs and saw someone who lived with us watching TV. I had a closet with hangers that started swinging by themselves. I pointed it out to the lady but she didn't seem to care. I started freaking out and ran upstairs and saw lots of other items moving by themselves.

Here is my dream journal drawing entry that I am trying to keep up with:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYXhxDYvnpM




Here are my dream notes from Feb 25 to 26.


The earliest I can remember is I was going to get gas at the gas station for my Dad's car. I was lining up my gas tank with the gas pump. I had to turn my car around so it would be on the correct side.

my dad was about to go out somewhere. I was leaning against my door waiting to answer but then he left. Then I was trying to run to the front window to say bye.

As I ran through the hall way, I ran into younger versions of S L and J J, two executives at a company I worked for many years ago. S L reached out to give me a hand shake. He said happy anniversary.

Next I was sliding down a hill or slide thing that was just a wire. Something about vitamins and vitamin E. I flew over some people and farted. I don't remember that part too clearly.

Then there was this part which had more detail but I only remembered it vaguely. It was a church service that was taking a really long time. Someone was saying how this was such a treat but I did not agree. There was also something to do with sprinkles that no one wanted.

Then there was this video thing with M R and his girlfriend. Everyone got a box with a gift inside and I didn't want to open the box I was given. Something about pressuring me to open the box.

Then I was at a gym, and talking about someone from a message board but changed their user name as I talked. I was hearing about a bodybuilder who needed 4 days off before a leg workout because he did a rest pause set of squats going up to 28 reps after a heavier straight set.

A lot of these dream memories were a bit blurrier or less detailed.








Second round of dreams.

Something with Dad, maybe going somewhere with Dad? Couldn't get memory back.

Then V S and some other people from my college were sitting with me. I was complaining about their smoking and they didn't like it. They were getting tired of it and wanted to beat me up. V S was being really quiet but I had the sense he was plotting in his mind how to take me down. I think they started ganging up on me more.

Then my friend C S was sitting at a grey table in a cafeteria room and I joined him. He was being really nice and asked me an interesting, friendly question. However I was not in a good mood from the previous scene, so I didn't answer. I felt like he was my enemy too even though he was being friendly. Because I felt like everyone was against me.
Then I was fighting with this old man about something. I forgot what, but I know I was right. Anyway the dream showed an over head view of a map of where I live, with shifting colors.

That man was on a team with another person, and I had one other person on my team. We fought and they took out my team mate. So it was two of them against me. They almost had me cornered in this corridor type of room but I managed to get myself safe and subdue them. It was close.
Then I was with another friend. There was a sense those bad guys were still coming after us. I looked through these open lockers or cabinets in this next corridor we were in. They were navy blue with orange protein jugs and vitamin bottles inside. We left a lot of them partially open. I was afraid to leave them exposed because the bad guys might steal all my protein and vitamins. But my friend said it didn't matter. I guess we were in a hurry to get away.

We got to this kitchen room still feeling some of the energy from the chase. There was a Nintendo 2 D S X L (it said that on the box) on the counter. It only had one small screen though and I wondered how anyone would play Pokemon on it. The screen would be like 2 inches for each panel. But, it was actually for doing a "spin move" when connected to a Wii.

There was this thing about the "spin move" being stackable meaning if I kept doing the spin move, it got more powerful each time. So it took some finesse but then the person could have a really effective move. Then I was in the local mall, looking at a store front that was all pink, beneat the escalator to the food courts. In waking life, it isn't pink. I was headed to the right, which in waking life would be Ikea.
Then I went into this room and I was sitting around with a group of people. I was looking at some womens faces which appeared very vivid. The next thing I knew was that these women were pulling out cigarettes to smoke. They were just lighting the tip for a quick puff and then putting it away because we were indoors. This made me very mad. Then they were lighting rolled up dollar bills in their mouths. One woman had a one dollar bill and another had a hundred dollar bill. I took them out of their mouths and threw them on the ground. This made them upset. The owner of the place came in and she told me I was being violent. I told her those women were violent for lighting cigarettes indoors. It became a fight. Then they were all crowd surfing me but in an unfriendly manner.

I felt like I couldn't get away. I was watching the ceiling go by above me and saw that it was padded. Then I realized it was a dream. I still couldn't get down though. Eventually I got down and found this walnut shell with a hole in it. I could use it to shoot blue lazers at people. I shot blue lazers at some people and flew away. So much for conflict resolution within lucid dreams! .

Then I was flying in a really nice neighborhood. I was amazed at how huge and nice these houses were. I think I had forgotten it was a dream by now. I flew around this grey house and into a bedroom that was mine in the dream context. My room mate was sleeping and he turned over in his bed when I came in. I thought I had woken him but was relieved to see he was still asleep. The walls turned from orange to blue. I went to look down the hallway for a window to fly out. One had spider webs. I flew out another.

When I landed, there was a thin worm in my hand. I felt bad for taking it away from its home and put it on the ground. It got really big and burrowed into the ground. Then I saw a red centipede thing as I walked barefoot along the ground.

Then I was in a kitchen. There was a giant 5 foot long by 3 foot wide rectangular metal cooking pan by the dish washer. I guessed that they must not wash it too often due to how big it is. There was other food in this part.

Then my mom was in a van with her friend and my sister. Her friend was smoking a cigarette so I was staying away. My Mom wanted milk for her ice coffee. So I was pouring milk in both of our ice coffees. But her friend couldn't have any.










Round 3 of dreams.

Something about thinking of the right Pokemon music, having to do with elements.

Then there was a big row of people all doing calf raises. I was falling behind on one leg but it was time to move on. Then I was rubbing blue stuff on my legs. Maybe an R L S treatment.

Telling someone I don't do something any more IE eat a lollipop idk what it was.

Something about being sued or being sued by people who really know how to squeeze every last drop out of ya.

There was a big blanket hanging outside.

Something about bringing our clothes outside or leaving them in an indoor wardrobe. I didn't see the need to bring them outside into the cold. 2 women wanted to leave their clothes in the indoor wardrobe too.
In another part my Mom had visited. She was driving a brown car. She was going to drive the car to the bus stop and then take the bus home. But I worried she would need the car when she got home and not have it, or my sister would need it. I was trying to figure out something to do about this before my Mom left.

I was driving my silver car to catch up with my mom. I saw her to the side and then slipped into a grassy ditch. I kind of panicked but then revved the engine and I was out. I heard this guy my Mom was walking by tell her that I am clumsy or something like that. He was trying to hit on my mom by saying that, not knowing I was her son.

I went and confronted the guy, but he had gotten up. His friends said he would be right back. Sure enough, there he was. He sat down accross from me. I told him I didn't like what he said. What are you gonna do, fight me? He replied. No, I said, that would be violent. Oh, then, what, and they presented another extreme. No, but I am going to tell you that I didn't like what you said. and I went on to lecture the guy about casting judgment on others very heatedly.

I was asking him how he would feel if he were in the dairy section of the grocery store and over heard people talking about him saying he was fat or ugly. Then I pointed to his rice cooker and told him it had 7 hairs in it because he judged me 7 times. So he should stop being so judgmental. I started to lose my voice within the dream and woke up.

It was funny because I woke up whispering this lecture in my physical bed for a few moments before I realized what was going on. Too bad I muted my voice recorder. It would have been interesting to hear.

In another part of the dream there was a PC that won't run "broken programs". It had a black back ground with grey text.

There was also another vague or blurry detail of talking to someone.







Round 4 of dreams.

There were some cool parts I forgot. One might have been of standing over a volcano to drop something in.

There were some pictures of people on a circular table that I was covering with a white towel.

Then there was a really vivid book of nature photos in really high quality photography. I was looking for the date it was published and couldn't find it. Then I found it said June 17, 2017. The two dates I saw before that didn't seem right.

Then I was on an internet forum. A guy posted about how he was going to go on a binge one night but chose to eat oatmeal instead. He didn't feel so bad about himself then. What a nice story.

I showed it to my sister and she got upset. She told me how her friend used to drive off into traffic. Something about that forum brought that up for her. She was crying and said she didn't want to talk about it. I went to a drop down menu on the forum on my sister's account. I clicked it and selected the word "Forever". The drop down menu was how much support you want to give the person.

Then I was with my friend W. We were looking through the message board and then the computer screen became a cabinet. There were some chips or noodles in there. I took them out but felt like they didn't belong to me. But they were stale so no one must have wanted them. W said they were made from protein, not gluten. So I could eat them. I think they had some sauce.





Dream recall on this night seemed a little weaker than last night. I worked more waking life recall the next day to try to keep my dream recal stronger.