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    Mantras in the Green Valley

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    CanisLucidus
    , 03-08-2013 at 04:11 PM (803 Views)
    I was talking with NewArtemis yesterday about mantras and lucid dreaming and apparently the conversation stuck... well, for me at least. Popped a B6 and chowed down on some raisins before bed and got this pair of dreams. This is really a micro-lucid followed by a full LD, but they're so related that I'm just journaling them together.

    Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

    Lucid #74: Mantras in the Green Valley

    I am in a large, brightly lit room of white marble. There are a lot of strange, rectangular foam blocks lying around. I decide that they represent sleep cycles or maybe chunks of REM. I say out loud, "You will have a lucid dream!" I feel like this mantra is very important. Who am I saying this to?

    Now I see NewArtemis perhaps ten feet away, standing there looking sleepily around, apparently not noticing me. She has one or two foam blocks at her feet but I think she needs more. I toss a couple more of these at her and they bounce off of her and land nearby. I'm disappointed that I can't seem to add REM (or whatever) to her sleep. I say again, "You will have a lucid dream!" but it seems to make no impression on her.

    I decide that she's already asleep and dreaming. "You're dreaming right now!" I tell her. "Don't you remember your mantra?" I put a hand on her left shoulder and she gives me this bleary-eyed look.     I suddenly get it straight that I'm the one who's dreaming. "This is a lucid dream! Okay, now you!" I say, but she stares at me uncomprehendingly. I quickly wake up.

    Try to DEILD but accidentally think about work. (Gah, rookie mistake!) Awake for a while. Then back into a non-lucid...

    I'm in the back seat of a jeep that's pulled over on the side of the road. The jeep is being driven by my friend TB. Someone I don't know is in the passenger seat and he's pouring his heart out to TB because he had to shoot someone in self-defense. TB tells him not to worry about it and makes some sort of slightly offensive joke about it. The passenger gets even more upset, but TB calms him down.

    TB puts the jeep back on the main road and ahead of us is a one-lane bridge with 10-feet concrete walls on either side of it. Looking further out, I see that we are in the most beautiful green valley that I've seen in my entire life.     I feel like it's the most brilliant green that I've ever seen in my life and realize that I have to be dreaming.

    Now the jeep has become a long van with four or five rows of bench seats. I float out of my seat and swim toward the front of the van. TB is still driving, but the passenger is someone else. I think it's Xanous.

    As I pass the third or so row of seats, I see NewArtemis to my left, looking out the window at the green valley. "[NewArtemis]! This is a lucid dream." She looks at me, then looks back out the window, then back at me again. But now she has transformed nto a blonde woman in her mid-40s. I decide that this isn't working, so I swim further up.

    I make it to the second row of seats, w/ TB and (presumably) Xanous right in front. I look out the window and see a mountain rising in the distance. Now I realize that we're driving toward Angel Falls for Task of the Year! Things start feeling unstable, and I reach out to grab onto something. I grab onto a nearby female DC (a stranger) to bring myself back into the scene, but things don't stabilize. The skin on the lady's face begins to glow slightly orange, and everything fades out but this glow. Then     I'm awake.
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    Updated 03-08-2013 at 05:38 PM by 57387

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    1. Iokheira's Avatar
      Hah! The blocks are great Even if you thought it didn't work, your goodwill must have carried over. Good luck all around!

      Now that you've got me started on the colorblind jokes...Seen a lot of green valleys in your life?

      Were you trying to get me to be a smart DC like that other lady? Sorry it didn't work. You tried pretty hard in both dreams though, thanks
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    2. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Hah! The blocks are great Even if you thought it didn't work, your goodwill must have carried over. Good luck all around!
      That's right! Reading your DJ entry, clearly those blocks did the trick after all. I'm glad you had some apple juice handy! No B6 in the pantry I guess, but that stuff's easy to get if you decide to partake.

      Were you trying to get me to be a smart DC like that other lady? Sorry it didn't work. You tried pretty hard in both dreams though, thanks
      You actually kind of seemed like you were asleep or something! I'm not sure what was going on exactly.

      And yeah, in fact I have assumed all along that if you popped up in an LD you'd already be "smart". I actually expect that you will in most circumstances. It was like I thought of you as if you were non-lucid and I was trying to make you lucid, if that makes any sense. I really think it was down to all of the mantra talk. It's like I kept wanting to act out this transition into lucidity. Xanous has always come out "smart" and in your NLD appearances you've been "smart" and fully operational, so I bet in a different situation you'll be all there.

      Now that you've got me started on the colorblind jokes...Seen a lot of green valleys in your life?
      LOL. Thanks. I'm throwing those foam blocks much harder next time!
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    3. Alyzarin's Avatar
      I love the metaphorical aspect of the first dream! That's great stuff. But it's ridiculous how long it took you to realize you were dreaming. But I admire your persistence!

      Congrats on the lucid, too!
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    4. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      I love the metaphorical aspect of the first dream! That's great stuff. But it's ridiculous how long it took you to realize you were dreaming. But I admire your persistence!

      Congrats on the lucid, too!
      Ha ha, thanks! I know! It's pretty embarrassing to be so slow on the uptake but I was just so incredibly focused on how she needed to get a clue and figure out that she was dreaming that it never occurred to me what a dummy I was being.

      I've done worse, though. I had an NLD a few nights ago where my dad literally told me three times in a row, "You're dreaming all of this right now." And I kept saying, "Sure, I'll go to bed pretty soon. I'll do some dreaming then." That kind of stuff. I mean, man.

      Okay, now that I think of both of these stories back to back, I'm feeling really embarrassed. LOL.
    5. Alyzarin's Avatar
      Ha ha, thanks! I know! It's pretty embarrassing to be so slow on the uptake but I was just so incredibly focused on how she needed to get a clue and figure out that she was dreaming that it never occurred to me what a dummy I was being.

      I've done worse, though. I had an NLD a few nights ago where my dad literally told me three times in a row, "You're dreaming all of this right now." And I kept saying, "Sure, I'll go to bed pretty soon. I'll do some dreaming then." That kind of stuff. I mean, man.

      Okay, now that I think of both of these stories back to back, I'm feeling really embarrassed. LOL.
      Oh man, that's wonderful. Maybe you should take a break from awareness and dream control practice and focus on honing your active listening skills.
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    6. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Oh man, that's wonderful. Maybe you should take a break from awareness and dream control practice and focus on honing your active listening skills.
      LOL! Have you been hanging out with my wife??
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    7. Alyzarin's Avatar
      Hahaha, it's just what we've been talking about in my speech class this semester. XD
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    8. Xanous's Avatar
      I wonder if seeing me in a vehicle made you think of my Angel Falls dream.
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    9. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      I wonder if seeing me in a vehicle made you think of my Angel Falls dream.
      Yeah! I am almost 100% sure they're related. It's really cool. The question that's really intriguing to me is which dream element came first?

      Did I notice that I was in a van heading through a green valley, decide it was Angel Falls, and then fill you in because I remembered you "should" be in the passenger seat heading up there too? (From your successful attempt.)

      Or did you show up just because you're a common DC for me? Once my brain placed you in the passenger seat of a van, the Angel Falls may have followed from that.

      Or did my brain just premeditate the whole thing? Which elements came from which? I really don't know the answer but it's fun to think about.
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