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Non-dream Dream Lucid Nightmare Out of Body Experience Fragments False awakening Early awakening

Date: 2011-07-25

I had a menu from where I could control my lucid actions

6-27-11
Midday nap. As usual for one, it's weird.

I was talking to my mom and dad about the coffee maker that a friend of mine had given me for a graduation gift, and how it was way more advanced than I could care to use.
This is, in reality, true. I had been given a coffee maker, and, indeed, it had more than and on/off switch, so I knew right away that it had more functions than I needed.
After this dream, I went and did exactly the same thing as in the dream. Weird, huh?

A few weeks ago I had a rather funny and complicated dream involving a man who has the ability to quickly open manholes from anywhere, on ANY surface, even on a concrete street. I suspect he used some sort of device to accomplish this and I think these manholes are possibly gateways to another dimensions/realities/parallel universe.

The man bears some resemblance to the actor mr. Christopher Lee (I made a small illustration depicting a manhole with mr. Lee in it). The man always wears a distinctive black hat. I was very surprised to see such magic (creating manholes out of the blue) and on one occasion I was able to follow him into a manhole because he wasn't paying attention. The manhole led me to a strange concrete complex with 6 or 7 machines. Each machine was capable of holding one person, but only a few were used. There was official looking staff overlooking some processes. There was one separate room which seemed to contain the oldest of all the machines in those spaces (some in the main entrance looked newer, far more advanced). The oldest machine held one man who was sweating. He was in some sort of a trance or dying.

Suddenly there was trouble with the machinery/some sort of supercomputer had failed/or some conduit had suffered from heavy power fluctuations. I could see electrical sparks coming from one particular room. The staff was not at all concerned with my presence, even though I was intruding the complex. Everyone was rushing to fix what was seemingly broken.

I never saw the man with the black hat again nor have I ever spoken with him. I don't know what the machines were used for. I could not recognise any of the electronics used but the machines depended heavily on it.



Has anyone had a similar dream like this involving manholes/gateways to other dimensions or perhaps even seen the man wearing a black hat that could open these gateways?

note: The manhole picture used is an artwork designed by the Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor, I used the picture to illustrate what I saw in my dream.

A week ago I had a very strange non-lucid dream about tigers riding on the back of elephants. It was actually a stampede of elephants, running across streets. I made this very raw depiction of my dream (see illustration, the elephants look like cardboard figures but this is unintentional)




In this dream I was a bystander, witnessing the stampede. I know there are stone statues near temples in India of tigers riding on the back of elephants, but it's meaning is unknown to me. Can someone please (on short notice) enlighten me and tell me if there's any symbolic reference to certain events or if this has anything to do with me. It is very important to me.

NON DREAM DREAM LUCID

Okay, so this is just mostly a collection of dream fragments that I remember from last night. They were all very strange...as my dreams usually tend to be. xD

I'm with one of my best friends J. She's spending the night at my house, although it's not really my house. It seems like more of a log cabin type place. J and I are sitting in this really big rather empty room, except for a bed and a nightstand/dresser type thing. For some reason, the room seems to be shifting, but not exactly tilting. Almost as if only the inanimate objects of the room were moving, but not us.

After trying to fumble around with the dresser and trying to figure out what was happening, J says, "Wow, what's wrong with this room?". I look at her and say, eyes wide, "Inception!". She gasps as she realizes that I'm right.

The dream has shifted to another part.

I'm sitting in a restaurant with my dad, brother, and sister. I'm pretty sure it's either T.G.I Friday's, Red Robin, or some sort of a mix than the two. I don't remember exactly what happened, just that in the end, I ended up trying to run away, and I was standing in some sort of a dirt/gravel parking lot. I'm also pretty sure Kevin James was there.

And again, the dream shifts. Weeeeee.

I don't know how many of you watch NCIS, but it's my favorite show. Anyways, so, I'm riding shotgun in this red convertible, with the driver being the NCIS character Tony DiNozzo (played by Michael Weatherly). In the backseat are the characters Abby and McGee (Pauley Perrette & Sean Murray). We're all just having a good time, playing some music on the radio and singing or whatever. We're driving to a crime scene, I guess, although it was more an area of interest than a crime scene. Turns out that we're looking for Ziva, another character (played by Cote de Pablo). I suppose she's MIA.

Before arrival at the crime scene, Tony offers all of us a piece of bubblegum, which I gratefully accept. Once we get to the area, we find it's like a camp ground kind of things, with lots of forest surrounding it and a firepit and some log cabins. We're all standing there when I notice, behind a bush, a fox is peeking its head out of the ground. It doesn't seem afraid of us at all, and actually climbs out further. I point it out to the team, and they all fall silent. The fox walks up to us and brushes up against our legs, letting us pet him. It turns out to be an arctic fox. (What an arctic fox was doing there, I have no idea. )

We're running around for a while, acting like children, even though we're supposed to be working on finding Ziva. At some point, I notice a giant blue trampoline on the campground. I point to it and yell, "Look! A thumb!" (WTF?)

We're now very excited at my most recent discovery, but we can't just walk over there, oh no. So, Tony and I begin skipping like little school girls down some sort of a cobblestone path until we get to the trampoline. It was quite a sight to see someone like him skipping. I realize that another character, the team leader, Gibbs (Mark Harmon) has arrived, and was watching us skip. He was talking to someone else, someone who had more authority over him. I heard the other man say, "You trust them to find her?". Gibbs was just like, "Oh yeah, I trust 'em, alright. They'll get the job done." I just remember the other man shaking his head and saying something like, "Alright, if you insist."

So, now, Tony and I are on the trampoline, ahem, "thumb", and we're jumping on it. That's when I hear Tony shout, "Look out! Fox!"

Of course, he gets off the trampoline in time, but I don't, and the arctic fox jumps up and clamps his jaw down on my arm. It didn't hurt or anything. It was actually kind of funny, because we all knew the fox just wanted to play. Even though it was small, it was completely stopping me from attempting to move it, or move myself at all. I remember thinking, "Stupid bubblegum."

And once more, the dream has shifted. Woot woot.

I'm somewhere talking to my Mom, telling her about the story with the fox that attacked me. Once more, I refer to the trampoline as the thumb. I don't know. Anyways, I tell her that I was chewing bubblegum.

"Oh, was it a heavily wooded area?" she asked. I said, "Yeah." She nods her head knowingly. "The fox probably just smelled the bubblegum. It attracts them, y'know."

Great to know, mom. Great to know.

Dream - Lucid

I was at Dakota's house at night. I was the only one there (his aunt and uncle had gone on vacation. Dakota had too, but he went somewhere different). I was sitting in his room (didn't look like his real room, it was a lot bigger), watching TV. Dakota had told me I could chill there while everyone was away, though technically, I wasn't supposed to be there.

I had fallen asleep, and I woke up. I heard car doors slamming outside, so I figured I probably needed to leave, so I headed towards the door of his room.

All the sudden, a recording of Dakota's voice boomed over a loudspeaker. It said something about his aunt and uncle coming home. I started to move more quickly towards the back door of the house so I could get out before his aunt and uncle caught me.

It was too late, though. I walked outside, and there they were. I was very ashamed of myself. I shouldn't have been there. I went to my car. Dakota's uncle came up to me. I said to him
"I want to redeem myself in your eyes. I'm sorry."
He seemed pleased with that.

I then drove off through his neighborhood. It was lit only by the lights of the houses.

~

I was again at Dakota's house. It was morning, and Dakota and I had been asleep in sleeping bags on the floor. His head was facing my head.

His Aunt then came in with a bunch of kids. They sat at the kitchen table. That morning, they were leaving for Oklahoma. I got up and walked by the table. The kids were all playing Scrabble. There were also toys on the table, though I can't remember specifics.

They eventually filed out the door and got in their red mini van (can't remember the type). They came back a little later because they forgot something.

~

I was laying down on some sort of bed or table. An Indian-looking man with dark skin and a black mustache had a small buzz saw blade attached to a handle above my neck, though it wasn't moving. There was a dial ingrained in the left side of my neck that the buzz saw's blades fit perfectly into, and the man was going to help me by using the saw on the dial. I'm not sure what it was he was supposed to be helping me with, though. I think I was hurt or ill, and it was supposed to help me to heal.

At first, he jokingly got out a HUGE buzz saw and started using it on my neck. It hurt, and I kept telling him to stop. He stopped and laughed as he took the small buzz saw and gently started to use it to turn the dial in my neck. It felt a little uncomfortable. The man was very kind to me as he did this. He talked to me gently, though I can't remember what he said.

~

I was on the beach at night with my mom. We had our cat, Pounce, who is very ill in waking life. I'm not sure why we had her, but she got away from us and ran all over the beach. My mom told me to get her. She ran too fast, however. She then ran down some stairs into a men's restroom. At first, my mom wasn't sure we should go in there to get her because it was the men's room, but I convinced her that we could. We went in there after the cat, checking all the stalls.

~

I was in the car when I became lucid by counting my fingers, though I wasn't totally convinced yet. I confirmed it by making extra fingers appear out of my hands.

Then, I hung out the passenger's side window naked as the car drove itself. I felt the wind rush past me as I went. Why I decided to do this with my lucid dream is beyond me.

I dream of nanobots and one of them mutated(?). It was a dice factory or a nanobot factory that currently let them be dice as it would be easier to move them. Anyway the mutation quickly spread and I believe the worker thought a major change like white to red will appear on the dice. Nothing happen so they assume they were still good.

That it.

Also I decided to quit doing notes unless it something weird.

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Good morning! Slept for a very long time, had a bunch of weird dreams which I didn't write down, but I'm going to try to recall them as best I can anyways. Will write them without any title.

02.00: Sleep

13.40: Dreams and Fragments
*I'm with my brother Martin and my dad. We all have to take the bus. There are loads of different busses coming and going, but finally ours appears. I show the driver my ticket and he claims there's something wrong with it, but lets me get on anyways. The driver must have a screw loose, becaue he drives like a maniac, it's not long before we demand him to stop.

We get out of the bus and start walking through some heavy vegetation near the water. It's like a swamp. After some time we get out of it and I look ahead. Smooth cliffs next to the water, they're not vertical enough so you can walk on them and we slowly walk just at the water's edge. I spot something furry up ahead, and soon I can see big gorillas everywhere. They're smaller than they should be, and have strange deformities and brown fur. One female looks at me, with crooked arms.

The thing by the water was a huge dead one, it doesn't smell anything at all, so I figure it died recently. We have to get into the water to go around the thing, and as we do, I realise there are big sea creatures in it. I swim quickly and get out of the water. I look back and Martin is just behind me, but my dad is gone. "Dad?!" I yell, no answer. I realise the dead gorilla is gone aswell. God damnit the big seamonster must have taken them both! I get in and swim downwards. I am quickly out of breath and have to go up to the surface again for some more. I go down again and see a slotsmachine in a big hole.

*I'm in school with my younger brother Morgan. He hands me a whiskey glass, it's got red lemonade in it and I chug it down. We're watching a big white screen and some teacher is talking. I take notes, it's my first day in school.

*I meet my old classfriend again and once again he's drinking. I tell him that I had a dream about him drinking. He laughs and I ask him maybe it's time to drink a bit less.

*I'm in a big office building, and I decide to play retarded. I walk into a room with three people in it. A teacher is doing some stuff on the white board. I just walk up to the white board, grab a marker from the desk and start drawing my own graph. The teacher freaks out. "What are you doing?!" "What? Is this a permanent marker or what?" I ask him. "Yes it is!" he tells me angrily. I feel bad and try to make the blue lines go away, but in vain.

13.40: Wake up

Amount of sleep: 12 hours

Suppplements: None

That's it!

Keep on dreaming, HARE BRA!

Non-dream Dream Lucid Nightmare Out of Body Experience Fragments False awakening Early awakening

Date: 2011-07-24
Technique: WILD/DILD.

I tryed out the WILD technique again, but again my mind fell asleep and I had to use the DILD-technique to become lucid.

I'm in the elevator of my buildning (in Frölunda). Carrying something big and white. I get out of the elevator. I feel funny. I leave the item I'm carrying and walk right back into the elevator to look at the buttons, to do a reality check. The buttons are not in their right places and now Im lucid, I wake up...?
I'm in my bed. Eyes closed. I believe I'm awake. Suddenly I begin to float, upward toward the ceiling (I'm lucid again). I start to imagen myself climping a rope and then I begin to float faster. I open my eyes when I realize THIS IS MY FIRST OBE!! My room I dark, just like when I fell asleep, but its still possible to see the whole room. I stop about 30cm under the ceiling. I get a little freaked out...

I wake up.

Me and my friend were in a helicopter and it got shot down by WHFs I don't know if we were SWAT or hooligans ourselves but we had rifles and we were shooting West Ham hooligans. We got surrounded and I think we got split up.

The friend I was with was a West Ham fan but I think he was with me because he lives around that area where we were. It was cool.

I think I threw a grenade. Silence was our main weapon becuase there were more of them than there were of us. There were like two of us.

I think I got back in the chopper.

MrIrony's dream

Fragment1: I'm in my grandparents yard. I have a wand and am fighting Draco Malfoy for some reason.

Fragment2: I have an FA where I play some games in order to induce a dream and become lucid. Then I have an even better idea and search for a stage named "pyramid" to, well, induce a dream where I'm at the pyramid. I may have succeeded and had a lucid dream in a dream.

[This is a catch-up post. These dreams are from the night of June 27-28, 2011.]

I'm creeping around a parking lot, in the nude. [This has been a recurring circumstance in my dreams lately. Why is that, I wonder?] I'm trying to get to my car without being seen by anyone.

I'm in a room with a small stage, with a full set for a play on it, where people are rehearsing for a play. Nobody is playing the part of Morgan, so I jump in to play that role. In the play, Morgan is a little girl who watches her mom get murdered right in front of her, in their home. The mom is lying in her bed, and the murderer is some guy who shoots her with a rifle while she's lying there. As I'm acting out Morgan's part, I scream and shriek horrifically in reaction to this, and I start crying real tears. When the scene has ended, I tell the director of the play and the other actors that I'll probably really cry every time we rehearse this scene, but then I take it back, saying: “Even I know better than to do that. If I do that, then I won't have anything left for the performance.”

I'm riding in a car with my parents. We're discussing the washing instructions for a baseball cap that my mom has. They say to 'show' the cap to dry it, and I explain to my mom that the intended meaning there was to 'display' it, e.g., to leave it sitting out to dry. We also discuss how my mom recently had to have the password for some online account set, and in order to do that, they had to ship a packet of papers containing the printed password from Florida to somewhere else on the East Coast.

I'm in a big, cathedral-like building where a lot of people have gathered for a religious service, or a performance, or something like that. We've given everyone a password so that those who want to [and who have laptops] can log in to a Web site to see what's really going on behind the scenes of what's happening in front of them on stage. Apparently, the service/performance/whatever-it-is has something to do with Inception, because I have a printed book that is a dictionary of its characters, items, and concepts.

[Fragment] I'm taking all the bedclothes off my bed, and I realize that what makes my bed so soft and comfortable isn't the mattress itself, but the mattress pad. [This has been a concern of mine in real life lately, pursuant to my upcoming move to a new place with a new mattress.]

DATE: July 22, 2011
LUCIDITY: 1/5
COHESIVENESS: 2/5
FUN/AWESOMENESS RATING: 1/5

The whole dream was set in an unfamiliar building somewhere next to an old highway or railway, with many other people present.

At some point in the dream, Johnny Depp and his supposed rival had to fight against each other for supremacy, by repeatedly running and colliding with each other. A couple other rival actor pairs were doing this, one of which involved Matsumoto Jun, I think.

Then I was a police officer and I was a few seconds late for duty. I tore out of the building and down the short pathway to where I was supposed to be stationed at the edge of the highway, but my boss was crazy about punctuality and I was punished for being several seconds late. There was some kind of emergency or chaotic event going on in the area, so they had desperately needed all officers' help and that would explain why they were pissed off about my lateness, even if it wasn't that bad.

In another part of the dream, a guy sitting across from me tried to initiate a singalong, and for the first few seconds my voice was weak and shaky and I sounded far worse than usual. I don't remember what song we were trying to sing. There were a few others singing it with us.

I think in part of the dream I was fighting with some friends, but my memory of that part is too hazy to form into words. Darn my laziness, it's so much harder to recall the details with so little recent practice : <

I was talking to my friend S at what I'm pretty sure was a large fancy movie theatre. It had several floors and was really bright and colourful and modern looking inside, and had several floors. (It reminds me now of a dream I think I had quite a while ago about a rollercoaster that I'm not sure if I ever recorded..? Maybe it didn't even happen..) She was telling me that she'd gotten a job there as a janitor as she was sweeping the floor.

They also had a bunch of benches in and around the building, and I was talking with her or someone who was saying they should let people sleep on them if they ask.

I'm not sure if this one was related, but I met a girl with blonde hair who had a bottle of Winnie the Pooh honey scented body spray which smelled really good.


More fragments...I haven't had very good recall lately. I should probably go to sleep earlier.

Non-dream Dream Lucid Nightmare Fragments False awakening Early awakening

I'm out partying, drinking beer with my friends Oskar and Simon. Going to meet up with our other friend C-M. Meet him, Arre and Johanna and some more people at a field with a lot of people drinking in it. I was some kind of festival?