dream fragment

Had another dream about WILD. Not SP.

All I remember from last night's dreams were the feeling of being lost and slight flashes of scenery.

This morning I could remember the dreams in full, but a few hours passed and I completely forgot my intention to write them down here. Usually I remember my dreams through the whole day and sometimes a few days after but for some reason or another they seemed to have slipped my mind. Figures, I would forget my dreams after the night before declaring that I was going to start posting in my dream journal more often.

If you are reading this wondering why I'm talking about my dream recall and nothing really about my dreams, it's because usually when I start to talk about my dreaming experiences I start to recall the dreams I forgot previously. My mind works in that kind of funny way, but I enjoy it.

Unfortunately my technique is failing to work on this attempt, but I have confidence that I will remember a lot more from tonight's dreams. If I remember anything later on in the day I'll be sure to document, because that also happens. Crazy trains of thought that end up in sudden recall.

Till next time!

21.09.2010

High School Dream, Again! (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Setting:
- Saint Louis School of Mandaue

Time Occured:
- around 7:30 - 8:30, i guess it was my last dream during the whole sleep

Dream Characters:
- Joshua
- Moi
- Elbao


It all started in a very weird way, like a manga was infront of me and I'm reading it. Moi and the girl he courts is in the gym. Moi was kneeling down and offered flowers to this girl, but gets rejected again. End of the scene.

After a while, I heard people shouting, coming from the theater. I didn't see what's happening but I knew that there's a play going on. Moi is one of the cast, but I didn't have interest in this kind of stuff so I went on my way. I went inside the main building and continued walking. As I was approaching the room of the Glee Club, I noticed the girl Moi was courting, entering the room. I thought it was weird seeing her enter that room (since she isn't a member), and she was bringing a bottle of Coca-Cola. I instantly thought she changed her mind about Moi. The ring bells, and it was lunch time.

I headed to my room in the fourth floor of the building, and met Moi and Joshua. We walked along the corridor, which was filled with students everywhere. We stopped by a girl and I told her something (I totally forgot who she was and what I told her) and went on our way. We went down the stairs, and suddenly I was in the gym, and I was alone.

I continued to walk and saw someone in the bleachers, Elbao. As I tried to approached him, darkness began to appear. Bam! End of the dream.

09/20/10



We're taking our lunch break. A bottle of Starbucks Frappuccino appears in my hand. It's delicious; the taste is replicated perfectly.

"Are you ready to go?" My dad asks, from the couch. He's asking if I'm ready to go back to work.

"I haven't even eaten yet!" I say, exasperated.

Scare Factor: 1/10
Rating: 1/10

Two dreams about my job last night. Both of them were actually AT my job too. These dreams were a rarity, wherein they were normal. :O The only thing that set them of was in dream number two as i was dealing with a very nasty customer, 'Margaritaville' started playing on the speaker system. I instantly knew i was dreaming, but all i did was relax, and i lost everything. Arg i hate my job.. I've never had dreams where my brain actually used the layout of that unholy departments store. I guess i need to boost my RC's, and cross my finger they work next time...Assuming this wasn't a fluke lol.



Wasting away again in Margaritaville,
Searching for my lost shaker of salt,
Some people claim that there's a woman to blame,
But I know it's nobody's fault.

Short fragment and a slightly longer fragment tonight. The short fragment was that I was walking down a long isle in a grocery store, shopping with my wife. She was asking me if we should get some juice, but I was like, "Eh, nah." This, of course, would never happen in real life; my wife absolutely refuses to take me grocery shopping.

In the second sequence I was walking down the street with a black woman. We were about to get on a subway. She was telling me about how she was looking forward to riding the IM subway for the first time, only she pronounced it like the "im" in "him". A white woman near us who overheard was annoyed and corrected her that it was pronounced like initials. As we walked down the stairs into the subway, the black woman had her subway pass on some kind of wood or plastic board; she didn't know she was supposed to hold it at a certain angle as she passed through the scanner, but it was hanging at the right angle anyways. As we proceeded she asked me why I didn't need a pass, I told her it was because I had already picked up a special permit which required two forms of ID and that when you show them they only give back one (which I then thought was kind of counterintuitive). As I was telling her this, we were passing by the special permit area where I could remember earlier (possibly even in the same dream here) standing in line to get the permit. The subway looked more like an airport terminal.

19.09.2010

Oddity at the store (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I am still under my dry spell of low recall, but still recalling some stuff during the night. As some of you know, I have been a little anxious with my new business stuff, but it will be over soon.

I was in the Pata Negra store. I entered and it had an electric door. The door opened itself and I started to get the store ready for opening. Suddenly, the door closed itself, and the store was dark. The lights did not work so I had to guess to opened again.

Some customers came in. The door closed itself a few times. I apoligized the customers and wondered what happened.

Close to the backroom, there were some folks doing a cocktail drink, pouring a lot of alcohol from a weird liquor bottle.

Missed dream signs:
- That odd door.
- Light not working.

What I would have done if lucid:
- Head for a ToTY.

09/19/2010

Subconscious Shenanigans (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Unfortunately I don't remember this one all that well (I need to work on recall!) but it was indeed alucid dream. I believe this was led into from another dream. From what I can remember, it seems as though I was lucid the entire time. I had intended to communicate with my subconscious the next time I became lucid, so that is what I was trying to do. I remember looking over a rather scenic landscape, and chatting with several people who are all parts of my subconscious, or so it seems. The scene pans quite a bit, and by the end I'm on a floating platform of sorts... tied to a tree, I think? I can't really remember.

Somewhere about halfway through the dream I notice that my "dream" only fills a rectangle in my field of vision. (Think the Animus from Assassin's Creed. I've been playing that a lot the past couple days.) I can see and hear my friend Andy off to the left, and he can hear what I'm saying to these parts of my subconscious. I'm not lucid enough to realize this isn't possible. As for what I actually ask my subconscious, I'm not quite sure. I know I didn't get to ask everything I wanted to. I only clearly remember the bit at the end, though I recall several people. There was also a robot sort of thing that I couldn't really understand. Mainly I was talking to this jolly, but VERY fat man. Towards the end he puts on a record which has some recorded burp-type sounds on a baseline of sorts, which I think is a meme I've heard. (It isn't, but sadly it isn't far off...)

I remember asking in joking disbelief, "have the memes really sunk in this far...?"

He responded, "Well, perhaps you haven't heard this one, but somebody did, on _____" (some website, I can't remember. Think like Pandora radio or Last.fm)

"So what, is it like in the hivemind then, or something?" I joked. I don't remember his response. Around this time, the one question I do remember asking is about having more lucid dreams, to which he answers, "Just be yourself, and keep doing what you've been doing." The advice doesn't seem too helpful, but on the other hand... I did something right. He ends up leaving saying, "Sorry, I gotta go. I'm gonna be on TV soon, you know."

"Yeah, I'm sure you're just wildly popular," I laugh. He motions to a woman that's there suggesting that she's the popular one. There was also some random man there, but I didn't end up talking to either of them. The dream faded before I got to ask the other questions I wanted to, like about intuition and the paranormal.

Dream of September 19th, 2010

I was in a desert, but I can’t remember how I got there or what had happened before this. I was Aang from Avatar the last Airbender. I was flying along in the desert when I saw a young girl with tanned skin and black hair. She said that there were people after her and asked me to help her. I agreed and took her with me to my friends, Katara, Sokka, and Appa.

When I entered the camp I told the gang the girl’s situation. After talking a bit I realized that I wasn’t acting quite how Aang would act, I was acting to serious, so I tried to smile more and sound happier and optimistic like Aang usually does. The girl then told everyone the rest of the details, such as where the bad guys’ base was, and then she showed me that she had wire handcuff type things on her wrists. To cut the wire off of her wrists I put my fingers as if I were using scissors for the game “rock, paper, scissors” and then I closed the two fingers and attempted to cut the wire. The first attempt didn’t work but then I tried to focus my mind and inhaled to bring in energy and then I tried to cut it again, this time it worked.

After cutting the wire we all got ready to leave for the base. For the first part of the journey we just walked, but once we arrived at the tunnel where the enemy base was I had everyone ride on Appa while I flew (which doesn’t make sense since usually Aang walks Appa through tunnels and flies through open areas).

As we descended down into the base we encountered some of the bad guys, which I quickly took care of. Once we got further down the tunnel it started to transition from the rough rock to smooth white painted walls and wooden floors. I’m not sure how it happened but I ended up getting separated from the rest of them. I found the leaders in what looked to be a kitchen but they fled out the door into a hallway.

I’m not sure after if I separated from Aang’s body and became myself or just went into first person after that. Anyways, I walked down the hallway and searched for the leaders when a boy came and said that they had placed illusions and that we would have to break them to find them. I think I went into one of the rooms after that and broke one of their illusions and found one of the guys, and then I went back into the hall and into another room. In this room there were many windows, some chairs, and at the end a grand piano. Something felt wrong about the room, the appearances of things seemed to change slightly every so often, and it made me feel a little weak and my mind fuzzy. I tried putting my hands in front of me and touched everything to see if it was real, and then I went up to the piano and picked it up and moved it. While I was moving the piano it ended up touching some pipe like object which shattered the illusion.

The appearance of the room had changed drastically. Most of the windows had faded away and the chairs and everything else looked plain instead of elegant like it used to. Since the windows faded away the room became darker, and it actually made me feel a little scared. I turned around to leave the room and saw one of the men escaping into a different room. I went to follow him but then the dream faded away.

DJ Log: September 19, 2010 – Mid-afternoon nap, 2:00PM (USA Eastern)
Text color legend: · NON-DREAM · NOTES · DREAM · LUCID ·

I find myself falling from high in the pitch black sky. There is a small white dot far below me, which becomes larger as I fall. Once close enough, the white dot is a rainbow colored swirling pool. The colors are super bright and extremely vivid. Once I got closer to the pool, my whole field of vision was completely saturated with white light. This was the dream's exit.

Not a lot to report as far as dreams last night. mostly just some fragments. One i can remember very clearly though and it was a FA:

I woke up and sat up in bed. i noticed the candle on the table was still lit, and walked over to blow it out. but the lid on the jar was sealed. i turned around to tell my wife, when i realized that a candle can't stay lit in a jar with the lid on.

I don't remember anything after that.


DILD Class HW:

<@puffin> 1) pick three of the above reality checks and explain the pros and cons of each.

Nose Plug: While very simple, and easy to remember sometimes it dose not work. Several people have stating passing a nose plug RC in a dream.

Location RC: This could work splendidly if you dream about the location you visit on a daily basis, but this would not work for me. My dreams take place in places resembling those from my past like my parents house, or my home town. I have not seen either in about 2 years so remembering to RC when seeing them would be nearly impossible since i never see them...

Reading RD: I'm sure trying to read a webdings book would be key number 1 that you were dreaming, however if you are so into your dream that you can understand the gibberish this RC would pass. This would also fail to work if there was nothing to read at your current location.


<@puffin> 2) why is it better to question reality everywhere, and not just when something specific happens?

Because you could be dreaming about something from real life, or having a FA. I once had a dream i was out shopping in my home town. I didn't even think to question reality because it was something I was used to. In order to really become aware you're dreaming you need to question everything even if the same thing happens at the same time every day like the mail man delivering mail..

DJ Log: September 15, 2010 – Morning, 4:00AM (USA Eastern)
Text color legend: · NON-DREAM · NOTES · DREAM · LUCID ·

(Note: I only remember a small fragment)

I am configuring an application on a computer which has a couple of check boxes. One check box says, 'Evolution: Enable/Disable', and another says, 'Big Bang Theory: Enable/Disable'. There is a warning message that states, 'Warning: These options are applied in real-time'.

Well don't remember much at all, here goes. All I remember is that it was myself and some friends, we were hiding from some enemy that was trying to kill us that I don't really remember. (Nor do I remember why) My friends weren't people I know in real life, but they were good friends in the dream.

Each of us had a piece of paper half full with text. I don't know what any of it said, but apparently it was a page written of someones tragedy and was full of emotion. (Apparently it had to have someone feeling strong emotions at the time to write it for it to work?) We could put them on the ground and jump into them which would bring us to some hideout in another dimension, where we could escape from the guys after us.

I don't remember what goes on, but the dream morphs into the police chasing us, I am at my home and it is now winter (Still all of us trying to escape) and now we would have to place the pages on the ice of our pond where it would bring us underneath where we wouldn't feel cold and wouldn't need oxygen.

We get a new member to the group, bigger guy with shoulder-length brown hair, he seems nice enough, but ends up selling us out to the police and destroying my page after he has received one. After this the police arrive and I wake up.

Wow, cheesiest dream once I read it. Meh who cares, I just hope this starts boosting my recall a little more.

Type: Regular dream.
Lucidity: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Vividness: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

I remember being in a darkly-lit toy store, arranged like the electronics section in a Toy's R Us store. There were tall, thin dark gray shelves with hooks, from which hung trading cards, backpacks, and other paraphernalia. I remember opening a pack of pokemon cards and reading the actual names of pokemon, but while the artwork on the cards were accurate, I've never seen that artwork before in real life. Unfortunately this is all I can remember.

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Good morning! Finally a night with some vivid and fun dreams! Although I only remember one of them, I know the other dreams I had was fun. I thought Puffin's DILD class was at 01.00. But it was at 03.00! Anyways it was a cool class, and I can't wait to learn some more

D: I'm just leaving someone's house, and I'm embarrassed. I think it was some kind of party and I had been exposed as a fraud of some sort. I see a black pickup truck and figure it must be my ride. A guy is sitting in the back and I decide to join him. I throw my limegreen bag up and over the car, totally missing it. "God damnit" I think for myself as I grab it and try again. I don't get it right until the third time. I jump up and sit next to the guy. The car starts moving and in a minute or so we enter a forest. The dream changes and suddenly we're cruising the car on ice. It has only one front wheel and I ask why. "It gets better grip if you only have one wheel" someone tells me. We meet up with another car and we splash him with some water as we go by. Suddenly I can see a large hole in the ice ahead of us. "Oh no! The ice has melted away over there" my grandpa doesn't stop the car and continue driving. When we reach the assumed hole, we see that it's still just ice. I make a big speech about sun reflecting. We seem to go around in circles and soon we're at that same forest again. I don't know how, but the car disappears and we're somehow cruising on our bellies. It's like I'm on a surfboard and my grandpa is at the back, kicking with his legs, only we're on land. I jump high up in the air on some small bumps and I go up into the treetops. The landing doesn't hurt and we continue through the forest. When we reach the ice, we see that it has been replaced by water. I grab onto a weird, gray snake-like foam thingy and direct it with my hands. When I get it right, I pick up speed. Alot of speed. Suddenly we're shooting through the water and it feels great! We take the same route and end up at the beginning of the lake again. This time I go underwater for a few seconds because of bad steering, and when I go back up, I see a small raft out in the lake. Filled with extremely hot bikini girls! I shoot past them and take a good look, grinning like a fool. I can hear them cheering me on. After a few meters I jump off the foam thingy and I'm in shallow waters. A huge wave appears out of nowhere and I dive into it to go behind it. My grandpa decided to just stand there and it actually affected him less than me. Soon after I woke up.

F: I'm with my brothers at some huge waterpark of some sort. I don't remember much but the dream was very long and very vivid.

Amount of sleep: 8 hours

Note to self: Write more dreams down! I forget to do it when I wake up and fall back asleep. Anyways that's it folks.

Keep on dreaming, HARE BRA!