dream fragment

Got most of my stuff packed up today. Just clothes left, mostly.

09/12/10



I'm filming a documentary about the variety of religious beliefs in our culture. My invisible cameraman and I are set up near a bus stop. I interview people and ask them to talk about their beliefs on camera.

One young woman wants me to come to her evangelical, ultra-conservative church to film and meet her minister/pastor/reverend. While this probably is a golden opportunity for me, I really don't want to go. Absolutely nothing in this scenario could possibly end well.

The woman turns into a girl I knew in high school, someone I barely ever talked to. We're going on a road trip through the US, and I'm consulting the GPS on my cell phone.

I'm walking through an airport.

Scare Factor: 2/10
Rating: 1/10

Quick fragment of a dream but I'll say it anyway. I had dreamt that I was in building at my school and there was this bench in front of me. Sitting on the bench were football players but sitting on the furthest right was this enormous player. He was about size of big statue and then this normally big player tried to tackle him while he was sitting(which was stupid because he had his back to the wall so he couldn't have brought down the player) My little brother was there with me watching it and then my bro radomly ran towards this stair case which were on the top of and jumped off it. I quickly ran towards him and grabbed him and asked why he did that and then that's when I woke up.

12.09.2010

Laptop randomness (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was on a sandy roud near a plain with some people on it. The whole dream was kinda brown and there was a lot of sand. I just bought a laptop. In fact, everyone there was going to buy a laptop, or has just bought one. We bought new laptops because our old laptops were very old and slow. I walked around a lot and talked to some people.

I recently bought a laptop, I recently started working with lots of laptops and computers every day and I have to fix someone's laptop in my free time. That's why I dreamt about this. The dream was not really fun to have but also not very bad. At least there was some color in it. Too bad I can't recall more of the dream.

Date: Sept.12
Time: between 7am-10am

Important Note:
Again, from the night before I tried that no preparation technique of being completely confident about LDing, and it actually worked twice in a row. I did a mini WBTB. I was only up for about 5 minutes before falling back to sleep. I remember the dream before I awoke, and my lucid dream after.

Description: A long semi-vivid dream. I remember mostly the ideas, and feelings of the dream, but not that actual order of events, and I have lost details throughout the day since I was late for work. My lucid dream was very short, or maybe I don't remember some of it. Again, tried different techniques to fly, but was only able to jump higher than usual.

Dream: So I am in my backyard, with a couple of family members. For some reason we walk out into the front yard and look down the street. I see a couple of little kids riding their bike, for some reason we all think we are about to get attacked by zombies. So we decide to be defend ourselves in the house. I remember my dad telling me to get my bible, so I rush into my old upstairs bedroom and grab a red bible that was sitting under some papers. I rush out of my room outside, and talk to my family on what to do. We are by my front door, and to the left where there was a bush, now there is a secret staircase leading down, kind of looked like a bomb shelter of some sort. I never go down. I start talking about, once somebody gets bit, then the infection will grow rapidly. That soon we will be defending ourselves against the neighborhood. And eventually we will be in the apocalypse, and might be the only human survivors. That we need to leave, the house and drive far away. Nobody listened to me. I kept repeating myself and getting frustrated, because no matter what I said, nobody would listen. It got dark out, and my nephew finally listened. So I took off in my car with him and headed for some strip mall, that had a couple of big stores in it. I remember trying to tell him we need to go to Chicago. But then I awoke to my alarm.

LD: So I fell back asleep and ended outside in the front of my house. It felt very cool, the wind was blowing, and it was late morning early afternoon. I remember for some reason I thought I was dreaming, so I did an RC of the nose plug, and it failed. I didn't get to excited, because I have learned to control that emotion when in an LD. So I said I was dreaming, and decided to try to fly. Before going to bed, I looked up how to fly in a dream. So I tried out different techniques. One was just look up at the sky and jumping. I did this, but all I did was jump kind of high. Then I tried imagining the ground moving away from me as I was in air, but that failed. I can't remember anything else, but I know there was more to it.

DJ Log: September 12, 2010 – Morning, 9:30AM (USA Eastern)
Text color legend: · NON-DREAM · NOTES · DREAM · LUCID ·

I was flying low to the ground over an oval shaped dirt track in a grassy yard. The yard is sloped, and the track has a low side and a high side. There is a checkpoint on both the upper and lower straight sections of the track. A half dozen DCs are racing around the track in small 4-wheeled vehicles that appear to be go-karts. The vehicles made no noise other than the tires running over the dirt.

(Note: something was significantly interesting about the checkpoint in the lower part of the track, but I cannot recall the details.)

DJ Log: September 11, 2010 – Morning, 9:15AM (USA Eastern)
Text color legend: · NON-DREAM · NOTES · DREAM · LUCID ·

I rolled a denim office chair around in a grocery store, loading items onto it. Went through the checkout line, putting the items on the belt. An older employee of the store went through an adjacent checkout line, and when leaving the door greeter asked, jokingly, to see his receipt. I laughed with them as they both left the store. I picked up my bags and pushed the chair into the cart return before exiting the store.

September 12, 2010

Asleep by 1:30am.

WBTB at 4:30am. I was drifting in and out of sleep throughout most of this. Trying an experiment. It failed, but produced a funny result... Every 10 minutes, my snooze alarm was ringing and pushing me back to awareness.

Pet rat
I was sitting in front of my rabbit's cage, but my rabbit wasn't in there. Instead, it was the adorable Arizona rat (type of breed) with beige hair. It was coming up to the side of the cage and bumping noses with me like my rabbit does. I would stick my fingers through the cage, and it would hold my fingers with its forepaws. It really wanted to be held, and suddenly, the cage was different. The cage bit was now wire with very open squares... big enough that I could pull the rat through them with a bit of maneuvering. I put my hands through the cage, and the rat let me hold him as I guided him through a square hole. Suddenly, my cell alarm (in the dream) started ringing. I had to put the rat down, and then I mashed my phone's buttons to snooze it again. But it wasn't working... odd...

It woke me up and I was still trying to mash the snooze button. I realized then that I had been snoozing for an entire hour, and it wasn't going to let me anymore. I had to turn it off and reset the alarm.

Tried to WILD for an hour, not a very good attempt. My dad was bumbling around upstairs and I didn't have my ear plugs in.

Back to bed and had troubles falling asleep. Back to the couch and passed out.

With a bad sort - Lucid - 2/5
I'm a character in this dream. A very rich girl, maybe no more than 18. We're set in around the 1910's judging by the clothes everyone is wearing. We're in a warehouse, and it's dimly lit and musty. A group of men working for me (about 5 maybe) have this woman sat at a table, and they are holding her there. I'm questioning her about a money transaction. A bit of false memory tells me she may have worked for me once... like a hand maid or something.

I recall looking over a paper transaction notice (which, ironically was printed in computer print) and saw that she wasn't lying, the transaction had gone through.

"It's too bad we still have to kill you," I tell the woman.

"Why?!" she freaks out. "I've done what you asked!" She is completely frightened and starts sobbing.

"I don't need you running to the cops," I say, coldly.

"Please, I won't! Please spare me! I don't want to die!" she pleads.

I feel a pull in my heart. I still need to kill her, but the poor thing, she's so frightened. "We won't make it painful!" I promised. "It'll just be like falling asleep, only you won't wake up..."

I trailed off and contemplated my last words. Just like falling asleep... I clued in I was dreaming, but only vaguely. I wondered how to change this scene. Maybe Danny could save the day?

My dream vision flashes over to Danny, who is lounging on a deck chaise, reading a magazine. "In a minute," he says, and waves me off.

My dream vision flashes back over to the woman, and one of my crooks (a crooked doctor) is holding the woman's eyes open with these tiny, thin hooks. "Wait, what are you doing?" I ask. The woman is shrieking, crying and pleading. "You're scaring her more, it wasn't supposed to be like this."

"We're going to take her sight first," the doctor explains. He hooks open her other eye and I wake myself up.

Back to bed again.

Fragments
Drinking a cup of coffee and discovered the cream is spoiled.

Watching this girl explain to her parents that her nose job was going to be a good thing for her.

Jack and I arriving at this BBQ at a friend's place, only to find that we're too late and people are leaving. Another guest says all the food is devoured.

(I had a feeling this one was part of another dream, but as per the norm, I woke up for no reason at all in the middle of the night.)

I had missed the first day of school because I'd been sick, so when I finally came back, I was scrambling to have everything done and accounted for. I didn't get all the teacher's syllabuses, but I did get a packet that contained two journals, a whole bunch of papers, and what the teacher called his "Welcome to school gift and personal learning plan."

I was utterly confused, but listened anyway to a confusing teaching style that involved teacher-student interaction and students functioning on their own. Eventually I just shrugged and said, "okay. I think I get it."

It didn't help that this math class I was supposed to take was just about two hours long.

FML.

I woke up.

Originally Posted by Waking journal entry:

Today was less than spectacular. It started off decent enough with no work. I got the apartment vacuumed, and even managed to watch about 85% of Inception finally. I MUST FINISH THIS MOVIE!!! after the wife came home we went to Nicks to see if he could diagnose the computer, and he was having his b-party. Some gun, and cake eating ensued, but then it was down to business. Turns out my mother board/processor are fried. FML I don't have this kind of money On the way home Daniel called, Her grandpap is in the hospital again. She wanted to know if i could work on my weekend off so that she could finish moving her stuff and visit him. I caved in. I don't want to go to work. the only reason i agreed is because i have no money and absolutely have to have this computer back or i won't be able to make more. Fuck having a home business. It's to hard. I hate my full-time job. At least i got cake.

Had 3 very vivid dreams. I remember waking up and going. "Woah for real?" I fail to remember the first two now though. When i woke in the middle of the night i should have at least jotted their subjects down. but no i just rolled over and said "bah I'll remember it." the third dream was strange.

I was standing in an isle way of a grocery store with a cart full of food, and my cousins husband, Markus. Markus has the baby-mans, Dylan, with him, but Dylan had black hair, and the weirdest beard. I remember at one point going "Baby's don't have beards, but my subconscious have me a vary detailed reason as to why he had it, and that it would go away. I accepted this, and the dream carried on. We finally got to the check out, and i gave Dylan the ice cream he wanted "Doodz" we're brand of Ice cream i thought but i ignored it. Then every time he ate i got money. Another cousin showed up and tried to take Dylan but i wouldn't let her, and then some crazy man with claw marks shaved into his head and just plowed right through us at the check-out lane.

Alarm clock went off. Sometimes i like my dreams better than waking up. I wish things would start looking upwards for me.


Side notes:
JILD Day 1- Nothing
Dream becoming increasingly Vivid.

11.09.2010

DV Fragments (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I did not have a rested sleep. I woke up several, several times during the night. I had my mind wondering all night and I was super unfocused. I recorded several fragments:

All fragments I can remember were about DV. On some I was teaching classes, on some I was doing admin stuff and on some more I was just posting and reading threads. Most of these were micro-dreams.

Missed Dream Signs:
- Unknown.

What I would have done if lucid:
- With such a messy night, probably I would attempt to Astral Project from the lucid.

School Fragment (Supplemented by Melatonin and Vitamin B6)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

So I popped a pill, containing 3mg of melatonin and 3mg of Vitamin B6. Stayed up for a while before letting the drowsiness kick in. I'm not sure of this, but I had a lot of 'day-dream' moments before falling asleep (need someone to tell me what are these!).

Unfortunately I kept waking up, which is weird because melatonin is supposed to make you fall into deep sleep for the first 70% or so of your sleep. I did get dreams in the morning though, quite a lot of them, and are not very vivid, which is another thing that surprised me.

Some fragments:

• I remembered seeing 20 notifications in DV.
• From what I can remembered, I recalled waking up in my classroom during recess and checking if there's still time to grab a bite. On the way I had to pass through the gym, and I saw my Discipline Master instructing someone on how to use some equipment. He asked me to pass him a wooden ball, which I did. He dropped it, but I continued walking on.
  
  Instead of heading towards the canteen I walked to the school hall where everyone was playing badminton. Someone asked me why I came so late, and I told him I was feeling drowsy (probably because of the melatonin) and decided to sleep for a while. I borrowed a badminton racket from a friend and decided to show off my badminton skills, which weren't very good at that moment.
  
  The bell rang, and someone told me I ruined their game because they were winning. I thought he was joking, so I let it slide, but after a while I asked if it was true. But before he could reply we saw everyone gathering at the foyer and I thought we were late for some sort of meeting, so we rushed there.
  
  I saw the Discipline master there, so on instinct I reached out to my shirt and began stuffing it into my pants for uniform inspection, but I failed. When I reached the foyer the DM told me he already inspected me, so I need not attend. I was quite confused at that moment, because the last time we saw each other was at the gym. I sat down near my juniors. A teacher walked by and decided to release us by shouting a command. She made a mistake at first, and everyone was waiting for her to amend it. Then to my horror she shouted out some weird command that goes like this: Pooh pooh pooh pooh backside backside 1 2 3 4 Go!

I woke up after that, still feeling horrified and wtf-ed at that command. My neck was quite sore.

I spent most of the day packing for the move. I don't like packing.

09/11/10



Incandescent light bulbs are hanging from wires, interspersed several meters apart. It's quite dim. The dirt floor is covered in straw, and I kick up pieces of it as I walk.

I'm leaning down over a roughly made cage, which is covered in chicken wire. The top is open, and I see a few rabbits hopping about on the floor. I pick up the one that looks like my childhood pet, all white fur and red eyes. As I pet the rabbit in my arms, the dream fades around me.

Scare Factor: 0/10
Rating: 2/10

Well, that was uncharacteristic.

September 11, 2010

The trick
I was involved with a group of people trying to play a trick on a group of bad people. This was really more than a trick, it was a whole set-up, I guess. Involved on the good team with me is Elijah (from work), Eddy, possibly my dad (according to my notes) and Jesse from All My Children. On the evil side is David from All My Children, and a bunch of dream characters.

We were trying to make David and his team believe that something had happened that didn't really happen. I was alone, and kicked off the plan. The details of what I said or did are very fuzzy. Eddy then got involved. Once it was rolling, Jesse came into the room I was in and was upset about the current pace and inactivity of our plan. He didn't know I had kicked it off. I filled him in on what happened so far, and he was pleased.

Missed dream signs
- Interacting with co-workers outside of work situations
- Interacting with TV show characters

Had I realized them
- Would've done some reality tests to see if any work for me (nose pinch, mouth roof, and tongue bite)
- Would've left the plot to summon Danny for help with conjuring my brother

Puppy fragment
Jack and I were renting a basement suite from Hannah, who lived upstairs. She was opening the door of our suite for us and this dog ran outside to greet us. He was typically brown-furred, but had this patch of fiery-coloured red fur on his nose. He wasn't the world's cutest dog, but he was super-friendly, which rather made up for it

Missed dream signs
- Jack and I living in an apartment other than here (this is a new sign creeping up a lot lately)
- Seeing people who I don't see anymore (Hannah)

Had I realized them
- Would've done some reality tests to see if any work for me (nose pinch, mouth roof, and tongue bite)
- Would've left the plot to summon Danny for help with conjuring my brother

Lucid

Dream

1.

Me and 2 mates were around and then there was a lot of water as we were 'flooding' the house

2.

Whilst cleaning the blankets (?) we played Super Mario World 3D. I was in the final level playing against Bowser to win a prize. I kept dying even though I felt like I had practiced a lot. Eventually I ran out of lives and lost.

3.

A few things happened consisting of an empty field with a car and a creature who when its name was said killed something. After this, there was a wooden beam and Flanders (from the simpsons) was tied to it and rotating around the pole. At the end of it, there was Homer sitting on his roof.

4.

I was in a room with a lot of paintings. There was a tightrope guy teaching us how to walk across one and then there was suddenly two tightropes, one for him and one for me. I went to leave and was told to make sure that the paintings were not taken down but I did not inform the others.
I was then in a lecture/class room and I ran into an old friend. I asked her if she was at uni now and she looked at me in a puzzled way and said something.
Eventually I left and went back into the room with the paintings to find that half of them had been taken down. At this time the people who told me not to take them down came and I got into trouble.



Well that's about it. I am definitely missing a few bits but I was too lazy to write them down. I think my recall is improving slightly which is good.

All I remember of this dream is that there was a bare tree (I believe there was a white background so it may have been winter), and a glimpse of a drawing of some man yelling...