dream fragment

I joined the Serial Dream RPG challenge and I think this night I started engaging in it. Some lady introduced me to the game and I started working on the look of my character, although officially it hadn't start yet


NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID FALSE AWAKENING



22:50 GMT – Sleep

0:00 GMT
No dreams recalled

1:10 GMT

Discussion with dad
I’m at my mom’s house with her and my dad. My dad enquires me about these “things” I am involved in (namely Buddhism, spiritual practices and dream-stuff). As he is enquiring me about this, I am on the laptop just finalizing this thing on the DV forum or something like that and I start responding him by exemplifying what I was just dealing with on that moment.
He is a hardcore atheist, materialist, for whom nothing like shared dreams or reality being product of the mind is acceptable. He therefore becomes more and more stressed as I go explaining all this. My mom understands more or less what I’m saying and as usual, she is eager to learn, so she is quiet in the background. My father gets up and starts moving around a bit angry. He says I am completely off tracks and lost my reason. I try to show him that’s not the case, it is merely him who is narrow-minded. But he gets really pissed. He asks me if I trust more these “people” (I guess my fellow dreamers, my Buddhist sangha, my gurus?) than I trust his judgement. And I clearly say a resounding yes! That no matter how much that hurts him, I would more readily follow any advice from my gurus than from him, whose judgement I always had very little trust. He goes ballistic! He starts shouting and my mom now wants to intervene but I tell her not to. I tell him that I am an adult independent woman and he no longer controls me or decides for me what’s best.
My dad leaves the room, then opens the front door, but sits outside in the stairs, groaning about it. My mom then laughs and makes really nervous mockery about his reaction. She always gets upset with this frequent clash between me and dad. But I was expecting this exact reaction and I know this is a dream and therefore I was not afraid to push him to his limits – I am planting the seed. With time he will see, understand and accept that I make my own choices.

4:00 GMT

Hovercraft ride
I’m with some group of people, like we’re on an adventure and we’re by the side of a road waiting for transportation. Two vans arrive and we divide in two groups. The van I go to, then transforms into a hovercraft. The lady driver seems to be a bit crazy and as soon as she starts driving, she steps on the gas. We go through dangerous roads through mountains, on top of cliffs and we are a bit scared with her driving – on one point, we almost fell off the road – so we tell her to go slower or she we’ll damage the hovercraft as the road is quite bad. That’s the only argument that works to convince her.

Surreal bathroom landscape
Later I’m in a tall building, like a skyscraper. At this point for some reason I am entering a bathroom expecting to find someone there and I find these two black ladies, mother and young daughter, in the bathtub, very relaxed. The floor is wet. So wet, that actually it looks like a lake. I climb onto a sofa that is on the left side of the room and as I sit there, I am actually like on the edge of a lake. I see aquatic plants and I see an animal approaching. It is a bison! He is coming out of the water and the only way to do so is by also climbing to the sofa. I find this just too damn weird, the bison is huge and will for sure crush me, so I decide to leave this room and wait for whatever is supposed to happen to come to me instead.


Skyscraper fall survivors
I am now on a room with bookshelves and there’s a window where I can see the outside. We’re on some high floor and I see another building in front, as well as a viaduct a bit to the left side. Then an earthquake strikes and this building we are in, starts bending forward, like a tree. It hits the building in front and lies suspended diagonally. Before the whole thing collapses I manage to get out through the window and others (still the same group since the beginning of the adventure?) follow me. We end up on a kind of platform, which I think is part of the collapsed viaduct that was nearby. A bunch of people gathers here, looking around seeing the destruction. This black girl that was on the bathtub is exploring a bit more and her mother calls her back, because she is doing some acrobatic stunts in some other suspended platform, on a level below us. It looks very unstable but she insists in looking for survivors or something. She then returns and all together we find some way down to the ground level.

Ice-creams on underground city
After walking some time under the debris, we find an entrance to an underground part of the city and this seems to be intact and fully running. There are some guards at the door, but they allow us in. This underground place is like a city within the city, it looks like a giant mall, with cafés, shops, galleries and even hotels. I am sitting on a café table, crying. Two ladies from the group appear again by my side and order ice-creams. I feel disoriented, how can they be so cool, eating ice-creams. I decide to get up and leave but they just give me an order to go get an orange ice-cream for myself. And I go and when I am trying to pay, the cashier asks me if my money is new and good. I don’t know why he asks me that but I look in my wallet and I have lots of foreign money and some chips with insignias on it, I have no clue what they are. The ice cream is only 20 cts, which I manage to pay and ask it to be delivered at table two.

Rules of the game and entering my character
Then there’s a gap, but a lady (one of the previous ladies?) is now explaining me “the game”. She shows me a large text, like a roll of parchment she starts unfolding in front of my eyes. It’s an introduction and rules of the game. But it is so dense, so long, that I just give up after a few paragraphs and lose my interest. I continued looking at it, but at a certain point I was no longer reading it.
Then there’s another gap, but I remember starting walking through these large hallways – where everything is luxurious, like an underground avenue with hotels on both sides and fancy restaurants and art galleries. I feel I have a new different look, so I stop by a large mirror on the wall to look at myself and I look weird but cool at the same time, with long black hair, dark sunglasses and an avant-garde red dress with a stylish hood over my head. I feel I look awesome but maybe a bit too much Lady Gaga for my taste. Everybody is looking at me and I feel I need to tone down a little. I take the hood and the glasses. And adjust the dress – it actually becomes sexier, with a cleavage and tighter. Then I think I look more like what I should look like and keep going. I find this exit doors to the outside and end up in a square with a fountain. I remember lots of people moving around, coming in an out of the underground city, the outside being a bit grey, then... I don’t recall the rest of the dream.


7:30 GMT – Wake up

05.09.2010

Giving a hand at the Olive Oil store. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I slept only six hours. I went to bed late and woke up early. I recalled three fragments.

Third:

This dream was drawn from old residue and false memories.

I was at the olive oil store. (residue, it has been over a month I do not work there) The store had two identical tasting bars. We had different shaped bottles with different olive oils (false memory) I tasted one. It tasting like olive oil and something else I cannot recall properly, however, it had like sand. I saw the manager, who was not friendly at all. There were different co-workers.

I was walking around the store and I was behind one of these bars. I knew I did not work there, I just went to say hi. The store was very busy and as I was behind a bar, I gave a hand. I wondered if they would even appreciate my voluntarism.

The store closed at 06:00 PM now. I was wondering how they could close so early. The store was in the middle of the country. There was nothing but sand and a few trees outside. It was sunny.

Missed dream signs:
- Two tasting bars.
- Odd bottles.
- I was "working" there.

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

05.09.2010

Lots of applicants. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I slept only six hours. I went to bed late and woke up early. I recalled three fragments.

Second:

- I was online.
- I was scheduling work.
- I had tons of applicants. My entire profile plus all the work to do had applicants ready to complete it for me.
- I had almost all done.
- I was happy.

Missed dream signs:
- Havings tons of applicants. I am managing a very hard project and people is not very excited about it.

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

05.09.2010

Playing cards. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I slept only six hours. I went to bed late and woke up early. I recalled three fragments.

First:

- Card store.
- Playing MTG with a friend.
- DC around.
- I talked with a DC.

Missed dream signs:
- Unknown.

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

I went to a beautiful neighborhood in quincy and it was where joe and adry lived and apologized to both of them and adry was happy to see me. I said "sorry i was being a c--- and left you hanging" and they were like no its cool it wasnt your fault

So, I'm at an impasse. I've been faithfully DJing, as you can see, for the last 50 days. Nearly two months, now. My ability to recall dreams is much better than it has ever been before. I can say that I have progressed that much, at least. Lately my DJ activity has dipped (in terms of # of dreams per night) but mostly because I've been too lazy/tired to write them down during whenever I wake up. I feel like if I were to read over my entire DJ I'd see that I'm way too scatterbrained in terms of my efforts and attempts at induction techniques. The only thing I've done consistently is DJ and RC during the day. I think it's time for me to quit messing around and finally pick a technique to work on.

So I've strained all of the excess techniques and left my two favorites: The CAN WILD technique, developed on this forum, and the MILD technique by the big man himself, LaBerge.

Pros of CANWILD:
-LD at will, essentially.
-Seems like it'd get concrete results quicker.

Cons of CANWILD:
-Sleep Paralysis. I don't like the idea of the hallucinations. Though my fear of SP may create a self defeating mindset. If I quit fearing it and just rolled with it I may be OK.

Pros of MILD:
-No sleep paralysis.
-Seems more organic.

Cons of MILD:
-A bit harder to actually do consistently with all of the steps through the day that are required.

Suggestions?

And my fragment from last night:

I dreamt about this remnant that had been passed down a million different times abs touched a bunch of different times. Each time it got touched the person touching it imparted some sort of detail upon it.

i don't remember the details...

It was a soccer game. I was playing really well. I scored a couple goals (one of which i dismatled the defence and flicked it in with my heel.) COOL. thats all i remember about the game.

Dream fragment, I'm sure there was more but I just can't remember it...

I'm scrolling through Youtube, and I see a girl with purple hair. The title is "This Is My Life". Then underneath it says "2001 01:13 2009" which I take a second to wonder about, but dismiss.

I click on the video, a girl appears on the screen. She's sitting on a ledge. One leg is dangling over and she's hugging the other close to her chest. She looks straight at me and says "You are the recepietent of much evil, you just need to channel it." at that point I saw energy pulsing through her, and I knew she was directing it.

I woke up thinking; "What. The. Fuck...

Dream fragment, I'm sure there was more but I just can't remember it...

I'm scrolling through Youtube, and I see a girl with purple hair. The title is "This Is My Life". Then underneath it says "2001 01:13 2009" which I take a second to wonder about, but dismiss.

I click on the video, a girl appears on the screen. She's sitting on a ledge. One leg is dangling over and she's hugging the other close to her chest. She looks straight at me and says "You are the recepietent of much evil, you just need to channel it." at that point I saw energy pulsing through her, and I knew she was directing it.

I woke up thinking; "What. The. Fuck...

04.09.2010

Small short fragment. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I went very tired to bed. I woke up 3-4 times like usual. I was on my back in bed trying to recall the entire dream. I fell asleep all the times I tried this and lost recall.

Just a fragment today:

It was a very interesting dream. I felt very good and excited about this dream. I can remember a DC told me, "So then, that is good, right?"

Missed dream signs:
- Unknown.

What I would have done if lucid:
- Unknown.

1. I am in jazz band, and my bass skills fail me rather epically.

2. I'm drinking with my friends, in what amounts to a rehash of the truth-or-dare game from the night before.

3. I visit a shooting range with my dad and pop off a good deal of rounds fairly accurately. I note that instead of my meager 22 rifle, I could be renting Uzis and machine guns! Before I can do so, a whole busload of deaf and dumb people pour out onto the range. They talk in sign language to each other and begin to shoot.

Because of this website teaching me some techniques, I was able to recall four dreams from last night.

My first one was some guy placing a nuke on OSU campus. He told us we had 150 minutes to run to a safe place (which would only save us in a dream) after that, the bomb grew legs and started chasing me.

The next one I particularly liked. Halo: Reach was released on Steam and I bought it. The dream didn't show any gameplay, which kind of stinked.

Then I went fishing in this very small lake and caught outrageously large fish. After fishing for a few minutes, I suddenly appeared at a new lake in the desert. Some small lizards chased me around and I caught some swordfish. Weird dream.

My last dream was me taking my cats to go search for bigfoot (loel). It was an unsuccessful search with no results.

Overall, my dreams last night were short and boring.

This was a dream fragment. I would have written it as soon as I woke up (for my WBTB) but it was like 5.am and my dad was up getting ready to go to work. Boo-hoo! So I just jotted down some notes instead.

Awake Dream

I was in my school P.E hall for the girls. We were told to start warming up Which is wierd because my school P.E is shit. All we ever do is play Rounders. I can actually hit the ball with a baseball bat now though! so I began a slow jog around the hall. I noticed none of the other girls are jogging. I ignored them, they're just being lazy...

Someone barked my name, which frightens me for a moment and I skid to a stop (literally). I turn around and find Mr.K my Physics teacher. I don't find it unusual that he's teaching P.E.

"Why are you running in class?" He asked me sternly. As he walked up I told him that you're supposed to run in P.E.

"Well look at what you've done to the floor!" He shouted. I looked around and saw black skid marks from where I'd slid to a halt.

"Well you're just going to have to deal with marks on the floor aren't you?" I snarl. "If you don't run in P.E int's a bit of a waste of a subject, don't you think?"

He breathed heavily. "I'm calling down the Rector." He walked away. As he did I lifted up my hand and pretended to squish him between two of my fingers. I shouted that I really don't care.

The dream skipped and the Rector was in front of me. Was he new? This wasn't the Rector I remember... This Rector was young, with curly black hair, and was pretty small for a boy too. He looked as though he could have been a student. I walked along with him and told him my side of the story. He seemed to think deeply about it.

I looked around at my surroundings. It was like I was in a spaceship. Mostly black but with shining neon colours splattering across lights.

At that point I woke up, I was already kind of half awake but my alarm went off.

03.09.2010

Reunion (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Not an awesome night nor a bad one. Three dreams, once decently long.

First:

I was outdoors. It was very sunny outside. I was in the country and there were several DC like in a reunion. You could only assist to the second reunion if assisted to the first one.

Missed dream signs:
- Unknown.

What I would have done if lucid:
- Talk with these DC and find out stuff.

Exceptionally fragmented:

- Was an astronaut. I went in space. I repaired the ship. There were photo's of the outside____.

I remember waking up, writing my dream down in those exact words then going back to sleep - I don't think I can remember the dream though.

Random question:

How do you guys recall your dream>? I mean, do you do it as soon as you wake up (if it's the middle of the night) or as soon as you get up (i.e. in the morning).?