dream fragment

I am in a bathroom and I sense a heavy atmosphere of pinkness which is palpable and seems to be suspended like a blanket between the ceiling and floor.

I am at some kind of state fair. See a tall dark haired man and start talking to him. He is dressed in white pants and blue top.

I am dreaming that I should remember to recognize when I am dreaming and wake up in the garage of my childhood home.

Fragment:

1. Matt shows me the extra DXM pills.

A Young'un Party

I find myself wandering around in a half-foresty half-civilized area, possibly blind during segments, but always having the ability to see. I eventually find myself at a younger girl's birthday party. Everybody's a freshman or so, and I imagine they're all David's friends. At some point during the party, I see that we're all dressed up, and I try to help a David/Bjorn mixture person pin on a regular tie. We go to a dance, but I show up basically in the last song. I'm in these weird suspenders. I'm not sure if I have a partner or not.

Alright, so a lot of things about this dream should've definitely clued me in.

Race for the Prize

I'm in this race, though it doesn't seem clear what type of race it is. It's around an oval stadium track. I run the race by rolling a lot, a la Zelda. I look on the screen and see another guy rolling a ton, going really fast. I also see myself get blown up, my headless body being dragged off the course casually. This freaks me out, as I begin to think I've died and am a ghost.

First dream about dying I've had in a while.

Bizarre set of dreams last night. I'll leap right into it.

The dream I remember most vividly is about this thing called "the 4chan van". I dreamed that there was this trailer/van set up and if you went into it you were pretty much locked in for the duration of "an event". The "events" you experienced inside of the van were inspired by 4chan memes and such. So I walk into the van with my friend Phil and we go into the main "room". Everything is tinted red and there are a ton of people in there. Music is loud and I realize there's a band on stage. They remind me of the band from "The Ringer". My friend Phil is into the music (he's into all music, pretty much) and we're watching quietly when suddenly people behind us start throwing stuff at Phil and I and making fun of us. I remember feeling embarrassed and angry at the same time. The other guys in the "van" start making fun of Phil, myself, and the music.

The next dream fragment I remember is being out in the middle of nowhere. There is a big flat of plains and trees everywhere. For some reason I go out and start climbing trees until I'm in this sort of ravine. Once into this ravine I see a path of trees, that fell down, that lead for quite awhile. I remember thinking I might fall if I try to cross but then I remember that bigger trees were leaning in just the right angles for me to walk on the downed trees and hold the big ones for support. So I start crossing the trees and then I reach the end of it and I'm on a flat area, that is elevated, that is simply grassy. Suddenly something pops outta nowhere and says something freaky to me. But I can't remember what it is..


Two fragments. At least I'm remembering a little bit now. Side note: Practice Mantra to SP: "I am dreaming."

Comment Dream Lucid Dream

So, this will be my first DJ entry since a long, long time. A couple of days ago I signed up for the DVAcadamy MILD-1 class, ready to get back at LD. Due to me being...geographically illocated, I had to get out of bed at 3 am. That means this night is split up into two parts, one from before class and one afterwards.

Apparently I'm going to some sort of gamescamp this summer, where I'll be practicing a lot of games. Not videogames, mind you, regular ones that later on just turn out not to be so regular at all. I played a lot, but remember around 2 of them. For the first game, I went back to the neighbourhood I grew up in. I was then inflated like a balloon and sent 'out there'. Goal of the game was to find a way to lose all the air and get back to the ground without popping. The catch was that they send two people after me with friggin crowbars () to do exactly that. After a lot of asking people for solutions, getting chased and generally getting used to this new way moving around in the first place, I found myself in the house of a woman around her 50s. She had gray, short trimmed hair and said to be able to deflate me. I crossed the ceiling to the other end of the room (where she was), heard her say some fancy magical words, and I happily deflated to my normal self. I remember being genuinely scared for the two Gordon Freemans they sent after me, but the overall dream didn't really feel like a nightmare or such.

The second game involved me and three other people. Together we formed two teams and sat at a table. Each team got a crossword puzzle that we had to solve before the other team did and each round you could answer one of the questions. After each turn we had to grab an egg from a huge bowl and eat it. In it would be a gamecard ("You get to answer one more word in this turn.", "Eat another egg.", etc.) There were also certain words which had a little, gray flag-icon next to it. These were words without a question and for which we could buy letters somehow. When you had the word finished (in our case it was "POTIONS") you had to guess what the question could have been ("This product is made by the cosmeticsindustry" - which I guessed correctly). I can't exactly remember how the game ended, we probably got bored of it.

Ok, so then I woke up, wrote down that dream and logged in for class. Took about 80mins and then I got back to sleep. I really tried for "I'm going to lucid dream!" to be my last thought awake, dragging my conscience back like a caveman every time it started to wander and stray off. I noticed I couldn't fall asleep anymore, so I tried to lessen the amount of cavemannery and probably fell asleep. It takes practice, I guess.

In this short dreamfragment I remember making sugared olive candy with someone (can't remember who). They looked and tasted like that sugary bean stuff, but hell yeah they were made from olives.

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I'm Vivi from Final Fantasy IX, or at least someone who has the same looks. I find myself at a train station and apparently I have to catch an airtrain (combination between plane and train). Even more disturbing: Steiner is racing me. I buy a ticket, pass the gates and enter the wrong train >_>. Eager to get out, personel tells me I'll have to wait a minute or two for some weird ass reason. When I finally get out I run towards the airtrain I dó have to catch, it's already taking of. Fortunately I get still get in.

During flight Steiner is constantly trying to bash me (childish ), but by bashing the x-button I stay ahead of him and arrive on our destination on time. Wherever that is.

Obviously I had that least dream because my little brother recently finished his first playthrough of ff9.

04.08.2010

Visiting the HQ (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Too many thing have been going on around my head. I was offered a Golden Opportunity for my career and I accept it. Yesterday and today it started to happen, so I was not as focused as I wanted to be on my dream-life. Last night was below my standards, but still wasn't a bad night. Three dreams (one long) I was lazy to write down a fourth dream and I forgot as soon as I opened my eyes a fifth dream. Oh well.

Second:

I was in a mall which was crowed. i found the offices of a company that I have an independent contractor agreement. I saw a few associates and talked with them. I told them I was very happy to becoming an associate for their corporation. A female associate told me she was very happy to have me with them.

I walked away very happy and looking forward to get started with them. I entered to a store that was probably Pata Negra (I quit the Olive Oil store, but I do like the Pata Negra store so I continue working there Sundays and Mondays) The store had three deli counters. I cannot recall the products. Some co-workers were around and they had some chat with me.

Missed dream signs:
- The office of the company I am associated with are located in Ohio, I am located in California...
- The co-workers in the store work at the restaurant in waking. I work alone at the store.

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

04.08.2010

Short dream fragment (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Too many thing have been going on around my head. I was offered a Golden Opportunity for my career and I accept it. Yesterday and today it started to happen, so I was not as focused as I wanted to be on my dream-life. Last night was below my standards, but still wasn't a bad night. Three dreams (one long) I was lazy to write down a fourth dream and I forgot as soon as I opened my eyes a fifth dream. Oh well.

First:

- Changing landscapes than was surrounding dream characters.
- I made four changes.
- I was in the country, it was very sunny and I was outdoors.
- I saw more DC, which one of them was upset.

Missed dream signs:
- I can't remember, but it appeared I was somehow controlling the dream, I just needed to realize such control to turn lucid.

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

1. I'm playing D&D with my girlfriend, and we are in a fight with a zombie dragon. There are lots of laughs during the fight as we exchange stock quotes and in-jokes.

2. I'm in a Space Station 13 style futuristic lab, where there's been an outbreak of several weird diseases. I have one where rats constantly burst from under my skin. Looking for a cure, I stumble into a field of zombies. A zombified CZ (junior when I graduated high school) attacks me, and I punch her in the face. I then proceed to wrestle her to the floor and do a chokehold, snapping her neck. I remember the experience as strangely erotic...

3. I'm winning huge on a Japanese slot machine in an arcade.

4. I'm watching a dirty soccer match between some African country and the Tamil Tigers terrorist organization.

Toilet Troubles, Family Troubles

I'm in some sort of class in this big building. At some point, I managed to flush myself down a toilet in this building, to get out of the bathroom and travel around the building. In class, I receive a slip of paper that says I'm in trouble because I flushed myself down the toilet. A lady comes to speak with me, and we walk down the hallway. I tell her that I only flushed myself down the toilet because I have a tendency to have dreams where I'm locked in the bathroom, and the only way out is the toilet. This is totally made up, by the way, but in the dream it felt like I was actually logically reaching the answer to the question "Why did I flush myself down the toilet?" In fact, I further explained to her that I only ever flushed myself down the toilet in a dream, that I was being judged in real life for something I had only done in a dream, that I was innocent of any real life toilet flushings. She seemed to agree.

At this point, the building of the dream changed from having a "school" function to having a "home" function, though it was a very large building. The parents were away, so I believe Micah was doing a friend a favor by letting him stay at the house. This friend was having sex with his girlfriend upstairs very loudly when the parents unexpectedly arrive. Needless to say, Micah was in trouble. There's a family argument around the table, and I defend Micah, voicing some very true and vehement opinions at Dad, who does the "Dad laugh."

Family troubles pop up in my dreams a lot, but that whole flushing-myself-down-the-toilet thing is quite unique, as is my totally illogical and ill-informed explanation for it. I should've recognized I was in a dream by the fact that I was in school.

Fragment:

1. I find myself at a music festival, where me and someone else (Micah? Kristy?) are debating which stage to go to.

Wow, I haven't posted in a long time.

There were a bunch of little planets clustered together (like in Super Mario Galaxy). I jumped between them and eventually came to a larger planet with lava an platforms. I had to be careful not to move from the position I was in (the same position I'd fallen asleep in) so that I wouldn't break out of my trance.

This is like my 4th dream about SMG in the past two nights. >.>

In the dream I was outside a military base, walking along the side of a lake or large pond. I stepped out onto this little wooden area that was several feet above the water. From there I saw this huge fish. It was probably large enough to swallow me whole. It wasnt a shark or catfish. It looked more like a gold fish but it wasnt golden. It remember it was dark but had different colours. It was swimming around and jumping out of the water, and it spoke, but I dont remember what it said. There was also another creature there, a manatee or something. I enjoyed watching the massive fish.

Lucid: Nope
Dream Aids: Calea Zacatechichi, Melatonin
Vividness: Not great

Dreamsign
Lucidity

For dream memories that are just too vague, I think I'll keep them in one entry per night.

Fragment 1: I vaguely remember being at work and serving this obnoxious lady. Also one of my roommates was working there with me even though in waking life he works elsewhere.

Fragment 2: I was down south at home and found out that Frank Zappa was giving three concerts on the East Coast. I guess apparently he had come back from the dead to play a few shows. I was bummed because I couldn't make it to any of them.

In the first dream I was pregnant, and usually in a dream this would cause the people around me to be upset since I am not married or of an age to be pregnant yet, but apparently i was old enough and married to a guy who i had only talked to online. After telling my whole family about my good news, i realized i had never seen my husband, and never would for some reason. I then had to face the reality of being a single parent.

I don't remember much about the second dream I had, and I know there were some emotions in there but I cant remember what they were...I was walking to a purple square shaped car with my mom to go home from something, and when we got in it turned into this sort of table thing...it's hard to explain but i was across from my mom and facing her and my mom was driving so i was facing backwards and she was facing forward so she could drive. i remember being worried about how safely my mom was driving since we were having a conversation and she was looking at me...

It seems like almost every element of these dreams came from something that happened in my day..for example that day i was babysitting for a woman who was in the hospital delivering her baby. I guess this just shows how fantastic my imagination is if i cant create original dreams :/

Two days ago I had my best night of dreaming in my life, 5 dreams (all in depth) recalled in one night.

Last night I couldn't recall much of anything. The only thing I remember was visiting my friends bands myspace and listening to some new song they put on there.

Wish me luck.