dream fragment

It's been hard to fall asleep recently, being snapped awake by the slightest sound, but I tried to maintain my mantra: "I will remember my dream".
All of yesterday I had been RCing using my keys which have sticky tape on them, sort of like a totem.

Dream 1:

I'm walking down the main road near my house, with a church friend, when we see a really old-looking house. It wasn't a run-down house, it just looked like it was from a long time ago.

My friend and I go inside and see an old person. At first I felt we shouldn't trust them, but they gave us a plate of food, which we set down on an antique table.

We're both looking around at the antiquities in the dusty living room, when I look under a bed and see lots of blue blankets. I then turn around and see my parents talking to the old person, and I woke up.

Dream 2... sort of

I don't know where I was, but it looked like I was standing inside my eyelid; everything looked like how it does when you close your eyes.

I held my hand up (after reading about the hand RC the previous night) and thought "Whoa, my hand looks weird" then I pull out my keys, as I had been doing the whole day, and the sticky tape wasn't there :O I thought "I must be dreaming!"

Then, just like a few days ago, I seemed to be getting sucked out of my dream, but I tried to mentally grab it and pull it back over me, then I woke up.

Dream 3

My entire school grade was at a mid-sized indoor swimming centre (Australian spelling ) at night.
The place was dimly lit, but everyone was having fun.

I was sitting with my group of friends, talking, when suddenly, out of the blue, one of the girls kisses me! I remember falling over, and the group was yelling in shock, then I woke up.



Yep, not very interesting, but I have read everywhere that I should keep a DJ anyway

I was doing something in this big house. Was there danger? Some sort of goal? Something like that seems familiar. There was a lot more to this one but I just can't recall.
Next I was at Cedar Point, and they had this new drop ride that resembled Top Thrill Dragster. Me and my family were there. We finally got up to the ride, and when I got in, I forgot to put on the harness. So it goes down really fast, but I held on tight and didn't fly out. The workers were so impressed that they let us keep doing the ride. I wasn't happy because I had to keep holding on for dear life.

09.03.2010

Forgotten DILDs (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

It really is the case that lucid dreams can get forgetten just as easily as non-lucid ones if I don't get up and write them down after they happen. I had several throughout the night, but I can only remember fragments of what happened in each.

Part 1: I was outside and it was sunny. I was trying to talk to somebody, but my mouth wasn't working properly. I commented that I was like Cletus the slack-jawed yokel, but the way I said it made me sound even more retarded. I tried slapping myself in the face and trying exercises to disassociate myself from my physical body (I reckoned I must have been sleeping with my mouth open again), but nothing worked. I rubbed my hands together and shouted "Clarity!" and "Increase vividness!" and still no luck.

Part 2: I woke up in a room quite similar to my own, except there were things lying around which clearly didn't belong to me. I became lucid after checking my hand. I think I ended up having sex with a girl who walked in.

Part 3: This was the end of a dream. I chased a guy who had been trying to kill my friends through a city at night. Desperate, he jumped over a railing and into a full storm drain. I took a massive running jump and landed on him, crushing his head with my knee. I wish I could remember the rest of that one, I've got a feeling it was awesome.

Part 4: I was running home, and something didn't feel quite right. As I went upstairs in my house, I did a hand reality check. "Ohhhh yes," I said as I remembered still being in bed. I went in to look at my room anyway, and saw a massive drool spill on the pillow.

My recall seems to be getting better, I've been remembering at least 3 dreams a night although they seem to flow into each other and I do have to wake up between them to remember
Here are the 3 I remember from last night - the last one has a cool ending

1) In the early part of this dream someone I know becomes the head of his family like a maphia family only not into crime and not dangerous, it's set in the city i live. I'm driving around in a jeep, when I spot 2 people I know and go 4x4ing towards them. I get out and have a chat with them showing them the difflock on my new jeep which i acquired in my dream but can't remember how. Later I'm at my grandfathers funeral and my aunt and cousins are talking about how difficult it was to grow up with him because he was a difficult man. The dream is now set in the town where I grew up (huge DS right there) I get in an argument with my mom about how she's just climbing on the bandwagon and judging my grandfather unfairly (this is the second time a male ancestor has come up in 2 nights). To make my point stronger I tell my mom how my relationship with my dad isn't great and I end up getting furious and shouting how he hasn't hugged me in 10 years . The dream fades or I wake up.

2) I've been doing some training with young people (which is my line of work) in another city. I encourage them to start small groups and pair them up to do that. I have an argument with 2 of my friends who are the leaders of the group about my teaching style they say it's to unprepared, I'm saying that it's far more effective than their styles. Later we're indoors and there is a hive of huge bees (some-one else was dreaming about bees). My daughter is there and I tell her to stay away from the bees (this is related to me helping move my dads beehive the day before in RL and then hearing his bees left the hive and were in the tree in his garden). Later I go to bed and there is some weird sexual stuff going on (really weird), it involves no sensation for me but the DC is enjoying it.

Snippet this is either from this dream or the next one : I get fired at work and my friend sets the work computers to download a massive porn database, which will fill their harddrives and use up all their bandwidth. Later I feel guilty and ashamed about it and almost get caught for doing it.

3) My friend is riding my bike with me on the back except it's not DS bike like I've got it's a super-bike. We're riding through a rough area of an unknown town. He's riding pretty good. There are security guards and criminals guarding the entrances to different streets. He turns and speeds through an enclosed arean between buildings. As we exit a gang tries to stop us, He swerves around them at speed and continues. They run to try and head us off at the next turn, I tell him to carry on they'll never catch us but he stops and does a half donut and heads back the way we came, I realize that this is a good idea because they've run off to try intercept us. As we pass the area where they were we head towards a raised highway. There is an old man where the gang was holding a stick with a broken bottle taped to the end, we swerve around him and my friend suddenly stops, partly to let me drive and partly to speak to the old man. He approaches the old man cautiously talks to him and then comes running and jumps on the back of the bike. I take off really quickly and we're riding up this highway onramp that winds as it climbs higher. I overcook the fist turn and bump the curb, we continue to accelerate out of control and hit the next curb square on causing us to ramp off the edge. We nearly make it to another portion of the road but we miss. I realize that we are falling to our death, it feals awesome. I wake up long before impact.

Dream signs atarting to emerge (comment on these is you want) The town where I grew up, My bike (or lack of my bike)
I still don't feel close to realizing I'm in a dream and my only LD was still that FA - help please!!!
I also have a serious problem with excitement ( I can't fall asleep even in the middle of the night )

#955:
Date: July 25th, 2010
Length: 4 minutes

I'm on my college campus (though it doesn't look anything like it does), and I walk into a building. After going up a few flights of stairs, I step into the office of some guy who's apparently in charge of student government. We are apparently friends, and after having some kind of serious discussion, we step out into a sort of lounge with couches where a bunch of other people gather. Everyone starts talking and fooling around, but I feel like I have no connection with any of them, and decide I shouldn't be here.

I walk out the building, and head towards an unknown destination. Along the way, I cross two gas stations that are really close to each other. At some point, in the distance I see a girl I knew many years back, and we wave to each other, as if we see each other every day or something. Eventually, night starts to fall, and I reach a sort of deserted train station. The walls are all very plain and grey, and there is basically nothing around me. I'm just passing through here, not actually getting on a train. I climb a small flight of stairs towards an exit door. However, at this point I'm carrying two large bags, and I can't seem to squeeze through the little door with both of them. I try and try, but just end up kind of stuck.

Soon, a train arrives right next to me (I don't think there even were any tracks, it's like a train just appeared in a small room that was next to me), and a bunch of people walk out. They're trying to get past me to go down the stairs, but I'm blocking their way. After a long time, I think I finally get through the door and back out into the street.



Besides that, I had a dream where my mom came to see my roommate and I, and thought we looked very depressed and though something was really wrong with us, though nothing was. She said she wanted to take us to a sushi bar.

Also had a dream where I started living in a kind of abandoned (but luxurious) house. Two friends came to visit me, and then there was some kind of music video being filmed involving lots of women.

July 25, 2010

Synopsis: I summon divine power and my dream becomes an adventure - When I woke up I drifted off into a random dream and lost most of my memories of this dream

Night Time Note: I went to sleep and felt like meditating. And then I started to think about all the things that I worry about - job - bills - debt - moving out. I felt fear of something was holding me back.

Summon Power!
My earliest memory is that I was lucid - lucid from the very beginning of my dream. I scream! Summoning divine power to give me strength, courage, to conquer my fears. My dream gets a bit fuzzy.

And instead it transforms into a usual adventure dream. I'm on the run! Of course I always am. I'm powerful and the government hates it. They've sent their agents after me. I don't mind, what can they do to hurt me? Turns out they can try to hurt my friends.

In my dream I made two new friends, a young black woman with curly hair and an asian woman. Now their on the run with me! I can fly, but they can't. Similar themes to Faithful Friends of a Dragon.

The last thing I remember was jumping out a window.

1. I'm watching an old couple do a live broadcast of some comedic radio show. They only get a couple of lines in, the last of which is "He's always so polite," before I false-awaken into my bed. I start to write it down in my dream journal, when suddenly I hear "Habenera" from Carmen blaring in full orchestral beauty. This causes me to check my dream journal, and sure enough, my handwriting is unstable! I get lucid and try to stabilize, rubbing my hands together and feeling the bed beneath me. Things are solid and quite real feeling, and I try to engage as many senses as possible. I start thinking about where to take the dream while still stabilizing, and this continues for a good twenty seconds. However, I lose control before I'm able to do anything.

2. It's after the civil war, and my embarrassed family is ordering drinks from our former slaves who are now free employees of a restaurant.

Posted at the request of Raven.

This dream is quite vague... I could almost consider this to be a fragment. My recall has really gone down the gutter these last five days for some reason...

I do not remember at all where this dream was.

The place that my memory starts is I am standing somewhere, I am walking around saying out loud "Damn, I have to find a way to become lucid so I can get to the Biodome!". What is strange is I KNEW I was dreaming, but for some reason I felt the need to have something force me to become lucid. I don't remember anything for a while, but the next thing I do remember is having someone come up to me and say something along the lines of "You know you're dreaming, right?" I for some reason was all like "*laughs* No way, that's bullshit.". I then turned to my right completely and saw a minivan that is dark olive green (Hideous!). For some reason that is beyond me I walked through the shotgun seat door and somewhat flew over to the powered window controls. I decided to roll up the windows due to the fact that it started to rain outside of the car. I don't really remember anything after this point. And yes, all this time I remained non-lucid. Strange!

Key:
Non-Lucid, Lucid, Commentary/Notes, Hypnagogic Hallucinations
i Inner Awareness, a Action, f Form, c Context

I was trying to get in touch with an old friend I haven't seen in a few years. I emailed an account I'm pretty sure he doesn't use any more and got a response ( c ).

We were then in the park down the street from my house and another old friend I've lost touch with was with us ( c ). I notice a group of girls in front of us. They were all wearing baggy white blouses. I suggested we go and chat to them because I know them. There were 5 girls, but I couldn't make out two of them because they were somehow indistinct and undefined ( f ). The girls were a group of friends I used to go to school with ( c ). We spoke for a bit, and I was flirting with K much like I would when I knew her. I struggled to remember the other girls names, but eventually did ( a ). One of them was constantly blushing when I spoke to her.

I really should try harder. There was more to this dream that I remembered as well a another dream that I forgot. Being cocky, I thought I could remember it 'til I got round to typing this entry up, and have forgotten all but the most memorable bit.

Fight:
I don't recall much other than possibly getting into a fight with my brother.

Thoughts: Being busy IRL seems to have taken my recall away, but, soon it should be back as good as new. There won't be an entry tonight since there is no sleep

I was walking through the parking lot of my old elementary school. It was raining and a very dark Grey out and for some reason there were many people walking through and around the area and driving through the parking lot. My friends mom came by in her car and told me to get in. I saw to my right that her oldest son, my really good friend, was walking out in the rain towards my house. I said, "where are we going?" and she told me that we were going to her house in Mississauga, which is a good 40 minutes from where we were. I told her that her son was walking out there in the rain and that we should pick him up but she insisted that she drove me to her house first then she would come back and drive him.

>> We're on the highway and it's still pouring. She's a terrible driver because she's kind of afraid behind the wheel. She would just stop in the middle of traffic and wait until enough room builds up for her to change lanes. I grab control of the wheel because I cannot stand how bad she is at driving and eventually I switch places with her and continue driving.

>> flashforward again....we're all on a boat.

7/25 - I'm in a movie with Tracy Morgan.

7/26 - I'm traveling in Tibet with a few others in order to see the Dalai Lama (even though he's not in Tibet), We are walking through the mountains, air is very cool and clean, it is dusk and I can see eight separate moons on the horizon, I'm taking pictures of everything with my iPhone. There are flying dragons that we all knew were called "Drakes." I remember being frustrated because I did not go to the bathroom before we embarked on our journey. I then woke up because I had to go to the bathroom .

Remembered three dreams this night!

1) I am the last hope for humanity (not sure why), working in an Apple store. Some evil being is trying to get me to sleep with some girl which will apparently cause the world to end. It's new years eve. Feels like I'm the only one around who knows of the impending destruction of humanity. Got off work, everyone is going crazy, in a very demonic kind of way. At some ceremony with lots of people I know, feels like they are all in a trance.

2) 5:41 AM - Around some priest who is telling me that children who hang out with the child he is with will die, at which point the child's eyes start glowing red.

3) In a band, playing bass. It's our first gig, my top bass string breaks and can't find another string. End up borrowing someone's bass. Leave my bass at the venue, on a glass elevator and can't get off to go get it.

Night School

I was at school at night, and there was a big bonfire going on. I was going somewhere, but I don't know where. There was a locker room, but it had a pull door but there was no handle. Eventually, I just pushed hard enough and it opened. After that, I had no clothes on, but no one seemed to mind.

Land Mines

It was snowy, and I was on a road with another person. We both had metal detectors, and whenever we would find a mine, it would be a red cross hair and glow. To disarm, we did some weird action, then it would glow green. We did this for some time, until we reached a large metal door. There were hundreds of mines right in front of this door, so it would take some time to disarm all the mines. However, some idiots on snow mobiles would just drive right past all of the mines, setting them all off simultaneously.

Geek Squad

I had applied to work at a Geek Squad store in a small shopping center. There was another person there who apparently was leaving. I went into the store and looked around, while the person entered some code into a machine to quit.

Transformers

It started out in the courtyard of this large building. There was some weird tornado warning, so I guess that meant we stood on Giant piles of rubbish with flashlights in our hand to look for tornados. This was rather unsuccessful, so then I turned around, and there was Optimus Prime! I can't remember what we did exactly, but we ended convincing Megatron to join us (but starscream was still evil). However, Bumblebee was extremely hurt, and he had to shut down. Megatron tried to revive him, but he was unsuccessful, and so he resorted to feeding him some Transformer Food (?) and that worked. Apparently it was only a temporary solution.

This one is a bit of a fragment. We were driving around in a car with another guy. I was driving, and the car was breaking down. I said we could get another car, and all we had to do was steal it. But instead, we parked on the side of the road, and went and talked to a group of friends. It was right next to some sort of street vendor. The guy from rock n' roll factory was there. He asks if we want to buy some blunts, so tyler brings out this huge wad of cash and pays for some blunts. He turns to me and says, "Look, its that easy!"

Dreamsign I should Have Recognized:
1) Driving a car!
2) The though of wanting to steal a car.