dream fragment

Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream

Very little dream recall. In fact, all I remember is I was trying to torrent something with my PDA, and I had to leave and take it with me, but I didn't want to lose my wireless internet signal and stop the torrent. Somehow I got it to connect to my car and then drove off.

I should have gone lucid from this...

#1 my PDA only has bluetooth, not WiFi, #2 my car doesn't supply internet, #3 I can't run a torrent program on my PDA, and #4 if I could, I would just have paused it and left rather than worry about it messing up

I'm getting pretty tired of missing so many obvious things...sooner or later the RCs must start bleeding into my dreams.

Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream

Dream recall wasn't the best last night...I remember a couple dreams that came late in the sleeping part of the morning, but the early dreams are totally lost on me, which isn't good because that's usually where my lucids are.

But oh well, here's what I remember:

Dream 1: I was running on a track and jumping hurdles, like in an olympic competition.

Such a boring and pointless dream, IMO...I'm not a runner, and I don't have a desire to be, so why I would dream this is beyond me

Dream 2: I was running (lots of running last night...that must mean something) from someone. I don't know who or why I had to run away, but I was. And I was in a suit and wearing a top-hat. A midget DC told me to hurry and follow him down a hole because it was the safest place, so I followed. Immediately I started to slip and slide and fall down the pit. Tt was too dark for me to see anything, but fortunately I was wearing infrared goggles all of a sudden, so I switched them on. (They really made things look like infrared goggles in real life do!) What I saw through the goggles was like a cave made out of membranes...at first I thought I was being swallowed by some huge alien, but then I slid down onto rocks and figured otherwise. I switched off the goggles because it seemed I was unable to stop my descent, and I honestly would rather not know where I was going, considering I'd probably be dead when I hit the bottom. The darkness caused me to lose my sense of direction, then. Down was up and left was right and...it was so confusing! And I was always sliding. Fast, but in a constantly changing direction. I turned the goggles back on a couple times just because I couldn't fight curiosity, but it didn't really help me reorient myself. It kind of made it worse to have a visual disorientation too, actually.

Eventually I woke up from that, but I can't remember where. Another dumb dream, anyway. I wonder what's up with all the running, though...

Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream

Wow. I don't know what happened last night. All I remember as far as dreams go is 1) Winning an iPod shuffle from MacDonald's, and 2) Watching the Matrix, or at least it was supposed to be the Matrix, even though it was actually nothing at all like it. No lucids, no complete dream memory...and I remained still and calm when I woke up each time! Somehow I just really messed up with that one...oh well, I guess I'll just keep plugging away. Sooner or later a dry spell ends, right?

Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream

(Sorry there was no entry yesterday...really there was nothing to report, but what really happened is I just totally forgot )

Tried to WILD last night...it was my first attempt to do so for a little while. I figured that by taking a short break from trying, I'd increase my chances of success. I was right.

It wasn't long (about half an hour) before I was in SP in full, seeing tons of increasingly vivid HI, and feeling myself slipping into the dream state, still maintaining the proper level of consciousness. But then something weird happened. My eyelids started to quiver, and then they nearly opened--for real, not in the dream, like I was expecting--I successfully stabilized them, but not without losing the HI, and weakening the SP a bit. I tried just waiting for more HI to come, but when it did, I never reached the dream state, and it just disappeared within a few seconds.

When I opened my eyes and admitted defeat, it turned out that a couple hours had passed in this dreamless sleep paralysis, which felt really strange, because even though I had been conscious the whole time, it felt like I had actually slept for a while. I mean, it was kind of cool, being conscious while being asleep, but I'd much rather have lucid dreams than spend all night just waiting for the night to be over!

It was doubtful that WILD would succeed after that, so I tried just to DILD. Problem was, my sleep schedule was so messed up by that point that it took me a very long time to get into a dream state; I kept just slipping back into that waking sleep. When I finally did dream, it was like my vision was blurry and my hearing was bad; all that I could get out of the dream was a couple people standing in front of me, telling me things that I couldn't hear well enough to understand. I couldn't make out their faces, either. But suddenly, one of them put their hand on my shoulder and turned me to face a holographic image. In that moment I saw that I was in some science lab like the one from Avatar. "I suppose you're one of them, now." The person said, pointing to the image, which I saw was a group of Na'vi. "You better get in your body."

That's all I remember. I guess I've officially jumped on the bandwagon of Avatar dreaming...maybe I can actually go lucid and visit Pandora again sometime

This was a fragment from early in the morning. I was super excited when I woke up because I had at least made a successful DILD!

I was in a tent on one of my side streets. I was walking round, the tent allowed my legs to go through. I thought that it was really weird and shouted RC!!! I pinched my nose and found I could breathe! I was dreaming!

Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream

Woke up and forgot my dreams too quickly to write them down. Should have written some simple notes...I remembered the dreams for plenty long to write them down, but I had to go to church, so unfortunately my dreams got lost this time

I tried to WILD again this afternoon, without aural aid, but rather keeping my mind focused by going "[breath in]...1...[breath out]...I'm dreaming...[breath in]...2...[breath out]...I'm dreaming" and so on and visualising the numbers and letters of the words. It was working, and I was having a ton of side effects (which I thought of as a good thing, since recently I've been having very little, proving how far away I was to getting it right)...when suddenly, several noises erupted in my house, caused by the TV being turned on in the livingroom, cooking being started in the kitchen, etc. which woke me up immediately. I didn't move or open my eyes, but the focus was lost, the side effects gone, and even though I kept trying, it was far too loud for me to succeed, and even if I got earplugs or something I'd be moving and thus exiting the attempt, therefore I called it quits again. Yes, I did reality check to ensure that I wasn't in a false awakening.

I got closer, though! Soon I'm going to get this WILDing right again!

Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream

Semi-successfully WILD/EILDed this afternoon, for a nap. Used "The_Ultimate_Lucid_Induction.mp3" as my aural assistant. Came VERY close to fully entering the dream state, but there was a flaw with looping that particular MP3 during a WILD: at more than one point, the voice would not blend with the music and this difference would wake me up. Therefore, though it very successfully induced several different dream scenes, each only lasted for a few seconds, never fully encompassing my field of vision, before the song would reach a point that would jerk me out and back into the blackness of my eyelids. They were very definitely legitimate dreams, though! I would have kept on trying; each dream lasted a tiny bit longer than the last; it seemed that eventually my mind would have been able to tune out the song and finish off the WILD. However, all of a sudden, my eyes just opened of their own accord. I didn't want them to, I didn't try to make them, they just did. I thought maybe I was in a false awakening, so I reality checked, and discovered that I really was awake. Really odd situation...

Anyway, getting that close with a lucid dream inducing MP3 is encouraging. Perhaps I'll find a better one for me or be able to edit the one I used today so that it loses the parts that wake me up.

The only thing I can really remember about this dream is trying to do the stage makeup for my cosplay of Sander Cohen from BioShock, except for some reason I keep putting green, black, and gray base on (from my Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name Zombie cosplay, I presume) instead.

This dream fragment involves messing up a cosplay. I normally have dreams about forgetting the costume entirely halfway to the convention, but sometimes they involve putting on the wrong parts. They usually serve to remind me to finish up my costume for an upcoming convention, but Zombie's already finished, and Sander was for last year's cons. I do need to get to work on GraveRobber from Repo! The Genetic Opera, though.

Originally Posted by ineverwakeup13

Sup DV? This was an LD, just it was very vivid. I can recall changing the setting and summoning some stuff, but it was too vivid to remember completely.

Thomas and I were playing some sort of intense game of hide and seek. It was snowy. And very cold. I run around some house and down a big hill. At the bottom of the hill there is a small shelter. Like a lean-to shelter. I crawl into and and Tom is right behind me. He tries to show me a good way to hide. He shows me to thrust your body under the the snow and hide under it. You put your body so far down into it that its just your head sticking out. I remember it being very, very cold. Then Tyler comes. He finds us so we go inside. Hes pissed. I also remember having cigarettes in my pocket and for some reason, they kept getting soaked and soggy (throughout the dream.)

I was ordered to stay after school in order to fulfill some type of punishment. I decided to leave. My car was under a school bus, so I got in and put it in neutral and it slid out from under the bus. Then I started it up and drove towards the road. However, when I got to a stop sign, a Suzuki Vitara drove by with the detention teacher in it. She waved for me to follow. I ended up following her, for fear of getting in trouble.

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

09.06.2010

Sans Recorder (Note)

At about 9:30 this morning I think I tried to record myself. I don't even know if I was really awake. A few days ago I was recording my days in my iPod in an effort to improve my memory.

The only part I remember is the end. "It's...*looks over at clock* 9:30?!. I'm going back to sleep." And I proceeded to collapse back into bed. XD;

I really want to know what I said before that...

Recordings 2 (Non-lucid)

Group recordings of something.

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

08.06.2010

H2 dream (Non-lucid)

Spoiler for NSFW:

Masturbation in the shower. I was taking one because me and mom were going to go somewhere.

ゲーム (Non-lucid)

MMORPG-like game.

Therapist With Lost Memories (Non-lucid)

I'm not sure if I have the events in order, but.

I worked as some type of therapist. I went into work and saw my sister sleeping on a cot with a girl of about 4-6 years-old in her arms. Really cute - I think she had short, slightly wavy blonde hair.

I went into (assuming) my office. There were things on the floor. Christmas-y things, sheet music, comic poster(s).

I had lost my memories (?) and was looking through some papers, some crinkled. There were some envelopes?

I took the papers and sat beside the cot. Apparently I was loud ruffling through them, because I looked over and saw that my sister and the girl had moved over to the cot behind it (they were in the same position as before).

Shark Attack Game (Non-lucid)

I (?) was inside of a game and going through his maze of dity walls and water. There were many sharks in the water that kept attacking me. I ran around trying to grab as many potions as items as I could as I ran towards my goal. I don't think I was running through the water as much as running on it...

Someone told me beforehand something about sharks.

Originally Posted by Man of Shred

Lots of dreams about picnic tables.


Breaking into Jail

I'm going up a hill with someone. Maybe Alternate Asuka... We enter a building that's like a prison. We are trying to enter it. Some Dcs come up to us and tell us in Kaelin sees us he's going to kill us. I see kaelin come up to us and he says it's ok that we are here but we should leave.

I briefly remember leaving.

Car

I briefly remember visiting my neighbor tony... but later I am driving a car down the street. Tony runs up to us really fast. But he looks like Matt. he has long hair dyed blue. He is smiling and laughing about something.

Jail again.

Briefly Remember leaving this jail with Asuka. We walk down a long path until it's nightfall. I become Semi lucid. I briefly ask how how I leave this place. She says meditate by the tree. I find a huge tree and sit in front of it. I begin meditating. I feel myself merge with the tree.



Don Juan at my picnic table

I'm sitting outside in my back yard. I'm sitting on a picnic table. Very vague dream. But it's more like I am in two dreams at once. In one I'm sitting on the picnic table talking to Don juan Matus. I consciously shift to another dream where I am sitting with Raven Knight at the table. I am relaying the information from don Juan to her. I'm sure the information is specifically for her. But for some reason I have to take his info and then give it to her. Something about how she doesn't have enough personal power to reach him. But he's leaving me with instructions for her from him. I think it's a way to reach him. Since she wasn't supposed to remember the information from our previous meeting with him. He was rather impressed that she was able to pull the information out anyway.

He thinks it could be an ongoing friendship with her. where he relays to her information that she writes down. She may be able to put it down in a book. But first. She must do something for him.. she must follow his instructions he has given her in order to reach him. She must keep and follow these instructions for herself. If she has a super hard time understanding them however, she is allowed to tell some of it to myself, I can give her hints.

Sorry Raven that's the most I can recall.

Alternate Asuka at my picnic table

She's telling me that since I have my Asuka back. She should probably leave and continue her journey to figure out her path. She might check up on the MoSh I visited. But she might look into other options. She thanks me for allowing her to stay. I tell her she's welcome to come by anytime and visit us, just in case she needs support.

Cacophony at my picnic Table

I'm with C at my picnic table. She's telling me that she's not ignoring me. She hopes she wasn't giving me the wrong idea by not getting a hold of me lately. She keeps saying sorry. She says something like there's something that is priority. Not sure. She hopes we can continue our friendship. She then gives me some gift wrapped in some sort of cloth.

Clean

I'm in some place like a garden section of Home Hardware. there is some girl cleaning and doing a really good job. Some lady compliments me, that my girlfriend is really good at cleaning.

Originally Posted by Man of Shred

Not so great Recall last night. Woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't go back to sleep. I'll include some dreams from the other night as well.

Walking

Flash of walking with Asuka in some town. we enter some park where there is some intersecting walkway paths. We take the longer route to talk more.

Brief Lucid

I'm falling asleep and find myself at work. Everything looks different so I RC. but the dream fades out.

note: I should keep RCing at work!

Recalling Dreams From a parallel Universe.

I'm in bed and I start remembering flashes of dreams I had a few days ago. I vividly remember lying in bed and remembering these dreams. But I actually don't remember remembering them. It's like they are my dreams but they belong to someone else. They are my dreams but so foreign.

I get up and Asuka is there. I say. "Are you helping me recall dreams from your MoSh that died?"
She nods. "Well stop it." I say. "It's freaking the fuck out of me. I have enough on my plate as it is already.". She says sorry and starts crying.

Teleporting

I'm outside my house in olds. Some new people are moving in. I try to talk to them but they completely Ignore me. I walk down the street to Uptown.

Later I enter a building. I get semi lucid and find myself in a strange building. I feel like I have to teleport somewhere. I see a yellow box that's finger painted by children or something. I remember I once teleported in a dream by going inside a cardboard box, thinking of the place and then opening it. I go into the box but can't close it. The edges are covered with fresh candle wax. I pull the edges together anyway while wax continually drips on me.

I give up and decide to try and manifest a bigger cardboard box. someone else is with me now disguised as my cousin. It's the alternate Asuka. but I don't realize it's her. She asks me what I'm doing. I say I am trying to teleport to an alternate universe, and I need a carboard box. She says she'll help. We enter another room and find a cardboard paper. for some reason I am writing a message on it. The Asuka says i should give up my message and she'll help me make a teleportation device.


WTF

I enter a building like a music hall. Some strange girl runs up to me and says "OMG you're that awesome guitar player from youtube." She grabs my neck and strangles me while continuing to shout that she's happy to meet me. I have some mixed feelings about this.

alternate me

i am in a familiar bar. I am with someone. Ileave him for a while and go back to the table. He's drinking himself silly. I try and tell him that there's an Asuka he can meet in case mine dies like his did. He drinks more and whines that he'd never remember her anyway. He even ruined all of his friendships with Nomad, Walms, Cacophony, Sererenity, and others. And his Raven is continually trying to heal him in dreams and it's pissing him off. I tell him if he doesn't have his act together by the time My asuka gets her flame back. I'll keep both Asuka's to myself. then I thank him for reminding me where I don't want to end up.

Nomad

Vague dream where I was with nomad and Cacophony. can't remember the details. but I remember it was a good dream.

even tho I am trying to not focus on shared dreaming... I still wind up with others... go figure.

The grounding continues.