memorable

Preface:
Got to sleep pretty late, close to midnight. Listening to a lot of Belly dance music, lately, practicing listening for cues. I only did a few mantras earlier in the day. I intended on doing some before I went to sleep, but I got busy playing with my phone, etc.


DR 1
I was in the backseat of a red jeep, being driven by unknown men. Seated behind the passenger seat, I looked out the window to my right. I could see there had been a flood, although I witnessed no rain. There was so much high water in the streets. The driver of the jeep attempted to do what many Houstonians attempt to do during our floods- which is drive through it. We got stuck and the jeep started to sink. We have to go, said one of the guys. I tried to open the door quickly, but when the water came in, I got scared and closed the door. The guys left the jeep and it kept sinking. I finally opened the door and got out...


DR 2
There was a show of some sort. I was supposed to be singing with my 14 yo niece (we sing a lot together in real life) and another person (unknown to me in real life). I was in a small apartment practicing with them- but we hadn't sung anything yet. We could only decide on two songs..I can only recall one.."Stand by Me". We were practicing singing cues...(cues again).

DR 3
A man (in a suit, looking important and in kind of a rush) hands me a stack of manila folders (15-20) and tells me that he needs me to get to the pharmacy "ASAP because the crazy people need their meds!" I do not act surprised by the crazy people comment, but I am surprised that I am being asked to do this. Apparently delivering files is not my job so I am not happy about having to do it, but I do it anyway. Each one of the manila folders in the stack has a million post-it notes on it, with notes written in red and black ink. I can't make out what they say. I don't really try because I realize that this is an urgent task and I just need to get on with it, because I don't want the crazy people out of control. I am walking down the sidewalk and there is still high water down some of the streets. I try to take a detour between some red colored buildings, but I can still see the water on the other side.


Side notes:
Been waking up and having the most random songs in my head. Today's song is none other than the Tag Team's "Whoomp There It Is", which is hilarious but I am not embarrassed. I'm from Texas after all, "Home of the TRILL". Doubt that was an international hit.

1. (semi Lucid)
I had just sat up in bed(False awakening). I sat there for a second just looking around. My lights were still off and my old blue nightlight that I used to use years ago was on(It's always on in my dreams). This gave my room a glowing blue appearance, like I commonly see in my recurring dream where my entire house is glowing blue. I get out of bed and stand up. My door is open which is odd because I always close it. I have no idea what time it is but I can hear my parents so I know they are awake. I walk out of my room and stop right in the middle of the hallway. It's really dark. There are no lights on in the house except for the light in my parents bedroom, which I can see through the spaces of their door.
I then walk into the restroom which is literally 2 or 3 steps away from where I'm standing and I flip the light switch to turn on the light. A very very dim orange light turns on, as luminous as a small nightlight. "This happens all of the time in my dreams" I say out loud frustrated with the lights. I go to the opposite end of the restroom and flip the light switch to the other light. It turns on, but once again it is very dim and the light itself is blue. Suddenly the two lights fade quickly and seconds later I find myself standing in complete darkness. "I could be dreaming right now for sure" I say out loud. I then start feeling this creepy vibe, as if someone is in the restroom with me. The restroom door is still open, but barely any light is coming in.
The creepy vibe gets stronger and stronger to the point where I just leave the restroom. Just as I am about to do a reality check my dad opens his door. "Dad the lights aren't working" I tell him. "Again?" he says "Alright let me fix them." He then pulls out some tools out of thin air and we go into my room. He places the tools on my bed and then goes into the restroom to unscrew the light bulbs and takes them out. He goes back into my room, sits on my bed, and starts working on the lights trying to fix them.

I start off at some kind of warehouse and there are some people there one of them, I think is the predator with his mouth open and flared out and the others were unknown. I have lost some details upon wakening but I recall us doing adventures together and they were my partners. The place was huge and had a vaulted ceiling and windows near the top. Looks to be night time out.

Dino Megazord is there! and he is very detailed mostly on his face, showing that he was the correct multi colored version with the white out lining around his eyes, his metal plated mouth and his horn-like red ears. Not the usual black and gold color. Anyways He ends up seeing me and I'm somehow on the ride. He is watching me from below and when I get off he comes chasing after me and I see how angular his body was which was good. He was fast and I managed to run off into some kind of washroom and it came in there with me, looking at me with he yellow eyes. It was a legit megazord with all of the details with was rare to see in a dream, anyways he charged at me and I ran back out of the room. There is a long time of me running from him and he no matter where I was, would always be keeping track of me. At some point in time I would check to see if he is actually still a zord and he would be. I'm now ahead of him and start to run off in a different direction but didn't because I was enjoying the good chase I was getting and decided not to turn off. I become Lucid and very aware and look back at Daizyujin (Megazord). He looked back at me, also becoming aware of me and not a blind DC. I seen the light on the ceiling and the park/ ride behind me and then ended up tackled by him and held in his arms. He looked at me and was aware of my feelings and held me for a bit, smiling. As he did that the dream cam shows him holding me but looking slightly human and then it went back to him holding me. He then let's go, pretended to walk away and no sooner I began to think Yeah SC messing up again. He turns around suddenly and gets me again. Something happened and some bad guys or something has broken into the house.

Megazord goes after them and while they were dealing with him, the predator, one of my partners came around to me. Despite what he was I knew that he was friendly and means not to harm me. He walks over to me and gives me a smile as well but sheesh he was ugly. His mouth was open and webbed out with those little spikes at the end and it was pink inside and I kind of grimaced at his face. He saw it and was greatly disapproved that and frowns at me, looking now angry. I ran away from him but there were baddies behind me and didn't know, the predator saw them too and tried to kill them but they took me away somewhere.


Now I'm outside of the warehouse at night and three shadow guys are attacking me, dragging me on some wet grass to somewhere and this is where I lost more details upon wakening. Some long time had gone by and I was somewhere. The predator managed to track us down and he scared off the bad people who were harming me. They dropped me on the wet ground and then they took off running. The predator chased after them away but then he came back to me. He held my head in his arms and was making harmless sounds and I think he kissed me or at least wanted to do so because his head was close to mine and his mouth was flared open from scaring the baddies away, however i think a part of it touched me on the head because I felt something rubbing my forehead and know it was him from the sounds he made wasn't the clicking sounds though. When megazord came back he saw me with the predator and he is a monster. Megazords kill monsters and I was afraid of him harming him but he saw that he was helping me and realized what had happened. While he was occupied with the guys another set was gonna try to take me off somewhere but the predator was there in which they were unaware of and they couldn't do what they planned and tried to fight him instead. Seeing that this monster was kind enough to protect me he didn't attack it and I was glad that he was aware of that. He ran over to us and before he got to us, woke up.

A great birthday dream and hope to recover more of it. ^_^

Morning of April 7, 2016. Thursday.



There is a backstory to my dream of having collected water from a shallow pond. I am not sure of the setting or its location. My sister Marilyn (half-sister on my mother’s side) is nearby and as she appeared before I moved to Florida in 1967. My family as they are now are also present at one point.

I look into the water and below the surface I see many implied one-celled animals (which you can only clearly see with a microscope in real life). Marilyn also looks on.

I see a glowing transparent centipede, swimming downwards (which puzzles me since I know centipedes are not aquatic), forming a moving staircase shape (like a mobile escalator) eventually going out of sight. The one-celled animals (mainly protozoa) swim down out of sight but are visible at other times.

Eventually, a small fish jumps up out of the “aquarium” which surprises Marilyn. I am somewhat surprised as well, because I thought I had gotten the water from a pond that was not deep enough to be suitable for fish. I am not sure where the fish is after the jump, perhaps on the floor. (A fish out of water represents the dreamer coming out of the dream and as a result, my dream shifts to the waking transition.)

Later, I am holding an antlion larva. Over time, I notice blood on the tip of one of my fingers. It seems that it had been biting me (even though they do not bite in my experience). However, it also seems to instead be the result of a hangnail. Still, I ask my sister whether or not antlions eat people.

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Again, a fish is a projection of the dream self in the dream state (and water represents sleep and the flow of thoughts in the dream state). The one-celled animals may be a reference to minor neuron activity or a subliminal association with other dreamers. An aquarium is a downsized focus on the dream state itself, representing the human mind on one level.

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The unlikely “phasing” centipede swimming in the water represents a shift in consciousness. In this case, as it swims deeper, it forms a symbolic staircase to link to the nonlinear events throughout my life and down into the depths of the unconscious. This is evident by the link to a version of the original childhood “Taboo” dream (sparsely recurring, no more than perhaps four times) and upon checking, I found markers and parallels. It has the same basic setup; that is, looking at an aquarium of (visible to the naked eye) one-celled animals, though this was in third grade in 1970, one version found to be on today’s date exactly forty-six years ago (and which appears to have been partially influenced by the movie “Jigsaw”, about a man finding a body submerged in a bathtub). I have not held antlion larva much since third grade. This ending element represents a typical waking transition because an adult antlion resembles a dragonfly, which is a flight symbol. The bloody finger may be an association with our youngest son’s hangnail. The reference to “eating people” is a reference to coalescence and the dream self merging into whole consciousness during the waking transition (especially the association with “lion” as a lion is often a form of the more aggressive emergent consciousness). Also, an antlion is shaped somewhat like a human thumb, where my youngest son’s hangnail was. The antlion’s mandibles may be an association with the hangnail itself.

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Other phasing staircase references (as the “water centipede” in this dream) can be found in dreams such as “Rocket Science?” (July 2, 1976), where a sheet of typing paper mysteriously “rolls” down from the ceiling (which represents the liminal state between sleeping and waking) and forms a staircase pattern or brief “escalator”. This focus greatly intensified that dream. A similar event occurs in “White Noise Staircase” (February 21, 2014). Identifying phasing staircases may be beneficial, since I believe that it may also be relevant to a deeper bond with the Source and wholeness, as a staircase is a link between sleeping, dreaming, and waking).

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A centipede may be a dream’s rendering of the human spinal cord. In water (as in this dream) it serves as both a reminder of the human physical form as such and immersion in the dream state via the staircase or escalator metaphor. On one level it is the energies of my unconscious awareness returning to the Source. In the first version of “Taboo” from 1970, it was more about “sea monkeys” (brine shrimp) on one level. These “sea monkeys” also represent the human spinal cord.

D₁-I was at my sisters TKD school watching people break cement plates (with their fingertips, heel kicks, etc.) whenever I decided it looked fun so I started screwing around and breaking some. There was this metal wall with parts of it had hollow cement plates so you could work on accuracy, thinking it'd be interesting to see if I could actually break the cement plates I started fingertip thrusting and bladder striking the plates out of their socket. The plates wouldn't break but would fly out and spin like crazy in the air. My sisters instructor asked me if I wanted to actually go to the class and I was feeling happy-go-lucky so I agreed. He started showing me how to stretch for a 180° round kick. He kept repeating, slow and steady, slow and steady.

Dream skip

D₂-I visited a church I went to as a child and started going to the youth group regularly (even though I'm in college). My friend's brother, Jacob, started to sit beside me whenever I came. One day (mind you this is all a dream) a girl started hanging all over him before our bible session started and he looked over at me with a *please help me she won't get off* kinda look. Feelin bad for the guy I walked over and said," Oh hey mind if I borrow him for a bit, his boyfriend texted me the other day and you know how catty he can get if he's given the silent treatment for too long." The girl scrunched her face up into the ugliest, snobbiest look a person could possibly make and got up out of his lap (she had previously straddled him). Jacob's face was bright pink the whole time.

6/4/16
Dream 1: I was studying this small model of a huge chinese temple/castle thing, it was extremely intricate and quite fascinating to look at. I saw that it was in the pantry, and I realised that it had come with some lollies and chocolates. These were all gone, however, so I stormed over to my brother and asked him if he had eaten them all. He said he had, and I got a bit mad at him.

Dream 2: I was at home after graduating from high school. My dad came in my room the day after and handed me a whole stack of pink flyers. He said they were related to the graduation so I picked one up and read it. It had a few photos of the graduation ceremony on it, but also it had a checklist about a dream contest. Intrigued, I looked at it and saw there were two streams, beginner and advanced. One was to recall at least 1 dream for 7 days in a row, the other was to have a dream about a particular place for 10 days in a row an on the last day or earlier get lucid.

Dream 3: I was on a train in a fancy carriage where a few friends and I were invited to the breakup party of Slice the Cake. I walked up to one of the members of the band and it turned out he was actually someone from the year below me in high school. He talked to me for a bit and then another member called for silence and then gave a speech.

Dream 4: I was playing Skyrim, somehow though I was out the back of my house carrying around an enchanted dragonbone sword which I had just got. I then was inside the game proper and looked around. I saw a long sloping hill to the right of me where I thought I needed to go, so I walked up there. About two thirds of the way up I saw a stone altar and a few guys around there. I charged in full of zeal and sliced them to bits, all under the watchful gaze of a giant who happened to be right near me. I sheathed my sword and looked around at the altar and the giant, then looked at the sky and saw these purple clouds moving across with sunbeams and crepuscular rays everywhere. It was quite beautiful.

Dream 5: I was studying a map of some kind, where there was a small waterfront village. One house had a pier going off into the semi frozen river, whereas the other house's pier was sunken, however it had a giant fishing net dipped into the river to catch fish.

Dream 6: I created a pasta dish for the Queen, who turned out to really enjoy it and call it 'the Italian dish'. I was then hired as a cook for the queen, which was thrilling.

Dream 7: I met up with some old friends who are now all at different universities. One of them was at Monash and said it really overrated and there was no support there. Another said that all of the old universities were on the way down and newer ones like Swinburne and Deakin were soon going to rival the best American universities.

Dream 8: I was driving through the city with my brother and dad. We were planning some sort of heist and buying all of these plastic bag like things. WE ended up at a very tall building and my dad unveiled the plan. We were going to eat our way through all 17 storeys and then fly out from the top using the plastic things as capes. He went first, keeping just ahead of the guards as he made it to the top. I think for some reason though he didn't jump out, maybe he ran out of plastic bags, so he got escorted back down to try again. I think I tried to do it as well but I don't know how I went.

Dream 9: I was on a train I believe and I approached a guy and asked him if he wanted to buy a house. I had $2 million dollars and I needed $4 million for house, or something like that. He seemed a it skeptical, but as he had the required money I told him I would cover part of the cost if he let me stay were he had been renting previously. After some deliberation he agreed, happy to live in his own home, so we settled on he agreement. Later I went to where he previously was, and saw it was basically a large shed with another guy in there. He had guns and flags on the walls and was on a motorised scooter. I was starting to regret my decision but the guy said everything was fine and the roommate looked scary but was really fine.

Dream 10: I was playing Skyrim, my brother came up to me and was complaining about how I was in Morthal instead of Markarth, whingeing about how it wasn't even a real city and stuff like that.

Preface:
A lot of family happenings. One of them particularly disturbing. I'll comment at another time, but I am very worried about my niece.
As a result, I probably only slept a couple of hours. I was inside my mind all night.
A long time ago, I had a dream of a lady in a red cloak. She was most definitely a "she", even though her her face and body was that of a skeleton. I went to sleep with the idea that I wanted to find and talk to this spirit lady. I wanted to ask her so many questions- who she was, where she came from , etc.

DR 1
A curtain of black, and the cloaked lady came to me. I was so stunned that I couldn't ask her anything. Lucid for only a moment, I could feel her presence next to me. Then it was gone. She was gone and I floated into another dream that I do not recall.

I dreamed I was at a school trying to find a way to reach the inside, all the doors were gated. I came up on this group of people trying to smuggle weapons inside the school. After i told them I would not help them, they started shooting. They shot at me, they shot at the building, they shot cars, and just went nuts shooting in the air. Everyone ran out of the school and thats when I woke up.

4/6/16

I'm in a subway tunnel, It could be Central Station. I'm with a bunch of other people in the middle of a sea of people, playing my guitar. We're apparently putting on a show. Things are going well, we've got a small crowd starting to form around us. A woman dancing closer to me catches my eye and I notice a big bald muscular guy shove her and step in front of her. I point at him and he just takes off. I wink at the woman and continue playing. Damn I'm smooth.

Dreamskip


We're playing another gig, in this crazy looking house. There are hanging plants hanging from the ceiling, which is made of glass, and the floor underneath us is also glass, showing a coral reef beneath us. We're playing when suddenly I forget how to play the next song completely, and take the guitar strap off my shoulder and hand my grey guitar to my bandmate who is also a guitarist and ask her to cover for me. The rest of the band is still playing, and I raise my eyebrows quickly and make the praying sign with my hands then smile. Before we get to continue the house seems to drop away, and somehow I know we're drifting in the ocean. I walk outside and there are people in the water, holding onto some beams connected to the house. I walk across one and see someone I know in waking life. She looks up and says "The only thing we have in common is music and now we're stuck in the middle of no-where. What am I going to do now?" I hand her a bottle of olive oil and wake up. Cool.

I was searching for something whenever i saw a container of women's razors. In my dream I was suprised and thought about how I needed some, then I woke up.

Today I changed things up again. I found a new source of video's. Thx, Nimbulus. I used one to induce a nap today & my Lucid Dream lasted a really long time. I had headphones on & I wore a facemask that holds your eyelids shut. I'll start off w/ what I ate & then write my dream. I tried to eat a glass but that didn't work. I think it was because I have reoccurring dreams where I eat my teeth. ( I secretly hoped I would have become lucid in that nightmare & that would have easily have met the challenge). So I tried for what else was near me because I was afraid I Would wake up & not complete a task. I tried to each a pencil first & it was just the tip & tasted like lead, which I remembered from using all those yrs in school getting pencil lead on my hands. It was just too hard to eat the whole thing. Then, I ate cardboard. It tasted like dirt & was difficult to eat & the texture was gritty. I ate a piece of paper which didn't have much of a taste at all, it was just chewy & my saliva broke it down. I also ate a piece of wood. It seemed to take on an easier chewy sensation. The texture was splintery at first but softened in my mouth & had a earthy taste, more than a dirt taste. It seemed to almost take on a taste that wasn't bad but, nothing I'd want to try again unless I was starving....

Now back to my dream. I was in a tavern, in a town that was dusty & old & there were alot of ppl. None of which I knew. I realized I was lucid & tried to open my eyes & since I had a facemask on in real life, I just dissmissed this thought & I could suddenly see even more clearly. I immediately knew to look for objects to eat & got that out of the way. I also tried to ask ppl if they were LD's instead of DC's so I could try for another task but the DC thing eluded me so I decided I had done enough for one lucid dream where tasks were concerned & decided to try & enjoy my stay. I tried to explain to ppl that I had come into my dream conciously, hoping someone would start talking to me about the subject. Saying something like. "I'm one of your Spirit Guides", or something. I spent quite a great deal of time looking for ppl like that. But then I moved on. I was healing ppl. The conditions there were not good. I helped to heal ppl while I was there. Something compelled me to do this which was really strange. But I'd put my hands on them & pull out their illness & then cast out the feeling by difuzing the energy first. There was alot of talking & alot of levels to the building we were in.... I spent a great deal of time flying. It's like an addiction in a LD. I just do it. I don't walk very much at all now. Flying through halls is alot faster. Of course I also had to fly outside to feed the rush. This was the first time I flew up to where I was above the earth, through the clouds and amongst the stars... This was so very new to me & incredibly enlightening. Its was such a free feeling.....

Vegetarianism

I was hanging out with my friend who has kindof dumped my recently IWL partly because he is going through some serious stuff with his own family and he is having a change of lifestyle. I am kindof happy this is happening because his attitude is different from mine. He likes fast cars, alcohol, cigars and women whereas I do admit I like all those things too but would rather not go there. So he was there and I think this hightened my awareness in the dream because he was running after wasps hitting them and then squeezing them but they would not die properly and were flying over to me to sting me. I was trying not to get angry even thoough the situation was crazy. I started telling him that if we are nice to beings in the world we can make a big difference but he just continued on. The next thing the same story just magnified into a full on War. I was protecting a group of people while a chopper landed in front of us. A load of men came out with full armour and some kind of machine gun I had never seen before. They captured the people and I managed to get away. They were not looking for me they were looking for the indigenous people to wipe out the spiritual culture and bring on the industrialisation. It was an Avatar type thing. I was suprised at how brave I was and not a bit scared. This makes me think that I must have had some level of lucidity but not recognised it was a dream. This is still taking things a little too seriously and fighting for a cause. I have a sense still that there is something to change and not fully in the dream. I then ran up a number of floors in an office block to let them know and try and find someone official. Of course this is a classic dream sign of running around in circles and not becoming lucid.

D₁-Had a dream that something wouldn't let go of me, in fustration I blurted out,"I don't care if I never dream anymore, this HAS to stop!." Donnovan appeared, he looked really worried and anxious. Cupping my face he asked," You don't really mean that do you?" "No of course not I was just fustrated." I looked away feeling flustered. How come whenever I want to ask him questions I never lucid dream or see him or anything... but as soon as I say i'm done with dreaming or I'm tired of all the cat and mouse play he is suddenly worried... Interesting how the interactions are seemingly one-sided.

D₂-(This actually happened a few days later I've been distracted so the time line for my dream journal is fucked up) Was with my coworker, her son, and her mother. For some reason we were fleeing. At one point I had come back from fishing and was exhausted so I decided to take a nap. Whenever I woke up something rubbed me the wrong way, deciding to stand I was blind-sided and practically tackled to the ground. A guy was on top of me pinning me down telling me to play dead. Squirming to get free he pulled down the mask covering his face and I realized it was Donnovan. Furrowing my brow I heard a man call out,"Is she the one, the healer you've had us looking for?" Donnovan looked at him," Yes its her." Getting up I brushed my clothes off and looked around for my coworker, they had disappeared in the chaos. Glaring at Donnovan I was hoisted up onto a horse. In a language only we knew Donnovan told me to play deaf. For some reason their "leader of the guard" needed a doctor of some sort to look after the soldiers and in the dream I was a renounded healer.

D1: In my dream I was in my classroom with all my classmates (maybe I dreamt of school again because it starts today). We watched a movie or did something else - I don't remember this - and I took my chair and walked to the first row to talk to a friend, let's call him M. M abd I talked a bit and suddenly we stood in the sports hall. There were benches at on side of the hall and two in the middle with a little space between them. One of my friends, let's call him P, Made a stunning performance of a song I don't remember at the moment. But actually P is not a singer or something and I would never have thought of him performing. Now I can't stop thinking about it XD.

After the performance M came back and was eating, I asked him what he was eating again and he told me he doesn't know (weird is that he really is eating all the time even though he is an athlete). D came back and told me something I was pretty happy about but again don't remember. I wanted to hug him (which is his habit since he's got a girlfriend) and he misunderstood and kissed me on the cheek. I don't know why but after I told him that I didn't mean that he laughed and said "I know".


D2:
I dreamt of being in a store in the "rich-people-area" of my dream-city (I didn't create). I was in a little store wirh my little sister, my cousin, and two people from church. All I remember is that my sister from church bought me something and even though it was nothing special (as far as I remember) I as so extremly thankful and filled with joy. I went outside and saw the beautiful view. On the top of the mountain there were expensive and awesome looking buildings and the (at least in my dream) famous Würzburg-Tower. It looked like a incredible and majestic tower and at the same time it looked like a giant white cruise ship on a golden spiral-shaped tower. The sight was incredible. Now, being awake, I think it maybe wasn't a mountain but a giant floating island. This could be because the last thing I saw before i fell asleep was the "City of Builders" from the Minecraft Story Mode: Episode 5 (for those who don't know: it's a city with awesome builds mostly coloured white and gold with some grass and trees on a floating island)


Now if you look on the time this was written you may realize that I am awake way to early and somehow have to get back to sleep now (still having three and a half hours to sleep).

Dream #1: I started the dream w/ being in a group of ppl at a polical event for Hillary Clinton & I was supposed to be applying for some kind of position. Then my cat woke me up again & I lazily fed her & peed & laid back down(less than 5 minutes) & tried to get back into the dream.
Dream #2: This dream started immediately when I laid back down. I still had the last dream fresh in my head. I left off from where I had woken up but now we are going through a wing of this location where there are ER Rooms. It's like a big complex. And nothing really occurred except we were in there talking. Ppl were still trying to convince me to work for Hillary & since I don't like her I'm debating this because the money is good.

Is this chaining? I've done this for years so it just seems like some form of normal for me. Sometimes more than this. Usually it's due to the content of the dream which I'm enjoying & just want to dream more of this. But this time I wanted to go back in because I just wanted to see what would happen since I wasn't really enjoying it & it worked.