non-lucid

3rd person, Rumpelstiltskin visiting Belle in a dream, he's smiling and she's saying, "I know you, don't I?" She doesn't remember him, and when she wakes up from these dreams she usually doesn't remember dreaming them; even when she does, she believes he's just an imaginary character in her dream.

She wakes up, and for him that dream had been like taking a break; now it's back to business. He's creating a dream to send to someone else, a red-haired man; he creates it by narrating it out loud as he walks through the woods, following an image of Bae which is part of his own dream. Rumpelstiltskin can't enter the waking world himself right now, so he needs this man to act as a go-between for him; he doesn't bother meeting the man in his dreams directly, he just creates dreams in advance and leaves them behind as messages. Right now, Rumpelstiltskin's not happy with the go-between, he's screwed up one of the previous instructions, so he's making sure this dream will make him wake up crying. As he's narrating the dream and following Bae through the trees, I start hearing music, with the lyrics "After you forget."

it was like the hunger games, except their were two teems and each team tried to win immunity. there was some black guy on my team who said he wanted to kill tom (the cat from tom and jerry) and i got pissed cause i really liked that cat so i tried to kill him. then everyone else started trying to kill eachother


later in the dream i was at mrs. pallaris house exploring around. my mom was being very rude and i was intrigued by the corvette in the garage. the stick shift. was where the blinker control should have been. anyway i really wanted to go home so my sister and i realized we could just walk instead of complaining to my parents that they need to drive us home. somehow i end up in this foreign land with giants and suddenly a huge giant is picking me up trying to kill me. i dive into this room wehre everything is magnetic so he can't kil me cause bullets just get stuck in the air from the strong magnets along with knives. i cried and complained to everyone that iwas being hunted.

then his giant friend who was also an indian tried to expose me as some criminal. i just wanted to go home

NON-DREAM
DREAM
LUCID

I'm looking at my old toys in our closet. There are a lot of large fabric or felt books that are classified as history books. Two go from the 1860s to 2005, and another goes from 1995 to 2002. I also find two baby bibs in a cardboard box. I try one on, but it's too small, of course.

Later, I'm veiwing myself as I was at age four or five. My sister looks about two and a half years old. We're carrying animal toys that make sounds if you squeeze their heads. Also, we're in a grocery store. Every time my parents want to demonstrate the toy, they use my sister's. My sister has a puppy toy, and I have a monkey toy. When my younger self reaches the bakery aisle, my mom and I end up "in" the "flashback", and I tell her "When you want to demonstrate a toy, use both of ours, please."

Time travel is a recurring theme in my dreams. Also, none of the books, the bibs, or toys are real. My sister and I never owned toys like that. And I never made any felt or fabric history books. Also, nothing in the flashback actually happened. My parents never filmed home movies in stores. The only thing that was realistic was when I talked to my mom in the "past", and my younger self didn't look at me for one second. That's because you can't change the past.

Key:
Green = Dream
Blue = Lucid

The furthest back I can remember I was on my way to meet a recently deceased friend for lunch. I hadn't seen her in a while so I was kind of looking forward to it. I remember driving around and being rather confused as to where I was going. Then I started having a conversation with someone about how they had just lost the place they were living because the landlord found a small tent which was half full of "paraphernalia". He didn't go into what that entailed but the dream shifted to his memory at this point.

Apparently a handful of college kids were renting some this guy's garage/shed and had managed to make a big mess of things. There he was, screaming at them because it had been totally trashed but none of them actually knew why it had been so messed up. As he stormed off, one of the kids decided that they might as well clean up before they leave, and started to do so but somehow a fire started. The landlord came back screaming again, but didn't even notice the fire. One of the kids actually had to bust through a door with a fire extinguisher, almost hitting the landlord in the process, in order to get to the fire.

The fire had exposed a small hole that ran underneath part of the floor. A quick look inside revealed a ton of huge rats. But these weren't ordinary rats, they were sentient. They were also all sorts of different colors and sizes, as well as capable of speech. I remember playing with them and asking about their social hierarchy, they had no idea what I was talking about.

Then one of the kids got bit, and another told him he was going to get rabies. Understandably, he was freaking out, so I had to calm him down. I told him that rabies can infect any mammal, but not rodents such as rats, mice, squirrels, or rabbits. He insisted that he felt ill, and I explained to him that it was likely anxiety. I began to explain how I mitigate anxiety when I realized I was dreaming.

I immediately remembered that I needed to find some kids at halloween. I walked out of the garage and turned the corner expecting to find some. There I was walking down the hallway of a school. Kids were dressed up in costume and had apparently stuffed their backpacks with all sorts of treats and things they had gotten from each class.

I first summoned my connection to venom. Six sickly green glowing orbs appeared behind me, chained to my back. I focused the energy from them into my right hand and then concentrated on the concept of "candy" while an orb of venom energy formed in my palm. I then snapped my fingers and streams of energy lept from my hand and to the various backpacks and bags of the surrounding kids.

"Your candy is now all poisoned!" I yelled, followed by maniacal super-villain laughter. "I wouldn't eat that if I were you." I said to a passing young girl, who defiantly popped a piece in her mouth before immediately blanching, and falling over stone cold dead.

"I'm the only one who can consume the candy now!" I exclaimed, before outstretching my left hand, which I have engineered to absorb. Candy began flying through the air, at me, and flowing into the void vortex in the left palm. I often refer to this process as "eating" as it is consumption followed by becoming. Oddly, this wasn't going very fast, perhaps I'm just used to absorbing energy or one or two small things through my hand, because candy began to back up my throat, which caused me to pause and re-swallow said pieces. All the time, the kids are watching me with an odd fascination. They don't like that I've poisoned their candy, but the fact that it's all flying out of their bags and towards me is kind of cool to watch.

That wasn't working well enough, so I moved to tactic two, which I normally reserve for when I want to eat something large like an entire person. I grab my chest, dig my fingers into my sternum before tearing my chest open. I am now split open from my nose to my stomach as if I had a vertical mouth which extends that far. Indeed, the edges are lined with sharp teeth. Inside is nothing but the darkness of the void. Black tendrils spew forth from this void and physically grab the candy from the kids. This is a bit much, it freaks them all out, and they begin to run around in a panic.

After I've "eaten" all of the candy, I realized that I feel very strange. At first I'm confused because I'm immune to the effects of my own venom. As I stumble away, thinking, "I need to go home and lay down" a little kid who apparently wasn't scared by my antics says "you know! you shouldn't eat that much sugar at once."

Odd random fragment follows. I was being chased by a car with no front wheels. I also woke up way early and decided to stay in bed and rehearse the dream so that I could remember it. Woke up several times and had to remind myself that I wasn't allowed to modify my memory of it. Had other little fragments during their period, including a fight against another chimera but also alongside a few as well.

I was indoors and there quite a lot of people around the place. Some people come and started to fight anyone they could see, the place was turning into mayhem real quick. I stayed calm and collected and tried to steer clear of the fights. Eventually I was set upon by a thug and I let loose on the guy and pounded him out.

I was now in another area which seemed friendlier. I had a feeling that I couldn't be hurt cause it was a dream?

I'm outside at my primary school and I threw a grenade towards a tall and built guy. It went straight over his head. I walked off trying to make it look like it wasn't me who threw the grenade. I approached a chemist and was thinking of going inside, but the guy was onto me, I think he knew it was me. I ran away from him at a fast pace. I was having thoughts of, what if he was keeping a steady pace and I would run myself out of gas?.

I'm near Drew's house, where the drains are. I was looking for a hiding spot and saw some trees. I ran over to the trees and wasn't too happy with the spot, so I moved my whole body in where I felt hidden. A car approached the bush and I saw a car full of people. I think the driver was a female and she was pulling a face at me. She was copying the face I was pulling, cause I was unsure if she could actually see me. I asked if I could get in the car, and they were cool with it. I was in the back seat and looked out the window at the bush I was hiding behind. It looked like a terrible spot, cause I could see through it easily.

I was riding down the street, either on a bike or motorbike with lead singers from Blink 182 and the lead of Metallica. I said to everyone that all we needed was the drummer from Blink 182 (Travis Barker), and we all the band would be complete. I saw someone coming from the distance to join us, I think it was Travis. I started singing a Blink 182 song. The lead singer from Metallica, looked at me and shook his head. I don't think he liked their type of music.

Blink 182 - Tom, Travis and Mark

Metallica - James

I was now sliding on the ground, getting pushed by one of the Blink 182 singers (Tom Delong) while he was on his motorbike. I wasn't in control of the situation and was coming up to a red light, when Tom kept going straight through the light. Luckily the cars had seen what was happening in the distance and let us by.

I saw a police car going in the opposite direction as it passed us. I figured it would have done a U-turn and came back after us. I think we were getting chased by police now. Tom sped up and gave it all he had. I wasn't sure if we would be able to lose them, but I think we pulled away to some extent. I said to Tom that he could use me as bait so I could give him a free ride out of trouble. I don't think he was willing to do it, and I kept insisting.

I was a bit worried about the police taking the number plate down so we could get tracked down later. We were heading straight towards a gate which was closed, and was worried I would be hurt and wouldn't break through. As I went through it, I did it with ease. Tom dropped me off just passed the gates. I was looking around for a hiding spot, for when the police arrive. I noticed a bin which I was thinking of getting in.

Been thinking, this really is my last year I will have any good time for dreaming. After this I will be off to college where life will become much more hectic. I have even managed to be getting some very good sleep in as well. Been waking up every night multiple times after each REM cycle... just need to work on dreaming more! Man... makes me sad I haven't been at it when I have had so much opportunity. I must get back into it....

What made me think of this was that last night I had a pretty cool dream that was sparked simply from a video I watched before I went to bed. I had my laptop and was at the top of this huge tower. Well apparently I was inside Sonic Colors on the level Planet Wisp. This must have been from a speedrun I watched before I went to bed. I then watched as Sonic flew by for the speedrun before waking up. I need to get back to my recall, as when I can recall my dreams I seem to be able to re-enter them.

I really gotta get back to work..

I had a crazy, vivid dream last night!

I was in a prison, but they were telling us to go outside and get on a bus. I was a little worried because I had no shoes, just some weird flip-flops, but then I shrugged and didn't care much about it, since... well, I'd be inside the bus anyway.

Anyway, the bus was going really fast and it felt pretty dangerous, even though I was having lots of fun. When it finally stopped, my dad entered the bus and gave me some money. I told him I'd be back later. I left the bus and the guards of the prison were saying that I couldn't go too far because we'd leave soon. I told them to text me before they left and I'd be back. They were like "you don't have a phone, you were in prison" and I laughed at them and showed them my phone.

I started walking and I knew I had to find a guy from my high school. I entered a building, found myself in a corridor with a door. I opened it and I was outside again, but it was very foggy. I got ready for the cold temperature, but then I realised it was sand. A truck was coming my way and it was bringing more sand, so I went back to the building.

I went to the other way and found the guy I was looking for. He was at a table with other people. I sat down and felt really out of place (I was never friends with any of those people in real life). They said it was time to go to back to the prison, so we got up and went to the bus.

When I walked inside the bus, I found myself in the prison already. There was a girl there I only know online, but she was inside a stall. Her father (who I don't know, have never seen before in my life) was there too and he was crazy. He wanted to kill everybody and he had a knife on his hand. I managed to make him drop it with my awesome ninja skills, and then I threatened him with my spoon. He surrendered, but he was faking it. He almost took the knife again and I was shouting to the girl to come out of the stall or else I'd have to kill her father.

She finally left and they hugged. He agreed that he had done something bad, so he was locked into another stall. This stall had a hole on the floor, like a well, and he was left there. Since the crisis was over, I went back to my initial worry in the dream: my shoes. I decided to make new flip-flops for myself.

To this whole dream, I have one thing to say: wtf? It was VERY vivid, though...

Dream 1(fragment):

I was going near some buildings.

Dream 2(fragments):

I was in some game and i was in some team, the game used kinda that VR/grid-like theme for levels. At first it was kinda race for best positions and then it continued as sort of RTS/TBS hybrid, we were building cannons and firing them at enemy bases. We were missing alot, but so were enemies and we were discussing plan and enemy weaknesses.
In the end we kinda just rushed enemy team and it was just an vs battle where each of us got some kind of power or something.

October 7, 2013

Bad parking
I'm in the van, on the phone, driving in a dirt (maybe gravel) parking lot. It's completely full - I can't see anywhere to park. Eventually, I just stop the van behind a couple of other cars, then get out and start walking away. I get honked at, but I figure I'll just be a couple of minutes, so it's OK.

Now I'm inside. Lots of people are walking around. I worry about leaving the kids in the car, but I figure this won't take long, so they'll be OK. Now I'm on the driveway leading to the parking lot. I'm carrying a long orange extension cord, and some other people are with me.


Costco frozen pizza
I'm at Costco with my wife, near the food court. It's closing time, so they're lowering the entrance gate to stop anyone new from coming in. A young woman is doing it, but she's having trouble. She's trying to jump up to catch the door, but it's too high for her. Her shirt is coming untucked. She finally manages it.

Now we're in line for the food court's last call. Someone says that it's just not cost effective to leave the ovens on after this since they draw so much power. My wife wants a slice of pizza, and I decide to have one too: a slice of pepperoni instead of my usual combo.

Now we're ordering. She orders two slices of "frozen pizza." I don't know why she mentioned "frozen" - Costco's pizzas are freshly made. Now the food court lady has our pizzas, and they're still frozen. She takes a small butane torch and starts waving it across the pizzas to warm them up and give them a fresh-from-the-oven look. Initially, I'm skeptical, but I have to admit it seems to be working. That being said, it takes a while, so it's no time saver; and it's hard to get right. I see no advantage to it.

Now I have the pizzas and the torch, and I'm still using it on the pizzas. I'm worried about getting it right, but my wife isn't concerned.

Monday 10.7.13

Last night I went to bed at 11pm. That seems to be a sweet-spot for my good recall. I also had water before bed and when I woke up first time. But didn't remember the dream when I woke up at night.

My cat decided she wants to snuggle with me all night. When I was laying on my left side, she snuggled there, when I turned to the other, she stepped on me to get to the other side. I couldn't move without worrying about me rolling over her, se each time I wanted to change position, I completely woke up, sat up, looked where she is and tried to find a comfy position in a small space she allocated to me.
I guess that's why I got a DILD. And also why I felt vibrations again, after a long time, when not WILDing.

I didn't remember dreams at night, but did remember them in the morning. Didn't write them down, instead, re-told them with words each time I woke up in the morning. Now I remember 3 long, although not so detailed dreams.

DR 1 - I'm walking down a street with 1-2 others. Houses are villige type, single family, with yards between them. Someone said there was a monster chasing them. I look back to the end of the street and a black shape is starting to emerge. I say "oh, that's just a T-Rex".

We duck into one house. It's rather long with lots of rooms in single row. We are looking out the windows, but being careful, so they don't see us.

Somehow I'm holding a cat in my arms and there is a Nazi someone there as well. Now we are outside and I'm about to be kidnapped by this Nazi.

DR 2 - Im in my home town. Showing our garage to some friends from US, because they didn't see one like this yet. I'm telling them they should get some posters of the country, before going back home.

DR 3 + DILD I'm at my grammas house. She is shooting at a paper target on her wall with a smallish BB gun. (watched Anthony B. episode with him shooting guns) She points out a pretty bird outside a window. Size of a phasant. She wants my little brother to see it. But he can't, until the bird moves.

Now there is a large wolf about to get the bird. They are just watching, letting the nature do it's thing. But I take her gun and go outside to shoot the wolf. I shoot a few times, with no effect. I shoot him point blank, and nothing. I'm standing now at arms length to the wolf. He is growling and showing his teeth. I'm a little bit scared, but not enough to leave.

Now I'm inside again and there are lots of family members there. I look at my toes and start counting them. 1...2...3...4...5...6! Omg, I tell myself, how come I didn't notice this before. I'm a POLYDACTYL! But I think I say PTERODACTYL and I realize, that's how that dinosaurus got it's name. I also remember that some cats are like that.

I count again and not there is 10 of them, and there would be even more, if I kept on counting. I realize I'm dreaming. I walk outside and start flying. My dad comes out and jokingly tells me to come back. But I feel he is serious and if I was any lower, he would pull me down and I'm a bit scared.

I'm above some low trees now and I remember, that last time I was not able to fly fast. So I try a few techniques a remember reading about. I do the superman, and also I put my legs and arms together. Doesn't work. I wake up soon after.

[Dream Fragment]
I was explaining to someone how my contraption worked. It was a box that used a series of mirrors to display a bunch of different pictures in one place.

07.10.2013

Dreaming within a dream and failing to visit the Colosseum. (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was with a group of people in a big room. It seems that we were in some sort of meeting group in order to lucid dream. But we were actually got together to be able to sleep. The room was big, but it had no furniture, and we would bring our own matresses. All the DC except my wife were make up here.

They turned off the lights and then we started to focus on lucid dreaming and we went to sleep.

I was with my wife in a very tiny airport and we got inside a plane. It was very dark and the plane was very wide. I was surprised because no flight attendant was there to greet us and the curtains were closed. I was wondering what was going on until a flight attendant came out, welcomed us and directed us to our seats.

While I was waiting for the plane to take off, I did not see many people and the lights were very dark (Since i was a kid, I traveled by plane hundreds of times) and not the usual stuff that happens in a plane was occurring. I started to think, "What the heck is up with this plane? What is going on?" I realized I was dreaming right away, as the plane was too dark and it was very odd the way things were happening, so I walked away from my sit and exited the plane. I went through the room that connected the plane and I left outside.

I was in the middle of nowhere and it was very sunny. There were no buildings around and I told to my self, "When I turn in the next street, I will teleport to the Colosseum to fight a Gladiator for the task of the year. As I turned the corner I was able to hear the screams and excitements of the people, but the dream vanished.

I was back at the room with other oneironauts, and I was a bit upset I did not finish the dream, oh well, failed task, I will soon induce another lucid dream.

I had various attempts, but as I was falling asleep and felt a dream forming, I would open my eyes and "wake up" from the dream. At some point, I could not sleep so I took a walk around the building. I could see all the people around me sleeping.

I was outside like at some sort of shopping mall, but I did not feel like it and went back to the room. It was hard to find the actual room, as there were many more rooms and the aisles were very dark.

As I went back to the room when I finally found it, someone else was sleeping in my mattress, so I just sat in another random mattress and then got comfortable to sleep again, but the leader of the meetup group told us it was time to wake up.

I realized this meeting group made no sense and that I was dreaming still and I just had a dream within a dream. As I left the room, I was setting the intent to find the Colosseum as I left the shopping mall.

My wife (real waking wife) woke me up as it was time to wake up.

Dream recall from today's WBTB/naps.

Dream 1(fragment):

Something about weapon collection.

Dream 2(fragments):

I wake up and i feel that i am dreaming, i get up from bed straight into quadruped stance and go for balcony. It's closed, i attempt to phase through door but curtain gets in the way and dream destabilizes.

I try to DEILD but lose awareness.

Dream 3:

I wake up and get distracted by family watching something on monitor, but i also get the feeling of dreaming, i look outside and there's big red building, so definitely dreaming. I go to balcony, or rather, the exit because it's apparently first floor somehow, and now i am outside. There are a lot of green trees and a road with a bunch of parked cars. As i explore around i see one car driving around, but without a driver, haha. Shortly dream fades out.
I wake up still feeling dream, i go to balcony, which is open again and on proper floor now and take off using my wings. It's night and i fly rather high, i notice a faint transparent blue rectangle frame on the ground in the distance, i fly towards but suddenly i am back in the room again before i can reach it, then dream fades out again.
I wake up and family member calls me, then i wake up again.

I was at a house with Daryl, Jane and Tim. Daryl had a trailer connected to his car, which was parked in the backyard.

We must have done something wrong, because Jane wasn't too happy with either Daryl or both of us. Daryl moved his car in another spot and I said to him that your Mum may not me happy with you doing that.

I could see Jane in the distance, through a window. I think she may have been washing the dishes.

Daryl wanted to do a good deed, and built a fence. We started building the fence near the shed, which was only about knee high. Jane came back, she didn't seem to happy with what was going on.

Dream Fragment 1:
An ugly girl with a big forehead was sitting on Elton Johns lap, while he was playing piano. The girl was over singing the song. Elton looked different. He had a skinnier face and a red face. When the girl was singing he gave her a look of WTF! You're butchering this song. The girl mentioned later, that she lost the plot a little when singing.

Elton John

Dream Fragment 2:
I could see some big brother contestants, but could only remember Jasmin. I was sizing her up and imagining what she would be like to sleep with. I thought she was younger then she is, 19-20.

Jasmin - Big Brother