non-lucid

I am playing in a concert, playing to famous musicians on the soprano saxophone. Once I'm done I go back stage to pack up. Marry-1 gives me piano music to sight read and play to the audience. It's too hard and I complain to Marry. He doesn't listen. So I just practice my sax instead. The pages are missing as well. Marry really doesn't care because he says it's good that you are missing pages. So I think who cares, I'll just play crap.
As I walk back to the concert hall, I find a golden retriever. And it keeps begging me for food. I see a night street market.

For some reason, the dream appears to start as a loading screen of a game. However, a short time later I find myself in a vibrant land, similar to the art style in 'skyward sword' (interesting fact: i was reading the nintendo magazine before going to sleep). All of a sudden, some guilmon run past me, and i realize they have populated the area. I head toward a house built into a large tree stump, where i meet a strange lecturer. I can only vaguely remember him, but he was japanese and dressed in brown, with square glasses. He then began lecturing me using a slideshow on how Guilmon is real, and is actually a species called gillyman. Right. I remember going outside for a bit, before I woke up.

A few minutes later, I entered another dream in which I was rich, and was staying in the biggest hilton hotel in the world. It consisted of one, long room which was shaped like a cuboid with the right face being bigger than the others. This was made of glass, and I could see planes taking off outside. There were also many long, low cuboids along the floor, almost like pews. There were other people there, and someone who was my enemy apparently. Anyway, there was a load of soap foam as high as the ceiling, and i set off into it, entering another dream.

In this dream, I was in Gmod (or garrys mod) and had started a zombie survival multiplayer server. However, the zombies had spawned early, and so I had to fight them in a network of blue, abstract tunnels, gathering survivors as I went and eventually escaping. Not scary, just insanely fun!


This was a good night for my dream recall, so im hoping for a repeat tonight.

I'm at D's house, and his GF and her cousin (made up DC) are there. When all of a sudden they head out to the other room to have sex. I can hear the grunting and screaming in the room I'm in and it's really hard to ignore it. I head to another room, and the cousin is in there, and we started talking a little bit, and one thing is leading to the next which is leading to the next. At this point we're way past making out, and all of a sudden D's girls comes in and she's all mad about the situation. Then her cousin acts like she didn't want to take it that far in the first place, when she's the one who started it.

Then A walks in, with p much the same attitude. Saying something along the lines like "yeah we didn't think you would try something like this". I'm putting my clothes on and looking at all of them and the only thing I can say is "are you kidding me?". I was upset that I wasn't able really even get started. I left outside, and found myself walking through the jungle. I had to cross this river, so I decided to jump, and there were all these plants scraping my arms when I made it across.

I get to this room that has my mom in it and I ask her how she's doing before I wake up.

(I had a feeling this one was part of another dream, but as per the norm, I woke up for no reason at all in the middle of the night.)

I had missed the first day of school because I'd been sick, so when I finally came back, I was scrambling to have everything done and accounted for. I didn't get all the teacher's syllabuses, but I did get a packet that contained two journals, a whole bunch of papers, and what the teacher called his "Welcome to school gift and personal learning plan."

I was utterly confused, but listened anyway to a confusing teaching style that involved teacher-student interaction and students functioning on their own. Eventually I just shrugged and said, "okay. I think I get it."

It didn't help that this math class I was supposed to take was just about two hours long.

FML.

I woke up.

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Hey all. I can't remember that much from last night. This is the third day in a row where I can't remember more than one dream, which sucks! I have decided to try to wake up tomorrow, and not get more than 6 hours of sleep, wihch will make my REM rebound. Hopefully that gives me alot of dreams on tuesday! This is what I dreamt last night:

D1: I'm standing on the balcony of my old appartment. There's a small dog with me and suddenly it walks through a hole, and falls down! I panic and run to my old room, in which my sister is with a few friends. "Where the hell is my cellphone?" I bark and see it on the bed. I grab the phone and head for the stairs. Halfway down I meet my mom, and she's holding the dog. "He's alright, just a little shaken though" she says. I walk back to my room and starts yelling at my little brother for something

Amount of sleep: 8½ hours

Well, boring I know. I cba to translate another LD today. Might do it tomorrow though.

Keep on dreaming, HARE BRA!

Originally Posted by Waking journal entry:

Today was less than spectacular. It started off decent enough with no work. I got the apartment vacuumed, and even managed to watch about 85% of Inception finally. I MUST FINISH THIS MOVIE!!! after the wife came home we went to Nicks to see if he could diagnose the computer, and he was having his b-party. Some gun, and cake eating ensued, but then it was down to business. Turns out my mother board/processor are fried. FML I don't have this kind of money On the way home Daniel called, Her grandpap is in the hospital again. She wanted to know if i could work on my weekend off so that she could finish moving her stuff and visit him. I caved in. I don't want to go to work. the only reason i agreed is because i have no money and absolutely have to have this computer back or i won't be able to make more. Fuck having a home business. It's to hard. I hate my full-time job. At least i got cake.

Had 3 very vivid dreams. I remember waking up and going. "Woah for real?" I fail to remember the first two now though. When i woke in the middle of the night i should have at least jotted their subjects down. but no i just rolled over and said "bah I'll remember it." the third dream was strange.

I was standing in an isle way of a grocery store with a cart full of food, and my cousins husband, Markus. Markus has the baby-mans, Dylan, with him, but Dylan had black hair, and the weirdest beard. I remember at one point going "Baby's don't have beards, but my subconscious have me a vary detailed reason as to why he had it, and that it would go away. I accepted this, and the dream carried on. We finally got to the check out, and i gave Dylan the ice cream he wanted "Doodz" we're brand of Ice cream i thought but i ignored it. Then every time he ate i got money. Another cousin showed up and tried to take Dylan but i wouldn't let her, and then some crazy man with claw marks shaved into his head and just plowed right through us at the check-out lane.

Alarm clock went off. Sometimes i like my dreams better than waking up. I wish things would start looking upwards for me.


Side notes:
JILD Day 1- Nothing
Dream becoming increasingly Vivid.

I woke up this morning remembering a dream, but went back to sleep. When I woke up, I only remembered my new dream:

Dream 1

I had been at a place, a hotel, and I went to the airport to pick up Shea, and Donna an the kids. We drove through a city to the hotel. The hotel was in a sort of cul-de-sac, with access to shops and things. There was a huge QUIT building across the road. I remarked to Shea that it would be a good place to stay.

We checked into the hotel at the desk, and used an electronic card to enter into a large auditorium.

There was a play. Or movie. Being filmed. I was there, I was meant to be in it. I walked up past some seats, and got in the way of the scene they were shooting. The director yelled at me.

I climbed up on a scaffold, following another guy. At the top was a plank to the seating, so we could get to the seating without getting in the way. I crossed at the wrong time and got in the way again, and thought to myself, "I'm the star of the movie, and they don't even realise that I'm the guy that keeps getting in the way."

We sat in the audience. I was next to Shea. The audience was all watching it now, like a play. A masked and hatted man climbed into the audience - he was the villain - and threw a blanket over me and kidnapped me, and dragged me out of the audience. It was all part of the show, though.

He dragged me backstage, there were some people standing around. One guy was showing me some things - recorded footage on a small screen I think - and it started to trail off there...

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I spent about a week before this taking note of my dreams, but not writing them down. It's amazing the huge difference that actually committing things to memory makes.

Last night I had a dream (after WBTB) that I had gone into the restroom. Once in there I go to the urinal and behind me I notice two guys just sorta watching me... Whatever. I finish my business and head out of the bathroom and as I round this dividing wall (that separates the bathroom from the hallway to the door) some dude jumps me and starts beating the crap outta me. I wake up and I can't move for a split second and then suddenly I'm throwing myself up and almost off of the bed as the SP loosens.

Trippy stuff.

04.05.2010

Qualitative Analysis (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I had planned on using MILD to induce a lucid dream so I went to bed chanting "I will have a lucid dream" in my head. I think I wasn't focused enough since my mind was filled with so much things (like random songs etc). I drifted off into a dream.

I found myself in a room similar to those in Mavis Tutorial Centre. There were a lot of people around and I knew at once were in a grouped Chemistry lessons. I spotted my junior, R, in front. I thought it was quite weird, for he was 2 years younger than me yet we were in the same class, but I let it slide (I can't believe I missed this).

"Hey R, what are you doing here?"

"I don't know. My Qualitative Analysis is quite weak, so my mother enrolled me here."

"But QA is so easy! You won't fail it, trust me."

"I know, but my mother insists on me attending this lesson!"

"I don't like it when the solution changes colour when you stir it."

WL came jumping by, "I like it!"

Hearing this, I changed my mind suddenly, "I like it when the solution changes colour when you stir it."

SW turned to me and asked if I had changed into my school uniform. I looked down at myself and saw myself wearing my uniform over my sports attire.

I woke up.

The first thing I remember is being about 5 years old again, I was in a car with my dad. All the handhelds I had were there too, and this kid was outside the car running with us. Dad jumped out and I held on to his hand, and we ran with this kid as the car drove itself. Then the car ran into something and flew into a roadside pond that I passed alot as a kid. Some time was missing after that, but there was something about a video game I played alot effecting real life. It was a concept from Ender's Game, a book I read.
I don't remember anything else.

It was the second worst dream I've had in all my life. One of the most tramuatizing, too.

School Fragment (Supplemented by Melatonin and Vitamin B6)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

So I popped a pill, containing 3mg of melatonin and 3mg of Vitamin B6. Stayed up for a while before letting the drowsiness kick in. I'm not sure of this, but I had a lot of 'day-dream' moments before falling asleep (need someone to tell me what are these!).

Unfortunately I kept waking up, which is weird because melatonin is supposed to make you fall into deep sleep for the first 70% or so of your sleep. I did get dreams in the morning though, quite a lot of them, and are not very vivid, which is another thing that surprised me.

Some fragments:

• I remembered seeing 20 notifications in DV.
• From what I can remembered, I recalled waking up in my classroom during recess and checking if there's still time to grab a bite. On the way I had to pass through the gym, and I saw my Discipline Master instructing someone on how to use some equipment. He asked me to pass him a wooden ball, which I did. He dropped it, but I continued walking on.
  
  Instead of heading towards the canteen I walked to the school hall where everyone was playing badminton. Someone asked me why I came so late, and I told him I was feeling drowsy (probably because of the melatonin) and decided to sleep for a while. I borrowed a badminton racket from a friend and decided to show off my badminton skills, which weren't very good at that moment.
  
  The bell rang, and someone told me I ruined their game because they were winning. I thought he was joking, so I let it slide, but after a while I asked if it was true. But before he could reply we saw everyone gathering at the foyer and I thought we were late for some sort of meeting, so we rushed there.
  
  I saw the Discipline master there, so on instinct I reached out to my shirt and began stuffing it into my pants for uniform inspection, but I failed. When I reached the foyer the DM told me he already inspected me, so I need not attend. I was quite confused at that moment, because the last time we saw each other was at the gym. I sat down near my juniors. A teacher walked by and decided to release us by shouting a command. She made a mistake at first, and everyone was waiting for her to amend it. Then to my horror she shouted out some weird command that goes like this: Pooh pooh pooh pooh backside backside 1 2 3 4 Go!

I woke up after that, still feeling horrified and wtf-ed at that command. My neck was quite sore.

I spent most of the day packing for the move. I don't like packing.

09/11/10



Incandescent light bulbs are hanging from wires, interspersed several meters apart. It's quite dim. The dirt floor is covered in straw, and I kick up pieces of it as I walk.

I'm leaning down over a roughly made cage, which is covered in chicken wire. The top is open, and I see a few rabbits hopping about on the floor. I pick up the one that looks like my childhood pet, all white fur and red eyes. As I pet the rabbit in my arms, the dream fades around me.

Scare Factor: 0/10
Rating: 2/10

Well, that was uncharacteristic.

September 11, 2010

The trick
I was involved with a group of people trying to play a trick on a group of bad people. This was really more than a trick, it was a whole set-up, I guess. Involved on the good team with me is Elijah (from work), Eddy, possibly my dad (according to my notes) and Jesse from All My Children. On the evil side is David from All My Children, and a bunch of dream characters.

We were trying to make David and his team believe that something had happened that didn't really happen. I was alone, and kicked off the plan. The details of what I said or did are very fuzzy. Eddy then got involved. Once it was rolling, Jesse came into the room I was in and was upset about the current pace and inactivity of our plan. He didn't know I had kicked it off. I filled him in on what happened so far, and he was pleased.

Missed dream signs
- Interacting with co-workers outside of work situations
- Interacting with TV show characters

Had I realized them
- Would've done some reality tests to see if any work for me (nose pinch, mouth roof, and tongue bite)
- Would've left the plot to summon Danny for help with conjuring my brother

Puppy fragment
Jack and I were renting a basement suite from Hannah, who lived upstairs. She was opening the door of our suite for us and this dog ran outside to greet us. He was typically brown-furred, but had this patch of fiery-coloured red fur on his nose. He wasn't the world's cutest dog, but he was super-friendly, which rather made up for it

Missed dream signs
- Jack and I living in an apartment other than here (this is a new sign creeping up a lot lately)
- Seeing people who I don't see anymore (Hannah)

Had I realized them
- Would've done some reality tests to see if any work for me (nose pinch, mouth roof, and tongue bite)
- Would've left the plot to summon Danny for help with conjuring my brother

Lucid

Dream

1.

Me and 2 mates were around and then there was a lot of water as we were 'flooding' the house

2.

Whilst cleaning the blankets (?) we played Super Mario World 3D. I was in the final level playing against Bowser to win a prize. I kept dying even though I felt like I had practiced a lot. Eventually I ran out of lives and lost.

3.

A few things happened consisting of an empty field with a car and a creature who when its name was said killed something. After this, there was a wooden beam and Flanders (from the simpsons) was tied to it and rotating around the pole. At the end of it, there was Homer sitting on his roof.

4.

I was in a room with a lot of paintings. There was a tightrope guy teaching us how to walk across one and then there was suddenly two tightropes, one for him and one for me. I went to leave and was told to make sure that the paintings were not taken down but I did not inform the others.
I was then in a lecture/class room and I ran into an old friend. I asked her if she was at uni now and she looked at me in a puzzled way and said something.
Eventually I left and went back into the room with the paintings to find that half of them had been taken down. At this time the people who told me not to take them down came and I got into trouble.



Well that's about it. I am definitely missing a few bits but I was too lazy to write them down. I think my recall is improving slightly which is good.

September 10, 2010

New stores
Spent most of the dream hanging out with Julia. There was a new small strip mall down the hill from my house. It was still mostly being constructed, but there were a couple of shops open early. I ask Julia if she wants to go into the British clothing shop (I guess like an H&M, but not with that name Tongue), and she's keen, even though I bet the clothes will only be Canada's interpretation of British style...

We go inside and we pass by an arcade, first. We both think it's cool and say we'll come back to it. Then, we pass by a restaurant that specializes in hot dogs. Julia now wants a cheese dog.

I'm now at work - old job at 7-11. Some cleaners come in to work on the store. A guy and a girl. I don't pay much attention to them. Then some more cleaners (from my current job) come in. I tell Stuart that there were two before him. He asks me to describe the girl and her face, in my memory, is smudged and blurred. I consider the possibility of it being a dream, but it doesn't carry over. Stuart and I talk about halloween, and how I won't allow people to wear masks inside the store. He thinks I'm being silly.

Missed dream signs
- Hanging out with Julia (she lives in the UK)
- New strip mall being built near me when there isn't
- Working at an old job
- Problems with remembering facial details

Plan of action
- Tested some RC's (tongue tickle, bite tongue and nose pinch). See if any work for me.
- Ask Danny for his help in conjuring my brother.

Finally, a Darren dream
I'm standing with some people on some steps outside a building. I look towards the doors, and I see Darren come out. I'm staring at him and he's looking right at me as he comes over. We smile at each other.

"Hey you!" I say.

"Hey!" he says.

We talk privately for a second. I can't recall exactly what, but I recall asking him how he knows how to find me. He says he just knows. I recall hearing some rumour that he's going to marry this chick he's been seeing in waking life. He shrugs it off and says he hadn't planned to, that he's done the married thing, but he says he could change his mind. He asks me about Jack and I tell him things are well.

Scene change and I'm with Jack and his parents. His mum is playing with her phone, trying to change the ring tone. She changes it to a jazz song and I daydream about my dance class (we had to dance to that same song). I tell Jack I wished he was in dance with me, cos it would've been really fun to do a jazz dance to that song. He isn't really fussed about it.

I don't know the song name I can't find it. But it's definitely a Charleston-flavoured jazz piece.

Missed dream signs
- Darren

Plan of action
- Talk to him more, see if I can learn something unique about dreaming, finding people in dreams.