non-lucid

Ok so I thought that today would be a great day to start my dream journal because I had a really unique experience last night. I've been putting this off for like weeks so i'll be adding a couple dreams i wrote down after this too. I've waited all day so I can't remember all of the dream but before bed, we got a call from a family friend who is a self-proclaimed psychic. She said that my grandfather that she never knew personally, (and who died 2 weeks ago) had been bugging her for 4 days. She asked a lot of questions and said a lot of things but what's important is that she told me i'd be getting a visit from him in a dream. Lo and behold, it happened. I remember thinking i had woken up (on the top bunk which is contradictory; would have been a great time for RC. Oh well.){Is there a word for falsely waking? can't remember} and seeing a piece of paper taped to the ceiling. It had a poem on it in grandpa's handwriting and on the back it had a small personal note signed by him. During the dream I could vividly make out the writing but I have since forgotten it. This is funny because I had sort of told my grandpa (spoken out loud to the air) that I didn't really wanna see him personally in a dream because it would freak me out. He was always so considerate...

Ok my recall is definately improving =D this quite possibly of been two dreams but I dunno xD even so they are of considerable length and as I said my recall Is improving in leaps and bounds =D

Start: Me and all my friends were going on holiday on a kind on school trip. We were in a small room talking, my friend apologised for something to do with pictures. We were staying in a house and I was staying in a room with my friend Luke. I realised that Luke was chewing something blue and I asked whether or not it was sedative. I then went downstairs and took a bite out of some blue pig shaped wax. The whole downstairs room had a dampy sandy feel to it. I went back upstairs and realised that lukes bed was very very long. My bed was normal sized and was in the corner of the room in a kind of alcove in the wall. My bed was a low bed and didn't have any pillows, it had a bland duvet. Me and Luke then heard music from downstairs the song was This Calling by All That Remains. I stood infront of Luke and held my arms up as if I were in a concert. The lighting in our room was dim. I heard the voice of one if my teachers telling people off. I went to get some water so I could have a sedative with water in my mouth like other people. It was as if I could see through their cheeks. On the way to get the water I saw the face of my old drama teacher Mr Slater. This made me feel afraid. I got back to my room to find Luke throwing a chair through a black hole in the wall to someone elses room. Our room was a long and thin room and at the back I could hear someone say if I were just over there I could of been hurt. The person then raged at us and threw pillows at us. I got hit in the face by one. The person was shouting angrily. I then sat on my bed and thought about how not to get caught. I slid under the covers.

Dream 2 or a continuation I can't decide

I was swimming in the sea it was hot, sunny and the water was perfect blue. I get to dry land and I have this watch, it looks like and ordinary digital watch, black and chunky. I heat a voice over explaining how it's a spy watch and has loads of gadgets. I then take apart the watch and see all the gadgets there is a big dart pen and the voice over says it's good for taking out lightbulbs. The scene then switches and I'm on the deck of a boat and it's become more like a glove, there is a Velcro pocket on the top of the glove and on the bottom layer of the watch an octopus. I am then swimming again and I get to this cove of rocks where I realise the octopus is dead so I leave it. I look at it through the water with a White box. The cove then gets crowded and I swim away. I see my friend Camille but she looks more like a shark. As I am swimming away I wonder if I'm going to get bitten by a shark and if I'm bleeding. I then think about a blue shark with White spots biting me and I see a fish thrashing around. I get to the shore and take everything off and put it on a rock. I have my iPod and I unplug the head phones but music keeps playing through them; a song by Sleeping With Sirens called If I'm James Dean Your Audrey Hepburn. I then thinks that's weird. Sadly at this point my dear mother woke me up lol xD

So I dreamt I was in the 60's and had a suit and dress shoes on and I was with a girl (she talked to me like she was my wife) we went into this nice little house and I went to bed. Then I heard screams the screams of my wife and saw this luminescent ghostly figure standing in front of my wife then it said to me "can't be set free without blood" so it basically mention it was going to kill either me or my wife so I let it kill me. then I woke up in another bed this time it was present day and my family came through the door and said we found this nice abandoned house in the country to go spend our vacation in so I go to this house was the same house my previous character Was killed in. So we go in, unpack and go to sleep then in the night the ghost of the previous character came to me and said "Can't be free without blood" same as the last time so I was so frightened that I took a minivan and drove off but then realized that I could't leave my family there so I came back and when I did the ghost said "good you have set me free" and disappeared so I guess the moral of this story is if you see a ghost run.

I went to sleep and started dreaming, I was at dairy queen eating a vanilla cone then I see this man and start to follow him I don't know why then he goes atop this giant apartment complex then stands looking out over the city (I Don't know which one though) then out of instinct I take out a switch blade knife and cut him to peices. I don't know why then this lady comes over to me and say's "just take the appendages of the body and throw them into the ally way" then at that moment I knew I had murdered someone and the guilt was unbearable then she told me to get out of town then I woke up.

07/22/10

I'm travelling all over the continent. I think I'm driving through the US with some family members. We're passing a city on the freeway when I realize that I've been here before. We pull onto an exit and stop for lunch.

I explain to Oma what the buildings around us are, and mention about three restaurants I know by name that I've been to. We go inside one of them. I see a picture of myself on an indoor climbing wall.

I'm in a small town where my grandma used to live. The population is probably under five hundred. I'm moving in to one of the houses there, because I'm good friends with a few of the neighbours, all of whom are under thirty.

Now I'm getting ready to go back to school in Halifax. I'm planning to fly out the next day. I hear a knock at the door. I answer it, and a man hands me a pile of books, that I apparently ordered. I bought one of them, but the other two are from the Chinook (Saskatchewan) library system. I'm disappointed that I won't be able to read them in time.

The dream shifts and I'm in the Ixburg library to return the books.

I'm part of a group now. One of us might be Buffy Summers. A thin man with short dark hair and dark clothing is showing us an Egyptian hieroglyph, holding up a book that it's illustrated in. He explains that the hieroglyph is the symbol of a demon that's plaguing the town, and we have to stop it.

"If you ever encounter this symbol, run away really fast."

Hey, I think dimly, That's the name of my dream journal.

Library Fines. Scare Factor: 2.

I know from memory that these dreams were longer than I can actually remember. I'm sure all of you know this feeling as it is one of the many frustrations that accompany dream recall. At any rate, I had to distinct dreams last night and here they are:

Trip to Chicago:

My family decides to go to Chicago on a family trip. My mom, dad, sister, and friend pile into our family truck and we put all of our baggage in the bed of the truck. It is night when we leave. We were suddenly pulling up to a lavish hotel in the middle of Chicago. We go in the front door and ascend a grand staircase covered in red carpet. The interior of the hotel is extremely colorfully decorated with lots of greens and reds. We find our room and it was spacious and very nice. (I know there was some activity in Chicago we did but I just can't remember it as hard as I try) The next thing I know I'm walking up stairs outside onto the balcony of our hotel room. I get my bags and descend the staircase. Suddenly, I am back home.

Pick up Rugby Game:

For some reason my sister is taking me to school in her car. I "know" it's my school and it looks like an enlarged version of my junior high school. I enter the main gym and start playing a weird game with my classmates. We are all lined up in two parallel lines that form a tunnel. Then one person runs down the tunnel and low fives everyone. Then the "runner" ball taps a random person in line. That person is the new "runner". I thought it was a lame game and wanted to leave. I saw my sister leaving but I couldn't catch up to her. For some reason she left with my dad instead of the car she came in and she had my wallet and keys with her. So I was stuck at the school with a car but no wallet or keys. I call my dad and ask him where he is and tell him I need my wallet and keys. He tells me he is north of Nora (an area by Indianapolis) and I proceed to walk there. I trek along the highway and get off at the Nora exit. I can't find my dad but I do end up in some sort of ghetto area. It is very shady and I'm getting nervous when I see some older guys throwing around a rugby ball on an old beat up basketball court. I go over and start passing the ball with them. They tell me they want to play basketball so I grab the basketball and kick it into a forest. Then the basketball court turns into a rugby field and my whole high school rugby team is there playing rugby. We play a game against another team. (I don't remember if we win or not I really vividly remember a kickoff I caught though).

so i am smoking bud with my good friends new bubbler that we broke three times that day so we called it trinity the people with me were a couple high schoolers i have no clue who they are but its some guys some girls then there is a dad who looks around late fifties white trash though and then there was a seven year old girl there sitting on this bench with us on the side of the road in a forest on a mountain. then this cop drives by really slow then does a u-turn and goes by again he goes down the road and does another u-turn then another before he gets to us then he does another one and drives really slow and one of the kids yells "i am so baked" the cop gets out and ask for ids then two more cops show up that some how i knew. they talk to us but dont really care about the weed they were just saying how its illegal near a minor so the said hike up this hill and everything will be okay so we did and started smoking again.

same night right after that dream i was in a high school but it had lockers on the wall i heard some one call my name so i turned around and started walking toward the teacher then there was this goth girl who punched a locker, the teacher said bad girl we need you to have anger mangment she then ran at me but turned as soon as she got close and grabbed this random kid and threw him into the locker and walked away and the teacher was smiling.

A Satan Afterlife
7/22/2010


I was in some kind of shelter that had posters on the walls about choosing my afterlife. One read, "Live your afterlife through Satan and do whatever you want! Just $1 Everyday!" I went into some room to learn more about it. The person handed me a brochure for Satan's Afterlife and I really liked the cover art for it. I was going to read through the contract, but then I walked to the eating room. I sat down by a guy that looked like Alexander Skarsgard, but it wasn't him. The guy was a vampire, and he showed me his fangs. We have sex on the table.



Gender Change?
7/22/2010

(I looked like Jay Baruchel)

I don't understand this dream, but I'm not myself in it at all. First person view. I'm a guy, and I'm running around some kind of huge shopping/activity building. I guess a mall, though a very large one, that sells every-freakin-thing. I'm just running around, and this lady is running after me. She's saying things like, "Stop! Security get him!" Although I see no security guards anywhere. The mall looks very futuristic, quite weird. It's like it is made of glass, or plastic, or a shiny metal. I don't know. There are no doors or any shops that i could see, but then on the right I see a staircase that goes down. I make a U Turn (lol) and start running down the spiraling staircase. I could hear the foot steps of the lady following quickly behind me. As I watched for the steps, the size of them, and the patterns seemed to change. When I was finally done and on the next or maybe the bottom floor of the building, I was in a very large hallway, much like the one above, but this was the entrance to the theater. There was one arcade racing game there, and I jumped up and down in excitement. Then the lady reaches the guy/me (I'm still a totally different person?) The guy that isn't me/Me-IDONTKNOWlol starts to touch the lady, and I guess they have sex, but I don't know because the next I see is the guy is running through the grocery store part of the building, and the lady is following him. The guy grabs her ass and then runs out the door, and the cashier yells, "He just felt her up! Get him!" And then three guys run out after the guy/me/wtfidontknowlol And one of the three guys points a gun in my/the guy's face. I/The guy says "Please don't shoot me."

Yeah...

OMG. So finally I wore myself out completely after running errands all day yesterday. When I went to bed, I was telling myself that I would remember my dreams over and over like a mantra and more often recently I've been looking at my hands and telling myself to remember to do that in my dreams. From the lucids I've had already, it's not the realizing that I'm dreaming that I was having trouble with that I need to do RCs all the time, it's the stabalizing that I need to work on, and I know looking at your hands helps. Also when I was falling asleep I thought about the nature of dreaming in general and that I'm a whole person in my dreams and I never really have gotten the chance to realize that in a lucid. Ugh. I better add goals to my signature. Anyway, I had another lucid last night!! YAY!!

The Skank is at my House

We were in a house that doesn't exist IRL and the skank went out the window to smoke a cigarette. I crawled out the window and sat on the roof with her.

The Lucid Bookstore and the Dorm Room

I'm at the bookstore that I work at and I am walking through the area where the textbooks are kept. I keep seeing money everywhere, just little piles of cash, sometimes change. I'm picking it up and I take a look at the bills and they're not your typical denominations, they're like $4 bills and stuff. This makes me realize that I must be dreaming, so I become lucid. The first thing I do is get a sense of myself and look at my hands. Then I look up and walk out of the bookstore and into a college campus. There are people walking to a dorm building and I follow them. I open the door and go up several flights of stairs following this one guy to his room. In his room he has some beakers on his desk like from a chemistry set. As I was going to ask him to remove his clothes (just to see if I could while I was lucid) I lost lucidity.

I think so far that's the longest I've been lucid.

Night of 1/17/09

Stealing Tips

I'm walking around in a lunch line, but it's like in a strange mall food court. Like there were places to eat and they were all set up like this... instead of going up to the counter, you go into like a store and it's set up in a circle: you enter, go around and pick out what you want to eat and at each station there are cashiers. Each cashier had a tip jar on top of their register. I saw a kid in line ahead of me and he was taking tips and no one was noticing or saying anything to him... so I took a dollar from someone's tip jar and stuck it in my pocket. Then a security guard comes up to me and asked if I took anything!!! And I said no and got the dollar out of my pocket and dropped it on the ground. I told the security guard that the guy he's looking for is ahead of me in line and as I'm saying this, the guy runs out of the line and out the door to the "store." I run after him and tackle him. I don't know what my motivation was for doing this. ha!

Fishing

This is just a fragment, maybe it was a whole dream that really just wasn't that interesting. I'm in a shallow lake in a boat and I'm fishing... the top of the lake is covered in grass clippings.

Christine's Messy House

Somehow I end up at my friend Christine's house, who I haven't talked to since her little brother died in a car accident two years ago. This isn't her real house. But I know she's a pretty messy person, so it didn't surprise me that her house was a total wreck. The thing that stuck out the most was that there was a flat screen tv in the living room that took up the entire wall. I wish I would have written this down sooner because there was a lot more to it that I just can't remember.

My dreams haven't been as vivid as they usually are over the past few days. I don't know why. I'm not stressed out or anything, I'm getting plenty of sleep. I hope my body and my brain figures it all out.

Car Wreck Cops

I'm at a post office I think. I'm in line behind a man at the counter who has sheets and sheets of stamps. Just like a huge stack of them. All different designs and different values. He's just trying to mail three letters and put some stamps on them. I pointed out to him that he should use the smallest denominations first to get rid of them.

He leaves and it's almost my turn at the counter and four police officers walk into the building. I look down at the floor and see that I have a grocery bag full of fireworks at my feet!!! I'm sure I don't want to get caught with this. The cops point at me and tell me to come with them. I leave the bag of fireworks and go out the door with them.

We get outside and we're in the covered entry way to the building. It's maybe thirty feet long and the parking lot is to the side and at the end of the entryway. I see a couple of guys walking towards the parking lot. It's night. I look into the parking lot and don't see my car where it was parked. The cops tell me that my car got wrecked and they took it away on a tow truck. I ran to the guys walking away. I grabbed one of them by the collar and demanded he tell me what happened. He didn't understand English and he was Asian. I was mostly mad because my camera and my ipod were in the car, along with the rest of the fireworks.

Last night I watched the Golden Globe Awards. I think that's why I had this dream.

I just remember a little bit... I was getting text messages from and interviewing celebrities. No one in particular that I recall. I was exhausted when I went to bed, so I bet that's why my recall was not so good.

Chorus Class Karaoke

I'm walking around a high school campus and I'm in an auditorium. I don't have class this period or I'm skipping. I walk by a stairway leading down into a grassy area where chorus class is. I'm not in the class but I overhear some girls talking about being naked for class!!! I look down at them and they see me and say I should come to class or I'm not going to see everyone naked!!!

Next thing I know I'm outside and there's a set of risers and girls (clothed) on them only on the top row. I'm seated to the side of them and the teacher is calling people up to sing karaoke and the girls on the risers will sing the backup. This girl I went to high school with, Lynn, goes up and sings something, but on the three monitors that have the lyrics, the lyrics to her song weren't coming up... the lyrics were for Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. And when she was done, everyone clapped because she did the song by memory without messing up.

Next, someone told me that a guy was going to go, then it was my turn. The teacher called the guy's name and he wasn't in class that day. SO it was my turn. I wasn't ready, I hadn't picked out a song!! Everyone in the class who wasn't on the risers had a different page of songs to choose from. I was going person by person looking at all the music and none of it was alphabetical or organized in any way at all. Some of it was even handwritten instead of typed. I wanted to sing "Without Me" by Eminem but I couldn't find it anywhere. I saw Prince at the bottom of a page and I thought the list of songs would be on the back but nooooo. So I just started singing "Without Me" a capella.

Renee Cleans the Kitchen

I am at my parents' house in the kitchen and my sister had cleaned it all up. This is probably a result of the fact that I'm constantly on my mom's ass about keeping the kitchen clean, and no one in the family is talking to my sister right now.

*Non-Lucid at first, then Lucid.*

It started out as a non-lucid dream. Me, a girl with messy brown hair, and another girl were in some sort of video game. We entered a cave and started walking through. We stopped at a corridor. It had two hallways and we were trying to find out which hallway to go through. Then, we heard a roar come out of one of them, and, out came a mummy. We ran through the opposite hallway and came to a dead-end. We could hear the mummy behind us. We were desperate to find a way out, then, I found a secret passage and we ran through.

The two girls went to talk to an old man that was in the room we went into. I, on the other hand, was looking for a way to get out. I opened a door and there was sort of a train track inside. The three of us heard the mummy's roar, and we ran into the train track room. We kept running until there was another dead-end. Then, a bright light washed over us. When the light faded, I was standing in front of my house. Then, I found out that I was in a dream. I had little time before waking up, so, I called out to my DG. The person who replied this time was none other than...the girl with messy brown hair from the mummy game.

It turns out my DG was giving me a test before I could meet her. I passed, then met her. She looked nothing like she did in my second LD. I remembered my first LD and asked her if she could teach me to fly. She did, she told me to flap my wings like a bird, and it worked. Then, I made a mistake. I took advantage of her and tried to kiss her. She disappeared and a different girl appeared in front of me. I looked for her and found her in my sister's room, read the book, "Gone With the Wind". (awesome book) Then, I woke up.

*I made the mistake by trying to kiss her, I hadn't seen her in a dream since then.*

22.07.2010

I break in a home and then, forced to work for them. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

A somehow crazy night, I did not sleep very well. I think I went very tired to bed because I felt tired the times I woke up to write the dreams down. I also used for the first time a flashlight instead of going to my regular table, but it does not help, it vanished half of a dream so I will keep traveling to my kitchen to write the dreams down (no table in the bedroom, only my journal next to me) I recalled eight dreams, but mostly fragments. 5th day without lucids. Tonight it will be a MUST lucid night

Eight:

My wife and I were driving somewhere. I think we were doing some errands. One of our errands was stopping by a home and doing something in the neighborhood. My wife wanted so badly to take a shower and she decided to break in a random home (it was in our errant list) to shower.

We entered this apartment. It was a big apartment and no one was inside. I was worried we would be caught while in there. My wife told me she would shower ASAP. While she was getting her shower, I took a small tour around home. It was a fancy home. Modern black and white furniture. They had a small TV that I decided to watch while my wife was getting ready. I saw on the TV the news. They were talking about a couple that was arrested because they broke in a home. I felt worried that would happen to us.

Suddenly, the door opened and five people came in. I got nervous. My wife just finished her shower, but we were still in there. I greeted them and I told them I was fixing their wireless. I told them the wireless of the building crashed and I had to go home by home. An old lady told me that for sure I stole stuff. I did not steal a thing and I felt bothered. I replied, "No. I got nothing!" She told me that for sure I stole some oil from them. We walked to a small table were they had a few odd bottles of olive oil (really odd bottles)

A female DC approached at me. She was the owner of the place and told me we had to do something about my break in. We went to another room. It was huge and there was a bar surrounded by chairs in the middle of the room. There were several bottles of olive oil. This place was also a restaurant. We went to another room. I could hear the previous room filling with customers. She asked me if we had any knowledge about Olive Oil. I told her I, in fact, work in an Olive Oil store. She smiled at me and told me I had to work for her. I was sure I had to work for free.

She told me I had to serve the customers and give tastings. She also told me I had to work on Fridays even if did not want to. She said, "And I will even pay your this! $7 an hour!!!" She was smiling and very excited about it.

Missed dream signs:
- Breaking in a house without even opening the door.
- The odd bottles.
- The reaction of the DC when they saw me inside their home.
- A restaurant inside a regular home.

What I would have done if lucid:
- Leave for a ToTY.