side notes

Well, if you read "Two Layers Down and One Hell of a Nightmare" you should already have an idea of how last night went. So what happened is that my mom found an old can of Dr. Pepper in the pantry and it was about 10:30 at night. I was just about ready to go to bed and she said she was going to throw it out if no one drank it. Not being one to let a Dr. Pepper go to waste, I took her up on the offer. Once I was donw drinking it I was thinking, "Oh great, I just messed up my whole night, didn't I?" Well, sure enough that is what happend. I had trouble falling asleep and never really had any good deep sleep, aside from that nightmare, although it wasn't exactly pleasant. Anyways, here is the time chart...


8:30 - OJ, Apple Juice, Milk, Shoot hoops
10:00 - Come back in and get ready for bed
10:30 - I accept the lethal offer and have a Dr. Pepper *facepalm*
11:00 - Try and fall asleep with binaural beats, but pop keeps me awake
About 12:00 - Finally fall asleep
Between 12:00 and 4:30 - Have nightmare
4:30 - Wake up and start alarm
5:00 - Shut alarm off and just go back to sleep
6:30 - Get up and make recording of dream, determined to get a better nights rest.

See ya!

I'm using the Subliminal technique to induce some kind of results. The first night as you readers would know I fell flat on my face pretty good due to stress. This was after I listened to the full song, nothing for the second night when I tried 15 minutes each. But now I listened to the entire first song and I ended up with some reasonable results.

Results:
everything was a bit more vivid and I remember so much more, it is still coming to me in pieces, but I'm grateful it's even coming to me at all . I'm surprised I'm able to even have a few memories of the first dream out of the 3. Before it was just one semi vivid shot. What I find also weird was the the fact that I barely remember the transitions from dream to dream, but I saw them for the first time. I thought my dreams just skipped O.o

The Dream:
Dream 1 had me and my little bro in it. We we're working together to get out of this weird water plant of some sort. It was an obstacle course kind of like those crazy Japanese game shows where people get the shiz knocked out of them. But this course required me and my brother's team work to figure out the landscape, and find the switches to help us find another exit. I'm pretty sure that if either of us did something wrong then we' fall into whatever kind of crazy water that was. I was in a metal lift and I was watching my brother work his way to a switch. I was hoping he'd hit the right one. He shimmied his way to it then he hit the switch and the lift worked. After that we were both trying to get out of there through a small door way on the floor.

The second dream came after this, as I said I barely remember the transitions but the fact that I have a fragment is something at least. Anyway; the second dream merges with the third one. after me and my bro fall through the little trap door, the scene changes. There is a weird fiery place where these creatures live and people die. There were catwalks everywhere that allowed us to walk over all of the molten metal carnage, but after that the 3rd dream transitions in and both work hand and hand to make the next plot.

The third dream (or section) had me, and almost everyone I know as of now located in this huge store warehouse next to a shore. Everyone in this place camped out, and chilled here. However I think there was more to it than just having a good time. Inside this warehouse there was a small entrance on the floor somewhere that allowed the creatures to come in and cause a ruckus. We had to run and take cover behind the giant isle shelves in order to keep out of reach of them as they stormed in. I remember this happening twice, and I was frantically trying to get something before they came the 1st time. I was around the house cleaning appliances section, and right in front of me I saw bathroom toilet papers in a nice stack. Other parts of the dream had me looking ou in the docking area of the warehouse where a ship could come in and directly have it's cargo unloaded into the warehouse. But instead there was a tent out there where someone from my class was. the little tent was on a float of some sort. Next to that there was a dock that allowed passage to the tent, and it was also where the scene outside changes between a parking lot and a dock. a car was out there (I think it was my car) and I walked up to it. I could see inside it, and I could see the little droplets of rain running down the car surface as I walked around it. There was also another section of the dream where I saw all 3 of my friends and some other ones. And we were sitting together somewhere and I was talking to them. the dream ended when everyone went into the place where the monsters were and confronted them. I remember only so much, but the things I do remember are vivid. And I would consider this a dream sign because it is happening more than once. There was a small waterfall of tar that was coming from somewhere in this place, and it ran down a moving escalator of some sort. As I looked at it, the tar ran down ahead and revealed countless skeletons. These skeletons were picked dry of everything; probably by the tar.

There were a number of other small things that I remember that are avoiding me right now. But the fact is that I'm surprised the vividness was to the level that it was in this dream. Now if this had been either an epic dream, or one of those dreams that I have on rare occasions that have a mass amount of detail, then I think there would be a lot of potential there. Especially the vivid dreams, which in their own category are entirely epic in every sense of the meaning. Those I'll cover some other time. I'm going to start trying to squeeze both songs in to see what kind of result I get starting tonight. Hopefully the results are some kind of lucidity, so I can work from there and my brain doesn't have an epic fart and send me into a tail spin so bad that my subconscious mind gets sent into the next astral plain and back. XD

Well today I ought to have some time to record my dreams from the trip Went wakeboarding yesterday so I didn't really have any time to make entries.

7:00 - Got back from wakeboarding and went to a movie with a friend
7:15 - Missed the movie so I drove over to Village Inn and ate a bunch of unhealthy food (probably messed up my dreams)
8:30 - Got back and cleaned the boat
9:30 - Had to go make a campfire for my sister and her friend so they could make s'mores (I had 4 s'mores, further adding to a terrible day of eating)
10:30 - Got ready for bed
11:00 - Went to bed with binaural beats
9:00 - Got up after a night where I can't remember anything

Well, yesterday was pretty bad in terms of dreams. For one thing I was exhausted and another thing I ate really unhealthy.
My intake that day pretty much consisted of this...
-Beef jerkey
-Donuts
-Vanilla Coke
-More beef jerkey
-Chips
-Sour Patch Kids
-Double Cheesburger / onion rings and lemon pie
-S'mores

But fear not! That doesn't happen very often. Now I am off to finally record all those dreams.

See ya!

Well, once again another day where I didn't have any time to record my dreams. I was busy making the house look nice cause we had guests coming over.

From the night before...

8:30 - OJ, Apple, Apple Juice, Milk - Shoot Hoops
10:00 - Come back in and get ready fo bed
10:30 - Vitamins with glass of water
11:00 - Go to bed with binaural beats
2:30 - Woke up and got a drink but went back to bed and forgot to restart binaural beats so I didn't wake up again
Got up at 6:30

See ya!

(Note: My dad is alive and in good health IRL. I have no idea why I would dream that he was dead.)

Last night, I had a dream that my mom and I went to the cemetery where my dad was. Well, it wasn't really a cemetery, it was more of a futuristic-looking room with the walls lined with freezers filled with containers holding the ashes of dead people. Anyway, we came in, and we were greeted by a strange man with three black-and-white cats. He starts explaining to us how he decides where everyone goes, who goes next to who (something to do with English and French people, that's all I remember), etc. There really wasn't much organization to his system.

I get bored of listening to his explanation and decide to go find my dad myself. I end up finding the pieces of some board game and tell my mom. She helped me put the pieces back in the box, which happened to be next to the container that supposedly held my dad's ashes.

Suddenly, my dad was there in the room with us. He said something about not knowing what's going on. I asked him what happened. He told me that, before he "died", he had concluded that he wasn't in Australia and, therefore, must have been on some alien planet. I don't remember if he told us any more about that.

I started to think he might still be alive (as well as also getting the suspicion that he was just acting and this was all staged or something). I checked his pulse and exclaimed, "They're buried you alive!" Then, I woke up.

Me and my friend Logan were walking around and we saw an old 10 story brick apartment. It had a balcony at every room, and at eaach balcony someone would stand on it and it would be one of my friends.

I slightly remember me and my friends being captured by this giant robotic alien worm, and we were on its ship.
I had a dream where there was a missing baby at the hospital.

I had a dream that I got a job working for Nintendo, and I got to use some new type of DS. Also I got free drinks!

Well, I was planning on writing down all the dreams I had on my trip today but I was really busy and pretty much got done with work at about 7:00, then had to go make dinner. By that time I was ready to begin my sleep routine so I didn't write anything down and just got on to write notes.

So last night I got back into my regular routine...
8:30 - OJ, Apple juice, milk, Apple - Go shoot hoops
10:00 - Come back in and get ready for bed
10:43 - Vitamins with glass of water
11:00 - Go to sleep with binaural beats
2:00 - Wake up and begin next sleep cycle
5:00 - Wake up and start alarm
First Alarm - Wake up and have a dream fresh in my mind
Go back to sleep and recognize when I have re-entered the dream, becoming lucid
Wake up randomly for some reason and accidentally shut off alarm
7:00 - Get up

Well, I am very happy right now because it seems that as long as I give myself adequate sleep, I can have a lucid every night!!! I just need to work on staying calm during them so I quit waking up so soon. It is kind of strange but I think my first one is still the best. Just can't wait to accomplish my goals in a lucid dream!!

See ya!

P.S. I will try and get dreams written down from the trip tomorrow.

Well I just got back from a trip across the state and man was it awesome! Turns out my dad is actually real good friends with one of the founders of Sega of America. This same guy was also the CEO for 8 years! The funny thing is, my dad thought nothing of it until he mentioned it to me one day and I practically had a heart attack. I mean, SEGA, and he is pals with the former CEO?!?!?!?! So anyways, I got to meet him and it was awesome. Now when I go to get a job there, I have the ultimate reference to add to my portfolio.

So how was this vacation in terms of dreams? JUST AS AWESOME!

Ok, so I finally had some more lucid dreams during this trip. I really don't know what was different but man. Now it's like I can just have a lucid dream whenever I want!
Here is how the trip went...

Night one - I get my own room at the hotel so I can focus on dreaming. I go to bed with binaural beats and wake up at 2:00. Decide to go for another cycle before starting the alarm. Wake up again at 4:30 and am able to recall a dream very clearly. I decide to just focus intently on remembering to notive when I am back in this setting and then I will know I am dreaming. It worked perfectly! (will explain the dream in separate entry) The alarm goes off waking me up. I go back to sleep and try and re-enter the dream. Instead however, I have a false awakening and notice that my room is wierd. I notice this and become lucid for a short time.

Night two - Didn't have my own room so I just went to bed

Night three - Same

Night four - Same

Night five - We are now back at the first hotel and I am super excited to try the same thing out again. I go to bed with binaural beats. Wake up at 2:30 and go for another cycle. Wake back up at 5:00 and focus on noticing when I am back in the same dream setting. It works again!!!!!!!!!!!! By this time I am so excited that I seemed to of found a reliable method of lucid dreaming I wake up very quickly from the dream.
I will make separte entries for all the dreams tomorrow.

Well, now that I seem to be able to have a lucid dream when I want to I can finally get along with my tasks for lucid dreaming.

1. Remember to stabalize the dream as soon as I become lucid so that I can actually carry on with my goals.
2. There is someone I have been wanting to meet now in a lucid dream, which is actually kind of why I got into it in the first place. My goal is to find them and finally achieve this goal.

SO EXCITED!!!!!!

See ya!

I woke up on phone and I Wonder where I am. then I accidentally all over the phone and on my Dog. I Was very disappointed when I see that my Dog dead. And my Phone break. All over the kitchen floor my mess there. So I Had to pick it up and it very dirty in side. I Drank the soda and juice and reestablish connection to netwok and accidentally all over your face this time. Was not happy.

[I][B]In this time nothing has substance and there is no life or death.

We exist there without fear, without pain, without purpose.

We travel there in our sleep for the dreamtme is always with us, waiting in the darkness.

The spirits who watch over us rose from deep within the void and darkness and created the sky and the sea and the land

and everything that isn't.

The immortals, the resurrected, their spirits remain on this plane.
They live in both worlds the dreamtime and our time. That's That's why they are sacred.

They consume us to become one with us. For they are the bridge between the two worlds...[/B][/I]

I should have wrote these this morning before my husband started working on my computer, but I didn't, so now I only remember little bits -_-

Dream One: I'm standing under a swing set in a field. I look up and see that there's a space ship flying in the air above me. It looks strange, and I notice that it has similar textures on it to the roof textures in the Sims games. I say something about it, and point it out to someone who's standing nearby. They tell me it's just a garbage ship, and the ship actually dumps a load of trash on the playground nearby. Then I see a real space ship. Somehow I end up on a balcony talking to people about the space ship.

Dream Two: I'm at a party with a bunch of people. Ar first I'm hanging out with my husband just kind of crowd watching. Then I see a couple of friends, including my dead friend's friend L and a guy I knew back in high school that we called Moose. I think about going and saying hey to L, but Moose grabs me before I can. He's always been the flirty without meaning it type, and he pulls me into his lap and starts asking me when I'm going to get my husband to come fix his cable. He suggests that his cable bill is too high, and I need to give my husband "A little something something" so he'll cut my friend some slack on their cable bills, and I laugh and tell him that if he wants a better deal on cable I'll ask my husband if there are any new packages or specials he can get. Then I see L again, and I ask him if he needs help with his cable too, and he tells me he doesn't have cable. Then for some reason everyone decides to go outside, and we start goofing off and seeing who can jump the farthest. I run and jump with all my might, and go pretty far. I'm really impressed with myself for jumping so far and landing on my feet! Then My husband jumps, and he ends up landing on his butt. As I reach down to help him up, L jumps. He also hit the ground, but he rolls forwards instead of falling on his butt. He puts an arm out as if he's going to take my hand and let me help him up too, so I offer my hand to help. When I help him up, my husband looks at me angrily in the dream and I wonder if helping L up too had crossed some line or something.

Dream Three: My friend S is missing, and I'm looking for her. I'm wandering around looking for her, when I see L. I yell out to him and ask him if he knows where she is. He tells me he does, but that it's dangerous and I should try not to get involved. I insist that if he knows where she is he needs to take me to her. He refuses at first, then I end up force him to somehow. He drives me in this car to a little circle fountain in the middle of a small village or town very similar to the ones in Assassins Creed II and Brotherhood. I start to get out, and he tried to stop me, but I pull away from him and jump out quickly. There are a couple of shady looking guys lounging against the walls, and when they see me and L get out of the car, they ask him if he's brought another one for them to recondition. I think they mean to beat and brainwash me? L starts to tell them no that I'm a friend and not someone for them to mess with, but they push him aside and come after me. I start fighting, I can remember kneeing one of the dudes in the face and getting knocked down. I woke up during the fight so I have no clue who won lol

I was talking to my bff today about this change in my dreams. I'm not sure what exactly caused it all, but ever since that dream about my dead friend's family being in trouble three or four weeks ago, I've been dreaming of his friend and I don't understand why. At first we thought perhaps I was supposed to contact the friend to make sure MY friends family was ok, but the dreams didn't stop afterwards. I also haven't dreamed of Kurasawa since that dream shift. I'm trying to figure out why my night life has changed so much, and how I can change it back. I'd much rather be dreaming of Kurasawa and other random DCs than real people. It's way less confusing that way and easier to tell when I'm dreaming, or when a memory is real or just something I'm suddenly remembering from a dream.

I have done more attempts of falling asleep consciously in the beginning of my sleep for some nights now.
And I noticed that my dreams were much more vivid and also that I woke up after each one of them.
In each dream I dreamed about three different dream scenarios before waking up and usually I would count that as 3 dreams recalled. And I woke up at perfectly timed dream cycles.

I went to bed 11.36 and I woke up from my vivid dream 02: 06. I was surprised of how engaged and active I was in the dream but still so unaware of who I really was. And also surprised that I didn't become lucid.

I had about four micro awakenings which in total equals 3x 4 dreams = 12 dreams scenarios recalled NEW RECORD!

12 dreams no lucidity. Hmmm...

It is annoying to wake up all the time so now I am going to try to chain the dream on those awakenings instead and get lucid.

The Dentist

I am waiting in a dentist office. I think my mom is here. I see a super hot dental assistant. I kinda hope that shes the one to clean my teeth. Then I think nah that wouldn't be right. I feel the tooth that recently got the filling with my tongue. It feels like it is dissolving like some hard powdery candy. I see my dentist and he tells me something. I realize he is the one working on me directly. I think about telling him to pull that tooth.

The Demon

The first part is hazy. There is something about my bro-in-law, Angel. He is with me. I shoot an arrow blindly at some demon in the dark. I am afraid. I am out of arrows so we leave to go get more.
Fast forward
We are back with more arrows. I look in the direction were I shot at the demon. It is night time and there are cars parked on a railroad. I am looking for the demon. I yell at it and challenge it.
Angel says, "Dude just shoot in the same spot"
I look under a truck. I see my arrow sticking out of something invisible. I wonder if I killed the demon or if it is waiting to attack me. I shoot at it again. The arrow sticks. I go underneath the truck and pull the arrow out and stab at the invisible demon again. I feel resistance as the arrow pierces again. I tell Angel that the thing has to be dead.

Side notes

I wake up. I lie still for a moment recalling the two dreams. I don't move a muscle hoping to reenter lucid but it is no use. I have to pee.

I do a MILD techniques and recall no more dreams.

Reasons and Possible Meanings.

The dentist dream I believe is my subconsciousness reminding me that I missed my last cleaning and that one tooth really needs looked at because it is hurting again.

The demon dream is partly from watching Brave with the kids at the drive in. I guess I made my own Mor'du but not as a bear. Also, invisible demons are a really common nightmare of mine. However lately I seem to be taking charge of my nightmares and killing the things that haunt me non-lucidly. I don't understand why but I like it.

I can recall four creams from last night! You know, it's weird; my dream recall's been lower than average lately, and it's suddenly shot way up!

I made notes on my iPod about the first dream, saved at 3:48 AM. The notes go as follows:

Neopets
washing hair
scanning, expired

Okay, so I had a dream that I could dress my Neopets up. I had different costumes for them. there was a hippie costume and a prisoner costume. There were more, but I can't remember what they were.

Later - still in the same dream, apparently - I had this thing for scanning barcodes to send a copy of the item onto some website I liked (Neopets, I assume). (I forgot to write this next part down in my regular dream journal (which I'm copying this from), but I tried to scan something - a ketchup bottle, I think - and it told me that that barcode had expired in 2008.)

I'm not sure how "washing hair" is relevant. Oh well. I should've added a little context there, I suppose.

I'm kinda tempted to skip over the second dream because I can hardly remember it and the notes aren't much help. I shouldn't, but... writing three dreams is enough, right?

(I need to explain a couple terms before this next one. A poomsae is a solo technique that has to be memorized and demonstrated at testing. It doesn't really serve much practical purpose aside from practicing good form. It's a bit hard to explain what it looks like, but, for those of you who have watched Avatar: The Last Airbender, it looks kinda like bending, just without the control over the elements, obviously. One-step sparring is a defensive technique; contrary to the name, one-step sparring is not at all like free sparring.)

Okay, on to the third! I was at belt testing (taekwondo). I was surprised it was so soon (it's scheduled for next month IRL). Oh, and my friend Autumn was there for some reason - yes, as a student. Anyway, since testing was so soon, I wasn't prepared for it, as I didn't know my poomsae yet (actually, I do know it in real life, but I was supposed to know a different one in the dream). Luckily, we were given some time to practice first, so I tried to learn it by watching the other orange belt students.

I managed to learn the first three steps in time - step forward and down block (left), step forward and body punch (right), turn around and down block (right).

Soon, it was class time (I'm not sure what happened to testing; perhaps they just forgot about it). However, instead of Master Lim, one of the testing judges was the instructor. I wondered why she was teaching the class, but then I remembered it was Wednesday, which seemed like a reasonable answer at the time.

I decided not to join that class, so I left. Just outside, one of the adult students decided to test me on my one-step sparring. I demonstrated that I knew mine well, using the same techniques as in real life this time.

In my fourth dream last night, I was watching TV at home. It was some weird show about this guy and this girl who went down a rabbit hole - kind of like in Alice in Wonderland, except they hadn't followed a rabbit there. It reminded me of the Deathly Hallows for some reason, even though the only thing it had in common with any of the Harry Potter movies was that one of the main characters was played by Rupert Grint.

Anyway, they fell down the rabbit hole and ended up in this little meadow with a big tree. There was a sudden flashback to their childhood, when they used to play there together. When it cut back to the present, the show decided to break the fourth wall by making a big deal of the fact that the actress playing the girl was in some famous band I'd never heard of (and that her sister was the bassist in her band). Then, she turned into a man. I turned off the TV.

My mom asked if I'd slept okay because she'd heard my bed creaking at around four in the morning. I told her I'd slept find but had woken up in the night and had probably rolled over onto my side while I was half-asleep. I asked for a tuna sandwich for lunch and then woke up.

Happy Skies

I am molesting a woman but she quickly puts me in my place. Then I see my wife bent over.
I press against her and say,"How much?"
She laughs and replys, "$100 and you can do whatever you like."
I get handsy with her and ask, "How about $50?"
She says, "For that you get a panty ride."
She is in just panties and a t-shirt and gives me a lap dance. I close my eyes in the dream and it feels amazing.

I suddenly open my eyes because the shock of it. (It is a false awakening) I want to go to bathroom and change but its like the dream the other day. There are people sleeping in odd places. I see my nephew asleep in the bathtub.
I realize am in a trailor house so I go to the other end. I see my dad asleep in a bed. I go to the bathroom. I start to change and I see red carpet in the bathroom. Something about this gives me a horrible memory and a bad aweful feeling. I think something like this is the house where that bad thing happened. I start to shake and feel scared(I honestly have no clue what that was about) But the feeling quickly passes. And I go about my bussiness.

As I walk out I see his eyes are open. He is just starting at the wall. I know he sees me but he doesn't move. I think maybe he is just half asleep still. Then, I hear him say something rude (can't remember what he said) I stop and look at him but just then my dad walks in. My dad tells my dad, "You stop that. What he does is perfectly natural and we all do it!"
I don't want this so I tell my dad, "Pleeeeease just let it go. Please."
(The man looked like my dad but didn't sound like my dad at all. He almost sounded feminine and flamboyant. Plus my dad talking to my dad... Whuuuuut?)

We walk outside. I look around and another trailer in front of us with a faded deck. I see mountains in the distance and a clear blue sky and I see a nebula thing in the day sky. Almost like that sky in Asgard in the Thor movie. I see a line of planets there to. They look brownish and dark with almost a grainy texture. There are very large ones and very smalls one. The large ones have what look like moons. The colors are bland. Mostly browns and yellows. I see a few stars in it though. I see texture and great detail. I stop and feel confused. I think how awesome the sight is.

Then, in a flash, I think, "wait something is odd. Something unnatural. This is not normal. I am dreaming!!!!!" I just know that I am dreaming. I don't even bother with RC. (Like I said before, if I have the mind to question, I just know)

I tell my dad. "Dad! We are dreaming!" As I begin to float I laugh and giggle breathlessly. I feel so giddy. I am so happy because I have been trying so hard lately.
The guy posing as my dad blows air out and looks scared. I think for a moment how I have had it in the back of my mind to find a dream guide. This guy may be the one. I let it go for now. I notice that I am touching the ground again
I say, "No really! We are dreaming."
I take his hand and use my other hand to push of the railing on the deck. We float up together a few meters. He is smiling and laughing quietly. I now know he believes me. I am out of breath with excitement. The entire scene is so vivid and so awesome. The sky is clear. I see the mountains in the distance. The summer grass below us is brown in spots. The air feels cool. I feel great peace.

I look back at the planets in the sky. They are very vivid pictures. Still there. I think how it looks like a text book. I study it so that I can remember the thing that made me lucid this time. I think, "Yes, strange things in the sky. Of course, that is a very old dream sign of mine."
Then suddenly I remember TOTM but before I could do anything every thing fades to black and I am back in my recliner with my eyes closed wishing it had not ended so soon.