side notes

well I'm sorry I haven't been on. I've been on vacation.
Right now I'm lying in bed trying to go back to sleep. I woke up cuz of my nightmare.
it was about these brothers who lured people to them nd then they'd torture nd kill them. It was awful. But I woke up nd I'm glad. Jus hope I don't fall back.asleep back to tht dream. Ha. Well I was looking online about disorders tht cause nightmares nd I saw on tht said restless leg syndrome. Well I think I may have tht. I move my leg constantly nd its mostly my ankle tht I move. I do it cuz I feel uncomfortable if I don't. I mean I don't quite understand how tht would even help produce nightmares.

Well, last night nothing really interesting happened. We had some guests over so I missed out on my nightly routine and got to bed about 11:30.

10:30 - Get ready for bed
11:00 Vitamins with glass of water
11:30 - Go to bed with binaural beats.
7:00 - Get up

So last night I guess my earbdus fell out because I never woke up once. The first thing I remember is getting up in the morning and my mp3 player was laying on the floor. lol.
Well, at least tonight I will have another lucid hopefully/

See ya!

Today, I am embarking on something that I am curious about. I stumbled upon this website, after much research on the Uberman cycle and I have decided to record my own experience in trying this sleeping pattern. Now that I have finished my A levels, I wish to take up my hobbies once again. Being an only child, I have many interests that I want to pursue and so it would be beneficial to have more time to dedicate to them. I have read that the Uberman cycle promotes lucid dreaming. If this is true, I would like to find out and post entries of my dreams, perhaps giving me inspiration to write short stories and paint scenes from my dreams. I shall attempt to remain open minded and factual about this, as I have been known to get carried away on flights of fancy. I sincerely hope that sharing this experience will benefit other people as well as myself.

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.