side notes

I know I kept jumping from dream to dream, but I guess I was too tired this morning to remember any of them. I feel pretty exhausted.

Quantiq's Progress Journal!

Introduction

Hi Everyone! I'm going to start posting my Dream Journal on Dream Views to show my progress in terms of dream vividness and maybe provide some entertainment to those of you who want to read.

Basically, my dreams just consist of small fragments and they are not very vivid, however, I hope that I progress to the point where my dreams become entertaining.

I will also post goals, stats, and other cool stuff to monitor my progress. If you have any advice for me, let me know!

Tommorow's post will consist of my recent dreams and how I am progressing.

Cheers for now!

I did not hear the first alarm, which was set to 4 am. I heard the second one at 5:30, but did not bother turning it off, since it was set to ring mildly anyway, and the snooze was turned off. That's when I had my first dream, Cool School.

The second one was after I woke up at 7:00 am. It was cold and raining, so I went back to sleep. That's when I had my second dream, Enemy Allies.

I woke up around 8:30 am, with the alarm. It was still cold, so although it was the last alarm to completely wake me up to work for the day, I went back to sleep, and dreamed my last dream for today, Summon Battles.

I woke up around 10:30 am.

I played MILD induction and autosuggestion last night when I slept around 12:00 am. I recall relaxing my body, but I fell asleep, like I usually do, before anything else. Which didn't really help, since I was supposed to visualize a scene. Or maybe I did, but that's when I fell asleep.

The scene includes a guy I know, JA, on the beach, which is supposed to be a dream sign. Interestingly, based on some recent dreams, it's not JA who appears, but LM. It seems they interchange in my dreams for some reason. And instead of a beach, I only some some rivers, or situation near the sea.

Tonight, instead of visualizing JA, I change it to LM. It will feel weird though, but at least I think I can visualize him better. And instead of a beach, I think I'll visualize a river populated with buildings and houses and factories. With some people.

I'll record what happens tomorrow.

I did not hear the first alarm, which was set to 4 am. I heard the second one at 5:30, but did not bother turning it off, since it was set to ring mildly anyway, and the snooze was turned off. That's when I had my first dream, Cool School.

The second one was after I woke up at 7:00 am. It was cold and raining, so I went back to sleep. That's when I had my second dream, Enemy Allies.

I woke up around 8:30 am, with the alarm. It was still cold, so although it was the last alarm to completely wake me up to work for the day, I went back to sleep, and dreamed my last dream for today, Summon Battles.

I woke up around 10:30 am.

I played MILD induction and autosuggestion last night when I slept around 12:00 am. I recall relaxing my body, but I fell asleep, like I usually do, before anything else. Which didn't really help, since I was supposed to visualize a scene. Or maybe I did, but that's when I fell asleep.

The scene includes a guy I know, JA, on the beach, which is supposed to be a dream sign. Interestingly, based on some recent dreams, it's not JA who appears, but LM. It seems they interchange in my dreams for some reason. And instead of a beach, I only some some rivers, or situation near the sea.

Tonight, instead of visualizing JA, I change it to LM. It will feel weird though, but at least I think I can visualize him better. And instead of a beach, I think I'll visualize a river populated with buildings and houses and factories. With some people.

I'll record what happens tomorrow.

26-07-11 I am standing in the backyard of a building complex. The grass looks dried out and has white tips but otherwise a spectrum of colours ranging through black, green, yellow and ofcourse white. The buildings are grey and massive and there doesn't seem to be an immidiate way out of the yard.

I am lucid from the start, I know this from the qualitative difference in the imagery I am experiencing. I have had 4 dreams of poor quality with the knowledge of dreaming, but the visual product has been awful, sort of like having 1 eye in the dream world and the other awake.

I start by commanding the dream to stabilise and I look around the buildings that look rather gloom. I contemplate increasing the vividness of the dream, but the quality seems good. I try taking off in flight, but struggle severely. After this realisation I decide it is irrelevant after all, could probably overcome it, but it is not my goal with this lucid.

I call out for the dream if it can help me. I send a brief thought to my goal of overcoming confidence issues, but don't as such engage en deep mentation over it.

Quickly there is a call from behind me and I start making my way there. I am aware that this is my first REM phase seeing as I haven't actually ”slept” yet, so I want to make quick progress. However as I am making my way towards the woman that has called me, several times I have to engage my senses as the scenery starts to blur.

The woman calls me from a plateau above me. The place has taken on a look of a mixture of ruins and incompleted housing, though the entire area is connected completely. I know I can get up to her, but she makes her way down to me.

I ask her name and she replies that it is Mie. I unfortunately don'w remember the rest of the conversation, for a couple of reasons. First of all I recall appologising to her that I have to shift my attention away from her words and her in general as the dream keeps on fading at an increasing frequency. Secondly we didn't really manage to get past the introductory phases, though I have one word summarising the content ”construction”.

I wake up.

Notes: I was unable to actually sleep much this night. The first 4 dreams mentioned can best be described as non-REM or partially wakeful dreams. They lack the complete dream scenery relying only limited on visual product and mainly audio. They all were false awakenings as well. Had some pretty scary HHs as well one being a high sound and another the sensation of being tugged in, though I countered this by hugging back the ”entity” and actually that gave the experience a warm feeling to it. Though my control seemed somewhat diminished in the actual dream, my access to waking memory and intentions and goals, where solid and clear. So paradoxially my lucidity was high, though my control was limited. Unfortunately I didn't get as much time or could afford as much attention to the girl as I would have like to, but it is a start and this theme will get more attention!
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I am in a kitchen making pancakes. I am pouring the milk directly in the bag of flour. There are various pieces of fruit in the bag, which I am anoyed about. Some of these fruits are green tomatoes. Thure comes into the kitchen and asks what I am up to. I tell him I am making pancakes, but that I can't really get the mixture right, well, to mix at all. I then complain about the fruit in the bag and ofcourse he can see that as being a problem, but I have a feeling that I am really just using it as an excuse.

Dream Fragments


I was playing the guitar really well I knew where the chords were and everything.

I was sitting on the stairs tying my shoelaces.

I was with a old veteran from a war and he was talking to me about a war.

Dream


I was part of the Clone Wars from Star Wars sent to some fiery place and I had to protect two soon-to-be Jedis (I guess you could call them that) in Fabio and Rafael Da Silva (2 Man United Defenders if you don't know).



I was being hunted down by Asajj Ventress and General Grievous I got scared and ran to Obi-wan but I left the twins behind when I got back they were dead.

Dream 2

This dream happened twice.

I was supposed to go to school but me and my friends bunked. We went to the train station and I had my oyster card but my other friend couldn't go, he had to buy a ticket.

Second Time.

My friends had come to my house so that we could all go to the station together. I left my house and my friend in there (which is strange as it is my house) my friends were walking on but I waited for him. When we left some lady on a motorbike nearly hit us. She was Asian and wearing a blue helmet and the bike was blue too (my fav colour) she rode off and came back she nearly got hit by a car.

My and my friend walked off.

[This is a catch-up post. These dreams are from the nights of July 19-21, 2011.]

Night of July 19-20

I'm in the back seat of a car that is being driven by an unidentified female DC. [I think] We're driving on the road that leads past my local casino. [If I remember correctly and we were, then this is more day residue; I had just been there on Saturday the 16th.] I'm talking to her about my idea to put all the information about the casino's parking lot layout and its pricing structure for parking fees up on its website. She says that we've discussed that before, and asks me why I haven't created a test version of the web content yet. I answer that I just haven't gotten to it yet. [On this day, when I recalled this dream upon waking, I thought I also recalled the previous dream in which this DC and I had discussed that subject before. This may or may not be a false memory.]

Night of July 20-21

I'm in House #1. I enter my bedroom. [It's much bigger and has much higher ceilings than in reality.] I see that P. has booby-trapped the room: There's a pulley attached to the ceiling with a rope running through it. P. is sitting on the top bunk with one end of the rope in her hand. The other end is tied around a pair of oversized stuffed animals that are sitting on the top shelf of the closet. When she pulls the rope, the stuffed animals will fall onto the head of the person standing in the center of the room. I see and understand how the booby trap works before she triggers it, so that I catch the stuffed animals as they fall onto me. One of them is a giant Winnie the Pooh. When I catch them, I say to P., “These things are heavy. They could seriously break someone's neck or something.” She agrees with me.

I look into the closet. [It's roughly the same wedge shape as in reality, but, again, much bigger.] It has high ceilings and windows on the two back walls. The windows are covered with either blinds or curtains [not sure], but are still letting light into the room. The closet has been mostly emptied of its contents, but a few of my clothes are left hanging there, mixed in with some of P.'s. [P. and I shared this bedroom in House #1, by the way.] My smaller Winnie the Pooh stuffed toy and other toys that I consider to be family heirlooms are sitting on the shelf directly above the clothes. There are also higher shelves. I look at the closet and think, This closet is big enough to be a second bedroom! Why didn't we ever use it as one? [I still have some clothes in the closet of my room at House #3 that I haven't moved over to my new place yet. I suspect that's where some of the content of this dream came from.]

About to go to sleep.. hoping for a lucid dream. Hoping to dream of my childhood dog, though I am a bit scared. I have about 6 hours to sleep. Wish me luck!

shit. =) I'm so excited, I just had several lucids and false awakenings within a two hour period! I guess MILD really does work, two a few days of it! Too much happened in the dreams, but this was the most LUCID I've ever been. I finally could clear my vision and really communicate with the people in my dreams, even though none of them seemed interested in talking to me =(

I'll give you the highlights! My favorite part was me and a couple of friends were in an apartment building going UP and the elevator was tuggin along slowly and we were all looking at eachother wondering if it was about to give out. Sure enough, it started falling slowly at first back down, I told them not to move too much and as we neared the bottom, or after so much suspense, I was like WAIT A MINUTE. I put my hand out flat in front of me and willed the elevator to stop. It stopped and then I started pushing us up towards the top, but I told them to crawl out this window real quick just in case.

Another part I'm at my house and a bunch of family is coming over. I knew I was dreaming when my uncle showed up, cause he would NEVER come here, I doubt it anyway. He walked to the door and handed me two bags of trash that have been sitting on our porch for a day. (No, really, it's our trailer trash... =/) Anyway, I rolled my eyes and noticed it was all wet outside, I grabbed the trash and said "I was JUST getting ready to take this out." I go out of the house and sit down by a puddle of water. Just enjoying the lucidity. Looking around. Unfortunately I can't remember what I saw. Anyway, a lot of things happened, but I'm gonna quit right here. Just saying MILD was a SUCCESS.

[This is a catch-up post. These dreams are from the night of July 10-11, 2011.]

I'm in Sunday school, and we're playing a game-show-style game in which I am the lovely assistant. The contestant on the game show is creating a piece of ceramic art using a pottery wheel.

I'm in a large van that has stone benches instead of regular seats. The van is filled with good friends of mine, and we're watching something good on TV. The van morphs into an airplane, and I disembark.

The interior of the airport where I've landed is windowless, and the walls, floor, and ceiling are all a flat, industrial, dark gray color. The building has multiple, unequal, uneven levels with stairs leading from one to another. There is one very tangled staircase that takes you up, down, around, and across, turning several corners and going in several different directions, as you go from the bottom of it to the top. [It doesn't loop, though; it has a beginning and an end that are on different levels of floor, but it also has a ridiculous number of convolutions in between that make no sense.] I walk this entire staircase, from beginning to end.

I'm walking around trying to find baggage claim, but I can't; I get lost. I'm carrying three plastic tokens, which I'm supposed to use to claim my bags. I pass a large bag inspection checkpoint, and another checkpoint specifically for people who are traveling with marijuana plants. There are lines of people waiting at both checkpoints. Each person in the line for the latter checkpoint is carrying either a marijuana plant, or some cuttings from one. They're not forbidden on flights, they just have to be inspected first. I also pass behind the back side of the security checkpoint.

I try to climb into an area full of junk. I meet a small boy who decides to follow me into the area.

[Separate dream.] P. and I [I think] are fighting over the scheduling of our showers and hair-drying. I apologize for the fact that I have to wash my hair every day because it's so hot. I try to rush through my shower.

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Side notes:
This night was my very first night in my new place of residence. When I woke up in my new room for the first time and recalled my first dream there, my reaction was, “Hmm. I got lost in a confusing place. That isn't very reassuring.”

Well I was in bed trying to remember my dream for 3 hours. When I looked deep into my eyelids and I saw some dots instead of my standard colours and a feeling that I've felt before.

I tried to get up but I felt a barrier and heard a sound like the one when you just drop onto your bed.

Has anyone else felt this feeling?

Notes:
*Went to bed around 7:00 PM and woke up around 3:00 AM.
*A dream within a dream. If you never seen this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception then do so. It may help you if you happen to be on this forum reading this.
*Was not lucid but in a way I was. You define lucid as "you know when you are dreaming while in the dream" bluntly. In the dream within the dream I was lucid in that sense but never became aware of being lucid in the full dream itself. For this reason I am marking it lucid.
*Had a dream fragment before this and forgot as soon I woke up.
*Major note: This dream entries is clean and safe for work but not the full story. I took out a few major parts of it and put it in my private journal.

Dream: [layer 1]

Eddie Murphy is the main character. To make it quicker to write MC = Eddie Murphy while me/myself/etc = me. This dream was like watching a movie.

MC walk into a collage-like place...Total freedom though importation place. Maybe a place to test dreaming science? Anyway he saw a young girl (about 21) wearing a white T-shirt and have huge boobs (simple saying boobs is still safe for work right?) and asked what is going on. She hand him a book which basically steal an idea from the movie Inception. The idea of spending most of your life asleep to be gods or have fun in your little dreamland. (Remember the scene where a ton of people were just laying in beds while the main characters were looking for a drug strong enough to do the job?)

Basically this book will knock you out forever or close to it. That or you dream so long that it felt like it...For whatever reason the book was bad news for the long term and can even be seen as deadly for the MC. I guessing the book was the MC.

The next scene (this dream felt like a movie for the most part) have the young women with the godly pair sitting on a log in the middle of a forest with a pond in front of her. I remember so clearly of how clean and clear the pond was. MC complained and the girl ask him something about the book which MC quickly reply something like "Yea, I already got me another one!" which then he toss the book in the pond.

Dream: [Layer 2]

The girl and MC somehow enter a dream for whatever reason. I was a DC (lol ironic and funny enough I was lucid but I guess I wasn't personally) MC and the girl were both of course were lucid...Else the book would been close to useless.

The girl fell in love with me for a reason. The dream ended with me, MC, girl, and like two other(?) dream characters/people who join in with the MC when it came to searching for the girl. The landscape was close to before but with a volcano in the background and being in a colorful rain forest.

Lucidity: 8/10
Vividness: 9/10
Length: ~15 Min.

[NOTE] I took 100mg of Vitamin B6 an hour before bed last night, I can remember everything all so clearer and I was much aware than normal.

I was on the school bus and I realized that school doesn't start for another 4 weeks. So I tried to force my right finger into my left hand and it worked. I was like "yep, this is a dream." So I flew out of the bus and hovered over the land around me. It was very beautiful. Then I flew as fast as I could up and forward. I was as high as two mountains put on top of each other and it was very vivid and I was filled with joy. To my left was a very fertile land and to my right was the desert. I flew left and gently went down. There was a small hill so I jumped really high and grabbed on the ledge, I actually felt pain because my back still hurts in real life from Hobart. I got up and was looking at the view when I heard a gunshot, I looked behind me and an old man wearing old western clothes was shooting at some sort of animal. I flew past him and stole his shotgun, although he didn't really seem to mind. So I found a few boars and shot at them, but they wouldn't die. I said "fuck it!" and flew below the highway I was under. I saw a boat where Emma Watson was so I went next to her and she crouched while I took my "thingy" out. When I got it out, she said that it looked like a lizard on top. Then she stood up again, so I grabbed her shoulders and made her kneel. Then she started to suck it and then I woke up. I obviously tried to DEILD and obviously it didn't work.

im still new at this. im going to try to have another lucid dream tonight. wish me luck.

Each category's date will be counted as the night's NEXT DAY after the dream.


7/18/11

Bi-staged/layered dream / NO RECALL