side notes

Originally Posted by Waking Journal:

Today was pretty great. Work was fun, and i even got out early. Sims 3 is working again, and i can finally build me some awesome houses! Today was pretty great.

I know I had 3 dreams last night. I can't remember them now though. I know Two were about my place of work. the first I can't recall but I remember having a dream before my first work related dream. Anyway a summary of the night and my FA Fail.

Had Dream 1 and woke to go to the bathroom. Didn't log it, and went back to bed. Had Work Dream 1, and had a FA. I sat up in bed and grabbed my DJ thinking that i should write down my first two dreams so i wouldn't forget. I wrote down the basics, setting, people, time, and anything else i remember. I closed my journal tossed it back to the desk, and went back to bed. I had Work Dream #2, and then my alarm went off. I sat up, and did my morning routine before grabbing my DJ to look over my first two dreams. There was nothing on the page! My DJ was Empty from the last entry. I then remember when i woke up i forgot to RC, and I head-desked a few times. That is the most frustrating thing to happen so far. Now i have a goal to add to my LD Task list. Created my Subconscious as a DC and beat the crap out of it.. -.-

I've been ill the past few days, with a flu or something like that.
I am very frustrated because it affected my dreams. All I recalled during these days were 2 or 3 fragments, not even worth being posted. It's awful.
Hope to recover soon the dream recall and the lucid dreaming. This situation sucks.

I've been scrapping around for ideas to begin some creative writing and I had this dream last night and it was awesome and actually gave me some ammo to start writing again.

My dream opens up with me playing football in my living room. I keep going out for passes but dropping them. Finally I demand one grown to me and I go up for it and get destroyed but almost catch it.

I dreamt that Leah and i were hanging out in our house when Caleb and Sasha came over. For some reason when they knocked Marc answered and told them I busy. I ran past him and let them in.

Immediately i could tell something was wrong. Caleb looked agitated. He asked me immediately why I hadn't been taking his companies phone calls or emails or paying my bill on the new grill I bought. I told him I hadn't bought one and that I don't know what he's talking about. He seems reluctant to believe me but he eventually seems to. Sasha leaves and I head back to the bedroom to explain to Leah what happened. Caleb says he is going to use our restroom but I don't hear or I ignore him.

So then for some reason I start explaining to Leah the issue and that something is very wrong. I'm suspicious of Caleb and I tell her so, loudly. I hear the bathroom toilet flush and curse at myself thinking he may have heard me. So I walk out to the living room with a small bat in my hands and nonchalantly confront him. He ends up leaving but I know it isn't for good.

And then I know that I have to do something. Some sort of test or the consequences will be terrible. Leah walks into the dining room and sits on the floor only to cut herself on a toothpick. She insists it's no big deal.

There's a dream time jump and suddenly I'm with a group of people but I know we are in the alternate world. I know that while here we have to perform a certain number of tasks before we head back. If we head back without finishing them then people will die. One of these tasks is for a man to slowly flip cards on a wall. I watch as he does it and I'm struck by a flash of images. In an other world every time a cars flips this demon gets stronger. I demand he flip them back. As he flips them back the images flash again but it's of the demon turning less and less dangerous.

I then turn around to keep track of the other people with me and it's then that I realize the double edge sword of having more allies with me. With more people there's a better chance of failure. While I'm looking around I'm trying to keep track of where Caleb is. I'm sure he has something to do with everything going on.

For some reason I'm holding a saber and I realize that it truly isn't real so I set it aside. I see a scimitar hanging in the air and I snag it. It feels pleasantly heavy. Real. I put it through my belt loop and continue my rounds. I return back to this big conference room and ask of everyone if they are ready and absolutely positive they finished their tasks. I'm sweating and freaking out but everyone says yes.


And then Mike and I are pulling up to Kyles house. He is the drummer for SIB. I pull into a gravel road that splits the collection of houses down the middle. It's dark out. The lights are on in the house but something feels off so Mike agrees to go check it out while I wait in the car. He does. I wake up.

I've pretty much figured out that I'm able to have my most clear dreams within my last two hours or so of sleep. So perhaps I should WBTB then...

Before I get to the actual dream part, I have realized something about my dream. I only dream about people I'm friend with but not that close with unless it is a dream about a big group of people. I don't know why, but it is only people that I'm not that close with. The friends in both of my dreams yesterday, and my dream I will be posting right now are all my friends, but mostly at school or in group situations. Just an observation.

I only remembered one dream most likely because of waking up at 6 instead of 11. On weekends I naturally dream chain, but never lucidly. I just wake up about ever hour or so and end up remembering more dreams.

Dream 1: Pillows and an Orange Sauce
I was video chatting with this girl in my grade (who I was actually supposed to video chat with last night and didn't end up doing) and then she invited me to her house. All of a sudden I was at her house. Her walls were this dark shade of bright blue and the carpet was light grey. There was a navy plaid pillow sitting on the floor near the door with her 17 inch old (circa 2007) macbook pro (yes I know the model of her dream computer) sitting on top of it open to a video chat screen with just her picture on it. There was no bed in the room, just various pillows sprinkled around the room like islands in a sea. There was a flat screen TV on the wall to the left of the door, and the wall directly in front of you when you walked in was 90% window (or sliding glass door to a patio). The room looked very similar to my friend's older brother's room. Some random other girl was there too. I remember jumping over a bunch of pillows for some game or dance and then ordering chinese food. Then all of a sudden there was this orange sweet and sour sauce all over one of the pillows. Then this boy in my class that I kind of like showed up on the patio. We let him in and he just starts pointing at the sweet and sour sauce saying, "it's on the pillow!"

September 13, 2010

Asleep by 1am.

Decided to try an experiment, today. Awake at 5am. Tried a new idea during my WBTB... playing the mathematics gamex100 on brain age to help wake up my prefrontal cortex Was actually a really good idea! I settled in for my WILD and had better focus than I have in weeks. SP was pretty uncomfortable this morning, coupled with the knowledge that I knew my BF would be interrupting my attempt today (long story)... I ended up passing out at some point, I think around the 6am point. I was woke up by my end of WBTB alarm. I'm actually thinking I should kill that alarm, but it's usually so I can move back from the couch to the bed. But it's a potential lucid I keep interrupting.

Almost-completed Beatles goal - Lucid - 1/5
This was all 60's-era setting. About 1965, actually.
I was on a stage with a bunch of instruments set up. This stage was a bit unusual, as it wasn't raised, or surrounded by raised seats. In fact, it was all one level, and there was a space of maybe 10 feet between us and the first row of audience. I noticed a stagehand had two stop signs (like the cross-walk hand-held ones), which he laid on the ground in a ^ shape. I "knew" it was Paul's spot to stand on the stage.

At that moment, Paul came out from back stage, with his bass on him already. "Hey Paul!" I beckoned him over. I wanted to test whether he knew about going past the stop signs, or not. "Come stand over here, this is where you're supposed to be!"

Paul comes over and he's got one foot over the stop signs. "Noooo!" I said. "Don't go past them, it's dangerous! Look at how close the audience is!" I said, and positioned him back by his shoulders.

"Oh, yeah, I suppose you're right!" he said.

John came out, so Paul says quietly, "Let's see if John fucks up with it!" Then louder, "Hey John, come over here!"

John does, indeed, mess it up, resulting in me laughing at him and saying, "Noooo!" again, but in a silly voice. John's a bit more whatever! about the whole thing and sticks his tongue out at me.

George comes out and the same thing repeats. As I'm pushing George back, I think to myself, "Wow, even if this is just a dream, I'm acting pretty retarded, I should stop!"

I need to go across to the other side of the stage (we're on stage left, my keyboard is on stage right). Paul is supposed to play on stage right. As we pass each other, we stop and kiss briefly before carrying on.

When I get to my keyboard, though, there's a major catastrophe! There's a pool of water underneath my keyboard, and the stagehands are doing nothing to clean it! I find a mop (didn't have to look far ) and start trying to get the water up.

Paul sees me, and comes over. "Why are you mopping it yourself?!" he demands.

"Because no one else is, and I'm not going to electrocute myself by playing in a puddle of water!"

We get some help, but the water is turning into sludge. Sighing, I decided maybe I should just move the keyboard to a new place on the stage. I pick it up, turn around and...

I'm in a different room, facing Jack and listening to the Beatles on my mp3 player "Noooo! What the fuck!" I silently ask myself.

"What are you playing?" Jack asks.

"Just some Beatles," I say quietly. "Only, I was just going to turn the sound off, and mash the keys, pretending like I could play, because I can't actually play any songs yet," I say and do some fancy key-mashing that could totally pass for legit. I wake up.

Fragments
Talking to my dad and he has a full head of mop-top inspired hair, only he's his age in present time.

Managed to salvage a fragment of a longer dream that I awoke too briefly from to hang on to more than a few details. All I remember involved a scene that resembled NCIS wherein there was that kind of office space with a handful of people standing around pretending to be witty until a passive-aggressive, older grumpy guy walked through hastily and told everyone what to do.

I'm quite disappointed I went through the entire weekend without a single good dream to record. Granted I spent most of Saturday and Sunday evenings taking heavy naps and I didn't get much sleep Saturday night...well, now that I put it that way I guess it's not surprising. I want to avoid saying I'm in a dry spell again, but it kinda feels like it.

Originally Posted by Waking journal:

Today was supposed to be a day off, but i filled in for a co-worker. The day wasn't entirely horrible, and work was almost fun. I had the best home made lunch. Tonight I'll remember to jot down all my dreams if i wake up so that i do not forget them.

I remember nothing. Once again I feel like I've been hit by a train, everything aches, and I feel like I've been awake all night.

Side notes:
JILD Day 2- Nothing
JILD Test Summary - Inconclusive, not enough days.

Went to a big music festival Saturday night and I ended up staying out until 3:30 and not falling asleep until past 4am. I got up at 9:30 and couldn't remember anything but I'm not too surprised or disheartened. I feel like any given night could be the night

Originally Posted by Waking journal entry:

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

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

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

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


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

School Fragment (Supplemented by Melatonin and Vitamin B6)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

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

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

Some fragments:

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

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

What's up yall!
I'm new here and this is my first post.
I thought i could sum up my lucid experiences: first lucid dream, I was playing warcraft (that time i'd play long ours of that game) and while playing i suddenly realized, while trying to read the info on an item, the info changed so i realized it was a dream! Then i dont remember weather I woke up or fell for another dream.
Anyways,
Second lucid dream was awesome. I was reading some sort of manuscript, from a really old paper/papirus-like, and it was like a screen on the tv when e credits go up, and, while the paper would go up on my "screen", there was a female voice whispering the meanings of the manuscript. It was a very strong feeling! Then i suddenly understood it was a dream, and that the message of the lady was very very important to my life, so i started saying to myself: i have to remember this. This is very important! I have to remember this!
But I only remembered the dream, not the message, too bad

Ok so, starting this week, I have the goal of developing the ability of having lucid dreams, and already had two awesome dreams, none of them lucid.

First this week:
I was at a training gymnasium like place. There were two round tables. It was day. People in the round tables, including myself, were practicing levitating small objects, and I was trying to levitate my ex-girlfriend's ring.. When I saw that a friend of mine was also able to do it, I started doing it too!
Then, i was with my kendo teacher: he showed me some moves, threw me on the ground and I slide on the floor for 10-20 meters. Then he threw some other student and himself in the same way

Second night:
I was practicing kendo again, outside, with a lot of people, then in some periods I was wearing my Greek sleep-shoes, some times I wasn't.
So, the teacher showed me that in one movement, I should hit with the sword, and levitate for 1-2 seconds in the air. He and other students showed me how to do it, and I started practicing that.

Just remembered another dream. I was with my ex-girlfriend and deciding whether or not we should get back together or not. Maybe during the dream I realized that was a dream, and didn't have a response whether I wanted that to happen or not!
Note to self: investigate the ex-girlfriend dreams and feelings related to that..

Wish you all a great weekend!

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Spoiler for Vivid Dream:

Vivid Dream

I go to sleep at about 10 PM and this is what I remember from my non-lucid dream...

The scenery is kind of like a game I play. I see a flying present in the air that is attached to a balloon. Its raining and i'm by a gate. For some reason I have to spit on the ground...

Starting to have really vivid dreams now that I am getting into lucid dreaming and I hope to one day in one of my vivid dreams I will realize I am dreaming

~End

Last night I didn't really even bother trying to recall my dreams. It was my last night with my wife before she left to go on vacation with her parents for a week so I just didn't bother. I had a small fragment that I did remember enough to jot down on my iPod though.

Hopefully this next week, as I'll have the bed to myself, I'll make some great strides.

Shoes and Underage Driving

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Fragment:

• Something about taking off and putting on shoes.
• I remembered driving, although I'm only 16. I wasn't very good at it, of course, and having no experience in driving I perceived pressing the accelerator slightly will take me really fast. I remembered me driving my family.
• I also remembered scraping the car against the curb.

Note: I just bought pills that contain 3mg of melatonin and Vitamin B6. I'll try taking them tonight and I'll report tomorrow for some results.

So I woke up this morning and had a faint idea of a dream I had... But I just never got up and wrote it down. I got lazy, no excuses. I also noticed I'm getting a little lazy with my reality checks. I've been trying pretty hard to make progress for the last two months and I haven't lost hope. I just wish I had experienced even the tiniest thing to, you know, help me keep my spirits up.