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    1. July 21, 2010

      by , 07-21-2010 at 06:46 PM (Requiem's DJ)
      No real dreams the first 5 hours of sleep. I went to sleep determined to have a lucid the last hour and this happened:

      M and I were eating in the kitchen. She started saying a lot of disgusting things so I got real angry and left. Told her I had to go to work.

      A blink of the eye and I am at work. There is a young women there. I look at my hands and consider if I am dreaming. "Nay, I must be awake." I quickly conclude. End.

      Another fragment I am here on the forums and a friend sent me a huge message with charts and questions. End.

      I usually try to get at least 8 hours of sleep too.
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    2. July 20th, 2010

      by , 07-21-2010 at 01:59 PM
      So I woke up this morning pretty sure that I didn't remember any of my dreams. I got frustrated and almost just went off to work without even trying to write here or try hard to remember. Almost. I tried extremely hard to remember and then, almost like a memory I had had a long time ago, my entire dream suddenly popped into my head. I don't know about all of you but that is an amazing feeling when you finally unlock the memory of the night before. Anyway, the dreams weren't that weird but they definitely fell into my normal dream sign themes.

      The Family Reunion

      I'm in an old, red Corvette from the 60s or 70s, driving around the country trying to find my grandparents' house. The only problem is the Corvette only has two speeds: fast or stopped. I drive down the road their house is on but I can't stop in time so I pass it. I end up in the grass in their neighbors yard. I then turn the car around, get a long head start through their neighbor's yard and drift into the makeshift parking lot in my grandparents yard. Although I don't park where I wanted to, I am still safely at my destination. I get out of the car and walk inside to be greeted by my whole family. They are all wearing casual clothing but I'm wearing dress pants and a nice shirt. I get frustrated because the dress pants are too hot and uncomfortable and I want to take them off but my mom doesn't allow it. I trudge off downstairs and start watching TV when a very attractive older lady walks downstairs. (I don't recognize her but I know she is not family from instinct) She begins to take my pants off and asks if I want sexual favors done to me. I don't reply so she starts to do things to me for a little while and then she leaves. I am happier that the uncomfortable pants are off than that I just received sexual favors from a hot mom. I then examine my legs because they suddenly start to itch. I see a little red dot at the same location on both legs so I take a knife and cut the skin where the dots are. I stick my fingers in the wounds and pull out too little computer chips. Without having any second thoughts about the chips, I discard them and go upstairs to get new pants on. I find a bag on the couch in the living room that is filled with t-shirts and athletic shorts. I am extremely relieved and put on the new attire as quickly as possible.

      Another dream or continuation of family reunion:

      My immediate family is in a large van seating around 8 people. I know my sister, mother, and 4 other people not in my family are in the back of the van but I can only see my dad driving while I sit in the passenger seat. We are trying to get to a grocery store but the weather outside is getting worse and worse. It is very dark and raining but we finally arrive at what appears to be a Kroger. When we get inside, I walk around the fresh produce aisle doing absolutely nothing but admiring the colorfulness of the produce. My dad yells at me from the checkout line and tells me it's time to go. We get back in the car and are driving home when the sky turns an odd color green. We are at an intersection and I look to the right and see a tornado coming up the street perpendicular to us. My dad puts the car in park and we all watch as the tornado passes right in front of us on its path down the road. We turn right at the intersection and see a smaller tornado following the path of the larger one we had just witnessed. We can tell the weather is getting worse and worse every second so we turn off the road, drive behind a car dealership, to a large warehouse. When we pass the car dealership I notice many of the cars have the top down so I ask my dad if I can go help them and he says no. We run into the warehouse from the van with my family and the 4 others. In the warehouse were probably 20 stations. At each of these stations there was a worker and a work table that consisted of a conveyor belt and a sewing machine. The boss asked my mom and I if we could help them and we agree to help. He hands us pieces and we assemble them as if by memory. I have a little but of trouble putting the last few things together on it but my mom quickly helps me. The final product is orange and has "United Airlines" in red and blue painted on it. I thought it was some kind book holder for plane rides but I wasn't sure. Then, I look over to the benches lining the walls of the warehouse where the rest of the van passengers were seated. My mom and I had been sitting on the floor by one of the stations when we were assembling those things. My mom asks the boss whether we can help more and he says no. She gets teary and asks to go sit by my dad. She squeezes in the bench which has barely enough room for everyone. I finally look at the people who were in the back of the van. It was another family that I assumed were friends. I look at the daughter of the other family who was slightly overweight and smile and she smiles back.

      I am extremely happy that I finally remembered this dream this morning. I've been reading Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams and I already have a few thoughts about this dream. The pants being hot and uncomfortable could have been due to an external stimulus such as my legs being hot under my blankets. Also, since Freud believes many dreams stem from childhood memories, family reunions, taking a lot of advice from my parents, old family houses, and the theme of not driving or not driving well makes complete sense. Although my dreams aren't the craziest or "coolest", I really do get a lot out of them because they are pretty easily interpretable.
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    3. Re-intro and 7/18,19 DJ

      by , 07-20-2010 at 08:00 PM
      Oh yeah i forgot i had a deamviews account maybe i should attempt lucid dreams again...Wait, WHERE DID ALL MY DREAM JOURNAL POSTS GO!!! Guess thats what i get for being inactive for so long but college will do that to you.
      Thought about attempting lucid dreaming again on the way back from my grandparents house for the 4th of july. I was sleeping while my brother was driving and something caused me to wake up but still be in sleep paralysis and i thought to myself "hey i could try and attempt entering a dream from here" but of course i failed.
      So back to entering DJ's again, here goes:

      7/18
      Tried taking 1000MG of fish oil before bed to try and help my dismall recall but in the end when i woke up i couldn't remember a single dream.

      7/19
      Did some research and decided that maybe keeping up with a daily 5-HTP supplement might work better for me, some say it helps dream vividness and thats one of the major things that helps me remember dreams. And it worked! Still only remembered one dream and even then it was only a partial bit. In the dream one of my former classmates from highschool gave me this weird looking brown chihuahua dog with ears that were on the direct top of its head, one behind the other. I guess i left the shop we were at (apparently) but for some reason i didn't have the dog anymore where upon leaving another one of my former classmates drove up in a huge black truck with huge tires on it and walked out with my old middle school biology teacher who i guess was in the passenger seat?

      its wild weird stuff like that that i enjoy exploring my dreams so much but still no lucids to this date
    4. Tuesday, July 20, 2010

      by , 07-20-2010 at 02:58 PM (Lucid Dreaming.)
      Dreamt about arguing with Ruchi online. This is most likely from the ending of the phone call at night where she got upset. I was IM'ing her online while watching some other game trailer or something, she got upset and I still kept watching the video until she signed off.

      Can't remember anything else?
    5. Log 20 Breaking in and huge snowflakes

      by , 07-20-2010 at 02:31 PM (World of Kaos)
      First dream I wake up to go and work out. After putting on some clothes I gather all of my things and realize my wallet is missing. I think that maybe I left it in my brother's apartment next door (even though he doesn't live next door in real life), so I head next door.

      The door is locked. I decide that I should try the key for my door on the balcony screen door, so I climb up on the balcony and try it out. It works! When I walk in there are two guys sitting down on lazy boys playing a video game, and my brother is no where to be seen.

      "Who in the hell are you! Get out of here!" They proceeded to yell at me.

      "It's not what it looks like! I thought this was my brother's apartment, I left my wallet in there. I am so sorry." I say back to them.

      I proceed to climb down the balcony and meet my land lord in the parking lot of my apartment. She looked pretty pissed at me.

      "(My name), I am going to have to start from scratch with you regarding background checks," She says to me, "I don't know if I can trust you anymore."

      "M'am, it isn't what you look like! I was just looking for my wallet and I could have sworn that the apartment I walked into was my brother's!" I told her in desperation.

      The boys playing video games in the apartment scream down to us to make sure to do another background check on me, because they think I was going to rob their place.

      Fast-forward: I am sitting in my apartment with my wallet somehow, and my roommate walks in. He proceeds to tell me "Hey, there's my wallet."

      Dream gets hazy after that.
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      I walk out of my apartment (very much could have been another false awakening) that I live in at college, and the cul-de-sac from my hometown is there somehow instead of my regular apartment building parking lot. It is snowing outside, but by no means is it regular snow. Dropping from above were snowflakes the size of my head, dropping extremely slow. Along with these massive snowflakes were regular sized snowflakes as well. I remembers asking about the snowflakes to one of my friends standing with me about why they were so huge, but I do not remember what their reply was.

      I was extremely fascinated by the gigantic snowflakes, and I grabbed one. As I grabbed it, it proceeded to fall apart in my arms. I remember how weird it was for these massive snowflakes were to me, but I didn't even RC at all.

      After this, we all ran into the middle of the cul-de-sac and started having a snowball fight. The snow felt so cold and so real. After this, my alarm went off and I woke up for real.

      Note: This second dream really pissed me off. This is because this dream in particular was basically begging for me to perform an RC. This is because snow is by far the biggest dream sign I have, and not only that, but the huge snowflakes was intuitively telling me about how weird it was. Ugh! frustration...
    6. July 19th, 2010

      by , 07-20-2010 at 01:49 PM
      Day 2 of my journey and another false awakening! Here's how my first dream went.

      I "wake up" in my bed at home. I go upstairs and complain to my parents that I couldn't remember any dreams from the night before. I am very frustrated because I had told myself the night before that I was going to recall my dreams. This frustration stayed with me for the majority of the dream. Then, I got in our old family truck and drove to my high school (I have already graduated). It was the first day of school and we were given a quiz. Although normally very good at school, I couldn't get one question right on the quiz. My teacher tells me she's disappointed in me and gives me a packet of practice problems to work out. Then. I start talking to a girl in my graduating class about how I couldn't remember my dreams from the other night. She tells me not to worry and that she didn't remember hers either. I was then suddenly in the weight room of the school lifting with a few of my high school friends. I was contemplating what lift I wanted to do when my friends left. I heard girls voices outside the door of the weight room and the weight coach (who I never liked) came inside so I decided to leave. Outside the weight room was a girl (who graduated a year before I did) and I said "Hi" to her and she simply said "Hi John". I then walked out of the school and it was night time. I talked to one of my sister's friends about how her indoor soccer was going and she complained about it. I then tried to walk to my car but I couldn't. For some reason I was walking like a drunk and kept falling down a running into cars as i tried to get to my car. It was as if school let out because everyone was going to their car but no one helped me get to mine. I finally get to a car with three people sitting in it, my grandma and an elderly couple. (Their lights were off so I couldn't tell who they were or if I even knew them in RL). I ask my grandma (who was sitting in the back seat) if she could help me get to my truck. She then proceeded to give me a lecture on the dangers of asking strangers in cars without lights on for help.


      Second dream!

      My girlfriend and I are laying in a bed in what appears to be my grandparents bedroom in their old house with my parents (very odd). We are all watching a show on a very small TV. My parents get out of bed to brush their teeth and take showers but my girlfriend and I stay in bed. We start making out when my dad informs me that we need to go upstairs. When we arrive upstairs it's no surprise that it is the upstairs of my grandparents old house. When we arrive upstairs though, there is another couple up there already. I don't know who these people were but the man was very skinny and the woman was very fat (looked like they were a joke or something). We took a long time to arrange our beds the way they "needed" to be arranged and then when we finally laid in them my dad yelled for me to come to the kitchen. I went to the kitchen and my parents are cooking some kind of casserole with tortilla chips, mac & cheese, and hamburger meat. They tell me that we are going to my great grandparents' apartment to have brunch. I ask them what time and they say 7 p.m. I ask them why eating at 7 p.m. is called brunch and not dinner and they didn't answer. I tried the casserole and it was surprisingly very good. It was crunchy and soft at the same time and had a variety of tasty flavors. I concluded that old people must just call every meal brunch and went back upstairs. When I got back upstairs though, it was no longer the upstairs of my grandparents old house. It was now the playroom of my old house. The skinny man and fat woman were still there. I saw that my iPhone was dying so I plugged it into the computer. For some reason I couldn't figure out where to plug it in so it took much longer than I wanted it to. After I finally plugged it in, a video of me popped up on the screen of the TV in the playroom. It was a video of me singing about football. I was considerably younger in the video than in the dream and I didn't like the video but I couldn't figure out how to stop it. Suddenly my mom is upstairs telling me how to turn it off. When she turns it off though, pictures of me from my phone start popping up on the TV. In frustration I just pick one picture on my phone to have on the TV so I don't have to mess with it anymore. Then my girlfriend and I walk into my old bedroom and start making out again. We are rolling around on the floor when suddenly she screams. I look at her for a second and ask her why she did that. She doesn't answer and just looks at me.

      I am very pleased to have more vivid and complete dreams last night. In only the second night of consciously attempting dream recall I have made significant progress. I'm beginning to discover my dream signs. I know high school is one of them. Family, singing, old houses, and friends seem to also be my dream signs. I've been able to interpret some of my dreams just by writing them here too. For instance, the first dream I had last night came from my subconscious being nervous that I wouldn't remember my dreams. Hopefully, this subconscious worry will help me to remember more and more dreams. I am excited to sleep now every day! So far so good on my LD journey!
    7. An Introduction.

      by , 07-20-2010 at 05:54 AM (The Mind is Power; My Dream Journal)
      Hey guys,

      You can call me Jason. I'm a 21 year old guy from Illinois. To keep this short (it's time for bed) I'll just let you guys know a little bit about me. I work in a gardening/brewing store as an Assistant Manager. I'm married. I love playing all sorts of sports and I love playing music (I play the drums). I'm a gigantic Bulls/Bears fan and I can shoot the breeze talking about things I like all day. I'm a dreamer and that bleeds into every facet of my life: writing, writing music, playing escapism heavy video games, and my love of roleplaying. I love anime and I really love feel good anime. I am a ridiculously big movie nut and could go on and on about good cinema.

      But anyways. I'm here because the idea of having even a semblance of control while I'm dreaming and having the ability or, at least, the option to do new and amazing things...greatly intrigues me. I want to do so many cool things. But first I realize I have to work hard for it. So with that said: wish me luck! I hope to keep this regularly updated.

      Thanks,

      Jason.
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    8. Mezzanine's DJ

      by , 07-19-2010 at 09:32 PM
      I wanted to start out by quickly mentioning some of my reocurring themes in my dreams, just so I had them jotted down somewhere:

      -schools (that I've attended and imaginary)
      -casinos (usually doesn't start as such, connected with airports)
      -airports
      -houses that I don't belong in (like I've broken into)
      -neighborhoods
      -hamsters (usually LOTS at a time)
      -driving straight up vertically
      -amusement parks
      -elevators
      -stairs
      -grocery stores

      That's all I can think of at the moment. I'm sure I'll add to it as time progresses. This is just the historical information that I can remember.

      EDIT: I have started school again and I have a busy schedule. I try to update as often as possible, but you may see just titles of dreams with no details filled in. Just be patient and keep checking back, the details will come as I have time. Thanks!!
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    9. July 19, 2010

      by , 07-19-2010 at 07:11 PM (Requiem's DJ)
      Not much going on, first night trying a WILD in awhile.

      I woke up from a dream about having a pool party in my backyard. My neighbor was there.

      I think I got pretty close, I had lucid hh flashes. Someone, a shadowy figure threw open my door. High threat. But I just sort of eventually fell alseep.

      I dreamed about riding in the car and going on vacation with some family members.
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    10. Entry #1: - White Van

      by , 07-19-2010 at 10:03 AM
      July 19th, 2010

      It's 2:05 AM, and I have gone to bed to sleep.

      Its 3:29 AM and I have awoken, my dream not being lucid or controlled, but mostly remembered.

      I don't know how I've gotten here, it's somewhere with my friends who I will call Jorge, B, Ricardo and my brother ehalv.

      At first we all rush into a white van, which belongs to the "Crips". We discover somehow that crip means "blue". We are all pretty shocked by this for some reason. We hop into the van in a rush. Why we entered the van with no precaution in it being owned by a gang, I don't know. A lingering sense that we we're running away exists. I get in last, already stuffing myself into the car. The first person I see is Ricardo in the front passenger seat. Wether he was there all along or not I don't know. He's asking me if the mosh pit was awesome, and then tells me it was. I shake my head yes. Someone appears to get in the car but we have already begun driving. We're in a hurry. I look behind me, only one kid sits on the left, alone. I notice the kid beside me attempt to hop back to fill the remaining seat and free room in this row. At this time, something out the front window catches my eye and I notice the driver has been distracted. He has veered off course, to his left a little, missing a right hand turn, over a curb and next to a playground. At this point I say "Hell no--AW HELLLL NO! He's on the playground! He missed the turn were on the grass!" and I say a little more, but I can't remember. Everyone laughs at the idea of me saying that in this situation, where I also began in turn giggling. We leave the car at this time, still laughing, someone repeats what I've said. In front of the car to the right is the playground, and several feet ahead of it there are dips, hills petruding in the grass going downward. Almost like giant stairs of grass. The driver says it's okay and that this is where we're supposed to be. I say aloud "It's all good unless the boys come!", or something along the lines. Not seconds later does gunfire erupt behind us. I sense bullets flying past me, as if they were raindrops falling sideways. We hurry to get into the van.

      I've woken up.
      A flash of a letter written to me on paper or a social networking site says "you used to scare me years ago but ever since i got a ...(taste*) i've wanted another ..." This is all I remember. It is from, who I will call, Rose.

      Regret fills my head, as does guilt, for not remembering the rest of the letter, or other important information and other parts of dreams I may have fell into. Although I feel regret, I think it is falsely diagnosed to an event that has never occured before, and in being so, couldn't have affected my social, or in any case, daily life.

      The dreams were not vivid. They were more of ideas that grew spontaneously, wildly and with ease, but never seemed to acheive full visual scope. At least, if I'm remembering correctly.

      It is 4:06 AM and I return to bed to sleep. In my hand I hold an object. No larger than a chess piece, but considerably heavier.

      It is 6:59 AM, I dreamt a little. I find it funny I remember less even though I was asleep for longer.
      I hear commotion outside of my bed room. I end up in my breezeway facing outside at the door, I kneel down, I hear people yelling and talking. My friend Justin rides his bike into my backyard, he looks at me and says "I think I got a five", discreetly. He means five dollars. Suddenly they begin talking very loudly and my parents lights turn on, I tell them to keep it down. They panic and Justin hands me a gun. "We found a gun, a real gun, here" he says. I grab it and it feels heavy. Very heavy. I begin to panic as they leave, or dissapear but both are relative. I set it down beside some plants outside and walk back into the breezeway. Through the door in front of me, I see a group gathered. I exit the door back outside, this time into my front yard, and see my oldest brother surrounded by people asking him questions. He seems to have it under moderate control. I ask what it's all about. He says the dog got loose again. Standard procedure. I head inside, my dad is talking to someone about pizza, or food. I end up going downstairs to pee because someone is in the bathroom. A christian man follows me. He needs to pee and pees on the opposite side of the room. I end up not peeing at all and head back upstairs, with a handfull of bacon in my hands.

      I'm awoken and the object I had held in my hand before falling asleep is laid side by side next to my phone on my bed. Seemed placed carefully, but I cannot remember doing so.

      Updated 07-19-2010 at 01:32 PM by 33921

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    11. July 18, 2010

      by , 07-18-2010 at 10:28 PM (Requiem's DJ)
      I needed to step back for a few days and relaxed. Real stressed and poor sleep. I am going to start focusing more on the WILD technique and no real goals to speak of. Back to basics with stabilization and exploring the dream I spawn in. And maybe something nice and relaxing like just flying.

      I incubated a baseball dream. I was at the field but not playing. I was behind a shack with Bros and we had committed murder. We had to clean the small plastic pool we just used to drain the blood in a creek behind the shed.

      Another pretty cool dream battle. I was fighting this Bebop-like pig on an old pirate ship. He had a big axe but I was able to dodge and leg sweep, cutting his legs off. There was also a bit at the beginning we were exploring an underwater cavern and taking pictures or recording video.

      Updated 07-18-2010 at 10:31 PM by 29419

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    12. Loud Noise

      by , 07-17-2010 at 09:57 PM
      So when i was in the hospital I was waken up so much that my sleeps have been very light, and also it was hard to have a deep sleep when everything is beeping. I was really happy because I heard this loud noise or deep vibrations in my head, it was only for a second, but I wonder if that was my body going into SP, or what, and if it was how do I make it last longer?
    13. JD's Balls-to-the-Wall Awesome Dream Journal

      by , 07-17-2010 at 09:03 PM
      Update

      I've added more evidence to my "hangovers are awesome for lucid dreams" theory. Mad bastard hangover today, just WILDed my ass off and got two epic dreams- one of which involved blowing up a horde of zombies, can't wait to type them up, unfortunately I'm feeling too fragile right now. On a side note, never drinking again.
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    14. Log 19 Wolf figurines, "Nerf" war, and a T-Rex

      by , 07-17-2010 at 05:17 PM (World of Kaos)
      Starts off with me on a vacation with a bunch of relatives. We are all down in the basement of wall looks identical to my house at home. There are several fishing rods standing up on a stand that look weirder than normal.

      I go in a room and see two small wolf figurines/statues. One is gold, and one is gray in color. For some reason I decide I need them and place both into my pocket.

      Fastforward: I am laying in bed with Sookie from Trueblood (I don't know what the hell is with me and hooking up with girls from that show, lol). We hook up.

      Fastforward: Me and all my relatives are outside having a nerf gun war. The nerf guns look very real however, and shoot very realistically as well. I pick up an RPG, and it shoots the foam rocket identically to it's real predecessor. I thought about how sweet of a nerf gun it was.

      ______________

      I am driving in a suburban to see a surprise that one of my friends has for me. When we get out of the suburban, I see a full sized, as well as an alive T-Rex.

      "How in the hell is that thing existing right now?!" I asked my friend.

      "They did took DNA from bone morrow of a T-Rex that was frozen." My friend replied (been watching too much Discovery channel I think lol).

      I continued to watch in complete awe, as it's trainer made sure the T-Rex would not do anything ridiculous. I remembered watching this whole thing and noticing there was a small rope "caging" in the T-Rex.

      _______________

      I decided to try and DEILD when I woke up in the morning. It worked, at least for a minute. I am standing in the middle of a grass-field, and a wolf is standing in front of me. All of a sudden I feel the dream pulling away again, so I start to inspect the grass blades on the ground to stabilize it. It worked for a couple of seconds, however, it soon completely crashed down, even after an attempt to rub my hands and spin.


      Note: Starting to notice that the gold/blonde wolf and gray wolf in my dreams seem to be yet another dream sign, as they show up a lot.

      Updated 07-17-2010 at 05:20 PM by 33202

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    15. Mzzkc's Mind Games

      by , 07-17-2010 at 07:11 AM (Mzzkc's Mind Games)
      Had some interesting dreams last night, including one lucid. Unfortunately, I can't recall over half of what happened, so no entry tonight. Expect one tomorrow for sure.
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