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    1. Living Ghosts & Fear Thrown Into Lucidity

      by , 06-17-2012 at 03:15 PM
      Foreward
      I have only recently, started recording my dreams, thus far it has only been approximately three weeks. I immediately started recalling at least three dreams per night once I made the conscious choice to do so. I haven't practiced any lucidity techniques; though lucidity is, in part, my primary goal; I have found the process very rewarding and entertaining so far. My dreams are often fantastical or in settings that would seem oddly constructed, or vast and otherworldly, and I have found it odd that it would not be enough for me to realize I was dreaming. I am certain of a couple lucid dreams over the years, but if they truly were while I was aware I was dreaming I always acted them out; only once or twice making brief use of fact I was actually dreaming.

      I believe this dream was in the first cycle of REM sleep as it was short and the time in the night would support this.

      The Dream

      I opened my eyes...
      I was kneeling inside a dim room, in the far left corner facing forwards. The floors were wooden and there was a large rectangular mirror affixed to the wall in front of me, the mirror just off to my right hand side, it's base sitting roughly half way up the wall. I felt safe, familiar... yet not.
      Still kneeling where I had came to, I looked in the dire the mirror and saw my father's reflection. He looked back at me, then it occurred to me I was alone in the room. It was a ghost staring back at me.
      But then I realized my father was still alive this couldn't be, and that is when the feeling of panic washed over me.
      Simultaneously it occurred to me I was dreaming, but the panic had set in and I could feel my body weakening and the world was growing dark around me. I had felt this feeling before... when I was only a child... I was about to pass out... my body began to fall forwards and the world grew darker still but I was now calm; I was going to hit the wall and there was nothing I could do.
      I waited for the impact of my head against the wall, but it never came. Enshrouded and cradled by the darkness I had passed through the wall and awoken lying in my bed staring at the ceiling.

      The ceiling above me was the stars, the universe, and I wanted to see it all.
      My body started lifting off the bed, up into the ceiling of stars after which I willed myself fast through the cosmos. After, what was probably only a few seconds of travel I decided I wanted to go back to Earth; and experience this amazing feeling of lucidity there. I looked back towards Earth, it was nowhere to be seen; but I knew the direction and slowly my body turned around and started travelling back towards Earth.

      This is when I truly awoke in reality, having glimpsed if only for a moment something extraordinary.

      Updated 06-17-2012 at 04:05 PM by 55199

      Categories
      lucid , false awakening , memorable , side notes
    2. Fragment: A New Apartment

      by , 05-28-2012 at 10:26 PM
      I found myself in an apartment in town (the city), I had either bought or rented it.

      *****

      I had forgotten completely about this dream, until I rediscovered the note 3 weeks later. Strangely enough, within a week of having the dream; I started cutting my expenses, consulted a bank regarding financing a home loan sometime next year, and began planning to pay any outstanding debts and start saving every dollar for a home deposit.

      Updated 06-17-2012 at 04:02 PM by 55199

      Tags: apartment
      Categories
      non-lucid , dream fragment , side notes