International Oneironaut Shared Dreaming Journal

Thebeastofold's Dream


Re-occuring dream #1: from school to the carnival?


It started i was in school, and class had just ended so i was walking out of the classroom and down a hall surounded by other misc students. I walked outside through the first double door i found and as soon as i got outside i said out loud to myself "as soon as i wake up ive got to write this dream dwon!" as soon as i said it, i was lucid...ive had this dream many times over and over again in the past...so i look overthe horizon and see the billboard on the hill above the freeway thats always there..so i fly up onto the roof of the school for a better view...its a big billboard with light around it advertising a carnival...so i fly over to the freeway and land on the opposite side from the billboard, i see across the freeway is the midget thats always there waiting to guide me tothe carnival..but this time i have other plans...i walk across the freeway, theres never any cars, and instead of following the midget down the dirt path to the carnival i turn to the right and start following the freeway...usually when i go this route in this dream i end up ina dense forest then comeout somewhere completely random..or wake up..this time however, the freeway curves tothe right but the path keeps going straight so i keep following the path, i eventually come around a corner and see a small shack at the bottom of the hill, i walk through the door, and there nothing but a single folding metal chairin the room, sitting right in the middle of the room...i got and sit down...i start thinking of chichen-itza and get up an go outside and start looking around...i notice, behind the shack, is a valley with houses scattered around in the bottom of the valley...i turn and start walking back upthe hill towards the freeway and decide to fly again, i start flying and almost land on my face..but i manage to steady the dream and fly up into the air......i start seeing flashing lights over the horizon to my right then i woke up...

WBTB

another school dream.....


I was walking down the halls of my old high school with a friend of mine and we were talking about the old days etc...we walk through a door and suddenyl i'min my old jr high school..weird...he says to me "come on, dominos(pizza) shoudl still be here!" and he suddenyl takes off running through the front entrance and i take of running to follow him,but when i get outside i'm running down the street i lived on at that time...tripped and fell and when i rolled over on my back, he was standing over me with a huge grin on his face...i woke up...

every987

Had the nightmare I've been having for the past couple nights. I wake up covered in sweat and the only thing I can recall is a bald man and being scared. Once the nightmare past I dream't about a strange world. It was dawn and everyone was in costumes. We were trying to escape from something. dream switched to a false awakening where my reality check failed.

Hotel California...

I get a false awakening, I'm so tired I start to fall asleep standing up - I then think that this is a bit strange and do an RC,my usual method I can't do because it is too dark to see anything so I try holding my nose - but find I CAN'T breath, although I decide that this is really not a true way of doing an RC (for me) because it has failed many times in the past, but then I sorta just know that it's a dream and walk out of the bedroom. In the hallway it is still very dark (the dreams are only just beginning to form) so I shout 'luminos' to try and brighten the place up - all I get is a sputter of light and then darkness. So I walk downstairs and out of the front door into...

What looks like a hotel (a mostly dark brown wooden interior), I know I need to get to Chichen Itza but forget what the best method to do so would be. I find the skeleton key in my pocket (which I found last week in my dream) and walk around trying to find a closed door to open (with the skeleton key) and use as a portal to get to Chichen Itza - I'm walking around what looks like the outside of the hotel - I expect to see a door - and do, lots of them - but all of them have windows in them so that I can see what's on the other side - and if I can see what's on the other side I can't get it to work like a portal (damn dream - I ve done this to myself before - or is it me, I don't know) SO then I decide to get out of the hotel and hotel grounds and fly to Chichen Itza. So I walk through the hotel, trying to search for the entrance, I walk past a woman behind a desk (I think she is wearing blue and is the receptionist) and walk into a revolving door - but the compatment to go into is very small and tight and just goes round and round and round and doesn't let you go out - DAMN! Then I wake

(so the hotel wasn't in California but much like THE hotel California from the song!)

Build it and they will come

I'm falling asleep but very aware, this turns into a DIELD. I can see a whole mountain range scenary, I'm thinking about Chichen Itza and how I need to see that, and then decide to CHANGE it into Chichen Itza, I see my hand - a giant ghost like hand hovering over the scenery - I find that I am able to move it - shaping and forming the scenery. So first of all I decide to try and make the central mountain range into a pyramid shape - but find this much more tricky than I first thought, then the dream starts to take control and I decide on using a pyramid shape from zbrush computer program as a good basis, and then it fades and changes or I wake.

Wake up!
I'm aware that I'm dreaming (3rd time in the night - woot!) and am with my wife - I try to tell her that she is too, I pull and extreme face, first of all I pull my cheeks far apart with my fingers, and then I pull my jaw back, breaking it and pulling it into my chest - all so that she would remember the dream when she woke. The weird thing is that as I'm pulling these faces I see myself in the third person - behind my head - so I have no idea what these faces look like (though I was trying to go for that part in the film Beetlejuice when the two main characters pull there faces into ghoulish shapes)
I then decide that I need to get to Chichen Itza - so I fly up into the sky. The scenery is amazing, I am so high and travelling so fast, I can see so much countryside and forest beneath me, hills and rivers and trees- it looks so beautiful - but before I get anywhere I wake. ARGH!!

Aeolar's Dream

Didn't write down my dreams, but here are the reinforced bits.

I am in this room with Ed & Dale, and someone is telling me whom I can talk to in German. This person tells me that Dr. Richtofen is the perfect person. I walk forward, and the German scientist is sitting patiently at a table. I sit down, and he introduces himself. Now, I only understood bits and pieces of what he was telling me, but the gist of it was that he was explaining to me a colleague of his who invented something monumental.

We are now all rats, and we are running through this store room. We are scared half to death because we are being chased by a rat exterminator. It was very scary.

Kumara's Dreams

Fragments, all had the feel of another reality


In bed with my sis and BIL

I'm lying in a "bed" of liquid, maybe water but very silky and warm, cuddling with my sister and BIL. I'm trying to take off my socks so I can put my cold feet on him, but they are stuck to my feet. I spoon up to them.


My son is rescued by eagles

I am standing on a narrow ledge of my apartment-like dwelling. I am very high up, looking down at a river below and the plant life along the shore. I consider what it would be like to fall or jump, the struggle on the way down, would I finally surrender to the fall?
I see a figure in the water moving to the left. It is my son, swimming, and I realize he has already made the jump.
Something is chasing him, it is a threatening-looking man-creature who is at least twice his size. I feel fear, urging him on, and just as the scary being closes in on my son, an enormous black eagle swoops down and claws at him. Another and another appear, until an entire flock of giant black eagles has snatched the scary guy up and away, lifting him into the air to take him away, maybe he is dissolving now.

I feel a huge rush of gratitude and relief. I wonder if my son realizes the gifts of the eagles, and feel regret that I didn't teach him to acknowledge and offer respect and gratitude to them...I feel like it doesn't really matter because *I* am offering thanks for him.


The Ministry of Happiness

I am in seemingly the same or a very similar dwelling as the eagle dream. My (dream) husband or male partner is lying in bed. There is a knock at the door, I rush to it to lock it. Whoever is knocking has found another door and though I rush to lock it as well, they push their way in (this is a ongoing dream theme this past couple of weeks).

Short, stocky people wearing yellow raincoats and hardhats push their way in and announce they are the Ministry of Happiness. They are here for the man in my bed.
A severe-looking, big woman in grey tweed enters and brings a big cart full of trays and trays of pills. The pills are different shapes and sizes, some are heart-shaped with flowers on them and seem to be made of ceramic.
They are going to force my husband to take these pills and force him to be happy.
I grab as many trays as I can and dump the pills outside, over the ledge. I go back inside for more. My husband is now standing up, looking a bit crazed, and he tells me, "I going to take the pills!"
He is surrounded by the raincoat people, and the big woman in gray facing him has a handful of what looks like small polished stones that she either puts into his mouth or he takes. It's my understanding that he intends to fake taking the pills.
In the meantime, there are more little people trying to get in the door.
I am trying to keep them out, and they are somehow finding nooks around the door to stick their fingers in. I am getting more and more pissed - all of these tiny little fingers trying to wiggle their way in! So I smash and bite their little fingers until I either woke up or transitioned into another dream.


Fragment - - Of being on the same ledge described above (though it seemed to be separate dreams). I walk around a corner and I see a set of small lockers. The locker cabinet is about my height, somewhat wider, and the lockers are blue and about 4"x4", each with a little handle on the right. It seems that I've dreamed this before tonight or have been here before. I'm looking for something, but not sure what I'm looking for. I open a few lockers, the contents are mostly sparkly little bead arrangements.

Somewhere in there I was on the corner of the ledge and felt a gust of wind nearly knock me off. I clung literally by my fingernails onto the brick wall, digging in so deep that my fingernails clawed deep holes into the brick. I was relieved and impressed that I didn't get blown off.


Sparkling Pink Octopus

A dream narrator showed me a small figurine of a creature that looked like a cephalopod, which was sparkling pink with a glittering gold trim. As the narrator was explaining, the figurine transformed into a very large living, breathing creature. It was lying on a platform, in a setting that looked like the 1800's, in a body of water. It seemed I could hear the narrator's words and the creature's thoughts at the same time, they were synched.

The thoughts were something about being so big...and it coiled around itself, and slithered into the water, wondering if it was going to get into heaven.

The narrative was along the lines of, "and that's where that started (the issue of being big/fat/vulnerable) - as a pink octopus in an (old fashioned?) gym."


Somewhere also in all of those dreams, the narrator was explaining to me that "the natural inclination in a dream is to seek safety", as if he wanted to reassure me not to be ashamed for not facing all of my fears, that seeking safety is just part of the whole drama.

Fragment - of being lucid for a moment, and blind. Rubbing my arms and body and saying, "I am lucid, the world is vivid."

Nephanim's Dreams

I haven't been sleeping well lately... I have trouble falling asleep, wake up frequently during the night, and can't seem to remember most of my dreams, especially past a certain point. It probably has a lot to do with school. Anyway, I'm still trying.

Annoying Alarms

Nicole was yelling at me for setting my alarm for 7 AM.

“You don’t need to wake up at 7!” she shouted. “It’s Friday night! You don’t have school tomorrow, and you don’t need to be up! That alarm’s annoying!”

“I’m sorry…” I apologized quietly. I didn’t feel like arguing with her. Still, I couldn’t let her think she was right. “If I let myself sleep in, it’ll be harder to get to sleep tomorrow night, so I’ll sleep in again… Then I won’t be able to wake up at 7 on Monday morning when I need to.” She glared at me for a moment, but she didn’t respond. She rolled over in bed to turn her back to me.

The world around me collapsed. In the darkness, I heard a high-pitched screeching noise. I've been hearing these at the end of all my dreams recently.

Vesterguard's Dream

01-10-11 Intentions were clear, rest out after the semester start up party.

“Its a race on the scaffolding”

I am at some sort of merry event. It has the feel of a carnival/sporting event/ construction celebration. At the centre of the stage is this pyramid shaped building that reminds me of seats you find and college/highschool sports stadiums.

I go running, first over the steps of this pyramid and then out on a stretch of hilly land. The weather is nice, sunny and warm. When I come back I start over again, this time with an old school friend of mine.

We are primarily running up and down the steps of the pyramid and he always seem to be a step in front of me until at one point I loose him completely. He keeps talking about how it is really important to keep up a good pace and a good pulse.

I loose him at a point towards the back of the pyramid (back defined as the shadow side, away from where the speaker and main action is going on). Here there is scaffolding surrounding the building and the running here involves finding ways to navigate this. So I use my arms a lot to swing from place to place and also run a couple of metres on a metal pole.

Evolventity's Dream

September 26, 2011

Non-Lucid Dream |Fell asleep around midnight, woke up around 8AM.
-I'm sitting next to M* in bed at night time. The mood is very calm. My state of mind is at ease. I have my legs crossed and am trying to levitate my body as M* plays relaxing music on his phone. I rise a couple times and try again.

-I'm running away trying to return to a another universe with my friend so he is not hurt by the ones in the universe I am in. We move through to the universe and a robot becomes a cat.

-Trying to get away from a man in the apartment. I'm being carried on M*'s back. It's dark outside. I go outside and see a guy on his phone. He's looking at porn, and it is awkward at first, until he switches to gay porn.