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    1. I, Sherlock Holmes, look for worth successor to pass on legacy

      by , 04-27-2013 at 11:11 AM
      In this dream I was some sort of Sherlock Holmes like character, male student, affiliated with a university. This university would be closing, and with it the crimes investigation department, and I was calling and asking about to see who would be interested in accepting the past crimes archives and the network of informants who would allow one to continue to benefit in solving future crimes.

      The local police department was not interested because they thought they already have all that. Ignorant fools!

      A local newspaper could not handle this.

      A rich millionaire was very interested, and I almost passed this to him, but then I realized in the last moment that he was a criminal mastermind.

      I remember thinking that no one could be worthy of accepting this of course (I was pretty stuck up brilliant but full of myself), but I knew that it was better to find someone rather than for all this to go to waste and not be used by anyone.

      I think I asked a few others in this dream, but don't remember. By the time I woke up, the search was still ongoing.
    2. Not dream but inspired by Guru Yoga

      by , 04-26-2013 at 06:41 PM
      So I have been reading the Tibetan Yoga of Dreams and Sleep by Rinpoche which is a great book about the Tibetan Buddhist approach to lucid dreaming.

      And while the following is not a dream but it seems appropriate to share it here since it was inspired by this book, and is a funny waking journal anecdote.

      When I read about the Tibetan Buddhist meditative practice of Guru Yoga, I realized that it could easily be adapted to Christian prayer, so I told my sons about it too, and my four year old surprised me at bed time reminding me of it, and saying he wanted to try it. So we sat in meditative pose and visualized Jesus. Sent a payer to him. Visualized a light coming from him as a blessing. Then visualized Jesus being merged with us, becoming part of us. My son: "What does he say now?" Me: "Now that Jesus is part of you, what do you say?" Him: "I love you." For a moment I basked in the glory of this moment, and then my son asked me "So how does a real gun work? Do you press a button to make it shoot?" And thus my little angel brought me back down to earth and the reality of a four year old boy's interests.

      Later that night I tried to experiment with the different postures that the Tibetan Buddhist recommend to sleep in, but having a sinus headache made it impossible for me to get enough sleep, no dream recall, and no lucidity.
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    3. Work Kept Us Apart on New Year's Eve / Do Not Redesign Illogical Design If In Use

      by , 04-25-2013 at 11:46 AM
      April 24
      To bed around 10pm

      Around 3am headache continues from evening - woke up with headache

      In my dream my husband and I were working n same company on same project. It was New Year's Eve, and my husband was away on a business trip. I got to see him though through video conference at company party. I could see him but he could not see me. I was a bit sad. (Side note: This makes sense because my husband had a work conference call in the evening, so work infringed on family time.)

      Same dream different scene? there was an improper design to our system, where something that should be in one table was in two for older data, but not for newer, and I had at first suggested that this be fixed. But then when we established that some functionality was actively using accessing these tables,we discovered that this could not be fixed. Someone I actually collaborate with but in different role, nickname Bow Tie, was trying to accommodate this change, and then found out that it could not be done, but then forgot, but then got reminded. I explained it further, and he remembered. (This makes a bit of sense in that we now have some things that are illogical at work but are in use, so this could be a warning that fixing them may not be a good idea? Or maybe just my mind realizes the difficulty of fixing things while in use, and questions whether it is worth the risk of breaking things even more.)

      There was more to this dream. It was long, vivid and convoluted. What does not make sense to me is why my mind insisted these two are part of the same dream - they appear separate.)
    4. Work and finances and time sheet?

      by , 04-24-2013 at 10:36 AM
      Woke up thinking of work and finances and time sheet.
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    5. No dream recall, tired but content

      by , 04-23-2013 at 11:56 AM
      I don't remember dreams. I took NyQuill and felt very tired throughout the night. Woke up tired but content, not stressed.

      A memorable waking moment during the night. During a nighttime waking I discovered I did not have any blanket, so I reached over to my husband to grab some. He objected "Blanket thief." me: "I didn't have any blanket, so that means you are the blanket thief." him: "no, I am not. You foisted your blanket onto me, and then you stole it." I confirmed with my husband that this actually happened. Not a dream, but kind of fun.
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    6. No recall, not enough sleep

      by , 04-22-2013 at 02:13 PM
      To bed at 11pm, woke up at 5am. 6 hours - not enough sleep

      No dreams recalled, but woke up thinking about a fight my older son and my husband had on Saturday - maybe I dreamed of it.
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    7. 2 dream fragments: Alzheimer's cure and DV friend request

      by , 04-21-2013 at 11:55 AM
      To bed around 11:15

      5:45 Dream about looking for Alzheimer's cure.
      6:45 dream included friend request on DV
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    8. Night of five dreamlets: work, law enforcement, ice cream, coworker, skin - snake

      by , 04-20-2013 at 12:18 PM
      April 19

      To bed at 8:30 very tired

      2:40 a dream that seemed clear but hard to retain and put into words. Work related. In Excel. A Table. Evaluating work of others?

      An earlier dream now remembered a bit: I was in law enforcement and someone I knew worked with he recommended me for work in a more important agency, maybe FBI? I was female, but not myself.

      5:50 in ice cream shop with family but also some people from church. Flavors: chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry - less adventurous than I would choose in real life (although got to love chocolate).these were either ice cream or shakes or both. A parishioner from our church who has been dead for years showed up. We then went next door to some sort of bar/restaurant to join him. He said why didn't we bring him some ice dream, but then said that he couldn't have it on his diet anyway. We marveled that it had been 8 years already.

      Remembered from earlier: I did dream of the coworker about whom I had had a dream of me asking him out on a date. There continued to be some illicit attraction, but this time I am not as shocked by it as last time because I know I will not act on it in real life, and i know i can't help what I dream of in non-lucid dreams. Yup, he is an attractive man, but that should not be a problem as long as I don't act on it.

      Remembered from earlier: Some weird dream where I had some sort of weird rash on my skin or maybe a burn, and it could be peeled off and it got better. This weird patch had weird stuff stuck to it that was entangled: some yarn and a snake. Once freed the snake moved, proved to be alive, but it proved to be half snake and half yarn, body glued somehow in the middle. once it cam to life it tried to bite me.
    9. Charts and that's it

      by , 04-19-2013 at 12:21 PM
      To bed around 10:40
      3;40 I had some dream with some diagrams/charts
      6:30 alarm woke me. No recall. Tired. Not enough sleep this night? My mood is fine though. I am at peace with myself this morning.
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    10. Don't Experiment With Poop, Son - Lab not Special Enough

      by , 04-18-2013 at 11:35 AM
      5:55

      My son wanted to do experiment with poop. I vetoed him, saying that poop is too dirty and can only be studied by scientists in special labs. He reminded me that we are in a lab. I said that this lab is not special enough. He had some poop in sink with either red flossers or red bubble making toys. I ran water to make it go down the drain.
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    11. I will fight off kidnappers with martial arts

      by , 04-18-2013 at 11:33 AM
      Went to bed around 10:00pm

      11:30 kidnapper in a car garage in our van wants to take my kids - I retaliate, I rescue the kids, I prepare to fight using martial arts which i don't know in real life. I felt sure that I would win. I don't remember dreaming the actual fight - i think the dream ended on my intension to fight and sureness of winning. It felt very empowering. A surprisingly vivid dream for this early in the night. A typical mother protects her kids dream.

      "12-30 this us a reas," - at first I assumed that I was not awake enough to make sense while typing. But now given my struggles with typing in the morning, I assume that I just did not double heck the result. It could have been a clear sentence in my mind.

      4:00 cannot remember anything and distracted by my husband while trying to recall
    12. Fragments after night of trying too hard: fortress/igloo and pawning off inflatable mattress

      by , 04-17-2013 at 11:41 AM
      To bed around 9:30 pm

      11:00 1st awakening of night. No dream recalled. Remembered to check reality.

      1:00 no dream, but before moving I though that it would probably be 12:30 since I remember last waking up at 11pm. It was actually about 1. Did reality check.

      4:00 my son is learning how to ride a bike, so the bike and my son were prominent in this dream fragment. It was definitely visual. Not sure whether or not there was a plot. Non lucid, no sense of self - more like watching a movie, no awareness. Reality check upon waking up

      Got up to go to bathroom and drink a bit of water. Will try WILD. Did some simple arithmetic in my head to make me a bit more aware - caught myself mistake 2+2=3! So not fully functional brain, but good that caught it. Ok, now going back to bed:

      Auto suggestion: "I fall asleep aware. I dream. I taste something in dream. I fly. I reality check after wake up. I remember my dream."

      Was trying too hard and could not fall asleep for the longest time.

      When I did I had a bunch of fragments:

      Something about my older son's school

      A really neat impressive fortress/igloo made out of plastic but then with snow piled up on top. Huge and very vivid. A mother being shown this fortress, was asked, "So you never come out here with your sons?" Her answer "I did not realize before that they do arts and crafts out here." And I had the sense she meant: I could not care less unless arts and crafts are involved, but now that I know, it's of interest to me too. I just remembered while I was looking at the outside of this snow fortress, I thought "Wow, this is so vivid!" That thought only makes sense if I was at the brink of being lucid - if part of me knew it was a dream, but just had not consciously acknowledged.

      My husband and I tried to pawn off an inflatable mattress to some college students, who could not care less. We realized in hindsight that while we left the mattress there, we forgot to include the pump. The students were male, and their dorm only had three walls with one wall open to the outside - so not much of a shelter. At some point I thought that maybe this was not their dorm, but just a place they hung out, but they did appear to sleep there too, and I remember bunk beds. I had the thought that they might be members of a musical band, but don't know why.

      Updated 04-17-2013 at 12:51 PM by 61501

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    13. Job interview with comforter and dictation

      by , 04-17-2013 at 11:38 AM
      4/16/2013 recorded outside of dreamviews first - late morning dream after awakening after each sleep cycle with no other memories

      I was interviewing for a job with an elderly lady in her home, which was like a fancy mansion. Out of some reason i had the down comforter with me - for comfort? I was shown from a hallway to a living room / salon. The comforter stayed in the hallway. Another woman left just as I arrived, and she was going for another job interview and worried whether she looked good in the yellow blouse - it was very canary yellow, but suited her. The old woman among other things asked me to take dictation using a video which told me what to write. I tried, but then admitted defeat: I was making too many mistakes, not catching up, and the next set of dictation was going to be even harder. I said that I seldom write with a pen any more, and I don't type well fast either - never had to. But I do regularly use the computer and also type on my phone, but generally not dictation. I realized that the reason why she had me do dictation was that when she interviewed for a job decades ago that's what she would do. It showed a difference in generations: what was expected of a woman in a job interview. I expected that I had failed the interview, but to my surprise, I got a job offer. She realized that dictation was not needed for this job, and she liked me.


      I think even though this dream was set at a job interview though I decided that I am not actively looking now after all for now, I think this dream is actually about my desire to be accepted by others for who I am despite faults. I think the setting was a home not an office because this dream was personal not official.
    14. Zip and PDF files

      by , 04-15-2013 at 10:55 AM
      There was a lot of zipping and pdfing of files in this dream. In other words I wasted a dream doing boring work related stuff.

      I just remembered why I had this dream. I went to bed trying too hard to not think of work and failing. I have been having too many work related dreams, and I want to change that. One way of looking at this dream is my subconscious laughing at me: so, you want fewer work related dreams? You know, it could be worse: they could be work related and boring! Haha.

      Of course, my awareness level may have also been so low that my mind needed to do something that required very little concentration: a mindless set of tasks it knows well.

      Updated 04-15-2013 at 12:39 PM by 61501

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    15. When is Angie's party?

      by , 04-14-2013 at 01:40 PM
      Angie is a friend of mine whom I have not seen in person since we were eightteen, and we really were close friend when we were sixteen. She lives in Europe, I live in the US. We are Facebook friends.

      In my dream I had been invited to Angie's birthday party, and was eager to go. However, I kept getting confused: when is the party? Is it today or tomorrow? Check on phone. Tomorrow. When is it? Am I in the car now because I am driving there? If so, I don't have a present. No, the party is on Friday, and today is Thursday (in my dream).

      Will I even need to drive there? Couldn't I just walk? But it will be late at night, and the party is barely walking distence. Could my mother drive me there? As long as she stays in the car: it would be awkward if she came in, unlike for that other party of another friend where that was ok.

      I am not entirely sure whether I was an adult or a teen in this dream. I think it may have switched from adult to teen in mid-dream.

      I was not aware not even a bit, even though with all that confusion I should have questioned that something was wrong. I kept not remembering from one moment to the next when that party will be. When I thought of walking at night, I briefly visualized that, too, but it did not raise any weirdness flags. The dream was quite vivid however. A prime example that vividness and awareness are so separate.
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