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    1. #7 - Strange Job - 29/04/2020

      by , 04-29-2020 at 11:53 PM (Dream Journal)
      Awake|Dreaming|Lucid

      This one was very tough to recall, I had woken up and fallen asleep twice, and for a few hours, after having this dream and managed to keep the pieces of the dream in the back of my head. Pretty impressed with how it came out

      I start off at work, everything seems pretty regular, things I have experienced while awake in my daily life at my job. I'm getting more orders down than I typically like, but it happens. These orders are for industrial grade batteries that I ship out on small pallets to replace the ones in the machines we sell. I tell my manager I can't keep up with it and that it isn't safe for me to lift this many batteries on my own. I decide to leave the warehouse, which has a slightly different layout, and into the yard outside. I'm with a group of people, who I believe to be the main cast from a movie I watched recently. For some weird reason we start having semi-digital, almost holograph type Pokemon battles with bug catchers. They're like 2D sprites projected and animated into real life in a very weird but somehow natural way. I experience a loop of the same animation of this fat Hiker-type Pokemon NPC, until we move on. We travel through a Skyrim-like plains landscape, with small ponds and giant mudcrabs, which we fight. We also fought a giant yellow Pokemon, with a very vague form that I can't wrap my head around.

      After this, I head back to work, except the layout is the reception corridor from my secondary school many years ago. The office ladies of my job are there, sitting on white chairs and giving me fetch tasks. I was given the task to retrieve a bag from a hotel, which I headed over to. It was a massive shopping centre-esque building, like a holiday resort hotel. I managed to get the bag from a massive wall with nothing but doors on it. I call out for the owner of the bag, but I get no response, and deem the bag noncollectable. I place it on a smoking post and move on deeper into the resort, where I find myself in a separate guest-room area with my family at a table eating together in celebration. Most notably, my step brother shows me something video game related, perhaps Pokemon. I decide not to join and instead go further into the building, feeling as if I was there to meet someone. A boy came down some stairs and there were a couple of other people in the small, caravan-sized room. I think I discussed something relevant to the bag I put down earlier.

      Moving on from this, I found myself walking down a familiar shopping centre, where I then woke up not too long after.


      Possible dream elements:
      -Work
      -Family
      -Skyrim
      -Local area - School

      Notes:
      -I can perform reality checks at work to make this an easy one, though first of its kind since I started this series
      -Family, step brother in particular, but no bottled up anger involved this time
      -Skyrim yet again, 100% a recurring element for me. Playthrough definitely needed soon
      -Another local area in my dream, worth keeping an eye on, but first time I've dreamed of being on school grounds. I have dreamt several times in the last week of students I attended with, though
      Categories
      non-lucid
    2. #6 - Thief and Escape - 28/04/2020

      by , 04-28-2020 at 07:37 PM (Dream Journal)
      Awake|Dreaming|Lucid

      The dream starts with me sneaking around a set of Skyrim-themed stairs, of which I go up and into a building, also vaguely Skyrim themed. I avoid various guards and I go inside a separate room, where an old, dying man rests in his chair. I steal something from the drawers and alert the cards, then escape the room and outside the building where the stairs are. A guard at the staircase attacks me, I run back inside and hide, where I meet two friendly people - a man and a woman. The woman resembled Delphine from Skyrim. They help me fight the guards around the room I stole from, and we kill a guard firing arrows from atop a wall. Soon after, a large group of maybe a dozen or so varying types of people, presumably the main enemy force of this building, march around the corner from behind the wall with the archer, and I run away as the two friendly people stay and fight. There is a brown-skinned girl among the enemy group who I seem to have some kind of romantic connection to.

      I make my way far out of the area and into a forest with a path cutting through. There are fields behind fences on each side of the forest, with trees and bushes between the path and fences. I sneak through the bushes as the large group of enemies march through in search of me. Nearby, I see two dog-like creatures, which run past me and join forces with the enemy group. I continue sneaking in the bushes, following the enemies, when suddenly the brown-skinned girl from before jumps through the bushes to scare me. I jump back but immediately find myself extremely happy to see her, she kisses me and leaves.

      Not long after, the view changes into what appears to be an RTS game, similar to Age of Empires II. My troops are fighting a much larger army and losing, my forces wipe a group out but are then swarmed by a massive purple blob and I lose. I end the dream trying and failing to upgrade my samurai.


      Possible recurring elements:
      -Skyrim
      -Sneaking
      -Local forest

      Notes:
      -Skyrim has been a foundation for many of my dreams over the past few years. The sneaking aspect is from my very recent thief/sneak playthrough of Skyrim, and has been present in a couple over the last couple of weeks, most notably in my lucid from last night (Dream #5)
      -I might play another Skyrim sneak build soon to help form a reality check habit. Should be very easy considering how common and accessible this element is
      -The forest is very similar to a forest nearby to my house, but not the same as in Dream #5.
      -My recall is improving very rapidly after coming back to my dream journal format, which is apparent in the length of the text I type. I am almost clearing entire pages in my notebook

      Updated 04-28-2020 at 08:03 PM by 54841

      Categories
      non-lucid
    3. #5 - Lucid Forest - 27/04/2020

      by , 04-27-2020 at 11:53 PM (Dream Journal)
      First lucid in many years,and the main reason I'm back on Dream Views. Nothing majorly interesting but the thrill of being lucid is what counted for me.

      Awake|Dreaming|Lucid

      The dream starts with me sneaking around a house-like building, with men on guard wandering around on duty. Anything before is hazy, but I spent a while recalling back to this point. I can vaguely remember a fragment that took place in a Halo: Reach-like area, perhaps linked to this current scene. I was crawling on a higher ground, spying through a small gap between the wall and roof, watching an armed man walk up and down. I was with someone, but I don't remember exactly who, most likely my step brother. I also barely remember some kind of animal/pet. We were spotted as we escaped the building. This section is hazy, but not long after I arrived near my home, where I did some DIY for my Grandmother, and passed through the forest next to my house to do some DIY for an old neighbour who moved nearby.

      I headed back to the entrance of the forest and found myself with my step brother, who had a Bannerlord-esque army formation outside my house, opposing a similar army. I went into the forest and decided to try and test if my slow-walk chase nightmares are legit of if it's just the ground's fault. I slipped up and ran very slowly as expected, and concluded it was not the dream's fault but rather the ground I try to run on. Back at the forest entrance again, my step brother suggests we light the army of soldiers on fire - to which I disagreed and insulted him in a similar way to a previous dream - a sure dream element to keep an eye on. I head back down the forest path I had just walked, but after a few steps
      I become instantly lucid out of nowhere.

      I never expected to get lucid so soon after returning - in just five nights after 4+ years. This feeling was very intense and vivid, my first thought was to focus on stabilising. I performed my main reality check and was pretty worried about losing lucidity, so I kept trying to remind myself. This, however, didn't get me very far, as I was distracted by my urge to change my surroundings. I took a few steps, and felt very sluggish and slow - almost like the previous attempts at recreating the nightmare slow-running. After failing to change my surroundings, I managed to create this very strong red tint across the trees of the forest, which shook the Earth as it rapidly grew in intensity. It vanished instantly after I lost focus on it. I ventured, at a normal pace, further into the forest, where I had a semi-lucid sexual urge for some reason. Instead, however, my brain decided to give me a dozen wooden-skinned, blank faced mannequins wearing skirts. I ran my hands across one's arm, intrigued by the surrealism and my lucidity faded rapidly.

      I head back, yet again, to the forest entrance where I have a hazy conversation with a bald man until the dream seemingly ends.

      Well, this one was really eventful considering how early I am into my return to lucid dreaming. My recall is better than it's been in years and most of the knowledge I learned during my times here in 2012 has stayed with me. Hopefully my next lucid dream will be longer and easier for me to control, and the rest of what I know deep down will return.

      Possible recurring elements:
      -Family
      -Anger, bottled up feelings
      -Local neighbourhood

      Notes:
      -Second dream I have had a negative interaction with my step brother based on bottled up feelings. Present in Dream #2
      -Yet another local area, should be easy to form reality check habits this way. This local area is the forest opposite my house

      Lucidity notes:
      -Everyone vanished upon attaining lucidity, happens almost every time for me
      -Control mostly failed, need to improve
      -Stability needs improving greatly

      Updated 04-28-2020 at 08:09 PM by 54841

      Categories
      lucid
    4. #4 - Vampire Warehouse + Skyrim - 26/04/2020

      by , 04-27-2020 at 08:51 PM (Dream Journal)
      Awake|Dreaming|Lucid

      I spent a while recalling this one, extracted a fair bit more than usual.

      I'm in an unfamiliar city, with a hotel across the road. In the near distance, just up a small hill, there is a warehouse with coffins stacked outside. A weird man invites me to follow him into the nearby hotel, which I accept. He goes first, and pokes his head out of the very top window. I head up there and upon arrival, I look outside the window and see that the coffins in the distance are empty - with some workers moving them. Within seconds, a swarm of vampires of wildly varying aesthetics fly around the top floor of this hotel building, which is now large and open like a warehouse. Many guards, presumably from the opposing warehouse, fight the vampires in an Oblivion-like fight. I decide to join the vampires, and I head down some stairs and out of the building, where I find myself fighting an Argonian female on a path near the city of Windhelm in Skyrim. I win the fight.

      Possible recurring elements:
      -Vampires
      -Skyrim
      -Sneaking

      Notes:
      -Second vampire dream out of 4

      Updated 04-28-2020 at 08:08 PM by 54841

      Categories
      non-lucid
    5. #3 - Insults - 25/04/2020

      by , 04-27-2020 at 08:33 PM (Dream Journal)
      Awake|Dreaming|Lucid

      I have a false awakening, perhaps not the start of the dream due to being very hazy. My immediate thought was "nah I didn't have any dreams". I start complaining about things, to which my step brother, staying the night in my room, tells me that he's pretty tired of my whining. In response, I hurl all kinds of insults from my bottled up anger.

      I couldn't recall anything after that, probably for the best.

      Possible recurring elements:
      -Family
      -Anger, bottled up feelings

      Notes:
      -Bottle up feelings seems to be something that carries over from reality, I may be able to use this to form a good reality check habit

      Updated 04-28-2020 at 07:42 PM by 54841

      Categories
      non-lucid
    6. #2 - Serial Killer House - 24/04/2020

      by , 04-27-2020 at 08:21 PM (Dream Journal)
      Awake|Dreaming|Lucid

      The dream (potentially, as far as my recall can acquire) starts with me waiting in my local town with old school friends, very similarly to the previous dream. We are waiting for buses, which follow no particular time schedule. The journeys involve random conversations with people I went to school with. The bus always ends up at the spot it picked us up from. Upon exiting the bus for the third time, I hear a cry for help in a nearby, horror movie-esque house, which I go inside and investigate. A woman is laying in a sack, tied up next to a wardrobe - I free her and she reveals to me that she is a vampire. She isn't harmful, but we hear a noise that we believe to be the owner of a house. The vampire says he is a serial killer and likely the one that kidnapped her.

      The dream ends here.

      Possible recurring elements:
      -Vampires
      -Old classmates, school
      -Local city centre

      Notes:
      -Two local area + schoolmate dreams in a row

      Updated 04-28-2020 at 07:41 PM by 54841 (Added notes)

      Categories
      non-lucid
    7. #1 - Movie Village - 23/04/2020

      by , 04-27-2020 at 07:39 PM (Dream Journal)
      First of all, this is my first post in years. Decided to keep old posts but start from #1 for my recent dream journal. Below is a colour code format to help identify the points of lucidity and which is a regular dream point.

      Awake|Dreaming|Lucid

      The dream starts in my local riverside village, with a group of who I think were students went to school with. We were approached by a man who would talk about movie trailers, and would show us various ones. Eventually, traits of the movie trailer would merge in with the surroundings - a child-size car driven by two small darkskin elf-like people sped by, crashing into nearby objects. Chaos ensued, as the trailer man mentioned a lack of ice cream was causing issues in the village. Not long after, the group and I headed over to an ice cream stall and worked a shift to provide the people with blue ice cream.

      As far as my recall goes, this is where the dream ends.

      Possible recurring elements:
      -Old classmates, school
      -Local village

      Notes:
      -Not much I can utilise here, but it's a start
      -I have been to the local village before in dreams

      Updated 04-28-2020 at 07:41 PM by 54841 (Added notes)

      Categories
      non-lucid