LadyLoki

Bedtime: 12:00
WBTB: 5:30

Aids: None

Recall: Very Low
Vividness: Very Low

I was at Half Price Books and saw A (my fifth grade crush) there. I was still interested in him (definitely not IWL), but knew it wouldn't work because he had a wife and kids. Then found out somehow/became aware that his wife had passed away.

Post-WBTB

False awakening: my phone alarm went off. I saw myself pick up the phone and turn it off. Then I realized that alarm is still going off and wondered why. I woke up and it was still on my nightstand.

Time slept: 12:15 - 6:50

Fragment: My sister and I were surprised that a Netflix came in the mail, even though we'd only sent the last one out the day before.

Exciting stuff.

Had about an hour to spare upon waking up and had a few HHs, but I guess I was too restless to drift off.

Im not sure what the order of these dreams was or whether they were both WBTB or which one wasn't.

Dream 1: I was sitting at the kitchen table. I was holding two carved wood handheld mirrors. There was some sort of demon invasion. I thought my parents were demons and expected their reflections to be scary, but when I saw my day's reflection he looked normal.


Mom said that some woman (mentioned in the news?) was suspect to the demons because she had been promiscuous. I told my mom to stop acting like we're living in the dark ages, and she said to my dad, "See, she's one of them." Or something to that effect.


Dream 2: My sister and I were driving somewhere with one of my parrots. It is nighttime. We were going to some lecture, and on the way to the building C got scared and flew away, but I found her near a trash can and picked her up.

C and I sat in a classroom apart from the large lecture hall where we were supposed to be because I was afraid to lose C. Or rather, that someone would hurt her.

In order to motivate myself, I've made this list of things I want to do or experience in my dreams -- lucid or not. I'll be adding to it as I come up with more ideas, but this is plenty to get me started.

Adventures

[ ]Travel through an enchanted forest
[ ]Go on a treasure hunt
[ ]Live out my own fairy tale
[ ]Become a Jedi

Fictional Places

[ ]Hogwarts
[ ]Hogsmeade
[ ]Asgard (Marvel)
[ ]Lothlorien
[ ]Rivendell
[ ]Cloud Cuckoo Land


Mythological Places

[ ]Asgard
[ ]Camelot
[ ]Atlantis
[ ]Lemuria
[ ]Alfheim
[ ]The Garden of Eden
[ ]Hyperborea
[ ]Nysa
[ ]Celtic Otherworld


Magical Creatures

[ ]Mermaid
[ ]Dragon
[ ]Fairies
[ ]Phoenix
[ ]Elves


Deities and Mythological Beings

Let's see who shows up


Dead VIPs

[ ]Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
[ ]Edgar Allen Poe
[ ]Vincent Van Gogh
[ ]William Shakespeare
[ ]J.R.R. Tolkien
[ ]Carl Jung
[ ]Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Fictional Characters to F***

[ ]Anakin Skywalker
[ ]Loki
[ ]Thor
[ ]Draco Malfoy
[ ]Thranduil



Creativity

[ ]Meet my muse
[ ]Meet my spirit acting mentor
[ ]Get inspiration for novels or screenplays


Spiritual

[ ]Dream up my own castle on the astral plane
[ ]Find/make/receive magical items
[ ]Meet my dream or spirit guide
[ ]Discover one or more of my power animals
[ ]Learn which crystals or stones are most beneficial for me to work with IWL

Dream of past lives

Dream #1

Time period: ~30 B.C
Location: Rome
Age: Unknown, probably post-puberty due to height POV compared to others
Gender: Unknown
Appearance: Unknown
Details: I was amongst the crowd witnessing Cleopatra's surviving children being paraded around Rome. (Prior to this dream, I hadn't known Cleopatra had had any surviving children.)

Two fragments and a dreamlet that I can't be bothered to write down here as they're already in my Dreamkeeper app.

Fragment: My aunt and uncle came over, and my uncle had some kind of task for me to do. It was really arduous and I didn't want to do it, but I would have felt bad saying no because I don't see him often.

Dream 1 (not sure if pre or post-WBTB): I was at what appeared to be the church, but with the aisles divided by walls. Only the front area (where the altar would have been, but wasn't) was open. There were a bunch of girls in their mid or late teens that were going to take part in some ceremony. I was just kind of wandering around aimlessly, I think.

Then I went to the back of the church, where there was something (a TV) through which I learned that K and W had been on a stupid reality show and they were talking about the results and how their relationship had improved so greatly. They didn't appear as themselves, though, but as some kind of puppets or cartoon characters. I'm sure at least one was a lion.


Fragment: I got a negative feedback on eBay and was worried that no one would buy from my shop anymore.

Fragment 1: I was very pleased about some crystals I got that worked extremely well, with obvious results. I think I got them from Judy Hall (author of a few crystal books I own IWL).

Interestingly, I had placed a double-terminated quartz I had once dug up in Arkansas under my pillow after reading that those aid in dreaming, and ended up having more dream/fragment recall than ever. I've slept with various other crystals over the years to no effect. Hmm.

Fragment 2: I was cutting/texturizing the ends of my hair, not even looking into the mirror, just grabbing the ends and snipping little triangles.

Fragment 3: I found out that Merlin was going to continue. It wasn't even going to be a sequel picking up where the finale left off, but stuff that happened between Arthur's death and that shot of Merlin in present times.

Watched the season finale on Syfy last Friday and was very disappointed in it as well as about the series coming to an end.

Dream 1: I was at a place that was a cross between a warehouse, a grade school, and a thrift store (IDK!). I had to help organize stuff and was annoyed about it. There was a guy who seemed around my age who owned or ran the place. I also passed by some schoolgirls while carrying stuff.

Dream 2 (post WBTB): I was sharing a dorm or hotel room with two other girls. It seemed like a school setting, and I don't know where the other girls went, but I was preparing for my upcoming audition.

The place was really cluttered. Still, I thought I should hang up my coat in the wardrobe. On my way, I passed a closet and something inside it moved. I concluded that I was being haunted.

I stopped dead in my tracks because between the wardrobe and the closet I had just passed was a mirror. I've heard many stories throughout my life of people seeing scary figures -- or even looking demonic themselves -- when gazing into the mirror, so I was afraid. But I didn't want to let my fears get the best of me and I also remembered that finding a mirror in my dream and describing my reflection was one of the TOTMs, so I proceeded boldly.

I stopped to look into the mirror, except now it looked like a somewhat distorted 50s style television. At first I got kind of scared because there was something definitely wrong with my left eye. I looked closer and realized that it was swollen (though it didn't look like a real swollen eye would). I figured it was related to the discomfort I've been feeling there due to my recent migraine.

While I was not aware of dreaming in that last dream, my thought processes before looking in the "mirror" resembled my waking thoughts more than the majority of my dreams do. Usually when I make decisions in dreams, it doesn't involve a drawn-out and coherent thought process. The summoning of will and courage in a dream is also something I don't remember experiencing in a dream before. Then again, I was terrible at recall until this year and especially these past two weeks, so maybe I'm just not familiar enough with my dreams.

Also, that last dream is my first successful dream incubation Wish it had been a more pleasant experience, though.

Dream 1: I was at a party. I saw myself from behind, and I had some sort of spiral headdress made of diamonds. I was carrying a small steel suitcase with stolen jewels to sell to the (wealthy) people at this party. Then I remembered that Gab had also described a dream like this (not true) and felt like I was a dream copycat.

Dream 2: My dad left me at grandma's house (I think my dream self was a kid). I was aware that it was bigger/had more rooms than it should. I was anxiously looking for grandma (because I was scared?). Uncle T. was in one of the rooms I walked into, and he was angry that I had walked in without knocking. He was sitting at a computer, so I assumed he'd been looking at something naughty. (My dream self seemed my current again.)

Finally I found grandma. She'd been in bed, in the first room I'd checked. I just hadn't seen her.

Next I'm in the kitchen of grandma's house with some family members (not sure who.) My mom brought in two cakes, I assumed she wanted to buy one for a special occasion, and we were testing. I think I did something very clumsy with it, like cutting it wrong, and people were annoyed with me, so I decided to have ice cream. (Saw I messy looking cake at my cousin's IWL yesterday.)

Justin Timberlake was there (mentioned a movie he'd starred in to my sister IWL last night), and he'd just made some ice cream on a stick. It was huge, pink (don't know the flavor), and dipped in chocolate (and nuts?) I started to eat the ice cream over the sink and a large chunk of it broke off (had a similar issue IWL yesterday) and fell into the sink. I apologized to JT and he said it was okay.

Fragment: Meeting the director from my upcoming audition. (She emailed me a reminder about the audition shortly before I went to sleep.)

Dream

I was at what was supposed to be a college campus but didn't look like one. It was nighttime. There was going to be a football game. I met a girl and two guys and we ate together. I thought one of the guys was kinda hot. The girl voiced my thoughts exactly. Then the hot guy left, and as he was leaving I said, "Nice to meet you."

The girl seemed annoyed that I had acknowledged him but not her. I meant to say the same to her before she departed a few second later, but somehow didn't get the chance.


Did my WBTB after this and couldn't fall back asleep because of allergies. Did catch a few HHs, though.

My sister was getting ready to leave to go back to college, and everyone in the family was complaining about her for some reason (not that she was going, but random stuff).

My Grandma was in this dream. I think she might have given me something?

There was a calendar on the wall with original artwork of cartoon characters that don't really exist in WL. I looked through about four pages. The one that was displayed had the character's name where the month would be. I don't remember it but I know it contained the name Socrates or was some derivative of it. It was a very colorful drawing and I think the character was some kind of bird...

E (a girl I once worked with) arrived at some point, and we hugged as if we'd once been best friends. (We were in good terms but didn't hang out. I did hug her IWL when accepting an award.)

Fragment 1:

I realized that my hair has gotten a lot lighter and was happy it had happened so quickly. (I've been coloring my hair with semi-permanent color for almost a year, and now I've stopped an am using clarifying shampoo to get it out quicker.)

Fragment 2:

I was boiling water in the electric kettle, when it turned into a huge pot with bits of algae floating in the water. (Also influenced by daily life. Before bed I noticed some mineral buildup in the electric kettle that I need to clean out.)

I've decided to stick with one bedtime routine and combination of techniques for the entirety of June. Last night was night one.

I ended up going to bed an hour later than I outlined in my routine. Less than an hour after that, I woke up from one of those dreams I've been having all the time lately, where I'm trying to yell at someone and my voice just isn't coming out. This time it was my sister, which is a first.

After that, I lay awake for hours. It didn't help that I had to go to the bathroom every ten minutes.

Throughout the night, however, I remained aware of a lot of auditory and visual HHs. Many more than is normal for me.

I also remember that some point I was having a dream or detailed HH, and I thought about doing an RC, but I was afraid it wouldn't work. Something along those lines, anyway.

So it seems that, at the very least, my will to become lucid has been imprinted on my subconscious; I think that as long as I am disciplined with my routine, this is going to be a very interesting month indeed. And, hopefully, as the excitement fades just a little I'll actually be able to sleep.

It was a long night and I kept waking up periodically and remembering fragments of dreams. They were too vague to be worth writing down, though, and I ended up forgetting most of them.

Only Fragmet I remember:

I was in Arkansas with my family. There were quartz crystal points lying on the ground and we were picking them up. They were all clean, unlike the ones you dig up from the mines.


Dream in the morning:

I was seated in a large building, I'm guessing as a member of the audience. My sister was sitting to my left. I had my iPad and was looking at everything through the camera view. At first I saw that there were what looked like thousands of people in auditorium seating. I think there was some sort of graduation ceremony, and a small group of people sitting in one corner were dressed in green dinosaur suits. They were picking up their awards or diplomas or whatever.

The next time I looked around the space, however, it was more like a library than an auditorium. A gorgeous, ornate library like one would expect to see in a royal palace or the Vatican. The atmosphere also changed from what had seemed to be educational to a more political one.

I was watching Peanuts on my iPad. Snoopy and Woodstock were leaving the house by sitting on plants that would stretch out their leaves to get them out the door. Woodstock's plant didn't stretch nearly far enough and he fell. He was starting to try again, with the plant closer to the door this time, when from behind him, Snoopy's plant grew a very long leaf and Snoopy was able to get out of the house (no idea why they couldn't just walk out!)

A Polish man who looked to be about 50 sat down in the seat to my right. He asked if it was alright if he lit his cigarette. I don't like smoke, and also didn't think it was legal for him to smoke there, but it seemed easier to just say he could. My sister appeared annoyed that I'd let him smoke next to us.

Next I was in a smaller group of people and the same guy joined the group. Apparently he was somebody important.


Note: this is the third time in two weeks I've dreamt of dino suits. First it was my dad, then my parrot, and now these strangers. Weird.

My mom and uncle were making black currant wine, but the black currants looked more like blackberry colored pomegranates. At one point I saw their juice running down my hands.

This is the first time I've noticed my own hands in a dream, which is one of my chosen RCs.