Exploring My Imagination

February 20, 2012
YAY!!! I am no longer in my mini dry spell . I recalled 3 dreams and had a lucid dream (successful WILD attempt).

1) I'm hiding behind bushes, looking at the entrance to a large brick building (I think it's a baseball park). I am trying to smuggle in an alien who is hidden away in my backpack, disguised as a teddy bear. I finally decide to go for it and walk out toward the entrance where a guard guy is standing and letting people in. Before I enter he stops me and tells me he has to check my phone before I enter, so I hand it to him. He gives it back but tells me in a very nasty way that if I were to be doing something I shouldn't, bad things will happen. I walked in but I kept coming out for some reason. When I finally go in the room I enter is not the ballpark but an area behind the bleachers in the arena where people sit on mini- bleachers, watching the game on TV. I walk towards the place where my mom is sitting (I suddenly have a bike with me). I set down the bike on the bleachers but my mom then yells at me and tells me to move it. I try to put it in theis small area away rom the people but it is a little too small for my bike. My mother continues to lecture me until I decide to leave. I'm not sure where I put the bike but I end up in this room that looks like the place I used to dance when I was little. I take out the alien dude and talk to him- my objective being to get him to his home planet. There are others of his kind around him. After that I wake up.

2) when I fall apback asleep I have my second dream. I was at this band thing where I play in a large band with other kids from around the state. The conductor leads us into a warm up, I play my clarinet. When we start on the real music I get totally confused, I'm playing horribly and don't know what I'm doing. A friend of mine, who doesn't play an instrument in RL, turns around and tells me something, but I can't hear her. I finally decide to leave because I didn't want to be there. I turn to my friends mom who is sitting next to me, checking in students and giving them passes to leave and such. It takes a while to get her attention. When I do I ask her If I may borrow her phone to call someone so I can leave. She hands it to me and I get up to use the phone in the hallway. When I get out there I run into one of the women who runs the whole and thing and she asks why I am not in there, like I should be. I lie and tell her I'm really tired and don't feel well, so I'm going home. I don't know if she believes me or not but she leaves. I start to walk down the hallway again and run into a friend of mine. We start talking as we walk and I try to call home. When I look down to dial the numbers there is no phone, just a small hair tie. I try to untangle the strings on it because apparently it can be used as a phone, but it doesn't work. I ask my friend if I may use his phone and he agrees. After he hands it to me he leaves. After I used the phone I am walking down the hallway a little more where I run into another person from school- one that I don't really know. We talk for a little bit and sit on the steps near the front of the building. I look into the gymnasium and see the girls basketball team. For some reason they are in there getting their blood drawn . I then got up because I needed to get my instrument and such, but I was reluctant. I didn't want to run into anyone else and answer questions. I figure that If I leave my stuff my friend's mom will bring it home for me. I woke up before I could make a decision.

3) after I woke p and recorded my last dream I figured I would try to WILD. I lay in my bed for a while, just trying to fall asleep. When I realize I am just abou asleep I start to focus on staying alert. I can feel my whole body shaking slightly and eventually I enter the dream. Right away I knew I was lucid. I was on this boat, sailing down a river. I don't remember much but I think I talked to someone. After that I lose my lucidity and the dream continues for a few seconds. I wake up suddenly and go back to sleep. I'm not sure if I tried again but it was my very first lucid!!

4) Me and my family are going to stay at this hotel-resort-thing. When we first arrived it was very snowy and everything was white. We walked in and checked in with the person at the desk. Right away we notice that the hotel is disgusting . I think my cousins joined us a one point and we all went searching for our room. We walk down this hallway but at the end the wall is blown out and our room isn't there. The mother of one of my friend's leads us to the parking lot, saying she found another little place that the hotel set up for the guests. I don't see it at first but when I turn a row of cars I spot it. It looked like a bridge with a bunch of small rooms on top. Me and my family go up. When we reach our room it isn't a room anymore, just our car. There is a lady in front of us who is staying in her car. She says something but I can't recall what it was :/. We get in the car and I sit down. One of my cousins is forced to go to there own car to make room for my brother.

My dream then skips to us driving in our car. It isn't snowy anymore but bright and warm. In front of us are my aunt, uncle, and cousins riding in a golf cart. It is too small for all of them so one of my cousins has to hang on to the outside. Someone said "They're not going to fit!" I look around but don't see anything they won't fit in, so I just assume it is because of the branched on the trees. Before I wake up I think that maybe I missed something and there is a tunnel up ahead- but I don't get to find out in time. After that I wake up.

I am VERY happy I had my first lucid dream!!
I tried out my new dream inducer app last night and clearly it worked extremely well ^.

February 19, 2012
I had a tough time getting to sleep last night and couldn't remember any of my dreams when I woke up :/.

Yesterday I bought the dream inducer app thing that plays binural beats as you fall asleep. A lot of people have said it works great so I think I am going to try it tonight. I attempted last night but I kept getting disturbed as I was falling asleep so I gave up.

February 18, 2012
Still nothing interesting going on- just a dream fragment. I know I had more than that but I just can't quite remember the rest . I also tried a WBTB with a WILD, which almost worked, but when I felt like I was going into a dream the whole thing just faded and it wouldn't work

Fragment: not much, just me doing math for some reason :/

I think the problem I am having might be because of my alarm clock. In my room it sits on this thing that hangs on my wall, kind of like a shelf. Every morning when it goes off I have to sit up and turn it off. I think all this movement is causing me to forget, so I will be sure to place it somewhere else and see how that goes .

February 17, 2012
Dream recall getting no better than previous nights, actually it seems to have gotten worse. I can only remember a dream fragment

It is just a flash of these rocket shoe things, someone is wearing them with jeans. Then it switches to another person wearing this body suit witho the shoes. The shoes are clear and bulky. The body suit was dark blue. Apparently, the suit was made by a friend of mine.

February 16, 2012
My dream recall has been horrible lately it seems like my dreams just keep getting less vivid every day. Anyway I had a short full dream and two dream fragments. Here they are:

1) This dream was like a false awakening again. I 'got up' from a dream and wrote it down in my journal. Too bad when I got up for real I found out that it never happened

2) Fragment: not a lot here but I know it had something to do with a mars rover excavating rocks.

3) Fragment: this was another false awakening but I can't remember much. Just the aspect of waking up. The rest is all fuzzy.

I am determined to get better dream recall! If anyone has tips I would love to hear them

Edit* I remembered something today. I was in class at school talking to my English teacher. At one point she offered me a baked potato that was sitting on her desk because she wasn't going to eat it. O.o

February 15, 2012
Last night was a very lame night. I tried a new method where I write down the days events before I go to bed and it worked, however not how I wanted it to. I remember waking up a few times during the night after some pretty good dreams, but I decided to be stupid and not write them down. All I remembered when I got up this morning were a couple of dream fragments. I will try again tonight and make sure to write the dreams down as soon as I get up.

1) Fragment: This was just a flash of something, not much at all. I can recall dreaming about a fruit cup that someone (or I) was holding. That's it

2) Fragment: It's hard to remember but I think I dreamt about school again. It's very faint so I can't recall any further details.

February 14, 2012
I remembered two full dreams and one dream fragment last night although my two full ones were short and not very vivid, it still counts

1) Dream Fragment- the whole dream took place in the locker room of some football team. I think there was a murder. The coach might have been angry. I can also recall seeing a black bag.

2) My second dream was basically a false awakening, although I as never lucid beforehand. It started with me waking up in my bed and sitting up so I can write something down- maybe a dream. I looked around for a second and the room was dark, so I tried to turn on the lights. However, when I tried to turn the switch they wouldn't turn on. I was confuse as to why that was, and wondered if the lights had gone out. Finally I turned the switch again and after a few seconds the bulb lit up. I should have realized this was a dream because the whole light thing basically screamed "this is not real!" but I guess I'll need a little more practice.

3) My final dream was also short and was cartoon-style. It had to do with Spongebob. Some new employee came and started to work at the Krusty Krab. It later became evident that he was, in fact, a cannibal and was bent on eating everyone. I'm not sure but he might have eaten Spongebob, squid ward, and Mr. Krabs. It then skips to a new scene where the cannibal guy opend the restaurant and it looks different- almost Asian style. The customers have to sit on these platform things that when they were sat on they turned into ovens. Everyone starts roasting, although they are completely oblivious, and the cannibal (and maybe a few friends) start to devour everyone. I then wake up.

February 13, 2012
Pretty good night- much better than last night. I can recall one full dream and one dream fragment.

1) Dream fragment: I was in my room putting on skinny jeans. After that it skips to me in a hallway at my school along with a few people- one of them being my friend. I remember that there were lockers in the hallway, but it was weird because there aren't supposed to be lockers there and they were the lockers from the previous school I was at. I remember sitting by the lockers and noticing my friend seemed mad at me/ wouldn't talk to me. I also recall looking down at my pants and realizing that I had put a pair of normal black pants over the skinny jeans I had on that morning. At one point I think I looked over the lockers out of the window and then some kid comes up and tells me to move because I'm blocking his way. He seems bad but then smiles like he was kidding. That's all I remember.

After that dream I woke up and attempted to WILD. Sadly, I wasn't aware of the time and just when I felt like I was almost relaxed enough my alarm goes off . I turned it off and them fell back asleep for about a half an hour. That is when I had my full dream.

2) It started out with me trying to go somewhere but to get there I would have to go down this narrow dirt road. I was worried that some creeper might come and kidnapp me so I decided to disguise myself as a gross old man. I remember I had a cloak on and walked with a cane, holding a basket in my hands. At one point a car with a man comes near but doesn't attempt anything.
The scene skips to me in my kitchen. I am waiting for something. Soon, my mom walks in as the man I was just seconds ago, but instead of a basket in her hands there is a glass jar. There was something in the jar that I needed, so I asks her to give it to me and I open it. Inside there is this gross, half rotted head submerged in a bunch of brown/yellow liquid. I dump it out and ask her something like "why is this in here?" She tells me she needed to hide the thing I needed and make sure no one tried to take it. She went through a lot to get her hands on it. Once the jar is emptied of the foul contents I reach my hand in and pull out what I need- a small vile made of stone shaped like some sort of animal. Immediately I notice the thing is cracked and that all of the liquid contents have escaped. I get really mad at her and start to panic- because that vile was filled with medicine that I needed in order to live. I ask her for help- maybe I can salvage some from from the liquid I poured out of the jar onto the floor- but she says no. As she stirs some peppers on the stove she tells me to suck it up and that life is not always the way you want it to be. I think I said something like "but I'll die!" but she doesn't care. She goes onto tell me that if she has to deal with her horrible coworkers then I can deal with this. I remember feeling disbelief at her attitude towards the situation. That's when the dream ends and I wake up.

February 12, 2012
Overall, very dissapointing night. I know I woke up and remembered my dreams, at least to an extent. However, when I decided to write them down, I totally blanked! Grrr. So all I have is a couple of ideas that might have been in my dreams, but I'm not sure

- Dark, almost nighttime
- I think my mom was there at one point....
- it took place at my house.. Maybe.

That's it :/. I signed up for the dream contest thing and hopefully my dream recall will get better with practice

February 11, 2012
Finally! An actual dream (not lucid, however). It was much more vivid than the dreams I have been having the past couple of days, so I hope this is a good sign. Here it is:

It starts out in school, me and someone else are talking (it could be my friend, I'm not sure). We are chatting about the buses- something about a problem with them, I am not exactly certain what that problem was. We walk out of the school (I noticed that the school I was in wasn't my actual school, but my middle school). There is one bus in the parking lot, the one we are supposed to go on. I believe at one point one of us points out the weather is bad and that a hurricane is coming.

My dream skips to my house, and this is where things start to get a little strange. It is dark outside, like night. I am talking to someone else, but it is no longer my friend- I actually don't know what it was. It looked something like a cross between a person (both genders ) and a goat... It has no clothes on. We take notice to the weather, and how it is about to start thundering any second. You can sense the lightning in the air. I tell her to come inside because of the lightning, and she starts freaking out- running in circles. I am standing in my doorway trying to coax her in, when all of a sudden she lays one the ground, trembling and crying, like she's trying to hide herself. I wonder what is wrong and look out towards the driveway, where a family is just standing next to their car, staring at her. I realize that she was probably embarrassed (whether it be because of the fact she had no clothes on or was a duel gender goat thing, I have no clue). I finally step out and carry her inside.

The dream then changes to me in side a room upstairs, one that is not actually there in RL. The goat thing isn't there anymore, replaced with a miniaturized version of some guy at my school (with clothes on, thank god). I think we are being filmed, which leads me to think that this whole scene is fake- just part of some school project. I pick up the guy and put him on a dresser, and we start talking. It's a little fuzzy what the topic of our discussion is, but at one point I think I start to notice that I have a very weird family. The scene moves to quickly to a car to show my 'dad' who I say has a question mark face- which is true (not in RL). The guy's facial hair is all twisted and shaved to form a bunch of question marks. It then shows my 'mom' who has these weird bracelets with birds on them, and when she holds her arms out, they fly off. Then I wake up.

I have to say this was a pretty strange dream. I tried to WILD after that, but I ended up just falling back to sleep

EDIT: I think I had another dream too, not very vivid but it's something. I know I have been very interested in Personality Types lately, and I am always wondering what personality types my friends are. I can remember that, in my dream, a guy friend of mine said he was something like an ESTJ, or ENTJ. It was very short and that's basically all I can remember...

February 10, 2012
Last night was a little better than the night before, but still not very good :/ I can recall a couple of minor details:

1) This was the more vivid one. I was in my room sitting in my bed- it was dark. There was a white sheet hanging from my ceiling where a projector was shooting a movie on. I remember thinking: "Wow! This is a great idea if I want to have any of my friends over." I cant remember what movie was playing though...

2)The second is more of a flash of something, and I cant really recall whether it was from last night or the night before. All I can remember is my sister's boyfriend's face- he was over our house for some reason- most likely to see my sister.

February 9, 2012
Last night was pretty dissapointing- I could hardly remember anything :/. It might be because I went to bed a couple of hours later than usual, so hopefully after a good night's sleep tonight, things will look better.

There is a possibility that I could have had a very short dream. Something to do with my alarm clock. But that's all I can recall.

Febuary 8, 2012
I woke up this morning to my alarm clock at around 5:30. I got up to hit snooze and sadly could not remember my dreams after that . However, after I hit the snooze a couple more times I fell asleep, and thankfully I had a pretty good dream- not too vivid but not lame. Here's what I can remember.

It starts out with a scene from the the little mermaid, when Ariel is on the boat with Eric and the evil witch. They are about to get married, like they normally would in the movie, but soon things start to change. I remember at first there were minor differences- enough to make me wonder what was going on (not enough to make me realize I was dreaming though). Such differences were that the boat was not the same, and that Ariel was wearing more guy-like clothing besides her blue dress. As the scene goes on I realize that Ariel's voice has not yet been taken and she can still speak. She tries to warn Eric but Ursula takes her voice away. I think she used Ariel's voice to put Eric into more of a trance so he wouldn't resist, but it doesn't work. Ursula begins to shed her disguise but the strange thing is that it wasn't Ursula under there, but a giant green blob guy. At this point I'm kind of like, "Whaaat?" I believe my brain just dismisses it as some sort of remake/alternative ending to the story. Some details are fuzzy after that but I think something happened to make Ursula (giant blob man?) give up, and she decides to go. Before she/ he leaves, Eric and him have a kind of heart-to-heart discussion. Eric is saying something like, "it was good while it lasted, wasn't it?". I'm guessing the whole moment would have been a lot more touching if it weren't the fact that it was super awkward.

After that, the dream just kind of switches to me sitting in my living room (like it was when I was really little), watching the whole thing on TV. It ends and I wonder why it was so different. I click the guide button on my remote and find that they have been doing remakes of all of the Disney movies, so I decide to watch another. I click on one but a few seconds in I decide better of it and go to look at something else. I finally decide on an anime movie- one that I watched when I as little called Kiki's delivery service.

As I click it my dream starts to shift again, and this time I am in the movie as the girl, Kiki. I am walking around the streets until I come across one of my guy friends and we go to my house. At this point I don't think I am Kiki anymore, just some random anime girl. A man knocks on my door, and I freak out because I don't know why he's there. I then realize he is a friend and welcome him in. He hands me and the other boy cheeseburgers from Subway, and we begin to eat. We have to be careful because the lady I live with is really mean, and if she finds out that they have been in the house, eating cheeseburgers from subway, I'm dead. I remember that we had a nickname for her- the toy car. I'm not exactly sure why that is, but I believe it has something to do with the fact that when she's driving, she crashes into everything. Kind of like when a little kid is playing with cars and makes them crash into things. We talk for a little while, and all of a sudden we hear a large crash- signifying that the lady I live with has just arrived. I get up and make them rush upstairs to hide. On the way up the stairs, the man is sure to grab all of the subway rappers so she doesn't see. For some reason the upstairs isnt anime anymore, but the first floor of my RL house. Once they are all hidden I think that I do a little cleanin until she walks upstairs. She tells me she noticed crumbs on the couch downstairs, and can't believe I would treat her house that way when she takes care of me and always brings me to fancy resturaunts. After that I wake up.

February 7, 2012
I can only recall some dream fragments from last night; none of it was very vivid. However, I do believe my dream recall is improving because instead of just one or two dreams, I could remember three . Let's hope I can continue to improve as the days go by.

1) The first dream is the faintest, because I can't really remember much- just an idea for the most part. I believe it had something to do with me getting a job...

2) The second dream was more vivid and I can recall more details. Towards the beginning I can remember that me and my family are out skydiving. I am standing in this green field watching people come down on their parachutes one by one. One of them was my dad, and although the details are fuzzy, I can remember that when he got up he just collapsed onto the ground. We rush to his aid and suddenly the scene skips to a hospital. It shows my father sitting up on a hospital bed with wires attached to him, dressed in a hospital gown. I think a nurse came in and told us that my father has high blood pressure and that it could be fatal. There is treatment but it is very expensive. I believe that I was crying (maybe not). My father assures us that he will be fine and that we won't have to buy him any medicine, but his expression isn't very convincing. The dream fades after that...

3) My third dream began with me talking to a friend of mine in my school gymnasium. I can't remember what he and I were saying but it might of had something to do with his band. The scene then skips to me in this dim-lit cafe. The walls are dark green and there is a small platform rising from the floor- I am guessing this is where the bands always play. I can remember walking around the hallways opening doors, but the details are fuzzy so I don't know what exactly happened. Maybe I was their manager, walking around doing manager stuff? By the end I think that I am up on stage with my friend and his band, and that we are all singing and performing together. Soon after that I wake up.

February 6, 2012
Overall, a pretty disappointing night . I could only remember one dream when I got up and even that was pretty lame- only a few dream fragments. Anyway, here's what I have:

I can't recall much but I remember it was about the hunger games. I believe that I was Katniss Everdeen and that I was participating in the events. I remember seeing a scene like I was floating above- watching Katniss being carried away by a crowd... Well that's all I can remember :/