Exploring My Imagination

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 :/

February 5, 2012
I had a pretty vivid dream last night, although not the most vivid one I ever have had. Strange thing is I saw a building in it that I believe I have seen in previous dreams Possible dream sign? Maybe....

1) There is a substitute in History class and he tells us that our teacher ordered us to get a packet of worksheets done by the end of class. I look at the board where she usually writes down our homework and realize that I haven't done the homework that was due that day- so I start it. I can recall sitting at my desk and doing it as descretely as possible so our sub doesn't notice. I think he was watching me with a disapproving glare but didn't say anything. Everyone begins to split into partners and so I sit down with my friend Abigail. We begin our packet and I remember the question being "what are the names of the four slaves?" or something similar. My dream switches to a new scene of a family of slaves in a wooden pen (the whole slave thing is relevant to what we have been learning in school on RL). The whole thing is fuzzy but I can remember writing down their names on the paper. The man's name started with a T but I can't remember what it was. I think the dream went back to the classroom where I was doing a few more questions and then finally switched back to the slave scene. This time the man's name wasn't the one that started with a T, but Olaudah Equiano, a famous slave that we had learned about in RL. They are still in the wooden cage-thing when someone (possible me) goes to their prison and tells them that she will help free them. She orders them to do something but I forget what it was. Anyway, after they do what she tells them she comes back and breaks wood off of the side so they can step out. They are all happy and thanking her but she warns them that they have to move quickly and get to this diner to meet someone. All of them start to move out and crouch next to a building, except for Olaudah. He gets too excited and says he is going to run across the feild to get there. She warns him but he takes no notice and starts to sprint. Everyone is worried but miraculously he makes it across without a scratch. He runs into the diner (this is the building that I have seen in my dreams before) and starts to skip around all happy. He is all of a sudden in a nice suit and runs down the isles to get to the woman they are supposed to meet. I remember wondering why no one did anything when he saw him. When he reached the booth he sat down and started talking animatedly to the woman about how he's never been so clean. They chat a little more about stuff I cant't remember. Then I wake up.

2) My second dream was about me looking on my iPad at my email to see if my teacher had emailed me back about something. I remember noticing that she had replied- but I don't know if I replied back. I wouldn't have remembered if I hadn't checked my email when I got up

February 4, 2012
I had a really long, vivid dream last night. Once again it took place at night with the orangy-red skies. I am fairly certain that it is a dream sign now because I can recall about 10 different dreams that have been like that. Here's my dream:

My dream was about this girl who goes to this city looking for her father. It's kind of like that show the amazing race because she is being sent to different places to try and find him. In the beginning, she is walking around, wondering when she is going to get a call telling her where to go. She's waiting- and I can't remember if the TV people told her to or she decides to go herself, but she ends up at this harbor where a bunch of people are on a dock, listening to a man talking. He is telling the crowd about this fishing submarine he has. It is used to catch these giant fish (he had a name for them but I can't remember what it was). He's explaining how his submarine works and asks if anyone wants to test it by pushing down on the front. She is picked and tries, but the submarine doesn't move. The man calls her a weakling and everyone leaves her all alone on the dock. She is sitting sadly on the dock looking around when she gets a call. I think it's her mom telling her that the fisherman is her father. I believe that sometime earlier in the night I had more of a story with her and her mom, but I forgot. Anyway, she gets up to go look for the man. While she is walking she plans to go up to him and tell him she is his daughter, but stumbles upon a large crowd gathered by the beach. They are watching this land mass near the heart of the city- right next to where a giant ship is floating in the water. After a few seconds these red, firework-like things shoot up into the air, but the strange thing is they don't explode. Immediately the girl (me?) gets the feeling that something is very wrong. She turns around and some guy says something like "pretty fireworks." Not two seconds later, when the third firework rises, she suddenly hears a woman's voice laughing menacingly. The voice says "watch this" and one of the fireworks turns and, like a missile, rams into the ship and blows it up. The girl turns and runs back to the pier so she can warn her father. This is when my dream starts to change. It zooms in towards the heart of the city where a cartoon Godzilla is lurking behind a building. The missiles start to shoot at him and the dream becomes more of a cartoon. Now Godzilla is paper being held by Spongebob Sqaurepants, and the voice is now the voice of Plankton. Godzilla gets hit with the missiles until he turns into a small, square piece of paper. Spongebob begins to read what he wrote to Mrs. Puffs class out loud, and it is so beautiful that it makes her cry. She asks him to read another, and then I wake up

February 3, 2012
I think I had a couple of dreams last night. One had something to do with baseball. Sadly, I can't remember any details

February 2, 2012
I had another really vivid dream! It wasn't lucid but it's a good sign- my dream recall is getting better . I have noticed that in a lot of my dreams the whole thing took place at night and the sky is a kind of dark orangy-red color. Here's my dream:

It took place at my school- I am with two of my good friends and we were on our way to science class. As we are leaving we hear the bell and realize that we are late. We decided to take an alternative route and somehow I ended up on the fourth floor (my school has three floors). My teacher has some sort of secret room there and I walk in and take a seat (I don't know where my other two friends went, but they are gone). There are a bunch of upper classmen and a couple of other girls that I know in my grade- one I am friends with and one I don't really talk to much. The details are pretty fuzzy after I sit down but I can recall my science teacher turning on some music. People start arguing back and forth to each other, debating which movie theatre the music comes from. Apparently it came from the IMAX theatre. My dream then skips to a new scene where I am sitting in the IMAX theatre and the music that was in my science teacher's room is playing from the theatre speakers. As the movie begins wind starts to blow and sand that was on the walls gets blown away (?). Some random kid that I was sitting next to begins to tell me that the sand is a kind of special thing because some little boy had noticed it before. Soon after he saw the sand his parents passed away- I'm not exactly sure how any of that was relevant. I then wake up because my mom is leaning over my bed looking for the cat

I had a second dream where a friend of mine, who I usually give a ride to school, calls my house. I can hear my mom talking to her on the phone downstairs. I then received a text from her saying she is sick and won't be going to school. I text back "feel better!" and that's all I can remember.

February 1, 2012
When I woke up this morning I still couldn't remember any dreams . I think I might be trying a little too hard. I'm going to try and just sleep regularly and see what happens.

** I was on my iPad today just talking with my brother and I remembered something. It's not much but I think that sometime in the past few days I had a lucid dream, but forgot it when I woke up. I remember the color orange- it was nighttime. Part of it took place in my neighborhood, others in a field (maybe). I might have flown too... I really hope I have another and cant believe I forgot!!!

January 31, 2012
You might have noticed that dates on my entries don't match up with the actual date- that is because I am posting these out of entries I already wrote in my dream journal I keep next to my bed. Just in case anyone was wondering about that

I couldn't remember anything from last night . I haven't had great dream recall since that dream I had on the third night, but I am still trying as hard as I can! I have decided to try to keep the LD attempts down to a minimum during the week because waking up at 3 O' clock every morning doesn't help when your trying to pay attention in class.

January 30, 2012
I didn't remember a lot when I woke up so this entry is very small. I have been thinking about possible dream signs and noticed that in a couple of them there have been loud sirens. I don't know if this is a dream sign so I'll have to see as time goes on.

What I can remember:

I am in my room (which in real life I had recently cleaned) and I am changing my outfit. As I put my clothes on the ground I notice that my room is a lot messier than usual and I don't know why.

The dream fades after that. I'm guessing that part of the reason this dream was hard to remember is because it didn't have a lot in it that would give away the fact it was a dream.