LucidLex

NON-LUCID DREAM LUCID

This is my first dream I recorded in my DJ.

I woke up and started writing in my journal while still half asleep. I think because I was still half asleep I could easily think back to the different parts of my dream. I was actually writing while my eyes were closed for a bit, that's how semi asleep I was.

Was really cool how much of my dream i remembered compared to normal simply by making notes about it as I woke up.

I was on a school bus which had a big flatscreen TV in it. On it was playing some kind of monkey documentary. I really didn't want to watch it at first but then i started to really get in to it.

Next thing I was inside the documentary, very high up in a huge tree. The tree was like Enid Blyton's Magic Faraway Tree - it had a magical feel to it and I felt happy to be there. Was kind of like the tree's in Avatar too.

Further down the tree I saw two orange monkeys/orangutan's doing an extremely complex dance that involved mutiple levels in the tree. I was impressed. Then they proceeded to have mate...

I'm now in a house, similar to the Cullen's house in twilight. I'm inside with some people and we seem to be hiding from something. Then i'm outside and a creature attacks me. It looks like the funny flying thing from The Neverending Story, except it's face is black. I don't really see it's body. It kind of bites me on the shoulder or arm but it doesn't have teeth.

I wake up in a hospital, everything is kind of blurry and I try say something but can't really. My mom is there and she's worried. I drift out of consciousness again.

I wake up again and feel like something is off. I'm not quite sure what it is... I just feel strange and like i'm not functioning properly. I get up and stride along confidently but there's a kind of entourage of people following me. I'm irreverent to it though, I kind of feel like Vinnie Chase in Entourage, like it's normal to have that attention. I notice that people are kind of looking at me worriedly though.

I click, and ask my mom if I have brain damage. She's upset and explain that after i hit my head and was taken to hospital the doctors found a tumor on my spine and operated on it. I'm not sure what this all means and don't know what the ramifications of it are.

I then find out I had been a social recluse after my incident with the animal attack. I've clearly lost my memory of this and have become a different person after the operation, maybe had a personality change.

This relates to the book I'm reading at the moment, Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, where the protagonist is a brilliant professor who loses his mind and is institutionalized, only to emerge with a new personality and no recollection of his former I dentity. It also has parallels to Bruce Wayne in the Dark Knight Rises. He is a broken recluse at the start of the movie and has no hope or will to live.

It looks as though nobody believed me about the mysterious animal attack and everyone thought I had gone crazy. So I became reclusive and spent all my time writing obsessively about the beast i'd encounted. The whole situation was kind of mysterious and it appeared as though there might be something strange going on.

Later a nurse hides me out of site while doctors talk about me. I can't really understand what they're talking about but i get the big picture - what happened with me was a coverup of some sorts. There were people who didn't want the story to get out, and so something had been done to me.

I felt an overwhelming sense of victimization. What had been done to me was not right. Luckily there was a nurse with big boobs who gave me a hug... This seemed to cheer me up.

What was interesting about this dream was the vivid senses that accompanied it. I really got a feeling that I was in some mystery story. And the confusion felt very real, as well as the feeling of having lost my identity after the surgery and my mental functioning being different. It wasn't quite like I was more stupid... It was more like i'd lost a part of me that was holding me back, like my EGO. I felt almost like the guy in Limitless, like i'd tapped into a higher level of consciousness or something.

Also, the feeling of being in the magical tree was awesome.

I also think I may have almost become lucid when i woke up and felt something was off. I just couldn't quite get what it was.