LukeSid

Like I said on my first return message "this time I'm not going to push too hard" I'm maybe too old to take that route. I know all the basics so I'm easing myself back into the regime of conditioning.After the first rush of dream recall things quietened down considerably...whole nights with virtually nothing, but that's OK.

Ever since I first read about ADA I knew that was the route for me to go. I'm pretty spiritual anyway and something KingYoshi said really chimes with me. Basically, if you achieve mindfullness...awareness...you're likely to KNOW you're in a dream and all the rest of the aids (dream signs, mantras etc) follow on from that. That's the route I'm taking

What I needed was an app to jog my memory throughout the day. As you know, it's so easy to start the day determined to frequently contemplate dream stuff, then realize that many hours have gone by without doing anything. What if I had an app, something to remind me? Well, I've got one and so far it works well.

It's within me and probably drives many people to distraction but, at the moment it's my friend...I have tinnitus. It was caused by a head injury...it's a combined high-pitched whistle and a shushing noise. It's always there in the background and probably always will be. I'm lucky that I've always been able to ignore it but now I've moved it up front...and it works

Yesterday it drew me back to dream thoughts on a regular basis...things like recalling what I was doing 5-10-15 minutes earlier, any other sensations I was experiencing, looking around at the World in general and other dream-related thoughts. Also, it may just be a trigger when I'm asleep because I focus on it and remind myself that it's always there.

Fragments and whispers of dreams last night but one epic at aprox 7.45 this morning (the clearest dream I've had so far this time round)

I was apparently on a nuclear submarine - DS - military (although it looked decidedly un-nuclear) We were watching a small pipe out of which water was dribbling and this seemed to be an important part of the escape plan???? It was apparently vital that it didn't overheat. (Ed's take on an overheating nuclear reactor?) The (crew?) were running around all over the place (men and women looked pretty un-military) One was apparently pushing a large grand piano...was he looking to get that to the surface?

I looked at the large "hall" they were milling around in and remarked something like "Aren't nuclear submarines amazing?" There seemed to be pretty coherent conversations going on (unusual in my experience)

Now comes a co-incidence (and I'm really into dream coincidences...it's one of the things that fascinate me about my dream attempts and one of the reasons I love it so)

I wake (forgetting to RC in case I'm still asleep) and walk into the living room where my wife is watching The Poseidon Adventure with the sound off and using subtitles. It's something she recorded weeks ago and is among a raft of other things she still has on the system. I'm not into that kind of film, I've never thought "She's still got that to watch" (there wouldn't be any need to)

Yet the scene of panicking people running through the great "hall" could have come from my dream. What are the chances of her watching that scene as I seemed to be dreaming something very similar (when I'm very certain that it would never have been on my mind and she was at that particular stage of the film and there's no way I could have seen, heard or known she would be?)

Not a sigma 5 scientific coincidence of course but maybe somewhere on the sigma scale and that's the strangeness and beauty of dream research perhaps. Any requests?