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    Stockholm syndrome

    by , 06-10-2013 at 09:39 PM (3154 Views)
    Total sleep time: 9 hrs

    Dream quality and recall: I continue to be very sleepy, although recall today was a bit better.

    WBTB, snooze and recall: Decided against WBTB (lazy), but set the final alarm for a bit earlier. I had what I thought was an interesting dream in the last 30 mins of sleep so kept on hitting the snooze button, and tried to go back there to continue with the story. That messed up my recall a bit, but I still enjoyed it.

    Dream1: We are on the street and a friend of mine says something that irritates me. It hit her with a NG magazine. DCs around me stare at me with disapproval. They also think I am a man hitting a woman. A girl from India comes and I begin explaining myself to her.

    She starts giving my friend some creepy advice and then continues to say that "you (not sure who she is addressing) should do some lucid meditation, as one learns by leaps and bounds"

    "Red and cinnamon are after all two of many (40?) hues....of the penumbra"???

    This dream was really cool, but bf was snoring so loudly, I just couldn't hold on to it for more info.

    Dream2: A class meeting, girls only this time, all the usual classmates that are DS, but instead of realizing this is a dream I engage in nonsense conversations. One of the classmates is married to a guy that has to do with chicken production and I comment on some movies I have seem about that. Another female friend of mine has a a girlfriend and buys her some lemonade. I feel jealous.

    Dream 3(snooze fragmented and mini-Ld):

    I am flying over the street and try to avoid a dangerous individual. Other DCs start running very fast when they are close to him.

    I am sitting on a table, looking at some food and want to rescue a burrito from ending up in the trash. This guy acts very agressively and does not allow me to get my burrito. I am forced to go with him. (Snooze)

    He is dangerous and most likely has killed someone, and the police is after him. Despite all that, I feel some sympathy towards him and we are friends. He wants us to go to his apartment. I have some alarming thoughts of why am I going to his place, and what are we going to do there, but dismiss them. We reach the street where he lives. I suspect undercover cops have parked in front of the place. Doesn't he know that his apartment is the first place the cops will look for him? He sees the lights of his place are on, so we go back. (Snooze)

    He decides to highjack a bus so that we can drive to my place. I really don't want us to go there. I am also worried that he is a reckless driver, so go to the back seat. (Snooze)

    I am in the bus/car with him and am looking for my burrito, but it seems like I have changed clothes, have a different handbag and the burrito is gone. I take some time to look around, knowing that this is a dream. The story in my mind lasted pretty long and I find it really cool. I think about reporting this dream and contemplate about my feelings for this guy, I conclude I have the Stockholm syndrome...

    I wake up

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    Progress with this months goals (as of this morning):

    - Do 100 RCs (6/100) <<<<<<Terrible!
    - notice real life DS 100 times and RC (4/100)
    - 10 proper WBTB attempts -> days (3/10)
    - 10 morning RCs (1/10)
    - 2 proper WILD attempts (0/2)
    - task flexibility
    - journal flexibility

    LDs: 5 (official count)
    micro-lds: 1 (not counted)
    suspicious events: 1 (not counted)

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    Updated 06-10-2013 at 09:45 PM by 61764

    Categories
    lucid , non-lucid , dream fragment , side notes

    Comments

    1. Highlander's Avatar
      I bet that crazy guy ate your burrito - do you feel sorry for him now?

      Congrats on the dreams BTW.
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    2. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Your DEILD alarms actually created quite an interesting little series of NLDs even before you became lucid. That continuity... how typical is that for non-lucids that happen during alarms?

      The state of play between you and the vaguely dangerous criminal-ish friend was tense and kind of gripping. I was, however, sad that things did not work out between you and the Dream Burrito. Congratulations on getting lucid there at the end. You actually seemed quite contemplative and sharp there at the end, diagnosing yourself with Stockholm Syndrome. Maybe I need some DEILD alarms to add back some missing IQ points.
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    3. NyxCC's Avatar
      @ Highlander - most likely he did.

      @ CL I associate the sharpness of mind with me being very close to waking up. This does make sense, our brain needs to be alert so that we have LDs, but if it is too alert REM ends.

      The continuity of dreams like this via snooze does happen from time to time, mostly non-lds, where I either just want to sleep and DEI NLD back or I can decide the plot is interesting and have the desire to continue with it. Sometimes it is successful. The DC criminal wasn't quite the same guy since the beginning, and I think everytime I came back I subconsciously made him more likable. That or the Stockholm syndrome.
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    4. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Heh, I like the "DEI NLD" term. It's cool that you can willfully continue the existing dream like that. I guess it makes a certain sense that if you're trying to DEILD back in by imagining the dream that you just woke up from that if lucidity happens to slip before you transition back in, you could still incubate just the same.

      You thought you made him more likeable each time... until that fateful moment when as soon as your back was turned, he wolfed down your burrito. That bastard.
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