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    The Persistence of Dreams

    Just to start off. I'm a fairly 'new' LDer. I say that loosely, as for the past few months I have began my journey into inducing lucid dreams on a (hopefully) daily basis. I have however, not followed a lot of the techniques into forming habits of becoming aware in the dream.

    I have only achieved lucidity once and only once. I have had many times where while dreaming I have the thought/sensation of "This is definitely a dream..." but just like you're watching a movie, I ended up taking a backseat and watched my dream like you would a movie at a theater. As this is my only experience with LDing, I will describe the fragment. As it is only a fragment because it lasted only a few seconds:
    I was climbing down some sort of ladder in space. As I was climbing down, I had looked down at the earth and around my surroundings and said "This is definitely not possible, and I am definitely dreaming." As soon as I uttered that, I fell off the ladder with space and my surroundings shattering like glass. Then I woke up.

    The following will be updated as I go along in my journey

    Goals: (Key = [-] means ongoing, [] means easily obtainable)
    to obtain lucidity within my dream []
    to be able to control my dreams []
    to be able to understand my dreams at a deeper understanding [-]
    to help my own artistic progress and path. To be able to learn new styles within my dream and transfer the knowledge/skills to waking life []
    To be able to paint my dreams and moments. The best way to record.. []
    To figure out who the mystery woman in my dreams []
    To figure out my dream guide, and just dream people related to me []
    To discover my 'inner' self, being, person. To figure out who I am in my subconscious mind as compared to my conscious, waking mind. [-]
    To ultimately, have fun! [-]

    People who I've come in contact with in the dreamscape who I have not seen in waking life/do not know:
    [i]Mystery woman... I know what she looks like, though I'm not sure I want to set in stone all of her features until I've met her more in my dreams. She has medium length brunette hair. Though, it's not dark like mine, but it's not a light brown either. It's very vibrant. It's actually like the perfect middle ground to light brown, and my dark brown hair..She has big, dark eyes. Not brown or hazel though. Almost like the color of the tea I usually drink.. It's a dark reddish brown, but with some light hues. Definitely not hazel, or at least what I define as hazel.. I have also had a very brief dream where we had two kids, and I appeared to be around my 30s (Maybe...).



    Places I've been:
    The tattoo shop: It was the old location only. I have not in my dream world, visited the new location of the shop.
    Houses I have never seen/been too. Not much explanation here...
    Space
    Courthouse/Jail. Only way to really describe it. I was in this place with L.
    My backyard

    Triggers to make note of:
    My sleeve (tattoo) on my right arm is (of course) blurry when I look down at it. As a note to myself, I need to remember to remember this key aspect, as it could trigger lucidity.
    This sums it up really. I will be editing/adding to this frequently.

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      A bundle of dreams from an app on my phone

      by
      Oneirus
      , 07-01-2012 at 04:35 AM (The Persistence of Dreams)
      I'll order these, but I just wanted all of them to be onto one post.

      Date 02/09/2012:

      I was buying weed from my dealer, a decent amount too. When suddenly, cops came from no where. Someone yelled about it, and we all ran. As I made it home, I had heard of the cops looking for me, so I had hid all of my stuff as to not get my mother in trouble. Then the next thing I remember, I'm in the kitchen and this woman is in my backyard around the area that I had hid everything. She started to talk to me as I went up to her, but I don't remember what she was saying or if I even heard her. I grabbed my weed from where I placed it, along with my bowl and walked away with her.


      Date: 02/29/2012

      I was in a college for art. Somehow the topic of tattooing was brought up to me from someone and I mentioned how I was going to become one. Not an 'if' situation. I was very sure of myself.       usually when I say things in waking life like this, I do have a small amount of self-doubt. However, in this particular one, I was extremely confident in myself.

      Date: 03/11/2012
      I was in my house, and my dog freaked out over something and had an accident on the floor.       All I remember. She is almost 13/14 years old, and she's had an accident before in waking life where she had diarrhea.
      Date:06/02/2012

      This is deja vu. I had a dream of me playing a game... More of a series of dreams about a year ago. I had moved out I think and I had a girlfriend... I can't remember her name or what she looked like though. I remember the dream feeling very significant and I felt like my life was starting a path that would lead me afloat(?) till I died...

      Date: 06/29/2012

      I was wearing a hoodie. My sleeve faded but came back when I looked at it. I was in the back of a truck with Trevor.

      I've had other dreams in between a lot of these dates that I sort of remember, but I am going to let this start fresh and only write down everything that I've already written down/will write down as I continue.
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      non-lucid , dream fragment , side notes
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      Meteor 6/30/12

      by
      Oneirus
      , 07-01-2012 at 01:05 AM (The Persistence of Dreams)
      Okay, so this is pretty much copied from my Notepad that I had originally written it up on. It was straight from my memory after I had some time to sort of think about it. There were parts that I vaguely remember, but I chose not to write down because I was unsure whether I truely 'remembered' it as part of the dream. Anyways:

      I was at some repeated party. The same girl who I keep seeing in my dreams
      but having never seen her before in my life was there. At each of these parties, we had
      gotten intimate in some way, I'm not sure how. I remember we kissed a few times, and we had a few deep talks that I don't remember but I felt extremely connected with this person. I was on a couch in a room, she was on the other side and I was in deep thought about
      her and her motives (I think, or I was somehow just out of it or something). Her friends started quizzing me on stuff. Started to ask me what all I have done.. , someone said I was just "really quiet"
      The girl kept looking over at me, in a shy kind of manner but also concerned. I had gone out for a smoke
      (I thought I quit cigarettes?) and she had gotten up too and said something.... what was it? ...I don't remember right now, but
      I told her to join me outside. So we went outside, down the porch and some stairs and all of a sudden there is
      Police cars, helicopters, fire fighters... Apparently a meteor or something fell from the sky and had struck some tower that was going to spread radiation (Radiation causes cancer was somewhat mentioned..) to the surrounding areas. I looked up at the sky, and she grabbed my hand
      Our fingers interlocked, and I had this feeling of warmth, of love, of like I had known her forever and that she was 'the one'...
      A big piece of debri had broken off somehow and slung toward us. A second later she was crunched up between two pieces. I had screamed "No!" and I had moved the big piece off of her. She was actually unscathed, because of how the debri was shaped somehow...
      I told her I would never let her go...


      I still don't really know who this chick is and I've seen her in a good handful of dreams. I've NEVER seen her in my waking life, period. While I've read that your brain remembers people that you normally don't on a subconscious level, and that entities/people in your dream can be a big jumble of people from your subconscious... I do not feel this is the case. I know without a shadow of a doubt that I have never seen anyone like this person.

      Updated 07-14-2012 at 04:16 PM by 56194

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