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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.

    1. No Pants!

      by , 07-03-2012 at 12:57 PM (The Persistence of Dreams)
      07/03/2012

      The shop was in some random place, almost seemed like a church or inside a Mall. D was staying a bit late after work and I had stopped by. I had decided to stay around until he had left the shop. He had greeted me, and he was waiting on G to come pick him up. He was dressed in a leather jacket and had some sunglasses on, and while he was waiting on her, he sat down with me and decided to talk. I (think) I had talked to him about him taking me on as an apprentice. While we were talking however, some other people started showing up, and just being assholes. One guy had punched this other kid in the face, and some other stuff. Then I had gone inside some other room with him, while he was waiting outside. I don't know what I was doing in this room, I could have been drawing, or cutting something. However, there was Billy (Someone I had worked with previously, I don't know him that well though), and a few girls and such around the room talking and doing their own thing. This one guy who was sort of built and seemed to be the head of the 'gang' that was causing the annoyances around the area decided to start messing with D. Taking his sunglasses and putting them on, then saying some weird names. D just looked at him with an evil eye and while the guy was egging him on, I had made a smart comment (Something like, you might not want to do that or something) and this random guy beside me started trash talking me. Said something about my facial hair not being grown in all the way and shit, while he was perfectly clean shaven. (This is when Billy appeared) So I politely, but in a smart matter said "Well this is a 4 day growth, how well can you get a beard started?" The guy said it was bullshit and there was no way I had that much facial hair within 4 days, which is when I turned to Billy who also has a lot of facial hair and it grows in pretty fast as well. I had asked him if it was possible and how fast his current facial hair had grown in. He also claimed 4 days, and smiled a big smile. D did end up knocking the dude who was messing with him in the Jaw.

      After leaving the shop and all, I had suddenly appeared in a car on the way to some factory or something. It was by a KFC and a lot of people were harvesting trash and such. While I was in the car, a guy who was named Louis was talking with his wife up a ways, but I could hear them faintly. She had driven off, and he had a baby in his arms. He was walking toward me. When he had gotten to the car, he had asked me if I could watch his baby for him while he went to go talk to his boss about taking the day off and such (something about his wife and baby drama). I said sure, and he had placed it into the seat next to me. The baby was caramel colored and had dreadlocks, which was quite strange because it only appeared to be a few months old, or even a year. So as I'm watching this child and tickling it, I realize I don't have pants (It could be because I had removed them in waking life before going to sleep...) So I cranked up the truck and had driven off with the baby to my house to get some pants. As I had made it home, my house was quite different than the one I was living in. I had woken up in my bed (in the dream, false awakening maybe?) next to the mystery woman. She and my mother (who appeared in her late 60s or so...) started asking me why the hell I had a baby in the truck and why I didn't bring him inside. I had said that I forgot I even brought a baby with me, and all that stuff. The mystery woman started saying things in Spanish and English (was hard to follow, but I seemed to understand... Also, the only way I'll put this side note, is that I had a very 'nice' feeling to hearing the Spanglish to put it mildly). I had told them that I had hurried home to put some pants on because I had woken up earlier to go to work on time. Turns out it was my first time on the job, so I didn't even know where to clock in or anything, so I ended up running back home and getting some pants. I had again left for work after the mystery woman getting me some pants and went to let Louis know the baby is at my house until he gets off of work because he will need his job in order to support the baby. Then I had woken up.

      Updated 07-24-2012 at 03:01 AM by 56194

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