Thursday 6/20/13 Last night bed 11pm - 5:40am WBTB 5:40 - 6:20 Nap 6:20-8:30 DR1 2:40am DR2 5:30am This is a weird one. Tons of details. It some kind of a feeling, that I can't identify. I'm watching kids at night. House is huge, one story, lots of rooms. There is one boy and at least one girl. I put them to bed, bud boys bed has sand on it. I know mom won't be happy about me not doing good job. I brush it off. Night is weird. Something happens and girl calls her mom, before she even tells me what's wrong. I feel out of the loop. I think she called on my phone and now I can't find it. Dad comes home and he decides to go get his wife, who is someplace farther away. Then mom is home and I'm about te leave, since they are home now. Can't find my phone and keys. I look everywhere. Dad pulls out wad of money to pay me for babysitting. he gives me one bill, looks like a 20. I tell him that's enough. He gives me another one, this is a 100. Now the first one looks like a 100 too. There are also some coupons in size of the bills. I think he won it all in casino. The dream has some kind of a dark undertone. Like it could all turn really bad really fast, if I was to realize that. Untill I'm clueless, I'm safe. Mom finally finds my phone in a yellow manila envelope. Girl put it there when she called her from the yard. Girl doesn't seem to give a flip about what she caused. I pull out my two bunches of keys and I'm taking of some small key I got from family. I'm returning them. They are surprised. They are asking if I'm not gonna babysit for them any more. I know I have to be carefull with my answer. They seem nice on the surface, but I know they are bad people. Dad looks like he didn't shave in a while and he is drunk and mom looks also disheveled. I carefully tiptoe around the answer. Then I ask them where is the exit. I walk through the door, but it leaves into garage. I try another one, that's not it either. i finally get out through some small door. I realize it's not used frequently, because they usually go through the garage. I find myself in a huge yard. Looks like farm. Dirt ground with some worn out grass. There are a few farm animals. A horse, some goat. I come to another door and behind it is another yard. More farm animals. I know I'm still not safe. Try to containg my panic, so they don't know I'm on to them. I finally get out of there somehow. There were more details to this, like kids rooms, dads valet, how the parents look like. I like this dream because it was detailed, but on the other hand, it was kind of dark for some reason. Ok, now on the the lucid nap. WILD It came on fairly quick. I remembered "oh, so this is what Opheliablue talked about". Not sure what I ment by that, but she was saying IWL that she just feels the dream coming on soon after some motion sensations. So I got the brightened view and as I saw the dream, I got up. I don't think I ever exited like this before. I either wish myself into the dreamscape, or get up when I see my room. This entry was a mix of those two. I'm on a long, sandy beach. There are some holes in the ground going a long way under the sand. They are partially filled with tidal water. i see a tiny seashell and I pick it up. I used to have a hermit crab in a green turbo shell just like that. I put him down. I set my clothes on the ground in some kind of a beach shack. But the water has risen and coming in through the closed doors. I pick up my stuff so it doesn't get even more wet. The dream goes dark and i decide to get to another one by going through a wall. I can't get to the other side, the wall is too thick. So I decide to grap the other side of the wall and push myself through it. I'm finally out. I remember getting up from bed at least 2 times. I walk around a lot, remember thinking what a nice long lucid. I come to the parking lit with all kinds of buses and passenger vans. I decide to go and offer my services. I promised myself not to do this anymore, but I just can't help it. I keep telling myself that I won't wake up this time and it keeps going for a while.
Narcissism and botched summonings ahead. Still, every lucid's fun and this was a good reminder not to be too casual with details in dream control situations! Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid Lucid #111: Vanity at The Doppelganger Waterpark I have a false awakening. Faint morning light filters in through the window. I wonder whether it's too bright to get back to sleep. A bedside clock says that it's 5:00 AM. It seems too bright and too late to have a lucid dream. I remember the micro-lucid from earlier in the morning and feel disappointed that I didn't hit a real one. (I really did have a micro-lucid earlier, as well as an earlier false awakening.) I get up to use the restroom and notice that I'm not in my usual bedroom but rather on the first floor of a building -- a hotel perhaps? I feel like I'm awake, but the bathroom is just... so different. I'm dreaming. As I leave the bathroom, I hear Wife beginning to stir. She's muttering something but I can't make it out. The morning light makes it seem urgent to get started with my goals, so I phase out through an external wall, my head and shoulders passing through a window. I end up in a fenced, grassy yard with a circular stone table surrounded by simple stone benches. My strategy for this dream is to forget the meeting location for now and just try to summon NewArtemis directly. I walk toward the yard's open gate, holding my hand behind me as I go. "[NewArtemis], grab onto my hand." No good. I have the sense that I did it all wrong. Stop asking. I sort of try again but my level of intent is poor and nothing happens. As I exit the yard, I'm distracted from the summon by a mirror hanging on a brick wall to my left. I check my reflection and see that I'm wearing a pair of jeans without a shirt. I vainly check myself out and notice that I'm less in shape than I remember being -- torso a little smoother, face a little puffier. I start worrying that I've let myself slip in waking life and try to remember whether that's true. It suddenly occurs to me that this is probably the most pathetic, narcissistic thing I've ever wasted lucid dream time on in my entire life. I walk further along the grass until I come to a large, packed pool that's being rocked by gentle waves, almost like it's a half-activated water park wave pool. I notice my friend "SC" playing with a young child (too young to be one of his sons). About twelve feet to his right, I see another SC! The doppelganger smiles and gives me a nod of acknowledgment. As I continue along the pool, I see my high school friend "LM". And just as with the other friend, not far from her is another doppelganger. Again, the doppelganger looks my way and smiles. The smile seems genuine rather than threatening so even though I find it a little weird, I'm not too troubled by anything that I'm seeing. The water makes me think of Angel Falls. Okay, new plan: summon Art while on the move and dash to Angel Falls for Task of the Year. My hope is that if I'm very casual about the summon it'll just work. I reach my hand behind me and say, "[NewArtemis], Angel Falls is just up ahead." I feel a hand grasp mine and I look back to confirm that it's Art. But when I do, I see that the hand is sticking straight up out of the water. The geometry of all this strikes me as strange. How is their arm so long that they can still be submerged and grab onto me? As I'm thinking this, the person floats up out of the water, still gripping my hand. She's a complete stranger -- blonde, early 20s, fair-skinned, slightly heavier build. She's wearing a black one-piece swimsuit. "Who are you?" I ask, and her only reply is to half-smile and turn away. I notice that her teeth have a very mild yellow/brownish stain to them. "I'm going to change you into [NewArtemis]. Okay?" I'm not trying to ask permission so much as... explain what's about to happen? There's no reply. I look off to the side to make the transformation easier, but the dream ends before I can take this any further.
Level of Lucidity: 0 Level of Clarity: 5 Level of Realism: 4 (levels based 0-10, 0-5 being low - good 5-10 being great - extreme) I am sitting in my grandparents basement which is now my Uncles living quarters. There's a few other people standing around in the room, they seem to be friends but I can't make out who they are. The room is dark. The television is on. There's an advertisement for a new movie on the TV. One of the friends in the room says that he has some tickets to get to see the movie, about 6 of them. Everyone in the room reacted as if he just said he has a bunch of guns and wants us to sell them, and we're some sort of mafia. The dream gets hazy but we wind up in a car going to a restaurant, and in the car the "mob boss" is telling us that these are VERY rare movie tickets, and that we should make sure not to just sell them for an average movie ticket price, because these tickets are for a movie which isn't out yet, making the price worth 10x what they normally are. The dream skips a bit and now me, and a friend are sitting at a table in a restaurant. It's a nice restaurant, there's waiters wearing nice white shirts and ties carrying black trays with fine wines and foods. The room is dimly lit in a semi-romantic sort of way, and the decoration around us consists of statues, fancy paintings and such. I was watching myself and my friend talking to a lady at the table in third person. I didn't look like myself. I looked like Jason Sudeikis: The lady at the table was trying to bargain with us for the tickets. I told her "No! We won't take ANYTHING less than 300 Euros for two tickets." The lady shook her head and reached forward for an empty plate. She moved it closer to her and then set 150 Euros on the plate. One 100 Euro note, and one 50 Euro note. She then slid it closer to us and raised her eyebrow as if to challenge us. I accepted the challenge and said "You know what.... It's 60,000 Euros now!" She started to get up and reach for her money to leave when my friend sitting next to me dove forward for the money, but it was just out of reach, so he started using his fork to try to hook the plate to pull it towards him. I suddenly felt like I was watching from third person, and was no longer a character in the scene. I started laughing at the ridiculousness of the two guys at the table, it felt like I was watching a good comedy. Then Jason said "Ohhh! I see how this works! You get paid more depending on your rank!" (This of course made no sense.. but dream logic ftw.) Finally my friend got a hold on the money and sat back in his chair as if nothing happened, and he didn't just dive across a fine dining table. The lady looked over to Jason and he sighed and tossed down two tickets. The lady made a "Ahem!" sort of coughing noise, and then reached in her purse, and aimed a small gun at him, she was robbing us for the tickets. Jason sighed again and tossed the other 4 tickets down too. "Oh come on!" - Jason. The dream becomes hazy and I woke up.
This dream started out with the king visiting, and my looking in our home bar for three types of liquor for the king. (We don't have a bar, nor a king in waking life But then the focus shifted, and I was looking for books to sell. I carried many of them to a garage sale to sell. They were very heavy. But once I got there I looked through them one more time, and decided I was not willing to part with most of them after all. And so the dream ends with me carrying my heavy burden back home.
I found some ice cream out on the kitchen counter. I wondered how long it had been out, but it was still cold, and so I took some. I went into the bedroom (which was very dark) with the ice cream. Asked my husband how long had the ice cream been out, but I am already eating it. My husband said a long time. Meanwhile my older son woke up, comes to the bedroom, and grabs the ice cream out of my hand. The dream ended with me clutching my son's hand with all my strength to prevent him from eating the ice cream which has probably gone bad.
Non-Dream Dream Lucid Dream 1-I was at my grandma's house in the family room when my sister mentioned that Dave was coming over. I know he's been dead for 12 years so I became lucid. I looked at a clock on the wall and spun my forefinger clockwise to fast-forward the dream. I made an hour past by in about 7 seconds. Laura said "He's not here yet". I fast-forwarded the dream more. "He'll be here in 10 minutes". More fast-forwarding. "He's in the restroom". Grrrr! More fast-forwarding. "He's still in the restroom". I went to the restroom door and he came out. He looked about the same only about 12 years older. He had long, gray hair. He spit loudly into the trash can. We greeted each other with a hug and he talked some random stuff that I couldn't remember for a couple seconds before the dream ended.
I started out driving from work toward a bar. I was going to meet a man there I know a bit from work, and don't really know and don't really like on some kind of date or happy hour. But I wanted to call it off, and say another woman would attend in my stead (this is a woman I do not know in real life). I did not know the direction to this bar but was driving there any way, though I did not know where I was going. I was desperately trying to use my phone to either get directions to this bar or to call this man to call it off, confused which. In mid dream, my husband showed up and he was now in the driver's seat, and he was telling me that I would not be allowed to use my phone or iPad any more because he needed all our data plan for himself. And while I thought this was harsh, I accepted that I deserved it. I had caused the loss of the election - it was all my fault - I felt profound guilt. In the middle of this discussion though where my husband is saying how I lost all my phone privileges, I interrupt him to say that I now have to use my phone to either look up directions to the bar or to call the man I was going to meet to tell him that I am not coming but another woman is coming instead. Side note: I found the references to my two dreams from June 6th in this dream fascinating. It's like this dream is a continuation and spin off of those dreams: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/joan...te-vote-47125/ http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/joan...m-lucid-47126/
fragment 1: Witness against software working Fragment 2: Upside down trashcan - problem trash would all fall out on floor. Fragment 3: Purpose of studies in higher education to exclude students who are not good enough to know. Frogs make ribbet sound, but that could not be what differentiates frogs at university because it is too easy.
Bedtime: 12:00 Aids: None pre-bed or WBTb, but I did have two cups of peppermint-ginger tea during the day. WBTB: No Recall: Medium Vividness: Low/Medium Awesome factor: Medium Dream 1(fragment): I found a crisp one dollar bill in a brochure folder when going through the mail. Dream 2:I was in a school-like building with various family members. I know for sure that my sister, parents, and Uncle R. were there. I'm not sure if this was supposed to be someone's house or an actual school. The conversation was definitely about school though. Sister was preparing some kind of project and I think she needed some supplies. I was hanging out with her on some kind of loft type thing. Uncle R. was agreeing how schools were overcharging people. That tuition costs a lot and all supplies/trips/etc. still need to be paid for. Dream 3: The Alamo was an Aztec temple occupied by Aztecs. They were being aided by alien forces. I don't remember very well what they looked like, but they were huge and appeared like slightly more life-like Transformers. One was particularly scary to the opposing forces, which retreated.
Updated 06-20-2013 at 07:58 PM by 63380
I set my alarm for 2am intending to WBTB and WILD on my lounger. I lay in my bed, trying to dream recall...and fell asleep waking at 6am...GRRR! I grabbed 2 dreams though...both with a job-related dream sign. My brain's continually hitting me over the head with it and I'm just not responding...hence the WILDing as well. I was in a works mess-room which suddenly filled with workers. They sat at tables and ate, making a terrible mess. i felt very self-concious, having been asleep in there. One complained about my foot on his table (???) and I said "My foot was there before you were." I felt like I was in a workplace somewhere. I was apparently dismantling an intricate watch with loads of spindles and winders, which came off easily and I was embarrassed. Someone took it off me, to examine it and I took it back firmly and tried to re-assemble it (Clement Freud fill yer boots) Yep. It's a sign that I was never comfortable in close contact with workmates for hours on end and I would have made a good solitary lighthouse keeper. Roll on Lucidity when I can hopefully tackle this issue...and get a bigger virtual bathroom with an enormous bath (another dream sign)
Updated 06-20-2013 at 06:09 PM by 905
Dream recall from today's naps. Dream 1(fragments) I was chatting with SilentEternity on skype and there was something about school i had to search on google. Dream 2: I was watching yogscast playing on some rather simple minecraft map. It was designed for competitive games but they were trying to coop it for some reason, then they used flight cheat to get to the upper area of the map. There was passageway with glowstone, and another hidden passageway in it. Then there were some big spiders with changed, non-squarey, models, yogscast suddenly started overreacting and then... I suddenly am at home in corridor and dad's here i spontaneously realize that i am dreaming and start going forward, i try imagining sounds of spiders from before, then i actually hear one coming from behind and then i kinda ride on him to the kitchen, where i lose balance and fall off. I wake up but i still have dreamy feeling so i rub hands, it's very vivid and i think about transformation, i remove window by jumping backwards through it, then i feel wings and fly. There are some DCs and also i briefly notice some huge dude in the red shirt in a chair to the left. I try transformation but i somehow get teleported back a bit instead, i continue flight along the building but then dream fades out.
come home sitting on landing opening a package that i sent myself whilst in work its full of papers and rubbish out of my handbag also a toy car and train. Gave my ex half a salad balm and asked him did he want my change it was 3 pound and some other loose coins he said yes and i gave it him .Then thought why did i do that i might need it ?. Then i go downstairs and i am in my late mother in laws house but in dream is my house in living room my dog is all happy to see me and get a stroke then i look out of window and i have a pet cow its black and white and comes over to the window for a stroke its smiling i open window and stroke its head .i ask if hes fed it and tell him to go and feed the cow.
So i've had many, many LD's since my last writing, Everywhere from further story progressive to adventures, many a nights I would scream in my sleep *I was told* what I was experiencing. Since no-one but me will read this I suppose this would be better a chronicle now, than a dream journal, because my dreams are different now. Since I have completed the serpent ritual and my rite of passage into shamanism, culled and weeded by my family I have changed a lot of my outlook on life, and now I exist in a time without space. My only moments to myself are drowned in the drug of my choosing while I perform my nightly ritual of knowledge, where I find myself on DV chat quite often. Here, as I am now, I learn about my day, and the days to come. As I pass back and forth through my own past and future I find a calm, comforting spot I can tell myself what is happening, and what is going to. I lay out my path every night and live it the next day, from now I tell myself what I will learn tomorrow. My dreams now, are something beyond irregular. I no longer go on adventures, or progress through my old paths. My dreams have become my reality, since I now live in a place without time, my dreams have become my memories. I live back through my life, re-learning everything, re-experiencing every single emotion and situation. I have already lived through 90% of my life, and I will continue reliving it every night for the rest of my life, to remind myself who I am. But then I awaken. And I pass through days ,weeks, and months, not yet years, all within the time it takes me to fall asleep again. The people around have said I have become a beacon lately. Always ready to dispense wisdom, and just slightly out of it. Everything thinks I'm taking something, and no-one believes me when I say I am sober. But everyone trusts me now, people I don't even know their names, now approach me, by name, and talk to me as if I am their best friend. However, family tradition persists and I am not allowed to move forward until I complete my last act of business, and help my last charge, I succeeded but they then failed without me, therefore my job as a shaman is incomplete, and my body will show it, ever degrading until I accept defeat, or rework, now, through a strenuous process of bullshit. Either way, I shall either confirm I am still purely human, or I will continue to fulfill my role as a community leader. But I have never failed.
Now, I don't remember all the details, so I'm going to just mention what I remember and see if it makes sense. :panic: So, the beginning is kinda blurred out, but I pretty much have the details of it. In the distant future, Earth would become the battleground for the War for the Universe, where the Megatron(Transformers) and Clockwerk(Sly Cooper)'s armies would try to take over the planet, in order to take over the universe. How will that happen? Well, I don't remember that part. :cheeky: So, a group of 7 youngsters, trained by a Panda, who is a retired Kung Fu Master, decide to take on the Mega-Clock-Tron(Megatron + Clockwerk) and his army. In some part, everything starts to get depressing where one girl, a part of the youngsters, die and her friend is mourning her loss. After that, I fas forward to the final battle. I don't how many people from the youngsters side live to fight, but hey, who cared at this point. The battle scene is that of some Turn-Based RPG, and it also looks similar to the Pokemon Battle Scene, but hey, I dunno why, given I don't even play Pokemon! Then the Panda Master comes, and says that they should use the Power of the Universe to defeat Mega-Clock-Tron. After that, they do it, and some sort of pattern begins to form around my area of view, it is coloured blue and green, kinda like a Photoshop graphic I once made. After the dream is over, and I think we won. Oh well.
To cut a long dream short and get to the point that is interesting... I am in Sydney and have created a new business that has the potential to change the world, the business takes off very quickly and a special dinner event is thrown to talk about the idea. During this dinner I am joined by 8 other heads in their field, each very impressed with the idea and they share stories with me over drinks. After a few drinks an award is offered to me, an apartment that pulls in $60k a year in rent, its on the harbour in Sydney and L and I can stay there as long as we want. The logical part of my brain starts to kick in and does the figures, soon I am talking math with the 'teachers' and they again talk about my idea and the important the Sydney Harbour Bridge played in the formation. As a reward for the idea, they have converted part of the bridge into a very crazy roller coaster ride. This is where it starts to become very interesting. As I look as the bridge I notice about 200 people strapped into the ride, in chairs that you are held up by your shoulders (so to speak) and your feet dangle free. The amazing thing is when the ride starts to move, and I can not explain this in enough detail to share the complexity of what I saw but in a matter of seconds my dream had created one of the most extreme and logic rides on the bridge that looped back in on it self and almost had people hitting each other as they passed through the loop. The amazing thing was that it worked with such accuracy that I was astonished. I was aware it was a dream for a split second before I awoke and the only thing I could think of was, "wow, how did I create something this complex in a matter of seconds. Amazing"
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