So I know I had a long interesting dream but it's now the afternoon and i don't remember what my dream was about. That said there is a particular piece of my dream I do remember. It was really vague but i was sitting in the back seat of a car leaning on my boyfriend. In my dream i was apparently on the run from some bad guys and was completely exhausted. I was holding my boyfriends hand and i remember thinking that i could go to sleep and be perfectly save because he was there. It was a awesome feeling. He had his arm around me and was looking out the window as if making sure the cars next to us weren't going to randomly start shooting. I remember smiling and finally dosing off. That is around the time i woke up and sighed cuz i don't have a boyfriend...
This dream was really vague. I actually didn't even remember it until i was walking to class and all of a sudden it kind of came to me..weird, i know. The dream started with me sitting on some bed, with my friends little sister and one of our friends. My friend(the first girls brother) died, and one of our other friends that was with him also died. I'm not sure why, or what happened. I just remember consoling her about it. And when i stood up and hugged her it was one of those tight hugs...and when i got ready to let go, she didn't. And from experience i know that's when a girl is really upset. For some reason that triggered my lucidity. That's when i really realized how weird the dream was. She just kept crying on my chest, which made me cry... Then i woke up..
NON-LUCID LUCID Identification: (No. 78) Summoning attempt Time Recorded: 9:00, 31-01-2012 Genre: Ordinary Character(s): Gavin D. Method(s): Mantra Lucid: Yes (DILD) I am sitting in my bedroom, at my desk, looking at a series of written messages on a single sheet of paper. For each paragraph there is an illustration on the right, of a lady dressed in 3-century-old clothing, from various angles. I somehow realise that I am dreaming and become lucid. I stand up from my desk chair and walk towards my door, thinking about what I should do. I get the impulse to summon someone. I look away, thinking to myself that someone will be there when I look back. I fall on my clothes drawer and lie there. I can hear Gavin's quiet feint voice, calling my name. I believe that Gavin is going to come here and wake me up. I start to loose the dream, so I try concentrating on the dream again, but it is too late.
Updated 02-18-2012 at 02:27 AM by 52698
I don't remember the first part of my dream or how I became lucid, but I do remember the moment of awareness and trying to tell another DC. Everything was still kinda fuzzy and not as vivid as it usually is in a LD. I am in a landscape where it is dusk and the sky looks purple. I remembered reading about investigating where dream light comes from, so I start to look around for a moon or light source, but don't see one - everything does seem to have an inherent glow. I remember my goal of wanting to talk to Nietzsche - so I teleport to Germany and his house. As I am traveling through the teleport tunnel I can't remember his exact city or what year he lived and felt like I should have known this to be able to teleport to him. I do succeed, however, and end up in his house. I sit down at a table to talk to him. The dream is very unstable, and I don't remember the conversation. I walk outside and decide to start looking for a light source again. This time it is daytime and there is a sun, but the sky is strange and there's still a patch of darkness. I feel the sun somehow isn't "real", so I reach up and pluck it form the sky. When I place it on the ground, it looks like a raw egg yolk. I look around, then put it back in the sky - certain that this daytime landscape has an inherent glow also. I lose lucidity sometime after this.
I am in a public bathroom putting on makeup. I walk out form where the mirrors were. Even though I saw the women's bathroom sign when I walked in, there are now guys in the bathroom. I walk out to make sure it is a women's bathroom, but the sign has also changed and now says men's. I walk back in and the bathroom has now turned into a locker room. I realize this is weird and suddenly become lucid. I then fall through a tunnel made of brick walls with little bristles coming out form them. I feel the dream start to fade, so I rub my hands together. I spin around in the tunnel and the dream solidifies even more. I fall through a portal to a park. The details are very vivid. Unfortunately, the grass in the park is dry and looks like it needs to be watered - not a pretty sight. I see a blue haired girl across the park that I believe is a fairy. I hear a name in the dream, but can't quite make it out - it's something like Adelle, Amelie, or Amelia. The blue haired girl leaves, so I fly to a street where I thought she had walked. I start talking to a blonde-haired girl. I feel the dream start to fade and am aware of my body in bed. I want to have sex with the blonde-haired girl and I wake up.
I am in a bedroom with yellow walls. My Aunt Deb is there along with a man who looks a little like Herman Cain. I don't remember the exact moment of becoming lucid, but realize when in the dream and try to tell the other DC's. I walk up to a mirror with the intention of getting to a higher level dream. I am immediately in a black void. I can't see my body, but can still feel it. I feel that I am traveling through a tunnel. My speed keeps increasing until I fell I am traveling at light speed.. The tunnel ends in a black sea. I must have had a FA sometime after this and lost lucidity.
Updated 01-30-2012 at 11:11 PM by 20972
BiscuitHappyz's Dream I was in a small car with some other people, driving on a straight highway, lined with pine trees. We were heading towards some hotel-looking buildings at the end of the road. I'm so sick, I thought, of pine trees. Especially in my dreams. It's really annoying, that for about one and a half decades my subconscious has been constantly analyzing the environment around me and simply concludes; 'Pine trees'. Pine trees take up nearly 90% of vegetation in my dreams, the remaining being grass. It would be nice to see an oak occasionally. [/pine tree rant] Anyway, as the car approached the buildings at the end of the road, I began to see the BB&T tower of a nearby city poke out between them. I had seen it many times in waking life, and I often noted it as the tallest building in the small city. http://static.panoramio.com/photos/o...l/16665800.jpg (Notice how there are little to no pine trees in this picture.) I the dream, however, I was nearly one hundred miles away from that city, and should not have been able to see it. But it had the sense of scale like that from the Citadel in Half-Life 2, and it seemed to be that my brain recognizes it as such a ridiculously huge building that one could constantly see it from any point in the state. (The Citadel) Then the car turned sharply right and headed off into a large a amount of pine trees, and thankfully, I woke up as that happened.
No lucids last night, I'm kinda shocked. Because I got the right amount of sleep, no diphenhydramine, and I had one of those moments in the dream where I usually become lucid, but didn't. I dreamt that me and Margaret (a former boss of mine, who ended up become a big time druggie, in and out of rehab in real life) were both in an unusual new rehab program. I can't remember exactly how it worked, but I remember one of the former clients (who ended up being Kyle, one of my current coworker's husband), gave me a tour of sorts. He led me to a house that I could live in. Actually, he and I would share it. Nice place, pretty neighborhood. Then we walked about a mile down the street to a building, which ended up being the the Whole Foods I used to work at. Then Kyle explained to me that as long as I live in this house, and work just 25 hours a week at this Whole Foods, I could stay in the program. And I would get a stipend and some other benefits. It just all sounded so good, and simple, and comfortable. So when we walked back to the house, we were holding hands. It just didn't really dawn on me yet that Danny is my boyfriend, and that I'm holding hands with Kyle, Gabi's husband. I just remember feeling like we were in love and everything was going to be ok. Then we got in a car and he was talking about going to church next sunday, and I remember not wanting to hurt his feelings by telling him that I'm actually atheist. Then I realized, oh god, this is Kyle! I looked at him and said, "I hate to bring this up now Kyle, but what about Gabi?" He looked disturbed, then gave me a reassuring kiss and said something that I forgot. When we broke the kiss, he looked like Danny. Note: usually when I have one of those realizations in a dream, I become lucid. Crap. Then it changed to the alien dream. Also non lucid, but kinda cool! I only remember fragments, but the biggest part I remember was these futuristic aliens with amazing technology (but looked exactly like humans) had selected a few of us mere earthlings for some important mission. I forgot the mission, and who the other people were besides me. But I remember we had to go to Paris, France, and there was this vehicle waiting for us that we had to fly. We got a message from the aliens in Paris, and they explained the location of the vehicle using one of those holographic messages like they do in star wars. It showed the Eiffel Tower, and high above it in the clouds, hovered a small craft. It looked nothing more than a shiny platform with some small side wings and a tiny cockpit. Only we could see it, it was cloaked to everyone else. I don't remember how we got on it, I just remember looking straight up into the sky when we got to the tower, and I could see it, twinkling in the sunlight. Then we were on it, and it zoomed us to italy where me met up with our alien contacts. I only saw one, and she looked like a brunette model. I asked her if, given all their technology, they had cured aids or cancer. She said no, unfortunately. That's all I remember. Cool spacecraft, and yay, France and Italy!
30.01.2012Lab Experiment, Communication Applications Teacher Talking to Me NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID Dream 1: Lab Experiment I was part of a lab experiment. I was working with 2-3 DCs. We had to fill some vial to a certain level with certain chemicals without causing a huge reaction. It seemed that our group tried to finish as quickly as possible before the others did. Not too sure on the what else we did, but I do know that we made several mistakes before reaching the ideal mix of chemicals. Dream 2: Comm App Teacher Asking Questions The Communications Applications teacher I had in High School the first semester as a Senior was asking me a few personal questions. He started to mention to the class on how I was alone with just a few people (don't want to go into that, it kind of freaked me out because it was a personal lie that I started to accept). Before he started to get deep though, I was sitting in a chair. I know I was wearing a Hoodie or something of the sort. I was resting on the desk while keeping my face up to the teacher. Then when he started asking me some more questions, I started to look at him weirdly, got up to rest my upper body to the seat and start responding to what he said. I can't remember what I told him though. But I do know that I felt myself moving, but I wasn't lucid.
Updated 01-30-2012 at 07:18 PM by 47756
I had this dream the night of 1/28/12. I am on a ship. Military personnel all around me. We are arriving somewhere. I get the feeling that I have reached my destination. Somehow, I know I am part of the crew. I am recently signed on. I am telling someone this. The ship docks. The metal is cold. Wet. Army green. We step out onto a dock. The cement slabs are cold. Wet. There is mist in the air. I cannot see beyond the dock. There is nowhere to go but the dock or back to the ship. There are workers milling at the end of the way. They look solemn. I know I must go down there. My assignment awaits me. To the right, there are large containers in the ground. Square. Maybe 10x10 in size and at least 10 feet deep. To the left there is a shed. More of a shack. Wooden. There are plastic drapes covering the entrance. The shack is set on a slab of concrete, maybe 3 feet off the ground. I see people putting on gloves. I smell a stench. A powerful perfume. Slightly sweet, yet incredibly putrid. I know this smell. It is the smell of death. As I near the containers, I see dark, red jelly inside. Workers are climbing down into the vats-- covered in the gelatounous goop. One young man with glasses starts to gag as he reaches into the material. A younger, gruff woman stands next to me. I know she is the 'boss' of sorts. I will be working with her today. She is barking out orders. She is handing out plastic bags. Body bags. She indicates I can either fish through the remains vat or inventory the bodies. The second vat (closest to me) has piles of bodies mixed with the jelly. Smeared in the cold, crimson slime. I hold my breath and know this is my fate. This is what I will do. I help her fish a body out. I avoid having to go into the tank. It is a young woman. We wipe off the bloody mess on her body and lay her out on the body sheet. I start to inventory her things- she is wearing a white shirt, brown pants. No shoes. Her body is swollen. Her face is blue. Her skin is cold and her body has long since stiffened. I try to mentally turn my mind off- just do my job. I try not to vomit. After we inventory some bodies, I walk over to the 'parts' tank. Its just bits and pieces of human remains. We have to inventory them too. I pull out an eyeball. As I do so, someone in the tank falls and I get blood and organs splattered up onto my face. There is a piece of flesh clinging to hair on my forehead. I try to wipe my face and my sleeve gets covered in the dark jelly. I try not to think about it. I walk the eyeball over to the shack and throw it into one of the boxes. I check off the item. I am bewildered. I do not want to be here. What have I done to be in this horrible place? I reach back into the vat of body parts. I pull out a bracelet-- it comes off what little flesh is left on a bone. I wipe off the blood and tissue and try to discern what the bracelent means. It is a metal badge with a strange symbol on a leather strap. I bring it to my 'boss'. She says just to inventory it. I am so disgusted. So horrified. My mind cannot fathom what I am doing. These bodies. Piles of them. The cold, red gelatin in the tanks. Where are these bodies coming from? Why are we stockpiling them? What am I doing here?
I've tried to lucid dream without supplements, but it just doesn't happen. I noticed that the Benzodiazepine medication I took for occasional insomnia had the interesting side effect of vivid and / or lucid dreams, but not reliably. And sometimes the dreams would occur the night after the medication. I tried Yuschak's recommendations from his book, but the galantamine is so stimulating I couldn't fall asleep again after taking it. But the following has worked several times now. This morning (1/30/2012) at 2:00 am: 500 mg Choline, 600 mg Alpha-GPC and 8 mg Galantamine. I lay in bed and meditated. The combination has the effect for me of promoting very deep states of meditative adsorption, which is interesting in itself. around 3:30 I took 1/4 mg Xanax (generic Alprazolam.) Eventually I did fall asleep and managed to stay asleep after attaining lucidity. I was active, making decisions, talking to dream characters and making requests. It was great!
Got another lucid this time! Short, but interesting. I got a little more abstract with my control of it, too. Other than that, a couple other interesting dreams as well. Not a bad night. #1 - Fucking Hornets I'm making some kind of video game with a lot of old friends (and a couple current), a guy I haven't seen since high school, and OpheliaBlue. Ophelia and the guy from high school are talking about adding some cinematic to the beginning of the game, so after we discuss how that would fit best they go off to start working on it. My friend O, still my current theory for who my dream guide is, starts talking about how we're going to do the opening credits, and he shows us what he has so far. I don't remember what they were, but I remember that they were pretty funny. But J gets all bitchy about the font size being too small, even though O hadn't actually tried to set it to what it would be in the game, he was just showing us the text. :T Oh yeah, also, we were doing all of this discussion in my bathroom, in front of the mirror lol. Possibly using the mirror as a screen to project things on, now that I think about it...? But anyway, J was standing kind of behind me, so when I turned around to listen to him talk I noticed that there was a gigantic map of the world behind him, one that was clearly not visible in the mirror. As he's talking, he pulls out a much smaller, handheld-sized, map and starts talking about some "red bee therapy" (which I take to mean red hornets) then comes and stands right behind me to try it out and says their are a bunch of the red hornets right behind the map, which he's holding up to my back. Hornets. Now, for those of you who don't know, I hate bugs. They're... soooo nasty. >_< But hornets especially, they're like my least favorite bug there is. So I'm freaked out at this point. I look down at the counter and see a pair of scissors, which I quickly grab, and say "J, get those things away from me right now, I'm not even kidding, I will fucking stab you." He backs off, but one of the hornets gets left behind my back (somehow... ) and I reach back there and feel it. I feel a sting and start running around freaking out, and I grab it and squeeze it to death, something I'd never do in real life but I was desperate , and I threw it down on a table and saw it dead, but then it CAME. BACK. TO LIFE. It's comically large and red with black stripes, and I grab a tissue box and start smashing it but even though it keeps getting nastier it never dies, and it's so gross it makes me feel like I have to puke, and I'm shaking. Then I woke up. Thank god. #2 - Fickle Emotions I'm in high school in an English class that I never actually had, but it's boring so I leave to go find a different class, then pay that teacher $100 (two separate payments of $50) to let me be in her class instead. She shakes my hand and says "A gentlemens' agreement!" (More How I Met Your Mother references from my subconscious. ) But, she turns out to be a hard ass to the point that the other kids in the class are "troubled", like there's a guy not far from me to the right smoking weed in the middle of class, and the girl I sat down next to on my left is single and pregnant (but not visibly). However I learn through the course of the class that she's actually just a really nice girl and pretty cool, and I develop a little bit of a crush on her. I start messing with the teacher to make her laugh, and we end up getting along really well and she's even starting to act like she has a bit of a crush on me too, and it's so obvious that some of the guys in the class are visibly jealous. Somewhere down the line the teacher turns into my old Chinese class teacher and someone says something about him which gets me distracted, after which the girl just never shows up or is even thought about again. Class is over so I get up and walk around the hallways which turn into an enormous and clearly very expensive and high-end mall, and I'm trying to find my locker but it's too hard to navigate, I even pass through a jail cell on the way. I woke up after I found my way out of that lol. #3 - Third-Person Control O and I went to a head shop or something, and we saw someone getting arrested in the parking lot, so we quickly got in my car and drove off. While I'm driving, I notice that the accelerator keeps getting stuck, so I'm slamming the breaks to make the car slow down, but eventually it just goes faster and faster and faster until the car pulls up off the ground and we blast into the sky. But I became lucid at this point! I started steering us around the city, as we were in a downtown area with lots of tall buildings so it was fun just zooming around in our rocket car. Before too long I notice that my vision is steadily narrowing down to a very small area and I'm afraid that the dream is going to end if it gets all the way down to a dot, so I consciously switch it to third-person perspective control, which still feels like first-person. (Kind of hard to explain.) It worked for a little bit, though! My full view of the city was restored, and I could see that the car actually had turned into a plane. I start flying off to the side of my vision so that my camera angle moves over and we transition from the city to a mountain range, and the sky starts turning dark blue, so in order to keep the dream changing (rather than ending) I kept up. I had the mountains be just dunes in the background with the sky being underwater, and I transformed the plane into a fish, and I just swam around in the water a little bit, but then I finally woke up. :/ Oh well, it was fun! So that's it for this entry. I'm definitely happy with the number of lucids I'm getting lately, even if they're brief.
I was going to try this last night, but it didn't work. I don't know if I'm just not compatible with the technique or if my girlfriend calling me in the middle of the night messed it up, so I'll try again tonight. Anyway, about my dreams... I don't remember them much. I know they were all related to zombies/people trying to kill me/me having to hide. There was something a bit Metro 2033 (here) about them. I remember running a lot, I remember arguing with my girlfriend and a friend of ours, I remember running away from them and hiding in a store. In fact, I feel like I ran throughout all of my dreams last night. Not exactly a peaceful night for me. Damn. Well, I might take a nap later, so... who knows, I could get lucky and have a lucid dream... or at least remember what I dreamt of.
FA Dream Within A Dream I dreamed I had awakened from a dream with pictures of that dream. The pictures had me in them, but I was missing my head. I thought it had something to do with forgetting part of my dream. I tried to remember the dream hoping that my head would appear if I could remember it. One of the pictures had an orange and white harlequin pattern which wasn't there before. I thought maybe I just hadn't noticed the pattern before, but then another picture had the same pattern behind me. I realized that I was dreaming the pattern into the background of the pictures from the dream I had falsely awakened from.
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