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    1. 12/06/10 Fractured Memories

      by , 12-08-2010 at 01:22 AM (New Dream Adventures of Raven Knight)
      Note: I had lots of dreams last night, so many that my memories of them have gotten a bit fragmented and hard to separate out. So here are the fragments I remember. My plans included more Harry Potter dreams with both MoSh and Tigress, the wizard tournament with MoSh, Tigress was looking for something that happens beyond the scope of the books. I was able to get into my WILD, my memories are just a bit fragmented…

      Search for Lucius
      I am at Hogwarts, and I am looking to find out what Lucius might know about the spell that was placed on Asuka that made her lose her memory. I don't really know where to find Lucius, but I remember Draco saying Lucius is on the governing board of Hogwarts, so does that mean he is at Hogwarts? I hope that maybe he is. I am wandering around in the halls, I really don't know where to start looking. I spot Draco in the halls, and I follow Draco for a short time until he notices I am behind him. He stops and turns around, he asks why I am following him. He says maybe I had been looking to find him, well I have now. He says that Snape told him the contestants in the tournament need to make a plan on how to handle the first challenge. He says that generally, at least at the beginning, the contestants from each house would most likely help each other out so their house contestants can both make it. He says we should decide what we're going to do, to make sure the great Harry Potter comes out of the competition looking like the loser he is.

      Training to Win
      I am on the top of the hill near Hogwarts, it is the same place I was at when we all summoned patronuses. Vegeta is there, as are the other contestants in the tournament, though I don't see Tigress. I wonder if she is sure going to continue this series, I start thinking things may have diverged when Cho Chang shows up, and I remember she is from Ravenclaw, so maybe the divergence has already happened. Vegeta pairs everyone up, switching the pairs around, so everyone will have a chance to train with different partners. In addition to tournament contestants, there are also quite a few other students there who are just interested in what Vegeta has to teach them. I notice Neville Longbottom sitting off to the side, watching everyone training from a distance. Vegeta tries to get him to join in, but instead he turns around and runs away. Vegeta watches him go and then returns to our training.

      Inside Information
      I am in a small room with Draco, we are sitting at a table discussing ways to proceed through the challenge that will soon be happening. I am really not sure what preparation is possible, since we don't know any of the specifics of what obstacles might be in the way. On the table is an assortment of snacks and a map of the area the challenge will take place in. The course has been laid out for us, so everyone will know where to go, but that is it, no other details are included. There are several possible paths to take through the course, so not everyone will take the same path or meet the same challenges. So now Draco starts placing different things on the map of the course, he places small animated figurines that represent obstacles we will encounter, or maybe just obstacles we might encounter. I think this is strange since I had thought the specific obstacles were secret. I ask Draco about that, and he says his dad knows people… so in other words this is cheating? I comment that if anyone finds out, he will be disqualified, or maybe we would both be disqualified, which would eliminate any chance of Slytherin having the tournament winner. He says no one will find out, unless I am planning on telling someone… I tell him I'm not planning on telling anyone, but that doesn't mean no one will figure it out… well, he already has the information now, so we spend the time figuring out what the best path through the challenge course is.

      Congradulations! It's Twins!
      I am in my bedroom at home, but there is one main difference, and that is the fact there is a cradle there. It is a single unit, but there is a separator in the middle of it and it is larger than the normal cradle, it is specifically made for two babies at once. On top of that, there is a baby in each side of the cradle, one is a boy, one is a girl, and I know for a fact they are twins… and they are mine! I have no children IWL, so this should be a giveaway that it is a dream, but I do not do a reality check. I have to go to class now, and I know I have to take my babies with me, as there is nowhere else to leave them for the day. I get everything ready to go, then I walk out without them, heading off to school. I get to class before I realize I completely forgot about the babies, I hadn't even checked on them before leaving the house, wow… I am a shitty mother… I am heading to the library at the school, suddenly ITT has a really nice library, and my mother meets me there with the babies. I take the babies, one in each arm, they are sleeping peacefully in my arms, I hope they stay that way. When I get inside the library, they tell us we'll have to move to a new building while the library is being remodeled, so I have to try to pick up both my stuff and the babies to go next door. Tigress meets me there, and she takes one of the babies, and we go next door. There is a large pillow next to the table we set up on, so we lie both babies on the pillow where they play quietly, looking up at us and smiling. I am thinking both of the babies were born on Christmas day, and the strangest thing is I don't remember even having sex, so was I raped? Was it some kind of immaculate conception? Abducted by aliens? My babies don't look like aliens…
    2. Night 2

      by , 12-07-2010 at 11:19 PM
      Sadly the fact that I only obtained 3-4 hours of sleep was upsetting. Though I do feel as though progress is being made. One of my friends has change a persons sex in her dream so that a couple could be together, and the other has also done 3rd person. We're all working on our dream recall so we tend to go over our day before we go to sleep.

      I also found out that my old favorite drink contains several usefull vitamins to help with my dream recall. (Vitamin Water, XXX)

      Tonight I plan on finishing one before I lay down for sleep and chant "I will have a lucid dream". i've also been performing 2 reality checks more often through out the day. Though people still look at me funny when i just randomly say I'm dreaming. XD. Oh, and I've been back tracing how I get to the room I'm in when I remember.

      i am hoping that as my dream recall increases I'll be able to find my dream symbol to help me becoming lucid. Going to start a list of the little things that show up to see if I can pin point it after a few weeks.

      Advice Welcomed,
      Lag
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    3. Mexico

      by , 12-07-2010 at 09:32 PM
      I don't remember much of the details:

      I lived in Mexico and was going to a really fancy college. I remember an auditorium with all gray and white. I was sitting there surrounded by other international students and we all looked really bored. I was sitting with a paper notebook and a yellow pencil. I was suddenly in a bar with adobe style surroundings. There was a tan tiled floor below, and a fountain the in the background. The bar was a circle bar and standing there was a Mexican woman. I asked "do you have some sort of lunch special?" she said "like basic stuff?" and I ordered a taco with some beans, rice and chips. I ate the food and went on my way.

      *blurred stuff I can't remember*

      Then that last I can remember I went back and ordered the same thing again.
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    4. Dec 7th Computers and Firing Squads

      by , 12-07-2010 at 09:27 PM
      There was a portion early on in my dream where I was using my computer. For some reason, one of the video cards burned out and whenever I plugged it in the computer crashed. One of my programmer friends was sitting next to me trying to help me figure out the problem. Never did thought as the scene turned into the core of the death star from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. The energy core was shot and began to explode as I fly out of the chamber into the long corridor to the surface. Zerg Mutalisks were hot on my tail most of the way out. I got out of the death star, but it never exploded. Memory fades around this point.

      Another portion of the dream: I was dead, or dying or something. There were funeral preparations going on... for me! I was really scared, but I don't remember much from this dream. It's really too bad I couldn't get lucid at this point.

      Last dream Very Disturbing: I was babysitting some kid who's mom I apparently knew. The kid kept sneaking red ants into the house via cups with dirt. I kept grabbing the cups and emptying them outside, but on one of these trips, I got stopped by the police. Apparently they were gonna execute me summarily. (Continuation of the last dream maybe? Even though they were in 2 separate REM cycles) My family eventually appeared and were confused but complying with the police. I was PISSED at this point. The officers began to talk to me, in fluent Spanish (which I cannot speak or understand in real life) telling me the process leading up to my execution. I began hurling every verbal incendiary I could at everyone around me because NOBODY was defending me. I had almost given up, when (Starcraft again.. surprise surprise) Protoss warriors swept into the scene and began carving up everyone who wanted me dead. They kept saying I was the 'chosen one from the prophesy' or something, I didn't care. All I cared about was that I wasn't going to die. I even joined in, destroying the ones who wanted to destroy me. It was a bloodbath towards the end, everyone around me except for me, my family, and the protoss, were dead.

      Then I woke up.
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    5. TheEagle 6-12 -- 7-12

      by , 12-07-2010 at 09:11 PM
      6-12 ---- 7-12
      Non-lucid

      -Dreamed about a guy that first had to sacrifice himself for a girl by jumping from an ice floe. But i spoke to the guy and after that, they both survived

      - Some sort of game, a picture made out of balls. (quite hard to explain). The main point was you had to find out where the object in the picture was (sort of minesweeper) by choosing a ball that would be next to the object. But, when you'd choose a ball within the picture, it would say nothing it all.

      - There was some sort of party, first i had a normal talk with a girl, after that i danced with a girl i met in Romania (good friend of mine). After that a flight instructor from my Aero Club entered the party with a cycle and almoost drove me over.

      -I was on a tour trough a huge building (also with parlement inside)
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    6. First few entries

      by , 12-07-2010 at 09:02 PM
      non-lucid
      [Noticifcations]

      - <- dreams

      3-12 ---- 4-12
      [Very short one (first dream i was trying to recall)]
      Called my aunt with a phone, no response [I guess my brain was waiting for informations/a responde]

      4-12 ---- 5-12
      - My dad was reading funny RC's [ Why didn't i show them to him!! ]

      Woke up at 4 and thought my windows were covered with orange A4's [thought it was a false awaking the morning i woke up. But then i remembered the time had changed when i looked on my clock (at 4)]

      - Was looking on the website of my Aero club and Tiska (girl from the Aero club) had become the person who controls the money from the club [Forgot the word]


      5-12 ---- 6-12
      [I'm getting the hang of this!]
      -I was walking through a building [school?] and i saw a poster of a (boy?) band one of them had a black shirt with some sort of dragon or so on it. I walked outside [it was daytime] And saw a lot of teachers, it looked like they were playing some sort of game. They were sitting in groups of 2 spread out over the quarter. My dad was one of them. I looked and saw a girl from my primary school playing with 2 little kids. I threw my bag of my back and started playing with them

      - Some cards were given away to enter a party (?) as first. Of course i won a card.. When i entered a blonde girl asked me if i wanted to be on a picture with 'him' (she pointed at a guy standing in the middle infront of the doors). I said 'sure, if he also wants to'. I had no idea who it was, but since they were playing the 'Burn Baby Burn' clip on a TV hanging there i thought it would've been a band member. When i stood next to him, suddenly the doors opened and the whole hall became very busy. After moving to right and left, the photographer finally made a picture. After a while i went to the photographer and asked him if i could see the picture (had the feeling it was a scam) After a conversation in english, which i understood and spoke (i'm not english) i said 'nevermind' and then my dream ended

      Updated 12-08-2010 at 11:20 AM by 39615

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    7. JD's Balls-to-the-Wall Awesome Dream Journal

      by , 12-07-2010 at 07:57 PM
      07.12.2010
      WILDing to Snooker (WILD)

      NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

      I got in from class and flopped down on the sofa, still wearing shoes and a coat. Somebody else was watching snooker, and after a while I lay back and closed my eyes. After that it gets a bit hard to tell what was real and what wasn't.

      I felt a light sensation in the middle-front of my head, which I can only describe as "a bit like falling". Kind of a tingle. It came in tiny, split-second bursts, and went away immidiately after I noticed it. It startled me slightly each time it happened- having the effect of making me a tiny bit more alert for a few seconds. I felt like I needed to let it happen uninterrupted to fall properly asleep. I was very careful the next time it happened, and it went on for a couple of seconds, bringing sleep paralysis with it. It felt like my whole body suddenly lost any muscle tension, and my head drooped forward- even though I was sure it was completely supported already.

      I had a visualisation then of the crane outside. I looked at it intently, trying to keep focused on what I was doing. I could hear the sound of snooker on TV still, it never seemed to have gotten blocked out. But then it got a whole lot louder. I suspected this was purely my mind playing tricks, as I doubted whoever was watching it has maxxed out the volume while I was sleeping there. It got louder, and combined with a high-pitched whine. My jaw then seemed to clench of its own accord. But it felt like the teeth of my lower jaw were in front of my top front teeth. It was a bit uncomfortable, and I wondered if I could fix it without ruining the WILD. Turns out not. They weren't even stuck in that position anyway.



      It struck me then that I had actually been pretty far away from awake. The difference I felt when waking up was like resurfacing after being underwater. During the transition to sleep I thought I had been basically aware and connected to the outside world thoughout, but it certainly didn't feel that way now!

      Updated 12-22-2010 at 01:22 AM by 28344

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    8. Vegas, Bombing, and Fireworks

      by , 12-07-2010 at 07:55 PM
      I was dreaming that i was back in Vegas with my sister and my dad and a friend. We were walking around an area that seemed really familiar, maybe a place i played at when i was a kid. We were walking around and i saw 2 fighter jets fly over our heads and there was an explosion following. We wanted to see what was going on so we walked around for a while. I dont remember what happened on the way but we eventually got around a corner and saw a large plume of smoke. There was some sort of large foreign building with smoke coming off it. There were a couple of people on the side walk celebrating and throwing fire crackers. I asked what was going on and they said that we bombed the terrorists building. I guess i knew what that meant because i started to celebrate. Than one of them threw a really big firework that looked like and over sized stick of dynamite. The explosion coming from it was the weirdest thing. I fell on the ground covering my head and when i got up, it felt like my head was full of helium. It kind of felt like i was high. We all laughed at it and began to run away fearing that cops would come to the explosion. I dont remember the walk home but when we got there it was the same as the house im living in now. I dont remember anything else.
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    9. Cruiser Island

      by , 12-07-2010 at 06:40 PM (The Lab Notebook)
      Non-lucid dream, [Commentary made while awake]

      Night of December 5-6

      I'm attending a service at an unfamiliar church. I'm in the choir. The bishop is there, and he shushes the choir, ending the song we're singing early. Two other famous people are there: Arnold Schwarzenegger and H. [a writer who is on the Internet and likely to search for himself]. The two of them and the bishop pose for a group picture. H. is wearing a big, floppy USC baseball cap. We all tell him to turn it around and wear it so that the logo is showing, or else there's no point in having it on at all. He actually looks more like my real-life friend Victor K. than he looks like H.

      The service also involves honoring some military people. There is a man in a very highly decorated, green military dress uniform there.


      Night of December 6-7

      [This was a long, fun, interesting dream with a really cool setting and particularly good recall, especially for dialog.]

      This dream is set within the world of a TV show called “Cruiser Island.” Cruiser Island is one of a small group of small, tropical islands, very close together, located just off the coast of Florida and connected to each other and to the mainland by bridges. One of its neighboring islands is called Alo Island. There is a large, single-story building there that says “Alo Island Public Hospital” on the sign on the front.

      House #1 is located on Cruiser Island. My family is hosting a sort of sleepover there. I'm in my bedroom, in the top bunk (which is mine), wearing pajamas, ready to go to bed. A boy who's maybe 8 or 9 years old climbs up the end of the bunk bed to get into the top bunk, and we talk. He says he's afraid of some kind of wild animal, and I reassure him by saying that we're in the middle of downtown, and no wild animals are coming here. The rest of the conversation goes something like this:

      Me: What's your name?
      Boy: Thomas.
      Me: Yeah, I thought you kinda looked like a Thomas. I'm (Emiko). (we shake hands)
      Thomas: You know that guy who sings with the Parish girls... I'm his younger brother.
      Me: Oh, you're Dom's brother!

      I decide I enjoy spending time with kids.


      [Note: In the dream, when Thomas mentioned his older brother, I knew who we were talking about and knew that he shared a first name with, but wasn't, the protagonist from Inception. In real life, both brothers sang with the Parish girls, but only once, two days ago. They also have different first names in real life.]

      I'm standing on the floor next to the foot end of the bunk bed. There are two Vietnamese women, a mom and a grandma, who are sleeping on the lower bunk. Two more Vietnamese moms are standing around in the room and in the hallway, along with a whole bunch of their kids. One of the moms says something about how she doesn't have magical Japanese eyes [I don't even know.] and then sternly commands all the boys to go and brush their hair, now, so that they can go to bed. All the girls have their hair in braids or pigtails, so they'll need their moms' help to comb it out. I think, With all these people in the house for the sleepover and all this excitement, my sleep cycle is getting completely thrown off. I'm not going to get a chance to try to lucid dream tonight. That's too bad. [And yet, I still somehow managed not to realize that I was dreaming at this point. I laughed when I remembered this thought upon waking up.]

      I go into the bathroom to toss a few of my stray hairs into the trash can. I don't just toss them on the floor because of all the guests we have in the house. While I'm in the bathroom, I see that my gold cross necklace has fallen into the toilet. Also, I find some bedbugs somewhere in the house, crawling all over some white paper thing. I take it outside, showing it to my mom and explaining to her, as we walk along a sidewalk outside, what they are and what it's like to have them in the house. I say that I'm pretty sure I just got rid of all of them.

      My mom and I continue walking through Cruiser Island's downtown, which looks a lot like San Luis Obispo's downtown, until we reach a small light rail station on the street. We look at the big, dark-blue metal signboard there to find out what its schedule is. We continue walking along the streets, turning at least one corner and passing one more light rail station. The street signs are white on blue like in L.A.
      [not white on brown like in the real SLO]. I talk to someone I pass on the street about which of the streets will be closed for the parade that's going to start soon.
    10. WILD Journey: Day 24

      by , 12-07-2010 at 06:21 PM
      Still no progress in terms of having another LD, but I am gaining a lot of experience and have come across very interesting things during this journey.

      I now downloaded another application to help me track my progress for the iPhone called Sleep Cycle Alarm. This is not an endorsement, I'm just writing down what's real.

      I went to sleep at 12:15 woke up at 8:57.

      I recalled one dream at 6am when I set my deffered CAN to wake me up. I got out of bed, went to the bathroom, posted in my DJ the one dream I remembered and then went back to sleep. I didn't recall any extra dreams after going to sleep like this. I'm interested in my own sleeping/recall abilities because I never get any dreams when napping or in light sleep. It appears that I need very deep sleep to have dreams, and then I can recall very many and in great detail. I'm wondering if maybe I really do dream in naps but I simply cannot remember or if my brain just doesn't reach the deepest parts of sleep necessary to dream. How would I test this hypothesis out?

      Tonight's mistakes:
      1) No plan of action upon becoming Lucid.
      2) Woke up at 7 but didnt perform the indirect techniques aggressively enough.
      3) Took too many naps during the day and went to bed in a not-so-tired state. I think this might have detracted from my overall ability to recall and have deep sleep.

      Solutions:
      1) Create a plan of action slash plot out an entire Lucid Dream.
      2) Do 5 reality checks today based on the anchors of opening a door and checking the time on my iPhone.
      3) Practice doing the indirect and separation techniques sometime before bed tonight.
      4) Be physical during the day (i.e. workout or run) so that I won't be tempted to take a nap and will be more tired come bedtime.
      5) Perform the indirect and separation techniques aggressively!
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    11. ***

      by , 12-07-2010 at 05:58 PM (Somewhere Over The Rainbow)
      buying fruit, raspberries.....my bf and I look into a restaurant and see a booth that's tall and white and wraps around you, the server brings the people in the booth their order and it's just grocery bags full of vegetables that gets dumped into the booth with them...there is a group of people convened in an area, a girl turns the music off and asks for everyone's attention, she wants to play her music, it looks like she has a sitar...

      Updated 08-04-2011 at 04:27 AM by 3653

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    12. Television Series Looking for Dreamers

      by , 12-07-2010 at 05:51 PM
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    13. 6 December 2010

      by , 12-07-2010 at 05:05 PM
      I'm not too sure about the order, but last night was WEIRD!

      So, I think the first thing that happened was that I was at a truck stop with my mom. We were in the car in the parking lot when an eighteen wheeler hit us (totally his fault). He got out of the car, pissed off and waving a chain saw. He started walking toward my mom. Then, my dad came out of nowhere and tells him to back off. He swings overheaded at Dad, who catches the chainsaw by the handle and tries to wrestle it away from the angry trucker. Then I run up to help dad. I grab the chainsaw by the handle too and take it from the trucker. Then I plunged the chainsaw into the trucker's belly.

      Next (I think), I was at some house kind of in the woods. I was walking around outside when I saw some little kid who looked to be about 9 or 10. He was acting kind of wierd, and I don't know why, but I somehow came to the conclusion that he was possessed by a demon. I took hold of his arm, looked him in the eyes, and boldly said the word "Jesus". Then he started freaking out! Screaming, whailing, hissing and stuff. While still holding the little kid, I started praying in tounges, and he started freaking out harder. Then I saw Josh walking towards me, and I asked him to help, and the two of us sat down and prayed over the little dude for a few minutes, then he suddendly stopped. Then, my mom came outside, and I don't know how, but I thought she was posessed too. So I started praying over her by myself (Josh was gone now) and she started hissing and stuff. I wasn't really scared, though.

      Next dream: I don't know why, but some dude was trying to tell me that my mom neglected me when I was young, and that she was abussive and stuff (which isn't true at all). I tell the dude he doesn't know what he was talking about. Then my mom came in the room, and I went and gave her a hug and told her I love her.

      Next: I was at a gas station with my mom, when I looked outside and saw some shady dude in a trench coat cross the street to go to some porn/adult toy store. I thought I'd check it out too. I ran across the street and went inside the porn store. It was kinda old and run down. Then I saw my mom in the store. Then, I went to the back of the store and saw that they sold haloween costumes too. I saw Bryce with a pirate costume on. Mom then told him to put his regular clothes on top of the costume so they could get the costume for free. I told her that she could get in serious trouble for that, but she disregarded me and Bryce did it anyway. I then told her I didn't want to be seen with her in case she was caught, so I told her I'd walk home. She left in the car, and I picked up a stick and used it as a cane and started walking home. Then, I ended up on campus, still with my stick. I ended up walking into Pottle Hall (the music building) and got lost (it's really easy to get lost ther IRL). I was wandering around searching for the exit, opening random doors to see if it led outside. I walked in on some bongo performance being conducted by my old sociology teacher. And I kept walking around Pottle.

      That's all I remember.
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    14. Frag

      by , 12-07-2010 at 03:51 PM (My world, my rules)
      #1: Eu estava em uma sala cheia de gente (lembro que minha mãe estava também). Começamos a cantar a 5ª sinfonia de Beethoven, mas cada um fazendo uma voz. Ficou extremamente bom, e eu comentei: "É por isso que todos aqui deveriam entrar em um coral!".
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    15. Haven't Journaled in a while, going to start again...in the meantime some dreams from the past week

      by , 12-07-2010 at 03:51 PM
      Dream 1 (non lucid)

      My AP World History teacher was teaching a class in one of the downstairs rooms of my old elementary school, and I was in it. I remember making a pizza in a microwave on top of a black file cabinet. I asked her if the pizza was done and she said "Put it in for another minute"

      Dream 2 (non lucid)

      I was in a strange house that I've never seen before. It was kind of dark and it had a second floor. The Doctor from Doctor Who was there, dressed not in his usual tweed suit but the clothes he wears to Amy's wedding in The Big Bang 2. We were talking, but I don't remember what he said. Then we were in front of what looked like a video of the time vortex projected onto a circular surface. I tossed all of the things I normally bring to school through it (laptop case, coat, lunch, backpack). They sort of melted through it. Then I went through it. I fell through and landed on a black surface and sort of rolled to my left and into a sort of alcove or pocket. I seemed to still be in the same room.

      Dream 3 (Lucid)

      I was in my room, talking. I don't remember if anyone else was there. The walls were the yellow they were when I was younger, not the brown they are now. Then I said something like "Hey, I am sleeping right now" and kind of wondered what I was currently doing in real life. Then I think I woke up, but maybe I had a false awakening and didn't remember.
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