I came across a discussion about this, and I thought I'd put down some of my ideas for good "totems". First off, a "totem" is a device or personal affect that only the owner thoroughly understands that is used as a means of separating the dream world from the real one. I've used "totems" for years as a for of reality checking, only I referred to them as charms #1 - Rosary One I used myself was a rosary with a few specifics... rose scented beadsa small hole drilled into every third beada pewter crucifix with a sterling silver dove for a hail holy queen beadthe 10th bead of the 4th decade was missingthe dove was attached with gold chain links - all the others were silverINRI was inscribed upside-down on the cross #2 Matchbox Car Another one I used myself with fair success was a 1976 Metal Canary yellow jeep wrangler car with an angel wings decal on the hood. It sat on it's axel wrong so it wobbledit drifted to one side when pushedhad a specific model number on the bottom #3 Weighted Turtle The third one I used was a pewter turtle with a jade shell. I was the only one who knew how it was weightedOnly I knew about the small heart etched on it's underside #4 Spoon Ever seen a waitress check her reflection in a spoon? The concave side turns the reflection upside-down - if it's right-side-up, you're dreaming! #5 Marble Flatten one edge of a marble. Be careful to do it not so it's obvious at plain sight, but that when the marble is gently rolled it will come to rest on it's own accord.
My mom, Uncle Nick, and I had dinner at a restaurant. As I was expecting, my Uncle Nick ordered a pretty expensive drink. Next thing I know, I'm in a big city in Molokai (which is strange because in real life, Molokai is only made up a few towns and not many people.) There were bridges, skyscrapers, the whole deal. The next scene I remember, I'm back in the house I previously lived in, in New York. My mom and I put our cat Chanel on top of these strange large sheets of paper, each dedicated to a specific Hawaiian Island. She walked around on them, and it seemed to make it feel like she was actually walking on the island itself. I didn't want her walking all over Lanai so I took her off of it. I got out of the house and walked across the street, and I noticed a semi-secretive watch-house, which has cameras pointing directly at my house. I did not feel comfortable entering, so I moved on to the next house, which happened to be Carol's house... I walked in and I saw tons of my friends from here (Hawaii) inside. I was curious as to why so many were in there, turns out, some billionaire was in the house. I saw him, but I didn't go crazy over it. Then all of a sudden, someone asked where Carol's mailbox is, so I mentioned that it was to the right of the driveway. Then all of a sudden, some kid starts nagging on me about how I made these YouTube videos in 3rd grade about geography lessons and they were boring. Later, I log on my computer and I see that there actually are geography videos I made on YouTube, and also another video with some of my friends saying "Hi!" Then I realized that I left my Sidekick cell phone in Carol's house 3 years ago, so I ran back in and I checked under one of the chair cushions.. sure enough, there it was! The internet loaded up right away, and I was worried that my parents would be charged for the bill. Next door to Carol's house was an Ice Cream Shop. I went with one of my friends, and immediately walked out after seeing how unpleasing the ice cream looked. Later on, I was in an arcade (I don't remember how or why I came here) and I decided to play DDR. I start playing, and some song is already preselected, and it's DIFFICULT. I did terrible and failed on the last few arrows pretty much, and some kids were making some side-comments. So, I started the game again, and I played Fantasy by Melissa (on heavy) but I forgot to speed up the arrows. Now it was very difficult, because the arrows just came in cluttered groups, but for some reason.. I hit all of the arrows. My feet were moving rapidly on all of the arrows, and I was doing great. But for some reason, I was hitting most of them early, and it was counting them.
I'm not really sure where the first dream starts, it's a bit fragmented at the start. I'm dreaming about house. I'm watching House and Wilson have an argument not sure what about or what is said (can't remember) but I think it is about Cuddy and Lucas. I have to get a timetable for house for the Gerrards Cross train for some random reason so I suddenly find myself on a train. The thing I notice most about the train is that it moves absolutely silently and smoothly and the carriage I am in is completely empty. The train itself is a light turquoise colour and the seats are dark purple and Turquoise. I get off the train in a massive train station, a really old sandstone building that is cavernous and busy. I know that I'm getting on the same train to get back in a few minutes because it's only 3 stops back and the train will leave in 5 minutes. I walk along the side of the train, down the stairs and back around to the other side of the train, stopping to pick up the timetable before I get back on. I have no memory of actually going back on the train though. Back with House and Wilson, Lucas and Cuddy are there and he has just hit Cuddy after she has told him that their relationship is over. House shouts at him and charges over, punching Lucas in the face telling him that if he ever lays a finger on her again, he'll kill him himself. Lucas goes to leave and somehow his arm and fingers are broken, his arm at a bizarre angle in his dark jacket, so house tries to stop him to at least treat the damage. Lucas snarls at him and pulls open the front door, where 3 heavies are waiting one with a thick chain, swinging it menacingly. I know that the guy with the chain has broken House's legs before but I don't know when or why. Probably some gambling debt, or hookers. Dream ends. Dream 2 I'm outside walking down a little dirt path, with a chain link fence, next to my old primary school. It's dark but the sky is a funny colour a really dark angry purple. Two little girls are walking in front of me and I can hear them talking. The first has dark brown hair, about shoulder length and the second has blonde hair with bunches, cute as a button. Neither of them could be any older than 6. I think they might be my little sisters, when they were young I could only see them from the back. The Dark haired one says to the little blonde one with scornful authority of being a year older "Well when I was a little girl like you, I didn't eat plasticine!" The little blonde girl starts to say something in response but is cut short by the lightning starting. It is awe inspiring lightning, like nothing I have ever seen before - sparking in the sky initially, seeming not to hit the ground. I hurriedly try to move the kids along, as the lightning starts to strike all around us. The kids are terrified so I wrestle them both into my grans house in Baillieston. Further up the street, behind Louise McCann's house I see my mum and dad. As I watch, a huge lightning bolt tears out of the sky and hits a small car in the car park, setting it on fire. I rush over to my parents and tell them that I have made sure the kids are safe in the house. They are sheltering in a garage in the car park after being caught outside when the lightning started. Dream ends.
abridged I am Deathgawn, the devil-man. I am standing on Mars, surveying my surroundings. Q10 stands next to me. I raise my arms, and he and I create a demonic castle rising up from the ground. It is covered in spikes, and red soil is mounded up next to it. Crab-like legs unfurl from under the castle, and it moves. Then, jets shoot out and it hovers. The front gate opens like a mouth, and thousands of bats swarm out. A few hundred land on my body, and flying, carry me to the front castle wall, then release me. I see there is a control panel to drive the castle. I surround the castle with tiny stars and black holes. I declare war on the Templars of Urth! Strange dark beings come to my castle, and pledge to fight with me.
Lions! I was in a jungle, its was nice and warm and very sunny. I started to notice there were lions everywhere! There were hundreds everywhere I looked. None were too bothered with me but when I got too close sometimes they stood up. I was trying to get away but everywhere I went there were just more! I tried climbing up some palm trees that had enough angle for me to get up but I kept slipping. Pack of Unicorns I was in Wellington and I hopped on a bus with some mates. They were going to Masterton and I couldnt go because of something. I was deep in conversation with them when I noticed I had forgotten to get off and was all the way in Masterton. Suddenly they hopped off and I was alone on the bus. I went to the driver and told him the story. I didnt have any money and so on. I had my eftpos card in my pocket but didnt want him to see it as I didnt want to pay for the trip. I hopped off in the country and there were a few other cars. A middle aged couple approached me and said they were driving over to Welly later that night an 9pm and said I could get a ride with them. I was happy to have that sorted but they did seem pretty dodgy. Then my dad came out of nowhere and me and him and a cute girl with short red hair hopped in a van, the girl was driving. I noticed a unicorn in a field we drove past and then saw more. There must have been about 5-8 in the paddock. I thought this was pretty odd and RC'd. My pinky didnt pop straight out as usual but with a little effort it emerged between my fingers. I was dreaming! I started rubbing my hands together, it felt so real! I told my dad I was dreaming and told him to rub his hands together too. I was just starting to think about making a portal to the moon when the dream faded away. Escape with the Midget I was with a midget, for some reason we were prisoners in some sort of royal castle. The head man of the castle had organised for us to escape. I dont remember how we got out of our cell but I remember sneaking around and seeing the main guys wife who didnt want us to escape. She saw us and sent her guards. We ran into a realy big room and out a huge door into the courtyard. There were heaps of guards chasing us. I was ahead and was going to run out away from the castle when the midget yelled out to go into the church. I didnt think it was a very good idea but opened the huge wooden door to the church. Just as this happened it went like a movie to a shot of the midget who was quite a bit behind me. The guards were still quite a way behind him. They shot some wierd thing at him. It looked kinda like the head of a fork and when it flew through the air you could see the way it came like bullets in the matrix. When it hit him he couldnt move. Then all of a sudden he burst free and started running again. It went slow motion and I could see heaps of the things flying by and barely missing him. He made it into the church and I started locking the door. There were like 5 locks and I did them all up. The midget ran into a small midget sized door. I tried to follow him but I got stuck in the small door. I knew I couldnt make it and woke up
My first entry, taken from my workbook. Black-non dream things Blue- dream things Ok, here is going to be a post from what I remember. Luckily it was only four days, but unluckily is that it was still four days so hard to remember. I distinctly remember Thursday's dreams, I'm not sure why, though. The first excerpt was Me playing Fallout: Vegas or whatever it is called. I am not sure why, as I played Fallout 3 a while ago but in the dream it was like an advertisement for the game, with a young female voice narrating the pros and cons of the game while someone was shooting some robot... Weird.. Later that night, (I was sleeping over at a friend's house) I had a false awakening. The reals situation was that the guy had to get up at 9:30 for something, but in my dream it was 9:50 and we all overslept. The alarm rang on the guy's phone and everyone was panicking bbecause we had overslept. This was weird, because I saw the guy setting his alarm on an alarm clock before bed so I should have recognized this contradiction. I woke up that morning very confused because of that false awakening dream and because I forgot that I was at someone else's house. For Friday, I remember I went to sleep really late and slept like a log jsut before waking uyp early. I do not remember any dreams, only taht I was having a really good dream right beofre waking up. I woke up disoriented and unhappy because this good dream was interrupted. For today (Saturday) I also went to sleep late and woke kind of early. I do not remember any dreams right now because I did not have my journal handy and I was put ont he spot because we had to do a lot very quickly. I cannot remember any feelings either.
I get up out of bed, and walk downstairs to the bathroom... wait it's upstairs... I have to pee! No, I don't. For some reason, I touch my crotch, and I don't have my man parts... OH SHIT. Wait.... this is a dream. right... ok... I am just going to walk around and touch things. Things feel so realistic, I start to lose lucidity. THIS IS A DREAM THIS IS A DREAM, DAMMIT. I sit down on the couch. I am sitting in my dream. I am going to stay here. I am... sleepy... I fall asleep (in my dream.) DOH!
I fall out of a portal... on to a familiar looking plain at the edge of a forest. There is a castle in front of me. On the drawbridge are a bunch of cheesy DC shadow ogres. They grimace at me. I step forward, and slicing them all in half with a finger laser shout: NONE OF YOU ARE REAL. I leap over the wall, and land in the courtyard. There is a tower I must climb. I stick my ninja fist thingies in the wall and climb up, and into a window. There is a beautiful blond girl waiting there. It's Angel. Oh, I dyed my hair for this adventure. Xaphor pokes his head in the window. "But first you must defeat me!" I close the blind on his head, and kiss my hot girlfriend. There was something about gold or treasure? Rumpelstiltskin? A red devil-boy appears and says, "No, that's not how you do it!" I shrug, and kiss Angel some more.
A large crowd of kids from my high school have planned to go to a mall, then the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and a ballgame. I am with them, but am rather low on cash and already have the giveaway bobblehead from the Hall of Fame. When they leave for the Reds, I stay to bum around in the mall. I head to a Barnes and Nobel to buy a copy of the Tao te Ching. When I get to the shelf where it's kept, I'm accosted by a clerk who says I tried to shoplift it earlier and thus am not allowed to buy it. I get angry and start to make a scene. I notice that mixed with the books on the shelf is a poorly written journal (text RC failed); its owner, a cute black girl, returns to claim it and takes the Tao te Ching along with it. Now I'm really pissed, and I go to pick a fight with a random customer. I soon realize he outclasses me in every way, but I refuse to back down and lose pretty badly.
19-08-10 I woke up in my bed, after a few jolted and fragmented dreams like mentioned before. But this time it was different. I felt the same tingly sensation all over my body that I remember from my first WILD, I quickly started loosing control as everything was dark and there was nothing to see. I shouted “Woow wow, get back here” did a little jump and reached out for the ground while spinning. I mentally said to myself I need light, I needed to see and start using my senses in order to stabilise the dream. I couldn't keep the lights switched on they kept turning off. After a while the light stabilised a bit and I started focusing on the mess on my floor, loads of colours and clothes everywhere (like it is in real life) except there was an old pair of shoes I no longer posses (now I know where to look if I should be fortunate enough to have another Lucid before the end of August ^^). I decided though that the idea of cleaning my room in a lucid dream was a bit of a waste so I walked into the hallway remembering now to smell, touch and try and look around. ARGH damn lights, what good is it to be mentally able to turn them on/off if they won't stay on!!! I started loosing the tingling sensation in my body and was afraid I was about to wake up, so I did a quick check and reached out with my hand and made an empty Coke bottle fly into it.. Telekinesis, check.. still dreaming. I walked to my coffee table, that admittedly was slightly in the wrong place and made sure I caressed it and felt out for the edges and corners (something I reminded myself about when awake, at work considering writing a small explanation on Schemata, from an old presentation I have lying around). In the lounge it was dawn although it had been dark night in my sleeping room (didn't think anything of it, the DAMN DAMN lights were still way too dim!!). I tried to remember the goals I had set myself and these needed DCs so I decided to take to the streets, also knowing there would be street lights. I flew out my kitchen window (which has now become my new favourite exit place need to remember to turn it into a portal at some point). Hovered around and looked in the same direction, as where the woman appeared the last time I tried to ask a DC my dream name. There were no people, but a simply fantastic (although small) Siberian husky came down the street towards me. I landed and sat on the ground calling out “come here boy” in a friendly tone and as he came I started cuddling him behind the ears. I was aware that the visual and tactile sensations of cuddling this dog was helping me stabilise the dream, and besides the dog loved it (I will get back to just how much in a bit ^^). I looked over his shoulder and I saw that woman's back as she turned a corner. “stop” I shouted, and took off flying after her, the dog followed. I thought to myself I could grab a quick dream flirt ^^. As I came around the corner I saw a door leading slightly downwards, the type of door that leads to a corridor under the building(s) commonly associated with the university structures. I flew through it, the dog followed (didn't pay any attention to the dog's control ability till after having booted up the PC to write down the dream). As I flew through these corridors I several times flew through doors, which I have never been able to before (the dog followed). And midway through I noticed the dog jumping up and down, either he wanted more attention or thought it was as fun a game as I did. Now that I was confident in my abilities to fly through matter, although not being able to see through, I flew up through the walls at an angle and the dog followed until I reached a café of sorts. The dog disappeared, but the woman was queuing up to get seated. The café had a professional feel to it and the surrounding buildings in quality seemed governmental. I said “hi” to which she replied “hi and goodbye” which I found very odd, although I didn't treat her like other DCs in the past, to whom I would say “youre in my head, this is my dream”. I wanted to talk to her and start the whole flirting plan I had in mind, but she kept refusing me although she was smiling while walking away. I must have asked her why she refused me, as she said something like “I don't know it just seemed rude since I wasn't going to get anything to eat” I asked “why is that?” and she seemed stunned by the question and as she was about to answer... I woke up >.<
Updated 08-19-2010 at 04:05 AM by 35291 (Adeed tags)
I am looking after my father's shop. Eating Lasagna. The lighting is dim, orange. A customer looks at our new caps and say that we should have brought them in earlier. She wears a blue dress. I talk to one of the employees. What an ordinary dream.
Went job hunting in the city with Julie and Emily. First stop is H&M. The employees tell us to just stay so we can be interviewed there. I did not see any clothes there, but I recall employees doing people’s hair like a salon. This was not your average H&M, it looked very majestic with gold trimming, high ceilings, and paintings everywhere. While we waited for the boss, me, em, and ju went to the backroom where there were clothes. All of the clothes on the racks were dresses, I remember specifically one with polka dots, and one with stripes and a bow on the front of it. I almost got mad at Emily because I thought she chose to try on the same dress as me, but she assured me that she didn’t. By the time I picked everything I wanted to try on, it was my turn for an interview. I might have said something like “Shoot, I can’t try my stuff on.” Julie replies by saying “ It’s okay, I didn’t like those clothes anyway.” In my defense I say, “Well, I’m STILL gonna try them on.” I don’t recall the interview, but I do remember thinking I was going to get hired when the boss called everyone into this huge beautiful room. The boss, me and this other girl sat on a couch, while a lot of other employees surround us on the floor. The boss says “We should find a better way to do this, but we all decided to hire Brownie!” All I could think was, who the heck is Brownie? After he says her name, people start smiling and chit chatting, and I over hear stories of this Brownie girl and how funny she is, and how she talks about Africa all the time. Amongst the chatter, I notice that me and the young boss had our arms intermingled. It seemed to be intentional. Then something WEIRD happened. Everyone stops their chit chatting once we all notice a family walk through the doors. A dad, a mom, and two daughters. They pay no attention to the huge amount of young people sitting on the floor. They go straight to the walls and stare and touch them in amazement. This is the first time any of us notice there is art all around us. The walls are painted thoroughly with lamp posts and book shelves. The family is yelling back and forth to each other “Look at this one!” While we sit there and stare at the family in amazement.
non dream Dream lucid I was with some other people, I don't know where I was at, but I knew some people were looking for us. We were travaling down a road to get somewhere, a couple of jeeps pulled over. I ducked into the ditch, I only had a couple of arrows left, and I wasn't going to take a chance of alarming any other gaurds, so I just hoped the other two people with me would distract them long enough for me to make a break for it. Right as they were about to find me out, I heard a noise, I instantly knew that it was one of my partners. If that's what they were, the gaurds heard the noise too, and loaded back into their jeeps and left. So me and the others went down a path off the road, plowing through sticks and weeds. We appeared at a huge mansion, where we all split up and went our own ways. And this is were my dream gets fuzzy and skips a little to a different place I'm at an entrance of a city. Somehow I have turned into a prisoner, and this girl throws me into what looks like a cage, with these four little girls, and four evil poodles. I managed to smooth talk the cage keeper to let me out. From there I entered the city. It was wonderful. Their were little stands everywhere, and a huge pink tree that seperated that city from the other part of the world, and giant walls surrounded the city. I had met up with one of my friends in the city. He stands up on something and started talking. "If the other side of the world is at war, then why isn't this part too?" That's when everything went bad. Everybody started freaking out and rushing toward the exit, I was running with my friend to and this thing started to stick to my hand, it was wierd. It started growing as I quickly flung it off. We started to enter the exit, it was packed. People were side by side, and it wasn't very big, and it was square and kept going down. And that was when I woke up
There's a girl stuck in a glass box, unable to get out. However, she can cast astral projections of herself - and has sent one of them to find me. She asks me for help, and I gladly volunteer. I gather my Mom and a couple of my other friends and for some reason we can't fit in one car. So we take two, ready to free the girl and kick ass. We find the place where the girl is being held. I go up to the glass and see the girl is terrified. "Don't break it!" my Mother tells me, keeping an eye out for bad guys. We don't see any, and I carefully go to the glass and place my hands on it. The glass melts away, and the girl gets out. She had a bad fear of glass - she'd fallen through a window once and had been badly scarred on her arms from it, and now she didn't like glass. "Hurry up!" My Mom told me, and quickly we rushed to the car again. Our other friends had heard about some kind of supernatural fight thing going on, and so they had gone to help out while we helped the girl stuck in the glass. We were on our way to the fight and my Mom said "Oh shit, we're almost out of gas. We're swerving off." We ended up doing this. The gas pumps were shaped oddly, and I got out to pump the gas. It took a short time and my Mom was yelling at me to get back in the car or she would leave without me. I had to lurch as quickly as I could over to the car and for a few minutes I was dragged along until I managed to get back into the car. We were driving along a road at the bottom of a cliff of sorts, and above us were pretty houses that just felt wrong. Like they weren't normal. I mentioned this to my Mom. "We'll have to check them out later," she said. "I agree with her," the girl we rescued, who was in the backseat, said. "They don't seem right." We finally got to where we were supposed to be. A huge fight was going on. There was a couple of dragons, too, and one person, being sneaky, slunk up behind the dragon and killed it. I was amazed at this.
18.08.2010Potential Dream Sharing with my wife. (MILD) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID A more decent night. Hopefully my subconscious is digesting all the new changes in my professional waking life. One fragment and two lucids. Third: I woke up from my previous lucid. It was not as awesome so I wanted other one. I promised to myself that I was going to MILD and have a decent lucid. I focused on a forest while falling asleep. I was with a female DC. She was good looking and I knew she liked me, however, I felt we were just friends. We were indoors and we were going downstairs to some place. This place, was in the middle of nowhere, within a big forest. She was tired so I grabbed her like a "Just Married" couple going to the hotel. I waked faster to get to the place. Suddenly, she was waking next to me and I was surprised. We got to a place, now, I was with my wife instead. We were going to a group of meditation and psychics. There was a guy with us and he was talking about what was going to take place. He told me we would start to see how my yoga was. It was not necessary to be qualified, but it was like some extra credit for something. We approached a room and he opened the door. There were three female DC and two male DC stretching. I observed they had blue yoga mats. My wife said that she know nothing about Yoga and she was not doing it. She left and I entered with the DC. I was streaching when I noticed that I was on my underwear. I started to be worried about that, everybody else wore yuga suits. However, I noticed that the professor did not wear underwear. I saw his penis. I found that weird and I decided to RC. My hands were blurry and I felt my dream fading. I though, "No way. That never happens to me" I exited that class and saw a small window. I knew if I started to fly my dream would become stable. I started to fly and I saw that my wife (who has been waiting outside the whole time) grabbed my foot and I was just floating. My dream was not stable, so I needed to fly away. I flew with my wife holding my foot. She was scared and I dropped her off outside a garden outside this building. I was in the air, with my dream fully stable. I could see the Skyscrapers several feet away. It was dawn and it was beautiful. The sky was clear and I could feel the wind blowing my face. I felt very calm. I was happy because I finally had a decent dream to enjoy and slow down my waking craziness. I was going to fly away, however, my wife did not vanish and I found that odd. I landed next to her and I asked if she knew where we were. She did not act dumb like a regular dream character. I told her we were in a dream. She replied that it was awesome, that finally she became lucid. I told her she did and I was very happy. I told her, "You are not used to this kind of gravity. If you feel you are going to wake up, tell yourself to remember this dream." I remembered that my students on the MILD classes did not have much of a success with the lucid task I ordered, so I wanted to do it as example for next week. I decided to take flight and fly around the forest. I flew around the trees. I did not see that many trees, it was a pretty deserted forest. I flew over the threes and then, around the trees. I decided to land as the task was done. My wife was alone queuing. She still did not vanish like a regular DC, she stood in the same place where she was. I flew back to my wife. She was looking around surprised. I rose my hand and aimed to a tree. Next to the tree a small white light appeared. My wife asked me, "Can I destroy that tree with my fist?" I replied, "If you believe, you can... see this" I rose my hand and used telekinesis on one tree. The land started to vibrate and I pulled the whole tree out of the ground. I was doing this with my mind. I could see how some dirt came off the tree. I saw the roots of the tree, perfect roots like real ones. I banished the tree into oblivion in the middle of the air. My wife stopped next to a tree. She rose her fist and hit it. Half of the tree broke and fell to the ground. I saw how several leaves and branches flew in all directions. My wife was very happy. I started to feel I was going to wake, I tried to spin but I woke up. I had a FA in my room. My wife was saying, "Do not hit me, do not hit me" I woke her up and told her it was not me. She replied, "Yes, you were lucid!" I told her it was my DC, that I awoke after she broke the tree. I woke up for real. My wife never recalls dreams and she was not able to recall this one. Her DC acted and thinked with a lot of sense, never seen a DC acting and thinking that well. My wife was able to talk about stuff from waking, which means more evidence that she might had a lucid dream share with me. Missed Dream Signs: - None. Notice dream Signs: - The yoga professor did not wear underwear. Reality Check Performed: - Hand check.
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