DJ 6 (24 June 2010) Another 5 minute nap episode. Another dream involving Donna Very brief dream. My brother and I are in an office talking with a total stranger sitting behind a desk. (A ton of paperwork pilled on it by the way). Suddenly, we’re discussing my ex-wife and our living arrangements and the paperwork that needs to be filled out and lost on this guy’s desk. I look at my brother and look at the desk and wonder why I’m discussign Donna with a complete stranger, when our relationship (or unrelationship) has already been finalized. I’m aware that I wouldn’t normally be talking to anyone else about this and come to the conclusion that I’m dreaming. Again I waste the awareness. But the stupid alarm goes off and I have to get ready for other duties. STUPID ALARM. I’m not sure I’d be able to know what – if anythong – I’d have sone with awaareness anyway.
DJ 5 – 25 June 2010 Billiards I’m in a pool hall with some friends. I don’t know who these people are, but I recognize them in my dream (or treat them in my dream) as friends. Anyway, we’re playing guy/girls teams, and halfway through a game I recognize that there are more balls on the table than there had been on the previous shot, or on another shot all of the opponents balls were not on the table at all. I tell myself in the dream, “This can’t be right” and I’m aware that I’m dreaming, but then something catches my attention and I go along with the dream (can’t recall what it was that distracted me),but then I woke up. Am I getting closer? Even if by chance happening? I didn’t know what to do with theh awareness in the dream. And it’s more frustrating now that I’m awake, because I feel like could have been there. It’s t he same type of feeling after you’ve been in a tornado. I was more scared after the fact tot realize that I could have very easily been killed. Now I’m pretty sure I’m not gonna get killed in my dream, but it’s the after-realization of the event that is stronger than the not utilizing the awareness at the moment. Does any of this make any sense?
A nice, un-melatonin'ed sleep last night 11:30p-3:10a Raiding I was in a a raid with my Warcraft guild. I was all first person, and I was me, not a character Anyways, we were in a mine shaft, although it was quite well lit. I remember us finding our way around, and doing quite well at killing the mobs and bosses in there. After we downed the second to last boss, we were quite amazed at the fact that we one-shotted everything today. I noticed I was straggling behind, so I ran to catch up. As I rounded a corner, I accidentally pulled a mob my guildmates hadn't bothered clearing. I must have been a priest or something, because it only took a couple of defense-less clobbers, and I was down, lol. I sort of blanked out on the beating. I rememeber watching the mob run at me; me shouting, "Careful guys, I accidentally pulled some friends, I'm going to die!"; blacking out, and falling to the ground. However, once I was on the ground, my eyes were open, I could see the dirt and the metal track for the mine cars, but I was paralysed (dead) and couldn't move. I heard my guild leader shout, "Let's get those mobs killed, and rez Serenity," (they actually called me Serenity, and not my real name). I remember hearing one of the pallies say, "Don't worry, Seren, I got you." Short WBTB I knew I wasn't going to get a full sleep (I actually only had about 3 hours left in my night, at this point), but I thought I would do a quick thing, anyways. I sat on my couch and repeated to myself a few times to recognize that dreamy feeling. I imagined that feeling from my last dream. That weightless, yet fluidy motion. I reminded myself to recognize that feeling. Then, I told myself, once I get back in bed, it is meant for sleeping. I fell asleep fairly quickly. 3:10a-6:00a Out with Lily Most of this is lost, but I remember Lily and I were just hanging out with each other. At 5:45a, my alarm rang so I could start my recall. I turned my alarm off and closed my eyes. I re-entered the dream, but I have to describe this, because normally, I don't remember the re-entry. It's a bit like the Pensive from Harry Potter. I saw my dream hovering and hazy before me, much like how daydreams are. Where, you are "in" them, but there always just before you, rather than around you. Then, much like dunking my head in the Pensive, the dream pulled me in and rushed around me, forming up. I lost awareness Lily was sitting with her co-workers, in a park. They were trying to do a group picture. I realized I was in the shot, and I backed out to watch from the side. Lily was sitting between two coworkers that were married to each other. The photgrapher asked my friend to kiss the guy. She did so, but she was EXTREMELY uncomfortable with it. There was no false pretenses or anything, but it was all really awkward, nonetheless. The group broke apart and the wife asked Lily to give her a hug. She kept saying, "No, let me hug you, my arms are longer than yours." As they compared arm lengths, my alarm dragged me back out of the dream. I decided to snooze it for 10 minutes, and see if I could DEILD; knowing what my dream re-entry looks like, now Only, my brain started getting all caught up with the details of getting ready for work and out the door, so it ended up not happening. Ah well! *NEW* I believe this newly recalled bit happened in the 3am-6am stretch. I was with my family, walking through a woodsy area. While the setting itself was unfamiliar, we stumbled upon a familiar set of houses. It is one of my old childhood houses! The siding on the wall is as hideous as I remember (brown vinyl on the first floor, off-white vinyl for the second floor. I know, you're sitting there asking yourself, "Why would someone DO that?!" I don't have an answer for you. They just did). All the houses looked abandoned and basically just left there to fall into disrepair. I was trying to take pictures of the house with my cell phone camera, but the pictures kept coming out really terrible-looking. Either I couldn't get the full house in; or my finger was covering it; it was blurry, you name it. Mike was trying to grab my phone and take the picture himself. My dad was telling us to hurry up so we can leave.
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[Dream in blue.] [Lucid in red.] [Nightmare in pink.] [Non-dream in normal.] #1: I was in my computer room with my mom and we were talking about something. I can't remember what. Then I said, "I'll show you!" I closed my eyes, opened them again, clapped my hands and something appeared (I don't know what). My mom asked how I did it and I said I lucid dreamed and made it appear! She was all impressed but when I tried again I failed due to the false awakening #2: I was moving away to college, moving into a dorm. Again, I don't remember much, but I remember that once I moved in, my dorm was about the size of our downstairs toilet. Which is about four foot by six foot. And I was being dripped on because the roof was damp and wet. #3 For some reason, I'm playing the Sims 3. And one of my sims was writing, but didn't use the computer. Instead, he wrote by hand and there were all these pieces of paper on his bedside table. But the publisher wouldn't have it and demanded he wrote it less fragmentedly on the computer. ...Wtf.
19.12.2009Great Catch (Fragment) (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID A guy I used to know was gearing up to take a penalty kick at me. I was in nets with my arms by my sides. He took a run up and kicked. I put my hands up and caught it about two inches from my chest, without taking a step or even blinking. Needless to say, I felt awesome. I threw the ball down casually and walked off with a ridiculous swagger.
19.12.2009Fishbowl (DILD) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I was out the front of a supermarket with a few friends. The supermarket was situated on the edge of an area of rock pools, the kind you get at rocky beaches. There were some areas covered in slimy green seaweed and moss, other areas where there were deep pools, and some bare black rocks. Me and my friend Mark were waiting on the edge of the rock pools for a few other people to finish up inside. A few minutes later, the rest of our group came outside, and we started heading across the rock pools. Somebody was carrying a large round fishbowl with a single small fish in it. The fish was orange and about an inch long. It was flatter than a goldfish, with a bigger tail. The guy carrying it tried to hand it off to me, but I just looked at him and shook my head. There's no way I was going to carry that over this terrain! Plus he bought it, his responsibility! We started making our way over the rocks. I turned to Mark and said, "Fuck, it's like the dead marshes in Lord of the Rings." Soon somebody stumbled with the fishbowl and the fish fell into a small rock pool. We spent five minutes trying to scoop the fish up and chasing it around the pool. My jeans got soaked up to the knees. Eventually it stopped for a second and I grabbed it. I put it back in the bowl. I tried to keep up with the rest of the group by taking shortcuts and cutting corners, but no matter what I did, they always stayed ahead of me. At the bottom of the rock pool area was a fast-flowing stream. It looked almost artificial because the surface the water was flowing across was so flat. One of my friends started walking along it, and I said, "You might be better to sit down and let it carry you!" No sooner had I said this than his feet slipped out from under him and he went on his ass, thanks to the slippery seaweed. I carefully made my way over to the stream and suddenly realised I was wearing swimming shorts. This turned me lucid. I sat down in the stream and was immediately carried off at quite high speed. The stream was becoming like a water slide. Further ahead, I could see that the slide just ended with a drop into a river far below. Above the drop was a bridge that my friend Darren was crossing. I pushed myself along and lay down to increase my speed, and soon I flew off the edge. Everything went into slow-mo. I whipped round in the air to wave at Darren and make a "whoop" sound, then did a backflip before hitting the water. The river was much faster-flowing that the stream above. It led underground and round a corner to the right, then just stopped. The water drained away through a grate, and I was in a large room not unlike my old school assembly hall. Lost lucidity around here. There was a strange bluish tint to the light in the room, and there were three boxing rings at my end. I ended up refereeing a boxing match which looked a lot like Street Fighter, except real- and I looked like a massive wolf in clothes. At one point in the fight I got bored, and jumped in with a headbutt which sent the guy flying.
18.12.2009Soul Man (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I should have written this earlier! I've got scrappy notes for this dream but can't remember the details. My recall had gone to shit lately, I need to step up my game! I was dressed like Ezio, the assassin from the game "Assassin's Creed 2". I was fighting a group of guys with spears outside the entrance to some underground casino. The entrance was an archway carved out of purple rock, leading slightly underground. I was fighting with a short blade, and just about keeping them off me. They soon gained the upper hand and I was forced to use my secret weapon- poisonous snakes. I reached into my white robe and pulled out a handful of foot-long, bright green snakes and flung them in the faces of my assailants. They screamed with fear and thrashed around trying to get the snakes off. I used this opportunity to go inside. Farther inside, I walked up to a small booth, separate from the rest of the attractions. Behind the window was a grim-reaper type figure. He had the black cloak, hood, scythe, and of course, skeletal body. Above the window, a sign said, "Soul Man". I spoke to him for a while, and found out I needed to pay him in "souls" for his services. I told him he would likely find a spare soul or two on the (probably dead) guys out the front. He nodded his assent. I never found out what he wanted them for, or in exchange for what... :S I moved on to an ice-cream bar. But this was no ordinary ice-cream. It was the nicest, most sugary-sweet, colourful, best-packaged ice-cream I have ever seen. While I was waiting in line for some, I even turned to the guy next to me and said, "I can't believe ice-cream this good even exists!" -before I had even tasted it.
17.12.2009Rat's Nest (WBTB) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I managed a small, semi-stable WILD this morning. It was punctuated by several false awakenings. Recall is terrible. I should have written down some dreams from before the WILD. Now it's waay later on, and I can barely even remember the WILD, never mind the non-lucids before... The first thing I remember is a false awakening in my own bed. I felt what I assumed was the cat walking up the bed from the bottom. Except there were two of them. And the one on the right felt much more like a snake. A massive, heavy snake. Part of me nearly shat itself, but then I remembered that my door wasn't even open, so the cat couldn't have got in. Then I remembered I was trying to LD, making the "door closed" theory irrelevant anyway. The next FA occurred in a four-poster bed on top of a platform, in the Halo 3 multiplayer level, Rat's Nest. The difference was that the indoor sections were much tighter than in the game. I got up and walked downhill to the open-air part, where a girl appeared out of nowhere and took me by the hand. She led me back up the hill and through a door I hadn't noticed before. We were now in a strange house. It was decorated like an old couple lived there. I tried to speak, but I had the same problem as before. My mouth didn't work. I think this might have been because I was asleep on my back with my mouth wide open, unlike normal- so this must have carried through. I tried to say, "What are we doing here?" She answered anyway, telling me that somebody upstairs wanted to talk to me. I ran up the pine wood staircase, to the third floor, and went into a bedroom. There was a naked girl lying on her front reading on the bed. "Shit! Sorry!" I said, as I turned and exited. (Prob. semi-lucid here) Another FA in my bed again. The cat was back, and it crawled up to my face. Then it turned into the girl from before. "Sweet!" I said retardedly, with my mouth hanging open. Right then my asshole brother came into my room, turned on the light and started talking crap in my ear.
16.12.2009Kodo Riding (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID If you've ever played World of Warcraft, you'll know what a "Kodo" is. If not, it's a big dinosaur/rhino creature. Tell ya what: I was in a large cabin in the mountains. There was really thick snow outside, maybe a few feet deep. I knew I had to go on a trip to some other cabin quite far away, and there was no way I could make it on foot, especially since it had just started snowing heavily again. Someone I was staying with (could have been male, female, young or old, I can't remember the details in this dream!) suggested I take their kodo mount. I turned round and it was right in my face. I was initially terrified- it was the size of an elephant except longer, and covered in thick white fur. Evidentally this was a snowy mountain-adapted kodo. I got some practice riding it up and down the long living room. It was quite difficult to stay on top of, because I was wearing a thick coat and trousers. I had to sit on the hump at the top of the creature's back, and I kept falling forward. I decided it wouldn't be too bad if I fell off since the snow would cushion the fall. The kodo was very obedient, even waiting for me every time I fell off. Missing time... Later on, I was having a shower in the cabin's bathroom. The shower head was attached to the wall above a bath. I was standing in the bath with a shower curtain round the edges. I was washing my hair when the lights went out, and it started to feel like the cabin was moving. I thought nothing of it, and rinsed my hair. I then scrambled around in the darkness looking for shower gel on the floor beside the bath. There were numerous tubes and containers, and I picked something which looked like it could have been a shower gel container. I washed myself with it, rinsed, then stepped out. The lights came back on. I looked at myself in the mirror to discover I was covered in yellow paint. I spent a few minutes rubbing it off my face.
16.12.2009Giant Tent...? (DEILD) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID This is the end of the last dream (I can't remember more than the end). I had just got out of my final class of the day in school. There was music playing as I headed for the exit. To my surprise, when I got to the front foor, I saw that it opened up into an enormous tent. The interior of the tent was Native American Indian in style, and the roof was about 30m high. It was pretty dark inside, and there were big, uneven steps down to the inside. I danced and jumped my way down these steps in time to the music. Part of me wondered how I was getting so lucky at landing all my jumps and landing so softly, but I didn't become lucid. When I got to the bottom, I started running for the exit at the front, but I was stopped by my headmistress. She said something angrily and pointed up at the clock. All I got from her was that it was too early to leave just yet. I looked around the tent. There were lots of what looked like pool tables scattered around, with seats right beside them. Me and a few friends went over and sat down at one of them. Instead of balls on the table, there were tiny black, white and red stones. There were a lot less black stones than white and red. I assumed they had been lost, or I just couldn't see them in the dark. I put my head down on the table to wait to be let out, but I woke up. I was still very deeply relaxed, and hadn't moved, so I went for a DEILD. I imagined the feeling of my head on the table, with tiny pieces of stone poking me from under my forehead. I also "felt" my feet (wearing flip-flops) beside the legs of the chair. It became really realistic very quickly, and I found I was able to lean back on the chair and put the front two legs down on my feet- not too hard, just enough to anchor myself. I moved my head around on the table, feeling the scrapes of the stones. Suddenly I felt like I was falling off the chair to my left. I sat up and looked around. There were people lying sleeping at tables all around me, hundreds of them. It was even darker than it was before. "What the fuck, where am I?" I asked the room. It was so realistic and I was so surprised it worked, that I had a hard time believing it was a dream. Should have done a reality check... Everybody around me woke up and laughed. I thought it was weird that they weren't annoyed for being woken up. I woke up for real a few seconds later.
15.12.2009Nigel Powers (WILD) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID Semi-decent WILD this morning. I've no idea how long it took to get into the dream, as I lost all sense of time. It began with a false awakening, where I was almost completely paralysed. There was a fat dude sitting on my legs. I was surprised to see him there, and after thinking about it for a minute, I concluded that this had to be a dream. He started trying to tell me a story, but I interrupted him, and said, "God dammit mate, let me sleep." With that I drifted off to sleep (in the FA) to a dream-within-a-dream. This seems to be a good way of getting rid of situations where you can't move or if you ever get trapped in bed in a LD. Just WILD then and there and find yourself somewhere else! Good times. Suddenly I was being taken through the streets of Belfast, leaning on somebody's shoulder. My neck didn't seem to have any power, and my mouth was hanging open. It was like I had no muscles in my face. It was night time, and we headed down an alley beside a shop I sometimes go to. I managed to ask the person carrying me, "Where are we going?" in a mumbled voice. He explained that we were going to a nightclub run by Nigel Powers. Normally I would have been pleased about this, but I thought I was in no fit state to party! The guy supporting me seemed to be friendly with the female japanese bouncers, and went straight to the front of the line. My head rolled around on my neck a bit, and for a second I was back in bed with the fat guy sitting on me. I put it out of my head and tried to concentrate on where I wanted to be, in the club. There was a little bit of missing time here. After which I was semi-lucid. I had just got on a bus, heading for a night out. There were about 10 double-decker buses picking people up. A girl I know started giving me seductive looks from another bus, so I ran down to the front of mine, and jumped from bus to the other. I went upstairs to her and kissed her. Then I woke up!
13.12.2009Lightning Show (DILD) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID Lately I've been too lazy to throw myself into a proper WILD, so I've just been waking up then goin back to sleep a few minutes later, hoping to DILD. Works occasionally! I was driving round Florida with two of my friends. I kept seeing things completely out of the ordinary, like a giant arch of light in the evening sky, over the ocean- and buildings which sprung out of nowhere. I kept trying to tell my friends about the stuff I was seeing, but they wouldn't believe me. I eventually convinced them to go to a restaurant beside the sea for dinner the next evening to see if the arch appeared in the sky again. We had our meal, then lay down on the beach as night approached. Sure enough, the arch appeared. Soon after, the sky went completely black and a thunderstorm began. It was a bit scary, and I became lucid. Looking up at the sky was incredible. It was like a light show. The lightning would make the gaps in the clouds stand out white. There were several of these gaps shaped like pterodactyls and monsters. It started to rain lightly, and I could really feel the coldness of the droplets on my chest (I was just wearing swimming shorts). I reached up at the sky and tried to create my own lightning, but it didn't work. As I reached up, I started to feel my own body lying in bed. I thought, "Crap, crap, don't wake up now, I've only had two minutes of fun!" I tried running my hands through the sand and grabbing people lying beside me, but nothing worked and I was dragged back to consciousness.
13.12.2009Dog Attack (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I was on top of a grassy hill in a public park with a fitness trainer. Apparently I was too fat, and needed to lose weight, so we had brought my dog with us for a run. I should have realised this was a dream, if anything I need to fatten up! We were taking a rest of top of this hill, and I commented on how peaceful it was with no-one around. "Usually this park is swarming with dogs," I said. Not ten seconds later, four sheep dogs, a rottweiler and numerous other breeds I didn't recognise came out of the trees at the bottom of the hill. I got up to put my dog on the lead, in case he got into a fight with another dog. I couldn't catch him, and as usual, he ran straight over to the other dogs to say hello. He's big, friendly and stupid, my dog, but unfortunately not all other dogs are the same. Two of them attacked him, and I ran over to try and pull them off. I was annoyed at myself for taking off my socks and shoes, because one dog kept biting my feet. I had to punch one dog in the head to get it off. Another one tried to bite my dog's ear off. I woke up with my heart pounding!
13.12.2009Lego Castle (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID This played out like an advertisement for a lego castle. A whole scenario was created, and lego men ran around unaided but narrated, trying to defend the castle from attack. The narrator was the voice of the main character's father, who sounded like Obi Wan Kenobi giving Luke Skywalker advice from beyond the grave. He intructed him how to swing round the inside of the castle, killing intruders as he went.
12.12.2009Right What Homework do I have? (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID This was a classic "stressed-out" dream. Like where you realise you've got minutes before an exam and you haven't studied. Same idea. I used to get ones like this all the time. I was leaving school on a friday afternoon, and I didn't have much time to organise what books I needed to bring home until I had to get the bus. I looked in my "homework diary", and saw that I had an enormous 3-part Geography essay, a French practice paper, and something else for ICT. I ran around the school like a headless chicken for ages trying to find what I needed.
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