I was at some kind of school. I walked into different rooms and in one saw 3 women that had just finished a dance class. I talked to one of the women who was tall with short blond hair. I had seen her recently in another dream and seem to be getting to know her.
I went to bed with a Holiday Headache. I didn't take anything for it because I really felt that I could dream away the tension. I tossed and turned but was finally able to sleep. My dreams were chaotic, trying to turn the car around on a dirt road, hearing about a crazy friend from my past. As I woke up this morning, the headache was gone and I know that my dreaming helped release it. It's kinda like needing to say something or get something off of your chest. I needed to dream to express the tension inside, and once I did I felt much better. Another benefit of dreaming!
This one was strange, even for me. I watched "War of the Worlds" last night, so I'm pretty sure that played into it. I was walking home with my son, who was younger than he is now. The streets began flooding and I knew the only way to get home was to swim and get to a boat. I left my son with a friendly stranger and told him not to worry, I'd be back with a boat. As I entered the water a voice began speaking to me. I completely forgot that I was in the water, the voice had a hypnotic effect on me. It told me that humanity didn't learn our true nature from living in paradise so now we were going to have to learn it the hard way. There would be natural disasters that would force us to come together. The voice said there is no I or you or they, but instead there is only we and us. I've had alien dreams before, but not like this one.
I'm hiking on some large boulders up a river with a group of friends and family. It feels like South America. We come to a large house that is like a rest center for hikers. There's food and some folks who are taking care of us. Then it's time to continue our hike and I start back down the river, but I notice my wife and my mother are missing. I tell the others to go on, that we will catch up with them. I go back into the house and call out for my wife and mother but get no answer. I check from room to room and finally find them, with several other hikers, tied up and gagged. I untie them and my they tell me they are being held captive by soldiers because there is a revolution going on. I go back through the house and hear a fight going on. There are two groups of soldiers fighting with each other over who gets the captives. In the midst of the fight I grab a rifle from one of the soldiers and aim it at them. I tell them nobody gets the captives, that we are leaving. I call out to my wife and to my mother that we've got to get out of here. They call back to me that they are packing. So here I am, holding an old rifle on a dozen mean looking soldiers while my wife and my mother are "packing'. WTF!!!
I'm playing baseball in the hallway of a school. I pitch the ball to an older woman and am surprised as she knocks it all the way to the other end of the hallway. A group of students pick up the ball and start playing with it themselves. I'm at an outdoor circus or fair. There's a woman who lays down in a tank of water and holds her breath. She challenges people to hold their breath longer than she does. I'm with 2 girls and a guy and all three of them get in the tank and begin holding their breath underwater. I'm watching and wondering "How long can you hold your breath in a dream?"
I'm on security patrol around the fenced perimeter of a dream facility. I'm new here and I'm with a young guy who has been doing this security patrol before. We see two white wolves and the guy says we have to chase them away. I don't feel the need to run them off, in fact I feel like they belong here, but the guy has already engaged the wolves in a battle. I pick up a long thick pole and shoo them away from fighting with the guy. They run off. The guy tells me they are a breeding pair and that they were going to have young wolves here. This makes me wonder even more if we should have chased them away. We go inside the fence and enter into a kind of school. We meeet three young women, one is tall with blond hair and the other two seem younger than her. Everyone is excited about the dream classes they are about to attend. I try to tell them about how I'm here to experience shared dreaming, and that I've experienced it before with my firend Michael, but they seem distracted by their own plans. They all leave to attend classes and I'm left wondering about the wolves.
I'm playing on D Wade's basketball team. We both go up to block a layup and he gets there first and makes the block but falls down as he lands. I reach down and help him up and tell him what a great block he made. He smiles. I'm in a car in a parking lot. A news car pulls up next to me, Channel 26 News. A reporter and photgrapher get out and walk towards some news event. I say to myself, "they shoiuld have stayed here and filmed me flying or disappearing, now that would be news." (Over the years of lucid dreaming I have incorporated many lucid powers into nonlucid dreaming. The bad thing is that I'm so used to these powers that they don't alert me to the fact that I'm dreaming.)
Had a small lucid dream just before waking this morning. I was in a house with Todd, who has triggered lucidity for me before. I knew when I saw him that I was dreaming. I looked at my hands then said to him, "let's go outside and enjoy this". I walked outside and began floating up into the sky. As I called on my dream guide I could feel that I wasn't deeply enough asleep and began to wake up. Crap.
I've stopped by a house where 3 guys live. I don't know them but they are letting me stay at their house. I'm on a balcony overlooking the living room and decide to try jumping down. It's about a 20 foot drop but I do it. I make it and feel strong. One of the guys in the house sees me do it and now he tries it. He's a little heavy and sure enough he hurts himself. I go over to him and he's not hurt bad, a sprained ankle. I decide I better go before I get into more trouble. (In my dream of the previous night, An Indian shaman told me not to be jumping around.)
A Native American shaman was telling me "we're going to build you a sweatlodge......don't go jumping around in there".
First dream I'm fishing with my friend Michael on the coast of Mexico. We walk along the beach and come to a large fishing boat that's beached. We climb on and walk out to the bow which gives us a view of the ocean. The water is crystal clear but there are rocks below the surface which would make it hard to fish there. I see a deeper hole with no rocks and throw my line into it. There are fish there but they seem to change into strange animal shapes as I watch. Second dream I'm on my way to Sayulita on the Pacific Coast of Mexico. I'm with 4 memebers of my band. We arrive and go to the central plaza to ask about rooms. We find a young Mexican woman who looks friendly and I ask her about housing. She looks like "Selena", a dream guide from a recent lucid dream. She seems to want me to ask her about something other than a place to stay. We move on to a farmer's market and I see a stand with vegetables that are so alive that they are vibrating. The vendor says he knows me and I tell him I'm the guy with the arm wrestling machine from last time? I walk back to the plaza and hear my band playing drums. I walk around in the dark trying to find them.
I was walking back home from a drum circle when it started raining. I ducked into an archway to keep my drum dry and noticed that it lead into a field with hundreds of Greek and Roman statues spread all around. They were magnificent and I wondered how and when they were put there. The owner walked up to me and I said that he must be getting alot of people coming to see the statues. He said that there would be even more people when he got the cable movie channels?!?
Yesterday IWL I went on a bike ride up the mountain with my daughter. She had just run a half marathon so it was hard to keep up with her going up a steep grade. In my dream last night I ran a marathon. I started out feeling young and strong and really in a good rhythm. As I got near the end though my age caught up with me, even in dreaming. It never got sleep paralysis slow, but I was barely able to finish the race. I'm going on a run this morning IWL, but I think I'll pace myself.
I'm walking up the canyon to my home in the mountains and run into Art, my waking life Apache Shaman friend. We take a shorcut to my house and walk through the house of a wealthy man we don't know. He's trying to take some important object out of the house onto his porch. He can't get through the screen door, the door won't open. There are 5 or 6 large screen panels along with the door. Art tries to open the door but another panel opens instead. The man is able to bring the object through to the porch. I walk through the door onto the porch while Art talks to the man. There's a young woman laying down on a couch on the porch. She seems distressed. I ask her if I can rub her neck. She nods and I massage the back of her neck and tell her to relax. I tell her that her problem can be eased by relaxing. Then Art comes out and it's time to continue our journey home. As I'm leaving the woman calls me her "lucky star."
I had more sports dreams last night. I was playing baseball with some young guys. I was pitching (I pitched back in highschool). I threw really hard and when I woke up this morning my arm wasn't sore at all! Then I was playing basketball but someone rode their bike on the court and ran into me. Finally I was playing djembe drums with a large group of young people at a college campus. It became an almost "Occupy" type scene. As I was leaving 2 guys waved goodbye to me and I really felt they were other dreamers. This forum is becoming a subconscious "Fountain of Youth" for my dreaming. You guys should charge older people money to dream with you.