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1-28-15 Fragments - Strange diet (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Dream Fragment (0.5 pts)

Something involving a diet with both green and red apples that my wife wanted to start.

Morning of January 25, 2014. Saturday.



This is a bit unusual and has yet another celebrity, in this case, one that has not really crossed my mind in years. I am in Cubitis yet it also has features of our Wavell Heights home in Brisbane. The Carpenters are visiting. Karen Carpenter is on the floor to my left in somewhat of an informal meditation position. My second-youngest son is in an arm chair to my right and I am sitting between them on a chair similar to my real-life computer desk chair. Richard Carpenter is on the far side of the room to my right, near the windows. Other members of my family are in the house and I think two others in the same room.

I am working on some sort of machine that is apparently a sort of Etch-a-Sketch (slightly smaller, I think) but like a real-life VST or iPad variation or a special iPad with VST ROM (I have no interest in iPads). Over time, it shows a sort of implied concentric figure eight set, but offset or diagonal (to the upper right), but eventually it is seemingly made of a continuous spiral at one point that turns back at each arc somewhat like a maze of one continuous wider line to make the seeming number eight, but of which is slightly squarish.

My son is working on building a computer, it seems, and he gives Karen a CPU. Later, she hands it (or a different one) back to him and I am very annoyed that she almost scratches me with it. Plus, I am irritated that it was passed over me from the floor as I am trying to work at something. I express my anger at her and she gets up immediately and they both (her and Richard, who is 67 but very young in my dream) leave via the front door. I am thinking that it is probably not a good idea to make celebrities angry (which does not really make any sense, as I do not really care what people believe, especially celebrities, who often use their status to promote nonsensical ideas).

In a very short time, Karen comes back in and apologizes to me (or it is more like the scene suddenly jumps to this point with only a vague awareness of her coming back in through the front door), standing on my left. By that time, the “Etch-a-Sketch” VST/music device is making somewhat of a continuous annoying sound that sounds a bit like “grup grup grup” in the voice of a younger female. It could be either “grump” or “grub”, I suppose. It is so loud and annoying and probably not useful for a music track, it wakes me up and I feel a bit overheated.

This seems mostly based on being meticulous in my second-youngest-son’s eating habits, where I would like him to eat a greater variety of foods as he is a very fussy preference-oriented eater. The CPU is a play on “chip”, chicken chips being what he always wants to eat when everyone else is having something else - although he does eat other foods during these times. Karen died of anorexia nervosa which I see as not getting enough protein (or food in general, which is not really a problem for us in real life) but she also apologized for some reason (probably for handing him another “chip” when he could be “eating” - or “working with” something else). The grump/grub play probably means that I am being grumpy (or too meticulous) about his eating habits, as he is healthy otherwise.

If can't sleep for 30 minutes, get up, go to another room, do somethin quiet, come back to bed only when fleeling sleepy.

Do not eat, read, watch TV, in bed. Only for sleep.

Go to bed at same time of day every day. And get up at same time every day.

Avoid naps.

Morning exercise is best. No closer to bed than 3 hours before.
Establish bedtime routine (warm drink, shower, short read, meditation)
Yoga/meditation/relaxation before bed.
Melatonin/Valerian. Melatonin should be cheap. Valerian can be taken every 4 hours.
Eat small bedtime snack: complex carbs, small bit of protein w/tryptophan and calcium. Avoid sugary, all carbs snack.
Calcium helps brain use tryptophan to manufacture melatonin!!!
Low sugar dairy products. Nuts. peanuts with skins, whole almonds (for more fiber), walnuts, pecans, sunflower and pumpkin seeds, pistachios, red peanuts with skins
Ground flax seeds is a big source of tryptophan.
The best bedtime snack is one that has both complex carbohydrates and protein, and perhaps some calcium
For dinner and bedtime snacks, eat a meal or snack that is high in complex carbohydrates, with a small amount of protein that contains just enough tryptophan to relax the brain
Stop working on any task an hour before bedtime to calm your brain.
Don't discuss emotional issues right before bedtime.
Avoid large meals two hours before bedtime. A light snack is fine
Valerian becomes more effective over time, so it's best to take it every night for a short period of time. Start with the lowest dose, then increase over several days' time. Valerian is considered safe to take for four to six weeks.
eat bananas, avocado, peanuts, almonds, figs, and milk-based drinks, all containing tryptophans, a precursor for creating melatonin which regulates sleep.[2] Some snacks to consider include: cookies and milk, sliced banana with chopped dates, and wholegrain bread with lettuce
Plain nonfat yogurt for best calcium. Then cheese, milk,

1-20-11


Dream 1:

I was feeling a little depressed about my raw diet. I hadn't been feeling good one night and let myself eat some warm soup (yes, that was in real life) and was feeling down about it thinking that I had totally blown everything. So I found Markus Rothkranz (wish I had remembered I needed to go flying with him again.) I sat down with him and started to tell him my tragic story about giving in and eating the soup. I went on and on and he was a wonderful listener. But before I could get any feedback from him Jillian Michaels comes in and pulls me away and asks me to talk to her about how I was doing on my diet. So I began my sad story again to her. But I was able to tell her that I thought that the reason I wasn't feeling well the night of the "soup incident" was that I had been really working hard doing her workouts every morning and that I thought that maybe that had triggered a detox.

I woke up before either Markus or Jillian could talk to me, but I feel that this dream was good because I got to put my feelings into words and share and get it off my chest.




Dream 2:

I was in a store or place where Tom Delonge was. Most people had already gotten autographs and left. I finally went up to him and asked if I could take a picture with him. But when I tried I found that my camera just wasn't taking pictures. But I knew that if I switched it to video mode that it would work, so I did that and got some clips of him being goofy. The dream went on and i can't remember all the details. We were hanging out doing something. And he started flirting with me and told me I had a nice butt. And then he kept trying to touch it.





I know....I know....Famous people = Dreaming. Especially famous people trying to touch my butt.

Just not catching it.

I am in a playground with a friend of mine (we'll call her "A") and a Ghostbusters-era Sigourney Weaver. We are all playing like little kids, and eventually start fighting over who gets to go down the slide first. We have a paper-rock-scissors battle to decide. Sigourney gets to go first, then me, and "A" is last. Sigourney goes down the slide but when it is my turn, there is an asian woman I don't know and her baby trying to climb up the slide and I have to wait until they get off to go down. I start to get impatient. While I am waiting, Sigourney Weaver runs to a nearby corner store and buys a tub of Cool Whip. She says "A" can have some but I can't. She opens it and for some reason it is yellow. She says it is butter-flavored. I go down to the store and get my own, but mine is just plain and smaller, and I tell them they can't have any. "A" tells us to stop fighting. Then I realize I can't eat any anyway because I am on a diet. My kids show up and want to play, but I tell them there are mean people here and we need to go somewhere else. The dream ends and another that I cannot remember begins.