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And last night's dream continues! Well, sort of. This one was pretty vivid, too, but it got kinda fuzzy once I woke up. Actually, I can hardly remember specific details now. This time, it was more like a typical video game dream for me; I could only see the screen, like watching a dream in third-person, except I knew I was playing the game (in the other dream, I could still see my room). Also, other characters could actually talk, as opposed to having a dialog box pop up on the screen.

I was playing the "new" Zelda game again (see my previous entry: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/fenn...a-games-37018/). This time, though, I'd already completed the game and was replaying it because I'd unlocked bonus stuff or something. I was in this building, and there were various traps and things that I had to get past (but I already knew how to because I'd apparently done it before).

I eventually reached a glass elevator and went down. Then, I got back in and went up, hoping I wouldn't end up on the same floor as before (remember, it was a video game, so things like what floor I went to weren't necessarily up to me). It went all the way to the top, where there was a shop. The shopkeeper offered me two amounts of money - a larger amount and a smaller amount. I can't remember the exact values. I chose the smaller amount, but then he started yelling at me, telling me to take the larger amount, so I did.

I think there was more to the dream after that, but I can't remember.

After that dream, I woke up and started thinking about it to recall as much as I could. I ended up falling asleep again after a couple minutes or so, causing me to have a dream where I was in the car, thinking about what I was going to write in my dream journal when I got back to my cousins' house (that's where we were going). We soon got to my cousins' house, which looked nothing like it does IWL. When we got out the car, my dad said it was raining, but my mom claimed it wasn't. I couldn't feel any rain, so I stuck my hand out in front of me and could feel rain. I thought it was a little odd that the rain stopped about a foot in front of me, but I didn't really think much of it.

In the next dream, my mom and I were walking down Main Street in the village near where I live, heading for a certain shop (which doesn't exist IWL). We were going there to find and purchase some natural remedy for... something. We entered the shop, arriving in a pink room that smelled strongly of perfume, with a white curtain sort of separating it from the shop itself. We walked past the curtain and into the shop.

Inside, the woman who owned the shop was busy giving a tarot reading to a customer, so my mom and I sat down at a nearby table to wait. There were tarot cards at this table, too, but they looked just like normal playing cards. My mom dealt out some cards (all the while, I was just thinking that she had no clue what she was doing) and then jokingly said that the cards said I would pick them all up (there were a lot on the table), but she picked them up anyway. Then, she told me that these cards were wider than the ones back in England, which meant that they had some sort of special meaning (of course, the real reason they were wider was because they were playing cards, which are wider than tarot cards anyway).

Then, I saw Makayla, a young girl from my church. My mom said she was here to tell us we have to take my friend's mom (not Makayla's mom) to the hospital, as we apparently had to every day at this time. She asked me if I just wanted to be checked out at the hospital while we were there or if I wanted to come back here afterwards instead. Honestly, though, I had no idea what we had even come here for.

The Importance of Keeping A Dream Journal

It is relatively common when the subject of dreams is brought up that someone will say, "I never dream." Of course we know this isn't true. At the other extreme are individuals who claim, "I remember all of my dreams." This is also a delusion. In all instances, we simply don't remember the dreams we forget.

Keeping a dream journal takes effort. Those who truly believe that they remember all of their dreams have the perfect excuse not to do it. It is easy for them to conclude (and I have personally heard it expressed), "Since I remember my dreams when I wake up, why should I keep a dream journal? It has the same effect, doesn't it?"

Well, actually no. It does not have the same effect. Once you awaken to the realization that many, more accurately most, of your dreams are forgotten, you will either decide to keep a dream journal, or you will never improve your dream recall. Without adequate dream recall, there is very little chance that you will become a lucid dreamer. If you are unwilling to pay, you can't play. By keeping a dream journal and following a few fundamental rules, you will be granted access to a vast inner world with very few rules at all.

Keeping a dream journal sounds much simpler than it is.. The strong urge to slip back into sleep when a dream is still fresh in your mind is a formidable adversary. Equally insidious is the almost irresistible belief that you can wait until morning to record the details of a vivid dream. Not only will you forget the details of the dream, it is even more likely that you wont even remember that you had it.

In most cases, we only remember our last dream prior to awakening unless some waking event triggers the memory of an earlier one. Most of us have experienced this phenomenon. You must admit that without the coincidental event that stimulated the memory, you probably would never have recalled the dream. Consequently, the wisest course of action, when you wake up in the middle of the night with good memory of a dream, is to get it recorded while the getting is still good. Believe me, at the time, you will feel certain you will remember it. You won't.

You can easily prove this to yourself. Some night, when you awaken from a clearly remembered dream, force yourself to jot down the key points along with a few unusual details. Go back to sleep. The following morning, dwell for a little while on all you think you remember about the dream before referring to the notes you scribbled a few hours earlier. I predict that you will be surprised to discover that there were significant elements in the dream that you had forgotten.

Once you have gained respect for a dream journal's effectiveness in improving dream recall, you will be prepared to recognize a secondary benefit which is especially important for lucid dreamers. A dream journal will reveal personal "dreamsigns," a subject which is best covered in Stephen LaBerge's books. Briefly stated, these are objects, places or events which tend to occur repeatedly in your dreams. For me these include car trouble, violence, airline crashes, tornadoes, unusual attics or cellars, and provocative girls. Following Stephen LaBerge's advice, every time I experience any of these in "waking life," I immediately do a "reality check" to prove that I am indeed awake and not dreaming. By adhering to this simple discipline, you will certainly one day do a reality check when confronted by one of your dreamsigns - and lo and behold - you will discover that you are dreaming! If unfamiliar with reality testing techniques, see Stephen LaBerge's books or visit the Lucidity Institute website at Lucidity.com. (I am not affiliated or compensated.)

Keeping a dream journal has other benefits. From a philosophical perspective, wherever you choose to put your attention, there you are. Expressed as a maxim, if you pay attention to your dreams, your dreams will pay attention to you. Just the decision to remember and document your dreams will increase your dream recall and, it follows, your likelihood of having a lucid dream.

A good dream journal takes time, and for most of us, time is a precious commodity. If you are just starting and working to increase your overall dream recall, try to record each and every dream you remember. Even the ones that appear to be nonsense are initially useful. Once you have established a reliable routine and have identified your primary dreamsigns, you can back off a bit. Being experienced at lucid dreaming, I admit that I don't record every remembered dream. I quickly assess and rate my dreams. It is easy for me to distinguish between dreams that I consider significant from those that are confused, chaotic, or an apparent expression of my apparent hoard of fears and anxieties. I record and seriously reflect upon the former. I only briefly reflect upon the latter.

If you sleep with anyone you care about keeping, you will very likely need to negotiate alternative arrangements on the nights you target for dreaming. This is one sacrifice that keeping a good dream journal typically requires. I also recommend spending a minor amount of money on a voice recorder (or use that feature on your smartphone). Writing out a long dream can sometimes make it difficult to get back to sleep, and you won't have to worry about trying to translate what usually looks like hieroglyphics the following morning. I reach for my recorder, conveniently placed. I begin drowsily talking. The next day (or whenever) I play it back. Listening to it brings the whole dream back into memory as though I just woke up. I then type it with acceptable grammar and spelling, and it gives me the opportunity to add retrospect impressions and comments.

That's it. I hope this is helpful. Start a dream journal tonight. It speaks for itself in results. /Stephen Berlin

General Information

Date: May 12th, 2012
Amount of Remembered Dreams: 1
Amount of SPP (Special Psychiatric Phenominons) Lucid Dreams, Out of Body Experiences): 0
Fragmented Dreams: 1
Complete Dreams: 0
False-Awakenings: 0

Dream Information

Fragmented or Full: Fragmented
Lucid: No
Nightmare: No
Recognizable Characters or Items: Myself
Superhuman/natural actions or events occuring: None
Overall Dream Summary:

In the dream I was in some sort of hotel-mall complex and mainly I was getting tattoos. The first tattoo had pink and red hearts along with black x's and o's and numbers. The second one was I wanted to get was a Gemini symbol that said divinity but the tattooist either didn't want to give it to me or something. Mainly that was the dream, I believe some other things occured.

April 20, 12. Midnight-6am

Nothing, but remembering dreams is secondary today. Robert is sick and i'm going to take care of him.

Note-I bought a real Dream Journal last night!

April 13, 2012
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Last night, I wrote my affirmation: I remember my dreams vividly and recall them in detail when I wake.

Then, I drew a line beneath the affirmation, read for a while, and before I fell asleep I repeated the affirmation.

It seems I forgot to clue my subconscious in on a few things:

1. I need to actually write the dream down.
2. -or maybe this should be #1 - I need to stay awake long enough to do #1.

*sigh*

I woke several times during the night and I KNOW each time I woke it was because I had a dream. I remembered the dream when I woke .... BUT...I rolled right over and went back to sleep.

Tonight, I will adjust the affirmation to INCLUDE staying awake to record the dream.

I find my self at a convince store. Its small with a check out desk in the center and a bit of room in the back. Inside there is me walking by the back of the counter, my best friend looking at something in the back of the store along side a random customer who is doing the same, and lastly there is a cute blond girl behind the counter. I for a moment walk to the corner of the counter just randomly walking about and then turn around. My best friend has vanished and the random customer as well! I turn to the clerk girl and she has dreary look on her face. She says to me " You know, early today I saw a whole school of kids disappear." Ats at this moment I remember/know (its always weird how u just know about things in ur dreams.) that my friend had thought he had seen two people just disappear in front of him, even had the same look of dread but lessened by doubt. Its at this point I start to wig out a bit. People are just disappearing and my best friend is gone! I grab the clerk girl by the shoulders looking down straight into her eyes. I begin to blubber out in a panic. O no my best friend is gone! We have to stick together! We cant leave each others site! Shes scared by my panic and the grip I have on her. During all this her eyes shift color for a moment to red. I suddenly feel that she must be the one responsible for this! Its people around her that are disappearing. A take a step back wondering if this is true? If it is are we still the only ones around? If not who else is left? It at this point my dream begins to break down as like to put it. The setting of the convince store simply becomes blackness with a light source somewhere far away and the clerk girl has become, well she became something very similar to alien. Its at this point that I'm not so much dreaming but just thinking about the dream. It a shame that clerk girl had to go all alien on me, she was quite cute.

So there it is, my first DJ here. Hope some of you enjoy it.

Dream 1
I was sitting in one very comfy chair in a pub. I was alongside a man in a red t-shirt, I was also wearing a red t-shirt. The man had a pint and another man in a blue shirt walked up to us.

I thought we were going to fight him because he was in another gang or something but the other man just welcomed him. We had a laugh and conversed.

When we were on the out I saw a friend who I haven't seen for a while.

Dream 2
I was watching Manchester United play against a team in white shirts and black shorts. It looked like Fifa 11 or 12, United scored early in the first half, then feeling like time was slipping away Patrice Evra dribble all the way into the oppositions box and scored to win the game 2-0.

I didn't realise I was dreaming even though I subliminally made it all happen from thinking the match was about to end even to the second goal. When I thought about when I sprinted on Fifa 11 and scored.

Fragments
I was reading my DJ entry from yesterday and someone said that I should put up pictures of X-Wings and TIE fighters. Which was one of my concerns last night. If people didn't know what an X-wing or TIE looked like.

DJ Log: December 24, 2011 – 8:30AM (USA Eastern)
Text color legend: • NON-DREAM • NOTES • DREAM • LUCID •

I wake up at my friend’s house and grab my laptop from the floor. Quickly, I open Writer and start to log the last couple of dreams. I get the rough entries typed in, then drop the laptop on the floor and go back to sleep.

I wake up and pick up the laptop to check the entries, and there is nothing there. I scratch my head for a moment, then open writer and check for recent files. There are none in the list. There are no auto-save files in the usual spot. I open my differencing disk application and there were no file changes at all this morning. After a “WTF” moment, I open writer and log these dreams.

I ate some peanut butter last night before bed, for the tryptophan content. I also took about 75mg of vitamin b-6, hoping to convert some of that tryptophan to serotonin. I had many dreams last night, but my recall is still terrible. I know I dream a lot, but I can remember only a little.

Chased by Nebuchadnezzar

I am somewhere, being chased by Nebuchadnezzar. He is animal-like, although I don't recall if he was in one of his animal phases. He is chasing a lot of people. I crawl under a couch to hide, which seems to be a clever thing to do. At times, it isn't Nebuchadnezzar but somebody else (the police?). One of my tactics seems to involve holding my breath and counting. There is more to this dream but I can't remember it.

Dream journal

I am in a library somewhere taking books off of shelves. One of them is my dream journal, and I realize that I should write in it. I dream something about lucid dreams, but don't become lucid.

CAN SOMEONE GET ME A BADGE.

I am unsure of where I was but I remember my Brother being there and he wanted to go and build a hut (which I think was going to be built at the forest near our old house in.) But I had just recieved a special badge for doing something good and my brother wanted to see it before we went so I searched my room and could'nt find it. I found several other badges but not the right one,eventually I took so long that we ran out of time to build the hut.

THE EX HEX.

I vaguely remember going to somewhere where my ex was working I think it may have of been a train station or a tourist booth in a train station, very vague witten here for the sake of recall.

MATES RATES.

Another vague dream, just remember talking to a DC about staying in what I believe was a hotel that he owned for the night, from memory he refused a discount to start with but after very little persuation he crumble and became sunddenly so generous, acting like whatever we need just let him know and everything will be taken care of, (I also recall my ex making an appearance here as a worker,possibly a cleaner,although this may have been a seperate dream, I have the sense that it was part of the hotel dream.) This is all I remember from this dream.

THE WONDERFUL VISIT TO OZ.

Yet another vague dream, just remember being with an old high school friend in Australia, she lived high up in an apartment skyscraper.This is all I confidently remember and is being written for the sake of recall.


This is all I remember for the night.

How it made me feel: Happy,confused,frustrated.
Dreamsigns: Old high school friends, Ex, Different country,False posessions.
Questions to ask DC's: None.

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

I had gone to bed with the intention of waking up to do a WBTB,however after the alarm went of I promptly feel asleep again, I may have even slept through the alarm,my mind seems indecisive about the truth of the matter,however I need to be more aware of myself when I wake up.

The Rain MP3 was used on this night.

No Lucid Dreams recorded on this night.

NIGHTMARE ON WORK STREET.

I remember getting a job back at Pac'n'save and was on checkout scanning people's groceries. I remember using the computer to find Bananas and think I accidentaly scanned them as another fruit (I do not believe the type of fruit I put them as actually exsists in real life, I can't check this as I don't know the name of the fictional fruit). I remember getting a second lot of Bananas and finding the button for it on the screen, and then realising that I had put the first lot through as the wrong item and from memory I corrected the mistake but can't be 100% certain on that.

MALL MEMORIES.

I next remember being at what I think was the mall,I remember being with my Wife and her Mum, this is all I confidently remember from this dream.

THE ART OF THE PAST.

Lastly I remember being at Karate and my Sensei was there taking the lesson, there was a man practising takedowns and eventually he tried it on me I thought I would be able to resist the move, but I was take to the ground with ease. This is all I remember from this dream.

This is all i remember for the night.

How I felt: Very stressed and frustrated, angry, sad, confused.
Dreamsigns: Old jobs,Past events (Karate/Sensei), Possible computer malfunction.
Questions to ask DC's: None

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

I woke up at various times throughout the night feeling very stressed and frustrated, I felt reluctant to go back to sleep, I am unsure of whether this was due to working at my job in the dream or something else external (e.g. Body tempreture, Air tempreture, etc).

The Rain MP3 WAS NOT used on this night.

No recorded Lucid Dreams tonight.

STRANDED WITH A STRANGER.

First dream I remember I was on a beach somewhere and just remember riding on a boat with a man who was a local he looked like an islander, this is all I can recall from this dream.

THE OTHER SIDE - FT MICHAEL JACKSON.

I next remember being at Michael Jackson's house, not the one from real life just a dream rendered alternative, It was just after he had passed away and I managed for some reason to get into the house and was talking with Prince Michael the second, I don't remember exactly how the following events went down but to my recollection.

I had the feeling that Michael's spirit was still in the house so I grabbed my mp3 player and turned on the voice record in an effort to capture E.V.P's I don't recall listening to see if I had caught any responses. Prince Michael the second had a spirit box which had caught strange voices so we took it to his laptop and I distinctly remember asking if the spirit box had a USB port on it, and clearly remember looking at the USB port on the device, I remember looking on his laptop and working togeather with Prince Michael to download the data to the laptop, I however do not remember looking at the data on the laptop.

(This whole section above may have of been a dream within a dream as I think the events after this took place after I had a false awakening, this is due to the fact that i remember telling the DC in the next part of my dream the events of the previous part as though I had just woken up)
Next thing I remember is telling all the previous events I've written here to a woman in the dream, I have no idea who she is/was , possibly a reporter of some sort but I cant be sure, as I was talking to her I saw Michael jackson walk in the door with two body guards I think he smiled at us and then walked down past us (We were still in MJ's house) I followed MJ quite close as he walked and the reporter from memory followed behind me at a slight distance.

we followed MJ around a corner and into his room, there were no exits out of his house this way however his two body guards had disappeared, after this my memory of the dream becomes foggy, I remember MJ sitting on top of his house at one point.

Next I remember being in the forest trying to escape from somewhere (Possibly MJ's house, this may have been the same dream as above, I am unsure) I was being chased by animals,but every animal got eaten by a bigger animal, I don't remember which animals in what order but something like, chased by a Cat, Cat eaten by Dog, Dog eaten by Tiger, Tiger eaten by Walrus, Walrus eaten by T- Rex. This is not accurate of the dream, It is mearly to recall the basic process of the dream at the time.

SNOW BOARDING WITH FRIENDS.
Lastly I remember something to do with snowboarding with friends, It is very Vauge in my mind, and being written mearly as to assist development of my recall.

This is all I remember for the night.

How I felt: Excited, Confused, Sad, Fearful.
Dreamsigns: Michael Jackson, Prince Michael II, Strange animals.
Questions to ask DC's: What did I capture on my Mp3 voice record ? , what did Prince Michael II capture on his spirit box and where did the body guards go ? , Who was the lady who was possibly a reporter?.

The Rain MP3 was used on this night.

No Lucid Dreams were recorded on this night.

WWE THE PLACE TO BE.

First Dream I remember is being at a wrestling match and I was'nt a wrestler I was just watching , Kevin Nash came up to me and said I was a good looking man and if I applied myself I could be a great wrestler.
I remember walking down the street and doing a high front flip on the street, and I
remember seeing someone who appeared to be X-pac but i'm not exactly sure.

I'M NOT FIFTY.

Secondly I remember being at my Mum's 50th Birthday at some big building (possibly a hotel) in the country, I was'nt in attendance for most of the night,I was somewhere else
but I don't remember where it was, although I am almost certain that I was with other people.

I'M DREAMING OF A RED RANGER.

Next I remember being at a Power Ranger convention in a city somewhere, I was talking
to a woman about the series and she gave me a power morpher, I remember clearly that it had the red rangers tyranosarus rex power coin in it and it ha a chip of paint missing from the top left of the face side of the morpher. However I was greatful for it.
Then I believe it was the same city I was trying to learn to fly, I wanted to jump from the ground to the balcony of the shopping mall,which was unsuccessful, I could jump higher than normal,however I could'nt fly, a DC suggested I just stand on the spot and raise my hand to levitate,from memory this may have worked but I can't be 100% that memory is correct.

PICKING UP CHICKEN SHEEP.
I lastly remember being on the back of a pickup truck with a couple of people,one of who I think was Kira from power rangers Dino thunder, I don't recall seeing her face but I have a strong feeling towards her,so I am using my initiative to say that It was her.
There were alot of sheep on the back of the truck and they had chicken feet instead of sheep feet, (I have acknoledged this as a dreamsign that I failed to recognise) and i had to snap their feet like I do for the chicken wings at work, I remember being unhappy that I had to do this and I felt like a very bad person for doing it.
This is all I remember for the night.

How I felt: Excited,Greatful,Frustrated,Sad.
Dreamsigns : Sheep with Chicken feet, Levitation, Jumps higher than normal.
Questions to ask DC's : Who was in the pickup truck with me, Was Kira there, What did I do with the power morpher?

The Rain MP3 was used on this night.

No Lucid Dreams on this night.

Death Valley is a cold hearted place, only the strong survive, the weak perish under the blade of the Reaper, These are Chronicles of BlackRain..... This is MY world.... This is MY story...

Welcome everyone to my Dream Journal, I hope you enjoy your time in my corner of paradise.

My dream journal is kept on my website you can find it in my profile i don't know if i can post it here but I may record some things here in the future !