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Morning of September 18, 2014. Thursday.



A dream situation that has been somewhat recurring for a few months (but with different locations or features in each) involves looking into areas of our house that have openings to hidden rooms underground or under our floor (which of course represents exploration of my unconscious domain or even access to the whole of human consciousness). In this particular dream, one of the doors is like a lighter horizontally-hinged swinging type of perhaps fiberboard. It reminds me somewhat of an incomplete dumbwaiter setup. I push it inward for a short time and discover a large cellar-like room below the floor (but by which the higher area is inside the wall) where two hallways on the far end go in both directions. In the area near the hallways, it appears to have a dirt floor. It looks like something had been stored there but I do not contemplate if it is ours or not. It seems it likely is in conscious afterthought.

At a later point, I am in our kitchen and I hear some sort of strange voice (which is somewhat authoritative yet also a bit artificial) speak from our second-youngest son’s room. It may be some sort of dangerous “invader” that is not fully human. I tell it to come out and show itself. Out of the room comes some sort of vague energy, briefly seeming like a large transparent black robot. It speaks again (somewhat menacingly) but by that time I realize that it is my own dream self’s instigation in trying to bring it into a higher clarity and it will not materialize due to my own concept of self-preservation (even though it represents the waking transition). This has happened in dreams all my life, where I (as my unconscious mind) often could not create what could become a more ominous or even disturbing dream. As I have noted before, even my dreams relating to a so-called devil ended up being mostly cartoon-like and comedic.

In another dream immediately offset from this one (as the waking transition “failed” in my first), which has a very cheerful atmosphere and is somewhat lucid but passive, an Asian male and his young son are in a room testing old battery-operated robots of the type I got for Christmas in 1969 though it seems they are or are like completely new toys. The sounds and flashing lights are “perfect” and enjoyable over time. This leads me to ponder on why I had the life-size somewhat menacing (but transparent) black robot in the other dream for a very short time. Still, the flashing lights of the robots represent dawning conscious awareness and eventual waking.

In hopes to augment understanding of this dream, black is the representation in this case, because it is of an anthropomorphic form, of the conscious mind in liminal space. This is evident by the common light of day projection, in this case, from the opening chest of the robot as with my actual toy in reality. The robot opens the doors of its chest as it shuffles about to emit light as toy laser guns. Anything that emits light as such is the conscious self seeking the unconscious perspective to instigate waking through coalescence, the main purpose of final dream segments when they are completed. I realize that my unconscious self is more in control of my transitory waking self here and thus my dream shifts to an offset waking scenario that is far more cheerful but still has the “light of day” (downsized robots, no longer menacing or hidden in any way). At this point, the Asian man is my conscious self nurturing my diminishing unconscious dream self into the waking state, showing me that the light of day (and conscious awareness) is not so bad or mysterious after all.

Dream Frag 1:
I'm in a city and running from a guy who has a rapid firing laser gun.

Dream 2:
In a empty/vacant military outpost in an icy tundra. Some co-workworkers are there and we're talking about where I should transfer to. Then me and a person i know are running outside the building and we start racing across the ice.

Dream 3:
I was on leave and at my grandmothers house, I was trying to remember what day my leave ended, and was freaking out because I was going to miss school and fail calculus.

I was out with some friends in the wilderness with some forested areas spaced out between clearings. It is also hilly and kind of rugged terrain. All of a sudden, a UFO appears rising up from behind a hill that has a cliff on it's far side. It goes straight up into my view, stops for half a second, then darts to the right. It is not going straight, but circling our position above the hills going around and around us several times. It only takes 3 seconds for it to make a circuit around us. After spiraling around us for 5 times or so, I'm tired of it doing so. So I reach down, somehow knowing I'm packing, and pull out a laser gun. This was part of me visualizing a real laser gun into my dream, knowing it is there whether I knew it or not before. It is a kind that resembles a blaster from Star Wars. Anyway I aim at the UFO and fire several shots. One of my blasts lands a glancing blow on the UFO, sending its propulsion systems a little out of control. The UFO slows down now and is an easier target but still wizzing around overhead. I watch its movements a few more seconds, compensate, then I take my shot. My blaster shot lands square on the UFO this time sending it straight down into the drink. It happens to be over the ocean at this time. It gets a little hazy after this, but my friends and I were in the ocean doing a scuba dive to look at the UFO. Then the dream transitioned into another one.