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    1. "I am Magneto" 4/20/14

      by , 04-27-2014 at 02:13 AM (A Dreamer's Dreams)
      Journal Entry Lucid #29 Dream,Lucid, (Comments)
      Background: I watched X-men first class, ate some food then I meditated before going to sleep. I told myself I could have a LD but it is ok if I don't have one just as long as I could remember my dream. I wasn't as confident since I have slacked for a couple of days.

      Dream fragment 2 time 5:15am-6:40am"":
      Dream was about being in the desert and I am magneto running from Sebastian Shaw. Shaw is having his fun making nukes in the desert. Since dream is long I will shorten it up just for the lucid. So I was in a bar when I was informed that Sebastian has sent some men to go after me. I flew out and levitated next to a car junk yard. I looked down realized that I am flying and concluded

      it was a dream. His gang came in convertibles. I see a car beneath me. I levitated up and I toss it at the convertibles. This was the first time I levitated a car but since I didn't think about how difficult it would have been it felt easy. I then started throwing car after car. I then thought why am I wasting my time throwing cars. I landed and got inside a sports car. I looked around environment changed a bit. I am now in the heart of the desert, no other cars around me but one. I didn't care, it looked cool when I drove off. I didn't need keys for the car to go too. It started up and I went as fast as I can. I look at back mirror and I see the trial of dust I am leaving. I kept on driving. I looked down for maybe a second looking at the car seating. I get out and I am inside my neighborhood. I decide to fly again. I realized that the environment was getting too bright. The clouds were shining and the sun was half the sky. I started to fly fast around neighborhood. I see the objects as elongated images before I reach them. It was trippy. Environment still getting brighter, I though I might wake up. I then charged at the sun as a challenge. I thought you can't wake me up. I flew faster and faster and everything started getting blurry and I woke up. I guess that is what I get.
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    2. The Biomagnetic Monster

      by , 10-27-1975 at 04:27 PM
      Morning of October 27, 1965. Wednesday. Supplements added on Sunday, 23 July 2017.



      A large hairy light brown monster opens a door at the very start of my short dream but seems about normal-sized for the doorway. About twenty tiny people (“tiny” as resolved in conscious afterthought only), all adult men and women; most nude, some dressed; are clinging to him as if he had magnetically attracted them with his fur. He seems annoyed, apparently not wanting all the people hanging on him, but this is only my first thought as a couple other ideas form prior to waking. I do not feel threatened as I seem to only be watching my dream even though I do seem to be at the location.

      It seems to be taking place in my sister Marilyn’s apartment on 901 Rose Street, the creature coming into the room from the west side, though the floor seemingly has floorboards as seen in a Harvey “Casper the Friendly Ghost” comic book. There were no discernible features in the room, as if it was mostly empty. For a very short time, it also seems that some of the people may be trying to tackle the monster, but there is also a conflicting thought that the monster may be deliberately gathering the people with its magnetic fur to perhaps cook in a stew. There is no backstory to the scene. The monster stands in the doorway, growling as if possibly annoyed by “wearing” these people and my dream ends with a slight abdominal twitch (which is not unpleasant). It is apparent that the monster does not see me, though I may be invisible or incorporeal.



      Dreams often render “impossible” scenes that cannot be resolved consciously. In this case, my dream self perceives both the doorway and the people as of normal size. However, each person would have to be less than a foot tall to resolve the scene.



      This dream is a curious and intriguing blend of two forms of waking symbolism, and in fact, taught me a lot about the nature of dreams as well as remaining a facet of why I devoted my life to understanding them.

      Coalescence waking symbolism: Near the end of a dream, as in this case, ambiguous elements sometimes combine, which represents different neural energies unifying by way of the emergent consciousness event (as this dream expresses the real-time metaphor of “gathering thoughts” during the waking transition). It is a function native to the dream state.

      Doorway waking symbolism: As a doorway is mainly real-time exit symbolism (other than when it is used to initiate apex lucidity), a dream’s rendering of a doorway means nothing more than the dream changing in level of awareness or ending. To conceptualize that such waking symbolism evolved from my mother being in my bedroom’s doorway waking me up in the morning as a child may be moot, as such symbolism might have developed naturally, because waking up is a biological necessity.

      Biological factor: Though this is only theoretical, my dream may also contain an analogy of white blood cells attacking a parasite, not necessarily relevant to my physical status, but my sister’s. (Dreams, including precognitive dreams, revealing the changing status of another person’s health, have occurred a number of times throughout my life.)



      Personal factor: It is known that the preconscious sometimes represents a parent (or other relative or any role of authority) regardless of the nature of the rendering. If that is the case here, it seems that it could be seen as motherly discomposure over a child being too clingy.



      The original title was “The Magnetic Monster”. In 1974, when copying my oldest dreams over to newer paper and notebooks and with more mature writing and better organization, I changed the title to “The Biomagnetic Monster”. It is doubtful that I had heard the word “biomagnetic” prior to that.



      • It has been validated that doorway waking symbolism is sometimes initiated by real environmental noise while I am sleeping. This adds to the likelihood of having otherwise evolved from my mother waking me up in the morning.
      • The involuntary abdominal muscle movement upon waking is most common with doorway waking symbolism. I can actually trigger this event while conscious by placing myself in a heightened state of anticipation.


      Updated 08-02-2022 at 04:08 PM by 1390

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