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I have been sleeping 9-10 hours each day the past year since school has started late each day. I thought that sleeping more would enhance my dreaming but I think it is the opposite and that waking up in the morning helps. I have had a hard time remembering my dreams but this day I woke up early and remembered my dreams better.

I'm in my bed and I'm sad because I accidentaly slept again after the alarm woke me up. I didn't even remember the alarm waking me up so I think that I was really tired before.

I'm in some kind of museum with some people in my age.

I'm with Albin and his parents. I ask him about his life but he becomes angry because I don't remembered his city's name. I tell him I know that he is from Kosovo and he becomes calmer. He says that Kosovo is one of the cities he lives in but (name I don't remember) also was important. He recounts his story about how and why they moved to Sweden.

here's something odd. in a small part of my dream last night, i was browsing /r/luciddreaming and found that somebody had made a post about never being bothered to climb past a ring of mountains that constantly surrounded their dreamworld. this is an incredibly vague description, but the person who made the post showed me what he was talking about by making his mountains surround my own dream. he was a shambly, lost looking guy with scruffy dark clothes and intense bags underneath his eyes. very heroin-chic.

according to him, the mountains were supposed to be present in every lucid dream regardless of who the dream belongs to. so we went to the top, while i simultaneously read his post. i wrote down what i remembered as soon as i woke up

"what's the big deal with the mountains? i'm never bothered to go over them but i finally did, after months. I expected something new but instead all i saw was an endless black lake and the sky where stars grew until they were ripe for picking."

the view was absolutely breathtaking. below the mountains were the sunlit-but-gross winding roads of my little semi-suburb in hong kong. the air was always dry and grassy but as soon as we reached the top, everything was completely dark black and indigo. the sky was filled with stars that moved with our hands like dust. they really did grow larger if you waited long enough, actually.

as for the lake, it was flickering and neither of us had the guts to look down for fear of what we might see.
but now we had discovered what lay beyond the perimeter of his dreams- nothing but the sky that grew above us and the water that plunged beneath us, neither of them ever ending.

I had a dream that nobody wanted to listen to me tell them about a dream I had.

Originally posted 03-26-2006 12:19 PM:

Originally Posted by onemoretime

I like to keep a paper journal of my dreams, and I'd hate having to type everything over, so there won't be any dream content in this journal. Rather I'll use this to keep track of my lucid dreaming skills and progress. I'll record the induction methods used, stabilization techniques, ld specific phenomena within dreams, etc.

As for background, I've known about lucid dreaming for a while, since at least middle school, and I've had several that I can recall since that period (actually now that I think about it I can't recall them very well at all! Yet I'm certain I had them), but only now, in the past month of my last year at college, have I really become serious about training myself to lucid dream. In the past four weeks I've kept a steady dream journal, I've been consistently reality checking, and I've had 5 so far. My ideal would be an ld for every REM period, but my realistic goal is one a day, with a good success rate for wake to sleep inductions of lucid dreams, as well as never missing my most obvious dreamsigns.

Format

Date - date of dream occurence + approximate time.

Induction Method - How lucidity came about.

Stabilization Techs - How I stabilized the dreams and maintained lucidity.

Dream Intent - What intent I might have had before the dream or intent which developed during the dream.

Dream Control - How I interacted with the dream and any other interesting features of the dream.

Rating - on a 1 to 5 scale.

Stability -
(1) Highly unstable, prone to becoming a normal dream
(5) Tightly controlled with great clarity (with or without techs)

Length -
(1) Very Short
(5) Extended perception of time

Control -
(1) Dream very difficult to interact with
(5) I get everything I want

Content -
(1) Nothing all that interesting happens
(5) Something that I'll have trouble forgetting

I suppose if anything else comes to mind I'll add that as a category, or if I have an extremely powerful experience I'll add a 6 to the ratings.

3/31/06: I'm going to start keeping track of normal dreams on this as well, no content as before, but will record dreamsigns, missed opportunities in red.