Threecat's Dreamtime

I vote for lucid! You knew it was a dream for a couple of seconds when you could breathe through the plugged nose and when you saw the wobbly hand. You lost lucidity by doing too many RC's, and to lose lucidity you must first have had lucidity. I've made myself lose lucidity in the past relying too much on RC's too.

Thanks, Chessica--I am in agreement with you! And I like your "lucid logic"

I also vote lucid - as Chessica writes, you were relying too much on the RC's, which is something I have done more than once. Perhaps you wanted to really make sure that you were lucid before you went off and did something crazy.

As for the first dream, it's difficult to comment on dreams like these without prying into someone's personal life, so if you don't want to answer my question I'll understand. But to me, it's fairly obvious - are you still pining after her on some level? You might also want to ask yourself what your relationship is with her and her mother. Also, the castle may signify some kind of resistance or defensiveness, possibly on her part. The well within the castle walls (I'm assuming) could be a place connected to deep feelings, flowing somewhere beneath.

As I said, don't answer if you don't want to, but if I had a dream like that, that's the question I would ask myself.

Pickman, this is freaking awesome.

She was my first girlfriend, and it ended badly on my end so probably something psychological still at work there. However, I do not consciously think about her too much! I am glad it did not work out (she would not have understood LDing, at any rate!) and I have met my very cool and hot wife But maybe my subconscious still likes her deep down

The interpretation of the wall and castle though--that is really some cool associative thinking on your part! Are you by chance a student of literature? At any rate, thank you for the dream interpretation!

Hard call! Good that I'm not the one, you want an opinion from - rather Sensei and the Hatfield camp!

With your ex - yeah - maybe I do have an idea. If it went badly from your side - maybe you want to play it through, how it could have gone better. Maybe - going with my dreams are an evolutionarily developed tool for practising for real life view, to say a beautiful thing prosaically - maybe in order to avoid the same pitfalls, maybe with your wife. You as in your unconscious dreamgenerator's mysterious workings. If you are like me, you don't even remember your wife in such dreams, so it's not a decision. I have ex-boyfriend dreams quite often, believing, it's because I think, I as in my uncon... that I made mistakes which are worthy of mulling over, but not actually wanting the guys back, even while I do so in the dream.
A way of looking at it at least...

The interpretation of the wall and castle though--that is really some cool associative thinking on your part! Are you by chance a student of literature? At any rate, thank you for the dream interpretation!

No problem. I do have a degree in English Lit., but that's got nothing to do with it - I've just been really into dream interpretation since I was about fourteen, and I think I have a knack for it. And I agree with StephL on the use of dreams to relive past mistakes so you don't make them again in your current situation. Whatever it's about, I had the idea that there were some lingering psychological issues.

Another idea - could the castle have been an unconscious attempt at that castle task in this month's TOTM? But it was used as a backdrop to the psychological issues being worked through. Just a theory.

maybe you want to play it through, how it could have gone better. Maybe - going with my dreams are an evolutionarily developed tool for practising for real life view, to say a beautiful thing prosaically - maybe in order to avoid the same pitfalls, maybe with your wife.

Hey Steph, I think this is possible. There are LOTS of people I want to meet in my LDs in order to ask questions about what went wrong in relationships (romantic or otherwise) because I really don't want to contact the person in waking life! So this is a possibility. And I know what you mean--it did not occur to me in the dream that I was married, although I have had those as well which always makes for an awkward situation: sometimes I think "What will my wife think of this?" and others it is "Get lost, girl--I'm married now! You missed your chance!" But I think some of that awareness is from practicing lucid dreaming too.

@Pickman--the thought about the castle occurred to me later when I awoke. I've unfortunately had a few chances to complete the TotM, and have neglected to think of it each time. However, that was a castle night, for whatever reason--I counted at least four castles appearing in dreams and fragments throughout the night. And you are probably right about concerning the origins of that element, as day residue. But I really like the defensive angle as well. Thanks a lot guys! I really appreciate the responses!

It sounds like you were lucid and just had a bout of doubt. Happens to the best, I think. Good luck resolving the ex!

The deafness is interesting! I hope I don't incubate that now.
I developed an instant void schema after listening to the podcast on lucid blindness.

It's funny how random people show up in our dreams sometimes.
I dreamt of my first boyfriend fairly recently, and I still really wanted to be with him in the dream. In waking life, I think he's a massive jerk!

Better luck holding onto lucidity in the next dream!

Hey Dreamer, it was the same kind of deafness you might get if you were to try the nose plug RC too hard, and pop your ears. I do this some time, and I think it was the dream's attempt to fool me \

Thanks fogelbise, I appreciate the vote of confidence (even if I am getting it a little late)