Dreamnaut's Journal

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Here is my dream journal, as copied from my purple Dream Book. And backdated a few days! Note that I have noted even on casual recall, three recurring scenes. These may pop up in the dreams recorded here. The three scenes are: (1) My former home in South London where I lived as a teenager and young adult, (2) My old school, and (3) One particular room at a former place of work, which is called the "Solution Room" where tankfuls of aqueous solutions were prepared. I am currently using DILD techniques, including Reality Testing, to induce dream lucidity. In the past I have had the occasional lucid dreams, but now I being more systematic in my approach, and with consistent practice aim to break through to dream lucidity. There is the possibility of a consistent dream world, or of a dream continuing from where I left off in a previous dream... Real names of friends and relatives are represented by initials, to preserve privacy.

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Buzz Aldrin Pole Vaulting 22 June 2009 Part of a long dream, Edwin Aldwyn (NASA Astronaut) was doing some pole vaulting. He kept trying to clear a bar at 20 feet, but not quite and knocking off the bar. Someone asked him to try at half the height, to show how the vaulting was done. He selected the bar height of 8 feet. He then ran with his pole, and vaulted over easily and in slow motion, and landed on a thick bed of sand behind the bar.

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Nine Parameters to Non-Local, Unicyclist! 23 June 2009 I was in world where a physics research group have discovered a way of travelling through time and space. I noted that when parameters uncouples and recouples, this triggers a form of "non-local" travel or teleportation through space. When that happened a parallel event elsewhere in the universe but detected by the teleporation device as an anchored location: A unicyclist travle 300 metres carrying in his arms mesauring equipement, while fundraising for a medical research charity for a children's hospital. At that point the machine recoupled in a critical fashion, the remote scene was lost, and I woke. It is hard to remember exotic physics in dreams!

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Coastal rescue at No.23 25 June 2009 I was at No.23, my former home of youth, standing in the "alley way" actually a side passage between garage and back garden. In the dream the alley is much wider, the width of a small room. For some reason, my father was here. I decided to pitch a tent in the wide alleyway. A river of water suddenly started to run through the alley way and flood the back garden to the depth of several inches. The flood reached the opening of my tent - I was in my tent now, and started lapping into my tent, and so that inside of tent was beginning to flood and wet my sleeping bag. I quickly grabbed my sleeping bag and ran out of the tent with it to save if from getting completely soaked. At that point water flooded into my tent. Next thing, I was being rescued from the flooded garden by "coastal rescuers", men in yellow oilskin stormjackets and leggings. He was standing in a small deck at the end of a extending mechanical arm (the kind found on lorries for street light maintenance) and reaching out to me. Then I am a trainee coastal rescuer, donning storm jackets... (woke)

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Meeting Network SH in Scot Hotel I was in a Scottish Hotel, in an area at the head of a dam housing hydro electric power station. Water streamed out of two outlets, into a river down the valley. On the way to the hotel the path was blocked by a huge green plastic barrel some 4 metres tall, with the path continuing up a small cliff. To negotiate the path, I had to climb into the barrel and stand on a small ledge within the barrel half way (2 m) down). I climbed out of the barrel, up the cliff, on path to the hotel. In the hotel, I met SH (ex girlfriend when I was 19). She was kneeling on the floor doing some cleaning, and also was installing some internet socket, for computers in the hotel. We talked, I felt attracted to her and we agrees to meet.

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Hi, I am from Earth! 28 June 2009 I was in a large apartment block in a dystopian Earth. I explored the stairwell, starting from the 3rd floor, descending to the 2nd then to the 1st, and then into the basement. Then looked to see if the stairwell continued down to another floor... indeed it did. The 2nd level basement appeared to be on another ground floor. There was a green door with large window leading to a narrow greenhouse. So narrow one could hardly walk in it. There were nasty looking carivorous plant in hanging baskets, looking like large venus fly traps with fangs. Wisely, I didnt enter the greenhouse, but looked to see the next floor down the stair well. Indeed the stairs continued down to another floor, Basement 3, is another gound floor! That floor opened to a large garden shed, and I grabbed a stick to defend myself just in case! I ventured to the next room... a utility room with a washing machine in it, and foam was coming out of the machine! Foam continued to pour out of the washing machine until it took up the volume of the room. I rushed to the exit - but the foam filled so fast that I could not see the walls. Hoever, having seen the back door before the foam, I walked towards it, and funbled for the door handle. Eventually, opened it and stumbled onto a communal garden in a square of apartments blocks! Above, was pigeon netting... and noticed several back doors facing into the garden, presumably from other flats. (By now have dropped the stick!) There were two other families, I saw a man with two children, and a woman with three. I appraoched the woman, held out my hand, and said "I am (real name), and I am from another Earth, which is different from this one." They looked slightly confused but didn't show outward hosility or fear, and somehow took my word that I am from another Earth. I pointed to their sun which was about 9 am position, and said that there was a sun like this one in my world. I asked here where the moon was, they pointed to the moon which is where the sun would be at 3 pm. I told the woman that there were 9 planets in my solar system, hoping to ask how many planets there are in their solar system. I also said that their Earth has something wrong, and something was not functioning right. I tried to explain what a planet was, a large rock that orbited around the sun... (dream faded) Note: I did not consider myself to be lucid, maybe I was, or hovering on lucidity... though had some awareness that I was from another Earth... yet tested the idea that one can say one's real name within the dream.

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Girl cyclist with broken leg 30 June 2009 I was cycling along a road, when I came to some road works, or at least some long wooden blocks that chanelled the traffic to the centre of the road. I cycled over the blocks and to the left side of the road where the reoad was going to be dug up. A girl cycled past, fell off and broke her left leg at the tibia and fibia. An ambulance came and took her to hospital, some how I went with her. She was waiting to be seem in a room, next to the casulty department - the girl's room looked like a bedroom! I saw the doctors and nurses rushing around looking busy. My brother J was here! After a while I approached one of the nurses, and said that the girl (with broken leg) is to be brought in. The girl with the fracture got up and hobbled on her good leg into a wheelchair.

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Attempt to WILD 01 July 2009 Last night, before falling asleep, I attempted to WILD. When I sleep, I wear a large beanie cap, which I slip over my eyes so that it is pitch dark to me. I laid on my back, head on pillow, and stayed aware as long as possible. I recited my mantra "Tonight I will dream lucid". However I notice seeing things, as real as in a dream, but loses lucidity. Then I wake again. This I repeated several times, entering a short dream but not quite becoming lucid! Dreams not remembered last night. Hopefully tomorrow.

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02 July 2009 J and T at No.23 My stepmother J came to the old family house at No.23. She had two small children in addition to her 3 older children from 1st marraige. Why she was there I dont know, but she was an unwelcome visitor. At one time I discovered her children hiding in a large cupboard, gliggling and being playful. They were apparently playing hide and seek with J! Then later, one of her older children, T arrived, at Midnight, an inconvenient hour, playing rock and roll on his radio, and moving furniture from another large cupboard. I told him to come back in the morning, but he cried in a stressful way saying he need to get this done by tonight! Then he smoked. Immediately I told him it was a non smoking house and took the fag away from his mouth. My brother J arrived, he was concerned about complaints from villagers about me. I told him I was trying to get T to leave so that I could sleep. There was chaos between me, stepmother, T, and brother J, which continued for a while until I woke up.

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Black=Dream Blue=Lucid Green=Comments in brackets Red Party Bus in the Sky - First Lucid Dream! 05 July 2009 I had recently left work in a restaurant, after walking out from a boss who told what to do in a barking manner. I wandered in a high street with shops, and noticed a red double decker bus, painted on the outside with hippy art (This part of the dream is in fragments) Then I was in a house kitchen, which as completed covered with beige tiles, on walls - no pictures - and tiled floor. It seemed to be a TV set, and there was a male presenter who was a single father, bought his toddler son for a cooking lesson. But they're not cooking, they are washing up, and the man had just done washing a large roasting tray. The scene suddenly changed, I was cycling on a motorway, my father was also cycling with me. There were no cars on the motorway, just lots of cyclists. I was on the fast lane, doing 50 mph, and going faster than everyone else. My father was as fast as me! He looked more like he was 35 years old, black hair, no wrinkles, and fit! We travelled several miles, then we go to a large cross road, and lost my father as I had pedalled ahead of him. I could not find him anywhere, so considered calling the police. Before I was to do so, I looked at the signposts, one sign read <B36 Motorway>. On a road I told another cyclist that I lost my father. Next, I am back in town, and looked to the sky, which was cloudy. There hovering in the sky, ahead of me, was a red party bus, much like the bus that I saw earlier. Then I became lucid. I looked around at the detail of the street, it was rather surreal and took on a slight glow. I said to myself, "Wow, this is like an acid trip". This lasted a number of second before waking up. (I went back to sleep) I was in a kitchen dining room, with one brother, and my mother. I told her about the bike dream I had earlier - I said it was a dream last night. Mother started to give an interpretation of the dream, which was uninvited. I told her in a frank and direct manner that I resent people interpreting my dreams. She stopped, sat back, folded her arms, and snapped "Fine!" Then I realised there was a pun in the bike dream, and exclaimed "Oh yeah, that is funny". Brother and mother also came to the same realisation at the same time, and we all roared in laughter as having heard a really funny joke! before I told them of the pun! "Bike... on yer bike!" I said loudly, "Norman Tebbit said to the employed 'On your bike'!" Note on "On Your Bike" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_...979_government In the aftermath of urban riots (Handsworth riots and the Brixton riot) in the summer of 1981, Tebbit responded to a suggestion by a Young Conservative (Ian Picton) that rioting was the natural reaction to unemployment: I grew up in the '30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work, and he kept looking 'til he found it. This exchange was the origin of the attribution to Tebbit of the slogan On yer bike!. Tebbit is often misquoted as saying directly to the unemployed "get on your bike and look for work" as a consequence of his speech, although this interpretation is arguably what he was implying.

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Black=Dream Blue=Lucid Green=Comments in brackets Dancing in London - 2nd Lucid Dream! 11 July 2009 I have had vivid, but not lucid dreams the last few days... but here is my 2nd lucid dream since joining the forum, and my first lucid for longer than 5 minutes. I really must remember to record my dreams, otherwise I may forget a ludid dream (quite possible!). I was in London, working as a computer programmer in an office, it was 1996. For some reason I left it, and joined two friends... and some point became lucid... marvelled at the solid and detailed dream world... I followed the two girls, and just wore my underpants [was lucid but never questioned why I needed to just wear undies!] and went onto a wide pavement/sidewalk. At a nearby small park beside the pavement was a stage with loudspeakers and a sound engineer going through some sound tests. The two girls sat on a park bech by the pavement, and at this point I took off my hearing aid [I am partially hearing] and could hear the girls talking, but fainter in volume. I replaced hearing aid and heard girls' conversation at normal volume, plus the booming sound coming from the sound tests. Then I was dancing on the pavement! Then three black men, wearing yellow and orange harlequin street wear, arrived and watched me dance, they laughed at my dancing. I did some body popping, and then span on my heels fast. came to clean neat stop, then beckoned the men to the floor as a challenge - see if they can dance better than me! One of the group walked to the spot where I had just danced, and did some easy moves, then laid on his back and twitched his body, which passed off as bad dancing! Of course I am a better dancer! Then another man from the group went to me and tried to tell me a funny story, or joke, but I could not understand what he was saying. He was talking too fast! A friend from my old school, RN, was somehow here, and I asked him to repeat the story. He shook his head, he too was unable to understand. So I asked the man to tell his story again, and ... [woken by my father just before the punchline]

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Black=Dream Blue=Lucid Green=Comments in brackets The Queen in armchair! 12 July 2009 I met the Queen Elizabeth II, in a small sitting room in a small house, in a armchair. The house have a homely lived in look, but not grand or regal. Her hair was mostly straight, and she was just relaxing. She was an ordinary looking woman, a far cry from her working life as a monarch. My brother J was here, and a third person a man whose name I cant recall. I sat next to the Queen and held a long conversation with her, and started telling her about my ancestors. Told her that one side of my family was upper class, the other side was middle. Then the Queen replied that the maids in her house were called "creepie crawlies"! Then my brother lit a hand rolled cigarette! [He used to smoke in waking life, but gave up many years ago] The other visitor smoked as well. I could smell the acrid fumes of tobacco, the room stank and started to get a mild headache. I picked up a plastic water container and poured water from it into a glass for the Queen. It was at that point I noticed some cigarette ends at the bottom of the container! [I have never met the Queen in my life!]

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Black=Dream Blue=Lucid Green=Comments in brackets Queen again, at swimming pool! Top jobs! 12 July 2009 I was at a swimming pool, and watched some swimming races, they were 100m or 2 lengths! I wanted to swim but first spent a long time looking for my swimming goggles, as every swimmer was wearing goggles and I would be uncool not to wear goggles! After a while I found them, and placed it in a blue box, and placed the box on a window ledge at one corner of the pool room. I look at the swimmers, then turned round for my goggles - no longer there! - woke - then back to sleep - I was back in the same pool room. I am now dressed, and the Queen was in the room. She was wearing weekend clothes, tweeds, and had her usual styled hair. I went over to her to talk with her, but instead she asked me to go to each of six men (who were in suits and looked distinguished) and give them their appointments (top jobs). I replied that I did not know who these men were and what their appointments were! She placed her left arm round my waist and we walked together like that. She led the way, around the large swimming pool to each of the men, and telling each men what their jobs were. The job titles were grand and long, and as far as I can remember were Ambassador jobs in foreign countries. After three men, I woke up!

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Black=Dream Blue=Lucid Green=Comments in brackets Close encounter with joyriders 13 July 2009 I was in a car with 2 women and two physically disabled children. Driving from my old school, to another boarding school. This school was a huge country house with courtyard, and with modern extensions for classrooms. We were driving again, and a car driven by a careless driver clipped us on the side (by right headlamp). Looking in the car, see it was driven by an young boy about the age of 13 years old. We follow the car, and which stops in a side street, in built up area. I took note of the registration number (license plate). The two kids exited the car and ran away. I left the car and ran in their direction. They were nowhere to be found, so I returned to the car. Now the bonnet have been raised and propped open, and the "engine key" had been taken! The car is now empty, the other passengers of 2 women and disabled children gone...