Thread: Nunquam's Dream Journal

Hello all.

This is only my second week of recording dreams; I'm new to this whole thing. My dreams currently aren't very clear and they're usually very short (hopefully this'll change soon). Note that I’ve never experienced a lucid dream before.


Here’s some information about my dreams so far:
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Number of nights spent recording: 13
Number of dreams that I’ve been able to recall: 18 (averaging 1.38 dreams per night)
Number of lucid dreams: 0 (averaging 0 LD’s per night)
Number of false awakenings that have occurred: 3

Some facts about my dreams:
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77.7% of my dreams have my family members.
66.6% of my dreams have featured my house in them.
In 27.7% of my dreams I’m in my room.
In 22.2% of my dreams, I’ve driven in a car.


Week 1, Feb 9-15, 2006

THU 2/9/2006

After waking up at 5AM, I stayed up for an hour and fell asleep at around 6… I dreamed about playing this online bowling game but I had to stop playing due to hackers…then I walked to my bed and had a false awakening and, believing I was awake now, told everyone in my room (family members had gathered there for some reason) I had a lucid dream when in fact I hadn’t.

I then proceeded to go upstairs (my room is in the basement) and watched morning T.V. (which I never do, so that is a good dream sign) then made breakfast but somehow accidentally put my pet turtle in the toaster where he was immediately fried. My mom was yelling at me and I don’t remember much else. I was very confused when I woke up. Definitely one of the strangest dreams I’ve had in a while.

FRI 2/10/2006

I don’t remember having any dreams – I woke up feeling happy and refreshed for some reason.

SAT 2/11/2006

I went to bed at 12:30AM and didn’t fall asleep until about 3:30 (I might have fallen asleep prior to this, but I don't remember). I don’t know why it took so long; I’m guessing because I couldn’t get my mind off lucid dreaming.

Anyway, I remember two non-ludid dreams: the first one was extremely unclear – it had something to do with me being chased by cops while it was snowing (a Nor’easter was occurring that night, so I was also thinking about that as I went to sleep). I woke up for a few moments, then went back to sleep.

In my second dream, it was also snowing, but this time I was at my house. My dad was constructing something with poles and told me to leave the house…so I went to this strange school and there met an Icelandic girl. She started telling me about Vikings and all these strange things…and instantly the dream morphed into a dream about the Minnesota Vikings (which is an American Football team).

I remember being on the football field for a while…someone was telling me tips to improve my passing (I think it might have been the Icelandic girl).

At length, we decided to buy some food, so we headed over to A&P (a supermarket). We sat on a ledge outside the store when Bill Cowher (the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers) came up to me and shook my hand. I told him congratulations on winning the Superbowl and how well he deserved winning it. He thanked me and went inside the store. For some reason, this was the clearest part of my dream…I remember it so vividly and remember exactly what I said to him, word for word, which is unusual for me. I could even tell I was stuttering a bit as I was talking to him (like I probably would do if I really met him).

Eventually, I somehow arrived at my house and my two brothers were there. We went in my bedroom and started watching some T.V. My T.V., though, was in the wrong place. I distinctly remember watching opera-like singers and getting bored of watching them (the latter part definitely would happen IRL).

After this, the dream becomes extremely vague, though I remember bits and pieces. I woke up at 7:40AM, sweating slightly. My pillow was slightly wet, so I must have been sweating a lot during my dream. It took me 31 minutes to recall everything that I did.

SUN 2/12/2006

I didn’t recall any dreams…woke up with a horrible headache. Might take an afternoon nap later and see if that works.

MON 2/13/2006

I went to sleep at around 11:30PM saying to myself “I’m going to wake up and remember my dreams...”

Well, this worked to an extent, because at 3:00AM I woke up. Problem is, I fell right back to sleep, and don’t recall any dreams (although I do know I had at least one during this time).

I woke up again at 4:00 and the same thing happened. Remember nothing, though I was sure I had a dream.

I went back to sleep and this time I struck gold. I dreamed I was on the boardwalk in Ocean City, New Jersey (a beach resort) and was riding bikes on it with some friends. I remember seeing the waves in the ocean so vividly…my parents arrived and told me we had to leave. So I hopped in their car and they drove me to my grandparents’ house.

Upon arriving there, I noticed a yellow car parked in the driveway…I believe it was a Hummer. I noted to my parents that this must be my aunt’s new car. This seemed odd and random because my aunt was, as far as I could remember, not in this dream.

We got out of the car and entered my grandmothers’ house. It looked all strange and morphed…for example, a staircase was in their house but it’s not a two-story house IRL.

Anyway, I said hi to my grandmother; she was having trouble walking down that mysterious staircase (she’s very frail). I sat down on a couch inside and my grandfather told me he needed something from my house. He wanted me to go and get it. I pretended to go and get whatever it was, but I didn’t really.

This is where the dream gets extremely cloudy…I remember somehow ending up at my house (maybe I did listen to my grandfather) but I never went inside my house. I was standing outside of it with two mysterious people whom I can’t identify. One of them was around my age (16) and the other was a full-grown man. They had a minivan parked in the driveway and they told me they were taking me somewhere.

So I got in the car, and we started driving. The younger person had a remote controller he said he was using to control a moped. I looked out the back window of the car and sure enough, the moped was following us on the road.

At some point, we had to stop and pull over because of an ambulance. We got out of the car and realized it was my little sister who got hurt. My parents also were at the scene. All of my family just seemed to randomly appear here; I don’t remember them ever arriving in a car or anything.

It gets even more vague and I end up at a baseball game, on the field. I don’t remember how I got here…it seems as though the game is about to commence and I’m then woken up by my mother.

Thus ends my dream. One of the longest I’ve had in a while for sure.

TUE 2/14/2006

Went to sleep earlier than normal…woke up around eight times during the night, each time falling back to sleep abruptly except for once.

During this time, I remembered a dream where I was hovering above the world in such a way that it looked like a map. I saw a lot of houses and lakes down below.

It was about 6AM when I wrote all this down, and then I went back to bed. After 20 minutes, I couldn’t fall asleep so I said to myself “I’ll just get up.”

So I did get up. It was suddenly light outside, however, and my mom entered my room and told me we were preparing for a party. So I started cleaning my room and getting ready when I jolted awake.

Wow, another false awakening. This is my second one. This is also the first time since I’ve started this journal that I’ve been able to recall dreams from consecutive nights. A definite improvement.


WED 2/15/2006

I woke up at 2AM then fell back to sleep.

I dreamed that my cousin came over and I was playing video games and pool with him. Eventually, my dad joined in the game.

It’s get vague here and I don’t remember if the following dream was connected with the one above, but I’ll assume they were.

I found myself getting in my mom’s car and she was taking me to my job at a lake resort. I had to attend an in-service training (I’m a lifeguard). When I arrived, there were a lot of people there (mostly random friends).

For some reason, there was a piano on the beach and I started playing it. I became very happy when I became aware that my boss wasn’t in because I realized I had forgotten to bring my uniform.

The dream ends somewhere around here…then at some point I had a false awakening:



I was in bed as though I had just woken up and my brother arrived and he gave me a drink of something. Then we started talking, though I don’t remember what our conversation was about.

I wrote all this down at 5:30…then I fell back to sleep.

I had a third dream about some sorta celebrity gathering. I can’t remember who was there, but I know they were all famous….there were about 20 of them at this pool party. Just as it was becoming a fully-fledged dream, I woke up.

3 dreams in one night; this is the most I've been able to remember in one night since I started this journal.