Blue's Spiderweb

**The Blue Meanie** · 03-06-2006 09:36 AM

Blue's Spiderweb

The complete dream journal of The Blue Meanie, a.k.a., me.

First off, welcome to my Dream Journal.

This dream journal contains most dreams I remember having since joining Dream Views in March of 2006. As of today, that's about a year's worth of dreams. These dreams are not censored for content, but the real-life people and places they involve are always anonymised to protect them and me from any possible embarassment - this HAS been a problem for me in the past, so there is a good reason for this measure. I will explain how this works later. This first post is meant to tell readers of my journal a bit about me, and to help them and act as a guide to reading my DJ entries.

About me:
I'm 21, male, and live in New Zealand. I'm currently a university student, without a part-time job yet. I'm also a Dream Guide, sort of a junior mod and forum helper, on this site, Dream Views. When I am on top of my game, my dream recall is usually 2-3 dreams a night of varying quality, but that said, I often go through slumps in which I have very little recall. Most of the time this is due to me not trying hard enoguh or keeping an irregular sleep pattern. I have lucid dreams perhaps more infrequently than some of the other more experienced members of Dream Views, but again, this is most of the time due to lack of effort. Bad me, I know.

About my DJ entries:
All my dreams will have a "header" containing info about the dream. It will always be in the following format:

(Date) (Time) // (Lucid or not) // (Level of vividity) // (Length of dream) // (Type of dream)
Title: "(Title of dream)"

Most of the time I forget the exact time I had the dream, but when I do, it is recorded. I will usually have the date.
The level of vividity is estimated, and will vary from "Very low" which usually indicates a very hazy, foggy, vague dream to "very high" vividity which indicates a dream around about as vivid as real-life, or perhaps slightly more or less vivid.
Length of the dream is an estimated measure of how much actually happened and how much time seemed to pass in the dream - not neccessarily how much time actually passed in real-life.
The "Type" of dream is mainly for my own reference. Most dreams will just be referred to as "Standard Dream". If the dream has sexual content it will be labelled "Sexual dream". If I am not sure what happened and it was very vague and little more than a feeling and ideas, it will be called an "Impression", and if it is a fragment of a larger dream I cannot remember, and is somewhat disjointed, it will be called a "Dream Fragment". Occaisionally you'll see some different labels. Usually applied to "special" dreams, especially long or vivid or with a dominant theme. If the dream is a lucid, I'll tell you if it was a DILD or WILD or something else, in this "type of dream" slot.

All my dreams will also be colour-coded. Here's what the colours mean:

Navy Blue = Will be used for the main body of any non-lucid dream.
Dark Green = Will be used for the main body of any lucid dream.
(Bear in mind, in dreams in which I am only partially lucid, the parts of the dream in which I am lucid, will be in Dark Green and the parts where I am not lucid, in Navy Blue.
Red = Will be used to identify dream signs. Any word highlighted in red is a dream sign.
Purple = Throughout the journal you will see strings of numbers and letters, apparently random, at the bottom of some entries. This text is encoded information about sensitive parts of the dream or names of people. It is constantly being revised as I try to make as little hidden as possible while still retaining anonymity and privacy for myself. Occaisionally entire dreams will be encoded.=

On Anonymity:
Because of a scare last year, ALL identifying names and places have been anonymised in this dream journal. That means that in each entry, a fictional name, underlined, is used for a real-life character. The same character wil recurr throughout dreams but will appear under a different name in each one. As of this edited intro post, I am currently going through and seeing if I can have ONE constant name for each dream character throught all my dreams, to give a sence of identity to the reader of my dream journal. I dunno how that will work out, though. I have to balance privacy and readability.

<span style="color:#ff0000">DISCLAIMER: Since I use these dreams, in part, for creative inspiration in my writing, I consider the content, ideas, thoughts, etc, contained in these dreams to be my own intellectual property. As such, I do not give permission for anyone to reproduce the content or ideas of my dream journal entries for their own purposes without my prior permission. Furthermore, anyone reading this DJ does so at their own risk. I do not apologise in any manner for the content of my dreams, and if it offends people, that is something that I cannot control. These dreams are exactly that: DREAMS, not thoughts, or desires, or opinions.

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Okay, this next part of my journal is for my own working. It will include stuff like dreamsigns and the like.

Dream Signs
Inner Awareness