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      SJ's Dream Journal

      Well, I guess I'll start by welcoming you all to my dream journal. I have a hard copy in my room of previous dreams, but I think I'll just start this one from now. By the way, I can't guarantee your sanity after reading some of my entries...

      ...

      J/K

      Some notes:

      I like the idea of titling dreams, as it makes it easier to remember the dream without having to re-read the whole thing, as well as mark places where I became lucid in a different color, so I apologize for stealing these ideas.

      If you're interested, here is a sort of "dream profile" for me:

      Current Lucid Count: 3

      Most Common Dreamsign: Animals

      2nd Most Common Dreamsign: School buildings (not necessarily ones I know, just what the dream makes me feel is a "school")

      Average sleep time: 6-8 hours during the school year, 8-10 hours on weekends and summer.

      Now then, I suppose I'll recount all 3 lucid dreams I can remember from the course of my life:

      "Night School" LD

      When I was eight years old, I had a dream that I was in my fourth-grade classroom, and the teacher was talking about something, when I noticed it was nighttime outside. I thought to myself, "I don't go to night school!" I realized it was a dream, but not with the vivid clarity of total lucidity. Nonetheless, with what lucidity I had I got up and left the room. Once outside, I was in the hallway that was outside my classroom, and as I looked out the windows at the end of the corridor, I noticed it was daytime. I promptly woke up.

      "Revisiting School" and "The Bees" LD

      Much more recently (as of June 2006) I had a dream where I was in my room, and, for no specific reason, managed to realize I was in a dream. I looked around, and noticed a few discrepancies. For one, my two cats were lazing about on a bench I knew for a fact to be on our porch. I went to look outside the window, and noticed it to be an urban setting, as opposed to the suburb in which I live. I saw a restaurant that I assumed to be a McDonald's by the familiar golden arches, but it was at that moment that I remembered that text is not usually stable, and I think that's why the text on the sign flickered between random letters. Once again, unfortunately, I was in a half-lucid state: just enough to realize I was in a dream, but not able to realize the possibilities of it. So, I decide to try the traditional dream activity of flying. I approach the wall to my room, and just float through it. Once outside, I am at a school that vaguely resembles my middle school. I notice some of my current classmates from my high school as well as classmates from my middle school walking around. Some point at me with a surprised look on their faces. I drift lazily about, floating through the walls of the building and out the roof. Suddenly, the scene changes and I'm in a field where there are what look to be bees about a meter in length on the ground in a drunken state, flopping slightly. Not lucid enough to realize the humor in this, my slight phobia of insects comes up and I begin to feel afraid. My first reaction is to try and kill them, so I try to squish one of the creatures and I feel a cold, wet sensation on the bottom of my foot as I do, and then I wake up. I felt bad, because it would have been a great opportunity to get over that fear. Believe me, I know how dumb it is to be afraid of things 1/1,000th my size. It's embarrasing. Oh well, there's always next time!

      "The Lodge" LD

      I was lucid for only a very short time, and it was another spontaneous lucid dream. This was one of my more sincere efforts, since the first thing I did was try and clarify the dream by focusing on my hand. My hand looked mostly normal, but had that "white-knuckle" effect where the skin is white from clenching something, though my hand felt relaxed and was open, with my palms facing me and my fingers extended. I noticed I was in a clearing of a forested area, and there was a large lodge-like building in the middle. Nonetheless, I lost lucidity shortly afterward.

      Goals:

      Do an RC whenever I see or think about animals or things relating to animals

      Get a good night's sleep every night

      Have a long, fully lucid LD within two months

      Well, that raps it up for this post. See ya!

      --Sam

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      Ugh. I need to spend more time in the morning trying to remember my dreams. My next post will have something useful!

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      7/31/06

      Just got back from a mission trip in Ogden, Utah. Unfortunately, because of our busy schedule, I had no time to record my dreams. I had several, but I only have fuzzy details now.

      Waterpark NL

      I'm standing in the main area of a waterpark looking up at the slides. They look really fun!

      Hotel Monorail NL

      Perhaps a continuation, if the hotel is attached to the waterpark. There is a monorail train that has cars similar to a rollercoaster, but they can swivel to face different directions. There is a keypad where I enter a destination code to have it take us (my youth group from my church was there) to the right place in the hotel.


      Well, here's hoping for some good dreams tonight!

      --Sam

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      8/6/06

      Well, this is the only dream I remember now, but I had more. Curse me for not writing down key words! Oh well, here's the one I remember.

      The Temple

      There was a temple that has been known of for ages, but it has always been locked and no one has been able to open it. Two days after a movie is made about the mysterious temple, a teenaged tan-skinned boy was able to craft a key to open the temple. I got to talk to him, but all he said was, "Hey, it's what I do."

      Sweet dreams, all!

      --Sam



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      Dreams for 8/9/08

      Well, after a long time of not posting anything, I have decided to give regularly recording my dreams another shot now that it's summer (two more years of college to go!). This is an older dream, since I still want to maintain some sense of chronology.

      "The Twins" - NL

      A young woman is being followed constantly by two unknown pursuers. They do not approach her yet, but they leave subtle clues to let her know they are watching. She is not safe, even in her own home. I am with her, when two ethereal beings approach us and tell us that our pursuers are simply known as "the twins."

      The scene changes, but the twins are still following me. The young woman is not with me this time, and I find myself in the workshop of a mechanic's garage, but it is almost laid out like a museum. I start thinking of ways the garage could be modified to be safer and to keep the twins away, when I suddenly realize they are now also after my uncle. From the garage I buy/steal/acquire (I'm not sure) a pink Lotus Elise.

      The scene changes again, and I am making a film about Kakkoi Con, an Anime convention I visited in August '08, and my uncle is financing it. For some reason, I need my correct email address in order for my film to be viewable when it is finished, but I cannot recall it. For some reason, I am going to title the movie "Culture of Guilt."

      Friendly Fire - NL

      Short one here. I shoot a man who has been threatening me and my friends, using both a shotgun and a rifle. The rifle turned out to be filled with blanks, but it's okay because I realize the man is not an enemy.

      Cleaning Commercial - NL

      Even shorter. A cleaning product commercial is on TV. Everyone has yellow gloves on, and all but one are holding a sponge. I don't recall anything else.

      __________________________________________________ ____________

      Dream Signs: Unfamiliar locations, strong emotions (fear and paranoia), playing the "hero" role, telepathinc knowledge from the dream itself, having a car I don't own.

      General Thoughts: When I reread these dreams in the notebook I keep them in, I barely remembered them. Heh. Imagine what it'll be like in five years when I look back at what are now my recent dreams!
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      Dreams for 8/25/08

      Mech Battle - NL

      I am in a complex series of tunnels made of electrical cables and steel. They are large, perhaps 30 ft. or more in diameter. I am hunting the sentry unit guarding these tunnels. Upon finding it, I am immediately overwhelmed by its firepower (I think I had a blaster to defend myself?). I manage to find a large room that branches off from the main tunnels. The sentry bot follows me in and we begin to battle. It is a giant, crablike thing nearly as tall as the tunnels themselves. It has several metal claw-feet and a single, large red eye mounted on the end of a long, flexible neck much like those goose-neck desklamps but much, much larger. I am about to be killed when...

      I am suddenly in a giant mech of my own. I begin ripping off parts of the sentry bot's outer body, and in doing so I find a large, red handle. I pull it, and a hatch in the sentry opens, presumably for a mechanic to enter to make emergency repairs...

      I am now inside the sentry. It is a surprisingly open space, but not tall. I have plenty of room to crawl around or sit. Surrounding me are either numerous windows or monitors that show the outside. Apparently, after entering the sentry it had resumed its patrol, unaware of my presence inside. It was lumbering through the empty tunnels. I suddenly noticed (or it suddenly appeared, I'm not sure) a large console covered with hundreds of glowing buttons and switches. I also suddenly had a manual on how to operate the bot, but I could make neither heads nor tails of it. Then, I "knew" (i.e. the dream telepathically informed me) that there was another sentry bot, a twin of the one I was inside, and that it could only be defeated by this sentry bot. This was my mission. In the cockpit of the sentry, I see the ghostly figures of a teenage girl and a middle-aged woman. They are the two who attempted this mission before me and failed, resulting in their deaths. But it is alright; they look at me warmly, smiling, encouraging me to finish the mission, as I had gotten farther than either of them had before...

      I emerge out of the tunnels on the surface of wherever-I-was, but I only remember this part hazily. I then wake up.

      __________________________________________________ _________

      Dream Signs: Hero role, mechs, dystopian future, mission, telepathic knowledge, ghosts, sudden changes in scenery with no explanation.

      General Thoughts: I'm guessing most of the people who read this are going to think I made it up. I myself exclaimed, "No way!" after rereading this in my dream journal, but I do remember glimpses of it now. I only wish all my dreams were this cool. And if only it were lucid...
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      Dreams for 5/23/09

      First Flight - LD

      I don't really remember the first part of the dream so well, but it was something to do with a family reunion. What I remember more vividly is going down to the basement of wherever-I-was and noticing the walls were bright solid colors. Purple, neon green and bright orange comprised the color scheme, like a child's playhouse gone wrong. Standing by a door at the end of a hallway were Sheriff Jack Carter of the TV show Eureka and his daughter Zoe. I'm not sure what triggered it but it is at this point that I become lucid. I know immediately that the door leads to some kind of clinic, and I also realize I am naked. I am not embarrassed by the situation but kind of annoyed, so I walk into the clinic (the door was an automatic sliding door, colored purple like the rest of the wall with no window in it) and ask someone inside for something to wear. I am handed a purple bath robe. I don't recall the actual act of putting it on, but I am now wearing it. With my newfound lucidity, I look at a door in the clinic. It, too, is solidly colored like the rest of the wall. I wipe my hand in front of me and it turns blue. I do it again and it's neon green. I grin, and then I remember that I want to try flying. I put my hands up, Superman style, and jump. I proceed to fall flat on my stomach, though it didn't hurt. A DC looks at me incredulously, but I try again. I jump, this time going really high and touching a light fixture in the ceiling. I am suspended in the air for a moment, but I fall to the ground, landing on my feet this time. I realize that some small part of me might not truly believe I can just up and fly, so I make a plan. Or rather, a plan comes to me instantly because I don't remember taking the time to think it through. I suddenly have a long belt in my hand. I look up and see a pipe running near the ceiling. I throw one end of the belt over the pipe and then grab both ends, with the belt looped over the pipe. I pull myself up so I'm hanging in the air by the belt, and the sensation is like I'm floating, since I don't feel any exertion in my arms despite lifting my full weight. It is enough, and I will myself to rise into the air. The one caveat: my body isn't being lifted into the air, whatever the belt is hooked to is rising, so I must cling to the belt to fly. But it's okay, because for the first time I'm both flying (mostly) and lucid! The scene changes. I am no longer in the "clinic", but rising into the vast atrium of a large building. As I rise over a balcony, I get a clear view of the atrium proper, but it's a field surrounded by a forest that reaches the horizon. It is as if the ceiling is the sky itself, and actually, it is a glass ceiling with metal supports, and through the glass is clear blue sky. I look down at the scene below me, the field with the grass swaying in the wind and the forest in the distance. But then I have a false awakening, in which I dream of waking on some playground, and, inexplicably, on a platform my wallet and its contents are strewn about. My mother, nearby, scolds me for not being responsible with my belongings. Then I actually wake up.

      __________________________________________________ __________

      Dream Signs: Unfamiliar locations, presence of fictional characters, flight, strong emotion, nakedness.

      General Thoughts: I FLEW WHILE LUCID! YEAH! Okay, so things could have gone better, but this was pretty good considering I basically never practice reality-checking. Next time, I'm going to try and make the first thing I do while lucid to be grounding myself, realizing that everything around me is a dream and what I really want to do. I also realized after the fact that I thought the people in the dream were real, even though I recognized the environment surrounding me wasn't. Like, when the person looked at me when I was trying to fly like I was crazy, I stuttered for a minute and wondered if it was real. I need to look at DCs and say, "They are a part of my dream. They are not real and what they say or do will not affect me in the real world." Until next time, this is Three Dog! AOOOO! And you're listening to Galaxy News Radio! Bringing you the truth... no matter how bad it hurts. And now, some music.
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