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...
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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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