Thread: What Sky Saw

Ack!! A month behind, and about 12 or 13 dreams behind!!! Here we go....

Construction Time
I had just told a police officer about an accident I had seen. A man had backed his car literally into another car, and was trying to get away. I turned around and was driving back to the scene when I suddenly realized I was dreaming.

I decided to visit my dream studio, and looked for where it might be. I saw a parking garage and turned in. I parked in a "V.I.P." spot next to the elevators, and got into the elevator. there were no floor buttons, so I just touched a spot on the wall as if there were a number marked there. The elevator started to ascend.

After a bit, it started to go sideways, and sounded like a train. Eventually, it stopped. I got out, and was outside in the country side. I was hoping that my studio had been worked on in my "absense."

There was a big white house, and I went in, still trying to find the studio. There were a lot of people hanging around, and I told them all it was time to go to the studio to play. I saw the studio through an open door. I was looking through the "exit" door into the hexagonal room.

The piano and window were no longer there, but a lot of people were hanging around. Apparently, they had been building and decorating, but were taking a break now.

I saw a man looking through a newspaper and moping. "I can't find any action," he said. I told him I would "set him up" later.

I saw my guitar case, and on top was a big bag of pot. "Oh wow! Thanks!" I said. "Who got me this?" I looked up, and my mother was sitting on a couch next to a mutual friend. She raised her hand and smiled.

Going through my scribbles... not sure what day this was.

Hand Jive
Just a short memory here of doing a hand RC. Everything appeared normal, but I kept feeling like I needed to re-check. Somehow, I knew that eventually it would fail, then I could be lucid. Passing the hands in front of one another did the trick, and the right hand seemed to suddenly have 7 or 8 fingers on it! Lucid, but no dream remembered.

The Art Installation
My childhood friend "SM" had made a giant art "installation" on top of his house, and was using my music for it. There was some huge swinging thing with a banner on it of some sort. I had gone out somewhere to retrieve a new banner for him, and was slogging it back through darkness and rain.

Somehow, the darkness made me realize I was dreaming. At first I thought about what I wanted to do now that I was lucid, but I decided to follow the story to see where it goes. I managed to get the banner back to SM's house, climb up on top, and replace it.

It was still dark, and I asked my brother GR, who happened to be there, to "turn up the lights" on the installation, which he did. They were floods that illuminated the installation.

I came back down, and jammed with SM on my song that he was using. It wasn't one of my songs from real life, but it was going throughout the dream.

Too Many FAs
I went through multiple RCs, brief lucids, and wakes to FAs. I don't remember how many or the details of them, except that I kept being very surprised with failed hand checks, and a lightswitch check. Each FA felt so real, that the next RC caught me completely off-guard.

At some point, I found myself in an old house, and lucid. I went out the window, and crawled down the side of the house like Spiderman.

At another point, I was in the house I grew up in, and realized it as a dream sign. I went downstairs, and I saw my cat Toby. I tried to say "I love you" to him, but it was very hard to form words. He transformed into our other cat Ramona.

I had yet another FA from this dream, and wanted to write down the above lucid. I found pen and paper, and started to write, but just couldn't seem to write the word "house" properly. I kept scratching it out and trying again.

I'm transcribing the two dreams from 9/30 here from some scribbled notes. Reading through the notes, I don't remember having these dreams at all! Good thing I wrote them down when I did.

Hardware Entrance
I was in some scary "mob house." I was to leave a delivery outside someone's door there. It was two pillows and a "Gwen Stacy" comic. As soon as I left them, and angry guy came out of the door, and started chasing me. I thought I could teleport away, but then I realised that such thing is only possible in dreams, which made me lucid.

I was overjoyed in this LD because it was one of those elusive super-vivid ones. I dived into some water and started to sing a song (which I've forgotten). As I swam around in this shallow pond, I saaw a sign on a brick wall that said "Hardware Entrance." There was also an older woman standing waist-high in the water.

I then dreamed that Sass woke me up, but it was of course another FA. I tried to write down the above dream, and managed to write out the entire song I was singing. Too bad I couldn't do that in real life!

Originally Posted by skysaw

At another point, I was in the house I grew up in, and realized it as a dream sign. I went downstairs, and I saw my cat Toby. I tried to say "I love you" to him, but it was very hard to form words. He transformed into our other cat Ramona.

Aww, that's so cute. I caught my BF telling one of our cats that he loved her, so I answered for her, "I wuv you too, Tommy!" Then I thought that would be a good way for me to practice for when I finally do the monthly task from a long time ago, "Get your pet to talk", (yes I'm still trying!) so now I do it all the time. Very annoying to those around me.

Hey that reminds me, I know I had an FA last night...I should go see where that fits in; I think I forgot to write it down.

It's weird when you can't get the words our right in a dream.

Giant Sunflowers and a Falling Bale of Hay
I was with my cousins and their family, my brother GW and his wife, and an old girlfriend KA. Someone was trying to fix dinner, but no one was ever ready to eat at the same time (this actually happens often with my cousins).

Some of us were outside when we saw a strange bale of hay fall from the sky and land in a field. It had a big read flower on it.

I talked to my cousins about LDs, and showed them my journal entry from the above dream (funny how my mind works!).

Suddenly, I was lucid!

I began to show them I could fly. I was swooping around among some giant sunflowers. I realised I had been holding some keys in my left hand, and dropped them to the ground. I couldn't fly very high at all. I would only swoop gently up and down again. I wondered if the up and down matched my real-life breathing, and tried to figure out what my breathing pattern was.

Once again, I had an FA that Sass woke me up.

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

Aww, that's so cute. I caught my BF telling one of our cats that he loved her, so I answered for her, "I wuv you too, Tommy!" Then I thought that would be a good way for me to practice for when I finally do the monthly task from a long time ago, "Get your pet to talk", (yes I'm still trying!) so now I do it all the time.

Aww... don't give up! Actually, this is only the second time I've ever dreamed of Toby, the first was doing that task!

Hey that reminds me, I know I had an FA last night...I should go see where that fits in; I think I forgot to write it down.

Lately I've been having so many FAs it's crazy. I'm probably having 2 or 3 for every LD, and they often separate two different LDs.

It's weird when you can't get the words our right in a dream.

This should be a very obvious dream sign, but I miss it often!

I had two LDs, but didn't remember too many details when I woke.

Going Nova
Had several failed attempts at flying. Then I concentrated, and soared straight up into the sky, higher than I've ever been able to fly. I kept going, and flew all the way to the sun, and landed on it. Then I exploded into a million pieces. Glorious!

Playing in Traffic
Having had so much fun living dangerously earlier, I decided to walk through a busy street, and let cars hit me. I wandered through the traffic, but everyone kept swerving around me. Oh well, at least I tried!

I also saw my dreamfriend Suella again. It was nice to see her face, as I hadn't dreamed of her in awhile. We said hi and hugged.

Originally Posted by skysaw

This should be a very obvious dream sign, but I miss it often!

Sometimes it happens when I'm lucid already, and I feel like my real body is trying to talk instead of my dream body, and that's why it's happening. I wonder why talking is like that; except I guess that's the most common thing to escape from dreams usually, so maybe that's why. I feel like I probably look like I'm trying to talk, if someone were watching me.

Here's another one I would never have remembered if I hadn't written it down. It's actually weird to read it, as it just doesn't seem familiar at all.

Mustard Girl and Ketchup Boy
I was in a "movie dream." That is, I was living through a story of which I already knew the plot. In this story, Aliens had taken over the Earth. First, they were friendly, but later they revealed themselves to be evil.

I made my way to a secret apartment I had as sort of a safe house. I was in the bathroom, and I started to wonder how I had this apartment. I wanted to call Sass and tell her how to get here, but I didn't know if she had the cell phone on her. Suddenly it all came to me... this was a dream!

I looked around the bathroom. It was very bare except for a roll of toilet paper and a bottle of cologne on the sink called "Marriage Potion." I looked in the mirror and saw my own face. It was in pretty good detail, and there was nothing distorted about it, as I had expected.

I looked out the window, and I realised I was on a train. I hung out the window, and decided to make my way to the roof. I asked out loud for some stairs, but instead a series of pegs appeared on the train wall leading upwards. I climbed up and went through a trapdoor to the roof of an overhanging deck perched on top of the train. It was sort of an observation deck, and there was a man with his back to me looking off into the distance.

Then I noticed a woman in a deck chair. I walked over to her, and she said to me "I'm the mustard."

Suggestively I replied, "then I'm the ketchup! Is this recliner a hot dog?"

"It's a pretty bad hot dog."

I ran my finger up her leg. She told me she only wanted to cuddle.

Originally Posted by skysaw

Mustard Girl and Ketchup Boy
Then I noticed a woman in a deck chair. I walked over to her, and she said to me "I'm the mustard."

Suggestively I replied, "then I'm the ketchup! Is this recliner a hot dog?"

"It's a pretty bad hot dog."

I ran my finger up her leg. She told me she only wanted to cuddle.

Seriously, I'm LOL! It's too weird!

Bernstein in Knickers
I was at a concert hall with Sass. There was an amateur pianist playing in the audience, but he obviously was not on the program. Leonard Bernstein entered from the rear of the theater. He was wearing knickers without socks, and boat shoes. As he walked past the pianist towards the stage, he shushed him.

I was reading the program, and was lauging at it as it was written in an archaic overly florid style. I referred to the style as "Byronesque" -- (a word I've never used in my life, but which Sass (a poet) now assures me may have been perfectly apt.)

As I'm laughing and reading, I notice the words keep changing. I tell Sass to read it too, to see if it matches what I'm reading. Then I recognize the DS, and become lucid... but it's a somewhat confused lucidity.

For some reason, I believe Sass is awake but I am asleep and dreaming. I believe that I can talk to her from the dream world. (There is a very similar occurrance in another recent journal entry.) As I talk to her, I ask her just to be sure:

"Can you hear me?"

"Yes."

And then I had a false-awakening, and disussed the dream with Sass:

"Did you hear me when I was talking in my dream?"

"No."

Since this seemed much more realistic, I was quite convinced that I had actually woken up. I got up out of bed to look for pen and paper to write down my dream. It was dark, and I was a bit confused about where I was. I walked out into the hall, but it did not look like our house. It looked more like the house I grew up in.

I was so very confused. Why would I wake up in the wrong house?? In a slight panic, I yelled out "where the Hell am I?!"

Then I looked more closely, and realized that it was in fact my old house. I relaxed because I was obviously still dreaming.

The Golden Bus
Happy again, I jumped head-first over the balcony and down the stairs. I descended in slow motion, saying out loud "I'm lucid! I'm lucid!" the whole way down.

I flew through the dining room window, passing through it without breaking it. The whole time I am remembering the above lucid dream, trying to imprint the details in my mind, so that I can write it down for real when I actually woke up... "Bernstein... Knickers... Byronesque..."

I landed in the driveway, and saw an old VW Bus:


The bus was a wonderful metallic orangy gold color. At closer inspection, I noticed the surface of the body had many imperfections in it, but it was still beautiful.

It was still dark out, and I noticed the street lights on. I decided I wanted some company, and called out loud "Someone come and visit me!" A car immediately pulled into the driveway. The driver is a naked woman, and her passenger is another woman but clothed. The driver opened the door for me, and scooted over. I jumped in and shut the door behind me.

I was trying to talk to them, asking their names, etc, but they seemed distracted. Then I saw that they were watching a bunch of people run by us down the driveway. I imagine that they might be frightened, thinking that the people are running away from something bad, so I tried to calm them by telling them that they were running to something, not away from it.

Here, I had yet another FA. Sass was snuggling in bed with an old boyfriend of hers. I had to tell them that I was "not comfortable" with that.

Originally Posted by skysaw

Sass was snuggling in bed with an old boyfriend of hers. I had to tell them that I was "not comfortable" with that.

I stayed home from work on the right day! Your dreams are so hilarious, I'm not kidding.

Hey, I was looking up and I see you found Suella again. Maybe if I mention her name, it will bring her back.

I wonder what happened to Suella, where do DC's go when you're not dreaming about them? (More mentionings, to increase the chances.)

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

I stayed home from work on the right day! Your dreams are so hilarious, I'm not kidding.

Thanks, my subconscious is a real smart-ass sometimes!

Hey, I was looking up and I see you found Suella again. Maybe if I mention her name, it will bring her back.

I wonder what happened to Suella, where do DC's go when you're not dreaming about them? (More mentionings, to increase the chances.)

Thanks for helping solidify her.

I would love to have her appear on a regular basis. I find that if I try too hard, it sometimes turns out to be a "false-Suella." Other DCs love to try and impersonate her!

Dream Echo?

Had a very brief LD with Sass that was a repeat of the end of my encounter with "Mustard Girl" above. I ran my finger up her leg, and she said she just wanted to cuddle.

Originally Posted by skysaw

I would love to have her appear on a regular basis. I find that if I try too hard, it sometimes turns out to be a "false-Suella." Other DCs love to try and impersonate her!

Yes, they're sneaky that way, I know.

It's time to revive my poor neglected dream journal. During the time between my last entry in October and December, my lucid dreams were somewhat sporadic. I had a handful of really good ones I managed to write in my personal journal, but never transferred them here. I will bring them over shortly.

Between December and January I was a little discouraged because my lucid dreams almost completely stopped. I would occasionally have a brief one lasting maybe a minute or two, but few fun stories to write. Most of these are lost because I never bothered to write them down.

In the past month, however, I have picked up some serious steam in dreaming. The lucids have become more frequent, even though many of them were still quite short. I still haven't written any of these down, but will begin with last night's while it's still in my mind.

It's actually amazing how frequent they have been in the last two or three weeks. It seems that I have had one to three almost every single night! But just in the last week they have started to get longer again.

I have some new dream signs as well, as the nature of my dreams are changing. Here are the most frequent signs of late:

1. Going to the bathroom, especially in the house I grew up in. Usually, there is some problem with the toilet... it's either missing, clogged up, or replaced by a small cup or something.

2. Noticing I have no pants on. Usually I still have underwear and a shirt.

I've also changed my usual reality check from finger-counting to pushing the fingers of my right hand through the palm of my left, and seeing the flesh bulge way up out of the back of the left hand. Usually I use this just as a confirmation after I've already realized I'm dreaming. The realizations are coming very easily whenever the two new signs come up. It's almost guaranteed I'll become lucid if I encounter either of the signs, and I'm getting them all the time.

Last night's dream follows...

Ball Game
I came across a couple of old friends playing a game where they sat on the ground across from each other. They would hold their hands together, and a small colorful ball would appear and grow to about the size of a basketball. Then it would shoot from their hands and hit the other person and explode. The explosion was very mild, and didn't hurt them.

For fun, I joined the game. I knew I could make an extra-large ball that would explode with a little more force. The ball was colored like the Earth, and grew to about four feet in diameter, and blew back my opponent with a bright flash of colors. Everyone laughed.

Gacie
I became lucid while walking around my old neighborhood. A few blocks away, I saw some huge building made out of very dark stone. They looked like old Roman structures, but seemed to be brand new. I started walking towards the structures, crossing traffic without bothering to look. This was an act of defiance against my dream, showing that I was in control.

Then I called out "I am a dreamer!" wondering what the reaction of the people around me would be. Just to my left I heard someone say "I'm a dreamer too!" I turned to look, and it was a woman of about 30 years. She was dressed very smartly in a stylish jacket, and had long dirty blond hair.

She told me her name was Gacie, and seemed to think were were sharing our dream together. I don't believe in dream-sharing, but in the fuzzy thinking state the dream brings, I half believed it. We talked for a bit before I had a false-awakening.

FedEx Guy
I had just become lucid and ready to go look for Gacie again to apologize for "waking up." Just then, a FedEx truck pulled into the driveway in front of me, and the delivery guy was offering me a clipboard to sign for a package. I wanted to get rid of this guy quickly, so I looked at him and said:

"The package has been signed for."

He looked at the clipboard and said "Oh yeah... Ok, let me get it for you." This was still taking too much time, so I said:

"The package is already on our porch."

He looked up and saw that it was. He looked a little confused, but got back in the truck and drove off.

Gacie Again
After FedEx guy left, I called out "Gacie! Where are you?" And she instantly was next to me. We continued our conversation. We both thought it was funny that my disappearance was only due to a false-awakening, and not a real one.

She told me that she had done dream-sharing with others. I asked her if she had ever gotten romantic with another dreamer while sharing, and she said no, because she's married. I pointed out that it's just a dream, so it's not cheating, and then she agreed. So of course, we started kissing a little bit. I still remember the feel of her mouth, which was very realistic.

Hey, I'm glad your dreams have come back to you. Dry-spells suck, but they usually end eventually. I had a pretty bad time at the end of the year too.

Originally Posted by skysaw

I pointed out that it's just a dream, so it's not cheating, and then she agreed.

How convenient...

You always were good at getting and keeping those dream GF's. I wish I could ever find the same DC twice.