Thread: Clairity.. Perchance to Dream

Originally Posted by supreme

OMG Clairity haha!! Thats the funniest thing i think ive ever read in my life!!
(It might have been just another astral guy trying to score!!!)

Anyway so far ive only read your first entry. So i have some questions. (still giggling)

I'm so glad you're enjoying my dreams .. ask away!

Originally Posted by supreme

Ok so when you separate from your real body....do you only call that astral
projection or are you also in a LD?? Because when i LD i always first start
from separating, but i know its not really happening to me tho and that its
just the way i start my LDs. You said you tried to roll out and that seems
similar to what i do, except i kinda push out. Then I LD from there.

I can tell when I'm lucid vs OOB/astral projection in that when I have a lucid dream the experience always STARTS somewhere OTHER than where I am sleeping (somewhere other than my bedroom or couch) yet when I have an OOBE, the experience ALWAYS starts where I'm sleeping (i.e., I roll or lift off the couch or bed)..

The other way I can tell is that I always have partial if not TOTAL control of the actions of the *other* people in my lucid dreams while in my OOBEs, the ONLY person I have TOTAL control over is *myself*.

I know alot of members feel that OOBEs/Astral Projections are just variations of lucid dreams so I don't really debate the semantics.

Originally Posted by supreme

Also, as you may know, ive been LDing a long long time all alone with no
direction. I wasnt even sure how common what i did was. Anyway im not
sure what a spirit guide is. Can you have one in a LD or does it have to
be true AP? I never talk to DCs or meet up with any unless i want to. But
now im wondering if i should have been looking for someone or something
all these years? I remember the spirit guide episode on star trek but i
didnt take it to be legitimate at all. Is that, like what you guys are talking
about? To me, a spirit guide in a LD that helped me or gave me advice,
would really only be myself subconsciously giving myself advice. Do you
know what i mean?

I know exactly what you mean and I agree that having a dream guide could possibly be a way of tapping into your subconscious for advice/guidance, etc.

I found the following post from one of our Moderators which I think explains dream guides very well:

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Any dream character has the potential to become a dreamguide, but a dream guide doesn't necessarily solidify itself as a dream guide, in my opinion, unless it shows up in numerous dreams with the intention on helping you get more out of your dreaming experience. This can come in many forms. It can be someone that you designate to be your dream guide or someone that comes up to you and says "Hey, I'm your dream guide." It can be a person, an object with the ability to communicate, a book that "tells" you what directions to take with your dreams, a picture of something that constantly communicates something of significance that will update itself to guide you to certain concepts within your dream that hold a subconscious significance to you, etc. etc.

Basically, it is any part of your subconscious that works in guiding you to further your dream experiences and/or the lessons you can learn from them..



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There is also a tutorial about finding your dream guide: http://www.dreamviews.com/community/showthread.php?t=29192

Originally Posted by supreme

Anyway im enjoying your experiences!

Thanks so much for reading my journal!

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Thanks Clairity! Those explanations were very helpful!

You're so very welcome!

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It was storming this morning (lightning and thundering). I got up to let the dogs out and then went back to bed as I didn't have to be at work until 12:30 PM.

I halfheartedly thought about trying for a WILD and said a few affirmations and laid myself very still. I had little faith that I'd even be able to fall asleep through all the noise let alone dream.. but then the following dream occurred.

I find myself at work and it's lunchtime. I go to the kitchen to get my lunch and see a colander with a few strands of spaghetti in it and decide to be helpful and wash it.

As I'm washing the colander, the few strands of spaghetti seem to be multiplying! Soon there's a whole bowl full of freshly cooked spaghetti and it slips from the colander into the sink blocking the drain. Suddenly from behind me I hear a woman's upset voice asking who had dumped her spaghetti into the sink.. why would someone do that?!?

I immediately apologize and offer to pay her for the spaghetti. While she is scooping it out of the sink.. I turn to talk to a male coworker who had been there when I was washing the colander. I asked him if it wasn't true that there was hardly any spaghetti at first and that it just seemed to grow as I washed the colander.. but he just shrugged like he knew what I was saying was true but didn't want to get involved.

I then find myself waking up in bed only it isn't my bed now but my bed from when I was growing up. I had just decided to stay home from work when my sister E walked in saying that her stomach hurt. As she got into bed next to me I noticed that she must have already been there because her head imprint was already in the pillow.

My nose scrunched as I caught a whiff of the smell coming from the bathroom and I thought to myself.. she must REALLY feel bad!

The alarm goes off.. softly at first but then louder.. only it was music and not the beeper that it should have been. I think to myself, "now that's weird" and I get up to turn it off.

My sister suddenly grabs my ankle. I tell her to let go.. that she's hurting me but she won't. I finally grab her, pull her out of bed and push her out the door. As the door slams behind her I look down and see foot shadows underneath the bottom of the door.

I happily yell "Daddy" and swing open the door but who was standing there certainly wasn't my daddy. He was a beautiful young man with tan skin and dark hair and eyes.

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I suddenly realize that I'm dreaming! I pull him into the room by his shirt front with one hand while closing the door behind him with the other.

I press myself against him and kiss him. He turns his head away from me which strikes me as strange because I figure that's why he came to be at my door.

I grab his chin with my hand and make him face me once again. I look into his eyes and tell him to kiss me.. that he has no choice. Once again I sought out his lips with mine and felt him try to resist but soon I felt him relax and melt into my touch.

I grab his ass with both hands and pull him into me. I slowly roll my pelvis against his and feel his desire growing. I can feel vividly his heart beating against my chest, the softness of his lips and the firmness of his ass in my hands.

I suddenly remember the advanced August Lucid Task of the Month and decide to see what "desire/lust" tastes like.

I take his face in my hands and, while looking into his eyes, kiss him again breathing in slowly and deeply. I remember the look of shock in his eyes as he started to feel the effect of my inhale.

His face suddenly became sunken and I felt his body get thinner/deflate.. like a balloon with the air being let out of it!

I hurriedly exhaled back into his mouth and he inflated back to normal.

I then just.. woke up.

I quickly wrote down the details of the dream before I forgot pieces of it. I tried to recall what he tasted like when I inhaled him.. but there was no taste really.. just a feeling of filling up with air. I remember thinking it was as tho I was a vampire.. only I wasn't draining his blood but his body's air (or perhaps his soul).

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Wow. How do you feel about your actions in that dream now?

Originally Posted by apachama

Wow. How do you feel about your actions in that dream now?

You mean do I feel bad about "deflating" him?

Not really.. I would have felt bad if I had deliberately tried to hurt a DC (depending on the circumstances) but it was unintentional and I did re-inflate him before I woke up.

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The following is a non-lucid dream that turned into one of my rare DILDs:

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This dream started with me having left work and come home for lunch. I found myself once again in my childhood home but once there it was suddenly bedtime. I decided to not to go back to work, briefly worried that I would be fired but rationalized that thought away saying after all it was bedtime. I am in the bedroom that I shared with my younger sister who was already getting ready for bed

As I lay down, I look across the room at my sister's twin bed and, instead of my sister, I see a very old woman laying there looking back at me! As I looked at the old lady.. tho I didn't recognize her, I somehow knew that it was my grandmother who had passed on many years ago. I ask her if she is alright and suddenly she changed.. and became a young girl.. her image softly glowing in the darkness.

I ask her again.. are you alright? Do you miss us.. and grandpa?

She says nothing but nods her head yes at me.

I don't know if I truly became lucid at this point.. but I knew not to be afraid of this vision of my grandma as I knew that she wasn't truly there in the room. At times I would feel fear starting to spark tiny inside of me.. but I simply didn't let that emotion catch fire and grow.

I ask her how is it over there.. and she doesn't answer but disappears.

I start to fly around the room circling the ceiling.. slowly at first and then faster and faster.

I head for the bedroom window and fly straight through it.. glass exploding around me as I pass.. tho none cut me.

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I shoot upwards into the dark night sky and see an aquarium floating weightless in the distance.

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I reach it and as I float in front of it I remember the basic challenge.

I put my right hand against the glass. The first time I did so, my hand looked normal except for a pull ring on the tip of my index finger.

I briefly wondered what would happen if I pulled the ring but instead took my hand away and then put it back against the glass.

This time, my fingers were bent sideways at the second knuckles and my index finger was totally missing.

I then woke up..

NOTE: I do find it curious that I saw what seemed to be my grandmother.. especially since I had never dreamed about her when she was living nor after she had died and she rarely crosses my mind.

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Originally Posted by Clairity

I suddenly realize that I'm dreaming! I pull him into the room by his shirt front with one hand while closing the door behind him with the other.

I press myself against him and kiss him. He turns his head away from me which strikes me as strange because I figure that's why he came to be at my door.

I grab his chin with my hand and make him face me once again. I look into his eyes and tell him to kiss me.. that he has no choice. Once again I sought out his lips with mine and felt him try to resist but soon I felt him relax and melt into my touch.

I grab his ass with both hands and pull him into me. I slowly roll my pelvis against his and feel his desire growing. I can feel vividly his heart beating against my chest, the softness of his lips and the firmness of his ass in my hands.

I suddenly remember the advanced August Lucid Task of the Month and decide to see what "desire/lust" tastes like.

I take his face in my hands and, while looking into his eyes, kiss him again breathing in slowly and deeply. I remember the look of shock in his eyes as he started to feel the effect of my inhale.

His face suddenly became sunken and I felt his body get thinner/deflate.. like a balloon with the air being let out of it!

I hurriedly exhaled back into his mouth and he inflated back to normal.

I then just.. woke up.

Haha. That's great (and hawt ), Clairity. Nice job on the task!

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

Haha. That's great (and hawt ), Clairity. Nice job on the task!

Thanks O! It was really "tough" on me but a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do!!

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Remind me to check the Lucid Task of the Month when Im hangin' around in front of your door. Might not be as lucky as the mystery man lol.

Awesome dream though

LOL!! Thanks Shady!!

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I wish I could dream like you! All I can remember most of the time is a fragment or two of a dream. Just a question, were you shocked when the guy from the LD you had started to deflate?

Originally Posted by -Blakren-

I wish I could dream like you! All I can remember most of the time is a fragment or two of a dream.

Most of the time that's all I can remember unless it's a lucid dream or it's the weekend (my recall definately improves when I can sleep over 9 hours or more).

Originally Posted by -Blakren-

Just a question, were you shocked when the guy from the LD you had started to deflate?

All I felt was shock!! Deflation was NOT what I was going for/ nor expected.. which is probably why I quickly re-inflated him and then immediately woke up.

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I am in a department store

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when I realize that the aisles are rigged with shotguns.

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It is a veritable mine field in that you can't tell where the guns are hidden but if you go down the wrong aisle, you will be shot.

I soon discover that myself along with the other shoppers are unwilling participants in some kind of sick contest. If you refuse to perform certain tasks or clear certain barriers/aisles you will immediately be shot..

There was one contestant who was burned and his face partially wrapped in bloody bandages.

He deliberately tripped up one contestant and then came upon a pregnant woman.

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His bandages began to slide from his face as he approached her and said, "Remember me?".

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The girl gasped saying, "It's you!!"

He reaches out and gently touches her belly asking, "Are you ready to die?"

She begins to cry softly and he says, "You will - but not today."

My alarm goes off..

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I had been talking to a guy on the phone and decided that I didn't like him (he made me uneasy). I hang up the phone and go to my bedroom to watch tv with my mom.

I hear loud voices and open the door to see the guy passing my sister and heading for my bedroom. He had come to my house looking for me! I shut the door just as he reached it and tried to push his way in. I managed to lock the door and yelled out for him to leave.. and eventually he did.

My sister then came to the room and said, "Daddy's going to be pissed!"

The scene changes and I am holding a gun http://re3.yt-thm-a01.yimg.com/image/25/f12/721301762. There are 3 of them and I decide to hide them in a one of the buckets http://re3.yt-thm-a01.yimg.com/image/25/m7/3944484712 on the front porch.

Once back inside, I look out the window and notice a man coming up the walkway. I suddenly realize he's there to pick up the buckets! I panic and tell my sister to get the guns while I distract him. I go outside and make small talk with him until my sister signals me from the window that everything's ok.

I thought we had gotten away with it but, as I turn my back to walk towards the house, he states behind me, "I'll still have to report you for those guns in the bucket."

The scene changes again and my sister, mother and I all have 1980's type cellphones http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:.../c5/af8c_1.JPG.

One phone starts to buzz and we press the mute button, then another buzzes and we mute it. Then the third phone buzzes and we mute it as well.

The first phone then buzzes again and we shut if off, then the second buzzes and we shut it off and then the third phone buzzes and we shut it off as well.

The first phone then buzzes again and we remove the battery to shut it off, then the second buzzes and we remove its battery and then the third phone buzzes and we remove its battery as well.

The first phone then buzzes again!!

It was so freakin' annoying!! In frustration, I immediately wake up!!

I had to silently laugh when I realized that the "buzzing" that wouldn't turn off was in fact the sound of my husband SNORING!!

I lay for a minute marveling at how my mind had incorporated that loud consistent sound into my dreams.. and then I went to sleep on the living room couch.

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I did the basic task this morning.. task details from the dream are below:

I become lucid and find myself at a pond that is a mixture of swamp and marsh.

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I see that some of the marsh is partly frozen and I remember the basic task. I wonder if it's a bit of a cheat to walk on "frozen" water but then again, there weren't any stipulations against it. I walk on this "water" but then decide that I can do better than that.

I reach the other bank and find another part of the marsh that is deep, mossy yet thawed. I step confidently off the bank and feel myself sink ever so slightly into the murky water. I walk almost floating across the marsh.. my feet sinking only a couple of inches with each step.

Once on the other side.. I take a good look around to check out the "wildlife". The creatures that I see have bodies made up of normal wildlife and cartoons. Ducks, birds, squirrels and snakes.. all flesh.. yet not all "real". I can't even begin to describe them let alone find a picture. I see one that fascinates me more than the others (sort of a peacock hybrid) but before I can get a closer look.. it runs/paddles away from me. I start to follow it but another creature raises from the muck and warns me to stay away.

This part of the lucid ends..

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I find myself at a lavish home that belongs to friends of my parents. The home is huge and they are throwing a party.

I look around and spot a statue of a fawn and walk over to get a closer look.

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As I approach, I see the fawn's head turn as it looks at me! Before my eyes, the statue becomes flesh and the fawn wobbles slowly over to me and I reach out to pet it!

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I let out a cry of excitement and the house's owners say to be careful.. he might bite.

I look around and notice that other animal statues are now coming to life.

I hear children's voices and laughter and I walk towards the sound. In another large room, I see animals in large children's playpens. There are rabbits, puppies and kittens and there are 10 or so kids going from playpen to playpen playing with them.

I see 4 boys around one playpen and see that they are hurting the animal inside and I go over and make them stop.

The scene switches and I am now at my parent's house (tho it doesn't resemble it in real life).

I need a pad and my dad says to check my sister's room downstairs.

I go downstairs and notice drapes hung in the middle of the wall which strikes me as strange as I know there is no window there.

I move aside the drapes and find a large door! I turn the knob, push open the door and enter a secret "game" room!

The room is huge and set up like an arena and there are lifesize statues of super heroes or villains scattered throughout it.

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I don't recall when I told my friends about the room but suddenly they were at the door and I was blocking their entrance stating that they couldn't come in. I told them that I wasn't supposed to know about the room so they had to leave.

They weren't about to leave and they pushed their way past me!! As I turned to follow them.. I see my dad and his friends at the other end of the room at the "bar" area having a few beers!!

My friends, seeing my dad, run out of the room leaving me to face him alone.

He walks over to me and I brace for the scolding I know is coming. He stops in front of me and says that he's disappointed to see me here but that he's glad that I didn't try to lie my way out of it.

The dream ends..

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ahhh I like that dream with the stone statue of the fawn coming to life! Very cool. Sort of reminds me of narnia, when aslan breathes life into all the stone statues, I used to LOVE that part of the old lion the witch and the wardrobe tv series!

EmilySian, I loved the first Narnia movie (I haven't had a chance to see the second one).

This is actually the second dream where a statue came to life (my first was in a lucid: "My Easter Healing Dream" - http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=56755).

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I think I should start this entry by saying that I was watching tv and fell asleep on the couch for a couple of hours (around 5:30 pm) which may explain why I seemed to have gone into REM sleep immediately upon going to bed at 11:30 pm.

For some reason, this dream is full of sexuality.. none of it pleasant.

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I am in a old colonial village (before electricity, horse and buggy, etc.) and I am strictly an invisible observer in this dream.

Somehow I know that the room that I am in is a doctor's office and I see the doctor standing there.. he is in his 60s and his face is lined and weathered from the sun. A woman enters with her daughter of about 14 years old and she has the girl's arm in a firm grip. She pushes her daughter towards the doctor and tells him that he needs to take care of her before the ships come in.

The daughter is reluctant but drops her clothes and lays on the bed while the doctor disrobes. As he mounts her, the mother also removes her clothes and joins them on the bed.

I am stunned by this but it seems so matter of fact.. so everyday. I somehow know that the young women of this village are "devirginized" before the sailors come into port (I get the uneasy feeling that this is to prevent their first sexual experience from being the result of rape).

The scene changes and I am now outside and school has just let out. I see a boy of about 10 years old walking down a dirt path and as I follow him with my eyes.. I see that he walks past another young boy being sexually molested by some older teens!

The young boy pretends not to see, he just keeps walking.. ignoring the cries as tho this too is an everyday occurence.

An older boy watching the assault with his friends nudges one of them as the young boy passes and laughingly yells out, "You're next!"

The boy walks slowly up to the doctor's office, removes his hat, goes inside and asks the doctor to "take care of him too".

The dream ends..

NOTE: I can't remember what I had been watching on TV to have this kind of dream but it must have been pretty boring if I fell asleep on it (and trust me whatever I was watching was NOTHING like that)!!

Sometimes a dream's just a dream..

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Wow Clairity, that was a weird one

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Wow Clairity, that was a weird one

Very much so..

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The following happened between my two alarms (I have two alarms clocks set 20 minutes apart in the morning). When the first alarm went off, I remembered that I needed to get gas before work and then I had the following dream:

I am driving my car heading for the gas station that's less than a mile from my house. I need to make a left turn into the station and I feel my car start to slowwwwwww dowwwwwwn as tho the tank is empty (but the gauge shows that the tank isn't past "E").

My car starts to feel very sluggish and tho I don't see it.. it feels as if I am pedaling my car with my feet (like those old toy cars).

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Suddenly somehow I am inside a large shopping mall and I see the gas station at the far end of the aisle around the corner.

I am now outside my car and am pushing it from behind! I push it slowly past a glass window and see that people are having a meeting.

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I see those inside glance curiously at me as I push past the window and I think how strange it is that a gas station is "inside" a mall.

I am just about to reach the station entrance when it dawns on me that I don't have my car!! I look back down the mall and don't see it anywhere!!

I start to walk back the way I came when I notice that I am now wearing a life jacket?!

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My alarm goes off.

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lol, the randomness of dreams, my dreams are like that they dont make any sense at all. The lifejackat bit was especially random! Its annoying in those dreams because you think that you would realise you were dreaming but you dont. Normally it just dawns on me thatn im dreaming for no particualr reason.