Thread: Philquiet's dream anthology

"Santa lives in a house like everyone"
Non-lucid
Dream level: 2

I am in some nordic country covered by snow, at the evening. With some other people in know, i'm in front of the customs. The customs officer took off our glasses, made some pictures of us and made us swear, while he watched straight into our eyes, that we don't hide anything.

The land was quite strange; it was a kind of old suiss style odd dictatorship which made the propaganda of the the knowledge and the arts for the profit of the state. I visited the building were the members of the governement were. They receive the instructions and messages from the dictator in a huge, big scroll made of wool, with messages written with red ink; a scroll so huge that we can't unroll it alone. The members said that it is the tradition; for all messages (unless it is urgent, so then they use the telephone), even for simple requests, a scroll of wool is made. For no obvious reasons, we talked about the Santa Claus: "Do you have a Santa, in your country?". They laghted and someone answered: "Here, the Santa lives in a house like everyone."

Energy pool
Non-Lucid
Dream level: 2

I was in a kind of surreal cave, on a dissociated point of view (so I haven't a dream body and I was spectator of the action). A big tower-like machine was erected near a colored river. A girl was there to do something, but as soon as she approached the river she was trapped in an evil way by a vilain. The vilain one strapped the girl into the cockpit of the machine. The purpose of the machine, as it seemed to be, was to propel the cockpit, with the nice girl, directly toward the river. For no obvious reasons, it meant a gain of energy for the vilain and an instant death for the girl. Before the launch, the girl heard the voice of a capcom who talked about the process. Then, in slow motion, I saw the effect of the acceleration of the cockpit and the face of the girl, distorded by the fear.

Photoshoped pie
Non-lucid
Dream level: 2

I was with my digital imaging teacher (i'm a graphic design student). She was teaching me a new edition software wich the purpose was, for no obvious reason, the edition of food in a photoshopish way, but also, as I understood, the management of my sleep pattern. I was confused and the dream was very surreal looking. I remember that I was trying to do something, so I send a command into some kind of network (while floating, dissociated of my dream body, watching something that looked like a computer screen, wich occupied my whole field of vision). But my command was jammed with the commands of the other students, so nothing happened. I ended by slicing a strawberry pie with the selection tool. (Basically I only saw a selection frame floating over a real pie placed on a table. When I moved the frame, the piece of pie who was under the frame moved) Then I throwed the pie toward the floor. My teacher said that was bad and conplained about the resulting mess.

Undesirable visit
Non-Lucid
Dream level: 2

I was standing at the first floor of my childhood house. Then I heard some electronic noises from the outside. Some orange beam of light pulsed throught the window and the beat of the noises accelerated. It was a bomb! While the explosion destroyed the walls, a lot of electronic pieces were scattered across the floor. Then a bunch of people, who seemed like a whole familiy of techno terrorists, with the dad, the child, the grandpa, etc., squatted the house...

Immured acting
Non-Lucid
Dream level: 2

I was with my two brothers in some kind of theatre where we did some acting and technical job for no obvious reason. Our roles were ambiguous and we didn't seem to have any public at all. Sometimes it even seemed that the scene was immured. The point of view I had most of the time was a dissociated, third-person point of view of the scene. The story was about the life of someone. They are only two scenes of acting I remember; a scene of quarrel between an old married couple and the beginning of a strange love scene were someone sensually colored in green the leg of a woman.
After the show, at the night, my brothers and me were together in the same car going back home. My younger brother was the driver, and, as it seemed to be, since he's the one who still don't have a driver license, he was a very dangerous one. He was sat at the right side of the car without any visible steering wheel in front of him. We then shouted after him that he had forgotten to turn on the headlights. After he did so, he was on the left side of the car with a steering wheel in hands. We were too much outside of the road but we saw, in the dim light of the headlights, the silhouette of our house.

The magic lantern
Non-Lucid
Dream level: 3

Somewhere was a man, ecstasic as he play in front of a sort of huge mechanical slide viewer or magic lantern, wich projected black and white slides all around him. The man was into a sort of museum and was dressed like a scholar. Suddenly, the viewer projected some kind of pattern used for clarification and adjustements of microfilms. The scholar looked backward; a bunch of vilains was there to do some trouble, and they seemed to mean harm.
I am near the entrance of a city, in some sort of shantytown. An old man was there and talked to me about entering the city and how long it will takes.
Then, in a dissociated point of view, I watched the unfolding of the story wich seemed already telled in the dream. It occured in a villa full of vilains, and some nice guys was there to fulfill some kind of goal. They were all elegant and had cane-swords. They went on a balcony who was beside another balcony, where some vilains were discussing. The nice guys hide themselves from the vilains to listen the discussion.
Then, for no obvious reason, the last image I had from my dream was a little lake and people who put lumps of earth and pieces of garden into the water.

Space cleaning
Non-Lucid
Dream level: 3

I was in the indoor of a giant space ship, doing the cleaning of the walls and the plexiglas furnitures of a big hall, with stairs, balconies, floors, links... all transparent and spacy looking. I was with some of my classmates to do the job. It was a really huge and dirty job; everything was dirty. We began our shift in the afternoon after a nap. We had only a piece of cloth and pools full of water as cleaning tools.
Sometimes I could communicate with the other with a message board-thing who appeared in front of me and took all my field of vision (or was I in a dissociated point of view?) That thing looked like a computer screen with a DV-like forum displayed on it. I remember receiving and sending some messages that way. For no obvious reasons, Jedi artefacts (?) needed a special cleaning treatment. Someone explained that fact while doing the demonstration with a golden cofee maker cup (This was a Jedi artefact...). The technique was all about the use of a special golden oil.

(Notes : in the begining, the space ship was only a tiny lego blocks construction, who change itself into that huge room. I also remember being naked at some points of the dream)

Hey Philquiet!

I've read over your journal so far, and found a lot of good material for examination. One very important function of the dream journal is to pinpoint recurring themes, and establish what might be good dream signs for you to concentrate on.

I've got a lot here, so I'll break it up into two posts. First, let's look at typical dream themes you have encountered. These are very common among many dreamers, but may or may not be useful to you as dream signs.

Theme: Childhood Home

I was standing at the first floor of my childhood house.

This is one of the most common dream themes, and should probably be a dream sign for just about anyone who has moved out of their first house. I dream of my childhood home so often, that it is now almost automatically throwing me into lucidity quite quickly.

Theme: Family

I was with my two brothers

This is a very good dreamsign if you don't typically see these family members on a day-to-day basis. Especially good are aunts and uncles, and of course anyone who is no longer alive.

Theme: Car Trouble

He was sat at the right side of the car without any visible steering wheel in front of him. We then shouted after him that he had forgotten to turn on the headlights. After he did so, he was on the left side of the car with a steering wheel in hands.

This is another favorite of mine. Cars in my dreams usually have bad brakes, bad steering, or are otherwise impossible to control safely. I also dream often of searching for my car after forgetting where it is parked, so I do a real life reality check every time I am looking for my parked car.

Theme: Nudity

I also remember being naked at some points of the dream

Everyone dreams of being naked or in sleeping clothes in public from time to time. If it's frequent, make it a dreamsign!

Try to notice if some of the above themes start to appear more than others in your dreams. Especially useful are any themes that might also occur in real life (e.g. car trouble). Conditioning yourself to do reality checks in real life during these times will eventually help you do them in dreams as well.

I was also interested in this quote:

...but also, as I understood, the management of my sleep pattern.

Sounds like your subconcious trying to get your attention!

Here is part two of my overly lengthy analysis...

Let's look at some of the recurring themes in your dreams in particular. This is something that we can re-evaluate as you make more entries, but I already see some very promising patterns. It is the recognition of patterns that will be the key to getting you into the lucid state more often.

What I'd like you to do is look over these categories, and see if you might have a strong feeling for two or three of them as dream signs. Perhaps you will remember some older dreams where these signs were there as well. When we've narrowed down your target signs, we can start concentrating on establishing some strong RC routines.

Authority Figures

1. The customs officer took off our glasses, made some pictures of us and made us swear, while he watched straight into our eyes, that we don't hide anything
2. I visited the building were the members of the governement were. They receive the instructions and messages from the dictator
3. I was with my digital imaging teacher
4. The man was into a sort of museum and was dressed like a scholar
5. An old man was there and talked to me about entering the city

Villains

1. she was trapped in an evil way by a vilain
2. a bunch of vilains was there to do some trouble, and they seemed to mean harm
3. a whole familiy of techno terrorists
4. It occured in a villa full of vilains

Strange/Difficult Communication

1. big scroll made of wool, with messages written with red ink;
2. I send a command into some kind of network... But my command was jammed with the commands of the other students, so nothing happened.
3. I could communicate with the other with a message board-thing who appeared in front of me and took all my field of vision

This, by the way, is one of my personal big dream signs. It is usually in the form of a clunky old telephone, and/or trying to call for help and continually mis-dialing the phone.

Unusual Machines

1. A big tower-like machine
2. Then I heard some electronic noises from the outside
3. a sort of huge mechanical slide viewer or magic lantern
4. I was in the indoor of a giant space ship
5. Jedi artefacts
6. golden cofee maker
7. a tiny lego blocks construction

Digital Images/Photography

1. the edition of food in a photoshopish way
2. something that looked like a computer screen, wich occupied my whole field of vision
3. a sort of huge mechanical slide viewer or magic lantern, wich projected black and white slides all around him
4. a message board-thing who appeared in front of me and took all my field of vision
5. The customs officer took off our glasses, made some pictures of us

Discorporation

1. I haven't a dream body and I was spectator of the action
2. while floating, dissociated of my dream body
3. The point of view I had most of the time was a dissociated, third-person point of view of the scene
4. Then, in a dissociated point of view, I watched the unfolding of the story

Unusual Lighting

1. orange beam of light pulsed throught the window
2. projected black and white slides all around him
3. We then shouted after him that he had forgotten to turn on the headlights
4. we saw, in the dim light of the headlights, the silhouette of our house

Colors

1. messages written with red ink
2. near a colored river
3. orange beam of light pulsed throught the window
4. someone sensually colored in green the leg of a woman
5. golden cofee maker
6. The technique was all about the use of a special golden oil

Water/Liquids

1. near a colored river
2. a little lake and people who put lumps of earth and pieces of garden into the water
3. We had only a piece of cloth and pools full of water as cleaning tools
4. golden cofee maker
5. The technique was all about the use of a special golden oil

Wow, this is a really good analysis... Thank you!
I have seen the discorporation pattern before (it was quite obvious), but all that bunch of interesting points from only 7 dreams... i'm impressed .

And that's a very good idea to put the analysis here, it makes the journal much more interesting!
I'll check for these promising patterns and seek for other.

Crime at 9, 12 and 3 o'clock
Non-Lucid
Dream level: 3

I was in a surrealistic city suspended in the sky, builded on two large floating concrete blocks. Each block holded a part of the city and was completely separated from the other bock. But once a year, at the time of an holiday, the two part are connected together by metal cables. The city was really beatiful, made of stairway, lanes, links, floors...

I was in a sort of school-couvent-laboratory, a mix of long underground corridors and strange sets of equipment, where people analyzed some clues to resolve a crime. There were some aliens who made a murder at 9 am, at noon and at 3 pm. We collected their confessions and made some interrogations.

Then two very precious artefacts, the two pieces of the "Michelin's virtual reality helmet" (?), were stolen by a criminal who used a hang glider to escape the police. I pursued him in "helicopter" (I was in fact flying, pretending to pilot an invisible helicopter) until we were at the top of a building.

Root beer license
Non-Lucid
Dream level: 2

In a box fallen from a distributor of DVD, I found a school agenda full of notes and comics and a couple of graphic novels. An old man was there and wanted to recover the agenda.

I was watching, in a dissociated point of view, the upcoming of the story of a very unlucky person. It was like an old american movie. The man was an asbeen atist working without joy. Everyone ridiculed him and he was always with an ex-girlfriend while his wife was watching.

I remember having paid for a "root beer license". I remember also that if I had bought also the cream soda one, I would had received a free root beer distributor.

Chocolate cakes
Non-Lucid
Dream level: 3

I was in a mix of my childhood house and my grand-parents house, waiting for the meal. I was with my family and we were about celebrate together an holiday. Becaus I was really hungry, someone gave me a piece of chocolate.
There was a lot of nice square chocolate cakes displayed on the table.

I was very hungry, but I wanted to wait for the meal. I was watching an old TV at my childhood room, watching a kind of boring eductional TV channel. I watched some bilangual interviews with people talking on the streets of Quebec city. I remember having to adjust my television to have a clear image.

Clumsy spaceship
Non-Lucid
Dream level: 3

I saw a man saying that he had found the means of finding a spaceship.
I was in a futuristic, old science-fiction style city where a group of childrens were traped. They were pursued by aliens and tried to escape. They drived some speeder-like fast individual vehicules toward the caves of the city, seeking for the spaceship.
The children found the ship in a large hangar, a sort of loading bay with a lot of crates, food, sealed bags of geant hambergers and cans of energy drink.
Then the group and me entered the ship. I was the pilot, and the others said the I had the responsability of choosing the right direction to take.
I had a lot of dificulties to make the spaceship taking off. I tried after a fashion to pilot, avoiding obstacles and electric cables which were everywhere in the sky.
Then, suddenly, the spsceship was in space. There were a lot of signs floating all around us, indicating the places we could go. I didn't know where to go, and I stupidly aim the ship toward a second alien city, where the aliens catched us.

Sink and ice
Lucid!!
Dream level: 5

I was at the living room of my grand-parents where I suddenly realised, for no obvious reasons, that I was in as dream. Then everything went black as i was thinking about rubbing my hand on something. A sink appeared and I rubbed my hand uder the water. Then I tried to change the water into ice. At this moment, it hailed in the sink, then everything disappeared.

I was then on the main street of my childhood village, trying to run. I rained and I wasn't able to go a lot forward. I saw some bikers going toward me. I woke myself up by trying hard to go forward.

Macromedia Balloon
Non-Lucid
Dream level: 3

I was on a rocky beach, like the coast near of my childhood village. Before I went to sleep I was thinking about dreamscaping and I said to myself something like "Where would I like to be in my dream? On [that beach]? Nooo...". But I was there, in my dream, with a bunch of other elements taken from my day. For no obvious reasons there were pita sandwiches, like my lunch before, on the top of a gril, very near of me.

The oddest part is what I was actually doing there: with my multimedia teacher and a couple of classmates, I was doing a flash animation... with helium balloons and scotch tape. While having no dream body, I placed these blue balloons in front of me (anchored in mid air with scotch tape) in the same way I usually place symbols in the keyframes of a flash animation. When I played the animation, the places in mid air where the balloons were anchored moved along a path.

I also remember that I was considering to leave 5 minutes before the end of the class, as I did in the real life.

Space powder
Non-Lucid
Dream level: 3

I was in the crew of a StarTrek fashionned space ship. There were a bunch of aliens who friendly invited the whole crew in their own ship for some casual chat. In reality, only me and a woman knew that the aliens were in fact evil. The woman was a kind of psychic so she suspected the intentions of the extraterrestrials. Me, it was only because I "knew" they were evil. We knew also the real indentity of the king of the aliens, who hid his rank on purpose.

The whole dream in itself was more a succession of multiple odd dreamscapes than a real story. We traveled in a small ship, seated on wood chairs placed under a little snowfall. The king was always trying to discreetly kill me. He was really suspicious about me, as I was the very last one who leaved our space ship.

I remember a scene wich I was indoor, playing at a 3D mario-like video game where the character was running throught a room full of collumns, trying to avoid Bowser.

I remberer also another scene where the crew was going through a door in row. The psychic woman told me I was wrong to be in the very front of the row, as a trap awaited me in the other side of the door. The king was next to the door and really wanted me to go through the door and to walk in a little wood bridge submerged by a pool of lava. There was no way I did wanted to go on that bridge!

The dream ended in a field of strange yellow flowers which were, for no obvious reason, related to the aliens. The air were really full of pollen and I had the tongue filled by a very tasty yellow powder.

lol. No, phil, don't eat the space powder! I bet its another trap...

I love the underplay of the psychic woman and the evil alien king. pretty cool.

Chat building
Non-lucid to Semi-Lucid
Dream level: 3/4

I was swinging between semi-lucidity and non-ludity here. I mean it have somewhen in the dream while something in me knew it was a dream.
I was in a large building I thought I had already seen before in another dream. A lot of known people and friends of mine were there at the first floor. The second floor had some computer terminals with a sort of online game with a lot of non-obvious behaviors and interections possibles.
I had a sort of big cell phone and someone called me to say me something like "Hello! Do you remember me? I was the one at the hight school!" After that, the communication goes shitty, then someone else called me, someone I "knew".
Then another guy was there at the place and made compliments of some of my personnal creative project ideas. I said that he was putting my best creations on the net.
Then after I was outside, standing in the middle of the road while a lot of bizarre cars were passing next to me. I thought a bit of how dangerous was the place I was standing on. Then I went to a little walk with my father, a walk which ended somewhere at the outdoor next to my childhood's house. The urban landscape had changed itself into some rural one. I don't remember the chat we had but I know it was something special. We were climbing a slope when my father asked for help. I wanted to push him in order to help him to climb the slope but he was climbing faster than me. Then he felt and I tryied to catch him.
After that dream I made a false awakening were I was beginning to record that dream, half sleepy, with my dictaphone.

Droid factory
Non-Lucid
Dream level: 2

That dream had a lot of Star Wars content because I watched a lot some SW-related stuff before going to sleep. I was in a kind of giant factory were I was, with a team of technician, making machines and droids of all kind. The most of the time, I was in a dissociated point of view were I could see the open exterior doors of a kind of blue mettalic bay, "known" as the factory. I remember that my job was something like matching some hardware equipment with the software.

Water flower field
Non-Lucid
Dream level: 2

I remembered only a tiny part of that one. It was about me, naked in a river with other people and surrounded by strange tropical flowers. I remember the look of these flowers, they were pretty, shaded in warm colors and they were a sort of mix between an aquatic flower and a flower-shaped cactus. I remember I was taking some of those in order to plant them underwater, at the floor of the river.

Diamond workshop
Non-Lucid
Dream level: 3

After being somewhere in a non-remembered piece of dream sequence, I was standing in a sort of little diamond workshop. There were a few people, dressed in white, who worked there. The wall were all plain white. A lot of big cut white diamonds was sorted on the floor, with some other tools. Then I saw the "diamond making" machine. It was a metalic box bolted on a wall and the front side was a window so I saw the making of the diamond. There were a few gas tanks bolted next to the machine, with a few pipes. A worker explained me the process of "making a diamond". In the dream, the diamond were made from hygrogen gas (?) which is synthetized in a liquid/paste form. Then the transparent-shaded paste is used to fill a rows of cut diamond-shaped moulds (So the diamonds were not cut, but moulded).
Then I wondered if they had some used residual hydrogen gas to give. They said yes, as they don't recycle the used gas. Then I was outside, standing on the grass of a geant backyard, with a tank full of hydrogen. I used it as a supply for a tiny black airship. The only thing I remember is that I was piloting that thing in the gulliver-sized giant backyard. The pilotage was very awkward and I was shortly out of gas.

Pirate underplay
Non-Lucid
Dream level: 3

I'm usually a lot shy while talking about a dream which have well known movie characters in it, I don't know why...
Anyway, for no obvious reasons, I dreamed yesterday about pirates (there was absolutly nothing yesterday who made me think about pirates!), and Jack Sparrow was there, as the captain of a ship where some strange underplay occured.

I was on the bridge with all the crew. There were a lot of different type of alcool on a long table, no rum, but a collection of modern bottles of various odd kind of beer and vodka. I took an half filled white bottle of some kind of vodkice, ready to drink it. The bottle was nice, cold with some condensation, but there was something suspicious in the bottle, like a white powder half mixed in the liquid. A pirate wisely pointed out that I musn't drink that, as the liquid was poisoned by someone.

Then, as in that dream I was quite discorporated and out of the entire story, I saw a strange woman who was mixing a pepper-like powder in another bottle of the same alcool. Then a careless pirate drank it. As he got a little bit sick, the pirate went to the hold where some people was there to lock up him in a room entirely covered by mattress, like a cell of a psychiatric hospital. Then an imposter, disguised as the locked up pirate, climbed up to the bridge.

I was at the hold again, with some other crew members. It looked like we were locked up here while some vilains were taking the control of the ship. The hold was quite special, with a lot of room and shaped like an usual odd indoor dreamscape. Then a kind of storm shaked us and a lot of pieces of floor were destroyed by the fury of the sea. Then someone saw that a lot of important parts of the ship were removed on purpose.

When we went out, the ship was thightly trapped between two large concrete quays. A row of black-dressed vilains were guarding us at each side of the boat. The only other thing I remember from that scene is Jack having an amical argument with the mysterious woman, the chief of the vilains.