Nightmare In Dreamland

[naikou]

For this journal - Green = Lucid Dreams Black = Regular Dreams Feb. 15, 2007 - Between 8:00 A.M. and 8:30 A.M. This dream was quite a bit more violent than my average, but I suppose that's what I get for reading Berserk before I go to bed... 1) Berserk I dreamed I was in a strange house resembling an oriental shrine preparing for some sort of party with some unknown people. At the outset of the dream there were signs of violence; I remember hearing someone talk about buying a poisonous spider to attack one of the guests at the party, and seeing a guy with a really, really big surfboard-sized sword. Also, someone says that an important religious figure will be attending the party. Next, my dream jumps, and I'm in a strange point of view... I'm being/watching the guy with the really big sword stab people, decapitate them, chop them into pieces - just generally brutal things. I watch the sword guy run up the stairs, and for some reason I get the feeling that he is about to kill hundreds more innocent people, but... My dream jumps again, and I'm myself again. I ask someone next to me (he might have been one of my friends, I don't know), "How many are dead?". He smiles and says, "None." I somehow understand that the massacre portion of my dream was a flashback, and that I'm actually at the funeral of the big sword guy at the moment. Also, strangely, I know that he has been drowned...

[naikou]

Feb. 16, 2007, 4:30 A.M. - 8:00 A.M. 1) Disappointment I dreamed I had somehow disappointed my father. I don't remember exactly how, just that he was really upset with me. It must have been something about my shoes, because he showed me one of my shoes as evidence of my crime. As punishment, I had to drive him to a fast food restaurant (tough punishment...).

[naikou]

Ugh... I tried a WBTB + WILD last night, and it utterly failed. Not only did I not have a L.D., but I couldn't remember any of my dreams when I woke up... only some vague, fleeting image of someone's tongue. I'm gonna try WBTB + MILD tonight.

[naikou]

Feb. 18, 2007, ~5:00 A.M. Edit: I lost a dream here when the forums moved 2) Earring? I was walking around outside when I discover that I have a hook shaped earing in my right ear. (I don't have any piercings, at the moment). I found my way to some sort of church, and went inside. I remember not wanting the pastor to notice me, so I sit behind a group of really tall people. Some guy across the aisle from me tugs on his hook earing, and I tug back on mine, as if we share some sort of conspiracy. After that, things get sort of blurry, I only remember being back outside again.

[naikou]

I've lost my notes from Feb. 19- 21, so I don't remember which dreams happened on which night. Edit: Another Lost dream. 2) A Day at the Park I was in a recreational park, though not one I recognized. I was with some people I remember from elementary school, and I was watching a boy and a girl play an impossible version of tennis, which might have actually been closer to four-square. The two keep inviting me to play with them, but I don't want to, for some reason. They eventually convince me (I join the girl's team, so it's two on one), and I proceed to be the cause of us losing several consecutive rounds, after which I remark, "See, I told you I was no good at this game." The boy keeps doing some cheap move where the ball lands at an impossible-to-reach angle, all the while shouting "Galactic Empire!", or something similarly foolish. This makes me angry, and I proceed to curse at the boy. The girl looks surprised and says, "You swear!?" I explain, "I've always thought it was better to say exactly what you mean."

[naikou]

Yay! My first decent-length Lucid Dream! I was trying to WILD, but then I fell asleep and ended up getting a DILD. Edit: Except you can't read about it, because it was also lost in the forums move. ;_; 2) False Awakening Bus After losing lucidity, I got dressed and went outside to ride the bus to school (I don't ride a bus to school...). I got on the bus, and after it pulled away, I realized that I had gotten on the bus an hour early (I don't know how that works, either...), and I was taken to the bus driver's home to pick up her daughter. By that time, the bus had transformed into an S.U.V., and the bus driver and her daughter began to question me in an annoyed tone about my recent L.D. experience (I still didn't think to RC, ack). The dream ended with me apologizing to the two for having a Lucid Dream.

[NeAvO]

Congratulations naikou, here's to many more

[naikou]

Thanks, NeAvO. Unfortunately, the past two nights have been pretty hectic with homework and whatnot for me, so my dream recall has been terrible. Ah well, fortunately (?), I'm really tired as a result, so I think I'll try WILD'ing tonight.

[Lucidbulbs]

Congrants on the interesting lucid [and relevant False Awakening, that's kind of funny, apologizing over an LD]. Yeah, school can really drag down on LDs, but so can work and other stuff too. Good luck on the WILDing, I hope you get a nice, long lucid from that.

[naikou]

Originally posted by Lucidbulbs+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Lucidbulbs)</div> that&#39;s kind of funny, apologizing over an LD[/b] Yeah, maybe my subconscious doesn&#39;t like the idea of Lucid Dreaming, or something weird like that. It had better get used to it, though, &#39;cause I don&#39;t intend on stopping anytime soon&#33; also... <!--QuoteBegin-Lucidbulbs I hope you get a nice, long lucid from that. Funny you should say that. Well, not so funny, actually... probably "ironic" would be a better term. 1) Family Business</span> I was on a road trip with my extended family. We stopped at a park in the middle of the night, and there was a party or something going on. I ate a bunch of barbecue chicken wings and drank a glass apple juice. Then, we moved on and went into a hotel. I walked up a set of stairs and into a room, and was about to take a nap (taking a nap while dreaming, is that a sign of being tired, or what?), when I heard some splashing noises. Curious, I investigated and found my dad dumping some of my favorite books into a bathtub full of water. Needless to say, I was pretty angry about this, and started arguing with my dad about the issue. I don&#39;t remember exactly what I said, but it ended up with me angrily storming off to my room... my bedroom, even though I was in a hotel nothing like my house. I sat down on my bed, still in an annoyed mood and began thinking. Eventually I thought, "My dad wouldn&#39;t do something like that." Then, I thought, "This is way too weird to be a dream." (yes, I thought &#39;dream&#39;, but I meant reality... weird how that works out.) I realized I was <span style="color:green">dreaming, and started thinking about all the things I wanted to do when... ...my alarm went off. Very upsetting, to say the least. Though, it was an interesting experience to be laying on my dream bed in one position, then move to my real body in a different position - I initially reached the wrong direction for my alarm clock. Ah well, at least this makes two LD&#39;s in less than a week. Also... it seems that though I can&#39;t WILD quite yet, attempting the technique increases my chances of having a DILD.

[naikou]

Feb. 28 Edit: Another missing dream. 2) False Awakenings = Lose This happened after I failed WILD'ing by falling asleep. The dream was a false awakening that occurred entirely in my bedroom. As this is the third time in a week I've had a false awakening, I'm seriously considering plastering my walls with signs that say "reality check", so that my dreaming self might get a clue. The first thing I noticed after getting out of my dream bed was that something was wrong with my room. My bed was too small, in the wrong place, and there was a plastic clone of it sitting on the opposite wall. I rationalized this by saying "Oh yeah, I moved my bed, I forgot." (In reality, I have moved my bed recently, so I guess this sort of makes sense). I also saw a bag of candy that I had completely consumed last Christmas. Next I saw that one of my friends was in my room. This really bugged me, and I wanted him to go away. Then I noticed that I had a lose string on my pajamas, and started pulling it. This resulted in me tearing off half of my PJ's, and my friend said, "Well, it's time for me to be going," and got up and left. For some reason, I was frantic to get up and lock the door behind him so that he couldn't come back, but when I tried to slam the door, it wouldn't shut - the doorway seemed slightly too small for the door. I attempted this several more times, but couldn't get it to work. I thought, "This is really annoying, maybe I should reality check." But I didn't, curse my bones! I eventually managed to shut the door, but I missed out on a great opportunity for a DILD. I think I'm making progress with WILD, tho, so I'll try again tonight.

[naikou]

Terrible dream recall 2 days ago, for some reason. The only thing I can remember is a visual image of a pair of socks. Mar. 2 1) Blizzard and Party I was in the passenger seat of a car, giving instructions to someone driving. There was a heavy snow, and roads were being barricaded by police cars to prevent traffic accidents. We couldn't make it to my home, so I told the driver that maybe we could stay the night in the house I had lived in 6 years ago. Upon arriving at the house, I met a dark haired man with a strong accent (though, I don't remember what kind). He told me that if I wanted to stay the night, I would have to drink a gallon of water. He then presented me with a gravy-boat-shaped container full of water. I easily drank it all, and my host invited me inside. Soon, many other people showed up, and there was a big party. The last thing I remember about the dream was my host talking on the telephone and ordering me a caesar salad.

[naikou]

Mar. 3 Edit: I had another virtual reality dream, but it was lost in the forums move, too. 2) Virtual Reality (mk II) This time, I was in a different kind of virtual reality game with a friend I do know. We weren't really playing the game... it seemed more like I was demonstrating the game to my friend. There seemed to be lots of lasers involved in the game; Every time I'd enter a room, I'd start blasting lasers in every direction, and once everything in the place was blasted, I'd move on. Eventually I had to climb a giant snake to get to a tall platform. I explained to my friend, "You see, the snake level is actually much more difficult than the lizard level." My thoughts: Kind of strange to have two similar but unconnected dreams about video games. I wasn't even playing games before bed, and I've certainly never played anything close to resembling the two dreams I had. Meh.

[naikou]

Meh, school has been crazy the past week. My notes in my dream journal are pretty minimal... I can't read some of them; others, I don't remember at all. For example, on Mar. 4, my notes are: - cousin money problems - 30 gal. - 300 gal. -cousins KIIII Everything until today is similar. Mar. 9 1) Bounty Hunter I was on an alien planet trying to infiltrate an underground facility. Inside, there were a bunch of weird looking aliens... they were human shaped, but they had only smooth, flat surfaces linked together to form polygons for bodies, and they glowed electrically, switching colors rapidly. I found their leader and killed him by shooting him in the knees with my laser blaster. I escaped amidst blinking lights and blaring sirens, and jumped on my ship to head into outer space and collect my bounty. While I was flying around, my ship's radio told me that I needed to kill two more alien leaders, or else they would resurrect the one I had just killed, so I went back to the planet and casually killed them.

[naikou]

Mar. 10 1) Basketball This dream was pretty short, but I remember something about my dad wanting me to join a college basketball team, or something like that. I was with a bunch of people practicing on a bizarre basketball court - there were 5 hoops, each of which were bent at an odd angle, and the court was abnormally large. Mar. 11 Gah, I was so close to getting a Lucid last night I could taste it. I was so focused on getting one that I didn't bother to write in my dream journal, so I only remember fragments of dreams that aren't really worth posting.

[naikou]

Mar. 18 I think I had a short LD last night, but I can't remember for sure. 1)Exploring a Planet For most of the dream, I was flying around in a space ship surveying a foreign planet. I was scouting for alien technology, and used a pencil-like tool on a map in front of me to find them. The map would light up whenever I found a location with useful technology, then I'd get out of my ship and try to find the item.

[bro]

it sounds like you've had some success. Don't get to discouraged, everyone has things that take away time from LD'ing. (I just got a puppy, and haven't had a spare moment) but just keep up a little thought about LD'ing. Good Jornal, keep it up and good luck (that rhymes )

[naikou]

thanks, bro. Yeah, school has definitely been rough... I haven't been able to focus on Lucid Dreaming. I've got to stop being lazy... I haven't written anything down in my dream journal for like... two weeks. 1) The Magical Ant-Eating Paper Bag I don't remember the beginning of the dream. The first thing I remember is deciding that it would be really cool to have an ant-eater as a pet. I couldn't remember what they looked like, but I decided to look for one anyway. Pretty quickly, a paper bag with a really longue tongue shot out of my closet and started attacking a bunch of ant hills sitting around my room. I was very pleased with my new pet, and I began to worry about how I was going to keep him.

[naikou]

Edit: Another missing dream, sorry 2)Sleeping in School Started in a classroom. Everyone in the class except me had a small-ish looking desk, and was crammed close together. I had a gargantuan bed in the corner of the classroom, complete with soft pillows, fuzzy blankets, and snacks. After about... 10 seconds of listening to the teacher lecture, I decided that it was too boring, and went outside into the hall. There, I discussed something with one of my friends. I get the feeling there was more to this dream, but I seem to have forgotten.

[naikou]

Edit: 2 missing dreams 3) The Olympics and a Loaf of Bread Was in my grandparents home, sitting underneath a table (or maybe a desk?). I was very hungry and everyone else was eating, but there wasn't enough food for me. So my sister, who is 11 years old, decided to drive into town and buy me some dinner. She comes back with five pieces of bread, and I got angry and told her that she should have thought of a better meal. I decided I would go into the city to find my own dinner. As I was driving, I noticed a restaurant, and next to it, a place that looked like a bowling alley. For some reason, I decided that I didn't want to eat dinner anymore, and headed into the bowling alley... where I discovered that the swimming events of the Olympics are taking place. I sat on the bleachers and watch some of the races.

[naikou]

I fell asleep while doing homework last night, so when I woke up, I forgot to remember my dreams. I tried to recall about a half hour later, but I could only remember that: - the main character of the dream was a girl (or maybe I was the girl, I dunno) - it had something to do with taxes and ice cream scooping utinsels

[naikou]

Edit: 2 missing dreams again 3) Eaten by a Shark and Buried Alive The dream took place inside an amusement park. There were two characters, one boy and one girl, and I switched between their perspectives throughout the dream. We/I were running away from a shark, which had the ability to fly through the air, and land in little "wells" throughout the park. I assume it used the wells to take a breath, before hunting me/us again. Eventually, while I was the boy, the shark bit the girl's shoulder and dragged her into one of the "wells". A few minutes later, I switched to the girl's point of view - strangely, I wasn't inside the shark, or underwater - I was inside a tomb. The tomb had cement walls, and was about 5 feet long, 10 feet wide, and tall enough for me to stand. There weren't any lights, and I knew I was underground, but somehow I could see. I distinctly remember breathing very heavily, and feeling like I was running out of air. I'm not claustrophobic, but I was extremely frightened by my situation. Luckily, I had a communicator, which I used to let my companion know my situation. Somehow, he found me, and used a shovel to find me and extricate me from my tomb.

[naikou]

I forgot to take notes on my dreams last night, so I don't remember much. I remember that there were at least two, but the details of one are completely gone. I know the other one had a bunch of scary, unique looking monsters bursting out of glass test tubes, and lots of naked people. That's all I can remember, though. On the bright side, however, I took an afternoon nap, and managed to have no less than 3 dreams, one of them lucid. Also... as I was falling asleep, I noticed some weird stuff... not Hypnagogic Imagery, or strange sounds... but, before I was falling asleep, I seemed to be unintentionally creating plot-lines for dreams. For example, I caught myself imagining (but not seeing, or experiencing), being at my grandma's old house, and using her riding lawnmower, which seemed to shoot water everywhere. There were several other thoughts like that, that could have... I don't know... "evolved" into dreams, or something? Another interesting thing is that all three of my dreams took place in the same setting, but they are very much separated in my mind. I know that they were different dreams, as much as it is possible to know such a thing. This place I was in, I didn't recognize at all... it seemed like a hotel room, maybe a suite. It had an odd shape... long and relatively narrow, but with a strange number of walls... I think there were at least 7. I didn't stay in this room the entire time in any of my dreams, but it was present in all of them. It looked something like this: Edit: There were three dreams that took place in this room (one of them was a nightmare), but two of them are gone. 3) Lucid Apprehensions</span> I began the dream in the narrow room, still afraid, but no longer aware of exactly what to be afraid of. I looked around, and noticed the exit I had been looking for in the previous dream - a door in the wall. I went through the door, and found myself in a bathroom, which was very dim and had a very large mirror. As I was staring into the mirror, I remembered bits and pieces of the previous two dreams I had experienced, and thought that they were rather strange. I decided to do a <span style="color:green">reality check, but I didn't have to do one. Somehow, just thinking the words, "reality check" was enough, and I knew that I was dreaming. I was still a bit frightened by my nightmare in the previous dream, but I couldn't quite pinpoint the source of my fear inside the dream. I remembered that I should do the Lucid Task of the Month, but I couldn't remember what it was, and I worried that trying too hard to think about it would knock me out of Lucidity, or wake me up, so I decided to do something else. The mirror in the bathroom was conveniently close, so I looked into it to see what would happen. My reflection looked fairly normal, to me, but half of the mirror was darkened... the half from the top left corner to the bottom right corner, along a diagonal. This diagonal darkening cut across the mirror at such an angle that I couldn't see the top half of my face, including my eyes. I tried to touch the mirror, but when I did so, my reflection lifted the wrong hand. I lifted my right hand, and he did too, so that when we touched the mirror, our fingers were not touching. The mirror started rippling from the points where my reflection and I had touched the mirror, as if it had been a very still pond. Then I turned away from the mirror, and was startled to discover that the diagonal darkening that had been on the mirror had carried over to the rest of my vision, so that the top right half of my vision was obscured. At this point, I knew that my lucidity was dropping, but I couldn't remember any of the techniques for staying Lucid. No, that's not quite it... it was more like... I was intentionally preventing myself from remembering any of the techniques I was supposed to know. So, I fell to the ground, and my dream faded to darkness

[naikou]

The only dream I can remember during the past two nights is so small it's not worth giving a title. It was a false awakening where I met a talking praying mantis on my wall. I got mad at the praying mantis for waking me up, and chased him out of my room. And that's it.

[naikou]

Been a long time since I posted here... seems like some of my dreams got deleted.... Including my first lucid, wut? It appears that I only have one dream in each post now. That's pretty lame. Ah well, guess some things are bound to go wrong when you upgrade(?) a forum. Anywayz... now that summer has started and exams are over, I'll be much more dilligent in posting my dreams. Not that anyone cares, but meh. :p 1. Don't Touch That Chicken!!! Was in my house, but the carpet was the wrong color, and there was carpet where tile was supposed to be. I was babysitting my 8-year-old brother and his friend. I was getting hungry and I wanted to cook something really good for myself. I found a plate of uncooked frozen chicken breasts in my room (there were four of them), and thought they would make a good meal if I grilled them with sour cream and lime. I started carrying the plate of chicken up my stairs, but was suddenly attacked by my little brother and his friend. They each stole a chicken breast, took a bite out of it, threw it on the ground, and ran away laughing. I chased after my brother angrily, and when I caught him, I lifted him in the air and threw him at the ground. He bounced... about four feet in the air. I then grabbed him by the shoulders and started shaking him, screaming, "Don't waste chicken! That was mine! Besides, it wasn't cooked! You could get salmonella!!!"