lseadragon's Dream Journal

[Lseadragon]

I've been a bit slack with keeping a dream journal, but hopefully having one here will prompt me to write in it more often. Lucid Goals (subject to frequent change): Summon Eraxis again. (Recurring goal: Completed once.) (For those who don't know, read http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=30324, and Eraxis is a white flying snakelike creature.) Be a dragon. (Done) Peel off my skin and see what's underneath. (Done) Start a shop. (Not done) Become a point of awareness and shift into a DC. (Not Done)

[Lseadragon]

I was in a castle looking around for something, when suddenly there was a sticky mist attack on the king, which killed him. We all had to put our gas masks on, but there was someone who refused to. After that, my recall goes for a while until I've either morphed into a dolphin or I'm watching one. I'm swimming in a below ground river, in a third person view. The river ends, but I/the dolphin can't get to the door on the shore, so naturally I/the dolphin casts a magic spell to get there. In the room, it's me again and I'm looking around at all the treasure in the room. I don't know what to do with it, so I leave again. The dream fades again until I'm in a room of the castle with an army sergeant shouting at me. I'm not sure why, but I think it's because I didn't mention the treasure to anyone. He takes away my Bronze Star (I had a medal now, it seems) and demotes me to Private. After this, I notice a door in the wall. I walk through it, and it's the same treasure room as before.

[Lseadragon]

#1 - Tiger Eye/creep out I was at a place for sorcerers or outcasts or something. There were three different types of people there - Blues, who were generally taller, and had blue hair; Apprentices, who were short and wore red, and Hermits, who were average height and wore orange. I was a Hermit. I think there was a fourth type, but I can't remember it now. Anyway, I was sitting at a table with people, and I got out a tiger eye stone and started looking at it. Someone said that we liked shiny things. Suddenly I woke up. It seemed I had been meditating on a bench outside my house. The house was all dark. I opened the door, and a box came up saying the house was deserted, isn't that creepy? But the house was not deserted. There was someone at the other end of the hallway, and they started towards me jerkily, looking like a zombie. Damn, it was creepy. I was thinking "This can't be real" and did a reality check, but my hands looked ok. I'm not annoyed about this - that dream wouldn't have lasted long. It ended right there. #2 - We're not in space! Okay, I was apparently in space, but actually I was walking along my street. I had to go to different "planets" (bits along the street) to get news from the explorers and give them rations, which I had in the form of pasta in a spray can which I sprayed at them. One of the explorers couldn't leave because he had discovered a gyroscopic spinning alien, and he couldn't let it stop. I'm not sure why. #3 - Skiing in May I was up in a mountain lodge, and I was invited to this skiing competition. Skiing is a common dream sign for me. I should have recognised that. Someone wanted to come with me to ski, and I was fine with it. They weren't in the competition. However, I thought it was summer, and it confused me how there could be snow. But apparently it was May, so that was fine. I looked out the window, and saw these huge dunes of snow with rubbish in them. With each gust of the wind, these dunes would get smaller. #? - Fragment I was in a competition, and I was taking some vouchers to exchange them for prizes.

[Lseadragon]

# - Confused Fragments Toast that I had left in the toaster for several hours. Looking at all these different sorts of dragon power-up abilities. Someone telling me they would stop me doing a much-needed quest, just out of spite. I might remember more later.

[Lseadragon]

I would have remembered more, but I find it hard to write in the middle of the night. #1 - Driving I was headed to an acting class, but I was running late. I went to catch a tram, but the tram that came was headed in the wrong direction, so I ran over to the other track, cursing my stupidity. Since I was too late by now, I got in a car and started driving there. This almost triggered a reality check, but not quite. While driving, I considered taking the train. #2 - Lugia A third-person view dream. It was apparently Super Smash Bros. and I was watching this giant stick his head out a window. Then in my vision popped up a list of all the unlockable characters. The dream then jumped to a mountain with a big crystal on top. A crowd of people were waiting at the bottom. This old man fell out of the sky and they caught him and were all really relieved, because he had been missing. He had been dropped there by Lugia, who was then flying away from the mountain. This won the game, and it cut to an ending animation, with all these animated moons and suns going everywhere. Eventually this animation faded down to a building, with several people beside it. It cut back to first person. I went inside the building, and it had all these weird things in glass jars filled with liquid, like guitars and posters. #3 - Lagoon Great visuals in this dream. I was in a lake surrounded on one side by cliffs with lots of other people. The cliffs would throw up waves, and everyone was messing around. I kept feeling something brushing my foot. I looked underwater, and it was a turtle. The turtle (which was very realistic) swam away towards the cliff, so I followed it. It went under a rockhang of the cliff, and as I followed it, the scene suddenly changed. I was on the other side of the cliff, standing by these cells, and there was something shouting at me. I'm not entirely sure now what it was, but it wasn't human. It was shouting about how it was going to greet me, but this other guy standing there said it shouldn't do that, it might kill me. I ignored the second guy.

[Lseadragon]

Notes: Rubber suit. Field. Bionic. Glass Poster. Staircase? 55% warn.

[Lseadragon]

#1 - Job Interview I was going for a job interview at a brightly coloured shop. I sat for a minute, then the person conducting the interviews led me into a room, and left for something, leaving me sitting there. I noticed she had left a yellow book on the chair, which had a blurb describing things you should know for job interviews. When she came back, she gave me two open questions I had to fill out to see if I was right for the job. One was "If there was a war on, would you fight or not and why?" I don't remember the second one, but it was just as coherent. #2 - Defense of the Chest of Stuff I was defending a glowing chest, and so I couldn't leave my chair, for fear that someone would break into it. I think a werewolf came in at some point. #3 - Smoky Plains and Smoky Planes I was walking along a road in plains somewhere. The sky was all smoky and there were lots of planes flying overhead. I started looking at the planes and I realised they were belching heaps of smoke. Eventually, the planes passed and I reached a campsite. The sky had cleared and it was bright, even though it was 10 at night. I wondered why this was, but didn't give much thought to it. #4 - Pythons in the Pool I was walking through a forest (I'm always walking somewhere in dreams) and the ground was covered in heaps of spiderwebs. I was going to see some pythons I knew. I reached a tree, when suddenly two black widow spiders fell on my hand. Understandably, I was freaked out, and tried to blow them off. They were dancing around my arm, but eventually I got them off, and ran out of the trees into a gully which was also covered in spiderwebs. I said to the person I was travelling with that I was sick of the spiders. Then I noticed a wooden slat sticking out of the ground. We'd found what we'd been looking for! I climbed on the slats, up to a covered pool. I wondered briefly if it was deserted, but I heard some voices from underneath the cover. I then wondered how exactly I would greet them, but I suddenly realised I was wearing some goggles, so I just dived into the pool. In the pool (underwater) there were several children sitting on the ground, like they were being taught something, and as I expected, two pythons. One was anthromorphic, and the other was quite fat. At this point, the visuals faded out for a time. I asked one of them their opinion on the universe, and I got a reply along the lines that there was no universe outside the bowl (pool). Visuals returned, and I was out of the pool. It had started draining, and was really shallow. I don't know where the pythons where at this point.

[Lseadragon]

I've been setting my alarm so it goes off after 4 1/2 hours, and every 90 minutes after that. My recall's been a little dead while I adjust. #1 - Lavender I was watching a movie. It had this guy who had lost several important mystical things that were crucial for something in the mail, and he was going to get them back. It might have been a trailer. I left the theatre, passing a person outside who was shouting to everybody coming in the doors something along the lines that the last person should come in first. The people I was with at the movie were playing video games for some reason. I continued leaving, and suddenly found myself in a corridor. I looked at my hand, and suddenly wondered why it wasn't green, and where my body was. (That bit seems to be a carryover from a book I read. Damn, almost a check.) I was suddenly on a train, which went a few metres, then stopped. I got out. There was a grassy knoll nearby which I climbed, to find at the top the people I had been watching the movie with. I was dressed in camouflage clothing, and they made some silly remarks about me being a camouflaged soldier. I then hid behind one of those skinny trees you see, I think they're junipers. One of them came to talk to me, and I think he told me I needed to get some lavender. I consulted my map for a while, trying to find where they would sell lavender, and found a flower shop in the top right corner of the map. I walked there, and arrived to find nobody there. I had to press A to knock on the door, but I couldn't. Happily, the shopkeeper then arrived. I went inside the shop, which looked like a small apartment. She said she had just got some lavender in. I offered to buy some, but the pricing was odd. She would give me some lavender, and look through my wallet and take whatever she thought was fair. I was okay with this, as I didn't have much money anyway. She gave me some lavender, then looked at my wallet and dumped all the coins on the floor. () After that, I hung around in the store/apartment for a bit. I spun around in a chair, and looked out through the window at a bathtub. There's also a bit I can't fit in anywhere. I was on the train again, which stopped, and I got off, but then it went sideways. I shouted "It can't do that!" and went running after it. There were wires on the tracks that tripped me, so I ran beside the track instead. I thought that was very wise indeed. EDIT: And by the way, the detail of my dreams is getting better. It's not so much fuzz anymore.

[Lseadragon]

There was more, but I didn't write it down. I've got to remember to. #1 - Seventeen I was at my old school. There were two people talking about juggling. (I had been juggling just before I went to bed.) They were talking about tricks you could do while juggling seventeen balls. I said to one of them I would be very impressed if they could juggle seventeen balls, let alone do tricks with them. I suddenly then was either Raichu or Charmeleon, and I started to climb a pole. The dream then ended.

[Lseadragon]

#1 - The Wind Of Triumph. I was in a street, and Spiderman, Superman, Captain Falcon, and a evil version of Captain Falcon were all there. There were evil people going along a nearby street, and they were in this localised wind, which had an effect which we didn't know. I speculated that it was a Denying Wind, but it didn't seem right. So we went into the wind to investigate, and as soon as we did this, they all started to go over to the enemy's side. I was unaffected, so I pulled them out of the wind. #2 - Cocoa Block I don't remember much of this, but that's probably good. I was looking for a cocoa block for a recipe in a jungle, and I was looking for a long time, and when I went back they pointed out there was one inside the building anyway that I missed. This really REALLY infuriated me, and I started screaming and smashing the wall. #3 - Fragment I was looking at a webpage which said 62% of all fetishes were snake fetishes. #4 - Boating I was in a speedboat speeding around. I almost crashed into a sandbank, and then I encountered some big bronze hands sticking out of the water.

[Lseadragon]

#1 - Wish You Were Here I was on a snowy mountain - one of my dreamsigns. I was looking at a map of all the ski runs. One not surrounded by others was called "Wish You Were Here". Things might have happened here, and probably did, but next thing I remember it was more like a movie. There was a girl who was entraced by Saturn, and she was walking along the mountain. She stumbled across a path. Eraxis, who kept calling the girl "Chip", and someone else were both standing in the path. The mountain was in Mexico, and the girl was trying to escape. Then she was going to go on a plane with her family, but all these asteroids appeared in the sky, and she watched them for so long she missed the plane, and their tickets started flashing. So they went back to their house, where they had a backup plan - a balloon! Someone would always keep watching at the door, while the others inflated the balloon. But there was a problem when it was inflated. It wasn't big enough to carry all of them. But the little girl had the answer - to sew patches onto it until it was big enough. They all got to work sewing.

[Lseadragon]

#1 - Dolphin Transport Man I was going to buy some dolphins. But though the dolphins were cheap, the tank was horribly expensive, so I drove around in my truck to find a cheaper one. #2 - Spitting Contest I was in a spitting contest on a team and we were losing horribly. I couldn't spit at all. Then I stood up, and suddenly I could spit a lot better.

[Lseadragon]

I tried a method similar to VILD last night, and it resulted in lucidity. I think I'll try this method a bit more. #1 - Depressed Lucidness I was at school and we were looking at different video game covers. The thing was, I was naked, but nobody noticed. This aroused my suspicion, and I eventually figured out it was a dream. I did a reality check with my finger through my hand, which confirmed my suspicions. The dream cleared up, and everything was suddenly a lot more realistic. I shouted to try and summon Eraxis (who is a snakelike creature I came up with after reading the Dream Pets thread) but to no avail. I asked a couple of nearby DCs where I could find Eraxis. One didn't know, and the other one said "Over that roof, on the runway." I climbed over the roof, to find to my irritation that the roofs just kept on going. This happens frequently in my lucids, and it's really starting to get on my nerves. The scene then jumped to a city where I tried to summon Eraxis again by using the looking around corners method. But again, no luck. *sigh* I'll get it eventually. So then I went walking, and there was a bright flash in the sky, flooding the scene with light. I then found a bridge, and dived off, seeing what I could find underwater. There were heaps of tires on the bottom of the river, but the image looked fractured, and I could feel the dream fading. It went. Afterwards there was some non-lucid, but I don't remember what happened in it.

[Lseadragon]

#1 - Salvia Discussion I was sitting around a table with some other people. Suddenly, all the people sitting were suddenly teleported into another room, much the same, except the chairs were all over the floor. We picked them up, sat down again, and started talking about salvia. I mentioned I'd heard it could cause you to lose all bodily awareness. #2 - Ecco echo echo I came into a warehouse that had wooden walls. There was a mound of dirt in the corner. Two people were inside, and talking about something. I went up to them, and asked if I could dig up the mound. I wasn't allowed, but I could pound it down, and I did so. While I was doing this, the two people were talking about a fight, possibly a boxing match, and this third big guy came in and started shouting. I watched this third guy, but the lights in the warehouse were too bright and got in my eyes. I think the dream skipped at this point, as the warehouse turned into a beach, and I became minimally lucid. There was a cave with a fence blocking the way which lead to the ocean, and I could see it going into the earth, so I started to smash down the fence. Ecco the Dolphin came up behind me and said I shouldn't do that. I replied that this was my dream, and I could do whatever I wanted. I walked into the cave, but it turned out it was just a perspective trick, and I was stuck. So I had to dial the Echo Phone, which had a number made up of 0s and 6s. After I got out, Ecco inquired if I wanted to be pushed down the hill. I was fine with this, so I got pushed down the sandy hill through some flowers to the sea. The sea was very pleasant, and left me with a nice feeling for a while after I woke up.

[Lseadragon]

#1 - The World is ending, why not dance? VILD seems to be very effective for me. Anyway, this dream was pretty hazy before and after the brief lucid bit. Before: I was driving a car, and got pulled over for some reason which didn't seem right. I was entering a competition on Neopets where I had to name some made-up language. It was called The Birthday Competition. I was in a warehouse when I became lucid. I keep forgetting to stabilise the dream; I'll remember next time. Anyway, I asked a nearby DC to go get Eraxis (http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...=30324&page=5), and I watched as this DC slowly trudged up some stairs obligingly. Finished later.

[Lseadragon]

#1 - Uprising We were attacking a fortress-like place. However, we only had four minutes left. In order to take over the fortress in that time, we had to capture a flag, as the other easier ways would take too long. I dived off a cliff and landed at an angle to save time, so I was way ahead of the others. I found a door over a river which lead into the fortress. The door looked like it was made of old blemished marble. I managed to capture the flag, but since I did, I had to kill the governer, who was a friend of mine. I refused, and ran away. At some point in the fortress, there were all these people holding golden letters, and I had to prevent them from touching the ground. But they split in half and fell anyway. #2 - Time Lapse It was Friday morning, and I was going to school on the train. There was this guy there. But I was sick of waiting for the train, so I pressed the skip button. The train appeared, but I accidently pressed the skip button again. Now I was going to be late for school. But it was even worse than that! The nearby guy turned to me and showed me that it was actually 2PM next Tuesday! So I went out of the train station and started going home. I then thought "Hold on a minute, this whole thing is really stupid. It must be a dream." I was reasonably confident I was dreaming, and did some reality checks to make sure. The reality checks were remarkably stubborn - my hands looked fine, my finger didn't go through my hand - but I was sure I was dreaming, so I kept checking with different checks, and had sucess with breathing through my nose when it's covered. Anyway, I tried morphing into a dragon - a goal that still evades me - by looking at my shadow and willing it to change. I got to wings, and was having difficulty with the face when suddenly the dream collapses. No warning. This keeps happening far too early in the dream, and I don't know how to stop it. It might just be the end of the REM period. #3 - Skills I was climbing up a staircase with green walls. The height to the staircase above kept getting smaller, and I had to duck. At the top, there was a bar to hold onto, and I had to jump from the bar to a table. The table was in this room where we had to get across it without touching the floor. After assembling, we started on this. First I did it by stacking chairs as a bridge, but that was a bit cheap, so I did it another time by walking on the sides of the tables around the room. When I'd completed in again, I noticed nobody else was left, and the teacher told me that they'd all gone to the next activity. Fearing being late, I raced to it, where everyone was spinning plastic eggs around plastic chickens. I followed suit, until the teacher told me that I had to put the egg inside the chicken. I did so, shook it up a bit, and opened it again to find a plastic baby chicken. After this activity, there was a break, and I had a packet of gobstoppers. #fragment Either an anthromorphic wolf or just a random person was handing me my box of tarot cards. And recently I went to an arcade which was very much like a dream I had quite a while ago.

[Lseadragon]

#1 I was sitting on a pillar. There was a circle of pillars which people were sitting on. I threw a magazine at someone, who then proceeded to throw it at the wall. Then I was in a darkened room, and someone came up to me and said they needed me as a witness, as someone had been killed by my magazine. I was a suspect. I walked along somewhere, and saw two other suspects on a roof. I asked them if they did it, but they replied in the negative. The scene jumped. Third person view, three people were fighting some enemies in a RPG style and getting slaughtered. One died, and the other two were battered. Their health bars were in the red. The scene jumped. I was in a cobblestone town talking to a healer. He said his life had no meaning anymore since his sister had died. I said to him, why not join the army? He replied that healers couldn't be targets, so he couldn't. I think he then jumped in the fountain in the middle of the square. The scene jumped. I was on a train. I got off, but someone had left a book on the train, so I went to get it for them. The book was black with red flecks. I got it, but the train doors closed before I got off again, and the train started moving. I hit the emergency stop, and the train stopped with a screech but kept moving. (That may not make any sense, but it's the only way to describe what happened.) I got off at the next station, and started walking back on a tiled path. Along the way, I encountered someone who I had given a million dollars and 150 dollars to, and I wanted it back now. #2 - Salty Gum I went to the supermarket, and bought a packet of gum instead of this other thing I was meant to buy. I had some on the way home, and it was horribly salty. "This is the saltiest thing I've ever tasted - and I once ate a big heaping bowl of salt!" That futurama quote came to mind in the dream, and I'd say it was true.

[Lseadragon]

I've noticed a change in my dreams. It seems to be I remember much more of one instead of fragments of many. #1 - DNA Don't remember much - didn't get much sleep. I was working against an evil guy who was in the same building. I was put asleep to fight against him. I don't know what happened then, but I remember looking in a second-story window, and finding a computer where the evil guy was running a DNA computation thing. There was also a pool that was half frozen over.

[Lseadragon]

Currently Listening To - On The Page by Chroma Key #1 - Big Brother I was with a friend in a tree-lined shopping center. Big Brother kept telling us to do stuff, but I got sick of that and started to leave. Before I left, Big Brother said that we would have to fight in a heart-shaped area. I thought that if we just left, we could avoid this, and disobey the inevitable, but the way out was vaguely heart-shaped on the minimap, and I suddenly noticed this. This mantis-like person started approaching us from behind, and I thought if we ran faster we could get away, but he sprinted ahead of us. So my friend fought him, and after a little while they each agreed to call it a draw. Then I started going to a Magic:The Gathering shop I knew was nearby (One I've been to in a previous dream). #2 - Separated Trains I was on the outside of a train with three carriages, and somehow they separated. First the front one sped forward, then the back one stopped, and I was left clinging to the middle one. Somehow I got all the carriages to the next station, and left the station. At this point "Idioteque" by Radiohead started playing, and I checked my ipod, which said Idiot by Idioteque. This almost triggered lucidity, but I explained it away to myself, and so failed. #3 - Starbucks I was in this Starbucks that seemed to be all really simple colours. I looked at the menu, but I couldn't get anything, as I only had $2.50, and everything besides an espresso shot was over $3. So after looking around for a while, I went into a back room, where there was a computer. On the computer I found that there was a sequel to a webcomic I follow. Also there was an ad for a thing which said it could make money for your children. It was this brown leather thing reminiscent of a seashell. It had two functions - One: You could press a button, and it would either decide 1 or 0. If it decided 1, then you would get soaked with water. Two: If you put a certain sized metal thing in it (a coin most likely) then you could win more metal things! But you were more likely not to.

[Lseadragon]

Now listening to - The Verve or Transatlantic, depending on when you ask. #1 - The Math Bunker The world was collapsing. Rampant chaos was spreading. We hid from it in mathematical bunkers, where the pure logic of maths would fend off the rampant illogic outside. #2 - Sludge A very symbolic dream, this. I was in a tent near a forest with some other people. I went outside, and noticed that there was heaps of sludge. So, naturally, I went for a swim in it. When I came out of it, I was still perfectly clean. #3 - Mask There was this guy with a red mask on who claimed he could hear the dead. I didn't believe him. Someone pushed him into a pit, and I took his mask. When I put it on I could suddenly hear all these voices, and I thought that maybe he had been telling the truth. #? - Fragments I was validating a train ticket. I was in a store. This was somewhere in the mask dream.

[Lseadragon]

Now listening to Dream Theater. They have a new album out, and it's pretty good. #1 - Dog I was nearly home when suddenly I heard a dog loudly barking. I was frightened momentarily, but then it affectionately lept out at me. Apparently we had gotten a dog, and I hadn't been informed. Some stuff which I can't remember happened, and then we were confronted with the problem of where the dog could stay. We weren't sure what to do, but someone mentioned since it was a dream dog, we could make it appear and disappear. So we put it behind a door, and made it disappear. We would make it reappear in the morning. #2 - TUMBLEWEDE It was night. I looked out a window onto a grassy bit of the schoolgrounds. Someone had built a gigantic flying fox there! Suddenly I was outside standing on it. I was watching gigantic tumbleweeds blow by. They didn't look quite right, so I looked at them a bit harder. They could have been big piles of straw.

[Lseadragon]

#1 - Textual Dragons This was quite odd. It was looking at a book which had pictures of dragons in it, and text to accompany the pictures. The only ones I can remember are numbers #15 and #16, and those not very well. #2 - Taoist Hall I was walking through quite a fancy hall to some room for a lesson. I noticed that there was a poster on the wall that said people should be seated according to rank or else there would be consequences. #3 - Battlefield I was in what seemed a virtual battlefield, sorta like battlefield 1942, but the terrain was much more plain. I was throwing dynamite into all the helicopters. I was going to fly up in another helicopter, set off the dynamite, and watch them all explode. I walked for a while, and then there was a big stick in the ground that everyone was running away from. I ran away, then I noticed the triggers were set and on fire. I tried to blow them out. But they kept going. So I threw it away, and it exploded, spewing out all these rods a long way in front. #4 - Runescape This one's a little hazy. It had something to do with Runescape, and then I was in a library, looking at all of these strange costume suits. Someone said the level 11 one was the most popular, as it was the lowest level fashionable one. #5 - Playing in the Traffic I was bored, so I was running back and forth across a road. Vex Kitten: It was a very short dream. Probably a part of another that lost its connection. But there's more! #6 - The Magic Sign I was in the school library, when suddenly I noticed a flashing sign that said Magic: The Gathering outside. It was spinning around. I ran outside, mentioning something about rubber brains to the people in the library. I ran towards the sign, splashing mud all over my shorts, which for some reason reminded me of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. But the sign wasn't there anymore. There were suddenly other people, and we ran around for a little bit. Then we went to get some chips. There was a fair line, so I ducked under the rail, and cut into the line. #7 - Playing in the Traffic (Reprise) I was coming back from an event of some sort. It was on the same road as dream #5. #fragment I was browsing Devientart.

[Vex Kitten]

Hahaha. You spent a dream running back and forth across a road?

[Lseadragon]

#1 - fragments now Quite an epic dream not recalled very well. I remember being on a train; and being at a pool, considering jumping in, but instead doing some acrobatics on various poles around the side. There was a bad guy in it somewhere. And a strange image - I was sitting outside a building, watching this strange creature try to build up enough speed to get going again, when I noticed off the nearby cliff that there were all these colourful spheres floating around in the air. It was quite beautiful. And I think I did actually dream that I was lucid when I wasn't.

[Lseadragon]

#1 - ski I should have recorded this earlier. As now, all I can remember is that I was skiing (quite a common dreamsign for me).