Harakka's mapped dreams
This is my new dream diary. I'll post here both new dreams and some interesting ones from my finnish dream blog. I have already written 70 pages of dreams as a PDF and I'm going to translate the best ones into English. I'm going to draw a map of every dream and that's what makes this DJ special. :D Let's begin.
I don't use much special formatting yet. LDs are blue and the numers that connect the text to the map are bolded.
Exploring dream Helsinki
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I'm sitting in our car. My dad is driving through Helsinki and I'm looking out trough the window. I notice some changes since the last time we visited: a small shop has now two huge plasma screens glowing with ads (1). I don't really like them and I think having two of them is just waste of money.
Listening to the radio, my dad says that this channel sends crap over compressed music too. I say I have read about that online (here) and that I hate overcompressing too. We continue to chat about that and the difference of old records and new records for a while. At the same time Dad is searching searching for a better channel. I spot an upside down screen outside (2). It's a bit like an overhead projector and sends video picture to car radios. "Hey great, that looks like a sharp image, it must be HD", I say.
We drive past a market place. There's a similar plasma screen on the wall of a mall to the ones that were at the smaller shop (3). I think it's a bit funny. There are lots of people walking outside. We drive forward and trough a corner where there are apartment blocks under construction (4). "Those houses look like they've stopped the old construction project and starting to build new stuff over it", I say: "The plywoods are standing but they still have holes where the windows will be."
We enter a parking area. There's a huge pile of wood on it (which doesn't excist in RL). They are stacked a bit like a cardhouse. It looks awesome: "I've seen this many times before but every time it impresses me", I say. We park our car under it (the roof is about 20 metres above us, maybe more). I guess we park under it because it will cover the car from rain.
I realize I'm dreaming. Not for any specific reason. I don't go crazy but I notice that everything is looking super realistic. It's late afternoon and the sunshine is gorgerous. My dad knows we're dreaming too and I think I'm having a shared dream and not for the first time (none of the times I though so were really shared dreams but I often forget that in dreams). He says that maybe we could estimate where we are by finding some landmarks. I know the dream world is different to the real Helsinki but that's why it'd be fun to see where we would be if this was real. I look over the river and I see four big buildings (6). They all appear slightly zoomed if I stare at them longer. "If we make a 90 degrees angle", I say and stretch my arms so that they make that angle: "on the left hand side there's a... um, nothing special and on the right had side there's that big church." My dad told me the name of it but I soon forgot it (and the church doesn't excist in reality). It was really huge and had lots of massive green pylons stretchig to sky. I look again at the building on the left: It's a big modern factory. It has a round glass walled building another building made of bricks. I ask if it's a Nokia factory the local Nokia factory looks quite similar. Dad tells me to look at the sign on the top of the factory. It says "Vi Enna". I'm happy that I can read stuff in the LD so I think I should write it down on my notebook so that I could recall it better. I take the notebook out of my pocket and luckily there's a little pen inside it - I never have a pen in there in RL. I forget to write down the name when I notice that my dad's missing. I walk east on the map and stop to wait leaning on a white car (Toyota if I remember correctly). The dream is starting to feel a little less stable though everything is still looking clear and I can think clearly. Then Dad arrives with a red smart. He opens the window and tells me to get in. The car smells like a new one. I open the door and quickly tighten the seat belt. I think that it's cool how I can realistically imagine a car I've never been in. Then dad starts to drive really fast - I get squished on the seat - and almost immediately crashes through the fence. The car flies through the air and I feel dissapointed - why did I take this risk, the dream will propably end now. The car splashes in water and even though I'm not scared, I yell "AARGHHH!". The sound comes like an automatic sound effect on games when you die. I wake up, grab my diary and write one word on the paper: Vi Enna. :) Then I draw a quick map and write the rest of the things.
This wasn't my best LD but a nice one anyway. I remember lots of stuff from it. Almost none of the things in this dream excist in reality: nor the pile of wood, the apartment blocks under the construction, Vi Enna or the huge church. And I also had a false memory of seeing that wood thing before. I wish the dream lasted a bit longer because I enjoy exploring dream worlds, especially ones like this because there were lots of people. Well, maybe next time.. :roll:
I'll post more dreams when I have translated them. Comments?