Thread: Oh, So Unnerving! Tamias's Dream Views

Surely I had dreams last night. I simply didn't remember any. There's always tonight, though!

Night of March 4th, 2008

I remembered two dreams last night! I was so proud of myself! I'm noticing something, though... while my dreams are interesting and fun to write, they're never overtly "weird." Except for some botched physics, I haven't noticed anything too out of the ordinary, at least not anything that would tip me off about the dream.

Dream One - The Blu-Ray Burner
In my first dream, or at least as far as I can remember, I am in a stone courtyard which has some steps on one end, and my Dad sits in a lawn chair on the other end. There is an xBox 360 Arcade next to him (I don't remember it being plugged into anything). As a pun on the term "Blu-Ray," I notice that the 360, using what looks like an old-fashioned lie detector, is sketching blue patterns onto a disc - blu-ray burning! I touch the stencil it is painting through, and it screws it up, spilling blue ink everywhere. Desperately, I try to get it correctly realigned, but to no avail - it simply gets more and more messed up. The stencil is ripping and tearing. Suddenly, I decide I'm bored and walk away. As I leave, my Dad says, "they only have on game for it." I see on the top of the console lies the box for Battlefield 1942, though I distinctly remember thinking it was Call of Duty 4 (neither of which I have). "It's a good one to have," I say, and walk away.

Dream Two - Penis Pants
This one's bizarre.
My Dad has just picked me up from Presidio High (where Ben goes to school) and we are heading towards BASIS, where Ben's sister goes to school. I don't know where we were going after that; I have a vague recollection of a birthday party. Anyway, so we're cruising down Alvernon Way and Dad decides to turn left on Third (which bears an Alvernon Way street sign, for some reason). I begin to ask why, and he explains "It's a shortcut." It isn't a shortcut at all. It's going the opposite way.
Suddenly, Dad swerves to avoid a moving van-slash-ambulance that speeds by, followed by the car from the Wii commercials. But it's too late! The moving van-slash-ambulance nicks our car and spins out of control, toppling over. I remember feeling an incredible guilt and apprehension, which was appropriate. The next thing I know, we've been pulled over by a policeman. He seems to grow very boring to me, and I decide I'd rather view present events as though they were a book.
So that's what I do.
Through text, I read as my Dad receives an examination from the policeman. He notes, among other things: "Penis shirt, penis pants, homemade pocket knife with over-extended blade..."]

What. The. Hell. I don't remember anything very clearly after that.

Anyway, thanks for sharing your dreams ^_^

~Tamias

Apparently, my dream recall functions in short bursts. I remember almost nothing from last night, probably due to many interruptions. I do remember one thing: I dreamed I had my lucky paws on Super Smash Bros. Brawl four days early. Ah well. Some dreams were never meant to be remembered.

~Tamias

Hey, everyone! Guess what happened last night!

This is good.

I was asleep, minding my own business, at one point ripping my Super Mario Bros. self-help CD's (How to be Cool, How to Attract Females, Super Mario Style) to my laptop, at another helping my Mom prepare for a trip on a plane she'd catch on the balcony of a two story house I don't believe I've ever seen. I went downstairs to gather some cords for whatever reason, and the unthinkable happened... I DID A REALITY CHECK. The nose one.

I sort of laughed and said, "well, that has to mean something." And so I did it again.

And then it was like Shocka Wocka Doo Doo YEAH!! I'm dreamin'.

But it sort of went downhill from there. Suddenly, I was in my bed - in my room, in the bed I fell asleep in - with my eyes shut tight. Just to assure myself, I do the reality check one more time, and I could still breathe through my nose. There was excitement blossoming in my stomach, and I tried to control it by telling myself "KEEP STILL. DON'T WAKE YOURSELF UP." It didn't occur to me that I could get up and move around and still be asleep. It was almost as though I was imagining myself as being lucid, not that I was lucid myself. There was an omnipresent fade, as has been discribed many times elsewhere on the site, and the only thing I could remember was the dream spinning, and I imagined myself spinning, but of course I was still just lying down, telling myself not to waste the experience.

Argh.

That doesn't really count as a lucid dream, because even though I was lucid, I didn't get to do anything. I just sat in bed like an idiot. But it was so awesome when I consciously acknowledged, "Hey. What the hell is wrong with my nose?" It's a truly inspiring feeling when it hits you, isn't it?

I'm going to keep improving my recall and hopefully I can learn to have a lucid dream that lasts longer than a few seconds. I'm totally fired up, now. Thank you everyone, for helping me see that breathing through my nose is an abnormal thing!

Ben: Way to go, buddy! ^_^

~Tamias

Congrats!
Your first Lucid.
Now your bound to have another one soon and have it last more than a few seconds. Most first lucids don't last long, so nothing to worry about there.

I had a similar in bed situation this morning. I woke up, or thought I did, so I did a nose RC and found I could breath! So I opened my eyes but that seemed to wake me up for real. I started to feel than my hand wasn't at my nose, it kind of blended with my real hand which was by my side. Doh!

Keep up the good work.

No new dreams last night () And no new ones tonight, either! Guess which game's midnight launch party Ben and I are going to? Uh-huh. We're super nerds.

Ben: Fo shizzle my nizzle.

Word.

Smash Bros. FTW!

~Tamias

No recall again last night... argh! Keep on truckin', though, right?

Perhaps I'm not thinking about this nearly enough. I need to concentrate! Buckle down! I had no dream recall last night, and it's bringing my average down fast. I WILL remember my dreams. Please?