To begin again from the beginning

[Zeppelin011]

January 7th, 2008 This is my first post on this site... I have been very intrigued by the idea of LDing ever since I heard about it. I know that I have been lucid in the past but I have never been able to control what is happening. Now, I am determined to make that happen. I have never kept a Dream Journal before but I do have some dreams that have stuck with me... two within the past couple months where I have been lucid, which is really what has inspired me to master this skill. Anyway, I look forward to posting my dreams and delving into this website more as time goes on. Please feel free to comment on anything. Superperfundo on the early eve of your day. (Waking Life).

[Zeppelin011]

NICHOLAI OK.. So as I mentioned there were two dreams that really made me want to do this.. I figured it would be best to start with those(even though I don't remember the specifics because it was a while ago and I never wrote them down or anything). blue=lucid "I was walking down a path that was adjacent to railroad tracks...anyway I was following this man who I had never seen before and was talking at length about God kows what... Suddenly the scene changed and I was still following this man but now we were both carrying golf clubs and headed to play golf... This is when I remember saying to myself "I'm dreaming right now"... The man was still talking and he said something that I felt like I heard before... He qouted a long phrase and I remember asking him "Who said that? I've heard that before?" He replied Nicholai ..... AS he said the last name his voice faded away... The rest of the dream is a blur...I lost lucidity and woke up. The next day though i spent some time on the internet searching for famous Nicholai's and I beleive I found the person whom this man was qouting...Nicholai Berdyaev, a philosopher in the 19th century. I read some of his stuff and it really seemed to go with what I can remember the dream man saying....Weird huh?

[Zeppelin011]

ROMANTICALLY CHALLENGED The other dream I had is also a little blurry... It involves some friends I had in grade school, who i haven't spoke to since grade school. Anyway we were walking around the neighborhood and went into someone's house, as we went into the house we became college students this is when I became lucid...I walked out of the house and left my friends there but as I stepped onto the sidewalk a car comes screeching up the road. It was being driven by the mother of a girl I used to have a crush on and she was yelling at me for reasons I could not comprehend.. eventually she turned into her daughter(the girl I used to have a crush on) and she said "How could you not love me?" I told her i did love her but I was "romantically challenged" we kissed and it was a great feeling. The dream continues with me walking around and talking with her but I don't really remember what exactly happened anymore(as I said it was a while ago). But when i woke up i was so disappointed because it was so real and so good...then it was just taken away.

[Zeppelin011]

SO this is the first night I started to keep a DJ: $20 bill, coffee, and pudding I was at the unimart(which is just a convient store/gas station that was everywhere in my college town). Everything was on the opposite side as it usually was...(normally you walk in and the ATM machine is on your right, this time it was on the left, etc.) I was standing in line there were two people in front of me. One of the men had a $20 bill and was being hassled by the clerk that it was a fake. As he was being hassled i realized that mine was fake as well so i quickly stepped out of line reached over the counter and grabbed a real one while the clerks had their backs turned and got back into line. When I returned to my place everything seemed to be taken care of with the other customer. As the next customer was making his transaction I looked around and noticed a shit load of vanilla pudding and thought to myself "I'm gonna get some"...but immediately I was distracted by a sign for coffee(I love coffee) and decided against the pudding and just go with cofffee.. I had a toiled over the idea of how i would react if the store were robbed and then I woke up. somerton I remember playing stickball at Somerton, which was a place I used to work at as a teenager. It is a reoccurring dream location for me....I don't know if this somehow led into the next dream or if it was a different dream but that's all I remember. blurry dream I don't have much recollection of this dream except that i was running around a mall with some of my college buddies...one of whom was out of his mind and hard to control. eventually we lost him, but as we continued running around I saved a random person from falling into the coin fountain... I remember being in a stairwell at somepoint then I woke up. STAR TREK? I DON"T EVEN WATCH STAR TREK. So I'm in a basement that appeared to be my cousin's house but it wasn't really. The scene chanes numerous times from my cousin's basement to her kitchen and then to my basement sometimes. I'm talking to my buddy justin on the phone about getting together and drinking some beers, etc... My cousin is standing there and she is changing back and forth from her to another one of my friends Craig. I take some food that my cousin was cooking and leave the house, eat it, and then return. I sit on the kitchen floor and play with my cousin's pets a dog and two hampsters (In reality mycousin does not have hampsters). An unknown character walks in and the scene quickly changes to a star trek episode(I remember saying it was a star trek episode, though i've never really even watched the show). I was the captain of a ship and everyone was in plain clothes(not the star trek attire). We were on a trip back home(wherever that is) and it gets disruppted by the computer on the ship saying that from now on this is a DREAM. (I did not become lucid though) I was distracted and told i need to see the ship doctor. The doctor tells me to get a blood test but I decline... I run into another room on the ship where I look through a closed door and see a woman in a towel drying her blonde hair. I run into the closet in this room because she hears me I think...The closet has a window in it that cannot be opened and some hangers on the floor... I look through a crack in the door and see her pointing a gun around the room... as I am watching her do this the sound of the hair dryer is still going on in the background and getting louder. Thats when I wake up and realize that someone was actually blow drying there hair in my bathroom. So there are my dreams... I never thought i would remember all of that. I doubt i will always have that many towrite about for one night. It was just chance i woke up in the middle of the night and wrote down the first few...I'm normally a pretty heavy sleeper... Anyway.....be good

[Zeppelin011]

January 8th 2008 Not musch memory of last nights dreams... Took some medicine for my cold so I'll attribute my unclearity to that. I do remember being in someone's house at a party with a lot of people I know... One of those people being a classmate of mine in grade school who I barely even talked too and haven't seen in years. I remember jumping over someone's head at some point and them holding me there... I was also trying to drive a really nice car. Anyway that's about all for today... Pretty weak I know, but i'll try harder tonight..

[GestaltAlteration]

Hey this is good stuff. You've all ready come a long way from having "never kept a Dream Journal before". Keep on truckin'

[Zeppelin011]

January 11th Once again I have a very vauge memory of last nights dream but there are some pretty significant things I can remember. Anyway I was with my uncle and some random guy I never met before in my uncle's truck and we were going to do some construction work. We were digging a gigantic hole(I think this whole part came from a show I was watching). Oh and the place we were doing the work was at Somerton(a recurring dream place I have that I haven't been too in my waking life in years... I wish that would click in my head when I'm dreaming...any suggestions) Anyway, it gets a little blurry from here, but I remember the random guy saying that he had just killed someone but he would wouldn't get caught cause he was changing his name to Bob ***... ( which is my fathers name). My uncle and I chased the guy and thats all I remember. Alright thats it......

[Zimmerman]

Somerton(a recurring dream place I have that I haven't been too in my waking life in years... I wish that would click in my head when I'm dreaming...any suggestions) You should include some focus on the intent of knowing your dreaming if you're in Somerton along with MILD. I've been practicing this more with reoccuring places/settings in my dreams lately and it's helped! Seems like I dream more of these places on the nights I practice, so that helps too.

[Zeppelin011]

January 18th Gotta pay attention Man, last night I had a dream that was ripe with signs but I didn't catch any of them while I was dreaming....I was at work, although everything was strangely askew. Nothing was in the right place. Some of my buddy's from college were there and I was trying to help them find their way back to my house until I finished work because they were making a scene and causing a rukus... I can't really remember all the signs but here are some that I should have caught: 1)friends from school(people i don't really see that much any more), 2)Everything in the office was not in the right place, 3) I was dancing with people from work...one of them being a man in his late 50s who i don't even really talk to or see that often, 4)I tried to get directions for my friends by using a telephone and then a computer, neither or which were working properly(I hear thats a common thing in dreams)... anyway there were others but i am having trouble remembering...wish I had wrote them down as soon as I woke up.... Anyway I appreciate anyone's advice on helping me pick up these signs while I'm dreaming...I guess it just takes practice. be good...

[Zeppelin011]

March 7th Hey I'm Still alive just haven't had much time lately to post anything(or write my dreams down...damn I'm lazy). Anyway, I just wanted to write down That I flew last night in my dream. I don't remember much except that I was playing in my band my friends college(I have never actually been there in my waking life). Anyway we were playing and the crowd we were playing to drastically changed from about 50 people to 5,000+ people. It was pretty awesome until i woke up and realized it was a dream. Also, I had to change my guitar string during the show and was having a really hard time doing it. So bad that people I didn't know were coming up to me and letting me play their guitars in stead of changing strings on mine, but none of there guitars worked properly. So anyway....getting to the flying part. It wasn't like I became lucid and decided to fly, it was more like I had to go up and down some steps (for some reason I can't quite recall) and instead of walking up and down I floated. Though it wasn't lucid it was still cool. I'm starting to come to the conclusion that I shouldn't really try so hard to lucid dream...dreams are so cool regardless.(That doesn't mean I'm gonna stop trying, it just means I'm not gonna get upset about not LDing). Thank You and Goodnight.

[Zeppelin011]

by the way if anyone likes music they should check out www.pandora.com and join the music genome project you won't be disappointed.

[Zeppelin011]

LUCID AGAIN March 21st 2008 Alright I did it.. Last night I had a couple of dreams and though I didn't write them down after they happened I'll do my best to recall what I can. The dream I hadprior to LDing was important because it helped me get there the next time I fell back asleep. I was with a bunch of my friends from college running around town (These people seem to be in my dreams a lot and I have started to notice that and make special note of it.) Anyway I remember chasing a person who had thrown a brick at us but as he turned a corner he went into a door and was gone... I crawled through some trees and bushes to meet back up with my friends. We went into a strange house that I had never been before and climbed up into an attic and talked with a bunch of people I didn't know. Anyway, around this point I woke up and was contemplating getting up and starting my day but I decided against it. Wise choice on my part; before I fell asleep I made a point to say to myself out loud that the next time I see a person I will be dreaming, especially if it is one of my friends from school. Sure enough, I fell asleep and started dreaming...I was in my room with friends from school and we were painting my bedroom walls and putting wallpaper on them from some reason and haveing some trouble doing it because the designs on the wall were not cooperating...i.e. they kept shifting and changing(in my waking life there are no designs on my walls) That is when I realized I was dreaming. So as I am sitting there and kind of absorbing the whole Idea that i am dreaming, my friends are still having trouble with the painting and whatnot... as this is going on Three big asian dudes walk into my room and don't really say anything. They kind of sneak up on one of my friends and we yell at him snd say something to the effect of "Watch out those guys are gonna get you" He doesn't turn around because he thinks we are just messing around with him. I yell out to him "Punch him in the balls." Without turning around because he still doesan't believe us he punches behind him and hits one of them in the face. Now he believes us and now these guys are pissed off. Since I knew I was dreaming I decided that I could take these guys. I jumped off of a ladder that was in my room and fell through the floor and grabbed on of them by the feet and threw him at one of the others and they both went out the window. I jumped back up through the floor and crushed the other guys head and he kind of just desintegrated. It was pretty cool. The next thing I did was look out my window to see where they went but there was no sign of them. Instead, I saw this guy throwing snowballs at a little girl. I jumped out my window and started throwing snowballs at him. He started chasing me and shouting something about me "spending the rest of my life in surgery." In fact he was kind of singing it. Anyway at this point I decided to try to fly. I closed my eyes for some reason and jumped . I think I was flying but can't really tell because I never opened my eyes. I felt like I was starting to fall and I heard a voice saying to go to my "Paradise" I thought about this girl and tried to go to a place where I thought she might be. I am still falling at this point and feel like I finally hit the ground. Without openning my eyes I remember reading on this site that I good way to change scenery is to spin around in a circle. I do that and finally open my eyes. Only, I really opened my eyes and woke up laying in my bed. It was pretty cool. Can't wait to do it again. One tip I can pull out of this dream is that if you realize before you go to bed that the next time you see a person or have a conversation with someone theres a good chance you are dreaming and you can take it from there. Weel thats it that's all I got.