Marlies Dream Journal

Ok so im gonna start out by explaining that i have suffered with insomnia for most of my life, I dont sleep for long periods of time, I tend to cat nap througout the evenings, never really go to bed just grab half an hours sleep whenever i can. Ive been to countless different sleep therapys since i was a kid and the only thing thats ever worked for me is heavy duty sleeping pills which i dont like taking as its not so much a sleep as loosing consiousness, so i deal with it in my own ways. Im never really asleep but never really awake, I meditate to recharge on the days where sleep just wont come to me. The plus side to my crazy sleep patterns is that when i nap i sometimes have the most amazing dreams, always intense, always significant and always worth the wait, so I thought it was time i started logging them. I hope you enjoy reading them :)


purple= lucid dreams
Blue= non lucid dreams
Red=Partly lucid dreams



Friday 25th April 2008

The first thing i can remember is hearing the song from the apple mac adverts playing from a giant organ in the corner of a restaurant, noone seemed to be playing it but it was enchanting, i couldnt take my eyes off it, couldnt focus on anything else until it stopped.

When it finished i walked over to it and went to sit on the stool and the whole thing just vanished, but even though i was mid sit i didnt fall, just hung in that position, i closed my eyes thinking "oh god im gonna fall" and when i opened them i was at my grandmas graveside sitting on the organ stool with white butterflys floating all around the headstone, i reached out to touch one and it turned into a rose bud in my hand, which opened up into a giant sunflower.

I lost a big section of the dream at this point i think.

The next part of my dream i was lying on my sofa ( well meant to be my sofa but it was nicer than mine) and a man in a santa outfit came through the door, he didnt look like santa really, was too skinny.
he told me that he had been sent by my mum to tell me that they have moved to borneo and that I should go and join them but that i mustnt take anything with me.

next thing i remember was boarding a bus which was on fire, but the fire had purple flames, i sat next to a Armish woman who was crying and there was children who looked deathly ill infront of me with their grandad, i asked the woman where we were going and she said "to heaven my child"
I panicked and tried to get off the bus was pacing up and down it banging on the windows , I approached the driver who was crying but vanished in front of me, i tried smashing the windows out on the door but it went up into a ball of fire and i remember thinking to myself "marlie open your eyes and the dream will be over"

At that point i did open my eyes and woke up.

Awesome start! :)

Wow, you weren't kidding when you said that your dreams were pretty crazy. Purple flames sound awesome.

I had a dream today which was kinda lame but has been a reoccuring dream since i was a kid.. Its funny because the first time i had the dream i was probably about 8 and was probably about that age in my dream.. and as ive got older in RL so has the me in my dream. every time i dream it im my age but still in the same childs dress( only bigger)

Ok here goes...

It was set at my grandparents house, they had a christmas party happening, everyone sat around drinking wine and eating buffet food off of pink paper plates, my parents were in the conservatory talking to my grandad about the latest "spaceship" he claims he saw.

Theres a zoom in of me.. im wearing a white dress with strawberrys printed on it, my curly hair tied up with ribbon, my brother comes running up behind me ( hes still a kid every time i dream it) he says "we have to go marlie" i argue with him and say " no i wanna stay at the party" he says if you want to be ok we have to get out of here hes coming hes coming. I assume that hes winding me up and dont go with him, instead i climb up onto the kitchen counter and dig in the back of a high up cupboard and find a packet of jello..
I go through the kitchen to find my grandma to help me make it and noones there, everyone has completely disapeared.. and so has all the party food, drinks. everything exept a unopened pack of party plates..

I walk over to the plates and before i get to them my brother comes running in from the garden and shouts NOOOO dont touch them...but its too late i already have.

My dream goes completely black and everything starts again.. exactly the same up to the point of me seein the plates..

This time when i notice the plates and am about to pick them up the doorbell rings and i go to the door.. im too short to open the latch ( in real life and in my dream life im 4ft 6 :oops:) so i call my brother and he doesnt come, i walk out to the conservatory looking for someone, calling out for just anybody to be around.. noone.. so i run to the front window to see whos there and if they will walk around the back and come in through the garden, when i pull back the blinds i saw that it was a huge man, not quite as big as a giant but too big to be a human, he looked friendly and told me he was a friend of my grandmas and that he was here for the party. something made me trust him, so i told him to come round the back.. i shut the window and turn around and hes already behind me welding an axe, hes wearing the same outfit as Oblix from the cartoon astrex and oblix.. viking hat etc..( ill post pic ) he swings the axe at me and misses, my brother appears from under the sofa and grabs my hand and leads me running out to the conservatory, once out there we slam the sliding doors shut but accidently catch the mans arm in the doors... he gets mad and u can see his breath on the glass.

My brother tells me we should run so we do, through the rest of the conservatory, through the kitchen, and up the stairs, as we are running the people that had vanished are reappearing in our way, we end up ducking through them and under there legs, but they dont seem to see or feel us at all.

Suddenly we are in the garden, in the garden shed, we can see our family and the other party guests lounging around in the sun, drinking, eating laughing, and all of a sudden we see the giant man burst through the wall of the house and straight towards the shed, Non of the guests seem to have seen it, hes standing outside looking in at us through the windows, and my brother grabs a shovel and pushes the door open and drags me out into the middle of everyone, noone can see us.

We stand there shouting and yelling at them to see us and nobody does, jumping up and down, crying,screaming almost, .. Nothing.
We start to get enveloped in a glittery mist , it gets so thick we can no longer see anything, we cling to each other tight in sadness,screwing our eyes tightly closed.

We open our eyes and are under the table in the kitchen, eating christmas cake and both confused, we sit in silence just looking at each other for signs that it actually happened.. we hear my grandma in the kitchen.. i shout for her and theres a long silence between me and my brother, praying that she could hear us again, she all of a sudden making us jump responds with "there you are you lil buggers we been looking for you for an hour, go and clean up that mess you made with the jello" i crawled out and looked at the counter, and there sat a jello, even though i had never got to make it.
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Oblix.. the outfit the man was wearing exept he had a viking hat too

Im not really certain if this was a sleeping dream so much as a daydream because i dont think i was fully asleep,and it felt like i had a lot of control over what happened, i seemed to be able to choose my own paths, and i know that at one point i woke up and rolled over.

I was sat in a public library, a beatiful one with huge mahogany bookcases and gargoyles on the wall, thick dark red carpets and huge crystal chandeliers, I didnt know why i was there or even where the library was based.

I was walking around looking at random book covers and felt irritated by the sound of the air conditioner, i walked over to librarian to ask which town i was in and as i approached realised the woman had no face, just a blank space with reading glasses, i backed away hastily and headed for the door but when i got to it i couldnt open it, it didnt seem to be locked just too wedged shut, i figured someone else would have to come in soon and open the door so i relaxed and decided while im here i might as well settle with a decent book. I routed around for a while and when i pulled one off the shelf it fell open on a picture of martial arts, on closer inspection i realised it was probably ninja9578 but i think that was at the point when i was more awake than asleep, so was likely a subconsious assumption.

The next part i remember of my dream i dont even seem to be in, it was about my neice milly, she was sat in a paddling pool in my garden, having full blown conversations with noone i could see. It was night time and pitch black, could only see her faintly because the only light was from the streetlight at the back of my house, she didnt look like her but i knew it was sposed to be her, she was just chatting on and on and on, was creepy but calm, a man i dont know turned on a outside light and she turned around really fast to stop the light shining in her eyes,he walked over talking to her, saying how nice it was to see her and that he missed her, she didnt turn round, kept her back to him the whole time, she started rocking like she was scared. After quite some time she turned round and then stood up and walked straight through the man and into the house, he stood there stunned.

At this point i had one of those weird falling dreams and it jolted me completely awake.

I know the whole thing sounds kinda like a nightmare of sorts, but it really wasnt, it was overall a very peacful dream, Not the most interesting but unique all the same...

Theres no such thing as a unimportant dream i guess :)

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Awesome start! :)

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Wow, you weren't kidding when you said that your dreams were pretty crazy. Purple flames sound awesome.

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Ty guys, Not the most exiting dreams to start off with but im lucky enough to have detailed ones i guess :)

and yeah purple flames were really special :)

Pretty girls dream about me! :boogie:

Wow, you live on naps? You really are an insomniac.

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Pretty girls dream about me! :boogie:

Wow, you live on naps? You really are an insomniac.

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Yep pretty much, i dont often go to bed and stay there for more than an hr at a time, i nap a lil then get up for a while and maybe go back, quite often tho if ive actually "gone to bed" and by that i mean actually bothered to turn everything off( usually when i go to bed i dont turn pc or tv or whatever off cause i expect to be up within an hr) i sleep half hr then get up for a while then keep forcing myself to go back to bed.

More often than not tho, recently i nap twice in the evening for half hr to an hr... then nap about 6am for maybe an hr.. then im up for the day, and nap just inbetween.

I know it sounds like it completely sucks.. and it can do.. especially if im not at home, like if im on vacation and theres nothing to in the middle of the night and i just have to lay there.

But it has some plus points.. my dreams are crammed into short spaces of time so i almost always remember them pretty much in detail.

Disapointing today, Nap 2 of the day i dont recall any dreams at all, and Nap 3was so vague that im struggling to piece it together, Someone reccomended I keep pen and paper next to my bed so i can write down any key words that might help me remember the stuff that fades after a few minutes of waking... i Tried it and it didnt work really, i jotted down 6 words when i woke up and i have no idea what they were meant for now lol. But anyway heres the words...

Shark

Charlie( was my best mate for years )

Sex

Churchyard

ocean

sandmite


so unless it was about my friend charlie having sex with a shark, getting eaten and then having a funeral at the churchyard.. i have no clue lol

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Disapointing today, Nap 2 of the day i dont recall any dreams at all, and Nap 3was so vague that im struggling to piece it together, Someone reccomended I keep pen and paper next to my bed so i can write down any key words that might help me remember the stuff that fades after a few minutes of waking... i Tried it and it didnt work really, i jotted down 6 words when i woke up and i have no idea what they were meant for now lol. But anyway heres the words...

Shark

Charlie( was my best mate for years )

Sex

Churchyard

ocean

sandmite


so unless it was about my friend charlie having sex with a shark, getting eaten and then having a funeral at the churchyard.. i have no clue lol

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sometimes I don't remember my dreams at all, but usually something will randomly trigger me to remember the entire dream. So maybe you should think what about the words you wrote down, and maybe it will all flood back to you. good luck

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sometimes I don't remember my dreams at all, but usually something will randomly trigger me to remember the entire dream. So maybe you should think what about the words you wrote down, and maybe it will all flood back to you. good luck

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Thanks for the advice :) i usually remember really well but todays naps have been a blur, im thinking maybe i just slept deeper than im used to,cause i think half the time when i dream im more awake than asleep so it registers better in my memory.

May I add? The more keywords, the better. :)

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May I add? The more keywords, the better. :)

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Lol yeah, i think i actually fell asleep again while writing the last word cause it kinda ended up stretched to the other side of the page,and i still had the pen in my hand when i woke up so was probably gonna write more, but will def try and write as much as possible next time.

I just had a nap actually, with not much memory of a dream, This usually happens towards the weekend, i guess my bodys more relaxed not having work and I sleep deeper.

Work eh? So that's why you need naps! :lol:

How's the insomnia by the way? Is it getting any better?

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Work eh? So that's why you need naps! :lol:

How's the insomnia by the way? Is it getting any better?

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Lol i doubt it ever will, been the same since i was a kid, i`ll probably always cat nap, truth be told id probably freak out if i had a full nights sleep without being medicated, that hasnt happened since i was about 7.

Oh my god! :o

I feel so sorry for you! You havn't had real sleep since you were seven? :o

Lol i do with medication when i get really pissed off , just try not to if i can help it.

I try and just nap as often as my body allows and meditate in between... ( thats normally where most my dreams come from.. the state between meditation and sleep.

Ahh, yes, I think I know that state.

cool journal so far im glad you can remember your dreams because of the insomnia (silver lining) and that whole purple fire thing was cool (purple owns its prob my fav color)

Irritating sleep, i managed to nap after about an hr of lying there gettin agitated and woke up after just 25 minutes. But at least i had a peaceful dream .....


I was sat by a river, a huge one with floating white lilys and oversized bullfrogs, the sun was shining brightly on the water, the grass was really dark green, like almost black and so soft it felt like silk on my skin.

I looked across the lake and could see beavers swimming across with twigs and branches,it was like my own version of heaven, the flowers were in abundance but for some reason all of them were white,i could see wild moose milling about in the horizon, i remember thinking at one point "im lucky to be here"

In the distance a canoe came slowly along the river, and i could see a old man in a cowboy hat and cords, he tipped his hat at me and then stopped rowing at the bank of the river,he started pulling out a heavy chain from underneath the water and on the end of it was a trapped beaver, he then got out of his canoe and dragged it up onto land.

I think i lost a part of my dream after that because the next thing i saw was a big cane ring with beaver fur stretched across it, and its head on the floor close by, the old man was sat with a gaptoothed grin stirring a pot of something on a manmade fire.

My dream switched to a phone call, me and my friend shona chatting about her new house, then even though im on the phone to her already my phone starts ringing and her name flashes up.

Thats where i woke.

Lucid dreams have come pretty easily to me since i started aiming for them a couple of years ago,once i had my first one i realised id had a few of them before without realising what they were.The main problem i have is staying asleep once i have the awareness that im in a dream, my natural instinct is to start waking up and sometimes i can pull it back for a while but never for long i always kick myself when i do. If anyone has any advice on staying in the dream id appreciate it.
In my couple of years of lucid dreaming ive only had 4 which ive been able to stay in until i was ready to leave.

I was in a big house, was more like a big art studio, with a big wooden stair case in the centre, I walked over to the window and could see like a big warehouse across the road with 8 guys hanging around outside smoking and drinking beer, they saw me looking at them and they started pointing over at me i ducked down embarrased. I stayed under the window sill for a few minutes and then slowly peered up to see if they were still looking. They were heading towards the window, i panicked and pulled the curtain across but it fell down. The doorbell rang and i ran to the door to make sure it was locked, before i got to the door it burst open and one of the guys walked in, i ran behind him and locked the door so none of the others could come in, and i shoved the key in my pocket, he didnt seem to see me do this.

I could see the other men crowded at the window trying to see what was happening, i ran up the stairs and at this point i became lucid.
I turned to the guy and said, "try your best" he was behind one step below me so i tried to push him down the stairs, i wasnt strong enough ( normally when i dream im unable to fight i seem to have no strength) he advanced towards me on the stairs and i turned around and just walked off and made myself invisible then walked past him on the stairs and open the door and out of it, and stood and watched all the other guys run in.
I then locked the door from the outside so they were trapped in there, and walked over to the window they had been peering in and flipped em off through it lol. one of em picked up a chair to throw through the window but i stopped it breaking with my mind.

At this point i started to wake up and fought like hell to stay lucid ( i had so much more i cudda done to them fkers)
but my body won and i woke up :(

When i checked my emails today i had an email off a very close friend of mine, describing a dream she had about me and her walking on the beach, splashing around in the sea, chatting between us and just having a blast, I made it my mission to get there in a lucid dream and join her.

I wasnt quite asleep at first so im not sure if you can really count it as a lucid dream ( more like a lucid day dream i guess for the first chunk of it)
I started out by meditating and picturing the scene, she wasnt there at first, was just me walking along this tropical beach, paddling in the ocean as i walked along, my hair all tousled and wearing a shell necklace, a really nice cool breeze, and noone else was there, just a deserted tropical island all for me. It took me quite a while to summon up my friend and i think trying too hard was what kept me from falling asleep, so i stopped trying to call her for a while and then ended up at a house with lots of cats outside it ( it was then i realised that i was fully lucid) I also realised that this was sposed to be my friends house because she rescues stray cats.
Now in fully lucid state i knocked on the door and her husband answered, i gave him a huge grin and hug and asked him where my friend was, he said to go round the back because thats where id find her, i walked around the back of the house and there she was lying in the back yard in a swimming costume that me and her had both googled and said we wanted, she was lying drinking a tall glass of tequila on a sunlounger with sunglasses on her head and an old beachtowel with a cat on it.

I approached her and spoke to her for a while and told her that I am in a lucid dream so for one day only we can do whatever we want, she looked at me bemused and said this isnt a dream marlie this is real life baby, i said no! i wanted to prove it to her but i wasnt quite sure how. I havent done an awful lot of "magic" in my lucids so far but i managed to summon up myself a drink.. she looked shocked and said omg marlie so i dont exist?
I said of course you exist, but im dreaming and i can do whatever i want with you today, and then made a joke that she better be wearin a chastity belt lol.

I walked over to her and grabbed her hand and shut my eyes tightly and said "let it happen or ill wake up, dont fight me" I felt her hand relax in mine and when i opened my eyes again we were laying on some rocks on the beach, I could feel myself starting to wake up, and fought it like crazy, there was no way i wanted the dream to end now, so i stopped trying to control it and i think i lost lucidity about then.

*normal dream continues* We walk along the beach, hopping in and out of the waves and end up hitting a bar at the end of the beach, we go and buy some cocktails ( although i dont remember paying for them) we sat and chatted about our friends shawn and wendy and i was asking her about how things had gone with the meet she had offline, with 3 of her very close online mates.

Next thing i know we are back at her house and im lucid again, and extremely aware that im about to wake up. I hug her tightly and tell her i will see her tomorow night if i can but that she wont know about it unless i tell her. she seemed kinda not like her at this point,kind of hard,she didnt seem like she was bothered that i was leaving ( absolutley not like the real life version of her) I shout through the house goodbye to her husband and woke up instantly.That was by far the most ive ever done in a lucid dream, the first time id dreamt myself to another location, and it makes me exited to try again. but i find that if i try too hard i cant stay lucid so i need to try and forget about it and hope it comes to me again naturally

Overall... AWESOME dream day.

2 lucid dreams in a day. I wish I could do that :P

Lol i wish i could do it again twice in a day.... I bet i cant :(

twice in a day is awesome.. how often do you have them?

I have a lot of them, weekly at least. i just struggle to stay asleep once im fully lucid. is only when i start the process with meditation that i manage to stay there.

try when you are about to wake up, try spinning around in your lucid, this should change the dream because you dont keep a still image of anything when you spin, its just a blur, you might be able to stay asleep longer, but if it was a lucid, you might loose lucidity.

No dreams that i can remember :(

Holy smokes, you've got some great dreams. That last lucid sounded incredible. Anything dream with a beach in it makes me go ga-ga. You managed to stay lucid a long time despite your mind (and your friend) trying to trick you.

I used to be on a polyphasic sleep cycle, and it was incredible for dreaming. Not to mention the extra time you have in the day. I'm glad you don't see your insomnia as a completely negative thing. Its cool that you've learned how to live with it and take advantage of it instead of just medicating yourself.

Interesting dream with Oblix. I wonder if being worried about your height made a giant appear on the other side of the door. 4'-6" isn't that short. One of my best friends is real mini. She's 4'-2", and its freaking hot! Being mini just means you get to wear those fun extra-high shoes without intimidating the boys.

Can't wait for more dreams.

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Interesting dream with Oblix. I wonder if being worried about your height made a giant appear on the other side of the door. 4'-6" isn't that short. One of my best friends is real mini. She's 4'-2", and its freaking hot! Being mini just means you get to wear those fun extra-high shoes without intimidating the boys.

Can't wait for more dreams.

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I always did wonder if it was because of my height( or lack of) Especially at the time in my life when I had the dream for the first time was when i was really consious of it, I was about the height of my lil sister who was 4 yrs younger than me lol. As ive got older ive learnt to be grateful that i can still get away with stuff tall people cant ;) hehehe

I def dont completely see my insomnia as completely negative because it fits my work and uni schedule ( stupidly timed lectures and stuff) its handy to just have my naps in between etc. Its just annoying when im off and go back to my parents for a week and have nothing to do all night, exept pace up and down or watch shopping channels on tv lol.

I have had some amazing dreams as a result of napping which i dont think id trade in.

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Its just annoying when im off and go back to my parents for a week and have nothing to do all night, exept pace up and down or watch shopping channels on tv lol.

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You should start some sort of mad scientist lab in the basement. Hatch all your genius schemes and robotic inventions while everyone is asleep.

Lol i will def take your suggestion into consideration robot, hmm maybe ill make an army of even smaller mini marlies or something.

had a few days with no significant dreams, not enough recall to write up but last night i had a really prominent dream, allbeit kinda weird.

I was with my boyfriend(ex now but we were still together in the dream) at home and we were going through our bills and gettin agitated by how many outgoings/how few incoming we had. I told him that he would need to get a job as i was already working and at university, he seeemed irritated at me telling him this but agreed it was necessary.
It then flippd to the next day where he was at the BBC tv channel broadcasting station having an interview as an assistant. The interviewer offered him the position of "parkinson" ( a popular british host/interviewer) he said that the real parkinson had retired and that they wanted to carry on the show and that they would like to hire him to be the new him.
They offered him 100k a year plus all the other benefits to do this. My bf accepted gratefully and said he would see them monday.

The dream jumps to "monday" and im helping him choose what to wear before he leaves for work, im not sure why but i was upset at his new job, i think i was worried on the affect it would have on our relationship. I helped him choose a purple tie ( purple is my dream colour) and a smart suit, i wished him luck and he left

As we walk outside a limo pulls up and he gets in and it pulls away. When he arrives at the studio hes greeted by photographers and a few other men in suits, they show him into the studio and he freaks out, has a full blown panic attack and the whole set fills with water, everything is submerged and everyones trapped under it, although noone seemed to struggle or even seem concerned that they cudnt breathe.

All of a sudden the grass breaks in the windows and booooshhh the water floods out with a massive crash.

Thats when i woke up.


Parkinson interviewing Peter Kay
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Maybe you were worried the job would make him look like Parkinson. That would be bad for the relationship. Unless you're into the older men.

Wouldn't it be cool if our emotions affected the world around us more? Like if you panic, the room fills with water. If you get angry, the carpet turns into a sea of mice. If you get real excited, your clothes balloon up with helium. The world would be so much more fun.

Lol i agree

I am backkk had a couple weeks off uni so was too busy attending boring family stuff to get online for long. now im back to the slog the dream journal can commence! yayy

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Can't wait for some more fun dreams. That family stuff is boring but necessary.

Yay, I missed pretty girl :) Also your dreams were always interesting cause you're a cute little insomniac :tongue:

Ok sooo... here goes.... have so many dreams i wanted to write about, had wrote most of them down while i was away but only remembered what my scribbles meant for one and its not one of my most exiting :( ..... first of all..... I HATE being off uni and back at my parents on leave, completely sucks because when i cant sleep ( as is so often the case) im stuck watching late night tv with the volume down so low only dogs can hear it, or reading "hello" magazine ( i always forget to take some decent reading material lol) and then during the day when i take my standard catnaps, the only sleep i get, im deemed as antisocial by aunts with manlier facial hair than chuck norris! :roll:

Ok enough of my life story here goes.


I was sat at a railway station on a bench next to the paddington line on a frosty day, I was wearing a pink beret and a long white coat, playing tetris on my phone ( oh so retro) i seemed to have sat there forever, and this scene seemed to last forever too, i remember feeling agitated, i kept looking at the time on my phone but dont actually think i knew who i was waiting for, just sat and sat, after what felt like forever i pulled a book out of my bag and started flicking through it but the pages were blank, i rolled my eyes and shoved it back in, picked up my bag and started walking across the station to the snack bar for water, as i approached i saw a tall man, with a moustache and a top hat, i politely smiled and glanced at him, he looked back at me with a annoyed look on his face, it was only after i passed him that i realised he had a striking familiarity with president lincoln but i couldnt place him, i shrugged it off and went into the bar, after getting my water out the fridge i was walking towards the counter and a old yellow newspaper caught my eye, the headline read "Ghost of lincoln spotted at paddington station" i froze for a second then thought "i bet this is a set up wheres the cameras?" I decided to play it cool and was convinced i was on tv or something, i payed for my water and then walked back out and towards the bench i was on before with a huge grin on my face, I saw the tall man again out of the corner of my eye and decided not to look,to play oblivious, i got to the bench and continued to play tetris, The tall guy walked over towards the bench and sat down next to me, i said "hi" and he said "good evening maam" I refused to be caught out with this prank so tried to act as "normal" as possible.
I looked up and a train was pulling in, i walked over to the front of it to see where it was headed and it said "marlie" ( my real name) so i hopped on it and got comfy in a window seat, i looked out over to the bench and the guy was still there, he tipped his hat at me, waved and then disapeared completely.

The dream shifted to the beach and i dont think i was actually on it, there was hundreds of people sunbathing and the ocean looked kinda purple and not very appealing. There was a racoon dog routing through an upturned trash can outside a cafe and stray cats rubbing themselves against peoples sunloungers.
Thats about when i woke up :(

My best ever lucid dream(even better than my last declared best ever one :) )


Anyone that has ever tried out the chat programme second life will be able to picture this perfectly as my dream was completely based around it, I tried it for about an hour and got bored of it, so i have no idea why i would dream about it... but non the less it was my clearest ever lucid dream.

I was standing on an octagan shaped platform there was 4 paths coming off it, one was a jungle theme, one led to a castle, one to a music stage and one to a multi story carpark, everything around me looked digital, It became totally apparent to me that i was in second life, i was inside the game and completely lucid. I sat on the floor with my legs crossed for a second and reached my hand up to twiddle my hair ( as i do in real life when im thinking) and realised there was non there, i came to the realisation that in the "game" u start with nothing, just as a naked, bald, expressionless body and i said to myself out loud "I know how to play this game this will be awesome"

I walked over to the castle and a huge closet appeared with hundreds of outfits, hairstyles,make up, faces and body shapes, i picked the body most similar to my rl one ( short with ample wobbly bits) then chose some bright pink long curly hair and the face most similar to my own i figured that even though it was a dream the pink hair would suffice for a transformation for me. I then picked a short denim skirt, a pink satin strapless top and some hot pink heels to wear and walked back into the centre of the octagon.

As i looked around everything adjusted into focus piece by piece, i was faster than the world around me, i heard a laugh behind me and turned quickly to see a newcomer.. bald, expressionless... she said hello to me in a morphed voice and i pointed at the closet and told her to have fun, she said thankyou and started heading over but her character crashed and got stuck in wall, i could see her limbs moving but she wasnt going anywhere, i waved my hand over her and she dissapeared, i remember thinking "i aint having someones shit connection ruin my dream"

I suddenly remembered that i could fly here and a rush of exitement washed over me, i levitated up for a few seconds and looked around to get my bearings and then shot off into the air, and flew around for a while, I could see dinasours running underneath me it was very similar to the scene on jurassic park when all them weird skinny ones are stampeding, I then soared over the ocean and could see jetski`s and banana boats, i nearly flew into a kite but saw it just in time. There was people below me and they didnt seem to be able to see me at all, i remember that giving me a deep sense of comfort. I landed on the top of a big glass building to rest, and then realised i wanted to share this with someone, i racked my brains for a while of who to bring, it was almost like i had forgot everyone, i struggled to think of anyone, then it hit me that i could have LITERALLY anyone i wanted and i instantly summoned up my friend sarah ( was murdered in real life in 2006) she appeared infront of me and looked amazing, she had a peaceful purple glow around her and my instant reaction was to hug her, there was some kind of force field though and i couldnt get close enough, she told me that its there to preserve evidence incase they needed any more I started asking her questions about the night she died and she told me that she isnt allowed to talk about it incase she isnt allowed back to heaven after this, i asked her if she could talk about heaven and she told me she was only allowed to talk about me and this dream. I asked her if she could see current life and she said that she has a sense of whats happening but cant actually see it, like shes tuned into everything that goes on somehow, and that she had already said too much and that she has to stop talking about it. I asked her what she wanted to do and she told me that we have to do whatever i want, i insisted she choose and she told me that she can do whatever she wants all the time now and that she was just happy to see me.I forgot about the force field and tried to hug her again, and she seemed to reach for me too but we got nowhere near and both started laughing and joking about our bad memory.

I asked her if she wanted to fly over to our home town so we can see everyone from our schooldays and she could see her family, i asked her if it would be allowed and she said " umm im not sure but fk it its ur dream i cant affect ur free will now can i " she grinned at me with a cheeky look on her face, and i knew right away that she wasnt really sposed to.

I shut my eyes tight and slowly opened them and i was sitting on the pavillion on the beach in our home town, i looked around for sarah and i couldnt see her, i called out her name and she spoke to me but i couldnt see her, i said "sarah why cant i see you whats happening" she replied with " im a spirit ya donut i cant be seen in current life, only in your dreamworld, current life in dreams isnt allowed" I asked her how i would know she was still with me and she promised she would keep talking to me.

I soared over to the street both of us used to live and the whole time i could hear sarah singing a weird song i never heard before. I landed on the roof of my old house which was 8 houses down from her old house and waited for her to catch up with me, the singing had stopped though,i kept calling out for her with no reply. I sat there for what seemed like hours, day turned into night and i shouted out "your not coming are you?" no reply

I decided i was ready to wake up i felt like there was a huge pressure on my chest, like seeing her again was maybe too much for me. I shouted out for her one last time with no reply and slowly woke myself up.

When i woke up i truly belived that i had seen her and spoke to her, and even on realising that it was just a dream i felt a strong sense of peace and calm.

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Originally Posted by marlie

when i take my standard catnaps, the only sleep i get, im deemed as antisocial by aunts with manlier facial hair than chuck norris! :roll:

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Well, maybe if you had a sweet mustache, you would have a sweet social life like your aunts obviously do. With the mustache comes social dominance. Well known fact.

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Originally Posted by marlie

there was hundreds of people sunbathing and the ocean looked kinda purple and not very appealing. There was a racoon dog routing through an upturned trash can outside a cafe and stray cats rubbing themselves against peoples sunloungers.

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Murky water, stray dogs...sounds like Playa Del Coco to me. All you need to add are idiot Ticos driving their trucks directly into the ocean.
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c1...n/839_3990.jpg

That looks exactly like my dream beach robot, get out of my head!!!

I have been considering growing a moustache for a while now maybe nows a good time :p

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Originally Posted by marlie

I have been considering growing a moustache for a while now maybe nows a good time :p

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No, pretty girls aren't supposed to have facial hair. :morecrying: you made me picture it.

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i instantly summoned up my friend sarah ( was murdered in real life in 2006) she

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I was on a big bed, the bed was a george forman health grill , the top bit that folded down was searing hot but the bottom bit was cold and covered in a duvet and fluffy pillows. On that bed with me was my husband and 4 other men ( was not a sexual thing) the other guys were just his friends and we were drinking and joking around etc, 2 of the guys went up to the offlicence to buy some more beers and another went to the bathroom leaving just 3 of us, all of a sudden my husband pins down the remaining guy and strangles him to death and then flattens down the top part ( the hot part) and throws him face down on it. i wasnt even scared in the dream, i just seemed to accept it like it was normal. He left the guy cooking front down for a while and then put his foot on the bodys back to push him harder onto the grill. My husband then went out the room and came back with the friend that had gone to the bathroom, and he was dead too and slung over his shoulder, he threw him onto the grill also and told me "this ones urs dont let him burn turn him over reguarly. I nodded a lil bit creeped out now, but did it, after quite some time i noticed the body start to shake a bit, i told my husband and he said " naa hes dead is just nerves" i moved to the side of him to try and see his face and his eyes were open and in focus so i yanked him off the grill and pointed at him, my husband then straddled him one leg either side and strangled him some more, i turned away for this part and said "tell me when you done" it was so calm and quiet and i wasnt really scared or upset, he signaled that it was finished and as i turned back around the body opened his eyes again , my husband just said "god damn fuck it i`ll leave him he doesnt wanna die" the guy came around properly, sat up and said "i forgive you dont stress it" and i offered him some cream for his burns, he smiled and nodded so i went and got aftersun out of a drawer and he layed back while i put it on him. I asked him if he was gonna call the police and he said " no i wont tell anyone just dont do it again" i remember feeling a strong sense of attraction to him and ended up really flirting with him. The other two guys came back and didnt look phased at all by the cooking body.

I woke up then :( :( i was gutted

Because of my irregular and often shortlived sleep pattern I have always been prone to falling dreams but usually they are completely undetailed and all i can remember is the landing on the ground and jerking awake. The one i had last night was a first for me and i woke up pretty creeped out.

There was a tall podium, was so high that you couldnt even make out people they were just specks on the ground, it was above a big canyon with clear blue sky and idyllic scenery, lush green bushes and trees and the sound of birds was deafening.

On the podium was a tall, slim, animated woman with brown hair tied into a tight bun, dressed in a victorian style dress, she was just stood perfectly still, it was me but looked nothing like me, a big timer came up in the corner counting down from 100, I had no idea what it was for but i couldnt seem to be able to move the scene or myself ( the woman) The timer reached 10 and i felt a strong urge of panic but as it ticked down to zero nothing had happened, all of a sudden a split second after the timer was done a man jumped out of a bush next to the podium and scared the woman, she jumped back and fell off the podium, i could feel the falling and woke up with a huge jolt.

Ok, I didn't want to say anything while it was still fresh in your mind, but that dream about cooking people FREAKS ME OUT! It reminds me of a Tales From the Crypt episode or, even worse, Tales From the Darkside. At least there was nothing about eating the dudes.

Lol yep it didnt seem to creep me out in the dream but when i woke up i felt a bit spooked, was inevitable that I would start dreaming about dead bodies as ive seen 3 this week, didnt realise that i would invent a husband who happens to be a serial killer tho :?

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Originally Posted by marlie

inevitable that I would start dreaming about dead bodies as ive seen 3 this week

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Um... Care to explain?
I hope this is some classroom or laboratory thing.

I spent nearly a whole day in the emergency room with my brother who thought he was Tony Hawkes and ended up shattering his shin bone doing a 360. It was ridiculously crowded and there was no beds left, a motorcycle accident came in and where we sat in the waiting room led onto the Ambulance drop offs, the first body i saw was in a bodybag being wheeled past, the second one was a guy they were wheeling in on a bed, he was in a right state, blood everywhere etc and he went into cardiac arrest in the hallway and because there were no beds, tried to resuciate him there and then and lost the fight. The third one i saw was once my brother was actually being seen to a few hours later and we could hear someone being resucitated in the next cubicle, when we left the curtain was half open, and caught a glimpse ( i didnt want to look but couldnt help myself) and it was a woman with a blanket up to her chin, im pressuming deceased or at the very least in a coma.

Hope this squashes any theory you might have about me being a serial killer or zombie creator R-B lol

Thats terrible. I'm sorry :hug:

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Hope this squashes any theory you might have about me being a serial killer or zombie creator R-B lol

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I was thinking more Med student or Lab technician. My friend used to run the lab at the local junior college. He used to set up all the experiments for the students. When the Anatomy classes had lab, he would have to come in the day before and saw apart dead bodies so everything would be ready. I can't imagine :barf:

What you saw was even more disturbing. Those were...like...real people :shock: I've never been there while someone died. I hope I never have to. Hopefully you have a shrink or someone you can talk to. Don't let that shit sit in your brain and mess you up.

Thanks for the hug, instant affect :)

Yeah creeped me out for a couple of days but im fine, It just felt surreal at the time, never seen dead people before and then suddenly saw 3 in one day, I suprised myself though a little as it didnt haunt me, I remember once watching a tv show which showed real suicides and stuff, on one clip a woman hurled herself off a building and you saw her laying on concrete dead after and that particular shot stayed with me for weeks, when i lay in bed i could see her face. That was when i was a lot younger and before i came to accept life for what it is... not always a safe and pretty place

Icky, that would seriously creep me out. Nice pics, you should adjust the timing, your avy changes so fast I can't see just how pretty you are :)

No more lucid dreams lately? :(

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Originally Posted by ninja9578

Icky, that would seriously creep me out. Nice pics, you should adjust the timing, your avy changes so fast I can't see just how pretty you are :)

No more lucid dreams lately? :(

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Ty :)

My dreams have really messed up this last couple weeks, I had that great lucid with my friend in ( read up in thread) and then since then with the exeption of the other two i posted my dreams have been really cut short, I have the flu so My patterns gone to crap a bit i need to try and get back on track.

Ok, so.. Ive had a lot of good dreams and a lot of lucids lately but for some reason havent felt motivated to record them. I think sometimes its because i get them confused with my real life and i know on occasions have felt like they are too personal to share. They have become such a big part of me that i dont see them as just a dream. The insomnia is as bad as its ever been. Am down to two 30 minute naps a day plus normally at least two failed nap attempts.
I decided to colour code my dreams to get some organisation back into my dream/recording pattern. Will try not to be too garish about it. Purple is my dream colour so ill use that for lucids and blue for "normal" dreams.

My Australian online friend and i lived in the same town in the uk ( was the town i live in now) and we had just met up for a coffee outside this lil cafe, we sat there talking and laughing about our partners sammy and tim etc etc ( convo was full and so realistic ) This kind of cute guy walks past, very tall and chunky, stubble,green eyes. I commented on him and he must of overheard because he smiled and then came over and started chatting to us for a minute, smalltalk really. It became apparent he was drunk. After a few minutes her and i gave each other the "look" and we started tryin to end convo with him, it didnt work though so when he was lookin away i mimed to her to drink up quick She obliged and we stood up to leave and he said " oh ur off? nice to meet u ladies maybe i can meet you both again some time" we looked at each other and then to him and i said " we are both in relationships im afraid,so we wnt give out our numbers but im sure we will see u around,small town and all. he said ok! then walked off, We forgot about him quickly and went into a store, tryed clothes on and stuff, i turned and swore i saw him out the window lookin in just for a split second, then realised i was prob being paranoid. She had an appointment to go to so we said bye outside the store and she walked off through the shopping arcade, i went to the shop next door to the one we were in for a very quick look then came out and could see her looking in a shop window half way thru the arcade, i laughed to myself and carried on about my shopping then looked again and saw that guy stood opposite her, staring at her from behind, watching her every move. he looked scary. i texted her sayin " get to ur appointment now, that guys following u" i saw her turn swiftly and walk very fast through the arcade, i decided to go that way too, to make sure she was ok,i stayed a good distance behind her. just to make sure he wasnt followin, he appeared again behind her out of a shop and looked angry, his pace quickened and i called her telling her to run. She did so and as she disapeared into the distance he stopped followin, he turned and saw me, and realised what i had done, he came over and put his arm around me as i walked, he whispered that he had been following us for months, knew every move we make, where we live, where our kids go to school, who we are living with, what clubs we like. where we eat. i said " yeah right ok" he proceeded to pull a notebook out, it had countless pictures of both of us in, along with our schedules, pics of our kids also, and of sammy and tim.
He had a copy of my marriage license, and of her visa to the uk also in there. I tried to step away from him, he still had his arm snaked over my shoulder. he said " i need to get something from one shop, i will be one minute and then you are coming home with me, dont u dare run or cause a scene, or both you and danielle will be dead. he walked me over to the store ( hardware) and told me to stand still outside, "do not move" he went in the store, and i pulled out my mobile, i realised it was still connected on that call to dani and put it to my ear to see if she was still there and had heard it. she had and i said " dani i have to go if he sees me im fked. DO NOT HANG UP!" i put the phone back in my pocket and ran, as fast as i could up to the taxi rank, i didnt once look back to see if he was following me, i jumped in a cab and went home expecting tim and the kids to be here, they werent though, i ran upstairs and grabbed a suitcase, threw as much as i could into it, as i walked back downstairs i heard an explosion and saw flames flickering down the stairs, i grabbed the house phone and tried to dial 999 but it kept coming up as an automated service, i remembered i had danielle on the mobile and as i put it to my ear i heard her screaming and screaming and screaming. I knew he had got her and i dragged the suitcase to the front door, grabbed my familys passports and got in the car, i went to her house she shared with sammy, smashed the glass in the window, noone was home. I went in, started packing all their stuff. found their passports also. *woke up for a split second and lost a chunk of the dream* next i know we are ALL in keywest fantasy fest, kids included and i woke up :(