Thread: Valwen's Dream Journal

9/23/08 12:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. 9 ½ hours

Didn’t Get Much Done

5. I am in my dorm room with Dave (not my rl roommate) packing everything up to come home because it’s the end of the semester. I think for a second, and realize that the semester just started, and I realize that I’m dreaming. I can hardly believe I’m dreaming at first, but I think about things, and realize it must be the case. I walk up to Dave and say, “Can you listen to what I’m about to tell you?” He says yes. “Wouldn’t it be cool if this were a dream? It is!” He doesn’t argue at all, he just says that’s pretty cool and seems to not really understand. I leave and start walking down the hallway. I wonder why I would walk since I can just fly. I lean forward as I walk to gently glide over the floor. It doesn’t work. I try jumping forward a few times and just fall on my hands and knees. I start to think about how well I can feel the wind against my face and my pants against my legs when the dream goes black. To retrieve it, I start running and trying to focus on what’s around me. Another dream starts, and for the remainder of my lucidity I just follow along, at some point being proud that I’ve stayed lucid for so long. Next time I’m going to practice diving.

9/24/08 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Nap

Dream University

4. I am at Princeton, which mysteriously consists of buildings and bridges made of twigs and a central moat. I’m currently on my way to my dorm, wearing my Mathey rain jacket because it’s raining really hard. I decide for some reason that I want to feel the rain on my head so I take my hood off. I’m not getting wet at all, so I take off my sleeves too. The rain isn’t touching me at all, which I find a little weird. I climb up the rocks to my dorm and jump over the large puddles/streams. From here, I need to follow some bridges to my room, but they’re congested with tons of people. I take one and take the stairs up to the next level, following the bridge back to end up above where I just was. I stop off at my room and come back out.

At the end of one of the bridges, a bunch of kids are having a water fight; it has long since stopped raining. I take off my outer clothes to reveal that I’m wearing a swimsuit. One of them tries to spray me with his super-soaker. I hide behind a cloth but he still gets me a little (I can actually feel this water). I see Cason and Preston Hewgly at the water fight, assuming Preston is there taking a few days off from high school to visit his brother (who is actually in high school too).

I can’t remember what tipped me off or when I noticed, but shortly after this I realize I’m dreaming. I’m already sitting down, so I fold my legs and get ready to start meditating. I decide I want to sit on the grass, so I scoot myself back and take off my shorts. The grass feels just like in real life, but I see a short fat girl running down the path in my direction, a ways away. I decide to put my boxers back on so no one will be embarrassed to see me (I personally wouldn’t care) and hastily throw them on inside out. Somewhere around here I lose lucidity.

I later run into some kind of person-train which tries to knock me down. I try to jump on back for a free ride, and it starts to fall over. I feel like getting it back, so I take it down. It turns out to be one guy with three people on his back, and one of the girls starts pleading for her life. I say I was just kidding, get up, and wake up.

9/28/08 12:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. 10 hours

The Low-G Arena

7. I am running around the walls of a large square area. I’m about 40 feet off the ground, and I almost don’t fall at all. I am trying to catch something in the center of the room, but I have trouble getting off the walls. I start trying to turn and angle myself to go more towards the center when I end up almost hitting a flat wall. I end up on the ground somehow. I notice that the gravity down here is much more existent but still much less than usual. I jump onto a building, using it as a boost to jump even higher from. While in the air, I do about 4 back flips and a couple twists. I see someone watching me in the middle of it, and ever wanting to impress, I decide to throw in one more back pike. I don’t really make it the whole way around before I have to put my hands on the building to stop myself though. After I get down, I show some more moves, doing a couple planches and other stuff.

Wilderness Trip

4. I’m on a trip in the wild, once again, and beginning to head up a bare mountain. I’m going up it with a girl on my trip, but I take one path and she takes another. I notice that the path I am on is rocky and requires lots of climbing and careful steps, while her path is just a footpath. I’m about to turn back and go on the other path when I realize that my path is shorter and probably more fun. As I continue, two boys from the trip join me. We get to a tricky part: there is a gap and cliff that you have to cross by climbing some fallen trees. I remember doing this before, so I know exactly what to do (I absolutely hate how I “remember” stuff that never happened in dreams. It makes me wonder whether I “remember” stuff that didn’t happen in real life). I climb across the branch using only my arms, but at the other side I stop on a log below the path so that I can help the others. From here the dream involves porcupines and pooping, and I don’t really want to bother anyone with that.

9/29/08 1:30 a.m. – 6:00 a.m. – 7:30 a.m. 6 hours

Another Jasmine

4. I am at Jasmine’s house, in her bedroom (which is very reminiscent of my parents’ bathroom). She has broken up with Adam Bates and now she wants me. We almost make out but I think it would be a bad idea because we shouldn’t get involved again so I pull away. We put on our clothes and get ready to leave. Outside her room, it’s very cold. I wonder why it’s so cold and notice that it’s snowing. In fact, there are cracks in the boards of her house and snow is falling down in between them onto my feet. I’m a little bit surprised but don’t worry about it. I remember seeing her dad later on, but that’s about it.

*poke* You haven't posted in a while.

I know. I've been very lazy at college so far and it really disturbs me. I'm going to try to post later today, because I have a pretty well recalled dream from last night.

11/11/08 ??

Medley

6. Explicit material deleted—My girlfriend and I in a booth at a restaurant, and she’s about to go down on me from under the table. The waitress notices and starts to call the police. I say that’s not necessary, we’ll leave now. She says we have to call our parents. Tara calls her dad. I avoid it by calling my sister and pretending that it’s my mom’s voicemail.

We leave immediately afterward and in the lobby I see my parents. They clearly do not know and talk to us for a bit. I go out into the parking lot and now I’m with my friends form back home. We’re flying around an unmanned airplane, about 3 feet in every dimension. It makes a loop very close to the ground and Chris Wright and me, and Chris runs out of the way. I say there’s no danger, just before it makes another loop and then runs into me. The propeller cuts my legs pretty badly, and scratches up my arms too. I catch the plane by the propeller blades with my hands, holding it until it stops spinning. I get up and take a look at myself, and I have some pretty deep cuts. I’m afraid I’ll have to go to the hospital. I go back inside to tell my parents, but when I look back down my cuts are no longer bleeding and I assume I’ll be fine.


11/12/08 3:00 – 5:30 p.m. Nap

Hotel Room

6. I’m back home, hanging out with a few friends. At some point some girl mentions how tall I am now (not really any taller than before). I’m going to be staying in a hotel room with my friends, of which I remember Kyle and Mungan. I know a lot about the hotel, as it belongs to Jasmine’s parents. Every floor has only about 3 rooms and large stores/restaurant areas. There is an elevator in the center of the building, and the lobby has a large open space to the top of the building adjacent to the elevator, so you can see all over the hotel from inside.

We look for our room on the second floor, as we’ll be staying in the room right next to my parents. We enter a door and find employees working on something. They ask us to leave the room so we get out. We go up the elevator to the twelfth floor (top) and look over the rest of the hotel. For some reason we decide to leave and take the elevator down. I remember our stuff is on the second floor and hit the button quickly so we won’t have to go back up. There’s practically no one in the entire hotel besides us, and almost all the rooms are vacant.

We leave and go to a restaurant somewhere. I overhear someone from school saying how bad the hotel is and that it hurts people in some way. I argue with him for a second and realize it’s pointless. We sit down by Christina Zhong and some other girl and talk for a second, and then Christina mentions how tall I am now.

I also remember having a lucid dream a while ago:
10/25/08

Lucid

4. I am driving to my house up the street in my neighborhood, and I put the car in neutral to see if I can coast up the rest of the hill and onto my street. I’m afraid that I won’t make it, but I do, and I’m still going really fast. I keep going up the hill, and onto parts of the street that don’t exist. I realize I’m dreaming. The car begins going down a hill on the other side, and the dream starts to fade. I start jogging to keep it alive, and everything turns black. I keep trying, and after a second I’m in a room. There are people my age there. I try to fly, succeeding in hovering over the ground, but the other people are just floating in the room and it’s pissing me off. They make fun of me, and I start to fly off the ground, just before I wake up.

11/19/08 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Nap

The Dorm Room

4. I am with my friends from back home (I have no idea why my friends from home keep appearing in my dreams. I suspect today it was probably because I talked with two of them on skype for about an hour last night, but for the past few weeks they’ve been showing up for no apparent reason.) Chris and I talk about some mixed drink that I made for him a while ago, and I look around my room and see huge spaces that I could be taking better advantage of. From my bed, I can access a hallway that opens on the other side of my room, on a second floor. The door is currently blocked with stuff, and I decide I want to organize my room by storing things in the open space on that floor. I also notice that the light is on, so it’ll be difficult to sleep tonight unless I get the stuff out of the way and turn the light off. Throughout the rest of the dream, I just talk to people, the whole time wanting to get that mess in order.

?? Nighttime Sleep

Coolest Fair Ever

3. I am going to the fair, perhaps with my mom, or maybe she just happens to be there. At the first gate she simply passes the man and presents a stamp to the man at the next gate, who lets her in. I try to do the same, but I mess up whatever we’re supposed to do, and end up going back and forth a few times before I can be let in. It’s been outside and sunny so far, but I enter a building. It feels like some kind of preliminary screening for the attraction, which will be open to the public later. I go through the first room and down the hallway to the next. It becomes night and dark inside. In the next room is a climbing wall. I begin up it and make it to a plateau. All of my friends from climbing are now surrounding me on all sides, and we’re all crammed against each other. I try to climb higher but there’s just no room, and the holds feel like they’re made of soft rubber. I almost fall backwards back to the ground, but I stay on because I’m not sure whether there are pads down there. I end up falling forward anyways, into a pool, and I’m quite upset that I got my clothes wet so early.

11/27/08 1:00 – 11:30 a.m. 10 ½ hours

Climbing Trip

6. I am on a trip to some place in the wilderness with a man and his son, about ten years old. We’re in a hotel on the top floor, and we’re about to leave. We get in the elevator, which consists of a carriage with transparent walls hooked up to a crane. There are no walls around the carriage, and a fairly old woman is operating the crane. She wants to give us some fun, so she drops us. The elevator has a built-in saving device, which slows us down before we hit the ground. Once at the ground, we are pulled back up to the top and the dropping is repeated. We get out and lay on the ground underneath the elevator. It is pulled up and dropped one more time, but I don’t really want to take any chances, so I roll out of the way before it hits the ground. We go inside and check out or something.

This whole time I’ve had a big pillow, one of those ones you sit up against with the arm rests, stuffed in my shirt, and I look ridiculous. As I’m about to walk out, someone from another rooms calls me over. It’s James, my old manager from Ruby Tuesday and the job I hated more than just about anything. He asks me what the pillow is all about, and I remove it from my shirt. For some reason I feel like I’ve travelled with my pillow in my shirt like this often. He says, abruptly, “Maryville could use you. I could use you.” I know he’s asking me to work again. “You could be a bartender.” I really don’t want to work at Ruby Tuesday at all, but James is a nice guy. I consider just frankly saying “No” to see what kind of offer he would give me, but instead I say, “Maybe in the summer. I really don’t think I should leave college just to work there.” He understands, and the man and son from before come and we leave together.

Lucid Battle

7. This may be a continuation of the previous dream. I am now in an open yard surrounded by buildings, with a few sidewalks going through it. It’s situated on a hill. Someone is telling me to attack this girl next to me on a bike, and she rides away. I get on my bike, which is now 64 speed, and chase after her. I decide I’ll steer my bike toward her and jump off at the last second so she’ll be knocked down, and then I can attack her properly. I look back at my gears to change, and now I notice that there are only 6 gears where there used to be 8. I realize I’m dreaming. Instead of jumping off my bike, I simply ram into her and knock her down. I get off my bike, and the scenery shifts to a grocery store. I want to cause the most damage possible because I know she’s lucid too, so I take my bike by the handle bars and swing the back tire at her, hitting her in the face. I do this repeatedly. She reciprocates, hitting me in the head with the bike. It doesn’t hurt very much, but I realize that it must not be doing much to her either, so I decide to find a better course of action. I draw her into a corner, and then make her stop, completely frozen. I walk up to her, fold my hands, and say a spell to make her disappear for good. I am successful, and she never reappears. I go and sit by a girl who is my friend in the dream but I do not recognize.

We talk about the battle, and then get up. She wants to buy something but she doesn’t have enough money. I decide to try to pay with blank paper, so I pull out my wallet, but I only have bills in there. I pay with a $1 bill, which the kid at the cashier grabs and pulls down hard. My arm follows, and my face is pulled down into something, hard. I’m pissed so I pull my head back up and kick the cashier thing from under the table, but it doesn’t really do anything. I see someone talking the man next to the cashier, and can tell he is not a normal DC either. I can tell this when I ask him a question and he doesn’t give me an archaic answer. He points to a bag next to him. I pull out a $58 bill, obviously counterfeited. I pull out a $28 bill, the same. He says there’s something else in there, and I pull out 4 graduation caps, about half the size they’re supposed to be. One of them is a love note, written to Phil Ripp or something like that. I kind of laugh and toss it away. At some point in the dream, I can’t remember when, I was talking to Tara, lucid, who was working on homework, telling her it doesn’t matter because this is a dream ad we should go do something fun. She doesn’t really understand though.

12/16/08 3:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. 9 hours

A Lucid

4. I am in a house at a party of sorts. People are meditating in the basement. On the ground floor I am with two people throwing away their food. We’re talking about techniques to realize that we’re lucid dreaming. We propose that if the macaroni and cheese sticks to the wall then it must be a dream and if it doesn’t then it must be real life. At some point around here I realize I'm dreaming, but not because of macaroni.

I cannot see right, as though I do not have my contacts in. I walk down the stairs to the basement in a funny way, kicking my legs out and up before each step down. I arrive in the basement and decide to put some contacts in because it’s really annoying not being able to see. I get my contacts case and solution from a piece of furniture. I decide I want to test my hand at some dream control so I put it through the clear eyes cleaning stuff, which takes 6 hours to clean it or else it will hurt like hell, and make it get completely clean in about 3 seconds. I put the contacts in my eyes, but it all feels kind of fake, and after they’re in I still can’t see. I go back upstairs.

There’s a tv on in the room next to me, and I decide to try some control again. I decide to change the scenery of the room with no real goal in mind. Nothing happens. I then try to make the tv disappear by turning my back and expecting it to be gone. This doesn’t work either. I then try to make it disappear by believing a hole will appear beneath it. This fails too, and I just give up, going outside. I’m on my street, and see a bunch of kids running to Kyle’s house, and decide to check it out. I start running over, but decide to fly. About half a second later I wake up.

12/17/08 2:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. 10 ½ hours

Armageddon

3. I am in my dorm room, which is halfway underground. A large orange sphere phases through my roof and through my backpack. I think it has gone through my math book and I’m a little bit upset. Another one phases through the roof, and I get scared that one may hit me. I jump out of my window and head to the other side of the quad. I go inside another door, and then turn around to come back to my dorm room. I almost run into a glass pane that has dropped as an emergency measure. I go around it and then run through the gym area of the building and almost smack right into another one. The guy at the desk sees me, and I continue on.

Dance at the University

4. The dance will be later tonight and I am getting ready. I’ve dressed up in a suit, and Michael, Kyle, Mungan, and Chris are coming by to meet up before it. Kyle, Chris, and Mungan are excited about what they’ve dressed up in, and I’m interested to see what they’ve come up with. They arrive in a van and the four get out. I now see Mungan, Kyle, and Chris’ outfits—they aren’t wearing shirts. Michael has a full suit on. I think the shirtless thing is tasteless so I emphasize how classy Michael’s outfit is.