the method that i've been using for dream recall is the autosuggestion/dream journal method...i tell myself before i go to bed that i will wake between dreams and i will remember my dreams...it's been working but i've been super groggy in the periods of wakefulness and haven't been using the dream journal...so last night, i added "and i will write them down" at the end of my auto suggestion...
Dream 1:
i woke up this morning with no memory of waking during the night and that made me very sad...when i looked at my dream journal however, it appeared that i had woken up and written a dream down...i have no actual memory of this dream and the words that i managed to get into the dream journal were not really helpful...in fact, only two lines made sense...and it was very apparent that i'd woken up, picked up the pen and written words without actually lifting my head from the pillow...
line 1: hockey plaerr
line 2: hit heal
line 3: friensw
line 4: k s'on
so yeah...having no actual memory of the dream, i couldn't tell you who was at the hockey game or who was playing or who got hit in the head or what they got hit in the head with...or what an f s'on is....even tho i have no idea what went on in that dream, i'm excited that it's progress...at least i woke up and wrote something down...
Dream 2:
i don't know when in my sleep cycle these particular dreams came, but in my memory this one precedes the next and is more vague so i assume it came first...
i was at my grandmother's house and we were picking apricots from the tree in the backyard (my grandmother doesn't have an apricot tree, and she lives roughly 400 miles south of me)...for some reason we were making apricot brandy and i remember looking into the refridgerator and seeing a bottle there...it said "apricot brandy" right on the label and had fruit in it altho the fruit wasn't apricots...i think it may have been pears...at one point my uncle (who lives another 400 miles south of my grandmother) and my grandmother were at the sink stuffing fruit into bottles of alcohol...cut to me standing outside in the carport and seeing a ludicrously huge bee...like the size of my pinky...it had the same basic layout as a smaller bee but it was large enough that i could see the stinger moving around on it's tail end and it didn't have a normal face...it was hovering in front of me about 5 ft. away and hadn't noticed me...when it finally looked in my direction it had this super happy bee face...like Thomas The Tank Engine only bright yellow...it freaked me out more than comforted me...it came towards me and i tried to shoo it away without swatting at it but it wouldn't get the hint...i think it wanted to play...cut to me being inside the house and my uncle telling me that it was just a bee to which i replied "just a bee? how about just a bee the size of my pinky!"...
Dream 3:
aaaaaahhhh...lucidity at last...i've noticed that alot of my dreams involve people who are in places they shouldn't be, so i've started looking for such things as dreamsigns...this one was a gentleman who i fired about a month ago and haven't seen since...in the dream we were travelling together...i don't remember where we were going, but we were flying...initially we rode to the airport together and had some trouble finding a place to park...the parking deck and facade of the airport was the same as Charlotte/Douglas Int'l in Charlotte, NC which i'm very familiar with because my mom worked there for years before moving elsewhere...once we found a place to park, we got a shopping cart (cuz that's what you do at airports right?) and in the shopping cart was a smoke bomb like we used to play with as kids only much bigger...
it was at this point i became lucid because E (the former coworker) decided to throw the smoke bomb in his car...i don't know why...but it was such an absurd thing for him to do and then the absurdity of me travelling with him struck me and i thought, "i'm very obviously dreaming."...while i was having this epiphany, E threw the smoke bomb into the car and i held my nose to avoid the smoke...seeing as how i could still breathe, i figured that was all the RC i needed and then i just went with it...the whole time i was living in lucid land, i was also vaguely aware of my bedroom and my cats...
walking into the airport i noted that the facade had changed and was no longer CLT...it was an airport that i've been to before but i couldn't actually place it and it was suddenly night time even tho moments before it had been bright daylight...we went thru the doors of the airport and as we were checking our bags there was a gentleman complaining to security that his smoke bomb had been stolen and he was angry...he showed them a picture of E's car with smoke pouring out of it and told them that he wanted to know who owned that car because whoever it was had stolen his smoke bomb...i shrugged it off and then the dream cut to actually being on the airplane...it was a puddle jumper or a small jet...it had two seats on either side of the aisles...i was sitting on the right side in the aisle seat and don't know the girl who was sitting next to me...E was sitting behind me at the beginning and at some point moved to the aisle seat across from me...the flight attendant gave us a choice of what we wanted to watch...one of the choices was Shrek The 3rd...the other was some police drama-type television show but it was from the 80s and i don't remember the name of it...Shrek won because of a young child in the back...
the lights in the cabin dimmed and the movie started...i don't remember much of shrek, just seeing the Shrek character on the screen in sort of a holding pattern...apparently the kid fell asleep and E decided he wanted to watch the police drama...i leaned my seat back and instead of moving 5 inches like the normally do, my seat and the seat next to me laid back into a completely flat futon type waterbed...i snuggled up and the television show came on...it was very obviously filmed in the 80s...it had that quality to the picture where it's kind of washed out...like the colors arean't very vivid...the only image that i remember seeing on the screen is an office with a man sitting behind a desk and an older woman standing off to the left arguing with another man who's standing in front of the desk...instinctively i know that it's a police drama and i think "oooh, i like this show..." and then "oh! i should play attention, this is a lucid task!" at which point i get completely distracted by the fact that i'm laying on a waterbed futon thing with a woman that i don't know...so i started bouncing on the waterbed and seeing if i can pop her off the other side...she's either a super heavy sleeper or she's dead because she's not waking up...
and then i woke up...and started giggling about the fact that i was trying to pop some random woman off the waterbed....it struck me funny...
so yeah...3 dreams in one night, one with lucidity...w00t!
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