Meezy's Incredible Mind Adventures

[Meezy]

While I've had many lucid dreams in the past. I have just recently decided to keep a journal & try to perfect the skill of lucid dreaming. Until recently I have never actually laid down to sleep with the intentions of having a LD. Any LDs I've had in the past was completely accidental. What I mean is I've had dreams where I suddenly realized I was dreaming & proceeded to exercise my newfound "dream freedom" but the lucidity often only lasted a few seconds & I was pulled back into the random, uncontrolled environment once again. Actually, I lied. I did purposely achieve lucidity once, at least 15 years ago, I read part of a book that suggested (in order to achieve a lucid state) that once you think you might be dreaming, you should try to read text somewhere or try to look at your hands. Well, I tried to look at a building with words on it & the words were jumbled random letters. I then thought "ok time to look at my hands". When i looked down at my hands I got so excited that I woke myself up. Man! was i sad & disapointed by this. Anyway, I've decided to share my dream adventures with you all. Please feel free to comment or tell me your own interpretations.

[Meezy]

7/13/08 12:30am-5:30am (aproximately) This is my first attempt at keeping a Dream Journal & my dream recall is still kinda weak right now, so I only remember a few details of this dream, but I will try to explain what little I remeber. I have dreams similar to this dream all the time. I dreamt that i was wandering around a huge city. In my mind i believe that I have some kind of destination, but I don't know where. In my mind I am confident that I know where I am going though. There are lots of people walkin around, traffic & everything you would normally see in a busy city around what seemed like midday & it seems it has just finished raining. It's a bit dark & gloomy out & the ground is wet. Amongst the traffic, one particular vehicle stands out the most & that is the city bus, but I'm not riding it, nor do I plan too. I'm only observing. Anyways, as I am wandering, I find myself in a huge mall & I am wandering through (what seemed like) the foodcourt area. My memory of this dream is very hazy, but I remember ending up inside a clothing store. It was a fairly large store with many many racks of t-shirts & bulky winter jackets. I did not touch or look at any of the clothes. I remember thinking to myself how cool some of the t-shirts were & contemplated taking some (In my dreams, whenever I am "shopping" I never have to pay for anything. It's like everything is free for me to take as I please). I didn't spend anymore than 10 seconds in the clothing store & the next thing I knew I was in a grocery store. I had the distinct feeling that someone was with me, but I did not see them. I was looking at products on the shelf & I remember having a craving for a chocolate candy bar. I thought about finding one & taking it, but just that quick, I now found myself standing back out on the street in front of a huge warehouse type building. In my mind, this was a practice space for bands. Even though I was only standing outside looking at the front of the building, I could hear a band inside. They we're in between songs & were just talking to each other. I really couldn't make out any of the conversation. I just knew they were talking. That's pretty much all I can remember for that dream. Additional Comments: This particular type of a dream, I seem to have very often. Most of the time, I am usually trying to find my way home or I am late for work. Sometimes (like this dream) I have some type of unkown destination. I have no clue where I am going, but in my mind I am completely confident that I have a set destination. Many times (when I have this particular type of dream) I am stressed because I can't seem to reach my destination, but in this dream I was very relaxed & seemed to just be taking a tour (so to speak) & observing the sights.

[Meezy]

7/13/08 5:35am-8:30am (aproximately) Ok... this dream occured the same morning as the "Wandering the City" dream. After having that dream I woke up & jotted down a few notes to help jog my memory & got up to use the restroom. When I laid back down, I tried to induce a lucid dream by repeating to myself "I will have a lucid dream & i will remember every detail when I wake up" to myself as I fell back to sleep. Ok... similar setting as "Wandering the City". It has just finished raining, the ground is wet & it's dreary & gloomy out. For some weird reason a certain song is playing in the background, in my head, throughout this dream. I don't know the artist or the name of the song. I don't actually even know the lyrics very well, but it's that R&B song that goes something like "I need you boo... hearts all over the world tonight... hearts all over the world tonight... with you, with you, with you, with yoooooouuuu"(please forgive me If I got the lyrics wrong). This time I am not in the "downtown" area of the city. I am more on the outskirts of the city. Not very many buildings around. It seemed like I was in a industrial type area. I was standing in the middle of the road with a few other people. We were having conversation. I don't know who the people were or what they look like. I just knew they were my friends. It's weird because physicly they were not present. I just felt them there. I could not see or hear them, yet I was carrying on a conversation with them. I don't remember any of the conversation, to be honest we wasn't even physicly talkin to each other, I just had the feeling like we were. Anyway, meanwhile I had 3 distinct visions that apeared randomly while I was talkin with my dream friends. I will explain each one in the order that they happened. I did not teleport to these destinations. They was just random visions that apeared to me & after each one I found I was still standing in the road with my group of imaginary friends. Vision #1) THE SPEEDING FLATBED TRUCK #1: I envisioned a flatbed truck with a house on the back, speeding down the road. I was not in the truck. It's as if I was a camera & i was mounted on another car following the truck at the same exact speed. I was looking at it from the left rear side. I remember lookin specificly at the left rear tail light & the tires as they sprayed rain water up behind them as it sped down the road. Vision #2) PLAYING ROCK BAND: This vision was fairly short & involved me sitting down playing the drums for a videogame called Rock Band (unless you been living under a rock u should know about this game. If not, it's a video game that simulates playing in a rock band. It has controllers that represent different instruments etc.) Nothing particularly odd about this vision (Rock Band is one of my favorite videogames & I play it quite frequently) except the fact that I had a kind of "out of body" experience with this one. I didn't see myself as if I was sitting down in front of the drum pads. I saw myself from the left side as If I was another person watching me play. For some reason the drum pads looked really odd. It was like a flat, rectangular, wooden box with all kinds of tangled wires inside of it. This vision only lasted a few seconds. vision #3)RETURN OF THE SPEEDING FLATBED TRUCK: I envisioned that same faltbed truck again, but this time it had a huge wall lying on the back of it (not a house, just the wall)& was continued to speed down the road. Shortly after this, I awoke. Additional Comments: This dream seemed more lucid than the "Wandering the City" dream. I recall feeling lucid, but I didn't do any reality checks or try to do anything on my own. It just felt more vivid & I felt a lot more concious than the previous dream. In both these dreams I was definitely aware that I was dreaming, but I didn't do anything on my own (I thought about doing things a couple times, but did not act on it). I sort of just observed. Did I achieve lucidity? I'm not 100% sure.

[Meezy]

I know it's been a long time since my last dream journal entry, but I am a World of Warcraft addict. This game tends to dominate my life at times, so my interest in keeping a dream journal & attempting to have lucid dreams (unfortunately) took an extremel back seat. Anyway... lately I had a very vivid dream that got me thinking about them again. Actually the dream as a whole was not very vivid. Only the last 10 seconds or so stand out in my mind... At the end of my dream (right before I woke up), I dreamt that I was in some kind of medium sized basement. It was dark, damp & gloomy. The lighting was kind of dim, seemingly from a very low wattage light bulb. you know, like the kind that hang from the ceiling, with no lamp shade. I didn't see this light bulb. My mind just kind of assumed that's what was creating the light in this room. The floor was covered in dust & cobwebs. The walls we're made of stone & we're also covered with massive amounts of dust & cobwebs. There we're wooden beams supporting the ceiling & frame of the room. You know, your typical old ass , unfinished basement. The room was jam packed with african american people. Half of them were wearing blue church robes with gold satin scarfs draped over their shoulders. The noise from the crowd was very loud as they were all talking (loudly) at the same time. It was kinda like one of those stock market gatherings. A lot of comotion & confusion. One of the men (wearing a church robe) was delivering a sermon. I focused in on what he was saying & he was preaching about money & how we all need to have it. He had his hands on another man's shoulders. This man looked a lot like a friend & former co-worker of mine named Mike. Tall, slim with shoulder length skinny dreadlocks. I did not percieve this man as being my friend Mike though. Everyone in the room we're strangers. It was as if the man was being saved & for some reason I felt like the savior was not Jesus but money. The preacher was praying & offering this man's soul to be saved by MONEY. .... & then I woke up. Wow that was weird!