Ok, I've only been here at DV for a few days but I've read through a lot of the material and have started working on trying to reach a couple goals. As of now, this area will serve as an alternate dream journal so I can hopefully improve on my recall. I say alternate because I also have an actual journal that I keep by my bed, but since I take it to college with me to fill in the details later, one can never be too careful. Comments/interpretations are welcome and hopefully will cause improvement on my part.
Since I can't actual become lucid yet, I'm going to write down every dream that I can possibly remember, unless I get to the point of three or more per night.
Color code:
-Black - Me speaking normally
-Blue - Common dream
-Green - Lucid dream (one can hope )
10/31/08: I remember two distinct occurrences, but they took place in the exact same room; the upstairs game room of my house.
1. I don't remember much other than the fact that I was naked and searching for a pair of finger nail clippers. I was walking crouched down, embarrassed that I was naked and hoped no one would see me. Well there happened to be an ironing board leaning up against the banister and lo and behold there were two finger nail clippers on the ironing board (along with some other paraphernalia that I don't remember but assumed to be the ironing essentials like starch.) I picked them both up and examined them. One didn't properly "close" all the way and would make the act of actually "clipping" something rather hard so I put it back down on the ironing board. The other one worked fine though and I turned away. After this I don't recall anything up until another peculiar event happened.
2. I was painting the upstairs game room pink for some reason. My mother was there as well and we were doing good time and would probably be finished in an hour or so. Suddenly I realized that we were painting around the furniture. This seemed odd to me so I asked why we hadn't moved the furniture out of the room before we started, because now there were going to be giant white spots on the walls if we ever moved the furniture. My mother responded that Dewey (a friend of the family) was going to be moving in with us and that he would have the game room as his room, and therefore it didn't matter if we did a good job painting it. (poor Dewey.) For some reason I accepted this now apparently lame answer and started sloppily glopping paint on the walls just to get done faster. My mother got annoyed with me and asked why I was doing that. She scolded me saying I should still do a good job. I woke up right after this to my alarm going off.
This happened after only two days of starting to look through lucid dream material, and I got excited thinking that I was making great progress to alredy remember a dream so soon after starting since my dream recall was terrible beforehand. Makes me sad that I missed an opportunity to become lucid though.
11/6/08: Alas, I was not to have another dream for close to a week. To top it off, I only remembered small details but a dream remembered is a dream remembered so I'll take what I can get. Again the setting was the upstairs game room of my house. (Recurring theme here possibly?)
- My dad was sitting on the couch watching TV as I came out of my room. (This should have been a huge hint as my dad does not live with us anymore.) I started asking him questions about how to properly trade Pokemon via internet connections. I was worried that someone would cheat and send me the wrong thing. I pulled out a guide that showed which Pokemon could be traded. He started explaining about how I had nothing to worry about, but I woke up at that point.
Pokemon? Seriously? Let the bashing of my nerdiness commence . Anyway, again I missed an opportunity to become lucid. Hopefully, such easy opportunities occur frequently though .
11/7/08: Last night was very productive as far as remembering my dreams go. I remember four distinct dreams. None of which where I became lucid though.
1. I was at one of those dine in movie theaters. I can't remember what the movie was, but it must've been fairly long because there was an intermission. As the intermission message scrolled across the screen, people stood up and began filing out of the theater, I presumed they were going to the restroom because why would you leave in the middle of the movie? Anyway, a waitress comes up to me and asks if I would like the meal now. I said no thank you, and thought to myself "It would probably be very expensive and I can't afford that." She looked kind of annoyed at my answer and asked "Are you sure?" I declined yet again and hoped she wouldn't become angry. She said something along the lines of "Fine then sir, your complimentary red wine will be out in a minute" and walked off. This surprised me and I wanted to call her back and say I didn't want the red wine (I personally find it to taste quite awful) but I thought since it was free, why not just take it? I don't remember anymore after that, but my alarm woke me up around 3:50 AM (I did do a RC this time) so I could try the FILD technique. Sadly I drifted back off to sleep without success and entered another dream shortly thereafter.
2. I was upstairs somewhere in my friend Rob's room. (Another missed opportunity to become lucid as this room looked nothing like Rob's and his isn't even "upstairs.") He was playing some game on his TV but I didn't focus on that. Instead I started asking him questions about the forum that he is part of. I was curious as to what kind of forum it was and how I could be a part of it. He responded with something, but I couldn't understand him clearly. At that point someone called for me from downstairs so I headed for the staircase. As I was about to go down I stopped and looked back and asked him if I had the name of the site correct. He laughed and said "You fail at the internet! It's not ~.com, it's ~.blacknight!" (~ means insert anything because I can't remember the actual name of the site we were discussing.) I can't recall anything after this until my alarm once again woke me up around 6:00 AM (another RC proved I was awake) so I could try a WBTB method. I got up went to the restroom and wrote down what I remembered thus far. About 13 had passed so I laid back down. (I only waited 13 minutes because the last time I tried the WBTB method I stayed up for an hour and couldn't get back to sleep, so now I'm trying at different intervals.)
3. For the life of me, I cannot remember for certain who I was with, but I'm sure it was my old friend Megan. (Haven't seen nor talked to her in about a year.) Anyway, we were apparently doing some experiment for our class (huge indicator or a dream once again slipping through my fingers) and we needed a truck. So we were walking through some parking lot when we found this Mexican lady. After talking for awhile she was nice enough to loan us her truck. She even signed a piece of paper saying that we had full ownership for the day and yet she was responsible for all damages done. My first reaction was "Sweet, let's ramp it somewhere!" But I calmed down and I got into the passenger seat while Megan got into the driver seat. As we started up the engine I could see the lady and her two children walk away. At this point I remembered that we needed something from my car for the experiment so I point in the direction of my car and say go that way to my car. Instead of doing what a normal person would, Megan starts plowing through the parked cars. At this point I'm holding onto the door handle and the side of my seat for dear life while screaming "What are you doing?!" She doesn't deign to respond and just keeps picking up speed and keeps ramming into other parked vehicles. Eventually we fly past my car and she doesn't even glance to the side. After a few minutes of us still careening out of control down the parking lot we reach the street and we start driving down it. After a few more minutes she asks, "Why aren't we to your car yet?" I tell her that we passed it awhile ago and I was just too frightened of crashing into something more damaging to say anything. At this, she whips the truck into a U-turn but loses control and we end up slamming sideways into a tree in a field near the road. The airbags deploy, but surprisingly neither of us was hurt. The bed of the truck absorbed most of the impact so we climbed out unscathed. Almost immediately policemen started arriving on the scene. I remember thinking "That was fast." Instead of arresting us like I thought they would, they walked up to us and said "Don't worry, we've got the paper that the lady signed. We have her in custody in that gas station across the street." Both officers then went to examine the damage to the truck and Megan started walking towards the gas station. I start to follow her, but wake up in bed. I don't know whether this was a FA or I actually woke up. Either way I forgot to do a RC and just laid back down to sleep some more.
4. This one I don't remember a whole bunch about, but it started in the very same gas station I was walking towards at the end of the last dream.I walked inside and noticed stairs leading up to a second level. (2 stories in a gas station? ) Anyway, I walked into a very neat room. After waking, the lay out of the room reminded me like something out of those mafia movies, but that didn't occur to me at the time. There were five people in suits gathered around the table in the middle of the room, whispering furiously to each other. On the table were huge oval shaped spheres. Upon closer examination I realized they were some kind of egg. At this point the people notice me and wave me over to participate in the conversation. Apparently the eggs were some kind of alien species and the people were talking about how to destroy them before they hatched so the human race would be safe from harm. They mentioned something about a church and that it was the only place where the eggs could be destroyed. The next thing I remember is that it's sometime during the night and I'm in a van with two of the guys from the room. A few of the eggs are rolling around in the back of the van. I look out the window and notice that we are tailing the another van that must have the other three guys and the rest of the eggs. At some point along the road, our van got separated from the other at a red light while the other van went through before it changed. At this point, the driver gets nervous at being separated and I realize that the guy not driving seems very suspicious. He keeps glancing at his partner and then back at the eggs. After a few minutes we reach the church. I get out of our van and notice the van is empty next to ours. The church completely quiet and everything is still dark. Even the moon doesn't provide enough light to really see by. The guy that was driving grabs up the eggs and slowly pushes his way through the front door of the church. The suspicious guy glances at the doors, then calmly leans against the back of the van, like he has no intention of going through the doors. Suddenly, I had an epiphany. This guy was actually in league with these "aliens" inside the eggs! As soon as I realize this, I hear a scream from inside the church and I whip my head around to stare at the doors. The dream fades then while the scream permeates the night. I wake up to the sound of my alarm clock going off. I think that my brain interpreted the alarm clock as the guy screaming in the church, but what do I know?
Anyway, I've caught up on the dreams I've had thus far since starting to keep a journal so entries from now on won't be quite as long winded. I do have a question though for anyone who actually reads this. Is it natural to go from not really being able to remember dreams all that well, to remembering four dreams in a single night like last night? Thanks in advance to anyone to looks through the jumble of my mind.
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