Thread: Hidden's Dream Journal

17.03.2010

Wasp (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was camping out on a street, where I slept on cables/poles on the sidewalk. A narrator talked about how I'd studied a lot of math. Then my friend's parents picked me up in a car that was open to the air. I rode on top of the back trunk. A wasp started buzzing around us curiously. My friend's mom ignored it and it moved on to me. I was worried that it would land on me and sting me. It landed on my head, and as I was cringing and waiting to be stung I woke up. It took me a little while to realize that I didn't have to be scared about being stung anymore.

17.03.2010

The Show (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was warming up for an ice skating performance, and so far I was failing. A group of people was performing on a stage, so my little brother and I decided to sneak backstage. I told him to be quiet, but he practically stomped across the stage, which made everyone stare at us. I made it to the other side and hid behind the curtain, feeling very embarrassed.

17.03.2010

Water Bending (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was doing a group project for school that involved using water bending to move various objects from different distances. We were in the process of finding a wading pool that would be as long as my street when we heard that there had been an accident between a car and a train, and now the train was sliding down the street (which was flat, by the way) and we had to move. I was in a car then, and there was a long line of cars behind me. We all had to back up, and I was worried that we wouldn't go back far enough.

Then I was on foot again, and I ran to my house. I asked my mom if we should go farther down the street, to be safe. She said that I could go if I wanted to. I considered taking my bike, but I didn't want to be the only family member to survive. At the same time, though, being smashed by a train sounded a tad painful.

17.03.2010

Travelling Through the Wild West (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

We were in an old western town, on our way back from somewhere. The leader of the big group of people I was travelling with asked me how much farther we had. I told her that when we got to the river, then we would almost be there. "But there is no river," she said, and I realized that the river was close to our original destination (the one that we were returning from), so we had already passed it a long time ago.

I thought, Wouldn't it be handy if I could just fly up and see how much farther it is? It actually felt as though I could have lifted off, if I'd wanted to. Just then my friend asked, "Who don't we just fly?" and I wished that it was a dream so I could. I decided to reality check anyway, knowing that I would be pissed off later if I thought something like that in a dream and didn't RC. My friend started hovering, and I tried to join her, but instead I just woke up.

The dream continued, either in a false awakening or after a brief real awakening and then falling back asleep. I was being put in jail, along with a random guy. The cell was a little ledge behind a curtain, but I was free to move around outside of there too. I went into the loft and searched for a bed. Most of the good mattresses were taken, but I found a soft spot to curl up. Then I packed up my trumpet (which had shrunk) and it fell apart.

The other guy who'd been put in jail with me came up with a master plan. He dressed up as an old man with a big nose and asked to co-lead the company. There was a girl who was helping him. She said something about how if I'd loved her enough to marry her, she would have bailed me out, but that at this point our relationship just wasn't serious enough for that sort of thing. To get around the guy's master plan, she shone a spotlight on one of the employees and said that that was what it meant to co-lead.

Ugh, I hate losing lucidity like that >

That's like so many of my lucids Remember to stabilize before jumping back into the plot! I always, always forget to!

18.03.2010

Dance Lessons at the Store (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was in a store. I bought a flu shot and a cookie, then went back to the dance class I was in and did a sequence of steps. My teacher said that I wasn't using one of my arms and asked, "Do you know which one?"

"No," I answered, not really wanting to think about it. My teacher started to leave, like it was the most obvious thing in the world and she was annoyed at me for not trying. "Wait, is it the left one?" I asked, not wanting her to go. She nodded.

Then she started going on about how the flu shot I got might have given me heartburn.

18.03.2010

Water Bending 2 (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was a powerful person in a big company. I was at some meeting where a bunch of people were telling one of my colleagues about all the stuff that they needed him to give them. I went outside to a road. There was a thin layer of water over most of the ground and the air was steamy. W was doing water bending, so I decided to try it myself. I managed to get a little dome to pull out of the puddle. B asked for my sandwich, then took it without waiting for a response. I didn't do anything because I was focusing on water bending, and I didn't really care about the sandwich anyway. Eventually I got a little glob of water to float around me, and then I made a larger sphere and rolled it around. It was easier to control the water if I didn't try too hard to force it to move and instead just went with it.

I only remembered a bit of last night's dream. I was skiing... that's about it.

Originally Posted by Hidden

I only remembered a bit of last night's dream. I was skiing... that's about it.

When I woke up this morning, all I could remember was pie. No kidding

I don't have my actual DJ handy, so you'll have to excuse the lack of pretty formatting.

Don't Mess With Grandma... Seriously.
I was at my school, planning my B-day party. I was trying to decide what food to get, and I was considering getting Pizza Chicago, but I also wanted something light to make sure I'd have room for dessert. I tasted a piece of a different kind of pizza. It was quite possibly the best cheese pizza I'd ever had, but it was just cheese, so it was also a bit bland compared to other types.

Somehow I ended up decorating some really tall tophats, which came in bright colors. The box said that it had enough, but when we opened it half of them were these little lame round hats. I decided that I would "tie-dye" (using a paintbrush) a washcloth, but then I realized we didn't have any. My history teacher offered to go get some, and after a bit of hesitation I followed her.

We got to the store, and there were some doughnuts. We stared at them for a while, and then she asked if I wanted one. I said yes, and we each took one, and I saw the prices. The most expensive one was 1000 cents. Wow, $10 for a single doughnut, I thought. I was halfway through the amazingly delicious doughnut when she told me that she didn't have any money left. I was annoyed at her. She suggested that we sell them.

"No one will buy half-eaten doughnuts," I told her. Plus I wanted to finish the rest of mine. She didn't believe me, so I started running around asking people if they wanted to buy a half-eaten doughnut. I got some very strange looks. We decided to rejoin the rest of our group (which was now in the store's bathroom). There were three bathrooms (each with multiple stalls/showers), and my group filled up one of them. It was very steamy inside.

I opened the door and asked a couple of girls if they would lick a string of hair with frosting on it. They looked disgusted and tried to walk past me, but I blocked the entrance to our bathroom, saying that it was full. I went back inside and accidentally bumped the door open again.

Now there was a really fat guy in a white shirt standing outside. I told him that my family was using the room. He grabbed me, picked me up, and shoved me out of the room. I knew that he was thinking that it wasn't fair that we were holding places for each other. "Hey!" I shouted, not wanting him to kick out the rest of my family too.

My DC grandma came out of her shower wearing a green old lady swimsuit and glared at him. "Get out now, or you'll see more than you've ever wanted to see," she warned him, starting to pull her swimsuit strap off of her shoulder.

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Alaska
We were in Alaska, driving down a winding snowy road in a van. We were going pretty fast, and I was worried that we would skid and fall off the nearby cliff. Luckily we made it there safely, and we put on these things that were like a combination of skis and crampons. We went down some stairs made of hard plastic that were floating in the water, so it was really hard to balance. At the bottom was a platform made of ice, which tilted as I stepped on it. I got wet, but the water was surprisingly warm. The guide explained that we had to be careful on this trip because we might have shared nightmares. My mom remarked that it was strange that they would mention something so obscure. "Well, it is part of a lucid dreaming camp," I told her. Then I realized that it wasn't a lucid dreaming camp, and I was slightly confused.

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Alaska (continued)
We were in a pine forest, sitting at a green plastic picnic table. We were doing an art project where you wrote stories onto pieces of paper and then glued them onto a bigger piece of paper. I didn't like how any of mine were turning out, so I made a lot. I felt something scratch my arm lightly, but I didn't think anything of it. Awhile later I looked and saw that I had a huge gash all along my arm. I wondered where I'd gotten it from; the scrape from earlier hadn't felt nearly as bad as my arm looked now. The guide saw me, then went to get my mom, who came quickly and promptly started freaking out.

23.03.2010

Facebook Stalking Pom-Pom (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was in a snowy forest. There were a fair number of people, but they were spread out and gathered in clumps so it felt fairly empty. It sort of had the feel of an MMORPG, but also like a massive party. There was a guy who was listening to music from a book. When the song ended, it just started beeping, like one of those heartrate tracking machines at hospitals.

The guy is very hard to describe. Picture Meta Knight, but with pom-poms instead of armor and a kite tail instead of feet floating about three feet above the ground, and you should have a decent idea of what he looked like. He asked to be my Facebook friend, even though I had no clue who he was. I realized that he was just going around to each of the parties and staying for a day, presumably adding all of the people he met as his Facebook friends.

New scene. I was at the airport with my brother and my cousin. Only I had the right ticket, so we had to go back. When we got to the place where you can get tickets I realized that I'd signed mine wrong, so I had to redo it. For some reason I couldn't sign my last name right, so I had to scratch it out a bunch of times. The lady there questioned me to make sure I was who I said I was. Then we met up with my friend. I think she was amazed by how unprepared we were.

Scene change. We were at a cold place filled with water. Every 10 feet or so was a half-submerged, run-down building. However, there were a couple that were well-kept and had people. The DC I was travelling with and I went to one of them. The crowd tossed the DC a bottle of champaigne; he was suspicious that it was poisoned. The two of us them proceeded to have a shouted conversation with the crowd (so that everyone could hear).

Old dream.

24.03.2010

Meat Monsters (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was on a quest with a couple of other people. We were walking down a path, and there were some giant meat monsters. We charged at them, and I ate a piece of roast beef, but then the meat monsters started fighting back and we ran. One of the meat monsters was a skeleton pterodactyl with egg-shaped meat eyes. My friend (a female DC) wanted to eat its eyes. We'd all been running away, but she turned around and started trying to gouge its eyes out.

Somehow I ended up at "my" house. A tall guy with orange hair had followed me home and was talking to me. It was an awkward conversation because I didn't really know what to say. After about five minutes I realized that I should have invited him in, but he didn't seem to mind.

25.03.2010

Store Camping (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was in a store with my mom and a DC. There were two sections in the store, both of which had the same things, but one of them had it all on sale. We set up a tent in the aisle. My little brother and I fought over which chair we were going to sleep on. I was also afraid that bears were going to attack us.

26.03.2010

Purity (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

My brother and I were preparing for a car trip. I was in my house near the sliding glass door; a bee tried to get me, but I locked it out. For some reason I was unpure. My mom and I were talking about going to Colorado so that I could get married to a girl and then immediately divorce her, because that's what would purify me. I brought my two cats outside and put them in the car, preparing for the drive. Then I thought about it and I decided that I didn't want to marry someone only to divorce her. Also, I had to take care of my cats.

My dreams just keep getting shorter...

My computer with Banhurt died... But that's okay, I can fake it.

22.04.2010

The Castle (MILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was staying at a refugee/labor/prison camp combination (we weren't allowed to leave) that switched between being a medieval castle and the White House. I don't remember exactly what happened and in what order, but I saw that one of my cats was super skinny. I felt bad for her, so I gave her extra food, and I realized that I'd been forgetting to feed her recently. Then I helped her escape from the castle.

We were forced to work as slaves at this place. They took our measurements to decide what type of work would be best for each of us. Right off the bat, I got on the wrong side of the guy who was deciding where we would be working. The person in front of me got a job cooking in the kitchen, which didn't seem too bad.

My other cat tried to go through a tunnel, but I pulled her back by her tail. She brought back a banana with circles of cat fur in it, which had been sent by the titans to murder one of the gods (Hercules?).

Then there was a whole thing about a panoramic painting, and I ended up in an auditorium of sorts. It had big curved stone steps that people sat on which formed a balcony to a lower level. We were going to play a big, organized game, but it hadn't started yet. One of the people there was goofing off and playing with her pet rat instead, which annoyed the leader.

I was annoyed because I wanted the game to end before I started doing any of my lucid tasks. One of the DC's came up to me and told me that I should just do whatever I wanted and that it didn't matter what the other people there thought. I realized that she was right, and then I realized that I was already in a dream. I stabilized quickly, then tried to breathe fire, but I just blew out air. The DC's sitting in font of me turned around and gave me WTF looks. I ignored them and tried again. I eventually lit a small piece of cloth on fire, then made it go out so that I wouldn't burn down the building.

I decided to try flying then, but it didn't really work, so I landed and kept practicing my fire breathing until I could shoot a stream of flames halfway across the room. I lit myself on fire once, but I put myself out easily. Then I lit a couple of DC's on fire and they started freaking out, so I put them out too.

Now that I was more confident in my dream control, I was able to fly easily. I did a summersault. The dream flicked into 3rd person and as I wondered what I should do next. I made a note to remember all of this dream and continued flying (back in 1st). I flew on my back and the dream faded. I realized my mistake too late and woke up.

That turned out longer than expected. I tried to be more brief at the end so I didn't go on for too long.

Gotta say that your dream recall is pretty impressive. My best was 3 dreams a night and nowadays it boils down to 1 dream every couple of days

I've been finding mantras to be freaking awesome I start the night out with a recall/involvement combo, then use an awareness/lucidity combo during the WBTB Can't say the lucidity one always works, but the other 3 do on varying degrees

Does your recall/involvement one include waking up after each dream to write it down, or do you use an alarm? At the beginning of the night I tell myself to wake up to write down my dreams, but when I wake up I tend to remember a dream and be like, "ehh, that dream was too short/boring/insignificant/whatever to bother with writing down" and I never do my second mantra because of that...

It kind of depends on the day. If my recall is low, I'll do a recall/involvement (the involvement essentially helps the dream involve me more. I think more proactively in the dreams and it's a step towards lucidity. I definitely notice a spike in pre-lucidity when I do one).

But if recall is good, and I know I'm going to get 8-9 hours of sleep, I will do a "wake up after each dream" mantra, and I do my best to take notes, regardless of whether it was boring or insignificant

I find that the better the recall from the previous dream, the easier it is for me to slip back into HI/dreaming when I fall back to sleep The battle is then being able to balance the MILD mantra between falling asleep. Still working on that one, hehe!

25.04.2010

Fake Storm (MILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I went to the store with my friend. She insisted that we buy a tomato, even though neither of us likes them. While reaching for the salad I had to hang on a refrigerator door, but it swung open and my friend and I were left dangling from it.

Scene change. We were camping, and had rained. There was a huge sandpit that got filled with water and turned into quicksand. My dad taught us that more water --> more drowning. We had to escape from the storm, so we went into a big outhouse, but the building slid down a hill and through a couple of fences. We got out and ran across a muddy field to an elegant palace. There was a big block of horses with fancy saddles/bridles outside the palace.

We went inside. The palace had a light, airy feel, with white walls, a marble floor, a high ceiling and lots of windows. I was a bit confused because everyone was perfectly groomed and they were all dressed alike. But hadn't they just escaped from a storm as well? I thought I'd done a pretty good job of keeping myself clean, considering I'd just run through a field of mud, but these people were spotless. I was expecting to be offered a shower and matching clothes, but nothing happened. Something strange was up. I went to talk to our guide/friend, and saw that her ticket had the wrong name on it. She had dropped her fake ticket, so I picked it up and returned it.

Her: Oh, thank you.
Me: That isn't your real name, is it?
She admitted that it wasn't, but also revealed that I wasn't using my real name either. "Erin" was just something they'd made up when I'd registered. I tried to remember my real name and came up with Kiara. I realized that not only were our names fake, the entire crisis with the storm had just been an act; a way of deceiving us.

Somewhere in there I became lucid. I perused the banquet, then decided that I should just roll with the dream and stood at the end of the table where the guide was talking with a bunch of dream characters. The guide told me that if I did something (some task) then she would tell me her real name. She offered the same deal to one of my friends who was sitting at the table, and one of her friends promised that she would make her keep her promise.

They started having a political/religious discussion about some group that started with an R. None of them liked said group. I asked if they were talking about Republicans, and they were like, "nooo!" and tried to explain it to me. I never really understood what they were talking about. At the time it had sounded incredibly intelligent, but upon waking up I realized that they'd just been spewing nonsense the whole time.

25.04.2010

Sledding Through the Desert (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I went outside after the ice skating show, and all of the cars were crashing into each other as they tried to pull out of the parking lot.

New scene. I was sledding down a snowy path through a sparse forest. There was a motorized sled behind us, and I was worried that it would run us over, so I let it pass. The scenery switched to being a desert with a wide path of dirty, slushy snow that we were sledding on. Apparently we were babysitting kids now, and our sled was motorized. The parents were worried because we were accelerating on the downhill part, which made us go pretty fast, but we needed the speed to make it up the uphill parts.

The world was splitting into teams which were going to fight each other. I said that we should all refuse to join a team because without members there would be no one to fight and so no one would get hurt. Even as I was saying that, however, I was joining the water group. I revised my thinking to either no one should join anything or everyone should join one group. Then I realized that it wouldn't work for everyone to be in the same group because everyone believed different things.

For some reason the parents we were babysitting for accused us of being pedophiles. One of my friends got pissed off by that and told off one of the fathers, saying that any issues his children had was his own fault for raising them like that. I'm not sure how that argument related to the accusation that we were pedophiles, but it made complete sense at the time.

At the time it had sounded incredibly intelligent, but upon waking up I realized that they'd just been spewing nonsense the whole time.

LOL! Typical dream characters!

This is partly why I have so much troubles remembering conversations in my dreams. It's hard to remember non-sensical sentences!

I somehow got unsubscribed to your DJ... Lol, no wonder I haven't seen an update in ages.

Too much to comment on. 2 Recent lucids, nice work! Breathing fire is awesome ^_^

My DC grandma came out of her shower wearing a green old lady swimsuit and glared at him. "Get out now, or you'll see more than you've ever wanted to see," she warned him, starting to pull her swimsuit strap off of her shoulder.

This made me laugh. Hard