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      This is my first proper post here, as I'll update the first post with current info. I'll list previous dreams I can remember first as seperate posts, including the 2 lucid dreams I've had prior to joining the forum, so I'll say sorry in advance for the fragmented dreams first off. I haven't properly recorded any of my dreams yet, so it will only be the most vivid I've had over the last couple of months that have still stuck with me. Then I'll hopefully start updating as the dreams happen once I get up to date. Thanks for reading!

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      First Lucid

      This was my first Lucid, about 5 months ago... I achieved Lucidity by accident after reading about Astral Projection. At the time I thought it may have been an AP, but now realise it was a LD.

      Earlier in the day I had read online about how burying fears won't work, you need to transmute them. It gave a suggestion that the young child in your mind is holding onto the fears, so you can comfort the child within you and tell her how much you love her.

      Fast forward to bed time, and as I lay there I closed my eyes and relaxed (planning on trying to meditate) and after a little while I started to hear voices - I thought it was people talking outside. I opened my eyes and they stopped. Closed them again and heard them again, this time clearer - it was a male voice with a slight accent repeating over and over again "Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou so much, thankyou, oh god thankyou". I realised at this point the voices weren't actually coming from outside, again opened my eyes and they stopped. I closed them again, starting hearing the voice again along with whistles in my ears.


      Then I felts my legs kind of uncontrolably floating in mid air - I thought oh my, might I actually be able to AP? (I've been wanting to for a while now!) I kind of "flicked" myself out, this is really hard to explain but kind of forward rolled, and I was floating fully in my bedroom. I decided to try to fly upwards and when shooting into the air, somewhere into space. I paniced because I was aways scared to AP incase I got "stuck" but remembered that if I thought of my body, I'd instantly snap back. So I did - but I didn't snap back. More paniced, I thought myself down to my body, I saw my daughter and me lying there (my daughter was 3 months and sleeps in with us at times) but for some reason I got confused when I couldn't enter the baby body and thought I was still stuck. My other half woke up and asked me what the matter was and I realised that I actually was back in my body. Then I picked my daughter up and hugged her and told her how much I loved her as I sat crying as I was so thankful to have returned.

      Then I heard someone come into the bedroom, I thought it was my older daughter, but a man came in - I "remembered" that he was the owner of the voice I first heard....
      I then realised I was dreaming and woke up....
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      Second Lucid

      My second Lucid Dream, about a month after the first. A bit fragmented, as I didn't write it down anywhere. I also thought at the time this was an AP, but looking back at it, it was a LD.

      I was lying in bed ready to go to sleep. I thought about trying to meditate. I didn't really know what to do, but felt like "someone else" was giving me instructions on a guided meditation. "They" told me to think of darkness. Warm, comforting darkness. Darkness wrapping all around. On and on like this.

      At some point I was in a dream. I was at my Aunties house and my cousins were there. We were talking. A car pulled up outside. I realised that I hadn't seen my Auntie or cousins in over a year and hadn't planned on seeing them. Why was I here?
      I became lucid.

      I was in my room, above my bed. I thought for a moment I might be dead, then thought "Oh well, if I am I am!" - very strange as I had (still do) a big death fear. I decided to visit a "heaven" type enviroment. Everything faded to black and I felt wind rushing past me. I was standing at the doorway to a small building. The words "Lutheran Church" came to me (I know nothing about this religion!) and a lady with blonde hair and a big smile came to welcome me. I got really uncomfortable, worried I might confuse her if I was really in her "heaven" and didn't really believe in her religion. I thought about waking back up but quickly changed my mind to find out who my "guide" was.

      Everything faded to black again and wind rushed past again. I was in a small room with a table and chairs in it. There were about 4 people talking in there but as I appeared 3 left, leaving one sitting in the chair. He looked like the guide in "What Dreams May Come" but had glasses on. He had his face in his hands. He looks up at me and a wave of sadness and frustration swept through me. "How am I supposed to help you if you keep telling yourself none of this is real?" he says. I realise he is right and I'm looking down at the scene from 3rd person. The "me" in the scene is my old avatar from Second Life.
      I wake up...

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      Nightmare

      This is the dream that I think stopped me actively trying AP/LDing - realising I had these fears in my subconscious, I didn't want to become lucid in an abduction dream!

      I'm outside and I know Aliens are on their way to earth, and they aren't friendly. I'm trying to get people to safety. I look up in the sky and big pyramid ships are coming in closer from the distance. I see one heading our direction. There's a young girl next to me. I grab here had and shout "RUN!", then start pulling her after me. We keep running and hiding behind hedges out of sight. We think we are safe when one of the pyramids lands right in front of us. The door opens and a 7ft man steps out, he looks like an Egyptian god but he's holding a machine gun. I stand in front of the girl to protect her. I wake up...

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      Pre Cognative Dream?

      This dream freaked me out a little... It was about a week ago.

      Fell asleep with my 6 month old during the day after a bad nights sleep before. Dreamt a lot but can't remember it. Just before waking I remember the following dream.

      My OH phoned (I was expecting him to do this and wake me in real life) and asked if I had checked my phone. I said no and he said I should check as his Step Mum had sent me a text and wanted me to ring back. My phone turned into two phones and one had the message on it as I was talking to him on the other. I then had to put the two phones together to ring her. Short conversation about us going shopping together and how we should become "best friends".

      Then I was actually woken up by my phone. Her said sorry for phoning late, but he had got a text from his Step Mum asking him to phone her so he had to do that first... She doesn't usually text/phone, so this was a bit out of the blue...?

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      Nightmare

      Again, about a week ago... I had been wanting to try LDing but was worried about being lucid in an "abduction" scenario- or at least semi-lucid. I felt like it was a message from my subconscious that yes, I need to deal with the issue, but no I'm not "actually" being abducted, lol.

      I was lying in bed with my laptop on my knee and earphones in. I'm watching a film, but feel like I'm "in" the film as well as watching. Two men appear behind me, they are all beaten up with blood all over them. They grab me. I fight against them and realise they aren't real, it's just a film. I try to take my headphones off but they laugh at me and tell me I can't. I fight back some more and try to turn the laptop off but it won't go off, they laugh at me again. I manage to escape and run for it. I end up in a cafe. A man there grabs one of the men, steps on him so hes flat as a pancake, rolls him up and keeps his foot on him?! The other guy runs off. I decide I'm going to stay with this man for the rest of the week incase the other guy comes back. I wake up...

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      I'm going to leave my old dreams there now. This was last nights dream. I'm going to have to start noting dreams down when I wake up because I remembered 2 of them when I woke, but only remember 1 now I'm here writing and only bits and pieces of it

      I'm in some kind of waiting room. Me and people I know are getting ready for something. I remember I've been practicing for this... I get the idea that we're about to take an art exam. I have a dance and a song I made up, and have made a cardboard van that fits in with it. I also have a barbie doll I'm meant to dress. I start worrying that I'm not going to get it right. I realise somethings not right - I can't sing or dance, my van hasn't been painted yet, and the barbie doll is naked! I'm not ready! Someone next to me says "Don't worry, you got an A+ in your mocks". I wonder how I could have got an A+ when it's all so rubbish? I swear the person says "You're the teachers favorite in this dream..." The rest of the dream I don't remember.

      How frustrating! I'm sure I was actually told that I was in a dream, and "A+" is the symbol I chose for my above acheivement of "consciously acheiving a Lucid Dream". I'm going to have to watch out for that as it looks like my subconscious liked that one! I also remember waking up to my alarm clock which said "7:30", then going back to sleep and being woken a second time, again saying "7:30". I may well have missed a FA too....

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      Hi Bumblebee... welcome to Dreamviews, and awesome DJ!!! Isn't it amazing the way the subconscious picks up on our intentions and keeps giving them to us in various forms? You were thinking about astral projection so that's exactly what you dreamed of.

      Have you read the bible of lucid dreaming yet? (Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming) If not I highly recommend it!

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      Hi Darkmatters!

      Thank you for your welcome and kind words - Yes, it's absolutely fascinating how our whole minds work and a big reason why I'd love to LD a whole lot more - it seems like such a valuable tool to get to know how you really work! I didn't even click about the A+ thing until I started writing here and looked at my achievements again, then I was like "DUH! How could I have missed THAT!", especially as here in the UK we don't tend to use A+ for grades (more A*) so it is unique for me to LD! It gives me more hope I can do this, and it's so strange how infinately more "intellegent" though in a different way to out usual "intellegence measures" the subconscious is to our waking mind. I feel it can definately be our wisest teacher.

      Thank you for the book recommendation, I haven't read that one so I will definately pick it up! I have read a wealth of information on AP, I'm not sure why I didn't think of reading LD information... If nothing else it'll tell my subconscious I'm serious!

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      Shocked

      I have to say, last night took me by total surprise. I took a notepad up with me for the first time with the intention of writing down dreams when I wake up. I had no IDEA my mind was so well trained to forget dreams! I woke up about 4/5 times - two of these were because my baby girl woke us and I had no dream recall. One of the other times I thought, hmm was I just dreaming? My mind basically said "No dreams here, mooove along, go back to sleep, mmm sleep". I thought wait a minute.. what was that stuff I was just thinking about.. oh what about before then... wait a minute, that was just one big long dream! Sneaky mind... Usually I'd have gone straight back to sleep and thought nope, no dreams... And then when waking up to my alarm, the same thing happened! Aha, can't fool me now mind!! And now reading back on it it's reminding me of the dreams, and things I had forgotten even after writing them down - what random stuff I was dreaming about! How needed a dream journal really is!

      Finding a bed, MMORPGing & The Moon Goddess of Sleep

      I'm with OH and my children, I think it's just C though not K. We're trying to find somewhere to sleep for the night. We look at one place but I don't remember it. Then we end up in a 1960's type diner place which happens to have two bedrooms attached open plan style. It reminds me of the tables and chairs in Cafe World. We're trying to work out who will sleep where as there's 2 single beds and 3 of us. One of them seems impossibly high and the duvet seems to go out into infinity and also somehow drops down into infinity. We decided that one is better for OH and I as it's infinately big although still somehow a single. I'm a little worried about falling down in the middle of the night into that infinity...

      The dream twists a bit and now we are in a house with OH's Jui Jitsui Sensei, B. We've all just woken up. We all have ham and cheese toasties and B is quizzing me on what you are *meant* to eat while pregnant... I am actually pregnant in waking life.

      The dream twists again and we are outside the house, we've been renting it for a couple of years now. I'm holding a piece of paper with numbers on it but they don't make sense. I realise it's a receipt telling us that the rent is cheaper this year than last year.

      The dream twists yet another time. Now OH and I are in a MMORPG. I'm watching from the sidelines while OH and a girl are fighting in a huge instance. It looks like so much fun! They do so well and end up gearing out their characters with tons of gear, yet find it really easy. When they are done I meet up with them and admire how well they did. I say to the girl, who was the reason it was so easy, I'm high enough for this instance but my gear is shoddy. Can I tag along next time to get geared out? She doesn't look too impressed and says "Hmm, maybe". I feel like I'd be putting her out tagging along as I'd make it harder work and she enjoys playing with just her and OH...

      The dream twists one last time. We are back in Bs house. I'm aware that B is asleep in the next room. I'm with this man but there are two of him. Urgh, I knew he would turn up in one of my dreams after reading that thread. I had purposely not looked at the webpage, but someone posted his pic in the thread! We are all going to try to wake B up in his dream body. This is vitally important though I don't remember why. The two "this men" are kneeling on the bed and I'm at the head of the bed. I'm their leader. They start worshiping me and I speak in a loud booming voice "All pray to the moon goddess of sleep!". It's almost done jokingly as we are having a lot of fun with it, and almost like we know we don't really need to do this but it's a fun tool. On the other hand we are deadly serious about the ritual. The mens dream bodies start to rise up out of their real bodies. I wake up....

      Facebook Friends

      I'm on facebook. C adds me. She's one of my best friends from school but I haven't seen her in years. She now has a 4 year old girl, though I don't find this out through facebook, I get a minds eye image of the little girl. I talk to H about her adding me. H was also my best friend in school, we are still in contact but H & C fell out a few years ago and no longer speak. I lost contact with C just due to lives going in other directions. I'm now at Hs house. She's sitting on the floor with a pine drawer in front of her. She's cutting up scrapbooking embellishments to stick on the drawer. So far she's put ribbon along it and a load of sequins. Now she's going for some cardboard... I tell her that C got in contact but that I don't think I'm going to reply. She tells me she's been talking to her for ages. I go back to Cs facebook page. Her photo on there is a giant McDs fries box with the M arcing over it. At school, C was obsessed with McDs. There's also a huge text at the top of the photo. I'm aware that the photo is much bigger than it is meant to be. The words seem random and don't make sense. Then I'm aware that they are a poem about a deity. When did C become religious? I wake up... (Alarm Clock)


      Wow, what a difference making a few notes makes! I'm now becoming aware of a few dreamsigns that seem to be reoccuring...

      • Moving house / Finding a new place to live
      • Being in a video game or things reminding me of being in a video game
      • People worshiping a random diety
      • Reading text that doesn't make sense, but my mind quickly tells me what it's meant to say
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      Bad Night for Recall

      Urgh, what a bad night dor dream recall last night. My Baby girl practically didn't sleep at all, so I was woken every 1/2 hour or so. When I finally did get a stretch long enough to dream, on waking I was vaguely aware that I had dreamt but decided going back to sleep was definately better than writing in my journal and risking not getting what precious sleep I could, and I made the right call However I may take a nap later in the day, so may have a dream to add then.

      I vaguely remember 2 dreams, though I had to work hard to pull them back. Recall is definately increasing already though as usually they would have disappeared.

      I'm in a pub environment. I'm playing a video game machine. It's a North American Indian game... I could draw what it was like but it's hard to explain what exactly I was doing or what the point of it was. There's a man standing at the bar who is trying to get my attention. I feel uneasy about him and know he's paying me a lot of attention. I start to leave the pub but he follows me. I think at one point I pretend to fall asleep but he still comes after me. I think this part was a carry over from reading Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming which I have been reading. Obviously I was trying to get out of the dream - I guess it only works when you're Lucid, or I didn't believe in it enough! At some point security in the pub escort him out. I wake up...

      This kind of dream seems typical for me but usually I'm terrified. This time I wasn't all that scared and it looks like I'm getting more control over my dreams and fears. I think this may be part of what is blocking me from becoming Lucid, but the extra control means that I'm confident I can start to take control of my dream world and avoid too many nasty scenerios.

      The next dream I don't recall though I know I had it... But when thinking about it I keep remembering a dream I had a few weeks ago. In it I was at an amusement park queueing up for a ride. I finally got on the ride, then visited the casino/video game part, and later the gift shop. I believe this dream was similar. Possibly another dreamsign for me? Video games are definately a dreamsign! I will have to start RCing whenever I play or see a video game in the real world (I don't actually play them *that* often - I imagine it is more my mind thinking "This can't happen in real life - must be a video game!". I'll have to change that to "I must be dreaming!").

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      Another Bad Night for Recall

      I had another bad night last night with practially no sleep - I think my baby girl is teething Still, I recalled two dreams on waking so recall is going up considering how little sleep I'm having. If I'd wrote them down this morning I'd have remembered them but they have faded over the course of the day. I'll write what I now remember, but it will be fragments.

      OH and I are in a haunted house. Though it has spirits in it, it's not scary. There are some other people there who I vaguely recognise but can't put my finger on who they are.

      Dammit, it's no use - the rest is there but just beneath my waking mind. Hopefully this dream and the other will come back to me, if so I'll update this post. A lesson learnt - take notes even if they are keynotes to help bring the memories back!

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      Tricked into Lucidity!

      I've taken a break from posting my dreams as DD has been continuing to have bad nights, so sleep has been more important than recording dreams. However last night was just too interesting and vivid not to record! I realised yesterday that I'm actually too nervous to become lucid for it to actually happen, incase it is *too* real and something scary happens I know it's a fear I need to beat but I was unsure how... Looks like my subconscious knew how though, at least for one night!

      Tricked into Lucidity

      OH and I were in our living room, though it was different to our current one and we were about 6 years younger. I have a set of tasks to do (carry over from playing too much Miss Management yesterday! Also missed dreamsign - computer game intertwined with "reality").

      Let DD suck her dummy for 60 seconds - 0/60
      Let DD have some milk for 60 seconds - 0/60
      Have a Lucid Dream - 0/1


      Seriously!

      I start on the first two tasks but get a bit bored. Then I look at the third task. Oh! That sounds like a fun thing to do!

      I drift off to sleep on the sofa. When I wake up I'm outside in a large country area and it's been snowing. I feel the cold air breezing past me but I'm not too cold. It reminds me of a dream I once had where I was flying, same place but there was no snow then. So I decide to try jumping to see if I can fly. It works! I'm zooming around and see ice crystals floating in the air. I start to fly around grabbing the ice crystals. I notice how cold they are in my hands. I throw them at walls, in the snow, watching them shatter and bounce off things. I see a building in front of me with a window at the top. I know that in there is the room I went to sleep in (still thinking that that was the "real world"). I decide to go through the window. I brace myself, reminding myself that this is a dream so I can just go right through. I swim through the air towards it as fast as I can. As I go through the window it shatters all around me and I can feel the glass bouncing off me.

      I wake up on the sofa I started on. OH is on his computer. I start to excitedly tell him what just happened, about the coldness of the ice crystals, how great it felt to fly. I'm standing next to a window and snow starts to come through until huge slumps of snow start to fall on me. It's incredible how beautiful and detailed they are, like the pictures you see of them up close but three dimensional. When they melt on my skin they feel cold and wet. I wake up...


      It took me quite a while after I woke up wo realise what happened once I woke up... I was really confused, still feeling like "back there" was the real world and wondering why I was now in a "strange" bed. I went back over everything that had just happened which ended up giving me great recall for the experience. If I continue to have these kinds of Lucids, hopefully my fear will lift and I will be able to consciously evoke one!

      I had two more dreams after this one.

      Chinese Intruder

      I'm lying down on my sofa in my normal living room. I hear a sawing noise above me. I look up and see dust falling from the ceiling. What the heck?! A rectangular shape starts appearing with a saw darting in and out. Then the piece of ceiling falls down, and with it a short stocky chinese guy. I wake up...


      No idea what that was about!

      The last dream was quite long and detailed but I only remember fragments now

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