Thread: Ayrwen's adventures

Well, isn't this a great start! *sarcasm*
Then again, what did I expect from a five-hour sleep...

So, just to elaborate on that, this night wasn't very productive both on unusual dreams and lucid dreams, since most of the times, I just don't remember mundane, usually seen dreams.

So instead of tonight's non-existent dreams, I might as well tell you about one of the most usual pattens that make me think a nightmare could be coming my way and how I evade them!

I haven't really had nightmares for years now. Usually after I feel the dread of an upcoming nightmare, I either force my self to wake up or change the surroundings in my dream. But back to the pattern...
There is an old house, a mansion of some sorts. If I'm outside, there are trees around it and a gravel driveway leading to it (in this case I know the evil thing is going to come after me from inside the house). If I'm inside the house, every thing's in warm colours - tones of gold, warm red, brown, like wood. Every thing's quite luxurious in an old way - there are carvings, paintings, carpets. A scenery where you are likely to see a lady in a Victorian dress, walking through the halls, reading the book.
Except that there isn't a lady in those halls, it's me running through the hall that goes past the windows. And I just know that something, whatever it is, is trying to find me, and has already found it's track.
The whole surreality of the scene and the enormous sense of dread I never feel in real life, makes me realize that I'm dreaming. and then there are two ways I act. If the thing is far enough, I find an escape, which is always a window - I've never found any doors - and fly out of it, later on preceding with the usual thing I do in my lucid dreams (of course, if there is enough time left for anything to be done). The other way, if the thing is too close, I force my eyes open and pull myself out of the dream - I wake up. The latter is quite unpleasant, though, and I try to evade taking this course of action as much as I can't.


So now you know something more about my dreams. If you have any questions, or you want me to tell something more, just ask.

02/03/2010

I have vague memories of school, friends and mundane things. I think my brain just went through the things I had done during the day, and the dream wasn't even long enough for me to realize it's a dream.
It's a pity, really. But this evening I'm going to sleep earlier and we'll see if I'll have a lucid dream or not.

03/03/2010

I made a huge mistake this morning by not staying the bed for a few minutes and not letting the dream fully come into my memory. *reminder pinned - set alarm clock 5 minutes earlier*

I have some memories of a strange classroom, about a half of my class being there, and me and a couple of the boys were talking, having fun... Mostly talking and laughing.
The dream itself was far from unusual, so I'm not surprised that I didn't recognise it as a dream. Then again, I have a vague memory of having suspicions... Ok, this post is too long for such an insignificant memory. XD


On a side note, you can expect some longer posts in the weekend - sleeping for over 12 hours then gives me nice, long lucid dreams.

What do you think is the nature of nightmares?

Well... To formulate my thoughts in a short sentence, in my opinion, nightmares are mostly the manifestation of the person's fears and anxieties. Since everything is so vivid in nightmares, even the small fears can manifest themselves.

But you have to understand that this opinion is formulated solely from my own experience - I haven't read anything on this topic.

04/03/2010

Non-dream Dream Lucid Dream comment Dream signs

The Swings

This one is just a fragment.
I was running from someone, a woman I think. But it wasn't a desperate run, like the ones I usually have, in a way it was a lot less frantic – I was running from here, but in a way it didn't feel like I would be in huge danger if she would catch me.
The fragment of the memory starts with me recognizing the setting as the forest part of my grandma's summer house. I realized that this was a dream, but even in the end, I didn't have full control over the evolving events. (But then again, I never fully do in the chasing dreams) I jumped over the high fence separating my grandma's property from the forest, and first started going into the wild part of the forest, that's more to the right.
But then I remembered the ominous feeling that overwhelms me whenever I go deeper in that part of the forest, so I went further down the fence, to go into he left part of the forest.
There was a path there, like lately there usually is. The night was tainted in silver tones, the moonlight streaming through the trees and there were numerous huge swings hanging from the trees. There were so many of them and they were so close together, that, together with my bewilderment, it was hard to move through them and not slowing down together with that.
When I got through the swings, I found myself in a clearing with house, built close to each other. It was like, I was on a hill, and the ground, where I was standing was in level with he rooftops of the houses.
I continued half-jumping, half-gliding over the rooftops. This is the last memory I have of the fragment of this dream.

05/03/2010 (Non-lucid)

Non-dream Dream Dream comment

The temperature

I woke up the same way as I do every morning to school. Suddenly I'm looking at the thermometer in the kitchen, also identical to my every morning actions and feel a little bit surprised and dissatisfied about the -10*C (It's not unusual - this will probably happen tomorrow IRL, what with the frost and everything)


The ticket control

This happened in our city's trolley
To summarize, I was asked to show my e-ticket before I even had a chance to wave it in front of the little machine. I tried anyway, and surprisingly it registered the e-ticket. that was a bit unusual, considering the ticket control always lock them after entering the public transport, but not unusual enough for me to realize I was dreaming.

Note
- The canyon
- The bamoboo forest and fight
- The maksed party

06/03/2010

Non dream Dream Dream comment Semi-lucid

The Masquarade

I was in my room when my mum came in and told me that the masked party is going to start soon, and that I should better get ready. I was excited , and started to make my own costume, as in, like I usually do in my dreams. I wanted to try to make a catwoman costume, but started failing at it at the beginning. Can't decide whether it's a wasted lucid or not...


The canyon

It was the middle of summer and I was walking down a dirt road with some unfamiliar DC (I can't even remember it's gender). There was a grassy field on the left and a huge canyon on the right. And the DC was telling me that the canyon was made by some sausage company that had been working here a while ago.


The bamboo forest and the battle

This is the part of the dream I remember
I was walking down a dirt road with 3 or 4 other people. There is a curve of road ahead of us, a shallow river is flowing by the road to the right, there is a bamboo undergrowth to our right with a normal forest seen further ahead and the rooftops of small houses sticking out of the bamboos further down the road. Everything was in vibrant colours.
We were on a some kind of quest... Some guy from the group said that we should retreat to the forest or the guards will see us.
We went through the undergrowth, following some kind of old path, and settled ourselves at the old tree-house just after the tree-line.
Suddenly one of the guys, a young boy, dark-skinned, with brown eyes and black hair, said something about practising. Everybody said that that was a good idea, so I agreed. Then we were both on platforms and the first battle was like practise (we threw far-ranged weapons at each other and did spells too) and it ended with a tie. The next battle already was more like for life or death - the boy had an evil look in his eyes and an evil smile on his face. I wounded him a lot of times, but his magic attacks were poisonous so I lost - I think I died - and everything went black.

Note
- The abandoned facility with the giant leeches
- Successful WILD
- The rainbow, the horses' names, and trying to reach school
- Yelling "clarity", creating a door and trying to go to the Moon
- My mum, her work office, her boss and the door to the Moon
- My grandma's garden, the regime, how I ruined it...

07/03/2010

Non-dream Dream Lucid Semi-lucid Dream comment

The leeches (Lucid)

This was just before I woke up for the WILD attempt.
I was in an old abandoned building. You could see that vandals had fun there. The hallways were dark and gloomy and the illuminated rooms, that had windows were with tiles on the floors and walls, and the walls had mirrors – I think they were supposed to be bathrooms...
I remember walking into on of those rooms (everything was very vivid). There was a guy there, a DC. I think we were talking about something when two giant leech-like creatures entered. They looked something like the worms from Stephen King's “Dreamcatcher”, only almost the size of a human. They both entered the guy's body through his mouth and went out of each through the legs. The guy was left a bloody mess. The leeches ignored me and crawled out of the room. (At this point I was slightly flabbergasted, but not really afraid) I walked out of the room and went out in to the hallway. I walked further down the hallway and entered another room to the left. It looked the same as the room before, but in it there were two guys – one standing by the window and looking at me, and another one slumped against the wall with the leeches still in him. I felt that I needed to get to the brown-haired guy standing at the window so I started going past the leech infested body to my left and the mirrors to the right.
One of the leeched rose out of the body and turned in my direction. I knew that it would attack so I squished it with telekinesis. The other one rose up too and tried jumping at me, but I ducked to the side, and the leech crashed into the glass – the glass was jutting out of its head – the other leech was dead too.
I went up to the guy, looked out of the window. It was night outside. There was a field stretching ahead, ending with a wall, and beyond the wall there were dark red brick houses lined up. I turned to the guy(I think he was a DC) and asked whether that wall was guarded. (I had a feeling this building was “contaminated” and so closed off from the rest of the world.) He just smirked in response, with his hands in his pockets. I said that this kind of dream wasn't the first for me, as in when I needed to escape a facility, and that I hated running from DC's, so why didn't he just answer me. So he looked up and said that yes, that wall was unguarded.
I thanked him and flew out of the window, over the field and the wall and to the other side of the houses. I sticked myself to the wall and started climbing down, but there was only darkness underneath me, and I ad he feeling that the wall will never end.
I tried teleporting, but everything went dark and I woke up.


Dreams after having my first successful (and serious) WILD

Note: I'm not sure about the order of these dreams – I'm only certain about the first one.
I woke up at 6:30am, having slept for six hours. I did as I planned – stayed up for an hour. Before slipping in the WILD I stretched my muscles a bit and lied down in my usual sleeping position. I started hearing and seeing HH and I think I felt myself having SP. But I got uncomfortable, and decided to turn over to the other side.
The HH started again and after awhile I found myself standing in the middle of my room. Everything was hazy so I yelled out “skaidrība” - “clarity” in Latvian, and the dream started to become clearer. I remembered my main goal – I wanted to make a door that lead to the Moon (I had wanted to try going there for this whole week), and maybe speak to someone from the shared dreaming team. I found a white chalk in my hand. I drew a form of a door on the wall, a door handle and wrote “THE MOON” in big letters on the “door”. I tried to materialize the door, but it didn't work in the beginning. (Meanwhile, I didn't notice as the dream around me grew hazier and hazier.) Then the door I had drawn materialized – I was able to clutch at the door handle. I opened the door that had the looked like the fragment of the wall only with the handle, and found myself looking at another door – a white wooden door with a normal handle. I opened that door with the intention of the surface of the Moon being on the other side. By now the dream was very hazy, but I think I got through – the sky was black and the surface was gray. I think I started to shout something like “Is anybody from DV here?” but then everything went black.


My mom and the office

I found myself in an office. In one of the separate offices (there were glass walls) I saw my mom. She was talking with a Korean (my mom works at Samsung's branch) and another one, smaller it seemed, was standing behind the boss. The smaller Korean had something in his hands – a folder maybe? Anyway, I opened the door and walked into the office. The boss already started to look quite angry when he saw me. I presented myself as the daughter of his employee, Ginta Šulce, and said that I was glad to meet him (insert tiny sarcasm). I started saying something along the lines of “I'm very sorry, but I really need to talk to my mother,” and ushered both of them out of the room. Before the boss had realized what was happening I was already trying to lock the door, but unfortunately, I didn't make it in time, so we had a little struggle – he was trying to pry the door open while I was trying to close it and lock it. I was kinda successful, and since I was pretty sure that my mom there wasn't a DC but a real person, I wanted o show her the Moon. I said that she should still hold the door in case the lock wouldn't. In the meantime I had a white chalk in my hand again, and started hurriedly drawing the door, just as I did in the previous dream. The time I could open the first door sooner and behind the drawn door there was a brown wooden door. I was pretty sure I would be able to go to the Moon now, and take my mom with me, so I turned around and called for my mother.
She was standing with with her left arm lifted, held by her right arm. She said “I broke it again.” (Just recently my mom had her cast removed from her left arm – she broke it while ice-skating – and she was still very unsure about the arm) I half lost the lucidness of the dream – that was how shocked I was. I completely forgot about the door to he Moon, and instead went up to the glass and started shouting at the Korean who was still trying to get into the office. I started shouting something like “You idiots, can't you see her arm's broken!!!”
Everything wen black.


The rainbow and the horses

I found myself in my room again. It was sunny now outside. I pondered on things I could do now. I remembered the basic task of the month – to taste the rainbow. So I flew out from my window, landed, went around the house and saw a faint rainbow forming. I went up and let it flow into my mouth – the rainbow tasted like Skittles! The taste was so rich, I had a hard time pulling myself away from it.
But I did, after a while. I mused about what to do next, and then I remembered my dream horses – I wanted to try out their names. I went out onto the street and summoned both of them. They galloped over so fast, that I had to catch and hold hem by their reins to make them stop. When they did, I asked them “What are your names?” They didn't answer so I asked first the black one “Can I call you Brecon?” and I could feel that the horse approved. Then I asked the white one “Can I call you Llmarei?” and the other horse too approved. (These names are actually taken from one of my favorite fan-fictions) Once again I thought – what could I do for the reminder of the dream? And decided to try to get to my school in the dream world, like I have done before. I ran to the main street and held up a red car. I got in the car and the driver, a fat middle-aged man, asked me where to. (I'm sure that he was a DC.) I said the name of the school, and after answering his next question – why did I choose this car (because I liked the color) – everything went black.


The money garden

I found myself on a path in my grandma's garden. Everything was in bleak colors, all of the flower beds were dug up, the same with all of the grass patches. It was as if the garden was turned into a vegetable garden, just to make money. There was a DC that looked like my grandma, working at one of the beds. Then another DC, who slightly reminded me of my grandpa, walked up to me from the forest part of the garden. I knew he was behind this, so I asked him, why did he do this. He didn't answer, just smiled evilly. That's when I knew, that even if it's a waste of a lucid, I needed to make the garden the way it was. So I made flowers grow everywhere, ruined the already grown vegetables, and smashed the two cars standing by the gate using telekinesis. I knew the DC would soon find out what I did. So I ran off to one of the neighboring houses that always had been like a dream safe-house to me. I went in, locked the door and went deeper into the house. There was a room with a lot of beds there, and there were a lot of DCs there too – all girls, having conversations about nothing. I sat down on one of the beds. And soon after that, everything faded to black.

/offtopic - I had a normal dream from a 4:30 hour sleep?
Note: the shop and the weird DDR

Erm... *looks at clock* it's 2:20am here and I need to get up at 6:30... And I'm very, very tired...
So I'll just leave this note here and post the dreams maybe tomorrow, or maybe some other day, when I don't have to write an essay. *headdesk from sleep deprivation* Wish me good luck - I need some to survive till spring break.
/offtopic

Note: the meeting with some foreigners, Dora and the slightly weird DDR

08/03/2010

Dream

The video game/shop

I was playing a some kind of video game- or at least it seemed so, because for a while I was switching the way I viewed the dream. At one moment I would be viewing it from the above and in a way that it DID seem like a video game - bars showing the level of costumer satisfaction and stuff like that. at the next moment I would be in the shop as an owner or an employee... I don't know. Anyway, there was an update at the shop (at this moment I had been in the shop for a while), and there was some kind of weird game for the entertainment of the costumers. It was some kind of weird variation of DDR - the pad was all wrong and I spent a good time jst trying to figure out what the hell was the thing supposed to do.

Then a young boy came up - I have no idea if that was a DC or not, but he was quite detailed - and said something like "That's not how you play it." I answered with something like "I know what it's supposed to be and do, but I just don't get the weird arrows." We exchanged a few more words, and with that, everything faded to black.

09/03/2010

Dream

The foreigners

There was a some kind of party in a building made for entertainment - there were various gaming machines and I think there were bowling tracks somewhere further in the building. I was engaged in a some kind of conversation with some girl. She was on of the foreigners we, as in me and my friends, took out to have fun.

Everyone did have fun, and while, as I was saying, I was having conversation with a girl, telling her about DDR, I noticed that Dora and some other girl was jumping DDR! I said "This is what I mean by DDR!" before rushing to Dora. The screen showed something slightly different than it should have, but I still tried to dance. But then everything went black.

Note:
13/03/2010

- The country house with the angry mother

I'll try writing down both night's dreams after I've written my English essay and physics assignments. But for now

Note:
14/03/2010

- Before WILD - typical short lucid dream beginning
- WILD
- 1st unsuccessful attempt at going to the Moon
- Showing some guy the forest part of my grandmothers' garden
- Fragments - the abandoned factory part of the city and the 2nd unsuccessful attempt; the weird house by the forest and the 3rd unsuccessful attempt

The idea of the leech dream creeps me out WAY more than it should >_>

Anywho, love your DJ [how could I not, when I/{most likely} a me-like-DC has been in your dreams ] & can't wait for you to finally post the dreams in your most recent notes!

Originally Posted by Maki

The idea of the leech dream creeps me out WAY more than it should >_>

Anywho, love your DJ [how could I not, when I/{most likely} a me-like-DC has been in your dreams ] & can't wait for you to finally post the dreams in your most recent notes!

To the leech dream - this is what happens when you read that Stephen King's book XD
And as I said in school, I will try to write the dreams down as soon as I can - maybe tomorrow evening (probably). But now, I'm going to sleep since I need to wake up at 3am to do the thing I told you about at school.

13/03/2010

The country house

I am standing a the gates of a country house. I have a feeling I need to apologize to someone about something. I go through the gates and then into the main house. I see the mother to the right and start apologizing to her about her son. She doesn't answer me, she just keeps looking at me with that angry look on her face. I say that I will do anything for her to forgive me and out of the house to lay down on he hard ground next to the wall of the house. I remember thinking just how hard it was before I woke up.

20/03/2010

Notes:
- Lucid dream with me controlling fire
- Talking with Him in the empty classroom

21/03/2010
- Me being catwoman
- The weird multi-storey factory
- The garden and the safety house x2

20/03/2010

Non-dream Dream Semi-lucid Lucid Shared?

The fire

The memory starts with me being in a abandoned part of the city. I see a fire burning in a metal box and think, hmm, I need to put that out. I start making the water rise up from the puddle with mere movements of my hand, but then think, oh, this is a great chance to see if I can control fire.
I diverted my attention from the water to the fire. The water fell back into the puddle with a splash. I raised the hand above the small fire and the repeated the movements that let me control water. The fire started raising together with my hand. And after a while there was a separate fire burning in the air. I made the fire grow bigger, then smaller again. I made it hover in my palm, just a few millimeters from the skin then made it bigger and threw it at the wall, where it left a burning circle. I had just thrown another fireball at the wall when the dream ended and I woke up.
Fun fact: I remember waking up after this dream and thinking - ooh, I need to remember this. But I only remembered the dream after an about of hour of fussing in the morning that I remember the thought when I woke up between the phases, but didn't remember a single dream. XD


The empty classroom ***

I guess I need to give you a little background before I tell you about this dream and why I deem it so important.
Last year (note - by year I mean school grades) I started noticing a guy from parallel class. Not that I hadn't noticed him before, it's just that I started to notice that he was quite handsome, though quite obnoxious too. After a couple of times when I noticed him, I had a dream with him in it. We were paired up for basketball practice at school. We were standing lined up, and he was holding a basketball in his hands. He made a snide remark about me, and I answered with an equally snide remark and a smirk on my face. He looked down upon me (he was taller than me) with an amused and slightly bewildered look.
The next times when I saw him at school, I was met with two greyish-blue orbs - he was looking back at me.
Since that time I had had many dreams with him. And always when we saw each other at school he would look at me with this weird expression.
But it had been a long time since we had had a supposedly shared dream. The last time we had something like that, was the night after the school's Christmas ball, and before that dream, there too was a long period without a dream with him. So this dream made me think again...
Let's see what will happen at school tomorrow...

I was sitting in an empty classroom with my back pressed against the wall - now that I think about it, that's the way I usually sit in that classroom, that reminds me of one of my Latvian language classrooms. If I was sitting at the first table, he was sitting at the third table in the row, in the other seat line. I was the first one to speak.
"Where have you disappeared?"
"Should I've been anywhere?" he answered with a bit of a sneer.
"I don't know, shouldn't you have?"
He didn't answer, just stared at the table.
Th next moment he was sitting at the second table, though still across from me.
"Why aren't you doing anything at school?" he asked.
I think I smiled. "You should know by now that I'm waiting for you to act."
He looked at me with this weird look. Like he was a bit surprised... And maybe even considering it...
The dream ended. Although he probably ended it.

Hi, So i was about halfway through your WILD dream when i noticed your avatar..

Wich im mentioning because it touches quite close to home with my "inner world" or "projected fantasy" within my "area" i am always sitting with my back to a tree, a single tree, in an endless feild of flawless grass with a yellow sky and Earth hanging up there in all it's glory.

I was also looking at your writing style, and i like it,.. im not really going anywhere with this but hey maybe i'll see you up on the moon somenight!

now im gonna go finish reading. have a good sleep!

Originally Posted by Majinaki

Hi, So i was about halfway through your WILD dream when i noticed your avatar..

Wich im mentioning because it touches quite close to home with my "inner world" or "projected fantasy" within my "area" i am always sitting with my back to a tree, a single tree, in an endless feild of flawless grass with a yellow sky and Earth hanging up there in all it's glory.

I was also looking at your writing style, and i like it,.. im not really going anywhere with this but hey maybe i'll see you up on the moon somenight!

now im gonna go finish reading. have a good sleep!

Hi!

I found this avatar when I was searching for one for my bookarmy account. I like the picture because of the color, the moon and the general atmosphere of the scene.

And thanks XD I've always thought that my DJ writing sucks.
And I hope I'll get to the Moon sometime soon - today is practically the beginning of spring brake, so I'll have plenty of time to sleep, lucid dream, WILD and attempt to go to the Moon.