While I'm Alive I'll Feel Alive

[Bearsy]

And what's next I guess I'll know when I've gotten there. --- Welcome, everyone, to my 3rd official attempt at a DJ. I won't have any set standards (re:colors, fonts, structure) until I get situated back into trying to LD. Thank you madam Shift for facilitating my return to learning LDing and hopefully helping me get my first one!

[hellohihello]

Good luck, Elis!

[Bearsy]

Dreamed last night, not sure what about. I do remember being in the backseat of a car but the driver and passenger didn't know. I snuck up behind them and gave them both a hug because they were friends that I hadn't seen in a long time. The guy driving I don't know who it is/was, but the passenger is really a friend of mine who I haven't seen since Halloween and she turned around and gave me a huge hug and then started nibbling on my ear(turns out that was my cat, IRL). I also remember looking thorugh a massive (about 1' x 1') neon purple, floppy disk. And showing it to people.

[Bearsy]

Last night I had a way weird dream... I was somewhere... I'm not sure exactly, except it was kind of like a summer camp/commune in the woods. There was a huge lake, and a dock. Across a dirt road from the lake was a laundromat run by someone very similar to Dave Lister from Red Dwarf. Comedian Jim Gaffigan was there as well and he had an Xbox game that could be played in a DVD player and controlled by his cellphone. I remember going under the lake and hiding there for a while also I remember throwing rocks at someone/something. After a while the laundromat closed and it was just a hang out spot. I vaguely remember hooking up with some Brazilian chick for a while.

[Bearsy]

I remember dreaming last night, don't know what about though. The night before I didn't dream.

[Shift]

Aw, just keep it up They'll start coming to you. If you completely forget a dream, just make sure that if a piece comes back to you during the day that you jot it down!

[Bearsy]

That's what I hope for. I'm about to try a WBTB right now, although I've been up for about 45 minutes, Idk if that's too long?

[Shift]

Nah, just so long as you can fall back asleep you should be good!

[Bearsy]

It ended up not working, but I did another WBTB today and it worked I was hanging out with my brother and mom. I was trying to find something in her van. I was laying on the floor of the van looking under a seat with the back doors wide open when my brother peeled out of the parking lot we were in... I'm freaking out yelling at him to stop, and my mom's like "Just hold on, he's got to get to work" But instead of going to work he just speeds around the parking lot we were in and then turns down a bunch of streets. We get to this one corner and he takes it and instead of staying on the road he cuts across a yard and takes some small jumps with the car... he jumps the car down into an alley and as we stop in the corner I jump out and grab the car by the bumper, lift it and turn it around. Then for some reason I get back in the same way I was, but now the car has like a shopping cart bottom, so I'm laying on the place where you would put dog food, and we're speeding through the city... we speed by a car and I recognize this girl I know driving it and my view changed for a second to show me zooming by her and her grandma shouting "Hi Lauren!" in a very 1950's Disney cartoon comedic style(but not drawn) Sometime in this caper my mom's dissapeared so we go back home to wait for her and there's a terrarium on my desk with chinchilla type rodents, and I hear a National Geographic-esque voiceover telling me how the male of the species sits on the eggs until they hatch and then they start hatching as I'm watching and there's 100s of little baby gerbil-things and one of them falls out of the top of the cage and I frantically start looking for it. And then I wake up.

[panta-rei]

Yes! Yes! Dear God, Yes! Elis D. has a dream journal. I really look forward to reading more of your dreams! Good luck, man.

[Desert Claw]

I didn't realise who shift adopted until now. awesome! good luck with the dream journal! I think i might start my own too. ;D

[Bearsy]

Yes! Yes! Dear God, Yes! Elis D. has a dream journal. I really look forward to reading more of your dreams! Good luck, man. haha thanks man... you should link me to yours(if you have one) Edit: Duh, in your sig. I didn't realise who shift adopted until now. awesome! good luck with the dream journal! I think i might start my own too. ;D Thanks man. Good luck to you too. You really should start one(at least on paper at your home) they really really do help with Dream Recall

[Bearsy]

For a long while I couldn't remember if I dreamed or not last night, but all of a sudden I remembered a bit of it. I had just finished watching a movie at a theater with some "friends"(that is to say, they were my friends in the dream, but I have no clue who they are IRL) and John Candy was the star. He had died in 1994 so we were wondering how he could have starred in a movie that was filmed a year before. So we went on a quest to figure out how it worked. So we road tripped to Sundance Film Festival and tried talking to the director. He refused to tell me so I turned on the water works talking about how John Candy was my personal hero and that it is killing me to not know if he's actually alive or not. So he caved in and showed me that he had exhumed Candy's body and used a process to concentrate his remains into a potent ectoplasm. Then he had made a machine that converts the ectoplasm to a solid body essence(like a hard light hologram, Arnold Rimmer from Red Dwarf style) which he can manipulate with a computer. And a receptor that has facilitates the 3 dimensional aspect, without it there would just be a 2D projection. Spoiler for Basic Schematics of "The Machine": I don't remember much outside of that.

[Shift]

Not bad, not bad! And you have this part: He had died in 1994 so we were wondering how he could have starred in a movie that was filmed a year before... I don't remember much outside of that. Which is really good. Just have to keep wondering and questioning dreams, and teaching yourself to RC when you wonder And that is quite a detailed bit of recall, it sounds like! Glad it managed to come back to you, too!

[Bearsy]

I didn't RC at all last night but I realized I was dreaming!!!!!! FIRST TIME! But when I realized it, I woke up As usual I don't know the opening bits of the dream... I usually remember jumping into it. I was getting off of a bus going to my first day of high school(I'm not sure if it's first year or what). I started walking to the building when I saw a friend of mine and I started walking to him to say hi, when this guy Kevin(from my senior class, real person) rode his bike in between us and missed hitting us by like 6 inches each. So I said "What an asshole" and he turned around and was like "What did you say?" "I said you're a prick for not going around us." "Yeah fuck you." And then he biked away, so I start walking to the building and as I do I see a bunch of other friends* however, everyone is walking away from the building(I didn't notice this until after the dream) I go in the building and start to make my way upstairs(again, didn't realize until after the dream that this wasn't my school but my mother's old church). Everyone was climbing over the railing to get onto the stairs, so I tried it myself. As I'm struggling to get my second leg over the railing I realize I'm not wearing jeans, and just have my boxers on. I didn't really care so I kept going upstairs and went into my classroom. We had to sit and wait for announcements and as we're waiting my teacher says something about leaving for a second. I don't remember what happened next, but I know it caused me to realize I was dreaming and as I went to stabilize I woke up. But it's definitely progress! *I don't know if this means anything, but none of the friends I saw were great friends, more like school acquaintances... none of my real friends were anywhere to be seen... what's that all about? - Also, I've never had one of those "Forgot-my-pants" dreams... I wonder why I'd have one about high school when I'm 10 classes away from getting my AA?

[Shift]

Alright!!!!!!!!!!! What did I tell you! This is the first step, congrats Elis!!! And awesome too that you didn't even have to reality check. After RCing enough you'll just spontaneously become lucid to weird things sometimes You definitely have to count this in your sig count, a lucid dream is a lucid dream and you've managed to finally have one! *I don't know if this means anything, but none of the friends I saw were great friends, more like school acquaintances... none of my real friends were anywhere to be seen... what's that all about? - Also, I've never had one of those "Forgot-my-pants" dreams... I wonder why I'd have one about high school when I'm 10 classes away from getting my AA? You wouldn't BELIEVE the incredibly weird random people who will show up in my dreams from school sometimes, it's like my brain opens the year book at random and picks the kid in the middle of the page. Sometimes there's just nothing you can do

[BloodSand]

Hope you have better luck with the ones to come.

[panta-rei]

Nice one, man! Hope there are many more!

[Desert Claw]

awesome! keep up the good work Hope you have more to come, and maybe one that lasts a little longer don't you love it when they end like that? ts a pain but it happens. the banana congratulates you!

[Bearsy]

Thanks for the encouragement guys! I know I dreamed last night... I just can't remember anything about it. I remember waking up and saying I should write that down and then falling right back asleep.

[Shift]

Thanks for the encouragement guys! I know I dreamed last night... I just can't remember anything about it. I remember waking up and saying I should write that down and then falling right back asleep. I have the same problem I think I really am going to tape a piece of paper and a pen to my wall, that way there is NO excuse just jot down the key words, then just drop the pen and collapse back onto the mattress haha

[Bearsy]

I'm back y'all! And I'm back y'all and I'm backity backity back y'all! Two nights ago I had a crazy dream that I only remember flashes of. Sayid(from Lost) was chillin at a friend's house and he was playing a drumset in the rain. We talked for a bit and then went back into the house(which had became a very small store but they sold literally everything) I was hungry but broke so I stole a couple food items and continued to browse. Even though I could walk from one end of the store to the next in seconds, the inventory never stopped. I made my way to the music section and a friend of my mother's was working at the counter. We were talking about vinyl and she mentioned she took this job to pay for her daughter's college. She worked in the music section and explained that she's working to buy these rare LPs that she can then flip on eBay for mad money. She showed them to me and they were these terrible quality, shitty bands from the 80s that I think don't actually exist, but they were like glam metal. She had been working in the store for years but still hadn't managed to buy any of the albums she wanted and her daughter was about to start college the next day. I don't remember anything outside of that. I think that was my fear of being a wage-slave, stuck in a 9-5 with no actual future manifesting itself in my subconscious.

[Bearsy]

I don't remember dreaming last night

[Bearsy]

Haven't slept yet

[Bearsy]

Don't remember much... I was on a side street waiting for a friend(who I think I don't actually know IRL) to leave her house. We were waiting across the street for some reason. I was with another person that I don't know. She had a black bag (messenger style, I think) and there was something in it that I wanted cause I was trying to undo the straps... they were your basic pinch buckles, but for some reason I couldn't even get the first one undone. I think she was posing to recreate art from albums for a minute... I specifically remember thinking of The Eagles. I had to leave the place for some reason, not quite sure why, but I ended up having to go to the bathroom so I walked to the Burger King, tried getting the front door and couldn't so I went in through the employee entrance. Tried to go to the bathroom but it was only open for breakfast, so I was asked to leave. I realize that the last part was because my room is right next to the bathroom and my sisters and dad were fighting over the bathroom.