Cousins, Videos, and Fish & Jiu Jistu Van Guys
NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID SLEEP PARALYSIS
March 6, 2010
DREAM 1
Was at my sister and brother-in-law's "house". They did not live there any more or were in the process of moving out. There was a rock formation in the floor with water in it. It led to some underwater rock cave of some sort. My brother-in-law and my nephew dove in and diapered (to the underwater cave).
Sometime later, I was back at the house. Only my nephew and daughter were there with me this time. We were there to get something I think. The kids were climbing around on some bunk beds and the rock formation. I kept having to tell them to get down or to be careful.
...I was sitting in a van with some kids and my cousin (haven't seen her in years). My cousin was younger (23 or so) and less done up than usual. She was being friendly, but seemed a bit nervous. I was showing her movies on my flip camera that I had taken at the house mentioned above. Two of the kids in the van came up front to watch the videos too. I said, "let me just make sure I don't show you the inappropriate ones." I started one video.. it was a video of some creepy being/man screaming as he was being killed. Oops, not that one. I skipped to the next one. It was of some huge dark and evil dragon monster coming at the screen. Oops, not that one either. I skipped to the next one. It was of a fish swimming in the water of the rock formation at the house. I looked to the kids and said, "pretty cool huh?" When I looked back at the screen, the fish was not swimming in the water anymore, but was now swimming around the room of the house (still watching this on the screen). It confused me a bit, but I validated it somehow. I was focused in on the fish at one point and it had taken a different shape. I looked more like a cross between a squid and a fish now. I validated it by saying something like, "it's real.. well it's real computer animation I mean, but it's real."
At one point, I was reaching back in the van and bumped my cousins leg. She took it the wrong, got nervous and moved her leg. I said, "geeze, take it easy." She smiled and moved back.
Later, I was at a house with my cousin from the van and another girl cousin. it was some sort of family reunion. We were just talking and joking around on the couch.
That is all I can remember from that one.
DREAM 2
I was on a motorcycle on my way to Jiu Jitsu. It was either raining or had been raining and was still cloudy. I was parking the motorcycle around the back of the building. A small white van pulled up with two guys in it. They said something to me in dream jabber about looking for me and beating me up. They got out of the van. They were both wearing helmets for some reason. I took my helmet off and started hitting one of the guys in the head/face with it. I was on my back at one point using my open guard (Jiu Jistu) to keep them back. Eventually, I got away and went inside the Jiu Jitsu studio (did not look the same). I knew the guys would follow me in, so i started looking for my instructor to warn him. I could not find him, but some other guy (instructor too?) confronted them as they came in and made them leave. I went out to my motorcycle to leave later on. Now it was raining. I was walking with somebody. He noticed the two guys. I heard a loud noise and the guy walking with me said, "ohhh man." I looked and one of the two van guys had been sucked down a storm drain along the curb. The other guy was trying to pull his buddy out but was sucked in as well. I thought about helping them for a split second, but decided just to keep walking to my motorcycle. For some reason I had two helmets with me. One was mine and one belonged to one of the van guys. I could not remember which one was mine, so I just chose one and tossed the other one in front of their van. The van guys were starting to get out of the storm drain, so I hurried on my motorcycle. It was more of a scooter now. I could not figure out how to start it. I kept flipping switches and pushing buttons, but I just could not remember how to do it. I wasn't panicked at this point, just confused by not being able to start it. I looked down at the scooter and realized that it also had peddles. I started peddling through alleyways and eventually ended up inside a huge block building. I kept going deeper and deeper into it. I ended up in some huge area where I could tell somebody was living. A girl came sliding across the concrete floor. She had put butter on the floor and was just sliding around and enjoying it. I was surprised to see that it was Leslie, a girl that from elementary and high school. She was surprised and happy to see me and said, "Hey, what are you doing here?" I'm not sure if I responded. I started looking around the huge room. It was apparently her art studio. There were paintings and works in progress all over the walls. One one wall, there was an arrangement of candles inset into the block wall. It was about 15' by 15'. Some of the candles were burning upside down. I really wanted to hang out and talk with her, but I woke up.
Uneventful dream with family and stars.
NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID SLEEP PARALYSIS
March 9, 2010
Pretty boring dream with a few dreamsigns, but I had some time so decided to transfer it here.
I was in some other state visiting family. Maybe Oregon. At one point I was at a house meeting and hanging out with Shania Twain. She looked like Sandra Bullock though. Whatever... Sometime later, I was driving down the road and passing her house. I looked for her red car to be parked outside, but it wasn't. The streets and homes were very quiet and empty; as if summer break in a vacation town was over and everybody had gone back home.
Later, I was at a lake fooling around with some small inflatable raft. Two young boys came along around dusk. Bill Paxton was sitting in a ski boat close by. We both saw the boys coming and sort of had the same though that they were going to start asking either of us if they could play with our water toys. He aimed them in my direction before I could suggest that they go see him. I guess neither of us wanted to share :P
It was dark outside now and some of my wife's relatives drove up in a boat to say goodbye. It seemed like a family reunion was coming to and end.
There was a dream before this earlier in the night, but I could not keep my eyes open to write it down. Bummer, it HAD to have been more exciting than this one.
A non-lucid dream about lucidity.
NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID SLEEP PARALYSIS
March 9, 2010
Dreaming is becoming more familiar to my sleeping brain again. I've kept a solid journal in my notebook for 5 weeks now. I stop during the day as I have time to read around the DV forums or to reread sections of LaBerge's book. Well, my dream last night felt similar to the dreams that I was having when I first started keeping a journal and started having lucid dreams. Like the habit of doing reality checks being carried over into the dream state... having the subject of lucid dreaming on my mind carries over into the dream state as well. I sense a wave of lucids coming my way in the near future.
The beginning of the dream was pretty uneventful and did not contain any memorable dreamsigns. I was staying at somebodies house. It was some sort of vacation. My mom was there as well. I don't think that my wife and kids were though. We all went to bed that night. The next day, my mom got her belongings together and left to head home. I got ready as well and left a bit later. I found myself driving amidst a picturesque city scene. The driving slowly turned into flying. As I thought about what I might see next, the scene just slowly changed into that. At one point I had the thought that I would be going over a bridge and suddenly, I was flying over a large bridge. I remember thinking for a brief moment that it was similar to flying in a lucid dream. :doh: I had to fill out some paperwork in this city while I was there, so I landed and walked into some building. I met a young woman (20 - 30) at the front window. She was expecting me and had a pile of paperwork ready for me to fill out. I filled out a few lines, though I don't recall actually seeing what I wrote. She said to leave the rest blank. I handed it back to here and she held it for a moment and then handed it back. She had magically filled out the rest. I remember thinking that they must have figured out a way to auto fill forms now like what occurs on the internet. She asked me why I had a black T on my hand (see above post). I asked her if she knew what lucid dreaming was :roll: She perked up and started to tell me that she had experienced many lucid dreams. I started to ask here if she was on any of the lucid dreaming forums online. I tried to think of the names of the few that are out there, but could not come up with any... not even dreamviews. She said that she wasn't anyway. Later we were sitting on a bench outside of the building still working on the paperwork. I was surprised to see my mom walk up. I could tell that she had waited before leaving town to make sure that I didn't forget to stop and fill out the paperwork. The girl kept slipping off the bench somehow. At one point, she stood up and there was a very thin piece of wood (about 7" x 4" x 1/8") under her. I kept adjusting it thinking that it was causing her to slide off. She insisted that she needed to sit on my leg. I finally let her and the falling problems stopped. The dream ended somewhere after that.
I laid in bed for a bit going over the dream. I felt myself slowly drifting off to sleep and tried to hold still and hang on to my consciousness as I drifted. I started to feel my body vibrate and could hear a soft buzzing sound. I was pretty sure that I was headed toward SP. I hung on as long as I could. I must have fallen asleep though because I was woken up by my alarm about an hour later as I was partway into a regular dream.
So writing "T" on my hand did more than help me remember to do reality checks with transportation. I was at a birthday party for my nephew and was asked 3 times what it was for. Later at home my wife asked the same. So I will add to my above plan to do reality checks anytime somebody notices the T.