Thread: [INTRO/DC-1] St. Jimmy's workbook

Dream Journal Aug 25-26

I'm playing soccer with F, V, R, C and M. We are at a public park, surrounded by grass and trees. Can't remember much more.

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I'm at my school, in the office of my art teacher [neither the teacher nor the office we were in exist in RL, I've never taken art courses]. We are discussing about the art of Jacques Miller [I've no idea where I got the name from]. My teacher is French and I want to impress her, so I make an effort to pronounce Jacques' name correctly. She opens a book and shows me a picture of a painting of a woman in a blue dress holding a bouquet with red flowers [I can't remember what we said about it]. Another teacher walks in. He's holding a pair of spectacles and a photo camera, both made of solid gold. He wants the teacher's opinion on these items. The rest of the dream is too fuzzy to remember.

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I'm at the flea market looking for hair wax. Can't remember anything more.

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[My first lucid dream since joining!]

I was in my high school (I actually left high school years ago in RL) and I was in the principal’s office. She was explaining to me that I was not going to be graduating from high school because I had failed a course in my final semester. I could not believe that was happening and while I sat there in awe listening to the principal, realization started dawning on me. “Wait a minute, this isn’t possible, I don’t fail courses…” Then I looked around me and more realization came. “This doesn’t even look like my highschool, what the f*** is going on?” And then, BAM! It hit me. “I’m dreaming!”

I was so sure I didn’t even do RC’s. I just stood up and ran out of the principal’s office in ecstasy. I ran through the halls of the school, laughing and screaming, knocking people over, until I finally found an exit and ran onto the grounds. The first person I saw outside was ‘A’. ‘A’ was the typical geeky kid who nobody paid any attention to because he was always hidden in the library. In RL, this guy, several years later, is now a computer genius and works for Microsoft. When I saw ‘A’, he was walking along with his shoulders hung down and the usual droopy look on his face. I saw him and grabbed him by the shoulders, shaking him. “Hey! Cheer up! You’re going to end up working for Microsoft! You’re going to make a lot of money!” And he was like “Wait, what?” And I just said “Trust me, I know, by the year 2012 (yeah, I got the year wrong, oops) you’re going to be a Microsoft big shot, so cheer up!” And I left him there with a stunned look on his face and kept running to find my friends.

Once I did find them, the rumor apparently had started spreading, because I was met with “Dude, is it true? Are you really from the future?” And I actually told everyone I was from the future and they were all buying it and it was so funny. I kept going around the school greeting old friends until I found ‘R’, who confronted me for hooking up with his girlfriend (which, sadly, actually did happen back in high school, I’m not proud of it). At this point the dream started dissolving and for some reason I didn’t try to stop it, so I just woke up.

Commentary:

As I will comment below in my post with assignment 2, school is one of my dream signs. Nevertheless, I didn't catch it until I was stirred by the fact of having failed a course, which never happened to me in my entire school career. I think it was more the stress of hearing I wouldn't be able to go to collage that made something click in my mind.

This was, I think, a level 4 on Kelog's lucidity/control scale. I was able to exercise free will completely in this dream and I also remembered things from RL, such as A's job and the fact that the dream was set in a different time than reality. I suppose I should have attempted some technique to prolong the dream, but I think my subconscious didn't feel like dealing with R's confrontations. This, I think, was the only thing keeping this from being a level 5 lucid dream, because I may have decided to make R vanish or something instead of settling fro leaving the dream.

Also, this dream was clearly influenced by day residue, as I had exchanged facebook messages with A during the day and we talked about his new job at Microsoft.