Thread: [INTRO/DC-1] Oothoon's Workbook

Some dreams from the past week.

10/01/10
I am in a parked van. We are parked on a large grass lot. There is a fare or music festival going on off in the distance. The van's sliding side door is open and I am sitting on the floor board facing the outside. A woman is sitting next to me. A cat is sitting on my lap. I am petting the cat and talking with the woman. The woman asks me about the cat. I say that I know this cat. The parking lot and festival also seem familiar to me. After a while the cat jumps down and heads off. The woman ask if the cat will be ok in the parking lot. I say tell her that the cat lives nearby and will fine. I am looking around when I see a large animal moving quickly on the other side of the van. I move to the front seat and see a large monkey in the trees near us. The woman says it is a spider monkey. I wonder what it is doing here. The windows are open and the monkey comes out of tree and sits down on the drivers seat next to me. The monkey is not a spider monkey but is a large baboon, almost as big as me. I am looking at him face to face. I become fearful that I might get bitten. I start to growl at him and show my teeth. I think that this is definitely not the right thing to do to a large baboon sitting next to me. He has a very impressive looking face. The baboon has a very intelligent expression, and seems to be thinking how dumb I am. The baboon leaves and I wake up.

I am on a trip with my family and a group of people to see a large park. We are travailing by bus or train. We get to the park, but decide it is time to leave. My wife and I leave, but we get lost. We start walking through a building, but go down into the basement and find a long tunnel. We go through the tunnel and come out in an outside courtyard. We are still lost and start making calls on the cell phone. The phone does not seem to work. I try to call 911, but can not get through. Seems like its a Sunday and everything is closed. I get very frustrated and start to yell at my wife. She just says, give me my phone back. I feel like an idiot. We meet some other people on the trip. It seems that that we all missed the bus and it left without us. We will have to stay in this area overnight before we can get back. We find places to lay down to sleep for the night.

10/02/10

I'm playing baseball. There are about 3 or 4 of us playing. One DC is a old boss of mine. We have uniforms on. The batter is hitting the balls by himself and the rest of us are playing on the left field side. I'm playing 3rd base. I miss a ground ball that bounced past me. The next one the batter hits into right field were nobody is playing. The batter is laughing as he runs around the bases. I think that was pretty mean thing to do.

Attempted a WILD last night. I did not fall asleep consciously, but did go quickly into a dream state. I am in a long line waiting for entry into a LD course. I am near the middle of the line, but it is moving very slowly. When I get near the front of the line they move everyone back because they are causing to much disturbance. Finally I get to enter. There are a couple of tables where packets of information are being handed out. I get my packet and start going through it. The person next to me is going through hers also. We try to compare our two packets, but it is to confusing. I am supprized to see that JM is there. I didn't know you were interested in LD. She replies that she has been for a while.

10/03/10
Attempted a WILD last night. When I woke up I remembered dreaming about an Afghanistan news clip which seemed to show solders passing around a joint when they got back from a mission.

Did not become lucid but had a several short dreams. I am in the countryside at a resort like motel. We are looking at the rooms. We believe that we have stayed here in the past. They have new rooms now. The old ones we say were out molded but had nice deep baths. We go inside one. The baths look old and are not in a separate bathroom. One looks deep the others not so deep. They seem highly pitted, maybe from age. I am talking with the owner. He does not want to supply pot to the residents anymore. They are angry about this and say they will move elsewhere.

I am outside on a street in a business district. I have a small cart and am pulling it into a cafe. The cart has a tree on it. As I pull it into the building the tree starts to fall apart. There is not much left when I get it inside. There are some people eating. A woman says that she can use the cart. I let her have it, and leave. Outside there is an argument with the owner, about buying to many gas cylinders. The suppler shows him the bill. There is some kind of gas that a employee says that he needs. Can't remember the gas name, it was a false memory and not a real gas. The owner is somewhat satisfied with the explanation.

I am with two young precocious girls. We are sitting in a car. They are sitting very near me. There is a parking meter that is expiring. The driver comes adds money to the strange meter, and then leaves. It has a large video screen and displays info that does not seem related to parking. The one girl is very attractive to me. The other seem a bit jealous. We are inside a cafe. We order some desserts. It seems as if I am falling asleep and my ice cream falls on my head. I wake up. I can't tell the girls apart. I give one a hug, but she is unresponsive. They start to gross me out. I am just to self conscious and wake up.

10/05/10
Attempted a WILD last night. I woke up before the alarm. I remembered dreaming that I am in a lab. The lab is rather old with wooden cabinets and the equipment does not look very modern. I am talking with a large black man who is the head of the lab. He is complaining that soon he will be out of a job. He has a sample and needs to determine if there is any poison on it. We take the sample to the back of the lab where there is a hood. We do something to it and it starts to smoke, slowly at first and then faster. We have to close the hood sash in order to make it stop smoking, but the sample is ruined and we have not determined whether there was any poison on it. He asks me to go over to the next building and pick up another sample. On the way there I talk to a couple of others and tell them about our sample. I walk over to the other building. The entrance is very strange. It is like a construction area. There are many metal stakes, rebar, that are pounded into the ground. I have to walk carefully around the stakes. The entrance to the lab is a large manhole like opening. There are several people mulling around the entrance. I start to go down the opening. I tell them that they are not supposed to smoke down in the lab. They say right, whatever. I go down and distinctly smell a tobacco odor. I look around and am totally amazed. I am in a large cavern like structure. I believe I'm under a superhighway. I can hear the cars noise above. The cavern slopes down. At the far side are large underground construction pylons, concrete columns. I start to walk down the cavern slope. Near the bottom a man yells to me that the sample is down hear. I go into a wonderful controlled slide. Like skateboarding without a skateboard. When I get to the bottom I have to make a wide, overshooting turn because of my speed. I am going very fast. I put my left food down on the ground to slow up, thinking this may hurt. It doesn't, but I can feel the ground under my foot and the force slowing me up and I come to stop. There is a dog at the bottom. I sit down and say hello to the dog. He puts his head on my legs and sniffs. I get the impression that the dog thinks there is something wrong with me. I say to the dog, yes I am not quite right, then wake up.

10/07/10
Attempted a WILD last night. I woke up before the alarm. I remembered dreaming that I am in a lab at work. There is a setup in the right side with instruments on the bench and in the hood. On the left side it is sparser with some books and an oven. There are a number of DCs with me. One is the technician who is running the lab. Two other DCs decide to leave. I go with them. They decide to take a strange way out. There is a ladder in the lab that we climb. It goes up to a fire escape landing. The landing raises up into the air and something seems to go wrong. We start to sway quickly back and forth. I hang on. I see a fire truck below, a hook and ladder with the ladder extended. I say how did we get way up here, we are above a fire truck... I am walking in the hallway at work. I go through a new lab. I think how nice everything is. Next door is a large, new office where someone I know is setting up his desk and files. I think how nice he has it, good for him. I continue on. It seems to be Christmas time. There are tacky decorations put up in the lobby. I go outside and look at the sky. It is nighttime and the stars show vivid constellations. I go downstairs where there is a strange fight going on. Creatures with a unicorn horn on there head are involved. I can see the winner, and think that it is good that he won.

I am in an exercise class, there is a male instructor. We are doing a warmup routine. I don't have a shoe on yet. Its just warm ups so I just put my shoe on. I think this is strange. I remember (previous dream is only a fragment) I was just in an exercise class doing a strenuous routine with a female instructor. I find myself at the female instructors house. There are a couple of DCs with her. We are going to take her truck to a gym. We get into the truck, three of us in the front seat, a tight fit. The DC in the middle make a call on her cell phone. The phone is the same model as mine. I think it odd because its such an old phone. The instructor drives the truck right down the hallways of her building. The turns are very tight. People have to get out of the way, but she is able to get the truck out of the building. We are diving down the street. The gym we wanted to go to is not open so we are going somewhere else.

Fire in the wind
I am sitting with my family next to a house we had just bought. My wife and kids are very young, one is a baby. The house is old and not very good. I am watching the sky. It is bright clear daylight. Every so often the wind picks up. There are glowing embers being picked up by the wind and being blown toward us. The glowing embers are high in the sky and come down near us. They set a tree next to us on fire. We watch the embers and the fire and think that we should tell the people who are burning off in the distance. We decide to go into the house. Its time to put the baby to bed. I put him into cardboard box up on a shelf. I turn around and see two more babies sleeping. That's right I think, we had several kids at the hospital. I go upstairs, and there is this strange band setup. I am both watching and part of the band at the same time. The song we start playing is a familiar one (but can't remember). The instruments and people are all swaying, moving, and being distorted in time with the music. It is just totally fascinating to watch. I have to stop playing because it is time for bed and the kids are asleep.


Assignment Dream goals when I become lucid. Of course getting lucid is the main goal, as well as learning how to WILD successfully.

I want to meet people who I know by flying to their home. I would like to fly with them, and see if they have any recollection of the dream.

I want to be able to successfully stabilize a dream by spinning.

I like to run while dreaming. I want to have a long lucid dream of running, and jumping.

I want to walk through my bedroom mirror into a past life.