Thread: [INTRO/DC-1] Chessica's workbook

I’m very sorry I haven’t been able to write here for a while. I’ve been having trouble with my internet connection. Now I’m back and will try to make up for the lost time!

27/28 september:

I’m taking a kayak class. We’re supposed to learn a new fancy roll. I’m standing on the beach, and I start walking towards the water. I jump in, the water is very deep and I’m sinking rapidly. I can taste the saltwater. I’m kicking wildly in the water, trying to get to the surface. After some struggling I get to the surface and swim to shore. When I’m back up from the water I explain to a dream character that I forgot to put on my life vest. I see it lying on the beach and I put it on. I then sit down in my kayak and paddle out on the water. The dream shifts… I’m back at the beach. I’m trying to tell a DC and my father in law something, but they just ignore me. Only when I stop talking they notice I’m there and urge me to go on with my story. I just wave my hand at them, somewhat annoyed, and walk away. This repeats itself a couple of times.

Dream fragment:

My best friend sends me a present. It’s a small brown package with a poem on the outside. It’s evidently a birthday gift, but it’s not my birthday and I’m thinking it’s odd that she sends me this gift. She ought to know I don’t have my birthday in several months. After all she’s my best friend and her birthday is 3 days after mine…

Dream fragment:

I’m sitting in someone’s living room with all my cousins from my mother’s side. Though I know they are all my cousins the only ones I can recognize is L + J., the rest of them are dc’s. We’re talking about TV series we used to watch when we were kids. As we’re talking I’m sitting in a chair picking small pieces of paper and tape from my black winter jacket…

28/29 september:

I’m working at a grocery store. J from my chess club is working there too. We’re walking around whistling a tune while we’re working. As we whistle I notice that the ‘time’ (not the tone) in the tune is wrong. J doesn’t have the right rhythmic ‘time’ and it’s very annoying. I try to teach him how to be dead on the rhythm and time in the song, but he can’t do it or don’t care. We start working again (I’m still annoyed that he’s not right on the timing of the tune) J is washing some refrigerators; he’s using a bright blue bucket to carry soapy water and a sponge. I’m tidying up products and place them in shelves. J. starts talking to a customer; he’s joking around and having fun. He seems to know this person. After talking to this customer for a while he comes over to me and asks if we can play a board game. Since it’s very quiet in the store I say yes, but explain that we have to let the last customer pay for his groceries first. I walk over to the cash register and sit down. I have to start up the cash register and when I turn it on I see that it’s got a weird monitor. It’s a touch screen and I have to press it to choose different settings. I have to choose between it being a right hand controlled cash register or a left hand cash register. While I’m trying to figure out how to work this weird cash register J. is talking to me about something irrelevant and I’m telling him to be quiet in a somewhat harsh matter. I can’t concentrate when he’s talking.

29/30 september:

I’m buying some equipment for my kayak and some kayak clothing. I’m trying to find out which size paddling shoes I should buy. I’m also asking the store clerk how to take care of the equipment; how should I wash the life west and spray skirt? Is it easier to wash a sprayskirt than a life west? How about the drysuit? The dream shifts and I’m out on the water. Jh. is paddling next to me. We’re at sea and I can taste the salt on my lips. Suddenly J’s phone rings, but he doesn’t answer it. It keeps ringing and I realize it’s not his phone; it’s mine… I answer it, and I wake up… (It turns out it was my alarm clock…)

30/01 september/october:

Dream fragment:

I’m walking over the bridge in my hometown. I’m humming a tune of the band ‘Dumdumboys’. A lot of people are there and they’re standing on the old bridge pillars in the water. Some of them are jumping in the water; it seems like some sort of organized activity. Like they’re playing a game or something. There’s a weight lifter lady there too; she’s having trouble lifting a heavy weight and people around her start saying ‘she’s really not that strong, you know…’

Dream fragment:

I’m doing some maintenance in my aquariums. I notice the Nesaea plant is not doing well; it’s loosing its leaves and is clearly dying. I decide I have to sell one of my aquariums to get the money to buy more lighting for my planted tank. My cat is sitting next to the aquarium as I’m working in it. She spots a fish and wants to catch it; she jumps up and right in to the glass of the aquarium. I laugh and turn around to tell my boyfriend how silly our cat is acting. I say; ‘Ha-ha, look at what ‘My’ just did!’ I wake up realizing I’m talking in my sleep…

01/02 october:

I’m out paddling my kayak. I’m all alone and have decided to go for a weekend trip. I paddle in to the bank of the river. Apparently this is where my mother’s aunt and uncle live (M and H), and I want to visit them. I realize the cargo rooms in the kayak have filled with water and I think to myself it’s lucky I didn’t sink. I lift up the front of the kayak, getting ready to turn it upside down to empty it out, when I realize I’m inside M and H’s house. I’m standing in their living room about to empty the water from my kayak on their living room floor. I put down my kayak, happy that I realized this before any harm was done. I’m pouring the water in to a bucket instead, using a cup. M starts talking about how the carpenter that built the house hasn’t done a good job, she says the walls have cracks in them, but I can’t see any cracks… There’s also a kitten in the room. It’s playing and having fun as kittens often do. I think it’s very cute. The dream shifts… I’m in my mother’s house and I’m telling her about the kitten. I also tell her about my kayak leaking in water in the cargo rooms; she says she thinks it sounds like it’s dangerous paddling that kayak if it’s leaking. The dream shifts again… My mother is driving me somewhere. I’m supposed to compete in a paddling contest. When we arrive I realize I’ve forgotten my drysuit and I start jogging back home to get it. It feels good jogging, and it’s going quite fast. I don’t feel tired at all. I get my drysuit at home and start jogging back. When I get back the race has already started, but I hurry to put on the suit and push the kayak on to the water. I’m ready to start just before everybody has disappeared around the first turn of the river.

02/03 october:

I’m sitting on my boyfriends lap. We’re on a swing. We’re talking about a strange construction that has suddenly appeared behind our house. It’s very big; like an electric tower or something. I find it so strange that I tell my boyfriend ‘maybe we’re dreaming’… I do a RC just for fun, I laugh as I do it because I’m obviously awake. (!) My boyfriend laughs too; he thinks I’m a bit silly doing a RC when it’s so obvious this is real life. I pinch my nose shut, and can breathe through it!! I say to my boyfriend; ‘this IS a dream’, but I don’t really believe it myself so I do another RC (finger through palm) and it fails. I say; ‘this is real life after all’… (It really felt so much like real life... I'm so suprised of how real it all feels even though it's just a dream.) We keep talking about the weird tower, and then the dream shifts (I dreamt something in between, but I can’t remember what it was)… I’m driving a car. I’m having some trouble stopping and I drive past the house I’m supposed to go to. It’s some kind of kindergarten or school or something. When I finally get there I see that it is not a school; it’s the house that my grandmother used to live in. My aunts are there and they are acting as though I have some nerve showing up there as it is their house now after my grandmother died. I feel sad and a bit angry, but I leave the house without arguing as everything there seems strange and unfamiliar now that my grandmother is gone…

Then I wake up…

Assignment:

I think DILD will be the best method for me as I have trouble waking up for a WBTB. I find it very difficult to wake up before I’ve had 9 hours of sleep (even with an alarm clock). The DILD and DEILD will suit me better than WILD, I think. I also think that, even though the RC failed somewhat in that last dream, I’m starting to become a bit more aware in my dreams. With that in mind the DILD method might be good enough for me to start having LDs more regular. I just have to work more on the RCs in real life.

Dream goals:

-Flying
-Summon Jh. and spend time with him.
-Win the chess world championship. (lol)