Rant, Cry and Complain Thread for Dream related issues

[Oceandrop]

I am sure most of you know the Rant and Rave, Cry and Complain topic in the Lounge, but here is the Thread you all have truely waited for! The Rant, Cry and Complain Thread for Dream related issues! This Thread is for all the problems you have with Dreams, just get them off your Chest, but first do a RealityCheck! We surely don't want that you type a really long complain over your latest failed attempt to accomplish the Task of the Month and than suddenly wake up! So start now, tell us about all the problems you had, the Nightmares, the boring dreams, your lucid dream sex just all the dirty little secrets your mind hides away in your drea.. ah no I mean of course the failed attempts to get lucid dream sex in the first place! This is just for all the ones that have not yet mastered lucid dreaming even after years of practice, and for all who have, but still have times where they struggle. For all of you that for a change just want to Rant, Cry and Complain about their Subconscious Mind again playing tricks with them! We don't make a difference here, if you did not recall any dreams today; get if off your chest! If you hit a dry-spell; Complain now! If you just woke up before you accomplished the latest Task of the Month; Tell us right away! Ps: If you have a DreamJournal on DV, or another topic that relates to your rant, you may also post the links with your complains. Happy complaining

[paigeyemps]

Kdiuagd€}{£€)42)&bdiusubbkjfheukfh$&\_£€!! FFS. I hate that I recalled too many dream fragments that it overwhelmed me and I ended up not writing any of them down because of frustration. Also, I hate no-recall days but oh well. Such is the life of a dreamer. Ò_Ó

[Highlander]

I hardly write anything down in my bedside notes immediately upon waking. I have got too lazy. It is like I'm thinking about how to write it down, but I cannot think straight, so I try to memorize it in my head instead. Sometimes this has a very undesired effect of messing my sleep up as the thoughts seem to go round in an endless anxiety loop before I eventually get up. I usually force myself to at least write something down, usually in keyword form which helps. Dreaming doesn't seem fun anymore?

[Carrot]

I want my dream journal on DV to work properly again! I can't remember dreams as well as I used to, at least it's getting better now... My dreams were kind of boring recently but I'm glad it got better too. Lol. Does that count as a rant?

[Carrot]

The moment when you wake up and you wonder why you had such weird and pervertic dreams.

[paigeyemps]

^^ yep

[Booney]

I've let every DILD opportunity so far slip through my fingers. It wouldn't be such a big deal if it wasn't so obvious.

[Carrot]

If only numbers could stop jumping about in my dreams.

[paigeyemps]

Gaaaaah It's so annoying when you wake up and KNOW you got lucid but can't remember ANYTHING at all >:[ I would rather not remember having been lucid at all, than have my subconscious taunt me throughout the rest of the day.

[Highlander]

Getting no sex lucid (dreams.)

[Oceandrop]

I was sick the last days and when I recalled dreams I was often too lazy/drowsy to record them :'( Today I am refreshed and back on the track and recorded my dreams.

[SilverJay]

Forgetting to write a few dreams in my Dream Journal, Reality Checks, and my alarm clock failing for my WBTB- 10 days in a row. Oh, and once that was over, insomnia kicked in to whack off my sleeping schedule for any attempts.. Woo.

[Amurehna]

Why the hell can't I have good sex dreams? Why are they all scary or gross? It's making me mad >.<! They're either rape nightmares or they start off normal and take a disturbing turn. (Initially I posted this in the regular rant, rave thread. So of course I saw this one afterward. Decided to move it.)

[Subjects]

I dislike false awakenings.... I had a moment last year where i woke up, and was like "It's great to be alive today!" and i turned over in my bed and was about to get up when i saw this giant snake on the floor and it instantly jumped up and wrapped itself around my neck. My emotion at that moment went like: Darn, i'm still dreaming -_- And other times i think i've woken up and went on to text people and have great conversations. Then the morning actually comes and i find out none of it ever happened.

[PostScript99]

It sucks to go to bed knowing that you’ll probably only get 2 hours of sleep, and knowing that you’ll spend the night with only strange hallucinations and meditation to keep you company. The next day will be spent sleepwalking through daily tasks, trying but failing to nap, sleeping in, and continuing the cycle. I can barely remember one dream a night, sometimes two. No recall is common, and dream journals have no effect on recall. Also lucidity level is low, with little to no waking life memories, so some lucids are spent walking around aimlessly, which is fun to do on occasion, but gets boring very fast. Need to attempt basic control tasks such as walking through walls and teleportation, and completion of all 5 TOTMs in one dream. That’s all the problems I need to solve.

[Amurehna]

Dear subconscious, would you kindly stop giving me weird series crossover dreams? It's weird and I don't like it.

[Linkzelda]

Oh my, seems I'm going to set camp on this thread too. One thing that bothers me lately is that despite of how I tried to recall my dreams as much as possible, I feel as if I'm holding back too much. I know that I'm trying to come to terms with my mind, and finding a dream character/thought-form and me lending faith that they're a conduit in accessing my unconscious. Before I was so indulged with all of the things a person can do, and never bothered to analyze too much on if it's really based on our faith and behavior that can make us have amazing lucid dreams that can really add on to our life. And when I felt I was going left and right and in all directions into confusion of trying to justify if I'm crazy to talk to elements of myself in my dreams, and feeling that they could be sentient and have substance as a character with their own sense of self, I ultimately came to the conclusion when it comes to experiential learning, even when I think I figured out all there is to myself, there's just so much more. I feel I'm getting a lot better at understanding my dreaming self and waking life self, and how I can go about having better inward attention to have more lucid dreams. And because of that, it makes me motivated to draw my dreams out more since I know how to use the faith of thought-energy becoming real to me in the dreaming state of consciousness. But even with that, it's almost hard to pick a dream where I actually take the time to draw out to the best of my abilities, because there's non-lucid dreams that just make me react a certain way that continues to increase my awareness of what I thought I had solved. And I know that with how I'm learning hypnosis to just get better concentration and reformatting how I see and learn things unconsciously and all that, I guess it's safe to assume that I'm at a loss of what to do now that I have one route (hypnosis) that can extend to many. All it takes is for me to type a few sensory details, setting agreement frames within it to convince the critical factor that we all have, "Hey, this is what I want to learn, this is how I see myself experiencing this lesson, and this is why I feel it's beneficial, think you can slip this in my unconscious for me buddy?" It's just that now I know I can do the things I used to do and more, but with a more level-headed and calm demeanor than before, there's just so many things I want to do because of it. I guess I just have to work at one goal at a time, and being able to learn and make hypnosis scripts for dream-related goals is becoming easier and easier. I think that's a big problem I feel most people have, we can fathom the potential we can achieve with dreaming, but we often freeze at the wonders behind it, and it's difficult to find a good starting point. But with anything in life and in dreaming life, I guess it's a matter of just expanding our awareness. Like our unconscious being this gargantuan cave that's continuing to expand while our conscious is us holding on to a torch that has limited range of perception. And the more we expand this light and becoming more aware of ourselves, it seems like it's a never-ending finish line in the exploration of self and much more. It's almost intimidating that one can't satisfy their instant-gratification urges because of this expanding unconscious, but I guess I should find solace in the fact that there's always more alternatives to conceptualize things if I become aware to the probability of them being there. And just learning how to explore what's inside, doing the same outward.....it's just...hard to put into words.

[paigeyemps]

Ohiffeoubdjonfrenljerf AGH FKIN SNAKES EVERYWHERE. GO AWAY, K THANKS

[rham]

I had my first lucid last weekend and have not recalled a single dream since then. I usually recall about 2 every night.

[ParadoxOwl]

My sleeping is a mess, I'm always in pain, I CANT DREAM IN PAIN!!