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My Monkey and I
One too funny to not share...
In a NLD last night I found myself in a crowded pub in Ireland trying to properly set up their security cameras. It was difficult for a couple of reasons. Pub-goers kept bumping into my ladder, making me afraid I was going to fall, plus, my assistant who handed me tools and such was a little monkey who couldn't speak... although he did understand what I had to say.
A pretty girl approaches and looks up at me. I think, "That pretty girl wants to talks to me." She says, "Nice monkey" and walks off.
Things keep going downhill in that every time I re-check one of the cameras, the image is entirely different. After hours of this, I'm getting really hungry but I have no idea where I'm staying or how I might get some food. Makes me feel a little of that lost feeling. (dream sign)
It occurred to me that I could be dreaming... but I quickly rejected the thought as an impossibility.
I look at my monkey assistant and he nods knowingly at me, and I again think "maybe I am dreaming." I consider the idea briefly before telling my monkey he must be on drugs, because there's no way I'm dreaming. The monkey shakes his head, gives me a dirty look, and takes off his tool belt. He seems really disgusted with me.
My attention goes to food again, and I reach for my wallet, only to find I'm not wearing any clothes. I take a moment to reflect... I'm naked in a crowded pub in Ireland, up a ladder, and I'm arguing with a monkey who seems to think it's all a dream. After a moment I think... "what if I really am dreaming? Finally the reality sinks in!
I become lucid, but it's all so funny to me that I wake up, at home in bed. Luckily I was able to catch a DEILD and had enough REM left to work on the LD skills I had decided upon earlier.
How dumb are we in dreams? For me at least, the answer is "dumber than a fire plug."
Sheesh!
Niall
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I wish I had a monkey who would tell me when I'm dreaming. :cheeky:
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We all have the monkeys. For me, in one dream it was the annoying realtor lady who out of the blue said "I love you," another was seeing landscape [that shouldn't exist in its location] morph before me eyes, another one was encountering a person whom I knew "shouldn't be there."
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Funny.
*Dreams are best suited for a dream journal though. Unless lucid, then in the lucid experiences, please.
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Well - this is a very special dream indeed - I believe it has it's justification here.
I am very interested and intrigued by this - as was Sageous, who as far as I am aware is of the opinion, that the unconscious rather has a tendency to keep us off lucidity. And if I remember correctly - this was not the only dream, in which you explicitly got told, this would be a dream. That is more than what you have Fryingman.
Is it eventually possible to have a dream-character - maybe one, which you "construct" in your LDs - and have it show up in your normal dreams and make you lucid?!
Maybe one could tell that to a DC and it works?
I've been commenting on this wonderful dream before - and I am still highly envious of your little monkey, Nailler!
Maybe I could use my avatar cat - so I would have her in my sights in the day as well.