Nice work, your recall is really coming along nicely :)
I can feel your lucidity just around the corner ;)
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Nice work, your recall is really coming along nicely :)
I can feel your lucidity just around the corner ;)
Hahaha. Oh yes, it's coming. ;)
No luck last night. Read over Mancon's WILD guide last night, tried out what he suggested, but I think I was too tired. If anyone knows, how do you "passively observe" your thoughts as you WILD? I totally forgot what I was doing and fell asleep.
Dream and Fragment from last night:
Take Cover
This dream was kind of faded, so I can't remember it well. My family was at my mother's house, sort of. Some guys walked up to our house (about our age) and warned us of an attack from thugs/older guys on our house. The younger guys said that they would fend them off, but we would have to run and hide. I remember asking one of them where to run. I think he said down the street to the nearest house, or behind the hill in our backyard.
The thugs/older guys didn't come I don't think. Not sure if the younger guys went home or not.
(Fragment) I Found You
I remember seeing a black cat walk past me and in front of me. I looked down. "Oh my gosh." I thought. I bent my head forward, and the cat butted its head with mine. "Midnight!" I yelled. (He's been gone for a while, he's probably dead.. but we don't know) The butting heads thing is our little handshake. ;) I stroked him for a few minutes, then my dream ended.
I miss that cat.
I think he means to watch your thoughts but not to engage in them or give them too much attention. Like dont chase a thought, just let them pass until you fall asleep. Its basically meditating, but i could misunderstand what he wants you to do. Hope you find midnight, its good you found him in a dream, maybe he can become a dream companion/guide. Good luck Sydney!
You have to try different mindsets, if one doesn't work for a few tries, try the next. Passively observe what you see but try to remain conscious by different ways. Counting, focusing on breathing etc. KingYoshi has a very good WILD guide aswell. I know you'll get it one day :)
I never thought about that, hashmash. that would be epic if my cat was my dream guide ;)
Thanks Matte! I guess I'll do what Mancon suggests, (just not focusing on thoughts) then maybe try counting then breathing again.
So last night, I almosttt got a DEILD! I was so excited. This is what happened: I was in a dream, when all of a sudden I heard a door open. I woke up immediately, and flashed my eyes open but did not move. I immediately closed them. I was still in SP though. I felt little vibrations in my stomach, and my left foot felt like it was propped up on a box! It was so weird! My hands were very very warm, and behind my eyelids I could see tiny fireworks almost, but no HI. The vibrations stopped after a couple of seconds, but the warmness and the "boxlike" thing under my left foot stayed there as well. My body started getting warmer. It went from my hands all the way up to my shoulders and stomach. Then the heat started leaving my hands a little I think. I was really excited at this point, but I think that I was thinking too much. By now, it had been about 5 minutes, and then, I swallowed. I didn't even control it, it just happened.. I was trying to imagine a landscape or something, but it didn't really work. I think my eyes opening then shutting at the start (and also the swallowing) ruined everything.
After around 10 minutes or so, I still had that same weird feeling under my foot, but the warmness had gone away. I finally got fed up and bored and opened my eyes and moved. I RCed just to make sure I wasn't in an FA, and I wasn't. :(
Didn't have time this morning to write down dreams. The dream I had used to be a whole, but now its just a fragment.
Fragment:
My friend (Anna) and my other friend (Anna Grace) were sitting in a classroom together. I heard them talking about something that happened recently. Anna used to be my best friend (in RL), but Anna Grace took over my role. So now I don't really like her.
So anyways, I overheard from them that Anna overheard that Anna Grace talked about Anna behind her back to some guy at her church that I didn't even know, and some other girl named Sydney White. Lol. So Anna got ticked, and was mad at her.
Then the dream ended.
What was really ironic was that a similar thing happened today. Anna Grace told a guy a grade above me that Anna was his "girlfriend" (She told everyone that she meant girl - friend). But of course she really didn't and Anna got mad. It was so weird haha.
Aw close call Sydney! Your biggest obstacle is definitely your excitement. Just like in a lucid dream, don't get too excited, just go with the flow :)
I know, it seems that I get very very veryy excited whenever I'm in an LD/getting some SP. I gotta work on that lol!
So no dreams remembered at all last night. My WILD wasn't very successful either. I guess I have to learn to count my breaths more once I start to drift into my thoughts...
Woke up to alarm but fell back asleep. D'ahhh...
I remember some fragments, though. I didn't have time to write them down this morning.
Fragment:
I remember having created a whale in the sea in some virtual world, almost like the sims. I put the game on "pause" and I "zoomed" and "rotated" across the whale to see the whole thing. I woke up shortly after, and it hurt my neck and made me feel dizzy once I woke up.
Fragment:
I was at my mother's house, I think. It was more open than usual, it seemed like a wall was taken away somewhere. I remember that we had to go somewhere and dress formal. My step-mother was there, telling us to hurry up. My older sister Ken had the mascara, and I vividly remember her putting it on. I was patiently waiting for it, too.
Fragment 3:
My favorite teacher at our school was moving. I was really sad. That's really all I remember.
I had some vivid fragments last night. :D I forgot most of the dreams, but the rest I remember vividly.
No luck on WILDing last night.
So anyways...
Fragment:
I must have been at a college, or a home place, because our dorms only had a bathroom and bedroom in it. I walked down a white hall and entered a room. There was a big window on the side of the room, with sunlight pouring in. There was no furniture in this room. The floor was hardwood. I looked to the left to see a little hall with a closet, and a bathroom. I loved it. I layed on the floor and imagined myself living in this room.
So I can't remember many dreams from last night, only fragments. I didn't feel like posting them today hahaha.
But for some reason, some of my dreams include fat people assaulting me. :/ I really hope that that's not a dream sign harhar.
I remember reading on of your dreams in which there was a fat person, perhaps it IS a dreamsign! :) Anyways it's good to see you're still active. You're the only one who has posted this weekend, which is a bit sad. Keep it up!
Uh oh, I hope some of us don't become inactive! :/
Thanks! Going for a WILD tonight, with the help of VERY relaxing ocean wave sounds going on loop. :)
No luck with WILDing last night. I was listening to an Ocean Sounds mp3, that was on loop. I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to hear SP noises, and that I would hear something loud from it, then open my eyes and I might see someone staring at me.
So I just took my headphones off and went to sleep. :(
I put the mp3 on my iPod Nano. I don't know how to just make it play once, because when I go to its album and play it, it automatically goes to another song afterwards.
BTW, the mp3 is 10 minutes long.
Oh and no dreams remembered last night.
Nice try though :)
Thanks! Will try the same thing tonight again, I'll probably put a pillow a few feet in front of my face to block out.. the view.
LOL.
I'm such a scaredy cat! ^-^
No recall last night. I was soo asleep when my alarm went off that I ignored it completely after shutting it off. Like I just fell back to sleep.
Yea, wasn't a very good night.
Dont worry sydney ive had a bad week to be fair. Finally got a decent 2 dreams recorded today but had to FORCE myself.
Good luck for tonight anyway ^_^
OMG I totally need some forcing.. DISCIPLINE IS KEY! Lol.
And good job! Hopefully it turns out well for me tonight :)
*points gun at sydney's head*
WRITE YOUR MUTHA FU**IN DREAMS DOWN NOWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!
Hehe. Good luck.
okay okayy! Lol :)
Didn't remember a darned thing last night!
I'm thinking about taking a break from WILDing for a week or so; just because I haven't been being consistent or approaching it the right way.
But next time when I get back to WILDing -- for sure, I'll be at it :)
Sounds good to me Sydney :) There's no HAVE to, but WANT to. Now go get some DILD's ;)
Last night was quite an eventful night.
I guess the stress knowing I didn't really have to WILD last night REALLY helped me. :)
Almost got a DEILD and attempted a WILD because I was feeling lucky.
But no success. I went back to my old method that made me successful on my first WILD: listening to the blood in the back of my head. It kind of made my head hurt at first, though; so I more focused on outside sounds like my air conditioner.
So about an 5 hours and 15 minutes after falling asleep last night, I woke up unexpectedly and heard this loud digging noise or something. It sounded like my cat was either moving the cat litter around, or my dog came in and was eating the.. yeah. But that sound only lasted for about 2 seconds. My eyes opened wide, then I quickly closed them. Nothing seemed strange. But, I noticed, I was halfway relaxed, so I went with that. I tried not to focus on my almost relaxed body. But then I heard a big thud, which scared me, and made me sit up. Yeah I gotta work on that.
So I WILDed after about 15 minutes of waking up. I failed, but I had a quite an interesting dream. Non lucid though. I had several other dreams after that, and after each I would wake up so I could remember them.
Well, here they are.
Spending the Night in the Gym:
We were told to spend the night in our school's gym. Ken, Sam, my little brother Tom, and I; all had to spend the night. We brought sleeping bags and places them in the middle of the large gym. We were too scared to turn off all of the lights, so Ken only turned off the light of the side we were on, as well as the weight rooms. We were afraid to look into them.
We layed down in our sleeping bags. We were kind of fighting about who we didn't want to sleep by, but I don't see how it could have mattered because we had so much space. I ended up sleeping inbetween Ken and Sam, and Sam was already asleep.
Right after we nestled into our sleeping bags, I sat up. I heard a thudding noise. Like someone was walking outside. I told Ken, she said she heard it too. We started freaking out, not knowing who it was. So we tiptoed to the lobby (which was right behind us) and saw a dark shadow at the door. The door slowly creaked open to reveal a dark figure. He said something, and sure enough, it was my dad. He came to check on us I think.
Awkward Silence
We were back in our gymnasium again. Only this time, it was 7th period, P.E. Everyone was there who was 9th through 12th grades. We were all dressed and didn't have our P.E. clothes on, but were playing anyway.
I walked up to my gym teacher. I asked her if we had to spend the night in the gym again. She said that she OWES it to us. (For what? It's not fun sleeping there...) That we had 7 weeks that we could spend the night in the gym if we wanted. But I didn't know what to say, so I walked away.
A girl at my school in the 10th grade (who likes to act cute and thinks she is.. she also thinks that she is a good singer lol) was standing by the lobby in front of her 2 peers. She was dressed in some sort of gown thing. Suddenly, we all faced her. She sang a large, loud tune, like she was at the end of the song. It echoed throughout the whole gym. After it, no one said a word. No one clapped or anything. We all laughed under our breaths. I turned around, trying to stifle my laughing, and saw that 3 guys in my class were motioning for me to come. Probably to ditch. I don't know, I never found out.
(Fragment) It's a Surprise Seeing You Here
I was dropped off by a school bus I think, in a house. A large house. I found myself in a long hallway with many rooms.
I didn't know what to do, because I think I was alone.
Sometime during the dream, a kid had guided my father to the same building I was in. That kid had no idea that I was in there. And that kid might have been my little brother, but who knows. My dad was taking a shower as the little boy left. I was hiding out in my dad's room, so that he could see me.
I can't really remember the rest. It was a weird dream.
Nice recall sydney, RANDOM dreams too!
Its shame about the WILDS, but keep it up xD