Thread: Twoshadows' Dream Journal

Originally Posted by Man of Shred

Nice Twoshadows. That reminds me of the dream i had a few years ago when i brought a friend over to your house and mowed your lawn. .

You're just so helpful...

I'm going to be gone a few days up to see my sister with cancer.

And I went kayaking today. Will post pics when I get back.

Kayaking pics from last Tuesday.

Is there anything more magical than sunshine and water?









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Wow! Really beautiful, Twoshadows.

That last one... The water is so calm, it's like a mirror. I love them.

Originally Posted by Twoshadows

Is there anything more magical than sunshine and water?

Couldn't you have said "Is there anything more beautiful than sunshine and water?" Then I could say "Yes, you "

Oh well.


So gorgeous. I wanna go kayaking with you, that place just looks so gorgeous. I'll bet it's fantastic swimming too.... when it gets warmer.

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Wow! Really beautiful, Twoshadows.

That last one... The water is so calm, it's like a mirror. I love them.

Thanks Delphinius.

Yeah I love the way the water in some places was so still that it reflected just like a mirror. It was just perfect.

Edit: Here is another cool reflection picture I took:



Another thing I love is that going up canyon-- and then back, are such different experiences. The lighting usually changes a lot in just a few hours.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Couldn't you have said "Is there anything more beautiful than sunshine and water?" Then I could say "Yes, you "

You just did say that...

Thanks Ninja.

So gorgeous. I wanna go kayaking with you, that place just looks so gorgeous. I'll bet it's fantastic swimming too.... when it gets warmer.

In about June the water will really warm up. And you're right, the swimming is fantastic. There are places by the shore where the water is shallow where it warms up just like a warm bath. Then when you swim out deeper it gradually cools down. Then you get out in the wonderful 100 degree heat and dry off quickly. Then you can do it all over again. And there are great sandy beaches in places. And if you explore you can find your own private beach (like those pictures I posted last October--post #2402)

Man, I love this place.

Also...my friend and I took a hike at the end of the canyon. I guess it's warm enough for the rattlers now.



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Okay dreams:

Dream 1:

I was driving though a middle eastern desert town with a friend in an open jeep at night. After we left the city I told my friend to turn on the headlights because it was too dark to see any more than the faintest outline of the road. But before she could turn them on I felt claws in my leg. I started to tell my friend that a bobcat had jumped on me, but she spoke first and said "Ow..it's a coyote". It startled me to the point I woke up.

Dream two:

I was in the garage. I was moving boxes. I picked up a small box and set it on a bigger box. After I set it down I could see several black widows spiders crawl around the side of the box. Finally four came into view. I was so creeped out that I had just had that box in my hands that I grabbed a bottle of bug spray that happened to be right next to me and started spraying the black widows. They fell to the floor and as they walked slowly away from the box, I stepped on them. They were big and I could feel them stick to the bottom of my shoe.

Dream 3:

I was hiking on a trail that I was supposedly familiar with. But I came to a spot with a huge drop off and it made me so nervous I decided to take an alternate route.


Fragment:

Something about laying in the sand in the desert with a guy.

Semi lucid fragment:

I was on my bed falling down and floating back up and enjoying the ability of doing that, knowing that I am able to do that in dreams.

Your pictures drive me crazy! I'm so jealous. The still mirrored water looks incredible. Was the lake empty? How was the water so still?

I remember swimming in lake powell. Jumping directly off the rocks into water that was hudreds of feet deep. That scares me the most, that those narrow canyons you are photographing can be so deep. I don't know if people know that, just by looking at those pictures. Those are not shallow streams you could wade through. Even though they are narrow, they can be almost bottomless in parts. Sheer cliffs that run straight vertically down into the depths. Imagine swimming in the Grand Canyon filled with water! It adds such an unreal feeling of age and mystery. Anything could be lurking down there.

Yes--that's exactly right.

Sometimes I will be kayaking in an especially clear area where the sunlight is shining just right on the edge of the cliffs as they go down in the water. And I can see the wall go down maybe 25 feet below me, then the shelf suddenly ends and I can see just blackness under me. And I sometimes feel that momentary thrill of fear as I realize how deep it goes.

It was a really quiet day on the lake. It still isn't the busy season yet. We saw maybe three other boats in the canyon (usually in and out quickly because they are in boats with motors). We were the only ones in kayaks taking our time and really enjoying the beauty of it all. So most of the time we were alone and had long periods of time where people were not disturbing the water. So if I just slowed or stopped I could get those beautiful reflection shots.

How high did you jump from? I'm such a weenie when it comes to jumping off high things. Cliff diving (over 15 feet) is officially prohibited at Lake Powell because so many people have died doing it. There are always posters up with warnings. Like this one:

http://www.nps.gov/rabr/planyourvisi...ter_042805.pdf

Lake Powell can be deadly. In Antelope canyon where we were kayaking and hiking there have been deaths too by flash flood. One of my other friends who I kayak with used to do search and rescue and did scuba diving to help recover bodies. She helped search this canyon after 11 hikers were washed to their deaths. One of the first times when we were hiking she was looking around, telling me that not all the bodies were recovered and told me to keep a look out for human bones that might be sticking out of the eroded sandy places.

http://climb-utah.com/Powell/flash_antelope.htm

And if you read that article that first body was discovered by my friend.

Wow...so on that pleasant note... maybe I'll go find another pretty picture to post.

That's frightening I was a kid, at the time, so it seemed really high. I'm sure it really wasn't more than 15 feet. There is no way I would jump from 70 feet up! That is crazy! I know some hard core guys back in Hawaii who might try, but they pretty much live in the water, surf 30 foot waves, and would be perfectly happy dying for something like that.

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

That's frightening I was a kid, at the time, so it seemed really high. I'm sure it really wasn't more than 15 feet. There is no way I would jump from 70 feet up! That is crazy! I know some hard core guys back in Hawaii who might try, but they pretty much live in the water, surf 30 foot waves, and would be perfectly happy dying for something like that.

Yeah, I can't imagine risking my life for a little thrill. I'm pretty cautious. But I still like to have fun. So I find ways of having fun while being relatively safe. I suppose there is always a little risk when going out into areas like this. But you don't have to be stupid.

Here are a couple more pics:





You can see how the flash floods have carved out the rock. Pretty cool.



Dream:

I dreamed that I was going to the Grand Canyon to camp. I then realized that it was almost dark, and by the time I got there it would be completley dark. I also realized that by the time I got there there would be no places left in the campgrounds.

Originally Posted by Twoshadows

You can see how the flash floods have carved out the rock. Pretty cool.

Amazing...

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Amazing...

Yeah it really is. I never get tired of it.


Dream:

My typical driving in the city nightmare.

I was driving somewhere to meet my friend Anne. I ended up in the middle of these freeways that turned into huge parking structures. And I got totally lost. I didn't know where to go or how to get back.

I was so glad to wake up from this one.

We need to plan a mass VW kayaking trip, leaving from your house. You host it this year in Lake Powell, and I'll host it next year in Hawaii

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

We need to plan a mass VW kayaking trip, leaving from your house. You host it this year in Lake Powell, and I'll host it next year in Hawaii

Would be fun, but it seems these things never really work out.


Dream:

I was back in Sri Lanka. I was with my friend Sherri and we were on the beach. We sat next to a group of people. We realized that it was some of the members of Duran Duran. There were there with their wives and children. I thought it was cool that they had also enjoyed Sri Lanka enough to come back with their families. We seemd to hang out for a while together without really talking.

Later I was going with a Sri Lankan girl to this kind of theater. It was in this house. The movie was shown on the wall and we had to have head phones to hear. A lady gave me a can of frozen soda. I had to break the can open around the side to get to the frozen drink. I ended up making a mess and was embarrassed.

Later I was out walking through the streets wanting to take pictures.

At another point I was with this older single guy that had a child. I felt attracted to him. But later he was flirting with a much older woman. I felt a little rejected.

Originally Posted by Twoshadows

Yeah, I can't imagine risking my life for a little thrill. I'm pretty cautious. But I still like to have fun. So I find ways of having fun while being relatively safe. I suppose there is always a little risk when going out into areas like this. But you don't have to be stupid.

Here are a couple more pics:





You can see how the flash floods have carved out the rock. Pretty cool.



Dream:

I dreamed that I was going to the Grand Canyon to camp. I then realized that it was almost dark, and by the time I got there it would be completley dark. I also realized that by the time I got there there would be no places left in the campgrounds.

That's kinda surreal, perfectly cool

Who's the pretty girl?

The girl in the above picture is me. I'm making an effort of make sure I get in a picture or two from time to time.


Oh and Ninja, I had a dream with you in it last night.

Dream:

I was listening to a talk radio show about exercise and fitness. The discussion turned to Vitamins. I decided to call in and share my opinion. I noticed that Ninja also called in.

Then the format changed to the internet. And we were typing in our responses. I can't remember all the details of the conversation. We then started talking about B12 self injections to help with energy. I told about how my friend and I had done that for a short while. And while I felt some improvement, it wasn't significant for me to continue long term. I remember Ninja writing that he was surprised that I had done that.

I like making it into the dreams of beautiful women. I would be surprised if you used B6, you seem to get lucid on your own plenty.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

I like making it into the dreams of beautiful women. I would be surprised if you used B6, you seem to get lucid on your own plenty.

Thanks.

(But I don't seem to be getting lucid very much these days. Maybe I should go back to using B6 occasionally...)

Couldn't hurt. I didn't recognize you without a camera in front of half of your face

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Couldn't hurt. I didn't recognize you without a camera in front of half of your face

What, do you mean like this?
















Among others....



Okay...anyway...


I don't remember a single dream from last night. Hmm.


But I have been singing the same song in my head for the last ...week.

So listen away...so you can get it stuck in your head too. (Actually I really like the song, so it's okay...really)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpkVt9XTdtg

Holy Cow, it was the Night of the Animal Attack Dreams last night!


Dream 1:

I was in a tent thing with my sister. I don't remember all that happened until the end. I suddenly see the silhouette of a bear on the other side of the tent. At first I felt fairly safe in side the tent. Then my sister suddenly paniced. And it was as if I also suddenly knew we were in trouble. At that moment the whole tent thing started flipping over.

I popped awake so fast and my heart was beating like crazy. It took several minutes to calm down after that one. It's been a while since I have had a dream that got me so worked up like that.


Dream 2:

I was in what was supposed to be my bedroomin my house. I was with several other people that I was supposed to be friends/family with.

I look twards my closet and see an albino cobra. It had just given birth to several babies. I am suddenly very upset becasue I will never be able to relax in my home until we get the cobras out. And I know that the babies are every bit as dangerous as the adults.



So the whole next part of the dream is trying to kill the cobras.

At one point one struck at me and it's fang caught on the hem of my jeans saving me from actually getting bitten.

The dreams seems to last forever. We had a snake expert come in and try to help us. He reminded me of the Crocodile Hunter.

By the end of the dream he was dead and I was so upset.



Dream 3:

I was outside with my family we had climbed to the top of a children's climber set becasue of the hyenas that were roaming. And we knew how dangerous they were. I remember several time I realized I hadn't climbed as high as I thought I had and I panic and try to get higher.


Dream 4:

Then I have this oddball dream where I am eating pudding and it tastes so good. When my bowl is gone I go to my fridge and try to make up a new batch of pudding using cream and other ingredients tha are there.

Yep, just like that. You are so pretty You play the electric guitar?

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Yep, just like that. You are so pretty You play the electric guitar?

Not really. I just own one and just like to take my picture with it from time to time pretending that I'm, like, cool or something. About every two years or so I decide that I'm going to learn how to play it. That only lasts for a few weeks.

Ah, and thanks. And haven't you figured out that I'm only pretty when half of me shows?