Thread: Twoshadows' Dream Journal

Wow TS, those photos are great! They make me feel like doing something a bit adventurous...

Wow that one rock formation looks almost like a human skull

Anyway I'm getting back into dream journaling again. Come by my dj sometime.

Thanks packmania!

I go out hiking/kayaking every week. And each time is an adventure. Every time we see something different, whether it be rattelsnakes or bighorned sheep or great blue heron...it's always exciting.

Here is my video of that day.

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

That looks almost like out of a dream cool.

Originally Posted by Man of Shred

Wow that one rock formation looks almost like a human skull

Anyway I'm getting back into dream journaling again. Come by my dj sometime.

Hi Ranma/Man of Shred (still trying to get used to that change)....

Yeah, my friend pointed the "skull" out to me so I took that picture. It turned out to be a really cool picture, I think.

Good for you for DJing again. I'm doing the bare minimum here. But it think it helps me to have the occassional LD still.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

That looks almost like out of a dream cool.

Which one? The skull? Pretty cool, huh?

Our kayaking/hiking adventures always are like dreams. Way cool.....

Originally Posted by Twoshadows

Good for you for DJing again. I'm doing the bare minimum here. But it think it helps me to have the occassional LD still.

Yeah i ahd the occasional lucid after i hadn't gone for a while too. I seem to waste them on telling DC's they are only figments of my imagination.

Originally Posted by Man of Shred

Yeah i ahd the occasional lucid after i hadn't gone for a while too. I seem to waste them on telling DC's they are only figments of my imagination.

Funny how we sometimes get stuck in a rut and do the same things in LDs. That's why I used to always plan what I would do ahead of time. It helped prevent that problem.

I need to have a plan...maybe that would help me LD more these days.

Originally Posted by Twoshadows

I need to have a plan...maybe that would help me LD more these days.

Well do you have some lucid goals you would like to try? maybe make a plan with that. My plan is to become lucid and change dreams at will. going from one place to another.

Originally Posted by Man of Shred

Well do you have some lucid goals you would like to try? maybe make a plan with that. My plan is to become lucid and change dreams at will. going from one place to another.

That's a cool goal. Good luck.

I have lots of goals. But I need to pinpoint one or two, otherwise I can 't focus.

Lately all I have been doing in LDs is flying, eating desserts, and kissing guys--which is all good fun. But I need to branch out a little and master new things.

I'll have to make a goal. I'll post it here when I decide.

Thanks for the encouragement and making me think about it, Man of Shred.

Wow, I just made my 3000th post today.

Which is actually pretty lame. I have been so close for months and months now, and I have just slacked off on posting. I think 98% of DV has no idea I exist.

I forgot. I can just embed it..... (But it's better watching it from youtube where you can watch it in high quality and much bigger.)

Originally Posted by Twoshadows

Wow, I just made my 3000th post today.

Which is actually pretty lame. I have been so close for months and months now, and I have just slacked off on posting. I think 98% of DV has no idea I exist.

Aww, I'm sure that's not true, your dream journal is on of the top 5 threads on DV I think

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Aww, I'm sure that's not true, your dream journal is on of the top 5 threads on DV I think

Thanks, ninja. Although I think it is the same 2 or 3 people that read it each time. And that adds up over the years. But, okay, I take it back. Ninety seven percent of DV doesn't know who I am.




I don't even do the lucid tasks anymore. I need to get back to that.

I had a Lucid Dream last night after our talking. It really does make a difference for me when I just give it some thought.

It was either a WILD or a pseudo-WILD (my mind making the expected WILD things happen in my LD).

I'll write it up in more detail when I have the chance.

Rattlesnakes and claustrophobia. When did your hikes become so dangerous? Man of Shred is right. That skull rock formation is spooky.

Originally Posted by Twoshadows

I had a dream last night where I felt emotionally close to Robot_Butler.

That should have gotten you lucid. We could have gone flying together, again

When did your hikes become so dangerous?

When I decided to go out kayaking and hiking regularly with a friend that is as unstoppable as I am.

When we get it into our minds that we want to do something we aren't satisfied until we get there. We had discovered that slot canyon area at about 4:00 in the afternoon of our previous trip. We decided that we needed to come back and explore it more fully the next time.

So when we start up that narrow canyon and are blocked by the snake, our only choice was to flush it back up the canyon until it widened out. Oh, but man I felt sorry for that little snake. It kept trying to hide in any crevice it could find. Unfortunately when the canyon is only a few feet wide we didn't want to pass it--we would be well within striking range.. Plus we didn't like the idea of it being so close to our kayaks. The thought of having it crawl under--or worse, in our kayaks was a little unsettling.

But it all worked out. We never saw it again on the way back. Of course everything started looking like snakes after that. But it's good to have reminders that we need to be careful.

But actually there are things we do realize aren't safe, and we reluctantly stop when we need to. Like in that one picture where I'm scooting up across the canyon (with my feet on one side and my butt on the other side because the canyon got too narrow to get through and we wanted to go up and over the top) and I took the picture down at my friend. I got to a point after rounding a bend where I could see that it got too narrow at the top while opening out below it--there was no safe way to go beyond that point. It was after that we backtracked and found a way up out of the canyon up onto the plateau above. Then we could go back and look down at that place we couldn't get past. There are solutions to everything.

That should have gotten you lucid. We could have gone flying together, again

I know, that was some of the best fun I have ever had. I would love to do that again. So exhilarating and magical.....

I was doing a WBTB. I was laying there getting really bored and wondering if I should just let myself fall asleep.

The next thing I know I am laying on the floor in my sister's place and I am being pulled by my feet by something unknown into the room behind me. I felt really freaked out. I tell myself that this is just part of the WILD expereince and that I should just relax and let myself fully enter the dream.

I then felt that humming vibration. Again, I tell myself that it is just part of the WILD and that it means that things are moving along nicely.

Then I feel myself being lifted up. That part freaked me out even more, but I made myself relax and told myself that this part of the process of entering the dream.

I didn't let myself move for a little while because I thought it would wake me up if I accidentally moved my real arms instead of my dream arms. And I wanted to make sure I was fully my dreamself before I tried.

I finally did and flew back out of the bedroom and out the front door of what was my mom's house. It was raining outside. I remember thinking that I had never flown in the rain before and that this would be a unique experience.

So then I just started flying around. The rain felt very real, both nice, yet a little cold and uncomfortable.

I was near my grandparents' house at some point. I wasn't aware of any transition. I remember swooping down through what might have been buildings, but then I think they were canyons. Because later I am flying over Lake Powell and excited about doing that.


Anyway it wasn't my best LD, but I was really in the mood to fly again. I was telling myself that before bed--how much I really needed to fly. So I did get to do what I wanted.

Now that I have started up again, I need to focus focus focus. SO I can accomplish many things.

I don't think I've ever flown through the rain, either. That sounds like fun.

Oh, flying through the rain sounds fun. I've gotta try that.

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

I don't think I've ever flown through the rain, either. That sounds like fun.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Oh, flying through the rain sounds fun. I've gotta try that.

Well, I'm not sure it was really really fun. It was interesting because I had never done it. The lack of visibility made it different. The wet feeling was initially alright, but then left me feeling cold and uncomfortable. The rain drops stung if I flew too fast. And the water kept getting in my eyes and that was a little annoying. The good news is that it was extremely realistic in what I think flying in the rain would be like.

So yeah, everyone should try it once.

But it wasn't my prefered way.

Just like in real life. Give me blue sky and sunshine any day.

(Except for that occasional cloudy afternoon where the clouds roll in right as you are hiking across a very hot open area with little shade, and gives you just enough of a little breeze to make you feel like you are in heaven. But not enough wind to make the trip back across the lake hell.)

Dream fragment:

There was some kind of monster approaching where I was. I was feeling quite a bit of apprehension.

I'm glad you had a bit of a lucid after that talk. Good job. I've never flown in the rain before either.

Originally Posted by Man of Shred

I'm glad you had a bit of a lucid after that talk. Good job. I've never flown in the rain before either.

Thanks. I have noticed that talking about lucidity helps alot.

I was almost kayaking in the rain yesterday. It started out cloudy, and ended cloudy, but we had sunshine in the middle of the day.






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