Thread: Twoshadows' Dream Journal

Thanks, Moonbeam, for your nice reply.

I'm pretty sure the veggie/berry powders are raw (Living Fuel is the brand). Actually even without the whey the mixture would have quite a bit of protein.[/b]

I'll have to look in to it. If I do the weightlifting, i need to be getting enough protein.

There are some really good vegan raw bars out now[/b]

That's good to hear. i haven't tried anything like that yet. At some point I will probably be wanting to try something new.


For the moment I am eating a really yummy nut bar that I have learned to make. I just soak almonds, pecans and walnuts, then chop them in a blender until it is rather chunky. Then I spread it on a dehydrator sheet. Drizzle the mixture with some raw agave syrup. Then I dehydrate it for a day or so. It makes a great snack. And great to break up and put in a baggy and carry in my purse or take on a hike.

(are there raw chocolate bars?)[/b]

I think so, bu tI have never tried any. What I do for my chocolate craving is to take some raw coconut oil and add a little agave syrup and sprinkle my broken up nut bar peices and add raw cocoa. You put it in the fridge and it hardens and tastes just like a candy bar to me.

See, if you know the tricks you never feel deprived.

As limiting one might think this diet is, I feel that it opens up a whole new world off possibilities. At this point I have no desire to go back to my old way of eating.


And you know how I just said how the hardest part was going out to eat? Well right after I wrote that I was invited to go out to eat with friends. We went to a Mexican place. Since I didn't have a lot of advanced warning I wasn't extremely hungry --and that is acutally a good thing because I was content to watch everyone eat the chips and salsa that I used to love. I ordered a really good avacado salad that tasted so good to me that I didn't care that everyone around me was eating greasy meat etc. I was still eating my salad when others were eating friend cheesecake. When they were saying "Oh, I feel soooo stuffed, ugh." I was thinking , "I feel great." Isn't that how we want to feel after a meal anyway??

And when I got home I broke off a piece of my coconut oil chocolate and felt totally satisfied.

I could probably gain a lot of weight eating yummy nuts and fruit bars and chocolate[/b]

I doubt it. I have lost weight. I don't know how much exactly because I don't own a scale. but I am wearing jeans one size smaller....

Yes I have been lifting steadily for 12 years or so[/b]

That's awesome. I really admire you. Okay, that's inspired me.

Yeah I have read all kinds of good things about weightlifting. And I know how good I felt (and how good I looked) when I did it before. And I have just been very health conscious lately. I just want to be doing all I can so I can be one of these people that never look or feel my age. I've done pretty good so far. I'm almost never sick.

Anyway, I have retained some of the muscle from before. So I don't think it would take a long time to have it show. I am hoping that if I start right now I can really tell a difference by summer.

Thanks Moonbeam for the PM.


I only got a few hours of sleep last night, and I don't remember any dreams except one where I am doing laundry. So we know that was exciting.

I don't have much to say. I mostly just want to bump my journal back to the first page. I guess lots of people posted in their journals today.

I went to bed quite late again. I don't remember a single dream I had. I know I had little glimpses when I first woke up, but they are not completely gone.

Anyway, I want to say I'm exited to see that our PM boxes increased in size. This way I will (hopefully) never have the "Full" message come up again.

By the way, thank you to the friends (Ranma, CB, and oneironut) who chatted with me in Chat yesterday. It was fun.

Originally Posted by Twoshadows

I don't have much to say. I mostly just want to bump my journal back to the first page. I guess lots of people posted in their journals today.

I went to bed quite late again. I don't remember a single dream I had. I know I had little glimpses when I first woke up, but they are not completely gone.

Anyway, I want to say I'm exited to see that our PM boxes increased in size. This way I will (hopefully) never have the "Full" message come up again.

By the way, thank you to the friends (Ranma, CB, and oneironut) who chatted with me in Chat yesterday. It was fun. [/b]

Heh, it isn't as easy to stay on page 1 as it used to be. We should all start using that to improve recall. "Tonight I will remember a dream, so I don't get bumped to page 2."

fun chatting with you too!

Originally Posted by oneironut

Heh, it isn't as easy to stay on page 1 as it used to be. We should all start using that to improve recall. "Tonight I will remember a dream, so I don't get bumped to page 2." [/b]

Yeah, I guess.

And I am also going to merge with a tree very soon.

Originally Posted by oneironut

fun chatting with you too! [/b]

Yes....and again.

(so you don't take me too seriously.....LOL)

Dreams (notes):


Ranma and are are talking in Live Chat. He is telling me about a fight he got in once.


I am at Disneyland iwth my mom and sister buying golden figurines.


I am driving down the highway and see a girl cyring. I noticed that there are wrecked vehicles. No one else is around.


Going to someone's house. night/day?


Driving....

Originally Posted by Twoshadows

Dreams (notes):
Ranma and are are talking in Live Chat. He is telling me about a fight he got in once.[/b]

LOL! I'll tell you about one today if you show up in chat! but for now i gotta go to work. BTW you also had an apearance in my dreams last night.

BTW you also had an apearance in my dreams last night.[/b]

Those were pretty funny dreams....


Okay, I am up in the night because I just had a lucid dream. Its unusual to have an LD this early in the night. I probably had it between 12:00 and 1:00.

And it was one of those dreams where as soon as I woke up, I thought, Oh crap, how am I going to remember all that I just did? And I think that I am still half asleep, becuase I don''t seem to be typing my best right now.

So here is my attempt at putting it all back together again.

Lucid Dream:</span>

I believe somewhere in the beginning of the dream I had been talking to other dream characeters about the goal to become lucid. We had talked about if we became lucid we would soar up to the clouds because the clouds were looking very beautiful.

<span style="color:#0000FF">Then somewhere in here I realize that I am dreaming. I am briefly tempted to look for an Easter Bunny. But I am still pulled by the dream I was just having.

I decided to go find my friend and take her with me soaring up to the clouds.

It gets fuzzy here. I believe I found my friend and am soaring with her. Then I feel myself wake up. But instead I find myself still in the dream but on the ground. So I fly back up to the clouds with my friend again. I belive this pattern happens a few times.

I am wondering how lucid I actually was by the end of this dream. I am going to say that I was lucid, but I wasn&#39;t really controling anything. I just really wanted to be flying though those clouds, so I went with the flow.

By the end I had two friends with me. The sky had turned more into the ocean. There were still clouds, but there were also jelly fish floating all around us. Lots of them--in some places there were huge clusters of them. They weren&#39;t the stinging kind other wise we would have been in trouble because we had to keep pushing out way through the clusters.

There were times in the dream wehre I was so surrounded by clouds that I almost started to feel claustraphobic. I had to have my friends hold my hands so we wouldn&#39;t get separated. Because there was no visibility. The clouds felt like I would imagine real clouds to feel--a little damp and "thick".

Also at one point we cleared the top of the clouds and came out into the yellow moon light. I remember being just in awe of what I was seeing. It was so beautiful.




It&#39;s not even 1:30 yet. I don&#39;t have to get up for almost five more hours, so I will try to focus on having another LD tonight. This time I will think Tree.

I didn&#39;t have any more LD&#39;s. I had several fairly complex dreams which I have since forgotten. Oh well, At least I did have the one LD. Hopefully this will trigger more LDs...and I will able to complete the Task and do other really fun stuff.




Also:

Yesterday I cleared off my bench and gathered my weights. I only had time to do some bench presses. I used what seemed like an extremely wimpy weight. Did just two sets of 8 reps each. But I&#39;m feeling it today. I guess it goes to show I need more than just my walks with my dog and pilates. I know I really need to work on that upper body especially.

Congrats on the LD&#33; I really hope i&#39;ll have one soon&#33; maybe even tonight&#33;

see ya later wierdo&#33;

Wow, congrats on your LD&#33; You said you&#39;d have one and you had one.

So close to that lucid task, but I know you&#39;ll get it next time.

Meanwhile, my recall has shot back up - two extremely vivid dreams the last two nights, which I&#39;m going to write up in a few.

Good luck with that LD&#33;

Congrats on the lucid&#33;

Originally Posted by Twoshadows

Yesterday I cleared off my bench and gathered my weights. I only had time to do some bench presses. I used what seemed like an extremely wimpy weight. Did just two sets of 8 reps each. But I&#39;m feeling it today. I guess it goes to show I need more than just my walks with my dog and pilates. I know I really need to work on that upper body especially.[/b]

Don&#39;t worry about the how much weight that you do; just concentrate on good form. You will get stronger and the weight will go up. You did the hard part--just getting going. Pretty soon I bet you&#39;ll be hooked.

Nice job on the LD. I&#39;m sure you&#39;ll hit the tasks next time, but flying through the clouds sounds like a pretty good consolation prize.

Thanks guys. You&#39;re all awesome&#33;

Your encouragement will get me my LD. So thanks in advance&#33;&#33;

It&#39;s only because you&#39;ve been very encouraging as well&#33;

I still remember my "how to make dreams more exciting" thread. When i was getting frustrated....
"Don&#39;t you dare, give up" she says&#33; Thanks for kicking my ass that day&#33;

Thanks for kicking my ass that day&#33;[/b]

Anytime&#33;

Niice flying lucid, TS.
Funny thing, I remember waking up at about 1:30 after dreaming, not remembering the dream, and going back to sleep thinking I&#39;d be able to induce a lucid. Woke up remembering nothing. =/
Ah, well. I&#39;ll be able to focus a little more, soon.

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

Niice flying lucid, TS.
Funny thing, I remember waking up at about 1:30 after dreaming, not remembering the dream, and going back to sleep thinking I&#39;d be able to induce a lucid. Woke up remembering nothing. =/
Ah, well. I&#39;ll be able to focus a little more, soon. [/b]

You&#39;ll get it, O. I have complete faith that we will be getting a really good one from you real soon.

Okay, I mentioned in another post to Oneironaught that I had attempted a few wood carvings. Here are two of my completed ones. I have a whole bunch more that are not done.






This one was before I bought a router.


Notice how the ball in a cage is nowhere to be seen....


Edit: I also started a simple chain that I didn&#39;t finish.

Huh, pretty nice&#33; I&#39;m impressed. Those look much like the types of things our club&#39;s members show (and enter for judging). Me like. I&#39;d love to see your ball-in-a-cage too

I need to get back to carving. I still do but, haven&#39;t done much in the past few years - so much going on. I&#39;ll show more photos of some of my stuff. I don&#39;t do much &#39;in the round&#39; carving though, mainly trick carving and some faces and &#39;wood spirits&#39;.

pretty nice&#33; I&#39;m impressed.[/b]

Hey thanks.


I actually haven&#39;t done much carving lately either. When I moved a couple years ago I no longer had a wonderful carving station that I could leave all my things sitting out on. Now I have to get things out, then put them away--and that&#39;s a big pain.

Here are my first attempts at faces:



As far as the ball in the cage. I never took a picture of it so I don&#39;&#39;t have one already on my computer. But I think I know which box I have it packed in. So maybe I&#39;ll take a picture and post it....just so we can both get a good laugh...

I am awake again in the middle of the night, so I went and took a picture of my "tree santa" that now lives in my garden. I call them that because I made them at Christmas time. I gave the other one away.






I&#39;m now hoping that I will be able to go back to bed and complete the Tree Task. (Maybe my tree will have a face on it..... )

It worked. I had to lay in bed for quite a while. I even thought I wasn&#39;t going to be able to go back to sleep. But I did.

And I completed both Tasks&#33;&#33;</span>

It started in a dream where I was trying to get away from this guy . He was big and liked me and was really creeping me out. I had to get away from him, so I ran into an office, then into a furniture store (even hid under a couch for a while).

Then I decided to come out. I realized it was very rude of me to run away. I need to confront him and tell him how I felt. And maybe he wouldn&#39;t be so bad after all.

Then I saw my family waiting for me. My dad (who is dead) was there.

Seeing my dad triggered lucidity. I went up to him. I thought "It&#39;s been so long".

I reached out and took his hands and noticed the way his skin felt.

I put my face to his and gave him a gentle kiss on the cheek. It felt so real. Just like it would have in real life. I almost forgot what I had wanted to be doing in a lucid dream. I just wanted to enjoy being with my dad.
But then he said something to me about my mom. I looked over at my mom, then my sister. Then I remembered.

<span style="color:#8B0000">"C, you have got to come with me to find a tree&#33;" I ran out the building. She called after me, "Don&#39;t you want to take the car?"

I said, "I don&#39;t have time--any tree will do. There&#39;s got to be one close-by."

I ran out and saw that I was in a plant nursery. I looked around and saw no trees--just smaller plants.

Then I looked on a top shelf and saw a small tree in a pot. I jumped on the shelves and started to climb. The customers didn&#39;t like what I was doing and started to complain. I ignored them. I made it to the top where the tree was only to find out it was more of a vine. It was quite small.

Disappointed, I jumped back down and took off running.

I was now in a park. I saw over to the far end what looked like a big tree. When I got to it, though, I saw that it was hollowed out into a kids&#39; play place. I could hear kids laughing inside and the splashing of water. At first I thought I would still try to hug it. But I realized that it was dead. I didn&#39;t think I could merge with a dead tree.

Finally in the very corner of the park I was a medium sized cottonwood. I ran to it. It&#39;s trunk wasn&#39;t very big (diameter of only 10 inches or so) but I grabbed ahold of it and started hugging. I hugged and hugged.

Then I started asking myself what "merging with a tree" was supposed to feel like. Had I merged yet?

I opened my eyes. I could see my shadow holding the tree. I figured as long as I could see my shadow separate from the tree I hadn&#39;t "merged". So I kept hugging, occasionally opening an eye to look at the shadow.

Finally I started to feel dizzy. I could tell something was finally happening. I couldn&#39;t see anything recognizable, and I felt like I was hanging upside down.

"I merged, " I told myself.


Then I thought about the basic Task. I was still dreaming. I figured I might as well try that one as well. As soon as I thought that I was back out of the tree and back to just hugging it.

I let go and looked around. There seemed to be some sort of Easter activity going on at the park. I guessed that they had had an Easter Egg hunt earlier. I saw a paper plate on the ground by a picnic table which had a picture of a pink Easter Bunny on it.

I started running again. I tried to decide if I was looking for a real bunny, a cartoon bunny, or someone dressed up as an easter bunny. I decided that which ever one I found I would count it.

I finally looked over and saw an Easter Bunny sitting in a chair. At first it looked like a person in a costume. But as I got close I could tell it was much too small for that.

He had just finished talking to a child. When that child left, I said to him, "Hello, Easter Bunny."

"Hello", he said back in a robotic sort of voice.

I couldn&#39;t think of anything to say to him, so I politely said, "How are you doing, Easter Bunny?"

"I&#39;m doing fine, " he said back.


Suddenly I got excited as I realized I had completed both Tasks and unfortunately that woke me up.