Thread: Twoshadows' Dream Journal

Long dreams again, but not so good recall.

Dream 1:

I was somewhere in a car. I noticed thise grizzly bear not so far away. And I suddenly saw my two little neices walking along oblivious to the bear or the danger they were in.

I rolled down the wondow and started yelling for them to get in the car too. There was an adult with them (though it wasn't my sister). She grabbed them and ran to ward the car. The bear also started heading to the car. And I saw, to my horror, another grizzly coming now from the other direction.

They got to the car, and for some reason we are letting the neices in through the window instead of opening the door.

I only remember getting one neice in.

I think the dream got too stressful and I woke up.


Dream 2:

This one was long, but I only remember brief glimpses.

I remember being in a church. Some of the men were wearing green plaid (?). One of the men farted.

I was eating a salad and grinding my own pepper.

People decided to come over to my house. I was worred because I wouldn't have a change to clean anything up before they came.

I know everyone here is so fond of my spider pictures.

I just found a picture that I think everyone will enjoy.







Several of us had taken a drive. We saw the tarantula in the road and had to stop. We all had a good laugh as it started to climb up my boyfriend Jeff's leg.

But the funniest part was when he started to shake it off, and it wouldn't move. Pretty soon he was jumping-- and freaking out a bit because it just didn't want to let go.




See how much fun spiders can be....... .

Haha that's hilarious! I don't know how he stood still enough for you to take the photo!

Tarantulas look like good fun.

OMG that's funny stuff!

I'd better not dream about spider crawling on my privates...

I like how you got your neice into the car Dukes of Hazard style.

I had a lucid dream last night!

I actually woke up this morning about an hour and a half before I had to get up. I thought back and was frustrated when I couldn’t remember a single dream. I wasn’t feeling very tired, but I made myself go back to sleep so I could squeeze out just one dream. I usually can do that, even if it is just a short dream—and that’s all I wanted—just something that I could write down in my dream journal. It didn’t even matter to me at that time if it were lucid or not.

I did go back to sleep. And I did dream. I even had a lucid dream. The problem was that it was a very long complex dream. When I woke up, I thought, “Oh my gosh…how am I going to be able to figure that all out.

So I started by writing down all the things I remembered doing in the dream, lucid or not. Then I tried to sort them into the “before I became lucid”, “while I was lucid” and “after I was lucid” parts.

Then—I sorted through each section and put it together the way I best remembered and the way it seemed to make the most sense. And I actually think I did a pretty accurate job considering how mixed up I felt when I first awakened.

So after all that, here is the dream:


Dream:


It started non-lucid. I was following Jeff. He was walking toward the back of a building and was about to go in a side door. I remember passing a large sand castle that was by the door. I had no idea where Jeff was going, but I felt I needed to go too.

We went into the building. I believe we were separated at this point. I remember sitting in what looked like a waiting area. I remember this boy (about 12 years old) showing me some of his drawings. I then was watching something on a TV screen.

I’m not sure of the transition here. It may be that I was watching something on TV and then I was suddenly there. But next thing I remember was standing next to a large ferris wheel. People were climbing on it. There were ladder-like things to get to the seats.

Suddenly the ferris wheel starts spinning. I start seeing people falling off of it to the concrete below. I felt horrified. I thought that surely it was killing them. I didn’t want to be seeing this.

So—I decided in my mind that the people wouldn’t die. One by one, they picked themselves up off the ground and brushed themselves off and walked away. I felt much better.

Then I remember I was climbing the ladders on the ferris wheel. I was thinking, "If I were dreaming I could climb this with just my hands." --(that is something I have always liked to do in dreams—use my upper body strength and pull myself up things without using my legs). So I start climbing the ladder with just my arms. I remember it actually felt good. I could feel my muscles working but it had the satisfation of a good stretch.

Then it hits me—finally—that I actually am dreaming. Then I thought, “Of course I am—duh—it takes me long enough to figure this out.”

So I did the first thing that came to mind. I started to fly. For some reason I didn’t think about doing the Tasks at all. Instead I thought about how I really wanted to make this dream into a complex story line. I wanted to make it my story. But I decided it might be easier to start with something like Star Wars. I have always wanted to have a Star Wars LD anyway.

So as I flew I decided that I needed to be in space. And without any effort I was suddenly soaring though the stars. It was so beautiful and incredible.

I thought about how I had always wanted to do that, and I had never been able to do it before. I had read about others doing it and wondered how they managed to do it because it seemed to be a difficult thing to do. And I was so amazed how this just happened naturally for me in this dream.

I also thought about how everything was just too quiet. I wanted to hear a soundtrack. But I wasn’t able to get music going.

I noticed as I flew though the stars, that the stars seemed to be more concentrated above me. It started looking more to me like a flat ceiling. But I decided not to let that bother me too much. This was my first time creating a flight through space, and it was pretty darn good.

I realized that my next goal was to find a space ship. I really wanted to find Darth Vader and confront him. I looked below me and I now saw a white medium sized space craft. It was a dirty white with yellow and black trim. I knew Darth Vader was on that ship.

I flew to it. I knew that it I flew into it fast enough that I would fly right through the sides and end up inside. And it did.

Unfortunately (and this kills me), this is the part of the dream I remember the least. Something happened on that ship, but I have no memory what it was. But I do remember the dream suddenly fading.

I was suddenly back in a house. There was a hallway with a mirror at the end in front of me. I knew I was still in the dream. I also knew that if I ran straight at the mirror, that it would transport me back to space.

So I ran toward the mirror and was again back in space. I saw the same ship in front of me. I flew right at it. But instead of slipping back inside, I hit the outside. This time it was too solid for me to get it. I was very disappointed. Again the dream faded.

I was back in the hallway with the mirror. I ran at the mirror again. But this time, instead of going through it I bumped right into it. The mirror was very real feeling. I touched it, and the glass felt smooth and cool.

I decided that I would just run in to the wall. So I tried again. But I hit the wall. I thought, “No…no….now I am doubting and it’s not working. I have to believe. I have to believe…..”

So I took a dive and tried to go through the floor. But again my head just hit the carpet. Everything felt so real and so solid. Disappointed, I stood up. I made myself float and started doing back flips and the air. It felt really good to do those.

Suddenly I heard Jeff’s voice talking to me. I closed my eyes and then thought, “oh no, closing eyes in a lucid dream makes you wake up!”

I open them. Jeff was standing next to me. We were back in that original building. I had fallen asleep in the chair in the waiting room.

I said, “Jeff, you just woke me up from a lucid dream.” When I saw that he looked sorry, I added, “But I guess you had no way of knowing. It’s okay.”

He said, “If it helps, I brought you some ice cream.” He handed me a square container that had some cookies and cream flavored ice cream in it. It was fairly melted.

I took a few bites and was amazed at how good that tasted to me. Then I thought, “Isn’t there a reason that I’m not supposed to be eating this?” I didn’t want there to be any reasons, so I kept eating it.

Then I thought, “It’s the sugar. I’m not supposed to be eating sugar. And that’s right—I’m Raw Vegan now! I’m really not supposed to be eating this. How could I have forgotten?”

It then comes to me—I’m still in the dream! I never did wake up. I looked back in the bowl. All that is left is the melted ice cream at the bottom that is completely runny. I put a corner of the bowl to my mouth and drink the rest of the ice cream. I thought, “This is great. I ate all this ice cream and I didn’t mess anything up!”

At that point I woke up for real.

Originally Posted by packmania

Haha that's hilarious! I don't know how he stood still enough for you to take the photo!

I wish there was a picture that showed his face. I actually wasn't the photographer here. (This was before I had my digital camera.) He was defintely a bit unnerved when the tarantula settled in on his crotch. But I was impressed, none the less. I don't think many guys would have allowed it to come up that high...:p

Originally Posted by CoLd BlooDed

Tarantulas look like good fun.

Originally Posted by ranma187

OMG that's funny stuff!

Sometimes you have to get creative, but there is always fun stuff to do, especially when you're with the right people.

Anyone up for some Black Widow fun...?

Originally Posted by The Cusp

I'd better not dream about spider crawling on my privates...

I like how you got your neice into the car Dukes of Hazard style.

Well, if a spider crawls on your privates, do a reality check!

Fantastic dream. Sounds like you spent a lot of time putting that one together for you DJ.

Great lucid moves, I love how you travelled through that mirror, and diving head first into the floor was really funny. I really gotta try that. (The mirror, not diving into the floor)

Wow, that last one was pretty hefty. I'm digging it. I think the whole thing where you were in space, then the dream faded and you were in a hallway with a mirror is really cool, just because it reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode. Sort of like, space is behind each mirror, and when you reach the end of space, you just end up back where you started: in a hallway. Either way, neat.

Good job on putting together that bit, too, and recovering from a False Awakening (which would've definately fooled me ); good thing you had Jeff give you some cookies.

Anyways, you may have noticed that I haven't been updating lately, mostly because of lack of time. I worked Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, and the same thing is coming up for this weekend. All because I requested May long weekend off from work, so I had to pick up some extra shifts.

Just don't think I've disappeared.

Damn, i was waiting for the big light saber fight! Ah well, still a long fun lucid, congratulations! Oh yeah and lmao at drinking the last of the ice cream after you realize you're dreaming!

Wow, that was a really cool dream! I want to fly thru space! I have trouble doing things that I think are impossible.

Originally Posted by The Cusp

Fantastic dream. Sounds like you spent a lot of time putting that one together for you DJ.

Great lucid moves, I love how you travelled through that mirror, and diving head first into the floor was really funny. I really gotta try that. (The mirror, not diving into the floor)

Thanks. Yeah, actually it did take a bit of time. But I think it's always worth it for a lucid dream. If I don't write dreams down in detail after it happens, then I tend to forget certain things about the dream. I want to have all my LDs written out in detail. I feel I can learn from them. Plus, it's fun to relive them by reading them.

Yeah, the mirror was cool. But it was frustrating when I wasn't able to go through it. Or the wall...or the floor. It's kind of nice to know it was all taking palce in my head. I probably looked pretty silly running into the wall and diving into the floor. :p

Originally Posted by CoLd BlooDed

Wow, that last one was pretty hefty. I'm digging it. I think the whole thing where you were in space, then the dream faded and you were in a hallway with a mirror is really cool, just because it reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode. Sort of like, space is behind each mirror, and when you reach the end of space, you just end up back where you started: in a hallway. Either way, neat.

Good job on putting together that bit, too, and recovering from a False Awakening (which would've definately fooled me ); good thing you had Jeff give you some cookies.

Anyways, you may have noticed that I haven't been updating lately, mostly because of lack of time. I worked Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, and the same thing is coming up for this weekend. All because I requested May long weekend off from work, so I had to pick up some extra shifts.

Just don't think I've disappeared.

Thanks CB! I don't know where the mirror idea idea came from. It was just something that I knew I had to do to get back out in space. I wish I really had that ability. How cool would it be to be able to transport places by stepping through a mirror. BUt I guess I'm not the first to think of that.

Wow...you've been busy. Good luck on that. I'm sure things are getting pretty busy this time of year at school too, huh? Good luck with all that end of the year stuff.

Hopefully you'll have a chance to catch up on your dreams again soon. I will enjoy reading them.

Originally Posted by packmania

Damn, i was waiting for the big light saber fight! Ah well, still a long fun lucid, congratulations! Oh yeah and lmao at drinking the last of the ice cream after you realize you're dreaming!

The light saber fight....

Tell me about it. How I have longed for one those. I know I was in the ship. I may have interacted with people there. But it seems I would remember a light saber battle. So close.....but not quite... .

But the big thing for me to remember is that I was able to get there..... That actually is a big deal for me .

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

Wow, that was a really cool dream! I want to fly thru space! I have trouble doing things that I think are impossible.

Thanks!

I know...flying through space was really cool! I had no idea I could do that. This was my first. And if I can do it, then you can too, Moonbeam.

And now that I have had that positive experience (even though I didn't get my light saber battle), I know I will be able to do it again.

So next time, I will get aboard a space ship and really have some fun.

Hey, just been reading through your DJ and noticed we have the same DS. I too always dream my tooth/teeth fall out - Even to the point where I can feel how real it is when I put my tounge in the gap. I'm hoping after reading 'most' of your journal that it will promt me to remember to notice this sign in my dreams too to become lucid.

Happy dreaming

Originally Posted by AdamA

Hey, just been reading through your DJ and noticed we have the same DS. I too always dream my tooth/teeth fall out - Even to the point where I can feel how real it is when I put my tounge in the gap. I'm hoping after reading 'most' of your journal that it will promt me to remember to notice this sign in my dreams too to become lucid.

Happy dreaming

Hey AdamA--thanks for stopping by and reading. And now since my journal is apporaching a thousand replies, that can be rather daunting.... .

Cool that we both share the "teeth" dream sign. And yes, they can feel so real (it must be the real memories from when we were kids and losing teeth). It's always fairly stressful during the dream, but nice when you can learn to use it to trigger lucidity.

I actually haven't had the tooth dream for a while now. They seem to come and go. Lately I have been having a lot of the "camera" dream signs. I need to be more aware, beacase if I had a lucid dream every time I dreamed about my camera, I'd quadruple my LDs.

Good luck with your lucid dreaming. Maybe we can inspire each other.

Dreams:

I remember being in a large store. There were a lot of empty shelves and I was helping put things on the shelves. But it also seemed that we were going to be staying in the store for a long time. I had a shelf ready that I was going to sleep on. I don't really remember more than that.

This is the second dream that I have had recently where I have had to sleep in a store. Weird...


Dream 2:

Just an fragment.

The front of the school was being torn down. The had it all dug up. They said something about putting in a large fountain. I thought that sounded pretty nice.


Dream 3:

Another fragmant.

Something about watching a music video.

WOW - I too have a lot of camera dreams, I should notice I'm dreaming with these because typically the focus around the lens, and the lens viewer generally not working well. It would move in several places like a perescope or similar. And when I look through the lens typically I find it hard to balance and take my pictures, which I should really start to pick up as a sign.

I have never really looked for dream signs as normally induce lucid dreaming naturally; but recently looking to increase the number of LDs I have and now going to concentrate on my DS and hopefully pick up more. You have inspired me to really work on my DJ and hopefully I can spot more DS and induce more LDs

Good to speak with you

Originally Posted by AdamA

WOW - I too have a lot of camera dreams

That's cool....

Yeah, like you, my camera dreams usually have a problem with the camera. Either I don't have the camera, the battery is dead, or it doesn't work properly. Sometimes it will work, and then I am always frustrated when I wake up and I no longer have those pictures on my camera....

I have never really looked for dream signs as normally induce lucid dreaming naturally;

Lucky you....

But more is always better...:p

I'm just amazed at how well, I have picked it up. I mean it was something I had never heard about. Then I suddenly hear about it and do a little reading on it, then, BLAM...I starting having LDs.

It's been one of the most interesting things I have ever learned how to do.

You have inspired me to really work on my DJ and hopefully I can spot more DS and induce more LDs

That's great!

DJs are a lot of fun. Just write down anything and everything. It's always interesting to go back and reread.

I think I am going to use the camera as a dream sign too. I have only looked into dream signs this week really; and noticing the tooth and camera ones are the obvious ones for me, since I'm into photography and really paranoid about my teeth lol.

You do seem to have picked it up really quick; maybe you always had the gift but never knew how to use it, I mean I fully believe it takes someone of a certain mindset to be able to LD. I don't think just anyone can do it. You need an open mind to things like this in my opinion and the more susceptible you are to pushing your mind outside the boundaries which society classes as the norm, the more chances you have of using more of you mind

Anyway, I must stop going on, I will be here forever.

Take care

congrats on the lucid. it takes me forever to get lucid too1 and those darn false awakenings!. i get those and lose lucity a lot too. very nice dream tho.

Originally Posted by AdamA

You do seem to have picked it up really quick; maybe you always had the gift but never knew how to use it, I mean I fully believe it takes someone of a certain mindset to be able to LD. I don't think just anyone can do it. You need an open mind to things like this in my opinion and the more susceptible you are to pushing your mind outside the boundaries which society classes as the norm, the more chances you have of using more of you mind

Interesting....I never thought about it like that. And about having the "gift"....I have always been interested in my dreams. When I was a kid my poor family had to listen to me go on and on about all the neat things I had dreamed about. So I have "practiced" dream recall all my life.

And I know there were times when I had nightmares, and I learned to say to myself "This is just a dream. I don't have to deal with this". And I would make myself wake up. So that was actually the beginnings of lucidity right there. I just didn't know what I was doing and what the possibilites actually were. Too bad I hadn't known back then. I could have had many years of lucidity by now. But, hey, I'm LDing now, so that's all that matters.

Originally Posted by ranma187

congrats on the lucid. it takes me forever to get lucid too1 and those darn false awakenings!. i get those and lose lucity a lot too. very nice dream tho.

Thanks Ranma. Not only do I have a lot of false awakenings, I seem to fade out to different places within my LDs.... . Oh well, I'll have to perfect the "Mirror Method of Transportation"......:p .

Originally Posted by Twoshadows

And I know there were times when I had nightmares, and I learned to say to myself "This is just a dream. I don't have to deal with this". And I would make myself wake up. So that was actually the beginnings of lucidity right there. I just didn't know what I was doing and what the possibilites actually were. Too bad I hadn't known back then. I could have had many years of lucidity by now. But, hey, I'm LDing now, so that's all that matters.

That’s exactly how I started LDs. I was about 12 I think (13 years ago) and I used to have really bad nightmares. And to this day I remember my very first lucid dream. I was on my old estate where I used to live and was being chased my police - There were helicopters and police dogs and everything, and I remember being backed into a corner, then realised, this can't be right; I would never get myself into this sort of trouble at my age, then it clicked I was dreaming. And I made everything go away, and then I told myself to wake up for some reason. From then on I have been able to distinguish between reality and the dream world but it was not until about 6/8 months ago that I realised what I was doing was called lucid dreaming, and that not everyone could do it etc. Once I realised this I seem to be getting worse at it and my mind almost feels cloudy if that makes sense. So I found this forum and now trying to get back to having regular LDs like I used to. However I have read that children are more likely to have lucid dreams than adults (read this today). I guess this is because a child’s mind is more active than adults and are more open to the fantasy world and accept more than what an adult would. Which is weird as it kind of links back to my point about having an open mind and being susceptible to things outside the norm.

Anyway, I keep going on and clogging up your journal, sorry about that. Have a nice day

I keep going on and clogging up your journal, sorry about that.

Don't be sorry. I'm enjoying this conversation.....

My DJ is not just for dreams but for my thoughts about lucid dreaming...and anything else I feel like.....

That's strange that after you found out about lucid dreaming that you've had a harder time doing it. But then again, I've noticed that after reading about other people's problems with lucid dreaming that sometimes I find myself having the same trouble. For example I read that if you close your eyes in a lucid dream that it wakes you up. You know, I doubt that is really true, but we are all reading it and then when it happens in our dreams, our minds "know" what they are supposed to do--so we wake up. That was what happened in my last LD (except mine was a false awakening).

So I try not to read negative exepriences of other's because I don't want my mind to pick up on these things.

Could that be what happened to you?

So I try to keep telling myself that I make the rules in lucid dreams.

However I have read that children are more likely to have lucid dreams than adults (read this today). I guess this is because a child’s mind is more active than adults and are more open to the fantasy world and accept more than what an adult would.

I've always been a kid at heart. I'm sure that has helped....:p And I suppose we all would like to think that we have an open mind.

Dreams:

I had a bad nightmare last night. The worst I have had in a long time.

Nightmare:

I was in a closet or dressing room, which I guess was part of my house. I had been changing clothes. I think someone had given me some clothes that they no longer wanted. but they were really cute clothes--at least that's what I thought in the dream.

I remember putting on this outfit. It was a red button up shirt. A short black skirt...and white tights.

I was looking in the mirror and thinking that I looked really nice.

Then I suddenly glanced over and saw that there was a small window in the wall next to me. It was night, so I knew that anyone outside could see in and might be watching me change clothes.

I also noticed that the window was open an inch or so. I quickly went over to the window to shut it.

When my face was close to the glass, I looked out the window.

A suddenly shock of terror went through my body as realized I was looking right into the face of a man. He had long blond hair and a scarred up face. And he was just staring at me.

For a moment I couldn't even move.

Then I realized I had to shut that window. I reached up and quickly tried to slam the window shut. At first I thought I was successful. Then it was like the air pressure slid it back open the inch.

I frantically tried to close it again, this time to get it to latch so it wouldn't reopen.

But I couldn't get it to latch.

Then to my horror I saw the man slowly reach up with his long boney fingers. I knew he was going to hold the window open, so I couldn't close it.

I suddenly freaked out. I tried to scream. Nothing would come out. I tried to yell at the man. All that came out were breathy sounds. I was trying to say, "Go away....go away...."

I tried to tell him I would call 911. All that came out was "....9...1...1..............9....1....1..."

I woke up at that point and realized that I had been talking in my sleep. It took a while for my heart to slow down. Somethign about this dream really freaked me out.



Dream 2:

This one was pretty strange.

I was like in an alternate dimension (I think this was inspired by watching Sliders recently).

I was stuck in the world--in a room, actually, with several people. We were being controlled by an evil table.

Everytime I tired to put something down on the table it would hurt me (shock me , grab me with tenticles, etc. )

Finally, I remember I had this Pokemon type card. There was a picture of a cat-like creature on it. I set it on the table.

After that I touched the table....nothing happened. The table wasn't able to hurt me. I realized that this card had power over the table. I was trilled to find this out. I wanted to make sure that the card stayed on the table. I tried to get the other to help me to tape it on so it wouldn't come off.

Then the table informed us in a loud voice that it was raining outside and everything was getting wet.

When I looked at the card on the table I saw that it was soaked. It was too wet to tape. I tried to pick it up and the layers of the card started to separate. I decided not to touch it anymore until it dried.

I went away from the table for a few minutes. And when I came back the card was gone. I felt devastated.