Thread: Twoshadows' Dream Journal

I tried to get a photo of The Moon and Venus last night but they all turned out like this. I've got tripod... somewhere...

They wouldn't have had any detail anyway. The zoom just won't do the trick and I don't have a telescope. How do you do your telescopic pictures? Do you hold the camera's lens up against the eyepiece or do you have an attachment that connects the camera to the telescope?

Your Moon photos turn out so detailed. Mine are always white dots or blurs..

Well, your picture looks awfully familiar.

This (below) is all I got when I tried to zoom in on it with my camera.



The only way I have been able to get the detailed pictures is with my telescope. My little camera just can't do it on its own. Yet I am impressed what it can do with the help of the telescope.

I don't have anything fancy. I just hold up the camera to the eye piece and adjust the angle so it picks up what I want. I don't think thsi would work for much more than the moon or other very bright objects.

My telescope doesn't track so anything that would take a longer exposure would be streaked.

I should look into better things for doing this. I can see that I would love to combine these two hobbbies--astronomy and photograghy.

Pictures from my sunset/night hike. Just got back.







TS

That bottom picture looks like a nightmare (if only we could bring back photos of our dreams. A dream VCR! Don't steal my invention ). The large worm creature getting ready to spring up out of the puddle goes well with the glowing demon eyes in the darkness. Cool but creepy.
Nice photos as always.

I'm finally trying to get my dream written up from Friday night. Thank goodness I took notes.


Dream 1:

Well, it's about that time of year to start geting these.

It's Halloween and I'm not prepared.

I remember looking around and seeing everyone wonderfully decorated houses. I realized that it is Halloween. How could I have not known? (missed dream sign).

I don't have any pumpkins and it's too late to get any and carve them.

I remember someone showing me this cool new technique to get a cool-looking Jack-O-Lantern. He told me that first you carve the pumpkin, then you saok it for just a couple minutes in acid. It gave the pumpkin a really strange texture that was just delightful... .



Dream 2:

I had left church to meet with a realtor. We got to talking and I remember telling her that Jesus was in the church. That it was really neat to hear him talk to us. And now that church was over he was taking question and answers.

Then it hit me. How stupid I was to leave church to meet with this lady when the Savior was right there in my church...and answering questions even. What was I thinking??



Dream 3:

DV Pictures

I was looking on Dream Views and noticed a section where peopel had posted picutres.I had totally missed this section.

I started looking through it and saw some pictures that Moonbeam had posted way back in October. She had dressed up like Hermione from Harry Potter and had posted pictures she had of herself. They were nice pictures done in Back and White. She made a really good Hermione. She also had posted a picture of her bedroom that she had fixed up. It looked like something that belonged in a magazine. This was also done in B & W.

The I saw pictures that CoLd BlooDed had posted. He told how he had had a brain tumor and showed pictures of himself after he had surgery. PArt of his head was shaved. i could see through the clear bandages of the cuts that were made.

The next picture was taken in his school cafeteria. In this picture he was now bald because he had to have chemo. But he was with his freinds and looking upbeat.

I remember feeling very shocked that I had had no idea that CB had gone through this. I felt terrible because I had never mentioned it to him. I looked at the date. It said December 9th.

Originally Posted by Oneironaught

That bottom picture looks like a nightmare (if only we could bring back photos of our dreams. A dream VCR! Don't steal my invention ). The large worm creature getting ready to spring up out of the puddle goes well with the glowing demon eyes in the darkness. Cool but creepy.
Nice photos as always.

But I already mentioned a dream camera, so that one is mine.... .

Yeah, i noticed those things that look like eyes. i saw them on the little screen of my camera right after I took the picture. i quickly took about three more pictures so I could maybe see what it was. But it didn't show up in the others... .

So that looks like your nightmare...cool...

Anyway...thanks again...

The I saw pictures that CoLd BlooDed had posted. He told how he had had a brain tumor and showed pictures of himself after he had surgery. PArt of his head was shaved. i could see through the clear bandages of the cuts that were made.

The next picture was taken in his school cafeteria. In this picture he was now bald because he had to have chemo. But he was with his freinds and looking upbeat.

I remember feeling very shocked that I had had no idea that CB had gone through this. I felt terrible because I had never mentioned it to him. I looked at the date. It said December 9th.

Eh oh... looks like I'm going to have to be careful of the date. I get wary about stuff like this. What did the cafeteria look like?

Just don't want this to be a precognition!

Originally Posted by CoLd BlooDed

Eh oh... looks like I'm going to have to be careful of the date. I get wary about stuff like this. What did the cafeteria look like?

Just don't want this to be a precognition!

Well, let's just look at it for a moment... If my dreams that night were precongnitive, then I also would have Halloween totally surprise me, and I would be totally unprepared with no pumpkins...? I don't think so. Never gonna happen.

And do you really think I would leave my church if Jesus were right there answering people's questions? That's even less likely than me missing Halloween.

So I'm thinking you have nothing to worry about.

And your cafeteria had booths like a fast food place. I really doubt your cafeteria has booths. Plus, you probably eat off campus anyway.

But just so you know, in the dream you and your friends were taking goofy pictures in those booths. In spite of your illness, you seemed to be having a really fun time.

This dream was probably my mind's way of combining two thoughts:

1. I wish people I cared about never had to get cancer.

And

2. You probably would have been really fun to hang out with in high school.



Okay...on to dreams:

Actually there are none to record. I slept really crappy....

Edit:

Chicago....

Originally Posted by Twoshadows

I started looking through it and saw some pictures that Moonbeam had posted way back in October. She had dressed up like Hermione from Harry Potter and had posted pictures she had of herself. They were nice pictures done in Back and White. She made a really good Hermione. She also had posted a picture of her bedroom that she had fixed up. It looked like something that belonged in a magazine. This was also done in B & W.

If only I was as talented IRL as in your dream! My bedroom most definitely does not look like it belongs in a magazine, except maybe as a "before" picture.

OK, I wasn't going to post this dream, because it is kind of weird, but I can't resist now. TS, you are doing your "dream control" thing, because I had a dream with you in it the same time you had one with me. I think this was caused by your recent dreams of being without a shirt, and not saying which DV member was there with you. OK, here goes... (disclaimer: Nobody is responsible for their dreams! They just happen and you can't control them! Right?!) Anyway, I dreamed that I was reading your journal, and you posted that you had a sex dream about a DV member, but you wouldn't say who it was. And all the guys were writing in your journal, Was it me? Was it me? and I thought to myself (in my dream, remember) Well, she didn't say it was a guy, it was probably about me!

I would NOT have reported this, to save us both embarrassment, but like I said, I really can't resist since you had a dream about DV with me in it. Too much of a coincidence.

(This is for TS! No comments from voyeurs! :p)

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

(This is for TS! No comments from voyeurs! :p)

Drat. Foiled again.

Moonbeam...

That is sooooo funny......

That reminds me of something else. But I'll have to PM it to you.... .

(Sorry, everyone else.....not sharing.....) Heehee....

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

Drat. Foiled again.

Hey--you shouldn't complain....:p

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

Drat. Foiled again.

Yea, you knew who I was talking to!

Yes, the dilemma of how much to post, especially when it comes to DV member dreams...

Yes, I always edit or omit my really good ones.






Just kidding....



(mostly)


Slept badly again. No dream recall.

Yet again more amazing photo's

Originally Posted by Twoshadows

One more moon shot from tonight...

This is AMAZING!! Tried some shots tonight, but I only have a 300mm lens so no where near as good as yours!! This is what the moon looks like from over my side





A little blurred, I need to get a tripod, assume you used one too? What lens did you use?

i posted up a bunch of pics on my thread. take a look. i have a bunch that i need to edit from yesterday. waiting til tomorrow to do it at work on the Macs.

And to the guy below... those pictures of the moon are really nice. Tripods are key! Lol. You shot that with at 300mm? hmm maybe I should try that tonight. im borrowing a 70-300mm sigma from school for the night.

Cool moon pics Adam.

And Meg, I'll comment on your photos next.

But I've gotta get this LD down, before I start to forget.


Yes--I had a Lucid Dream!!


It started in my neighbor's backyard. I was talking to my friend N who supposedly lived there. We were discussing the problems we had with our yards. As we stood there in her yard, I could see right through the chain link fence to see my whole yard. Both of our yards were very large. They were all sandy dirt and had junk laying around.

I commented on how messy our yards looked. I said, "Look at how my yard slopes. It's hard to have a yard look neat when it isn't level. You're lucky yours is level."

But as I looked at her yard, it was only level where we were standing, all the rest was uneven with ditches and hills.

Then I looked at the green plants growing. I pointed it out to N. I said, "You see all that green stuff that looks like grass? Well, it's not. Those are baby tumble weeds. They are going to grow up to be huge and ugly, and when you try to pull them up, you'll get all scratched up with their stickers.

She then said she wasn't sure what plants I was talking about.

I said, "You can see them better if you fly over them." And at that point I started to hover in a horizontal position a few few off the ground and started flying over the little tumble weeds. "See..?" I said.

She looked at me and smiled and said, "C----, you just like to show off."

BLAM!

I was dreaming. Of course, because I was flying. Funny that I had a bit of a delayed reaction in figuring that out.

The first thing that comes to my mind is to complete the Advanced Task. I needed to find a tree.

I looked over into my yard and saw two poplar trrees. Unfortunately they looked dead. I didn't think I could make a dead tree walk around. So I kept looking. In the far end of the yard I saw another poplar.

I stared at it really intensly and willed it to pull up its roots. I could see it start to come up. I could see its roots emerge from the dirt. I then willed it to walk. It started forward.

As I wached it move, I realized that something wasn't quite right. I looked closer at the tree's roots. Under the roots I could see little wheels. The tree wasn't really using its roots to walk, but intead used little wheels that it hid under it's roots.

I thought to myself, "Will I get credit for this? Maybe I should try again."

So I looked over at another poplar tree. I stared at it until it too came up out of the ground. But this tree, instead of trying to fool me with its roots, just had wheels....and it wheeled itself away.

I started feeling like I had to hurry. I started pulling up tree after tree at this point only to find that all my trees had wheels and no roots at all.

To make matters worse, all the background in the dream suddenly went out on me. Everything but myself and about 8 wheeled trees was a flat light blue. I felt like we were in a computer--like the Matrix-- and someone had messed with the background color.

Then it messed up again. I was now trapped in a dark blue room. I had to get out. I ran at the wall with the intent of slipping right through. But I hit the wall.

After several times of being unsuccessful, I decided to try something different. I thought if I closed my eyes, then I wouldn't be fooled by a wall that wasn't even physical to begin with.

So with my eyes closed I ran at the wall. I ran further than I thought I needed to go and started to feel like I had made it, then blam. I hit it with the top of my head.

I tried two more times with my eyes closed.

But after no success. I decided to just do flips--like I often do in LDs.

As I did the flips I felt so good. I remember thinking, "This feels so good, why am I bothering to do anything else at all in my LDs. I shoudl just do flips the whole time."

SO I stayed in the room completely content for the next few minutes just enjoying the sensation of dream flips.

Until I finally woke up.

AdamA--I didn't use a tripod. I didn't use a lens on my camera. I just took it straight through the telescope. I have an Astroscan with a 4 inch mirror. I had in an RKE 8mm lens with the 2.5X Barlow.

One day I'll have a nicer camera so I won't have to rely on a telescope.

But still, I would actually love to get a set up that helps me get really good pictures of not only the moon, but deep sky objects, as well.

Awesome dream!! I get the email notifications from this site, so just popped up in my inbox, made me laugh!!!

Look foreward to hearing more and seeing more photo's. I'm toying with the idea of starting my own journal up

I had about 6 more dreams last night. It may take me a while to get them all up. I don't have long right now, but I'll start.

Dream 1:

I was camping, and it was evening. I got out of my tent and I looked up the hill. I saw a large dark shape. I wondered if that was something alive.

Sure enough, the next thing I knew, it stepped out of the shadows. I could see that it was a bigfoot. I remember being amazed that even after all my research, that I was still shocked at its size. Eight feet is actually quite big, and its shoulders were very broad. It had fairly long dark brown hair covering its body. It was too dark to see details of its face.

I thought about reaching for my camera, but I didn't want to scare it away. And I didn't want to take my eyes off of it for even a moment.

It started walking down the hill across from me and up the other side. I realised that it would be out of view soon, and if I wanted at picture that now was my chance.

I grabbed for my camera. Surprisingly, it worked. Since it was dusk, my flash went off. I knew it would startle the bigfoot, but I also knew that it was going to go over the hill anyway. So I took about three more with the flash, hoping that something would show up on film.

It paused at the top of the hill. I decided to get video footage, so I switched the setting on my camera to video mode. I filmed for about 10 seconds as it then walked into the trees at the top of the hill and disappeared.

What do you mean by dream flips? Are they just like cartwheels and flips in a dream?

Don't you think the bigfoot should have been a HUGEEEE sign? lol. I say that but watch, tonight I'll dream about bigfoot and not think twice of it myself!

Originally Posted by AdamA

Awesome dream!! I get the email notifications from this site, so just popped up in my inbox, made me laugh!!!

Look foreward to hearing more and seeing more photo's. I'm toying with the idea of starting my own journal up

Hey thanks! Didn't you already start a journal? I think journals are great.

Originally Posted by meggyfayephotography

Don't you think the bigfoot should have been a HUGEEEE sign? lol.

Not necessarily. Ever since I had a friend who had an encounter with a bigfoot I've done a lot of research. So to be honest, I'm always on the look out for bigfoot. Whenever I'm in the mountains with trees, I think, "Maybe this time I'll finally see one." And every time I have a dream where I see a bigfoot I am saying, "Finally...." So I don't think to RC.


Oh--and dream flips....

Just picture how it is like to do flips under water. I just stand and kind of sumersault in the air. I don't know why it feels so good, but there is just something about that feeling......:p

Love that last lucid. How many times did you smash your head into the wall? lol
I hope my commenting on you face plant last time didn't influence this head banging incident, but that's just pain hilarious.

I dreamt of a bigfoot awile back, I caught him taking a poop.