Thread: Twoshadows' Dream Journal

Originally Posted by meggyfayephotography

Madonna, Seth Green... who are you going to look like next?

That's true...haha...I hadn't remembered. I guess I subconsciously want to look like a celebrity. Male..female, doesn't matter...:p...

Still no LDs, but my recall is pretty good. Each night I am remembering multiple dreams. So I am just having to be patient for my lucid dreams to come back.


Dream 1:

This was a long dream at the beginning of the night. I remember something significant happening. I was part of this tribe and there was fighting. At the end I made the huge decision to go live the the Bear Clan. I wish I remembered more.


Dream 2:

I remember driving. I had gotten off the freeway. It was supposed to be the town where my mom lives. In the dream the frontage road turned into a dirt road. Ahead I could see workmenn tearing up the road. I got to them and could see a deep crevase that was a good 8 feet across severing the road in front of me. I wouldn't be able to go any further. There were no detours.

The workmen saw my problem and had the metal grate that they tried to put across the crevase, so I could cross. When it looked in place I started slowly across it.

But then I could see that it didn't go to the other side. The other side was about five feet higher than the side that I was on. I was just going to run into a dirt wall and be able to go no further.

The workmen saw this and they started to lift the other saide of the grate. I remember thinking "How are they strong enough to do this??" But somehow I got across.

At this point I was trying to get to my moms house. I turned up the wrong road and ended up at a bar. Two women came out that acted like they knew me. They acted a little strange, and I didn't really want to have anything to do with them, but I didn't want to be rude. They said they wanted to come over to my mom's with me. I gave them a noncomittal answer and drove off.

I got to what was supposed to be my moms' house, but it was really my grandparent's house. I went inside. I had this baby with me. He was about a year old. I think he was supposed to be my baby. We were all calling him "Brindle".

The two ladies came to the door. At first I wanted to not get the door--to pretend we weren't home. But them I realized that that was very rude. So I let them in. They wanted to play with little Brindle.

And things get fuzzy from there.


Dream 3:

I remember being out in the back pasture. There was a group of young people there. I was trying to get the chickens put back into their coop. There were only two--a hen and a rooster. The hen was sitting on an egg. I thought if I picked up the egg and put it into the coop, it would help the hen want to go in more.

The hen ran away when I got close, so I picked up her egg and put in in the coop. I saw the rooster nearby. He had the coloring of a Rhode Island Red, but much smaller. I got him cornered and picked him up. [The feeling of holding that chicken was very realistic.]

I began to go after the hen now. She ran into a large area. A teenage girl was there. The hen ran by her. I told the girl to try to get the hen. She was able to reach down and get her. We put her in the coop with the rooster.


Dream 4:

I was living in the dorms. Something had happened that our rooms were all a terrible mess. (I believe there was more to this dream that I have forgotten).

I came up with the idea of telling everyone that there was an inspection coming up and the cleanest room got a prize. Then I got to work cleaning my room. I had a sleeping bag laying on my bed that was covered with sand and dirt. I pulled that off and took it to be washed.



These aren't the world's most exciting dreams, but oh well....:p.

Inspired by Mes Tarrant's cicada dream and pic:



I heard the buzz....found the bug...took the pic...




A closer view of its pretty face....:p

You know, I've always heard of cicadas in books and just imagined them as grasshoppers, or like the heat bugs we have around here that sing when it's really hot. But I never imagined them like that. Those are some freaky looking bugs! Don't they have some kind of strange reproductive cycle where they stay underground for years?

And what kind of name is Brindle for a baby boy? I could see it as a girl's name, I knew a girl named Bryn. Don't know what it was short for.

Originally Posted by The Cusp

You know, I've always heard of cicadas in books and just imagined them as grasshoppers, or like the heat bugs we have around here that sing when it's really hot. But I never imagined them like that. Those are some freaky looking bugs! Don't they have some kind of strange reproductive cycle where they stay underground for years?

Yeah they are a strange looking bug. But I always have kind of liked them. They didn't live where I grew up, but my gandparents lived in Las Vegas and they would get them there. I think you're right about the life cycle thing, but I don't know that much about it. I do know that some years there would be a whole lot. As kids we used to love to collect their shedded exoskeletons and "clip" them on our shirts until we were just covered with them.

And I think they are one of the loudest insects in the world. When a bunch of them get in a tree by your house, it it almost deafening.

And what kind of name is Brindle for a baby boy? I could see it as a girl's name, I knew a girl named Bryn. Don't know what it was short for.

I have no idea where that came from. Sounds more like a dog's name to me...

I was just glad I remembered it. It almost forgot the baby had a name--until I was writing the dream up.



Edit.

Some good cicada info:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...3D10%26hl%3Den

Those bugs are so nasty!!

Eww... I prefer having that annoying bat fly around in the middle of the night scaring me to death than a bunch of cicadas [though it's wings are beautiful and it does have a nice face]... I always thought they looked like grasshoppers too... I wouldn't mind them being around when they're alive but when they die on the surface and I accidentally step on it... gross.

I miss those days when I happily caught chickens... those were the fun days

Wow those are really cool pictures actually... the eyes look really big! Although now I have a renewed fear of them.

Lucidbulbs, haha I miss those days too! I still pick up garder snakes if I see any though.

Originally Posted by Twoshadows

As kids we used to love to collect their shedded exoskeletons and "clip" them on our shirts until we were just covered with them.

That's just nasty.

when i was a kid i use to put different species of ants in separate jars. collect flies, bees, spiders and such and put em all in one big jar to watch them fight!

Great pics, TS! I got a digital camera (my first) and I am going to learn how to use and post pics too. I hope.

I forgot about "wearing" the cicada shells! We used to do that too. And scare people who were afraid of them.

Originally Posted by Lucidbulbs

Eww... I prefer having that annoying bat fly around in the middle of the night scaring me to death than a bunch of cicadas [though it's wings are beautiful and it does have a nice face]... I always thought they looked like grasshoppers too... I wouldn't mind them being around when they're alive but when they die on the surface and I accidentally step on it... gross.

I miss those days when I happily caught chickens... those were the fun days

It's been a while for me too since I chased chickens. And it's been a little while since chickens have chased me.

True story: After my mom moved from LA she got chickens. There was one Rhode Island Red rooster that was so mean. None of us liked to go out in the yard because he would chase you down and scratch you really hard with his claws. I got to the point where I would carry a two by four, so I could whack it when it came running. We all called it, "The Bad Rooster".

Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant

Wow those are really cool pictures actually... the eyes look really big! Although now I have a renewed fear of them.

Lucidbulbs, haha I miss those days too! I still pick up garder snakes if I see any though.

Cool!

I like to pick up snakes too. The last couple snakes I've seen have been rattlesnakes, though, so I didn't get to pick them up.....

Originally Posted by meggyfayephotography

Those bugs are so nasty!!

Originally Posted by The Cusp

That's just nasty.

They're not that bad, are they?

Originally Posted by ranma187

when i was a kid i use to put different species of ants in separate jars. collect flies, bees, spiders and such and put em all in one big jar to watch them fight!

I've got memories of being a kid and doing mean things to bugs too. Now it makes me feel bad.

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

Great pics, TS! I got a digital camera (my first) and I am going to learn how to use and post pics too. I hope.

I forgot about "wearing" the cicada shells! We used to do that too. And scare people who were afraid of them.

Yay, Moonbeam--That's great that you got a camera. I can't wait to see the pictures you will post.

That's nice to know that someone else was able to enjoy the fun of cicada shells. Good memories, huh?....:p

Dreams:

Dream 1:

Nightmare:

The beginningis fuzzy. I remember thatmy mom and my sister had done somthing having to do with King Kong. It was like they had a big toy King Kong tied up in the back of a pickup truck. But as I looked at it, I got a bad feeling. I knew something was not right.

Sure enough, the King Kong (KK) came to life. It was about 12 feel tall, but he was still able to come in houses.

Anyway, there was a whole lot of dream where I am running or hiding and just plain feeling terrified.

I finally decided to hide in a car--a minivan. I crawled into the floor space in front of the back seat. There was an orange blanket (looked like a childhood blanket of mine). I tried to cover myself quickly with the blanket. I felt that I was pretty well hidden. But just to make sure I worked myself under the back seat.

I could see KK coming toward the car. I kept telling myself, "He can't see me...he can't see me....".

The I felt the car as he gave it a huge push. I braced my head, so I wouldn't bump it when the car slammed against a wall.

I kept telling myself, "He can't know that I'm here...I'm hidden...".

Then suddenly the back door of the van liften and I realized that I was totally exposed. I could see KK's hand reach towards me.

As soon as I felt it touch my head, I awoke with a start.

I had to catch my breath.The dream had really freaked me out. That's the most scary dream I've had since the "guy in the window" dream.


Dream 2:

DV Member Dream:

I was swimming in a pool with Oneironaught, Mes Tarrant and Lucidbulbs.We were talking. But suddenly I wondered how it was that I was actually withthem. I only knew them from DV. But instead of becoming lucid, I noticed that there was something strange with the water. I then looked at the others. I realised that I was not really with them.This was some sort of fancy computer chat room. What I was seeing were just thier pictures. I was just a computer program that took peoples' pictures and made them look like they were swimming. I also realised that none of them were actually seeing me either, but just my picture. BUt since it was a chat room we were still able to talk through our pictures.

My mind was actually able to make sense out of all this--which is actually too bad. I would rather have become lucid. Then I could have had a Lucid DV dream....

Oh well. At least it is a DV dream...

I hate that feeling of terror that accompanies you in nightmares from start to finish. In fact, nightmares suck period.

And I'm surprised you're actually able to make sense of that last dream. I wouldn't have known how to explain that one.

Lucid soon? I think so! My recall has been up like crazy so...

I've got memories of being a kid and doing mean things to bugs too. Now it makes me feel bad.

I remember once when me and my friend were lucky enough to stumble upon two different anthills within five feet of each other. One of the hills consisted of black ants and the other hill was red. It was amazing because me and my friend decided to 'take control' of the anthills to make sure productivity wasn't lacking. :p

I took the red ants and my friend took the black ants. The red ants hole was a little more developed. Anyways, we'd go back and forth, finding ants who'd strayed from their nest (assumed they were being treasonous) and punishing them by putting them in the opposite nest. We'd watch them get pulled down into the holes clawing for dear life. It was terrible but an incredible act of nature. We built barricades around the hills so enemy ants couldn't break in, and we helped ants with food get to their own nest faster. It was nuts.

We did this for a couple weeks, and then eventually the cold came and the ants disappeared.

Sorry to clutter up your DJ, but I've always wanted to share this story.

I hate that feeling of terror that accompanies you in nightmares from start to finish. In fact, nightmares suck period.

Don't they, though. I haven't had that many nightmares since I have been LDing. But the few that I have had have left me feeling pretty terrified.

Sorry to clutter up your DJ, but I've always wanted to share this story.

You can clutter up my DJ anytime....

Sounds like you had an interesitng experience with those ants. I haven't done anything quite like that, but I have occasionally dropped food by an anthill and watched as the ants got excited about it and took it in the anthill.

PS--I hope we all have a good LD soon!!!

Okay, I just had a little nap dream.

I remember two parts of it. Part had to do with donation things.

I donated things twice in this dream. The first time was at the high school field. There was an event going on (like a circus or somthieng) that you had to pay to get into see. I noticed that while waiting in line I could see though the fence. I remember seeing horses and hearing music.


To make the donations I had to fill out this form. But it ended up being more like a test with complicated math questions. I didn't fill thoose out and felt like I was going to be in trouble for not doing so.

The second time I was donating I was in my backyard going into my garage. Someone who was leaving said to me, "Watch out for the polar bear by the back porch."

I looked over and was amazed and frightened to see a Polar bear sound asleep just a few feet away.

I decided to go through the garage and close the door behind me and do back in my house from the front to avoid the polar bear. Bob from work was following me though the garage--right behind me like he was goingto play a trick on me and scare me. But he went away without doing that.

I saw a table set up in another room in my house. It looked like someone was going to be holding a meeting. From the look of the books and pictures I saw, it looked likeit was going to be about fishing.


Part 2:

I don't know when this happened or where this fit in. But I do remember it had something to do with two guys I knew in high school (JW and JS). I don't remember much detail. But it was kind of sexual in nature. They both really wanted me. I remember trying to decide what I should do about it. At one point I was with JW. But when I thought about JS-- I thought I might want to not do anything with JW and wait to find JS. Because it was JS that I had the huge crush on. Or something like that.

Hey TS, hows things? I liked the cicada shots, there were millions of the things around where i grew up *nostalgic sigh*.

I'm still catching up on your journal but i see you had your Star Wars dream, congratulations! (But i thought the idea was to fight Darth Vader? )

Originally Posted by packmania

Hey TS, hows things?

Hey Packmania. I'm glad to see you around. Thanks for stopping by....

I liked the cicada shots, there were millions of the things around where i grew up *nostalgic sigh*.

Thanks... And wow...that must have been very noisy.

i see you had your Star Wars dream, congratulations! (But i thought the idea was to fight Darth Vader? )

I know...haha...pretty pathetic, huh? But, you know, he just didn't seem that evil to me....:p.

Okay..I had another DV Member dream. And the lucky person today is....Ranma....:p.

To be honest it wasn't a real fun dream. I was back in school...elementary school it seemed, yet I was an adult, and so was Ranma and the others. BUt it was just like elementary school.

I can't remember how it started. It seems like I had been going to class and taking notes.

But the part I really remember starts with me trying to get to class. I end up getting lost . I end up in a classroom but not the right one. I try to go back out to find the hallway, but every time I go through a door, I end up in another classroom.

By the time I finally get to class, I'm late. I see that everyone has started to take a test. I start to panic because I didn't know we were having a test..and I hadn't studied.

I look at the paper in front of me and start reading through the questions. There are only ten. I realise that they would be very easy questions to answer if I had only read through my notes.

I only remember one question specifically. It asked, "What is the fifth ingredient of the bread recipe discussedin class?"

I remember thinking, "How many ingredients were there in that recipe--five or six..? If it was only five then the answer is "salt". If there are six, then the answer is "yeast" ".

I thought over the recipe "Okay...wheat flour, oil, sugar, yeast ..salt......Is that right..??"

I finally decided to write down "Salt"

I looked at the other questions. I had no idea of the answers to any of those.

I look up and see Ranma sitting next to me. He sees that I am having trouble. He looks at me with a knowing look, then slowly slides his paper closer to me.

I realise that he's trying to help me. I look at his paper, but it's not close enough for me to read the answers.

I look at him again with a helpless look. He raises his eyesbrows at me (as if giving me the message to try again) and pushes his paper closer.

But then the teacher is right there, and I don't dare glance over at Ranma's paper. So I ended up having to hand in the paper with what I was sure to be all wrong answers.


But thanks, Ranma, anyway for trying to help me out....

TS are you still in school of some kind, like college/grad school?

Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant

TS are you still in school of some kind, like college/grad school?

Um..sort of...but not as a student.

Meh? Elaborate? :p I was wondering why you had a school related dream!

I've just done a lot of stuff in various schools over the years. I used to be a preschool teacher. Also a teachers assistant in elementary. And other things. Volunteer work also takes me into schools. I'm involved with things that have meetings on a college campus. So it's natural for "school" to be on my mind. Plus all my own school years as a student--there almost hasn't been a time when I have been able to stay away from schools.

It's about time you had a funny dream with me in it!

But me helping you cheat.... hmm i dunno if i would do that.:p