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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:
http://aycu26.webshots.com/image/200...6887585_rs.jpg
I heard the buzz....found the bug...took the pic...
http://aycu10.webshots.com/image/191...2248317_rs.jpg
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.
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.
I have no idea where that came from. Sounds more like a dog's name to me...:DQuote:
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 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. :shock:
Lucidbulbs, haha I miss those days too! I still pick up garder snakes if I see any though.
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.
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".
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....:(.
They're not that bad, are they?
I've got memories of being a kid and doing mean things to bugs too. Now it makes me feel bad.
Yay, Moonbeam--That's great that you got a camera. I can't wait to see the pictures you will post.:banana:
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. :P
Lucid soon? I think so! My recall has been up like crazy so...
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. :pQuote:
I've got memories of being a kid and doing mean things to bugs too. Now it makes me feel bad.
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.
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.Quote:
I hate that feeling of terror that accompanies you in nightmares from start to finish. In fact, nightmares suck period.
You can clutter up my DJ anytime...:).Quote:
Sorry to clutter up your DJ, but I've always wanted to share this story.
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? :shakehead2:)
Hey Packmania. I'm glad to see you around. Thanks for stopping by...:).
Thanks... And wow...that must have been very noisy.Quote:
I liked the cicada shots, there were millions of the things around where i grew up *nostalgic sigh*.
I know...haha...pretty pathetic, huh? But, you know, he just didn't seem that evil to me....:p.Quote:
i see you had your Star Wars dream, congratulations! (But i thought the idea was to fight Darth Vader? :shakehead2:)
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?
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
Sure you would....
Actually I don't think I have ever really cheated in real life, but you know how you do things in dreams that you wouldn't normally do in real life. Plus the teacher wasn't being fair. But whatever--I really appreciated your concern, and your watching out for me.:)
Dreams:
Dream 1:
I have no memory of this except that I was hearing these sounds in my dream. I woke up and continued to hear the sounds. It frustrated me that I could not figure out what I was hearing. I couldn't even tell if it was an animal sound (like a bark) or some kind of musical instrument or other man-made sound. It just kept going down in half steps and then repeating. I must have still been half asleep--you'd think I'd be able to figure the sound out.
Dream 2:
I was asleep in bed when I hear the doorbell ring. I looked at the time and saw that it was 4:00am. I couldn't imagine who could possible be at the door at 4:00.
I looked out the wondow and saw a little girl about 10 years old standing there. I knew that there must be a problem for her to be out this late. So I went to the door.
I opened the door and saw that she was with a younger brother. She held up a grocery bag and said that she was collecting cans of food for a food drive.
I felt a little angry at this point. I couldn't believe her parents would let her out to do this at this time of night. I asked her about it. She said she was staying at her grandparents.
Finally I just loaded her up with so many cans that she couln't possible collect any more, so she would have no choice but to go back home.
Dream 3:
[I'm glad I took notes on this one.]
I was being chased. I think my father was involved in some way.
Finally I was hiding in a school with a group of people. I could see the bad guys coming. i wasn't hiding where the others where hiding. I saw thebad guys heading twoard the others. There was nothign I could do, so I ran toward the school exit.
I had to climb over a chain link fence. After I got over, I saw that there weer sctually two more fences I had to hop. I should recognise this as a dream sign--because I am able to hop these fences like I hop any dream fences--I jump nearly to the top, then use my hand to swing my legs over the fance and I jump the the ground all in about 2 seconds.
I run from the school. There is a neighborhood across the street. I run for the houses. i decide to run through the backyards. I get to a place where all I see are sections of yard with dogs. I pause for a moment, trying to decide what to do.
I then notice that in one of the sections is a lady and she is talking to a little deer (that I thought was a dog at first). The lady sees me and starts talking to me. She asks about my school major.
At this point I feel like I am not the main character in this dream. I feel like there are two of us standing there. I feel unsure what to answer since I am not actually going to school. I look at the other girl to see if she she wants to give me a hint at what to say.
That split only last a minute then I am the only one again. I answer the lady and tell her my best subject is English.
The lady then asks me is I want to help her write an artcle for the school about her deer project. I say yes, because I don't want to act rude. She then tells me the website that I can get on to wirte the article.
The the phone inside her house rings. She pauses and acts suspicious.
I suddenly realise at that moment that she is working with the bad guys and that she was talking to me only to try to stall me until the others could get there.
She then answers the phone and I hear her say, "Uh huh" and she knods at me, then hangs up.
I feel so betrayed.
She looks at me and makes a comment on how she likes my grey jacket, but how I hould stand up a little straighter--to be proud of myself.
That was like a slap in the face. I awoke with a start.
I lay there feeling terrible. I didn't like that I felt so unresolved and that I had left my dream self just standing there by that bad lady, just waiting for the other bad guys to come.
I couldn't get back into the dream, so it helped to just visualise my dreamself just taking off, flying straight up in the air, leaving the lady just staring up into the sky worrying about what she would say when the others came.
:( Bad dreams.
When I don't feel satisfied with a dream because I woke up too soon, I usually lay there thinking about it. I think about what I would do if I were still in the dream as I fall back asleep and usually I fall back into the dream. It's too bad you didn't fall back into the dream, I really would like to know what happened, if you stayed there until the bad guys came or if you ran. What they did to you when they caught you. If they caught you if you ran agian...
Hmm, moral of the story... never trust old ladies.
I know, huh. Last night's dream is also frustratingly bad....
Oh, I love when I can get back into a dream on purpose. On the other hand, I hate when I keep returning to the same dream when I'm sick, and it is one of those awful monotonous icky feeling ones.
Well...certainly not in that dream....:|.
Dreams:
I had a bunch of dreams. I didn't take notes so most are lost except for the last one. So I will start with that and see if I can go back and remember anything else.
Last dream:
I had been traveling. I remember at first being with my mom and younger sister. I can't remember this part very well.
BUt I remember there was a part where we split up. I was going to drive to see my older sister that has cancer. She was staying at a cabin that belonged to some friends of hers. The cabin was in the mountains above this small town.
I travelled for quite a while. I had the directions all written out on this piece of paper. I had only read the directions to the town. I was going to read the directions to the cabing after I got to town.
I finally pulled into town. I stopped at a little store for a break. Then I came back out and went to look at the directions...but I couldn't find the paper.
I look through the car. I keep seeing these big stacks of paper--so I keep looking through them. When I can't find it, I start to go through them again.
A guy who worked at the store sees my distress and asks if he can help me. He looks abour 19 or 20 years old and has shoulder lengh dark curly hair. I told him my problem. He starts helping me look.
As the time passes I keep getting more frustrated and I am almost to the point of tears.
I realise that I can't get a hold of my mom and sister because they are traveling and they don't have the directions with them. The only other set of directions is back home in thier empty house. I can't even ask anyone in this town for directions because I don't know the name of the friends that own the cabin.
The guy finally has to leave because we are not finding the paper.
I sit in the car and cry. I feel terrible. I want to see my sister so bad and know she is waiting for me and will be wondering why I'm not showing up.
Dream fragment 1:
I am in a video game doing some kind of quest.
Dream fragment two:
I am at my grandparetns house talking to my Aunt.
Dream fragment 3:
Being in a hotel room. Ordered fancy soap.
Dream fragment 4:
I am eating at a buffet and trying to decide what to eat. The buffet closes before I choose.
GOAL:
http://aycu27.webshots.com/image/188...7173721_rs.jpg
(Haha...Once I get started I can't stop with these little sand messages.)
TS
Ahaha I want to make a sand message. It would have to be in the grass somehow though. :? Emmm.
I want a sand message too lol x
Wow, that last picture is great, it's like a place where a valley ends and a desert begins.
It's its own ocean [with rock and sand for water, vegetation for ocean wave froth]
I assume that's your dog? He looks so cute!
Your dream about going to visit your sister seemed very stressful. I probably would have woken up and cried.
Ooo, I like your description. Makes me look at it a little differently....:)
Yep...my wonderful dog is a great walking/hiking companion. It's so nice to have someone who loves hiking every bit as much as I do....:).
And yes, obviously my feelings for my sister are coming through in my dreams. I'm sure I'll be having more.
Dreams:
I'm up early. I will record the only dream that I remember. Actually I think I had two. But I don't remember anything about one--except I'm almost positive that Adam was in it. But I don't remember any details....:(.
The second is also very brief. I remember looking out my back window and seeing a bigfoot in my yard. It was a tanish/orange color. It was hunched over apparently asleep against the garden swing. I couldn't see its face because of the way it was leaning. But I could see that it had dark colored hands.
:o Bigfoot! And you didn't think it was a dream?! I know you follow the bigfoot stuff, but I would have thought "hmm meg told me to dream of Bigfoot to induce a LD a little while ago, this must be a dream!"
lol :p
I know...
But guess what?? I did get an LD this morning.
And I completed both Tasks!
YEah, I had been awake since 3:00. I couldn't sleep. I started getting tired again at about 5:30, but I couldn't sleep because I was riding bikes with a freind at 6:00.
But afterwards I was tired and I went to sleep...and I had the lucid dream....which is the nicest birthday present I could have gotten myself.:D
Lucid dream /Tasks:
I have vague memories of sitting on a chair at a round table and staring at the ground. I remember things being somewhat fuzzy.
As I was looking, I suddenly realized that this was a dream. Everything still felt extremely fragile for a moment while I got myself fully immersed into the dream. And then, there I was.
I am unsure where this went from here. Several things happened in this dream, and I am trying to get them in the right order. I think at this time I stood up and looked around. I was in a big school auditorium. There was a small stage in the center of the room. It looked like a band was getting ready to come on and play. I could see other people (maybe 20) hanging out.
I suddenly remembered I had Tasks to do. I searched the crowd. There had to be a DV member in this crowd. I coldn't see anyone that I recognised.
I then saw some band members coming out. I thought, "This will be so easy. I'll make sure CoLd BlooDed is the guitarist." But then the guitarist came out, and it was a guy with blond curly hair.
I was beginning to feel frustrated that the DV members weren't appearing. This was supposed to be something I was good at.
The next thing I remember was being in the air spinning around. It came to me that this is the first time that I had ever spun in a dream. I was glad I was doing it, because hopefully it would help me to stay lucid even longer.
After spinning. I started flying across the room, back and forth. I then decided that I should try the Advanced Task of going through a portal. There were no mirrors in the room, but I did see a dark dark spot (about 3 feet diameter) on one of the walls. I decided to aim for that spot.
I sped up and went feet first into that spot. I was successful. It was a portal. All around me I could see more circles that I was going through. And the feeling was incredible.
I came out in another room. I had to do it again because it felt sooo good. So I started flying around the room and aimed for the dark spot that was on the wall in this room. The same thing happened. .....the continuing circles and that wonderful feeling.
I did this several times going from room to room just enjoying the experience, until I was back in the original auditorium. I looked at the walls. There were murals painted on the wall. Some were paintings from the Peter Pan movie. I could see one that showed Neverland.
I decided that I really wanted to go to Neverland. So I decided to make the painting of Neverland be my next portal. I flew again, feet first at the painting. I went through. There were no circles this time. I tried to make out Neverland. I wanted to be in the sky looking down at the island. I could see it. But the detail was so bad. It was like looking at a poorly done painting. I didn't have the feeling of actually being there.
I suddenly decided that I had done enough with portals and that I really needed to try the DV member part of the Task now.
So when I came out back in to the auditorium, it was now filled with people sitting at tables. I decided that i would make myself confident and assume that this was a DV reunion.
I sat down next to a lady at one of the tables. She looked like she was dressed up to be in a movie. She had blue make-up all over her face and had what looked like a bleached blond wig. She also had glasses, and I believe she had a bright green shirt (or outfit) on. I didn't recognise who this was. But I realised that it could be any number of DV members under the costume.
So I sat next to her and asked, "Which DV member are you?"
She answered and said "Clairity."
I said "Hi Clairity, do you know what other DV members are here?"
She points to a table and says, "Well, that's Gomer, and that's Ivan."
I felt disappointed because those were not DV members that I knew.
Gomer then stands up and comes over to Clairity and for a moment I think he is about to flash her. But he doesn't get his pants down very far before he bursts out laughing like it's some inside joke.
Gomer then starts to take charge. He is holding a clip board and some raffle tickets. He then announces that everyone needs to get a raffle ticket if they haven't yet. They are only five dollars, but this is covering the cost of the reunion and everyone who has a ticket will be able to take home an audio recording of this event.
For a moment I feel a little insecure--I have no money with me. But then I realise again that this is just a dream.
And at that moment I woke up.
Edit:
I just checked. There are DV member named Gomer and Ivan...both are lurkers with no posts. Funny how I was able to pick actual names of Members. Although with a site this big, it's not that great of a coincidence.
You've been living up to your user name with this habit of completing the tasks in pairs. Congratulations and happy birthday! :breakitdown:
o0o0o0o its your birthday :D Many happy returns :D xx
I remembered a few more dreams. I don't where in the night these fit.
Fragnemt 1:
I was cleaning a house with Ranma.
Fragment 2:
My mom and bought a very small blue truck that looked a bit like a golf cart.
Fragmant 3:
My older sister was showing me her tan hiking boots and telling me that they needed to be washed.
Fragment 4:
I followed my mom as she went to my Jr High to talk to my band teacher. I wondered why I didn't recognise anyone, but then realised it has been mamy many years since I have been in Jr high. I did see my best friend's little sister and parents there.
Oh, wow. Happy birthday :D
Wait, which day is your birthday? And where did the calander go? It looks like it's been replaced with "my posts". That sucks.
Edit - edit: Never mind, you can access the calendar by clicking on the cake icon. But yours isn't listed, meaning you've never entered your birth-date. Woman and their vanity...
Happy Birthday and congrats on completing both tasks for the month!
:goodjob: Wow way to do the tasks! That was fun just reading about flying thru those portals! And I can't wait until I see how Clairity reacts at her appearance!:p It seems like more than coincidence that you picked "Gomer" and "Ivan" as other DV members...those aren't really very common names. Strange. I have to admit that I, I'm sure along with many others herre, were reading anxiously to see who would show up!
And....:breakitdown: Now I know why you're such a nice and all-around cool person! You're a Cancer, the best sign! I'm being totally objective in that statement.
Congrats on the Tasks! And Happy B-Day. I'd get you a gift, but i'm cheap at the moment:p
Congrants on the task and Happy B-Day TS!!!! I wish ya the best!
Yeah, I have never entered my birth date. I wasn't going to mention it, but then when I did the Tasks on my birthday and thus ending my dry spell, I thought it was cool. Kind of a double celebration...:breakitdown:
Thanks Meg! :)
Thanks Moonbeam. So you have a birthday soon too? I hope you can have a great LD for your birthday too.
Yeah, I think it's really cool that the names that ended up in the dream are real DV member names. I wonder how my mind managed that one.
Thanks Ranma! Just think of all your comments as "gifts". The comments and conversations are what make this place so enjoyable.
Thanks Lucidbulbs! :)
Dream:
The only dream I remember at the moment is one having to do with strange plants.
Darn, I can't remember anything more than that.
I took a little nap this afternoon and had another lucid dream in which I attempted the Task again.
Nap Lucid:
I know the dream was longer, but I'll start when I became lucid.
I was somewhere, and I suddenly needed to go home and it was going to be a very long walk. I decided that it would go a lot faster if I just flew. So I took off flying. I flew along for a moment at a height of about 6-8 feet off the ground.
Suddenly it hit me--if I'm flying, I must be dreaming. And--I'm lucid.
I decided that I really wanted to try the Task again to see what other Dream View Members I could find. So I started looking around for people. I flew a little higher so I would have a better view of the streets I was flying over.
At first I was seeing no one. Then I looked out in front of me and I saw a group of guys playing basket ball in the street.
I got excited becasue I just knew I was going to be able to make at least one of them be a DV member.
But as soon as I got close enough to start making out features and trying to decide if anyone looked familiar...I woke up...:(.
Still it was a good feeling to be able to become lucid again... and so naturally. I really hope this means my dry spell is really over.
I never have lucids during naps; or even dreams I remember. Congrats on another lucid again so soon.
I just had a nap too. And i see the lucid queen strikes again!!!
Just got back from a firework show....
Haha...but I hope you're right. I hope I can now be on a lucid streak. I seem to do that. Some months I have one LD after another. Then I'll go a whole month with maybe one.
Anyway, I wanted to mention something. I was thinking about my flying style in the last LD. It was definitely "Swimming" style flying--like breast stroke. I remember this pretty vividly. I don't really remember any "wind in the face", but I remember the feeling of gliding through the air.
I am wondering if I flew this way because I have been swimming a bunch lately--you know--gliding over the top of the water. There is something similar about swimming like that and flying.
I'm hoping that's what triggered the recently flying. If so, I'm going to make sure I keep the swimming up.
Wow TS, it really does seem as if your dry spell is over.
When I fly in dreams, it reminds me of Superman lol, except I keep my arms at my side. When I want to go faster, I push my head out farther to pick up speed. I think its rather silly. :)
Dreams:
Dream 1:
This was another "School" themed dream. Frustrating to the extreme.
I had three homework assignments due the next day. I started working on them in the evening at home. The first assignment I had to work on was for Social Studies. I had to write a paper about the Fifty States written in Benjamin Franklin style. I found the assignment very difficult.
The next was for Geometry. It had something to do with the radius of a circle...but it also had to do with drawing. I remembered the example that the teacher had given. I didn't like the style of face he had drawn. I wanted to do something much better. But for some reason, my face kept turning out exactly like the teachers.
The third assignment was also difficult, but I don't remember what it was exactly.
I got very tired so I decided to complete the assignments in the morning. I got up and realised that I wouldn't have time to finish them. I went to school and sat down against a wall of one of the buildings and tried to finish at least one of the assignments before the bell rang.
I never did finish any of the assignments before I woke up, even though I felt like I had been working on them forever. It was such a relief to wake up and realise that I didn't have to finish them.
Dream 2:
I was on a trip with a group of people . I think I was high school aged again.
We were riding together in a car--about 6 of us, with a lady as a chaperone.
We stopped in a grocery store. I saw some bread sticks that looked really good. They were each packages in a plastic tube which I thought was cool. There was a black guy standing next to me who worked there. I remember he was talking to me, but for some reason I couldn't understand a thing he said. I didn't want him to think I was rude. So I smiles a lot as he talked to me.
I went up to the front of the store to see the chaperone buying a box of Rice Crispies for us to share. I remember thinking, "She thinks that will be enough for the whole group??"
Dream 3:
I was house hunting with my mom. We went to this one house and started looking aound inside. It was nice, but fairly small. We went into the backyard. It had a small deck and a small strip a of back yard behind it. There were lots of trees shading it and it was actually very pretty, but I knew my mom wanted a bigger yard. I could see the yard of the house behind this one. It was very large and I could tell that the house was also huge. I told my mom that we should drive around and see if that house was for sale.
Things transistion and I am still in the same area, but I am now with different people--"unknown friends"--a guy and a girl. I look out over this fence and see this huge castle being built. It looks like an attraction that belonged in a theme park. I was amazed. I saw a sign for it that said something about it being a French Castle. I could see horses in stables.
I started saying how absolutley cool this was. The guy I was with didn't seem impressed and said how he had been to one much cooler in some other big city. I then said, "Well if I were in LA or Las Vegas, I wouldn't look twice at this...but here...this is really great!
Things transistion again and I see that the castle is next to a mall. I am now walking down a main street. I suddenly see in front of me three guys dressed as Darth Vaders. I took one look and remembered my dream and started laughing really loud.
One of the Darth Vaders was walking toward me, and I thought of something really funny to do-- I walked to him and took his hand and kissed it. Then he took my hand and kissed it, too.
It just seemd very significantly funny to me.
But it didn't trigger lucidity.
Aww... TS, after that one Darth Vader dream, I'd at least expect you to think about your reality when he kissed you back... maybe he'll come back in another dream for you...
Aha! You're getting the food dreams too!
Hey TS Happy Birthday for the other day! :banana:
I have to say though your subconcious attraction to the dark side is a little disturbing!
Hey thanks, Packmania.:)
As far as my "subconcious attraction to the dark side" ...it's probably that "forbidden" thing that makes it seem attractive in my dreams. I mean, I really don't think that in real life I would ever feel that kind of attraction to a someone like Darth Vader...:D.
Dream:
And speaking of "forbidden things" I had a dream last night that I absolutely can't share. :shock:
Sorry.
You tease us just to pull out? You're disappointing your fans here. I have a lot of dreams that I can't share for various reasons but you don't see me teasing everybody with them.
I guess I'm forced to fill in the blanks on my own. I'm thinking something involving Darth Vader, Nerf Herders, Ewoks and an energized light saber. Correct me if I'm wrong :D
Haha, I have to guess the same as GH :) And yeah, that's a horrible tease, you set it up so that we're all ready for a dream story and you just pull the plug on us. I guess I'll assume it certainly wasn't a G rated dream [if Darth Vader related].
Because you've been intimate with Darth Vader twice in two different dreams, next time you dream about him you should say "Who's yo daddy?" before he gets a chance to say "I am your father." And as for the school dreams... you've sure been having a lot of them lately! Maybe you want to be in high school again!
I don't mean to tease. This is just my only journal and I want to mention that I did dream last night, and this way I will most likely remember what the dream was about.
But this is the kind of dream I can't share...believe me--it's way better that I don't.
Alas, it wasn't about Darth Vader. I'd definitely share it if it was....:D.
[quote=Twoshadows;457116]But this is the kind of dream I can't share...believe me--it's way better that I don't.
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I have those dreams too.
But I don't remember them if I don't share them with my friends...such a loss...;)
Yeah...I would think that most people have dreams that they don't feel confortable sharing. Or they at least edit them a little. And I probably could have done that. But now I won't.
I really really want a Lucid Dream tonight. I think I will go to bed really early...and try a WBTB....maybe even a WILD. I want to have my DV party dream. I want to see if I can get all of you there....or at least four or five. It would just be so cool.
Hope I'm invited. Better yet, I hope I remember it too.
Of course you're invited. And anyone is welcome to dream share...if you know how. Wouldn't that be too cool.
Dream:
My last dream of the night was one that went on and on. It was really nice. I was back in Sri Lanka and staying with the same host family. I can't remember all the details but we did so many things in the dream. It seemed I was there for days.
A few details I remember are:
Hugging my host dad and telling him thank you for all that he had done for me in my first visit. I remember calling him "Appachi" and my mom, "Ammi".
I was worried that I didn't pack enough. I had one pair of shorts and two pairs of pants..but no dresses. [IRL -We lived in a rural part of Sri Lanka. I wore dresses every day because it was expected].
My host siblings were still the age they were when I lived there. It felt so good to see them again. I had missed them so much.
We ate a large meal. It didn't seem at all like the real thing. Lots of bread, and no rice or curry. I remember taking a bite of something awful that tasted like old dog food. Even though I spit it out I could taste it in my dream mouth for the next five minutes or more.
There was another exchange student living a few houses away. I wanted to meet him. [IRL I made very good friends with another American exchange student, and we have continued to remain friends. It's always fun to tell people that we met in Sri Lanka. :)]
I'm going to find a pic of me in Sri Lanka and post it.
Here's one of me with my family and extended family. (The pic is not that clear because I just took a picture of a picture just now with my camera.)
http://aycu07.webshots.com/image/192...6833301_rs.jpg
TS
That's a good dream [aside from the dog flavored food], it's good to have dreams based off of good memories.
And lucky~, I want to be a forgein exchange student too oneday, somewhere.
Looks like everybody wears dresses there!
Pretty site.
Where was that waterfall picture taken?
Yes, being an exchange student was one of the best most powerful experiences in my life. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything. It made me feel closer to all people everywhere in the world.
You wouldn't believe how personally I took that tsunami that killed all the people in Sri Lanka. I had visited the areas that got hit the hardest. I could see the place clearly in my mind. I could visualize the families, the children...the loss.
Yeah, I guess I could have made that a little more clear. But I'm glad you got it.:)
Yes, dresses everywhere. I played in the paddy fields with my siblings in dresses, went to school in dresses, rode an elephant in a dress, washed an elephant in a river in a dress...you name it I did it in a dress. Actually the word is "frock". We all wore "pretty frocks"....:)
It was a place near Ratnapura in Sri Lanka. It was a great gemming area. Some of the relatives in the picture gemmed for a living. Before I left that area they gave me a big bag of little stones that they had collected out of the river. I had the best time when I got home picking through it saying, "Wow...here is a ruby....look--a blue sapphire!" It was very cool.
I've got more pictures I can share.
Suddenly I feel very untravelled and have an urge to go to Sri Lanka :P
Maybe in a dream..
I'm going to Pennsylvania in September... but not nearly as good as Sri Lanka!
I would feel that way too if I were you, I mean, it feels so much personal once you make the bonds with them, it almost hurts to see that country ache in any way or form... Oh... now I'm starting to feel bad too.
But yeah, the experiences there must have been priceless and on top of that wonderful. It's one thing to visit a country, it's another to be apart of it for an n amount of time.
When I watched that disaster on TV I couldn't help but have tears come to my eyes. And I never knew anyone there. I can only imagine how you feel about it, TS. It was such a terribly sad event.
I love when I dream about Sri Lanka. I dreamed about it all the time when I first got back. But I still have dreams every few months or so. It seems each time I'm saying, "I'm finally getting to come back here. This is so wonderful!!" (Need to remember --dream sign)
It's such a beautiful place to visit. When I filled out my application to be an exchange student, I was able to pick a few choices which they might or might not give you (my sister chose Scotland and they sent her to Brazil). Most of the other people applying were picking places in Europe (France being the top choice). I decided that I really wanted to go to some third world country that was as different from my own life as possible--somewhere that I would be less likely to get to on my own later in life. So I chose Sri Lanka. And they were able to find a family that they thought was a perfect match for me--and they were.
But a lot safer.
I would go back in a heartbeat if I had the money and it were safer. There were terrorist attacts while I was there, too, though. Once we were about to take a trip to see these ancient ruins, but there was a terrorist attack there the day before we went there and several people were killed. I still wanted to go, but my family didn't want to anymore.
Yeah, I got to see the country in a way that no tourists could ever see it. We lived in a very rural area where a lot of the people had never seen a white girl before. I was like a celebrity. Talk about weird...but kind of cool.
I got to go to school. I got to see how the family practiced Buddhism. I got to see the domestic helper beat my clothes into a rock when washing them. I got to eat rice and curry and cuttlefish and wild boar. I got to enjoy spending time with my siblings who mostly didn't speak English. We liked to catch lizards and fireflies. And so many other things.
I know...It breaks my heart. I don't like to think about it.
I'm totally off topic...but I don't care...:D
Here's another picture.
http://aycu07.webshots.com/image/210...3408158_rs.jpg
TS
Fantastic! I wish I had an elephant.
Can I just tell you how jealous I am of you! I want to be that close to an elephant in the wild! That's so awesome! That would definitely go on the list of best experiences of my life! Haha.
Terrorist attacks? That's scary! I was thinking about studying abroad in Israel (because I'm Jewish and it just seemed right) but I have a penpal over there and he was telling me about the terrorist attacks. He said they weren't as bad as the US made them out to be, but it was still too scary for me!
Me too. It was amazing. That was one thing that I had really looked forward to about going to Sri Lanka...I would get to see elephants up close. I knew a Sri Lankan guy and before I left to go to SL, he taught me some phrases in Sinhala. One first thing I made him teach me was "I want to ride that elephant"....:D.
Yeah, it would be scary to live somewhere that had terrorist attacks on a regular basis. But if I had to do it again, I would.
Studying in Israel sounds so cool. I know it might be somewhat dangerous...but so cool.....
The elephant in the picture wasn't wild. Most of the elephants on the island were work elephant--owned the same way people own horses here. My exchange student friend's family owned two. My family didn't own any. But I got to see elephants a lot just on the street or in the jungled areas working.
If you can see in the picture, the baby elephant is actually chained up. The two boys in the picture are washing it. I got to help. You can see the coconut husk in my hand that is used to to wash it.
Dreams:
I'm going to write up the last dream of the night first because it is the most vivid, and I don't want to lose it.
It is inspired by real life events. B was a family friend while I was growing up. She was a single lady about the age of my mom. She loved to go camping and hiking. Since she didn't have a family to go camping with she liked to take me camping with her. One of my best hiking trips ever was with B. We went to Mineral King CA and just took off hiking. We would get off trail, get lost, discover new places. It was totally my kind of hiking.
When I was 17, we went to Mammoth CA with her 15 year old nephew and his friend (also a real fun/funny expereince)--and I think that's what really inspired the dream most.
Dream:
I was in a mall or some shopping area. I was passing a McDonalds when I looked in and saw my friend B getting ready to leave. She had a 16 year old nephew with her. I started to talk to her, but she said she needed to run into the restroom real quick.
After she went in the nephew took off. I followed him. I asked, "Shouldn't you wait and tell B where you are going?"
He said, "No--I'm taking off. I want to go home. I want to get back to World of Warcraft."
I followed him to their car in the parking lot. I got in the car with him. I felt I couldn't let him take off and just leave B stranded.
I started talking to him saying things like, "I know how much people can like WOW but surely you can leave that behind for a couple weeks for a trip like this.
I remember he had just got his driver's license and wasn't driving as well as I would have been comfortable with. I put on my seatbelt even though I hadn't planned on going very far with him.
I remember a ambulance coming up behind us, and I repremanded him a little for not pulling over sooner and making the ambulance have to slow down. He told me that ever since he had gotten his license that he practiced using his rear view mirror just so he could be ready for things like this. I decided to not make an issue over it.
I then talked to him again about the fact that he just couldn't leave B behind. She would have to get someone to come pick her up and that it woulld be expensive. And this would hurt her feelings terribly. Plus it was just palin inconsiderate and rude.
He seemed to be listening, but not saying anything.
I then changed the subject a little. I asked what places they had visited so far. He got a little excited and started telling me about this National Monument that they had visited that had old Native American ruins. He then told me how they had gone to Lake powell and went to the dam and had taken --
"A dam tour" I finished.
"Yeah--it was really cool", he finished.
I then asked him where they were now headed. He said "Yellowstone".
"Yellowstone??" I repeated. "You're going to Yellowstone and you would rather play World of Warcraft?? Do you know what I would give to make a trip to Yellowstone right now??"
He started looking a little bad as I talked to him about how fantastically cool Yellowstone was. Finally he turned the car around and headed back to the McDonalds.
I was wondering what we would say as we walked from the parking lot toward the McDolnalds.
B was waiting there for us. She saw us together and gave a frustrated, but friendly smile. She said, "You guys could have told me you were going to go for a walk."
I decided not to day anything about him talking off. I decided that it was up to him if he wanted to say anything.
We then said our goodbyes and I wished them a great trip to Yellowstone.
Dream 2:
A DV Member dream about....Moonbeam!
I don't remember a whole lot about this dream. I was in this house that was infested his spiders and other creepy-crawlies. I didn't have any bug spray but I had a bottle of bleach cleaner that I used to clean things. I figured the bleach would kill things if I sprayed them. Sure enough, it was doing the trick.
As I continued to try to clear the hosue of all these very scary and gross bugs, I looked and saw that Moonbean was there and also helping me kill and clean. I went up to her and said something like, "I'm so glad you're here. Thanks for helping me. This isn't something I really wanted to do alone."
Dream 3:
Actually the first dream of the night--I'm mixing them all up today...:?.
This one had something to do with boats and living on the ocean. I don't remember a lot of details, but I remember a few images, the ocean at night, and setting something (some equipment) wrong.
Dream 4 (fragment):
This one might have actually been part of the nephew dream. But I was in a mall and I ran into my mom and aunt. She noticed that I had with me the purple purse that she had supposedly giving to me for Christmas. She told me that she had bought it at this mall.
Other fragments:
Something about clothes.
Something about a mountain range.
You should write a book about your experience in Sri Lanka.
Hehe, that dream about all the creepy crawlies sounds like my everyday life here :p
I shouldn't complain, when I was in Costa Rica if you went to the sink in the middle of the night sometimes cockroaches would jump out the plugs and start scuttling around. We also had some disconcertingly colourful (and large) spiders in the shower!
Nevermind killing insects, it sounds like you spent half the night talking sense into a teenager - probably more difficult ;)
Wow, sorry I have not posted here for so long. I've just been reading your dreams and the responses without making a contribution of my own.
That's so cool that you were an exchange student, I always wanted to do something like that. Nothing better than seeing the world through programs in school, right?
I'm surprised, I've managed to keep my journal up to date for the last week of dreams (which has been pretty fruitful, actually). I would've had a WILD this morning if I didn't force myself awake, I got that sleep paralysis and I was hearing things that weren't actually there. So close.
Thanks for the comments. I've missed them....:).
I would say that is the best thing anyone could do. I can't even measure the things I learned by living there. My whole world changed.Quote:
That's so cool that you were an exchange student, I always wanted to do something like that. Nothing better than seeing the world through programs in school, right?
Awesome job, CB!! What kinds of things did you hear?Quote:
I'm surprised, I've managed to keep my journal up to date for the last week of dreams (which has been pretty fruitful, actually). I would've had a WILD this morning if I didn't force myself awake, I got that sleep paralysis and I was hearing things that weren't actually there. So close.
Did you wake up on purpose because of the sleep paralysis?
I have never had SP yet. But I did have that scary WILD that I made myself wake up from.
Oh, I'll bet that in Costa Rica you had bugs. How neat that you got to spend time in Costa Rica. That is on my list of places I'd love to go. I'd love to see the wildlife. And I'm sure I would have a great time taking pictures of the bugs there.
I kept a journal while I was there. Filled a whole book. Right now it is packed in a box. BUt I do have a few journal entries I wrote up in another journal when I came back. I'll share a typical experience.Quote:
You should write a book about your experience in Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka journal entry:
"This is really funny. I was sitting outside the house with Shaminda and the twins. We had been playing badmitton or jump rope--I can't rmember which. But I stopped for a little break and was sitting on the wall by the driveway facing uphill.
The kids were still playing, when this young man comes walking down the hill toward us. He suddenly spots me. I don't know if he was trying to impress me , but he got this macho look, trying to look all cool. The way he was walking completely changed. Then when he is about 10 or 15 feet away from me he suddenly slips in the gravel and almost falls.
I couldn't help myself but I started to laugh. The poor guy looked really embarrassed so I had to look the other way so he couldn't see me still laughing.
He passed me and I turned to watch him go down the hill. He turned and looked back at me with an embarrassed smile. When he was gone Shaminda (my 10 year old brother) and I looked at each other and busted up laughing. And the twins joined in.
As a coincidence that same day we passed by him several times walking. I would start to crack up...and so would the man. When we'd passed him, Shaminda and I would look at each other and say "Miniha" ("man" in Sinhala) and then start giggling all over again."
End of journal entry.
Not that that was extremely eventful, but I recorded it to show how my little brother and I interacted. And how we didn't have to speak the same language to communicate and have fun.
I commented on your dream about me in our DV member dream-journal. If anyone is psychic, it's you.
I wish I had your recall.
I wish my family owned an elephant. That's even better than seeing it in the wild because you can play with him everyday!
*pictures herself riding down the street on the back of an elephant* :dreaming:
Thanks, Moonbeam.
Strangly I did not recall any dreams from last night.
I think it would be cool to be psychic...:rolleyes:.
Yeah...I was envious of my friend's family that owned the elephants.
I have a picture somewhere of me riding an elephant in Sri Lanka...but I don't know where it got put. I had taken some of my favorite pictures out of my photo album to use for something and they never got put back.....:(.
Wow...I just had a long lucid dream in which I did the Task of the Month again, plus several old ones.
I had awakened at 5:00 I laid in bed about 20 minutes. Then I got on DV for about 45 minutes (looked at old Task of the month) and then went back to bed. I laid there for a little bit wondering if I would go back to sleep. As I felt myself started getting really tired, I made myself open my eyes and glance at the time--6:32.
The first part of the dream that I remember is being with my two little neices. They had had a birthday party, and things were still decorated. I was talking to one of the neices (K) and she was telling me about how the party theme was Pirates and how fun it had been.
I then remember picking her up and jumpin with her, and at the top throwing her up a bit and catching her, then both of us would land on the floor. She loved it and I remember noticing how I could keep doing this and not get tired (Missed the dream sign this first time).
Then I set her down and started doing back flips. I remember being amazed that I was doing such good backflips and I wasn't even on a trampoline. Then I started doing front flips and I noticed how good they made me feel to do them
Then it hit me. This was a dream-- I loved doing dream flips because they make me feel so good.
As soon as I realised that I was dreaming I decided I wanted to do the DV Member Task again to see if I could get more DV members to show up.
This first transistion is a bit fuzzy. I think I started looking through the house for DV members. I didn't find any. I then decided to head out into the backyard so I could try the "Pet" task from last month that I had never gotten a chance to try.
I walked through the back room next to a sick looking Vietnamese guy huddled in a yellow blanket. I opened the door and went into the yard. It was my yard form my LA house.
I saw both my current dog and cat there. I started with my dog. "Hey boy, what do you think of me, huh? I need you to talk to me. DO you like me? Tell me what you think." But he kept sniffing at something in the grass and wouldn't even acknowlege my presence.
I looked and now saw my cat just a few feet away. I asked her the same questions. But like my dog, she seemed more interested in something in the grass than in answering my questions. So I thought about trying another Task before I woke up.
The Fire Task. I had to do the fire task. I looked around for a fire. There wasn't a fire in my yard. But as I looked over the fence toward my neighbors' yard, I could see smoke and I knew that there was a fire there.
I flew up and over the fence into my neighbors' yard. I landed on the grass. The yard looked just like I remember the Franko's yard to look. They had been the neighbors that I grew up by. I walked under their big tree. I could see the Frankos on the patio. I told them I needed to borrow their fire for a moment.
As I got to the far side of the yard I could see a small campfire. It wasn't very big, and I didn't know if it would actually count as walking "through" fire. but I was just doing this for fun anyway since it was now a new month with a new task.
I looked down at the fire and took small step and and walked over the fire. Since it was only about 2 feet across, I could only step twice--once with each foot.
I had wondered if the fire would feel hot...or if it would just seem like I was walking on normal ground. Well, as soon as I put my bare foot on the coals, I relalised that this was going to be harder than I thought because the coals were actually very hot and burning the bottom of my foot.
Still, I walked though. Even though it hurt, it seemed a bit anticlimatic. So I turned around and did it again. It still hurt. I decided that I would keep trying until I could control it and make it so it didn't feel hot to me anymore. On about the fifth time through the fire, I felt that I had achieved that.
I started walking across the yard back toward my own yard again. Suddenly the neighbors dog ran up to me not looking very friendly [the real Frankos had a dog that scared me as a child]. I decided that it was time to fly.
I remember wondering what the Frankos must be thinking of my strange visit to their backyard, but then remembered that they were my dream characters and weren't actually thinking anything.
In my own backyard I saw two large white and brown dogs. I chased them out the side gate.
I was still not satisfied with my attempt to find DV members so I tried again. I walked around (somewhere near the yard I think) calling out for DV members. I saw this group of people. I asked again if there were any DV memberd present.
Finally this teenage guy walks toward me from the crowd with his arm up. He said, "I'm a DV member.
I said, "Great, what's your username?"
He answered, "T-Arizona"
I said, "Cool, I think I'll remember that one."
Then two more guys walked out. One of the boys had two heads, one looked normal, the other had no neck. He told me his username. It was something cool sounding with two words and started with an "S".
Then the third boy told me his name...which I have also forgotten by now.
After that I decided to go look some more. I really wanted to find DV members that I knew. I walked inside a building and decided to call out for certain members. I decided to start with Oneironaut.
So I walked through this crowded building calling out for Onieronaut. Several times I could see black guys that from a distance looked like the right guy. But each time as I got close I could see that I had the wrong guy.
I finally decided to try another name. This time I called out for CoLd BlooDed. I walked through what now looked like a school building. I called and called, but still got no matches. I even tried CB's real name to see if that made a difference. But it didn't.
I finally ended up in a hallway by the doors to the outside. There was a group of students there waiting for the bell to ring and for school to get out. There was some teacher by the doors reminding the students to wear their bicycle helmets. The students all repeated a chant about helmets.
Finally the doors opened. At this point I decided that I wasn't having any luck with finding DV members, so I decided to try another of the older Tasks that I had never gotten done. I decided to do the "Snowman" Task.
As luck would have it, I walked out of the school and into a snow covered park. There were at least five snowmen in the park. At this point I was also suddenly with my childhood best friend M. I looked at the snowmen and wondered how hard it would be to bring them to life. I decided just to look at them with the expectation that they would just start moving. And sure enough, the one closest to me started twitching. Then it turned so it was facing me, and then started moving toward me. It was smiling, and I felt no fear that it would suddenly become evil and attack me.
I looked around and saw at least four other snowmen now moving in my direction. When the closest one got to me, I decided that I wanted to go flying with it. I told it to turn around so I could climb on its back.
After I was on its back I told it to fly. As we took off in the air, I remembered my friend that I had left behind. I knew she was only a DC, but I just felt the need to be polite, so I called back to her to get on the next snowman and to follow me.
At first I felt cold being on the snowman and flying through a winter sky. But I remembered how I had been successful in changing the temperature in past LDs. I told myself that I would no longer feel the cold since it was just my good imagination making it cold in the first place.
Gradually the snowman started feeling warm beneath me, and the air became just cool and not cold. It was perfect.
Then suddenly it was night. We were flying low and past buildings that were all covered with Christmas lights. I remember a building that looked like a City Hall that was just beautiful. We flew so close I could almost touch the lights.
There is a transition here that I don't remember.
But the next thing I remember is that I am back in a building looking for DV members. I believe it was an arcade. I could see out the window that it was still dark outside and I could see Christmas lights.
There were no DV members in the arcade, so I walked into the next room. There was a long skinny swimming pool there, the kind that makes a current that people can just stay in the same spot and swim against it..
I looked down in the pool to see if anyone I recognised that there. But I saw this man--he was bald and scarred and was very white. It disturbed me, and I suddenly felt myself start to wake up. Instead of fighting against that and staying in my dream, I suddenly realised that I had dreamed such a long LD that it would actually be a really good idea to wake up at this point and see if I could remember all of it.
So I let myself wake up.
Wow, that's incredible. I'm sorry for being so elusive, but I guess it's in the nature of my dream self. I mean, he DID just escape a terrorist bombing at his school. :p
But great job... that's an insanely long LD. Did it take you a long time to piece everything together or was it there as soon as you woke up?
Yeah, I haven't had a lot of luck with you showing up in dreams lately. Oneironaut didn't show either.:(
But I did get the deformed two headed DV member....:D
BUt yeah, a guess a terrorist attack might slow you down.
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But great job... that's an insanely long LD. Did it take you a long time to piece everything together or was it there as soon as you woke up?
Well, I did what I usually do when I wake up from a dream like this. I laid in bed without opening my eyes for a couple of minutes. I backtrack the dream some and try to find a starting point.
Then I grab a paper and pencil and I start writing things down. I leave gaps and fill then in as I remember. I squeeze in more details as they come. But it is still in note format.
For example --from my notes:
"With neices, bouncing K, Bday party, Pirates.
Doing backflips, frontflips. Dreaming!
Look for Dv Member, crowds, guy in blanket.
LA backyard, saw dog cat, didn't talk."
And that is ususally enough for me to write. Then I rush to the computer if I have time and then I write it out in full sentences with all the detail that I can remember.
There may be thing I leave out. But I feel that I get pretty close.
WOW. What an awesome dream. ..Flying on a snowman. That's so surreal and original..must have been amazing to experience! Nice going, TS, even though you couldn't get us to show up.
Now that is freaky. TS just told me about her LD, in a pm, and asked "Where were you?!"
I told her that I was being framed for mass murder, at a school, in my dream last night, and that I'd be posting it soon (which I will). Then I read her dream, and your reply, and...wow. Haha. Hell of a coincidence. :shock:
Wow, that is weird.
Looks like we're connected, O... you can't get rid of me now.
Muahahahaha.
Great dream, TS. You were really on the ball in that one. Now I'm jealous.
Thank you-- that was an amzing experience. I loved the night flight past all the christmas lights. Very cool. I want to do that again in an LD. In fact I want to have another LD just like that one--full of adventure and Tasks. I'll keep trying for that.
And that is interesting about yours and CB's dreams and the way you shared them with me.
Good, I hope this means next time you both show up!
(And I don't care if you come as conjointed twins. Maybe the next two headed DV member in my dreams will be you guys....:D)
Thanks GH. That could very well be my longest and most eventful LD ever. I think being so determined to do tasks kept me in the dream longer.
Dream:
Impending disaster.
I'm at a store buying cases of water.
Something bad and really awful is coming.
damn your LD's are phenomenal. i wonder why i can't get lucid:(
ooo I've had a really similar dream to the fire task one before! :)
I agree with Ranma about your LDs being phenomenal! I was captivated by the entire thing! I'm envious of your LD skills...
Well thanks, Ranma!! :content:
I'm sorry you haven't been able to get lucid much lately. I had a pretty long dry spell too, so I know how tough it is to just wait and wait and wonder if you are ever going to get lucid again. But I think if you just stick it out, you'll be having good LDs again.
Cool, did you post it where we can read it?
And thank you Meg! Having the Tasks to do is very motivational. My longest LDs are mostly the ones in which I am trying to do the Tasks. It's like I don't want to stop until I get them all done.
Dream(s):
I had a bunch of dreams, but they all kind of blend together.
There was something about Calico Ghost Town. And I was talking to this man who worked there. Something complicated was going on.
The part I remember best was either at the end of this dream or the end of another dream--but it was what I was dreaming of when I woke up this morning.
I was at the ocean in the shallow water by the beach. I suddenly remember being dragged out into the ocean by the current.
I remember telling myself not to panic. That it was probably a rip current. I would just start swimming parallell to the shore, that way I might have a chance of getting out of the current and not be swept so far out that I would have trouble getting back.
Then suddenly I looked out in to the ocean and saw this huge wave forming. I could see that it was an enourmous tidal wave. It had to be a couple hundred feet high.
I then realised why I was being swept out into the ocean. There was nothing I could do now. I could see the huge wave getting closer ...and also getting closer to breaking. I knew I would die if the wave broke and crashed on me. My only hope was swimming quickly toward the wave and trying to swim through it to the back side.
I finally go the the base and swam into it. I came out to what I thought would be the other side. Instead I could see that I was in this hollow place inside the wave. It made sense to me in the dream what this was ...kind of an "eye of the storm" concept.
I just hoped that it would stay hollow and remain a safe place for me to stay until this was all over.
i hate it when dreams blend together! the wave sounds really scary!
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the wave sounds really scary!
It kind of was. There was this overall feel of disaster--which is never pleasant. Plus the helpless feeling of being swept back into the ocean and seeing this wave about to crash on me...no, not really fun. I used to have giant wave dreams all the time as a kid when I lived close to the ocean, but this was the hugest wave I've ever dreamed about.
Dream 1:
I had moved into this house. I remember finding out that a ghost lived in this house. The ghost was a lady ahd she wore a dress and glowed gold. I don't remember much of this dream exept that I remember feeling frightened at one point and going into my older sister's room to spend the rest of the night there.
Dream 2 :
I remember a fragment of trying to clean something that was covered with black widow webs. Then as I reached my hand back, one ran out toward my hand. It started me. I had a vacuum in my other hand and i was tempted to just vacuum up the BW, but I didn't want it then in the vacuum.
Then my mom pointed out some black widows that were in an orange tree.
Dream 3:
I just remember being in an outdoor shopping mall. In the center plaza area there was this ride. It was the kind where cars hang down and it spins in a circle. I got on. As it spun the cars went out a very long ways. I was suddenly worried that the cars would runinto the buildings--but I thought, "Why would someone build a ride that collided into the surrounding buildings.?"
I enjoyed the smoothness of the ride...how wonderfully it felt to glide around in this huge circle.
But then at somepoint it did get too close to the buildings. The ropes attached to the cars were getting tanlged on some posts. The ride stopped for a while, and I sat in my car. Finally it started up again, and I enjoyed the wind in my face again.
Dream 4:
I was looking at Easter cards with my mom.
I know there was more to this dream.
Ooh some creepy first couple of dreams. I usually find that when I have a creepy/scary dream it's because my day didn't go well or something. :(
Your third one reminds me of a dream I had where I was in some ride that consisted of one box that flew up and twirled around at high speeds... I remember trying to hold on for dear life and always having that feeling of falling! :shock:
Sometimes it's like that, but I can't think of anything bad that would have triggerd those particular dreams.
Dream 1:
Long, involved, yet mostly forgotten dream about fighting vampires. I remember I was physically fighting a lot. I remember actually being in some pain.
Dream 2:
I was driving down a freeway. This probably was part of a longer dream that I don't remember. But I do remember seeing some strange looking cats on the freeway onramp. I also remember I didn't like the shoes I was wearing because my foot kept slipping off the pedals, and I felt like I didn't have good control of the car.
Dream 3:
I had pulled into this shopping center. There was a hardware store. I suddenly realised that I was riding my bike. I had no chain to lock up. I was unsure what to do. Then a guy I was with pulled off the handle bars and took them into the store with us, as if that's what you're always supposed to do when you don't have a lock.
I went looking for things I knew I was suppose dto buy. But I could only remember that I needed cold medicine. I couldn't find any. When I finally askked, they told me they didn't carry it--that I would have to go next door to Safeway to get some.
Dream 4:
I was in England, I think I was supposed to be an exchange student.
I remember standing on a concrete pad by the ocean. I looked to my left and I could see a beach beyond a building. I walked to the edge of the concrete pad and the building. I could see that the beach was just beyond the other side of the buildig, but I couldn't get ot it without jumping into some really black deep looking water..or by walking all the way aroudn the big building.
I was then with my best freind and her English boyfreind. I think I was supposed to be staying with his family. I told them that I really wanted to go to the beach.
He said that we weren't allowed to go to the beach.
I said, "This will only take a few minutes--I just want to take a few pictures."
But he said that we couldn't.
I remember feeling upset, and thinking that being an exchange student was going to be really difficult now. I was used to being quite independant.
Then I looked back out into the ocean and I could see a large wave forming.
I knew that a tsunami was coming. I realised that it was a good thing that I wasn't on the beach. I ran to the back of the builing and pressed myself against it. I hoped that this would be good enough protection. I could then feel the whole building shake as the huge wave hit it. I wondered it the building was going to hold.
Dream 5:
I was in someone's house. I seemed to be waiting for someone. I was in den-type room. I was on a couch. I looked beside my and saw these little Darth Vader toys in a little case. There were Darth Vaders of every color. I took them out and layed them side by side on my lap taking a closer look at them.
Then this guy came in and we start making out. I did it for a while, then I started to get this feeling that I was doing something wrong. I tried to pinpoint what it was--was it who it was..or what we were doing?
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I think it's funny that the last dream had both "Darth Vader" and "making out" as themes. :p
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What's the attraction to Darth Vadar?:p
Oh my gosh, GH, that was funny....:lmao:
Perhaps...but I'm not sure why my dream mind keeps bringing this up. Power may be attractive...but Evil is kind of a big turn off for me.
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I can totally picture you as buffy the vampire slayer in that first dream.
Can I just admit here that is was actually a Buffy-inspired dream. :teeth:
Years ago my sister got me into Buffy and gave me all the DVDs as birthday and Christmas presents. Anyway last night I watched a few episodes before bed. And it totally stayed with me. I know I dreamed about it the whole first part of the night. I just forgot the details by morning.
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What's the attraction to Darth Vadar?:p
Also tsunamis....ever since I mentioned the Sri Lankan tsunami, I have had these tsunami/tidal wave dreams. Next time I see a tsunami, I'd better jump up and fly away....meaning, I'd better be LUCID.
Awww, every one's picking on TS now. I hope is isn't all because of the way Darth's helmet is, umm, shaped. Oh, God, I hope that's not why.
*Takes cover*
Alright, I'm done teasing you. Time to get serious (:lmao: )... OK, really this time... Starting... NOW:
Don't be so hard on yourself. You'll get it soon.
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Also tsunamis....ever since I mentioned the Sri Lankan tsunami, I have had these tsunami/tidal wave dreams.
*shakes her head*
Lord! If you can hear me... please! Please, no more Darth Vadar dreams!!
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Please, no more Darth Vadar dreams!!
I didn't take notes last nights so I'm going to have to sort out my long night of dreams as I go.
Dream 1:
This one was interesting. I was playing World of Warcraft. But what seemed interesting was that I felt I kept drifting in and out of sleep while I was dreaming. I kept saying to myself, , "Wow, I'm awake now."--yet I was still seeing the last scene I had in the dream. Then I would get immersed back in the dream. Then the same thing would happen gain. I never felt it was quite right for full lucidity, even though I was fairly conscious.
Dream 2:
I remember walking down the street with a freind looking for another friend's house. Suddenly the friend that I was with told me that I was stnding right by it. I felt strange that I hadn't recognised it. But as soon as I took a good look, it was suddenly familiar.
I went in and talked to my friend's parents. My friend was no longer living at home. It had been years since I had been intheir home. Her parents were showing me around and all the changes they had made sine I had been there.
The one thing I remember is that they had a pond in their backyard that had these young crocodiles in it that were about two feet long. I remember being fascinated by them.
[This dream--excpet for the crocodiles--was inspired by my visit to their house last fall when I was in LA.]
Dream 3:
This dream went on forever.
I was on a hiking trip. I was with a group of people. We were hiking in a place like the Grand Canyon, but eventually the trail reached the ocean.
I remember I had a walking stick with me.
I also remember coming across a bunch of bears. The bears were walking down the trail in single file right next to us. I remember being afraid that they would suddenly attack because we were in their personal space.
When we got to the beach we had to go through populated area. There was some kind of fair thing going on.
This dream is weird because I remember repeating it again. I started the hike over, but with different people. The bears were still there and freaking me out. We came down to the same area by the ocean.
Then--I started the hike all over again--and this was a looong hike, too. This is why the dream felt like it took all night.
At the end of this one, when I got to the fair, I found a place where the trail continued. I had to climb up a very steep sandy bank. There were people following me. I was having trouble getting up the very steep bank. I was trying to grab hold of a pipe, but then the pipe came loose and I came tumbling down, knocking several people down with me. I felt very embarrassed.
And that's all I remember of that dream.
Dream 4:
I was with someone that was looking for college housing. I think I was with a group of boys and a group of girls. We found the boys' housing first. It looked like a man had already moving in and wa taking up almost all the space. I told the boys that they would have to tell the man to move some of his things so they would have a plae to put their stuff.
Then we went to the girls' housing. It was like a big trailor. I was surprised to see all the beds in the living room, until I reailsed that there were no bedrooms in this place.
I was then talking to a man (maybe the man from the boy's place). He was telling me how he was getting ready for this wedding. He said that a family member was marrying this famous guy. I later found out that it was his dad. The wedding was kind of hush hush because it was a gay marriage.
Then he started making these huge balloon/ball things. He gave me one and I blew it up way too big (about the size of half a room), and it split on the side. He then had to show me how big to blow them up--which was much smaller.
Odd dream with no purpose.....
But oh well, it felt like I was dreaming the entire night.
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Dream 1:
WOW
Dream 2:
Grandparents, earthboxes, trailor, K, cantalope, pasture
remeniscing, J, parents, pasture, email, friends, S F, ocean, sea anenomes, wave.
Dream3:
Indian guy, pictures, hiding, walking.
Well, I've never really been one to play games like that. I enjoy the people I play with more than the game itself. We were actually going to start up a good old fashioned game of Dungeons and Dragons. But this turned out to be easier.
But yeah, I've seen how some people's game addictions have kind of ruined their lives.
I'm addicted to DV more than any game.
Maybe that's the scary thing....:shock:.
:D
I'll start with the last dream of the night because it was a DV member dream.
And this time is was Oneironaught.
It came towards the end of a longer dream, but I don't really remember much of it. It may have been the one where I am about to play in the band and I am sitting with old friends from high school. But I really wanted to sit by A because I had a big crush on him. Anyway, I was able to get my chair in so I was next to him. And then the dream moved on..
I was with another friend, and we walked into this building. There were lots of long table in this building--reminded me of the pictures that GH posted of the wood carving convention, except there was nothing on the tables.
But sure enough as I walked by a table I saw GH. We talked for a while (about what, I don't remember). I remember thinking that he was quite good looking.
Then for some reason I had to go do something else (don't remember what). When I was done, I wanted to go back and talk with GH some more. But then I suddenly looked down at what I was wearing and I had on this huge old T-shirt. It was not flattering in the least.
I had a bag of clothes with me--so I ran outside and found a deserted area. I looked in my bag but the only thing that fit was a bright orange T-shirt. But I figured that it was better than the huge one, so I quickly pulled off the big one and slipped the orange one on.
Then I went back in to see GH. I walked up to his table and was just starting to ask him a question--
--but my phone rang and woke me up....:(
There are more dreams I'll try to get to them soon....
I also had a dream at the beginning of the night that I don't remember well.
But I do remember that I was emailing with oneironut, and we were talking about Harry Potter.
Middle of the night dream 1:
I also remember a dream where our town was getting a make-over. They covered the walls of every building with these black and white pictures. It reminded me of those velvet posters kids can buy and color with markers.
In fact, that was what we were suppoosed to do with these pictures that covered the walls. By each wall there was a basket of flourescent markers for people to color when they wanted. The goal was to get all the walls colored, then they would shine black lights on it.
I saw a wall that was completed and had the black lights on it. It had this very cool 3D look to it. I was excited to see what the whole town would look like when this was finished.
I also saw that the inside of the hallway that I lived in was also ready to color.
MOTN Dream 2:
I was with a friend and we had made treats to sell at a bake sale. The treats were fancy and looked like they were made out of clay...but they were edible.
MOTN dream 3:
The disturbing dream of the night. I was with my good friend...in a bathtub. :shock:
Now I feel special...
It's about time some one here thinks I'm good-looking. Even if it was only a dream, it still made me smile :)
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Then for some reason I had to go do something else (don't remember what). When I was done, I wanted to go back and talk with GH some more. But then I suddenly looked down at what I was wearing and I had on this huge old T-shirt. It was not flattering in the least.
harry potter? it'a about time i see the latest movie:p
Thanks... I seem to have this happen to me in certain dreams. The last time I dreamed of Oneironaut was was also wearing a big T shirt--and I'm thinking it is because that's what I sleep in and actually currently wearing. Plus, meeting someone for the first time that you have talked to a lot is actually a tad stressful...so that's also part of it.
Anyway, glad it made you smile....:)
I'm actually wondering if you're the one that inspired that dream. It would make sense that you did. Yeah, it's too bad that you weren't there.
Well, your emails were very nice looking...:D. I'm wondering if I dreamed about you because I had looked at your picture that you posted. Pictures often trigger dreams. Even if I didn't actully see you in the dream...
Yeah, you should. I liked it. I also was reading HP book 6 before bed and it triggerd another HP dream last night.
I had another Lucid Dream alst night...
7-20-07
I was having an interesitng dream in which I was friends with the vampire world--or at least one very large extended vampire family.
In the dream I was had planned this meeting where I was introducing all my regular freinds to the vampire friends. My introductions seemed to be taking forever (I had a group of maybe 25 friends there), so two thirds of the way through, I just told my friends to introduce themselves, and hopefully that would go faster.
At that point my next friend R decided to make a long speech instead of just saying her name. She told the vampires how wonderful it was to meet them and thanked them for coming...and that any friend of Twoshadows (except she said my real name) was a friend of hers.
As she was talking I walked over toward where the vampire family was standing (also a large group of 20-30 people).
As I stood there I decided to do that thing I liked to do where I fall back, and before I hit the ground I float back up to standing position. Right in the middle of doing that I thought, "Whoa--don't I only do this in dreams? If I don't hit the ground, won't that prove that I am dreaming? Yes, it will." That was all one instantaneous thought. Because half a second later than I didn't hit the ground and came back up to floating position, I was positive that I was dreaming.
At that point I paid no attention to the DCs around me. I floated up and started a low fly.
We had started outside, but now I realised that we were indoors in my grandparent's "new room"--a large room that thay had added onto their house when I was little--and that's what they called it. In the dream it was even bigger than it was in real life.
As I flew up to the ceiling, the first thing that came to me was Skysaw's intellectual Task suggestion (for next month's Task). The answer to the first part came to me instantly (it may have helped that as I went to bed last night that I thought about this.)
I then thought about the more difficult part of the his Task. I didn't wake up like I had feared when trying this. I made what I thought was a good guess. Then I moved on.
I flew to the ceiling and felt the texture. It was wood panelling (my grandparent's didn't really have a wood panelling ceiling--but it totally looked right to me in the dream).
The texture felt so real. I knocked on it and it felt very solid. I decided I wanted to try to stick my finger through it. So I put out my pointer finger on my right hand and pushed. It wouldn't go through the way too solid ceiling.
I told myself that this ceiling wasn't real--that it was just my brain telling my finger that something solid was there.
I decided that maybe if I looked the other direction and pushed my finger upward I could fool my brain--that maybe if I wasn't looking at the ceiling the moment the finger and ceiling met, I could get my finger to go through it.
But as I blindly poked the ceiling, I kept feeling it, no matter where I was looking. I felt frustrated because I was supposed to be able to do better than this. Why has this simple task so difficult for me to do? I was glad that that wasn't the Task of the Month that I was supposed to accomplish.
But then my mind went to another suggested Task of the month that was in some ways similar to this. I tried to do that next. I had the same bad luck while attempting to get that one done.
I started feeling more desperate. I really wanted to know I could do that one in case that one was chosen for nex next Task.
Next thing I knew I was outside still attempting that potential Task. I even started spinning to see if that woudl help, but it wasn't working.
It was at that point I could start feeling myself wake up.
As soon as I was awake I realised that I had guessed correctly on the second part of Skysaw's task.
Haha, I'll take good grammar over good looks any day.
Nice job on the lucid, but I almost wish it hadn't happened because I found the start of your dream so unusual and interesting. I know I'm a sick little monkey, but the first thing I wondered was if your meeting was going to turn into a catering job...
You know, it is true...once I became lucid the rest of the dream just stopped. And it was an interesting dream, too.
I didn't feel, though, that the vampires would turn on us--although you're right--it had that potiential if it were a movie....but not my dream.
I really wished I remembered more background about why I was freinds with the vampires, and who exactly they were.
I remember the scene where I was in a field at dusk with my friends.
It was a little weird, because at first I saw this stuffed animal--a black cat. I went to it and picked it up. I somehow knew that at least one vampire was using their magic to be inside the cat. I stared talking to the cat, saying things like, "Which one of you is this? Or are there lots of you inside?"
I don't remember how that resolved, because the next thing I remember is all of them being there.
I particularly remember two little vampire twins that looked about 8 years old. They had black hair and were very pretty.
I do remember thinking that even though I trusted these to be good vampires that drank animal blood instead of killing people, that there was always the potiental for something bad to happen. Because after all, they were vampires. But I decided that it was not something big enough for me to actually worry about. I had made my decision to trust them, and that was that.
I also had a Harry Potter dream at the beginning of the night. It was a long involved one. But I no longer remember any details.
Good dreams, my double-shadowed friend!
I'm honored you remembered my task suggestion. I wish you could have given more details here, but I guess it's officially secret.
Your finger through the ceiling made me think about what we're asking from our brains. On the one hand, we want things to feel as real as possible, and on the other, we want to be able to do very unreal things to these real objects... kind of asking the brain to pull in two different directions, I think. The more realism we expect, the more difficult it may be to accomplish the unreal! What to do?
Yeah, I'm not sure how much to say about the Task. Maybe it doesn't matter and I will just say what I did. But I did give more details of the "Task for August" thread.
But yeah, I totally see what you mean about doing tasks like that. I have noticed that occasionally I'll do something "magical" and it's easy...but nothing really seems real. Thus, there was no real enjoyment of the task, and to me, it defeats the purpose. All you really have then is the enjoyment of saying you did something...the actually doing it was just not that impressive.
So yeah, that is a tough one. I do want "real", because if it's not real it takes away all significance of it all. Yet if it is exactly like real life, then it takes away the fun.
But I shouldn't worry too much about this because I do feel like my brain has done a pretty decent job of giving me both "real" and "fun". And, so what if I can't do everything.
As long as I can fly all is well.
I'm thinking this might be a very good goal for me to work on: to bring the real and the unreal a little closer together. Lately I've been concentrating on making things as real feeling as possible, which has been very satisfying for me. But now that we're discussing this, I realize my "super powers" have been diminished in proportion to the tangibility of my surroundings. But maybe there's a way to have both? Perhaps if I just work on both of these, I can eventually get some overlap!
Congrats on the lucid! (I'm getting jealous of being able to say that to you so often lately you know :p) With all of the people there in your dream, I would have tried to summon more DV memembers. Just seemed like a perfect opportunity in my opinion. I'm sad that you can't remember the HP dream you had last night. It must have been pretty cool though.
Thanks Meg.
I woke up in the first half of the night and remembered at least parts of the HP dream. But since I didn't wirte it down, the LD kind of erased all the previous memories of the night's dreams.
I know... I was planning to get to the DV member Task at a later point in the LD. I didn't realise my LD would be that short.
It's just before bed I had determined that the first things I would do in an LD would be Skysaw's task and something tactile (that's why I chose the finger through the ceiling). I find that dreams in which I don't touch anything seem less real.
But that's something that has worked well for me--deciding ahead of time exactly what I would try in an LD. My expectation helps me become lucid....and really increases the chance of accomplishment of the tasks.
But I'll try to get to the Malt shop soon....:)
Notes:
Ron and Hermione
Grand Canyon, hiking, suicide over cliff,
babysitting, camera, pictures of street
Doing WBTB...(5:30 now)...about to go back to bed.
More notes:
Dumbledore angry. Missing potions...have to find...don't know where to look.
At mom's, doing laundry, socks, Grammy, screen, dog, , shakes hand...human hand.
Backyard, talking to R about plants, plants up ramp, lightning...?
In car, problem
Okay--I did it. I didn't think I was going to go back to sleep, but I eventually did.
Lucid Dream:
It started with me being at a mall. I was with a friend (maybe M) we passed two guys. I recognised one as Jeff. But I somehow knew that this was in the past and he didn't know me yet. I smiled at him. Then after a few more steps past him I turned and smiled again. Then I told my frieid that when I said, we both turn back and smile at him again. We did...but he was no longer looking at us. I thought, "Well, that's dumb..."
The next thing I remember is that I was then sitting at the table eating ice cream with him. It was very mesy. It was like the container that my ice cream was in had an opening at both ends and it kept dripping out onto the table.
Then the three of us continued walking in the mall. It was closing time. It seems like something happened here, but I don't remember details. Something about feeling angry at this guy working here. He makes me fall and I "spill" some of the floor that he is responsible for cleaning.
I get left behind my friends. So I hurry out of the mall. There were some cool things that looked a bit like rain gutters, but were also big and painted red and made of concrete. I decided to slide down one standing up, I was able to get down the the level I wanted by sliding.
Then things transition, I am with a big group of people in this big starirwell area.
I suddenly see my dad hurrying up the stairs. I am excited to see my dad. But right as I get to him and reach for his sleeve, I realise that I'm dreaming.
I look at this big group of people. I want to try the DV member task again. Surely there is a DV member in this large group. I scan the faces for someone familiar. They are mostly teenagers, and I don't recognise anyone. So I start asking around. "Does anyone know any DV members?"
At first I have trouble getting any volume in my voice. This has been a problem in some of my LDs. It's like I'm trying to talk with my real mouth, yet I can't because of sleep paralysis. But then I am finally able to use my dream mouth.
One of the boys responds to me and points to the floor above me and says, "Try the boy with the wheelchair"
I climb the stairs to a dark haired boy standing by a blond boy in a wheelchair. I suddenly realise I don't know which boy I was reffered to. So I ask them, "Are either of you DV members?"
They both nod and say, "Yeah..."
So I continue, "Have either of you ever had a Lucid dream?"
The dark haired boy nods, but the other boy asks, "Well, what exactly is a lucid dream?"
I said, "Well, it's when you're dreaming, then you suddenly become "awake" in your dream--you become consious that you are dreaming, and if you have good control, you can do anything...."
I said that all in a way that left then both looking at me like it was the absolutely coolest thing ever.
So of course that made me want to show off a little. I continued "...like this."
And I suddenly stood up on the stair rail. Beside me was a three story drop onto concrete. I stood dramatically, then let myself fall backward. I fell until I was almost to the bottom, then righted myself and landed feet first. I then kicked off again. I did the same thing in reverse. As soon as I got to the ceiling, I turned so I was "standing" on the ceiling. Then kicked off again to the floor.
I believe a did this several times. I enjoyed the way it felt. It was like I was able to switch the direction of gravity in the middle. It was a very cool feeling.
Then I stop and decide that I really want to try the Pet Task that I was unable to succesfully complete last time.
I was standing in the middle of on set of stairs. To the side at the level of my face were some cats. My first thought was, "But these aren't my cats..." But then I quickly decided that I didn't care. I looked at the closest cat. There was something on its mouth. It looked like smashed cornflakes. It looked very unappealing. So I turned to the other cat. It also had the same stuff on its mouth. Their mouths looked almost sealed shut with it.
I looked for another pet. This time I saw a group of about four kittens. They were very small and very cute. I reached for one. They all kind of backed away, but I managed to get ahold of one. It was white with patches of dark brownish grey tabby. It's eyes were a dark grey. I set it down on the ledge that was eye level to my face. I told it that it could talk now. It opened its mouth and said an a small voice, "Cookie...."
I was a little confused as to what it meant--I used to have a cat named Cookie. So I asked it, "Do you want a cookie...or is that a name?" It just looked at me.
I then remembered that it was just a baby. So I made the question simpler. So I asked, "Do you want a cookie?" The tiny kitten nodded its head. I laughed a little and said to it, "But you're so little, you shouldn't be eating anything buy your mama's milk. Who's been giving you cookies?" But the kitten didn't answer.
I took off flying again. I flew outside. I was on the roof of a three story apartment building.
I remember thinking about how I had been talking about how cool it was to just fall backward off things...so I decided to do it again. As I stood at the edge about to fall, I thought, "Now am I really sure I'm dreaming. If I'm not, this will be fatal."
But I was already falling backwards. I didn't fall to the ground level, but just to a balcony on the floor below. I actually landed on a soft couch. I stood up again and was planning to fall backwards again, but I saw a pool down below. I remembered how I had wanted to do a Water Task. This wasn't the ocean, but a pool could be good practice for future water Tasks.
So I dived off the balcony and went straight in the water of the pool. I worked myself to the botton. I started to breath. It was a very strange feeling. It wasn't like I had rememberd before when I was breathing underwater just like it was air.
I could kind of feel the unpleasant feeling of water trying to come in through my nose. I had to block my nose breathing off. When I breathed through my mouth it felt like there were bubble appearing right in front of my mouth that I was able to suck in. It made a little bubbly noise as I did so. But it worked, I was able to breath. And it seemed significant to me that I would be able to breath like this indefinitely.
I looked around again to see if there was anything interesting at the bottom of the pool. I saw a guy and a dog also laying at the bottom.
I decided to try the Pet Task again with the dog. I started talking to it and asked it to talk to me. But suddenly the guy that was with the dog got mad at me. He said, " He's underwater! And you want him to talk!" --as if it would kill the dog for it to talk underwater. Of course this guy was talking underwater and it wasn't killing him.
I was trying to decide if I was going to debate this with the guy, but then I could feel myself losing the dream. Then I was awake.
Nice ones!
Isn't it funny how dream characters never really "get" lucid dreaming?
Really cool dream, TS. I'm still bummed I haven't done the pet task. Your antigravity stuff ought to be a task of the month.
Hi Twoshadows, Its cool my post got you falling backwards off things again.
I'm glad somebody else knows how much fun that is. A lot of times I will fly high into the sky, Then fall backwards end over end towards the ground. Thats my favorite way to celebrate getting Lucid. You should try it sometime.
Twoshadows, I FINALLY get to repay you.
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I know, it doesn't look very complicated, but look!
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That's my native Inukshuk rock stacking skills.
Hope you enjoyed it, and congrats on that massive lucid dream you just had. :D
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Twoshadows, I FINALLY get to repay you.
That's so cool the way you stacked the rocks like that. And I like the way it's half in the water, and the colors are so vivid. So is that a lake?
I feel so special now....:D.
Thanks, CB!
Thanks.
Yeah, it was funny that he said he was on DV, yet he had no idea what a lucid dream was. And it was interesting to see how I explained it. And why is it that I enjoy showing off my "talents" so much in LDs...? :p
Well, keep trying the Pet Task. I still didn't quite get it right. I had it talk to me, but it didn't tell me what it thought about me.
So don't give up. I want to be a good example to everyone that if at first you don't succeed....try it the next month...or the next. I was six months late for the snowman one....:tongue:.
So you'll get it done. I know this is one you want to do..so I'll happen.
Well, thank you for reminding me how fun it is.
And I've never tried falling out of the sky. That sounds really cool. I'll need to try that one soon. I'll let you know when I do.
Now...on to dreams.
I had a full night of Harry Potter Dreams again. I have had Hp dreams for several nights in a row now.
For some reason my recall hasn't been the best on any of them. BUt I'll share the fragmants that I remember.
HP fragment 1:
I was in a large field. There was a huge battle going on. I remember fighting these creatures that looked like large flightless birds.
I also remember seeing these large flat smooth stones on the ground. i remember that there was somethign very important about these stones.
HP Fragment 2:
I was reading a magazine article about HP. I saw this section where they had pictures of HP from each of the movies. I read that they used a different actor in each movie. I remember finding that very disappointing for some reason.
HP fragment 3:
This was a very strange short one.
Harry standing in front of me. He was wearing a cloak and he was holding his arms out from his sides a little. There was nothing else there. Just a blank white background. Harry started counting backwards.
After he said "One" my alarm went off.
The timing was too perfect. I don't know how my mind did that. :shock:
TS... you put us all to shame with your LDs. I absolutely love reading them! I hope some day my LD skills will be amazing like yours!
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CB--that's awesome!! I love it.
Yeah, I had initially stacked it about half that size, and then I thought... how much higher can I get it without falling? And I managed to find some rocks that fit perfectly like a puzzle. The 'S' was the hardest because I used little rocks for the top layer and they kept falling off.Quote:
That's so cool the way you stacked the rocks like that. And I like the way it's half in the water, and the colors are so vivid. So is that a lake?
Yes, it's a lake, and yeah, I tried timing it so the waves would come underneath the "TS", and it worked!
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I feel so special now.....
Thanks, CB!
And your welcome. :D
T
Yeah, I can actually imagine what you put into it. Even my simple rock words took quite a while--you wouldn't think it, but they did. That's why I started getting...um... lazy and simply writing in sand...much faster. So to see you use rocks and stack them like that, I'm very impressed and touched that you would do that. So thanks again...:)Quote:
Yeah, I had initially stacked it about half that size, and then I thought... how much higher can I get it without falling? And I managed to find some rocks that fit perfectly like a puzzle. The 'S' was the hardest because I used little rocks for the top layer and they kept falling off.
Dreams:
My dreams are long and jumbled.
Dream 1:
This was some long dream that combined Harry Potter with World of Warcraft. No details left by now.
Dream 2:
I remember something about being at home alone with thunder and lightning all around. I rmember something feeling very scary.
I don't remember quite how this changes, but I see these two men. I think I'm at a public sort of building because one of the men starts acting strange or overly aggressive towards me. I remember running down a hallway and into a large restroom with stalls. I try to hide in the last stall but he finds me. I remember feeling like I should fight back. So I swing out and him. I also felt like I should scream in case there is anyone is the building.
As usual, I have difficulty screaming. And I think it has something to do with trying to get my real body to scream.
I don't remember any more details, but I remember afterwards feeling like I had been raped. It was not a good feeling.
The dream goes on and I'm sure other things happen, but I keep thinking back to the rape.
Later I find out that the man who raped me was punished by not getting to work on Saturdays. I remember feeling upset that that's all that would happen to him. But someone told me, "Well, think about how that will affect the money he makes". Plus I was also angry that the second guy that was there wasn't punished at all for just letting it happen and not stopping the man wfrom raping me.
Fragment:
I also remember being on a busy street with a childhood friend and seeing all these emergency vehicles. I remember saying something like, "Well at least they are not that close to our house."
But then she looked at me like they were close enough that she was worried.
Fragment 2:
I was standing in fron of my LA home. A boy that I was supposed to recognise comes up and starts talking to my mom.
Then I am saying goodbye to T. He seemed upset. Then another guy I was supposed to know asks me about why T is upset. I made a guess.
Then I am talking to T again. My sister is there and she gives him a piece of paper with something written on it.
OMG that sounds like a nasty dream :(
Yeah, not a very happy one...:(
Dreams:
I had a huge night of dreams. But they were the kind I should have written down in the night after each dream, because each was a very long detailed dream.
I jotted down a few little notes this morning, so I would at least remember the theme of each dream, but I know a lot of the details are gone by now.
Dream 1:
WOW...something about a hill.
(Okay this is more pathetic that I thought. I am not remembering much beyond the notes I took.)
Dream 2:
I was with my friend S. We were with or listening to a band.
Dream 3:
Bears....
Dream 4:
I was somewhere and this lady asks me if I would help with a convention she is putting on. SHe wanted to to pass something out.
Later I am in this big place where the convention is being held. It is a doll convention. I see my mom there. There is a huge banquet and everyone is eating good food.
Dream 5:
I am looking in my tank that had my giant hissing cockroaches in them (the ones I feed to my bearded dragons. IRL, they have stopped breeding)
IN the dream I was talking to a friend about them not breeding anymore and that we only had a few older adults left.
I looked in the tank and there was a black widow web. It made me mad that a black widow would get into their tank. I tired to see where the BW was. After moving a few things I saw the BW. It was a medium sized one.
I then pulled a blanket off an old unused tank. I was totally shocked to see it just full of hissing cockroaches. In this tank they were very much breeding. There were lots of babies and cockroaches of every size. I was so happy to see this. I had been stressing abut them dying off....and here was a large tank just full of them.
Dream 6:
I had to go with my sister to this house. It was close to Coral Canyon. It was off a road that I didn't know existed. We got to the place, and there was a big dog in the yard.
I don't remember anything else much except that I was in the house and I was talking to a friend. Brad Pitt lived there and I remember telling my friend how I thought he was nice looking.
Dream 7:
I was looking at myself in a mirror and I saw that my front tooth looked funny. I turned sideways and loooked at my teeth again and it was appalled to see that there was this big gap. My tooth had kind of turned sideways. I was stressed because I thought I looked terrible.
At least you can read your dream notes.
I had no idea you fed giant hissing cockroaches to bearded dragons. Sounds like a gruesome spectacle. Do they scream as the die?
Well, I just feed them the babies. But my cockroaches haven't had babies for such a long time. They are more of a pet, I guess, now.
But the lady I got the bearded dragonds from fed them big ones once while I was there. And it toally grossed me out to see the lizards chomp and chomp on them. They were too big to fit in their mouths. I don't remember if they made noises or not, but I think there were crunching sounds. :( I think it took them 10 minutes or more to finally try to swallow the crunched up cockroachs. I decided I would never do that. If the lizards can't eat it in one bit, then I won't feed it to them.
For those who may not be familiar with hissing cockroaches...
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Dream 1:
Dream View member dream with....Meg (meggyfayephotography)!
I just remember that I was at a place for lucid dreamers. They were dividing the groups up for these classes. I couldn't decide which class to take. I ended up in a class with Meg and Brent. I don't remember what it was about exactly. It may have had something to do with plants.
Dream 2:
I was walking up my street. I was supposed to be living in LA where I grew up--except in the dream my house was up the hill close to where my best friend's house was.
I walk up the hill and see pumpkins vines growing out of my yard and into my neighbors yard. As I look closer I see that the vines have many very large pumpkins on them. I'm tempted to just pick them and carry them back to my yard because, after all, they are my pumpkins.
But I decide to leave them. I later find out that that house is a place for handicapped youth to go, and that they had been watching the growth of those pumpkins with much anticipation.
I was very thankful that I hadn't taken them.
Dream 3:
LUCID DREAM...
I'm glad to see that I am finally finally starting to use flying as a dream sign that actually triggers lucidity. Flying is so common in my dreams that I have seldom recogised it as anything strange enough to trigger lucidity. But maybe I'm finally starting to catch on.
I'm flying through the house. I end up in my bedroom which looks like a mix between my current bedroom and my parents bedroom in the house I grew up.
As I fly into the room, I suddenly realise that if I am flying it means that it is a dream. For some reason, though I think that I am having this dream while taking a nap.
I flay across the room to my big mirror which is now where my window really is. I look at my reflection. I'm wearing a cream colored tank top and soome very short shorts of the same color. The shirt os also short so I can see a strip of my stomach. My hair looks perfect and I feel very pretty.
I look down and see my camera. I decide to take a picture. [I feel that I lost a bit a lucidity here--whiy else would I waste time taking a picture that I would never see].
As usual in my dreams, my camera had strange settings. I couldn't figure it out.
Finally my lucidity grew stronger again and I decided that there were tasks that I wanted to try.
I looked in the mirror one last time and saw that I looked terrible. My hair was all frizzy. I didn't want to look anymore at the mirror.
So I went on. I decided I wanted to try putting my finger through the wall again. I stuck it out and it banged into the hard wall. I immediately gave that up and decided to go on to the next thing.
I asked myself what day of the week it was...and again, without hesitation I said "Friday".
I thought about trying to determine my position of my physical body in my bed, but I couldn't sense anything.
Then I remembered that I wanted to see if I could find my sleeping body. SInce I was in my bedroom I looked down onto my bed hoping that my body would be there. Unfortunately all I saw was my unmade bed.
I looked away and decided to try again. But I just saw the same thing. I thought about trying to fly somewhere different to find it, but I then decide to look one more time into the mirror and have some fun warping my reflection.
When I first look in the mirror I look normal, then I open my mouth to look at my teeth because I know from experiece that teeth are easy to mess with.
At first I see that I have two brown teeth. As I look closer I can see that some of my teeth are rather pointy, and that I have braces on. I also notice that the brown looks like chocolate smeared on my teeth.
It was at this point that the dream started to fade.
Cool dreams, trying to find yourself when sleeping is good. Although I didnt this the other day and I work up through shock :(
This is from my DJ:
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Now I always get this drunk feeling when I first enter LDs for some reason so was feeling a bit weird, I thought "Hey I just rolled out of my bed" Then realised, actually I am dreaming, Man did I just WILD? So did a Finger RC then as I did that I saw my body in bed!!!! This scared the crap out of me and I instantly woke up.
That's right, I read about that cool WILD of yours, but when I did, I didn't have time to comment. I'll go comment about it in your DJ right now....:p.
Wow TS, you did a lot in one lucid dream, you really know how to use your time wisely [if it were me I'd probably goof off or spend the whole time doing one task]
congrats on all the LD's. i had a slight dream about you. you enver showed up, but you were part of the theme i guess:D
That's true...maybe my mind had remembered it...:)
Thanks. Lately I have done a really good job of accomplishing many things in my LDs. It seems to be my area of improvement. I just wish I would now improve the frequency in which I had LDs.
Yay--that's great. Glad to have played even a small part in one of your dreams...:D.
Dreams:
Not very good recall over the weekend. I think I was staying up too late.
Although last night I know I had many long dreams. I just don't remember good detail.
Dream 1:
I was with these people and were were hiding from these bad people who wanted to hurt us. At some point I accidentally gave away our position. It was night and we had just settled down to sleep. I know everyone was mad to now having to grab everything and run.
Dream 2:
I was at my elementary school. The strange thing is that it was like the ocean in the middle. Waves were coming up to all the sides.
I needed to get across the school and get to my house. I was afraid of the waves for some reason and didn't want them to even get close to me. I hugged the edges of the school. But at one point I had to climb a ways up the chain link fence to avoid having the waves wash up on me.
When I got to the place I would have to leave the school to cross the street to my house, I realised that we were now indoors. I tried to climb the fence only to find that I couldn't get out. I saw a small window. It was the type that opens to the inside. After opening it I saw that there was only about an 8 inch gap which woulkd have been impossible to get out of anyway because of it's angle to me.
The last thing I remember of the dream is being outside and crossing the street. There were a lot of teachers standing there. I couldn't remember if we had open or closed campus. But I quickly crossed with several students before the teachers could say anything to us.
Interesting school dream, I've had difficulty getting to/from school before, but never like that, you must have woken up feeling drained
I'd be afraid of the waves too. That's one of my biggest fears in real life, being swept up by waves or a rip tide or something...
Oh! I showed you up with my LD last night! I'm one step away from being the next TS when it comes to lengthy LDs! Lol
Yeah, both of those dreams seemed to last forever and they were the kind were I was constantly on the move.
Yeah, I read your massive LD. It did remind me of some of mine. Good job!
Dreams:
I waited too long to post my dreams. I don't remember much now.
I remember something about my friend B and some sort of meeting going on in the gym.
I know I had more, but that's all I remember at this time.
Dream 1:
Not the greatest recall...
I went to Mexico as an exchange student. But it was supposed to be a very quick trip--like a day or so. There was some sort of problem with the flight back, so I was stranded there. I was worried because I suddenly couldn't remember any Spanish. But my host dad spoke perfect English. He worked out a flight back for me, but it was several weeks away.
I remember something about being down in a river.
Also something about a Star Wars game.
Oh, and there was a bathroom scene, where I was going to the bathroom, and there was no door.....so typical.
Dream fragment:
I was in the car with my mom. I remember there was something really strange about the clouds.
Haha! Don't you hate dream bathrooms!
Hi, Twoshadows!
I'm new to this forum, but I've read up to page thirty-one of your dream journal, and I really like your dreams. They're very interesting and, more importantly, weird (I like weird).
I'm thinking about starting my own journal here, but I have an irregular dream cycle; I'll remember dreams for a few nights and then have almost no recall for weeks and weeks.
Anyway, keep up the good work!
Blue
Hey Blue Dog--Thanks for reading. It's very flattering to know that people go back and read large sections of my dream journal. It's so huge now that even I look at it and feel overwhelmed at the thought of rereading. That's one of the reasons I have started two smaller journals for just my Lucid and DV member dreams.
Anyway, yeah, you should try a journal and see if that helps with recall. I found that since I have started a journal it has helped a lot with the dreams that I remember. Something about the motivation of wanting something to write down every morning...:p. Really, it helps.
Anyway, thanks again for stopping by...and good luck with your dreaming...:).
DV Member Dream:
This was at the end of a longer now forgotten dream.
I was sitting at a computer table with Vex Kitten. Our job was to go through the computer files for Dream Views and record the usernames and passwords for everyone.
On a piece of paper we had drawn this circle with all these little lines coming out from the sides, and it was on these lines that we were to write the names and passwords.
We started writing them down. Then I came to my own passowrd and was embarrassed as I remembered that someone for a joke had changed my password to "Hooters" because of all the topless dreams that I had been having. I was telling Vex that I didn't want to write that one down--that I wanted to change it.
Then she went on to tell me that hers was also really embarrassing. She told me what it was. It had something to do with "Kentucky Fried Chicken".
Clairity was then suddenly beside me as Vex is telling us this. Clairity and I are looking at each other trying to figure out what it was about her passowrd that was so embarrassing. Vex is repeating it trying to show us how obvious it was. But Clairty and I just didn't get it.
Edit:
I think it was this post by The Cusp that triggered the "hooter's" part:
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I see you're franchising. How about TwoShadow's Topless Dream Journal? It could be the Hooters of the DJ world!
But I'm just kidding of course. A good move considering the size of your original DJ.
Haha, you were influenced by Cusp's comment too! Well, at least yours was a lot more censored than mine [which I didn't post thank goodness]
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I want to turn around and walk the other way......
Sure thing, and thanks for posting! I'll give the dream journal a try.
Blue
You're welcome and good luck, Blue Dog!
Dream:
Long and vague...
I remember part of it where I was dropped off by a friend on CM road and had to walk for what seemed like miles in the sandy hills by the road.
The part that sticks out is seeing a dead jaguar by the road. All that was left really was it's skin--all stretched out like someone had skinned it. I thought, "Wow, there really are jaguars in Arizona!"
There was another part involving this group of young people, magic and a doll. But I don't remember it well enough to write it up.
Picture I took yesterday of two ants talking about (or fighting over) the dead ant in front.
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TS
That picture is awesome :D
sweet picture!
Thanks, Adam and Ranma!
Yesterday's sky...
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And hey, I'm going on vacation and may not post for a few days.:cool:
I'm posting tonight from my mom's, but tomorrow I'll be heading to Southern California. Can't wait to get back to the ocean and ...dolphins...:D
I'm not sure if I'll see a computer for a while.
So see ya.... until next time....:)
Dream:
I only remember one dream from last night. I was standing in a yard with a tall wooden fence. I was nxt to the fence looking down toward the other end. Suddenly a bigfoot steps out from behind the fence. It had long reddish brown hair. I wasn't expecting it so it startled me awake.
BTW, I took a picture of a gorgeoous rainow yesterday. I'll post it when I get back to my computer.
Have a great trip TS! Come back safely :)
Hey, TS. Hope you're having a good time out there! :content:
Had a cool lucid with you in it, the other night. Enjoy. :cooler:
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...976#post488976
Have fun, TS. I've been missing out on your beautiful pics lately; gotta get back in here.
Hey, I was wondering where you had gone. So. Cali. Lucky!
P.S - I had three consecutive WILDS the other night, hooray. :D
Thanks, GH, LB, MB, O and CB....:D.
I had a great vacation...did so much...have 329 pictures to sort through.
And i see that I have soo much to read and catch up on. I did read a bit before I logged on.
I read your dream Oneironaut. That's such a cool dream. I love it! I'll comment on it in your DJ when I get the chance.Quote:
Had a cool lucid with you in it, the other night. Enjoy. :cooler:
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...976#post488976
Wow, CB...that's terrific!! I can't wait to go read them. And you know what's cool? I had a night on vacation where I had three separate LDs in one night. I wonder if it was the same night.Quote:
P.S - I had three consecutive WILDS the other night, hooray.
I'll go grab my notes and start to get them down.