Thread: Twoshadows' Dream Journal

I had a really good dreaming night last night. I guess I should say "this morning". I did a WBTB and had a long dream in which I was lucid a good part. I guess this is really the trick for me. WBTBs with B6 almost always guarrantee a lucid dream for me--and when they don't I usually get a really vivid dream.

Since this was a really long dream, I had to back track and try to piece it all together. I listed all the things I remembered doing and then tried to get them in the right order. I do had a few spots in this dream where I can't remember the transition from one place to the next.


Lucid Dream:

I started off trying to get to my high school. I was driving a car and was trying to find a place to park. I was having an awful time. Either I couldn't find a place or I went too fast by an available place and couldn't get back to it. This was the basic "driving nightmare"...nothing was going right with my driving.

I finally went up and over this very steep hill. I almost had a heart attack on the otherside becasue the street pretty much disappeared and the houses were stacked, and there were these deep deep places between houses that went way down the the level of the street below the hill. I remember not being in the car and almost falling down the crack. (Hard to explain that part.)

Transition...

I was now in the house of my friend who happened to be Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She was busy doing something and I tried walking up the stairs to the second floor. I realized that the staris were covered in broken glass. I looked at the bottom of my shoes and they were covered with shards that had impaled their way into my shoe. I could feel the point of one shard against the skin on the bottom of my foot. I pulled that piece and many of the others out. But by walking back down the stairs I got more in my shoes.

Buffy was now with another friend and they were going to go to shcool. I can't remember what the problem was but I wasn't able to go with them. I was stressed again that I was late for school and needed to hurry.

I left again, now on foot. I saw my old college campus in front of me. I was pretty sure that if I could just cross through, then I would see my high school on the other side.

The campus was crowded. I got caught in a crowd that ended up taking me to some stairs that went upstairs to the library. The stairs had some padded places on them that if you pushed something was supposed to happen (?). I then realized that the stairs were actually an escalator. I rode to the top knowing that I would have to go out the back door of the library to go down the big hill to get to my high school.

While in the crowded library a Navajo man in a Scout shirt asked me how Scouting was going for me. I told him, "Fine." He then asked me what I had learned from my experiences in Scouting. I told him that I learned that 9 year old boys were crazy, but they could be a lot of fun.

I was in a hurry, so I excused myself and went out the back door.

I was now on the hill that I knew would be there. The hill was covered with college students sitting on it having a break or eating. There was a sidewalk winding its way down the steep hill.

I looked back at the library building. It looked almost like a castle sitting on top of the steep hill. I then saw a muppet-like pig thing floating around against the castle wall. It kept repeating, "You can't come in....you can't come in."

This struck me as really odd. Then it hit me. I was dreaming. I looked at all the peopel around me and wanted to do something to get their attention. At first I felt shy, then I decided that I didn't care--this was just a dream. So I climbed up on some stone railing near the top of the hill and shouted, "HELLO _________ [name of my college]!!! Watch me!"

And at that I took a jump forward. I went up a few feet then landed in a float out over the grassy hill. I then flew straight up...and then dropped myself down to about 20 feet over the crowd. I watched their faces. I wanted to impress them. They weren't as suprised as I thought they should be, but they were defintely impressed. So I did it again.


Transition.....


I was now in a house with a group of people (kind of fuzzy here).

I do remember having a plate of chocalate chip cookies in front of me. I knew this was my chance. I started shoving cookies in my mouth (I don't know why I don't eat more daintily in dreams...). They were big and very soft, cakey cookies. I ate one after another. There was one especially big cookie almost as big as the whole plate. I kept pushing it into my mouth trying to get my mouth as full as possible.

I know this sounds very unladylike and actually kind of gross. But I remember the cookies not having much flavor, unless I stuffed my mouth completely full, then I could taste them.

I also remember eating a plate of salty crackers. I was also disapointed by the lack of flavor. And for some reason my mouth wouldn't open up all the way. And I also "knew" that if I tried to open my dream mouth all the way open, then I would wake up. I don't know why I came to that conclusion. My mouth just kind of felt stiff. Maybe my mouth was actually open a bit in real life as I slept and by trying to open my dream mouth I would be opening my real mouth thus waking me up (?).

I then remember seeing a strawberry. I knew that strawberries were somewhat sour, and this was looked a little pinkinsh green in spots, so I knew it could be quite tart. I really thought that if I put this in my mouth my taste buds would come alive and I would start to taste everything. But as I took a bite the strawberry had very little flavor.


Transition...

I was now flying outside my mom's house at night. As I looked up at the stars, I suddenly reemmbered that the main thing I had wanted to do if I had a lucid dream was to compelte the Advanced Task of flying to another planet.

I remembered being able to fly to the stars in the past, so that gave me comfidence. I just stared out at the night and concentrated... and all around me I started seeing stars. I pushed forward and saw the stars rushing by me. I tired to keep my eye out for planets. I finally saw one, but it passed me too quickly. I tried to slow down a bit, but stars were still passing me. I looked and saw another planet. It was redish brown and had little crators. I got closer, but I passed it. I tried to turn around, but at this point I woke up.


Or so I thought.

The next thing I remember is being at my childhood friend M's house. Tanya was there eating breakfast. I don't know if I was looking out a window or on the TV, but I was suddenly seeing a castle. I think it was suppossed to be a World of Warcraft Horde castle. But I was calling it the Hufflepuff castle.

Again I saw that funny flying pig thing from earlier in the dream. It was greenish in color and floated by the wall of the caslte saying, "You can't get in....you can't get in...."

I laughed and said to Tanya, "Hey-- there's the Hufflepuff Pig that got me lucid last night." And I explained to her a little of the dream and how seeing that pig thing make me question my state and become lucid.

She then gave me a funny look.

I started to get it.

I asked her, "You are asleep right now, aren't you?"

She grinned at me.

"I should actually say, I'm still asleep. Right?"

I tried to pick up on that dream feeling. And right as I was convinced that I was dreaming, my alarm went off...and I woke up for real.

that last LD was hysterical. Flying pig thingies yelling? that made my day!

Originally Posted by ranma187

that last LD was hysterical. Flying pig thingies yelling? that made my day!

Heehee...thanks, Ranma. I really don't know where that came from....and to have it show up twice....that really is kind of weird!

Wow, the coincidences are happening again!

Originally Posted by Twoshadows

Since this was a really long dream, I had to back track and try to piece it all together. I listed all the things I remembered doing and then tried to get them in the right order. I do had a few spots in this dream where I can't remember the transition from one place to the next.

I had that problem too; but I guess it's OK when your lucid is so long it's hard to remember it all! I don't mind that kind of problem. You did really well remembering a lot of yours.

Originally Posted by Twoshadows

I looked back at the library building. It looked almost like a castle sitting on top of the steep hill. I then saw a muppet-like pig thing floating around against the castle wall. It kept repeating, "You can't come in....you can't come in."

Wouldn't it be cool if that turned out to be your dream guide?

Originally Posted by Twoshadows

I do remember having a plate of chocalate chip cookies in front of me. I knew this was my chance. I started shoving cookies in my mouth (I don't know why I don't eat more daintily in dreams...).

That's as bad as me eating off of other people's plates in the restaurant.

Originally Posted by Twoshadows

I remembered being able to fly to the stars in the past, so that gave me comfidence. I just stared out at the night and concentrated... and all around me I started seeing stars. I pushed forward and saw the stars rushing by me. I tired to keep my eye out for planets. I finally saw one, but it passed me too quickly. I tried to slow down a bit, but stars were still passing me. I looked and saw another planet. It was redish brown and had little crators. I got closer, but I passed it. I tried to turn around, but at this point I woke up.

Cool...I love how the confidence enabled you to do it. It does reinforce itself, doesn't it?

Originally Posted by Twoshadows

Again I saw that funny flying pig thing from earlier in the dream. It was greenish in color and floated by the wall of the caslte saying, "You can't get in....you can't get in...."

I laughed and said to Tanya, "Hey-- there's the Hufflepuff Pig that got me lucid last night." And I explained to her a little of the dream and how seeing that pig thing make me question my state and become lucid.

It is your dream guide! It will be showing up in all your dreams not, getting you lucid! Wow, that would be so cool. You should try and draw a picture of it, and maybe focus on it before you go to sleep and try to get it back.

Originally Posted by Twoshadows

"I should actually say, I'm still asleep. Right?"

That is so weird, when you're lucid and you think people that you know are probably dreaming and lucid too. (I asked my BF if he remembered any restaruant dreams from last night--no luck.)

You know, TS, I'm very very impressed that you've been keeping this thing alive. And it now seems you're having more LDs than ever. You're a pro! I mean, you're even a dream guide now.

I actually have been dreaming quite excessively, just no time to update. I'm not even very active in the offtopic boards anymore. The reason? First semester just ended and now I'm up to my waist in exams and work and other anonymous teenage pressures. Oh well, such is life!

I'm glad to see you keeping the tradition alive. Hopefully I'll be joining you in this updatory of journals pretty soon.

Wow. What a lucid!

Shame you couldn't complete the task, but just flying into space is better than I've been able to do. Keep up the good work, TS!

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

Wow, the coincidences are happening again!



I had that problem too; but I guess it's OK when your lucid is so long it's hard to remember it all! I don't mind that kind of problem. You did really well remembering a lot of yours.

Thanks. Yeah I guess that is the problem we would like to have if anything--a lucid that is soooo long that we have trouble remembering all of it.

That's as bad as me eating off of other people's plates in the restaurant.

It's like we have totally let our guards down and we don't have to worry about manners even a little. After all, why should we--we are in the privacy of our own dreams. (It's times like that that I really hope shared dreaming truly is impossible.....)

Cool...I love how the confidence enabled you to do it. It does reinforce itself, doesn't it?

Confidence has made a huge difference for me. It really is the key to success in LDs. That's why I am able to fly in every LD. Like in this dream when I was about to show off for the entire collage. I had this brief thought as I jumped into the air, "I'm not going to make a fool of myself, am I?" But then I had the immediate answering thought, "I'm great at flying, There is absolutely no reason why I couldn't do this, and do it well."

It is your dream guide! It will be showing up in all your dreams not, getting you lucid! Wow, that would be so cool. You should try and draw a picture of it, and maybe focus on it before you go to sleep and try to get it back.

My dream guide is a greenish muppet like pig thing........ Then I guess I need to figure out the message it kept repeating, "You can't get in...." It might be the answer to all my questions in life.


I'm not sure I can remember the details enough to draw it...but still, it might be fun to try anyway. I'll post it if I do.

That is so weird, when you're lucid and you think people that you know are probably dreaming and lucid too. (I asked my BF if he remembered any restaruant dreams from last night--no luck.)

I know, it is funny. I mean if I'm lucid I should know that everyone around me is just something from my imagination and not real.. Yet I still have conversations with them as if they are real.

Originally Posted by CoLd BlooDed

You know, TS, I'm very very impressed that you've been keeping this thing alive. And it now seems you're having more LDs than ever. You're a pro! I mean, you're even a dream guide now.

Well thanks, CB. That means a lot....

I actually have been dreaming quite excessively, just no time to update. I'm not even very active in the offtopic boards anymore. The reason? First semester just ended and now I'm up to my waist in exams and work and other anonymous teenage pressures. Oh well, such is life!

Yeah, I'll bet school is pretty time consuming at this point. Good luck on all you exams and other things. I'm just glad that you have stuck around on the board as much as you have. Maybe when things calm down a bit in your life you can jump right back in with the dream journaling, etc. I do miss the days when we would comment back and forth in each other's journals. But I'm glad that you are still being able to remember your dreams. And I think that by being on this board at all helps you keep dreaming on your mind.

I'm glad to see you keeping the tradition alive. Hopefully I'll be joining you in this updatory of journals pretty soon.

Thanks...

That would be fun.

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

Wow. What a lucid!

Shame you couldn't complete the task, but just flying into space is better than I've been able to do. Keep up the good work, TS!

Thanks, O!

I have had a couple of good successes lately in getting to space really easily. If I can just remember in my next few LDs that this is a goal of mine, I think I will see improvement....and hopefully get to a destination of either a spaceship or another planet. There's nothing like some good past successes to hep you confident in future LDs.

Keep trying. I have no doubt that with a little persistance you'll be in space in no time.

Dreams:


From two nights ago:

I was in the ocean. I wasn't conpletely alone, but the people I was with were in a boat. We were fairly close to the shore. I had climbed onto a fairly good stretch of rocks where aI thought I was safely out the the waves reach.

But as typical dreams go, a large wave suddenly washed over the rock and knocked me off into the water where it pulled me very quickly out into the very deep ocean. I reemember feeling very panicked.


Last night:

Fuzzy beginning... But I was kidnapped by some man. I knew I wasn't the only one in his huge house that he had kidnapped. At one point I was able to get myself away from the man and run away. He chased me all over the hosue. I think I lost him. Then I saw other people (also teenagers, which was what I was in the dream), also running away. Finally we all gathered together in his very large family room. There were at least 20 of us. I remember suddenly feeling completely safe...safetly in numbers. The others started feeling confident too. I remember everyone laughing and talking.

When the kidnapper walked in, he could no long imtimidate us. We knew the he no longer had power over us. I enjoyed seeing the look of anger and frustration in his eyes.

Originally Posted by Twoshadows

But as typical dreams go, a large wave suddenly washed over the rock and knocked me off into the water where it pulled me very quickly out into the very deep ocean. I reemember feeling very panicked.

Aww, poor TwoShadows. I've had similar dreams where I've been brought out to sea by a rip tide, they suck

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Aww, poor TwoShadows. I've had similar dreams where I've been brought out to sea by a rip tide, they suck

Yeah, they are kind of scary. I think I have those dreams because I grew up by the ocean and my mom was always telling me to be careful. Only once did a friend and I get caught in a rip tide where we were getting sucked back out into the ocean. But we both did have boogie boards with us, and we kind of rode it out and then swam sideways like they tell you to do. So it turned out fine, but the feeling of getting pulled out into the ocean is one that stays with you.

You poor deary, waves scare me in real life, yet not in dreams... I find that odd, maybe you can best the both of us and fight off both overcome our fears [my mom always told me of how her cousin died from the waves or a rip tide, and a wave almost drowned me once]...

As for the kidnapping dream, I'm glad that the kidnapper lost his power over you ^.^ That says a lot of good things about a person. At least, I think so, a wise person over fear, yet a powerful [possible] leader when favors turn towards you.

That's scary about about the kidnapper dream. right now in a town not far from me called "calgary" here is a serial killer on the loose. I hope to god he get's caught before he kills again. I'm glad you were able to find safety in your dream.

How did you have the dream?

Sorry I haven't been by your DJ lately. Between illness, work, and a new baby, life has been rough that last couple of weeks. I promise to do better! I hope you are well.

Originally Posted by Lucidbulbs

You poor deary, waves scare me in real life, yet not in dreams... I find that odd, maybe you can best the both of us and fight off both overcome our fears [my mom always told me of how her cousin died from the waves or a rip tide, and a wave almost drowned me once]...

Ooo...that's scary. I'm glad you were all right. Do you remember that?

As for the kidnapping dream, I'm glad that the kidnapper lost his power over you ^.^ That says a lot of good things about a person. At least, I think so, a wise person over fear, yet a powerful [possible] leader when favors turn towards you.

Cool...thanks.

Originally Posted by ranma187

That's scary about about the kidnapper dream. right now in a town not far from me called "calgary" here is a serial killer on the loose. I hope to god he get's caught before he kills again. I'm glad you were able to find safety in your dream.

That's very scary. I hope he is caught very soon. I remember being a kid in Los Angeles, and we (friends, sister and I) would hear about serial killers on the loose in our city and it would scare us. I'll always remember the "Hillside Strangler" and thinking "Oh my gosh--we live on a hill!"

Originally Posted by jubjub629

How did you have the dream?

Which dream?

Originally Posted by raklet

Sorry I haven't been by your DJ lately. Between illness, work, and a new baby, life has been rough that last couple of weeks. I promise to do better! I hope you are well.

Well, I can totally understand. Life and family can take up a lot of time. And with a new baby, even more so. But what an exciting time of life!

Illness, on the other hand it no fun at all. I hope that is past and done. I feel very blessed not to have gotten sick this winter yet. I think my raw vegan diet helps.

I remember a few short dreams from the last two days.



Mini dream 1:

I remember looking out the back door and being surprised to see Tito walk by.



Mini dream 2:

I was in the backyard and looked up and saw a jet flying overhead. I knew CoLd BlooDed was on that plane. I looked at the direction it came and thought, "He lives that direction from here."



Mini DV dream:

I got on Dreamviews. I knew I had missed a day and would have to catch up. I then saw a thread titled "Where's Twoshadows?" And I felt so bad that they had just put me in as a Dream Guide, and I wasn't doing my duty.



Dream 4- mini LD:

I was in a house that was supposed to be a new house. I went into the bathroom to find that the bathroom trash had been dumped out all over. I remember picking up handfuls of toilet paper and trying to separate out the dirty clothes. It was such a mess.

I then walked out the bathroom door, and while I was still standing in the doorway, I felt the whole house start to tip. I tried to figure out what would be causing this. Was there a problem with the foundation? It kept tipping over and I had to brace myself in the door frame. I knew that any second the house would fall completely over.

I then looked over and saw Marie just standing there talking on the phone as if there were no problem.

I became lucid for a brief second before the momentum of the house finally falling over made me wake up.

Here are a couple of pictures from the weekend.







TS

Nice pics, looks like around my house now.

I like your mini-dreams; especially the "Where's Two Shadows?". You obviously have a very responsible personality.

Wow. Nice pics. Wish I was there.

Yes, nice pics! Did you take a trip over the weekend or is that from where you live?

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

Nice pics, looks like around my house now.

Thanks. And yeah, I saw your pictures that you posted a little while back with your dog. I'm jealous that you live in such a beautiful place. I have to drive if I want to see trees.

I like your mini-dreams; especially the "Where's Two Shadows?". You obviously have a very responsible personality.

Yeah, I guess so. I guess I have been feeling like I wish I had a little more time to spend here doing Dream Guide stuff....

Originally Posted by Burned up

Wow. Nice pics. Wish I was there.

Thank you, bu....

Originally Posted by raklet

Yes, nice pics! Did you take a trip over the weekend or is that from where you live?

Thanks. It was a short trip. I'm fairly close to the Grand Canyon.

Dream:

I have these feelings and vague images from dreams last night, but I can only remember details from one part.

I remember there was something I needed to take pictures of. I think I was visiting somewhere really cool. But as usual I had camera problems. My battery was very close to being out...and my memory card was full. I knew I would have time to take a few pictures before the battery ran out, but I knew I would have to take the time to delete pictures first. I wondered if that would take all my remaining battery.

So why didn't this trigger lucidity when this is probably my most common dream sign? Well, this weekend when I was out taking pictures in the snow, my battery practically ran out. And I filled my memory card. I came home saying to myself that I would immediately charge the battery and delete pics from my memory card just in case I needed my camera for something.

Well, I haven't yet.


Bad me.