Thread: Twoshadows' Dream Journal

Dream:


I had a dream about old best friends last night, both from college and high school. A lot happened in the dream, and I don't remember the order exactly, so I will do the best I can just listing the things that I do remember doing.


I remember being with my best friend from high school, Marie. I was at her parents home. I remember her mom showing me their new couches.

I remember looking out in their backyard and seeing that her mom had converted their old play house into a craft room. And had enclosed it and made it very nice.

I also remember seeing goats and chickens in their backyard and also in their neighbor across the back fence's yard. I remember thinking, "You know, here we are in the middle of LA and here are goats and chickens unless you came back here, you would never know." I looked to the street that was in front of the back neighbors and saw that it was P Blvd. I hadn't realized that that busy street was right there.

Then the neighbor had opened a gate between the yard and was shooing the goats (and also sheep) from his yard into my friend's yard. I realized that the goats and sheep just belonged to my friend's family and had gotten into his yard by accident. He actually tossed one small sheep over the fence. It landed on its side, then got up. I thought that that was a bit cruel to do.

Then my friend's parents were showing me the goats and ther different kinds of horns and what the horns could be used for when they fell off. Some of the horns laying on the ground looked more like moose antlers.



Then I was at my best friend from college Tom's house. I met his parents that were very serious. I wondered if they wanted me to be there (in real life I thought they never like me).

Then my other best friend George arrived. We talked. Then George and I were in the kitchen and he mentioned that he had developed a condition that if he didn't eat every few hours then he would get very sick. He looked around for food and didn't see any. So he went out into the garden where Tom's parents were sitting. George staretd picking cucumbers and tomatoes and melons. I suddenly was really nervous since he hadn't asked. I looked over at the parents and asked apologetically, "Do you mind...?" They said, "It's fine." And I felt much better.

Then we were back in the house and Tom showed my a kind of spiral staircase in his house. Near the bottom there was an aclove-like place with a shelf that was covered with lots of crocodile figurines. Tom made the joke not to fall into the pit of crocodiles.


Then we were back in the family room all sitting on couches. My friend Marie had shown up, but was in the other room still. It was kind of awkward, and no one was talking. Finally Tom's parent looked at us and asked, "When are you guys going to start having babies?"

I couldn't believe that they would be so forward. But I also realized what they were thinking. They wanted us to pair up and start families so they could finally have some grand kids. I looked over at Tom and George. They looked mortified that Tom's parents had asked that question. No one was saying anything, and there was an extremely awkward silence. Since Marie was in the other room, and it was just me and the two guys in this room, the question suddenly seemed really funny to me.

So I gave a little laugh and said, "And how would that happen?"

None of them understood the humor. And they all now looked at each other nervously wondering who would be the one to explain to me about "babies".

It was now even more humorous, and there was no way I would let them off the hook, and I continued to gaze back and forth between them with a very innocent look on my face.


The next thing I remember was sitting at the dining room table and we were eating. Marie was with us and she picked up a large thin piece of meat. It was full of fat so the whole thing kind of stretched as she picked it up. She pulled at it even more, stretching it further. I told her that was one of the reasons I didn't eat meat any more, because of all that fat. I also pointed out when she stretched it you could see better where the fat was and were the little pieces of meat were, and how I used to sometimes stretch it like that and pull out the little pieces of meat. And how you were then left with a big wad of fat. She decided that she would pulled out the peices of meat and not eat the fat.

Than later I was alone with Marie. She was laying quietly on the couch. I knew she was not happy. I knew that she had gone through a painful divorce and that life was hard. I wanted to say something to make her feel better but I couldn't think of anything. So I asked about her daughter.

I did have a lucid dream a couple of days ago. I'm glad I wrote it down, because I wouldn't have remembered as much.


Lucid dream:

I got off of a bus. The sidewalk was soft like a big matress. I remember doing sumersaults and flips as I moved along toward my destination.

I was looking for a shop where I could use the restroom, but I couldn't find one.

Next to the sidewalk was a canal where there were kayaks. I decided I wanted to go kayaking. I saw a kayak with a paddle. I reached for the paddle. but ended up dropping it in the water.

I decided that I would just fly. As soon as I was in the air I realized I was dreaming. I thanked myself for being so aware. I hoped that this meant that flying would now always trigger lucidity. As I flew I thought about what task I wanted to accomplish. The only thing that popped into my head was one of the tasks that I thought was on MM which was talk to an animal...or something like that.

I ended up in a building. I was in the corner of a room. I looked around and couldn't see any animals. But I knew if I just kept looking with the expectation that I would find some, then they would appear.

I turned around and saw that the room was now filled with cats. I went to a group of them that were eating. I asked them to talk to me. But they kept eating. I saw an especially cute orange tabby. It was making a mess with its food.

I told it, "You need to talk to me. Say......um....'I'm sorry for making a mess.' ".

It looked up at me with big green eyes and said, "Sorry...."

I wanted it to talk some more, but I felt myself slip out of the dream. As I felt myself slip, I told myself that I was probably going to just have a FA, so I would just need to remember that and become lucid again.But when I woke up I felt myself in bed, so I figured that I was really awake.

In retrospect, I believe it actually was an FA.

So I need to really pay attention so I can stretch my LDs out.

Dream:

I was with a group of people that had been asked to go live in the mountains for an extended period of time. Our belongings (tents, clothes, etc) had been driven up in trucks. But the people had to hike up the mountain to the top where we would set up a camp. I think I was in Northern Utah. The biggest part of the group got started up the mountain ahead of me. But this other girl and I started hiking together. She was a little overwieght and was going slower that I wanted to go, but I wanted to stay together so I waited and went at her pace.

When we got to the top, I saw a museum-like building. We went inside. There were two men talking to us about how we weren't going to be able to sleep inside of the building even though we might want to. I was glad I had a very warm sleeping bag since we would be camping out all through the winter.

Dream:

I was hiking on a trail. I was heading downhill. Suddenly this big animal rushes by me and down the trail. I was shaken. It had happened so fast that I wasn't even sure what kind of animal it was. It had kind of looked like a lizard, but was the size of a large dog.

Then Daniel called to me from higher up on the trail and asked if I just saw that dog go by. I still wasn't sure if it was actually a dog. It had the coloring of a gila monster.

I continued down the trail. I finally got another glimpse of the dog and saw that it actually was a dog--a great dane. As I was watching it, it was joined by several other stray dogs.

I started getting worried. The part of the trail that I had been on was in a faily protected area with trees, but I was heading to a very steep, narrow part of the trail that had a huge drop off on one side. I was afraid the dogs would come over by me a knock me off the trail.

And sure enough, the dogs seemed attracted to me--passing me going up the trail, then turing around and heading back past me. I told Daniel to go ahead of me on the trail since the dogs weren't bothering him at all and told him that if I wasn't down two hours after he was then to send help.

I still slowly headed cautiously down the trail. I then got to the very scary part of the trail. The trail was extremely narrow and slanted toward the huge drop off. I wondered how my mom had ever taken us kids on this trail when we were young because I would never dream of taking children on a trail this dangerous.

I did see that someone had added a kind of safety rail to the worst part. I was thankful for that. I took ahold of that as I carefull eased along the trail. Suddenly I could feel my feet slip on a sandy spot. I held on to the rail, but I realized that the rail wasn't really attached to the rock at all, but just leaned out again a few bushes below it.

I was in disbelief as I slid still gripping the now loose rail, like in slow motion, over the edge and started to free fall.

I awoke only about two seconds into the fall.

The end sounds scary

Originally Posted by ninja9578

The end sounds scary

I know. And then I later woke up to my radio alarm to the news that a guy had just fallen to his death in the Grand Canyon. I thought, "Oh my gosh, someone actually just went through that for real. How horrible....."

Okay...to get caught up on dreams. I've been very busy or distracted lately. I haven't even written up my last lucid dream. It wasn't a great one though. I didn't wake up right after it so I forgot a lot of the detail. And I never even thought about the tasks.


Lucid Dream:


I'm trying to read my very messy notes here.

I was lucid and flying. I was trying to fly up and through the clouds. I kept flying through the clouds but never managed to break through the other side which was the goal.
I also had a point where I was trying to fly up and had the typical "powerline" experience. I couldn't believe I was having problems with this again.

I also remember at some point in this dream I had flown to the top of a really high building. I walked to the edge. I told myself that I knew 100% that I was dreaming, yet it still made me nervous to walk to the edge. I usually fall off building backwards (by choice) but this time I decided to be brave and look straight down as I leaned off the edge.

I don't remember what the fall was like, but I remember feeling disappointed. I ended up back at the top of the building and this time I let myself fall backwards like I had wanted to do. I enjoyed the feeling as I fell. I fell and kept falling long after I should have hit bottom. I remembered this from past Lds and told myself I could fall as long as I wanted--there was no reason I had to hit the bottom if I didn't want to. I was falling between to very tall buildings and I remember watching the buildings pass me as I stared up at them (I was laying on my back as I fell). I also remember passing a bridge that connected the two buildings, and watching that disappear above me as I continued to fall.

The next thing I remember is seeing Ed. I remember wondering what it would be like to kiss him (I guess I had forgotten that I had kissed him in real life a long time ago). I leaned in and started to kiss him. But he had gum in his mouth. And then I found that I also had gum in my mouth. It turned me off to kissing so I stopped trying.
I then remember finding Jeff and asking him if he wanted to fly with me. I think I woke up not long after that.

I don't think I'll try to catch up on other dreams from the last few days. But I'll post what I remember from this morning.

Dream 1:

I was laying out by a pool. I saw people around me that I didn't know. I saw an emergency vehicle go by. A few minutes later I saw the Life Flight helicopter take off. I wondered who had gotten hurt. I hoped they were going to be okay.
Later I saw the helicopter land nearby and saw DS get out. I realized that the pool belonged to the helicopter crew and that I wasn't really supposed to be here. I reemmber trying to leave before anyone saw me.

Dream 2:

I was with a group of people playing hide and Seek. We were at my grandparent's house. The girls were hiding and the boys were seeking. I ran into the backyard to hide, but then realized that no one would find me there, and I kind of wanted to be found. I then saw a bush in the front flowebed that would barely cover me. I slid behind it and scooted myself low against the wall. As I hid there I suddenly realized that this was a good place for black widow spiders to hide. I could tell the back of my shirt was pulled up a bit in the back from sliding down against the wall. And I was nervous having that bare skin exposed.

Dream 3:

I was talking to my younger sister. She was showing me some things that were in here room. She was also sharing some notes from a lecture she had gone to and enjoyed.

Dream:

I was driving down the street with Jeff. He suddenly points out that the BMW that just crossed in front of us belonged to my old friend George. I realize that I haven't seen him for years and I really wanted to see him again. We tried to follow him, but his car was too far ahead. I tried to remember the name of the street to turn on. Then I remember that it was a girls name and started with an "A". We find it (I can't remember what it was now). And finally find his place.

I go up to the door and knock. When he opens the door I already am holding my arms out for a big hug. He is also glad to see me. He walks into my hug. As we are hugging, I realize how absolutely good the hug feels, and I don't want to stop. I then decide that since he was such a good friend and because I hadn't seen him for so long that I can get away with holding out the hug a humerously long time. So I continue to hug him and enjoying every second of it.

Then my stupid alarm went off.

I had a super long LD last night. It was one of those that are so long and I did so much that I couldn't remember all of what I did when I woke up or in exactly what order eveything happened. BUt I'll do my best to put it back together.


Lucid Dream:

I can't remember at what point I got lucid. I remember something about Ninja and how he made these cookies. They were yellow rectangular snicker doodles. And I wanted one. I had one in my hand, but before I could put it into my mouth I started to wake up.

I must have been somewhat lucid at this point because as I lay there trying not to wake up, my mind thought it remembered something that pj had written about concerning False Awakenings. I thought it had something to do with rolling out of bed and falling, but because you weren't really awake you wouldn't hit the floor, but then be able to fly and continue the dream.

In retrospect, I know realize that this is something my mind made up, but in the dream I really thought pj had come up with this idea. [Please correct me if this is really something I read here on this board.]

So I rolled out of bed, and sure enough, I started falling and not hitting the floor so I then started to fly. It had worked out perfectly. I suppose it is a pretty cool technique that I hope will work again for me.

I started flying over these tall trees in a neighborhood. I was having trouble with control. I could fly straight, but couldn't change direction quickly.

Finally I came to these really huge white barked trees that were supposedly on my street. I decided that I wanted to impress my neighbors so I flew to the place where the branches came out from the trunks which were at least twenty feel above the ground. I swung around on the branches for a while before dropping down to the ground.

There is a place here that gets fuzzy.

I think the next thing that happened is that I had climbed a telephone/power pole. On the pole was a little door. I opened it up and there were cookies. I stuffed thatm in my mouth. My friends, the Johnsons had supposedly made them. I think I saw MJ standing on the ground below.


Then I was in what was supposed to be my house. I went to the fridge and opened the door. I wanted to eat more cookies. I didn't see any, but I knew that I was capable to creating them. I shut the door and opened it again. There was now a stack on cookies. They were about 4 inches across and flat like pancakes. I picked up the stack and shoved the cookies all in my mouth in one huge bite. I chewed while I created another stack of cookies. I shoved them all in my mouth too. I did this seveal times. The cookies were soft and had chocolate chips. I binged and binged and couldn't seem to get enough.

Finally I stopped myself and thought about the tasks. Because this was an accidental DILD and not preplanned, I had not read over the tasks or thought about them . I tried to remember what they were. Finally my mind thought it knew what one was. I looked at my couch and saw a place where ketchup had spilled and had dried. I knew the task had to do with removing spots off furniture. I stared at the spot and concentrated. The spot of ketchup started to move. I could see it start to lift up off the couch. The place underneith was completely clean. I was proud of myself for being able to do that so nicely.

I then tried to think of another task. I couldn't remember what it was. I felt frustrated that I hadn't checked on what the tasks were. I laid down on the couch. Then suddenly I remembered the picture on the badge of the DV advanced task with the two people facing away from each other. I knew it had something to do with splitting my consciousness. I had no idea how to do it. I wasn't even going to attempt that one since it seemed weird to me. But since it was the only thing I remembered to do at this moment I decided to give it a try. I decided that part of me would stay right here on this couch, while part of me went somewhere else. I concentrated on this thought for a while, and nothing seemed to be happening. Then I noticed that I was aware of two things. I could feel my body still on the couch staring ahead. But another part of me was standing in the large room watching people on a stage. I watched them for a while until I finally woke up and decided to write the LD down.

I like it when pretty girls dream about me I'll make you cookies if you want

Oooh cookies! I thought for a moment you were going to let one consciousness stay on the lounge and the other go fetch some more cookies for you

Nice length,
Cheers

Originally Posted by ninja9578

I like it when pretty girls dream about me I'll make you cookies if you want

Originally Posted by Mr_Jinsue

Oooh cookies! I thought for a moment you were going to let one consciousness stay on the lounge and the other go fetch some more cookies for you

Nice length,
Cheers

I know...I had a big cookie obsession.

Let me share the story.

To make a long story short (hopefully), I was exposed to cookies last week. As many of you know I try to eat an anti-cancer diet, which means no white sugar, white flour etc......so... no cookies. So after the cookie temtation, which I did resist, I couldn't stop craving chocolate chip cookies. In fact, this dream was my third dream in a row where I was bingeing like that. The other two weren't lucid, but I still was stuffing my face with cookies and cake.

So after this dream I realized that this craving was very real and it didn't seem to be going away.

So Monday afternoon, I finally decided I had to try to fix the craving. I made the most healthy cookies I could (with coconut and olive oil, honey, a 7 grain flour that I grind myself with organic oats, barley, rye, brown rice, millet, amaranth and wheat. I threw in pumpkin seeds and walnuts and rolled oats to make it as hearty and satisfying as possible. Oh, and raw cacao nibs.

And I ate them all.


And I feel much better.

Dreams:

Dream 1:

I was talking to my sister who has cancer. She was telling me that when her hair grew back out that she would dye half of it orange. And that she would leave the other half grey (it has started to come in grey after the chemo).

I looked over at my cat, and then said, "I like that color combination. That's the color of my cat!"


Dream 2:

Long complex dream, mostly forgotten.

I was riding a bus in a big unfamiliar city. Somethign happened and the bus broke down. All the passengers had to get off and find their own way to their destinations. I had no idea how to get to my hotel. I couldn't even remember what the name of the hotel was. Finally I found my freind Toto and he founds some of his freinds to drive us to the hotel.

Then I had the horrible thought that I had left my younger sister behind. I had no idea where she had gone and no idea how to find her.

Very stressful dream.


Dream 3:

This dream had a very detailed dream memory.

I had met a couple on Lake Powell. We had become good friends. They invited me to their wedding in Utah. I was able to come.

Their wedding was strange. They were having it on a boat parked in a parking lot. The groom was laying on a coffin playing dead. We were all sitting on folding chairs.

When I woke up I realized that the couple I had dreamed about being such good friends with was a couple I had read an article about online. They had been terribly injured in an accident and were still in the hospital a month later. It was weird how I felt so close to them in my dream.


Dream 4:

This was influenced by the last dream. In this dream I was supposedly getting married myself. But the guy I was getting married to kept changing.

Later my friend George called me and asked me to tell him all the details.

Yay, you have your halloween sig again

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Yay, you have your halloween sig again

Yeah, I love that picture. It represents the Halloween of my youth. The excitement and magic I felt...and still feel, actually.

It's now officially autumn, so I don't have to feel like it's up too early now...


I did have an LD this morning. It was was too short--stupid alarm woke me up. But I did try a few things. I'll get it written up later.

I still need to write my LD from a couple nights ago.

But I'll start with last nights first.


Dreams:

I don't remember details, but the dreams were the kind you get when you are sick or very stressed. The long monotonous ones that involve counting or some other repetition. And the stress level is extremely high. And when you wake up you don't feel rested but unsettled.

I think this dream had cars and driving in it.


I'm not sure why I had dreams like that. I don't think I'm sick and don't feel more stressed than usual.

I've been at my sisters. I had a great visit. I'll post pics soon.

Dream 1:

I was dead. I don't remember much from this dream except for what I was thinking. I remember thinking about my life on earth and how I died when I was 30. I remember thinking that I hadn't ever thought that I would die young. I had expected to live to a very ripe old age because I had worked so hard to be healthy. I also remember thinking how on earth we always thought that it was bad to die young. But now in retrospect there was nothing bad about it. That it was all okay. It had all worked out for the best.


[This dream must have been inspired by my visit with my sister who has cancer.]


Dream 2:

There are several fragments that make up this dream. I was in bigfoot territory. I reemmber looking and keeping my eye out for a glimpse. My friend had shown me footage of a bigfoot that he had taken. He had gotten a very good closeup of the face. It was shocking to look at. It was a mix between an ape face and human. It was a bit disturbing and left me feeling unsettled.

[It reminded me of the feeling that I got when I saw a show about Oliver. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C6NkRUbI38 ]

Later I was going to sleep outdoor on the flat roof of a shed. There were several of us sleeping on it, but I was the one who was right on the edge. I was worried that in the night a bigfoot was going to come and reach up and touch me while I slept.

I hope your sister is okay You're 30? ... You're old

Originally Posted by ninja9578

I hope your sister is okay You're 30? ... You're old

Yes, I'm old....

My sister is doing both good and bad. The radiation shrunk the tumors in her brain so she is doing better mentally and with her coordination. But the tumor on her spine hasn't really shrunk with the radiation, so she still can't really walk. But we had a really good visit. A really good visit.

Weekend pics









TS

Oh, pretty colours

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Oh, pretty colours

I know... The colors were just starting to change. It's especially beautiful for me since I come from a place with no trees to change color (except the ones I plant in my yard.)


So to go from this:




To this:



....is a very nice change.

Okay. I think I'll finally try to write up that short LD I had last week.


Lucid dream:

I became lucid while I was with Marie. I started flying with her. We flew over a fence. I then realized that I wanted to try to turn myself into an animal. I had thought about this ahead of time. I decided that I would try to turn into a cheetah. The reason for this was because when I play World of Warcraft, my character is a druid that can change into a cheetah. And I am used to making that change and seeing what I look like when I run around like that.

So I got down on all fours and tried to run, imagining myself a cheetah. But I felt so slow and clumsy. I tired for a fairly short time and gave up and flew again.

I had trouble flying in this dream too. I couldn't get any higher than the trees.

Since I couldn't fly high, I decided to try to make the change again. This time I imagined having owl wings. I looked out at my hands and kept willing them to change.

But before anything could happen my alarm woke me up.

So you can see why I wasn't in any hurry to write this frustrating dream up.

Mmm turning into a cat would be cool, especially something fast like a cheetah. Don't their back legs work different from the front though, like reverse joint as apposed to what we humans have? Cause that would be quite difficult to get your head around I reckon.

Those pictures are nice too, but I gotta say, I don't think I will be living anywhere near you soon

Cheers