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I would love to properly cnovey how that dream made me feel, but I keep writing late at night and I doubt I'm expressing myself well. The butterfly was an interesting creature, and seemed so...aware of things, it was hard to separate from myself.

I woke up long before I wanted to today. It's another busy birthday week, and it's 1:22A.M. as I write this. I'm about to start my brisket on a 14-hour slow cook.

I took a nap this afternoon, and it allowed me another lucid dream though I didn't do anything special with it. I didn't try to stabilize, and while I knew I was dreaming I was quite passive.

I remember a couple fragments as well but just barely. I didn't get enough time to think about them before I woke up.

My real-life surroundings are definitely impacting my dreams in a major way. Even movies and TV are finding their way into dream elements.

With luck this coming week should afford me more time to spend on DV. May is just a busy month.

I forgot you mentioned this the other day. I got so wrapped up in tutorials that this almost slipped my mind. I even let several amazing dreams go by without writing them down, though some of that was due to my children being ill.


So, I recognized a new dream sign that has been showing up a lot lately...using my digital camera to take pictures of scenes to show off specifically on DreamViews. I know I've mentioned it briefly before but it's very common these days.

Also, OpheliaBlue, you have shown up in a lot of dreams also. Not sure why you more than anyone else on here but there it is.

I'll post here more often.

That's because... I'm your Dream Guide...
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>_>

Just kidding :P I look forward to reading about your future lucid endeavors. Always an inspiration, and pleasure to read. :)

^^^Yes, you are my Dream Guide! :)

So, I'm going to try and keep this up a bit again.

Lately I've noticed that nearly all of my dreams have a moment where I am taking pictures specifically for the purpose of sharing with DreamViews. The other night I was driving along at 70MPH+ and I wasn't even holding the steering wheel yet it seemed like a good time to take some pictures.

If only I could really show you.

So now I have to recognize that dream-sign and use it for lucidity.

Lol I know what you mean. In a slightly related way, I've had lucids where I had it in my mind to look up something on DV on the computer (like the TOTM) when I couldn't remember it at the time. Or one time, to bring back a piece of really cool furniture. I was able to talk myself out of it. But I still had to laugh at myself later for it.

OMG, I dream about DV so often! Sometimes I'm reading threads and other times I'm typing replies. It's neat how well I can read them in my dreams! When I was younger words were impossible to make out in dreams and now they not only feel like they make sense but the words actually do make sense and appear as words.

Now if only we got paid... :-?

Hahaha that's cool! I often get DV dreams too, but mostly they're about me on chat. The chat would be at really odd places like on an envelope, where I'm typing the words on the bottom of the envelope. Sometimes it is on a shoe too lol

So recently I had some brief lucid dreams that made me think a little.

One of the dreams I woke up from because I became aware of my real body and noticed I was drooling on my arm. I could have kept the dream going but I decided to take care of the situation and consequently woke up.

I became lucid after being chased by a bear-dog, a large creature that was half of each in some manner. I was being chased up a hill on the backside of a neighborhood church just down the road from my house. The neighborhood looked real but no one paid me any attention. Odd thing...it wasn't the bear-dog or being chased that brought me to lucidity but the actual act of trying to run. My movements were sluggish and I knew that wasn't right. Knowing I only move that way in a dream brought me to lucidity.

Last night I was attempting to use my mind powers in a park to move some rocks that were shaped like pieces of fried chicken. I had to move them across a gap that I knew they wouldn't be able to crawl over. That moment lasted a good while as I attempted to examine the rocks closer.

Later on in the same dream I shot a mind-bullet, or perhaps an arrow (still unsure) at a van. The invisible projectile was designed to set fire to something inside the van but my first shot only cracked the window. I was still pretty impressed by the action and how I had managed to achieve it in a dream. Weapons aren't usually my style. I certainly freaked out the person sitting in the van.

As I continued on with my mental abilities I realized, while looking over children's books in the public library, that I was Neo. I knew people were after me but I was too busy checking out the books that I hadn't seen since I was a child. I couldn't believe all the titles I was remembering. Unfortunately Morpheus had been caught by the bad guys and he was forced to tell them that I had developed a special ability called the "Rum-Punch" which allowed me to control or kill someone by touching them with my hand.

I had a long and detailed secret-agent dream earlier in the night but I don't believe it was lucid. Still, I was impressed with it upon waking.


I hope to have another dream where my sluggish movements trigger lucidity. :)

Hahah that sounds fun! The drooling part especially x)

Apparently DreamViews continues to exert an influence over my dreams.

I was in a museum with my daughter. Oddly there was an exhibit with confiscated drugs the police had taken from bad people, and it wasn't sealed properly. My daughter touched some of the white powder and I had to stop her from attempting to lick her finger. This is when I discovered she had stolen an artifact from another exhibit and I had to send her to return it.

Shortly after this I came to another exhibit that had a logbook. The first entry read, "Did you know that Mancon was kidnapped by foreign guys dressed as French soldiers?" I found this quite amusing and I flipped the page so I could reply, "I sure would like to see a picture of that!" but for some reason I had trouble finding the blank space to right my reply down.

Sadly I woke up but it was a good memory and very vivid.

That was the last dream I had. At this moment I don't recall my earlier dreams but it's possible my odd sleeping schedule of late has negatively influenced me. I expect to be back on track tonight.

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Shortly after this I came to another exhibit that had a logbook. The first entry read, "Did you know that Mancon was kidnapped by foreign guys dressed as French soldiers?"

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That's such a random question. :lol:

Hmmm...how to start...

I was up a bit late last nigt. I watched a couple recorded programs and answered some threads on the forum. Chat certainly was interesting though I wasn't expecting all the weird talk.

So anyway...stayed up late. I went to bed feeling tired but aware, so I tried to let my body relax and allow the visuals to carry me into a dream but my mind didn't want to let go of control. I would be on the verge of a dream and then I would snap back to myself and still be awake. It sucked because I was so trying to keep TOTM ideas in my head.

But I slept. I slept and woke up early to the sound of jack-hammering right outside my window just after 7A.M. this morning. The city is making all of the neighborhood sidewalks more handicap-accessible. I support the effort but damn, that's a terrible sound to wake up to.

I went back to sleep after it stopped, perhaps close to 8:15A.M. by the time the noise outside was low enough to not compete with my sleepiness.

I had a dream that was involved but I can't recall it now. I woke up worried about how late I slept.

On the bright side I should be set up well for REM rebound for tonight and with all luck I'll get a good dream from it. I'm hopeful, and I will likely use the AutoSuggestion Thread to aid my effort.

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But I slept. I slept and woke up early to the sound of jack-hammering right outside my window just after 7A.M. this morning. The city is making all of the neighborhood sidewalks more handicap-accessible. I support the effort but damn, that's a terrible sound to wake up to.

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Ew I had a morning like that when the roofers showed up (after that recent, nasty hail storm). I don't believe I recalled much after falling asleep after they were done either. Too deep a sleep or something.

Much luck since then?

Well, the other night I had some amazing dreams(lucid and non-lucid) and I have been working on writing them down but I'm not done. Lst night I stayed up late watching the Mars expedition and I didn't get much sleep at all. I woke up for a text message and then later just woke up and couldn't sleep so I have no recall of dreams from last night.

Tonight should be better. I will get more sleep.

I found some interesting locations and objects in my lucids. I spent a lot of time examining them because I knew they were from my dining room table and should still be sitting on the table. That made me understand them as a dream element.

Lol I fell asleep watching some of the Mars stuff myself. Last thing I remember was a toast haha!

I'd like to read the one about the dining room table objects. Sounds interesting. I like LDs that are intimate like that, focusing on objects as opposed to the action movie type. I like both types, but focusing on details in your surroundings is so interesting. Hopefully you'll get enough sleep for dreams tonight, and maybe they'll be about Mars!! :o

Sorry I haven't written that up yet. So much going on.

So last night I had three very long dreams. All of them had something to do with the forum or the forum members and lucid dreaming.

I recall one involving me sending a forum member into a moving vehicle in front of me to induce lucid dreaming in the truck (think it was a truck) and suddenly the vehicle exploded, bodies flying every which way. It was weird because the bodies seem to fly up and then fall rather realistically and the whole thing reminded me of a patchwork of elements I've seen on various documentaries and news reports.

It was the act of trying to induce lucid dreaming that caused the truck to explode. Not sure what what means.

When I woke each time I could recall being in a lengthy dream and some of the events that happened. The visuals are fairly easy to recall but examining them in hindsight produces only vague impressions. It's a weird mix of recall and lack-of-recall.

Think I need more sleep. I haven't been getting enough rest this week and when I lie down I see lines of text scrolling past my eyes, just like chat.


As for the most vivid object...it was small, round, perhaps two inches across. I believe it was a Happy-Meal toy, the bottom of which had a space slightly smaller than the diameter of the circular base in which I was placing another object. There were three cutouts on one side and I was able to fit a small object (a disc or coin, perhaps a watch face of some sort) into the base with the buttons (?) lined up with the three cutouts. I knew they didn't belong together but it felt like they were made for each other. I examined it for a while. The light was bright and reflecting off the object, shining occasionally into my eye. The toy was a lime-green plastic along the base and the fitting object was yellow.

I seem to have a lot of moments like that. Often they become a trigger for lucidity or I'm already lucid by the time I'm examining the object or scene. I think this stems from my general nature of being a hyper-aware person.

I should write all this in my dream journal but I feel like relaxing for a bit before sleep.

Tonight will be the third night in a row in which I haven't had enough sleep. Tomorrow will likely be the fourth. [sigh]

Well go get your sleep then!

That's interesting about the object. Made me think of this:

http://www.mywoodentoys.com.au/image..._block_box.jpg

Sorting things, posts, members, etc, into their proper place.

So I've been dreaming again for the Competition Thread. I've really been working on my recall again, writing things down immediately upon waking. I had 7 dreams last night that I know of but I only remembered five of them enough to write down. I'm still spending time examining the fine detail of objects.

Celebrities remain a consistent Dream Sign. I've recently hung out with Julie Haggerty, Vince Vaugh, Angelina Jolie, Kevin Pollak and Dethklok, the fictional band from the show Metalocalypse.

Dreaming remains fun.

Sucks I forgot some the other night. I didn't write them down immediately and they were memorable, but not enough to be remembered after I received some shocking news about a friend. The news drove the dreams out of my head. I reminded everyone in the competition to write their dreams down immediately or ASAP.

More soon!

More celebrities, including made-up ones. I've had 4 dreams this week with Dethklok and nearly every night I dream of a celebrity in at least one dream.

I only remember fragments from last night. My recall is weird, seems I messed up my sleep schedule or something.

Still, for the last week I've been keeping a notebook by my bed and it's helping on the days I have remembered dreams. I write down keywords and type them up later.

I had a good WBTB yesterday and it worked well. It wasn't initially planned. I woke up because of my air conditioner and became hyper-aware. I spent a long time being awake before I got sleepy again. Worked well.

I hope to dream about the rain tonight. We had about 2 inches of rain yesterday.

We're getting alot of rain here too finally! It's cooling things off nicely for the time being.

I wonder why you're dreaming about celebrities so often? Just watching alot of shows lately? My most common DCs (besides the ones I fabricate), are usually just idiots from work lol. I almost never have a famous person in a dream unless it's on purpose in an LD. I guess that's a lucky thing mel, they have to be better looking on average than my coworkers :chuckle:

Ready for the school routine, and regular WBTBing (and hopefully DEILDs)? :mrgreen:

So I am having a recent streak of dreaming about chat and fOrceez. He's shown up in a couple dreams lately. I liked the one I had where I was repeatedly saying "fOrceezpwndu" over and over...'for-seez-poned-yoo'

I've been having a lot of dreams about my old house, the one I lived in before I had kids. Every time I do it appears in need of repair and seems to be falling apart. I am starting to wonder if I'm letting go of that house internally and that's why it's always appearing run-down. Not sure though.

I have been participating in the Dream Competition thread run by Matte87. It's forced me to keep up with writing down my dreams, though I have been putting them on the pad by my bed and transferring them to WORD files in a big frenzy of typing that probably isn't a healthy use of my time. I need to keep up with that better. I'm definitely trying.

Participating and being on the forum so much lately has really helped my recall and my lucid frequency.

Oh, and I met SIVASON!!!!! He's my teammate in the competition and we had a nice lucid talk about shared dreaming (from the Shared Dreaming Debate thread) and competition points. It was so cool!

Oh yeah, almost forgot...I've been having a few dreams lately where I did self-pleasure. They were all very...erotic, and one came extremely close to orgasm while lucid. I so wanted it.

I'm still dreaming about celebrities, from a recent one where I watched Peter Griffin eat his own shit in sausage-tube form to one last night where a woman who looked like a cross between Bette Midler and Cathy Bates ran me off the road with her green truck.

The other day I had a dream about David Schwimmer wearing a purple suit with pink highlights. I counseled him to tone down the pink.

So odd how many celebrities show up in my dreams, I wish they would make me lucid.

Instead I get lucid from playing with a Lego creation I was manipulating in my dream this morning. Seems the smaller and closer the detail the more likely it is for me to gain lucidity.

Last night I also had the detailed music playing in my dreams, and I had my lucid moment where I thought it was odd that music was playing in my dream. The song was Gotye - Someone That I Used To Know

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVNT4wvIGY


What's really weird is that I've only heard the full song perhaps 3 or 4 times though it played quite clearly in my dream.

I'm still hoping I can use the celebrities to make me lucid. I'm certainly trying to keep it in mind.

Celebrities for dream characters, cool. I only recall one dream where EVERYONE was a celebrity, and I a frustrated about which one I should approach first. Haha

So last night I had this incredibly detailed dream about being on a campout near the water. The detail was amazing, the nifty hidden underground stable with farm animals and the way the water acted. I think it was an example of my dreams going to the next level of detail.

No celebrities this time, and I don't think I was lucid, but it was a truly amazing dream.

Had my third Hawaii dream the other night, and it was lucid. I was on vacation and the water outside my hoel room was so beautiful. I really liked the water and surf details.

I'm still dreaming about celebrities, seems to be a new one every day though I don't recall this morning's dreams.

I had a really weird lucid the other day about a crazy performance by a group that had taken residence in a club under the old downtown library. It was a rather dramatic nude performance where everyone was covered in full body makeup similar to latex but gooier and sticky-looking. The large male at the center of the group was a representation of Satan and the others cavorted around him and the onlookers reveling in sin. The whole performance was designed to draw people into the leather club under the library.

Such an odd dream.

I have found, the last few days, that I'm having more unusual visuals and sensations when I go to bed and fewer when I wake up. I feel like I'm so tired when I close my eyes I could fall asleep instantly but because I'm so aware and thoughtful (thanks to DV possibly) that I find myself tenuously entering a dream-scene almost immediately. I'm hoping to make use of it though it's difficult with the school schedule of the kiddos. I need my sleep.

More soon as it pops into my mind. I'm tired.