Alyzarin's Workbook

Workbook thread! I've already got a dream journal that I try to update pretty much every day, but I don't normally do reality checks. Just did a nose plug RC to start it off. :) As far as recurring elements or dream signs go, I've got....

Mall Schools: This one hasn't happened so much lately, but I can remember it happening for pretty much as long as I've been going to school. Often (it used to be practically every time) when I dream of being at school, it'll actually be a gigantic mall being used as a school, with different stores being different classrooms and etc., but with a bunch of people still just walking around, too. I can't remember a time it's ever been the same mall from one dream to the next, either, it's just always some random, crowded, intensely-designed mall.

The Jungle: This place has only started appearing in my dreams somewhat recently, and it's been a little while since I've seen it again, but it definitely appeared enough to be considered some kind of sign. Whenever I'm there there's some mystical feeling to it, something really bizarre or intense going on, or some complex story being shown in third-person that involves another area of the jungle as some special spiritual-type place. I've been lucid there twice, and the first time I just wandered around (the second time I was distracted). It has a very magical feel to it, like my full potential could be unlocked there.

The Badass Girl: This DC has appeared twice, but that's one more time than any other DC I've ever seen. The fact that I saw her more than once is pretty bizarre for me. The two times I saw her she had different haircuts, but she was wearing the same type of dark (mostly black) clothes that was sort of rave clubby mixed with normal beaten street clothes. A little hard to describe exactly, but... it looks pretty badass. :P She obviously has a very strong will going by her demeanor, and I suspect she may be a dream guide, or something. The first time I saw her she demonstrated amazing super speed with perfect control, and the second time I saw her she copied herself and used two bodies at once. Notably, no other DC I've ever seen has used powers, either.

Middle School/High School: Despite actually being in college but not even having taken a class at all for a year and a half, a very large number of my dreams take place in middle and high school classes.

And then of course, the shows I watch far too frequently, like How I Met Your Mother.

Hey there, Aly! Welcome to the class :D really interesting dream signs.. especially the jungle one!

I like the Badass girl. I think it's pretty badass that she's not someone you know in real life but has appeared in more than one dream. The only fictional DC that ever appeared in more than one dream for me is that damn demon.

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Originally Posted by fOrceez

Hey there, Aly! Welcome to the class :D really interesting dream signs.. especially the jungle one!

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Hey! And thanks. :content: The jungle one is definitely interesting.... I want to get back there again! It has such a powerful mystical feel to it. :D

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Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

I like the Badass girl. I think it's pretty badass that she's not someone you know in real life but has appeared in more than one dream. The only fictional DC that ever appeared in more than one dream for me is that damn demon.

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I know!! And she's soooo cool, the vibe she gives off is so intense. :smitten: I want to meet her again....

Hehe, the demon. :chuckle:

I think it would be cool if your badass girl and my dream girl got together and handled some issues in this world. :D

Had a dream about a mall... wasn't a school though. :/ But it probably would've been if I hadn't woken up right after getting there. Hmmm....

Also, I've been doing several reality checks a day. :D I've got a post-it note on my bathroom side mirror over the medicine cabinet. :3

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Originally Posted by melanieb

I think it would be cool if your badass girl and my dream girl got together and handled some issues in this world. :D

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That would be pretty awesome. :P Have you met your again yet? :panic: Mine hasn't made any appearances lately. :(

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Originally Posted by Alyzarin

Also, I've been doing several reality checks a day. :D I've got a post-it note on my bathroom side mirror over the medicine cabinet. :3

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Awesome. :)

I got two lucids last night! And one of them was from a dream sign that never even occurred to me. :D

Permanently Full Mouth: Very occasionally, I'll have this thing happen in dreams that comes in two varieties. The first one is that there'll suddenly be a bunch of already-chewed (so unidentifiable) food in my mouth, like enough that I couldn't really talk through it or anything and my mouth does feel pretty full, and no matter how much I try to chew it up more and swallow it or eventually just try to spit it out it never goes away, like some will disappear but it will never reduce the amount currently in my mouth. The second one is that all of my teeth will start falling out but all my teeth will also still be in their place, so more and more teeth just keep falling out and are simultaneously being chewed by my teeth that are in place, and then the same thing happens with them as the chewed-up food. Usually this just makes me really confused and I stop focusing on anything else in the dream, so it falls apart and I wake up.

I got lucid from the first one last night. :content: Gotta remember to put it in my DJ in a bit!

Awesome Aly!!!!! Know what, I had a dream yesterday that I had a mouth full of plastic, and no matter how much I pulled out, there was still some in my mouth. We're like, psychic sisters :P Weird though, huh?

Anyway, congrats on the lucid! i look forward to reading them.

Really!? Whenever I mention those dreams to anyone else they say they've never had dreams like that! :o Woo, we're linked! :D I can't imagine how bizarre it would be with plastic though, that sounds odd! :chuckle:

And thanks! :content: I was pretty happy, it's been a while. :)

I think my daily noseplug RCs are working! I finally started using them in dreams. :D Just added my first (two) ever uses of it in my dream journal. :content:

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Originally Posted by Alyzarin

I think my daily noseplug RCs are working! I finally started using them in dreams. :D Just added my first (two) ever uses of it in my dream journal. :content:

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SWEET. Going to read it now..

Nice! :D It's a bugger that it takes a bit of time to work into your dreams but it's totally worth it. Heheh.

D: WOAH!

I've also had dreams where my mouth is really weird. Most of the time, it's like my teeth and gums are all made of rubber or plastic. I could even taste it!

hahaha. :banana:

Haha, it's weird isn't it? :chuckle: My mouth always trips me out in dreams if I pay too much attention to it. :panic:

Wait what, really? What happens?

Well, I already mentioned it once. :P But basically just a variety of strange things, like suddenly having chewed up food in my or various junk in my mouth that I can't get all out no matter how many tiny pieces I pull out, and since I focus on it more it never goes away. Also sometimes my teeth will start falling out but... not. Like, there will still be teeth in the spots the teeth fell out of, and I'll start chewing so I'm chewing my own teeth, and it just keeps happening more and more. :panic: Other times it'll just feel like really weird textures, like paigeyemps gets. And sometimes it'll feel really weird and dry and give me a panic attack. :shock: Though I don't really get that one anymore. Every single time it's ever happened except for this time when it got me lucid it would bother me until it woke me up. :?

TAG *you're it*

runs...

Oh snap! :panic: I need to tag someone else now. :shock:

I actually had the mouth thing happen again the other night, though I didn't catch it to become lucid. >.< It was a very... bizarre alteration. Both my top and bottoms rows of teeth popped out, still totally connected, like dentures, and in their place I already had entirely new sets of teeth. When I finally figured that out I took the old ones out and looked in a mirror and saw that my teeth were really demonic and fanged, and some of them were falling out so I had to put them back in and use the blood to keep them on like an adhesive. :wtf: Afterwards my mouth was suddenly full of what felt like sawdust, which kept me utterly confused until I woke up.

I did become lucid the other night. :boogie: Not really anything substantial, though. But I've got a good feeling about tonight. :rolleyes:

And I just did a RC. >w<

Oh Aly your mouth dreams are just....ughhh. It reminded me of one I had when I was young, where I had teeth come out all connected. It reminded me of when you cut corn off the cob and some come off all attached together. Yucky yucky mouth dreams. Maybe we should RC when we brush our teeth :P

Hahaha, sounds like a good plan to me. :chuckle: Teeth dreams are so weird! Apparently my mom gets the teeth-falling-out one a lot. Maybe it just runs in the family. :roll:

I'm gonna try to remember to do that RC now. :P

I heard from my graduate student friend years ago, back when he was studying symmetry and psychology, that dreams of teeth falling out are representative of a desire for sex or repressed sexual urges.

Of course that's just what I heard. I'm so glad I don't have them. I would likely be terrified and crying, and I might stop eating.


Keep dreaming!!! And keep up those RCs!

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Originally Posted by melanieb

I heard from my graduate student friend years ago, back when he was studying symmetry and psychology, that dreams of teeth falling out are representative of a desire for sex or repressed sexual urges.

Of course that's just what I heard. I'm so glad I don't have them. I would likely be terrified and crying, and I might stop eating.


Keep dreaming!!! And keep up those RCs!

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This is true, I heard something similar.

I remember my shrink parents saying something about Freud and losing teeth and orgasms.

Though I find nothing orgasmic about losing, chewing upon, nor spitting out said teeth.

I had a revelation today. My activity on DV for the last seven days is at 100%, and I've been thinking all week that activity's been really slow since most of the people I chat with regularly haven't been online much. All I do is sit here for most of the day staring at the main forum page or refreshing threads that get updated. ._. I might try to get started on this again lol.

What week is the class in now?

Hey Aly!

Well the class is user paced now, and students can join at any time, completing the lessons as they feel ready.

Hey Ophelia! :content:

I see, I see. :) I guess I'll have to start looking into it then and see where I left off!

Alright, let's try to get this back on track. >w<

DJ Entry - When Did We Become A Resort?, My Demon Pals

In the neverending struggle between having god-like powers and unlimited potential during the night vs being high and doing nothing during the day that is my life, the latter was again declared the winner yesterday. However, when night came around I passed out in front of my computer rather than actually going to bed, and so when I eventually woke up I had to go turn off all the lights and stuff in the house and get undressed and all that, and this wasn't until after a few hours of sleep already. This technical WBTB is probably what saved my recall for the night. Maybe I should start doing WBTBs more often....

Once again I was at high school, which is one of my more useless dream signs. I really should go visit the campus and walk around doing reality checks or something. :roll: Nothing else too crazy worth noting though, at least about the dreams.

What was cool was that I woke up into sleep paralysis, and I stayed totally calm through it (though still not entirely lucid). I used to pretty much just become really disoriented until it ended, but I've been getting better at controlling it lately. I was even able to move my arm using an imaginary body while leaving my physical one in its paralyzed condition. I've actually done this before, but never as this stable; I would always pop back to where my actual body was a second later. It'd be great if I knew a way to guarantee that I was going to enter sleep paralysis this way, that way I could really train myself. I think that if I was able to remain more lucid during the experience I could use it for OBEs easily.

I really should start practicing WILD and DEILD more seriously....

DJ Entry - Flying Around School

I didn't get to really remember that much last night since I smoked again. :? I did become lucid, though. (A DILD.) Once again I was at school....

I didn't do a WBTB because I kind of needed to stay awake after I woke up originally, so I'll have to start that tomorrow at the earliest I suppose. I've been thinking about trying to give it a shot with not smoking too close to bed but then smoking with a WBTB again. I tried it once (though mainly I just woke up, smoked, and went back to bed) and I entered hypnagogia extremely easily, though I was also disoriented by it and lost focus, resulting in me waking up. It certainly seems promising....

And just as a note for later:

Potential role of the cannabinoid receptor CB1 ... [Neuroscience. 2003] - PubMed - NCBI

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Originally Posted by Potential role of the cannabinoid receptor CB1 in rapid eye movement sleep rebound.

Abstract

Sleep is an unavoidable activity of the brain. The delay of the time to sleep (sleep deprivation), induces an increase of slow-wave sleep and rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep (rebound) once the subject is allowed to sleep. This drive to sleep has been hypothesized to be dependent on the accumulation of sleep-inducing molecules and on the high expression of these molecule receptors. In this study we selectively deprived rats of REM sleep for 24 h by using the flowerpot technique. One group deprived of REM sleep was treated with SR141716A, a cannabinoid receptor 1 (CB1) receptor antagonist and then allowed to sleep for the next 4 h. Two other groups were killed, one immediately after the REM sleep deprivation period and the other after 2 h of REM sleep rebound (REM sleep deprivation plus 2 h of rebound). In both groups we determined the expression of the CB1 receptor and its mRNA. Results indicated that SR141716A prevents REM sleep rebound and REM sleep deprivation does not modify the expression of the CB1 protein or mRNA. However, REM sleep deprivation plus 2 h of sleep rebound increased the CB1 receptor protein and, slightly but significantly, decreased mRNA expression. These results suggest that endocannabinoids may be participating in the expression of REM sleep rebound.

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Hmmmm....

Congrats on the DILD! Question though, when you phase through walls, do you still just end up from room to room? Or does going through a wall transport you to entirely different places? I was just curious because I've gone through mirrors before, but never tried walls.

Thank you! :content: Yeah, when I phase through walls the environment doesn't change, it's just like an easy way to move around. :P I pretty much never use doors or stairs anymore, I just float straight through whatever walls are in my way. :rolleyes: I'd love if it actually did change the setting, though! I really need to give that mirror one a shot. :)

Watching really over-the-top fantasy anime a lot lately is reminding me how awesome it is to have a world where you can do absolutely anything you want, so I'm making this post in an attempt to force myself to remember to start logging my dreams again. :roll: So, I'm starting a to-do list.

First two steps to becoming omnipotent:

1. Master long-range telekinesis with nothing but thought (no cool poses or anything like that) to attain complete control of the three-dimensional space of the dream world.

2. Master summoning things directly in my line sight to attain the ability to directly modify my field of vision.

Annnnnd... GO!!

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no cool poses or anything like that

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But..but..but...

x)

Good luck on your goals :)

Oh I know, it's a habit that's extremely hard to break. :lol:

And thanks! :D

Edit: Oh, guess I should log this too....

DILD last night, I don't remember much other than walking through a hallway of what appeared to be cartoonish cat statues or toys or something all staring at me, and then I went swimming in this really cool resort area. There was some other girl in a black bikini there, but before I got to do much I started feeling like my balance was off and I grabbed the girl by the waist to catch myself, but things kept swaying. I think it was just the dream ending though because shortly thereafter I woke up.

Short and sweet, but a lucid nonetheless. :rolleyes:

Darn, I had a dream to log but I got distracted when I woke up and now it's gone forever. :damnit: I think I vaguely remember something about a game, a video game maybe... but it's all just a haze now.

Bad self, remember to write things down next time. :bslap:

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Thanks, paige. :hug: It wouldn't bother me so much if it weren't for the fact that I'm pretty sure it was really, really interesting lol. I remember flashes of something about superpowers.... *sigh*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXv3SSijPFc

Hehe, I've pulled that off a few times now, it's great fun. :D