Thread: A noobie introduction and a question

Hi everyone!

I'm Matt and I'm a Computer Science major from Upstate New York. I've known about lucid dreams for quite some time, but I never really got into the idea of trying to have my own (ones that I could remember at least) until I saw the movie Waking Life.

The idea of lucid dreams always fascinated me, but I never really did too much reserch on the subject because I thought it wouldn't be possible due the the fact that I have horrible dream recall (I could usually remember one dream a week, if even that!). But I've been trying to remember my dreams lately, and even just doing that (without a dream journal) has been working extremely well. After only about 2 weeks I can recall one, sometimes two dreams a night.

At first I avoided the idea of a dream journal, and I don't really know why. I just started one two nights ago, and it's amazing how much progress that allowed me to have in just those two nights.... my first entry was only about 1/4 of a page long and not very detailed, but my second entry is about a page and a half long and almost excruciatingly detailed.

My latest entry is where my question comes in. In the last dream I had (I'll skip all the details), I was more or less an undercover cop racing around in a motorcycle, driving extremely dangerously, swerving in and out of traffic, racing down the wrong lane to pass cars too slow (which felt really freeing and just amazing), and after a while of this I wound up crashing very fast into a red rusty chevy pickup truck stopped at a light (which suprisingly, wasn't frightening at all). Now here's where some confusion comes in... I have two distinct memories of what happens next in my dream, in the first one I am in a hospital, and all I really remember is that there was a picture of my family next to me, but in the other memory, I am sitting in some room looking at a schedule for a Geman class (my minor in college). Both these memories of what happens next are extremely fuzzy in my head.... and they seem to be unrelated (one dosen't fit)... so my question is this, is it possible to have something like "dream splicing?"... is it possible to have two different dreams overlap each other somehow, and get confused in the brain as to which is which? Or are these dreams a linear thing and I just don't remember how I got into that room looking at the German schedule, and my brain got confused as to where in this dream it occured.

I don't know if this question is really important to helping me attain lucidity, but I'm the curious type. Thanks!