Thread: Presenting Dario Cannata

Hello dear dreamers,

A few months ago a friend told me about this thing that he called awake dreaming. He explained how it worked but I simply couldn't understand it...
However the idea didn't leave my mind and today I found this forum. I have always been fascinated by the power of dreams. I have never had a lucid dream, a state of paralysis sleep or anything close to this things.

About my dreaming life...

When I was very little I had the same dream over and over. I was on top of an exterior garage on my Italian grandmother's house. I was inside the bed where I used to sleep at that time, and the bed was on top of the garage. The bed would move to the side towards the edge of the garage and fall until I would wake up. This was a scary dream in the begging but as I got used to the dream I would enjoy the feeling of free falling. This dream got lost as I grew older.

I flew on several dreams. Usually, the day after flying on a dream, I have this constant desire for the same feelings. My flights are always slow, clumsy at start but very fluid and easy after a while. It's more of a controllable levitation rather then a flight that implies some flapping wings.


About my real life...

My name is Dário Cannatà 21 years old. Born in Italy, raised in Portugal, Porto (that's my city) and currently studying at Rotterdam, Holland, as an exchange student (this means then only a part of my studies are done here). I'm studying graphic design. I consider myself as a very creative person. I am very curious to see how far can I go on my dreams. I have a link on my profile for the portfolio I did when I applied for the exchange program.
I am a Romantic. I like Nature, Love and Art.

I joined this Forum because I believe that creating a method will help my dreaming skills. I am talking about the Dream Journal, the Reality Checks and the techniques used. I am also interested on joining the Academy or find a personal tutor.

Lately I have no recollection of my dreams. My sleep clock is very disturbed and lacks rhythm. I feel that this is influencing my ability to remember my dreams. My aim here is to explore my dreams with the help provided by this wonderful forum. Maybe later I can do my contribution.

I have read most part of the tutorials and some dream journals. I will start today with training. I have chosen my "mantra": "This is a dream!"....but in Portuguese.
I have also decide some regular reality checks.
As soon as I have any dream, lucid or not, that I can remember, I shall start a journal. I will start by writing it on the computer. And then on the forum.

As a graphic designer I am very curious on how we can visualize our dream occurrences on our awake rational life. For example, a graph showing the altitudes of each flight on different dreams, the color patterns of our dreams, how symbols and typography works on dreams, etc. If I am able to develop this things I think Dream Views is the best and first place to publish them.

Sweet dreams ,
Dario