Well I suppose I should give some background on this night... it was wild as hell. This is the second time I've had a night of crazy dreams and a lucid after taking a nap during the day. I don't think it's a stretch to say that they're related. The theme of tonight was deja vu and repetition, getting stuck in a loop that would change a bit each time until it concluded.

For those who have read my other post, my latest theory is that I might be able to get a DC to come tell me I'm dreaming if I direct him to when I become lucid. The first time I tried this was a few nights ago, when I told a DC named Chris to come tell me that I'm dreaming if I don't realize. Since then, Chris hasn't come through, so I said next time I went lucid I would ask for an explanation. Well, tonight I got my chance... and, unlike Chris, this time I asked a recurrent dream character to assist me in the future. We'll see if that makes a difference. So, without further adieu, I present my 2 most interesting dreams from last night:


First, a non lucid with a crazy repetitous cycle:

"Weird Loop"

0/5, 3/5

Crazy stuff... I can't remember the exact order of things (i have to stop waiting so long after waking up to write in the journal). There were two loops happening in this dream; I seemed to be caught in this weird repetition that would repeat a little diffently each time. The first loop was life guarding at a pool, only to have some kids mouth off and, after I yelled at them, one would leave and return with a bulldozer that would crash through a fence and drive away. Each time, however, the bulldozer would be alittle different and it would be a different kid behind the wheel.

The other Loop was getting a ride from an indian guy who kept trying to impress me with his driving. Every time we would come to an uphill in a foresty area behind a crappy compact car, and he would try to beat him around the stop sign. Then at another intersection there would be a porsche who would be wanting to pull out but he would gun it so he couldn't go. Here's how the loop changed: The first couple of times we were in a Jeep wrangler, then in a saturn. Sometimes he would pass the compact car right at the stop sign, other times he would wait until the compact went. Sometimes the porsche would jump out ahead to his frustration, other times he would be able to beat it. The last time he told me he needed leaves for better traction and interuppted the loop by getting leaves on his tires. We made it to our destination and I found myself laying down on a very dirty carpet that had a disgusting wet spunge on it.


And here is the other. I should let you know that this was a WBTB... I got up to pee at about 9:30 and went back to sleep until 11. This occured in between.



"Another Dose of Deja Vu and Lucidity"

4/5, 3/5

Like the other dream, I had a funky repetition. Basically I dreamt WITHIN the dream that my mom had an accident and was lying on the side of the road and that I would move her, causing her permenant damage. Then I dreamt that I just kept her still and she fully recovered. So, of course, it actually happened, and I told her to keep completely still as I went to call 911. I searched everywhere for a phone, finally finding one in this diner that was across the street (btw I didn't recognize my surroundings). I took the phone with me, only to find that, by the time I got through, the ambulances had already come and taken my mom.

So here comes the realization--this is very interesting imo.

So later on, my mom, me, my brother, and my dad (who has passed away in real life but is in the majority of my dreams) were sitting around talking about the accident. I decided to tell them about the dream premonition, and I said "interestingly enough, it's actually you who is in my dreams all the time," talking to my Dad. The minute those words left my mouth, I realized that, by that admition, this had to be a dream. Like my lucid a few days ago, I was calm and collected and took my oppurtunity to further implement my theory of getting a DC to remind me.

I turned toward my Dad and I asked him why "Chris" had failed over the last few days to tell me I was dreaming. He told me that, and I'm sorry for this, "he had a stack of eggo waffles coming out of his ass a mile long." I disgregarded this comment and asked him if he would please tell me next time I saw him that I was lucid. Unlike Chris, he told me that he would definetely do it. We'll see if he comes though! The dream soon faded after that.