Duncan
See beyond the surface

11-1-2012

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I am with a collection of friends at my old house. Jane, Graeme and Ben are there. We have a lot of alchohol, pills and weed (I decided last year to stay clean away from anything other then alchohol so this situation is annoying) in the dream I smoke some weed and get pretty drunk too. Everyone is sitting around in a circle and we are all pretty wasted. The dreamscape changes and we are now high up on a wooden platform at someone elses house, the circle of people remains unchanged though. I sort of get a feeling that things arent normal but it doesnt come to anything. My grandma calls me and says she is on her way to pick me up, I freak out because I am wasted but manage to pull myself together before she arrives, suddenly I am sober as a judge. becoming sober seems to unleash a new clarity in my mind and my awareness is switched on. I realise that my location is unfamiliar and that my Nana should be in another city. I become lucid. without doing a R/C I begin to follow Nana, curious to where she was going to take me, strangely she meets up with a friend though and leaves me once we have just crossed the road. I decide to head back towards my friends but when I turn around the house has disappeared and they are all out on the street. I invite Jane to come flying with me but she just laughs so I set off on my own. I often get frustrated when I fly because I seem to always have a kind of "energy level" that depletes the longer I stay in the air. I can never get my speed up enough for totally unrestriced free flying. This time is a little better. I manage to position myself head first, arms by my side and pointed towards the moon (which is HUGE). I fly low over a park and the branches of a tree brush over my face and body but its not painful and just grounds me to the dream some more. the feeling of flight is totally amazing as usual, the scenery below just blows my mind, although it is only my hometown as I know it. I pass over some back yards and see a childhood friend of mine playing on one of those skydiver training things which have the huge fans below them to simulate freefall. I laugh to myself because he is struggling so hard and I am just cruising by. Amazed, he yells out "LOOK, ITS DUNCAN, HES FLYING!". Now I am really high up. I feel determained to get as close to the moon as possible. the ground shrinks below me and I must be at least 200m up in the sky when, as usual, my 'flying energy' starts to run out. annoyed I start to float back towards the ground, kind of picking up speed right toward the end. As I come into the ground I am going hot and heavy, so throw my feet out infront of me and prepare for a massive slide along the ground. I hit the ground sliding and realise that there are millions of icecubes everywhere, making my landing a little more manageable. I eventually slam into the side of a garage door and come to a stop. This is the last thing I remeber before waking

10-1-12 Comments dream lucid names edited for privacy

Rhino Runs

I am at a restaurant which I do not recognise, there are many four-seat tables and white tablecloths with golden trim. Im having a dinner with my Mum, Dad and sister (missed a dreamsign - my parents are split up now) but cannot remember any of the conversation until we step outside.
Once we are outside I tell my dad that I'm not going to play hockey this year and he gets really upset (he wouldnt really do this, I think it may be because we have previously spent a lot of time together doing hockey things and he might see it as losing something we have to share)
I can't handle dad being so upset so I walk away with Mum while dad keeps talking to my sister. We walk around a long curving highway which is next to the sea and up quite high on a hillside. Eventually we come to a long gravel driveway which has a farm fence running along one side and a hiking track on the other. On the side of the farm fence there seems to be a river off in the distance (The dreamscape changed a little since we were next to the sea but the location doesnt feel any different).
Mum and I walk about 500m up the driveway and stop at a little grassy bank which is at the beginning of the hiking track, while we are stopped I look out towards the river and HOLY CRAP there are two black rhinos grazing in the field! Of course when I look at the rhinos they both look up at me and start charging, full pace, dust and dirt flying up behind them and clearly not about to stop for anyone. At this point I am seriously concerned and look around for Mum to see if she has seen them too but she has disappeared.
I turn back to face the rhinos, I feel like running is the worst possible idea so I just stand and stare at them until they are upon me. One comes straight on and the other a little from my left, anticipating both of their actions I jump far to the right and avoid both of them. as they hurtle past I make a run and manage to squeeze through a fence to safety. I slowly make my way back up the road (it is now the main street of my town) and find myself at my nanas house (its not actually in the city which I live - I missed SO many chances to become lucid in this dream) Once I am at Nanas, all my cousins are there and Paul is showing me some of his sketches, they are extremely detailed sketches of eyes, only one of them is in colour. I realise he is really drunk and then also notice my uncle is drunk too. after this the dream fades and I dont recall any more

Fragment

I recall something about a harry potter type scene, like being at hogwarts. strangely I dont remember any people being around though, I just had the "feeling" of the wizarding world.

Lama

After recently watching the film "the way back" I have a clear memory of the end part of the film where they meet monks in Tibet, probably the cause of this dream.
I am walking along a great wall of stone, high in the mountains. I am alone yet not scared or frightened at all, I can also feel the fresh air and see mist forming around me. After walking for a while I come to a wide section of the wall which spans out into a courtyard, lining the edges of the courtyard are doors which seem to lead into other sections of the path and other rooms. Some people begin to enter the courtyard and I recognise them as the people I work with at my bar on the weekends, they are all dressed in orange monks robes and remain silent. my manager seems to be a Lama type person and invites me to join him in meditation, I sit with him and close my eyes, the dream fades but not before I feel a great sense of peace. after this I wake up and try to re-enter the dream in a DEILD but dont remember anything of it after properly waking up.

1/9/12

Brussels Sprout

I enter the dream sitting behind a computer, reading a thread of conversation on facebook between my unicyclist friends, we are discussing a possible trip away. When I read the text I can hear their voices inside my head, as though it is real conversation. We eventually decide upon brussles as our destination (I had just done a sketch of a brussle sprout flying though space before I went to bed). I can hear James talking about how Brussles would be a good place to go and that the only brussle sprout that he knew (thats what he called people from brussles) was a good person - he said that when he was young his father left the family and one of his friends dads was from brussles took over as his father figure and would do impressions of his dad. His mum kind of went off the rails and he remembers at one dinner when she came downstairs wearing nothing but her underware after being with another man.
At this point the dreamscape has changed and I am in a dark room listening to James speak (he is actualy present now). While he is talking I get a vision of a racing game in my mind. The cars are little sprint cars with advertising on the front which reads "Michellen.. Maybe." I joke that the 'maybe' is there incase they lose and would say that they werent Michellen afterall. It seems that the game is in my mind but James can see it too. We spend a bit of time racing on a large track in a pine forest. I am doing well right until the final corner when I take it too fast and swing really wide. All the other cars pass me and head down the final straight. Somehow I manage to accellerate fast enough to catch up and just pass them in time to win the race.
We continue to race for a while more - James is just watching now and and my sister and Dad have showed up.
Somewhere I get the idea to use the controller as a skateboard and direct the car by leaning on it as you would steer a skateboard - this makes me go EXTREMELY fast, I can feel the speed of the car as though I am inside it, it feels as though I am going over 300kmh.
I lap all the cars and am going to win easily... Until the final straight... again.
This time I bump between some roadcones and start to spin out of controll, I thin catch my front typre on something and get flipped over, doing at least 6 or 7 spins in mid-air before coming to a stop. All the cars pass me and this time i come dead last.
After returning my focus to the room I ask dad how fast I was going - he mumbles something unintelligible and then my alarm wakes me up.