Jim67
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Pre-Sleep:
Good Meditation again an hour before sleep. No TV.
In bed, incubation of first scene - then distilled to one 'frame' at concert with mantra.
Stressful report to write for work kept me awake composing draft plans for 4 hours - sleep about 2am.

Sleep:
2 fragment dreams followed by long Concert Dream coupled with river/water dream sign. Non-Lucid.
Summary: I am at the outdoor field concert of incubation but larger scale consisting of 5 stages with 100's of thousands of people. The 2 lower stages have been flooded by river (dreamsign) and two large tug boats with cables are needed to stabilize remaining 3 main stages of concert from being swept away. I suggest/realise we need to go "upstairs" to get 3 remaining stages away from the strong current of the river so tug boats can secure concert stages more easily.

Post-Sleep:
6am work start so very tired. Amazed at dream about concert incubation semi-successful but also realise that my subconscious has used dreamsigns of river/water and incongruity of "going upstairs" in a river in an attempt to make me realise I am dreaming. I still do not realise and attain lucidity. Almost like I am resisting realisation of dreaming despite best attempts by my own subconscious !!??

Self assessment:
I am achieving concert incubation although not achieving lucidity so sub-conscious bringing in dream signs in attempt to help my consciousness realise dream an LD. I still obviously lack energy/awareness to bring this to the fore and become lucid. Beginning to think I may be trying too hard and draining my energy that is obviously required to become lucid at concert task.

Non-Lucid - Large trucks coming along our windy mountain road laden with huge boulders. Each rock bigger than a car and stacked 4-5 high on back of truck. I comment to my son "Amazing how those trucks can get past the tree tops carrying those rocks"
Then in house as trucks deliver boulders outside. There is a specialist floor layer called "The Bone Crusher" who is giving us advice on a laquered floor consisting of thousands of small bones. My son and I think it looks cool - my wife thinks otherwise ...

Concert Task.
Pre-Sleep:
Visualising being at a concert - the crowd, the music etc. Mind wanders abit remembering bits of all the concerts I've been to over the years as I fall asleep.

Dream: Non-lucid.
My friends arrive to pick me up to go to the concert in a huge white 1950's Plymouth. The car is immaculate and very impressive. As I walk towards the the car across the gravel driveway to get in I say "Wow Ric (the driver) I feel presidential being picked up in this!" The friends in the back hang out the windows and say to hurry up, get in, we gotta get there.
I get into the back seat and the inside of the car takes on tardis proportions. I'm looking at the back seat as we speed along the road. Back seat is a red and blue velvet bench seat against an 8 foot white brick wall. I think "gee Ric's driving really fast" I consider turning around to see if we are OK on the road, but stop myself because I trust Ric's driving and am consciously trying to be less controlling.

Dream then changes to me in an apartment on the seafront getting ready to goto a concert (possibly just before friends arrive above but dream sequence is after above). I am getting all the things one needs for a concert - I find my lighter in the bottom of a tub of spiral pasta in the fridge. I think "ahh good found my lighter"

Post Sleep:
Quite happy about dreaming about going to concerts. Realise that dream incubation needs to be held more precisely on scene at concert and becoming lucid. But impressived and excited with potency of incubation effect in general terms.
Disappointing that gigantic scale of car + back seat and incongruity of finding my lighter in a tub of pasta were accepted as reality by my dream consciousness.

Used same mantra (will refine after next class obviously) but was exhausted from huge day at work so DR wasn't up to usual.

First dream was curiously devoid of any DC's and was about me arranging blue bottles of water with black dome lids in two lines in the sand. Although absorded in this strange task I was aware that there were no DC's anywhere around. Deserted beach scene and woke confused again.
Rest of nights dreams a bit hazey to recall - there were DCs though.

So just need to digest more and keep focused.

Night before MILD-1:
Went to sleep with drifting focus on mantra "Tonight in my dreams a DC will ask me if I am dreaming. I will RC and realise that I am."

Woke twice during the night after similar dreams of being in a group of DC's who were all milling around not knowing what to say or do. I woke feeling frustrated and confused.