non-lucid

IMPORTANT DATES
08/31/11 -- Started my Dream Journal!

CURRENT GOALS:
[/] Find a lucid-inducing technique that works for me (Attempting to try MILDing)
[ ] Attain Lucidity


11th Entry:
Date: 09/12/11 (for 9/10/11 and 9/12/11)
Sleep Times: 11:46-6:00, 6:00-7:00, 7:00-7:30, 7:30-8:00. 8:00-8:12

Per usual lately, my dreams have been getting a little dusty. I think I'm hiting some sort od dry spell... I'm going to however remain optimistic!

Last night, In recall the vision of painted faces. I remember my face being painted I believe like one of the skeleton people symbolic of El Dia de los Muertos (The Day of the Dead). I remember further my dream being sort of inspired by the music of one of my favorite bands, Ludo, from their album Prepare the Preparations (namely the song "Skeletons on Parade"). And quite possibly, their song "The Horror of Our Love" from their album, You're Awful, I Love You. I was supposed to be prepared to fight against something which I don't recall...I remember seeing the faces of my friends, and they were evidently captured by it or were supposed to help me.... I don't exactly remember how, but they WERE there and had mud on them at one point... As I said, my recall has been a little funked up this days....I think maybe because when I stayed the night at my friends, I threw my schedule/routine out of whack. However, I am definately getting it back on track now!

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IMPORTANT DATES
08/31/11 -- Started my Dream Journal!

CURRENT GOALS:
[/] Find a lucid-inducing technique that works for me (Attempting to try MILDing)
[ ] Attain Lucidity


10th Entry:
Date: 09/12/11 (for 9/10/11 and 9/12/11)
Sleep Times: UNKNOWN

9/10/11...

On this night, my dream wasn't very extensive. I only remember a single fragment- I remember 'waking up' and looking at the palm of my hand, waking up on an intensely sunny white-sand beach. This should've triggered an RC, but my hand honestly looked normal! I remember getting up, and I think seeing some sort of ship wreck. I remember as well walking around the beach looking for something....But these are all the details I have.

9/12/11....

Last night, I had one of those more mundane dreams that are actually fairly close to normal. I was in my friend Kevin's house (or I identified it as such, anyway) which happened to be a large manor made completely of glass! I remember some fo the staircases and modern-style furniture around the house....And I remember the entertainment center. I think this came about from a subconcious memory- but we were using excercise machines and watching television at the same time! (Similarly, my psych teacher spoke of how he plays his Wii while running on the treadmill for good excercise.) At one point, I think we played video games as well! I remember waking up, going to the bathroom, and then going back to sleep and returning to the dream. (Too tired to do anything to trigger lucidity at the time....When the bladder calls, she calls!) I remember 'coming back over' and bringing with me my friend Tori, his ex-girlfriend to play video games with me there. However, soon enough, while we were engaged in one of the games, Kevin came home and in the room. ori covered her face, began to profusely apologize, and dropped the game-case on his couch before promptly leaving. Kevin seemed to make no response, merely looking at me before I woke up to the sound of a ringing phone. It just so happened, I awoke to a text message from the real Kevin!

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IMPORTANT DATES
08/31/11 -- Started my Dream Journal!

CURRENT GOALS:
[ ] Find a lucid-inducing technique that works for me
[ ] Attain Lucidity


9th Entry:
Date: 09/09/11
Sleep Times: UNKNOWN

I've been so busy today I wasn't able to right in my dream journal until about now. My drea last night was quite odd...and again, I haven't the time to go into detail about it. In jist, I dreamt I was at a party with some friends. We were havig fun and games until someone invited a clown. Now I myself am not afraid of clowns, but my friend Taylor is. She spent most of the party freaking out about the clown. Now this was one of those dreams that was obviously influenced by the events of the day...as we had begun watching a B-Horror movie called Klown Kamp Massacre after the kids were in bed. However, they took their own twist. The clown opened some sot of door he conjured, and right when I told Taylor there was nothing to be afraid of- suddenly, a legion of clown zombies came through the door! I went into a sort of Scott Pilgrim mode ( a la his fight with Gideon) and began to fight the clowns. However, was bitten and began to turn into one! I stared at my hands in horror as they mutated... However, by slaying their leader I had effectively stopped the curse half-way and by drinking what I think was some sort of magical pop from my friend Taylor, I turned back to normal and awoke.

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IMPORTANT DATES
08/31/11 -- Started my Dream Journal!

CURRENT GOALS:
[ ] Find a lucid-inducing technique that works for me
[ ] Attain Lucidity


8th Entry:
Date: 09/08/11
Sleep Times: 11:00-UNKNOWN...6:00-6:30.

So, as I have to be in bed soon again XD I can't take too long with this post. Essnetially, I dreamed that I was going to babysit with my friend Taylor, as we do every Thursday night. But this time...it was in a large haunted manor. We went searching in this spooky place and searched for the children, creeping around with flashlights and searching regardless of fear. Needless to say, we found ghost children and had to set them free, but I don't remember how. In the end, we saved them from their evil last babysitter and all was well. I may detail this more in the comments tomorrow.

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IMPORTANT DATES
08/31/11 -- Started my Dream Journal!

CURRENT GOALS:
[ ] Find a lucid-inducing technique that works for me
[ ] Attain Lucidity


7th Entry:
Date: 09/07/11
Sleep Times: 11:00-UNKNOWN...6:00-6:30.
Lucid Technique: WBTB
Recall Technique: Subliminal Messaging / WBTB
Attain Ludcidity?: Possibly???

I'm not sure if the only drean U cab recall is really a dream at all....I was doing a small excercise I call 'Setting the Scene' where I pick a random 'cast' and let the scenario into play. Usually lately, my dreams have taken the form of my worries and inner-struggles both spiritually and in the waking, physical world. Tonight, this was no exception.
Though the night prior I dreamed of the perfect(ly odd) ending to the story that is a fight between friends, in the waking world we are still on the long road to love....But I'm nor here for therapy. I am here to journal down my dreams. This time, the cast taht decided to show to the party besides myself was my friend Colton who, previous to this stupid quarrel, used to protect me in every single one of my dreams! However, behind me and waiitng was Twisted!Colton, who seems to do the opposite of his original copy and want nothing more than to tear my mental sanity apart. Some close friends and I theorize it could be a manifestation in my subconcious of hurt feelings between the two of us from the last life and possibly this one. I implored with Colton to forgive me, that I truly was sorry and just didn't care about whether or not he and my beau ever got along- that I cared about getting back the only family I had ever truly known. However, he proceeded to tell me that our 'family' and 'friendship' wasn't worth any sort of dramatics or the effort. I tried telling him I never had started this drama, that he was lied to- I never said a bad word about my one and only brother...And that I spent my entire summer on this effort, so it was worth it to me if he would atleast see me to the other side of it. However, unlike yesterday's happy ending, this one ended badly....He merely said goodbye and walked away from me. I began to scream and try to give chase to my best friend, however this didn't result well. Instead, Twisted!Colton pulled me back against him and whispered in my ear, "You're mine, now....We can be together forever, Autumn...." (Autumn being my name from my previous life.) At this point, he held fast, practically dug his fingers into my skin, and pulled me into a coffin behind him with him while I scream after the real Colton to save me again like before.
But this time, he didn't come...
I fell into black sleep after this point.

IMPORTANT DATES:
08/31/11 -- Started my Dream Journal!

CURRENT GOALS:
[ ] Find a lucid-inducing technique that works for me
[ ] Attain Lucidity


6th Entry:
Date: 09/06/11
Sleep Times: 11:00-3:00, 3:00-6:00, 6:00-9:00
Lucid Technique: MILD WBTB
Recall Technique: MILD WBTB
Attain Ludcidity?: No

Another night of a stuffy head...Apparently at one point, a window was open while I was sleeping the other day and it is wreaking havoc on my nasal passages....Just when I got over the last stuffy nose, my father had to dish me out a new one.... HOWEVER, this time it DID NOT effect my recall.
I had a dream I went over to a cottage like home. I knocked on the window and my friends mom came out. She asked what I wanted and I told her I was there to face my demon- I was there to talk to Colton. So she went to get him, and his brother Tyler (also a friend of mine) came outside. We greeted each other and he figured out why I was there. He said to me, "You know, Colton is going to do everything in his power to stay away from you. He's still hurt."
I told him I knew now that I had hurt his brother and how badly, and that I was so sorry for it...I wanted to make up and make it up to him.
Colton came outside, and he saw it was me. I went to approach him and say I was sorry, but he merely stared. I tried speaking with him, but he would cover his ears. At one point, he spontaneously turned into a pair of coins that fell to the ground. I began crying. For some reason, Tyler hid away. I looked around to see a pony with a dark red coat and a white star on its forehead emerge from around the corner for no evident reason. It ran towards me and twisted around me. I merely petted it. Tyler freaked out about it, and I was slightly scared as it seemed so sparatic and wild, but I merely yelled to it to go home. It complied and ran back into the yard next door, and I joined Tyler in hiding in a small area next to him. He began to ask me how I did that, and I told him I had watched the horses for my friend Ashley before (true fact) and so I had a small experiance with them. I went on about how it didn't matter though... I still failed at the one thing I came to accomplish. I began to tear up again and talk about how much I missed Colton, and how terrible I felt and the whole sha-bang. It grew quieter as I began to sob and Tyler suddenly says to me, "He heard you. Look outside."
Outside of my hidey-hole was an orange octopus, apparently Colton in a random form. He asked me if I meant what I'd said and asked if I promised this would never happen again. I told him I never wantd this sort of thing to happen and I never wanted him hurt. That I was glad we got past the lies (turns out the reason we have been fighting this entire time because some of our 'friends' had been lieing to us all summer....) and could finally be together again. I hugged the small Coltopus, teary-eyed and smiling. He asked if I wanted a simple kiss or something I can't recall, and I gave him a big kiss on his Octopus cheek. He turned into a person again, helped me up, and we hugged.

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