Madeofparts return to Dream Lucidity

08.01.2012

Escape + Beached Gorrilla (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID
This is the first new entry in my dream journal since 2009. I am trying to get back into it. No lucids here but I know it is only a matter of time if I stick with it.

I live on a world that has been entirely taken over by fascists - typical arrogant long-black-coat wearing military types. Anyway there is a resistance movement but it is too dangerous to be organised - even talking in code is immediately noticed so we communicate using only eye contact, and then only when it is safe to do so.
So, I do this really dangerous sabotage on one of their bases, involves really risky sneaking about. I do it and get away but before I am clear they notice the sabotage and begin hunting for the culprit. I am running across country trying to cover as much ground as possible but I have been cut and am bleeding, and they are using dogs. I feel I will be caught even though I am using tricks like running along shallow rivers and stuff - I feel they are toying with me. There is a lot more to this dream, I get harboured by this big community - lots of kids running around, and I employ someone to fix up a shelter I have acquired, but it is just fragments.


I have a few other interesting dreams, but I cannot remember more than fragments, so I try WBTB, and have this dream...

A huge (almost king-kong size) gorilla had become beached (as in like a whale) after a fight with something - a shark maybe - anyway it had a bad injury to it's head, but it is concious and sitting up. I was sort of watching all this from a distance but there was a news reporter narrating details. Apparantly the gorilla's head injury is so bad there is a hole to it's brain and they are going to use a precision guided missile to cauterise it (the gorilla is too dangerous to get close to). I think, 'WTF?', and I go to the BBC website to see if this is for real (duh!) There is a big list of reasons why they have to close the hole in it's head before they can release it back to the wild - it might put something in and damage it's brain, or another gorilla might, or it might get infected, there was a big list of daft reasons but I can't remember.
Anyway, I watch this procedure and it works - they fire the missile from a helecopter and the hole gets sealed.
I think it is really cool how they did this.

12.07.2009

Weird Marina Dream (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I am by the sea, some kind of marina. A beautiful sunny day, blue sky and sea. Lots of people in the water, swimming, small boats, peddlos, and dingys and such like.
I am like a third persom flycam or something - I don't remember having a body and my perspective is panning and zooming over and in amongst it all.
There is this big afro guy with dreadlocks and a bright spandex type swimsuit. He is becoming the centre of everyones attention. He is wearing these skates that are like mini jet-skis, some new invention. He is skating on the water posing lots and impressing everybody, I think he must be making an advertisment for those new skates or something but I think he is actually being a bit dangerous and people are getting a bit pissed off with him after a bit of his antics....I wake up...

12.07.2009

American Cinema Trip (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I am in this cave/room like area with these three girls (early 20's) they are foriegn - American I think. There was more to this dream before but I can't remember.
Anyway, one of the girls is looking for a working shower (we are all a bit muddy, carry-over from previous dream maybe, feels similar in some ways)
I seem to remember seeing a working shower and go looking for it with her. We walk down some tunnels and find it and she is overjoyed and has a shower.
We are all going to the cinema - me, these three girls and some guy who I don't know but am really good friends with (he reminds me saying that we are friends from a previous dream, I say oh yeah I remember (I do)) he tells a story from when we were in this other dream where we were sharing a bottle of beer and I had an injured eye and pretended to drink the beer through my eye-socket - everyone thinks this story is hilarious. We are all walking to the cinema getting on great with our arms over each others shoulders talking and laughing.
We get to the cinema, it is huge. We find our seats and there is a lot of that settling down to watch a film stuff going on - it is like a party - lots of students and drinking and smoking. I leave my seat to go to the toilet and on the way down these wide stairs there are a lot of people in my way so I jump lightly over them (I normally notice this as a dreamsign but not on this occasion), I land just in front of this usherette pushing a trolly so I slide under it and walk to the toilet. All very athletic.... Dream memory fades...

12.07.2009

Third Person in Mudland (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Third-person dream. Picture a landscape that is mud-flats that are mostly dried out or just damp, and boulders, shallow valleys. No vegetation, clear light-blue sky.
Mel Gibson is there, asleep, curled up next to a large boulder, covered in a thin layer of dried mud but otherwise naked. Everything is covered in a thin layer of dried mud.
He has been asleep for years. He wakes up and is really thirsty and hungry. He starts running around looking for something, something he has hidden, muttering things like "I am sure I left it around here somewhere.." He looks for a long time getting ever more desperate, hoping that no other scavengers have found 'it', which is some kind of small stash of personal belongings including clothes, water, food, weapons... (it is a harsh world)
He has pretty much given up searching when he finds a small cave entrance in a mud-covered rock wall. He is hesitant to enter it as it is only just big enough to fit into and any such feature in such a landscape is bound to be used by someone or something. He crawls in anyway. Inside down a short narrow crack it widens into a square shaped not-very-muddy room cut into the rock, lit by a candle which he examines to see how long it has been burning - no way to tell but there is an hour or so left on it.
Leading off of the room are some steps that lead to a very narrow passage at the end of which is a small crack in the rock through which can be seen another room. In this other room are some traders/smugglers/slavers who can be heard talking but not seen.
Mel decides to ambush whoever is obviously soon going to be returning to this cave/room he has found.
At this point the dream goes first-person but it is still Mel Gibson...
I am waiting trying to stand perfectly still just inside the entrance, thinking that this is a crap ambush setup. I am naked with no weapons and only a small chance of surprising anyone. I hear someone coming and just before they appear I rush out roaring loudly to try to get surprise on them. 'They' are a small goblin-like creature dressed in furs and leather who is not at all bothered or surprised to find this large mud-covered naked man charging towards him roaring. He calmly draws a knife and would stab it deep into my stomach but I catch it - deeply cutting my thumb. He is very strong for his size and a battle for control over the knife is beginning when the goblin's companion enters the room/cave.
This new character is a large man also dressed in leather and furs with weapons. He takes in the situation with a glance that clearly says "this mud-covered man in our cave is a sleeper who has recently woken, he is tired, weak, thirsty and hungry after his long sleep. My goblin friend has cut him, this is inconveinient but he will still fetch a good price", his glance also clearly reveals that upon reflecting like this he comes to a decision.
He commands the goblin type to put away the knife and gives me a look that says - in a not particularly nasty way - that it would be stupid to try any funny stuff. I think, fair enough there will be better opportunities to escape and it seems these people want me in good shape so they will have to feed me and give me water.
The man hands me a small lizard the size and shape of a toy plastic dinosaur - which begins to lick the wound on my thumb which is bleeding. I somehow know that this is healing but also that it will keep me weak (some poison in it's saliva?) and that if I get a chance to recover properly I will have enormous strength. I resolve to take advantage of this later to get the better of them and make my escape...
There is more to this dream but my recall of it is bad and the fragments don't come together into a story... The dream fades and I wake up and try WBTB

11.07.2009

Lucid in the Country (EILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I had gone to sleep with Pheonlelai's Lucid_3.3.mp3 - (see this thread) on a five hour delay with earbuds in, it had started playing (it woke me up at first, I reduced the volume and went back to sleep) so I count this as an EILD...
...I am walking along a path in English countryside when suddenly I know I am dreaming. It is a beautiful sunny day. The first thing I do is say to myself "I am dreaming". I have a firm realisation of how important it is to stabilise and increase the lucidity.
I look around, taking in the scenery without focusing on anything in particular but just being present. I rub my hands together and roll my shoulders - getting a feel for the dream-body, all the time walking along. I am impressed by how detailed and realistic everything is. I make an effort to use this experience to remember that doing RC's by simply checking realism is a waste of time.
I walk some more, just enjoying the sensation of being in a dream and trying to discover just how lucid I can be. I feel the lucidity weakening so I begin to repeat to myself "I am lucid dreaming" and saying my name. I decide to actually do something with this dream now, so I decide to meet a particular person I know from IWL and I wonder how I am going to do this.
There is a grit box near the farm-track I am walking along and I open it with the expectation that they will be hiding inside waiting for me, however it is empty. I think that this is not really surprising (I mean, how realistic is that?) I feel lucidity weakening again so I walk some more appreciating the detail of the countryside, trees and clouds and stuff, and repeating "I am lucid dreaming, this is me enjoying a lucid dream" and so-on.
It is worth mentioning that around this point I begin to be in two dreams at the same time, the non-lucid dream is taking place in some kind of school or college. I think this may be the beginnings of some kind of dream transition - it sort of feels as if this other non-lucid dream has been going on anyway but without me being aware of it, I assert myself in the lucid dream and for a moment or two I can see into the other dream from my position in the lucid dream with extreme clarity, but then I let it go and it fades
I decide to continue my mission to meet this person. I remember reading on DV that someone drew a door in the air and walked through to somewhere else. I draw a rectangle in the air with my finger, which appears as if drawn on glass with a grey wax crayon. I think it is a bit too narrow to walk through but this is a dream and I will manage. I give the drawn-in-air rectangle a sturdy thump and it pings out of it's hole like a cut piece of glass (like that bit in the film Hancock where he cuts a hole in the visitors barrier in prison and flicks it out).
However, the new 'doorway' just leads through to the path ahead I can see anyway, as if a normal glass doorway had appeared in mid air rather than a portal to somewhere else where my friend is.
I think "I am going to have to do this differently", however I am starting to lose lucidity really quickly now. I can't stay in the dream and I wake up.

10.07.2009

Fixing Windows (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I am fixing a computer for this businessman type guy. He is a huge man, very powerful and self-assured. Looks a bit like the LE guy from the film Abre los ojos crossed with this other guy I know (big Steve).
Anyway I am at his house fixing his PC. It has a huge screen. I am thinking that there is nothing wrong with his PC, it is just that his Windows install has rotted and I am thinking "bloody typical" etc. Anyway, I fix it and go to tell him it is all fixed.
He is in his living room watching tv. He is wearing some kind of mask (a bit like the mask the guy at the end of Morrowind wears). He starts to lecture me on business - how to network, take advantages of opportunities & stuff. I think he is acting like a bit of a nutter the way he is speaking. I do a RC but I notice how realistic the mask he is wearing is and think "there is no way I am dreaming but this guy is definnitely not for real - [duh!]"
He starts to tell me about his collegue who set himself up as a PC repair man with some kind of stall in a mall or something - he is being very forceful. He starts to tell me about some other pc of his that keeps having problems with the regional settings and I am glad to get out of there and start fixing it for him. His son shows me where his other PC is....

10.07.2009

Town Night Adventure (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I am wandering around this strange yet familiar town. It is night. The town is like London or Bristol. Big Victorian town houses.
I have knocked on a friends door (Belinda) and we have gone out for a nightime walk. There is a sense of adventure - we are hiding from something or someone, a group of people? that is roaming/hunting the streets. We find a good place to rest up - looks as if it might be overlooked and is quite defensible - an alley with iron railings. Then I realise that my companion(s) have gone off somewhere else and I am alone. I think to look for them but I have no idea which way they went. There is no sense of fear, more of exitement....

Disturbed WILD (WILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Not sure if this is a WILD or DILD, but anyway I am classing it as a WILD because it arose from me attempting a WILD in conjunction with some binaurals using sbagen. Just the binaurals and pink noise - I have found that if I try to mix binaurals with waterfall or river or wave sounds I just dream about water, and the mixes with music and verbal suggestions just seem to nag me out of sleep. So I have begun experimenting..

Things got a bit hazy while entering the dream, I may have been properly asleep for a minute or two (hence it being a possible DILD) but anyway I am in a room with some people I know from IWL, there is some kind of party and we are expecting more people to turn up. It is getting dark very quickly, like someone is turning the brightness down. I think "it worked I am dreaming", and I know that I will have to stabilise the dream because it is getting really dark now the visual environment is nearly gone. I try to spin but this seems to speed up the waking process. I try to touch something in my dream and connect to the dream envronment but I become aware of my waking hand. I think - I am going to have to open my eyes and do a RC to check for FA - which I do using my watch. It seems I am awake, I try to DEILD, and it is going well, I am drifting through HI and I can feel that "dreamspace" around me, some dream begins to form around me which is some kind of wide open space, but then there is a loud noise which pulls me back to waking. I try to drift back to the dream space and am having some success but the noises continue (someone outside). It is very distracting and frustrating. I decide to wake properly and do WBTB.

Two Adventure Dreams

Road Trip and Back Problems (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I am at home (different home to In Waking Life) packing for a road trip. John drives round and picks me up. We load the car.
We are on our way. I don't notice at the time but even though it is a standard family hatchback there are at least five of us in there and there is somehow room to stand up and move around a bit.
There is myself and John (he is driving) and two or three girls (early 20's). John is concerned that he won't be able to drive anymore because he has hurt his back - a slipped disk or something. He takes his shirt off so I can try to manipulate it back into place. The girls take thier tops off too, which pleasantly surprises me.
Somebody notices the weather has changed and it is going to rain so we decide to go back to pack some rain-weather stuff. I am thinking that I left my umberella behind and I need to pick it up...

This dream has a similar feel to a dream I had last month, that for some reason I didn't post.... Here it is.


Weird Boat Adventure (Non-lucid)


I am buying fruit in an asian shop, there isn't much there worth buying it is all a bit rotten. I am buying it to help my friend (who looks a bit like PJ - an old friend I haven't seen for at least 20 years) he is weak from helping me from a long adventure and needs to eat some fruit.
The old asian shop lady is behaving strangely, she won't sell me the last pears, even though they are barely sellable anyway she seems to want to keep them.
In the adventure with 'PJ' at one point we were on a boat in a river (I think we had escaped from somewhere) It was a small speed boat sized boat that appeared to be made of brushed steel - very heavy. It was sinking but the river was turning into a path (small bricks like a driveway or pedestrianised road) We were then out of the boat exploring opposite sides of the river, which is like swamp/jungle/everglades. He finds something and throws it to me saying 'check this out' it is a clay snakes head that looks a bit like a stylised dragon head. he asks me if (on this planet) this is as big as they get. It was pretty normal sized for a snakes head so I say 'yeah', thinking that where he comes from they are probably much bigger, like dragons. Actually he reminds me of Kefl - another friend of mine with dreadlocks, or Cyote from the Red Mars books by KSR.

Musical Key Finding (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I am in a room where there are a number of people listening to a 12ish year old girl playing a piano (I think this dream follows on from a previous piano dream). She is playing this really good little tune she has made up. Some of the other people there encourage her to submit it for something (a competition I think).
I help her by figuring out which key it is in (Dm) and we work together on this for a while.
A missed dreamsign here is that when I am trying to figure out the key it is very hard to do so. For some reason it is very hard to concentrate on the keys and see which ones are which. It takes a titanic effort to finally identify the D key and then work out that she is playing a minor scale from that, but when I figure it out all of a sudden the keyboard appears really clearly.

Pianos (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I am in this room with lots of different pianos and keyboards. I get the feeling I have been invited to try them out. I play something classical on one of them. I try another and it sounds a bit like a honkey-tonk harpsichord (wtf? Nice sound though), it seems just right for some ragtime or boogie-woogie so I play some of that...
I am a much better player in my dream than In Waking Life. I start to pay more attention to which keys I am playing to see if it corresponds to how it would be IWL. I am playing quite fast and i am surprised that even though this is a dream it is so technically accurate. I am in no way lucid though.

Singed Eyebrows (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I am sitting in a large room - like the reception room of a mansion. People begin entering the room , putting on coats and leaving the building, saying goodbyes and see you laters and stuff.
People are leaving because it is the end of a Dharma study group but all different people to In Waking Life (I don't notice this at the time) I do notice that the teacher is new - A large man. He comes in and I ask him how it went, I also remark on how lucky he is to be teaching such a bunch of sincere practitioners. He is not really paying any attention to me.
Alex, A friend IWL enters the room and is about to leave. He is looking for a pen and I offer him mine, but it appears he has this really nice pen and lighter set. Looks like gold.
He notices me admiring it and begins to demonstrate the lighter to me. It is one of those wind-proof turbo lighters with a flame like a rocket engine. This one seems to get more elaborate the more I examine it. I give it a try and singe my eyebrows and hair.

Band Practice (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I am walking up some stairs in a house. It is not decorated and there is no carpet so my footsteps are very noisy on the wooden stairs.
I have a small drum im my hands. I enter a room and there is my girlfriend with the guitarist of a local band we sometimes help out with In Waking Life. I get the feeling there is supposed to be a practice but there is no-one else there. I do not play in this band IWL and I don't feel as if I do in the dream, anyway he starts to play the guitar and I think that seeing as I have this drum I may as well join in and try to complement his playing. It is all improvised and is sounding good.
I notice out of the window (which is quite high up) that it looks as if the local football (soccer) stadium is on fire. I say something like "hey the stadium's on fire" and we stop playing. We all look out of the window and it now looks like there is just some pyrotechnics display there and it is not on fire at all.

Forgotten Joke (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I am in this huge waiting room - Like at a large airport but quite sparse. I am sitting on those waiting room type chairs in a row.
There is a young girl (15 or so) sitting next to me. She strikes me as being homeless or traveling. She is very unhappy so I tell her this really funny joke which we laugh at together quite a lot. Many people in the huge room seem to notice this and appreciate it. I think that I really must remember this joke when I wake up (I am not lucid) a short while later I do wake up.

Covert Op Weirdness (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I am walking around in a town or city (picture UK city, not US) with an empty attache case hidden in my coat like it contains something. A guy is following me - I am on my way somewhere and I walk down a quiet area behind some buildings. The guy confronts me and demands the case and pulls it from me. I run off, looking back I can see him opening it and discovering he has been tricked.
I get to a friend's house (John C) As he lets me in I talk normally to him but I write on a piece of tissue paper that I think I am bugged. He doesn't get what I mean, thinking I have an illness type bug or something.
I am worried he will say something we don't want picked up on the bug. I am not sure I am bugged but I can't take the risk that the guy earlier didn't slip some kind of bug on me.
I write on another piece of tissue paper 'I am bugged - you know wired' or something. I think he gets it as he starts to talk joining in my innocent sounding BS for the sake of any secret listeners.
I notice there is lots of snot that has been coming out of my nose and I think that is what you get for thinking about bugs in a dream - but I am not lucid. I wake up.
It is a strange dream, John and myself are conspirators and yet we are not - kind of making it up as we go along like a game.
This is near the end of my last REM of the night and I feel a lot happened in this dream previously and it was linked to previous dreams but I only remember fragments. I have not been getting much sleep lately and I think it is affecting my recall and I feel too tired in dreams to put effort in to lucidity. May try WILDing more.