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    The Persistence of Dreams

    Just to start off. I'm a fairly 'new' LDer. I say that loosely, as for the past few months I have began my journey into inducing lucid dreams on a (hopefully) daily basis. I have however, not followed a lot of the techniques into forming habits of becoming aware in the dream.

    I have only achieved lucidity once and only once. I have had many times where while dreaming I have the thought/sensation of "This is definitely a dream..." but just like you're watching a movie, I ended up taking a backseat and watched my dream like you would a movie at a theater. As this is my only experience with LDing, I will describe the fragment. As it is only a fragment because it lasted only a few seconds:
    I was climbing down some sort of ladder in space. As I was climbing down, I had looked down at the earth and around my surroundings and said "This is definitely not possible, and I am definitely dreaming." As soon as I uttered that, I fell off the ladder with space and my surroundings shattering like glass. Then I woke up.

    The following will be updated as I go along in my journey

    Goals: (Key = [-] means ongoing, [] means easily obtainable)
    to obtain lucidity within my dream []
    to be able to control my dreams []
    to be able to understand my dreams at a deeper understanding [-]
    to help my own artistic progress and path. To be able to learn new styles within my dream and transfer the knowledge/skills to waking life []
    To be able to paint my dreams and moments. The best way to record.. []
    To figure out who the mystery woman in my dreams []
    To figure out my dream guide, and just dream people related to me []
    To discover my 'inner' self, being, person. To figure out who I am in my subconscious mind as compared to my conscious, waking mind. [-]
    To ultimately, have fun! [-]

    People who I've come in contact with in the dreamscape who I have not seen in waking life/do not know:
    [i]Mystery woman... I know what she looks like, though I'm not sure I want to set in stone all of her features until I've met her more in my dreams. She has medium length brunette hair. Though, it's not dark like mine, but it's not a light brown either. It's very vibrant. It's actually like the perfect middle ground to light brown, and my dark brown hair..She has big, dark eyes. Not brown or hazel though. Almost like the color of the tea I usually drink.. It's a dark reddish brown, but with some light hues. Definitely not hazel, or at least what I define as hazel.. I have also had a very brief dream where we had two kids, and I appeared to be around my 30s (Maybe...).



    Places I've been:
    The tattoo shop: It was the old location only. I have not in my dream world, visited the new location of the shop.
    Houses I have never seen/been too. Not much explanation here...
    Space
    Courthouse/Jail. Only way to really describe it. I was in this place with L.
    My backyard

    Triggers to make note of:
    My sleeve (tattoo) on my right arm is (of course) blurry when I look down at it. As a note to myself, I need to remember to remember this key aspect, as it could trigger lucidity.
    This sums it up really. I will be editing/adding to this frequently.

    1. Involution

      by , 07-09-2012 at 05:26 AM (The Persistence of Dreams)
      Date: 07/08/2012

      I found myself driving out toward a school. I had gone into English class, and the teacher had excused me, for some reason, so I had left. I had headed down to the mall, as I was killing time to go to work. As the time flew by, I found myself driving to work and when I had arrived, it was apparently my first day on the job. As it was slow (it seemed to be late fall), they gave me an easy time and the manager decided to hold some type of competition/race. Basically, we had to run from one end of the restaurant to the other, dodging people, to obtain this raw fish (for us to cook ourselves... weird) and a can of coke. We had to do three laps, and it was between me, and this other guy. As we raced, I found myself dodging through customers very easily, in a slow motion type of effect. As I lapped for the third time, I had won the race and the fish. By the time that was done, it was time to clock out and head off for the night. So I had grabbed the fish, and headed to the bathroom because the fish smelled sort of bad, as it had been sitting in the sun while we were doing the race. I threw it in the trash, and this guy I used to work with at one of my old jobs (UB) had appeared. He had said something, and I had said something back, but I don't really remember. I had washed my hands after trashing the fish, and as I left I headed to my car. (I had also glanced at my arm and my tattoo was again, faded/missing. I wish I could make this into a dream sign so I would go lucid -___-) I was searching for my keys, when I realized I did not have my wallet on me, so I had been driving without a license. These three girls were leaving also, and saw my expression on my face I suppose and had commented that it looked like I lost something. I explained it to them, and they offered my a ride home and that I could just pick up my car the next day from work when I had my license. When we arrived, they got out of the car as well and decided to stay and hang out. We had walked around by some river and such, talking.

      The next thing I remember, I was with one of the girls in my bathroom having just gotten done showering. We were flirting, and the next thing I remember is we are both naked, and we started to fool around. We migrated to my bed, where I slept with her. After that, it was morning again in my dream, and we were walking along the same river. This guy had come by and all of a sudden I started fighting him. I had fallen back into the river, and he had dove after me. We fought under water, and after I knocked him unconscious, I had found level footing and climbed out of the river and met back up with the group of girls.

      Apparently the girl I bedded in the dream had gotten pregnant by me? Then I woke up.


      Also, at some point earlier in the dream when I had gotten to the job or at the mall or something, I had some gay microphone tattoo'd around my wrist area on my left arm. It had upset me in the dream because I remembered what I had planned for that whole arm, and the positioning of it on my arm in the dream made it so my original idea would never work.

      Updated 07-09-2012 at 05:29 AM by 56194

      Categories
      non-lucid , memorable
    2. The Night's Watch

      by , 07-09-2012 at 04:53 AM (The Persistence of Dreams)
      Date: 07/07/2012

      I was with some friends (DC's that I don't know honestly), and there was this snow storm. We had some type of objective, but we were sliding down a slope of a mountain. There was ice everywhere, and one of the DCs had yelled to watch out, as the ice may break and we would fall into the ice cold water and freeze to death. As I was sliding down, I had leaned to the right to get onto more snowy ground. The next thing I know, I'm hurtling face first into the snow. As dusk approached, we had to find shelter, or else the Others and Wights will find us. We took shelter into an iced cavern, where we had to break down an ice wall to baracade ourselves from the outside. We were warned about the Wights and the Others.

      All I remember after that, is that one of the members fell far behind us, and was killed (we heard his screams as he tried to jump into the cave) by an Other. We quickly ran far into the cave, until we knew the Others had forgotten us. One of the men had said we had to light the body on fire, for fear of it turning into a Wight. Then, I woke up.


      It was very surreal, as the references from Game of Thrones (I'm a huge fan) came out into my dream. However, there were many elements that weren't part of the GoT story. While I am writing this a day late, I'm missing a few other chunks from it, but this is the gist of the dream itself...
      Categories
      non-lucid