Brainchild's B.O.D. (Book of Dreams)

[Brainchild]

Hey y'all! I know it's customary for folks to make dream journals on here and although I do intend to post my dream recollections on this thread, I also want to post some lessons learned and epiphanies gained through my dream life. I don't know if many read my intro thread but I mentioned that I am a survivor of child abuse and have been trying to heal over the past year. I had vivid LDs as a young child, many I can never forget as long as I live. As my home life spiraled out of control, I lost the ability to have LDs, although back then I had no idea that lucid dreams were any different than regular dreams and I really didn't grasp that others didn't regularly have LDs. But, as of 9/4/08, I'm back in the game with 1 LD under my belt. Woohoo! So "stay tuned" folks. I hope, at least, this is entertaining. SEPTEMBER 4, 2008 - DILD Last night I fell asleep normally. I was a bit stressed-out by somethign that had happened earlier in the day but it didn't affect my dream, luckily. Without any special preparations, I went to bed and had three dreams, two of which I cannot remember, unfortunately. What brought on the third dream, I believe, is that I got up with my boyfriend when he was gettign ready for work. After he left, I laid down for another 4 hours and BAM--lucid dream. THE DREAM Let me say first that I'm not sure how I became lucid but I think it had to do with me trying to understand what someone was saying to me but it wasn't really making sense. I was working with kids but they were mer-kids (half-fish, half-kid) and there was this scientist that kept talking to me about some disease that the kids were catching in the observation tanks. He seemed extremely concerned and I got the feeling that he had told me all of what he had because I was supposed to do something about it. I immediately began to think "OMG. I don't know anything about veternarian science." Sounds hilarious now but in the dream I felt genuinely afraid that I was about to kill a whole race of undiscovered creatures. And, sorry you guys, I woke up. Not so interesting for a lucid but it's a big step for me.