Thread: ~ DreamQueen's Dream Journal (with pics) ~

cool dream! yeah those super-real dreams where you just aren't sure can be some of the most impressive. I find those in particular edify us on our tenuous grasp on reality, or indeed on what is real.

Yeah it was insane how real this dream was. I stood there thinking 'I cannot possibly be lying in bed right now'.

I said to spaceex on the phone afterwards that there was pretty much nothing that could have convinced me it was a dream because it was so unbelievably real. I honestly think that even if Elvis Priestley had appeared at the window six stories high wearing nothing but a pink frilly G-string and covered in whipped cream I still wouldn't have been convinced!

Well I managed to get lucid last night but as usual of late it only lasted about ten seconds. It seems apple juice may indeed be the way to go. I went to bed just after 9pm having drunk a glass of Greenway’s apple juice with dinner. I woke up at 4am having had very clear, long dreams. It’s actually a huge shame I hadn’t become lucid during one dream in particular where a guy tried to attack me through the window of a car (I was sitting in the back seat). It would have been fantastic to get out of the car and retaliate!

Anyway, I got up briefly at 4am then went BTB and made a reasonably good attempt to WILD using the counting method. I was hoping to get to Caradon’s cabin in the woods but ended up nonlucid beside the ticket counter at a cinema instead.

My mum was buying movie tickets and I heard her drop some money. I casually looked down and spied a $2 coin on the floor. The carpet was typical of movie theatres – old and manky. Nevertheless I found myself down on my hands and knees to pick it up. A little boy of about six years old was trying to race me to it and although I was a little uncoordinated I beat him and got the coin. Then I saw another coin not far away so I picked that up as well. Then I started finding more. I didn’t think it was strange, I simply assumed she’d dropped a few coins which is common for people to do. However I should have realized something wasn’t right because I started finding five cent coins which were phased out of circulation a couple of years ago!

The little boy wasn’t managing to find any coins and was a bit upset so I planned to give him some when I stood up. I thought to myself how I’ve always been good at finding things. Then I just happened to look at my watch to check the time and… my watch was completely different! For a second I thought ‘Hey, where’s my Watchminder?’ Then I twigged ‘I think I’m dreaming right now’. I stood up and started walking. I then remembered the little boy so I turned around and offered him all the coins in my hand but he was no longer interested. Unfortunately for some reason I just didn’t have the mental energy to keep myself in the dream. As ironic as it sounds I felt too tired to continue dreaming so I let myself wake up. It must be the first time in history someone has woken themselves up because they are too tired to sleep! Nuts

Well I finally got lucid again properly for the first time since May 25th for which I’ve only got myself to blame. I’ve just been too lazy to give it the attention required really. I have only kept up a baseline level of reality checking and haven’t thought about my dream signs or lucid goals in weeks let alone done a wake back to bed or WILD attempt.

Anyway, I woke up this morning at 7.15am and got up to do a couple of things. I only went back to bed to warm up but ended up inadvertently drifting back to sleep. Before doing so I did glance at my watch once thinking it was the very least I could do if I wanted even a snowball’s chance at a lucid. I then floated off to sleep thinking ‘this lucid dreaming thing really isn’t happening for me anymore’

Next thing I know I’m up out of bed and I'm walking through to where my computer is to switch it on. However much to my annoyance somebody has messed with my computer bigtime. There’s all these weird things plugged into it and the monitor has been shifted to a ridiculous position where I can only see the top half of it. I start trying to get everything back to the way it was. After a short while I think ‘Damn, I should have done a reality test to this. I’ve taken far too long about it. If I was dreaming I would have moved on by now. Oh well, I’ll do one anyway even though it’s really too late to say I got this cue. I’m going to have to sharpen up my reality testing though.’

I look at my watch. The numbers are going completely mental. For a split second I think ‘wtf is my watch up to now? Hang on a minute. I am NOT going to be fooled yet again. My watch never does that.’ I look away and back a couple of times and the numbers are different. Bingo! ‘Right’ I think to myself, ‘I’m dreaming. It’s a fact. And I’m not entering any debate with my subconscious about it. I am not gonna be foiled this time’.

I then walk over to the top of the stairwell with the plan to jump over the edge of the railing to the ground floor. I hesitate for a second then tell myself ‘don’t worry, like they say on dreamviews, if you’re not sure then you will be dreaming’. I then jump off but because I’m nervous I don’t let go properly and my arms kind of stretch. When I land on the ground I think to myself that to keep a hold with one’s hands is a good safe way to jump off something high if you’re not completely certain whether or not you’re dreaming.

I’m now in a strange long hallway that is not my RL house. I start walking. I’m wandering around thinking how I can’t remember a single lucid goal because I haven't thought about them for so long. The dreamscape is not at all vivid and I’m having a bit of trouble seeing clearly. I decide to try a wall flip even though last time it woke me up. I run down the hallway and up the wall at the end of it and launch myself into the flip. I’m spinning in midair and sensing I’m in grave danger of waking up so I focus really hard on landing, and then I do, nice and softly.

I then walk into a large room. There is a desk with a female receptionist and a couple of other people standing nearby. There are some large boxes of Lego on the floor. I’m feeling like I just need to do something so I’ve got something to write about rather than just ambling around in dreamworld like a useless lucid brain, so I wave my arms at the boxes of lego in typical spell-casting fashion at the same time calling out in an authoritative voice, “Lego! I command you to make yourself into something interesting for me!” I’m thinking this is really rather lame and unexciting but it’s better than nothing. I look away for a few seconds then look back. The Lego has assembled itself into a large yellow structure with little Lego people all over it. I look at it and think ‘hmmm that’s kind of cool’ then keep walking.

As I’m walking I decide I want to look at my watch again just to see it going mental but my watch has completely disappeared from my wrist. I find this annoying but then I put my right hand where my watch should be and I can feel it even though it’s invisible. I wonder if I’m touching my watch in RL in bed. Then I see a waiting room with a young guy of about twenty or thirty-something and two middle-aged women sitting in it. I walk into it and go up to the guy and for some stupid unplanned reason ask “will you marry me?” He looks at me like I’m a nutter and says “no” so I say “oh ok then” and start to walk away. Then he jumps up and says something about wanting to change his mind. I casually call out not to worry that I’m dreaming and just wanted to do something weird. I then feel like I should be doing really crazy stuff that I can’t do in RL. I see a kitchen and the thought occurs to me to get a knife and stab some people but I don’t think I have it in me so decide not to. Then I wake up.

congrats on having a good Lucid again! I hope it was fun enough to re energize your motivation. The way you got Lucid sounded similar to what happened to me last night. only yours lasted longer.

Nice work.

cool dream!

Friday 10th July 2009

I woke up this morning at 6:30am with great recall as usual. I’d had a moderately interesting nonlucid dream about being in a wave pool at the end of which I’d thought I should do a RT immediately before awakening. I then did a WBTB during which I looked out my window and saw the most beautiful sunrise.

I then drifted back to sleep and had another nonlucid dream during which I missed quite a few dream cues. I drifted into the waking world, realized I’d missed these cues and then started thinking about a cool fantasy of mine. Next thing I knew I realized I was so close to sleep that I became determined to incubate around me the dreamscape in which my fantasy was set. I slowly did this successfully and it was awesome!

The fantasy is pretty personal (<--- spot the euphemism for ‘embarrassing’) but let’s just say it involved me, a dangerous situation, a big hunky heroic male and… sex!!! Ha ha! It was so cool because I knew it was a dream but I didn’t let on and just “let the dream winds blow” which was a goal of mine that stemmed from a quote from Caradon’s dream character. I was controlling the general plot but not the actual events. In other words, I was deliberately letting the big hunky heroic male control everything while I just went along for the… ride (no pun intended!)

Anyway, during the dream my brain tried to trick me with a false awakening during which I was lying in bed holding an actively boiling kettle of water. It was so unbelievably realistic but I knew that it was impossible and refused to be fooled (although I did move the kettle so that it wasn’t boiling over my stomach since it was still pretty unnerving!)

I then returned to my wonderful dream…

Eventually I woke up, looked out of my bedroom window to this beautiful day and took this photo on my brand new Canon camera! What a wonderful way to wake up from a lucid dream!