Surferonmars Dream Journal 2.0
After a false start on an earlier journal, I am starting a new one using DreamJournal 2.5, so this is Surferonmars Dream Journal 2.0. I really like the software! It's simple and easy to use. Here is Dream Numero Uno using the software:
17.02.2010
Cat Pregnancy Dream (Non-lucid)
NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID
I dreamed that I was in my room. In front of my was my bedside table, but it was over by my window (an unusual place) with a weird, flat aquarium on it. The plants and animals were strange and very alive. In front of the aquarium were three or four statuettes and busts of people and also four or five pictures of people. In the dream, I knew somehow that the pictures/statues were actually real people, frozen in time. I unfroze the statues and busts and then reached into a picture of a cat. I pulled the cat out. I thought it was a tom-cat (a male) but shortly after I pulled it out it produced kittens. I was suprised that my mom said I could keep a kitten, and I gave one to my best friend but she told me that in order to grow like a normal cat, my kitten would have to pass a test in one of many categories. It was given the attack category. I was scared because I didn't want to own a vicious kitten! After that, the dream faded out. I was given a good feeling overall by the dream.
Skiing Taylor Alien Plant Dream
21.02.2010
Skiing Taylor Alien Plant Dream (Non-lucid)
NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID
I am at my friend Taylor's house, which I know even though the house is somewhere completely different from where it really is. The house is perched on top of a huge ski hill. I am in there with my friends, and somebody (Heidi) asks me what our science project is. I reply, "Remember? It was a study of how particles of powder affect how much soda fizzes," and now that I think of it it was a pretty good project. Everybody else was presenting theirs though and we didn't have the soda.
A friend of a friend whom I despise had two weird aliens, rooted in the soil like plants, and one she had crossbred from them. Nobody was very impressed and she did something very characteristic of her to get attention. She said, "You know what they had to do to get this, right?" The answer was that they had made a baby. I humiliated her by explaining without fear in detail the way it would have happened.
Then it was my turn to present, and I freaked out because I didn't have the soda. I was looking all over my friend's house for it, but couldn't find any. I asked EVERYONE. One of my friends pointed me toward the motor oil, and another said Taylor didn't have any.
Finally I found out that they stored their soda at the bottom of the pond! Well, I wasn't going to go get it, so I went with my mom to the convenience store at the bottom of the ski hill, where we met MAS, one of my close friends.
I was very rushed for time because I was supposed to be presenting my project right now, but had to get soda, and the cashier kept ignoring me! She just turned away and played with her phone. Eventually she did serve us but halfway through she started to cry because during a short conversation I had insulted her line of clothing! Marly sided with one clerk, I with another, and they were all in tears (one of them, I realized, was my cousin Elizabeth). Finally we got out with the soda.
Then I realized we had accidentally gotten juice instead. We had to go back in and do the whole thing over again.
Once I finally had the soda, we were going to have to ski up the entire hill (it was extremely long) to get it to the house. To save time, I took a snowmobile and ended up causing an avalanche! I could hardly breathe but I was saving people from it including the Olympic speed skater, Apollo. After that I woke up. This dream was long and very emotional (frustration, elation, confusion, pride) and vivid, when I was having it.
Good WILD method I discovered!
22.02.2010
Failed WILD Attempt Deux (Note)
NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID
Another non-dream written here for purposes of ease!
Last night I tried again to WILD (I've been trying almost every night with bad results) but I had some weird problems.
I was lying there and relaxing with light hypnosis, and deliberately turning from side to side every once in a while to stay awake (I had a system). I didn't get far in my attempts as you will see.
Firstly, my body started testing for awakeness before I was TRYING to WILD! Apparently I was emulating sleep a little TOO well... and the test was very intense and long so I ended up giving in. Then a little while later I felt a weird, warm, heavy sensation in my hands which I believe was SP... even though I had failed the 'are you asleep' test not five minutes earlier! (Now that I'm writing this down it seems a lot less like a failure...) One of my hands kept phasing in and out of my dream body! I could feel it every once in a while seem to move without me moving it to a different position.
I wasn't using a very refined method, but I was trying to emulate actual sleep as best I could. To do this I first put myself into a light hypnotic trance. I first relaxed all my muscles, and then pictured myself handling and eating a food, and then counted down very slowly from ten, and after that turned on my side very lethargically and repeated the whole process. After three or four turns, I stopped turning and pretended that my mind had now fallen asleep, and started just breathing deeply and counting.
I ended up having some very strange sensations in my hands and getting up because I was afraid I was cutting off their circulation! It may sound stupid to you but I have slept all night on one arm before and when I woke up in the morning it was like it was dead. I couldn't move it and had to lug it around with my other hand, and it was completely numb, so I'm always wary of that now... :P
Anyway if anybody wants to try this WILD method, which is apparently excellent (although why I don't know) feel free but please PM me or post here and tell me how it goes! The method is similar to Yoshi's but with a few modifications.
Kimberly Shrub Thanksgiving Game
27.02.2010
Kimberly Shrub Thanksgiving Dream (Non-lucid)
NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID
I am at Kimberly's house. She is my cousin and one of my closest friends. I am carrying a fake bush half as tall as me wrapped in wrapping paper for a decoration and asking where to put it. It is very tippy, and I keep swaying and half-catching it. Kimberly is carrying one too, but she seems more balanced than me even with the top-heavy shrub. Her dad seems to know where to put it, but he is talking very slowly and I am scared that I will drop the bush. There is a scene change.
Now I am in her living room placing my futon and unfolding it for the guests (I sleep on a futon folded up). An african american man whom I don't know is helping me, and I am being very polite to him. After this the dream ends.
Kacey Soccer Cheerleading Dream
27.02.2010
Kacey Soccer Cheerleader Dream (Non-lucid)
NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID
Kacey and I are at one of her soccer games, but the field is unorthodox: I am sitting in the chain-link-fence baseball diamond thing behind where the batter would be. The goals are very close to each other. Kacey is playing the game well. I am reffing the game, but my vision is blurry/I am very tired, like there is a hat falling in my eyes that I can't pull off, so everything I do is very weak.
Everybody's playing soccer, and then Kacey jumps about twenty feet in the air and kicks the ball. Everybody cheers, and then they throw her like they'd throw a cheerleader, about THIRTY feet in the air. I am scared, and I mention that i want them to stop, but not forcefully. I'm worried that Kacey will break a leg or something.
Kacey was in two of my dreams last night, which is unusual for me...
Deer hunting at scout camp
28.02.2010
Sledding Deer Hunting Dream (Non-lucid)
NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID
I dreamed that my brother was heading off to boy scout camp. He was bringing most of his furniture with him and we weren't sure if it would fit in the room, but it did. Unfortunately, he was sharing his room with someone else and was refusing to vacate a few drawers of his dresser for the other kid, so they had their clothing all mixed together. My dad was there too, having driven my brother to the camp, so we all three went sledding.
The hill was really steep, and we were all having trouble staying upright. My brother and I both fell off our sleds, and he accidentally traded sleds with me. I demanded that he give me my own back, and he did. On the way down the hill, my brother and I each brought down a deer from our sleds, and left them where we had gotten them. We headed back to the scout camp and they announced that dinner would be our deer that we had killed. I went and found the head of my deer after a lot of searching; my brother and Dad had more worthwhile meat.
We cooked the meat in a pot that was cauldron-like and glowing. There were girl scouts at the camp too, for some reason. We were all cooking the meat in turns depending on how old you were and what kind of meat you had, so I ended up with a lot of younger girls.
The meat was really good, but it was a weird dream, especially because I would never hunt in real life, much less for no reason. I'm a huge pacifist/animal lover, and although I'm not a vegitarian, I get all my meat from a farmer's market near by, where it's well treated. So it's odd that I would be killing and cooking venison in my dream.
Mysterious cheese! I think it was Gouda.
One of my best dreams yet. This was actually last night but internet was down so I couldn't publish it promptly.
01.03.2010
Mysterious Jar Dream (Non-lucid)
NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID
I was holding a mysterious jar that, if opened, would unleash some kind of snake. The jar appeared to have cheese in it. I was at a supermarket upset that they didn't have the right kind of cheese, holding this jar. I also remember there being a girl I didn't like trying to teach me something along with a man who looked like Ghandi in somebody's house (presumably Ghandi's) that had beige carpeting and a couch along the left wall. Very vague dream fragment, but GREAT for a Monday.
A weird play in my basement...?
04.03.2010
Theater Play-Messed up Dream (Non-lucid)
NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID
I was in a musical, but people kept messing up. We kept having to bring new people onstage until I was in the play! I didn't want to be... it was weird and somehwat scary as well. The play went very badly. It was set in my basement.
First LD since years ago!
04.03.2010
Lucid ONE! (DILD)
NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID
EDIT: More detailed description.
The dream became lucid in the supermarket parking lot where I was carrying a pink tray full of mashed potatoes (?). I was thinking that I had forgotten to WILD that night, and then... OH! Dream alert! So I started to stabilize immediately by touching stuff, rubbing hands together, etc (Good Louie!) and thanks to ALL of this I remained in the dream.
I dropped the tray of potatoes accidentally because I was so excited about being lucid... :)
Anyway I then got into my parents car, still not quite believing it was a dream, because I didn't want to 'hurt their feelings' or something. Shortly afterward, it occured to me, "Why am I staying in this stupid car during a perfectly good lucid dream?"
So I pushed my head through the window (followed by the rest of me) and started to fly. I had to close my eyes at first but later I was confident enough to open them. So I flew down into the town.
I did a lot of exploring (about two hours worth) but can't seem to remember much of it. (This was a VERY long dream).
I ended up in an orphanage/childcare center that was very dim and scary, with an evil cat that someone was trying to poison (it turned into a dog, then a chat room smiley) and to escape the cat I did the window-push-through trick again. I then flew up a tree (literally 'flew'!). I guess I was getting a little turned on by all the dream stuff because, just for fun, I started to hump gently on the tree.
For all of you who say dream sex blows--it DOESN'T! The tree gave me everything I could have wanted. As a result I almost woke up, and frantically restabilized :D. But I managed to stay in the dream (I was SO HAPPY in dream).
So then I flew around trying to get to my Dream Place that I drew a map of earlier, and was having a lot of trouble. I finally got there, and there were two staplers--yes staplers--MAKING OUT (how is that even possible?) on the beach.
Needless to say, I got rid of the staplers...
But otherswise the place was EXACTLY how I imagined it (what a shock eh?)
So I went to the DuomoDome. It was BEAUTIFUL! It was exactly how I had wanted it... my life was complete. I looked around for a while.
The dream then changed... to me lying on a little intensive care thing, having just woken up from the dream... and there was something about the dream that had almost killed me. I didn't go lucid again. I did however tell all my friends about the dream in-dream :P.
I have to say, I have had lucids before, but none like this. This lucid lasted about 2 hrs. and the feeling of freedom was so ULTIMATE, it was amazing. The scenery was just like real life... I could cry just THINKING about it. Seriously... it was SO incredible it's impossible to describe.
I. Want. ANOTHER ONE!
Fish/Shark Library Black Hole Dream... :D
05.03.2010
Fish Library Dream (Non-lucid)
NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID
I was in the library (not anything like the real library, but it's one of my dream locations) looking at manga and met Taylor and Marly, Marly of whom was being very aloof for some reason.
So I was looking through some manga (it was very good considering that it was a dream) and then I put it down and walked over to where there was this hole in the library floor that had fish going up and down it. There was a shark guarding a hole. The hole changed directions every minute or two and propelled the fish up instead of down.
Well, this weird, almost boxy fish in yellow and green was spat out of the hole and seemed immediately enamored with the shark. She started babbling on to him and seemed unable to stop herself...
So the shark took her down through the hole, but they ended up in a room that seemed to not have any air in it, and the girl fish was suffocating! But the shark claimed that he 'squirrelled away' air (I remember my subconscious somehow came up with the idea that the air actually came from squirrels, but now I can see that it was a squirrelling reference) and sure enough there was a thin layer of air near the ceiling. The smaller fish and I both drank deeply from this air (I seemed to be invisible or nobody was noticing me).
The shark and the fish proceeded to go down another two water-filled library levels. The first one was almost full to the top but with headspace, and the second was filled about two feet and had a ramp in it, and for some reason my cousin and friend's brother (just one person!) was there, and the fish and the shark were very flirty and the fish said, "It's funny that we don't like any of the same amounts of water" and then my radio alarm went off. DIE ALARM CLOCK DIE!
Active volcano in my room!!
06.03.2010
Volcano dream (Non-lucid)
NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID
In this dream, which turned out to be very strange, I had two active volcanoes in my room. One of them was about four feet cubed, and the other was tiny and under my bed. One was fueling the other or something; I don't remember the details exactly. The one under my bed had a small amount of yellow magma and the one on top of my bed was filled with red, yellow, orange; all the colors. I was ladling/scooping magma out of the big one for some reason. The big one, I learned, folded up into a picture book. I actually questioned this a bit, like "How does the volcano stay connected to underground if I can fold it up and move it?" but didn't become lucid.
