Thread: Dream recall experiment

DAY TWO

2013/NOV/05
- note – I realised that one hour intervals were too short, as it was taking me one hour just to get to sleep, so I increased it to 2 hours. I found it really difficult to get back to sleep last night.
Bedtime 10:00pm

12:00am – very poor recall – I only remember vague images, and not much of the actual dream – I was playing a ‘character part’ [of the game I am currently playing – Assassin’s Creed Black Flag (I don’t exactly know what I mean by character part, I just remember feeling it was about a particular character, and had an image of him – it was like looking at the digital image of him) but it was very boring and I had to do it.

1:00am – still awake

3:00am – still awake!

5:00am – very poor recall – I only remember vague feelings and vary vague images with no detail – I was in a big multi-level facility (scientific), I went into a restricted area, & overheard some guy talking about covering up a big accident, and cleaning up the huge mess from it. It felt creepy.

7:30am – no recall upon awakening – I was very disappointed, but when I closed my eyes to go back to sleep, I got a few vague feelings/images and then I relaxed more and 2 dreams ‘came back’ to me. I got rather a lot of detail, and can remember many objects in detail, where people were sitting etc. I can usually tell what order my dreams were in but this time I couldn’t –

Dream #1 – I am riding a bike with my partner – yellow ‘city cycle’ bikes. We park them out of the front of a building. Only I go in. I go into some guys office/apartment. He is trying to work but being distracted by three noisy old ladies (chatting to each other) and his bossy, nagging wife. I tell him I sympathize/empathize with him, in front of his wife and this pisses her off but I don’t care, and I tell the old ladies that they are in his office so they should shut the hell up.

Later in the dream, the couple are getting a divorce, but a lot of my stuff is in their apartment, and I have to choose what I want to take with me when I move out (I didn’t realize I lived there!).

Dream #2 – I am chatting with some nice people, there is a festive atmosphere, and I tell a guy that I can fly. They don’t believe me, and say I should show them. For some reason I don’t want show them, so I say so, but say I will prove it to them by bringing them an object. One guy says I should fetch his blacksmith’s hammer from his house in Tasmania (which is 2-3 hours away by plane). I said sure, but it’ll take me an hour or two to get there and back.

I go via a guys house to borrow a jacket for the cold (flying at night time is cold, and so is Tasmania). I am inside the house, and a heap of cows are outside, leaning in through windows eating his stuff. Then the cows turn into zombie/vampire/monster people and try to get me. I thought I needed a run-up to take-off for flying, but I am so scared I just rise straight up into the sky. The dream continues and I fly over fields and other types of landscapes but I forget the rest.

#3 – I am trying to go back to sleep after jotting this in my notebook, when I have a HH (hypnogogic hallucination)– I follow some people into the forest, and then they turn into tree spirits. I see golden beams of light (that resemble tree trunks) shoot upwards into the sky and down into the earth from each person, and then it happens to me.

I can’t get back to sleep, so I get up.

note; I am leaving out a lot of the dream's detail, to make for easier reading and so it less boring to read, but if any of you would like me to put in the detail, please let me know