dream(b)log - recording what I dream about when I sleep

Anti-gravity parkour

2011-09-07T06:30:00.000+02:00

Category: Superpower
Lucid: Yes

I was in a city somewhere and I jumped up on a trash bin to look around.
The easiness of the jump made me realize I was dreaming.

Thinking I'd do some kick ass parkouring I started dashing down the street. I started running along a wall and jumped off of it, reaching greater heights, landing with one foot on top of a lamppost before launching myself upwards once again. I started to do a flip in the air and noticed I entered some sort of slow-motion mode while air-borne... this allowed me to tweak my flip in several directions and I started spinning 1080 before landing on the ground again and continued dashing down the street.

Parkour with slow-motion mode and tweaked gravity? Awesome!

If you don't know what parkour is - here's a clip of a buddy of mine doing it:

How do I know I'm dreaming?

2011-08-07T09:32:00.006+02:00

I read an article about various tricks about how you can check if you are dreaming or not when you get to a certain level of awareness in a dream, and I catched up a new one I haven't tried before, but it's a common one:

- You take the finger on one hand and drive to drive it through the palm of the other hand. If the finger goes through your palm - tada - you are dreaming.

You can make it a habit in your daily life to perform this test every time you come to a new room or go outside. Eventually it will become a habit and suddenly you'll do it in a dream, your finger will pass through your palm, and you'll realize - "This is a dream!" and you will be lucid!

The first dream I tried this I managed to "re-lucid" myself through 4 false awakenings. (False awakening: When you wake up in bed from a lucid dream, but it's actually a new dream, you have just lost your lucidity and you think you have woken up for the next day in your real life.) I did the finger-test right away and instantly became lucid again.

The only thing I had a slight problem with was that I imagined pain as my finger went through the palm - and it hurt like hell. But after doing this test a couple of more times I managed to control my mind enough to remember that pain in a dream is only an illusion - it's all in your head.

These are the other ways I check if I'm dreaming. Try them out:
- Read text on a poster or sign. Turn around and look back again. If the text changed - you're dreaming!
- Check your feet. If you find something odd about your feet, like missing toes - you're dreaming!
- Check the time. If the clock keeps showing random times everytime you look at it - you're dreaming!
- Check your hands. If you find something odd about your hands - you're dreaming!
- Look at a person, turn away, then back again. If the appearance changed - you're dreaming!

Environment manipulation: Changing the season in a dream

2011-07-20T11:48:00.001+02:00

Category: Environment Manipulation / Experimental

Lucid: Yes

I was walking down a familiar street in Oslo, when I get a tiny feeling that I might be dreaming.

I check a poster that's hanging on a nearby wall. I read the text, then glance away for a second, then read the text again - and sure enough - it changes. (In a dream world an object is never constant, it will always change when you turn your back to it.) I became lucid - "This is a dream!"

I had given myself an assignment in waking real life (WRL) to what I should do in my next lucid dream, but I couldn't remember it right away. So instead I started dashing down the street and flung myself forward and started to fly. As I ascended into the air I remembered my assignment. I wanted to manipulate the environment. I had done this before.

Like in my previous dream, it was a cold dark winter evening. I thought to myself: "I want summer!"

Wishing for this to happen I snap my fingers.

Evening turns to pitch dark night and millions of stars appear above my head - I admire them for a while - until I snap my fingers again wishing for a warm summer day.

The sun rushes to the sky, all the snow is gone, and all I see is green grass and trees among houses, churches and farms - a typical view of a Norwegian fjord. I fly around admiring everything before I decide to land at a beach volleyball court below me. Then I wake up.

The rubber wall

2011-07-18T12:57:00.002+02:00

Category: Experimental
Lucid: Yes

I was in a gym working out. Suddenly all the machines and weights started to disappear one by one as the room turned more and more white. I was hit with lucidity - "This is a dream!".

Now the room was completely bare and white only with a few windows here and there, but there was no exit in sight. I decided I would smash my way through a window and fall down to the pavement below.

As I hit the window it started to bend and melt like rubber until it completely surrounded my body and I was stuck (horizontally) in the wall. Usually I would panic from being constrained like this, but I kept my calm - knowing it was all a dream and a product of my own doing. I took a deep breath and closed my eyes. I felt the pressure from the rubberized wall loosen until I eventually was standing on my own two feet in a hospital hallway. A new lucid dream had begun.

Making an ice armor

2011-07-02T07:30:00.003+02:00

Category: Experimental
Lucid: Yes

I was in a bar and my whole family was gathered - even the ones who have passed away.
Ignoring them wanting to hug me I left the bar, 'cuz I had realized: "This is a dream - time to experiment!"

I got out on the street and pondered what my next move would be. I've done way too much flying in my lucid dreams lately so I decided to try something new - to cover myself in ice.

At the very moment I thought of this; cold mist started to come out of my mouth. I held out my hand, palm upwards, and focused on a spot right above it. The mist started to gather into a lump that turned into a small ice shard. Fascinated by what I had just conjured I proceeded with my original intent - with my will I made the ice shard attach to my hand and ice started spreading up my arm instantly. In a few seconds I was covered in a layer of ice from top to bottom.

But if I wanted this to be a real armor I had to make it thicker - as I was thinking that thought - I felt the ice armor growing thicker on my arm and a shock of cold started to shiver through my body. As the thickening ice reached my neck I abruptly woke up in my bed breathing heavily like if I had just jumped in a cold pool.

The tsunami

2011-07-01T09:07:00.002+02:00

Category: Nightmare
Lucid: No

I was camping out on the mountain-side in the valley where I grew up. With me were friends and family.
I hear someone scream - and in the horizon I see huge waves coming towards the shore.

In fear I start running up the mountain-side and manage to get out some climbing gear from my backpack and start scaling the steep mountain-side. Half-way up I look down at my friends and my family and observe while the waves swallow them all whole and sucks them back into the ocean.

Hanging by a rope all by myself, in disbelief of what just happened, a mental wave of confusion, loneliness and helplessness washes over me... I'm all alone - and I couldn't do anything to help them.

Then I woke up...

This is the first time I can truly emotionally relate to what tsunami victims are going through - seeing your hometown, friends and family get washed away - and there's nothing you can do about it - and it all happens so fast... makes you feel quite lucky.

Dream meditation

2011-06-17T12:57:00.001+02:00

Category: Spiritual
Lucid: No

Apparently we had an "alternative/New Age" class at our school about meditation and finding inner strength/energy/chakra.

A native American couple, covered in dust, was teaching my school mates how we could extract power from within.

The indian woman taught me how to revitalize myself through breathing.
I did as she instructed and eventually found myself completely paralyzed, but totally relaxed and comfortable with it - until she eventually waved a hand over my hand, called out my name, and told me to come back to the rest of the group.

In the beginning I couldn't move a single muscle, but the woman assured me that this would go away eventually and as long as I remained calm I would return safely from my deep spiritual place.

Then I woke up in my bed - filled with energy and ready for the day to come!

Narrow-mindedness

2011-04-15T23:24:00.004+02:00

Category: Realization
Lucid: YES

I was in a busy gym with tons of people. For some reason I went outside and started walking down the street. I passed several people on the way, until I eventually became lucid. "This is a dream."

Then I noticed a silence form around me. I decided to walk back to the gym to see if the people were still there. Suddenly the road back to the gym was ten times longer than it was when I started walking. The streets were all empty now. When I got to the gym, I noticed that it was empty as well.

And then I had a realization - when I became lucid, my mind shut down and focused entirely on myself being in a lucid state in the dream world - like the part of my imagination that was creating all the hustle and bustle around me ceased to continue. It's like I narrowed my mind too much - like I was using too much of my mental RAM that it couldn't have any other supporting dream functions going, excepting for showing me the street I wanted to walk down, and the building I wanted to enter.

I feel like I've learned something from this:
Narrow-mindnedness might get you to your goal, but you might miss out on all the fun along the way.

The warp

2011-03-22T19:56:00.003+01:00

Category: Nightmare/Experimental
Lucid: Yes

I've been having a lot of "being-chased-nightmares" lately without realizing I was dreaming. Then last night I finally got a lucid opening.

I was being chased on rooftops when I had a moment of clarity, realized the oddness of the event, and I became lucid ("This is a dream!). I stopped dead in my tracks and turned around.

A young girl with long black hair and a black dress stood and stared at me. A real "The Ring" moment. The sky was dark, and rain was pouring down.

I looked her straight into her eyes and said: "Look... you've been chasing me around way too many nights now and I'm getting pretty sick of it. I don't know what I've done to you, or what your problem is. Either way I'm sorry for everything, and I want all of this to end right now."

The creepy girl gave me a cold grin... then a small crack opened up on her chest and suddenly all the dark clouds, the heavy rain and the eerie sense of the place got sucked into her, leaving a blue sky and a warm sun behind. The monster-ish girl now had blonde hair and a nice little dress on.
She smiled at me warmly.
"Everything's okay now." she said...

When I woke up I sprung out of bed, filled with energy, and went for a morning workout at the gym before heading off to school. I got home late after a long hard day at school and I am still pumped with energy.
Who was this girl? What did she represent? What bad thoughts in my head did she get rid off?

My first moon landing

2011-02-24T11:32:00.009+01:00

Category: Experimental
Lucid: Yes

I "woke up" in our old camper far out in the country of the town I grew up in. I knew that when I went to sleep I was far away from this place, so I became lucid. "This is a dream!"
I ran out of the camper and out in the open, trying to figure out what I should do with this lucid dream.

Looking up into the sky I saw the moon. "Maybe I should try to fly to it?"
I've made several attempts to fly out in space ever since reading about it in Waggoner's book, but I always doubt my ability to do it and end up falling down just as fast as I get up in the air.

I filled myself with confidence and started dashing across a field and leaped up in the air. The momentum I got was incredible and I found myself soaring up in the sky at great speed. "This might actually work!" I said to myself... which I shouldn't have. My slight doubt in the sentence with the word "might" killed the momentum and I started floating back down to the ground. I tried one more time but only found myself dwindling down again.

I stared hard at the moon - determined to get to it. Instead the moon started to come towards me. When it got closer I saw that it was only a bad-pixel print out of the moon on a piece of paper. I grabbed the paper and looked at the picture. I remembered my earlier successful attempt at teleporting from one place to another, so I thought I would give that a go. I looked at the picture of the moon, imagined myself being there... then I snapped my fingers.

Instantly I felt weightless and noticed a grey sandy surface below me. I ran a hand over it and felt its ruggedness. I started to float backwards and when I lifted my head I saw earth floating around some leagues away. I was on the moon!

Utter silence ruled this place - I gave myself into the lack of gravity and let my head fall backwards as I stared at the bright stars all around me. I felt sleepy and closed my eyes. Then I woke up into a new dream.

The inner place

2011-02-23T13:09:00.001+01:00

Category: Spiritual
Lucid: Yes

I was walking down a hallway when I realized I was dreaming. Some fairy-looking creature came through the wall and asked me to take its hand... so I did. A bright flash later I was back in an area from my childhood, and even though it was outside I still felt as if I was closed in a dome of some kind because there was no clouds or colors in the sky, just a grey hard surface.
Somewhere from within a voice told me this was my "inner spiritual place".
My little fairy guide was there and told me: "Go, explore!"... so I did.

I found numerous places that I felt had a deep connection with my consciousness and my physical being.

In one place - that I'll name the breathing chamber - there was a long hallway with pink smooth surfaces from top to bottom. The hallway contracted and expanded - like if it was alive. Suddenly I noticed the hallway was moving at the same pace as my breathing. Every time I took a deep breath the hallway would expand. When I realized this was some reflection of my lungs I had a slight panic attack and started to breath heavily, and thus the walls started contracting rapidly, getting tighter and tighter. Some green mucus started to pour out through the pink surface and I related to this as some left-over gunk from my pneumonia some weeks back. As the hallway got tighter and tighter I started to run towards the exit - trying to make it out before the hallway collapsed completely, and I just barely got out.

Now outside again I was bombarded with noise - voices, thoughts, sounds - total audio chaos. And my breathing was still heavy, getting close to hyperventilating. The noise was too much to handle. On the rooftops of houses around me there were chubby guys dressed in Iron Maiden t-shirts yelling and screaming. My body started to float until gravity shifted and I was standing on the "dome ceiling" where I could look "up" and have an overview of my childhood place. I figured I had to calm myself down in order for things to come to rest.

I started taking deep controlled breaths. The Iron Maiden guys stopped yelling and disappeared into their houses. I started to float back down to the street from my childhood. The sounds started to disappear.

My fairy guide appeared again with a white board that had a red dot on it.
"You need to clear your mind. Focus on the dot."

I started to stare at the dot and a crosshair appeared on the board and started to circle around the dot. The more I concentrated and relaxed the closer the crosshair got to the dot. I started thinking about all I had experienced so far and the crosshair started to bounce all over the place. "Focus!" I told myself.
"Clear your mind..."

The crosshair got closer and closer to the red dot. Suddenly everything went bright white. I thought of nothing - I heard nothing. My mind was experiencing total silence, total peace from all thoughts and emotions. The feeling lasted for maybe 5 seconds until a voice appeared in my head.
"Good job. Now you need to drink..."

Then I woke up in my bed. My body was completely numb, and my mouth was dried out.
I grabbed my water bottle, sipped down a huge clunk of it, grabbed my pen and started charting down what I had just experienced.

The lottery

2011-02-01T07:30:00.003+01:00

This is a follow-up post from the previous one.

The lottery I was in has 34 numbers.

These are the numbers I got from my dream:
7 8 9 2#9
# = I started writing a number and then I scratched it out and wrote 9 instead. So then I decided to take a guess at the number 2, number 9 and 29.

These are the results from the drawing:
3-9-10-12-15-27-32
Extra numbers: 19-31-33

The lottery ticket

In other words - I only landed 1 out of 34 possible numbers. (Number 9)
That can hardly be presented as "impressive results."

Psychic dream? Fail!

Psychic dreams?

2011-01-28T21:44:00.002+01:00

Category: Experiment
Lucid: Yes

I read about people having psychic dreams and how some have tried to guess the next week's lottery numbers through dreaming.

So I thought I would give it a go...

I made a plan that in my next lucid dream I would find next week's lottery numbers.
In a dream one of the following days I was lying in my bed looking at a blank piece of paper from my dream log notebook. I started writing down random numbers in a hurry... I ended up with four numbers, maybe five (depending on how I interpret the row of numbers). While looking at these numbers I became lucid ("This is a dream!") and thought to myself: "Is this some of next week's lottery numbers?"

The thrill woke me up instantly.

I've never had any signs that I might have psychic abilities, except for the occasional deja vu's that are pretty common for people to have. I haven't read about the scientific reasons for a deja vu, but in my own experience, especially since I started with this blog and becoming more aware of my dream world, a lot of my deja vu's feels like something I have dreamt before. So maybe deja vu's comes from (psychic) dreams?

So I went to the store and filled out a manual lottery ticket.
Ten rows - with seven numbers on each. Five of the numbers on each row consisting of the ones from my dream, and the other two numbers on each row just randomly selected.

This is the top part of my lottery ticket. The other half consist of my numbers.
I will reveal the numbers and the drawing results in my next post.

Seven correct numbers lands you the top prize. The drawing is tomorrow. We'll see how my experiment goes.

Word from my king

2011-01-25T07:23:00.007+01:00

Category: Message
Lucid: No

The king of Norway, king Harald, appeared in front of me.
"When you wake up, remember to snooze your alarm clock three times!"
Then I woke up to the sound of my alarm clock.

I did like I was told and snoozed the alarm for 10 minutes and fell back into sleep.
I did this three times, and in-between all the "snoozes" I had a new short vivid dream about meeting an old love from the past.

Thanks king Harald.
(This was actually my second dream about king Harald.)

Nightmare up in smoke

2011-01-22T12:03:00.006+01:00

Category: Nightmare
Lucid: Yes

I was in a pitch black room. I could hear voices and someone breathing down my neck. Desperately I fumbled around in the dark, looking for a door handle as my fear elevated with every second.

I recognized the touch of the room as the locker room at my school, so I managed to calm myself down and reason to where the door handle might be. Eventually I found it, yanked the door open, welcoming the bright light from the hallway outside, and started dashing down the hallway away from my pursuers.

This light seemed to give me a moment of clarity to realize I was dreaming. So I became lucid.

I stopped dead in my tracks and did a one-eighty. I noticed two monsters scrambling towards me. I started to sing a tune consisting only of the words "la la la". They stopped and tilted their heads to the side, like a dog discovering something unknown. I kept on singing while skipping towards them.

When I came face to face to them I smiled and said 'Hello'.
They evaporated into smoke, and I was alone in the bright hallway.

Pee worry

2011-01-21T07:38:00.000+01:00

Category: Bizarre
Hours of sleep: 7
Lucid: Yes

I woke up in my bed (WPR - waking physical reality) and I felt the need to go pee, but I was too tired to even bother getting up - so I fell asleep again.

In the dream that followed I instantly became lucid ("I am dreaming") because the urge to go to the bathroom had followed me into my dream world and was now haunting my dream emotions.

I walked over to a sink in the dream and started to "relieve my pressure" and while doing this I started to worry: "So I had to pee when I woke up in my bed early? Now in the dream world I am peeing in a sink. Could there be a risk that I am wetting my own bed as we speak? Or maybe I've been doing some sleep walking and I'm standing in my own bathroom peeing in the sink in synchronization with this dream? I have to wake up!"

I focused all my thoughts on waking up - and when I did - I was relieved to see my bed was still dry and the feeling of having to pee was still there. Not wanting to repeat my mistake, I got up and went to the bathroom.

Reach for the sky

2011-01-16T09:27:00.005+01:00

4:19 AM - Time of dream recording

Category: Superpowers
Hours of sleep: 5
Lucid: Yes

I was in a camper, and somehow I found this odd and became lucid. "I am dreaming!"

Not remembering any of the special projects I wanted to try out the next time I had a lucid dream I just ran out in the streets (in the dream) and started skipping around while humming a tune of my own.

Then I remembered reading about Robert Waggoner's attempt to fly as high as possible in his dream, like if he was trying to visit a god in "heaven".

So I gave it a go - to see how far up I was able to fly. Usually I just fly across lakes, and over rooftops - never straight up. I saw a bright light behind some clouds, which I figured was the sun, and started flying towards it while spinning around to gain a deeper lucidity. The flight started off pretty well, but suddenly the updrift stopped and I was caught mid-air before dropping down again. Like a jetpack that ran out of fuel. This probably happened because I was doubting my own abilities for this to be a successful attempt.

Luckily I landed on a roof. There I decided to fly up to the higher rooftops one by one until I got to the top one and give another attempt at flying up and through the clouds, but once I landed on one roof there was always a taller building somewhere else. So I went to rooftop to rooftop until my dream eventually collapsed without warning.

Testing the spinning technique

2011-01-05T21:25:00.003+01:00

Category: Experiment
Hours of sleep: 1.5
Lucid: Yes

I was sitting down on a couch having coffee with unknown people. The couch was sitting right outside the walls of the church my parents got married in. I found this fairly odd - so I become lucid. "This is a dream!"

It had been a while since my lucid dream and I had just got done reading Waggoner's book about lucid dreaming so I had a million things I wanted to try out.

The first thing that came to mind was trying to make my lucid dream more stable by spinning around (a technique first mentioned by Dr. Stephen LaBerge to prevent a lucid dream from collapsing).
So I started to spin. The scenery started to get all blurry, like it does if you spin really fast in waking physical reality, and I started to fear that I might actually be waking myself up doing this. So I stopped spinning, but the spinning blur didn't stop at first, it just kept on going to the left like if someone was smearing out the paint on a canvas. A blur came in from the opposite side and the two blurs collided, making a huge sonic-sci-fi-white-noise that is impossible to describe further as a lightning bolt flashed down in the middle and merged the two blurs together.

To my surprise I was still in the same dream, outside the church, with the same people. Only this time all details of the scenery was more vivid, and the dream characters sentences made a lot more sense - previously it was more gibberish.

Super-excited I yelled to the dream characters:
"Hey guys! I'm dreaming. This is a lucid dream!"
They just looked at me oddly.
"I can prove it!" So I started doing incredibly high jumps in front of them, and one of them, a woman yelled out:
"Oh wow! It's true! *turning to her male partner* Honey it's true! Now all your problems are fixed."
Her male partner looks at me with evil jealous eyes... probably pissed off because I impressed his girlfriend.

My own excitement of being this lucid and jumping around like an idiot blinds me to the fact that my dream is collapsing - and bam - I'm awake in bed.

Hopefully I'll be more calm next time - and now - while I'm awake, I'll make a better plan of what to do next time.

Lingering between two worlds

2010-12-30T08:04:00.002+01:00

This is not a dream entry, but a short post about something I experienced last night.

I awoke from a disturbing dream, where my family was in trouble, my friends had neglected me and my body had been covered with stress-related hives. I charted down the dream in my orange notebook next to my pillow so I wouldn't forget it the next morning.

After writing down the dream I tried going back to sleep again, using the counting technique I described in the previous post. After a while I start having a battle with myself. I am counting, but behind the counting lies other thoughts - or at first I think they're just thoughts, but eventually a part of me starts viewing it as a reality or a dream - as if I'm physically experiencing the thoughts. Kind of like I am hallucinating.

On one side I have an "awake" part of myself struggling to keep counting to get myself to fall asleep, and on the other side I have a "dreaming" part of myself walking around in a mall doing some christmas shopping, but my awake part is still keeping me informed that I am just lying in my own bed trying to fall asleep.

I'm being pulled back and forth between these two state of minds and after a while I start to get tired and a little sea-sickish, so I stop counting, open my eyes and just stare at my bedroom wall. I try resuming the counting but the tug of war returns. Frustrated I open my eyes again, take a short break and try to stop the room from spinning. I decide to stop the counting and just try to go to sleep the normal way.

Eventually I do.

Count your way to sleep

2010-12-30T07:46:00.003+01:00

When sitting down to read a book or an article my mind has a tendency to wander off into other thoughts while still reading the words, but not "taking it in" at all - lately, when this attention span breakdown happens, I've been doing a 10 second countdown where I stop reading and try not to think about, or visualizing, anything else but the number 10 counting down in my head, and I've been amazed at the effect that this has had on my concentration when my mind gets distracted. So what has this to do with dream(b)log?

Lately I've been impatient about falling asleep, because I have so many dream adventures I want to try out. I thought about different ways one can do to help yourself fall asleep faster - listen to calm music, binaural sounds, breathing exercises... then I thought about "counting sheeps". I remember trying to do that when I was younger and it didn't help, so these last couple of nights I've been doing a different version.

Closing my eyes in bed, I visualize the number 1. It's colored in bright white on a black background. I notice other thoughts in a transparent manner behind the number 1, but I try to focus hard on the "1". Then I start counting: "One... two... three... four..." always visualizing the number I am counting out loud in my head. I have no goal. No number "destination". I just count. At different times - sometimes at 150, sometimes around 300 - my mind starts to "flicker". I fall off the wagon and start thinking about something else, but I try to recuperate as fast as I can and resume the counting. (I've noticed this flickering occurs when I'm getting close to falling asleep, since I feel it is a product of my will giving up its control and surrendering to the sleep session ahead.)

Eventually I fall asleep, and when I wake up the next morning I can't remember which number I stopped at.

Healing hands?

2010-12-25T13:37:00.002+01:00

Category: Spiritual / Experimental
Hours of sleep: 9
Lucid: Yes

I was running down a road to catch a bus. Something struck me as odd and I became lucid.
"This is a dream."

Just to make sure, I started running faster and tried to do a jump - and sure enough - I leaped several feet in the air, lingered for a bit in mid-air, before floating down again. Wondering what to do with this lucid moment - I remembered reading, in Waggoner's book, about people who had used their lucid dream to provoke self-healing.

I have been struggling with pneumonia for a couple of weeks and still coughing like an old man on his death bed. Remembering what I had read, I tried to put "healing thoughts" into my hands. Waggoner reported that many people experience white light in their hands when they go into "healing-mode".
Greatly expecting my hands to burst into white light, I was pretty disappointed when nothing happened, but as I looked closer at my hands I noticed that they were sparkling - like small patches of glitter here and there on my fingers and my palms.

With my new-founded "sparkling healing hands" I started to rub my chest, my throat and my head always thinking about how I am healing myself... then I got interrupted by a woman asking what I was doing.
"Trying to get rid of my pneumonia!"
"Oh... I see... well... good luck with that..."
Then she lit a cigarette, took a deep breath and blew smoke in my face.

Then I woke up.
I guess time will show if I managed to speed up my healing process.

I suppose the scientific way to look at this "healing process" is that you trigger your mind to send more "healing process" to the area of your body that is damaged. Kind of like when you cut your finger, and it starts to throb immediately and blood starts rushing to the area for protection and to start the regeneration process.

Assassin?

2010-12-24T11:58:00.001+01:00

Category: Nightmare
Hours of sleep: 9
Lucid: No

I went to the movies and watched Tron:Legacy. There is a scene where duelists have to fight to the death.

The following night I had a dream about dueling against an asian girl. She had a knife in her hand and was trying to strike me down. It was a fight to the death - who would win? Me or her?

The next thing that happened was pretty psychotic.
I managed to disarm the girl and get the knife in my own hands. Then I went mad crazy on her and stabbed her over 20 times all over her body until she lay flat on the floor.

In shock of what I had done I dropped the knife and started walking away. I heard her scream behind me and when I turned around - the knife was being thrown after me, but I managed to dodge it.

Then I woke up.

Suiciding my way out of a nightmare

2010-12-22T13:30:00.006+01:00

Category: Nightmare
Hours of sleep: 6
Lucid: Yes

I am a crime scene investigator... CSI baby! Me and my crew are investigating a murder at a fancy mansion on top of a cliff. Suddenly all the doors slams shut and one of my colleagues starts laughing manically.

"I am the killer! And now I'm going to kill you too!"

In fear I take off running up a couple of stairs that leads to the roof of the mansion. When I'm on the roof and realize I have nowhere to go, I wait for the assailant to come up...

We stare at each other, and all of a sudden my fears disappear. I realize I am dreaming.
Normally I would try to befriend my nightmare by confronting him in a cool matter and ask what was wrong and why he wanted to kill me, a technique I learned and wrote about here.

But not this time... I decided to take a fast and easy way out. I would suicide myself out of it.
Knowing I was on top of a mansion sitting on the edge of a cliff, I smiled to the assailant and took off dashing across the roof and jumped off, threw my arms out and let myself fall down the side of the cliff into the pitch black void at the bottom...

But instead of waking up like I thought I would - I materialized outside some bakery in Greece. Scratched my head in wonder of what had just happened. And then I woke up.

Supernatural river rafting on Pandora (Avatar)

2010-12-22T13:10:00.005+01:00

Category: Superpowers
Hours of sleep: 6
Lucid: Yes

I am clinging on to two handles in the middle of a giant rubber raft floating down a calm river.
A mountain is coming up ahead and at the base there's a hole that creates a giant waterfall leading down to somewhere unknown. Somehow I just know that I am dreaming, so I'm not feeling any fear for the fall that is about to come.

I'm drawing closer to the drop point, and just before I get to the edge I grab the raft and perform a giant leap straight up in the air with the raft, angle it diagonally downwards and take off flying in diving mode into the hole where the waterfall starts.

I feel the wind around my head and my adrenaline is pumping. When I get to the other side (underneath the mountain) I am struck with awe over the amazing view. I have reached another world. All the colors. A warm evening sun in my face. Weirdly shaped trees. "Avatar" I tell myself in the dream.

Another "rafter" shows up next to me. I challenge her to a race down the, now wild, river. The speed is supernatural and I keep performing the jump and dive move from earlier to gain more speed and momentum and we are swooshing back and forth and underneath each other. My adrenaline level is spiking at this point and I end up waking myself up from all the excitement.

Date with Superman (me)

2010-12-10T07:45:00.003+01:00

Category: Superpowers
Hours of sleep: 7.5
Lucid: Yes

I was on a date that was going quite well. We were just walking around my home town, and we decided to head down to the harbor. When we went around the corner we were suddenly in a forest with a river right in front of us. Luckily I was aware enough to note this rapid scenery change as quite unrealistic. "This is a dream!"

I looked at my date and with a great grin on my face I asked: "You want to fly?"
The reply was: "No."
But I didn't care - I grabbed my date's hand and took off flying around the forest.

If someone did that to me on our first date I would be quite impressed.
So I felt pretty awesome doing this for my date.

When we landed we ran into two hippie guys crouched in front of a formation of gray rocks and one distinct blue one. One of the hippie guys asked me:
"Hey dude. We know you know you are dreaming. Do you think you can remember this stone sequence and show us when you wake up?

Here it is: (roughly sketched on Photoshop)

Fail to impress

2010-12-05T12:18:00.000+01:00

Category: Superpowers
Hours of sleep: 8
Lucid: Yes

I was standing outside a mall waiting for some friends. When the third one arrives, she's on a motorcycle and almost ends up wrecking the whole thing by almost crashing into some parked cars. Then she jumps off and acts like nothing is wrong. This makes me kind of suspicious, and I start to question the whole setting. "Where am I? Why are they here?" And I become lucid.

Excited I run over to my three friends: "Hey guys! Guess what? This is a dream! And I can prove it to you! I'm gonna run vertically up that wall all the way to the roof."
My friends don't say anything, they just smile back at me.

I run towards the mall determined to run up its wall, but realize there is a small wall, like a fence, in front of the main wall, and I start to question if I'll be able to run upwards on the small wall, shift gravity, then jump "downwards" to the other wall behind/underneath it, and then run up to the top.
I have shifted gravity in the dream world before, but it was not my intent when I did it then, it just happened.

So since I filled myself with doubt, that I should have learned not to do in this previous dream, I only ended up running halfway up the small wall, then doing a back flip off of it, and landing in a hunched position on the ground again. My friends start laughing at my attempt then they walk in to the mall.

FAIL!

Water park adrenaline rush

2010-12-05T12:03:00.004+01:00

Category: Adrenaline
Hours of sleep: 8
Lucid:Yes

The setting was a water theme park. I was standing in line on top of a giant water slide, with a tiny rubber raft in my hands. The raft had room for 6 people, so me and a bunch of strangers jumped in when it was our turn. I was in front.

The raft started sliding down, first a tiny drop in the slide... then I saw it: a giant, almost vertical, long drop was coming up ahead. I braced myself on the slide, getting ready for the drop. I wasn't scared, I was more pumped with adrenaline and getting ready for the gut-clenching emotional rush you get when taking different theme park rides.

(On a side note: this dream was based on a personal memory from a family vacation to Cyprus, where we visited a water theme park, WaterWorld Waterpark, and took the exact ride, Drop To Atlantis, that is described and illustrated above.)

The raft went down the big drop, and my belly started to tingle and of course I had to let out a little scream - but midway in the drop I realized that I was strangely lacking the hard-core emotions I usually feel when taking rides like this. BAM - lucidity hits me. "This is a dream."

The raft comes down to a giant lake, and we are forced to paddle with our hands to get to the dock where we could get off the raft. I started paddling with my hands only to realize we weren't moving at all. Luckily I was a quick thinker, and I thought: "I have to work in rhythm with the dream figures behind me." So I listened for their strokes, and eventually I could hear an even paddling rhythm. I joined in - and the raft took off across the water, and we ended up crashing into the dock.

Who knew that much speed could come out of just paddling your hands.
The dream world can be a fun place!

Using objects to fly: The pillow

2010-12-03T22:53:00.006+01:00

Category: Superpowers
Hours of sleep: 7
Lucid: No

I was standing on a platform in space with a big pillow in my arms.
Some army-looking guy walks up to me and says: "Okey. We're good to go."
I jump off the platform and start free-falling downwards. I put the pillow in-between my legs and it takes off flying towards a giant building that looks a lot like the Colosseum in Rome. The pillow climbs over the top of the outer wall and immediately I am hit with loud roars from a cheering crowd.

Apparently I am some flying superstar acrobat guy and all the people are my screaming fans.
I twist, turn and do loops over the stadium and the crowd loves it.
I notice a giant pool at the bottom, so I stand up straight on the flying pillow and do a back flip off of it, before angling my body into a dive down into the water. The crowd cheers even more.

But right before I hit the water, I am struck with a hint of hesitation, and all my confidence evaporates and I hit the water with a big belly splash and I wake up.

Lesson learned: There is no room for hesitation or doubt in the dream world. If you go at things totally fearless and confident - your wish is your command.

Searching for deeper meanings

2010-11-28T10:07:00.008+01:00

Category: Superpowers/self-research
Hours of sleep: 6
Lucid: Yes

I was running through gardens and leaping over fences in my mom's neighborhood.
With every leap I gained more altitude in the air. Eventually this nature-defying gravity loss made me realize I was dreaming.

Excited as usual I started flying around Superman-style, happy of being the master of my dream, but then I remember reading (in Waggoner's book) about characters in your dream and how you can ask them questions. Like what they represent in your dream.

I descended down to a group of people on the ground. When I landed I noticed it was my classmates from school. I went over to one of them, a guy, and asked: "Hey dude, what do you represent here?"

Expecting some amazing self-revealing, wake-up-callish, super-philosopical answer from the grand subconcious I eagerly listened to the response, determined to remember it so I could chart it down the second I woke up in bed. He casually turns his head to his right shoulder and says:
"I represent a porn site."

The answer was totally not what I had expected at all, and I couldn't do anything but burst out laughing, which set off my entire class around me giggling as well, and one by one they started revealing their grand "I represent"-secrets. One of the girls said: "I am the farter!" and then she started laughing hysterically. The other replies were somewhat similar, but I had stopped listening.

Shaking my head over the bizarre situation I was in - I woke up in bed.

Sledding

2010-11-28T09:48:00.003+01:00

Category: Bizarre
Hours of sleep: 6
Lucid: No

I was walking upwards on a giant car-trafficked bridge talking on the cell phone with my dad who was in his boat in the water down below. I agreed I would meet him when I got to the bottom of the bridge.

As I got over the top of the bridge and over to the side that started to descend I noticed all the snow, and from out of nowhere I pulled out a sled and started sledding down the bridge, swooshing back and forth in-between cars on the four-lane bridge gaining more and more speed the further down I came and without any fear of being hit by all the cars.

On a hill above I noticed a colleague of mine.
I called out her name and she turned around saying:
"YEAH! GO MIKAEL GO!"
I let out a scream of joy and continued down the bridge.
The dream ends.

Animorphing

2010-11-18T22:14:00.017+01:00

Category: Superpowers
Hours of sleep: 4
Lucid: Yes

Me and a friend walked into this huge, under construction, house that was being built right next to a steep mountain. We went to the top floor of the house to see if we could get closer to the mountain top.

The top of the house was all covered in glass, but with some wooden beams here and there.
Outside one of of the windows we could see an old scaffolding which lead to a narrow run-down wooden bridge that seemed to lead to the top of the mountain.
And for some reason lucidity hit me. "I'm dreaming!"

"How the heck are we going to get up there?" my friend asked.
With my brand new lucid confidence, I tell him: "Watch this!"

I rip a big chunk of wood out of one of the heavy beams carrying the roof. I start dashing towards the window. I throw the heavy piece of wood at the window, making it shatter into a thousand pieces, and as I jump through the window I morph myself into a black panther and start dashing across the wooden scaffolding and on to the narrow wooden bridge.

The bridge starts to shake, crack and give in to my weight and I start to feel that I won't make it to the top in time. I focus more and more on my fear of the bridge collapsing and the cracking sound gets louder and louder.

Yet again, I remember something from Waggoners book (mentioned in the previous post) about focusing on reaching your intended destination when traveling in the dream space, and not the struggles you may encounter on your way there, because that will only fuel that concern to make it even worse.

So I lift my panther head towards the top of the mountain where the bridge ends and I notice my paws are increasing in pace and I'm gaining an enormous amount of speed. I can sense that the bridge is starting to collapse behind me, but I am totally confident that I will make it in time.

And finally, I am at the top, feeling pretty good about how I managed to trick my dream with my own mind set, and how I managed to turn myself into a beast.

Here's a video from the online role-playing game World of Warcraft, that shows the transformation I made when I jumped through the window.

FAST FORWARD TO 1 M & 15 S.

Back in the womb?

2010-11-15T10:16:00.002+01:00

Category: Bizarre
Hours of sleep: 2
Lucid: YES

Before I start telling about the dream I want to share something quick:
I started reading Robert Waggoner's book 'Lucid Dreaming - Gateway to the Inner Self' yesterday before I went to bed.

In the first chapter he tells about his first lucid dream experiences, and I pick up another trick for checking if you are dreaming.
Before you go to bed you study your hands, and do a little mantra for yourself about how you will check your hands the next time you (i. e.) open your eyes. You say this mantra over and over again until you are too tired to do it anymore, then you lay down and go to sleep.

I'm on this giant old pirate-looking ship and huge waves are starting to come over the side of the boat.
One of the waves knock me off my feet and I slip'n'slide down the deck of the boat and fall down a hatch to the storage room inside the boat. Water keeps pouring in and I am bashed down into a corner.

I try to fight my way up to the upper deck again but the force of the incoming waves are keeping me pinned to a wall until I'm totally submerged in water. It gets dark and the waves are twirling my body in all directions until I eventually lose my orientation of what is up and what is down. Just as my fear of drowning starts to kick in - I have a slight tick in my thought process that says: "Look at your hands!"

So I do and I am amazed at what happens next.

The noise from the waves cease to drown my hearing. The water starts to feel warm, and the darkness turns into a dark red/pink atmosphere. I no longer need to hold my breath. It feels like I'm floating and I feel incredibly safe.

I look at my hands...
They are tiny. Tiny and pink. I study them for a while as I start to wonder about my whereabouts.

Someone grabs my arm and yanks me out of the liquid space, and suddenly I am flying across a dance studio at school and one of my teachers are saying: "You can fly! You can fly!"
And my classmates are applauding my supernatural abilities. I am still aware that I am dreaming, so I keep flying around in the room until I eventually wake up.

Awake in my bed, with my notebook next to me, I eagerly start to chart down what I had just experienced. As I write down my description of the "liquid space", I realize it's closely familiar to a fetus's environment during a woman's pregnancy...

Then I start to wonder if it had been a product of my imagination... or my memory.

A quick Google search tells me that memory doesn't start to develop until you are born... but how awesome would it be if that fact is false?

The evil bird

2010-11-15T09:40:00.005+01:00

Category: Bizarre
Hours of sleep: 8
Lucid: No

I'm on a forest path. Everything seems peaceful and quiet until a bird comes swooping down and starts pecking away at me. I grab it with one arm and I am surprised at how incredibly strong this bird is.

I try to hit it with my free hand, but I seem to have no strength in that arm.
I run over to a giant flat rock right off the path and I start bashing the bird against the rock until it's flat like a pancake. When I release the grip and start to back away from the now, presumably, dead bird, I can see it starts to puff itself up again as it starts to flicker with its wings.

I run deep into the forest and hide underneath a bush...
... and that's where the dream of the evil bird ends.

Controlling nature

2010-11-05T06:53:00.008+01:00

Category: Nightmare turns good
Hours of sleep: 7.5
Lucid: Yes!

I walk into a house, and apparently this is where I live, and it' nighttime. I notice that a balcony door is open, and I get struck with a feeling that there is a burglar in the house. I try walking over to an alarm box mounted on the wall to try and call for help, but it's not working. Scared I close my eyes and crouch down in a corner... then somehow I realize I am just dreaming. When I open my eyes I see a dark shadowy figure standing above me.

Instead of freaking out and making this nightmare worse, I pretend to have a romantic connection to this burglar (befriending your nightmare will release all your fears, and the nightmare will turn itself into something pleasant. Read about it here).
The burglar smiles, takes my hand and leads me out into the garden of the house... while walking in the garden I see a giant moon-lit bird up in the sky. I take it as an omen as of what my next move should be.

I turn to the burglar, I tell him goodbye, then I leap from the ground and take off flying through and over the woods.

It is still night-time when I approach this massive snowy mountain valley with a huge frozen lake in the middle. The sight is so grey and cold... and quite depressive.
I call out to the part of my brain that is creating this visual world: "Give me sunshine!"
... It's quiet for a couple of seconds while I'm hovering mid-air... and then the amazing thing happens.

A sun starts to rise in the east. I see rays of light start to dance over the landscape as daylight breaks through the gloom more and more.
As the sun gets higher, the lake starts to melt into vivid bluegreen water, the mountainside blossoms at an enormous pace, and the sky turns bright blue without a single sky on it. It is a magnificent sight - and the colors are amazingly strong.

I fly over the lake, high on joy, high on life, and impressed at what my mind has created.

"Give me sunshine!" In all aspects. :)

Stable lucidity

2010-11-01T20:58:00.005+01:00

Category: Ordinary
Hours of sleep: 8
Lucid: YES!

So I was walking through something that seemed like a student campus.
I felt a bit lost, because I didn't recognize any of the buildings - so I looked around for a sign somewhere and I saw a street sign.
Unfortunately it didn't help to clear up my situation, so I got a little suspicious.
I turned my head away from the street sign and then back again - and sure enough - the street sign had changed and was now flagging a different street name. I had performed a dream check* - and it worked out perfectly - I became lucid.

Instead of going into a hysteric/happy/excited mode that I usually go into when I feel the sensation of becoming lucid - I decide to take it slow, just relax and enjoy a little stroll around in my dream world with a clear conscious lucid mind.

I walk into a mall where I see some people and a bunch of different stores. While walking past all the stores I am amazed at how long I am able to stay lucid and instead of just enjoying it more I decide to see how much I can push the stability of this lucid dream.

I start doing something I've never done before; I actually start moving my gaze in extreme directions - I look up as hard as I can - down as hard as I can - and so on and so forth. Usually, in the dream world, I just move my head around to look around.

I of course end up waking myself up from the strain of the eye movement in the dream world, so I guess it was a failed experiment and I won't do it again!

Can't wait for the next lucid dream - wonder what I'll do then? ...

*dream check: a dream check is a way to check if you're in the "stable real life" or in a dream world. In this instance I read some letters on a street sign twice, and they didn't match the second time. In the dream world, nothing is stable. As soon as you turn your back on something it will be different when you look at it again. You can also do this by checking the time on a clock or a watch for example. Or looking at a person twice.

Déjà vu

2010-11-01T20:42:00.000+01:00

Category: Ordinary
Hours of sleep: 8

Lucid: No

I was standing in front of a house - just observing it because it was pretty nice house I tell yah!

Suddenly I get hit by a sense of déjà vu:
"I've seen this house before!"
I say to the mysterious person who just materialized next to me out of nowhere.
"Oh really?"
"Yeah... it's pretty!"

Then I wake up in my bed and chart down the experience, pleased with noticing that you can have a sense of déjà vu in the dream world as well.

The stunning view from a creative mind

2010-10-25T07:23:00.005+02:00

Category: Visually breathtaking
Hours of sleep: 8
Lucid: No

I was standing on the river bank as my vision was coming to.
A bright red light nearly blinded my eyes and I had to cover them with my hands.
It was the sun coming up from across the field - the bright red light of dawn.

As my eyes adjusted to the new light I noticed something even more incredible.
Instead of seeing the tiny moon, like we are used to, up in the sky - there was another huuuuge planet floating in the air, and it looked quite similar like earth, except it had a lot more oceans to it and more small patches of earth. Since the planet was so close to Earth, I could see all the details - from mountain ranges, jungles, and deserts. The sight was so spectacular that I just had to stand there and smile in total awe.

The greatness of the planet, the level of details and the hot red sun that filled the setting with warm light made me realize how amazing your imagination can be in your dreams.

Escaping villains

2010-10-25T06:16:00.003+02:00

Category: Superpowers
Hours of sleep: 8
Lucid: Half-way

So there I was - Batman himself - battling against Poison Ivy.
Eventually she became too powerful for me to handle so I started running.
"Where are you running to Joker?"
Baffled I looked at myself and realized that I had just turned into The Joker.

I saw some green vines and lianas crawling towards me so I picked up the running again until I reached a waterfall by a river, I start dashing harder and take a leap of faith down the waterfall and just before I'm about to hit the water I spread out my arms and I start floating along the water instead before re-adjusting my course upwards and start flying over the trees. Filled with a victorious feeling I hear the return of "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Bohemian Flying - apparently I have a thing about flying to this song) and I celebrate my escape from Poison Ivy.

As I land on the river bank I get a feeling of waking up - so I close my eyes and let the feeling of awaking consume me - when I open my eyes again my vision is all blurry, and I think to myself that it is only an effect from being asleep for so long, but without realizing it then I have awoken into a new dream...

The paralyzing deep sleep

2010-10-14T07:19:00.002+02:00

Category: Bizarre
Lucid: No

I did a little experiment before I went to bed the other day.
I tried mashing together all available relaxation options I had at home.

- I lighted some candles, one of them scented
- I put my nail mat on my bed and lied down on my back
- I put my feet up on two huge pillows at the end of my bed
- I put on my headphones and turned on an app on my iPhone which sends binaural beats into your ears to affect your state of mind. (Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_beats )

The result?

I fell fast asleep... a really really deep one.
I started dreaming about meeting one of my teachers at school, and suddenly the whole dream world went pitch dark and I could only hear the voice of my teacher telling us we had to stick together to be able to get out of this darkness.
My legs felt weak and I had problems walking, my head felt like it had tripled in weight and I started having trouble breathing... while stumbling over a rocky landscape, gasping for air and feeling blind I suddenly woke up in my bed again.

I was still wearing my headphones, still lying on the nail mat and there was still a candle left that hadn't burned out. I took the headphones off, removed the nail mat, blew out the final candle, and went back to bed.

I returned to the same dream almost - still having the physical sensations that I had earlier.
It started to get harder and harder to breathe, until I eventually started choking and woke up in my bed again. My pillow was covered in drool and I was breathing heavily.

Apparently I had been relaxing to deep when falling asleep and it had paralyzed my entire physical system somehow.

Eyes in the sky

2010-10-05T22:03:00.005+02:00

Category: Bizarre
Hours of sleep: 7
Lucid: No

I had a bird's eye view of a huge battlefield.
(Kind of like the Command & Conquer series illustrated below.)

I was one of the soldiers on the ground.
I was moving around like normal, thinking like normal, and talking to others like normal - but still observing everything from a bird's eye view in the sky.

When I woke up in real life - I realized the strangeness of what had just happened.
Observing and controlling your body like normal, but from a distance.

Like I plucked my eyes out and stuck them to a cloud in the sky.

Comic (dream) relief!

2010-10-02T21:56:00.002+02:00

Category: Ordinary

Hours of sleep: 7

Lucid: Yes

I was at a friends house back in my home town. Apparently I was "aware enough" during this dream so I realized I was dreaming and became lucid.

While figuring out what to do about this dream freedom that was just delivered to me, there's a heavy knocking on the front door of the house I was in. I tried ignoring it, but someone on the other side kept knocking. Annoyed I walked over to the door and yanked it open.

On the other side was a bunch of drunk football fans cheering: "HEEEEY! Time for an after party!"
Annoyed I snarled at them and slammed the door shut
- just before it closed the whole drunk gang, sighed heavily:
"Aaaaaaaw :( :( :( " and bowed down their heads like a bunch of little boys that didn't get what they want.

Alone on the other side of the, now closed, door, I started laughing at the comical sight of grown-up men sobbing.

Feels good when dreams can make you giggle!

So easily fooled (A dream within a dream)

2010-09-30T05:50:00.000+02:00

Category: Ordinary
Hours of sleep: 7
Lucid: No

I was on a train - a train which insides looked like a house.
There was a living room, a bathroom, and a kitchen in it.

I walked into the kitchen because I was hungry - and I noticed a pancake frying in a pan, but no one else around - my dreamy self guessed that it was my dad making pancakes.

Then I woke up at my grandmother's house and walked out to her kitchen and my dad was making pancakes here as well, and he asked me if I had slept well, and I tell him about my "pancakes on a train" dream.

Then I wake up AGAIN - but this time in real life.
I give myself a little mental slap in the face for not noticing, first of all, that I was on a very weird train in the first dream, and second of all, that I managed to fool myself thinking I had awoken into real life when it was in fact a dream that I could have potentially gained lucidity in.

Oh well - next time!

The limitless dreamworld

2010-09-26T10:49:00.004+02:00

Category: Ordinary
Hours of sleep: 8
Lucid: No

I was back in my old hometown - and my whole class and two of my teachers at my school were there, and they demanded that their students were in good shape - so - we were ordered to go for a run.

I started dashing hard down the street, amazingly fast, trying to outrun everyone else. And the longer I ran the more I was surprised that I didn't feel fatigue at all. I was still pumped with energy, my pulse remained steady and my breathing was the same as if I was lying down on my couch.

That's what's so great about the dream world - it's totally stripped of the laws of nature and the boundaries of the physical body that we are used to in the real world. And when you become lucid you know you can take complete advantage of this "defect" - you can be your own superhero... or even better... be your own god!

Feeling in the dream world - feeling in the real world

2010-09-24T07:59:00.004+02:00

Category: Ordinary
Hours of sleep: 8
Lucid: No

I was at a wedding reception and I was dancing with some other people out on the dance floor.
The newlyweds walked up to me and said they wanted to give me something - they gave me a ring and a bracelet. They said that they had worn these on their first date a few years back - and they wanted me to have them - as good luck charms for finding my own future spouse. I was so touched by this I started crying... or more sobbing... and then I woke up with a bittersweet feeling - one of sadness because I had just been crying - but also a good one because they had been so nice to me.

Anyways...
It's an interesting thing to experience - when your emotions in the dream world is carried with you into real life just as you awake - only to slowly evaporate as the seconds in wake life pass.

This is just another example about how active your body and mind is even tho' your body and mind is "sleeping" in the real world. If you get pain, or somebody hits you, in your shoulder your nerve system will respond in the real life - as if the brain can't distinguish the difference between "dream feel" and "real feel", but of course it can... or else everyone would be sleepwalking and doing exactly what they were doing in their dreams...

Examples:
- Let's say you are drowning. When you finally wake up from that nightmare - you will usually gasp for air the moment you wake up.

- Or you'll have a dream about having a killer on your heels and you will wake up with a slightly faster heart pace than you usually would.

- Or like when I have my lucid dreams - I sometimes get so excited - that I get over-filled with the famous "butterflies in my stomach"feeling so I wake myself up - still with the butterflies in my stomach.

The giant wolf

2010-09-24T07:50:00.003+02:00

Category: Thriller

Hours of sleep: 8

Lucid: No

I was standing on the front lawn of a house. A girl was standing next to me and we were just talking. Suddenly her face turned white and she said we had to get into the house. She was staring at something behind me so I turned around.

Aabout a block away, a huge wolf was sitting on the sidewalk, just staring at us.

We started running towards the house - and so did the wolf - we got in just in time and the wolf started pacing impatiently in front of the door.

Grabbing a huge plate of left-over food we threw it out through the door, closed it, and then ran through the house and out the back door.

Teleporting and defying gravity (LUCID dream!)

2010-09-19T00:22:00.005+02:00

Category: Superpowers
Hours of sleep: 8
Lucid: YES!

I was standing on a city beach - and I guess something about this scene made me realize I was in a dream.

When you become lucid in the dream world, you have two choices:
1) Take complete control of your dream completely and change everything about it
2) Go where the dream takes you, but knowing you have the ability to control it when needed/wanted.

So this time I decided to go with number 2 - just tag along with my imagination.

So I was standing on this beach - overlooking a Manhattanish city. I locked my eyes on the rooftop of a skyscraper far far away. I decided to try something I never had before. Usually I would just try to fly to the top of the building - today was a time to try something new.

I closed my eyes and imagined myself on top of the building - when I opened them again I was standing on the rooftop looking down at the beach far far away. I had teleported.

There was this crazy rich dude who apparently owned this rooftop or something and he was yelling at me to get the hell off his roof. He had some friends with him who were awkwardly by-standing this whole situation.
With a grin on my face I walked over to the ledge off the roof and said:
"Ok. I'll get off."

I made a giant leap for it and jumped off the rooftop, turned around in mid-air, and froze in the air, lingering for a moment in silence to feel the experience of being weightless.

"Hey, dude!" I said to the rich asshole, and made him turn around.
I gave him the finger and all of his friends started laughing - then I closed my eyes, tilted my head back and let myself fall down the side of the building until I crash-landed in a pool at street level.

Here, my school peers where throwing a party for me, and they asked me to tell the story about the girl who stole something from me.

Not knowing what they were talking about, I decided to use this situation to test my retorical skills in a dream. So I made up a story as I went along about how a girl stole my vagina and that's why I was a boy today. They laughed, we toasted and then I woke up.

Dream reruns!

2010-09-17T07:34:00.002+02:00

Category: Supernatural
Hours of sleep: 8
Lucid: No

Yet again I had a dream like this one:
http://dream-b-log.blogspot.com/2010/08/disappointing-flexibility.html

When I was a kid they used to say: "If you dream the same dream twice - it will happen in real life!"
So I guess I'll just keep on stretching!

Where did my halo go?

2010-09-16T20:27:00.003+02:00

Category: Action
Hours of sleep: 8
Lucid: No

Lately I've been having lots of dream about fighting against people... physically! And I've always been the goody-two-shoes kid, and I have never hit anyone in my life.

Last night I ran into the maid from Will and Grace, Rosario, and we started taking swings at each other. At one point she kicked me in the stomach and broke a couple of ribs - I replied by kicking her in the chest so she flew backwards. Enraged she ran towards me. I grabbed her wrist and broke it right off her arm. She started crying and ran away. Poor Rosie!

In another dream, the same night, I was on a huge cruise ship that was being invaded by NAVY Seal-looking guys armed with machine guns. I was armed with nothing but my hands - and in pure Matrix style I beat the crap out of the entire force.

Where is all this aggression coming from?

Altering physics (LUCID dream!)

2010-09-14T21:12:00.001+02:00

Category: Superpowers
Hours of sleep: 6
Lucid: YES!

I was in the house where I grew up. Something made me suspicious about the whole thing being real life - primarily because the house I grew up in is not in family possession anymore.

A TV was on nearby and I did a dream check - I looked at the picture on the screen - turned away - and when I looked back it was completely different - I did this again - and the picture had changed totally. (The images had no connection to each other at all.)

In the amazement of realizing I was dreaming I started dashing out to the 2nd floor balcony of the house, grabbed the railing on the balcony and flipped myself over so I was hanging on the top of the railing, and pressing off with my feet on the lower part... at this moment I made gravity shift... it was like the world flipped over from a vertical angle to a horizontal one and I lost connection with my feet to the railing and my lower body came down so I was just haning on to the railing with my hands - below me was only clear blue sky - I let go - and as I was falling gravity shifted back to normal and I landed on the lawn.

At this moment I started dashing at a super-high speed - and my amazement of being lucid did something to the lighting of the dream world - you know how dreams often are a bit dark and blurry?

But now, being in a lucid state, it was like someone turned on the lights and everything got brighter, and I could see clear colours, the texture of the grass, the birds in the sky - the feeling is so hard to describe - this was my world - my world created in my mind - with my rules - and I could do whatever I wanted to. It made me super excited! Like lucid dreams usually does!

I just kept on running and jumping at super speed and super height until the excitement woke me up at 4:30 in the morning in my boring dark bedroom in my real, not so boring, life.

Jack Frost ITH!

2010-09-13T07:29:00.000+02:00

Category: Bizarre
Hours of sleep: 8

Lucid: No

I was in a house with some friends, when all of a sudden bullets started crashing through the window and we all had to take cover on the floor. Through the window came a bunch of snowmen with rifles in their hands - ready to kill!

An instinct in me told me to fight these snowmen off - so I started "kung fu'ing" with one of the snowmen and I managed to grab the rifle from him and started firing off at all of the intruders. As I hit them in the head they exploded into yellow water - maybe it was urine - it was gross either way.

A little girl came in and told us that the source of the evil snowmen was located in her backyard - so we all went there to try and shut the whole thing down - but when we got there the dream went in another direction that I can't make out clearly - something about cuddling with a bulldog, and having an argument with someone about something - it's a bit fussy!

Dawn of the naked

2010-09-09T07:40:00.003+02:00

Category: Bizarre
Hours of sleep: 5
Lucid: No

Me and a friend entered a dark gloomy house. In the room next door there was a spiral staircase leading down to the basement. I went down first, and she followed me, I stopped at the bottom of the staircase and peered out into the basement. I said I didn't want to go further - she sighed and pushed me aside and started walking into the dark hallway.

A shimmer of light appeared at the end of the hallway - and I gasped at what I saw:
"COME BACK! NAKED OLD GUYS!"
A parade of chubby naked men were running towards us, and scared to death I started dashing up the staircase again, with my friend in my heels - the staircase seem to go on and on and we never got to the top - eventually, in the realization of what we were running from, we both started laughing while climbing the stairscase - then I woke up at 3 A.M. in the morning.

Not ready!

2010-08-08T10:42:00.000+02:00

Category: Ordinary
Lucid: No
Hours of sleep: 8

I walked in to an aerobics convention and saw my name on the list of instructors for two classes.
Freakin' out I run to my boss to make sure that this is correct - she says I'm only suppose to have one class - and it's a class I've never had before - reggaeton aerobics.

With only two hours of preperation to go until class start I run off out of the building to fetch some music somewhere else... while running the dream fades out and I wake up in my bed - and my body and mind is totally stressed out over this - luckily it doesn't take long for me to snap back to reality and realize it was all just a dream. *phew*

Disappointing flexibility

2010-08-03T14:00:00.000+02:00

Category: Supernatural
Lucid: No
Hours of sleep: 8

In real life I'm working my ass off to become as flexible as possible for my dancing - so it's really disappointing to wake up to realize that it was only a dream when I held my leg straight up in the air with my knee meeting the side of my head - one day - one day I tell yah!

Dreaming/lucid dreaming, as I've mentioned before, is used by some athletes to visualize and improve their techniques - like a javelin thrower would dream the perfect running technique into a throw - or a golf player would practice his swing - or, like I did, practice my tour en l'air (ballet jump) here.

In the dream world you are liberated from all physical laws of nature which makes you able to experience things in slow-motion, with little or no gravity and in a bigger or more concentrated form than in the real world.

Royal meditation

2010-05-01T09:16:00.000+02:00

Category: Bizarre
Lucid: No
Hours of sleep: ?

I had a dream about being at a tai-chi workshop. (Tai-chi is a meditational martial arts style.)
We were working in pairs, and I was paired up with the King of Norway, King Harald the fifth.

Later me and "Harald" took a sip of a protein shake, before we were gonna go to the track and have a sprint-off in a 100 m dash. I woke up before the race started, but I have a feeling I would've won! I mean... he's 73 years old!

Bohemian flying

2010-03-21T17:54:00.000+01:00

Category: Superpowers
Lucid: Yes

For the first time ever I've actually noticed, and listened to, music in my dream.

Dreaming I was at my dad's house, Queen's song Bohemian Rhapsody came on and a dance teacher I know was suddenly having a dance class in my dad's bedroom with a bunch of people.

And of course this was so weird, so lucidity kicked in immediately with the Queen tune still blaring.
Feeling like doing something overdramatic with this amazing song, I ran outside and started dashing down the driveway of the house. And just as Freddie sang out "mamaaaa" I opened my arms and took of flying into the air..... "didn't mean to make you cry... I sometimes wish I never been..." - now doing a loop in the air - "... born at aaaaaaaaall!"

How dramatic! ... and here's the song if you haven't heard it before - love it:

Real emotions?

2010-03-21T17:35:00.000+01:00

Ever thought about what kind of feelings you get while dreaming?

Last night I dreamt I was approached by one of my teachers who asked if I was feeling alright.
I told him I was sad because I had lost two people real close to me and tears started running down my face and I acutally started sulking in my dream, and it felt just like it does in real life. You usually have fear in a nightmare, or indifference or happiness in a regular dream... but sadness in a dream was a totally new experience.

In another dream I was at my grandmother's house and there were a bunch of pets lying around the living room. (All familiar pets that I've met through friends and family.)
I walked over to one of the dogs to say goodnight. After saying my goodnights and giving it a pet on the head, I noticed it was only a "Hello Kitty! alarm clock".

Finding this very hilarious (the fact that I had just said goodnight and pet an alarm clock) I started laughing hysterically. You know the kind where you laugh so hard you can't breath?
Well, I laughed so hard that I couldn't breath. Not at all. I was choking myself in my dream.

Things went black, and I woke up in my bed gasping for air. Apparently I had been choking myself in real life to, or just fooling my brain and lungs to have "gasping reflex" the second I woke up.

A bit scared, and a bit dumbfounded, I crashed my head down on the pillow again, smiled to myself, and took a deep breath out of the sensation I got from my new experience with laughing in the dream world.

Haha!

Exploding guns

2010-03-21T17:10:00.000+01:00

Category: Bizarre
Lucid: No
Hours of sleep: 8

I was at school, and all my classmates had a gun in their hand and our teacher was showing us how to use them.

One of the guns exploded in a classmate's hands and the whole room catched fire.
I ran over to the fire alarm and activated it, and we all ran out in fear of the flames.

Then I woke up. Short and weird dream!

Flying with the world as my canvas

2010-03-21T17:07:00.000+01:00

Category: Superpowers
Lucid: Unsure
Hours of sleep: 6

This is a dream from a couple of nights ago.

I was at my grandma's house by the beach, but the well-known calm neighborhood was different.
Skyscrapers had been built on the property next to my grandma.

Unhappy about this I took a giant leap up in the air and was airborne looking down at the sabotaged neighborhood. Determined to wipe these skyscrapers away.... I literally did just that... flying around the area; I took out my hand and started gesturing it in a sweeping motion.... as I sweeped the skyscrapers were replaced with green meadows... pleased with my new-found power I decided to wipe out all the neighbor's houses until it was only my grandma's house left in the middle of a giant green meadow next to the beach.

A work of art!

In a loop

2010-03-07T18:14:00.001+01:00

Category: Action

Lucid: No

Hours of sleep: 6

I was in a plane on an air strip with two of my friends. One of them was driving the plane.

The plane started shooting down the runway, and in a couple of seconds we were airborne.

I thought we were climbing kind of steep so I commented this to my friend:

"Careful so you don't start going the other way!"

My friend turned to me and smiled, and then she yanked the steering wheel backwards and before I knew it the plane was doing a huge loop in the air and I was hanging upside down from my seat in the cabin, adrenaline pumping and my stomach turning its own loops like when you're on a roller coaster.

Coming out of the loop we were pretty close to the ground and I was sure we were going to crash, but the plane leveled and soared on.

Tie me up!

2010-03-07T01:46:00.004+01:00

Category: Bizarre
Lucid: No
Hours of sleep: 5

I was working in an office, and next to my desk I had my dog in a cage.
I opened the cage and hooked the leash on to take it for a walk.

As we started walking I turned my back on the dog, and when I turned back the dog had been replaced with a man... still with the leash on... he didn't say anything. He just obediently kept following me and still keeping the leash loose. I jumped on a city tram, and met a friend of mine there, and she asked me who I was with. The man no longer had the leash on him, and he was talking freely about what a great day it was.
I glanced at the screen on the tram to see what the next stop would be...
"Next stop: If." Wherever or whatever that is!

Explicit lucidity

2010-02-27T18:37:00.001+01:00

Category: Ordinary
Lucid: Yes!
Hours of sleep: 9

Yeah, I was incredibly lucid last night... I mean... really really lucid! Can't remember the last time I was that clear and focused in a dream!

In the first part I was at work, and something felt kind of odd or misplaced with the surroundings and the mood. So I went over to read a poster and it said something like: "Live a great healthy life!"
So I did the lucidity check trick, where you turn away and then back again to recheck what you just observed... and sure enough... the poster had changed: "Life!"
Bang... lucidity hits me and I've just entered a world where no laws of nature or man exists! And I went and had a little fun!

I had another dream later where I was at my grandma's house and there was, here as well, an eerie feeling to the whole thing - so I decided to check out her shed and went to pick up the keys hanging on it's usual spot on the wall. The number said: "36"... I did a recheck, like above, and the number changed to "366" before transforming into "35". Realizing I was lucid, again, I ran out to the back yard and pondered about what my next move should be... I decided to run through the neighborhood to see what I could find... leaping tall fences with ease before reaching a neighbors house and upon entering I woke up...

Let it snow...

2010-02-25T21:49:00.002+01:00

Category: Sports
Lucid: No
Hours of sleep: 9

In these olympic times I actually dreamt I went snowboarding down a mountain side! ... and it felt great!

Maybe I should make an effort to start snowboarding again? Hmm....

A vague motion picture

2010-02-23T01:03:00.001+01:00

Category: Movie
Lucid: No
Hours of sleep: 6

So... I vaguely remember last nights dream:

I was in some kind of movie... starring Jessica Alba and Queen Latifah.
(Basically this movie was a merge between Fantastic Four and Taxi.)
I was trying to save someone, and my sidekick was some figurine that kept transforming back and forth between the former mentioned.

And after figuring out this puzzle thingie, and fighting a robot... mission accomplished!

Lucid observation

2010-02-17T22:25:00.004+01:00

Category: Ordinary
Lucid: Yes!
Hours of sleep: 8

For the first time turning lucid in a dream... I decided to do.... nothing!

I was in this big busy city square and people were scurrying around. Things were kind of weird and out of place. That's how I realized I was dreaming and entered the lucid state. And what did I do? I climbed up a ledge and sat down and just observed my dream world being created from my mind... just sitting there thinking: "I know I'm dreaming... I know I can do whatever I want now... my imagination is my limitation... but I'm just gonna sit here and do nothing!"

Usually I get over-excited and start to try flying or perform magic and only end up waking myself up against my will... to my surprise - when I relaxed... and just almost didn't care about turning lucid, the dream world became a whole lot clearer. I could hear my thoughts loud. I could hear people talking. Notice the blue sky.

I saw a skyscraper far away being built - a couple running a fruit stand - I looked at the unoriginal fountain gushing out water in the middle of the plaza - cars swooshing by - people hurrying around with their busy lives... "And this is all from my head..." I thought... "... interesting."

Phobia

2010-02-14T21:22:00.003+01:00

Category: Nightmare
Lucid: No
Hours of sleep: 5

So I've never had those "hollywood nightmares" where you wake up half-way out of bed, eyes wide open, gasping for air and feeling fear in your gut... until the other night...

I was in a forest with some guy. Just hiking, enjoying nature, nothing special.

We left this camp site, and I had forgotten something there so I quickly had to dash back to the camp to get it. After retrieving it, I turned around, and this old lady jumped me, slammed me to the ground and pinned me down so I couldn't move. I tried kicking her in the head resulting in my legs getting pinned as well. So now I was lying completely unable to move with an old lady standing above me laughing hysterically.

In real life I suffer from confinement phobia. If someone holds me against my will, or I'm in an over-crowded space, I freak out! This is probably why I couldn't conquer this nightmare like I have with the others these last months. The fear in the nightmare was too overwhelming.

I shook, jerked, yelled and cried. Nothing helped. So I tried calming down, and to stop fighting it. This is when I realized that it was all just a dream. Surging with new hope I started yelling out: "I'm just dreaming! Wake up!! HELP! Wake up god damn you!" Taking a deep breath and tensing all my muscles I decided to go for one final hard yank........... YANK!!

The old lady looses her grip, my upper body flaps up from the ground, the trees in the forest turns blurry, and then it's all dark for a split second and then I'm sitting upright in my bed staring dead ahead at the wall of my bedroom, trying to catch my breath and trying to calm down. I'm awake.

The werewolf

2010-02-14T21:10:00.004+01:00

Category: Action/nightmare

Lucid: No

Hours of sleep: 9

So me and two other guys were standing outside this complex.

Inside was our mission objective:

- Retrieving an ally

Around the complex there was this huge pink force field barrier that we couldn't get through, but after running around the entire thing we found a small crack in the barrier and managed to bash our way in.

On the inside we were greeted by a couple of dudes with heavy machine guns.

While my two comrades distracted them I got to run to rescue our buddy.

I got to a small corridor ending up in a tiny room with a window looking out to the courtyard.

There I saw some people releasing this huge werewolf with blonde fur who ran towards me and crashed through the window.

I had two choices; fight or run.

I decided to fight him... this is where I turned into some kind of human-tiger-hybrid and we both started jumping, kicking and slashing at each other, jumping off the walls and sliding on the floor.

A whistle sounded from afar and the werewolf stopped fighting and said that I should just leave, before he dipped his head and sobbed.

I asked if something was wrong.

He said he was being held captured, and wanted to escape. I told him I would help him escape... and then I woke up.

Another example about how if you don't feed your nightmare with more fear, but face it instead and try to send out positive signals like bravery or kindness the nightmare will abruptly end... of course the challenge is to realize you are dreaming, or be though enough to stand up to your fear even tho you are unaware that you are dreaming.

Your precious?

2010-02-09T07:35:00.004+01:00

Category: Action

Lucid: Somewhat

Hours of sleep: 7

I "awoke" in my dream when someone called me and told me "the 'a''s Annabelle has been stolen." So I got up and started dashing out of my house until I got to a ship moored by a pier, and apparently this "Annabelle" was a giangt church bell that someone had stolen.

Some freakishly looking dude approached me then, and said: "That's a really nice ring you got there!"

I looked down and noticed I had a purple ring like the Akatsuki in the Japanese tv-show Naruto wears. (Like the one in the picture on this post.)

"GIVE IT TO ME!" the demon, that I now realized the freakish man was, said to me.

I refused and started running down a hill... and of course... like in every other dream when you try to run... I couldn't run fast at all. So I tried jumping, finding myself gliding down the hillside and this is where I half-way realized that in this world I could fly.

(So I consider myself half-lucid in this dream.)

So this is when I took off flying away from this crazy dude... I flew over mountains and lakes, and descended in a forest only to turn around and notice the guy was still on my tail.

"Give it! You have nowhere to go!"

I made a deal with him that I would come with him to his leaders to hand over the ring. He accepted the offer, and then I woke up.

From pee to gays to rooftops!

2010-02-07T01:12:00.003+01:00

Category: Bizarre
Lucid: No
Hours of sleep: 9

So yeah, this dream is waaaay too long to recollect and write down everything that happened, but basically it was a dream that went from morning to afternoon to evening.

It started out with me having an argument with my divorced parents early in the morning, and my sister throwing a tantrum over my dad's apparently new girlfriend. After the fighting was over I took a quick shower in the bathroom and peed in the shower even though the toilet was in the shower anyways. (An overshare? Too bad! :P)

Then we went shopping at Walgreens and I realized I was in Sioux Falls, South Dakota (not far from where I did a semester at SD State a couple of years back in real life) and I met my old roommate from college and we sat down by the check-out to make fun of a crazy cashier lady who said all sorts of funny stuff to her customers.

Then we went outside and I noticed topless boys wandering around in couples holding hands, and we were apparently in the gay district of Sioux Falls (even tho' I don't think it exists in real life --- to my knowledge at least) and all single guys were whistling at me as I walked by. (Thanks for the compliment! hehe)

I returned to the parking lot at Walgreens to regroup with my family, but I couldn't get to the other side of the store to the parking lot where they were waiting for me because the path around the store was blocked. So I started climbing over the store instead, only to notice seconds later that I was 15 floors above the ground experiencing a sudden shift in gravity finding myself suddenly hanging by two weak hands down to a certain death. Shimmying my way across the roof I got to a small plateau where there windows looking in on a rooftop restaurant. Desperate to get inside I kicked the glass and jumped in.

My "American mom" (host mom) was there waiting for me: "Oh there you are! Ready to go?"

And then I woke up.

Sacrificial jump?

2009-10-03T16:09:00.006+02:00

Category: Action/superpowers
Lucid: Yes
Hours of sleep: 9

I was in a hotel room. Someone knocked on my door. When I didn't answer it right away, they kicked the door open and two big guys with guns came in.

I ran to the window and looked outside. I was so high up I couldn't even see the sidewalk at the bottom. Just pitch-black darkness. I climbed out of the window, slid down a pipe, jumped over to an open window and climbed in. The old woman in that room started screaming, and before I got a chance to shut her up, the door flew open and even more men came in and pointed their guns at me.

A rapid thought struck my mind: "Hold it. This is all very strange..." I searched for a mirror in the room, looked at it, and saw the reflection of a blonde woman "that's not me! ..."

With a short burst of more adrenaline as I realized, "I am dreaming!", I looked back at the men with the guns. "Catch yah later!"

I turn 180 degress and run towards a closed window and jump head first out the window. As the glass and wood shards clears around my head I still see the pitch-black darkness way down there as I'm free falling down the skyscraper.

I spread out my arms... "Fly!"

And like a parachute opening from a backpack I get yanked backwards, before entering a mode of floating slowly downwards, around the building, and down the street.

Safe from harm... and with a grin on my face.

Mikael ONE - Nightmare ZERO!

2009-09-30T21:06:00.012+02:00

Category: Nightmare

Lucid: Yes

Hours of sleep: 5

Standing on a crowded (outdoor) subway station I observe speeding cars and sirens coming towards the station and skidding around the corner behind a building.

Suddenly a mad man comes running towards the station with a huuuuge bolt cutter in his hand. He starts whacking down random people on the station platform, and everyone starts running in frantic panic. While I'm running I hear the crazy man call out my name and saying he wants to talk about options with me. (?)

I run for my life until I get on top of a hill with a rooftop a couple of yards away... instinctually I jump towards the roof soaring several feet in the air before crash landing on the roof, and then resuming my dashing, away from the mad man. As I'm running, I start questioning how I managed to pull of an in-humane jump like that.

POP! Lucidity kicks in! "Oooh... I'm dreaming!"

Remembering reading about how to cope with nightmares in Dr. LaBerges book, Lucid Dreaming, I stop and turn around to face "the killer". He stops dead in his tracks and look at me with a nasty face expression and his giant bolt cutters held high, like if he's ready to charge me. Slowly I walk towards him, reach out my hand and say:

"Sorry... sorry if I have done something to offend you."

The man reluctantly grabs my out-reached hand, looks at it, then at me.

Smiling, he transforms into a friend of mine, who doesn't understand where he is, or how he got there, and my anxiety has gone away.

Laughing and celebrating my success of conquering my nightmare... I wake up.

Tour en l'air

2009-09-27T11:26:00.004+02:00

Category: Ordinary
Lucid: No
Hours of sleep: 8

So it's not enough that I spend most of my week at school dancing, but in the weekends I DREAM that I'm at school. It makes me feel like I'm at school twenty-four-seven.

In the last one we had ballet class, and my teacher was teaching us double "tour en l'air"

(where you jump and turn in the air at the same time)

It actually went pretty well when I tried, so on Monday I think I'm gonna give it a go!

I've tried doing them before in real life, but I can't say they looked very elegant.

There are several stories about athletes dreaming about new ways of doing "old tricks", and when they test it out in real life the technique has improved significantly.

Here's an article about it.

So fingers crossed; Monday will be a fine day.

Chillin' at the North Pole

2009-09-24T15:45:00.002+02:00

Category: Bizarre

Lucid: No

Hours of sleep: 3

Last night my dream world sent me to the North Pole where I decided to take a little swim in the icy water. The water was kind of cold, but not too bad. Me and a friend were just swimming around, hanging out.

At some point we saw a white shark swimming further away from us, but we hid behind a block of ice before swimming further again. I kind of felt someone was behind me, so when I turned around the shark was coming right at us ready to have some Norwegian meat for dinner.

Luckily some guy came jumping into the water and kicked the shark, before wrestling it away from us. Relieved; I woke up.

Sleeps.com says: "The dream of swimming must be interpreted by using all the aspects of your dream to judge the extent of the good or bad signified by swimming. If you dream you are swimming in the ocean coming toward shore you will have good fortune in business and financial affairs through your hard work. To be swimming in a pool shows that you will be unlucky in love and if you see females swimming in the pool you will have luck with love, to see males you will have luck in business, and if you see both you will experience both types of luck."

Well.. it was sort of a pool. It was a hole in the ice berg that we were swimming in.... and there were both a girl and a boy there. SWEEEET... love and luck in business coming my way! *knock on wood*

Flying monkey

2009-09-22T07:22:00.005+02:00

Category: Superpowers

Lucid: Yes

Hours of sleep: 2

Two nights ago I was dreaming I was sitting on the side of a hill with lush green grass.

I had a great view over an African savannah, and a monkey was sitting on my shoulder.

My consciousness kicked in and turned this dream into a lucid one.

I felt like flying.

I jumped off the ground and started to fly, but I felt like someone was holding me back and trying to pull me towards the ground... instead of panicking over the fact that I hadn't total control of my dream I just "mantra-ed" for myself: "FLY FLY FLY FLY FLY FLY" and soon the hands trying to hold me down lost their grip and I started to soar high.

The monkey was still on my shoulders. He sent a mental image into my head of a thick green jungle. Apparently he didn't feel like home in this brown African savannah. I decided I would fly straight forward until we found this jungle of his, so me and the monkey flew into the sunset and I woke up.

Sleeps.com says: "Flying dreams are normally a good omen and if the flight is pleasant, with no worries and anxietes, you can look for happiness and plenty to follow.

Animals most often represent that aspect of ourselves, or parts of our personality, that are present in our ordinary life. It is generally given that the more primitive the animal then the more primitive or deeper the layer of consciousness that represents.

What the animal is doing in the dream is also very important, if say, a pig is dancing, then maybe that means that the side of you that likes to over indulge is very happy with that. But if the pig were crying then that might indicate an inner urge to curb and over indulge in habit."

Maybe the monkey in me needs to find his jungle?

Class trip out of the ordinary (50th post!!!!!)

2009-08-31T21:13:00.011+02:00

Category: Bizarre

Lucid: No

Hours of sleep: 2

So last night I dreamt about this really special class trip, but this

is a very looong dream with lots of details, which I (amazingly) can remember. So to make it simple I'm just going to form a list of the most important/funny stuff:

- I got on a plane that was hired to fly around and pick all of my classmates up

, but this plane didn't land on air strips... oh no... it landed in the middle of a trafficked street and didn't care about all the cars that flew off the road and exploded.

- The class trip was to take place on the top of the mountain wh

ere I come from, and we had to take a cable car lift to get there... but when it was my turn to get on, the cable turned into a river that was flowing upwards towards the top of the mountain, and my way of transport was with a car that (almost didn't) float on the river.

- When I got to the top, the girls in my class had dressed up in tiny Playboy bunny suits and were running around giggling... so apparently this was a costume party.

- I went around the conference building and came to some back garden type of thing and this crazy woman was coming towards me, and she had a pigeon on each shoulder, and she was chanting some witch craft at me. I asked her why she had pigeons on her shoulders, and she looked at the pigeons and FREAKED OUT and started screaming and grabbed one of the pigeons and threw it one the ground, and ran away screaming. (I actually started to laugh my ass off in the dream because it was so funny to watch how oblivious she was to the pigeons at first and was trying to scare me, but ended up being scared to death herself.)

- We had to do some improvisation dancing, and in this dream I

was almost floating across the floor and was just dancing around with just my big toes touching the ground, and sometimes just floating mid-air. What a lovely sense of freedom.

Sleeps.com says:

"Birds are usually considered a very good omen for the dreamer to receive and this is doubly true if the birds are brightly colored, singing, and flying about.

The true definition (in dreaming about airplanes) is found in identifing the type of plane and your personal feeling of aircraft. If you fear air travel, dreaming of being on a passenger jet in flight is likely to be an expression of fear involved with some sort of travel. However if you LIKE to fly then this could also mean happiness. And it can also indicate a desire to rise above it all, an escape.

An elevator dream is a rather complex dream and you should interpret it in light of all the other symbols in your dream, for one thing, if the elevator is going up your fortunes will increase, down is the opposite.

Flying dreams are normally a good omen and if the flight is pleasant, with no worries and anxietes, you can look for happiness and plenty to follow."

A tired mind is a closed mind

2009-08-30T22:10:00.002+02:00

Wow, it's been a long long time since my last dream post, and the simple reason is that I can't seem to remember them lately.

I've just started studying at a new school, so all the new impressions I get during the day gets soaked up, until I'm soaked to the max, and have to use my sleep to dry out the sponge.

I remember vaguely one of my dreams from last night when someone in my class ran off to another city and I had to run after him, missing school and pissing off my teachers.

... so you see how much this new school is affecting my life and my dream life, but as I get more used to the new atmosphere, and start to fall into a routine, I'm sure my sponge will be in the clear for remembering more dreams.

Meanwhile....

This SLIGHTLY TACKY, but simple and informative, video on lucid dreaming might be a good teaser on what kind of experiences you can have with lucid dreaming.

Watch it, and maybe you'll be tempted to explore your own dream world.

Encrypted dreams

2009-08-24T00:38:00.003+02:00

So I remembered one of my dreams when I woke up, and as I usually do I write them down in my little scratch book next to my bed....

Unfortunately, these notes are not always comprehensible...

I mean... have you ever tried to write IMMEDIATELY after you wake up?
Because droopy eyes, sleepy muscles and the lack of focusing on a sheet of paper close to your face makes it pretty hard to write something others (and sometimes yourself) can understand.

Soooo... lets get to the point... no dreams to post today. Just a picture of what I wrote down when I woke up and you can try to make out what I was dreaming about last night!

These are the only two things I can make out:

- Samantha Jones came. (Apparently Samantha Jones, one of the characters on the tv-show Sex And The City came into this dream, but since I can't read what the rest of the dream was about, it doesn't make any sense.)

- The Shovel Song: This is when I had a false awakening (you wake up in your lucid dream, but you're still dreaming, but you are no longer lucid) and I was watching a video on YouTube about a shovel song. And I think it was a song about different ways to use a shovel and the chorus was something like:
Ooo shovel shovel! jumbadiri dom dom! Ooo shovel shovel! jumbadiri dom dom!
(Yeeeah... I know! Don't ask!)

So hopefully next time I write down what I'm dreaming.. I'll be able to read what it is and post it here for you guys ;)

Strongest level of lucidity ever!

2009-08-19T21:34:00.007+02:00

Category: Super powers
Lucid: YES YES YES
Hours of sleep: 2

I had a hard time falling to sleep last night, so I had a lot of time to medidate myself to increase my chances of becoming lucid in my next dream.

And boy did I...

It started out as an ordinary dream with nothing special happening, except I met some college friends from when I did a semester in the U.S. and one of them was acting all weird and didn't want to give me a hug after not having seen each other for months.

So I started looking for dream signs. I stared at one of my friends face, looked away, and then back again and I saw a slight change in her appearance, tho' not enough to insure me I was dreaming, so I started to look for a wall clock, found one, checked the time; 11:15, looked away, looked back, 1:30 (or something, important thing is that time had changed rapidly in a second).

So now I become aware that I am dreaming, and decide that I feel like flying, so I crack open a window, but it's a far way down, so in case my flying attempt fails, and I fall down and wake up, I decide to run down the building and start the flying attempt from the ground.
I fling out my arms and order my dream to play me some music, and music starts pounding out of the wall, and everytime I open a new door the music gets louder.

When I got into the hallway everything turned almost pitch black, and I have this nervous thing, in real life, about walking in the dark and not seeing things. Luckily I've been reading about dream therapy, and conquering fears in your dream. So I just stopped in the hallway, reached out my arm to find the wall, and walked with confidence down the hallway and for every brave step, the hallway lighting got brighter and brighter until I came to a door and got outside in the daylight.

Next to me was a huge skyscraper, and I figured I'd try to fly to the top of it. I did a jump, and to my great satisfaction I took off at great speed and climbed higher and higher, faster and faster... so thrilled about my total lucidity and the success of defying gravity in my dream world, I let out a victory cry, only to find myself abruptly wake up in my bed, with a choking screaming sound going from my throat.

Like I've mentioned in previous posts; if you get too excited when becoming lucid, you'll wake yourself up, and also, physical things that happens to your body in your dream, sends out signals to your real-life body in bed, and the correlate muscles will trigger in small contractions, etc. So when I screamed out of joy in my dream, my real-life body's throat made a high choke-like sound that woke me up.

So if I had just kept myself calm, I probably would've kept flying and doing other amazing stuff on my own free will... hopefully I've learned my lesson and will do a better job next time!

The power of lucid dreaming...

2009-08-18T23:43:00.005+02:00

Since I don't have a dream to share with you today, I thought I'd tell you one of the benefits of becoming lucid in a dream.

(Being aware that you are dreaming, and therefore be able to tweak the events in that dream by choice.)

CONQUERING NIGHTMARES:

Becoming lucid in a nightmare can be a great way to turn the nightmare into an "ordinary" dream, eliminating all your feelings of fear and desperation.

When I was younger I had a tendency to have nightmares about horror movies I watched. (Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Nightmare on Elm Street and Halloween are some of the movies I can remember having nightmares about.)

So did I ever tell you about that time I met the girl from The Grudge who came crawling towards me in the basement of my childhood home?

She was making that famous scratchy voice sound she does in the movie.

At that moment I reasoned to myself that she was plainly a fictional character from a movie, and I became lucid.

So what did I do?

I smacked her over the head and told her to "PISS OFF!"

Her scary horror-movie visage vanished, and all that was left was a harmless little girl with her sobbing face between her knees.

And since then I haven't had nightmares about the scary movies I've watched.

In Dr. Stephen LaBerges book Lucid Dreaming there's a section about coping with nightmares, and how to conquer, especially recurring, nightmares. Although he doesn't recommend becoming "violent" towards your nightmare character (as your own mental anger, can make your nightmare character bigger and stronger), it did work in my case. The best approach is to stop and study your monster. You can also ask simple questions to it, like: "Who are you? What are you doing here? Why are you chasing me?" and you will see that your nightmare is not so scary as it originally was, and instead of waking up with anxiety hanging over your bed and head for the rest of the day, you can wake up with a feeling of achievement and happiness!

TransDream

2009-08-17T08:20:00.005+02:00

Category: Action/bizarre

Lucid: No

Hours of sleep: 7

I was at some sort of Asian embassy looking at a billboard with lots of passports belonging to Asian girls pinned to it. A man who worked at the embassy told me that all of those girls were missing.

An American doctor approached me and told me those women were not missing, but had been killed so the embassy could use their new-born babies in experiments.

I got all scared, because for some reason I was a woman in this dream, so I thought I was going to be killed too. I told him I'd commit suicide so I wouldn't have to endure through the embassies torture, and he said: "Go right ahead! Jump in that cloud of poisonous gas!"

And I believe the encouragement he gave me to commit suicide, was fake because he knew I wasn't strong enough to do it. And I wasn't.

So we decided we would make a run for it instead... so we ran and ran until we got to a parking lot, and the American doctor jumped in a car that was suppose to take us away from there. Now the American doctor turned into a female friend of mine, and I turned into my own (male) self.

So I don't know if I woke up in a new dream or what happened, but all I remember is my friend kept backing her car up into other cars so we never got out of the parking lot.

Remember?

2009-08-16T12:22:00.006+02:00

I'm positive I had some amazing dreams last night, but unfortunately I moved around too much after I woke up, so when I went to write down my dreams I had forgotten almost everything that had happened.

You have several dream cycles when you sleep. Usually there's a new dream every 90 minutes, roughly, and the best way to remember them is to lay perfectly still when you wake up and try to reenact the dreams in your head, before reaching for your dream journal next to your bed. Seems like movement is too much of a hassle to the brain, so it decides to wipe out meaningless information, like the memory of the dreams you just had.

Here's the only two things I remember:

- Paying 25$ to jog at a stadium. (Expensive! Jikes!)

- Broke into a public office building and knocked everyone I saw out with a microphone I had in my hand. *smack* ----> *thud* ---> zzzzzz!

My trip to Phoenix in Asia

2009-08-15T14:54:00.005+02:00

Category: Adventure

Lucid: No

Hours of sleep: 7

No, there isn't a country in Asia called Phoenix, but in my dream there was. We even had a challenge where we had to point it out on a map for Tyra Banks (yeah, been watching too much AmNTModel lately). Too bad my dreaming map of Asia didn't look at all like the real map of Asia, so sorry folks, can't show you where this weeeeeird ass country is.

I arrived Phoenix by this tiny little wooden boat that kept falling apart and I had to jump in another boat next to it and so on and so forth. By the shore there was a bunch of people diving down after furniture that was at the bottom of the ocean. A lot of lamps. Mermaids lamps?

When I got into "Phoenix City", I went to a mall where people were handing out condoms left and right, saying don't catch any TDs! (When I woke up, I realized the correct term would be STDs, but hey... whatever.)

I decided to blow these condoms up and put them under my arms, and it made me float above the ground through the mall... pretty fun actually.

Later I arrived at an airport that was quite unorganized... like people's luggage would just pop out at a random hole, like a ventilation duct, somewhere at the airport and you would just have to walk around and look for your luggage. At this point a TV crew started following me, and I realized I was in some kind of reality show. For you readers from Norway, I think it was "Charterfeber" (Translated : Charter fever = Norwegians who travels to a hot tropic country and party wild and crazy with a camera crew on their backs.)

Another thing that was crazy about this airport was that when you went through the security checkpoint, you had to dismember yourself on a bed, and they would send the whole bed through the x-ray scanner, and when you got to the other side you could assemble yourself again. "Okay, so that's the left arm, that goes there... my ankle belongs here..."

So if you're ever in Phoenix in Asia. Let me know, and we'll exchange mental pictures! ;)

Sleeps.com says: Dreams of being abroad in foreign lands is clear indications that you may be experiencing unsettled conditions and look for a possible change of location.

Travel is a dream that has several different meanings and should be used in the dream as a stand alone as meaning a wish to leave your present environment

In a dream the sight of a busy airport represents the desire for freedom and/or travel as this is the jumping off point for all those who travel the world and it brings out your hidden desires to do the same.

Accused of murder

2009-08-14T00:37:00.005+02:00

Category: Action/drama

Lucid: No

Hours of sleep: 9

I had a dream last night where a family member of mine hi-jacked a bus that we were sitting on. Cop cars started chasing us down the highway, and when they got close he made me sit in the driver seat so they would think that I was the high-jacker.

The bus crashed and people got killed and I got sent to some sort of prison hospital where I was being accused for hi-jacking and murder, and my mom was there and asked me if I had really really done it, and I was crying and balling telling her it wasn't me, but the other guy in my family, and he came in and threw a fit at my mom, confessed, and got arrested and I was declared innocent. Luckily!

One thing I'd like to point out is how real my crying felt. It was gut-twisting choking balling crying. I had a dream earlier where I was crying because I was happy and grateful for someone who's affected my life a lot, and when I woke up I had tears in my eyes, my chin and on my pillow. Just goes to show how real a dream can be experienced.

Anyways, later in the dream I had some medical complications due to the bus crash, and my heart stopped and as a ghost I appeared next to my dying body perfectly fine, and another "ghost" was standing next to me, and it was a friend of mine whose dying body was right next to mine, but another friend came, cut his body open, pulled out the lungs and started rubbing them like it was a huge pile of dough ready to be baked, put it back in, and boom... he woke up from the near-death. My body was still out tho... and I woke in real life, before seeing what happened to my dying dream body. Not cool!

Sleeps.com says: "All dreams of betrayal should be studied closely in connection with the entire dream to find out just who or what to expect betrayal from. Betrayal as an omen is not much to go on and the dreamer must take this as a literal warning of an insincere friend or lover and study the dream with this in mind. Sometimes things can 'betray' you by not giving you value and satisfaction for cost.

If you dream of a large family this means that your fortunes in life are looking up, but if the family is unhappy or bickering it will denote the opposite for you. To watch an operation you will soon hear some news from a family member or a friend, if the operation was a success it will be good news, but, if not it will be bad news."

The dog did what now?

2009-08-12T03:22:00.003+02:00

Category: Bizarre

Lucid: No

Hours of sleep: 9

Once again I met one of my grandmother's deceased poodles... only this time... the poodle was smoking a cigarette. I know... weeeird.

Sleeps.com says: "Smoking a cigarette in your dream is a lucky omen, as well as, giving, or offering them to another. This dream denotes much prosperity and self-satisfaction for the dreamer. If, during your waking hours, you are against cigarettes and believe them to very bad for your lungs, then you must investigate your own habits to find out what you may be doing to jeopardize your health. Have a medical examination as soon as possible."

Hmmm.... I did actually have a pretty self-esteem booster day yesterday, but what I'm doing to my health I'm not sure... I feel fine anyways!

The act of vanishing

2009-08-12T03:13:00.004+02:00

Category: Magical

Lucid: No

Hours of sleep: 12

Last night I dreamt I was working at a day care center, and two of my friends came and had a magic show where they kept vanishing on one spot, and appearing on another. Oblivious to the fact that I was dreaming, I got all excited and asked if they could teach me how it worked... unfortunately the dream was over before they did.

Sleeps.com: "If you see people or things disappearing before your very eyes, this is a dream that is pointing up your insecurities and concern about the important people, conditions, situations, or people that might disappear from your life. This an anxiety dream and shows that you need to work on you self image through building your self worth."

Well, actually, these two individual friends in my dream are two people I've been feeling some "disconnection" to lately. Maybe I should do some relationship patching?

Mutation and orange light

2009-08-06T00:25:00.004+02:00

Category: Action/fantasy and ordinary

Lucid: No and yes (Two different dreams)

Hours of sleep: 2

I was actually in the town of Springfield... the one from the show The Simpsons. I was Bart, and my dad, Homer was standing next to me. Suddenly we saw a giant rocket falling down from the sky, a huge explosion and mushroom-shaped smoke later, we got hit by the ripple of a nuclear bomb.

Instantaneously everyone mutated into known superheroes or video game characters.

I saw Kirby from Nintendo, Kasumi from Dead or Alive, Chun-Li from Street Fighter, some other and myself... I was still Bart Simpson... but with some extra super strength to help me out in the war that was about to break out.

It was everyone vs. everyone... the whole town turned into a dirty bloody battlefield with all these famous characters stabbing each other down.

Kasumi from Dead or Alive tried knocking me out with an umbrella she had taken from the dead Kirby, but with my super strength and agile moves, I managed to rip the umbrella out of her hands, knock her out, swing around and deflect an attacking move from Chun-Li from Street Fighter and then ramming the end of the umbrella through her stomach impaling her to a nearby trailer house wall. Grotesque I know!

Sleeps.com says: "If you have a dream of murdering another, this is a warning that you must keep in control of your temper and emotions at all times and not get enraged to the point of murderous intent. If you are the eye witness to a murder this is also a warning, but, one that is alerting you to possible changes in your life that you will not like unless you practice self control and not expect others to order the situation for you.

If you dream of seeing an ugly, mutated person or animal which frightens you, then you will soon hear some bad news concerning the family. If you see the type of mutation called morphing, when one things flows into being another thing, this is a warning that a person, or situation is not what they seem to be, 'a wolf in sheep's clothing'."

I might also add I had another dream this cycle that was actually lucid.

I met someone that I've had a little crush on in real life... and when I realized I was dreaming and became lucid I became overjoyed, like I always do, and started waking up... usually when I start waking up a bright white light starts to "swallow" the dream... but this time it was orange!(?) I did the trick of rubbing my hands together to not wake up, and the orange started to vanish, but unfortunately my alarm clock woke me up :( Bummer!

Vacation-mode

2009-08-04T15:47:00.003+02:00

Hey guys!

I'm not at home at the moment, as I'm vacationing in Sweden for about 10 days, and I left my dream journal at home so the dreaming I've been doing so far is just fuzzy memories in my head.

Like:

- Me and my dad breaking into a store and then escaping in a "pirate taxi" to his house.

- ......... and that's actually the only thing I can remember at the moment! Haha!

Hopefully I'll be back to full blogging/journaling mode when I get back to Norway... in the mean time.... I suggest you go out and get a little journal for yourself and start writing down your dreams as soon as you wake up... it's quite thrilling! ;)

Have a nice summer! ;)

Mike

Running for my life

2009-08-01T13:08:00.004+02:00

Category: Nightmare

Lucid: No

Hours of sleep: 7

I was in a forest next to a cabin with a bunch of people behind me. As we approached the cabin something on the ground exploded and the forest catched fire. A guy with two dogs came storming out of the cabin yelling he was going to kill us. I started running through the forest until I got to the oceanside and got cornered. The dogs ran towards me and I tried punching them, but my hand went right through them... like they were ghosts. The guy, who didn't look ghostly at all, came towards me... and from this point I can't remember anything else... maybe I woke up?

Sleeps.com says: "If you see a chase in progress or if you participate in a chase you will look forward to a comfortable retirement and good health in your latter years. If fear is involved in this experience then you must test all the signs and employ meditation to seek the answer

A dog barking and snarling fiercely at you shows you have some unfriendly friends."

Trying out new lucid techniques

2009-08-01T01:07:00.005+02:00

Category: Ordinary

Lucid: Yes

Hours of sleep: 11

Last night I had a dream that I was at my new school doing a dance class. Luckily I realized that I had not gone to bed in Norway, but in Sweden, and I knew school wasn't suppose to start for another two weeks... so the dream, became a lucid dream.

I ran out of class, trying to find something fun to do... again, like I always do, I start to wake up because of the excitement, but this time I remembered reading about different techniques you can do to stay asleep and lucid.

As the bright white lite started to close in on my dream I started rubbing my hands together, and the light started to withdraw somewhat... and of course now I got excited from the effect of what I was doing so the whiteness started to take hold again... then I started spinning around myself in the room and the whiteness started to fade again... at this point I had a false awakening (where you dream you wake up, but you really don't) and unfortunately I didn't get lucid this time around.

But at least I got to try some new techniques... that worked! Hurray!

One step closer to my goal!

Revisited?

2009-07-29T20:24:00.002+02:00

Category: Ordinary

Lucid: No

Hours of sleep: 9

I dreamt I was at a summer camp with lots of people my age.

They all decided to run to an old abandoned factory building, but I refused to come along and they asked me why:

I told them: "Because I've been there before, and the last time I was there someone grabbed my shoulder, but when I turned around there was nobody there! So I'm scared of that place!"

When I recited my memory from that place, it was like having a flash back from when the incident occurred, and I could feel the grab on my shoulder.

Was my current dream just jumping back and forth between two dreams, or was I actually remembering a previous dream?

I hope it's the latter... because in that case... that means I'm starting to build my own dream-world that I keep coming back to... which means I'm one step closer to have a "second life"... a "sleeping life"... cuz like I've mentioned before... we spend about one-third of our life just laying around sleeping.... so wouldn't it be great to have a life 24/7, without interruption from pitch black sleep? Hmm...

Droemmetydning.com says: "... a factory symbolizes you succeeding after hard work."

DAMN RIGHT! ;)

Lost in translation

2009-07-28T11:08:00.004+02:00

Category: Ordinary

Lucid: No

Hours of sleep: 7

Last night I had a dream where I was at a dance studio in the U.S. and I met two of my American friends from my high school days in South Dakota.

They started talking to me, but I couldn't understand what they were saying... until I realized they were talking to me in Norwegian, and not in English... and they were pretty darn good at it too!

Sleeps.com says: "To dream you hear someone speaking in a foreign language to you denotes that you are having a hard time understanding a certain persons motives or actions."

Well, it wasn't a foreign language to me... it was just a language I wasn't expecting to hear from those two!

Ding-a-ding! One-thousand individual readers on my blog!

2009-07-27T15:19:00.002+02:00

Thanks to all of you.... and keep reading! ;)

Refusing to be a hay-moving Amish boy

2009-07-26T16:47:00.003+02:00

Category: Ordinary
Emotion: Shameful
Lucid: No
Hours of sleep: 8

I was summoned to meet my family way out on the countryside with cornfields all around.
When I came there they were all dressed as amish people, and told me they wanted me to compete for the family's honor in some farming competition where we had to transport hay from one placer to another before one of the other sons from another family did.

Right before the race started I told my dad I thought this contest was stupid and refused to get on the carriage that was tied up to a horse. My dad gave me an evil glare, grunted and jumped on the carriage himself and started racing down the field. Shameful of not being there for my family I tried running after the carriage to be in the race after all, but I couldn't catch up.

Droemmetydning.com says: "If you are being chased it's a sign of good health. The same thing goes if you are chasing someone.
If you are running in a contest you have enemies that are trying to take you down.
If you have a dream about a big family things will go your way. If the family is unhappy, the opposite might happen."

Run for your life!

2009-07-26T16:28:00.006+02:00

Category: Nightmare

Emotion: Fear

Lucid: No

Hours of sleep: 8

I was at a school. It was cleared out, except my sister was standing next to me. Through a door behind us a man and a woman appeared and told us they had come to kill us.

Me and my sister started running down the hallway and into a huge auditorium and got cornered on top of a set of stairs. The man was now gone, and it was only our female pursuer in front of us with a knife. Thinking I'd save the day I jumped towards her and landed a solid kick right in her gut and sent her flying down the stairs.

We continued running out of the auditorium and met the guy in the hallway. I grabbed his arm and did sort of a judo twist-and-throw move and slammed him to the ground and kept on running, until we eventually got outside the school ---> safe!

Droemmetydning.com: "If you were chased, it's a sign of good health. It can also mean you are running from something within yourself that you dare not face.

Being pursued may symbolize a problem, a part of your personality, a feeling of self-worthlessness, or a person you have to get rid of. If your pursuer catches up to you the problem may increase, the opposite will happen if you get away from your pursuer. "

Getting ready for war

2009-07-26T15:59:00.006+02:00

Category: Action
Emotion: Adrenaline
Lucid: No
Hours of sleep: 8

I was standing on a huge field that had targets scattered all over the place. Next to me was a group of teenagers who apparently were my teammates in some sort of teen soldier force, and it seems we were doing some sort of training.

All around us were these huge catapults. We all seemed to have magic powers which we used to amass huge balls of water, earth or rocks... basically any matter at all, fuse them with electricity and launch them at the targets effortlessly.

Too bad I woke up before we got to go on a real mission, and hit real targets. :(

Droemmetydning.com says: "White magic (healing, dispels and other defensive spells) symbolizes luck and success. Black magic (offensive spells like fire, ice, electricity etc.) means you will be betrayed."

Hmm... not good.

Want to venture deep into the dream world?

2009-07-25T22:45:00.002+02:00

Step 1 if you want to get more out of your sleeping:

Keep a journal next to your bed, and the minute you wake up, try to remember what you just dreamt... no matter how big or small the details are... write them down...

Eventually you'll see you can remember more and more of your dreams ;)

Have a nice weekend! ;)

Taking lucidity to a new level - feeling up my dreams!

2009-07-23T14:19:00.003+02:00

Category: Ordinary

Lucid: YES!!

Hours of sleep: 1

Major major lucid breakthrough in this one:

Like I usually do after working an early shift, I take a nap when I come home.

I was dreaming I was doing a jazz dance class that I've been doing monday, wed. and friday for a couple of weeks now, so at this point I didn't realize I was dreaming, because to me it was just like an ordinary day in my life. BUT... at the end of the class I took a look at the time and it was 2 p.m., but I knew class always ended around 9:30 p.m. , and like sudden lightning from the sky, I entered lucid (concious) mode in my dream, and realized I know had the opportunity to mold this dream into what I wanted. In excitement I ran out of the room where the dream started and got to the top of a set of stairs... now I panicked because I felt myself waking up (this is a normal reaction if you get too excited when you turn lucid - you start waking up).

Luckily, I have been doing some e-mailing with author of the book Lucid Dreaming, Roberth Waggoner ( Read his blog here : http://luciddreamingrobertwaggoner.blogspot.com) One of the things we talked about was the problem of becoming too excited when entering lucid dreams and he gave me a good tip.

If you become too excited, instead of thinking "Don't wake up! Don't wake up!" you should think "Stay lucid! Stay lucid!".

So this is what I kept telling myself as I felt myself waking up, but the bright light kept getting brighter and brighter until the only thing I saw was white. Determined not to wake up I imagined myself throwing out my arms and trying to grab something in my dream. My hand touched the wall by the stairs... it felt rugged just like the wallpaper in my own bedroom (maybe I was grabbing the wall in my sleep?)... and the sidewall of the stairs came to view. I figured the first step of the stairs would be right in front of me so even tho I still just saw a wall and the rest of the place was white I took a step forward and I felt my leg hitting a lower step and the stairs came into view... I took my other arm and tried grabbing for a stair ledge on the other side of the wall, and when I finally found one and grabbed, the bright light totally disappeared, and I was a hundred percent lucid and it felt like walking in the real world, and when I started running down the stairs I could still feel the texture of the wall and the smooth surface of the wooden stair ledge... I even ran so fast that I felt a burning sensation in the hand that was holding the ledge like you would if you'd rub your hand fast back and forth on painted wood.

And as a bonus for for reading all the way down here I'll let you know the rest of the story. ;)

I met someone at the bottom of the stairs that I thought I would "have some fun" with. Unfortunately, I didn't like what I saw, but then I remember a passage from Dr. Laberges book, Lucid Dreaming, about dream signs, and how to double check them. One of the things is that, unlike the real world, objects are not obsolete in the dream world. If you look at a dog, turn your head way, and then back again, the dog might've turned into a cat, or a vase. Remembering this I turned my back on my dream "partner" and then looked back again, this time it was to my liking. Unfortunately the intimacy clouded my judgement and I started to wake up..... or so I thought.

I actually managed to DREAM I was waking up in my bed. Still thinking I was awake I was kind of shocked to notice that outside my bedroom window there was a guy on a crane cleaning my windows, and my bedroom had my pillows blown all over the place and my TV was missing. To top this a stranger was sleeping in my bed. This was enough to get me into lucidity mode ---- again! And I immediately figured I'd take advantage of my sleep-over stranger. Doing my trick of transformation on the stranger, I walked in the same intimacy trap again, and woke up in my bed... in the REAL WORLD.

Still.. I couldn't stop smiling from the amazing experience I just had. Two lucid awarenesses in a one-hour nap. INSANE!

Funny thing was... I had just sent an e-mail to Roberth Waggoner complaining about how it's been weeks since my last lucid dream, asking for info on why that might be.......... and what do you know? I had two in one strike a couple of hours later! Maybe the frustration and my determination to have a lucid dream made me more aware in my next dream.... or maybe it was just luck? :)

Hazardous theme park

2009-07-23T07:29:00.004+02:00

Category: Thriller
Emotion: Fear
Lucid: No
Hours of sleep: 4

I had a dream I was a working as a guide at a theme park.

At the moment I was working, and riding, on a roller coaster, and it was going in high-speed loaded with visitors... at some point the track started falling apart and the carts nearly derailed.

I was relieved when we managed to stop the damn thing, and get everyone off safely.

Droemmetydning.com says: "If you, or something else, is going at high speed; you need to slow it down."

Well... as you can see I only slept 4 hours last night... I'm pretty much working and training my ass off this summer. When I try to go to bed at night my body is too wound up, and refuses to relax and go to sleep. Well... two more weeks of this and it's time for me to take some vacation.

But at least it's interesting to see when what you dream makes sense in relation to dream symbols explained on Sleeps.com or Droemmetydning.com.

Closing in on no. 1000

2009-07-23T07:19:00.002+02:00

July 23rd, 2009 : 901 different computers has displayed my blog.

When will it hit one-thousand?

Lucid dreaming on Discovery Channel

2009-07-22T11:18:00.004+02:00

A friend of mine gave me a heads up on a short video from Discovery Channel on lucid dreaming.

So if you're interested in the science behind dreaming and lucid dreaming, see this video: (7m 30s)

My first dream recall

2009-07-22T08:34:00.017+02:00

Category: Nightmare
Emotion: Fear

Lucid: No

Hours of sleep: N/A

Today I thought I would share my very first dream recall with you.

I was about 5-6 years old, and had just moved to the mountainside in a valley.

One night I dreamt a huge forest troll (a typical character in Norwegian fairy tales) came climbing over the mountain and towards my house. When he got to my house, he got down on all four and put one of his giant eyes on my bedroom window, looked right at me, and started chanting my name.

I woke up in my bed, paralyzed with fear, staring at my bedroom window, which now had the blinds down and I didn't see a troll anymore.

So the fact that the dream happened in my bedroom, and I woke up in my bedroom, made a mental bridge between the two worlds that made me have my very first dream recall.