Sacrificial jump?

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!

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

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

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

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!!!!!)

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

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

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!

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...

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

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?

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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!

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

Refusing to be a hay-moving Amish boy

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!

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

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?

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!

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

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

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

When will it hit one-thousand?

Lucid dreaming on Discovery Channel

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

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.

Dr. Mike Dolittle

Dream category: Bizarre
Emotion triggered: Fun
Lucid: No
Hours of sleep: 3 (A nap that took waaaay too many hours.)

I came home from work today, made some dinner, and got a little sleepy afterwards. I got in my bed and turned on the CD from the book Lucid Dreaming by Dr. Stephen Laberge, and did some exercises on how to recall dream signs, and noticing the differences between the real world and the dream world... afterwards I fell asleep and was out for 3 hours.

When I woke up I did my best to remember what I had just dreamt. I was flustered with myself when I couldn't remember anything, but I just kept the advice I've read several places; DON'T MOVE and let the dream recall come naturally. So I just closed my eyes and held perfectly still... and like light bulb getting brighter and brighter I remembered my dream:

Me and a flock of talking(!!) animals were trying to help this old guy get across the pool with a giant swing. The rooster was telling the dog to put him in his mouth so and hang on to the swing so he could flap his wing, but the dog was yelling back that he would do no such thing, since he didn't really feel like having a rooster in his mouth. A monkey were sitting on the side of the pool with a human girl holding his hands yelling out orders to all of us on the swing trying to get it to the other side of the pool, and then he laughed at the human girl and told her: "THAT'S NOT HOW YOU HOLD ANOTHER HAND!" (It looked to me like it was "the correct" way to hold another hand?) I woke up before we got to complete the mission, so I don't know if the old man got over or not... but it was fun talking to all these animals.

Sleeps.com says: "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. (So my personality is a monkey-dog-rooster hybrid? Hmmm...)"

In the same nap I dreamt:

- That I was at my old job back in my home town, and tried ordering take-away pizza to my co-workers and asked them if I needed to buy 3 pizzas... they said we only needed 2. I got mad because I wanted 3 pizzas, so I hang up the phone without ordering.

- That a previous acrobatics student of mine came and told me her brother had died and started crying. I put my arms around her and told her everything was going to be alright and she stopped crying eventually.

Quick post

I slept really heavy last night because I went to bed pretty pretty pretty late (6 a.m. - okay, so it was not really night time sleeping - but at least it was sleeping) so I didn't really spend any time "meditating" into the mode of reminding myself to remember my dreams, and write them down in my journal when I wake up. So the only two things I can remember is:

- I went to an audition for a musical, and I got the lead role! (Don't know what musical it was tho'!)

- I was back in junior high at some sort of a meeting, when I suddenly panicked and remembered I had a bus to catch, so I went outside and started running to the bus station. Snow was falling and because of the heavy layer of snow already on the ground I struggled with my speed. I actually ran past a drunk guy dressed as santa. I woke up before I got the bus station so I don't know if I made it.

Sleeps.com says: "If your dream of music is of soothing, beautiful, music that uplifts your spirit then you will have some wonderful luck in every matter that is of concern to you...

To dream of snow in all its forms, on trees, storms, etc., is a dream of very good omen which shows you will have success in business or investments.

A running dream is basically a dream of escaping a certain situation, person, or thing. If you succeed in running away from, or elude a pursuer, then you will be able to change those things in your life that has you 'on the run'. If you dream of the desire to run but cannot get your feet to obey it shows a lack of self confidence and perseverance on your part. Try sticking to your guns and see how much your life will change."