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."

Secret agent Mike

Dream category: Action
Emotion triggered: Adrenaline
Lucid: No
Hours of sleep: 8

I was suddenly at a hotel... packed with strapped-on guns all over me. I was creeping around trying not to get noticed. A guy came up behind me, but I threw him over my shoulder and knocked him out. I ran up the stairwell in the hotel lobby, knocked the guy at the top over the ledge, jumped up on the chandelier hanging over the lobby, threw down some kind of bomb, and blew the entire place up soaring upwards through the ceiling without getting a scratch on me. Except I landed on a wall section in the ruins, lost my balance and started falling down, but stopped right before I hit the ground, and no harm done.

This is probably the most interesting dream I could blog about today, but the truth is that last night I had several dreams, and I kept waking up from time to time, and always remembering to scribble the dream down in my journal, before falling back into sleep. Tho' some of it is quite unreadable (since my hand writing isn't really steady at 4 in the morning with sleepy eyes on), I'll try to list the things I remember:

- I learned a dance coreography (tho' I didn't write it down, and don't remember the steps)

- The hotel incident

- Foursome (Yes, a foursome. haha)

- Visited my grandmother's house where there was a party

- Found a summer fling

Dr. Stephen Laberge explains in his book, Lucid Dreaming, that an average person has about 1 dream cycle every 90 minutes during sleep. The only thing is, it's hard to remember every single dream when you wake up, but practice makes perfect. So the potential of having really fun and interesting dreams are there, but not many take advantage of that potential. We spend almost 1/3 of our lives sleeping... wouldn't it be great if you could be lucid in every single dream? That way.... you can run your own life 24/7... I think that's my main goal with lucid dreaming.

Sleeps.com says: "Fighting is a no nonsense dream of change, and the dream itself will have to point to the area of your life that will be changed. This signifies a change in job, or a change of enterprise if you own your own business. The degree of change can be determined by how hard you fought, and if you won or lost the fight.

The dance is always a good omen and it foretells many things... better business income and if you are enjoying the dance you will receive an unexpected windfall.

As a general rule grandparents are a symbol of, love, security, love, protection, love, home, and love.

If you are expressing a true and tender love for another then it shows that you will find happiness and contentment in your life. "

My future psychiatrist will be pleased!

Dream category: Family
Emotion triggered: Nostalgia
Lucid: No
Hours of sleep: 7

Last night I dreamt I was celebrating Christmas at my grandmother's house, and my dad, my sister and my stepfamily was there. Nothing out of the ordinary occured, except everyone was wearing Halloween costumes for some reason. My dad had his head painted green.

One thing that was interesting tho' was meeting one of my grandmother's deceased poodles, and my own deceased dog, a Schipperke, in the dream. They were running around, and when I came into the room they both came running towards me and wanted me to pet them.

I read somewhere that some psychiatrists teach lucid dreaming to their patiens who struggle with "undone business" with deaceased relatives and friends. The goal is that the patient can go to sleep, recognize he's dreaming - or in other words - enter lucid state, go towards a door, imagine that their dead mother is behind the door, open it up, greet their mother, and then try to wrap up whatever regret or grudge they've been carrying on their shoulders.

So even tho' I didn't meet any dead relatives, just previous family pets, I think my future psychiatrist will be pleased. :)

Sleeps.com says: "... the dream of a father is a dream symbol of authority which this parent has held over you, it could also represent power, or strength, or discipline. A dream of dogs is usually a fairly good omen. A dog barking happily shows that you will have a pleasing social life. A friendly, happy dog shows that you have lots of good friends."

And as a bonus to you for reading this post all the way to the end, I can tell you I also met my summer crush in this dream, and it made me very "happy" if you know what I mean! haha :)

Major break-through

Dream category: Kissing
Emotion triggered: What do you think? ;)
Lucid: Half-way
Hours of sleep: 1 hour nap

I read in Lucid Dreaming by Dr. Stephen LaBerge that one of the reasons why dreams can feel so real, is because the body has the same reactions as it would in real life, even though you're sleeping. So say you run up and grab somebody in your dream, then in "the real world", in the bed you're sleeping in, you'll have muscle twitches and other reactions that simulates what's going on in your dream.

During the same nap as the baby puke mentioned below, I dreamt that someone I know very well(!) came into my bedroom, woke me up from my nap, and got on top of me and started making out with me. And here's the best part... at this point I wasn't sure if I was dreaming or not, because I did realize in the dream that this person coming here was not planned, so I was probably dreaming, but the kissing felt so REAL(!!!)... it was like doing it in real life... so this is probably the first lucid dream I've had where I've had a fight between my mental experience and my physical experience of the dream to decide wether I'm sleeping or not!

When I woke up I was breathing heavily... just like you would if you had actually been making out with someone over a long time without catching your breath.

So I guess Dr. Laberge is right. Feelings in real life, are the same as in the dream world.

Droemmetydning.com (Sleeps.com was down) says: "If you liked the kiss you'll experience love and peace."

Score!

*puke*

I took a quick nap after work. I dreamt a friend of mine had had a baby, and I was playing with it throwing it up in the air and it was giggling and having a ball. Then it threw up on me!

Real nice! "Thank you" baby!

Sleeps.com says: "a bright, clean baby speaks of a wonderful love affair or even the making of many new friends."

Well, the baby was happy, bright and clean before it puked on me. So I'm just going to ignore the puke part, and stick to the bright, clean baby fortune from Sleeps.com :) *fingers crossed*

Workplace now also an ER ?

Dream category: Bizarre
Emotion triggered: Confusion
Lucid: No
Hours of sleep: 1

So yeah, I hardly got any sleep last night since there was a thunder storm terrorizing Oslo, and just my luck, I had to get up early for work (5 a.m. people).

So when I got home from work I just had to take a nap... and what do you know?.... a dream occured.

I was still at work, which is just a simple reception desk at a gym, and suddenly people start screaming outside on the streets. And suddenly this huge (Italian?) family comes rushing by the reception desk and into the gym... most appear perfectly fine, but in-between them I can see an old woman in a huge white wedding gown covered in blood and a guy in a tux with a motorbike helmet on and through the shield I see that his brain has come out of his head.

Sleeps.com says: "To dream of seeing blood stains you will have much trouble from an enemy if you start a business or other enterprise. "

I just think this dream is a signal that I should stop working so much, and probably take a break from watching too many doctor related tv-shows like Grey's Anatomy.

(See previous post about Grey's Anatomy)

Blog back in action

Wow, almost a year since my last post... been pre-occupied with other things and the whole dream-b-log thing wasn't prioritized until it eventually faded into nothing.

BUT... the blog is back! More posts will eventually come, but if you're new here you can take a look at my old posts and see what weeeeird things I dream about.

Mike