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?