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!