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Waking Life aka The Dream Thread

voxmystic said:
i've gotten better at lucid dreaming. usually i question whether i'm dreaming or not, and look at my hands for confirmation. if they're distorted, i know i'm dreaming. at that point, it nearly always feels like i'm right on the edge of wakefulness.

last night, for the first time, i remembered to ask someone in my dream to interpret the dream for me. but i can't bloody well remember what he said, dangit! something about how i was protecting myself.

then i found a guy i wanted to have sex with, but as we walked together to find a spot to be alone, he started shrinking until he was doll-sized.

i'm taking my phone to bed tonight so i can journal things as soon as i wake up.

a little valerian root does seem to facilitate lucid dreams.
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SHIIIIIT, have you tried a large dose of melatonin? it will BLOW your mind
 
^ not yet. i ordered all the ingredients for the dream recipe someone posted earlier, although since ordering, i've heard some bad reports about dreams on 5-htp. gotta try it all once, though, right?
 
Well, im certain i just had the worst dream of my entire life.

My dreams seems to be exploring the extremes of raw emotion lately, and manifesting in pure forms of it. I've woken up just now, this is what i remember.. wish i could remember more;

I fell asleep extremely quick, maybe the quickest i ever have sober.. i began thinking of love, love of self, and love of another... in its greatest form, this put me into a dream-state rather quickly and before i knew it i was entering into REM.

I don't remember much of how i got to this next scenario.. but i was washing some object with my housemate and was struggling to maintain my composure, i began to feel a dark presence come over me, and overwhelm my being, until i fell asleep within the dream into another dream.

This dream was nothing but feeling, total darkness.. it had no visual or auditory distinction to it, just pure untouched fear.. it felt like sleep paralysis within a dream. I was trying my best to yell 'help me' but i had no breath, the fear was so intense i felt as though the breath was been squeezed out of me. I continued to plea for help caught in this fear induced dream, until a person came over to my body in my original dream, terrified of me as i must of looked possessed, i was shaking about, trying to call for help with my eyes closed and an expression of distress.

He put his arms around me and said "It's Dennis" (this name has no meaning to me, nor did he resemble anyone from my waking reality.. i can only assume he was one of my guides helping me) he managed to pull me out of this incredible dream of fear incarnate. And as i awoke back into my original dream, he disappeared instantly.

I felt fragile as i woke into my original dream, like i had been mentally and emotionally raped. I struggled to make sense of what just happened, there were two other people in the room, who ran outside onto a balcony, i followed them and the pebbles on the balcony garden re-arranged themselves to spell out 'Dimethyltryptamine'.

This part is a bit blurry.. i think i was slipping out of REM at this point and i may of briefly woke up. I remember thinking to myself 'you cant be anyone, but your self' which created an incredible feeling of synchronicity with my self and the dream world.

That was the first time i've ever felt fear in its rawest form, it had no appearance and nothing else existed except the feeling, fear of fear itself.

Too much... fuck.
 
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sil80 said:
ive found this thread after having a weird dream last night and hoping to learn more about dreams, hope someone can translate some meaning to me, ive only read this page and the first one.

I was laying down in bed and could hear a ringing in my ears and felt my body becoming paralised, i normally try and move my fingers around like you do when your trying to get circulation and the ringing in my ears got really intense it was getting so strong i felt my jaw clench so hard it cracked and then i was paralised and it lasted a minute or so and then went away
i went to turn the bedside light on, wouldnt turn on, tried waking my gf up to put her bedside light on, she wouldnt wake up so i got up and put the bedroom light on, didnt turn on, went to my parents room and tried the lounge room light on the way and that didnt work either, went to my parents room there light didnt work either, but the radio clock was on and it was 3:11 and that light was enough to see the room barely, i wake my mum up and tell her none of the lights are working, shes like dont worry power will be back on inthe morning, i tell her the powers not out cuz the radio clock is on its just the lightglobes that dont work she goes dont worry just goto bed, then i grab her arm and pull her out of bed and shes like ouch be careful u hurt me then i saw this black figure standing in her bedroom mirror, its a really big mirror it was standing next to my dads side of the bed then the weirdest thing happened i wake up and im back in bed and im still paralised after a minute it goes away i reach for the side light and it turns on, check the time on my mobile and its 3:14 then i just lay there freaking out and i could hear a light tapping sound coming from my gfs side of the room

oh also i have a baby and baby woke up at 5:50 and i was to scared to get up and make a bottle so i asked my gf to do it and when she came back she goes wtf did u do to the bed? and somehow all the blankets were on her side of the bed, not only that but the matress cover and also the woollen blanket thing inbetween the matress and matress cover was also stuffed under her and baby, i was sleeping on bare matress

i dont know what to make off it, it was so similar to my last experience.

my last experience was maybe 3 months ago where it was a saturday morning and i had to give my mate a lift to the mechanics to pick up his car, my gf wakes up and goes in the shower first so i take the time i stretch and relax, out of no where i get that ringing in my ears and i start to get paralised it took all the energy i had to open my eyes but i wanted to see if i could see anything, open my eyes and i can just see the wardrobe, but it felt like my soul was being sucked out from behind, anyway i see that there is a glass on the bedside, i think that if i can knock over the glass itll create noise and someone will come in the room to check on me, i couldnt reach the glass but i came in contact with the cloth fabric thing under it, so i pull it and i hear the glass fall on the ground and the carpet absorb all the water im like fek it didnt make much noise and ive now made a mess, anyway tash comes out of the shower and i slowely get feeling back in my body and she comes in the room and i told her what happened
she had a look at my back and there was a red mark on there, but the scary thing was that the glass of water was still on the bedside table, so i guess i was dreaming? but it was so real

thats the similaraties with last night, it was so real, and like how would i know there was a glass of water on the bedside if i was dreaming?
sorry about the long post, hope someone has some experience or knowledge on what ive just experienced
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Sounds like O.B.E to me
 
Ok so for the past month or so I have been doing alot of studying on O.B.E's. Trying to learn how to consciously/subconsciously induce them. I know it can be done, I can induce lucid dreams n.p since I was a kid. When I had my first O.B.E it completely changed the way I view EVERYTHING and totally changed my life.
My problem is, I get to the point during meditation where I go into sleep paralysis, I get the ringing/roaring sounds,my body starts to vibrate and I know I am about to seperate from the physical however, I am having trouble getting past the last hump. I get startled once the sounds start and there is a level of fear about leaving my body for some reason. I would like to know if anyone else has had similar set backs and does this fear ever continue into the nonphysical? I know this is something I need to evercome myself but it would be re-assuring to know if anyone else has had this fear of seperating from the body.
~Thanks~
 
Last night I had a pretty good dream where I was out on a date with a black girl and her very rich family. They all liked me, asked me about my art, and I turned down some really expensive sashimi because we weren't at a sushi restaurant. Apparently I took the seat the girl had originally wanted because she asked for us to switch after most of her family had cleared out.

It's interesting, I've had quite a few dreams over the years of me being romantically involved with black girls (I'm very very white), and I've always been attracted to them IRL.
 
Everytime I wake up these days I've been getting sleep paralysis in which I can move my arms and body. During this time i can decide to keep on dreaming an go back to sleep, or wake up. I can wake up at 7 Am fully rested, but decided to go back and dream for a few more hours.
This is really awesome stuff.
My dreams have been so vivid, and approaching lucidity lately.
I always seem to dream about being the rogue inventor of some crazy chemical compounds.

Today my dreams was partly that I just got busted having a pocket full of ketamine by my old highschool security guard (he was a formidable and scary man when he wanted to be, but also cool) and he hung me up by the collar of my shirt in front of this weird looking judge dude, but I got out of it by giving the judge some riddles.
Then when I got home my house was like this home base to all sorts of inventive science experiments and I was frequently traveling to and from inhabited planets with a new form of propulsion I invented. I had a whole cast of weird friends that would help me score all the greatest drugs in the galaxy while keeping my parents none-the-wiser.

Another dream I had I was trying to find this new form of propulsion and then all of my old druggie friends just told me the correct chemical composition as if it was the simplest thing in the world to know. Once I had that knowledge I proceeded to travel to all sorts of planets everywhere.
Another dream I had I battled, final fantasy style, my ex-girlfriends current boyfriend and beat him and won her back then we traveled all around the universe. he was really difficult to beat and she was kinda disappointed that he lost...lol
Another dream I had was that every solar system was basically a neighborhood and each planet was small and just one family lived on it and it was so much fun to basically jump from one planet to the next.

Actually part of my dream last night consisted of me being in the power rangers (!?) and I had to fight this weird meaty looking 16 legged spider. It looked like a bunch of thin and long sausage links made up its many legs and it was sentient and an evil mastermind and could change its appearance, but all of our power rangers joined forces and defeated it.

Sometimes my dreams encourage me to learn new techniques and songs (I am a musician), and other times they inspire me to really push myself in terms of school and job opportunities. I find my dreams really motivating a lot of the time, it's great!
I sometimes get wet dreams too, but not nearly as much as I'd like to, lol
 
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Recently i've been learning that i can influence my dreams direction before i fall asleep by mentally visualizing a concept and genuinely 'feeling' that concept to be real/true, it allows for me to place a positive spin on my dreams in the hope they evolve vividly from that original thought.

For example, the last few times i had practiced this i focused on the concept of 'Love', i visualized it, felt it and flowed with it before falling asleep, i dosed off very easily as i had nothing else on my mind but a feeling on contentment. The dream manifested in the most incredible way, it was so vivid i believed it to be absolutely real..

I felt immense love for 'someone', i say this because it was directed at no gender, or physical form, just a feeling of love for something external to me. I woke-up in disbelief that something that felt so genuine was merely a dream, i was actually confused for the first few minutes, because that dream felt more real then anything i've ever experienced in waking life.

I wish these dreams would happen more often, but it's hit or miss even when i do go in with the intention of initiating it, i love dreaming though.. it's like my little abstract sandbox by which i can let chaos flow in and populate it with infinite possibilities :)
 
Here is a little piece I wrote on dreams and general sleep phenomenon. http://aquarianparadigm.wordpress.c...gic-experiences-and-my-lucid-dream-induction/

And here is a little exert from it, it was my first lucid dream :)

It started off as myself being a new student at college. The whole place I was in was familiar to my college at the time, but it seemed non-causal with general settings which make very little sense when compared to the outside world. Things were more clear than in normal dreams. I was with a group of students who were very different from myself. It was as if they had more experience of the place we were in and I was new in town. I found myself quiet and intimidated as we all sat in some of the college flats. They watched family guy, laughing hysterically while I was silent. I felt awkward and was not really getting it. I had never seen any of the people in the dream before in real life, though apparently all of our dream characters are people we have seen before, even if we have just seen them once or twice, our unconscious keeps records of them. But nevertheless, their foreignness added to my uneasiness and I was indeed out of place. Eventually the 2 or 3 males in the flat left and I was left with all of the girls. I was somewhat more comfortable as I tend to be without strong male egos (sharp personalities) in my presence. They laughed and joked.

It’s strange, there was never any memorable language used in the dream, it was only sounds or ideas of sounds. They only gave impressions and the actions they engaged in where expressed through emotion and facial expression rather than language. I understood so much from it though. Eventually I left the flat somehow and found myself in the corridor of the building I was in. It was some sort of modern design, plastic banisters placed randomly in the middle of the corridor. It had the essence of a forest. Strange. I made my way to the bathroom and found that the floor was extremely slippery, a slipperiness that is non-existent in waking life. And I could FEEL it even though it was a dream. I slid from left to right, trying to make my way to the cubicles, with each slide I was terribly embarrassed despite no one being there to see it. I was ashamed of my little control.

Eventually I made my way into one of the cubicles. The walls which made up the cubicles were see-through. I thought this was very strange. I continued to slip and slide while trying to urinate. There was a bin in the cubicle about the height of my waist, while I was sliding, unable to stand straight to pee, all of the people I had met earlier jumped out from the bin and started laughing at me. “How did they all fit in the bin?” I thought. It was apparent to me that I had a lot to learn and that these people had great knowledge of the place where I was in.

Somehow after some more events I cannot remember, I found myself with these people, or perhaps they were a different group of people, there was definitely a new girl present anyway, on the top floor of a flat, outside of the window on some sort of ledge with no border to stop people from falling, there was also a crane next to us. The girl which I had not seen before was naked but I don’t recall seeing breasts or genitals. Her skin was pure chalk white and she had black tribal markings all over her. At one point when we were standing around a fire, she was sitting on the window sill, she had in her hand some sort of baby head, a voodoo doll type of thing, she put her arm out and offered it to me. I was scared of it, pure fear and denied it, getting her to put it away. She laughed at me, it was as if she showed it to me because she knew what my reaction would be. She was like a pixie of some sort.

Later we were sitting on the crane and I found myself beginning to slip and slide again, I was struggling to stay on the crane and I fell off at one point, grabbing on & hanging down, managing to pull myself back up. This happened again and a revelation struck me, I was dreaming, I realised my superhuman potential in this environment and did not pull myself up, but I flew upward towards the sky, bright white clouds of light were above me. As I ascended, I realised why they were all making fun of me, why I had been slipping and why this place was so non-causal and strange. The alien had given me lucid dreaming ability, these strange people had known all along and now I was one of them. Sheer euphoria ran through me as I woke up.
 
before i went to sleep last night, i concentrated on what i wanted to dream about, and i dreamed about what i wanted to. LOVE it when that happens!
 
I had my 8th lucid dream last night, and my 7th the night before. However I'm trying to figure something out, shortly after I realise I am lucid in my dreams, I always wake up - do any of you have techniques to help prolong the dream? Because they are often ridiculously short (30 seconds or so)
 
So I had an interesting dream the other night. I recently decided to join the Navy, something I never in a million years thought I'd do. I came to this decision after years of unsuccessful and irresponsible alternatives.

Now, most dreams I've had have involved one friend of mine or another with whom I was currently on good terms. The common thread of those was that I was either running from them or they were running from me. Not literally, but as the dreams would progress a distance would always form between my friends and I. I didn't even really perceive this dimension of my dreams until the other night.

In the dream I had the other night (just after the decision to join up was finalized in my mind), I ran into someone I was once friends with but haven't been on good terms with in years. Just like that, we were friends again! Then another ex-friend came to me, and another, and another, all joining in the reunion of souls, as it were. It was an amazing feeling, and I woke up feeling great.

I can honestly say I've never had a dream like this before, it was just so totally opposite of the dreams I normally had I know I would have remembered it. I've had flying dreams, fighting dreams, fleeing dreams, falling dreams, but never a reunion dream.

I've read enough to understand that these are all elements of my own subconscious, and it really felt like bits and pieces of my subconscious, once broken and scarred, were finally healed, if even just a little bit. Like my mind was telling me that I had finally done the right thing for myself. Feels good, man. :)
 
The other night I dreamed about getting attacked repeatedly by a giant pelican. The worst part was when I ripped its eye out and it continued to to attack me.

Another night I had a dream about getting a DWI, ruining my life. One of those mornings where you wake up and just breath a sigh of relief.
 
Great thread, I do document my dreams (Ihave for years) and I used to write them out like "as I walked into the pink room jackie from 5th grade kissed me then my flew to europe on a bus and met a cheetah. Now I mainly write
enter pink room
jackie kisses me
go to europe
cheetah.

Be back soon with dream posts.
 
first interesting dream

THIS DREAM OCCURED ON THE NIGHT OF JANUARY 10, 2009

I had a dream I could not find work so I accepted a back breaking job with my stepfather and brother. We were paving roads(something my step dad does in real life) but investigating crimes at the same time. The dream quickly turned into something that resembled an NCIS episode. My brother was smoking a cigar and at one point we had to swim across acreek. His cigar stayed lit the whole time.Upon arriving on a unfamiliar land there was an earthquake or at least a rapid destructive sink hole burying people alive. The dreamscape quickly changed and I found myself outside a building being surronded by guys much bigger and tougher than myself. A fist fight ensued and it wasen't long before gunshots broke out.(this was a incredibly violent dream) lot's of people were being shot. I found myself in a valley or some sort of lower part of a forest. The people at higher levels of the woods were throwing rocks at me. All I could do was scream at them. I was utterly helpless.(this was not a nightmare though). Somehow I am at my best friends place and he is best fucking friends with this kid that tried to kill me in real life. His name is Jeremy and I always hated him. ( I am heterosexual, however my best friend happens to be gay and picks up strays that robb or screw him over frequently in real life) Jeremy has moved in with my best friend and I am warning him that Jereny is trouble. He wouldn't listen. Some how I meet up with Jennifer a old friend from Jr. High and High School. I am towing her on a bike. Her brother and I are friends again. We go to his house and his mom is making these tasteless disgusting tacos. His mom is also my friend Marissa's mom. At points they are the same or sort of turn into each other not immediately but slowly Jenn's mom becomes Marissa's mom. I quickly find myself climbing a 60 ft. ladder to nowhere and no one can get me down as I am afraid to climb back down. MORE TO COME
 
Then last night I swear I had a dream I cooked spaghetti all night. Seriously The dream lasted 8 hours (maybe more) and consisted of nothing but me stirring and checking this huge bowl of pasta. How could one dream about such a boring thing for so long I don't know but when I used to work in a restaurant kitchen I remember dreaming about washing dishes and doing my kitchen stuff a lot. This was like those old dreams only I didn't fuckin move the whole time. I literally had a 8 hour dream about cooking spaghetti.......
 
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