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crane towing a giant hammer (illus.)

Date of dream: Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Level of Lucidity: N/A     Level of Cohesiveness:     Rating:
Lucid Intent? Yes     Lucid Technique: WBTB

This dream has been viewed 6039 times.

 

[link to my artwork -- to see the ones that are animated:  click on image, then "View main page," and finally "ALL SIZES"]

Something about a farm silo blowing up, but it's at the television studio I used to be a graphic designer at back in the 1990s.  Then a crane goes by with a giant hammer suspended from it.

giant hammer

Dream memory tells me all of this is sensible, but not completely -- something about it puzzles me (all these lucid cues, and yet!).

Then my digital watch malfunctions.  I need it for a 10K race I'm about to run, but it suddenly regresses from a 21st-century liquid crystal display to a 20th-century light-emitting-diode one.  I think that's odd, but I attribute it to the watch not working rather than it being a dream.  My mother and father are arguing in the background, and I wake up.

 

  • Characters
  • Father
  • Mother
  • Keywords
    hammer
    crane
    digital watch
    light-emitting-diodes
    Add'l Emotions
    puzzled

    it only takes two images to animate (illus.)

    Date of dream: Tuesday, September 16, 2008

    Level of Lucidity: N/A     Level of Cohesiveness:     Rating:
    Lucid Intent? Yes     Lucid Technique: WBTB

    This dream has been viewed 6684 times.

     

    I'm at an outdoor wedding reception.  As I walk along a grassy path near a stream with my father, I carefully avoid stepping on croquet wickets planted into the lawn.  Then we work on painting a chair with blue and yellow paint -- I point out that the blue seems to spread over the wood better, while the yellow is somehow more sludgy.

    I wake up, eat a yogurt, and go back to sleep.

    I'm on a trip with my mother and father.  In this dream, my mother is young again and is flirting with my father (something struck me about this as being odd, and after I woke up I instantly realized what it was -- my parents never "flirted" with each other, at least not in front of us).  However, my father is sitting in a chair and seems to be in a coma.

    "We need you, we need your mind here to guide us," my mother says.

    I wake up briefly and go right back to sleep.

    I'm looking at an image of a nighttime cityscape next to a river.  I seem to have Photoshop working in my mind, so I split the image into two separate ones and wonder how to animate them (surprisingly having this ability does not make me lucid).  But as I look at the two slightly different images it occurs to me that all I have to do is flip them back and forth -- so I overlay them and do that.

    it only takes two images to animate

    I wake up.

     

  • Settings
  • Indoors
  • Outdoors
  • Characters
  • Father
  • Mother
  • Keywords
    young
    flirting
    lights
    animated
    Add'l Emotions
    worry
    sadness
    interest

    illegible dream notes (illus.)

    Date of dream: Sunday, September 14, 2008

    Level of Lucidity: N/A     Level of Cohesiveness:     Rating:
    Lucid Intent? Yes     Lucid Technique: WBTB

    This dream has been viewed 6845 times.

     

    My mother and father are leaving in their car to go to Asia, where they're going to live for a long time.  I'm crying, because I can see my mother is very ill and I won't be able to help her out from such a long distance.  I tearfully plead with them to stay, but they won't change their minds.

    "I don't think I can live with knowing that you're so sick and yet so far away!" I call out.

    I wake up and notice that there are illegible words on my bedside pad from earlier in the night when I woke up from a dream.  I vaguely remember writing them down, but I don't remember anything about the dream.  Here is the actual scrap of paper scanned into the computer:

    illegible dream notes

    I have no idea what the first word is.  The other lines read:

    sleep in basement

    heat stroke?

    time unaccounted for

     

  • Characters
  • Father
  • Mother
  • Activities
  • Driving
  • Keywords
    Asia
    heat stroke
    Add'l Emotions
    sadness
    grief
    puzzled