Date of dream: Friday, October 16, 2009
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Lucid Intent?
Yes
Lucid Technique: WILD
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I'm in a lab talking with my mother about a newspaper story. Suddenly I notice different odors about the lab, some of them being chemicals and not so pleasant, and I exclaim that I can smell again! (In real life I've lost about 98% of my ability to smell.)
I leave the lab. It's nighttime, and I start traveling down a road in a wheelchair/bicycle combination. The road is very isolated, though, and up ahead I see the silhouettes of vultures waiting by the side of the road. I worry a little for my safety, but surprisingly not very much. Soon it changes into a rough dirt path.
(shift) Now I'm on foot and a man leaps out to attack me.
(shift) Now he's a harmless looking, middle-aged woman walking a dog, but I still think I'm going to be attacked.
(shift) Now she's a pleasant, young mother pushing her child in a stroller and walking a small red dog. We start talking. I've totally forgotten all the shifts this character has gone through. There's a funny little nose piece with a red paisley design on the dog's nose, and I remarked on how it matches the dog's fur.
(shift) I'm a also walking a dog -- it's a large, red golden retriever. She has me try the nose piece on my dog, and we both remark how it matches my dog's fur, too.
(wake up, record)
After not being able to fall asleep on my back for a very long time, I finally turn over on my stomach and imagine myself taking pictures in various settings, turning around in circles as I snap the shutter multiple times. Soon I find myself in a semi-dream, sitting at a table. Worried I'll wake up, I fold my arms and slowly put my head on the table. Immediately I dissolve down through the table and fall at high speed through a gray, out-of-focus void. This goes on for at least a minute.
I wake up and have an OBE in sequence several times more (details of most of these other OBEs are now forgotten).
I start feeling frustrated because I don't know what to do with my lucid dreams (I do have an assignment that I'm trying to remember to do, but it seems like every time I'm lucid I forget it). I talk with this guy because we're both so frustrated that we can't do anything in the lucid state -- I seem to be aware that he's another lucid dreamer trying to do something spectacular in his dreams, too. We hug each other sympathetically, because there really is no one else to talk to about this except each other (I wonder if I can run into him again in another dream?).
I wake up.
Date of dream: Sunday, June 21, 2009
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Lucid Intent?
Yes
Lucid Technique: Other
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I'm in the choir again (I actually joined one last year, but it didn't work out ... I couldn't sing parts, only unison). I'm having a hard time with the music as usual. D____ M______ is singing way off key, though. I get kind of bossy and order him around, telling him to get his act together, oblivious for the moment how much of a hard time I'm having fitting in with the choir.
(wake up, record, fall back to sleep)
I have several OBE dreams ... at least three. In two of them, I move my hands through the solid material of the bed and get out of body that way. One time, I move my head through the mattress.
Likewise, I go through three walls. In a new scene I'm at school, though, and I think I have to get to class. Slowly it dawns on my this is not actually the case. I'm 54 (actually 55) and there's no way I'm going back to school. I also get possessed with the idea of throwing out more stuff that I don't need, that's slowing how much I enjoy my life down. But then I realize that throwing it out is a task that I can say no to as well. I should put up a big framed "NO" in my room to wake up to every day.
I shouldn't swamp myself with things to do every day and I should say NO to new mail tasks that come to via email and paper snail mail.
I wake up.
Date of dream: Tuesday, December 23, 2008
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Lucid Intent?
Yes
Lucid Technique: WBTB
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[lucid assignment: let the dream direct itself, and just go along with the plot as an extra would ... but don't let on that your goal is to observe the dream with insight. If necessary, fool other dream characters into thinking you're not lucid by acting the way they expect you to act in the situations that are thrown at you]
I have a dream early in the night that I wake up from -- but immediately forget all the details of.
I have a hard time going back to sleep -- it feels like hours are going by, and I'm just not comfortable no matter how I arrange my pillows. Finally, I feel a vibration starting in the area of my face. This is highly unusual for me, I recall, for even in my OBE dreams I never go through the "vibration" phase (see some of the books on how to have an OBE for an explanation of the "vibrations").
The vibration turns into an almost painful buzz that is shaking my entire skull. I wonder if I should just wake up ... am I in danger of having a seizure? But I quiet those fears and let the process continue.
Suddenly I find myself waving my arms around the air -- and I know that they're my astral arms. I quickly get up out of bed, as light as a feather. I fail to notice that my apartment looks completely different. Truly believing I'm having an OBE, I look back to where my physical body should be lying in the bed. But the bed is empty! However, I have a vague sense of my physical body moving in my real bed independently of me, restlessly still trying to get comfortable. I hope that it won't wake me up.
A little puzzled, I proceed on with the dream. I pass through a wall into a hallway where I begin to fly. I look back and see a female cardinal flying right behind me, reddish brown and not the bright red that a male cardinal would be. Other things are floating in the air behind the bird and I now.
I wake up and don't move. I wait for the vibrations again, and sure enough they return. When they get intense, I step out of my body again.
(I forgot much of the dream at this point, except for the fact that I went in and out of body at least three or four times, using the same technique of waiting for the buzzing sensation each time)
In the last dream, I find myself looking at a picture of rock cliffs that was taken somewhere out in the American southwest. There are odd symbols inscribed in the rocks, and a choir piece is playing in the background that has some vague words about Mary. I'm confused, because I feel like I'm supposed to be "absorbing" the energy from the crude symbols, and yet I don't remember reading about symbols like this being associated with the Bible.
Then I'm zooming along beneath the detailed hull of a black spaceship that I seem to understand has been built by the U.S.
I get a sense that it's evil somehow, and yet I seem to have it stuck in my head during this dream that I need to "absorb" things -- so I decide that it won't be wrong to "absorb the evil" (dream logic).
Somewhere towards the end of the dream I smell three distinct odors (forgotten) and realize that if I can dream about having my sense of smell back, it must mean that the problem is with something in my nose and not in my brain (this is something that I've worried about a fair amount in real life -- I lost my sense of smell a few years ago, and was told that sometimes it can be a precursor to Alzheimer's disease if the loss is occurring in the brain itself).
I wake up.
