Date of dream: Thursday, October 01, 2009
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Lucid Intent?
Yes
Lucid Technique: Other
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I have a bad dream and I keep getting more and more depressed about how I'm not doing anything to have a social life, and it makes me really sad. Aware that I'm dreaming, I try to have one in my dream life, but I know all too well that this is no substitute for having one in my real life (details of my attempts were mostly forgotten -- there was something about me being back in boarding academy, which I kept telling myself couldn't be possible, since I'm 55 years old; and then I'm living back at my old brick apartment in S___ moping about how I'm caught in the trap of not being able to socialize with people). I lament that my real life is oppressively lonely, and then I wake up.
Immediately I feel glad that my real life is actually not THAT lonely ... I do have friends that I occasionally do things with, although I'm not dating anyone.
Date of dream: Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Level of Lucidity:
N/A
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Lucid Intent?
Yes
Lucid Technique: WBTB
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I'm in a ski lodge and
there's a pile of junk stacked up in the center of the room because someone
is moving.
(shift) Then I'm in my old brick apartment back in S___. I'm upset because the
curtains for the apartment seemed to have disappeared.
I wake up.
Date of dream: Thursday, May 03, 2007
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I think I've found a successful technique for going to the dream state -- and perhaps even the OBE state -- from waking.
It worked after a full night's sleep, so I wonder if it's important to have that first under my belt before I try the technique.
I can even be lying on my stomach when I try this, with one hand up by my face and the other down by my side
(previously I thought I had to be on my back in order for ANY technique to work).
I just concentrate on my hands feeling heavy. After a while, they begin to feel slightly paralyzed and it's at that point that
they separate from my body ... and the rest of my body follows.
The first time, I walked out through a wall and found myself outside the brick apartments that I used to live in back in
S___. I even note that this is not my present-day residence (usually I'm fooled into thinking it is - and this setting is quite
common for many of my dreams).
I woke up and went back into dreams three times using this technique, but forgot much of what happened -- because if I
don't get up and write it down, it's quickly erased from my short-term memory [I don't think I have a bad short-term
memory, rather it's just something about the different nature of how dreams are stored in our memory after we wake
up].
In the last one, I concentrate on my hands again and soon am stepping out of my body into a maze of hallways. There
are wooden toys on wooden tracks, and I make them move along like electric train sets by using telekinesis. I run into
my brother, B___, doing the same thing -- but he's annoyed at me for some reason.
I wake up.
Additional Comments:
One of the reasons I believe I find myself so often in the dream setting of this brick apartment I used to live in in the 80s is
because it was while living there that I first started doing my dream research and having lucid dreams. It's also the time
period that I started applying the techniques in Sylvan Muldoon's book, The Projection of the Astral Body.
