Date of dream: Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Level of Lucidity:
N/A
Level of Cohesiveness: 
Rating:
Lucid Intent?
Yes
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[lucid assignment: let the dream direct itself, and just go along with the plot as an extra would on a movie set. Be acutely aware of opportunities to interact with the dream characters as they arise, and in this way change the mix of the dream.]
A long (mostly forgotten) dream about a tedious, three-hour long movie.
I wake up for a while and realize I can't remember that much about it, but that doesn't seem like a bad thing.
I go back to sleep and, in a new dream, am trying to feed a bright red cardinal a kernel of dry corn. He doesn't seem interested, though, so I put it on his back and he hops around with it.
Then it lets me pat him like a dog, and I'm amazed that a wild bird is behaving this way.
(shift) I have to go back to the dentist's office for an appliance to help me stop snoring; but I just drop in instead of making an appointment, which means I have to wait in a line (in real life I may soon be fitted with such an appliance, but it will probably be by an oral surgeon). There are two gay guys ahead of me, and I also notice that the two dentists that own the office are gay.
I wake up.
Date of dream: Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Level of Lucidity:
Level of Cohesiveness:
Rating:
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.
