Date of dream: Wednesday, September 23, 2009
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Lucid Intent?
Yes
Lucid Technique: Other
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I'm looking at a strange menagerie of animals that supposedly don't exist (forgot what they looked like).
(wake up, record, fall back to sleep)
I wanted to go on a ski trip, up in Alaska. I'm lying in a bed in an altered version of my brother's old apartment in L___, California. I think I'm still dreaming, so I ask my dream character brother to shake me until I wake up. But it doesn't occur to me that if I am dreaming he won't be there when I wake up. I sit up and he shakes by the shoulders. I wake up, and of course find myself alone in my bedroom in real life.
(record, fall back to sleep)
A woman is helping us pick out a stereo for a car. The setting is a store in South Bend, Indiana (I haven't been there in over 30 years). Later on, I'm going to get a free stereo.
I wake up.
Date of dream: Tuesday, November 13, 2007
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I woke up early this morning and couldn't get back to sleep. I tried for an hour, but became so
restless I finally just got up. I felt so frustrated, because this waking up early/not being able
to get back to sleep has been happening to me more and more.
My dream time this morning, while cut short, was actually very strange. I was lying in a bed in a
house that resembled the house we lived in back in 1965 in a suburb of L.A. I was suddenly aware
that I was dreaming, and I thought I would experiment with the technique that I discovered of
shaking my head back and forth to wake up. It occurred to me that I should experiment more with
just shaking my head A LITTLE BIT, so that I would only partially wake up and go back into the dream.
I did this many times in the course of the dream -- I want to say about 20 times. I knew that I
would forget a lot of the dreams in between these partial awakenings, because when I slip back into
the dream state I usually lose the memory of the dream right before it. But I don't think I did a
lot in these many dreams -- I was too interested in experimenting with the technique. I do recall a
theme of being around people who were supposed to be watching out for me, but who really didn't care
about me that much. I was worried about my welfare several times in between these awakenings, for
the fear that I might NEVER wake up bothered me quite a bit.
Finally, I shook my head a little bit harder, hoping to go into the waking world almost all the way
... but not quite all the way yet. However, this just caused the dream to reset. I now found
myself in a new house with the same group of half-caring people, and I realized that it was time to
shake my head REALLY hard and wake up all the way. I did so, and I woke up immediately.
It occurred to me after I woke up that what I've been experiencing is somehow related to "sleep
paralysis." Because I distinctly recall that after I had made a number of these transitions, I
became conscious of the fact that I seemed to be moving from feeling fluid and flexible to my
muscles being tensed up and rigid.
