Date of dream: Saturday, November 26, 2011
Level of Lucidity:
Level of Cohesiveness:
Rating:
Lucid Intent?
Yes
Lucid Technique: RT
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I was in Orlando with my sister. We were at a theme park (not Disneyworld) and riding a roller coaster that was about to go off the tracks, and someone in front of us was screaming and screaming and screaming. Then one of the wheels got jammed and it stopped before going over.
We went back to the hotel room. It was poorly lit and the wallpaper was peeling. She went back out and I turned on the TV to a music channel. Then the music stopped and I couldn't get the remote to work. My phone was plugged in but wasn't charging and was losing battery life quickly. I went to my bed and saw a woman on it with empty eye sockets. It was really scary, and I went to turn on the lights but I tried 3 lights and none of them worked. Then I remembered that lights usually don't work in my dreams! I tried to stick my hand through the wall to test if I was dreaming, but it didn't go through, so I assumed I was awake. I went to one of the lights which was mounted on a strip of mirror and realized that the mirror had come out of the wall. I pushed it back in and was able to turn on the light, but it was dim and flickering.
Then my brother and my dad came in. My brother noticed a glass pipe on the table (didn't really look like any type I've seen before) with some weird herbal and chemical blend like K2 in it. I decided that this was why everything seemed dark and scary, that I must've been smoking that. Then I was alone in the room again. I didn't know where my dad had gone but his glasses, keys, wallet, and phone were on the table, which was weird. I had a very strong feeling that something wasn't right. Then my sister came back and her eye sockets were empty.
Additional Comments:
No sleeping pill. Took 7.5 mg extended-release cyclobenzaprine approx. 21 hours before.
Date of dream: Sunday, October 16, 2011
Level of Lucidity:
N/A
Level of Cohesiveness:
Rating:
Lucid Intent?
Yes
Lucid Technique: WBTB
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I was at work. A patient who looked about my age (mid-20s) came up from the ER, sinus tachycardia in the 120s to 140s. Someone had put an IV in a vein in the lower abdominal area and I flushed it with saline. He was talking nonsense, seemed like an anticholinergic delirium, and first he was saying he was 22, then 102, then 24, then 104. The temperature was elevated. I was taking notes in both English and Hebrew. I don't remember my English notes but then my dad was in the room, reading my Hebrew notes, and the text did not change, but there was one word I didn't know that I'd written down and my dad translated it as "freedom", but I don't think that's really what it meant. I'd also mis-spelled some words so they looked like different words to him.
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I was looking at my teeth in the mirror. They were very yellow and the surfaces were uneven, so I went to see a dentist. He said something simple and dismissive (told me to take my vitamins or something). Later (I was nowhere in this scene), a health inspector came by his office and killed him, smeared the blood all over the door.
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There was a human pony contest. Three people in fetish gear were standing next to a fence, hands cuffed to it, each with a sparkly pole of a different color beside them. I watched the judges come and award first and second prize. Then Amberly came and stood next to me. The winner's Master came to uncuff and congratulate her. They were friends of ours so we talked with them.
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I was back at the dentist's office, but this time I was investigatiing the crime. I was in a room that looked like one of the patients' rooms on my floor, a double room, and it was crowded with beds because my family and two neighbors were living in it temporarily. I was sitting on a chair between two beds and taking notes, and accidentally turned on the shower (which was in the middle of the room and sprayed my sister, waking her up).
Then I was getting the stuff set up for an IV and we were the vampire and the girl from Twilight (???) and I was starting an IV on her. We were having this dramatic and ridiculous movie dialogue as I started a 22g IV in the right forearm. It was a quick, easy start with no blood dripping between withdrawing the needle and attaching the tubing. I removed the old IV, which was more like a PICC in the other forearm, and suddenly I was the investigator again. Even though the dressing had just come off of my sister's arm, I saved it as evidence because I had a feeling that the blood on it was actually either the victim's or the murderer's blood.
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I was at a friend's house in Texas. Every wall in every room was covered with pictures, art, and clocks from floor to ceiling. I noticed that the clocks were set to different hours. The first two I saw read 1:45 and 2:45, and they were each off by increments of an hour (X:45). At this time, it might've actually been 2:45 PM.
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I was watching a job interview for a very high-paying position. 10 to 15 applicants were lined up with shovels and were told to dig their own grave. Ultimately, the last one still digging was the one who got the job because she was the only one who thought getting the job was worth digging the grave. (It was deep and took a lot of time and effort.)
This woman owned a number of post offices in rural areas. 12 of her postal trucks were being converted to armored cars and staffed with Red Cross and Magen David Adom volunteers to act as ambulances that did only blood transfusions. I went inside one of them (I was a volunteer and her apprentice) and saw a few chairs where the transfusions were given, and above the windows, lots of racks filled with bottles and jars of salt.
There was a press event one night and I presented my badge, then asked the guy at the desk (and asked that this be off camera) if they give transfusions of human blood to animals, too. He said that they did. The strange thing is that as I was asking this, another part of my mind was also watching this on TV (which is why I asked that it not be recorded, but obviously it was recorded anyway). The camera was recording from a point a few feet behind me on my right.
Additional Comments:
I went to sleep around 4 AM, after taking half a sleeping pill, then another half 30 minutes later with some wine. Over the next 12 hours, I woke up 5 or 6 times and went to get some water or check my e-mail, then went back to sleep each time. (The half-life of the sleeping pill is shorter than 3 hours.)
Most of the dreams that I remembered and recorded happened in the last 1 or 2 sleep periods.
The clocks and writing have been showing up in my dream a lot more since I've been focusing again on lucid dreaming, but they don't *change* even though there's always something a little weird about them, so as dream symbols, they haven't triggered lucid dreams yet.
I'm marking it as a recurring dream because much of it took place at work, and a third to half of my dreams take place at work.
Date of dream: Saturday, October 08, 2011
Level of Lucidity:
N/A
Level of Cohesiveness:
Rating:
Lucid Intent?
No
Lucid Technique: WBTB
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I was able to get 2 hours of sleep on my own. When I woke up, I looked at the clock, closed my eyes, and decided to get up in a minute to take half a sleeping pill. This dream happened over the next 20 minutes:
I got out of bed and went to get the half-pill from the shelf right outside the bedroom door, where I usually have it. I put it in my mouth, then walked into the kitchen to get a drink to swallow it with. Where the pantry is, there was a sink beneath a mirror. Someone was standing to my right, trying to talk to me (I vaguely remember them as an angelic figure) and then I realized that what I had in my mouth wasn't half an Ambien but a bunch of round purple pills. I started spitting them out, and then I looked at the package of pills (which hadn't been in my hand until then) and saw that it said "Astral Projection." I did not, however, realize that I was dreaming or take the hint, and I woke up almost immediately.
Additional Comments:
It's rare that I'm able to get any sleep at all without taking a sleeping pill. I've been trying to go without them, then trying to take just half if I haven't fallen asleep in an hour. Often, I'll be in the hypnagogic state for an hour, hearing distorted music or the sound of dishes dropping, occasionally seeing patterns of blue light or purple and gold light but mostly drifting in a state of diminished sensory input, though not yet asleep.
Since I've been spending more time in this state instead of taking a pill at first and going right to sleep, studying tarot, drawing and painting, and discussing astral projection with a co-worker, I've been having a lot more "hints" in my dreams of dreaming, lucidity, and astral projection, and dreams of something dormant waking up.
