Sleep and Dreams Megathread v2 - General

[QUOTE=Eonart;25126160]My last dream also seemed to be in fragments and I can only remember places, people and the reality check. Tram station. [b]Ellen Page.(The shit?)[/b] 2 wizard. Pushing tongue against teeth broke the teeth instead. I raged so much at the last bit because dream logic kept me unaware.[/QUOTE] [quote=solid_jake]And for the people who want to a little inspiration, here is the [b]exploits of my subconscious[/b] and I[/quote] Note to self: Never read jake's journal for attempting RILD

when the fuck will jake update his journal, anyway i need to analyze it, he still needs my help

Haven't been here often, recently been having blocks. But however I had a weird dream where a crazy woman in tattered black robes with various tears in the suit, and blood all over her body, was killing each and every person in the house. All while playing [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_KBKDqraO4&feature=related[/url], probably due to my ipod. Eventually it jumped to around 4:20 before the bat came down on my face, and I awoke.

[QUOTE=Zinayzen;25126713]when the fuck will jake update his journal, anyway i need to analyze it, he still needs my help[/QUOTE] He says it's too personal, so he won't post any more.

[QUOTE=Zinayzen;25126713]when the fuck will jake update his journal, anyway i need to analyze it, he still needs my help[/QUOTE] You would have seen it if you stayed in chat more :colbert:

I had a dream last night where I was having sex with my ex. I woke up and my little man was hurting like crazy. G-G-Ghost R-Rape?

Oh dear, this is going to be a long one. I don't remember these in any real specific clarity from beginning to end so forgive me, i am going them in order as best as possible, my dream recall is getting better every day now. Here we go... [quote] The dream begins in some sort of office setting, where i am racing to an office or place to beat some one else with the same goal, i win, the dream either ends or it is an entrance to another dream. I'm visiting what feels like my cousin's house, i am upstairs with the adults chatting it up and i offend them in any way possible, not on purpose, but my shirt (has ANARCHY on it, lol, or something like that), my demeanor, it is all unpleasing to them and finally they yell at me and i decide to go downstairs to the basement level (which is not a real "basement", it is quite lavish) to visit my cousin and his friends. This strange devilish ICP wannabe kid is down there playing starfox 64 (2 stations and somewhere around 6 people playing, although i only remember 2 faces, one from upstairs with the adults who is not named and the ICP kid), he is around 12 or 13 i should mention, i remember i have a gun, a wather PPK fully loaded magazine because i was nervous about something, i don't remember what. We decide to head out on the town, i put my gun away in a drawer so i don't have to illegally carry it around on the street and get busted, but before i can we see this other kid's room, he looks like a total hippie and his room screams hippie, so i motion to him if he has any weed, he says yeah and i hand him $10 and we go outside, there is a school across the street and we are going there. He produces a key and we enter inside, before i know what is happening there is a zerg rush of about 200 students of the school and these bouncing balls all over the place, the balls bounce like that [url=http://vodpod.com/watch/2516329-clips-men-in-black-ball]ball in men in black[/url], i have the urge to catch this ball with my hands and i do catch a few, they are multicolored and there is a contest occurring which involves catching as much of these bouncing balls as possible and you catch them in a similar manner to the video. They gravitate around your hand as you catch them, finally, around 4 people have balls left (lol), and a showdown occurs between them. Ultimately i did not win the contest but they all said i did pretty well and i feel accepted, finally, as a sub-prize we all receive some money depending upon how many balls we caught, as it turns out the $10 i gave him initially was used as my "entrance fee" into this insane contest. I ask him if i'll still be getting my weed and he chuckles and says yes, i won $93.13 if i recall, which i noted was not bad for my initial $10 investment. Then it dawns upon me that to make this entire thing work they had to bypass all forms of security to get into the school, that this massive club was also breaking massive rules albeit not for wrongful purposes. Police decide to raid the school the following night because of the apparent security risk, being that they had keys to the school and the computer network of the school, the school was "supposedly" completely vulnerable. They repair the security holes and we go on our way. From this point i remember being transported to a Back to the future 2-esque future (the bad kind, the Biff-ruled kind), houses are on fire and there is terrible things happening all around me. I ask to myself, what kind of future is this? And text on the "screen" appears as it would if this were a movie, it says "191A", which is no doubt either my affinity for hexadecimal numbers or just my mind fucking with me, from that point i say to myself "ok?... lol" and the dream ends as far as i know. [/quote] There is more to this dream both before and after this but i don't remember it very clearly. So guys, sup lol.

[QUOTE=Eonart;25128799]Curse that dream logic. Get Zin to figure it out or something.[/QUOTE] Knowing myself it had something to do with anti-authoritarianism, i thought the police raiding the school was a bit of an overreaction, i also noted that the adults were "rich" and that they didn't like me at all because i acted "poor", that is, i had flavor :smug: All around fun dream, glad i remembered it.

Well, FP, I'm in need of help. I haven't had a single dream ever since I went lucid once about three weeks ago, my sleep patterns are normal and I have tried things that normally would cause dreams (dairy, mustard and even orange juice) and I didn't get any. Any suggestions? There aren't any local 'sleep doctors' where I live.

[QUOTE=Zinayzen;25126713]when the fuck will jake update his journal, anyway i need to analyze it, he still needs my help[/QUOTE] It's solved. Jake dosn't need help anymore.

[QUOTE=PunchedInFac;25129018]Well, FP, I'm in need of help. I haven't had a single dream ever since I went lucid once about three weeks ago, my sleep patterns are normal and I have tried things that normally would cause dreams (dairy, mustard and even orange juice) and I didn't get any. Any suggestions? There aren't any local 'sleep doctors' where I live.[/QUOTE] Oh you've had them, you just probably aren't remembering them. Maybe your subconscious is shutting you out or maybe your lucid experience has over-excited you. Relax yourself, repeat terms like "i will remember my dream" and things like that, before you go to sleep but try to remember that you DO need to fall asleep, too, don't get over excited and don't expect to go lucid. Remember to read a lot about lucid dreams and immerse yourself in the material, reading about dreaming and maintaining my journal has increased my occurrences of dream remembrance almost quadruple-fold, if not more. This is the third dream in a row in the span of about 3-4 days that i remember, but this recent one was the most vivid.

[QUOTE=Eonart;25129159]Don't people find realistic dreams a bit disturbing. It's a good thing my dreams are almost never realistic.[/QUOTE] Oh absolutely, if you read my older posts you will realize that all of my dreams usually aren't as cheery and nice as my last dream i posted. People die. A lot. It isn't disturbing to me [i]really[/i] but it is far more surreal, i think the dreams closest to reality are the dreams we are most likely to remember. Side note: a ton of you fuckers have dreams about zombies, zombies are boring to me (not to say your dream bores me), I'm just not fascinated by them in any way lol.

Yay. Recall hopefully coming back to normal. Touch wood.

What do you mean the problem was solved? It's much too early for that to have happened... And as for S0be's dream, I don't know what the hell that's about. I'm a little preoccupied, but it does seem to me like there's no real significance there. Brains are weird.

I never asked for interpretation really, thanks for trying, i did think there was some significance and i explained it in the reply to him. Thanks for trying to elaborate on my crazy ass brain though, here, check this one out lol. (Just happened today, a Nap) [quote] I am shopping for a suit with my mother, i teleport after i select one. I am in school in the auditorium, we are having a graduation of some kind and several friends are there, i will list them off while hiding their real names. 1. John - Grade school and high school acquaintance 2. Chris - Grade school acquaintance and half friend 3. Dexter - High school friend 4. Bossy - High school friend 5. Junior - Dexter's little cousin I remember spotting Chris with the same suit i had on, and feeling like my suit wasn't as impressive because two people were wearing it. We were still better dressed then the rest of the people at school. I remember sitting down next to Dexter, Bossy to the left or right of me and John and his friend is in front of me, i remember showing them what is in my bag (9MM Glock this time, i should mention that in these two past dreams i have never carried guns for illicit purposes, such as killing some one, i was either carrying it for security or just to show somebody in a non-intimidating manner because i don't feel as if i am "wrong" in these dreams for having it), we talk and i for some reason at some point bring up a "shitload of money" that i had spent at one time. The presentation begins, it is a movie about my friend Bossy's past and how he is not so bright (this is not a revelation, i always knew he was a bit dumb, but decent hearted and his trouble making was always a little rambunctious). I remember one video he was playing with Junior, baseball, the bat some how flew into the upstairs window, knocked everything out and so him and Junior decide to clean up what they can (and they decide the best way to do this is to break the larger shards of glass into even smaller pieces, lol), the owner finds out and is pissed off, i think he decides to move out of his house because of it. Bossy says this is "[i]good[/i]", being the tough guy he usually portrays. Many people are laughing at him, or at the stupid things he does, lol. This was common in real life too. There is other videos but i don't remember them as vividly. The administrator calls a fire drill and everyone is heading to their respective exits when he pulls me aside, and brings me to the back office, as we walk there he asks me about this "shitload of money" i mentioned earlier but i guess did not spot my weapon in the bag because he briefly searched it and tossed it aside, i explain to him that i didn't have the money on me and that i hadn't spent it on anything illicit, because i had actually spent the money on separate occasions. I remember feeling like i was going to be in trouble for the gun i brought into the school regardless of my intentions (which were not bad). I remember heading into a door that didn't really exist in our school, behind the curtain of the auditorium. And like, all of a sudden there is Jerry 'fucking' Seinfeld! He begins immediately making jokes on behalf of the administrator, he not only does not know he is being made fun of but he thinks he is being flattered. Me and Eliane (who seems to be the Administrator's assistant) are laughing a lot behind his back, but whenever he turns around to look at us for reassurance we put on a serious face and try hard not to laugh, we also look at Jerry in a way that says "Stop making us laugh you asshole!", and so Kramer walks by and says something random like he usually does, the Administrator asks Jerry who his favorite comedian is and he grabs Kramer and says "MY FAVORITE COMEDIAN IS YOU!" in a sort of sarcastic way, and hands Kramer some form of currency. This is the end of the dream. DREAM LOGIC!!! [/quote] Now please, don't waste your time trying to interpret it, I am usually the one best suited for that because of how wild and out of control my dreams are. If i had to guess, this dream was a filler. There was no real revelations at all in this one. Although i do remember the part with the Administrator bringing me to the back office as a recurring dream of sorts, yes the whole Jerry Seinfeld bit too, lol. EDIT: You might ask, "Why post them at all then?" well i mentioned earlier i am attempting to empower my dream remembrance and that i am attempting to lucid dream, and this is a sort of "open" journal, i will post less if you guys think I'm spamming or something :)

I should've started taking interest in this whole lucid dreaming thing ages ago. =( Either way, attempted a WILD yesterday during a mid-day nap on the couch. Failed unfortunately, however, it lead to two very interesting dreams. First, I woke up in my old bed that hasn't been there for years, my dad walks upstairs and gives me a frying pan with 3-4 uncooked eggs. Annoyed, I get outta bed and head downstairs to the kitchen, as I do I notice the eggs in the pan are cooking like the pan went nuclear hot, and I'm trying my best to not spill egg on the floor, but the things are like bubbling and boiling like crazy. I pass my dad going from the kitchen and ask him "Can I put these back on the stove a bit?". I think at that point I started to realize I was dreaming, but before I got anywhere NEAR that, brain aborted and "Woke me up". However, it was my first and only 'false awakening'. Didn't last long, but it was awesome to experience. I was confused as hell when I actually woke up.

K, so I got the lucid dream my subconscious promised (lol) [QUOTE=teh_1337_r0XX0r;25136667]I was headed to my high school on some sort of mobile platform, presumably because I don't drive. This was the second half of the trip, which is more or less a nature preserve (this part is true). I realized I was dreaming (I'm in college now), and tried the nose-plug RT and rubbing my hands, both of which worked perfectly. However, I have no idea what happened then, though I'm pretty sure I asked for my subconscious. Evidently he prefers indirect contact, because instead of a talk, the next thing I remember is that I was in church with my family at some sort of special musical service, when I realized I was in my underwear. People didn't notice much, but I was still pretty embarrassed. Instead of going home so I could change (as I had hoped) me and my family went to the grocery store, though I just sat in the car like always. Still embarrassed. Somehow I switched back to the route towards school, then new dream. I was in a child's playpen, with little kiddy tunnels and such. As I am comparatively large, things were tight, but I took advantage of the situation to impress little kids by escaping (it helped that it was made of foam). Trying out more contortionist tricks (via lucidity), I noticed one of the kids had a brand new DS of some sort, a little smaller than a dollar bill (but thicker). I admired it with him, then for comparison pulled out my old-timey DS, which was apparently pink. I lamented the fact that I had gotten it from someone because mine broke, and they were getting a new one anyways. *Thankfully NOT from the only owner of a pink DS that I know; she's a creeper* Dream switch. I was in a very hilly metropolis, and decided to jay-walk across the street to some road-workers. I talked a little, but focused more on a skyscraper in the distance, which had an open section ala L4D's Mercy Hospital, only prettier. For some reason, this reminded me of GTA4, which even in my dream I thought odd because of the comparative lack of grit. I wanted to teleport there, but instead false-awoke and looked for a notebook and pencil. I figured my parents had accidentally woken me up, but they were gone. I couldn't find anything, so I just laid in bed and thought about my dreams. Then I really woke up, found a notebook and pencil, then wrote in bed (as my parents accidentally 'woke me up', lol) I went back to bed to try to lucid dream more, but I kept waking up after short dream fragments, the only notable part being a retrospectively odd version of Super Mario RPG. [/QUOTE] This all can be interpreted pretty straightforwardly, but I'm interested in what others might think. Also, the bananas totally helped, 'cause BANANAS ARE F^(<!N' MAGIC EDIT: Wait, I just realized I have NO idea what the skyscraper things was about. Took me long enough to realize it... Probably gonna wait for the weekend to try lucid dreaming again... I never have enough time in the morning for dream journals -_- Oh, and omg CHAT

Been following this for a while, and trying SO hard to lucid dream. It's so irritating when you get so close. Mid-dream, I remember being encouraged to explain to someone about lucid dreams. I was right there TALKING ABOUT IT and I still didn't twig it was a dream. *muh* Might start posting progress (if there is any!), but it's really interesting to see how everyone else is progressing :)

[QUOTE=Jessbinx;25137827]Been following this for a while, and trying SO hard to lucid dream. It's so irritating when you get so close. Mid-dream, I remember being encouraged to explain to someone about lucid dreams. I was right there TALKING ABOUT IT and I still didn't twig it was a dream. *muh* Might start posting progress (if there is any!), but it's really interesting to see how everyone else is progressing :)[/QUOTE] Heh, you might be trying [i]too[/i] hard, my friend, that was my major issue at first too. A good tip i picked up from the interwebs is that, you don't want to randomly do reality checks throughout the day, instead, associate reality checks with a reoccurring part of your dream. I will use the example as i was given as it is easiest to explain, this internet man used to see his ex-girlfriend in his dreams a lot, so, every time he sees his ex-girlfriend in real life he will do reality checks, the hands, the lights (not recommended if you are worried about looking like an oddball), the nose plug and the tongue-teeth thing, eventually he will do these checks when he sees his ex-girlfriend in his dreams. This makes the most sense to me, although i have just begun and have never had a lucid dream this seems to be the most valid way to do reality checks. You can also do that as well as doing them randomly throughout the day, i just think the random checks part might be a bit ... random and probably would only help you to occasionally do reality checks. This is only a theory by some guy on youtube and myself so you can choose to disregard it if you wish. I am by no means an expert, at all. As for posting progress go for it, i can't be the only one posting in this topic.

False awakenings. :wtc: I was so confused :saddowns: Not to mention my brother's laptop was inside out. I knew and didn't even care, and forgot to do a reality check. My dream began to collapse, it was the coolest thing, for a couple seconds.

Cool that I found this thread. I use to lucid dream sometimes and it was really fun

Wow this is a lot of people. I remember v1 was basically just a chatlog of four people. Damn this LD stuff, I've been trying so hard to do it yet I haven't succeeded once. I think I'll start over from the beginning with dream recall, actually. Maybe that'll improve my chances of LDing in the future.

Had a half nightmare - [QUOTE] Scene 1: I'm playing Metal Gear Online, they added this new feature which shows if someone will get banned for disconnecting. (Rage quitting) My team and I rush down the stairs and the up the other side and through their garage, we are winning. Scene 2: I'm on top of a steep street. I have acquaintances. Apparently, we are going to break into a bank. One of them has a pick lock, I somehow speed up the picking of the lock by also pick locking while he picks. We emerge into a carpeted room with 2 men standing next to the door on chairs to the left. Next to them is a bookcase. We tell them they can join us and 1 of them does. Scene 3: I'm on top of a steep street (Same one). I'm walking down when I encounter a friend and we go to the tennis court. I sit on the staircase next to the railing which has a view of the 6 courts. (2 x 3) I play someone and then for some reason, the ball gets slammed and he gets mad at me. I say, "It wasn't me!" (That slammed that ball) but he doesn't believe me. After everyone left except for the coach and I, I look at a camera which shows my court. I can see the ball slam again and then the camera swerving to the court a court away from me. It shows a person turning around. I conclude that he slammed it and made it bounce off the wall to make it so that they guy I was playing not to be my friend anymore. But the coach doesn't believe me. Scene 4: Walking down the hall way. Go into some argument with ex-friend about how I didn't do it and he walks away angry. The mean dude that I suspect walks and smirks and says something mean I don't remember. Scene 5: This guy is now bullying me by telling me to do something and then sabotaging my efforts. Such as one time, I was making a river (Because he told me to. ) by digging a trench and applying egg whites to the river bed and sides and then the yolk to the white. (Dream logic FTW!) Meanwhile, the Nemesis (The mean guy), has 6 dogs in his house. In the kitchen, he gets them to like the taste of egg by feeding it to them. And then he moves them to where I am digging to let them eat it. After they eat it he scolds me by saying "How could you let them do that! You idiot!" I just feel sad. There are more similar situations. Scene 6: Back at the steep street, I try joining the gang again but I can't since they already got another guy. Scene 7: In a desert, the Nemesis tells me the wait here until he comes. (It's just a plot to make me waste my whole day) So I stand there and I stand. This guy goes up to me and I go with him to build a robot dog. We complete it and initiate it to get the Nemesis. I sense the Nemesis going to the waiting point so I do a big leap and land with a thud just as he appears. He laughs at me for standing here the whole time and then my robot dog goes to him and starts screwing him up. While hes being regretful on the cliff my dogs just gnaws something. -Wake up- [/QUOTE]

Zin, all im going to say is...... AJ isn't what we thought he was. He is peaceful now. Problem = solved. on another note, Im feeling p chill tonight, Ima try WILD........ or maybe just RILD...... oh wait I have no books. WILD it is!

I think something is wrong with my subconcious. She is changing personalities like crazy, and occasionally shapeshifting into past figures from dreams. And speaking mixed gibberish which comes in several languages. Crazy.

[QUOTE=Eonart;25146825]I got stabbed in the back by my retarded brother. On-topic: This girl I know has been lucid dreaming longer than I have been trying so I ask her bout her sub. She says he is weirdly poetic and likes to kill things. Anything wrong with her that I should know?[/QUOTE] She reads too much epic poetry. Tell her to lay off the Odyssey and the Iliad.

[QUOTE=Birdman101;25143196]Zin, all im going to say is...... AJ isn't what we thought he was. He is peaceful now. Problem = solved[/QUOTE] That was faster than I'd expected. Go figure. [QUOTE=The man of "Wat";25146535]I think something is wrong with my subconcious. She is changing personalities like crazy, and occasionally shapeshifting into past figures from dreams. And speaking mixed gibberish which comes in several languages. Crazy.[/QUOTE] Probably trying to find a form you respond to. It's not always what you'd think. It'll take some time. [QUOTE=Eonart;25146825]I got stabbed in the back by my retarded brother. On-topic: This girl I know has been lucid dreaming longer than I have been trying so I ask her bout her sub. She says he is weirdly poetic and likes to kill things. Anything wrong with her that I should know?[/QUOTE] I doubt there's anything wrong with her. She probably just reads a lot of epics and likes the idea of a feminine yet aggressive male. Heart of gold, abs of steel, etc. He probably has a beard. I love sub questions.

I dreamt that I was godzilla and all these japanese people were running at me and burrowing inside my scales and these fighter jets would grow their wings bigger and bigger and fly around me but not shoot me. And wouldn't you know I was dreaming

[QUOTE=Zinayzen;25146956]Probably trying to find a form you respond to. It's not always what you'd think. It'll take some time.[/QUOTE] Well its kinda bugs me, as she does it the area shifts at random as well, eventually she was some multicolor glowing being by the time I awoke.

[QUOTE=The man of "Wat";25147030]Well its kinda bugs me, as she does it the area shifts at random as well, eventually she was some multicolor glowing being by the time I awoke.[/QUOTE] Hm.... sounds badass to me, but I get your point.