Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Facing Fears Dream

I’m in the pool room at mom’s watching some cop drama on TV. I ask what happened to the pool table. The other guy says it is over there and points around the room. I see it in three pieces that don’t make sense. He says we took it apart. I couldn’t remember doing that. (At the time I could remember earlier in the dream)

I wake up in a courtroom. There are lots of people, as if court was about to begin. I was at the prosecutor’s desk so I grabbed a pile of my shirts and walked out. The lobby was also full of people. I went out to the parking lot and tried to find the mini. I gave up quickly and I decided to walk. There was a big white tent attached to the side of the courthouse with chairs. A big tractor drove into the tent pulling a super long seating trailer. ~8 seats per row and ~25 rows, it had to be 150ft long. The back axel had ~12 wheels and stuck out on both sides. As the trailer was turning into the tent the back axel got caught on a large support of the tent, the trailer stopped.

I walk around taking pictures as more people show up. Barriers begin appearing around scene to keep people away. I continue walking around looking for a good shot; others are also taking pictures. I find two guys I seem to know and tell them about my plan to climb above a door to get a good view. The whole scene is now indoors similar to the big gym at Silver Creek. They don’t want to try the plan for fear of getting caught. I show them the people that would catch us and say they’re not looking. They’re still not interested. I show them that if we do get caught above the doorway then we can take a path along the side of the wall to get to the secret elevator.

They didn’t know about the secret elevator so I lead them to the back of the gym and show them the main and secret elevators. This secret room behind the gym is a reoccurring area for me, so I became lucid and jet-packed around. However, the secret area was pretty interesting so I stuck with them to look around. We looked at all the school’s secret rooms. The room that I thought had teleporters in it ended up having cryogenic machines. One of the guys hooked in and set it for ~17sec. While he was drifting off the other guy said he was no longer focusing his eyes. I felt the two metal spikes going into his thumb as if it were my thumb. He fell asleep.

I turned to the other guy and said this was all a dream and that’s why the pool table didn’t make sense (same guy). The dream starts to fade; I focus on talking, making eye contact, and squeezing my fists. Guards come to the cryogenic room and I throw my gloves at them with telekinesis; then stole one of their hats and telekinetically throw them out of the room. The awake guy turns to attack me; I run and throw things at him. He repeatedly shoots me with ball-bearings from a blowgun. I get hit a few times, it quite unpleasant.

I run downstairs and find myself trapped. When he comes near, I grab his neck and try to pull his spine out. I start running back upstairs and see that it didn’t work and that he’s after me again. Then I remember the chapter about nightmares from the lucid dreaming book.

He’s about a foot from me on the stairs and I accept that whatever will happen, will happen. I don’t try to stop his attack. He waits there, staring me down. Nothing happens. We are then walking together in a warehouse, I tell him that I’m dreaming (in case he forgot) and that we’re both creations of my mind. I say, “Somewhere there is someone dreaming that looks like me” and I point to my face. He seems confused by this. I was wondering what he saw of my face. I thought about becoming him so I could see my face but woke up.

Unrelated, I had a lucid dream ~3 nights ago. Once lucid I tried to jump through a wall and failed. But I did make it out the window and then flew.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Luge Dream

I was walking around in a house with few furnishings; outside of one room was a small river with a bridge to another part of the one-story house. I was wondering what day it was and whether I had overslept because I knew I had some obligation Monday at 11a. I concluded it was the weekend simply because I wound have otherwise known what day it was. Then I realized that yesterday was Wednesday the 12th so today must be Thursday the 13th (happy birthday Phill). After looking at the water, I came back inside but my eyes did not adjust to the relatively brighter room, everything went black and I awoke.

I lay very still in bed and in roughly two minutes, I was dreaming again.

It was night and I was walking down a small road. I began gaining speed and leaned back. I glided until I ran out of momentum and landed in a streetluge position. I continued speeding up and then lifting off, gliding for a few feet and landing, once I did so to dodge a car.

It is daylight now and a bike attached to another bike by a large cube around them passes me with one rider. I continue occasionally gliding down a hill. I pass the rider on the silly cube double-bike. I stop at the bottom of the hill to look at the surrounding mountains; I take pictures. The biker, no longer with an attached double bike cube, rides past me. The mountain closest to me reminds me of South Table and behind it, I see jagged snow-covered peaks; it was a quality view. The viewfinder of my camera was remarkably sensitive; a small movement caused the shot to change far more than it should have. So I decide to dream-check. I look at the picture number, 214, look at the mountains, then back at the picture number. My camera starts freaking out, as if I were mashing buttons; so I decide to try hovering, it works, and I conclude I am dreaming. I realize I will never see those pictures that I just took, too bad.

I think about my dream goals and decide that I want to talk to a dream character. I walk over to a nearby trail and tell the person there my name, location, that I’m dreaming, and if she wants water. She drinks some water but doesn’t say much. I start to lose vision and try spinning to remain in the dream, unsuccessful, I tell her that the dream will likely end in 3-4 seconds. I pour the water on my hand and regain vision to see it fall into the small river at the house and feel a dog sneeze on my arm. I remain lucid and start walking around again. Again, my eyes adjust to the outside and when I walk inside things go dark, so I try spinning in the doorway only to wake up. I didn’t open my eyes for a few minutes and focused on recalling the dream; wondering if I should record it.

I think the moral to the story is that dream spinning is not very effective for me. I’ve had recent success prolonging lucid dreams by rubbing my fingers together and pouring water on my hand. So physical touch seems to work, I need to experiment with auditory focus.

Monday, October 03, 2011

Lucid Superpowers

I'm currently reading 'Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming', among other things. I hope to improve my ability to have lucid dreams. They are pretty cool.

Here's a half remembered list of supernatural things I've done in previous lucid dreams:

Flying / Hovering: I've flown many times and can usually achieve flight pretty easily if that's what I want to do. Hovering is much easier than walking. I've hovered many times a few feet above ground. I once hovered up stairs.

Telekinesis: In one dream I was throwing juggling balls away from myself and pulling them back to my hand. In a later dream, I juggled without using my hands.

Teleportation: I tried to walk through a wall and failed so I closed my eyes and imagined myself underwater. I began swimming upward through the ceiling of the room I was in. Before I opened my eyes, I imagined an office setting, and opened my eyes to find myself there.

Modification: I was swimming in a pool and stopped to see someone sitting on the side. I didn't know the person, so I changed who they were into someone I wanted to see. Unfortunately, their face didn't come out right. There were two large holes in their skin.

Creation: I wanted to try eating in a lucid dream, so I created two pieces of bread in front of me and began dispensing jelly from my finger. After the jelly, I had my finger write in peanut butter on the other piece, then put it together and ate my Pb+J.

I was recently successful viewing my reflection, but there's nothing supernatural about that. I had just wanted to see it in a dream.

The book has some ideas for things to do while lucid dreaming, but I haven't read that far yet. Here are some things I'd still like to do:

Talk to dream characters: My lucid dream conversations are usually short because I am excited to exercise a supernatural power. I would like to have a long conversation.

Consciously change into a giant or pea-sized person.

Write something legibly: My dream handwriting is really bad.

Now that I'm writing this, I think it would be cool to have 360 vision (idea from Waking Life) or to have my consciousness in two different bodies (this sounds quite difficult).