Thursday 9th January

Tags

Awareness, driving, fail, film-dream, girlfriend, inept at sport, old friends, school, sport, unnoticed dream sign

• In bed – 9.52pm
• Lights off – 12.17am
• Woke up – 9.28am

A day of some work and writing and quite a bit of playing games, including a fair amount of GTA V. Dream prep and awareness as much better though, a physical reminder (elastic band a little too tight around some fingers) really does the trick. Will use it again. In-bed wasn’t so good though I think I fell asleep pretty quickly.

Dreams
5.22am – This dream was set in a jungle somewhere with me joining a team of army guys. For some reason I went rogue and began to sniper kill the rest of the group. I hit one guy who then bled out in another person’s arms. It was even more heartbreaking when we learnt that he was a few hours from going back home to his wife and kid. I felt pretty rotten about it when I woke up.
9.28am – At my old high school (where else?) playing in the championship game of basketball (what else?). Time runs out and I take the last shot of the game… it bounces of the rim (need I say more, dammit!) But my team begins celebrating, and I look at the scoreboard to see that we were two points ahead the whole time and the last shot didn’t matter anyway. We leave still celebrating and I am giving another student there a lift home., in my old car, but with my new license plate number and a flippy key that is very strange. At some point along the drive we lost the car, as we were walking along the pavement with an Asian man, who was far too old to be in our class, yet he was a student with us. He was telling a very long winded story about a friend’s son who was a semi-pro footballer, being scraped on the shin in a match and having a blood blister filled with infected blood. They didn’t think anything of it for a while and eventually the leg grew a layer of fat over the blister and it was sealed in, the kid died. This was a relevant story as I remember (though I’m pretty sure it was just a dream memory, and didn‘t actually happen) a lesson earlier that day about this very subject, and I knew he was right because my girlfriend had even told me similar stories from a hospital she was working at (again dream memories).

Wednesday 8th January*

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Awareness, Detailed, dream journal while in dream, driving, family, film-dream, inept at sport, sport, unnoticed dream sign

• In bed – 9.14pm
• Lights off – 11.04pm
• Woke up – 8.18am

A day in which I actually did some constructive work and writing. It felt good and will continue. Dream prep wasn’t bad, should have dome more thought. I’ll make sure to use a physical reminder tomorrow.

Dreams
6.05am – We were heading to America by boat. Our own boat, not a huge deal bigger than a couple of canoes. My brother and I were packing fresh water and food, fresh chopped vegetable, (because they would have gone to waste otherwise). My brother cut an extra plank to attach to the back of the boat, for stability. And we had a cat on board who was fishing with a piece of meat attached to it’s tail, but it got more interested in eating the bait itself. We were going because we had collected coins from all over the world, each different country’s coin was worth £1000 in this competition being held. Driving the boat was a nightmare, it was a large motorbike/jet ski creation, and the shallows were packed with holiday swimmers. The next scene was in a doctor’s office, and a man wanted to have a full medical examination without the doctor looking at his records. The doctor agreed and went ahead explaining that a new machine would diagnose him using CGI or motion capture, it had a much higher chance of finding cancer.
8.18am – I was at the zoo watching and playing with some monkeys (I did watch a Jonathan Creek episode filled with monkeys this night), and as we were leaving I got rearly angry with my sister for demanding that I give my niece her shoe back. But I explained that it was a punishment for kicking me in the face and was the best I could come up with. Outside I went, getting hit by someone trying to keep-up a balloon. Out to the hundreds of people playing or warming up to play football now, and I got hit a couple more times, most painfully was from my brother kicking the ball in my face and making my teeth snap together.

These were two really good and detailed dreams. And the more that I think, the more i’m sure that I had at least one other dream that involved me flicking through my journal. So maybe lucid thinking is creeping back into my dreams.

Tuesday 7th January*!

Tags

Awareness, forgotten, games, science, unnoticed dream sign

• In bed – 8.59pm
• Lights off – 11.05pm
• Woke up – 8.00am

Day spent doing bits and bobs around town and in the house. Awareness slipped a little, but was still good, and in-bed was good too.

Dreams
4.27am – I didn’t write down any dreams tonight but I do recall enough of this one to add here. There was a group of us going through some kind of sci-fi lair to get to the superhuman baddie so we could beat it. We reached the end, a large swimming pool kind of room, and began taking some spherical items that were floating on the water, and launching them against the far wall to break them. This was meant to hurt or hinder the baddie. Eventually he showed up and there was a fire fight involving rocket launchers. It turned out that we achieved what we set out to do… only we thought it was going to do something else. Instead of kill the baddie it only reverted him back to his original form or face. We were out of ammunition by now and doomed.

I had another dream which was remarkably similar to this one, involving rocket launchers, sci-fi lairs and baddies. While I’m fairly sure it was a different dream, (again not jotted down) anything I write would pretty much be word for word as above.

Monday 6th January

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Awareness, driving, film, film-dream, forgotten, inept at sport, Moving house, sport, TV series, unnoticed dream sign

• In bed – 10.21pm
• Lights off – 12.08am
• Woke up – 9.05am

First day back at home, spent entirely unpacking most of the rest of our stuff from the move (we hadn‘t even done half of it before we left). There is still more though. Dream prep was pretty good again and in-bed I made really good as well.

Dreams
4.15am – The first lines of my notes here failed because of my pen being silly, but it begins with going for a long drive before dinner, which had all been planned out for us. The roads we were on were horrid; potholes, corners of buildings sticking out from the tarmac, bricks, just not flat or level. And on top of that there were many hairpin turns to deal with. There was football on the TV somewhere and naturally I shifted to playing. Indoor and in goal. First to score 2 goals wins, but the same person couldn’t score more than once. It was 1-1 and their goal scorer took a shot. I tried to let it in so we would win, but the damn thing hit me in the throat before creeping over the line. We lost. I suck at dream football (though I was doing so well up until then).
9.05am – I was an exorcist on a job against an invisible demon that no one else could see. It had broken the seal I had put in place, so I needed a passer-by to fix the seal while I held the demon down, by punching it repeatedly in the head. Afterwards a researcher gleaned that I had gotten my power from a grandfather, who performed the ‘Tongue Passing’, so I could communicate with the other world. Next Charles Gunn from ‘Angel’ was infiltrating a demon lair, but hopelessly outnumbered he hid in the roof of a lift.

Sunday 5th January

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Awareness, Detailed, film, film-dream, naked, TV series, unnoticed dream sign

• In bed – 10.02pm
• Lights off – 11.09pm
• Woke up – 8.13am

A trip to Manchester museum today before the long drive back home. Holiday tripping; end. Awareness and dream prep was much better and in-bed was really good, as I hoped it would be once settled again.

Dreams
4.25am – A book dream about a bunch of crazy knights and demons etc. I don’t recall this one too well now but at the time I wrote that there were many big fights and battles between the groups, over who had the right to some land or something like that. Several times I had to help out but it was quite scary, so in the end I fled on a horse but not before I pilfered a few hand towels.
6.13am – Jennifer Lawrence came to a local cinema for a Q and A session. I don’t recall the details of the speaking, but at the end of it she jokingly gave everyone there a kiss on the mouth, and for each of the males there she flashed her breasts, (though for some reason not at me, I only had a glancing view). After she left I saw her again outside and followed, but I had forgotten my shoes and done other silly stuff that made her laugh etc. We talked for a while I think, but then some other people came over and began hounding her for autographs and pictures. She yelled that she just wanted to be left alone and ran. Before she disappeared around the corner though, she flashed a smile to me.
8.02am – A very odd version of ‘Neighbours’ with old cast members reprising their characters but in different roles. It’s hard to explain, but I knew that it wasn’t quite right somehow. Later on, when we (I was with them now I think) were out for a wander in a foreign world, we came across an injured giant. We helped to heal him and the dream was promptly turned into a sci-fi film with brainwashed cast members trying to kill each other. And to escape people had to chew on things that meant they could jump really high and far, but they had to be careful when landing because the chewing thing might fall out of their mouth.

A brilliant night’s dreaming. Right back on track when everything is calmed down and I’m not surrounded by hectic children. I had thought I was back in uni tomorrow, but had forgotten I didn’t have any exams this final year… So, another month of holiday time for me to really push for a lucid dream again.

Saturday 4th January

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bad night, fail, film-dream, forgotten, games, iPad, school, unnoticed dream sign

• In bed – 11.19pm
• Lights off – 12.19am
• Woke up – 9.07am

A last day of holiday tripping spent doing not a great deal really. Dream prep and awareness were both quite ok and RC picked up a little too.

Dreams
6.12am – A lesson all about trivia, I wasn’t teaching the class but no one believed me when I had the right answers. This one’s details are quite hazy, I fell asleep soon after waking and before writing any notes.
8.07am – This was a dream largely spent watching a couple of friends playing on an iPad game that I thought I knew well. But it didn’t even remotely look like the one I was expecting. Ah well, I still don’t notice enough details to see the glaring faults. Soon.

Friday 3rd January

Tags

Awareness, day-bleeding, film, film-dream, forgotten, games, unnoticed dream sign

• In bed – 11.05pm
• Lights off – 12.15am
• Woke up – 9.03am

Today was a hectic day with kids, playing, entertaining and keeping them happy. General awareness was up a little I think so a decent day of dream prep perhaps.

Dreams
5.16am – Ed and Al from ‘Full-Metal Alchemist’ starred here, though it wasn’t a cartoon dream I don’t think… It was a game dream, with many resets and starting from save points, because Al kept dying or being killed. I don’t really recall any of the detail from this dream though.
9.03am – I was driving along roads in the Isle of Mann, looking for a museum that we were going to see. It was a in a strange place, but I thought nothing of it. Once the conversation turned to a film we had seen and if we liked it. A made up film I’m sure, but there was a plot fleshed out in my dream memory, and I said I didn’t like it, giving very good and coherent reasons for doing so. It then switched to a film set which I guess was showing the reasons for me not liking the film, a director choosing his son to act the main part even though he was bad for the part etc.

Still my dreams aren’t on track for where I had hoped to be towards the end of this journal, but I guess I knew that it would be life that distracted the mind. I will try to force my awareness and RC over the last weeks, and hope for one more lucid before I finish.

Thursday 2nd January

Tags

family, film, film-dream, forgotten, TV series

• In bed – 11.32pm
• Lights off – 12.03am
• Woke up – 8.13am

An early start and a long day travelling back, on a ferry and then driving to Manchester to stay with my girlfriend’s sister and her family for a few days. This final stretch of our holiday tripping. Dream prep all around was decent and in-bed was good before I fell asleep.

Dreams
6.03am – Giles from ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ starred in this one. He had a kid that he was training to be a fighter, so he could join the police at some point. Giles was also on a kind of crusade against one group of baddies who actually weren’t all that bad. I recalled several kung-fu scenes, practicing kicks and fights etc. And eventually the baddies helped to save a woman from an attacker. They were the good guys actually and Giles was angry at them for no reason it seemed.
8.13am – I had found out that my leader of my group, Canim Cadim, had killed my brother. So I escaped from the group and defected to the other side, where I immediately got a sniper rifle and started shooting the old group members. We were hopelessly outnumbered when they started attacking back.

Wednesday 1st January

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bad day, bad night, fail, forgotten

• In bed – 10.58pm
• Lights off – 11.23pm
• Woke up – 6.00am

The last day on the Island and with the family here. Dream prep again wasn’t too bad, and in-bed was pretty good despite the early waking and tiredness I had.

Dreams

To be honest I don’t recall any dreams from this night and waking up so early to travel back to the mainland didn’t help. I will do more in-bed med and mantras and more awareness and RC once I’m settled back again… in another few days or so.

Tuesday 31st December

Tags

Awareness, chase, forgotten, school, unnoticed dream sign

• In bed – 11.35pm
• Lights off – 11.54pm
• Woke up – 8.21am

Another day of holiday and just driving around the Island. Nothing special done for New Year’s Eve, just the way this hermit likes it. Dream prep was pretty good , if inconsistent, and in-bed was good too.

Dreams
6.08am – This one is a little confusing and hard to decipher, but I was apparently sick of school.  I was at some kind of party there and I turned down a girl, who proceeded to get very angry at me. So I left and headed to the final exam area, which I raced with a friend of mine and lost because I didn’t know the route and he did.

A plain and boring dream; but such hectic surroundings I find are not conducive to dream prep, at east not for me, I get distracted from med and awareness and RC far too easily.