- In bed – 9.31pm
- Lights off – 11.57pm
- Woke up – 8.55am
Went on a house viewing today, in the countryside. Very picturesque drive, gave quite a bit of opportunity for awareness and dream prep. In bed I read up on the forums and immediately began to feel my heartbeat like I used to, so I think that being a dream focused frame of mind and focusing on it is the key. I suspect that playing video games has a detrimental effect, the large amounts of stimulation for my eyes keeps them running overtime afterwards, (But I want to finish it, so will do so as soon as possible, so I can find out the truth of this). Mantra and med at lights off, and would have fallen asleep with music, had my iPod not fallen asleep first.
Dreams
6.00am – A very long dream this time, and I remember quite a bit of it. A baddie had kidnapped a family, so me and my brother had to rescue them. Before this incident though there was another similar one, which is how we knew it was the same guy. Last time he had taken a woman and her son, and hid them in a castle with the woman stuffed inside the seat that the boy was found on, so she wasn’t visible. The same thing happened now, so we were racing through many rooms, worrying that the doors would shut and lock behind us, so we ran them into the walls and broke their hinges. In the last room was masses of junk furniture and stuff. I saw a man’s head, the kidnapped person, so naturally I threw a tennis ball at his face, to make it known to my brother that he was there. He was strapped to a chair, with his wife and kids inside the chair. My brother told him he looked like he was from the Isle of Man, to which he replied, ‘I’m not Isle of Mannian’. We corrected him, that it was Manx. Before all of this and possibly another dream altogether, or dreamlet at least, was a basketball scene, really quite a long one (thanks to One Tree Hill, I have no doubt). It consisted of my old high school sports hall, and a group of us playing for the first time in a while. The P.E. teacher said we weren’t allowed to leave until we hit 10 3-pointers in a row. We were awful, getting nowhere near the basket. Eventually I hit the rim and he said, ‘Close enough’.
8.25am – A ‘Dollhouse’ type dream (after so long of not watching it?). Some of the dolls were starting to have dreams, specifically dreams about dying. These dolls were used for copying still alive people… so there could be two of them, a back up I guess. One guy was having a dream of dying in a car crash, so the group checked and found this ones real-life copy was killed in a car crash the day before. So they went back in time to a club in the 50’s where there was a guy in a swing band playing, who had bought a doll to be his old friend, who was a musical genius. He could take almost anything and turn it into an instrument and play it perfectly. He did take an old rusty trumpet for someone, pulled strings from his pocket and made a fiddle, immediately jumped on stage and played with the band to the jaunty tune from ‘Back to the Future 3’ Both he and the friend owed lots of money to people and were taken, to be killed a few hours later. The group wanted to stop this so they decided to check out the embalmed body of the guy who killed them (I guess the jumped forwards in time a little bit). He was on display in another room in the club, they were going to jump into his brain to see what they could find. Such a confusing dream this was.
So, two good, long (and remembered) dreams, immediately after reading some other peoples experiences, not even dreams, just the training techniques and adapting the brain to ready it for the lucid dreaming. I will definitely add some more into my night time schedule.