Sunday, January 31, 2010

Intermission #4

I suppose I should say that now I can mostly remember most of my dreams so long as its the same day. That is why I'm able to recall these so late in the day and write them down. I guess all those dream recording guides and websites really do have some affect on recalling dreams.

I felt like this week I had a good amount of activity, although no lucid dreams in about a month or so. Damn.

I usually don't keep up with this kind of thing, but its been really enjoyable so far, and I can look back on Day 1 and remember exactly what the dream looked like.

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Jan 30th

I'm beginning to get really good at remembering the color and certain characteristics of the skies in my dreams. Seems like easiest thing to remember, but they are mostly so vivid in my dreams.

I was at a public park, playing baseball with some people. I didn't recognize who they were, but then again I was in the outfield and couldn't see. There were some seats that were covered up from the sun behind the plate. Maybe about 20 or so people could fit, so very small.

The sky was yellow, a hazy yellow.

That's it really, I just remember being out there not doing much.

Friday, January 29, 2010

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Jan. 29

-Started out on the edge of a big forest. The sky was a twilight purple, and I was with someone else I didn't recognize though. We then took our jetpacks and started flying towards the forest. When we got there, there was a strange white fishnet barrier that we had to fly through, almost had a video game like feel to it.

-I was at my grandma's house and my coworker (again) Kimo was there and I remember getting annoyed because his car was always blocking the driveway.

Uneventful. The jetpack dream was way too short. :(

Thursday, January 28, 2010

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CRAZY I TELL YOU!!!

Jan. 28

-First part I was in a big city, in a big empty lot with some old building walls as if someone tore it down. I was being hunted down by some mechs that looked EXACTLY like the ones from Mass Effect 2. (I guess I've been playing too much of it.) They were shooting lasers at me as I hid behind a blown out wall.

-Next I remember being on the side of an elongated house in the dark, there were a few people there whom I didn't recognize. I had a pistol with me but never used it. The people that were there got up and ran away really fast. I was left there alone, wandering what to do. I looked up at the dark blue sky and started to float away. But while floating I was spinning. (This had the potential to be a lucid dream because before I was floating, I could tell I was thinking about what to do. I guess it just didn't happen.)

-Next I was at a huge mall, the inside was massive with a ceiling that was hundreds of feet high. It wasn't very crowded at all. I don't remember much else about that.

-I was at work with my co worker Kimo and we were in one of the buildings but the inside had been hollowed out as if they were moving or redecorating. There were some construction workers and in the middle of the building was a large circuit board with 4 iphones on it. I remember really wanting one. But went to the next sequence.

-I was in a horror movie type setting where these crazy people were harvesting human organs and I remember being in a chair with a crazy doctor ready to cut me up. We were outdoors in almost like a desert-ish place. In the middle of where we were, there was a giant structure similar to the Jawa sandcrawler. He started laughing but flung his scalpel in the air and cut his face. He spewed blood on me and I began to panic. I ran away as fast as I could and found a jug of water in a nearby building and poured it all over myself.

(Closest I've been to a nightmare in a long time. KNOCK ON WOOD)

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Jan 27.

-Started out in a classroom with maybe 15 people and most of them were wearing 49er's jerseys. And instead of desks, there were bleachers just like at a ballgame. I remember seeing a blonde haired girl that was beautiful wearing a Joe Nedney jersey. Except the number was 3, not 6. I remember smiling and saying "JOE NEDNEY!!" Kickers are funny. Anyway, weird thing is I saw the actual Plaxico Burress in the middle of the class. And he had an 18 49er's jersey on. The topic for the class was for a guest speaker who played for the Patriots, although I vaguely remember what was said, it was along the effects of trying to persuade him to say something bad about New England.

-Next I remember running after someone. On one side of me was a long stretch of highway, the other side was a green, beautiful field used for sports and recreational purposes. There was alot of people playing games and running around. Beyond this field was a small coastal town. I was running pretty fast now, getting closer and closer to this town until I saw a small pond underneath some trees at the edge of the field. I stopped because a semi truck (which was on the field) had flipped over, so I had to go around. I then ran for a short tower with a single open window in town. At this point I was being chased by a smaller mech that came from the sky. It was maybe about 8-10 feet tall. I didn't get a good glimpse of what it looked like other than a half robot half space fighter type of thing. I jumped into this hole and the mech behind me disappeared.

-(I'm almost positive this next setting was inside of that tower.) I was in a small circular room with a person behind a desk and a spiral staircase leading down. I don't remember much of what we were doing there. But I remember Anthony being there, and he asked the lady at the counter for something, went behind a wall and grabbed what appeared to be a rack of billiard balls. I guess we were at some crazy tower/pool place. That's it.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

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Jan 26th.

Picked up Mass Effect 2 today, using my store credit that I had, and so far about 2 hours into the game and I am smitten.

Now onto the dream thingy

-First I was in a huge yellow palace, I very vaguely remember being inside and was frantically running because someone was chasing me. I eventually went outside onto a walkway and the chase slowed down alot. I was walking and the guy that was chasing me was walking alot slower than I was. I don't remember what he looked like, I do remember that it wasn't really a nightmare though.

-Next part I was in a living room with a group of 5 or 6 people. I had only recognized one of them, which was Brian one of my co workers. We were watching TV and the show we were watching was The Sims. It had a bunch of Sims in a giant empty house running around and bumping into each other. I recognized Jeff as one of them except he had blonde hair and black facial hair. LOL.
In the same room, I remember somebody asking each and everyone of us a question. I really forget what he asked, but when he came up to me, I said something different than everyone else and he started attacking me trying to put me in a headlock. I remember struggling with him for a few moments before waking up.

That struggle felt very real as in I could feel arms being flailed up against me. Too weird.

Good night

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Intermission #3

I did want to bring up a few points about the last entry.

-I'm 99% sure in the past, I've BEEN on that same waterslide in a dream. I wonder what that means. Real deja vu experience.

-So far in the last week, I've had 2 dreams which involve golf holes and LOTS of them in one place. STRANGE.

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Jan. 25

A little better night last night

-Started off in a huge open field covered in snow, and in the distance, there was a small village with some short snow covered buildings. Further in the distance there was a hill hiding the sun. I was with someone whom I didn't recognize but he had a station wagon filled with ski equipment. He was putting some skis in the back and although there was little room, he placed these skis in a crevasse that was just the right size. I was stunned on how this was accomplished, although that is all I remember for that fragment.

-Next I was at a waterpark with my dad, and the way this waterpark worked was exactly the same as a miniature golf course. There were 9 slides and you would go in order and each one was different. I remember us standing in the middle of the park, which was really small because most of the slides were underground. I remember only seeing one other family who was chasing after their kid because he kept on running around going through slides like crazy. Anyway, I went down a slide. This slide was a big U shape, it had a dip, a bank, a small straight away, another bank and dipped again into a big pool. The underground was strange because the only light in there was from windows, which made no sense at all.

After going down that slide, I woke up at about 6 or so in the morning and had time for one last try.

-I remember being in a very nice department store, it was decked out in the color green, which was funny because the carpet had golf holes all over the place. In the corner, there was a giant display of what looked to be a cave with multiple colored lights all around. Picture the inside of Pirates of the Caribbean ride in disneyland. I mean it was big, like half of a football field big. I remember walking around looking at all the holes in the carpet.

That's all I remember.

Monday, January 25, 2010

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Jan 24

I am having a hard time lately remembering dreams. In all fairness, I haven't had much dreaming going on since the last entry.

I remember I was walking along the rooftops of an old farmhouse, and everything around me was in a grey, misty vision. Much like a old black and white TV. Yet, I remember a few things had some color like parts of the roof of some buildings and some of the plants.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

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Jan. 21

I don't remember much of last night, but I remember meeting up with Sean, a former boss, and we wanted to go play baseball.

That is sadly, it. Nowhere near as exciting as last night's adventure.

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Jan 20th.

-I felt like I was in a video game. First I had kind of an isometric view of a factory, like a typical strategy RPG with weird robotic creatures moving on a grid. In the same or similar factory setting, but in FPS mode, I remember fighting some giant koopa troopa type enemies, except way more evil looking.

-Next I was in a sunny, snow covered mountainous village with a group of friends. I noticed that there were many people and few of them were playing disc golf in the snow. In the middle of this village was an escalator that was covered in ice and didn't work. Alot of the buildings were being used solely for business seminars, with large banners saying this company will be here from so and so time. After we walked around a bit, (and this village was maybe 10 buildings or so) I was in a bar, completely drenched for some reason.

-I should add that one part of last night, I saw a house on a beach. It was a small but well built house, and I remember jumping over a small stream to get to it.

-Then, I was in the backseat of a car, looking at a nice sunset. I was going back to my car, which was a blue SUV. When I got there, it had been broken into. I immediately checked for my ipod but it was gone. I hopped in the car and while backing up, the car literally fell through the earth and this next part took me by complete surprise.

-After the car fell through the ground, much like a video game glitch, I began to free fall. First I was falling through a yellowish corridor and then it just became an open space with colored rings every so often passing me by. I could actually feel the wind hitting my body and flowing through my hair. (It was a very real feeling sensation) Oddly, in the dream world, I kept wanting to refer this space as "the negative zone." It was really weird because when I first started falling, that is what I thought of. (Once again, thought of in the dream world)

-Another thing to mention, while I was falling, I sort of had the feeling that I was going to wake up, or at least I could have if I tried to. I don't know what that means but I suppose I'll research it a little.

Bunches of activities including a free falling dream. *Cue Tom Petty music*

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Intermission #2

For the past few entries since the first intermission, there have been; two entries involving a creepy dark village, two consecutive dreams that have something to do with pro wrestling (I have not watched the WWE or any other wrestling shows in a loooong time, nor have I been to a creepy village, unless you want to count Brookdale LULZ). And a few that have either myself or friends playing a video game.

Off to bed for more WACKINESS!

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Jan. 20

Not much activity since entry 13 a few days ago. Very little happened last night, in fact.

I was playing golf with my dad and we were at hole 9 at Casserly course in Watsonville. I remember I was on the green getting ready to putt, although their were maybe twenty holes on the green and only one was the correct one in order to finish the hole. My dad said that the hole on the highest point of the green was the correct one. (The last time I played that course was maybe two to three weeks ago.)

Next, I was in a Walmart with Alex and my sister. I don't remember what we were looking for but I do remember looking at some pro wrestling figures and T shirts. (Haven't been to a Walmart in years)

That's it!

Monday, January 18, 2010

13

What do you call a short sequence of a dream? A "scene" or "segment"? I suppose I'll call them segments.

Quite a bit of activity although the segments didn't mesh with each other really at all.

-First I remember being in a hotel for a brief moment with my mom and Milla's character from The Fifth Element. (Her name escapes me at the moment... Lela?)

- I was in a different hotel with my mom and sister and I felt that something bad had happened to our home and so we had to stay at this place, we were all ready to move out of the room and for some reason we all piled into a large semi truck. Before we left though my step-dad was yelling at something off of a nearby balcony. I remember looking down onto a small group of trees with a patch of grass in the middle. I was able to move these trees with my mind similar to that of cutting and pasting something. (Unfortunately, not a lucid dream) I remember moving some trees a few inches out of the way, really lame.

- Another segment, I was playing a video game that was kind of a horror, adventure game, where the main character started off in the middle of a dark, creepy village with some zombies coming at him slowly in the distance. The main character ran off to a building in which there was a bed and he decided to sleep in there. As a reward for sleeping he received two keys to some doors in a nearby mansion. One funny twist to this was the main character was Shawn Michaels. Yeah, the wrestler.

- I went car shopping with my dad and I remember buying, and I'm not making this up, a car called the Chevy Tennessee. It was a convertible and looked like a porsche. that's it

I feel like there was alot more to last night than this. But on a side note, I am feeling a bit more ease in trying to remember as much details as possible

Friday, January 15, 2010

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Jan. 15th

Considering I didn't get a full nights sleep, I had lots to dream about.

I'm a bit fuzzy on the order of events.

I remember parking my white volvo in a parking lot next to a friends car. I had planned on leaving it there over night because we were headed to someone's wedding. For some reason, we all went to my grandma's house which was where the wedding was.

Instead of being in a crowded neighborhood, there was a big open field with a beautiful sunset, something you would see in a calendar or painting. All of this was behind the house.

I then remember going back to the car only to find out that they had been stolen. I was so upset because my golf clubs were in the trunk. Oddly, I was stranded at the mall and was frantically calling people, like my cousin Tom. (Why I was at the mall, I don't know)

Next I remember being in a top secret tower during a terrorist attack. We were conducting surveillance, yet there were two big buttons that if pressed together, it would pretty much send out enough nukes to destroy the world, kind of a "last resort" trigger.

I remember telling the two people to not press the buttons ever, yet these two pressed it, although never at the same time. It was a weird feeling, almost as if a prereq for a nightmare.

Yep

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

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Jan. 13

Started out near a high school at night time, surrounded by a creepy forest. I felt a slight trembling as if a nightmare was about to start. Luckily it wasn't. I found the main part of the high school and there were actually people running around although a minimal amount, considering it was nighttime. I found a hall way with a bookshop at the end and I remember going in because I was looking for a book for my step dad.

This bookstore was tiny. Like the size of an average bedroom. All it had was Star Trek playing cards and VHS tapes.
I ran into some guy with a mask who was very cheery and sociable yet had violent things to say to me. It was really creeping. Something along the effects of. "Hey I remember you! I'm pretty dangerous!"

Next I remember being in a retail store much like a Kmart. A few of my friends were there and they were playing Modern Warfare 2, but it had Borderlands' Clap Trap in it. Also Jeff was playing Streetfighter and showing me how good he was with Ryu.

I then remember being transfered back to the tiny bookstore and saw people spawning around me as if we were in a FPS. I can remember a short period with a GTA San Andreas moment with CJ riding a quad in a giant waterpark.

I woke up for a while about 9 and fell back asleep for another hour or so.

I remember being in a minor league baseball game but the pitchers all threw underhand. I was in the outfield and the only thing I wanted was a baseball that had the McDonald's arches on it.

That's it

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Jan. 12th

Not much activity lately. Last night I had some crazy dreams although I remember a minimal amount. This is the second recorded dream in which I have had a mario kart-esque activity. I remember a racetrack on some planet, maybe Jupiter as it was a light reddish color and the track was surrounded by a similarly colored medieval castle wall.

I remember a split second of another dream where I was in a log cabin, a big one, with many different people.

I suppose it wasn't worth it to write this down as I don't remember a whole lot. Oh well.

Friday, January 8, 2010

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Jan. 8th.

I had one of those nights were you think you had a million brief dreams. It was really hard to remember most of the stuff but I do remember a few bits and pieces of the night.

- I was driving my mom's car onto a suspended highway above the land, maybe 10 stories or so and this highway was very narrow with very sharp turns. I remember feeling extra nervous because I didn't want to scratch the car.

- Next, I was standing in front of a giant mall or department store, about the size of a pro sports stadium. Huge! I remember carrying a skateboard on my back, but never used it in the dream. I also don't skate in real life. Anyway I went into an electronics store looking for something (don't remember what it was) until I saw a display of a Nintendo DS game that revolutionized the strategy genre. I had to have this game, but the display was empty. (The game had a weird name too, it started with an N, but I can't recall what it was.)

- Finally, there was a dark, creepy village in the woods that had a few haunted house facing each other, with all kinds of weird ghost dogs and zombies standing around in the center. I'm pretty sure I was playing some sort of video game, as I can recall getting many different views of the place, or "camera angles".



Good night.

Intermission 1

There is a theme so far. In most of my recordings, I seem to be with a group of people. Also if you ask me what kind of dreams are the best I would say flying. And from the slightly controllable dreams, that is exactly what I have done. Oh and run at Sonic speeds.

One of my resolutions this year is to try hard to keep these recordings up. I feel that if these theories are accurate about lucid dreaming, then I want to test it and see for myself.

Once again, I'm no expert at any of this mumbo jumbo. I just think its way cool yo.

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Jan. 2nd
I remembered one I had about a week ago, in which it involved a brief moment of control. I was at an abandoned carnival, real creepy and every once in a while there would be a bunch of insane people with scary masks and clothing that would go into all out war on each other. I remember seeing acid being thrown about, guns and explosives.

I ran into a nearby forest and there was an odd house much like something from a cartoon, a sort of log cabin with a strange blue color. That's when I felt I was in control and decided to run and jump off the cliff and started flying. Shortly after takeoff I woke up.

It seems that whenever I get in control of things, my first thought is to fly. Not bad.

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Now that schools over I can try to post more (insane) dreams of mine. Since the last time I've had a fair share of crazy dreams but have completely forgot about them. I looked back at what I had dreamed about and still can clearly remember those dreams that I did write down, so IMO dream logs really do work. :D

So anyway, lets begin.

Jan 1st.

AH new year.

I remember having a remote control car that I had driven to a big parking garage and I met a couple of friends there. We found a parking spot to park all our RC cars. (The parking spot was a regular sized one too, so it seemed a bit ridiculous). Anyway, we were afraid that others were going to not see our RC cars and smash into them so I decided to try and hide them inbetween a concrete barrier and a fence in the garage.

I can't remember where this garage was and it didn't resemble any garage that is familiar.

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Before I get started with this next entry, there is another specific reason why I decided to record my dreams. According to many sites online that have facts about dreams and the like, recording your dreams may have an impact at having "lucid dreams." Or from what I can gather, dreams that have a certain amount of control. "Where one knows that they are dreaming and are able to manipulate the dream environment. Well, it happened. Sort of.

Sept. 24

A few nights ago, I started having this dream and halfway through it I felt like I could control everything in my dream, I believe that is called Lucid Dreams. This is only the second time in my life that it's happened.

I remember being on a suspended mine cart track running through a field with some apartments about 50 feet from the track. The track itself was maybe about 30 feet off the ground. For some reason I needed to get off the track. (I think the track was ending.) At that moment I clearly remember feeling this control of myself and said screw it i'll fly outta here! Well I started floating and I slowly fell to the ground. But I wanted to try again and I was able to lift myself up a few feet and float around.

The next part was I remember wanting to run at super speeds and sure enough I accelerated and the world around me became blurry and I was leaving everything behind. It was amazing.

The next dream was that there was an olde time fair in scotts valley with a train that ran through where Mt. Hermon would be. Lots of booths and shops all around with everyone in colorful western style clothing.

SEPT. 24th, 200

(EDIT)
I wish I were making this up. Its really amazing what can happen when you fall asleep.

Monday, January 4, 2010

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I was extremely brief with this dream, but I'll try to expand on it as I can recall some of the dream.

There was a big group of us going to some underground ghost town. Buildings were pressed against concrete walls. It reminded me of a giant sewer system, just with buildings that had been abandoned, eroded whatever. We all spread out and found a tennis ball and started playing catch amongst some artificial light and building rubble. The rest of the dream escapes me. I probably just woke up.

So maybe my dreams aren't that strange, most of them have a good paragraph's worth of information. I'm no dreamologist and can't tell you that these dreams should be longer but they are 100% genuine. I suppose its better than me rambling on and on about what life used to be like and blah blah blah, walking toschoolblahbalhblah.

Thanks for reading!

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I don't remember the date of this dream but i'll edit that info when I get it from the original entry.

A big group of us were at Disneyland for a new rollercoaster that was built around and into a big hill. (EDIT) I remember seeing Hana, Jeff and Molly being there and they were excited as hell. It had a Buzz Lightyear, space kind of theme to it. With large planet structures all around. It seemed like a typical medium-thrill roller coaster, going in and out of the mountain and what not, up until we get to the top. The end of the ride had a 90 degree drop through the center of the mountain, it was maybe 20-30 stories deep. (EDIT) Dropping like that in a dream is hard to describe in terms of what you are feeling. I haven't figured that part out yet but maybe a few months down the road I suppose

I then remember a different part of the night talking to a few friends in a food hut that we had made at an ivy league school. One of the topics I remember talking about was the SNES game Earthbound. (Which is my favorite game of all time. ALL TIME)

2 and 3

This was about a week from the first entry. After re reading this entry I remembered most of it, but a lot was a bit fuzzy

I believe it was Wednesday when I had a dream that involved a more realistic Mario Kart, I mean with real people and real cars. I remember seeing Ben and Alex and myself in a garage with a lot of miniature size cars, real cars. And this garage was massive, like airplane hangar massive. I'd say about the size of those Smart Cars. Anyway the steering of these cars was absolutely terrible. I saw a screen of the actual race and it must have been in 16-bit. haha

Thurs.
I was inner tubing in a man made canal, bright red, almost like a bigger waterslide with Josh and these innertubes were ball shaped with a huge weight to stabilize it. The next moment I remember leaving the ground and starting to float, I kept going higher and higher. ( I LOVE flying dreams, this one almost felt lucid, I thought I could almost control myself and telling myself to go higher and higher). (EDIT) now that I am recalling this, I remember while floating there were these giant bubbles around. It was very magical LMFAO.

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This is a purely dream log that I decided to make up after briefly writing about them over the last 6 months on Ben's blog. I liked where the direction was going and felt I didn't want to clutter that blog with my peculiar dreams.

So everyone knows, one thing I don't like about myself is that I am very bad at explaining things, so I might be brief and to the point with this stuff so hang tight.

(EDIT: EVERYTHING IN A GREEN TEXT MEANS THAT I HAD AT LEAST A TINY BIT OF CONTROL OR KNEW I WAS IN A DREAM (lucid). END CAPS. I will go into detail in each entry where it comes up.)

(EDIT: NIGHTMARES OR POTENTIAL NIGHTMARES WILL HAVE A RED TEXT)

Starting back in August. Here goes.

It was last year during the Catering class that I saw a classmate open up a big notebook filled with random writing. I asked him what it was and he said he writes down his dreams everytime he remembers them. I thought about it for a while and I feel now is a good time to write down some of my own because they often time raise the WTF flag.

August 13th - I remember playing guitar for The Cult except Bono was the lead vocals. LOL. I remember playing in front of a whole bunch of people but there was a table with a few asian ladies that couldn't get enough of my guitar playing. This place we were in had kind of a 50's diner theme too it. I remember playing She Sells Sanctuary (which in turn caused me to listen to that song multiple times that day.) We were rocking out pretty good, although at the end of the song, I played the acoustic outro to Time in Malta's "The Wayfarer" (one of my favorite songs of all time) in front of these ladies, thats all I remember. I found the mix of songs a little strange as they are both incredibly good songs, but having them interwoven in one actual song was kind of WTF.