Clairity .. "Dreams are My Heart's True Song"

[Clairity]

I find myself walking into a university auditorium as class is getting ready to start.  The auditorium is set up in three rows of six chairs each with aisles between each row. 

I go halfway down one of the aisles but my usual spot next to my friends is already taken.  I scan the quickly filling room and see one empty spot near the wall.  I got to the row and excuse myself as I pass by the other seated 5 people and take my seat.

There is excitement in the air as class begins and I see that the stage is set up like a cooking show.. a stove, sink, oven, etc. 

I asked the girl what was going on and she said that today was our final and that we each have to prepare a dish in front of the class to pass!!

"What?!" I replied to her as I felt a rising combination of instant panic and nausea.

"Yeah.  They announced it the last 15 minutes of the previous class." she replied.

It was then that I "remembered" that I had left class early that day (tho I don't remember why).

I started to sweat as I realized that there was no way I could bluff my way out of this.  There were about 150 people in the class and everyone was seated!  There was no way I could simply sneak out without being noticed especially since I was trapped against the wall and would have to climb over 5 people to get to the aisle.

Just my luck they decided to start with my side of the room.  As the first student went up to the stage, I realized that I had no choice.. I had to get out of there!

I made myself as "small" as I could by hunching over and slowly walked past my seated row mates.  It felt like all eyes were on me and I all but run out of the auditorium.

Once outside, I allowed myself to breathe and my heart to slow down to a normal rhythm.

I reached for my cell phone and gasped as it fell out of my hands and dropped to the floor.. breaking into three pieces.  I tried to put it back together but it was no use.

I thought to myself.. "This is just GREAT!!" and went to find my car in the parking garage.

I walked around and it dawned on me that I couldn't find my car!!  I remembered my car alarm on my key chain and pushed the button to set it off and followed the sound til I reached it.

As I sat in my car I realized that I hadn't prepared for ANY of my finals.. that I was going to flunk them all and I had wasted 4 years of my life!!

The feeling of grief and depression that I felt was almost palatable.

I then wake up..

[PeteB]

Sounds like a very distressing dream to have!

[Clairity]

I felt something on my cheek, reached up, pulled and a single hair was between my finger and thumb.

Again, I felt the sensation but this time on the other side of my face.. and again I pulled off a single hair.

I go to the mirror and see that my eyebrows are normal except that the hairs at the end are silky and about 4 inches long!!  Similar to this picture here: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/24/90851313_021ba1f04a.jpg?v=0

I grab some scissors but I couldn't bring myself to cut.  I think I was afraid that the hair would grow back thicker and longer!

Then I had some other fragmented dreams involving a surgical mask and then a cafeteria line.

[Clairity]

Sounds like a very distressing dream to have!

It was pretty grim.. thanks for the hug!

[PeteB]

Sounds like a very distressing dream to have!

It was pretty grim.. thanks for the hug!

Well I have to give you them somewhere, seeing as I hardly visit DV now! Thats probally the one thing I miss, the hug thread :(

[Clairity]

Sounds like a very distressing dream to have!

It was pretty grim.. thanks for the hug!

Well I have to give you them somewhere, seeing as I hardly visit DV now! Thats probally the one thing I miss, the hug thread :(

The hug thread misses you too.

[Clairity]

Normally I don't bother writing down dream fragments but I'm trying to improve my recall so I am going to try to journal a dream every day even if it is just a weird little fragment. 

I have set two alarms.. one on my watch to go off at 5:35 am and another on a table (which I have to physically get up to turn off) which sounds at 5:50 am.  I do this so that I will have time to write down my dreams (if I've had any) before the second alarm sounds and I must get up - OR - if I've had no dreams perhaps I can have a dream fragment before the second alarm.

This morning my watch alarm goes off and I remember nothing so I settle back in and I have the following dream fragment.

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I find myself laying between blankets on the floor of my parent's garage in the house that I grew up in but that my parents no longer own. (missed clue #1 to become lucid )

I am not alone in the garage as there is someone else sleeping there as well but for the life of me I can't recall who was there or why we were sleeping in the garage. 

Luckily the day is warm and it is not uncomfortable laying there but it starts to rain. I get up to go into the house but stop to pick up small bottles of shampoo and conditioner and a thick white candle.   

The garage leads into the kitchen and once in the kitchen I see my dad at the counter. As I put the candle and bottles in a bottom cupboard, I also notice some bananas on the counter.  I think to myself, "I should have eaten a banana last night since that was one of the dream recall improvement options.. oh well maybe tonight". (missed clue #2 to become lucid )

The following conversations then take place:

Dad:  "Do you want toast?"

Me: "No, I'm fine.. but it's starting to rain."

Mom walks in: "How was it sleeping in the garage?"

Me: "It's starting to rain."

Mom angrily: "I asked you how it was sleeping in the garage!"

Me: "I said that it was starting to rain and why are you getting an attitude? It was fine!"

The second alarm goes off waking me. 

[DrTechnical]

I feel your pain - finding yourself in your childhood home and not recognizing it as a dream sign.

I have dreams about being in my childhood home pretty much every night. I haven't obtained lucidity from this a single time. These dreams are so deeply rooted in my subconscious mind and I seem to have no reasonable awareness within them.

If you can figure out how to leverage that dream sign - do share 

[Clairity]

If you can figure out how to leverage that dream sign - do share  

I wondered about how to do reality checks on a place that I no longer see except in my dreams and thought that perhaps doing reality checks while looking at pictures of my childhood home before going to sleep might help. Definately couldn't hurt! 

[Clairity]

Below is a weird half remembered dream fragment that I had this morning.

A poor family is now rich but under a spell. There is gnome candle that they keep locked in a cage sitting on a table.  The gnome is a living breathing thinking candle (?) but cannot move it's body.  I tried to find an image and the closest I could come to is this:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2182/2174474211_d4420350b3.jpg

There is a long curved wick coming out of his end of his hat and I somehow know that if this wick is ever lit, the gnome will explode destroying all around it.

This is a doubly strange dream in that I feel that I am an observer yet at the same time I am somehow also the gnome.

The children are being tested by the parents and are sent to bring back a couple of breakable items.  One child breaks a rare round cookie jar in the image of a bear and the mother hisses, "Bastard!" under her breath and the father reassuringly tells the mother, "That's ok.. you'll get it back."

They show a family film of when they were poor and the children can be heard saying, "I remember that."

The gnome grows afraid and wants to get out of the house and begins yelling that they are going to feed him to something (I can't recall what) and then my alarm goes off.

[Robot_Butler]

I feel your pain - finding yourself in your childhood home and not recognizing it as a dream sign.

I have dreams about being in my childhood home pretty much every night. I haven't obtained lucidity from this a single time. These dreams are so deeply rooted in my subconscious mind and I seem to have no reasonable awareness within them.

If you can figure out how to leverage that dream sign - do share 

This weekend, I took a trip to the house I grew up in.  I have a ton of dreams in and around that house.  It was incredible to see the place looking exactly like it does in my dreams.  Despite the new owners, new neighbors, new paint and landscaping, the place still had the same energy.  The scale of everything and the feel of it was so right-on.

A poor family is now rich but under a spell. There is gnome candle that they keep locked in a cage sitting on a table.  The gnome is a living breathing thinking candle (?) but cannot move it's body.  I tried to find an image and the

I keep having dreams and real life synchronicities about midgets, dwarves, and gnomes.  For the past three months, it's been relentless.  I can't figure it out.  Thanks for adding to the mess    Have you seen this video?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8zXV74Sh3Qc

[Caradon]

Good plan writing down the fragments. I think doing that really helps bring recall back.

Congratulations on the Lucid task. Every Lucid is a good Lucid. Especially when it's one that ends a dry spell!

[Clairity]

This weekend, I took a trip to the house I grew up in.  I have a ton of dreams in and around that house.  It was incredible to see the place looking exactly like it does in my dreams.  Despite the new owners, new neighbors, new paint and landscaping, the place still had the same energy.  The scale of everything and the feel of it was so right-on.

That's very cool!  I once visited my childhood home but I felt sadly detached from it.. maybe if I had gone inside. 

I keep having dreams and real life synchronicities about midgets, dwarves, and gnomes.  For the past three months, it's been relentless.  I can't figure it out.  Thanks for adding to the mess    Have you seen this video?http://youtube.com/watch?v=8zXV74Sh3Qc

Oh great.. gnomes are REAL!!! 

Good plan writing down the fragments. I think doing that really helps bring recall back.

I'm hoping so.. 

Congratulations on the Lucid task. Every Lucid is a good Lucid. Especially when it's one that ends a dry spell!

A very valid point.. thanks for the reminder!

[Clairity]

My husband had to get up earlier than I this morning and his alarm going off jarred the dreams out of my head. 

[PeteB]

My husband had to get up earlier than I this morning and his alarm going off jarred the dreams out of my head. 

Ahh, thats very annoying when that happens, hope you have better luck tomorrow!