Last night I had the strangest dream.

[pj]

Wow.

Yep - recall remains the thing.  You seem to have found a nice combo there.

[Moonbeam]

Now to add a lucid initiator, and figure out the best time to take it.  It seems to last all night long, so maybe rhodiola at bedtime, combined with CWILD later, would work well.  What impressed me so much was feeling vibes when I was (at least felt like I was) wide awake in the middle of the night.  I never feel vibes unless I'm on gm, and on the verge of sleep.

I dread the tolerance, which has done in so many promising supps.  Maybe I should wait a couple of weeks to test it further.

I swear those dreams could be IRL memories now.  I've been thinking about them all day.  Absolutely everything was as real as IRL, hyper-real.  Not just the in-the-moment details, but the context, like all the memories made sense.  I could just kick myself all over the place for not getting lucid and taking advantage of those intense deep dreams.  It was like waking level of consciousness if suddenly placed in a different time and place.

I keep thinking about that warning of how the side effect of weird dreams wears off quickly...

[Moonbeam]

I woke up at 2:00, spontaneously.  I felt kind of wide awake, so I thought I could do an in-bed WBTB.  I took a rhodiola, couldn't get to sleep.  So I took some theanine, then started having vibes.  I had another one of those weird, vivid, realistic dreams.  I didn't use any nicotine because I didn't want to chance insomnia when I had to get up in a few hours, so not great recall; I just know it was one of those dreams like I've had the previous times with that supp.

Restaurant Fragment

I'm eating in a restaurant with people I used to hang out with, plus Vex Kitten is there.  (I think there are little clues to lucidity in these dreams, if I would pick up on them.)

[Rainbow]

Sorry it's been a while since I caught up on your journal... so nice to see a picture of your dogs. They're gorgeous! I'm so sorry you had that horrible nightmare about Mondo  I'd say it was definitely that Relax-all. I just googled it and man it sounds like potent stuff. I guess it must be if it gave Tom his one and only lucid - that won't have been by chance! Speaking of our partners having lucids... man I get a bit jealous on the odd occasion when my husband says he "had a lucid dream" in the morning    However I'm always pleased for him and I love hearing about what happened. His lucids are very rare (like maybe twice a year) but they're always so very cute. All he ever does is try to fly or squeeze a girl's boobies. So typical! 

Caradon - interesting experience with the eagle. Ok, I know as much about eagles as I do about bears lol, but I'd say you were near its nest 

Holy crap! That rhodiola and nicotine had an amazing effect! It is truly incredible how much we must dream every night but don't recall.

Now to add a lucid initiator, and figure out the best time to take it.  It seems to last all night long, so maybe rhodiola at bedtime, combined with CWILD later, would work well.

Sounds like it will work really well. Looking forward to (and bracing myself for) a page full of purple text in the near future 

I dread the tolerance, which has done in so many promising supps.  Maybe I should wait a couple of weeks to test it further.

Probably wise. Better to be patient and get a scientifically valid result.

I swear those dreams could be IRL memories now.  I've been thinking about them all day.  Absolutely everything was as real as IRL, hyper-real.  Not just the in-the-moment details, but the context, like all the memories made sense.  I could just kick myself all over the place for not getting lucid and taking advantage of those intense deep dreams.  It was like waking level of consciousness if suddenly placed in a different time and place.

Wow that's amazing. It shows though why we have evolved to only be "semi-aware" during our dreams and why we are naturally wired to forget them. I have a friend who has said sometimes she can't remember if something really happened or if it was a dream. When you think about it that would be hugely inconvenient.

Good luck with the next round of supps! Step up your reality testing this week in preparation!

Oh btw what do you mean by "vibes"? Do you mean vibrations? Or just generall hypnogogia? Is vibes short for vibrations? I like that term!

[Moonbeam]

Sorry it's been a while since I caught up on your journal... so nice to see a picture of your dogs. They're gorgeous! I'm so sorry you had that horrible nightmare about Mondo  I'd say it was definitely that Relax-all. I just googled it and man it sounds like potent stuff. I guess it must be if it gave Tom his one and only lucid - that won't have been by chance! Speaking of our partners having lucids... man I get a bit jealous on the odd occasion when my husband says he "had a lucid dream" in the morning    However I'm always pleased for him and I love hearing about what happened. His lucids are very rare (like maybe twice a year) but they're always so very cute. All he ever does is try to fly or squeeze a girl's boobies. So typical! 

Tom was mad because I moved right when he was going to try sex with a DC in a restaurant.  I wish he would get into it; it would help me a lot to be able to talk about it more IRL.  I don't know if I've told you what he does when he sees me doing an RC:  he crosses his eyes, sticks his tongue out sideways, and twists his hand all up and stares at.   

Holy crap! That rhodiola and nicotine had an amazing effect! It is truly incredible how much we must dream every night but don't recall.

I know.  I think that you're right; it's just improving recall of details.  I get that feeling a lot of nights without those supps; together, they really help.

Wow that's amazing. It shows though why we have evolved to only be "semi-aware" during our dreams and why we are naturally wired to forget them. I have a friend who has said sometimes she can't remember if something really happened or if it was a dream. When you think about it that would be hugely inconvenient.

Yea that's a little too real.  Even when they are detailed and realistic, things like the wrong ages of people, strange scenarios, would usually let me know.

Good luck with the next round of supps! Step up your reality testing this week in preparation!

  Thanks, I will!

Oh btw what do you mean by "vibes"? Do you mean vibrations? Or just generall hypnogogia? Is vibes short for vibrations? I like that term!

Yes like physically feeling the vibrations.  I don't usually; just under the influence of some supp.  Do you?

[Moonbeam]

Dog Politics (very long involved dream in the details of the physical environment)

There is this planet or country that is populated all by dogs.  Some of the dogs want all the dogs to contribute to the building of roads (which are really paths in the forest) and bridges (which are just stones placed across streams) to improve dog-food delivery to all the regions.  However not all of the dogs want to have to contribute to this, especially ones that don't live in those regions, and think it's unfair to be forced to help.  There is a big dog-fight because of this.


Dad wouldn't like True Blood Fragment (part of longer dream I forgot)

I'm sitting on a couch with Dad in an unfamiliar house.  I know that True Blood is going to be on in an hour, and I tell him it's a really good show, and we should watch it.  Then I realize I don't really want to watch that with my Dad.


Thought of Caradon Fragment

In some dream I had, something made me think about Caradon.  I had a flash of realizing that I was thinking about dreamers a lot in my dreams lately, but I must have woken up or gotten distracted because I didn't get lucid. (That I recall.)

[Rainbow]

The dog dream was hilarious! So is the image of Tom with his eyes crossed and hand all twisted. My husband has been given strict instructions never to interfere with my reality tests and never to comment on whether or not it's a dream and luckily for me he abides by this  

[bluebird]

My husband has been given strict instructions never to interfere with my reality tests and never to comment on whether or not it's a dream and luckily for me he abides by this  

You mean luckily for him 

[Caradon]

Cool, I showed up in your dream! Sort of anyway. 

Pretty funny about the dog world.

[feist]

I remember how I never liked watching Millennium with my mom, mostly because there was a lot of sex in it. 

I was quite the X-files fan, so I watched it with her anyways...

Funny, I remember how sometimes I couldn't get something electronic to work, and somehow it did work when my mom tried, even though she didn't do anything special. She always called me Mulder when that happened

[Moonbeam]

The dog dream was hilarious! So is the image of Tom with his eyes crossed and hand all twisted. My husband has been given strict instructions never to interfere with my reality tests and never to comment on whether or not it's a dream and luckily for me he abides by this  

Once I told Tom to surprise me every so often to help me with RC's, but after a few times of him sneaking up behind me and yelling at the top of his lungs and jumping out from behind a door, I told him he didn't have to help.   

Cool, I showed up in your dream! Sort of anyway. 

Pretty funny about the dog world.

  I wish I could remember more what that was about.

I remember how I never liked watching Millennium with my mom, mostly because there was a lot of sex in it. 

I was quite the X-files fan, so I watched it with her anyways...

Funny, I remember how sometimes I couldn't get something electronic to work, and somehow it did work when my mom tried, even though she didn't do anything special. She always called me Mulder when that happened

Fox is a good name too, we named one of our cats that.   

[Moonbeam]

Ice and Fire Radio Fragment (auditory only, but it was like a real dream)

"How about that comet?  Call in and tell us what you think it means!"

"Experts say, dragons are extinct, and due to the general lack of magic in this time, they won't be coming back."

"Wolf sightings and attacks are on the rise--be sure to tune in later when we explain how to protect yourself!"

"Next up in weather--it's official: summer is ending, and this winter may be a doozy!  It might last a loooong time!"
 

[pj]

Sounds like a fascinating broadcast service.

You didn't by chance leave Art Bell on when you went to sleep last night, did you?

[Moonbeam]

Sounds like a fascinating broadcast service.

You didn't by chance leave Art Bell on when you went to sleep last night, did you?

Lol no; I read that at first and I was like, what's an art bell?  But maybe I should listen to Art Bell sometime, sounds like it could be good for dreaming.

[Moonbeam]

I didn't do CWILD because I was tired after work and took my excedrin then so I could do my obligatory butan death marth.  Jut kidding, I like it, but I was tired.  So I tried a low-dose gm/rhodiola/nicotine combo.  Crazy long intense dreams with a common theme, like before.  Lots of scribbles on the paper, OK recall, no lucidity.  I need to figure out how to use that rhodiola to get lucid, since it makes for such complex dreams with long continuing stories.

Last night it was all about pj and our centuries-long friendship.  I can't recall or describe all the stuff now, since this was hours of dreaming.

The Newspaper Man  (set sometime in the 1800's, near San Francisco)

Pete works for a man who publishes a newspaper.  (And darn it, I forgot the name now, it had "Post" in it, and I think the man's name was Johnson.)  Pete does all the printing on old-fashioned movable-type machine-things.  I am Pete's assistant, and work directly for him.

We live in a forest of giant trees like redwoods.  Pete lives in his printing business, and I live out in the forest.  Johnson is not a nice man.  Something happens and he and Pete get into a disagreement.  It's about something that Pete doesn't want to print in the newspaper.  So Pete is fired and possibly in trouble with some bad people.

I decide to try to print my own newspaper and expose Johnson.  I bring it to Pete, but he has already done the same thing, and since he has actual printing equipment and mine is like scribbled on bark, I realize his is much better, and decide to just help him work on his.

Pete's Big Truck (the most memorable image from that dream, but there was a lot more stuff)

Pete and I run into each other again after a hundred years or so.  We are really happy to see each other.  Tom and Cindy are a little suspicious of our sudden friendship, but we tell them that we worked together a long time ago.  I try to remind Tom, "Don't you remember me telling you about a long time ago when I lived in that forest in California and worked on that newspaper?"  He vaguely does, but he's like, whatever, it's cool.  (Nothing at all was like anything IRL, not where we lived or anything familiar at all, except the people.)  

Pete and I have to go and do something.  He picks me up in an enormous truck.  I've never seen anything like it.  We are like twenty feet off the ground.  It looks old and bounces around a lot, and looks pretty difficult to drive, but Pete insists it's safe.  It's fun to ride in.

Then there is something about Pete's band, and something about Cindy deciding to part her hair on the side instead of in the middle, and me telling her it looks good like that, and something about my niece riding in the truck, and something about my Mom....


Later On Fragment

I tell Pete that I'm worried about Indiana nuking Michigan.  Pete says that Indiana is years away from acquiring nuclear weapons.