Wedajihs: From Dusk till Dawn

[Wędajihs]

Fun recall but wish I'd been lucid during it.

A fragment. Caught in a traffic jam. People panicked. The panic was contagious. I mostly remember tying to fight it off and calm myself.

[Wędajihs]

No recall on the 7th. I know I dreamed but nothing came back to me. Also am making a note that i didn't get to sleep until after 5am that morning

Recall for the 8th

- Was in hilly, forested country. The sky blackened and storm cells formed all around. I can not recall who I was with but we found shelter in a house and watched live online as massive storms ravaged the countryside all around us.

- Wandered a mall out of boredom and was about to leave but saw a lion walk past just outside the exit doors. I decided to stay inside. At some point the entire mall had disappeared. We were all stuck outside where lions and dinosaurs roamed about picking us off. Again I wasn't afraid, very concerned but not afraid.

I need to reality check when encountering storms and predators, especially prehistoric ones.

[Caradon]

Ooh, I think we should start  a "When Dream Animals Attack" thread here too.

One of the ones I had recently was also a dinosaur. Well a giant dinosaur sized lizard, Komodo dragon.

I thought for sure the storm dream was going to spawn tornadoes. I swear, nearly every time I look at freaky clouds in the sky in dreams tornadoes start dropping out of them.

Edit: I started the animal attack thread in general dream and posted the two that I had since I started journaling again.

[Wędajihs]

I get storms a lot, odd storms that you would think make someone reality check but I never do. I'm too fascinated by them. Will likely be posting in the animal attack thread often. I have an issue with reptiles, mainly crocodiles, which I've never really stopped to think about.

I had no recall on the 9th.

- I wandered through a carnival at night. A two faced man floated down from the sky. I was the only one who could see him. He walked to me and asked me what I thought the meaning of life was. One of his faces told me that there was no meaning to life, we're a freak accident in a freak accident of a universe. The other face told me there was no meaning to life, we're all interconnected strands of energy. I jokingly told the two faced man that I thought there was a meaning to life but it had nothing really to do with humanity's importance in the grand scheme. We're just souls planted here to ripen. Then aliens harvest our energy as we die. We argued about this for a long time and I woke up convinced that my theory was actually true.
 

I tried to wild this morning after waking but kept falling right back to sleep.
Fragments:
-sang some nonsense song
-took an old radio apart

[Wędajihs]

- I was a slave for the last family in our neighborhood to give up slavery. Our owners treated us well enough. Most of the other slaves were happy with their lives. A handful of us were not. We wanted to be freed. We wanted to be treated like people and not property. There came a point where the rest of the neighborhood rallied and demanded our owners set us free but our owners would not. Me and a couple of others just walked away.

- I saw my schoolmates eating lunch. I approached and then stopped because I had nothing to talk about. I turned to leave but GM called to me. I returned and sat with them. They ate their food straight out of cans. Their drinking cups were cans. When I remarked on this they told me that it was the new environmentally friendly fad.

[Caradon]

Funny about the aliens planting us here to ripen theory. I actually watched an episode of Ancient Aliens  where they were talking about basically the same thing. The theory that our DNA is planted here by them, basically like a science project for them. And they are growing us, evolving us into something for their purposes. They even went as for as to start theorizing that we are to eventually merge our consciousness with technology and become basically cyborgs travelling the galaxies with our alien creators in our machine bodies... The show is fascinating sometime, but they get a bit too far out there sometimes, lol.

[Wędajihs]

I was wondering if I'd heard a theory like that someplace before. Nothing came to mind but I probably did hear or read it somewhere. I like hearing about such things even if I don't believe them.

Dreams from the 12th

noting that I know I woke up from a couple of other dreams in the night, was sure I'd remember them so went back to sleep without writing them down. Big mistake because I couldn't remember them when I re-woke up later.

-In school I had to sit between two students I wasn't very fond of. One, I knew was abusive to his girlfriends. The other was always talking. I struggled to work on a research paper but these two kept interrupting. After I time, I was fed up. I stood and was about to give these two clowns a piece of my mind when one of my teachers appeared behind me. She put a hand on my shoulder and whispered into my ear. The words were in a different language. I could almost understand the words, they had a silky, calming effect on me. I sat back down and focused on what needed to be done.

-I fished in a muddy river. I had seen a video on bow fishing and wished I were doing that instead of lazily sitting around waiting for a fish to find my line. I don't know when or how, but I was in the river filming the fish. A fish with spikes down its spine caught my eye. It spun around to look at me. To my horror and disgust, it had a human hand, from the wrist down, dangling from it's mouth.


Dreams for the 13th

-Went on a cruise on which most of the people had to be quarantined to one side of the ship. There were three of us who didn't have to be, me, a guy who sort of resembled Will Smith, and a dog. We became bored quickly because all of the fun cruise stuff was on the other half of the ship. We mostly sat around and talked or played fetch with the dog.


Remember to reality check when not at home. I'm rarely ever home in dreams.

[Wędajihs]

Reality checked a lot yesterday as I wasn't home. It paid off a smidgen. Also at a chunk of cheese before bed. I hardly ever eat cheese so was ready to welcome some crazy dreams. As it turns out, they weren't as crazy as I'd expected. Also had better recall.

-HI two horses stuck together at the tails, maybe their tails were knotted or braided together. They each tried to run in opposite directions.

-In a classroom where the teacher made us perform an OCD like ritual before entering. We had to walk into and back out of the room five times before entering. Then we had to walk the perimeter of the classroom before taking our seat. There was also something about a washboard which I can't recall.
(Can't believe I failed to reality check)

-My brother married an alien, a straight up grey alien with the buggy eyes. No one questioned this except me. He also became very arrogant. He acted like he was better than all the rest of humanity because he was the first one to legalize his interplanetary love.
(probably due to all the ridiculous 'Storm Area 51' posts I've seen on social media https://nationalpost.com/news/world/half-a-million-people-signed-up-to-storm-area-51-what-happens-if-they-actually-show-up)

-I had a grandson. He had blond hair and odd green eyes. They reminded me of the green of Ginger Ale soda bottles. He was perhaps about 3 or 4 years old. We walked together through a sweltering town. We were baking alive. I searched for water or ice cream to buy for him but there was none. We found a hill that sloped away from the sun, which meant it was in shadow. My grandson and I had toy cars. On hands and knees we raced our little cars up a dirt path. At the top of the hill was a bridge for no apparent reason. My grandson sat in the shade. I was too big to fit under. I sat atop the bridge and mentioned how hot it was. My grandkid popped out from under the bridge and blew air at me. Snowflake formed in his breath and sprinkled upon me. He danced around blowing his breath upward so that the snowflakes he created would drift down onto me.
(At a flea market I saw a large Elsa from Frozen doll. I remarked she was about as big as a small child)

-A fragment, a man who looked much like Abraham Lincoln. He was about 8 feet tall and had a fake, plastic like body, sort of like Gumby. Every time he opened his mouth bird songs came out. Everyone else understood him. I got caught up trying to identify which bird song he was speaking. Mostly he sounded like a robin in the springtime.
(Woke in early morning darkness and heard a lone robin singing outside, leaked into my dreams?)

  LUCIDITY! about me and lightning

[Caradon]

Wow congrats on the lucidity, and with lightning... Must have been fascinating. I didn't know that cheese was supposed to enhance dreams.

Yeah it's always good to take notes on dreams whether you're  sure you will remember them or not. Sometimes you do sometimes you don't. And sometimes just the act of taking the notes is enough to make sure you do remember. I've done that too, failed to take notes sure I'd remember and then not remember it. And went, Gah! And I feel like the note taking also helps to wake up the mind a bit for more recall. Sort of Like a micro WBTB. Even during my off years I maintained the note taking/key word practice, most of the time. Because I still wanted to remember my dreams but didn't want to record in full. 

That fish with the human hand, yuck. That would have freaked me out too. Fish dreams can get weird. I think maybe like cave dreams. A dark mysterious place under water. And we know there are all manner of weird creatures existing underwater so can do weird things in dreams. 


When I have cave dreams they are particularly scary. Because in my dreams I always know that there are deadly mutant humanoid creatures living deep beneath the earth. No doubt thanks to movies like the "The Descent" permanently putting that into my dreaming mind lol. That's alright though, I enjoy the intensity of those dreams regardless of it being scary. 

[Wędajihs]

Its very inspiring to not be the only one who enjoys scary and intense dreams.

Fragment - I dyed my hair but it turned white in large square shaped patches.

Fragment - I remember seeing a tall and very angry Samuel L Jackson

-Lost in an unfamiliar city, I refuse to ask the residents for directions. A person from my group wanders off and we have to leave her behind. But as a way to find my way back to where she is, or as a way for her to find her way to us, I open a bar of barbecue sauce I happen to have on me. I let it drip out as we walk along to create a trail we can use to find each other again.

-A family in a post apocalyptic world resides in a factory. They catch rats for food. They shake and bake them. They share with me. I eat it even though I don't like the taste of the rat. I know it's fuel my body needs. The teenage girl and I leave together. She meets a young man who picks her up in a giant rubbery wheel contraption and they drive away to a broken down carnival. The rides all defy the laws of physics. I think about reality checking but lose focus because I need to find the teenage girl again. Her male friend tries to graffiti a part of the park but the police, or people who claim they are police, give chase. Everyone splits up. The police find the graffiti guy and tell him his friend is dead. The look at me and tell me I am under arrest for the murder of Pogger Wogger, or Poggy Woggy? I can't recall the right name. I didn't kill anyone. I run.

[Caradon]

Funny, you killed poor Poggy  Woggy! 

Don't you hate that, when you are about to reality check, but then get distracted by something and forget all about doing it. I've done that a lot of times. Sometimes it's hard to just stop what you're in the middle of doing when there is a lot going on.     

[Wędajihs]

I didn't kill Poggy Woggy, I'm almost certain of it.
And yes, I must learn how to manage distractions better. I'm rather horrible at that in waking life as well.

Fragment about school. I remember seeing my language teacher DL.

-My mother received a call from LB to tell us her girl was having a baby. LB wanted her former husband at the delivery and asked my mother to ask BG if he would be there. My mother found and asked BG if he wanted to go. He declined. My mother and I went in his stead. I don't recall if JB had a girl or a boy.

-Two of my friends were chatting about politics. I only listened. I don't like wasting my breath talking about such things. I went to the bathroom and when I returned one of my friends was attempting to hang a tribal looking sunburst necklace on a radio where I would find it. My other friend smirked when he saw me, went and grabbed the necklace and said, "Just give it over, like so," and handed the trinket to me. It was suddenly wrapped in layers of different sheets of metal that were bolted together. I attempted to unwrap the sun. When I did the trinket had become more of a star-shaped pendant with pointy black jewels arranged around the center diamond. I didn't know what to do with it.

-I sat on a back porch, one of my childhood homes, and enjoyed the scenery and wildlife. Atop a pine tree to the left, a mourning dove wove a nest. It was made of fine fibers and in the shape of a basket but with a little scoop coming off the handle to act as a roof. I was amazed by this and called others out to see. They didn't care. I spoke to the dove as it continued weaving its delicate nest.

-(28)Three women were kidnapped. They were trapped in the back of a car that had no door handles or way to roll down the windows. Sometimes I was one of the women and other times I watched the scene from outside the back window of the car. The car slowed at a corner, I ran to it and ripped the back door open. I grabbed a girl, the youngest, and pulled her to safety. The car sped away before the others could escape. I yelled at passersby to help the girl but was ignored. The girl and I tried to find a police station.

[Wędajihs]

LUCIDITY!!!
 
A weird astral travel-like dream.

I had other non-lucid dreams but can't recall them at the moment. The lucid dream took over my memories this morning. If I can recall the others I will add them later. They're there. I can feel them. I just can't see them.

[Oneironautical1]

They're there. I can feel them. I just can't see them.

I swear, these sorts of feelings are quite profound.  Many people talk about psychedelics and how they end up with a sort of "new perspective" for however long it lasts.  For me, very vivid dreams lucid or not, have a similar effect leading to an ever evolving interpretation of my conscious existence.  Unfortunately, not a large number of people seem to experience this or don't have that same reaction.  It's really a gift.

[Wędajihs]

Never thought of it that way. Thank you for that. It's very illuminating.

Noting: had trouble staying asleep last night, little noises kept waking me. I should have reality checked each time I woke but I was too tired.

-I lived near the family from Married with Children. They were hoping to move to a nicer neighborhood so attempted to fix up their home. All kinds of mishaps occurred. The wife became fed up and left. She took the son with her. The daughter stayed with her father. I tried to help them fix their house but it just wasn't happening.

-Very hungry, I looked for a fast food restaurant that had semi-decent food to eat. After a very long time of walking into and inspecting several fast food joints, I went back to one that served salads instead of fries as a side dish. I waited and waited for a server to come. None did. I went to the counter and the workers just stood around chatting in the back. Someone else came in and used the mic at the cash register to order their food. Oh, so that's the way it works, I thought. But by then I was so disenchanted with the place that I prefered starving a little to filling myself with junk from restaurants. I left to find food at a grocery store.