Weird . . .

[mu]

I must have experienced the longest 7 minutes of my life the other day.  I wake up, hit the snooze (7 minutes until the next alarm), and when I wake to my alarm again it feels as if I've been sleeping and dreaming for about an hour.  Don't ask me what I dreamed about.  Low level of consciousness non-lucids that faded quickly from my memory.  Anyway, the experience was quite the contrast from my usual seeming ability to know how much time has passed even when asleep.

I love when that happens.. I've heard people claim that months, even years seem to go by in one night. I sometimes have dreams that seem like days or weeks, but that's all night. Seven minutes though, that's awesome.

I've developed a respiratory allergy to water vapor and am sent to a hospital.  The nurses, not knowing I'm alien, keep forcing fluids and giving me warm sponge baths, which only makes my illness worse.  MB comes to visit me.  I've decided that she's the one to tell about me being alien.  Somehow, I think the fact that she's a lucid dreamer will make her more likely to believe me and better able to help me.  I tell her that I'm not from earth, and to demonstrate I levitate a pillow.  She grabs the pillow and lifts it, looking for strings or some other trick.  More later.

When's later! Is there more to this? I'm hooked now; great story!

[Alex Lou]

When's later! Is there more to this? I'm hooked now; great story!

Later's now.  Sorry 'bout that!  I just finished the post.

I love when that happens.. I've heard people claim that months, even years seem to go by in one night. I sometimes have dreams that seem like days or weeks, but that's all night. Seven minutes though, that's awesome.

Yeah, I don't get a lot of that kinda thing myself anymore, so it was pretty interesting.  Seems like having lucids and partial lucids makes the time stretching thing far less frequent for some reason. 

[Alex Lou]

Ah, I sleep so so much . . . 
But at least I had an interesting night.   Started out with an episode of dreaming about lying in bed, or so I think.  And then this morning:

Motivation to Go to Class
I hate my statistics class (not for the reasons that you think:  I do well on the tests but can never find the time to finish the homework which is very stressful).  But it's required for the MSN program I'm applying to next month, so whatever.  So when my alarm went off this morning, I decided, Screw it.  I'll sleep another hour and show up late!

I walk into class significantly late and my instructor is obviously irritated by it.  He immediately walks over to me, puts a notebook on my desk and tells me that I will take notes.  I never take notes.  I'm pissed.  And I feel so tired.  Hmm . . . tired.  Oh!  As an RC I float up to the ceiling.  My instructor continues lecturing as I grab a male student to have sex with on the floor.  I realize that he's not really in my class IRL.

We go into a different room to take the test.  I do an RC in case I've made it into reality somehow.  Nose-plug this time.  At first I don't pay much attention to it and just assume that it's reality now.  But I realize that I could still breathe and try again.  Yep, I can breathe.  Dream!  I grab the same student again and we have sex next to the overhead projector.

I wake up and I'm so delighted by my dream.  I actually feel like going to class now!  I lay in bed thinking of my dream for a few more minutes.  Then I really wake up.

I walk into class IRL an hour late, smiling.  I do a nose-plug RC after I sit down just for fun.

[mu]

Alternate Universe

Cool. Your dreams are so "high level," I mean, to have a major part of the plot based around the chemical properties necessary to sustain life. I don't like human aliens either. But that's an interesting conflict in a dream, like it should be impossible for you to exist. Great dream!

 

I walk into class IRL an hour late, smiling.  I do a nose-plug RC after I sit down just for fun.

LDs can put you in such a good mood for the rest of the day.

[Sunshine]

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[Alex Lou]

Um, is this a dream or a memory?

 
Nah.  I don't have any kids.

  Well, it's not too unreasonable to think that some may be carbon based and need water, is it?   I guess those are the only kinds we know for sure probably exist.  I may not understand any others, but I don't rule them out as a possibility.

Just as in my dream, you are right.

Oh, you found the link to the costumes I've made.  I won't say anything more in a public part of the forum.   Do you need any help cleaning up posts?


I Can Spell Spaghetti
In my dream I'm typing here in my DJ.  Referring to a dream I had a few days ago I write, "Disturbing dream about spiggetti.  I'm serious."  And put in a bunch of smileys all over the place.  Not sure if this proves that I can read in non-lucids or not, but I did read and type "spiggetti."  I knew that I might not know how to spell it, and so thought about it carefully and watched each letter appear on the screen as I typed them.  My spelling really does suck IRL, but I did a slightly better job while awake (used an "a" as the first vowel, but didn't know about the "h").

After I post in my dream, I look it over.  It's quite incomprehensible with smileys instead of text.  And then my posts rearrange themselves so that the last post does not appear last.

[Alex Lou]

Cool. Your dreams are so "high level," I mean, to have a major part of the plot based around the chemical properties necessary to sustain life. I don't like human aliens either. But that's an interesting conflict in a dream, like it should be impossible for you to exist. Great dream!

Well I woke up somewhere around there, so it could have been my waking, or semi-waking thoughts intruding.  But I do have thoughts like that in non-lucids, where my analytical skills seem to be intact and I question what's going on.  It's surprising how often it doesn't make me lucid.

[Sunshine]

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[Alex Lou]

On Wednesday my husband reported his first lucid dream!  And then another this morning in which he remembered the lucid task that I told him about last month, and he did it!  I'm terribly impressed that he had a second so soon after the first.

[dallyup52]

It is no coincidence that you two are together.

[Sunshine]

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[Alex Lou]

Wow, that's cool!  Tom finally had one, and I know he liked it, but he isn't interested in trying at all.  Did he really like it?  It sounds like he's got a lot of potential!

He likes the idea of it, but I think that the two dreams he had were too short for him to make much of it.  But he started a DJ here.

It is no coincidence that you two are together.

Think so?  I suppose that although our minds seem to work very differently, we both arrive at the same endpoint.

I was thinking of him this morning.  I told him to try flying next.  And so I did it myself, doing flips in the air and swimming strokes, wondering if he was doing the same.  But no such luck.

[Sunshine]

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[mu]

Awesome! That really is cool. He sounds good! I mean, really good. One month of RCs and he's completing tasks. And with you helping him.. you two are going to like rule over lucid land or something.

I'm gonna have to check that DJ link out..

Hey, were you aware of

[Alex Lou]

Awesome! That really is cool. He sounds good! I mean, really good. One month of RCs and he's completing tasks. And with you helping him.. you two are going to like rule over lucid land or something.

Well he has been working on recall for about a year.  Before that he really didn't remember his dreams.

Hey, were you aware of

No I didn't!  And I'm pretty sure he doesn't know.