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Offline Alex Lou

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Alex Lou's Workbook
« on: June 01, 2009, 02:14:23 PM »
How many dreams do you remember a week on average?  I'm guessing about 20.

How many hours of sleep do you get a night on average? There really is no average night.  Between 7 and 9 probably.  But if I have nothing to do, as sometimes happens on the weekends, I'll sleep for at least 10 hours.  Weekdays and weekends alike can be 6 or less hours.  I also take naps sporadically.

How do you wake up in the morning? Quite often I'll wake before my alarm goes off.  But I still go back to sleep and hit the snooze on my alarm many times before getting up.

Do you consider yourself a light or a heavy sleeper? I'm a selectively heavy sleeper.  I can sleep through all kinds of nose, but will wake if someone says my name in a room across the house.  I'll be wide awake if my phone rings.


I don't have any goals in terms of quantity of dreams.  But it does bug me when I'm grasping for the details of that cool dream I had really early in the night.  I know that I forget a lotta those.  Morning dreams are not a problem, I remember plenty.
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Re: Alex Lou's Workbook
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2009, 01:09:09 AM »
Much trouble finding the motivation to record my dreams :? . . . and I'm certainly not gonna do it in the morning (not good, I know).

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Re: Alex Lou's Workbook
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2009, 05:41:13 AM »
Suck it up! Motivation is the name of the game.  :whip:

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Re: Alex Lou's Workbook
« Reply #3 on: June 09, 2009, 12:03:49 AM »
Turns out that I'm really, really not into journaling my dreams. ::)

My problems seem to be not finding my dreams interesting enough to justify remembering them in the long term, much less writing them down, and ineffability of the things that I see and think in dreams; makes it a chore to write them down, have to think too much . . .

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Re: Alex Lou's Workbook
« Reply #4 on: June 09, 2009, 09:21:07 AM »
Writing the dreams down certainly can be helpful but after years of doing the writing and not doing the writing I would say that intention is more important than the writing.  Though for long term retention of every dream ... writing can't be beat.  I have lost the need for long term retention.
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« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2009, 03:05:55 PM »
I know what you're talking about dallyup, and I agree.  Writing up dreams is used for two purposes:  to keep dreams for future years, and to flush out the details of dreams to help with recall and lucidity.  I don't believe that writing down dreams actually helps me much with the second purpose (I used to keep a full DJ five years ago).  I'm the kind of person who doesn't take notes in class but still gets the highest grade on the exam.  My memory works differently than most people and writing isn't a part of it.  I'm just trying to journal so that I'm participating in the workshop fully . . . which probably helps explain my lack of motivation.  I already write down the dreams that I want to keep for the long term.

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« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2009, 04:13:41 PM »
San Francisco
I'm driving on The One, trying to figure out the right off-ramp for the city, go past it and onto another.  Very strange off-ramp with dark stuff up above doing something to my car.  Finally get turned around and arrive in San Francisco.  There's some kinda abandoned amphitheater where this guy lives and he gets a bunch of people together to try to revive the place.  All these chairs on levels and we're all sitting around.  He's angry with us.  I'm thinking this would be a cool place to live.  I could just squat here.  A bit dangerous though, especially if I came home at night.  Wondering if it would be better to find keys and lock the place or leave it unlocked when I'm out so that I can enter quickly.  Better make peace with the guy so I can live here.  Best to choose one of the high stories, but not the top one, that would be too obvious.

Wandering outside.  A girl steps into a fountain and dissolves.  Her friends start drinking up the water so they can get all of her in one place and get her to solidify.  Drinking fountain water is gross . . .



Also, something about my dad changing the hotel reservations I made.  Very worrisome; he won't find a better deal.


Were any colors or sound prominent? City colors:  gray and concrete.  Darkness during night imaginings.  Golden light.  Don't remember any sounds.
What were my emotions?  Very minor anxiety.
Was I alone?  In the car, yes.  But later I was with people I didn't know.
If someone was with me, then who? Were they familiar to me, or strangers?
Was I indoors or outdoors? In a car, then in a building, then outside.
If I was outdoors, what season was it, and what was the weather like?  Wasn't terribly cold, so I suppose it was summer.  It was sunny.
Was I in a town or a city, in a rural area, or out in nature?  San Francisco.
If I was indoors, was I inside a home or in a public building?  Public, but not so public, building.
What kind of room was I in?  Very large with lots of seats like a theater.  Stairwell in the middle with mirrored room on the other side. :P  Come to think of it, I've been in very similar buildings in dreams before.  High ceiling with blue windows all the way up.  Well lit and welcoming.  Totally remembering a dream from who knows how long ago about being in a play.
What time of day was it?  Afternoon.
Was the dream about everyday life, or was the setting unusual?  Unusual.
Was it a recurring dream?  Nope.
Was I lucid?  Nope.
Was I in that familiar neighborhood or in a big city?  Big City.
Was I talking to someone?  I don't actually remember talking to anyone, although I was engaged with other people.
What caused these feelings?  Going on the wrong ramp on the freeway, the guy in the building trying to tell us what to do.
Did I read anything? What did it say? (Gist or literal) :shakehead:


Well I remembered a different dream because of the questions.  But it was from months ago, at least.

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« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2009, 11:09:29 PM »
On Saturday I tried asking questions about a dream I forgot.  I came up with a scene with a fountain, stranger DCs, and a blue sky.  Don't know if I was really remembering the dream or not.

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« Reply #8 on: June 19, 2009, 02:41:25 AM »
I tried the meditation today, but came up with nothing.  I'm pretty sure that such would work for me since I often remember dreams while trying to fall asleep, which is probably a similar state of mind.  Maybe I meditated too late in the day?