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Re: ** Baby steps by bluebird **
« Reply #570 on: December 16, 2013, 12:07:47 PM »
Damn.... I did not notice that Moonbeam posted that at first and almost jumped out of my seat! Oh well.

I find your dream journal extremely interesting and motivational bluebird. It gives me hope and excitement at reaching this level in the future. I really have to put my partying aside and start giving this 100% of my attention. Yesterday I started a challenge of getting to 100 RC's every day. I made it to 48 yesterday and am on 14 today ( make that 15). Hope this pans out.

Also, I am sure you have probably already done this but I figured I would ask. Have you spent a little time googling to see if anyone named Annie or Emily has posted online about having a weird dream. It is a very long shot but might be worth a few minutes on google. Just a thought. Happy dreams :)
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« Reply #571 on: December 16, 2013, 04:20:05 PM »
Oh that Moonbeam and her whacky antics....  I remember this one time when she pretended to be an atheist...

    ... you've come to the right journal for inspiration Eithman.  I've used it as an example of what intent and focus can do a few times.  Bluebird is a force of good.
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Re: ** Baby steps by bluebird **
« Reply #572 on: December 16, 2013, 04:38:51 PM »
It seems like it. Every time I wake up and have no recall I come here to read some old LD posts and re-motivate myself. I am really liking this community!
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Re: ** Baby steps by bluebird **
« Reply #573 on: December 16, 2013, 04:41:23 PM »
You guys are absolutely right, the best thing about this community is everyone is here to help motivate and encourage you to get lucid more often and do more exciting things in your dreams. I'm glad you think my DJ is one of those sources of inspiration :)
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Re: ** Baby steps by bluebird **
« Reply #574 on: December 17, 2013, 12:00:14 AM »
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Re: ** Baby steps by bluebird **
« Reply #575 on: December 17, 2013, 08:48:39 AM »
17th December 2013

I am in a big bedroom sharing with a lot of different people, most of which I don't know. There is a really liberal girl here who is always taking naked photos of herself which I quite enjoy looking at. My friend Jake is here and he asks me if we can do some DMT. I say it's a good idea so we smoke some. I go first as I'm more experienced. I take one massive hit and suddenly I hear commentary describing the buildup of a dream. Eventually I am dumped in the dream world, where I do a reality check and become lucid. I am in my room with just a laptop, and I am not really able to move but I am able to look at the pictures of the woman. All my other efforts to do anything fail, so I decide to have sex with her.

The dreams skips forward a bit and I'm in some big gardens, walking around and trying to get back to everyone else. I get to a very marhslandy bit with a lot of puddles, but as I'm dreaming I just walk through them barefoot. There are lots of squishy plants there. I notice that there are a lot of cacti around in this garden, and I must have stepped on them somehow. I hear a friend complaining that he stepped on some and that's when I notice all the barbs sticking in my body. I pull them out one by one and rejoin the group, now back in the bedroom.

There are different areas of the room with different parties going on, so I explore them for a bit and eventually everyone has gone to bed. I try to find a comfortable spot and manage to will my friend to give up his space so I can lie there. I guess I fell asleep, and then I feel my body lying in the waking world. I'm almost certain I am awake now, but I wait a while just in case I can DEILD or a new scene appears. Neither happen so I do a RC, and I am awake.


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Re: ** Baby steps by bluebird **
« Reply #576 on: December 17, 2013, 10:02:11 AM »
Just noticed this dream was in my saved drafts and I never posted it. Sorry for the lateness, I think originally I was going to check with Naiya to see if it was a shared dream but then I decided it wasn't and forgot about it.

12th December 2012

I am at a New Years Eve party in a foreign or fictional town. I am in a group being shown around by a tour guide, and I get the impression that it's not all they're making it out to be. Something is strange about this place (not just because it was a dream). I get shown around the old buildings but I see very few people in this town, and those who I do see refuse to acknowledge me.

...fragments...something about a man who is with us speeding off to the supermarket...we're trying to find him....seems a little out of control...is it John?

The New Years Eve party is now well underway, and I've met two attractive girls here. I have been kissing them on and off for most of the night, then they both go off to the toilet together, leaving me alone. I spot someone else so I start talking to them. Suddenly it turns out it's my ex girlfriend. She tries to make me feel guilty about the girls, but we're not together and she doesn't even talk to me any more so I don't take her seriously. When the girls come  back we decide to leave and check out the haunted house not too far from here.

When we get to the haunted house, for some reason I become aware that my sister is/was in here with her boyfriend. I decide it would probably be a good idea to say hello so I head on with this mission, despite the part picking up, the girls increasingly becoming interested in me, and the fact that it's nearly midnight. I explore the house and find nothing but that guy from the fragments... He is now my friend Stas and he's telling me that things have gone wrong but he lost his virginity tonight. I seriously hope that isn't true, for his sake, but I congratulate him all the same.

Next thing I know I'm in the New Years Day celebrations, and it's daytime. There is some sort of tradition where the Germans of this town (apparently there's a small German community here) will act out a play in the middle of the square. The locals don't seem happy about it, but they let them do their thing. The act involves a young girl dressed in seductive clothing parading round and flaunting herself at men in a circle surrounding her. A few men then leave the circle and go up to dance/grind with her. I start to get uncomfortable with what's going on, despite the girl's co-operation, so I want to stay out of this. Then all of a sudden, one of the men stares me directly in the eyes, and pulls me in. Before I know it I've joined in with the act, and I'm really not enjoying it.

I have a FA from here, where I check MM. The page opens at Naiya's DJ, where she is describing a dream she had. I won't go in to details, but she basically told the last part of that dream from the girl's point of view. She also named and shamed me...using my real name. In fact she even went as far to say "I think he might have been called <nickname>". I freak out at this point and decide I have to tell Naiya we dream shared. I try to pm her on MM on my phone but it's so hard to use the keypad. I manage to type the letters DS in the subject but I can't get the message out properly.

I give up and roll over and feel an iphone underneath me. I pick it up but it gets a message so I get nervous and leave it there. I think it belonged to Stas...Wait a minute isn't that dream over? I become Lucid and get out of bed, pissed off that the DS was just a dream. I admire this bedroom that I'm in for all it's wonderful junk on the floor (I hate boring bedrooms in lucids). I then start playing with things, swinging from the light fixtures and throwing things around. I rip the blankets off the bed and then look at the windows. There is curtains covering the windows, but I can probably go through them.

I take a running jump and leap through the window. It immediately smashes and I am floating about 7 floors up from the ground. It's night time and I see trees in one direction and tall grey concrete buildings in the other. As I ascend, I look up and notice the stars. There's a lot of stars out here tonight, making the sky look beautiful although there is a very monotonous feel as all the stars seem to be equally spaced apart. I then get to the top of the building I was in and the view is magnificent.

I am looking over my university town, and all I can see is yellow lights of the buildings. I just sit there high in the air and admire floating above something so amazing. Looking out into the town at night from an angle nobody has ever seen before. I am up there no less than a minute when I suddenly drop. I hit the ground with no pain, then I wake up.
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Re: ** Baby steps by bluebird **
« Reply #577 on: December 17, 2013, 12:22:39 PM »
Interesting dream. Every time I read about you flying I get excited, I can not wait to experience that feeling. I have not gotten to far in your DJ yet, but have you ever flown or teleported yourself into space in a lucid? That seems like it would have lots of potential for a very fun time and great scenery!
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« Reply #578 on: December 17, 2013, 01:31:43 PM »
Interesting dream. Every time I read about you flying I get excited, I can not wait to experience that feeling. I have not gotten to far in your DJ yet, but have you ever flown or teleported yourself into space in a lucid? That seems like it would have lots of potential for a very fun time and great scenery!

I have never managed to fly to space, but I managed to teleport myself onto the moon once. I think I have been lucid flying through space once as well but I don't think I got there deliberately. Check April 2012 for the former, I think you will find that dream there somewhere :) and yeah space is beyond amazing in a LD, I wish I could get there again I will have to try it one day
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Re: ** Baby steps by bluebird **
« Reply #579 on: December 17, 2013, 03:19:51 PM »
On your last posted LD, I hate 'waking up' in boring places too. I usually 'wake up' in my house (the blandest black hole of boring in all the universe) somewhere and immediately want to get out. Who wants to be lucid in their house when there are so many out of this world opportunities to dream yourself into?
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« Reply #580 on: December 18, 2013, 08:20:05 AM »
I had trouble getting to sleep last night which meant that I wouldn't have time for WBTB. As a result I took my G/C before bed instead, which turned out to be a big mistake. I kept drifting in an out of sleep, having very infrequent and short dreams. The good thing was I was lucid in some of them, but I had no control at all.

18th December 2013

I am lucid and playing poker with 2 friends. I am dealt my cards which are a Qc3c and I see the guy on my left has Qs3s even though his cards are face-down, must have been because I was lucid or something. I figure if I raise he will probably fold, so I do that. However the other guy calls. Eventually we end up with a board of 73Q3A. I bet and the other guy goes all-in. At first I don't notice there are 2 3's so I think about it for a while. I finally notice that I have a full house and I call. The other guy has AQ so I end up winning.

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I am given a rather large sub style sandwich and start eating it. It is remarkably big and I am impressed that it still somehow manages to fit on the plate. Even looking back at it now I don't quite understand how the proportions worked as the sandwich didn't seem small and the plate didn't seem big.

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Fragment: On the beach, don't know if I was lucid or not. Didn't last long.

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I find myself working in McDonald's like I used to, and immediately recognise that I must be dreaming. However, I don't really get any control over the dream, so I just carry on working as usual. I think I spend a bit of time just messing around as well, instead of working, because I understand that there are no consequences if I don't do the work. It gets to 3pm and I haven't had my break yet, and I believe I'm working 11-4. I decide I might as well just wait it out, and keep working until 3.50. I check the schedule and it turns out my shift was actually 1pm-3.50pm, so I get ready to leave.

As I am leaving, one of my colleagues is in the back trying to inject himself with some sort of drug. I feel really bad for him so I try and talk him out of it, telling him how dangerous it is. He won't listen, and he just keeps asking me to do it for him. I flat out refuse, and wonder if it would be a good idea for me to report him to the managers, although that would mean he would get fired and I don't really want that to happen. I tell him if he really wants to do it then make sure he doesn't take too much of whatever it is, and aim for a vein. I watch in disgust as he stabs himself with the needle, but fortunately I wake up before he actually does inject it.
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Re: ** Baby steps by bluebird **
« Reply #581 on: December 18, 2013, 09:17:14 AM »
Eek, does not sound like a pleasant dream  :sad1: Have you frequently had the restlessness side effect from G/C and do you think there is any way it could have caused the bad dream?
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Re: ** Baby steps by bluebird **
« Reply #582 on: December 18, 2013, 10:11:36 AM »
Eek, does not sound like a pleasant dream  :sad1: Have you frequently had the restlessness side effect from G/C and do you think there is any way it could have caused the bad dream?

Not often, I usually sleep quite well on it but I wasn't sleeping well to begin with and it's supposed to be done at WBTB, so my own fault I guess. It usually gives me intense or weird dreams, which are helpful for becoming lucid, I don't often have bad dreams on that combo but I have a few times before so it comes as no surprise.
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Re: ** Baby steps by bluebird **
« Reply #583 on: December 18, 2013, 12:00:46 PM »
Ahh. Have you found it to be the best supplement for LD'ing for you? And are lucid nightmares a common thing? Even if they did happen, couldn't you just make it stop? Or if you did not have a lot of control, at least realize that its a dream and not be afraid? I worry about my fiencee because she has frequent nightmares caused by past experiences. If she becomes lucid and they actually feel real, it could be really traumatic  :sad1:
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Re: ** Baby steps by bluebird **
« Reply #584 on: December 18, 2013, 12:08:41 PM »
Ahh. Have you found it to be the best supplement for LD'ing for you? And are lucid nightmares a common thing? Even if they did happen, couldn't you just make it stop? Or if you did not have a lot of control, at least realize that its a dream and not be afraid? I worry about my fiencee because she has frequent nightmares caused by past experiences. If she becomes lucid and they actually feel real, it could be really traumatic  :sad1:

Yeah G/C is by far the best thing I've tried, but I haven't tried much. Altering my diet often helps too (bananas + nuts + fish). Lucid nightmares are not common, usually you are in control enough to stop it and/or wake yourself up, and even if you have no control the lucidity usually means you're not afraid. Doesn't mean they can't still happen on occasion, but it's not something I would worry too much about.
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