Lack Of Discipline

Well I’m sorry about the lack of updates to this blog, I’ve had a few troubles lately with my sleeping patterns. This isn’t really leaving me with a lot of time for sleep and well the less time I sleep obviously the less time I spend dreaming.

I’ve had a couple of dreams and neglected to write them down and upon waking in the morning I’ve forgotten just about everything in the dream. So sit tight and I’ll try and add some actual content to this blog at some point. My promise to you is that I will be more dedicated to recording my dreams as it’s also something I really would like to try and keep going.

Weekend Wonders

I’ve had a couple of dreams since my last post, I had one last night (Sunday Night) and another Friday night, both very different. Fridays night dream wont be very detailed as I didn’t have a pen handy to write it down and it’s been 3 days since then, so I’ll describe as much as possible.

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Fridays Dream: Like previously mentioned I’d don’t remember a whole lot about the dream but there were a few images that stuck in my head. The dream was set in some sort or war time surrounding and I remember it being very gory, there was people being blown up, severed limbs and blood everywhere, this didn’t seem to phase me in the slightest.

The actual place where the dream was set I’m struggling to remember. I can sort of picture it in my head but only one thing comes to mind. The soldiers were standing on tall blocks, I’m not talking about well constructed platforms or anything like that, just giant blocks and they were all standing in groups of 3 of 4 people. For a while the soldiers were doing fine, but then the “enemy” started droppings bombs and completely decimated the soldiers I was with. This is when the gore came into, picture Saving Private Ryan style blood and guts.

This went on for a while. During the bombing I just kept running from block to block watching bodies fly everywhere until I realised that there were children hiding next to the blocks, I don’t remember seeing any children dying but I do remember seeing them crouched behind these blocks.

One other detail of this dream comes to mind, at some point during this dream I was in some sort of war room and on some big screen television screen the soldiers were huddles round shouting “For Wonderland” as it flashed on the screen. That’s what they were fighting for, some place called wonderland.

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Sundays Dream: I actually managed to record this dream properly which is good. I woke up about 4.45am after this dream, obviously I was tired and I nearly went back to sleep thinking “it’s cool I’ll remember it when I wake up”. I somehow manage to motivate myself to get out of my bed and grab a nearby pen and paper, which is now going to live beside my bed.

In this dream I was skateboarding with my friend Bert and one other person who for the life of me I cant remember. Bert has taken up skateboarding recently (in real life) and I too have joined him except I roller blade so this dream was very entertaining. In the dream how ever Burt and I are both very accomplished skate boarders.

We were at some kind of park, but it’s not a skate park, it just has on long concrete path going down a hill. We would just continually skate down it and climb back up. While we were doing this there were people watching, but the only face I recognised was my friend’s younger sister who I haven’t seen for years.

After skating for a while my mother and one of her friends came along. Her friend decided to have a try at skating, She made it to the bottom of the hill but fell of at the end. The fall was quite spectacular, she rolled for what seemed like miles and her limbs basically went in all directions, it would have been a very painful fall had it been in real life. But she got straight up and laughed, she was perfectly fine. I remember commenting to Bert about how funny the way older people fall over it looks so dramatic, like old people fall off skateboards all the time. My mum then had a turn at skateboarding down the hill, unlike her friend though she managed to stay on the board. But instead of skating on the path she somehow missed it and she completely disappeared and we couldn’t find her again.

After we lost my mum, Bert ran out of his ridilin medication so he and I both thought we should go see his girlfriend Niki, but the other person who was with us (the one from the beginning of the dream who I don’t remember) didn’t want us to see Niki, and said that Bert would be perfectly fine.

One key thing that I remembered from this dream was that both Bert and I had these key chain type things, with these block type things hanging from them. They looked the shape of a brick except they were smaller, lighter and I think it was white.

That Was Quick

Well I didn’t plan on starting my dream journal just yet but last night I had a dream and actually remembered some of it. This is strange for me. Generally speaking I don’t often remember my dreams. However I didn’t have anything to log my dream with last night because I hadn’t planned on starting my experiment yet. It seems that just thinking about dreaming can help influence your ability remember what you have dreamt. So I’ll describe my dream as best as possible but I don’t remember a whole lot at this stage.

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The Dream: Basically what I remember is being at some sort of gig or event of some sort and for whatever reason I was helping to organise what was going on. For some reason there was this group of 5 or 6 girls walking around the building. 2 of these girls were twins and both had a single piercing in their noses, one of the twins was really mean and showed a lot of anger towards me while the other one seemed very friendly and quite into me.

I don’t remember a whole lot about the content of the dream but I do remember vaguely how it all ended. I had just finished cleaning or packing up what ever it was I was doing and was walking down a long set of stairs when I passed this group of girls. I said a passing goodbye noticing that one of the twin girls was missing. After saying a quick goodbye to the girls I kept walking down the stairs where I met up with the other twin girl and as I said goodbye I moved in for a kiss. Basically she turned her head away and shouted at me, and then she simply walked off. The weird thing is I didn’t feel disappointed this happened or freaked out that she reacted so badly I remember feeling a certain satisfaction in knowing that I at least tried. I do remember worrying afterwards though when I received a phone call from one of the other girls in the group about something (I can’t remember what the call was about), I was worried that the girl I had tried to kiss had told them all, for some reason the thought of this really mad me scared.

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Now that I’ve written it down I’m surprised with how much I recalled, hopefully I can keep this up. I’ll be purchasing a notebook to keep beside my bed so I can log my dreams properly, I’ll even try to find my old Dictaphone.

Till next time sweet dreams.

I Have A Dream...

I’ve started this blog to help me keep a record of my dreams. I’ve recently started reading a lot about dreaming and being able to control your dreams once they become “Lucid”. Simply put a Lucid dream is one type of dream you may experience, it’s dreaming while being aware that you’re dreaming. There are ways of inducing lucid dreaming and once you have learnt this technique it’s possible that you can control your dreams, turning things like nightmares into something more pleasant.

In order to obtain my goal of being able to induce lucid dreams I must start to recall my dreams as often as possible. This isn’t as simple as making a quick note in the morning about what ever dream I may have had, but I have to wake my self up several times in the latter stages of sleep and record it then so I don’t forget in the morning. You have multiple dreams each night and your mind erases one after another until your final dream, so I must try and record each dream. Once i have achieved this i can move on to the next stage of controlling my dreams.

If you are interested in what I’m doing you can find out a wide variety of information at: http://www.dreamviews.com/ this is where I found all of my information and I’m using their guide to reach my goal. You may also be interested in this blog I found recently as he seems to be doing a similar sort of thing: http://a-dreamers-diary.blogspot.com/ this is the website that inspired me to do some research of my own.

I don’t know how often I will be updating this blog, I guess it depends on how well my progress goes so keep checking back and let me know your thoughts on what I’m doing. I'll be starting my dream journal in the couple of weeks.