Finally had a little recall. I've not recalled much of anything the last few days. But not been sleeping much more than a couple of hours here and there.

Even just now I think I only slept about two and a half hours. But I woke from a dream that was in an apartment in an apartment building. I was trying to sleep and the people upstairs where playing some awful stupid music so loud it was shacking my apartment. I was so pissed I wanted to go up there and beat the shit out of them and destroy their  stereo. But I went up there yelling at them to turn that stupid shit music off. After a little bit I remembered the exact song they had blasting in my dream. Here it is lol.

Imagine your neighbors blasting this song so loud it shakes your entire apartment when you're trying to sleep. I was so glad to wake up from that nightmare to find everything was actually peaceful and quiet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxvBPH4sArQ

Friday/April/29/2022 Lucid Dream # 15 Of 2022 Best Dreamsign Recognized No Reality Check Needed

Two consecutive nights again, nice.

Jump To The Apartment Balcony

I wasn't sure what to title this one. A pretty short bit of lucidity likely mainly because of a short REM period as it was the first recalled dream within the first hour of being asleep.

The first thing I recall is that I'm already riding a little motocross kind of bike that reminds me of a little 70cc Suzuki that my Step Dad had bought when I was a kid that a friend and I had a blast with.

I'm on the little moto bike and racing full throttle towards a steep hill that has a bit of an offset section on the lower portion of the hill so that it's like a ramp. Was I already somewhat aware? Intending to become lucid? I'm not even sure. But I know I want to hit that steep offset section with every bit of speed I can in order to launch myself into the air as high as I possibly can with no concern about the landing.

Racing towards that ramp with speed but wondering if I have quite as much speed as I want I hit it and launched high into the air I am with near to instant lucidity shouting "This is a dream!" As I pull back on the handle bars and tumble backwards into a couple end over end flips through the air. Then let go of the bike allowing the bike to fall away and be gone.

I then gradually allow myself to drop down to a nearby apartment building balcony railing. I should add that it's kind of dark out during a nighttime setting but I have no trouble seeing. There had been a friend with me nearby and as I stand there perched on the railing of the balcony just taking it all in I wait to get the attention of my dreaming friend. Who just happens to be one of my co-workers in waking reality. Same co-worker also shows up in a later work related dream.

I finally see said co-worker come into view and call out to him getting his attention. I surprise him with a crazy stunt leaping from the balcony backflipping through the air and landing perfectly on my feet right beside him. I then explain to him that this is a dream and that I used that steep hill right over there to become lucid with. I then even point out the tread line of my bike tires on that ramp section of the hill that I used to launch myself into the air. I go on to explain that he should try it himself as he has a bike too because of how amazing it feels. I describe a blissful feeling of rising high above the ground everything going quiet and serene as you gain altitude and  and just tumble through open air. As I describe this and point to that apartment balcony mentioning the landing I randomly wake with eyes still closed.

Laying there with eyes closed and never opening them yet I begin to wake initiate into a scene still lucid of standing in my kitchen and seeing a large sized spider come out of nowhere and run across the floor.   But then the scene fades and I'm laying there fully awake again eyes still closed and realize that I had better open my eyes and jot down some notes about getting lucid or I may end up just drifting back to sleep not remembering any of it. So I open my eyes and look at my digital alarm clock and see that I have not even been asleep quite an hour yet.

Sunday/April/1/2022

Aware Dream Characters In A Non Lucid Dream

So I had this odd experience last night I want to put here in my lucid dream journal even though I didn't quite become fully lucid.

It's the last portion of a long elaborate dream that I wouldn't be able to fully describe. I'm with a male dream character who has been searching for some mysterious lost treasure left hidden by his long dead ancestors. He has given up trying to find the treasure and now believing it to be lost forever. When all of a sudden by some miracle we find a hidden door to a secret room within a large mansion like place where he has been living.

I pull open the door and the door is more like a hatch. When I pull the door/hatch open I'm looking down into some mysterious place from above. Some distance below we see hovering a ghostly figure of a woman who seems to be the ghost of one of the dream characters ancestors. The ghostly woman begins speaking to us with words I can't quite recall. But I remember what she was saying had something to do with the mystery of the lost treasure and our quest to find it. As she is speaking her face morphs and changes oddly. And maybe that's why I don't remember her words so well because I was more focused on the fascinating aspect of her appearance.

As she is speaking we become pulled into this mysterious place. It doesn't feel like we entered though the doorway. It's more like the place forms around us and the ghostly woman has somehow brought us to this other reality. The place is very surreal and almost as if when watching a movie the movie is trying to depict someone's dream.

We find ourselves by a swimming pool and there is a pool party going on with lots of pretty ladies in bikinis walking about by the pool. I find myself standing before a lady who is sitting in a pool style chair that is under a sort of overhanging structure to give shade. This lady is eating what appears to be a popsicle and I have the feeling that this is the same ghostly lady that has brought us to this place.

She pauses with eating her popsicle and looks directly at me and says to me. "You know, I've figured out that this is all a dream." I guess I should have become lucid right then or at least remembered to do a reality check. But I wasn't sure she was serious. Joking maybe? I don't know. At that moment two other bikini clad ladies walk by and I hear one of them say to the other. "This is some amazing graphics card." As if implying that this is some sort of high tech VR game world. Then I hear her companion respond to her comment and says to her. "This is no video game." In a way that implies it's something much more than just a video game world.

In that moment I feel on the verge of full lucidity when I notice a clock on the wall that shows if I don't wake up right now and start getting ready I will be late for work. I have a moment of panic thinking I'm going to be late for work and it startles me awake. Once awake I realize it's my day off and don't have to be to work, duh. And waking from the long vivid experience was kind of a shock to the system.

Then after getting up to use the bathroom I go back to sleep for a while and my lost friend is with me. And it's an odd feeling that she has somehow returned to me from the dead and won't be remaining with me for very long like a short visit to spend time with me. And I guess that feeling was sort of correct as I wake before too long and she is gone again.

Saturday/June/4/2022 Lucid Dream # 19 Of 2022 Dream Reentry Induced Lucidity

Drunken Dreaming

It was kind of an odd situation. In reality I had bought two bottles of 100 proof Yukon Jack whiskey and two packs of cigarettes for the week off that I took for my birthday. just in case I felt like drinking and smoking I was going to. But it's now the final day of my vacation and both whiskey and cigarettes remain unopened. Every day I considered it, but never actually wanted to.

Anyways. I was dreaming that I was with a couple of people but at an old apartment I used to live at and decided to crack open that whiskey and get drunk. So hanging out getting drunk (And actually felt drunk in the dream.) But I started waking up and re-entering the same dream repeatedly. Each time waking a little confused and regretting drinking not wanting to wake up feeling sick. Then thinking I probably won't be hung over in reality from drinking in a dream and falling back to sleep right back into the same dream.

Finally in the dream having confusion whiskey bottle in hand trying to figure out what is real and what isn't. Am I awake and drinking now or still in the dream? Then full lucidity comes over me when I realize this is still the dream and I'm not actually drinking in reality. I explain this to one of the people I'm with and I do a watch reality check and have the dream character do a watch reality check. The watch numbers are doing all sorts of wonky stuff and realize that maybe the screwy numbers could be rationalized by the fact that I'm too drunk to see right. Even though certain I'm dreaming I do a nose pinch reality check and I can breathe through my pinched closed nose and tell the dream character to do the same.

I then decide I'm going to walk down the hall to the apartment office and talk to the land lady. So I do with whiskey bottle still in hand. I see the land lady and explain that I'm not really drinking because this is a dream. I hold up the whiskey bottle to show it to her. As I look at the bottle it changes form being three quarters empty to being full again. I have an odd sense that I'm now holding up the actual bottle as if the dream and waking reality are blending together and showing that I never actually drank any of it. The actual bottle still full because I was only drinking it in a dream.

I wake up for the final time thankful I wasn't actually drinking and not waking up feeling sick and hung over.

Monday/June/27/2022

I had a strange experience of waking up from a dream but still being in it. I guess you could say I was lucid because I was aware of what was happening. I woke up and I could tell for sure I was awake and laying there with my eyes closed. But I guess I had to be in some kind of in-between state as I see my mother meet a man in an auditorium kind of place. The man is the father of a dream character I had been with in the dream a moment earlier. My mother and the man are having a conversation about myself and my in dream friend and trying to figure out what we had been up to.

I'm laying there awake and feeling very curious about the fact that I'm awake but also able to pay attention to the interaction and conversation of the man and my mother. I also begin to wonder if I'm just making up their words like I'm just imagining the dream continuing. But I decide I'm not purposely putting the words in their mouths. I'm just listening to them.

The man finally puts the pieces together and figures out what was going on with my friend and I like a lightbulb moment and explains the apparent situation to my mother. A situation that was rather amusing. And I laugh out loud as the man figures it out and my mother is like "Ah that all makes sense then." And she is no longer concerned and walks away.

Tuesday/June/28/2022

Notes:

-Some early work related stuff that took some pretty abnormal turns.

-A lot of stuff about being at Walmart shopping for food. There is a lot of people in panic buying mode trying to stock up for a possible coming apocalypse and a lot of the shelves are getting pretty sparse. I manage to find some chips and cheese dip and there is a bit where I'm actually eating them and they are delicious.

-There is some stuff involving The Queen Of Hearts. It's a little weird. I show up at her home and she is filling out some forms and asks me to help her out with the forms.

-Outside the house and it's winter. there is deep snow all about and I'm trying to dig a path to get my car out. My lost friend makes and appearance for the third night in a row when she randomly comes out of the house and is playing in the snow. Then little Cody shows up too and I end up feeding them both some treats.

Wednesday/June/29/2022

-Kind of a bizarre and elaborate dream of King Kong/very large gorilla. Wouldn't even be sure exactly how to describe it in detail. Not sure what's up with the King Kong style dreams lately. Well, that's the second one I've had recently.

-A really annoying dream that I just want to sleep and be left alone and there are people outside trying to get in. Some of them are family some of them are not. I'm fighting hard to keep them out and becoming angrier and angrier as it progresses. And I'm being made out to be the bad guy for being pissed off about their intrusion on my space.

I totally understand the symbolism of this dream and have figure out how to take advantage of airplane mode on my phone.

Thursday/June/30/2022

Notes:

-A work related dream that seemed to go on forever.

-A psychopathic woman in a red dress and wielding a large knife is hunting people.  The tables turn when she ends up becoming the one that is being hunted by a group set out to apprehend her.

My lost friend makes an appearance in this dream and acts like bloodhound helping to sniff out the psycho woman's trail.

Saturday/July/9/2022

Notes:

-A dream of my lost friend that was highly symbolic in nature. I didn't even realize the symbolism of the dream until I was thinking about the dream while I was at work then suddenly saw how clearly obvious what the dream meant was.

-Later a very bizarre dream of being on a mission to rescue some people from the cenobite demons from the 'Hell Raiser" movies. I'm transported through a dimensional portal by some unknown agency. The situation kind of reminds me of the Michael Crichton story "Time Line" when the group gets transported through the time machine to the past to rescue a friend trapped back in time. Once I arrive in the cenobites realm there is some pretty bizarre stuff going on that is difficult to describe in sequence. Even though of course there was some scary elements to it I never felt very frightened. I guess not even the Hell Raiser cenobites are able to inspire the kind of in dream terror that they once were able to.

Sunday/July/10/2022

Notes:

-Mostly work related stuff. I've been trying to get my head back in the game a little better. Things have been rough lately and It's been difficult to concentrate. But I guess my intentions already payed off a little as I recognized a work related dreamsign that has become a fairly common occurrence in work related dreams, and has gotten me lucid at least once already when I recognized it before. An excellent and obvious dreamsign that could yield great results if I can frequently remember to notice it. I have to remember to keep on the watch for it when I'm at my job. Will at least make for a better reason for being at job than the usual reasons.

Anyways I recognized said dreamsign and fully intended to do a reality check when I noticed it even though I fully believed I was awake. However, I was distracted by what I was trying to do and forgot to reality check. And I was so close to having a look at my watch to check how the numbers act too. I had been carrying something in my hands and just needed to finish what I was about to do and then reality check as soon as my hands were freed up, but it didn't happen since I ended up forgetting all about it.

Sunday/June/30/2019

My nap which as always I'm still counting as the previous nights dreams.

Bug

I find a bug crawling on me. It look like a wood tick. I'm trying to make sure I kill it before it can bite anyone and give someone a fucked up disease. I drop it for a second and lose it. But then I find it again and carry it into the bathroom. I crush it with my fingernail and throw it in the toilet.

Note: trying to remember to reality check at the site of bugs, especially when they are in the house or crawling on me. Because I've been seeing them in my dreams a lot lately.

Homless guy

Very vivid. I'm in the back yard with the dog. I'm off to the side of the house.It feels as if I had just woken up and crawled out of my tent. There is a homeless guy standing there hwo is actually one of my step dads friends. he is about to take a piss on the side of the house. I tell him no. he look sat me and zips it back up and walks to the back yard.

I also walk to the back yard, going towards where my back door is. The homeless guy walks down to wear the treeline is and starts pissing down there by the trees. I realize I forgot to get my dog. She is still over by the side of the house. So I walk back over there. As I do I notice the homeless guy examining some shrubs down bye the trees that has blue flowers on it.  I walk aroud he side of the house the dog is there. She runs twards me.  I scoop her up in my arms wondering how I could have forgetten about her.

With the dog in arms I walk back towards the back door The homeless guy now over by the door and smoking. I feel like I have an alcohol buzz at this point. And I have a memory that I had been drinking. (Which I have not been in reality.) I want one of his cigaretts. And I wonder if I really want to start smoking again. I decide I don't give a fuck, it's a good time to have a smoke with an alcohol buzz on.

But I notice a really big black dog the guy has with him now. And the way it's looking at me I'm worried ithe big dog might be hostile and want to attack the small dog in my arms. So I want to get her into the house before that can happen. The the homeless guy asks me about phone numbers that are supposedly in a black notebook in my house that he wants me to get for him. Apparently there is someone he needs to call on the notebook.

I try to push the door open, but someone is standing behind it. The person comes from around the door, on the insid eof the house. It's an old friend of mine. I didn't know he was even here. I suddenly notice he is all messed up. Like he has had a really bad stroke or something. "What happened!?" I ask. Barely able to speak it  sounds like he says something about being handicapped. He sits down in a wheelchair that has suddenly appeared.  I feel so terrible for what happened to him, I'm practically in tears. He raises his hand for a fist pump, in acknowledgment and apreciation for my concern. I give him the friendly punch on the fist and wake.