I had a dream...
Last night. Or was it this morning?
I decided to write the dream - or actually two dreams - down, as they stuck with me. And also, because @yesaye - another member of the 'be awesome' discord channel - recently mentioned that he is keeping a dream journal. Here's an excerpt from his post:
Dream Journaling
Some experiment I've been doing is writing down my dreams.
I've been doing this continuously for 9 days now.
The last time I tried it, I was able to control my dreams (a.k.a lucid dream) just after 4 days.
Feel free to read his full post, where he talks about his achievements, challenges and habits, here
I tried some dream journaling myself in the past. One of my favorite filmmakers ever, David Lynch, gets all of his inspiration out of dreams and meditation and I'm sure he's not the only one.
I myself do not necessarily lack any inspiration lately but I thought it might be fun to start sharing (some of) my dreams with you. Who knows what it will lead to? It might inspire you, make you laugh, motivate you to do the same and, besides that, I wonder what the practice leads to on my side. Will I be able to remember my dreams every single day? Will I be able to influence my dreams and start so called lucid dreaming? Time will tell.
So, without further ado, I present to you, my wildest dream(s) of last night:
Me and another (unidentifiable) person are sitting in a boat, moving through a wet, Dutch, landscape. During our little travel we see many animals on the land. My eyes spot a wolf, then a couple more wolves, 6,7,8,8 10, a dozen wolves. More and more wolves appear, my guestimate is that there are about 60 of them altogether. They are at a safe distance - and - more importantly, not planning to harm us.
I also spot a cheetah, which is a little more special in The Netherlands. And - a little later - a baboon. Now this is a problem. The baboon appears to be dangerous and aggressive. At this point in the dream, our boat is gone and we are walking. The baboon is way faster than us - even though he is kind of hopping on two arms - and getting closer and closer. I decide to grab a stick to defend us. It's not much of a stick...
THE END
That was my wildest dream of last night.
In the following dream, I am sitting in a cave, watching a movie (projected on the wall). My father enters and is looking way better than he did before. He wants to watch a movie (which hardly ever happens or happened in the past). I ask him if he wants to sit on a couch. Suddenly there's a couch. Until that moment, there was only a floor and a sleeping bag. It's a comfortable couch and I start prepping it for him.
Then somebody unplugs the TV and the Christmas lights. Were there Christmas light? Was there a TV? The woman who did this, says we were watching Channel 3. But, after plugging the cable in again, we can't find the right channel or movie. It clearly wasn't Channel 3.
THE END
That is as much as I remember from last night/ this morning.
TO BE CONTINUED
What about you? Are you keeping a dream journal? Do you have any lucid dreaming experience or skills? How good are you at remembering your dreams?
Do you want to collaborate on my dream journaling? Perhaps by composing some sweet dream tunes or drawing some images? Then feel free to reach out to me. I am looking for more interaction and collaboration on here.
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Just the boost I needed to continue this series :>)
A couple of years ago I was writing a dream journal and was very dedicated to it. I remember dreaming the weirdest stuff back then such as the decline of the law of gravity, flying, turning into a mermaid and so on. I think the writing helped me both at dreaming more interesting and unusual things aswell as remembering the dreams very vividly in the morning. I never got to the point where I could control my dreams, but I just got a feeling I should try again.
Thanks for stopping by and sharing your (dream) story.
You should definitely try this again, who knows what stage you reach nowadays...
c ya!
This seems like a fun experiment, To do. But I am afraid that my dreams mostly are violent and may not be nice to share hahaha.. but I could remember a couple of dreams where o was falling of a cliff or something.. and with a jolt I would get up.. I hate those dreams..
@vincentnijman, I tried but I couldn't remember the dream this happens to me often. But i will not give up. So let me change into my goodnight mode and come up with a awesome dream sequence. :-)
I use a dream journal from time to time.
I haven't been able to journal recently. Due to school, I wake up by 5 am and in an hour I'm done and headed for school.
There's little to no time for fun stuff like keeping a dream journal.
what about recording your dream on your phone, just after waking up? you could always listen to it later and decide whether you want to write it down or not ;>)
The voice recording technique never worked for me.
If I were to get back to it, I'd rebuild my memory palace.
It's a 10 story building in my head where I place important details from dreams I want to recall later.
I can sometimes control my dreams. Sometimes I have really vivid dreams, but often I forget the details if I don't tell them to anybody or write about them. So if you want to remember, I guess a dream journal is a good idea. :)
That's cool!
Dream journaling is fun and a good practice. Since I started it, I remember (part of) my dreams on a daily basis. They just aren't all that interesting or worth sharing. Or sometimes even too private.
Aye! Nice! I started a series about Lucid dreaming a while back. I need to get back on my game. The realm of the un/subconcious is so so so interesting to me and I feel that society, even humanity as a whole, has so much to learn from these wild "hallucinations" we have every night.
Get back on your game!
It is indeed fascinating and - as I don't use any drugs or psychedelics - (lucid) dreaming is the only way to reach that stage. Even though I am meditating on a daily basis - since a month - I am far from reaching a dream like kind of state while being awake.
We got this!!
I do think psychedelics can help though. While not the same stage, it is similar and can make it easier to reach those higher states naturally without them. I used them more than perhaps that ideal minimum amount lol, but I think anyone exploring those other realms of consciousness can greatly benefit from a lil psychedelic adventure.
I believe that but, let's say that I have some reasons for not using drugs (anymore). To be honest, I'm seriously considering to quit drinking alcohol. So, I will need to get my inspiration out of other things. Nature, meditation, daily walks and so on. For now it works, it just leads to different kind of ideas ;>)
That is pretty detailed, nice job dude.
Dabbled with lucid dreaming a few years back and it definitely works. Became lucid in less than two weeks after starting my dream journal. I only stopped when I got the ultimate proof that it works and I was blasted out of the sky flying, with some eerie Earthly sensations when I awoke. Really excited to write the story soon, as I had been wanting to go there for a while.
So I take your cosmic article as reminder for the near future.
Really excited to read more about your lucid adventurers. Told you you were a guy of psychedelic interests - there are many pathways and methods of conciousness alteration ;)
Thanks for the inspiration dude, I am itching to start that article now actually ahahah.
When I write stuff down soon enough after waking up, record it as a voice message or focus on it enough, I am usually able to remember far more than I would think.
Cool to hear about your lucid dreaming success. I am looking forward to reading/ hearing your story about those times.
Today I started reading: Mindfulness Bliss and Beyond: A Meditator's Handbook
I also made it to 40 days of meditation in a row (up till today) but I feel the wisdom in this book is going to make me actually benefit from meditating. I wish I had more than half of it in PDF though ;>)
I am always glad to inspire people and can't wait to see the result of the itch I gave you...
Cosmic hugs,
Vincent
So much other stuff got 2in the way" again, but it is still on my list. I really want those Z articles out of the way first and the music contest deadlines keep me rather occupied at this time <3
Cosmic hugs back to ya dude! <3
This is awesome! I've always been fascinated by lucid dreaming and the crazy things my subconscious creates. I'm still relatively inexperienced with it due to rarely being able to remember what I dreamed. What methods do you use to help remember them?