Dog food and Shoes!

     It is amazing how strange a dream can be!  I remember once I saw this documentary that explained how our brain stores our images and memories in a "filing cabinet" in our brain.  At night, this filing system is hard at work!  Dreams are often jumbled as the brain pulls files and puts them together in our dreams.  Dreams are actually a time in which the brain sorts its' files, at the same time pulling old files.  Events during the day are reviewed and combined with old filed in our dreams.  That is why we may dream of taking a shower in the middle of downtown main street!   

     Last night I had another strange dream.  It was evening and I was standing in my front yard with a couple of friends and they were all commenting how nice my front lawn looked, how green and well taken care of the grass looked.  In my dream the color green really stood out, almost glowing a little, and I guess it really caught the attention of my friends.  I explained to my friends the type of fertilizer I put on it to make it look very green.  The next thing that happened, I was knocking on my friend's door.  My friend Lourdes opened the door and let me in.  I asked about everyone and she led me to the back yard where Jazmin was doing some yard work.  I went outside and saw that Jazmin looked tired, she was holding a huge bag of dog food and spreading the dog food all over the back yard.  I looked at her confused and asked, "Jazmin, WHAT are you doing?".  She said, "Well, I want to have a green lawn like yours!"  I said, "Well, you have to put FERTILIZER on the ground... NOT dog food".  She looked at me and then down at the ground, where almost all the back yard was covered with dry dog food and then looked back at me.  She dropped the bag of dog food she had in her hands... she looked like she herself had woken up from a dream and had NO idea what the heck she was doing! Hahaha!  That was so strange... 

The next scene in my dream took place at night.  I was at work in a big building.  It was late and I had just finished working overtime.  Before I was leaving my office I was checking with Marn, my co-worker to see if the FedEx packages I held in my hands had the correct labels on them.  That was weird because Marn already retired... but hello... this is a dream and anything can happen right?? Haha

I went to the lobby and found my friend Jazmin sitting on one of the couches.  I didn't even ask her why she was there but I just assumed that she needed a ride home.  I acknowledged her with a nod and was headed toward her when I saw across the hallway my aunt's car pulling up and my mom and dad getting out.  I thought 'WHAT in the world are they doing here??"  I put my briefcase down on the floor and walked over to them.  When I got to them, my mom was having an argument with some guy about a product that she ordered that wasn't done correctly.  I told my mom to calm down, that I would take care of it, that they should go home.  I looked over at my poor dad, he looked confused, he didn't say anything.  He was wearing his favorite brown leather jacket that he wore whenever he was feeling cold.  I told them to get back in the car and go home. 

I then went back to the lobby to get Jazmin and then go home myself.  When I went back in the building, all of a sudden I looked at my feet and saw that I was barefoot. Strange... Then, as if that was a normal thing... I walked over to a room that was filled with shoes... like if that was the normal thing to happen if your shoes just magically disappeared from your feet! LOL

The room was dark and only a glint of light from the moon came through a window.  I saw that there were rows and rows of black shoes.  I tried one after the other and was getting frustrated because none of them would fit me! I felt desperate.  I had a feeling of wanting to get out of there, out of that building, but I couldn't go without shoes!  The room was too dark I would get a pair of shoes, try them on and then thrown them across the room when they wouldn't fit me.  I was like a mad woman.  I grabbed the last pair of shoes, tried them on and they just would not fit me.  I threw the last pair of shoes across the room hitting the window and I stepped back against the wall, sliding down.  I started crying, I felt defeated and tired.  At this time Jazmin, was standing in the doorway and asked me if I was alright.  My face was wet with tears and I just stared down to the floor and whispered, "I can't find my shoes".

LOL! Talk about dramatic! But that was the end of my dream last night.    

(Shoes by OrangeJules - Devientart)

 

Spiders and a Happy Hug!

What a dream last night!  

The dream had 2 parts.  Time of day was very early in the morning, probably around 4am. It still looked dark.  In the dream, I was on my way to school (college) for a class.  I was walking and it was so early that it looked like it was still night.  My class was at 7am but here I was, walking to the school at 4am in the morning.  I passed by this old looking movie theater and decided that I would kill some time by watching a movie.  I went inside to the screen room and there were several people there! An old black and white movie was playing.  The theater had an old fashioned victorian style decoration.  I found a seat on the edge of a row and sat down to watch the movie.  I must have fallen asleep while the movie played because the next thing I knew, a young man was telling me the movie was over.  The room was still dark and I felt something crawling on my leg and swiped it away.  The room kept getting darker and darker and it was hard to see as I walked in the isle.  I did notice things moving on the floor ... I looked closer and realized there were thousands of tiny spiders crawling on the isles and all over the floor of the theater room.  There were big spiders who had hundreds of tiny spiders riding on top of the them. You could barely see the red carpeting because the spiders just about covered it!  I felt so helpless and when I finally got out of the theater, I kept checking myself to see if any of them had crawled on me.  Later when I got to the school, I was opening my locker someone pointed out to me that I had a spider crawling up my pants.  I saw another girl who had a a bunch of spiders near her shoulder.  I asked her if she had been at the theater earlier and she told me she had.  That is where that part of the dream ended. 

  

The second part of the dream was totally different from the first.  Time of day is evening, probably about an hour before sunset. I remember the day had a gold tone to it, just how the sun sometimes makes everything look golden.  I was at a castle on a hill.  We were celebrating a special day assembly there. 

There were so many brothers and sisters and I didn't see any familiar faces because of the amount of people there.  My mom, my aunt and I kept walking up the hill to reach the castle where the assembly was being held.  I was getting tired from walking and really wanted to see somebody that I knew.  Suddenly out of nowhere I see my friend Deya and her husband.  I felt such a feeling of joy and I gave her a big tight hug. I know I shouldn't have felt so anxious because I was among brothers and sisters after all, but I guess you can kind of compare it to how we will feel after Armageddon is over and we start to look around at all the brothers who made it and start to look for familiar faces, our friends and the happiness we will feel when we realize they made it and are in to experience the new system!  That's the type of happiness I felt!  It felt so real... I know it's not close to how the real thing will be when it truly happens, but I guess it's the closest I have felt - in a dream at least :) 

Garbanzo beans and water

Strange strange strange!
How did I have a dream about garbanzo beans - I don't even like them. Why are they in my head? lol

I had a dream with different scenes.  When I woke up, I only remembered one of them.
In my dream it was probably evening and there seemed to be some fog all around, even inside the buildings.  

I was at a friend's house (Candida), in her kitchen.  Everything was made of wood - the cabinets, the floor - everything

I remember feeling thirsty and I asked Candida for a glass a water.  My friend grabbed a bucket - (yes made out of wood) and headed over to a pump and filled the bucket.  She then went to her backyard and I followed her.  It was darker now and kind of hard to see because there seemed to be a lot of fog surrounding everything.

I noticed a small hole in the ground.  Close by was a huge bag full of garbanzo beans.  She got a big scoop full beans and threw them inside the hole.  She then filled the hole with water.

She then knelt down on the ground and stuck her hand in the hole and started crushing the garbanzo beans and swirling them all around making the water look milky.  I was so confused by what she was doing.  "What are you doing Candida"? I asked her.  She said, "Well, didn't you say you wanted a glass of water?  I have to filter the water first because it's contaminated.  Not everyone has the luxury like you Carol who can just open the faucet in her kitchen and get some water to drink".  I was confused... and just looked at her and smiled a little.  I wasn't sure what else to do.    

Fading dreams

I have had a couple dreams about the universe.
I sometimes feel I am surrounded by stars and constellations.  Planets that are so awe inspiring that it scares me.  It makes me feel very powerless and small.
The dreams fade quickly though   :(

Dream Quotes & Poem

"Dreams, if they are any good, are always a little bit crazy."
~ Ray Charles

"In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own"
~Steven Kloves

We're made of stars and dreams...

We're made of stars and dreams,
and glimpses of poetry, 
gliding from the sky
into the unknown
carried away, by gentle winds
falling, sinking
deep down in the streams of time...

we're made of stars and dreams,
and echoes rising from
the woods..we are the ones
whose whispers
pierce the cosmic solitude!

we're made of stars and dreams,
somewhere far beyond
the wondrous night
and the iridescent beam of light,
somewhere...
at the edge of life itself
where our love will last forever

-Whispers of Night-

Well this will be a short post. 
I haven't updated this dream journal in quite a while... there are about 3 dreams that I wish I would have written down because they were pretty wild. 

So a couple of days ago I became lucid again for less than a minute.  I now know that my reality check are my hands.  In my dream I suddenly became aware I was dreaming, I checked my hands and sure enough they were not normal.  But there was too much noise in the real world and even though I tried to remain dreaming, I couldn't because of the noise.  

It's pretty awesome to experience it although I have yet to REMAIN lucid for more than a minute!
Hopefully it happens! :)

MY FIRST LUCID DREAM!

Well, I finally had my first lucid dream last night!  Only problem was that I got too excited!

In my dream, I was driving to work.  I remember looking over at the passenger seat and seeing my camera bag and felt glad I had it with me because it was a clear day and the view of the mountains in the distance had never looked more beautiful.  In real life, I have the view of the Sierra Nevada mountains and they look amazing in winter with all the snow.  The difference was that in my dream, the view of the mountains was in front of me instead of being on my right side.  

So, I keep on driving and all of a sudden, I notice that there are NO other cars around.  It is completely empty and I think to myself "This is weird, did I come to work on a Saturday or is it some sort of special holiday, but even so, there still should be some traffic".  Then, a realization hits me and I pull over to the side of the road, more like screech to a halt, I quickly get out of the car and mentally prepare myself to make a statement, I say "Oh my goodness, I am dreaming!".  I have read that one of the things you should do right away when you realize you are dreaming is to do a reality check.    For me, it is my hands.  I will look at my hands and count my fingers to see if I am in a dream.  If I don't see 10 fingers clearly, I am dreaming.   So I put my hands in front of me and sure enough, my left hand had only three fingers!

That is when I got so excited at the realization that I could now do anything.  I felt a huge emotional energy and one of the things that a lot of lucid dreamers like to experience is flight.  So I thought, before this dream fades I want to do that right away.  So I crouch down and prepare to jump really high and I do!  I actually FELT like I was flying.  I was going up high, I kept coming down but I would push myself up again and it felt incredible, but I was way too much excited and I was losing the dream.  I remember trying to get control of it.  I kept saying, "no no no!"  I kept trying to focus on my hands again, but it was no use... the dream faded and I woke up but I had a big smile on my face! It was amazing to experience that even if it was only for a little bit.  

I hope I can experience it again.  Hopefully I can remain calm next time and stay in the dream!  They say that the things that normally work is to try to spin around, or just keep doing something active like flying, or dancing, or anything to get the brain to stay in the dream.  They say you may find yourself transported to a completely different place once the scene has re-appeared.  You can even us the spinning action, or anything else that blurs your "dream vision" and imagine that you will appear somewhere else that you want to be, once you stop.