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[Juthro]

Juthro, you sound like a lucid dreamer. 

 

It really depends on whether or not I'm using my CPAP machine.  If I'm using it and everything is working correctly I sleep like a log and dont remember my dreams at all.  If my mask isn't sealing or if for some reason I'm not using the machine I tend to get stuck somewhere between fully asleep and awake.  In that stage my dreaming is often lucid and it allows me some level of conscious control over how the dream plays out.  It's not like I have complete control over the dream, but more like I can steer it to some extent.

[Coopdog]

I am probably a lucid dreamer due to similar situation, but I have not explored sleep diagnosis. I LIKE my dream cycle as it is. 

 

EDIT: I love my dreamscape, even when it is not optimal. It counteracts the helplessness I feel in our present reality. Gives me a sense of purpose in a way. 

Edited by Coopdog, 12 March 2023 - 02:56 AM.

[Skywatcher]

 

The circle has always been my favorite form, and signify's ongoing completion and continuance to me......

why?

 

I have been attracted to circular forms aesthetically as an artist from a young age, and used them in a majority of my work.

On a more spiritual side, I see them as perfection, without beginning or end, equal from any and all points. They are a basis for sacred geometry, the perfect starting point, the building block of matter and the universe.

This is my comprehension of the circle..................................................

[Justintime]

I was slowly waking up aware of my body but still watching a dreamscape.
I was in a place of dry sand like a desert perhaps.
There were a number of snake beings with human heads. All female with hair done, make-up.
Some would come slithering up to me smiling and chatty then go back to their little group and talk.

I think I'm being shown what the people I come into contact with are about.
It could have a deeper literal meaning as in these could be actual entity I need to be aware of. Most definitely.

[Justintime]

Very loud demanding dog bark in my ear.

Being told to get my sh*t together.

Have felt a little overwhelmed lately.

[Justintime]

I don't remember my dreams lately. Probably due to smoking.
Had a short vision as I was getting into sleep mode. Chrome parts layed out on red velvet fabric. Parts I just need to put together. My writing is all in handwritten notes atm. A bit mixed up. I'm slightly daunted by the task of putting them in order and typing out.

[Coopdog]

This dream was a few days ago but felt compelled to write about it. I had an altercation with a semi human demon thing, that was shaped more or less like a human, and reminded me a bit of the guy that plays the lead in Boardwalk Empire. This thing seemingly had no bones, and was made of rubber, but with the strength of a large snake, which I am familiar with. It kept laughing maniacally and trying to clamp its mouth onto me any way it could, and when it did, it started to suck the soul and energy right out of me. It was very strong, and despite my usual ability to defend myself, it was plastic and flexible, and kept clamping onto me with amazing strength, laughing maniacally all the while, At some point, I got some rope and after a lot of struggle, managed to bind it, and it screamed like a fucking Banshee when I did. I kicked it and abused it and tried to hurt it, but it was impervious to my efforts and screamed all the while. Throughout this I stayed primarily calm, but it rattled me towards the end with the screaming it made. I left it binded... EDIT: and I hope it stays binded. This rubbery bastard was tenacious. 

Edited by Coopdog, 19 March 2023 - 02:43 AM.

[ElPirana]

I am in a house with my brother and one other friend.  There is a crowd of other people there, strangers to us.  After a while I realized that the other people were a cult-like group and they meant us harm.  Once I realized that, the people put the three of us into a back room and locked the door.

 

I knew that if we stayed in that room, soon the cult people were going to return to kill us, so we needed to get out.  I broke a window and jumped outside.  My friend did the same.  My brother was struggling because of the remaining broken glass still in the window frame.

I could tell one of the cult people was on their way and would open the locked door at any second and I was desperate to get my brother out.  I was pulling out pieces of glass from the window so that he would be able to get through.  He finally jumped through the window.

 

We were outside in a large yard behind the house, no other houses or anything around.  It looked like fall time (autumn) with the plants and trees, the ground was brown, the leaves had already all fallen off the trees to the ground.  At the back of the yard was a large shed, then it transitioned to woods.  One guy was chasing after us, way behind.  I was looking for sticks on the ground as we ran, something we could use to defend ourselves.

 

 

Interpretation:

 

This dream seems obvious to me to represent things that are going on in my life at my workplace, almost like replaying it back to myself.

•     The group of three (myself, my friend and brother) represents me and two of my friends at work, who I've gotten a lot closer to over the past year.
•     The other cult-like group of people that mean us harm represents a number of people that we work with, who have been gossiping and literally conspiring against us (as weird as that sounds to me, it seems to actually be happening.)
•     Being locked in the room represents feeling like my friends and I are trapped in a social jail cell (not sure how else to describe it.)
•     Breaking the window to escape represents my feeling a need to remove myself from the people who mean us harm.
•     My brother not able to jump out the window represents the difficulties I see in getting away from the harmful people & situations.
•     Removing shards of glass from the window to help my brother represents my trying to help my friends each time an incident occurs, or just simply trying to give them a way to continue without being harmed.
•     The scenery outside being autumn represents...maybe something coming to an end (like how I used to view some of the harmful people at my work?) or maybe representing change.

Edited by ElPirana, 26 March 2023 - 10:20 AM.

[Skywatcher]

Thank you for including your interpretations. I see you have greatly improved your skills with that as compared to when you first started in this thread.................

[ElPirana]

Thank you Skye! Some dreams still mystify me, but others like this one seemed really clear almost immediately. As I was writing out my thoughts, more pieces just fell into place. I hope to continue learning more about myself and how to understand my dreams. This is definitely my favorite thread, I really value everyone’s contributions and opinions here.

[ElPirana]

I am in a large room, looks like a store with aisles of shelves, but somehow also feels like a kid’s summer camp. Not sure how that’s possible, but I think it’s a blending of two dreams (I think that because of the person I’m interacting with later.)

There’s a small balcony in the room where the leaders (bosses? elders?) are standing, two of them overlooking everyone down on the floor. They never interact with us, just stand there, watching.

There’s a guy who I recognize from an encounter in another dream. He is trying to hit me. He doesn’t seem to want to, it’s like he’s angry at me but he doesn’t know why and he can’t help himself but to keep trying to hit me.

When he punches, I catch his first or block it each time. He grabs something on a shelf to use to hit me. I again block it. This goes on for the remainder of the dream. He’s not able to stop trying to hit me, I keep blocking his hits, and he looks miserable and angry and compelled to keep trying, even though he looks like he wants to stop.

Edited by ElPirana, 30 March 2023 - 07:57 AM.

[Coopdog]

A couple of points you made that caught my attention. The watchers, standing above you. This has been a detail in several of my dreams in the last few years. 

 

When you are good at defense, people do indeed get miserable and angry and yet feel compelled to keep trying when they realize they made a mistake in trying to hit you in the first place. (Give them an out, even in the dream)

 

This morning I had a dream in which I found myself in a sort of rundown clinic of sorts, and I thought it was a rehab facility or something with a whole bunch of very different people. Old, as young as 3 or so, I made conversation with a few, and then realized there was a 50ish woman who was speaking with people, then would take them to one room or another, separating them into other groups. I was talking to a woman with a child, and somehow the subject of lucid dreaming came up and that caught her attention and she came over. She handed me a hardcover book like a journal and told me to have a look. 

 

I opened it and it was an opening into a whole other world, like I was looking through a window on the page. She told me to go ahead, and I went through that little window, not with my body, which remained with her in that room, but with the point of my perception, kind of like when you have a true breakthrough on DMT. I sort of dipped in there and found myself in a beautiful desert scene with a very colorful sunset and large Saguaro type cactus growing. (Cactus are in my dreams a lot) 

 

I sort of floated back through that window in the page and the lady had a shocked but pleased look on her face. She took me, the young child and the lady into another room with a dozen or so people in it, and we just continued our conversation. The child had also seen the cactus world, but damned if I can remember exactly how that conversation went, and it seems important now in the retelling. 

 

Sitting here writing this, I started to say I wish it was that easy to dip into another world and I realized that is exactly what we do when we are dreaming. I also realized I had that very choice once on a heavy dose mushroom experience. I was presented with all these little TV like screens, and inside each one was a different version of reality, a whole different world. Then I had the realization that I did not have to go back to the one I came from, and was tempted to go into a different one. Then I realized all the people and things depending on me back in this world, and instantly I was pulled back here. I have often wondered with all the seemingly insane things going on in the world if I fell back into the right one. 

 

El Piranha this is my favorite thread as well. I have greatly enjoyed reading back over my dreams all the way back to the beginning, and I remember them all in vivid detail just like reliving them. Interesting...

[Justintime]

I was up all night laying in bed. I'm in a different state. Awake but in deep awareness. Something or someone is talking with me. I can't hear words. Just telepathically transferred information which feels like sudden epiphanies which I instantly understand yet cannot articulate yet I just know.
I have my eyes open and the room is dark yet I can see with my mind scenes which I cannot remember yet I watched a group of male beings. I see their humanlike bodies yet their humanlike heads are strange. The top of the skull is very large, mushroom like I realise.
I had an instantaneous feeling/consideration that the ancient mesoamerican mushroom carvings were the same beings Alex Grey paints.

Giving up smoking cigarettes atm. Lots of sleeping and odd dreams.

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[Justintime]

I am being kept awake at night by a presence that reasures me with telepathic communication. I feel what it is communicating. Displacing my doubts, encouraging. I don't feel tired in the morning.

[Justintime]

Had a sexy dream. Was making love to two women at once. Ewww hehe.
I could hear this song playing in the dream but there wasn't any music playing in the to I was in. No idea what it could mean. I am working on two things at once creatively. Was a very realistic dream in regards to sensory experience.
I was listening to the song yesterday.

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Edited by Justintime, 29 April 2023 - 05:57 AM.

[Skywatcher]

A strange dream for me last night. I am in some weird experimentation scenario I have found myself in before, where some unknown/ unseen entity is putting me in situations to observe the outcome.

I find myself inside a very tight enclosure of some sort, facing a very large, wildcat of some sort. It looks somewhat like a prehistoric saber-tooth, but has markings like a bobcat. It is obviously very panicky and distraught, and is growling quietly. I try to comfort it, and it is very unsure of me, but I find a way to back out of this weird "sac/ box", and lift this cat out with me. it is 1/3 my size and I am concerned it will rip me with its claws as it wriggles around.

 

I am in the process of putting it down on some table/ shelf, and there is someone sitting there already. The cat starts to piss spray all over the shelf and person sitting there. I decide I just need to get it outside. I am on a terrace, several floors up, overlooking a huge river with an island sandbar right across from me. I place it down, and it swims to the sandbar and turns to look at me. At that point a friend of ours is passing by on the river, standing on some sort of paddle board or something, and starts to go over to the cat to look at it. I am still on the terrace and I yell to him "Don't trust it". At that point the wildcat lunges out and disembowels him with its claws, and then runs off and disappears. I watch my friend look at me as he sinks into the river while floating downstream.....

 

The dream left me with a feeling of powerless loss..................

[Coopdog]

Interesting dream. Weird how our subconscious can manifest dreams which reflect something in our lives. Sometimes even make us see a different side of it from a perspective we don't see. Large predator cats have come into my dreams many times. You saved it, then it sprayed like don't think I owe you anything!

[Justintime]

I opened a door to a room in a house and found many puppies which I found food for and put out for them.

I dreamed I walked around a city at night with a woman I felt was my girlfriend. I had warm feelings towards her. I enjoyed walking and talking with her. She was taller than me and had blonde hair.

I was alone driving in a small car around narrow streets. I drove down a fourty five degree road then stopped and reversed.

I was in a historical building as a tourist. I walked through some doors to the outside table where an old man with white hair and a flat brimmed hat wearing a type of poncho sat at the table.
He emanated bright light. He looked at me as if excited to see me, had wonder in his eyes. My attention passed and I remember nothing else.

Edited by Justintime, 16 May 2023 - 10:20 AM.

[ElPirana]

I got a piercing in one of my ears almost two weeks ago, so I’ve been sleeping light trying not to lay my head on that ear. Last night I had a dream that I was a piercer (is that how it’s said?) and I had 30 ears all with piercings in them. I can’t even explain how that’s possible, but somehow it worked in the dream.

[ElPirana]

Had a dream last night that I went back to an old job that I had in high school and met up with an old coworker. I haven’t seen this guy in at least 25 years. He introduced me as his old best friend to some other people, but in real life we were just coworkers, although we got along with each other really well. Kinda weird dreaming about someone from so long ago. It was a nice dream, very heartwarming.