I can wake up consciously in a dream pretty easily. It feels like I'm clenching my eyes shut and then opening them and moving my body (Though my body feels like it's in drying cement.). However when you wake up like this, you are often in a state where you're not up to doing anything and go right back to sleep.
I have Sleep Paralysis witch means sometimes my mind wakes up before my body does. this leaves me laying there for about 30 sec. knowing i'm awake and not being able to do jack shit about it. when ever someone says that they were abducted by aliens it is most regularly Sleep Paralysis. along with not being able to move, your brain also likes to freak out and make you completely paranoid,and gives you hallucinations. while this is going on my brain also likes to constantly fall in and out of sleep. most of my weird dreams are me laying in bed for about an hour questioning the boundaries between the dreamworld and the real world.
Today I had a dream that I was watching a TV show (It might've been cowboy bebop) and they kept playing these bells in the background. After it happened about 5 times, I was like damn that's really annoying, why won't it stop? I woke up and realized that the bell tower alarm on my ipod touch had been going off for 2 minutes.
I had a dream where I was skiing down a hill with a gun shooting at Valkyries from Macross. I was doing some really sweet moves. Then I got to the bottom of the hill I ran in to a small hut that appeared to sell Hawaiian trinkets, run by a girl who looked like Apollonia from The Godfather. It should be noted that during this dream I had my iPod in playing Anime World Order, so Daryl, Gerald, and Clarissa were random skiers who would randomly yell facts about Giant Robo and Saint Seiya.
As a side-note, guess the movies and TV series I had just watched before going to bed. Hint:They're in italics.
My best friend died in my dream and I had to plan the funeral. There were so many people that loved her I had to rent a stadium and people put on stage shows and such in her honor. That whole time this was going on I was across town in Dupont Circle trying to make it and stressed all the way. I was watching the events on my mini satellite TV. What a horrible dream.
I can wake up consciously in a dream pretty easily. It feels like I'm clenching my eyes shut and then opening them and moving my body (Though my body feels like it's in drying cement.). However when you wake up like this, you are often in a state where you're not up to doing anything and go right back to sleep.
I press escape on the keyboard of my dream life. It's like dreams are just like videogames and when for some reason my brain loads up amnesia I step back and mash the escape button that pops out of nowhere. Up comes the menu and I can quit out of sleep. Maybe I play too many games.
I had a nap a few hours ago. I dreamt my roommates were two grumpy old Private Detectives named Dick and Stanton and they kept a drawer full of candy and beer and liquor and said that "Papa Brewski will watch the apartment while you're out," and insisted that "a pint of the black stuff will solve all of your problems." Stanton left his prosthetic leg next to the computer so we could use the socket as an ashtray. Our campus health center kept calling me about the persistent pain in my ankle and the apartment was traveling through space.
OH! I forgot the syringes. Periodically they would reach into a darkened box and pull black liquid from some unknown thing with syringes and then fill shot glasses with this viscous black fluid. We'd say toasts and drink up.
I'm not sure if "the black stuff" refers to Guinness or the Cthulhu-juice from the box...
I had a dream not too long ago when I died and went to limbo. There was a high school coach there saying I had to prove myself into heaven with this group of people. I looked over and they were all hipsters that didn't care about doing it or not and I had to be the serious one.
I usually forget my dreams the second I wake up, but I remember two snippets this time. One had to do with exploring the Ruins of Alph. In the other, I was driving with my parents when my mom announced that she was going to convert to Mormanism. We then witnessed a car being hit by a train, which caused me to grab my guitar case and leap from our vehicle to join the passenger of the other, who also had a guitar case, and run off. I think we were secret agents of some sort.
Had a dream involving an awesome fireworks display over a lake, which I watched with what seemed to be the cast of Yotsuba, who could all, myself included, levitate, and in another section of the dream, I was eating an apple, walked past a stall behind which, what I assume was supposed to be Glen Beck was complaining about only one of his cameramen getting there (Two were missing.) at which point I found the apple was rotten (Had these white spots with dark blue circles on them inside it.) and threw it away.
Dreamt that I went to a party a Sage Francis's place, then I went home, and then went back and drank way too much. He asked me to leave, and I said okay. I left, but I got lost on the roads and was brought out to an area where all of the roads were metal bridges over an ominously dark bayou, and they all sported signs saying "THORIUM WARNING." I freaked out because of the thorium and ran frantically to escape the road maze, drunkenly. I got onto an asphalt road, but all the houses and objects in sight were glowing green. I assumed this was because of the thorium contamination.
Members of Chicago gangs harassed me all the way to a bus. They all looked like Murs. I finally found a bus while gang members punched me in the arms and gave me the finger. It turned out that this was a monorail bus, that I was riding with the girl I'm into. I told her I had to go home, she offered to tag along. We had this crazy in-depth conversation for half an hour of dream time, and then got to my family home, which was apparently a palatial DDR arcade. We kept talking hardcore. I took a nap and had a metadream I cannot recall. I woke up to the first level and apologized. We agreed that we found each other interesting while my little brothers played DDR. I took an airplane first to her childhood home, then we used DBZ-style instant transmission to teleport to Spain for some event.
Then, cheering sorority girls outside my apartment woke me up into reality.
I had a pretty weird one last night. I can only remember bits and pieces of it. I was in an auditorium, either high school or college, and we were watching an apparent Halloween episode of doctor who. I remember thinking "oh I've seen this one before" though I don't think it was a real episode. I remember looking at a magazine or something that had screenshots of an episode of 1980's doctor who, except it wasn't any of the actual doctors and all of the characters were dressed in 80's jumpsuits. I watched the episode for a while and then afterward a woman in a pantsuit and a man say something like "relax sit down and have a piece of cake." Then I remember her saying to me "I'm sorry but I'm afraid you're going to have to be one of the first people to die. I guess it wasn't right away because I go to sit down and then gun it when I am closer to a doorway. I run to every exit I can but they are all locked, so I try to make it to the roof I think. All of a sudden I am apparently spider-man, or have some sort of web-shooters because I start shooting webs from my arm and pull myself up higher as some unknown entity is chasing me. I remember being able to control the web speed and distance but not log after all this I wake up.
I had a fun dream yesterday afternoon, and I think it's going to be my NaNoWriMo novel. It'll be less than 50,000 words, almost surely, but it'll be a fun, quick story to write.
Also, last night I had a dream about my iphone screen breaking. Today I took it out and was surprised it was mended again. Idiot.
Once I had a double dream, and then woke up awkwardly and stood up in our student union (where I was napping). I just stood there, though, because I couldn't control my body, with the exception of weird disjointed movements of my arms. When I realized no one was staring even though I was in a room full of people, I realized I was in a dream, and willed myself to wake up. I came to on the same couch I had just dreamed that I had stood up from.
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As a side-note, guess the movies and TV series I had just watched before going to bed. Hint:They're in italics.
Woke up and got sick twice.
I'm not sure if "the black stuff" refers to Guinness or the Cthulhu-juice from the box...
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Members of Chicago gangs harassed me all the way to a bus. They all looked like Murs. I finally found a bus while gang members punched me in the arms and gave me the finger. It turned out that this was a monorail bus, that I was riding with the girl I'm into. I told her I had to go home, she offered to tag along. We had this crazy in-depth conversation for half an hour of dream time, and then got to my family home, which was apparently a palatial DDR arcade. We kept talking hardcore. I took a nap and had a metadream I cannot recall. I woke up to the first level and apologized. We agreed that we found each other interesting while my little brothers played DDR. I took an airplane first to her childhood home, then we used DBZ-style instant transmission to teleport to Spain for some event.
Then, cheering sorority girls outside my apartment woke me up into reality.
I was in an auditorium, either high school or college, and we were watching an apparent Halloween episode of doctor who. I remember thinking "oh I've seen this one before" though I don't think it was a real episode. I remember looking at a magazine or something that had screenshots of an episode of 1980's doctor who, except it wasn't any of the actual doctors and all of the characters were dressed in 80's jumpsuits. I watched the episode for a while and then afterward a woman in a pantsuit and a man say something like "relax sit down and have a piece of cake." Then I remember her saying to me "I'm sorry but I'm afraid you're going to have to be one of the first people to die. I guess it wasn't right away because I go to sit down and then gun it when I am closer to a doorway. I run to every exit I can but they are all locked, so I try to make it to the roof I think. All of a sudden I am apparently spider-man, or have some sort of web-shooters because I start shooting webs from my arm and pull myself up higher as some unknown entity is chasing me. I remember being able to control the web speed and distance but not log after all this I wake up.
Also, last night I had a dream about my iphone screen breaking. Today I took it out and was surprised it was mended again. Idiot.
It was immensely unnerving.