Lucid Dreaming Day 1
Had several dreams. Kept waking and falling asleep only to go into another dream.
I was at a sort of house party with people from my past. A few girls and a few guys. It looked like a somehwhat ruined version of my house in Oklahoma but it was also near the sea.
On my porch I introduced a new friend to an old friend (R). It was awkward between them.
I don’t remember large swaths of the dream.
At one point I was in a kitchen. It was dark and messy. Stuff was everywhere but it didn’t feel dirty. The layout was similar to my house. In the kitchen area there was stuff spread all over the floor and also a large object blocking part of the walkway.
I next remember having a computer in the dining room looking out a window. I was on a couch with cardboard boxes nearby. I set the laptop down and someone made sure to help me make sure not to let it fall. Down the hallway we could see 2 girls and 2 guys sitting on a bench draped around each other. In the dream I knew both girls, I remember one as A. We didn’t know the guys. The girls looked completely bored but as if they knew they needed to keep hanging out with those guys.
Next (possibly after waking up and then falling back asleep), I am watching and controlling a fish in the ocean. It is like a video game in that part of me is pressing buttons but I am not in the dream. There are brown cliffs to the left that follow along the sea.
I control the fish as it swims. We go underwater. There is some vague unremembered goal. I keep pressing the button to move forward. Sometimes I press other buttons to test what they do and I (the fish) don’t move. As I sink further I can see a large obviously dangerous fish. Possibly a shark. It sees me and begins to come towards me. I move away. As it approaches I start moving in circles to try to outmaneuver it. It comes from the bottom of my vision straight up and misses me as I try to press a button that will make me jump out of the water (but I don’t). Now the shark is shown with it’s jaws straight up in the air out of the water with my fish paddling to escape. The shark is moving with me. I know that if I go between the jaws then it will eat me. I try to move back towards the shark and go around the front or back of its head but there is an imaginary limit on where I can go, like a video game. I am forced to move to the right. I feel lucky that the shark is doing much to try to eat me and is instead just sitting there waiting for me to fall in. It also feels dangerous.
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Writing time: 18 Minutes
Notes: I noticed myself entering into my own head to recover parts of the dream that I was missing or in order to see or imagine the dream as it was. This effectively removes me from where I am an puts all of my focus into my own mind where I actively re-enter the memory. Usually the memories consist of dark pictures with faded color or they are short movies.
The main senses that are active is sight. Sound is present in the dream but it is sporadic and didn’t have an impact. Sound faded as I went into my memory. I’ve noticed a lack of any smell, tastes, or physical sensations so far.
