10/17/2012 Time Travel & Lucid Glimpse

Time Travel & Lucid Glimpse.

I will start off telling you the very brief lucid dream I had two nights ago. It was really cool/awesome but short lived, it had a lot of potential.

Monday night October 15th. I had taken B6&B12 before bed with Choline and Inositol. I woke up around 7:45am and took a tsp of a special made blend I have consisting of Glycine, Lysine, and Taurine. (There is a multi vitamin made by source naturals called MegaMind, this vitamin has a great combo of nutrients in it including Taurine, Ginko, Gotu Kola, GABA and DMAE. All of those are great for vivid dreaming and the vitamin doesn't keep me awake.)
I  wanted to put that in there.


Lucid Glimpse:
This dream took place with me walking on a dirt trail or small road. There was a grassy field on both sides of me and possibly a fence on one or both sides of the road. The dream wasn't in great focus but was colorful. I was walking when I saw a small girl in front of me blocking my path. Suddenly for some reason I realized I was asleep and this was a dream, strangely I did not wake up from this discovery. I was surprised that I was still in the dream, then the little girl disappeared. A voice came over my dream, coming from many directoins. I don't know if it was my voice but it said..
" Now TK you can learn about the secrets of the universe.." 
I was now getting very exited, I am always very happy when I achieve lucidity and any level of control of a dream, but this was far out. I was tring to contain my exitment since becomeing overly exited in a dream when realizing one is asleep can lead to waking up. The voice said again...
"..Let us now explore the domain of the mind and of all that is, ..your reality...."
Now a black hole like thing started forming where the little girls once stood, it was dark and kind of purple and sucking matter inside of it, I wanted to go inside but then I woke up.
I was a little disappointed but then happily satisfied with having such a neat dream.


Time Travel:
This dream started off with me in a classroom that had its lights off but had some kind of projector on facing a wall with some kind of slide, or assignment on it. The students and I were sitting in class and doing some illogical assignment, we were finishing some class and the semester was almost over so holiday would begin soon. The teacher asked us to turn in some of our work we had had throughout that last six weeks. I was a little scared since I didn't do the work and the work I did was very unorganized. I felt like just leaving the class.
The other kids and I finished what we were doing and went to the back of the room. I was digging through papers in what must have been my desk. The papers looked like stuff I did in early high school and my organizational skills looked like myself as a fifth grader.
The teacher was kind of waiting on me to turn in my work (most of which I didn't do or finish) I think I would up throwing most of my work in the trash and leaving. *authors note, I did almost no work in school but managed to pass with straight 70's.

Now the dream changed, I was walking outside my middle school but I was my current age 21. I had spent the previous day looking at old Facebook messages and at old friends photos so maybe that is where some of this dream data originated. I was walking down the outdoor hallway and became aware that this was the school fair I was at but I was my age now, already graduated from middle school and high school.. I realized
that I had time traveled back to the past to try and change something that day. I snuck around the school looking for myself and tried not to be noticed by others, I look different than I did in middle school but I didn't want to take any chances. I had to do something different that day that would make sure later events wouldn't happen. I found myself, I was walking with my best friend at the time, I snuck behind a pole and watched them. I disappeared but I watched my best friend leaving the carnival with his Dad saying goodbye to our friends.
Now I as a middle schooler was gone, I was myself still there and had to do something different than I would have done earlier. I walked back to the room where I had just had a class earlier in the dream. This room was now an ice cream shop like Baskin Robbins. I walked around in there looking where the desks were(going to be located back in the future) The place was kind of 1950's themed. I left the store and saw one of my little sisters Shelby walking away in the distance. I ran after her but she was also running, she went up a big hill. I finally caught up to her, she was standing by a large old oak tree with two friends, they were both about 12 years old. I told Shelby that I had now changed the past and my wife in the future would now not die. Shelby seemed a little confused and maybe a little aggravated  She understood that I was from the future and somehow knew a little about what was to come. She said "That's good she is alive, I still get hooked on cigarettes. For 27 years I will smoke and get lung cancer."
I told her that that also wasn't going to happen, she wasn't going to smoke anymore. I said I wasn't going to let her smoke a cigarette and she would never start. She seemed aggravated still and I think she didn't like that I had tried to help her and was messing with the past.
Shelby doesn't smoke and probably never will even have one cigarette, I smoked but quit in January 2011, I think part of myself was mixing with Shelb.

That is the last part of the dream I remember. ALSO I DON'T really like how my dream was portraying time travel and how it was or wasn't possible. Just for the record.

Have sweet dreams, 
-Taylor

10/11/12 Snake Attack & Going Clubbing

Dream Journal 10/11/12


Last night before bed I had drank some white grape juice with B12, Choline, and Inositol mixed with it. I also took a B6 vitamin just as i crawled into bed. After updating a hilarious post to facebook I fell asleep.


Going Clubbing:
The earliest part of my dream I remember being in a grocery store with two of my housemates Kerrie and Sarah. We were checking out a few items when both of them recognised the cashier. Sarah left to go to the bathroom because she had had some kind of previous dispute with the cashier lady. Kerrie also left. I now was at the front of the line checking out something. The cashier asked me if I knew where Sarah had gone, I told her she left "somewhere" to my surprise she told me she wasn't mad at her but thought she was a very cool person and was glad to be her friend. I was happy to hear that and told her farewell and left the store.

Once we left the store we were now with more people. There were at least five of us now. We hopped into a truck and drove away. I sat in the bed of the truck and somehow now had a sawed-off-shotgun. I don't remember if I fired the gun at all but I feel like I cocked it a few times. We parked the truck and all hopped out into a parking lot. Now we walked up to a club, I don't know if it was a nightclub or a bar (I was at a show in Denver the night before so it could have been a modeled after that venue) but I walked in with the shotgun rested over my right shoulder.

There was a bouncer in front of the club who we walked past. The club had light-brown wooden panel floors and very white walls. The people inside were dressed semi-casually and looked well groomed. We walked together through a few rooms and then climbed down a balcony to a lower level of the club. I can't remember anything after that point in the dream.


Snake Attack:
I was walking around some outdoor college campus, it slightly resembled Colorado University which I live near, but it wasn't as big.

I was looking for my Dad, I had just spoken to him on the phone and aws meeting him. Now I was sure that I was at some college campus. I found my Dad getting out of his car and we headed towards a building. He was going to introduce me to a psychology professor that used to be an employee of his(fictional dream stuff) We came to the back of a building with large doors that were locked, my Dad knocked on the doors and the professor opened the doors and let us in. We walked and talked as we went up a few flights of stairs. The professor asked me what I was interested in studying, I gave him some answer. I have not been to college but it has been in my mind lately so that makes sense this was in my dream. The teacher and my Dad went into a closed room together, apparently my Dad was having a therapy session with him which seemed unusual. I waited outside the door and walked around the nearby hallways. I saw some kids sitting in empty classrooms together talking and working together.

Then I noticed there was a four foot long black snake, it was about as thick as the small part of my wrist. It was slightly coiled up and facing me. I realized what it was and knew I was too close to it to be safe, then it flew through the air at me. I yelled and grabbed it as I fell to the floor, I held it in my hands trying to pull it away from my face. I was closing my eyes and realized it had already bit me. I threw it down the hallway and felt my face, I was bit on the left side of my chin. There was also a bite on my left hand between my thumb and pointer finger that was oozing yellow liquid, the fangs were spaced about a centimeter and a half apart.  I thought at the time that the snake was a venomous serpent known as the Cottonmouth. Wikipedia tells me this is the worlds only semi-aquatic viper. This snake is native to Austin Texas so I have seen a few before and have stayed away from them.
I knew I needed to get help medically since they can be deadly, so I went into the room where my Dad was having therapy. The professor looked at me and said I needed anti-venom quickly. I saw my Dad wipe his eyes like he had been crying. I looked back down the hallway and saw another snake was there too!
The black snake jumped me again and bit my hand again. I yelled down the hall to some kids in classrooms telling them to watch out there were snakes near.
The professor came back to the doorway and told me that I was fine and didn't need anti-venom, that I wasn't poisoned and that the other snake that showed up was a harmless corn snake.

I was happy to hear that but was still shocked from the biting. I was now leaving the building and the black snake tried to bite me again, I threw a burlap sack on top of the snakes and proceeded to leave. The snaked kept trying to bite me so reluctantly stepped on the Cottonmouth right behind its head. I felt it's head popped off under the sack and left. I felt a little bad that I killed the snake but I justified my actions as self preservation since the snake would not stop attacking me. 

fin.


I had one more dream but it is very difficult to put to words, I can't seem to explain it but see the images still. If I can write it down I will post it. BUT those were my dreams last night. Hope your day goes well.
-Sweet dreams.
,Taylor

10/02/12 Dream Journal: Two Spare Rooms

Dream Journal: Two Spare Rooms.
Night of Tuesday the 2nd.


I had a few dreams last night but remember one in particular  I didn't write any of them down, even in my phone sloppily upon awakening, but I believe I felt I only needed to remember this one.
I have been experimenting with a variety of different vitamins and supplements to take before bed this past year, but just recently have found some incredible combos that consistently give me either vivid, realistic, surreal or lucid dreams. On these dream journal posts I will write what I took before falling asleep.

Last night just before getting in my bed I took Choline Bitartrate, Inositol, B6, B12, and Folate. And a few hours earlier that evening I took L-Theanine, Phenibut, Picamilon, and Magnesium. All of those supplements are known for inducing vivid dreams and seem to increase the possibility of having a lucid dream. Most of those supplements are also found in a regular well balanced diet and are good for having great brain health.

*The B6, B12 and Choline combo is very good for having vivid dreams.

Two Spare Rooms:
The beginning of this dream involved me leaving my bedroom when my housemate Sarah and her friend told me they were cleaning the bathroom when they saw something strange with the wall so they tore down the wall. I came into the bathroom and they showed me the wall they destroyed and behind it there was another room! This was tooooo cool. I was in awe in my dream to discover that there was a room behind the bathroom in the basement.

Broken bathroom wall

Looking into the spare room

They left to go somewhere else as I stood and stared at the room. The room had a large glass door with two stainless steel rectangular door handles. The doom had a sunken floor( the floor was down two steps) and had brown/yellow/orange colored shag carpeting. There was a large circular rug on the ground and an old iron furnace in one corner. There was a small cloth armchair and a small couch in the room as well. The room looked very 1970's styled and looked like no one had lived there for some time.
A strange and beautiful detail about this hidden room was that it's walls were glass windows looking out into a wooded area. (mind you, this is in the basement bathroom but somehow looked out into our apparent backyard.)

looked like it was frozen from year 1970

My Dad now showed up and was talking to me as he looked the room over. He said it was a cool room with a lot of potential, we stepped inside and looked around.
*This is a noticeable feature of my dreams I see when I take B vitamins, having much greater detail in dreamscape environment  I remember the textures of this dream and the lighting and color of everything. Taking B vitamins does not mean you will have pleasant dreams, but will more often than not give you vivid dreams. If you have good dreams, they are vivid, whereas if you have nightmares they are just as vivid. I do not have nightmares often and when I do they are not too bad and usually result in me realizing I am dreaming and a lucid dream occurs. 


Me and my dad looked out over the yard outside the giant windows. It had just rained and was still cloudy, the trees canopy covered some lighting so it was dark but somehow illuminated by the greenish yellow shine of the wet grass. There were cedar and oak trees, much like there are in Austin. It reminded me of my old backyard in Austin but definitely different. Just similar foliage.

I left the room thinking that maybe we could have another person move in and cut the price off all our rents. Sarah and her friend re appeared letting me know they found another secret room. This newer room was where the stairs where. I walked through a human sized hole in the wall into a large room with tall bookshelves on the walls. The room was terraced and had a large amount of furniture in it. Now my dad was back and some other strangers. We all walked to the right (same direction as the other room's outdoor forest) and found ourselves in a much larger house with great big rooms. There was a balcony on the sides of this house that me and now my Mom walked down. I was talking with her and maybe one of my sisters at that time.
This balcony turned into a covered boardwalk over a cliff. We followed it until a the end of the boardwalk. the roof over us was gone at this point and we looked to our right and saw in a short distance to us Barton Springs Pool. This is a large spring fed pool in Austin I have swam in plenty of times. I saw people I knew diving into the water. However there was a deep canyon separating us on the boardwalk from those in the pool.

Barton Springs

I thought this was truly beautiful.


That dream then became foggy in my memory as it ended. I am actually writing this a few days later and still remember it clearly, it was a detailed vivid dream.


Hope you enjoyed this, keep dreamin'

-Taylor

Dream Journal September 5th, Lucid Hand Vortex!

Dream Journal night of September 5th 2012.

Seeing a friend and ...

Lucid Hand Vortex!

(tired so I will just post the video version of this dream)..

and an apology ..

September 1st LUCID (video)

..link to my lucid dream on the my Vlog version of this dream journal 

on Youtube @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACYlsQwV9_o&feature=plcp

thanks!

September 2nd 2012 National Anthem

Dream Journal
Night of September 2nd 2012,


National Anthem:

In this dream I had left my old house in Austin Texas and was headed to the lake. I decided to take the back roads to the lake. I knew there was a ceremony taking place there and needed to be there early to help out. I got to a field in front of the lake (a place I used to play by as a kid) and saw some people setting up fold out chairs facing away from the water. I went over to a lady in charge, she was in her 30's and told me how I could help. She reminded me I was singing the National Anthem to open up the event.

I seemed okay with this but was still a little nervous. I remembered I wanted to help me Dad get here becuase traffic would be difficult. I walked away down a trail that had cornstalks on it's sides. A man was jogging next to me when a trail maintenence worker shut off part of the trail my Dad was going to use to get to the ceremony. I was bumbed out so I called my Dad, he showed up just then and said he knew another way and I thought it would take long for him to get here but I accepted it.

I went back to the ceremony and some people had started arriving, everyone was sitting in some chairs. I talked to some people and then sat down in the front row. The lady leading the event told me I would sing my part in five minutes in front of everyone. Now I remember signing up to sing for this event a year ago.  I also remembered I don't sing! I was getting a bit nervous and was trying to think of the words to America's National Anthem. I kept getting confused and didn't want to offend anyone by singing it wrong. I overheard someone across the lake singing it and realized I had no idea how I was going to sing this.

Right before I woke up I was trying to think about how low I should sing, because I can't hit the higher notes at all. Luckily I woke up. That was the last dream I had that night, I woke up and got my stuff done.
So far it has been a good day, I found some Kenwood speakers at a second-hand-goods store taht were half off today for 20$ and they work perfectly.


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thanks,
Taylor

August 25th 2012, Cougar Bite

Dream Journal, Night of August 25th 2012.



*right now I have a lot of pain in my jaw and am encountering trouble in seeing a doctor, so the posts might not be as frequent and there is no video for this blog. I plan on continuing the Vlog portion as soon as I am in less pain. -Taylor

Cougar Bite.

Really neat dream, I liked this one a lot. Very detailed and nice bright lighting, bright but not painfully bright, just a nice glow to everywhere I went.

In my dream I found myself entering a building to go to the dentist, I had never been in that building before but knew where to go. I went to the fourth floor and walked into a lobby, my Mom might have been there but I know I didn't talk to her. I signed into the office and sat down on a chair. I saw my dentist come around the corner and he started talking to me, he told me he would be with me in a moment, he had to finish doing something with another patient. I told him that was totally fine, he asked how Boulder was and I told him I love it here. He had his children with him, who were all my age. They smiled at me as I talked to their Dad. He told me after he worked on me he was going on vacation to Puerto Rico. I told him that sounded like fun.
A nurse took me back to the area where the dental chairs were, she left me in a room sitting on a chair.
Here my dream changed, I now lost awareness of why I was at the dentist or where I was, now I saw some old friends of mine also hanging out in that area. Some how I felt like I was a senior in High School again.

I decide to leave after a while and walk downstairs and then outside. I am now in the back of a parking lot, only a few cars are there. The parking lot is next to a trail that went into the woods. The building I left is to my left as I look into the forest. I see my friend Ben's brother, I know him a little bit but not as well as I know Ben. We talk for a bit and make plans to hang out sometime soon. He walks down a trail behind the building to go home, I say goodbye and then notice there is a mountain lion sitting in the grass by the trail, he walks past and neither him or the mountain lion notice each other. I tell him to watch out there is a cougar near him, he faces the great cat and walks backwards slowly looking as big as he can. The mountain lion sees him and growls a little bit. Then the cougar sees me and comes towards me. (btw I love mountain lions, I would be terrified and honored to run into one in the wild but I think they are incredible/beautiful beats.) I back up and separate the Lion from me by moving behind a small car. I now know I am waiting for my Dad to pick me up in his car but he is late or I am early. The cougar now is running towards me and pounces. I dodge the cat and turn around. It bites me and jumps away, it doesn't hurt though but it surprises me a big deal.

 Then I see some co-workers I had back in Austin come out the back of the building. They say hi to me and I tell them to watch out there is a mountain lion near and it is messing with me. They are surprised but don't act safely and walk out in the open. The cougar jumps on one of my ex-co-workers and latches its teeth on her forearm. She states screaming, I run over to her and grab the cat's head. It claws me away and I get back up and hold its head again and yank the cat off her arm. The cougar left metal teeth still attached to her arm, it looked like the fake vampire fangs that people put in on Halloween only they were three times the size and stainless steel. I pull them off her and throw them to the ground.

She is thankful and glad she is alive, she thanks God she is here, I look at her arm and it has a scar where the teeth were that looks like a cattle brand in an oval, but you can see all the way through her arm.
She says that she will tell others about what happened to spread awareness about the dangers of wild animals and to give them there space in the wild. I now somehow have the scar on my forearm and she doesn't, I told her I would bare the burden and pain for her until it had healed. I walked off and my dream ended.



That was the dream. I still love mountain lions even though I was attacked, those cats often appear in my dream. I have had at least 5 dreams with mountain lions in them this year and it is only August.
Thanks for reading.

-Taylor

August 24th 2012 Process Serve the Moon

Dream Journal Night of August 24th 2012,

Process Serve the Moon:

In this dream I was with my Dad, he is a process server (delivers court documents like subpoenas) we were in my old neighborhood in Texas driving down the road to our house. We did this a lot since I don't drive cars. We were talking and probably listing to chillout music. He told me we had to serve a paper to someone  in the neighborhood before going home. I was fine with this.

We pulled into a house on the side of the road and I saw some of my friends that I went to High School with outside. It was my friend W's Mom we had to serve. My dad and I got out of the car and walked over to them. I started talking to my friends and my dad went inside their house to deliver the paper. They were happy to see me since it had been a while. The friend was worried that her mother might be in some trouble since she was getting a court document. I told her that the paper was probably no big deal, which comforted her. I enjoyed talking with her and some of her friends.

Then one of them noticed the moon was really bright so we looked up at it. I was telling them what moon phase it was in and when the next full moon was and more information than they probably wanted to know. What was weird about the moon was that it had a double image of it. The girls were currious why it looked like that, I thought it was from another star shining on the moon as well (that wouldn't make a double image of it though) I said there was a red giant star nearby. I called it Betelgeuse which is a star in the Orion constellation. 

Orion

this was the second dream that night I had involving the moon which was super neat. I think I will stare at the moon tonight.

Thanks for reading. Have a nice day/night.

-Taylor.

August 24th Wooden Fort

Dream Journal, Night of August 24th 2012.



The notes I took of this dream when I briefly woke up before going back to sleep were lousy, and my memory of it is blotchy to the max. So instead of trying to decipher what is happening in my dream I am going to type word for word (leaving out last names) what I wrote in my phone this morning. Enjoy the grammatical and spelling errors.

Wooden Fort:

"With james

building fort in uard. see

somthing in. oon. Tlk to

noah and sarah. Bugs, then

paparazzi thing."

I have little understanding on what was happening in this dream so I will upload another post right now that is about another more detailed dream I had the same night.

August 23rd Brief Dream Recall, and Buddah

Dream Journal, Night of August 23rd, 2012.



A Brief Dream Recall: and the Buddha 

I unfortunately don't remember much of this dream, I remember that it felt very real and at some points I was worried. I was talking with my mom in the dream and she wanted to see me that evening, so she wanted to know what I was up to.
I also at the same time saw a friend of mine who i haven't seen in a long time and she wanted to hang out for old-times sake. She was very exited and enthusiastic to hang out so I felt like I should. I was hesitant to though because my Mom wanted to do something with me that night too.

Then my friend gave me a present, it was 8 little Jade Buddha figurines. Each one represented an attribute of the Buddhist eight fold path. They were beautiful and i was super happy to have them. I thanked her and told her I was going to check with my mom if I was open.

Jade Buddha

I was trying to people please my Mom and my friend, I wanted to make sure they were both happy, I couldn't decide if I wanted to tell my mom I couldn't hang out and have her upset with me, or tell my friend and have her upset with me.
I was confused and the dream ended that way.


Not such a fun dream but it was insightful to me and pointed out some fears of mine.
Thanks for reading sorry for such a dull uneventful post. Namaste


watch the video version on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvgMQoJym28&feature=youtu.be

-Taylor.

August 22nd 2012, Gold & Jewels

Dream Journal, Night of August 22^nd 2012,

Gold & Jewels:

I had a bunch of dreams and am still remembering some of them now.  The earliest part of my dream I remember is me being at a neighborhood friends house for his birthday. He is turning 15 or so and I am also that age in my dream. What is strange is that his house looks just like my grandma’s house in Houston.  I notice this but still hang out with him in the dream.

Me and around 5 or 6 other guys are over at his house hanging out playing videogames and watching TV with him. We had already given him presents I think. The other guests start leaving his house and saying goodbye but I keep watching the TV.  I over hear my friends mom telling him that he needs to tell me to leave because the party is over, I finally notice this and tell them both goodbye.  As I am heading out the door I invite him and his family to join me at the lake, a place where I think I am having a party or I own part of the land. I meant to only ask him but I accidentally invited him and his mom. His mom seemed very excited and said she loved the lake and liked swimming. I told them goodbye and walked out the front door into Houston.

The next part of my dream I am down by the lake in my old neighborhood in Austin Texas. I am with my littlest sister Bailey. We walk down towards to shore and find a really long nice school bus parked there. It stretches out longer than a large house and is two stories tall. (By the way, all of the lakes in Austin are really just rivers..i don’t know why they are called lakes but they just are.) Me and Bailey go into the bus and see our mom and some other people from the neighborhood. We walk down the hallway and try to find a place to sleep. There are rows of bunk beds that we find and put our stuff on.  The end of that chapter.

This last part was kind of strange, I will have dreams sometimes where I am someone else. I think that this is due to watching movies, subconsciously the brain identifies with the lead character or another character and part of the brain believes what is happening in the movie is real and actually happeneing. Another reason I have to turn the TV off.  BUT, I was another person, I was in my late 50’s and had orange skin and was somewhat short with maybe even green hair. I sound like an Ompa Loompa but I totally wasn’t. I also had a brother who was my age but maybe a few years older. We were sailors that treasure hunted. Not pirates but we sought our buried treasure and sunken ships for treasure. We owned a shop inside of a shopping mall. We were on the bottom level of the mall and had our store filled with treasure and rare artifacts for sale.  Me and him were inside of the back of the store and were looking at the prescious gems we had. We had a LOT of riches, a bunch or excuisit emeralds pieces cut perfectly in brilliant colors(I love emeralds)

I stood next to my brother and we looked over some gold we had. We had them separated in piles, we had Aztec looking pieces, Europian coins, gold dubbloons and some gold nuggets.  He turned to me and told me that we didn’t have to ever work again and live on the treasure we had collected.  I looked around and saw more precious gems.

Just then two burglers ran into our store and told us they were taking our jewels. My brother quickly hit a button that triggered a door to lock that was guarding our gold and other precious materials. The robbers were gian muscular guys with beanies(hat) on there head. They had giant fists the size of basketballs. They started nocking stuff over and hit me a couple times. Then one of our employees came over to him and she kicked him in his crotch, he fell over and she started stepping on his jewels(pun) they freaked about this. I remember they punched me in the face a few more times, but then I forget the rest.

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Much love,

-Taylor

August 21st Sturdy Geode

Dream Journal

Night of August 21^st, 2012,

Sturdy Geode.

The earliest I remember of this dream I was sitting cross-legged on a sidewalk outside of a small shopping center. There was a clothing store and possibly a coffee shop there.  I was drawing shapes with some people I knew from High School. I found a spherical rock on the ground and took it inside a small building near. I liked the rock and was going to clean it. I filled a small vial with hot water and poured it over the stone. The stone started melting where the water hit it, dissolving and showing a hollow inside. I took more water and poured it over the stone until there was a large hole, there were Quartz crystals visible inside of the stone which I now recognized as a geode. The Quartz cluster was clear white and really beautiful.  I showed the geode to my friend Kayla who was near me, she liked it and was stoked to see it. We took it to my other friend C who I don’t see that much anymore. C took the geode in his hand held it for a second and then tossed it behind him with great force. It hit the roof of the room we were in and then tumbled to the floor. Kayla rushed forward to pick it up and yelled at C telling him he was a mean jerk. I felt like C was seeing if it was a real geode or not, he is very logical and sometimes viewed as cynical. 

Kayla handed me the geode which was not damaged, I told C “this is why we don’t hang out.” And walked away from him. I went up a cement ramp back to the parking lot where we were sketching with chalk thinking about how I wasn’t mad at C, it had happened and now wasn’t happening. It was in the past.  I thought about how it felt to be in the moment in this regard and felt at peace.

geode

When I got back to the parking lot in front of the small shopping center some of the people there were making fun of me because I looked like I got beat but C when he took my geode. I didn’t mind this and then my dream changed a bit.

Now I am in a nearby class room and was finishing some school work. The teacher said class was over so kids started to leave the room. I was slow at packing up my bag so some students from the next class started to come into the class room.  They were all younger than me, I think they were freshman in High School.  I left the class room and was pushing my school books and the contents of my backpack in a shopping cart from a grocery store. I was walking down an outdoor courtyard/school hallway with some other students and we were all pushing shopping carts holding our school materials.  I turned to the left and left them going down a small incline. I kept walking into a rotunda area of my old high school.

Here in the routunda that the students and teachers called “The Commons” I noticed that there was a vendor set up in the middle selling hot dogs, drinks, other concession edibles.  I saw a kid come up who I noticed was dressed strangely, he went up to the vendor and says ..
“Man, I’d like a baked potato at two o’clock in the afternoon!!”

I think this is kind of strange for him to say that, just that he put so much soul into his words.  I keep walking though I have no cart at this time. I pass by some teachers who inquire about my wellbeing. I let them know I am doing okay, they are very enthusiastic. I was on good terms with the teachers and staff of my school when I graduated.

Now my dream changes again. I am walking up to my house and see the women who I know from Austin leaving out the front door.  They say hi to me and keep walking, I am somewhat confused. I see my roommate Jake and ask him if he let them in and he says he didn’t know how they got inside.

I check the doors and they were all locked except the basement door. I let Jake know it is broken and try to fix it with only helping a little bit.

Now the dream changes again, I am now a different person, not Taylor. I am a trouble maker. Another trouble maker meets me outside and hands me a gun. It is loaded with fireworks and we shoot them at each other missing my inches.  A lady is walking by with her little son and another friend of mine throws a small piece of dirt at me but it hits the child. The lady is mad at us.

That is the last part of the dream that I remember.

watch the video version of this blog on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lbBzMAvTRY&feature=youtu.be

Thanks,

-Taylor.

August 20th 2012 Los Alamos Heyo!

Night of August 20^th, 2012,

Boulder CO

Los Alamos, Heyo!

This is a long dream that takes place in Los Alamos, New Mexico. I have family there but during my dream I was living there myself. I decided to go on a hike so I walked around for a bit then returned.  Once I returned I felt like I should go on a hike in the other direction. I took off my shoes and left them inside and went out for a intended “short” hike.

I left the city which was actually only as tall as my knees in certain areas. I went through a mountain pass into another valley where I found a small town. The mountains were a dirt colored orange with small shrubbery, the valleys were both surrounded by tall mountains.

When I got to the new town I saw a very tall building that was on a small piece of land.  An old boss of mine from Austin Texas showed up and started talking to me. She said she was in town on a business trip. I told her I could help her move her bags from her hotel room to her taxi cab. She said that would be lovely so we climbed the spiral staircase to the tall building. She had a small room, I helped her put the remainder of her things into her suitcase.  She talked to me about how things were back at the office where we worked together.  As we went downstairs she said she could give me a ride home, I declined and told her I was going on a hike instead, then she offered she could take me to the trail head I was going to go into. I said that sounded alright, I had been walking for a while anyways.

Instead of a taxi she now had her car, we drove to the back of an elementary school to find the trail. What was strange about the elementary school was it was very, very long. We drove behind the school for a few minutes passing parking lots behind exit doors.
We pulled into a parking lot for a moment to help some school teachers, janitors and custodians move some things for the kids at the school. 

Finally after that we found the trail head, she dropped me off there and told me to stay in touch with her. As I said goodbye to her and headed to the trail a man approached me.  He asked if I was Taylor. I instantly recognized him as a family friend I saw at the beach each year. I gave him a hug and told him I now lived in Los Alamos.  He said his daughter and wife were near and I should say hi to them. Before I did that I noticed that something was wrong with him. He had orange sunglases hanging down his nose, also a funny hat and one of his fingers was completely black-ish/grey-ish. I didn’t say anything to him about that.
The last time I saw his daughter she was 3/4 years old, now she was like 6 or 7. I was happy that she remembered me. I picked her up and carried her around. I see there down and then said hi to her mom. I had known her mom for many years, she seemed really surprised to see me and was a little confused.  I told her that I now lived in Los Alamos and if her and her family wanted to get together sometime that would be great.  I said goodbye to her and began to head down the trail.

I now had a friend with me walking down the trail. We came to a oak tree with many branched covering part of the trail, I was now also holding a small baby in my arms, about the size of a football. We both saw a witch appear on the side of us and she told us we should give her the baby. I thought that would be a bad idea as soon as I realized she was a witch.

I grabbed a piece of oak and stabbed her in the forehead with it like a stake. It went through her like she wasn’t really there. She said you couldn’t hurt a witch like that. So I jogged away from her and walked some more down the trail.

Now the trail came to a cement building with an iron door. There were broken windows on both sides of the door. I went to open the door and saw there was only darkness inside it. I went inside and found myself in a room decorated with many carpets and old furniture, there was a fireplace and a warm feeling to it, warm but also spooky. I came across a few friends of mine and we walked around together. This new house we were in was haunted and you had to complete certain tasks before going to the next room. Kind of like the Legend of Zelda games.
We went into another room that looked like a kitchen, all of the doors were now locked including the one we came in from. Suddenly we heard alarms go off, like oven timers for kitchens. We heard them from all over the place. I got an idea that it would be funny if I would set a timer to go off and beep. I pushed the buttons on the over next to me so it had four seconds to go off, as soon at the timer rang I shouted “HeyO!” and threw my finger in the air. Then I woke up to hear my alarm ringing.

The end. Thanks for reading that long dream, the link to the video version of this blog is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGfZ45N3Jas&feature=youtu.be

Thanks for reading, have a nice day.

-Taylor

August 19th 2012

*no dream remembered*


:'-/

August 18th, 2012 Like-a-boss Schlitterbahn

Dream Journal Blog Post.

Night of August the 18^th, 2012

Boulder, CO.

Like-a-boss Schlitterbahn:

I had a long and detailed dream last night, very long. I felt like I have dreamt part of the dream before or had it twice that night. It could also be that it being such a vivid dream I was ultra aware of what was happening and knew what would happen before it did.

Sadly I decided to snooze in a bit longer because it was could and I had the option to, so I don’t remember all of the dream, which is fine. 

My awareness of my dream began while I was in a tube floating down a ride at a water park. (I recently was at Shilterbahn water park)I left the ride early before the end part where the ride dumped into a large pool below a water. I looked out over the pool below me and saw a bunch of people sitting in tubes floating in a football field sized pool. There were also water-volleyball courses, small “beach” areas and water fountains.

I thought this was very cool, but I walked around above that area for a while. I think I was talking to someone or listening to something on a nearby radio but I was definitely preoccupied with something as I wandered around small pools.

hottest-coolest-times-in-Texas

Next thing I knew was I had received some kind of mission and needed to flee the water park Schiltterbahn and I might have a hard time doing so because the owner of the park wanted me in prison.
I saw some security guards listening to their walkie-talkies and started looking around, around for me.  So I jumped down a small cliff and landed on a roof of a building, I climbed into a hole on the roof and tumbled into a classroom looking place. Commissioner Gordon from the Batman movies now started talking to me explaining how I should try and escape from Schiltterbahn. I told me I had to fly and to just try and get out of the gates, which would be the hardest part. He gave me a backpack or something and I left out a door. I was now on a balcony looking out over the very large pool filled with people in it I saw from earlier in the dream. I heard the loudspeaker of the park say they were looking for a man, that man was me.

I knew I had to fly so I jumped off the balcony, I soared high above the people in the mega pool below me.  The lady over the innercom told everyone if they could help catch me they would be rewarded. They started yelling and reaching up to grab me, I kept dodging them remembering I had to focus on just getting out of Schiltterbahn alive. They’re hands were really long and pulling me back but I believed in myself and passed the gates of the park and landed on the ground and ran.

It took the people from Schlitterbahn some time until they came after me so I had a good start on running away. I ran into a small wooded area on a hill. Also right about now I had lost all of my clothes. So I am running butt naked hiding under trees when I hear helicopters approach. I stop moving when I hear one above me and hope they don’t see me. I wind up having a fake tree I carry around so that they can’t find me. The helicopter turns around and they give up looking for me. I am safe.

The dream rambles on where I find myself running through a park to go see a DJ play but it is too foggy to remember. Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed it.

Watch the video version of this blog on youtube @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNOztyc-758&feature=youtu.be

-Taylor.

August 17th 2012, Creepy Theme Park

Night of August 17^th, 2012.

Creepy Theme Park:

I was with my older sister Kelsey and our roommates at a theme park that was similar to Dave&Busters or Gatti-Town.  We went on a few rides and then split up. I hung around different areas of the park for a little bit before deciding to meet up with Kelsey again. I started to walk over to a big cafeteria where she would be.

I got distracted though when I saw an ad for another section of the park that was the “Jungle section” I thought I would swing by that area and then head over to meet her. I climbed up a ramp into the jungle area. It was darkly lit and had dark colored walls. There seemed to be black lights or something in the room. It didn’t seem very jungle like, it had no trees, no monkeys, or anything jungle related.

I decided to play a game on one of the rides so I could win some coins to get some prizes. I played a game that involved climbing a ramp that was like an elevator, only there were small little creature-people who were all black and about two feet tall who were grabbing at my legs and trying to pull me down. I didn’t like this it was kind of spooky. Very creepy.

I decided to bail so I grabbed my coins(prize) and headed into the cafeteria where my sister was. I found her surrounded by people in a long line. The place looked like a second hand clothing store like Goodwill. I decided to wait with her.

As I waited I noticed that the store clerks and ladies working there kept walking by me making funny faces. They were squinting the eyes and scrunching up there faces at me. I wasn’t sure if they were trying to flirt with me or if they were trying to scare me. So I didn’t give them any notice.

Thant is all I remember about that dream, it is a few days later I am writing this since I have been without internet access. I am at a coffee shop and should have wifi in the house soon.

Peace,

-Taylor.

Video Version at youtube:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX6gpyqJdGo&feature=plcp

*UPDATE*

*UPDATE*

I AM CURRENTLY WITHOUT WIFI UNTIL THE 22ND OF AUGUST. WILL RESUME BLOGGING THEN, WITH SURPRISE.

SORRY, LOVE YOU.

Inaccurate Star Wars

Night of August the 15th, 2012.
My last night in Austin, Tx.

...
Simply, I had a dream that was the main story line of the move saga Star Wars aaaand it was all messed up. Very inaccurate. Han Solo had a light-saber, Chewbacca could talk like a human. Darth Vader walked around calmly everywhere...made such little sense. I felt like I was watching a bad movie. I almost felt like complaining in my sleep.


Thanks, Taylor

Bad Directions & The Dojo

Night of August 15th, 2012.
Last day in Austin, Texas




 I slept on a couch comfortably and got around 7 hours of sleep. I spent the whole day packing and was plenty tired when I laid down.

Bad Directions:
I had two separate dreams that were both very long, detailed and vivid.
In the first dream I was with two girls that I had known somehow, I don't know if I actually knew them or not. We were walking in the woods- a thick forest, I was leading and we were looking for a river at the bottom of several hilly trails. I was leading us down the trails with a dog one of them had. I kept going down the wrong trail and had to double back and find another trail, the two girls were not happy with my navigation. I felt like I had done that part of the dream twice. The woods there had a lot of leaves on the forest floor, kind of dark lighting a little orange hue to everything. I doubled back a few times and the girls became upset with me and left.

I walked through the woods on some trails for a bit. Then I con't remember what happened next.

What I remember after that was being now in another section of some woods, it looked like a area that was near my house. This next part was very odd, I was in front of a fallen over tree and there were about 7 or 8 guys in front of me. They were ninjas, "bad guys", industrial workers and muscular guys who were not happy to see me. I heard bell ring like a boxing match began and then they started attacking me.  I ducked and punched and had a knife, they hurt me too bad and then it was like I restarted life again from in front of the fallen over tree. Kind of like respawning in a video games, if you are beaten by the enemy you restart from your last save point.
So I tried to fight them a few more times and they kept killing me so I would start over. I started to get upset and felt a bit hopeless. Some guy standing nearby told me I could do it and he believed in me. I felt a new found sense of hope and tried extra hard to beat these guys. I started back at the fallen tree and ran at these guys, hitting them with my hands and scratching them. They were trying to hit me but I was too fast. When I would hit one he would disappear in smoke or just vanish. I defeated them and more came, after a bit more I was victorious. I had won the game.

I fought those guys

The Dojo:
The next part of my dream was also detailed but I don't remember exactly what happened and in what order. I remember being at a Dojo I used to do martial arts with when I was younger. The Dojo was located in its original building, I went inside, bowed, and then began to stretch out.  I saw some friends I used to spar with when I was a teen. We had a small class and socialized.  Afterwards I walked outside, it was a very colorful area. That is my only memory of that dream.

I am glad I remembered those two dreams. I am now noticing some trends and topics that are in my dreams frequently. 

Thanks, 

-Taylor.

Return of the High School Schedule

Night of August the 14th, 2012.
Austin, Texas.


Return of the High School Schedule
(note* first night of sleeping on an air-mattress)
This dream was short, It was colorful but brief. I had another but forgot it when I snoozed longer that the original plan.
I found myself approaching my old high school with my Mom and littlest sister Bailey. We were going to pick up her new class schedule. I think I was there with them because I was running errands with them before.
I have not very fond memories of high school but since those days things have been great. I felt comfortable going into the building with my mom&sis, also being older than everyone else there has a certain "cool" feeling. As we were entering the main part of the school I saw a kid I knew when I was a senior and he was a freshman. I didn't feel like talking to him since we were both busy.

We walked into the crowded cafeteria and found some school staff to help us find the people that do scheduling. My mom and Bailey found a councilor to help them and I sat down comfortably on a chair. While they were being helped a lady dressed like a flight attendant came over to me with a tray of food. She asked me if I wanted any french fries, the answer was yes. Bailey and my Mom thought it was funny for me to be eating food in a fancy manor from this lady. The food lady then handed me some Buffalo sauce for the fries to be dipped into.. this was a strange combo but I tried it. This made my Mom and Sister really crack up.

That is the last part of the dream I remember, it was short and sweet. And tasty. The friend I had recognized while we were walking up to the school I had seen at a concert recently, my lil sis was actually going to school to get her schedule earlier that day and I recently tried Buffalo sauce on fries. The fry thing was kinda weird.
The reaaaally neat part of the dream was that today after I had that dream I went to the mall to get my spare pair of glasses fixed and we were handed samples of food off of trays while we walked through the food court. That was neat, however that went down.


Thanks for reading.
I may not update this blog tomorrow, I am driving all day from Austin Texas to the border of the state. The whole family and I are waking up at 6:00am to spend the first of two days on the road. I am ready for cooler weather for sure.


-Taylor.

Potato Puke

Night of August 14th, 2012
Austin, Texas.



Potato Puke:
Me my sister Kelsey and our Dad are all in a grocery store walking down an isle headed to the checkout. The place has warm lighting, very bright but warm. We are getting groceries for our our big move so have many bags. We pay for our food/drinks and head to my sisters car. We put the groceries in her trunk and then got into her car. This part was strange I know I was sitting in the front seat but so was my Dad and Kelsey, only they would alternate who was in the back of the car instantly. Soooo my Dad was driving with my in the front pasenger seat and were about halfway home when Kelsey (who was just in the back seat) was now driving and saw that the back trunk of her car was open and the groceries might have fallen out.
My dad was now driving again as we parked the car in the middle of the street. We all got out of the car and  and saw that we might have lost some of our food. They seemed only a little upset.
Somehow my bike was also attached to the back of the car so I decided to ride home instead of help them pick up the groceries. I have never rode my bike home from that area, it is somewhat far but I think it is a good idea.

perfect context, wish it was me.

Next thing I know is I am riding around in my neighborhood and am now suddenly very conscious of time and that I may be late. (I needed to be at my old job at eleven o'clock the following morning) I saw the clock said 10:57am and I freaked! I went home on my bike in moments was inside telling my folks I was late, and needed to get there. They were not too worried.
I was telling them I had only a few minutes to get there in the kitchen when my little sister S walked into the room eating mashed potatoes. I became distracted from my worries when I saw S was eating a little of potato off her spoon then spitting the rest out over the kitchen counter. She kept doing this and was just eating some potato off a spoon and spraying the kitchen with the parts of the potato she didn't like.
I asked her what she was doing and she told me she just wanted the tasty parts. She said that like it was obvious.

po-tay-toes

So a strange weird funky dream. I think this shows some anticipation and worry I have for my future relocation. I will keep you updated on dreams to come.
peace,
-Taylor

Outdoor Elevator & Homework

Night of August 12th, 2012.

*LATE ENTRY*
I had posted this dream a day late which I didnt't want to do. I had a going away party for me and my sister to get ready for and drove around all day doing things. But better late then never.

I woke up at 9:00am today and remembered my dream pretty easily. Nowadays one of the first things I think when I wake up is to go and write my dream down, whether it's in this blog or a scrap piece of paper, or simply a text draft on my phone. This can be a really go idea when working on dream recall, often many  will forget their dream in a few minutes after being awake, some have it lucky-er or it comes to them naturally. 

Outdoor Elevator & Homework.

So in this dream the earliest I remember is talking with a friend before going into a class. The school was like my middle school except a few stories taller. I felt like I was on the fifth floor of a building and near the clouds.
I was going into band class. It was in the band room where I had once played music but now it was used for just teaching. We were all sitting in a amputheater like pattern with our chairs facing the front of the room where the teacher stood. I was talking with two of my friends S and N. N was my best friend growing up, we were always together. S was a good close female friend. I was in the same room as them but I was on the phone with S. I was walking around talking on the phone (I am a phone call pacer) with S about somthing somewhat serious. I became distracted when N asked me if I knew where he put his homework, he was digging through his backpack. I told him I didn't know. But, I said that on the phone while talking to S and she took that offinsively. I tried to apologize to her but she hung up on the phone. I was worried so sat down in the back row with N unstead of the front row with S where I was sitting before. I was talking with N. He said he needed to go to the front office so he could get his homework from his mom bringing it to him.  At this time the teacher was getting class ready for the next assignment.
Everyone was grabbing there binders and papers to work some more. I was not going to sit up front since I though S was still mad at me and didn't want to see me. With a burst of confidence I descided to to go back up front and sit by her so she could see that I cared. I grabbed my school work and sat again at the front row.
We got to work as the teacher gave us instructions. I answered some questions, correctly. S seemed to be happier with me that I came back, and things seemed fine when we chatted during class. What also happened in that classroom that was odd is I did the homework, and was doing the work for the evening. I literally never did homework and somehow passed with C's, so in my dreams I did a lot better.

After class was over we dispersed into the hall. I wanted to go walk around with my friends but for some unknown reason I had a heavy crate I had to move downstairs. I was pulling this big crate/box on a handle with wheels. I went to find an elevator and saw one as a teacher got inside and told me to use the "non-staff" elevator.

Down another darker hallway I found an alternative elevator, it was industrious and actually had one open wall that faced outdoors. I walked inside and a lady followed me. She said the elevator was safe as long as you held on. Before I got a chance to grab on of the handles on the side the elevator started moving downwards. I almost fell from the jerky motions it made, it swung back and forth. The lady was laughing and loved it like it was some ride, once I got my balance I liked it too.(kind of)

Once we were downstairs I found myself in a courtyard between the tall buildings that were my school. I walked along the grassy terrain and then onto pavement. I start talking to some other people and the dream ends there.

thanks,
-Taylor

Penguin Friend and Cookies

Night of August 11th, 2012
Austin, Texas.


Penguin Friend and Cookies

I remember two dreams from last night, unfortunately they are both patchy and in pieces. The parts I remember are both very vivid.

Penguin part:
I was walking down some trails in the hill country, small trees and rocky soil. Not too much grass. I came up to a small cliff (about 20ft. high) and saw my father standing at the top. He was with some other people and called down to me. I told him I was looking for a motorcycle and asked if he had seen it. I then remember riding a dirt bike through this area up small cliffs and hills. The bike wheels grabbed the sides of the rock walls perfectly. My dad said he hadn't see a bike around and told me to check at the house.

this is the area

I climbed up the cliff (steeper than the picture above) and then saw that there was a small black creature standing in a clearing in the middle of everyone. I went up to the indistinguishable creature and pet in on the head. Then it removed its hands over it's face and I saw it was a penguin! A female penguin who was really happy to see me. 

She jumped around for a bit and really liked me. She was about the size of an emperor penguin but had human eyes and looked like eye makeup on. Then she ran off down a trail to the left of me. My dad told me she wanted me to follow her, so I ran after her. 

Even though we were running on a dirt/rocky trail she was sliding on her belly down the trail and squeaking loudly. We wint down a little slope and then up again into a slightly wooded area. Then I noticed she wanted to go up to a trail that led to someones house, I told her we better go back that was someone else's property. (I usually don't like running into other people when I am hiking in nature and try to avoid it if possible) There then was a dog that came down the trail barking so we turned around and ran back the way we came. 

Then we approached another dog who was barking at us from the other directions( the way we were running) She slid right past him but the dog came barking up to me. He was a black Labrador with a green collar. I said "hey boy, how's it going boy." in a sweet tone to show him I meant him no harm and liked dogs. He started wagging his tail but still softly growled. He came up to me and I let him smell my hand before attempting to pet him. He sniffed my right hand. I decided I should try and get past him so I went to walk to the right of him but he blocked me off. Once I went to the left of him things were fine and I escaped with the penguin. 

That is all I can remember about that dream.

Cookies:

This dream is a little strange, It takes place in my house with my family members (mom, dad, 3 sisters) and my grandmother, AND the cast of the hit show "Friends." We were all looking for something and I kept finding small hiding places I didn't know existed in our house. There was something spooky about the house though. I went looking in the garage for whatever it was we were searching for and didn't see it. I came back inside the house and saw Joey and Ross talking together. Then I was aware that people were mysteriously disappearing and that our house was haunted. It would eat people, and turn them into zombie like things.

So now I was hesitating looking around more, I wasn't scared but felt like something spooky was happening and was on edge.

"Friends" the show

Then I walked over to a nearby lamp we have and saw a huge stash of really nice big cookies under it. They were all the size of my hands and were green sugar cookies with chocolate chips and peanuts. I brought them to Rachel and Chandler and showed them where I found them. Rachel said that was unusual but can happen, and Chandler ate one. I started eating one too and was amazed by how good they were. I offered one to Rachel and she at first said no but then took a bite and said they were very tasty.
Right after that I was helping my Grandma put some light bulbs into a ceiling fan, and then I woke up.
Weird things was as soon as I woke up I saw my dad on the back porch putting new light bulbs into the ceiling fan on the back porch.

This dream has elements of my previous day in them. I saw a bicycle(not motorcycle) saw some dogs, played with a loving dog (like the penguin) saw my sister watching friends, and went on a hike in an area similar to the one I was in during the first dream.


Thanks for reading, have a nice day.
-Taylor

Lucidity 1

Sometime in August 2012.

Austin, Texas.

Lucidity 1

The other day-or night, I had a brief lucid dream. Or a dream where I was aware that I was asleep while within a dream. I have had a handful of these dream before and am always amazed by how they workout. I was able to do this much easier as a kid in elementary(primary) school and since then have recently gained the ability do do that again these past few years. 

Since I couldn't remember my dream last night (the 10th of August) I thought I would briefly talk about my lucid dream this past week. I say 'briefly' because it only lasted a few moments :-/

I was inside a dream where I was interacting with some people. This was a "light sleep" and most everything was foggy and not to vivid. I suddenly noticed things were strange when I thought about being asleep, then it hit me, I knew I was dreaming. 

I became exited first and things became more foggy. I have learned that excitement can lead to waking up so I took a deep breath and calmed down. I felt like "Am I really asleep?? This feels real..." but after a bit of thinking I firmly decided I was asleep. I remembered where I thought my body was and couldn't remember where I was. Yup, I was inside a dream.

The next thing I tried to do was look around. Things were really foggy and out of focus. I didn't have much control of my body either. I realized I was sleeping lightly and might not be able to control my dream consciously. So I tried to calm down and get into a deeper sleep by relaxing my body, thinking calmly, and almost humming softly. After a few moments I accepted that I wasn't falling asleep any deeper and I probably wouldn't have control of my dream. 

So I decided to let myself go back into the dream world and believe I was in a dream and it was real. I wasn't hard on myself and understood things. I was happy I had been so careful about things. 

Later after being awake for about ten minutes I remembered my other dreams from that night and recalled that I had became lucid. 

Thanks for checking this out!

-Taylor.

Waterfall School

Night of August 10th, 2012
Austin Texas, on a couch with a blanket.


Waterfall School

This dream was actually in the late morning. I had it just before I woke up around 11:00am. Unemployment offers the ability to sleep in, perfect for dreamtime adventures. One thing I really enjoyed about this dream was that it was very vivid. There was conscious understandable conversation between me and others. There was also beautiful sights, this is what I was shooting for. I set the intention of my dream to be vivid and deep, before I closed my eyes. I feel asleep around 1:00am so had around a good ten hours of snoozing.

The furthest my memory goes back into my dream is me riding in a tram/bus with my Mother and litlest sister. We were driving on a street going down a hill with a tram full of other people my age and there parents. I was speaking small talk with my family members.
When we got to the bottom of the hill we pulled up to a red brick building on our left) and stopped the tram. Other people started running off of the tram towards the building but me and my family got off slowly. Then I was helping my mom find a parking spot for her car, though her car was already parked down there..? There were winding Oak trees less than a foot wide spread out over the area.

Oak trees

I was now going to say goodbye to my Mom and sister for an extended amount of time, the Mother was saddened by this and was having slight difficulty letting go. She was holding my hand as I walked her towards her car. The other kids had all left there parents in a hurry so for a moment I felt a little self-conscious about still being with my mom and little sister feeling like I was being judged by the other kids. I felt that for a moment and then felt secure about who I was and didn't care what they thought, I wouldn't hangout with others who thought like that and I loved my Mom and sister.
I said goodbye to them and headed towards the building.

The building was extraordinary, the front entrance was a waterfall coming over a ledge. You had to climb the waterfall to get inside. At the time I couldn't spot a latter so walked around to the right to look for another way up. A counselor there told me I could climb up a latter I saw on the adjacent wall. I went up to look and saw it was another part of the building. It was like a tennis court area where people were just hanging about.
This place looked like a private school, except we were all at a graduation ceremony kind of event. Everyone was just hanging out. There were mostly people I knew in High School and from my brief time at community college. There were also older people I knew from work and volunteering who were there, So it was a big crowd.
I climbed down the latter and went back over to the waterfall entrance. I decided I could climb the 15ft waterfall to get in. There was now a step latter much like that pool's have. I got to the top to find a perfectly dry room that was the lobby to the building. I entered and looked around for a bit before walking to the left, opened a door and walked down a hallway. The hallway was mostly purple colored but didn't look out of place. Velvet rugs hung off around table. There was a bookshelf on one wall. I left the hallway into another door where i came to a room that looked like it would have an indoor pool but was pool-less.
I saw some of my old friends so I went over and squatted down to be on there level (they were sitting on a bench) I said hi to a friend Billy who was surprised to see me. None of them had seen me in some time, I had disappeared for a while. I chatted with them for a bit but saw they were still in the same games that they were in when I stopped hanging out with them.
I moved on and walked back into the hallway towards the main lobby again. I ran into a friend K. I started speaking with him and noticed something was different about him. He had told be that he was doing alright, that he survived school ending but when he lost his job he had relapsed hard. Then I realized he was drunk and had been for weeks now. Some of our mutual friends showed up and spoke dearly with him. He was very sad and was in agony. I told him that It would be alright and he knew what to do, he understood where I was coming from when I said this, I then left him in there company and care.

sketch of the waterfall entrance 

I now went back into the lobby and looked around it was almost empty except some people were walking through and down other hallways. Now the room was totally enclosed there was now waterfall exit. A wall and doorway was now where the waterfall had been. I read some signs posted on the door there. They were talking about different AA meetings that were happening in the building that week. I didn't want to attend any of them so decided to wonder the halls. I knew that I would come up to a main cafeteria if I kept walking.
This was the beautiful part of my dream I left the lobby down another hallway that twisted to the left and right a bit. It had large windows on the left side, showing me that I was on the second story of this building. I looked out of the windows and saw an amazing courtyard below. Very tall winding oak trees were high above a red brick walkway. There were black metal benches and terraced bushes at different levels. there was some black glass buildings in the background. A lot of greenery and the light was golden shining over the trees. It resembled a sunset's lighting.
I was amazed even in my dream, I said out loud "wow this is beautiful!" I kept walking slowly down the hallway passing other people my age. Some of them I knew from high school but I was trying to avoid them and look out the window at the beautiful trees.


Then I woke up to my alarm at 11:00am.  I quickly jotted down a detail text reminder to myself about the dream. It proved effective if I could recall this much in this kind of detail. I'am seeing more and more how beneficial keeping a dream journal is. My memory of dreams had doubled in regularity and I have already gained awareness of being asleep in a dream once, briefly.


Thanks for reading,
Taylor. <3