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Thursday, 28 January 2016

Dream 555 (LUCID FALSE AWAKENING)

'There's a Shark on the Ceiling!'

Dream date: 24 January 2016 (Normal Full Sleep)

Day 14 of 14-Day Dream Incubation Experiment

This is Day 14 of my 14-Day Dream Incubation Experiment. Click on the red link to access the article which explains the experiment. This is the second dream I had on this date, as I had one during an afternoon nap - see Dream 554.

Scene 1: My Bedroom, Norwich - Night
I woke up in my bed. I could hear a low buzzing noise in the room. It was dark - as I would expect it to be. I tried to move and found that I had sleep paralysis - and I was instantly aware that this was a false awakening and I was still asleep and dreaming. My first thought was that if I could fight the sleep paralysis and move my 'dream body' I could get out of bed and experience this as a full lucid dream - hopefully with some control. I was trying to move, but I was unable to. The duvet was also in my face and I could not move it away. I was getting frustrated as I could not break through the sleep paralysis and was stuck laying on my back, with the duvet over my nose and mouth (although I could breathe normally). I looked up at the ceiling and found it was a lot less dark than the room had seemed when I first 'woke up'. There was a grey shark hanging upside down on my ceiling, above my bed. I did not feel scared because I was fully lucid and the shark was not a threat to me in any event - it was not moving. I must have fallen back asleep.

Scene 2: My Nan's Back Garden, Sheringham - Day
I was then in my nan's back garden, with Courtney Love and Kendall Jenner. It seemed that we were all friends. However, I pushed Kendall over onto the path which runs down the centre of the garden. She looked very small laying on the floor - almost child-sized. I started to scratch her, while Courtney watched. I could see that I had left red scratch marks on Kendall's face. However, I did not mean to hurt her - I am not sure what I was doing, but it didn't feel malicious. I decided I should take photos of the incident on my mobile phone. Courtney and Kendall both posed for a photograph. I then heard myself say to someone (unseen/unrecalled): 'It's weird how they know each other' (meaning Courtney and Kendall). I was showing the photos of Courtney posing by some bushes and Kendall with the red scratches on her face.

TIME: 02:00 - 11:30 hours (The first part of the dream - the false awakening felt like it occurred just after I fell asleep, but I am not sure if this is what really happened. I am not sure when the rest of the dream took place as I did not appear to seamlessly transition from the false awakening into the second part of the dream)

LUCIDITY: YES: Full lucidity during false awakening

SPECIAL NOTES: 14-Day Dream Incubation Experiment:

MILD Technique
Tholey's Combined Technique
Dream Incubation methods
Dream Visualisation methods
100 mg Vitamin B6 taken
NO Reality Checks
No WB2B

Dream Information:

None of note

Dreamsigns:

The incident with Courtney Love and Kendall Jenner

Recurrent Dream Themes:

My Nan's house/garden in Sheringham as a dream scene location

Potential Day/Dream Residue:

I had seen (separate) online articles relating to both Courtney Love and Kendall Jenner on the day of this dream

Waking Thoughts & Emotions:
This was a very strange dream experience - and the first false awakening I have had in a long time. Interestingly, this was the fastest I have ever become lucid during a false awakening. It seemed like only seconds passed between 'waking up' and realising I was actually still asleep and dreaming. I wish I could have transformed this experience into a full lucid dream, so it seems like a wasted opportunity.

Interpretation/Analysis:

This dream does not in any way appear to be related to the theme of my Dream Incubation Experiment.

Dream 554

'I Can't Text!'

Dream date: 24 January 2016 (Afternoon Sleep)

Day 14 of 14-Day Dream Incubation Experiment

This is Day 14 of my 14-Day Dream Incubation Experiment. Click on the red link to access the article which explains the experiment.

Scene 1: An Interior, Location Unknown - Time Unknown
I was in a domestic interior, unknown to me in real-life, although it felt familiar in the dream. I was with AM (a Facebook friend), although he looked slightly different in the dream - his hair was curly. I was on a date with AM and the fact surprised me as I had not considered that this would happen (in the dream I was aware I had met him on Facebook). AM and I were sitting on a bed in this room, indicating that it was probably a bedroom, although I cannot recall much about the surroundings other than this. AM was telling me about his children (AM has children in real-life).

I then received a text from my boss, DT, angry with me, because I was supposed to start work at 04:00 hours (4:00 am) and I had failed to do so. I was stressed and panicked, and decided that I should text DT with an excuse about why I had not started work on time. I thought the best excuse would be that I had been in hospital. I tried to text on my smartphone, but I could not use the touchscreen and all the words were nonsense. I said to AM: 'I need a burner phone. The only phone I can use is a Nokia 3310'. AM said that he would text the excuse to DT on my behalf and took the phone from me. I started waving my hands in the air, saying: 'Yeah! 3310!' and felt very excited about the thought of this basic old-fashioned mobile phone. AM showed me the text he had composed. It said: 'I don't care!' I was annoyed, because this was not a good text to send my boss when I had missed work and needed to remain on good terms with him. I said to AM: 'You're not helping!' and took the phone from him, trying my best to write a meaningful text to DT, at the same time feeling annoyed that AM had tried to send a rude text knowing I was stressed.

I am not sure how the text incident resolved, because AM and I then left the room and went into the hallway. The hallway had tables and chairs. My mum was sitting on a chair, with her back to a staircase. In front of her was a glass table. Other people were sitting around the table. My mum said proudly: 'My daughter has a black boyfriend!' She was smiling. I said: 'No, he's Asian' but my mum simply said: 'You're children will be mixed race' (this would always be true, regardless of their father, because I am mixed-race myself). I walked over the AM who was sitting adjacent to where my mum had been sitting, with 2 young males, dressed in urban clothing. I knew these males were Facebook friends, involved in the hip hop scene, but I could not put a name to their faces in the dream. I wondered who they were. AM said: 'I need to go with the boys to sort something out, but I will be back in a minute'. I tried to stop him going, because I felt that he was abandoning me, but he reassured me that he would return shortly. He got up, and he and the 2 male dream characters walked through a double-set of glass doors, which were just behind where he had been sitting.

Scene 2: A Canal, Location Unknown - Day
I was then with AM again, although he became RBA shortly after I realised AM had returned. One minute I was thinking 'he's back like he said he would be' and the next moment I looked at him and realised he was RBA. We were beside a canal in a suburban or rural area. I could see houses and trees in the surrounding area. The weather was sunny and bright. We started to walk up a small flight of stairs by the side of the canal, while discussing the singer Jessie J. RBA said she was 'pretty but stupid' and I agreed that she was stupid, but said 'her face looks like a robot'.

TIME: 17:00 - 20:30 hours (I woke up from this dream)

LUCIDITY: NONE