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To follow up on a previous post, I have indeed been trying to keep a dream journal of sorts these past few weeks.
It's been fairly interesting. Want to see some of (okay, all of) the entries? Sure, I knew you would.
These are transcribed pretty much verbatim, horrible spelling+grammar and all, from what I wrote into the notebook (with editorial comments, not written in the journal itself of course, in italics, blue text, and parentheses like this). Hopefully, the mish-mash won't get too awfully confusing... >_>
5-4-09
5:30 am
Man and woman. (Off to a good start already, eh? >_>) Talking about breaking up. At lake shore boat. (This is some random place that I've never been to in real life, at least that I can recall.) I'm there too. Woman is cop. (After reading some of the entries below this one and coming to a potential realization of my own, I should note here that this cop woman was blonde. It will become clear later, at least sort of, why I mention this now.) I'm partner. Man threatens woman saying they're going on boat and never coming back. Pulls gun. We pull as well. Standoff. Woman runs around corner of building to get backup. (Should note here that, unlike the lake shore above, this building is a little shed near my home back in NC. There was a indeterminate scene switch at some point during the above.) Man's gun changes from handgun to machine gun rifle. Brings up gun to shoot. I shoot him in balls. (>_>) He goes down. I approach. Ruse. He brings up gun again. I grab gun and force it down while doing crazy leap over him. Gun pushed down while firing. Man's thumb caught in trigger. Gun cuts man in half. Woke up. (And that was the first dream. They only get weirder from there, for the most part.)
5-5-09
4:30 am
Candi (comic) (Found here. And, yes, I actually did write the previous parenthetical comment in the journal itself for some reason. Not sure why I would be dreaming about this comic in particular and not one of the many others that I read, though, as it doesn't really hold any particularly special place in my heart compared to the others.) meets Sailor Moon? (Wiki) Powerpuff Girls? (Wiki) WITCH? (Wiki) Pink hair = Candi. Blue Hair = Linda. Blonde = ? Instigator. Magic involved. Revenge? Fighting at night. Making up for past falling out, glad but also disappointing. (Ok, most of that probably won't make sense unless you've been reading Candi. Sorry.) Dude getting tangled up in electrified wire. (This, like in the previous dream, was suddenly back on the farm in NC, after an indeterminate scene switch, but still seemed to be part of the same dream.) Night. Same dude morphed into dog, kicked in the ass. Feel bad for kicking dog, even if guy was asshole. Two other bad guys, don't remember. Fight with scythe? Old ass rusted out metal (car). (Er, the previous sentence, except for the car bit, is a line from an Insane Clown Posse song. I've been listening to ICP quite a bit for a little while now. Not entirely sure why, myself, except that I just like them, for some indefinable reason. That could be a LJ post in and of itself, but maybe later... Anyway, there was a car there, and it was old and rusted out. So there you have it.) Fountain? At school? (This is referring to the previous bit, prior to the guy wrapped up in wire. Not sure why it's way down at the bottom.)
5-5-09
6:30 am
(The following are several dreams at once, separated in the journal by a small line in the left margin, which I'll try to replicate here.)
Zelda Twilight Princess. (Wiki) Really high asteroid with Mario Galaxy (Wiki) properties. Miles high. Reachable by raising water level. While there water went down, had to dive. Landed in a chimney.
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Listening to ICP wrestle on WWE (Wiki) radio. (Does the WWE actually have a radio station and/or do they broadcast their stuff on the radio? I have no idea. By the way, for what it's worth, the ICP actually did wrestle with the then WWF for a short time, but I don't recall ever actually seeing them myself. The most I remember is being able to play as Kurrgan in WWF Attitude for the PS1, and he came to the ring to another ICP song.) Trying to watch on tv but tv can't get station. Cartoon Planet! (Here, I think I meant Cartoon Network instead of Cartoon Planet, but eh. At any rate, I remember being really happy in the dream that I could get the channel again on my tv, which IRL I haven't had since the brief time I had full cable back in 2004-2005 or so, but dropped to save money. The tv in the dream for some reason was up on the same nightstand as my radio is, in my bedroom, the one here in WA.)
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Talking to Dion (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
owsf2000 Heh... >_>) on IRC about the TP thing. (This day's first dream, above.) Something messes up and crazy file transfer starts. Weird b/w Matrix (Wiki) crap on screen. Finally get it under control.
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Also something about costumes in another game. Oblivion? (Wiki) GTA? (Wiki) Fable? (Wiki) Fallout 3? (Wiki) One all black one all red. Sort of look like The Shadow (Wiki), both.
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Uber-five persona fusion spell (This refers to Persona 3.), like KOTR in FFVII (KOTR == Knights of the Round and FFVII == Final Fantasy VII. KOTR was an over-the-top summon spell in FFVII.)
5-6-09
7:30
Before the original movie, the Ghostbusters (Wiki) (Ray (Wiki), Peter (Wiki), Egon (Wiki)) invent some sort of singularity generator. I am Peter in this. In public unveiling, Egon turns it on. I get on platform. Visible cyclone like thing appears. Gravity is partially nullified and I start floating. It's pretty cool. Effect starts to intensify. Egon gets concerned, tries to turn it off. Can't turn it off. Something happens and "scene change" occurs.
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I am still Peter Venkman. I am elsewhere on side of a road. (This road would be US 311, across the street from Checkers Grill and Grocery. Map. Not sure why, or even if, that is important, but that's where I was.) Blonde woman is nearby. "Peter" seems to know who this is, but I through his eyes do not. Both of us are naked with only two halves of a torn up trash bag to cover us. (I was WTFing at this even in the dream. o_O) Woman is incredibly embarrassed. Peter is amused. I am confused. We start toward where Egon is, trying to avoid public. Woke up.
5-16-09
7:30
(Note: these two followed my little ill-advised experiment the other day.)
Cool one. Think I've had it before. Somewhat Okami related. (Wiki. I am currently playing through the Wii version of this, which is probably why I was dreaming about it.) Lots of swishy flying colors. When you move lots of streamers of multi colors spew about in all directions. Numbered, and number significant in some way but impossible to predict until it happens. Can be manipulated for time travel somehow? Music related as well. Color corresponds to sound or note. There was an actual "plot" involved here but can't really remember. Something about how if you move one way and get a color pattern that you don't like or is "bad" somehow, you can go back a second or two and try again until you get something better. Trying to start a band? Five streamers correspond to fingers and placement on an instrument. Talking animals, but didn't seem weird. People from high school, or DigiPen or Internet. Revolving cast quickly changing. Name Ryoji from P3 (Persona 3, again.), but didn't actually meet him. Supposedly good at Okami or something.
9:30
(This one is why I called it "ill-advised" above... >_>)
Mirror image. Evil trying to kill me. Blonde girl is present. (Hmm... same one as from the previous dreams? Hadn't considered that until writing this up. I still have no idea who it is though.) Gentle, caring, opposes doppelgänger. Bedroom from WA but rest of house from NC. Nighttime. Think I'm awake. Open back door. Nothing happens at first but seconds later I feel invisible evil enter house. I scream wake up dad. I realize I'm "sleepwalking" (A small aside here. The one and only time that I recall ever sleepwalking IRL was many years ago, had to be almost 20 years ago I'd guess, following a dream about Turtles in Time, particularly this part, with that wrecking ball that follows you around. In the dream, I remember this thing following me and trying to crush me. I actually remember being maybe 50-75% asleep, but still getting up and running, screaming, through the house. My dad finally caught up to me and woke me up when I was on my second or third pass through the living room. It was absolutely crazy, and I felt nauseous and horrible that whole day. Anyway, back to the dream journal.) go back to bed. Evil double still there. We fight. Blonde girl tries to break it up but can't tell which is real me. I temporarily subdue evil. Blonde girl (short hair) (Not sure why this was something I noticed just then or if/why it was important to note in the journal.) and I embrace Evil comes back, knocks me down. Girl is gone now. Evil trying to smother me by blocking my nose. He stupidly doesn't block mouth too, but I don't realize it. (So who here is the stupider one?) Still breathing though. He's talking crap. Finally I get enraged. Throw him to floor. Severely beat him down. He starts screaming like a literal banshee. I say screw this and start to carry him from my WA bedroom to my NC living room where my dad is. Evil screams no world will end if father sees him. I have him under bed sheets. Dad hears screaming thing wants to know what's going on. I yell what the hell is this and pull off bed sheet. Evil is now profusely fountaining blood from mouth eyes and nose. I scream what the hell is this again and wake myself up by actually saying aloud IRL. Creepy as hell. (Indeed it was.)
(Note, this is still part of the same entry, but I skipped a line here. The crossed out stuff is indeed stuff that I wrote on the paper and then marked through in the journal itself.)
Other details:
earlier before
(Also, at this point, in the left margin I blocked in a good portion of the following bit with two separate curly braces. The first one has the notation "No evil" next to it, and the second one just has a line pointing from it up to the previous part, before the skipped line above. I'll try to simulate that with an open and close brace corresponding to the beginning and end of each brace.)
No evil {
Separate dream? But before / during? ↑ (Yeah, I drew another little arrow here, pointing to the previous section.) Same room. Ashly from HAWP was there. In and out. (Refers to "Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'?". Not sure what this was about since she didn't really do anything except leave, come back, then leave again.) Blonde girl was there but different? Not same person? Repeated cutscene to Optimus Prime (Wiki) who said something. Repeated this several times verbatim. I felt it vitally important to write it down in this very notebook in the dream, but didn't. Can't remember now what he said. Two parts, but can't remember either. (I really really wish I remembered what he was saying there, because he did indeed repeat it at least five or six times over the course of the dream. I'm sure it was very profound and world-changing or something.)
} No evil
↑ {
Someone trapped in bedside cabinet, or rather in the tangle of wires. Invisible. Can't ever free them unless wires untangled but they are far too intwined.
} ↑ (Guessing this refers to the mess of wires on the floor between my bed and nightstand, from the radio and the lamp. It's not really all that entwined though. Yeah, I misspelled "entwined" in the actual journal. Or, at least, Firefox spellcheck seems to think it's misspelled. Then again, Firefox spellcheck seems to think that "Firefox" and "spellcheck" are also misspelled as well, so what does it know?)
(And... that's it for the dream journal, so far. So, I'm going to stop talking in blue, italicized text now.)
It's been pretty cool so far, for the most part. For anyone even remotely interested in remembering their own dreams, I would recommend this. Just keep a notebook and pen/pencil next to the bed, and when you wake up from a dream, try to write everything that you remember down in the notebook. That's about all there is to it really, as far as I know.
It's been fairly interesting. Want to see some of (okay, all of) the entries? Sure, I knew you would.
These are transcribed pretty much verbatim, horrible spelling+grammar and all, from what I wrote into the notebook (with editorial comments, not written in the journal itself of course, in italics, blue text, and parentheses like this). Hopefully, the mish-mash won't get too awfully confusing... >_>
5-4-09
5:30 am
Man and woman. (Off to a good start already, eh? >_>) Talking about breaking up. At lake shore boat. (This is some random place that I've never been to in real life, at least that I can recall.) I'm there too. Woman is cop. (After reading some of the entries below this one and coming to a potential realization of my own, I should note here that this cop woman was blonde. It will become clear later, at least sort of, why I mention this now.) I'm partner. Man threatens woman saying they're going on boat and never coming back. Pulls gun. We pull as well. Standoff. Woman runs around corner of building to get backup. (Should note here that, unlike the lake shore above, this building is a little shed near my home back in NC. There was a indeterminate scene switch at some point during the above.) Man's gun changes from handgun to machine gun rifle. Brings up gun to shoot. I shoot him in balls. (>_>) He goes down. I approach. Ruse. He brings up gun again. I grab gun and force it down while doing crazy leap over him. Gun pushed down while firing. Man's thumb caught in trigger. Gun cuts man in half. Woke up. (And that was the first dream. They only get weirder from there, for the most part.)
5-5-09
4:30 am
Candi (comic) (Found here. And, yes, I actually did write the previous parenthetical comment in the journal itself for some reason. Not sure why I would be dreaming about this comic in particular and not one of the many others that I read, though, as it doesn't really hold any particularly special place in my heart compared to the others.) meets Sailor Moon? (Wiki) Powerpuff Girls? (Wiki) WITCH? (Wiki) Pink hair = Candi. Blue Hair = Linda. Blonde = ? Instigator. Magic involved. Revenge? Fighting at night. Making up for past falling out, glad but also disappointing. (Ok, most of that probably won't make sense unless you've been reading Candi. Sorry.) Dude getting tangled up in electrified wire. (This, like in the previous dream, was suddenly back on the farm in NC, after an indeterminate scene switch, but still seemed to be part of the same dream.) Night. Same dude morphed into dog, kicked in the ass. Feel bad for kicking dog, even if guy was asshole. Two other bad guys, don't remember. Fight with scythe? Old ass rusted out metal (car). (Er, the previous sentence, except for the car bit, is a line from an Insane Clown Posse song. I've been listening to ICP quite a bit for a little while now. Not entirely sure why, myself, except that I just like them, for some indefinable reason. That could be a LJ post in and of itself, but maybe later... Anyway, there was a car there, and it was old and rusted out. So there you have it.) Fountain? At school? (This is referring to the previous bit, prior to the guy wrapped up in wire. Not sure why it's way down at the bottom.)
5-5-09
6:30 am
(The following are several dreams at once, separated in the journal by a small line in the left margin, which I'll try to replicate here.)
Zelda Twilight Princess. (Wiki) Really high asteroid with Mario Galaxy (Wiki) properties. Miles high. Reachable by raising water level. While there water went down, had to dive. Landed in a chimney.
-
Listening to ICP wrestle on WWE (Wiki) radio. (Does the WWE actually have a radio station and/or do they broadcast their stuff on the radio? I have no idea. By the way, for what it's worth, the ICP actually did wrestle with the then WWF for a short time, but I don't recall ever actually seeing them myself. The most I remember is being able to play as Kurrgan in WWF Attitude for the PS1, and he came to the ring to another ICP song.) Trying to watch on tv but tv can't get station. Cartoon Planet! (Here, I think I meant Cartoon Network instead of Cartoon Planet, but eh. At any rate, I remember being really happy in the dream that I could get the channel again on my tv, which IRL I haven't had since the brief time I had full cable back in 2004-2005 or so, but dropped to save money. The tv in the dream for some reason was up on the same nightstand as my radio is, in my bedroom, the one here in WA.)
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Talking to Dion (
owsf2000 Heh... >_>) on IRC about the TP thing. (This day's first dream, above.) Something messes up and crazy file transfer starts. Weird b/w Matrix (Wiki) crap on screen. Finally get it under control.-
Also something about costumes in another game. Oblivion? (Wiki) GTA? (Wiki) Fable? (Wiki) Fallout 3? (Wiki) One all black one all red. Sort of look like The Shadow (Wiki), both.
-
Uber-five persona fusion spell (This refers to Persona 3.), like KOTR in FFVII (KOTR == Knights of the Round and FFVII == Final Fantasy VII. KOTR was an over-the-top summon spell in FFVII.)
5-6-09
7:30
Before the original movie, the Ghostbusters (Wiki) (Ray (Wiki), Peter (Wiki), Egon (Wiki)) invent some sort of singularity generator. I am Peter in this. In public unveiling, Egon turns it on. I get on platform. Visible cyclone like thing appears. Gravity is partially nullified and I start floating. It's pretty cool. Effect starts to intensify. Egon gets concerned, tries to turn it off. Can't turn it off. Something happens and "scene change" occurs.
-
I am still Peter Venkman. I am elsewhere on side of a road. (This road would be US 311, across the street from Checkers Grill and Grocery. Map. Not sure why, or even if, that is important, but that's where I was.) Blonde woman is nearby. "Peter" seems to know who this is, but I through his eyes do not. Both of us are naked with only two halves of a torn up trash bag to cover us. (I was WTFing at this even in the dream. o_O) Woman is incredibly embarrassed. Peter is amused. I am confused. We start toward where Egon is, trying to avoid public. Woke up.
5-16-09
7:30
(Note: these two followed my little ill-advised experiment the other day.)
Cool one. Think I've had it before. Somewhat Okami related. (Wiki. I am currently playing through the Wii version of this, which is probably why I was dreaming about it.) Lots of swishy flying colors. When you move lots of streamers of multi colors spew about in all directions. Numbered, and number significant in some way but impossible to predict until it happens. Can be manipulated for time travel somehow? Music related as well. Color corresponds to sound or note. There was an actual "plot" involved here but can't really remember. Something about how if you move one way and get a color pattern that you don't like or is "bad" somehow, you can go back a second or two and try again until you get something better. Trying to start a band? Five streamers correspond to fingers and placement on an instrument. Talking animals, but didn't seem weird. People from high school, or DigiPen or Internet. Revolving cast quickly changing. Name Ryoji from P3 (Persona 3, again.), but didn't actually meet him. Supposedly good at Okami or something.
9:30
(This one is why I called it "ill-advised" above... >_>)
Mirror image. Evil trying to kill me. Blonde girl is present. (Hmm... same one as from the previous dreams? Hadn't considered that until writing this up. I still have no idea who it is though.) Gentle, caring, opposes doppelgänger. Bedroom from WA but rest of house from NC. Nighttime. Think I'm awake. Open back door. Nothing happens at first but seconds later I feel invisible evil enter house. I scream wake up dad. I realize I'm "sleepwalking" (A small aside here. The one and only time that I recall ever sleepwalking IRL was many years ago, had to be almost 20 years ago I'd guess, following a dream about Turtles in Time, particularly this part, with that wrecking ball that follows you around. In the dream, I remember this thing following me and trying to crush me. I actually remember being maybe 50-75% asleep, but still getting up and running, screaming, through the house. My dad finally caught up to me and woke me up when I was on my second or third pass through the living room. It was absolutely crazy, and I felt nauseous and horrible that whole day. Anyway, back to the dream journal.) go back to bed. Evil double still there. We fight. Blonde girl tries to break it up but can't tell which is real me. I temporarily subdue evil. Blonde girl (short hair) (Not sure why this was something I noticed just then or if/why it was important to note in the journal.) and I embrace Evil comes back, knocks me down. Girl is gone now. Evil trying to smother me by blocking my nose. He stupidly doesn't block mouth too, but I don't realize it. (So who here is the stupider one?) Still breathing though. He's talking crap. Finally I get enraged. Throw him to floor. Severely beat him down. He starts screaming like a literal banshee. I say screw this and start to carry him from my WA bedroom to my NC living room where my dad is. Evil screams no world will end if father sees him. I have him under bed sheets. Dad hears screaming thing wants to know what's going on. I yell what the hell is this and pull off bed sheet. Evil is now profusely fountaining blood from mouth eyes and nose. I scream what the hell is this again and wake myself up by actually saying aloud IRL. Creepy as hell. (Indeed it was.)
(Note, this is still part of the same entry, but I skipped a line here. The crossed out stuff is indeed stuff that I wrote on the paper and then marked through in the journal itself.)
earlier before
(Also, at this point, in the left margin I blocked in a good portion of the following bit with two separate curly braces. The first one has the notation "No evil" next to it, and the second one just has a line pointing from it up to the previous part, before the skipped line above. I'll try to simulate that with an open and close brace corresponding to the beginning and end of each brace.)
No evil {
Separate dream? But before / during? ↑ (Yeah, I drew another little arrow here, pointing to the previous section.) Same room. Ashly from HAWP was there. In and out. (Refers to "Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'?". Not sure what this was about since she didn't really do anything except leave, come back, then leave again.) Blonde girl was there but different? Not same person? Repeated cutscene to Optimus Prime (Wiki) who said something. Repeated this several times verbatim. I felt it vitally important to write it down in this very notebook in the dream, but didn't. Can't remember now what he said. Two parts, but can't remember either. (I really really wish I remembered what he was saying there, because he did indeed repeat it at least five or six times over the course of the dream. I'm sure it was very profound and world-changing or something.)
} No evil
↑ {
Someone trapped in bedside cabinet, or rather in the tangle of wires. Invisible. Can't ever free them unless wires untangled but they are far too intwined.
} ↑ (Guessing this refers to the mess of wires on the floor between my bed and nightstand, from the radio and the lamp. It's not really all that entwined though. Yeah, I misspelled "entwined" in the actual journal. Or, at least, Firefox spellcheck seems to think it's misspelled. Then again, Firefox spellcheck seems to think that "Firefox" and "spellcheck" are also misspelled as well, so what does it know?)
(And... that's it for the dream journal, so far. So, I'm going to stop talking in blue, italicized text now.)
It's been pretty cool so far, for the most part. For anyone even remotely interested in remembering their own dreams, I would recommend this. Just keep a notebook and pen/pencil next to the bed, and when you wake up from a dream, try to write everything that you remember down in the notebook. That's about all there is to it really, as far as I know.
