Girl of my dreams

The dream started with a girl and I lying down on a bed. Not doing anything we are not suppose to do but just hanging out. She was taking pictures with her phone's camera. I felt that we were very close but weren't an item yet. Although I felt like I wanted to and felt that she has the same feelings.

She has long hair, thin and quite fair. Average height I believe. Her body was ok and her assets weren't the large variety. It seemed like I didn't like her when we first met but my feelings changed as I got to know her.

I seem to have long hair in this dream and she commented that I looked like a girl with girl's hair. Don't know why this was in the dream. It just was. Maybe I was after a lesbian.

I went to the toilet after that, but somehow my good friend J was there as well. It was a public toilet. He went to used the stall so I had to use the urinal. But the place was pretty flooded, so I had no choice but to aim into the flooded area. After that I went to a locker area and was changing. I was suppose to bring her around to go sight seeing. I guess she isn't local. But alas after I changed the dream totally changed into something else. No more dream girl.

Painful dream

My colleagues and I were in a room, a classroom to be exact. Like the one when I was in secondary school. There was a moth flying around and XLG was hitting it. The moth fell down to the ground for a while before flying up again.

XLG decided to hit it again and once again it slump to the ground only to get up again. The third time he did it, I shouted at him "Throw the thing out the window!". He picked it up and threw it at me.

I got kind of startled so I threw the thing away. I heard a big bang and awoken with my hand in pain. I'd hit my hand on the desk besides my bed. Very hard I might add cos I still feel the pain. I guess I must be one of those people to move their hands and feet in a dream (I've been told that I mumble in my sleep). Hope I don't get into trouble with my next bed mate unlike a friend of mine. But that is another story all together.

I code in Lua

Lua is a programming language. I was reading about it the other day when I fell asleep. It was pretty late at night .. about 3-30 - 4am . Before I knew it , I was dreaming that I was coding in Lua. I was making it do some fancy stuff, linking it to html, to aspx, etc. The whole dream was more like me looking into a screen. I was just typing code. Of course, to me, the code is correct Lua code but it could have been total giberish !

I must be coding too hard to get this type of dream.

Lucid Dream

What is a Lucid Dream?

A lucid dream is when you while dreaming are aware that you are dreaming. The beautiful thing is when you are able to exert control over your dream. You know .. faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound..

Types of Lucid Dreams

There are basically two ways you can have a lucid dream. The first is while having a normal dream, train yourself to know that you are in a dream then control your dream. This is called dream-initiated lucid dream (DILD).

The second method is to go from a waking state directly into a dream state without actually falling asleep. Hard? Probably. Impossible ? Probably not.

Induction methods

Ways to help you achieve lucid dreaming.

1. Dream recall
   
• Remember your dreams. The better you can remember them will increase your ability to recognise that you are in a dream. The main technique to improve recall is to keep a dream journal. For an example of a dream journal go here . Yeap. This blog is a dream journal. MY dream journal.
• Another method to improve dream recall is to keep still after waking up. This supposedly helps you remember your dream. Not too sure about this. I usually head off to the throne when I wake up.
  
2. Reality Testing
• This is reality checking. You can simply look at some book in your dream, look away then look back. If the text has changed, you are dreaming.
  
• Pinching yourself. Standard test everyone should know.
• Try moving through objects like Micah's dad.
  
• Go to http://dreamingstrangedreams.blogspot.com/ . If you can read this article again you probably are not dreaming.
• Do all that while you are dreaming, you should realize that you are dreaming. Duh!. After which just kick a$$ in your dream.
  
3. Dream Signs
• Look for weird things, like your bed floating around, or your bedroom opens up to a Melbourne street. Once you know you are in a dream.. see above.
  
4. Mnemonic induction of lucid dreams(MILD)
• The MILD technique is a common technique developed by Dr Stephen LaBerge, used to induce a lucid dream at will by setting an intention, while falling asleep, to remember to recognize that one is dreaming, or to remember to look for dream signs when one is in a dream.*
5. Wake-Back-To-Bed
• Stay awake until you are tired. Sleep for five hours. Wake up . Keep on telling yourself you want to lucid dream for an hour. Then go to bed again. Doesn't really work for me as I sleep like a log.
  
6. Cycle Adjustment techniques
• The cycle adjustment technique, developed by Daniel Love, is an effective way to induce lucid dreaming. It involves adjusting one's sleep cycle to encourage awareness during the latter part of the sleep. First, the person wakes up 90 minutes before normal wake time until their sleep cycle begins to adjust. After this, the normal wake times and early wake times alternate. On the days with the normal wake times, the body is ready to wake up, and this increases alertness, making lucidity more likely.*

Well good luck trying to achieve your lucid dream. Have I done it before? Yes. It was a bit lucky. Will blog about it next time.



*from wikipedia

Cross Stich Dreams

This dream is another of those multiple scenes dream. I am not sure whether they are different dreams or just twists to the dream.

The first part I am with my brothers and parents in small car. The youngest and smallest is sitting in the front with my dad driving. I was complaining that the back was too small. My older brother and I had to twists our body to fit inside.

I think I was reading a newspaper because I dreamt of a football result. Some manager was in the bottom of the league. The guy was a former chelsea assistant manager (I'm not a Chelsea fan and this dream was before I found out about Mourinho leaving) but has chance to be most improved manager of the year. Go figure. I guess there is no way but up if you are at the bottom of the league.

The somehow the scene changed again. I think I was either in a boat or floating in the sea with some people. 2 girls and don't remember who else. We headed to a chocolate wafer type island. Some one (I think it was one of the girls) said it was not homogeneous . I guessed she meant that it is not the only place in the world like that. We went on the island, one of the girls was riding a chocobo type of bird. You can see the island bobbing everytime the bird ran past. Further in the island was a departmental store. We went up to the top floor quite quickly looking for something. When we finally decided to go down I was trying to impress one of the girls. I jumped down the stairs like how like a traceur would do it. The final jump was quite scary cos I just missed a cosmetic stand. Imagine that, Loneneko doing parkour. Well they were not terribly impressed with that though

When we were at the ground floor, the girls was trying to buy something. maybe chocolate.
After that we headed outside. There was a lake out there. The view was great with green grass, and a nice blue lake. There were some people playing cricket on our left. One guy had a cricket ball the size of a boulder and was trying to throw it. He was throwing it like a scotsman in a highland games doing the weight over bar event.

As we walked towards the lake trying to get to the ferry, I think I was trying to chat one of the girls up. I don't remember what I said but one of the girl (the one who I wasn't interested in) was saying I was such a typical sales man , using the same sales techniques and being very persistent. The girl I liked seemed to be nonchalant and changed the subject by mentioning that the chicken boxing in the ferry was very nice.

While walking down to the pier, the ground turned really muddy, the type of mud where you can go in all the way to your knees. I lost my slippers that way and fell down on my back side. I don't know who those girls were but I doubt they were going to be interested after that slip up (pun intended) . Guess I can't get the girl even in my dreams.

King of Bosses 07

This dreams starts in a room, an apartment most likely. Nice creamy fluffy carpets, white kitchen counter top, two rooms next to the kitchen. Something you might find at Southbank in Melbourne. I was in the kitchen sitting on a stool facing the kitchen counter. VW (boss no. 2, I was under the other boss first) was with me near the laptop. LB (boss no. 1) was nearby and seemed a bit drunk. I seem to get the feeling that VW is my immediate superior.

VW was showing me how to highlight a section inside some program. Felt like Xara. The section had a door panel type of pattern on it. After highlighting and a couple of clicks later, he turned the section into ...... wait for it ........... a section without the door panel.

LB saw this and became angry. He wanted to change that section back to the original. They started fighting. First it was just a normal shouting argument. Slowly it felt more and more like a lover's tiff. I quickly went to shutdown the laptop.

LB got angry enough and went to his room slamming the door. VW went charging in after him. After a short while, LB came out pushing me away from the laptop. I told him I've already shutdown the computer but he didn't care. I let him turn it back on.

Now here comes the weird bit. I'm not sure whether it was the same dream or another dream straight after this one but LB seemed to have a roller coaster ride. I don't know whether i just thought about it or did i say to LB about his roller coaster ride. I thought he needed more than one ride to be successful.

That's pretty much the dream. Pretty crappy.

Good Dream

Good dream i dreamt,
i am sure it was,
but for the life of me,
i can't remember.

Hotels, Airports and Lamborghinis

This is kind of long. I am not sure if I have the order correct but this is what I'm sticking with.

It started at some hotel room. I was inside with my parents. I think I was working on some weird usb connection for the internet while my mother, bless her, was nagging on about whether i have my flight ticket with me.

My best friend came to visit me. Don't remember what we did but when he left, i went downstairs with 2 other people. I don't remember who they were.

While waiting for lift, there was room with its door ajar. I manage to peek inside for a look and lo and behold I can see a girl looking in the mirror. She was only wearing bra and panties. I guess one of they guys with me noticed it as well. He tried to open the door to see more. In my mind I knew there would be a guy in there that would give him a good wallop for peeping.

But when he opened the door, instead of a punch there was a bunch of people inside, some we knew some we didn't. They were there for some event. Oh and the half-naked girl is gone. Darn.

I guess the dream went into a commercial or something but the scene changed into turn to an airport scene. I was there waiting for plane, sitting down on one of those plastic benches watching tv. I was joined by colleagues. Suddenly I end up buying a computer . So I end up installing it.

My ASUS-Lamborghini VX2S ????

It sure looked like a laptop when I bought it but in parts of my dream it was a desktop.

I'm pretty sure it was an ASUS-LAMBORGHINI VX2S . Hehe. Maybe not exactly a VX2S but definitely something similar.

It had the standard yellow casing but with the words diabolos near the screen in some sort of graffiti style font. No leather finishing though.

There were definitely many extras. First of all, there was a keyboard, on the left hand side, there was large ctrl button can move up to reveal a touch pad. On the right hand side, where the numpad is suppose to be there was a plane throttle control.

The mouse pad has a contraption to hold my elbow in place. Maybe I dreamt this part up because my RSI is acting up. Stupid Ulnar Nerve Entrapment.

My Keyboard

It had a second keyboard as well, with MACRO Buttons. The one all SilkRoad Online players all want. Thats why I showed it to one of my colleagues immediately :)

However, when I checked with MG, this computer had a lousy processor and only 1GB ram. Guess my lamborghini only has a proton engine inside.

The best feature however isnt the keyboard but for some reason there was a chinese chess set inside. That was cool. And all of this for how much? $4,500. What a steal.

The Angel

I dreamt a dream! What can it mean?
And that I was a maiden Queen
Guarded by an Angel mild:
Witless woe was ne'er beguiled!

And I wept both night and day,
And he wiped my tears away;
And I wept both day and night,
And hid from him my heart's delight.

So he took his wings, and fled;
Then the morn blushed rosy red.
I dried my tears, and armed my fears
With ten thousand shields and spears.

Soon my Angel came again;
I was armed, he came in vain;
For the time of youth was fled,
And grey hairs were on my head.

~~ William Blake~~

Star Wars Episode 3.1415926535897932384626

Well I'll be a son of a duck.

After reading my post on Darth Vader Vs the Duck, MG (my colleague) had a dream of his own. According to him, he was seeing himself in third person from behind (like in the game Hitman) and he was fighting with Darth Vader. I'm not sure but maybe he was using a light saber like Luke or more likely the one used by Darth Maul (the guy likes to mod stuff you know) .

I guess he must have got knocked down or something cause he was holding on to Darth Vader's leg trying to stop him from escaping. He should have just pointed the light sabers at Darth Vader's cojones. I don't care if he is a Sith Lord, any guy getting hit on the crown jewels ain't going to run anywhere any time soon. Or did Anakin's nuts get roasted in the lava pits?

Dream Excerpts

I've been having a few dreams the past few days but nothing interesting enough to deserve a post of its own. Most of it I only remember bits and pieces.

Infernal Affairs
I dreamt I was going to a Civil Service department to meet a friend/customer. I thought it was for some other business but when I got there, they were offering me a job in the Civil Service. I had to go to another city AND the job is as an investigator. Kind of like what the Internal Affairs department do in the police force.

Grasshoppers
This is sort of a weird dream/nightmare. Imagine this, lying down on the floor enjoying yourself. Then out of the blue there is alot of grasshoppers around. You move your feet and you end up crushing a few of them bugs. You move your feet and see tons of crushed grasshopper. So you go and crush some more. Not scarry , scarry but yucky gross scarry.

In bed
In this dream, I find myself in bed with my friend's sister. Dirty buggers.. this is not a wet dream. For some reason I find myself in a room with my friend's sister (lets call her A). We were NOT alone, someone else was there but can't remember who but definitely not A's brother. Anyway, she was on the bed and I just covered her with a blanket. That's all honest. The strange part is I would actually dream of her. No. I'm not into her.

Well, I think 3 is more than sufficient. There are others but either its boooooring or I remember too little of it to write it in.

Dream on Dream strong

Dreams controlled by the Telly

I tend to sleep with something on. Either on the telly or lately running on my laptop. What I have noticed is that your dreams can be dictated by what is playing on the boob tube.

When I was in Australia, I used to watch the telly until I fall asleep, never bothering to turn off the tv. Hey late night tv is good: Late Show with David Letterman, old reruns of sitcoms and even some new ones. But I digress. In Australia especially on Channel Ten , they would show some religious programs early in the morning. When I kick in to my REM sleep, I would get dreams and/or nightmares with Christian/God/Satan overtones. Can't really remember the exact dream but you get the picture.

With cartoons or comedies, you get really funny weird dreams as well. Don't have specific examples but any dream with its own laugh track is a good dream. I suppose if you have masochistic tendencies you might want to sleep to "The Ring" or "Nightmare on Elm Street".

Currently sleeping to Nickelodeon .

A Dream in Two Parts

Just another ordinary dream but in two parts.

Pt. 1
I start out in a meeting with a singaporean customer. There are two of them sitting in a meeting room. They are asking for manual. I seem to promise them that they would have it by next week. After that is done I suddenly end up boarding a plane with my colleague.


Pt.2 (In the plane)
I am walking down the aisle of the plane to find a seat. Guess its Air Asia our Asian budget airline. I seem to be with a few colleagues. Some found a place to sit but I still move further down with another colleague MG. I think I pass my parents with another kid. I don't remember if I said anything to them. I walk further down with my colleague. He found a spot but I kept on going, looking for a better seat.

As I walk down, I see my customer but now she is an airline hostess. She sounded more like teacher barking an order for us to sit down. There is a seat at the very back but it is covered up by a wall .. not the usual separator you find in between First Class and Economy but the cheap skate type mad of plywood. I tried to sit there but I feel uncomfortable sitting there so I got seat next to MG. As soon as I sat down I felt uncomfortable because two guys in front is leaning back which I thought was very inconsiderate. They were talking and MG said something funny I can't remember what. The two guys tend chatted with us but were quite insulting. I said something insulting back but one of them took offense. I felt angry too. Adrenaline was rushing through my system. A fight was about to start. Then .................. my alarm rang.

Darth Vader Vs the Duck

Welcome to my dream diary. This is just a collection of weird dreams I’ve had and things to do with dreams and sleep. Let’s start of with one of the clearest and oldest dream in my memory.

This is one of the weirdest reoccurring dreams that I’ve ever had. The first time I had this dream was probably when I was 7-8 years old and that dream lasted a couple of nights in a row. Then after a 10 year hiatus, I dreamt the same dream again.

Here’s how it goes:

When the dream starts, I don’t actually feel like I am in the dream but I am seeing (from behind) Darth Vader addressing his large company of Storm Troopers, kind of like one of those scenes where Hitler is giving a speech to his army. He is up high on a stage and you can see scores of Storm Troopers below. I don’t remember what was being said but it gave me the creeps.

Then out of nowhere, a duck walks across the stage, stops when his path is blocked by Darth Vader. The duck looks up and says to Darth Vader and says “Excuse me”. Darth Vader then looks at the duck and says “I’m sorry” and moves aside to let the duck pass. I don’t know why but at this point I’m usually scared stiff and awaken suddenly with my pulse racing and cold sweat pouring down my face. I know there is nothing scary about this dream. I just can’t explain it. Any students of Freud care to have a go?