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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.