Cleaning Up The Bloody House, The Singer of the Song, The Never Ending Battle, The Family Vacation

4:04am  (Dream 1, Day 1 of 40 Day Intensive)

Cleaning Up The Bloody House   [Big Dream] [NL] [Rating:R (for blood and gore)]

I am walking very methodically through a house, there is blood and gore everywhere.

I walk around very slowly seeing with incredible detail. My job is to clean the house. I have been house sitting and whatever happened took place while I was watching the house.

It Is not a horrible or scary scene. There's no fear, there is just detailed concern on my part about how I am going to get the house back to picture-perfect, My dog Weejee is with me and at one point I try to get her to go for a walk. When I open the front door the entire street and yard are also covered with this fresh blood. I don't want to let her out, because I am concerned she will track the blood back in after I clean up.

Earlier in the dream I look outside the house to the street. The entire street is also covered. I think something the size of a whale must have caused this mess. There is a slight hill running down to the left to the back side of the house when the mess is draining down like rain water. [water was added during editing\

I partially wake and am struck with how vivid, specific and detailed the dream is. I know it is important. I wonder, "what was it that happened to create this incredible mess?" I spend a considerable amount of time reviewing the events/scenes and even re-experiencing portions of the dream, Still I can't get any idea of the event(s) that caused all this.

I am going through the process of cleaning the floor in sort of layers. The blood is still very fresh and I hear this voice talking about an event that had happened a week before. It wasn't about an event it was like a factual discussion about how long it takes for meat to rot/decompose. Very scientific and dry. As I hear this I think to myself, "that's very strange there's no way it's been a week. But even so maybe it's because there are so many layers of meat that where I've been cleaning up I was now exposing layers that have been protected by the top players, Where I was it was still fresh although I could see areas where the blood was dried and I was concerned that it may not come perfectly clean. My eyes fixed on a detail that was like a white doily. I zeroed in on just a few square inches and I was trying to differentiate where the blood was still wet so that it could be cleaned up perfectly versus where it was dried and might be much more difficult to get clean.

At one point I realized the house might be an actual house from my past. It seems to have a similar layout to my cousin's house in Potomac where I spent a lot of time growing up.

[There is a disturbance in the bed (my wife getting up? The dog bumping my head?) but I still manage to stay with the dream. Not perfectly but I judged my contact with the dream by the intensity of the color of red and the feeling and almost smell of thickness and wetness.]

The dream seems to go on for very long time.

[But what seems to go on even longer is my attempt to stay with dream go in and out of sleep even with all the disturbance in the bed. It is very important to me and I feel good that I was able to stick with the dream that long and get more images. At one point I enter a tiny dream segment.]

There is a piece of this bloody gore very neatly placed on a little tray.

[As I lay in bed my hands and arms are going to sleep. At one point I move my hand so that I could get some circulation, but that interrupted the dream so I put it back under my arm was able to maintain contact with the dream.]

I am not just cleaning up but am doing a very meticulous job of cutting through layers of meat. Like cutting a steak or doing a dissection in a lab. I hear a dialogue in my head that if you cut it perfectly; piece by piece, that you can discover the underlying anatomy. Indeed, this was the source for people originally understanding human anatomy because that's what had been done. I am confused whether this had been done hundred of years before or whether I was one of the people that was making the discovery.

                                         Pictures that are similar to details of the dream.

Notes: There were several times in the dream where I was completely convinced that I could bring this house back to perfect condition. It was like the movie Risky Business where the kid's entire house is empty of furniture while the parents are away and he manages to get everything back and yet there's one tiny detail, in the movie there's a crack in a glace egg or something.

I just embarked on 40 days of intense dream work (hopefully) and attended the Rhine Dream Group. I think this dream was influenced by a discussion with the dream group earlier this evening. Steve was talking about a very prim and proper church member that dreamed of all kinds of blood and gore.

On one level I'm very happy that I had this very intense vivid dream and that I could remember it and stick with it.

I'm also experimenting with recording with Google Docs voice to text. It seems to work pretty well but only allows me to go for a few seconds at a time. So far, this is far superior to writing this all out.

10:00am (Dream 2 of 40 Day Intensive)

The Singer of the Song   [NL] [HD] [HS], Snippet only.

I'm floating back down the same canal as in the dream where I was battling. But this time I am primarily listening to a song. I hear an amazing singer a male singer fairly high pitched voice but very clear very beautiful. I don't recognize the singer or the song.

Notes: Incredibly detailed, it's like I'm pushing the pillow up against my ear to make a headset fit better to hear more clearly. I can hear every detail in the voice.  During the dream I am analyzing weather they were professionally/classically trained or just natural. I decided it was professional but natural.


(Dream 3 of 40 Day Intensive)

The Never Ending Battle  [NL] [HD] [[R:Violence]

I am it with a small group of warriors that is inside a compound of the enemy. We are hidden and relaxed. We are discover, or something else joins us in battle.

A fast-moving rolling battle begins very concentrated, but quickly we break into a smaller and smaller groups as we are picked off. It feels like we are trying to escape, our actual mission is not clear. We are excellent fighters but are greatly out numbered. The action is constantly moving. [RT] I dive into a canal with rapidly moving water. Everything is bright with beautiful detailed architecture. There are detailed stone works lining the waterway. I briefly make my way back on to the sides lined with the enemy. I grab a large shield. It is made from a large animal, like a huge sea turtle. I get back into the water and use the shield to protect me, an possibly others, from arrows that are reining down. We float under several narrow bridges that span the canal.

I'm now out leading a small rapidly dwindling group. I am running across the lawn, almost like a college campus. [RT]. There are old stone buildings surrounded by manicured lawns, trimmed shrubs and planted flowers. . At this point all of the people are completely unaware there is this battle going on they just walking around on a sunny morning.

I come upon a young woman as I make my way down a gentle hill. She's doing something like playing a game or planting a garden. She's very tranquil. I grab her, turn her around, pull her long blonde hair covered head backwards and break her neck. I leave her for dead.

Notes: It's called the never ending battle because I have a feeling that there was a segment of the dream just before the one I remembered where everything was very similar but this time I was on opposite side. of the never ending battle. One of the the main features of the dream is that it is constantly moving. The battle between soldiers then boils over onto a campus or some similar setting where most of the people are no longer soldiers and I'm still murdering them.

(Day 1, Dream 4 of 40 Day Intensive)

The Family Vacation

We have been traveling and are now were taking in a condo or apartment. Everything is bright and sunny. It's the morning and we are trying to decide if it's time to leave again

There are several animals that need to be walked. When I open the door I see Alex with a dog but he's got on raincoat on and it's raining and I have to talk to them to see how long it's going to be before he's ready to go but he can't answer me because he has to get into the house because now it's raining and he only has a minute or two.

There is this really large dog that's walking around it's big and shaggy and it has a cat riding on it's back.There are several other people in the apartment that I'm trying to coordinate with. I don't recall exactly who they are

At one point I'm watching this large dog meander around the yard and I realize that now not only does he have the cat on his back but my my pet dog Weejee is also on his back. I wonder how she is going to be able to get her business done if she is just riding.

When he he comes in the house I'm looking at him from behind and he has this hugely wide back. It is three or 4 feet wide. In the middle of his back you can see were his spine sticks up but that is the round part of his spine. It is only about a third of the width of his back and everything else is broad and flat as if it was made for other animals to ride on

2:00pm

Notes on first day: I said I wanted to concentrate on dreams and here I am being flooded with them so that's pretty amazing. I guess my subconscious is going along with this idea and encouraging me (us?)

I have the sense that most of these dreams, all the ones in the second set, shared a common location or physical dream element. (i was going back and forth into these dreams and waking) For example, It seemed that the canal in the battle dream I was floating down in the dream about a song. The slope of the dog's back in the vacation dream was similar to the slope of the hill in the battle dream. Weird.

I have also become aware that even with the Google docs that this is going to be very time-consuming.

I want to start numbering the dreams of my Summer 2016 40 day intensive. So do it!...Done.

Day 1 of 40: 1st day OK, not great, but a good 1st step.  Need to get on track with Reality Checks, Dream Signs and Raised Self Awareness in Waking Life.