The Modest Refugee

8:03 AM August 18 [NL] [HS]

I am in a small building with a lot of other people, it is very busy. Many people are coming and going. It's like a shower room or a bathhouse.

There are men and women and families. It's as if we are refugees. We have no clothes, but we have towels.  No one is stressed, people are all in a pretty good mood.

I am talking with someone I know, it might be  my mother or some female member of my family. I  pick up a bag of miscellaneous (donated?)  clothes and pick the ones I want.

I go into a little room to change and there's a plastic curtain like a shower curtain.  The top half of the curtain is opaque, but the bottom half is clear, split  horizontally.   Down to about my waist it is all solid but then below the waist it's all clear. I go to find a better, more modest place to change.

As I am leaving the room I bump into a beautiful young woman. Our large towels get intertwined momentarily. We have too spin slightly to get separated. We laugh and carry on.

I walk into another room that is also very compact and crowded. There is some sort of presentation/event going on. I walk through that space into a another space that is separated by a curtain. This time the large curtain is also partially opaque and partially clear. But now it is split vertically so I can adjust it to see through part of it and change behind the other part.

If feels like a storage room wit all kinds of stuff piled up. The another family in a similar predicament, a father with two or three sons. We adjust the curtain so his kids can see the performance. I notice there are plates of food on top of the boxes and junk spread around. I decide to do a little clean up, but discover that the food is still hot.  I see fried chicken on the plates in great detail. I feel the heat coming off the food. I decide that these must belong to the family, so I leave them alone.

Clear part of shower curtain, upside down.

 (More exposed than this, the clear part  came waist high.)

Clear part of curtain to the left, had to be adjusted.

Notes:  I had several dreams this morning including when I woke up after about three hours sleep. All the dreams were the dreaded [NDR]. I couldn't connect with them. After I just had so much success with several dreams last night. Why am I blocked? One reason might be because they're scary.

So I have a conversation with myself as if I was talking to my subconscious.  I say "please don't be afraid" because if I/we remember these dreams I'll be able to deal with the fear better.

Then I realize that my subconscious was not the fearful part, because my subconscious was experiencing the dreams. The part that was potentially scarred was my conscious self. So I rephrased it and I said "please let my conscious part remember  my dreams so that I can integrate them to be less fearful. It was an acknowledgment that my subconscious was protecting my conscious self from the fear.

This seemed to work, because I remembered the next dream. I need to integrate this conversation into my meditations.

Evening assessment of  day 3 of 40 Day Intensive Dream Incubation: I am getting better at paying attention to detail as I navigate my day. I decide to be less negative about the world and spend more time being in awe of what there is and what man has accomplished. A random thought occurs to me,  "Is money the replacement for survival as the force of natural selection?  Ugly but necessary?"

Note: Social Darwinism is a name given to various theories of society which emerged in the United Kingdom, North America, and Western Europe in the 1870s, and which claim to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics. Hummm.....

Reminder:

Dream Enhancement Check List

1. Really put the effort in, (especially reality checks). Write everything in your journal.

2. Recall your dreams (and no dreams remembered) daily in your journal.

3. Review your Dream Signs often

4. Meditate 15 minutes twice a day.

5. Raise Self Awareness In Waking Life (More attention to detail)

6. Regulate your sleep cycles & sleep environment (Up at 6:00am)

7. Use Nootropics.

8. Use a hybrid WBTB and WILD technique. Wake your mind 2 hours early, let your body go back to sleep, but not your mind.  Go lucid! Use stabilization techniques to keep lucidity going.
9. Incubate Remote Viewing for Debbie's Drawer.