Elvis in Carrboro

Monday August 12, 2019 1:00am

Elvis in Carrboro  (Choline 500mg, Galantamine 8mg)

I am with Cindy at some roadside event. I need to retrieve Alex, we are not far from home. I begin the walk and immediately have difficulty. I find myself on a street I do not recognize. I call Cindy (or ask out loud) do we have an eBay street? The dream is very vivid and detailed. I walk thru a line of bushes with gaps just big enough for a person.

I am returning in Cindy's car with Alex, but the going it rough. At some point I get to the bushes that a car won't fit through. I run into a cart full of things from a rummage sale. Somehow an electrical appliance comes on in some way connected to the car (maybe thru the windshield) The car turns over or nearly so.

I look up and the sky is amazing and beautiful. I say out loud, it look like a petri dish. I turn to tell Alex and when I look back ti has changed. As I look at it is changing rapidly. There are many shapes migrating rapidly across the sky and changing in shape and color.

There are several people milling around and I ask loudly for help. A man responds and then is briefly out of sight. I panic but he appears and come to the car. We know each other from past encounters, but we can't remember each other's names. He pronounces his and gives a phonetic reminder on how to pronounce it (Solevey?) He looks me straight in the eyes just inches away. Do we know each other from the ManKind Project, The Y? Yes, he says and Elvis too. I think to myself, must have been the Elvis parade in Carrboro.  I wake. Amazed yet frustrated I did not go lucid.

Notes: I had a pre-lucid dream the night before actually saying in the dream, "Am I dreaming.?" I believe part of me is screaming "wake up" in my dream. Maybe in my waking life as well.

What does the dream want? For me to wake up in my dreams and in my life. Wow.

How do I respond? First by adding this prompt to my dream journal. I Googled "how to listen to that small voice in your head." Meditation. Plus attention to detail. Plus, ask, be quiet, listen, and then follow the advice.  Commitment to action (Followed up in Burton 5.0) meditate 30 minutes a day from now on.

Wednesday August ,  2019 12:00pm

Un-stealing with Guns

I am part of a group of people all being coordinated for a large effort aimed at putting something back that was stolen. I am mostly an observer. A large vehicle is filled with several people capsizes and people spill out, unhert, but very ineffectual. 

I have a series of dreams falling in and out of this location. Repeated incompetencies with guns and poorly planned activities. 

Notes: Don't remember dreaming about guns before. Spent a lot of time on line looking at them. Discovered 6.8 SPC rounds. I want an AR chambered in 6.8. I should be a pistol/handgun first and get competent with it.

What does the dream want: For me to progress slowly (or not at all) on any gun purchase.

Medieval Carbonite Freeze

Friday August 2, 2019 1:00pm

Medieval Carbonite Freeze

Individual Protection Segment

I am in a large public facility that is a combination of a transportation hub and a hotel. I am processing myself and my luggage.

I am putting myself through a machine process that creates an ultimate protective unit. I am being converted into a solid box of thick wooden slats banded with a massive (4" thick) cast iron frame. The boards bulge in the middle as I am  converted into wood. The finished product  feels very safe, but very permanent. The result is a 3ft x 3ft x 6in solid piece of wood. As it comes out of the machine, it bulges up to a foot thick as my body is processed into the form. 

         

                                                Star Wars                   Individual Protection

Personal Belongings Segment

I am now standing in front of another  large machine that is designed to pack your bags. There is a large mechanical mechanism that starts with a massive lock.  I discover that it does not have a unique key, buy only a very heavy and unique way to turn the machine on. It takes everything in my compact bag and processes it into organized compartments.

I am helping an attractive woman with the machine, but her possessions are very numerous, poorly organized and not in one bag. She is working on getting them all stuffed into one bag.

We are watching the results from another younger woman whose very numerous possessions are being processed but are overwhelming the machine and becoming disorganized.

Notes: I awoke very happy that I could remember and name the dream elements. I went over the names numerous times before opening my eyes.

What does the dream wnat? Take it to the dream group. I feel like it is related to my struggling getting my shit together (income, intimacy, health).

Dream Life: Dreams ≡ Life

Friday July 12, 2019  1:00pm

Dream Life

Just changed the name of this blog from Carrboro Dreamers to "Dream Life." This change reflects my realizations on the interdependence of dreams and what we call real life or objective reality. I have expressed it logically as Dreams ≡ Life. (x ≡ y means x is defined to be another name for y)
I like to think of  ≡ as Super Equal.

The change of name also reflects that I will be journaling brief  life events in this blog as well. I hope to reserve the domain name,, DreamLife.net and use it going forward as a foundation for my dream work.

Found this image on the web, shout out to...

Kirsten Weinzierl

Blogger and Coach, Obtaining Bliss

https://www.dreamlifeisreallife.com/

Plan it Like a Military Operation

Sunday July 7th, 2019 8:30am

Plan it Like a Military Operation

I am on a campus with many people participating in a training operation for military aviation. I am the pilot in a team that has a very specific mission to perform. We are to extract a small package from the ground as part of the operation.

It is the night before the big event and we are getting together in our teams. I meet my two team members outside on the lawn with many people coming and going. We agree to meet later and finalize our plans.

I am walking around trying to find a good spot to meet and have some ideas based on earlier explorations, including into some places that are likely off limits. I am going through winding hallways, back doors and small nooks to find a place. I realize I don't know where my team members arte. I am now rushing all over trying to find the others. I see all the other grounds settling into their planning sessions. I begin to panic and feel like crying. I  realize the irony in crying at  military operation.

I wake, upset and disappointed. I reflect for a moment and try and reenter the dream. I realize that I can plan the whole operation myself. Including detailed scripts for each participant. Hopefully the others are doing the same. When we find each other we can compare the plans and make last minute corrections.

I wake the second time with a renewed sense or hope based on organization. "Plan it Like a Military Operation."

Notes: The immediate idea that comes to mind is to put a time on each todo item on my list.  Hard to get around. Shit! Being in a large institutional setting and not doing well is a common theme for me. Nice to see a happy ending. I was not able to fully rejoin the dream but greatly benefited from opening myself to the dream's agenda/theme.

What does the dream want? For me to get things done.

After tiny bit of research...from an article on What the Military Can Teach Us About Productivity

1. Make Your Bed

2. Be More Stoic
(The point is that “sometimes, no matter how well you prepare, or how well you perform, you still end up as a sugar cookie*… if you want to change the world, get over being a sugar cookie, and keep moving forward”.)

3. Find Your Battle Rhythm

4. Tackle Small Tasks Right Now (Less than 5 minutes)

5. Keep Going (A circus was two hours of additional calisthenics, designed to wear you down, to break your spirit, to force you to quit. During the training period everyone went to the Circus. The interesting thing, however, was that those students who were routinely invited to the Circus became stronger and faster: The pain of the Circus built inner strength and physical resiliency.)

Increasing Your Productivity 

(The military’s approach to productivity: To turn up and do the work, no matter what,)

* For failing uniform inspection, the student had to run fully clothed into the surf zone. Then, wet from head to toe, roll around on the beach until every part of your body was covered with sand… you stayed in the uniform the rest of the day: cold, wet, and sandy. The effect was known as sugar cookie.

Clueless at School

Thursday May 30, 2019  1:15pm

Clueless at School

I am getting dressed and preparing to go to college classes. I am wearing  a coat, commo bottom and some sort of shirt. As I review each class I realize I have barely gone to class and am clueless as to what is going on. I imagine the teachers perspective and don't see a way they can pass me, even if they wanted to. I woke feeling sad.

Note: This is a repeating dream theme I have had many times.

What does the dream want?  For me to get organized and productive. I felt much better during the day as I made plans for being productive. So far, done some shopping for things to organize the house but no real progress.

Climbing Party Street

Wednesday May 15, 2019 10:25am

Climbing Party Street

I am on a night on the town with a female friend. We are pub crawling, but it is exptime. Every step we take is climbing stairs and pushing through bodies pressed together in a continuous crowd. I recognize that I have been here before (pre-lucid?). There is something dangerously mystical about the place.

I loose my friend in the crowd. I find myself following Cindy through the crowd. She takes some turns and steps up that are impossible to follow and I lose her as well. I wake excited about dreaming after another series of dreams.

Notes: Excited by details and familiarity of the dream scene.  Want to go back to previous lucid encounters in a similar space.

What does the dream want? Know that I am lost in my loneliness. Hope for future dreaming.