Timing is Everything

Timing is Everything

I am at a street fair or some large gathering of folks outside in my neighborhood. I am trying to perform a trick or demonstration. It is a physical feat that involves hooking up to something like a chin up bar pulling myself up by also have briefcase or something in my hand. I'm explaining in great detailed people how this needs to be done.. I'm particularly interested in the kids watching the longer I take to explain the more of them that are drifting away and are no longer paying attention. And then get an additional insight that makes me explain and practice a piece of the trick about the hook hooking onto the bar or some such thing. This point there are no longer any children or their parents watching.

Saving the Veterans

There's a small group of veterans standing in line. I am walking past them and realize no one is paying attention. I also realize just by paying attention they can be saved. I think about them and somehow the group is identified and released. It's almost like a highlight cut and paste operation.

Notes: not sure if this is significance but I'm realizing a pattern where I remember dreams early from the night keep repeating them to remember them but then don't remember ones later where there should be more of them. Might have something to do with my sleep pattern while I'm waiting for my new CPAP machine.

What does the dream want?  The veteran's dream it was very brief and fairly obvious. For me to figure out a way to help veterans regardless of what happens with this job position.

When I went to name the dream and came up with timing is everything that seems obvious as well. Get things done when I need to get done.

Reality check: I certainly need to get things done and timing is becoming critical.

Bumper sticker: Do it now.

Dreams to action: Get going right now.

Multiple Dreams (Lucid w/suppliments)

Camouflage (lucid w/supplements)

I am debating getting out of bed to get a blanket. My wife volunteers to bring me back one, but I get out of bed anyway. I see a blanket but get distracted by a feather keepsake. I take it back to bed with me. As I am settling down I notice the feather is being blown around by my fan and I am worried it will be damaged. It blows next to another natural object, a small tree branch/leaf thing (dream logic) and I notice they have the exactly same coloring. Light brown on the outside with white in the center. I realize the bird the feather came from is perfectly matched to be camouflaged in the tree the branch came from.

I go back into dream and go full lucid briefly while looking at white pills on floor. I have very vivid detailed view of the tiny objects on the floor and turn my hand around and flex my fingers to demonstrate I am in a lucid dream. The lucid part ends quickly but does not wake me up.

Hospital Waiting Room (partially lucid)

I am cleaning up the room and it is starting to get wet (windows are leaking?) It gets wetter and wetter and eventually there is a couple of feet of water all over the room.  I am cool because I know it is a dream. 

I walk outside the room into a dark hospital hallway and decide to not go there because it will likely be dark and scary. I see a kitten climbing up the metal door (I notice this is strange). I bring him in the room. While playing with him he briefly speaks. Most of the others in the room are not particularly moved by this.

Dream Characters from Another Dream are in the room briefly. They acknowledge they are from another dream and two of them start to make out. I am jealous. 

Sorting Storage Dish Lids

I prepare a  stew that has been stored in plastic bags. I package them all up in storage containers for others to take home but struggle with morphing lids. The woman homeowner is spraying plants and it gets on the food. There are dubious ingredients in the spray. 

( I tried to go back to sleep and visit with the character from It's Just Us dream. No luck.)

Notes: First dream was experienced as reality until I briefly woke. I thought I had not yet gone to sleep. First lucid dream in a long time. Thank Charles for asking about my dreams. Also several audible conversations. That's a new welcome feature. Would be particularly helpful when I contact a guide.

What does the dream want? For me to keep journaling and working on my dream skills. Beyond that, hard to say.

Reality check: I was in my bed. Thought about getting out for pain pills. Was very surprised to realize I was dreaming.

Bumper sticker: Listen to your dreams

It's Just Us

 I woke suddenly with a vivid image and voice in my mind. Its just us. I was with a woman who shouted this at me as something explosive woke me in the dream.

Notes: While the entire dream was shorter than a GIF, it was very vivid and audible. Several things struck me. There is someone willing to talk to me in my dreams...a guide? The implication was that together we are very powerful. I was very excited for continuing to improve dream interactions.

What does the dream want? For me to embrace the power of my dreams and possibly a guide.

Reality check: I was having a job interview in the morning for St. Joe's. On the night shift. Seems related.

Bumper sticker: I can do anything with help.

Dreams to action: Go Lucid!!!!!

Long Dream in Mexico

 I am in a small town in Mexico. I am talking to my family on the phone and am trying to encourage them to come visit. I can't pronounce the name of the town. It begins with an A. I try and pronounce it knowing it's a hack job, but maybe someone else with better Spanish will figure it out. I am working in a high end jazz bar. I tell them it is very expensive but worth it. I'm dressed in very nice clothes and walk outside jewel garden. I immediately stick my hands directly into the dirt tell myself this is what I really want to be doing.

Well in a different small town dressed really poorly. A guy and a girl arrive and the girl says up and start singing really nicely. Then she's American. One of the guys is winter comes over to me and asked me to sit down in front of her so that the crowd will gather in front of her. I ask one of the waiters if it's OK and I start to organize bringing a table and a chair over to sit in front of her. I start walking  and star climbing up steep natural walls that take me over a bridge to another part of town right next door.

I am in another  small café there are lots of people in there eating most of them very young. there is a small group is all eating exact same thing that looks very interesting. it's a giant oversized piece of chicken something that's white not sure what it is. The owner and cook is preparing a treat for a very small child it looks sort of like an ice cream sandwich but instead of being cold it's hot gooey white stuff in the middle and he's twisting it all up in the air but in the end it makes a perfect pattern and the child with a child's not interested. so he is it to me and I accept it but I realize that there is a third piece missing something orange like mango any says he'll work on that as well.

I'm in the same café still outdoors but I'm climbing up the walls. Later I come back now familiar with the walls when a car or some sort of vehicle is crossing the bridge  is going to come so close it may crush us.  It's all moving very slowly. With the girl or another girl I climb up the wall to a ledge where we will be safe.

I am now out driving like in the desert across the bridge and I look back in there is a tremendous torrent of water going under the bridge. The bridge is still intact and there's a very small amount of water what the amount of current that might be in a normal Ford. I tell myself that it won't be dangerous and I drive back across the bridge or at least begin to.

Notes: Google dream is incredibly vivid and highly saturated bright colors like oranges, yellows and umber. I am amazed that I can review long stretches of the dream before fully wakening. Then I have to  fully wake to pee. It has been two hours and I am awakened by an alarm to give me time to go swimming. This is a lot of detail after two hours. Woke in a very good mood, happy, energized.

What does the dream want? For me to see my family more. take risks, but plan them or scope them out. Get more sunshine.

Reality check: I an considering taking a risk by working the midnight shift. C=I am checking it out and doing preventative measures.

Bumper sticker: Calculated risks bring incalculable rewards.

Dream to action: Plan, take care.

Dezekiel Smith

 I am abruptly in front of a young black man. The space is unnaturally  bright light, all the walls/space are white. His face and complexion are perfect, like CGI. He pronounces very emphatically...my name is Dezekiel Smith. He is telling me that I need to make sacrifices and give things away. His tone is like he is preaching.

I go back into the dream later, his appearance is more natural, his tone more conversational.

Notes: The visuals were like I was using supplements. Super intense and vivid, as was the voice. This was an early dream but the onyx one I remembered.

Wharf does the dream want? I have little or no idea...I have been striving for a long time to communicated with black people...my answer from the dream world?

Reality check: None.

Bumper sticker: Tell it like it is

Dream to action: Try and invoke him in future dream...keep an eye out for similar name.

Kiss to Kiss Off

I'm in a building with a young beautiful woman. We are excited like teenagers and sneaking into a room and start making out. It is very sensuous.

Very shortly after this encounter I find myself in a room with a young man. He is black I may be black. We begin to get sensuous. Our encounter is mutually oral.

Notes: I feel like I was cheating on her and have no idea why I would do that. Especially immediately after an encounter with her.

What does the dream want: for me to get my heart together.

Reality check: had given up on any real intimacy with my wife but she recently said she missed me and she loves me. Just as I am committing to a job 800 mi away.

Bumper sticker: Love the one you're with: not so much.

Dream to action: get your f****** s*** together.

Don't be an Asshole

 I am hanging out with a large crown of high school kids. I may be a parent/chaperone.  I reenter the dream and am still with the group but am now inside. Everyone is preparing for a second longer trip to an event somewhere else. There is a lot of discussion and people are getting ready. I see Julia nd ask where Cindy is. She has left and that will leave me to continue for a long time without a break.

I complain to Julia that this is not making me happy and all I have done is care for other people all day. I am typically too loud and embarrass her. I ask if she can find me a tooth brush to freshen up.

There is an extended scene where we are taking decorations that have been made and are hanging from the ceiling n a room. We are taking them down and trying to identify who has made them and will be taking them.

Notes: Rory ate my CPAP mask. I've been grumpy already (in pain a lot and stressed). Glad that I remembered the dream, but hated the idea of the dream.

What does the dream want? For me not to be an asshole.

Reality check: I can be an asshole and recently was to Cindy when down on sleep, rushed (late) and in pain. Not an excuse...an opportunity.

Bumper sticker:     Don't be an Asshole

                                     Like I can Be

Dream to action: Practice not being grumpy...preload with proper sleep and meditation and a well balanced life.