Remember your Dreams

It's pretty easy to increase your Dream Recall.

It helps to keep a dream journal - just a pad of paper will do. Keep it next to your bed while you sleep and whenever you wake up in the night, write whatever you can remember from your dreams in the journal.

I find that I'll do or see something durring the day that will trigger a memory from a dream the night before, then the whole dream unfolds - or at least some large pieces of it.

Increasing dream recall is the first step to Lucid Dreaming, which is my goal. I haven't quite achieved it yet, but my dream recall is certainly improving.

John's narative dreaming sounds a bit like lucid dreaming. I don't know if he has concious control in such dreams or if they're just narrated for him. I haven't had any narrated dreams as far as I can recall.

On a side note, I got a call from Marie today. She said that Dad is not going rent the cottage on Desert Lake anymore, so we're trying to get enough people to put some money in to take over the rent on it. It would be weird to go there and see someone else staying in that cottage.

But the really weird thing is that just a few hours before she called me, it came to my mind that Dad won't be renting the cottage forever and that I should talk to him to find out about it - it was such a strong impulse that I wanted to call him that very instant.

If we're pooling on the cottage, we should also get a bunch of people to go in on a new boat - something for wakeboarding and tubing.

No Email Today

Hey, I haven't gotten any email from anybody for a while now. Is it because I'm crazy? Is that why you are avoiding me? I haven't received any blog comments either.

I lost my cat, oh wait I don't have one

Here's a good blog to read. This guy is seriously messed up - whether it's drugs or just plain craziness. I'm thinking that it's drugs.

Dreams from Last Night

I've been trying to increase my dream recall which is the first step to lucid dreaming. I've had more success remembering my dreams than remembering to write them in my dream journal. I may not remember them right away when I get up, but throughout the day I'll remember something and make a note that'll trigger my memory of the dream.

Last night I dreamed that I was ice skating. I've never been ice skating before and neither had I in my dream, but I was good. Isaac showed up and we skated for a while - he plays hockey, so he knows how to skate pretty well.

In another dream, I saw some big fish - like 300 pound fish swimming in a narrow channel. It started out with some sharks that seamed to be talking to each other - they'd bring their heads up out of the water and appear to be talking, but there was no sound - and they looked more like cartoon sharks, they were dark grey with light spots. Then there were other kinds of fish swimming in the narrow channel. At first, I wasn't really there - just seeing it, but then I was swimming in the channel too. Then the Bolstad girls came floating down the channel on some inner-tubes. I swam up to them and talked with them for a while.

In another, John, Thomas, and I were in our old barn. It was full of hay. Someone drove a truck up the barn bridge and inside the barn. It's not very clear, but I believe that there was some suspicious activity going on.

Lucid Dreaming

Yeah, I've been reading up on lucid dreams, how to have them and such. It all sounds pretty cool. I prefer to avoid chemical assistance, so I'm trying totally sober, etc. Just do a google search on "lucid dream" if you are interested.

On a related note, I'm thinking of getting an isolation tank to sleep/meditate in.

What IS crazy?

Uh, mostly, I want to keep stuff that's going to turn people away from my main page here. So this stuff will be stuff that people probably won't want to read. Please Don't Read it. You'll think I'm crazy. This is not fun crazy, this is crazy crazy. Fun crazy will stay on my normal blog. I'm warning you, this will be some seriously crazy stuff.

Ok, consider yourself warned and don't come crying to me about whatever happens to you because you read any posts here.

This is Craziness

Ok, so I realize that a lot of my recent posts have been crazy rants and stuff. This is the new place for that as I'd like to keep that junk off of my main blog so that maybe the few people who do read it will keep reading it. If you DO want to read my crazy rants, this is where you'll find them