DREAM REPORT

I started out meditating for 20 minute before going to bed at 2 a.m. Central Time. I was intending to sleep through to 5 a.m. and start my lucid dream; however, I popped awake (fully conscious) at 4:57 a.m. I had to go to the bathroom, was a little anxious about getting back to sleep soon enough to start the lucid dreaming experience.

I did go to sleep; then someone’s alarm went off in the next room at 6 a.m. Central Time. I kept thinking it would stop but it didn’t. I was irritated. I wrote down the dream I was having and could remember before it was interrupted:

KK(male) was there. There are stairs. People are going up the stairs with a plant that needs to be taken care of lovingly. The dirt is loose and a young girl pats it back into the pot. There is also a guitar. Some of the dirt gets on the guitar. In the dream I remember that I learned to play the guitar earlier in the dream (but now I don’t remember that part of the dream). There are other people who walk in.

I see a computer screen with bios of people participating in the lucid dreaming experiment. I see a photo of AP's(female) face and her bio and also AC(female). This is when the alarm wakes me up.

I go back to sleep and have another dream. I am not sure what order this all happened in, as I was awakened a couple of times by outside noise and some of this I remembered in pieces:

KM(Female) and KO(Female) are there. It is in the main room at the College. A letter on blue stationery addressed to KM has been in the trash; BC(female) fishes it out. She asks me to work with her with ML(female); she says she doesn’t think ML(Female) is going to get it (the discipline.) The idea is that the letter was someone KM was going to work with on the lucid dreaming experiment and ML threw it away because she didn’t know what to do with it.

Earlier, I am in a place that is kind of dark, sort of like an amusement park fun-house. There is a spiral-shaped ramp going down. I think that it is part of the experiment to go down the ramp. There is a large, squishy, tomato-red, tube-like thing that is supposed to go down the ramp in perpetual motion, kind of like the way a Slinky goes down stairs. This thing is bigger than me and feels like a water balloon or those toys that are filled with squishy gel. It keeps getting stuck, although when I touch it, it will move again. It is very slow, and I think about going ahead of it but I am concerned it might speed up and get on top of me and engulf me, so I decided to wait.

I am anxious in the dream because there keep being things to do and I don’t want to miss the experiment but I can’t go to sleep yet. CM(female) comes in, upset, and says she needs help with the kids. I sign up to cook and ask KM if soup is okay. She says that’s fine.

I have a tape, it is an audio tape but round like a CD. It is in a black case. It has instructions for the dream experiment. When I try to listen to it, it breaks and I am upset. I put it down, looking for PM(Male) to see if he can fix it. Then I can’t find it, and I ask KM if she has seen it. Tad says it’s no problem.

Earlier, I am with KK in a store, there are other people there. It is a women’s clothing store. I walk through it quickly, realizing it’s not my style of clothes. I am glad KK is so tall because it is easy to find him when I am ready to leave. Then we are in an outdoor place where there are chairs set up auditorium-style. KK is sitting next to me and is comparing this show to another one. The mayor is in it or has arranged to put it on. A woman tells him not to compare this to another show because the mayor has put a lot into this. Then we talk about Branson and a trip there. I put my hand on KK's shoulder and then my head.

I get awakened at 7:30 a.m. I try to go back to sleep until 8:00 but there is a lot of mental noise. Then in my mind I see a computer screen with blue bars on it for categories or names for the experiment.

DREAM STATE/CONTENT

Commentary:

In between the times of being awakened, I had dreams about the lucid dreaming experiment but was not conscious in the dreamstate. In the first dream period, in the dream I was aware that I had learned something earlier in the dream, but I could not remember the part of the dream where I had learned it. There are indications throughout all of these dreams that I have some awareness and authority of how to exist in the inner levels with awareness, and brain ideas and images of lucid dreaming, but what keeps me from being completely lucid is the need for greater emotional control. This is indicated by the dirt that is falling out of the pot and the red tube-like thing, as well as the recurring anxiety about whether I would make it to the experiment in time. At the time of the dream, that tube-like thing seemed significant. I think it represents an astral tube, which is a stream of consciousness that can be directed for perceiving in other levels of consciousness. In the dream it responded to my touch but did not work on its own. This tells me I need to be more purposeful with how I direct my attention.

It was apparent that much of my attention was clouded by worrying whether or not I would be able to do the experiment correctly, as in several places in the dream I was anxious about it.

As I heard of other people’s experiences with this experiment, it became clear to me that even when a number of people have the same physical experience, their experience of it is unique because they are individuals, with their own perception, viewpoint, and understandings. Therefore, it is important to identify what I did experience rather than judging whether it was a correct experience. This attitude in my dream (will I get there in time, will I succeed, etc.) reflects a need to appreciate the process of scientific discovery, learning about what is occurring in my mind. The people who I recognized in the dream symbolize some of these aspects: KK represents a curiosity about the mind, KM and KO represent different degrees of judgementalism and self criticism, Paul Madar represents authority, AP represents connection with intuitive/psychic experience.

I recognize the importance of directing the attention with purpose and positive expectation to discover and learn. Thank you for this experiment. It was illuminating and inspiring.

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