October 5, 2009 • 9:13 am 0
Welcome to the Brain Adventurer. I’m just an average guy writing a blog about some of the adventures I’m taking into my brain. In this blog you’ll find entries from my personal sleep journal, including my analysis and interpretation of why I had the dream I had. I’m also going to post helpful information related to NLP – Neuro Linguistic Programming, Lucid Dreaming, and similar topics as I study them.
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October 16, 2009 • 9:53 pm 0
This webpage about NLP Modelling to master a skill caught my interest. It is the documentary of an English soccer player, and NLP master, who wanted to use his knowledge of NLP to become a professional rugby player with only 1 year of training. How does he plan to do this? By capturing / studying / mastering the skills of the professionals. A tagline on the site calls his journey “Cloning the Pros”.
Do you have something that interests you enough that you would want to become a ‘master’ at, but just not have the time to dedicate the approximately 10,000 hours typically required to master a craft? For me, the closest thing I can think of is photography. Several activities I enjoy doing are enjoyable because I do them at a novice level (I enjoy mountain biking, but I doubt I would enjoy being a pro biker).
Check the site out, come back, and let me know how you would apply this technique.
Filed under: NLP - Neuro Linguistic Programming
October 9, 2009 • 1:58 pm 0
Background:
Dream was vivid and I recalled a lot, but I don’t remember any strong lucid moments. There was a point after I was driving a jeep that seemed lightly lucid (I think I started flying). At the end of the dream I remember getting very emotional and angry because I felt that my parenting skills were being questioned. In real life most people think I am a wonderful father. I think the backpack experience of the trip had to do with me going through some of my backpacking equipment earlier in the day. A central theme is beginning to appear in my dreams: I’m driving a car.
Dream Description:
Part 1:
I was walking (possibly driving at first) through different neighborhoods of a city. I became afraid that I was in a rougher section of the city and that someone might mug me. Although, it did seem that the people were just walking around and ignoring me for the most part. I saw a hotel and I went to it to get a room. I remember waiting in the hotel lobby that looked like a country store gift shop. I think this hotel experienced segwayed into part 2 of my dreamscape.
Part 2:
I was hiking along a trail along the ocean, possibly Hawaii from the pictures I’ve seen. I may have been driving a jeep at one point and then the dream went slightly lucid. I began flying over the trail and I flew to an overlook that looked out over a bay. There was a lady standing out in the bay taking pictures (odd), the she disappeared. There were 2 large fish creatures in the water. It then appeared that the one fish was a shark and it started to eat the other fish (a small whale maybe) and then just stopped. I then left the perch and went to the hotel where my family was.
In the lobby we checked in and got a room. The room doors were all connected to a large lobby area which was connected to the front desk and the conference rooms. We were invited to one of the conference rooms to discuss the hotel, I think because we were part of some kind of club or something. The dream got blurry at this point but then became clear again.
It was 3pm and I had just got back from golfing and I was supposed to be back at 1. My wife was also out and I there was a miscommunication or something and nobody was there to pick up the kids. The hotel people had to watch the kids and they charged us like $50 or something to do it. I remember being kinda angry but I did not show it, I think it was because the hotel people were rude or something to me about being late. Then I found out that I was going to be fined like $300 by the government for being late and I got very angry. My anger was at the fact that it seemed they were questioning my ability to be a good parent or something along those lines.
Later on, we had to go to another meeting at the hotel. I was supposed to give a small speech about a report I wrote. My friend Jeremy showed up at the meeting. I was happy to see him but I kinda blew him off because i was still pissed off at the hotel. When I gave my report speech I stopped and started venting my disgust at the hotel staff for their attitudes. Also, my sister in law was at the meeting. She was complaining about her ballet dress not fitting her correctly (that was strange).
Filed under: Sleep Journal, Fighting, Lucid Dreaming, Sleep Journal
October 9, 2009 • 1:58 pm 0
Background:
Another vivid dream that had lucid moments. My recall was not very strong but after looking at my notes I can still paint a distinct picture in my mind of what my dream scenes were about and how I felt emotianally at different parts. Keeping this journal is proving to have a drastic affect on my ability and vividness of my dreams. When I dream now, it is like I’m constantly taking mental notes so that I can add it to my journal. Pretty soon I will not need a journal because my dreams are so vivid that when I wake up it is as if my dream was part of a vacation I took the day before.
Dream Description:
This dream had several scenes but they all seemed unrelated. I did not write down the dream fast enough. I woke up and fell back asleep, then woke up again and recalled dream. So the cohesion of this dream(s) is vague in my mind.
I was in a hotel room talking to someone from my high school on the phone. I’m not sure what her significance was since we never talked in school. Anyway we later met up with some other people at a coffee shop and were all hanging out.
In another scene of this dream I was driving a car through what appeared to be a city in South America or some other foreign country. I can’t remember any clues as to why I thought it was SA except I think it was tropical, there were white buildings in the skyline. Could have been Curitiba since I’ve thought about travelling there sometime in the future.
In another scene I was at a hotel room that was slightly dirty. I don’t remember if this was before or after the coffee and driving scenes, or maybe both. What was odd was that I looked out my hotel room and I could see what looked like an X-Games arena. I think it was an XGames arena because there were signs / banners for Red Bull all over the place.
Filed under: Sleep Journal, Driving, Foriegn Country, Lucid Dreaming, Sleep Journal
October 7, 2009 • 12:45 am 0
Background:
My dreams have been getting more and more vivid, and slightly more lucid. The recall for todays dream was very limited because of my wife’s alarm clock was set to the blasted radio and it went off at full volume. I was so shocked that I think it caused me to forget my dream. BEGINNERS NOTE: Use no, or minimal shock alarm clock when working on a sleep journal. I felt that this mornings escapade was a setback
Dream Notes:
Analysis:
Typically, it seems that my dream scenes are slightly related and have some flow to them. These dreams seemed to have no relationship to one another.
Filed under: Sleep Journal, Lucid Dreaming, Sleep Journal
October 6, 2009 • 1:56 am 0
Background:
Primary Keywords:
Dream Notes:
I was driving a nascar race car up and down the street adjacent to the one I live on. At times my eyesight would be blinded and it would turn out that there was window tinting stuck to my glasses. In addition there was a guy stopped in front of me at one of the intersections and I got frustrated and honked at him and he finally moved out of the way.
At one point, In the background there was an interviewer talking to a young lady with an (australian?) accent about driving race cars.
Also, at various points, my friend Jim was in the dream and he was writing me letters / emails. One of the emails mentioned he was very sick, but I didn’t understand it until someone read the letter to me.
Analysis:
I spent part of the previous day watching a nascar race on tv. Also, I had exchanged emails with my friend jim a few days earlier. I don’t understand why I was appearing to black out at times or why Jim was really sick (I think he had cancer in the dream)
Filed under: Sleep Journal, Driving, Lucid Dreaming, Sleep Journal
October 5, 2009 • 9:58 am 0
Background:
This is the second sleep journal that I am taking as part of my adventure into the grey matter that floats above my shoulder. I got to bed around 11pm and woke up at 5am to write part 1, fell back asleep and woke up at 8 am to write these (part 2) notes.
Primary Keywords:
bicycle
Dream Notes:
i was at a place that looked like my workplace but only in very minor ways. However, in my dream I was working. When i went through a door I thought I was going to bathroom. I was locking door but it did not lock. Incedentally, oriental people standing behind me / walking behind me but then they disappeared (dream tourists). Then i saw some bikes. There was a bike in a storage area, it was green and had front tire removed(typical for storing of bikes) There was another bike on a shelf and I was trying to get bike by climbing a ladder. I could not get to it (strange force holding me back).
Then the guy from my local YMCA was at the bike shop and gave a me bike. I was very thankful and offered to pay but he wouldn’t let me. On top of that he gave me some change, was a quarter and nickle i think.
I had a backpack with me and remember trying to put stuff in backpack. Vague. The overall setting for the dream was a bike repair shop. In the one room was a storage / mess area and the second room was the repair area. In the repair area i moved a bike against the wall. A guy that looked like robin williams (I think he was supposed to be the safety inspector where I work at in real life) showed up. I told him I moved bike because it was a tripping hazard.
On the one wall there was a big bike. Oddly, it was a ladies bike and was pink in color. I admired the bike but knew I could not ride it because I am a man.
This is strange and perhaps promising: While dreaming I thought I was writing sleep journal notes, but then woke and realized that was part of dream. I was intently trying to write my sleep journal while I was dreaming.
Analysis:
I’m very nervous about a bike ride I have coming up and I would like to get a new bike but I can’t afford it. Many of the other strange details have symbolism that I can not comprehend at this time.
Filed under: Sleep Journal, Lucid Dreaming, Sleep Journal
October 5, 2009 • 9:41 am 0
Background:
This is the second sleep journal that I am taking as part of my adventure into the grey matter that floats above my shoulder. I got to bed around 11pm and woke up at 5am to write part 1, fell back asleep and woke up at 8 am to write these (part 2) notes.
Primary Keywords:
fighting, crowbars, bathtub, burglars
Dream Notes:
I was spending the night at a house that looked like an acquaintances (Jan) house. Anway, the house had doorway and driveway similar to hers but the inside was not. So I remember laying down and falling asleep in her bathtub. Then I wwoke up and was getting dressed and walked into another room. I turned around and saw my sister in law and her fiancee asleep on couch. I was rather embarrassed but didn’t think that they saw me (but I remember thinking that maybe she peeped at my goods).
Then all of a sudden I heard car alarm going off. I ran outside to see what was happening. There were three men were breaking into my car and Jan’s van and were stealing from us. The men saw me and chased me back to house. They had crowbars and came at me when I got to the doorway but I fought them back with help from my father and law and wife. There was a big struggle at the front doorway (I think I yelled for someone to call 911, not sure) but they must have figured the police were coming because they decided to leave. I was able to tackle one of the robbers and held him down. I think the cops had showed up but that was the final act of my dream.
Analysis:
I don’t have much analysis on this dream. I don’t understand why the setting was Jans house as we have no relationship aside from she is handicapped and lives in the same town as me. The fight was strange but maybe it was related to the rage I felt from my previous dream that night.
Filed under: Sleep Journal, Fighting, Lucid Dreaming, Sleep Journal
October 5, 2009 • 9:26 am 0
Background:
This is the first sleep journal that I am taking as part of my adventure into the grey matter that floats above my shoulder. I got to bed around 11pm and woke up at 5am to write these notes. I fell back asleep after I took this journal and ended up with another dream journal entry – Day 1 part 2.
Primary Keywords:
bar tabs (maybe), lies/betrayal, baltimore, receipts, chicago, other cities.
Overview
I kept seeing images of receipts for bar tabs or something similar in my mind. When I looked at the receipts in my dream they were cloudy or blank. This was a point of frustration for me. The receipts were likely my wife’s and it made me think she was cheating on me. I remember feeling a lot of rage.
Analysis:
Well, a similar thing has happened in real life for me, not to long ago at that. About a year ago I discovered emails on my computer that were linked to an affair my wife was having. The bar tabs could be related to the emails. Funny thing is that my wife never travels or could have been to those cities whose names showed up on the receipts.
Filed under: Sleep Journal, affair, Lucid Dreaming, Sleep Journal
