Are Lucid Dreams Contagious?
Posted on April 23, 2012
I tried to submit this question to what is a now defunct dream discussion website and just recently came across it in my outbox. I’m still curious.
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In my junior year of college I lived with a chronic lucid dreamer. He had lucid dreams three or four times a week, and suffered from sleep paralysis at least once a week. I had in the past experienced lucid dreaming, but while living with him the frequency increased greatly. We discussed this several times, as his jerking awake from paralysis was surprising at first. Could his frequent lucid dreams have influenced my own?
Movie Theater Violence Dream
Posted on March 16, 2012
I was watching a movie in what looked like a long room in a house with a steeply sloping floor. The seats were arranged in an anti-stadium seating configuration where each row was higher than the row behind it. A man stood up in one of the middle rows and was yelling at some other movie goers and was attacked from behind. A larger brawl started to break out so I left. I walked out of the theater to my car in the large parking garage. The entry ramps were long looping curves on multiple levels and the walls of the garage were smooth gray concrete that formed a towering circle.
A man was standing in an entryway to the garage with a green watering can on his head, covering his eyes and hair. He was doing a strange dance, but I decided to just hurry past him since the theater had devolved into a huge fight. I was walking with my sister to the car and didn’t want to get caught by the mob inside. After I passed the man he grabbed my shoulder and spun me around, punching me in the face at the same time. I stumbled backwards confused. One of my coworkers was suddenly with me, and he mentioned that he liked when things like this happened. The man tried to punch my coworker but was dispatched with some well timed judo moves.
Driving Tech Support Dream
Posted on February 16, 2012
I was driving with two friends, one female and one male. Neither of these people exist in reality. We were driving down an extremely long straight road. We came to some debris blocking the road and had to leave our car behind. I climbed through a hole in part of a fence that had fallen and continued up the road. I looked down and could see the road extended beyond the horizon in a completely straight line, dipping down into a valley and back up a large hill.
Eventually I came to a house on the side of the road that was overgrown with ivy and vines, much like the rest of the landscape. Inside a family was relaxing. I talked to the daughter and found out she had an old website that she wanted to start maintaining again after a long break. I helped her update the registrar information so she could reclaim it from an old company she used to work with, but no longer had any contact with. After the site was set up I checked a map on my phone and realized it would be faster for my friends (who had suddenly caught up with me) and I to walk back the way we came rather than continuing on and connecting to a highway to loop back to where we started.
Border Crossing Dream
Posted on January 16, 2012
I drive up to a parking lot that looked similar to an airport lot, full of electronic signs and free spot indicators. I found a spot and walked to a long line of people. I was with a woman who I don’t know in reality waiting for tickets from a row of machines that would allow us legal passage into certain national parks we wanted to visit.
The line was long and the number if tickets was limited, so some people were trying to trick their way farther up in line. I decided this was unacceptable so when I got up to the machine the woman got our tickets while I held the crowd at bay by acting completely insane and spitting half chewed food in them. I was particularly annoyed with one man and told him I was going to stalk him after we got our tickets.
Having printed the tickets we checked a table full of travel goods. The woman I was with was extremely sullen and pawed through some medicine on the table. She consulted me and then chose a small vial of that seemed to be some kind of illegal drug in pill form. No one was working at the table so we left a Sacajawea dollar coin and walked off.
Dangerous Street Dream
Posted on January 16, 2012
I was waiting at a stop light to make a right turn onto a street that exists in reality in my car. In front of me was a man on a motorcycle dressed in extreme goth clothing with blue neon on his bike. Across the street was a man on a bicycle. When the light turned green both men went at once, and I noticed the bicycle was actually a double decker bike.
When we all turned onto the street it was much steeper than I expected, and covered in patches of ice. Both of the other drivers were ahead of me having problems when another man on a green snowboard came speeding up from behind, careening across the ice. He lost control and wiped all three of them out completely.
Up ahead of the crash I saw all the trees lining the street had fallen on the road knocking all the power lines on to the street. I got out of my car and climbed through the trees to avoid the tangle of live wires on the road. Eventually I had to carefully walk across some yards, tiptoeing through the sparking wires. The residents of one house were spraying water out of hoses through their windows to try and push the wires off their lawn with water pressure, which made it tricky for me to navigate.
Lost in Boston Dream
Posted on January 11, 2012
I traveled to Boston with a couple that I seemed to be friends with (though they do not exist in reality) to see a concert. We rode a bus into the city through some extremely tight winding streets. The driver dropped us off on a random block far from the concert venue.
When we got out of the bus the man and woman I was traveling with started to fight about which way to go. We wandered around until it started to get dark, but made no progress. Eventually the man decided to enter a building that turned out to be a house.
Inside the house we spoke with an Irish couple who gave us accurate directions. They also told us to stay away from the south side of the concert venue. I realized at that point I didn’t have a place to sleep that night. My companions seemed to be angling for a room in this family’s house but I dragged them out because I didn’t want to impose. While we were talking the family’s two small kids ran out the front door but were caught by their mother.
After we left we found a set of stairs we hadn’t seen before and walked down. On a landing in the stairwell we met a group of three women who we seemed to know and were antagonistic. They gave me some strange business cards and told us they were working with “that man” which seemed to be a threat, though I didn’t understand the implication in the dream.
Frustrating Apartment Dream
Posted on November 28, 2011
I was waiting to get into a friend’s apartment. The building looked similar stylistically to the building this person actually lives in, but it had a slightly different shape. My girlfriend and I were supposed to visit my friend and his wife, but everyone was running late except me. I waited outside for what seemed like a long time. The lobby of the building was locked, so I walked around the corner to a set of elevators on the outside of the building. I went up to what seemed to be the rental office of the building and tried to walk through to the residential lobby. I realized this was a dead end and I was just wandering through people’s offices as they worked. I asked if there was a cut through to the apartments and the receptionist told me that would be silly and not secure.
I sent my friend a text message and he assured me he was on his way. At this point I somehow knew his wife had used a kind of meditation to change her shape to a small piece of food that was floating in a bowl outside of the residential lobby. I thought this was odd and tried to wake her up, but I didn’t know how to communicate with her in that state. My girlfriend called me and sounded upset because of the delay. I walked across the street and up some steep stairs to a restaurant she was waiting at.
The restaurant looked like a wooden Japanese historic building from the outside. Inside it was very dark. My girlfriend was sitting at the bar and was visibly irritated with me. I was surprised to see her not wearing her glasses. She told me she was very tired and had been waiting for me for a long time. I decided to take her home and when we walked outside it was raining steadily.
Apartment Break In Dream
Posted on November 17, 2011
I was invited by my girlfriend to skip out on work and spend the day at an apartment with her. The apartment wasn’t hers, so we had to break it. It apparently belonged to her boss who was either Barak Obama or a look-alike. He wasn’t in his current role as president, but rather as a manager wherever my girlfriend was working. We stayed in his apartment for a while, which had thick blue carpet in every room. I went into a bathroom located in the back of a large walk in closet and on the way out I noticed a patch of ceramic tiles on the wall that seemed to be used as some form of communication. We left that night and returned the next day. The ceramic tiles suggested that the apartment owner knew we had been there, so we spent the day wiping fingerprints off things and generally erasing our presence.
After we left we walked to a night club with a huge line waiting to get in the front door. Johnny Depp was there with his siblings and was happy to see us. He was obviously very drunk, which his brother was embarrassed about. Instead of waiting to get into the club we all sat down at a picnic table just outside the door and talked with each other.
Motorcycle Ride Exotic Buffet Dream
Posted on October 27, 2011
To celebrate a coworker being released from jail (which looked like a mall) we went to meet her as she was released and go back to a party. I rode her motorcycle back ahead of the group. It had rained so the roads were wet but I didn’t have much trouble. On the road I saw a pickup truck with some kids riding in the flat bed. The older kid was wearing a coonskin cap. He reached over and shot one of the younger kids, then stood up in the bed holding another like a hostage. I sped past them before anything else happened.
Back at the party all the food was taxidermy animals that I didn’t think we’re edible. A rat king, a multi-headed white snake, a large blue rodent and other anomalies. When everyone else arrived I tried to slip out without eating anything.
Transformation and Concert Dreams
Posted on September 24, 2011
There was some kind of virus circulating that transformed things when a carrier touched them. The changes seemed totally arbitrary, computer screens were turned into miniature dragons and small animals became lurching slime coated skeletons. These creatures changed other objects they touched but seemed to have no control over what they would change into.
I remember being very concerned about being infected but later in the dream I had the ability to change things without having been transformed myself. I demonstrated this for some high school friends.
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I woke up with my girlfriend in my bedroom and we got dressed to go out. She was wearing a white boy scout uniform shirt covered with medals. I asked her how she found it with so much decoration and she explained the meaning of each medal.
We met my family at Target and waded through the crowded aisles until we found the line for a concert that was being held in the building. When we sat down in a room that looked similar to an elementary school auditorium I noticed we had changed clothes and my girlfriend was wearing a blue evening gown.