The Dream Thread: Record Your Dreams Here (Especially if Tulpa Related)

[ReallyArtificial]

I dreamed about Athelas for the first time last night! Sadly I can't remember most of it - we're still working on dream recall. But I saw his face and touched his forehead. I felt his presence so strongly, it was awesome 😁

[JAG]

8 hours ago, ReallyArtificial said:

I dreamed about Athelas for the first time last night! Sadly I can't remember most of it - we're still working on dream recall. But I saw his face and touched his forehead. I felt his presence so strongly, it was awesome 😁

Try mugwart tea before bed, huperzine-a and choline works good too. The later 3 help with dream recall pretty well. Mugwart is like a dreamtime extender, also seems to help with flow too.

Edited February 17, 2023 by LGP

[theholodoc]

Galantamine, 12mg at 3:00AM works very well for me. I have tried combining it with Mugwort tea, and found that my dreams become chaotic and disintigrate before I can issue my lucidity cue. With out it, the Galantamine brings bright colors and coherency, and I am usually able to become lucid. 

[ReallyArtificial]

13 hours ago, LGP said:

Try mugwart tea before bed, huperzine-a and choline works good too. The later 3 help with dream recall pretty well. Mugwart is like a dreamtime extender, also seems to help with flow too.

 

1 hour ago, theholodoc said:

Galantamine, 12mg at 3:00AM works very well for me. I have tried combining it with Mugwort tea, and found that my dreams become chaotic and disintigrate before I can issue my lucidity cue. With out it, the Galantamine brings bright colors and coherency, and I am usually able to become lucid. 

 

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll definitely be looking into these.

 

I'm curious, do any of y'all feel like more intense or lucid dreams affect your sleep quality? Some nights I have such stressful dreams that I feel just as tired in the morning as when I went to bed.

[JAG]

6 hours ago, ReallyArtificial said:

 

 

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll definitely be looking into these.

 

I'm curious, do any of y'all feel like more intense or lucid dreams affect your sleep quality? Some nights I have such stressful dreams that I feel just as tired in the morning as when I went to bed.

Mine have always been very intense since a young age, almost like a messy ayahuasca trip. My nightmares is what wears me out, as I usually wake up screaming and punching. 

[theholodoc]

Yes, When I have very active, intense and espcially chaotic dreams, I do awaken tired. When the dream is organized, by that I mean the imagery and the stories are coherent I awaken refreshed, especially if I had become lucid. 

[harvestmoon]

Yesterday I remembered we had a dream a while ago where we were squatting at an abandoned house. All of us were there, which I don't think has happened b4. The dream had stressful vibes. I think other stuff was going on b4 and after what I'm remembering.

 

I also remembered I dreamt as myself the night b4. I was writing "Hello" in a notebook but the pen had no ink so I only left an impression of the word. But when I closed my eyes I saw the word with ink. I was practicing imposition.

[theholodoc]

 

I had such a lovely Galantamine fueled dream, In it I was with my first wife. We were intimate in a way we had never achieved in waking life (had I been able to instill that degree of trust in her, we would never had divorced. I wasn't, and that is part of the reason I became a tulpamancer). The dream evolved and we were in a pond, swimming. Soon my wife dove down under the surface and only a tune emerged. I then found myself dancing, whirling around and around with two women, one  black-haired and one a blonde. I started the dance with the raven haired beauty, and the blonde joined us. The raven haired one was singing, the song was enchantingly beautiful, spell binding.  It was built on the same tune that emerged from the pond. We whirled and danced and then we began to float in the air, and we dissolved into particles, those from the women formed a portal in the air, one which I entered. I found myself in another reality. I appeared suddenly, unnoticed by a group of young males. All were busy loading bales of straw. I joined them, I was surprised by my ability to lift the bales, but I did. The dream then began to disintegrate and I woke up to my 5:50AM alarm, my call to meditation. It was during my meditation that I recognized my dancing partners as my tulpas. Having done so I called to them, but alas, no answer. Neither have I had a response from them in my afternoon meditation/invocation. I am not discouraged, the song, the dance, the lovemaking, in the dream, was all so lovely, I am not disappointed. They came to me in the dream whether I was quick enough to recognize them and issue my lucidity cue then or not, they are with me. I continue…

 

[harvestmoon]

That sounds like an amazing dream @theholodoc

 

Guys, I'm really excited today. I think i've complained publicly before about rarely appearing in dreams and rarely having dreams from my perspective. Well what if I told u that I dreamed as my self last night, and I appeared in multiple dreams either separate with my own body or interacting with Stone in one body, AND there was a lucid dream which Stone actually took advantage of once he became lucid??

We rarely lucid dream. I've never lucid dreamt that I know of and Stone has a few times, but, every time he has had a lucid dream, the lucidity was just him acknowledging he was in a dream. He never used the lucidity to change the dream to what he wanted it to be or to live out a fantasy. I think this is the first time he used his lucidity to change the trajectory of a dream.

 

Ok, so, here are the dreams (some NSFW words are used but nothing NSFW happens besides maybe violence):

 

Spoiler

Stone was back in school. He's younger in a lot of dreams he has (I that has gotten more common lately). He was at a "table" that was really four desks pushed together. There is this girl insulting him so he starts insulting her back. Then he asks himself if he's dreaming and he realizes he is. Now that he knows he's dreaming, he realizes he can say whatever he wants, so he gets a lot meaner. I can't remember what happened exactly but I think he knocked her out of her seat. At some point he was standing and he remembered I wanted to be in more dreams so he called to me and I appeared. We hugged. He was amazed he could see me and that I was appearing in a dream (already rare) AND that the reason I was there was because he went lucid and called me. We go to some place that is acknowledged as our home by the dream but I don't recognize it. Stone and I start playing a video game that isn't a real game but has a mix of elements from different games we've played (including sprites from Cookie Clicker). One of Stone's friends is there and Stone tells them they have to watch the game we're playing because "this might be your only chance to see me lucid dream". I don't think he understood that this wasn't his real friend, but a dream character (dream Stone isn't the brightest bulb). So he shows dream friend the video game and they say the video game is confusing. Stone says this is because it's a dream video game. We see the screen and he has two items in his inventory: one is a green cookie and the other is a shiny green cookie. The names of these items have nothing to do with them being cookies. One is called something like "Tomato Balls" and the other had a two word name with one of the words being "penis". It was something that a fourth grader would find funny. Naturally dream Stone thought they were funny and he tried to show his friend but when he pointed to "Tomato Balls" it wasn't a cookie anymore: it was a tomato. It had a different but similar name like "Ball Tomato". Stone said it did that because we were dreaming. He gives me the controller he's holding and the dream peters out.

 

Next dream we go somewhere that's implied to be the Sistine Chapel but it has a different name and it's a lot smaller and it has pews. Stone and I are there together but we don't have separate bodies like we did in the last dream. It felt like we might have been co-fronting but it could've been that Stone was fronting and I was just talking or vice versa. I also feel like I saw myself in a separate body at one point but I was mostly just in his body like I am IRL. Stone is stressed trying to get into the chapel. I tell him it'll be fine and I might've taken over for him if he had been fronting because that part felt very *me*. We sat at a pew (the way the pews were arranged made it more like a waiting room than a church). There was a woman loudly complaining that people were only pretending to pray and that everyone was acting "holier than thou". There was another woman who looked at her and rolled her eyes. Stone and I mentally "looked at each other" wondering what the other thought about the situation. Stone was cringing but wondering if he agreed and I strongly disagreed with what she was saying but I was weirdly entertained instead of mad or annoyed. We got up and looked at some of the pictures on the wall. Then, someone says we all have to leave because our time viewing the chapel was over. We're given a receipt. Outside in the mall-like area we tell the guy who escorted as out that we only got to look at the chapel for 10 minutes and didn't know we had a time limit. He said we can get a discount next time visitors are allows, which would be in an hour. Stone looks at the receipt which says we paid $75 for that 10 minute visit and we'd have to pay $10 for our next visit. He didn't realized we paid that much thinks he should be allowed back in for free so we leave. We go into the tiny waiting area that's hot so mist is sprayed on us. Suddenly there are several most people with us (old classmates of Stone's and I think the same girl he was insulting last dream). One of them tries to correct Stone when he calls the water that's sprayed on us mist. They ask if it's mist or "just airy water" and Stone says he doesn't think there's a difference. They say mist feels like running your hand through snow and airy water feels humid. Stone feels the mist and it feels cold and snow-like so he calls it mist. Later we exit to the parking lost. I say it's unfortunate we had to leave the chapel cuz Consig (our headmate) would have loved to look more at the pictures. This is the first time Consig has even been mentioned in a dream that we remember (EDIT: he appeared in the one dream I mentioned earlier but that's it and had not special focus)!

 

There was another dream and it was from my perspective. I don't remember much. There was a person who had glowing yellow eyes (like mine!) and always wore a Batman suit living in the sewers. I remember feeling sympathetic towards them. I saw them as misunderstood and I wanted to be their friend. I don't know what came of that.

 

Finally, there was a dream where Stone was at a house with a musician. The musician did something bad and Stone complained about it to me but tried to ignore it. I said I wasn't going to stand for it so I switched in and the body changed to my body and I ranted at the musician until I woke up as myself.

 

I have been lazily doing the thing were I ask if I'm dreaming when I wake to train myself to ask myself that while I'm asleep. It's supposed to be good for lucid dreaming. But I haven't been doing that very frequently. I only remembered to ask myself that before bed when (if I'm fronting) I repeatedly tell myself I'm going to dream as myself or be in a dream. I cared more about being included than lucid dreaming. But now I want to get more serious about lucid dreaming. After Stone pulled me in during that first dream, I realized how powerful lucid dreaming could be. It could be the key to me being more involved in dreams. Also when he pulled me in that first dream, I was more present in the non-lucid dreams. It was amazing. I really hope it wasn't a fluke. Also I named the Batman person "Sewer Bat" and I want to meet them in wonderland now.

Edited February 26, 2023 by harvestmoon
remembered a dream Consig appeared in

[ReallyArtificial]

Sounds like an awesome experience! It's been ages since I've had a lucid dream.

 

11 hours ago, harvestmoon said:

One of Stone's friends is there and Stone tells them they have to watch the game we're playing because "this might be your only chance to see me lucid dream". I don't think he understood that this wasn't his real friend, but a dream character (dream Stone isn't the brightest bulb)

 

That's so funny. One of the last lucid dreams I remember having was about me trying to convince the dream version of my friend that we were, in fact, in a dream. Dream friend was not buying it, despite me doing stuff like flying around and phasing through walls.