elTee, you are the awesome! I recall my dreams almost nightly, and it feels like I possess a decent amount of control in them. A lot of times I'm also aware that I am in dreaming, and if it's a scary one, I'll just wait it out until I wake up, or desperately cling to it if it's a nice one. Sometimes I'll write them in a journal because I'm in touch with myself like that.

Isn't salvia that little white flower? If so, then alot of it grows in these nearby mountains. Anywhos, a few days ago, my sister was getting ready to get up for summer school. She always wakes me up, but I just fall asleep again. I dreamt that I was awake and she was being whiney, so i threw my alarm clock at her so it would wake her up in five minutes. Of coure, when i woke up, the clock was next to my bed, so I knew it had been a dream. Then later on in the day, she told me she had dreamed that i had thrown an alarm clock at her bed as she was getting up for sum.school. It was real freaky. We both had the same dream! And Cheez, how did you do that? Be a tad more specific, cuz that sounded cool!

Well, idunno. I guess just a mantra in my head saying that I would go out of my body (since that has to be incredibly awesome) and all of a sudden my body was totally asleep but my mind was like, wide awake. But I got way too excited. (I /still/ am.)

Maybe that was sleep paralysis... I only ever experienced that once and in my idiocy thought I was being possessed, because I was sleeping in a new house for the first time. I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't move... scary stuff, because I didn't know about sleep paralysis at the time.

Miss_Mayhem: a lot of plants are called 'salvias' I think, but the one I was referring to specifically is Salvia Divinorium. I think it only grows in Mexico, but I could be wrong. Anyway, unadulterated the plant isn't amazingly strong - although you can take the leaves and roll them up into a quid and suck on it for an hour-long trip, of sorts. The salvia that is smoked and increasingly being banned by close-minded people (a few states in the US, Australia, other countries) is extracts which are anything from 5 to 100 times stronger than the plant on it's own.

I have a cousing of mine whos had about 5 lucid dreams (and I envy her), but she didn't enjoy them at all since she said she had little control over her dreams and ended with sleep paralysis. I feel fortunate I've never had it. And really, ghosts are out there, don't feel stupid elTee. My old house was haunted, though I only saw weird things happen on a few occasions and being so young, didn't think it could be ghosts (my mom on the other hand knew quite well but didn't want to scare me since it was not too bad). In retrospect, alot of weird things that happened are suddenly put into perspective.

elTee, I swear I was halfway out of my body.

I recently had a dream about me talking to this guy n IM we're kinda friends and all out of nowhere he's all "I love you." Like a crappy romance film. I'm like ".....Liar." and he's get's with the mushy talk and all that crap. I REALLY HOPE IT'S DEJA VU CAUSE THIS GUY IT HOTT!!

Revived!

I had a really wierd dream the other night... which I'm not going to tell you about.

I found an interesting way of having lucid dreams a few weeks ago, which I'll share.

You know how if you have a job, and you're working for ten hours a day and it's just the same mind-numbing actions like 'take money, put it in the cash register, give change, repeat' - when you get into bed, do you find yourself doing these actions in your pre-sleep / post-awake time?

I'm explaining this badly; let me start again. I have been doing Christmas work on a stand in the shopping centre, it's fairly boring. People hand me an item, I bag it, give them their change, then they go away and someone else hands me another item, et cetera for eight hours or so. Then that night I come home, go on the computer for a bit, maybe have a beer, then go to bed. When I'm lying there, I find myself going through those exact same motions again - taking change, wrapping items, like I was at work, you know?

Well I used to get this when I was working at a supermarket about four years ago - I'd go to bed after a long day at work, and I'd be scanning items in my sleep and ringing up change. Kind of annoying! Because work was crap, and the last thing I wanted to do was dream about it.

This thing seems to work for any repetative task you do throughout the day. Two years ago I worked in an office, and I was working on a huge spreadsheet every single day - updating it, amending it etc. I dreamed about that too. And ****, I used to play solitaire for like half an hour before bed sometimes trying to get a high score, and then I'd dream about that too (I even once had a dream where I was playing solitaire, but instead of cards it was words, and by building chains I was actually writing a song - weird.)

Anyway! If this sounds familiar, you might be able to trick yourself into a lucid dream like I did.

So I'm lying there in bed, 'at work' again. And I'm thinking to myself 'I'm not really at work, this sucks.' So I just started doing things that I could never do in real life - someone handed me an item to bag up, so I threw it far away! I opened the cash register and helped myself to lots of money, and started throwing that around too. I was just playing around because I knew it was all in my head - but it felt completely real.

The catch is that I was still kind of awake - somewhere between awake and asleep. I'm sure playing with this concept could lead to a much clearer state of lucidity, though :)

Oops, sorry for the long post!

^ Nice. I'm gonna try that sometime.

I had a dream yesterday that I finally hit 10,000 post. Than I got in a car crash and died. But it was cool, because I got to go to Fisher and Sons and talk to David because he talks to the dead people sometimes, like Paco and that victim of gay bashers that got him to come out to everyone.

I had a dream yesterday that I finally hit 10,000 post.
WTF. ESTABLISH YOURSELF AMONG PEOPLE NEARBY AND GO OUT SOMETIME.

@ El Tee: Once, I did something similar to that. I was in a dream (it was rather boring actually) and I knew I was dreaming and decided that I wanted to wake up. So to wake myself up, I figured I'd pound my hands on the floor and will myself awake. It didn't work, which is wierd. I still find it strange that I didn't have the chioce of conciousness. You'd think that I'd be able to just wake up.... yeah.

WTF. ESTABLISH YOURSELF AMONG PEOPLE NEARBY AND GO OUT SOMETIME.
But, counting this post, I've got only 51 more post to go!!

Miss_Mayhem: a lot of plants are called 'salvias' I think, but the one I was referring to specifically is Salvia Divinorium. I think it only grows in Mexico, but I could be wrong. Anyway, unadulterated the plant isn't amazingly strong - although you can take the leaves and roll them up into a quid and suck on it for an hour-long trip, of sorts. The salvia that is smoked and increasingly being banned by close-minded people (a few states in the US, Australia, other countries) is extracts which are anything from 5 to 100 times stronger than the plant on it's own.
It grows in California as well, people have even been known to plant it in their yards.

FUNFACT: When properly extracted, Salvia is the most potent natural hallucinogen on the planet.

FUNFACT: Drugs are bad, dad. Even if they make you have cool dreams.

FUNFACT: Drugs are bad, dad. Even if they make you have cool dreams.
Thank you. That will be all Ave.

Thank you. That will be all Ave.
Enough out of you evil reflection.

Enough out of you evil reflection.

Holy crap, Jmac is the Mirror Mirror version of Eric! I always suspected Jmac had a goatee. I'm so going to get into dream herbs when I move out.

Drugs make the magic doors in my head open and the space cows fly through on bear-unicorns set ablaze on might fart fire from the third world of glalgazar.

Side note- I've only done drugs like thrice my whole life. They aren't that great. Neither is alcohol. Natural highs and just plain insanity are what can keep ya going' strong!

Thank you. That will be all Ave.
NO! Drugs posess you! and they make you ugly, and you'll rot away in jail if you buy or sell drugs. You'll die way younger, you'll have weird teeth, you'll be unatractive and unpopular, you'll be more careless and make more bad decisions, and you'll have to fight a long, hard battle to get rid of them in your life.

Get high on life, not drugs! ~thumbs up~

Last night I had a dream where someone made me bite the curb. D=

Last night I had a dream where someone made me bite the curb. D=

Do you recall it being tasty?

Do you recall it being tasty?

No. =<

No. =<

Oh, because once I was dreaming of living life throught a day but it was weird. A peice of pavement was on the ground and I picked it up and I ate it. It tasted like the pink colored rock candy. I was all "Yum <3's" as I precided to lick the street.

Oh, thanks ElTee! And what you've said about being between sleep and awakendess(?) is called threshold consiousness. If properly utilized, you will get to experience some form of hypnogogia (which can be effin' sweet if ya know what is happening or effin' scary if ya dont) and can willingly enter a dream and be lucid. I've done it once. Since the threads death I've gone lucid 2/3 times. 'Splain later.

Oh, thanks ElTee! And what you've said about being between sleep and awakendess(?) is called threshold consiousness. If properly utilized, you will get to experience some form of hypnogogia (which can be effin' sweet if ya know what is happening or effin' scary if ya dont) and can willingly enter a dream and be lucid. I've done it once. Since the threads death I've gone lucid 0 times. 'Splain later.
Solly but 'round these parts we round down.

Oh, thanks ElTee! And what you've said about being between sleep and awakendess(?) is called threshold consiousness. If properly utilized, you will get to experience some form of hypnogogia (which can be effin' sweet if ya know what is happening or effin' scary if ya dont) and can willingly enter a dream and be lucid. I've done it once. Since the threads death I've gone lucid 0 times. 'Splain later.
****er that made me think of goatse.

Nah, I really have. I used the wake-induced method. Though once my dream self went to sleep and I realized I was dreaming but felt very tired to decided to screw it and let my lucidity go.

Dreams are fun. I think I'll go have one soon. A hot one....with Ben....making out....OH YEAH!

Whenever someone says OH YEAH I just imagine that koolaid jug guy bursting through walls.

The kool-aid guy is my desktop in computer applications.

I should probably have that dream now, but I must....get....10,000.

You can do it if you beliiiiiieeeeeve that you can.

I'm going for the GOLD mommie!!

..10!

Kool-aid guy is still paying off breaking my windows

He destroyed my summer afternoons.

"NOT enough sugar!!"
5 seconds later.
"STILL NOT ENOUGH!"
5 seconds later
~spits out~ "Too much sugar!" pours down drain and tries again.

I've been having really good dreams that have left me horribly depressed and caused me to just lay in bed for about six hours after I wake up. Is this normal?

Yes.

Jmac is correct, Salvinorin A (the hallucinogenic chemical in Salvia Divinorium) is the most potent naturally occuring hallucinogen. So, obviously, don't smoke Salvia unless you're old enough to make the decision sensibly :)

I don't want to get drawn into a "drugs are bad" debate; suffice it to say - some drugs are bad - some aren't, but have suffered from propaganda. Basically, the general official concensus is that:

BAD DRUGS
Heroin
Cocaine
Speed
Alcohol
Nicotine
PCP

Not so-bad drugs*
Cannabis
LSD
Ecstasy
Psilocybin (Mushrooms)
Mescaline

* Non-addictive, relatively (or in the case of LSD, at least, for certain) non toxic. No-one has ever died of an overdose of cannabis, LSD, Psilocybin or Mescaline. Ecstasy is on the list because it's not addictive, and is only really dangerous if you're allergic to it (very low percentage chance) or if you take a really stupid amount of it all at once.

The distinction between 'hard drugs' and 'soft drugs' is often hard to define, but in Holland Psilocybin, Mescaline and obviously cannabis are all classified as 'soft drugs' mostly for the reasons I just listed.

But, like, don't do drugs. At least if you do, don't do it because of anything I've said. Research it for yourself!

Ahem. (http://theline.wordpress.com/2006/03/23/entheogens/)

OMG I had a horrible nitemere last night. It was my stepdad killed my mom, and was gonna kill me, my bro, and sis, and nieces. He like made my cats run away and my dog, to lour us to our sunroom, and he had such a creepy look on his face towards me. We got our animals back suddenly, in my sis's car, and we tried to flee away, but then I woke up. The really scary part was he dug ten holes in the yard for us, and there was a coffin off to the side.

Nitemere: OR VISION?

Not so-bad drugs*
Cannabis
LSD
Ecstasy
Psilocybin (Mushrooms)
Mescaline
It should be noted that those two are usually made from harmful chemicals in countries that they're illegal in, and thus are made harmful themselves.

When you mention drugs and things of that sort eltee shows up.lol

Heh, it's not like that I swear! I was talking about dreams, it was other people who started talking about drugs!

What Jmac says about Ecstasy at least is true - you never know what you're getting. LSD on the other hand, I may have to argue about - it's active at such small doses that even if you covered it in poison, you wouldn't get ill from it. I mean, you can trip off an amount of LSD that's much smaller than the size of a grain of salt - not many chemicals, good or bad, are active in those kinds of quantities.

Also, the thing about strychnine in LSD is a myth. Just look it up on wikipedia or Erowid.

But yeah, no more drug talk! Dreams!! Talk about Dreams!

My third lucid dream just occured. I was in some cornfield with a lone highway, a guy in a red car drove up and stopped. I decided to go along and he tried to convince me to join in with him ins some sort of marketing ploy. I just nodded and went ahem to whatever he said. It sounded smart but I know it wasn't. I was smi-lucid at this point.

He dropped me off in some city place a mabobber (or I spun to change the environment, I dunno) expecting me to go along with his plan. Instead, I ran around kicking people and looting clothes, telling others they had no sense of fashion. The guy chased in after me to get harrased by 2 chicks I'd told off. I ran away through a back door, laughing. I ran around the block a bit, then I heard polic sirens. Laughing even harder I rushed into a house and took the family hostage. They were real nice. I ran around locking windows and doors, the woman wanting me to turn myself in becuz I was a bad influence on her newborn and that locking the windows and doors would do me no good since that's how I escaped last time(?). The sirens were wailing and I heard a chopper, and I didn't want to give up so I played around with some tap water Avatar style. Then I woke up. Still, that was long and awesome!

The only drug that people should have to take is EQUATE. And it ain't even a drug homey. You can play that shiat up at any store that sellz it wit no I.D. or nuthin'!

I honestly don't understand the draw of drugs. Even alcohol. Actually especially alcohol. If you feel that you need some sort of possibly harmful substance to help you get through the day, or having it essential to having a good time, then you might want to really take a look at why.

I mean I can understand doing it from time to time, or to just experiment or something I guess. But I dunno. I might just have weird views on this stuff as opposed to others. Not entirely sure why. Everyone has their opinion, and that's just my 2 cents. Not ragging on anybody or anything.

Dude i had a dream lastnight that Dark(aKa. Bitchface Mcrabby) came back.

I dozed off in study hall today and had a dream about my school turning into a musical. And we all just randomly break out into song and dance numbers. Like...in gym, everyone broke out into Wind it Up. And I snag Dead by TMBG at lunch

The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon.
-Hunter S. Thompson

On a differant note I've been too ****ing antsy all day long. Mind wanted to sit and be good, body wanted to run out of the room screaming "AAAAHHH!!!!! SPIDERS!!!!!!!!!!!!", like an Acid Freak.

I find that movie to be absolutely high-larious. 5 bonus points for quoting it.

Here's a crazy dream I had last night:

A few weeks ago, I had a dream where I was kind of tricked into the back of an ambulance and taken to a Russian prison camp. I can't really remember the details of that dream anymore, but last night I had a dream set in the same location - except this time, it was the island from the Lost TV show.

Well my brain dreamed up what the "secret" of Lost was - needless to say, it was crazy. In my dream, there were lots of dinosaurs on the show, and they were always attacking the cast. It turned out that 'the others' were scientists who were trying to figure out why the dinosaurs always attacked people - kind of a no-brainer, but the explanation was that they had some weird gene in their DNA which made them do it. In order to circumvent this, then... well, heh. The characters had to change their surnames.

I know! It doesn't make sense. And then when they did this, they all could turn into animals at will - mostly polar bears. And then that was the end of Lost.

I know there's more to this one, but I woke up at 7am and was at work from 9am to 9pm, so it's all been obliterated. It's a shame, if it had been a non-work day I could have written it down.

As a PS, this dream was a lot stronger in my memory that usual dreams; I took 6mg of melatonin before I went to bed so that I would get to sleep early. I was thinking purely about getting up for work, the improved dream lucidity was just a bonus I hadn't thought about beforehand.