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By Ben, on July 13th, 2010%
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I’ve noticed before how my intentions with my own dreams often strike back in clever ways.
For instance, when I was readily working with Calea Zacatechichi, it’s powers alluded me, even mocked me. I would have dreams about taking dream herbs instead of having lucid dreams or crazy vivid dreams! Ha! Oh Calea Z…
Anyhow – I wanted to share a dream today that’s about having a hole in my palm.
This comes from the fact that one of my favorite means of reality testing, and by extension, testing the reality (or lack thereof) in the dream world, is putting my . . . → Read More: Dream #9: Dreamsigns & The Hilarity of How Dreams Mock Us
By Ben, on July 12th, 2010%
 Art by Ben | Copyright 2010 | Dreaming Life
Lots of people have their personal nightmare; you know, the one that re-occurs overs the years, the one that horrifies them to the core, even if sometimes it doesn’t seem very scary when talking about it.
Mine is something most people are familiar with: the 1970′s horror film, The Exorcist.
When I was 10 years old I saw The Exorcist. It was on TV and I watched it with my brothers. Not wanting to look weak in front of them, I acted brave; oh no, this movie doesn’t scare me!
The truth is, it scared . . . → Read More: Dream #8: The Exorcist
By Ben, on July 11th, 2010%
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False awakenings are one of those gifts from the dream gods.
Ever so strange, even eerie, and somewhat rare in the grand scheme of dreaming – although I think everybody has one at one point or another.
A couple years ago, in an attempt to induce a lucid dream, I had a series of repeated false awakenings. It’s crazy how many I had – 4 in total – one right after another!
Here’s what I wrote in my dream journal that morning.
Dream Journal: April 23 2007
Slept in about 2 hours longer than I need to try and . . . → Read More: Dream #7: Four False Awakenings in a Row, Down the Rabbit Hole We Go…
By Ben, on July 10th, 2010%
 Untitled Art by Ben | Copyright 2010 | Dreaming Life
Having a dream where you are simultaneous you but also someone else is such a strange yet common occurrence.
Here is a short dream I had where I was someone else not just once but twice, in the same dream. The first person I barely knew, he was someone who helped spearhead some events I was a part of and the second one is a person nearly everyone on the planet knows – Homer Simpson. What a strange thing to merge the two.
Dream Journal: 7:32 PM 10/11/99
I’m R, the PFT organizer. I’ve . . . → Read More: Dream #6: Dreams of Being Other People
By Ben, on July 9th, 2010%
 Art by Ben | Copyright 2010 | Dreaming Life
This is another dream from the vaults, the experience of which has always stood out in my mind. Only 1 person has ever read this dream – he told me his Mom did dream interpretation, so I sent him this dream, to which he was sheepishly responded it was really long and maybe another time she could interpret it. Ha! Anyhow, here’s a condensed version of it.
Dream Journal: 1:12 PM 9/19/99
I’m flying over the United States we a group of people. We see a small little town in the country and immediately . . . → Read More: Dream #5: Flying Vampires, Locusts, Violence & Biblical Imagery
By Ben, on July 8th, 2010%
 Photo by Marisa
It’s rare that I have a dream whose meaning is so easily and obviously symbolic to what’s going on in my life in such blunt terms. This is one of the most literal dreams of that sort that I’ve had. This dream is about problems my girlfriend (at the time) and I were having in our relationship.
Dream Journal:
6:56 am May 24, 1999
We’re outside of a business. I’m arguing with an employee who then turns into A. I’m shouting and ranting and raving because of the bad service. Then A and I start throwing things at one another . . . → Read More: Dream #4: A Very Symbolic Dream of Fighting & Reconciliation
By Ben, on July 7th, 2010%
 Photo by Ben
Whenever I have a dream where I experience a small level of conscious awareness (or lucidity, if you will), and am able to think about the fact that I’m dreaming and do a few interesting things – often consisting of marveling at my hands and putting them through objects – when I wake up, I typically question the experience.
Was it a lucid dream?
Or what it a dream about a lucid dream?
This thought haunts me to be honest, because there are many “lucid dreams” where I question if they’re really true lucid dreams or just dreams of having lucid . . . → Read More: Dream #3: A Dream of Astral Traveling
By Ben, on July 6th, 2010%
 Untitled By Ben. Copyright 2010 Dreaming Life
There is a woman who has appeared in my dreams for many, many years. A little while back, I realized she ceased to represent the person who she appears to be and had become a kind of archetype in my brain; a woman that represents some sort of ideal woman, a highly sexualized archetype, a kind of goddess almost.
In fact, in real life she had a very big “energy” or presence to her personality, style, and image, so this archetypal concept is not too far off to be honest.
So yes – . . . → Read More: Dream #2: Dream Archetypes & Sexual Dreams
By Ben, on July 5th, 2010%
 Art by Claudio P
One of the earliest dreams I ever had was an experience that scared me because for the longest time I never realized it was a dream.
I reckon I was 4 or 5 years old at the time. Nearly 25 years later, I can still remember the man in this dream who threatened me. Here’s the dream retold from the perspective of my 29 year old:
I’m lying in bed, going to sleep. My bed rests up against the white walls of my bedroom, and as usual, I prefer to sleep towards the wall, as opposed to the other . . . → Read More: Dream #1: Childhood Dreams or “I’ll Poke Your Eye Out”
By Ben, on August 28th, 2007%
“Just had the longest, most extensive, lucid dream of my life”
-from my dream journal, 2:50am, August 24, 2007
A few nights ago I had the most fantastic lucid dream of my life.
This experience was far more fulfilling than any other lucid dream I’d ever had. I’ve never had a dream anywhere near this long, with this much control, with so many different dream characters, with so many different dreamscapes and experiences, and all of it with so much clarity of mind.
It was incredibly long. I estimated, while still dreaming, that about an hour had passed.
I became lucid after noticing my face . . . → Read More: The Most Fantastic Lucid Dream Of My Life
By Ben, on July 12th, 2007%
Since my last dream report roughly a month ago, I’ve been good and written down my dreams nearly every night, had some fun with B6, and paid attention to two themes that just kept coming up in my dreams: work and school, the latter of which is strange since I finished high school in 1999 and attented a tech school for just 18 months in 2004.
Work.
Lots of dreams where I’m at work or interacting in non-work situations with the people I work with. Some of the dreams are stressful, surely a metaphor for the stress of work, but others are just . . . → Read More: Bi-Weekly Dream Report: B6 Dreams, Teeth Falling Out, People Dying, and I’m Back in School. Again, and Again.
By Ben, on June 14th, 2007%
I decided to bring the Bi-Weekly Dream Reports back. They generate more comments than many of my other posts, leading me to believe that it’s something people can relate to. Is this true – do you enjoy this aspect of the blog? Should I keep doing it?
The discussion this time centers around what a mischievous little bugger that dreaming mind is, and some thoughts about a lucid dream I recently had.
Dreaming Mind: Oh How You Love to Rub It In My Face!
My last post on eating food in a dream must still be floating around in my head.
I dreamt last night . . . → Read More: Bi-Weekly Dream Reports: That Mischievous Dreaming Mind & A Short Lucid Dream
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