CF's dream diary

[Beekeeper]

I get dreams like that and references to pyjamas and blankets. I think it's the SC letting you know you're dreaming. I've never gotten lucid off it though.

Me neither... CF

[CFTraveler]

Last night:
I had gone hiking with my cousin M. when after a long evening of walking (it was a beautiful sunset while we walked) we went down a cave that was one of the places we used to like to go to (not IRL, this is strictly dream memory). We went down to some wonderful underground cities and spent a great deal of time there. There was a second layer underground, that I went to briefly, with interesting scapes in the rocks- it was breathtakingly beautiful but very difficult to go back up) so when it was time to get back she got distracted and went down yet another level, and I went back up, because I knew that there was a time limit in order to get back up safely. So I went back up by myself, and left her there.
When I got back to the (very gothic-looking house) one of my aunts asked me where she was, and I told her she stayed behind.
I can't remember if she eventually came back up, or not, but when I woke up I pondered on the significance of the 'underground' image.
Then I went back to sleep briefly (hit the snooze button) and went back into the dream, but I can't remember what it was about- I guess I was explaining to my aunt why I left her behind, and what I saw there. Or something like that.

ps. I've been to the first level of this realm once when I was younger and AP'd more frequently- I went in projection from my bedroom portal.

[CFTraveler]

This dream was long, so I'll put in highlights, and then will come back to fill it in.
Was back home, was given a tour of the house, it changed into a storefront, and then I was visiting with various persons (boys) and my dad was there trying to be strict about the boys.

[CFTraveler]

I wasn't even going to record this one because it was so trite- but I will, just to illustrate how sometimes the subconsious 'fills in the blanks'.
I was in the middle of a dream where I felt I had to go to the bathroom. I was holding a baby, and was maneuvering rough terrain, when I finally found a bathroom. As I approached it, I felt something attach to my leg, and I couldn't see my foot, because the baby was swaddled in large blankets and I had to balance myself while holding the baby so I couldn't see. I asked a dream character what it was and they said it was some sort of leech that was fastened to my right foot. I rose my leg and they confirmed it. (I was afraid it might be a squirrel, for some reason).
So I asked the dc to hold the baby so I could remove this thing from my leg and I woke up.
When I woke up I was holding my pillow sideways in the fetal position, but my arm was 'wedged' in there so I was sort of trapped in that position. On my right leg my girl cat was wrapped around my ankle, very firmly. I couldn't move at all and could feel her paws digging in the calf.
I looked like I had lost a fight against the cat.

And I had to pee. Bigtime.

[Beekeeper]

This made me laugh, CF!

[CFTraveler]

Placeholder for when I have time to record it.

[CFTraveler]

It was a complicated dream because it went from first person to third person to observer observing the third person. On top of that, it was not chronologically in order, but it went back and forth in time. At some points I was telling a story, I was living it or I was watching it.
So roughly:
My son and I were walking in the large hallways of a huge ship. I was telling him the story of how we got there. I was showing him at times (like on a holodeck) and I was remembering at times as I told him where some things (like soldering irons and chickens, for example) came from originally, and also where humans came from.
We had come from somewhere else from very far away, and out ship was gigantic and bustling with people. At first it was self-sufficient with ecosystems and food and technology to sustain us as we continued on. We had animals not just for subsistence but also as friends and companions, and I was showing him (holographically) what the place where the companion animals were, and there were pet chickens (the brown kind with the big red faces, they were quite gorgeous) and other animals like cats and dogs. I showed him when I used to solder things (technology) and I also showed him how certain things worked, and at some point I showed him that where we were now living (in the ship, still) was only a tiny fraction of the space, because throughout the eons some people had died, we had run out of enough fuel and were no longer self-sufficient, not enough people had learned what they needed to continue, and even though where we were seemed large enough, it was nothing compared to how it had once been.
After I awoke I had the feeling this was a 'before humanity' moment, and not the opposite.

[Sinera]

Starship dream- will come back and fill it up.

dream-abduction?

[CFTraveler]

No, it was weirder.
I'm going to try to write it all down above you, I just have a headache right now and it gets in the way. Done. Now I'm going to go lay down for a bit.

[Beekeeper]

Is it possible it was jumbling past, future and/or parallel timeframes? Of course, the ship may have been a metaphor for the planet as well.