I've had plenty of weird, vivid dreams worth sharing in recent weeks, but thought I'd post this one for the "journal". It's basically a continuation of a dream that I've had at least a half dozen times now, a very lucid dream where I realize that I'm sleeping. I'm in a night club type of setting, up high, like the 20th floor of a building, and there is bizarre music playing. It's not techno but very electronic and tone oriented melodies, soothing yet dark and brooding. Whale songs come to mind and frequencies from deep under-water.

Upon talking to various people at this "club", I begin to realize that everyone here knows they are a "dreamer" too, having a mutually shared dream experience in this building. It's a shared understanding that, in the waking world, we are "scouting" people to come with us to this dream dimension so we can plan and party, away from the peering eyes and ears of the "real world". We will knowingly TRY to get more people back to this dream facility when they go to sleep, so we can all have a central meeting point in the reality of the dream-scape.

The different levels of the building lead to different dimensional planes, different realities of dreamers and sleep states. Perhaps other planets and universes as well. We are thinking up new ways, in the WAKING WORLD, to try and promote our club and get people to join us in the shared dream. In other words, we're trying to recruit new members.

It might sound mundane or boring, but could be a good upcoming experiment. A "viral marketing campaign" to try and influence people to focus in on a particular dream facility where we all might share a mutual ESP type experience. I've always been fascinated by the possibility that the people you meet in your dreams, are actually other dreamers, suffering a partial amnesia, and perhaps wearing different masks than the faces and flesh of their real lives. I'll definitely keep giving it some further thought and consideration as I think there are some strange and potentially ground-breaking possibilities with this "research".

The Makura-gaeshi (”pillow-mover”) is a soul-stealing prankster known for moving pillows around while people sleep. The creature is invisible to adults and can only be seen by children. Anatomical features include an organ for storing souls stolen from children, another for converting the souls to energy and supplying it to the rest of the body, and a pouch containing magical sand that puts people to sleep when it gets in the eyes. In addition, the monster has two brains — one for devising pranks, and one for creating rainbow-colored light that it emits through its eyes.

More 'Anatomy of Japanese Monsters' at above link!

Two very strange, very vivid dreams over the past couple of days...

... First. I'm some kind of action hero in a movie. Interdimensional zombies are chasing me, with giant pulsating brains. The only way I can escape them is by going through a variety of mazes and mirrors, which transport me to new worlds and realities. I find that it's always very memorable and bizarre when you have a dream in which you encounter yourself in a mirror. Usually I'm timid regarding mirrors in dreams, but this time I was actually using them to warp from one "level" to the next in order to escape shadowy captors.

It was very trippy and topsy turvey. M.C. Escher / Dali type of dream...

Second dream, different night. Without too many details. I'm going crazy in the house I grew up in. Floating, drifting, anti-gravity insanity at 360 degrees. Nothing is real - I'm seeing hallucinations - everything is STARK yet somehow ABSTRACT. In one of them, Obama is amidst a group of 10's of thousands of people (Olympic Games setting), and behind him is a large screen which reads: "Crusade: Alien Christ", with pictures of various holographically projected planets in our solar system. More hallucinations ensue, which seemed based upon scientific methods of technological transmission. I eventually realize that the hallucinations are coming from the TELEVISION, sending out subconscious broadcast signals, recording our every move, putting us under mind control with trigger words and phrases that make us slaves. I must escape the transmission signal!

The digital TV convertor box is creating nightmares!?!

I already spoke about my modest one-man-band The Conscious Sleep Project -HERE- , but just gettin' the word out however I can that I've started two new Myspace pages dedicated to my tunes, and independent, local music generally from the state of Indiana.

http://www.myspace.com/crossroadresonances

http://www.myspace.com/conscioussleepproject

There's some cool stuff over there, really, so hope you'll check it out! These are like the 3rd and 4th Myspace pages I'm currently running, along with LiveJournal and Blogger accounts, and 4 different websites. I don't know if that makes me kinda proficient, or kinda... pathetic?!?!

Anyway, check it out, new updates over there, podcasts and such. Worth a look-see if you're at all interested in my little hub of creation.

Just thought I'd throw this out there (without charging $49.95 like some "experts" might), but here are a few quick pointers for how you might actively attain Lucid Dream sessions or even OBE (out of body experience) situations.

First off, if you've never had an OBE, and these tips actually work, remain calm and be willing to psychoanalyze the situation after you've had some time to think it over. Not everything is "a message from God", "angels and demons", or "extraterrestial communication", so you've got to be careful to balance betwixt taking all of this seriously, and having a little bit of fun with it too.

Secondly, an OBE event can be enlightening and rewarding, but at times it can also be very draining, unnverving and even frightning. In my experience, every "astral travel" has also coincided with bouts of sleep paralysis, ie: being "trapped" between the states of wakefulness and dream. It takes the body and mind time to adjust to such "voyages", and you might find yourself stuck between phases/vibratory levels of reality. This is a twilight period where seeming entities might appear to you, hidden in shadows, which are working of their own accord and may indeed express themselves as malignant or harmful.

Again, though it's hard to be in complete control at all times, especially if you're inexperienced in these matters, DO NOT FEAR. More than likely these are merely psychological manifestations, simple nightmarish imps & phantoms, though sometimes they might seem to be very real...

POST CONTINUED IN MY COMMENTS SECTION:

The first is an original interview I conducted a couple years back with Kevin Todeschi, who is an author and head CEO of the Edgar Cayce A.R.E. Center. For those unfamiliar with Cayce's work, he was known as the "sleeping prophet" due to his supposed ability to enter a deep meditative trance state and recollect events from the past, present, and future. He's a key figure in holistic health and the budding 'New Age Movement' of the 20th Century.

-INTERVIEW WITH THE EDGAR CAYCE A.R.E. CENTER-

The second item worth mention is a short story I wrote several years back, a horror tale, entitled 'CREATURE FROM UNIVERSE 23' which deals primarily in dreams. Or more appropriately, nightmares.

Hope you'll check 'em out, if so, thanks!

And in case you haven't noticed, EVERYTHING, and I mean EVERYTHING on this new Dream Width account will be dedicated to dreams and sleep, one way or the other. Don't worry, I think things will get more "thought provoking" as we go along here.