Lucid Dream Journal: Memoir 1, Three Clocks & A Beach
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The Three Clocks - Ch. 1
I am in my home, but it is possibly a home from the future...or maybe the past. Or maybe it is my home in my dreamworld, I am not totally sure. I walk out of the fifties-retro farmhouse kitchen and onto my backporch through a wooden screen door that slams shut behind me. I am on the back porch now, gazing dreamily at the beautifully large pine and oak and maple trees crowding the land in my backyard. These trees remind me of the magical trees I used to see in my hometown in Maryland. I think to myself, "Hmm...this is weird...could I be dreaming?" I glance behind me through the screen door and into the kitchen and an old stove with a clock catches my eye. I notice the gorgeous wood floors are shining, as if they have been freshly polished. I walk through the wooden screen door back into the kitchen of the house and decide to take a look at a digital clock to test if I am truly dreaming.
The clock says it's 7:15...then it flickers and begins changing times rapidly. I decide to examine two more clocks within the kitchen and the same happens to them...rapid flickering and time changing. This confirms to me that I am in fact dreaming and that I am one hundred percent lucid! I became very excited and blissful to know that I was this lucid in this dream. And this dream was so quiet and peaceful...not another soul around! It is just me in this warm retro farmhouse and so I decide to walk out the back door again and explore the outside.
I descend from the back porch into the luscious green grass that massages the bottoms of my feet, and I walk past a huge oak tree to my left. I walk towards an old gravel road and immediately notice an old brick building across from my dreamhouse, maybe an old factory? Maybe an old school? Whatever it was...it does not look like it is in use now. I tell myself to keep walking and take in the sites...but then I get bored and take off flying.
Searching a Beach - Ch. 2
After flying out of my first dreamscape with my dreamhouse and its three dream clocks, I come into a totally new and riveting dreamscape. I see a white sandy beach below me with huge sparkling waves crashing onto the shore below me. There are a flock of birds flying up ahead of me. I fly to the end of the shore and it is almost as if this dreamworld ends abruptly so I turn around and decide to land on the shimmering sand.
I feel this urge that I am searching for someone in particular in this dream...maybe my dream guide? I start calling out a random name and begin to search through crowds of beach loungers to find this person that I so badly want to see. A chunky man bumps into me and tries to have a conversation with me but I literally push him away because he is not who I am looking for and is keeping me from my imperative search. I decide to fly on to another dreamscape and look for this person. I pass the shoreline and leave this dreamscape and fly up to the top of a spiral, black-iron staircase. I land at the top of the staircase that led me to the top of a tall building in a great city. I look down to the top of another building below and think maybe I have seen the person I have been searching for! To get to this person, I have to slide down a dark and small tube...despite my fear of small spaces. Yes, I even have this fear in my dreams. I squander up some bravery and hurl myself into the black tube. I slide down quickly and take another tube that branches off to the right. I feel like this tube is closing in on me and I am disappointed that I have not gotten out to see if I found my missing dream person.
I wake up and feel so enthralled that I was so undoubtedly lucid in these two dreams. The feeling carries on throughout my morning...but I still wonder to this day, will I ever know who that person is that I seem to be searching for in so many dreams? Could it be a person at all? Maybe it is just a purpose that I am trying to find in my lucid dreams?
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hey, minnetonka twin. so glad you enjoyed this hub. this was one of my MOST lucid dreams i have ever had and it was exhilarating and spiritual for me. it is very strange and amazing to be that lucid within a dream...it's like a whole new reality in a way. i can't wait to read about some of your lucid dreams! thanks for stopping by!
I sometimes think that when we dream we leave our bodies and enter others and that is why we have such vivid dreams of other people places and times. Dreams cannot be just our imagination, especially when we dream about people and places we've never been, or even thought about during our waking hours.
Lilleyth - I believe that some of our dreams may be the dreams or experiences of others..but I know that many of my dreams are very far-fetched and fantastical...too wild to be reality anywhere in the world! I love dreams, though. Always have had an obsession with dreaming...ever since my first flying dream as a child.
Some would say that you were actually atral traveling in your sleep. Too cool though, unforntunatley I rarely remember my dreams, and very rarely do I lucid dream.
summerclark7387 - Yes, astral traveling is something that I've done and probably did in this dream. Thanks for stopping by!
Wow... your "dream house" resonates with me in such a way that I felt I had to post. I did a specific site search about dreaming of a little farmhouse.
I have been dreaming of this house for 3 years now. Like you, it started out that it wasn't alone in its area, there was a falling down house nearby. Now, it is by itself. It is white, 1-story, and has a low deck area off to its left (mainly) and slightly of its front. It is in the middle of beautiful, gently rolling green hills and there is a gravel road that comes from over the hills and nears the house, though there isn't a driveway or anything to connect to the road and there are no cars there. It is a 1950s-style American farmhouse, but small, with era-matching furniture. Like you said, it is home, such a feeling of familiarity and I can describe every detail to it in such detail. The side entrance is off of the kitchen and the kitchen has wood paneling. There is an island-like area right when you come in and a door to the left when you come in that side door that leads to a basement area that I don't frequently enter. Off of the kitchen, at the end (as compared to where you enter) and to the left is the living room area that has curious mint green walls and very low built-in shelves that you can sit on. THough I feel it is my house in the dream and am often alone, often there are visitors, guests of mine. I always become very lucid in this house and have even had contact with my grandmother who has passed away (hearing her voice). Off of the living room area is a small hallway to the right and back of the room where I presume the bedrooms are. There are several doors, usually on the left of the hallway, and most of the time I cannot enter them. However, as the years have gone by and the dreams have progressed, I can, one by one. It seems to me that the house is a jumping off point for spontaneous OBE. Sometimes it just links me to other, familiar lucid dream locales.
I do want to mention one strange thing about this house. As you mentioned, nothing bad can happen to you when you're in this house, and this is true. It is a safe haven, a sense of safety i don't have in "the real world", just absolute love and comfort. Now, one night, as I was dreaming of this house, I later learned my husband was dreaming of his "dream house" and in each of our dreams, a very odd, bigfoot-type creature appeared in the road, the street in my husband's dream, and the gravel road in mine. It was so weird, a huge, huge furry man-thing that drove a strange, small pickup truck, wore overalls, just weird. It came roaring over the hills on the gravel road and pulled up to a screeching halt right by my dream house. It was known, however, that it could not enter the perimeter of the house's grounds, the gravel drive was a boundary of some sorts. After having this dream and my husband dreaming of it as well, I found it so odd, I wondered if it was what some people call an "interdimensional creature", something that somehow got criss-crossed in my lucid dream world and a layer of the OBE world. I mention this just to mirror your comments of safety in that house, because, yes, I agree :)
Thanks for listening!
M.A. - Wow! Your dream safe house sounds uncannily like mine! It always seems to me that after I am in my safehouse in dreams that I tend to fly and become extremely lucid...though I haven't had a lucid dream for quite some time now, sadly enough. But to touch on the "interdimensional being" that you mentioned...it could very well have been an interdimensional being...maybe of the faery type? I write a lot about faeries and their existence...and many times they are considered to be living between the mundane and the spiritual realms and it is quite possible that they can get into your dreams as dreams (in my opinion) are reality...just a different reality than ours. Just food for thought. If you're interested in learning more go to my profile above (to the right) and you'll see many more hubs that I've written on faeries and dreams, etc. Thanks and good luck!
Thanks, Kitty, I appreciate that you took time out to reply :) I always thought that faeries looked a certain way, so it did not occur to me to consider that as a possibility. So, I will read up on what you have written.
In the meantime, what is most fasciating about finding your post is that somehow it was bookmarked in my browser from so long ago, but I don't remember coming here before. You are the 3rd person in a week's time that as had this dream place. All of us are very lucid in that place and it almost always seems to be a jumping off point. I am so, so intrigued as to how we keep finding each other, especially when all of us feel that this house is our own, yet it seems that many people share it. Kind of profound, huh? :)
Oh, and one more thing. I am a lucid dreamer by nature. I have been having them for many, many years, since childhood (I'm 34 now), back when I didn't even know they had a name or that other people didn't often dream the way that I did. Yet, it wasn't until almost 2000 did I start having actual dream places. The first was a shopping mall. I saw that you only briefly mentioned that, but out of curiosity, I thought I'd ask you about it. Have you ever seen it from the outside? Because mine sits on top of a big green hill and the mall itself is massive, with many sets of escalators and it also serves as an OBE jumping of point of sorts. Have you ever shopped in the actual stores? In mine, each store has a certain color theme or special, depending on the night I dream of it. Anyway, just thought I'd mention it, because my mother and several others I know all dream about it as well, and have even met up before while both having the same dream!
Thanks for listening!
Minnetonka Twin Level 7 Commenter 15 months ago
Ok, this was very cool and very detailed. I am also a lucid dreamer, not all the time, but many times in my life. It's a neat feeling to be lucid in a dream, isn't it? I get excited when I figure out that I'm lucid dreaming as it makes me feel proud of myself for being aware that I'm dreaming. I have been inspired by you to start writing some of these dreams I have. I really enjoyed your hub. Keep em coming:)