Turning the world upside down

Had a crazy dream during my nap earlier.

Disobedient elevators. I was going to the top floor, but the elevator kept going up for another two nonexistent floors. The sign inside read "FL1", then "FL2" and the doors never opened, but it tilted like it was about to fall apart. The elevator brought me back down to the basement before letting me out. The walls in the basement were crumbling. Destruction, like the end was coming, was a theme. I somehow found out that the earth was off-balance.
If you've ever seen the children show "Adventure Time", you'd know the characters Jake the dog and Finn the human, and possibly the Ice King.

I had to adventure with them to save their (and in my dream, my) world. Ice and snow was taking over the whole planet (for some reason snow was in the southern hemisphere and warmth and pink candy land in the northern hemisphere). I don't remember how exactly we did it, but we tied something around the equator and squeezed. The Ice King was furious when he saw us fighting back. We flipped the planet over, so that the northern hemisphere was now the south and vise versa. Balance was restored. At the same time, a new kind of world was created from this.

Pretty epic.

Dream on Feb 15

Last night I had a dream that there were two tombstones in my backyard. And I was really upset about it. In my dream they graves had been there for years, but the actual markers had just appeared. I saw them through the window.

According to 10,000 Dreams Explained by Pamela K. Ball, a grave may signify the loss of emotion or part of our personality that has been killed off. It could also be about dealing with the feelings of someone we know who died.

If this is the case, then it's all in my subconscious, because I don't see this relating to my everyday life. The dream setting was at my house, not my dorm room. Even in the dream I felt distant from it.

About dream journals

A lot of the time people will keep dream journals when they want to learn how to lucid dream. Lucid dreaming is when in a dream, the dreamer becomes aware that he or she is dreaming. Once this is recognized, the person can control the dream and what happens and the possibilities are limitless. A few times I have realized I was dreaming while I was still asleep and changed the outcome of my dream. I want to do this more often.

The best time to record a dream is right after you wake up. The longer you wait, the more details and memories of the dream slip away. Half the time I won't be able to do this because I have to get ready for my day as soon as I wake up. But when I get the chance to write down my dreams I will.

Keeping dreams in a journal can help a person find repeated imagery or events. Lucid dreamers can learn to recognize certain signs in a dream that alert them that they are dreaming. I'm also interested in dream meanings and interpretations. What a person dreams about has different meanings. I've learned from that book that dreams are rarely prophetic, but rather they are more often about the circumstances and feelings a person has in their life currently.

So I've only read a little bit about lucid dreaming from reading wikipedia and from talking to someone who practices this, but further research will be done.

First Post

This blog will have research and exploration of dream journals.
Hopefully I can also learn to lucid dream...