more dreams

The way I have been sleeping, in spurts with alarms, I seem to be woken up amidst dreams every night this week. I should maintain a dream journal

Themes

1. Tsunami and being stuck in a building that resembles the ad-block of my college. This theme has been recurrent. Although locations have changed, the people involved have largely remained the same. I am usually with someone, running, shouting, climbing stairways, balconies or hills. I always wake up to the horror of having escaped each time but watching horrible things happen to other people.

2. Today's dream was rather pleasant. I had stumbled upon a little comic book lending store in CMI although the college looked more like my old college. It had all the asterix and tintin comics one could dream of. The shop was a small, made of glass - almost invisible. The shopkeeper was friendly and mostly never there. Few knew about the place. Fewer visited it for it was creepy in the eyes of people who knew. (note the awareness about other people's perceptions in a dream! isn't it beautiful?)

I disappeared into the place whenever I got the chance to, sometimes bunking classes and tests. There was something mysterious about the place and something special about the books there. I also remember meeting and having a conversation with some interesting person in the book store only to watch him leave the store in a disturbing hurry.

The recursive dream

Had a dream today. A dream within a dream.

I was having a dream about the idea of death. I was acutely aware of having said some very profound in my dream. I also knew that uttering profound truths in my dreams was a frequently occurring phenomenon and that this time I needed to wake up for it was too important a truth to later forget. So with lots of effort, I wake up and write down what I had said on a notebook on the table. Then I share my thoughts with people very happily and vow to maintain a dream diary.

What is most interesting is that, the paragraph above was in itself a dream!

But I just wonder if this dream was indeed another dream or if it began as a conscious /semi-conscious thought (a lucid dream) that later turned into a dream because I couldn't really wake up to it even though I wanted to and almost did. It is a thin line between dream and wakefulness.

I hear it takes effort and practice to learn to have lucid dreams. I have managed to have them a couple of times but it has been more by chance than by practice. Perhaps everyone has had them but are just unaware. I had long known what they were and have always wanted to have them. The state has always lasted only for a very short time, after which I either wake up completely or fall asleep possibly thinking the whole state of my being aware of my dreams was a dream in itself. That I think is what happened this time as well- a lucid
dream seamlessly turning into a dream- making it what I call - a recursive dream!

PS:

Anyway, of the two times I woke up after saying lovely things, I found once that what I said was gibberish. Well, it was a combination of two strange words that didn't at all go together. The other time it was an advice to someone, which was nothing as great as it felt when I had said it in my dream.

How to weigh a bird

So what happens when you weigh a little birdie in a cage ?
1. What happens when the bird is at rest?
2. What happens when the bird in flight in the cage?
What if the bird was in a closed jar in both of the above cases?