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juicemode
juicemode aka Joe is a 24.24 year old boy, has been a member since August 10, 2008, has scored 192 submissions, giving an average score of 0.81.
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1/3 of our lives are spent sleeping. The experiences one has during sleep are absolutely phenomenal. Unfortunately, one may be less of a dreamer than another. However, we all dream, some just don't ask themselves if they are actually dreaming.

The mere fact of being conscious and lucid within a world manifested by random processes of the brain is both inspirational and hopeful for this world and for ourselves. External content, hidden content, unconscious desires, fragments of experiences from one's journey on this earth all appear and disappear within a purely subjective world (dream world) which can be controlled.

I quote from Waking life: ''The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams, because if you can do that, you can do anything!"

This is absolutely valid. Look at it this way:

You find your self in a dream street, at night, by your self in your neighborhood. Some calls out your name from a faraway apartment building on the 10th floor. You somehow believe you can fly up there and reach this person. However your mental thought process is not a simple one. In order to fly, you must try to take into consideration certain physical laws that must be dependent on your body such as how do get off the floor, how do you fight the gravity, how must you initiate your bodily lift off from the ground?. These questions and concern happen extremely fast, but in my dream flying experiences I have to flex calves and depending on the flexing intensity, I begin to levitate.

In a sense, we can look at it as freeing the mind like the Matrix stated.

It is important to dream.

It is important to talk about it amongst artists, psychologists, philosophers and people in general. However it must be discussed from an experiential perspective and how it affects our perception and what we think of our waking life.

CuteTeezRule
CuteTeezRule on Aug 10 '08 at 8:18pm
I am a very lucid dreamer at times, I can fly very easily and conjure up where I want to go and I find it quite easy to escape from scary situations. I often find myself without my shoes or my bag but I just summon them and they appear. I meet a lot of famous people too and enjoy experiences with them. I absolutely love dreaming and dreams and that's why I'd never want there to be a way for humans to go without sleep.
CuteTeezRule
CuteTeezRule on Aug 10 '08 at 8:20pm
I interpret Freedom Call as to be about dreams and the summoning of being able to fly off somehwere.
juicemode
juicemode on Aug 11 '08 at 7:10am
The summoning part is super interesting, that mode of control is not something I do often.

What bothers me is in my childhood, I was 50 times more lucid, I use to have absolutely crazy lucid dreams to the point where when I was getting pulled out of my dream and into the visual field of my room's ceiling, I would intentionally force my self back into the dream world. I think that was the most unique and powerful mental processes I had ever felt. From what I read some of these specific dream related events are strongly present during childhood...i.e. False awakenings also.....

Very interesting yet unfortunate since my dream experiences are less intense at this age.
eskimokiss
   eskimokiss on Aug 11 '08 at 7:17am
your blog has put me to sleep.
is this good or bad?
discuss
CuteTeezRule
CuteTeezRule on Aug 11 '08 at 9:51am
In my dreams I used to get trapped under my ceiling so I'd have to push against it until it dissolved. I also used to dream of school and when bad things happened a unicorn/pegasus friend would take me home. I also used to graze my knee sometimes.
That stuff doesn't really happen anymore but recently I had a dream that turned hyper real on me so I pinched myself and I woke up, I didn't think that really worked but apparently it does (I won't be doing it again as it was quite a nice dream I was enjoying). I do find Youtube vids and pictures by the bed influence my dreamworld alot.
This blog is so interesting :)
juicemode
juicemode on Aug 11 '08 at 10:56am
Eskimo...Its good if

your asking me about my blog in regards to you going to sleep, Yes, its actually Great....Especially if your going to be dreaming.

In case you mean this subject is boring, than your just simply not interested in dream experiences. Maybe you haven't experienced dreams on a profound level, and thats fine... and unfortunate ;-p

talk to you later bud

Joe
juicemode
juicemode on Aug 11 '08 at 11:01am
Hey cute teez, cool post. Ya I used to pinch my self too but I wouldn't do it to wake up, I would simply do it to TEST MY PHYSICAL REACTION, to see if I will indeed feel any pain and in turn confirm to myself if I am inside a dream or not.

I never felt pain, only some kind of pressure on my skin. That's how I would know I am dreaming. However in order to wakeup, this is weird: I would try to open my eyes as wide and as high as possible and I would struggle to regain vision in the real world; I would be stuck sometimes in between the awakened state of the real world and the dream state of the dream world ;-p

Joe
CuteTeezRule
CuteTeezRule on Aug 11 '08 at 1:15pm
Sometimes I would be sat in my old classroom and try and wake up by making myself go fuzzy and trying to be 'light' and sort of floaty. That took quite a lot of effort to do though.
I sometimes dream about food, once I dreamt about eating chicken and it was delicious, all juicy and moist. I'm actually vegetarian so it was nice to indulge in a guilt free way.
juicemode
juicemode on Aug 12 '08 at 8:09am
LOL...Have you ever had dreams related to school when your absolutely running out of time to get to your class, and u just cannot seem to find the classroom, and the whole situation becomes frustrating as you struggle and runaround the whole school as if it were your first time there. I have had those dreams recurrently.
CuteTeezRule
CuteTeezRule on Aug 12 '08 at 1:35pm
Not really had any school stuff like that, my recurrent school dreams which I used to have involved being at primary school and flying a little bit above the ground then falling back to the concrete and grazing my knee which I really felt and then either the pegasus would take me home or I'd be in the classroom trying to make myself fuzzy. I have had old school friends (enemies really because I was bullied a lot) appear infrequently.
One of my recurrent dreams was a big narnia style adventure where I'd be fleeing from a big monster but eventually I dreamt about finally being able to shut the huge creaking door and I guess I closed the story as I havent dreamt it again since.
A really scary thing happened when I was a child that I still vividly remember. I woke up from some nightmare (I don't remember what the dreamworld bit was) and I sat up and turned to look at my pillow and there was a big maculine human finger poking out from under the pillow, I screamed for my mum who came rushing in and lifted the pillow up and there was nothing there. I setteled down to go back to sleep and I looked up from my bed to see a male wearing blue pinstripey pyjamas floating like a ghost by my bed (I'm pretty sure that all happened the same night but I might have merged them as one event).
I've had nightmares where my parents are in one part of my house and I find that there's another set of my parents living in the house. Also when my my paternal grandparents died I would dream about them visting and I and my parents would know they were meant to be dead but they wouldn't realise and thought everything was just normal. Those I found really upsetting.
I also had dreams about bugs and creepy crawls and there being literally a carpet of spiders and scorpians and roaches and I'd walk on them and really feel it hurting.
I have a few regular locations in my dreams, there's one that's like a big warehouse store full of books and film and tv memorabilia and when I dream of book stores or stalls I always look for James Dean books and I rummage through the shelves and find loads of cool books and videoclips. I'm a big James Dean fan and I also like Montgomery Clift and old Hollywood.
Who are the people in your dreams? Do you see relatives, friends or famous people?
I
juicemode
juicemode on Aug 12 '08 at 4:21pm
The people that exist which I see frequently is my brother. Listen to this (read this that is ;-p) my brother is 20, 3 years younger twice my size however I never dream of him as the present Malek (thats his name) I dream about him as the 12 year old Malek; short, chubby, supercute....its as if the younger version is more familiar to me than the actual version...

Most other people are abstract....I also dream about alot of girl-friends, not any that I have really met though. They are all dream-girlfriends that never existed (which is to say more interesting girls than any of the ones I have dated in my waking life)

Those are the two types of people I dream recurrently about. The rest of my dream experiences are alot like david lynch films....

I ll wait for your reply and than tell you something crazy regarding my dreams and david lynch hehe
CuteTeezRule
CuteTeezRule on Aug 12 '08 at 6:44pm
Hiya I mainly dream about famous people and I have adventures about being in Doctor Who. I don't really know much about the David Lynch films but I do really enjoy fiction about humans on earth that has a fantastical element and I'm really interested in literature and film that explores the idea of parallel universes and the multiverse and I like time travel.
Some of my favourite books are The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas, the K-Pax books by Gene Brewer, Rapture by David Sosnowski, The Witches of Chiswick by Robert Rankin, The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. I also have a lot of books by Jack Kerouac. I've always enjoyed reading and I have hundreds of books. My love for fantastical books stems from my childhood and the school library bus that I loved to be picked to choose the books from so I could get my favourites which were The Shrinking of Treehorn and Treehorn's Treasure by Florence Parry Heide. The book I'm currently reading is War and Peace. What are your favourite books and films? :)
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My name is Joe, I have been involved in the multimedia field ever since I drew my first comic characters at the age of 10. I then started getting into typography / 2d graphic design (david carson) and eventually got into the Design and Computation Art Specialization program at Concordia University in Montreal.

There, I Learned and had the chance to develop more abilities in a variety of mediums and expressions. I was exposed to interesting artists and interesting philosophy as well. The philosophical / theory side is essential to integrate as a framework for projects.

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Joe