Can't...quite..get it!

[Person]

So you have a repeating dream?  They are more important than most other dreams because it represents something urgent enough to get your attention.
My guess for symbolism would be climbing the "corporate ladder."  Is your job stressful or wearing you out?  Striving for some unattainable goal?  Maybe even the golden ladder to heaven.
As to lucidity, when you touched the floor were you lucid, or after?
When you do reality checks with the clock, throw in something about ladders, if that dream really is that common.  When you do become lucid on the ladder next time, look straight ahead and picture a place above you at the end.  An open door to some room.  When you include falling or rising feelings in a dream, it'l shift your awareness more than you meant and the whole dream will change.  Just climb the ladder a few more steps and go straight into the next 'room' without a transition and it should remain stable enough to be enjoyable.


-Person

[Paukki]

Hi Person,
Thanks for the tips!  The problem is that I don't achieve lucidity.  During the day I might ask myself "What time is it?  Am I dreaming?" while looking at clocks and watches, but when the clocks and watches have shown up in dreams, thus far, I don't arise to the cue and say, "Hey!  I'm dreaming!"  This morning was another one.  I was in an old office building with clocks on walls and when leaving it I wanted the time, so I tugged at my shirt sleeve to see my watch.  The sleeve was tight and I got it back with difficulty, and then I sorta laughed at myself because I realized that there had been clocks in the building that I could have checked for the time.  But not once did I stop to ask, "Am I dreaming?"  or have any sense of being in a dream.  What does it take to realize its a dream?     (I've had lucid dreams very infrequently.  They seem like accidents, almost.)  

As for the "ladder" dreams, I only remember two of those, but both were within the last month or so.  I dream about work a lot near the end of my sleep.  I have no "corporate goals".  Just the opposite.  I am there to pay the bills and would like to leave eventually.  I have no passion, job-wise.  On the other hand, I am highly interested in obe, AP, realizing HS, etc.  Part of my daily practice in this regard is listening to tapes from "The Academy of Remote Viewing", (   http://www.mindsafari.com/    ), and I find mysel, f thinking right now about  the context of these "ladder" dreams, thinking of where some narration on one of the AoRV tapes emphasizes, "Let go, let go!"  Both dreams found me realizing all I had to do was to let go of the ladder.  (I was weak in both dreams.  I often wonder if I couldn't do better, with AoRV, if I didn't have the job to contend with.  It can wear you out.)  Too, the original motion in the dreams was upward, whereas the AoRV tapes take one to DEEPER levels, (i.e., from beta down to theta, or even delta), so by letting go of the ladders I actually ended up getting something of a taste, I like to think, of things to come.

--Paukki

[Paukki]

Well, I did it again.  Once before I wrote about how I was dreaming of being at work and climbing a vertical ladder colored yellow, and I didn't have the strength to do it, and I realized all I had to do was let go and fall into dreamland fun.  Unfortunately I simply diffused whatever consciousness I then had as I fell into a floating softness like some sort of gumby doll sinking down into a pool of feathers, and I fell beyond dreams into deep sleep, I guess.  This time I was again climbing a vertical ladder colored yellow and I had even less strength, this time, and wondered if my heart were giving out.  Decided I'd better go back down before I fell down, and as soon as I touched the ground with one foot I said to myself, "This is it!"  Only I didn't fall DOWN, but I went UP....like a parachute made out of dandelion down, it was just very pleasant to experience.  Then I thought I woke up, along with my wife, and we were looking at our clocks on the headboard and realizing I was about 7 hours late getting up!  The irony of this is that I have been practicing, in everyday actuality, looking at clocks and asking myself, "What time is it?  Am I dreaming?"  Then I finally get a chance to ask this in a dream and all I can come up with is a "Wow, am I late!"  Back to the drawing board.
--Paukki