When I was a kid, about 10 years old, I went to a zoo in the Czech Republic. Since I live in an island where there are no zoo’s, it was my first time in one.
I saw the monkeys, bears, snakes and owls, but I always waited for one species, the lions. So as my family and me were approaching, I ran before them because I was so anxious to see them.
At the lion cage, there was a small cave which you could go inside of, and watch the tigers on one side and the lions on the other side. I positioned myself in front of the glass window in the lion cage and saw the first lion i’ve ever seen. A big old male lion, sleeping comfortably, with no worries in the world, except when his next meal is due to arrive. I watched it with great admiration, as I had never seen such a beast.
Suddenly it opened it’s eyes, and began to stare at me. I stared back and thought nothing of it, until the lion stood up and began walking directly at me. I was a little afraid because I was alone there but I knew it couldn’t harm me. The lion began picking up the pace, and finally it was on full speed, coming towards me, and there was nothing I could do but stand there. When the lion had a few meters to go before it reached the glass window, it leaped up, his claws forward, aimed at my head. I didn’t blink an eye, not because I was so tough, but because I almost pissed my pants.
That big animal, probably weighing about half a ton, came crashing down on the window with it’s paws a few centimeters from my head. I looked up and saw the lions mouth, it’s teeth covered in drool and it’s tongue curled up inside. It started to roar and almost blew my eardrums, but still I couldn’t move. Has a lion ever roared at you at a close range? It doesn’t have a good effect on a 10 year old, let me tell you that.
As soon as I started moving again, the lion walked back to it’s original position, yet again, without a care in the world, and most likely doesn’t remember me today. I on the other hand, never forgot that lion. It still haunts me today, only in the form of nightmares.
That’s one of the reasons why I started lucid dreaming, to get rid of those nightmares, but unfortunately it has had no effect yet. The nightmares still come, even stronger then before and don’t seem to be going anywhere.
I tried to make this my dream indicator, my dream sign, but it has never worked, and I’ve tried it for six months. I’ve thought about it constantly but nothing happens. Maybe I’m doing it wrong but it almost seem’s impossible for me. The lions still come frequantly and tear my arms off and rip my legs off, but the scariest part is, I don’t wake up.
If I will become a talented lucid dreamer, I could possibly eliminate this nightmare, but I have a long way to go. So I tried other methods.
I thought that if I would be able to induce a stronger nightmare, this one would disappear and the new one would replace it. I did that because I’ve been having the same nightmare for ten years and I’m a little annoyed by it, it’s like watching the same movie over and over again, but with different actors. So it was becoming a little to routine for my likings.
So what did I do? What could possibly produce a nightmare so strong it would overcome a lion? My greatest obsession, yet my worst enemy, I’ve been fascinated by these creatures since I was a baby. Spiders.
But I knew that a regular spider would do nothing for me, since I’m always inspecting spiders. No, it had to be something good, something horrible, something lethal.
I was so lucky to discover one of them in a delivery which came from Mexico that arrived to my workplace. I thought it was dead, because I’d found one before and it was dead, but it turned out it wasn’t, and it almost bit me, just missed a few centimeters. So lucky! The Black Widow Spider. I caught it and made a small cage out of a soda bottle, and brought it back home with me. I put it in a cupboard and now I make sure every night that it’s closed.
I caught it about 3 months ago, and it’s effect started immediately. But it didn’t get rid of the lions entirely, they still appear in my dreams, usually along with the spiders but not quite as often.
Although the spiders are a lot creepier, they’re not as painful as lions and they do not take any limbs off of me. So I guess it’s an improvement.
What I was thinking about, is that if someone is having trouble having ld’s and doesn’t have reaccurring dreams, which he/she can use as a dream sign, they can make them happen with something like this, but it doesn’t seem to work for me. I’ll keep on trying though.
Sorry about the dramatic story…