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    1. The analysis [26/07/15]

      by , 07-26-2015 at 10:58 PM (My lucid comeback!)
      I'll start with the dreams and then I'll give a quick thought about my current status and progression regarding LDing.

      1. The escape

      I'm on the run from the police and have to leave everything behind, currently I'm traversing through France and have to make my way to England because for some reason I'm safe there.
      Most of the dream is walking/running around/away and the only scene I can remember is some sort of harbor area, very clean and empty with a large ship-like object that I have to go over but really it's all very blurry.


      2. Pick your poison

      I'm playing some sort of game and reached the end level, which seems to be a storage area with warehouses and such. I can choose from two types of bosses. While one boss probably is already hard I decided out of curiousity to pick them both, one boss that stormed out of a warehouse was a green dragon which doesn't play a major role in the dream. The other boss however is kinda creepy, a large man with a mask I think that looks like a butcher slowly walks towards me, I run away and make some distance but he keeps following me very relaxed and I start getting nervous. I enter a garage and decide to put up an ambush using some tools and machines around, I try to lure him into a trap in which two walls with spikes close in on each other, and while the trap is succesfull it only takes his 'health' down very little.

      3. I don't even know

      Reading over my notes I for once can't actually recall the dream itself so I'll leave the keywords that I dotted down so you can maybe give it a try:

      Exam, Retry, Bathroom, Second part


      As you might've noticed my recall lately has been EXTREMELY VOLATILE, one night I almost had the best recall I ever recorded and the next it was zero. This has happened several times now and I've never had this problem before. First, I decided to stop the DEILD alarm for now in hopes of archieving a steady recall and considering my main induction technique used to be DEILD/WILD I'll have to find other ways of waking up before a REM-cycle to archieve lucidity.

      But I'm affraid simply stopping an alarm won't suffice, the roots of the problem are burried much, much deeper. The very mentality itself.
      It's dark, the little candle flame that represented my motivation and imagination when I started this LD-session again is unfortunatly extinguished, in the past when I had steady recall over multiple weeks and although it was a short period I had frequent LDs, it was back then when that little flame was a raging fire of excitement.
      I honestly don't know how to solve this and hope it is something that solves itself, I think the main reason I was so excited back then was the fact I discovered something new, had very little free time and saw results but right now I lack all of these things, or rather have them in abundance like free time. Thoughout the day I don't really care about dreaming nor do I think about it so really, it is my mentality.

      The only cure I could think of is having an LD just like that, spontanious DILDs are what usually attract people to the practice of lucid dreaming and it's exactly what I need now.
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    2. Still nothing... [25/07/15]

      by , 07-26-2015 at 10:37 PM (My lucid comeback!)
      As far as I can say, maybe a distant dream-fragment but it's too blurry so it could actually be a thought that I had when I woke up.
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    3. No recall [24/07/15]

      by , 07-26-2015 at 10:36 PM (My lucid comeback!)
      Zero!
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    4. Visiting a friend - dream continues after waking

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      gab
      , 07-26-2015 at 09:08 PM (Turquoise Dreams)
      7.26.15

      Still night shifts. Sleeping 2pm-9:45 then 10:30pm

      Woke up from a dream, said yeeey, I dreamed with ophelia and recalled it, fell back asleep and the dream continued.

      DR:
      I'm at Ophelia's place. Everbody seems to be doing his own thing. It's not your typical visit. I'm in lots of different scenes. One is when I', on a large patio overlooking large body of water, with mountains on the other shore. I see 2 moons short distance from each other, ducking behind and out of clouds at nighttime. I ran inside to grab my camera (common theme) while yelling at everyone to come out and see it I grab a silver camera, but I realize it's not mine. I keep looking till I find my black one and I rush back out to the patio. By now the moons have paled and some bright object is starting to peek from behind the mountain.

      We are camping and someone puts up a mosquito net tent. I go in with one of her boys, but tent is small. So I get out so the other one can get inside.

      There was lot more, it seems like it lasted an hour.
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    5. the sand filled hut and my bike riding sister

      by , 07-26-2015 at 05:14 PM
      the dreams starts with me running to this hut behind our old house. i notice that some part of it is gone, the hut is also filled with smooth desert sand with a bright sun shining over it. i go outside see some more sand next to the old hut. i say something and just walk to the house itself when i suddenly see my sister riding her bike.
      i say something like: "are you riding your bike here?!" the dream starts slowly fading while my sister tells me something.



      this was the same night as the dream about the mall
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    6. Day 12

      by , 07-26-2015 at 02:24 PM
      I feel like these dreams were more vivd than the others, though still not that vivid. I feel like I want to start practicing techniques that will help me have a DILD.*I'll elaborate, I feel like in my prior post I have recognized enough dream signs that are starting to show up consistently within my dreams.*


      I was taking the subway with my mother in NYC. We were waiting for the train at the station when a pulse of light came down from the beginning of the tunnel where the train would come out of and then exited the tunnel and continued down. We were all very confused. Then a dog came through. The form of this dog was very small(almost like a puppy), and after he exited, another one came, but larger. This repeated, the dogs kept getting larger and larger until eventually a werewolf came through(and then a giant rectangular form of a vicious dog), then this morphed into a train that we took. Then the dream shifted, and I was talking on the phone to my friend Michael about how to play a specific piano song. He was telling me over the phone, it was my pointer finger on my left hand and my pointer finger on my right hand, and I heard him playing this song that I wanted to learn how to play over the phone(which he was telling me how to play. I had a big apple danish in my hand, I assume it was for my breakfast(but I didn't like it much). I was again on my way to the train station.

      I can remember another dream.

      I don't think I was myself in this dream, I feel like I was a psychotic orphan living in an orphanage. When the morning bell rang, I was on top of the roof and I refused to come down. I don't think I was crazy though, just different. At least that's the way I felt.

      Updated 07-27-2015 at 01:45 AM by 88326

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    7. a mall, a meeting and a classroom

      by , 07-26-2015 at 01:47 PM
      at the mall (non lucid)
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      i am at a mall with a false memory of Bane locking down the mall while batman, me and someone else are inside. i am holding a rifle or something while searching around the mall for enemies (the whole mall was dark at first, but after sometime the lights were on again). the next thing i remember is following this random DC upstairs the mall and we try to take an elevator but it wont go up. so we just use the stairs instead. when we reach the top i notice some doors, on one of the doors there was a microsoft logo. DC opens the door, we see some people in an empty room having a meeting. DC closes the door and opens another door, suddenly we are in some class room. DC and i take a seat and look around, while the teacher looks at me and says something to me. (i dont remember what happened after this)

      Updated 07-26-2015 at 05:06 PM by 68547

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    8. Only Human

      by , 07-26-2015 at 11:12 AM
      Let us guide and teach. We ran a tour that journeyed sightseers into the wood.
      There were lots of twists and turns with fallen trees. There were steep hills.
      All this stimulation made me take off running the path I had done thousands of times.
      I had expected my sister to stay back and lead the group. She was partner to my tour guide business.
      However, she ran just as I did. We waited at the end of a steep drop-off for the group
      to catch up. We were not far away at all. The hard part of the adventure was the
      drop, where both my sister and I waited for the travellers to approach so that
      we could lend aid. As we waited, we looked at one another in an expression that
      suggested in a slightly aggravated way that the other should have stayed with the
      group. Then came a scream with such high pitch and intensity that it seemed to have thrown
      my heart off rhythm. There was a moment that seemed like ten, in which I was completely
      petrified. My eardrums shriveled up in cowardice but the scream continued to bore holes into
      my mind, creating for itself a dwelling where it should lives for decades to come.
      The wretched screech serenaded my thoughts, "How could they have possibly have harmed
      themselves this early into the tour", and "I could/should have been there."
      More thoughts than the ones mentioned were racing in from different directions,
      all acting like chefs pouring ingredients such as dread, hatred, confusion, and
      guilt into the stew of my sloshing stomach making me sick. Did not they, they
      being my thoughts, know that too many cooks spoiled the soup? None of that
      nonsense mattered. All that did was getting back to the group. I ran up the
      dirt slope as fast as I could, only slipping twice. By the time I had gotten
      to the group, all the damage that was going to happen had done so already.
      The young girl's arm had been shredded. It had appear to be done not by the landscape
      but by some kind of beast. In addition to being badly injured she was unable to speak
      about what had happened. No one else had even seen it. Everyone was asked and most
      could only recall hearing her scream and then the blood. No beast, no slip and fall.
      But, I could see in her moist and cloudy eyes that she knew what had happened.
      Later in the tour house common room, she was holding onto her arm which was in a big bundle
      of bandages. I approach, "I know you don't want to talk about what happened but
      you have to let me take you to the hospital" She nods slightly. I get her in
      the car and drive swiftly. I don't know where I am going. When I finally look up a map
      on my phone we are very far away from a hospital which at the beginning of our travels
      had been close. On the map right below the hospital icon reads: "Click for Fast Travel"
      I pressed it on my phone but something glitched and started us back at the beginning
      of the game chapter. Since I knew how this was all to go down, I tried to hurry
      through to give my passenger the shortest wait. The game flashed the beginning.
      Which I expected to be me neglecting my tour group and allowing one to be
      harmed. This was apparently not the beginning. It started with flashing images
      of flesh and blood and a man covered in wires and thorns. All with intense music.
      Rapid flashes of pain and fear. Brutal scenes. Just get through it so I can take her
      to the hospital. My dad is the one holding the controller. I give him suggestion because
      I had just finished this whole part. Objective: Take Out the Eye. On the screen
      the torn and mutilated man sat screaming the same body paralysing scream while
      a hand, belonging to someone behind the camera, was half in the eye socket holding
      the eye. The one behind the camera is the one you control in the game.
      "You really have to reef on it" I encouraged my dad. I do the acting the game in looking
      to be done to the controller in the air to explain myself. We are both fixated on the
      screen. The screaming continues. But now it is mixed with another fear installing
      sound. Yelping. What my dad is reefing on is not the controller, no wonder the game
      is not progressing. In my dad's hands is my wiener dog. He does not notice that
      he is doing this, he is fixated on the flashing screen. He is trying to pull out
      the dog's eye but cannot manage to get it instead I see the dog's eye lids being
      ripped off his face while the dog is yelping quickly and loudly and in continuous stream.
      Stop. It takes force to pull my dog loose. When I get him he is shaking and the area around
      his eye is red swollen and ripped. My dad looks at himself in disbelief. He had no idea
      and never wanted to do this. It was as if this game had been designed to make the player
      hostile to a living soul they had around them. End Dream.

      I wrote this a while back. I am sorry for the errors and the confusing end description but just reading once before uploading it was enough to make me feel ill. This was truly an unpleasant experience. To clarify the end part, my father is ripping out the eye of my dog. The title is a strange choice.
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    9. Three dream fragments

      by , 07-26-2015 at 07:54 AM (Snehk's Dreamlands)
      Watching the sky

      I was outside my house. I went to the backyard, and lied on the ground, looking at the sky. There were lots of stars, I watched meteorite rain, and then the sky started to turn around. I standed up, and wandered for a while. I found my younger sister sleeping in an igloo, and then went back into house.

      Undead army

      I saw everything from top-down perspective. It was inside some poorly lit, cold catacombs. There was gathering an undead army, risen by dark forces. I was risen as a skeleton too, but something thrown me into webs so strong, that I couldn't do anything. I looked to the side, and saw a giant octopus. Suddenly every undead starts to fall apart. A strange voice said "Only you and the octopus survived!" The octopus started to dance.

      Island

      Warm evening, I was rowing on a small boat to unknown island. I was a survivor from a ship that sank. I took a phone out of my pocket. It had a built in front and back cameras. I used them to check how I look - I was a girl, somewhat similar to me. I stopped at a beach and wandered the island for a while, and noticed group of three women - a pregnant blonde, redhead, and brunette. All were quite pretty. They told me that they are looking for a special cave, where the baby can born. We wandered for a while and found it, and the women told me that I should stay with them and serve the new born god.
    10. Night of 7/25/2015

      by , 07-26-2015 at 05:46 AM
      No remembered dreams.

      From the vault:

      2/2/2013 (estimated)*

      Cabin and German-Language WGN
      Dad and I were driving on a hilly forest road lined with houses and cabins. We entered one and did stuff in it (I don't remember what). Back home, my family and I were playing some games. Later, I saw that WGN was strangely in German. There was even a German-language Volkswagen commercial (complete with narration of the "Das Auto" part).

      *I forgot when the dream happened before writing it down.

      Updated 07-26-2015 at 05:51 AM by 88388

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    11. Another Incredible Semi-Lucid

      by , 07-26-2015 at 04:33 AM
      I was walking around a supermarket with my parents. One of us, my father I think, had a shopping cart he pushing around. We went through a doorway that led to a more dimly lit part of the store. There were baskets on the shelves along the walls. My cousin who lives in Colombia where my family is from and whom I haven’t seen in several years was working there. My father asked him if they had a specific brand of lollipops. My cousin responded by saying everything that was there was all they had. There were bags of lollipops in the baskets along the bottom shelf of a wall. At the end of the aisle, still in that dimly lit area, I saw a coworker from my old job. She looked around and then looked at me with a very straight face. I asked her if Frim, another former coworker, was there working so I could go and say hello to her. She said she was, so I started making my way over to the back of the store to go to the warehouse. I went to the back and say her just as I walked through a doorway that led to some stairs. She started following me up the stairs and I jumped down over the railing to try to confuse her and playing a little joke. After going up the stairs and jumping back down a few times, she seemed to kind of get fed up and left. I made my way up to the front of the store where my parents were checking out. A song was playing on the radio in the store and I think it was like a song that I did. I felt kind of famous. Everyone was giving me looks and watching me walking along as I sang and jammed to my own song. The cashier that was ringing my parents up was actually letting a couple of items go through without scanning them. When I finally made it up to the front of the store and found myself looking out into the night through the glass window, it sort of hit me that I was supposed to remember to become lucid whilst in a dream. I did the nose plug reality checked and was able to take a deep breath still. All of this kind of seemed part of the dream. I was not fully in control or fully lucid. I attempted to start flying or floating within the store and I couldn’t. I jumped up, but just kept falling down again. I climbed up on the counter and finally was able to start flying but I was going so fucking slow it was annoying. I tried to do that Superman thing where you put your fist out and just start zooming off, but it didn’t work. I landed on the ground again and walked outside. In front of the store was a massive grass field and a few trees off to the right. I walked out into the middle of the field and looked up. In the night sky was surely the most incredible star formation my mind could come up with. It was an extremely intricate sort of tribal design. It was sort of shaped like a fish, which is a bit strange. It was incredibly bright as well which made it so much more mesmerizing. It suddenly hit me that I wanted to go up to it so, again, I started floating my way up. And once again, I was going way to slow for my liking. I then thought to myself “Alright, if I had rockets in the palms of my hands, I could propel myself forward and I would get there so much quicker.” And suddenly I did have those rockets and I was rising up quicker. I was looking down over the trees as I rose. I looked up and there was a balloon. I made my way over to it and grabbed it to read it. It said something along the lines of “Happy 50th Full House” I was extremely confused and I wanted an explanation. Out loud I said, “What does this mean?” I looked up and saw what I could only describe as a giant pillow television screen that had a bunch of writing on it. It was definitely English, but as soon as I started reading it, it changed completely. I started reading the new writing, and again, it changed on me. I figured ok, I’ll let it settle down and then I’ll read what comes up. I waited a little bit and then I awoke.

      -I was never fully aware or in control at all during this dream. I have a feeling that I was a little afraid of becoming fully aware because I would awaken if I did. I realized when I awoke that I should have just let the awareness fully sink in to my conscious mind. Nonetheless, it was an awesome dream and one I won’t be forgetting anytime soon. I learned from it as well, which is always good. I’ve had a handful of these sorts of semi-lucid dreams in the last few weeks. I definitely view them as successes although I did not ever become fully lucid. I think it’s the right way to look at them and the healthier way as well. I’m confident I will achieve my first fully lucid dream soon. I can feel myself getting closer and closer.
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    12. Day 11 Update

      by , 07-26-2015 at 01:14 AM
      This is only my 11th day into my attempts to have a lucid dream; though I must say that it already feels like at least 2 weeks. I have decided to forget about actually becoming lucid, and focus more on my dream recall. This seems like one of the most important aspects when talking about lucid dreaming.I need to be able to remember my dreams before I even realize I am dreaming, or else I many not even recall having the dream. I have stopped performing reality checks so often and have been focusing on my dream journal. My goal for now is to remember at least 2 dreams a night consistently. Right now, I am remembering 1 per nights and perhaps a dream fragrant of a second. I find that recalling dreams in the morning is very peculiar; I need to just sit back and think about what I had dreamt the night before and my mind does the rest. At first it usually seems like I can't remember any dreams from the night before and this is discouraging. Then at least one dream just enters into my brain, and it seems silly how I could have even forgot about it. It feels like it's there all along, but hidden until my mind needs to find it. One aspect I'm having trouble with is lucidness(Not sure if this is the right term). It doesn't at all feel as detailed as real life in many of my dreams. Especially when I'm remembering them; it just doesn't feel as vivid. For example, in the main dream I have recorded today, I cannot remember the girls face, even though I feel like I knew her in my dream. No, they certainly don't feel as vivid as real life. This is a skill I hope to work on.

      Now I am going to talk about my own possible dream signs. I only have about half a week's worth of dreams, but now I am going to try to take them and analyze the signs I may see them so for the future I can attain lucidity easier.

      Themes I've Noticed in my Dreams:
      1. Traveling
      2. Family Members and Relatives
      3. New York City

      I'll give a brief explanation for each below.
      1. In almost every dream there seems to be some sort of transportation. In my Day 11 dream, I was at a train station going back to NYC. In my Day 10 dream, I was also at a subway station for most of the dream. For Day 8, I was riding a bicycle. IN my Day 7 dream, I was in a car on the BQE.
      2. In practically all of my dreams, every one except for the one today in fact, I was accompanied by some type of parent/guardian. This may be because I'm used to it as a 14 year old, I go places with adults and have for most of my life and until I become a true adult this may always be the case in my dreams; even when I go to college when there is no family around most of the time my mind may still take time to transition into knowing that I do not have a parent looking over my shoulder throughout my life.
      3. New York City. This is where I was born and raised, however for most of this summer I will not be there, making it the ideal time to lucid dream. I am currently staying in NJ until the end of July; then I will be traveling to Ecuador for August. This means I should be able to recognize in a dream that I am not actually in NYC, though most of my dreams have taken place there.
      *I will not be able to bring a computer to Ecuador, so I will not post here throughout August but will keep a hand written dream journal. When I return I will attempt to transfer a months worth of journal entries on here, but that may take some time obviously.
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    13. Day 11

      by , 07-26-2015 at 12:21 AM
      I posted this during the nighttime, because I had to leave early to go on a trip but I wrote this in the morning, just didn't get a chance to post it. When I awoke, I lay in bed still trying to remember my dreams. I couldn't recall anything and was disappointed. Then my memories of this dreams started flooding into my head; I remember thinking "Of course!" I definitely see improvement with my dream recall even though I've only been doing this journal for a week and a half.


      I had arrived in a different city, I don't know where but I feel like it was Seattle or San something. The place was a law firm, and I was being interviewed to get a job there, almost like an internship or something. It was weird because the boss was an older woman who gave off a very dumbledore-like feel. Maybe like Patty Hewes. She took me to the top floor where my room would be, and there was a mattress. Soon my room had become extremely messy. I can't actually remember doing any work there, but I remember that at one point after I was answering questions for my boss she offered me the job. I said yes. Flash forward and I think that it was time to leave. Like leave the city. I was taking the train. This girl who I can't remember her face, if I did I would remember her name, said she would meet me there. Ah, I remember her now. I'm pretty sure I remember it was this girl from my old middle school. I feel like she acted almost as my guide throughout most of this dream. Anyway she offered to take the train with me and told me that it was on track 2/3 and gave me my ticket. I went down to the marina where there were also train tracks, but I got very confused and purchased another ticket onto the wrong train or something. Eventually I realized where the right train was and asked a conductor whether or not the train was going to "New York Penn," the station I usually get on. Now that I'm on the train, I start looking for the girl, but since I can only see people's heads, I look for her hair. Now that I'm thinking about it, I think it was a different girl because I remember her hair color was being a darkish blonde, yet the two I thought the girl was share the same first name. I spot her soon enough and go up to her and take a seat. Then an amount of time passes, or maybe this is even a different dream. I am on the top of a train, sitting down, it's cold. I'm in a seat because it's normal for there to be seats there...can't recall the rest.
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