The Path of Iapetos

[COLOR="royalblue"]Non-Aware (Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="blue"]Partially Aware (Lucid Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="navy"]Fully Aware and Vivid (Astral Projection(OOBE)[/COLOR]

I did the fluid routine tonight as well. I drank 1 glass of apple juice and 1 glass of milk then I went to bed 22:05
I did not meditate or calmed my mind or anything this night, just to see what would happen and I trusted that I would wake up during the night no matter what! Even though I feared a little that I might close my eyes and the next thing I know it would be morning. But no... This night worked out as good as the previous night.

I have always convinced myself that my meditation routine before bed makes my dreams more stable and not chaotic and random and therefore easier to become aware of. Well I was right....

[COLOR="royalblue"]I had a really weird dream about me and my friend Axel doing parkour in an old city very high up. But I felt no fear I just jumped over buildings like nothing. I had some more dream scenarios here but I can't remember them because I didn't note them.[/COLOR]

I woke up 01:15 and since I sort of knew it was the first REM period I tried to DEILD. I thought to myself "Ok now I am going to wait 10 seconds and then if I feel different I will try to put my finger through my hand!". Nothing happened and I didn't do a reality check (maybe I should have). I was too tired to record my dreams so I fell back to sleep.

[COLOR="royalblue"]I were in a school and I think I were with, ehm you probably don't know what it is but in Sweden we call it "Jönsson ligan"(The Jönsson league) . We were going to crush a wall a steal a safe. But nobody did their job so we failed. Although my dreaming self changed and I was myself and I saw my old french teacher, which I hate.
He gave me the only F I have. My dad were with me for some reason so I told him "That is Nils...". And my dad answered "But he looks like a good teacher, well dressed and a smile." "I don' t care dad! He sucks!".
I walked towards him and said "Hi do you remember me douche bag?" and he just did his annoying giggle and said "No I don't who might you be?" "It's me Christian from your class in 2012" but he answered "Is this a joke the year now is 1999". o. O
I walked inside some other classroom and see my old classmates and I was aware enough to realize that I was dreaming.[/COLOR]
[COLOR="blue"]I remember that I said something witty can't remember now though, and everybody laughed except the teacher. I started talking to two hot girls.... Lucidity gone. :roll: (I never learn)[/COLOR]
The dream started to fade and I was staring at my eyelids. I tried to DEILD, nothing happened so I went up and recorded my dreams. The times was now 04:08

[COLOR="royalblue"] I remember talking to an hot girl from my previous class, but I can't remember about what anymore.
Then I was looking inside my wallet and saw that my legitimation and bank card were gone and I got super nervous and knew that my dad was going to be furious. I have some notes about a talking Donald Duck and a TV but can't remember that anymore either. Then I woke up 05: 55 and closed my eyes, I thought about writing down my dreams and for some reason I started to dream that I did write them down but I didn't... So all I remembered upon awakening was some keywords.

UFO - I dreamed that I saw flying aircraft that didn't looked man made.
Devil - I dreamed that I was fighting the Devil.
HIMYM French - This dream was interesting because I heard French! I were out with Ted to buy a present to Barney and some woman started to talk French with Ted I asked the woman what she said but then she just said Tralablablaolala in french accent. Not sure if I really heard French at first though since I don't speak it myself, I might have heard stuff that my brain remember though.[/COLOR]

And I finally woke up around 07:13 to go to the bathroom :)

This night's dreams were too chaotic for me to become lucid in, so the next night I am going to do my regular meditation routine and see if I notice any differences.

[COLOR="royalblue"]Non-Aware (Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="blue"]Partially Aware (Lucid Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="navy"]Fully Aware and Vivid (Astral Projection(OOBE)[/COLOR]

I read a thread last night written by someone called "idkwhattoput". By talking to him I realized that he was way above both my level and many other members of this forum even though he was almost completely new to lucid dreaming.
My first suspicion to that came when I read that his smallest problem was to FULLY control the dream.

Sure to get lucid is a task in itself but I have overcome it to at least have at least one lucid each week, but to stabilize and maintain the dream is a completely different story. I have practiced for 4 years and only managed to do that a few times.
Yet this guy claimed to do it easily as pie... I just had to ask him what his secret was.

He told me that it was by triggering a natural Wake Back to Bed or Awakening by drinking lots of water on any other fluid before going to bed. Then after visiting the bathroom he just did a WILD attempt.
I have always been able to master the DEILD and a perfectly timed WILD, because when it is in the right moment it is as easy to count to ten... But I have never been able to find a way to regularly wake up naturally in order to do that.
So I could not believe it was this easy, but I gave it a shot.

For some reason I imagined every glass of fluid as a 40 % chance for me to wake up and I drank two.

Then I went to bed 22:10

[COLOR="royalblue"]I had some super vivid dream where I was a superhero flying around fighting criminals. At one point in this dream I grabbed a sniper rifle and tried to shoot the Joker but it was like he was invincible. I also saw Batman and lots of stuff happened in this dream, but I didn't record it so I don't remember the details.

I had a brief awakening 01:15 and recorded the dream quickly and then dozed off.

Then I had a dream where I was outside and my previous Taekwondo trainer told me that I was going to compete in three matches so I had to hurry. I thought to myself "But I am not doing this sport anymore, I stopped 8 years ago..."
Why am I here? "Maybe I stopped by to watch a match and now just randomly decided to compete ah well it might be fun." I went to my parents that were seated in the crowd and told them I needed sleevelets, then I realized that I have no other protection either nor a taekwondo suit. "We can't buy everything" they said. "But how am I supposed to compete then?" I complained. "I guess you just have to fight in that grey shirt" mom answered.
"Ah ok what ever.... I need to run there now if I am going to make it.".

I started running through the big arena I where in and the competitors were outside, I met an old friend Ralph that asked me if I was back. But I just answered "No I am actually just doing it for fun. I am allowed to kick the head now right?"
"Yeah you are but just make sure that you don't miss and that they get free kicks in your stomach."
I went out to a big grass field and saw the taekwondo-mats. Then I saw some guy playing soccer.

I woke up 04:03 and wrote some keywords and I wondered if I had woke up because the dream had ended or if I needed to go to the bathroom, but I didn't felt the urge so I thought I should try a WILD attempt. I closed my eyes and did some old Michael Raduga non-physical state testing like "Observing images, listening in.." As I listened for strange sounds I heard a tone in my ear, I don't know why but I thought that it meant that I am still in REM, not sure about that now though.
I were on my back and got uncomfortable and switched to a side sleeping posture and started falling asleep unconsciously.

I remember feeling the daydream to dream transition and was lucid for a brief second, but lost it immediately.
[COLOR="blue"]I were looking out on a big crowd and I remember thinking "This is a mistake I am not the artist that is supposed to be going out here... Hmm I might dare to do it since I am dreaming". I think the real artist that was going to sing was Eric Saade and I went out and started singing "Manboy, manboy!"[/COLOR] The dancers looked strange at me, and I panicked and realized that I don't know the whole song. I grabbed the microphone and said "Sorry I am not the real artist.".

I jumped off the stage that was really high so people looked with these eyes at me :shock:
I remember that it wasn't a normal crowd but actually a school prom and the students were eating at big tables.

The dream changed and I was on a party in my own house although it looked different. The whole me was different my personality was weird and even though people liked me as a funny guy they couldn't endure two minutes with me. I was kind of like Jim Carrey. I tried to hit on some girls but failed miserably. I also went up to my room and I saw huge spider crawling o my wall! Although I am not surprised, there are tons of spiders in my real home.

I look up into the sky and I see a herd of stars moving super fast. [/COLOR] [COLOR="blue"]I realized that I was dreaming but just a second after watching those stars I realize that I am[/COLOR] looking at the back of my eyelids...
I wondered why I had woke up, but didn't had to think for long because I felt that I had a pinched nerve in my elbow and it hurt a lot.

I had long vivid and stable dreams this night. And best of all I found a way to give myself a DEILD/ WILD opportunity.
So I thank "idkwhattoput" for that and I hope that the coming nights will finally make me progress my stabilization and maintaining progress.

[COLOR="royalblue"]Non-Aware (Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="blue"]Partially Aware (Lucid Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="navy"]Fully Aware and Vivid (Astral Projection(OOBE)[/COLOR]

I went to bed very late, around 24:00 because I played some Dead Island with my friend. But I didn't remember much dreams from this night, however I fell asleep again and dreamed this:

[COLOR="royalblue"]I woke up and my mom asked me how the swimming in school worked if we were free to do what we wanted or if we had to earn a swimming badge first. In this dream I took my sheets and pillow to the sofa in the room outside of my bedroom and for some reason I fell asleep there. Then I remember hearing my dad yelling my name from downstairs in this dream and my mom said "let him sleep". I visualized myself walking in a town and I think I dreamed about it for a bit until I suddenly got more aware and sort of realized what had happened. I remember that it wasn't as vivid as a normal dream, but I tried to chain the dream and I got lucid. [/COLOR] [COLOR="blue"]I realized that the first dream I had was a false awakening but I flew to a house that looked like my real house. I was considering yelling "I am dreaming!" to stabilize but was yet again... worried that I would scream for real as well. So instead I screamed "MOM! Can you hear me?" and I hear an answer "Yes what is it?" and I answered "Uhm don't wake me up I am dreaming!".
"Ok..." she said. Then I went downstairs and went out of my house, at first I considered choosing a jacket but then I thought "Hmm that's unnecessary I am dreaming." I got out of my house and I flew up into the air with great control for a change. I looked in through my bedroom window but didn't saw myself. Then I thought "Oh right I am in my TV-room in this dream. I also thought "Hmm is it an OBE if I see myself? Or do I have to wake myself up... Nah not going to risk it let's try out some stabilization techniques. This dream seems stable enough to try out all of them!"
I did a nose-plug reality check, but it didn't work! So I can't relay on that one anymore, I then went to my stair and felt it with my hands and I even licked the rail just to see if it helped :eek: But I actually lost my lucidity...[/COLOR]
[COLOR="royalblue"]I went upstairs and I think I had a nosebleed so I went to the toilet and grabbed some paper, but then I woke up.[/COLOR]


When I woke up my hands were paralyzed and it hurt when I tried to move them, but it gradually faded away.
The time was now 08:37
I then asked my mom if she had heard me when I yelled. But she had not :cheeky:

[COLOR="royalblue"]Non-Aware (Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="blue"]Partially Aware (Lucid Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="navy"]Fully Aware and Vivid (Astral Projection(OOBE)[/COLOR]

I went to bed late and knew that I wouldn't remember much dreams for the early night, although I might have a chance with the later morning dreams. I went to sleep 23:39

[COLOR="royalblue"]After I fell back to sleep in the morning I had a dream where I see two girls, but for some reason I could see a slightly red color on the edges of one of the girl's head. And on the other girl the edge was green.
I wondered what was happening then I see man come in to the room with a cat wearing black latex and a top hat
o. O

He told me he was going to teach me Remote Viewing and seeing auras. I didn't trust him or at least I was a little afraid of him so I went to his office to look for papers or information of who he was. Although he caught me in the act and told me to follow him. He said he wanted me to meet someone.

I then hear a voice from unknown direction saying "Close your eyes". "Imagine being on a traveling train seated in a blu chair." I did and saw it very clearly. "Good your almost there, can you see me waving my hand?" the voice said.
I saw a brown haired woman waving in my vision and then she said "Now your here!". And I was on that train.
"You are now in the dream" she said. "You see that guinea-pig on that table? Concentrate and you can understand what it is saying.". I looked on it and saw something glowing from it's legs and the woman told me to perceive it's energy.

Then I hear a voice "Hey you there. Haha I can talk and you understand me!". I looked in shock and so did the rest of the people on the train. The guinea-pig stood up on two legs and was as crazy as the guinea-pig in the movie "Doctor Dolittle."[/COLOR]

Then I woke up and I had my eyes closed. I heard a ringing tone and it kind of sounded like the sound you hear when you yawn, but higher pitch and louder. But it wasn't constant it came in bursts like an alarm clock. I thought to myself that it might be a biological alarm clock (not realizing until now how crazy that idea was). Then I opened my eyes and the sound slowly faded away. The time was now 03:28

I had more dreams after this, but I didn't noted them because I at the time didn't considered them as important x.x

[COLOR="royalblue"]Non-Aware (Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="blue"]Partially Aware (Lucid Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="navy"]Fully Aware and Vivid (Astral Projection(OOBE)[/COLOR]

I got home from a party about 03:15 and went to bed immediatelly, no usual falling asleep routine today, because I already knew my recall was doomed to fail.

My parents woke me up and I had headache and was really tired so I yelled to them "Close the door and let me sleep!".
They understand :P later on this motning they even made me toasts with salmon on it and with that my favorite morning drink of apple juice ;)

Anyway when I went back to sleep I had some dream I can't remember but then I woke up and I did a DEILD by misstake, if you could call it that.

I was thinking random thoughts and suddenly made up a little story in my head. I thought about a little house near a beach and me feeling the water with me feet, for some reason a friend was there as well. [COLOR="blue"]But then suddenly the daydream got more vivid and I can actually see and feel the sand with my hands. I stopped a moment to think about my hangover and I could kins of still feel it, and even though I was very aware I was not aware or smart enough to resist my greatest enemy to my lucidity. A hot chick (blonde)....:roll: I walked to her and she was very seductive herself and I was in her trap. Bye bye lucidity. [/COLOR]

[COLOR="royalblue"]I am not going to explain details I am just going to let the readers here use their dreaming uhum imagination. She was very, how to explain it with proper words, ehm naughty, asking for it...
And for real i don't really like these girls I am more of a guy who feels sorry for them. But in this dream I was all over her. Although the real thing never happened but we got far into foreplay. We went to her house and it was really messy clothes everywhere not cleaned for weeks maybe months. But when we was going to rock "the casbah" her friends came into the room. Around me she behaved like we were a couple, then something weird and embarrassing happened.
My two friends Tom and Eric walks into the room looks at "my girl" and do the "WOW" with their mouths, walks to me and say "Hang on to her and congratulations man!" and I believe Eric said "Lucky you" with a smile.

I went out in a yard where "the girl" and her friends were. They talked about different stories but I remember a guy said to me "Do you know where your girl is from?" "No" I said and shake my head" and he answered "She is from Nigaru".
I looked at her and back at him with a weird gaze and thought to myself "Is she from Africa? or where is Nigaru it sure sounds African, ah well she is not really my girl so why do I have to worry?".

Then I see some guy throwing a iPhone speaker and another guy catches it with his ear :shock:
"How did he do that?" I yelled. And instead of answering they tell some weird story that I instead of only hearing, starting to experience, Inception in other words. I remember that they made fun of him jokingly and told him that he is the superman whose only power is to use his ears. Then I see some guy standing on a church tower and take down a cross and yells "F*ck Christianity we are the new rulers now!". Then I am back in the yard talking to the people.

I went to look for "the girl" again and I open the door to her room and say "Hello?" and stick my head through the door run. I see 4 girls sitting on a bed and I get pushed by some guy that runs away laughing and the door closes.
One word "akward". "Uhhmm have you seen" I suddenly realize that I don't even know her name and the girls look funny at me. I then see a girl I know crying and cold me I walk past her...

And I see the girl I looked for and then I think to myself "Nobody seems to do anything I need to ask her how she is doing.". I tell the girl "that I need to talk to the girl who is crying" but she just answers "Yeah ya" like nothing has happened. When I go to the crying girl and ask her what's wrong she say "I got breastcancer" I see her cry and say "Don't worry everything is going to be fine, they can fix it you know." I remember feeling stupid for saying that but she said "They are going to perform surgery next week."
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Then I woke up 11:54. And I was kind of worried that it was a precognitive dream, even though I don't believe in such.

[COLOR="royalblue"]Non-Aware (Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="blue"]Partially Aware (Lucid Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="navy"]Fully Aware and Vivid (Astral Projection(OOBE)[/COLOR]

I had many weird dreams this night that didn't really made sense I wrote down some keywords but I have no idea what they mean right now...

[COLOR="royalblue"]I remember that I were near my house and got more aware so I did a nose-plug reality check but it didn't work. I felt the air pressure in my ear and air didn't go through my nostrils. I also remember that I shouted that I needed to find Dr. Helmet. Even though I didn't remember as much dreams this night, I was still very close a lucid dream, strange that the RC didn't worked though. [/COLOR]

[COLOR="royalblue"]Non-Aware (Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="blue"]Partially Aware (Lucid Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="navy"]Fully Aware and Vivid (Astral Projection(OOBE)[/COLOR]

I went to bed 23:00 after have watched Master-Chef and I found a new way to arrange my pillows to make it more comfortable to remain still in a sitting position. Then I started thinking about anything just to get rid of the thoughts of the day, then I tried a law-of-attraction exercise called Grateful Thinking. Which basically is thinking about everything that I am grateful of from small things like "I am glad that I can breathe" to bigger things like "I am happy that my parents care for me".
And while doing this you forget all about practice and are happy of your life. Just something that can be fun to do and if law-of-attraction works I will see the results soon. I was playing League of Legends on the day and when my teammate stole all my kills that gives me XP I would usually rage, but instead I thought loud in my head "It was unfortunate but I am happy that we at least got the kill and I don't have to worry my time will come." Later on in that game I got a triple-kill and I played the best game in my life. Small thing but maybe there is something to positive thinking.

My body suddenly reacted on auto-pilot and just gave up and switched sleeping posture... So I need to practice my patience even though that it was quite hard to control it this time. I was now laying on my side and I had my head turned to the wall. I then react to something weird.[COLOR="navy"] It feels like I see a room but everything is shaded, it wasn't a daydream but I actually saw this behind my eyelids. If I close my eyes right now I don't get the same feeling. The best way I can think of describing it. Is that if you imagine standing in your bedroom and that it's almost completely dark, you can still "sense" where everything is, but since it's not completely dark you can still see outlines of the objects. [/COLOR]
It was vivid enough for me to not call it a dream because it didn't felt like a hallucination kind of thing.
I don't know how to describe it and I find it hard to believe myself. Although I think there really was something special to it.
So if this happens again I will definitely try to enter it more, because when this happened I was more in shock than excited.

I eventually fell asleep.

[COLOR="royalblue"]I had a dream where I couldn't find a hotel I lived at. So I took my bags and went to the public toilets and for some weird reason I tried to fall asleep there. I remember seeing a dog and a cat in the room and that they were fighting.

When the dream changed I was standing on a cloud and it was kind of uhum crowded. I remember seeing one really hot woman and then some man talking to her and almost immediately kissing her.

Then I were sharing a bed with some girl. I explained DEILD to her and demonstrated the sensations by shaking myself and then told her that it doesn't look like that but it feels like that. I then hear screaming and I see that there were other people in the room they were pointing to a guy in a hockey mask and he had bat. I walked towards him and tried to be a hero. Instead I got a knife in my throat. I put my hand on my throat to hide the wound and then I see Lana from Smallville and she says "How could you possibly survive that? "Well I am still bleeding thanks for caring..." I answered :roll:
I then see the sunlight and I take my hand away and I feel the wound getting healed. I walk inside some house and I see Clark Kent from the same series, I remember we talked about Lana. I told him that he should make a move on her because she likes him and he says "What about my secret?" and I answer "Well you got to risk it to get the biscuit".
Very deep answer I know :cheeky: I then look out through the window and I see a beach and some weird whirlwinds under the water. "Look water tornadoes!" I say. I then hear the screams again and realize that I had forgot the bat man huhu (the man with the bat). I walk inside the house the others are hiding in and they said they were preparing a trap for him. I remember the trap failed and the hit some innocent girl instead. Then I woke up. [/COLOR]

I woke up after each dream I had this night as well and I have started to notice a pattern. If I go to bed between 22:00 and 23:00 I always wake up 01:15 perhaps I can calculate my REM cycle with this if that is useful for something right now.

[COLOR="royalblue"]Non-Aware (Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="blue"]Partially Aware (Lucid Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="navy"]Fully Aware and Vivid (Astral Projection(OOBE)[/COLOR]

This night I tried something different, but I know now that it did decrease my dream awareness and dream recall. But some dreams still were quite vivid.
I went to bed 22:30 and set an alarm clock to wake me up 23:15 and then I would try a WBTB-WILD, but I ended up falling asleep immediately.

I also thought that I would try to see what I remembered if I didn't note it upon awakening and well I didn't remember much at all..
I could recall it if I would like to, but it wasn't so interesting dreams so I will just write down the dream fragments.

[COLOR="royalblue"]Barbeque, Harry Potter and me using spells because I walked in areas forbidden for student, Strange school schema, Sebastian and me in Kiruna.
And a dream where I chatted on msn for quite a while :/[/COLOR]

Tonight I will do my regular sleep routine and see if I get better result.

[COLOR="royalblue"]Non-Aware (Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="blue"]Partially Aware (Lucid Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="navy"]Fully Aware and Vivid (Astral Projection(OOBE)[/COLOR]

Went to bed 22:30 and while I was doing my normal sleep routine I thought to myself "I am not going to do the Image Streaming tonight, instead I'll just try to think of what ever I want to think of until I get bored".
Sadly... I never got bored :P And the usual sleep posture that is slightly uncomfortable was comfortable enough to fall asleep in x. X So tonight I'll try to find a new sleeping posture.

[COLOR="royalblue"]I was standing in a bowling room and I wondered what I was doing here. Suddenly a strong desire to start bowling regularly hit me, and the dream changed a bit. I ran to my mom and asked if I could start bowling, but she didn't liked the idea so I started complaining. "Why don't you go over to your friends" my mom said.
I saw two girls from my old school on one of the bowling lanes and I walked over to them and nervously said.
"Hi." :lol: I asked them what they were doing this fall. They looked weird at me and said "We have already told you.."
"No you haven't ...".

Then I woke up in a bathtub really energy drained and I think I even throw up in the toilet...
My friend Philip runs in and says "You did it! You learned how to astral project!". "uhhhh??".
"Try it now go to bed and do what you did before.". I went to a bed and felt strange rushing sensations and suddenly were outside of my house. I can't remember much from this experience but I remember flying.
The above was a false weird dream awakening as you might have understand :P

Then I was standing next to a friend and we were wearing scuba diving equipment. We dived into the water and I suddenly hear scary dramatic water and I see a picture of two crosses and next to those I see a dead bat picture, and I hear someone saying two crosses is the warning and the dead bat means it's when he is verified as a vampire.

Then I woke up for real 01:26

I remember having an impression of a memory. I see a girl doing a clap game with my younger self, the scene changes and the girl is a grown up woman and I am well myself. I walk to her and tell her that we should do the clap game just for nostalgia and that it would be fun. She agrees to do it but I realize that I don't remember the game, she gets kind of annoyed but then tells me "you were never good at remembering", the she kisses me friendly on the mouth. :shock:
"But I guess you remember how to fight?" then we wrestled to the music of Kung foo fighting :lol:

The last dream I remember was weird, it was some sort of Olympic game but in eating so me and my friend competed against each other but I thought I was supposed to run over a bridge when the only thing required was eating, so my friend won. I also remember that a girl were sitting on a bench and my friend David just kicked the bench for no reason and the girl fell off and hurt herself. She started to scream and cry "What the h*ll is your problem?!" she then walked over to where I was sitting and I was nervous just to ask "Are you OK?" because my friends would think I was hitting on her, weird thoughts but it was a dream so...
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[CENTER][SIZE="7"][COLOR="red"][FONT="Impact"]PLAN OF ACTION[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER]

[FONT="Courier New"]My first goal in my lucid dreaming practice was to find a way to easily induce at least one lucid moment each week. I have noticed that I have fulfilled that goal now and I have learned what makes that possible and what's not.

Dream recall is the first priority because that is first of all required to remember any lucid experience at all and second of all it makes the dreamer more aware, the dream more vivid and therefore more easier to become lucid in.
So keep a pen and a piece of paper by the bed and write down any dreams that you remember in the morning, after some time you will be so aware that you start to notice your micro-awakenings in the night after each dream and can record it in better detail and with a fresher memory.

The second priority is the bedtime. If I go to bed too late, my dream recall will be low, harder to be aware of, and therefore harder to become lucid in. Going to bed at an regular or earlier time gives the opposite effect:
high dream recall, easier to be aware of and easier to become lucid in.

The third priority is the mindset. A stressed out or worried mind mind is as bad as a late bedtime and therefore very important. That's why aiming for general higher awareness of the dream is better than aiming for the lucidity itself.
Easier to imagine and easier to fulfill. If one doesn't succeed one night you got to have the mindset of there's always another night.

These three simple steps is what have helped me induce lucid dreams every week frequently. I wrote this mini guide to remind myself of the power behind these factors and to help people who needs it learn from my experience.

Even though I get lucid often, it doesn't mean that they last for long. Usually 10 seconds to one minutes.
And I have tried all sorts of different stabilization techniques from spinning, hand rubbing, engaging the other senses etc. They work from time to time, but it's far from frequent.

So that is my new goal. Find away to easily stabilize the dream. I have been to focused on the lucid induction part so I have completely ignored the stabilization as can been seen in this Dream Journal. I have always trusted that my dreaming mind will become more clear automatically at some point and that I could figure out a way to stabilize at the spot.
And it did happen sometimes, but I was always to focused on the thoughts I had before I got lucid and focused on unnecessary things like trying to convince a dream character that they were dreaming, learning to fly when I am barely lucid, hitting on hot girls... You get the idea. So now I am going to have a plan of action, something that should be the first thing that comes to mind while I am lucid and doing it instantly. I will cycle through all the different stabilization techniques again to really see the effects of each one.

But that's the first priority in the goal of stabilization, a plan of action.
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[COLOR="royalblue"]Non-Aware (Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="blue"]Partially Aware (Lucid Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="navy"]Fully Aware and Vivid (Astral Projection(OOBE)[/COLOR]

This night I stayed up with my friend and we played Dead Island Co-Op. I was planning on going to bed early anyway, but the game bugged and made me lose all my best weapons so I stayed up in front of the bright TV-screen and had to do it all over again. So I ended up going to sleep, very late and my dream recall was destined to be bad.

[COLOR="royalblue"]I did end up remembering some dream from the morning though, but I have no dream recall from the night dreams. I also woke up from some bug flying around in my room around 03:36.

I was playing a high graphic version of some World of warcraft like game. I remembered that I were some kind of ice monster and I were doing a dungeon boss fight with some friends. My best ability was a channeling ice attack. I also remember that I canceled the attack by mistake, usually like I do in League of Legends and that my team mates got angry at me.

I were in some garden and I saw my parents smoking cigarettes and they both hate cigarettes for real, so I wondered why they liked them in this dream. I also took a cigarette just to do the same thing as them and make them think about what they taught me. I have some memory of me packing a bag and saying good bye to everyone.

In some other dream I was playing Counter-strike with a friend, but it was lagging so I tabbed back to my desktop and tried to see if there were any programs that made it laggy. I remember seeing that another game was running at the same time, that game seemed familiar to me in the dream, but I have no idea what it was now. Also when I tried to close some programs, more program popped up. Kind of like a gamer nightmare.

Then I was watching a soccer match, Barcelona VS Aston Villa. It went to overtime and the time was 20:00 in the dream and I remember that everyone started to walk away and didn't wanted to see the ending because 21:00 was too late. I also remember seeing an 7 year old girl screaming that she wanted to see who was going to win. I also remember meeting my friend Johan in this dream, but I don't remember what we talked about.

I woke up and wrote Barcelona - soccer match on a piece of paper and imagine that it felt so blurry and I wondered what was going on, then the dream changed and I was in the Dead Island game.

I was in a cage and zombies were approaching us in the distance. I see a man with a Electric Shotgun (Don't ask me what that is..) and he was going to shoot me. I screamed for help but nobody helped I got shot and woke up.[/COLOR]

It have been a while since I had a false awakening, but I will try to take advantage of these opportunities from now on.

[COLOR="royalblue"]Non-Aware (Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="blue"]Partially Aware (Lucid Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="navy"]Fully Aware and Vivid (Astral Projection(OOBE)[/COLOR]

I went to bed 23:00 doing my regular sleep routine of falling asleep in a sitting position. However this time I never seemed to get disturbed bu itches or uncomfortable feelings, and this night I actually ended up doing my best WILD attempt ever, if I should trust science, I was only minutes near my first REM. I lay still and aware for 1 hour and 27 minutes!
I had a terrible headache when I opened my eyes and I fell asleep.

I woke up 05:45 with only remembering one dream and I have even forgot that one now... But I fell back to sleep.

[COLOR="royalblue"]I were in some kind of class, but it was not a school class there were only guys there and the teacher was "Mystery" from the pick up artist show. I remember we talked about how to pick up chicks and he evaluated each student and wrote notes. Next to my name he wrote "Good seeking ability". I have no idea what that meant.
Shortly after reading this, the dream changes and it's a regular lesson and I see some girls bullying some girl because she was fat. They walked over to her bench and started calling her evil words like "big fat cow etc.".
I turned around and told one of the bullies "I don't want to be annoying, but when you walked over to her bench the whole ground shake and I dropped my pen."

I then hear some girl's giggle back in the classroom. When the class end and I am about to walk out of the room, I hear a voice saying "It was a good deed from you" with a smile that could melt me on the spot. It was a girl named Lois from my old school that I had a crush on for some weeks. We talked for a bit and I asked her what she were doing now, she said she currently had an extra job as a gardener. I don't know why but I sort of realized that it was only her appearance that was like Lois but her personality was someone else. I know now that it was Lana Lang's personality from the Smallville show that I watch daily. I even thought to myself in this dream "What would Clark Kent say?".

I asked her if she needed some help with anything and the dream changed in front of my eyes and I was suddenly in some garden helping her out. [/COLOR] [COLOR="blue"]This sudden change was apparently enough to make me realize what was going on. I got aware of that I was dreaming, but not aware enough to have full control of my dreaming mind. But I at least considered stabilizing but I never did... Instead I went with the flow and followed Lois somewhere.
We saw a band called "INNU" and I also thought to myself "I am not going to be like Clark and hide my powers."
So I showed her flying but ended up losing my lucidity. [/COLOR]

I woke up 07:15 and recorded the dream, I thought to myself that it was weird that even though some part of my mind knew I was dreaming I still considered Lois to be more real and important that just a dream character.
So perhaps it was a semi-lucid/ simulated lucid.

It was still to early to get out of bed, so I went to the bathroom and then went back to sleep again.

[COLOR="royalblue"]I were in some kind o big city with my friend David and we see a big line of people dressed in a white clothing. It kind of looked like the Ku Klux Klan but without the ghost hat. I got curious and wondered what kind of big cult or sect this was. They went into some big building and I asked my friend if we should check it out.
He said "It would be cool but just imagine the line in their". "Yeah true" I said and we went on.
But as we keep walking I realize that we are on our way to some big grandstand and that actually are audience to that big cult. This grandstand was for people who wanted to watch the session because they didn't liked to be call cult and wanted to be considered as a religion so all people were welcome.

However when two priest looking figures walks in and say "We are the prime ministers of this gathering." all people on that grandstand burst out in laughter. They looked annoyed at us but continued the session.
They then told all people, including us to walk towards them and write down their dates of something I can't remember the exact term they used, but I remember I got it explained by one of the priests who said it was dates we are free on. I thought to myself "aha so instead of feasts this is their excuse of getting a day off". I wondered what date I should take but then the priest took my hand looked like he got into some kind of trance and then told me that 1478-4153 seemed like an appropriate date for me. :?

I suddenly get more aware and I realize that I am dreaming. [/COLOR] [COLOR="blue"]I remembered that I don't want to look for my dream guide anymore because it have been a waste of time the other times. Instead I try to do something much more simple, like rubbing my hands. The dream wasn't very stable and it was almost like daydreaming for a while and I was in the threshold of the waking state and the dreaming state. I feel really weak and I try to walk up the steps back to my seat and my friend, I see some girls laughing, and I think to myself "Should I revenge on these girls and show who's boss?" .. "No wtf mind you should stabilize the dream!". I try to rub my hands again to no greater effect, but then I get a fun idea.

What if I grabbed a megaphone and asked all the people in this room to look at their hands. "How many fingers do you see??" I hear the majority of people yelling "Four!" "And what does that mean?" "We are dreaming!".

I remember that I lost my lucidity and did some flying before waking up. Next time I need to try something different to stabilize. [/COLOR]

[COLOR="royalblue"]Non-Aware (Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="blue"]Partially Aware (Lucid Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="navy"]Fully Aware and Vivid (Astral Projection(OOBE)[/COLOR]

This night was painful at first... But I did discover something new to me. I went to bed 22:10 and I put a pillow against the wall to my left, put myself in a sitting position with pillows behind my back and then leaned with my head to the pillow on my left. I started doing a breathing exercise called "Velvety Smooth Breathing" that is said to help you to get more vivid thoughts and impressions for the image stream technique later on. I lay in my bed and after what felt like 5 minutes I thought about my neck and I imagined that it was uncomfortable and the instant I thought that thought, it became uncomfortable...
I told myself that it was only because I had thought that, so I tried to occupy my mind with daydreaming.
I remember that I thought about the tv show I had watched that day "Smallville". And I imagined myself having superpowers.

All of the sudden I wake up and I move around my pillows and then it hits me "NOOOO I fell asleep and I moved!!! Ah well I better go to sleep then...".

[COLOR="royalblue"]I started to think random thoughts like "I am the new Batman in town" and I saw some green grass field and it was night. I was now dreaming unaware, but the dreams was from now on vivid enough for me to remember almost every single one of them! I wrote in this title that it was 21 dream scenarios and it was, but in total REM dreams it was perhaps 4-5 very long dreams and I still don't remember every dream scene.

I were on the grass-field and I saw five men who tried to break in to a house, then I see a man with a batman suit holding a sniper rifle, he shoots four of the men with sleeping darts from the rifle, but on of the men managed to escape in a car. The dream changes and my dad and I are going to a restaurant to see if they had any good food for later that day. We drove a car that looked exactly like the car in the previous dream, but I didn't noticed that. We stop outside the restaurant and see that they only have fish, and we were tired of fish so me and my dad get out of the car to ask if they can do an exception for us.

The dream changes again and I am in my dad's office at home and I see a small spider on the wall. It looked like a tarantula with some different colors. I thought it was beautiful, but suddenly I see it grow very fast and it wasn't as enjoyable to look at anymore. I starts to crawl on the wall and I think jokingly to myself "Kill it with fire before it lays eggs!". But it wasn't funny when I saw that it was crawling towards me! I looked at it in shock, but then I see that it turned around and walked the other way... Puh... But then I see to my horror that it's crawling into my room!
"Noo how will I ever get to sleep now..." I think to myself. The dream changes and I had some dinner with my friends, but I can't remember what we talked about.

The dream changes again and I am back at the restaurant with my dad, although this time I am at some ice cream stand and I ask them if they took Swedish money because apparently I were in Denmark. The girl I talked to said that they did, but then I remembered that I got some Danish money as well so I gave her that. Then I said I wanted to buy a soda and she suddenly say "Can I borrow your dream?". I looked at her and didn't really understood her question instead I started to explain what a lucid dream was. :shock: (PALMFACE when Facepalm is not enough)...

Then I woke up, I didn't checked the time for some reason, but I wrote down my dreams and then went back to sleep.

Some woman asked me if I played in a football team and my answer was "No I don't play that often..". I then where in some house with a couple of friends and I think we were just sleeping. Then a friend named Astrit told me that he had a meteor rock and I got super excited and I even remember hearing the typical "Smallville" sound effect you hear when the meteor is near Clark. Then some girls of the group needed to get some money from an ATM, so we went with them.
We went ahead and I was fooling around with a friend ( I don't know him in real life) and he told me to do a clap game, that kind of hand clap game you do in elementary school... But in the dream I was totally game :cheeky:
He taught me some routine and then told me that Leela always do that one in Futurama. I have never seen her do that so I just nodded OK. Then we went into some public toilet that was very big, I got high dream control here and I started to freestyle and do le parkour. I remember I did a Sault de Chat or Kong and right in the middle of the air I did a front flip after it. And I was super excited.

Then I woke up again and the time was 04:24.

When I fell back to sleep again I was in some athletics arena and it seemed to be the Olympics. I sat down and talked to some judge and then I saw two dogs competing in "Walking". I saw a little dog I know in real life named Mille and he competed against a much bigger dog. Then Mille jumps out of the court and they had to cancel the match. I talked to the judge about it and then he told me that I could make a t-shirt. I remember writing "Mille Nr 23" and that it was very hard to write. I got a cookie and 20 Swedish krona. I then saw two people from my old class "Amanda and Felix".
They waved to me and signaled me to go to them. On my way to them I heard a Westlife like song where they were singing "Center of the earth". Then when I got to my old classmates we talked for a bit and I also remember that my parents joined and embarrassed me a bit... Then I said "This was nice but Amanda we got to meet up sometime." and she answered "Yes we should".

I woke up again and had some more dreams, but I was almost tired of recording them now so I only ended up remembering the last one.

I was out with my friend David and we were trying to get our Scuba Diving Certificate D. It was called D1 in the dream.
I remember that we were a large group and I really sucked at swimming, it was impossible to control, although now when I think back, I think it's kind of cool that the water felt so real for being a dream. This dream ended with me accidentally swallowing some weird slopy thing from the water and I panicked while I was tying to get it out.

I woke up 07:10 to alert to fall back to sleep again.
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What I learned from these dreams was that we dream far more than we think we are. And if I fall asleep while I am laying in that sitting position, I actually wake up very close to where my vivid REM dreams starts and it also improves my recall and awareness of my dreams. If this is the case every night, then I really need to find a way to get lucid by either trying to WILD right when I wake up so a DEILD, or trying to find a way to make reality checks while I am dreaming.

But if my dream recall is going to be this great every day, I am not even sure I am going to have the energy to write it all down, unless it's a lucid dream of course =) We'll see ;)

[COLOR="royalblue"]Non-Aware (Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="blue"]Partially Aware (Lucid Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="navy"]Fully Aware and Vivid (Astral Projection(OOBE)[/COLOR]

On this attempt I got some new strange sensations. I started by doing the image streaming to calm down my thoughts, then I reach the meditative state I have always been curious about. How does it feel to not think anything?
I had always imagined that it would be like sleeping lightly and your not really aware but not sleeping either.
But it was more like "I have been thinking for so long that I don't even want to think anymore":lol:
Then I started to feel a drumming in my head, and first I thought it was my pulse, but I hoped it wasn't because it was very fast and if it was my pulse I would have a heart attack. With each drumming I felt my head get warmer and warmer and it felt like a really high fever. In some weird way I sent those sensations from my head down to my legs, and I felt my legs getting petrified! I felt heavy vibrations and imagined twitches.
Then everything calmed down and I felt that my neck was soar for being still for so long. I tried to resist to move it with all my power, but I had to give up it started to hurt... I looked at my alarm clock and thought it wasn't true, I had only lay there for 40 minutes... Usually I fall asleep, but not this time ... I stayed up for one hour and then went back to bed.

[COLOR="royalblue"]I were in a computer room in some school. We did a project about African organizations. I thought it was boring so I started the League of Legends game and gamed instead. But it was to laggy on my computer and I remember that I was annoyed that some other student had a better computer because if i had it, it would work.
I went to the bathroom and fixed my hair and my mirror image was incredibly real. I am still surprised...
When I went back to my chair and started working a hot female teacher leaned over me behind my back and she looked at me upside down and laughed. Then she says "Your cute" and kisses my cheek. She then walk around the classroom helping the other students and I also remember that she yelled on some guy because he was playing games on the computer. Then she went back to my chair and do the same leaning over as last time and give me soft kiss on the mouth!

In shock I wake up, but I am not in my bed. I am on a bench on the street! I look around me and notice that something is wrong and then notice that there is no color! [/COLOR][COLOR="blue"]I get more aware and realize it is a dream. I also remember that it didn't felt completely dream like. It was more a vivid daydream but still a little more vivid than that.
I see my two friends David and Andriano, I told them to watch me fly for fun. I get less aware because of talking to them and then jump into the air and remember from my old lucid dreams that if I lean forward in the air I will accelerate forward. [/COLOR] [COLOR="royalblue"]Then I lost my lucidity.... because of no stabilization or deepening. I remember that I flew around the city and then smash into some girl and I hear an Iphone with some hip hop alarm tone, and I have a false awakening.

I wake up 07:16 and recorded my dream and then fell back to sleep.

I was playing tennis against some children and got completely crushed. Even though I know real tennis scores, I lost with some weird number 64-46. I remember that when I tried to serve, the racket was so heavy to pull down that I always missed the ball. Then when I raise the racket it suddenly starts to pull me up and I start flying. I look over a stone wall and wondered what's there and I see that I am at the top of a cliff and look out over the ocean, I considered flying over it, but I didn't had the guts. Instead I flew over some swamp that were near the tennis court. And all the other people beneath me were amazed of seeing me flying.

I then had some dream of a birthday party where I hugged some old lady, like I would hug an old friend but she fell and we did a somersault and I was afraid that I had killed her. :shock: [/COLOR]

[COLOR="royalblue"]Non-Aware (Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="blue"]Partially Aware (Lucid Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="navy"]Fully Aware and Vivid (Astral Projection(OOBE)[/COLOR]

I went to bed early this night, but I didn't do any WILD attempt and I didn't remembered much vivid dreams.

[COLOR="royalblue"]I were in some bicycle marathon with my school and I talked to some classmates and this dream was very long, but not really special. I also remembering watching a youtube video about greek gods and I heard the auditory saying "Each god had it's own section of the elements, like water, mountains, clouds etc.".

I also dreamed that I went home and fell asleep in my bed but in the dream. Then I went back to school and saw that there were only three people there, two girl and one guy. We played some card game and I remember that one of them yelled "COPY!" and I asked them what that meant, and they described it but I couldn't understand it.
I went to the bathroom and looked in the mirror and I see that I have silver and blonde colored hair o. O

I went out to the group again and see that two of them are making out and I see that the other girl looks sad and lonely.
I take a seat next to her and I notice that she wants me to get closer, she kissed me sensually on the cheek, but when I lean in to kiss her on the mouth she backed away.

Then I woke up 04:17

I some dream where I met a woman who asked me if I could take care of here dog for a few minutes, it was a Labrador. But she never returned so I had to find her house. She said she lived in "Västrahamnen". When I got there I saw an old friend named Jacob and he was there with some girl. He behaved strangely real so I didn't become lucid. [/COLOR]