non-lucid

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.

Second night with, what I can describe as an abundance of dreams which I'm content with. I woke up a first time at 05:20 and decided at that moment to cancel the DEILD alarm set at 07:00. I think the main reason why I could remember all of the dreams for those wondering, I just spend over half an hour after I was awake just laying in bed and repeating all the scenarios over and over in my head to remember as much as possible when I start writing down. And even then I think I lost atleast one dream, the last one in the process of writing cause it took over 10 minutes dotting down the key-words.

1. The burial

I'm looking over a strategic map of what I think is scandinavia during the middle ages and it feels as if I'm the king of small country up north that is quite isolated from the rest of the world. Suddenly I'm outside in a brutally cold norse landscape near the rough sea on some hills. The land looks barren with only poor grass covering the almost moon-like earth. A peasant has died and I'm the one and only person attending his burial here in the middle of nowhere, although I'm a king and he's a peasant I feel deeply sad for the man who looks to be still quite young but has been dead for a while. I think his corpse has only been found after a long period but the cold climate turned him into a mummy and thus preserved his humanlike look.

I feel a lot of respect for him and there in the middle of nowhere with just me and him I decide to honour his death as good as I can, suddenly I see a grave and the corpse seems to have teleported in it. I grab the man's hands and put them on his chest, creating a bowl-like shape with his hands. Then I grab a green apple and put it in his hands, thinking about how a tree will grow in many years at this place. Suddenly I notice how the apple has been put in a small wooden structure that is now carried by the hands of the corpse and at that point I decide to close the grave.

2. The Italian isolation

I'm in a large hotel room alone, somewhere in Italy, we're on a school trip and it's already quite late, I'm busy unpacking my bags and settling in while also hurrying cause everyone is already out of the hotel enjoying the nightlife I guess and I don't want to miss it. I change my clothing and put on my expensive pants from Boss, when I notice that somehow a lot of the jeans fabric has been torn away and it has uncovered the orange looking fabric underneath, I decide that this is unacceptable and I can't leave like this. Feeling quite alone I find a note on my bag from a girl but I forgot what it said, suddenly my sister is there asking me what's wrong. From this point the dream gets blurry and I can't remember much but I think I went into the hotel lobby and played some pool with myself.

3. WHERE IS IT!?!

I'm sitting in a study or library, my world isn't much larger than the desk I'm sitting at, so the location is unknown, I see a lot of paper lying around and maps, different parts of the world mapped out in detail. When I examine one for some reason I know it's the coastline of Puerto Rico, then I notice a white dot moving around slowly in the sea, it stops and leaves a large cross somewhere infront of the coast. I didn't think much of it and went through the other files studying them for no reason when an old teacher who gave German at my school comes towards me and asks me where the submarine is. She seems very angry and annoyed with my lack of knowledge about her request, she screams again asking where it sank. At that point I realised she wanted the map with the white dot! I start quickly searching through the stacks of paper but can't find it, it seems almost like it vanished from reality completly!
She becomes more and mores enraged the longer it takes and after a while I start breaking down shouting it's near the coastline of Puerto rica! She just won't stop screaming and it goes on like that until the dream ends.

4. Mission failed

I'm playing a game in which you have to infiltrate houses and spy on people or something but quickly the perspective changes and the person entering the house is me. Suprisingly I'm infiltrating my own house, but it seems now a couple lives there who are into a gang, I heard the name blood-gang somewhere in the briefing. It's the first mission of 'the game' and actually a tutorial so I'm very relaxed and don't worry cause it's a game after all, yet I'm there like for real. My mission is to instal a number of Phone-taps in wires running along a wall in several places of the house. I'm just looking around when I notice a timer in the corner of my eyes displaying I have 20 seconds left to put up all the devices before the inhabitants come home. I start running around in panick searching for the wires and succefully tap one in the bedroom, then I go down and find another in the kitchen, in the haste I have to kick a box out of the way. I can't finish the tap and hide under a table, IRL you should easily see me but for some reason it worked.

The woman came in first and put the box that I kicked out of the way back in it's place without much thinking and she just walked around, it seemed like normal behaviour for me but thinking about it now, it seemed robotic. I move around under the table to make sure she doesn't spot me, I decide to escape and begin with stunning her using a non-lethal ammo called sticky shocker which acts like a tazer and should just stun her so I can run away but somehow, it killed her.
I'm shocked (pun intented) to see what happened and when other people come in the dream ends.

5. The American redneck-land

I'm running away from a house (may be the one from previous dream) somewhere in a very rural area, the buildings are very sparse and large open fields dominate the landscape as well as a large lake. I get in a jeep and start driving around fast with no real purpose other than just leaving this place. After racing over some hills in the end I almost make a large circle and end up far away from the house I first ran away from but I could've been much further away at this point, had I gone in a straight line. Anyway, behind a hill I pass two houses from which I hear redneck music coming and the houses look very poor. I go on further and get out of the car, walking towards a larger looking farm house a woman comes out with a rifle and tells me to back of which I do and I walk towards a large lake which seems to stretch to almost infinity. There's a pier extending more than a 100 meters out into the lake.
Out of nowhere there's a party going on and I have to throw a peeled egg at a large unpeeled egg and somehow break it, of course the small egg just bounces of it and we keep trying until we decide to throw it up in the sky and somehow we manage to throw it up so hard that it reaches space. Shortly after the egg comes crashing down and lands in the water where it is fished up by a guy in a small kano. Then everyone goes nuts and it's a massive redneck party!

6. The return to Venice

I'm walking around in a mediëval looking city with my mother and wonder where exactly I am, she tells me we're in Venice but I don't believe her because I had been there months ago with the school trip (IRL), then we come accross a fountain in which I threw a coin back when I was here with school and the fountain didn't have any water in it. Unlike then it was now completely filled so I believed we were back. We find the rest of our family and I feel very tired, we're heading for the airport a day early because it's 'better that way' I think my father said.
I found the fact we came with an airplane weird cause we all hate flying and Italy ain't that far away so we could've used a car but then I rembered shards about us arriving in Italy using an airplane.

7. Hard landing

I'm in the cockpit of an airplane, it's a small and old passenger airplane that's about to land on an extremely small airport that has a weird runway that has a bridge and a lot of bumbs in it. After multiple attempts of me landing the plane but every time not being lined up with the runway I just say fuck it and bring it down. After a lot of fumbling around with the control I nearly land the airplane verticaly on it's wheel and we land with a large bang but that's it. Another person in the cockpit tells me it was a hard landing but a landing after all.

Sorry to put this one up a day late but yesterday I totally forgot about it so today we have extra work putting this entry up as well as the next, both are quite long so let's get right into it.

1. Better late than never

I enter a large room that is supported by multiple pillars scattered around, most of the structure is made of smooth concrete and it all has a bunker-feel to it. Lighting is limited to area's where people are seated making their entry-exam, I'm late and very stressed when one of the supervisors who looks annoyed leads me to my place. I begin filling in the exam like a maniac to make up for the time I lost and notice just how dark most of the room is, we're seated in the middle of this large space but you can't actually see the walls because it's pitch black around us. Most of the exam itself I don't remember but in the end I thought I had a slim chance of passing but was going with the mindset that I failed. (Which is how I left the exam IRL.)

2. Dangerous homework

I've just arrived home after what feels like a long day and I'm very tired but have to do some homework, the weather is grey and I think it's raining or atleast starting too, it's also slowly starting to become dark outside.
I make my way to my bedroom where I sit at a desk placed against the wall with the two windows to become unloading my books. (IRL there aren't any desks in my bedroom, only in my sister's, but looking at my room now a desk might not be so bad actually...)
I notice there's a couple of strange, small plants in little pots placed infront of my windows, when I try to touch them they act aggressive and try to bite me, like flesh eating plants. For my homework I have to somehow study these plants but I'm wondering how I'll even begin without losing a finger!

3. Dark film

I'm in a cinema of some sorts and the film I'm watching is very dark, blurry and I can't remember any details but I know it was horror-like and played itself in a weird dirty city.

4. City of the future

While I know New York city has some large sky-scrapers the city I was driving around in this dream had some mindblowingly large and tall structures. I spend the majority of the dream just driving around and looking up in complete awe as one building is even higher than the one before, and worst of all is the architecture. A lot of buildings have parts that stick out from the main tower and hang there in mid air, the size of those parts were impossible for the main tower to support and I had this sick feeling in my gut as if you're standing on a really high place but instead it was because I expected everything to collaps at any moment. The whole city had this sci-fi steampunk feeling to it, very Industrial yet most of the buildings had offices I guess.

5. Pawn shop

Me and a girl that I seem to know in the dream but one that I've never seen IRL enter a shop going down some stairs, it's a murky and rather suspicious looking place but I'm not too worried about it. It's very small, considering the shop is located in the basement of the building it doesn't have any windows and the only way out is the one we used to enter the shop. We wait at the cash register and I notice a small man the size of a dwarf who seems to be walking on his feet but doesn't have any legs, his feet seem glued directly to his torso. Then like an accordeon the man grows and his legs fold out between his feet and torso, the girl I'm with tells me it's a magic trick. After she says that and I take a better look at the man he has a tophat and a black cloak and looks like a magician. Eventually a man shows up at the register and asks us what we need, the girl responds that I need something to relieve myself, notice how she said this in a very sensual tone, I couldn' help but feel slightly attracted to her. In an attempt to play the smooth guy and get her attention I saw some dildo's back in the corner I told if she need anything to be 'relieved', she didn't understand and I acted like it was nothing.

It seems that we've made quite a leap last night regarding DR, in the end I was able to note down a total of 6 dreams!
This means that my DR, if it remains stable with atleast 4 dreams a night we can soon start practising some induction techniques, I never really thought it to be very effective to try and have LDs right away when you don't have sufficient DR yet.

1. The exam

I'm in my old schools canteen with most of the other students in their last year, it's exam which isn't that uncommon to take place in the canteen. However this isn't a normal exam from the school itself, it is the entrance exam I talked about in my 'welcome back' post. Once it's over I meet up outside infront of the canteen with some of my classmates who talk about how difficult it was but somehow I already know my results and I've passed. Then it starts raining and I walk home with a girl I know from school but don't really have (had) any interaction with.

2. Secret factory

I'm aproaching an Industrial looking building which turns out to be a garage or factory of some sorts, there's a lot of workmen around and I know this area is actually restricted for me but for some reason I have to be there for something important, you could say I'm some sort of spy.
In the beginning I don't actually try to sneak around I just walk through a large open room where men are working and nobody seems to notice me, then again I just look like any other person so I'm not too worried about them getting suspicious yet. Then the dream jumps forward and I'm sneaking around avoiding to be seen by anyone. I think I'm eventually cornered which causes the dream to go blury and skip to the next one.

3. Lost at sea

I'm in a rowing boat in the middle of the ocean, in the boat itself are besides me a few wooden boxes and a paddle which I use to navigate.
It doesn't take long before it starts raining, at first I'm not too worried about it and just sea the ocean surface rippling from the rain but then I notice my boat is filling up with water from said rain. I try to scoop it out using a muck that floated around in the boat itself but it's too late and the front of the boat starts to lower under the ocean level and the whole thing just sinks. I panick for a bit and jump out and somehow quickly turn the thing around which makes all the water fall out and I'm good again!

4. NOT Interstellar

I'm watching some kind of film which seems very similar to IRL Interstellar, only the space ship is much smaller and there are 6 crew members instead of 4. And the main protagonist is a woman instead of Matthew McConaughey. The space ship falls into a wormhole but the whole experience and special effects are not nearly as good as in the real film, it all feels a bit dull and low budget.

5. Contraband

I'm working with two dudes who drive a truck and they want to smuggle two small packages, the packages are not heavy and quite small, about the size and mass of the average cat. We try to hide them on the most stupid places, like on the roof of the truck or the side almost in plain sight. The duane quickly spots it every time but gives us some sort of second chance with a small warning and we try again. Then one of the packages is placed on top of the cabin which for some reason is a bad spot and I have to take it off there while we're driving. So I'm Climbing along the side of the truck which is shaking violently back and forward and nearly fall off, then I manage to place my food just above the wheel when suddenly the dream ends.

6. The dive

I'm with my family driving somewhere in Brazil on a road that runs along the shore line on an extremely high cliff, it's at the very least a 100 meter drop straight down to the water. After some time when we make a curve I climb on the roof of the car and jump into the depth, just like that!
After a while I splash down just next to a tiny Island that has palm trees on it, I swim towards it but I'm picked up by a police boat and taken to prison.
There I somehow know that I'm facing a 6 month sentence and my family comes and visits me with cake.

After yesterday's amazing cigar which holds secrets beyond anyone's wildest dreams, today we're faced with yet another discovery straight from the depths of my mind!

1. The pink pistol!

I'm flying over a boreal forest somewhere in Siberia or Alaska and there's snow everywhere, under me fly two helicopter carrying a concrete house and a deserted church-like structure made out of wood, it seems very old in comparison to the house.
The heli's drop the two buildings close to each other in the middle of the forest and at this point I'm also on the ground, around me I see a group of men, they appear to be woodcutters and it looks like they'll be staying here for a while because the two buildings will be used as an outpost.
The men rebuild the damaged church at an amazing speed and before I know it the damaged walls are repaired.
Inside the boss of the company resides and he tells me to take a look in a small wooden box against the wall on the left, there are no windows and the only light comes from torches.
Inside the box I find two pink pistols wrapped in paper, one of them seems to be missing parts and thus isn't functional, the other seems decent although pink!
Suddenly a small kid grabs the incomplete pink pistol and thinks it's a toy, before I can tell him he shouldn't play with that he already runs out and I follow him. While I'm approaching the main door I trying to holster my gun under my white jacket in my left pocket, it's quite difficult and I'm still busy by the time I'm outside.
There I see one of my old teacher facing me and instantly she looks shocked to see me with a gun, I realise this and quickly tell her it's a fake gun and I'm playing a game with the kid, she seems to be convinced.

2. A convention?

I'm somewhere in a large concrete building with lots of corridors and empty looking rooms, there's a lot of people who are roughly the same age as me, I'm feeling very tired and look for a way out.
Outside the sky is grey, it's cold and there's snow on the ground. I seem to be somewhere in a less urban part of the city as there aren't that many houses although it is very blury in the distance.
I go through the building as the endless steam of people continues down in the same direction, I open a random door on my left and see it's an empty room that seemed to be a secondary checkpoint with ID-scanners leading to the main court yard. Eventually I follow the people group of people and arrive outside at the main entrance, I notice my dad has to pick me up but he isn't there yet so I call him, it's starting to get dark.

We seem to have a rather slow start, probably caused by going to bed way too late last night and actually forgetting to note down the dreams when I got up. I do remember one dream although barely but it'll have to do for now.

1. What is this thing even?

I'm walking around in some bazaar and feel as if I'm being followed, it is terribly crowded and just moving forward is a challenge. An old arabian man speaks to me and hands me a cigar, talking about how it is very important and may not be what it looks like. After a quick inspection I ask him if it's maybe some sort of codex or stamp but he shakes his head telling me I will find out soon.
I think I went down some stairs into a weird interdimensional circus, there I find a lighter and spend probably 10 minutes wondering which end of the cigar should go in my mouth, eventually I decide to just lit up a random end and take my first bite/inhale/pull. (what verb do you use here?!)
It doesn't really taste to anything, one thing to mention was when I inspected the cigar the Tobacco was icredibly dense which I think makes a cigar good quality, no?

So there it is, after six months of radio silence I get a cigar, or something else! I will mention though I don't smoke IRL so it's weird that such things occur in my dreams.

Nothing special last night, until my DR is around 4 dreams/night I will start working on inducing them and maintaining my sleeping-shedule.

1. The chase

The dream starts with me descending down the stairs into the entrance hall of my house because something terrible happened. I'm very stressed and quickly find out it's all under water, 2 cats are trapped there so I don't hesitate and jump in right away. The water is very clear and light is still shining through the windows, under the stairs I see a small cage with in it one of the cats, the other already managed to get out and is now swimming around. I spend quite some time fiddling around with the lock and am suprised I'm stil able to hold my breath although I'm actually breathing again at this point but it doesn't feel like I'm drowning. Once the cage is open I smash one of the windows making the water rapidly flow out. And with that the two cats also flow out through the window on the street, they run away and I try following them so I can catch them. They're really fast and I quickly lose them, from that point on I ask people if they saw them running past, using their directions I resume my chase. I come across a WW1 bunker which seems very familiar to me as if I had been there before with a school-trip or something but IRL I never saw it. After some time I enter a park where I find them, I almost managed to grab one of them but they're stil to fast. They jump in the moat of a castle at which point I actually catch one of them, the other gets grabbed by someone from the castle and I feel as if his faith ain't pretty.

2. Crazy water park

It's summer and I'm at a water park, it has large swimming pools and the slides look dangerously fast, I decide to try out one of the slower slides. Next to that slide is what seems to be a scaffolding for a new slide, I climb on it and jump on a platform hold up by a rope 10 meters above the ground, it shakes a lot but seem to be having fun. Then a crane starts bashing the structure cause it to violently shake around and I stil seem to be enjoying the thrill of it. Eventually the rope breaks and I'm sent of flying 50 meters further up ahead actually landing outside the swimming-complex, I'm fine but have to walk quite a long road before I'm back. My family is angry for me doing such crazy things.

3. New bathroom

I'm home and have to go to the toilet, upon arriving upstairs because the toilet downstairs was already occupied I'm suprised to find it's a lot larger up here than usuall and we seem to have a secondary bathroom. I check it out and it looks very similar to the Original one except there is no dedicated shower room to the right, instead two showerheads hang above the two sinks aimed towards the middle of the bathroom next to the bath. The tiles are ceramic and there's a drain in the middle of the room, despite all of this I stil sit down on the toilet and do my business after which I decide to try out this new shower, it's very nice having to just stand in the middle of the room and let the water fall from the ceiling, I notice my mother is on the roof just outside repairing something and the curtain is open so I quickly close these before I'm seen. For some reason she knows I'm showering and is angry about it.


The dreams themself weren't very interesting but I notice recall and vividness are improving, let's try LDing next night!

As expected after a long time being the lazy sleeper I am, I managed to completly and utterly destroy my sleep-cycles, recall and what not. Oh well, you have to restart somewhere and I aim on having a first LD by the end of next week, quality doesn't matter but I'd prefer a WILD over a DILD. (Transition is half the fun... )

1. Digging, Desert...

I'm in the middle of a large desert, the sand is white, the sky is grey and it seems a storm is forming in the distance. My mother is there too but she doesn't seem to have an important role in the dream other than looking around. I, on the other hand am hard at work digging at seeminly random spots scattered around, searching for something valuable. I didn't find any treasure chests, only more sand and the dream faded away "peacefully".

2. The most complex plan evaaaar!

It seems like I did find something of value in last dream and I'm now in my school which is now used as some weird black-market office. I have a meeting with the big boss of the whole place to make a deal, I'm with some friends and they tell me I'm actually not allowed to be here so I'll have to disguise myself... as a granny.

Anyway, the big boss is as stereotype as one can be, sunglasses, bling-bling and bad sarcastic jokes fly around my head as we sit down. The deal itself is kinda fuzzy but I remember that besides me having to look like an old lady I'm also supposed to be very very rich, these guys only want stuff from the high-class. Buuuuut then my cellphone which I didn't even knew was in my purge conveniently went off with a jazzy tune from the 80's. I try to mimic a suprised granny giggle but it sounds more like a horse, also my cellphone appears to be an extremely cheap Nokia which makes the boss suspicious as I should normally have an expensive IPhone or something. We leave the room and make our way to the staircase, as we go down I don't walk down the stairs but rather jump down from the top to the bottom which is something I seem to be doing more and more frequently in my dreams. At school I almost wanted to test out if I could do it IRL but after a second thought I decided against it, which is maybe the best option...
When we're at the bottom I remember I forgot my coat so I go back and grab quickly it as I'm not allowed to be seen. Being the smart guy I decide to check the pockets of the coat in the middle of the corridor like nobody can see me here. Eventually a friend comes back and tells (shouts) me that we need to get the hell out of here quickly.

*poof awake*


First try 2 dreams ain't bad but ain't good either, they weren't very sharp either but I know myself and have confidence in my abilities.

Hello everyone, it's been a bit more than a week that I've responded but don't worry I'm back!

I'm going to type other entries after this one so I'll keep it short and clear, it's evening and I want to relax after a day of school.


In the week I took free from doing DJing I started reading the book 'The phase' which is a book about lucid dreaming, astral projection and much more. (The phase is an umbrella term for everything happening during conscious REM.) In this book I found many new techniques and one of which worked so good there's a chance if I can get in the right state again it will likely make me lucid again. It's a DEILD/WILD technique but the most important thing is the way you exit you waking body by rolling out of it. (Which I did almost too good... )

1. Coming in with a bang* (WILD)

After waking up around 05:00 in the morning by my alarm and having 2 more hours to do the technique I made sure I would wake up several times in these 2 hours. In total I woke up 5 times naturally of which the fourth one was succesfull. I started slumbering into sleep while laying on my side when suddenly I thought about rolling on my back, I was slightly worried I was too close to the edge of the bed and would fall of but before I knew it I felt my body slowly turning. There was a very mild tinnitus in my ears but I wasn't paying a lot of attention to it anyway, I turned faster as I was nearly horizontal and then I fell out of my bed. I open up my eyes and sit on the ground with the sheets wrapped around my body, my head actually hit the table next to my bed and hurted slightly. I looked up and was embarassed thinking I just woke everyone up with the loud thumb but then I did a nose plug RC just to be sure. Although the sensation was weak I did notice a slight difference from when I do it fully awake and knew it was a dream. I quickly stabilized by crawling over my dream-bed and sliding my hands across it, it felt like a reall bed and I was ready to start exploring. Although I was aware of the fact it was all a dream I kept silent to make sure everyone stays asleep, the hallway was darker than normal and I had a slightly eerie feeling. I entered the bathroom and closed the door, outside the window I saw a large moon in the sky illuminating the tiles with a blue aurora. I tried flying through the ceiling and towards the moon but could only jump as high as IRL. After checking my hands I noticed they weren't that deformed, all of these things began to make me doubt wether or not it was a dream. I woke up soon after.

Hi guys, this morning I went back to bed after eating breakfast and it resulted in an LD.
I used the LD to test some things that I was discussing with other oneironauts in this thread.

1. For science!* (DILD)

I'm walking around in a city with my family, there are very wide plaza's everywhere and the sky is grey probably raining soon. We seem to be the only people her and decide to leave, then I remember we forgot a small dark bag at the place we just came from. As I tell them to go back I snap lucid and try Climbing up a small tower we just walked by. When I got up the tower/building I wanted my family to leave so they wouldn't distract me, I noticed the dream getting weaker so I shout "CLARITY!" which boosted the vividness of the dream. As I stood on the roof I thought of the thread on DV in which I discussed a possible new RC/inducer. Basicly opening or closing your ear-channels in the same way as when you yawn. I tried it several times but I didn't feel any change of pressure in my ears nor did I hear any pop or air. After probably 10 attempts I noticed a small yet sharp sting in my right ear so I decided to stop. I got back on the ground where suddenly my bed was, the dream was slowly falling apart and I tried stabilizing by hugging the side of the bed but it was too late and resulted in the following FA.

2. How late is it?

I wake up in my bed and I notice it's dark, after checking my alarm clock it shows 23:20 which confuses me slightly. I roll over and notice my father's old alarm clock between the two pillows on my bed, I don't think it showed a time but it did have a heart rate monitor. I tested my own heart which looked normal on the scan.

3. Mediëval sabotage

I'm looking down on a large mediëval city, I hear someone suddenly tell me sabotage is going on after which my view is focused on a large soap-factory. Then I get a warning and see a person sneak into my house somewhere in the city, it looks like he wants to sabotage my house now. Then I'm in a barn and see the person walking in, another person waits for him behind a door and begins throwing tomatoes at him. The thief tries to get on the second floor of the barn but can't reach it because of the constant impacts of the tomatoes against him.

This night I had some nice dreams which were all set in huge worlds, mostly it were plains but still beautifull.

1. The lands of the north

I'm some viking king or something and I live in a town somewhere on a group of large islands in the middle of a cold stormy sea. The islands are very large and mostly have plains/tundra, some large mountains and overall a cold/grey feeling which makes the town look so much more cosy... Anyway I'm leading an army to take over some lands but see this all happening by looking at an old map of the islands with each Island having a norse name.

2. The central world

I'm somewhere in a massive valley which stretches in every direction for 100 KM probably, it's mostly desert with rocks. My transportation is a small disk on wheels that can quickly (and I mean QUICKLY) traverse the rough terrain. I'm not alone though as many other people move around too, I think I even get a warning for going to fast by a knight. Then I'm at the edge where a forest begins and behind the forest lays a mighty city. But first I need to get over a large crack in the earth that's 5 meters wide and dark. There's a ramp infront of it and I go at it as fast as I can landing on the other side in one piece. I don't see a lot of the city cause I'm instantly in a house. The house has a nice interior, mediëval high class I'd say and feels warm. I meet my brother (I don't have a brother IRL) which has blond hair and mostly ignored me as he walked to his room.

Alright we've finally catched up with the DJ and I can now keep it up-to-date again for the rest of the week.
Remember next week I will take a week of of journalling or anything LD-related entirely just so you know I'm not dead.

1. HEIL!

I'm in a large clasroom or canteen and Hitler is holding a speech for a large audience of adults, I'm at the front row and slightly nervous considering Hitler himself is standing several meters infront of me. It seems he wants to learn the audience how to pronounce "Heil Hitler." correctly. The audience shouts it several times but Hitler seems to get frustrated and start shouting "HEIL!" probably 50 times through his microphone. The audience also start doing the Hitler salute which makes me very uncomfortable as I'm actually forced to do it too if I don't want to be spotted/killed.

2. Get out of the way!

I'm driving a car trying to navigate out of the garage but my family seems to be sitting right on the road having a tea-party or something. I can barely control the vehicle and it seems the brakes are mostly broken too. They get very angry and start shouting at me for almost hitting them.

3. What was that?

It's early morning and I'm downstairs, my sister is studying at the table and I open the bookcase to see what's inside. I find a small TV and start it, a reality show starts and I see something funny and ask my sister to rewind it. I call my mother to see it too but we have difficulties rewinding it and my mother gets impatient. Then I find one of these old binocular things that you can look in and see a series of pictures. At that point my mother starts getting very annoyed and actually telling me I'm stupid or something.

I didn't really have any DR, actually I did have some DR but the dreams were so boring I didn't bother writing them down.

I can't really say anything about this night cause I'm typing this 3 days after it actually happened but I still remember most of the dreams vividly so I'll say that dream #2 was the first dream in which I was confident enough to introduce a girlfriend to my mother...

1. Silence

I'm alone walking through a very open large modern house, I'm not sure if it's a house or an interior magazin but anyway weird stuff happens here. Apparently a monster hides between the furniture stalking you and it kills you if you make too much noise. Why do I know that? Well I seem to have had a flashback before the dream actually started which showed my father walking here too and now in the dream itself I see a puddle of blood next to a couch. I slowly walking around the house, it's dark outside but the house itself is very bright and open. I sit down and suddenly listen to schlager music or something which makes me jump around for some reason and then there's suddenly a group of people looking at me and I feel embarrassed.

2. Introduction

I'm laying on the beach next to a girl I know from school and we're talking with each other, I actually like her and enjoy the sun. When I look to the left I notice my family about 15 meters away from me, they don't know I'm talking to this girl and that we actually like each other. Then I see my mother walking towards me, she hasn't spotted me yet and I have a choice wether to walk away and act like I was just walking towards the sea or introducing my mother to her. I choose the latter and felt very confident knowing I made the right choice.

3. Myst

I'm playing a game called 'Myst' (Awesome game btw) and I've finished the game by completing both the blue and red book at the same time. I see the two brothers appearing in the room and they start discussing who's the one that deserves to be free the most. Then I take the books and I'm suddenly in an airport running away from the security. I'm very fast and agile Climbing over obstacles and such.

4. The ship

I'm with some students in a weird gym, it has several rooms that are used for playing football or other sports. After some time a teacher walks in and takes us to another room where we play some volleyball but we quickly stop and exit that room too. Walking through some corridors and up some stairs we enter a lobby of some sort where there are probably a hundred students waiting for something. It is at this point where I start thinking we're on a giant ship and on a vacation. I feel very tired and groups of students are moving around in lines, I think it was time for us to sleep and the other group to start their day. This way we share beds and the ship can hold double the amount of students.

I know I haven't been updating this DJ every day and I actually think of taking a week of DJing and just having a clear head without a lucid intention.

As Stephen Laberge wrote in his book:

"The first several times I tried to have lucid dreams in the laboratory, I was using autosuggestion and I found that trying too hard (effortful intention) was counterproductive."

So I've decided that I won't be doing any DJing or effort to induce lucid dream from [25/08/14] to [01/09/14]. I won't be noting down any dreams but I will tag down any Lucid dreams which I will probably put in a special entry or something when the week is over.
When that week ends it will also be the beginning of the new (and last) school year, I expect to have small problems getting used to getting up early but this will probably also result in a steadier sleeping shedule so it might be good in the long run.

1. Mildly disturbing

I'm playing a game that looks a bit like the sims but it's different in some way, I actually have brief moments where I realize I'm playing a game and that I'm sitting at a computer. It's a weird game as my character goes to a remote house by a lake and lives there. Then there's a creepy man/zombie that stalks him in the Woods.

2. Could you turn that around?

I quickly run down the stairs of my house because I'm late for my Biology exam, I haven't learned for it cause I was so confident of myself. Instead I'd been playing the game from previous dream all the time, the dreams are seperate though cause I think it's just my brain linking the two in order to make a cohesive plot. I quickly skim over the pages and see that I know most of it but not exactly so I'm quiet worried, when I arrive at school and enter a classroom which looks like the waiting room of a dentist I sit next to a good friend of my. We sit around a table with on it a small object, it's a small stick with small tubes on it that have different shapes and sizes. I also spot a small card hanging of it with weird names that I presume are the names of the different geometrical shapes of the tubes. The exam is to put the correct name by the correct tube-shape, I look at my friend sitting next to me and we both have difficulties not laughing cause without even asking we both know of each other we haven't learned for this exam. From the place we're seated we can't see the card that contains the names of the tubes, I thought if we're Lucky we could just guess the answers. (Which I actually managed to do once IRL... xD) So I ask the teacher to turn the object around, I didn't however mention the reason for it was to see the names on the card cause I thought this would be seen as cheating.

3. On the front

I'm walking through a beautiful medieval city center somewhere in the Ukraine, I'm a journalist making a documentary about the war or something. Anyway this city actually makes me think of Prague because I've seen that once before on TV IRL. I'm probably 28 years old or something and I'm walking towards a large stage made by rebels on a square infront of the city hall. The people on the stage are asking for people to donate empty cans, I happen to have just drank a soda can so I hand it over to one of the rebels. I'm slightly worried considering they are shouting very loud in Russian I think. The reason why they're doing this is because there has been an outbreak of Ebola recently and I'm also worried for that so I quickly walk back. It starts raining and I try taking out a jacket out of my backpack, I notice every quickly goes inside the buildings so I stop fiddling around in my backpack and instead walk into a coffee bar. In the entrance of the bar I suddenly have a bloody nose, although annoying I'm used to it and don't panick. (I have these very often IRL, probably twice a week in the summer.) The bar itself has an art deco interior and the atmosphere is very pleasant, waitress walks up to me and asks me what I want in Russian but I understand her for some reason.