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    The Lotus Pond DILDx2

    by , 05-17-2013 at 06:02 PM (812 Views)
    Date: 15 May

    Pre bed: 400 mg valerian, 100b B6

    Total sleep time: 7hrs

    Impressions and Recall: There was my usual for B6 sense of aggression seeping through parts of the dream. After waking up from the lucid (after 5 hrs of sleep), I decided to take key notes and review as not to wake myself up. I got pretty excited and the internal dialogue turned on full power, resulting in about an hour of insomnia. After that I fell into deeper more unconscious type of sleep with a decreased recall capability. I had another lucid from which I remember only a part, I continued sleeping after it was over and had an non-ld.

    Fragment1: Some kind of posts on DV that had to do with PennyRoyal.

    Fragment2: At home, my parents have gone somewhere and I am in my room cooking some strange pancake/calzone thing that looks and tastes delicious. I have to leave some for my grandma.

    Dream3 DILD TOTY attempt: I am in a room which feels familiar, three women are sitting around the table, and I am cleaning up as if after a meal. One of the women has some tempting white green chocolate cookies, I am secretly planning on having a few after the women are gone. Another female DC comes in and starts behaving really aggressively. She demands all the attention, looks me in the eye with hatred and begins complaining to one of the women in the room. I have the feeling that they will start a fight with each other, so get out of there fast. Her hostility feels kind of fake, and at this point the memory of the B6 effect for me reaches my subcon on a subtle level.

    I find myself on the stairs of a building and lots of aggressive gangster type boys are all around me. One of them is particularly evil, feels dangerous. I become lucid on a distracted level, realizing this is a dream, but unable to do anything about the guy. I am trying to move away but it is really crowded on the stairs, I think somebody pushed me, and I end up in a niche on the wall. The wall is not really wall but something liquid that sucks me in. As I move forward in this thing, I achieve a better clarity of mind and am fully lucid and in control. There is a single task that I feel the urge to do now, go to Angel Falls. I remember CL’s advice to try to feel the floor, so I move my fingers, touching the empty space and feeling small grains of sand and pebbles. The dream idea was to be on top of Angel Falls, but in the water, so in addition to my feeling the floor, I begin to make swimming movements with my hands. The wall is already liquid and it is like a white pinkish sinking sand made of rubber-like substance. The whole world has disappeared and it is just me and the wall and I feel a closer to the void, afraid that the dream would destabilize and disconnect. I am swimming forward and nothing happens for a while, but I decide to keep on swimming. At some point the whole environment changes and I find myself looking at a flower, submerged in water.

    I look at the dark purple flower and marvel its beauty, noticing every petal in detail. I look around, and see that I am in the middle of a pond/lake that stretches as far as my eyes can see. At the same time, mixed with this image I find myself in my old room, where all this is taking place. I focus on the surface of the pond which looks like a silver mirror reflecting the clouds. I then notice that this pond is covered or rather slowly begins to cover itself with lotus flowers. Bright yellow and magenta lotus flowers are everywhere I move my eyes to look. I feel happiness upon witnessing this beautiful sight. The dream is extremely vivid and stable. Needless to say, I am somewhat distracted by this, but keep gliding on the surface of the pond in the direction of Angel Falls. This doesn’t work too well, I am still within the confines of my room, looking through some glass that distorts the view from outside, which is the view from my room with strange rainbow-like effects. A bit like looking out during a bus ride. It looks like my room wins the battle between the two layers of images, gaining more detail.


    Soon the water level in the room goes down and with it my lucidity. I struggle to restore the water level with intent, but non-lucid already. I manage to briefly do so, but then I see the floor and the water is retreating. There is also mud everywhere, the furniture is falling apart. I become concerned about the state of my old room and wonder how to clean everything. [end of memory]

    After the dream ended, I had a brief awakening, noting to myself about the lucid, but then fell asleep again. I heard some kind of bell-like sound, I guess a type of HI, that actually woke me up. After reviewing the dream I had 1 hour of insomnia. Then - deeper sleep and less memorable sleep.

    Fragment4: Having to share the bed with relatives, I preferred sleeping on the ground.

    Fragment5: Some more beds, family friends.

    Dream6 DILD: I am in my hometown, in a familiar park and am lucid. I see a few dogs around, mostly small ones and larger one (no idea what breed) captures my attention. I keep looking at it and feel my emotions reflected in the dog. I observe it a for a while, the dream is stable, I am happy. By simply looking around, I unconsciously summon more dogs of different smaller breeds. I find this cool. [end of memory]

    Fragment7: I see and talk to a politician I don’t like.
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    Updated 05-17-2013 at 06:09 PM by 61764

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    Comments

    1. PennyRoyal's Avatar
      Making it into dreams, I'm DV famous! xD

      7 Dreams/Frags awesome. I was feeling proud of myself for 3 last night haha.

      Awesome attempt on the TOTY, sounds like you might have gotten close! I tried the same teleporting method last night, it only manages to bring a bunch of sand to me instead of bringing myself to the beach

      Sounds like some fun dreams
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    2. NyxCC's Avatar
      Yep, you have managed to get to my subcon. I probably should begin RCs when I check DV, reading posts in dreams feels so realistic.

      Thanks, my recall is kind of average, but there are lots of ups and downs. My next day memory is short, then I go a bit long again. Not much consistency despite my almost same amount of effort or non-effort.

      Changing the scene is quite hard for me, this is the first time I tried this method which worked somewhat satisfactory. Apart for that I prefer using doors, but need much more practise there as well.

      I will check out your entry, seems you had some fun there as well. Just after I am finished updating these endless journal entries, I am so behind this week....
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      Updated 05-17-2013 at 06:45 PM by NyxCC
    3. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Hey, that was a cool, LD, NyxCC! I love the way that the subway train's walls just melted into that curtain of water and gave you a perfect segue to make a play for Angel Falls. It's great that you had the presence of mind to do that in spite of the man on the train being a creepy pain in the ass.

      The placid lake with the lotus flowers was super cool. It's too bad that the childhood room scene won out but it sounded amazing while it lasted! Best advice I can give there is to just get really into the scene you want with as many senses as you can, paying no heed (positive or negative) to the old scene. But honestly, you handled everything very well and actually got quite close I think!

      If you feel the void coming in the future, don't be concerned. I used to think this was the end of the dream, but it absolutely doesn't have to be. Took me ages to really internalize that, but I've found that it's an amazing place. Stay connected with your dream body (usually via touch) and you can use it as a marvelous branching-off point.

      Very nice! (Edit: Forgot the mention that the dog one was cool too. )
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    4. NyxCC's Avatar
      Thanks, CL! Even though I am posting it 3 days late, I still feel excited when I think about it.

      I am happy changing the scene worked kind of fine this time. Maybe I should have continued swimming in this pond and imagine I am reaching the end which turns to a waterfall. Anyways, it was so beautiful, I really can’t complain.

      I am not so afraid of the void as a state (yet!), but rather of waking up and being unable to DEILD. I am thinking that spending more in the void will somehow facilitate WILDs in the future, kind of prepare some bodily awareness. You guys know best. I more or less get only accidental WILDs.
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    5. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Totally agree on voidexperience helping with wild and deild! I've come to believe they're very closely related, all 3. On kindle on slow hotel wifi so I'll stop there.
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    6. NyxCC's Avatar
      Yes, this is a very interesting area to explore, looking forward to future experiences.

      Hotel, slow wi-fi? Be sure to RC a lot then! I get to dream of hotels quite often, but I almost never get it.
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    7. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Good tip. Hotel's been good so far... 2 lucids this morning! Going to have some catching up to do when I'm back at a Pc.!
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    8. NyxCC's Avatar
      That's great! Looking forward to checking it whenever you manage to post. I just got my usual Saturday insomnia today, but hope there will be a nice rebound soon. I also have to increase the RC and ADA, a bit sloppy recently.
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