StephL

If only I had the same motivation to DJ - and even LD - in the morning, as I have it later in the day..
Didn´t dictate anything - and so there are again only fragments..


One had me with backpain - and getting an x-ray at a hospital, which showed, that I had an implant - a fixateur interne - like if I had broken a vertebra:



We were wondering, how it got there - me having no memory of such a surgery.


Another one was about me looking for a job, and wondering, if I had to take one of the earlier university exams once more.
It seemed I had to - and I was almost completely clueless, how to prepare for that in the short time, which was available.
Funnily - there were classmates from school, who also had to take this exam..
But I managed to organize the books, I had used back then - and made myself a learning-place in our old house´s garden - with sun-umbrella, table, stool and heaps of books and started learning.
But I felt, I couldn´t understand most of it - and got worried about the job.


Another fragment had me searching for my shoes in a school-locker - there were lots of other people´s shoes in it - but not mine.
In every locker there were heaps of shoes - in the end I found one pair of mine, and took another one, which I liked...


And for the third time - I was at the house of another ex (not the one from the last two dream instances - where I wanted him back in the first - and got him back in the second one).
Like irl - we were just normal friends at that point in the dream.
His mother - bit of a bitchy person - was happy we had broken up (irl as well..) - and didn´t like it at all, that I was there in this dream.
Problematic was - I was seemingly going there as a sort of first shelter and place to get a shower and fresh clothes.
How it came, that I arrived totally freezing cold and almost naked in the winter - no idea.
I got myself sorted there anyway - small brother of my ex - and him - standing up for me.
We didn´t exactly get along perfectly back then - I remember being surprised about this brother´s support.
And - however this came to pass in the end: I got cookies and cake baked by this suddenly rather friendly mother - but she still was happy to see me getting out afterwards.


This has again:
School-mates
Exam
Old house of my youth - esp. garden
Shoes.. (?)
Taking something from somebody else
Searching/sorting stuff
Being freezing cold - and not enough clothes (just a sort of small blanket in this case..)
An ex of mine
This special ex´s parent´s house and being threatened to get thrown out.
Last two times I did get thrown out with the x-mas party first - and last time with my grandparents and their friends.

Seemingly again dreaming something once more, but with a more favourable course of events and outcome.

I will edit in a bit from the normal dreams later, too - buut - first:


Something happened!!


The same way, the other two longer episodes came to pass - WILD-try induced DILD.

WBTB after 6h with alarm - I got up and stayed out of bed for about almost half an hour.
I think, this helped me with not being lazy and impatient.
So when I went back to bed to try WILD - I had some persistence - but couldn´t fall asleep.


I went at is less than optimally though - with a mixed up approach throwing together breath-counting and mantras and a bit of SSILD - still unsure how to really go about it.
For a while after the actual efforts - I ended up in a weird state of mind - half-sleeping, but awake and thinking about things.
I sort of enjoyed this - thinking over some real-life stuff in a rather detached manner.
Then came another normal dream, I woke up from that - went to the loo - thought - ah - sleep a little more, which I did.

I was instantly lucid, when the dream started.
No need for nose-plug or anything - I knew it for sure - and almost automatically started hovering.

I felt, the dream was quite unstable - not throughout vivid - only on what I directly concentrated.
I came down on a meadow with some trees and started my remembered stabilizing repertoire.
Hand-looking and rubbing - foot-stomping and going on my knees and smell at the grass - I smelled that.
There was also a bit of clover - so I ate some of it - but it did not taste of anything.

I also shouted "more clarity" and such - didn´t seem to work a lot in this first episode - the shouting something.
I also wasn´t feeling my body except my hands - and those not really either.
The whole thing maybe was only a minute.
I guess it was too late already and I had slept enough.

Woke up - but - was able to immediately fall asleep again and found myself back in lucidity.
It felt like the same dream - but the meadow was out of sight - I hovered over a road.


I thought - okay - take your chances as they come - and tried for the snowman-task:

It was summer - I hovered over a street and then flew on a bit - shouting as loud as I could "snow" "I want it to snow" for a little while.
This - and the little one before - were the first LDs where I tried shouting something, by the way.
And with summoning snow it worked a treat.
Started snowing and more and more and some snow lay on the ground finally too.
So - down I went to a place where there was a bit more of it.
When I grabbed some of this snow - it was really cold and felt like snow!

Funny thing is - there were two children sitting close by - and they had snow on their heads and faces.
As if they had just sat there in the quite thick snowing for half an hour or so.
It was a bit more snow than I first saw covering the ground.
So - I took this snow from their heads to start building - they were looking a bit weird at me - but didn´t complain.
Meanwhile - there was more snow everywhere and I built a snowman - good size - but only snow.
I was feeling the dream collapse - there was no time to decorate it or give it a face or anything - but I stood a bit in front of it - visuals fading - and tried willing him alive before I wake up again.
But no - it started melting a bit, only..
Next time!!



Sooo - very happy - and I feel this WBTB DILD inducing is going to work better, the better I manage the timing - and maybe finally a WILD too.
Time for a little bliss:

I am quite unhappy with my recall from last night - and on top of that - I was too tired and lazy to try WILD - while a first natural awakening after 6 h not - and not with alarm-clock and hour later either.
Where is my motivation in the morning??

And I was almost sure, I´d get a present last night from the TOTM..

Okay - first a dream, which directly relates to last night´s snippet

Last night´s snippet was about me, wanting my ex-boyfriend back and having to find out on a holiday, that he was happy with his new girlfriend and backed off.

This night - almost like a correction of this: I now was on holiday with him - it was great - we were talking about problems too, and others were advising us against a new start - but we did anyway and it seemed we finally much better understood each other.
I also explained to him, what had happened lately in real life - and how I have changed my outlook on my professional career - he very much found it a good idea (probably in real life he would too..).

Ha - exactly now, while writing - more of this comes back - very satisfying dream it was! Will be left un-journalled - but comes back to me - niice!



Weird fragment:
I was on the shore of a lake - stony shore and a lot of other sun-bathers.
For some weird reason, there was a whole menu of food with us, a group of people, and we wanted to cook it later.
But all ingredients - like meat, sauce, potatoes etc. - were all separately shrink-wrapped in plastic sacks.
A small kid - maybe two years old - tottered towards us - and then peed on the sack with the sauce.
Soo - we were worried, that the acidity would maybe solve the bag - so I was running in a house with it all and washed the outsides of the bags.
Seemed undamaged.
Ended up with me being "press-ganged" to do all of a big heap of dishes and being annoyed about that.
Wanting to go back sun-bathing..

One more scene:

I sat with my supposed grandparents - they looked different though than irl - on a terrace - eating and drinking wine - when suddenly it was clear, this was not our house - but I just had the keys to it - and thought the owners wouldn´t come back till later.
Not so - they came and were angry, I had taken all the good red-wine and drunk it with my grandparents and a couple of other old people - supposedly friends of them.
Bit like the dream with the secret Christmas party hidden in a house..

One more - it was there after waking up, but only now thought about it again - maybe a novel dream-sign (2nd time..)

I was in a sort of animated DV version - but not 3D - and there were three avatars, one a guinea pigs and two rabbits - the ones with very, very much fur - and we had a post-exchange..


It almost seems as if I would dream further - or alternative-dream dreams from earlier nights - making them more agreeable - or at least a bit different.

I wonder if this is common.

Somehow I always manage to fill a page, if I want to - but - last night had really bad recall.

I came into care for a rhinoceros with a foot-problem - I took him home - and completely logically he fitted under my kitchen bench.
That was his place then.
From time to time, I had to take care of the foot - and so weird - I read on here yesterday of somebody dreaming of scraping out the hooves of a horse. I vaguely remembered that in my dream. But the fact that rhinos do not have such single hooves, was also available - and I wondered, if I really had the right tool for the job, then.
I got him sorted somehow, though - and he went back where he came from - where ever that was.

This belonged into a first - otherwise very private and problematic themed dream with family and friends from school.

From the second dream - also private - there is a scene, when I was on an excursion from school in winter.
And I lost the others - when it still was hiking in a forest.
It was a mountain then and I had more and more trouble to overcome obstacles and jump down from rocks on good faith more or less.
Freezing - not having the right clothes on.
When I made it down - all were there already - and - they were completely surprised, why I had not skied down, like everybody else would have.
Bit later - another friend of mine with somebody more - came down riding beautiful horses.

And a weird thing with a former teacher flirting with me, when he went with me organizing ballerinas for a sports-lesson - it was kind of appealing - but nothing came of it.
Got the shoes, though.


There was also a Christmas party - but me and friends were not invited to the family thing - family of my first boyfriend.
We sort of had expected to take part and had our own party somewhere hidden in that house then instead - very dull room, no nice food, no presents..
And somebody made a mess in the house, where the family was - getting food for us and running away - and we were wondering if someone would come along and throw us out.
And so it came.



Full of dream-signs..
Full of interpretable stuff as well, but so what ..

I was wondering about private/DV journalling the last week - and stopped doing it in here.
I found, that while it is good, to do it on a recording function of my I-Phone - without the drive to trans-scribe it - I do not even always listen to it once more.
So this can´t be good.
So I´m back.
But I also have this stupid problem of sweating esp. while vivid and active dreams - and I sort of automatically start moving and opening my eyes to get a new shirt.
It is good I can start dictate, while doing that - but anyway - got to try to really keep still and eyes closed and feel a bit damp and un-comfy for the sake of recall!

While I can hold on to fragments, while doing the changing - I believe this is mostly optically - I do loose the bigger narrative like that.

Many - unnoticed dream-signs: Place of my youth, friends from back then, removals, looking for a place to live.. and more in the other fragments, too.

So - three of the several fragments on the 4 min. audio-file, I grumbled together:

I wanted to move back to the place I spent my youth, and was looking for somewhere to live - me a man, I don´t know, came along a small street - rather a way, where there where lots of old-fashioned, formerly very beautiful Bavarian buildings - like old farm-complexes and also normal houses - all were completely ruined, though.
One could look through wooden pillars - and even inside was nothing interesting to go examine and "pillage".
Something I felt like doing - and I was disappointed, not to see furniture or interesting other things inside any of them.
I was also wondering, how it could be, there were ruins in such a "popular area" close to the lake.



I was with one old female school-friend out to look for something to wear for a party - and we suddenly thought - why not just take something.
But as it were - there was almost no space in the 2 shops, we went in - and nothing we wanted, either - so back out we went.
Then she was suddenly gone - and I had to pass through a café with tables on the side-walk.
Twice something fell to the ground unnoticed - first an expensive ear-ring - and I picked it up and gave it back to the woman - and then some figurine of a board game - also gave that back to that woman.


The last thing was the nicest - I think, not often in my dreams do I hear something beautiful.

I was sight-seeing inside a big government-building with another friend back from school.
I still have some contact with some of them - but not him for too long, actually.
Inspired by Sivason - I might write a mail to him..

Anyway - there were columns with singing bowls - some of them filled with water.
My friend circled with his finger around the rim of one filled bowl - and the most wonderful sound emerged - crystal-clear and very sublime - "hanging in the air" for a while after.
The one closest to me didn´t have water, but I found and poured some in - and started trying it out myself.
But it didn´t work out as beautifully - almost didn´t work at all - and bit later - we left.

I had my alarm clock on 5 h after falling asleep - but was too lazy to do something - but two hours later then.
Did a WILD attempt with mantras - but I was not very patient and rolled over to sleep normally.

There was a dream - one of these classics - me too late for an exam, and didn´t know where - and another woman showed me the way.
I had a huge bag, which I couldn´t leave somewhere to not have it stolen and we went cross country.
Suddenly she did a jump of some meters, and me behind her - that made me pause, and do a RC - my nose plug again.
Yepp lucid.

So then - she was gone, I was in some flat onto which´s balcony we had jumped these meters for whatever reason.
And the most important thing was, I wanted to know, what somebody is thankful for.
But there was only a nice fluffy grey cat.
So I asked the cat - but it wasn´t interested and stalked away.

I then made a private experiment - woke up from it - but with falling asleep again, was instantly lucid once more.
Scenery another flat.
So - the months then - no problem, actually! None at all.
Then I let myself fall over backwards without looking - and it hurt a bit coming down on the wooden floor with my spine.
I should probably have told myself, that nothing bad would happen??

Anyway - window got opened the usual way - and even then I was first afraid to fly out this time.

But I did it - and I even managed to stop the silly swimming motions.
That had me hover and somehow I wanted to move and thought I might loose orientation.
So I remembered the zooming thing.
There was an old wooden shack with a damaged writing on the front, and I zoomed in on the A.
First - nothing happened - so I concentrated more and tried really to see details of it as if it was in front of my nose..
Well - then I almost ran into it with my nose - had to air-brake to keep me from crashing into the thing..
Might have even been one more task to try to go through - but that I didn´t think of at that moment.

So - down I went - and I saw 3 people through a high perimeter fence around a sports-ground.
I might have been "talking in my sleep" to them, because I had a certain kind of problem with vocalizing, which I had before and that was in a nightmare and I got told, I would have talked out loud then.

Whatever - after the initial problems - I did as if I was a radio-reporter and asked what the first woman was thankful for - she said - of all things - the church and what it did for humankind, weell.
Okay - two more left - next was a guy - and - believe it or not, he said something trivial and I forgot it, in my rush to reach the third person acoustically - didn´t think of phasing through that fence - too much concentration on the task as such.

But then I did phase through the fence anyway and was close to her.
And she said - she is thankful for the fact, that humans can understand what other people think, from talking about it.

The dream was loosing a bit of colour then - and I woke up on purpose not to forget it all.

Transfer from my thread about it from the 15.11.13:

Woohooo! I did it and a long one
I am soo happy - finally!!


After one almost WILD and two mini-lucid episodes - finally - the big one since joining up here!!

Started out with me putting the alarm 4 h after falling asleep and trying WILD once more.
I almost managed - there were some strange sensations and slipping and sliding about - but I came out of these with too much awakeness after a while
And got impatient and fell asleep.
I use an I-Phone now for pre-journalling - and I had journalled away one first dream before.
The following dream had me sleeping over at a friend´s flat (both grown ups) - and I woke up there - and didn´t do a RC unfortunately.
It was a lot of fiddling, and the I Phone didn´t work (ha!) and she thought it was all bs anyway with my LD-thing - next was getting into an argument with two other women also sleeping there and this and that - got it all on tape.

I will have to do something with this thread - put it in my DJ or edit in here - I am again too impatient to take it one thing after the other.
Anyway - woke up for real from this false awakening - journalled - fell asleep.

And again woke up at this friend´s place.
And I thought - noo way - and made the nose-plug RC.
Three times, cause I couldn´t believe it anyway!
Yepp - lucid!

Told my friend so - this time she laughed and congratulated and I went in the air and zipped about her like some crazed bumble-bee or something.
Then we went out - she away the normal way and me through the window - a big one.
Outside was a nice park - not as heartbreakingly beautiful as in my second life-time longer lucid - but really nice.
I made a point of looking at things in detail - incl. my hands - and they were 100 % life-like - so good to use the plug - also the thumb through palm doesn´t work reliably - too strong of a body scheme I guess.

Okay then there were some older people standing about in a bit of a panic - telling me there was somebody suffocating behind some wooden houses - and she would have an orthesis like for broken cervical spine on her neck and they were very worried.
I was a bit worried then as well, knowing you can not simply take such a thing off and hope for the best..

First I did one more nose plug and then made fun of them - but anyhow - I got curious and wanted to see another scene so in the end I walked with one of the old ladies.
Forgot to ask anybody for what they were thankful for unluckily..
Also the other TOTMs..
Right - it was a young woman, fully healthy - no orthesis, smoking a cigarette and laughing at us.
The control thing is not yet ingrained - because I started freezing and flew back into this flat to search for more clothes..

Well - all in all I was really squealing with joy - it was great.
When I hovered over the piano - I saw several expensive vases.
Ah - dutchraptor!! - I thought and tried to do one of his tasks.
The first vase bounced off the ground - the second was already broken and just stood there as a jigsaw - but the third on - crystal-glass - that one broke really nicely - and I had no bad consciousness at all.

Really absolutely being sure, that this was my dream and only that.
Buut - next thing I tried - well - these windows were like many old houses have them in Germany - big window and above it - separate small windows - so small, you had to wriggle through.
I somehow knew I was afraid to do that - it was 4th story and I couldn´t like fly out normally - I was afraid to fall.
Bit disappointed with myself - I went back down and after not long woke up.

I would say the whole thing was several minutes.
As said - there is more, but nothing special and I simply had to churn out this thread now!
Thank you DV!!
Woooohoooo!!!

Date: 08.11.13
Total sleep: Good question..
Daytime Techniques: hm..
Lucid Techniques: Repeating my mantras but without conviction and expectation
Recall Techniques: bad, bad, bad
Fell Asleep: Good question

Fragment One: Problems With My Mother
Dream:
...edited..

Fragment Two - Being Hunted By a Lunatic and Dead Animals
Dream
I was being on a journey with a bus and people I didn´t know.
We took bicycles and went into the woods with them. There was a story and a reason, why we - and esp. me, who lost the others - were hunted by somebody wanting to kill us.
I forgot, though.
Later there were zombie animals (farm-animals - cows, horses, pigs..) and somehow I had to find a living animal of the right species for each one of them to - don´t know - redeem them?
This finally worked out - I found those in the woods with my bike and paired them up on the bus-platform.
They just stood there and were happy then - half of them dead and decomposing.

We entered the bus and had sort of a picnic in there - then back on the bikes and it was the way from Munich to Tegernsee and the bikes were almost flying so fast did we go.

Somehow that guy later was completely friendly and took me home to his family and showed me, how to make traditional jewellery (see snippet).

Awake: two or three times in between dreams - got up at 11 am
Vividness: (scale of 1-15, 10 is waking life vividness) 8
Awareness: (1-10; or lucid) maybe 6, non lucid
Length: (how long it felt like! Because that matters) the dream with the second fragment - one day
Emotions: ..edited..
Dream Signs: Bavaria - again, my mother and me in my late teens

..

Date: 07.11.13
Total sleep: 9 h
Daytime Techniques: wonderings about self and reality + ADA
Lucid Techniques: Mantras between dreams and before sleep, haphazard short WILD attempt
Recall Techniques: weeell - got to learn to write so I can decipher it - first dream, I put down is not retrievable
Fell Asleep: 0:30 am (jippee! and stone sober)
Dream Title: High Romance!

Dream:
This was the last three dreams - and so I have very good recall without having written much.
It started at a festivity where the people having finished school with me met - but there were other people too - like a friend of mine from university.
Somehow, I hadn´t managed to dress up for the occasion and wasn´t "styled" in any way - but the others were looking fantastic.
So - wasn´t that bad, but when that friend of mine wanted to go to some sort of vip party afterwards - a friend of hers, whom I didn´t know, wanted to keep me away from that.

So then something happened which is unusual for my dreams - usually I would have tried and not managed to go with them, or went, looking horrible or whatever.

What would not have happened would have been me getting what I wanted - namely making my friend drop that bitch, she brought with her, and take me home with her to give me a really nice evening dress and her make-up and perfume and whatnot and chastised the doorwoman for not instantly letting me in there too. Lovely friend in real life - but ex-model and always soo beautiful..

Anyway - in we were and it was like in a high-society movie.
Great party - later it had somehow changed scenery to a garden in the morning.
...edited ..
Awake: 9:30 am
Vividness: (scale of 1-15, 10 is waking life vividness) 12/13
Awareness: (1-10; or lucid) 9 non lucid
Length: (how long it felt like! Because that matters) Dream in 3 parts - twice reentry because it was soo nice - all in all maybe story over 2/3 days
Emotions: Weeell.. right - for the sake of analysis: started with feeling inferior, ugly, awkward - went to self-satisfied, radiant, attractive and confident, then totally smitten, in love, satisfied, hopeful and even sort of calmly confident for what would come, liberated

Dream Signs: People from school, university - the garden party was for some reason in our old garden of the house I lived in my youth (that´s a strong recurring sign, the house+garden)


Conclusions - Overview:

First of all - it is so great, that the journalling and general aim of lucidity and gaining dream-control spills over into my normal dreams and makes them so much more satisfying - amazing!!

Secondly - got to work on readable notes in between dreams.
First dream, after which I woke up got lost because of indecipherable nonsensical scribblings - except the dart-board snippet, which I posted next door - that I can remember vividly.

Then - realization, that I actually always was and am able to re-enter a dream after waking up.

Lucidity:
I did my mantras and expectation-rising for DILD, but looking back - the real inner plan was more to do a WILD attempt after the first inter-dream awakening.
I had talked to my hubby - finding out to my surprise that he had sometimes what seems to be called EHS - extremely loud noises from inside his head while falling asleep - and he hates it with a passion.
Told him excitedly to ride it out next time and try to WILD himself.

But - just like before several times - I felt tired and lazy and unwilling to try the WILD when the time for it was there - thinking - ah I will wake up once or twice more anyway.
Which I did - with even less motivation - see dream-content..

This is so silly - I know, it would have been easy to at least get that far as last time once more - that only took like 2 min. lying still and vibrations and optics came.

..

Date: 06.11.13
Total sleep: 8 h (3 am - 11 am)
Daytime Techniques: oddities - 10 min. back, only 3 times for some minutes - trying to sense everything around and inside me - like in Joshi´s ADA tut
Lucid Techniques: repeating mantras before sleeping and in between dream-parts; after final waking up I tried a bit hapazardly to WILD but lost patience real quick - heard the traffic outside - got itches here and there - gave up very quickly - maybe too awake - or maybe happy to be done with all the stress while dreaming.
Recall Techniques: criggling notes for the first part - the other two awakenings not - the second I had sweated through my pyjamas and tried writing, but was shivering and had to change clothes and lost it - third time I jumped out of bead, happy to be out of the nightmare
Fell Asleep: 3 am (bad girl - and had drunk alcohol too - like Friday - there was also impaired recall then)
Dream Fragment number one - Title: Hunting Dog-Loving Nazi-Killers
Dream:
Really bad recall - but anyway:
I was coming to investigate a murder of a girl and a boy with an other investigator.
It was a nasty affair - kids pretty much chopped up (shouldn´t have peeked into the Sally Hook thread..).
But their dog was missing - and we got shown pictures of a beautiful pedigree dog.
Then it was obvious, it must have been the Nazis, camping somewhere in the woods - because they like such dogs, and sure had taken it with them - otherwise it would be howling around the corpses.
So - we made out into the woods - it was winter and we walked and looked and walked - and suddenly I got lucid.
I forgot about the planned hand-rubbing - just remembered to really put my full attention towards a detail somewhere - still a bit concerned about the dream - wanting overlook - I choose a branch fork a bit in the distance and quite high up.
Sure enough - this fork "sucked" me in and I was up there (no flying like I usually did when lucid = air-swimming - I was just "zooming" there).
The last lucid thought I had was - damn - now I don´t have a body - what now?
Next thing - I saw that camp and lost lucidity and was somehow on the ground again - to go on Nazi-hunting.

We came to that camp and it was not as expected - no Nazis but the dog alright and many skinny scared people, who had some sort of problem with a fire-magic they had tinkered with and which burned them out now.
Now it starts getting all jumbled up - the above I wrote down, but I don´t have anything coherent from there on any more.
It seemed all one story what followed - with one awakening in between - but all a horrible stress.
I was with a sort of tribe of people who had brought nasty stuff upon themselves and we were constantly fighting, trying to catch someone or something and chain it down or whatever.

Strangely - much later was another moment, we were at a lake - and again - I got lucid - but not a lot - and tried to zoom over to the other shore of the lake for some reason - well - I got off the ground and can´t remember anything else from there.

All else are only pictures or mini-scenes - see snippets later.
There were also some strange sexual rituals somewhere connected - but I was only observer.
Now I write - it is a lot I can write - but the other days, except Friday - I had whole storylines.

Awake: after that first fragment - forgot to look, all overall 11 am
Vividness: (scale of 1-15, 10 is waking life vividness) 7/8
Awareness: (1-10; or lucid) mostly maybe 5 but twice shortly lucid first time much clearer
Length: (how long it felt like! Because that matters) That fragment felt like an afternoon - all nightmare together - maybe a week?
Emotions: shocked, angry, only a little afraid, also a bit of morbid fascination, but most of all and by far most intense - stress - I had to prevent bad stuff from happining all the time it felt - I did manage - but it took my all
Dream Signs: There was a mini-scene interspersed, where I was in an audience for a performance - and suddenly an old schoolmate turned up with the maths material I had missed the class for - he gave me his notes to copy

I just had to laugh - in my workbook I had been announcing to have had noted down a first dream - and I did - but I managed to write with pencil over a page, where there was already text in pencil..

This might take some deciphering - or not be possible, because it was some hardly readable criggle as well.
I have to say - it was more so the night before last night - so I didn´t wite on DV at all then - the topics and interactions with my DC´s are getting more complex and more down to the core of my person, it seems.
Very personal things.

What I could do is keep the general outline and describe some stories within the stories, which I deem relatively "harmless" for public consumption.

I´ll do that with the second dream.

I also came across a thread of BrandonBoss, who provided the following mask - I will use it better adapted for tonight´s dreams - for now:

Date: 05.11.13
Total sleep: 9.5 h (3 am - 12:30 am)
Daytime Techniques: taking oddities but also random times, when something ever reminded me to ponder, how I and reality were influencing each other - how I was really there and then and thinking 10 min. back about the same.
Lucid Techniques: no - didn´t "want" to (??)
Recall Techniques: criggling notes in between dreams, posting snippet, workbook and in here
Fell Asleep: before the second dream started - maybe at 10 am
Dream Title: first one - lost - second one: Buying a Flat in Munich
Dream:
I was living in Berlin, but visiting Munich to go ahead and buy a flat together with a guy I did not know, but he was there to meet me later, and a friend from school had arranged the contact. No idea, why and how I thought, I had the money - I was still a student in my understanding and apparent age - there even was a short episode of me pondering this - there was a slight insecurity, if I really could do it - but everybody else seemed to think so..
A beautiful art nouveau house - not in good care though.
And opposite the "Hofbräuhaus" - hilarious - that´s the most famous beer-brewery + pub in Munich - neither it nor the area looked like it is in reality - but not far away either.
That made me think - great - if somebody visits me from out of Bavaria - they are going to find it for sure..
I arrived early - and found that a friend of mine from Latvia was squatting there by coincidence.
He´s been doing this in Berlin in the past, when this was a common phenomenon in Berlin after the wall fell, and lots buildings were derelict..

Later the school-friend and the guy arrived - and two more people - very much later an ex of mine as well.
I will leave out the personal interactions, but we had actual conversations and interactions, that did make - at least partly - quite a lot of sense and were almost pure positive - that´s rare, as far as I remember..

The interaction with the people was besides the scenery - why I liked the dream so much.

Hole in the story - but not my memory..

Yeah - not much more on offer - only - the flat was having 6 rooms - one was a normal room with a bathtub in the floor etc. - and it was still having stuff from the owners before (probably died - it was stuff you imagine old people have still from around the time of WWI - beautiful chests and jewellery and books..
In between I got a little lost in some gathering-together what I like - but I got off it..
Yeh - and more and more exits and surroundings were accessible - like a meadow and a shore to the river or a rocky path leading into further meadows and woods from a small window, a cafe, which could be reached over a gallery around the front of the house..

Awake: twice in between dream two with maybe max. 10 min. and twice non-lucid re-entry into dream 2 - and finally got up 12:30
Vividness: (scale of 1-15, 10 is waking life vividness) 11
Awareness: (1-10; or lucid) hm - non-lucid - otherwise I would say - really quite aware and stuff very logical, actually; not acquainted to think along this 1-10 of awareness there - maybe a 7?
Length: (how long it felt like! Because that matters) It felt like a day from a bit before noon to maybe 9 pm
Emotions: a bit of worrying and a bit of being unsure how to react to offers/statements I received - but mainly happy, looking forward, feeling sympathy and a bit more, wondering and liking what I saw
Dream Signs: Only planned in this case but - removals - but first time about actually buying something to live in and no problems - well - almost none with getting stuff sorted
Friends from school involved shortly
An ex-boyfriend arriving late at the scene
A city I used to live in
A flat and the surrounding country/city not following logics a lot

..

Hach - I´m quite happy and I learned something.
I had a longish dream recall - but didn´t put anything down when I woke up in between dreams then unfortunately.
And the whole dream is gone now.
But what I still have is being astonished, that "everything worked".
I´ve opened a thread about my hassles with getting something achieved in dreams - and a hint, I might produce this in accordance with some feeling stuck iwl - naja - it seems I got something achieved - but don´t ask me what..lol

But this time - I followed the advice to get up, drink something, go to the loo and get a bit more awake in between and repeated mantras going back to bed then.

So - then I had a dream about a fictional work-place, where I started out the first day - having a really nice colleague who showed me around and with whom I shared a room at work for when there were shifts or late work.
I´ll leave out the details of the kind of work here - buuut - at one instance I was standing outside in the fictional city this was in - and - remembered, that this could be a dream.

I tried to look at my hands - which started out difficult - couldn´t raise them at first.
Then they were weird - blurry - and I tried to see more detail - and did, but then - unfortunately - I lost lucidity.

I will write down stuff in the next dream-break - it´s a shame - it was something nice I lost.
But I take this as a first micro-success!