I had this series of dreams after waking up early and going back to sleep, which is typical for my previous lucid dreams. I was familiar with some of the features of these dreams: a realistic environment not usually drawn from real life, realistic dream characters who are part of the scenery instead of the plot (and sometimes ignore me), and dream chaining. I can't quite remember the beginning. Before I went to sleep, I recall deliberately daydreaming to occupy my mind, so it might have developed out of that. At some point I found that I could have WILDs really easily. All I needed to do was let my mind wander, I'd soon see some realistic imagery (or once, a geometric pattern), and at some point, rather than getting caught up in the dream's plot, I'd just go 'yep, this is a dream'. I was able to improve the quality by shouting 'increase lucidity' and so on. The dream chain included: - One where I found myself in a large building with a vague 'institutional' feel, having corridors and a reception desk. Most of the dream characters seemed to ignore me, even after I did the "You're all in my dream, what do you think of that!?" thing, which I sort of felt like I wasn't supposed to do. I found an old lady who did respond to me and asked her something, but I don't remember what she said. - A non-lucid false awakening in which a kid climbed through my window, much to my anger, causing me to go and get a sort of spatula in case I needed to repel the intruder. - One where I found myself in a garden or courtyard surrounded by three-storey Edwardian architecture. There was a small, cubical brick building similar to a power substation. I decided to test my dream control abilities. Simply by telling the dream that my hands were sticky like a gecko's, I climbed up the brick wall and stood at the top. I then marvelled at the feat and pondered what to attempt next; I didn't want to try anything that might disrupt the dream. I considered trying to turn into an animal but rejected it, for example. - Misc.: I also recall some SP-like sensations of shouting but having no voice coming out, being unable to feel myself breathing, or having a dry throat but being unable to clear it. I recall trying to shoot 'energy balls' out of my hands by sheer willpower and failing. I recall looking at my bedroom despite knowing my eyes were closed and sagely recognising it as a false awakening. I recall the realistic sensation of having an orgasm after doing nothing more than passingly thinking about it. I recall the sensation of partially separating from my body by sitting up in bed but failing to fully do so. I don't know if the chain started with a real lucid dream, and I definitely caught onto one or two bits of false awakening imagery while still asleep, but as soon as I woke up in real life I realised that my supposed 'really easy WILDs' were actually all from a false awakening. I'd been dreaming about lucid dreaming the whole time.
Since I didn't really start sleeping until 4 in the morning, this is what I'm doing. Okay. Weird. I had... at least five dreams about dreaming. Do they count as false awakenings? I'm not sure, because I didn't really do things that were morning routine-y. Some of them were... no, most of them were about celebrities. It feels like I didn't have to remember a lot, but I know that there was some name that I messed up in one of them that supposedly triggered my 'lucidity'. It was like, Crom Truise or something. It started with a... G, I think. It wasn't very messed up, just the first and last letters were flip-flopped like that. God, I feel like it just happened and I can't remember it. Weird. I woke up a few times and tried thinking about dreaming when I went back to sleep, only to have really the same impact. It was almost like they were continuations. I think I -thought- I was lucid, but I wasn't. The last dream that I remember having, I was somehow dating this guy who I really liked. I believe he was Sohn Dongwoon from a Korean boy band that I like. It was like I was back at Japanese camp (Which I went to this past summer.) Before that I had a dream about Nishikido Ryo, another member of a boy band I like. My parents were also in that dream. I do believe that I experienced sleep paralysis for the first time while conscious, but it was actually kind of uncomfortable, so in the end I switched positions and lost that feeling. I will try again tonight. I'm also starting a hand written dream journal, but I've got to go now. Ciao.
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