Caradon's Lucid Dreams

[Caradon]

Moment of Lucidity
Friday/November/6/2009
Uncounted
Bear dreamsign recognized
Reality check induced Lucidity

I decided to post this one because of the bear.

I'm at home siting in the sun-room that overlooks the back yard. From the woods that surrounds the yard, comes a dog. It's an average size dog, with white and black patches. Also with floppy ears. It is the wrong coloring for this kind of dog, but I don't really take note of that.

I'm just sitting there watching the dog, when it suddenly takes off, bolting back into the woods. It doesn't take me long to figure out why the dog ran off. Out of the woods, from the other side of the yard, comes a black bear the size of a grizzly. The bear lumbers lazily into the yard making snorting and huffing sounds.

I'm so surprised to see this bear in my yard! Almost instantly upon seeing the bear, I think, reality check! Even though I felt sure this wasn't a dream at all, I reach up and pinch my nose closed. I can breath! But not perfectly. It's one of those times that just feels like you're not pinching your nose right. But I recognize this feeling too, and I'm pretty sure that I'm dreaming. But I want to do another kind of RC, just to confirm it.
So I hold up my left hand and look at it. (Weird, because I have not even really thought about trying the look at hands RC. My mind really wants to make looking at my watch difficult.) I think I was half thinking that I was doing the watch RC. Because I stare at my hand for a moment, expecting I don't know what. For it to change like my watch does or something. But I don't notice anything weird about my hand. I'm not fooled by this, because I'm still pretty sure I'm dreaming. I look back out at the bear and wake up. Bogus.

[DreamQueen]

Originally Posted by Caradon

But I decide to turn and run anyway. Wanting to turn this into a fun chase, and play with these guys. I run out onto a wide many Lane freeway. As I do, my Lucidity level becomes higher, as I know I do not have to fear being run over by traffic. I can see semi-trucks coming down the road, I run towards them planning to try and grab onto the side of one of them, and pull myself to the top of it. Behind me, I can hear shot guns being fired. I want to get to the trucks before the men overcome me. Not so much because of wanting to get away, but because I think it will be really fun to be running across the top of moving semi-trucks, while being fired upon by pursuers.

[font=Times New Roman][size=3]But now I get that slow dream running that I almost never get anymore. (Especially in Lucids.) And I can't get to the trucks before they pass. But no worries. After the trucks pass, there is now a train coming! Perfect. This will be way cooler than running on trucks. Excited about the train, I no longer have the slow dream running. The train is moving fast. I run right up to it, grabbing a hold of a ladder that is on the side of one of the cars. I climb up, and get onto the top of the car. My pursuers are firing their shotguns as I start making my way along the train.

Brilliant! That's exactly what I would have done too. There's no point going off doing your own thing when you've got a great storyline running. What a cool dream. I'm feeling the inspiration coming back already...

Originally Posted by Caradon

"Woo hoo, this is a dream!" I gain such a great altitude, it's amazing. The trees are so far below. I think about how I was just talking to Oneironaut about this kind of experience in my journal. The moment feels so good. I let my bike fall away from me, and I begin a backwards end over end free fall back to the ground. I fall a ways, But I wake before making to the ground.

Fantastic! I can imagine exactly what you were feeling. You describe it well but you and I both know that all the words in the world can't portray the actual height of the exhilaration LDs like this generate to anyone who is not a LDer themselves. These instants, as fleeting as they are, make all the 'hard work' worthwhile.

Originally Posted by Caradon

"I wonder how big this dog is going to get when it is fully grown?" It's not grown!? I reply. " No." She says. "We have only had the dog a short time, and when we got it, it was tiny. And it's taken just a few days for it to grow to this size."

Ha ha ha lol If that's not a hint from your sub then I don't know what is!!! Ah, I used to get PO'd at my missed dream cues but now I just find them funny.

Originally Posted by Caradon

I pull it across the surface of the water towards me. But I don't remember it actually rising up out of the water, it's more like I pulled the thing right out of the air. It's a small statue of a dragon. ( It looks much like one that I have in real life, only the dream one is kind of a strange shade of green.)

Once it's in my hands, I show it to the woman. "Look what I pulled up from the bottom of the river for you." I say, as I hand it over to her. " That's really cool." She says.

Suddenly we are no longer walking along a river, but are in the middle of a series of freeway lanes. It's a very complex maze of roads that would only be found in dreams.

Cool. Love it how our brains get these random objects. Like, why the dragon? LOVE the "complex maze of roads that would only be found in dreams". This sort of thing makes me wish I could draw so I could paint some of my dream scenes.

Originally Posted by Caradon

"They may not know it, but they are in a dream and can not be harmed."

at "They may not know it"!

Originally Posted by Caradon

After this dream I could not fall back to sleep again. I kept directly entering dreams, and then becoming Lucid right away, and waking up. I had only slept four hours and was annoyed about this.

Grrr! This is what lead me to become exhausted by the whole LD thing and take a forced break for the last three weeks. I was getting lucid soooo easily many times a night but just waking up straight away.

Got to go to work now but will keep catching up tonight when I get home!

Ref: Up to #295

[DreamQueen]

Originally Posted by Caradon

I go flying above the trees and I'm Lucid. "Woo Hoo! This is a dream!" I'm aware that this is my second Lucid of the day, and was successful with my plan for a nap Lucid." I fly over the top of some trees, then land on the roof of one of the restaurants I was looking for. I run across the roof and leap off it into the air again. flying high, and then just gliding on the wind, circling around until I slowly come to the ground. I run across the ground and leap high into the air again, and glide on the wind some more. My flight is not too controlled, it's more like the momentum of my leap is carrying me. and I drift on the wind until I come to the ground again. And again I do the same thing. I just experience the joy, as over and over again, I leap and fly above the trees and buildings. This dream lasted quite a while, and I loved it.

Couldn't resist reading one more... Jeez this sort of dream makes me wish that when you die you dream lucidly for all eternity...

[DreamQueen]

Well I had a bit of spare time at work so have just caught up. Such an enjoyable read! I loved the #300 entry. What a long and interesting dream. Also loved how you recognized the boat scene as being so beautiful it was probably a dream. That happened to me a while back when I was driving down a freeway and I saw a UFO in a tree far off in the distance. It was twilight and the whole scene was so surreal and beautiful. I will never forget it as long as I live. Interestingly, it led to my longest lucid dream so far of 20 mins.

Well, I'm definitely inspired again to get back into it. Just hope it doesn't take too long to get the right mindset back.

[Caradon]

Originally Posted by DreamQueen

Brilliant! That's exactly what I would have done too. There's no point going off doing your own thing when you've got a great storyline running. What a cool dream. I'm feeling the inspiration coming back already...

That was a fun one. The one danger of following the story line like that, is that it's easy to get caught up in it and lose Lucidity.

Fantastic! I can imagine exactly what you were feeling. You describe it well but you and I both know that all the words in the world can't portray the actual height of the exhilaration LDs like this generate to anyone who is not a LDer themselves. These instants, as fleeting as they are, make all the 'hard work' worthwhile.

Yeah you're right. I had one of the best flying dreams ever last night. And there is really no way words can get across the experience. The work put in is so worth it.

Ha ha ha lol If that's not a hint from your sub then I don't know what is!!! Ah, I used to get PO'd at my missed dream cues but now I just find them funny.

LOl I know. The way my dreams are, practically everything in them is a dreamsign. If I got angry about missing them, I would be always pissed at myself.

Cool. Love it how our brains get these random objects. Like, why the dragon? LOVE the "complex maze of roads that would only be found in dreams". This sort of thing makes me wish I could draw so I could paint some of my dream scenes.

I think the dragon came because I was thinking of house decorations, and I have a statue similar to that one.

at "They may not know it"!

Yeah those DC's were probably getting all in a panic for nothing.

Grrr! This is what lead me to become exhausted by the whole LD thing and take a forced break for the last three weeks. I was getting lucid soooo easily many times a night but just waking up straight away.

Oh, that. It's not a big deal. I would get that all the time anyway. It's part of my insomnia thing. I'm kind of a natural WILDer I guess. I always enter dream scenes like that, either Lucid, or I get Lucid shortly after entering the scene, and wake up. It can happen several times before I actually fall asleep. I was pretty awake after that Lucid so it kept happening. Yesterday I kept entering the same work dream Lucid. It was funny because every time I would enter the scene I was there in my underwear. I didn't care because I was Lucid. But Like always, I couldn't get more than a few moments in before waking up again.

Originally Posted by DreamQueen

Couldn't resist reading one more... Jeez this sort of dream makes me wish that when you die you dream lucidly for all eternity...

That would be awesome, I agree. Hopefully if I keep pushing it, I will start getting more multiple Lucid nights, and longer ones too.
I used to get a lot more of those kind of nights in my younger days. I want to get back to that.

Originally Posted by DreamQueen

Well I had a bit of spare time at work so have just caught up. Such an enjoyable read! I loved the #300 entry. What a long and interesting dream.

I really loved that dream. It probably didn't seem all that exciting reading about it. But I was loving that place I was in, And the control I had with the commands was so much fun. I'm sure going to practice with commands more.

Also loved how you recognized the boat scene as being so beautiful it was probably a dream. That happened to me a while back when I was driving down a freeway and I saw a UFO in a tree far off in the distance. It was twilight and the whole scene was so surreal and beautiful. I will never forget it as long as I live. Interestingly, it led to my longest lucid dream so far of 20 mins.

That used to happen to me more often than it does now. It is a really cool way to get Lucid. I don't know how you can judge how long you have been in the dream. I have no sense of time there. Sometimes I am aware that the dream is going on longer than some, but that's about all I know about it.

Well, I'm definitely inspired again to get back into it. Just hope it doesn't
take too long to get the right mindset back.

Sounds like it didn't take long at all! I'm glad reading my journal helped you out.

[Caradon]

A Lucid Dream
Monday/November/9/2009
Lucid Dream # 53 of 2009
Best dreamsign recognized
No reality check needed

I'm walking along a country road. there is a farm to my right, and an open field that stretches out ahead. The field ends at a steep hill. There are cows in the field. Where the field meets the hill there is a wide trail going up the hill, and disappearing over the top. I know that this trail leads to a place I want to be. I have to cross the field with the cows to get there. I see a farmer and ask him if it's ok for me to cross his property to climb the trail. He is ok with it.

But now I'm a little nervous about the cows. I start crossing, and near a building I see a black shape I didn't see before. for a second I think it's a mean bull, and I almost run away. But I see that it's just a black cow. It turns and looks at me, but that's it. I walk towards the trail. There is a black and white cow that start running towards me. But I can tell it's friendly. It has the manner of a happy dog that want's to meet you. I somehow end up just passing up the cow, though. And I make my way to the steep trail.

I start climbing. I find myself climbing through some tall wheat like grass. It's taller than I am, and it becomes and effort to push through it. But the wheat/grass gives way to an all rock hill. It's a smooth kind of rock, and I continue climbing that. It seems to steeper and steeper as I go. And it's really a struggle but I eventually make it to the top.

Once I clear the top I'm moving at a fast pace, and there is a huge crevice open in the rock before me. It's too late for me to try and step back from the edge. If I don't try and jump for it, I will just fall in. I leap and I make it. But just after landing, there is another crevice just ahead. This one is even wider across, and I have no choice but to jump and hope I can make. I'm moving too fast to stop now. So I leap through the air again, and I barely make it. But I have to keep going, there are more crevices. I keep running and jumping and flying. I get going so fast, that I'm just skimming over the surface of the rocks, barely touching them as I make my next leap.

Sometime during this flying across the rocks I become aware I'm dreaming. My Lucidity is pretty much full. I know, because of my clear minded thinking about how I will ever be able to describe this incredible dream when I wake up. The place I am at, is just wow. It's a place of smooth rounded orange rock formations. Similar to something like in Utah. But for me, it's like a stretch of park in front of Pike's Peak, in Colorado, called "Garden Of The Gods." I'm very high up, doing my skimming, leaping, flying thing, across the top of one of the orange cliffs.

Now, I'm right on the edge of the cliff and there are formations of rock jutting out from the side. I'm now leaping the gaps between these, and getting longer and longer hang times over open air. looking down, I can see lots of people walking along, and I'm just in wonder at the sight of all the twisting, smooth rounded rock formations below. They are so complex, and entwine with each other. This is the kind of mountain flying Lucid I've always wanted to have.

Eventually I come to a spot where I dive head first down the side of a smooth rock face, an inch from the wall. Where the cliff meets the ground, it's a smooth curve, like it was made for this. And I just swoop down, then I'm flying across the surface of the ground at high speed. I come to another cliff, this time swooping right up the side of the wall, then leaping over the entire cliff. I can see a group of people below, they all have long staffs and are in some kind of battle. I briefly consider landing right in the middle of them, and doing some fighting with them, then leaping off again. I like the idea, but instead I end up swooping down, and along the ground again missing the group.

Again, I'm flying across the ground at high speed and come to another cliff wall. I swoop up the side of this cliff face again. This time, when I reach the top, I don't go over the top of the cliff, I keep going up up up into the sky. My speed carries me like a rocket, much higher than I intended to go. I lean backwards into an end over end free fall. My intention is to dive back down the side of the cliff again, like a ramp. But the ground is so far away now. As I begin my end over end tumble, all visual is gone, and I wake.


Reading over this I don't feel I've described it very well. But I think it was one of the most fun flying dreams I've had.

[Caradon]

A Lucid Dream
Thursday/November/12/2009
Lucid Dream # 54 of 2009
Random reality check induced Lucidity

Some bad recall early in the night caused me to lose most of this one. But I've decided to count it anyway, because I've had so much Lucidity not worth counting this month. And I'm just so annoyed that I lost this one.

I'm in a room of some kind. I don't remember much about it. There is quite a few people around. I don't know why, I think it was just completely random that I reach up and pinch my nose to try and breath through it. I can breath through my pinched nose. I'm both surprised and excited about this. This is a dream!? I try it again. Yes, I can definitely breath through my pinched nose. I look around at all the realistic looking people in wonder. They seem to be all busy, moving about doing stuff. I remember noticing one guy in particular as he walks by me. He had blond wavy hair. I briefly consider trying to tell these people that they are in a dream, But I decide against it.
From here I start walking, on my way out of this room. And I'm just watching the people as I go. After that, the memory is lost. But I know that there was more to it.

Pretty sure I had some Lucidity in an early nap dream. I just have a vague memory of trying to tell some people that it was a dream.

[Caradon]

A Lucid Dream
Friday/November/13/2009
Lucid Dream # 55 of 2009
Lucidity trigger unknown

I'm driving my car down a city street. There is a pick up truck in the lane next to me, on the left. The truck starts merging into my lane as if the guy is trying to run me off the road. I begin to move over to the right as he comes into my lane. But then I get pissed off and pull hard to the left, slamming into the side of his truck. I'm not sure if my car is going to be able to do much against the truck, but at this point I'm too pissed off to care.

Nothing really happens. It's like I'm pushing my car up against a wall. I can tell he is still trying to push me over too, but we are just rubbing sides as we continue down the road. Then the road comes to what looks like a suspension bridge. This is not any ordinary bridge, though. The bridge is crossing a body of water so large, that it looks like an ocean. And the bridge goes on for as far as my eyes can see.

I recognize this bridge, and I become afraid. I remember crossing this bridge before, and something really scary happened to me here. ( I don't really know what this scary thing was. I do have a lot of bridge dreams. Sometimes they are scary, but most of the time they are really fun.)

I come to a stop. So does the truck driver. We are no longer in our vehicles, but standing there. I tell the truck driver not to mess with me here, I don't want anything bad to happen. We will cross the bridge, but very carefully. Walking down the center.
I feel that if I'm careful enough, the scary thing that happened before, won't happen again.

We begin crossing. After a moment of walking, I'm smoothly aware that I'm dreaming. maybe I recognize this as a dream place, I don't know. But as Lucidity comes fully upon me, the bridge changes. It becomes a corridor with all windows along the sides. Like the skyway's connecting the the buildings downtown. There are a lot more people in the corridor with us now, and it is no longer as long as the bridge was. I can see the end of the corridor, there is a exit door at the end.

Out loud, I begin to yell," I'm Lucid! " I'm Lucid!" "What?" I hear somebody ask, as I go by them. "I'm Lucid!" I shout again. Then I look back and say, "I'm just saying that to make sure I don't Lose Lucidity." Then I continue down the corridor, shouting I'm Lucid as I go.

I come to the exit door, and go through it. I am now in some area that looks all red. It's as if there were some stained red windows, making everything glow red. I see a man and a woman talking near by. They are dressed in business attire. When I see them, I remember one of my tasks. "How can I win the powerball?" I ask. Both the man and woman look over at me, then they begin laughing and walking away.

They go through the door I just came through. I open the door and shout at their backs. "Hey! come back here! That was my task!" But what ever, I don't care. I close the door. I'll just ask someone else. Thinking of tasks, I remember my watch.
I look at my watch. The number "5" is displayed, nothing else. Yup, That's a dream watch alright. Then I notice how weird my watch looks. It doesn't really look like my watch. And on the upper left corner there is this weird looking yellow caution sign. It looks so weird that I stare at it for several moments thinking about how weird it is.

Now, to spin. Again, I do a lazy worthless twirl. I now notice that I'm wearing some thick cumbersome coat that has made it difficult for me to spin very well. Cool, I think, I've just remembered and completed three tasks. I begin to go somewhere else, and wake up.

[Caradon]

A Lucid Dream
Sunday/November/15/2009
Lucid Dream # 56 of 2009
Random reality check induced Lucidity

I don't remember much of what was going on before I did the reality check. I was at home. My family was here. We were having what seemed like some holiday dinner thing. I think, maybe it was supposed to be Christmas. For no reason, that I can remember anyway, I look at my watch. The numbers are all broken up, And right away I know I'm dreaming. I try showing my watch to my brother, but he is not really paying attention. Then I start getting excited because I know I have another countable Lucid going on. Everything I put into it last night payed off. I see that my dog wants to go outside. I know that she does not have her invisible fencing collar on. but I think that since this is just a dream it would be ok to just let her go run lose.

I decide to do a nose pinch reality check right here, just to make extra sure. yes, I can breath easily through my nose. I don't let the dog out right away. I'm a little confused on what happens for the next few moments. I can't remember some of it very well. I was rushing around the house trying to hurry up and do something before leaving. While I'm rushing around, I remember that the next time I was lucid in my house I wanted to get out of it right away, and find something else to do. But I'm not quite ready to leave. I felt compelled to finish doing what ever it was I was trying to do. I just can't remember what that was.

The next thing I remember clearly is being in the kitchen. My Mom is there, and other family members. And also people I have no idea who they are. I tell my Mom that this is a dream. I tell her that she should pinch her nose and see if she can breath through it. Surprisingly, she actually does it. She pinches her nose and inhales deeply. I see her eyes go wide. Then loudly, so everyone in the room can hear, she says. " Caradon has done an amazing thing tonight. He has rescued us from our unknowing situation." I then see that my step Dad is pulling a pan of baked chicken out of the oven. It looked really good actually. "So", I ask. " Are you guys going to do something fun then? Or just keep making dinner?" I don't remember getting any response to that, I leave and end up going back to letting the dog out.

I open the back door the dog goes running outside, and I step outside too. It's night, and there is snow on the ground. I notice I'm bare footed. my feet are freezing in the snow, And I begin to lose Lucidity here, as I think about going into the house and getting my shoes on. I then notice that my dog has run out of the yard and down the street. I panic, and forget all about my cold feet as I start chasing after her. There is a little bit more of me trying to get my dog back. towards the end I regain some Lucidity, as I realize with relief that I will wake up pretty soon, and my dog will still be right here with me.

[Caradon]

A Lucid Dream
Monday/November/16/2009
Lucid Dream # 57 of 2009
Best dreamsign recognized
No reality check needed

There was a lot more to this dream, but I'm going to start it here.

I'm in a car with a group of people, and we are driving down a city street again. I'm a passenger this time, and sitting in the back seat, on the right side. There are a lot of cars around us on the road. Some of them are driving really crazy. There is a bunch of people racing around us. They are swerving in and out of traffic. Even going up on the side walks sometimes, causing all sorts of chaos.

My perspective shifts, and I'm somehow flying up and over the buildings on the right side of the road. At the same time this happens, I see that a girl from one of the racing cars has fallen out of her car or something. She is on foot and running fast out of control, from the momentum of her speeding car. I watch as she runs face first into the side of a building, then bounces off and falls to the ground unmoving.
Ouch, that had to hurt, I think to myself.

Then I realize that I'm flying over the tops of buildings, and I think, hey, this is my best dreamsign, Why did I not realize I'm dreaming? I become very annoyed with myself for not becoming Lucid. Then I think, wait a second, it's not too late, I'm still dreaming. This is a dream! I'm Lucid! I look out into the street and see a bunch of people running around. Then I come down on a roof near the building where the girl fell. I jump from the roof to the ground. To the girl, I say. " You're ok, this is a dream. You cannot be hurt in a dream. You just think that you're hurt, but you're really not."
The girl seems to understand this, and starts getting up.

I leave her there and go out into the street. The car I was in is now long gone down the road. For some reason I feel the need to get back to them, I feel as if I was left behind. No problem, I have the ability to run faster than any car ever could. I start running, and wake up. Darn.

[Caradon]

This is a really weird Lucid I had last night That I've decided not to officially count. But it's interesting and memorable enough that I want to post it here.

Wednesday/November/18/2009

I start out watching this one like a movie. I'm in some mansion, and I'm viewing a scene in a dark room. There are two people. One person is performing some kind of ritual in the dark. There are candles burning. There is another person kneeling on the floor on the far side of the room. The person performing the ritual does not want the kneeling person to see what he is doing. There is a cat involved.

Now, I become the person that was kneeling on the floor. The person that was performing the ritual has somehow vanished, And I'm now in the place where that person was doing his thing. I can see the cat. The cat has been killed. The cats legs have been cut off in the middle and are laying next to the body. But now, the cat gets up and runs across the room with it's legs miraculously intact.

I realize that the cat had been killed, and then brought back to life as some kind of demon cat. The cat begins to grow. It is a black cat, and it grows to the size of a panther before my eyes. The demon panther turns it's attention to me, and it's about to attack. I have a knife in one had, and prepare to try and defend myself.

Scene shifts here. It's a false awakening. But it's not my false awakening. I'm watching like a movie again, as a young girl sleeping on the front steps of a building, wakes up and looks around. Her surroundings are very eerie. It's like the town from "Silent Hill."

As the girl looks around, I hear a female voice. The voice says, "This is a dream." Then the voice repeats it several times. I believe this to be the girls voice, but her lips are not moving. It's as if I'm hearing her thoughts as she is looking around. The girl has somehow woken up into a dream. At this point, I know I'm watching the girl in a dream, but I'm not sure if I could call myself Lucid. I'm still watching like a movie, and it's like I'm watching her dream.

The girl climbs the steps of the building, opens the door and enters. As she enters the building, I become her. But I'm not her, I'm myself taking her place. Now it's my dream, and I know it's a dream. My Lucidity is rather low, and I'm kind of nervous as a dark skinned man, and a small boy enter the room I'm in. But then I relax. I reassure myself that this is a dream and there is nothing to fear. And I remind myself of the abilities that I have to defend myself if I feel like I need to.

The dark skinned man, and boy. Are dressed in what I can only describe as some kind of ancient Egyptian outfits. And they are wearing these huge elaborate head pieces. I have the feeling that beyond this room is another realm. The man approaches me and says, "Welcome to our world. Since we are from here, we are able to recognize our situation much more often than you do." I wake up a second after he says this.

If this one would have lasted just a little longer I probably would have counted it. But because of the dreams weird nature, And my questionable level of Lucidity during the short Lucid part, I've decided not to.