Thread: 100 Stories of Lucid Success (Your help needed)

Ummm, okay. I'll post a snippet out of something I wrote for my comp class, last semester. In DJ format, because I can.

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Take from the Air (WILD)

★★★★☆

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I looked out my fourth floor window, putting both hands against the cool sleek glass. It’s time to fly, I thought to myself, anticipation rising from the pit of my stomach. I put my face against the hard glass. Concentrating, I began to move through the pane of glass. The glass stretched as I pressed against it, smoothly conforming to my hands, face, and body like a sheet of slick putty. Having no time to waste, I savored the sensation for only a moment before propelling myself forward and up; the seemingly opaque sky rushed to greet me. The experience of flight and the overwhelming feeling of happiness that accompanies it overtook me. This never gets old, I thought, as the warm air flowed across my smile.

As I flew over Erickson Field, I could distinctly make out each perfectly shaded blade of green grass on the hilled valley beneath me. Likewise, from my lofty viewpoint, I could make out the rough sandy textures of the many red bricks that lined the Hall. The detail of the world was super-realistic. Everything, from the pleasant smell of the field to the whooshing wind that played gently across my ears, appeared just as real as, if not more real than, waking life. I was dreaming. I had known I was dreaming from the start. In fact, that was the whole point.

This is made up, but i would love to have an LD like this.


I find myself in my bed and i get up, its dark outside. I notice the moon is extremely close and i could see the surface of it as clear as day. My girlfriend is laying in my bed next to me, she wakes up and says "baby come back to bed" and i tell her "i want to show you something." I then close my eyes, spin around and imagine a giant cliff in space that we will sit upon. "Wow! this is amazing!! how did you do that?!" she says. I reply "I said i would show you the stars one day, here they are"

As we sit there, we can see comets fly by, so close we can almost reach out and grab them. I said "watch this" i close my eyes and imagine a pink nebula shaped like a heart, it appears infront of us. "Oh my god! that is so sweet!" she says. The stars are bright and the planets are as close as our reach. Stars flutter with color..I imagine a blanket for us to lay on. We lay there the rest of the time watching stars pass and comets fall. I say "Nothing beats the beauty of nature" and it ends.

Real dream, my favorite. It's long. All my entries are.

Spoiler for Long post is long:

A noise in real life aroused me from my non-lucid dream. I let it slip past, and proceeded to DEILD. I heard a humming sound that increased in frequency, like an old VCR. I could see through my sleep mask, and saw my room in an odd, inverted, shaking outline. I thought this coincidental, because someone posted a similar picture in a thread talking about seeing with closed eyes. I saw my fish tank, and let that solidify before hopping out of bed. I walked around a crystal clear house and looked at myself in a mirror. I looked pretty real, and reality checked. I'M NOT DREAMING?! Preposterous! I was dreaming, but one of my nostrils was plugged. My plan was to frolic in the forest with Elkoon, but as I made my way into the sun room I saw my mom. She was sick, and didn't want me going into the woods, despite the fact that I was dreaming. Not wanting the dream to turn into a stupid power struggle or chase, I went out the front door. But what would I do now?

It was deepest night. Rain was trickling down in prickling droplets, and the orange glow of the streetlights saturated the scene. Combined with the complex shadows, the street looked more like an old detective movie (often using monochrome themes). I decided to summon Mercutio instead of Elkoon, as he is more likely to appear in a suburban setting. I tried looking behind things, but couldn't find him. I traveled around until I reached the graveyard (which isn't that far from my house, actually). Could I summon him there? No, that wouldn't make sense. "I could summon him from a shrine, but not a grave," I thought to myself. The rain was pouring harder, and I was standing in a couple inches of it. I wasn't moving, and instead the scene moved backwards, propelling me forwards into darkness. I didn't want to wake up yet! I wanted to have fun!

I imagined myself riding Mercutio, and suddenly I saw it! In third person, I could see my soaked hair clinging to my body as I clung to the dragon. Easily, I righted myself back in the first person, and the rest of the scene flooded back. We didn't talk at all, but he knew what I wanted: to get out of here. I just wanted to fly, and would go wherever he would take me. The sky was rapidly brightening the farther we flew, but we were only a few feet above the ground (in a previous lucid, he revealed that he likes traveling close to ground because it is exciting). The clouds turned from black to a bright white overcast, and the rain droplets slowed from the endless barrage and into slow, individually visible liquid diamonds. The ground was a clean mirror of water, creating the effect of a topsy-turvy, horizontally symmetrical neighborhood. Mercutio then burst through the overcast sky (the clouds were way closer than I thought) at immense speed. What I saw and heard next puts most other lucid dreams I've had to shame.

We are very high up. Usually, when I'm way above ground, giant versions of stuff pop up around me (in effect, the ground scene respawns itself). But this time, it stayed high up. We were flying slowly now. Slow enough for me to absorb where I was. As I began viewing, I started humming a tune. I stopped humming, and thought the tune instead. The tune returned without effort, fully orchestrated, matching the epic feel of the scene before me.

The sky was a deep sky blue, interrupted by lavender-and-teal-tinted wisps of cloud (but only 40% cloud cover). We were flying below the behemoth-sized ones, and among their children. The sun easily shone through the thin clouds and onto the utopia below. It was a young valley of waterfalls, cragged and covered in a thick green jungle carpet. Even from afar I could see that it was not just a texture covering the cliffs, but an actual tropical forest of trees that would bend and sway with the water and wind! It's most hard to describe the geology of this place. There were at least a dozen mighty cliffs and steep hills scattered on this island. Over each summit was a foggy cloud, and under each cloud was a stream of rain, creating gorgeous distorted rainbows. The lines of color were thin and living and pale yet glowing (so hard to describe!), creating magnificent patterns. The rain is what formed the waterways of this place, which were equally colorful and fluorescent (as in, the radiant type).

I spent only five minutes in this state of euphoria before I awakened due to the sting of a newly-made bug bite.

Originally Posted by Quiver

Have you ever read about a disease or heard symptoms and started feeling like you had them yourself? Imagine that kind of power working for good instead of evil.

A "hypocondriac" is the word you are looking for.

Hahah, sorry about that. Excelent idea though. But why stop at 100?

That was an inspiring dream, Abra.

Let's see what I can drag up. My most wonderful lucid dream was...
*Cracks knuckles*


I am in a twilit cityscape. I realize I am dreaming...


My body goes limp and is lifted high into the air, and am overcome by a feeling of utmost joy, 101 times greater than any I have felt before. I hang there, suspended in the nirvana, the greatest ectasy flowing through my body, and a grin lights my face as I stare into the magnificent sunset. I was gently lowered down onto the dusty asphalt.

The scene had increased exponentially in vibrance and vividity, and I jumped for joy in celebration of my first lucid dream. I hopped into a convenience store yelling, "I did it, I did it!" I suddenly lost lucidity from the excitement (No cause for alarm) and the dream resumed it's normal activity.

As I came to an intersection, I suddenly regained lucidity. This time, I decided to have a little fun. So I whirled about and spotted a resturant. I tried slamming and breaking a glass door, but failed. I then made up my mind to walk through the glass. I moved up and pressed my forehead to the smooth glass, and closed my eyes. My head began to slide through, and the rest of my dream body followed suit. I spun around and walked out into the crisp night air.
I began looking for a challenge suitable for my newfound transparency skill. My eyes rested on another resturant, named "The Crab Cooker" One of its corners consisted of a fishtank, with about foot-thick glass panels on the inside and out. So I walked over and repeated the maneuver. Walking through this glass was like walking through jello. I immediately woke up upon walking through the other side.

Not too shabby, I hope?

05.07.2009

Trouble at the Factory (DILD)



They all gathered at the front gate, armed, as I continued walking towards them, every step giving me greater realisation of lucidity and the fact that I was dreaming. They aimed their guns and opened fire - I didn't dodge it. I didn't have to. I just kept walking as the bullets hit me and didn't feel anything. As I got near one I would finish him in one hit and continue walking towards the rest.

I waved my hand towards the final three, exploding them into nothingness.

I flew out the gate, and woke up.