LiveInTheDream's DJ v2.5

After several weeks of trying, my MILD finally took effect last night!

1) I was among a large crowd of people in some building with rather unusual architecture; very complicated pathways and such. Suddenly, a huge creature somewhat like a dragon swooped down from the sky and began attacking. And this thing was huge--it dwarfed the building which held around 300 people. At first I was just plain running away from it, but suddenly something clicked in my brain. "You know this is a dream." I thought, as if my waking self was speaking to my dream self. "This is a dream?" I looked around me at all the chaos. "Ohhhh, right! This is a dream! This. Is. A. Dream. THIS IS A DREAM!" I repeated that phrase until it sank in fully and I was happily able to say "I am lucid!" Then, rather than run away, I marched around a corner and up a few steps so I was standing on the roof of the building, practically staring the behemoth in the face. It roared like thunder at me and looked like it was going to charge or something, but I flew up into the air, used telekinesis to grab hold of the creature before it could do any damage, then I crumpled it up, breaking every bone I could in the process, before completely obliterating it into nothingness. Unfortunately though, with the really strange part of the dream gone, as soon as I landed I lost lucidity due to my surroundings being pretty normal again.

Dream Signs: being somewhere without remembering getting there, dream-like environments, highly unusual events

Glad to see I still have a grip on dream control...to be honest I was somewhat afraid I would have lost that after so long with not lucid dreaming, but it's still there!

Well, I've been having some trouble sleeping lately (not stress or anything, I just haven't been tired, so it's weird ), so I never would have expected to lucid dream...especially through a WILD. But after not initially getting to sleep until 12:30 in the morning and then waking back up two or three times, staying awake for half an hour, and then falling back asleep, I found myself wide awake at 6am or so, unable to go back asleep at all. At least, not for a very long time. I just lay in bed and tried to not think about anything, and after an hour and a half or thereabouts, I realized I couldn't raise my right arm to scratch an itch. At first I just tried harder to lift it, but suddenly it clicked in my head: "Oh! I'm in sleep paralysis!"

I started to hear a buzz, and I felt like I could separate from my real body and get into my dream body. I was quickly able to succeed at doing so, and then as I felt real life fall away, everything around me went white.

For a short while I lost all sensation of any body, but when the buzzing grew to an extreme, raging frequency, I found myself physically present in that whiteness, ready to transition to a dream, but unable to do so. I ran all about in the whiteness, knowing I had only seconds before I'd lose the dream, but still I was stuck.

"How do I get in the dream!?" I finally shouted in desperation.

"Just...jump down." A voice calmly replied.

I acted like I was jumping off a ledge, and sure enough, I descended from the whiteness and landed right on the floor in my room.

First thing I did, of course, was pinch my nose and try to breath in, so there would be no mistake about my state. I could only breathe out of one side of my nose with it pinched, but of course that was still enough. I then began to examine my environment. The realism astounded me...if I looked out the window, I could see for miles and miles, even though none of it was scenery from real life. I noticed a fishtank (which I got rid of years ago IRL) was in my room, and I could see my reflection in it with perfect accuracy.

Since I had something to work with, and needed something to do, shape shifting came to mind. I succeeded in shape shifting, but my control over it was very bad, so I ended up just distorting my face to a degree that felt very strange. Giving up on that, I decided I'd just go outside and fly to wherever the wind might take me.

Once I was outside, takeoff was easy, but I thrust my hands out in front of me, which I don't usually do for flying, and it threw off my balance and sent me to the ground. I tried flying a bit more, but couldn't get off the ground for more than a second, now.

Then I had another idea: why not just run somewhere really fast? But...now that I thought about it, I had actually been moving really slowly the whole dream. Running at all was a challenge. Running fast...well...that woke me up.

Not the best LD ever, but it's good to know that I'm coming back.

Finally, another lucid dream!! Didn't come by the audio experiment, though...I'm not going to try that one again until I have finished creating my own MP3 for the job.

This time, I just decided to give my RC-MILD method another shot, and it passed with flying colors. Click on the underlined text to see the thread about it, if you aren't familiar with how it works. I went through the process right before going to sleep, also telling myself: "Next time I see anything or do anything, it's a dream, because I'm going to sleep now."

Pretty much next thing I know, I'm sitting up on my bed. But I wasn't fooled by the false awakening; all I knew was that I was supposed to reality check when I saw or did anything. "Ok," I said, "I am seeing things, and I just sat up, which is doing something...that means this must be a dream!" I plugged my nose and tried to breath in, but unfortunately I did it way too hard. The whole dream faded out, and came back a few seconds later...only now, although I was still on my bed, I was in the basement rather than my bedroom!

I reality checked more gently, and was satisfied this time with the results, although it was already obvious I was in a dream. I didn't rush around after that; since I'd already nearly lost the dream once, I started out just by feeling stuff and getting really immersed into the dream world. Once off the bed, I walked over to a bunch of pictures on the wall and looked at my reflection in them. I was amazed by the realism of the reflections; it would distort--relative to my position--to the shape of the objects reflecting me.

This made me think back to a dream where I told myself I could not have been dreaming because no dream had reflections that realistic. Being lucid, this only made me smile. I pointed at the pictures and told them: "you're not going to fool me this time!"

But now it was time for adventure. Even though my dream goals had only been thought up minutes before bed, I remembered them very clearly. Basically I just wanted to live through a couple scenes from 'Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life'. I attempted to shape shift into Lara Croft, but that utterly failed, according to my reflection in the pictures. At first I just looked like a totally messed up version of me. I managed to correct that much so that I looked normal again, but I was still intrigued by what happened.

See, when I had shapeshifted, I felt successful. In my mind, I looked exactly like I wanted to. The reflection was what told me differently. So I guess that just goes to show our mental projection of ourselves and what we actually are in the dream world are not one and the same...fascinating.

I knew I didn't have a lot of time, though. The dream was just not that stable, and I knew it. I had it as clear as could be and I was as lucid as could be, but the sleep cycle was drawing to an end. So I ran up the stairs and headed for the front door. Someone stopped me and asked me to set the table for supper, but of course that was not in my plan. "Screw this, I'm not going to spend my lucid dream setting tables!" I threw a glass on the floor to create a distraction, ran out the front door, and leaped into the air. I don't know that I've had as realistic of a flying experience as this before...I really could see forever as I got higher and higher!

For a while I just enjoyed the realistic flight, but then I teleported to the skies of Tokyo so I could find the first place from Tomb Raider that I wanted to re-enact. Unfortunately, I began losing the dream here, so no more did I land than I woke up for real.

Not the longest or most exciting dream ever, but it's been well over a month since I last had a lucid dream that was that clear and that lucid. And since RC-MILD worked so well...heck, I may just stick with this instead of the audio thing!