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    spellbee2

    Take a fun trip inside the enigma that is my mind. This is where I usually post my most vivid/lucid/favorite dreams.

    Recurring Characters:

    Me - What's a story without a main character? Let's just say if I had to describe myself in one word, it would be "derp". My dream form is about the same, with maybe a little less body fat and a little more self-confidence/courage. In my normal, non-lucid dreams, I tend to be fairly timid, much like my normal personality. In my lucids, however, I have a lot more courage, often speaking out and even fighting against those that hurt others or me. My dream control still sometimes needs work, but practice makes perfect.

    Vi - (Image) My brown-haired, green-eyed dream guide. She first appeared in a lucid a long time ago, but she's been appearing more often as of late. She was originally very soft-spoken, and often somewhat judgmental when I confronted her. However, as I've continued to interact with and get to know her, she's become more open and talkative (sometimes a little too much). She's still fairly new to me, so I there's still a lot I don't know about her, but I'm looking forward to seeing her more often and finding out as much as I can.

    1. 4/19/17 - Spring Comp Night 5

      by , 04-19-2017 at 04:38 PM
      I’m on a Youtube gaming show where we play terrible video games. We’re trying to decide what game to play next, when we stumble across a Barbie-branded ripoff of Rocket League, that’s apparently so badly made that it will break your Wii if you try to save your game.

      I’m apparently trying to make a chess board out of M&M’s to send to a friend in prison. My brother (a policeman IRL) comes in excited about getting a jury summons, because he knows the case that it’s for. He drives me and him down to the DMV so he can turn in some jury-related paperwork. It doesn’t take long, because apparently this DMV has a drive-thru.

      I’m back at college. The main building for all the classes (which is notoriously known for having an incredibly confusing room numbering system) has been reorganized, so all the rooms are sorted into letter and color codes to find them easier. I’m walking with my mom, trying to help her find some classroom she’s looking for.

      I’m riding in a car with a woman from my church, and just about everyone on the road seems to be swerving or generally driving recklessly. I look out the window and see the same woman in another car, with all of her family riding with her. “Strange, that seems like something that would happen in a dream.” We then start talking about lucid dreaming, and I say something along the lines of, “Yeah, if this was a dream, I’d know because this car would be driving in the grass or up a wall or something.”
      That’s when I finally realize that we are driving in the grass, and become fully lucid.

      The car somehow just kind of dissolves, and I find myself walking in these ancient ruins that I seem to think are Roman architecture. I’m kind of being drawn into this dark temple-like building, but I stop myself, and realize that I’ve complained for a while about how not enough of my lucids are outdoors. So instead, I turn around and decide to explore my surroundings. I rub my hands to stabilize a bit, but already the dream is incredibly clear - possibly one of my clearest lucids in a long time. As I pass between some overturned pillars that had begun to sprout grass out of their cracks, I come across a bright golden statue of a knight on a pedestal in the middle of a clearing. As I approach it, it comes to life and extends its sword to hand it to me. I take it and try swinging it around - it feels very solid, but it’s about 6 feet long and awkward to control. “Got anything smaller?” I ask. Without saying a word, he takes his sword back and hands me smaller sword that’s much more manageable. He also hands me a shield, but it feels more like a pie tin in the shape of a shield - it doesn’t even have a handle to grab it, so I just kind of awkwardly hold it by the side.

      This whole interaction with him seems incredibly symbolic, so I ask, “What exactly do you represent?” Just then, he gets into a fighting stance and starts attacking me. He slashes me once across the legs, which knocks me down at first. But after the initial sting goes away, I feel no pain and get back up again. We fight for a bit, until I finally get a swing it at his legs. He falls hard to the ground, writhing in pain. His helmet falls off from the impact, and I see him crying like a little kid as he starts throwing a tantrum (which I find somewhat humorous).
      I kind of lose lucidity at this point, and the dream turns into more of a movie. The character I was playing is apparently a teenager who was diagnosed with cancer, and because of his treatment was incredibly bedridden and unable to walk. Because of this, he uses lucid dreams to be able to walk again and experience that freedom. The knight is touched by his story, and mentions that he will grant him a fresh start. The main character then wakes up in his bed and suddenly realizes that he is 5 years younger - apparently back to the time the cancer began to develop, giving him a chance to get it treated in the early stages.

      4 NLDs - 4
      WBTB - 2
      DILD - 10
      Stabilize - 1
      Interact w/ DC - 2

      Night Total - 19 pts
      Tags: competition
      Categories
      lucid , memorable
    2. 4/15/17 - Spring Comp Night 1

      by , 04-15-2017 at 06:22 PM
      Apologies in advance for my writing - according to my offline DJ, my last lucid was on February 22nd, so it’s been way too long since I’ve written anything up fully like this. But WOW, leave it to competitions to finally break me out of my lucidless rut.

      I’m apparently good friends with Austin Hargrave (“PeanutButterGamer” on Youtube), and I’m meeting him and another friend at a local pizza place. I contemplate asking him for tips on starting my own gaming channel on Youtube, but suddenly remember I need to call ahead and reserve a table.

      A house in my neighborhood that I’ve apparently been looking into buying just got sold to an elderly couple, and I drive by in my car to see them ceremoniously signing the final papers out on the front porch.


      I do a WBTB, and then fall back asleep with no dreams. I wake up about an hour later and manage to DEILD into a dream. I’m standing outside of a McDonald’s in the drive-thru lane. I RC by looking at my right hand - I’m first intrigued by how realistic it looks, but as I move it my fingers start turning invisible. My left arm is raised above my head for some reason, but I’m unable to move it. I assume it’s up there because that’s where my real arm is, so I attempt to “separate” my dream arm from it. This sort of works - I now have a second left arm that I can control, but my original left arm is still raised. Somehow the dream starts to destabilize, but I manage to recover it enough and find myself in my bedroom at my old house. I stop to think of my 3-step tasks, and since the first one is to fly, I jump out my bedroom window and start flying. Underneath me, the entire landscape is a frozen tundra (an odd sight for a Florida home). I start to hear background music and quickly recognize it as the City Escape theme from Sonic Adventure 2. I continue to look around, but because all the snow around me is white, the entire dream turns white and I wake up.

      Two of my friends arrive at my house to hang out. One of them, who just got back from his architecture internship in California, has a projector screen under his arm and asks if I have a projector he can use to show us his portfolio.

      I’m at a cabin in the mountains, working undercover as a hiker trying to infiltrate some drug trafficking operation going on nearby. I manage to sneak into this warehouse nearby owned by one of the local gangs, but while I’m gathering evidence, a rival gang starts attacking the compound. I try to hide to make sure I’m not spotted by either gang, and somehow manage to sneak back out. I run to a laptop that I’ve stashed nearby to report back to headquarters, but before I can do that, one of the gang leaders comes from around the corner and points a gun at my head. I immediately become lucid and manage to strip the gun from his hands. The rest of the gang appears behind him and starts shooting at me, but because I’m lucid the bullets don’t even penetrate the skin. I start firing back to take them down, but it turns out they’re invincible as well for some reason. One of my team members throws some kind of grenade that magically turns them all into balloons, and then fires at them with a special dart gun to pop and kill them all. Soon after, a helicopter arrives to pick us up, and as we head back to headquarters, we fly over my college campus, which has a ton of new state-of-the-art buildings.

      For some reason, we have Easter church service in my bedroom, and I sing a duet with some other girl in the youth group, which manages to sound halfway decent despite having microphone difficulties.

      I’m at my old high school, where there’s an intramural softball game between my high school graduating class and a ton of DV members. I’m watching from the sidelines since I technically fall into both groups, but I’m secretly rooting for DV, and start cheering wildly when we score 2 runs on a sacrifice fly.


      Night 1
      5 NLDs - 5
      WBTB - 2
      First WILD (DEILD) - 10
      RC/Stabilization - 1
      Fly + 1st Step - 10
      First DILD - 10
      Gain Invulnerability - 5

      Night 1 Total - 43 pts
      Tags: competition
      Categories
      lucid
    3. 1/24/17 - Splendid Comp Night 11

      by , 01-24-2017 at 05:01 PM
      A rough night sleep-wise. I don’t remember anything from before my WBTB, and then it took me forever to fall back asleep. I finally do though, and find myself at a concert. There’s this moving piece that someone is playing, and I suddenly become lucid. I listen to the chorus a few more times, hoping to commit it to memory for when I wake up.

      I FA in the guest bedroom, where the song I heard is playing on a radio and is slowly fading out. I’m initially disappointed in myself for letting the lucid slip away, and that this song I thought was new apparently already existed. However, I decide plug my nose to check if I’m still dreaming, and much to my surprise I can breathe fine. A large mirror on the wall immediately catches my eye, so I walk over to it. For some reason, the word “Belch” is scratched into the glass. I ignore it, and instead try to focus on phasing through the mirror. I first stick my hand inside, and the glass ripples like water around it. I stick my head through it now, and I can see the hallway on the other side of the wall, but it seems darker and more run-down. I jokingly mention that it’s “The Upside-Down”. I move back and forth on each side of the mirror several times, observing the differences. At one point, I see an ominous, ghostly purple blob, about 3 feet tall, start moving down the hall of the Upside-Down towards me. I’m hit with a sudden jolt of fear, but I remember that this is a dream and prepare for a fight. As it enters the room, I jump back out of the mirror into the light zone and prepare to face it, but instead it’s now a golden glowing blob that seems much more friendly. It approaches me, and ends up moving into my body, which fills me with a wave of happiness and warmth throughout my body, but I quickly FA again.

      I’m still in the guest bedroom, but now there are other people there as well. There’s some game going on in the corner, involving a ton of spheres on different stair-like platforms. On each level, you have to sort them using a different sorting method (alphabetical, size, etc.) that you have to figure out. Along the way, little dwarves pop out from under some of the stairs to either provide hints or sabotage you with false information, so you have to determine the lies from the truth. I observe someone playing this for a while until my alarm goes off.

      Also, I completely forgot the song.

      WBTB - 2
      2 DILDs - 15
      RC - 1
      Partial Phase - 5
      1 NLD - 1

      Night 11 Total - 24 pts
      Tags: competition
      Categories
      lucid
    4. 1/23/17 - Splendid Comp Night 10

      by , 01-23-2017 at 11:02 PM
      We’re hosting a huge Christmas party at my house, open to pretty much anyone we know (neighbors, old friends, high school teachers, etc.). I’m on cleanup duty, which is basically a never-ending job, since people keep dropping the glasses on the tile floor in the kitchen, shattering them and sending glass shards everywhere. I finally get fed up with cleaning up broken glass, so I passed the broom to my brother and walked towards the back door. My music pastor and an old friend of mine both walk in. The pastor’s incredibly impressed with the amount of Christmas decorations, while my other friend (who’s really into cars and mechanical engineering) comments on a spare engine we have laying in our backyard. I carry on a conversation with them, but really I’m not paying attention and instead am looking forward to playing Rock Band with them.

      I’m playing a 3DS game where your character is flying around through some obstacles, and you have to move the 3DS around to control which direction you fly in. I play for a while before I realize I don’t have the 3D setting on, so I turn it on, and suddenly I’m a lot more immersed in the game, until after a while I’m no longer playing the game and I’m actually in the game, flying around various levels with incredible ease. I find myself at one point in a high school building, going through a couple different classrooms, rubbing my hand across the ceiling as I glide effortlessly around with no particular goal in mind. A couple students tell me I should “Peter Pan” - fly around with my hands on my hips like Robin Williams does in Hook. I do this for a while, despite the fact that it looks and feels somewhat silly.


      I wake up to my WBTB alarm, but immediately after turning it off I fall back into another short dream. I’m at what seems to be a circus of some type, standing in front of a big, yellow, old-fashioned marquee. There’s some kind of stand-up comedian nearby telling jokes, and as he speaks, his words show up on this marquee. At one point he says, "Ladies, always avoid dating a guy who's into circuses. He'll promise you a night of magic and excitement, but ultimately you'll end up with two half-deflated balloons and extra justification for your fear of clowns." He then ends up saying something equally hilarious about women in relationships, but I forgot because I was cracking up from the first comment, so much so that I actually woke up again laughing like crazy.

      While I was up, I decided to do an actual WBTB for a few minutes before going back to sleep. I’m now at my college, moving stuff in for the start of my next school year. My new dorm room is huge, about the size of a basketball court. It’s big enough for 6 bunk beds and a loft, plus a large common area in the middle. Plus, it’s on the corner of the building, so there’s large windows on two walls, allowing me to see the entire night-time city skyline from several floors up. I quickly realize that it’s someone 1am, way past curfew, but I still have half my items that I need to bring in. Plus, I realize that I left my TV that I was gonna take at home, 800 miles away, so there’s no way for me to go back to get it. Another guy is moving into this huge room, but accidentally drops his large TV at the foot of one of the bunk beds, causing some of the support beams to almost melt away. I realize this is weird, so I stop and think about where I’m at. “I’m such an idiot - I graduated college months ago. I’m dreaming!”

      From the get go this dream is incredibly stable, so I don’t even bother doing any more RCs or stabilization. I see my brother who for some reason is here - he has a slightly alarmed look on his face. I explain to him that this is a dream, and to prove it to him, I grab his arm and tell him to look at me. He focuses on my face, and so I casually will us both upwards until we’re both flying. My brother is incredibly excited by this - so much so that when we touch back down, he tries to test his new skills by jumping out the window. I chase after him, only to find out that the dorm room is now about 50 stories up, so it’s a long way down. I straighten my body out to become more aerodynamic until I catch up to my brother, who is freaking out because he can’t control his descent. It’s hard to hear him at first because of the sound of the wind whipping past us, but I eventually remind him that this is a dream, so even hitting the ground at top speed wouldn’t hurt a bit. We keep plummeting until we reach terminal velocity, and then splash down into a lake. The initial shock of the water is jolting, but ultimately both of us are unscathed.

      The dream transitions to somewhere else. I’m now lying on my back in a large green field. My center of vision is strangely slightly underneath me, in the ground about a foot or two, so I can see my body and the grass around me, but not the sky. Still, everything feels incredible, and I spend about 5 minutes just enjoying how everything feels. I can sense every single blade of grass against my body, and I can feel a cool breeze blowing above me. I can even feel the earth rotating beneath me, until it starts rotating a little funny. I start to feel less like I’m lying on the ground, but more like I’m tethered to a grassy ceiling, suspended over the endless expanse of the sky. My euphoria is cut short by the feeling of a cat jumping on my chest, and I’m pulled out of my trance to see that I’m lying on the floor of my house. I sit up and notice a weird old lady who is reciting some kind of script, and I realize that I’m in some kind of weird commercial for cat food. I tell the lady her commercial is dumb, and then leave through the back door.

      There’s a lot going on in my backyard. There’s a goat on our roof, a fox on top of my car, a ton of crows flying everywhere, and a single random tree that’s caught fire. I try to think of some other tasks to score some points, but for some reason I think I’ve already done them (I thought that interact with an animal was a personal task, that teaching a DC to fly was a TOTM, and that I had already done all my 3-step tasks). I decide to try for some time control, so I reach out my hand and will everything to slow down. After a few seconds, everything starts moving in slow motion - I can see every wing flap of the crows, and the fire is now moving much slower than before. I try to jog my memory for some more score categories, but then
      I’m woken up by my morning alarm.

      3 NLDs - 3
      WBTB - 2
      DILD - 10
      Interact with a DC - 2
      Fly - 5
      Invulnerability - 5
      Dream Theme (lake) - 5
      Time Control - 10

      Night 10 Total - 42 pts
      Tags: competition
      Categories
      lucid
    5. 1/14/17 - Splendid Comp Night 1

      by , 01-14-2017 at 08:58 PM
      Not a bad start to the competition. My lucids were fairly fragmented though, and I spent like 30 minutes just lying in bed trying to put the pieces together in my mind.

      I'm in a car with a couple friends, studying for an upcoming spelling bee. The word I'm given is “sicaid”, which means to get sick. After I guess, my friend just keeps telling me what the word means, without ever telling me whether I'm right or wrong. I end up telling him “This is a spelling bee, not a knowledge of words bee.”

      After my WBTB, I find myself in some scientific lab of sorts. They're running tests on me and a few other people. We all have to wear latex suits, which they pump full of some kind of super-buoyant helium-like gas to test the effects of pressurized flight on our bodies. As they inflate my suit, their machine breaks, leaving me just suspended in mid-air while they try to figure out what went wrong.

      I’m now in some show like the Walking Dead. Somehow, I have a tablet that still works, and shows a map of the infection progress. I notice that all the countries have weird shapes and names,
      which makes me become lucid. I zoom in on my current location on the map - apparently somewhere in India. There’s actually three different strains of the virus around us, marked with red, yellow, and blue coloring. I look up from my tablet and notice I and my party are on top of a roof in a fairly big city, trying to decide what our next move should be. Suddenly, two of the members pull out pistols and start threatening the rest of us with them. I don’t remember exactly what their reasoning was, but they decided they no longer needed us. They announce that they’re going to execute us off one by one, starting with me.

      One of the two, a woman, gets in front of me, while the other, a man, gets behind me, and both point their guns at my head. I start trying to reason with them - how we need the entire group in order to stay alive. I then remember that I’m dreaming, so I look back at the woman. “Did you remember to take the safety off?” I hear the guy behind me pull his gun back to check, so I take advantage of the distraction to grab the woman’s arm and knock the gun out of her hand. The guy rushes to get his gun back up, but I manage to kick it out of his hands while I’m wrestling with the woman. I finally pin her to the ground and continue to punch her in the face until she’s unconscious. Meanwhile, the guy runs to get his gun, but one of the other guys in our party rushes over and kicks it away before tackling the guy to the ground. I get up and grab the guy on the ground, swing him around over my head by his ankle, and then launch him over the edge of the building to his death.


      I have a FA of sorts, and I’m now riding in a car on the interstate with a friend of mine and her parents. Apparently the whole thing that just happened was a virtual reality attraction at Busch Gardens, and now me and this family are driving back home. I have a sudden realization that I didn’t ride with them on the way there, and that my car is still parked at the park. The dad (who looks suspiciously like Hank Green) seems fine with turning around, even though we’ve been riding for about 30 minutes at this point. Suddenly though, he realizes there’s a ton of cars driving on the wrong side of the road, heading directly towards us. He quickly throws the car into reverse and backs up at a high speed, before slamming on the E-brake and whipping the car around to face forward. Then, as soon as he can, he gets back over onto the correct side of the road, right as 4 or 5 police cars come out from behind us to chase the reckless drivers on the wrong side of the road. I remark something about how I wish my dad was as good a driver as that.

      We’re now walking through some kind of jungle place, still on the way to go pick up my car from Busch Gardens. We eventually come to a creek about 40 feet across. The water is crystal clear and isn’t moving very fast, so the people with me start wading through to get to the other side. However, I somehow find myself floating above the water to get across. I originally dismiss it as just a side effect from the helium-suit testing from earlier,
      but then I remember that I’m still dreaming. I continue to fly over at a faster pace until I reach the other side. Then, I find a large boulder, about the size of a minivan, and use telekinesis to put it in the water, which (somehow) helps everyone to get across faster.

      3 NLDs - 3
      WBTB - 2
      2 DILDs - 15
      Use Electronic Device - 5
      Interact with DCs - 2
      Super strength (picking up the bad guy) - 5
      Fly (+1st step) - 5+5 = 10
      Mass Telekinesis - 10

      Night 1 Total - 52 pts
      Tags: competition
      Categories
      lucid
    6. 11/4/16 - Spooky Comp Night 21

      by , 11-04-2016 at 08:41 PM
      I’m vacationing with my family in Syria. We’re waiting at a bus station of some sort, when suddenly there’s an explosion in the distance. We all turn our heads in the direction of the blast, when several gunmen round the corner and start firing into the air, shouting at everyone to get down as we are being taken hostage. I duck my head as I’m instructed and start to panic, fearfully wondering if I was going to die here. Wait, usually this level of fear only happens in dreams - of course, I just went to bed an hour ago. I stand back up and fly over this tall fence that stands between me and the shooters. “I’m not afraid of you. You think you can scare us, but you’ll never scare me.” I prepare to wreck their shtuff up, but I unfortunately wake up.

      I’m back at college, in one of my old dorms, although everything looks kinda different inside - the halls and doorways are bigger than normal and the room numbers are all shuffled around. I joke with my friend about how I’ve been in the same dorm for 6 years and still can’t remember what room I’m in.

      I’m out to lunch with my brother (who’s in the police academy) and his wife. I joke around with him about being undercover, and he glares at me and whispers that he is undercover right now.

      Fragment of me playing some SNES video game involving robots and AI.

      I’m driving around college with some friends. I try to stop in this parking lot, but my brakes start failing. I press as hard as I can, but my car barely slows down as it approaches this cliff. It creeps forward, but at the last second it starts to slow down and finally stop. I breathe a huge sigh of relief, but am interrupted by the bright flash of a huge explosion coming from the bottom of the cliff. A car is launched upwards from the blast zone and narrowly misses landing on top of my car, before tumbling back down the hill and ending up in the middle of the road. Almost on cue, a ton of paramedics come out of nowhere, grab the driver and put him on a stretcher, and then drive off, all in the span of about 3 seconds. I’m still in shock trying to process what just happened, when I realize that this feeling of fear and confusion is incredibly familiar
      - I’m still dreaming. However, again I instantly wake up. I see it’s about 5 minutes before my alarm is set to go off, so I don’t try to DEILD or anything.

      WBTB - 2
      2 NLDs - 2
      Fragment - 0.5
      2 DILDs - 15
      Flying - 5

      Night Total - 24.5 pts
      Tags: competition
      Categories
      lucid
    7. 10/31/16 - Spooky Comp Night 17

      by , 10-31-2016 at 10:06 PM
      I’m at a high school reunion, where the entire class is in some quiz competition for a prize. One of the challenges is to guess the total height of the two shortest guys in the class, and ironically, both of those two get it wrong.

      I get up for WBTB, but for circumstances beyond my control, I stay up too long and don’t have enough time to sleep before my alarm goes off. Being the genius I am, I hit the snooze button about 3 times. After pressing it the third time, I start drifting back to sleep, when I suddenly find myself standing up beside my bed. My room looks weird, as one of the walls is at an angle. I plug my nose and find that I’m dreaming. I do my usual routine that I do when I start a lucid from my bedroom - I leave through the window. I take a running start and jump, phasing through the window until I start flying outside. I look down and notice that I’m incredibly high up above a castle, having just jumped out of one of the towers on the outer edge. I decide to fly to the top of the tower, where I see a stone gargoyle perched on the roof. I fly up to it and try to start a conversation, but it just starts shouting Bible verses about sexual immorality and then flies off. Weird.

      I slide down the roof, hopping from slope to slope until I finally reach the ground. I’m in this huge open field, and a ton of people in colonial outfits are walking around. It has a very Assassin’s Creed feel to it, which makes me remember (erroneously) that one of my personal goals was to assassinate someone with a hidden blade. I quietly sneak up behind one of the people and shove my hand into their back, and a blade appears that pierces through them. I look down and see that I’ve stabbed a young child - apparently this large field is a playground, as I realize everyone around me is under the age of 10. All of them stop moving and stare at me with a look of shock. I run off before the police arrive and/or the guilt sets in.

      I see a marker in front of me directing me towards my actual target, which is inside this large wooden house. I sense that my target is being interrogated in a room off to the right, and I have to rescue him by sneaking around the back, where there’s a guard sitting on the stairs. Luckily, there’s a nice little space under the stairs where I can hide, but I get kinda stuck trying to crawl into it on my stomach. While I’m doing this, the guard gets up and walks towards the hallway where my legs are still sticking out. I think my cover’s blown, but instead he just says “Legs up, love.” I bend my knees and lift my feet up. “Cheers, mate.” He continues down the hall completely unconcerned. I exit and head around to the stairs, where there’s a computer screen and mouse on a desk. It obviously seems strangely out of place, but I use it anyway. When I click the mouse, a large GlaDoS-like robot comes out of the wall in the next room and tazes the guard. I come around the corner and open the door to find my target is… Claptrap from Borderlands. Except he explains to me that his name is “Gary Gary Gary”. I tell him to follow me.

      I exit the room and find that I’m in a futuristic-looking train station of sorts. Everything looks white and pristine, and large electronic billboards light up the night sky. Just then, an announcement comes over the PA:
      “Attention, do not be alarmed. Police are on the scene searching for a white-cloaked criminal, last seen murdering a security guard and kidnapping a service droid, Gary Gary Gary. If you have any information as to their whereabouts, please notify a police officer.”
      I see a ton of police swarming the scene. “Gary!”
      “Uh, it’s ‘Gary Gary Gary’…”
      “Whatever! Shut up and act natural!”
      I stand with my back to the officers, hoping to not draw any attention and blend in. Instead, I hear an officer shout, and a bullet whizzes past my head. “Change of plans, RUN!”

      I take off towards the train tracks and cross to the other side, followed closely by Gary and my pursuers. I pull a white handgun out of my pocket and start firing back at the officers, managing to only take down one in the process. I turn down a small hallway and burst through a door here. Inside is a dark passageway with a long staircase down. I jump onto the rail and grind my way down on my feet. Once I reach the bottom, I cross another set of train tracks and reach a long staircase going back up. I turn around to see Gary has managed to keep up rather well, and behind him are fewer police officers. However, I start to hear the bark of police dogs, and I know that they’ll soon catch me. I pick up Gary and throw him under my arm. “Hold on tight!” I lean forward and put all my effort into picking up speed. It’s difficult at first, since I’m going upstairs, but I soon notice I’m taking the stairs 4 at a time at an incredible rate. I look around long enough to see the last of my pursuers disappearing into the darkness behind me. I slow back down as I reach the top of the stairs, which lead to an exit in a bright, hilly area. To the right of the exit is what looks like a street gang, but on closer inspection, I see that it’s the members of Pentatonix, singing “Zero to Hero” from Hercules.
      I soon wake up from my alarm going off. Not bad for a 10-minute snooze cycle.

      1 NLD - 1
      WBTB - 2
      DILD - 10
      RC - 1
      Fully phase through big solid object - 10
      Fly - 5
      Interact with a DC - 2
      Basic summoning (hidden blade) - 5
      2nd step (basic summoning) - 10
      Super speed - 5

      Night Total - 51 pts
      Tags: competition
      Categories
      lucid
    8. 10/29/16 - Spooky Comp Night 15

      by , 10-29-2016 at 08:58 PM
      Let’s play a fun little game. Try to count how many things seem weird or bizarre before dream-me finds one (there’s at least 25 in total).

      I’m at church for our Wednesday night youth service. We just had a guest speaker - my old RA from freshman year of college - who gave out a free plunger to every kid in the youth group. The band and I come up to play music, so I get set up on the keyboard. The youth pastor comes up after us and explains to the crowd that we didn’t have time to practice, so we’re basically going to be sight-reading these songs, and he’ll be leading us. Our first song is apparently from the year 1920 and has a ton of key and rhythm changes. At one point, the song even changes into the key of K. Still, it has a hard rock drum part in the style of the Foo Fighters that sounds pretty amazing, so I kind of like it. After finishing our first song, I have to switch to bass guitar for the second song, but my bass is on the other side of the stage. I manage to maneuver my way through a maze of junk on the stage - from palm trees to banjos to a sleeping cat - grab my guitar case and make my way back. The second song is more in the style of the Beastie Boys, and I’m kind of surprised when our youth pastor drops the F-bomb in the middle of the song (we are in a church, after all). I look around, but no one seems to notice or care.

      For the third song, I get back on the keyboard, but somehow it got unplugged during the last song. I go to plug it back in, but there’s so many ports in the back of all different shapes and sizes - it almost looks like a telephone switchboard. Tony, a guy from the youth group like 5 years ago, comes up on stage and yells at me for not figuring it out. He grabs the wire out of my hand and plugs it in for me. Luckily, our third song is interrupted by a literal parade of people coming from the adult class marching up through the center aisle and exiting through the side door. After the interruption, we’ve apparently decided not to do a third song, so I go back to sit down with Mismagius and his little brother, who are both wearing pullover hoodies with “IRC” in big letters across them*. The youth pastor starts his sermon with a video on the projector screen, which strangely has clips of topless women and people cussing. I look around again, but still no one is phased by this. In fact, most of the audience isn’t paying attention, and some of the kids are going up to the stage to get some free oranges from these tall cardboard boxes. Suddenly, it hits me that it’s Friday night, not Wednesday night - why are we having service? I plug my nose to make sure I’m not dreaming, but I can breathe through it. Weird, everything seems so realistic though, there’s no way I’m dreaming. I plug my nose again to make sure, and I can still breathe through it.
      “Huh, I guess I am dreaming.”

      Upon me saying this revelation, the entire crowd erupts into a loud cheer, like their favorite football team just scored the game-winning touchdown. There’s an explosion of confetti and streamers as more people start rushing into the room cheering. Apparently this was some kind of lucid hidden camera show, where they were trying to see how much weird crap they could do before I finally got lucid. The crowd makes a row out the door, and I proceed to give them all high-fives down the line. All my friends and family are there, some hugging me as I pass by, and others joking with me on how long it took me to realize.

      I finally make my way to the end of the line and find myself in my old high school gymnasium. Mismagius and his little brother are there again, and the kid starts making fun of me for not realizing sooner, claiming that I should’ve known as soon as I saw the huge American flag on the side of the orange boxes. I exit the gym and walk up to my friend Aaron. He’s apparently only heard stories of people becoming lucid, and he wants to see for himself just how incredible it is. The first thing he wants to see is how fast I can run. He takes off in a sprint, and after giving him about a 5 second head start, I take off and quickly catch up with him in about 2 seconds and tackle him to the ground. He seems incredibly stunned, and I quickly realize that hitting him at that speed may have hurt him. “Are you okay? Because if you’re not, I can fix that.” Luckily, he gets up and claims he’s fine. I wake up shortly after.


      After journaling the previous dream (chuckling the entire time at the ridiculousness), I go back to sleep. I’m now on some game show with a couple friends and a few strangers. The point of the show is that we have to fight each other in incredibly weird environments, like a water park or a maze of air ducts. The winner of each fight advances, until the final two compete in a fight to the death. However, from the start of the show, none of us want to fight (friendship for the win). However, the host, a teenage girl with straight black hair, threatens us with a water bazooka if we don’t do it. I conspire with one of my friends to fake a fight so the host doesn’t kill us. I hold his head under the water for a couple seconds until he taps out. My next competitor is a kid who looks like he’s maybe 8 years old. Since the start of the show, he was hiding in a pocket of air in the bottom corner of the swimming pool. As I dive down to get him, he quickly surrenders before I reach him. I manage to advance to the final fight, where my competitor is apparently the crazy jungle kid from The Wild Thornberrys, but I wake up before I can find him.

      DILD - 10
      RC - 1
      Interact with DC - 2
      Super speed - 5
      NLD - 1
      WBTB - 2

      Night 15 Total - 21 pts

      *Okay, to be fair, there is a school near my church that a couple kids in the youth group go to called Indian Rocks Christian. So even though it seems obvious in retrospect (“I’m Mismagius, you know, the one you always talk to on DreamViews IRC chat.”), of the entire dream this is probably the one thing I have a slight excuse for.
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    9. 10/27/16 - Spooky Comp Night 13

      by , 10-27-2016 at 05:31 PM
      I don’t remember much from my first dream, but I’m in some white, futuristic-looking room when I realize that I’m dreaming. Before I can do anything, however, this skinny bald guy walks in. He’s got an evil look in his eye, and I get just a really creepy vibe from him. He laughs like a crazy person for a bit, and then presses a button on a control panel off to the side of the room. This sends a debilitating electric shock through my body, and I end up on the floor having a seizure as the dream ends.

      I falsely awaken. I stop and think for a minute of who this guy from my dream might be - some kind of dream nemesis? I (falsely) recall several other dreams where he’s been there to torture me, and vow that next time I’m dreaming (lol) I’ll find him and ask him who he is. I find myself in a hobby shop that mainly sells board games. There’s apparently a scavenger hunt competition put on by the store going on, with the final treasure at the end being some incredibly valuable prize. I solve the first puzzle by using a key I found on one of about 100 lock-boxes in a random cabinet in the store. I use the number engraved on the key to open the corresponding lock-box, and inside is another key to another lock-box. I open about 3 or 4 boxes before I notice a very large guy in a black suit walk into the store and start looking around. I know he’s looking for me, so I start running, which makes him give chase.

      I run through the Employees Only door into this huge foyer. The walls, floor, and ceiling are all white and black, kind of like some of the testing chambers in Portal. Apparently this is the headquarters of a huge tech company where the grand prize of the competition is being stored. I have to make my way to the center room to retrieve the grand prize, but the company has an insanely complicated security system that I have to disable at least partially to get there. Until then, there’s huge lasers covering most of the floors and doorways, and a ton of armed security guards roaming the halls. I take off down one hallway with a grid of lasers on the floor and carefully step my way through the gaps. Unfortunately, I’m spotted by some guard, who tries to attack me. He takes a leap at me, but he’s almost moving in slow motion. I dive out of the way, taking care as I slowly float down to not hit any of the lasers. I turn around and notice he’s doing the same - apparently he can’t touch the lasers either. This continues for some time - the two of us gracefully tip-toe around like ballerinas dancing in low gravity, while making sure to get in a punch or a kick whenever we get the chance.

      I somehow manage to defeat him and get to the central room. I open the breaker panel and cut one of the wires to disable it. This shuts off some of the lasers (but not all, since apparently they’re on separate power grids for added security). I grab the prize - a small slip of paper - and make for the exit again. Meanwhile, a guy is talking in my earpiece about how all the exits are surrounded by guards, so there’s no easy way out of the building. I just have to improvise, I guess.

      I head through another door into a very large white room. I realize that this room looks very familiar - this is the room the bald guy electrocuted me in.
      I deduce that I must be still dreaming (though I’m not “fully” lucid and don’t think clearly). I think about flying out to escape, but I decide that the storyline is too interesting and I don’t want to break character. So instead, I find an elevator shaft and start doing Mario-esque wall jumps to climb higher and higher. My path gets blocked by a laser grid, however, and before I can find another way to escape, I wake up.

      1 NLD - 1
      2 DILDs - 10 + 5 = 15
      WBTB - 2

      Night 13 Total - 18 pts
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    10. 10/18/16 - Spooky Comp Night 4

      by , 10-18-2016 at 02:05 PM
      I’m playing this Virtual Reality console that intercepts your brain impulses so that your muscle movements move your game character instead of actually making your real muscles move (kind of like Sword Art Online). I’m in this dungeon game that is kind of a mix between Zelda and Shadow of the Colossus. I have to go from room to room, killing the giant dragon that lives in each room. Each dragon starts out invisible, so half of the game’s challenge is the puzzle of how to make the dragon visible so that you can actually kill it. The first dragon I remember facing was one involving a laser trip-wire and invisible fireballs. The dragon starts out blocking the laser so you don’t see it, but once you get close enough, the dragon moves and starts shooting fireballs. The key is to stand in the path of the laser and reflect it at the dragon (using the sounds of fireballs passing by you to locate where it is) to make it visible. I finally accomplish this and quickly manage to kill the dragon.

      I don’t really know what causes it, but I suddenly become lucid. However, as soon as this happens, I’m grabbed by an invisible force and pulled sharply downwards. It feels like a ton of strong, invisible hands are pulling me somewhere, and even though I know it’s a dream, I’m still fairly terrified. I try my best to fight back. I struggle to break free of the grasp, then swing my fist, hoping to land a punch on whatever creature is fighting me before being grabbed again by what feels like even more hands. It’s somewhat disorienting, as I have the distinct feeling of being pulled, but the entire scene around me is completely still. This struggle continues for several unnerving minutes. I start to feel like I’m actually shaking and groaning in real life, though it may have been a false dream-me using the VR headset. The monster starts to become slightly more visible each time I hit it, though it’s still mostly a purplish-haze that appears on me while I’m pulled. I finally get to the point where I can’t take it anymore. I reassure myself that I’m dream and that I am in control. I then grab at one of the “hands” and do my best to swing it downwards, hoping to slam whatever is at the other end into the ground. It works, so I keep doing it, getting harder and harder with my swings each time. Finally, I release all my built-up rage towards this monster in one final powerful slam that cracks the concrete beneath it.

      The silence is deafening. I stop to catch my breath and take a look at what I’ve done. On the floor lying dead is this dragon-like creature that kind of looks like a blue version of Baloo from Zelda: Wind Waker, but slightly more snake-y. I look around and find that I’m still in the laser tripwire room, but the dragon from that room is back. I don’t feel like fighting it again, so I check my inventory. I see a picture of the beast I just killed - apparently it’s the second-to-last boss in the entire game. I also have the option to summon it to fight for me, which sounds like an awesome idea. I press the button to summon it, but the game kind of glitches out, and I end up standing on its head while it flies upwards, causing me to phase through the ceiling into the room above - the dungeon of the final boss, “Glibc” (frick, I’ve been programming too much lately). Luckily, I manage to escape the room before the boss battle starts.


      I find out that the game is being recorded by the Game Grumps for one of their episodes, and once they’re done, they turn off the console, which sends me back outside of the game into this huge ballroom. I meet this guy who I’m apparently supposed to get to know, since we’re going to start working together. I start talking to him, but I notice this holographic display pops up next to him showing his interests compared to mine. They’re all colored red - meaning we share absolutely nothing in common. I try thinking of something to say, but then I wake up.


      I’m still kinda shaken up from the nightmare, so I can’t fall asleep right away (so basically a forced WBTB), but I eventually do. I have a small fragment of driving in a huge circle around my entire college campus on this road that somehow intersects itself.

      I’m now riding in a car about to meet up with some friends for a game of tennis. I’m riding in a car with two friends (who I don’t actually know in real life), and we see our third friend walking from the parking lot into the park. Apparently one of our traditions is that whenever we see this friend, we throw a shoe at her. So my friend pulls my shoe off and throws it out the window, just barely missing her. We all get out of the car, when we realize that the entire place is infested with these huge yellow ants and a swarm of Beedrills. The ants start crawling up our legs immediately, and I’m especially vulnerable since I’m missing a shoe. I duck my head and hope not to get stung as I run through the Beedrills trying to get back to the car.


      DILD - 10
      Super Strength - 5
      Fully phase through ceiling - 10
      WBTB - 2
      1 Fragment - 0.5
      1 NLD - 1

      Night 4 Total - 28.5 pts
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    11. 10/15/16 - Spooky Comp Night 1

      by , 10-15-2016 at 08:43 PM
      Ahh, nothing like a fresh competition to get me to write in my DV DJ again. And not a bad start, I will say.

      Fragment: I’m doing acting lessons in preparation for the Christmas play at my church.

      After I do a WBTB, I find myself in this huge mall, where there’s a ton of weird people walking around, and even weirder stuff for sale. I walk outside in the parking lot, where there’s hardly any cars anywhere. Weird, why is it so packed inside then? I look up at the sky and suddenly realize that I’m dreaming. My mind immediately goes to knocking out my 3-step task for the competition. I start running and then slowly lift my feet off the ground until I’m hovering just a few feet off the ground while still moving forward. I round a corner and nearly slam into the hood of a police car pulling up to the intersection. Luckily, I swerve to avoid it and instead just graze the front of the car with my hand. I gain some altitude, but notice that there’s nothing past the edge of the parking lot - just a drop-off into the abyss. Guess I don’t really have anywhere else to go. I head back inside the mall.

      I try to remember the second of my 3-steps, but for some reason mistakenly think it’s mind control. I walk up to this guy standing in the food court and telepathically tell him to make chicken noises. He suddenly starts bawking for a few seconds, until the bawks start to turn into coughs. I fly up to another really tall guy (seriously, like 8 feet tall) and try to manipulate his mind, but he instead starts reading my mind. “I know you think you can change my mind, but I won’t be doing that.” Wow, what a tool. “I know you are, but what am I?”

      I’m in a different location now, somewhere in the country that looks like a setting from Little House on the Prairie. I’m working for the sheriff, who is basically a glorified drill sergeant, barking orders at me to do random menial tasks. He wants me to fetch water from a super dirty water pump in someone’s backyard and pour it into a pipe sticking out of the ground 3 feet away. Of course, he doesn’t give me a bucket, and the only ones lying around are caked with dirt and rust. I remember my third step is element manipulation, so instead of using a bucket, I try to pull water straight out of the ground. I put both my hands forward and focus super hard, and manage to make a ball of crystal clear water rise out of the ground. I slowly move it over to the pipe, as it morphs into a sort of rounded cube. I drop it right into the pipe and smugly turn back to the sheriff. He’s incredibly angry that I used powers - so angry, in fact, that he takes a swing at me with an axe. His first swing hits me in the shoulder, and there’s a bit of pain for a short second, but it goes away before his second swing. I dodge it and manage to grab the axe out of his hand, before breaking it over my knee.


      I wake up in some version of my house. My parents have told me they’ve repainted the guest bedroom. I walk in to see that the walls are painted black, with random pink and blue lines painted in certain places. It looks like that hideous 90’s laser background. I walk back into the hallway and realize that the layout of the house makes no sense, which makes me lucid. I head back to the living room, where I see the sheriff from the previous dream in a game that’s playing on my Xbox One. As I walk by, I get a video call through my Xbox from some user named “Fatal”. I don’t recognize the username, but when I see the video preview, I realize it’s JadeGreen. I hit the answer button, but I realize that I don’t have a camera or a microphone to talk to him with. Yet somehow, he hears me through the controller. Once the video is full-screen, I can faintly make out Manei standing in the background. I tell him to hang on a second, I need to find a keyboard and camera. I rummage through the living room, but don’t find anything, so I try to summon a keyboard with no luck. I eventually wake up for real.

      I fall back asleep and have a 3rd-person dream where I’m watching this car chase involving the cast of Leverage and Scrubs in a black Cadillac trying to outrun the cops. Sophie (Leverage) and Carla (Scrubs) are sticking out of the car firing tommy guns at the police cars. At one point, the car hits a ramp and flips, but everyone inside is fine.

      I’m now at some church event where all of the band is in an RV right by a huge outdoor stage. We’re just kind of chilling in the RV, when we hear the music start on stage, which is our cue to get up there. I walk down the steps, when I’m only wearing a t-shirt and underwear. I rush back in the RV to change, but I’m passed by an old gentleman who is wearing only his underwear and doesn’t seem to care.


      1 Fragment - 0.5
      3 NLD - 3
      WBTB - 2
      DILD - 10
      Fly + 1st step - 5 + 5 = 10
      Mind Control - 5
      Element Manipulation - 10
      Invulnerability - 5
      2nd DILD - 5
      Meet an enemy (JadeGreen) - 5

      Total - 55.5 pts

      Updated 10-15-2016 at 09:39 PM by 63804

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    12. 8/1/16 - Summer Competition Night 3

      by , 08-02-2016 at 02:05 AM
      I’m in this alleyway that’s apparently beside my house. There’s brick walls on each side, a couple arches, and a fire escape that’s further up. Three women in Victorian dresses run past me and start climbing up the wall, Assassin’s Creed style. I’m mildly impressed they can be so limber in such restrictive clothing. Under one of the archways, I see a metal ceiling fan, which has been partially covered with strange glow-in-the-dark paper. It actually looks kinda neat, so I grab some paper and tape off of the ground and start finishing the job.

      I wake up for a quick WBTB (gotta be quick, anyway, since my job requires me to get up fairly early, so I need all the sleep I can get). I’m now in my college auditorium, where there’s some celebrity singer performing a concert. I’m standing backstage, and I catch a glimpse of the drummer - it’s one of my friends from high school. I’m pretty happy for him - he was one of the best drummers I’d ever seen in high school, and I’m glad he’s doing okay.

      I’m now back in my dorm, apparently some time after the concert. I walk from room to room with my laptop, trying to find the best WiFi reception. As I go through the hallway, i notice some girls I know from high school walking through. Weird, this isn’t a co-ed dorm.
      Oh, I’m dreaming! As I realize this, the hallway transforms into the hallway leading to my bedroom in my house. I rub my hands together, convincing myself this is a very stable lucid dream. I run into my bedroom and try to lift myself off the ground through sheer willpower, but I can’t do it. Huh, I guess not having a quality lucid in forever has really messed with my control. I decide that maybe it has something to do with the low ceiling in my house. I spot my window over my bed, so I take a running start and dive through. The scene switches to slow motion, as I watch the glass shatter around me, with me twisting in mid-air just above the overhang of the first-floor. It’s a pretty neat effect, kinda like an action movie, but everything goes back to normal speed as I roll out onto the overhang. I stand up and find I’m completely unharmed. Guess that counts for Gain Invulnerability. I try once more to fly, this time starting with a jump, but I start to float back down to the ground. I kick my legs in mid-air like a Yoshi, which causes me to stop falling and slowly start floating upwards. It’s not graceful by any means, but it works. As I get slightly higher, I notice the sky isn’t really a sky - it’s more like clouds painted onto a transparent ceiling with nothing but blue behind it. The ceiling is really low, and I bump my head into it, causing me to black out.

      I wake up in a strange bed and sit upright. Everything around me looks strangely textured, like I’m in a low-quality 3D animated movie. That can’t be right… I plug my nose to RC, and find that I’m still dreaming. There’s a hole in the middle of the floor, so I drop through it and find myself in a huge cafeteria, where people are eating, but no one seems to notice me. Alright, let’s start knocking out some more tasks. I first go for some telekinesis. I jump up on one of the tables and spot some unaccompanied plates beside me. I reach out my hand and manage to make some of them float. I turn another direction and lift a couple more plates and pieces of food in another part of the room. Having built up my confidence, I turn towards the center of the room, where most of the people are, and stretch out my hand. Suddenly a ton of stuff starts floating - plates, food, forks, knives, glasses, and even a trash can. Everyone starts looking around, wondering what’s going on, while I quietly sneak away, giggling to myself.

      I spot a glass door leading to the outside, so I try to knock out my 3rd 3-step task. I blink and do a quick nod with my head, and I’m suddenly on the other side of the door. Outside looks like New York in Tom Clancy’s The Division - there’s snow on the ground, and a ton of large, heavy objects in the street to hide behind. Some guy sees me and quickly points a gun at my head. Luckily, I know I’m dreaming. “That won’t do you any good.” He stops, contemplates for a bit, and then puts the gun down. Instead, he hands me a business card for a special lucid dreamer order of the Assassins. He then darts off and climbs the building next to us, chased soon after by a couple firemen with ladders. At this point I lose lucidity, and the dream turns into a weird movie, where I’m being played by some guy that’s a mix between Matt Damon and Adam Sandler.


      2 NLDs - 2
      1st DILD - 10
      RC/Stabilization - 1
      Invulnerability - 5
      Flying - 5
      1st Step - 5

      2nd DILD - 5
      RC/Stabilization - 1
      Mass Telekinesis - 10
      2nd Step - 10
      Teleport - 10
      3rd Step - 15
      Interact with a DC - 2

      WBTB - 2

      Night 3 Total - 83 pts
      Competition Total - 102 pts

      Updated 08-02-2016 at 02:08 AM by 63804

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    13. 7/30/16 - Summer Competition 2016 Night 1

      by , 07-30-2016 at 10:43 PM
      It's been too dang long since I’ve updated this. No lucids last night, but in the spirit of competition, I feel like I need to write something down. Plus who knows? It might be the spark I need to get back into it.

      I remember a small fragment of me driving in a car. I feel like I may have been lucid, but I’m really not sure.

      I’m in line at a department store. The guy in front of me is getting incredibly angry, and suddenly starts lashing out at the cashier. I stand up for her and tell him to lay off of her. He turns around and instead starts yelling at me, demanding me to give him my wallet. When I refuse, he pulls out a gun and points it at me. I think he’s joking, but he puts it straight up to my forehead, and I can smell gunpowder, like it’s been fired recently. I put my hands up and start pleading with him to not do this. There’s a sudden flash of white, and I can feel like I’m separating from my body, almost like a WILD transition. All of my intense fear is replaced with a sudden peace. Is this what it feels like to die?

      I’m now in a car again, driving to college to return a bike that I accidentally took home with me. Along the way, I see a couple friends and stop to talk for a bit about how life has been going after graduation. I get back in my friend’s car for the ride home, and he apparently has some high-tech 5G internet coverage built into his car. It’s so fast, that people are walking beside our car just to get the great internet speed.
      I’m woken up by my alarm, and try for a WBTB.

      I wake up in my bed with my sleep mask still on. I hear someone walk in my room, and for some reason say “Great Scott!” I take off my mask to see who it is, and it’s my friend Scott (lulz). He starts searching around my room, and I ask him what he’s looking for, he says my mini-USB keyboard. I look out the window to see a ton of people in my backyard, carrying a massive keyboard, the size of a small house. I grab my mini-keyboard from my night-stand and run down to help them (I don’t know why the only two options for keyboards are super small and super big).

      I’m now in a strange camp, where some guy has set up a weird catapult set up a the top of a hill next to a Walmart. He grabs a lizard off of the ground and tries to launch it at the building, but the catapult moves really slow, causing the lizard to simply fall off the end. Somehow, it’s suddenly grown in size, about as big as an alligator. It falls on its back and slides down the hill, crashing into the wall of the Walmart and taking out a huge chunk. I find this incredibly funny, and start laughing until I wake up.
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    14. 4/24/16 - Spring Competition Night 14 (+ nap)

      by , 04-25-2016 at 12:05 AM
      Only one dream I remember from last night. I'm at my house watching some NFL with a black friend of mine (though I've never seen them before in real life). Apparently we're good enough friends that we can make black jokes with each other. He made one about how black people's lips take up half of their faces (does it mean I'm racist if he's the one who started it?).

      After church and lunch, I came back for a nap.

      I have another Splinter Cell-inspired dream (I just recently got into that series, and I love it a lot, so it's snuck into my dreams quite a bit). I'm in a huge warehouse, where there's this game going on kinda like the Hunger Games, where you have to kill off all your competitors in order to win. I'm not actually in the competition - I've been hired as a "Motivator". Because there are so many competitors and the map is so large, the Motivators hunt down some of the lone competitors and kill them off, "motivating" them to form partnerships to stay safe, leading to more potential teammate backstabbing and more entertaining television. So I have to use all my sneaky-stealthy moves to sneak up on people to take them out.

      My alarm goes off, and since I really don't want to get up, I fall back asleep. I'm in my dorm room, but a bunch of friends from high school are there. In addition to the main door in my room that leads to the main hall, there's a second screen door on the other side that leads to a back yard with a shed, it actually reminds me of my aunt's house in Alabama. Still though, it strikes me odd that there's a back yard out there - after all, we are on the third floor. I plug my nose and find that I'm dreaming. I for some reason at this moment realize I'm naked, but I know it's a dream, so I'm not as disturbed by it. I walk out into my hall, where there's a bunch of guys standing in a circle. They seem to be unphased by my nakedness (even though one of them is naked as well). I just ignore them and walk down to the other end of the hall.

      I am somehow teleported back to my room, so I walk back out onto the hall, but I'm teleported back again. Fine, I'll just do it myself. I decide to teleport myself outside of the building. There's a white flash, and next thing I know I'm at my old high school on the football bleachers. The only thing is that I'm like 2 inches tall. I consider it kinda weird, but I easily make myself return to normal size, thankfully before the ants nearby on the bleachers can notice my small size and run towards me. Apparently on the football field is some kind of military training grounds. One of the generals walks over to me and asks if I want to join the airborne division. Before I can ask why, he injects me with some kind of serum. Suddenly, four pairs of purple, feathery wings grow out of my back. They start flapping out of control, and two other soldiers have to hold me down to keep me from flying away. The wings finally calm down, and the soldiers help me to my feet. The general gives me a bit of a rundown on how they work - apparently the wings weight too much by themselves for me to get much lift, so I have to concentrate on making them weightless before I can get off the ground. I kinda ignore what he says at first, and instead just take off. However, the wings feel incredibly unbalanced on my back, and making 4 pairs of them synchronize is quite a challenge, so I end up faceplanting a few feet away.

      The general gives me the same lecture, but I interrupt him. "With all due respect, general, I think it'd be a lot easier with just one set of these wings." I put focus onto my back, and several of the wings fall away, leaving one set of fairly huge white wings on my back. I take off again. This time I get about 15 feet off the ground, but then the weight of the wings starts to kick in, and I slowly descend back to the ground (this time without crash landing). I try a few more times before I finally take the general's advice. I focus on the wings themselves, making them turn nearly transparent like glass, with a yellowish-white glow around where they were. I get off the ground with a bit of a shaky start, but once I get the hang of it I take off with much greater speed. It feels incredible - even better than any other time I've flown in a lucid. I also have a ton of control over it, so I keep sending myself higher and higher. I fly over this huge forest and admire the detail of the ground and trees beneath me. I fly in between two trees and decide to do a barrel roll, but once I get upside down I black out.


      I'm now in an elementary school, in an army uniform. I'm not lucid, though I definitely recall still having my wings at this point. The general walks in, and everyone goes to attention, so I do the same. Behind the general are a few small kids that look like they're in about 3rd grade. The teacher comes in behind them, and once everyone is in the room, she starts presenting some awards to the kids. Apparently these kids just won the state spelling bee, and this was their award ceremony (why it was in front of a ton of soldiers is beyond me though). The only name I remember was this one girl whose name was "Auburn Auburn", and I remember thinking how terrible their parents had to be to do that to their child. I woke up soon after this.

      3 NLDs - 2 pts
      1 DILD - 10 pts
      RC - 1 pt
      Teleport - 10 pts
      Unspecified (size change) - 5 pts
      Partial Transformation (wings) - 5 pts
      Flying - 5 pts
      Night 14 Total - 38 pts
      Tags: competition
      Categories
      lucid
    15. 4/22/16 - Spring Competition Night 12

      by , 04-22-2016 at 09:00 PM
      I'm at my house, where there's some competition thing going on, apparently for some reality show. There's a different event going on in each room of the house, and I stop for a bit at each to watch. One was a weird diving competition in a swimming pool full of soup.

      At one point, I realize that I'm going to be late for church. I step outside, but the wind suddenly picks up, and I'm being blown sideways while holding on to the doorframe. I work my way across the side of the house, but the wind continually hits harder and harder. I don't know when it happened, but suddenly I look down and realize that my house is flying through the sky. I'm now holding on for dear life.

      Just then, it hits me not only how weird this situation is, but also how vivid everything looks.
      This makes me realize that I'm dreaming. Relieved, I let go of the house and start freefalling. It feels exhilarating, but I think of the TOTM of laying on a cloud, so I try to slow down my decent. It doesn't work, however, and I continue falling.

      I splash down hard into this huge purple ocean, but I'm completely unscathed. I have a nice view of the stars above me, and under the water just at the horizon is what looks like a black hole. It kinda sticks about above the water level, but because of the gravity, the water bulges out quite a ways to fully cover it. I look at the sky and see several other small water planets with their own black holes. They kinda look like different levels from Super Mario Galaxy. I decide to try swimming into the black hole to see what happens, but I end up being woken up by my alarm.


      DILD - 10 pts
      Invulnerabilty - 5 pts
      Night 12 Total - 15 pts
      Tags: competition
      Categories
      lucid
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