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I doubled up the menthol at WBTB and I think it definitely had a strong effect on the early dream content. Also, it was cool to finally bring a DV member into a lucid dream! Reading DV during WBTB was a huge help, I think.

Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

Lucid #68: Losing My Grip

I'm in a long bedroom, and immediately I realize that this is a dream. Wife is reclining on the bed in her winter pajamas, reading her Kindle. On the opposite side of the room is a large window with its curtains open. Sunlight pours into the room.

"Hey," I tell Wife, "I'm having a lucid dream!"

She looks up. "Good! Have fun." She returns to her reading. I know that I'd planned to go to Angel Falls for Task of the Year, but my head is buzzing with sexy thoughts. I look out the window for a moment. The sun's too bright to see outside and the window is consumed by a warm, yellow glow.

When I turn my gaze back to Wife she has changed. The Kindle has vanished and she's gone from lounging in flannel pajama pants to laying over the bed in a negligee and booty shorts. My urges are going crazy. I decide that I'm not getting any of my goals done this dream. "What did you just do?" she says, looking amused.

"It's the menthol," I tell her. "I had 6 bags of peppermint tea. I think it's making me frisky." She raises her eyebrows and tilts her head forward, looking skeptical. "It sounds like an excuse," I admit. "I make too much out of these drugs. Kind of like how I think galantamine gives me magical powers." For some reason, I turn and force-push a clock off of a nearby dresser and shout "Galantamine!!" (So embarrassing. What a dream-dork. )

I join Wife on the bed and start to kiss her. The sensation is incredibly vivid and I start getting caught up in these really strong fantasies about what's going to happen. (These were crazy, cosmic fantasies that involved space, time, and dreams-within-dreams. Sadly, most of the details got scrambled up.) The fantasizing quickly runs away with me, and I'm close to losing lucidity. Before we can start doing anything, I hear the sound of little feet on the floor near our bed and a little voice say, "I see Mommy!" I freak when I realize that our two boys are here and lose lucidity. The sexytime mood leaves the room as quickly as it arrived. Wife is now back in her flannel pajamas and it looks like nothing was ever happening. I'm relieved that she's so good at acting normal.

We go downstairs with the kids and start going through a semi-normal morning routine. After a very long time spent doing mundane morning stuff, the boys are helping me bake bread in the bread machine. As I'm taking the bread out out, R (my 1.5 year old) climbs up on the counter. Before I can stop him, he burns himself on the bread, bonks his head on the bread machine, and tumbles all the way to the kitchen floor. This scares me but the accident is so comically absurd that I regain lucidity.

The boys run off and I see that Wife's looking at me. I tell her, "Don't worry, that whole thing with the fall was just part of this dream." She says okay and joins the boys in the den.

I notice that the living room is filled with a strange darkness. I catch figures moving in the darkness but I can't make out who or what they are. They don't seem hostile, and I somehow decide that they're DV members and that I want to pull one of them into the scene. NewArtemis, Alyzarin, Xanous, and OpheliaBlue are in there. I catch little flashes where I sort of "see" their faces without seeing them. (It's a little hard to explain.) I choose to bring Xanous in. (Even though the sexytime mood from earlier is long gone, I feel like it's a really bad idea to bring a female DV buddy into a menthol dream.)

I turn my head away from the darkness and extend my hand for a handshake. I expect Xanous to walk into the kitchen and shake my hand. After only a second or two, I'm gripped by a firm handshake... I turn to look, and hell yeah it's Xanous! He's in a gray t-shirt with some logo and he's laughing about something. Before I can say anything, he rapidly shrinks down until he's about a foot tall, but somehow I'm still shaking his hand.

My vision goes black but I still have a hold on the handshake. I ask Xanous what he thinks I should do but he just says something unintelligible in a weird robot voice. The handshake slips away and I fall back to the gladius trick. This doesn't do anything, and I alternate between swinging a sword and slapping myself in the face. It doesn't seem to get me anywhere.

After a bit, I wake up, staring straight at a wall. Wait, Wife should be where the wall is. Still dreaming. I try to move but I'm totally frozen. I start contemplating an OBE exit before I wake up for real.

Quests Galore

I decide to play an old Harry Potter game for nostalgia's sake. I finished the main plot long ago, but there are a bunch of bonus quests that never did finish, and none of them are easy. You have to save up a lot of gold before doing them. After collecting some money, I try starting one of the quests that I've heard is particularly hard--not because of difficult battles, but because the quest is sort of a mystery and it's hard to guess where you're supposed to go next. Indeed, a glob-like creature rises out of the darkness, eats most of my gold, and vanishes without a trace. Well, that got me nowhere. So much wasted time gathering that gold.

I decide to give one of the other quests another try. It involves defeating a ghostly horse-riding warrior. I've tried it before, earlier tonight, and I know that he does a lot of damage, but at least the objective is straightforward. I ride down into his canyon lair and we immediately start fighting, repeatedly charging down the canyon and passing each other like we're jousting with swords. If I hold down one of the trigger buttons on my controller (like the R2 button on a PS2) it will charge my attack, so that if I release the button at the right time, the slash of my scimitar will do lots of extra damage. The trouble is, he's doing the same thing, and we're both losing health at about the same rate. In fact, I'm about to die!

Hurriedly, I pause the game and try to find a health potion in my inventory. While looking around in there, I realize that I also still should have Armageddon's Blade, an epic weapon that I received for completing the main storyline all those years ago. I drink the potion, unpause, and run away from the ghostly warrior to give myself time to search for the sword. I'll also have to ensure that I'm suitably fireproof so that I don't kill myself as well when activating the sword's epic power.

Somehow I end up in a village with a friend of mine, a girl, accompanying me. While I'm talking to some NPCs, she sets off to do a different quest. The NPC remarks upon her departure, saying in a commiserating tone of voice that "women are ever unfaithful." Irked by his sexism, I try to explain that women are people too, and this one just happens to be busy at the moment: "There are only ten slots in our inventory, and we're each trying to do about twenty quests at the same time," I say.

Circumlocution

I'm hanging out with my dad's friend's son, whose father is there as well. The father makes a casual remark that I respond to at face value--then I realize that between the lines, he was actually saying that his son is gay and he thinks I ought to start going out with him. Apparently he thinks I'm gay as well. I'm impressed that he can say this much without actually saying any of it outright: it's the only logical interpretation of his comment. [I can't remember the exact wording of the comment, but presumably it wouldn't make as much sense in waking life anyway.] I add something to my previous response, hopefully making clear that now I understand his second meaning and I'm actually not interested in guys. The son does indeed interpret it that way and hurriedly responds, "That's fine." I suppose he probably feels a bit uncomfortable about his dad's attempt at matchmaking.

Previous hours:
Feb 20, 0:00-8:31
Feb 21, 3:40-8:30
Feb 22, 0:25-8:33; frag: doing touristy stuff

I had much greater recall, but as soon as i got up from bed most of my recall just vanished for no reason... bizarre...

I only can recall exploring some landscape, searching for something. There was some snowy land and also volcanic place of sorts.

#1 - The Red Night [Non-Lucid]

I was helping someone, I think it was my old friend S, play a video game where you run around at night looking for stuff and I told him he was near the end. I had him look up into the sky to see if a shimmering star was there and it was, so I told him to stare at it and he was transported to a map where there was a red moon and red and black clouds in the night sky (a possible 11eyes reference?), and he had to fight some enemy wielding either a scythe or some kind of sword, it's hard to remember exactly now....

I have been thinking way too much about scythes too, so this was probably inevitable lol. But can you blame me? They're so sexy.

#2 - Just Like Old Times [Non-Lucid]

I was with my other old friends D and M, who were pretty much best friends until M had to move away in middle school, and I was playing some racing that game that I think I perceived like Mario Kart but was actually on foot. I was just trying to get through these really demented maps that resembled some sort of dark factory combined with the inside of some huge animal. (If you've ever played Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, think the inside of the fish.) Beyond that, all I really remember of the game was that the goal was to save my friends, but I'm not sure who those friends were. I looked over from my bed at one point and saw that D and M had gotten tired and fell asleep on each other, and I thought they looked really cute and was happy they got to hang out again after so long. And that's the last thing I remember before I woke up.

I think I probably could've gone back to bed and had another dream, but we've got company coming over today so I had to get up and clean the house some. Oh well, next time.

We were at a place that resembled Hot Topic, but it wasn't a store, it was the home of a race, a race that horded mainly magical objects. I was there with Kyle and another boy, perhaps Tristan or Linkster, and some others may have been with us at some point.
The "people" living there, though human in appearance, were certainly something else, something alien. They started out as hospitable as could be, but quickly proved to be manipulative and devious. They would not let us leave.
We had to fight our way out, or rather, I did. Kyle and friend made it outside and I then proceeded to make several trips back to retrieve our belongings as well as some others that looked useful. Kyle had a huge pile of what appeared to be trading cards which the race's leader had taken, presumably because of their magical properties, and the stupid things took me two trips to save. Kyle was relieved to see them, but he was being too useless for me to care.

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A child needed to be created. In a bathtub was a clear liquid in which he would be born. Next to it were two loofahs, one of which contained the DNA of the parents, and one of which contained unknown DNA. I placed both into the tub, but nothig happened. A young man who was with me stepped into the tub. I knew him, but I don't believe I've ever seen him before in my life. He knew, apparently, how this worked, and had Will step into the tub with him. I closed the curtain, because often in dreams what keeps things from working is that I'm staring at them. A few seconds later though, Will told me to open the curtain, that I had to see it. I did, and before my eyes a child of about four was growing out of nowhere. It was amazing to watch. Another few moments of this and it was finished. A strong little blonde boy stood there in the tub. The young man said that he was made from four different people's DNA, but that he was to be my brother.

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I can fly. I can always fly. It's my favorite thing to do. In a field with my friends I was demonstrating my skill, and trying to teach them.

I was at this place that was kind of like an amusement park and arcade combined. Pretty sure it had a dinosaur theme. I walked outside ofthe area I was in and saw this iPad filled crane game. It was 50 dollars to play, but I did it anyway. I won one on my first try.

I was looking at myself in the mirror, and the mirror was fogging up as though ice was forming on it. This all seemed very strange, so I decided to do a nose plug RC. It worked, and I could breathe.
The mirrior began to defog, and for some reason my upper lip stretched out in a freakish manner. I yelled stop and it returned to normal. Then, for some strange reason, i ordered my hair to grow really long.
I remembered that I wanted to build a "dream base" or some kind of building or place that I would always go to in lucid dreams. (This was my goal before I took my break) I looked outside from the window in my room and saw an empty dirt lot.
Perfect, I thought. I began making my way downstairs. I told myself that I was dreaming over and over. When I got outside, the lot had converted to grass, and the setting had changed quiet alot, but there was still a considerable amount of room to do my construction.
I started by gesturing my hands and creating a foundation. Orgiginally, it was just a blue holographic outline on the ground, but slowly, it materialized. The foundation I happened to create was a concrete slab with some cobblestones around the side.
I gestured my hands up for a tower. Bricks appeared out of thin air, and would slide into their correct place and fuse together. I stepped back and had created a large brick tower, perhaps about eight stories tall. But the tower was skewed and crooked.
I gestured back down, and the tower deconstructed and faded away. I decided to try again.
I began creating concrete and glass pieces and moving them, ensuring that they were connected at the proper angle. But I didn't really know what I wanted to create.
Some dream characters came along and began annoying me and yelling taunts. I punched one of them, and sent him rocketing into the air. But the others continued to annoy me. I couldn't seem to punch them the same
I could tell that the dream was losing stability, and I came up with a clever solution.
I drew a box around my unfinished base, and flew up into the air.
"Okay, lets cut it and move it somewhere else"
I saw a holographic menu come up that said "copy" but the dream had destabilized, I woke up.

Well, I should probably draw my dream base and know what I want to make before I try to build it again. Nice attempt though, it's good to know that I have construction powers in dreams.

I was with a few friends, and we were planning to swim in a swimmingpool. For some reason we needed what looked like climbing gear to swim though, and it was a pain to get on. I tried for a long time but failed, and asked for help a few times. I don't exactly remember what happened after that but I remember having a good time after that. I also recognised 2 of my friends.

I had another LD last night, but I'm not sure if I would call it a real one.

Basically, I was running down the street where I live, knowing that someone was about to chase me (I think it was my Mum), and I stopped, and reminded myself that nothing could hurt me because it was a dream. When I actually realized it, I kept repeating to myself that it was a dream, but the nose pinch and finger through hand RCs didn't work. I was stood there for a while, waiting for the person who was chasing me to come out, but they didn't.

Then I found a giant doughnut which was about a metre wide, and it had cream/icing around it that was about 15cm thick, and I was trying to see what it tasted like, because I wanted to know what it would be like. It actually wasn't as sickly as you would imagine it to be, it was really nice. My brother was also trying to take it away from me too.

It's like I couldn't make my mind up whether I wanted to leave or wait for the person, and the wait may have caused me to lose lucidity. I'm not sure, I can barely remember the rest of it.

I was in an airplane on an unbelievably long flight. Out the window I could see space. I saw a shuttle launch and break away from the boosters. I also saw the meteor (up close) that hit russia. Kind of frightening. I pondered if I wanted to be in the space shuttle. I didn't have an answer.

Back in college driving the Miata. Had to find my dorm room. Why am I here? Anyway, my fave band is playing in town that night. There were 2 venues and I was at the wrong one. With Kellee and L. Ozzy was playing on this stage. I wanted to go to the other one - I guess Kel went with me. We drove by a demolished roller coaster over grown with moss (weird). I think we made it too late for their show, but Jules came over. Andy took Kellee away. I offered to go back to my house in Charleston. I took Jules and Fab in the miata. It was fun, but here is were things get sketchy. I must have been aware I was dreaming because I could feel myself waking up, so I would rub my hands together to keep the dream going. While I was aware that I was dreaming - I wouldn't say it was a lucid dream.

I was somewhere familiar but I couldn't quite place it. Then I was at a jewelry store looking at oval diamonds for an engagement bracelet. I was confused, who is this for? Turns out I was getting married to a woman and she wanted a bracelet instead of a ring. I didn't buy it because it was heavily included in the stones. By now, I was really confused because I remembered I am already married to a man. And here was this girl I didn't even know planning my wedding to her. Trippy.

Some non-lucid dream recall from naps.

Nap #1(fragment):

I was in some sort of lucid dreaming team and we were preparing to go into dream to fight with some powerful dude.

Nap #2:

I was playing Warcraft 3 map named IMBA wars(An MOBA map with ridiculously overpowered everything, i have played it IWL as well long time ago) in multiplayer with LV, it also had AI players(something that IWL version didn't featured). I got some sort of necromancer hero from random select, one of his abilities was to summon bunch of skeletal warriors at targeted place, it had zero cooldown as well. Some ability was firing dark projectile that was doing huge damage to single unit, zero cooldown there as well. The battle was 2vs2, me and AI player vs LV and AI player. I had alot of problems because AI player on my side was glitching or something, so i had to defend the base solo. LV's hero was some sort of dark wraith thing with one of the abilities was ability to summon some lesser wraiths and other was to sacrifice units to increase INT stat. Also the AI player on LV's side has ability to create portals from place to place, which they were using to attack the base from unexpected positions, i haven't seen heroes of both AI players apparently.
During one of those attacks i successfully countered lesser wraiths with skeletons and when LV's hero was trying to ambush my hero from the back i used the dark projectile ability, which apparently OHKO'd him. Dream ended shortly.

Flying Lucid
I was walking down the freeway with this big group of teenagers when I realized I was dreaming. Or rather, I always knew. The first thing I did was jump into the air and try to fly. I just came right came down though. I realized that I could do anything if I just imagined it in my head, so I tried again and his time flew super high and then actually flew around for while. I came back down landing hard on the ground. I hen proceeded to jump high in the air, higher and higher each time, and come crashing back to the ground and "die." After doing this from above the clouds, I got bored and thought I'd try visiting space. So I clew upwards and through the clouds and It didn't take long before I was outside the Earth's atmosphere. I went to visit the moon first. It was relatively small and there was another small moon around it. I touched it and it fell away like dust. Then I went to Saturn and touched the fiery ring. I got bored with this and decided to smash back to Earth again.


Therapy Gone Wrong
Take One:
I arrived at my therapy session after what seemed like forever and I took a seat across from the therapist. I started talking to her about some stuff(idr what) and she then lied down on the couch and didn't seem to be paying any attention to me. Another client(or some random person) sat next to her and she seemed to pay more attention to this other person than to me.

Take Two:
Once again, I was headed off to therapy. I was getting ready and trying to get moving so that I would be there on time but things kept happening that delayed me. Somehow, I was finally almost there and I called the therapist to tell her I would be 20 minutes late. But by the time I got there, I was actually on time and had to wait for her to be ready. I was in the waiting room with some other guy about by age, with long brown shaggy hair. He seemed kinda cool, and I think we talked a bit. He eventually left and went up to the front desk of the physical health section of the building and I was surprised that he wasn't here for mental health like me. Anyway, sometime after or before that, I had to go but my shovel away so I placed it outside the door to the building(why did I have a shovel? I have no idea). I went up to the receptionist in the behavioral place or whatever it's called and told her I was ready to see my therapist. After what seemed like hours of getting ready and figuring out how to get here and sitting around in the waiting room, I would finally get what I came here for. But, instead of telling my therapist I was here, the receptionist jokingly told me, "You're going to have to break up with your therapist." And then she said, "She's busy with another client." A client who took my place. The therapist was standing just a few feet away from me talking to another client. I was pissed off. Then, on top of that, my old friend from elementary school(who turned into a bitch) showed up with two of her friends(TL and TM) and they were all dressed up in homecoming dresses. They were sticking their noses up in my business and I asked them why they were here and they said they were looking for cute guys. (wtf?!) I was so mad and upset that I just left.

I was on the bus coming home from school. The driver pulls away with someone running behind, but he doesn't stop. Everyone on the bus asks him to wait but he ignores them. He goes a different way than usual, and says we are looking for Miki. I got scared, because I didn't know she was gone (she is my cousin in the dream apparently). I think she ran away from home. I got off the bus and behind me followed Kagamine Rin. We searched together. There was some kind of hole dug under the ground with rotted boards scattered everywhere. We looked around but didn't see her, so I left and went home. At home I asked my older brother if he had seen Miki. He looked worried. I asked him for advice and he said to bring some game with me. I asked one of my younger brothers but before I could give the question I noticed he was wearing a shirt with a picture of Miku on it. I said "hey, you don't like vocaloid," but he just shrugged. I went downstairs and I walked to nona's house to ask her. I went inside and asked "you know cousin Miki is missing?" She didn't even know who it was I was talking about (only sane person in this dream XD). I told her "the girl with the red hair." After that I saw a shadow outside out of the corner of my eye. Nonna made a strange face and scared the figure away. I knew it was Miki though, so I looked outside, but I only saw a family of carved melons (??). They were basically human shaped carvings made of different melons. One of them had red watermelon hair just like Miki's I asked nonna if that was Miki and she said yes, but she is just hiding in that form (or something like that). Then I woke up.