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LUCID

I originally meant to post this this morning, but my iPad was being stupid and giving me a 404 Not Found message every time I tried to access this site.

My family and I are taking a walk in what looks like San Deigo. The places we encounter on our walk include a submarine-looking place, and several alleyways. I misplace one of my sneakers in the alleyway, but I have to wait until the following morning to retrieve it. The next morning I go into one of the alleyways and see a beach ball with rubber legs wearing my sneaker on it's "foot" I pick up the beach ball and, after getting my sneaker back, begin to play with it.

Cory and I were shopping in the clothes section of a store, when I saw this weird monster hovering to and fro between the clothes racks. It made me think of Lovecraftian monsters, because it had lots of tentacles and a head that looked sort of like an aquatic triceratops. Cory didn't notice it wandering around, so I followed behind it to try to figure out what it was doing here. As it moved around, it dropped a book, and after a while it vanished. I picked up the book, but I couldn't get it to open. The front was covered in a grainy wood texture and it looked very old, and when I showed it to a nearby shopper, he screamed and spoiled his pants. It kinda freaked me out but at the same time was a little funny, that whenever I showed the book to someone, they would all get completely terrified and soil their pants. I figured the book had some kind of monstrous aura but it did not affect me because I was the one holding it. I hid the book in my bag so nobody else would see it and freak out, and then Cory and I left the store and went to a gas station to get some sodas. We were going on a trip that involved a train, so we wanted to bring some drinks with us. We arrived at the train station just in time to board and took a seat near the back. I put my bag with the creepy book in it under my seat and opened my soda, but when I took a drink of it, it was very gross and had a slimy consistency so I threw it out. After the train started moving, Cory fell asleep, as did many of the passengers, but there were still a few of us awake when the train took a very sharp curve and caused the terror book to fall out of my bag and slide across the floor. I tried to grab it but it slid out of my reach. As it slid forward, I could hear random people screaming.

I had a job as a cashier at a high-end grocery store and, even though it wasn't my first day on the job, I was still pretty new. I got behind the register and two old ladies immediately walked to my line. They didn't have a lot of groceries, just a few cuts of meat and some paper towels, but for some reason my register was acting up and wouldn't let me input my employee number and password. I kept fiddling with the screen, trying to get to the log-in screen, but it was taking forever. Fortunately, the ladies were nice and said they actually forgot something they needed so they left their groceries on the belt and went back into the aisles. I finally got it working, but the ladies were still gone, and an old Asian man came through the line and waited, not sure if he should go forward or wait for whoever the meat and towels belonged to. I ushered him forward and checked him out around the ladies' groceries, and soon they came back. We hit another road block when I tried to scan their paper towels but couldn't find a bar code on them. They told me the towels were 37 cents each, which seemed pretty low, but I'd already made them wait so I just took their word for it. After I finished with them, I went on my lunch break, so I walked over to the deli/butcher area to get a sandwich. I was friends with the girl behind the deli counter, she had two brown ponytails on the sides of her head and one of those little hats butchers always wear. When I got there, she got excited and pointed to a spot in the meat display case near the bottom. There was a cute black and white kitten curled up and sleeping on an empty spot on the case. I suggested she make a sign saying "Cat 3.99/lb" and put it next to the sleeping kitten, and she laughed and agreed but before she could the kitten woke up and walked away. I ordered a sandwich made with bratwurst, and as I started towards the break room I saw Cory walking up to the deli. I ran up behind him and stuck the bratwurst sandwich in his face, but instead of jumping scared he just took a bite of it. I asked him what he was doing here, and he said "I need to buy some spices for dinner tonight." He wheeled a cart up to the deli and started ordering bags of the spices on display on the wall shelves. He piled bags of expensive high-end spices and dried herbs into the cart until it was full, and I was concerned we didn't have the money to buy a cart full of spices. He seemed okay with it though.

Something involving Monster High or Bratz dolls. There were three sets of three dolls each, and each set had the same three dolls only they were a different size. There was a set of small ones the size of regular action figures, a set of normal sized ones, and then a set of very tall ones about the size of a 60cm BJD. I think I gave them to somebody as a gift?

I was in my room with my Sister Karen and my Brother Erin. My finger-biting RC worked and I became lucid. I love proving to dream characters that it's a dream, so I began flicking the switch on and off, but oddly enough, it actually worked. My siblings stared at me in confusion. Then, I realized that the switch was also controlling the sun outside! (It coming up and down). I told my sister to explain that and she goes "It's just some faulty wiring." I angrily stormed out of the room. For some reason I desperately wanted to have sex, so I began to head towards this girl Dee, but before I got to her, I saw this girl Shawna. I went after her. She stops in my kitchen with a wedgie and on her phone. I put my penis between her butt cheeks for a second, but quickly put it away because a part of me still feared that I might be awake. Then, I woke up. I fell right back to sleep and the dream continued. To prove to myself that I was dreaming. I began flipping the kitchen light switch and it wasn't working, but instead it was turning the outside Christmas lights on and off. Right as I was ready to seduce Shawna, my brother Kane came busting in the door and chanted some odd chants and scared the hell out of me and I woke up.

I was in my kitchen and my Mom and Brother Jon were talking. I interrupted them when I realized I could breathe even with my nose being pinched shut. I showed them and my Mom didn't believe me but my brother said "Oh sh*t, you must be dreaming!" I got excited and began getting in everyone's face and saying "i'm dreaming!" But, due to my dream recall being horrible at the time, I don't remember ANYTHING else. Besides waking up that is.

I was in my kitchen looking at the clock on the microwave. Instead of time, or even numbers for that matter, there were pictures of Power Rangers and the like, so I showed my brother Erin who couldn't explain it, but said he'd figure out what was wrong. I became lucid, and for some reason I always get this tingling, warm feeling of excitement which can be unbearable at times when I become lucid. I began running around trying to summon people and failing and jumping off of chairs in a failed attempt to fly. I got frustrated, and didn't know what to do. Then, Aaron called me over and had some odd explanation for the clock not working right. That, plus my failed attempts at lucid induced fun, I actually thought I was awake and this realization actually woke me up.

I was with Dennis Reynolds from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and we were writing a note that, in waking life, would have made absolutely NO sense whatsoever. But, in this dream world, it made perfect sense. I kept messing up, and every time I did, we'd laugh REALLY hard. We eventually got bored, or finished, I'm not sure which one, and just left. We got into a white convertible and picked up my friend Amy and her VERY fat friend whom I have never seen in waking life. For some reason, while Amy discussed her desire to make a music video, Dennis was asking the fat girl if her boobs tasted like vanilla. She said yes, so he licked them and grumbled angrily. All I heard was "...mumble mumble... Chocolate... mumble mumble..." and then we drove off to presumably make a music video. Then I woke up.
SIDE NOTE: I feel as if the fat girl and AMY were the same person and it makes sense because AMY used to be a bit fat, but is now very skinny. She was never THAT fat though, so I'm not sure.

Dream Meaning (IMO):
Well, in waking life I have a huge crush on Amy but I'm always too scared to hang out with her. In this dream, I had a really fun time hanging out with her and we didn't even do much! I think this is a sign that I should talk to her more.

It was raining and I was walking with this girl Terah and my friend Nicholas. (I couldn't see Nicholas, but I knew he was there). We walked to my friend Jesse's house, and it felt like it took forever. When we got there, this other kid from my school named Nicholas came out and just ran away. Then my friend Jesse came out. He said I couldn't come in, but he wanted me to show him where I live. I said "I can't see it from here!" and he says "What do you mean? You didn't come very far. Look." I turned around and that HUGE walk, turned out to be just a little bit up the street. I pointed out my house and for some reason whispered in his ear that I didn't like the girl Terah because she kept giggling like she knew something we didn't. And then I woke up.

Dream Meaning (IMO):
Well, this only has to deal with the huge trip actually being very short. I believe that the point is this was actually to tell me that even though things might seems challenging or annoying or hard, if you look at it the right way, you can find something good about every situation! Thanks to this, I'm trying to be more optimistic in waking life

I was sitting in my History classroom and my teacher (who is also the AP Psychiatry teacher) was giving a lecture about lucid dreaming. I began bragging that I knew what it was and that I had actually done it several times, but then I just woke up.

All I remember is trying my new (as far as I know I made it up) finger-biting RC. All I do is bite as hard as I can down on my finger tips, one at a time. I think the reason it works so well is because the pain lasts for a few seconds, so you get a really good sense of "When I do this, it hurts" so when performed in a dream, you are very surprised when it doesn't hurt. ANYWAY: It actually hurt in my dream. I got confused and woke up.

All I remember is an image (I think a still-image as odd as that may seem) of my cats liter box tilted over and a huge pile of cat liter and feces up against the wall. I also remember being VERY angry.

All I remember is eating a bunch of pot cookies with a friend of mine (can't remember who) and he told me to only take 2 but I secretly ate a LOT. I eventually just ran and don't remember anything after that.

My dream started off like this: I was in my house cleaning up and getting food ready because I (somehow) knew that my friend Emmy and her boyfriend Devin were coming over. But, right as I was finishing up, I found myself in the middle of Baltimore City (I live in the county) and I was with my friend Kris. The city actually reminded me more of my neighborhood or Grove street (GTA 5 version) than Baltimore, but I could feel that it was Baltimore. We broke into this Indian boy Ayem's house and started looting, but we heard him pull up, so we ran. Next thing I know, I was back at my house. My friend and her boyfriend arrived. We ate Ice cream and watched a movie in my room. Then, I woke up.

092913 (early morning of) 1130 115 (s mental barrier defeated) IWL 145 son home=woke me. 450 SSILD wake from 2nd LD 730 all times are approximations.
Two mental barriers sex and flonase both defeated! Dream before wbtb: and then unusual nightmare for me perhaps aided by the flonase. Woke up looking at connection between flonase & dreams.

*Please note, anyone deciding to read this, there is a lot of commentary and analysis that may be boring to someone looking from the outside.

First dream of night was non lucid nightmare which I will put at the end. Skipping ahead...

After wake back to bed I have a short DILD. As I am waking up back in bed I tell myself to remember it but opt not to write it down because I felt like I could easily DEILD. I was able to get lucid again but I did forget the first lucid dream. First LD was kind of short anyway I remember that much about it. It wasn't true DEILD because I didn't stay conscious and instead came into a false awakening. In the FA, I
don't remember (my dream body) getting up but I was at the foot of the bed fumbling around near the TV and I look back at the bed and my son is in the bed as well for some reason. I can't remember if he looked much younger since he might sometimes be in our bed when he was a toddler. But there was also a plump, balding guy between my wife and son. He looked nothing like me(I think I got lucky...got the hair from males on my moms side & have no signs of balding so far...). The guy is touching my wifes face WTF , what are you doing man??! Son asks what is wrong and I tell him that guys touching moms face! I go outside disgusted. I'm rifling through a pickup truck that seems to be mine even know I've never owned one and I look at the next driveway over and I see my wife leaning against a car staring at me. This gives me the "aha" lucid moment. I get out of truck...My wife disappears and I realize that I am standing in front of what is supposed to be an approximation of my
childhood home in E. I decide that this could be interesting and do not immediately fly off and I think that I want to look around and see if I can really see that house in this lucid dream. As I look at the house some of the details start materializing. Yep there's those multi colored bricks, and the faux shutters. There's the tree we planted and the little border the tree. I forgot about the shrubs, they were prominent. I think about going inside but nah... I'm usually trying to get out of the house lucid as quick as I can seems to be more adventurous outside. I fly over the nearby intersection with the two convenience stores and over my childhood hometown eventually to my highschool, though many details are missing from the townscape (or I forgot details of the LD). I think of the locker room task the month and think about doing it again. I enter and I'm going through the hallways of the school and no one is around at this point. I try to remember
where the gym is. Do I even remember if I took any physical education classes in high school? I didn't play any school sports that required going to the changing room. Ah, i realize, the gym is where the pep rallies were! ( as my waking memory becomes more clear) but I wake up try to go back into the dream I seem to be to awake.
Earlier non lucid turned nightmare:
Earliest part of the dream I can go back to: I was sitting in a church and we decided to sneak out a little early me and my wife and my mother in law. my mother in law left first through the side entrance on the opposite side of where we were heading me and my wife & I decided to cut through the church out of the opposite side to catch up to her. I told my wife we should have went down the aisle that we were already on we went down the parallel aisle which made it less efficient. I'm always talking about efficiency in waking life and it bothers her and my son usually. For some reason we're trying to catch a bus instead of going out to our car. We see that we just missed the bus because it pulls away and I wonder if my mother in law was on it she is nowhere to be seen. There's another bus
right behind it and it is parking in the parking lot I think that it must be parking in order to wait for the next scheduled time next scheduled pickup. My wife and I walked over to the bus and he starts pushing another vehicle with his bus I can't tell or can't remember if I thought he was helping the other vehicle or pushing it out of malice. Perhaps thinking about the malice aspect lead to the nightmare portion of this dream. Or perhaps the flonase or perhaps my conversation with my son the day before the dream where videos he showed me inspired me to want to have a nightmare which I normally do not look for and which I specifically told my son that the video made me want to have a nightmare. This wasn't really the kind I was looking for though. The video my son showed me IWL was related to Halloween mazes and the end of the dream was much like a dark corridor Halloween maze. Anyway we go up to the bus driver and ask him when the next bus leaves and he says there will be no more at this time of night his bus is out of
service for the night. He showed us on a detailed map where the next bus stop over still has lines running this time of night. It seem like it would be a long walk but we could do it and then perhaps a false memory of being at that other bus stop before and it was a place with a huge parking lot and lots of cars parked in like a commuter parking lot. All these buses were going into the city. What city I do not know but it certainly was no place familiar in waking life. At some point a dangerous pit bull dog is barking and making a fuss from the bus I believe. I think the bus driver is holding the dog back and giving us a chance to run and for some reason at this point it is me and my son(instead of me and wife) and we are both running as fast as we can . My son jumps into a car locks the door and I don't want to have him re open the door so I run into a warehouse the dog follows me but then I lose track of him I start searching for the dog which seems to be a dream sign for
me dogs and I wonder if it's because I'm hearing a dog barking in real life while I am sleeping sometimes we have a few dogs barking but not usually too much. And besides I wear ear plugs usually after my wake back to bed but I can still hear a little bit through the ear plugs. Somehow I have a shotgun double barreled so I can get off two shots with each load. I'm searching for the dog I look under to stall doors sort of like bathroom stalls and probably were bathroom stalls. I don't see anything under the bathroom stall doors and I continue looking down the corridor but then I go back to the two stalls and think how could this dog have disappeared maybe he's sneaky and jumped up on the toilet so I couldn't see him under the door? so I kicked in each door nothing there. I go back into the corridor and wonder where in the heck did he go ? This is some kind of super dog. Then I see that there is another room that I missed before that has those plastic
curtain blades hanging vertically like you have when you walk into a walk in freezer the kind of plastic you push aside to go in for easy ingress and egress but still keeping the cold air in. I finally see the dog facing away from me and I decide to sneak up on him to try to shoot him... Sorry pet lovers I would never do this in waking life unless I thought he was still coming after my son or I. The shot seems to wildly miss or at least it doesn't hurt the dog in the least... I shoot again nothing I reload and try to shoot some more and then I wake up.

A nightmare from over the weekend:

I'm watching a TV show involving something supernatural, and the character in the show is looking at a TV screen with some monster/demon/spirit/etc on the other side of the screen, coming closer, intending to break through. It looks like a white-skinned (literal colorless white) woman with brilliantly red hair and this blazing sparking moving light where its eyes should be. I notice that I can see it not just on my TV but on all the reflective surfaces in the room, and I know it's really trying to break through into the real world. I try holding it back with various protective symbols and calling on various things (not Apollo, curiously, as that's been my go-to nightmare cure recently; possibly it's because this one's not on the theme of darkness like all the others were) but they're not very effective, I have the feeling it's only a matter of time. At the same time, the door at the far end of the hall is open - I came through it earlier - and through it I can see a woman laughing, different from the woman in the screen but I have the feeling they're related. Feeling like I don't have much time, I sprint across the hall, slam the door and lock it. The dream 'camera' zooms in on that image of the lock turning, and closely focuses on the feel of it - and then the scene isn't a nightmare anymore. The thing on the screen is gone, now it's showing the main character saying to his sister, "It's you and me, we're all we've got now."

At some point while I was watching the show (I can't remember whether it was before or after the nightmare part), I thought to myself that watching creepy things every week might impact your dreams.

(Woke up around 5:30, an hour after bed, with a high-pitched ringing in my ears that reminds me a little of TV static, so that was presumably the cause of this. Recall for the rest of the day was terrible.)

Tonight's dreams:

People living in tunnels who have to move due to some imminent danger.

I'm walking through this vast room, mostly filled with a pool of water, cranes are standing in it, and one of the people I'm with comments on the way one of the birds is holding its leg up out of the water, she says she bets it's pointing to something, we should investigate. I disagree, but investigate anyway just to prove the point. I float above the water, and pass various cranes pointing in different directions, meaningless. But at the far side of the room I meet a man, a traveler, who I start talking to and who decides to come with us; he's standing beside this curtained alcove, and through the white curtains I get a glimpse of this beautiful woman sitting on the stone floor in white robes, hair down to the floor, and at first I think she's wearing a mask, something representing the moon, and I think she must be a princess or a priestess. Then I realize that's not a mask, it's her face, beautiful and strange.

3rd person, that traveler and the man who I was in the previous scene are walking down a flight of stairs with a little boy running ahead of them. There's a festival, a sending on of spirits, which are these floating pale lights filling the room, sending them on involves covering them with cloth, and the boy reaches for one of them, but it's acting differently than the others. The traveler says that because this one had been killed, it would be wrong to send her on in that form. The light takes on the image of the little girl it had been, and starts talking to the little boy, calling him Koya, saying he's gotten older. He tells her he's not Koya, sounding frustrated, but one of the older men says quietly to him that she needs him to be the person she's waiting for.

non-dream dream semi-lucid lucid false awakening

I'm at some airport, but not a conventional one, either it's interplanetary or interdimensional. I was with some girl friends, but I loose them in the crowd. I end up in the restauration area and from there I walk out into an open area that I recognize from another dream I had some day. There's a stage and a girl is rehearsing for a concert later on. I keep walking up a dirt road because nature looks alien: there's a tree with raspberries the size of big apples and the soil looks like a creamy chocolate cake. As I watch the trees, their roots and branches and the river to my left, I notice patterns overlapping. The branches of a certain tree fit precisely against certain stars in the sky.
A guy appears behind me and says "Can you see the patterns, repeated and interconnected?".
"Yes, but if I move to a new position, I stop seeing this overlapping pattern, so it's just coincidental."
"Look again, you'll just see new patterns emerging. No matter what angle you look at things, you will always find repeating and overlapping patterns, just different ones, infinite numbers."
As we keep walking, I know I am dreaming, but it requires no reality check to confirm it or stabilize it. It holds very naturally and very clear. I actually feel that I can stay there forever. I realize how much I could learn if I decide to stay. I am decided to stay and unravel all the secrets of all the universes.
But then I wonder what will happen to the girl body I have left sleeping on a bed... Will "I" enter a coma? Sleep for the rest of "my life"? What about my family and loved ones? I don't worry that I'll miss them, I worry that they'll suffer not understanding what is happening to "me". I feel obliged to come back. (Damn!)
But for now I keep walking with this guy and he takes me to a really nice hostel in the mountain. My room faces a terrace over the river, that connects to other rooms. All is well on this peaceful place, I'm just contemplating nature, when a couple of men in black come out of another room, dragging my friend. When I approach to ask what they're doing, they tell me to go away or they'll take me to. One of them has some kind of weapon that points at me and I wake up.