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I haven't put any focus on WILDs in quite some time but was motivated to mix attempts back in the last 2 nights, but only after doing my MILD to increase chances of my fairly trusty DILDs if the WILD fails. At BTB I do location-aha-MILD first, followed by face to face, clear view release and some REM eye movement simulation (4 eye sweeps behind closed eyelids). The face to face and REM simulation are found to be the most efficient method of losing the feel of my waking body. I get a good number of color and pattern HH's, followed by some that resemble objects and people, followed by dreamlets. At those first two stages I was able to use a technique of "reaching" for additional senses related to the items more than just the visual: primarily tactile and temperature, but sometimes sounds and smells that match with the visual. I didn't remember to try taste. For the third stage where I was getting dreamlets I found that I had to become more passive it seemed because I was finding my senses return to my waking body or perhaps within an FA. I didn't test it, assuming FA's and decided I did need to be more passive during these dreamlets, perhaps wrongly. I know passive is generally recommended but since I have a fair bit of experience with WILDs I feel more inclined toward the active side of the scale. Anyway, I end up in an FA and then an actual waking or FA where I go for a WILD.

I am naked in bed with my wife and for some reason my mother in law is there and I seem to be semi-lucid at this stage but as more people arrive I seem to drop below semi-lucid and get caught up in the dream. I see this commercial anti-bacterial spray I have looked for in the past and ask the guy where he got it without a good answer. I either wake or have another FA in my normal bed/scenario and go for a DEILD but feels more like a WILD with HH's and back to reaching for additional senses tied to the HH visuals. After some fading in and out of HHs I get a more steady one that looks most like a cave opening at first and imagine some cooler air emanating from it. It develops into a a vague looking canyon and then to a canyon formation like you might see in Arches National Park with a double arch entrance to a canyon opening where both "arches" were relatively flat on their top sides but the bottom "arch" had an arch shape to it whereas the top "arch" was also relatively flat across the bottom as well. This was all in a brightly lit daylight scene once the arches formed. This morphed from more of a natural formation to something purposely built like you might see in a sci-fi set on a canyon-like planet. I want to go there but it seems my dream body is still forming so I use intent with my eyes to start moving in that direction and I reach for the sensation of the wind on my face and body and it feels like a slightly cool breeze and I am now flying in my dream body. As I get to the canyon "entrance" I land due to the low clearance and find my self alternating between walking and crawling in a very cool scene that seems a lot like a dry cave but tons of light coming in on the far side that I want to get to and also light coming from the side I came in on. It was a very cool place to explore, but I love caves and canyons. It also reminded me of some of my favorite lucid dreams like the wall and childhood "treasures" found on the beach of the grassy sea (posted in my DJ on DV somewhere a good ways back). As I get to the end of the low clearance I fly up and out to the next bend in the canyon and think of one of the TOTM's and decide that an alien spaceship will be the right around the bend but nothing is there. I then decide it will be at the top of this canyon wall to my left and I fly up to the top of it and there it is a huge mega spaceship with an outer shell that is made up of many circular metal panels with lattice work in between, perhaps 100 circular panels on the side of the ship that I can see. I fly into the lattice work and I feel myself being pulled further into the craft with a fade to darkness at first but soon after a bright long and fairly wide hall appears that looks like a mall with humans walking around and a food place to my right. Perhaps the scenario is that the dream aliens created an environment where I would feel comfortable but I proceeded to treat it just like any dream scene. I tried to slow down one lady passing by, but she seemed in a hurry and I look ahead down the hallway/walkway of the "mall" and see a tall beautiful lady that looks slightly not of this world with her unusually big and stunningly attractive eyes.
(eyes were wider and bigger but this is close)
After the experience with the previous lady I made sure I would be able to stop her in her tracks by creating the back story of: "Finally we are reunited! It has been so long!" grasping both of her hands face to face and giving her a big wet kiss. I feel myself getting rather excited but I remember to calm down. I think of another TOTM, the pencil one and tell her I have something to show her and reach in my back pocket but coming up empty handed. I then ask her if she has a pencil and she pulls one out of her purse and I try to float it in the air in front of me and it disappears. I then walk over to the food place and ask the guy behind the counter for a pencil and he gives me one. I see an order stub on the counter and float the pencil with the tip touching the paper and tell it to draw something and it starts doodling. It looks like nothing more than a toddler's drawing but as I look closer, it looks like it morphs into words on the order stub. I wake and quickly use the bathroom in order to get back to dreaming, this time RCing to make sure I'm actually awake. I jot down a few keywords from the dream and a few quick drawings of the canyon arches and the alien craft lattice work and go back to bed, forgetting to write down the words that I remembered.

After playing with HH's for a while and deciding to doze off, I get a dream where the wife asks me where one of the bills is and if it has been paid. I said that I think I filed it already but I can check on the computer if I paid it. At the computer, the keyboard is missing and I ask my wife if she's seen it but then I find the keyboard unplugged and sitting on top of the computer desktop tower. I feel someone tugging on me in darkness and I realize I must have fallen asleep, maybe in front of the computer. Either way I treat the tugging as HHs not waking life and a scene forms where I am at an office elevator and a woman is asking me for directions. Already aware that I am dreaming I decide to see where the elevator takes me just like in last night's lucid, with a little excited anticipation. I don't remember anything but going up in the elevator before waking up needing to pee again and I decide to get up for the day.

15/1/17
Dream 1: I was doing an IT or health exam from home, either because I was injured, sick or home schooled, not sure. I hadn't studied very much and was struggling. I got stuck on a question, so I looked in newspaper and there is an article about it so i start copying. Mum comes in and says we need to go somewhere in the city so we drive there. We then take the train back and she says she will pick up the car halfway. We are know in the car and are driving back after being pulled over by police for breathalyser. I ask her about the exam question but she doesn't know, says something about adductors and abductors.

I am in a warm shower, and I dry myself quickly as I remember I have to go to the top. The tower is glass and see through, and I wind round for ages until I reach the top. The top is immensely crowded, and I push my way towards a platform. A few other people, and a guide woman are on it. I get on it just in time, as it suddenly is released from the top of the tower. It floats down, but I cannot tell how high or low it is because of bizarre perspective. I touch down on the grass and...

WBTB

I wander around the beautiful city I described in the previous dream for a very long time. It is godlike and the yellow sun enhances its beauty. Eventually, I see a cafe, and a man walks in and orders an orange juice. I walk in with a friend. However, the only money I can find is stamps. However, I eventually find a dollar note. Suddenly, as I wake up, the scene shifts to a picture of sweet peas flowering, and I wake up.

01-15-17 DILD I was in the midst of a long somewhat confusing dream that involved trying to sort personal possessions and move them. I was young and in what represented my bedroom. It was a mess and I heard my family talking from another room. I go to the door and realize I am naked. I think to cover myself with something. I look around and the scene does not look correct. I become lucid. I am now in the midst of a battle with Team Moon. I do not know any details but team members are running around blowing up buildings with weapons and I can tell tanks and such are involved. I run into one building to find enemies to fight, but only find allies. I know they are team members, but do not see them as specific DV members. This building is like a gym. I go through various scenes until I am in a warehouse and people are gathering supplies. I get in an argument because someone is grabbing things I want. I transform uncool items into cool ones and trade with the guy. I go out the door into the street and Team Moon member "He" is manning a rocket artillery battery. He looks like a big Russian trooper in winter gear and heavy boots. I see this with a mind's eye overview, as he is not actually close to me. Death from above rains down all around me. Buildings and troops are wiped off the map. I teleport to the top of a building near by and check out the battle. We are getting destroyed by "He" and his rockets. I see my team still has some tanks and helicopters that are about to be destroyed. I pick them all up with mass TK and float them over the water to an aircraft carrier. I get a telepathic thought in my head that this counted as a forfeit on my part. I walk into the destruction to try and make friends with 'He'. I find him (still huge Russian guy) inside a destroyed building. He moves to attack and I yell out that I have been defeated. He says, "No, you pulled your big equipment back before I could destroy it. That is not very brave." I tell He that we forfeited and that we should go destroy things together. We go walking through the city and it is so destroyed that I find little to destroy, other than some windows here and there. I use bolts of compressed air and blast it out of the palm of my hands to destroy windows. I take out the whole front of a store this way. I notice that I am barefoot for some reason. I shout out, "boots" and stomp my foot and instantly am wearing boots. He looks impressed and says, "very nice." The boots are not sturdy enough for my tastes so I stomp my feet and they become big rigid army boots. He suggests we go up to the corner where his rockets did not reach. We go there and walk inside a convenience store that has happy people shopping. We actually decide that we have destroyed enough and let the people be. I suggest we go to where the rest of his team are. We start walking... My recall fails at this point. The lucid part of this goes on in another scene that involves a totally different theme. I go into an apartment building and talk with a women, but details are few.

15 Jan

WBTB, reviewed goals, recall prior to that quite poor. Late dinner is not a good idea.

I'm at a non-existent apartment with bf. We are getting ready to go to bed on time when his friends come and stay for a while, making it impossible to do so. I am upset, smash a potato on the floor and then decide to leave - go to my old place to sleep.

As I go out on the streets my awareness increases and I realize that I'm dreaming. My thinking is still clouded. I recall I forgot the keys in the previous place, but conclude there is no need to worry about that because I can just summon them. I try to take off flying with some initial difficulty launching. I briefly contemplate that I have been using this sort of flying in my dreams lately - slightly pushing towards the ground, something like a jump launch and then superman style.

I am quickly gaining altitude, trying to orient myself above what I consider to be my home town. The scenery changes with lots of unknown streets and gets extremely cold. I feel the cold is hampering me from flying properly, the snow and people on the ground become a distraction. I decide to land in a snow-covered yard.

My awareness diminishes as I go to inspect what's ahead. In the building ahead is an administrative refugee help center. Looks like it was founded a long time ago, there are 4 traditional Chinese characters on the wall. The place has gotten a lot of attention from the locals with journalists and a few unknown celebrities waiting to go inside. I excuse myself, remembering that I was originally headed home and leave.

As I walk down the streets I see the stadium and know I should be near. I choose a shortcut by climbing a few buildings. As I climb this weirdly looking structure, with lots of metal shaped in strange forms, my awareness increases again. Finally I reach the top of the structure, which faces a well supervised office. I don't think passing through should be a big issue as I can technically go as I please. I sneak in and look for the door out. There are several doors, one of them has a female security guard talking to another DC. No matter which door I chose, she is going to notice me. Oh, well that doesn't really matter, does it? I decide to ignore all that and just exit the building. I know the DC has seen me. I know she finds this weird and would probably want to go after me. But I intend that she does not. She just looks at me and ignores me. At the same time, a feeling of regret overtakes me. I feel I have ruined this scenario by meddling with the natural course of events and now the story feels incomplete.

Memory gap. I find myself at my old place. There's a minor leftover of awareness upon looking at the weird balcony and room being merged. The dream takes over my consciousness. I hear squeaks and other noises coming from the neighbours and see the neighbour kid playing on the balcony. He hasn't grown up at all, I think. Couple of minutes later, as if it's a game, he jumps off the balcony and hits the ground. I am terrified as I see his imminent death but even though he seems injured, he gets up and hurries into the building. I call his grandma (DS) to make sure he gets an examination as soon as possible.

A bunch of short dreams
My son wants me to read him the next chapter in a book. He says that my wife told him that he could only read the first twelve pages. I realize I must have heard him wrong and that my wife (who's currently downstairs) wants to hear me read too. Now I'm downstairs, and I see her taking out her knitting needles.

I'm walking around in an airport. Off to my right, I see a guard in the process of closing a HUGE door. It's about five feet wide, but it's probably fifty feet tall. He gets it closed and I see that it looks like a bank vault door, with lots of stainless steel pistons and wheels. I don't understand why such a door would be in an airport, but whatever. As I think more about it, I realize that the airport must be on lockdown and I won't be able to leave. I hope it doesn't last long; I just want to get home. Now I'm walking around in the parking deck.

I'm in a room with my son. Both of us are getting dressed to go to the beach. Now we're ready and with some other people, and I see that we have a bag of stuff that needs to go with us. Someone suggests putting the straps of the bag through my swim shorts' belt loops, but that sounds like a really bad idea: I'm not wearing a belt, and I don't want the weight of the bag pulling my shorts down.

I'm at my computer looking at the current Steam sale. I'm amused that there's another one, since the Christmas sale only just ended. I'd been hoping that some of my friends would pick up a copy of Portal for their family, but they missed out. I search for Portal, to see if it's back down to Christmas-sale levels, and am surprised that the search comes back with no hits. That's really weird. I try searching for Trine, and this time I get only a single hit on some Trine-related DLC but not on any of the Trines themselves. Weird ... Anyway, the DLC is cheap, so I decide to get it. Looking over its reviews, people are doing the usual rant about how much they hate paid DLC. I hesitate, hoping that I'm not wasting my money getting DLC for a game I don't actually own.


Fragments:
I recommend that someone use the IBM Single-Sign-On ID everywhere he can so that it's easier for him to download things and to "muddle his profile"?

My wife asks me for advice for something about which I know nothing.

This Dream had multiple parts to it. In the first part, I was playing quake on multiplayer and then died. In the second part, I was in my front yard, looking at how there were two moons. One was about the size of a small dog in the sky, and the other one appeared normal. I looked at my hand and noticed that my middle and index fingers were one centimeter each, and that I had about seven fingers. I then gained lucidity (or at least partial lucidity) and one of my mom's friends came out and started singing a song. I threw a purple plastic cube at him and attempted to not say "that is what your music felt like". The next part was referencing another dream I had where I was on death row for something and then got my head amputated with an axe. In the background, there was a TV that was showing an old black and white film with some kind of Ogre or something on it. There was blood everywhere. When the person cut my head off, the audio of the TV stopped and everything went black. In this part of the dream, I was reincarnated as a female and was telling my friends about my past life. There was this one guy outside the window of the house that was asking me out to dinner. The strange part was that he was in his mid-30's and could have possibly been my friend's dad in real life.
Later, I saw a person who appeared to be 14 years old telling me about something. Soon, we became friends. I then woke up.

This is a basic sketch of the room where I was executed.

Friends were skateboarding around fence area. I decided to go to a quieter area, and rested there with eyes closed.

Wandering the halls of the large house, I realized I was dreaming.
Kept looking around, but now had higher attention to interesting dream features.
Found a small scroll, and found a really long text on jt describing a story land and its history. I read quite a bit (and understood it), and tried to store it in memory, but apparently failed--other than general knowledge like it had dates, the names of royalty, generals, battles, and a medeival setting.

Had false-awakening, but rc said still a dream, tried to get out using imagined rocking left and right, then stood up and starting yelling/loudly-saying something, but as I was speaking, I sounded distant--and as I listened more, it faded into the voice of my number prompt app! (which is interesting, as if it was a real number prompt, brings into question my free-will agency at that moment, i.e. the real audio just made me think I was deciding to speak; however it could have also been the other way around, if false audio, or even if real but coincidental)
Anyway, hearing the seemingly-real number prompt popped me back into bed, but I did an rc and I was still in-dream!
Tried to get out with rocking again, this time falling onto knees onto the floor, and it worked, but without vision.
Ran out of my room, and thumped my way down the stairs to ground myself.
Downstairs, I decided I needed my vision, so called up the stairs for someone, so I could grab onto them and focus on their visualization. I heard someone come down, and my vision materialized on my sister C.
Now with my vision, tried to remember dream goals.
I asked her what some of my dream goals were, but she stuttered saying "Well, there was a river, and...", then stopping and acting flustered.
I then remembered one of the dream goals: finding unopened present under a Christmas tree and opening it.
Looked around and saw a tiny Christmas tree on a table. Ran over and started unwrapping. Got impatient and ripped right through the middle, revealing... kleenex tissues. Yep, someone got tissue for their birthday. (perhaps why it was left unopened)
Dream faded shortly after.

DILD#1--I was outside in the backyard of my grandma's house, when I noticed a short woman which [B]I thought I saw in a previous dream. I phased through the glass down to go inside the house. I put my hand to the side to summon a dolphin and felt a beak. I turned around and there was a nice full size bottlenose dolphin, about 10 feet long. I climbed on its back and thought I needed to find a time breach. I saw a dark crack and rode the dolphin into the crack. I was teleported to an open underwater area. I saw some bullets. I looked to see who was shooting them and saw some anthropomorphic beer bottles. I rode the dolphin away from them and woke up.

DILD#2--I was in bed trying to recall I dream I just had when it occurred to me that I might be having a false awakening. I did a nose plug and could breathe. I jumped into the void and tried to teleport to the ocean, which I did. I put my hand to the side to summon a dolphin and felt a beak. I turned around and there was a nice full size bottlenose dolphin, about 10 feet long. I thought about how routine this all way as I tried to get on its back to ride it. After I grabbed its dorsal fin, it began to swim away. As I was dragged around by the dolphin I recalled that time control was the last of my 3 step tasks. I tried to stop time in the dream so I could get on the back of the dolphin. I tried various commands such as "Stop!" and "Pause dream!" but none of them were working. After a bit of trying this, I woke up.

DILD#3--I woke up in my bed after a dream and something felt off. I did a nose plug and could breathe. I decided to try to jump both myself and my bed into the void to teleport. I was teleported into a sunny backyard and my bed had turned into a trampoline. I jumped off the edge of the trampoline and walked around while thinking about what my dream goal was. I recalled it was time control. I decided to rewind the dream. As the dream was being rewound, I thought about how amazing how accurately the dream was rewinding itself. I was back standing on the trampoline when I noticed a black and white cat that wasn't there before. Cats and dogs are sort of like dream enemies to me because they attack me so much. I made like a dog and yelled "BARK!" The cat yelled back "SHUT UP!" I laughed out loud, which apparently offended the cat because it went off to a fat yellow cat to tattle on me. I knew they were planning an attack on me so I wanted to get away to avoid their painful scratches and bites. As the cats approached me I was able to escape by jumping into the void. After this, I woke up.

The dream begins like it's some kind of videogame. It's a game where I roam a big city and I think I'm some kind of gangster, I remember shooting some guys and driving a car. Even tough it's a game, it's like I'm inside the game, but at the same time playing it. Most of my videogame dreams are like this.

After messing around I suddenly decided to be a nice guy and do nice things . This was probably influenced by mer playing Infamous: Second Son before sleeping in waking life, a game where you can gain good or evil karma depending on your actions, and be a villain or a hero. Anyway, I was walking down the street and I saw a litte boy in some tattered clothes. I offered to buy him new clothes and we entered a store. The dream got less videogamey at this point. I remember he picked some clothes that were all the same and I told him to get a little variety. As he chose stuff I was kinda worried about how much it would cost but remembered I had a lot of money. At some point we were picking a shoe but I couldn't find the right size for him. Later we went outside and I was supposed to take him to his home. We walked for a bit and I tought about stealing a car. We were back to being in a videogame. I stole a car and tried to drive safely but messed up and ended up in a car chase, crashing the car horribly in the end. The kid was still alive, tough.

At some point I was in real life (as in, not in a game anymore) in the city I actually live in. I was just walking along the street at night when I realized I was dreaming. I flew a bit while crossing the street. At some point a little chubby girl came up to me and I was struggling to remember what was my objective. I told her to give me the dimensional scissors I'm looking for to open a portal, at that moment she looked at me with a grim on her face and took off. I was ready to give chase, but the powerpuff girls showed up and threatened my with some kind of weapon. I gave up, frustrated and began walking along the streed again. Eventually my vision began to fade and I tried staying still to get back to the dream, but I had a false awakening.

I was laying in bed and could hear my brother talking on the phone to someone. I opened up my eyes and tought I lost the dream, then I just rolled to the side and tried to sleep. I then woke up for real.

01/15/17 WILD I did WBTB 3rd time but take this a little more serious. Lay on back until right on edge. Roll over and instantly am asleep. I go into a dream observing a desert scene about large cats in Africa. A lion has a Cheetah cornered and she is defending her cubs. I take the perspective of the Cheetah. In the cat body I look back and will the cubs to climb a tree. They do not. I switch into the body of one of the cubs, and climb the tree. This feels somewhat realistic and have a neat view of the dry grass below. I do not see the lion, but see the Cheetah. I switch back into the cheetah's body. I am now a human in animal skins, like a Viking berserker. I am starting to feel my body in bed, so I try to ignore it. I go through a werewolf like transformation back into a cheetah. I look around for the lion and realize my form is of a female lion and not a cheetah. The lion does not seem to be around but I can not see well because I am on all fours in tall grass. I become fully aware of my body in bed. I am now in both bodies at one time, and soon have lost the dream and in void. A new dream does not form before my awareness fades.

It was a fairly normal night except for that I was wandering around the streets with no real goal or anything like that. All I did was looking around and slowly moving along the way. The place wasn't totally unknown to me. It looked like a altered version of the area around my house and the streets around it. Slowly but surely I filled up with lucidity without any specific trigger. It is hard to describe the feeling but it feels very natural on the other hand. You stay calm instead of going like "Wow, what the hell, this is a dream?!" and you simply feel something very subtile that is "wrong" with your environment.

Well, I was calm until that black hooded guy ran me over. Instinctively I evaded him and jumped onto the road. It was a thief running around the city for a longer time now and I had planned to nail him down for quite a while. Normally, he would use his invisibility cloak once somebody takes more notice of him than he likes but he obviously thought that I gave no second thoughts to him. WRONG! I knew exactly who he was and why he was in such a hurry. In an instant I turned around and sprinted towards him shouting "HEY!". Might have been a stupid idea actually to call after him...
The black figure met eyes with me...well, if I could have seen its eyes under that hood. He clearly took notice of me. The next event is fairly unlucky: I stumble a bit and drop out of the drea,. Seems like I should have payed a bit more of attention to my stability. One day I will get this guy!

D1 - Trying to scare off an animal with white fur without hurting it. I fire arrows past it.
Then two orange cub tigers appear and chase it away. Next they are after me but I don't want to hurt them either and am penned in.

D2 - Outside in a large field filled with people watching something, it is evening time,
I am with some other teenagers, we are hanging near a white slab stone wall. I'm sitting on the wall with a load of papers i'm looking at. A girl with long dark hair asks if she can look and firstly i am grudging to let her then I feel a great sense of comfort as I acknowledge that as my girlfriend she can look at whatever she wants and pass the paper to her.

wbtb
D3 - i'm back with the teenagers but now I need to find a toilet (forgot wbtb routine :S lol)
I head off nearby it is a small town, looks like somewhere hot, there are lots of close market stalls. There is nowhere that isn't crowded. And for some reason I am embarrassed to try and fly in case I cannot as I had trouble last night, I remember.
Eventually I find somewhere secluded and am about to fly, when a lady comes and sits on some seats. I shout in exasperation. Heading back out an estate agent, swears at me, I try to use mind control on him then telepathy and shock him by knowing details about him, which shuts him up.
When I try his colleague I can't even do that.

I am staying at an old seaside mansion in the antebellum section of a historic city (New Orleans, perhaps), and I am there with a group of people. A man is fencing in white breeches behind the mansion, down by the seashore. He is by himself, practicing his parries and thrusts. He is not wearing a mask. He has thick black hair and is in excellent physique. He is very graceful and very handsome and moves as smooth as a ballet dancer. I walk up to him when he stops and tell him that Paul Morphy was an expert fencer too, and that he never lost a match -- in fencing or in chess.

Note: Paul Morphy (1837-1884) was an extraordinary chess genius who became the unofficial world chess champion at age 21. After which, he retired from competitive chess and went insane. In this dream it appears I am staying at his mansion, which would account for the odd statement made by my subconscious to the DC fencer.

In the dream, I continue bragging on Morphy, my hero, but the people with me -- including the fencer -- seem uninterested. I cannot determine if the mansion belonged to his family, or if he lived elsewhere. I look at the sea and wonder if this was where he used to walk out on the sand. As I ponder these things, I am translocated from the seashore to a dank industrial building, akin to a warehouse where an attractive foreign woman is sitting at a table and staring at me. In my hand is a WWII German Luger pistol. As I continue to examine the pistol, the woman gets up to leave the room. Without thinking, I raise the pistol and fire at her back as she walks out the door. Nothing happens; it appears the gun wasn't loaded. The reason I tried to shoot her was because I wanted to hear how the gun sounded. Dreamt 12/31/2016

First night

Recalled only a blurred out fragment.

Second night

Nothing recalled.