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Jamie 1

I;'m sitting with my family at a bar or a house not sure. Jamie is sitting at the table. We don't talk but the vibe is not uncomfortable at all. There's a TV screen that says "Karaoke night." or something. I'm debating if I want to sing anything to myself. Metal songs? or something softer like REO Speedwagon? or a bunch of songs where I replace the word "Baby," with ,"Jamie," in the lyrics to either annoy (or charm) Jamie... Before I decide, I wake up.


Jamie 2

Last night: In a dream with a bunch of white walls, long hallways. It's both an inside an outside area... dream logic. I see Jamie in a hallway. There are other people around but I say something heartfelt to her, I forget what exactly. For a fraction of a second she lights up and almost caves,, with a slight laugh. She looks like she is about to hug me. Then her face goes blank and she walks away fast. I walk for seemingly hours through this place looking for her again... but I don't find her.

Various work related dreams...

I'm in darkness when I begin to sense myself becoming aware. I'm beginning to enter a dream. I start feeling a slight dropping sensation in my stomach, which my subconsciousness instantly connects to what else than - falling. Oh man... here we go. The falling sensation grows greater and I begin to see faint clouds and an ocean floor through the black mist thats covering everything. Oh fffuuuu- I begin to prepare myself with heavy breaths, the lucid would begin from the sky. I pull my hands forward into a flying position, but then everything becomes near psychedelic, wobbly and extremely unstable. I can feel myself flying but I can barely see anything and my other hand is stretching 30 meters forward. Snap. I'm suddenly in a small orange-greenish hostel-looking room. The dream has almost completely finished forming, now I just need to form myself into the room. I pinch my nose and breath. "Okay I'm here! I'm here now, focus! Stabilize" I say out loud trying to command myself to not slip from the moment. I begin rubbing my hands together fiercely while repeating "Here now!" I switch to rubbing the walls. I'm beginning to become grounded in the room with a proper physical body. Finally, this time it should be better. I finish the stabilization and open the door leading out of the room.

I enter a corridor with a red carpet. There are rows of doors on each side. Time to do stuff. I re-try my failed attempt from the previous competition and command: "Sensei!" to appear. One of the doors opens from the left side of the corridor. A man peeks out, but quickly goes back inside after taking a look at me. Knowing what Sensei looks like from his Discord avatar I realize it wasn't him. Alright, into the next task. I push my hand forward like a fire-bender, and without any effort a stream of fire launches from my open palm going atleast 8 meters. Hah! Easy as ever! I take foot and walk the corridor until I get to a small reception lounge. There's a stool in the middle of the lounge, perfectly out of place for more dream control practice and catching up in points. I point my right hand towards the stool like a mystic and it begins to levitate. I see a fire extinguisher on the wall. I let go of the stool and pick the red syringe of the wall with telekinesis, throwing it to the other side of the corridor where I came from. The extinguisher explodes and begins whirling wildly all around the place. I realize I could try one more thing. I stand still and let the metal tube hit me square in the face and it bounces off. Hah, that's what I thought. I then head to a small staircase leading outside.

I get outside and realize I'm at the front-yard of a hostel where I used to work as a trainee for five months back in college. Can't believe I missed it from all the fun I was having, must have been absolutely too focused on the tasks. The ground is all green and plants are spurting out of it and there seems to be what looks like a small, mold-ridden and abandoned greenhouse on the corner of the main building. I re-focus on the tasks, and this time into my main task; my last Three Step Task. I turn around to face the other way towards the street and say: "Door." I turn back, and there's a white-greyish door sticking out of the ground in the middle of the yard. Yes! But, as most of the time doing this, the door begins to fall backwards (as doors are not meant to be standing without a wall around it. Maybe I should come up with a new way to teleport in the future.) I grab the door and shove it back into the ground with force. The door remains slightly tilted backwards, but I ignore it and begin forming a "story" in my head to help creating another scenery behind the door. I think that...Sensei must be behind the door... as a medieval man... in a... MEDIEVAL CASTLE! A sense of continuity fills the moment and I open the door into a brick-laden hallway of a castle. I enter, but as soon as I do everything begins to unfocus.

The normal front yard of the hostel, with the tele-door

I was with a group of friends. We were having fun and it was great. Played this word game that was like Wordle mixed with some letter game. Well, this game gave me inspiration to look at DALLE 2. I wanted that lake SCP. SCP-1630 I’m pretty sure (That SCP in reality is a group of bean people) It had a great result though. Then I just wrote “SCP” in the AI art prompt and without pressing anything, It started generating a bunch of disturbing images of people getting killed and screaming, with distorted music playing.

My friend passed it off as normal and this got me insta-lucid. I originally was gonna gtfo cause of how messed up that art was but I remembered my PR and tried teleporting to it. I failed, and instead made it to this big mansion. Instead of using doors, I traveled by fusing into walls. Went out of bounds, like a game. I found two twins. Both of them looked mentally disabled but they were really built up. I tried asking one of the twins for directions, but then I woke up.

3-10-23 (Exercised the missing link? I’ve been slacking lately - I walked for 30 + minutes last night and listened to yoga nidra and took B6 and Zinc seems like a lot easier recall this morning as I didn’t make any notes or record anything in bed after natural awakenings) WBTB - Fail

I'm calling all these fragments, because I know there was much more to each of these.

#1 - Sleeping with a bird; it might have been some type of parrot. The cutest little thing all snuggled under the covers with me. It had originally been in a cage next to me I think -Then Donna came into the room and walked across maybe to a bathroom then came back to the bed and stood at the base of the bed. Seems to say something about the bird, then before she leaves she starts doing jumping jacks with a yellow sweater. There was a chandelier or ceiling fan, right above her and I had this thought I wondered if her hands would hit the dangling parts as she did her jumping jacks.

#2 - The FDC who had this long knitted garment that she somehow managed to intermingle with and slip into over and or under her arms and shoulders, and wrap it around her in such a way that it became a bikini top? Then she managed to slip her arms out of it in such another weird way which made absolutely no sense. Did I have the thought I wanted one? HUmmmm it seemed like way too much bulk for a bikini top.

#3 - The quail (bird) which was in the water. Someone tried to save it by pulling it up and out of the water by its wing. The string or whatever they used ended up cutting the wing off at the first wing joint, when trying to pull it out. (POS from the man who hatched a quail egg from the store video I watched)

#4 - LisaB married to a French Man - she and I were walking all over this square piece of land not sure what we were doing. But at one point, I was emptying some garbage from a can, I had bagged it up in a plastic bag with a twisty tie before the end she said something to me like, yeah that’s what it’s like being married to a French Man. ?

#5 - The two Parties: Food was being picked up, cleaned up: lots of food from what seemed like a work potluck party…I needed to put back some food that got left out during pick up, no room in one fridge, The fridge has also been moved in such a way that the door wouldn’t fully open, it had been pushed up against a wall about a foot or so away and the door wouldn’t open fully. I had to go to another part of the building; there was another party potluck going on; so much food everywhere all laying out on several tables. Seemed to look mostly like sweets. I seem to recall colors like colored icings. Even in the first part of the dream, Lisa (LisaB again, but I think this is a different dream than above) was eating a cup full of whipped cream. That's what it looked like anyhow.

#6 - Two kinds of cookies I brought to share and I think I ate two before putting them on the table; but don’t remember actually tasting or chewing or swallowing. Someone else approached me and she wanted some, but I didn’t give her any. I had put the packages down on a table then walked away not noticing if she got into them after I left or not.

#7 - Oh the lady I was sitting next to, we were arriving at her apartment complex. There was a nursing home next to these apartments. I was thinking She must have lived in the apartments next to the nursing home. Before this there was something else about another FDC we were looking at houses to buy? So Vague

#8 - The little girl, a toddler, I was with and was only supposed to have her for less than an hour longer, (I remember looking at a clock with arms, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a clock in my dreams before; but I didn’t think to look at it again as an attempt for a reality check) but I wanted to drop her off at a daycare place and not take her with me to wherever I was going.

#9 - There was something else, a dream with a message something to eat or not eat. It seemed white; not sure if it was flour or if it was white energy light? Or I’m making this up. Don’t know….


WBTB Fail = 2
9 Dream Fragments - 4.5 points

Total 6.5

Earthbending Teeth
Toph and Iroh from Avatar the Last Airbender are fighting. Toph is on the offensive and Iroh is evading everything. Toph realizes that teeth would fall under her earthbending's jurisdiction, so she starts to bend Iroh's teeth. Toph wreaks havoc on Iroh's mouth.

Wall Kicks Will Work
There is a shrine in a gloomy place. It is similar to the area after falling down the tree in Zelda: Majora's Mask. The shrine represents a somber memory. I can recall dream-me thinking about how I had created it in other places before and that others wouldn't recognize it. Personal memory, but I don't know what it means. It was some arrangement of a small tree and a big pink flower.

There is a dead end after the shrine, with a large closed door. The door is also in the Zelda style (where pressing 'A' would typically raise the door up and away so the player can enter). 'A' isn't working. I think to try wall-kicks from Mario 64. It works. I go higher and higher up and away. I land on platform jutting off of the wall opposite the shrine and find a locked door. Luckily I have one key left. I press 'A' to open the door, and it rises to let me enter as expected.

Inside, there is an expanse of blue beams sprawling out into the darkness. There are skultulas (spider monsters from the Zelda series) dotted throughout the room's ceiling. The monsters are on webs at different heights. I explore a little bit, but then I'm ambushed. A large skultula, the boss, attacks. I dispatch it with ease using a bow and arrow and start looking for my prize. Down a ladder there is a landing. Still in the rafters above, not down on the floor below where the shrine is.

I find a sarcophagus. The lid on it is very heavy but I remove it. There is a mummy inside. This is apparently my prize. I start thinking through the logistics of having a mummy in the house. And how creepy that would be...what if it wakes up and wanders the house at night?


Art made by Nightcafe AI.

both dreams took place in the same house-maze. this is a new maze i dont think ive seen before.

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I am looking to a story below over a small balcony and see Y standing in an unfurnished area. It is much darker down there so I cant make out too many details, he appears faceless. He motions for me to follow him and although i am afraid, i find myself following him against my will. he walks backwards while leading me through a dark, empty, windowless hall. I notice that he is actually faceless. It gets darker and eventually I lose him, but I keep walking forward. now it gets slightly brighter, just enough for me to see him sitting on a long couch facing forward. I sit next to him and give him a hug.

.......

I am getting checked into an insane asylum prison. the head nurse says that at least i am "well formed" and not like the others.

I only remembered one fragment. In it, my brother suggested that we both hang out with a friend of his (who I haven't met IRL). That's it. So mundane. Dx

1 fragment = 0.5 points

Total = 53 + 0.5 = 53.5

I'm going to be getting better sleep starting now! The results will be fantastic, I can feel it

Pretty mid recall compared to last night. 2 Dreams.

Dream 1: It was my birthday. Cracker Island on CD and Vinyl arrived. I for some reason started packing up all my things and went to a bus. I waited as the bus driver played Gorillaz. I waited for like 10 minutes before we stopped back at my house and I woke up.

Dream 2: I was basically playing Boneworks 2. It had the map layouts of some Mario game. I got to a room where I had to time pressing 2 buttons on both sides of the room before the door closed in. I failed, but I didn’t reset. I was stuck in this locked room. I saved and woke up.

Adding this to my DJ as a reference. Found it in a 2016 post in the attaining lucidity section. Below is from FryingMan. Thanks for putting this info out there FryingMan! I've been trying to connect meditation to my lucid dreaming practice and this helped me understand a bit more:

I think the best meditation for lucid dreaming is maintaining mindfulness during everyday, complex waking life experiences. In dreams, we do not sit or lie quietly in a room with only our thoughts for company. We are usually active in the dream world, interacting with objects and beings, noticing things moving into and out of our visual field, feeling emotions and reacting to our experiences. We are "living" just like (or similar to) we do in the waking state. In "The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep," Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche writes:

"This is the sequence: awareness in the first moment of experience, in response, in dream, ..."
In other words, in order to get lucid in dreams (regularly), we must first master awareness in the first moment of experience and response to experience! We must practice this while awake.

Rinpoche continues:

"One cannot just start at the end. You can determine for yourself how mature your practice is: as you encounter the phenomena of experience, examine your feelings and your reactions to the feelings. Are you controlled by your interactions with the objects of experience or do you control your reaction to them? ... can you remain in steady presence in diverse situations?"

I believe this, right here, is the crux of lucid dreaming practice.

Sitting mindfulness meditation (I prefer open eyed, with visual input, not sitting stock still or focusing only on a single object, but looking around experiencing my environment) can be helpful to get started. Start in a quiet location, like on a bench in park (there's still usually plenty of activity if you open yourself to experiencing it!) Then gradually move up to more and more complex, hustling & bustling environments as you master remaining mindful in relatively quiet situations.

3.8.2023

12:08 – bedtime, 50mg vitamin b6

1:55 – WBTB (failed) [+2]

3:15 –

(from notes) Tom and Einstein. Excrement.


I don’t recall what the Tom and Einstein dream was. I remember a dream in which there was a bucket of feces. I might have been adding to it with my own. [One remembered fragment – 0.5 points]

4:58 –

(from notes) Looking for private (?) bathroom; Princess in trouble, broken slide, baby crying, “zombies”, “zombie” dogs

The Princess and the Zombies [+1]

This might have all been one dream, but I’m having trouble remembering - There was a dream in which I was in a large building. I was looking for a bathroom, possibly one that had some privacy. Or else I was trying to hide from someone or something. Not sure if it was the same dream, but at one point I went to a “Dad’s bathroom”, which seemed to be a sort of comedic take on bathrooms. Some kinds of silly decorations.

There was a princess in a room (might have been the same dream as above). I forget exactly what was going on. She got in trouble for something.

There was a slide that had a large crack on one side. I think it was my nephew, but much younger, that cried when he saw this. I held him and tried to soothe him.

I think the “zombies” were more like an army. This might have been related to the princess. They might have been her army, but then they might have been going to arrest her. I don’t quite remember the zombie dogs.

8:45 –

(from notes) Elevator up to chase someone (lucid?), trains shut down. Cattle, woman protecting us, kissing, taking dog to vet(?), buckets of water and gold pan in my room, Dad gives me something, trying to draw

Fragment 2 [+0.5]

I was taking an elevator up to chase someone. I had the feeling that I was lucid at some point, but I don’t have enough recall to count it as a lucid dream...

Trains, cattle, and dogs [+1]

The trains were shut down. I was with someone, commenting on how much of a problem that could be. For one thing, there were all those businesses that count on the trains. And what about the people that commute by train? Now they’re stuck. We go into a cattle barn. It seems that we are riding on some kind of open vehicle now. A woman is hanging off the side, acting as a guard of some kind. She is supposed to be defending us from cattle, I think. It seems to me that she wasn’t doing that great of a job, and as we go along I see pictures of anime superheroes. Eventually we get where we were going. The woman (?) and I kiss. Meanwhile, the maintenance guys get a piece of equipment and take it with them with a “let’s get back to work” attitude that I think is funny because it seems that we just survived a big crisis...I’m walking a dog, going to a vet. They are trying to make us line up the dogs properly. I take mine back to its proper spot.

Fragment 3 [+0.5]

...I seem to be standing on or near a bucket of water, on a set of stairs. There is a gold pan too, I guess. Something about trying to move the bucket without spilling the water...My Dad gives me a round piece of something that looks like a cross between jewelry and a coin...Trying to draw. In a class maybe? Someone seems to be having trouble, and me too...Not sure if these were different fragments.

3-9-23 Comp Day 8 (WBTB Failed ughhhh)

DF#1 - The planting of seeds; they have begun to grow 🙂

DF#2 - There was a guy named Mike who handed us something. I was with a FCD, he had an incredibly good vibe and he remembered my name.

D#3 - The Island - I was in a kayak paddling through the water between a couple islands to get access to this other island that I would be camping on later that night. I was checking it out ahead of time so I was a little more prepared and would know what to expect for camping. There was one patch of seaweed that I came across but it wasn’t stopping me from moving forward. There was a hint of a thought that a storm was on the way that evening. But in the dream it did not appear. I ended up going around to the backside and found the beach side of this island. Nice stripe of clean bright sand. I remember looking up into the sky wondering how the sunset and or sunrise would be from here. I was with someone else and we were talking about what we might need to sleep outside during the night here. I really only recall a screen to go over our heads, or mosquito net and something about my clothes. There seemed to be some kind of house on the island as well. And we’d have access to the house if we needed it to cook and to have coffee. There was a box with a key for us to use.


WBTB = 2
2 DF = 1
1D = 1

Total 4

3-8-23 Comp Day 7

DF#1 - I was with a few other DC’s and we were going to order some food. As I walked past one table, I saw a FDC sitting there alone with a platter of three very large tacos. They looked so good that’s what I was going to order

DF#2 - I was with a MDC and it seemed like he might have liked me. He wanted to know where I got my bra’s? (I think) and I said Macy’s.

DF#3 - I was in a dark room, maybe a living room and suddenly the door slid open all by itself. That scared me and I believe I screamed in the dream. Then I looked closer and saw a shadow of a regular sized cat. It was a cat that wanted in. So I got up and went to let the cat in, then made sure I closed the door tight and locked it.

DF#4 - I was at a work environment and the FDC was in a colored dress, she was freezing.


D#5 - We were standing in line to get a ticket for some type of a huge event, maybe it was a concert or something bigger. The line was moving at first, then as we got closer to the registration area it stopped. I wandered up front to see what was going on. It appeared that they ran out of registration papers. Someone was on it and looked to get some more. Suddenly my sister and Mom showed up out of nowhere. I hugged each of them and asked are you guys really here? I even asked them what day it was. And I believe the date was correct, March 8th. They decided to come for a surprise visit. I was already thinking oh no, the house is not ready for company. They might have to spend the first night in a hotel. The new bed isn’t put together and the other bed needs the sheets washed and to be remade. I thought about how much work that I’d need to do to get the rooms ready. Then I asked how long they were staying, it seemed like I had a vacation planned and it was coming up soon. I wondered if they were going to leave before I had to leave for my vacation. A bit later, I remember being handed a small piece of paper and I had to write my name on it, the ink wasn’t coming out, I scribbled on a blank white piece of paper till I saw a mark, then I attempted to sign my name on a piece of torn paper with colored pattern on it. Tried to find a light colored spot so you could actually see my name when I signed it. I think that was the registration part. Then it had taken so long, that when we went into where we were supposed to sit, we’d never find any seats together.

4 DF = 2
1 D = 1

Total 3

I'm at a house reminiscent of my girlfriend S' parents' house and my friend V's house. I'm hanging out with my friend J. There is a surprise visit from my friend D and my brother. A They are out on the patio. D is wearing a disguise, but I recognize him easily. It wasn't a particularly good disguise and it wasn't intended to be. More like a joke. D has a Galaxy Fold and is showing it off. He has a thin black cloth case on it. He has some gacha-games on it.

I'm driving and something like a check-engine light came on. Genuinely unclear on whether this was reality or not because this type of thing happens all the time. My car was fine this morning so I think this was a dream...

I was chaperoning the kids I work with on a field trip to an ancient Korean colony in western Asia. I can only remember hazy snippets of the map, one of the kids asking me something on the plane, and us looking around at the interesting landscape and architecture.

.....

While there I found Y and he told me he was sorry for abandoning me, that he wants to make things right, and asked me to take him home. Next, we were in a taxi to the airport and I gave him a hug.

.....

My mom wanted me to teach her to sing Ponta de Areia, but she kept getting the words wrong.

I was in the back of a wagon. For some reason I was thinking about 9/11, and all the people who got engulfed in a cloud of toxic dust, and felt a wave of sadness over it.

I saw a bunch of teens training to be in the army. Two young guys in the wagon saluted. I first I thought this odd, until I realized they were in the army too, just messing with their buddies. Two of the soldiers smiled and saluted back.

We were going up a dirt hill. I felt we were going too fast to be led by a horse, and that it was strange that it didn't slow down on hills. Another man came riding on a horse near the wagon. I recalled seeing him the previous day. He asked if he could ride with us, he said his ribs hurt from riding all day. I reached out and let him on (no clue what happened to the horse).

I saw a bunny rabbit with its head in a red party cup. There were multiple cups tied together and the bunny was all tangled up and running about. I wanted to help it, but shortly it figured it all out, and ate a cookie from a bag that was now tied to the cups. I chuckled thinking about how many calories one cookie is to a bunny.

I drank from a shallow bag of water. My dad said we were stopping for more. I looked up and saw we had pulled up to a wide lake.