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Last night’s dream was all over the place.

One of the things I remember trying hardest to hold onto was a character I identified as me. They were cartoonishly drawn, I think in the style of *Cookie Run Kingdom*, which makes sense since I’ve been playing that game lately. The character had red skin and green hair. I can’t remember if they were dreads—with some dreads green and some red—or just really long locks with alternating red and green strands. Either way, they had a distinct look. The character also had a red right eye and a green left eye.

I was trying to remember that part the most, but I forgot a lot of the details. I’m not sure why. Maybe it’s just my desire to try again—rather than remember the dream, I feel like I try to relive it in a new attempt. There was also a part where I was playing a *Destiny* expansion that I apparently made up. Something about "The First and Last"—not entirely sure. The dream felt familiar, like I’d had it before. I think I dreamed it once already. In this part, I was trying to start a quest. Oh yes, I *definitely* did have this dream before. It was the same style of dream, involving *Destiny*, but the last time I dreamed it, I was doing a raid I’d never seen before. It was this really cool, techno-futurist raid that kind of looked like what you’d see on Neomuna, which didn’t even exist at the time I had that dream.

Anyway, in this version, I was trying to start a quest involving the Cabal. I had a really big TV. Some of the dream took place inside the game, as usual, but some of it happened outside of it, which was new. I was in a really large space with a bunch of kids around. It was supposed to be my room, but it was huge—everything was supersized beyond normal proportions. My monitor was like a 55-inch TV, and my keyboard was massive. I remember telling my Aunt Adele and my grandpa to keep an eye on my setup while I stepped away because I didn’t want any of the errant kids nearby messing with it.

Other than that, nothing too important.

**Summary:**

There were three main dream fragments:

1. A *Cookie Run* style dream where I had a character version of myself that looked really nice and was animated well.
2. A continuation of a previous dream involving a fictional *Destiny 2* expansion—details are fuzzy, since I’m remembering it hours later.
3. A scene with my aunt where I was trying to make sure none of the random kids around were messing with my setup.

ATTEMPT
Last night’s attempt didn’t go well. Instead of sticking to the plan I had rehearsed, I ended up doing something completely different again. This is becoming a pattern: abandoning a technique after just one failed attempt and chasing novelty instead. I can see now that this behavior is holding me back, especially when it comes to making real progress.

What I *meant* to do was wake up, walk around the house to raise my awareness, and spend a minute or two thinking about the lucid dream I was about to enter and what I would do once I became lucid and how I’d maintain that lucidity. Then, I planned to do some progressive muscle relaxation followed by a few rounds of 4-7-8 breathing. During that breathing, I would check for hypnagogic imagery. If it was behind my eyes, I’d keep going; if I saw it in front of me, I’d know it was time to dive into the dream.

The actual plan was simple: wake up, raise awareness, mentally rehearse, relax deeply, and go into a WILD. But instead, I woke up, felt too tired, and decided to just wing it. Of course, it didn’t work. I’ve already analyzed what went wrong, and moving forward, I’m going to actually follow the plan as closely as possible. It’s ironic—I skipped out on a technique that was already a shortened version of an older, longer one I used to do. I remember buying a Fitbit back in the day just to try and time these DEILDs (Dream Exit Initiated Lucid Dreams), but its REM tracking wasn’t accurate enough to rely on.

To make those DEILDs happen consistently, I need to wake up at the start of a REM cycle and fall back asleep almost immediately. That’s tricky, but not impossible—timing is just really hard to get right because REM cycles are so elusive. Still, I’m sticking to my plan tonight. I’ll shut things down by midnight to give my eyes a break from blue light, fall asleep, and aim to wake around 4:30 AM. Then I’ll get up, do the routine, and ideally enter a lucid dream. Even though the technique didn’t work the first time, that’s just one data point. I need more tries—at least three—to fairly evaluate whether it works. One failure doesn’t mean the method is flawed. I’m committing to following through this time.

Choosing forks

I'm choosing from a basket of different colored plastic forks (black, blue, mostly orange...).

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There's a little girl in my parents' garden, everything she says comes true. Lots of frogs are scattered in the garden. With her power of intention, she makes them return to their box, and other stuff *forgot what happens next*.

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In Media Res, as usual. I am with a group of people, exploring a large underground area. We’re on a sort of high-up walkway that has passages leading to other areas. I’m leading the way, but at some point, I notice that the others aren’t actually following me - rather, they’ve taken one of the side passages, a hanging metal stairway leading up somewhere. I double back and follow.

I find them stopped in front of the entryway of what appears to be a church - a windowless version of one, anyway. There is a rather video game-ish obstacle, a retractable spike floor, blocking the way in. They seem adamant that it’s too dangerous to pass, but I’m not so sure. Those spikes look pretty puny - I kind of suspect I could just walk on top of them without any harm done - and there’s probably a way you’re supposed to go to avoid them, anyway. I find it pretty easily, by going around on the left. The others seem content to wait for me to return, so I head further in.

There are three rows of wooden pews, and as I head towards the aisle on the left, a man stops me to give me an admission stamp. I hold out my left hand, and he stamps the back of it - five small blue dots, in a pattern that looks a bit like braille. I head forward, looking and listening to my surroundings. It is fairly full, and seems to have a wilder vibe than I would associate with a church. There may have been music playing, but I can’t remember many details. I take the other aisle back around. Maybe because of the better angle, I can see that among the people there are several couples having sex, either on the pews or just on the floor. Yeah, I don’t think I’ll be spending too long in here. I’m glad I ended up going because of the stamp - I’m sure this will also get me admission into other places further on as well, although given what I’ve seen here, there may also be places where I won’t necessarily want to admit to having been here to get it….

21.5.25


I am walking down a hallway when it occurs to me that I’m aware that I’m dreaming, and if I want to have a lucid dream, I need to take a moment and actually consider the implications of the situation. Having done so, I continue, interested in exploring my environment.

My memories of this are unusually unclear for a lucid dream, quite possibly because there was a period of NREM sleep and another nonlucid dream before I woke up from it. But it appeared that I was in a university of some sort, and the early part of the dream mostly consisted of walking around and talking to two people. I remember that the second introduced herself as Caroline Friend (which I might be tempted to consider the most unimaginative name for a dream character ever if I didn’t know there was an entry way back in my archive featuring two characters called Bob and Not-Bob…).

Still lucid, but interested in playing along, I have been tasked with going to Burger King King Walmart, where I will be starting a new job. (That is not a typo, and I thought it was pretty weird in the dream, too.) The university leads directly into a mall, and the place I’m looking for is apparently here somewhere. It looks like a pretty nice mall - really, unrealistically nice for one. I think to myself that it’s the second dream I’ve had of being in a mall recently, which is kind of interesting since I don’t remember having had any others, but perhaps my dream self could.

The store doesn’t seem to be on the floor I’m on, and so I have to find a way downstairs. Maybe there’s one hidden somewhere in the back of the arcade, which I’ve discovered on the far end. The first couple machines I pass seem to be out of order, but further in, it’s clear that the first impression was misleading, and it’s a pretty lively place. Various enticing electronic noises and snatches of music fill the air. I’m not going to let myself be distracted from what I’m looking for - but maybe I’ll be back here later….

Turns out there were indeed stairs back there. It takes a bit of walking before I finally find the store that looks like the right one - no sign, but I wouldn’t expect to find more than one big everything store here, and this looks like it. There’s what looks like a customer service counter right in front, and I approach one of the people behind it and say I’m here to start a new job. She immediately responds by getting out from behind the counter to take me somewhere. The dream is getting a bit unstable by this point - I’ve been wary of it fading even before that point, since it’s been going on for what feels like a long time - but I manage to pull it back. However, there aren’t any memories after that point, except that I remember it didn’t last for much longer.

—

I am in an arcade - guess I made it back after all - only where I am now looks more like a computer lab. There are long tables with various old computers lining both sides - and I sit down in front of an unoccupied one and turn it on. Apparently, only some of these have games on them - all of them have only one program each, a different one that’s no longer accessible on more modern machines. There’s a paper by the monitor that apparently says what’s on this one, but I don’t even look at it.

The computer is taking forever to boot up. A blond guy wearing dark blue walks up and presses two buttons on the keyboard. I figure he knows more about these than I do and is doing something necessary to get it going, but nothing happens. The screen is still dark. Turns out it really just is that slow. We talk briefly, and that’s all I can remember.

22.5.25