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    I guess I should log these....

    by , 04-24-2013 at 01:20 AM (837 Views)
    Three Nights Ago

    #1 - Guilt-Free Food!! [DILD]

    I was with high school friends and random people in a large mansion watching tray after tray of food be prepared. A large dish was placed in front of me with an assortment of snacks on it. As I was staring at it I suddenly became lucid and came to an important realization: guilt-free food!! I reached out and started grabbing everything that I could and shoving it into my mouth. First I remember tortilla chips and guacamole, then chicken strips and ketchup, followed by cupcakes with icing and sprinkles, and something else too but it's hard to remember now. The flavors of all of these foods seemed correct, but there was a significant drawback to it all. I had the flavor, but not the physical sensation of actually eating. It made the experience seem less realistic or satisfying, and I decided that I should try to focus on that whole process next time.

    As this was all going on I had the feeling that the dream was starting to lose stability. All of the other people in the room began to chant "the burning bridge in Bethlehem", oddly enough, and I started repeating this along with them to keep the plot going. However, it only worked for so long and the environment ended up falling apart.


    #2 - Summoning Practice, Again [DILD]

    I was wandering through a high school, not necessarily one of the ones I went to, looking for my next class or something of the sort. I spontaneously became lucid and started talking to people in the hallways and opening doors to practice my summoning. The first person who came to mind was this girl who I met in my physical education class in senior year and always found attractive, and I would expect her to be behind each door or actually say out loud that she would be but it didn't quite work. However, there was a girl behind every one and with each try it seemed to resemble her a little more and I would feel them up a bit before moving on, getting particularly distracted with the last one's rather plump posterior.

    After that I gave up on her and decided to call out for an old friend instead, and the door I took looking for her led me into a large and empty office. At that point I lost what I sometimes call the dream "chatter", this sort of ambient non-sound that tells me that the dream hallucinations are still running in full force. Without it the scene lacks realism and begins to collapse in on itself, and that's exactly what happened despite my best efforts from that point on.


    Last Night

    #1 - Meeting The In-Laws [Non-Lucid]

    There was a family party going on and my family had somehow joined with a new "step-family" and this absolutely horrible woman was my new grandma. I was eating my dinner around a table with her and some other people and she picked up a bag of fucking dog turds and put some in my food. She had a really nasty attitude too, but I can't remember what made me think that now. Eventually I walked away and started talking to my cousins about how awful she is and they agreed, and then I met into a new step-cousin, another one of the woman's grandchildren, and she said that they always have to put up with her crap. She starts telling me something about her and her brother run some company that owns the building we were partying in and she had vouched for him for something at one point but he used her support to snatch part of the company out from under her.... I don't know, it was confusing, but she was showing me these computers she uses to remote control salad bars and other things with high-tech interfaces. That's about all I remember about that, though. And at one I definitely walked back to the new grandma's food when she stepped away from the table and spit in her rice. Hehe.

    #2 - Flexible Walls [DILD]

    I was at a party with some high school friends that I've still kept in touch with, and one of them gets me and few other girls to sneak out the front door with him and tells me that he's going to make a dash to his car and take off. I follow him down to the parking lot, and apparently the party is taking place in this large apartment building with some kind of event going on on the ground floor. There are celebrities in fancy suits and dresses all over the place. I follow him to his car and the other girls get in with him and I start to joke with him about something, but I can't remember what exactly. He laughs and rolls his eyes at me as he pulls out of the lot with me still hanging on the window and threaten to say that he has speed in his car with all these cops and celebrities around, very loudly. He freaks out but I was just messing with him anyway, I knew he didn't have any and I just wanted to pay him back for brushing me off and I know how paranoid he can get, but he's pretty much straight-edge. He stopped and started begging me not too, but I just laughed and said no one would care in the middle of all this commotion anyway and he drives off.

    I walked back to my own car, which was not my car at all and is very pink, but there were some creepers following me. For some reason I went to the back right passenger door and unlocked it manually, and I could tell that they were waiting for me to auto-unlock all the doors because they were standing over by the driver door. They all panicked since it wasn't going according to plan and I started trying to close all the doors and windows in time but one of them got in the door I unlocked and grabbed a few things, but aside from that I was able to shake them loose after a little bit of a struggle. I decided to re-park my car somewhere more in the middle of everything and go back to the party. As I was walking back I saw some celebrity in a dress looking at me from a distance and I had a momentary feeling that she was Hayden Panettiere, who oddly seems to be something of a dream sign for me and who I've become in both lucids and non-lucids, but I got distracted easily and didn't pursue it. The last thing I remember doing outside is looking at my phone and seeing that it was, I believe, 5:27 PM. I thought to myself that my friend was acting oddly for having left so early.

    Next thing I know I'm back in the building and I'm either walking into or already in the elevator back up. There are metal walls on all sides and this is where
    I become lucid. The first thing I did was sort of make my hand stiff so that my thumb and all my fingers are pointing out in the same direction. I firmly pressed them up against a wall to see if I could push it back at all, but I wasn't expecting to be able to. I used to do this to try to phase through walls before I figured out a much better way to do it, but I did remember that back then after enough pushing the walls would start to bend back some. I backed up and had both of my hands in the same position now and pulled them back to put my all into this, and then I lunged them forward at the wall. There was a loud banging noise and the whole thing bent back pretty far and stopped, then bounced back and forth until it balanced itself out again and became a solid wall. I laughed at this and started doing it over and over again to all of the walls and the ceiling. However, I realized that I was getting too into this rather than continuing the plot of the dream, and I phased through the elevator doors to try to get out of them and into some hallway, but all it did was cause the dream to fade to black and I was unable to retrieve it successfully.

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    Comments

    1. 101Volts's Avatar
      Did the dog turds come from a store-bought bag? And perhaps she's not literally a stepmother IRL but spitting in her food doesn't sound like a way to get her to like you and not put dog turds in your food. (Though some people will not be nice, Why get on their bad side to make them not like you? People misinterpret things too.)
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    2. Iokheira's Avatar
      Hey hey, good to see you back! What an evil old lady. Old ladies seem to be either sweet or evil, have you noticed? Lucky with the food! I would have done the same thing. Was it just like eating air or the same texture/consistency each time?

      Interesting about the ambient dream noises as well. While I haven't been paying much attention, it seems like I only heard background noise in my last lucid.
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    3. Alyzarin's Avatar
      Quote Originally Posted by 101Volts
      Did the dog turds come from a store-bought bag? And perhaps she's not literally a stepmother IRL but spitting in her food doesn't sound like a way to get her to like you and not put dog turds in your food. (Though some people will not be nice, Why get on their bad side to make them not like you? People misinterpret things too.)
      I'm not entirely sure where they were from, I didn't think to ask. >.> Perhaps my reaction was a little bit childish, but come on lol. Dog turds? Really?



      Quote Originally Posted by NewArtemis
      Hey hey, good to see you back! What an evil old lady. Old ladies seem to be either sweet or evil, have you noticed? Lucky with the food! I would have done the same thing. Was it just like eating air or the same texture/consistency each time?

      Interesting about the ambient dream noises as well. While I haven't been paying much attention, it seems like I only heard background noise in my last lucid.
      Good to be back! I'm actually thinking about just switching to mostly DJ entries again for a bit and avoiding the main forum, so I don't feel so overwhelmed by it all... I've been having to juggle quite a few different social channels lately.

      You know, you're right. And this one was pure evil! Actually, I think they usually are for me. The first old lady dream I can ever remember having was from when I was just a little kid, she ran up to me out of nowhere and punched me in the face and I died. :c

      It was pretty much like eating air, that was issue.... It was like, I got the taste fine because I wanted it, but it didn't even cross my mind that the sensation of eating might not come if I don't require it to. Next time I'll try to keep it in mind though, mastering the free food technique is a personal life goal!

      About the noise... it's kind of like... well, you know how if you stand in a room with a lot of white noise like a loud air conditioner of something running for a long time you can start hearing little illusions? Like music playing, or people talking on the other side of the wall or door, but only until you try to really listen for it and then it's gone. It's like that.... For me that presence is always there in a dream, unless it's falling apart. The same actually applies to being on a hallucinogen and suddenly sobering up a bit and realizing what's going on... there's a sudden silence that lets you know the altered state of consciousness has really passed. Does that make sense? I think it's actually that same effect that allows your mind to believe that there actually is someone standing behind you when you turn around. When the non-sound drops my dreams also become completely devoid of DCs.
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    4. Iokheira's Avatar
      she ran up to me out of nowhere and punched me in the face and I died. :c
      Gonna be honest, that made me laugh out loud. Poor Aly! I don't think I've ever met an old lady quite so venomous as yours, IWL or in a dream

      I thought you just meant ambient noise! I understand what you mean though. Sometimes when I'm in the shower the noise of the showerhead starts sounding like violins and everything else gets added in. As soon as I pay attention to it it disappears. Can't say I've ever had that insane amount of stimulation in a dream though! Especially not a lucid!
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    5. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Aly, welcome back! Good to see you still rocking the DILDs!

      Congratulations, by the way, on Task of the Month. I think you're going to like the look of those wings on you! The food actually sounded pretty great even though I know it didn't measure up to your expectation. But I'll bet that with another try in the right frame of mind you'll enjoy it even more. Heck, I enjoyed chewing on a particularly tasty rock a few nights ago, so you never know when good food will find you. =) And while I found the rock amazingly tasty, your grandma's bag of dog squeeze is more adventurous than I'd recommend you trying to be.

      I LOL'd at the fact that you had to feel up each summoning attempt "just to make sure".
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    6. Alyzarin's Avatar
      Quote Originally Posted by NewArtemis
      Gonna be honest, that made me laugh out loud. Poor Aly! I don't think I've ever met an old lady quite so venomous as yours, IWL or in a dream

      I thought you just meant ambient noise! I understand what you mean though. Sometimes when I'm in the shower the noise of the showerhead starts sounding like violins and everything else gets added in. As soon as I pay attention to it it disappears. Can't say I've ever had that insane amount of stimulation in a dream though! Especially not a lucid!
      Don't worry, you can laugh at my suffering, that was a long time ago. But thank you. =P And I should hope you never have to meet one!

      Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about! That's the thing though... see, it's not really so much that there's a stimulation creating it... it's just there. I said "ambient non-sound" because there really isn't a sound, there's only a presence. Basically, imagine that shower situation with everything exactly the same except for no shower sounds. In other words... the illusory noise that disappears if you actually try to hear it is there, but no other sound is. So it's almost like sound that only exists when it's not observed. However, in a dream you're not just going to stop and try to hear the silence when there's no white noise to set you off. It slips totally under your radar until it disappears on its own... leaving a totally noticeable difference if you were aware enough to catch it, but not one that you can validate by comparing it to when it was around, because even then you couldn't isolate it. Yeah... I think that's about the best way to describe it. That make sense? And yes, I am pretty much asking you if you've ever noticed if something you weren't paying attention to disappeared lol.

      I wouldn't be surprised if you don't get this though, or at least if you've never caught it before.... I happen to be pretty attuned to these tiny changes in my perception and it wasn't dreams that first made me notice this. Being aware of things without observing them is a big part of my dream control and perception though, so things like this stand out to me now.

      Quote Originally Posted by CanisLucidus
      Aly, welcome back! Good to see you still rocking the DILDs!

      Congratulations, by the way, on Task of the Month. I think you're going to like the look of those wings on you! The food actually sounded pretty great even though I know it didn't measure up to your expectation. But I'll bet that with another try in the right frame of mind you'll enjoy it even more. Heck, I enjoyed chewing on a particularly tasty rock a few nights ago, so you never know when good food will find you. =) And while I found the rock amazingly tasty, your grandma's bag of dog squeeze is more adventurous than I'd recommend you trying to be.

      I LOL'd at the fact that you had to feel up each summoning attempt "just to make sure".
      Thanks, Canis! ^_^

      And thanks again! Oh yeah, I'm excited to give it another shot now that I have a better idea of how to handle it. It should be interesting! =) And wait, you ate a rock? How did this happen?

      And of course, you can never be too certain, right?
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      Updated 04-24-2013 at 05:11 AM by Alyzarin
    7. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      And thanks again! Oh yeah, I'm excited to give it another shot now that I have a better idea of how to handle it. It should be interesting! =) And wait, you ate a rock? How did this happen?
      Totally. Your face-stuffing technique will be an order of magnitude better now that you've prepped yourself for it. =) Man, if I were to actually premeditate a lucid dream in which I stuffed my face? Oh my, the damage I would do.

      Heh heh, yeah I did wind up chowing down on a rock. I was going for Advanced Task of the Month (turn coal into a diamond) and was thinking this might be a way to turn a rock into coal pretty easily, so I bit off a chunk of it just to see how that'd go. It was delicious! This was the dream where it happened: Rock Candy - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

      Edit: I should also mention that the rock-eating dream was a peppermint tea dream. Menthol!
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      Updated 04-24-2013 at 05:17 PM by CanisLucidus