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Date: 12/17/2013
Method: MILD & WBTB (Fail )
Total Sleep Time: 8 (ish) hours

Welp...I tried to duplicate my success from yesterday by planning all day with intent to WILD and doing my WBTB for at least 45 minutes. So would someone please tell me why the hell my job called telling me they needed something emailed to them within the hour (and the job would take me 2 hours to do) ???!!! By the time I got finish with the work there was no way in hell that I was able to go back to sleep. Oh well, there is always tomorrow...

Dream 1

I was surrounded by alligators and I decided that I would eat them so I started skinning their hide and removing their guts to make a soup. There were all sizes and shapes of alligators, but I wasn't afraid. I told myself the more the merrier for my alligator soup .

Dream 2

I saw a baby in a woman's uterus and I was able to see this with my naked eye. It was so vivid...his facial features were so clear to me. I saw that the baby was holding a miniature sword in his hand and smiling...like he was going to be a knight. Even though this was a very short dream I must admit, I believe this one was one of my favorites because the baby looked so confident and brave .

Date: September 26, 2013
Method: MILD & WBTB
Total sleep time: Finally enough

Dream 1:

I was running in the weirdest race with a lot of people…mostly women. The race took place in a very large home…somewhat like a mansion. We had to go through all of these nooks and crannies of the home…racing up back stairways and secret passages. To thwart our efforts some men was offering runners a nice cold beer, and other men were their flirting with the women…some women fell for it and had to drop out of the race. I was sitting down taking a break from the race when I realized that I haven’t seen any of the runners in a while, I hopped up from my seat and finished the last lap to win the race.

Fraggle:

I was trying to thread a needle, but the needle disappeared in thin air. I got down of the floor to look for the needle and found it, but instead of being the straight needle I started out with, it was a curved needle…like the kind doctors use to close up stitches.

Fraggle:

I was in the kitchen making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to eat.

Dream 2:

I was talking with my nephew when I noticed that someone was at the window trying to get his attention to come outside. When he did come outside, several people were there and started fighting him…it had to be around 5 or 6 people fighting my 1 nephew. It was a planned attack and I was so angry, that I went to go find the attackers all by myself. Once I found them, I made them sit down on the ground in a neat row and tell me why they had did what they did. It turns out that the attack was orchestrated by a female (don’t know if this was an ex-girlfriend or not) and she was not even sorry for what happened. I remember cussing her out and holding her down until the police came. The girl had stated that she was only in the neighborhood that day because she had special privileges at the prison…she was an inmate at the prison and she was allowed to be out in the community during the day, only to return back to the prison at night…and I noticed that she was pregnant. I didn’t care, I continued to grab at her and cuss her out. She kept a smirk on her face the entire time.

Dream 3:

I was riding in my car with my family when we noticed that a police car was pulled over to the side of the rode. I was speeding so fast that I almost ran into the back of the police car. The police car put on it’s lights and (can’t remember how) but I ended up at the police station with the police officer. The police officer was not dressed in uniform, he was dressed in some very casual shorts and a t-shirt AND he reeked of alcohol. As it turns out, the police officer was pulled over on the side of the rode for driving under the influence and he was waiting on another office to come get him and take him to jail!

Fraggle:

Something about me looking for a house to purchase and I had to choose between two homes…one of them was famous for serving the best seafood in town. I can’t remember anything about the other house except it was painted white on the outside.

Note: I couldn't be more proud of myself for improving so much on dream recall, I have been able to remember 3 dreams and 3 fragments in one night! Such an improvement for me! So sweet

Date: September 19, 2013

You will never believe this dream I had...

Dreamed I was at some sort of party and we all were talking about the difficulties of becoming lucid. Then we heard an alarm go off and someone said, "Excuse me, but you know what that means...I have to do my reality check." Then one of the DC looked at me and said, "Aren't you going to do yours." I replied, "I already done it and I know that I am not dreaming!"

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!

Date: September 12, 2013
Technique: MILD & WBTB (failed WILD...I fell asleep)
Total hours: ???

Dreamed I was watching people commit suicide by watching them jump from what looked like a very high wall made up of the biggest rocks I have ever seen. After all had jumped, I somehow found myself at the bottom of the wall on the ground. None of them (and I mean none of them) died. As they rolled their bodies from side to side, they just laid there moaning and groaning in pain. They looked up and saw me standing there and they told me that they wish they could have a second chance and not have done what they have done. I didn't know what to tell them, I didn't know if they could even walk from the horrific jump they had taken...I was sure that they were all paralyzed. They kept wailing from the pain and looking for some type of relief that I couldn't give them. "Oh, how we wish we could start all over!" they cried. Then, all of a sudden, I noticed a stair case was on either side of the wall leading back up to where they had all started their jump from the wall. I told them, "Look! There's a staircase! Go up to that staircase and start all over, whatever you do, DON'T JUMP!" And guess what? That is exactly what they did. One by one, they got up and walked up those stairs and never came back. I made sure to stay at the bottom of the wall, just to make sure that no one jumped again. I waited for awhile until I realized, no one was coming back down that wall...each one had gotten their second chance .

Date: Sept. 10, 2013
Method: MILD & WBTB
Total Sleep Time: 8-9 hours

Dreamed I was with my previous boss and she is usually the sweetest person in the world. In RL, I have worked for this woman for 15 years and she has never changed her personality or her positive attitude. Well, during my dream, her back was turned to me and I recognized who she was. I haven't seen her in a long time, so I was excited to see her. I ran up behind her and turned her around and said, "Hello A! I'm so glad to see you again!" When she realized who I was, she gave me the ugliest look and grunted something rude and walked away...go figure .

Date: September 4, 2013
Technique: MILD & WBTB (WILD Successful! DEILD x 2)
Sleep time: 8 1/2 hours

I was able to go right into a WILD from my WBTB this morning. This has never been this easy before and I really don’t know what I did for this to happen because it happened so fast. It may have been from what I read from GAB the previous night on DV (how she waits for a dream to form right in front of her and then she takes a leap into it).

Let’s get to the good stuff!

I saw myself in a dreamlet in a classroom and I was talking to an old friend and I mentally told myself it was time to go (jump into the dream). I felt myself entering the dream so I held steady as the vibrations gave me my warning that it was time. I did a quick RC of levitation (it worked) and I was on my way! I had told myself that I was going to start with the easiest task (for me, it was singing the ABC song for the TOTM), but I wanted to do it while climbing up the wall. I started off trying to keep the dream vivid by rubbing my hands across the wall for stabilization (almost like in a crawling motion). Then, I started singing the song and going up the wall, but I kept sliding down the wall! I finished the ABC song, but still could not get my feet to stick to that damn wall! So I tried again, this time while singing the ABC song I found myself on the other end of my room and instead of going up the wall, I was going up my bathroom door (but still not able to quite stick it.) Instead, I ended up going through the bathroom door ! I gave up and felt myself losing control and I ended up back inside my body. I was able to DEILD out because I was not going to let lucidity get away from me…I had so many other tasks to complete, but that damn wall was still calling me! I decided to forget about singing (already done that…twice) and concentrate on sticking to the wall. I deciding to take off running (I wanted to run up the wall and across the ceiling), but when I did, (can’t quite remember here) I believe I found myself hanging to the top of my bathroom door . So, I had to take the wall and ceiling task as a lost…for now!

I was able to still maintain the vibrations once I ended up back in my body, so I DEILD myself back out of my body and decided to be adventurous. I decided to go outside, so I flew through a window and landed in the front yard. I saw children playing and somehow got wrapped up in what they were doing and lost control of the dream and briefly woke back up. My mentality can only maintain so much, so I gave up for the remaining of the morning and grabbed my DJ and wrote everything down!

All in all, I couldn’t be more proud of myself...I was able to WILD after a WBTB in the morning and complete the TOTM! Yeah! Like I stated earlier, I have done it before, but never was it this smooth.

Thanks GAB!

Fragment:

My son had aged into an old blue eyed fair skinned man with a huge hole in the top of his head.

Date: August 15, 2013
Method: MILD & WBTB
Total Hours of Sleep: around 6-7

I was in the home of Anthony Bourdain from the TV show "No Reservations" (in RL, I am madly in love with this man!). He was showing me his riches that he has accumulated over the years. Fine furniture, priceless paintings, exquisite jewelry were as far as the eye can see. He stated that he has all the things a man could ever want in his life, but one thing was missing...a wife. Then (and this is the best part of the dream), he grabbed me by my waist and hoisted me in the air, slowly sliding me down against the 'bulge' () in the front of his pants, he looked me dead in my eyes and said, "Will you marry me?" Without missing a beat, I screamed a 'Yes' so loud...I woke myself up.

Note: And I woke up soaking wet.

(COPIED FROM WORKBOOK)
Date: August 6, 2013
Method: WBTB & MILD (WILD)
Total hours of sleep time: 6 hours (WBTB 1 hour)

Well, I have a lot to talk about so let's get to the good stuff!

I went to bed at my usual time of 12:00am and I have to get up to fix breakfast and wake the kids. After getting everything done and the last child out of the house, I looked at the clock frustrated because I just knew I couldn't count this as a good WBTB method. According to what I have read on DV, I should not do to much activity during WBTB and I should try to be silent and keep the lights dim. Well, with this being the first week of school, this morning my house was grand central station ! I was up cooking, waking up people, shouting that the bus was coming and every damn thing...sigh!


When everyone was out the door, I looked at the clock and realized a whole hour had passed. As I turned off the lights and got back in the bed, I said to myself, "You have done far to much to count this as a WBTB, no way are you going to become lucid now...chalk this up as another loss." However, my inner self told me to continue to say my mantra and just get a few minutes of sleep (It was 7:11am and I had to be up in an hour to get ready for work).

This is when the magic happened!

It seemed like mere seconds before I noticed that I was standing in front of my door screaming at my kids telling them the bus was coming. I had my hand on the couch which is in the living room by the front door, but I noticed that the couch was in a different position on the other side of the living room. Instinct (and I mean pure instinct) prompted me to do a RC. I told myself to levitate...AND I DID!!! That's when I felt the vibrations, and I knew I was lucid! I'm am not good at my dream control, so I told myself to calm down and the next thing I knew, I was back in my bed. I stayed still and played sleep and like magic again...I was back in the living room! "Oh GOD, please tell me what to do!" I thought as I just floated there. I remembered that I wanted to gain some dream control so I started to touch the living room wall by the front door. As I was looking at the wall and the front door, I thought it would be fun to see if I can go through the wall...AND I DID!!! As I was going through the wall, I'm not 100% sure, but I think I saw like lights? sparks? flashes? Hard to explain, but also, as I want through the wall, it felt gooey . I did come out on the other side of the wall to my front yard and then I faded to the dark again and was back in my bed.

Well, you know my method for this by now DV, I laid still in my bed and DEILD my way back out of myself. This time, I was in a different scenery, but it was still my house. Everything was not quite right, so I knew I had to do something, or I would be back in my physical body again. So I'm standing there and my husband is just looking at me. He says, "Aren't you suppose to do something?" I look at him strangely, but for the life of me I couldn't think of what I was suppose to do (once I woke up, I realized for the TOTM, I was suppose to ask a DC what is the meaning of life? )! I stood there wondering what my husband was talking about and I realized I was losing my lucidity by getting wrapped up in my husband, so immediately, I refocused my attention on getting out of there! For some strange reason, one thing I can always remember is trying to teleport to Egypt and that is exactly what I tried to do.

Canis Lucidis told me to close my eyes and imagine Egypt down to the very last detail. I closed my eyes (tight) and kept thinking about how Egypt looked with the pyramids and the sand (kinda how it looks when I watch the Discovery Channel or National Geographic). I kept repeating these images in my mind and then I began to hear music, or people singing (this isn't the first time I have heard beautiful music while lucid, but every time I wake up, I can't remember the music or the songs)? Slowly I open my eyes and the first thing I see (hard to explain) is like a wavy image (you know how you look in the distance and it is really hot and you can see the heat waves?). The image clears up and I hear people say that Pharoh is a crook. I look down and a child is telling me to follow him (he looks like my God son in RL, but now he is my God son in Ancient times, his clothes are rags also). So I follow him. He stops by men that are working and building something and they are wearing tattered clothes and they look like prisoners. One of them looks like he is eating something and he gives him some of his sandwich to eat and the child says thank you. When the child let go of my hand to get the sandwich (I saw bread and meat, so to me, it's a sandwich), a new scene in front of me appears. I look back at the child who is running toward me and I start to walk toward the new scene, but the closer I got to the scene the more the scene moved further away. I guess I began to get too tired of what I just went through, because I faded to the black and opened my eyes to see my clock on my nightstand...7:46am.

I got up and lunged for my journal and wrote down all that I could remember. I have no idea why I am able to WILD in three's, but by the third one, my mental energy is shot!

A Special Thank you

To Canis Lucidis,
Thanks for sending me to Egypt, you (along with all the other facilitators, moderators, members, and friends) are appreciated.

Date: July 6, 2013
Bedtime routine: MILD & WBTB (WILD attempt, but kept falling asleep)
Total sleep time: 6-7 hours

Dream

I was this person's every meaning for existence. He held me close in his arms as if my life depended on his touch, he cradled my head and looked deeply into my eyes as he rocked me to sleep in his arms like a baby. My skin felt every bit of his exhalation on my face as he leaned in close to me to make sure I was resting. My eyes were close as I listened to his heartbeat as my head pressed against his strong, broad chest. Even though my eyes were closed, I still could feel his stare upon my body as he refused to take his eyes off of me. I squinted my eyes as my thoughts were confirmed as I could see him follow my breathing pattern with his gaze. He would watch my breast rise up and down with each breath, slowly moving my long straight hair off of my chest with his hand...his hands shaking slightly but ever so gently. He treated my body like I was fragile as glass as he carefully shifted positions to make sure I was comfortable. Being as quiet as a whisper, he cautiously rubbed my arms (still rocking me) and told me how special I was. Oh, how loved I felt by him! Never wanting that feeling to end, I cried for what seemed a lifetime, for I somehow knew that it had to end because he was not mine to love...he was someone else's husband.

Note: I woke up totally confused after this dream...but, I never felt so loved and cared for in my real waking life. No doubt.

Date: June 19, 2013
Method: MILD & WBTB (attempted WILD, but fell asleep twice)
Sleep Time: bedtime @ 12:30am WBTB @ 5:45 am for 5-10 minutes, then back to sleep Awake @ 10:30am

Dreamed I was playing with my little baby niece and all of a sudden the house was surrounded by a SWAT team and helicopters outside (police dogs and guns drawn by officers and all). They came in and bullied me and pushed me to the ground while they search the house. I continued to ask them what where they looking for. I was more mad than scared because at first they were just ignoring me. When they finally got through searching the house (inside and outside) they came over to me and jerked me off of the ground and told me to 'hand it over.' I said, "Hand what over??!!" They said to hand of the gene. "We know you have it, hand over the GENE." Then I woke up...

Question: Not sure if 'the gene' was my baby niece or what...

Date: June 11, 2013
Method: MILD & WBTB (hoping to WILD, but fell asleep)
Total hours: 6-7 hours

Dream Frag:
Somebody I knew had just won the lottery and she was telling everyone how rich she was and that she had just got off the plane from traveling from London (No, I didn't get the lottery numbers! )

Dream#1:
A male friend of mine had been in an argument with another male friend of mine and I was a witness to him being shot several times in the butt and in his right leg. I helped him hide from the shooter and from the police in a small house owned by another friend of mine...then I woke up.

Dream #2:
About 2-3 three people were in this bathroom sounding like they were having sex with each other. Another person thought they knew who it was, but I told them that they were wrong, that it was not the person he thought it was, but an alien...yes, an alien was having sex in the bathroom . They told me to prove it by catching the alien, so I waited for the alien to come out of the bathroom. When the alien did come out, I grabbed him with my both my hands. He was no bigger than a baseball. He started to scream and wiggle, but I kept a tight grip on him so he could not escape.

The alien started to change shape in my hands by getting smaller or becoming a liquid as an attempt to slip out of my hands. All I could think about was if the alien escaped, I could not prove I had seen one, so my main goal was to hold onto the alien for proof (why can't I remember my main goal is to pay attention to a dream sign...like an alien having sex? ). Then, the alien became extremely sticky in my hands and the colorful pattern on the alien's skin stuck (or merged?) onto my skin and then my skin began to resemble the alien's skin . I started to freak out thinking I was going to turn into an alien and everyone was going to think I was the one having sex in the bathroom so, I let him go...and woke up pissed.

Date: May 30, 2013
Method: MILD & WBTB (attempted DILD)
Sleep Time: bedtime @ 1:00am WBTB @ 6:00am for 5-10 minutes, then back to sleep Awake @ 10:00am

Dream #1
I was planning on putting on a play for my mother with some people (?). We were moving several props to the center so people would be able to see them from a distance. These props included items that belongs in a kitchen and a living room (I guess like furniture). No matter were we moved these props, there seemed to be a problem and we never could get this issue quite right. After some time of moving things around, my mother had passed away in this dream (by the way...my mother is alive) and my father and grandmother had built the most beautiful skyscraper in her memory. It was so tall, the tip of the building was covered by the clouds. The skyscraper was made of pure gold with reflective mirrors all over it. The gold shined brighter than the sun itself. As the building glistened in the sun, it almost look transparent. It's beauty was absolutely awesome!

Dream #2
I needed a ride and I didn't know where I was. It was very dark and I was crying and I was scared. I went into a store and asked the owners if they new the bus route and they asked me where I was going. I couldn't tell them exactly where I was going, I just cried and told them I wanted to go home. The owner felt sorry for me and said that he will give me a ride home. I was still crying because even though I had a ride home, I couldn't tell the person which way to go. I remember passing a building in my dream that said "San Bernadino Hospital."

Fragment
A huge metal barrel I was rolling around and groceries were inside of it.

Date: May 20, 2013
Method: MILD & WBTB
Sleep Time: Can't remember but I believe I had gotten around 7-8 hours of sleep.

Dream #1
Dreamed I was in an elevator with Albert Einstein and Nickola Tesla. The elevator was going up and then all of a sudden it stopped abruptly. I looked at my fellow elevator friends and said, "Something is wrong." I felt like I was becoming lucid, but at that exact moment, the elevator spun out of control and the dream faded and I woke up. Damn it!

Dream #2
I was in my sister's apartment and she was having a party for some kids. they were running around all crazy from the sugar 'high' and constantly drinking sodas. I was trying to help my sister move furniture out of the way and I noticed several mice marching on the floor in a straight line...this scared me to death...so much that I woke up...AGAIN!

Dream Fragment #1
I was carefully painting a child's table and chair in primary colors.

Dream Fragment #2
Shopping with my sis in law at a Kmart and we both wanted a pair of curtains we saw during the 'sidewalk' sale. The curtains were for spring and you got 2-4 curtains for a dollar. We both wanted those curtains so bad...

Note to self: Do you think Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla in an elevator with you was your dream sign? Uh...YEAH!

Date: May 6, 2013
Sleep Time: 6 hours
Lucid Dream Technique: MILD & WBTB

Dreamed I was taking care of what I believe was a flea. I cared a great deal for this flea. There was an emotional attachment so strong, I felt like this flea was a part of me. My love and commitment for this flea was tremendous! I cared for this flea like a mother loves and adores her child. I provided comfort, security, and attention everyday to the flea. Even though I could barely 'see' this flea with my naked human eye, I knew this flea existed and I knew this flea was a 'life.' Then, one day, I anxiously came home and went looking for the flea and to my astonishment, my flea was nowhere to be found. I mourned for what seemed a lifetime, for my love was gone and no more...I cried forever.

Note to self: What the hell ???

5/4/2013

Dreamed a woman and a man were dancing at some party...all of a sudden the female had the dance spotlight on her and she started dancing and doing all of these weird moves like she was in a dance competition. Everyone started to cheer her on as she did all the latest dance moves. The more pumped the crowd got, the harder she danced. She twisted her body into all kinds of shapes, jerked and spun around rocking out to the melody. At one point, she spun around so rapidly, her spiritual body double spun right out of her physical body and landed right in front of me ! The 'dancing-spiritual' body double was still in a full spinning rotation as the 'real' lady just kept on dancing. Even after the music had slowed down and the real lady and slowed down her dancing, her dancing spiritual double was still in front of me spinning away like a 'toy top'...then I woke up.


Question to myself: Why didn't I see this as a sign (the woman's body double) and do a reality check and become lucid ???