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I woke up naturally after 3 different rem cycles last night, I don't know how lol. I had a dream where I became semi lucid and dreamt about becoming lucid but alas I can't remember it anymore, doh.
1: I was inside a sort of palace with a soccer team, weird trans-dimensional things were going on, invisible walkways etc. Forgotten most of this one as it was from first rem period.
2: I was in my maths class and doing questions set by a substitute teacher. There were some flirty games going on in the class.
3: I woke up early and decided to play some games instead of falling back asleep. After a while my mum found me ut I excused it away and she went back to sleep. My friend saw I was playing and asked me how come we were both playing the same old retro games without knowing the other one did. After that I was very tired, so I was running late to school. I ended up not getting off at my regular stop but in the city, and wound up trying to get changed there. I then realized that no trains were going back on the same line, so I ran around loking for help. I went to buy mints in a store and asked the shopkeeper for help, and he gave me a philosophy pamphlet he wrote himslf for help. He was an old german man who had fought in world war 2, and seemed just a tad crazy. The dream sorta cycled in on itself here, repeating some stuff again, and I ended up back at the shop again, where he explained his pamphlet and tiraded against a redneck woman. He had a great quote when she abused him, something like "Well I can see that your breasts are no longer that which brought 4 American children to this earth", something like that . The I eventually managed to get a train to school and I promptly woke up.

1: I was playing a MOBA, some sort of cross between dota and smite. My friend was telling me to play this Athena character, so I obliged and started a game. The teams met in the jungle right off the bat and there was a crazy fight where I got around 3 kills. The scene then shifted so I was playing starwars battlefield 2 with my brother and friend, I think this was a re-imagining of an actual thing that happened many years ago.
2: My mum and I were packed up to stay at a hotel near our house. My brother was sick so he couldn't come, so my grandma came over to look after him/the house. We eventually found the weird pink hotel but we went back to the house, not sure if we'd forgotten anything or had a feeling or whatnot. Anyway when I got back I found all of the pots and pans being stacked inside of eachother trying to cook stuff. There were three pots inside eachother, all warped out completely with burnt pasta and sauce filling them. All of the cookware was ruined, so I tried to arrange everything and turn off the heat to salvage what I could when my grandma entered the room. She was super confused, asked me what I was doing, so I obviously yelled at her, "WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU DOING!!!". She said she was trying to make a Thermomix out of our pots and stuff, and I kinda went on a rant about how stupid that was and how she was crazy etc. It got tense when my mum entered the scene as well, but then the dream started to dissolve. As it was I realized that it was a dream, but by then it was too late and I woke up.
I wanted to have a lucid so badly as I woke up lol, so I attempted for the first time to try a WILD/DEILD. Within a few seconds of me visualizing the dream continuing on I started feeling really heavy with vibrations. This triggered my gravity awareness RC which I've been practicing the last few days, which might of contributed to my failure as I got too aware/awake too early, idk. Anyway these super intense vibrations washed over me and I felt myself starting to get sucked into sleep/dream, when a voice appeared in my head sort of explaining what that dream had been about and the lesson I had learned from it. While this was really cool it brought me back and I couldn't complete the attempt. Factor in a noisy brother who was going to the toilet at the time and meh. For my first attempt though, it was a case of close but no cigar .

Woohoo I had a few dreams I could remember last night and one sort of lucid/OBE that was pretty cool.

1: I was watching a football match and I noticed that 3 of the opposition players were samurai, and one of them, presumably the best, carried a sword as well. Those three started dominating the other team and everyone was getting scared by just how good they were.

2: My brother Aidan and I went to an ice cream place and got some nice gelati. We went inside and there was a sort of sports club where Johnno(Brad Johnson, football player from my childhood) was there as part of a tv show, I think he was interviewing Jason and Gordon and maybe someone else. I got in the way a bit trying to find a place to pay for the ice cream so I went to a bar in a different part of the place to pay. I gave the 50 dollar note and she said it was fake and to come with me. She led me into a small cupboard place and she told me that the note wasn’t actually fake, locking the door with us inside. Some strange fun time ensued.

3: [LUCID] From the dream before it sort of dissolved into blackness and became a FA. I genuinely thought I had just woken up but I did an RC and pushed my finger through my palm. I got lucid and remembered I had read about the Phase by Michael Raduga a few days before, so I thought that this was an OBE rather than a lucid lol(but who knows). Because of that I tried to get ou of my bed and it was difficult, but I managed to sit up eventually and started to walk out of my room. It was almost pitch black and my body felt really heavy for some reason. I headed to the bathroom as I remembered the first thing raduga said was to look in a mirror, so I flicked on the light switch (it worked, unusual for a dream lol) and looked at the mirror, and i wasn't there initially. At various stages through the rest of the dream though my reflection sort of flickered into the mirror. I started feeling even heavier and in the mind as well so I tried to exert some control over the dream to not much success. I tried to eleport but even fer reminding myself that I was in full control of the dream it didn't work. Instead I decided to throw some fire at the mirror and I managed to get a little stream of fire from my hands. After this I started getting sucked out of the dream and woke up.

4: After going back to sleep I had a dream that I was in a Harry Potter(or something similar) movie. My friend and I went to this woman's house where we went downstairs and used her portal to sort of travel to the ministry of magic, where we were waging an underground war of sorts. We were sort of fighting against apitalism a bit (lol) and eventually my got captured and I gt captured after that. I was carried through in a box/stretcher thing, and it was very cinematic like. Several times throughout the dream I had moments where my vision was still/I wasn't moving and my vision slowly blurred and faded into blackness, similar to in Anamneis when he wakes from the coma (forgot his name doh). I can't remember any other details too well.

YEAH! My first properly lucid dream in aaaages, well sorta. I'm not to sure how to describe it, but I wasn't fully lucid, and my dream control abilities sucked, but I definitely knew I was dreaming. I also (pretty sure) got to talk with my dream guide for the first time . This is my only lucid whic hadn't ended within 30 seconds, yet this was also probably my lucid with the least 'explosive' awareness, it was more of a different kind of awareness, not sure if there's a link there but I will investigate.

The dream started with me in bed, and even though it felt real I decided to d a reality check, and surprise surprise I suddenly realized I was dreaming. I kept on telling myself I'm dreaming I'm dreaming etc and I looked at my hands in a bit of an effort to stabilize my dream. I was surprised by how real the dream seemed, and since my lucidity wasn;t very high I had to continually affirm to myself I was dreaming. I realized the light level was really low so I tried yelling out 'more light' and 'more lucidity' but it didn't really do much. I remembered the 'memory: forgotten fundamental' thread a little bit and I tried to remember where I was sleeping and in what house, and It seemed t come to me easily, but in retrospect I remembered the wrong house. I remembered the house which the dream was taking place (my mum's house) not where I was sleeping currently (my dad's house) hehe. I decided to go on dreamviews (idk why lol, wasn't very lucid hehe) and I saw a thread about something or other nd I posted about the dream I was having (again weird , may have lost some lucidity here). In response a guy gave me some advice. I then got the inkling he was my dream guide, so I asked him what my real name was and whether he was my dream guide (a big goal for me), but he replied that although yes he was my dream guide (!!!) I had to wait for my true name. I was a bit disappointment at that, and I think I lost some lucidity here as well as I browsed some other threads on DV.
The interesting thing with my DG though was I'm not sure whether I was talking to him in person or he was putting video responses on my DV posts or what, as although I'm sure I read his responses I could see him as well saying them. I could see a badger man (person with big badger head and badger fur/claws etc. instead of hands) wearing a creamy old style cap, red sweater vest and white shirt and pants playing golf.
After this I was back sitting in my bed, and I decided t give another go at a bit of dream control. I realized how long the dream had gone and I thought I wanted to end it soon, so I tried willing that to happen, didn't work. I spun around but that didn't do much, then I jumped over backwards and that did the trick, except instead of waking me up it just ended the dream and my lucidity. My last thought was about remembering my dream, but I think what I did counteracted this as I know I've forgotten a fair amount of this dream
Ps. On a side note for some reason during the dream I 'remembered' that I had had a mini LD last night as well which I had woken straight up to, which I'm pretty sure didn't happen as I remembered about 5 fragments from last night and I doubt I had that mini LD but who knows, maybe I forgot it.

Even with me being lazy and not really dream journalling I've consistently recalled 1 or 2 dreams practically every night for the past few weeks. I found this dream to be interesting, vivid and quite insightful actually, ripe for interpretation. I know a fair bit of what signifies what, well along with the emotions I felt during the dream.

Dream 1: Fragment, I'm sure I was among a big group of people in some sort of wasteland/fantasy land, leading them perhaps, but not sure.

Dream 2: I was reading a book in my Media class, it was illustrated beautifully depicting a man and two kids fighting a fire in their house. I finished reading the book and our teacher said goodbye to us and started giving back some tests and some cards. I got 4 cards and the the bell rang and school was over. I then walked to my the train station with my brother before I opened up two of the cards. One of them was from a classmate and the other from the teacher, for some reason I didn't open the other two. I went on the train and I saw the student who had given me one of those cards and started talking with her. I saw she had a big sack full of cards and some presents which I inquired a bit about. After we talked a bit she said goodbye for the rest of the year. I was puzzled and asked her why she said that, as school still had one more day left before he holidays, but then she told me it was a public holiday and so today was the last day. I suddenly realized that I hadn't cleared out my locker or anything like that and panicked a bit.
Fast forward to the start on the next year, and I arrived at school trying to find a top locked (I'm 6 foot 5 and sick of bottom lockers ). I tried searching for one but the few which still didn't have locks on had people stuff in them anyway. In fact, I couldn't really find a free locker anywhere. I was looking around for help a bit when I heard an alarm go off and I saw someone I know breaking into a classroom with the key. Their accomplice got taken away and then n I woke up.

Sleep Time: 8:45-9:00 PM Awake Times: ~2:00 AM, 4:00 AM and 6:00 AM
REM Period 1:
Length: Long Awareness: Minimal Vividness: Medium-High
I was holidaying in America and my family and I were going to see a stage show featuring a Persian man (who was like one of my friends in school IWL ). I was driving a car into the carpark for the theatre and this weird green ute was sorta blocking me. Eventually he pulled over and I was able to pass him and find a park. We all went into the building, walked upstairs and went o find our seats. On the way there however the main performer came out and I had to squeeze past him. His voice and appearance was almost exactly like that friend I mentioned earlier. We found our seats and relaxed to watch the show. I think during the show our tour guide sat down next to us and asked us if we had found squirrel yet. I got a bit frustrated and asked him why we needed squirrels. He said "You need to wear squirrels on your head for at least 4 weeks to make sure there's no lice" and my mum said "You know this, come on". I was still a bit sus but I didn't get any awareness out of it or anything. I vaguely remember going to McDonalds or something like that.
REM Period 2:
Length: Medium Awareness: Minimal Vividness: Medium
The dream started with me at a train station with wet clothes after skydiving of some sort into water earlier (or s my subconscious tells me). I catch the train and my brother is sitting at the other end of the carriage. The train trundles along and eventually ticket inspectors board the train. One comes up to me and I realise that I didn't have my Myki (ticket) on me, it must have fallen out during or after the skydiving. I angrily defended myself trying to explain that "I'd just been skydiving, it must have fallen out" but he explained I could pay a $70 fine now or pay $240 fine later, so I found 70 dollars in my bag and gave it to him. My brother and I then walked back home and I bought a new Myki, this one with a brown colour scheme rather than the normal green one. (Colours in dreams proven lol)

Length: Long Awareness: Minimal Vividness: High
Now this was an awesome dream. I was working as a very junior writer in a DreamViews style newspaper, doing little columns once a week, but I wanted to do more to help the community. So, I started secretly taking questions from the public about lucid dreaming and helping them out for my column. This came to the attention of my superiors, but instead of firing me like I feared they might I actually got promoted to the role of (Moderator equivalent). This way I could so what I had been doing as part of my regular job. I continued this way for a while, steadily improving and helping everyone I could, so I got promoted again to (Moderator Leader equivalent) and then finally up to Dream Guide, my goal position. Here I continue to take all the questions people have and try to help them, while also trying as hard as I can to curry favour with the Dream Guide Leader. I just rememebered this is all taking place on the street outside my house, with desks and chairs and little shelves set up, as well as a giant fish tank set up outside the Dream Guides section.
I eventually feel as if i have done enough to advance position once again and I write an essay sorta thing hoping to convince the leader of my worthiness. He studies it for a long time and then accepts me, giving me some sage advice which I think I have promptly forgotten lol. Over time, after helping people and also judging several other employees whether they were fit to advance, I then work my way up again to Admin/Sub-Admin position. Here I was more so in charge of all the employees, but I still found time to help people. One such middle aged man with a young daughter I helped was almost crying after I helped him, yelling out "Bless you with all the vitamins! A, C, D, F, B12,-" "Don't forget B6!" I added, "Oh yes, and K, and B3, and E, and..." as he slowly walked away.
REM Period 3:
Length: Long Awareness: Weird, but sorta Minimal Vividness: High
This dream started with me and a few other people on a sort of quest, a little bit mario style and little bit prince of persia style(idk), and I was in a desert sorta place. I remember we each had some sort of problem/defect with ourselves as a part of our quest. One of the others, Alex, had this great big brown tusk, about 5 feet long, sprouting from the left side of his mouth. It would apparently disappear over the next 3-4 days, but he was distressed by it. I remember standing at a sort of crossroads in teh desert and watching Alex fight with hsi tusk at a palace/castle in the distance. At this point I think I morphed into Alex's perspective on and off throughout the dream. I remember being at school on the last day and me, Alex, several friends and other random people went into the office after school and were chatting, then saw there was cake. We started eating it before a teacher came out and shooed us all away angrily. At this point Alex was walking home, and my awareness/dream self was following him, and as he got home he complained about how hard his life was with the tusk, and the grief other people caused him about it. A man I couldn't see replied, "If everything in life was easy, nothing would be worth doing". The dream started dissolving here.

Wowee! I remembered 8 different dream scenes last night, which is insane for me! I woke up twice throughout the night and had 4 scenes each time.

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Sleep time: 9:00 PM Awake times: 2:00 AM, 4:30-5:00AM
REM Period 1:
-I was playing a game with a German woman and two other people called 'Extreme Parkour" or something similar, where we were jumping around a Mayan ruin bouncing between the walls and breaking off some things,generally having whale of a time.
-I was at Disneyland riding around one of those little trams that they have there, and there was a man there who got off and played this shooting game, where he shot small bullets into a leather saddle like thing. Afterwards he complained saying "how big are these bullets?" which the woman replied "7mm" and he went crazy, yelling "WHAT! Those aren't bullets, these are bullets!" and pulled out giant bullets the size of his hands. (My own Crocodile Dundee moment ). After that the tram sorta morphed into a bus a bit and there were some rather racist acts going on against african americans, can't quite remember how that turned out.
-I was in a persons house and they had 3 children, their natural son, and adopted Chinese boy and a boy who appeared to have a mental condition/disability. Very little detail in this one.
-I was at my Dad's house and when I walked out of my room I could hear (I think my little brother) playing a song from Agalloch's The Mantle (Great ablum by the way ) on the keyboard. I was amazaed and asked my Dad what was going on. He said he'd found the cd on a bench and taught my brother to play it. I asked my dad whether he liked it or not but before he could answer the dream dissolved.

REM Period 2:
-I was in a post apocalyptic sort of Hollywood, where Soviet Russia were trying to invade. There were tanks and debris everywhere and me and several other people were playing some sort of wargame there. I remember the landscape was really vivid and well constructed, it looked a little bit like a desert from Mars crossed with a abandoned city.
-I was having a swimming race with 2 members of the Yogscast (I don't even) in a crazy long aircraft hanger style place decorated like the bottom of the ocean and I ended up beating them.
-I was having a weird sort of Chinese exam were the room was split into different sections for the different parts and there were random substitute teachers coming in to take it. I was rather stressed as I thought I wasn't ready and I couldn't bring my dictionary and didn't know how it worked and yada yada. I can't remember too well how it went too well, but I think I did alright hehe.
-I was playing a sort of extreme minigolf with about 20 other people at least and it was fairly competitive, with the rules being super tight. The competition had to go on until tomorrow but I didn't get the message and continued playing a little bit anyway. Some people realised and I had to try and set all my stuff back up so it was like it was before, which was a bit hectic.

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Theres my record number of dreams recalled, hopefully this is a good sign of things to come. Unfortunately no lucids but tomorrow's the day!

WOW! I am pretty sure that I had 3 lucid dreams in one night!!! The first one wasn't very lucid, but the second one was more so and he third one was very but it ended straight away . My recall also got destroyed by me brother turning on the light 5 seconds after I woke up and walking noisely around my bed, but I'll write what I remember.
DREAM 1: (kinda lucid)
Length: average length
Detail: Average
Awareness: A bit more than average but not totally lucid
In this dream I remember walking through these tunnels and rooms in the this kind of chamber, and I remember something about being chased by something and having to solve puzzles and stuff. I got kinda lucid for a little bit bu this dream was early on so it just kind of faded away a little bit after that.
DREAM 2: (More Lucid)
Length: Average
Detail: Above Average
Awareness: more lucid but still not completely.
In this dream I was at my grandparents house preparing for lunch or dinner or something. I was undergoing some kind of training, and at some point the house changed into something different, and I kind of got lucid again. The direction of the dream changed, and I was put on this other training thing, and then stuff happened, I can't remember that part too well, then the dream faded (I'm surprised I didn't wake up with my bit of awareness there.)
DREAM 3: (non lucid)
Length: Long
Detail: Above average
Awareness: Minimal
This wasn't a lucid but it was a cool and long dream. In this dream my family and I were staying at a cross between a beach resort and a water park, right at the edge of one of the islands. The place was split into rectangular islands lines up in a row with paths and bridges connecting them. I remember walking along these going from one side to the other. I saw some fountains and pools and people in spas that were right up against the paths. I remember turning back for a bit, then getting a bit lost and kind of wandering around aimlessly. I don't really remember to much else, apart from really boring stuff or hazy stuff, but this dream was quite long. Again this dream just sort of faded out and merged into the next dream a bit.
DREAM 4: (Lucid yay!)
Detail: Average - Above average
Length: Short
Awareness: Close to full lucidity, if that makes sense. Ill explain soon.
So in this little dream at the end of the night I was dreaming about a kind of card game/rts kind of thing in real life where you move around the map with your guys and take over parts of the map to win, kind of like Dota 2 (which my friend has been obsessing over a bit) Then for an inexplicable reason I got lucid, but the dream scene blacked out and I started feeling my body more. I tried to stop thinking about that but the feeling got stronger, so in a last ditch I span around to try and keep the dream, but everything was shaking crazily and then I woke up. When I got lucid I had those few seconds of clarity, then it was almost like a fog was trying to stop me being lucid as I was waking up, but still retained consciousness, just that it was harder to keep it.

DREAM 1: (fragment)
All I remember is something about being fired and being broke.
DREAM 2: (fragment)
This was a full dream bu I woke up in the middle of the night for it and I didn't bother to remember it, so I can only remember a snippet now. I know it was about some kind of "silent superman", and I think the dream contained a black and white segment, while my dreams are normally colour.
DREAM 3: (non-lucid)
Detail: Average/Above Average
Length: Above Average
Awareness: I was kind of aware at the start, then I wasn't for the rest, but I did have great mental clarity, I just wasn't conscious of the fact I was dreaming.
This dream started out with me and about 6-7 other people hanging out in space. We were all just floating around a space station and talking about some kind of mission that we were going to do. I remember some kind of disaster happening, nothing to specific, but I think the space station blows up. I remember we all have to make decisions about how we are going to get back to Earth. I decide to just go back into the Earths atmosphere, just myself. I kind of float over to the edge and start floating in. I Started slowly floating down to Earth. On the way I have a lot of time to think, but I didnt become conscious, even though I really should have. I was travelling quite slowly through the air, as my dream mind was tricking my by thinking that you travel slower in the Earths atmosphere, instead of reaching terminal velocity. Maybe I had a parachute, I don't know. Anyway, I was travelling down to Earth, thinking I was going to land in water, when I made the connection that even though I was travelling so slowly, if I landed on land I would die. Sure enough, the clouds parted and I was above land. I'm not to sure what happened here, but I remember landing in a lake or a sea inlet of something, so I survived. I took out this inflatable boat with an outboard motor from by pack (don't ask me how it could fit in there) and blew it up like you do balloons. I saw a big cruise ship in the distance and travel towards it, waving my arms to try and grab its attention, but the first ship ignores me. The second ship I see does pick me up I think, but the dream starts fading...
And the dream comes back. I am at school (my dreamsign doh!) and I'm sitting at a bench with some friends. There is a large tunnel/canal thingy where the hockey field normally is, and I ask why it is there. One of them tells me that is how they came back from outer space, and I remember suddenly that all of the other people up there were from my class. We talk for a while then head off to class. When I get there there's a year 9 class sitting there with our grade, and they want us to talk about what we did when we in space and how we came back. They treated it like it was an excursion, rather than a near death experience or something which it should have been. Anyway the dream starts fading there, but I remember listening and talking a bit in the class.

I liked this dream, as it went for about a full 24 hours in total dream tie, and it was very entertaining (I mean who doesn't want to freefall from space?). Its a shame didn't get lucid, as I would have had a lot of fun for sure, but next time!