non-lucid

My first lucid experience this year! It's tiny but its encouragement that I am on the right path.
Dream 1: Non-Lucid
I was travelling aboard a cruise ship/ferry with a lot of people from my school. It was all going well until some sort of sea monster appeared on the radar and started swamping us with waves. We managed to stay upright after one pass by of the monster, but the second attack flipped us upside down and we began to sink. I managed to swim out the door and up to the surface, just before I ran out of oxygen. Gasping for breath, I saw about a dozen other people who had survived, out of the 50-100 on board. The monster dissapeared after that, presumably down with the ship, so we swam to the shore and set about finding civilization. We came across an ancient roman complex and discovered we were in Italy, and so two of the survivors who could speak Italian started conversing with a woman there and I went off exploring the beautiful villa. I woke up then due to my brother.
Dream 2: Lucid Kinda
I was at school (surprise surprise dreamsign ) and during recess I was in the library trying to find a book. A girl came up and we started talking, And I ended up arranging to meet her after school. I went on to Politics class, which had my brother in it as well which was a bit odd. The lesson flew past with me thinking about what had happened before,almost conscious but not quite. Then the teacher span around and asked my brother, "Do you know what we have talked about for the past 50 minutes!" and he didn't know. She then turned on me and asked the same, and I couldn't reach anything. (I think that actually helped give me some consciousness as it is similar to the reality check of asking yourself how and why you re where you are and what did you do previously) After that the teacher went on to my brother about all these levels of punishment he would be getting, and I sorta tuned out and thought about things more. Bit by bit I became more and more aware until I suddenly thought "This must be a dream", feeling a little foolish because I thought I was just daydreaming/imagining the scene at that time. Lo and behold however when I did that I got a shot of awareness and ding a ling lucidity . Unfortunately I woke up immediately without being able to do anything, I just got tingly all over and started feeling my own body. Ah well, better luck next time!

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!

Back into my lucid dreaming journey, and surprise surprise I remembered a dream last night. My recall has been fairly good for me personally even when I'm not trying to do anything dream related, I'm generally remembering either a dream fragment or dream every 2 days or so, which is a whole lot better than where I was at the beginning of this year. On a side note I am also going to start sorting out and categorizing these dream journal entries. Anyway...
Dream 1:
Length: Decently Long
Detail: Above Average
Awareness: Practically none unfortunately, was too caught up in the moment.
It began with me and my brother playing a 3D Mario game with someone else I think, who I might know IRL or not, I don't know, anyway we finished the game, and then he said that we had to find something to be able to keep on playing, maybe for some bonus levels or something. We set about searching for this, but then the dream scene changed. I was now in a cottage/house with someone who I think was my dad and we were watching cricket (which I normally don't like to do). He was telling me all about the game and stuff while I was half listening. The dream scene once again changed, and I was at an Olympic diving pool thing. I'm pretty sure I was still searching for the Mario thing, because I climbed to the top of the platform and dived off, and it felt really important. The dream scene changed for the final time, this time in my old house with my brother and the other guy. We had narrowed down our search for the Mario code or whatever it was, and a ghost/spirit of evil intentions appeared at the front door. We quickly reasoned that we had to have one of us lead him to where the code was, while the other two hid, or something like that. I reasoned it as me and the other guy were like positive and negative charges, and my brother as neutral, so the spirit wouldn't attack him (I know this doesn't make any sense at all. This dream makes no sense to me now, and I blame starting physics this week ). What ensued was a very tense, yet slow chase of sorts, because the spirit was being led directly after us, because it turned out our hiding spot in a wardrobe was where the code was. I distinctly remember before we woke up Me and the other guy hid in the wardrobe, then we pressed this light button thing 4 times and held our breath (I could actually here tense violin music like in horror films here). Then through the gap in the door I saw the spirit, more like a reanimated person then anything else, turn and stare directly at me. He held my gaze yet did nothing, so after 5/10 seconds I slowly ducked out of the line of sight from the opening, then he turned and went to the code. The dream fizzled away after that.
This wasn't a nightmare at all really, just very tense at the end and I woke up with a hammering heartbeat, but it was more exhillirating than scary. I also blame watching Children of Men for that, as that movie was intense

This is my first dream recorded in a dream journal in ages, and it is my first dream recalled in a week or so, definitely since I started trying to lucid dream again, so I am happy. Not a lucid but I need to focus on my recall more than lucidity at the moment.
DREAM 1:
Length: Seemed to go for a fairly decent length
Detail: Average
Awareness: Virtually non-existent unfortunately
In this dream I started off at either a rock climbing centre or a swimming pool, I honestly can't remember which of the two it was, and I saw some people I know walking around and stuff. Then the dream jumped a bit and I was in this fancy red old style convertible car with a friends uncle, and he was driving around and talking to me. The scene changed frequently between driving in the country or down backstreet roads and bluestone lanes. After a while of this driving we stopped outside this big building and I got out and walked inside. Inside for some reason the building was like my schools gym foyer area. I went in one of the doors and was in the change rooms, and I think more happened after that but I can't remember. I am writing this more than 8 hours since I woke up and I didn't write it down anywhere else so my recall isn't too great of this dream.

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!

Only 1 Dream that I could remember after going back to bed.
DREAM 1: (non-lucid)
Detail: Above Average
Length: Fairly Long
The dream started with me reading a magazine about this new kind of ea life arcade game which had started, and reading about the different characters and kinds of stuff. There were all different kinds of demons and they were in a sort of hierarchy based on power and skill. The dream blacked out then I was at the place where the game was, and my dad and brother left me saying that they would be back soon. I walked inside the room and it was really dark with a green carpet flooring. All of these people from my school were there (school is my biggest dream sign so I should have known ), and they were putting on packs of the sort people wear in lazer tag. I started putting one on, then a guy who was vaguely familiar from school helped me put it on. He then told me about the rules and stuff, before another guy came along. He was in a custom uniform kind of thing and I could tell he was at a very high rank in this game. He sat down and gave me some advice on how to play the game, and then he left to warm up or something. Then the guy who was running the place walked in, we all stood up in a line and the game commenced.
The actual game was confusing. There were basketball rings on either end of the room, and there were a a fair few really little, squishy basketballs around the room. The aim was to get the ball in the ring, and to try and help yourself and other people get streaks so their score multiplied and stuff. I can't remember whether there were different teams or not, but I don't think there were. Anyway I was going pretty badly (I am quite tall and fairly good at basketball in waking life), and I missed some very easy shots. I didn't get too much of the ball as the experienced guy who talked to me before was dominating everyone and got about 90% of the shots. Eventually the time ran out and I was on a very low score, unfortunately, I think only about 2 people were below me. While I was taking my gear off My dad and brother came back into the room, and I remember kind of arguing with them a bit. Then I left and I woke up.

Last night was really good for me, in total I had either 3 or 4 dreams, as I'm not sure whether two of them are part of the same dream, but I will treat it as four. None were lucid unfortunately but I'm just starting up again so I didn't really expect one this soon. Without further ado...
DREAM 1:
Fragment: I dreamed something wrestling and a rivalry or something, I don't really remember this one.

DREAM 2:
Fairly detailed: I was in the bedroom of a house which my dream mind thought was one of my old houses, and seemed to be a combination of my past houses. I think it jumped there and I remember being in a car, being chased by another car through suburban streets in the middle of the night. The car was gaining on us and then my mum pulled out a kind of grenade from the glovebox and went to throw it out the window to the car. She threw it but it bounced off the window and back inside the car (), so I picked it up and threw it out of the car. It rolled along the ground and exploded just when the other car swerved on top of it. There was a great plume of white smoke and the other car was blown to pieces. Once again the dream cuts and it's now day. I am on a kind of pier-side market place, walking along after having got out of the car. I start running when I hear loud vices and running and crashes, as I think people are still after me, so I duck inside a little warehouse type of building. I hold my breath as someone comes inside, but its just a girl who is in my class. We then go outside and look at the market and stuff. I think this dream was pretty good, and it was quite realistic at times.

DREAM 3:
Very detailed: In this dream I was in a random city in the evening with someone else, and we were walking down a street. I think we were heading to a festival or something, and we eventually got close to the bright lights and music. When we got close however, I remember calling my mum but finding her standing right next to me, strangely enough. We walked a bit together, then I can't really remember what happened but I remember kind of waking up on a little plane. We three are the only passengers apart from some stewards, and I soon find out that I am strapped down into my seat. I have this gut feeling that this plane is going to crash deliberately and this whole voyage was to try and kill us. I struggle and try to get free. My memory gets a bit hazy here, but I do remember us getting free and kind of taking over the plan, and I'm pretty sure we made it out safely. I can't really remember this one too well, but the feeling of realism and detail in teh dream was a lot higher than normal, and my emotions were dragged strongly into it.

DREAM 4:
Fairly detailed: In this dream I remember going to a kind of deserty gulch, which I'm pretty sure was just a set, and being the main actor in a film. I was playing a girls role but for some reason they made the script work around me instead. I remember shooting some shots, I can't really remember what I said or did or anything really. Afterwards I went out of the gulch into the city in the evening, and this is why I think that this dream might be the first part of DREAM 3. Once again I can't really recall this dream to well, as I made the mistake of not writing my dream down straight away, so bits of them have leaked away I think. However the last 3 dreams were are higher than average in their quality and detail, and the quantity is above what I have done before, so I am really quite happy with this.

Sleep time: 9:00PM roughly first time, went back to bed at some time around 5:00AM, I didn't check the time Awake time: 6:00AM roughly.

I went back to sleep in the early morning, not expecting anything in particular but I had a LD!

1: I was in my Media classroom just working on random stuff. I can't remember exactly what but I know it was on the computer. I felt like I had been in the classroom for around 20 minutes-30 minutes, but I can't be certain. I was like this for a while, with nothing out of the ordinary happening except the position of things in the room was different. Out of the blue, I suddenly realized I was dreaming, so I did the hand check/finger through palm RC, and I became lucid. For some reason My eyesight became super dim, like my eyelids were closed, and I couldn't open them. I tried really hard to, and this blue light started seeping into my vision. I felt a pressure behind my eyes and the light brightened, then my dream eyelids snapped open. I was in a field of some sort filled with flowery things, staring at the cloudy sky. It was almost picturesque. Then I was suddenly transported back to my Media classroom. I yelled out stuff like "more lucidity!" and "more clarity!" and the world got more in focus. I still felt a bit groggy but not too much. I looked around the room and realized all the students except me were now dressed in black/grey/blue coloured leotards and lined up across the room. The teacher was standing at the front on the room and pressed some button on her computer. A crackly voice started talking loudly, saying we were about to start doing some exercises, and that that we should exercise, something like that. Anyway all the students started jumping up and down on the spot, so I joined in. it was at this point were I started jumping were I woke up.

2: I also remember a fragment of a dream where it had something to do with the mafia/mob or something, and I was out the front of a large mansion estate in the night where a black limo was parked in front of the house on one of those round about thingy's you see at big estates. That's about all I can remember unfortunately.