non-lucid

I feel like these dreams were more vivd than the others, though still not that vivid. I feel like I want to start practicing techniques that will help me have a DILD.*I'll elaborate, I feel like in my prior post I have recognized enough dream signs that are starting to show up consistently within my dreams.*


I was taking the subway with my mother in NYC. We were waiting for the train at the station when a pulse of light came down from the beginning of the tunnel where the train would come out of and then exited the tunnel and continued down. We were all very confused. Then a dog came through. The form of this dog was very small(almost like a puppy), and after he exited, another one came, but larger. This repeated, the dogs kept getting larger and larger until eventually a werewolf came through(and then a giant rectangular form of a vicious dog), then this morphed into a train that we took. Then the dream shifted, and I was talking on the phone to my friend Michael about how to play a specific piano song. He was telling me over the phone, it was my pointer finger on my left hand and my pointer finger on my right hand, and I heard him playing this song that I wanted to learn how to play over the phone(which he was telling me how to play. I had a big apple danish in my hand, I assume it was for my breakfast(but I didn't like it much). I was again on my way to the train station.

I can remember another dream.

I don't think I was myself in this dream, I feel like I was a psychotic orphan living in an orphanage. When the morning bell rang, I was on top of the roof and I refused to come down. I don't think I was crazy though, just different. At least that's the way I felt.

I posted this during the nighttime, because I had to leave early to go on a trip but I wrote this in the morning, just didn't get a chance to post it. When I awoke, I lay in bed still trying to remember my dreams. I couldn't recall anything and was disappointed. Then my memories of this dreams started flooding into my head; I remember thinking "Of course!" I definitely see improvement with my dream recall even though I've only been doing this journal for a week and a half.


I had arrived in a different city, I don't know where but I feel like it was Seattle or San something. The place was a law firm, and I was being interviewed to get a job there, almost like an internship or something. It was weird because the boss was an older woman who gave off a very dumbledore-like feel. Maybe like Patty Hewes. She took me to the top floor where my room would be, and there was a mattress. Soon my room had become extremely messy. I can't actually remember doing any work there, but I remember that at one point after I was answering questions for my boss she offered me the job. I said yes. Flash forward and I think that it was time to leave. Like leave the city. I was taking the train. This girl who I can't remember her face, if I did I would remember her name, said she would meet me there. Ah, I remember her now. I'm pretty sure I remember it was this girl from my old middle school. I feel like she acted almost as my guide throughout most of this dream. Anyway she offered to take the train with me and told me that it was on track 2/3 and gave me my ticket. I went down to the marina where there were also train tracks, but I got very confused and purchased another ticket onto the wrong train or something. Eventually I realized where the right train was and asked a conductor whether or not the train was going to "New York Penn," the station I usually get on. Now that I'm on the train, I start looking for the girl, but since I can only see people's heads, I look for her hair. Now that I'm thinking about it, I think it was a different girl because I remember her hair color was being a darkish blonde, yet the two I thought the girl was share the same first name. I spot her soon enough and go up to her and take a seat. Then an amount of time passes, or maybe this is even a different dream. I am on the top of a train, sitting down, it's cold. I'm in a seat because it's normal for there to be seats there...can't recall the rest.

I didn't post Day 9 because I had nothing to post; there were no dreams that I could remember. I feel like today in the morning when I was remembering these dreams I was having them, or else it was like I was dreaming JUST before I woke up because they were pretty vivid. There are some parts I am not aware of however.

I had about 2 dreams I could remember, here is the first; the second is very short but it was longer I just couldn't remember the rest:

I was walking the streets of NYC with my mother, it was around sun down and getting sort of dark. We went down in a subway station I assume to try to go home ,but I was never tld where my destination was. When we went down into the station, I saw this girl I had a huge crush on standing there with one of her friends. She had on a red jacket and a silver hat that looked like it was made of tinfoil. I wasn't close friends with her friend who was there, but my mom kept asking her friend (who was a guy) to come over and have a sleepover, and I kept pulling her away and saying Mom. STOP And I could tell that the vibe I was giving off was depressed and sort of lame, because I hadn't seen the girl in a WHILE and so this was her impression after seeing me again after a long time. Anyway, we were talking and its apparent she has to go soon, so I take her stuff and put it in a train that just arrived's open doors. Then when she's done doing whatever she was doing, she looked around for her stuff and then at me and I motioned that I put it in the train FOR her. She motioned that she was still staying here, i was a different train she needed. The doors were about to close soon, but I rushed into the train anyway, and the doors closed on my shoulders. I remained here for a little but, until I caught the eye of the conductor. I made the praying symbol and said"Please" then held up one finger as if to say only for 1 min ute. The conductor nodded, and I dashed in there to get her stuff. First I got something for her I think it might've been an article of clothing. I gave it to her then I needed to get her jacket, but some lady was sitting on the seat where I had put it so I kind of push her up and grab her jacket and rush out. I give it to her and she looks at me and very sincerely says "Cade, thank you." After that she placed the tinfoil silver hat on my head, almost as a token of appreciation/gratitude Then she must've left so I walk out of the subway station and once I get to the sidewalk I walk backwards up the sidewalk.




Before this, I had a dream that took place next to a deserted tropical island, but there was something special aboutt hat island. I can't remember the rest now. There was magic or something.

Dream #2

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I had a dream that I was riding down my bike down 5th avenue and I think it was some kind of fair, I was riding my bike with my dad, and I remember there were these two girls that were following us. They may or may not have been intentionally following us. Eventually me and my dad stopped at this store to get something, and they stopped as well and asked us for directions and help. I remember we didn't want to help them because they were from a place that we didn't like (lol) and we got sort of mad at them. I vaguely remember another part of this dream but not enough to describe it. There was another part though. I remember more of it now! The two girls were in front of us, and one of them thought that I was staring at her from behind even though I wasn't. (Like staring at her inappropriately/checking her out)Then me and my dad overtook them and went in front of them, and I could still hear them talking about how they thought I was a creep or something. So I stopped riding for a second and got off my bike so that I blocked their paths and they had to stop. I turned around, and said "Look, I'm sorry you thought I did that, I didn't just so you know, I apologize for it." Then for some reason as soon as I started talking to them about it, the girl who thought I did it immediately looked extremely sorry and almost started to cry. She apologized then as well. Then we continued riding, my dad throughout all of this was pretty oblivious. Eventually I felt like the girls and I were semi/tentative friends. They were teenagers and about my age a little older. We stopped at a store to buy something or rest, and they stopped to to ask us for directions. We asked them where they were from and I believe that we didn't like the answer they got from us, I think it was something with an H like "the Hamptons" so we got sort of mad at them. Here I believe my dream transitioned into something else, a different dream, but I forget the plot of that one. It involves a temple of some sort.

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My experience with this one was a little weird. When I woke up, I stayed in bed trying to remember the dreams I had. After trying for around 3 minutes, I got up and went over to my computer to try to document this. Only after being on my computer for a couple minutes it suddenly came to me. This was pretty odd.

Possible Dream Signs:

• Like my previous dream, I was with a FAMILY member
• Traveling, last dream I was in a car, this time I was on a bike
• Both dreams seemed to take place in NYC

That's all I can think of for now.

I woke up about 5 minutes ago, as soon as I woke up my thoughts were on dreaming. At first I could not remember any dreams immediately and was frustrated by this, but as soon as I relaxed and let my thoughts come to me did my experience below. I was very excited at how this worked out; I had read on this site about people doing exactly that and am glad to see some improvements with my dream recall, because I have hardly been able to remember any of my dreams at all. Below are my dreams, I am not actually sure if they are one dream or two, because there is a transition point where it is unclear to me whether or not it is all part of the same dream.

Dream #1

***START***

I was on my way to some type of Lucid Dream simulator with my mother, this LD simulator was a big warehouse but it also seemed like some type of attraction that people payed to go through(like an amusement park type of thing but there were no other rides, it was just this big warehouse). It was supposed to simulate what it was like to be inside of a LD, obviously. We went into it room by room, sometimes there were other people within the rooms moving along like us. The rooms were usually very dark, and thinking about it now each room wasn't very much like a LD but there were almost strips of lights that almost looked like blacklights. In many of the rooms there was zero or low gravity, and in another room we were in there was a terrarium. After we left this LD simulator/attraction, we (still being with my mother) traveled on a highway/road that looked a lot like the BQE and I believe that we were going to my grandmother's house, or somewhere like that.(This is the point at which I am not sure about if this is a new dream or still one whole dream) My grandmother is dead now, but when we got to this house it was actually a small apartment where there were a lot of old people around talking about my grandmother and my uncle, who is also deceased. I partially recognized some of them as my distant relatives. They were talking about how he liked to sky dive, and that's all I remember because then I must've drifted out of consciousness.

***END***

I can now see how odd it is that I did NOT become lucid for the first dreaming, even though we were going inside a LUCID DREAM SIMULATOR LOL This is ok, I still don't mind as I know I am only a beginner and don't expect to have an LD anytime soon, it is heartening to see progress with my dream recall.
I will make a list of possible dream signs that I noticed, I know this is pretty much my first dream but I am still going to list some aspects to compare them to other dreams later:

• Family
• Deceased Family Members
• Driving

This is all I could come up with for now, I'm sure this list will evolve more in the future.
I'm just happy I had a dream I could remember

Today is Day 7 of my interest with Lucid Dreams, and these were my results from Night 6.