dream fragment

Bedtime:
12:00 am
Wakeup:
7:00 am
WILD attempt:
7:30am-8:00am

No actual recall. Just a fragment. Last night, IRL I saw Caravan Palace, and it was the best concert I have ever been to! (If you ever get a chance to see them live, you MUST go, it was an amazing experience, and I was completely sober for it!) But with all the jumping and dancing and screaming, I had it in the back of my mind that I wouldn't have good recall and it was true. But maybe, if I had a more positive attitude, that would have been different?

Did have one fragment, I was at a concert and it was outside during the daytime, and I remember everyone having a good time and being really happy. Very similar to my actual night.

Also, I woke up around 7:00 am and after reading some other people's workbooks on DV, I decided to try to WILD, but like before, I feel like I'm just lying there with my eyes closed but still wide awake. I figured doing this in the morning hours would help push me back into REM but that doesn't happen. Maybe I just need to be patient and keep trying, but being patient is very hard sometimes. If anyone has advice on this sort of thing, feel free to comment! Thanks, y'all!

Bedtime:
10:30pm-11pm
WBTB:
3am-4am (unsuccessful)
Woke up:
5:45am

Dream 1
This is just a dream fragment, but I remember either I was plugged into something, or something I had was plugged into something... Idk, but there were for chords and something was charging (it might have been me, I can't remember) and during the charging time, I was playing 3 songs on the piano (I can't remember what they were but I know 2 were in B major and 1 was in E major), and I know my sister and cousin were there. I think they fell asleep while I played.

Dream 2
I was on the front lawn of an old building, the lawn was surrounded by a metal framed fence, the kind you would find at a cemetery. I was digging something, and I saw a cardboard box nearby filled with little baggies of weed. I thought about taking some, but it wasn't mine and I wasn't sure where I was, so I didn't take any.

*time lapse*

I was inside the building, and my grandma was there watching 2 babies, they were both kids of my coworkers. 2 of my uncles were there as well. I now knew I was in a convent, and it's hard to remember the conversations that were going on, but I remember the nuns in the convent were dressed in regular civilian clothes. I also remember somebody telling me that they were all prostitutes and also heroin addicts. "They do heroin?" I said. "Yeah, they're doing it right now in front of us," somebody replied. and I remember looking over at one slumped over as she was shooting up. Not very nun-like, in my opinion.

In the world I was in, many animals seemed to have equal intelligence to humans, and they were just as important in our day-to-day lives. In fact, many animals were able to talk. This was something like an "end of the world."

There was something wrong with my dog Romeo, but it was unclear what. I tried to feed him very big, juicy berries, but he wouldn't eat them--because he's a dog, of course. There was an elephant (?) beside him though, lounging there, and he said that he had never understood why some animals are so mean to each other, when they're almost always in the same boat. He and I talked some towards the end of the dream.

I remember thinking about how in the Bible it says that God loves humans above all else and I considered saying that to the elephant I was speaking with, but decided not to because that would have been very rude and horrible. I wondered if God loved those animals equally in this world, since it was clear they seemed to be of a higher intelligence.

Dream 1: Non-Lucid dream fragment. Meesha was rubbing up against my feet while I was in bed & I woke up. She wasn't there in real life & she never does this, lol.

Dream 2: Non-Lucid dream. I went to this apartment & was babysitting a small dog. The owner came home. We were talking & then we heard something coming from the back part of the apartment & these 3 people who were apparently hiding there & they found another dog there that had just been born in the back of the apartment. They were friends of the owner. Suddenly there was a fire in the back of the apartment. We put it out but it had opened up a wall & area that wasn't there before. The owner suddenly said, okay you guys can fix this part of the apartment & you can live there. It was funny.

I listened to a soothing subliminal Lucid Dream tool while I was sleeping & I woke up in a good mood. It actually let me use the WBTB method.

Non-Lucid-Green
Lucid-Red
Explanation of details-Blue
Side Notes-Purple
Astral Projection/AP-Brown

Background

I'd known about lucid dreaming for a long time, but it took longer for me to experience it, and it was essentially spontaneously. I'd found I could accidentally go through a WILD-like trance when struggling to fall asleep after waking up early. The dreams would start off at a distance, like a television screen, and then become 'real', often as dream chains that I had some conscious influence over. Sometimes they were fragmented (e.g. being frozen in darkness, having very blurry vision, or the only sensation being the feeling of flying very fast), but now and then the clarity and reality of the scenes I experienced would blow me away. Still, I was unable to stabilise them. A few days ago I discovered that spoken commands like 'increase lucidity' could turn a vague fragment into a full-fledged visual scene, which was encouraging.

Waking Myself Up From A Burglary Dream

I'd told myself that I would write up any dreams I'd have that night and post them to DV for my first entry, so it's only fitting that I ended up having my first (semi-)lucid nightmare. After waking up in the morning and went back to sleep, I had a dream where I was sitting around a table with a few people, including, I think, a family friend. I was concerned about an exam that was coming up. I was worried that a question about acid-base chemistry was going to come up; something involving a base in ammonia, and I was sure that it was some other substance than the ammonia itself - NaBH4 or NH4OH. But the exam was cancelled because of an outbreak of 'parainfluenza', and this news was accompanied by the image of a woman with sore-looking yellow eyes. Since it was cancelled, I could rest easy and go to sleep.

This led into another dream where I was at home in the night, looking down the stairs so that I could see an area near the front door. I heard noises near the front door and looked closer. There was a fairly short man standing there. I thought it was my father - though I wasn't expecting to see him - so I called out to him. Rather than respond in kind, he shushed me, and I realised that it was an intruder. More of these intruders came through, so I retreated into a nearby empty room. At this point I began to suspect something was off. I thought I might be dreaming, but if so I wanted to wake up, so I could be sure and not have to worry about the intruders anymore. This wish suddenly ended the dream. It was replaced by text filling my field of view, being read off by a calm male voiceover. It said something along the lines of, "Welcome to your lucid dream. Wake up now or wake up dead in two weeks." At the time I think I had enough critical faculties to not be sure if this was right, but I realised I was in sleep paralysis and I really wanted to get out of it. I found that, surprisingly, I could slightly move my body with great effort. With what felt like a lot of willpower, I forced myself to move and woke up.

There wasn't any lingering feeling of terror, which is my usual criterion for a nightmare, but I think this fit the bill, if only because it made me realise that a semi-lucid dream could still be unpleasant.

Video Game Fragments

I was watching a boy playing a FPS game, switching between my view of him and a view inside the video game itself. He was clearing a large building with many corridors similar to a hospital - of what enemy I don't know - and then went up a curved staircase, which had many offices running alongside it, arranged in a staircase fashion themselves. The general aesthetic was wood and blue light. By entering this area he went into a sort of mini-game where he blitzed through the offices at high speed, which also involved strips of light flashing on his mousemat very fast. I thought it involved predicting the lights, but when I asked he told me that it was actually a very fast memory game, which observation seemed to confirm.

I thought about the idea of being sleep-deprived from addiction to virtual reality. I imagined a person distracting themselves from their tiredness by immersing themselves more into it. I have a dream in which I see scenes from an online FPS game called Xibalba, which I think actually represent a place within one level. Bizarrely, I also pondered the merits of a religion that worships the electron transition in one type of molecule (containing nitrogen!) versus a rival religion that worships another.

Non-lucid by vivid. I was part of a team of detectives investigating something that seems like a murder but there was no body or anything. It was like the dream started after the fact. I was with this woman with short blond hair which for me is strange. I can actually remember what she looks like even now. I've never seen her before in real life but she was crystal clear in my dream. We are outside in the eating area of a restaurant which seems to also be off of a square or something because there are many other places just paces away with other outdoor eating areas. We are questioning people & trying to find out who saw what etc. Again this place in itself was very clear to me. Then I woke up prematurely because I was having a bad reaction to something I ate in real life, lol


I recently have talked about all these houses in my dreams & I thought it may be my subconscious bleeding over into my dreams of hating the house I live in & have to wait until I pay it off before I can move. But last night I started analyzing this house subject. For years I would go to sleep & construct this dream house of mine. It's a house I started building years ago almost trying to will it into existence. It was the house I would build if I won the lottery. Anyway, for some reason I stopped building it when I made lucid dreaming an actual lifestyle choice. So last night I started again & my dream that I had was much more visible.

Ok, I finished reading a fiction book called "Lucid" by Adrienne Stoltz & Ron Bass. I enjoyed the beginning of the book & thought it had potential but it turned out to be a book that would have been better represented in movie form & left you hanging in the end. It also did not explain lucid dreaming other than a couple of sentences which was an insult to those of us who actually have lucid dreams.


I did start another fiction book, also called "Lucid" but is by Jay Bonansinga. It seems to be a whole lot better. They have tried to explain it in more detail. Therefore, I have higher hopes for this book.


On a separate subject. I have had a crazy amount of sychronicities lately.

Non-Lucid-Green
Lucid-Red
Explanation of details-Blue
Side Notes-Purple
Astral Projection/AP-Brown

A friend (I think they were just a dream character, but they might have been Taylor) and I had skipped the past two days in one of our college classes. We were heading there then, and she had a drawing that she had done; it had a whole lot of purple in it, and I think that her hair was purple as well. Before we got to the class one of our classmates caught us and told us that the professor had been wondering where we had been. He had made jokes about where his "girlfriend" was (that was my friend) on the first day, and then on the second day when we were gone he actually started to get worried.

For the past two nights I've made the mistake of charging my phone while sleeping, which has caused me to sleep past my alarms (and also only remember certain parts of my dreams). But here they are anyway:

June 12: There was something about an extremely racist man on a television show about coyotes. Also, I was living with an older man who was possibly my big brother, and my tenth grade history class did come up once or twice.

June 13: I was in a large building that was possibly someone's mansion. I remember that I was cleaning their sink.

I had 3 dreams. Non-lucid: The first I woke up from & fell right back into it but it changed somewhat in the middle. Chaining/DILD/WILD. I was on a ship & there were these thieves or bandits. There were a lot of people though like this was a luxury ship yet not a cruise ship. It was like I knew a man in the first & in the second. Same man but I just couldn't tell how I knew him. Woke up to feed Meesha & fell back into this ship dream again. The details weren't all that interesting it just had cargo & some animals & people talking about theft. The man was the focus for me just because I couldn't figure out how I knew him. 3 dreams with the same theme was unusual though.

Throw back from LD4All website.

The one place I've always wanted to go. Venice!

PostPosted: Thu 24 Mar, 2016 in LD4ALL:

WBTB Method. When my cat woke me up I used it! I tried my back first but then I turned on my stomach cuz I have spinal issues & it hurts. Took my Meds, smoked a cig, used the bathroom, fed my cat, read about lucid. Then I thought about Venice because I've always wanted to go & wanted it for a destination in my LD. And I suddenly remembered how much I slept when I was a child. I loved to dream. I had a traumatic childhood & I'd suppressed this. I did my meditation & before long I was having a dream about my childhood friends & then it happened! I was on a staircase in the dream & then my friends were gone & I was outside. It was beautiful! The most vibrant colors I've ever seen even in real life & I was on street in Venice! And then I knew it. I knew I was Lucid Dreaming & I consciously opened my eyes. Lots & lots of ppl & color. And can't say enough sbout the color! I could run really fast & I tried to push past some ppl who weren't happy about that & I knew I shouldn't do that so I flew over them, just like that! Easy peezy. And then I woke up... Talk about a rush! ... And I feel refreshed. Like I did a work out & just feel all kinds of happy! I hope it counts cuz that's where I wanted to go.


I mention this one because I always wondered why it was so incredibly different than most of the others I've had since. I meditated & did the flip. At least that's what I call it when you are laying there meditating & you go straight from awake into either a lucid dream state or AP state or at least sleep paralysis. I opened my eyes because I could see through my eyelids & it felt so different like I actually went somewhere. I went from meditating to being in Venice where it looked like Mardi-gras. I've always been fascinated by Venice but not once have I ever seen the festivals that actually exist in Venice which exactly like Mardi Gras. This had details that were extremely vibrant & all the details were very intricate. I remember it just as I would if I had taken a trip there on a vacation. Very Memorable.

Non-Lucid-Green
Lucid-Red
Explanation of details-Blue
Side Notes-Purple
Astral Projection/AP-Brown

6-12-2013

Dream Two- I'm on my way to my cousin's house at night. I haven't talked to her in years, but I find out she lives in the neighborhood in front of my neighborhood so I want to go visit her. "her" neighborhood is really a trailer park, but in the dream she lives in a real house, much bigger than mine, and the trailers and modular homes are all gone and just forest surrounding her. I ring the doorbell and she opens the door, happy to see me. We stand in the doorway because she is about to leave, she even has a baby in her arms and on her hip dressed in a puffy baby coat. She asks me to go with her because she is wanting to check out the local churches. I tell her I'd be happy to show her to the closest churches, and that there's a really creepy old house in the neighborhood behind her house (there isn't really, but this detail from my last lucid popped up, the house of the woman who has Kurasawa held prisoner) She tells me that she has heard about the house but it sounds way too creepy and she'd rather not go there. We get into a black SUV and I make small talk on the way to the closest church, letting her know I live nearby and how to get to my house from hers. As we are pulling into the church parking lot I notice a guy I work with, we'll call him E, walking through the parking lot. I roll down the window closest to me and call out to him. He comes over and asks what we are doing there, and I tell him about my cousin wanting to see the church. He tells me it's closed and locked, he had just tried the door and was leaving. My cousin says, "That's ok, we can just drive around it and maybe look in the windows?" and I agree. We end up parking the SUV and getting out to look in the windows to see what the Sunday school class rooms look like. We notice a playground behind where we park the SUV as well, and decide to go check it out to see if it's the kind of place she could see her baby playing at when he got a little older. At the playground, I turn to look at my cousin but she's no longer my cousin, but my best friend from high school with whom I lost touch a few years ago. It occurs to me that I am dreaming, no reality checks necessary. I tell my cousin turned friend that I am dreaming, but she is confused. She asks me what I am talking about. I grab her hand and lead her towards the church again, explaining that I am dreaming and I can control this world, so I can get her into the church, "Watch, E said the doors were locked and closed, but when we get to them they will be unlocked, or even wide open for us!" and sure enough, getting there they are wide open, and lead to a Victorian style hallway painted in blue and white filigree. I tell her to stay there where she's safe and can't get in the way, that I have to find Kurasawa because in my last lucid I had learned he was being held by someone. My friend doesn't want to stay by herself though, and the baby has vanished as if it never existed, so I break down and tell her she can come with me but follow me and just don't distract me. First I run out of the church and towards a small wooded area. Though only a few feet wide the wooded area is thick with brush and trees and looks impossible to get through, but I maintain my faith in the dream that when I get there the way will be open to me. Sure enough, when I get there I see a small path that I couldn't see before. On the other side of the wooded area is a large field surrounded by wooded borders like the one behind my house. I look out around the field looking for the house where Kurasawa is kept, but I don't see it. I curse and then run up the edge of the field, screaming at the top of my lungs, "Where are you? Evil witch who has Kurasawa, I know you are around here somewhere! Please, let me find the Witch!" I briefly wonder to myself why I am calling her a witch. I am a witch, and I know witches are not inherently evil. All the same I feel like the title fits her. Another path opens up in the wooded area, and I cut through it to find myself on top of a grassy hill over looking a mountain valley in the bright sunlight. No sign of the house I am looking for though. I turn left and see a pile of very large and smooth stones. I pull my friend in that direction and say out loud, "When I get to the other side of the rocks we will find a tunnel through them" Sure enough, on the other side of the rocks is a tunnel into the ground like what you'd expect to see in a fairy hill. We go through the dark hole, and it curves to the left with stairs taking us down. After a short sharply curved tunnel maybe six feet long, we find our selves out on a beach at sunset. I throw my hands up and then down in exasperation. "I'm never going to find him before I wake up at this rate!" My friend calls out to me, "Hey look! There's another tunnel here! should we try going through it?" I turn around to look, and yes, there is a tunnel, this one looks man made in the stone and I have a really good feeling about it. I run into the tunnel, grabbing her hand as I go by to pull her with me. At this point she turns into a little dark haired girl, she reminds me of Sailor Saturn from Sailor Moon, but I don't worry about it because I am still fully aware that it is a dream and that kind of thing just happens in dreams. The tunnel is another short one, maybe 6 feet long. It empties into a large square stone room with arched wooden doors all around the room and a man in knights armor standing guard in the middle. I tell the girl with me to stay here and not to grab the guards attention while I try to figure out where to go next. I panic a bit at first because I have no clue what door to go through, nor how to tell which one is right. I know I can try blindly trusting the door to lead to him, but that hasn't been working so well this dream. I really only worry this all for a split second though before I feel it, the pull I get when Kurasawa is nearby. I turn to my left where I feel the pull coming from, and say out loud, "There!" There is no door at that part of the wall though, and I don't know what the doors will lead to the right place, so I decide the best way to get right there without chancing a dream reroute is to just go through the wall. So I steel myself, and punch the stone wall as hard as I can. The stone crumbles around my fist leaving a roundish hole about 6 feet in diameter in the wall. The room I opened was small and stone. There's a door to the right and a twin sized bed on the left. I can see the covers pulled over a rather tall form sitting up on the bed and hear x-rated noises from the bed. I walk over and pull the sheet off the bed, and there's a very short and thin blonde on top of a dude with short dark hair getting it on. The girl screams and grabs the sheet as it falls, pulling it around her and flattening herself on the bed in an attempt to get away from me. I am really confused because I feel like I am right on top of Kurasawa, but the guy on the bed is not him, nor is the girl. The guys hair on one side (even his eyebrow) keeps flashing between black and blonde like strobe light and it is extremely distracting. I shake my head and turn to the small woman because she doesn't confused me as much and I know it's a woman holding Kurasawa from the last lucid I had. I yank the sheet off of her again, this time I am way more powerful than her and she's terrified. "I am looking for a man with long blonde hair and crystal blue eyes, Where is he?" She smirks at me, "Why would I tell you anything? You interrupted us, and I'm not about reward you for it." I reach down and begin touching and caressing her like a lover might, and she her nicer this time, "Please, tell me where Kurasawa is. I know he's here, I can feel him." She makes an almost pur like sound and moans that he's in the basement underneath us if I had just taken the time to feel for him instead of throwing my weight around I would have known that. I put one arm behind her and the other hand is looped between her legs to lift her off the bed. She cries out upset that I stopped her from being pleasured again, but I ignore her this time and will the floor beneath me to allow us to slowly sink through. In the room below us there are hundreds of people just kind of moping about looking completely hopeless and like they have given up on life entirely. Kurasawa calls out my name from behind me, and I drop the blonde woman on the floor like a sack of potatoes. I turn and see him, and can't help but run up and hug him. "I found you!" There's a noise behind me, and I turn back to the blonde chic that I dropped on the floor. She's the only naked person in the whole room, and while most of the people don't notice her, there is a guard in armor who saw us drop from the ceiling. He says something about how no one is allowed to be naked or make love down here, that all prisoners must save themselves for the witch. The girl gets all mad and haughty and says she IS one of the witches, but the guard doesn't recognize her. I know there is more to this dream, but when I woke up I couldn't remember any of it. I only had the feeling like a lot happened but it's just not there for me to recall

Dream One- I am hearing a story from someone about a girl I work with, we'll call her K, being in a changing room. She tried on a pair of tight pants and steps out to see what someone thinks. When she does, another girl from work, we'll call B, falls to the floor and crawls to her feet clawing up at her leg in some sort of terrifying urge to worship and destroy her at the same time. It was a very odd fragment, that made no sense.

6-11-16

All I remember is seeing a row of five small cherry trees with bright pink blossoms all over them planted along the back of my house.

6-10-16

Just a fragment, something about a convention and a speaker where I am earning something I didn't know before. Maybe it was UFO related? I couldn't remember anything but the room and the speaker dressed in light brown when I woke from the dream.

Myself and someone else (Jasper? Mama?) was at the laundry mat at night. The people I was with had started watching a movie on the TVs, and another guy with darkish hair seemed to take a liking to me and was "chatting me up," or . . . something like that. I think he was holding my hand? And at some point I told him something and he said that I didn't have to do this or that just to impress him(?), and I remember thinking that he had the wrong idea entirely.

There was also a part where I looked up Romeo's birth chart. . . .

Night of June 10th, 2016: Gym Class // A Wild Ex Has Appeared!

Here are two dream fragments from last night:
In dream fragment #1, I was in some sort of gym class. It wasn't in my school's gym, but rather a huge, dark room with no windows and reddish-yellow lighting. Many other girls were in there, and we were told to do a few different tasks, one of which I remember. We were asked to run from one side to the other. My feet got incredibly heavy as I did this though, and it felt like I was moving through water or as if I had chains wrapped around my ankles: slow. I turned to ask the other girls what was going on but I got no response
In the second dream fragment, I was peering down a hole in the ground into the "bedroom" of my ex boyfriend (the one represented by the more intelligent gorilla in last night's dream). It was dirty and cluttered, and he sat in it.
//dreamcut// We are suddenly in my grandmother's basement, him on her couch.
I don't remember any more than that, but I'll update this if I do.

Night of June 10th, 2016: Gym Class // A Wild Ex Has Appeared!

Here are two dream fragments from last night:
In dream fragment #1, I was in some sort of gym class. It wasn't in my school's gym, but rather a huge, dark room with no windows and reddish-yellow lighting. Many other girls were in there, and we were told to do a few different tasks, one of which I remember. We were asked to run from one side to the other. My feet got incredibly heavy as I did this though, and it felt like I was moving through water or as if I had chains wrapped around my ankles: slow. I turned to ask the other girls what was going on but I got no response
In the second dream fragment, I was peering down a hole in the ground into the "bedroom" of my ex boyfriend (the one represented by the more intelligent gorilla in last night's dream). It was dirty and cluttered, and he sat in it.
//dreamcut// We are suddenly in my grandmother's basement, him on her couch.
I don't remember any more than that, but I'll update this if I do.

Night of June 8th, 2016: Missing Shoes / Fishboy

So, in this dream I ended up on my school bus without any shoes on (I had black socks). As I arrived at school I decided I would go to the gym and take my tennis shoes out of my gym locker. On the way there, I ran into a police officer who offered to open the locker and retrieve my shoes for me.
Here, the dream cuts away from me and instead goes to a 3rd person view of the officer, with me nowhere to be seen. He is seen walking into some sort of mall/store/restaurant thing and getting sidetracked, but I heard him say something along the lines of "It's too much trouble to open the locker; it'll be more cost effective to just buy her new shoes."
Not sure what happened after this but I switched into a completely different dream. I was being chased (in my front yard near the tip of our pond) by 4-5 teenage guys with unknown/fuzzily remembered intentions. Possibly to hurt me? Either way, one was British and seemed to take a liking to me. He, jumping into the water, turned into a strange black fish resembling a catfish without the whiskers, but more blob-like, and started singing. I remember saying, "Don't you dare turn this into a musical," despite my fear of the whole turn of events. My whole yard flooded, and he was following me through the water. The water was murky and dark, and he went under. I, of course, was very freaked out and hopped onto the back of my friend Mallory (no idea where she came into the dream, but who cares) and tried to hold my feet out of the water.
I desperately pleaded her to help me take my feet out of the water so the fishboy couldn't get me, and she suggested I just take my feet out of the water. Oddly, my feet were stuck and my vision suddenly impaired.
I then woke up.

I had a lucid dream! I didn't even realize when I first woke up, and there's not much I can remember (which sucks, but ah well )! I do remember that, towards the end I was trying to get to Cole, because I need to talk to him. I flew up in the air and kept going, hoping to reach a point where I could be instantly transported to a DC-version of Cole. Once I got far enough I impulsively asked the dream to show me something amazing, closed my eyes, and when I opened them up again I was barreling through a giant mapped-out version of our solar system, passing Neptune and Uranus as I went.