false awakening

Non Dream
Dream
Lucid

I've written out the nighttime routine I created. I'm trying to set it in stone, so to speak.

1.Fall asleep trying to think about as little as possible.
2.Upon becoming lucid, make sure the dream is vivid. If it's not, make it vivid by rubbing hands, looking around and focusing on details while saying "stabilize". Try to remember to keep it vivid during the dream.
3.Upon waking, attempt to DEILD by making the ringing in the ears as loud as possible.
4.If DEILDing fails, stay still and mentally back track as far back as the dream could be remembered.
5.Write down the dream in as much detail as I can going forward. Assess whether to get a snack or drink.
6.Repeat 1-5 until it's time to get up.
7.Type dreams in online Dream journal.

I'll keep a dream count going for the entire month to see how well the routine works. It seems to work well for me. I'm going to try to write down all of my dreams this month. My goal for the month 75 dreams, 20 of them lucid.

Dream #1-I was walking through a suburban neighborhood towards a somewhat elaborate one story home. I walked through the backyard of their house, through a side door, and through a quaint kitchen to find my niece and nephew. I asked my nephew how his trip to Santa Cruz was. He seemed to enjoy it. My attention turned to the television in the living room. On it was what looked like a commercial for a baseball glove. It showed a second baseman making great plays would the glove. He described the glove as being a 12 (out of 10, I suppose). The end of the commercial turned to slapstick comedy as it showed the second baseman and the glove quickly growing proportionately. Then the player threw another player through a distant mountain. I found the stupidity of this amusing. I woke up.

Lucid #1-I was in my bed when I felt something brushing me. I tried to do a nose plug but I couldn't move my arm. "Obviously, I'm dreaming", I thought. Next thing I know, I'm flying in the night on the broom that was brushing me. I quickly found that I could fly higher if I brushed the broom downwards. I saw a pool complex that looked familiar somehow, but I decided I wanted to fly to the ocean. I flew a bit higher and looked from it. I conveniently found I was just about flying over it. I dove into the moon lit water. Immediately I could see dolphins swimming around as usual. My plan was to ride one and transform into it. Out of the corner of my eye a spotted one that looked like it was going to pass me. I reached out my right hand and grabbed it's dorsal fin as it passed by. I got onto it's back and hugged it to hold on. The feeling of it's silky skin was incredible. I started to lose the dream at this point but could still feel it's skin. I tried to hold on to the dream like I was holding onto the dolphin. All of a sudden, the dolphin started biting me, it didn't like being held. My dream logic told me maybe if I let the dolphin eat me, I'll transform into it. I let the dolphin bite my arm off. The next thing I know, I can't move my arms or legs. Completely spent, I wanted to wake up. The scene changed to me being in a Japanese arcade. I was taunting a couple of kids at a game, explaining to them I wanted to wake up. I woke up.

Dream #3-On a hilly open field next to an amusement park, there was an explosion which started a fire. Fire trucks rushed to the scene to put out the blaze. As I was watching this near the fence, a camel walked by. Since it was on higher ground than I was, I was a bit concerned it would poop on me. Next thing I remember, I was in the amusement park with a new backpack watching a mine train roller coaster. A boy asked me if I could guard row 8 for him. We then decided we would ride together. I woke up before we got the chance.

I have been practicing a mix between ADA and SAT throughout the day, increasing my general awareness. I did a WBTB, taking a short nap around 10-11pm, and then went to sleep at about 12:30am. As i fell asleep i used the mantra,"I am constantly aware of my surroundings."
I caught a false awakening. It seems lucky to me. I normally use the nose plug RC but I also remember inspecting my phone and watch. I was unsure I was dreaming at first, i wasn't very lucid, but a routine RC caught it.
I lost the dream due to excitement.
After I had ANOTHER false awakening, that's right back to back FA's. In the FA I was writing in my DJ, I keep a pocket book beneath my pillow.

I was at rangebank, on the the basketball court with some people I knew. I saw a group of people leaving the school, heading towards the car park. As they walked passed, I was making a noise *Hurrrrrrr*. It was directed at them. They didn't like it, and proceeded to do the same thing towards me. They now started throwing things over the fence, towards us. One of the DC's threw a tub of hair wax towards me. I recognised the brand of hair wax, it was dominate (A brand I've used in the passed), expect it was yellow.

I picked it up and said ''you're not getting this back''. They jumped and fence and were hostile towards us. They were not happy on how we treated them and wanted the hair product back. I told them to settle down, and that I would give the product back. The DC that threw the item, looked very familiar and very tall. I asked him if he was one of three names. I only remember one of them, it was Edward I. He responded saying, no he's none of them.

I was now at a random house. I was in the bedroom and could hear someone getting angry and sounded like they were blaming me on not giving them a bed. I opened the door and someone dragging a mattress down the hallway, while the DC that threw the wax earlier, was next to him. I told him in a calm voice, ''What do you need?''. To my surprise he only wanted a pillow.

False Awakening Fail.
I was sitting at my computer, staring at the desktop. It looked very convincing, as I had the same wallpaper. I become a little confused, knowing that I could see the monitor through my sleeping mask. I figured that I probably had them on my head, and not covering my eyes, which was correct. I now put them, and to my surprise, I could see the monitor still, as clear as day. I looked away, back and forth. Nothing changed. Everything went black, and I figured I had turned the computer off. I convinced myself that the monitor was bright enough to be seen through my mask. *Face palm* Can't believe I didn't RC.

Dream recall from today's WBTB/naps.

Dream 1(fragments):

I was talking to dragons in skype chat and somebody posted a pic of some skull.

Dream 2:

I was watching some video where a dragon challenged some spaceship pilot to fight a mechanical copy of him. Then it turned into game that looked somewhat like fraxy, the ship surely looked like default fraxy one and mecha dragon was made of red parts, the fight was going in cloudy skies on very quick speed and was lasting quite long, going through various attack patterns and phases. At one point video randomly switched to something about cookie recipe, and then back. Game switched to more horizontal-style and there was something about weakpoints, then there was another phase and then video just faded to black. It faded in and was showing some bar, and a dragon was here and his scales were multiple colored. Then pilot came and they started talking, they were friends now, then pilot says that it's too bad that he can't make cookies right now and dragon reminds him about recipe.

Dream 3:

I get woken up by a DC and i feel that i am dreaming, i go to balcony but it's closed, i try to phase through but curtain gets in the way and i kinda get stuck, then dream glitches and i no-collide fall through the world into blackness, i land onto something and then wake up again, still feeling the dream, i try to get up but DC gets into the way, then dream fades and i wake up properly.

Dream recall from today's WBTB/naps.

Dream 1(fragment):

Can't recall the dream itself but i have strong feeling of being in quadruped stance through that dream.

Dream 2(fragments):

I was playing Akashicverse and apparently was fighting second stage boss, it's synchronization with music was kinda unstable and some attacks were different. Then it went OMAKE form and there it was much slower, had less HP and attack patterns were entirely different. After more or less usual first one there was one pattern with vertically raining red projectiles and one pattern with circular spread walls of projectiles that were changing with each wave and getting harder, after that it randomly changed to very last pattern of that form.

Dream 3(fragments):

I was looking on a pic with a dragon and a pirate, there was story and/or dialogue to a pic and according to it they were friends.

Not 100% sure if actually woke up and DEILDed or it was 'DEILD from FA'
Dream 4:

I wake up and keep eyes closed, soon i start feeling the dream and... apparently my limbs feel like they are entirely different now, then i hear somebody in the room and he says 'Wake up~' and starts trying to wake me up.
I 'wake up' into false awakening but i still feel that i am dreaming, the room is surprisingly exact copy of IWL and that confuses me for a bit but then i go to balcony, as i look around, outside apparently is exact copy as well, then dream fades out. Then i get very short FA/HH where i briefly see my snout.

Time Lucid - 30 seconds
Non lucid - grey text
Semi Lucid - red text
Lucid - blue text

I woke up and could see through my mask. I tried to get out of bed, but struggled a few times, before eventually getting up. It was pretty dark so I wasn't sure if I was dreaming. I wasn't in my room, it was my old room in blacks land. I tried to find an item on the ground to observe but it was too dark. I tried to levitate myself into the air, which worked. It felt weird flying in my room, I've only done it outdoors previously. I was spinning myself around whiling flying, it felt awesome. I thought of flying through the window, but instead I wanted to do a task. I went to find a mirror so I could meet Kai, but the dream ended.

Dream recall from today's WBTB/nap. Off the schedule again and had a bit of problems falling asleep but still got lucid for a bit.

I was playing Radio Zonde and there was apparently new patch that changed some things, i was playing stage 6 and it had some differences, i somehow managed to no miss no bomb through it and reached the boss. Boss was much more plane-like than original but attack patterns were pretty similar, but with a few differences in bullet spacing and phase timing. Then at one point game suddenly went 3D and glitched out.
I wake up realize that i am dreaming and do an RC while getting up, shortly dream fades out though.

Time Lucid - 30 seconds
Non lucid - grey text
Semi Lucid - red text
Lucid - blue text

I got up out of bed and saw a dog in my room, which wasn't mine. It kind of shocked and scared me a little, as I didn't expect it at all. I figured I had just had a false awakening. I plugged my nose and it worked.

I pretended to shoot the dog in the head with a gun, and nothing happened. (I'm an animal lover, I promise). As I left my bed room, I could hear sounds from reality, it was the damned rubbish truck , I couldn't help but realise it wasn't sound from the dream itself. I woke up and turned it into a DEILD. I remembered the dream I was just having, and the scene came to me pretty quickly. I continued the dream where I left off, which was in the hallway. I saw the dogs, and was going to let them outside while I continued my lucid dream. As I let them out, I started to lose the dream again. Once again I chained another DEILD together, except this time I was going to let the dream scene come to me. I thought to myself meh, let's just do it the more reliable way and visualise. I visualised getting out of my bed which bought on the scene. This time I remembered to study something in the room as I didn't want the lucid to end as quickly as the previous attempts. I picked up what looked like a sleeping musk. As I focused on it, I could still hear the rubbish truck and woke up.

Dream Fragment/False Awakening
I remember laying in bed, on my iPod Touch. I saw my dream diary entries coming up on my Face book wall. I was a bit worried as, I didn't want this information on my Face book. I think I convinced myself that I had them set on private.

Dream recall from today's WBTB/naps.

Dream 1(fragments):

There was something about dragons and at one point a dragon was flying above me.

Dream 2(fragments):

I was apparently on yogscast tekkit server and there was something about restarting tekkit series and building some new base, then i've managed to find some hidden chest by digging ground and one of them contained book called "German Diary #8".
Later i am at home and i am waiting for new tekkit episode, suddenly i wake up, i take off headset and can still hear sound also i get feeling that i am dreaming. I try to move but wake up again, still feeling dream, and again. ON the third time i finally manage to get up and i go to balcony, it's raining and rain seems to be getting stronger, soon dream fades out.

Dream 3(fragments):

I was looking at various pictures of dragons.

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[SIZE=3][COLOR=#DC143C]I was in my house and trying to get outside. I climbed out a window. People were looking for me in the front yard so I tried to get out of there quick. Some random stuff happened and the dream destabilized.

[/COLOR][COLOR=#1E90FF]I'm now in the shower. I have the thought that this could be a dream.
[I]No it's too real, there's no way.
[/I]So I look at my hand and count way more fingers than I should have.
[/COLOR][COLOR=#DC143C]"Holy shit, I can't believe it!"
I step out of the shower and walk slowly through my house on my way to the door. I look at the details of everything I see. Listen to all the sounds I can hear. The shower is still running and I can hear it as I'm walking downstairs. I step outside but I still haven't decided what I should do.
[I]Hm, maybe I should fly... No it's not stable enough for that yet. Oh I know!
[/I]I walk down the driveway and call out, "Red, where are you at?" I look up at an RV and see Red on top of it working on something. She is with and older looking man and they seem to be repairing something on the roof of the vehicle. Her hair is up in a large bun and she looks a bit different. But I can still tell that it's her.
[I]She must have shapeshifted.
[/I]I start to climb the ladder but it breaks before I can get all the way up. I look up at her and she asks, "what did you need?"
"What's your name?" I asked.
"Cheritha" she responded. (Pronounced share-itha)
After this she asks me to climb up the back without the ladder. I look and see that she has fixed some bars and other stuff to the wall so you can climb it. Kind of like a rock climbing wall. I start to climb up and she drops things down while I'm climbing. She wants to see if I'll still be able to climb with all this difficulty. I come to a bar that would require me to hold all of myself up with only the tip of my fingers. "Oh come on, now that's just impossible!"
The rest is pretty foggy, I think I woke up around here.[/COLOR]
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Dream fragment (Night time) I think all three dream fragments were linked to the one dream
I was with a group of people at the beach. I saw a fight happening in the distance. I could see police cars and paramedics fly passed but they looked weird, and looked to be levitating off the ground.

Dream fragment
I remember a dog was a bit aggressive. I bought Rex (My Dog) inside, and a guy was passing Rex over a chair to me. I felt bad for Rex as he was upside down, and we were fumbling around so I could get a good grip on Rex.

Dream fragment(Night time)
I remember Dad calling me and saying don't drive. It was as if someone had told him, I was driving without a license. I thought maybe Josh D may have told him.

Dream
As I flushed the toilet, it started to block and started to flood the bathroom. I could see a massive poo floating on top of the bowl. I had my iPod Touch in front of the toilet, on the floor, which had flooded. I pissed that my iPod was in water. I picked it up and noticed that it was still working, but the middle button wasn't responding. I noticed the screen start to slide off, and everything break into pieces. Kayley said she could fix it without a problem and when can they not be fixed.

False Awakening
I remember having a false awakening but didn't catch it. I check the time on my iPod while I was in bed.

Sometimes when I fall asleep I become aware of the in between sleep and not sleep stage, and I get stuck. Frozen it feels like... I actually feel like literally stuck in vibration between two worlds. The only thing is that it's painful. Almost seizure like pain... It makes my head feel like it's going to split in half and my eyes roll back, and I also loose the ability to breathe. I'm afraid! And my body has no control. And the longer it last the more pain I feel and I come out of it... But in some situations I'll be stuck in this paralysis. I've heard voices once, and in another situation also felt a beam of light shining down on me... Very weird.

So I do some research on this "sleep paralysis", never even heard of it, and apparently many people go through this... But it gets creepier... They say it's demonic possession and or they see shadow people and see an evil thing sitting on their chest suffocating them.... This all seems like a horrific drug trip. That you can't sober up from. Unless you wake up.... But the fucked up part of it all is that you are awake... Your body is just asleep. I have yet to meet anyone else who has gone through this... I almost told my doctor until I searched it online and now I know it has a name and similar stories... And it hasn't happened anytime recently... So... We will see if it returns. I'll keep you all posted.

Sweet dreams~

Dream recall from today's WBTB/nap. Was pretty low awareness lucid and i barely could do stuff.

Dream 1:

I am at home and i can't fall asleep, and i am sleepy, i am trying for a while in different rooms. There are alot of pillows and my headset turns into pillows. More stuff happens, i am still super sleepy and family is leaving to somewhere, i go to yet another room and it's very warm here, also there are weird scents and no windows.
Then as i try falling asleep i notice sconce on the wall turning into some robotic being, it extends it's arm towards me and for some reason i can only barely move, i still manage to fight though.
Shortly i wake up, and there's another robotic being floating around the room, which then attacks me, i fight a bit and dream fades out.
I wake up again and there's someone in the room, dream fades out.
Wake up again, feeling in the back, i finally managed to get up, someone's shouting about something and there's someone behind me dream kinda destabilizes completely and i lose lucidity and then shortly wake up.

Dream 2(fragment):

I was playing some video game.

I had a lucid dream last night. It was short, but interesting and it made me question how i percieve ordinary reality. No need for long introduction so I'll just start writting.

First dream(non-lucid part):

It was something about me going to a party in a club.(Ricks). I met a friend from high school whom I didnt see for atleast 4 years. I didnt think of her at all in a past year or two, so I dont really know why I was dreaming of her but nvm. We were walking to the club and chatting in the mean time, I put my arm around her neck and she didnt seem to mind. I felt confident and planned on seducing her.

First dream(lucid part)

Next scene, I am in a park and while I dont remember how I got here, I look at the sky and see that the stars are really bright. It was cold(autumns here) but it was still a beautiful night. I start seeing shapes and movement in the sky and it looks like constelations have become dragons(chinese, long body type) and they are moving. I look at the statue in the center of the park and its frozen and completely covered in ice. Kind a like this, just with less details and with a statue inside, and not a demon lol.



So later, when I wake up I figured that this was a dream reference to me watching Fairy Tail anime in waking life recently. But lets get back to the dream.

While looking at the statue and flying dragons(there were two or three of them) I started to think that this is not normal and I figured that I am dreaming. Remembering my last lucid dream in which I kind of astral projected but couldnt wake up(even though I tryed to kill myself several times), I wanted to see if I can wake up on command now. I "ordered" myself to wake up.

Second dream

I am still lucid, but in my bed. I open my eyes and look around trying to see if I am in a dream again or I am in reality now. I remeber ordering myself to wake up and now I am in bed, seemingly awake. I question reality by questioning vividity. It seems vivid, things are pretty detailed and all. I go to the living room to make myself a breakfast. At that point I am convinced that I am awake, and I lose my lucidity waking up, for real this time.

Kind a made me wondering at how lucid I realy am in RL, if I cant distingwish between a dream and reality while sleeping.

EDITED ONCE, for categorizing and additional info..

This was a very short dream, or probably just another moment of sleep paralysis.

It happened around 5:00 AM in the morning, usually the best time of day for me to go through sleep paralysis. I woke up for a few minutes, and very tiredly, sat up to see if there were any monsters around my bed(what I always do). I didn't see anything but I heard the television playing in the next room. I heard my niece and father. I felt so tired I didn't even want to get up and prepare for the day. So I went back to sleep.

As soon as I feel asleep, I fell in to a dream(one of those dreams where I appeared lost some where in the wilderness in Alaska or some other forest-consumed land). I woke up and automatically opened my eyes. It didn't feel like sleep paralysis but I do remember being inside my room. I was able to move a few parts of body. Not knowing that I was in sleep paralysis(not sure if it's a false awakening either), I saw a tall, skinny figure standing towards the left side of my bed. It had no clothes on, pure white skin, and no hair! It wasn't chasing after me, so I wasn't sure if I should of felt scared or sexually aroused. After a few minutes, I decided to close my eyes.