false awakening

Dream recall from today's naps, got lucid at the end of REM again i think.

Dream 1(fragment):

I recall some indoor place and some talk.

Dream 2(fragment):

I wake up in my bed(the room looked almost exactly the same as in waking life), get up and walk around the room(Forgot to reality check ), then i wake up again, and i spontaneously realize that i am dreaming, but i wake up again, this time properly.

Total sleep time: 7 hrs

WBTB: 1/2 cup matcha tea, almost out of it

Fragment1: A former classmate and something strange about his shoes

Natural wake, decide to use it as WBTB, drink some tea, total duration (7mins), was nicely tired and almost falling asleep but then it became too noisy outside, and also got a text message, so inappropriate for Saturday morning...insomnia for like an hour followed.

Dream2: In a familiar town, I am on the tram, the door is open, and I see an unpleasant ex-neighbor. She is running after the tram, trying to get on it, she also holds a cup of coffee. I try to help her, taking the coffee so she runs easier, but it spills. She gets angry and spills the rest of the coffee on me, decides not to get on the tram. There is another tram in front of us, facing the opposite direction. I look back inside, and examine myself, I wonder if I should change my clothes, but decide against it. People around are looking at me but with understanding, I was trying to help after all.

Dream3: I am in my room, I have something like a small terrarium with mice inside. It also had a lid, and the lid is gone now, a few mini mice jump out of there. I try to catch them and eventually succeed. I am slightly worried about catching a disease from the mice, so decide to wash them first, then put them back in this thing. It changes to a real terrarium and the mice are now guinea pigs. I think about feeding them, what do they eat, do I need to clean anything after them, ect. I look at a desk which on the wrong place, and see something like a bigger guinea pig, a bit more like a grey rabbit now. It seems that have escaped once again...I also notice a grey stuffed elephant and wonder where it came from, I come up with some fake memory that it is from my bf.

Fragment4: A very realistic FA, I am in our corridor, I hear the sound of running water, go to the bathroom and see the water is on. I become very concerned that I have forgotten it, water running all night long. ( This felt so real, and I was so sleepy, I am slightly questioning whether this happened irl, but most likely not because I didn't hear it during WBTB, crazy!)

Fragment5&6: FAx2, I wake up in the dream, go the restroom to pee. Looking a slightly different but very realistic each time, I wake up in my real bed. Then again. (Note for competition, while this is the whole dream, because it is short, I put it as fragment)

Comment: That was a bit strange, but also cool, I don't get many FAs. The tea is to blame, my bladder really was full.

Fragment7: The principal is cleaning up some of his things. I also participate, I see an old barbecue part that I want to throw away and some jars full of pickles, and one with minced meat that looked terrible.

Fragment8: My grandma is wearing a strange outfit, trying to gather things from trees. She tells me that my aunt wants to come by and sunbathe with us. I had other plans, but whatever.

Fragment9: A friend of mine and me are discussing clothes, he proposes that I go to a certain store, I have already been there, found nothing of interest.

Fragment10: I am finishing a cup of chocolate and look at the bottom. There is a chunk of cookie dough there, I wonder for a bit about it.

Goal for the rest of the day: I must DO ten RCs today, plus ADA (at least!)

I saw dark clouds beginning to rotate. I said it was turning into a tornado before you could really tell, but I was right. The quickly began looking like a funnel until it was a full-on tornado.

Then I started flying in the sunshine and I realized I was dreaming, but then I had a false awakening. I really need to do an RC even when I really do wake up for just this reason. I've only done so once I believe.

I had just talked to Slash last night and advised that I was going to start SSILD again, but that just mentioning it might be enough to make me go lucid. I ended up going through 2/3 of a cycle two times last night. I attribute the short lucid to mentioning it to Slash.

Well, it started out fairly normal, but I can't remember that part very well. I remember being tweeted by someone important, but it was like a pin, and not even on my phone xD But eventually, my family and I were going to this restaurant. When we were walking in, everyone was staring at us and making rude comments about me. My family seemed totally oblivious to this fact, and continued on. We got to a table, and there was only enough chairs for three people, and I didn't have one. Everyone was still making fun of me, so I ran out of the restaurant crying, and went into the car. I was sitting there for a while crying before my dad came out. I had my window open, and he was talking to me. Meanwhile, I was looking at posters on the wall in front of the car. There was some weird comic strip that was creepy and demonic, it scared me, but I told myself it wasn't real, and continued looking at it. then there was a picture of a bunch of dead people behind a curtain, and on a picture next to it, there was no one there, and under both pictures it said "Was this HI?" I don't know why, but that kinda scared me, too. So, once again I told myself it wasn't real, and it changed. This time, it had a picture of a man wearing a light greenish-brown trench coat, and said "Have you seen this man?" and went on to say how he was a serial killer. I looked over at my dad, and the man was walking up behind him, I yelled "Dad" trying to make him turn around, but not in time. The man came up behind him and stabbed him in the back, and left, so i was in the car, with my dad dead, leaning against it. I was horrified, and told myself that it wasn't real. I could have undid that, and had my dad back alive, but I couldn't shake the feeling of shock and horror that I was feeling so I kept saying to myself "I have to wake up. I have to wake up." eventually I saw my room, but I knew it was a false awakening (idk how i knew, I just always seem to know xD) So, I closed my eyes as if i were trying to go back to sleep, and when everything went black, i woke up for real.

and once again this was one of those dreams that I've had before (minus the random part at the beginning) ...whatever goes on in my head, I don't know.

4/16/13

1. I am on a tennis court. Odd things happen, and it turns into a competition. An adversary wants to trap me on one side. I walk horizontally out into the city area. I become certain that I am dreaming. I go into a restaurant. The faint image of a man running into down an apartment hall appears.

2. I have a false awakening, and I lose my lucidity.

3. I am in a city street. I am lucid again. I am awed, and I decide not to do anything while I am lucid because I am unprepared. I decide to just view the dreamscape. I want to go to the Woodland away from the city. I begin to fly towards it. An enemy comes up to me in the field. I fly up into the air to avoid him. He taunts me and says that I will have to come down some time. He says that he will cause many nightmarish false awakenings. I say that he is just a dream character. and I wake up.

4. I am still dreaming, and I awaken to a figure slicing skin off of me in my sleep. I realize he has a face similar to that of the man of before. I still am not lucid. He is rambling and psychotic.

I call the police, but instead just mumble into the phone, "Something's wrong," before dropping it with newfound lucidity. I awaken.

5. It is another FA. I go the man from the dream that is in my house, but I am illogically non-lucid. I yell at him. I am shocked. He winks at me when I complain about the FAs. At that, I become lucid, but I wake up for real.

Dream recall from today's nap. Counting this as one lucid since i am not even sure if i briefly woke up actually for DEILD attempt between them or i was trying to DEILD from FA...
All short, but it's some kind of progress on getting back to longer lucid dreams anyways i guess.

I wake up in my bed, take off headphones, still hear binaural beats, i get up and rub hands, dream fades out.
I am again in my bed, i take off headphones realizing dream again, but as i go to window view zooms in and dream fades out.
I am in my bed again and i feel that i am dreaming, i try to get up but dream fades out.
I get up from the bed and i am standing in the room. I take off headphones and can still barely hear binaural beats, i go to balcony door while rubbing hands but dream fades out.
Again in the bed, and already feel the dream, i get up but dream fades out.
In the bed, take off headphones, lucid, get up and rub hands, go to balcony door, fade out.

(WILD)I entered the lucid dream when I could see through my eyelids, I instantly jumped out of my bed, I opened my curtains and marveled at how wrong my mind recreated my window, its all skinny now but in waking life it is big. Suddenly I shoot back into my body and my sister is shaking me try to wake me up but I can't move but I mumble to her that I'm just paralyzed for a bit and to hold on, but then I think how could she have gotten into my room when it was locked, so I shoot back into lucid and get up and she is gone, I walk out of my door and run through the kitchen and go outside, I don't know why i didn't try to change scenes, i just know that I was intrigued at how well it all looked yet things were different. I saw my neighbors through the window and they looked different (damn woke up because certain people insist upon stomping around the house with all the force they can muster up)

Non-lucid
Lucid
False Awakening
I've fallen asleep on the couch in the middle of the day and this is what I got.

I'm in my house, laying on the couch. Everything is in its place and it all feels right. My boyfriend comes into the room and starts to pick a fight with me, it was over something really stupid but I can't remember what it was. He leaves the room, still fighting with me from another. I feel compelled to follow him but instead I roll over and go back to sleep.
I'm in my house, laying on the couch. everything is in its place and it all feels right. My boyfriend is in the kitchen, talking to me. I get up and the world shifts around me. It feels sluggish and my vision keeps warping the room. I walk into the kitchen,
"Hey! This is really weird. I think I'm still asleep."
"Let's watch Supernatural." He says, walking past me into the living room.
"Didn't you hear me? Something weird is happening."
"Are we going to watch this or not?" He asks.
I frown in response, bothered by how he's ignoring what's happening to me, but I follow him. He sits down on the couch with his coffee and waits for me to put in the dvd. I seize one of the cases and put it down with more force than is necessary, annoyed that for some reason I'm expected to do this. Why can't he put the damn dvd in the player? I put it in and turn on the tv. I look at the screen, the play menu keeps blending with an episode making it hard to watch. The then realize it isn't Supernatural but Beauty and the Beast.

"Sorry, this is season 5 of Beauty and the Beast."
"Let's watch it anyway."
"You want to start at the end?"
"Sure."

It bothers me because I realize he doesn't care at all about the story, I wonder if that extends to everything we watch together that I suggest to him. Everything goes blurry and I hold my head, waiting for it to stop.
When it does I'm laying on the couch. Everything is in its place and feels right. I experience a moment of vertigo but it passes. My boyfriend comes into the room and picks a fight with me, and then storms off outside to mow the yard. The front door is open. I move to follow him and run into a small desk pushed against the wall beside the door. I resist the urge to overturn it. It seems extremely stupid that we have a computer right here, and that it's not even centered on the desk. As I move it into the middle I realize why we had it offset, it's sort of...school desk shaped. It's got an uneven side that reminds me of a bottle neck.

"Now I'm questioning everything!" I hear him say. "If you've lied to me about this, what else have you lied about?"

It still seems like a really stupid thing to make him call our relationship into question. I roll my eyes. He starts working and I go into the garage to fix something. The garage door is open and right at the edge of it I can see he's talking to his dad who, per usual, has asked when we're getting married.

"I don't even know if I want to be married now!" He snaps. As he says it he lifts his head and shoots me a look. I'm deeply offended.
"REALLY? Right now? Right there on the yard?" I snap back. He ignores me. Fine. I leave the garage and as I step back into the main part of the house I have more vertigo. This time the unreality of the situation strikes me. Besides, wasn't it raining when I fell asleep?

I shake my head, annoyed, and go to my room to get my shoes. Everything looks as it should, except the colors are more vivid. Movement is easy, like I could jump or fly if I wished. Like I'm weightless. I put on my shoes and jog back out to the living room. I look out the open door and the tree on our patio has large white flowers, near the center it becomes dark pink. The shape suggests an orchid. I decide I'm wasting my time standing here arguing. I run out onto the patio. Why stay here when I can do whatever I want? I look up into the sky, an elegant branch full of flowers hangs down just out of arms reach. I can do anything. I crouch and then leap skyward. At first all I can do is grab the branch.

"Let's try that again." I say, then jump again.

I feel weightless and full of energy. I climb the branch hand-over-hand like it's a rope, I notice there is fruit mixed in with the flowers, they look almost like already cut quarters of a peach but they are dark brown. They smell wonderful. I release the branch and jump down to the roof of the house, fruit in hand. As I walk, I eat. I briefly see the house from overhead. When I see the layout it feels like I've come home, though I've never been to a place like it.
It's got a wide, flat, tan roof. There's a lower section of roof over part of the patio, hugging top right corner of the house in an L shape. I can see the dark vividly green grass, more like moss here. The trees lining the wire fence, hiding everything beyond it.
There are many animals on the roof. I startle several birds. A raccoon-like creature regards me warily. I drop a piece of fruit at its feet and will it to eat. It does so reluctantly.
Anything. Anything. What will I do? I do not want to fly. Besides, the dream has made the boundaries clear and if I have to focus on flying and creating something knew outside the fenced area I'll probably wake up.
I scout the edges of the roof and smile when I see the gate. Of course, my way out.
I drop lithely to the grass below and lope to the gate. I try to walk through when light pink bands of energy repulse me. I frown and look at the guard who just appeared.

"Hey, you wanna let me out?" I ask.
"We're under orders to---"
"To let me out?"
He frowns at me, nonplussed that I'm being difficult.
"Listen..."
"Nooo. YOU listen. I live here, I can leave if I want. If anything happens to me I promise I won't throw you under the bus."

He very reluctantly unbands the energy and allows me to go through. As I'm stepping out to the clear faintly pink bridge beyond I think

"Well, this is new and interesting." Since it isn't remotely like anywhere I've been or imagined, and doesn't match a game I've played. I waggle my fingers at him to say goodbye and then I run across the bridge, then up a ramp. I'm almost out, thank god.

There's an arched doorway ahead. I duck inside and immediately see the rectangle of bright light on the other side of the room, the next and final doorway. A tall man in red robes blocks the light and glares at me.

"What do you think you're doing?"
"I'm leaving." I say, glaring at him.
"So you'll just throw it all away? You know what's expected."
"I don't CARE. I don't want any of it."

I notice a wall, it rises out of the floor at a slant, on the other side of it are lit candles and pictures. An alter for my sister's family, an alter for my brother's. I know this means that they have long since died, but they have done their duty to continue the line, by bearing children.

"They need your children. They will be the most adept."
"I. Don't. Care. I want to leave."
"You can't defy me this way! Do you know who I am?"
I glare at him over my shoulder, absently picking up one of the pictures. "Do you know who I am? After all I've been through, everything I've done for this miserable little world, all I have LOST. You can't make me stay."
"Oh? And who are you?"
I am speaking as Saja even though I have not become her like I usually do. "Are you saying you can't tell?"
"It doesn't matter, I still have to stop you."
"Go ahead and try."

He has strayed from the door. I drop the picture and dart past him. He grabs my shoulders and pushes me off to the side, as I'm rounding to face him.

"Prove it then." He says, drawing his hand back up over his head.

A pinkish-purple energy orb appears in his palm. He throws it at me. I hold out my hand to stop it and absorb it into my palm. It tingles. He looks surprised, especially when I throw it back, but now it's faintly disc shaped and white. He grabs it but instead of absorbing the energy it spreads all over his skin and flickers orange like fire. I charge toward him.
"Ah.Oomeht.Kaelish. Oruk-ti. Ah.vet.MAH." I say it with quiet conviction. I hold my hand out and try to snap to ignite the stuff on his skin (a la Colonel Mustang). But the priest grabs my hand in his fist, making it impossible to move my fingers. We grapple for a tense moment.
He looks disconcerted.
"Didn't you hear me?" I ask.
We end up saying the words together, and I'm amazed that I remember them perfectly.
"So you're an angel, makes no difference to me. You cannot leave."

Spoiler for Random racy scene between myself and another woman. I'm amused to realize she's about Liam's height. My subconscious has a SERIOUS problem.:

Aaaaand then it gets weird. I have no idea what happens here. The camera pulls out and I no longer look like myself but Brienne of Tarth and the man is now a woman with long honey blond hair pulled back into a ponytail. We stand there, holding onto each other. It's kind of an embrace.
"My place isn't here." I say. She agrees with me and we study each others faces. I know she will allow me to go. First though...
I separate from the scene again and Bree leans forward and kisses the girl squarely on the mouth. Watching, I'm really confused why that's happening. WTF?
Then they start to make out. Suddenly I'm the girl with the ponytail and she is bearing me to the ground, settling between my legs and grinding against me. It feels amazing, and real and sharp.

The world wavers and I wonder why the pleasure should feel so real. I tilt my head back and I come to the conclusion that it's something that's happening in the waking world. Even though Bree is sitting back on her heels, I can feel a head on my chest. I run my fingers through their hair, it's long and smooth. My boyfriend, obviously. I allow myself to wake up.

Except that I don't. He sits up and smiles at me. I'm disappointed that he woke me before I could finish the dream and I don't really feel like having sex. He gets up and I follow him into the kitchen. The front door is open. Suddenly a girl I used to work with, Brittany, who has chin length red hair, comes through the door. I'm confused, because if I'm awake the gate should be locked.
I experience another moment of vertigo and I go to greet her like she's supposed to be here.
She smiles, looking radiant. "Hi! Sorry to drop in on you like this, I just wanted to see if you were going to come to the gathering tonight?"

"Of course we are."
"We can just all head over there together then! Here, let me introduce my husband to you."

Her husband comes in through the door. He is at least 6'5", which is gigantic next to my meager 4'11". I stare up at him. He has blue eyes like Liam and his hair is even a little red, though red-blonde. I'm am suddenly intensely jealous of Brittany. Then I'm distracted because another giant comes through the door. This one is an older man, all around big, a little overweight. He's at least 7 feet tall. I wonder how he came through the door without ducking. I shake her husband's hand, ignoring the familiar flush of tension as I regard his height and how similar his build is to Liam's.

For some reason the party is on our lawn. There are a lot of people milling around. I walk outside and I start to feel sick. I stagger back inside and lean over the trash can at the end of the counter. It's tall, about chest high. At some point it turns into a garbage disposal. I feel like there's something in my throat.
I reach into my mouth and start to pull out long ropes of...something. It looks a little like hair with strings of meat and some white stuff. A couple of women come inside and stare at me. I'm embarrassed that they're seeing this. Obviously there's something wrong with me. I grab another handful and pull it out, dropping it into the sink. I cough.
One of them says something I can't remember. Then she asks me if I'm okay.

"Oh yes. I'm fine." I say sarcastically. "Sure. Just stand there and watch, that's fine."
They keep staring at me. I cough and grab another handful from the back of my throat.
"This is what happens when eat meat and you haven't had it in a long time." She says.
"But I haven't."

More vertigo as dream memory replaces actual memory, and I remember a steak I ate earlier. Maybe she's right. I think I'm done for now. As I leave the kitchen I realize one of my back teeth is loose. I'm horrified when I spit several molars into my palm. No no...no. Well, I'll have to go to the dentist...at least I make enough money now that it won't be a problem. I lay down on the couch, feeling dizzy.
I wake up for real this time and am vastly relieved to have all my teeth.

A bit out of time this week, an actually not so brief update:

13 May

- Me and a group of 5 kids decide to create a business. We go to register it, and the start up costs are only 100. We talk to some lawyer who says its is excellent because we are all from different countries.

- I become upset and leave the house of a friend wearing slippers. It is very hard to walk with these but I don't find this unusual.

- In our old neighborhood, there are lots of new stores. I go in a supermarket where they are making fresh carrot juice, it is green in color, I wonder a bit about that, but conclude that green carrot juice is ok.

14 May

- In our old place, my mom keeps talking, while I want to go to sleep. I tell her that her talking activates my brain and I cannot fall asleep. It is early morning, still dark outside and snowing.

- I see Dr dre on the street, he is smoking and I want to join him. Before I do, he has finished with the stuff. A skater boy pushes him hard and I think how rude kids are nowadays. I follow Dre to a building, but the cops are all over the place. I have a micro second of lucidity, remembering I read a part of Xanos's dream from yesterday and know it this the cause for this one. I lose my lucidity a second later and try to leave the building.

- I am in jail which looks like a normal house, my belongings are also there. A woman calls me and I think they are finally letting me go. She informs me that she allows me to go out, so that I can find a woman called Connie Flowers or something similar. A friend from school is also accompanying me. We look for the place where Connie lives, but cannot find her. I have another second brief moment of clarity and high awareness, when I am climbing a fence, while looking for her. I continue following the dream but get the brilliant idea to ask some old ladies to show me the way to Connie's house. They all point in one direction and that excites me a lot. I am absorbed back by the dream and we go to the place the women were pointing at.

- A false awakening where I jot down key words from the previous dream. I write Connie Flowers on a piece of paper. Had it not been this FA, I probably would have forgotten the name. It was so realistic that I actually looked down and expected to see it written in my notebook, but nothing was there irl.

- On a street, thinking about last night's dreams. I look at the sky, and decide to star gaze. I have my blanket with me. I get interrupted by a machine washing the streets. My slippers get washed away...

Note: micro-lucids, not counting
Pretty busy this week, I wish my sleep could condense, so that I still get some nice REM moments.

Dream recall from today's naps.

I was in the bed, but in different location(I didn't noticed it until later), i keep having an HH(Or at least HH is the closest to how i can describe it, it was bizarre), that i was getting up but it lasted only a few seconds and i was back to normal, it repeated like 7 or 8 times and then i noticed that i was in different location in the bed, somebody entered the room but before i could look i woke up properly.

I had this dream in 2006. it is as vivid today as it was the day I had it, but I wrote it down in my journal then, and I'm copying it over here to share. this was the strongest dream I've ever had. I've always been a dreamer, but never anything quite like this.

I had a dream that I went to sleep. and in my dream I was floating over an intersection with a hill on one side and a school on the other. it was a very busy intersection. I could not hear what was going on, but men in hoodies stood on the hill, and they were chanting something I could not hear what, then all of a sudden they came out of the cover of the hill and started attacking the people on the street in front of the school, as I passed over I watched as people were being hacked to pieces, and I saw a stone that said Oxford. it was very vivid. then I woke up in my dream, but still dreaming.

I dreamed that I was moving to a yellow house with children in the yard, and an antiques business in back. we bought the house and moved in. and I went to sleep again. I dreamed again of the intersection but this time I could hear. there were rioting and yelling "Obama Nation of Desolation" they all had weapons. no guns, but hatchets and swords and sticks and such. and just like before they suddenly attacked in front of the school like before I floated above the scene and watched and this time heard the screams and horror of the scene.

I awoke fully. this time realized it was all a dream and went back to sleep.
when I went back to sleep I was in the same dream, it was continuing. I was dreaming I was at home in the yellow house and my mom called me on the phone. and said she and my brother had had the same dream of the hill and the massacre. we decided this was a call to gather. and that we were being warned and we should meet at grandma's house.

so I quickly gathered my 2 children and packed the car. my husband came with us. my daughter was adamant we bring her pillow so I did. we got on the road heading towards grandmas house. and the traffic was heavy. there was a feeling and atmosphere in the air like everyone had had the same dream, or everyone was fleeing to their refuges.

we decided to take surface streets to avoid the freeway, and suddenly we are at THE intersection. I instantly knew what was about to happen and I through the pillow over my children. (I don't have any further knowledge of what happens to my children) and my husband and I get out of the car. we run through the massacre as its happening and a woman is bludgeoned to death in front of me. we hide under some school bleachers where a man in a hoodie approaches us.

he talks to us and my husband listens. he explains that the bible was changed. and it is not the righteous that will inherit the earth. and he opens a bible were many words are blacked out so that it reads that God loves the wicked and the righteous will burn as stubble. my husband listens and joins their group. I'm devastated, but I run away. , still trying to make it to my grandmas on foot. I stop at a minimart and find a group of people who are willing to give me a ride. we drive through side streets and all around is desolation. we get to my grandma's city and all seems normal. I'm relieved to get there. as I get near my grandma's house I see my parents and brother going into her house. I'm so happy I made it. but I notice an exterminator van outside her house. they are plugging some hoses to the vents in the house. I start screaming for my family to get out of the house but its too late I get out of the car and try running into the house to get them, but they are all dead. someone hits me over the head from behind and I black out.

when I awake from the black out, but still in my dream. I am in a building that looks like its been bombed out. and I can see the city around me is similarly destroyed. I'm on the ground, someone is beating me and asking me questions but I don't know what they were asking me. I find a paper and pen and write something on it and hide it beneath me. and then I'm killed.

when I awoke fully I was in an almost euphoric state. or a complete state of shock. I fully expected the news to show some massacre. but of course it didn't...

5/11/2013

I had my first lucid dream last night! using the DILD method i guess if you numbered your lucidity i was very low in the chart it was like i knew i was dreaming but didn't really have any control like i went along with what my sub-contiguous wanted. so here's the dream. So i was first in a party and the cast of vampire diaries were their(don't ask me!) and then i don't remember how but i was thrown out the window and bouncing off plastic terraces like you see outside small shops. that's when i realized i was dreaming. and became lucid then i don't remember what happened for a while and when i gained it again i was in the back on a van and on my way to high school(im only in middle school) Caroline from vampire diaries was driving. and then when we got to school we started to have a memorial service for someone in the gym. Then i had a false awaking and was with someone i don't know in real life and we were putting corn and pineapple in a van to be delivered somewhere then i woke up.

Lucid False Awakening

Last night was the worst sleep I've gotten in months, yet ironically it was my third and longest lucid, and I completed a Task of the Month!

I found myself in a gorgeous ski-lodge/ hotel, made completely with polished redwood and hardwood flooring. I was living there, alone, and my bedroom was bare save a neatly made bed that was only dipped on one side - a subtle hint that I no longer had, or had never had, a girlfriend in this dreamverse. I was a writer, and my study was cluttered with handwritten pages and crumpled failures. Surveying the seen in a relaxed yet depressed mood, I suddenly heard a hiss behind me.

Turning quickly, a found a dead and zombie-like little girl with a red headband hissing and coming towards me. Still calm, I thought, this couldn't really happen, and suddenly my mind fought to gain lucidity, reaching a hazy stabilization. In waking life I was asleep with a nightmask on, and that carried through to my lucidity, making a weird, half-blinded effect. I tried to wipe my eyes, and peel away the mask, but to no avail. The dream began to collapse around me and I woke up. Looking around I saw my girlfriend on the top bunk in a bunkbed next to me, sleep walking and threatening to tumble over the edge. I called out to her several times, yet she still carreened over the edge into my arms. Wait, we are sleeping in the same bed in waking life... This is a false awakening!

I was instantly sucked back into my previous dream, and this time the beautiful red wood lodge with its gorgeous support beams and white trim reappeared. The sensation of whooshing into lucidity was euphoric and unlike anything I've felt in a while. I heard a hiss, and turned to see the little girl back behind me. I told her I didn't have time for her, waved my hand dismissively, and she disappeared. I turned to hear yet another his, and this time it was a floating tiger head. I dismissed this as well, and turned to get my bearings.

I was in the main lobby, with two giant glass skylights. Without thinking, I lifted off the ground and flew out one of them into the air, and landed in the untouched forest outside. My stabalization was still perfect, so I took a moment to remember the tasks of the month. I remembered laying an egg, but then I recalled Ophelia's story about thinking she had pooped herself and I decided to try a different one . As I remembered that the basic one was to tell a DC they were fake/ dreaming/ in a dream, a hefty latino woman came into view on a path that wound its way through the forest. I ran up to her, intent on telling her she was dreaming, but she began to undress.

"Uhm... Anyway, did you know that you're in a dream!"
"Oh shut up!" she grinned, removing more clothes.
"No really, you're a figment of my imagination!"

Still grinning, she ignored me and embraced me, now without pants on. She wasn't beautiful by any means, so I was a bit hesitant.

Luckily, my girlfriend bumped me awake as she turned on her side, and I woke up, totally euphoric, and wrote it all down.


WOOO! SO AMAZING!

Total sleep time: 5 hrs

Pre bed: 3 mg mel

WBTB1 natural: 2x peppermint oil tablets

WBTB2 alarm: 1/2 cup of green tea + analytical thoughts + noise = insomnia

Vividness: Extreme

Dream1: Me and my parents are in a hotel, I have just had some supplements and am preparing for sleep. I look at a graph with bar that shows progress towards lucidity that depends on the amount of menthol I took. The status bar is not completely full, about 70 percent to lucid, so I am contemplating whether I should take another tablet or just risk falling asleep and see what happens. I ask my mom if she plans to take a shower now, so that I can shower before her and go to bed. She is watching/listening to something and has three sets of headphones, two of which I identify as mine, and get a bit upset to see she has left a very realistically looking earwax on one of them.
mood: task oriented - become lucid

Fragment2: The toilet seat in grandma's place, and a big mess of poo. Will give no further descriptions, although I remember it in quite a detail. ( Sorry, this was very vivid so had to mention it,lol!)
mood: wondering

Fragment3: I am in a bus, and I am observing and being told the story of a man and a woman. They were supposed to meet here at that bus, be together, but one of them changes something, and the other one gets off the bus before this happens. I am thinking perhaps another time.
mood: interested, positive

Comments: Oh, well, went a bit over the edge here, but at least I stuck to my plan to do a WBTB. Lol!

i woke up in my bed really tired and after a while i went back to sleep while attempting w WILD i went through the hypnagogic state and fit felt like i was gonna succed but then i awakened once again in my room but this time i was so tired that my vision was all fucked up and blurry. for some reason i came to look at my hands and att first i couldnt even see them but as i focused they became clearer and clearer. this made me think hey what if this is a dream? and i did some reality checks and turns out i was dreaming. so i preceded to fly around a bit in kmy house and then I flew out of my balcony, but my balcony looked entirly different. as i flew i began to contemplate on how i should use this lucid dream, what i should do next. but the more i thought the more blurry the world around me became, to the point where i felt the dream was fading away and then i suddenly awoke once again my room, by the sound of my parents coming home. But since my parents had just left and werent gonna come home for a long while i thought that it might be a false awakening. I entered the bathroomstill not sure if it was a dream and i looked in the mirror. The clothes i was wearing in the mirror did not match what i was really wearing so it had to be a dream. i tried to enter the mirror but it didnt work it was still solid. disapointed i run to my living room, and fly outside where i atempt to punch the wall of my house to see how strong i am and found that my punches where supernaturally strong but not as strong as i would like. once again i began to think about what i am going to do next and once again the dream begins to fade away. I wake up in my room again and my parents are home. i preform a reality check and im still dreaming. i go to the living room where i find my friend. I tell him that i can fly. He says he knows and that he can do it io. I ask him why he doesnt and he says he is afraid of heights. i fly out to explore the surroundings, the immediate surrounding area is the same but after flying just a little while i find myself in some form of village or very small town. the climate is really hot and it seems like the village is in the desert. I get the feeling that there is something mysterious about this place. There is a house where a bunch of female mechanics are working on a car. i walk up to them and try to talk to them but they dont answer me. i see an old man in the corner drinking cofee, i go up to him and asks him who he is, what is this place and shit like that but he only answers in riddles that make no sense at all. Once again i begin to think about where i should go next and the same thing happens, i once again wake up in my room, i preform a reality check and its still a dream. i Fly the same way and the village is still there exactly how i left it. i explore a bit, then comes the thinking and i fynd myself back in my bed. This keeps happening over and over again for about 10 false awakenings, i explore a bit but wheenever i start to think to hard i ''respawn'' in my bed. after the last false awakening i find myself in the village outside the mechanics place. to the right there is a big phone booth and there is a woman and she is calling for me. At this point im starting to trip on the fact that i keep experiencing these false awakenings, it feels like im trapped in this dream, this unending cycle. as i walk up to to the woman i see that apart from the phone there is also a machine for buying train tickets. on the machine it says Alo katavana on one side and the name of my home town on the other, and there is a big button that says Escape. I press the escape button and i wake up in my bed but for real this time