false awakening

I woke up in a couch bed at my dads, the hall way near the cearial
closet and the staircase, it was literally crammed into it, I was
frusterated that my WILD technique didn't work again, followed by
some stuff I can't remember, then I had the funniest though.
"What if I was dreaming?" I did a reality check, and everything
started to collapse again, and fade. I grinned and tried to yell
"CLAIRTY NOW" but it only came out as a squeak, so I sang, I can
see clearly now, the rain is gone, I can see all obstials in my
way.." and everything was clear. A few seconds later, my dad woke
me up and I told him about my second long lucid dream, I didn't
do a reality check or anything so that didn't make me lucid again.
that was a 3-4 layered dream.

I just write everything down in a notepad doc, then copy and paste it here. This was my second lucid dream if it counts, but atleast my second sucessful reality check, and a unique dream for me.

Unknown Date

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Sunflower Seeds
Kangaroo station, payed with cash
Hot wings
Nanairo Nico Nico Douga
Cheetahmen

June 6, 2012. Nap.

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Powers, tiny people (I had watched Arrietty just before), Maigo song (From My Neighbor Totoro)

June 6, 2012. Bedtime: 3:15 AM; Time of awakening: 9:35 AM. No WBTB.

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something...battle
robots - my daughter (protecting her, iirc)
Ctrl+O = Shield
Gardevoir
Lasers, escaping

Type: Non-lucid
Level of Control: N/A

June 8, 2012. Bedtime: Midnight. Time of awakening: ??? WBTB: ???

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Pokemon Red/Blue
Guy living in my attic
I was The Chosen One again
Lots of FAs and LDs, but I never really became lucid. The RCs never made it CLICK for me at all.

Type: Non-lucid

Level of Control: n/a

June 13, 2012. Bedtime: 12:30 AM. Time of awakening: 7:30 AM WBTB: N/A

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Changeling - short hair, spiky, boy
Doctor Who
Gas can, ask construction workers for it, I'm a girl so they give it for free (changeling)
Girl is blonde, she's an actress?/me
Bling (lolidk)

Lava
Tower
Bowser?
Sonic/Speedrun
Invincible/Unarmored but skilled
Lion Kind - Timon & Pumbaa
Dad

Type: Non-lucid

Control: N/A

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2 Lucid Dreams. In the first, I had a hamster and I was going to take it out of the house but I was like "Oh, I'm dreaming" and became lucid. I lost lucidity quickly but the dream continued. I don't know how I regained lucidity, but I went into this living room of this house and said "Show me how to have more lucid dreams!" but nothing happened. I couldn't talk at first: it took me a little bit to figure out how to do it.
I decided to start climbing the walls and lost lucidity at one point
My sister's ex was there wearing a wig. We were at a pool that had go-karts go around it. A pig chased a cow over a fence and we heard lots of animal screams. Cow murdering pig maybe?

Big part of this was that I could FEEL things. It might have been the ADAish stuff I've been doing, but I was more aware of how things felt.

Type: Lucid
Level of Control: Little

June 19, 2012

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This was a very very very exciting dream for be because I used PORTALS. It's been one of my dream goals to learn how to use portals and even though this was a non-lucid dreams, I did just that.
I had watched Sherlock Holmes just before going to bed so it influenced this dream a LOT. There were gypsies and birds as part of the plot, and I could do time travel with the portals (maybe. Not sure.)

So I finally learned how portals works, even if I wasn't lucid. Awesome. This dream was very much inspired by Sherlock Holmes, too. There was a point that there were like gypsies and I deciphered a code that used bird whistles as the code.

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I also "died" at some point but not really like Holmes did.

WBTB was slightly better. 5:30 AM might be a sweet spot for me. Next time I'm lucid I'll practice portals more (Hint: I didn't xD)

June 20, 2012

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Kumquat (a person who hosts a My Little Pony page on Facebook)
MLP stickers
VERY light trees. I was picking up logs like they were nothing
Tall guy. I mentioned for some reason that "I'm a trap, y'know."

June 21, 2012 Nap

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Dwarf and I were running/hiding from giant sloths.
Castle - built by Toph

Became lucid, don't remember much. The DCs made the castle for me, the dreamer. They were very nice. I liked them.
I lost lucidity at one point while I was playing with my dogs, not really doing anything. Just playing with them.

EDIT: BEFORE I FORGET. I called out for the Golden Fox, which I've decided is one of the forms I want to learn to shapeshift to, but I don't remember much about it. Come to think of it, why'd I call for the Golden Fox if I want to be the Golden Fox? Maybe he's my Dream Guide?

I got in a car with a couple of dudes. My friends, I guess. Dunno where we were going.
I re-attained lucidity when I looked at my hands. At first, they were real blurry and I just had one extra finger, but then they were like...bent and I had lost of extra fingers and stuff. I spent a lot of time just staring at my hands cause I found it interesting. I controlled a few things in the dream, but I had to repeat my command a few times.
I remember we were driving and I saw a trolley cart thing on a zipline. You know the ones. Whatever they're called, I saw one. I was like "Man, what would you do if I just grabbed that and threw it...wait, that's stupid. Nothing, because I'm dreaming. Open the sunroof."
The DC really really didn't wanna open that sunroof, but I was adamant. I kept repeating "The sunroof is open" until it did so.

Stupid me, I wanted to fly up there and get that cart. I started losing lucidity, not being able to fly well. Eventually it just...stopped. I was like "Oh, I'm in that black void thing. I'll just reenter my dream" but I could tell that I had just woken up.

Making another note here: HUGE SUCCESS.

This was brilliant. Long, stable-ish, vivid dream, just like my mantra. I think it's time to start working on switching my focus to dream control, since I'm having a very good number of LDs now, and I'm getting to the point that I can control them.

Type: Lucid and non-lucid
Level of Control: Although it was far more than I usually have, I'm still going to have to say it was very little control. I just followed along with the dream plot and couldn't figure out what I wanted to practice (portals would be that, remember? )

Oh yes, before I forget: one more dream. I didn't write it down because it scared the shit out of me and I think I just wanted to forget it at the time.

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I don't remember much, just the ending. I was talking with a group of people I don't know about like demons/whatever they were and I mentioned that I'd seen some before. They asked me what it was like and I started telling a story that was nothing like my actual experience with what I've noticed people here call "shadow men."

Well, as I was telling the story, I could hear this vibrating ringing in the distance, and I could feel something near me. As I continued to tell the story, it got closer and closer and the ringing got louder and the vibrations became harder until it was just way too much and I begun to scream. The last thing I heard was myself screaming, and I was all of a sudden just lying in my bed, staring at the darkness of my nightmask. It was like in the movies, where you have a nightmare thing and your eyes just shoot open. Yeah, like that. First nightmare I've had in a while. Had a lot of similarities to the DJ entry "Vibrations" of mine

Italic Text = Personal Thoughts
Normal Text = Non-Lucid Segment
Light Purple Text = Partially Lucid Segment
Purple Text = Lucid Segment

I woke up 4hr30m after originally going to sleep to attempt a WILD as per the current homework task in Sageous' WILD class. I stayed up for approximately 30 minutes writing down my dreams and generally walking about as suggested.

I laid back down to attempt a WILD and repeated my mantra while focusing as much on self-awareness as possible. I think my main issue was that I got a bit too focused on the HI and what I guess was the beginning sensations of sleep paralysis because each time I noticed it I woke myself up too much.

I probably could have gone a bit longer, but I was laying there for about 35 minutes and decided I'd roll over onto my side to try another attempt. At some point I guess I must have just gone to sleep, but it must have somewhat worked because I was partially aware of the fact that I was dreaming when I got into the dream, I didn't even perform any reality checks.

I was back in this test lab style location, the same place I was at in my previous dream of the night, only this time instead of being a test subject for the experiments of this lab I was in a quarantine prison. I was somewhat aware of the fact I was dreaming at this point but the dream is also somewhat hazy. I remember breaking out of the quarantine prison with another person who was with me, and from this point we avoided the guards and made our way to the exit of the test lab.

Upon getting outside, the dream world was somewhat restricted, there was a small patch of grass outside and then the world just cut off in a perfect line and disappeared into a void of many, swirling colours.

I decided I would jump off the edge and as I was falling I repeated to myself "I will fall into a lucid dream"

After a few moments of conscious blackness I open my eyes and see I'm in this room and lucid, there are no ends to the room and it seems to stretch on forever, but it's quite narrow. Both walls are different colours and there are doors on each wall, in more colours. There are lots of objects, kids toys mainly, scattered over the floor in assorted colours also.

I look at the wall and for some reason decide it'd be a good idea to try and "pull" a rainbow from the picture of swirled colour on the wall, but then I stop myself. I remember that I need to do the Task of the Month which is a revelation for me as I never remember to do anything in my lucid dreams.

I remember what Sageous said about forming your dreams, using schemas to build a world around you. I notice one of the kids toys on the floor is a train and I focus on that and try to build a scene around it. I put my hands together (though unsure why, I guess I thought it would help) and close my eyes.

When I open my eyes I'm in another small box area, there are brick walls all around me but there is no roof, I can see the sky above me. There are inactive trains, train carts and coaches on multiple tracks in this around and running through the middle of the area was another track extending into dark tunnels on each end.

I looked into one of the tunnels and a train just kind of "appeared", I move out the way and it speeds by out of the tunnel and quickly disappears into the tunnel at the other end. It seems my subconscious mind had created the most convenient location possible for me to do the Task of the Month, because every 15 seconds or so another train would appear and speed by before disappearing into the tunnel.

I spend a moment and try to figure out how I'm going to jump on top of this train, I focus my mind above the entrance tunnel and try to pull out a ledge from the brick wall that I could stand on, but I couldn't seem to make anything budge. I decide that I could make a jump from one of the nearby stationary trains and onto the speeding train, if I jumped far enough. For some reason just flying up never crossed my mind, which is strange because flying is usually one of the first things I remember to do in my lucid dreams.

Just as I'm preparing to jump I notice the exit tunnel isn't that large and I would probably go smashing into it if I jump on top of the train. I make an attempt at expanding the area so I could fit through, but just like the wall previously it wouldn't budge. I figure that this is a lucid dream and I would just chance it, hoping my subconscious would follow my will to not be smashed to death by a brick wall and expand as I approached it on top of the speeding train.

A few more trains pass and I prepare myself, eventually I leap and just manage to latch on to the train. I climb up and the train appears to be quite thin so I'm laying on top of it clutching on for dear life, as I approach the tunnel I feel the top of the roof scrape my head and my back and then it seemingly disappears, no troll subconscious for today!

I assume I get too excited riding on top of the train as I pass through the tunnel, because next thing I know I'm back in my bed.

I open my eyes and start recalling my lucid, excited that I completed the Task of the Month and couldn't wait to get on the computer and write on DreamViews about it. I look at the time briefly and then pick up my dream journal and read over the dream I had previously that night and as I pick up my pen and begin to write down my lucid, my vision becomes really blurred. I couldn't quite figure out what was going on. I rub my eyes and when I open them again I've seamlessly transferred back into my bed, laying down again.

I'm obviously completely blown away now, I had never experienced such a realistic False Awakening before, I even checked the time and read over my previous dream! When I sat up I had to perform multiple reality checks just to make sure I still wasn't dreaming because I no longer trusted my reality. I even specifically recall reading what was in my dream journal, and when I picked up my actual dream journal the previous dream in there was different to the one in my dream and I wasn't sure which one was real and which wasn't.

All in all, an amazing lucid and I guess a half-successful WILD, maybe.

06/19/2012
Dream Fragment One:
I was in some large, cylindrical chamber, and had just 'acquired' a bad-ass, jet-black racing motorcycle. I spent a little while in this chamber, spinning the tires and riding up and down elevations in the architecture. Later, I had gotten the bike on the night road, and was riding along side some friend of mine, but don't remember the rest.


Dream Fragment Two (I think):
(I'm pretty sure this was a separate dream, but can't say that I'm certain.) I was with BR, T and maybe one or two other friends. We were riding BMX bikes and jumping some dirt ramps in the woods. At one point, BR jumped off a short ramp and didn't quite clear the gap, but was able to jump his feet off of the pedals with enough time to catch himself on the elevated platform, before falling back down into the gap. A short time afterward, I was going back the other way - jumping from the elevated platform, and using the short ramp as a catch ramp - and caught my front tire on the catch ramp, face-planting in the dirt. I remember getting up and wondering about how strange it was that it didn't hurt, though I wasn't aware enough to become lucid.



06/20/2012
Dream Fragment One:
I was splitting two adjacent hotel rooms between myself and about 4 girls, some of whom I recognized - some I didn't. It was just all kinds of fun. Lol. I really don't remember all that much, besides all having a lot of laughs as we moved from room to room, and then sharing a bed with two of them, when it was time to crash. The next morning, something happened to where we found out that there were some people after us, and the 3 of us in the room I was in had to use some secret tunnel to take us from our room and (somehow) across the hall to the other room, so that we wouldn't be there when our pursuers busted in our door.


Dream Two:
"Pre-emptive Scare"

One of those strange "in-between" dreams, where you can't tell if you're fully-awake, dreaming, or just having some hypnopompic hallucinations...)
I was lying in bed with my eyes closed, facing the wall, when I heard my mom getting ready for work and talking to my daughter out in the hallway. I then heard someone messing with my doorknob, which is locked. Then, I heard CJ whispering to my mom to unlock the door, so she could come in and scare me while I was sleeping. Somewhat smiling at myself at this, I decided to play possum for a minute, to see if she would really try.

The door quietly creaked open. I could hear it from behind me as I continue to face the wall with my eyes shut. I began wondering if this was really happening, because it was so out of the ordinary (my daughter would have never unlocked my door to come in my room), but the more I questioned it, the clearer I heard her feet softly shuffling across the carpet toward my bed. Still not really sure whether I was really awake or not, I turned really quickly and sort of half-shouted "raaah!" at where I knew she would be.

But she wasn't there, and I was now fully-awake, and staring at an empty room, feeling a little foolish for having tried to scare someone who wasn't there.

(As much as I'm fascinated by those 'threshold-of-waking' tricks that our minds play on us, they do have a way of making you feel stupid when you fall for them. Lol.)

I'm walking around Eastenders. I live here and Derek Branning lives with me . I'm in the street and Derek says something to me and I really don't want to be near him. It's now night time and I go to bed. Derek sleeps in a bed that has white plastic curtains around it, it looks like a hospital cubicle . Derek keeps talking in his sleep, I get out of bed and go and stand by his curtain and listen to what he is saying . ((Dream Skip))
I wake up in my own bed now and feel a small fag in my mouth I think "ohh my god..I could have burnt the whole house down!!!" I then think "I don't remember going to sleep with a fag" the fag is now gone. ((shit I didn't realise this was a false awakening at the time doh!!)) ((Dream Skip))
I'm back in my first dream again. I'm in bed and get out because I have an urgent need for a wee I go over to the cubicals where Derek is sleeping and I sit on the bed and wee ((this is a normal thing in my dream)) Derek now says something about my Daughter L in his sleep and I think "PERV" lol then he says in his sleep "don't tell though Ang" I think "ohhh yeah" he then says "that's right isn't it Ang?" I lean back hiding behind the curtain because I don't want him to know that I've been listening to him, he says again in a sterner voice "isn't it Ang?" I peak round the curtain and he is looking my way, I think "the Bastards just tricking me!" I say back to him "yeah" Derek now says sheepishly "if you wanna know stuff then do dodgy deals for me" . I now wake up in RL desperate for a wee lol.

i wake up on the floor of a sleeping quarters on a boat, across the small room from me is another person; brown hair, blue eyes, i feel as though i am related to them. this person is just waking up as well. i try to remember my dream and as i do i see a person associated with very negative feeling in my mind, i almost tell the other person in the room my dream but they say "i know what your thinking" before i can say it, the person continues "i had the same dream as you, you saw Archibald.

As I climbed the glacier that I used to climb every night, I think hard about the task at hand. Once I reach the top, I am at my school. There is nobody there - which is odd - as I walk around, I hear nothing, see nothing, feel nothing. I come to the quick realization that this is because I did not want to adventure tonight, I simply wanted to complete the tasks at hand. I decide to have some fun and fly to my house (I tried flying with wings for the first time; I prefer no winged flight) in order to fall asleep and dive deeper within my subconscious. When I fall asleep in my bed, I wake up in a very old room. The room seemed like it could be in a castle somewhere, but the technology in the room seemed out of place, since there was a Brownie Camera (the first TOTY) sitting on top of a small wooden desk. Directly in front of me, was a mirror. I could see what I was wearing: A black spy suit, with a hood over my head (very splinter cell-esque) and the camera in my hand. I took a picture of myself looking into the mirror with the camera. Since this is a dream, the camera functioned like a Polaroid camera (I actually have no idea if this is how the actual Brownie Camera functions) and instantly gave me the picture. There was no dimension in the picture, it was simply flattened and very 2-D. The strangest part, however, was the fact that I was not in the picture. The mirror did not show my reflection, but simply what was behind the camera, which was a picture of a knight in a suit of armor. After I put the camera down, I knew it was time to enter my reflection. As I got closer, I could see the outline of my body slowly shake. I put my hand inside of the mirror, and I felt a cool sensation. As I went more and more inside of the mirror, the sensation grew, until I was fully emerged in a cool liquid. When I opened my eyes, I noticed that I was surrounded by water now. I could see the sunlight above, and swam towards it. Around me, there were icebergs and nothing else. I quickly teleported to safety, and awoke from my slumber.

I've woke up this morning, well at least I thought I did. I was in the dream and I did a Reality Check, I did the Nose Pinch Reality Check and I was looking around my surroundings, the room looked pretty ood, but the atmosphere felt great. In the dream I finally knew I was dreaming. So I became lucid but I forgot to stabilize the dream. I suddenly saw some huge big lips with lip stick on my face. I was thinking. WOAH Somethings wrong with this picture, I was too freaked out when I figured out what I've saw. So I have woke up after I noticed this weird experience I have seen after the air conditioner kicked on in my bedroom.

Coconut Water

All I remember is that someone was opening a coconut and I was desperate to get some of the water. I could imagine the taste in my dream.

Brush with Lucidity

I was lucid, but I couldn't see anything. I've had this happen before. I knew I was dreaming, but there was nothing around. I was trying to kiss J., but since nothing was around, it didn't work. I had a false awakening and wondered if I were actually awake.

This is when I need to do my reality checks. GOD why didn't I do one?

I'm going to increase my lucid count because I need to know, but it was totally bogus.

I don't really remember the beginning of my dream, but it began with me, and the characters from an anime expediting on something. I don't really remember. I was tired, so I went to sleep. I subsided into my dreamscape and I knew I was dreaming off the bat, because I began flying all of a sudden. I didn't do much in that dream, except explore, I was lucid. Then I woke up, told the characters that I had a lucid dream. That dream wasn't lucid. Some people died due to causes, such as falling down a really long ladder, drowning, etc. I went to sleep again, and it was also lucid. I woke up, and tried to breathe whilst holding my nose. I was dreaming. I was outside of a house. I went inside and it was a mess. There was a woman there. I guess she was supposed to be my 'mom' in the dream. She got mad at me. There were chairs broken, windows cracked. The reason for this was that there were four girls in there, at the time I wasn't lucid dreaming, who got mad at me. I stormed out of the house and didn't return until that time. I waved my arms. "CLEAN UP!" I shouted, all the mess disappeared. This part I had trouble with. Our neighbor was selling his car for $500. I didn't have $500. I went back inside and tried to spawn $500. No luck. I was waving my hand at a table, shouting "500 DOLLARS!" and it didn't work. I tried to focus, and think very hard. "Spawn 500 dollars." Didn't work. I think after that I woke up. Wait! I woke up again? I had a false awakening. I got up, walked out into the living room, and woke up again. This time, I was awake for sure.

Foreward
I have only recently, started recording my dreams, thus far it has only been approximately three weeks. I immediately started recalling at least three dreams per night once I made the conscious choice to do so. I haven't practiced any lucidity techniques; though lucidity is, in part, my primary goal; I have found the process very rewarding and entertaining so far. My dreams are often fantastical or in settings that would seem oddly constructed, or vast and otherworldly, and I have found it odd that it would not be enough for me to realize I was dreaming. I am certain of a couple lucid dreams over the years, but if they truly were while I was aware I was dreaming I always acted them out; only once or twice making brief use of fact I was actually dreaming.

I believe this dream was in the first cycle of REM sleep as it was short and the time in the night would support this.

The Dream

I opened my eyes...
I was kneeling inside a dim room, in the far left corner facing forwards. The floors were wooden and there was a large rectangular mirror affixed to the wall in front of me, the mirror just off to my right hand side, it's base sitting roughly half way up the wall. I felt safe, familiar... yet not.
Still kneeling where I had came to, I looked in the dire the mirror and saw my father's reflection. He looked back at me, then it occurred to me I was alone in the room. It was a ghost staring back at me.
But then I realized my father was still alive this couldn't be, and that is when the feeling of panic washed over me.
Simultaneously it occurred to me I was dreaming, but the panic had set in and I could feel my body weakening and the world was growing dark around me. I had felt this feeling before... when I was only a child... I was about to pass out... my body began to fall forwards and the world grew darker still but I was now calm; I was going to hit the wall and there was nothing I could do.
I waited for the impact of my head against the wall, but it never came. Enshrouded and cradled by the darkness I had passed through the wall and awoken lying in my bed staring at the ceiling.

The ceiling above me was the stars, the universe, and I wanted to see it all.
My body started lifting off the bed, up into the ceiling of stars after which I willed myself fast through the cosmos. After, what was probably only a few seconds of travel I decided I wanted to go back to Earth; and experience this amazing feeling of lucidity there. I looked back towards Earth, it was nowhere to be seen; but I knew the direction and slowly my body turned around and started travelling back towards Earth.

This is when I truly awoke in reality, having glimpsed if only for a moment something extraordinary.

This dream occurred just this morning. I'll only remember certain parts of it, and as for the other past dreams, I will post some of those shortly too.

We were on a trip to another school. Walking into the hallways, I thought about, or perhaps discussed, how science accepts some concepts while ignoring others. If religion wants to ignore gravity, thought someone, wouldn't that make their belief still true because they have faith?

Actually, I thought. We only perceive something as real if it is separate from the rest. What about the theory of changing gravitational constant over eons - also similar to the Variable Speed of Light Hypothesis - why does science ignore that? Why is evolution accepted but not the evolution of gravity? What about the reports of spiritual experiences? What was objective and what was qualia?

There was some kind of Super-ego theory, too.

Somewhere hours later, there was a thunderstorm. I woke up in my old bedroom, talking with my "biological mother", who supposedly was different from my mom in real life. It was 12:23 pm, time to get up.

We went on another tour of a school, sometime later in the day at 7:50 am, as the buses were leaving early. We walked inside with a bunch of high school students, me reflecting on the "dreams" I'd just had, writing them down in my all-purpose notebook.

A female friend of mine gave me a piece of cake on a plate. I tried cutting it a few times, but it was silicone, and seemed to disappear a little each time I cut it. I promised to get the cake repaired, but said, "this would be appetizing if it weren't silicone".

I woke up. It was 8:41 am. The previous day, I'd indeed talked to this female friend about shellac, and how it was secreted from the female lac bug, even in candy.

Dream; Semi-Lucid; Lucid; Memorable; 1-4 My Recollection;

Woke 7 am. WBTB x2.

3; First time: Flew in the dark through my backyard and went around the corner in friends window.

2; Second time: HS dream. I walked along the hall, it seemed more like nighttime which made me SL.
FA: In a crowded dorm partying, but I was younger by 10 years or so.

Last night before going to sleep I was meditating quite a while before passing out. I remember waking up a few times a night, but not remembering any of my dreams. Each time I tried a different technique but to no avail.
This morning I woke up several times and the last time I woke up before I got out of bed 11.30 was somewhere around 9.30-9.45. I tried to WILD (for the first time, actually) but I do not remember if the attempt was succesful. When I woke up and got out of bed there was two things that happened that often tells me I have dreamed; I had a sense of having been somewhere else and I had an old song in the back of my head which I was constantly humming.

This was disappointing to me, as it always is when I do not remember dreams. However, I suspect that I did become lucid without remembering it, 'cause I have this nagging feeling of standing somewhere under a deep purple sky and saying to myself that this is a dream, but the thought/feeling is too fleeting to be categorized and proved. The problem I'm often having with my lucid dreams are that once I become lucid I can't keep control and a false awakening occurs, or I just lose all vividness and the dream continues on without me remembering it.

At least I have identified my own problems and are working to solve them.

Color-coding: Non-lucid, Semi-lucid, Lucid, [Commentary made while awake]
Bold text indicates a “dream within a dream,” meaning any dream scenes that followed after I dreamed of falling asleep

I wake up in my current bedroom. I can hear the couple who lives downstairs in the master bedroom arguing. The woman says something like, “I have to get up now and get ready for work!” I can't sleep with them arguing, so I decide, “Okay, I guess I'm up for the day now, too.” I get up and start trying to take a shower, but the hot water keeps turning cold because the woman downstairs is taking a shower at the same time. After I'm done, I'm still feeling so sleepy that I decide to go back to bed and try to get some good sleep while I still can. It's still only 4:15 AM, after all. So I get back into bed and go to sleep.

[All of the above paragraph was a completely convincing false awakening that I failed to catch. I've never heard the couple in question argue like that, plus, in the dream, the residents of the master bedroom were the parents of the girl who actually lives there in real life, and I thought nothing of it. :/]

I'm visiting EM and SM's house in Omaha [something I did in real life recently]. It's morning, and we're all getting ready to leave the house for the day. They have a gigantic, elaborate house [way bigger, fancier, and more high-tech than their real house]. While we're in the kitchen, SM says something like, “You haven't had a chance to eat today.” I answer, “I know. That's why I always keep bananas in stock.” I show her that I'm carrying a banana with me, which I intend to eat for breakfast. SM has an eyepatch over her left eye socket, with a cool outer-space vista on it. It's embedded into her skin, and I can see muscles twitching underneath it. It's kind of creepy.

We get outside the front door when I realize that I don't have any shoes on. I say to EM, “Could you unlock the door for me, so I can get back into the house? I'm not wearing shoes, only socks.”

EM takes out a door key and uses it to unlock a lock in a wall, which opens the front door. “The front door” consists of a zig-zagging wall of metal panels that cross a wide, concrete courtyard. The panels that are parallel to the house swing open, toward the house, when the key is turned; they're the doors. I go into the house and run up the stairs to the room where I'm staying, to get my shoes.

When I come back outside, I find SM sitting on something in the middle of the tall, light-green grass on the wide front lawn, waiting for me. She doesn't have her eyepatch anymore; both of her eyes are normal. [This is the case in real life.]

“Wait just a ding-danged minute here...” I say. This discrepancy has caused me to begin to suspect that none of this is real. To test whether I'm dreaming, I turn to face a low rock wall nearby and start walking toward it, willing myself to pass through it intangibly [something I know very well that I can do in dreams]. I find that I can't pass through it; I just bump into it normally. In the moments that follow, I'm very acutely and vividly aware of the world around me, of my own self-consciousness, and of the fact that I'm not sure whether I'm awake or dreaming at this very moment. [I finally started watching the TV series Awake a few nights ago, and this is what the protagonist experiences all the time, a fact which is reiterated at the beginning of episodes 2 and 3. That is so cool, that I got to experience that personally in one of my own dreams! ]

After another moment or two, I do realize that I am dreaming. [I don't remember specifically how or why.] By definition, that means that I am getting some good sleep now, I reflect gratefully. I smile and decide to enjoy myself here while I'm getting that restorative sleep I needed so much.

As usual, all I want to do is explore the dream world, so I start flying up and away from the house. I see SM's car driving away below me, and wave goodbye to her. From up here, I can see the entire city spread out below me, covering the gently rolling hills like a blanket, and it's very beautiful. It's also very windy up there. I think to myself: I've got brains in my head, I've got feet in my shoes, I've got levitation powers in my mind. I can steer myself any direction I choose. [This is a reference to the Dr. Seuss book Oh, the Places You'll Go!, from which one of my contacts in Omaha read a passage to a graduating class while I was there. Hmm. No idea why I thought of them as “levitation powers” instead of “flight powers.”] I try to fly into the wind, which is coming from my left, but can't find the strength to fight against it. I decide to fly with it instead. I think, Why not? When you're going bicycling, you'll probably choose to ride with the wind, if you have a choice.

I end up flying through a neighborhood filled with lots of cute little houses that line narrow, old, little streets that wind around every which way. [Just like in the real Omaha, or, at least, the neighborhood where EM and SM live.] Every front yard has big, tropical-rainforest-looking trees in it that reach across the street, forming the beginnings of a canopy, but not a very thick one. There are exotic, tropical birds in every tree. [Um... not at all like in the real Omaha. ] I fly along, following the streets and admiring the beauty all around me.

[Dreamskip - I don't remember getting from one locale to the other.] I'm still in Omaha, but now I'm in a gigantic, elaborate, multi-story library and bookstore. It has lots of glass walls and ceilings that let in the sunlight, and they're arranged in a square geometric pattern, just like this library. It's filled with lots and lots of shelves of books, and there are plenty of people walking around. I'm still flying to get around, instead of walking. I fly up from one level to another, in search of the section where the most popular books are kept. I want to check one of those books out, but I don't have a library card yet, so I'm limited to buying it. I definitely intend to get a library card when I move there, though. [True in real life, too.]

When I get to that section, I land and start walking. I'm looking for the second book in a series I'm reading. I have to think about it to remember which one it is. It's not the Twilight series; it's the Hunger Games series. [Which I haven't even started reading in real life, but I would like to.] I look through the neat, white, bright shelves and find the book I'm looking for. I pick it up and start walking away with it, reading it. There's a computer kiosk that beeps at me as I walk by. I look on the screen, and it has a written message directed at me, chastising me for cracking the spine on my book. Doing so somehow disrupted the operation of a pacemaker of somebody in the immediate vicinity. [I don't recall seeing that somebody there, though.]

I continue exploring the library, and decide I want to go down one floor, but I don't want to fly because there are lots of people around, and I generally try to avoid using any of my dream powers when there are people around to see me. [Yes, they are just DCs, but I always think like that in my lucid dreams anyway. I don't know why, but I do.] I see a wide, steep, carpet-covered ramp leading down to the level below me, and decide to roll down it.

[Dreamskip. I'm not 100% certain that I was still aware that I was dreaming in this scene, but I may have been.] I'm walking along a city street and see a restaurant that is closed. I'm disappointed to discover this, because it had belonged to my friends. I wander through it, looking at all the debris left in the abandoned building. I walk to a side entrance and go out through the patio, where I see that people have begun seating themselves at the patio tables. I realize that they must have seen me walking around inside the restaurant, assumed it was open, and sat down. I feel bad about it, but I start telling them, “Sorry, it's closed.” They get up and leave.

[Side notes: Heh. I love how my subconscious has turned Omaha into this perfect tropical paradise with an awesome library, a place where everything I saw around me was incredibly cool and gave me nothing but happiness and joy. Omaha really does have a gigantic central library, although it doesn't have that cool architectural design. That part came directly from the library at UC San Diego. I didn't go to school there, but EM did - a fact which I had consciously forgotten about until I told my mom about this dream later in the day. Hmm. Omaha also has a zoo that I didn't actually see, but that everyone tells me is pretty awesome. Okay, subconscious, I get the message: Don't give up on Omaha yet. You may still be able to find happiness there.]