false awakening

Awake, Non-lucid, Lucid, [Commentary made while awake]

[Last night, I had probably the longest and certainly the most highly lucid dream I've ever had. I'm writing this at the end of the day. I tried to recall this dream as best I could upon waking, and I made some handwritten notes, but by now, although I remember the highlights of the dream, I've forgotten what order they went in and how I moved from one to the other. This is my best attempt to reconstruct the whole, long sequence, but some of these are most likely not in the correct order. I do remember that I consciously chose to move from one activity to another in the dream, though.]

I’m in a large room with a really cool indoor playground in it. I observe that they’ve added more decorations and more play elements to the playroom since the last time I was there: there is now a long chain with brightly-colored wooden blocks in various shapes (cylinders, hexagons, and others) threaded onto it hanging across the ceiling, and there are more things to climb and play on. I climb up one of the climbing walls, along with another girl. We press against each other as we climb it.

Later, elsewhere in the same room, I’m looking at my reflection in a mirror. I notice that my neck looks strange, and tilt my head back to see. I see that my neck appears to have been replaced with a shiny, silver metal bar that appears to be a piston. This causes me to realize that I’m dreaming. I pinch my nose to confirm and find that I can still breathe. The familiar sensation pleases me, and I'm very happy to be in a lucid dream. I have a slightly higher degree of lucidity than I've ever had before.

I go outside the building. There is a grassy lawn outside it. I have a discussion of systems for play and discovery with MA [a real-life friend and colleague] and another dream character.

I then decide to explore a bit. I walk away from the large building and head toward another complex of buildings that appears to be an elementary-school campus. As I start walking, I say to myself, “Again, why am I walking when I can fly?” So I start flying over there. I find a party in progress on the far side of the elementary-school campus, where there are some picnic tables. People are hanging out and drinking beer. I obtain a pint glass for myself, but leave it sitting around on or near one of the walls as I wander away.

I see the entrance to a mall, and enter it.

I fly up into the air to get an overview of the area. From up here, I can see that the town I'm in is on the ocean and has a beach. I think, That makes sense. Oceans and beaches are part of my schema for what a broad overview of an area of land should look like, because of where I grew up.

I'm walking along a rolling dirt path. While walking, I eat yogurt out of a plastic cup with a metal spoon. It's raspberry-flavored and smooth and creamy, and it tastes exactly like real yogurt. Then, I find a handful of coins that someone has dropped on the side of the path, along with a bronze medallion. The medallion has some text inscribed on it that says the name of the country I'm in and what the medallion was awarded for. [I don't remember what it said now, although I could definitely read it in the dream, and the country name wasn't the name of any real country.] The coins are all common U.S. coins, but there's also a fifth coin, a brass-colored one that's shaped like a little house [a square shape with a pointy roof]. I pick all these items up.

I wake up in a car with MA, JL, and one other friend. One of them is driving, and I'm in the back seat. I remember that I had just been dreaming, and pinch my nose. Yep. Still dreaming.

While exploring the grassy, park-like area outside the building I started in, I spot a silver, metal, quarter-spherical shape rising up out of the ground. I say, “Ooh!” because I see an opportunity here. The structure is roughly the same shape as the baseball backstop I once fantasized about flying to the top of [see my DJ entry dated April 28, 2011], even though it's solid silver rather than chain-link, and it's maybe two-thirds to half the size of the real one. I take off and fly to the top of it, stopping myself by grabbing hold of the top edge of the hollow quarter-sphere with my hands and then swinging myself up onto it, so that I'm sitting at the top with my lower legs dangling over the edge. I'm facing a crowd of DCs standing on the ground, one of whom is a burly man who flashes me a thumbs-up sign. I proudly declare, “I'm the coolest kid in school!” The DCs seem to approve, but then they start flooding into the hollow space inside the quarter-sphere, filling the space and causing the structure to tip over backward. I climb off as it slowly tilts over, unhurt.

Having accomplished both the old goal of flying to the top of the backstop [well, sorta] and my other goal of trying dream food, I say aloud, “Okay, chores over. Time to have fun.” I fly up and let the wind carry me away.

The dream fades, and I find myself lying down. I try to move my arm, but judging by the feel of it, I realize, No, that's my real arm! I don't want to do that! [Whether or not this was actually true, I couldn't say for sure, but it sure felt like it was at the time.] After a brief moment of feeling stuck in that position and trying to figure out how to get back to exploring the dream world, I roll over and fall out of my bed. I think, Wow, that actually works! I quickly determine that I'm back to the lucid-dreaming state, and remind myself that all that's around me only exists inside my mind, as I read in EWOLD.

I'm looking at a different, grassy lawn. There is a little red demon thingy growing out of the grass. He has red roots that run all over the surface of the lawn. I have a magic sword, so I hold it out, wondering if it'll help and what I can do with it. The demon takes the sword and kills himself by using the sword to sever all his roots. When he and his roots have all disappeared, a small chair rises up out of the plus-sign-shaped hole in the ground where he had just been. It is a reward for my defeat of the demon. I take the chair and carry it with me as I fly back over to the party, which is still in progress.

When I get there, I use the chair to help me grab onto some structure to arrest my motion and land. Flying is easy, but stopping is hard, I think. I can't find the glass of beer I left there earlier, but I decide it's no big loss. I take my chair and sit down at the corner of one of the portable tables that are set up in the party area. I'm facing the outside wall of the elementary-school complex. Up against the wall I'm facing is another table with a clear pitcher of beer on it.

There is another handful of coins on the table near me – again, standard U.S. coins, all of them shiny and brand-new, plus the odd house-shaped coins I saw before. I decide to swallow some of them, because I know I can't do any harm to my real body by doing so. I see another girl at my table doing the same. It feels good. I can feel them going down my throat, but the sensation seems to be weaker than would be realistic, which isn't surprising, since I haven't actually done this in reality [and certainly never will]. After swallowing a few coins, I decide I want more beer to go with them, so I get up and get myself another cup. The beer is cold and rich and flavorful; it tastes exactly how I like my beer to taste.

I've run out of coins, but I still want more. I cup my hand, place it on the table palm side down, look away, and think about what I want to have happen. I feel little pops under my hand, like bursts of compressed air, as more coins pop into existence. Then I feel the coins themselves against my hand as the pile grows. I remove my hand and continue swallowing coins. I'm very pleased that I've suddenly become so good at summoning objects.

My dad is sitting right next to me, at the end of the table, so his chair is perpendicular to mine. He sees me swallowing coins and absolutely freaks out. He recoils from me in disgust, asking me, “What are you doing?” I simply respond, in an “it's not a big deal” tone, “It won't hurt my dream body.”

Then I woke up for real and waited while the last of the SP faded away, concentrating on remembering all that I'd dreamed about. I was very pleased to have accomplished so much and to have been lucid for so long. [In fact, I got to check two goals off the big list in my profile today: trying dream food and summoning an object. ]

My Gma was incredibly ill. Im not sure which, im pretty sure it was Nancy. I had to drive over to her house and watch after her. I told allen that I would come home afterwards when other people came to watch her. I hoped to be back that night. Her house was a sprawling mansion. It was done in a very old style with gold and red accents, a large stair case and huge paintings. I was in a different room then Nancy. Dave called and wanted to know if I would like some Starbucks. I said yes. He brought me the most delicious drink. It was like a super cold chi tea late but it had a chocolate twist to it. It was incredible. I looked at the clock and saw that it was 1 am. It was pitch black outside. I called allen but he didn't answer. I called leo and got no answer. I tried allen one more time and got the same results. For some reason this made me really sad. I really wanted to go home and snuggle with him but I knew he was sleeping. I decided to stay at the mansion and go to bed there since I had work the next day and it was significantly closer to work. I went into a bathroom and it was as big as my apartment. The mirrors were so massive the stretched to the top. There was a bluish tint to the bathroom that didn't match the rest of the mansion.

Me, allen, dustin, and a group pf their friends are walking around a city. The city is beautiful with lots of cathedrals and interesting buildings. It very sunny out and there are street vendors everywhere. I see a lady with pieces of plank wood sitting out. The plank wood has designs on it that look like people. She claims that they are intact super old petrified humans and that for a small amount of money, you can buy a piece and throw it. If you can break it you can win a prize. I grabbed a board and very quickly realized that I wouldn't be able to grab it. I set it down and all of us walked into this underground secured parking. I somehow knew the parking garage and I knew that the bottom floor had ferraries. I jokingly suggested we go down there and bash them up. I wasn't serious. Everyone laughed. We make our way to the bottom and see some old ones and a massive locked closet. The closets gated door is open. We walk in. It's a super secure closet where the close are on rotating metal bars that are controlled by a remote. I turn on the remote and the clothes start to rotate and spin. I marveled at how nice and electronic the closet was. It must have cost a lot of money. I didn't understand however why it was inside of a parking garage.

Allen is doing hand stand on my night stand. I am annoyed.

False wake up. Im sweating so much my clothes, blanket, and bed is wet

Go to call allen, I can hear grandparents talking about me on the line. They are trying to call me. I hang up and try again a few times but the same thing happens again.

16 August 2011

I was falling asleep and had an extremely lucid dream - I did not feel fully asleep yet and tried to sit up (like I did when awake about 20 minutes ago). I struggled to sit up and wanted to scream, yet could not scream - there was just no sound. I saw a man (tall and faceless seen as dull white light) who gently pushed my left shoulder down and then my right shoulder as well. I woke up and realised that my guardian angel refused me to leave my body at this specific time.

Here I am watching an advertisement on TV. I was watching The Legend of Zelda advertisement. I noticed I saw an ad saying it was 3D and it was for Nintendo 64. I noticed and said "wait a moment?! Nintendo doesn't make N64 games anymore.

So here I am waking up in my bed in a FA "false awakening" it was pitch dark so I did a reality check, The nose pinch. And the reality check worked! I had a short lucid dream for a period of time but the lucid dream failed due to excitement. I remember it being petty dark in my bedroom when I woke up from the dream. Then I woke up from the FA again for real this time.

[COLOR="red"]Lucid[/COLOR]
[COLOR="royalblue"]Semi-Lucid[/COLOR]
[COLOR="blue"]Dream[/COLOR]
[COLOR="silver"]Thoughts[/COLOR]

[COLOR="silver"]This timer attempt was a disaster. I did my WBTB earlier so that I would have more time to dream, but instead I couldn't fall asleep at all. So I were fully awake through 3 alarms, then I gave up because it's was no point in laying still if I can't fall asleep. But when I tried to move I felt that I were in partial sleep paralysis, which means that if I could have endured one more alarm, I woul probably had come in full sleep paralysis! 3 alarms is 15 min + 8 + 4 = 27 minutes of laying still, and just focusing on falling asleep but failing. I did a reality check right after I gave up so it wasn't a false awakening.

At this time I didn't remember a single dream, so I turned the timer off and went to sleep to dream.[/COLOR]

[COLOR="blue"]I don't remember exactly what I dreamt frst but I do have some fragments of it. I were in my cousin's house and he was moving out. So he offered me his gaming mouse, then he changed his mind. I then walked out of his house and to something that I think was supposed to be my home, but it doesn't look anything like it.

I was taking a cab and opened the left door and jumped out of it. I jumped high and almost reached the sky, but then I fell down on a grass hill that is outside my real house in my waking life. [/COLOR][COLOR="red"]From nowhere I realised that I was dreaming! For the first time in my life I remembered to do what I had planned in the dream when I get lucid, but for this time it was something totally different. The Lucidology workout said that I was going to wake myself up just to experience waking sleep paralysis, to do that I have to think of my sleeping body. So I started to think "Wow this is a dream, but now I want to wake up (thinking of my sleeping body). Everything turned black I had no weird sensations what so ever, but then I just found myself back on the grass hill again.[/COLOR]

[COLOR="blue"]I was dissapointed and woke up, I thought... It turned out later that this was still a dream.
So in my false awakening I got out of bed and wrote down my dreams on a piece of paper near my bed.

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I was now standing in a grocery store, but this one only sold tapas and snacks. My friends were there so we were appearantly going to have this for lunch. I had problems with picking the tapas food up, and then I fell and hit my head in the table.
I were now walking around dizzy and I bumped into my friend Simon and he dropped his tapas on the floor...
When my friends were long gone, I now hade trouble with deciding what to choose. Then when I finally made up my mind. I didn't know where my friends were. So I started to watch some tv and I was watching Urban Legends, but the show was more like Myth Busters. On this episode they were going to see if they could determine if the water in a lake is shallow or deep by the temperture of the water, I saw a girl dive into the water. Then suddenly I was there!
I swam a few lenghts with her and there were 15 other girls and then I also saw my friends on the other side.
I started to swim my fifth lenght, but then I realised something embarrasssing. I was naked!
For a really weird reason I turn to the hottest girl of them all and points down and say "Ehrm I need to you know get underwear" and she said "that's cool you can come and change with me later" Relieved I then heard my friend pointing and laughing. Then I walked away with the hot girl and thought "HA jokes on you!"
...No I am lying I woke up and felt naked and embarressed[/COLOR]

[COLOR="silver"]Then I was going to add this dream to the notes, and I saw that there was no other dreams added!
So here I realised that I had had a False Awakening.

Tomorrow I will WBTB early again, but to make sure that I can fall asleep I will get back to sleep immediately.[/COLOR]

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So, it was like... I dunno, about a week or so ago when I was just lying in bed, it was almost 3 AM and I was watching youtube videos (<3Shane Dawson<3) when my Ipod died on me, so I got up and pluged it in. While I was waiting for it to charge up and work again I layed back in bed and placed my head on my pillow, and as I lyed there I heard like these crazy flute sound things, and so I sat back up and looked around and I still heard it faintly. I thought maybe my Ipod was charged up and playing music, and it was charged up but I picked up my earbud and it wasn't playing music. I got up and turned off my fan.Maybe the vibrations from it was making these noises?? So, then I lyed back down on my pillow and I heard it again, clear as ever. It sounded like someone was playing a fricking Zelda marathon under my bed!! So I sat back up and about 2 minutes later it was gone. I don't know what happend next because I guess I fell asleep, or maybe it was a false awakening. I don't know but it was wierd.

I go lucid in my bros room when something happens with my cat to make it obvious, i get really excited and start running around the house frantically. When i calm myself down i take a good moment to stabilize the dream, rubbing my hands together and controlling my breathing, everything feels really stable and looks good, like waking life, my pinky and ring finger look quite unnatural and sometimes nonexistant, i also rem seeing a random stranger in my house but i just ignored them.

I quickly try and think of my goals, i actually have a really hard time remembering them in this dream but i finally remember i am supposed to use super powers. I go outside to try to fly, I start flapping my arms like wings and jumping in the air like an idiot, it doesnt work despite trying for quite a lot of dream time, for a moment i was hesitant to act so silly outside but a few more reality checks gave me the confidence.

After trying for a while i hear someone call me, they say hey. I turn to my right and in my yard is this dude i used to know from high school soccer, frank. He has no legs and is sitting down in the grass with a collection bowl for money. He tells me that to get it to work i have to go visit Arsenal, in england. I had no idea what he meant but i just said ok, when i did i rem seeing a bunch of dudes in arsenal jerseys in my minds eye, when i stop seeing them i am back in my house, while in my house i can hear a song by rishloo playing, cant rem which one but i was jamming to it in the dream.

I am excited and making a lot of noise, my bro yells at me from his room, i tell him were dreaming, hes no longer upset but starts asking me if i rem dreams like this every night. I told him my recall has been bad lately and not every night. I head into the living room and decide to try and play with some guns. I go get my airsof gun out of the garage and try to imagine its real, i point and shoot it at the back of my house but nothing.

Next i go into my living room and try to grow dragon wings to fly with, doesnt work no matter how hard i imagine. I rem my bro, who is sitting on the couch now, said i just need to try harder and had some other shapeshifting tips. At this point i decide to try pyrokenesis. When i get the idea i grab a lighter from my pocket, its blue, i light it, i move my hand over and around the flame and then take my hand away from the flame, a flame follows my hand and then goes out. I try again, this time i get a nice flame in my hand and throw a fireball across the room, at my bro who is now sitting on the couch, the firebally was pretty small but when it hit it flared up. It hit his shirt and had no effect on him or the shirt. I continue to bend the fire for a bit.

I cant rem what but here something causes me to close my eyes and i quickly lose the dream, i think to myself, ok lets just wake up so we can write this down. I focus on waking up and not going into another dream, this starts a quite long fa.

I remember waking up and its already past 10( i have to do something at 10 today) I am with jessica and we are getting ready to go. Shes telling me about her dreamss and i tell her i had a pretty nice lucid one, i especially mention the succsesful firebend. We are sitting in my living room eating some weird wraps with red tortillas. I keep trying to find a way to write down my lucid dream in the fa. At one point i was gonna write it on some napkins but finally i tell jessica im gonna go get my computer to write it down. I think i may have one other fa after this before finally waking up. Still remembered the lucid quite well though.

Crazy dreams last night. I'm surprised I even remembered them, they were surprisingly vivid for me being incredibly drunk. I can't remember the order of events really, and I do believe it was all the same dream. I'm just going to log them how I think it might have went.

I remember being at a pool with my son, an indoor pool. Then I was at this house with my sister and she had some friends over. I was standing in a long hallway and her friends were behind me. I thought they were acting kind of stupid, loud and obnoxious. I had walked past them and made a comment about dumb bitches. They started teasing me. I sort of ranted at them for a minute before I realized they were making gestures with their hands on their stomachs. I got the idea that they were saying I was a dumb bitch for like.. having a kid or something. I got pretty pissed off when I thought they were talking about my son. I went up to them, my sister watching with surprise, and I sort of shoved them. "You think I'm a bitch for being a mother?" I said. We started fighting, but for some reason they're movement was slow and predictable. They would swing at me and I just grabbed their hand and misdirected it. Then I took a few swings. Since there were two of them, I got caught up slapping this bitch around that the other one decided to throw a punch. I remember being surprised by it and barely grabbed her hand before it hit my face.

After this, I'm back at the pool, but I had left my son at home for some reason. I was checking the place out before I went back to get him and I see this girl that used to work with me and she had two kids with her. She said something about sitting around the house got boring. There were a bunch of computers set up, like library computers, next to the pool. Everyone was playing the sims, like it was some kind of lan party. Tommy Chong was there and some other old hippie lady that I recognized IN the dream, but have no idea who she was now. There was some conspiracy about the sims and they were getting riled up about it, like someone had been messing them up. I had sat down at one of the computers at one time and was playing the sims, but I had to log on. I had asked someone next to me how we save the game and they raised their eyebrows. Then they asked me if I had an EA account. I said yea, and typed it in. I get up to go outside and I realize I'm on the college campus. I started to walk home and after about a block I turned right and there was an empty parking lot and across from it was a tall fence that had a bunch of houses behind it. A car comes from around the corner of the fence. It's these guys that look like they're all in their 30's. They were like, small-time business types. All wearing polos. The driver was yelling at me and they were all laughing making fun of me. They wouldn't leave me and they were moving along slowly beside me and kept yelling things. Finally I decided to pick up a few rocks and throw it at their car. The car was shiny silver, sort of looked like a bmw, Idk. I threw the rocks one at a time and they hit, but not very hard. The driver finally speeded up.

Don't remember much else, at the moment. Except I think I went back to the pool and those guys in the car had apparently been harrassing people around these parts. Strange crazy dreams. I also seemed to have a false awakening. I had gotten out of bed and went and got a glass of water with a LOT of ice and could've swore I had a conversation with my fiance about the details from last night's drunkeness. I woke up with deja vu and went and got a glass of water and talked to my fiance. lol Crazy night.

Dream 1
I was in a desert and I realised I was dreaming so I looked up and around it was really nice. Then I woke up and it was dark my mum was in the room, I rolled over and touched her arm and woke up again. In real life.



Dream 2
I was a huge dinosaur and had been captured by the Krakeder from Space Clash (a game I used to play) there was the green empire there aswell and then I suddenly warped out and became human. I was out on one of the streets and there were muslim girls reading books each at a distance in a row.

I figured the dinosaur was more fun so I went back but I noticed a pen and gave it to one of the girls. Then I woke up in a nother dream.

Dream 3

I was in bed and woke up (false awakening) I could hear my mum and sisterdownstairs and thought to myself "I'm dreaming" I got exicted and ran downstairs I did a nose pinch and I could breathe but since I have a small nose but I was lucid. I was going to go outside but got sidetracked and went into the living room. Where I saw my mum and sister, I lost lucidity and woke up.

Side Notes
When I woke up I made sure to reality check. I don't even know if this is real or not LOL.

August 11, 2011

I really don't want to write today but meh...quitting is such a stupid thing to do when I being shown so much progress.

I pretty sure I must have at least 2 more fragments last night if not more but can't remember them.

Dream 1:

In this dream I was basically dreaming of becoming lucid through a WILD. lol

I was in a pink/purple room which could have easily be seen as a girl room and I was with a male friend who look pretty much like a clone of me. The room was my grandmother bedroom that she lend me when I stay over there for a while. The grandmother was on my father side.

I was telling him how to become lucid so we went to sleep and both woke up to WILD back into sleep. (aka correct way of doing it though I did try to do the incorrect way whiling going to bed...It a great boredom game, much better then counting sheep IMO)

We were sharing the dream and still in the same room. We had a pink toy with numbers on them...They were the size of a laptop but beside three buttons near the number the rest of it was pointless. I though him that the numbers is points he earn by becoming lucid and they allow him dream control.

For some reason I had like 100,000+ points and my OCDness kick in and made me reset it. Either I lost my false lucidly or I just woke up but something bad happen shortly after.

For the record dreaming about being lucid is not the same as being lucid. So I will not mark this as a lucid.

Dream 2:

A human (look like an evil guy who go around hunting for Smurfs) and a kid was playing pool (better known as pocket billiards) on my grandmother (mother side) front porch. The prize was a pig.

We were given a break so I walk around the house and once I got to the right side of the house there was red flowers and red little bugs. These bugs look VERY friendly. Dancing bugs from Adventure Time is the best why I can describe him but minus the dancing.

Back to the contest for the pig the evil guy were trying to sell black pigs with green spots though he wouldn't let anyone see them. I saw a peek and ask a guy about them and he say they were quite common and useless. Basically with dream logic the evil guy was scamming people.

They start playing the game again and I saw the fat pig in question...No doubt he would make a lot of bacon but also look quite friendly and make a decent pet. I call him over but he went to the corner then I told him to get closer. I petted the pet and while watching the game woke up.

Fragment:

I was rubbing my father feet on the couch of my grandmother (mother side)...He gave me like 17 dollars plus like 200 because it was Christmas in my dream. Weird ass dream but the money was nice while it lasted.

False awaking:

I was in my bed and it was quite the same but my blanket was replaced with a Zodiac one where it was designed oddly enough to have the snake kinda come off of the blanket itself.

I had the false memory of that if I let his mouth unfold then he will most likely do nothing but it always had scare me that he would bite me. (false memory, I wouldn't have such a silly fear like that.)

I try to be a rubber band to wrap his mouth shut but my body got VERY weak...In the false awaking I though sleep paralysis had kicked in even though I was moving quite a lot before, I care less about the snake and more about my eyes closing without my command. I woke up feeling quite stupid.

This night was the greatest LD night I ever lived since I started lucid dreaming. I had 5 LDs (which of course I chained, I love DEILD) but in each of them I demonstrated dream control like I had never experienced before.

Dream 1: I start my lucid dream by doing a random reality check in my living room while my mom is watching me. As soon as I realise I am dreaming I decide to go outside. It's night. I open the door and jump in the snow (even though its summer in RL). Then I go on the street and see a lot of cars passing by with many pedestrians. I see a hockey net from afar. I decide to fly by using a special technique specifically designed for my inability to fly (made by Loaf). I sit down as if I'm in a car, use the invisible gas to go forward and tilt up to fly. Once high enough I am able to let go and fly away, but I end up in a big horizontal vortex talking to Nick Cannon. I talk to him about how he is black.

I try to DEILD but fail since I had lost a little lucidity near the end. I go back to sleep.

Dream 2: I have a big non-lucid about me using a teleporting machine, only to find myself with 7 fingers on each hand. I am pissed and decide to try to sue the company who made it, for no success. I never realise that unusual hands is a reality check lol. I talked to my uncle in the middle of that dream, which leads to the 3rd one.

Dream 3: False Awakening. I wake up in my bed and my cell phone rings. It says someone sent me two pictures. I think that its my uncle who sent me pictures of his dog (could have happened). I get up and go in the living room. ALL of my family is there, including my uncle. It takes me awhile to understand but I do a reality check as the dream fades out. I now begin my chain of LDs. I DEILD back into a dream. I am now back in my living room and everyone tells me that the pool is weird. I go to check it and they tell me anyone who goes on the pool floats on the surface. I take a dip myself and float on top of the water. I want to impress my DC family, so I tell them that when I snap my fingers the water will be normal again. I do and they are impressed. I proceed to flying around in my house and my mom asks me how the hell I do that. I tell her I'm just lucid dreaming and she says my brother and sister should try it too. Id rather not, they should go find their own amazing hobby!

Dream 4: As I DEILD in the next dream, I remember that youre not supposed to chain too much or you will start forgetting your first dreams (and I dont want that) which is why when my dream starts off with 2 santa claus puppet, I wake myself up to start off on a clean slate with a better dream.

Dream 5: I am in a restaurant with my family once again, but as soon as the dream starts I completely abandon the plotline to go have fun outside. I have an aversion against doors, so I go through the window of the restaurant even though the door is right next to it. I bump on the window a couple of times before passing through, but I dont care since who can see me right? I dont remember much after that, except that I walked on the street and saw my friend Sandy. Im turned on and want to have sex, so I try to make a Playmate appear I tell myself that when I look behind me, she will be there (and naked). However the Dreamworld has a way of somehow preventing me from having dream sex, maybe because there are so many better things to do. So I fail to make her appear.

Dream 6: I DEILD with the firm intention of having dream sex. I am in a big school filled with people my age. As I am walking the hall I say out loud que jai le gout de fourrer. The girl next to me tells me she does too but shes ugly so I tell her that shes just a DC and im the dreamer here. I choose . I am roaming for a place in the school to have sex "privately" if you will until I end up in a big dark room with shelves. I decide to try to make sandy appear this time and it works. As I'm walking up to her I'm already taking of my shoes and coat but she walks away from me. I follow her and she seems to agree but as she says that we should go in the corner a bunch of girls from the school come into the room looking for costumes for a dance show (wearing makeup and everything). Then theres guys too. Once again, im prevented from having sex. He he

Dream 7: I'm back in the restaurant. For a brief moment I seem to have lost all my superpowers. I cant seem to levitate or fly or anything. I push my finger through my palm to make sure that I am dreaming. Fade out.....again

Dream 8: Had a non-lucid dream about doing homework secretly in school with my friends.

Hello everyone.

This is my very first attempt at lucid dreaming. Even though the dream recall part went smooth and I actually managed to get DILD near the end, I got overexcited and it collapsed. I've read a half dozen tutorials and hope to get another one tonight. Please, do feel free to comment and offer any ideas.


Dream #1

I don't remember this one very well. I remember that my mother had brought at least five cats into the house. I hate cats.

The cats were scratching and messing up the whole house. One of them (maybe this one was a small dog) peed on one of the red couches we have in the house. I was furious and kept trying to escape the cats all the time, but they were all over the place. Finally, I managed to lock myself in the bathroom. (Non-Lucid)


Dream #2

First I dreamed I was watching the trial of M., a former co-worker of mine, from Hair. (Side note: In real life, I'm a musical theater musician. I'm a trumpeter, and this particular colleague's an actor). Initially I was watching from the balcony, but the view was not very good, so I decided to go down to the theater-courtroom floor; also I wanted to go down because I saw another co-worker, A. L., below, and wanted to ask him something.

When I got to A. L.'s seat, I also saw I. R., yet another co-worker, and he asked me if it was I who slept with M.'s girlfriend, since this was related to the trial (I guess he was being tried for killing a guy ho he thought was sleeping with his girlfriend). I replied that I did not want that kind of karma for me.

After a time when the prosecution and the judge spoke, M.asked to speak. First he thanked the presence of the band that was there, which I suddenly realized I was part of. I shifted over to the edge of the stage (the trial was being held on a stage) to peek under the skirts of the girls walking by.

I can't remember a good deal between this part and the next.

After some time, the scene was turning into a feminine football game. I continued to look for the upskirts . I exchanged comments with someone who sat next to me (possibly still I.R.) saying how much I liked those teams' loose uniforms.

I decided to watch from another angle. I went around the field to a blue ladder in which players ran up and down. I think I bumped into a guy. At that point I realized that there were also men playing on the team. I did not like the view from up there and went back downstairs. When I came down I was approached by a security guard dressed as a player, saying he would escort me out of the game. He said that the boy in which I think I ran into had broken his neck.

At this point, I started to realize I had some control over the environment, but it was very marginal lucidity. I offered the guard a dollar to let me meet the guy I allegedly hurt, and he accepted. I decided I was going to heal the guy with a healing touch. His apartment was on the 275th floor on a building, inside the stadium. The building was an eyesore, looked like it was jumbled out of cardboard. I arrived at the guy's apartment, talked a little with him and healed him with a touch, the way I wanted. Some of his fellows came in to see him.

I left with the security guard through the service entrance, which was far more presentable than the social entrance. So a thought struck me: "What the f***? This place has a much better back than front?!". At that point I fully realized I was in a dream.

In there, it all came back to me; the minutes before my sleep, the "I'm going to remember my dream" repetition trick I'd used, the Dream Views website, the tutorials I read here, and the fact I pulled it out in my very first attempt. I was completely lucid.

Naturally, I was ecstatic. I remembered a tip I read on a magazine that said: "Start out small. Don't try and make a city out of thin air in the first attempt. Try changing the wall color". So I tried to change the wall color from white to orange. It didn't work, so I remembered BillyBob's tutorial on passive control, and suggested to the guard "the wall was turning orange from the sunset". There was no sunset, but at the second I finishing telling that to the guy a blazing sunset appeared at the horizon. "I've made it."

But that last achievement was a bit too much for me. As soon as I saw the wall I wanted to change turning white to shade-of-purple to orange, I felt the whole context dissolving around me and my bed under my chest. "Crap", I thought to myself.


I got up from bed, hysterical from getting the lucid AND vivid dream at the first shot. I went to tell my mother, but she was still asleep. "Odd", I thought, "She might get late for work." But I was afraid to forget my dream, so I ran to the computer to type it down. Luckily I had forgotten to turn it off the previous night, so I went right to typing.

Except I didn't. I couldn't read. There were a series of jumbled, partially-coherent error messages on the screen.


Then I woke up.

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This was a very intense experience for me. I've been up for hours and I'm still excited about it.

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

(Backyard and side yard.)
4; Started walking on ground replaced by clouds. Turned into space. Then there where bursts of clouds through the area. Earth's atmosphere appeared glowing.
(Blackness of space.)
I sung..
Hard walking, then it got easy.
Clouds poured out as geysers. I re-appeared in space.
3; Zoomed along in the air, in a boat - through the pool area. Then over a pond next to the river:

non-lucid
lucid
TOTM
notes

After waking up to my early alarm, I went to the bathroom, replied to a couple of threads on DreamViews, and decided to attempt to WILD after being up about 30 minutes or so. I laid down on my back, head slightly elevated and tilted back, and I lay one hand on my stomach on top of the comforter, and the other hand underneath it, but also UNDERNEATH the covers, so that my hands weren't touching skin to skin.

My body was pretty relaxed except for a sore spot in my lower back, so I focused my awareness on the tension.. and HI began almost immediately. Mostly swirls and and static, but with faint hazy and fleeting images mixed in. As I watched it (mostly passively, but I admit with a little excitement at the fact that I was getting images but still aware that I was trying to WILD), I knew I was close to SP from the way my body felt (I have gotten this close a great many times), and was going to start a counting anchor, but I noticed that my hands seemed to be touching. Like actually touching skin to skin, even though I knew they were not. I began to focus on my dream hands, trying to move them, rub them together, pull them apart. They felt very heavy, so I didn't think I was quite ready to try opening my eyes, but I WAS making progress.

Then, I heard a voice speaking my name.. it was my mother. She was telling me to get up, more urgently with each repetition. I thought- 'oh man, I'm so close to a WILD right now, leave me alone!' and I continued to focus on my hands, hoping that if I ignored her long enough she would give up trying to wake me. She did not stop.. Her voice wasn't coming from inside my room though, it was coming from outside my door. I thought it was odd that she would be trying to wake me from the other room, but she WOULD NOT STOP. Finally, I breathed a big sigh, opened my eyes, and prepared to say 'Thanks for ruining my WILD attempt!' loud enough for her to hear me..

But her voice had stopped. No one was there. I was about to close my eyes again, but something caused me to try a RC. I attempted to levitate the fan on my desk and.. it worked! I was dreaming!

At this point, let me interject that I completely forgot that I was trying to WILD. I was only aware that I was dreaming and lucid. After I actually woke up and began recall (which was difficult because this LD led to 2 more), I remembered the transition from thinking my WILD was ruined to realizing it was a dream. It actually took me a few min into recall to suddenly exclaim out loud- 'Oh, I did it!' Very excited. anyway..

I got up and just stood there, looking around, stabilizing the dream (one of the threads I replied to right before WILDing was lucidmax telling me in my journal to work more on stabilization.. so this was my #1 priority throughout). I went into the living room, and my mom was there, so I told her I was lucid dreaming. We had a brief conversation that I don't really remember, as I was focusing on the environment. I recently read about dream mapping, and this was my #2 priority after stabilization.

I decided to explore the other rooms and found them to be as I remembered them growing up. I noticed a bag of candy in my sister's room, and I never eat in LDs, so I figured hey, why not, and began eating the candy as I walked around. Cool thing I noticed was that as I took candy from the bag, I could never empty it.. never-ending bag of candy

I went back into the living room, and then I remembered (finally!) the basic TOTM to ask a DC to sing to me. My mom was still there so I asked her to sing, but she seemed to not know what to sing, and in the end started singing something I had never heard. It was gibberish, and I thought 'I'll never be able to remember the tune or any of these words, I don't know if I'll get credit for TOTM'

So I went BACK to the back bedroom (my parents') and my sis was there this time. I asked her to sing to me, so she turned on the stereo and began to sing along with the song that was playing.. it was a song I haven't heard in 10+ years.. 'Waterfalls' by TLC (don't go chasin waterfalls / please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to / I know that you're gonna have it your way or nothing at all / but I think you're moving too fast..) I sang along with her and we danced like nerds for a bit.

At this point I decided to head out back to see what was in the back yard. As I started to open the back door, I remembered something I read in a post on DreamViews and tried to pass through the door without opening it. Of course, it worked, and I was outside.

The view was BEAUTIFUL. I was on one mountaintop among many, with canyons, valleys, hills all laid out in front of me as far as I could see, mostly covered with lush green trees. I hopped into the air, and then took to flight, marveling at the scenery. After flying around for a bit, I saw a soccer complex in a clearing where many DCs were playing (in full uniform, with spectators looking on, so they were games, not just practice). I swooped down to talk to one of the players. However, as I neared the ground.. I woke up. Or so I thought..

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I woke up, disappointed about my LD being cut short. I got up and started to go to the bathroom. On a whim, I tried to levitate my guitar from the floor.. and it worked!

Ha! False awakening. After having a chain of FAs Sunday morning and NEVER becoming lucid in any of them (argh!), I felt some satisfaction in catching this one in time. The thought also occurred to me that I may have gotten up and gone to the bathroom many times before during FAs, never realizing I wasn't awake.

I went into the living room again and started looking around- working on my dream cartography again. The room was mostly the same, but this time there was a Christmas tree and a few presents, and Christmas decorations all around. I checked out the kitchen, then the hall closet, which seemed normal enough, but way too big to actually fit in the hall. There was no one around, so I decided to head out back again. I tried going through the back door without opening it again... and couldn't. I tried, and tried, and still couldn't. I should have stabilized again at this point, but I did not. Suddenly, I woke up. Or did I..

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I woke up and my eyes were crusted with sleep. I was on my side, and still frustrated from failing at walking through the door and waking up from my lucid. Then I noticed a small puppy was in the bed next to me and my head was wet, very odd. After rooting out the false awakening before, I was onto its tricks and levitated the puppy. Sure enough, STILL dreaming!

As I stood up, my eyelids were heavy and still crusted with sleep. I wanted to rub them and open them wider, but I had this nagging feeling that if I tried to hard, I would open my REAL eyes and be awake. I don't know if this is the case, but I believed it at the time. So I closed my eyes, steadied myself, rubbed the sleep out, and gently re-opened them. I levitated a book on my desk.. and it worked.. Still dreaming. Things were still a bit hazy, though, so I grabbed my glasses from the night stand (I take out my contacts to sleep) and put them on. There, all better!

This time, I went into the living room and it was still Christmas. I thought- 'I wonder if I have alot of dreams about Christmastime' My mom was there this time, under the tree wrapping presents. She said to me (jokingly) 'Better be good or I'll take another present away!' LOL I also noticed my mom appeared much younger than she is in real life.. like I was looking at an old photo.

I went back into the other rooms, and noticed some differences. My sister's room was the same, but filled with boxes and what appeared to be the tops of a couple of pine trees, except almost all green 'leaves' and very few branches. I went into the other bedroom and my dad and sister were in there. Sis looked like she does now, except not pregnant (in real life she is 34 weeks preggo). Dad appeared as he does now, but with a long fu-manchu instead of his normal mustache.

The room was filled with sacks, and Dad and sis were pulling fireworks out of them. Dad started telling me about how he was going to beat her in the firework contest, and started rattling off the names of all the fireworks he had bought and how he would win. It was pretty much nonsense, but his point was clear.. he would win!

At this point, I headed back into the other room, intent on doing some more discovery outside the house, but I woke up. For real this time. D'oh!

My recall isn't as good as it normally it because of the FA's, so probably more will come to me about the exploration of my house and conversations with my DCs. I'm still pumped about my first WILD tho, and I hope this will carry over to future attempts.

It was also interesting to note the subtle changes in the house from one LD to the next. They all happened in quick succession in the same house, but there were furniture rearrangements, and even slight differences in room sizes and walls from one LD to the next. I'm just getting started with dream mapping, but I am definitely intrigued.

The night started out with me climbing ontop a tall fence on my terrace in my backyard. I looked to the left and saw a bear run across the corn-field. I watched as the bear ran a quarter circle around my garden and entered through the back. It ran up to the fence, stood on it's back-legs and tried to get me.

False awakening. The bear thing was a dream, I was safe now. But hold on, I must have been sleepwalking, because I'm on the same fence, and the same bear is trying to get me. The only difference is that this time my hand was in it's mouth. I looked around me, and noticed that there was a lack of details in the distance, so I figured it must be a dream too. I levitated down from the fence, but the dream started to black out. I said "ENNERVATE" to focus. It worked shortly, but the blacking out continued.

False awakening. I was inside now, it was just a dream, all good. I looked out the window. About 7 bears came running through the corn-field. I grabbed my iPod and went outside to take pictures. I stood behind a small fence and thought I was safe, while one of the gray, dusty bears came running towards me. However, it trampled down the fence, so I ran for my life. I ran all the way to my front door, with the bear right behind me. I opened the door, got on the floor, nobody walked the dinosaur. I locked the door and yelled that there was a bear outside. I looked out the window and saw 2 prairie dogs having a picnic in my front yard.

Then I woke up in real life and fell asleep again.

In the next dream I had, I was in some music class, listening to a boring man talk, so we were all sleepy. I walked out of the class, with a wand and started spamming spells everywhere. I do not remember much from the dream, other than I gave myself a thermal vision so I could look through corn and fight an enemy with an advantage. I also made a cat that annoyed me tiny.