lucid

6-13-06

FINALLY......

I had another Lucid Dream. I went to bed thinking about how it had been a long time since I had had an LD, and how I really wanted to have one...tonight. I also thought about what I wanted to do if I did have an LD. I usually like to fly, but I had been a little disappointed by the lack of details in some of my recent LDs, and I was wondering what I could do to be more observant. I fell asleep thinking about that.

I woke up at 2:30 and realized that I hadn't had one. I decided to WILD. I tried for a while and an hour went by and I was frustrated. I finally decided I really just wanted to go to sleep. I did....and LDing must have been on my mind.

My 6th LD:

I was in a car. Jeff was beside me in the back seat, and one of the people in the front may have been Marie A. We were driving on a road that winded though a canyon. We passed a place where there were two waterfalls. I looked closely at the rocks by the waterfalls. One looked just like a big Triceratops head. I mean, exactly like a triceratops head. I suddenly realized that things like that just don't happen in nature....this was a dream.

I looked around at everything. Here I was in a car again like my last memerable LD. I thought about flying. But everything around me looked so intensely real, I wondered how I could possibly make it disappear like the time before.

I looked at Jeff. I reached out and took his hand and felt his skin and touched the hairs on the back of his hand. So very real.

I touched the leather seat in the car. It was a tan color. I could feel the light shiny texture.

I touched the shiny metal door handle...and wondered how I could possibly be in a dream when this was so real. Everything was so solid...so touchable.

I looked down to see what I was wearing. I had on a grey sweatshirt. I also had on some grey sweatpants. The color of the sweatshirt was a lighter grey color and the material was much heavier than the pants.

I laughed and said to Jeff "Why am I wearing sweatpants??" (I never wear sweatpants, plus it was the middle of summer).

He shrugged and I think I told him at this time that I was having an LD with him in it.

I'm not sure where the dream went from here. I must have lost lucidity. I remember going on to other dreams. But I found it interesting--this was my first LD with other people....and the first I didn't fly in. My mind remembered that my main goal was for details. And I feel I got quite a few details.

This wasn't a very long dream, but I feel every LD is practice for better future LDs.

I was in a elevator looking upwards, I suddenly became conscious and was able to think, feel and move. (Not my head, for some reason). I was able to recall that I wasn't supposed to get to excited or else I would wake up... for some reason I had trouble thinking this, as it would repeat in my head. I got excited anyway, and woke up (I think, or I transferred to another dream because I woke up looking at bolts and screws...). Before that I had a dream that I don't consider lucid, because even though I could control myself, I didn't feel "there". I was in a elevator with a friend, and we just escaped by some midgets with guns, the elevator kept going down (To the midgets) and I wanted it to go up, so I remembered a few tactics from this website. I yelled at the top of my lungs "GO UP! I want to go UP!" "What are you doing? I want to go UP!" "This isn't good enough I want to go UP!" It eventually did, but only for a few seconds, like it was teasing me.

Lucidity: 9/10 (maybe better!)
Vividness: 9/10
Length: ~20-25 Min. (longest since 4/15/11)

When I was about to do something as soon as I became lucid I remembered how to make my lucid longer. So I did that. Then after I rubbed my hands, felt the ground, and smelled the air. I started to feel and notice a lot more things just like the tutorial said it would. So I started off small and started playing around lightly. I saw my shadow and saw that it was going crazy so I gained control of it and made my shadow how it is supposed to be. Then I just walked around for a while. Then I was in my house and was still lucid. I was trying to think of multiple reasons of why I was dreaming. I noticed that I had two of the same video cards and the box for it which I haven't seen in years. Then my brother, or somebody, wanted me to do something and then left. I immediately left after he did. Then all of a sudden it became kinda like a story. I killed someone, on accident, and I had to do something for them. I was in a hospital and the doctor asked me how she died. I was about to tell him when my friend dragged me out of the room. He was kinda mad. The only way I could possibly help the person I killed was to Lucid Dream. So this is my longest lucid ever. I had a team and I need them in order to complete my task. It was Kaleb, Ramone, and some other people that I didn't realize. So I found a bunch of glass that looked like it was from Minecraft so I broke it and jumped down. When I got down, almost immediately, some guy showed up and pointed at the sky and said "look, look at the stars! See how there glowing and bright? Their doing the burial of your body." It was a wonderful experience to experience something like that, especially in a lucid. I felt like I had died, and was on my quest to heaven. I asked him "do we have a time limit?" He said "yes." We had to finish the quest before our bodies died. Then he showed me a demonstration of how we were lucid dreaming this long. He was controlling our bodies, making them do what they would do if we were awake. Then he said "now, let's do something fun!" He pointed at the sky and made the scenery behind him completely change. We were to find some objects to help us on our quest. All I wanted to do was sell them rather than use them. But my friends kept me from doing that. Then it was kinda like Halo and I was running around with Halo-like weapons shooting skinny blue aliens and such. I felt like I was on computer. I was in a house and then I saw Sara so I thought "as always, I will end this lucid dream with some lucid sex." Then a timer showed up and said 19:19.19 minutes or something, I was like "cool, a timer. Now it will make it easier to find out how long I've been dreaming!" Then I woke up and remembered my very vivid and lucid adventure.

Well they say there's a first for everything, and last night I actually achieved lucidity before 4AM (which is unheard of in my case). My memory was rather vague upon waking. I recall it being longer than my average lucid, but I only remember it from a certain point onwards.

Anyway:

Lucid = orange

It's day time, and I'm walking past the Westlands Airfield bit (it would be classed as an alley-way if there were buildings either side of me, instead of fencing). When I emerge, there's no cars. I'm standing on the road with the intentions of fulfilling one of my goals, which is to find a computer and use it to tap into my memories, and I knew there would be one at my house, which I wasn't too far from. (I read somewhere here that somebody had been able to do that via google in a lucid).
To get there quicker/more chance of staying lucid, I call for my dream guide. I then see a heavily armoured DC with a single horn on his head, coming towards me in the distance. Again, it was a completely different person, and the fact he looked awesome was almost too good to be true. I approached him and asked if he was my dream guide. He nodded, and then corresponded to my wishes before, turning himself into an armoured rhino with me riding on top, taking me to my house.
I don't remember how long I had been lucid at this point, but I do remember thinking before/after calling for my guide that this lucid had lasted considerably longer than usual, and I was having absolutely no difficulty seeing, talking, or anything, like I sometimes do - everything was perfectly clear.
When we arrive at my home I thank him, and then ask if there's any way he could bestow better memory upon me, so that I could record all of my lucid upon waking. He said he couldn't do this, and instead left me a parting gift: A duplicate of my bike with a few extra lights on the front, which were extremely powerful. I can't remember the reason why he did this, but it obviously had some use to me.
He then dissipated before my eyes, leaving me standing on my own with 2 bikes.

I thought I had woken up at this point, somehow going into a dream state on my way home (and sleepwalking). It seemed kind of strange, that concept I mean, and I decided to do a reality check just to make sure. I held my nose shut, and found I could still breathe through it. For some annoying reason, I took this as a sign that I was awake and didn't register the fact I had just succeeded with a reality check. I also thought that this extra bike was some miracle, as a dream remnant had stayed with me, even upon 'waking', although I was worried about how I would explain this phenomenon to my parents, and that they would think I had stolen it or something.
I then proceeded to put both in the garage. For a second I hesitated and figured I should dump the other bike off somewhere else to avoid suspicion, but then I dismissed that and just put them both in. I then hear motorbikes and see Mike & Wilson coming down the drive. It's night time now and I want to get some work done before I go to bed, so I have to tell them to come back another day.

Note: The next bits are fragments from before I was lucid, still in the same dream, I think.

I'm at school in the upper school hall and some guy is starting on me for no reason. I confront him fully, but he just hits me a few times. I don't give a damn as it doesn't hurt and continue to tell him how pathetic he is for doing this, since I've done NOTHING to him.

I'm running out of the upper school hall, not out of fear, but because I want to do something elsewhere. I'm kind of paranoid that people will mistake that for me running away from him, however.

I've got some long nose thing which I'm gonna use to take the piss outta this guy who started on me. Then some of his cronies (they're quite big) are about to come out the door, so I need to find a place to hide. My friend Niall is just about to go into the toilet at this point, so I figure that's the best place to go. However, the cronies try to get in (unaware that I'm there) so I quickly lock the door and hide in the disabled bit at the back of the room, hoping that Niall will then make an exit and they won't know the difference.

I'm on my bike about to leave the premises and go home. I need to go uphill though some people. They're kicking a ball around and it flies past me. I stop and try to kick it back but it goes the wrong way.

This next bit is from my last dream, some hours later:

I'm in some random place with a large group of people. We're hunting a type of something (I think), or just trying to defend ourselves from an attack. We all have guns. People in the group keep getting attacked by ravenous wolves, losing limbs as a result. It almost happens to me at one point; I'm out of ammo and one is charging towards me, about to strike. Somebody yells ''Kick it in the face as hard as you can, you've got nothing to lose!'' so I try. I can't move, I think I'm done for. Then somebody jumps in front of me and takes the hit, losing his leg.

Later on the group gather up. I ask if anybody has any ammo, and somebody hands me more than 2 times the amount I need. I'm seriously grateful and load my gun, putting the rest of it into the bag. My friend Ash then says ''Well, I'm gonna stick with you then!''

dream
lucid

dreamed that i was hanging out with my friend lisa. we were driving around in my old white firebird i had just got it out of the shop and it was in perfect shape. it had a new inspection sticker on it and the guy had even made it into a convertable. we stopped past my grandmother's apartment because lisa told me we had to get some weed off of someone. her connection was one of my grandmother's old co-wokers from GM. the lady handed me a joint and said " well you can't smoke this you'll get drug tsted at work" and i said " no i am fine this is just a dream" and started smoking the joint. she gave me another one for the road. lisa told me to stash it for later becuase someone was stopping by to get their share of the weed and they would want to smoke it with us. I offered her some of the joint, she smiled at me gave me a kiss and said no it would not be good for the baby then i woke up. i went right back into the dream but i could not get lucid again . we were driving in my car again and there were some of our friends in front of us we were going past some dam to go hang out in the park near it

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I had a long dream tonight, and I was lucid in it too.

I am in a room in school, alone. It is a common room, with a television and lots of books on shelves in it. I take off my heavy clothes and sit down on the sofa, put a blanket on me and start watching TV. First there is a commercial about Karstadt and FR, he acts as if he was very famous. He has long, black hair. Then there is a program about wrestling, but the fighters are jumping around on a trampolin-like field, and trying to hit each other. I start wondering about my situation, and I decide to stop watching TV, put my clothes back on and tidy up the room, I would be in trouble if someone saw me like this. Inthe process of tiding up, a few of my old friends from school (I think it were JS and KD) came in and told me that the room is clean enough now. A bit later, PT comes in and starts to change his clothes. I see him naked, and notice that he has a second pair of genitals placed in the middle of his chest. First I am shocked by the weirdness of this. Then, I start thinking: "Well, he would be able to satisfy two women at the same time like this. But wait, it wouldn't be possible to shake his chest like a waist, so his ability is kinda limited. But what if he lies down on the ground?..." PT has finished changing clothes already, and settles down in the room. I go outside and meet my brother, I ask him about PT's situation. He tells me that it is a rare kind of cancer, but it isn't harmful. I walk back to the room, and ask PT about the disease. He says I should not worry about it.
I say he shoudn't worry about it either, because we are in a dream. He gets what I am saying, but cannot quite believe it. I try a Kamehameha, but it doesn't work. Then I try to demonstrate my Ganondorf-style hovering, but it doesn't work either. The dream is very vivid. I try to push my left index finder through my right palm, but feel like waking up in the process.
PT and my wake up in the common room. It has too beds now, but it is still the same room in school. I ask him if he was in the dream with me. He says yes, but adds that he cannot remember anything, he only has the general feeling that something happened. My excitementfalls a bit, because I was about to tell him that this proves shared dreaming. We decide to go back to sleep.
I feel that I am in the same dream again. PT is with me. We are still in the room, it is a bit brighter now because sunlight is entering through the windows. The dream is even more vivid, the books on the shelves all have diferent colors, most of them are blue, green or red. A big table is in the middle of the room, NG and JT are sitting on chairs beside it. But first I talk to PT: "We are back." He responds "Suddenly I remember everything." I take a seat at the table and start talking to the two girls. "This is a dream" I say, NG is shocked at first and starts wondering, JT is kinda indifferent to it. I try to prove it to them by pushing my left index finger through the table, but I fail at first. After pushing it succesfully through my palm, I try again and manage to do it with some effort. The area where my finger enters the table is now liquid, but the table manages to hold its shape. I can move my finger around and draw lines, and cause waves. JT snaps and yells "Wow, look what he's doing!" I draw a smile in front of NG, which throws her out of thoughts too. "Everyone knows now" is my thought, and I leave them alone. I am amazed by the vividness of the dream, and even more amazed by the length. I realize that the awakening with PT was a dream too. I wonder what time it is in real life, I remember when I woke up last. My mistake, I feel the sensation of being in bed and feel like waking up.
Me and PT wake up again in the room. Now PT is really uptight and takes out his laptop. He checks the internet connection, he has none. I get his flow of thoughts, he thinks that this shared dreaming needs a medium which is able to connect on long distances. "Shared dreaming doesn't work like that, don't bother investigating."

Never was lucid this long, felt like 20 minutes. The whole dream felt like it was an hour, and I know there is more I don't remember before the TV part. I still cannot remember a single word that was said, only the general idea of the sentence. Also, it is really hard to ignore physical laws when the dream is too vivid and the setting is too normal.

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April 10, 2011
Lucid Dream 212: Success and Failure
Series: The Land of Dreams, Episode 8
WILD
around 6:00am



I woke up in the morning to piss and immediately returned to bed. I felt the usual vibrations kicking in, so I went with it. SP really didn't last very long. I transitioned after some brief HI.

I found myself in my bedroom, but it was different. There was an open balcony that led outside. I walked through the curtain that was separating my room from the outdoor balcony. I jumped down off the balcony and landed below. My house was mansion-like. It also seemed to be part of a vast estate. I noticed a man wearing a suit and a towel draped over his arm. He walked up and said, "What are the orders, my King." I noticed it was Matt W (an old high school classmate). I said, "Well, your orders are to drop that towel and have some fun." He looked at me strangely and I told him that we were lucid.

He looked excited, but said he didn't know what to do. I replied, "Well, we can anything!" I turned around and there was a huge fountain in front of the house. The water appeared to be a few feet deep. I took off my shoes and said, "We could even do this!" I stepped onto the water and walked across the top of the water. With each step my foot would sink a few inches below the water, but then float back up to the top. It felt a bit awkward walking across, but it never felt like I would lose my balance. I walked back and forth across it several times. Matt took off his shoes, stood on the side of the fountain, and then stepped out onto the water. His foot sunk, he fell forward, and face planted into the fountain. It really cracked me up for some reason. I thought I would laugh so hard that I would wake myself up. As soon as I had this thought, the dream became unstable. I quickly saved it by looking down at my feet, which were bobbing on top of the fountain water. I raised my head back up and everything was stable once again.

I hopped out of the fountain and saw that Matt had climbed out of the fountain as well. He was now standing beside a brick wall. He asked, "Could we do backflips?" I then leapt into the air and performed a triple backflip, landed on my feet and said, "Of course!" He managed to pull off several successful backflips. I decided to take it one step further. I took off running at the brick wall and stepped up onto it. I ran about 6 or 7 steps up the wall and then kicked off. I then performed too many backflips to count as I fell back toward the ground. I stuck the landing and Matt seemed impressed. He then attempted this same maneuver. He took off running and stepped up on the wall. His foot crashed through the brick wall and his leg became stuck in the wall. Laughing, I walked over and pulled him out of the wall. I then walked up slowly to the wall and attempted the inception wall walk. I slowly stepped my foot onto the wall and began slowly waking up it. It felt really cool. I jumped off and performed another backflip or two.

We then walked around the side of the house and there were rows of metal shelves on either side of us. They looked like large warehouse shelves that stood like 30 feet high. The shelves were packed full with bags of dog and cat food. I took off running and started an epic matrix-style wall run. I was running along the bags of pet food and ran sideways almost all the way to the top of the shelves. I jumped down once I came to the end of the row and looked back at Matt and shouted, "Try it!" he took off running along the side and seemed to be doing good, but I noticed the shelf shaking a bit. A large bag of dog food fell off the top and knocked Matt off his wall run. Suddenly bags began falling all around him. They piled up around him up to his waste and he was trapped. Suddenly a small compact bag fell off the top and hit him on top of the head. it knocked him out cold. I was laughing once again. This time, the dream faded and I couldn't hang on to it.

Series Details
In the dream series, "The Land of Dreams," I explore the depths of my subconscious. With no real goals in mind, I explore the creative lands and characters that come before me. Who will I meet? Where will I go? What will I do? These are the dreams that fit into no particular category. Stay tuned for more entries to the series!

The first place i remember being is in a room at school with my friend Joab. We were in the hospital wing of the school, which doesn't really exist. It was a whole building for the sick, instead of just a nurse's office. He was smoking some weed out the window of the room.
"Dude, we come here all the time to blaze," he was telling me,"nobody ever comes in here."
I glance down at my phone and realize that I am 10 minutes late for class. I tell bid Joab farewell and exit the room. I exit the room and find myself in a flurry of hurrying nurses, all dressed up in different colored scrubs. They are all wearing hair nets and masks, as if they are about to perform an operation. As I'm hurrying to my next class, I glance down and realize I am not wearing shoes. Figuring that I must have left them in the room with Joab, I turn around and start hurrying back. I'm surprised to see that two nurses have walked into the room while Joab was hitting a pipe. I decide I better not get involved in this. I exit the building and start sprinting because now I am very late for class. I'm sprinting in the direction of my dorm room to get a new pair of shoes. I am sprinting down a steep grassy hill and at the bottom I see a road. When I get to the road, there has been a huge traffic jam and everyone is honking and yelling. The cause for this jam is the fact that There are many cars driving in all lanes of the road in opposite directions. They are extremely irate at one another for driving the wrong way. I find this extremely funny, and I chuckle as I sprint through the cars and up the hill on the other side. I remind myself that I must concentrate on reaching my dorm room. As soon as I do so, everyone in the traffic jam quits yelling at each other and begins to run in the same direction, towards my dorm room. This reminds me of the movie Inception, where the dream people are the subconscious, and they act accordingly to my own subconscious thoughts. This is what triggers my lucidity. All of a sudden I realize I am dreaming. I keep sprinting in the same direction, and i stretch out my hands to feel the tall grass on both sides of me. I am amazed at how real it feels. I decide that I want to leave school, so I dive into the ground thinking it will take me elsewhere. I go right through the ground and find myself flying above a field of green grass. I marvel at my height for a minute, and suddenly I am caught in a black veil of darkness. I feel myself waking up, and I urgently try to throw off the veil. I am unsuccessful, and I wake up, finding myself throwing my blanket off the bed.

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14.4.2011

Anger Management (DILD)

★★★☆☆

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Originally Posted by Mzzkc

Spinning, swiping, with ferocious animosity and honed skill, I cut down the fell beasts, these dark, grotesque hell-dogs, as they swarm violently around me, snapping their maws in an attempt to devour me, but I finish the lot of them off with a tremendous, black Getsuga, tinged with a red fury, absorbing their power into my own; as they disintegrated into nothingness, I thought, Time to abuse it. . .

Leo and I we're reading books about zietgiest. We were looking at houses to move into. We found a kinda nice one. It was big but kind of old. I was talking to a group of people saying if you don't love your body when you die you die for good. I talk for a while about how I loved my body and how I loved everyone else. I was half naked. The zietgiest books were a little creepy. The covers looked like they were meant to be for Halloween and were animated. I was on the phone with Leo and we were talking about how excited we were to move in. The realtor came in and said this house was only 11k we thought about buying the place. I saw the master bathroom and was freaked out there was something wrong. I knew that the woman who owned the house died in that bathroom. It looked nice, but had weird energy. I looked around and was scared. I saw a messed up kitchen and walked faster. I was lost in the house going in circles. I saw a ghost and screamed on the phone to leo as I ran. The ghost looked like Kara. It would catch up to me and I would scream harder. It was kind of funny in a way because it would make a funny face Kara makes. Kind of like it was trying to be scary in a funny way. It was chasing me but also looked like it was running away. It fell and twisted its head. I laughed and said you idiot now your dead and we both laughed.

I was walking baron and he found another pug the he made friends with on the street. They we're playing for a while when I saw the lady had another dog. It was super black and scary looking. I touched it and it tried to bite me. I was Trying to get baren to leave but the dog would chase us and try to bite us. I woke up in my old apartment and went out of the room. I broke a lamp. Baron kept trying to eat glass and it was pissing me off. I got the vacuum and tried to vacuum it all up. It wouldn't work very well. I had to throw the glass in the garbage.


Everything was weird when I woke up. My table was moved and there was a large truck outside my driveway. I walked to the bathroom and kara was putting on makeup. I went downstairs and Adam was playing with trains and my mom was making dinner. Why is it dark already? I went upstairs and I saw kids stealing shit from the truck. I got my green laser and started shining it at them. They ran away up a hill and I kept trying to get it in their eyes. There was a group of people in my front yard and I hit them with the laser. They stopped and started looking for me. I was hidden behind my curtains and was sure they couldn't see me. They gave up looking and started to leave. I was safe. A knock on my door made me think I wasn't safe. I opened the door and a black looking man with dreadlocks was there. He worked at the gym and had a logo on his shirt. It looked like he was trying to hit me and I was holding his arms down but he was too strong. I tried to be nice and asked him what the problem was. He said I hit him in the eye with the laser and he was pissed. I told him the story and he kind of understood, but told me to never use my lasers again. He knew I had a giant blue one because hes been watching it at night. He knows they are cool and he has one too. I agreed and he left. I quickly ran upstairs to shine it on him as he was leaving. I thought the table looked so weird because it was positioned differently and knew I was dreaming. I was rubbing my hands together for most of this and woke up several times. I went to Kara and asked if she was the real Kara. She kept responding with stupid answers and I quickly knew it wasn't her. I woke. I reentered by saying 1 im dreaming. 2 im dreaming 3 im dreaming until I sort of just knew I was back in. I did nose rcs to confirm im dreaming. It looked 100% vivid, real, and complete. I wanted to have sex so I spend a while looking for a girl. I went outside then inside then upstairs and found a hot girl laying in my bed. I knew if I played I would probably wake up. Also, she wasn't as vivid as everything else. A voice told me its because I created her out of my mind and I have never seen her before so she wouldn't be as strong an image. I left her and woke anyway. I was waiting and then I was back in the dream. This time I went downstairs and tried to make a portal. I couldn't. I've gotten worse at portals for some reason. I tried to get that magnetic feeling in my finger, but nothing. Adam was laughing at me calling me a noob. I gave up and went outside. It looked 100% like my neighborhood. It was sunny out. I made it cloudy for some reason, probably just to try and see if I could. My powers were weak. I woke. I reentered and Leo was there. I wanted to show him how I could shoot a laser and couldn't. I asked if I could borrow some of his power and he gave me some. I was beginning to shoot it and failed again. I woke. I was getting annoyed that I couldn't do shit. I went back outside and ran super speed for a while. That I could do. I woke. Michael was calling me on my phone and I was annoyed because I was trying to DEILD. My phone picked up by itself and Michael was trying to talk to me. I ignored it and went back inside the dream. I fucked around for a little longer and then remembered I wanted my dream guide. I went outside and said I want to find my dream guide. Everything changed I heard a loud noise and was instantly teleported I think to another planet. The shift was weird. Its like reality was washing away to another location. I never left earth before even when I tried. I was so shocked. Everything was red. There wore volcanoes and it all looked hot. The sky was either black or red I can't remember. Looked like something almost prehistoric. I know I've been here before. It was so familiar. It was 100% vivid and I somehow knew my dream guide lives here. I was excited. I woke. I couldn't get back in. I felt the true shift of waking up.
EDIT: I remember jumping around in joy spinning in circles really fast. I remembered that spinning could change a scene so I stopped. Nothing happened.

- Souls or spirits coming to me for help or helping me, and/or trying to take advantage of me or invade me

- Terror, anxiety, and/or rushing

- Tidal waves and tornadoes

- Being stalked with murderous intent

- People and animals from my past

- Spiritual bliss / channeling / meditating / healing / overwhelming beauty and a feeling of my heart opening

-Extraordinarily (somewhat glowing) vibrant colors, especially in nature and spiritual symbols (usually when experiencing that blissful feeling, sometimes when interacting with souls or spirits)

I imagine these will change since I haven’t kept records of a lot of my dreams and these are somewhat based on the dreams that were significant enough to me to remember.

(And hi everyone, I'm new here.)

5-10-06

Fifth Lucid Dream

This makes LDs two nights in a row. Pretty cool.

I went to bed at around 11:00 and got up at 5:45. I wasn't planning on going back sleep, but at 7:45 or so I laid down again for a little power nap. And I had this dream.

It started as a non-lucid dream. I was driving up a hill in my car. I was looking for a graveyard. (I have a friend in Rhode Island who I have been doing some research with involving graveyards in RI. And this had to do with that research.)

As I was driving I suddenly thought, "Wait a minute--how is it that I am acutally in RI ????"

At that point I realized that I was in a dream and that I was now lucid. I remember thinking "Hey, this is getting easier. It doesn't take much to get me lucid these days".
I looked down at my arms and hands holding the steering wheel and noticed I was wearing my red long sleeved shirt.

In all my past LDs, as soon as I find I am lucid I take off flying. But I was in a car this time driving down the road. I was actually curious about what I would do.

I decided to focus on the windshield with the intent to change the scenery outside. The road in front of me become fuzzy and then changed to clouds and sky. I was proud of myself.

I now needed to get out of the car (for some reason opening the door didn't come to mind). I wanted to make the car around me disappear. I focused again on the windshield and made the windshield disappear. That was good enough for me as I now flew straight out into the sky. I noticed it was strange that I couldn't feel the wind or the coolness of the air like in my first two LDs (That's something I have to work on. Flying isn't the same without the wind in your face).

The thought now hits me that it is not the middle of the night for my sleeping self, but somewhere near 8:00. I was afraid someone would disturb me and I would wake up, and I wasn't ready to wake up.

I knew I needed to hurry. I decided that since this dream was originally about finding a graveyard, I wanted to fly to a certain graveyard in RI (EX022). I knew from my first LD that I couldn't fly the traditional way or I would never make it in time. In fact I didn't even know where I was at the moment. I would have to instantly make myself appear there. So I concentrated once more on the sky ahead of me and tried to make it appear as Exeter, Rhode Island. It started to get fuzzy and change.Then I woke up.

I am never ready for these dreams to end.


This dreams gets me excited in several ways.

First, it is the second lucid dream in two nights.

Second, I didn't have to have one of my traditional dreams signs to get me lucid. It happened without a lot of thought.

Third, I was able to remember my goal of trying to learn how to change scenery.

Fourth, I was actually able to do some scenery change. I'm hoping that with practice I can master it. I am getting better, and more confident with this ability.

5-9-06

I had my fourth last night. It wasn't as detailed as the first two, but more like the third. BUt like I have said before any LD means I am making progress.

The lucid part comes near the end of a very involved, very forgotten dream. I do remember that King Kong (yes, here he is again in my dreams) was chasing me. I was at the shore of a lake, and I ran into the water in a cove and tried to hide under the water under a lip on the rocks.

I realized that there was no way I could hold my breath long enough to make this a worthwhile hiding place. And then suddenly it hit me. Yes I could! I had read many people's LD where one of their dream signs was to breathe under water. I took a little breath. It worked. I was in a dream.

King Kong forgotten I flew up out of the water. But where was I? I was in a big dark room again (like LD #2). Instead of board games it was all lit up with black lights. It reminded me of the dark rides at Disneyland, where everything has a flourescent glow. I flew around for a little while inside the big room. I wanted to get outside, but I don't remember a lot of conscious thought like in my first two LD's.

I did remember thinking about other people's LD where they said "Clarity" to sharpen it up. I tried it. But I didn't get much of a change with that.

Then I remember thinking, "I'm going to wake up before anything good happens in this LD." And sure enough, I felt myself wake up. I watched as the room become light, and the flourescent lighting was gone, and I was in just a normal room. Of course, this was a False Awakening, but I didn't realize at the time.


At that point I went on to other non-lucid dreams. Because I didn't wake up, my recall isn't as good on this dream. And that's a good point--my first two LDs seem so clear and vivid. It may be because I woke up immediately after each of those dreams and wrote them down. The third and fourth aren't as clear. Both of those went on to other dreams before I was able to wake up and review the LD in my mind. I'm sure that makes a difference.

I need to try for more of the first kind.