lucid

I went to bed saying out loud "I will Lucid Dream, and I will remember my dreams when I wake up." It kinda worked.

I was kinda chilling around at a supermarket, where I did a reality check, holding my nose. It worked, and I immediately started clapping really hard to lock myself into the dream. I walked around, and tried to change up some really small things, like colors of balloons, but it didn't really work. Then I made my girlfriend appear. I hugged her, and then I lost lucidity. We proceeded to hang out the rest of the dream, but I forgot I was dreaming.

1. I'm in an apartment that I don't recognize. I know that for some reason I have to get all the way across town very soon. I have a large beer that I am trying to finish as quickly as possible. There are large bowls of ramen noodles. Someone makes a toast and they say that it is for "the most boring man in the world".

2. I'm going to class. I don't recognize the setting of the classroom. I sit down at a desk away from most of the people in the room, because I do not know anyone. We have to watch a video, but from where I am sitting, I can not see at all. Some of the dream characters notice this and beckon me over. I grab my bag and I sit at a table full of DCs. The instructor hands out some papers. I look up and notice that the instructor is my old boss. This confuses me for a minute. "But I was fired... Wasn't I?" I ask. He doesn't seem to know what I am talking about.
I look down at the papers that he has handed out. The heading of the text starts moving in a psychedelic way. This should have been a dream sign, but instead I think that I am having an acid flashback or something. I hear someone laugh, and I look up to see a girl about my own age with dark skin, dark hair, and grey eyes. She is smiling and laughing at me. "I know that look." She says and winks.
We talk for a while, and when I look back on it now, it seems like she was trying to hint to me that I was dreaming. She tells me that her name is Zenia or something similar. I also talked with a few other DCs but none of them are quite as memorable.
I go outside for a cigarette, even though I have quit in real life. I run into a friend of mine, and we wander for a bit and end up in some strange mall. I realize that we will probably get in trouble for smoking in the mall so I suggest that we head back the way we came. We pass by the class again and Zenia and her group of friends are still hanging out outside. I go over and say goodbye to them, then I run back to my friend and continue on our walk.
We turn down one street and come across a family of wild pigs, inexplicably living in the town. The babies are very cute. When they see us, they run out into the street, and my friend and I desperately try to save them from being hit by passing cars. I grab one and it struggles to get away from me, and even tries to bite me. I run and put it down on the other side of a nearby fence. As I am running around to try and save the others, I realize how absurd the whole situation is. I think that I must be dreaming. As soon as I have this revelation, the dream starts to fade. I get down on my knees and feel the ground. At first it feels like concrete, and I breathe a sigh of relief. Then it starts to feel soft like the sheets on my bed. I start to worry that I am waking up. Suddenly it feels like I am standing on my bed in the dark, holding the headboard for support. I can't figure out if this is really happening or not, or if this is part of the dream.

It was part of the dream, as I got rid of my headboard several weeks ago. Another lucid though! Even though I'm still having trouble making them last, the fact that they seem to be becoming more frequent is encouraging.

I had an LD last night and all I remember was walking from a room in my house and it leading into a room at my girlfriend's house and it caused me to do a reality check. Of course I realized I was dreaming but that is about all I remember other than running outside to fly away and explore the dream world then trying to create a portal to somewhere else. The rest of the LD is a fog.

non dream - lucid - non lucid

I'm in my room, playing with my budgie who is out of his cage.
(This is actually the guest room of my old house, but in the dream I believe it's where I currently live.)
My budgie is sitting on my index finger when I notice there's another budgie in his cage.
Weird... I take a closer look. My budgie takes off and joins the other one in the cage.
I guess he found a friend? (Felt like a reasonable explanation)

I suddenly realize that I'm late for 'the party' and open the door to leave my room.
It leads directly to some sort of party, in an absolutely huge place.
It looks a bit like a casino, but with all the machines and tables removed.
There are cocktail bars everywhere.
Everyone is dressed very nicely. Men are wearing a costume or even smokings, and Women are wearing fancy cocktail dresses.
I'm here because my company celebrates the release of a super successful game which I've worked on.
(I don't work yet, still studying)

A lot of people greet me, and I have no idea who they are.
This makes me feel a bit uncomfortable, and I decide that I need a drink.
I approach the center bar and order a brandy, because it's my drink of choice. (I don't usually drink strong stuff, and I've never had a brandy)
It's strong, but tastes good, I get a warm fuzzy feeling all over my body.
I turn around and look at the crowd. A little too many people for me to feel comfortable.
I feel a bit out of place, but at the same time I know exactly how to act and I'm quite confident.

I notice a women next to me at the bar. She's wearing an all red silky dress. She's hot, really hot!
I take another sip from my drink and say hi.
She recognizes me as the lead game designer for the game "Teraluna".
Sounds about right? (I knew Teraluna meant something more, but I couldn't think clearly and ignored it)
No wonder everyone knows who I am.
She starts flirting with me which I enjoy. She's moving really fast, after a minute she's practically throwing herself at me.
I'm pretty horny at that point and decide to leave the party with her for half an hour, nobody is going to notice.

I leave through the same door I entered and I'm back in my room. There are a lot more parrots now, 7 maybe 8.
The girl doesn't seem to find this surprising at all, so I assume the parrots appearing out of nowhere is a normal thing.
I realize I don't know her name, and I feel a bit bad, but once she takes her dress off I have other thoughts on my mind.
We have sex...

... I get dressed, she says she'll wait a few more minutes before rejoining the party. Makes sense.
I leave my room and I'm in a corridor between my room and the party. (It wasn't there before but I don't notice)
A man storms through the corridor and stops abruptly next to me, sliding a few more centimeters over the floor.
I recognize him, he's the doctor (Matt Smith) wearing his usual outfit.

"Parrots everywhere! Hi! I'm the doctor! You're wearing a bow-tie! Bow-ties are awesome!"

I get the urge to ask him "Doctor who?" but I think it's stupid.
But then he looks at me curiously. He's moving around me quickly, looking at me from different angles.

"Aha! Everything makes sense! So it is you!"
"Me?"
"Yes!"

Confusing as always huh?
He takes out his sonic screwdriver, it's clearly broken and makes a pathetic noise.
I'm starting to think at this point. The doctor? does he exist? Well, he's right there isn't he?

"Yes, yes, you're getting there, think think think!"

What? What is it he knows and I don't?
He points at my head:

"We're all in there"

I finally get it... mostly. I realize that I'm dreaming, but I'm not 'fully lucid'.
I understand that this is a dream, but I do not understand that the doctor is a fictional character, I believe he's really there, I believe that he's in my mind.
He explains that something went horribly wrong with the Tardis, and they ended up in my dreams somehow.
He opens a door, and sure enough, the Tardis is hidden behind it.
The doctor explains that he broke his sonic screwdriver, and now he can't fix the Tardis and they're trapped.

I suddenly get an idea.

"Check this out!"

He looks at me with a confused face.
I reach into the left pocket in my jacket, searching for a sonic screwdriver, and sure enough, there it is.
I take it out and hand it to the doctor.

"You're a genius!"

He runs into the Tardis and starts fiddling about with the screwdriver.
I enter as well out of curiosity. I find it funny that the only thing I can think of is "it's bigger on the inside".
He says that he's lucky to have ended up in the mind of a lucid dreamer.

"It's working!"

He says he has to leave immediately because Amy may be in trouble.
My sense of adventure kicks in.

"Can I tag along?"
"God no! Don't you realize? That would be ONE HELL of a paradox! You'd be leaving your time... from within your mind, without your physical body!"
"Right."

I step out of the Tardis. As he closes the door behind me he says:

"The mistery of the parrots. It still needs to be solved! Good luck!"

The Tardis vanishes in it's usual fashion.

I decide to go back into my room to check out what's up with the parrots.
The girl from before is gone. I understand that she vanished because I forgot about her.
However the room is full of all kinds of parrots. There are hundreds, in all kinds of colors.
There are some types of parrots I'm sure don't exist in waking life.
Oddly enough, I know what to do. I scan the auras of the parrots, and I immediately sense one that is far stronger than anyone else's.
And not just by a bit, it's stronger a thousandfold at least.

I search for the parrot in question and end up finding it in front of the window.
It's absolutely tiny, maybe half the size of a budgie, with blue feathers.

"Hello little bird."

He looks at me for a bit, then back at the window. He spreads his wings and the feathers on his body start changing colors.
It's beautiful! He glows in all colors at the same time, I've seen this pattern before!
It's the same one I have on the wings on my arm when I teleport.
I summon my own wings, and feel how the bird starts moving through the fabric of space.
I follow him...

(Pretty sure I shortly lost consciousness here)

... I'm flying though the skies, following this little blue bird as it travels the world.
My mind is blank. I do not think, I just follow.
After some time the bird lands in a sand desert. There's nothing else there, the place is dead.
I land next to the bird. He looks at me for some time, then he starts walking towards the sun.
With every step that he takes, plants grow out of the sand exactly where he just stood.
Grass and beautiful flowers grow right out of the desert.
I think that "he creates life", I conclude that he must be a phoenix.

I follow him for a bit, by now he has not only created grass and flowers but also small rivers.
So small, yet so powerful, what an interesting and wonderful being...

The dream started out with me in a large room. hanging from the ceiling was a gorgeous, silver chandelier. The walls were a deep black and the carpet a plush red, the color of blood.

I get up, looking into a mirror, and walk into my bathroom taking care to dress and cleanse myself properly.

Finally, the dream picks up.

I'm walking down the hall with a tray filled with scones, tea, and a variety of other English dishes before a door opens and I'm tumbling to the floor.

*This is when I realize I am dreaming*

As the door closes, it reveals a man with silver eyes and white-gold hair.

"Are you alright?"

"Y-Yes."

The man helped me to my feet, looking at me worriedly before calling for another maid. She took me into another room and changed me into this amazing, breath-takingly beautiful dress.

It was golden, shining like the sun only a darker gold. A layer covered it like mist and it was embedded with jewl-like diamonds.

Three inch heels were on my feet, silver against the gold, and a golden tiara was placed atop my pinned hair.

The maid--Kristine--took me back to the Master of the house.

He smiled and took my hand, kissing it.

"You look beautiful," he murmured. "May I have a dance?"

I took a step back, slightly appauled by his abruptness, and shook my head, holding my hand to my chest.

"I...I can't," I whispered. "I don't...I can't dance."

"Then allow me to teach you."

He grabbed my hand and pulled me towards him before I could speak and lef me easily through the steps as if he had a thousand times before.

Music played and we were spinning around the room and he spun me to were his arms were around me and my back was against his chest.

He looked at me and I at him before he kissed me.

I froze and he pulled away smiling.

The dream crumbled then, the piercing sound of my alarm clock waking me.

I had a few more FA's than this, probably 6 total. These are just the significant ones.

I'm taking pictures in a field. There's a white house up ahead. I'm with a girl, she's my friend.
The scene changes somewhere along the line to my grandparent's yard. I'm still taking pictures. My dogs are there, but they look like puppies. I take a picture of them.
I walk around to take more pictures. I walk up the driveway and I step in some dog shit. I look down. "At least it I'm not wearing my good shoes." I say to my friend. I look down. I'm wearing my Doc Martens. The bottoms look like my tennis shoes. I rub my feet in the grass. I look down at the bottom of my shoes, there isn't anything on it. "That worked well." I say

I wake up in my bed. I go downstairs. My grandma's visiting.
"Where's Cathy?" I say. She's supposed to take me to lab today.
"She got malaria." my mom says
"Ohh. Mosquito bite? I saw her get bit by one, it must have been that."
I want to show my grandma the awesome pictures I took (they really were awesome in the previous dream). I go upstairs to get my camera. It's on the floor of my bedroom. I go to grab it.

I wake up in my bed and try to get up. I'm floating. I float downstairs and out the door, but it's hard to control. I keep rubbing my hands together, which helps a little but not a lot. Strange, it has always worked to stabilize dreams for me. It's daytime outside. I see my neighbor across the street, Eric, who is always in his yard in my dream. I've never talked to him before this.
"Hey, Eric!" I yell
"Yeah?" he says. He sounds closer than he seems to be in the dream.
"Can you come help me out?"
"Sure." he says. He seems pretty friendly.

He walks over to me and grabs my hand (I'm still floating). I'm wearing gloves. I take them off. He starts to pull me across the yard.
"Eric, are you my dream guide?" I say
"Nope." he says
"Can you take me to him?" I say
"Yep, he's your friend. That's where I'm taking you."
"So.. how are you?" I say trying to make small talk. He looks at me with a blank expression.
"...how are you?" I say again, slower this time
"Oh. I'm alright." He says. Apparently he isn't a very intelligent DC. I see the shadow of a figure in my garage. I assume that this is my dream guide.
the dream fades and I wake up in my bed.

I lay in my bed for a minute. My cat is next to me. My sister walks by in the hallway. I look at the wall in front of me. There's some blue writing on it. I look at the writing and try to read it, it keeps changing. I become lucid. I try to walk out my door again, but I'm having issues. My vision is pretty blurry. I go downstairs and my vision melts to black.

I wake up in my bed. I look at my surroundings. There's a Winnie the Pooh poster on the wall. I definitely don't have one of those.. I become lucid. I walk out my door. As I'm getting downstairs, yet again my vision starts acting up again. As I get to the front door, I say to myself "When I step outside this door, everything will be clear." It works. I see Eric out in his yard again. He starts to walk over. He's wearing a black masquerade type mask and a brown shirt with what looks like a wolf and something else, maybe a wizard? idk.
"Nice shirt, Eric." I say
"Oh, thanks." he says.
"Yeah, it looks pretty badass. Will you help me find my dream guide again?"
"Sure, I just have to finish up with what I'm doing." He walks past my house. I'm not going to wait for him. The dream fades.

I wake up in my bed. I do a reality check. This time, it's real life.

February 20, 2011
Lucid Dream 182: The Dawn of an Empire
Series: The 108 Stars of Destiny, Episode 1
around 2:00pm
WILD

Category - Exploration/Battle


I have just recently finished the anime "Berserk" and I realized I was a lot like Griffith (in the sense that I have always wanted to be the King of an Empire or the king of something). I decided I would work toward building a lucid empire in my dreams. After a few lucids where I completely forgot about it (previous few dreams), I finally started the saga.

I laid down for a WILD attempt (nap) and reminded myself of what I wanted to do in my next lucid. After progressing through my technique and changing position a couple of times...SP set in. My hearing was intensified and I suddenly felt hands around my neck. The thought of me being choked popped into my head and the grip tightened. I ignored the hands and pushed the choking thought out of my head. They were soon gone as several flashing light patterns entered my vision. My body began to slide around my room. It eventually stopped and I stood up and looked around. I had successfully transitioned into the dream state.

I performed a few stabilization techniques and then dove head first out of my window. I walked over to the edge of the woods and began calling out for Seine (my lunar wolf companion). After a few moments, a jet black wolf, four times the size of a normal wolf, with fiery red eyes came barreling up out of the woods and stopped in front of me. I patted him on the head and spoke to him with telepathy. "It is time good friend. It is our time to rise. Take me to Kate!" His tail began to wag as I hopped onto his back and we flew over several mountains. I scanned the ground below, looking for some sign of her. We eventually flew upon a small village. Seine soared down and landed in front of a church. He then trotted up to the door and began sniffing it. I knew Kate was in there. I walked up and opened the door. I saw a woman with her back to me. She was placing flowers at the front of the church. I called out to her and she turned around. She could have been mistaken for an angel. She looked absolutely stunning in a casual white dress. I ran up to her, took her in my arms and kissed her. I then spoke to her, "It is time, my queen." We talked for a bit and I told her my plans. As we were leaving, I heard a noise behind us.

I turned and saw two men clothed in preacher-like attire. One of them began laughing and told me that Kate wasn't leaving the church. He said something about her being the property of god. I looked at him and said, "Don't make me kill you old man." He then opened his mouth wide, let out a demonic hiss and transformed into a monster. It resembled a chimera from the Resident Evil remake. Before I could react, Kate leapt at the monster and swung her weapon...cutting the monsters head clean off its shoulders. I now noticed she was holding a keyblade. The other priest transformed into a slightly different looking monster and Kate cut him in half. I noticed Kate was now wearing a sleek, skin tight, white leather body suit. I ran up to her and examined her keyblade. I looked at it closely and it was shiny silver, with a long flowing/shimmering/semi-transparent cloth, coming from the handle. I told her to put more power into it so I can see what it looks like powered-up. She held it above her head and shouted, "The Power of Holy! I command you!" (or something similar) There was a flash of light and a loud bang that sounded like a gun went off. It startled me a bit, and the dream became unstable. I quickly stabilized and looked at the keyblade once again. It had a set of angel wings on it that appeared to be made of silver. They flapped and moved as if they were alive. There were silver vines that curled up the keyblade shaft. The vines had some vicious looking thorns protruding from them. The actual key part resembled a cross with sharp points on it. The handle still had the long flowing gown-like material that covered her hand. There were small clouds floating around the keyblade as well. After forming a solid memory of the keyblade, I attemped to summon my own.

I threw out my hand, turned my head away and shouted, "Keyblade, I summon thee!" I felt cold metal touch my fingertips and I grasped it. I looked and saw a a simple green kingdom key. I then held it above my head and shouted, "Shine, with my inner power!" It then transformed into my keyblade. A few things were a little off, so I molded it with my hand until it looked right. Wanting to do battle along side my queen, I looked toward the back door and shouted, "Come on out and fight us!" The door slammed open and heartless began to pour out of the back room. There were also several more priests with them. We fought side by side for a while. Kate held her keyblade out in front of her and used, what I assumed to be, a holy spell. A ring formed above the keyblade (similar to an angel's halo) and a white light flashed and disintegrated many of the heartless. The ones left alive climbed out of the windows and left the church. I grabbed Kate's arm and ran outside. I called for Seine as we exited the building and he came running around the corner. We hopped onto his back and I told him to take us to the most bad ass castle he knew of. I planned on invading the castle, killing its occupants and starting my empire. We flew for a while, I realized I had been in this dream for a while. The dream became unstable once again. I tried to stabilize as best I could, but it ended as we were approaching an very blurry, enormous, white castle/fortress.

I've just recently decided (a few minutes ago actually) to try and make this a series of dreams and continue the story whenever I can remember to do so. My plan is to get to the castle with Kate and Seine, and start going on recruiting trips to try and get new members to join forces with me and take base at the castle. Much like the video game series Suikoden. I want to ultimately build an entire empire and go with it from there. Like in the Suikoden series, my recruits will be the "108 Stars of Destiny." I will give each recruit a "star name" (like the game). I've got a few good recruits in mind that I will seek out, but many decisions I will leave to "dream" time. I also plan on recruiting an adviser/right hand man to help me go out and recruit members (not sure who that will be yet).

the, 108 Stars of Destiny
1 - KingYoshi - The God Star
2 - Kate Beckinsale - The Queen Star
3 - Seine - The Companion Star

Series Details
Welcome to the epic dream series known as, "The 108 Stars of Destiny." Follow me as I build the most powerful army the dream world has ever seen. Along with the help of 108 key recruits, I take on the dream world and elevate to god-like status! Will anyone stand in my way? Stay tuned for more entries to the series!

February the 21st
First dream:
Okay i am in a classroom and somehow i pissed some bullies off and they startet to ruin all the tables that i had to fix - else the teacher would throw me outta school but the tables was SOOO heavy that i needed my friend to help.

Second dream:
Aight i am in a big changing room in a gym, and there are people with guns and shit all over the place. i got a sniper on my bag and a gun at my hip. It was my first time i should play hardball with my friends. There are two doors out of the room: the left and the right. First me and my mates goes outta the right one and we are now outside where the map itself is. We are the attackers and have to get into the fortress. First we had to go over the big big stone hill. We got the stone hill and while the other from my team moved on, me and a friend startet to snipe from the top of the hill.. We won and went back to the changeing room. We had a break and we went out of the left door. We are now in this very very big room that is the indoor map they made. an instructor told me that the white lines on the floor is "Wind and birds" and im out of sight here. The blue lines are checkpoints and the red ones are walls.

I tryed out my gun and realised it sucked ass so i went inside to find a decent one that i was told i could borrow. When i got into the changeing room once more this team of hawt chicks was going to play for their first time and startet to chit chat while i was finding the gun. We went inside the big room and played.

Thrid dream:
The dream starts with me being in your dinner room at home. i am sitting at the wrong end of the table and for some reason i asked myself ''Am i dreamining" - did an reality check and realised i was dreaming. i went lucid:

I tryed to remain calm but i felt that i was too exited. i felt this black void was sucking me in but i focused and startet to look on my hands, feeling the leather furnirute and it slowly became more clear.. After a few seconds it became black again and i couldnt help it.

atleast that was my 4th lucid dream WHOOHO!

I was sitting in some sort of 50s/Johnny Rockets style restaurant when a short haired older woman walked up to me with two or three children. She kept commenting on how nice my hair was and getting to me take my eyes off my Macbook Pro screen. She succeeded briefly and one of her kids bumped into me and apologized. By this time the woman and her children were out the door and I could see my laptop under her arm. I began shouting for security and screaming “she stole my laptop!” I ran out into the parking lot after her. It was dark outside and looked as if it had just rained, there were even still some puddles on the ground. Security followed behind me after a few seconds and the woman dropped the laptop to avoid getting caught and ran away (her children had already inexplicably disappeared). I ran up to the pile of broken laptop and noticed the name “Tyrell” on the side name tag. Thinking I had just ruined my friend’s laptop, I panic. Upon looking at the laptop a second time however, the label reads “Christopher.”

This immediately made me realize I was dreaming. I wanted to go to a club to take sexual advantage of this dream. I suppose I haven't had enough LDs to get that urge out of my system yet haha. Once said club appeared next door I lost a great deal of clarity. My visual sense was blurry and I really could only hear clearly. This persisted until I met a beautiful young woman of unknown ethnicity (something like an armenian/italian/something else mix) with carmel colored skin. We proceed to what seems to be the supply room (pretty large actually, and it even has a bed inside) and have many passionate sex sessions followed by questions--many of which I don’t remember. I do remember one though: our first time making out, when entering the supply room, I announce proudly “alright, the jig is up, I know you’re a part of my mind, what are you?” I either asked “what are you” or “what part are you,” either way the question went misconstrued and she answered “I guess it’s because you’re so a_____.” She said I was some word that started with an “a” that I don't remember. I did remember thinking it was a synonym for self-centered, but I could be wrong. We proceeded to do what we did after that as I described earlier. At the end she was crying so I wrapped my arms around her and asked what was wrong. She told me “You’re about to wake up, this is where you choose to stay here or go to the real world!” Sure enough, I woke up right after.

Dream Lucid Me DC DG?

Dream 1
I´m in some kind of field. There are lots of other kids there too. I realize it´s a dream. I start flying and try to get out of the field, but there´s some sort of invisible wall around it. I wake up.

Dream 2
I´m in the same field as in the first dream. I quickly realize it´s a dream and start flying again. This time I get away from the field and find myself in my room. It´s dark and a little scary in there. I try to get out of there, but I can´t get trough the walls or windows. I try to go through a mirror and succeed, but i´m still in my room. I step out of the mirror. I try to go through the windows again. This time I just break the glass and fall through. But I just land back to my room. I do it again. Same result. (Oh, come on.) Finaly I manage to jump outside. I start flying before I hit the ground and fly to my kitchen. I want to start looking for my DG again and call the guy from my last dream. (Patrik.) He appeares and I ask if he could take me to my DG. "Yes. You´re dream guides name is Goodheart. (Well, Good something.) But are you ready to meet him?" , he says. An locked box and a yellow parrot holding a key appeare. The parrot unlocks the box, and some colors start to spin on the side of the box. Finaly they form the word "yes" on it. "Follow me." ,he says. We start to walk towards the stairs, when I wake up.

Dream 3
I´m again in my kitchen, already lucid. I call for Patrik. He appeares, but this time he´s angry. "What is it?" ,he yells. "Well, the same question as in the last dream." ,I say. "Not now." ,he says. I leave my house. I start to feel some objects and listen to sounds in my dream. The dream starts to get more colorful. I fly on the same height as treetops. The wind on my arms feels so real, I can´t resist but to laugh a bit. I suddenly lose height, when some DCs dog starts to chase me. I fly higher, so it can´t reach me. I think it would be a good time to try to get to the Lucid crossroads once again. I see a pool. I dive in (No trouble breathing.) and swim to the surface. Instead of the pool in the Crossroads, i´m in some metal shell. I try to get through it for a while, but can´t do it. I dive back to the pool, and someone tells me I found one of the few metal shells still left in this pool. I wake up.

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

[I had several different dreams last night, two of which were lucid.]

[Dream #1] I'm playing Neopets. [In this particular dream,] Neopia is a fully-realized, three-dimensional world, but it's still a computer game that I'm playing using a mouse. The art looks just like it does on the real site. The game is played from a first-person perspective, and there are lots of rooms and areas to explore [just like the plot adventures on the real Neopets Web site]. One such area is filled with Neopets who are dressed in vaguely Arabian-looking clothes; they all have their noses covered with veils, which strikes me as somewhat ridiculous, since they all have such different shapes and sizes of noses. This scene makes me think, So Neopia does have something resembling an Islamic culture. I click my way into a hidden area and receive a special reward for finding it.

[Dream #2] I walk into my family's house, which is big and spacious and has two stories [and looks nothing at all like any of our real ones. House #2, our only two-story house, was nowhere near that big and was laid out very differently]. Suddenly, there are several men in the house with me. They're there to challenge me to a martial-arts tournament. I had known in advance that this challenge was coming. In the course of my conversation with them [which I don't really remember now], one of them eventually says that there is no challenge. Having become semi-lucid at some point during the conversation, I say boldly and firmly, “I have better things to do.” I begin making my way out of the house.

Then, I hear my mom yelling from behind me that the house is on fire and I should get out. I do so, thinking, I know I should just get out without stopping to try and rescue other people. I go out the front door and walk down a front walk that leads to a fairly high, steep flight of concrete stairs, which leads down a steep embankment, at the bottom of which are the public sidewalk and the street. I jump off the top step to get down to the front sidewalk more quickly. I fall in a long, slow arc, taking several seconds to get down, and land softly and gently on my feet. I had kind of known I was going to fall that way; I always do in dreams.

By this point, I'm definitely lucid. From the street, I take off and fly up over the neighborhood. Once again, it takes me two tries to take off. After the first time, I realize, I messed up – I wasn't concentrating right. I try again, kicking off with my right ankle and thinking about becoming airborne, as I always do, and this time it works. Flight feels like it always does, too.

I fly up and observe the neighborhood from above. I can see a little bit of the fire coming from the house I just left. After a minute or two, I land back on the street and see a little model of a single-story house standing on a table. I examine the model, concentrating on it, and succeed in making tiles blow off the roof with my mind. This action is directly inspired by the scene in Inception where they're at the cafe and the dream starts collapsing when Ariadne first realizes that they're dreaming. While I'm making the model blow itself to pieces, I think about how, when the characters from the movie are dreaming, they might use Michael Caine's name [*see Side Notes at end] in exclamations of surprise/anger/frustration, etc., as if he were their deity, because he was the inventor of the dream-sharing technology. I immediately dismiss this as a silly idea, though. I keep up what I'm doing, and eventually blow away all the broken-up pieces of the roof, exposing the interior of the model. It has separate rooms inside. There's a small, light brown, flea-like insect inside, with a sort of sail on its back. I know that the insect is my dad. [I don't even know.] I let it crawl onto my finger, rescuing it from the destruction of the model and setting it down gently outside the model.

This scene is immediately followed by an animated sequence of two foxes romping around in a grassy field and falling in love. I know that this means that both of my parents are still alive and got out of the burning house all right.

[Dream #3] I'm outside, in the daytime, on a series of tiled walkways, terraces, and stairways, elevated and built into the side of a hill. Some boy is following me around, singing a creepy version of some children's song at me, changing the words all around to suggest that he would like to do something sexual with me. At the end of the second or third repetition of the short song, I stop, sing the end of the verse for him, then smack him in the face. Then, a passing man helps me throw the offending boy over a wall and down a long flight of stairs. I see him get up after he reaches the bottom, and am glad to see that he can still get up and that nothing's broken.

The scene shifts slightly, and now I'm on the surface-level streets, walking around a city that I remember visiting in a dream before. [Except now I don't – false memory, apparently.] The city is bright and clean and filled with big trees. There is a train station across the street from where I'm walking. On my side of the street, there is an enlarged replica of one of the stores on Main St. at Disneyland. Upon seeing the prominent train station, I remark that my dream city doesn't necessarily have to be in the States; it could just as easily be in the UK. [This, despite the fact that said train station had a sign on the outside that very clearly read “Amtrak.”]

I walk in the main entrance to the store that replicates the one from Disneyland, and find myself in a shop that is part of a mall. I walk through that first shop and into a second one that resembles a Hot Topic (all the walls are painted black), only it's girlier (there are a lot more dresses). This store also has living mannequins that look exactly like the ones they have at Old Navy. One of these mannequins tells me that she wants to try on the dress I'm wearing, which I had gotten from that store earlier. It's a strapless, knee-length black sundress with little pink polka dots, pink lace decorating the top of the bodice, and a pink tulle underskirt part that makes the skirt puff out. There are lots of similar dresses on the racks in the store. [For some strange reason,] I'm wearing mine over the T-shirt and shorts I was already wearing. I'm really enjoying just walking around, exploring this dream. I exclaim aloud, “My mind is so awesome!”

I walk out of that store and around a corner, through one of the hallways that form the connecting core of the mall. I find myself wishing I could change out of the shorts I'm wearing under my dress, and just wear the dress. I go into another store, this one a Sephora. While I was in there, the dream ended.

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Side notes:

*Michael Caine's character's name is Stephen Miles (per the shooting script); that's what the other characters would say if they were to do that. I forgot that while dreaming, though.

Last night, when doing mental affirmations while falling asleep, I focused more on recalling the memory of what it feels like to be in a lucid dream, recalling past lucid dreams, and visualizing and imagining what it would have been like if I had become lucid in one of my memorable non-lucids. It worked really well.

As I was taught when I first tried to ski, people who are right-handed are generally right-footed as well, and are instinctively inclined to lead with their right foot and do most of their controlling of their movement with their right foot when skiing or snowboarding. I'm very pleased and not at all surprised to discover that this principle applies to my flying in dreams as well. I'm right-handed (and right-footed) in real life, and from the beginning, I've always instinctively used my right foot and ankle to kick off from the ground and launch myself into a takeoff.

Very fragmented vision/dream. I woke up only after a few hours sleep know I just had a real awesome dream and should write it down. Sadly I was so tired I decided to stay sleeping.. damn it now I can hardly remember it.

I was very tired as I went to bed as I had a very big day a lot of psychical and emotional work.

HI starts very quickly, it quickly becomes very very vivid. I see vision of the 'Taj Mahal' there is the most magnificent garden at the front with an amazing fountain and pond leading up to the temple.

I want to go inside but from no where the big gates appear as I approach the gate a 'spirit' approaches from the left, it is a floating triangular mask with a smoke body. I think why does it look like that, I don't like it, it should be a beautiful woman.

She transforms into a goddess brunette hair with amazing beauty, 'You can not pass through these gates', she says so calmly I feel weakened by her presence. 'why not? I want to see what is inside.'. 'I must teach you some lessons first' 2 other 'goddesses' appear they grab me and we float up into the air. I think rose pedals start to fall around me.

… A fragment .. I am talking to someone I am explaining to them how they should talk to the spirits I mention they should close their eyes and roll them up in their head, when they see a flash like a camera flash, this is when you can speak to them. There was more but I can't remember

I wake up and want to write it all down but am to tired so I go back to sleep and forget most of it .. damn it !

Technique: DILD (unintentional due to ISP)
Dream Control: 9
Dream Length: loooong
Recall: Above Average
Vividness: Excellent



So I'm about to go on this training mission, and one of my old drill sergeants is there, and she's wearing this red dress. We try to line up, but no body is doing what they're supposed to do. I look down on the ground and notice tiled floor, and say "hey, everyone toe the line". They do it, but it turns out this room is shaped weird, so the formation gets changed, and we're all crooked.

Our drill sergeant tells us that we're just going to have to go on that mission right away. I said "don't worry, I'm going to kill everyone for you", and she said "no, don't do it for me, do it for you". She started crying, and said that she wasn't going to be there anymore, and this silly 80s rock music kept playing over the loud speakers.

I left and found myself in my front yard with N, and two other girls. I was flirting with them as usual, and I noticed N had stripped panties. I was going bonkers. All of a sudden, all the girls were down to bra's and panties. We started walking down the driveway, and I started noticing how everything was. It was so foggy out, but the sun wasn't even visible, but it was clearly in the middle of the day by how bright things were. There were clouds among the fog that were really low, and I said "hey, do you think this stuff looks a bit weird? Like something out of a dream?".

The girls looked a round a little bit, and I did a nose pinch. It was successful, and I skyrocketed towards the air. I saw them from below and they were figuring out that they were dreaming. When I landed, N got on her cellphone, and started calling up her boyfriend, and apologizing for what she was doing earlier. I told her that she doesn't have to worry about it, cause it's a dream. All of a sudden she started turning black, almost melting and merging with the phone. She slushed down into a puddle of murk, and I knew it was boss time.

I ran over to the mailbox, and said I needed weapons, and smashed it with my fist. The mailbox was immediately filled with gloves and some other training equipment. I grabbed a dagger, and smashed the mail box again, this time requesting guns. I grabbed the barrel and pulled out this short stock desert brown, m-16 carbine. It was so light, that it felt like like a watergun. I headed back over there, and got a few blows in and the boss died seconds later. I told the other DC's to wait for me next time we get some action. One of them told me it was a training program and they could always make more.

I shot my gun a few times randomly, and some guy in a truck looking for trouble pulled up. I told him that he didn't want to mess with me at all. The guy proceeded to pull out a gun and shoot me. I grabbed his arm and the guy had a heart attack. I said "I'll make it rain bullets on you". I grabbed his gun, and shot the bullets so slow that they came out like toy bullets. They went maybe a foot in the air, arched and landed on his body. I proceeded to empty the chamber, and everyone was laughing. One of the DC's was commenting about the weird crap I do in my dreams when I'm lucid.

I had a really interesting dream yesterday about climbing up this huge building and then jumping off it and then some terrorist attacking it and it was really long and vivid but of course I'm too lazy to post it. The only reason I'm going to post last night's dream is because part of it was lucid. So here goes..

Balloon
I was inside my house and was holding onto this balloon, which was the size of a normal balloon, nothing fancy. But it started lifting me off the ground. I thought this was really cool so I took it outside so that I could go higher up with it. At this point I realized that I was dreaming but still wanted to see where the balloon took me. I let it pull me up off the ground and I got to the top of my tree in the front yard before it popped and I came back down. It was pretty disappointing. I kept repeating to myself "I'm in a lucid dream" so that I wouldn't forget it. I wasn't really sure what to do after that. I contemplated flying and other things but nothing seemed to interest me. It was like lucid dreaming was boring because I couldn't think of anything to do. Then the dream started fading and I lost control of it. I don't think I woke up.. it just took me right to another dream.

DJ Log: February 20, 2011 – 4:45AM (USA Eastern)
Text color legend: · NON-DREAM · NOTES · DREAM · LUCID ·

(Note: Before bed, I ate a peanut butter, strawberry, and banana sandwich with a full glass of apple juice)

I am walking through a user car lot with a female DC. She points at a couple of cars along the way, but I tell her to keep looking because the one she pointed at was not a very reliable car. I look up and see a couple of cars flying overhead. I become lucid and reinforce it with a nose pinch that fails. I look back at the DC and see that she has partially morphed into a theater popcorn machine. I reach into the machine and grab a bag of popcorn, then shake my head and continue walking.

Unfortunately, this is all that I can recall at 10:00AM. I failed to write anything in my log book or record anything on my tape recorder.