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LUCID- Rollar Coaster
I was a cute guy in the dream with brown short straight hair. Idk why. I was in a Burger King playground, and for some reason, I didn't change the backround. "I'm dreaming!" I yelled as I ran around it. The kids looked at me weird. I went in a yellow slide in the playground. "I can do anything I want!" I turned it into a rollar coaster and had a fun never-ending ride. It was sooo fun! It felt very, very real. I saw the coaster through the slide, kind of. I imagined it to see where I was going. Then, I recalled one of my dream goals was to be a mermaid. I turned into Ariel, and swam around. Everything was like a sea. I couldn't really breathe, so I stopped and went back to play in the BK playground. I need to establish some dream goals or all of my lucids will be plain and boring!
Vividness: 4/5 Clear.
I had another full dream but I already wrote that in my real one.
I JUST REMEMBERED I tried to get to the moon! I said to myself, "Wasn't there a thread here talking about that you can't get to the moon?" I wondered why it was so hard. Why would it be hard to make the image? I flew up into space, well I tried to. I saw a PICTURE of the moon and couldn't get there. I went back down. Sadly, I just tried other things.
* I said to myself, "Hmmm, maybe I should do the task of the month (DV's TOTM) But I said, "I am going to do what I want to do, not what other people want me to do. It is my LD and I'm going to have fun!" I did other fun things, but my recall is crap.

[taken from my dream blog at Oneironeer | Exploring Dreamspace)

So I haven't blogged since January 26th, but I've had some "activity" worth mentioning. I was super stoked about my seemingly close NILD (Nap Induced Lucid Dream) variation of a WILD, and although I started this week off swearing I wasn't going to lose sleep and attempt any crazy dream techniques, I was SO looking forward to doing the Wake Back To Bed method of setting my alarm just before my last REM cycle and going back to bed concentrating on lucid dreaming.

My friend and I have been discussing our dreams with each other via text messages, as he lives a couple hundred miles away, and it's been encouraging to have someone else who's almost as crazy about all this as me, to bounce experiences and ideas off of. We've discovered the Airplane Mode on our phones, because we keep sending each other horrible pictures of creatures and fictional mutated profiles and creepy audio clips to scare each other in the middle of the night.

I prepped for Wednesday night. I've read to hold off on Vitamin B until I awake around 4:30 a.m., and to go easy on the melatonin just before you first go to bed. So I took about 6mgs of melatonin. However, feeling like I might've been coming down with a cold, I may have taken some Nyquil also (I don't remember). I wrote in my Day Journal (prime the brain pumps) just before bed, and I was set.

At midnight, I was out like a light. Between the melatonin, sickness and possible Nyquil, it was a DEEP sleep. However, at 1:00 a.m., I opened my eyes, kicking and screaming at the following visage...



I do not remember waking up. I simply remember a strange, asexual mime trying to get WAY to close to me. As I heard it in my head, it was cooing or softly voicing it's displeasure in my feet in it's chest and throat. "OooOOooEEeeeEEooo???"

In the FAR back of my mind, I was glad to be tossed into a horror-based nightmare, because they always tip me off to the fact that I'm dreaming. I then become lucid, and take control of the dream. The creature looked almost as scared of me as I was of it, and it didn't seem like it wanted to hurt me -- but I needed to get it AWAY from me so I could take control. Something strange began to happen, instead of shifting or becoming hazier (or waking up), the dream was becoming MORE vivid. MORE real, despite the strobing lights and darkness.

I could hear my wife calling out my name and screaming, "No! Stop! Stop!", which angered me a bit. Why would you WANT me to STOP attacking this thing, don't YOU see it?! I got REALLY worried. Had I broke Sleep Paralysis and been flailing in our bed? Had my dream research flipped my lid? The creature was now at a legs length away from me, so I screamed to my wife, "WHAT?!"

"It's Matt." I looked at the thing, and didn't understand. At first, it looked like a clean, zombie version of the character Lutz from 30 ROCK (a show that's been turning my brain to oatmeal, as we've been watching WAY too much of it before bed). But now I could see, it was some strange version of my friend, and he was doubled-over smiling and said, "It's just a dream!" and started chuckling. My wife replied back, "It's just a dream," and I thought, "Now my DREAMS are mocking my attempts at lucidity!", but I soon realized that it was my friend, either in a False Awakening... or in waking life.

"Do you wanna get beat?"

He started laughing and my wife said it again, in disbelief, "It's just a dream." I still didn't understand. A charlie horse in my leg started to tip me off and the Rocky shirt my friend was wearing certainly wasn't scary. I could then smell him (ah, the last sense to wake up).

"Supriiiisssse," he whispered. He then mumbled and ran out of the room, leaving my wife and I in the dark. I groaned at the pain in my leg. Chuckled a bit. Breathed. Turned to my wife and asked, "What just happened?"

I used the bathroom, texted my friend, "Where are you?!" and he replied, "In my car, I think I peed my pants!" and I finally really realized...

That had all just really happened.

Now I present to you, the video he filmed of himself scaring me into a near convulsion.

my first lucid dream!
I am at home in the upstairs bathroom. I am just standing there and suddenly I think, "Wait
shouldn't I be at college?". The term "Reality Check" pops into my mind. I decide to try the
finger/palm reality check. I push my right index finger into the center of my left palm. At first,
I think the reality check is passing because my finger is buckling under the force that I'm pushing
at my palm. but then I look at the back of my left hand and notice the tip of my finger coming
through. I push more, there is a lot of resistance but I manage to get my finger through my
palm. I become excited. "I am dreaming." I think to myself. Immediately, everything becomes
quite vivid. I take notice of this then say to myself with a smile on my face. "I am having a lucid dream...
I am finally having a lucid dream!". I think "What should I do?". I realize it is night-time in my dream
so some of the things I remember speculating about to myself during waking life will not work. In the
end, I decide to call my crush. I go downstairs, pushing my finger through my palm every now and then
just for the hell of it. I get to the dining room. The light is on and my parents are there but it is around
10:00 at night so I am confused as to why they would be awake. It is a dream though, after all. I push my
finger through my palm one more time and this time move it around a bit. I am so fascinated! I feel my
Dad may attempt to stop me from leaving the house though so I try to leave discretely. I grab my pumas
and go into the game room which is always dark when the light is off and kind of out of the way. So I start
putting my shoes on and my Dad goes out the door. I start tieing my shoes and realize that they are huge.
The tongue is massive and the laces are those thin round laces that never stay tied. They look somewhat
similar to Osiris's which I am not really a fan of. I continue tieing them but before I can finish the dream ends.
I wake up and think... "Did I just have a lucid dream?"

Yes... yes I did. But it was somewhat disappointing. Oh Well, next time

I wake up on the couch were I had fallen asleep earlier. On the bridge of the ship I'm on in the Navy.
I walk over to one of the windows and stare out into to night. I then calmly say to my self, "this is a dream"
Having the same problem I usually always have when lucid, not knowing/remembering what to do next, I realize I can try and travel to Egypt again.
I've heard mirrors are good for portals, but unfortunately there are none near by and I don't have time to goto the nearest one, so I decide to try the door thing again.
I picture myself opening the door and seeing the golden sands of Egypt. I open the door, but again.. nothing more but the same dark, empty and boring hallway as usual.
Suddenly the boat rocks and I somehow fall out the window.
I am not standing in an open field with a forest bordering this field, a night sky filled with stars and a thin layer of fog.
Also the ship is now a train..traveling on tracks and everything. It's also moving quite quickly away from me. Annoyed, I say to myself "are you kidding me?"
I then try to fly back to it. I'm quite good at flying in my dreams, so it came as a surprise when I took a big leap forward with my arms out and fell on my stomach.
I brushed my self and tried again, this time jumping straight up. Nothing happened. I land on the ground.
Annoyed and sad with my lack of ability to anything, I decide to just give up and wake myself up.

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID
Good morning! Had the intentions of becoming lucid last night, and guess what? It worked like a charm. Even got to do my task I had set up, but it didn't really work the way I had hoped... Need to try it again next time. Also, I woke up with a headache and it felt like my dream memory was blocked. My pee was almost brown so I guess I'm dehydrated. Anyone else had trouble recalling while being dehydrated?

23.30: Sleep

07.00: WBTB 10 minutes

08.00: Whorehouse
I'm inside of a big house with alot of other people. Guys and girls around me are drinking heavily and partying. It has the feel of a whorehouse and a very hot, skinny woman walks up to me. A guy is about to have sex with her, but I decide to warm her up a bit first. I rub her breasts with my hands and grab her ass with both my hands and lift her up. I start to feel a bulge in my pants but I know I can't do anything as I've got a girlfriend. "You've got the most amazing ass" I whisper in her ear and she giggles as I feel it for a few more seconds.

I let her go and start walking up the stairs with a friend. He nudges me and points to the top. A girl is sitting there with nothing on her lower half and she seems to be very drunk. We get a clear view of her private parts and my friend laughs but I look away in respect. The stairs take a right just a few steps from the top, and I find my coworker Peter sitting on a chair. His eyes are red and half closed. The girl on the stairs bends over to pick something up and Peter grins at me in satisfaction. "Haha what a pervert" I think. He's 60+. I walk into a room and sit down a large table where most people have suddenly gathered.

08.00: Senses MILD
I'm about to head into a seven eleven store when I spot an old woman with a tiny dog. She let the thing crap on the pavement right infront of the door, and didn't pick it up. I'm furious and I can't just let her walk away. I start attacking her verbally. "Don't you think adults should take responsibility for their actions? Are you really one?" I ask her and take a closer look. I can spot a thin mustache of white hairs on her upper lip. She's very ashamed and just stands there in silence. After a few more amazing lines I totally nail, I head into the store. I walk up to the counter and ask the guy behind it to give me something fun. He puts up a bowl of pasta bolognese.




I look at the bowl and slowly become lucid. I remember my task of using my senses. I taste the pasta, it tastes just like I expect it to. The guy behind the counter starts asking me questions. "What do you work with? How old are you? Where do you live?" I answer them each in turn as I focus on my sense of touch. I run my hands over the counter. "Do you do any sports?" he asks me and I tell him no. I remember that smell is another sense. I take a big whiff of the pasta, it smells just like regular bolognese.

I look around in the store and there are some shelves to the right behind the counter. The guy asks me more useless questions he should already know. "I don't have time to waste on you" I tell him and walk out the store. I'm on the street outside, but I can't seem to see very far. There's a fog and it's very dark outside. A single streetlamp fills the street with gloomy light. I can't for the world remember what the fifth sense is. "What the heck, I'll just fly" I tell myself after some time when I get bored.

I take off instantly at will and go up a few meters and stop. I don't want to fly away in this darkness and destabilize the dream. Suddenly the entire dream starts to collapse. My vision gets twisted and I can only see a spot of asphalt underneath on the lower right corner of my vision. I remember spinning might stabilize the dream and I start to descend while spinning around. I never reach the ground for some reason and I just hang there for a few seconds as I cling to the dream.

11.00: Fragment
*I spot a bug in the bed and I attack it.

Amount of sleep: 11 hours

Supplements before bed: 2 x Omega-3, 200 ml applejuice

That's it! Recall sucked for 11 hours of sleep... Must be the dehydration. Also I couldn't remember the 5th sense as I have trouble remembering them in real life. I know what they are, but I have to think for a second or two before I can name them all. I guess I gotta practice on that. Still, awesome.

Keep on dreaming, HARE BRA!

After a couple false awakenings, I wake up in my bed once more knowing I'm still sleeping.
For some reason it is incredibly hard to get out of my bed, but I manage to slide out of it eventually.
I've been waiting for a chance to try and travel to specific locations or meeting spots. I decide to try and travel to the ancient pyramids of Egypt.
Not really knowing how to do this, I give it my best shot and imagine my bedroom door being the portal I am going to travel through. I think really hard about what I'm going to see when I open my door, picturing the scenery behind it and getting ready to open my door and go through.
I open my door, but sadly..the only thing behind it is nothing more than my hallway.
I decide to close my door and try again, but all of a sudden I'm getting pulled towards my bed. I then wake up.
I thought I should give it another go. I close my eyes and they open up again. However his time, I'm not sure I'm actually dreaming. I try and get out of my bed but it's impossible. I think I must have been in sleep paralysis with my waken eyes still open.

So, I was in my cousins house. I was standing there between bathroom and bedroom when suddenly some girl started entering a bedroom. She was in gray pajamas and I stopped her and took her pajama off. After that I took her panties and started doing ...you know what. After that I suddenly found myself in a bathroom in a bath tub with her. I done a RC and it succeeded. I started looking around to raise my awareness. I done a RC few more times and then I looked at a girl next to me. She was blonde but I don't remember her face very clearly. It felt like I knew her. I started having sex with her and after few minutes someone started calling her and he was trying to enter in bathroom by force. She said that it was her husband and she started to panic and I thought since this is a dream and I can do anything I should be able to get out of this situation very easily. I suggested girl to jump out of the window and I will levitate her to the ground. She accepted. As she jumped through the window I raised my hand and slowed her down as she was falling down. She descended to ground safely. Then I summoned another girl. She was red-haired. As soon as I summoned her the husband of previous girl breached through doors and started having sex with her. I left the bathroom. I "woke up" and found myself again in my cousins house. There was a man who I know and he said it was amazing what we done last night in our dreams. I thought we shared a dream last night I was left in awe there for a moment. When some girl behind me came and said something like :"Hi there, you did a good job last night". I recognized her as a girl I had sex with in my dream. And finally I woke up for real.

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Um, yeah it was about Mr. stinky and I don't want to mention details...
Lucid, yes.

non dream dream lucid

I was in the midst of a battle, unsure if I was dreaming. I closed my eyes and began to see a dream version of my room. I knew I was dreaming I was now in my room, but everything was blurry. I rubbed my hands together and touched the walls and desk to make it clearer. It worked, and everything became very vivid. I decided to do some RC. I started to push a finger through my hand, but it scared me because it did start to go through my hand. I decided to do the nose plug thing. I could breathe. I laughed happily, enjoying myself. So I said, "Ben Kasica will appear!!" hoping that he would. But, he didnt, my mom did instead. Ugh. So I hugged her and said we were dreaming. She said she already knew this and left. I was confused and shook my head. Then, while trying to get Ben to appear, my dad woke me up. Ugh, thanks dad, lol

I was really happy at how vivid this dream was. I found out that if I say that I'll lucid dream that night and i tell myself why, that I normally do!! YAY

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID FALSE AWAKENING

1:00

Cats and dogs
With my BF in a room that is supposedly in our home. We receive a visit from a girl who has a degree in history and has interesting things to tell us. There is a sliding glass door that opens onto the street and I notice that it is slightly open. I'll close it to prevent my cat to go outside, but actually he's already outside, in a space that looks like the courtyard of an old industry. I grab him and go back to the house through the front door instead. When I get back inside I find Lisa who says our cat has gone crazy and is attacking my mother. But how is that possible if I have him on my arms? I go to the kitchen and she is cornered by a cat much like our little one. She had brought a wild cat from the street by mistake and of course he was furious.
We opened a window so he could go, but when he reached the street he became a little puppy. When I saw him on the path to a busy road I was afraid he would die under a car so I ran after him. I lose the sight of him at the entrance of a village and I asked a guy, who I swear was Prince William, if he had seen the little dog. He said yes, but not to worry, because he wasn’t lost. Then we had a strange conversation in which he told me he knew the dog, that he was from a certain region but living on this village for many years and everybody knew him (as if the dog was some villager). I still tried to catch the puppy when I saw him once more beside the road, but he turned into a bottle of saline. I began to feel that maybe I was dreaming and I started to float in the air.

The demi-gods sky opera
As I rose higher into the sky, I became more lucid and gained more control. In the sky I found myself into a kind of theater with giant gods or demi-gods playing some kind of opera. I do not remember the song but it sticked to my head then and I started to sing it, as if in a hypnotic ecstasy. I flew around, from side to side, singing and the scenery was slowly shift but always themed as theaters, operas, concert halls, etc, with marble columns, red velvet curtains, white statues in grand halls, etc. Somewhere during my freaky show I thought I was probably wasting time, but the song was so overwheleming I couldn’t do anything else before it ended.
When it finally ended and I decided to pull out of there, I remember that I wanted to return to the moon and visit the biodome. I looked for a door to use as a portal and I saw a small door in the bottom of some stairs. But when I get there, I think it’s the entrance to a dressing room, because there is a hanger blocking my passage. I move it away but then I see a fantastic green swimsuit that I decide to take to my next dream.
This proved to be a bad idea, because it was too small and didn’t fit me, so I distracted myself by looking for one of my size, as if it mattered at all. A girl comes to help me check the sizes and gives me one that might fit me and points me to the dressing room. By now I surely forgot my goal. There’s also long queue of people wanting to try on clothes. On the wall there is a picture frame with an interesting but obscure character, clearly out of some Tim Burton movie. The persons on the queue invite me to the discussion they are having about that character. They say on the movie it was never clear if he was alive and mortal or some kind of undead or supernatural creature. I say I have no clue about that.

5:00

A fifthsome
On supermarket with mom and my BF. Mom is loving a barbie doll she saw but it’s really expensive, so she pulls her out of the box and puts the doll inside the box of a cheaper barbie. I feel embarrassed and tell her not to, because I’m sure there’s even cameras filming her doing it. But she insists. I then check the price difference and is of 10 ER. Is it really worth it? I suggest her instead to buy some new clothes for the barbie doll I have at home, but then I try to find some and there’s nothing, only dolls. I conclude this is not the toy area of the supermarket, it is actually the natural products’ area where, for some weird reason they are selling dolls. Dream fades a bit, but then recovers and I’m among some people listening to some natural health lecture. There’s a group of guys sitting on a staircase and I have a crush for one of them so I join them. But soon I realize they are not paying much attention to the lecture. Instead they are discussing poetry. I make some clever comment that makes me look desirable to their eyes, especially to the guy I like. He leans towards me and we start making out. The weird thing is that all of his friends, 4 or 5 guys, seem to be an extension of himself, so they all start making out with me – at the same time! First I find it yucky, but then I think I should try it out: a fifthsome! The main guy kisses me, and then I have ten hands cuddling my neck, my breasts, my hips, wow! Then things get more serious and he penetrates me. Then it feels weird, because not only he penetrates me where it is supposed to, but also as he kisses me, there’s a penis coming out of his mouth into my mouth. I’m still wondering if it’s cool or not, but decide I’m actually starting to choke with 5 guys over me and a dick in my throat. Enough is enough! I decide to get out of this dream.

Cyborg attack to a moon dome
I go into blackness and I wake up in a cottage. I recognize many of my stuff in there, but I do not recognize the house itself. It had green doors and a tiled kitchen. I did a RC but it was not easy to conclude whether or not I was dreaming. I finally decided that I was. At this moment I almost woke up. Everything was black and I felt my body in bed, but I made the effort to come back and I found myself back in that house. I recalled again I wanted to go to the biodome in the moon. I used a door as a portal, but instead of opening it, I crossed it - silly, could have crossed any wall for the same effect.
I found myself again in the darkness, but I made an effort to feel the ground beneath my feet, to stabilize the sleep. I felt a metal floor and then I stick my left leg to try to feel what was around there. I felt my foot sinking in water. Then slowly an image formed. I was on some sort of entrance hall, with a metal ramp with broad steps. Some of the steps had small round ponds on the left side.
I went down the steps and to my left the wall became a large glass wall. Outside there was green grass and maybe 5 meters away were vertical white buildings aligned perpendicularly to this hall and forming corridors between them. By now I was in doubt this was the biodome, but because I still wanted it to be, I found two koi fish in the last larger pond, on the last larger step of the hall. One of the fish was enormous and transparent and had many other koi fish inside it. The fish rose in the air and it was hovering in front of my face. I had an unpleasant feeling about this and I was sure this was about to degenerate into a nightmare, but I rejected it and sent the fish back to the pond. The nightmare dissipated and in front of me I then saw the entrance to this world.
On my right side there was a wall covered in ivy and branches of a lemon tree pending. I set my foot on the ground, which was covered with green grass. I felt I was in Paradise. There was a beautiful flowered valley, gentle green hills with lavish fruit trees and a bright blue sky. I saw people in the distance but they were very discrete. I looked up to try to understand if this was inside a dome or not and I saw the comb-like structure of a dome, very well disguised by the blue sky and the white clouds. I did not know if the blue sky was outside or merely an image projected on the dome, but it looked projected. The dome wasn’t big, because I could see its limits in the nearby horizon.
I walked down to the valley, admiring the wonderful orchards and I decided to call my Dream Guide. I have never called it before and it was a good occasion as nay other. But before anyone replied to my call, I saw a pink spot spreading from one of the limits of the dome, like in a defect on a LCD screen. Then I saw another and another and another. I realized it was some kind of attack to the dome and in seconds I saw an army of cyborgs coming in from those holes in the dome. I could see their robotic structure under some kind of bionic transparent cover they wore. They were firing plasma guns all over. Then I saw all the people I had seen at distance before, running from every direction into the white buildings. I thought I should probably do the same, but the cyborgs were already everywhere! There were plasma explosions all around me. I was really in doubt about what to do. Then some guy, whose face I never saw, comes running from behind me and grabs my left arm and pushes me up a tree in the orchard. He hands me something and throws me into the tree trunk. Before I knew it, I had been ejected at high speed through a hatch in the dome and was hovering in outer space, in the starry night sky. It was all so fast.

7:30

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Good morning! Tomorrow morning is closing in. I didn't expect to have a lucid last night, but I did. It was a very weak one, and I don't have the greatest recall. But still a lucid.

22.00: Sleep

05.10: Short lucid DILD
I'm walking behind someone. I suddenly get lucid and start thinking of my senses right away. "Sight, touch, hearing..." I think as my sight suddenly vanishes. Everything's black but I can feel I'm still in the dream. I focus on my hearing and I can hear crickets and birds. A dark green, slimy path in a swamp appears infront of me and I can feel the slime under my feet.

05.10: Wake up

Amount of sleep: 7 hours

Supplements before bed: 2 x Omega-3

That's it! I'm psyched about tomorrow. Try to stabilize the dream and root myself as much as possible, then play around with telekinesis. That's my plan.

Keep on dreaming, HARE BRA!

I took a nap a few minutes ago, and accidentally made it to the "tired-but-not-asleep" state. The state where reality blends with dreams. I thought, "I wonder if I can induce a dream." I used the FILD method and instantly heard a loud noise screaming over and over. It was my name being yelled on a loop. I panicked and tried to run, but told my self not to, because I knew it was a dream. The noise stopped. I was standing in darkness. I thought of my bedroom and began building the room. The walls appeared, and then, for some reason I still do not know, I panicked again. My body froze, and I felt numb. My name was called again and I began to wake. I pleaded to myself to stay asleep, but it was too late.

I woke up and couldn't move. It felt like my entire body was asleep. I moved my arm and numbing tingles shot up to my shoulder. I waited a minute and finally got up. Dad said he had been yelling for me to wake up for five minutes.

28th of january 2011

My recall from my very first lucid dream is kinda lousy from this experince but i wanna share it because it was wicked in the details i got!
My First lucid dream!
The dream starts with me going to bed and falling to asleep. In my dream i dream.. the dream inside the dream is me dreaming.. At this final dream i remember me sitting infront of this very beautifull girl with long brown straight hair and she got a smile on her face. I asked her ''Am i dreaming?'' - She smiled at me and ''Yes''..

What happens after that is me thinking ''This is a lucid dream?'' and everything went black - I remember notthing from after that event
Note:
But hey! Its a start! A little odd thing is: I usually wake up during the night like 3-5 times.. This night with my very first LD and i didnt wake up during the night! Never slept that well in years!

I had attempted to WILD, but rather fell asleep. The earliest I remember with any clarity was of walking down a road, and seeing a man on a horse (among others with carts and horses) outside of town. As the man passed behind someone else his horse disappeared, as I expected it would. The man -a gaunt, ill-shaved fellow in his thirties with long, stringy, black hair who wore a long coat, carried a stack of manuscripts, and kept a key on his person- walked along what became a dark hallway lined with damask wallpaper. He stopped at a black painted wooden door, and brought out the aforementioned key. At this moment he saw me watching him, and attempted to walk away. I stopped him and expressed that I wanted to see the contents of that room. He looked at me -worried yet sly- and asked me "Do you really want to see what's in that room?" I remained standing there with him understanding that I desired entry. At this point he approached a door and opened it for me. I began to walk in, but saw that it was not the same room, and that he was merely trying to trap me. I resisted, and made my way again into the hall. He seemed satisfied that he was winning, and I woke up. I was a little angered at having been befuddled by this shady character, and immediately went back to sleep (a task requiring the whole of twelve seconds). This time I was fully lucid, and keenly aware of my surroundings. I awoke (or rather asleeped?) into a dark room. I felt myself becoming frightened (a thing that only happens when my body temperature rises too high). I was having a nightmare. I attempted to get into a more lighted area by approaching a small row of dim lights, and closing my eyes right in front of them (causing a red glow through my eyelids). This did not work; when I opened my eyes, the room was still as black. Very nearly after this, I managed to "wake up", but upon doing a hand check, I saw six fingers on my right hand (I did not count but rather saw two groups of three). I saw my father who told me that I had been dreaming. Knowing this, I asked him to make sure that the blankets be removed from my waking body, that I may cool. He said it was done. I then saw my mother, and showed her my hands. I then counted my fingers. At first I again saw six fingers. But upon counting them, I counted seventeen fingers on my right hand alone. My fingers became a sort of green, black, and purple seaweed, still functional but very strange. At this point I awoke, but experienced a haze and sleep paralysis. I attempted to fight it off, but to no avail. So I submitted to returning to the dream, but then breathed more heavily and truly awoke (at least I passed the hand check and wrote this article).