lucid

I am walking in a park setting with a lot of people my own age. No specific dream sign sets me off to become lucid, but I have this weird feeling and it dawns on me. I glance around to see what my mind has created, mostly admiring the people. After that, I fold the plane of the dream itself like Ariadne did in Inception. This was definitely amazing. Next, I begin to lift cars with my mind by pointing one at a time. A tan car refuses to be lifted so I go over to investigate. Right about this time, I begin to lose lucidity. The setting begins to morph into a small house. There's a crazy old lady who attacks my brother and me.

edit: Now that I think about it, to remain lucid, I kept rubbing my hands together.

1/5/11

Last night I had this intense experience.. This time I noted it inside of my phone.. I was tired last night and went to bed.. quiet night and I fell asleep.. for some reason I woke up.. or so I thought I did.. don't know but opened my eyes to see someone over me as if ready to lunge towards me.. what I saw was a warrior over me.. I saw he was sleeveless and had a worn leather like breast plate on.. His hair was over his face since he was looking down and had a sword on one hand I felt the cold dark air felt warm .. I immediately started screaming and kicking.. I look again and see it was gone.. so here I am sitting up waving my arms in bed.. I had texted my bf and fell back to sleep.. so he shows me the text he got when he came in.. it said
" I just work up screaning.. weird".

Same exact spelling .. I was trying to say " i just woke up screaming but that is what I texted to him..lol..

Weird dream..

A warrior

Dream 1: Chased by zombies in timesplitters-esque mansion. I was with a group, but me and an old friend matt mueller found a tower room behind the large wall door that whipped open as zombies came through the door and caused several people in the group to shrink into to fear and not realize me and my friend found a door. me and matt went up to the tower room that had a staircase that curved rightwards, the building had large grey bricks for the build of it all. once we got into the room that had old arcade games, green cushion seats and a light of some sort. Matt talked about sharing a graduation party with me and Pat Frankenthal.

Dream 2: Mortal kombat between mileena and kung lao, i cant remember for sure if it was mileena though. They fought on stage that looked like hell from earthworm jim. then I became more involved in the dream, becoming semi-lucid as well. I was under them above shed, it seemed like I was teleported there. I then froze half the top of the partially red shed. Then I also used a low lying sheet of fire that quickly melted the ice(but there was no steam?)I then became more lucid than before and hopped down of the shed next to a large barn on a steep elevated hill. I swung both my arms around to try to gain energy from the atmosphere to create a windy ice energy ball, but my dream denied me and yielded no activity.... soon after I awoke.

Dream 1 date: unknown along with the others- in a bayou- like area that is apparently an amusement park, the dirt(or land) reminded of wood chips(due to the shade of brown they were) but they looked like wet wood chips. trees such as willows hung over the swampy area as I believe i arrived. I walked in and saw to murky water sections, on shallow one deep, I also saw tables to eat on in one area. I decided to go over to the deep water area and check it out. someone threw a airplane(white and red one) over the water and it came falling down in a deep spot of the water. this section of the amusement park was the creepy critter area, containing bugs of all sizes. I decided to go over to the shallow area. The shallow area contained crocodiles I beleive and my friends in my lunch group were in this area, ryan widdis, tommy and mike. ryan and tommy swam out quick but mike was having trouble and being followed by a swift crocodile, something soon came over me... I was dreaming I ran into the water which i don't remember feeling and mike just got away from the tiny crocodile that was about to attack. the crocodile seemed frustrated and opened its mouth in front of me, but it didnt open wide enough (thats what she said) I thrust my left leg up and came speeding down............. but i never hit the crocodile and kicked my dog that was on my bed instead on mistake. whoops. my dog was okay by the way.

Dream 2: asked brett to play Today by kota hoshino on our comp. in the living room. it played perfectly.

Dream 3: Yacht club. I crashed a yacht by resort, not much damage done though. I had a third person perspective on it all though.

Plans: My goals for this night included completing the Dreamviews task of the year that involves opening the Ark of the Covenant from the first Indiana Jones movie, I planned on doing this with Nomad. It seems Nomad remembered me doing that with him, but unfortunately, I don't remember the dream. I vaguely remember seeing Nomad in a fragment, which leads me to believe it was a true shared dream which I don't recall, but since I don't remember it I can't count it towards the task of the year. I also have the plan of completing the tree task for the Lucidity Powers Trials Club, since I have only four more nights to complete that and have it count. Again, epic fail. MoSh asked me to use a healing spell on a friend of his, Saim, who is a woman he has both spoken with online and dreamed with. This task I completed. Hmmm… one out of three goals completed… better than none, but not great.

I use my light / sound machine as I fall asleep and I slip directly into a WILD…

I am inside MoSh's inner world, inside his house. I look around and see that he is right there with Asuka, and both of them are looking at me as if they had been expecting me. I have to pause and think for a bit before I remember the reason why I might be there, and soon I remember that MoSh wants me to use a healing spell on Saim, someone he has been sharing dreams with recently. So I tell MoSh that if he can get me to Saim's dream, and it is ok with her for me to be there, I am ready to try a healing spell on her. MoSh says Saim could really use some positive energy, I say I will be glad to help with that. MoSh says he has to find Saim in a dream first, and the last place he saw her was in Hogwarts, so maybe we should look for her there. So I follow MoSh through the house and out a door into the grounds around Hogwarts school. We are heading up towards Hogwarts when I hear Hagrid say hi to us from off to the left, we stop and look over there. Hagrid seems to want to talk… he says we are doing great in the tournament, we're giving Hogwarts something to be proud of. He says Harry usually does that, too, except that Malfoy kid screwed things up for him in the second challenge. I tell Hagrid I don't think the blame goes entirely on either of them, when I saw them, they were both acting about as mature as a five year old. Hagrid doesn't seem to agree with that possibility, he says he knows the Malfoys better than I do, and… I tell him I know the Malfoys better than he may think. MoSh says we have something we need to do, so we had better head up to the castle.


MoSh and I go up to the castle, and we go inside, intending to look around for Saim. I wonder if there is really any reason to believe she will be here, or if we are just playing a hunch. I try to focus on finding her, though I'm not really sure what I am looking for, so it doesn't seem to be working very well. We look around for a while longer, then it turns out MoSh definitely knows where he is going, he finds her in one of the halls, it seems she is looking for him. She takes his arm and tries to lead him off somewhere. MoSh says I am there to help her get some extra positive energy going. So I use the song spell "You Are Loved" by Josh Groban, which transfers positive energy to Saim in the form of golden and blue energy. Once that is done, MoSh and Saim are over there talking to each other, so I just kind of slip out. I head out of the castle and start wandering around the grounds, feeling very much alone. So I find a spot behind the castle where there aren't any people, a place where I can just sit down and be alone. I spend a bit of time wallowing in self-pity, feeling sorry for myself for the fact there is no one out there for me in my waking life… I am just sitting there by myself and letting out some negative energy by crying when I hear someone behind me, there is someone else here?! That is not good… I hear Draco behind me saying it took forever to find me, what was I doing back… at this point I turn around to look at who is there, at which point Draco stops in the middle of his sentence, he asks if I am crying. I get up quickly and say of course I'm not, then I head quickly around a corner before waking myself up.

I remember all of these DC's were worried about something that happened, and they thought I was going to go on a rampage. Whatever it was, it had already slipped my mind, and I think it got to them more than it got to me. I also remember seeing my cousin, and some accident happened involving someone else's vehicle. There were other DC's that kept asking me if I wanted to take punitive measures in order to get money from the situation, and I had to tell them no about three times.

There was also a brief amount of studying involved where I was looking at three words that were identical, and they all had nearly the same meaning.


I think this is a direct reflection of how I've been lately. Things happen, but I move on, and I'm not trying to take it out on anyone.

Randomness
0559: This one is hard to explain. I remember it made sense in the dream but makes no sense now. Just going to dump my handwritten notes: Michael from TV The Office. Halloween skit. Tape record interview about haunted fishing boat or something. Supposed to be 30 minutes but goes over 2 hours. Speaking in southern accent. Describe Bryce character who is a zombie or serial killer or something. He wears bright blue overalls and a bright red hat. Then move in front of audience to all of a different some on the boat.

Summer School, Car Search
0939: This seems to be a occasional recurring dreamplot for me: going to school and then searching for my car in a parking lot. Summer school math class. It's Friday. Pay tuition on Monday. Teacher gives us oven trays with French fries and tacos to take home for homework. One guy raises his hand. The teacher anticipates his issue. He is a vegetarian. The teacher give him a bowl of just fries instead.

Class ends and I leave. It's bright day outside. Teacher walks with me toward the parking lot. Parking lot looks like my elementary school. Teacher has a Tylenol PM sticker on his car. We part. I can't find my car in the parking lot. The lot is almost empty. Some one moved it to the nearby residential street. I hand my keys to some guy, like he's a valet. He hands them back to me. Then I walk to a nearby woman who says she had to move my car.

I go looking for my car, pressing the lock button so that the alarm beeps. Now the area seems more like around my high school. I briefly see old elementary school friend Jason, also looking for his car. I finally find my car. I open the trunk and lay the math homework oven tray inside, which I have been carefully holding this whole time. A stray dog jump in to the trunk.

Lonely WILD
Method WILD
Lucidity B
Vividness C
Control C
I wasn't visualizing this time. Instead I was imaging the sink-through-the-bed feeling. I feel my head sink slightly, as if in the gap between two pillows. I only use one pillow so I know I've transitioned into the dream. But I can still feel the stiffness of my physical body so I wait. After a moment, I start floating like an OBE, without intention or control. I float feet-first off my bed, still in a supine position, and toward my bathroom. I float into the bathroom and my body automatically shifts and moves into a seated position. I float down to sit on the toilet. I notice the bathroom is arranged wrong. The toilet is facing the door. It's where the shower should be.

So now the dream seems stable and I can move my own limbs. I stand up and walk out of the bathroom back into my bedroom. It's mostly dark. My room is full of tall lamps, all turned off. They all look the same: a tall metal pole that splits into three sections, which loop back down and end with a light bulb and a decorative shade. I don't have a lamp like this but it seems familiar. Anyway, there are probably 20 of these in the room. I step carefully between them, like a bamboo forest. Very strange.

I recall my plan which is very simple: talk to a DC. Okay, but there is no one around. I step through the lamp forest to my dresser with the TV on top. I reach for the power switch but stop myself: No, this isn't the plan. I start to get logical: If I'm going to talk to someone I need to find someone first. I walk toward the door and say "More clarity! More excitement!" I see light from the crack under the door. I recall a similar scene from another LD that turned out well, so I am hopeful.

I burst through the door and into the living room, expecting to find someone of something. But no one is here. It's just my quiet living room, dimly lit by morning sunlight. Hmm. I feel lonely. End.

non dream dream lucid dream

here is the dream I had last night
I was walking on a road close to my house. Suddenly there was a big dog that looked really angry. I stared at it for a little while and then I realised it was gonna attack me. It lunged for me, trying to take a bite outa my leg. I didn't wanna hurt it but I could see I didn't really have much of a choice. So I hit it and then I tought. Wait, that dog's bark is weird! In fact, it sounds like me cough! (I have bronchitus) This is a dream! Then I became lucid. I jumped away from the dog and began flying!!! I flew all around town, it was like a birds eye view! It was so fun! Then I woke up.

Here is a dream I had a year ago. Last night's dream made me think of this one.
I was in my backyard, sitting next to a tree. And there was a male tabby cat sitting next to me. We were talking. I know, I'm a cat freak, and that's why I dreamed about a talking cat (haha!). Then suddenly the cat ran away and a big, black, evil wolf with gleaming red eyes appeared. I jumped up in sheer terror and clung to a tree. One of my feet slipped and I tried kicking the wolf. I hit it and it looked REALLY mad. I slipped and fell off the tree, right in front of the wolf. I kicked him again and he grabbed my left hand, biting it in the center and scratching it underneath the circle. Kinda like this o except imagine the line closer to the circle. Then the wolf ran away, leaving me laying on the ground, my hand _ bleeding like heck. The male tabby cat came back to me, his brown eyes gleaming with fear. (oh my gawsh I should write a story about this!!!!) He took me to another cat. It was a female cat. She had calico fur and green eyes. She put her paw on my bleeding hand and looked it over. She licked the blood away to reveal that the wounds were quite deep, the bite almost going completely through my hand, and that they were slightly infected. The male tabby looked at me seriously, and he said, "I must get something for this wound. Don't worry, I'll be back. Don't worry about me." Then he left, leaving me with the female calico. Her eyes watched the place where he'd left. It seemed like a long time passed, and he hadn't come back yet. We were very worried for the tabby. The calico looked at me and said, "He is not coming back..." I swear, there were tears in her eyes. My hand by then was almost totally purple and black from infection. I asked the calico, "What are we going to do." She said, "Nothing... We can do nothing." He eyes seemed to burn holes into me, her serious tone telling me that it was more serious than a wounded hand. Then suddenly the dream turned into blackness and I woke up. Immediatly once I woke up I looked at my left hand, it hurt so freaking bad when I woke up, but the pain quickly faded.

Here is another from 3 years ago I'd like to share. (my mom thinks the dream means something. Just wanna know what you guys think, because a few months ago, before I told her of my dream, she had a similar dream)
I was in a green van with my family. We were driving down a long road. Everyone in the van, my family, were depressed looking. I looked out my window, to the right, and I saw that there were blue and red tornadoes sucking up all the wheat in the fields and destroying everthing. There was a barn too, burnt and falling apart. But in the middle of all the destruction, there was a white calf, standing in the only patch of ground that wasn't destroyed. It was surrounded by light and the grass it was standing on was so green, with flowers surrounding it. I remember it all so clearly. Then I woke up.

did a wbtb and walked around for a few minutes. tiny smoke then back to bed. found myself lucid on top of a massive cliff/diving platform, so realised that i could just fearlessly throw myself off it and go and buzz my mates down below. only other bit i remember was looking at my surroundings in my front room and having them move as if i was tripping.

many long drawn out near lucids this week, but only a few moments of true wow lucidity

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID FALSE AWAKENING

Good morning! Got another lucid last night, but it was so short! I lost my lucidity and the dream continued on. Could have been a very cool one though. Anyways, the "2011 Dream Recall Challenge" has really spurred my recall it seems. I know it's because I've been sleeping so much, but it makes me more motivated.

03.30: Sleep

08.00: LAN
I'm at a large LAN party. My friends are at their computers and there are a few more guys there. We're all about to play some game like Civilization but two of the computers have frozen. I take a look at one of them. "Can't you just tab out?" I ask. Obviously it's just the screen that has frozen. "No, it's a virus" one of them tells me. I sigh and tell everyone to start the game. "Alright, the challenge is to build a penis shaped village" I say and laugh. No one seems to find this weird at all... They all start building the tip of the thing on a mountain with buildings that are all shadows. I spot someone doing it wrong. "No! You need to make it more round, and don't build across like that" I instruct.

08.00: Fragment
*I'm running around in a town similar to those of Assassins Creed. I see my character in third person and I'm being chased. More than ten people show up and I try to escape them by dodging to the left and right. They are too many though and they soon catch me. They beat the living shit out of me with sticks while I stand up and I fall down all limp and bloody.

08.00-08.30: WBTB

9.30: Counter strike MILD
I'm with my friend Eric. We're playing Counter Strike and it's in first person mode. We buy all our weapons and our team takes the elevator down a level. We take the other one but we go up instead of down. I realise I'm dreaming. I stop the elevator and tell Eric we're not going up. I push the button to go down again. "Don't do anything, the elevator is tricky in dreams" I tell him as I hope the elevator won't get stuck. It feels smaller and I touch all the walls with my hands to stabilize. The elevator isn't going fast but after a while we reach the first floor again and we get out. I look around and spot a dark door and try to open it.

I lose my lucidity. We break down the door and end up in a huge, dusky warehouse. There's old stuff lying around everywhere and I tell Eric he needs to equip his gun. I give him a bag with an MP5 in it. He won't take it. "Fuck's sake! Take the damn gun!" I tell him angrily and shove it into his arms. I give him two clips of ammo aswell. My brother Martin and two of his friends are in that warehouse I see. They start shooting at us with BB guns. Eric starts shooting back and I keep close. We walk through the place.

I throw a pair of protective eye wear to him. I run away from the battle to a table. I need to fill my clips with bullets and gas. I spot my friend Henrik next to me. "If you shoot me I'll fucking punch you in the face" I tell him. He tells me he won't as he's shooting Eric instead. Everyone laughs as Eric goes down. "We are using sour cream as a propellant" Henrik tells me.

10.45: FA
I wake up and look at my clock. "14.15" It's almost dark outside. "Oh shit... I'm exhausted and it's already this late..." I think.

10.45: Blind date dinner
I'm at my friend G's house. Eric is there and he's preparing food for our date with two girls. I'm supposed to be a wingman or something I guess. The grill looks awesome, on it are two skewers filled with juicy meat and vegetables. One is already lying on a plate on the table. I grab a fork and knife and cuts a piece.



"It's a bit too rare for me" I say as it's almost red in the middle. Eric hands me a small cracker with roe on it. I eat it and comment on how unmanly it is. He hands me another small dish, it's cucumber with some kind of dressing on top. They both taste nice though.
The dream skips. I'm sitting at the table now with G's sister infront of me, and Eric on my side. We're waiting for the girls to arrive. Two girls show up all of a sudden. "I guess I should introduce myself" I say and start to rise. "That's not them, those are Sandra's friends" Eric tells me. I sit back down.

"What if they are too hot? I've already got a girlfriend, that might suck" I think for myself. Two girls enter the front door and from where I am, they look to be very hot. One's got a white dress with a nice cleavage. I start eating food. Before they sit down I have almost finished my plate. I've got my headphones on one ear and Eric tells me to greet the girls. I look up and to my relief, they are not good looking at all. One of them even has a baby on her hip. I barely say hi.

12.15: Bastard
I'm in a car with my dad. It seems as if we're driving Monica's car. The small red car is having some engine problems it seems as it splutters and shakes. The car dies and we get out. The house we stopped at was apparently one we had to do something in. We enter the house without taking our shoes off, a crazy woman greets us. She hands my dad half a bun and takes a bite off another one, which she hands me. My mom starts complaining about how disgusting it is to wear shoes indoors. I get out of the house and sit down at a swing. Some black haired boy is there and apparently there's something wrong with him. He's a bastard and my brother. I feel guilty for some reason. We talk some, but I can't remember about what.

13.30: Porno
I'm walking down the road outside of my appartment. Monica's with me and her friend Emo. I start talking about some porno I want to remember. Apparently I know the names of all the different porn actors and I name them all. Monica seems to recognise the names and tells me what kind of movie it is. I leave my computer headphones in the snow next to the road and Emo unlocks her bike. She hadn't really locked it, just put a metal bar through the tires.

13.30: Wtf
I'm sitting at my computer and Monica's in the shower. I can hear someone moaning and I realise it's coming from the shower. I walk to the door and sneak a peak through the crack. I can see Monica behind the curtains and she's touching herself. I walk back to the computer and I notice she's been on a forum. "Weird dildo's" the topic says. I scroll down and spot a fleshy one with tentacles sticking out in all directions. A superman dildo is just below it. "Uhm okay" is all I manage to say.

13.30: Fragment
*I'm squeezing two pimples. They are very deep ones.

13.30: Wake up

Amount of sleep: 9½ hours

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

That's it! MILD is working great for me atm. I've had intentions of becoming lucid and lucidity I achieved! I might try to get up earlier tomorrow to rebound my REM for friday morning, last "dream day" of my vacation. Will use galantamine to try to induce a lucid then.

Keep on dreaming, HARE BRA!

1/4/11: Sometimes I don't even understand why I get dreams like this: one where you're running around in circles and running into random people that seem very attractive--and the setting is in a big building. Recently I've been having dreams where there's been some sort of hybrid when it comes to these big buildings: Some are colleges mixed with apartments, while some are independent high schools--next to apartments.

In one scene, I'm in a dorm inside the body of someone who thinks there has been a failure/cheating. The roommate's had enough of his/her conspiracies.

"You've got 30 seconds to explain to me what you're talking about." she replies. She looks a lot like Hollywood actress Alicia Silverstone in the face, only younger. I haven't seen ANYTHING movie-wise starring Alicia Silverstone in over 15 years, and I'm 24 now.

After this, the "running around in circles" thing continued as a different character, running into random people and offices, even accidentally sitting on what appears to be a conveyor belt. I land on the ground, luckily, and on my own two feet.

I'm guessing this part of the dream came when I thought about doing some JoJo's Bizarre Adventure fanfiction starring a character who has a Stand similar to series main character Jotaro Kujo, Star Platinum, and this was likely everything he (the fanfic character I created) saw, along with the college scene belonging to a character from another work of mine, Tracy Weston.

A Stand, as many people who are fans of the JJBA comic book series know, is basically a supernatural power. Out of all the "bizarre" dreams I've had, I'd have to say this is one of the top ten, though I don't really see what big buildings have to do with JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. One of my goals in life is to be an author, and I think this dream might have been what I needed to get going. I'm new to this JJBA thing, so I guess I'd better read more in order to understand what's going on in each of the arcs.

DELETED

Non-lucid, 'Video-game-controller mode' [see side notes], Lucid, [Commentary made while awake]

My dad and I are on a bicycle ride together. I've just checked out a thick paperback book from the library, and it's in the rack on the back of my bicycle.

I'm outside a movie theater in Florida, with my mom. Directly across from the entrance to the theater is a small kiosk where you can get drinks in plastic cups. She and I get some drinks from it for the whole family.

False awakening in my current real room. I hear the sounds of people shouting something about a surfer dude, and decide to follow the shouting out to the creek, but decide not to wake my parents. As I'm walking out of the house, I see that there's a bunch of writing in thick, black letters on the back wall of the dining room, as well as several papers with more writing on them taped to that wall.

I'm entering an upstairs apartment. My uncle is there.

I'm walking past a junior high school. I see a large group of kids in PE uniforms setting off on a run around the perimeter of the school.

I continue walking, and my route takes me along the street in my old neighborhood that goes around the edge of the park. I'm going in the direction of House #2. I turn around and see a tiny, cartoon kid with a BB gun standing behind me on the sidewalk. I'm a little worried that he's going to shoot me with the BB gun, but in the end, I ignore him and continue walking.

I reach House #2. In the garage, floating vertically in midair, is a menu of choices, like on a DVD. They say something like 'imaginary ideal' and 'reality' [I think; I don't really remember.] I select the former first, and find myself standing in my bedroom at House #2. The room is arranged the way it was in reality, but everything in it is completely white. [I really wouldn't call that design choice 'ideal.' However, when I lived there in reality, almost everything in that room really was white, and I was pretty happy living there.] I return to the menu, and this time, I select 'reality.' After making this selection, I find myself back in the same bedroom. It's still arranged the way it was in reality, only now the bed has a green bedspread with flowers, kind of like the one I have right now in reality [which I bought when we moved to House #3], except that the pattern is bigger and bolder.

I look out the window of my room and see a wide view of rolling grassland, with a lot of people walking around all over the place. There's only sunlight shining on one small, roughly circular section of the scene, though; the rest is in shadow. I speak aloud to the scene, saying something to the effect of, “It should be sunny all over the whole scene!” The sunlight spreads to cover the whole scene.

The scene shifts without my noticing it. The window of my room is now a doorway that opens onto a scene of an arctic landscape, with a wide, shallow pool of water in it. [An aside: After all those times I complained last month about the lack of snow in my dreamworld, I finally had a dream with snow in it, and not only did I completely fail to remember that I was supposed to make a snowball and hit somebody with it, but that Task of the Month is over now, anyway! Argh.] I walk out into the scene. From the far side of the pool, I step into the water, trying to walk on it, but I quickly give up the attempt because I get scared away by an orca and a walrus approaching me through the water. I walk back out. I then get the impression that they weren't really threatening me, after all. I go back toward the house. My mom is standing outside the doorway, and I tell her she can watch me do this if she wants to. I start walking back toward the pool of water again, concentrating on continuing to walk forward, straight into the pool, while believing that the surface of it will be just as solid to me as the ground is. It doesn't work; I end up standing ankle-deep in the shallow water again. [That's all I remember.]

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Side notes:
I'm really not sure for how much of the above sequence of events I was actually asleep and dreaming, and for how much of it I was awake and actively using my regular old imagination. I felt like I was doing the latter for at least part of it, hence the green text, which I always use to indicate a sort of half-awake, half-dream state where I know that I'm using my imagination like a video-game controller to control what happens. The division between green and purple text (indicating a lucid dream) is mostly an arbitrary guess. Then again, I was definitely aware that I was dreaming by the end, so it's entirely possible that I really was dreaming the entire time, and that's what dream control feels like. If so, that's really cool! I really advanced a lot in the area of dream control last night. I will have to experiment with this further.

I'm mildly annoyed, but not at all surprised, to discover that verbal commands work really well to control my dreams. As much as I love Inception and would love to be able to alter the dreamscape just by thinking about what I want to happen, that idea is relatively new to me. I've been a Star Trek fan for years, so it's not surprising that the older and better-entrenched idea that one can change one's surrounding environment by giving verbal commands, like they do when using the holodeck on Star Trek: TNG and later series, would take precedence over the newer idea that one can change one's surrounding environment just by thinking about it. Now that I know what works for me, though, I guess I'll go along with it.

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1/3/11

Nonlucid
This girl and I were riding bicycles through a building that was not completely built yet.
Next we were on the grassy ground laughing about it all. This is when I saw she was Penelope Cruz.
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She rolled on the grass and I tossed a blanket end over to her. She gave a mock surprise and I said "it was the wind." She laughed and rolled herself up in the blanket till it was even over her face. I rolled her onto me and said "your on me supported be my body" but there was no answer and no thoughts coming from this pile of sheets. She was not in there and this was just a replicated pile of bed sheets.
I wanted to go somewhere new and then I was walking into an office with someone like Penelope Cruz. I stood in front of the desk and she walked behind the desk sat in the chair and put her feet up on the desk. The man and woman who just walked in too looked astounded at us and we couldn't be happier.
Woke up and committed it to memory.

1/4/11
Dream 1: The Enclosure.
Partly lucid

I was walking through a field and thought about hunting then I thought I saw a large flightless bird and said "I think I'll hunt quail. Ha yeah I'll hunt quail!" It seemed funny to me given how small and the birds are and can't even fly. When I came to a large earthen wall, like the kind made out of mud bricks with mud pasted over it. I hopped up on the wall and yelled mockingly "I will have a quail!"
Coming down off the way I saw it was some kind of enclosure and where I was at was the corner of the enclosure and the walls when far off into the distance. I saw a crack in the ground here which I didn't want to fall into. I went out into what looked like an African Savannah. There was a side of the enclosure that was for people where no animals were. I walked quite a bit looking at the grasses till I came upon a place that's like the diners they have at zoos so you can wash up and eat.
Standing outside the diner where some people I knew, they had been waiting. We said hello and talked a bit and I stuck close to the attractive short haired brunette. She was a little surprised by this. I showed her into the diner and she was surprised by this too. Then we sat at a small metallic table and I asked her how she was. She knew what I was going to ask and said "OK" before I even finished. I thought of something to say quickly, "So hows... your wor" "Great... yep." she said looking awkward. I didn't know what to say she kept cutting off my thoughts. We sat in silence for a minute. "Well don't let me keep you." I said abruptly. "oh Thanks" she said with a half smile and got up. "let me see you out."
Instantly I was back at the place I came into the enclosure. This time I remembered not only the first time I had been here before but there were other times I had been here. Excited, I ran out into the Savannah with the animals. I ran besides gazelles and saw giraffes and other animals off in the distance. I saw a lion and was afraid if I looked at him he may come over to me so I kept running and ran next long hill on the human side of the enclosure. After a bit I knew I was coming to the same diner area as before but this time I saw only 2 of my friends from before and the short haired girl was gone, and, this time I saw the 2 a little before the diner area too. "hey guys" I said, they waved a bit. They were saying something like "are you having fun" and I saw the short haired girl come out of the mist that was forming and she said "Well if its not the stud!" This was a bit of a surprise and I wasn't sure she was talking to or about me, I even thought it may mean my fly is open! I looked down at my fly area and saw I was squeezing an orange stress ball but that was it. I started feeling a little shy and silly about that as she said hello to the others.
The short haired girl and I walked off so she could leave and we could say good bye. We came to a train and we said some good byes but then there was a staircase going up that had a lot of people on it and I just had to see what this was all about. We walked up it into a big long line going into a warehouse looking building. The line wound around several staircases and a girl managing the line at the top said "everyone over here move over!" We moved over into the line nearer the door. I remembered this was a large paintball shooting fest going on inside from the last time I was here.
Woke wrote down key elements.

Dream 2: The Shape
nonlucid
Some friends and I were outside a dept store in the parking lot and 2 guys who had just participated in a competition came walking towards us. One was the winner and he held a blue wire cube on a black little board as he grinned. The other guy sadly through his thing on the ground. I picked it up and looked at it, it was called The Shape and was a fluid that could change into many different shapes just by thinking it and on its own. It was like it was a part of my hand I could feel it moving into links and then tiny ropes. We when into a grocery store and the Shape as I was looking at it in my hand climbed onto a light fixture and was making all kinds of funny shapes.
This is when I remembered this dream before. The last time The Shape went up into the lights and I became frightened that the shape was going to kill everyone and ran out of the store.
Remembered this and forgot this repeatedly throughout the day.

Plans: For tonight the main plan was to go to Hogwarts and complete the second challenge in the Tri-School Tournament. There is still another challenge for the Lucidity Powers Trials Club, and I am deciding if I am going to take on the Tasks of the Year from the DV forums or not. Some of them sound like interesting situations, though nothing really sounds like a serious challenge. And there are the two Hogwarts schools I have been visiting, not just the one. I used my light/sound machine to successfully slip into a WILD.

I am in the dorm room at Hogwarts, and I immediately realize I am dreaming because I am at the beginning of a WILD. I see the others in my room are already heading downstairs to the common room. Andie says she was just going to check to see if I was still alive in there. I said yeah, and I'll be right down, so I get dressed really quickly and hurry down to the great hall where breakfast is being served. Draco is in a singularly bad mood, he says having to be partners with Potter is really annoying, great… Draco is bitching again. I tell him it is only one challenge, we can both get through one challenge. I have implied I don't like the situation that well, but I am really glad to be working with MoSh on this one. Draco says he will show Potter who the real wizard is. I tell him neither of them will look good if they fight amongst themselves… Draco doesn't respond to that, he gets up and leaves the great hall, leaving part of his breakfast still on his plate. I finish mine and then go over to say hi to MoSh before going to class. Harry and Hermione are both there, Hermione asks if I have seen Ron anywhere. I say no, I don't think Ron would want to be hanging around with me anyway. Harry tells Hermione she worries too much, Ron has no doubt run off somewhere to hide and sulk for a while. He'll be back soon.

Other than the fact Ron is consistently missing throughout the day, all of my classes go normally. Snape sees fit to announce that Ron's absence is merely an example of how unreliable the Gryffindor students really are, which makes a lot of people mad. Hermione asks McGonagall if she has seen any sign of Ron, McGonagall says she hasn't seen Ron since the previous day. Hermione seems more worried than ever, and while Harry says he is sure Ron is just being immature, he seems a bit worried, too. The classes are cut short for the day due to the challenge being in the afternoon, and we all meet outside at the Quiddich field. The exact challenge is revealed, there are dragons out there, the dragons are guarding their eggs. Of course the eggs they are guarding right now are fake, so no real eggs are at risk of being damaged, and there is also one golden egg amongst the other fake eggs. The goal of the task is to get in past the dragon and retrieve the golden egg. I meet up with MoSh and Hermione, since we are designated to be partners in this one. I see Draco and Harry a short distance away, it looks like they are already arguing about something… great… But they aren't my concern right now.

MoSh, Hermione, and I make our way through the short course to find the dragon is in a cave at the end of a narrow canyon. I notice that Hermione seems a bit distracted, apparently she is still concerned about Ron… MoSh suggests we get this done with quickly, he and I will distract the dragon, and she can just hurry in and grab the egg. Hermione says that is too dangerous, both MoSh and I dismissed that, saying we would be fine… Hermione just wants to get done and see if Ron is around anywhere, so she goes with the plan. I go to one side of the canyon, MoSh goes to the other side. We climb up the steep canyon walls and reach the top soon. I look back down towards the entrance of the cave and see the dragon standing there, looking around, vigilant for any possible intruders. I want to get his attention, so I summon up a broom to fly on, I don't want to announce too loudly that I'm from another world, and I fly down right in the dragon's face, the dragon responds by sending a blast of fire at me. I dodge out of the way of the fire and pull out away from the dragon. A blast of fire follows me from the cave as I fly up and past MoSh, who does something that sends the blast of fire right back at the dragon. That didn't actually hurt the dragon, but it definitely pissed it off, so the dragon comes out from the cave and heads up towards MoSh. I call down a bolt of lightning that hits the dragon, I know it won't actually hurt the dragon either… but it did piss it off some more. The dragon takes to flight and comes after me now, I fly into the sky with the dragon right behind me. I look back and see Hermione going into the cave, and she comes out with a golden egg. Ok, all done. We all go through a tunnel we used to get into the canyon, barely outrunning one more blast of fire as the dragon follows us to the tunnel and tries to toast us from behind.

There are a few more people disqualified from the tournament, though it looks like most everyone finished. In fact, if it wasn't for the fact one of the teams from one of the other schools didn't finish at all, Harry and Draco would have both been disqualified since they came in last place. Both of them are yelling at each other, blaming each other, calling each other idiots among other even less flattering names… to be honest, both of them looked about as mature as a little kid having a temper tantrum because they didn't get what they want. Hermione rolls her eyes when she sees them, she makes a comment about boys being immature. MoSh pretends to take offense at that, she says she present company excluded. She heads over to Harry and Draco, who are yelling at each other and even pointing wands at each other… I go over there, too, so I can get Draco to leave without actually getting into a magic fight with Harry… Hermione is doing the same thing with Harry… and we are successful in doing that. Although I end up getting quite an earful about how Harry tried using some hairbrained plan instead of listening to his plan, which would have definitely worked… I am figuring Hermione is getting the same story with Draco being in the role of moron…