lucid

I am standing in a field. Several houses surround the field, each made with dull orange bricks. It's quite a nice sunny day (a common theme in my dreams) but I feel sad. Apparently I had to go back to school. I saw my two friends, O and O walking past me quite happily. I walk towards where I know the school is, and turn into another field, this time with a football pitch. While walking accross, I join more people walking to school. Suddenly, a small blonde boy stands in front of me, smirking. I try and fail to get past him, and then I get hit from behind. A group of 12 year olds start beating me up, spinning me round, throwing me e.t.c. I'll teach the little f****** I think, but every time I try to throw a punch, I meet heavy resistance until I either stop short of them, or it hits with barely any force. They aren't actually hurting me, but its infuriating to not be able to do anything. I used to get bullied a lot (though never physically, thank god) and this used to be a common theme in my dreams . One of my friends, B, calls "I thought you said fighting Year 7's was easy!" They find my struggle hilarious, and eventually throw me at the ground and go off to play football. I walk away to take an alternate route: a small path running down the side of the field, seperated by a small hedge. I find a stick, hop on and zoom along about a meter off the ground. Suddenly, I see a floating stick in front of me, blocking my path. I think to myself, "If I were lucid right now, that stick would..." and BLAM! POW! THOCK! THWUMP! HEDGEMONY! I become lucid. The stick seems to be some kind of evil force, trying to manifest in the stick and morph to a form more dangerous to me. As it dramatically gathers itself, I just bluntly grab it out of the air. No evil in my dreams...well, other than my evil. I smile wikedly to myself. I wonder how those Year 7's will cope with a lucid warrior? Righteous fury welling inside me, I fly dramatically over the hedge and make a beeline for the football pitch where I can see the perpetuators. The dastardly curs! And then, the dream changes and I loose the little lucidity I had. The rest of the dream involves me placing presents in giant christmas stockings. Still, at least I had a new years lucid!

I was walking with my family down a snowy road with a video game disk in my hand ( idk why..) . Then I dropped it and it somehow floated and hit a train. It didn't break so I picked it up. Then we walked to a random concession stand and I got a burrito. After that I walked to a hotel where I saw myself in window, that was when I gained control of the dream. I stabilized it, then Looked back in the mirror and saw a weird looking guy in a mask behind me. Sadly then I woke up...

I was walking with my family down a snowy road with a video game disk in my hand ( idk why..) . Then I dropped it and it somehow floated and hit a train. It didn't break so I picked it up. Then we walked to a random concession stand and I got a burrito. After that I walked to a hotel where I saw myself in window, that was when I gained control of the dream. I stabilized it, then Looked back in the mirror and saw a weird looking guy in a mask behind me. Sadly then I woke up...

I was in my schools lounge fighting with one of my classmates ( he didnt stand a change). The building was flying on top of clouds because there was some sort of zeppelin on top of it. There was also a door that led to a balcony. There were four ropes attached to the balcony, two on both sides, and the other ends were attached to the other side of a gap. There were students crossing the gap using the ropes. When my turn came, I got scared that I would fall and turned back. When I got back in, I was going to a cafeteria with some of my classmates, when I realised i was dreaming (finally). I run up some stairs to a clothe store and looked for a door so I could get away from that place (there were lots of doors, but they said "authorised personel only". Im an idiot). I woke up soon after that.

I don't remember anything from early in the night because I slept through the night without waking up at all. The only dream I remember is the last one I had. Anyway, I was at church or something and the priest giving the sermon was talking about how he had been drunk the previous night while writing the sermon. Everyone laughed with him about it while I sat there confused. (Didn't RC... D The dream transitioned to something else. It was weird. The whole area I was in was a huge platform with 2 train tracks. They were parallel to each other and running off the platform in both directions. The area was infested with zombies. I was riding one of the trains into the platform dropping zombies with an M21 like from Left for Dead. I was riding with my legs dangling off the side of the train car so when it moved over the platform, I hopped off dropping zombies as I ran. There was a really attractive girl I wanted to get to know sitting on the other train. After I called out "Clear" to indicate there were no more zombies in the immediate vicinity, I turned around to find the girl and talk to her, only to find the train was departing. I had a though cross my mind, "oh well, maybe I'll see her next week". Memory gets a little hazy at this point but the dream kinda turned into a mix between BF:BC2 and Counterstrike. I was trying to swap equipment packs with someone else by dropping it on the ground and picking up theirs (Just like in bc2). We made our way off the platform into a marshy area below. We were well hidden and I took aim at some combatants above us. Just as I was about to drop one of them, I got hit. I didn't feel a bullet slam into me, but it was more of a vibration like from a Xbox controller or something. I stepped down and looked around for a health pack to heal me. Not finding one, I took a position behind some shrubbery and proceeded to find and engage targets on the ridge.

Now here's where things get hazy. I'm not sure if I really woke up or had a false awakening here. I found myself in my bed, still tired and still wanting to go back asleep. I decided to try to lucid dream so without moving I shut my eyes and focused on my mind's eye (Little technique I read about a few days ago). Every once in awhile, I'd lightly wiggle my body to see if I had control of my dream body yet. It didn't take long amazingly. I was in control of my dream body but in void limbo. I was trying to bring myself into a 3D environment but it just wasn't working. Instead I tried conjuring up a 2D environment, the game "Osmos" I played Osmos in my head for a few minutes, the graphics seemed very much like the actual game though there was some discrepancy as blobs were disappearing and changing size the second they left the focus on my vision. Once thing became more clear and I was actually using my hands to manipulate the game, I looked up and around me. I sat on my family room floor (the floor being turned into a screen). The lights were on and it was dark outside. I took a few seconds to clarify the environment around me, even running my fingers over the plaster wall. I decided to try to summon a DC. My initial attempt failed so I decided to explore the house to find one. I called out a few peoples names to see if they'd show up but nobody did. I got to the stairs and began ascending them. The upstairs landing was gone. I had to make a jump from the stairs to my room over ~ 10 meters away. I tried once and failed then remembered I could easily defy gravity. I walked beneath my room on the 1st level and jumped up. I grabbed onto the door frame and began hoisting myself up. That's when a bright light entered my vision. I stared at it a second then realized it was my real bedroom window and I had woken up.

American Psycho Playground
0524: I am in what seems to be a school playground in the middle of nowhere. Sandboxes, grassy areas, pull-up bars, chain-link fences, and so on. Christian Bale from American Psycho is here, chasing me and other people. Somehow he gets stabbed and falls to the ground. He calls an ambulance. The rest of us run and hide behind cover. He can't move but he's still throwing sharp things like knives and and pencils. One almost hits me. He is covered in blood. I'm not very afraid though. Just cautious to dodge the projectiles.

short WBTB, just long enough to drink a glass of water with a B-complex supplement

fragment
In bed, notice the nearby electrical outlet. It's making a noise like running water. I remove the plug from the top outlet and move it to the bottom, thinking that will somehow help.

fragment
My mother is in the next room. I overhear her talking to herself. She says that I was talking in my sleep.

Vivid Lucid With Some Tasks
Method DILD (prospective memory), DEILD
Lucidity B
Vividness A
Control B
1134: Begin recall in my bathroom. The light is off and the door is open. Dim morning light coming through my bedroom window. I remember my own advice to look at my hands and count my fingers. At first they appear normal but I stare at them for a moment. A finger on my left hand starts to look distorted and wavy. Bingo, I must be dreaming. I also notice the orientation of the bathroom is backwards compared to the real one.

I walk out the bathroom, through my bedroom, and on into the living room. There I see my father laying on the ground between the couch and coffee table. He's wrapped in a robe, like he's sick. I ask him a question, but move on. I peek in my roommate's room, but he's not there. I haven't stopped to think of a plan, so I'm just wandering aimlessly.

I exit the front door and find myself in an unfamiliar stairway. I go down one flight and pass by two young women. I think I said to them: "Oh, you're pretty, and so are you." They are carrying piles of clothes. I reason that they are moving in to the building. I stop on the landing of the floor below. It's covered with boxes and more clothes everywhere. I say aloud: "Wow, this place is really messy." Then I think: Wait, this is my place. It is my own dream in my own mind. Maybe the mess is symbolic. I pick up some of the clothes to get a closer look. They are actually neatly folded. I say aloud: "I guess I like my place like this." I'm not sure what I meant by that.

Now I exit the building and find myself in yet another unfamiliar setting. The building I was in is at the top of a rather steep hill. I am looking down a narrow street that goes down the hill with buildings, trees, and alleys on either side. It's only wide enough for foot traffic, no cars. I'd guess it looks a bit like San Francisco more than Los Angeles. Anyway, it's bright day and many people are on the street, going in and out of shops and sitting at cafe patio tables.

About half way down the hill, there is an awning that catches my attention. I think to fly and land on it. I start to fly but sputter and lose height. I land under the awning. I sit down at a cafe patio table. Also at the table is a young man with dark brown "bedhead" hair and a scraggly beard. In a hip way, not an ugly way. He's holding an Amazon Kindle. He's talking to a nearby waitress. Neither of them see to notice my presence.

Dream fades. I DEILD back.

I'm back at the same cafe patio. The man with the Kindle stands up and walks away, never having noticed me. I stand up and now have more lucidity and control. I walk to the middle of the street and look around, thinking of what to do. I'm a bit distracted as I notice a older woman standing at a podium nearby. Maybe the hostess of a restaurant. Or maybe she's selling something. I snap back into focus and remember a few tasks. Meditate. Hmm. Risky. I decide I'm not ready for that. Laugh. I can do that. I enjoy a big loud "HA HA HA!" in the middle of this busy street. Everyone stops and turns to look at me. The noisy chatter turns dead quiet. Am I embarrassed? No, surprisingly.

Now I have everyone's attention. What next? Cry and pick a fight. Not sure why I thought of these two things together. I look around the crowd and pick out the biggest, meanest guy. He's a tall, wide, Samoan-looking guy. I look up at him and taunt him with a childish "Boo hoo!" crying gesture. Then I punch him in the face with a right hook. He punches back but I block with my left arm and counter with another right. He tries a few more times but I block and counter-punch again and again. He swings once more, loses his balance and falls. I place one leg on him, like I'm posing on top of a mountain.

I start to think what to do next, but the dream fades.

(My recall has been shit, lately. Really nothing but a few fragments, here and there.)

12/21/2010
Fragment
All I remember is some kid drinking from the bottle of vodka that was on my desk.



12/22/2010
Fragment
I was on a ship that was being rocked by massive waves. Standing on the deck, holding on for dear life, I was being relentlessly tossed back and forth, while someone looked on, from the shore (or a rock formation or something).



12/23/2010
Fragment
I was discussing the Saw series, with my mom. She didn't understand the plot of the movie(s), and I was telling her about Jigsaw, and his twisted sense of "justice," as his reason for doing the things that he did.



12/24/2010
Fragment
I was hanging out with J and her ex boyfriend. J and I were really close, and were sitting on the floor, hugging on each other. They were together in the dream, though, and her boyfriend (also a good friend of mine) wasn't to happy about it. He made it a point to get between us and space us out a bit.



12/26/2010
Fragment
Something about being on a boat/dock at night with friends...and gun-play. I dunno.



12/27/2010
Fragment
I remember being lucid, and looking at my hands to stabilize the dream. The topography of my hands had dark patches on them that were kind of swirling around, slowly, like the blots on Rorshach's mask, in Watchmen. At one point, I sunk my arm into a wall, up to about my elbow, and pulled it back out. I vaguely remember walking across a short body of water, my feet just barely sinking, about an inch or so, beneath the surface. I also vaguely remember having sex, and then standing on a structure, over top of the chick, and trying to recall the events of the dream so that I don't forget when I wake up.

(But, unfortunately, I forgot. )



12/28/2010
Fragment One
All I remember is having a bo staff spar with someone. I believe we were under a set of bleachers, and some kind of event.


Fragment Two
Todd and I had passes to actually be down on the launch pad, watching the shuttle being readied for launch. There was a set of chairs, for a small audience, set up in the pit, right beneath the boosters, and we were just looking on as the crew made the final preparations.

There was a TV set up, off to our left, which was showing some show about the safety of the workers, showing footage of exactly what these guys do, and how meticulous they are about procedures. It also, however, showed what happens to the shuttle crew while they are in space, and the guidelines they have to follow, up there, as well. I remember a section on oxygen supply, and it showed an astronaut's suit pressurizing, and his head exploding, inside of his helmet. It was pretty graphic; a quick splash of red just popping outward and coating the glass bubble.

After preps were made, we went out to a safe distance, to watch the actual launch. I pulled out my phone, and was video recording the entire walk - from directly beneath the boosters, all the way out to where the rest of the crowd was - not wanting to miss a bit of it.

I vaguely remember watching the launch, but don't really remember any details of it. Later in the dream, though, we had taken a four-wheeler and were riding around areas of the space center that we weren't supposed to be in, being chased by personnel.



12/29/2010
Fragment
All I really remember is being with a chick and the two of us having to run away from a pair of UPS(like) trucks, which had chain-guns in the back, and were firing at us. We then went to some house and had sex on the floor.

At first I was on the computer, chatting with Stone or something. My mom had seen it and apparently asked him who he was. He said that he was someone from WC3. I was scared that she would get angry. When she asked me about it, I just sort of evaded the question.

Then I was at a bus stop at at intersection. I was watching the lights change. Somehow it occurred to me that I was dreaming.

I wanted to change the scene, so I jumped up and span around. The scene whipped around me, and I was at RA field. I had just realized what I had done, and wanted to change it again. I was feeling adventurous, so I decided to try to change it to an arctic scene, among the glaciers. Stupidly, I closed my eyes to try to change it. I could actually feel the dream slipping; I knew if I opened my eyes I would wake. I kept them close and conjured the scene again in my head. I was on the hill now.

I span around trying to imagine this scene in front of me, but it wouldn't change. I screamed, demanding it to appear, but it would not do. I then decided that maybe traveling to it would make it appear.

I had gotten on the hill from RA field to the park. I jumped down it and straightened myself out. At first I just fell, but near the ground I urged myself to fly. And I did, floating up and above the land beneath me.

I was getting irritated now. I sort of jumped a little and gave myself a boost; the next thing I knew, I was speeding fast across the sky. Ahead of me were some houses covered in snow. Closer, I thought, but I guess I need to go more north. I turned around and saw my mother flying behind me I thought that I would have been going too fast for her. I was really irritated at her for some reason; she seemed like the reason I couldn't get to these glaciers. I then shot some fire at her (for once, successfully), and then gave myself another boost forward.

I passed over yet another set of houses covered in snow before the dream faded on me.

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At first I was looking at all these pictures of art, seemingly from DA, online. If i pressed certain buttons each one would come alive. I was fiddling with this for a while.

Then I was in some WC3 game. It was a spiral grassy map, as I could see from above. When I zoomed in, I became me.

I ran around the plane for a bit. The point of the game was to make card decks, and then duel with them. I started making a deck. I had a deck with a lot of wolf summons, and a lot of buffs for them. The game automatically made the cards into random elemental categories. Each deck could only have 3 categories. At the end I browsed through the cards.

Upon entering another dream, I was playing the same game, but this time it was more of a duel style. You started off dueling one person, and when you beat them you would automatically join in another duel as your own force. All of the battles happened at the same time.

I had picked some random deck that I somehow knew was good. At first they were going to play Speed with them, but then they took the duel game.

Some of my units were shades with some really strong attack that caused them to multiply when hit or something. As I kept getting gold, I upgraded all the stats that I could. They were melee, so I took a ranged upgrade and quickly dominated the game.

As this game ended, I was back at another one. I had forgotten which deck I had chosen last time, and was browsing the wolf one I had made. I knew it was pointless unless it was a PvP game, so I looked back at the others and tried to find the previous one. Then the dream ended.

30.12.2010

My subconscious strikes me with a lighting and I trample some houses. (WILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I have been a big while without recording dreams here. I do have in fact a big pile of dreams, but I do not have time to write them down. Some good changes in my professional life are happening, and finally I will be able to work on a schedule.

I completed the ToTM for January, it took me four days this time! The longest I needed to complete one of these. Even on this one a little assistance from my subconscious helped me.

Here it goes:

- I woke up at 7am and I had a little more time to sleep, so I did. I woke up again and I told myself that is was going to be the 5th night without success. I closed my eyes and I started to see some mild hynogogic imaginary, so I tried to WILD, my least successful technique. The hypnogogic grew and I allowed it to happen. I saw some flashes and then I heard some noises. The dream formed on my head, but I could not open my eyes. I had no vision, just hearing and feeling.

I finally found myself into a dream. It was raining, there was a heavy storm and some people riding brooms fighting some aliens. I tried to fly with a little difficulty. There was an u.f.o. that pushed me down, but it got destroyed and I could fly better. Other of those u.f.os. made some sort of energy wave and pushed me to the clouds. A lighting bolt fell into the ground, very close to me. I avoided it because I thought I would wake up. A few lighting bolts tried to hit me without success. I finally got hit by one, realizing I did not wake up. On that moment I remember that I completed some old task of the month that was suggested...

I decided to land and remembered my advanced task of the month. Grow and trample all over. I placed my hand in the pocket with the intention of pull one of those pixelated stars from super paper Mario for Wii. Instead I pulled a mega-mushroom, however, it was small an fit in my hand

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I ate the mushroom and I started to grow in no time. I could hear the music from Mega Pixelated Mario from Super Paper Mario and I saw all the buildings tiny, in addition of some random Mario graphics such as blocks. I trampled over everything while I heard the music. The music ended after a while, but I did not loose my giant form. I felt it was funny that my subconsciousness skipped to shrink me back to my regular size.

Suddenly, I saw a building even bigger than me. I could not trample it, but I damaged the wall, so after a few seconds, I was able to make a hole in the wall. I saw three dream characters eating something on a table. I remembered I had to freeze them for the basic task, however, I was worried the clock was going to ring, I knew it was time to wake up. I said, "Frozen!" and I would release some white stuff from my hand into the man, but he defrosted at the very moment.
After a few attempts, I tried with, "Freeze" to the mom instead. He face turned blue, darker every time I said, "Freeze" The kid was crying saying, "Mommy is getting hurt." I continued saying, "Freeze" until the mom was frozen solid. Right after that I completed the task, I woke up.

During my very first minutes from waking, I was assured that Freezing someone was the basic task and getting struck by a lighting bolt was just a suggestion from older months. It took me a while to notice it was the opposite! Oh well, I completed both plus the advanced, so I am good

Where's your head at?- (youtube.com/watch?v=8md51JnCNFQ)

Had a wbtb this morning, which felt different from the others. Sleep paralysis came and went, but the hallucinations were odd. It was like my body was a puppet, being moved around by an amateur puppeteer. This messed with my transition routine, because it led to me opening my eyes prematurely and seeing my body lying there motionless.

I tried again, this time I was a little bit more patient. when the puppeteer moved my body and raised my right hand( like I was in class or something), I focussed. I imagined walking from one end of my room to the other, paying attention to tactile sensations in particular. I felt my couch, or imagined what that felt like. Then I was on my bed again, I knew this was a false awakening. I reality checked, using the nose pinch and it worked. I was now lucid. I remembered my current goal, to ask my subconscious something and get a verbal response. I rubbed my hands and calmed down, being aware of everything but not focussing on one thing. this works best for me, suddenly things were vivid.

I did a little dance/jumped around. I looked to my right and my laptop was mounted to the wall, no keyboard just the screen. There was a desk, with an old desk-top computer and my phone on it (there's no desk or desk-top in my room). I didn't know what to ask, so I asked my subconscious to play a song. The screen on the desk-top switched to you-tube, there was only one song on the list "The instrumental, by Lupe fiasco". I didn't click on it, I wanted to see if it would play by itself. Suddenly my laptop shows a video of the guy from scrubs, playing with a guitar. I turn back to the desk-top and try to type in something into the search box, but the keys turn into a calender with pictures. I give up, and turn away from the desk-top...then out of nowhere through unseen speakers....

WHERE'S YOUR HEAD AT?,
AT,WHERE'S YOUR HEAD AT?.......starts playing. I drop to the floor with uncontrolled laughter while singing along. someone turns the volume down, and a video starts playing on the laptop. Its of two guys on motorcycles somewhere, but they seem to be looking at me. I look out my window, its a sunny day and I feel like driving. (yes plane-airman..wanted to drive instead of fly)

I look back at the laptop "can you give me a Bugatti Veyron?" I ask. One of the guys in the video answers " yes, I can.......but not right now". I start laughing again, that's cool. Something tells me the dream is about to end, as if on cue my dad and sister burst into my room making a lot of noise. I'm smiling "welcome to my dream", I say as the dream fades and I wake up.



Summary:

well, I guess the subconscious can talk to you. On to the next goal, to ask for him/it? to tell me each time I'm dreaming..'(hopefully he wont refuse)

Wbtb seems to be working for me every-time I set a genuine intention to try it, I have had 15 lucids and so far its : Dilds-4, Wbtb-11...once I increase my awareness hopefully I can become lucid almost each night not just each morning...like some people on here.

I'm really happy, because I've had a new lucid dream. This one rocked, although I didn't quite get to do all the things I wanted to.
My top dream goal is to reach an amazing place, built from my imagination. I know every place in a dream is built from my imagination, but I want to go somewhere of my choosing.

My parents and I were in an odd, slightly medieval looking house.
The house was on a bank of pebbles, in a very shallow lake. Around the lake was a big cliff, so we were in a sort of basin.

After some unmemorable things happened in the house (something to do with losing a rubber ball I think), I went into the lounge, which had a door to the outside.
I suddenly gained awareness that I was lucid. I don't remember doing a reality check, but I may have done one and forgotten.
My thoughts went something like this:
"Am I dreaming? It's so realistic, just like waking life. Amazing."
I walked around the lounge, touching objects and looking at them close up.

Then, I stepped outside onto the dry pebble bank.
"Now it's time for some fun! I'll try exercising my powers" I thought.
I'd read about people using the kamehameha attack from Dragon Ball, so I decided to use that for practice.
With a confident attitude, I drew back my cupped hands.
"KAMEHAMEHA!" I shouted. A blue beam of energy fired away from me, and fizzled out.

Hah. Then I had another idea - I remembered they used hand signs in Naruto, so I thought anything was worth a shot.
I tried to form some hand signs, but I couldn't do them correctly. I managed to pull it off, however, because I shouted the name of a made-up attack as I did the hand signs.
It was something like:
"Landslide cliff destruction!"
It worked. The cliff face shattered - huge slabs of rock broke away from the cliff, and collapsed into the lake. This is where things got a little bad.
The mass of the rocks falling into the water caused the water level to rise in an exaggerated way. I ran back inside and slammed the door. The water level was as high as my chest outside, but luckily the door was water-tight.

Somehow, I ended up back outside, standing on the edge of the cliff, looking down on the lake. The lake seemed to stretch out for miles, with no end in sight. I find this in a lot of my dreams.
To lower the water level, I used a ninja hand sign and said something about the moon, and dragons. The main point was for me to convince myself that I was using a real ninja power. The water exploded in certain locations, releasing bursts of steam. In no time, it was drained of most of its water.
I decided to put it back to normal, not empty, not full, but just right.
Using another power, I sent spouts of water into the lake. That topped it up just right, so it was shallow but not empty.
I went back inside.

"Where can I go that's highly populated, so that I can speak with people and maybe cause some havoc? Somewhere I've not been before..." I pondered.
Then I realised - New York!
I attempted a dream spin for the first time.
I started spinning round and round, and I thought "New York, New York, New York", picturing the busy city streets in my head. It was surprisingly hard to keep the image there, and I had to concentrate hard to keep thinking about my destination.
I stopped spinning, and the last thing I saw was the interior of a prison cell, before I woke up.

So much for New York!

12/29/10 Happy Birthday MoSh!
Plans: MoSh wants to have a party tonight, I don't really feel up to it, but I will attend because it is for MoSh's birthday and I don't want to miss that. So now I am trying to think of a gift to get MoSh... Q has found some interesting information for Asuka if she will trust in it to work... basically it's a symbiant, it maintains a steady energy flow, in exchange it feeds off of a small portion of that energy to live. The purpose of the symbiant is to keep the host from losing control of their energy. And before that happens, Q is going to remove Walms' AoH since Asuka seems so paranoid about it…

Happy Birthday, MoSh! The Cake Has an Asuka Filling!
I am at a party, I look around and see quite a few different people around, though I don't immediately recognize any of them. I am lucid, though I don't remember how I became lucid. I remember the purpose of the party… it's to celebrate MoSh's birthday, so now I am looking for the birthday boy. I make my way through the party, there is music playing but I don't recognize the band, so I keep looking after I grab a Coke off of a table with various refreshments. I take a drink and discover it's a Coke and rum, but that's not a bad thing for me. I finally find MoSh, he is talking to a couple of people, I think one of them might be Nomad, though I don't actually get a chance to look really closely at him before he disappears. I get MoSh's attention, and I tell him I have brought him a big 'ol cake! I don't actually have the cake yet, but I figure that isn't a problem since it is a dream. I summon up a massive cake… what a cake…

there are multiple tiers and cupcakes around it and candles and it's brightly colored… and it wishes MoSh a "Happy Birthday" in big letters. It is like the cake here, but there aren't the gifts on top, instead it has a third tier. I summon that cake up and say "Happy Birthday" to MoSh as I present him with the cake. He looks at it, but before he even has a chance to respond, Asuka comes jumping out of the cake and lands right in front of him, completely covered with cake and laughing like a school girl. My cake… I look at the ruins of my cake all over the ground now, or at least part of it is on the ground… the rest of it is on Asuka… Asuka suggests MoSh eat the cake off of her, and adds that she is not wearing anything underneath… ok, that is definitely TMI. I form the mess back into the original cake, except for the part on Asuka… I would prefer to have a piece of cake that has NOT been in contact with Asuka's ass… With that thought in mind, I am finding I have lost my appetite… so I just go back to the beverage table and grab another Coke and rum.

Puff the Magic Dragon
I am at school, I am running late for class. The problem is that I am also hungry, and I don't really have time to stop to get something to eat. So I run into the cafeteria and grab the quickest thing I can, which turns out to be a glazed donut and a raspberry Danish, and then I run straight to class without even stopping to pay… though I also notice that no one seems to care if I walk off with the food. Run off is more accurate, however, as I am late for class and I run down the hall so fast I run right past my classroom door. I have to skid to a stop and go back to the door, then I enter and take one of the few empty seats left in the room. I set my backpack down beside my desk and reach inside to get out my book. I also find I have a couple stuffed animals in there, one of them is a dragon. I set the dragon up under my desk, at my feet, so I can look down and see it looking back up at me. It's cute, and that distracts me from the rude comments that seem to be coming from all around me. Comments about why did I even bother coming, comments about those who are close to me not wanting to be that close to me, comments about me being disgusting…

The instructor continues droning on, not paying any attention to the fact I came in late, and I am trying to catch up with what is being said. I take a bite of my donut, but when I lift it up to take a bite, everyone stares at me as if they are angry that I would even consider eating something in there. So I hide the donut back under my desk again and just take covert little bites. I notice that the donut isn't getting eaten up… it seems to be getting bigger somehow, and soon the donut is approximately the size of a pool life preserver ring… I can't eat all that! I pull off a piece and eat it, then I pull off another piece and feed it to the stuffed dragon under my desk. I hear a couple people behind me, a couple of guys, laughing loudly that I am feeding donuts to a stuffed animal, how retarded is that? I ignore them as best as I can, and I continue eating the donut and feeding the dragon. Strangely enough, the pieces of donut I am giving the dragon are disappearing, actually being eaten! The idiots behind me continue laughing until the dragon actually comes to life, flies out from under my desk, and bathes both of them in a blast of fire. The fire doesn't prove lethal, but it does leave them with soot blackened faces and no hair remaining on their heads…

A Friend for Asuka
Note: MoSh suggested that, to help Asuka learn to be more confident in controlling her own powers so that she will be willing to actually defend herself, maybe we should seek out a trainer or trainers that can help her with her specific issue - which seems to be a fear of losing control. Q took this task on, and he discovered there is a group of people living in a world, they live a lot like monks tend to live… they are called the Teshnons, and their focus in life is training, learning, and achieving balance with all things. There was once a major obstacle to the peace they seek, however. They have a considerable power level which they focus into their fighting style, which they will use when necessary to defend themselves and maintain peace. The problem was that many of them found it difficult to keep control of that power, they found when in a fighting situation, even just training, they could lose control, so they were considering banning one of their most valued traditions due to the fact that many of them would lose control of the powers they were trying to use only for protection, only when absolutely necessary.

Then disaster struck, or they thought it was disaster at the time… an alien race, called the Nes'tulk, came to their world. The Nes'tulk are a parasitic race that latch onto another species, implant themselves in their host much like a Goa'uld, and they drain the host's energy to replenish their own. When they drain all of the host's energy, they break out and seek another host. So the Teshnons and the Nes'tulks were at war for a while until it was discovered that many of the Nes-Tulks didn't really want to harm their hosts, they just wanted to survive… but they were forced to drain as much energy as possible from the host, as quickly as possible, or the host would fight them off and kill them. Once it was discovered that many Nes'tulks would prefer peace, the Teshnons and the peaceful Nes'tulks defeated the war loving Nes'tulks and then a truce was called. Each Teshnon would accept one Nes'tulk as a symbiant, the Nes'tulk could implant itself in its Teshnon host, and take what energy it needs to survive… which the average Teshnon can easily afford to provide without any harm to themselves. In return, the Nes'tulk will regulate the flow of the Teshnon's energy so that it is no longer a problem for any of the Teshnons to keep control of their power. This has remained a mutually beneficial arrangement for the past 150 years in their world. Enough of the background info… on with the dream.

The Teshnons and the Nes'tulks
I am in MoSh's inner world, and I am there with Asuka and MoSh, and I am once again lucid even though I am not sure when or how I became lucid. It looks like the party is over, I remember there being a party there earlier for MoSh's birthday… and now MoSh and Asuka are looking at me expectantly as if I am supposed to do something… but I am not sure what they are looking for me to do. Finally, Q appears next to me and says he will take all of us to see the Teshnon masters, to see if they will be willing to accept Asuka as a pupil. If they accept Asuka as a pupil, she will be given a Nes'tulk symbiant, and the Teshnon masters will train Asuka to fight while keeping full control over her power with the assistance of the Nes'tulk symbiant. He says before anything is to be done, of course, Asuka, the Teshnon master who is to train Asuka, and the Nes'tulk who is to be her symbiant will all have to be in agreement that this is the course they want to take. I notice that Asuka looks a bit skeptical, but Q adds that he thinks everyone should meet each other before anyone makes any final decisions, just meet and talk things over, then if anyone is uncomfortable with the arrangement in any way, we look for another potential trainer. He says that while he feels the Teshnon masters would be ideal to train Asuka and the Nes'tulk is just what she needs to keep control, there are many other trainers and techniques out there to explore. He asks Asuka if she will agree to meet with the Teshnon masters, she pauses, then says she will meet with them, as long as MoSh comes along.

Asuka says that before we go to meet anyone, she still wants to get rid of Walms' AoH that is inside her, and those damned strings that could be used to control her power… the last thing she wants is for Walms to have access to control her powers whenever he decided he was especially annoyed at her. Q says he looked at the control strings carefully, and there is no sign of any foul play associated with them… they do what Walms said they do, nothing more, nothing less. Additionally, no one could take those control strings without Asuka's permission… so unless she gave Walms permission to take them back, it wasn't going to happen. And as for the AoH itself, there is no harm in that, either… So Asuka and Q spend a brief time arguing about whether the AoH and control strings are meant to cause harm to her, she says after all, Walms had already tried to kill her once. Q gets sarcastic at this point and says sure, whenever he really wants to kill someone he poisons them and then contacts friends of that person and tells them how to cure it. Q rolls his eyes and has a look on his face similar to the look I've seen on Q in the Star Trek series when he is trying to get a particularly obvious piece of information to become obvious to a particularly dense and cranky Piccard.

Asuka looks impatient, and apparently Q decides it's not worth arguing about. He says he will remove the control strings and the AoH, he adds that to be honest, he's not sure how the AoH would interact with the Nes'tulk symbiant. He says that the removal of the AoH isn't the most pleasant procedure, so a very intricate system would have to be set up to do it… first he will need a ????? (I didn't understand the word, so I can't type it.) and a ????? so they could alter Asuka's energy flow to match the frequency of the ????? at which point they could… by now Asuka is just staring at Q with a blank look on her face… Q continues, he says they can invert the ????? of the control strings themselves in order to ????? a ????? to the AoH and then… RIP! While Q had been talking, he had been fiddling with some energy strings of some kind… apparently the control strings… and now he gives a sharp pull on them, which pulls something out of Asuka, leaving a wound just above her solar plexus. Q contains the thing he pulled out in an energy sphere and puts it away. MoSh is mad, he asks why Q had to do that, Q says sometimes it is just easier to pull a Band-Aid off in one quick tug rather than try to take it off gently. He heals the wound and asks if everyone is ready to go. MoSh says Q could have at least warned Asuka, but Asuka says it's ok, she prefers that it is taken out quickly… now it's gone.

So Q now takes all of us to the Teshnon masters' temple, which is where the masters live and train the various Teshnon pupils once the pupil is of age to receive a Nes'tulk symbiant. We go to meet one of the Teshnon masters, he is a very old man indeed, though he also looks very strong. He says they are a peaceful people, they are focused on martial arts, energy control, and seek to achieve both inner and outer peace with all things. We all talk for a while, the talking and information seems to put Asuka a bit more at ease. The Teshnon finally says he thinks Asuka would be an excellent candidate for their training, and even now they have a couple young Nes'tulks that are reaching the age that they will need a host. MoSh questions that if they are young, will they know how to keep Asuka's powers under control… The Teshnon master says of course, that is actually a natural instinct of theirs, and by the time a young Nes'tulk is ready for a host they are more than capable of keeping any energy flow stable and under control. So at this point I think things are settled… until the Teshnon master says something about setting up Asuka's quarters there at the temple. Asuka says she won't be living there, but the Teshnon master says she must stay with them if she wants to get the most from her training. MoSh also doesn't like the idea of Asuka being away from him. I think that might be a deal breaker, but then I remember the connection between MoSh's inner world and Hogwarts… and I suggest setting up a similar connection to the Teshnon masters' temple. Everyone is quiet for a bit, and I wonder if maybe I said something wrong… but finally the Teshnon master says that would be acceptable for their part, as long as Asuka can focus on her training and the gateway is kept secure. Q says it would have to be secure. So finally everyone is in agreement on a plan, all I can do is hope they will be able to make this one work.

Walking across parking lot, I caught the wind and rose into the air and became lucid. I flew through some high tension wires just for fun, and kept rising until I was much higher than normal, looking down at several cities at once, like on Google Earth. One city near the Southern California Pacific coast caught my eye and I wondered if there was any damage there due to mudslides, so I flew down to check it out. As I approached, I saw something that made me very sad, a house halfway tipped over on its side at the edge of a cliff over the beach. But as I flew closer, I saw that the owners had already gutted the house and rebuilt the insides with level floors, and there were children playing inside! It made me feel all warm inside to see such dogged determinism win out over a natural disaster. I awoke feeling empowered.

I awake in a cemetery I've known all my life, there lies my cousins and closest friends. I run of joy to visit their graves, but then somehow the cemetery seems different each step I take. I pause, look around and ask myself "Is this the cemetery?", and then again it resembled. As I look at the ground and walk in search of cousins grave I say with joy " Primos! Primos!", meaning cousins in Spanish, the cemetery then changes again. At that point I was confused, and the strangest thing was that no one else was present, there's always someone else in my dreams.

As I stood still my dream shifts scenario, now I'm in a school like environment. As I walk, I look around to find anyone I recognize to ask them "Where am I". But no one there out of I'd say 150 people was familiar. This was really strange for me because never in my lucid dreams has there not been someone I recognize. I then head to a group of people and one of them, a nerd looking kid, looks at me before I get there and I point to my wrist repeatedly. He didn't know at first what I was signaling, until I asked him and while still pointing " What time is it?", and he replied "3:27 p.m". I didn't reply anything and kept walking, he looked at me and then turned back with his group.

Then I see another kid, alone, which i didn't recognize, and I asked him " Where am I", but he didn't reply but we both start walking together like if I was suppose to follow him. Then I began to tell him how I got there. I told him " I fell asleep and I woke up in a cemetery I thought I recognized, but then it started to switch around, and now I ended up here", then without saying a word he pointed to a well dressed man coming towards us. The man said "Come with me", and I followed him from behind for a few seconds, but then I paused and I told him " Wait! I know who you are", and he stopped and looked back at me. Then I said "Your from the government aren't you?", he gave me a brief smile and nodded yes. He kept walking and I followed, we got to some fences and there was a open gate, and he said " Go through". I walked out and I looked back into the school like place with all the people in there, I walked along the fence while the well dressed man followed from the other side of the fence. For some reason I sensed something was really wrong, so I used my techniques and I jumped over the fence and back into the school like place. The well dressed man said "No! Stop", and then I told him "watch this!" (I was trying to show him my ability to fly) and he said " no don't do it", like he knew what I was going to show him. I was about to jump and start flying but some kind of force hold me down. I was surprised because never has this happened, and then I froze and again asked myself "Where am I".

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0537: Prepare for sleep with games. Dreams get wiped.

The Beach at Night
Method WILD
Lucidity D
Vividness C
Control C
0618: I visualize a sunny beach, but instead I find myself on a beach in the very dark of night. Nonetheless, there are many people around, laying as if to sunbathe. I am laying down as if sleeping. A girl walks up to me and greets me. She extends her hand to help me stand up. She has short black hair. I can barely make out her other features in the darkness. She leads me down the beach toward the water. We hop over a man laying on his back.

We get near the water and I notice the water and sand. The sand isn't smooth. It's clumpy, like a stampede of horses just trampled through. The attention to detail improves my lucidity a bit. I turn to look at the girl and realize how pretty she is. I pull her in close and kiss her. Then I say confidently and excited: "Let's go in the water!" Now I lead her by the hand a few steps into the water. Then I say, "No wait, let's go ON the water!" I start running on the water's surface, pulling her along. She's a bit scared but also excited. I feel the wind on my face as we go faster and faster. I say "We can go anywhere we want. And we can go as fast as we want!"

We are zooming along the water, parallel to the coastline. We are approaching a city in the distance. A collection of twinkling lights and buildings barely visible in the darkness. I jump off the water and soar into the city, landing on a street surrounded by tall buildings. I look around. The girl is gone. Whoops. End.

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0729: Person talking about dreams. In body. Other person gets trapped in dream. ... we are OK.

Work and Games
0757: Menial tasks at work. Patching and doing regression tests. Playing the game. Zombies in a dark room. Playing another game. Humans sieging an elven city. They reach the queen's chamber and challenge her army to a final battle.

Game with Trippy Time
Method DILD (absurdity)
0815: Playing a FPS game with Hugh. He takes the lead and I follow. We are walking down a hilly city street. We reach an intersection and I look left. I see a bunch of enemies. We all turn to shoot. I only have a pistol. I fire fire shots at a guy at point blank range. But the world seems to freeze. Then it unfreezes and the five shots all go at once.

Then suddenly I seem to be on an acid trip. I see swirling colors and symbols of drugs and poison. I notice this is all so strange and become lucid. Then immediately a false awakening. It's dark and I'm in my own room. I'm confused and disoriented. End.

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One last dream in here but I didn't write down. It was long. Babysitting for some rich family. Then going to a bar near a beach. Tornado warning coming in from the water. Helicopters somehow fly over the tornado and weaken it. Order drinks at the bar. See the pretty young girl I was supposed to be babysitting. She's been following me.