lucid

This morning about 4:00 am I awoke. I looked at my clock and knew I had an hour before my alarm would go off. So I rolled over trying to stay calm and not wake up too much.

I kept still, trying to slip into a wake induced lucid dream. I've never attempted this before but I had read a little about it recently.
As I layed there, I began to feel the vibrations you get before you fall asleep. I've tinkered in astral projection awhile back so I knew what was happening, so I took advantage of it and tried to astral project.
I did the rope trick (imaging yourself of pulling yourself up a rope), and I also tried rolling over.

The next thing I knew I was standing at the foot of my bed. I was fully lucid. I said to myself "I did it!". To stay calm I looked at my astral hands (this always works for me if I want to stay in a lucid dream).
I looked at the bed and I saw my wife and myself sleeping. I tried an experiment. I waved at myself. LOL, and I saw myself from bed waving back, synchronized, like a mirror image.
I didn't want to hang around too long. I've read where people will come out of a projection if they see them self or get too close. So I went to our bedroom door and opened it to leave.
The room I entered was no longer my house. I walked through various connecting rooms passing and interacting with people I have never seen before. Trying to soak up and remember the environment.

I then thought of another dream experiment. I found a sign with writing on it. So I tried to read it, look away and look back. sure enough it changed.

I eventually made it outside and I picked up a piece of paper. I began to read it. I could see the letters so clear, however it wasn't in English.

The letters appeared to be hieroglyphics. I tried to focus on a few of them to remember what they looked like so I could bring them out of the dream with me, and then I could write it down, but I think they kept changing on me so that didn't work.

I then felt myself fading out of the dream, and I woke up. I think If I wrote down everything at that moment I would have remember more detail, but I really wanted to get some more sleep before the alarm went off.

Method: DILD
Recall: below average
Lucid Ability: 6
Vividness: below average
Dream Length:short

So during some awful dream sex that I don't even want to describe takes place, some muscle bound DC interrupts me. He starts talking crap about how much better he is than I, and I cant do anything about it. My first reaction was to punch him in the face. My right cross was completely ineffective. He's laughing at me, and talking more junk. I swing again, and nothing. I can hear one of the DCs pleading to him as she says "stop messing with that boy". The DC says he could kill me if he wants to. I yelled at him, "if you can kill me, then do it!". He tried to get me in a standing choke hold but I place my left hand near the side of my face and stop his constricting movements. He's still talking crap right now, and it's so annoying. I punch him in the face with my right hand several more times, and this time his head is shaking. The third time I punch him it fees me, and he says some more crap. The next punch I threw slung him across room, and he got up and continued barking.

The female dc is still pleading to the DC to leave me a lone at this point like I'm loosing. The DC finally re approaches me again, and does nothing but talk junk. I started punching him over and over, and each blow would stop his sentences short. By now his head was spinning around like a sprinkler. I felt like I was more in control in the dream at this point, and it started fading out.

Lots of random details

-I'm on break for rehearsal, so I walk around the campus. For some reason, the campus is more like a mall. I, for some reason, think there's a red light, so I stop walking and wait for green. My high school history teacher comes out of a nearby shop with her husband and child and asks why I'm not moving. I realize there's no red light, because nobody's driving any cars, and I keep walking.

-Different part of the campus. My sister's here. She leaves to go shopping on the second floor.

-I'm in bed. A disembodied voice tells me he doesn't think it works correctly, but it can take me to any place I want. A cellphone appears in my hand. I realize I'm dreaming. A picture of a city (one of my old computer wallpapers) appears on the phone's screen and I focus on it. It starts to blur and stretch, I feel myself being pulled out of my body. I'm almost gone, and suddenly I'm back in bed, frustrated. The TV is on. I try again, but the TV is too distracting now.

I have to fight to get out of bed and I feel sluggish. I turn off the TV and try again, but the cellphone's gone and I can't get it back. I realize this is all a dream. I know I'm dreaming and I can control my own movements, but I can't do anything with my surroundings. I keep trying then suddenly-

I wake up for real. The TV is still on.

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[SIZE="4"][COLOR="Red"][B]First DEILD, Stupid Headache[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE="1"][COLOR="#4682B4"](DEILD)[/COLOR][/SIZE]

[COLOR="Blue"][B][SIZE="3"]Lucid 4[/SIZE][/B][/COLOR]

[SIZE="1"][COLOR="#4682B4"]NON-DREAM[/COLOR] [COLOR="#800080"]DREAM[/COLOR] [COLOR="#00008B"]LUCID[/COLOR][/SIZE]

[COLOR="#4682B4"][/COLOR][COLOR="#00008B"]Because of the stupid headache, I quickly forgot a lot, all I remember is being in a shopping center and seeing a tall blonde woman stretching on the ground.[/COLOR][/INDENT]

Man is that kickass or what? Another one! Once again, its 3 LDs in 3 nights. And its not even over. But what really got me wondering is how I got a dream within a dream.

Dream 1: I am standing in the mirror and have super long hair. I ask my mom that we should be cutting them, but we have to wait until next weekend. I walk out of the room.

Dream 2: This is freakin weird. I am talking to my sister about lucid dreaming. Then we share a freakin dream. Inside a dream. In that dream, we are in our parking lot at night. There is also another girl. I tell both to take their top off, and they do. Now lets make something clear: The DC who is my sister in the dream is NOT REALLY my sis. Its a chick who I call my sister. Then we both wake up and talk about it.

Dream 3: I suddenly am in front of two girls that look alot like the girls from the Academy. This surprises me enough to snap out of it and become lucid. I ask them who the hell they are, and theyre not them at all. They just look like it. I say hello and while one of them hugs me I do a quick RC to be sure. Walking upstairs, they completely dissapear from the plot as I try to do stuff and wake up soon enough.

Dream 4: We go to Energie Cardio with Josée Lavigueur in bicycles. While inside, I put my shoes in the corner and think about how im gonna enjoy it here.

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[SIZE="4"][COLOR="Red"][B]I'm A Suckish Driver[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE="1"][COLOR="#4682B4"](DILD)[/COLOR][/SIZE]

[COLOR="Blue"][B][SIZE="3"]Lucid 3[/SIZE][/B][/COLOR]

[SIZE="1"][COLOR="#4682B4"]NON-DREAM[/COLOR] [COLOR="#800080"]DREAM[/COLOR] [COLOR="#00008B"]LUCID[/COLOR][/SIZE]

[COLOR="#4682B4"][/COLOR][COLOR="#4682B4"]This was a very long, stable lucid, but I woke up with a headache and couldn't remember much, only the start and end :(

[/COLOR][COLOR="#800080"]I remember I was walking in a city at night when it was raining and stopped at a crossing, waiting when it suddenly struck me that I was dreaming. [/COLOR][COLOR="#00008B"]I walked across the stree when a car was about to hit me and I stopped it with my hand.

***Headache Memory Gap***

I was in a parking lot where I saw a man listening to music in his car and decided to open the door and literally kick him out. [/COLOR][COLOR="#4682B4"](Carjack Goal, Complete) [/COLOR][COLOR="#00008B"]I looked around and saw an electronic switch that I pressed to start it, It was kinda difficult to drive because of the heavy rain and darkness, I crashed it and felt kind of weird, not because I just crashed, but what I usually felt as a dream was ending, I concentrated and tried to DEILD. OH YEAH! FIRST DEILD![/COLOR][/INDENT]

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[SIZE="4"][COLOR="Red"][B]A Walk In The Street[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE="1"][COLOR="#4682B4"](DILD)[/COLOR][/SIZE]

[COLOR="Blue"][B][SIZE="3"]Lucid 2[/SIZE][/B][/COLOR]

[SIZE="1"][COLOR="#4682B4"]NON-DREAM[/COLOR] [COLOR="#800080"]DREAM[/COLOR] [COLOR="#00008B"]LUCID[/COLOR][/SIZE]

[COLOR="#4682B4"][/COLOR][COLOR="#4682B4"]My dad has been repeatedly changing our ISP so I haven't been able to use the internet for...well...a long time, so..yeah...but 3 lucids in one night was a good start to the net working. :D

[/COLOR][COLOR="#800080"]My dad was taking me somewhere in a car, he later mentioned we were picking something up from the school swimming sports. We eventually got there and I noticed that everyone was is my primary school's uniforms, they were my age, from my high school, just in my primary school's uniforms. I had a look around and got them.

There was a timeskip and I was back home, my Aunt L was there and when she asked how the ride home was, I thought for a bit and realised that I don't know. I did a nose pinch RC and [/COLOR][COLOR="#00008B"]I was lucid.

I went through the back gate into my street and thought I might see if I can make a friend in my Dream World. I looked across the street and saw the house there had become a big victorian style house. I walked over to it, about to go up the stairs to the door when a dog came up to me, I pet it for a while until my dog came along. I took a look inside the house and it appeared to be empty, but it looked incredible.

When I went outside, I decided to run through my street, I was slowly building up speed until I was going really fast. I looked into the houses in my street and thought I might go into one that interested me, one was filled with people around 80, another filled with a bunch of idiots smashing bottles over each other's heads and a lot of empty houses. When I came to a real life shortcut to another street, I saw a few joggers come out of it and thought I would talk to one.

She seemed pretty smart for a DC, I asked what she was doing, she said she was training for the 1600 metre sprint at her school sports, after that, I slapped her for no good reason. [/COLOR][COLOR="#4682B4"](New goals, talk to a DC and slap a random DC, Complete)[/COLOR][/INDENT]

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[SIZE="4"][COLOR="Red"][B]I Really Hope I'm Dreaming, Woo![/B][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE="1"][COLOR="#4682B4"](DILD)[/COLOR][/SIZE]

[COLOR="Blue"][B][SIZE="3"]Lucid 1[/SIZE][/B][/COLOR]

[SIZE="1"][COLOR="#4682B4"]NON-DREAM[/COLOR] [COLOR="#800080"]DREAM[/COLOR] [COLOR="#00008B"]LUCID[/COLOR][/SIZE]

[COLOR="#4682B4"][/COLOR][COLOR="#800080"]I'm in bed, and my mum woke me up and hit me a few times for some reason. I got out and had a shower, exactly like usual. I started drying myself but when I started brushing my teeth in front of the mirror, I got a serious shock. I saw that 2 of my teeth were mis-aligned, I was worried and felt them a bit and they fell out, along with a few others. I was kinda worried and thinking about going through the rest of my life missing some teeth, I really hoped it was a dream, I did a Nose Pinch RC, and to me delight, [/COLOR][COLOR="#00008B"]It was! I waved my hand over my mouth and my teeth were fine. I walked around my house for a while, seeing that this is one of the most stable lucids i've had, everything was exactly like my house. I talked to my mum, and asked, "Do you know where we are?" She said "The kitchen..." I told her she was wrong and that it's a dream, then I gave my dream mum a hug and goodbye. I remembered one of my goals was to talk to my reflection, I remembered that reflections can sometimes be scary or distorted, so I tested it with the small mirror from the bathroom. I peeked around the corner to see a distorted image on the mirror, so I was prepared, knowing that if I wasn't it could shock me into a nightmare. I went into the toilet because of it's bigger mirror, but, this was NOT my toilet. When I came in, it had ancient stone walls and floor, with vines growing on the walls and a giant skylight, an even bigger mirror hanging from the vines, and, of course, a toilet, hehe. The basic TOTM suddenly came to me and I looked in the mirror at the distorted picture, I had a [B]RED [/B]shirt and black pants. I looked up at the skylight and saw the [B]BLUE [/B]skies and [B]YELLOW [/B]sun, [B]BASIC TOTM COMPLETED.[/B] I looked back at my reflection and asked it if it could talk, it said "yep", but there was no sound, I just knew it said yep. I asked it why it couldn't talk, and it just said a bunch of things I couldn't make out. I stood back and tried to will giant speakers up, it didn't work, I then shouted out, [B]LET THERE BE SOUND!!! [/B]It worked, but I don't remember what my reflection and I talked about. When I left the the err..."Toilet", I appeared to be in what looks like a D.I.Y store. I looked around and saw a lot of tools and wood and thought I might try and run through it wall, I ran full force and...crashed. I was on the ground with a slight headache when I saw a kinda creepy woman heading toward me, I just walked away. Next thing I know i'm at the school, running around and I super jumped over a row of benches and got a strawberry Big M at the canteen.[/COLOR][/INDENT]

But my dad disconnected me shortly after, so I couldn't post this the get the TOTM, and also why I'm not on

I went to bed after listening to some new songs, and the weirdest dream I have ever had.

In a room in a warehouse with LostInLA and other church friends. I knew I was in a dream, but I wasn't lucid; it was part of the story. Me and LostInLA wanted to have a shared dream, so we lay on these reclined chairs and took a pill each. I bit into mine and tried to swallow the liquid inside it. As I did something was wrong; people said "No Kevin!"
I think I took the wrong pill.

I went into a dream, I felt like it was my own mind. I was walking around in my dream. It was a normal place and the dream was very stable and deserted. I was thinking about how I would be in this dream for ages because dreamtime is faster and I was supposedly two layers down.

I was walking up this road toward the spot where I had my first lucid moment. I looked behind me and the sun was setting until it was night.
*MEMORY GAP*

I looked up and It was morning in my dream and I made my way towards where I entered this dream. I saw some stairs which I climbed. At the top there was a doctor's office. I asked the receptionist if I could sit here because I was tired of just walking around. She said yes.

There were two other people waiting for the doctor. My church friend Rachael came out of the doctors office and I said "What are you doing here?" I thought it was just my dream. She said something like "I've been here since I got sick."
*MEMORY GAP*

I realized I was dreaming FOR REAL sometime later. Everything was white and I yelled "Increase clarity now!" three times and rubbed my hands, but again, it felt like I was doing it for real in my bed and that it was too late.

WTF?!
I think that lucid dreaming feels so real that I think I'm really doing the reality check. Grr...

I woke up into the first dream, after everyone was crowded around me shaking me to wake me up.

Later, I showed LostInLA my cast coming off; I pulled my arm out of it and it was all sticky and gross. She was like "Ewwww..."

I woke up.

There was much more than that though. Something about a bus.

DJ Log: September 21, 2010 – Morning, 2:00AM (USA Eastern)
Text color legend: · NON-DREAM · NOTES · DREAM · LUCID ·

(Note: I have not attempted to WILD yet in waking life.)

I am preparing to sleep on the floor at a friend's house. The room is a small living room with a couple of couches, a table, and a TV. There are several other DCs preparing to sleep on the couches and other areas of the floor. My laptop is sitting on a small table near where I am laying on the floor. The screen of the laptop is illuminated bright blue, but I cannot read anything on it. I get up and walk outside a sliding glass door onto a dimly lit patio. The air is calm and it is very cool outside. There are a couple of pill bottles sitting on the table. I reach up and pull a shower curtain closed around the table. I open the first bottle and take a tablet out. While holding the first tablet, I open the second bottle and take a large capsule out. I put both of them in my mouth and pick up a glass of water. While tipping the glass to my mouth, I notice that there are more than two capsules in my mouth. I reach in my mouth and remove a couple of partially dissolved capsules and lay them on the table. I think to myself that I'll just save these for later.

After swallowing the pills, I walk back to the area on the floor which I previously prepared to sleep. I lay down and adjust my pillow, then pull a small blanket over myself. I close my eyes and after a brief moment, my vision begins to flash and my body starts to vibrate. I got excited for a moment when I realized I was having my first WILD. I experienced a FA, placing me back on the floor at the friend's house. I sit up on the floor and become lucid. I realize that I am dreaming, and nearly just had my first WILD inside of a dream. I was lucid at this point, but had no control. Everything begins to fade as I jump up and look around. I try to look at the floor and stabilize the dream, but it's too late. I am already back in my own bed with my eyes closed, staring at the back of my eyelids. This was the dream's exit.

(Note: I was trying to decide whether to attempt re-entry, or get up and write my journal. I chose the latter.)

Two nights ago I had a lovely lucid dream, I noticed everything, the world was very vibrant, I was talking to a man in my dream and he had a very "normal" name, I told myself that I needed to wake up and write down this name because it was different and not part of the dreamworld. I kept telling myself this I felt it was of the utmost importance and that the name was a real name, and that it had something important to do with waking life I kept reminding my self of this, saying his name over and over again. The DC's around me were different than the man, they lacked depth, he did not, he seemed very real and human. The DC's coaxed me after he left me and said "you will remember, don't worry, you will remember, this is so important it will stick and you will remember." I felt like they were trying to get me to forget, they were distracting me until the memory would slip from me. I woke up in the morning vaugly remembering the "real" man and I couldn't remember this important name, I felt irritated with those decietful DC's for stalling me until I forgot.

I had a long dream spent mostly just in dreamview and not lucid. The central characture was friend of my mothers named "Betty" I grew up going to her house where my parents would play dominoes and drink wine, she was always kind to me. The last time I saw her was at my wedding, she and her husband drove four hours from Denver and he took a million pictures for us. We accidently lost their thank you so I wrote her a nice involved long thank you note on Facebook because I had misplaced their address. I think she never got over being offended. When I saw her in my dream I felt that vibe from her, she spent time cleaning my house and helping me with laundry. Finally when she was fixing up my bathroom I decided to become fully lucid and tell her that I knew she wasn't the real"Betty." I said to the DC I know you aren't the real Betty, so which part of me do you represent? The DC was irritated, "which part of you" it asked? "What do you mean, I am not any part of you." "Yes" I replied "I have heard that dream people are representations of parts of ourselves so tell me now, what part are you? What important news do you have to tell me? " She kept saying she wasn't part of my psyche and with each rebufff she grew a few inches taller until she was crowding the bathroom. I felt she was trying to bully me into leaving her alone, like a puffer fish! I consentrated on growing as well but only grew a few inches and kept asking her my question. The DC grew bigger filling up the space and towering over me, I felt a little bit threatened and began to lose stability- so I stuck my finger through my palm to regain my stability. It worked for a moment but as soon as I saw how big the DC had become I fully lost control of my dream and I was kicked out and woke up. I am tired of my DC's giving me a hard time, why won't they just answer my questions!?

Title: Wind Tunnel Date: 9/17/2010
Category: Deep Relaxation Lucidity: Mild Lucidity

Keywords: Windy, Cold, Lights, Tunnel, Flashing


Description: Today I got up at 06:00. I did my relaxation exercises and put my body into waking sleep paralysis. I was deeply relaxed and breathing comfortably. I broke trance a few times either gasping for air or I had my mouth closed and I would blow out my cheeks. I also tried some visualizations of our house what it looked like from memory walking thru different rooms. I can visualize pretty well, I just have a hard time with the dreaming part.

At one point I got cold and put on a blanket. It reminded me of that heavy lead feeling I had a few days ago. Almost immediately, my eyes began to flutter, and then the tunnel effect started with lights flashing all around me. A wave of coldness swept over my body. I then felt and heard wind blowing in my ears. I began to get excited, but tried to keep my energy low as to not collapse the feeling.... and then...NOTHING!!! I woke up.


Mental or Emotional State: Excited


Interpretation or Meaning: In dreams, air usually represents communication, freedom, or spirit. The sound of wind may represent communication or news. It may also represent a signal from the unconscious. Because wind represents movement, it may symbolize change, as in the phrase "the winds of change."

I had a lucid dream! I was flying, and knew I was dreaming immediately because I was flying I enjoyed this immensely because I was not shocked, and it didn't hit me like many members report, I wasn't over excited, and I didn't wake up. That was one thing I have tried to focus my intention on, approaching lucid dreaming with a calm and stable mind. So, I'm flying with my arms at my sides, parallel to the ground gazing foreward, going a little too fast for me to control, but I do forget to stabilize before trying to accomplish my goals so they don't work unfortunately and I lose lucidity within probably fifteen to twenty seconds. I was flying over a hilly grass area near a very large and beautiful tree, it was daytime. I first tried to change my altitude and method of flight [like hovering, or doing somersaults, etc.] but was unable to, and then I tried to "Earth Bend" like in the animated series Avatar, but I don't recall being able to move anything with my mind. So my next area of concentration will be dream stabilization!
[Sorry for the long post about a 15 second dream, but I feel quite proud and exhilarated from my experience, and overjoyed that I am moving closer to understanding the dream state]

In the dream immediately following or connected to the LD, I meet up with people I live and work with, and we are driving through rolling countryside along the coast of some huge lake or ocean. It is sunset and breathtakingly beautiful, I feel comfortable and adventurous. We pass through several cities, some we pass around at a height while still in the car. The cities are filled with large buildings seemingly made of adobe or concrete, very circular like Indian temple-skyscrapers, with a feeling reminiscent of elven towns from Lord of the Rings. I ask the driver town names and she gives some names of towns in the state where I live, which I do not notice. We come to a building in a town and enter and it's a type of leisure club, semi circular in design and spiraling upward, long decorative diamond strings hanging down like a mobile in some art museums or libraries. It seems there are many live performers/magicians performing strange things [though I do not remember] One of them gives me some type of small cellular type device connected to a balloon that looks like a large lightbulb. Holding it causes me to fly again, and I am soaring gently over the many people, and fly up through the building, very dark and intimate feeling with red and black tones and candlelight , filled with mystique. I come down to the ground, grab another and fly even higher, and I seem to be the only one flying though I am not a spectacle and I don't mind at all .

After flying I sit down with two old men/magicians/performers with beards, like monks or gurus, sitting cross legged and excitedly tell them about the lucid dream I had just experienced, how it felt and what had happened. They look interested and listen attentively, but do not say much - they sit and smile gently at me. As I look at them I am filled with peace and comfort, they give me a sense of encouragement and approval. When I finish my dream, and finish telling them breifly about the concept of lucid dreaming, one tells me, "well, that sounds like a dedicated task."

I had several more but must leave now, will update more later in the week since I have no internet access except the library, and will also enter in some memorable dreams from the last few months. Thanks for reading, I'd be glad to get any comments or encouragment or advice.

Title: My First Flight Date: 9/14/2010
Category: Flying Dream Lucidity: Mild Lucidity

Keywords: Blackness, Green, Floating / Flying, Vibrations


Description: I started at 04:30. I was laying flat on the bed with my hands at my side, relaxing my eyes. I had my Lucid Dream Timer set at 8,4,8,12,16,20,20,6. Within an Hr. I felt vibrations. Scenes were flashing before my eyes. I walked down a path from a house carrying a green plastic cover. I was holding the cover with both hands waving it trying to get all the dirt off. I could not keep the picture in my mind, everything went black. I felt my feet lift off the ground....I was floating. I could not see anything, but I felt it.

I was so excited by the prospect of floating that my energy rose too quickly and my dream state collapsed.

Note: To maintain the lucid dream state, you must modulate your emotions. (Don't let your energy rise too quickly).


Mental or Emotional State: Excited, Happy


Interpretation or Meaning: The color green represents luck, money, envy, new beginnings, nature and growth. It may also represent peace.

Blackness - Being "reborn" into the next phase of life.

Flying may represent freedom, or may represent the spirit. They may also represent rising above your difficulties or overcoming obstacles.