lucid

Finally, another lucid dream!! Didn't come by the audio experiment, though...I'm not going to try that one again until I have finished creating my own MP3 for the job.

This time, I just decided to give my RC-MILD method another shot, and it passed with flying colors. Click on the underlined text to see the thread about it, if you aren't familiar with how it works. I went through the process right before going to sleep, also telling myself: "Next time I see anything or do anything, it's a dream, because I'm going to sleep now."

Pretty much next thing I know, I'm sitting up on my bed. But I wasn't fooled by the false awakening; all I knew was that I was supposed to reality check when I saw or did anything. "Ok," I said, "I am seeing things, and I just sat up, which is doing something...that means this must be a dream!" I plugged my nose and tried to breath in, but unfortunately I did it way too hard. The whole dream faded out, and came back a few seconds later...only now, although I was still on my bed, I was in the basement rather than my bedroom!

I reality checked more gently, and was satisfied this time with the results, although it was already obvious I was in a dream. I didn't rush around after that; since I'd already nearly lost the dream once, I started out just by feeling stuff and getting really immersed into the dream world. Once off the bed, I walked over to a bunch of pictures on the wall and looked at my reflection in them. I was amazed by the realism of the reflections; it would distort--relative to my position--to the shape of the objects reflecting me.

This made me think back to a dream where I told myself I could not have been dreaming because no dream had reflections that realistic. Being lucid, this only made me smile. I pointed at the pictures and told them: "you're not going to fool me this time!"

But now it was time for adventure. Even though my dream goals had only been thought up minutes before bed, I remembered them very clearly. Basically I just wanted to live through a couple scenes from 'Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life'. I attempted to shape shift into Lara Croft, but that utterly failed, according to my reflection in the pictures. At first I just looked like a totally messed up version of me. I managed to correct that much so that I looked normal again, but I was still intrigued by what happened.

See, when I had shapeshifted, I felt successful. In my mind, I looked exactly like I wanted to. The reflection was what told me differently. So I guess that just goes to show our mental projection of ourselves and what we actually are in the dream world are not one and the same...fascinating.

I knew I didn't have a lot of time, though. The dream was just not that stable, and I knew it. I had it as clear as could be and I was as lucid as could be, but the sleep cycle was drawing to an end. So I ran up the stairs and headed for the front door. Someone stopped me and asked me to set the table for supper, but of course that was not in my plan. "Screw this, I'm not going to spend my lucid dream setting tables!" I threw a glass on the floor to create a distraction, ran out the front door, and leaped into the air. I don't know that I've had as realistic of a flying experience as this before...I really could see forever as I got higher and higher!

For a while I just enjoyed the realistic flight, but then I teleported to the skies of Tokyo so I could find the first place from Tomb Raider that I wanted to re-enact. Unfortunately, I began losing the dream here, so no more did I land than I woke up for real.

Not the longest or most exciting dream ever, but it's been well over a month since I last had a lucid dream that was that clear and that lucid. And since RC-MILD worked so well...heck, I may just stick with this instead of the audio thing!

Dream 1: An amazonian forest is very overpopulated. It is very small and such we relocate people. We use bows and arrows. Then I see a bug similar to one in Bug's Life.

Dream 2: Im participating in a big boat race. My boat is the fastest and quickly beats others. I am storing food and supplies since the journey lasts days. Another boat that is very long hits mine and infiltrates me to take my food. Then I see a Captain on another boat and use his age to locate myself in time.

Dream 3: FA after the boat race. At first I think the race is over and I am at my destination. But I look outside and see the neighbors house. On the road is parked a truck and the road is extremely bumpy, huge bumps. And then I go: Oh yeah this is a dream. A dream which is by far the highest level of lucidity ever attained. It felt so much like real life it hurts. I go thru my window, jump, fail, run super fast. But I actually feel tired, like when you run for real. I try to morph in a hawk to help me fly with no success.

Dream 4: In some kind of party, concert by The Killers, I am sitting next to Shao. He is holding a huge chainsaw which is also half clarinet (though I cant see the clarinet). My duty is to watch him so he doesnt do trouble. He gets up from his seat and starts running around. On the ceiling the cover of the album Day and Age is there. Awsum.

Dream 5: On the patio, I am thinking how Messmer could help me fly. How ironic.

Dream 6: Im pretty sure this happened in the beginning of the night, but I just recalled it. I am Samus in a big pond with a little waterfall and bragging to Alex about all the energy tanks I have. I pick them up and not leave any to him. In 3rd person, i roll in a ball to get another one.

First Lucid Dream (2nd May 2010)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I went to bed mind full of the FILD technique which can be found here, hopeful it would work. I had another insomnia attack again, so it was a while before i found fall asleep.

Finally I slept and woke up really groggy. I was then reminded of the FILD technique and so I wiggled my fingers. Within seconds, my whole body went through this tingly sensation and my heart started beating really fast, and it was actually quite painful. But it ended and I visualized my room in my mind and it appeared. I then did a nose RC and I found out I could breathe. I got out of bed, but it was quite a short while before I lost both lucidity and the dream.

09.09.2010

My Cat: Astral Projection: Closed - must Detour to Lucid Dreaming. (WILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCIDASTRAL PROJECTION ATTEMPT

I went to bed very late due a delay on my wife's work. I did not have much recall, but I was attempting Astral Projection and when I was getting out, my cat started to run and meow so I lost focus and fell asleep, fully lucid:

Second:

I woke up and it was morning. I did not have much to do today and we both were very tired, so I went back to sleep. I did not want to sleep deep and I had my mind very clear of waking issues, so I decided to Astral Project. I started to WILD (which is one of the paths to projection) and reached vibrations pretty fast. I felt that my Astral body was starting to push himself out of me, so I assisted. I started to feel it coming out from my back, so I tried to sit without moving my physical body. I started to feel double conscious. I was happy because I was almost out. One of my cats started to walk on me and to meow. She started to ask for love and countered my Astral Projection.

A second later, I was in the Pata Negra store. I said, "Darn my cat! Other Astral Projection wasted! Oh well... at least I am dreaming. I saw Eren (my only co-worker) and said hi. I told her I was going to attempt to Astral Project within the dream. She told me she wanted to attempt as well. I told her what to do and we laid down. She layed down on the counter and I layed down on the deli counter. A few customers entered plus the manager. She told us that we cannot Astral Project now, that we needed to assist the customers. She left.

I told Eren I would still do my own stuff because it was my dream. I recalled it was already morning and the lucid dream was going to be short because I had to wake up. I decided to test my ability in not waking up while having lucid sex. I never attempted this before and neither needed lucid sex. I decided to summon my wife and test how much I last. A felt a few times my heart racing but I looked away or looked at my hands (six to eight fingers average) We reached orgasm and I did not wake up. I was excited that my mind is strong and avoided awakening.

I still did not have any goal for this specific lucid. I knew I was about to wake up and having sex weakened my dream. I left the Pata Negra store. It was day and very sunny. I did not see a single cloud and it was warm. I started to fly and while I was in the air the dream started gently to vanish. I allowed it to end because I knew I did not need more much sleep.


Missed dream signs:
- None.

Spotted dream signs:
- Not applicable.

Reality Check Performed:
- None. Entered the dream fully lucid.

I don't remember much about this dream...

I am in church, and kneeling beside my sister who is sitting in a pew. For some reason, I ask myself if I am dreaming, and the instant I do, I become lucid. I didn't even bother looking at my hands because I knew I was lucid. I vaguely remember trying to do some very boring things, so my lucidity was minimal. That's it..


Conditions:
Fell asleep: 1:00 am
Headphones: none

COMMENT LUCID NON LUCID DREAM SIGN

So I was in a hall at my school, there was two girls there drinking. This is stricktly forbidden, and since I already have been caught once I will be expelled forever if I get caught again. One of the girls offered me some booze and I accepted. The headmaster came in. I got pretty nervous. But all he said that someone had reported being raped by the two girls, which is pretty stupid since they aren't mean at all. I remembering trying to play innocent for some reason even though I had no part in it. I went to my room to get rid of my alcoholic breath. Here I realized that I was dreaming. I pinched my nose and I still was able breathe. I decided that I wanted to kill my headmaster. I tried to shape a sword by my hip but it didn't work, so I decided to use a rusty old sort that was on the table. I hid it under my sweather and went back. On my way, there was this group of people that was dancing. They told me to get closer. And so I did. I can't remember what they told me, but I almost lost my lucidity. I kept on walking and met my headmaster. My friend Eskil was sitting next to him, annoying him with one of his socks that he had put on his hand. We talked for a little while I think, but it made me convinced that he was a good guy since he was reading the manga, One Piece. I walked on where I met some of my other friends. I told them that this was all a dream. They looked at me with pretty stupid faces. I walked outside, where I flew around for a little while. I had full control. It was fantastic. I decided to try out creating the vizard mask from Bleach. This was inspired by Mzzkc's DJ. It's awesome. I took my hand up to my face and pulled down slowly. I felt some adrenaline flowing into my body but the end result was disappointing. I checked my reflection in a window of a car and I had no mask on. After this I woke up. This is the longest LD so far. It was plain awesome even though I didn't do a lot of crazy stuff.

09.09.2010

9/9/10 - Lucid Dream while Dreaming. (A dream in a Dream) (WBTB)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I went to bed at around 6-8PM. I was feeling VERY sleepy from school so I went to bed, set my alarm for about 9:50ish.

Eventually I woke up about 30 minutes before the alarm went off. And so I turned it off and went back to bed.

Thus initiating (Wake Back to Bed) WBTB.

This was more of a lucid dream within a dream type deal. I was dreaming like normally, But it had that feeling that I was lucid dreaming with a dream. Kinda like having a false awakening? Falling back to sleep in that and then having a lucid dream in your lucid dream? Some shit.

But It was just me and my friend Jenn in my house, It was one of the random rooms near my kitchen. We're both just sitting around talking about my birthday, which is coming up soon. Eventually we get on the topic about sex because I used to think she was SUPER hot until she got her boyfriend >_>. Then she agreed to have consensual sex just for my birthday and that I'd travel down to california to visit her during all this.

Eventually I had semi-grasped the fact that I was dreaming and I ended up laying down on the floor where I proceeded to drag my body against the floor while looking at my chest thinking I'd instantly grow out breasts or something. Apparently my aim was to transform into a girl. (Er....Yeah). Of course this was all semi-aware. I was tripping balls for the most part as I wasn't fully aware this was a dream yet I knew that it was. It was really mind fuckish.

Eventually I woke up, Played a game of League of Legends then came back to the Dream Journal to post this. Trippy eh?

It seems that the WBTB sequence was the best bet I had, WILD'ing didn't yeld any results except for an hour of sleep paralysis. Of course this is safe to assume that the last few days i've only been able to remember my dreams because I been sleeping early/normal times. The days that I go to sleep when I'm really tired from the day (Almost stayed up for 24 hours) I just instantly crash and wake up the next day with no memory of any dreams. However, If I take a nap when I'm a bit sleepy, Wake up and decide to fall back to sleep then I start to remember dreams a lot better. Either that or I'm eating a bit more different foods. I need more bananas. And peanut butter. I hear that works a lot.

i had 2 dreams, 1 fragment, and almost went lucid...

non-lucid dream semi-lucid

1.My family, and I (and by family i mean My mother, brother, father, Myself, Both of my mothers sisters, Their husbands, their kids, their kids husbands/wives, their kids kids, etc etc) were in this small old town house in the middle of a forest. It was like we were on the yearly canoe trip but in a nicer house. we were all drinking and happy, even though it was raining. Then there was a lady in a pink outfit at the door. she left, and followed her out , and stood on the porch. I tried to call her back in but she was up at her house. Her house with only two walls. I shrugged and went back in. I don't remember what happened next but i think i went lucid. I looked around, and nobody was there. I went to take a step but i was suddenly pulled backwards and every thing began to get fuzzy and black. I began to spin in a circle as fast as i could, and i stopped moving backwards. I looked around. there was a lot of black and some fuzzy stuff, and i lost it.

Everything went black, and dream #2 started.

2. started out like a video loading on my cell phone, and two big red curtain pulled back, like a Broadway performance. I was in a barn loft with an ugly green skinned witch. she shrieked, and hid in the corner. I tried to pull the curtains back but they were tangles, and even though they moved, they wouldn't close. So i turned around and looked out the lofts window. I told her she need to leave.....
cats began to fight...woke up, passed Reality check....

3.i was riding a horse; a bay mare, probably in her late teens early 20's. I never said it's name but it felt familiar, so i believe it was my first horse Pepsi even though i never really looked at her or got off of her. I was plodding along in my parents front yard (their front yard is behind the house, and the back yard faced the road.) I moved up to the driveway, and came to a stop in the center of the circle turn around. It was night time, and there were a lot of starts. it was so comfortable, until some lady came walking up. She grabbed Pepsi's head, shoved a lamp shade over her ear, and handed my a large doughnut box. Pepsi freaked. She jumped higher than the house, and kept jumping. she went to the left, then forward again taking bounds as long as an acre or so. (it's hard to calculate a different length because i couldn't see the ground, until we landed, and i know the exact acreage at my parents :/ ) She was about to jump out into the street, but even though thee were no cars I pulled back, and she jumped towards the pond. I lost the doughnuts, and one of my arms went flailing into the air. I tried to grab something, but my arm caught a HUGE spider web which lit up like electrical lines when it snapped. Pepsi took one more big jump, and landed in her pasture, hen stopped. The next thing i know I'm walking up to the garage, going "wow that jelly filled was delicious!"
i lost the dream after that...


i cant believe i remembered all that @.@

Dream Date: 9/9/10 (morning of)
I had woken up and gone back to bed several times.

I don't remember what I was dreaming directly before this, but I remember I was in a nightclub, and there were people all around me. I felt like I was about to black out, so I (presumably thinking I had drank too much in my dream) immediately went into "Don't black out!" mode. This seems to have woken me up consciously, so I became aware that I was sleeping. When I was partially awake, I could hear reggae music very vividly, and I thought I had fallen asleep with headphones on. I don't listen to reggae, and I didn't recognize the song, so I'm not sure where the music was coming from. I began to slip back into slumber, and was *immediately* torn from my body, to the far corner of the room, near the ceiling. It happened very quickly, but I was able to turn and "see" myself and my fiance. (I put "see" in quotes because it was still dark in the room so it was hard to see). It was really cool, but as soon as I was on the far side of the room, I had the feeling of "cool...sooo...now what?" .....and then it was over.

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID FALSE AWAKENING

In general, these last days I have been recalling fewer dreams and totally missing good opportunities when they arise, but we all go through these stupid phases, I guess.


23:20 GMT – Sleep

Can’t really recall a dream, but I woke up with obsessive thoughts about dream control and the serial dreaming RPG tasks, so either I was dreaming something related to that or not at all and felt frustrated on waking up.

3:58 GMT

Random fragments
I’m with a group of kids, brothers and sisters and apparently we are very famous. There’s a huge group of fans stalking us and we just have time to hide in some house. Inside there’s a maid who becomes our friend and keeps our location secret. For some reason we stay there for the night and it is absolutely imperative that nobody find us there.
Then I am on some balcony trying to disentangle something (?)
Then I’m on top of a skyscraper in N.Y. I feel a bit of vertigo.
Then I am with some blond guy and we are making a pact to help each other keep some secret only to ourselves.

4:30 GMT

From a train to a slaughterhouse
I’m on a train station platform and from inside a train a friend calls me, says it is last call for this train and if I’m not getting there immediately I’ll have to go on the next. I don’t know where we’re going, but I hop in. I sit and realise that in the seat in front are my friend R., L. and some other person. They are bragging about their dreams. One of them says she can easily use the train ride to snooze a little and will surely come up with at least 2 lucid dreams. Initially I feel envious, but I shudder this feeling, don't want to give in to envy and just ignore them. I look through the window and I see bulls on some field. Half-lucid I start thinking which animal suffers the worst: the bull that roams free his entire life and is then slowly tortured and bleed to death in a bullfighting arena or a cow that lives an entirely miserable existence of pain in some factory farm but then dies supposedly quicker? My doubt lies now in the effectiveness of stunners that are used to leave the animals unconscious before slaughter. So I find myself in a slaughterhouse holding one of such devices to test it. I thought about trying it on myself, but I felt a bit scared of what I would feel, so I just test it on an apple – not a very clever idea, it just gets some burning marks on it. [chicken!]

A portal
I’m on some house of an old couple and their son. We’re in the middle of an empty room and there’s a portal open in the centre of the room. It just appeared out of nowhere. As it shines and waves in the air, in tones of blue, like water, we wonder what it is and if it’s dangerous to cross it and what it is on the other side. The boy gets behind it and throws something across it in our direction. It was like a piece of garbage. Instead of crossing, it just stays there, suspended in the portal, but it performs a strange mystical dance and then becomes a perfect circle form. Then I don't remember much, but I had no will or courage to actually cross it and think I just left this room and house and continued dreaming outside. [idiot!]

Buddhists and new agers
I'm in this foreign country and my mom came to visit me and I decide to show her around. I’m dressed in orange, top and long skirt and with my purple hat. I tell her lots of monks and Buddhist teachers are also in the city at the moment, for some gathering. We see a group of people waiting for a bus on the other side of the road and I tell her “See over there, it’s Mathieu Ricard with some other Tibetan Buddhist monk”. A bit further we pass by another group of monks, and I tell her “And see, look who’s in the middle of these monks, it’s Tich Nhat Hanh.”
Then we see a large entrance to some place, like a garage, not entirely inviting, but lots of new agers gathered there. They invite us in, they are eating what seems to be lentils and vegetables, so we join them. After the meal they behave a bit childish, like when they start doing this clapping hand game I used to play in camps with other kids.

5:30 GMT

Alone in the city
I am again in this foreign city and I know my mom is visiting, although not with me at the moment. I know it is quite far from home and I wonder how she enjoyed the flight. I feel that flying is becoming quite normal to me and I wonder if I’ll ever be afraid of flying. Then it occurs to me that maybe if I fly to Nepal, I might feel scared because lots of planes fall in that area as their flying companies are not so safe.
While I think about all this I am entering a building, following two other girls who enter a public toilet. It is quite big with large mirrors on the wall over the sinks. The girls are mocking me or something, but I ignore them. I go to the mirror and I spend a lot of time there, looking at something in my face as I continue thinking. Because I’m abstracted, the dream transforms and I am now on top of a hill sitting with a guy and a girl on a few steps and the mirror transformed into a glass wall by my left side. Through it I can see a road down the hill and a city on the other side of the road.
Me and this guy and girl are so packed together (don’t know way, as there’s lots of space around) and the guy is flirting me thinking I’m interested. But I couldn’t care less, I get up and decide to move. I go downhill and cross the street. From there I see than on the side of this little hill, there's a bigger mountain with a forest and old houses in the horizon, outside the city and for a moment I consider going there. But hesitated, and decided to just fly around the city. I am lucid but honestly can’t really tell when it started (think it was gradual, from the moment I moved away from this couple of friends).
For a moment I find myself inside a house with a bunch of other people and I change clothes – now I wear a sexy transparent black shirt. Then I’m outside again and I’m a bit distracted and a car almost hits me. I pause on the sidewalk for a while, just looking to the sky and the buildings around. It’s all so luminous. Then I see lots of jets lifting off and I have this impression there’s a lot of rich business people on this city. The jets lift off, one after another, there’s maybe an airport nearby. But then they start behaving strangely, like they are not flying in a straight line, but a bit randomly and then they transform into giant metal birds, with colourful painted wings.
A Russian guy wakes me up from my mesmerisation and tells me he will drive this car, which is parked right by my side and I’m sitting on the sidewalk, so he’s just warning me to get out the way. He is a bit rude, but he is actually concerned about my safety and I feel he is a nice guy. He is a driver, not the owner of the car.
Then I cross the street on the pedestrian walkway. I didn’t look to see if it was green for pedestrians and a wall of cars comes in my direction from both sides. But I am not afraid. As they approach I think "cars keep coming at me but this is my dream and they can’t hurt me, I’ll be like Moises opening the red sea and crossing safely to the other side". It didn’t quite happen that way. It just happened that the cars would pass in front of me or in my back without ever colliding with me, very elegantly. That was nice, but not awesome, so I stay there and decide the cars will lift in the air and freeze and make a wall of cars. This time I point my hand to them to make it happen, but all it happens is that they started levitating, but not with the desired effect. I think “Oh crap, I really suck at this control thing.”, but it wasn’t that bad - at least it was a very sucessful levitation of cars.
Then for some irrational “reason” when I am in the sidewalk I decide I’m not over with this gimmick yet and I walk a bit further down the road until I find a spot that for "some reason” looks good. There I decide to send a purple light ray – actually more like a laser, hard to explain - to the ground, marking an invisible line where the cars will create this wave or wall of cars, when they reach it. But by this time, the traffic diminished a lot. It’s already dawn and I also realised there’s very few people on the street. A guy coming out from a building – looks like a bank – just saw me sending out “laser beams” and with his eyes wide open he freezes on the sidewalk and moves back inside. I can’t believe he is afraid of me!
I lean on some raised flowerbed outside a building, waiting for some car to pass, but nothing! They totally disappeared. Now I feel pissed. I was sure this time it would work! Then I feel so incredibly lonely, as if I was the only one of my kind in the world - nobody with whom to share my reality and my tricks. Then my cat appears by my side and I hug him, but I don’t feel much better.
[Then I felt totally disappointed that I didn’t remember to do any of the tasks I was supposed to do!]

7:15 GMT – Wake up

08/09/10

Disclaimer: This is the first time keeping a formal DJ, so my style may change with time. Just bear with me - I thought it was best to put *something* up even though my recall is terrible and my writing style is poor.

Wow, alright. I'm finally going to commit to keeping my online dream journal. Adopted yesterday by Spockman, and started getting back into the swing of lucid dreaming again, starting with this. I had 3 dreams last night, the last one being a lucid! So in order, non lucids first:

#1
The first, and shortest dream of the night. I have a feeling it may have gone on much longer than I remember, but here's what i recall. I was playing some kind of video game, only not on a TV, it was more like I was actually *in* the game, controlling the character as a third party. It was heavily influenced by Mario galaxy 2, as well as Sin and Punishment (the two games my brother has been playing recently, hehe). The action was taking place inside a long, giant pipe, with transparent walls. All I really remember is the last part of the action - a big spiral platform that ended in 2 exits, one guarded by blocks. The main character, I can't remember who it was, was floating upward, while the aim was to destroy the blocks using the crosshairs for the secret exit. My brother was talking to me about how to beat the level, from somewhere around me, but I couldn't see him. That's pretty much all I remember. But its my first dream record, so I'm confident that will get better.

I really need to stop dreaming about videogames...

#2
This dream was a little awkward. I won't use real names, cause the topic is a little dodgy. I was on msn, and I was talking to this guy V, who had a huuuge crush on our mutual friend, N (though this isn't the case in real life). All i remember was the outcome of the chat, where I had V spouting off about me setting up one of my other friends, R, with his girlfriend. Something along the lines of "There are 100 x 100 x 100....(etc) people in this country, and you had to choose HER." I remember feeling really guilty, almost as if I'd led him to believe something that wasn't true - it certainly wasn't something I would do in reality. He continued to call me a dickwad, and mentioned something to do with R using the same msn as him. This confused me greatly. Just then, the lights turned on and I was in bed, clothed, using my laptop as my mum comes into the room to wish me good morning. It was the same room I fell asleep in, except it was a TOTAL mess - things all over the floor. I remember as soon as the light turned on I jumped to close the laptop lid, signed off msn and started to take my clothes off (? this was really weird...I think it was to act as if I'd onlly just woken up or something). I also hid my laptop under the bed hurriedly as well as my dream journal. Odd.....since I technically don't have a paper booklet-style dream journal in real life, not to mention I totally missed this chance to have a lucid! She was pretty surprised I was awake, but told me straight away to clean up the mess I had made. i remember climbing down to a hidden compartment in the side of my bed, where there was an opened jar of purple crystals, almost like a powder, though I had no idea what these were. All I knew is that they were all over the floor, and for some reason I freaked out. Then, for no apparent reasons at all, the scene changed to a wall-like slideshow. First, a picture of waffles at a local supermarket. Then, a Nazi flag. Then the dream ended.

Seriously fucked up dream right there.

#3
A lucid dream! I can't remember for the life of me how it came about, no RCs, just realised I was dreaming as it went along. I'd say it was semi-lucid, but I *did* know I was dreaming and I did exert some good control. Only problem was the recall, I forgot about half of it, so what I put here is just the end part and a general overview. The setting was some kind of indoor temple arena, almost like the setting for some kind of FPS game. There were 3 chambers, 2 of which were identical but opposite one another, and had large pools of water. There was a third, smaller circular pool in the main room, and a tall altar in the middle. There were a few other people there who I didn't know, all of whom were apparently lucid and testing their dream powers. I find this really interesting - the setting seemed almost like a training ground for lucid dreamers, and I had absolutely no control over these other characters - they were displaying the same world-altering abilities I had. I don't know what people would make of this, I am skeptical about shared dreaming but I was curious if other people had been in a similar dream, maybe?

As the dream progressed, I had forgotten the list of lucid tasks I had set for that week, so instead I was practising a lot of interesting abilities off the top of my head. I was manipulating the ground like some kind of landscaper (think Samuel from Heroes) using a variety of interesting techniques - using telekinesis, a virtual HUD kinda like on Maya or a similar program, even changing gravity to create some weird and wacky shapes with the ground and the water. I practiced dream flying and shooting fireballs too. There was some kind of minotaur looking monster there as an enemy for practice battle, and at some stage I remember my mum (again) coming into the dream to see how I was controlling these things. The final part of the dream was an attempt at transformation, which failed the first time but surprisingly, worked after that! I transformed into a werewolf (a goal I've always wanted to try) but I woke up before it was complete, so I'm not ready to tick this off my list just yet.

Overall, compared to most of my aimless, short, blurry lucids, this one was quite something. It felt like it lasted 30 minutes, maybe longer, and the level of detail was incredible. I managed to go the whole dream without thinking of my sleeping self, and without needing to dream spin or try desperately to keep the dream scene together. I'm thinking this could be because I was trying out a lot of new things, rather than wandering around aimlessly, summoning girls and trying my hand at dream sex *facepalm*. Control seemed good, I just need to focus more on remembering my lucid tasks, and RECALL. I'm a little bummed that I don't remember so much of this dream, when the parts I do remember were above par to what I usually experience in an LD.

Overall, a very successfull first night not long till I head back to bed and hopefully have another lucid!

Azra~

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Hello everyone! I was supposed to try out the CANWILD method, in which you set an alarm, don't move a muscle and slip back to sleep. I was way too tired this morning to be bothered hah! If I don't have to get up, I won't. Anyways I did have a nice night, three long dreams and two fragments, in one which I had an LD! It was the shortest one I've had but still. Here they are:

D1 Night: I'm sitting at a table with my grandpa infront of me. He's about to have a very important business meeting and I'm there as his consult or whatever. I take out my cellphone and turn on the record function. I barely have time to put it in my pocket before a man enters the room. He greets us and they start talking business. I can tell he's really nervous and is sweating like a pig. Instead of talking to eachother, they start drawing pictures with crayons. Just random colors on the paper like a three-year old would do. I can see that there's text hidden in those symbols. Just as if there were cameras in the room, recording everything. After ages of drawing, the meeting is finally over. I go to the bathroom and take out my cellphone. The record had stuck at two hours. "Damn that was a long meeting" I say to myself.

D2 Night: I'm at McDonalds with my friend G. The girl serving me is a complete bitch, and as we are about to walk out of there, I tell her that her performance sucks. Apparently she is going home with us. G gets angry at me and starts whining. I really don't feel like taking his crap so I tell him and his new girlfriend to walk ahead of me. He agrees and I ask for the keys to the appartment. He throws them at me and starts running. After a few seconds he comes running back panting. "I forgot, I don't even have the key" I give him the keys back and he runs off again. I'm left all alone in the middle of the night and walks slowly home. After a steep hill I can hear some weird noises coming from a barn on the side of the road. I can tell it's children doing something bad, like drugs! I start thinking of going in there to scare them a little.

D3 Night: I'm on a cool boat with my girlfriend Monica. We're cruising down the river here in my hometown and Monica is hyped up. "We should put down crayfish traps all the way to the end!" I try to turn the boat around but it's too narrow! Somehow I manage to do it anyways but the boat almost turns over in the process. I can hear glasses shattering under deck in the cabin.

D4 10.30: I don't remember much but I'm with a girl dressed in black. Suddenly I get lucid after remembering the girl in the bathtub. The girl in black lay down and I position myself ontop of her. Instead of getting that nice feeling, I'm starting to feel my body. "No, no, no!" I think for myself. "Someone told me to concentrate real hard on the dream, it might work!" I try concentrating and the dream doesn't vanish! I'm once again in the dream and I try to move a little, it feels nice but the dream is too fuzzy for it to be exciting. I black out a few seconds later.

D5 11.30:I'm in a cab with my friend G. We're going to Mörby and I'm wearing a thin jacket. The cab stops and we get out and starts walking towards the subway entrance. The guy in the booth is sleeping so I tell G to just walk on without paying. On the very slim escalator I see alot of people, wearing ghetto-clothes. "Hmm this must be the new ghetto in Sweden" I think for myself and we enter the subway station. Apparently there's a new track being opened today. It includes 10 new stations and the old track is closed for repairs. I don't recognise any of the names on the board and I don't really know where I'm going. A train enters the station and we are about to get on, only if they hadn't occupied the entire thing. We end up standing on the platform, watching the train leave the station. But wait? We're the ones moving, not them! I point this out to my friend Felix and he agrees with me. "This is awesome!" I say and fall down. I feel really drunk and can't stand up properly. The tickets on this new train, are wooden sticks of some kind. I'm holding two and I notice that I'm wearing my winter-jacket. "Wasn't I wearing my autumn-jacket?" I ask. "And where's G?" I figure he must have left on the platform or something. Suddenly I want to get off the train, and ask if Felix or Eric wants to come with me. They don't and I walk out all by myself. I'm in my home city again and in the middle of a roundabout. I run to the other side of the road and cars have to stop. My shoes are now some kind of flip-flops and I'm greeted by two alcoholics with no front teeth.

Amount of sleep: 9 hours

I just signed up for a MILD class. I really hope I get in, since I'm not really a newb. But I do need the motivation and some tips on how to achieve lucidity. I just think about it alot and hope for the best.

Any suggestions? Are RCs really THAT important? This is what the paintings looked like in the first dream:


Keep on dreaming, HARE BRA!

I was in the living room watching the television, it was a show about fat people and ways to lose weight. I watched it a bit more and I realized it was a Dr. Phil show, he was talking about the importance of exercise in losing weight, I was feeling particularly fat right then, but I didn't want to exercise… Dr. Phil kept talking about the various things that could happen to overweight people, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart attacks, strokes… endless amounts of problems that can come from being overweight. I was thinking I really should get out and exercise, so maybe I would take a walk, I certainly didn't have the patience to listen to Dr. Phil any longer.

I went outside and started walking, the weather wasn't as hot as I had expected it to be, so I thought this walk might actually end up being a decent length one. The main road near my house is under heavy construction, so I didn't think it would be very pleasant to walk there right now, so I decided to look in other directions. I headed down a path I had never noticed before and I soon found the landscape changing around me, I was slowly leaving the desert landscape and entering a forest of trees. That seemed really odd… odd enough for me to do a RC, which revealed I was dreaming!

So now that I realized I was dreaming, I stopped to think of my goals for the night… at first I couldn't think of any of them, but I finally thought of the one from Mortal Mist where the goal was to explore a forest and note all of the details of the season long with the animals, weather, and other details. That would be a nice relaxing dream to have right now, so I thought I would do that. I walked through the trees, looking at the place and making note of all of the details I could, the trees were beautiful, the leaves were blowing in a gentle breeze, all of them were changing color to various shades of red, orange, yellow, blue, purple, and teal… um… blue, purple, and teal? Well, that didn't matter, this was a dream forest after all… I wondered if there are places where the leaves really do turn to shades of blue and purple, then I thought of course there are! I'm in one!

I continued walking through the forest, making note of and enjoying every detail I could take in, the feel of the cool breeze on my skin, the smell of the trees… it smelled like it might rain soon… I listened to the birds singing in the trees, the crunch of the fallen leaves on the ground as I walked through them, I caught glimpses of small animals running around in the trees, several squirrels, a couple of bunnies. One of the squirrels was quite brave, it ran right up in front of me to grab a fallen nut and then ran back to the trees and disappeared into its branches, I figured the squirrel was storing food for the winter. I saw more movement in the trees, and this time a fox emerged, cute! The fox was definitely brave, the fox came trotting right over to me and looked at me as if he expected me to pet him. Wait a minute… that fox could be none other than Pablo!

I sat down in the fallen leaves and stroked Pablo, the dream had become so vivid as I focused on every detail, the fox's fur was so silky and soft as I pet him. Pablo was a red tailed fox with a white chest, red fur on most of his body, dark brown feet, a long fluffy tail, most of the tail was red like the rest of Pablo, but the tip of the tail was pure white. What I noticed most that I couldn't get over was how soft the fur was, as soft as petting a cat, it was too soft to resist putting my arms around him and giving him a hug, burying my face in that soft fur. I saw movement near a tree and I looked, there was an animal I didn't recognize digging a hole in the ground near the base of the tree, I figured that would be a den, I wondered if that might harm the tree to dig right there… Pablo changed from an adult red tail fox to a fox cub so I could scoop him into my arms and continue walking, such a cute fox cub… I carried Pablo farther down the trail until I found a stream flowing across the path, the sound of the stream was so clear, the water was also clear, I could see some small fish swimming around in it. There were rocks positioned perfectly for crossing the stream, things were so clear that I could clearly see the difference between the dry rock and the wet rock that was being splashed by the stream.

I had to do a RC again, because I thought I would soon forget I was dreaming if I didn't remind myself, so I re-confirmed that I was dreaming before crossing the stream… and then the fox disappeared from my arms! I was momentarily alarmed, then I realized Pablo had probably just woken up, so I got down on my knees by the stream and splashed some of the cool water on my face, and it felt wonderful. I sat there for a bit longer, letting myself take in the details of the blue sky which I could see between the trees on either side of the stream, and there were some fluffy white clouds drifting across the sky… nothing looked like rain, I wondered why it smelled like rain… I got up and headed back into the forest, watching the birds flying around as if they were in a hurry to get something important done. I was walking down the path, getting close to forgetting it was a dream, when a huge shadow fell over the forest, a huge dark shadow. I also heard a loud "THWUMP… THWUMP…" sound from overhead and felt a rush of strong wind blowing down from above. This wind felt a bit chilly, and many of the colorful leaves that had been hanging on to the trees now fell off and blew around in the hurricane type winds. I looked up just in time to see a huge winged creature fly overhead, creating the wind as it flapped its massive wings.

The animal had flown farther along the path, so I followed the path faster, I really wanted to see what that thing had been. I knew it was a dream, so I had no fear that I would be in danger from it. I finally exited the thick part of the forest into a large clearing, a meadow, and I spotted several deer running past me and disappearing into the shelter of the forest. Whatever that thing was, the animals were scared of it, and maybe with good reason. I looked up and I could hardly believe my eyes… it was a dragon! A huge dragon, it flew over the meadow, swooped around in a large arc, and then returned to the meadow. It flapped its massive wings to slow down and land, the force of the wind almost knocked me over, and finally it landed and roared a deafening sound. Wow! The dream was so vivid and now I was meeting a dragon! Awesome! I had barely found a bit of voice to my awe, "Wow… you are absolutely AWESOME!" I said to the dragon, "Absolutely AMAZING!" I stood there taking in the details of the dragon, his size… he was huge… his scales, they were of various colors of greens and browns, but all of them glistened in the sunlight like gems… he had claws like spears on each of his limbs, teeth, huge white teeth, and his wings! He really could make a hurricane with those wings! I was sure of it!

So now I was facing this huge dragon, I had no idea what its intentions might be, but I felt like I was losing the dream, like I was going to wake up. No way! There was no way I was going to let myself wake up now that I was face to face with this amazing creature! Refusing to lose the dream, I focused on Allura's method of time dilation, and by doing this I managed to stabilize the dream, which I will continue in the next post.

To be continued…

07.09.2010

Meeting Mosh at the Moon! Possible dream Share. (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Well, finally I'm getting back in shape. Three dreams yesterday (one lucid) and seven dreams today (five fragments, one long dream and one lucid) I am going late tonight to bed, so this night won't be as awesome I think!

Seventh:

I was at the Artifex store playing and looking for cards. The store was very packed and I wanted to take a look over the dollar bin rare cards. Jim (the owner) told me to grab the cards and find a seat where I could. He trusted me and he knew I was going to steal nothing.

I sat in a corner and started to look for cards. I saw two foil promo Damnation. I was surprised because each one was worth $30. I felt tempted to sneak them in the pile of cards, but I felt bad. I was going to tell Jim to place them were they belong and hopefully, to get a better price on one of them.







I browsed for more cards and walked towards the counter. I realized I had a huge pile of cards and it was going to be a lot of money. I reviewed the pile and I found several crappy penny cards. I was wondering why I did grab those. I sat in another table. I saw a few students from junior school doing some homework. I was now with Earl, a friend. I told him about the damnation and the crappy cards that got into my hand. I could not find the damnations in the pile. I found several odd cards, some of them, were worth around $400. I was super confused about how come those cards got there. I looked at the cards once more, and I found some of the most expensive cards from the entire collection. I got mad and did a RC.

I had one of my fingers smaller that usual and realized I was dreaming. I woke up and said, "I love playing cards, but not in my lucids. Bye." I kissed my wife and left.

The store lead to a country instead to its regular parking lot. The dream was very blurry and not stable. I decided to fly as usual to make it stable. I only could see a little bit of bright light, so I kept flying. I did not want to focus on the light as I was afraid I could wake up. After a while, the imaginary was back. It was night and I saw the moon. I decided to fly to it.

For some reason, I had a little difficulty flying. My dream was not a 100% clear so I decided to slow down. I saw a wall and I decided to jump to it to get closer to the moon. I did and I saw another wall. I did this four times and I saw the moon bigger, but not more walls. The dream quality was perfect now so I planned to fly. My wife spawned from no where and wanted to go to the moon. I told her to just fly, but she was not able.

I saw coming from my right a giant metallic platform. I knew it would take us to the Moon. I jumped into the platform and helped my wife to climb it. We gained speed and height until the dream turned black. I still felt myself in the dream but I could not see a thing. It was darkness from space but I saw no stars. I told my wife to keep focused in the dream, to move her eyes to keep REM active and to be in the dream. I moved my head fast to the left and the right maintaining my eyes wide open. After a while, darkness vanished and I saw a bright sunlight. My wife was asleep, but I could wake her up. She started to act dumb, but she started to be herself again after a while.

I was now in the moon and I saw several DC. I could see half earth:







I was happy and I approached a few DC. I told my wife I was going to look for someone. I asked the DCs, "Do you guys know were WakingNomad is?" They told me he was not at the moon today. I cursed and asked, "How about MoSh from Dreamviews?" They all moved away and pointed at him.

Mosh wore a gray t-shirt and told me, "Hey Percy! Welcome to the Moon!" I told him about WakingNomad and he told me he was not there today.

I looked at the "sky" of the moon and I saw once more the Earth and the Sun. The sun looked different, more like fire and lava (space view) I though it could be fun to fly now to the Sun. I wondered how it could feel. The dream vanished and I woke up.

Missed dream signs:
- None.

Spotted dream signs:
- The funny situation with the cards.

Reality Check Performed:
- Hand check (failed. turned lucid)

I was dreaming about something... I don't know. Something random. My ex-in-laws were there, and boy are they downers. I was inside a house, it wasn't theirs, or maybe it was but it wasn't a place I'd ever experienced in my waking or dreaming life before, when all of a sudden I was lucid.

"I'm lucid... oh my -- ...I'm lucid!! ...I have full control... ok, ok... ok... let's try to jump..."

So I jumped from the kitchen, and I floated in a straight line until I hit the wall. It wasn't graceful or cool, like an astronaut or a swimmer, it was like playing an internet video game where the internet suddenly cuts off. The other people in my dream disappeared. The landscape outside the windows was gone - in fact, everything outside the windows was completely black. There was quite literally nothing outside of the house. And I was having to learn to fly all over again.

Pointless! I was quite upset... I finally accomplished something I'd been wanting for so long, only to find that my control was so complete that my own existence was the only thing. Maybe next time I'll try to say something a little more ominous, like "Let there be light."