lucid

Method: DILD
Recall: below average
Lucid Ability: 5
Vividness: average
Dream Length:unknown

I remember there was some girl named ivory there, and I was going to give her a present. I was at some old campus, and it was night time. There were these artifacts that were in display cases, and one was closed book carved out of stone. I grabbed it and headed of to where she was. I entered an area full of tables similar to a lunch room, but everyone there seemed like they were studying. I walked up to Ivory, and offered her the book but she refused. I told her that it was priceless and I wanted her to have it, and she told me she knew that because she was the one to brought it there to begin with. She told me some other stuff about me that I didn't like and I pimp slapped her.

Everyone got quite, and I started walking off, some guy with his arms cross said "you don't want to do that again" to me. I punched him in face and he took it like a man. I punched him again...same thing. I eye gouged him so hard that my two fingers couldn't go in any further, and when I pulled them out, the guy was sill in that same cocky stance with no changes to appearance. I apologized to the guy and went about my business. There was a film of goo on my fingers that smelled like hell I noticed before I woke up.

Method: DILD
Recall: poor
Lucid Ability: not tested
Vividness: average
Dream Length: unknown (don't remember anything earlier)

I was at some diner and this girl was asking me questions, and all of a sudden she grabbed my hand and put it between my legs. She told me we might as well have sex here, and the scene started changing into my room. She got on top of me, and she had her tits in my face, and I told her to slide down a bit so I could remember her face. She stayed there for a while, and I thought I was going to wake up, but she finally switched positions and we were both laying sideways in the bed, and she was facing the other direction. I continued pounding her until I woke up.

02.09.2010

Blast those dancers! (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I had an odd night. I woke up a few times and dreamed odd stuff. I had a lucid. It was about time. I had been 4 days with no lucids.

Third:

I had a few things to do. I grabbed my car and I drove somewhere. I was waiting for my wife until I saw something odd and I decided to RC. I had six fingers. In addition, my fingers were small, smaller than usual, like half their real size.
As usual, I took flight to steblize the dream. I have been flying for a while. My lucidity was not great because I did not start a certain task like I always do but I followed the flow of the dream.

It was day and I was flying over downtown. I saw several skyscrapers and a few parks. I started to hear music. I found very disturbing that music and I remembered that it was the same music I heard while I was working at the Olive Oil store in the past. It was the dancers! I said to myself that it could be cool to blast them off, but I did not find it very important.

I landed close to the place were I heard the music. I was walking around downtown and it was pretty empty. I saw a couple DC and ask them if they knew where the dancers were. They indicated me. I saw some buildings. Those buildings were recalled from one of my childhood neighborhoods.

I took flight again and saw the dancers from above the sky. I tried to create an energy blast to throw it at them. I did not feel like I attempted really hard, so I failed.

I landed inside the room where the dancers were. It was like a ceiling-less bar location. I saw several tables around and a few DC, but not many. I was suddenly in another location and I was totally into the dream. I cannot remember this part well, so I am sure I lost lucidity at some point. I had some chit chat with this DC and we flew once more to the place where the dancers were. This guy had a lighter and some alcohol plus some paper. As I could not blast them, I though in making a fireball. I was worried if I was going to be busted and go to jail. I remembered I was dreaming and nothing could happen. I threw a few fireballs (made with the paper and lighter, not with my own powers) and threw it to the place. A fire started and everyone fled. I asked to the DC if the police would guess who it was and he said they would probably do.

I had a False Awakening in my room and I was next to my wife. She was waking me up because the clock was ringing. I wondered if what happened was real or not. I woke up for real.

Missed dream signs:
- Unknown.

Noticed dream signs:
- Something odd.

Reality check performed:
- Hand check (failed. Turned lucid)

I was lucid, and I was in a dungeon with four rooms. Each room was dark, and in 2D so everything looked very strange. There was no escape from the dungeon. In each room were some items, also in 2D.



The point of the dungeon was apparently to force me to learn dream control. I wasn't sure how I knew that, but I did. The first task was to learn to move objects with my mind. I struggled for a bit before I managed to smash the car into the table. I was able to move things with my mind now! I tried to put the car on top of the table, but the 2D view wouldn't allow that and it looked very odd.

The next task was to learn to use magic. That was easier. I used a yellow spell against an opponent.

I was alone in the dungeon after that, and 3D was trying to overcome the 2D view. In front of me was a TV. It was sort of creepy looking in the dark. It was an old analog TV. I flipped through the stations. Because a lot of the dream was in 2D much of the channels were showing cartoons from my childhood. I found a news station and tried to put my hand through the screen. I was teleported inside the TV and found myself INSIDE of a Spongebob cartoon!!!

Two characters that looked like this were jumping up and down in their living rooms cheering at the television. I was back in 2D land which was really annoying. Dreaming in a cartoon. I reached inside their television to try to get somewhere else but I think I just teleported back to the dungeon.

I was at an airport with my friend Petter. I thought to myself for some reason that I was dreaming. I pinched my nose and tried to breate. It worked. I left Petter and just walked around. I probably should have tried som stabilizing- techniques because I woke up.

Date: Sept.2
Time: 6:00am

Description: So I tried to use an alarm thing to wake me up in SP, but all it did was wake me up for good. So anyway I went back to sleep and woke around 6 am. I attempted a WILD, I got the vibrations, and auditory hallucinations. Then this dream happened. I lost lucidity quite early, but I was lucid nonetheless.

Dream: I got up from my bed, I did a nose plug reality check and it failed. So then I became aware that I was dreaming. I walked toward my door and tried another reality check, the finger through the palm RC. That also failed. So instead of getting all excited, I just noticed I was only wearing my boxers, so I walked toward the laundry room and found a pair of shorts. I put them on, and ran upstairs and outside. I wanted to fly. As I went into my backyard I passed a "How To" book on dreaming, I didn't pay any attention to it. I jumped into the air, but fell back down again. So I did another RC and it still failed. So I tried it several more times, I couldn't. Even with thoughts such as I know I can fly, and other things. I lost my lucidity right then as my mom and sister were taking out trash, so I decided to help them. (Thinking about it, I should of just ignored them.) The trash was quite full, and smelly. I put the trash out and walked back inside. My mom got a letter, about how messy the schools got after the last class of the year. She seemed annoyed when I told her that it was because of the last day of school, kids throw their papers. She would have none of it. So I go to my front door, and see this kid Omar I used to know, he walks up to me and asks if I have any Gatorade or anything like that, I say no only pop. My dad pulls up my driveway in his car, and my brother Josh right after. I go and pick up the book I saw earlier and flip threw the pages, and see instructions for different things, like teleportation, and flying. I black out, and wake up for real.

Dream Date: 5/8/10
(This dream was from a few months ago...)

8:30 - awake and said goodbye to my Fiance, who is leaving for the day..
9:30 (ish), laid back down to rest.

Blue = Dream
Red = Lucid Dream - level 1
Dark Red = Lucid Dream Level 2 - The OBE

As I drifted off, dream-like visions faded in very quickly (not typical dream cycle, this happened within 10 mins of me lying down)...early on, there we 2 guys conversing, the exact subject I can't remember, but their whole conversation was very clear at the time. Eventually I was 'dreaming' that I was at work, in class, but we needed to pull a girl from another class to help out. I was walking around looking at student's computers and their work...up to this point, it was very much like a dream...I was merely a passenger to wherever my dreams would take me. Then suddenly I was very aware of the moment, and I could feel first hand everything that was around me. I turned to the girl and said quite normally "It's pretty bright in here" (and it was, all of a sudden. Blindingly so.... and I squinted my eyes to see)...she asked me to repeat myself, and as I started to speak again, the sound of my own words blurred and faded out, as if time was slowing down, and without any control over what was happening (but yet, I WAS the dream body) I began to slip away, as if I was suddenly passing out. There was a moment of concern, but it felt peaceful and i didn't offer resistance. My consciousness shifted "inside of myself" (myself being the dream body), but could feel the 'dream characters' hovering around my 'dream body'. I was aware of everything - that my 'real body' was lying in bed, safely harboring a 'dream' of my second body, which had gone into a deeply vivid 'dreaming' state', in which I was extremely lucid, and could use that second level of dreaming to host my "lucid dream". This was different than a lucid dream though...it felt more like an out of body/lucid dream hybrid. I felt my consciousness 'physically' leave my dream body, and my 'real body' and I was moving around the room (a little clumsily, but I had some control over it nevertheless.) I remembered that in an OBE you can turn and see yourself...I could not. I tried, but...controls were difficult, and I was in someone else's room. It was a child's room...almost everything was white - white bed, with white ruffled comforter, white walls, and sun shining in through windows adorned in white. There was a Winnie The Pooh doll in the room...I never owned Winnie The Pooh anything, so i knew right away this was night my room. I continued to "stumble" around (I was floating, not walking)... the room changed, and it felt more like the room my 'real body' was in...I saw and felt the door, and somehow managed to open it, but the other side was not a hallway like I expected, its...Another door i believe. Or rather, a door warped strangely, like 2 wooden doors that had grown together...somehow. There were many illusions. I decided I wanted to see if I could find my fiance. I found myself at a place that almost resembled a night club, and i was higher up looking down at the people that were there. I moved over the reception area to the main room and found my fiance standing talking to friends. Soon my legs were wrapped around him from the side, and I was stroking the back of his neck, and hugging him. I had resumed my 'dream body' at this point, so I could feel him, 'physically'. He was not aware of my presence...(note: I was not seeking him out within a dream, I was seeking him out in "reality"...so I believe if this was merely a lucid dream, I would only be able to find him within a dream (his 'dream body' manifested by my mind). But since this was more of a Lucid Dream/OBE hybrid, I had a link to the 'real world' and could seek out his 'real body'.

Interestingly, before I woke up earlier this same morning, I had been dreaming of a very "Alice in Wonderland" type world. But the world began to break apart, with nothing but darkness surrounding the stepping stone pieces of the "reality environment". We were hopping on, from one piece to the next, as the world broke apart. Between 2 pieces, there was a sort of vortex, that one of the dream characters I was with said was (a worm hole or black hole, I can't remember which ).

Sidenote: I did happen to watch some videos on wormholes before bed, which definitely influenced this dream?

I'm inside this ship looking at a small aquarium thats supposed to represent the sea. Theres a ship thats inside there thats supposed to represent us. The ship is underwater and damaged, and theres a fish with it. A person comes on overhead speakers and starts talking about a "Shipeater Fish". The fish in the aquarium is big as the sunken ship, and it has these stripes going across it. They're white black and blue. I looked closer and noticed that all the stripes on it looked like a silhouette of a ship.

As it got closer to the ship, the narrator on the loud speaker can be heard talking about the facts of this creature. He stated that they literally ate ships, and the process was quicker than expected. I continued looking at the fish in the aquarium. Once it got near the ship, it too a huge bite out of the end of it, devouring almost a third of the ship. The room suddenly shook at the same time, and people started leaving by now. This one girl told me we only had a few minutes left and she went off in the reverse direction of where everyone else was going.

***CRUCH!*** The fish took another bite out of the ship. And the room shook once again. The model ship was nearly gone, and nearly everyone who was in the room with was already gone as well. I saw the girl sprint out with some kind of package and knew it was my time to leave as well. As I headed out towards the exit, there was another loud noise, and the entire room tilted virtically just as I passed through the exit doors. I looked around and saw water was rushing into the room I just left as the ship was being pulled into the murky depths. I grabbed on the exit doors and pulled myself out of the ship, and moved myself away from the hole that was steadily being filled by tons of water. As I swam away to the nearest dock, Dad was there, and he said "did you like the ride"? I pulled myself up and said "yeah, it was okay".

(gap in recall)

I find myself with that same girl and we're hurrying through this store. The package she took from the ship is apparently something valuable. We don't have anytime to talk, and we're just trying to get to this location as quickly as possible. We enter a side door, and it takes us to a room with a safe that looks like a refrigerator. I manage to open the top part quickly, and then she starts working on the bottom. Theres someone else telling us that the guards are coming, and we're running out of time. I thought we were going to get caught and thrown in prison, so I said something to her to get her mind off of the situation, and she got it open.

We all separated and casually made our way out of the building. As I got closer to the exit, the guards appeared and started chasing me. I gave them the run around in the store so the other people would at least have time to escape, and then I headed out through the doors. There was a beat up gold cargo van that was waiting on me, and I jumped in through the side door. Ving Rames was the driver, and Nick, and that girl were there. We sped our way down the street and I was trying to get to a seat to buckled in, and just when I got to one, we hit this railroad track and the van launched in slow motion. I held on to the the seat and felt my body stretch out and leave the ground as we mad the jump. We landed and everything went back to normal speed I cussed Ving out, and everyone started laughing. At least we were safe.

Nick started talking to me about how hard it was to get the item from the ship, and the other two were talking about how they would spend their share of the money. We pulled up at a store, and Nick said, "man, Akono needs a motorcycle for this next one". I looked at him and said "what!?". He said "I was gonna buy you one right now, but eff you then". We started laughing and the dream faded.

Method: DILD
Recall: Average
Lucid Ability: 10
Vividness: Excellent
Dream Length: long

I started out leaving my house and just knowing it was a dream. I took to the air...and flew east. Buildings were popping out of everywhere, forming a big city out of nowhere. I started making more and more appear until the entire scene looked like I was some place I've never been before. I finally landed and ended up going to some place and talking to an old GF of mine. I remember asking myself several times throughout the dream "why in the world am I even doing this?".

Method: WILD (totally unintentional)
Recall: Average
Lucid Ability: 7
Vividness: great
Dream Length: average

Was a really slow transition, it seemed like I was waiting forever for the dream to start. I floated out of my bed, and started stabilizing while the dream was actually forming. After some time, I walked outside and decided to look for Walms. I threw a black hole on the side of the wall and tried to use it as a portal. I couldn't phase. I tried it again, and this time the portal had orange flame marks above it. I slowly crept through it and transitioned through the darkness.

I arrived in some sort of video game. Most of the area was pitch black and there was this red velvet platform which seemed like the only place I could go. There were these monsters..almost pig like that walked upright that I was killing.
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The were placed through out the walkway, and I was slowly mowing them down with dual sub-machine guns. I found that it was more effective to aim at the shells they had strapped to their clothing letting them die from their own fashion errors. There was someone actually near by them, I don't know what he/she was doing, but I was trying to keep them safe with accurate suppressive fire as the dream faded.

I started off at some random person's place, apparently my relative's place. I was with KA, and I think my cousins or something. I think SU was there. I remember being on a boat too, since outside of the house was a lake. When we were on the boat we watched some guys on another boat get their boat flipped over. Somehow they flipped up again and they were fine, not even wet.

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Not sure what I was doing at first, but I ended up looking over a bridge or high platform of some kind. There was a large vehicle that looked like a building; I think it was a space ship or something. I was looking over and wondering how to get down there. I thought that it would be so easy if I were in a dream! Wait a minute...

Realizing I was actually in a dream, I rejoiced as I did a nose pinch RC to confirm (don't want to end up jumping off a bridge IRL xD). I then jumped over and landed on the ground.

When I was close up to the space ship thingy it more resembled a subway. As I stepped in it shrank and basically became a subway car. It started travelling between stops, but it was outdoors, not underground.

Then I wanted to destroy things. I tried to summon fire, but like in all other dreams, I was for some reason unable (even though I can summon guns and bows quite easily -.-). Then as I looked out of the subway (the ceiling seemed to be gone now so I could see the environment around us) I saw the moon with a bunch of other planets. I think the sky was purple. I decided to experiment; I put my hands up and willed the moon towards me.

The moon slowly came to my. I was able to touch it! It felt like a giant inflatable bouncy ball. I poked it a few times, then slapped it and launched it across the sky.

I tried again to summon fire, but I closed my eyes while doing so. The dream scene was about to shift, but then it faded and I awoke.

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I was watching Sylvanas from WoW as the Dark Queen trying to defeat some undead knight guy. She was really weak against him. The guy was taunting her about how the Dark Queen would be more powerful. That was the end of it.

Method: DILD
Recall: Average
Lucid Ability: 6
Vividness: good
Dream Length: long

I find myself randomly lucid...of course...went to plan B. Girl wanted to go into the bathroom....went there. She disappeared. Random folks in the bathroom....all guys though. Told myself that theres going to be a girl that enters next. She does. She heads off with some other guy. Some other girls comes in does the same thing. Time for some violence? Yes. I head over to one guy and I'm fighting him, but apparently it has no effect on him. I grew wolverine claws and started slashing and stabbing him...powdered blood is flying from him, and he just keeps regenerating. I even tried cutting his head off, but it was healing almost as quick as my slashes were going in. I stabbed him in the brain so he wouldn't be able to think, and tried it again.....same thing =/ Woke up.

Method: WILD
Recall: Average
Lucid Ability: 3
Vividness: great
Dream Length: short

I arrive outside of my house and the first think of I looking for Walms. I call out and see if hes's there, and nothing happens. I try pulling out my sword again, and still nothing. Then i just tried swiping at the air just to see if it would make a portal, and still nothing.

I saw a car heading down the road, and decided to get in the way of it. The car swerved out the way, and crashed into the ditch. The guy got out, and was really angry at me. Of course I was loving every second of this. We got into a fight, I won of course..this time I stabbed some glass from the wreck through his sternum all the way down to his heart.

I saw some more random DC's and I told them to tell Walms that I'm still looking for him...the dream faded out.



I had another dream where I was trying to get this womans number. At first it looked like all systems go, and then she said something smart and I told her I didn't want it. Then we went back and fourth and random DCs sided with her. I was trying to figure out where everyone came from all of a sudden, because we were the only two people talking in the back of that room at the start.

12/04/2009

Spanish Market

I'm logging this late, so I don't remember a whole lot about this even though it was pretty neat when I first woke up. I'm at like a tourist market looking at stuff on this table that people had for sale. I'm speaking in Spanish to a guy who's selling something that is I think a variety of drugs to enhance sex. We're laughing about them because I say something like I can't believe people believe this stuff will actually work and he says he can't either, stupid tourists! I ask him where I can find the game that has to do with the rings that I saw dangling from the power lines that were next to the road that I walked down to get to the market. He tells me to keep walking to see some other vendor in another tent.

I get to this tent and all I see is a box of flags of different countries... but not full sized, more like that little toy that has a wound up paper on the end of a stick that you flip out and it just retracts the paper... I think it's called a Chinese yo-yo. I pull one out and unravel it and it's a flag from a combination of Canada and Spain. The other flags were made up of different combinations of countries. I remember them being very expensive.

I kept walking and found a scene where a woman was throwing stones into a barrel outside of a house. There was a group of people watching. Something made me think that her doing this was not a good thing. It occurred to me that the more she did this, the more something bad was happening inside the house. I decided to pick up stones and throw them at the stones that she was throwing to knock them out of the way of getting into the barrel. It must not have worked because a girl came out of the door of the house covered in what I think was soup. I immediately went up to her and took her by the hand and rescued her away.

I woke up at about 4 in the morning and went to the bathroom and decided it was too cold, so I turned up the heat. At that point, Andrea started to have trouble sleeping. I know this because at 6 she woke me up and said, "I think I just had a lucid dream!"

Andrea's First Lucid Dream

She's running around VCU looking for me. Then she realizes that she's barefoot. She looks down at her feet and feels that she's in grass. She can feel all the blades of grass under her feet. She remembered me saying that when I become lucid I try to look at my hands to stabilize. She could feel the excitement building and her heart racing at realizing that she was dreaming, so she went to look at her hands. She brought her hands up from her sides and she felt like they were going in slow motion. She stabilized and decided it was time to fly! So she crouched down like Neo in the Matrix and shot up into the air. She went up into the atmosphere through all the layers of the atmosphere and could feel herself going through them all. She decided she was up too high and went back down to Earth. On the way down she could see her sister and her mom. Her sister said to her that she found some sparkly shoes she wanted her to see. So Andrea jumped up onto her sister's shoulders and ran her fingers through her sister's hair. She could feel all the hair running through her fingers. So her sister took her to where the shoes were, but all Andrea saw were sparkly tank tops. She went to go look for shoes, but then she woke up. She said what woke her up was her heart-rate increasing. She said it was really an amazing experience. I'm SO excited for her!!!!

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID FALSE AWAKENING


23:30 GMT – Sleep

Adventure in Southeast Asia
I am in an exotic country, like maybe India and I feel both the weather and the socio-political scene is unstable. I am staying at this colonial style house that was lent by a friend. We both live in the west and she stays away from this house for months in a row. There had been intense rains and since I was coming to here she wanted me to check if everything was ok and not flooded. It was ok, but intense raining started all over, so I could not guarantee it would stay that way.
There’s also a lot of commotion on the streets and I decide to take the van just outside the gate of the property, ready to leave at any time, just in case something goes wrong and things heat up.
I am also being spied on and followed and I already spotted this guy always looking over my shoulder wherever I go.

3:40 GMT

Some other dreamer’s house and memories?
I am lying in bed, with my laptop and I am checking dream journals and replying to some. I found this guy who found out he is dreaming about some house for some time and he suspects it is the house of some other dreamer. I also find out I have dreamt a few times about his own house or more precisely, some surroundings around his house - it's on top of a mountain or hill and there's a road going there with a little tunnek trhought the mountain.
I am going trough this when I hear some noise. I look around and my room isn’t really my room. I am at this big house, I don’t know of whom. I go out of the room and the noise seems to come from the kitchen which is one or 2 doors on the left. The house is rectangular, with a large hallway in the middle, crossing the house from one side to the other.
Everything is absolutely dark but there’s some clarity coming from under the kitchen’s door. I wonder if there’s someone inside, open the door and after all it is also dark. I assume the light was some reflection, maybe from the moonlight.
When I decide to go back to the room, I suddenly watch this scene as if hovering on a different plane/dimension: a guy is coming down the hallway from the room (just as I did), because he heard some noise in the kitchen. But unlike me, he is surprised by a room mate coming out of the kitchen. He says something like “Damn, you scared me. I didn’t know you were back tonight.” But the other guy was in an incredible bad mood and told him something in the line of “sod-off”. Then the scene fades and I continue down the hallway, back to the room.
Then I am falling asleep in the dream, when the room door opens and I jump up with fright. This time it is my boyfriend P. and I also wonder “I thought you were not coming back tonight!” - I thought I was already awake and he was real, because in RL he was actually not sleeping at home this night.Then I really woke up amidst some confusion.

5:00 GMT

Messing up a palace with crumbles
I’m sitting in an armchair of a palace, eating breakfast cereals from the package and wondering what I’m doing there. Maybe it’s from some friend’s grandparents or something. I look around and think “Hmm, maybe I should explore this place a little bit.” Then a maid appears, looks surprised to see me there doing that – not the behaviour you’d expect of someone living in a palace. I feel embarrassed of the mess I made with crumbles on the chair. I say I’m sorry and promise to clean up later, but she refuses, after all that’s her job so she just moves me away to the side and cleans up the mess. Ok, ok. I get it. I pack my cereals and move on. I am decided to explore the palace but all sorts of distractions cross my path. For example, this lady close to the entrance door wants to know if I remember if she paid the entrance or something like that. I don’t know what she’s talking, but I say I don’t remember, so she gives me money to pay... whatever.

Mirror portal
I am in front of the mirror above the sink in my bathroom. I realise I am dreaming and I sink my hand in the mirror. It was even more clear than usual. I decide instead of plunging there to take some liquid mirror with my hand and play with it. I drop it in the sink and try to solidify it there, but I don’t succeed, it stays liquid. Everything is getting dark and I feel I am loosing lucidity so I focus on the mirror that now transforms into a screen. For a moment I feel my face on my bed and realise I'm sleeping belly down, but manage to hold on the faint dream.
There’s only darkness around and this screen in the middle. On the screen there is a lady in uniform asking me where do I want to go. It looks like a flight company commercial or an interactive help post at an airport. I even laugh saying to myself the lady looks a flight attendant from Lufthansa (german company). I really don’t know where to go and while I think, all sorts of images of places but also just flashlights and patterns succeed on the screen at amazing speed but also amazing clarity. Then a map of the world appears and I am asked where I want to go. Stupidly the first idea that occurs to me is Germany (because of the Lufthansa connection) and I am sucked into the screen. But I can’t hold it steady and I wake up in my bed (or so it seems).

False awakening
I open my eyes, I’m in my bedroom, it’s early morning. Some light already coming in. I look around feeling disappointed with the previous lucid experience. And then I realise my bedroom’s door is open. I always close it to sleep, or else the cat will bite my feet all night. I get up to close the door and check if the cat is inside or outside, but I find it all too strange. I mean, not the room, everything looks just like it should, but the door open when I am pretty sure I closed it last time I woke up and went to the toilet... I decide to reality check and I sink my hand on the wall. Great! I am still dreaming!

Entering Nighthawk's dream
Still in my false bedroom I face the mirror on my wardrobe and decide to continue from there. I like using mirrors as portals, so I think again where I want to go in front of the mirror: from frivolous things to really important things I decide for the frivolous, mostly because I am still training so I have to take it easy. So I decide to go visit Nighthwak. I jump in the mirror, dwell in the voidness for a while and find myself in a lab. What went wrong? But then I see him there. He looks younger and I realise it must be one of his memories, from the university. He saw me eventually and he looked interested in exploring my presence in his dream. He signalled for me to wait a little while, but when he returned it wasn’t really him anymore and I sensed I had lost the connection and was just projecting. The lab was now an open air space, so I decided to move on, since this experience was no longer working.

Trying to escape a collapsing dream
I am walking around in this open air space that looks more and more like a park, with ponds, little bridges over canals, suspended gardens. I am thinking about where to go next and decide I must sit and do some meditation to go back on tracks – in terms of focusing on the really important things to do. But this dream here is kind of collapsing – maybe because it wasn’t mine? The bridges started moving and now end up in the middle of nowhere in the air, two gargoyles in stone detach from this stone balcony and attack me. I feel I need to get out really fast or I will wake up. No mirror around so I think about jumping in the water of the pond. But instead of mirror-like it is now murky, I see strange creatures swimming around, crocodile-like. I don’t feel so attracted to jump on it. Now the murky waters are rising and I’m losing ground. I climb to some brick wall and decide to jump from there to the floor and hope for the best.

End of the adventure
It worked. As I fell on the grass, I sank and landed on some other dream. I was somewhere in the Middle East. Also in a garden. All was shining in warm colours, red and orange, really beautiful and in the end of this garden there was this beautiful and amazing mosque, also reddish. I was stunned with the scenario and thinking that I could sit there. That’s when I saw a group of angry men pointing at me, running in my direction. That’s when I realised I had landed over this kind of big stone or wall, which apparently was sacred for them, or the whole garden was and he fact I’m sitting up there it is extremely offensive to them. As they approach me and start bringing me down from where I was, I ask forgiveness but I am still smiling, commenting with them that their mosque is really something special. They think I’m crazy. Then I realize I have to jump again but they just don’t allow me to do that. I have men grabbing my arms, others grabbing my legs, I can’t move. Shit, I have to develop a method to jump without really jumping, just with thought. And I really need to build a place to go just sit, because dreams are crowded with monsters and armies and just plain distractions to get us away from our objectives.

7:00 GMT – Wake up