lucid

#1: non-lucid

I was at a lock on the waterway where my dad works, with a friend of mine. We're sitting on the grass, and she has a tiny turtle that she's feeding pieces of bread. I go with her as she carries the turtle over to the side of the lock and puts it down in the water. She tears off pieces of bread and throws them into the water. The turtle is eating them, and small fish swim up to eat too. More and bigger fish show up, and for a moment I see a piranha. I'm afraid that if she stops throwing bread, the piranha will start eating the other fish or her turtle.
Even bigger fish start coming up, the water is completely full of them, big bass. My mom shows up, and takes some bread from my friend, and tosses a few pieces onto the concrete beside the water. I ask what she's doing and she says that she needs to get dinner. A huge bass flops up onto the concrete, and starts flipping itself further from the water. There was grass in that direction before, but now there's a long, but shallow, empty swimming pool. It was full of dirt and dead leaves, and the fish landed in it and stopped moving.
I cross to the other side of the lock, and see a bunch of oyster shells stuck to the side, just above the water and clustered up high, and most of them are empty. The ones that aren't are still open, and I can see the pink skin inside breathing. There's a sign beside them that says "a clam shell contains air and 14 breathing mechanisms."
I look across the lock at my friend, who has coaxed two sea lions up out of the water, and holding some bread up above on of their heads, trying to get it to reach up its nose to eat

#2: lucid
When the dream started, I was going through the mail in my kitchen, and found that I had been mailed a magazine. Inside the front cover was a message that said "if you want to know more, meet me in Vaughn" and there were instructions on which bus I should take, and a finished with "More instructions will follow." It was signed Deb Graves, who was a strange woman that I met(in real life) at a gallery opening recently. I was reading this message while sitting in my living room, and when I looked up my mom was on the couch with me, and I showed her the message.
She took the magazine from me and seemed to read it, but when she looked back at me, she just started berating me. My mom acting like that is actually a pretty common dream sign for me, and it prompted me to do a reality check. I looked at my hands, and wasn't entirely convinced, so I pinched my nose and I could breathe. I stayed calm through the realization, and immediately started rubbing my hands together and looking around me, which brought the details of the room into focus.
I didn't want to stay with my dream mom, she was still yelling, so I left the house. It was too bright, I needed to stabilize, so I bent down and ran my hands over the grass, which was wet. My mom had followed me out of the house though, so I started moving down the street. I was trying to will her away, tried to tell her that she wasn't real, I wasn't really sure how to get rid of her, but nothing I tried worked.
She started trying to convince me that I was actually awake. Specifically, she said, "I know what you dont know. I know that if you looked at your hands right now, they'd look just like my hands."
I started running from her, and I remembered reading a post on the forums about running really quickly on all fours. I started running on my hands and feet and it felt completely natural and smooth. I kept saying "faster, faster" and every time I did I felt my speed increase. The world was streaking by.
When I stopped, she was still right behind me. I decided to try to fly. I closed my eyes and imagined what it would feel like to lift off the ground, and then it was actually happening. I started to drift upwards, and I was feeling thin and light, like I was transparent. I tried to visualize a forest before I opened my eyes, hoping that I'd be flying over it when I did. Instead I was still over the street, and my mom was clinging to my legs.
I drifted back down, set her down on the ground, and she let go without struggling. I lifted up higher and higher and started moving forwards. On the horizon, there were billowing swirls of bright yellow and dark blue, and I started moving towards them. The detail faded quickly before I woke up, but it didn't feel abrupt.

Type: DILD.
Lucidity: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Vividness: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Notes:
This one feels pretty similar to my last recorded dream. The vividness decreased when I became lucid, but I still managed to complete the evasive TOTM and witness a terrorist attack.

This dream started off with me being on a long rope of grassy hill. It was a hill that rose only ten or fifteen feet from the ground, so walking back down to the ground would take less than a minute. It was probably later in the day, but it had yet to become noticeably dark.

The rest of the land was flat and covered in grass, and you couldn't see anything in any direction except a road traveling along the base of the hill that led to a very nearby city. The tall buildings started at the end of the hill, so you can visualize how close the city was; I was right on the outskirts of it.

I looked around and suddenly became lucid, shouting "yes" rather excitedly and doing the nose-plug reality check, which obviously failed. But then, the dream suddenly decreased in vividness. Things became slightly hazy and the lighting became dim, although it was still light outside. I rubbed my hands for stabilization and touched the blades of grass on the ground, but it didn't help. So, still being on the hill and in no position to move, I decided to summon a white unicorn that I could ride. After all, I had no idea how long the dream would last but I didn't want to flip out. I used the familiar turn-around-and-expect-it-to-be-behind-me technique, and it was.

However, although it was a bit harder to see, I could tell that the unicorn was a bit smaller than normal. I don't know how to measure horses in terms of hands, but it was probably only four feet tall. It also looked like its skin was made of white velvet, and I couldn't see its muscles moving as it walked over to me. It looked sort of like a toy, but that didn't bother me. I got up on it with a jump and landed square on its back, without having to reposition myself.

There was no harness so I looked away, out towards the city, and then back again; there was now a single metal hoop around its neck. I rolled my eyes and expected it to walk forward, and it did. The dream still wasn't fading, so I got off it to do something else.

That was when I lost most of my lucidity, with only a bit lingering. The road on the base of the hill had now changed to a six- or seven-lane highway with cars traveling quickly along them. All the lanes were in one direction, I observed. Although I wasn't lucid, I then chose to summon a random DC to test my dream control. I tried to summon it, but nothing appeared. I looked at the sky and then, at that very moment, two large gray planes flew overhead at an incredible speed, directly into the buildings in the city. There was an explosion which blew me backwards quite a bit, and the city buildings were now on fire.

The dream ended.

I had more dreams but this short sort of lucid dream is all I remember.

Sexy Time (dild)

I was at my Aunt's house and I was looking at my hands and they were normal but I knew I was dreaming. I went into the basement where I found a woman. This quickly turned into romance. I felt the dream slipping so I just focused on the woman but shortly woke up anyways.

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID FALSE AWAKENING

0:20 GMT

Bus tickets
Can’t remember how I got there, but I’m on some bus stop in the middle of nowhere looking at a map at a ticket vending machine, trying to figure out where I want to go and what ticket I must purchase.
I make several attempts with no success when I hear the bus coming. The problem is I’m not alone – there’s a huge queue behind me and people are getting stressed with my indecision. I just press whatever button and I get a ticket for one whole day to get to the city centre (no idea which city) and it costs me 4 EUR something.

4:20 GMT

Looking for food and playing levitation football
I’m now feeling hungry and I pass by some complex, like a stadium, where there are snack-bars and cafés. I stop at one that announces some type of Italian food but when I actually look at the food it is not at all Italian. But since it is mostly vegetarian and I am vegetarian, I decide to eat there. I ask the lady on the other side how it works and she says I can choose this and this and make a menu. I agree. But then she just leaves. I go after her, asking why she’s leaving and she explains she needs to get something from the storage house which is on the floor below. She invites to go along with her. Why not? As we descend a ramp, I hear someone calling my name.
I turn around and it is this lady I don’t see since I was a kid, from the extra school activities’ place. She tells me I need to take some leaflets with me for whatever place I’m supposed to go later on. It is really crucial, so tells me to write it down. I have no paper to write it down so I repeat to myself I must not forget it, although I have no clue what she is talking about. Then I realise I lost the buffet girl and I am on a football field, where boys are playing football. The ball is coming in my direction and I kick it to avoid being hit by it. It was a nice kick and although they are upset that I’m disturbing their game, they actually liked the kick so they keep throwing the ball at me. I’m getting tired of this game, so I levitate to above the field so they can keep playing. Instead they start throwing the ball higher so I can kick it down again. This new game is fun and I end up doing lots of acrobatics with the ball that amuses them.

Surreal village with flying fish
I’m in a cute village with floor level houses and tiny streets. Something catches my eye. On the façade of one house there’s an aquarium with no glass walls. By the side of the door is just this weird floating water, aquatic plants and fish swimming, holding together without any container. Some tourists stop by a take a picture in front of it. They ask me something about some writer, but I don’t know what they mean.
I keep walking and on another street there are to giant fishes swimming in the air. I decide not to cross under them and move to another street. There I find 2 or 3 dogs. They look friendly and I’m not afraid, but one of them is maybe too friendly and starts coming fast in my direction. I get a bit scared and decide to fly to get rid of it. But the god damn dog jumps so high, that no matter how high I fly to get away from it, he keeps jumping higher and higher and trying to bite my leg – not to hurt me, just to bring me down, but still very annoying.

5:00 GMT

Math class
I’m in a math class at the university and the teacher is talking about integers. Usually I would freak out for not understanding a thing, but I simply thought “I will study it from the books and understand it in no time. No problem.” Outside the class I think that I haven’t yet been to any other class and realise I have no idea what they are or where they are. I thought that if only I had a friend with me we would help each other. But still I was cool, no stress about it.

Sweetheart from school now a violent guy
I met a guy that used to be my secret love in elementary school. I was so happy to see him again and all those old innocent love feelings came back. But when he is all sweet talk to me, a lady appears - she looks a bit Indian – with a baby of 1 or 2 years old in her arms. She is his mother-in-law and the kid is his son. She puts the baby in his arms but he is totally spaced out and does not hold him. She barely has time to grab him as he slides down to the floor. I am so socked at this that I just go and take the baby in my arms, cuddle him so hard, trying to reduce the potential trauma on this baby. I feel so angry at this guy. He then just leaves totally disconnected from all that is going on around him. The lady stays and I tell her to please understand that this guy is crazy and sees the baby as an annoying object. I tell her that the baby is in danger and it is a matter of time until he hurts or kills the baby due to negligence. I yell at her, please tell the mother of the baby that the is in danger and to please keep the baby away from his father. But she also looks like she couldn’t care less, she leaves with the baby and I feel desperate and powerless.


Five star casual hotel
I go head to a hotel where I’m staying. It is late night and there’s nobody around. The dogs of the guests roam free in the hallways, despite the fact that it is a fancy 5 star hotel. I am amazed, because this is allowed. They apparently came from outside and messed up the floor with dirt. So I encounter a cleaning lady that is wiping the floor and for some I feel intimidated. But then I realise that I’m staying at the hotel, so no point of being embarrassed. I don’t feel like going to my room, so I walk around, exploring the hotel and I end up in a lobby, where there’s people comfortably sitting on sofas, chatting. On that lobby I see a huge entrance to what looks like an interior garden, so I go check. When I enter the place I am awed at the beauty of it. It’s a mix of architecture and landscaping that captures my imagination. The shock is so great that I become half-lucid. In front of me there’s a lake with a fountain and beautiful plants and on both sides of it there are staircases leading to an upper balcony that leads to some another lobby and then a concert room. There are some strategic placed square sofas just by the lake and I sit – actually lay down with my legs up and head down. Then I realise they have giant screens close to the ceiling transmitting the concert that is taking place in the concert room. I feel so emotional that tears come to my eyes.

Forbidden love story
I am the daughter of a rich family living on a huge mansion, but I have a crush for this guy that works for us. I meet him downstairs in the basement where my parents never go. Maybe he already knew my feelings, but this is the first time I am clear about it with him. Apparently the feelings are mutual, because in no time we are locked in the bathroom, ripping our clothes off and making love in such a sweet and intimate way.
Later on we’ve escaped to what I think is a romantic haven in some greek island. We’re waking up in bed on small cosy room with a fantastic view to the ocean. I am happier than ever and I tell him I go downstairs looking for some breakfast. The door leads to outside directly and then I find myself in some outside terrace and there’s a door leading to the dining room, which is also small and cosy. Some lady asks me how does breakfast work and I explain it is buffet and tell her how and where to eat. I check what’s today’s menu and I’m heading to the room for shower before eating, when I decide that just by snapping my fingers I can have the shower done in no time. Then I realise I’m dreaming! And I think what to do next. There’s a glassy wall in front of me and as I look to my dim reflection on it the only thing that occurs to me is changing my own appearance, which I never tried before. I think I would like to be taller and have longer legs (Yeah, that simple. I should have wished to become a lion, or something, but didn't occur to me). I try imagine myself growing and it doesn’t work. So I make a mark on the wall of the height I want to reach and by looking at it my legs start extending and I end up with around 10 cms more – not much, but I also didn’t want to become a giant, ok! The worst part is that the bones in my legs hurt like hell when I was growing. Still, it was cool when my boyfriend arrived and I was almost as tall as him. Mission accomplished.

5:40 GMT

Volcano and what to save from cataclism
I was apparently back in Greece on some mountainous area where there was a dormant volcano. A lady was driving me around and she said to me they’ve lived their entire lives close to it and felt no fear. But almost immediately the volcano started showing signs of an eminent eruption. Then everybody panicked! I told people to go to the opposite side of the mountain of that one where the eruption seemed to be happening, as it would probably be safer, but then I thought “Hum, this is familiar. And also such a coincidence. I must be dreaming.” And I became lucid.
I thought about what to do of it and this time I decided to use the dream itself to explore my subconscious. Decided to materialise my home in that mountain and go through the exercise of choosing what to save from the cataclysm. It wasn’t my home exactly but instead there was a hole excavated in the rocky mountain, like a sightseeing terrace encircled by the rocks, and all my books, clothes and other personal belongings were there. I wondered around – books, but which books, clothes but which clothes. Nothing seemed to be really important but then I thought “I must at least save a pair of fresh underwear to take with me”. I then started going through my underwear and there were these cute and sexy lingerie that I started to pack loads of it. Until it rang a bell in my head and I was like “What are you doing? Don’t get lost in the dream. What is this with the lingerie in your dreams?”
Then I realised there was really nothing that worth of salvation. Just me. So I decided to simply absorb that freedom sensation and write it down when I’d wake up. Then I woke up (or thought so) and started writing down the dream. But then my pen that I usually use to write down my dreams was not writing, even if there was some ink on it. That’s when I looked around and saw I was still in the dream. That’s when I really woke up.

22.08.2010

Another lucid ended thanks to my cat!!!! (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

It was a "messy" night. I woke up a few times, with and without recall. I was very tired and I missed to write a couple dreams... Mainly fragments. I hope my subconscious ends to digest my new stuff on my business. One lucid interrupted by my cat.

Third:

I was in my room. It was very dark. Fore some reason I did a realty check. My hand looked blurry and I found it odd. I looked at my hands again and I had three fingers. I did not find I was a lot into the dream. I had no imaginery in my dream, so I was planning to start to fly to gain back the imaginery and make the dream stable. This is something I do NOT recommend, specially to my students on the MILD classes. I do not recommend start to fly to steblize the dream, as it will probably screw your dream and wake you up. Use traditional methods. Since I can remember, flight helped me to get more into the dream, but that is me. So please, my dear students, do not follow my steps on this... as its a rare case.
Before I was going to fly, I tried again to open my dream eyes. For some reason I couldn't. I remember this happening to me a few times when I was a kid, and indeed flying would fix it. I felt the air on my face. Suddenly, I entered in the double conscious mode. I could feel my waking body laying in bed and my dream body starting to fly. I avoided trying to open my eyes just yet, I knew the imagenery would return by it self.
I returned to dream conscious only and I started to feel more air in my face. Suddently, I woke up. My cat was talking and walking over my back asking for love.

Missing dream signs:
- None.

Reality check performed:
- Hand Check.
- Hand Check.

I want to add to this my wife's first lucid!!!

My wife hardly recalls dreams and never works in this stuff. However, sometimes when she sees something odd, she has learned to reality check... just in case. It paid off.

My wife had a false awakening in the room. She woke up from bed and went outside. Suddenly, she was in bed agai and had other false awakening. She found that odd and looked at her hads. My wife could not see well her hand, she counter her fingers and found six. My wife turned lucid. She remembered my advice of not flying because she would wake up. Yay for her! A fully lucid though. My wife was planning to explore the dream, however, everything started to happen very fast. Tons of images flashed through her eyes and she woke up.

Wife's missed dream sings:
- First FA..

Wife's spotted dream signs:
- Second FA.

Wife's Realy Check Performed:
- Hand check.

I had just got done hitting a guy in the face when I walk through a metal door into what seemed to be a warehouse with a lot of semi truck docks. I was standing beside a guy who I dont know who he was. Then for some reason I realize Im dreaming. It hit me so suddenly I said Oh my god im dreaming! to the guy, and began running past all of the docks. I passed a worker and put my hands up and yelled IM DREAMING to the guy as I ran by. I then began to feel myself start to wake up so I first remember to concentrate on my hands I put my hands up and when I look at them I see them start to crack and split open like they were burning away and started to feel the effects of waking up more so I think fast and remember spinning, I spin around one time and I am back into my dream. I stand there and realize that I can feel my real body the one laying in bed and I can feel my position Im laying in, yet I know im standing in my dreamworld. I then run over to a door and open it to a nice outdoor landscape and there is a cement ramp with stairs and a rail. Well I think to myself I have ALWAYS wanted to fly in my dreams and never had the chance. So I think to myself I can fly and jump over the railing and begin to fly to a hill I see. I remember trying to go higher in the sky but I couldnt control myself. Then I crash into the hill softly. I am on my knees and I touch the grass with my hands and feel how real it seems and say Oh my god it looks so real! It was so vivid and realistic and I knew I was in a dream yet amazed by the detail. I then thought okay I want to close my eyes and when I open them be in a city. Well I close my dream eyes and when I open them I open my real eyes, and wake up. I was so happy to have my first lucid. Yet as I sat there I thought to myself am I still dreaming? But unfortunately I wasnt still dreaming.

I haven't been on in a month! I feel terrible! But good news... I had one lucid and one somewhat-lucid! And I completed a personal goal! Okay. I didn't write down all the dreams I had, () but I did get a few. I'm just going to copy and paste from the DJ I keep in Microsoft Word, so here's a few quick things:

Sam: a friend.
Animorphs: book characters.
VBYC: a camp I go to.
Kid's Club: a church thing I go to.
Short Stop: a little store in my town.
Hanna & Sophie: my little sisters.
Village Market: another store.
Lincoln Lake: where band camp was this year.
Justin: another friend.

~~~I Should’ve Written This Stuff Down~~~ date: 8/13/10

I’ve had so many dreams, and haven’t recorded them! Grrrrrr! *deep breath* Okay. Some dreams I can remember:

~At Sam’s house, I had this dream: The Animorphs were there. Apparently I was part of the team. We were running all around this place that was kind of like VBYC. Now that I think about it, it looks strangely like a camp-type place I’ve dreamed about before. Then… something that involved morphing, or not morphing because of something / someone. We were in some bathroom area, not unlike the bathhouse at VBYC. We found these glowing green tracking device thingies. Then we all morphed… or at least, everyone else morphed and I tried to. I was aiming to go tiger, but all that happened was I felt muscles get stronger and my shoulders do something, then I couldn’t get any further into the morph. Typical me. I wasn’t even the slightest bit lucid; I don’t know why it didn’t work. I’m pretty sure there was more.

~Also had this one at Sam’s house: I was at Kid’s Club, only it wasn’t at the church. It was some weird amalgam of a little building and our barn and a big field. (Why is it that locations can never just be themselves in my dreams? They always have to mix and merge with other places. Confusing.) There was a big statue thing with a bunch of rules on it. I walked over to the barn, where there were a few crates of things like shields and swords. Everything looked kind of battered and worn. Most of the swords were bent up. Sam was there, along with some guy. They both managed to find not-bent swords and shields and started sword fighting. Not for real, just playfully. Anyways. I couldn’t find a good sword or shield. I stood around for a while and waited for Sam and the guy to be done, but the dream either ended there or something happened that I don’t remember and that’s how I ended up…

~In a bedroom. It was relatively dark. There were… eight other people, I think. We were playing some insanely weird game. Here’s how it went: 1.) Two people sit on the bed. 2.) Everyone else gathers around the bed, kneeling or sitting. 3.) Little symbols start appearing randomly over the people around the bed. 4.) The people on the bed have to ‘poke’ the symbols to get rid of them before they take effect. 5.) If symbols take effect on a person three times, that person it out. Okay, here’s an explanation for that stuff. The symbols all made something happen to the person they were above if they weren’t ‘poked.’ For example, a symbol of a coughing person would make the person its above start to cough if not ‘poked.’ Then you had your more… odd symbols. One was a fan. If it wasn’t ‘poked,’ it would turn the person’s head into a fan. We played that game for a while. Nothing happened to me.

~Okay, from before those dreams. This was pure epic-ness. I was in some super cool world. There was another person with me, but I can’t remember who it was. I’m positive it was no one I know IRL, though. We went into some building that the Mad Hatter made hats in. Then… I WAS FLYING! FINALLY! I had some help, though. There were these things like launch pads scattered around that you could stand on, and they would launch you into the air. I went on one, and once I was up, I STAYED THERE! HOLY COW! It was so fun. Me and the other person landed at my grandma’s house. At this point, I wasn’t quite lucid, but I was aware that something was up. I think it was enough to call it a lucid, though, because I was trying to use powers and explore a bit. And—as usual—as soon as I became the tiniest bit lucid, everything got more difficult. I tried to fly up onto the roof, but I could only manage to float a little. I floated high enough to grab the edge of the roof and pull myself up. I stood up and looked around, and there was a girl standing there. She had sparkling pink and blue wings.
“Are you a fairy?” I asked her. She said yes. I asked if I could be a fairy, and she told me that I could, but that I would have to get my wings myself. I think that was it.

~Last one. I was walking down the road that goes straight to/from Short Stop. My mom and Hanna and Sophie were with me. There were big flowerpots all down the sidewalk, but the flowers looked sort of droopy. I had a sowing needle with me for some reason, and when I poked the flowers, they would instantly perk up. I did that for a while until I accidentally dropped the needle down a grate.
“I have to go to the bathroom,” Hanna said.
“Of course you do,” my mom said. She took Hanna and Sophie down to Village Market so Hanna could go to the bathroom. I kept walking down the road. A biggish dog with curly black fur came up to me, and I took an apple out of one of the flowerpots (that entire ‘flower’ pot was filled with fruit, actually) and gave it to the dog. He happily ate it. Then a whole bunch of stray animals started coming up, wanting stuff to eat. Across the road, one of the buildings had a huge, gaping hole in the side. I could see biscuits and more fruit inside. I went in, grabbed some food, ran back out, and fed the animals. When I went to get more food, tons more people were flooding into the building to get some, too. As I was leaving that time, something caught me leg and I had to tug kind of hard to get free. I looked back, and this mist-looking stuff was wrapping around people and dragging them into the building.
“Run!” some guy who hadn’t been caught yet yelled. I got to the other side of the street. The people who had been grabbed by the mist stuff were coming out. Their eyes were all glazed over in a weird, white-swirled-with-blue color. The tried to take other people back into the building. A tendril of mist wrapped around my torso and started pulling me in. I couldn’t break away.
Then I woke up. Whew! That’s all. All that I can remember, at least.


~~~When Band Camp Goes Bad… Really Bad~~~ date: 8/15/10

~ I was at band camp, but it wasn’t at the Lincoln Lake place. I don’t know where it was. It was terrible, though. Any time we were supposed to be taking a break or having a meal, all the instructors would start fighting with each other, get really mad, and make us practice marching whether we had finished our meal/break or not. We always rode to wherever we were going on a little train thing, like the ones that are at zoos a lot. Then I’m standing with a few people in front of a guy sitting in a chair. He’s being held in the chair by the wrist and feet and head strap things, like on an electric chair. The people are using the guy to demonstrate what they’re about to do to me. One of them pulls out a hypodermic needle. I’m instantly running out of the room.
“Hey! Stop her!” they shout. Security people start chasing me. I’m in a mostly unfamiliar building, but some of the rooms look kind of like room from my house. I keep finding ways to elude the people chasing me, like turning corners unexpectedly and hiding until they pass me and then backtracking. But then I almost run into a horse. (?) I turn around and go to run through a doorway. Two guys reach out right as I go through and grab my arms, then one of them goes off to tell whoever that I’m caught, leaving me with the second guy. We’re in my kitchen. I bite the guy’s arm that’s holding me and bolt out the door, which leads outside. The guy follows but doesn’t try to stop me. I think he was under the impression that I was retarded or something and didn’t think I would try to escape.
“I left my stuffed animal out here,” I tell him. “In the car.”
He nods and follows me to the van parked in the driveway. I jump in and start it up. Then I stomp on the gas and fly right into a tree. Everything fades black for a second, then I’m back in the driveway. Now it’s snowing. Also, someone else is in the car.
“Hurry up! Come on, they’re gonna notice we’re gone!” he yells. A little confused, I hit the gas again. The van jolts forward into a big snow bank, and the ground starts splitting like a huge earthquake is happening.
“Great, now they’re really going to know we’re trying to escape!” the person in the car with me says. “Can you please HURRY!?”
I keep trying to drive and eventually get out of the snow bank. I get onto the road and drive as fast as I can without crashing. Other cars start coming after us. Somehow I get the pursuing cars off our tail. We get to my house and I stop the car and get out. Six or so other people also get out, though, instead of just the one other person that was there a few minutes ago.
“Come on, everyone come inside. I’ll… make some hot chocolate or something,” I say. We all go in and my mom says something about how she heard what a hard time we had.

~Frag. I’m in my room, and I have a spray bottle of stuff that can shrink people, but not objects. Needless to say, I had a lot of fun spraying myself with it.

~~~Apple Frag~~~ date: 8/22/10

I'm in my room with some other people. We split into teams, and I'm by myself. We all start throwing apples at each other.

~~~Fish~~~ same date

This entire dream consisted of carrying fish around and putting them in different tanks. They were orange and white fish.

~~~Lucid~~~ same date

I'm in a gas station with Justin. We're walking around, and suddenly he sees a bunch of Pokemon stuff. He goes ballistic. While he's taking most of that, I go to get something to drink. I look for vitamin water, but there's not any, so I get "cookie in a bottle." The instructions on it said, "Hold bottle upside-down and count to 100. Then shake violently." I just put it back and go outside. It looks like my grandma's garage. Then something happens I can't remember...
I end up in a car with some other people. I'm worried about getting in trouble, but then I realize I'm dreaming! I happily scream this fact to the others in the car. They all clap and cheer. I jump backwards through the side of the car and close my eyes. When I open them, I'm in some grassy place and I can hear a waterfall or a river somewhere. But that fades away and then I'm just outside somwhere. I try to morph into a tiger. ...Not happening.
"I should be doing something..." I say. I decide to go to Eluvi Island. I call for Blaze, but instead Boltron comes. He tries to say something, but some stupid jellyfish keeps floating in front of him. (???)

Well... that's it.

This starts out as a long non-lucid dream, but I did manage to become lucid! YAY!

I was on a ship in the middle of the sea. I don't know why I was there, nor how I got there, but it all seemed natural to me. I was watching some of the crew members run around. A few of them were working, a few of them were playing games, and a few of them didn't seem to know what they were doing. I felt like something was off, but at the same time had spotted a nice looking woman. I walked over to her and smiled.

We engaged in mindless chit-chat for a while. It was like neither one of us wanted to say what we were really looking for. I knew what I had wanted. It wasn't soon after that, that I was in a brand new place. Having no idea how I had even gotten there. It looked a bit like the forest. I was wondering if I had teleported. That would be cool. The pretty sea lady was gone, sadly, but there was nothing I could do.

I walked around, looking for other signs of human life. The place was void, and it seemed a little dark. I promised to myself that I would not panic in the face of unknown dangers. I took a deep breath in, and calmed my nerves. I didn't want to enter the forest, so I instead walked along the outside of it. There was like ocean and cliff side next to me. I wondered if I was in Ireland, when the scene changed once more.

Now I was in a room. My current girlfriend, Silver Wolf, was there. Also there was my ex-girlfriend. My ex was laying on top of my legs. I had always joked about her chest size. We are all just talking, even though I feel like I am a prisoner in my ex's house. I feel like something is off. I know something isn't right and begin to analyze everything. My ex sits up and there are two weights left where her chest would have been. I can't move my legs. I tell myself to remain calm, and take a deep breath in. She says she had gotten a reduction done, and this was how much they took off. I looked up at Silver Wolf and ignored my ex.

My ex walked over to me. I was suddenly listening to music and she takes the earplugs out of my ears. I can still hear the music. Wait.. I must be dreaming.

I tell my ex that I am dreaming and I want her to go away. She laughs at me. I notice then that I am handcuffed to the bed.. What the heck is that all about. I focus my energy to try and change the scenario. Nothing happens. I am sure I am dreaming. I can't move my legs, sleep paralysis. I can still remain calm, my breathing rate is normal. I am in charged of my dream. I go through reaffirming and solidifying the dream. I looked back at my ex. "I know this is a dream!" I make the handcuffs disappear and my ex cackles. "You are good, that is for sure."

I sigh. I don't have time for this crap. Not now that I know I am lucid. And its so vivid. I pinch my nose and breath in and out. This action gives me dream control.

I laugh back at her. "So who are you really? You know.. it doesn't even matter. You're gone." She vanishes right in front of my eyes. Now I look at my girlfriend. 'What should I do?' I ask myself. I decide to have fun, after all I haven't been in complete control for a while. I change her to be blond, and skinnier than she is now. Now we are going to play a messed up version of cops and robbers, where I am the caught robber. She attaches restraints to my wrists. She is teasing me by going slow. I see a shadow move across a door way out of the corner of my eye. I look to it and command that there be no interruptions. Then its like I can see into another room. "And no parents!" I shout. The image changes slightly. I look at Silver and tell her to hold on for a sec. She freezes and turns to shades of gray.

I walk over to the figure I see in the room. It's my ex's mom, Bree. I haven't seen her in a while. "Surprised to see me?" she asks. I know she is not a DC. I go to sit down, trying to summon a chair at the same time. It fails and I sit on the floor. I am overwhelmed by a vast array of emotions. She tells me everything is okay, and that I am doing good. I am on the right path. She is trying to get my attention to tell me something important. I can feel the dream slipping. I take notice of how my non-dream body feels. I am still dreaming lucidly. I look up to her. I am going to stabilize the dream when my cell phone vibrates.

I hear it in the dream and feel like I am being pulled away. I try to reach out for Bree to hold onto, but am awake before I can.

Bree died a couple of years back. So I was especially surprised to see her. I think its part of an ongoing attempt to give me a message.

I had super powers, and I was trying to infiltrate a base of some evil people with super powers. The place was Estate from MW2, I was escorting someone without super powers inside to do something, we entered through the side entrance at the bar, and went upstairs. Although we were caught by someone patrolling the stairs. The scene changed to a old house of mine, though I still had super powers, and I took a hard drive from someone evil and walked into the garage. My "mom" took me on a walk and gave me a number, we then parted ways and I reentered the house from the front, and then walked back into the garage. Everything was different, like I went back in time, and I saw my "mom" again, I decided to try and have sex with her (it was not my real mom, someone different lol). I then became lucid, I tried to stay calm, and thought that I did, but the dream slowly faded, I tried looking at my hands. But I soon woke up.

I fell asleep very shortly and was at a new school, although it was different. It transformed into the palace of the Greek gods. I walked around and saw a room with mirrors, they reflected a different place inside the mirrors, in one I saw dolphins. But I soon left, and fell into this weird sleep state, I all of a sudden awoke to my "mom" bringing me to the same school. I got out, and detached the door of the car since my backpack was stuck to it. I unstuck my backpack and put the door back on, and went inside. My vision changed to that of a news channel and I saw my "mom" crying about the long sleep I had. She said something along the lines of "I was doing so well with the drugs" or something, and then talked about how she got a call from the cops about me. I woke up.

I haven't been Lucid in a few weeks. I'm glad I finally got one. I was losing faith! This one interupted my Dream Architects (my subconcious) intentions...lol. The details are too fuzzy to remember, but the major parts are still with me:

I am with someone I know. I think it's my ex-wife (god, I wish i could exorcise her from my dreams!). We have a mission, however, our car has broken down. We steal someone's car, and drive to West Virginia. We encounter a hotel and check in. We begin our mission by changing our clothes so we look like, "Them". They are on to us! I have to deceive the leader, which I do at first, but eventually he catches on. I realize I am in a school of some sort. I am sneaking around trying to find something. I don't remember what, but eventually find it. We have accomplished the mission and are ready to go. We are trying to leave, but we have to pack, and can't do it fast enough. We finally pack and leave. We got away! Now we go to return the car, and are caught by the owner. I do some quick haggling, and we agree to pay the owner $300. After all, I had the car repaired while it was stolen (huh?). It was a black Hummer, and very hard to drive. Nothing seemed to work properly.

I decide to look at my hands (FANTASTIC! The RC has become habit!). Hey, my pinky is too short. I am dreaming! I try to fly. No luck. Can't even get off the ground. I try to conjure an object in the palm of my hand. It doesn't work. I think to myself, "This is my dream, why can't I do this stuff?" I tell everyone around me I am dreaming. They don't seem surprised, but they stare at me watching. I check my hands again. Still dreaming. I try to fly again, but this time I close my eyes first. I can feel myself gaining altitude. Cool! I open them, and slowly sink to the ground. What's up with that? I can feel myself waking up, so I quickly spin around several times. Ok, I'm back. I try to talk to people, but they remain silent. The entire dreamscape has not stopped any animation. I don't know what to do, so I just slowly let myself lose lucidity.

I need to research dream control!

Conditions:
Fell asleep: ?
Headphones: 6.5 hz Isochronic pulses at 120 hz base with pink noise all night...

COMMENT LUCID NON LUCID DREAM SIGN

I remember this one so distinctly. I was on the 97th floor with my two sisters and 2 others people. We were doing Yoga. It was the empire state building next to another building just a little shorter. The room was a yoga studio with light blue walls and maple wood flooring. We had a blue cylinder candle in the middle. It had been lit for hours and was a liquid. I was standing up when we start doing a chant, and I decide to hit the lowest note I can. None the less, the building starts shaking, and we all notice the candle doing the Jurrasic Park ripples. Then the entire building (like a real earthquake- I live in LA) starts swaying back and forth. I look out the window in broad daylight and see every other building swaying back and forth, then we all hit the floor and I accept that I am going to die. I look out the window again and our building sways around and crashes directly into the other one. The last thing I remember is looking at my sisters and saying I love you, two times. The second time it slowed down to a high pitched dragon fire breathing type of sound-and I closed my eyes and felt my self ejected from the building. Then I woke up. IT was awesome.

Next time, I want to be able to control this and transition into another dream from that one, not just wake up.

I had a dream last night about this very large pterodactyl that kept circling and flying around me, my house, and the neighbor's house. It was incredible to witness. I was slightly afraid of this magnificent beast, but I followed it and was in amazement. It would circle me if I remained still, and often got far too close for comfort, so I would move, just to make it fly away, or avoid my movement. I could see every detail of this beast. I could see a relatively small clawed finger at the tip of the wing. While circling me, about six feet away, it would leave circles in the ground from time to time with its claw. I was frightened, but fascinated. I followed it down to my neighbor's house, which is only a few hundred feet away. There I stayed on the corner of the house, watching it circle the house, getting closer and closer to the house as it circled. Finally it was so close I moved again, just to frighten it back. I then thought to catch it on camera, and pulled out my cell phone. I turned on the phone's camera, pointed it at the road, and saw a shiny mallard duck flying. Then the pterodactyl circled back around and snatched the duck up and flew off. I captured the final swoop and grab on my cell phone and felt content knowing I could share this with people.


Here's what has been happening in my life:
Last night before bed I was looking up at an almost full moon. The clouds were high and moving extraordinarily fast. The clouds were moving towards the south, which is rare for where I live. I remember looking up at the moon realizing that my string of bad luck was over! It has been a rotten month for me, and I believe that with the moon hitting full, it will all start to get better after this. I have had a nemesis lately, which has been making false allegations about me, in an attempt to hurt my friend, while gaining control of a situation. The man doing all this is truly a monster. We call him the Prophet. He believes he sees demons, and God speaks with him. He shakes, speaks in tongues, and forces everyone around him to believe his whacked out version of Christianity. Either way, my life has been very stressful lately because he has even lied to the police about me.
After seeing the moon, and the dream I had last night, I know that this monster will grab onto something else, and fly away. The only uncertainty I have remaining, is my desire to see the pterodactyl, and why I was fascinated by it? Do I feel that the pterodactyl represented my nemesis? No. Do I feel that it was a messenger of things to come with that situation? Yes. I’ve always been fascinated with dinosaurs, although pterodactyls have never been my favorite. It was a truly magnificent sight. Does anyone have any ideas on what else I might be missing? I thought about the relevance of it circling my neighbor’s house. My neighbor is a single mom whom is very close to me. I often watch her children for her. She is aware of my situation with the nemesis, and has been very supportive. Maybe being there was a way to feel support or strength while watching the pterodactyl. Help! I’d appreciate your input.

[B]22.08.10[/B]

There's something about vampires.
There's definitely something about vampires. But was the vampire thing before or after the cafeteria? I don't know. Let's pretend it was before.
[COLOR="royalblue"]I'm some evil guy, fighting another guy. There has been vampires involved, but I have been trying to turn into a vampire, and I know the final steps to become one. Apperantly, I just need to drink a lot of blood now, so I try to scratch this other guy as much as I can, and I'm sort of chasing him around a black and red evil-looking pillar. A pillar which apperantly also helps me become a vampire. I don't know what happened to the other humans or vampires, whether the vampires were killed or if it was the humans, and in that case I don't know who killed them, or if they all died... But one thing is certain, this big, dark, evil-looking room only has me and the survivor human in it. Maybe we used to be friends?

I think we got out of there, there was something about a pool, and a big white house, a bit like that christmas level in Hitman Bloodmoney, except with more summer and blue pool. You know, high up in the mountains, [/COLOR](Not sure about that)[COLOR="royalblue"] white, square, modern arcitechture [/COLOR](Has to be white, right?)[COLOR="royalblue"], and guards walking around with uzi's and black suits.
Obviously, a shootout came out of this. I think I was hiding behind a small white wall right next to the pool, maybe I even emerged from the pool? Anyways, there were guards everywhere, around the pool and coming down a long staircase from an upper level of the house.
Again, I'm not sure if this was before or after...

I'm in a canteen, or a cafeteria. I think I might be on a school, but I don't think I go to this school. Maybe I'm new and I just don't recognize people. I think there are 2 or 3 people that I know who are, so I just follow them, but I don't really [I]know[/I] them, so the situation is quite awkward; We're standing in a huge queue, waiting to get some food at the counter. I feel slightly claustrophobic. I get my food and sit down at a table, I realize that there's a bunch of stuff missing on my plate. Apperantly I dropped a lot of it on the floor, under the table. Luckily, it was in some sort of packaging, so I just reached down and picked it up again. I don't remember eating anything, because I think I decided to get out of there.
I went to the end of the room, not the way we came from, a lonely, gray door at the end of the room.
I enter it, and I'm in a long, white-gray, boring looking hallway with lots of identical, boring, gray doors.
I enter one of them, and now I'm in an equally boring, tiny room with absolutely nothing in it. This didn't amuse me, so I made a door in the wall in front of me out of thin air. I entered it - another small, boring room with nothing in it. But this room already has 2 doors in front of me. I take the left one.
Now I'm in a similar room, but this one has been lived in, so it looks a lot more alive - But it still gave off that nerd-who-never-cleans-up-and-never-goes-out feel to it. An overall gray feeling still remained.
There was a man lying on a couch, watching TV, I think he was holding a can of soda or beer. He looks like he's somewhere between 25 and 35 years old, he's got short, brown hair. [/COLOR](In dream, I don't recognize him, my Dream Intuition tells me he's a gymnasium teacher at the school I was just at, and in retrospect, I think he reminded me a little of Remus Lupin, perhaps more than just in looks.)[COLOR="royalblue"]
I notice there are a bunch of drawings on the wall right next to the TV and the couch (it's a very small room), I start talking to him. I tell him that drawing like that, random doodles on his wall seemed like a thing I would do. We had a nice conversation, but I forgot pretty much all of it. Somehow, our conversation turns to lucid dreaming, and I suddenly realize that this could be a dream. With a smirk and a feeling of mild interest, I pinch my nose and close my mouth. The teacher is looking at me, looking interested and expectant.[/COLOR]
[COLOR="darkorchid"]I try to breathe, and sure enough, it's easy to. I'm amazed, confused and a little sceptical. I continue to converse with the teacher, but it's kind of a one-way communication, as I'm probably more thinking to myself. I think for a moment about what I should do. Should I head outside and fly? But then I realize that I don't know where the exits in the canteen is, I think it's a little too bothersome so I decide to stay,[/COLOR] (Laziness at it's peak.)[COLOR="darkorchid"] besides, I'm not entirely convinced that it's a dream yet. I do the nose pinch RC a few times, but now it's a little less clear; I can breathe alright, but the breathing is slightly restricted when I do it. I decide I need to perform another test, even though I'm still in the mindset that this actually is a dream. There's two doors in the room, one right beside TV which leads back, and another door on the wall opposite to the wall with the drawings. I open this door: A huge croud of people is standing in a circle, this door led back to the canteen. I look around on people's faces. I see three people talking, and I turn and see 4 people all in a big conversation, doing their own thing, completely unrelated to anything I could have made up. I notice that their clothings is so different, so colorful and various. The entire crowd is so extremely vivid that I simply decide that the dream is too vivid [/COLOR][COLOR="royalblue"]to be a dream, there was no way that I could have created all those people so vividly and alive.[/COLOR]

I'm pretty sure I just had my first lucid dream. It seemed kind of long at the time but I may only remember some bits and pieces now, gonna try to get down as much as I can. And it's weird, it feels so foggy now. Was a very intriguing experience. There was another dream before it but I want to get down as much of the lucid as I can so I'm writing it first.

I'm trying to recall what it was that triggered the reality check. I think it was that I was laying in bed or on the phone with my wife and she said something absurd (I think it had something to do with her saying she was on her way home from class at university, and I quickly realized she doesn't go to school in reality) that caused me to quickly consider that this isn't real and pull a nose-pinch reality check. I was able to breathe like my nose was just a little stuffy despite the nose-pinch. There was an obligatory, "Holy shit, I'm lucid!" moment. To keep the dream from fading from excitement and to calm down, I closed my eyes and (for whatever reason) pictured a topographical map key. Feeling it was stable, I opened my eyes, did another reality check (marveling of course at how weird it was to be breathing through a pinched nose, and then started wandering my environment. I seemed to be in what looked and felt like my old house on Broadway. I was a little unprepared for my first lucid; I hadn't thought of anything cool to do. The first thing I did was go into the bathroom. I figured since I was lucid I might as well start playing around with how well I could control it. I went to the door of the bathroom and decided I'd summon something on the floor outside and close the door to see if it appeared; I arbitrarily chose cake, and then I sort of glanced up and back down and it was there on the floor, slightly stale and with a big slice missing--I didn't even have to close the door. Happy, I went to the big picture window out front and continued experimenting by swapping between night and day by closing my eyes for a second then looking at the sky. I noted some unusual mixed success, namely whenever I wanted it to be day or night it would literally only be just starting day or night (ie at dawn or dusk). It's a little foggy if there was something occurring between now and what happened next, but the next thing I remember was that I was quickly running out of ideas for things to do, so I thought, "Well, I've always wanted to experience sex as a woman, let's give that a try." So I went back to the bathroom (it's notable that the previous time it was the bathroom from the old Broadway house, but it was now the bathroom from my previous apartment on Oak Street), stripped down, then looked in the mirror. Quick comment after the fact, the mirror worked just fine for its purpose in the dream, but before transforming I started in my normal dream avatar--which is myself as I recognize but much thinner. I was able to transform myself by pointing to the parts of my body that I wanted to transform and focusing on them. I started with breasts, then moved on to my penis. I recall being amused/annoyed that as I was shrinking my penis my foreskin wasn't shrinking with it so I had to do that separate. I started to get a little impatient so I just waved my hand around in front of my crotch and looked up at the ceiling to try to speed things up. Eventually everything looked pretty good, wasn't perfect, and I noticed that at some point I had lost all my body hair without intentionally trying to, but it was good enough for a first attempt. I was trying to decide what I wanted to do first with my new body when I noticed I sorta needed to pee so I decided to get that out of the way first, so I did. Just that was an unusual new physical sensation. There was some toilet paper sitting in the bathtub next to the toilet, so I grabbed some to clean things up a bit (since I was planning to shortly be playing around down there soon anyways); as I was cleaning up the phone rang and I answered it. The voice on the other end was some woman trying to tell me about how there were cloths in the tub that I could use for whatever but to leave them there so she could wash them later (I noticed here that it was hard to focus on what was happening now while I was on the phone trying to listen). I looked back into the tub and the toilet paper had been replaced by dark blue cloth. I shortly regretted flushing a few of them down the toilet. I checked the mirror one last time to see if things were still good and then went back out to the living room. I'm think there may have been somewhere here where I experimented with my new body, but if so unfortunately I don't remember it. Eventually there appeared in my house (as though she was familiar with the place) a thin, light-skinned black girl. Delighted to find another person to help me experiment with my new body, I asked her if she wanted to have sex with me. She seemed apprehensive; focusing on her I first removed her clothes then, noting of course that she too was female and thus would make proper copulation difficult, made her instantly grow a penis. She wasn't very amused by this, however, and she angrily stormed off to the basement. Shrugging, and once again bored, I decided to turn my attention on mentally recreating graphic-update remakes of old school video games I love in my mind for entertainment. I started with what I assume was Final Fantasy 6, though thinking on it after the fact the action doesn't match up properly with the game (though I specifically recall Terra's appearance). At some point this was interrupted with my wife calling, when she called what had been the video game scene taking up my entire stream of consciousness suddenly appeared as though I'd taken it out of full-screen mode on my monitor on my computer at my current apartment. I even had my headphones on, so I had to remove one of side of them to expose an ear for the phone like I usually do. I was annoyed at the distraction but answered the phone anyways. I don't remember the contents of the actual phone message, but I note again after the fact that it started to break my lucid concentration. The last part I remember now was going down to the basement where I found the black girl (who had now been transformed into some sort of small Pokémon-like creature) cuddling on a table with another small Pokémon-like creature. Saying, "Oh, so you'll have sex with him but not me!" and did my own storming-off-angrily upstairs and back to the living room, where I waved my hand and did some sort of mental slash across the table they were lying on and killing them both. My memory of this dream ends here, though when I woke I seemed to think that there was more non-lucid dream that came after this. I awoke just prior to starting this journal entry and did a quick reality check that passed, officially ending my first lucid dream.

Note to self: be wary about answering phones once you're lucid; it seems to help break lucid focus. In fact, I'm going to try to make an effort to start reality checks whenever answering and/or ending phone calls. I'm going to try to remember that the next thing on my agenda for practice when a dream goes lucid is controlling the environment; this time I kind of let the environment do what it wanted around me.

There was a dream sequence either prior to or leading up to where it went lucid. There was a long prelude to most of what I remember, but the bulk of what I remember was that there was this stretch of interstate that I would drive down as though I was in a GTA-ish sandbox type game and try to score points on this segment of highway. The segment of highway was kind of a long straight section with a curve off to the right. I'm thinking I may have lost more memory of this dream out of excitement for the lucid one, so maybe more will come back to me later.

I have really got to stop trying to fly. I heard some guy it took ten years for him to learn to fly, and since I've never dreamed of flying... I'm going to need a lot of practice.

I had just walked around the corner of the house and happened to be looking at the sky. Lo and behold, flying through it was three rather box-y looking, blue and orange space shuttles. I randomly connected them with something from a past dream--in fact, as I looked at them, I was remembering which entry of my journal they were under. [Despite this, when I went back and checked it in the morning, that dream has no record of having blue and orange space-shuttles.] However, I remembered them from a previous dream, and told myself I must have been in another dream. I promptly raised my hand in front of my face, and was delighted to discover my pinky finger seemed to be having trouble connecting with reality [Under normal circumstance, I wouldn't have been delighted, but hey--I was dreaming ^ ^] So like in the last dream, I raced off around the side of the house, hardly noticing that the DC I had been talking to seconds earlier was gone, and hurried off down the driveway. Perhaps it was my imagination, but I seemed to be able to run rather quickly. Anyway. Once I got to the street, I tried to fly--by jumping. No dice. So then I closed my eyes to try and envision myself some nice wings.
...I discovered I had trouble opening my eyes again, and was disheartened when I managed to open them a tiny bit, and saw my bedroom. End of dream.

However, due to this second [!!!] lucid dream, I am able to come up with a couple of hypothesis.

1.] My House is a dream sign. Both Lucid dreams have occurred when I have been around my house. I've had two other dreams that I've recorded that include my house, but that was before I got into serious lucid dreaming.
2.] I'm going to need a whole lot more practice to fly, so I'm going to start with something easier.
3.] This dream will be the last time I close my eyes on a dream ever. again. I've learned my lesson [Found out two days later you shouldn't close your eyes unless you've centered yourself enough, and will stay in the dream]
4.] I noticed a lot of my friends from theater tend to crop up, so that means I will spend a large part of rehearsals this year doing reality checks. Just in case.