lucid

04.04.2007

Spaceship p1, Predator War Games, Spaceship p2 (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Spaceship part1

im on a spaceship with a bunch of other humans. were a team of some sorts. dont remember exactly what were supposed to be doing. the ship is built. im part of the test flight. theres apprehension and nervousness from me as were taking off. i hope it doesnt blow up. takeoff goes alright and were sailing off into the night... EOD

Predator War Games

im in a war type dreams. im part of some mercenary band. some of my team(me too?) is turned into some Predator type looking monsters. some people on the team dont want anyone else in the unit to know. towards the end of the dream were going to split up for some objective. as the other team is running through a narrow pass on the way to their mission, the leader of the second team tells me that theyd like the rest of the people to kno what happened to them.
they go and my team is set to leave through the pass. as we head out into the open i hear people from my 1st dream of the night telling me theyre ready. i tell my team ive gotta go and i start flying straight up into the air. for a split second i think about staying with my team and flying back to the ground. i decide not to and fly straight up threw the air as the dream dissolves around me.... EOD

Spaceship part2

im back aboard the spaceship again. it had to be totally rebuilt. apperently the engines got burnt out on a hot reentry by a couple of the team members that were fleeing some people. i hear that it happened over a month ago.

repairs are all made and were getting ready to start up again. something goes wrong down below so we all race downstairs to see what the problem was. a door, like a door for an ash catcher in a basement for a wood burning fireplade has opened and its venting some steam. one of the guys close the door and everything is good to go. we head back upstairs and are all standing or sitting around a big circular table. i look around at everyone and ask them if im the only one here that only comes here in their dreams. the lady thats standing next time me just gives me a coy little smile and i feel like im the butt of some good natured joke that i dont get.

somebody on the crew says something to the effect of how im only here once a month but whenever i do, ill always be welcome here. theres a great feeling of comraderie and love in the cabin of the ship. dream slowly fades away... EOD

13.09.2006

Meeting myself at a cabin (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

im playing golf and i find a golf club. its a huge iron but it says 7 wood on it. i smack the water with it and a bee buzzes me. i get scared and try to run away from the bee. i stop and ask myself why im running because im dreaming and i should just take whatever is coming to me so i can learn the lesson. as im waiting there anxiously for whatever is to come somebody walks up to me. the dream shifts

*jump*

im at a cabin and a women and an elemental/spirit come inside. i think i used to be or im going to be the woman. she casts a spell called meteor and the spirit transforms into a meteor. the whole outside of the cabin shifts and its outerspace. galaxies and stars and planets are flashing by and its beautiful. it looks like 2d movie magic, it didnt look real.

the lady that came with the elemental tells me that i gave up my body in a future time to come back and save my life presently. and the reason she did that was to help spread love in the world. its also to help stop the old established guard, the people that are entrenched, the gun toting idealists.

time flashes forward to her time and i can see those people are secreted everywhere.

18.05.2006

Peeing in an old ladies bathroom (WILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Peeing in an Old Ladies Bathroom

im walking through my old neighborhood and i really have to pee. i go up to a house that has the garage door open and i walk in. there one old lady sitting in the kitchen and another one comes walking in. i ask if i can use their bathroom. they have a couple of dogs and they come running up to me. one is a bigger dog, kind of a reddish blonde looking lassie. the other one is really small with a turned down snout, it reminds me of my lemutte. i tell the lady how cut her little dog is as i bend down to pet it. she walks up the stairs but has to lean heavily on the banister to the left to make it, shes crippled. she tells me on the way up what she has, it sounded like she said she was cusped? she tells me a couple times but ive never heard the word she keeps saying and i dont want to be rude by prying into her business.

we get to the top of the stairs and come past a computer monitor that was on. it has an aim chat window open. i think how neat, i might have been talking to that old lady before. she shows me into the bathroom and as im in there i hear here tell me something about the website but i dont remember what it was. i start peeing in the toilet, im pretty far away from the bowl. im making it into some sort of game my balance leaves me and i start wobbling around and falling over, im doing my best to make it in the bowl but im having some technical difficulties. the dream fades out.

im in that space in between dreams where everything is dark. i think that i want to go back into the dream again so i start picturing the bathroom. at first nothing seems to happen but then im thinking about walking up to the sink and washing my hands and next thing i know, im back in the dream washing my hands at the sink. it was like a fog had been lifted and suddenly i was there again. as i was picturing myself doing it, slowly the physical sensations started to reappear(like holding on to the sink handles).

i get done washing my hands and i go back downstairs. i go into the kitchen and the old black lady is there doing dishes, both of the dogs are there too but i dont see the other lady that showed me up the stairs. i look out of the kitchen window and i see that its night time. i ask her is it really that late and have i really been up there that long. she turns around and looks at me and says yes. i tell her im sorry i was up there so long and i do feel bad. they were doing me a favor and i ended up inadvertantly taking advantage of it. she asks me what happened and i tell her that i woke up. she just looks at me like "oh, well that would explain it". as i turn to leave the bigger dog starts walking towards me and growling, i hadnt said goodbye to them. i go up to the big dog and pet him and tell the 2 dogs goodbye. i thank the lady again and walk out of the door that goes into the garage.


there are a ton of cars stacked in the garage and one of them looks like a newer sunfire model. there are so many cars and a boat that some of them are sticking outside of the big garage door so that they wouldnt close if they tried to close them. its raining slightly outside, really overcast, light but really grey clouds. im walking down the driveway thinking about what i can do now that im lucid. i look up into the sky and i see the outline of a butterfly, its beautiful. kind of reminds me of the swallowtail that i drew. i want to take a better look at it so i fly up to get above the houses. as i start going up the butterfly starts stretching it wings, fluttering them alittle bit. its really pretty. i get up above the houses and some of the trees and i perch on top of an electrical line that was running along the top of the telephone poles. i settle in to my perch and look for the butterfly but its gone i look at shannons old house and i think its weird that that house has turned into a big row of apartments. since that fun is over i think about trying to find M. or a spirit guide. i fly down and go inside of a garage next to shannons old house. it has a finished basement and im walking through it looking for some good doors to be able to try and make stuff appear behind.

when im lucid i know its not usually going to last very long so i always have a big sense of urgency as im walking around. i know anyone thats watching me dream must get a kick out of me speed walking around and yelling at the top of my lungs. at one point in the basement i think about what a dork i must look like.

the basement looks like it came out of the 70's, wood paneled walls, brown shaggy carpet, brown wooden doors. as im walking through it im thinking how neat it is that my mind still remembers what this place looks like even though i havent been down there in over 15 years.


i really dont remember what that basement looked like so it very well coulda been it, or i could have just made it all up

i go into a back bedroom of the basement. before i open the door i tell myself marie will be on the other side of it. that doesnt work(again! gonna have to try a mirror next time) so i call out my spirit guides name looking for her. im opening up other doors looking for her but i cant find her and she doesnt appear around a corner like she usually does. i go into another bedroom and it has a ton of rock posters on the walls. im thinking that maybe the boy that lived here grew up to become a musician of some sort and how neat that is.

somewhere along the way ive picked up a small blanket and a poncho and im constantly playing with them in my hands to keep myself lucid. i seem to stay lucid longer if i focus some attention on my hands and what theyre feeling. be it rubbing my hands together or ringing a shirt inbetween them.

as im walking back out to the garage i hear someone closing the door. i hear the chain rattling and im alittle worried theyre gonna be mad that i was snooping around their basement. i walk into the garage and i see that daniel is the one closing the door. her back is turned towards me. i look from her to the door and see that theres still a couple foot gap at the bottom. i run and slide under the door before she knows whats going on. i get up and start walking away. she comes out of the door after me. i turn back around and give her the blanket and poncho back saying sorry as i hand them over. i say "youre daniel daily." she nods and says yes she is

i havent seen her since grade school. we were never friends. she was really shy and never really talked.

as im walking away she says that she doesnt want to know who i am, she knows that im just some asshole. i start walking up the road towards my old house. im thinking maybe i can talk to the ghost there or better yet, maybe ill be able to find M. or a spirit guide since its a place of power for me. as im walking up the road its still raining and ive pulled my shirt up over my head. my head starts getting heavier and heavier, its getting harder to walk. i start to pull the top half of me away from my body so i can try and push my head along. it helps alittle but its still slow going. the dream slowly fades out.

im back in the dark area between dreams and i want to go back into the dream but i know i need to call in in the morning to see if i have to go to work so i make myself wake up all of the way.

06.04.2006

Right of passage to meet a friend (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

On a Right of Passage to meet a Friend


im in a field talking to an apparition of a little boy. his features are distinct but i can see through him. i dont remember what words were exchanged, just that we are friends.

i look over into this swampy field and i hear a voice over, like a discovery channel show narrator, talking about the tribe that inhabits this place. as the voice over is talking, ghost white faces keep peering around hedges, trees, out of pockets of water, and out of nowhere to look at me. they dont seem or feel threatening or menacing even given how they look and the eerie mist covered swampy setting that theyre in. i feel patience, curiousity, and waiting.

the voice talks about how a right of passage with the tribe is to swim through these impossible long underwater tunnels to the other side. its all about faith, trust, and belief that no matter if a task seems impossible, you will overcome it if you believe you can.

*jump*

im in one of the tunnels swimming. im completely submerged, i dont see any air pockets anywhere. as i keep swimming im starting to get fatigued and my lungs are starting to burn from lack of oxygen. i get to a point where i know i cant go any farther but i do. i keep swimming and swimming. it gets to the point where my vision is starting to tunnel and i feel like im not going to make it to the other side. i surrender, knowing i dont have any other choice. once i do i feel an energy start pulling me through the tunnel....

*jump*


im in a village of some sorts. buildings are set in trees as well as on the ground. people are walking all around me going about their business. i dont know where im going but i feel like my destination is up a particularly tall tree.

i go up to it and start climbing up the trunk. it v's and y's a few times and im able to get some decent footing. higher up, an icy moss like substance is all over the bark making my ascent that much more difficult.

i find a nook into the trunk and i go inside of the tree. i look up and see a room with different wooden bars, handholds, and railings i know i need to climb. i take a look at the room and it takes me a few seconds to figure out the easiest way to the top. i make it and step into another such room.

i go through 4 or 5 such rooms in all. everytime id first get into a room id look around trying to find the easiest way through it. i was like an aerobatic jedi bouncing around the walls, doing cartwheels and flips from bar to bar, railing to handholds, all the while climbing higher and higher.

i finally reach a room and open the door. i look around and realize its a school. desks are around the room, posters on the wall, a blackboard. i notice a group of children standing at the far end of the room and i notice my apparition friend immediately and walk over to him giving a little smile and a wave.

school has just gotten out so the other kids race for another door and to freedom for rest of the afternoon. i walk over and say hi. he asks me how i got here and i recount my little adventure i had getting to his school. he looks at me and asks where my guide is. i shrug my shoulders and tell him i dont know.

he kind of looks at me funny and then his mom walks into the classroom. my friend introduces us and she smiles and says hello. then she asks me how i got here and where my guide is, my friend excitedly answer her for me. she looks at me thoughtfully and kind of nods her head.

she tells my friend they have to get home. she tells me it was nice meeting me and my friend waves back to me as him and his mom walk out of the classroom hand in hand. i wave back and smile.

after they leave i walk out of the classroom through the door they exited and begin my descent down the tree. dream slowly fades away... EOD


tarot spread

1. The Mother

2. The Journey

3. The Shapeshifter

4. Goddess of Water

14.08.2003

In through the looking glass (Shared)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

i become aware that im dreaming while im in a bedroom. i think about what i want to do and i remember talking to A. earlier in the day and telling her id try to find her next time i got lucid. i remember reading about using mirrors to travel to other peoples dreams so i start walking around the house looking for one.

i find a bathroom and i walk into it. i hop up onto the vanity and press my hand against the glass. its solid. i pull my hand back and start saying over and over again how i want to find A. as im doing that i put my palm against the glass again and push.

nothing happens at first. but then slowly my hand starts to sink into the mirror. its very hard going, like pushing my hand through cold molasis. the feeling in my fingers and hand is cold and pulsating. as my arm slowly slides into the mirror, the feeling spreads up my arm. after im in past my elbow im instantly sucked the rest of the way through.

*jump*

everything goes black. my stomach is in my throat as im falling and spinning faster than ive ever gone in my life. there is an amazingly loud roar in my ears and it feels like im falling through the middle of a pitch black tornado. i fall for what feels like forever.

*jump*

POP! suddenly i can see again and next thing i know is im flying through a mountain valley. i look down and see a lone tent in an alpine meadow. i swooped down towards it and then become ecstatic because A. is there by the tent setting it up.

i flew past her screaming "Hey! Look at me, i did it! I'm me, I'm just light!" i race past her and stop in the air. i turn around and fly past her again but once im past her the dream starts shaking like a movie going off the reel and i lose the dream.

EOD


i was living in oregon at the time and my friend was living in ohio. i got online the next night and IM'd her. all i said was something along the lines of "Did we have a dream last night?"

she replied yes and then typed out the dream she was having where her and her friends were out in the mountains camping. all of a sudden i showed up and flew around for 10 or 15 seconds and then disappeared.

i asked her if i said anything and she said yes, but she couldnt understand a word of it.

i thought it was neat how i didnt see any of her friends or their tents when i was in her dream but she swears they were there.

Did RC's as much as possible yesterday and meditated in the afternoon using mantra "I will lucid dream tonight". Before sleep did relaxation, self hypnosis (that I would lucid dream tonight and wake up during each dream period and recall my dreams). Repeated short mantra "I will lucid dream tonight or very soon" and visualized seeing a dream sign and becoming lucid.

Was exhausted last night and slept very heavily and had zero recall this morning. Got up at 7:30 and fed my cats and played with them for about 20 minutes and then a WBTB. I could not fall back asleep using MILD so decided to try a WILD. I definitely went into SP and did RC's which failed so I was dreaming although very shallow. Had a few disjointed storylines going and a couple of lucid fragments of a dog on my cats condo and four black cats walking in a line in my bedroom. Next time I looked at my clock it was 10:20am. I got up. It wasn't excactly mind blowing but I think it was good practice.

non-lucid-black
Lucid-Green

I went through 3 dream phases last night.

the first 2 sucked and I forgot them anyways.

the third though was awesome. I was semi-lucid. and it was fun

August 8: It started out with me and a few other martial arts masters i did not recognise, but we we're set out to go kill some crazy bearded asian dude. so we're on a long forest/beach path walking when all the sudden I decide "hey im going to act like the avatar and have some crazy powers" so I jumped really high over to a temple and land in front of a Bonsai Tree in a large light brown pot. I then proceed to blow a lot of wind out my mouth and make swishing motions with my hands to burn the tree but keep the fire down. I then walked into the temple through an entrance right of the center. I then saw the evil dude hop a table and run away. then i didnt give a crap. I walked out to what became more like a beach. It had a lot of people there the first notable person was andrew quinzio. The sky was heavly clouded by black cloulds with the ocassional lightning burst. I lifted my hands up and said "quinzio watch this" and took lightning strikes into my hand.(note: it didnt work every time). then I saw my brother and his buddy white-boy and some others headed to a building next to the temple. which had the appearance of a movie theater strangely. and once I was inside I saw Ben Columb walk out of what I thought was bathroom and the dream started to fade.

Dream Drunk

I was in a restaurant in Wellington with the family. I think Ash was with me. I had a few drinks and dont think I was drunk but maby a little tipsy. Me and Ash left and started making our way home. We got most of the way and I think were just across the road from the old flat I used to live in. Then I saw a friend I hadnt seen in a while. He was in a fancy convertible with a bunch of other people all dressed up in suits and girls wearing ball dresses. I started feeling a bit drunk now, I asked them what they were up to and they were on there way to a ball. I could barely stand now and I hopped in the car with them, I dont know how there was enough room for me because it was packed full a few moments before!! In the car I was swaying around and Will asked if I was alright, I told him I felt drunk but I wasnt drunk so not to worry. I hopped out of the car and couldnt find Ash. I started walking back towards the flat.
All of a sudden I realised I was dreaming. I looked at my hand which looked normal and sprouted an extra pinky pinker out of my hand as usual to make sure I was dreaming. I came into a construction site with three tall half finished buildings around me. I tried to jump realy high and land into the side of one of the buildings as it had no walls or windows yet. I fell short and started falling from pretty high up. I put my arms out like you would dive into a pool and closed my eyes. I felt my body pass through the ground. I imagined I was up in the sky flying upwards. I had slowed down a lot now but opened my eyes and saw the moon and stars. Then I woke up.

So, I'm a hardcore gymnast, I'll start with that. Anyway, theres a celebrity named Ayla Kell whom I truly admire for looks and voice.

The dream started in a party place, it was for my birthday, I was sitting on the inside of a booth. I ate a piece of cake and "phased" out of my seat (my mother was in my way, getting out just..happened) after seeing Chelsea Hobbs (another person from the same gymnastics TV show) pass by. Fastforward to a few minutes later, and somehow I'm taking photos in a photobooth with Ayla Kell. I get a kiss on the cheek in one of the photos. We get out and look at the photos. my vision then becomes that of a game, and the photos literally take up the whole spectrum of my vision. Ayla and I then talk, I see a few other people from my past (a girl i fell for in Hawaii, the man who shot me when i stopped him from robbing a store, so on and so on). A few seconds later I see a man with dark wings walk in, everyone moves out of his way. Not scared, they just move. Another man is infront of me, I sense serious danger. I tell Ayla to get behind me, she does.

As a side note - I'm bilingual, I just want to throw that out there before I get to the next part.

The man infront of me starts to speak, and it takes my brain a few seconds to adjust to a seperate language. "Dammi la ragazza." - Give me the girl.
"Non, lei e' per mio e' nessuno tutti." - No, she is for me and no one else.
For some reason seeing them didnt scare me.
"Give me her or we'll kill you."
The man on the right of me (the one who moved all the people) said it. And for some reason alarms went off in my head. I willed a sword into existance, and when the demon infront of me realized what I was doing, he ran at me.
-This is where I became lucid-
The sword materialized AS he jumped to slice me up, I swung up and he disappated, almost like a ghost hit by iron. Then the demon to the right of me (who I turned to face) said, "Nice try. But you can't protect her forever."
He disappeared, and I ended up in a solitary confinement cell with Ayla.
I started to speak in latin, and she disappeared. Then I woke up.

This is one of my
Five-Star Lucids

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:
My friend dared me to try writing an understandable message in my next lucid dream, so I decided to make this a priority instead of my current lucid goals.

The dream began with me standing out on the sidewalk. I was in an area of the city that looked very much like the photograph below, standing on the sidewalk to the far right. I edited the photo to contain the colors and atmosphere of the area as well.

There were only three or four people, I realized, as I scanned the area. Almost immediately I knew that I was dreaming, but I was a bit skeptical (as with many mid-level lucidities) so I looked at my hands. This reality check failed, as both of them only had five fingers that looked close to normal. I then did the nose-plug reality check, however, and it worked perfectly.

I looked around, dream-spinning slowly to prevent the dream from destabilizing. I saw the buildings beside me and a person standing behind me, looking uninterested. I then remembered the task my friend told me to try out in a dream, so I turned around to look beside me, expecting a sandbox to be there. It was small, around sixteen square feet in area, but it would work. I picked up a long stick I summoned just by reaching down and "knowing" it would be there, and began to write in the sand.

I improvised what I would write down. The lines the stick made were wider than they should have been, but I still managed to spell something out. The letters looked like letters, which turned into words that looked like words:

"Yo, this is rad" in capital letters.

Well this is my first lucid dream since I've joined, and the 4th Lucid Dream I've ever had.

Anyway, I was out drinking last night and drank myself stupid. Went to bed at around 5:30ish. So I had a dream about somehow losing a few of my fingers. I went into shock( it felt real... or it might have been the alcohol, Not sure :P ) So I went into "shock" and went to go call 911, when I looked at my hand, and my fingers regrew. I was very surprised and clued in I was dreaming. So after that, I had to try and keep my dream from fading and I did a few spins (I heard somewhere that that helped a lot). So after doing that, I tried to fly and found out I couldn't, but I found out I could jump very high. I started climbing building after that sorta of like the assassins creed games, haha.

But yeah at about 7ish my mom woke up and yelled at the dogs, so that woke me up to :/

07.08.2010

Riding Zamor the Unicorn (DEILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Edit: I guess I never uploaded the other dream where I met a crazy unicorn named Zamor. The task of the month was to ride a unicorn which is why I wanted to find him again. He had transformed into a stuffed animal at the end of the dream.

I was in a dream where I was in a cave. The cave then spill up to the left and right and to the front. There was a red piece of slime that was pulling itself around to my right. There was a door in front that was locked with chains and a series of chambers to my left. Oh this is a Zelda dungeon. I need to be lucid and ride Zamor. I destabilized to black but pulled my ego point into an image of my kitchen. I saw my sister and four of her friends waling into the kitchen. I waited for it to stabilize visually a bit before I was in a body and the rubbed my hands and knees. My sister and her friends had a pizza on the counter so I picked up a slice and ate it to cover the taste sense. I picked up a bowl of butter and smelled it and everything was stable. Wow this dream channing is getting so easy now I can completely go back into a dream in like 20 seconds. I really needed to go to the bathroom so I was like darn I knew I should have gone earlier. I woke up and went to the bathroom and went back to bed. It was 8:00 so I had 2 or three hours before I had to get up.

I went back to bed and the next thing I remember was placing in the top 5 for a contest where you have to make a tank with Lego mindstorm. BTW I am a Lego fanatic. We get the chance to make a Lego stop motion animation sponsored by Lego so they supply every thing we need and the 5 winners work together to make it. It has to be a star wars themed video. I am talking about what we should do with one of the other winners and the setting changes and I am in my sisters room. I became fully lucid again and looked at my sisters night stand to see if the stuffed animal version of Zamor is where I left it. Its not so I asked my sister where the stuffed animal unicorn I put in her room was. She said it was downstairs in the hallway closet. I went down stairs but as sone as I got to the closet I woke up.

False awakening but I didn't realize it at the time. The clock said 12:20. I can't believe I slept so late! I went back to bed anyways determined to do the task of the month.

I reentered the dream and was in the room where I was suppose to figure out how to do the Lego video. The same pizza that was in the dream earlier was now on the table. I ate some and tried to stabilize but tried to refocus so I was in my house again. The setting changed and I was in my sisters room. Man all I gota do is go to the closet but its so hard with me waking up every couple minuets. I went to the closet down stairs but as sone as I got there I woke up.

Grah this is probably a false awakening. I picked some pizza up off of my night stand and ate some, this time just because it tastes good. Ya this is a FA I don't even know why this pizza keeps poping up in my dream but it s really good, especially for a thin crust pizza. I went to the hallway and opened it and the stuffed unicorn was no where to be found! I looked down the hall and saw an identical cabinet that shouldn't be there IWL. Oh the other cabinet. I opened it and Zamor the unicorn was there in stuffed animal form. I picked him up and rushed to my family room where there would be room for him. Placed him down and said, "Zamor, transform!" He expanded into a real unicorn now but wait, this time he was slightly pink and his black horn was only two inches long. When I met Zamor he had white fur, a rainbow colored main and a long kick ass looking black horn. He started to throw up which was sort of weird but funny. I started to wake up and knew I didn't have much time. I jumped on and made him take a step forward. A second later I was awake.

Wow, that was sort of disappointing. I don't even think that was Zamor. Atleast I did the advanced task. I need to work on extending my lucids themselves because dream chaining is great but it sort of causes my dreams to be weird.

Waking life Dream Lucid dream Comment

I wake up, not to the sound of alarm, but naturally. Well, I didn't have any lucid dreams tonight, but my memory of my last dreams is very vivid, so I might as well stand up and write them down in my dream journal. Well, it's never vivid enough, so I stay in bed for couple of minutes, to remember my dreams. Slowly, one by one, three of them come into mind, but somewhere along the way my consciousness slipped. Once I remember them, I rise, turn on the computer, boot emacs, use the handy 'journal' command. Then I carefully, in detail, type down one of my dreams. I produce a whole screen of text, even check for spelling errors.

But as I consider writing down the next wall of text, I wake up. I'm as frustrated about lost dream journal entry, as I'm excited about false awakening, and I ask myself: what if this one is too? Reality check. Wow, it really is a dream! What will I do? I jump out of the window and decide to travel away as far as I can and practice flight. Well, I manage to float a little, but with very little control. And it did last for a while, so I managed to get pretty far.

And then I wake up again. I stand up, and then a great idea enters my mind: let's try to induce lucid dreaming from waking life! Sort of like WILD, but faster! Then I come up with a curious technique to do this: I start spinning around, then close my eyes, and in my mind speak the names of all senses, and as I do it, these senses stop showing my bedroom and start showing the lucid dream. "Sound", "Smell", "Touch", "Taste", ... "Sight". As I speak "sight", I enter a lucid dream inside a dream: I'm running on some road somewhere, it's not too vivid, but I know it's a dream and try for a flight. But I wake up, still spinning around in my bedroom.

So why not, I repeat the procedure. And then again. And maybe again. Thus, I had three or four short not-so-vivid but quite lucid dreams. WILDs from inside a false awakening

Then I wake up again, and find myself in sort of an office, which (though I've never been here before) I recognize as my own. It's a rich place, huge desk occupies the center, it's reared by two blackboards (well, greenboards actually), there are bookshelves and flowers, and of course, a computer on the desk. A large window overlooks a beautiful scenery with trees and water. But I'm concerned. Though place looks familiar, I decide to reality check. I count my fingers, and they are perfectly normal, but I have that intuitive sense nagging in my mind. What the hell? This is my house, isn't it? It's perfectly normal. But still this strange feeling... Let's do another check. If this is a dream, I can fly, right? I try and fail - I can only jump, and jump just a little, like one jumps in reality. But still... Okay, I know! In a dream you cannot read the same text twice, it always changes. And here I got two perfectly serviceable blackboards, all filled up with equations. I read one of the equations, memorize it, look away. When I look back, it's still there, the same. I guess the evidence is undeniable, this is real (if only I asked myself what day it is, what am I doing here, and what are my goals!.. that's a reality check I usually do, and not only does it induce lucid dreaming, it helps in real life to concentrate on important matters).

A man knocks at my door and enters. He gives me a broken nose spray, says that one of the servants sent it to me. I realize the thing is utterly useless, but take it with "thanks". The man leaves. A few seconds later I awake.

And I wake up fully. It's very odd, isn't it? I mean, I had a dream inside another dream - a recursive dream. And my mind perfectly remembered where and how am I supposed to wake up. And I utterly failed the reality check inside my would-be mansion. Are those kinds of things normal?

06.06.2010

Late Night Rainy Football (WILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I've always found WILDing easier with a slight hangover. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's the repression of REM sleep during the night leading to the REM-rebound, plus tiredness.



Anyway, I was lying with my arm around my girlfriend, with my mind doing its own thing. I noticed that the random images which had been floating through my head had become much more solid and cohesive. It felt more like "seeing" than imagining. I saw my street. It was a dark, rainy night. I tried to focus on putting myself into the scene, and started walking uphill. (It didn't become a dream just "like that", it was gradual) There was a moment, when I was thinking about sleep paralysis, when the feeling of movement became much more real. It felt like I was moving my actual muscles now. If I paused, I could kind of feel my girlfriend beside me at the same time. I knew I was playing a risky game, thinking about my real body, but I kept myself integrated in the dream by running and jumping. The rain was cold on my skin. I looked up at the sky to find it completely black. It was a lonely-seeming night. I had no purpose for this dream in mind, so I spontaneously took a right, and climbed through a hole in the hedge. Instead of the housing development that should have been there, I saw a football field beside a large warehouse.

I wandered over, and realised that I was wearing a backpack for some reason. There was a kid standing in the middle of the pitch waving at me. I was about to go over and ask him what his purpose was in my dream, but I had a better idea. I took off the backpack and looked inside. There was an old football. I drop-kicked it over to the kid, who took it on the chest and kicked it back.
"On the head!" he shouted, running over. He got to the side of the pitch and stood on a grassy bank. The rain was quite heavy still, and was making the bank muddy and slippery. I picked up the ball and kicked it to him again. This time, he slipped forward when he went for the header, and faceplanted in the mud. It was hilarious. I laughed pretty hard. I had a moment of introspection, where I remarked on the strangeness of being "in here, laughing away", while at the same time lying basically lifeless in bed.

Then she woke me up.

05.06.2010

Ninjas Comin for me! (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

My recall has gone to shit since I started a new job on Wednesday. I don't think I've had any lucid moments since then- at least, none I can remember! Had a mini lie-in since it's Saturday, but all I've got are fragments.

I was part of an enormous army of leather-clad ninja dudes. They all looked a lot like Scorpion from Mortal Kombat, except instead of the yellow parts on his armour, they had were all black. Some had purple. Maybe they were the captains or something. We were all on our way to attack some settlement in the desert, which was over a hill and through a guarded archway. When the army passed through the arch, I could see the settlement in the valley below. The army, which had been so neatly organised up until now, broke ranks and started charging. Everyone was equipped with a kind of staff with a blade on either end. I ran alongside someone who turned out to be Loaf from Dreamviews! He had a grenade in his hand. I twirled the dual-bladed staff around like I could never have done while awake, and smashed up a car with Loaf's help.

I vaugely remember retreating back through the arch again when the battle was finished. I tripped and went rolling down a sand dune.

Another unrelated fragment I remember, I was playing Red Dead Redemption. I was shooting guys who kept appearing at the end of a tunnel. I lined up the shots and pulled off headshots on nearly every guy. I earned an achievement. (lol) I exited the tunnel and got out a crossbow, which I used to shoot down several ugly, bat-like creatures. I felt skillful.