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28.12.2009

Zombie Apocalypse (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

After months of trying, I finally managed a zombie dream! Good times. Only thing is, the hordes of walking dead weren't enough to make me realise I was dreaming, hence the non-lucid. I did get a little bit aware towards the end though, which just made it all the more real. Details are a bit sketchy, since it was nearly 24hrs ago I had this dream.



I was holed up in the top floor of an appartment building in the suburbs. It was a modern building surrounded by normal houses with lots of gardens and trees. I spent a long time hiding in this building, having no contact at all with the zombies who wandered aimlessly in the streets below. There weren't a huge amount, but from the large window at the front of my room I could see that the street contained about 50 zombies. This particular brand of zombies were somewhere between the classic shambling, moaning, not-much-of-a-threat walking corpses (as seen in the original "Dawn of the Dead") and the more modern, able-bodied, running, bloodthirsty variety (as seen in "28 Days Later"). They were able to run like someone who was wounded, basically.

One day I was walking past this large window when a survivor in the street spotted me. She had red hair and was about 30. She screamed to get my attention, then ran to the front door via several gardens and over a wall. Unfortunately, the zombies couldn't resist, and followed her en masse. I let her in grudgingly, knowing we would soon have to leave. The zombies were gathering at the door, moaning and banging. The noise was attracting yet more of them from the surrounding area. Luckily I had prepared for such an eventuality. There was a wire cable running from the balcony, across a few gardens, all the way to another street. We each looped another piece of wire over the cable and swung along it to the other steet. I had thought this plan was foolproof, but the wire I was swinging on made a loud scraping noise when it went over the cable, thus alerting the hordes below. They all looked up stupidly in unism, then roared. We landed, and after much swearing, ran out into the next street.

There were still a few zombies ambling inanely with mouths open in this street- most of them having been attracted to my front door previously. It was then, when rounding a corner, that I noticed a flyer on the wall. It contained "Official Instructions" on how to deal with the infestation. The redhead looked at it and nodded. I didn't look, but somehow knew what the instructions were. They had just never been carried out very well. Apparently, a purple liquid had been invented which was completely toxic to the undead, and harmless to the living. (Rather convenient!) The orders were to dispatch vats of the stuff to every street, then throw it over any zombie who came near. This would result in instant death for the recieving party. We ran round the corner, dodged the odd zombie, and found ourselves in a ruined street of shops. All the windows and most of the walls were broken down, and there was rubble everywhere. There were also buckets of the miraculous purple liquid at every building. I rejoiced, and picked up a bucket. Two zombies were advancing on me at a brisk walking pace. I turned to them and sloshed all the liquid out of the bucket. I meant to soak them both, but only got one, completely missing the other. The one I hit immediately howled in pain and collapsed backwards. Visible purple fumes wafted from him as he fell, entering the nostrils of the other. Two seconds later, he collaped as well. Apparently, this stuff was very strong.

I can't quite remember the next bit, but it involved me running round the town looking for some item I needed to give to a friend. I found it in a tiny garden surrounded by a black metal fence. At this point I was armed with water pistols full of purple stuff, and the undead were no hindrance.

The next thing I remember, I was all out of liquid, but had partied up with a group of survivors. We were at the top of some kind of zeppelin tower- you know, a tower at the top of which a zeppelin stops, and you get on. There was a zeppelin waiting. The leader of our group was a tall dude with black, slicked-back hair. He was carrying a shotgun, and he stepped through the automatic doors onto the balloon first. I somehow knew that both he and I were invincible- we could not be killed or infected. I think I had some low-level lucidity here, because I acted a lot more like myself. I think that's where the invincibility came from. Everybody stepped on board and looked around. We were in a kind of atrium. The floor and walls were dark wood, and a grand staircase up to a viewing platform was ahead of us. The furniture and ornamental plants in the atrium were strewn everywhere. The black-haired guy warned us that this thing was probably full of zombies. I ran up the stairs and saw, for some reason, a door leading to a dental surgery. It was lying open, and I could see the bright whiteness of the wall. I went inside to find a mostly-devoured corpse on the chair. It was gruesome, but I was cheered up when I found two weapons to arm myself with. The first was a large screwdriver with a blue plastic handle, and the second was a kind of cordless dentist's drill. It must have been battery powered, but even so, it was quite deadly.

I headed towards the very front of the viewing platform, and encountered a grandma-zombie. I gathered that she had been here for a while, because her eyes had rotted away! She had just two blackened eye holes in her green, rotting face. I got her with the dentist's drill, which miraculously sawed her head off in one swipe. I passed a few crappy-looking shops and came to what looked like the driver's seat. I approached it cautiously from behind, as I could see someone was still strapped into it, trying to get out. With my drill and screwdriver raised, I stepped round the front of the seat. It was my ex-girlfriend! She looked pretty much as she always had done, apart from badly cracked skin above her lips, and evil eyes. She gnashed her teeth at me, struggling to escape from the seatbelt, but it was very secure. Two straps looped over her shoulders, secured across the chest. I sighed sadly and jammed the screwdriver in her temple. I felt a bit of remorse, but I was soon distracted by many more attacks from zombified persons. I used the screwdriver and drill to lethal effect on lots of them as I moved along an upstairs corridor. They came out of the rooms on either side one by one, like a video game.

26.12.2009

Hallucino-fucking-nations! (WILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was a bit sleepy on boxing day, so I lay down in bed for a nap. Now before this, I've never had any real hypnagogic hallucinations before, save the odd quick buzzing sound, and I've never been one to notice sleep paralysis. I got them both this time, and it was fucking weird!

I don't know how long I was lying there, but after a while it was like a switch had been flicked and my entire body just seemed to turn itself off. Over about half a second it became so I couldn't move a muscle- although to be honest I wasn't trying too hard in case I spoiled it. Part of me used to doubt if this bodily shutdown was actually possible while still awake- and I was still awake! I even opened my eyes a crack, but barely took anything in, just the colour of the celing with the sun shining through the blinds. After a minute, I felt as if my head had "lifted out of itself". It felt like my forehead had levitated up. I was really shocked, and it reverted almost immediately. I assumed this must be the HH's people rave about.

I then wondered what other stuff I could get my body to do. With that thought, I started "sliding" under the covers towards the foot of the bed. But I kept going. I slid maybe five or six metres before I thought of controlling this ride. I thought, "I should reach the end of this bed now," and sure enough, I felt my feet poke out from under the covers next.

Then my belligerant brother came in shouting about crap and ruined it!

26.12.2009

Like A Bat out of Hell in a Silver-Black... Car (DEILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I just about felt myself waking up. I couldn't even be sure if it was a false awakening or not, I was that groggy. I think it must have been real though, because I changed my position to something unusual, and was in that position when I properly woke up later.

I was just coming out of a dream where I was going to give some people a lift in a car. Easiest thing to do was to imagine being back in the same dream. I felt myself standing on the road, then imagined getting into the car and feeling the steering wheel. Somewhere here the visualisations became a dream. I got into the driving seat to find that some woman was already sitting in it. I said,
"Screw you, I need to feel this steering wheel!" and sat on top of her. I felt the rubbery plastic of the (unrealistically large) steering wheel for a few seconds until I felt stable enough to start doing stuff. I thought about the task of the month, but decided to leave it because it felt like too much effort and might wake me up. I then realised I had no idea how to drive. I thought about it for a second, and pondered how I would be able to do it if there were just two pedals. One to accelerate and the other to brake/reverse- like the way the triggers are in Xbox driving games. Conveniently enough, that's the way this car was set up. It was a big silver people-carrier, possibly a Seat Alhambra.



I put my right foot to the floor and drove off. I realised I was only round the corner from my house, so I tried to get to it. I just hoped I could hold my concentration long enough to get there. The woman I had been sitting on phased backwards through the seat into the back seat, where there were a few other people. I turned on the car radio, and a CD came on automatically. Track two of Def Leppard's greatest hits came on, which is "Pour Some Sugar On Me". I wanted to put on "Action", so I pressed back, remembering that it was track one. For some reason, Meat Loaf's "Bat Out of Hell" came on instead, which was just as good as far as I was concerned. I sped along tapping the steering wheel and singing. I woke up before I got to my house.

24.12.2009

Bus Ride (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

A major dream sign I've noted (can't believe I didn't see it before) is buses. No exaggeration, since starting this DJ, I've had about 10 dreams involving buses. That's like 12%. I'll be keeping an eye out for them in future.

I've been having decent success with DILD's the last few days. I think of it as a lazy approach. I wake up in the morning, then just go back to sleep as if it were a WBTB, but fall asleep normally. I tend to become lucid naturally near the start of a dream.

FA in my old caravan. It was night time, and very dark. There were no lights on outside. My brother Andrew was asleep in a bed across the room. I saw a shape move on the other side of the door. (The door is made of frosted glass) A huge brown dog phased through and was now in the room with us. I nearly shat a brick. I'm not afraid of dogs at all in real life, but there was something terrifying about this enormous one which had found me in the middle of the night. I became semi lucid as it advanced on me. I was sitting up in bed and made up my mind not to run away from it. I leaned down so my face was level with the dog's and stared it out. It got closer and closer and I kept glaring at it. Soon our noses were nearly touching, and the dog's face was all I could see. Then it vanished.



I woke up Andrew, who had slept through the dog's intrusion. I told him that this was a dream, but he seemed reluctant to accept it. I looked at my hand and saw way too many fingers. I showed it to Andrew and asked him what he could see- but he didn't give me a solid answer. I considered the possibility of this being a shared dream since it really seemed like him, but I doubt it was.

I looked out the caravan window to my left. There was a double decker, open-topped bus parked outside. I closed my eyes and tried to teleport on board. At first, I was pretty sure it hadn't worked, but when I opened my eyes, I was on the upper level, at the front. Andrew was with me. The bus started moving, driven by Idon'tknowwho. I kept looking at my deformed hand and trying to get Andrew to comment on it, but to no avail. We held on to the railing at the front of the bus as it went far too fast over bumps and round corners- it was like a roller coaster.

22.12.2009

Top Gear (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Me and my two friends Darren and Hugh were guest presenters on Top Gear. So including Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond, there were six of us. We decided to have a race round the Top Gear track. We were allowed to use any method of getting round. I went for roller blades. I became semi-lucid around here. I say "semi" because although I knew it was a dream, it didn't feel like "me" controlling everything I did. Kind of like a very close copy of myself, doing stuff I would do. It was night time. I took off round the track in my roller blades, reaching incredible speed. I was supposed to get round to the finish line ASAP, but I was having too much fun. I lifted off the ground slightly and flew over some grassy areas. There was one big hill in the middle of the track. I got up a lot of speed and flew off the top of it like a ramp. I shot up into the night sky, nearly at the clouds, then the wind caught me and I was blown backwards. I fell all the way back to the ground but landed on my feet.

[I]abridged[/I]
I am a dark African sitting in a grass hut on a swamp somewhere on the dream plane. I have a necklaces of animal bones around my neck, and feathers coming out of my head. I have thick dreadlocks.

There are all kinds of voodoo shit hanging about.

Raven enters with MoSh, Tigress and Loaf. MoSh is half snake, but no one seems to notice. Loaf is half vampire, half werewolf. Tigress is a werewolf. Raven is Queen of Night.

"We have come to seek the guidance of the Night Shaman," says Raven.

"What is it you desiyah??"

"We desire the Great Red Ruby of Foresight atop the Mountain of Despair."

"Oh, no. You don' wan go dere! You goin' die. You all goin' die many many deaths."

"Just tell us how to get there."

"Me not know if you be deservin'. Are you strong? Are you wise ones? Are you... in unity? If not, you will die, die like a snake writhin' in th' sun! You must accomplish de task of Fiyah firs'! Outside dere is a large swamp tree, with a hollow arch. Walk t'rough de tree. You will find you in de Hell of Hells. Bring me de One Watah Drop in all of Hells, and you will prove to me dat you have de strength it gon' take. NOW GO!"

They eye me suspiciously, but turn and leave. I cast enchantments upon them of protection, energy and power to assist them in their trial.

Q appears next to me. Do you think they'll make it, Professor X?

Well, Q, it's my Danger Room. I can turn it off if they lose lucidity or get lost in pain. I am going to give you an AI orb with a portion of my power. This orb will guide you in my will, and stay with you when I am awake.

I summon a small silver orb, and put a piece of my sentience into it. I hand it to Q. Q10 appears. Q hands the orb to him.

I wake up in some remote viewer facility.

"Good job, sir. You have successfully joined the Dream Corps of the CIA Remote Viewing Project, Dreamgate."

"NO YOU BASTARDS! LET ME OUT OF HERE!"

Code BLUE CODE BLUE WE HAVE A LIVE ONE!

I run out of the room. I am in a huge underground base in a mountain. I run down a catwalk. I don't know where I am going. I have to get the fuck out of there. I feel needle in my back. I collapse to the floor.

I wake up strapped to a table in an operating room.

"You have already betrayed your friends. Oh, yes, you fool. You signed on the dotted line when you slept, you idiot. Don't remember, do you? Too bad your recall sucks."

'NO YOU'RE A LYING FUCK."

THey show me a video of me signing a document in blood in an interrogation room.

"That's not me, you asshole, that's some CGI actor or something."

SILENCE. And now, we torture you for your insolence. Release the straps.

I try to get up. I can't move.

You have been given a paralyzing anesthetic. You can't move for the next forty-five minutes. Yet, you will feel all the pain and torment as we slice you open, and examine what makes you tick.

I see in the reflection of the crazy doctor's eye, a jaguar face. I am confused.

They slice me open, and I scream. I feel no pain. They remove my guts, and play catch with my liver. I realize it must be a dream. I feel a dark fire burning inside me.

I roar, and stand up from the table.

CODE RED CODE RED CODE RED MAN YOUR BATTLE STATIONS. DREAMER IS MANIFESTING BEAST SELF.

I grab the doctor, and bite his head off, then spit it on the floor. The others back away.

WHO ELSE WANTS THEIR FUCKING DREAMS HAUNTED FOR ETERNITY?

I shoot claws at all their eyes, then fly through many floors until I get outside the mountain.

Goddamned spooks in jet packs are awaiting me.

I call out to Koomo, as the RV Templars hit me with a knock out drug. Fuck yo tranq, beeyotch! This is MY DREAM!

I begin to fall. Michael catches me. Man-bats appear out of portals, and we battle the Templars.

I soon see my friends from the first part of the dream come and join me. We kick ass.

Loaf runs through the mountain, affixing bombs to the pillars. He hands me the detonator. BOOM!

We fly back to the Moon, and rest.

21.12.2009

Vortex (DEILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was finishing off a dream about being in a car crash in the middle of a busy freeway when I felt myself waking up. I tried to re-insert myself.

I was sitting back on the ground next to a concrete divider thing in the middle of the freeway. I got up and looked around. The road wasn't as busy as before- there was just one bus coming towards me, and slowing down. It stopped beside me and the door opened. The driver said threateningly,
"Get in or else..." He pointed a gun at me. I got on, just to see how this would play out. To annoy the driver, I ripped off the door and threw it away. Crowded round the middle of the bus was a group of guys with big guns, all glaring at me. I sat down and thought about what I could do to "fuck up their shit". I tried to make the bus fly, but couldn't manage it. I decided instead to try and suck the whole bus and its contents into a vortex, and leaving them all compressed to the size of a tennis ball. I focused my attention on a speck of dust floating directly in front of me, and increased the gravity around it. It glowed light blue. Soon, pieces of rubbish and loose items started getting sucked in and jammed together. The larger items and the people were unaffected so far, so I concentrated really hard. In the end I just hurt my head and woke up.

20.12.2009

Duelling My Subconscious (WILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

My memory of this dream is somewhat warped, in that I can't remember what order things happened in. There were a lot of FA's which chopped it up a bit- most of which I was 100% sure were real.

FA 1: I was in my bed, really disoriented. I had no idea what was going on, and I had a suspicion I might still be asleep, so I tried to roll out of my body. First to the right, where I rolled about half a metre into my desk which moved a good foot or so. Then I did a 180 degree spin so my head was at the bottom of the bed. This didn't even convince me. By this time my various blankets were a real mess, and I tried half-assedly to fix them and went "back to sleep". What convinces me I was asleep (apart from the easy 180 degree rotation), was that I had an extra yellow blanket.

FA 2: I was in the bathroom of my old house, looking in the mirror. My vision was a bit blurry, but I put this down to having just got out of bed. I was thinking about lucid dreaming at the time, doing my ususal mental exercise, "How would I even know if this was a dream, they're always so realistic!" I tapped the wall beneath the mirror with my knuckles, just to reassure myself of reality. I was literally 110% sure I was awake, it was so lifelike. Just for that extra guarantee, I looked at my left hand. About seven fingers!
"No fuckin' way," I murmured. It had been about a week since I'd had a lucid experience of this quality and I was very pleased. I went out of the bathroom and found myself in my current house. It was dark outside, I could see through the glass on the front door, which was at the bottom of the stairs. My mum was trying to get the cat inside and lock up. I went down to help. Strangely, there were two cats which looked identical. I picked up the imposter by mistake and it scratched my face. My cat is friendly, so I decided it wasn't that one. I looked to my right, and saw a blonde guy getting into a yellow lambourghini. I wanted a go in his car, so I called over to him. He glared at me and sped off. Annoyed, I hovered up to streetlight height and flew after him. Before I even left my driveway, I was slowed by an invisible force. I turned round, and saw a guy about my age with his arm outstretched. It seemed he was using telekenisis to keep me from flying away. He was looking at me evily.

I descended to waist height and prepared to take him on. From looking at him, I could somehow tell that his name was Johnny, and he was no ordinary DC. I tried to blast him out of the way, or throw him with telekenisis, but he resisted my efforts. As I thought about what I could use next, he created a fireball in his palm and hurled it at me. I dodged it, and sent one back. The fireball looked like heavily compressed fire. It was completely spherical, and much brighter than I expected. It looked like I was winning, until he sent out his Pokémon. Yes, Pokémon. I can't remember what Pokémon it was or what move it used, but it quickly overwhelmed me. I accidentally lost touch with the dream. At the time I figured it was probably due to lack of sensory input. I was just flying around, not touching anything. Or it might just have been the end of a REM cycle.

20.12.2009

In a Bush (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was walking down my street with a girl I used to see, talking about some disease that everybody was catching. It was a warm, sunny day. I went into a petrol station and bought a packet of Wine Gums, then we headed further up the street. During this time, the girl got the disease. Apparently, all it did was make her randy as hell. She whipped off her top and dragged me into a bush, where she started kissing me like she was trying to eat my face.

A while later, I was in a large house. I had just spent the night with the girl and was looking for my clothes scattered around the upstairs. I spotted my red jacket over a chair in the landing and went over to get it. It was beside an old man, and I was naked. This turned me lucid, due to the embarrassingness of the situation. I put the jacket round my waist, then took a running leap off the top of the stairs. I flew too fast, and smacked off the wall above the front door. I lost lucidity very quickly, because soon I was participating in some bizzare healing ritual where about six of us stood in a circle with arms linked, raised in the air. I think we were trying to heal the girl I was with before, who was still upstairs.

Here's another one for ya.

Let me preface this by saying I'm Bisexual. If this bothers anyone you don't have to read. This is not explicit..it's sweet. I had a friend in school. Let's call him R. I loved him deeply. I never told him, just being his friend was enough.

My dream.......We were in the lunch room at school. I became lucid immediately. I decided to try something. I grabbed R's Hand, and told him this was a dream and this would probably be the last time I'd see him. I pressed my lips to his. Oh guys I could taste him. I told him I loved him and ended the dream.

I thought was a great dream for closure.

Mick

Hi I'm Mick and I'm new to the site. I'm using this site just for a dream journal nothing else. I hope you guys and girls enjoy.

So this dream starts out with me in school (I'm 25 and out of school) I could see everything clearly. The teacher says we'll be watching a movie. Fine.....nothing out of the ordinary. Things pass for a while without incident. After a while the teacher stops the film. She asks the class to do the chicken dance.

At this point I become lucid. I say I don't want to. The dream becomes more hostile now. The teacher brings in a mutant HAIRY NASTY spider. I panic and nearly lose the dream, but I don't. I wanna see this through. The spider lunges for me and I fly in the air. I say to myself I can change this. This is my dream. I concentrate and the classroom fades. It's now black all around me.

I think of my Fiancee, and she appears. I then conjure up my room. I ask Jess if she wants to fly. So we fly out my window. It's a beautiful day. I feel the breeze, see the fields below. It's beautiful. After a while I get bored and tell Jess I'm gonna go and I end the dream.

It was the first time in a long long time I took control of my dream. It was beautiful.

Mick

DREAMNONDREAMSCENEDESCRIPTIONLUCID

Eh, well, though this is a short LD, I broke my pattern of having only a lucid every other day. I had one this morning, meaning I had one just after having a few from the day before.

I am in a computer classroom. For some reason, I am laying on the floor in the classroom. Before I think everyone in the class was just sufin the web, but then I noticed that they were doing an assignment. Some boring, decently long assignment . So, I get up, and go near this random person in the chair, kind of in the middle of the classroom. I point out how it's only early July, and I still have 2 months of vacation. I become lucid! For some reason, the "teacher" is the principal from my other dream "permanent shoes"-my RL principal, in fact. I don't even know the guy, just what he looks like. Anyway, I am in this other part to the room that is closed off to the room I was just in. I tell them all, something like "this is a dream"! Everyone acknoledged me with a "woo" or something. I do the same for the other part to the classroom I was just in. I told the principal that I wouldn't be doing the assignment! I go out of the classroom.

Now, I notice that I am right near a staircase, I think like on the third floor. This school was more like my middle school then my high school, it is built up, and the high school is built out. So, the middle school has more floors. JI then ask myself what I want to do, and I want to teleport to the same place that I did when I first saw "sunglasses dude". I think I ask a DC where a mirror is...I don't remember seeing her...but then I see TWO PERFECT mirrors on the floor below me. I go down the stairs, and I start to go into the mirror closest to me. It was a big mirror, kinda like a closet mirror, or something, with creases, and it was gold.

Well, I did get to the place...It didn't look QUITE right though. There were mirrors everywhere in the place I teleported to. Besides that, though, it looked to be the place that we first met. There was a big mirror, as far as I could see to my left, and right. One medium sized one in the center...I think I saw random DC's too. Same market-ish area... Sadly, I woke up. I saw the black of my eyelids. I lay there for a minute, not moving trying not to move, trying to DEILD. It didn't work .

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I awake on the same couch I fell asleep on and lay in silence as my roommate moves about. Someone whispers something into my ear, "You are dreaming." Naturally, I decide to plug my nose and perform a reality check. The voice wasn't lying, I am indeed dreaming! I stand up and make an attempt at spinning to solidify my presence. I stumble and wake up.

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11:00p-2:00a
I had originally planned to do a WBTB and take some Tylenol Ultra for a CWILD. I had deprived myself of caffeine since like... 1pm. I don't know if it was anticipation, or whether I was just going to have an insomniac night anyways, but I drifted in a light sleep during this time.

I remember a fragment of Raven Knight telling me my mum had said hi to her (as if this was Warcraft).

2:00a-6:00a
I got up for my WBTB. I stupidly took the Tylenol Ultra, not thinking that maybe if I was having a rough sleep, I should skip the caffeine jolt *Sigh*

I did have some interesting experiences though.

I nearly WILD'ed twice. I wasn't intending on it, but I mean... what is WILD, but mind awake, body asleep, right? I experienced some SP vibrations, which were oddly something I saw, rather than felt. Hard to describe, considering all I saw were the blacks of my eyelids.

The first time this happened, once they subsided I kind of just went, "Fuck, now what?" I wasn't feeling floaty, and I couldn't induce that feeling. Okay, so try to open my dream eyes. I opened my eyes. Unfortunately, I saw my sleep mask. Transition fail, again.

Second time, I felt the SP vibrations the normal way. I even felt kind of floaty-ish this time. But once again, transition fail. I do not know how the eff to complete a WILD.

After this, I had this lucid HI where I was sitting in an office. It was very unstable, visually. I tried to focus on the visuals. Danny (my DG) told me to STOP trying to force something visually as the first thing. He told me to close my eyes and sway back and forth. He said focus more on my dream body and less on my real one. My problem is I focus too much on my real body, so I remain anchored. So, once I've got my focus on my dream body and I'm not aware of my physical one anymore, then I can open my eyes. This was working, but it kept flipping in and out (possibly due to the caffeine). I finally got a visual where Danny handed me a small orange pill and a glass of water. I swallowed it and said, "It reminds me of cat food."

"Cat food?!" Danny asks, sounding thoroughly confused. I wake.

Throughout this time, one of the things I was doing to help me sleep was listening to a slow song. In hindsight, I'm wondering about the validity of that as an anchor when/if I WILD in the future. Does anyone else ever listen to music during a WILD? I mean, I knew when I was dosing off because when I came to again, I'd notice the song wasn't where it left off. But I also wonder... if I'm consciously transitioning into a dream, will I still hear the song? I wouldn't mind that, in fact, it MIGHT not be such a bad thing, so long as I can stay focused on the dream. Hmm...

I finally did pass out at around 5. I had a non-lucid where I was chatting with Garrett's mum on MSN, only she didn't know it was me. I was chatting through Garrett's account and was pretending to be him.

7/1/10

Woah, it's July first? That means I had my first lucid of the month! ^^

1- Holly the Hypnotic Vampire
I am a woman named Felicity, trapped in a room along with my friends by the evil vampire, Holly. We've been there for quite a while... We're starving to death, and so, so thirsty.

"I'm REALLY thirsty, Felicity. We gotta get outta here."

"I know, Frank, I know."

Suddenly something within him changes. He starts babbling about how he can feel the life energy flowing through him. Soon the others do the same. I seem to be the only one unaffected by this madness. Don't they realize the life energy isn't flowing through them? It's flowing out of them! They're becoming vampires!

I try to tell them to fight it, to resist what Holly has done to them, but she is fighting me every step of the way. She tells them that I am no longer worthy to be their leader, that they should listen to her, instead.

"Who should we believe?" Theresa asks, confused.

"The one you love the most," Holly answers in a hypnotic voice. "Who do you really love?"

Theresa considers this for a moment. "Holly," she answers.

"Holly," the others echo.

I give Theresa a dirty look. "Oh, and... uh, what is her name...? Felicity," she amends half-heartedly.

Ugh, she almost forgot my name. I think it's safe to say they're a lost cause.

"Are we always going to be this pale?" I ask Holly in annoyance. "I mean, can't vampires get a tan?" She ignores me.

2- Evil Sleep Mask
My dad's girlfriend has a cute pet rat named Jenny. She is sitting on her shoulder, and doing funny things to make us laugh. Hm, I need to play with my rats more often.

I "wake up" and find that I am alone. I wonder where everyone went... Oh, well, maybe I can play with Jenny. When I go over to the cage, I see that it is now the size of a cage at the zoo. As if that wasn't weird enough, there are all kinds of unusual animals within... Several of them look like giant, carnivorous sloths, and one looks like the mammal version of an alligator. All of the animals are trying to eat each other. There are a few small monkeys in the cage, too. They come up to the bars, quivering in fear, giving me a pleading look. "Aww, hey little guys! You're so cuuute!" This is obviously a dream. I RC and become lucid. Yay!

Time to look for Samael. I call out loudly, "Samael!!!!" My voice sounds cool; it echoes throughout the dream world. The thought of those monkeys distracts me for a moment... Maybe I could make on of them my familiar, since I'm looking for one. No, one thing at a time. I call out again. I have somehow arrived at a dark and abandoned country road.

Now my eyes are trying to close themselves. Ugh, it's the stupid sleep mask I'm wearing IRL. I take it off, which works for a few seconds before it reappears on my face. I can see through it, but it's making my eyes close... When they do I wake up.