lucid

1. This one was long and detailed, covering several days of dream-time, with some on-the-ground action, some movie-screen views of other characters, and even some back-story. It all took place in the little town in PA where I grew up. It started with the story of Altrip Jones, a man from my town who went out and made a fortune in the city, then came back and built this weird monument of a public building, with huge, white marble gargoyles jutting from the corners. It was some kind of culture/community center. So I saw this as if in a documentary, then I was back in my hometown, but a weirdly prosperous version where this guy had infused all this money into it.

2. I'm attending a funeral in my hometown, and it's a big family gathering, but it's a dream family, not my real family, and pretty much a dream-town, too. Mostly I'm interacting with two little brothers who have never met me before, because I've been away that long, and I"m working to protect my little uncle (real person) from professional assassins, including a 40-something Gene Hackman. These guys really like to rapel down buildings. I'm not resisting them violently, just tracking their movements and evading them.

3. At some point, I'm taking a walk with some dude I don't know, and he lights up a j. We turn a corner and here we are at a big, sandy beach (nothing like this in my real town). We pass it around and a few people join us, then security comes sniffing around, so I have to evade them and end up alone way down the beach. I start running back toward the crowd (now leaving--it's night-time, and they're closing down the beach), then realize it would be much faster to glide over the sand, then think "Well, why don't I just fly?" So I'm flying down the beach, and I stop and think, "Wait a sec, am I dreaming?" The dunes and everything look pretty real, but I do an RC (my first ever deliberate RC--thanks DV), which for me is kind of a karma-probe to see if objects around me have history and depth--dream objects are more transparent, have less presence than waking objects, even if visually identical. So anyway, I'm lucid, but everything stays pretty solid. I walk around and come to a pliant barrier where the beach just stops, but recalling some stuff from the forums, I try to dissolve or push through, and manage to get my hands through, like pushing through saran wrap. I didn't get to do much else before I woke up. Still, that's two LDs in a 10 days, after many months without any. Whoop!

I was snooze-alarming before work, so I noticed right away when I went from laying in my bed to being in a room full of people. I looked around at all the dream characters, and decided to talk to someone, so I went up to the cutest lady in the room (who else?). She was very friendly, and shortly things got down and dirty. My lucidity was spotty from there on, then I woke up rather happy.

The Blue ally: I was walking in an unfamiliar town. i met raven there (the kid who use to be my neighbor). We were walking and talking, and i don't know what were we talking about. I kept looking up and seeing this large blue object in the sky. It took over half the sky and was funnel shaped. I thought it might be a planet on a collision course with earth. But, The blue object shrunk and landed on the ground in front of me and raven. We both watched as the object morphed into a blue semi trailer. It started driving off. Me and Raven ran after it. It turned a corner. As we turned the corner the object stopped and then morphed into a sports car and turned another corner. As we turned the next corner, we say there was a path of destruction in it's trail: A 10ft high rubble mixture of trees houses and cars that went as far as the eye could see.

Dangerous road: me and my dad were driving on a road late at night leaving a campground that might have been burnt timber. he turned a sharp corner and said "whew, that was close... but it's not as dangerous as this next part." The road turned and went into an almost vertical angle. we plunged into darkness.

Moon: I was looking at a large moon like object in the sky. I knew I had seen it many times before, and that everytime it had came to destroy the planet. I knew i would lose conciousness soon, so i waited for it quietly

Girl: i have a vague impression i was talking to some girl. I can't remember more, though i feel i am missing something important.

breaking into lucidity: After i had woken up and jotted downt he first set of dreams I began drifting off. I entered a dream scene right away. I was looking at my feet! it was a change from hands. I was so excited i woke up. Then i concentrated more and saw my dream feet again!

Street walk: I was walking down a street and was lucid. I was too busy enjoying my walking, so i thought i would try the right way of walking in dreams. I curled my hands and fixed my gaze on the horizon. I just kept walking. I felt peacefull as the dream ended.

Epilepsy: I was in a room where H, the epilleptic man i lived with as a child, was eating a bowl of cereal. He started shaking violently and some guy grabbed him. I said "NO, he gets very violent after a seizure! leave him alone let him get through it" I watch as H tried to regain control of himself. But his body kept shaking and contorting. he was desperately trying to spoon the cereal into his mouth. He began splashing milk everywhere, it even projected from his mouth. I saw my mother standing at the other end of the table.

"you looked after him for years!" i yelled at her. "do something". But she gave me a snooty look and walked past me. I ran to the other end of the room to avoid getting splashed by the milk. but he began splashing it at me. I ran around and behind him and he then regained control of himself.

Basement: I was ina dream house. My mother was upstairs and i was up late watching "Zoolander" with my brother. My dad came downstairs and started watching it with us. "Strange" i thought. "normally my motehr would flip if he was here. We kept watching the movie. It was at the scene where zoolanders friends were throwing gas on eachother.

Raccoon boy: I was in some sort of mall or public building. I entered a room where a boy was standing. He has rough grey fur all over his body, and his face resembled something like a cross between and Ewok and a raccooon. As soon as he saw me, he seemed to recognise me. He playfully adopted a fighting stance. He had sharp claws and we began fighting. I blocked a few of his attacks, but his claws kept getting caught in my shirt sleeves. He then stopped and fled the room.

I chased after him and he was no longer a raccoon. He was a small puppy and he ran up to me. I picked up the puppy and cradled it. It was very affectionate and I put it down. A woman was the owner of the puppy and she said "he likes you so much why don't you keep him?" I said "naw he's yours i could never do that. The puppy ran into another room and i went to that room because that's where the exist was. He was in his raccoon form again with the same fighting posture. I sparred with him again. we exchanged a few blows. and i crouched into a left side horse with a right outside circle block. His claws got caught in my right sleeve and began tearing it to shreds. I stood up in my normal position and said "Hey, STOP! you just ripped my shirt. i have to fix this now."

He stopped swinging at me with his other arm and froze. He looked me in the eye. I could tell he was fighting his most natural instinct to fight me. he knew i was right. after a few seconds he looked down and away. I took a few seconds to unhook his sharp claws from my sleeve. and he ran off. the sleeve was wrapped around my hand tightly. I struggled for a moment to undo it. when i was finished i saw he had cut my hand. He had pulled some flesh out below my right thumb and it was bleeding like crazy. i also saw a yellow substance in the blood.

Fixing my hand: I was back at home. I got out of bed and my hand was still bleeding. I went out of my room. i saw my dad in the living room and my mother came out of her room asking for a smoke. I said "just wait a few minutes while i patch my hand up."

In the bathroom i looked at my hand. the flesh under my thumb was still gone and it looked like there were 3 black slits from where raccoon boy clawed me. "that little twerp" i thought. I ran cold water over my wound and the bleeding resumed. I looked on the bathroom counter and noticed bandaids stuck to the counter. I went to open the cover to see if i could find fresh ones but i just woke up.

movies: I was watching a dream as if it were a movie. In one scene there were a bunch of Indians and chinese people in a war. Tho other movie I forget what it was about. But i could shift between the two different movie scenes at will.

House: I was in my kitchen. It was very vivid. There was food and half rotten food all over the kitchen. I was hungry and trying to find something to eat. I reached in the cupboard and found a drumstick. I ate it and it was covered in all sorts of sauce. It was very sticky. There was someone else there. Maybe my mother.

Trapped: Me and a few others were trapped in some sort of dangerous warehouse. A few ravens may have been there. We were walknig around the big rooms trying to find a way out. At one point i saw someone leap up to a window. I knew if they tried the window they would die. the person went out and their body dissapeared in a flash. I heard a loud whirring sound and it seemed as if the persons energy body was being consumed by something. There was a woman beside me, may have been blue dreamer.

I started jumping really high to the ceiling trying to find out where one sound was coming from. When i got back down BD said a dead person or a spirit was trapped in a particular part of the ceiling. I leapt up again to see if i could hear it. and indeed i heard someone deep within the ceiling making some kind of noise. I got back down and said to BD "hey you got the inner ear!". she just kind of chuckled.

Highest Ridge: me and my dad were driving to work but through a wooded area. The scenery began to change. first it was hills and then we were driving through high mountain peaks. They looked very spectacular. We parked up on a high ridge. My dad said "ok we have to hike down to the job." i said "impossible! there's a sharp cliff in every direction."

Party At the warehouse: I was in a large warehouse where there was some DJ's. I went outside and it was daytime. A silvery haired man walked by and said hello as if he knew me. He invited me in and i said something like "My boss only gave me so much" he said "Yeah, i know how it is. a little money here and there, but never enough for everything." I said "yeah, I gotta eat first and foremost" He agreed and said it's important for one to always look after themselves.

I think another man walked by. but the thought of food made me hungry. A woman and a man were sitting nearby with some food. The woman said "we have a large cake we are trying to get rid of." i tried to say "maybe my mom might like that more the me" But the words came out wrong. Something wasn't right. why couldn't i speak. I yelled "hey, can you guys hear me?" twice. They both shook their heads and said no. I sat down with them and started eating a bag of chips.

later, I was inside the party sitting at a wooden table with some people i seemed to know from the Dreamviews forum. I think one may have been waking nomad. he seemed to joke around like him. He had brown hair and eyes. someone was with him who seemed to be his friend. He was teasing me about guitar playing. he said "You play great punk guitar". I said "I hate punk... why would I play punk guitar" we went back and forth like that for a while. I kept looking across the table and across from me was a beautiful woman with brown hair. she never spoke but always seemed to look at me whenever i looked at her. she never seemed annoyed and seemed to match my gaze. she had huge brown eyes and a child like face. but her eyes seemed much older. Her face was sometimes luminescent, as if she was trying to burn her image of her into my mind. Both her and waking nomad stuck out of the dream like a color character in a black and white film.

I looked at the wooden railings and recognised Slayer's handwritting. The words spoke of synchronicity. I said to Nomad "so, you and slayer are friends now huh." he said "that's right." Then he harrassed me more about about playing punk guitar.


Shamanic chatroom: I was in the chat a lonewolfs forum. GS was there. somehow he had hacked the chat and kept changing the color scheme. he kept laghing 'cause he made everything in chat look white. which made it impossible to see what i was typing.

Small lucid: I realised i was entering a dream. I was outside a large warehouse floating to ward it. I grabbed onto a white pipe. I forgot what i had wanted to do and the dream faded almost instantly

Dream 1: False awakening. I forgot I had gone to sleep and was outside with my brother haveing a smoke. We were both by the garage. My brother went away when i was distracted. so i peered around the corner and saw that he was taking a piss (it's still dark out at 6 AM.). after a minute he came back around the corner and went into the house.

I paced around the backyard like i usually do when i smoke. Something caught the corner of my eye. There was a dog in the yard directly across from the alleyway. He moved into the street light a bit and i saw he was a doberman. i thought " wait a sec. There is a dog across the alleyway but it's a house to the left and it isn't a Doberman!". For a second i knew i was dreaming. The dog seemed to pick up my realisation and it leapt at me. As it was leaping at me i pointed at it and said "haha, you can't hurt me 'cause you're not real". I watched him vanish into mist in mid air! (note: I just realised i pointed in dreaming for the first time without realising it, and the pointing revealed a phantom image.).

My slow rational mind thought " Well maybe the dog was just a hallucination, I'm not dreaming" What I should have been thinking was "dogs don't turn into mist when you point at them this really must be a dream!". But, Unfortunately I went through the rest of the dream this way.

I then walked along the alleyway and turned into the street. I noticed something catch my eye. I went to pick it up and it was a can of green beans. i thought "who would throw a perfectly good can of food out?". And on I walked. I turned to the street on the right and saw that i was downtown. I thought "this isn't supposed to happen, downtown is still two blocks away... where Am I?". As i kept walknig downtown I noticed a McDonalds. I knew that there wasn't and Mickey Dee's in didsbury, so I concluded i must be in the future or something.

I then went into a mini mall. Didsbury has no mini mall... I walked through one room and walked into a television news studio where people were preparing to start the news. i thought "Didsbury has no TV studio... where Am I?". I walked through the next door and came to another TV studio. I accidently knocked over a camera. No one was mad or seemed to notice. I walked through the semi circle of camera displays and noticed one guy in the directors chair was blocking my path. He then noticed me, smiled, and got up to clear the way. I thought " Why Am I being treated like royalty?".

After the camera display there was a group of tables where people were sitting. I recognised one of my friends from Didsbury. So i sat at the table and said to him "hey man, I just had the funniest dream! i was walking around in didsbury and it had a mcdonalds, and the thing is: There's no MdcDonalds in didsbury! wtf" The whole table laughed like it was funny. They were laughing at me 'cause i didn't realise i was still ni that dream!

Note: I'm going out no the town tonight. and if i see that guy i will tell him the dream! only maybe I'll finish with "... and then i sat down at a table with you just like this and told you the exact same dream!"

Dream 2: I was in a clinic of some sort. I don't know what i was there for. But i saw "B". My cousins recent ex girlfriend. She had shaved her head and in the dream she looked really un appealing. I was talking to some people, and she walked by, looked at me, and ignored me. I thought "i guess i'm no longer her friend now that she's no longer with my cousin"

Dream 3: I was on the DV forum reading a post by jeff777. As i read his post i could hear his voice saying the text in my head. He was saying something about the cusp!

Dream 1: I was in a city that was on a hill. I walked out of a house and I was on my way to see my old room mate Dan. But all I remember was going into another house and meeting his half brother Trevor. It was a long dream but i can't remember all the details.

Dream 2: I was in a chinese store and was looking around. I went to a desk and said something. But the one man started accusing me of being racist. I spent a few minutes explaining what i had said. and That i meant no harm. I apologised and kept on this way until the people in the store calmed down. I went to leave but a display of chinese swords caught my eye. I was thinking "Isn't it a chinese proverb that a customer is always right" (i have no idea if that's a chinese proverb lol, but it made sense in the dream). Anyway I looked at a wooden kendo like sword. It caught my eye and was only $40. i was pondering buying it.

dream 3: I was walking on a suburb street. I was on my way to meet a man with silvery hair and a round face (lonewolf?). I came by the house where he was supposed to live, but there was a couple of dogs at the house just before the one i was supposed to go to.. They noticed me and began to growl. one barred it's teeth so I crossed the street. I heard them growling behind me and dared not to look back. I came to the street corner and the meaner dog was in front of me. It leapt at me and bit right through my hand. It hurt so much that I yelled in pain. I Tried to yell "help me!" but my voice came out very weak and was barely heard by even me.

Sometime later i was walking down another street i was thinking "if only i had my own dog to protect me." I think this dream was saying i needed some sort of shield to meet the man.

Dream 4: I was in a corner store being run by East indian men. I remember the one man handing me my bag and i walked out. when I got out of the store i realised that i didn't have my bag with me. When i walked back in it was a different store and a different clerk. I saw my bag lying on the ground. "I'm dreaming!" i said to myself. I forgot my basic stabilization tasks like rubbing my hands and looking at them and other object systematically. But I remembered i was looking for C. I yelled out her name a few times, but as I was walking out the door, my vision went double and the dream vanished.

Dream 5: I was in that calgary house again, the one from my first dream. I was walking on a board over a stair case. but it was weak and fell. I narrowly escaped falling down. I then Told my dad we needed a proper plank over the stairwell.

Dream1: I was back in my old town of chilliwack b.c. I was standing at a plaza near my old elementary school. I was in front of one of the video stores looking across the street to the safeway. I noticed a large screen on the safe way nad concluded: This must be a dream. I stood stationary focusing on the images of the screen. I tried to will myself throught the screen. It seemed to grow larger and i could see images of war going on. It reminded me of some of the war video games that are coming out now. For some reason i couldn't enter the screen. So instead i tried to fly towards it. My body felt so real that it seemed impossible to fly. It tried to enlarge the screen to overtake me once more but to no avail. I remembered i should look at my hands. My hands rose to my face and i saw that they were mine. I began looking at other objects in my periphials in a systematic fashion to try and stabalise the dream. The dream seemed to speed up, cars passed by by so fast that i was getting lost in their movement. I went back to my hands as a starting point and tried the same system again. Everything seemed to stabalise but then suddenly faded out.

Dream2: I was on a planet like ship. I was in a large hangar with some people i seemed to know. Somebody ran up to our group and started yelling "WE have to evacuate, We're caught in a gravity well of a large comet and we're going to collide with it in four hours." I said "I think we should start packing all essentials and leave immideately, Tammy Help me get this boat down." I climbed a ladder of a large crate and someone on the other side helped me take the canoes from off the top of the crate. After unloading certain things and packing for a while. our group decided to split up and collect our personal items and collect family members for escape.

I decided my personal belongings weren't worht the effort so i went to look for people instead. I left the hanger and went on to the more populated portion of the ship. It was a huge glass dome with a city underneath it maintained by a false atmosphere. The town again resembled Chilliwack B.C. I walked along the streets towards downtown. I looked up into the night and saw a glowing red and orange object that seemed far off. I knew this was the oncomming comet. I enetered some sort of office building and began to look for someone. I recognised a design on the door. I knew it was the same symbol Solsky has in his sig here on DV. I went into his office and couldn't find him. So i ran out into the street. I ran into a woman who seemed to be looking for Solskye. So i ran along the streets looking in cars. people had stopped their cars in their tracks and some seemed to be asleep at the wheel.

I saw Solskye asleep in his car. i was going to wake him. but i looked up for a moment. The reddish object was now 4 times larger than i had seen in perviously and concluded that a couple of hours had already passed since i last looked. I ran back to the hangar but no one was there. i suddenly ran into the other people who were helping me move stuff, and i said "Well is it time to leave yet? we're all gonna die if we don't move out now." We began moving to an escape ship and the dream ended.

Dream1: Instant lucid. I was standing in a white place where all the DV members were sleeping. I saw one bed read: Amazeo xD. I suddenly remembered to look for R. I yelled out her name really loudly a couple of times.
suddenly I was in a black space. I hear R call me back in the darkness. I called her name again.

Her: It's too dark I can't find you.

me: just keep moving you'll run into me.

By this time i really had to pee so i decided to wake up.

Dream2: I was at a nightclub. I was walking towards the dancefloor and recognised a black girl i knew from highschool. But she had a beard. I walked right past her and onto the dancefloor.

"Arthur" I heard someone call out behind me. I thought "Oh no someone has mistaken me for my brother again". i couldn't see who was calling me so i went back up to the bar area. I hear my brothers name being called again.
I bought a cheese bread snack and sat down with jeff777 at a table. WE ate our food quietly. He got up and i got up shortly after. I don't remember what happened after that, but suddenly i was in a boxing ring with jeff.

WE were kung fu fighting for fun. The fight seemed to slow down and i could measure each counter to his moves. I blocked so many of his moves he just shrugged his shoulders and left.

Dream 3: I was a wolf walking on a dirt road. I came a cross a T in tersection. It was obvious I was on a mountain. At the T intersection a large farming fence. Behind the fence were cows. They started running because a Bull was vicously attacking them. They stopped in their tracks, so did the bull. I looked towards the other ends of the road and standing guard were these incredibly large horned bulls. I sensed there was gonna e a slaughter and I was caught in the middle of it. Just then I saw a pack of Wolves huddled together and ready to defend themselves. I felt safe as soon as I saw them So i cautiously walked up to them and joined them. I knelt my head and waited for the battle to start.

Dream4: I was on a busy street riding with people in a Car. I got out of the car and started riding a very large bike. The bike was so large that the scenery was small beneath me. It was hard to control and the brake handles were pushed in. I was dodging things carefully while pulling out each brake handle. When i succeeded i parked the bike in a ditch. And suddenly i was blocked somehow from all side of the ditch. i couldn't get out.

Dream5: A brief dream where Dan And Jesse from Ontario came to visit. They were staying At my house. I noticed they had resumes with them. I told them "wait... you're moving in and loking for a job?". They both giggled and said "Yes"

Short Lucids:

I was standing in my living room by the couch. I realised i was lucid. I looked at me hands and flipped them over a few times. I heard My dad and my brothers girlfriend talking. I kept worrying wether i was standing up in real life for some reason.

Everything went blank for a while. i noticed myself in my sleeping position then suddenly i was in my living room again staring at my hands. The scene faded but i was still in control of my dream body. I started going through The Openeing moves of the Tiger and Crane fighting set. I got p[assed a few moves and then woke up.

Anyway I had a Semi long LD.

I Tried to WILD at 4 am this morning. The alarm went off and for once i remembered i should WILD. I was too tired to browse any forum pages or read.

I layed back. closed my eyes and had my arms by my sides. I remembered something i should try from reading Claritiy's WILD tutorial. I went through the alphabet. Trying to Conjure and Image for each lletter. It was actually difficult. my mind wanted to sleep and i kept forgetting the letters in order.

I'd go: A - Apple, B - Banana, C - canada..... What's next? ummm A, B C??? D!!. that's it!!! Dinosaur! Elephant. finger, Granola, Hypopotamous.....
wait.. what's next? abcdefgh I!!!! Ignorant. etc.

I went through the alphabet a few times when i noticed my arms were going numb. I relaxed more and waited for HI. Nothing came. but a few energy looking thingies. i tried not to focus too hard and let the images float by. Sometimes i would see a face or a landscape. But generally No dice.

I focused on the sensation of my arms and relaxed more. It felt like a heavy blanket was being pressed down on me. My right arm slowly began to rise on it's on volition. I'm thinking "fuck! Arm catalepsy is a deep hypnosis phenomena, not for Lucid dreaming" But i took it as a sign anyway. My right arm continued to lift on it's own and then rested by my head. A few minutes later my left arm repeated the same movement.

I suddenly got a bit of feeling back in my hands. The very tips of all my fingers had an itch sensation. this went on for what seemed like eons. I finally gave in and scratched the hell out of myself. i spent a few minutes scratching all over and then turned over. I no longer felt itchy. i thought i would try to WILD again in this position.

I was suddenly aware of a dream being formed. I couldn't see anything. But i felt like i was in two places at once! I could either be in my bed asleep. or in this supposed dream. I sensed my dream hands in front of me. So i acted "As if" i were in a lucid dream and looked at them. i flipped my dream hands over a few times. I also tried gazing at other objects i couldn't see. The dream began to take over. but i noticed someone else was in the dream. I couldn't see but i sensed him somehow. I felt it was "Raven" my next door neighbor. So i yelled to him. "RAVEN! this is a dream, Just look at your hands"

The dream took over completly. I was in a room with a few of my family members. I forgot it was a dream and i was interacting with everyone. There was music playing. I listened for a while and i recognised my favorite metal band "Wuthering Heights". I thought it was strange. My family hates my music.

I Saw a shadow like vortex apear in the room and someone was trying to come through it. It was Raven. I tried to pull him into the dream but he was having trouble. I was gonna get the other dream characters to help. but i forgot about Raven as soon as I turned around.

"It's morning isn't it?" I thought. I immideately went to breakfast. I noticed the music playing still. I questioned again wether it was a dream. I looked at my hands. They were my hands. Not deformed like in a dream. I felt the table and it was a real table. The music i heard was real. It was the song "Longing for the woods PT.2" It was in the middle of the lyric " I am A wanderer I've seen many a Shore.."

My gut instinct still insisted it was a dream. "What to do what do to what do...." It occured to me i should try the lucid Task of the month. But darnit! I forgot what the task was. then i thought " I know i should go to DV in this very dream and find out. even if it's the wrong dreamviews task. i should read what it says and try it!" that thought startled me because ir ealised i was thinking and behaving exactly like i do in normal life. In fact the feeling was exactly like the times i had Taken LSD or ingested Mushrooms.

I quickly ran down stairs and went into my room. It looked like my room. I grabbed my keyboard and looked at the screen. The webpage wanted me to sign in. i vaguely sensed it was strange since i have my cookies et to "Awlays logged in". When the page came it wasn't DV. The screen was blurry but focused. I was suddenly reading a Batman comic on the internet?

I Typed in the Dreamviews webpage but i couldn't get my keyboard to work. I started getting popups on the screen of other comic books. I was losing control and forgetting all over again. The Dream became very nonsensical and i felt as if i was merging with my computer screen. When i was consumed i woke up!

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5/21/10 - Theatre
Dream Non-dream Lucid

I was with my friends Hannah and Mary and some huge, expensive-looking theatre. We were waiting in the entrance hall, which was bigger than my house, and from what I could see the entire building was constructed of marble. There was a huge crowd of people waiting with us for a colossal set of doors to open, so that we may be seated for the upcoming performance. Somehow I was lucid. I turned to Mary and informed her of this. "I know that already," she told me. "We planned to meet here, remember?"

Mary and I made numerous reality checks while Hannah just stood around. I really wanted to go off and explore, but I decided to wait with my friends since they'd bothered to meet me in the dream.

Sadly, I woke up before anything interesting could happen.

I should've realized that Mary and Hannah were DC's and gone exploring like I'd wanted.

I was having a pretty bad dream, where I got sent to jail for 7 years for doing something (I can't remember what). I was really sad and scared that I was going to be going to jail. I mean, I can still remember that sinking feeling I got, that such a large percentage of my life was going to waste.
In the dream I was so upset that I was like "I hope this is a dream". So I did the hand-checking thing and they were morphing so it WAS a dream ^_^
So I suddenly realised I was dreaming and became lucid, but not for long. Also, it seemed to be only half-lucid.

Again like last time, I made the decision to fly to Sweden (lol this was only a half-conscious decision, half of it seemed to be an uncontrollable, automatic thought. like it's automatically the first thing i think of doing xP), and i flew around a bit (weeee!) but for some reason i couldn't get anywhere. Then I couldn't think of anything to do, and because of this I was slipping out of lucidity too. So then I started dreaming again.

Actually written on 2-17-2014

Forget the pictures. We have Opheila to thank for that.

Anyways, I'm having some dream about sneaking into some base and stealing something. I don't recall much of the dream up until the part where I escaped the base.
I am on this beach area that becomes a desert. There are mountains in the distance. Lia is there and she is what prompts me to reality check. I become lucid. She seems distressed; we're in a rush to get out of here. I see something flying toward us in the distance and hear a thumping sound, like something is walking.
So Jonathan, my dream nemesis comes down on this hovering platform device and deploys all these combat robots.
Now if I were faced with this setup today, I'd probably reduce this small army to a pile of scrap metal relatively quickly. But this was only my 15th or 16th induced lucid dream. And most of my lucid dreams before that had been Layer 1's where I had immediately woken up upon becoming lucid. So I had little practice.
I look over my shoulder. Manei says one word to me.
"Run."
What?! Why are we running?! I'm lucid. We can kick some robot butt! It's just a couple of combat robots! This would have been the coolest dream ever... ugh forget it.

Well we're off and running. Now I don't know if it's like a dream guide thing or something, but should she be able to run at like fifty miles per hour? I can't keep up with her. I didn't know terraskating yet, so I just stuck to my measly sprinting speed.
Afterwards, we end up arriving in this small town about two miles from the base. The dream begins to take more of a positive spin at this point. Lucky for us, you can't get tired from running in a dream. We went into a fenced off pool and I learned how to breathe underwater in a dream. I simply figured that in a dream, if you can breathe through your pinched nose because your nose isn't actually pinched. So you can breathe underwater because you aren't actually underwater.
I got some good manifesting practice in. And met the dream character that I would eventually identify as Marcus. I woke up not long after.

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