lucid

This is still really fresh in my mind; it happened to me this morning at around 7:30AM. As I'm writing this I will explain my current states throughout the experience. A little back story, this was a WBTB kind of thing. I woke up this morning to make my wife coffee and breakfast, and after she left I went back to sleep focusing on lucid dreaming. I also had a really great success with a LD too! That's not why I'm posting here though.

(asleep and just exiting a lucid dream) I had a false awakening I think. I opened my eyes (still in dream) and I could not move my body really, and I didn't really want to because I wasn't ready to wake up if I was actually in my real body. A figure appeared at the door and I knew it was my wife. She said, "Hey baby," and then walked over to the foot of the bed. She seemed just out of my field of vision because I could not really see her the whole time. I knew a figure was there at the foot of the bed sitting down. I felt my feet move when she sat down, and she was putting on socks or something I presume. I was very lucid this whole time and I didn't think she was real, because how could she be? She had gone to work, and I know because of the nature of her job she wouldn't be back. I was in the same sleep position as I was in real life, and my real body almost felt like a shell. I tried rolling around on my bed in my dream and my orientation would change, but I still had an awareness that my body was still in the same position. (In real life I was laying on my side similar to fetal position.)

Meanwhile this whole experience was kind of scary because I couldn't move and there was an entity (whom my mind made out to be my wife) and I couldn't do anything about it. Moving felt like drifting through thick water, but being slowly reeled back to my real body position. I would move fluidly and smoothly, but then become aware that I hadn't moved at all. It was really interesting in the moment. I accepted the fact that I was in sleep paralysis and couldn't make anything else happen. I just calmed myself and waited for it to be over. My room looked exactly how it does in real life (minus the blurriness).

Once that FA/SP was over, Everything went black and I had a lucid experience while in NREM. Certain shapes would pop in and out. Also I remember hearing some voices, but not being able to remember what they were talking about. Then I had a REALLY VAGUE looking dreamlike experience. Picture it like a smooth fade in from a movie. Natural light and color of outside. Everything was blurry but I knew where I was and certain symbols drifted in and out. I also remember it being very colorful, and I was moving in some kind of truck on the passenger side. I was looking out the window, but again it was very vague and almost like I had my eyes fixed. I wasn't able to look around. Just had to watch passively as things came in and out. One symbol in particular was a block with a rectangular shaped hole through it. It just passed by me, and everything was really relaxing.

After all of that, the imagery faded out very peacefully and I opened my eyes in real life. I wrote everything down after trying to retain all of that.

Trying to get back into a more regular pattern of writing down my dreams again. I found that is the best way to remember them and have nights with a lot of lucid dreaming.

In a house with wood paneling, kind of old, but mansion like. I am being told that I have to leave, but when I go back to get out, the rooms have changed. I realize that I am dreaming and try sneaking around the house to get where the people in charge are trying to keep me from. For some reason I think that I have left a room that had something more interesting. I walk into a room finally that is larger and there are a bunch of people working at desks. Dream starts to fade, probably some light sleep paralysis.

At the edge of a swamp and I see a dark figure (typical dream sign of mine) on the other side. I realize I am dreaming and try to fly over to confront it, but the dream starts to fall apart as I am heading towards it and I end up conscious in darkness for a bit, but have body sensations.

I am walking with some people down a road and nose check and realize I am dreaming. There is a fuzzyness that I want to get rid of so I scream "vivid" a couple of times which seems to help for awhile. The others are looking at me weird until I tell them "it's cool, I am dreaming". I don't really remember much after that.

I have five fingers, but something isn't quite right. I look at my watch and I can make no sense of it! I look out of the dark retreat and see the moon shining brightly. I remember the Task of The Month and try to turn it blue. At first takes on a purple tint, but eventually it turns a stunning iridescent blue. I fly out the window.

This dream was pretty freaky. I was in the air trying to help a girl keep a tree up but than a dark shadow came out of the tree and disturbed our balance. I didn't want to let go cause the girl would fall but than she told me it would be ok and to just let go...so I did. She fell onto the ground and eventually I did too. Hitting my head and losing an arm. I could see the other girl lose an arm too and thats when I noticed we were now in chibi form. I woke up after that.

The Blue Beetle


After waiting in the car for someone I somehow ended up walking into my old yard. It was more wide and spacious with odd objects on the ground though. As I was exploring I came across a slender orange/brown colored wolf that began growling at me. I tried hovering above the ground while going in the house but the wolf made all sorts of high leaps to get at me. I figured that bouncing from wall to wall in an attempt to hover at a higher height wouldn't work so I pushed the wolf down hard with my feet than grabbed its mouth to keep it closed. Slowly it began to morph into a black dog that reminded me of my dog max. I let it go than flew away ignoring the wolf and paying attention to the scenery. I was now in a city where a puppy was born and given to me. I pet the cute pup than the scene shifted.
A Japanese guy who I thought was nigahiga but wasn't was visiting us for a special fan meeting. As he was talking with his friend and I, I spotted a roach crawling on the ground."Someone kill it"I said. My brother came and attempted to kill it but the roach flew onto a curtain hanging on a door that I was next too. I tried to hit it and as it slowly fell down....in slow motion...I noticed it was a beautifully colored blue beetle with gems on it. It than changed to a butterfly with a gem and hung on the curtain again but it looked somewhat hurt now. "Sorry...you are beautiful but if I let you live you'll take over the house"I thought. Woke up afterwards

I feel like I dreamt for 20 hours last night.

I'll skip past all that right to the lucid bit.

I was at a super fancy restaurant where two famous actresses were about to eat. I sat myself and some friend with me right at their spot. They joined us, and slowly the table began to fill with all my friends and they were gone. I was talking to them when this weird purple filter came over my vision. I turned to talk to vic next to me, but when he responded our bodies didn't move, it was a conversation between our souls. I was astral projecting within a dream. I freaked out and snapped back in my body and explained to my friends what was possible, still thinking I was in reality. The restaurant had an open wall to the sidewalk, so I walked out to the road and lay down, wanting to show them a car drive right through me. However, I wasn't sure if I was projecting or in my real body so I chickened out and lay next to where the cars drove. This was a hyperrealistic moment, when an SUV passed me and all my survival instincts kicked in, I was hyper present for that moment and it felt like reality.

I went back to the table, and I guess I realized I was dreaming because I just assumed control. I changed the restaurant into a private jet by snapping my fingers. There were still some tables of people left over that were right in the aisle when I made the change, so I just shoved them out and dissapeared them as well. Now it was just my friends and me on the plane, and a weird gangster in the back. He looked like a young 50 cent and tried to make a sexual advance on me, then told me he would kill me. right in front of everyone.

"There are always guys like this in my dreams. I guess it's the part of my brain that I can't turn off that makes me think every girl in real life is hitting on me." Good self-diagnosis sleep-me. I send that character to the front of the plane and curse him to stay in that position.

We have a long chat on the plane when I suddenly get a text from this girl that I've been holding out on IRL, and my control snapped away. She started sending me pics of her in an orgy, covered in lovers, to get back at me for not replying to her texts and make me jealous. I felt such a weird betrayal , she just kept sending these pics one after another. Then my alarm went off.

I have a date with this girl today and my dreams have left me with some fucked images of her.... life is so strange.

I awoke in my bed and the sky outside was dark in shades of blue and red. There was a thunderstorm going on outside and streams of water were coming in through the two open windows and hitting the carpet and my bed, so I got up to close the windows.

I awoke again in my bed. The sky outside was now light and the weather was calm. This is how it was supposed to be. This is how it already was when I woke (for real) earlier. How could I have missed the signs? (I'm not sure if I woke for real or just dreamed this part)

Just as I was about to fall asleep again, I opened my eyes and saw the familiar dark blue and red sky. The weather was calm this time, but I knew the morning sun was already up in real life, so this had to be a dream.

I got up. My brother and three friends were staying with me (note: this wasn't actually happening in real life, but I believed it in the dream). The layout of my apartment was different to real life; there were a couple of extra bathrooms and the spare bedrooms were in different places.

I opened the door to the room where my friends were sleeping and shouted for them to wake up to have the opportunity to experience the lucid dream. They seemed very realistically annoyed at being woken up so early and I began to question whether I was really dreaming, as it seemed to be based on my assumption more than any actual evidence.

So I got up and went to the living room, and my friends got up to see what was going on. I jumped and did a backflip, then suspended myself upside down in mid-air just to prove to myself that I was dreaming. One of my friends was watching; it seemed to take him a moment to acknowledge this as unusual, but once he did, he became excited about being inside a dream.

Shortly after this, I woke up for real.

I was waiting in the car for my older sister but as I was waiting the car began moving slowly down the slightly curved road."Am I pushing the car down with my weight? "I thought than called to my sister to open the door. Once I got out I noticed a group of boys, some my brother's friends, sitting on a front porch of a blue house. One of the boys walked up to me ,took my hand and showed me to the inside of a house where my younger brother, looking younger than he is now, was drawing pictures of unicorns and assorting the papers according to their date on the wall. He claimed it would help him with his brony problem. Although he doesn't care for them in WL.

I took his hand and walked him out of the room to help him by getting some fresh air but we suddenly appeared on an outside stage. The wind there blew hard, so hard that my skirt went flying all the way up, along with my panties. As I tried pulling them down I had a false memory that when I was younger I had left a yellow parakeet in a box and forgotten about it...leading to its probable death. A group of small birds than flew by singing as if to comfort me but I still felt guilty and that I needed to find that bird.

However, my goal was immediately interrupted by more gusts of winds and I was pushed off stage and onto the crowd where I fell in btw the seats.I could hear a older man mutter something as I tried to push myself up but the wind just kept blowing. The scene shifted after that though and I was in my old house asking my father about the bird. He told me to forget about it since it was years ago but I wanted to right my wrong. I had to stop though when my grandma asked if I could help her with something in the kitchen. I ran behind her than watched as she lit a match and put a burst of flame on the stove, suddenly creating a loaf of bread."Woah, thats some skill"I thought than left thinking that she was good now.

When I went back down the stairs A Small Yellow/Blue Bird appeared half way onto a step."Am I hallucinating? Is this because Im so worried about the bird. I know its been so long...since this is making my mind a mess I should let it go....but...lets see if I can feel it"I said to myself than pushed the bird. I felt it wobble than it hopped out while more and more birds began appearing. "I wonder if they can form a trail to my old bird...no! That's stupid. I need this to stop". I than looked away and was about to go upstairs but woke up. Thankfully knowing that I had never lost any bird. But I did put my old dead white bird in a box when I was young and left it in a old dresser in the yard. That could probably be where some of the false memory came from.I did have a yellow bird I gave to my old best friend though.

Eye Again

I was in my living room and heard someone knocking on the door. "Who is it?"I asked but no one answered. I wasn't expecting anyone either so I didnt open the door.

Next thing I recall is I was helping a woman bring all her birds into their cage but when I checked inside a pillow case I found a baby bird doll with high heels.she took it away from me embarrassed than her mom showed her face in the window causing her to jump up. I questioned why she felt so embarrassed by it but as she was telling me why the scene began to change to a beach. I was now semi lucid thinking about how the scene reminded me of a familiar dream but as I saw a manta ray pass by and a shark I became a bit scared. Out of no where the woman from before pushes me into the water and begins to paddle me around. "Get me out of here!"I shouted as I dodged the shark and tried to use dream control to make her push me out in the right direction. It took a while but I eventually got out and the scene changed to my old house where I began calling Eye and looked in a mirror to see lemon juice coming out of my mouth.

I wiped my mouth than took a phone with the intent of calling Eye/Dawn but Eye walked through the front door with someone else, a guy taller and heavier than him. "I told Dawn to stop making me look bad. What is it?"he asks me than watches as his friend goes up stairs to another apartment.I sit on the step with him and hug him but I start to see frosted/Strawberry wheat cereal forming next to him and have the urge to eat the cereal but I stop myself and see his friend coming down the steps. I now move away from Eye who is about to leave and go upstairs to see if I could find something or if he will run after me but after looking out the window than peeking down the stairs I see them still waiting at the door and looking at me. I walk back down and say goodbye after Eye says bye to me than watch them exit. I walk back to my old house living room after that but the scene shifts and I end up in a weird area where a group of characters are competing.

Once the announcer announces the start of the competition I try to catch a teddy bear that everyone is trying to catch. I quickly felt like letting the others win though. It turned out that a girl tan teddy bear with a ribbon ended up catching it. Apparently because they knew each other. I than walk away and see my mom who shows me a book with drawings of people and words that she says is connected to my past. I tell her I don't want to read it and walk away. I end up in a weird tunnel though where a group of soldiers wearing armor try to catch me. I watch as my appearance changes into fighting form than hear background music and singing. I sing along while pretending to fight the soldiers in a hard core manner. The lyrics were something like...

"Fighting for what's right"
Something "Will unite"
blah, blah, blah "Ideals"
and something about pwning the soldiers xD

But one manages to jump on me from behind. I feel like its a choke hold and reach for a weapon that turns out to be eyeliner pencil. I try to use it to stab the dc hand but after the scene changes a bit and becomes crowded with people,the person behind me let go but his appearance changed to a boy. I than turned to watch as a short violet hair anime girl tells an old man about moon flowers she use to plant on her flying carpet.



Note: When I'm recalling the dream I write it in past tense and in present tense. I know others do it too but sometimes I wonder if its a wierd combination or normal.

10:13am-1:18pm
D: I was riding on a horse with and with my two other men already ahead, we tried to overtake a stagecoach that had one man inside and one man steering the horses. My two men jumped on the stagecoach and focused on steering it as I jumped through the door window and into the passenger seats inside. The man in there attempted to draw his sword but failed as I latched onto him and bit into his neck. Note, that this was being done in the daylight on a little forested but well paved road. -skip- In a mirror I look at my appearance, I wear a regal dress and seem to have just a bit of makeup on or atleast blush. I open my mouth and admire my teeth, then feel a tingling pain as my vampire fangs stretch out. Giving myself a grin, I walk through the door to the left of the mirror and enter a room of dancing. People in all sorts of noble attire are dancing in pairs, a waltz of some sort it seems and they are split to leave a path straight to my throne in the middle. I walk down the middle and pay them no mind as I relax in my throne. But before I can make up my mind what to do, the man I fed on earlier in the stagecoach rushes in with his sword at the ready and seems intent on a fight. This amuses my slightly but I have no intention of vacating my luxurious seating. End.

FA: Woke up in my current bed, went downstairs and just decided to do a reality check...because why not? Realised I was lucid dreaming and went around touching and looking at stuff to increase my vividness and it did work. Then I remembered before bed I told myself I'd try to make Rosewood Darkgarden again, I wasn't sure if I wanted to just open the door myself and try or what. So I asked my brother to help me get to the place and it worked. Except the design was off, the atmosphere was there but it looked like a pool instead of a secret garden floating in the water. End.

I had a dream and it still vivid to me today. The dream started when about the 1800s and I was talking to a man I have never met before and I started coughing so I looked at my hand and I saw spit but he saw blood and freaked out. He led me up a hill to a black community and called to a John. John told me to lie down and he put ice on my nose and chest. It stopped my coughing but not the blood it still flowed. I have no idea of what it means and it's kind of bothering me.

Early evening of July 27, 2017. Thursday.

Dream #: 8,483-07. Reading time: 1 min 10 sec.



Precursory (vestibular): I enter my dream self’s imaginary physical body and find myself running. I am Grant Williams as Scott Carey in the 1957 movie “The Incredible Shrinking Man.” I am running over the top of a series of cardboard boxes on about the fourth shelf up of a metal utility shelving unit. I am about four inches tall. I do not seem to be running because of a threat, just running along. (“On the shelf” is autosymbolism that is analogous to being in bed. The closed boxes represent the inability to move my body while sleeping, yet I am running on them as I still subliminally perceive my muscularity.)

Virtual witness integration: Zsuzsanna, appearing somewhat like a 1950s actress, is running behind me, though to my left. There is a heightened sense of energy. (This short dream occurred at about 5:30 pm AEST during a nap. Zsuzsanna was in bed with me at the time. She was to my left because she was to my left in bed, and behind me, because I was closer to waking as liminally perceived by my dream self.)

The drop: Soon, I see the scene from an incorporeal viewpoint from the front of the shelving unit. “We” are running from left to right. Grant Williams as Scott Carey as “me,” running at an angle, runs straight off the cardboard box from off the front of the shelf and falls to the floor onto his right side and kicks. Simultaneously, I experience a mild hypnopompic kick and upper back spasm as I realize the residual imagery reflects my sleeping position. (I am looking down at my body.)

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This July 27, 2017 dream is a fictitious scene from “The Incredible Shrinking Man.” Grant Williams died on July 28, 1985.

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I was trying to pick out a shirt but couldn't find the right one. As I kept looking my dad began rushing me and telling me that my younger brother would pass his exams and I would be left behind. His comparison angered me so I just put on a green stripped shirt and left the room.

Afterwards the scenery feels kind of distorted and JadeGreen pops up into my dream along with Manei. I become semi lucid than and watch as Manei leads me and Jade around a wooden cabin where a big grumpy woman is inside warning us to stay away from her property. Jade and I separate after I spot a mini golf course in the woman's yard and I fly to it, hoping to have some fun but I end up being chased away from it and find myself in front of the cabin. The scene changes to a dessert town now where cartoon characters keep appearing out of no where.

I than see Manei exit the cabin following what seems like her parents. As she is following them I have the urge to go with them but than someone, probably my mom asks me why I made that decision. I say because I don't want to leave her on her own cause she could need my help. Last thing I recall is a scene unfolding of college kids at a campus who are upset at their teacher for canceling the class without telling them a thing and a interview of two students on the bed about what they thought about the consuitary program at their college campus. They mentioned my school and said they thought it was bad.

*XD Consuitary isn't a word but that's what I heard.

Castle In The Sky

I was walking around what seemed like a office maze with little girls guiding me. One of them than pointed to a cardboard cut out of a Jonas brother they called Jonah and said he needed help.I became aware it was a dream than and thought maybe the girl said that because Chester from linkin park committed suicide. They than pushed me into another area where I found a journal with words in it. I couldn't put them together though.

I appeared in my old room thinking I had woken up from a nap after that and left to find my older brother next to my father who was fixing something on the floor of the living room."Can I borrow your headphones?"my brother asked but I said I couldn't let him cause I was going to use it. So he wouldn't ask again I went back to my room and saw my younger brother. He was telling me something I can't remember but as I was listening, I looked to the blanket, jumped on the bed, than looked out the window to the yard that had a beautiful bright field."Am I dreaming?".I than got closer to the rectangular window and put my feet out on the roof of the shed that was near the window. "I don't know why dont you find out"my younger brother said. "If I put my feet out on the roof and fall down I might die. If I jump out and try to fly around I might end up falling to my death too. I dont want to make a dumb mistake that ends up killing me but If this is a dream..."I than got close to another window and leaned out of it touching another roof top.. "Im gonna jump than since your not really stopping me." I said than got out more. The roof top I was leaning on collapsed though and I began falling after I spotted a sink under what I was leaning on. "Hellllp meeee!"I shouted.

Eye than appeared and flew me up but it looked like we were inside another house. I thanked him than looked around to see I was in a dim lit bedroom where a faded figure tried to enter Eye. "Weird"I said than walked away to find myself in my old house again where my older brother and father were still together. "Im going outside"I told them than left the house to find that the sky was kind of pink. I got the feeling it was going to become sunset because of it.

Tossing away the thought of the sky, I walked on the sidewalk and began to sing a song that would summon Dawn. However, as I turned the corner the streets became crowded with cars, bus and people. I shouted for assistance to get over the crowd and felt a girl run behind me but my attention was brought to the sky again. The sky was painted purple with gray clouds,and lightning. There was also a grey/red castle floating in it. "That must be our destination"I thought than asked the girl if she could carry me there. She said yes and began to lift me up as she barely hopped over a white car. "Sorry, it feels like I dont have control"I said. "You can do it. Give it another try"she responded. I than thought about us having no obstacles such as gravity and she leaped over a yellow bus with me and into the sky where we made it to the castle. Her form than changed into Dawn and I took notice of some older women/people. The castle only looked slightly like a castle on the inside and more like a ordinary home/waiting room.

One of the women who had a straight forward personality there handed me a Blue Folder Filled With Index Cards and told me to read on dream images. As I sat on the couch and looked inside I saw that there were different information on separate sections of the folder. Dream images was interesting but I was more interested on dream guides. I than pulled out an index card that had a list of words that were key words to understanding what a person thought of their guide.Such as like, know, love and hate.I didn't read the rest of the list though cause I began to look at a index card about dream images. There were different kinds of blue fishes on the card I was looking at. Since there was no words but images I assumed it meant that although the fishes looked the same there were parts that made a fish unique. Like the size or teeth of the piranha. I than closed the folder and got up and asked another woman who was slimmer "how do you know when your about to wake up?". She than looked at me with a slightly exaggerated face and said "what do you mean? You've been in the spirit world for too long?Oh no, quick. Try and see if you can wake yourself up before its too late". I shook my head and said "no" but than the other woman who was kind of chubby approached me and said I should probably go. I than looked to Dawn and grabbed him when he was about to move away. "Ill go after Dawn hugs me but than I said "just kidding. I dont want his hug". They than looked at me surprised and asked why. I said because he wasn't really Dawn to insult him than tried waking up.

I was now non lucid watching a movie of college kids trying to figure out what to do to fix a situation. As I watched them I poured cinnamon onto a cake with already cinnamon hidden in between and was eating it happily.
Until I woke up and realized I had no cake.

Part 1: "The Gnome Village of Neptune" (non-lucid)

Thousands of years in the future, I was aboard a space station being given a tour of the facility by one of the high ranking crew members. The station was spacious and the walls were brightly lit in clean shades of sky blue and white; gravity was normal. The crew member was showing me a room in which they verified the AI systems of the self-aware robots to ensure that they wouldn't explode or otherwise pose any danger to the space station and its crew.

After concluding the tour, we returned to the main hallway. I was to be sent on a mission to Neptune for a week to gather research data. The crew member pressed a glowing green button to call the elevator, and I saw two other glowing buttons; a red button and bright yellow button. I recognised the yellow button; it was a bomb that someone had accidentally left attached to the wall. I pointed this out and advised that the bomb should be removed, as it seemed likely that someone would accidentally hit the bomb button by accident when trying to call the elevator, but the crew member seemed unconcerned by this.

At the top of the elevator, I entered the pod that would take me to Neptune and departed on my own. I contemplated a boring week sitting on an uninhabited rock gathering data, but my expectations were wildly subverted.

Leaving the pod on arrival at Neptune, I found myself in some kind of fantastic gnome village that looked like a scene from Alice in Wonderland. Beautiful golden sunlight pierced dense trees casting odd spots of light over the dim village. I was a giant compared to the village and could easily step over the houses, hills and paths. As I walked through the village, I turned to look at what I had passed and felt compelled to take a photo of such a rare and beautiful scene, but was disappointed that I had forgot to bring my camera, so I decided to use my phone instead.

As I left the village and emerged through the trees into the daylight, I became aware that I was in some kind of theme park; the gnome village was simply a model village in the park. There was no-one to be seen and the park seemed to be closed. A concrete path lead to a junction that split off to the left. There were shops and fast food outlets to my right. I heard a roar that sounded like a lion down the path to my left and was fearful that the animal may not be contained since no-one seemed to be attending to the park, so I decided to continue straight on away from the sound.

I suddenly felt hungry and decided to try one of the fast food outlets. The outlet was bare with the appearance of a dirty diner. There was a table at the end with two different hamburgers on it. Customers were supposed to choose a hamburger, then take it to the counter to get fries, a drink and pay the bill. A customer in front of me took one of the burgers, but neither of the two burgers looked very appetising, so I declined to take the last one. This was followed by a false awakening.



Part 2: "Angel Hand" (lucid)

I awoke in my room to uncomfortable feelings of waves that seemed to pulsate through my head. Peering through the darkness to my right, I thought I could see the distinctive pattern of my wallpaper, but was unsure if was an hallucination caused by the strange pulsating sensation. I reached out for my tablet out of concern that may have lost it after recently taking it somewhere, but immediately recognised the feel of the screen and confirmed it was still there.

Feeling off due to the pulsating waves, I began to suspect that I may still be dreaming, so I jumped out of bed to check. As I walked naked down the hallway, the motion sensor failed to trigger the light. This was my first sign. I flicked the light switch in the hallway several times to verify I hadn't accidentally cut power to the hallway light, but still go no response. Strike two. Continuing through the living room and into the kitchen, I pressed the button for the bright cool white preset. The kitchen lights came on, but instead of the bright cool white I had expected, the bulbs were a dim warm incandescent tone and were producing a strobe-like flickering effect. I was definitely dreaming!

Note: my kitchen lights can produce a dim warm tone in real life, but none of the kitchen buttons are configured to do this, and the strobe effect definitely wasn't normal).

Returning through the living room and hallway, I decided to go outside in search of others. Since I have better things to do when dreaming than dress myself, I left my apartment unconcerned by the fact that I was still completely naked, and walked along the balcony to the door of the next apartment. The dark of night made it difficult to see, but I immediately spotted a group sitting around a table through the clear glass of the door in a well lit lounge.

As I knocked on the door, I realised that the door was already unlocked and open, so I just entered. There were several people lounging around; they seemed to be a little bit younger than me; perhaps late 20's, and I didn't recognise any of them. They seemed shocked to see me entering their apartment naked. Their reaction caused me to hesitate for a moment: "What if I wasn't dreaming and I really had just walked into my neighbours apartment naked?". I wasn't fooled though; the room layout was completely wrong so I knew it had to be a dream. Even so, their reaction nevertheless compelled me to reason with them.

Guy: "What's going on!?"
Me: "... I'm... just looking around for some fun..."
Them: "What do you mean!?"
Me: "I... This... is a dream... We're in a dream! We're lucid dreaming!"

I stuttered these words, but the group behaviour suddenly shifted as I revealed to them the nature of the situation. Social barriers dissolved and people began to strip naked and get intimate with each other. I felt slightly awkward and wasn't sure how to react. Additionally, the disproportionate ratio of guys to girls left me out of the action, but then someone made a suggestion:

"Let's go next door! The girls are always up for some fun over there!"

Prompted by those words, I left the apartment and walked along the balcony to the next door with the group following behind me.

The brightly lit room could be seen through the glass door. I knocked on the door and was answered immediately by a middle-aged woman. Instead of a home, the apartment was a spacious brightly lit rectangular office with white walls, grey carpet and no windows. To the right were four corner desks pushed together in a cross arrangement and a large empty area to the left. Each desk had a computer, paper, folders and lots of other typical office items. There were women sat at three of the four desks who appeared to be office workers.

The office girls seemed to know why we were there; the nearest one directed our group to the back of the office, which lead to a narrow corridor with three open doors down each side. Through each door were identical looking small square bedrooms, brightly lit by the pale white afternoon sky through a large window on the opposite side. I could hear music playing softly from radios in some of the rooms, and had the sense that the rooms were used for giving massage. I walked down the corridor feeling excited and remembered to rub my hands together to prevent myself from waking up. I entered the last room on the right and waited for a girl to arrive.

A moment after entering the room, a young naked Japanese girl followed me in and greeted me. She switched off an orange lamp near the window, which caused the room to appear cooler due to the natural light from the misty sky outside. I followed her instruction to lie down on the bed, and she began to rub her naked body against mine. As she did this, the radio abruptly stopped playing, which caused the girl to become agitated, and she stood up to fix it. As I waited for her to return, I continued rubbing my hands together in an effort to maintain the stability of the dream.

A moment later, the radio began to play again and the girl returned to resume the massage. Simply rubbing my hands together suddenly seemed silly in light of the fact that I had a naked Japanese girl over me, so I began to rub the soft skin of her body instead, which seemed to be just as effective and a lot more fun! Knowing that the dream could end at any moment, I struggled to get my clothes off (I don't know when or why I had suddenly become clothed; my dreams can do weird things like that).

Once my clothes were off, the girl started giving me the best hand job in the world, which was briefly interrupted when the radio stopped playing again. Before the girl was able to get up to fix it, I told her that the lack of radio didn't bother me, so she continued the hand job and the radio started playing again by itself a few seconds later. Within a few moments, her hand caused me one of the most intense orgasms of my life, which forced to into another false awakening.



Part 3: "Angel Hand: The Aftermath" (non-lucid)

I awoke in a small bedroom. There was a wall to my left and several beds to my right. The room was brightly lit from a window at the far right end and had light blue wallpaper. The door was immediately behind me and had been left open. I had the sense that my friends were in the house and had been sleeping in the other beds in the room, but they had already got up.

I awoke facing right on the edge of the bed and noticed that the dream orgasm had caused me to shoot across the wall at the end of the bed. Out of concern that it would damage the wallpaper and my friends might see it, I immediately tried to wipe it off with my hands. I then went to find somewhere to wash my hands.

The house had several bathrooms, but most of the sinks seemed to be broken or unfinished in odd ways. In one case, there was only a tap, plug hole and pipes, but no actual basin around it to contain the water. I eventually found a sink that seemed to be in a reasonable working condition, but awoke again before I could use it.

After the real awakening, I was very surprised and happy to discover that this was not a wet dream, despite the intensity and realism of the experience.

A lot of what I see people complaining about on this forum is the fact that their lucid dreams don't last longer than 6-8 seconds, or that they find that they instantly wake up after becoming lucid. This is the brain's natural reaction to the dreamer waking up- as lucid dreaming is the product of your conscious mind is waking up.

As a child, I had no idea what lucid dreaming was, but I found that in moments of extreme discomfort or panic within a dream- such as when I was having a nightmare or such- I was able to wake myself up by turning to face the monster and shouting "I don't want to have this dream anymore!" This was the "Nightmare escape button, if you will.

The act of realising that you are within a dream is often what causes you to wake up- as the main function of a dream is to keep the brain and body in a hibernated state so that it can heal itself etc. In other words, The sole purpose of a dream is to keep the dreamer from waking up.

Even when, within the dream, I make some idle comment such as "I'm dreaming, aren't I?" or "Is this a dream?", I will often shake it off. Another time, I realised that

As an adult, I find that my nightmares rarely revolve around anything as obvious as monsters- so it is, in general, much harder to work out that I am dreaming. However, things that have been known to trigger this realisation are:

- The inability to read. While I have succeeded in reading towards the beginning and end of dreams- i.e., when I was about to wake up, or I was only just falling asleep- the rest of the time, the part of the brain that processes writing is fast asleep. In many cases, the inability to read has been what caused me to realise that I was dreaming.

- Strange clock faces Once in a dream, I looked at my clock and was shocked to realise that it was all blurry. i couldn't tell the time at all. This was what lead me to realise I was dreaming.

- The ability to fly This is a tricky one. While there are plenty of times in which I have happily accepted my new superpower as fact within the dream, there have been a few times in which I looked down at my crossed legs and realised it was an "unnatural" flying position, or looked down at my bent and misshapen legs and realised that I was dreaming. Other times, I have experienced the whooping sensation of falling in the pit of my stomach- a sensation I thoroughly hate- and have found that I ended up closing my eyes and willing myself to slow the fall. It is there, suspended in midair, that I realise I am dreaming. Then, suddenly, lucid dreaming allows me to fly as fast as I like, but without any of the unpleasant side effects that come from speeding.

25Th, went to bed at 1:00am-7:20am:
D: Saw my phone time fucking up and C said I'm probably dreaming, I did a reality check and realised I was. The proceeded to ask politely ask my mother to make it morning, she did so but it was still too dark just a bit so I said afternoon and she did. Thanked her and left, but didn't get far I believe because the light flickered and I got fearful and woke up.
FA: Something felt off here so I did a reality check and went lucid again and found myself in a hospital of sorts, went into a room and liked the lucidity so much that I wanted it to be clearer so I started touching the chair and walls. It instantly made my sight clear and I felt more in the dream, just to make sure though I saw a drink and asked if I could have it. Nobody answered so I took a sip, it was disgustingly spicy! Sadly it looked so good though, with swirls of yellow in the pink liquid and clear on the bottom. Anyway, I said some shit about needed to become a vampire to fight a vampire and a guy came in and lead me to his home just near the place. Soon as we got outside though, the light flickered and we rushed to his house and got inside just as a madman flung himself at the door. He said don't let him in, so I locked the door and said I have more strength than you as I kicked against his shoving against the door. It finally swing open after I said that and I stumbled back and woke up.
FA: Nope, still asleep I found and that was alright because I was about to go do something but I woke up again.
FA: Oh ho! I thought I had awoken, but no I was still dreaming when I did a reality check. That was fine, I remembered before that I said in real life that I'd try to move on past nightmares if I had another chance. So I went downstairs in my current home and went to get a drink. Stepped outside, but got kinda scared and went back in again. Went upstairs and saw him outside near the home from my mother's window. Said something about people should wake up, but then I woke up.
FA: woke up again and was like, man what a dream and then did a reality check and cursed my string of false awakenings, dream end with a rooster crow.
FA: another false awakening that ended quickly when I did a reality check, the rooster crow just before I woke up.
FA: into another false awakening, reality check and irritation with rooster crow at the end.
FA: another false awakening, reality check, me asking mom if she's real and rooster crow at the end.
FA: once again another false awakening, but after it I finally woke up for real.

"Have a lucid dream tonight!"

"How to Lucid Dream in Five Minutes!"

I would be the first to criticise and clown videos titled as such since I know - from 8 years of experimenting - that lucid dreaming doesn't work that way. But this morning, I had a lucid dream in about 10-15 minutes. I had only 20 minutes left before I had to get up and get ready for work, I wanted to get just some extra shut-eye because my sleep was messed up by a Series of Unfortunate Events. What I did in that 20 minutes was focus on FALLING ASLEEP. That's really all I was thinking about. I wasn't thinking about an anchor or what I was going to do in the lucid dream that would follow. My anchor by the way was me alternating between focusing on the breath(meditating) and staring through my eyelids; whichever was more comfortable in the moment. I just made sure my primary focus was falling asleep.

I was having powerful hypnagogia until I felt my body able to move. It's like a visualization but more 'real' as in you can feel the senses better in the visualization. I got out of my bed to find a young woman more or less 19 with a white t-shirt and black yoga pants laying in my bed giggling. The ended there. So yeah, I had a 8 second lucid dream.

Onward and Upward