lucid

1. Invisible (LD)
I pass the group of boys in the room which resembles a restaurant. I make my way a bit further into the room, suddenly realize I'm dreaming, and I'm happy about it. There are several booths with people in them spread throughout the room and a wall in front of me which seems to block the passageway which leads out of the building. I think about what I want to do and decide against teleporting; I feel it's best to enjoy the current dream. I decide to simply head around the wall and leave the building. I enter an outdoor area in daylight which somewhat resembles a sidewalk in a city type area. There are tall builds to my left, a fairly busy street to my right, and a wide cream colored concrete pathway leading down the area. I begin thinking about some dream goals, and figure I'll play around with transformation for a bit. I decide to transform into crow form, and suddenly my body shrinks down to roughly twelve inches or so. I decide to look at my dream body to see how accurate the transformation is. I see that I have some human features including shoes and think it looks silly. I begin walking again and suddenly return to human size. I begin to see some shining lights which emanate from the buildings. There's also a small metal structure which resembles a bus stop of sorts. I walk a bit further and notice a female police officer. For some reason, I get the feeling she may be looking for me, so I decide to transform into a mouse and rapidly make the transformation, shrinking down to several inches and feeling my body take the shape of a mouse. I see two large metallic structures to my left, against the side of the large buildings, which are shaped similar to an electric razor and have several convex pods on the end. She seems not to notice me and I skid past her, moving slightly underneath one of the metallic structures. I suddenly remember invisibility from dreamviews competitions and decide to try it. I talk a few steps forward and revert to human form in the process. As I approach the officer, I imagine myself becoming invisible. I hear an interesting, loud decrescendo of a low pitched electronics, and I easily move past her without her noticing. As this happens, the dream begins to fade and I transition to a dream where I spend a solid three to four minutes dream journaling most of the lucid.

2. The Emerald Tree (LD)
I suddenly become lucid in the second story of a building which resembles a large house. There are several windows to the outside as well as an opening to the room to my right. I transition into this room and simply fly out of the house. Once outside, I look down and see a group of people in roughly their thirties looking up at me from a table. There are about five of them eating a meal together and they're smiling at me with interest. It appears that they're having a barbeque out on the deck of the house. I want to have fun and play around and say in a playful voice that I'm flying and ask if they know how. I find the interaction really funny, and they ask me how I'm doing it, staring in wonder. I tell them that I just meditate a lot, and I fly forward and to the right, past the group. I descend a slight bit, and in mid-air, and think about what I want to do for a moment. The group says something to the effect that I have a lot of skills and I'm good at what I'm doing. I turn to my right and see a massive tree in the distance. It's roughly twenty to thirty stories tall with a straight vertical tree trunk leading to a massive spherical top filled with green foliage. It seems to be emanating emerald hues, and I find the scene beautiful. I think back to the portion right before I came lucid where H was telling me what things in life are best for me. I find that this would be an interesting thing to ask the dream, so I turn to my right and ask something close to "Dream... what is best for me"? I don't get a response. I try once again, and move fly a bit in the direction of the response. I don't get a response yet again, and I see the group at the table smiling at me with amusement. I look at one of the guys and say to him in a funny playful way, "Don't say anything, guy!" I find the interaction really funny as I think he's going to mess around with me playfully. I think about what I want to do next and fly in the direction of the green foliage in the distance in an expansive area. I continue to think about where I'd like to travel to, then wake up.

I begin to make my way out of the bathroom and see another man entering. I feel I'm not supposed to be there, so I try to be discreet. I suddenly realize I'm dreaming. I don't want to be in the bathroom, so I just walk into the wall to teleport. My vision goes black and I start imagining a snowy scene, with building in the periphery comprising a small town. I hold the visual for a while, and eventually shift to just picturing snow. Suddenly, I find myself in a massive depth of snow - about six feet or so - and I appear to be in the middle of the street in The Meadow. I'm really excited and think "I did it"! I'm super happy, and all the snow is beautiful. I become excited to post the experience on dreamviews. I think of where I want to explore to, and I'm drawn to exploring farther down the road - an area I've never been. As I glide farther, I realize there's progressively less snow until I arrive at an area where it's essentially gone completely. I see several three story structures at the edge of the street and they appear to be tall houses. I'm excited to explore them, but look inside and get a creepy vibe from them. There are some items inside which remind me of the Halloween season, several black skulls and some items which makes me think that they belong to witches. I make my way between the first couple of houses into a T intersection in the pathways. I decide to turn around from this area, and leave by heading back through one of the buildings. I enter and see there's large panes of glass on either side of the back portion of the main room and an area in the middle to transition through. The area is filled with many colorful items, yet slightly macabre. I head through the area between the glass and enter an area behind the building. I begin thinking about dream goals and consider element manipulation. I try to visualize an ice shard appearing above my right upturned palm, yet it's very faint once again. I try transformation once again, attempt to visualize turning into a djinn. I notice a small increase in the size of my arms, and my body grows slightly. I then try transforming into crow form. I put some mental effort in, and suddenly my dream body shrinks down to under twelve inches or so. I don't fly, but continue moving and my body reverts. I continue into the area beyond, see a mirror against the wall and think of technology use. I imagine pulling a cell phone out of my pocket and see a faint image, yet dark, of myself in the mirror, yet don't see the item. I don't use the phone for anything however. I consider teleporting once again, yet figure I might as well enjoy the area. I continue further into a series of many buildings. In the first, several kids are gathered for some type of activity. I float upward to a second story area and there's a small lobby type area with several people gathered. One lady in front of me is on a treadmill, and I find this amusing. I leave this area and float to an outdoor area with asphalt. I reflect on how long the lucid feels, and that it isn't taking much effort to keep stable. Suddenly a large cream colored truck - possibly a cement truck - is partially on top of me and I'm knocked over and pinned under the hood. I reflect on how lucids may be exhausting for omnis. I use my strength to pry myself from under the truck. Once standing, I consider to what to do next, yet wake up.

1. Music (LD)
There is a group of people in a second story area that is gathered to play music I'm in the lit up room watching them and I suddenly realize I'm dreaming. I turn around and see that back of the room, which resembles an attic type area. I look around the area, considering what I want to do in the dream, and realize I don't want to stay in this area. I head forward and to the left and decide to simply phase into the wall to teleport. I walk into the wall to my left and my vision goes black. I begin visualizing a snowy scene with some building on the periphery. I hold the visual for a while, yet nothing forms. I begin to just visualize snow. I stop intentionally visualizing, and suddenly I'm in a grassy area which resembles the field in The Meadow. I look forward and see The Dark Woods. I consider flying and exploring that area, but fly a bit to my left instead. I quickly descend into a thicket of brambles, and get caught in its snare. I keep trying to pry my way out, yet the brambles are holding me tightly. I figure it must be my waking body that I'm picking up on. I imagine myself turning into a Djinn and breaking free. I see my forearms come in front of me, and visualize them glowing with blue energy. There are faint wisps of the energy. I eventually grab a few of the parts that are sticking to me and pry myself free. I fly toward the front section of the field, and consider which direction to head in. The scene in front of me is very vivid, and light sunlight is streaming into the area. The fence to my right is still missing from my earlier non-lucid in which I moved it. The buildings in front of me, however are not the usual buildings. The one to the left is a massive, yet simple cathedral of sorts made out of wood - it appears to be quite aged and has a central spire. The building to my left is aged and made ouit of mood as well and has a creepy, haunted vibe to it. The small entryway to the left is glowing with a reddish orange hue emanating from a window. I decide not to go that tway. Behind the wooden cathedral is a dense forest, and I feel that would be an interesting area to explore I begin flying upward, however the dream is restricting me somewhat. I fight against the restriction, and see platforms above the second story offshoot of the cathedral. I slowly rise, yet wake up.

2. Djinn (LD)
I'm lucid as a dream begins to form in the blackness. I sense that a large window is in front of me, however I still feel as though I'm aware of my waking body and don't want to interrupt the lucid my moving too soon. I feel that I could lose the dream, but a burst of motivation to enter comes over me. I slowly begin moving my dream body, and a scene suddenly forms in bright vivid color. I'm in a large square room with many different cabinets in the periphery, several book shelves, and some items on top of the shelves against the wall. It appears to be a study of sorts, and much of the furniture is made of wood. It's a very pretty house overall. I make my way through this area into the next room to my right. The room is very narrow and rectangular with a window containing a view to the yard beyond. The wall is filled with a shallow bookshelf, with many items distributed on the surface. I make my way down the narrow room and exit through an opening into the yard. There is quite a bit of foliage beyond and several plants as well as a barbeque toward the edge of a concrete area. I chain link fence sits beyond this as well. I think of several dream goals, and remember conjuring ice. I turn my palm upward and imagine a large shard of ice. As I visualize, I see a very faint image, yet nothing materializes fully. I try hurling a fireball into the corner of the yard, yet nothing happens. I turn to my right and begin thinking about Djinn transformation. I take a few steps, yet the dream fades to darkness. In the void I imagine a thunderbolt coming down and my body growing, limbs beginning to grow in blue. The whole scene is very faint and I begin losing lucidity.

1. Iced Coffee (LD)
I'm in an outdoor area near a large concrete wall with an alcove area. I'm thinking of my previous dream and how I should have gotten lucid. I hope I still have enough time to get lucid for the night. I suddenly realize I'm dreaming! I fly up a bit to the top portion of a concrete ledge set into the alcove. I float back down onto the ground level and begin thinking about what I want to focus on. I remember that I wanted to focus on something simple, yet that will help play around with stabilizing as well as scoring points in competition. I imagine a hot cocoa on the ground behind me. It's not there when I turn around, so I head a bit further in the bright morning sun. The area is fully paved with cream colored concrete and extends far to the left, and has a small area hidden away behind a wall to my right. I imagine some cocoa would be there, and as I turn there's a small drink area. I begin searching for cups, yet only see lids. I imagine that I'll find a cup when I reach into the pile and one appears in my hand. I put it under one of the drink dispensers, and dark liquid starts coming out. I turn around and go to taste it, however it tastes like iced coffee - not bad actually. I continue to head forward and the scene transitions directly into an outdoor mall area. I see escalators in front of me heading to an upstairs area, yet there are stores on the lower level as well. A young female with light skin and long blonde hair quickly and eagerly approaches trying to flirt with me and show interest. My waking memory kicks in and I turn her down ignoring her, telling her I'm married. I continue to glide up the elevators and I'm soon on the upstairs level. I think back to several dream goals a consider which to pursue. I think of multiplying, but there's nothing in the immediate area. The girl continues to follow me throughout the whole scene, speaking loudly and trying to get my attention, begging me to interact with her. I keep simply ignoring her, telling myself mentally that it's not H, although it would be a good idea to find her in the dream. I move on to my next goal: finding my dream guide. I wonder how I'm going to approach this as I turn to my right to an opening in the wall, granting a view to the large room to my right with vaulted ceilings. There are many people inside, many of which appear to be dancing. I'm thinking about how I'm going to find my dream guide, and am getting ready to shout out for him or her. I begin to glide down, but as I reach the bottom, I wake up.

1. Pool (LD)
I'm in the side room, thinking about a way to evade the individuals who are entering soon and seem hostile. I suddenly realize I'm dreaming and that I can simply leave. I fly out of the room and into the night outside. I'm in the air, and weave around the side of a brown brick building, near a fence above the brown pavement below. I have a feeling of freedom and liberation. I fly upward a bit, yet the dream is a bit dim and I worry that it's going to fade if I head deeper into darkness. I ascend higher, thinking I'm heading too high and remind myself: this entire dream is me. I can do whatever I want and I have complete control I rush backward toward the ground, then float to a nearby area to he right. There's a massive pool with many tall curving slides leading into it. It appears to be a place where younger kids are playing. As I float into the area, I pull my hand in front of me and notice several knives. I feel that it's kind of dangerous having these with all the DCs nearby, and think about a place to drop them. I float through an opening in the slides and above the pool. I begin losing lucidity as I enter the water and transition to a non-lucid.

2. Crescent Moon Zazen (LD)
I head up the stairs in The Meadow, trying to be quiet so as not to disturb DCs in the room above. I suddenly realize that I'm dreaming and don't need to worry about it. I float up the stairs and onto the first floor of the main house in The Meadow. It's in the middle of the night and several dim lights are on in the room to the right. I get the impression my dad is on the computer in the room to the right, and don't feel like engaging him, so I float the main hallway. I suddenly want to practice zazen, and figure I might as well do it here. I turn to my left and notice several Christmas decoration in the back of the farthest room. I sit in zazen, and as I meditate, I notice several Christmas decoration including a small Santa and Mrs. Clause in my field of vision (1). I'm really enjoying the experience, and I want to hold it for a little while. I get up from zazen after about thirty seconds or so. and float outside through the door. I don't want to teleport right away. I decide to practice more zazen, and sit cross legged. As I begin meditating, my body floats into the air ten feet, then fifteen or so. I see the moon through my half open eyes, and begin to rotate while meditating to get a good view of it. Instead of the typical cosmic mudra, I use the gyan mudra, placing my hands on my knees. I leave meditation and drift toward the street. I'm thinking about what I want to do and look down the street toward the other houses, but decide I don't want to head toward the other houses yet. I think about my goal of finding my dream guide. I land and stand in the middle of the road shouting for my dream guide. Nobody appears, yet several black cars begin coming down the road. I ask them for my dream guide in a loud voice, but about three total simply swerve around me. I turn around and see a figure in a dark, full body space walking toward me down the street, and he looks hostile. The outfit somewhat resembles a character from HALO. I punch him hard in the chest, then go to shoot a fireball, yet the visuals are wispy. I reach out my hand and catch him in a whirlwind. His body floats up about four feet and goes into stasis in a horizontal position. I punch him super hard in the groin and feel... I won the battle. I decide this is a waste of time so I start heading down the street. I want to practice object multiplication, so I look to the side of the road to my right and see several small plants. I try to multiply them, yet nothing happens. I then figure I might as well practice element manipulation alongside object multiplication. I stop the ground hard with my right foot and see how the small quake creates small crack throughout the street. I try to multiply the cracks by willing it, yet nothing happens. I create another small quake, yet am unable to multiply the cracks. I head down the street a bit further and remind myself to hold lucidity. I see a street light with a bright light shining, and take in the visuals noticing how stable it is. I consider teleporting, yet don't want to risk losing the dream. The dream begins to fade.

Notes.
(1). The decoration are the same as the ones my family used in my childhood.

Legend

Colors: Lucid, Semi-lucid, Non-lucid
[comment from waking] in angle brackets
(comment / clarification from dreaming) in parentheses
Abbreviations: DS = dream sign, CH = childhood home, S1/S2 = sons, S/O = someone, S/A = something about, [f] = fragment, b/r = bathroom trip, Wn = waking #n, BT = bedtime, OOB = final out of bed time in morning, DO = Disembodied Observer

Summary of the Night

• BT: ~23:35, OOB: ~07:39, fitbit score: 86 (7:05 asleep, 0:47 awake, 1:14 deep, 1:15 REM), med right before bed
• Wakings:
  
  1. 01:59 b/r, no recall
  2. 05:05, b/r, recall, Super long BTS. Probably 1-1.5 hours. Possible light sleep, but felt awake. Took off blanket, cooled off, put it back on later. Physical relaxation pretty simple, but mental relaxation harder. SSILD cycles to direct the relaxation help somewhat. Need to find a way to release the mind faster.
  3. 07:27 final waking, excellent recall

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W2: Camouflage Cars
Outdoors, I see what I think are army cars driving by me. I notice that they have white and black spotted camouflage. I think they blend in well to winter. I watch them drive by me. Then I see a large field of people walking towards me, hundreds of people. Many are carrying a Ukrainian flag. They walk towards me and past me as I stand in their midst.

W2: Political rally
Observing a political rally. They're talking about their plans? They're rallying against a new law? [Vague/forgotten]

W3: Boat cruise [vivid, fun, interesting, decent presence]
Inspecting the naval vessels

I'm outside on the water (on some ship?) observing a large vessel sailing from my right to my left, I'm quite close by. It is colored naval green/gray, and I think this is a naval / military ship. There are others. Then I see that they are moored all together, I'm looking at them all from the stern, they are sort of knocking up against each other. Then I have a close up view of the stern of one of the vessels. It is covered in military equipment. I'm looking for gun emplacements but don't see any, what I do see are very intricate guidance systems (that are used for aiming missiles/guns?). There are a lot of wires leading all over the place. The guidance system looks sort of like a gun emplacement but there is no barrel, but what seems to be two long telescopes or microphones set in parallel about 2 feet apart upon a swiveling stand. I imagine (see/hear?) that there is a female black navy guard who's job is to say "don't touch things" or "get off the boat", and that she is located in a high place so she can see everything going on at ship level.

Cruise Begins

I'm standing on the back of a medium sized boat. It is a boat taking people on a cruise to nearby sights on the bay/ocean. I am a sort of stowaway, I don't have a ticket. I'm standing on the rear left corner of the ship on the "bumper" that is right at water level. There are other people (official passengers) standing to my right on the bumper. I look down as the ship is moving, and I see the churning water from the propellers right there next to me. I think it's quite dangerous, and that anything that falls into that water would be sucked in to the propellers from the (Bernoulli) forces and chopped up. A girl wants to go by me around the perimeter of this bumper so I step aside, and she goes around and there is a bar there and she makes a drink (?), then comes back?

White Sand Lagoon

Then I'm observing the water: we're now motoring through a narrow channel, just a few yards wider on each side of the ship, and it's very choppy, like a rushing river, I have some thoughts about this scene. Then we're located in a large, calm lagoon, the water is still and clear. The bottom of the lagoon, about 20-30 feet deep, is shining bright white sand. I didn't know that there was any white sand like this in this part of the world. A girl (same one from earlier?) says: "Let's jump in" ("Let's do a cannon ball?"). I'm a bit hesitant, but I decide what the heck, and I jump in. I think, this is ocean water, so it will be salty. I open my eyes to look around, I see a small sea creature (like a jellyfish) and I again admire the bright white sand on the bottom of the lagoon. I surface and spend about half a minute trying to brush my bangs out of my eyes. No matter what I do they keep falling back immediately, obscuring my sight. After this goes on for a while I sort of laugh, I think the situation is amusing. The girl is still there.

Buffet Party

Inside the ship in a large party room, there is a party going on. A lot of people. There is a buffet of various food dishes there. I go to one with the girl and look at it, it is something like chunks of turkey meat with a lot of toothpicks on top. I'm studying this for a while, I'm trying to decide which toothpicks are new and which ones have been used and placed back. I say it's always hard to figure out which ones are new. The girl says it's easy: the ones lying horizontally are used, the ones standing vertically are new. I pick up a vertical one and take up a piece of meat and eat it. A (small boy?) criticizes the dish as being non-vegan (?), and I answer by saying "it is excellent protein!"

W3: Taxi ride [fairly vivid, present]
Start the ride

I've just gotten in to the taxi (at the airport?). I'm sitting in the back seat. I see a small (like 2-seat) propeller airplane taking off on the runway, heading right for us. At the last moment it pulls up and takes off flying over us. I expect the driver will eventually ask me where we're going, but he doesn't. I have a lot of trouble speaking, I feel like I can't communicate my thoughts. I say "Can you go to Pe...ky?" He says "sure!". I know that that is not my final destination, that I have to go further. I'm wondering why I need to take two different taxis/modes of transportation, can't this guy just take me to my final destination? I ask and he says yes, of course. I was wondering if it would be too far out of his way. Might as well go with just one trip. Then we're driving through the intersection next to my CH, I recognize it, but don't say anything. I feel like I should get off here but I don't want the driver to know where I live.

Lovely trees/flowers

We're driving on a street, up ahead in the distance I see a huge rhododendron plant/tree. On either side of us are flowering trees/vines, there are many colorful flowers. I comment on how lovely they are. I think they grow so well because of the warm weather here.

End of trip

The taxi is now a mini-bus and we're pulling in to a courtyard that is the front yard (vastly expanded) of my CH. (Roundabout?) Some people get off, and I'm a bit slow in getting off and the driver closes the door and is about to drive away, I call out "Wait! I'm getting off here." My taxi driver is a middle-aged white man seated behind me and to my left. I ask him "Do you have a <business card, in foreign language>?" I also think, hey I have to pay this guy, and ask "how much do I owe you?" He says "no, don't pay me, you'll pay next time". Instead of a business card he hands be a small piece of paper with some scribbles on it. His name is "Mihu."

DJ Critics

I'm seated at a table outside (indescript location), and I'm shuffling through papers looking for a fresh sheet with room on it for me to dream journal. I can't find any places on any of the sheets. The pieces of paper are all separate. Then I find a place and write a few words (?). There are two guys there, they are critiquing the phrases I've written in the DJ. One guy says the words have "No grammar." I am a bit offended but I know that I'm writing just key words/phrases and that they are not grammatical, but I do not want them to know it's a DJ so I keep quiet.

LUCIDD LD#292 False Awakening

I find myself lying on my side in (a) bed. I do a nose pinch and I can breathe!, I'm lucid. I feel myself lying there. Then in a second I feel a "wake up buzz" (REM Atonia ending) and I'm in the same position awake in my waking bed. [very short, but it's lucid! I'm counting it. Lucid is lucid!]

1. Dream Yoga Book (LD)
As I continue to circle back around the pillar with alcoves, I return to the Dream Yoga book I was surprised to see. At the second glance however, I notice that the color has changed to a light red color and text has changed, and I realize: oh this is a dream! I tell Bren, it's a dream and I'm lucid. I begin walking around the immediate area in the and explaining that you can do various actions in a dream. The dream isn't perfectly clear, so I think about teleporting. As it begins to fade, I begin thinking about The Village, and imagine it in a wintery setting. The dream begins to fade and I wake up.f

2. The Mirror (LD)
My friend continues to smell his own cologne, and then mine. I find it strange, and feel very awkward. I realize it's a dream and gain a lower level of lucidity I turn and head to the mirror, looking at my hands to study the difference in dream. As I do so, my lucidity raises, and I appreciate the 'ethereal' quality is has and make a point to process this visual quality. I head to the mirror, then toward the front of the house. The dream is a bit foggy and I worry about it fading, yet want to hold onto the dream and begin to imagine a dream scene I wake up.

3. Tornado Meditation (LD)
I see the black cars pulling into the driveway and partially into the garage, with one or more male figures in each, all having a mischievous look. I feel threatened as they appear to be ready to harm me in some way. I suddenly realize I'm dreaming. I walk up to the figure in the driver's seat of the first car, going along with the current dream plot and punch him in the face, crushing his head midway into his skull. I then raise his entire body with one hand into the roof of the car. I begin to walk up to the next hostile character and punch him in the head as well. I realize this is one of the few lucid dreams I've had fights in and feel like I'm wasting time, and feel like I've been a bit violent so I head to the side of driveway and begin walk on the side of the house down down a grassy area. There are a few dream characters who appear to have been from the waking life zen sesshin I was at, and I begin following them. I suddenly decide to teleport to The Village and get excited about practicing element manipulation by summoning wind. I wave my right arm to the left, creating a tornado around me. I see the walls of the tornado forming around me, surging with leaves caught in the mix. I sit in a meditative posture and begin levitating off the ground within the vortex. As I begin to meditate, I close my eyes, and imagine a scene of The Village. I suddenly appear in a grassy area by The Dark Woods in The Meadow. At first I don't want to be there, but see that the scene is very pretty, so all of a sudden I don't mind. It's not quite as vivid as I want, so I begin shouting "clarity now!" several times, and the vividness ramps up. I see the house across from me lit up with all of it's interior lights through and area with no fence. I turn to my right and see that the fence is still missing in the area where I moved it in a non-lucid recently. I start heading in this direction to explore a section of The Meadow I haven't scene yet, but then decide I want to visit the Greek Temple area. I turn around and start heading in that direction and begin to realize it might take a little while to trek through that section of the neighboring yard. I wake up.

Legend

Colors: Lucid, Semi-lucid, Non-lucid
[comment from waking] in angle brackets
(comment / clarification from dreaming) in parentheses
Abbreviations: DS = dream sign, CH = childhood home, S1/S2 = sons, S/O = someone, S/A = something about, [f] = fragment, b/r = bathroom trip, Wn = waking #n, BT = bedtime, OOB = final out of bed time in morning, DO = Disembodied Observer

Summary of the Night

• BT: ~23:19, OOB: ~09:41, fitbit score: 81 (8:41 asleep, 1:41 awake, 1:45 deep, 1:23 REM), med right before bed
• Wakings:
  
  1. 00:58 b/r, no recall
  2. 03:25, b/r, no recall, basically awake until about 06:00?
  3. 06:30(?) woke from LD #191! brief but fairly clear and a bit amusing
  4. 09:41 final waking
• Drank a glass of wine in the evening with dinner. Definitely impacted sleep negatively. Long waking period, several hours, maybe dozed a bit here and there.
• all content from memory, no notes taken during the night or morning, written 20:00 the evening. Some of the details of the long near-epic have faded.

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W3: LUCIDD LD #191 Chinese Restaurant
I'm outside on a city sidewalk with a small group of colleagues, we're going to lunch, and several of them enter in to a restaurant. I follow them. Inside is a medium/large room filled with tables and people sitting at the tables eating. It is a Chinese restaurant. I'm looking for evidence that they have my favorite dishes. I'm looking at the plates on the tables, I see my colleagues sitting and eating. The food is all chopped sauteed meat with various sauces, notably red sauces. I'm walking among the tables, and I decide that the cuisine is not to my taste and I want to leave back to outside. I turn around, but there are people sitting at tables all around me, and there is no path back through the room. I'm blocked [DS!]. I try several times to squeeze past in between the chairs but there's just not room. I try several different paths and I can't find a way out. I move to the side of the room (left side with back to street entrance) along the wall where there's a couch. (I ask the staff to help me clear a path?). I half climb on the couch and I see on the ground where have to step next, two bathroom scales on top of each other. I think then that people will be able to see how much I weight and I'm a bit hesitant. I step on them and look down, one of them shows nothing notable, but the other one displays my correct waking name (slightly misspelled with graphics and rectangles in place of some letters), and I'm really surprised by this, how could this scale know my name? I get the idea it may be a dream, I do a nose pinch, and get lucid.
I'm very amused that the scale knew my name! and then I fade to awake in the same pose I fell asleep, with my arms around my wife. [Short lucid period, but I'm very strict about counting my lucids, there must be an explicit affirmation or firm knowledge of recognizing the dream state, so, "lucid is lucid!", and I'm counting it]

W4: Long near epic
Escape from shooter

Outdoors, it's some sort of adventure/thriller plot, there are (3?) of us rushing through a city park-like walkway with some trees on it, we're in a rush, I feel semi-lucid, but I decide to go along with the plot. Half-realizing it's a dream, and hearing the sound of a helicopter flying nearby, I tell one of my cohorts to "call <some guy> in the helicopter to meet us and pick us up!". Then I'm alone and trying to dodge/avoid providing a free shot from a shooter who's stationed on about the 6th floor of a large/long ~10 story building. I move quickly to the base of a large building opposite his position, all the while hoping he won't shoot me. I make my way around the back of the building on the site away from the shooter, and am on a higher level now, on sort of a platform. I do the Clark Kent action "pull open your shirt with two hands to show the Superman Logo" and decide to take off flying and attack the shooter (?).

Ordering Food in the Stadium

[these mini-scenes may be out of dream order]. I'm in a steep stadium seating area, open rows are all around with people sitting down, with a central stairway leading down. At some point I place an order for food: tacos, pad thai, and something else [This is from an incubated plan to eat these things when lucid!]. Then later, I'm walking down the stairway, and I have the order in hand in a brown paper bag. I open the bag and look down into it: I see what looks like an order of nachos (tortilla chips with melted cheese), and some blob of food that I think is the pad thai. (I'm surprised they were able to fulfill the order?). Back down at our seating area, I think something may be missing from the order that I've already paid for. I ask a waiter to explain the bill to me. He mumbles something incoherently and walks away from me. I'm still confused about the order and follow him, calling out "Hey! Answer my question. HEY, WAITER!!!" he is not responding to me and I'm getting very upset. He doesn't want to deal with me, being a "problem customer." Then, I'm wanting to walk back up the stairway, but I have to first enter through a kind of turnstyle and take a different path.

Lose the dogs, memory wipe

I'm meeting my wife L, (she asks?) where are the dogs? I was walking them, and they're not here! I have absolutely no memory whatsoever of having walked them, and I'm very upset that I've both lost the dogs and have a totally blank memory about the situation. This goes on for a while with me being totally astounded and concerned at the blank period of memory. Then somebody holds up a mobile phone for me to see, it's playing a video that shows a man bouncing crazily out of control off of walls on buildings, and I can see that this is me! I have no memory of doing this. I'm very concerned. In another scene (?), I'm indoors and there's something about a game console (?). I think perhaps that there were people who used a device against me to wipe a portion of my memory? And got me to do something?

Pulling up to CD on the street

I'm driving in a car with a guy in the front passenger seat, and I see that ChrDw (company 3) is standing on the side of the road, at a point where parking is allowed again, but his car is in the way, and so I'm waiting for him to move his car so I can park there. But my passenger then gets out of the car and moves to CD and starts talking with him. I think that CD doesn't want to talk to me [hasn't for many years in waking], so I'm hesitant about this course of action. (I think CD may be involved in the plot that wiped a portion of my memory?

1. Sky Full of Moons (LD)
I'm in a dark downstairs area of a large home. I search my memory for the girlfriends in the dream scene, but nothing comes to mind...it doesn't make sense, and I become lucid. I'm in a dark room that resembles a large kitchen with a large set of cabinets against the far wall and a counter in front of me. I walk toward the laptop on the counter in front of me, and begin opening the screen. I consider looking something up, but decide I don't want to lose focus on that. I see an opened cabinet ahead of me, and consider searching for some food, but decide that's a distraction as well. I head to the front of the house toward the door and begin thinking about how long the dream could last. I walk into the door, and my vision goes black as I phase into it. I begin imagining the scene of the The Village. I suddenly appear on a driveway with a black SUV to my left. It's the middle of the night, and as I look up, I see two small moons, and think of Woue. I look around the sky to see if I can find the large planet with the ring surround it. Suddenly, the entire night sky fills with large crescent moons, hundreds of them glowing in yellow and filling the entire sky. It's an awesome scene, and I continue to gaze across the sky. The song 'A sky full of stars' pops into my head, and begins to play in the dream. I think of my nephew getting excited about the song and find it funny. A couple purple portals begin appearing in the sky above me, followed by black webbing soon after, which stretches further across the sky. I wake up

2. The Cargo Hold (LD)
I'm in a large area which resembles a cargo hold of some sort. It appears to be an elevated area within some large vehicle - possibly a flying fortress of sorts. The situation doesn't make sense to me, so I quickly nose plug and I become lucid. I drop below to the ground through an opening on the floor of the room. As I hit the ground, my vision darkens. I begin spinning, and wind starts to form around me . I think of element manipulation, and flick my left hand counterclockwise, trying to summon a tornado around me. Wind starts to surge around me in a vortex, and I see the walls of it churning. I'm picked up off the ground, but the dream fades.

3. Intro Screen (LD)
I'm in a large dark first floor room and I'm instantly lucid .In front of me, a computer monitor sits on a desk in the middle of the room. I watch the screen and it seems to be loading an RPG of some sort and I think it could be Diablo. It seems like an intro scene, and has a dark center with a gold border. I continue to wait for an interesting scene to load so I can possibly phase into it, but it seems like the same image and sound keeps repeating. I decide to ignore it, and explore the scene a bit more by exploring further ahead into the room. I enter a hallway, and consider heading to The Village, but it's very dark and I don't feel like losing the dream stability or teleporting from that location. I head to the front of the house, and there are blinds like in Serrano, which I pass through to enter an outdoor lanai area with a pool. I continue further, expecting The Village beyond. I end up on a stretch of pavement which seems to be on a campus that extends down the side of a stadium area. I black trucks appears to my left as I continue walking and my neck starts hurting. I try to alleviate it, but realize it's probably my real body's neck. I start hoping that it doesn't interfere with the dream, and actually think it would be annoying to be in that pain for the entire dream. I start thinking of some dream goals, but the dream fades and I wake up.

Legend

Colors: Lucid, Semi-lucid, Non-lucid
[comment from waking] in angle brackets
(comment / clarification from dreaming) in parentheses
Abbreviations: DS = dream sign, CH = childhood home, S1/S2 = sons, S/O = someone, S/A = something about, [f] = fragment, b/r = bathroom trip, Wn = waking #n, BT = bedtime, OOB = final out of bed time in morning, DO = Disembodied Observer

Summary of the Night

• BT: ~23:55, OOB: ~07:37, fitbit score: 83 (6:39 asleep, 1:03 awake, 0:41 deep, 1:25 REM), med right before bed
• Wakings:
  
  1. 01:16 b/r, no recall
  2. 05:18, b/r, recall, brief MILD. << check it out, 4 hours of sleep in a row! Look maw, no wakings/pee trips!
  3. 07:37 OOB
• Long time initially falling asleep at BT as wife was reading on her phone and then settled down to sleep, sort of keeping me awake
• After a bit of recall and quick recording at waking #2, I felt drowsy enough still to fall asleep quickly. I focused quickly on relaxing completely. Did just a bit of MILD. Fell asleep pretty quickly! Fitbit shows awake only 17 min (including b/r, and summary recording in journal)
• wrote two dreams on top of each other! One is completely illegible/lost it looks like... ah, a later phrase brought one back. I remember thinking there were 3 dreams.

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W2: Call Center
I'm in a phone call center. Banks of operators on phones arrange in several wide parallel rows. I take a call from Nazi Germany. I do not speak German, but I am pretending to know how. There are a couple of women observing me, (one is my manager?) I'm saying and thinking words, trying to make sense, but the only thing I can think of are words in <foreign language not German>.

W2: Business meeting
I'm sitting in a large room, a man (our manager?) is standing at the front berating us (me?) for not getting out changes in on time. This goes on for a while, it's hard to get a word in, I'm finally able to blurt out "I got everything checked in yesterday!" (They say, "why not earlier"?)

W2: Girl on the couch
I'm lying on a couch with a girl who's apparently my girlfriend. The couch is located on an external corner (it "turns" around the corner) between two rooms. I want to have some private "fun" with my g/f, I grab her (ahem) from outside her clothing, and pull us both around the corner so we're out of view from the first room. She tells me she doesn't want any more wine (as a gift) because she has too much of it already. I say "yes, me too, but I was planning to share it with you!"

W3: Animals at night
I'm on my deck outside my house outside the city. I'm walking towards the door into the house, when I catch a glimpse of two little dots of light in the yard of the house across the path from the deck. I do a double take and bob my head around to get a bearing on them, and I decide they are animal eyes reflecting the light. I shine a spotlight and I see a large, orange cat standing there. The longer I look, the more animals appear, all dogs and cats. I think they're all local, not wild. Then a dog jumps the fence of that yard and easily sails over my fence to land in my own yard.

W3: LUCIDD LD #290 Massive LD
Flying at LHS

I'm outside on the path to the LHS parking lot from to gate spot where the asphalt ends and the dirt trail begins. I'm standing there looking down into the valley. There are now a lot out houses there, they are very colorful. They're arranged in a nice little neighborhood. I really want a closer look, so I lean out over the hill and take off flying/gliding. There's a guy, ClnCse (company 3, previously at company I) there on my left as I take off, he's walking towards the LHS parking lot. I know he doesn't approve of me flying, so I mischievously say S/L "Hey C, don't look at me!" while I fly out over the valley and look down to appreciate the view of the houses from above.

Get Lucid

[I forgot the part in between Flying at LHS and my first strong notion of lucidity]
I'm quite sure I'm dreaming, but I nose pinch to be sure, and while there is some resistance, the air is definitely moving, woohoo I'm dreaming!

Reflecting on vividness

In in the upper hallway of CH, facing the b/r, my room is to my right. There is a table with colorful objects on top of it there in the hallway, they look like pieces of art glass, with bright orange, red, brown colors. I decide to take a moment and really reflect/take a reading on the level of vividness of the dream, since there was discussion about this recently on reddit /r/LucidDreaming. I look closely at the art glass objects, and at the scene around me. I quickly conclude that yes, this dream has vividness and clarity easily equal to (or greater than) waking experiences. (I think I touch them as well, and the sense of touch is waking-like as well?).

Checking out "my package"

I move in to my sister's room, and recall that I sometimes like to checkout what I'm packing in my pants in the dream. I pull down my pants and take my (ahem) into my hand and look at it. It looks non-waking, not familiar shape. MEO. "Time for some goals!" I think. I feel like the dream has been really long, like an hour at least, and I look at a clock on the wall to confirm this.

Fun with the fairy, mom & dad tease

I move in to my room, and I am having a sexy time encounter with a little fairly (MEO). We're on the bed that is closer to the door.

Spoiler for sexy time:

it starts with oral on me and I move to intercourse with her.

Then I hear my parents coming up the stairs. I think that this is waking life sound manifesting into the dream, that my parents are coming up the stairs in waking life [false, impossible, don't live in CH, mom passed away], and that this is an interesting phenomenon. I don't want to be discovered so I turn away from the door with the fairy underneath me. Mom & dad both come into the room, dad (standing? getting on to?) the foot of the bed (don't see him), and my mom right in front of me, leaning over, getting right down in my face. I'm trying to fake sleeping. My mom finds the fairy and is teasing me about her, I'm trying to push my mom away from me and hoping she'll go away. My dad says "You're squishing her!" (the fairy).

FA, fly through window

I wake up in the same bed in the same room from the last scene. I suspect I'm still dreaming. I do a nose pinch and I'm still dreaming, woohoo. I see my window in front of me, the blinds are closed and the room is dark-ish, but a lot of white light is coming through the window. I decide to fly / phase out through the window. I take a few steps back (do another nose pinch to confirm I'm dreaming?) then run at the window and launch myself at it horizontally arms out in front of me. I move through the window, but very slowly, like it's made of some think liquid. I come out the other side...

"FryingMan" bus, Red River Valley w/girl

... and I'm outside in daylight, there is a long white bus just in front of me, perpendicular to me, right its front to my right. There is blue/green-ish text along the side of the bus. It says "FryingMan <something something>", several times, and each time "FryingMan" is misspelled slightly, in a way that I find highly amusing and laugh out loud. Like, "FryingMauk" or "FryiAuMan", incorrect letters inserted into the middle of the word. I decide to board the bus. There are a couple of girls walking by and I take them along with me. We all sit down right next to the driver. I start singing "Red River Valley" with the girl closest to me. She's following my lead, as she doesn't know the words. I sing the raunchy "boy scout" version: "Then come sit on my face if you love me.....do not hasten to give me a screw....but remember the Red River Valley...and the cowboy who loved you so true." I'm watching her face while we're singing. I notice she has sharp little teeth, like a puppy. I'm "interacting" with the girl while we're singing (hand), there is a woman back behind us a bit to my left, she looks disapprovingly at the scene. I don't care and keep singing and "interacting".

The scene fades and I'm really happy that I've had a great, long LD, first like that in a long time.

1. The Village (LD)
I'm aware as a scene forms of my dream arms outstretched, holding an opaque large bottle. I realize a dream is forming and at first wonder if I'll be able to successfully transition into a dream. I ignore this thought and immerse myself in the dream, working with it to develop. I begin walking, then running and the scene of a house, then a door develops. I exit through the door at full speed and begin flying, taking in the few of a massive downward slope of a grassy area that extends far into the distance. The rolling hills travel downward to a town at the bottom which is lit up in dim red and yellow lights as the sun begins to emerge. I fly toward the village and shouting with excitement, happy that I'm lucid. I laugh and say out loud that I hope the alarm doesn't go off as I know it's probably about time to get up. As I draw closer to the town, the dream starts pulling me upward at a rapid pace. As I ascend higher, I worry for a slight moment that I might lose the dream. I remind myself, however that it's just a dream and that I'm in control. I imagine my dream body drawing closer to the village, and inversely, the village drawing closer to me. I descend rapidly and land. As I land, I stomp my foot twice as the dream is a bit dim. Two massive shock waves emerge from the stomp, sending quakes through the ground. I begin walking back up the hill quickly and consider where to head to next. The dream begins to dim a bit, and I instinctively begin spinning. A tornado forms around me (1), and I can see the wind gust all around me, carrying leaves within it. After a short moment, I emerge in a scene in the middle of the night with a white house containing a small extension to the right with a small staircase leading to a doorway. I think of dream goals and remember trying to head back to The Village. I decide not to head into the room in front of me as I feel it won't bring me where I'm trying to go. I turn around and see behind me a small gray structure somewhat resembling a mausoleum. I decide this won't be the right place to phase through either. I turn to my left and see a small fence next to the extension of the house, and to the right of it, a large one and a half story gate with a curved top, stopping just before a metal bar. I decide to go into the area and fly through the separated portion. I enter into a dark area which is essentially a rectangular room that seems to have a body of water - possibly a pool - within it. I decide to head to The Village through this area. I continue ahead and phase through the wall. --
I'm in blackness for a short period of time and begin imagining the scene of The Village along with it's cobblestone streets and buildings on either side. --
I quickly emerge into an area which resembles a suburb development. It's the middle of the night, and the houses are modern and contain intricate stone paver structures in the fronts of the yards. I notice that it's not exactly The Village from the previous dream, yet still a very interesting area and I hope it'll be persistent. I decide to head to the first area: the chocolate maker. I turn to my right and see a two story house and head toward the front door and enter. As I make my way into the first room, I sense that there's a kitchen toward the back left and that a DC is within. There are two pillars with a small wall separating the area, and I peer around to see if the DC is there, yet no one is present. I turn to my right and see an elderly lady, probably in her early seventies, roughly 5'2" with blonde hair and defined wrinkles. Behind her, I notice that there are some chocolates on top of her cabinets. I ask her if she has any chocolate ready (2). She tells me she didn't realize I was coming tonight, but she could get something ready really quickly. I insinuate that I'm in a rush as I don't want the dream to collapse by stagnating, and begin looking through her fridge. I don't find any, but remind myself that I can just imagine it there. I take a bar of something which seems to be vanilla flavored as well as I square muffin with a top containing waves of chocolate. I say "Thanks Gen" (3) instinctively as I eat the muffin and begin exiting her house. I enter back into the street, continuing to chew, and my mouth is very full. I then begin to think of more areas of The Village I want to explore, and think of The Clockmaker. I realize his house would be just a couple houses down and to the right. I reflect on how eating something may help to engage my senses and ground the dream. Suddenly, many of my sense - mostly sight, hearing, and tactile sense - kick more into awareness and I roll with it as if I'm practicing ADA in the dream. I then see a girl go by me on a blue scooter as I make my way down the street. I suddenly wake up

Notes.
(1). I've worked a bit with tornados as element manipulation via visualization practice. I wanted to use it as a means of teleportation and it seems like it kicked in automatically.
(2). I really like chocolate if you haven't already noticed.
(3). The name came very instinctively. It's probably because my grandpa used to call my grandma Gen, and I made the association with her being an elderly lady with blonde hair.

2. The Stump (Lucid Dreamlet)
I'm aware as I notice a stump in my field of vision. I notice it as the beginnings of a dream scene and want to stay with it as the dream develops. Suddenly, a tree appears behind it along with some grass. I then see a fence in the distance and some dark ground in the periphery. I consider moving my dream body, yet feel tentative as I don't want to disturb my waking body. I think I'm waking up, yet it ends up slipping into a non-lucid dream.

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

Notes:
This was an immensely vivid WILD that happened near the end of REM. I tried to DEILD back into another dream upon waking, but it failed. I imagine this was because the REM period was over, and because I was too rested to fall back asleep afterwards. I spent the dream observing dream behaviour, rather than doing more intense activities.

The dream began with a false awakening. I had not experienced full-blown hypnagogic scenes during the WILD transition, and I had not wanted to manipulate the subtler visuals into an initial dream scene; this may have been the reason behind the FA. I was in the same bedroom I had fallen asleep in. The room was dark, but there was some subtle blue ambient light. I knew that my eyes were initially closed in the dream, but I could see through them somehow, as if I had no eyelids at all. My blankets were pulled up around my neck and in front of my face, which filled most of my vision. I could barely see the room past them. Then I opened my eyes, and nothing about the scenery changed.

I knew I was dreaming because of the eyelids phenomenon. However, I decided to confirm a second time by holding my hand out and expecting a random character to take it, to help me sit upright.

"Hey, can you help me up?" I asked, expecting Chris Pine to be there.

"Sure," someone said, and I felt them take my hand. The voice sounded fairly accurate to Chris Pine, but not perfect. I sat upright in bed and stood up, and the motions felt light, as if gravity was less powerful and I did not need to exert as much effort to get up. I saw Chris Pine in the darkness of the room, standing in front of me. Even without prior visualization, I was pleased to see how close he looked to the actor's likeness. However, his brown hair was longer and more unruly, like he had let it grow out and hadn't gotten a haircut in some time. It reminded me of Bruno from Encanto. He also looked a bit sad or worried. I did not dwell on this. I chalked it up to the random nature of dreams, where they sometimes filled in details I had not consciously accounted for.

I left my bedroom and headed towards the hallway that connected my bedroom to the bathroom. It seemed wider than in real life, but just like real life, both walls of the hallway had sliding doors with full mirrors on them. I had not expected to see anyone in the hallway, but I saw my mother standing off to the right. I cannot remember what she was wearing, but she looked convincingly like my mother and I didn't notice anything "off" about her.

I approached her. Wanting to see her reaction, I said, "isn't it amazing how we're in a dream right now?!"

"Yes, honey!" she replied, enthusiastic.

"Yeah, it's great. Well, I'll see you later! We can play Uno, or something," I finished, knowing full well that I would not see her again. I walked past the bathroom, paying little heed to the contents, and into the living room of my apartment. It was dark like the bedroom and bathroom. The size and shape of the living room, and the overall furniture setup, was similar to real life, but I didn't pay attention to the minor details. I headed straight for the opposite corner of the room, where in real life, there was an access door to a balcony. There was no door in the dream, though, just an empty doorway that led directly outside.

Outside, it was daytime. While the apartment should have been illuminated by the light spilling in from the doorway, this wasn't the case. There was a very stark divide between indoor and outdoor lighting.

Outside on the balcony, things were unusual. The balcony had no railings. The balcony was also much longer than in real life, reaching about 40 feet long compared to 15 or so. The floor of the balcony was incredibly smooth, and looked almost like gray linoleum rather than painted/sealed concrete. I looked out from the balcony. I saw the wall of a very tall building with very plain, glass windows. It looked like it came from a low-res video game, and the building was fairly close. Then I looked down and I saw a long, straight pathway running across the bottom of the building, below my balcony. It continued past where my balcony ended, then curved around the side of the building, to a place I couldn't see from my vantage point.

Oddly, the pathway was not concrete or asphalt. It was made of fake snow that had been compacted or glued down. There were small hills in the pathway too, and large, snowman-sized snowballs scattered here and there, all of which were made from the same fake snow.

My focus returned to the balcony, then I turned around and looked at the exterior wall of my apartment. The windows were well-defined and realistic, and I could even see the blackout curtains that I had installed in real life. Fascinated by the definition of everything, I looked down at my right hand. My hand seemed incredibly sharp and defined too. I counted my fingers on both hands, and saw five on each. This was unusual, as I typically saw different numbers of fingers, or small fingers branching off from the main ones. I looked up, away from my hands for a moment, then I looked back down at my right hand, imagining there would be small fingers this time. I saw one small, finger-like appendage sticking out of the middle of my palm. I touched it with my other hand, and I could feel it, like it was actually connected to my hand.

Then I became grossed out, so I looked away.

I turned around and noticed that the snow pathway was still present, so I stepped off the balcony and floated down onto it. The fake snow should have made noise under my feet when I landed, like crunching, but there was no sound, even when I pivoted. It was like the ground was smooth wherever my feet were. The rest of the path was still covered in fake snow. I continued walking down the path, turned the corner, and ended up at a large mall entrance. The building was massive and seemingly square-shaped. The walls were made of smaller semi-transparent, triangular glass panels, which I couldn't properly see through, but there was a large set of glass double doors that were completely transparent. I walked towards the entrance and the doors opened for me, which I found interesting.

Inside the mall, it appeared to be a single massive room. The building should have let in a ton of outdoor sunlight, because it was made of glass, but it seemed like the glass walls were completely blocking all outdoor light once I got inside, so the lighting became warmer, as if the space was mostly lit by incandescent lights instead of natural sunlight. I saw lots of glass pathways and tracks winding all throughout the room. The path design and overall complexity reminded me of the ramps during the lightcycle battle from the movie TRON: Legacy. I saw some above-ground concrete pools that were very shallow, perhaps two or three feet. There was water in them, and in the water, I saw some random dream characters lounging in swimming attire.

I decided to summon someone to see what my dream would choose, and said, "okay dream, pick a random person and have them appear behind me".

Then I turned around and saw two people. One person looked like Ororo Munroe from X-Men, portrayed by Halle Berry, and one person was my third grade teacher from school. Ororo was wearing jeans and a black sweetheart top with a black cardigan, which seemed practical. My teacher was wearing a very bizarre outfit. Her top was a 2000s Lululemon hoodie, except it was cropped. and made of a very coarse pink velour fabric. She was also wearing shorts made from the same pink velour fabric. It looked funny.

The dream ended.

The night before last, I visited an alien planet. There were no plants and no breathable atmosphere. The ground was covered in gray sand (which had the appearance of ash).

There was no life outside, but civilization existed within an indoor city. Because indoor space was limited, the city was very compact with buildings being closed together and no roads for wide vehicles.

It resembled a shopping mall, but with more businesses and residential buildings all packed together.

Because this planet wasn't naturally habitable, it had no native life. The economy was sustained mostly through tourism.

I explored the city for a bit, then turned into my dragon to explore outside in the uninhabitable parts. Eventually woke up in the morning.

The following night (last night), I came back to this planet and applied for the local college. I’m not sure what I'll be studying yet, but I took a bus to the campus and enrolled, so I'm a student now!

The admissions office directed me to a grassy indoor field, which had a large spiraling staircase smack-dab in the center of it. The staircase looked like it was once heavily polished and adorned with artwork, but it was now an archaic relic that had been restored.

This was where I would be taking a test. The admissions office told me to climb the stairs as high as I could to test my eligibility for classes. Weird, but alright. I followed the instructions and started going up the stairs. At first, it was just stairs, nothing peculiar. Maybe the test was at the top, I figured.

Then, as I got higher, creatures started emerging from nooks and crannies. They attacked me.
There were spiders, rats, bats, bugs, and other critters I had to fend off. It was mostly just an annoyance and I jogged my way through them.
As I went up further, more creatures came at me. Bigger ones. Tigers, wolves, alligators. This was more challenging, but I got through them, too.
Then I encountered human soldiers with military grade weapons. They attacked me on sight and I had to use my dragon to shield myself and get past.

I began to realize this was the test. Every student who climbed this stairway would face these increasingly difficult challenges.
For a while after passing the soldier level, I wondered what the next one would be... and I walked with more caution, looking around every corner.

The next trial wouldn't be around any corners, though. Instead, it was in my head. I heard a voice.
The higher I went, the louder and clearer the voice became. It cackled and taunted me demonically, threatening me with the trials ahead. It told me that it knew my greatest fears, and that's what I would soon face.
Knowing this is a dream, I don't doubt it. I seriously thought about going back, but decided that the voice in my head wasn't a deal breaker.
I continued up the stairway, ignoring it.

Eventually, the voice faded as I ascended beyond it.

But it was true that much worse things were higher up. The creatures that came for me next were supernatural. Zombies, ghosts, demons, and hallucinations of blood and other horror that personally disturbs me. However, I had already mentally prepared for it thanks to the warnings. I was determined to keep going and ascended past the supernatural scares. 


After getting past all of that, I stopped and looked up to try and see the top of the staircase.
There was no visible end. It seemed to go on infinitely, actually.
The stairs disappeared into gray fog in the sky.

I saw a glimpse of the stairway reaching into space and past the boundary of the universe.
This terrified me more than any other horror, so I stopped and jumped down from the stairway, declaring that I was done with the test. That's as far as I went!

Date: 24/07/2023
Bedtime: 3.40am
Awakening: 9.35am
Return to bed: 10.30am
Method: deferred direct
Attempt: successful
Final awakening: 12pm
The Suffocation Experiment

DREAMING

I'm out with my father Donald Trump, who wants to bond with me despite our political disagreements. We are sitting outside a café in broad daylight when people walking past recognise the former president and start mocking him for his mannerisms and indiscretions. Trump smiles nonchalantly as if he's not bothered by the negative feedback but I feel uncomfortable. The more I look at my father, the more I feel sorry for him and my emotional compassion wells up. I realise I still love him and want to reassure him that not everything about him is bad. 'Cheer up, dad!' I tell him. 'I am very proud of everything that you have achieved—I mean, you managed to become president of the United States of America!' His smile widens. Trump is happy.

WAKING

I wake up realising the glaring identity anomaly: Donald Trump is not my father. Maybe a part of me wants to empathise more with disagreeable people and wishes to truly understand them to the core; as I write down the dream I wonder if it was the result of having looked into metta or loving-kindness meditation a few days ago when I decided to study Theravāda Buddhism. I let the dog out to do his business and use the loo myself. Then, I read my dream journal before returning to bed with the intention to have a wake-initiated lucid dream. It seems to take me a while to relax and I wonder if I spent too much time awake. Have I blown my chances? I toss and turn before settling on my side.

LUCID DREAMING

I hear a pulsatile hiss in my head and recognise there's a strong possibility here that I might succeed. I wait for this sound to peak to be sure that a good connection to the dream world is established, like I'm tuning into a different channel. Suddenly, I acquire a horizontal perspective of my bedside cabinet and I can see my mobile phone, on its stand, with a bright and colourful interface; crystal-clear vision switches on even though my eyelids were shut throughout induction. I reach for my phone, which feels solid to the touch, and bring it closer to my face to find that there is no text on it; gripping the object with both hands, I decide to try to bend it. The phone becomes malleable and I watch the multicoloured light on its supple screen stretch and bend. I am now quite sure I'm dreaming beyond a shadow of a doubt.

I discard the phone and get up to scan the bedroom as I rub my hands. Recalling the suffocation experiment, I begin to hold my breath with the idea of maintaining breathlessness until I wake up. I notice an extremely tall man in black standing by the door, observing me; his bald crown and grey horseshoe hairline makes him appear to be an old man, albeit a strong one. At this point, the sensation of holding my breath feels absolutely real, like soon I will need to resume breathing because the situation becomes increasingly desperate with each passing second. The man turns to the door, indifferent to my experiment, and as soon as he swings it open, I chase after him, gripping his arm in the hallway. This doesn't stop him as his black-sleeved arm easily comes away from its socket and the one-armed figure disappears as he walks down the staircase. I am still holding my breath and can't do it for much longer; I desperately want to breathe.

WAKING

I am back in bed, relieved to be able to breathe again. It felt like I had been holding my breath in my sleep. It appears that the very nature of this experiment leads to a premature awakening as waking in this context is pretty much synonymous with being able to freely breathe. My dedication to this experiment made the wish to wake up win out over my usual desire to prolong lucid dreaming.

I realize that I missed the last false awakening and lost a chance a lucidity in the process. I want to get lucid, so I decide to go for a nose-plug. I do so and realize I can breathe slightly. My mind generates a few thoughts as to why this might be occurring, but I decide to do it again and raise my awareness more. I notice my breathing and I'm lucid! I stand up and begin walking away from the couch but the dream is blurry and dark. I continue to walk, wrapping around the couch, and visuals of the kitchen area of Serrano come in, yet are tilted roughly 45 degrees. I'm determined to have a good lucid, so I shout "Increase now! Clarity now!" several times with intensity. The soon comes into fairly vivid detail thought the process and I can see all the colors come to life in the kitchen area. I turn to my right and head toward the back of the room where sliding glass doors are (IRL). I don't notice glass per-se, so I simply transition to an outdoor area which somewhat resembles a Nordic town. I'm in a large alley type area with a dark cobble stone transit area. There are two story structures on either side of the street with gabled roofs. I stroll down the area and take in the view of the builing on either side of me which have a red a creme theme. I see people strolling in my directions, some arm in arm in pairs. I consider teleporting to a forest area as I make my way down the path and begin noticing a few trees in the near distance. A few are too narrow, so I keep walking. I see one with a much thicker trunk toward the back left area of the walkway, so I approach it and easily phase through. --
I end up in a void area for a short period of time and visualize a forest scene with a bridge, buildings, waterway, and forest beyond I rapidly make my way through the void--
and end up in an area with many buildings around me. The buildings however are gray concrete and the area appears to be somewhat of a campus. I wonder why it's not the forest area I imagined. I continue forward and to my left and the area descends into what appears to be a concrete parking garage. I young boy is standing at the bottom of the area, looking intently at his phone, yet he turns to his left toward me as I approach. I don't engage with him and simply walk past toward the left. The area opens further into the campus and I walk down a hallway. Light music begins to play in my head as I'm very content to be exploring while lucid. I get the thought to stabilize the dream, improving duration, by finding something to drink. I wonder how long I can keep the dream going as it feels stable and I'm happy about my lucids getting longer. I think of a hot cocoa and imagine one to my left as I make my way around a corner, approaching a locker area. There's nothing there, but I see several DCs, male and female, engaged with their lockers. I past the first row and make my way down the second. Midway, I pass a dark skinned female DC and approach the following, asking if she has any cocoa. She tells me she has a chocolate flavored drink and offers it. It's a juice box container, but I take it and continue walking, yet don't notice much of a flavor. I turn to my right and see a partially eaten large blueberry muffin wrapped in saran-wrap (yes I needed to google how to spell saran wrap) in a cubby next to the lockers. I consider asking a DC if I can have some, but don't care enough and continue walking toward the end of the lockers. I make a right, then a slight left and consider trying to teleport once again to a forest area. I see a light brown sheet rock wall to my right and consider phasing though. --
I do so easily and end up in a void. I visualize a forest, yet nothing happens right away. I then consider another dream goal: transforming into crow form. I soon as I imagine it, my dream body instantly morphs, compressing to the midpoint. I sense that I have wings expanding form my core and that my face narrows. I feel appendages - a cross between hands a talons of sorts - raising toward my core. I feel extra sensation in this area (1). My dream body remains very large and I feel the sense of my body raising and lowering as my wings beat. I begin to see a sun as well as desert sand.--
I suddenly find myself in a large yard. The Meadow! I wonder what I'm doing here and why the original visualization didn't bring me to a forest. I look into the distance and see three massive Budddha statues that aren't usually there. One is closer to me while two are far in the distance, near the fence and structure at the border of the Dark Woods. The scene look so cool that I don't care that I'm not in a forest. I turn and make my way toward the front of the main house. Toward my right I see the neighbords house and want to explore. I notice a shrine theme with dark rosewood comprising the architecture. There a shiva statue to my right with a light green hue and I slow down to take in the visuals and vividness of the dream. It's a bit blurry but still looks cool. I approach the front of the house and notice the ornate rosewood, Chinese looking architecture. I suddenly think of Woue and phasing there. I consider where to phase through as I can either go through the front door or to the shrine looking area to my left. I decide not to go to the shrine as it reminds me of a garage. I phase through the front door and end up in a dimly lit building which gives the impression that it's the base to a clan of some sort. I decide to look for the leader. I turn to my right, ascending a small set of steps to a half-level. To my right a bedroom sits beyond with undone sheets. I enter then turn left to another room. There's a master bedroom with another large bed with undone sheets. I feel that the leader is nearby. I enter a room in the back left which appears to be a bathroom. I get the sense I'm getting closer to the leader. I get the feeling of water engulfing my dream body and that the leader is right next to me. I attempt to phase once again, but quickly return to waking.


Notes
1. I was sleeping on the couch and it turns out that both of my hands were compressed between my knees when I slept, creating a decent amount of pressure.

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