lucid

Nostalgia Band:
I'm in a highschool gym at indoor band practice. I'm a senior who will be graduating soon, so feeling nostalgic.
I walk over to our saxophone cases and join the group. I feel the familiar rush of uncertainty.
Where are we going? What are we doing? Gotta do it fast!
...
I'm with the same group, this time outside. We have our instruments and backpacks.
It's a grassy mountain hike, spiraly.
I see PK, a senior from my 2nd year. He is talking about burying time-capsules for future years.
There are already a lot of time capsules buried in the ground waiting to be opened.
...
We're in a large, cylindrical, dimly lit room now. There are pictures of previous band members along the wall.
My brother's picture gets pointed out. It is his picture from 1st or 2nd grade.

Sunny Day Lucid:
I'm in my childhood neighborhood on a sunny day.
I'm running through the backyards, with the grass being typical vivid dream green.
I have a sense of urgency to get somewhere soon.
There are some horses up ahead, stabled at somebody's house.
I'm on a garden path moving toward them. I try to leave the path to avoid alerting the horses, but I can't.
I eventually pass by them without a problem.
I stop and stand still, realizing that my childhood neighborhood and sunny days are some of my top dreamsigns.
I perform a nose reality check and I can breathe.
I check my hands and I have 4 fingers and a thumb. That's strange, shouldn't they be off in a dream?
I keep checking my finger and nose, and eventually conclude that I must be dreaming.
I try to summon somebody, but it doesn't work.
I feel the dream start to fade.

I was at some sort of event, I was at a counter where blocky things that vaguely resembled SNES's were being sold. They had purple, black, and blue. I was disappointed there was no orange, so I grabbed a blue and started walking away.

I was in my father's truck, he had told me to pick up some burgers or something. I had to pull up the seat and adjust the height because he's the size of a gorilla, anyways I back up, and speed around a small gas station like building with a burger king sign. I park outside and enter, there's some chairs and a table. I end up in a grocery store like section. There's some lettuce and a couple tomato slices just sitting on the shelf. I think it's convenient and take a couple bites, its messy as hell and I am somehow covered head to toe in juice. I toss my clothes on the floor and walk into the clothing section, I'm hoping the employees don't catch me naked, so I steal a pair of camouflage pajama pants and struggle to put them on.

Me and some other guy are eaten by some giant monster, there is a room inside it, I catch one of the several strings attached to the ceiling and watch his shoe disappear into the darkness below. I see 3 doors, one has a green sign above it which says exit. Another has a red exit sign, and the last one has a blue sign above it which says not exit. I swing across the strings like a monkey until I reach the red door. I open in, and I get a view of a parking lot and some bushes. I'm about 10 feet off the ground, but I think the bushes will help break my fall a bit. I jump into them and miss a little bit, my butt slams into the asphalt, and my shoulders land in the bushes. I get up and start walking around [COLOR="#0088000"]I think the fall should have hurt a bit more, I remember that I wanted to steal a car. I see a maroon one with the door wide open, I'm about to hop in, but I think that they left their door open for me, so it doesn't count as stealing. I find a nice white one and try to phase through the door. I fail, so I just open it. I tell myself that it doesn't need keys to work so I don't have to look for them. I examine it a bit, where the radio should be, there's a blue button with a G on it. In the back seat there's a small instrument which looks like a ukulele, but the body's square, and it lacks a sound hole. I pull it out, and pluck a string as I run my finger up the fretboard. It has 7 frets and a higher sound than a uke. I toss it back, and push the brake and G. The car starts, I slam the gas to the floor and swerve right. There's a small group of people and one of them is in my way, unfortunately he dodges just in time. I remember that I was supposed to get something from the gas station, I leave the lot, and go down an empty highway with several curves and a bunch of tan walls around me. I end up is some other building, there's a small crowd, and in the center there's an old lady making her crusty white dog stand on an upside down metal bucket while she showers him with a hose. Some other lady is squatting a foot away acting like it's the cutest thing she's ever seen while the water runs off the bucket and soaks the carpet under her shoes. I go have a closer look, and I sit on the carpet, the old lady asks me how I feel about her dog. I'm trying to think of a response, when my father comes out of nowhere and asks me to give my mother's shorts back. [/COLOR]

I was listening to some youtube video where a guy tells someone else's scary experience at a convention.

I was going down a lazy river with my mother. I felt the floor scrape my butt so we got out and walked along it. It got a bit deeper later, but we kept walking. We then get to a ramp, she points out some frog coins and I grab them. [COLOR="#008000"]I feel the dream fade, I try telling her to come get me when my WILDs succeed, it completely faded before I got her response.[/COLOR]

Sci-Fi Rejection:
I'm in a futuristic house with two levels.
I've completed a nose reality check, and become lucid.
I'm trying to start spicy content with a girl nearby, but she isn't interested.
I lose lucidity.

Flight Over The Forest Chasm:
I'm in a forest with giant trees, standing on a leaf.
The leaf is strong enough to support my weight.
The setting reminds me a bit of my childhood front yard, but sized up (or with me sized down).
Out of habit, I perform a nose reality check and become lucid.
In front of me, I see a large chasm. I decide to fly over it.
I make it to another leaf across the chasm without issue.
I start to think about whether I should stabilize.
But I lose lucidity shortly after.


Overlooking the Chasm.

An interesting lucid dream from last night:

Lenny and I

“What would you do if you were invisible?” I ask Lenny. We seem to be involved in some plan to get the secret to invisibility. We talk about this, and I try to think of something that invisibility would actually be useful for that wasn’t immoral. Finally, I think that maybe I would offer my services to the military.

Lenny and I are supposed to be working, I think. We have paused to talk about this. It seems that there is something about golf balls as well – some sort of object with golf balls on it. Our boss (Captain Janeway?) comes along and finds us not working. I think she gently prods us about this.

Looking through a bag of tea and hot chocolate, I realize I’m dreaming. “Lenny,” I say, “I think I might have to leave. This seems to be a dream.” I feel a little uncertain about whether or not I should leave him. I do, however, and try to hold on to the dream. I seem to feel a little guilty for leaving in the middle of our conversation and acting like my friend doesn’t really matter now. However, he seems to be more loyal than me. “D’ye need some help staying in the dream?” Lenny asks. “Yes,” I say, possibly explaining to him that the dream seems to be going. He reaches out and takes my hand, and I try to hold on. I think, however, that I wake up, and attempt to DEILD.

It's interesting, because Lenny seemed like a real friend during the dream, and it was an odd feeling when I realized that I was dreaming. I mean, what do you do? Just suddenly treat your friend like he isn't real? Things didn't seem any different, other than I knew I was dreaming. And then he was such a great guy, trying to help me stay in the dream. I kind of hope I see him again. I feel as though I ought to apologize.

Notable day substances: No caffeine, Decaf, phosphatidyl choline, 5mg Benedryl 7:30pm
WBTB substances: 6mg Galantamine ~4:00AM

I wanted to have my first lucid this time around since my last break to be without Galantamine, but I'm impatient so I threw it into the mix tonight.



WBTB with Galantamine and WILD

I woke up at 3:45 am after 4 and a half hours of sleep. I read some Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming until I felt like my mind was awake, which took 10 minutes. Then I took 6mg of Galantamine and went back to bed.

I normally try to fall asleep as fast as possible after taking Galantamine because it works pretty fast and it’s difficult to sleep after it starts working. After about half an hour with no luck of going back to sleep on my right side, and attempts of laying very still for WILD - I turn over to my left side to try to WILD there.

Over 10 mins I made less and less movements until I was very comfortable and still. After a while I couldn’t really feel my body and that’s when the transition from waking into sleeping consciously began.

I had no visuals but I felt like I was sitting on a rollercoaster. I could feel when I was traveling up the tracks and the momentum and speed when I was going downward, I could feel myself lifting out of my seat. This went on for a while and was really fun, it felt very realistic. I also started to get some slight visuals of the track which was going around a ski-lift over and over again.


Then the visuals started. A colorful background appeared and there was some nonsense text in the middle that looked AI generated. The text made no sense but when I pretended to ‘read it’ it would transform into a new gibberish text. The text was only ever between 1 to 4 words long. Each time I ‘read’ one of these it felt like I was doing something right and getting deeper into something and the visuals got brighter.*

Now a ‘loading screen’ appeared, it was 16-bit SNES graphics scrolling from right to left of a brick wall. It was very stable and I would pick a piece of grouting and watch it go from one side of my vision to the other - the clarity and detail in lucid dreams always amazes me.

After maybe 10 seconds of this the loading is finished and I’m playing a SNES-style beat em’ up genre game**. It looked like Super Double-Dragon - the very basic track ‘Train Ride’ from this game was playing as well, which I haven’t heard in probably over 10 years.


So now I’m playing this game, the graphics are very bright and vivid - enemies are coming at my character which I’m controlling. But I don’t have a real body, it’s like I’m looking at a screen with blackness all around it and that’s it.

I told myself before going to bed that if I had a lucid I was going to go with whatever the dream was, for stability and practice sake. But I didn’t want the dream to be about playing some SNES game, I at least wanted it to be based in a reality-like setting.

So I test out transforming one of the enemies I’m looking at, which begins to work but the contrast and brightness of the dream begins to dim. I figure I’ve only been in here for less than a minute so I should slow down, so I stop doing that and the contrast and brightness return.

I still don’t want to be having this experience so I close my eyes and now I feel my body in bed. I decide to do a reality check and reach over and plug my nose - I can still breathe just fine! Also I’m seemingly on my back, but I know I’m on my left side in reality. So I decide to try to get out of bed to get out of this gaming situation.

But as I start to move I feel like my left arm is still not totally asleep and that if I move it I will wake up, it feels really heavy compared to the rest of my body. So I close my eyes and enter the video game again, just to see a enemy hit my character and die. The game over screen says ‘YOU FAILED!’ with a big fat purple weasel laughing with a high pitched voice as the dream collapses and I return to feeling my actual body in bed laying on my left side, awake. (5:08am)

I think I just tried too much too fast and needed to let the dream develop more and become more involved. I’ve had plenty of close call WILD’s but normally I get to a point where my body feels like it’s humming with electricity as the visuals begin and the dreams collapse very early. I’ll count this as my first successful WILD! Even though I used Galantamine and ruined it pretty fast.



Dream 2

I’m on the phone with JohnF, a guy I only met very briefly maybe 10 years ago. He’s severely depressed and I’m trying to make him feel better but it wasn’t working. I suddenly had the random thought that he hired a hitman to kill someone. I asked him if he had done something irreversible. He said ‘yeah…’

I don’t know what he actually did but I said he should try to forgive himself and maybe do something that feels like he’s giving back to the world in some way.

I heard super Mario RPG music coming through the phone and asked him if he was playing it. He lit up a bit and said he was, the remastered version. And that he had plans to swap if for another game when he was done.

Then an unknown friend of mine comes by the room I'm in (PA house, bedroom at the end of the hall on the left). He says he got a purple coat and a mustache and he's really excited about it. He doesn't want to show me though because he doesn't know the guy I'm talking to, who is now in the room with me.

JohnF and I both say we wanna see it so he shows us. 'It's not purple at all!' I say upon seeing it, it’s a deep mustard yellow. He says 'oh yeah? Well look at THIS!' He opens it up to reveal a mustache on the hanging loop/tag on the jacket. He takes it off and clips it to his nose, it's a really convincing mustache. We both applaud him.


This dream started out serious and dark and ended feeling funny and relaxed.



Dream 3

I’m deep underground in some sort of mine. To demonstrate how extremely deep a hole is, a man/woman pair toss a raccoon down into it. Immediately it sounds like it hit pipes or something and there are lots of scrambling sounds. The man then throws a basketball down which hits something, and then it's silent.

The woman explains that the raccoon was so relaxed when it fell with its limbs stretched out, that when it made contact with the only pipe exposed it quickly grabbed on. Then the basketball was thrown to hit the raccoon and send it all the way down..

We spoke about something but I forget what. I vomited up a strange pufferfish looking like creature into a nearby basin with water in it, which freaked the lady out and she ran off.

This dream just had all around gross vibes.



Dream 4

A gust of wind blows the front door open slightly, Mogmi makes a run for it! He gets outside and I chase after him. He goes right across the street into the backyard of the neighbors (which is unlike IWL).

A man with a large beard is smoking a cigarette on his phone and there is another guy standing there with him.

Mogmi is hopping up like a dog trying to smell the cigarette. I grab him and apologize, then take him back to the house.



*I suspect this was REM starting, reading these short sentences were making my eyes dart back and forth a lot.

**At this point I became aware of NPT (nocturnal erection), which happens during REM.

I had a lucid dream!! Didn't last long though.

I'm in my house's small bathroom, taking a shower. The water doesn't feel very warm and the room is dark, no lights are on. I can see dimly around me - the grey tile walls, the silver shower tray (do those actually have a name??), the small window and white Venetian blind. A thin shaft of white light comes through the blind. I fall down on the floor and wonder why I can't wash my hair. Then I realise, maybe it's because I'm dreaming.

I try testing gravity by jiggling my leg and it moves in slow motion. Then I know. I feel a rush of excitement. But I know I have to stabilise the dream. I hold up my hands to examine them, but I can't see any details of them in the dark. I held them outward under the only glow of light in the room to see a bit better. The light is golden now and in a sort of dim hovering ball. I still can't see much, so I try willing the room to light up, knowing the light switches are outside.

I woke up then. Was it a false awakening, though? I immediately tested gravity again by moving my leg, and it seemed to move very slowly. But I felt so tired that I didn't really register this, just rolled over and went to sleep. I'm wondering if I actually missed a false awakening since I don't usually wake up in the middle of the night. And if I do, I'm rarely so tired that I just go back to sleep.

Still, my first DILD! Better go update my profile's LD count!

I had a short random lucid dream like 20-40min after falling asleep at the beginning of the night. I havent been practicing and I suspect I have a lot of these types or randoms but my recall is terrible lately. I really need to start trying again.

I was at the table with Alysha and she was mocking me telling me "to suck it up" and "be a man". I dont even know what it was about but I got so pissed she wouldn't stop. So I said, "Im about to knock you out" ( I only say that to the dog jokingly in waking life lol). Some old black woman materializes vetween us and starts calming me down and saying calming things and holding my hands over the trash can for some reason. I look over her at my wife to mean mug her but her appearance keeps shifting slightly and I recognize it as a dream. My anger leaves and I zoom over to her and tell her that I am so sorry and I forgive her. She says the same thing back. I say "I know you are just an aspect of myself but Im not going to say how I know that". Then we go to leave and she wants to make out but I want to go do things outside. I kiss her a little and then push away. I wake up.

I was in some busy street, there was some asain restaurant. I entered, there were several people with sushi on their plates. I checked my wallet to be sure it was there, it wasn't, so I left the store. I walked down the street a bit and then forgot what I left the store for. I reentered and remembered that I left cause I forgot my wallet. I was really embarrassed so I grabbed a straw and a pack of chopsticks off the front desk and left.

[COLOR="#008000"]I got out of bed, I felt weightless, but I was really short for some reason. I walked outside and noticed that I returned to normal size. I started digging in one place to get under the house but I wasn't making much progress. I went to a part with a different dirt type and started digging. I accidentally broke off a piece of the wall. It had soggy plywood boards and fiberglass. I stopped cause it felt gross, I then remembered that I wanted to go down the street to see if it would be like the last time. I walked down my driveway. I looked to the east, the sky brain was gone. I looked forward and in the distance there were several tall buildings that resembled the Washington monument. I went down the street, I passed some houses, there was a metal gate in my way so I just walked through it. There were some cars, and I could see some buildings, to the south was a brown square building with red cloth draped on the exterior. To the north was a big hotel and a smaller hotel. I walked to the large hotel and entered. I slipped into the elevator and accidentally pushed all the buttons, so I pushed a button that deselected them. There was a man in there with me. He asked for a name, I was stunned because I had a sense that I was trespassing."E?" he asked, 'Ethan.' I then smacked my face because I definitely do not look like an Ethan. He that said the name of my favorite cousin, and the elevator moved up. I walked into the hallway, there was a room across from the elevator with the door open. I entered and I recognized some of my cousin's friends. She sat at a table, I greeted her with a hug and she said something and I said something about it being a dream, and she tells me "It's a world now because you've been here so long." we move to a couch, she closes her eyes and slows her breathing. I hear three pings like the ones from assassins creed, she gives a date "(i forgot)/24/24, I will die a horrible death from a firebomb." I copy her movements, I don't hear the pings, but I feel them in my mind, I have a hard time making it out but I think I see the words '11 MST burger' I then open my eyes. My parents have joined me and we start a conversation about something, I notice my 3ds is flashing red so I get up to grab a charger my mother screams something about me being addicted to games and grabs at me. Everyone is now pissed off so I sit in a chair, stare at the wall, and remind myself not to let a dream character make me too mad. I am staring into the wall when something catches my attention. An army or something is blowing up the stairs. I run past the stairwell, there's an explosion, I go into a room and hide under the stove. I notice that there's no wall behind it. I crawl under it, and I walk under all the shelves into a secret room. A man dressed as Luigi jumps into a pipe, I try to jump in after him, but I land wrong. I get up and some guy shows up, and a bunch of zelda dialogue bubbles pop up with too many words to read as the dream fades. [/COLOR]

This will be my first post on this platform as I am a new user but I am looking forward to reading and connecting with other individuals. I have a lot of experience with lucid dreaming and I have been doing it for several years now. Recently I have begun a new phase of my adult life; I have lost interest to carnal desires and I am going on 3 years strong of complete sobriety. I even managed to completely ditch energy drinks which was a very hard thing for me to accomplish. I believe that all these factors contribute to my most recent lucid dream. My dreams usually become lucid about half way through when I realize that I am dreaming and I completely gain control of the dream experience. Yesterday's dream started the same as all my other lucid dreams have done, only this time things were a lot different. I have been trying to connect to the metaphysical for several months now through meditation so the idea of reaching out to my higher self has been at the back of my mind for a while. My dream from yesterday went from lucid to sleep paralysis which often also leads to astral projection for me but this time I was aware enough to call out to my higher self. I requested its presence and it is then that I heard a voice in my head. I couldn't see anything but I could hear a voice and feel very intense vibrations throughout my entire body. It was honestly kind of intimidating but I managed to not become fearful and kept on asking my higher self the questions that I wanted to know. The first thing that I asked it off the bat was what my purpose was. The voice responded that it knew but could not tell me because it would get in trouble. That one got to me because it almost assured me that there is a cosmic law that even higher beings have to follow. I made the mistake of not writing down what I asked it as soon as I woke up because I can not remember the full conversation. Another thing that my higher self told me wasn't an answer to a question but a message of its own to me. It told me that my daughter had a gift for science and that she had the gift to obtain a great career in this realm. I was taken back because none of my other two boys were brought up, only she was. It requested that I feed this gift by nurturing her curiosity and making her feel supported. Now I'm contemplating how I can provide her with a good scientific education, she already goes to a good school for girls that is set up to help young girls obtain greatness. The last exchange I remember having with this sentient being is telling it that I loved it dearly and appreciated its helpful information. I woke up with the same amount of consciousness that I had going in as if the fine line between sleep and being awake was non present. Now that I have had my first conversation with my higher self, I will continue to expand my experiences in this topic and post them here so that I can know if anyone else out there has gone through something similar.

Forgot by now what the original lucid dream was about exactly, but it was another thing where only I could do something. Not sure why that type of dream appeared two nights in a row. I left into the attack on titan world for the final day of the challenge through making the city fold up from the ground. It was already cool seeing every building rise into view but seeing the walls go even higher than expected was impressive to see. Even after all the other dreams I could not get used to how huge they are. I almost began destroying the city from the start, but I was able to remember about the whole deal of only destroying more if the survey corps attempted to evacuate. I headed straight for the barracks, preparing a sword out of the long hair-like strands of hardening I had on me.

As I neared the barracks, I noticed one of the titan team members waiting by a building. I went with them and we entered a building where I met many more team members than in any other dream. I could tell this was supposed to be everyone on the titan team for the competition along with several dream characters. I was already confident with the few from before but this seemed like overkill. We strategized a bit and when the meeting ended we headed towards the barracks in groups. Each of the members had swords with them from my ability to defend themselves in human form. Since the survey corps did not know of our full numbers we had a group with all known titans, with the others splitting to spread across to cover more ground.

We could see that training was still going on, so it appeared they listened to our demands from the last dream. My group walked up to the front gate, seeing some of the survey corps already standing there waiting. They tried to convince us to turn back as our last chance before the attack happened, with their swords already out. In the middle of conversation one of them rushed at me and tried cutting my head off. Quick enough to call it instinct, I was able to stop the blade with my hand and shattered it. Seeing the risk to the other teammates and wanting to add impact, I used mass telekinesis to shatter all the other swords pointed at us in what appeared to the characters as a result of the impact. Our group transformed and the fight began. With our appearance several of the buildings in and out of the base had their windows shattered as countless survey corps attempted to end the fight before we could cause any destruction.

With all the soldiers coming out, some were slicing at legs and other at arms but I noticed they were not aiming for the nape for some reason. Since the colossal titan already transformed, he ran into the center of the base to completely crush everything there. I was trying to defend myself by flinging the people attached to my arms and stomping at those near my legs, but the amount of people was much higher than in any other fight. Looking to check on the other titan, he was already on the ground with no limbs left. Even without aiming for the weak spot, disabling the titan brought him down and made the nape much easier to hit for the kill. It was too late for me to save them, but their strategy was now clear. The other titans surrounding the base started transforming in an attempt to overwhelm the survey corps, but I could see countless soldiers come out the buildings near them as well. This was clearly meant to be a fight between the entirety of both teams.

I restricted my dream control to only what my titan could reasonably do, as I wanted it to be a fair fight. With each group rushing at the barracks, there were three other titans that were very quickly cut down by all the soldiers slicing at their limbs. I started trying something similar to my titan sized sword in a past dream through spinning blades around my limbs to cut the cords off the soldiers surrounding me. Even if they were not killed by the blades, they would eventually lose both cords and either fall to their deaths or be unable to come back up. The colossal titan is capable of releasing a ton of superheated steam at once for a massive explosion, so we got him to do that even if it hit other titans. Although some titans were hurt by the blast, it terribly burnt and even killed some of the survey corps surrounding the titans. Between the blasts of heat, one of the soldiers were able to launch themselves up at the colossal titan’s nape and take it down.

Even if we were able to take down most of the survey corps, about half of the titans have already been killed. I began forming spikes and blades from the ground near the other titans to defend them, and that brought the soldiers’ attention to me. To end the fight, getting them all to attack me would prevent me from needing to run at every single soldier. Once every soldier was on me, I formed walls in all directions to close them in with me. Having it close off as a dome, they were unable to escape. With their teamwork they were able to cut my body down and even decapitate my titan form, but my ability to move my human body within kept those attacks from finishing me off. Reforming limbs and spikes with the hardening as they kept fighting eventually brought me to not even resemble a humanoid shape anymore.

It was difficult to get the last few survey corps as they continued dodging and cutting at my endless spikes but eventually they were worn down along with their equipment through running out of swords or gas. Once I finally got to one soldier left, I took down the titan form to fight them one on one as a human. Bringing out my own blade against their last sword, we were able to talk as we fought. Complimenting each other’s strategies and skill, we somewhat bonded even as clear enemies. Our swords finally snapped, and we were able to come to an agreement. Although we had the plan to wipe all the survey corps out, I would want to fight this soldier again. We chose to end the fight as a draw, and I made a way for them to leave the walls I formed without the other titans noticing. On pulling down the walls, the rest of the titans saw there was no one left and claimed victory. Those of us left were able to gather for a celebration in a successful ending to the pr. I doubt I would return to this specific pr but there is enough left over for the pr to continue developing if I were to come back.

Uhh, not sure what the deadline is for this comp, but I’m uploading this anyway… I hope next time I’m not so busy

Night 10

Decent RCs.

Dream #1 (Non-Lucid):
Yuu had gotten Mika (both from OnS) into some trouble and now he’d been eaten by a giant ogre. His soul was being used to go on a killing spree. Yuu got himself eaten to save him and destroyed a bracelet to “hide” Mika’s energy.


Dream #2 (Non-Lucid):
Two guys were in a relationship but one was pretty toxic, he was upset that the other didn’t go to school with the green lipstick he’d bought him. He shoved him down on the couch and went on a ten-minute rant about how it was way cuter than normal lipstick…


Dream #3 (Non-Lucid):
I was in a school classroom in China, and a boy had taken a video of another boy sleeping on desks with two girls. He was trying to stir up trouble, so I took his phone and deleted it, forcing him to unlock his “recently deleted.”


Dream #4 (Lucid):
The girls from Life by Suenobu Keiko were in a mall buying something at a cash register. Ayumu ignored a guy hitting on her to jump on Hatori, squealing, “Hatori, I neeeed youuuu~!”

Hatori hugged her back with one arm. “You know, Ayumu, I like to have fun, but being a pal will always come first.”

In the distance was an ex-teacher who was now a professional race driver, trying to recruit her old students to the derby.

Scene change. (J) and I were in Japan in an Ethiopian store. I took some candies out of a jar that was displayed before we left.

“Hey, isn’t that stealing?” (J) asked.

“Uhh, I don’t think so. Why would they be out in the open like that if they weren’t for people to take?”

“Lots of stores do that. Doesn’t mean it’s free game.”

“Well, whatever.”

As we were walking, I noticed the snow was melting and started running home. Except I was only running with one leg, which made me think, It’s like a dream…

I told (J) I needed some help running and grabbed her hand. She quickly got ahead of me, but somehow I could feel her hand even when we were disconnected. For a second I wondered about the physics of that, but then I realized it was impossible. This must be a dream!

I told (J) and she easily believed me (this is not what I mean by my personal goal of making a DC lucid). She wondered if I would still feel her hand if one of us died, and since she’d never died in a dream before we decided she would be the one to kick the bucket.

I decided to kill her myself to hopefully reduce the amount of adrenaline. We both held the string of a balloon to connect our hands, and then I grabbed another, trying to make a beam of light explode out of it and hit her. But it just jerked weakly to the side and deflated with a tiny glow.

Next I tried to shoot energy out of my hands, but that didn’t work either. (J) made fun of me, saying, “This is why you should never try silly, informal experiments! Never! Never! Never! Never!…”

I woke up as she was chanting.


Dream #5 (Non-Lucid):
Someone on DV dared people to be their friend, so I sent them a request and they instantly accepted. Suddenly a timer appeared on the screen for me to become their “grandchild.” I was confused but accepted in a panic.

A new section on the website unlocked and spammed me with notifications. Apparently grandchildren had responsibilities, something to do with chatting with people. I woke up before I could find out more.


Dream #6 (Fragment, Non-Lucid):
I was drawing, experimenting with clothing creases and shading.


Night 11

Decent RCs.

Dream #1 (Non-Lucid):
I could make these video-game mushrooms fall from my hands using my summoning strategy. (So upset I didn’t get lucid…) I proceeded to “hallucinate” many things, one of which was a cute bunny eraser that I could hold firmly. I was shocked that no one else could see or feel it.

Later I went to (J) & (L)’s house and (A) was sleeping over. I was a bit upset but didn’t want to go in because I wasn’t wearing a mask.


Dream #2 (Non-Lucid):
My brain combined the games Alter Ego and Project Sekai. Anyone with over 27J EGO was invited to a ProSeka event where they were giving out $3,000 scholarships.

The parking was very weird, located in the very back of this pool place, and inside the seating arrangements seemed to be designed for a psych experiment. In the end I gave up trying to figure out the meaning and just sat next to (J). I complained about having lost my old account with 999.99Z, since it would've made me eligible for a much larger scholarship.


Dream #3 (Non-Lucid):
Fantasy world. This boy could choose his “mom,” and always chose dragons for some reason. His first mom was like an extremely toxic yandere, she had so many rules and ended up eating him so he wouldn’t leave her.

He was reborn and this time moved in with a friendly old dragon on an island, who only hated it when people got angry. The boy didn’t get angry often, but one day he wanted to be the only one to water the flowers, to be “MVP” or something. He yelled at the old dragon, who went silent and trudged into his house. Woke up before I could see any real consequences.


Dream #4 (Fragment, Non-Lucid):
One of my brothers was watching me from under my bedroom door. I was annoyed but not frightened.


Night 12

I woke up at 4:00 and went back to sleep, but I don’t remember any dreams before this one. Decent RCs.

Okay it pains me to do this, but the dreams from here on are sooo long and I don’t have time to type them out, so I’m just going to put the titles.

Dream #1 (Non-Lucid)


Night 13

Decent RCs and brief meditation.

Dream #1 (Non-Lucid)

Dream #2 (Non-Lucid)

Dream #3 (Non-Lucid)


Night 14

Decent RCs and brief meditation.

Dream #1 (Fragment, Non-Lucid)

Dream #2 (Non-Lucid)

Dream #3 (Non-Lucid)

Dream #4 (Non-Lucid)

Dream #5 (Non-Lucid)

Dream #6 (Non-Lucid)


Points:
Night 10
RCs - .5 points
WBTB - 2 points
Remember a Full Non-Lucid Dream (x4) - 4 points
DILD - 10 points
Interact with a Dream Character - 2 points
Telekinesis - 5 points
Remember a Non-Lucid Fragment - .5 points

Night 11
RCs - .5 points
WBTB - 2 points
Remember a Full Non-Lucid Dream (x3) - 3 points
Remember a Non-Lucid Fragment - .5 points

Night 12
RCs - .5 points
WBTB - 2 points
Remember a Full Non-Lucid Dream - 1 point

Night 13
RCs and meditation - 1 points
WBTB - 2 points
Remember a Full Non-Lucid Dream (x3) - 3 points

Night 14
RCs and meditation - 1 point
WBTB - 2 points
Remember a Non-Lucid Fragment - .5 points
Remember a Full Non-Lucid Dream (x5) - 5 points

Total - 48 points
Comp total: 202.5 points

In this lucid dream a gate was opened up to go between the world and hell, and I was one of the few who could go back and forth. While there I was also capable of writing names to free people back to the living world, almost like the opposite of a death note. My goal was to write down every name to bring everyone back, but with the clearly repetitive task ahead of writing billions of names, I chose to enter the attack on titan pr. Using a similar gate as the one for hell, I had it send me over to the pr. I wanted to complete the task of speaking with the survey corps so I went searching for them instead of my titan teammates. It was not hard finding one, as at this point there were soldiers all over the streets. Most were practically policemen instead of survey corps, but it still got me closer to them. As I was about to approach one, a member of the titans pulled me into an alley and asked what I was even doing. I told them I wanted to hear them out at least once more before they were wiped out.

They agreed that I could, on the condition that they along with another member came with me. I saw they had another teammate with them already, the member being Saizapod. Agreeing to it we went up to the soldier I was going towards earlier. The soldier started panicking after recognizing me and noticing I came with others, but we made it clear we just wanted to talk. I could tell they were going to attack anyways, so I decided to have fun with it and made myself invincible right before they tried shooting at me. I was a bit surprised since I was used to swords in the pr but it still did nothing. We could not get the soldier to calm down, but he eventually agreed to take us to other soldiers that had direct connections to the survey corps. They seemed to be a higher rank than him since they scolded him a lot, but agreed to meet at their choice of location.

They seemed to have something already planned at the location we were headed towards, as they were able to quickly decide on a place. It was outside of the walls, so clearly meant to be away from civilians and important buildings. As we went there some of us tried asking questions to the soldiers but they really did not want to give away any useful information. I used mind manipulation to make them willing to talk, and after they answered a question for me the other titans caught on and repeated questions that weren’t answered before. Our questions included asking who we were meeting along with whatever defenses and plans they had with the place. It turns out they wanted to bait us there later, but since that was not supposed to happen yet there were still a good amount of supplies openly stored there. There were also a lot of survey corps members there, but I wanted to talk to them anyway and was confident if a fight were to happen.

As we were arriving there were a few buildings almost as if it were a small town, but based on the soldier’s description it was all a survey corps base hidden outside the walls. He spoke about the situation with a survey corps member outside, and they started bringing tables and chairs outside to set up the meeting. It was smart of them to not trap themselves inside a collapsible building with titans, but that didn’t make much difference to our plans of a peaceful talk and potential fight. Once it was all set up, the three of us titans were faced with about 10 survey corps members and several watching in the distance. Among all the visible members I saw Hukif, Cookino, and theshirecat. It was a really long conversation revolving around plans both sides had, possible peaceful solutions, with a bunch of threatening each other mixed into it. Although we were confident in our abilities, it would be more advantageous to have all the titans with us rather than facing all the survey corps with just the three of us. Although it was uncertain if a fight would break out here, we revealed our plan to attack the barracks with all the training facilities around it. If they used that information to simply evacuate it, we would destroy the city.

Now writing a bit about the conversation, I’m not too sure what the strategy was behind telling them but it got the soldiers to focus on that day rather than focusing on just the three of us. When the meeting finally ended we were unsure if a fight would break out but we reasoned they would deviate from our plan for the final fight if there weren’t enough of them left. We used a simple carriage to head out and the same driver took us back, but the entire time we were unsure if a fight would break out from the soldiers taking us or from other soldiers within the walls. We were able to arrive safely and went our own ways, with me leaving the pr there. Not much action happened, but it was all to complete the old task and to set up the big fight on the final night.

Party Memories:
I'm at a wedding party, but I don't know whose it is.
The party is being held at an outdoor venue, and it looks like a mixture of IM's (from the Tots) and MM's (from highschool) backyards.
It's night-time, and there is a hot tub on my right. I see BY from highschool in a full suit, and wonder if he got the memo that this was supposed to be casual.
There is a sliding door on the left, and it goes into the sitting room from my previous home.
I set up an area there, sort of "my spot" where I can feel less socially awkward, and gather up the people I know at the party.
...
I'm in a local bar called Cornish Pasty. I'm sitting at the bar with MW from highschool.
We're sitting where I sat a few months back with JV in waking life.
He's there because I am getting married soon.
MW tells me that there might be something in the mail for me, implying he's bought one of the wedding registry items.
I'm feeling awkward, looking for a conversation topic, when I remember that I was at his wedding party recently.
I bring it up, and he remarks how drunk everybody was, and how we are all singing.
I tell him I remember that, but I don't.

Stuck:
I'm waking up in my bed, and I remember that I had just returned to sleep from my 6hr/20m WBTB.
I do a nose reality check and I can breathe. I'm dreaming.
I'm in bed, but I can't move. I try to blink-teleport, imagining that if I can just change the dream scene I'll regain my movement naturally.
So, I close my eyes and imagine a vast blue ocean.
I open my eyes.
Nothing changes, still stuck.
The dream fades and I wake briefly.

Loki and Oreo:
I false awake into my bed again, knowing to reality check.
I'm lucid again, but still can't move.
This time I try something else. I imagine my old Doberman Loki (rest is peace, he was the best boy).
The idea is that he will jostle the bed enough to kick my body into gear.
I call for him "Loki! Are you here?" and he comes bounding into the bedroom and jumps into the bed.
He, of course, lays down next to me because he always was a big lazy boy.
He looks up at me, inquisitive as ever with his dopey eyes and large snoot. He looks so real. I laugh, and wonder if my girlfriend can hear me laughing in waking life (I asked later, she could not).
My plan worked, when Loki jumped on me, that was enough to give me my movement back.
I looked back down, and now Loki had changed into a different childhood pet.
My longhair black and white cat, Oreo (also rest in peace, she was top-gangsta thug).
I get out of bed and say "C'mon! Let's go!" and Oreo gracefully leaps off the bed to follow me.
I see her characteristic "gangsta-prowl" as she moves and marvel at how well my brain is recreating my old pets.
Finally I leave the bedroom and realize that I should stabilize the dream soon, worried that it might fade.
The dream is a near-perfect recreation of my house, but it has blue hue to it.
Otherwise, the best way I can describe it is "thin". I think to myself, maybe I am low on REM sleep.
I start to narrate what I am doing as I do it "I'm walking in my hallway, I'm stabilizing the dream, I'm touching the walls..."
It occurs to me that I need to spend less time in my own head, or the dream is going to fade.
I make a concerted effort to engage with the environment, and not internalize too much.
As is tradition at this point, I lick the wall to help stabilize. It tastes like wall.
All this seems to help a bit, but I believe that I was simply low on REM, so the dream was going to be unstable no matter what.
Then I remember that it was the last night of competition, and I had defined some goals.
I recall my first goal of the three-step is to "summon" and then "ask for advice" so I go to summon Jordan Peterson.
But wait, I changed my mind earlier on the plan. I struggle to remember, but then I do.
During my WBTB 20 minutes, I decided instead that I would summon Daniel Love, because he would be able to assist me with a teleport.
I start to imagine Daniel Love in my house. I call out to him "Daniel! Are you here? Daniel?"
For a moment, no response.
But then a head pops out from behind a door down the hallway on the right, where the bathroom is.
"Yeah yeah I'm here!" he says, a bit flustered.
But, before I can ask him for advice on teleporting, the dream fades out.