lucid

Another lucid after a WBTB

I am on a beach. This time I am very lucid and I have no doubt in my mind that this one is worth counting for full points.

The beach is an OTD environment. The weather is cloudy with a dark storm out at sea. The clouds are very vivid and detailed, they seem to be stacked up and up as I look into the sky in this massive cumulonimbus cloud. It is windy but it is not raining though I occasionally hear a stroke of thunder.

The beach also has a strange pattern, like there is a subsurface layer of concrete or stone with sand over it with corrugations or waves about every half-meter. Man-made in nature its not a natural formation. Thus the beach (or at least this section of it) alternates between a thin layer of sand and raw stone. I remember as I am walking (barefoot and by the looks of it in-form) the ground beneath my feet properly changes texture and resiliency. I experiment with it, seeing if the pattern is correctly maintained even when I am not looking just judging where my feet should be.

I think that this is a lucid dreaming competition, and a lot of points are awarded for dream control so I had best start racking that up. I set an intention to keep the dream long and stable and remember all of it. I decide to start simple and start running. This form is much more capable and athletic than my waking form. Even on sand running at great speed is effortless, and there is no strain in my knees or ankles or no difficulty breathing. I don't know if I could take points for super speed its tough to say if this was just a fast run but one that a normal person could do.

I took off and launched myself, pushing energy down to create my rockets. This works though there is still lethargy in the rockets, the flame is pitiful and doesn't provide much propulsion. I still get a long leap traveling down the beach, maybe two meters vertical and ten meters distance. I try again pushing down a little harder and get a bit more altitude. Still I'm barely flying but I manage to stay in the air long enough to fly in a circle and do a flip in the air before landing, but I'm still dealing with impotence. I decide to land and surrender that task, supposing I've done enough to count for basic flight. And because the dream is really vivid even this very low-level flying is exhilirating.

I then meet a dream figure, a larger man carrying a large white bag it looks like it would contain topsoil or rock salt or something, but the label says like "Moo Moo Strawberry Milkshake Mixture Powder". The man starts talking to me trying to convince me to try/drink his beverage because it has health benefits. He shows me the drink in some small cups set out on a table and I think I should try it (knowing you can get points for eating or drinking something). But I don't get around to drinking it. Instead, for some plot reason I don't remember he gives me a black thumb drive and tells me to read the data on it. The data is the formulation for this mixture.

The dream scene transitions to a library or study in a fancy mansion or old university. I use a summoning trick to pull out a slate (a slate is a small highly advanced crystal computer which I have used a couple of times). I use a sort of adapter to connect the modern flash drive to highly futuristic crystal computer. I try to activate the device though it doesn't seem to work, the device won't even activate.

I shrug and surrender that this isn't working and that I'm not particularly interested in this plotline anyways. The dream scene changes again. Now I'm in my childhood home. The dream is substantially less vivid. I decide I will attempt to summon Manei, even though I have been in this situation many times before, having lucid dreams of being alone in my childhood home attempting to execute dream control. I think about how my theory is that mundanity and grounded-ness of the location might unconsciously stifle all my dream control attempts as I think of it too much as a purely 'real' location. Thus the rules of waking reality are imposed.

I meander around for a bit calling her name, opening doors with the anticipation of finding her behind them and using my old summoning command. Just a "throw crap at the wall and see what sticks." Though I know this has never worked. Eventually I get frustrated since I have dealt with this situation so many times before over many years (clearly no longer fully lucid at this point as I am getting tainted by emotion) and try to brute force it. I just concentrate on an area and visualize her appearing very intensely, like imposing your imagination on waking reality. This actually seems to partially work and I can see her starting to manifest sort of like wet paint being washed away in reverse the right colors and shapes are starting to come in. Each time the visualization starts to unravel or she is just becoming me talking to myself I yell "stop!" and try to keep her 'physical' form from unraveling. I managed to get her left hand completely solidified and started to pull on it, trying to get the rest of her out of the fog. But the physical effort translated to the waking world where I was yanking and thrashing in my bed, causing me to wake up.

DILD 10pt
DC Interact 2pt
Flight 5pt
Use Electronic Device 5pt (didn't work)
Advanced Summoning 15pt (Someone tell me if this botched/unfinished attempt counts. I can still take basic summoning for having my slate if not.)

NONLUCID DREAM

Got McDonald’s and just got a burger and drink. I wanted fries but I panicked and ran out of time putting in the mobile order and wasn’t expecting there to be literally no line. Also, I had accidentally put sent the order through and didn’t have time to cancel it so I just had to get what I ordered because I didn’t want to make a second order. I went inside and the cashier asked me to write a review on the kiosk (idk why I had to pay when I already made a mobile order) and that theyre only asking women to write reviews. I thought that was cool so I told her as such. I was writing my review I kinda didn’t know what to say and suddenly the review box was separated into 6 boxes kind of like a egg carton or box of chocolates and I felt bad that my responses took up 3 boxes, even though 1 box I put a rose and another I put a chocolate idk what I was doing lol. So I took my food and left and I ate it really fast and was sad because I was still hungry so I was thinking about how maybe I can make some bourbon chicken later. Also I remember another place I had went had me do the women only review thing too

Before I went to McDonald’s I had been walking around Walmart looking at stuff, I remember looking at the football themed stuff for some reason lol thinking tbat ok damn wait Walmart actually has game like this stuff doesn’t look too bad some of this stuff would make good gifts, there was a huge brown real leather duffel that was supposed to look like a football, they had water bottles, trophies all kinds of stuff.

I also looked in the Christmas area and almost bought something but told myself I already had that thing at home and just had to find it and stop just repurchasing stuff when it got lost and I didn’t feel like looking for it. So I put it back, and when I got home I actually did find it

Also when I got home, by where I found that thing, I also found a pillow under my bed tbat I didn’t remember I had so it must have been under there a while. I was confused bc it was the matching pillow I had to a small pillow on my bed so now I could put them by my side but I knew I didn’t have 2 of that exact pillow irl but I just followed dream logic and shook off the confusion and put the pillow back on the bed and then I woke up

DEILD
I woke up without moving or opening my eyes. I knew that + the fact that I had just woken from a dream meant I was in the perfect state for a deild plus my whole body was tingling. I started to get thrown off by the fact that I could hear my fan and was I even really asleep and I started to get scared that I was wasting time and missing my window to have a deild and in my head I was like should I just do dreamWalker instead and not even try deild, but I remembered it’s easier to re enter dreams you just woke up from instead of making your own scene so I started remembering my dream but the part when I was still at Walmart, not in bed with the pillows
After a few seconds of this, I opened my eyes and was standing in Walmart


LUCID DREAM

there was 2 workers in the aisle with me one was asking if the shelf she’d be working on looked good and the other was a supervisor and she was saying no lmao. I wanted to get away and work on my personal goal in private and when they both turned toward me I got really mad bc my dream characters are always trying to interrupt me and distract me and an angry scream directed toward them started rising in my throat but I managed to tamper it down and control myself 😂😂😂 Bc I know from experience my DCs dont tend to react well to that so I tried to politely ask where was the bathroom bc I was planning to use the mirror as a portal to the void again but when I passed an empty aisle I ducked into it and decided to use the spinning technique instead so I just started slowly spinning in a circle affirming to enter the void aware and I got into it so I was extremely excited and affirmed for my wish list but then it turned into me floating in a galaxy so I knew it was just another fake and i woke up soon after that. I thought about trying deild again to dream chain but wanted to write down the experience

Okay I'm back.

My sleep has been really disrupted the last few days. Some IRL drama really messed with my flow in this comp. (Here's hoping its one of those comps that gets extended and gets a third week.)

I did two WBTBs this morning until I got some results. It wasn't a good LD. Normally I don't count LDs for comps unless I'm really lucid, but I'm feeling generous to myself so I'll count this one.

I had some memories of earlier sections of the dream. I was on a beach with purple sand. The sand was crystalline, like grains of ground-up amethyst. I was also at my grandparents (father's side) house for part of the dream. The kitchen was rearranged weirdly and my grandmother was baking something. I rarely saw her cook or bake.

I was in some OTD environment. It seems like a dirt field, like an industrial junkyard with old broken concrete and scrap metal and stuff sitting around in piles, surrounded by trees. On one side the trees open up revealing a view. The field is on top of a shallow hill which stretches out over to a city with some tall buildings. I am there, (semi)lucid and in dream form with some dream figures.

One of them is examining my form, while a few others stand around. She is one of the 'higher ups' is being gentle and relatively respectful about it so I don't mind. I've spent a lot of time in dreams and immersive daydreaming tweaking it and I guess is schematized pretty well and she muses about it seemingly very impressed. I only stop her when she pulls up my shirt and starts poking me in the stomach. She says something like "you have a very interesting abdomen" and I sense that she is scanning me. In some variations of this form the internal anatomy is also changed. I politely asked her to stop poking me there as that (waking body or dream body) is generally off limits. She obliged. Seemingly much more moderate and willing to listen than most encounters with these individuals.

I remember her offering me to explore higher dimensional space as compensation for her getting to examine me. I agreed, knowing it would probably net some interesting results for the dream comp and creates a portal. It sort of looks and behaves like Dr. Strange's mirror dimension. I travel through the portal and find a strange alternate version of the space I was in. Everything is beautiful painterly shades of orange, red and purple. I take off and start flying through the trees, though I'm also shifting through higher dimensions as I do. The entire scene distorts and melts into swirling caustic blobs and the dream destabilizes around here.

Reality Checks 1pt
WBTB 2pt
DILD 10pt
DC Interact 2pt
Fly 5pt

Dream 1
The dream starts off with an argument with my dad. Then I find myself in a classroom and I meet a boy who's rich and likes me. He comments on how many clothes I have but I don't have that many and they're all sparkly periwinkle blue. The wardrobe is in the class. Then he betrays me and the class mocks me so I annoy him.

Dream 2
I've woken up, it's 7am and I'm getting ready for school but I have 2 hours left until I have to go so I just lounge on the sofa thinking about the days I was fitter. I eat cottage cheese straight out of the fridge (??) and I'm mad they've all been opened. My hair feels crispy and oily.

(this dream basically just mocked me the entire time LMAO)

Dream 3 (lucid)
Starts out non lucid where I was working at my old job but it was a mix of my old and new one. I was paid little and hated it. It was also my birthday and people were giving me gifts. One of my old colleagues gave me an al-rehab perfume which was supposedly very high class but irl it's so cheap. It somehow doubled as a meet and greet with some fitness trainer.

I also found a perfume called "Anastasia Princess" and it smelled coconuty. Here is where I became lucid.

I decided to steal the perfume from the girl who brought it in to give us samples. She had a container for the perfumes that looked like a merry go round. I woke up then but thought no, I need to steal those perfumes. So I re-entered the dream out of pure spite. While the girl wasn't looking I took her merry go round thingy and shoved it in my bag. However, they caught me. So I reversed time in the dream to try a new strategy, kinda like a video game. This time I just ran with it and went down the emergency exit of my building. I met a teacher who asked why I was there and I said there are some teenagers blocking the main route and I don't like that.

Once I ran out everyone was hunting for me and people were pointing so I floated up as I normally do to get away. But it was too slow. So I decided to finally learn how to fly properly in a dream. I flapped my arms and I started flying quickly! I decided to take it further and learn something else. I thought, well, I have all these powers, let me just manifest my celebrity crush and make out with him.

It wasn't working so I decided to just transform any of the people around me into him. That didn't work either so I started looking for people specifically his height. And then it worked! But he was laughing bc although he looked like him on the outside, it was still the original DC on the inside.

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After those dreams I decided to nap a bit after my alarm and had a false awakening.

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I'm never beating the allegations that all my dreams take place in school

I head out from the bakery and make a right. I reach the edge of the mall area as I make my way down the main walkways, buildings on either side. I rise up and my lucidity raises. I see a massive brown mountain far in the distance, small bits of early morning light beginning to enter the otherwise dark scene. Scan tells me that the mountain is named Mt. Hirei. I feel a sense of awe and wonder taking on the scene. I feel a renewed sense of love for lucid dreaming. I turn from the mountain scene and back into the mall section of this mini city area. The donuts from the previous shop were pretty good, so I decide to find some more. I fly down the main walkway, passing several shops, looking for another bakery. I pass by a group of young guys.
“We’re dreaming, guys”. I finally find a shop to the to go t and enter, looking for donuts. I see several round pastries in a bin to the right, but they appear to be bagels. I look a bit more and soon spot a serving Sat on with a couple rows of fancy ice cream cones of various colors. A large employee begins to approach and I snap to go invisible. He walks straight past me. I grab one of the Interesting looking green cones and begin to look for ice cream. I then spit a coffee machine and grab a cup. I hit a button and coffee begins to come out, heading into the cup underneath. I grab the items and begin to fly off, back down the original walkway. As I had down, I view some of the establishments on my left side as I pass. A couple of them appear to be for financial purposes- possibly a loaning center and bank of some sort. I finally reach two escalators ima dim area. I think about how long th lucid has been as I ascend one. I notice that they’re running up at different angels. As I ascend one, it begins to curve around to the to right, outside of the main area, and into an open area suspended above a massive drop. It appears to be night time. I prepare to rise back into the main mall area, get begin to wake up.

LUCID DREAM (49)

I woke up naturally for wbtb (WBTB- 2) and started performing the dream walker technique. I was scared I was too awake and wanted to speed up the induction practice so I began running through the imagined scene instead of walking. I experienced some hypnogogia (1) but the. technique worked and I became fully lucid in my imagined scene. (FIRST WILD OF NIGHT- 10) I got shocked out the dream, but continued the technique and was soon back in. (SUBSEQUENT WILD-5). I stabilized (1) by licking my bathroom wall. I was standing in front of my bathroom mirror so I decided to use the mirror as a portal. I pushed my hand through it to make sure it wasn’t solid (3 STEP TASK #1- push hand through solid object-5) and I was able to push my hand through successfully so I then used the mirror as a teleportation device and went through (3 STEP TASK 2- fully faced through big solid object- 10, TASK 3- teleport 15) and I was in a fake void space. It was fully black and I felt like I was spinning. After a few minutes I lost lucidity


DREAM 1-1

My moms friend Courtenay asked me to cover her for some theater play thing but it kept nearly interfering with a play thing I already had going on. She’d give me no notice, and just expect me to be available. This happened multiple times in the dream, the last time was her needing me to go to this rehearsal at a specific time and stay the whole time but it would be cutting it really close to when I had to be at my own rehearsal. Then I had to fill out this worksheet for her that was busywork tedious fill in the blank stuff that needed to be done before I got to my rehearsal thing. I asked this guy to help me, idk him irl but I did in the dream, he was big and I sat on his knee while he was helping me

DREAM 2-1

Irl my ex boyfriend texted me today before bed, after days of Nc. In the dream, I “woke up” to find that I had messaged him back in my sleep, or like pocket responded. I think I just said “okay” or something and I was mad bc that wasn’t how I’d wanted to respond and I also hadn’t wanted to respond so soon. He had already messaged me and idr what he said but he was pissed off by my message and his response had lots of dot dot dots
………… in it

DREAM 3-1

My ex (but we were still together in the dream) got handed a fortune or something that was worth 130k or he was told that he would get this money when his dad died, I forget. He got so excited and was acting like it was so much money and telling me that we’d get to go on trips and buy a house and be rich basically. I was happy for him and us but immediately felt inferior and motivated like ok now I need to find a way to bring in money too. And then I started watching this reality show where it was a group of people and I forget what they did, it was something about food I think they went around the country to different restaurants and did stuff thre. And they were all making like 400k a year to do it, and I was like anyone could do this *I* could do this! I was watching one of the girls on the show and was staring right at this chick trying really hard to commit her to memory and I still knew that if I saw her irl I wouldn’t recognize her. This was exciting for me, because I could do this show and not be like an A list celebrity, being recognized everywhere I went. I was showing the show to my friend and I turned to
Her and was like that girl clearly hates herself I mean shes mixed and has bleach blonde hair and blue color contacts. And my friend agreed.
Then somehow I was in the show and we had a hugeeee tour bus and we accidentally hit some old guy in the parking lot so they let him come in and look around and take a short ride with us and play whatever he wanted so he wouldn’t sue. He asked if this thing goes fast and our manager was Like hell yeah even though we literally just ran over this guy so we probably shouldn’t be speeding, but the driver starts speeding all over the shopping plaza even on corners and wouldn’t you know it she ends up getting into a 3 car car crash the tour bus flips in the air and lands on its roof.
Also in the dream we were working in a specific restaurant for the episode and one of the guys started having a feeling one of the kids working there was being touched so he handed him this vial and was like take this vial if you’re being touched and the kid did. Ai image goes with this dream

DREAM FRAGMENT- .5

Mom and dad had huge Funyuns bigger than our heads

Been busy with easter this weekend, didnt gave much time for dream journaling. Though i did write some down.

Friday: I was a Dukes son. (My dad as the Duke, mom as the Duchess and brother as well, my brother.) We were hosting a massive tournament for the empires newly throned Queen, whoose knights would also be competing. We took turns introducing ourselves, my brother ever the player, gave golden roses to all the fair ladies that came to watch the tounament, i simply gave a speech of introductions with politeness and a bow. My Dad the same, but my mother went a step beyond and had flowers bloom around the entire arena as the tourney began.

Saturday and sunday i did have dreams, but I didnt journal them down soon enough.

Monday, Today: I was put in my parents house, a place im way too familiar with, and even in the dream it looks all too real. But I wanted to see the lab, in the backyard. So i went to the entrance. (A little popout capsule, like those nuclear safety capsules from fallout.) And pressed the elevator button for "1st floor".
It wasn't that much of a lab as much as it was a spa resort and bar and everything else included.
There were masses of people underneath, maybe some i've met, others i've not. But I went there and didnt find much specialty there apart from it being pretty neat.
I did however have to DILD a lot throughout my journey down there as i was constantly loosing focus.

Nothing really of note other than good easter food and drinks. Hope you all had a happy easter too!

Dream 1 (non lucid)
Then suddenly I'm in my home country's small town I grew up, in front of our block where there's a playground and some benches. Only it's hugely busy and popular. There are sandpits and swings. One of my old friends wants to go on the swings but I think they're broken. A bunch of turkeys charge at us, and some doves and pigeons walk past.

Then we go behind the area and enter the playground in front of the next building. This time it's not as fun - it looks like an art installation but a really creepy one with cubes that look like pigeon heads. It turns out one of my friends has put my phone on selective silent or something, and I'm mad at her about it.

Suddenly the dream decides I'm pregnant with triplets (wtf) and ready to give birth NOW. They're all girls. I somehow know the dream won't end until I get to the beach where I plan to give birth. We walk past all the playgrounds and my home town and get to "Salvo". I get in the ocean and swim. Suddenly I'm next to a car and I've dropped my credit cards. Then I'm in the ocean again and I hate being pregnant I just want it to end. I tell my "husband" that they'll probably start swearing immediately bc all he does is swear. He says no he fucking doesn't.

Then it turns creepy and there's some sea monster in there. I sense the dream is ending so I huge my husband and say bye to everyone.

Dream 2 (lucid)
I find myself in a school hallways which is a common dream location for me so I become lucid. There's a red headed woman in front of me and a man. I do a reality check which fails but I know I'm in a dream anyway so I don't care. One of my goals is to reach the void so I fall backwards and affirm I'm going there.

I enter blackness. It feel much more like the void than any of the other times I've tried. However I can still somewhat feel my body so it isn't the void. I stay there for a bit as it's quite relaxing.

Dream 3 (non-lucid)
I'm setting up a TV but some kid steals my house keys and returns them shortly after, then tries to take my TV but returns it before even leaving the room, with some extra tech added to it. I'm in early high school in this dream. My dream husband pops up again and I tell him I don't want kids and never will, and he says that's okay I just want you.

Dream fragments:
- Sitting in my grandma's living room and my mum is next to me wearing a cyan jumper. She's in a bad mood. One of my old managers is there.
- I'm telling my friend about my LD and how I'm watching an LD movie.
- Cooking food IN my fridge and defrosting it at the same time.

1. Cavern Entry
I’m standing in the front of Meadow main house and become lucid. The front area is moderately lit, yet I can tell it’s night time.I begin flying upward and head toward the wall at the front of the house. I phase into it and go to void. I get ready to teleport. I stay in the void for a moment before seeing long rectangular sections appearing, as though they’re situated on the wall of a cave. I flip up onto one hand and spring off from the hand, returning to standing once again. I begin to move around a bit, then see an opening to a smaller chamber on the far end of the cave, as though it’s leading to a separate cavern. I begin to see light coming out from it. I begin rubbing the ground to stabilize. I fly toward the entrance, and as I curve left and enter, I see bright light spilling out through the large room inside. I transform into dragon form as I enter and begin flying above a miniature city. It appears to be built out of small, colorful blocks. As I approach more closely, I see that there are small figures situated throughout the small town, seemingly animals in humanoid form, yet still inanimate bocks. I turn from the area and enter a room to the right. Upon entering, I see several objects on counters to my left, spanning three walls of the room. To my right I see several appliances on shelves. I figure I’lll use some electronics and I approach a black appliance that looks somewhat like a humidifier, sitting on an upper shelf. I hit a small circular button. It lights up in blue and the machine revs up. I pick it up for a brief moment, pointing it a round before returning it. I head to the far end of the room and see a small area beyond with a counter in front a fridge to the right. I consider eating some coffee beans. I decide to basic summon something to eat first. I turn toward the fridge and decide to get some ice cream from a container like the one from a few nights ago. I open the top compartment, yet only find bread. I look below and find a black container of ice cream, just like the precious night. I take it out, scoop some out with my hand and eat it as I go to the front of the house. I consider what to do as I reach the front. I realize that I’m in Tur house. I stop near the front stairs and begin to practice Zazen. I then go for time dilation and begin to feel the sphere of expanding from me. I end the meditation after a short period and consider whether to head outside into the night, or stay in the house. I decide to stay inside as it’s a bit lighter indoors. I head back into the house, but begin to wake up.

2. Guide Search
I’m riding on the back of a vehicle during the day and become lucid. I fly upward a turn in the sky, seeing the vehicle with a flatbed in the back head down the road. I see several buildings on the side of the road, considering exploring them, yet turn toward the vehicle and Hookshot toward it instead. I zoom toward the back of the vehicle, several people sitting on the back. I finally reach the back and ride with the vehicle before booing off snd flying toward a building to the left with a yard to the side. I approach a large tree in the back of the yard and decide to search for my guide. I shift into dragon form and fly toward the tree before curving around to the opposite side. I see an interior section carved out and enter. There’s nobody inside, so I leave the area and head toward the structure at the side of the yard. I enter and make my way onto the room with various items ejects throughout. I decide to teleport and phase into the wall. I enter our, yet begin to wake up.

1. (Fragment) I was waiting in a line somewhere.
2. Woke up, couldn't recall anything, decided to write down "No recall" in order to keep the habit going. It should be automatic anytime I wake up.
3. (Fragment) Man, that Disney trip I took earlier this month must've really permeated into my subconscious. I dreamed that I was at the Disney parks buying merch. In parentheses, I have written (x2-3). I do not remember what this means.
4. Full Lucid DILD: Here we go. I woke up at 5 AM, but my alarm wasn't until 5:15 AM, so I went back to sleep and immediately slipped into this dream.

Started out non-lucid. I was walking around San Diego, carrying a large body pillow with an anthropomorphic character on it. I was feeling rather self-conscious, like WHY do I have this and WHY am I walking around town with it?

A car drove by and I felt even more embarrassed, like can't I at least take this thing back to my hotel room?

Then I thought "Ah yes, I can teleport. I will teleport back to the hotel room now."

So I did.

I appeared back in the hotel room. There were bottles of lotion (of course ) and unpacked luggage in a pretty big room, and my cousin's stuff was there too. Great, so now my cousin is going to know about this giant body pillow.

I then idly realized that teleporting is not a thing that can happen in waking reality. Hmm... OH --

-- LUCIDITY.

So, my first instinct was to teleport again, onto a roller coaster. It was wooden. As I was going up the lift hill, T. was there in the seat next to me. We were not in the front seat -- closer to the back.

I then remembered -- oh yes, the competition, and my 3-step tasks! I summoned a clarinet and immediately played an F-concert scale (G Major in clarinet transposition) on the roller coaster. Then I played some random crap; I can't remember what.

My brain was not entirely clear -- I remember thinking "well I don't want to drop the clarinet off the roller coaster" but then logic snapped back into place. The scene was somewhat fuzzy, and not as vivid as I might have hoped. I was going to start stabilizing, and then figured I would try flying after I had finished on the roller coaster. But, then my alarm went off.

(It was nice and cold in my room, which is rare, because I live with my brother who is always cold, whereas I am always hot. Apparently, he finally didn't touch the thermostat. :v I think that helped a lot with my sleep quality.)
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I also finally signed up for the DreamViews Discord server. I didn't realize we had one, even though it has presumably been linked up top for a long time. I had already hit the Nitro limit of 200 servers (thanks ADHD) but finally found an inactive one that has been mostly dead since 2021 that I didn't mind leaving.

Finally!!! Didn't accomplish much task-wise but am grateful for the lucidity.

A tiny restaurant looks larger by way of mirrored walls. Waiting for some friend, check my reflection. I am not myself. 'Maybe dreaming?'. Press fingers through mirror. "Dreaming!"

Stand. Leap through the looking glass into a monstrous, dark cavern. A beast that may be the bastard child of Godzilla and a Balrog, glares, growls, attacks. Retreat backward through the mirror.

Trembling fingers reality check. Dreaming. Clasp hands. Calm. Collect wits and lucidity. Dreaming. Must face the beast. Leap through the mirror, come what may. But there is no cavern, only a courtroom. Victims crowd the jury box. Smug grin greets from the witness stand.

"Oh for fucksake. Did I molest you too?" the witness asks, mildly irritated.

"I don't even know you," I confess... then add, "You will always tell the truth." Inquire about his crimes. He admits guilt, to his own astonishment. I leap, a foolish and over dramatic fling. He and I are face to face. Twist and tear his head from body. It is like tearing cardboard.

"You killed me! You killed me!" echoes his wet, gurgling scream.

Standing ovation from the jury.

Stare the head straight in the eyes. "Stay alive," I command. Toss the trash to the floor.

Now rises panic. Need to escape. No mirrors seen. Calm. Be calm. Think. See my hands stained with sketchy tattoos. Strange. Interesting. Yes. Still dreaming. Find a way out. A door! Rip it open expecting the bastard beast. Instead, a Star Wars like city glitters far below. Exhilaration surges. Leap. Ferocious freefall. Land on a daylit outdoor stage.

"You're going to sing for us!" squeals a someone from behind.

Turn. Two of the jurors are there. They followed? Shake off surprise. "I don't sing anymore." Pace and struggle to remember dream goals. Dream goals. Dream goals. Feel morning creeping nearer.

"This is someone else's dream," Lady stalker states.

"How do you know?" I ask, startled from the silent struggle.

"The smell," Male stalker says, as if its common knowledge.

"Don't you ever smell where you are?" Lady asks.

"No." I feel weird about this conversation.

"Smell now," Lady commands.

Inhale deeply. Smell nothing. Wonder about sensations. Search for a swallow of this dream. Stalkers follow chattering about the importance of smell. Lose lucidity while wading through the concert swell.


Team Robot - Spring Competition 2025

Silverlight:
I have a false-awakening at the previous house I was renting [1a].
Out of habit I do a nose-RC and I become lucid.
I noticed that my vision was dark, so I start trying to stabilize the dream.
I recall that I memorized "EV" as an acronym to help me remember what to do.
From the edge of my memory: Engage. Verbalize. EV.
So, I start rubbing my bare hands and feet against the carpet and walls, saying "I'm rubbing the carpet, this is a dream."
"I'm rubbing the walls, this is a dream."
"I'm rubbing the carpet, this is a dream."
Fortunately for me, my vision comes back. It worked [2].
I go out into the living room and I see my lost passed away Grandma M walking by.
I don't engage with her, but we do make eye-contact. I remark to myself how strange lucid dreaming is.
Stabilization continues, like I'm a weirdo rubbing and chanting.
I start trying to remember what my goals are. I recall that one of them is to "will text into something specific."
So I start looking for text somewhere in the house.
I find an odd clock-like structure on the wall with painted calligraphy words on it instead of numbers.
I look at it, and the words are nonsense to begin with.
I pick a random one, look away, think about the word "ass", wait a moment, and then look back.
It has changed into another nonsense word.
I try the same process again, and this time it works. I see "ass" in fancy light blue calligraphy lettering on the clock [3].
Check. What else should I do? Eating is worth points I think?
I go to the kitchen looking for food. I find the fridge, but there is a couch partially blocking the door. My brother is sitting on the couch.
I force the fridge door open anyway, knocking away the couch [4].
I find a plastic container with some strawberries in it.
I think that maybe it will be cold and hurt my teeth, but I eat it anyway [5].
It tastes like nothing, not even cold. To be fair, I wasn't really focusing on it, so maybe that is why?
Goals? What were they?
...
I false awaken, but I catch it with a nose-RC. [1b]
Back to it. EV.
There's a brief scene with some naughtiness in the bedroom and living room, but I will leave out the details.
I proceed back to the living room area, and this time I see my long passed away Grandpa R.
I wave and say hello, and he vaguely acknowledges me, looking up and waving his hand [6].
I have a few more cycles of false awakenings, but I eventually remember that one of my goals is to travel to Silverlight (location mentioned by a DC in another LD).
I remember the fridge from earlier and decide that it will be my doorway.
I think about a forest on the other side of the door and open it.
No luck.
I try again, and this time it is definitely a fridge inside, but there is a purplish glow at the back.
I decide that, this time, I'm not taking no for an answer.
I run into the fridge, contorting my body to fit. Super cramped.
I push through, forcing a dream transition.
The next thing I know, I'm trapped, feeling claustrophobic, floating in water.
I can see daylight leaking through the gaps in the door hinge.
Fighting for my life, I smash my way out and get on top of the fridge.
Looking around, I'm in a river in a forest clearing during the day. Mission accomplished [7].
There is a medieval looking army camp straight ahead.
I see goblins and humans are in some sort of battle.
I notice that as I look around, there is a symphonic film soundtrack playing in the background.
It evokes a sense of wonder that matches and amplifies what I am feeling perfectly.
I notice on my left, there are some Aztec-looking aged steps going up. The were large, about 8 foot high and 10 foot wide per step.
I fly over there to get a closer look as the daylight begins to fade [8].
The steps are large enough that I need to fly a bit to get over them.
I reach the top and realize this is a defensive-sniper position.
Without speaking, I think about how I imagined that Silverlight should have had white trees.
There is a man there in military gear. Eyes are covered in shadow, facepaint lines under them.
He responds, as if I had spoken, "Maybe it is called Silverlight because the trees light up at night."
The music, which is still playing, swells in response to this statement. It sounds similar to "The Other Promise" from Kingdom Hearts II.
The swell sounds specifically like 0:50 from this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9XljBWGrRQ
Kingdom Hearts II: The Other Promise.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachm...80&height=1320
AI Art: Overlooking Silverlight.

As the music swells, the daylight fades completely and all the trees light up as if they have white/yellow Christmas lights on them.
The sight of the lit trees from up above and hearing the music in time with them might be the most beautiful thing I've ever experienced in a lucid dream.
I wake up.

[1ab] Catch a False Awakening x 2.
[2] Reality Check / Stabilization.
[3] Personal Goal: Will text into something specific.
[4] Super Strength.
[5] Eat/Drink Something.
[6] Interact with a Dream Character.
[7] Personal Goal: Travel to Silverlight / Teleport.
[8] Fly.

Diving:
I'm on a dive somewhere tropical with an instructor and my girlfriend.
She has gotten lost somewhere dark. There are some logistical barriers between the two dives we are allowed to have.
I'm not allowed to go and look for her until the second dive, which is a long time away.
...
I false-awaken into the hotel room and start recording the previous dream on my phone's microphone.
I need to take a shower, but I can't because somebody is in there.
I went out into the living area, and my girlfriend is getting ready for work.
There are some broken cups and dishes on the floor but she didn't seem concerned.
Back in the sleeping area, and the bed is gone but there is a couch in its place.
I have a phone conversation with an AI that is trying to force me to order pizza.
My dad and brother are there too, with two puppies.
...
I false awake again, and find myself wandering around the living room.
I remember that I don't have time to be wasting, and remind myself that I should be getting ready to go to the badging office.
I realize the situation is odd, and that triggers me to do a hands RC.
I see that I have an extra finger on my right hand. I become lucid.
But the dream is fading fast, and I wake up.

Before my big lucid dream, I was dreaming that my company hired a growth hacker from Scandinavia and rebranded our business to be all pink. She had a lot of pets and her husky liked me. Then a massive tank or something like that rolled through and I went to hide under my bed (bc surprise surprise, every dream takes place in my apartment ).

I woke up, entered sleep paralysis, and witnessed for the first time my desired dream scene LOADING in front of me. It worked like how a printer does - loaded in from the left to the right, and each turn made it clearer and clearer until I was fully in the scene. I was in a beach house. It felt so real that I was disappointed when I did a reality check and realised it was a dream.

I went outside to explore. The garden looked like my parents' garden. Although the dream was stable, I literally licked the brick wall to stabilise myself and it worked. I saw a man in the garden and turns out he was my dream boyfriend (why do my dreams always assign me boyfriends smh). I said hello to him and told him I'd speak to him shortly as I needed to complete my second dream task - partial transformation. I looked in my reflection in the window and saw my skin become more tan and my eyes turn green. Satisfied with that, I needed to complete my third task - teleporting.

However, my dream boyfriend wanted to chat to me and came up to me with some eggs. He started asking me if I knew that his ex cheated on him and I launched into this very deep speech about how you trust someone with no exceptions until they do something then you never trust them with no exceptions. Satisfied, he let me attempt to teleport. I held his hand for moral support and asked him to help me. He was confused but supportive. I affirmed I'd teleport to the void, and I did enter darkness, but really it was just me waking up and seeing the blackness behind my closed eyes.

Image (I was happier than this in the dream but chat gpt is not being cooperative today):

I’m at a long table with a group of people. This…looks like a dream…I’m lucid.
I stand up. “I’m lucid, guys”. I begin to fly away, but the visuals darken rapidly. I continue to raise, making sure that I”m still in flight. I figure I should phase and then teleport out. I soon find what appears to be a wall, yet there aren’t any visuals, so it’s difficult to tell. I go to void an imagine the next scene. I appear in a new area as lucidity wanes.