lucid

Realized I was dreaming when I had more facial hair than usual.

I was in some kind of bookstore and was looking at some manga. The manga I was looking at was kinda... erotic, for some reason, but I was really enjoying it. I put it next to some other manga and begin browsing and looking at different stuff when I realise I can't find the other one anymore and was desperate because I really wanted that one. I asked some guys next to me for help until I eventually became lucid. What did I do then, you ask? Well... I kept looking for the darn thing. I tried using voice commands (something like "The book I want is gonna float towards me" stuff like that) but nothing worked. I asked the guys what their favorite ones were, in hopes I find something better than the other one. They started talking about manga they liked and gave them to me, but they weren't what I was looking for at all.

Eventually I realized I was wasting time and decided to focus. I realize I was in some kind of shopping mall. For some reason, I couldn't fly. I remembered reading something about stabilizing and how it makes dream control better, so I stabilized the dream by doing RCs and told myself I was sleeping and creating this dream and could do anything. It didn't do much, as I couldn't fire laserbeams from my fingertips (which was something I wanted to do... I guess) nor could I fly for some reason. I decided that didn't matter as I didn't need to fly for my goal, which was finding a mirror, asking my dream to take me somewhere interesting and enter it. Whenever I want to enter a mirror, there is always one nearby. I looked around and there was a huge one in a nearby section of the mall that looked like a shoe store.

I got close to the mirror, rubbed my hands, and was already phasing my hands through it when I remembered I had to say the command.

"Dream, take me somewhere interesting, please."

With that, I fully entered the mirror and found myself in some kind of rooftop in a urban area. To my left there was a huge window to big, empty factory/storage of some kind. Looking around, I could see the rooftops of different houses and I think some buildings in the distance. I couldn't see the streets from where I was. This place wasn't what I was expecting at all, so I turned around and asked my dream, again, to take me somewhere interesting, but I specified that I didn't want just some generic city area. I floated up to a window with a dark tint (apparently, that's where I came from) and noticed I could kinda see through it. In this area there was also some kind of loud, constant noise in the background, like a really loud air conditioner. I phased through the window and ended up in a similar area. It was like I was in a room of an destroyed, abandoned or unfinished building. No roof or walls, save for the one the window was in. I didn't really look around the area since I was kinda annoyed and wanted to try entering a mirror one more time. However, the dream started fading and I was trying to think how I could bring it back. I think I tried to stabilize somehow but woke up and tried to stay still for DEILD, but I was sleeping for so long already (almost 10 hours) that I was too awake and didn't feel like staying there trying to deild, so I jut got up.

Putting them all here b/c I don't want to write 3 separate entries:
1) (WILD) Realized I was dreaming and got out of bed. I did a RC and tried to stabilize the dream. I then passed through my bedroom wall, and tried to spin around (hopefully so I would teleport somewhere else). It didn't work and my dream actually undid itself.

2) (DILD) I was in a subway waiting for the train when a weird train steamed by, with diamonds instead of windows. I did a RC. Now I'm not a DILD man but I got lucky this time I guess. I started trying to push one of the DC's onto the train track, who had been annoying me. The dream ended before I could.

3) (WILD) After 2 disappointing lucids, I finally had a long one. I did a RC and got out of bed. I started practicing my dual elemental summons. I used to not be able to do it at all, but luckily I had a non lucid a few days ago, where I was able to do it, and I still remembered the way. I shot lightning and fire at the same time. It was small, but good enough for now. I then roasted a plant. I went downstairs and tried to phase through the door. I got it on the 3rd attempt. I teleported to Space and splayed around with a giant planet sized head of Super Saiyan Goku. Then I teleported back and explored the garden some more. The sky was a gorgeous purple. By the time I realized I should be working on scoring points the dream faded.

I appear on a very wide field in the dream. I thought that I should be realize, the idea came like if I suggested to myself, and I become move quickly across the field, finally I was realize. Look around, a very beautiful field, green-blue-purple grass, light as on sunrise, far away I see the village houses, and the mountains on another side, I fly to It.
First I tried to fly to the top, but cannot, flew to the foot. Then I had to climb, quickly move up. Orange canyons, sheer cliff 90 degrees, the surface rough and sharp, I feel pain, but I knew that a dream, and do not cut myself.
Remember that I climb up with some aggression, overcoming himself, then specially looked down, it was quite high. Was the moment when I stopped, but realize that I need to move or it will be awake.
Higher I was in a place where could not climb further, the rocks were already gray, was trying to fly but it did not work, a sense of the body has seemed heavy, and somehow I climb up anyway.
At the top is already ice, strong wind and snow, the visibility of several meters. I climbed to the top, it is flat and smooth. I see a small cave on the slope down and in it naked girl, I held her hand and raise up, kiss her, and awake.

2 pts- Interact with a Dream Character
1 pt -stablization
2 pts- wbtb
10 pts- First DILD of the Night
2 pts- chain a dream
5 pts- super speed
2 pts- Interact with a Dream Character
5 pts- Gain Invulnerability
5 pts- DC Changing
10 pts- Fully Phase through Big Solid Object
= 44 pts

3 Step Goal:
Fly
Element Manipulation
Practice a Waking Life Hobby

Personal New Goals:
Voyage through a crack I make in the earth
Find my dream house
Take a magical train to another country

Week 2 task Intermediate:
Put on a halloween costume and gain the powers/abilities of the costume.

D1: I was in this old house with infinite rooms. I know this house immediately because it's a dream sign for me. I've not seen it since I've been on DreamViews which was surprising in some way. I knew for sure I was dreaming & became lucid. This house has so many hidey hole places & rooms that it was like a playground for lucidity. But with that said I also had to try to find the meaning in it as well. There were a lot of people living there & I was milling around & getting familiar w/ the characters asking them things like why they were there. It was sad, most responses were from kids & adults that had been put in the foster care system. Which is where this dream stems from for me & teaches me things. I was standing at the bottom of a staircase when I got woke up by my phone.
WBTB
D2: I didn't get up, I just turned my volume off & fell right back into the same dream, hence "chaining a lucid". I wasn't at the bottom of the stairs though but in a kitchen. RC. I was talking to a man & explaining that I know this house well & he was rather pacifying in his answer. I now know why I'm in the dream. (It's personal, it's something about my father recently). I wall through out the house talking once more w/ others & trying to explain where the hidey places are. I walked right through a wall to get to another room which was kinda cool. It felt like everything went dark briefly & I ended up in the room I wanted to. In the room w/ me is a mouse so I make him big which was rather more startling than expected so I put him back to himself. It felt like it became more dangerous while big. I was really afraid I would run out of time so I walked up to the top floor which was like a big spiral staircase that was like a building top & jumped down to the bottom. I felt like superman cuz I landed in that kneeling pose, lol. I decided to run up the stairs back to the top at super speed but once I got to the top my dream decided to end. All in all a good night I'd say.

Last night bed at 10pm. I adjusted my waking time for supplements accordingly.

2:30am 2x300 Alpha GPC

Here I remembered a DREAM:
I'm moving a huge low wooden table and I think I somehow move it too fast because it kinda levitates and I don't stop it on time. It bumps into a wall. Or at least that's how I explain to myself the loud bump. Someone walks in from another room wondering what the heck I'm doing.

We look out the window. The darkness of the night is illuminated by bright explosions over the silhuetts of distant tall trees. I have a feeling doomsday war just broke out and those are missiles exploding. (watched a tv show about doomsday with intent to have an intense dream about it and promptly I did have a dream that night, and looks like last night as well)

After Alpha GPC I went back to sleep.

3:30am - got up for a WBTB.
4:05am - 2x4mg pure galantamine and going straight on a sofa. I was so sleepy. Btw, I took a bite of bread because I was getting hungry and didn't want that to bother me while WILDing.

Woke up at 6:07 from continuous dreaming.

I fell asleep rather quickly and wa lucid from the getgo.

About 20 min into a lucid, I noticed a brief change in the setting and I thought to myself "whoa, that's about 20 min of some very aware and detailed lucid".

I believe I kept lucid for the whole 2 hrs, from falling asleep till 6am. It was getting less aware towards the end, but I was still making decisions.

Since my style of LDing had changed and I don't have chains of lucids with brief breaks between dreams, I'm having hard time remembering details. Before, during these breaks between dreams when I was just laying there in gray emptiness, I had time to retell to myself any previous lucids and even count them before realizing I'm still there and dreaming, all I have to do is stand up and be in a dream again.

Now it's just one long contunuous dream with changes of scenery. Last 2 times I had only 2 major sceneries. First part of lucid was outdoors and second was indoors. I don't know why or how, but it seems like a theme now.

In last night's lucid, again, half of the dream I was outside. Flying over places. One of them was a scary fast water in a deep channel. Was so turbulent as if it was rushing out of a dam. Someone I was flying with asked me if I want to go in a water and I said no. So we just flew by the wall, turning away from there, looking for a landing spot. All spots were stone steps carved into a stone, making a narrow staircase going upwards into darkness. Each starcase was creepier than the other.

Next I'm flying over a futuristic city. It's very modern, I'm flying slowly taking my time, making a conscious decision to take in as many details as I can so I remember at least some of it, knowing that I will have hard time remembering. I'm looking at each item trying to memorize it.

NOTES:
(I think this is from me practicing awareness last night and also last week before that lucid. I have noticed already last week that part of my lucid was a bit different. It was more aware and detailed. Same thing happened last night.

Also, last week after my lucid, I felt this strange surge of passion for lucid dreams. I do love them, but this was like I newly discovered them again. New possibilities have opened. Not sure what it is, but I still feel it. )

I walk up the stairs coming from underground. Like from a metro. I notice the air smells different. It smells real and the world is real and the houses and weather are real. I think to myself briefly without having time to ponder on what it means. I cant figure out the difference between the 2 worlds. Until I walked out, I felt that where I was till then WAS real.

Something like when you walk out to sunny afternoon from a dark theater after you saw a movie. You are still in the "movie world" being immersed in the story, you forgot about the world outside and stepping outside it's a bit of a shock.

Ok, so second part of the dream was me walking through endless corridors, rooms, halls, such as in a huge department store. Only different. Some of the corridors are curved, rooms are smaller and bigger with all kinds of items. All very busy. All full of other people.

I go with the theme of me finally seeing DCs that had been absent in most of my prior lucids. And I actully talk to them. I ask a group of DCs who will be the president. I hear myself pronounce their full names clearly and I'm pleasantly surprised and proud of myself. I ask them if it's gonna be Trump or Hillary Clinton. They don't really answer, except one guy who says "25". Haha. I move on and later I ask another group, but they don't know either.

TOTM
While still in the outdoors part of a dream, I remember the TOTM - dig a hole and see what's there. Although now I think the TOTM is "stick your head in the ground and see what's there".

Anyway, I start to dig a hole in the dirt when I get some not so good vibes and I decide I don't want to go what's on the other side of it. So I stop.

Oh yeah, last part was not very lucid. I spent it on... you guessed it... sex. Any which way I could. At least 20 min of it. Not complaining.

After the lucid, I went back to sleep still feeling the GM and choline in my head, hoping for another LD. But didn't get any more. Got up at 9:12, not remembering any dreams from that part.

Reading an article about differences between OBEs and LDs, I just remembered that I was getting some gentle vibrations just before I fell asleep.

01-Nov-2016 - ND - Two girls, one bike + 2 WILD - #1) Watch sheet's molecules - #2) Surf and Snowboard

Finally managed to rack up a semi-decent night of sleep
ND contains one very common DS that I missed
The two WILDs are quite uninteresting, with the only exception of snowboard track on the 2nd WILD, which is nice

ND - Two girls, one bike

I am in a large room, may be a garage, together with two girls: one is SR ~my age, the other is younger, I don't know her, she's riding a bike.
I notice that under her coat she's wearing nothing (!!!) and I can see a tattoo below her bellybutton - this shocks me, but I do not question my reality

I also take a bike, I do some close call stops before hitting a wall. Then I ask where the brake handles are (!!! - I've already used them), and the girl shows me. After riding some more, you can guess what happens with the girl (!!!) <SNIP>

I am in a car, SR is on the passenger seat, I am terribly sorry I got in touch with her and start crying (!!!), saying things like "I know that would happen" No more recall


WILD #1 ~2AM

Starting from previous ND, I manage moving into an LD, albeit not easily
I'm in a room, and I want to make it bigger with some trick.
With the help of someone else I cannot recall, I extend a sort of textile/rubber sheet, starting from the walls, then around some metal poles in the ground used to make corners (not 90'). I stop when I think the room is big enough.

Now I want to experience transformation of the molecules of this sheet into those of a wall (?)
I become smaller and smaller until I see a sort of three-dimensional grid around me, but that's it, nothing special happens

I try looking at water molecules.
I enter the cabin at Doc's lab, putting a water of glass into another cabin nearby

I become smaller, and find myself immersed in an empty space with some bubbles all around, lightly connected together. It should be a represantation of water molecules I guess. However, again nothing special happens.

I think I should complete my room, making walls and a roof, but I fall asleep, most likely of boredom


WILD #2 ~4M ~20/30min

This is linked to yesterday's IWL activity
I'm walking together with CDG, a F friend, along a beach. I ask her if we can do windsurf and snowboard together, and she's happy about it.
After some "preparation", I try windsurfing, but the effect is not very interesting

Then we move to snowboarding. I start descending at a slow speed, but after a drop I go much faster.
The scenery around looks beautiful, with a city far away, and lot of snow around.
The path has many curves, jumps and drops, providing nice physical sensations.
It lasts for perhaps one minute, then after attempting a loop, everything becomes more blurred and weaker

Overall, I am satisfied, and go to sleep

5-6.30am
Medium LD "Bicycle Thief"
The dream starts with several false awakenings. In one, I am in a bed in the spare room across the hall from my parents' bedroom. Mum gets up to use the bathroom. I am lying in bed thinking about it being November, and therefore national novel writing month (NaNoWriMo). Ideas for stories float through my head.

Then I am at the side of a road. A guy driving an SUV pulls over to the side of the road, skids to a halt. He jumps out and checks on two young blonde-haired boys in the back of the car. They seem fine, he seems panicked.

The dream skips. I am interviewing a book character about an incident. There will need to be a death, a reason for the interview. The character is talking about an entropy/chaos magician who manipulates probability. "Don't bet against him." The character advises me.

Dream skips again. I am a teenager, back in secondary school. The school has an identical layout to the one I went to. Most of the students seem to be looking at board games. One kid has an emblem drawn on his forehead. It looks like a magical glyph rather than what you might expect a bunch of teenagers to draw/write on someone's head...

While walking around, I am much shorter than the other students. Other students mock me, but I am only pretending to be a dwarf by walking on my knees. It is to strengthen my legs so that I can run faster? There is an important race in a few days, and they won't be laughing when I win it.

We get outside, near the bicycle sheds. A DC runs up and tells me they just saw 'Angel' wheeling my bicycle away. They make a joke about a 'Fallen Angel.' Giving up on strengthening my legs, I stand and run to the wall, jumping down onto grass. Angel is walking towards the gate. I am surprised to see the figure is a woman wearing a long white dress. She runs and leaps up a set of stone ledges.

I begin to chase Angel. It's like running in treacle. A classic dream sign for me. Despite becoming lucid, my focus remains on catching the bicycle thief. I run parallel to the woman and leap up onto the highest ledge in one bound. She is surprised by how fast I managed to move. I grab her and throw us both off the ledge, trusting in my innate lucid invulnerability. While falling though, our eyes meet. She has blue eyes, wide in shock and fear. There is no hate or malice here.

I no longer wish her harm, but it's too late, all I can do is shield the back of her head with my hand at the same moment we hit the floor. Angel is not injured though. She is already apologising and crying. Someone told her to steal my bike? It is locked in another shed?
"Just gimme the keys."
After getting the keys I let her stand up and she runs quickly away, looking scared.

Behind the first shed is another. Both are made of corrugated iron. Rusted but still sturdy. The keys unlock it and my bicycle is inside, covered in chains. Then I turn and see a young Philip Glenister ~18 yrs old, striding towards me. Shirt sleeves rolled up. Fists clenched. Ready to fight.

He is taller and stronger than me, but I'm lucid. I start throwing punches and hit him multiple times in the face and chest. He seems to be getting weaker. Then a right hook comes out of nowhere and hits the side of my head. I stumble back and while still dazed, his left fist strikes out and hits my nose. Next thing I know I'm on the ground. The world is spinning.

The dream destabilises and reforms. I am lying in a chair. The room around me is empty. My entire body aches as I stand up. The bike shed keys are still in my back pocket, which is a relief. He didn't steal my bicycle.

In the next room are people from our class, although none of them are familiar to me. One girl, false memory says her name is Becky, runs up and hugs me. Ow. I do not return the hug, but do not try to break free either. Moving hurts. Among the classmates is Philip Glenister again. Surprisingly, he apologises and suggests we go find my bike.

We head outside down a path lined with grass. It leads between the school buildings. Becky walks with us. Phil makes a comment about her having thick, manly arms.

7.20-7.40am
Short LD "Flowerpot Phone"
There's been a mixup with the hotel booking. AB and my sister are sharing a room, and I have a separate room downstairs with someone else. We are upstairs in their room discussing it. This room has 6 beds. Why don't I just sleep here? They volunteer me to go speak to the manager and sort it out.

The door to the room actually leads out into the street. Now TR is walking with me. Someone drops a phone on the floor - except it is a plastic flowerpot dish. I become lucid and pick it up. Without much effort I turn the flowerpot into a phone and try to call someone. The speaker activates.
"What is the bar code?" The vioce demands.
"Uh... where would I find that information... oh forget it."
I see a set of steps and start to head up them, but a sudden need to cough breaks sleep paralysis and wakes me up.

#498 - DEILD - TIME?

I have to be breif and It wasn't so awesome of an LD but I was happy hitting after being unfocused so much. All I was trying to do was work on recall but I end up doing a DEILD and imagining nose plugs until it really felt like I was pinching my nose. As soon as I get a solid dreamy nose plug I realize I am in the dream and I get brief vibrations. Expectation, I suppose. I stumble around my dark dream house for a bit. Some random things happen and I have an FA where I try to DJ. Then I wake up and try DEILD again but lose focus and never wake up until the alarm. I'm lucky I recalled this at all.

I awake and instantly want to go back into sleep, only move to comfortable position. Start repeat the mantra mentally with intention of lucid dreaming. The mantra is the first five verses of St. John's Gospel, as suggested in concentration technique from the "Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception" book.

See a long dream, where at the end I was put into some prison and at the same time the clinic, skip it.
When I'm walking down the hall, it was no longer madhouse but the normal hospital, and there I realize I'm dreaming. I think about myself in reality, tell myself first and last name, pay attention to the awareness, and it began to amplify. That was my plan in those days.
Then I went into some room, there are many children running around and sit at the tables, I go between them, children touch and look at me. I see the door to the second room, and go to it. At the entrance, on the table I see a girl, she looks like Angelina Jolie. Come up and looked at her, she looks at me, I see that is not Angelina Jolie, and girl 12 years. I go into next room, there is the same, returned to the first room.
Was bored, I want to get out of here, think I need to find a portal to another location or any exit away. I look around, can not find any portal or exit, and I saw the window. I see outside a very beautiful wooded mountain, it is a way out. I went to the window and begin to penetrate through it, there were two glasses, passed through them, standing on the ledge, putting my hands along the wall. Old brick house, facade is not repaired. Children ran up the window and look at me. Feel the cold wind, air is fresh and pleasant. large distance to mountain. I look at the streets of the city, looking down height of about 5 floors, was a bit scared, but I knew that I was in a dream and nothing to fear.
I think what to do, jump or not, decide not to jump because afraid to awake, think maybe I fly down smoothly, but not sure what will happen, decided to just slide down the wall. I turned and took hold of the ledge, it broke at once and I slowly fly down, fragments flying around me. Landing softly, near falling fragments, when hitting the ground broken into black sand. And I become to lose the picture, dream faded, and awake

I’m at a high school reunion, where the entire class is in some quiz competition for a prize. One of the challenges is to guess the total height of the two shortest guys in the class, and ironically, both of those two get it wrong.

I get up for WBTB, but for circumstances beyond my control, I stay up too long and don’t have enough time to sleep before my alarm goes off. Being the genius I am, I hit the snooze button about 3 times. After pressing it the third time, I start drifting back to sleep, when I suddenly find myself standing up beside my bed. My room looks weird, as one of the walls is at an angle. I plug my nose and find that I’m dreaming. I do my usual routine that I do when I start a lucid from my bedroom - I leave through the window. I take a running start and jump, phasing through the window until I start flying outside. I look down and notice that I’m incredibly high up above a castle, having just jumped out of one of the towers on the outer edge. I decide to fly to the top of the tower, where I see a stone gargoyle perched on the roof. I fly up to it and try to start a conversation, but it just starts shouting Bible verses about sexual immorality and then flies off. Weird.

I slide down the roof, hopping from slope to slope until I finally reach the ground. I’m in this huge open field, and a ton of people in colonial outfits are walking around. It has a very Assassin’s Creed feel to it, which makes me remember (erroneously) that one of my personal goals was to assassinate someone with a hidden blade. I quietly sneak up behind one of the people and shove my hand into their back, and a blade appears that pierces through them. I look down and see that I’ve stabbed a young child - apparently this large field is a playground, as I realize everyone around me is under the age of 10. All of them stop moving and stare at me with a look of shock. I run off before the police arrive and/or the guilt sets in.

I see a marker in front of me directing me towards my actual target, which is inside this large wooden house. I sense that my target is being interrogated in a room off to the right, and I have to rescue him by sneaking around the back, where there’s a guard sitting on the stairs. Luckily, there’s a nice little space under the stairs where I can hide, but I get kinda stuck trying to crawl into it on my stomach. While I’m doing this, the guard gets up and walks towards the hallway where my legs are still sticking out. I think my cover’s blown, but instead he just says “Legs up, love.” I bend my knees and lift my feet up. “Cheers, mate.” He continues down the hall completely unconcerned. I exit and head around to the stairs, where there’s a computer screen and mouse on a desk. It obviously seems strangely out of place, but I use it anyway. When I click the mouse, a large GlaDoS-like robot comes out of the wall in the next room and tazes the guard. I come around the corner and open the door to find my target is… Claptrap from Borderlands. Except he explains to me that his name is “Gary Gary Gary”. I tell him to follow me.

I exit the room and find that I’m in a futuristic-looking train station of sorts. Everything looks white and pristine, and large electronic billboards light up the night sky. Just then, an announcement comes over the PA:
“Attention, do not be alarmed. Police are on the scene searching for a white-cloaked criminal, last seen murdering a security guard and kidnapping a service droid, Gary Gary Gary. If you have any information as to their whereabouts, please notify a police officer.”
I see a ton of police swarming the scene. “Gary!”
“Uh, it’s ‘Gary Gary Gary’…”
“Whatever! Shut up and act natural!”
I stand with my back to the officers, hoping to not draw any attention and blend in. Instead, I hear an officer shout, and a bullet whizzes past my head. “Change of plans, RUN!”

I take off towards the train tracks and cross to the other side, followed closely by Gary and my pursuers. I pull a white handgun out of my pocket and start firing back at the officers, managing to only take down one in the process. I turn down a small hallway and burst through a door here. Inside is a dark passageway with a long staircase down. I jump onto the rail and grind my way down on my feet. Once I reach the bottom, I cross another set of train tracks and reach a long staircase going back up. I turn around to see Gary has managed to keep up rather well, and behind him are fewer police officers. However, I start to hear the bark of police dogs, and I know that they’ll soon catch me. I pick up Gary and throw him under my arm. “Hold on tight!” I lean forward and put all my effort into picking up speed. It’s difficult at first, since I’m going upstairs, but I soon notice I’m taking the stairs 4 at a time at an incredible rate. I look around long enough to see the last of my pursuers disappearing into the darkness behind me. I slow back down as I reach the top of the stairs, which lead to an exit in a bright, hilly area. To the right of the exit is what looks like a street gang, but on closer inspection, I see that it’s the members of Pentatonix, singing “Zero to Hero” from Hercules. I soon wake up from my alarm going off. Not bad for a 10-minute snooze cycle.

1 NLD - 1
WBTB - 2
DILD - 10
RC - 1
Fully phase through big solid object - 10
Fly - 5
Interact with a DC - 2
Basic summoning (hidden blade) - 5
2nd step (basic summoning) - 10
Super speed - 5

Night Total - 51 pts

One was a DILD involving me using my super powers to shoot a tornado out of the sky. Yes, strange. Second was a WILD induced via the greatest method of all time, SSILD.

The second lucid dream was interesting, to say the least. The transition happened with me losing awareness of the outside world. I knew I was in transition when I could vividly imagine myself in motion - spinning with my arms out on the same axis as a rotisserie. The spinning began to materialize a dream, my backyard. I immediately attempted to find Naomi, the dream character, but when I was at the entrance of the park, the dream began to fade out and end. Was this the fourth time I have failed after being so close?

The Elusive Naomi.

On a side note, looking at the dates of my previous entries, I have had 5 lucid dreams in a 7 day period. Still more work to do on the path of mastery.

Had a few normal dreams involving police - wrongfully accused, escaping from prison, trying to avoid the cops after an accident. Hence the last lucid was me getting my own back on the dream police, kinda

30/10/2016
Short LD "Trapped"
I am in a small room that is both bedroom and kitchen. JR is making breakfast and talking about there being special beds for the FBI. Why are the FBI here? Well to sleep. They get the more comfortable beds. Lucky sods.

One of the double beds, identified as mine, has a woman sleeping in it. She is unfamiliar to me. Probable false memory of us being intimate earlier. I ask her if she wants a cup of tea but she smiles at me and shakes her head sleepily. I put some trousers on and go to get breakfast.

Back at the breakfast table the discussion turns to plans: We will go to a seaside town and build great wooden ships, and sell the experience to people (boatbuilding experience?) It will be called Newmark? Also, we discuss how it will be a free place where people can sing whatever they like without comment.

To get to Newmark there is a bus. We end up on the bus but get stopped at a checkpoint. An inspector raises the bus on a giant hydraulic lift. We stand at the side of the road. Ducking down I can see right under the bus. A lorry filled with huge silver containers drives past. I try to move around the bus as the inspector then says they need to repeat the lift on the other side.

The bus falls back down and then metal barriers form around me. I am trapped under the bus. If the driver leaves now, I will be crushed under the wheels. Intense fear fills me but then I become lucid. I try to phase through the metal but terror seems to be holding me back. Smashing the metal has no effect and my shouts are muffled. I lash out and break sleep paralysis, waking with a jolt.

31/10/2016
4-5.30am
Long LD "Doctor Strange"
I am back at my first job. Just been hired. One of the employees shows me around. They take me to the locker room. He tells me that the keys to the lockers must be left next to the light switch. There is a guy standing near the lockers getting changed.
"Should I put on my uniform now?" I ask.
"No not yet."
I put on my trainers though, as we are about to head outside.

The guy leads me to a station where we jump onto a moving train. The door is small and I have to duck down to get through. This makes me lucid. Scenery is flashing past - countryside, at high speed. I jump off the moving train.

Superhero time! And, based on the last Marvel film I watched, decide to become Dr Stephen Strange. My current clothes are jeans and a T-shirt. I change them into blue robes and red cape. Then it's time for some magic. The first few attempts do not work very well. Thin whisps of magical energy appear in the air. Meh.

I do a complicated tai-chi style gesture and yell "Crimson Bands of Cyttorak!" Streaks of red magic fly out of my hands and towards the closest DC, who gets wrapped up in magic restraints and knocked over. He struggles on the floor.

Okay now to test the cloak of levitation. I jump and sit cross-legged in the air, then start to float along the street above the heads of everyone else. Up ahead there are small spaceships being attacked by beings made entirely from magical energy. I attempt to bind them but my spell merely knocks the being to the ground. It shrivels though, from human sized down to a small ball of glowing light. The miniature space ship is falling so I grab it out of the air and put it down. Tiny people climb out of it.

The glowing ball transforms into a small spaceship as well, trying to mimic the other one in the hopes I will free it. You don't fool me. I bite down on the tiny craft and start smashing it up with my teeth. Meanwhile about twenty robed monks have surrounded me. Instinctively I start casting more spells, creating orange glowing glyphs in the air by doing more tai-chi like gestures.

The monks are armed with wooden quarterstaves. I use the glyphs to clear a path and run for it. A castle with 30 foot walls is ahead. I attempt a invent a teleportation spell on the move. It doesn't work, but the cloak has my back, literally - dragging me up into the air.

From up on the castle walls I can see trains shooting past below. The monks have not followed me. Dropping down on the inside of the castle wall I then move inside the building. The roof is a restaurant with people and tables and chairs, all upside down. I begin to wonder which way is up.

On the wall is a picture of a city in a desert. Hmm, I could try to open a portal using the picture. Raising my left hand I notice two magical rings on my first and middle fingers. I start to make a circle in the air with my right hand to open a portal. A spinning red portal of ringed fire opens. I run through it.

There is sand underfoot. In the distance, the city sprawls in the shadow of a collossal sphinx. This must be Egypt. A huge celebration is taking place in the central square. The roads are lined with small merchant stalls. I grab something off one of them but the merchant doesn't even notice.

I recall the need to find an oasis, and head back out into the desert. It looks like a battlefield - there are aged metal objects in the sand - a helmet. A set of angel wings carved from copper, which has turned green with age. The battlefield seems to be haunted. Ghosts rise around me. I wake up.

7-7.50
Long LD "Taunting the Dream Police"
I am squeezing out a tube of toothpaste - it globs out all over the pavement. Bit of a waste... so I start scraping it onto a toothbrush. After getting a massive blob of toothpaste onto the brush, I try to clean my teeth, only to find a rock in my mouth.

This must be a dream. After spitting the rock and toothpaste out, I run forwards and find myself in the centre of a town. People are walking around. Things seem quiet. A tall guy with white hair shouts out to me. He is wearing bike leathers and holding a helmet. He seems familiar.

"Hey. You got a bike?"
"Yeah! Wanna see?" He replies.
The tall guy turns and walks into an alley. A police officer steps in front of me and blocks my path. He is shorter than me and dressed in the full stab vest and uniform. He puts a hand on my chest to stop me moving past.
"...the fuck? This is bullshit." Why are the cops on my case these last few nights? What did I do?

... and I find myself lying in bed. AB enters, talking about buying a DVD. There are a stack of DVDs next to the bed. "Wait... I heard you leave. Why aren't you at work?"
AB makes some excuse and then goes into another room.

Then I lie down and try to go back to sleep. Immediately a scene forms and I realise it was a false awakening and become lucid again.

I summon a motorcycle in the normal way by faking it, moving down the street until the bike forms under me. It doesn't steer very well and briefly changes into a bicycle before getting under control again. A left turn comes up and I run wide. A car revs its' engine impatiently behind me.

Up ahead is a police motorbike. Heh. Time for revenge. I pull up alongside him, beeping the horn to get his attention. Then I raise the middle finger salute and grab a fistful of throttle. The sirens start and the police bike dutifully starts chasing me. We get stuck in a crowd of people who are crossing the road. I push the bike through and ride up to a rock concert.

The road has ended at a railing, so I grab the bike and vault over it. Then slow the descent of the bike and get back on it. I pull some burnouts before riding through an empty restaurant. I phase the bike and myself through a solid door and into a classroom. There are doors. I struggle to phase through them and wake up.

...but not fully awake. Sleep paralysis. Can't move. Even my tongue is paralysed. Three guys lean over me. One has a baseball bat resting on his shoulder. I can't yell out or defend myself. They start beating me with the bats. I dissasociate with my body to block out the pain. Despite being unable to move I am able to move the visuals away, as if watching a TV.

The dream tries to freak me out by playing creepy music and having disembodied heads fly out of the 'screen' towards me. I still cannot move. 'It won't work, you're just hallucinations.' I think. Then I finally wake up.

Such a boring LD. I WILD onto some city and resolve to keep the thought that I am dreaming in my mind. Needless to say, I soon forget all about that. I try and fly, but it doesn't work. I hold up a car (GTA style) and consider stealing it. Then I reconsider and ask a pedestrian if she can 'teach me to fly' or know anyone who can.

Some blonde woman replies brightly "Sure!"

Then she pisses me off by telling me the names of actual flying instructors (i.e. plane). I consider slaying her, but in the end let her go.

I WILD onto a night scene. Everything is unsteady as usual, and I hold onto a iron barrier to steady myself. I try to fly up but it doesn't work. I just end up jumping. I pause for a second wondering what happened. I try again, but nothing. I then try to phase through a fence but end up just hurting my head. Everything looks so real that I force myself to do several RC's. It's extremely hard to remember that this is a dream. Like all WILD's its exactly like real life. I admit I sulk a little bit and skulk around for a bit.

I see an interesting looking car, from what looks like the 50's, in someone's driveway. I steal it. The sound of the car is glorious, like the purr of a tiger high on potatoes. It is an earthy roar, and I soon forget about flying. Then I run over a schoolgirl. Well shit, I think as I see a puddle of torn flesh and bone in my rear mirror. She couldn't be more than 6. I feel guilty for a few seconds. Then, my bloodlust rises, as I see a mob behind me. I summon a baseball bat and rush to do battle.

The mob is fighting each other, but I soon join in. Unfortunately my bloodlust is not sated as my bat bounces off everyone. Luckily their bat does the same.