lucid

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.

July 2013

In those days I was trying to get out of body by direct way before sleep, it is successful one. About 12 evening I went to bed with intention of direct way, and relax on the back without moving and calm the mind. Attempting to not fall asleep and catch slumber. Had a condition of semi-sleep, then was short dip in consciousness, one episode of dream, where I go on the field, after I was in the body with phantom sensations. Understood what was happening, awareness come back to me, and I try to get out. Crawl from my body, strong resistance pulls me back, and no vision. It is impossible to break away, and thinking "Motivation is not enough, there is no desire to fight". I ceased to apply effort and probably I was back into body. Then I think "if I can't, I just wish to appear in the room" and next moment I was standing in my room.

I immediately knew that came out, remember these feeling and happy. At once was stable space, no gaps in perception. I came to the window and look at it, see the yard. Decide to go through glass, but could not to pass through it. Then I try to go through the wall, put my hands into it, made an effort, and it does not work too. Look outside and see that there is not even beautiful, the yard is not like in real life and not embellished, landscape such as an location in some old computer game, got bored, and changed my mind to get off.

I think what can be done and remember one thing I wanted to do - look at my physical body. Turned back at room, see walls with a little gray lines and dashes, on bed I saw someone under a blanket. There was a slight feeling of anxiety, something like: I do it for the first time, it is important moment but gained confidence, going closer and knelt before him. I look and see my face, I was lying on right side, and at that moment my body head rises, opens his eyes, looking at me and starts to do some grimaces, in the eyes is seen that there seems to be no consciousness now, an unpleasant sight, but I decided to endure it and look at it for a while.

Having seen enough, I got up and thought what to do next. I decide to leave the room, open a door, handle is opened as in real life even with same sound.
Walk in the hallway, and wanted to enter into next room, door was open. As soon I come some one said "who is here?" I'm afraid that I will seen as a ghost and ran back to my room. Then I thought that is a good result, and decided to return into body at will, close to my body and wished to return, immediately open eyes and I was lying in same position how I saw myself from outside.
(Now I think that was a ghost of the physical body.)

Hey everyone. This is my first share. I have been reading some posts for a couple months now and after having 2 lucid dreams I thought I would join this forum and share. Enjoy.

I had 2 lucid dreams last night. Both of them, I was lucid and realized I was dreaming right when the dreams started. I also never did any reality checks, but I guess I didn’t need them.

The first dream I was walking somewhere and the wall next to me just seemed so vibrant and a bell rang in my head.(I had a previous dream where a wall appeared to be vibrant so this was a small dream sign) I thought to myself “I’m dreaming!” Except I said out loud...I’m awake. And I kept saying it. I rubbed my hands together and then up and down my body to make sure I really grounded myself. I saw a guy walking in the same direction as me and at first I was going to just ignore him. Then I decided that since I was dreaming why not just spark up a conversation. So I turned to him and told him that I was awake…(not dreaming) He looked confused. I actually reached my hands out and touched his face to and it felt real. Like a human face. He was tall, had to be at least 7 feet tall. I said it a few more times and told him I wanted to yell it. Part of me thought that I would wake up my wife, but I knew I was dreaming so she wouldn’t hear me. So I yelled...I’M AWAKE!!! He looked like he wanted to laugh at me (I know why now) Then he said to me, well ok then why don’t you follow me, but I didn’t want to. I was excited and I just wanted to explore this strange world that I was is. It was bright and there was a sandy feel to it and there were steps made out of sandstone color. I told him no thanks I think I want to go this way (left up the stairs) and he went right...no stairs. So I jogged up the stairs and they turned to the left and what do you know...this guys was right there. Both ways went to the same place. I was a little annoyed and I said again...I’m awake. And this woke me up

2nd dream. I was sitting in a room with my legs crossed and eyes closed. I could hear some noises. I believe this happened shortly after my first dream and I knew again that I was dreaming. This time I said, “I’m dreaming” I tried to open my eyes, but couldn’t see anything. I was patient as I wanted to make sure I didn’t open up my real eyes. I said it again, “I’m dreaming” and I put my hands over my eyes and told them to open. Slowing they started to open. I saw flashes of random images at first and then everything started to become clear. I was sitting in front of a large TV that wasn’t on. I started to look around and to my left there were two ladies sitting and talking. As my vision became clear, I recognized the one on the left. It was Snooki from Jersey Shore. I was so disappointed that I just turn away and demanded I wake up. I woke up shortly after.

I was walking around in a neighborhood looking for something. Someone said something about a defense system, but I knew they meant a security system. It was a nice neighborhood, nice cars and lawns. I ended up in a house on couch sleeping. I remember a short snippet of a guy trying to sleep in a bookcase with the wall kinda crumbling.

Then the scene changed and I was seeing an a guy in an orange suit, a coverall like a prisoner would wear. He was just running, he wasn't a prisoner, he just had the gear on. I knew it was a dream, so I decided that I wanted be in that scene, and I was there. I kind of dropped into it like I jumped down and landed. I didn't really see much of myself. I looked up at a ledge that led to a parking lot or some other flat area. I was on asphalt only a little ways below it. I was still thinking about this being a dream. I thought about doing an RC, but I just pulled myself up. Then I felt like I was tangled up with my physical body, so I tried to get free by rolling or something. At that point I lost that scene. I had some blurry vision of trying to roll away from my body. I could hear what sounded like me moving in my bed and that woke me up. It really reminded me of my first almost WILD when I woke myself up trying to get into the scene that had formed. At least got to be in this one and do a couple of things.

I guess that was my first lucid, such as it was. It was a MILD after yet another failed WILD. I'll take it.

DILD #1-I was in the drivers seat of a car waiting at a red light when I realized the car wasn't mine. I drove though the intersection and tried to make the car fly but it wouldn't. I parked and got out. My body felt heavy. I slowly put my hands in my pockets but nothing was there. I took my hands out and they were all wrinkly. I looked for a cute girl to make out with but there weren't any. I woke up.

DILD #2-I was sleeping when I saw my window appear in front of my closed eyelids. I phased through it to fly outside and landed. I put my hands into my pockets but there weren't anything in there. I tried to summon a lamp with a genie in it but nothing showed up. I woke up.

DILD #3-I was sleeping when I felt my surroundings rotating in the dark. I saw I was now floating near the roof. I got down on the ground. My body was heavy. I put my hands in my pockets and found they were stuffed. They were so stuffed I couldn't pull anything out. I tried to pull something out, but woke up.

DILD #4-I was sitting down someplace with a few other people, not sure where. I was staring at a person until they saw at me, then I would stare at somebody else. I saw my late grandma walking by. I gave her a nice hug and asked her where she was going. She said "Lands End". I decided to try the pocket TOTM again and felt something like a coupon book. As I was pulling it out, I woke up.

Night 15

I was attending Hogwarts. (These HP dreams are gonna keep cropping up as I read through the series.) However we are in my dorm building, just its full of wizard classrooms instead of dorms and everyone is wearing wizard robes. The thing I remember was seeing and briefly talking with Harry, Ron and Hermoine before going to a magical class.

Fred and George Wesley had enchanted the toilets in people's dorms and classrooms to have teeth and literally bite you in the butt. The teeth look like those fake joke dentures that you wind up. Neville Longbottom got bit by one. There was some sort of bad pun here in that his last name was longbottom and he had been bit in the butt by a magical toilet.

NLD x2=2
WBTB x1=2

I did a WBTB.

I was helping my dad drop of stuff he'd sold on craigslist at a house in a neighborhood near my own IWL. I see a cat by the side of the road. While I am sitting with the van stopped in the passenger seat with the door open, the cat climbs in and sits on my lap and falls asleep purring. At first it is a big brown spotty tabby but changes to a small white cat with orange spots on its back and tail.

Night 16

I'm going to save most of this dream for my private journal, seeing as it was very erotic. The basic premise was a large, waist deep swimming pool inside a spa/resort complex. There is an equal number of male and female dream characters (8-10 of each). They are all about college age. (Unlike the dream from two nights ago that I didn't post that used an unwilling high school student.) Some are naked and those that aren't are wearing very tight and revealing swimsuits.

This is some kind of sex game, where the people walk in different directions around the pool for a set period of time while music plays. I guess then it's like musical chairs where you stop and get out of the pool to have sex with the person closest to you. I wasn't playing but I happened to walk into the game by accident without understanding what was going on and disrupted the male/female balance.

I then meet with this other woman who isn't playing the game, but hosting it. She has long wavy blonde hair and planet-sized boobs, sitting on the edge of a hot tub with men on either side of her. She is wearing a light green swimsuit, though the boys to either side are naked and rather 'excited' looking. I remember she didn't have the most pleasant of personalities, she seemed very angry that I had disrupted her game and did not up to her standards of physical attractiveness.

This big policeman guy wearing an opaque gray visor over his eyes came in. All of the dream characters started running and hiding.

"Okay, it's time to get lucid now..." I said.

While everyone else started running on the pool deck trying to get away, I walked toward the officer. He tried to pull his gun out, but with a swipe of my hand, telekinesis sent it flying from his grip and across the room. He then pulled out his tazer and shot it at me. I caught the prongs with my right hand. I saw the electrical shock coming down the wires (though it's not visible on tazers IWL it was in the dream.) When it hit my hand, I flicked the wire up and down and sent the electricity back, zapping the police guy's hand and making him drop the tazer.

I went up to fight him hand-to-hand. I went to punch him but he caught my punch and slammed me into the pool deck with enough force to smash the tiles. At this point I recognized that he was some kind of terminator/cyborg policeman. He then proceeded to sit on top of me and try to strangle me (this dream is just so wrong when you consider I was still naked.) I kicked him off with my fire jets and it sent him flying.

I flew up into the air, hovering above the swimming pool. I decided to try and see if I could conjure firebombs like Marcus said I could. I held out my hands and saw what looked like two or three mini fire tornadoes form and start expanding in size on either side. I figured I was just charging them and I had to release them to attack. I then started pulling backwards, seeing the backside of my body as I released the fire missiles and they shot on arching trajectories bombarding the robot policeman from all sides. I lost the dream and woke up.

NLD x1=1
DILD x1=10
Telekenisis x1=5
Misc dream control x1=5 (If redirecting a tazer back at the user counts as element manipulation, let me know.)
Fly x1=5
Gain Invunerablity x1=5 (If being smashed into a tile/concrete floor hard enough to crack it and feeling nearly nothing counts.)
Element Manipulation x1=10

I'm running in a long distance race with a few others. It is very vivid but not lucid. We go round a corner and then have to climb a steep incline. At the top we get bogged down in mud, and have to jump across a small gap, but there's a weird sort of matting under foot. I stop and opposite me is a guy who is obviously the instructor on the course. He stares at me and after quite a long while says, "don't I know you?", although I'm not sure I actually hear the words. He is in his thirties with a neatly trimmed but full beard and moustache, with neat hair and a young looking face. I move on and slide down a steep slope to the ground the other side, realising that he is a group captain, and I have a strong wish that I was a group captain as well.
On the ground I start walking along a path with a concrete wall on my left, and I suddenly become aware that I'm dreaming. I put my hand up to the wall and look closely at it, trying to stabilise by inspecting it. The wall has a coarse granular appearance with sparkling particles in it, but I can't seem to focus properly on it. I move on a bit and try again, but the same thing happens. There seems to be a weird fuzziness to the surface.
I get frustrated with that and decided that I need to change the scene, so the wall disappears and I move over to where there is a small tree and I put my arms out around it. Then I get the urge to fly up and I levitate straight up and above the tree. I move up quite slowly at first, but then as I glance around I can see some houses, but it's a bit vague.
Then almost as suddenly I'm back on the ground, but at the edge of a cliff, way above a bay with the sea below. Without any fear I decide to dive into the bay below and I jump up and dive down. At first I accelerate quite fast but then as I go down my speed slows a bit to a steady pace. Down below I can see a sort of long cloud that at first looked to be on the water, but the water is way below and this cloud is above. As I approach it the cloud comes up to me, and then it becomes a woman in a long white flowing dress. She flies up to meet me, and I pull up into the air with her as we come close together.
(All this was lucid).

This certainly wasn't the standard type of lucid dream for me, and I'm happy it lasted longer than a couple of seconds as well, here goes.

I was in a big city, and I had my bike and my smartphone with me (I don't own a bike in real life). And then... a talking monkey stole my bike, I was uncertain what to do at first and considered calling the police. Instead however I decided to run after the monkey and got my bike back by kicking against the back wheel and knocking it off. I went back to where I was first, all the while that monkey insulted and threatened me.

That's when I got angry, and lucid. As it often happens in my dreams, even lucid, I tapped into a certain power as if it was the most natural thing ever. I called upon the moons of Tibaro.
("Moons of Tibaro" is the clear sentence I remember I said or thought in the dream. A really interesting side note is that I thought about the dream while being awake and still had a piece of information imprinted on me when I thought about the moons, one of them was called "Shadow of Pria". I might be wrong about the Pria part but I know for sure it was a short word starting with P. But yeah, I didn't remember that from the dream, the information just popped up in my mind as if I was still dreaming.)
What I essentially did was some sort of telekinesis/summoning to call in an outrageously devastating storm of meteors from the moons of Tibaro (I think there were 3 moons and I brought debris from all of them). The impacting objects were all mostly black, maybe a bit gray, and had a structure and sheen like obsidian. With time the talking monkey transfigured into something entirely different, something that I almost killed a couple of times but every time I almost had it finished it regenerated before the final blow. It didn't even have a defined shape anymore.
At some point during the fight I also got to see things from a system view. I could see the moons of Tibaro, a large but uninvolved object which I presume was the planet Tibaro, and another... planet or moon that I was on. I really wonder what that place was I was on, considering it seemed to have the size of a moon, was very close to Tibaro, yet was not considered a moon of Tibaro. And here I also got the impression that the moons of Tibaro had some consciousness of their own, and they disliked the object that I was on. This is also why I said telekinesis/summoning earlier, because I feel that I've both called upon their power as well as using my own in the form of telekinesis to direct the meteors towards me.
The fight was so huge the city was turned into fine dust in which we continued to fight, and soon the planetary object I was on got a large part of its surface blown off by the fight, up to the point that the once almost perfect sphere was now VERY unshapely.

I continue through a few corridors and finally reach the top of a staircase at the end. I approach the doors and realize I'm dreaming as I make my way through. There's a few tables to the left of people sitting down to eat at taller tables. I look forward through the glass lining the entire length of the room and stare out to a beach scene with light colored sand and water set back about ten yards from the building. In front of the glass walls, a long bar stands with a few people working behind it preparing drinks. I reflect that I'm in a dream again and remember I can grab anything to eat without worrying about it. I don't get anything, but turn and look to my left and phase through a set of double doors. I enter the next area, and the dream becomes unstable. I continue asking for focus and clairty repeatedly, but the dream fades and I wake.

Let’s play a fun little game. Try to count how many things seem weird or bizarre before dream-me finds one (there’s at least 25 in total).

I’m at church for our Wednesday night youth service. We just had a guest speaker - my old RA from freshman year of college - who gave out a free plunger to every kid in the youth group. The band and I come up to play music, so I get set up on the keyboard. The youth pastor comes up after us and explains to the crowd that we didn’t have time to practice, so we’re basically going to be sight-reading these songs, and he’ll be leading us. Our first song is apparently from the year 1920 and has a ton of key and rhythm changes. At one point, the song even changes into the key of K. Still, it has a hard rock drum part in the style of the Foo Fighters that sounds pretty amazing, so I kind of like it. After finishing our first song, I have to switch to bass guitar for the second song, but my bass is on the other side of the stage. I manage to maneuver my way through a maze of junk on the stage - from palm trees to banjos to a sleeping cat - grab my guitar case and make my way back. The second song is more in the style of the Beastie Boys, and I’m kind of surprised when our youth pastor drops the F-bomb in the middle of the song (we are in a church, after all). I look around, but no one seems to notice or care.

For the third song, I get back on the keyboard, but somehow it got unplugged during the last song. I go to plug it back in, but there’s so many ports in the back of all different shapes and sizes - it almost looks like a telephone switchboard. Tony, a guy from the youth group like 5 years ago, comes up on stage and yells at me for not figuring it out. He grabs the wire out of my hand and plugs it in for me. Luckily, our third song is interrupted by a literal parade of people coming from the adult class marching up through the center aisle and exiting through the side door. After the interruption, we’ve apparently decided not to do a third song, so I go back to sit down with Mismagius and his little brother, who are both wearing pullover hoodies with “IRC” in big letters across them*. The youth pastor starts his sermon with a video on the projector screen, which strangely has clips of topless women and people cussing. I look around again, but still no one is phased by this. In fact, most of the audience isn’t paying attention, and some of the kids are going up to the stage to get some free oranges from these tall cardboard boxes. Suddenly, it hits me that it’s Friday night, not Wednesday night - why are we having service? I plug my nose to make sure I’m not dreaming, but I can breathe through it. Weird, everything seems so realistic though, there’s no way I’m dreaming. I plug my nose again to make sure, and I can still breathe through it. “Huh, I guess I am dreaming.”

Upon me saying this revelation, the entire crowd erupts into a loud cheer, like their favorite football team just scored the game-winning touchdown. There’s an explosion of confetti and streamers as more people start rushing into the room cheering. Apparently this was some kind of lucid hidden camera show, where they were trying to see how much weird crap they could do before I finally got lucid. The crowd makes a row out the door, and I proceed to give them all high-fives down the line. All my friends and family are there, some hugging me as I pass by, and others joking with me on how long it took me to realize.

I finally make my way to the end of the line and find myself in my old high school gymnasium. Mismagius and his little brother are there again, and the kid starts making fun of me for not realizing sooner, claiming that I should’ve known as soon as I saw the huge American flag on the side of the orange boxes. I exit the gym and walk up to my friend Aaron. He’s apparently only heard stories of people becoming lucid, and he wants to see for himself just how incredible it is. The first thing he wants to see is how fast I can run. He takes off in a sprint, and after giving him about a 5 second head start, I take off and quickly catch up with him in about 2 seconds and tackle him to the ground. He seems incredibly stunned, and I quickly realize that hitting him at that speed may have hurt him. “Are you okay? Because if you’re not, I can fix that.” Luckily, he gets up and claims he’s fine. I wake up shortly after.

After journaling the previous dream (chuckling the entire time at the ridiculousness), I go back to sleep. I’m now on some game show with a couple friends and a few strangers. The point of the show is that we have to fight each other in incredibly weird environments, like a water park or a maze of air ducts. The winner of each fight advances, until the final two compete in a fight to the death. However, from the start of the show, none of us want to fight (friendship for the win). However, the host, a teenage girl with straight black hair, threatens us with a water bazooka if we don’t do it. I conspire with one of my friends to fake a fight so the host doesn’t kill us. I hold his head under the water for a couple seconds until he taps out. My next competitor is a kid who looks like he’s maybe 8 years old. Since the start of the show, he was hiding in a pocket of air in the bottom corner of the swimming pool. As I dive down to get him, he quickly surrenders before I reach him. I manage to advance to the final fight, where my competitor is apparently the crazy jungle kid from The Wild Thornberrys, but I wake up before I can find him.

DILD - 10
RC - 1
Interact with DC - 2
Super speed - 5
NLD - 1
WBTB - 2

Night 15 Total - 21 pts

*Okay, to be fair, there is a school near my church that a couple kids in the youth group go to called Indian Rocks Christian. So even though it seems obvious in retrospect (“I’m Mismagius, you know, the one you always talk to on DreamViews IRC chat.”), of the entire dream this is probably the one thing I have a slight excuse for.

I was camping tonight, so my records are incomplete. I'm frankly amazed I remembered anything ...

Naval infiltration
I'm in a huge elevator, going up. On one wall, there's a giant glowing "6," but I don't know if it's showing what floor it's going to, or which elevator is it, or what. Off to the side, I see a door that leads into the bathrooms, and I'm amused - I've never seen an elevator with onboard bathrooms before, but this one is certainly big enough for it.

Now I've done something, gone back down, and gotten back on with a friend. I look for the bathroom and am surprised that I don't see it any more - I'd really been hoping it would be there ... I also note that the 6 isn't glowing any more. We reach our destination floor. Now we're in a dimly lit room. It's long and narrow, and we're near what seems to be a bathtub. Somehow, the bathtub is related to our reason for being here.

Now we're in a speedboat headed away from some kind of small floating "base." My companion indicates that "they" managed to get tracking devices onto us. He takes my bluetooth headset and a pair of wire snips and snips them right down the middle of the boom mic, then hands it back to me saying that it's safe now.

Now we're going along at full speed. A large bouy is in right in front of us and we end up crashing straight over it. It's where we were headed for, so we turn around as quickly as we can. As we turn, I can see that another speedboat is almost on top of us - they were following us the whole time! Without waiting, I dive into the water knowing that I must get to <the thing> before they do! I'm concerned that I didn't have a chance to get any breathing gear, and I think how nice it would be to be able to breathe underwater.

With that thought, I'm reminded of my personal goal and realize I'm dreaming. I completely forget about my pursuers and look around. The water is a light blue and is beautifully clear. Many swimmers are in the water around me, though most are higher up towards the surface - I'm already pretty far down. * I open my mouth and breathe in the water. I'm actually a little disappointed - I'd hoped it would feel really weird, but I just feel my real body breathing. In fact, even though I'm breathing through my dream mouth, I can feel the breath in my physical nostrils. I get a huge feeling of dissonance and wake up before I can do anything else.


Sick friend
I'm on a nice grass lawn outside a large house. I see a man come onto a small balcony with his wife, and I'm pleased: he's been sick for a long time, and it's good to see him up and about.

Now I'm sharing a bed with him, and his wife is in the bed next to us. I know I was glad to see him, but I can't figure out why we'd share a bed. I'm grateful to his wife for her kindness to us, and I feel bad for taking the spot which should have been hers.

On waking, the dream was explained: I'd been sleeping with my toddler who was having trouble sleeping in the tent.