lucid

Okay so "Night 1" is from 8:00pm on the 14th to 7:59pm on the 15th.
"Night 2" is from 8:00pm on the 15th to 7:59pm on the 16h.
"Night 3" is from 8:00pm on the 16th to 7:59pm on the 17h.
and "Night 4" is from 8:00pm on the 17th to 7:59pm on the 18h.

Okay I just had to figure that out, since I slept a good portion of the day away.

Nights 1 and 2 nothing happened. I was on holiday with family and way too busy and tired to even recall any dreams.

Night 3 was better. Here are the nonlucid(s):

I was sitting in a bar. When I stepped outside I was in a huge room with a checkerboard floor, white columns and walls and a black ceiling and approached by one of my original characters. (David). Only he looked large/stock, fat and more intimidating. He said he wanted to fight me. He said he was so confident that he would win that he would let me have 100 free hits on him before he fought back. (Exceptionally weird since one of the first traits I designed David around was to be nonviolent.)

I started fighting him with no motivation or actual provocation. He started counting down the hits I made. Punching him was just like punching and kicking a big pillow or a punching bag. I lost the dream out of frustration. I still was allowed 83 more hits on him when I t ended.


I remember Manei was the sole character of a dream set in Republic City from The Legend of Korra. I think the dream was even "animated" similarly, it looked similar to the show. She was in a disguise of a trench-coat, hat, and one of those joke shop glasses+joke nose+mustache things and pretending to read a newspaper. (Your disguise is just dripping with originality.) She waited for some people to walk buy, then threw off her disguise to reveal a red swimsuit underneath, and jumped into an open storm drain.

She swam underwater for quite some time, navigating various water pipes under the city. She didn't seem to need air, even when she finally surfaced in an underground pool about a minute later she didn't seem out of breath at all. There was a meeting forming of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Pearl from Steven Universe, and Batman. (Okay... Interesting choice of characters...) They all met at a round rusty metal table and started discussing plans for something.

...

I was Jumping like a frog on large Lilly pads in a swamp (Dagobah Feeling), apparently as a part of some kind of physical training. Manei approached me and told me I was misusing my physical body and if I wanted to do whatever it was I was trying to do or train myself for (semi lucidity is the best), I should just transmute myself into an actual frog.

She then showed me what she said was called a dream frog. It looked like a normal bull frog but it had a red button on its back that you would press. Apparently it was a very powerful dreaming artifact that allowed me to hop back to lucid dreams that I had already had and change what happened in them.

I think the dream frog wiggled out of her hand and hopped away in the swamp. I tried to go after it but it disappeared.

...

We were back in Republic City from Legend of Korra and we had to fight agianst Mako, Bolin and Korra who were trying to stop us from getting into this building. (Presumably a town hall, it looked nothing like the town hall from the show, it was much smaller and looked more like a miniature version of the US capital building. It was also built by the coast.) The battle took place at sunset with the sun setting over the water.

Manei had a truly brilliant combat strategy. She charged in and got their attention then proceeded to chicken out and hide behind a parked tank as boulders and fire missiles shot over us. I remember poking out of cover and nearly getting pelted with attacks myself. I tried to encourage her to run out of cover on separate sides and maybe we could split their line of fire and flank them, but she had completely lost it.

I jumped up and started flying above the battle. Bolin and Korra worked together and threw a barrage of giant boulders at me. I kicked one of them and my skate blade popped out and sliced it in half (cool.) I flew over and landed, standing on one foot, on a flagpole atop the building. Mako shot lightning up the metal flagpole and killed me. For some reason when he killed me the scene became animated much more simplistically and I saw myself in third person. I turned into a giant cooked turkey and fell on the ground.

Its interesting to me how naturally the Zero-friction sakes have worked their way into dreams. I don't post every dream I have anymore so you guys don't get the full picture, but they made their first true appearance in the last comp, and since then they've come up 10+ times, mostly in semi lucids. Something tells me if I was to try to summon them in a lucid dream, I'd have no difficulty whatsoever.

I feel dirty classing these as four separate NLDs since they share plot threads, but since there was some semi-lucidity in there, and because I'm down two days completely due to circumstances outside my control, I'll call it for four points...

NLDx4=1

On the actual 'Night 4' I only had a nonlucid dream.

I was going to work with my mom. For some reason she worked in this big castle built out of Minecraft blocks built by the side of a realistic lake. Apparently she was studying how to make Minecraft educational to college students. (My mom works at a college IWL). I remember there was a door that was supposed to operate with redstone and pistons but it wasn't working and my mom wanted to call the groundskeepers and have them fix the door.

The dream changed plots to a story about a 44 year old man (age specifically given) who wanted to be 'young and hip' and decided to quit his desk job and become a DJ. He was in a recording studio recording a song called 'Bang, Bang, Cowboy'. It was like a hip hop/dance song that used some country instruments. I know that sounds musically impossible, but somehow in the context of the dream, it sounded really good.

I must say as far as Dream Music goes, this was probably the second best song to 'Robot Disassembly'. I even remember the dance move you would do to it where you would point at your dance partner with two fingers and then on each utterance of the word 'Bang' in the song flick your hand up as though you had shot them, alternating hands each time. A rather unusual implication for a dance, but apparently it caught on as a trend.

Then it showed another scene of the guy trying to come up with more songs and he couldn't. The country singer walked into the recording studio not wearing a shirt, having a comically oversized cowboy hat on and a huge case of beer. She started chugging all the beers and the DJ guy started dancing to the cowboy song and other people came in and danced with them and drank beer. Then they got in trouble for ruining all the recording equipment.

But later in the day I napped for two cycles. (I know this because I fell asleep at 12:30, awoke from a dream at about 2, then slept again and woke up at about 3:45)

In the first lucid I false awoke and rather groggily walked into my parent's bathroom. In it I saw the cabinets under the sink were missing and there was a gigantic cluster of amethyst crystals on display. I for some reason recognized this as a dream sign and did a nose pinch reality check. This caused me to become lucid. I lost the dream and woke up.

-+-

The second dream I was preparing to go to work with my mom. I remember off in the east there were these huge black mushroom shaped buildings with a purple energy conduit running around the edge of the 'cap' of the mushroom. There were white glowing windows, along with what looked like bits of technology, exterior pipes and conduits and power boxes.

There were also these very tall (clouds wrapping around 1/4 of the way up, so probably many miles tall) buildings that shared a similar color palate. They had these huge sideways facing cylinders with purple energy conduits along the edges built into their superstructures.

I became lucid rather randomly. It wasn't because of the buildings. I just remember saying to myself "I'm dreaming, aren't I?" and proceeding to launch myself into the air with enough force to crack the cement driveway. I launched up into the cloud but a moment later a dull, but strong pain in my knees and thighs registered and the dream pretty quickly disintegrated.

DILD x2 = 15
RC =1
WBTB =2
Fly/Super Strength/Super Speed (I launched myself, it was really like a big jump.) = 5

Totes: 24

Creepy Dream Characters

I was walking through the city streets speedily until people behind me called out to me. Turning around I saw that my purse and sweater were on the ground. I thanked the people for telling me and picked up my stuff wondering how I could not notice. I was also worried that I had dropped my phone but couldn't find it. This made me retrace my steps just to be sure I didn't drop it on the street but as I was going back a guy that had a blond buzz cut and wearing white shorts with a brown/white t-shirt came up to me. He said that it was like he met me somewhere before but that he couldn't tell where.

I became lucid than and told the dc that we were in a dream and pulled him back from a crowd that was moving around us. He wanted to take me somewhere but now that I looked at him his appearance was different. He was wearing purple glasses, clothing that reminded me of Marcus Jade's character, and a sweater around his waste.I told him that he was starting to look like Marcus but he just grabbed my hand and went into a jewelry shop with me. We than ended up in a hotel place than went into another room that changed into a African style room where there was a balcony that was painted brown and had vines with monkey statues on it.

He took me out that room and was about to go up some stairs with me but I pulled back my hand from his. "Where are you trying to take me!?"I said annoyed already.He looked back at me telling me to just follow him. I said no and ran through a hall and into another room to get away from the dc. The room began turning red but than stopped. The floor was kind of wobbly too. I observed the room taking note of two old styled windows than decided to get out of the room through the walls. My goal now was to try and meet Jade's dream characters.

I walked around till I ended up in a room with random dcs. They claimed to be Jade's dcs even though they weren't. I did end up finding something good there though. I saw a changing picture in manga style that had Eye and Dawn in it. The first picture was one where Dawn had his arm around Eye in a brotherly way and the other was a pic of Dawn making Eye chug something down his throat. It was kind of funny and was good for inspiration for making more art.

After I was done looking I noticed we were in front of my house now. When I looked at the dcs that were still present one of them did something really stupid. He just unzipped his pants and started peeing everywhere and all over another dc. I flew towards a gate than somewhere else to get away from him. I ended up in a room where there was a child that caught my attention. The child was about 6 at first than changed to a small tiny baby. I picked up the baby and hugged him but than he started talking like a evil guy who just wanted to rape people. I didn't like the creepy baby anymore and threw it at a wall. I was about to take a sword out too, to battle him but he was already broken so I changed my mind.

Fighting Drive

I was with my brother who took me into a small cabin that had a book we were supposed to get to beat a mission.I tried balancing the book in my hand but there was another book inside it that wasn't getting off. I tried calling my brother for help but I noticed that he vanished and that the world I was in looked like Zelda Windwaker. The cabin was on a cliff side near a plains and the Pirate ship was close to the cliff on the ocean."I'm lucid again and I'm in Windwaker"I thought happily. I stepped out the cabin feeling like I had Link's body and was thinking about where to go first when I saw the sun going down. This made me think of the monsters coming out and that's when I heard the creepy battle music.

I didn't want to fight the monsters so I ran and jumped off the cliff summoning a white blanket I thought link used to glide from one place to another.(However, i haven't played the game in a long time so after checking out some pics its actually a green leaf)This let me land on the tower of the ship but than I jumped off and let myself fall into the hole entrance of the ship. I was thinking about doing the dhl mission to fight a sword guy or monster but the ship was empty. I entered a room that reminded me of the place where you have to jump from one place to another to get rubies but I ended up in a apartment building instead.There I was able to find what looked like a blue dragon and fought him with wind and a sword but I took him out pretty quickly. This made me feel dissatisfied since I wanted to fight a sword guy. I noticed Dawn in the room and told him to fight me. I swung my sword at him lightly and he blocked it telling me to calm down. He wasn't in a fighting mood at all but I still kept trying to make him fight me until I thought about Andres and kokkiri forest. "Let's go to kokkiri forest and fight a giant or a monster with a sword!"I said excited to complete the mission. I looked out the window seeing we were at a high height.

I also took note that the sky was foggy and there were some drawings and a poster of two woman on a white building. After I finished observing my surroundings I heard the lost woods song and jumped out the window ready to fly to kokkiri forest but just as I was starting to fly Dawn jumped on my leg grabbing me and pulling me down telling me not to go. I had a false awakening moment than but could only see a clear light and white blankets making me wonder if I was still dreaming. I felt someone beside me and it turned out to be Dawn proving to me that I was still in a dream.He looked cute at that moment so I got carried away and kissed him until he told me to stop and hid under the blankets saying that his master was coming. I noticed we were in a Japanese dojo now and could see someone walking towards us through the halls. At first they were blurry but than I saw it was a lady with short light aqua hair, red lipstick and clothing that made me think she could be in a band. I saw a random gum lieing around and tossed it at her. She laughed as she walked around us and did not seem aggressive at all.I tried it again and she told me to stop when it got stuck on her hair. I pulled it out ripping some hair off and said sorry. Still no violent nature. Dawn got out from under the blanket and than a small kid appeared laughing at how there was still some gum stuck on her.I had another false awakening after that but after realizing it was a dream I woke up.I could have probably done the sword master mission at the dojo but I got distracted.

Last night bed at 8 pm. Alarm set to 1am, but I woke up at 12:47 so I took 2x300 Alpha GPC then. Went back to bed to sleep another hour before staying up for WBTB, but couldn't fall asleep for good 10 min. So when second alarm rang at 2am, I kept sleeping. Woke up at 2:50 and I almost blew the whole thing. Stayed up for 30 min before felt I was already awake enough. I read Opehlia's DJ for motivationD. Took 2xGM at 3:20am and went straight to sleep.

8pm - bed
12:47am - 2x300 Alpha GPC
2:50 - 3:20am - WBTB
3:20am - 2x4 pure galantamine
3:20am - sofa

About 40 min long.

Took me about 10 min to fall asleep, after my cat jumped off of me. The head sensation, which normally is feeling of buzzing and cold spot in the top back of my head, was this time different. I had a sensation in the perimeter of the whole head. Imagine my head being an egg, so the sensation was in the eggshell. It was interesting and strong.

Part 1:

About 20 min long.

I did a lot of walking I think mostly outdoors. There was some kind of a plot which I don't remember.

One of my goals was to slow down and look around. So I stopped and look backwards. It was awesome, because this is first time when I did it. The picture was clear and everything was very detailed. I looked up and wanted to see stars. I could see how the dream was trying to work on my wish. The skies were changing, black was moving and some small light were starting to come up, untill the skies were full of stars. Then I wanted the moon and one stronger light was trying to break through but I didn't wait for that to finish.

At some point I was walking through some rock and I heard something. I thought it sounded like ocean waves hitting the shore. I got excited and as I walked down the other side of the rocks, sure enough, there was beautiful shoreline. Like in norther california in Big Sur area. Dark blue waters and rocky shore. The waves hitting the rocks and the sound they made was so spot on. It was so beautiful that after a long time I again felt such an incredible joy. I felt my face grinning ear to ear and I was so happy. I saw some people in the water so I waded in.

At some point in this lucid I thought that maybe I will wake up, but then I thought no, it's too early, I will not wake up.

I don't remember if I turned to my right side at the begining, or when I woke up in the middle. But I remember waking up and opening one eye to look. My room looked normal but I counted my fingers with other hand to make sure it's not an FA. And lol, I counted 6! I'm like how the heck did I do that and counted again. 5 this time. I went back to sleep because I already didn't remember much from the lucid and I still felt the head sensations so I was hoping to get another lucid. And I did.

Part 2:

About 20 min long.

This was happening mostly indoors. I think this is exactly how it was in my previous lucid - outside first, then indoors.

It's some kind of a huge building, like a mall, but not that moder. Lots of people. But I didn't get to see any individuals or talk to them, I think.

I was standing on some large stairs gooing up, when I thought I should fly. But it was so realistic, I couldn't fly. Then I thought that I should be able to fly anyway, because it's a dream and others do it.

I started to float up a bit. I though "higher" and I went higher. I started to fly forward and the dream reacted to me saying "faster" a few times, until I was going decent speed. It was awesome.

The interiors from this and previous dream remind me of the architecture of Naboo from Star Wars.

Thank you! I would like more dreams like this. Flying, looking around, talking to DCs. Slowing down and being a part of a dream.

This time after WBTB doing Mantra & visualization of previous dream and getting lucid AKA MILD

just a short lucid but i had to get up at 6:45 and woke up from lucid at 6:42 so that was gratefully

me and gf want to take a bus, we both needs to pee and she goes to a wall that has a hole like a garage. she squads down and pee. suddenly a lot of people are approaching. first i think they want to pee too but then i notice that they put their baggage in all the holes/garages. seconds after gf has peed a guy puts his bag there... we enter a bus. the front-seat passenger is a nice girl i see while we talk to the busdriver? we get out of the bus and walk a little and i have the urge to go back to her and get lucid by this.
we turn around and move back. there is no bus but there are now a lot of small tables like the outside of a cafe. first thing i do after a nosepinch is to put both hands into my pockets, first i think about what i want to get but then i remind myself to have no expectation and fair enough both pockets are empty. nothing changes even tho i really really digged around there. best thing was some fluffs...^^ nevermind i go back and look for the girl. an older woman says something to me but i want to find that girl. i think i find her but am not 100% sure so i look at the neighbor table too but decide i was right in the first place. all people from both table are looking at me silently the whole time as they where waiting for me to decide.
so i approach this nice girl AND.... ask her if she want to tic tac toe with me she agrees but she seem very young and rashly. first time she waves to fast and i am not ready. i tell her we play 3 times. two times we have the same (often scissors). in the end i win 2:0 or 2:1 (cant remember every round anymore...). i think in the end i won with wells (beats paper) what somehow is cheating... after she looses she turns even younger to a small sulking girl. i hug her and tell her she shouldnt be sad. the dream destabilizes but i dont want to let it go so even tho there are no visuals i try to feel the ground and i notice that i am still there. i hear me or FryingMan? talking to the girl about a party that will be there later and show her a map where she shouldnt go because she is too young. in the end i wake up nevertheless.

I am at my job's dock and it looks quite disorted from how it is suppose to look in waking life. I see some people I know talking on the top deck and notice someone trying to wake me up from the bed I was lying down on. Which is wierd...considering I am at work currently. He telling me to get up cause he wants to know who I like more and if this so and so is true about him. I get up and look at him and see what he and the other were argueing about. I decided I'm not interested and leap off the bed to go to no where land. But before I do this I notice a car that is very out of place and I could've sworn I seen it move on it's own.

I sharpen my sight by clenching my eyes real tight to see if there was a driver in there. There was no driver. So I got my hanbds on to the front of this car and notice that it felt extremely light. Light weighted enough that I could move it with my bare hands. I push the car back in to it's right parking spot and didn't think much of it. Soon after I see this woman with redish brown hair darts over to where I am at with a face that looks to be in a hurry. I walk pass her and tell her I got your car back in to the right position. She looks at me and says yeah and I decided to ocntinue walking up to the deck. I sepnd some time up there with the guys before heading back down to get some rest back in the odd bed that is still there. Which I didn't seem to mind sleeping on, outside with everyone watching me.

As I fell asleep in the dream, the scene to where it was my brother and I in this tight nit hallway with those old fashion lights that told you it could go out at anytime. My brother and I were running from this girl with a weird object in here hand. But he and I both assume that if we were hit by that thing or caught by her, it was all over. So we kept running through this maze like hallway hoping to find an end in sight somewhere. But soon we kept finding dead ends and we could hear her shoes racing through the solid concrete floor. That's when I pulled out a hero move and told my brother to go on as I fend her off myself. For some reason my brother didn't say, "no I can't do this without you". He had no problem ditching me and ran off in to the dark to where he'll be eaten hopefully. He's a cool person but his dream self is not. I am eventually greeted by her presence as she tries to attack me.

I dodge and made a left hopeing she didn't hear my breathing. She turns and comes toward my direction as I held my back closely to the front door. I could hear here steps coming closer intill I was face to face with this person. I raise my hand up as it was at this time I became lucid. I wanted to shake her hand and we did. I continue to explore the area as it look like an abandon prison station. I would then have a false awakening but soon made myself really wake up.

Went back to what worked in the first place: SSILD. Realized I was dreaming and decided to complete a dream task. I have been telling myself for the past week and a half that my "lucid adventures" will not start until I find a particular dream character sitting on a park bench near my house. So as soon as I became lucid, I wasted no time in trying to execute this goal. I managed to get out my house and into the street. When I was half-way there, a powerful wind started blowing in the opposite direction making it obnoxiously hard for me to keep moving forward until I started flying into the air.

I immediately tried to resort to my classic dream control tactics of using expectation to get everything under control but to no avail. I was so close too, unfortunately. I don't recall if I woke up later on but I do remember being in Dubai during a terrible sand storm that was pinning me to the side of a building wall.

WARNING, RANT:

I was reading a comment on reddit about the possibility of SSILD being so effective because it takes you outside of your head and quiets the mind whilst trying to fall asleep. This motivated me to try the technique again because I had came to similar conclusions in previous journal entries featuring lucid dreaming had post-meditation. So when doing SSILD, I made sure to go through the cycles as normal but to be aware of the fan that was running in the background of my room. My intention was to get my awareness 'outside' of my head and have it hone in on a distant object. This is mostly easy to do with hearing. For sight, since I was facing the fan, I simply relaxed my eyes and acted as if I was lazily looking through my eyelids and at the fan in the distance. For touch, it was a normal body scan of various sensations but I did lazily try to be aware of the ambient temperature of the room, if that makes any sense.

What I am getting at here is that 'Awareness of Ambience' may be MY key to consistent lucidity. Some of my previous lucid dream inductions seem to attest to this. To anyone reading this, it may seem like I am trying to reinvent the wheel considering so much scientific research has been done to conclusively say that prospective memory and autosuggestion are the critical components of lucid dreaming.

I have no refutation to the work that has been done in the field, it is just that I find 'brute-forcing' my way into lucidity via mantras/hypnosis/autosuggestion/binaural-beats/visualization tends to ruin my sleep and end up barely working. In the past 7 years, I have had FAR better success with simple dream journaling and meditation during a WBTB cycle.

If I can have 4 more lucid dreams this week , I can perhaps begin to form my little pseudo-scientific hypothesis about "Ambience Induced Lucid Dreaming". If I find good results within a 30-day time frame, I guess I can get around to authoring a guide not necessarily about a new technique, but a general approach/tweak to the SSILD method.

DILD 1-Not able to see anything, I found myself carrying somebody who sounded like my late grandpa. I could hear my grandma as well. I felt a bed and placed my grandpa there. I told him I couldn't see. Suddenly my vision flicked on. My grandparents were laying in bed, both naked. A soft light shone on them. We rejoiced and talked for a bit before I woke up.

DILD 2- I was looking from my bedroom window across the street.A voice said they needed help. I phased through the window and flew across the street. A tiny brown puppy appeared in my hands and we flew. The puppy said, "Thing about dogs, you can kiss them!" My dog IWL then flew up to join us. We landed someplace where there was a big brontosaurus. I figured I had enough of this nonsence and tried to find an opening to summon an orca. I woke up. I looked at my clock and found I had only been asleep for 5 minutes! Hmm. I did a nose plug and could breathe. I phased through the window and flew outside, again looking for an opening to summon an orca. I tried to summon one but couldn't. I woke up.

I’m playing this Virtual Reality console that intercepts your brain impulses so that your muscle movements move your game character instead of actually making your real muscles move (kind of like Sword Art Online). I’m in this dungeon game that is kind of a mix between Zelda and Shadow of the Colossus. I have to go from room to room, killing the giant dragon that lives in each room. Each dragon starts out invisible, so half of the game’s challenge is the puzzle of how to make the dragon visible so that you can actually kill it. The first dragon I remember facing was one involving a laser trip-wire and invisible fireballs. The dragon starts out blocking the laser so you don’t see it, but once you get close enough, the dragon moves and starts shooting fireballs. The key is to stand in the path of the laser and reflect it at the dragon (using the sounds of fireballs passing by you to locate where it is) to make it visible. I finally accomplish this and quickly manage to kill the dragon.

I don’t really know what causes it, but I suddenly become lucid. However, as soon as this happens, I’m grabbed by an invisible force and pulled sharply downwards. It feels like a ton of strong, invisible hands are pulling me somewhere, and even though I know it’s a dream, I’m still fairly terrified. I try my best to fight back. I struggle to break free of the grasp, then swing my fist, hoping to land a punch on whatever creature is fighting me before being grabbed again by what feels like even more hands. It’s somewhat disorienting, as I have the distinct feeling of being pulled, but the entire scene around me is completely still. This struggle continues for several unnerving minutes. I start to feel like I’m actually shaking and groaning in real life, though it may have been a false dream-me using the VR headset. The monster starts to become slightly more visible each time I hit it, though it’s still mostly a purplish-haze that appears on me while I’m pulled. I finally get to the point where I can’t take it anymore. I reassure myself that I’m dream and that I am in control. I then grab at one of the “hands” and do my best to swing it downwards, hoping to slam whatever is at the other end into the ground. It works, so I keep doing it, getting harder and harder with my swings each time. Finally, I release all my built-up rage towards this monster in one final powerful slam that cracks the concrete beneath it.

The silence is deafening. I stop to catch my breath and take a look at what I’ve done. On the floor lying dead is this dragon-like creature that kind of looks like a blue version of Baloo from Zelda: Wind Waker, but slightly more snake-y. I look around and find that I’m still in the laser tripwire room, but the dragon from that room is back. I don’t feel like fighting it again, so I check my inventory. I see a picture of the beast I just killed - apparently it’s the second-to-last boss in the entire game. I also have the option to summon it to fight for me, which sounds like an awesome idea. I press the button to summon it, but the game kind of glitches out, and I end up standing on its head while it flies upwards, causing me to phase through the ceiling into the room above - the dungeon of the final boss, “Glibc” (frick, I’ve been programming too much lately). Luckily, I manage to escape the room before the boss battle starts.

I find out that the game is being recorded by the Game Grumps for one of their episodes, and once they’re done, they turn off the console, which sends me back outside of the game into this huge ballroom. I meet this guy who I’m apparently supposed to get to know, since we’re going to start working together. I start talking to him, but I notice this holographic display pops up next to him showing his interests compared to mine. They’re all colored red - meaning we share absolutely nothing in common. I try thinking of something to say, but then I wake up.

I’m still kinda shaken up from the nightmare, so I can’t fall asleep right away (so basically a forced WBTB), but I eventually do. I have a small fragment of driving in a huge circle around my entire college campus on this road that somehow intersects itself.

I’m now riding in a car about to meet up with some friends for a game of tennis. I’m riding in a car with two friends (who I don’t actually know in real life), and we see our third friend walking from the parking lot into the park. Apparently one of our traditions is that whenever we see this friend, we throw a shoe at her. So my friend pulls my shoe off and throws it out the window, just barely missing her. We all get out of the car, when we realize that the entire place is infested with these huge yellow ants and a swarm of Beedrills. The ants start crawling up our legs immediately, and I’m especially vulnerable since I’m missing a shoe. I duck my head and hope not to get stung as I run through the Beedrills trying to get back to the car.

DILD - 10
Super Strength - 5
Fully phase through ceiling - 10
WBTB - 2
1 Fragment - 0.5
1 NLD - 1

Night 4 Total - 28.5 pts

I am part of a task force. I think I am a tech specialist rather than a fighter. We are sitting in the VTOL as we are briefed to ambush and take over an enemy base. It is dark when we land, and we rush out. I am to head towards a building in the centre of the base, as we fight our way through ruins and buildings of smooth black stone. My squadmates are with me, but we are spread out as we attack the surprised soldiers from the dark, shooting our way through like knife through butter.

We take control of the base, and I am called in to deal with the central building. I pay attention to my squadmate's instructions, which make me realize that I am dreaming. At which point I stop paying attention to him and start to examine my hands and stabilize myself instead. My hands are freakishly small, and my right hand has about eight fingers. Regardless of my attempt to stabilize, I wake up.

2 pts- non-lucid
2 pts- wbtb
10 pts- wild
1 pt- reality check
2 pts- interact w/ dream character
5 pts- super speed
10 points- Advanced Unsummoning/Banishing
5 pts- my character was from a tv show(she was the warden on Wentworth)
5 pts- Super Speed
10 pts- Time Control
= 52 pts total


D1: Dream recall was too fuzzy
Did wbtb
D2: Dream recall was yet again fuzzy
Did wbtb
D3: Mike & I were staying in a nice hotel. We were there w/ a group of ppl who were family members. I'm wanting to leave & go talk to my mom w/o Mike knowing. I gather some of my stuff & sneak off down the hall to my parents room. We are on a cruise ship. My mom tells me to stay & hang out w/ her but she no sooner said that than Mike came to the door w/ my dad & sister Kayla. We all are now in the hallway. I need to the bathroom & find what looks like a small sitz bath. I poop in it & am very embarrassed when others find out. Now we are fishing off the deck & laughing about how funny we find that the beds don't move on the ship. I'm talking about the kids on the deck & how it makes me nervous that they will fall over board.
My alarm went off for my next wbtb.
D4: I was in a prison that looked like the set of Wentworth. It's Australia's version of Orange is the New Black. So some of the characters were from that show. Something happened & the prison malfunctions & the prisoners, me included were trying to escape & stay away from the guards & other violent prisoners. I get stuck in some stupid revolving door. It seemed to go on forever. I was mad at Mike for not being here to help me get out. We were all hiding stuff like prisoners do & going back & retrieving them strategically to help us escape. It looked like everyone had escaped except me. A guard told me that I may never get out. I told him that I didn't need to get out because I was trying to clear my name & not have a record.
My alarm went off for my next wbtb.
D5: I was back into the same dream. But now some of the scene has changed. I'm excited because I'm now lucid. My brain is doing cartwheels because of the chain & lucidity. I know my first tasks is to do a reality check. Check. My scene is changing & I'm outside in a bog or swamp like place but there are still guards everywhere. There is a woman laying in a swamp & she is dangerous but she tells me she helped me escape, which was in the previous dream but I forgot to write it down. We worked together for a while. But then I didn't want anything to do w/ her & remembered my first task of my 3 step goals. I banished her & the bog/swamp/water that she was in. Great, now she's gone & so is the water. Step 2 superspeed. I start running from the guards like I was Speedy Gonzalas. I was darting everywhere & laughing. When I finally stop I remember step 3 is time control. I kept freezing them & slowing them down & speeding them up. I lost lucidity trying to remember the whole "I'm a vampire" thing. But all in all a good night.

I head out of the back of the ship and fly into the next area which transitions into a wooded area. I reflect on the fact that I'm flying, and realize that I'm inside of a dream. I continue into the wooded area and take in the snowy scene. It is the dead of night, and the moon is broviding a bit of light into the woods. I continue to fly by the pines which are completely bare of any leaves in the middle of winter. I think about how this area is a persistent realm of sorts as it appears to be connected to a portion of M Street. I feel really at peace simply flying and don't initiate any dreams goals. I wonder how long I'll be able to simply explore the forest. The dream rapidly fades and I wake.

I had a pretty hard time sleeping this night. I rolled on my bed for hours while my mind was going over all kinds of nonsensical toughts. Sometimes I'd get lost in these weird toughts and then snap back and realise I still hadn't fall asleep. There was a point were I couldn't tell if I had already fallen asleep and woken up from a dream, which was pretty frustrating because I wanted to do a WBTB. Despite all that I finally had a dream.

Dream 1:
I was in class back in school and the teacher was, for some reason, asking us videogame questions. Everyone else was struggling to answer and I was getting all of them right. I remember one question being about Kirby and the other one being about the Pokémon Mudkip.

Some old classmate that I don't like started saying something that annoyed me, I got angry and started talking back, but noticed I was getting too out of hand and tried to regain my composure and just go along with him, I don't think he was that intent on making me mad, he was mostly joking around.

A while after thst, people started getting up and packing up their stuff. I noticed everyone had their PE uniforms on and asked some guy if it was PE class next and he confirmed it. I was kinda annoyed because I don't like PE, but I started packing up anyway. I noticed someone left a bag and some videogame controllers behind and I was asking around to find out who left it behind. I also remember seeing a friend who I didn't see in a long time and being happy.

I woke up, happy that I got some sleep and decided to try WILD, but fell asleep.

Dream 2:
I was in my room at night and got up out of bed. I started looking like at the shelfs beside my bed and picked up my Wii U gamepad controller. I then realise there was another one, and began to get very confused. I checked it to see if it had the hylian markings just like mine, which is a limited edition one, and indeed they were identical. I started tried to remember if I accidentaly took someone else's gamepad home with me by mistake, but I was very sure I didn't. I took both of them to the window, hoping the light from outside could help me examine them better, but it was still too dark. I went outside my room and stood by the table outside the kitchen, trying to work out what was happening there. I got suspicious that it was a dream and nose plug RC and I could breathe!

I looked at my hands and tried the finger method to remember my goals. Stabilize, find my DG and fly. I could remember all of them. I was actually amazed by the lifelike lucidity of this dream. I had never had a dream so vivid and lucid before, I basically had waking-level lucidity. I looked outside and it was still dark. I don't like being in the dark in my dreams, so I said something like "Time to rise, sun!" and clapped. The sun slowly started rising and things started to get brighter. I went to my grandmother's room and directly to the window. I teared out the protective window net so I could jump out. As I was preparing to jump out and fly, I had second-toughts and decided to pick up a rope to lower myself down, afraid that I might fall down. I found a rope, tied it somewhere and began descending. I tought it was a bit slow for my liking, but then decided that wasn't such a big deal.

Once I could touch the floor, I ran inside a house where I found a big TV. I called out for it, and static began to appear, then forming the word "Yes" on the screen. I interpreted that as "Yes, what is it?" and told it I was ready to meet my dream guide. Some words appeared on screen, as if it was trying to load something and Kermit the frog appeared on screen. He was the conductor of a train and was frantically pulling the whistle and pointing to the right. I tought the TV could only communicate with TV shows and stuff like that. I looked right and there was a door leading outside. I asked the TV if that was where I would find my DG and Kermit kept pulling the whistle and pointing in that direction. I got really excited and ran outside.

As soon as I was outside, I saw some guys running around and wrecking havock. They were dressed like old-west bandits, or at least that's what I tought because the bright red masks got my attention. I was pondering if I should chase them and remembered I'm in the dream hero league and probably should do some hero work. I also tought this might be a "trial" from my DG. I began chasing them down the street and they ran. Along the way I got worried by the dream destabilizing and stopped to do some stabilizing. I tried to feel a glass door. I then tought that by going through the door, the sensation might stabilize the dream, so I pushed my hands through the glass like I usually do. I pulled back and decided I should stabilize properly after dealing with the bandits.

I caught up with them and lifted my right arm up, thinking I should use my hero powers. It began charging up with some static (my power basically powers up any part of my body) and I puched one of the bandits on the guts. I started doing some crazy moves, like punching a guy up in the air, jumping and slamming him on another guy. My words here simply can't do justice to this scene, the movement was so fluid and vivid. Despite being pretty one-sided, it was an awesome fight. After I dealt with them, I found myself in a shopping. I saw a bunch of people eating pizza, which gave me a craving for pizza. This is where, unfortunately, I completely forget about my DG. I instead go inside a restaurant and aks the clerk at the cash register for some free pizza. I looked in my pockets trying to find some money, but didn't find anything, so I had to come up with some way to get free pizza. I tell her I'm from the Dream Hero League and heroes have "hero credit" which allow them to get free stuf. She argued there was no such thing. This woman was pretty grumpy and clearly didn't enjoy her job, which was annoying me. I said that yes, there was something like that and I put my finger on some kind of fingerprint scanner (I guess to confirm that I was a hero). Nothing happened and the woman said "... aaand my hand has been forced.". She started rambling about hating her life or something and I told her to see a psychologist or something like that. I walked away and lost lucidity at this point. I saw an ad for cheddar pizza play out for some reason, then the dream shifted to another woman who was prancing around in a farm along two white fences. Instead of being pointy, the fences had orbs on then, with some weird blue-green thing that was put over then, kinda like a swimming cap. She passed by some children putting the blue-green thing on the fences and at the end there was a kid putting it on her own head. At this point I woke up, excited because of the dream I just had.

... I had an earlier dream in which I became lucid... involving Drax the destroyer and space ships and fighting and... can't remember any specific details. Dammit


4.50am- 6.20am Medium LD
Looks like a blue pen has exploded all over my white shirt. The droplets of ink are tiny and in a spray pattern down the right side. I am in an unusual office made of several rooms. An unfamiliar DC asks if a particular chair pays tax. What on Earth are you talking about? Why would a chair pay tax? I ignore the stupid question and get on with my work.

On the desk is a notebook filled with pictures and cut out lines of printed text. There are names and captions for some of the pictures. Also, I can overhear a meeting going on in the room above. I try to drown it out by putting my headphones in. Hip hop music starts playing. I try to change the disc and realise the headphones aren't even connected to the player, but the music is directly in my ears not coming from the device.

I start walking out of the office, down a long corridor piled with crates and boxes. The song lyrics mention Men in Black, and the whole place starts rocking like a moving train. At the end of the corridor there is a room with no doors or windows. In the roof is a closed hatch.

As I lift the hatch up to escape the train, it occurs to me that this is all rather ridiculous. Must be a dream.

I decide to do the task of the month and reach into the pockets of my trousers. Both hands emerge with some kind of wrapped spring roll type food. Neat. I eat both and find they are indeed duck spring rolls. Not really sure what to do next, I phase through the side of the train and find myself in a town centre.

The area is brick paved and pedestrainised. People are strolling around and the street contains several shops. The closest one contains running gear. I start leaping over benches and the brick bases surrounding decorative trees. After a short bit of parkour, I wake up.

had a lot of fragments with some wakings over the night but didnt write anything down till morning.
after GF left the house i did SSILD and felt asleep again even though it was already 8:30 and i had around 9h of sleep... cant do this every day but yea... earned a decent lucid with not too much access to memory..

i cross a street with my brother. i think about jumping up a pretty high wall, some lucidity streams in. i see two pretty ugly women, fat and with a stupid look in their face hearing music thru earphones. one of them has one in her ear and one in her nose. all this results in me being lucid.
i sing a song about how stupid those two are and continue to move with my bother. i dont do any RC... but i jump up the wall i saw. my brother continues to walk on the pavement. i jump down where a gap in the wall is and smash down pretty hart on something loose on the ground. i smile to my brother and repeat it one more time. i jump next to him and start using TK. with a simple hand gesture i let a parking truck behind me levitate. i wonder shortly that its so easy but i keep going and "throw" it some meters in front of me on the pavement on a cat/dog of an owner... i instantly feel a little bad. but we keep moving and the car and the "accident" disappeared. i let a older chubby man float around and turn him in air. but i dont want to do any harm so i try to let him down softly on his feet but he has problems to stop turning around and so it needs some more seconds and mange to set him down save. we continue walking and i think about how to make some points... for some reason i just dont remember my 3 step task or any of my incubated goals what so ever.
so i decide to make some fire in my hands. as some of you know this is not a specialty of mine. while walking i imagine energy flow into my right hand and visualize a fire but its not working. to concentrate better i stop moving. and use both my hands. i hold them like i would hide a ball in between them and slowly pull them apart. i have a small flame in my right hand but i cant expand it and it turns off fast. i repeat it and my palm is burning a litte but again cant do anything with it. i concenrate a little more and now i have a small ball of fire in between my hands and while i pull them apart the fire is expanding. i hear a background noise that says something similar like " Plz dont do any fire here (so nothing starts burning) and nevertheless the pro guy who do flames is in town so there is nothing to win here" ignoring the voice i feel satisfied so far with my fire bending and i continue walking with my brother.
i tell him i want to hear some set of Sigil. while we approach a house (of a previous dream i think) i ask him if he could ask out loud for some music by sigil. he asks and as we enter the house i hear some music. we approach a girl and i ask her if we can turn on sigil and she answers "this is sigil already" i am not sure but go with it and listen a little. i ask loud what to do now. i think about my personal goals thinking if i already did one by coincidence but i cant remember any and remember to summon my cat. i know cant say what was first. the idea of summon my cat or the black cat that sits next to the door. i see it now and think yea that is not my cat. i want to make mine appear right infront of me. i make a wipe around with my hand and blur the background a little and try to see my cat. i see some patterns but not really a cat. i stop and see my cat sitting right next to ne black one. nice i call him and he comes to me. i pet him a little and decide to wake up what i do


so far not so satisfied with my commitment and outcome of the competition but i will try do to some decent daywork and incubate some cooler stuff. tomorrow i have to get up early so probably no lucid again... :/

Night with long preparation. Tried the 'catch the butterfly' technique, I got up to vibration and hallucinations (I was seeing the face of my cat) and hypnagogia and semi paralysis, but didn't manage to fall asleep. Then I had an unintentional wake back to bed. and...

- dream (lucid): I was in a dark room, doing something at the computer. I hear my girlfriend crying in another room, I went there and she was in the bed, complaining that I was hiding something. I was cuddling her and assuring her that it was not the case. A weird thing is that I could hear her breathing very loud even when she was talking (probably I was hearing my girlfriend next to me in RL). After a while I notice that something was quite odd in that house... because it was not my house! I don't live there, I was in an unknown house! So the solution comes: it's a dream! I immediately go out to see how was the outside and I remain speechless: I was in Iceland!!! (or probably in Netherlands, but I was thinking that I was in Iceland, and expectation is reality in the dreamworld, so...)
I try to run and to fly but I don't succeed. I can walk, but pretty heavily. I find three chairs in the garden, I throw them in the air to test the gravity: the chair were moving very lightly and planing pretty slowly, like there were baloons. I arrive to a forest. The sky was beautiful full of clouds and the forest full of vegetation. I try to summon a woman, but this attempt make my dream vanish. (I think that I'm done with summoning for the moment). I wake up.

- dream (lucid): this time I'm in my bedroom but something was off: the mirror reflected my image slightly out of sync. Enough to me to understand that it was a dream. So I'm in front of a mirror, what is the best way to go outside? Easy: entering in the mirror! Funny thing: part of the mirror was solid and part was a portal. I was using the solid part to facilitate my movements inside the dream. I find myself in the same forest of before. This time I can run and even fly. I was flying pretty slowly, but always next to the street. I was feeling incredibly free and happy. At a certain point I stop flying and I put my shoes out because I wanted to feel the ground. I could feeling very clearly in a very accurate representation. At a certain point a man and a hot blond woman come on a jeep. The man looks at me threatening and wants to attack me. I desire that I could not do anything bad to me and as soon as I was approaching me I found that I was dead. I go close to the woman to approach her but the dream vanishes.

What a fantastic night!