lucid

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!

I woke up and noticed somebody turned on the light in my room. I got up to turn it off but my body was heavy and it was difficult to move. I floated up in the air and phased through my bedroom window to fly outside. It was daytime but overcast outside in the town. I tried to make it rain but couldn't. I tried to make the town underwater. As I was trying to do this, I noticed there was a bay and flew towards it. As I kept trying to raise the water level, I noticed the water level of the bay was rising slowly but surely. I eventually raised the water level high enough to flood the coastal roads. I kept trying to make the flood bigger until I woke up.

Skipping to the parts I remember.Also, I forgot my goal again.

Little Boy
I was watching a mom feed animals as she stood next to her little boy who appeared to be 6 near the well.A somewhat transparent stick with a foam top was hitting the boy a bit soft but bothering him. I was annoyed and wondering why the mom wasn't helping him when he kept getting hit by it. The mom than took notice of her frowning little boy with the squinted blue eyes and told him to keep hoping over and over again. This made the boy smile and he replied with an "okay mom" Still getting hit..(Forgot to mention that this part was like watching a movie where you can relate to the characters and compare it to your own feelings .)

Stars On Society

I was inside my old room when suddenly the scenery began changing into a park. There Dawn appeared to show me how to escape from something with fun.He told me to grab onto him as he was floating above the ground so I grabbed him from his leg. He started flying more higher now and went over a fence. It than began raining hard so he picked up in speed.I thought of it as another obstacle and grabbed him from behind for more stability. It was fun for me to be flying around with him like that and seeing him be clumsy during some parts but than we landed in a city where there was a narrator that grabbed my attention. The narrator spoke saying that 30 years had passed since the new ruler began ruling and planted their stars upon people.

When the narrator said that I saw Hitler placing a star on a blonde girl who was walking near the subway. I than looked around to see lots of people wearing broken headphones. "Apparently music isn't aloud here"I thought than noticed a tall yet strong casual looking Jamaican guy with dreadlocks that reached just above his shoulders. He was bossing around dream characters and apparently he was half demon. I told him to stop acting like he could do whatever he wanted and that made him angry;Causing him to make fun of me. Looking at him acting so rebellious I decided to sing a song so he could change from being a beast into a nice guy. He wouldn't have it though and went into a room that appeared and was apparently going to bring his friends.

I lost lucidity a bit after we started singing because there was a little girl who sang with me and her lyrics made it seem like the song was suppose to be an actual church or holy song. I ended up trying to sing it the way she did but than the guy burst through the room mad at me and started insulting me again. I told him to calm down and kind of made fun of his hair because it had some weird green wraps on it."Does this look like grass to you!?" he shouted at me showing me his hair. I said no and kept thinking about him changing into a nice guy. He began to calm down and started talking to people nicely than.
(It's been a while since I've seen a dc as mad as him I think. He kind of reminded me of another dream character I dealt with a long time ago.)

Long LD
I am out somewhere and realise it is time to go to work. Drive there in a car. We have to go in through security - putting memory cards into scanning machines. My card is broken.

There is a long queue for one of the scanning machines and it takes ages. The people with me go through. Finally I get to insert a small memory card into a slot. The person behind me moans that it went in sideways and has broken the machine. I pull it out and reinsert it. It is still broken.

There is another checkpoint and people move over to that. I tell the security guard that I have already scanned my card and they let me walk through no questions asked. I fiddle with the card which now has bent metal prongs on the back. F***. I bend them back and they snap. Shit. I realise I can swap it for another device in my pocket and just switch the memory chip on it.

Shortly after arriving my friends ask for a lift home. We walk out into the car park and I get into a low wide blue sports car. I start driving fast to get back in time for a nap. Then I decide to run a junction.

It occurs to me this is daft and I should just become lucid and get on with tasks already. Heh. I drive the car and tear up the street for a while. Then I remember three step tasks.

Ahead on the street is a group of horses. I decide to phase the car and myself through them. I drive up behind the horses and manage to phase right through. They are startled and start rearing up.

I see a group of people nearby and remember my second three step and start trying to cast fireball on them. I kinda scorch one guy's T-shirt a bit but that is it. Pathetic. Try again. Nope.

Okay what about lightning. The skies are dark and stormy. I reach my hands up and call the lightning. Sparks appear and shoot down to my hands. I let it go towards the DCs and they say "ow!". Okay so its not that impressive.

I decide to do some fast flying and end up in a weird never-ending building. I head for the patch of day light and keep flying fast... it finally clears and turns into a hill. I fly up it until stuck on a snowy slope.

There is a mountain tracker here. He starts talking about kicking logs up the mountain as a seat. The logs are massive tree trunks. So I try kicking giant logs up the mountain for a while. It is not easy and I cheat to stop the logs sliding back down in the snow, using telekinesis.

Then I get bored and fly to the top. However there is a house there. I want to find a snowy peak. I walk around the house and see a line of DCs moving towards some kind of stadium. There are cars and bikes on the road. I start to run past them, it seems to be taking a while so I start to use super speed to get there quicker.

I reach the stadium where groups of them are seated on enormous stone plinths. I start doing massive jumps between the plinths. Then I tell the DCs how I wanted to fly to the top of a snowy mountain. They're like, "yeah I'm sure there is one around here somewhere". After continuously turning in a circle, finally I see a snow calped peak in the clouds. I start flying fast towards it and then hear a knock on the door.

False awakening. Dad walks in. Tells me it is 11.59. Shit I should be at work. He says its times like this when you wonder what you used to do before work fired you... Uh. Okay then. So I hurry to the bathroom, naked, to pee. And then Dad is standing outside the bathroom door joking about phasers. "Set phasers to stun!" I shout.

I was in a cafe in a grocery store eating and left my purse on the chair back and within 5 minutes I realized while shopping so I went back to get it. On my way back to the purse I was curious how this was going to play out? I looked at the back of the chair and my purse wasn't there but it was tucked back behind the chair against the wall so I knew something was different. I sat down and opened it up to see if anything was taken. I looked immediately in my wallet and my drivers license was there there, credit card and bank card were there, cash was gone but I rarely carry much cash so that wasn't a worry. I had this moment where I realized I really don't have any idea of the full contents of my purse and I wanted to remember when I wake up to take pictures of the important things in my purse and my husbands wallet in case we ever have it taken and have to replace everything. Back to the dream....I see a couple sitting there at the table behind where my purse was, so I asked the man and he said he saw two male teenagers there but he didn't want to get involved. I asked him to look out the window and tell me if he saw the teenagers out there and he would point to a distance and say that might be them, then he pointed to the other end and said that might be them. I figured he was not going to tell me so I went outside and I figured I would try to see if I saw two male teenagers so I started looking through the parking lot and couldn't really get a good look so I figured out I would try super vision power. It was like a movie in hyper speed and I could see inside vans and cars and I was impressed. First time I ever uses super vision lol. I will have to try that one again. Didn't see anyone who stood out. Being I am always looking for a message. Don't leave my purse out of my sight and know the contents inside just in case.

Legend: non-lucid lucid lucid false awakening

I am in an amazing world (still non-lucid) and I am dancing with some girl DC. I am having the time of my life. I suddenly realize this is a dream. I am having such a good time, I am considering whether to stabilize or to let it go and continue non-lucid. I decide to try to stabilize. But, too much time has passed and I continue the dream non-lucid. I am in a room with 3 male DCs. One of them starts explaining to me how to return to the dream. He says I should make, before bed, a short description of some object. I should first set up the shape of the object and then gradually adding details. He gives me an example of a church. I first see the shape of the church, then the texture of the walls, then the color of the walls. It is almost like lizard skin, it is dark grey with a lot of random squares and spikes. The DC says if I do that, I will gradually drop in the dream.