lucid

I don’t really remember where this dream began. As the memory is sort of cyclical and I feel like the end of this dream was also the beginning. I’m going to start at what I think was the actual chronological beginning of the dream. Edit: there was some fire jets flying involved somewhere but I dont remember where.

I recall I was in a sort of outdoor fair/festival type thing. A bunch of dream figures are set up at card tables and portable tents in a crumbling parking lot in a wooden nature preserve. I am there and I am fully lucid.

I see who looks like my old Taekwondo instructor sitting at a table. He is dressed oddly. His hair and beard are long and unkempt and he wears a black beanie hat and hoodie like a homeless person or criminal, but still has his same personality. He is selling a bunch of dreamcatchers in various sizes. I study them looking over the offerings trying to find one that I like. There is one, the ring is dark brown with lighter brown thread making up the web and complex beads and agates dangling from below that bind in the feathers.

I decide against it because this is a dream and there would be no sense in buying an item that would not be there when I am awake. (Not entirely true because my dreams do have persistence and dreamcatchers have utility in the dream space for dealing with nightmares) I then meet another dream figure who starts talking to me. He is tall and broad shouldered, with short dark hair. I think he might be jonathan but intuitively I know he is not. I can kind of sense his energy and he’s a minor dream figure. The dream figure comes up to me and says.

“You know theres three types of people I really hate in this world. Social Security collecting trump voters who drive trucks with multiple steering wheels, Karens and Taekwondo instructors.”

“Hey now. My taekwondo instructor was one of the best people I ever knew. You probably just had a bad one.”

“No. All of them are bad. They have no respect.”

“Well you have to earn their respect. Were you a bad student?”

“I don’t have to take that from you. They’re all bad people because they don’t know how to find jesus.” But he flinches in a sort of guilty way. I can kind of ‘read his energy’. He was a bad student.

“Listen.” I speak sternly and make my posture firm. “My taekwondo instructor was one of the few genuinely good people I ever knew in life. I’m not letting anyone make assertions like that in my dream..”

“Your dream? No this is MY Dream! I just learned how to lucid dream and you’re just a dream character so I can say and do whatever I want!”

“Set barrier arc vector offset to my left pointer finger. Radius decimal one.”

The purple barrier appears around my finger as requested with a radius of ten centimeters. About the size of a basketball.

“What?” The dream character asks, looking at my finger pointing at him.

“Collision on. Offset velocity ten meters per second.”

The barrier shoots off the tip of my finger. Not bullet fast but like ‘car on a residential street’ speeds. During our conversation me and the dream character walked inside of an incomplete building. It had no roof and the walls were just timber framing with unfinished drywall on the inside. The barrier impacts the dream character in the stomach pushing him along through the air. He smashes through the drywall and timber and flies through the woods several dozen meters until he is above the shore of a lake.

“Stop.” The barrier stops moving away. “Roll pi radians.” It rotates. The dream figure is still in the same position with the barrier on his stomach but hes holding onto it now, but now the barrier has rotated to put him upside down, dangling head first over the lake. “Disable barrier shield.” The barrier blinks out and the troublesome dream figure falls headfirst into the lake.

“...And I have been doing this for fifteen years. Get gud.”

Marcus appears. He puts me in an altered state of consciousness and shows me the experience from the ‘other lucid dreamers’ point of view, saying that the dream figure was me because every dream figure is me in a way. It’s interesting because from his point of view the barrier was invisible, and thats why he was confused.

“If this is the state of affairs every lucid dreamer will be too arrogant to realize when the first shared dreaming event occurs because they will think they are the only lucid dreamer. What I don’t understand is why I didn’t see the barrier.”

“It’s invisible to normal humans but glows at 128 nanometers wavelength because thats the spacing between the spacetime convection cells. That spacing invokes the casimir effect pulling photons of that wavelength from the great tapestry. It doesn’t have to glow but I like to be able to see what I’m doing.”

“You see there are two types of dream control. Left brain and Right brain. Now you have learned both. Someone else will probably try to classify it but since lucid dreaming is an emerging science they will probably make a cursed classification system like the HR diagram is for stars since they don’t understand it. I will hate to read that book but someone who thinks they know more than they know will probably write it soon.” Marcus states.

The dream scene has focused on our conversation and morphed to my middle school gymnasium. I decide I don’t want to have a school dream so I do some kind of vague dream control to change the scene. I find myself in a forest.

It is late autumn and most of the leaves are in a carpet on the ground. The trees produce helicopters like maple trees but they are reddish orange. I play with them on the ground for a bit trying to stabilize the dream better. There is a fresh layer of the reddish orange helicopters over an older layer of dead brown leaves. I think that I am a little bit cold but not too uncomfortable, seeing that I am wearing shorts and literally nothing else.

I walk around for a bit as the forest turns to pine trees and I am now walking on a dirt trail that runs along a lake. I do some of the typical poking and prodding with my dream body just experimenting how it reacts to different things before I start sprinting along the trail. I shout for other dream figures but seem to be alone.

Eventually I come to this boardwalk which bridges over a swamp/wetland area. The boardwalk has a sort of platform off to the side with a bunch of gymnastics bars on it and a big plywood box about 2m cubed thats filled with water. I get the intonation that this is like a park near where my aunt and uncle live. It is a pretty standard nature trail but it has a number of “exercise stations” along the way. There are pull-up bars and balance beams and all that type of stuff. I play around on them doing all kinds of moves and positions that would either require years of serious training or probably not even be humanly possible at all. I take note that I don’t really have any pain or difficulty doing this, aside from some tightness in my chest and difficulty breathing. I make a mental note that thats the “crappy waking body” dealing with asthma, and its bleeding through into the dream.

I remember a little girl walked up to me and asked me about the crate of water. She said it was supposed to be a water filtration system for her village and I shouldn’t be playing on it. I apologize and she offers to lead me back. I woke up here, but a conflicting memory also tells me that this scene led into me arriving at the art festival scene where the dream began.

1. Orange Glow In Syrano (LD)
I'm aware as I'm looking at the coffee table in Syrano, sitting up partially on the couch. I cautiously begin to move and quickly discover I'm able to move my dream body freely. I stand up fully and move slowly toward the other end of the room. I feel a bit of excitement stir up as I know I'm about to enter a full WILD, yet quickly bring my awareness back to the present. I grab a game controller to engage tactile sense and begin clicking a series of buttons as I walk. I continue toward the kitchen area and place the game controller on the edge of the counter where I usually record dreams. I look toward the corner and notice a microwave in the back right as well as to the right. I consider looking at the time, hesitate as I feel that it will distract me, yet finally look to see a time of 3 something. I decide to grab some chocolate before the adventure. I go into the usual cabinet and quickly discover a bar at the top right. It doesn't feel complete. I quickly imagine there will be more to the left and quickly find a black Ghiradelli bar and another small one. I take the first, then place the second in gray bag on the counter with the small one beside it. I head toward the sliding glass door with blinds, ready to explore the area beyond. I take a bite of the bar and it's great! It tastes like chocolate in waking life. I phase through the blinds and glass and end up in a beautiful area with orange glow spilling out of the homes lining either side of a small canal which extends narrowly through the middle of the town. There are people in front of each structure, each of which has a massive glass wall in the front of the home. The shape of each home slighly resembles the shape of the components of the Sydney Opera House. I consider exploring, but feel that I want to go back to grab the rest of the bars. I wonder if the dream will destabilize, but want to test it. I phase back in, head to the counter, and find the gray bag right where I left it. I put the bar in my back left pocket, then phase back through the sliding glass door. I suddenly end up in an area with gray wall in which a walkway leads to an area beyond with a massive public pool to the right. There are several kids in the pool and a steel ladder leading down. I see a co-worker to my right and say hi. I continue walking down the path next to the massive pool and wonder if the dream will change to something similar to the previous scene; I'm not really interested in the current one. As I walk farther, I notice small, narrow restaurants to my left, similar to what you'd find in an airport. There restaurants are fairly full, with many families at the tables. Each has a slightly different theme. I reach the second then third restaurant and look intently at a couple of the DCs, marveling at the details in one of the faces. I continue farther and notice a sign on the far wall resembling a fish and it appears to the the emblem for an elementary school. There are kids eating at tables to the left in the final area of this floor and I imagine that it's essentially the cafe area of an elementary school. I see a massive ladder leading to the floor below to my right and begin to descend. I quickly find myself in an expansive room with massive glass window, roughly three stories tall, providing a view to the outside. It's a forested area with massive, lush trees and a small dirt walkway next to the building. I turn to my right and see light tile floor extending to the end of the massive room and an elderly lady working slightly to the right at a desk - seemingly a receptionist of some sort. I turn to the right even more and see another seating area. It appears to be some type of cafe, like one you would see on a school campus. There are several groups of older students scattered throughout the long tables leading far down into the room to my right. I feel that I'm beginning to wake up. My vision goes into a brilliant white. I want to hold onto the dream so I imagine rubbing a seam on the front of a shirt that I'm wearing and continue to wait in awareness of the white light. I stay in this state for quite a while and eventually return to waking.


2. Snowy Fields (LD)
I'm driving down a road which is running between two massive fields of what appears to be a snow covered hay field. I look at the dashboard and see my hands, and say "I'm dreaming" as I do so. I was just lying down on the couch...I'm dreaming! The car continues to travel down the road as if it's on cruise control. I decide to climb into the passenger seat and grab some chocolate from the glove compartment to start of the adventure! I climb into the seat, search the compartment, and quickly find a plastic bag with a bar inside. I feel that I should begin driving the car a bit more with the wheel and begin to climb to the center. I turn to the right and see that we're passing a Japanese style structure, and I feel that it's a monastery. I begin to wonder if it's a section of Uburu Migu. I see that the road is beginning to end and there's a small building directly in front of the road and a playground slightly to the right of the building. I lean over, hit the bakes with my hand, turn the car to the right, and shift the car into park next to the building. I begin to explore to the left of the building. I turn and notice a multi-level parking garage built of steel beams. There are several levels of cars parked inside. I begin to shout "Clarity! Clarity! Stabilize! Stabilize!" at the dream and it responds slightly. I head toward the back of the monastery and head toward the back door to look inside. I open the door and see a massive dream character in a black robe facing a wall. I figure he's some sort of monk. I turn back around as the character seems a bit intense. There's a friendly character in front of me and Han appears next to me as well. The tall thin man who appears to be a monk walks with us to the building across from the monastery with a smile and takes his hoes off. I take mine off as well, which appear to be tan loafers which are in good condition. I mention to Han that I like them. I then make a comment about his shoes and begin to use telekinesis to fling them back to the monastery with a grin. I only see black flickers moving to the monastery. I wonder why it didn't work, try again, yet don't have success. I begin to approach the doorway of the building in front of me with Han and get ready to descend a staircase. I begin to wake up.

Stone Mushroom Island (LD)
I turn around within the center of the first floor of the main house in Syrano. My awareness begins to raise and I become lucid. I begin thinking about what I want to do and decide to grab some chocolate and then go exploring. I head to the front of the house, considering exploring in this area. I see the scene illuminated slightly with an yellow orange glow in the night. There’s a black SUV in the front. I decide to head back in though as I don’t feel like exploring the development area. I head over to the kitchen area and expect to find some chocolate bars in the upper right portion of the wooden cabinets to the left. I reach up to the right of the top shelf and find bar right away. I begin eating it as I head toward the window which has blinds on it, and it tastes very good! It has clear chocolate flavor, a bit muted but really good. I phase through the blinds and window wondering what is going to be in the area beyond. I enter into the area beyond and begin taking in the view of the beautiful night time scene, illuminated slightly by the buildings beyond. There's a large lake which extends quite far into the distance, although it’s not too wide. At the far edges, two story homes sit with steep roofs, windows illuminated in yellow. I begin to fly out over the lake, and feel an amazing sense of freedom as I do. I quickly find a small rock island to my left and land on it. It appears to have small growth of mushrooms sticking out of it which cover the surface of the small island. I begin to reflect on my lucidity and find it amazing that so many experienced dreamers stay in this state for long periods of time. I reflect on how it’s completely worth the effort. I continue to look around the dream scene, taking in the dark rock beneath me and the dark colored water of the lake. I begin to fly a bit farther down, yet have a false awakening.

2. Coffee Mug Telekinesis (LD)
I’m on the first floor of the main house in Syrano, interacting with some objects on the counter. I begin to have the impression that I’m interacting with dream objects, and that I need to continue to interact to stabilize the dream. My awareness raises and I become. Lucid. I leave the objects in front of me on the counter alone and turn to the left, heading toward the wooden cabinets. I decide to look for chocolate as in the previous lucid dream and quickly find a bar on the top shelf. I carry it with me toward the center area with the coffee table and couch. Bran is standing there with a coffee mug. I begin to play around with the black mug by using telekinesis on it. I move it up and down with ease, enjoying it and see the light brown liquid slosh around. I turn to Brandon.
“Like my lucid skills?!” I say with a comical, excited voice.
I begin to lose lucidity.

I look at the menacing figure in front of me holding a knife, and sense that he's hostile. He grins at me with a mischievous countenance. I begin to use telekinesis to move the knife out of his hands. Oh...this is a dream I become lucid. I rush up, grab the knife, and stab him. None of this matters; this is just a dream. I'll go somewhere else. I simply turn around and head down the dim hallway behind me. I begin to look at my hand, marveling at what it feels like to be in the lucid state. I suddenly appear on the second story of a building with a banister to my right, overlooking the first floor of a house. I soon recognize that it's the main house in Meadow. I decide to simply explore a bit. I glide over the banister, down to the first floor, and through the front door. I feel like taking the dream very slowly, and not controlling much. I simply walk slowly down the front walkway and onto the driveway, takin in the sights. There's a bit of sunlight shining down, and I begin to think about my dream goal of communicating with my dream guide. I begin to ask the dream for my dream guide. Nothing appears. I head over to the pile of rocks to the left of the driveway and decide to pick up a rock to engage the tactile sense throughout dream exploration to see if it'll help stabilize. The rocks area all a blackish gray color. I continue head over, grab a stone, and begin to rub it as I make my way into the street. I begin to reflect on my waking body being asleep, but move my mind off of this thought as I don't want it to lead to me waking up. I decide to head to the neighboring house across the street as I haven't explored this area extensively. As I reach the driveway, I look to my left and notice that there are many trees extending down and to the left. The driveway extends down quite far to an area which appears to be a massive pool which appears almost like a public pool with a ladder leading down and many people inside. The garage to my right has quite a few people gathered inside, but I decide not to explore that area. I consider heading into the back of the house, thinking back to previous lucid, but don't want to get distracted looking for chocolate in the pantry. I notice a group of children in front of me being led by a fairly young leader. I stroll up to the group, interested to get a glimpse of the leader. I approach, yet as I begin to look at the leader, I begin to lose lucidity and slip into a false awakening in which I'm voice recording the lucid dream.

Breathing Into The Dream (LD)
I’m aware as a scene begins to form. I’m aware of my breathing as I see a white console beginning to take shape in the center of my field of vision. I notice a very faint bit of excitement beginning to form and set my mind to tempering it immediately. I begin to focus intently on my breathing, counting each breath. The scene forms fully and I begin to cautiously test if I can enter the scene. I slowly move my dream body a few steps and I’m in the scene. It appears to be an apartment of sorts with a fairly large pale red couch to my right. I continue to count my breaths for a short bit to stabilize. I see a square black TV on the console with some images on it and I check ot see if any video games are displayed, but don’t notice any. I head a bit farther into the back of the room an get the idea to search for a cocoa to practice some basic summoning and to stabilize. I imagine some on the floor in a mug to my right. I quickly find it next to the couch, pick up the mug, and sip a bit. The flavor is a bit muted. I then decide to find a large chocolate bar in the fridge that tastes better.. I head toward what appears to be a kitchen area farther back. I quickly find a stainless steel fridge, open it and find a bunch of salmon filets as well as some ribs. I grab a big slab of salmon and it’s really good. I begin to feel pretty hungry. I look up a bit higher, but quickly wake up.

Highway Car (LD)
I’m driving down a highway in the dim morning light and begin to think of lucidity. I become lucid. I’m navigating over what appears to be an overpass next to some large office buildings with a greenish hue. I float out of the car and begin to fly upward. I wake up


Stump And Super Speed (LD)
I’m in the backyard of the main house in Meadow. I think about wanting to get lucid. I become lucid and put my hands up in front of me as I do so. I fly upward a bit and turn to my left. I see a fairly large tree in the back left of the yard and consider practicing super speed. I continually imagine my dream body zooming to the tree while simultaneously imagine the tree moving closer to me. I repeat this several times. On many of the attempts, I’m nearly instantly at a new location, with my visual field cast downward. As I look downward, I notice a tree stump shaved very low to the ground with a very large diameter - probably two feet or so. This repeats a few times and each time I instantly revert to my starting area next to the house. I wake up.

Practicing Earth Slam (LD)
I’m in the backyard behind the main house in Meadow. I think of wanting to get lucid in the area, look at a plant, and become lucid. I float a bit farther, considering going into the dark woods. I then decide to practice Earth Slam a bit to work on element manipulation. Near the pool, I slam the ground with my right foot a couple of times, expecting shockwaves. Not much happens. I float a bit farther into the yard and slam the ground with my two hands clasped in front of me. Not much happens once again. I glance up toward the gate on the far end of the yard.
I head toward the dark woods, imagining what will be beyond as the light begins to pour slightly through the trees. I stop near the fence and the shed. I get the idea that I should stop stabilize for a bit. I begin to look at my hand, slowing down a bit. I then wake up.

Planetary Chat (LD)
The boy continues to talk about planets and I think about getting lucid. I get a flash of lucidity and teleport to the edge of the room. I soon lose lucidity.

Went to bed at ???

Bad Pheromones
I'm in a school/college situation. It may have been mixed with my work cafeteria. ER from work a few years back is there.
I default to hiding my interest in her (as I did in waking reality), thinking that there is not a high likelihood of that interest being returned by her.
There is a vague situation where I smell bad (lack of deodorant, dirty clothes etc).
This makes the situation all the more tense.

Recorded at ???

I woke up from my alarm and started to get ready for work. I showered, dressed etc. But then I decided to call in for the day (and went bad to bed) because I felt crappy. So, that technically makes this a mid-morning WBTB, but I wasn't going for any kind of timing goal here.

Went back to bed around 8AM.

Getting Lost at Costco
I'm at Costco with my girlfriend.
I do a nose RC out of habit and become lucid. I also do a hands RC, and I have baby-hands branching off my fingers. Nice.
I'm thinking that this is a great opportunity to try baked goods and see what they taste like in a dream.
Ape-brain kicks in at this point though, and activities ensue with my girlfriend.
She comments that since this is a dream, it doesn't matter that we are in public.
After that, I try to find the bakery section but lose my lucidity before reaching it.

Summoning Snow
I'm at home and did a nose-RC in the hallway, becoming lucid.
My brother is there. He had a nerf gun, but I mostly ignored him.
I did stabilization (narrating, rubbing hands/feet). I had the presence of mind to try to stand still, observe the dream environment, and ground myself.
The dream started to fade, but I managed to hold on. The same dream reformed, and I repeated my reality checks + stabilization. I felt pretty happy about this.
I reflect that maybe past dreams 'fading' were just my brain attempting to wrestle lucidity from me and succeeding. But this time I beat it.
I went out to the living room area, it's a long room instead. I wanted to go somewhere more interesting.
I remember one method for traversal is association/reframing, and also that my previous attempts at portals have been lackluster.
I think about where I would like to go and decide on a snowy place. I wonder what association might help my brain generate such a place.
I decide to imagine an ice pick and search around the living room for one, but no luck. I head outside.
There is a bit of snow on the ground, sort of like when snow that had been there previously has mostly melted. I find the ice pick on the ground in the yard.
I vaguely recall seeing my brother outside too, but then there was an older woman there. Not someone I recognized now or then.
The woman tries to advise me on lucid dream ability. She tells me that I have done well, but need to move on now.
I take the advice to mean my summoning of the ice pick went well, but I should try something new.
Where there is normally brick wall in my yard, there is a wooden fence. There is a beautiful New Zealand-esque grassy field landscape beyond the fence.
I jump over the fence and fly into the distance.

Alternate Silverlight
I am in a futuristic city with silver skyscrapers, lucid, and flying around.
I wonder whether this place is another interpretation of Silverlight (a fantasy forest I've been trying to get to).
I'm in a crowd with some DCs. The DCs know I am there, lucid, and dangerous to them. They have been warned by something.
I didn't do anything with these people and just flew off again, enjoying the dreamscape. This environment is much more interesting than my typical lucid dream fare.

Recorded around 10AM.

This was another surprise. My sleep schedule has been terrible. I hope these spontaneous lucids lately mean that my work with dreamsigns and awareness is paying off!

Went to bed around 2AM.

Dancing with Cars
I'm outside my childhood home. The yard looks like a mixture of heavy green and blue hues.
I perform a nose RC and realize that I'm dreaming.
My first thought is to try and stabilize, so I start rubbing the tree in the front yard. It's kinda wet, and I rub my feet on it too.
The dream is very vibrant, with the aforementioned green and blue hues. I wonder to myself if this is what people mean by 'dreamlike'.
I'm rubbing my hands and the tree trying to stabilize but the dream is fading. I started having a mental dialogue.
Sure, this is fading, but even if we have to WILD back in, we should be able to save this attempt.
I held on to the tree trunk, not wanting the dream to end.
To my delight, the dream fades back in. My tactile sense comes back first, holding the tree, and then my vision.
I walk away from the tree and I'm still rubbing my hands together. I narrate outloud what I'm doing as I move.
"I'm dreaming, rubbing my hands, and walking."
"This is a dream."
"I'm dreaming, rubbing my hands, and walking."
"This is a dream."
I approach our next door neighbor's garage door and notice that instead of an actual garage door, there is a set of regular doors in a line.
Perfect. I can use that to go somewhere new. However I'm not lucid enough to think about going to Silverlight Way (fantasy forest goal), and I decide that I want to go to Australia.
Before attempting to open the door, I visualize a green/yellow hued, wild jungle. I really focus on trying to hear the bugs, animals, branches and all that. This aligns with Australia apparently.
I say "Jungle!" and open the door.
And as is tradition at this point, I see a boring neighborhood on the other side of the door.
I shut the door, try again. Fail. This repeats a few times.
On the final try, I get a slightly different looking area. The architecture of the buildings looks a bit more interesting and there is a highway structure with cars high up.
I decide that is a more fitting setting for a lucid dream, so I go through the door.
I emerge into a street, and out in front of me is a set of tall buildings and the highway up in the sky. It's definitely night-time here.
I wander around a bit, enjoying the dream scene and sense of freedom.
...
I'm in a plane-hanger, talking to a tall man that may have been a coworker from long ago. The plane hanger is in the same environment as before, but I lost lucidity at some point.
He's telling me about an acne problem a current coworker, JG, has.
...
I'm wandering and realize that I haven't flown yet, and my lucidity comes back.
I take off towards the tall highway structure.
Music starts to play. It's melancholy, upbeat, but also happy. I can still hear it and I'm wondering if the melody exists already in the real world. It reminds me of Foals a little bit. There was a repeating three note rhythm, and the final lyric in the pattern was 'stop' or 'shop'.
I land on the raised highway structure. I think to myself that lately I haven't really demonstrated a high-level of dream control. I remembered some people on DV that talked about facing that DCs aren't real, and going through with dangerous situations.
I look out to the oncoming traffic and decide that I'm going to interrupt it. I hover in midair on the highway, just a foot or so above the ground.
The first car comes by, and it grazes me on my right side. As it approached it looked like it was moving around 75mph, but when it was close to me, it was more like 30mph. I slide my hand across it as it goes by.
The music from earlier is still playing. The next car approaches, and I do a 'wax-on, wax-off' motion on my right side. The car wildly flips in the air and flies off into the distance. I'm flipping cars with telekinesis in rhythm with the music.
It's total carnage, and I'm just like, vibin' with the music. But it turns out the DCs don't like to be tossed into oblivion, and cars start to park and queue up to block the road. They are getting out of their cars and approaching me. Chasing me.
The music is still playing, so it doesn't feel like a nightmare. More like a music video. I'm flying, running, and jumping to escape them.
Eventually I reach a garage-type area. BD from highschool is there, and he is trying to handcuff me with a bunch of different types of cuffs, but none of them are working.
One of them though, works, and bands my hands together. It's made from a silicon-material, similar to my smartwatch band.
...
There's a spinoff conversation about Apple TV remotes being smooth, and JG from earlier in the dream is showing off that she has a special edition one.
I've lost lucidity at this point.

Recorded at 7:25AM.

I am having a dream about driving my car and it runs out of gas in the middle of the road. I become semi lucid and change the dream scene. I am with my mother. We are moving into a small oriental styled village.

There is hilly terrain and a large cliff to one side of the village. It drops off about a hundred meters of twisted igneous rock strata down to a beach. A long windy staircase zigzags down the cliff to the beach. I remember the dream figures there are speaking a language that I don't recognize.

My mother is trying to find our new house but her phone's GPS isn't working. We find a building. It's sort of like a gym or dojo but has a really low ceiling, maybe 1.6 meters. We meet an older man there, he is the only one who speaks english decently well and shows us to a side room of the gym which is our new home. It mercifully has a higher ceiling than the other main room and has two very small bedrooms, one bathroom and a central sort of living room. I think it is nice accommodations but a little cramped. The older man explains that the reason I dont recognize the language is I time traveled forward several hundred years and the language is a mixture of mostly chinese, laotian and spanish. However he was a linguist and anthropologist who studied old earth languages and knows english.

My mother then tells me that we could have a problem because I am allergic to tree nuts but all of the food in this culture uses genetically modified tree nuts as a staple food source. I say that it is not a problem and I need to change my form. I go in the bathroom and say "fourth dimensional shift transition" and switch from a waking self to my dream self. I then open my backpack and find several bottles of pills, though they're more like a chewy gummy candy. Its sort of like eating a salty taffy with sugar/salt crystals. I intuitively know what they are. Marcus modified my dream avatar body to not need to eat traditional food that much because apparently when getting it constructed I told him "having to eat is annoying". I can photosynthesize light. But there are certain vitamins and proteins that I can't make normally so these are vitamin supplements that make up for that. Ideally I take one at least once a week but I can ration them to once a month though I might feel weak or fatigued. I see that I have three or four bottles each with 144 pills though one is partially empty and think I am set for a long time.

I go walking around looking for something. I walk down the long stone staircase to the beach barefoot, I think I am looking for Manei and know she is usually found on the beach. I am semi lucid and I am focusing on dream stabilization looking at my feet and feeling the texture of the cold stone. The sky is grayish/overcast and it is raining slightly. I try to envision her being there, but I get doubts in my mind. Marcus appears as one of his little robots and tells me that I am not on earth but a human colony on a planet called Kailejia'tura. He explains that it orbits a binary star and the two stars are 1.51 solar masses at 3.33 solar luminosities and 1.48 solar masses at 2.99 solar luminosities and the stars orbit about 42,000,000km apart.

The system is about halfway between Woue and Earth. He says that humans are hear with several alien civilizations planning to build a dyson sphere that englobes both stars but because of the two stars masses on orbits they create a lot of stress and make it hard to build a rigid dyson sphere with their current technology but they need to do that because the computer will be built into the skin of the sphere and use physical wires of exotic matter that can transfer signals at faster faster than light. This will allow them to build the computer as big as they need without internal latency from the speed of light slowing down its thinking, since the sphere would be a few AU in radius singals could take half an hour to get from one side of the sphere to the other.

The sphere is supposed to power a supercomputer that will tell humans and the various alien races how they can live together peacefully in spite of their differences and prevent cultural schisms of wars between the coalition. I ask him why they dont use a different star system and he says this one is important because it has large planets rich with resources they can deconstruct, is centrally located and also has the habitable planet with a population already on it.

I get down to the beach and look in the water. I want to summon Manei and keep telling myself she is in there swimming or on a boogey board and I will see her any second. Marcus tells me that she isn't present in this timeline and I say that I feel lonely without her.

"HEY!" Someone shouts. The jump-scare nearly makes me wake up. I turn and intuitively know who it is, MadMonkey. He is wearing a blue and orange Gi like goku and his hair is spiked out ridiculously like a dragonball character. But he has the facial hair and the little pentacle symbol in the place of the emblem on gokus outfit. His tulpas Juliana and Elminster are also present, with Juliana wearing a scandalously revealing purple swimsuit. I intuitively know this is a reference to her old first appearance as Blair.

"I'm back for a rematch, and I brought the whole system with me! I want a 3v3! And I want you to go all out, no holding back!"

"Manei doesn't like to fight for sport so it will just be me and Marcus."

"Alright bring it on!"

"Barrier On! Origin point: Monkey! Set Radius twelve." I shout.

Monkey shoots laser vision. Elminster shoots a bolt of lightning from his staff and Juliana shoots the cruciatus curse at me from her wand. But all three attacks hit the barrier now centered on them. Though the laser vision is still blindingly bright as the barrier hex is 'translucent', but all the light is still coming at me. The dream shows the three attacks hitting from several different angles.

"Set Radius decimal zero one."

The barrier snaps to a much smaller size. There is a gorey snapping sound of bones being crushed as everyone is compressed to the size of a marble. I turn the barrier off and this little dark reddish marble drops in the sand. I walk over and pick it up, though it is heavy and seems to vibrate and swing around in my hand. Marcus explains that the compression made stable white dwarf matter. I ask him if he can make Monkey and his system respawn. He flies over and puts down a sort of holographic ring. Its a spawn point like in Halo forge mode. (His little ball form always reminded me of the monitors) Once he puts down three it makes 3 beeps and they respawn.

"How did that not work?! We had such a good strategy! Jay would distract you and Elminster would hold you in place then I would land the finishing move."

"You see I learned to lucid dream using schema and the expectation effect. I used the same powers over and over to the point that they are second nature. First I learned the fire jets, then the ametyst bow and now I am mastering the barrier. Once I learn the power and the expectation that it will work I can modif I do not think I can really beat you and I only win because this is my dream and I have the home field advantage. But the first time I used this barrier power I was not expecting it to hold up against that giant warhammer but it did. It also killed Azula and I used one to trap Jonathan. So the barrier exceeds expectations even when I consciously think I am in a situation that I cannot win. When I saw a similar situation that I felt like I could not win, I invoked the barrier again since it worked in a difficult before. Its kind of a paradox but I won by expecting I would not win because there was a previous situation that I expected I would not win and wound up winning. Most of what happens in a dream fight is just an aesthetic thing its about winning the mental game like that. I kind of got bored of having dream fights because they are cool but it would be cool if you got to win one, though I don't care who has the dream."

I start to feel weak and tired in the dream. Marcus cuts in and explains that manipulating the barrier to create that type of crush force actually drained a lot of my energy and I should go take another vitamin. I lose the dream and wake up.

1. Emerald Cloud Vortex (LD)
I'm aware as I 'm winding down a staircase. There's green carpeting and the rails are wooden with golden pieces to fasten them. I feel that it made be hypnagogia developing into a dream. I begin moving slowly, winding down the staircase.
I suddenly feel that I'm laying on the couch. I relax my body. I soon feel that I'm able to stand up. I stand up in the first floor of the Syrano main house. The details are quite accurate, yet a bit blurry. I begin rubbing the wall. Time to start exploring...I should grab some chocolate first, why not. head to the fridge and head to the usual slide out drawer. I notice eggs in the same position as waking life. I find a bag, yet when I turn and feel the contents, it seems that there's just gooey spherical shaped items inside. I return the bag and look inside the cabinet to the right, expecting bars. I find several of two different types, and grab two, putting one in my pocket for later and carrying the other. I take a bite and it's pretty good! I head to the sliding glass door to start the exploration. As I phase through, the blinds continue to stay in front of my face, gradually sliding over as I walk further outside. I quickly fly up and end up above the clouds in a short amount of time. The scene is absolutely beautiful. At first I see crimson and sanguine streaks of a deep sunset, yet from above the clouds, pouring from the clouds themselves. I'm amazed by the colors and they remind me of the main page of Night Club. A massive green vortex then begins to form from a cloud in the far distance. I it has a conical shape and continues to swirl intensely, an emerald hue emanating from it.
"Oh oh God" I'm amazing by how awesome it looks. I continue to fly toward it and swoop down. The scene quickly transition to a snowy scene with a hard ground. Green tentacles extend from the snow surface in two area, sets of about five massive tenacles coming from each. I swoop around counterclockwise in the sky and extend my right hand to shoot a fireball at the first. A fireball hurls from my hand and travels about one hundred meters into the tentacles.
"Yes!"
I continue to fly around, going for a second fireball, yet the next is less vivid. I fly down to the surface, and land a bit farther down in the snow drift. The scene is very dark in this area and there are dense trees around me, yet quite a few meters away still. I'm concerned that the dream will fade due to darkness, so I turn to where the tentacles are, searching for light. I rub the ground and fly a bit farther toward where I came from. I make some more progress, rubbing the ground again. I wake up.


2. The Two Temples (LD)
I get out of the car, and the concept of 'dream' comes to mind. My awareness quickly raises. This is a dream
I get out of the car and look around the scene. It's in the middle of the day and I'm in a parking lot next to shops of some sort that seem to be cafes of some sort. I realize the dream character who parked behind me in the Mustang headed in that direction, but no longer want to follow. I decide to explore in the direction of the cafes. I float over toward the right side of them. I enter a house and explored for quite some time. The walls are made of dark wood and there are many rooms extending in different directions. I float from an upper area over a banister to an area below. I make my way into a side room and realize I'm wearing brown flip flops. I should take these off; they're probably going to alert some DCs. I should find some quiet ninja shoes or just go barefoot. I turn to my right and see an entire kitchen area with the same dark wood decor. A heavy set, tall man with blond hair is baking a couple trays of muffins which are light yellow in color. One has wrap over it. I go to take two but decide to ask.
"May I have some?"
Baker: "You can have one"
His name Thomas
"What's your name"
Baker: "Thomas"
I knew it
I look at the tray and notice that most of them are heavily caramelized on the top. I take one and take a bite. It's still warm and the taste is extremely vivid! It tastes just like it would in real life. There's a vanilla flavor and the texture is moist and fluffy as well. I leave the area, floating through the door into the adjoining rooms. The rooms beyond are fairly dark I make a sharp left and notice a dark staircase leading downward. I'm about to head down, but feel that the area looks a bit creepy. I turn and head into a room to my left. This room is much longer and has what appears to be a sofa inserted into the wall with a bunk above it. I think of telekinesis, and go to move on of the pillows to the left. It won't budge though. I ignore it for the time being and float into the area to my left. I sudden end up in an outdoor area with a massive staircase leading up to the left. The entire area is made of stone. There's a woman at the top looks at me and begins to ask me to do something. I interrupt her, changing the topic playfully.
"What's that on your shirt?" I continue pointing, asking her about the picture, not really caring.
I then fly way, to my right, thorough the middle of the stone columns. I feel a total sense of freedom and a rock song begins playing. The lyrics have to do with "waking up". I see a massive temple structure directly in front of me, raising roughly three stories high and it's massively wide. There are stone terraces that protrude far from the left and right sides. I turn to the right and fly in that direction in broad daylight in the direction of a smaller temple structure that's made of dark stone. There's a group at a round picnic table in the area in front and they smile at me. I'm interested in interacting and wonder if I'll see them in dream again. I don't interact, yet instead turn to my left and head toward one of the terraces of the main temple, wondering if the dream will destabilizes from such a long flight. I reach the edge of the terrace on the second level and begin walking toward the entrance of the structure. I see my reflection as I approach. I begin thinking about my illusory form practice. It's like I'm a traveler between worlds... I begin to reflect on the nature of the the experiences being witnessed by my awareness and the nature of the waking and dreaming state. I begin to wake up.

Let's start with... Jamie Dreams! There have been a few.

1st: Vague dream where we might have been kissing or something.
2nd dream: I wasn't lucid but understood the dream world so to speak. I was sitting in a living room with people. My dead cousin Kiah since 2021, popped up and was like, "hey, hello..." etc. And I asked her, "Can you do something for me? I need you to check someone name Jamie for me. She was supposed to show today but I can't find her." I specifically remember saying to Kiah to, "Just go through my memories, You'll find her." Kiah pulled a curtain made of nothing out of nowhere and wrapped herself in it making her disappear.
Dream skips to where Kiah comes back and says that she had seen Jamie bragging someone that she had a "dream of only," boyfriend. (referring to me, also hinting that Jamie doesn't actually plan to talk to me in person ever. Which is pretty bad in my view, how about I just don't post dreams anymore about this subject. Me, I want a future without this insanity. I'm pretty sure Jamie can find loads of simps to stroke her ego because they think they have a chance. I'm not one of them. seriously.)

I ask Kiah to show me. We teleport to some weird wannabe Harry Potter dream world. There's an english school. We go in. I'm in a role I think I've played before in this scenario. I'm in a teachers or principals office. 2 people are talking about a conspiracy or something. I just lose interest as Jamie's not around.

This morning: Jamie at a funeral being sad, Second funeral dream about Jamie hm...

Too many other dreams to really write down. Scariest one being I kept going into an elevator that would take me to a dark hallway where people were sleeping. A vampire would come by and kill them. not in the typical vampire way... In a way that's impossible do describe, you'd only have to dream it. (Raven if you still read these, try dream viewing this one. might be an exciting dream supernatural scenario that you're recently fond of) The guy would like teleport inside their skin and/or behind them, causing them to choke to death on a most horrific way. The guy seemed unaware of me. I saw this happen a couple times. I was also semi lucid at times.

Driving dreams... almost crashing a LOT. Driving up and down impossible hills.

One dream I had a really angry roommate or something. Walk on eggshells kind of guy.

This one caught me off guard. I've failed to go to bed at my planned times, so I didn't attempt a WBTB. But regardless, my brain decided to give me a lucid dream

Went to bed around 3AM.

Lucid Fruit
I'm in the backseat of an SUV/minivan looking out the window.
I get a vague sense that the world looks too bright so I do a nose RC.
I can't believe it, but I'm dreaming!
I look around and admire the world. It's a bright sunny day.
I'm with a family. It might have been my girlfriend's but I didn't look closely.
The car parks at a grocery store parking lot.
I decide to roll withe flow of the dream and walk with the group to the entrance of the store.
When we get in, I see a man stocking the fruit near the front of the store.
I decide that I should stabilize and I start rubbing my hands.
I try to remember if I have any specific goals in mind, but there is what feels like a block on my memory.
I ask the man how I can better stabilize the dream. He tells me to touch all the fruits and feel the surfaces.
I start to do this, but the dream fades.

Woke up around 12:30PM.

1. Figure On The Stairs (LD)
I’m aware as my body relaxes and imagery begins to form. I begin to see a staircase coming into vision and begin moving my dream body into the scene slowly. I see a figure at the top of the stairs come into view. It is difficult to determine the gender, but the figure is wearing what appears to be a black trench coat. There is a green hue pervading the scene. I make my way up the staircase slowly, feeling that the scene is a bit creepy, but drop any sense of fear, reflecting on the fact that it’s just a dream. I make my way quickly to the figure, imagining it zooming toward me and I skirt to the right. I get the thought to create a comical image and as I turn, the head of the figure turns into a goofy looking worm type character. I turn back around and feel as though I’m returning to my body.
*I’m aware as I’m laying in bed. I’m not sure if I’m awake or still in REM. I don’t want to move so I simply relax my body

2. Getting Cocoa (LD)
I’m aware that a dream has begun and I’m in the void. I’m begin encouraging imagery to begin, yet nothing happens. I go to move my dream body, and discover I can move about. I imagine a cabinet handle that I can grab and quickly find a set to my right. I feel that drinking cocoa will stabilize the dream! I reach to an upper cabinet and begin to imagine that a mug will be inside. I reach inside and find a mug with my hand, and grab the handle. I move farther to the right and begin to drink from it. Visuals begin to appear slightly and I grab a carafe of coffee with my other hand. I take a sip and it tastes just like coffee! I continue to walk across the room with both items and decide to smash the glass coffee carafe. I throw it against the ground and hear a dim shattering, and it gives an interesting impression that it’s coming from ‘within my mind’ rather than the dream scene. I head toward the far wall and phase through a window section. I begin to slowly drift into an area below which is essentially a large square room. There are white sofas positioned around the perimeter of the room. I begin to feel the dream fading a bit, so I drop down and begin rubbing the ground. I begin to wake up.

I look back at the group as my awareness begins to stir. This seems…dreamlike.
“I’m dreaming”. I take a few steps as my awareness raises more, and I’m lucid. I quickly phase through the blinds and window and pop out the other side, floating outside the second story window in the back of the main house in Meadow. It’s night time and I feel a sense of complete freedom.
This is why I lucid dream.
I hear a short clip of a peaceful, yet mysterious melody as I have this thought. I take in the scenery in the dim of night. Where should I explore? I look left and consider exploring a bit further into the unexplored fields area. I decide against it as I worry that it may cause the dream to fade currently. I turn around and begin to raise upward, gaining a view of the roof. I think back to a lucid many years ago in which I had a similar view. I decide not to fly over the house, and decide against heading into the neighbors yard as well. Suddenly, I enter a void state and hold my awareness. I do this for a short moment and suddenly appear back in the second story in my room in Meadow, facing the window. Visuals are still a bit poor, so I continue rubbing the walls as I head into the hallway. I end up in the void once again. I quickly visualize two palm trees, yet shift quickly to visualizing Nocturnia instead. I hold the visualization for a short while and suddenly appear on the second story next to a railing overlooking a lobby. The central area appears to be the lobby of an office building. It slightly resembles the shape of the main house in Meadow. The room is essentially square shaped with a vaulted ceiling as well as a central area that descends via a wide staircase to an area below. The staircase is bordered by a small stone wall on either side. I hear my boss chatting in the room below and to the back. She’s talking to another one of my co-workers. My boss is talking about getting someone in for a date or an interview. I do a slow fall from the balcony.
I decide this is a perfect time to cast invisibility. I snap my fingers on my right hand to cast it. I then do a shroud mudra to conceal myself from ‘dream character sense’, testing it. Next I cross my arms in a X in front of me, casting invincibility. I begin to descend the staircase. The dream character walks by me, and instead of picking up on the fact that I’m there, simply walks right by me. I continue to hear people chatting about business matters. I begin to turn to the left and notice an area that extend to the left as well as straight forward. There are many glass walls situated throughout the area, bending in wave-like patterns, leading in either direction. I get the sense that the area ahead is where the ‘leader’ of the building resides. There’s a stack of blue books in the area where both passageways meet. I look at the title and notice that it’s “The Davinci Code”. I continue farther into the hallways ahead, next to the wavy wall of glass. As I curve father to the right, the glass walls persist and fork once again to the left as well as the right. I see blue sofas in the area beyond and to the right behind the glass. I decide to do some full transformation. I go for dragon form, but decide against it a shift into bird form, raising into the air. The dream begins to fade and I begin to rub the walls next to me. I then decide to try to stabilize by drinking something. I’ll get some hot cocoa. I imagine hot cooca being on the floor in front of me and quickly feel a mug! I begin to sip and taste a sugary drink, yet closer to a marshmallow flavor than chocolate. I begin to imagine a chocolate bar, yet as I begin to reach, I feel that I’m beginning to wake up.

I was in my room and I heard a truck and some guy say "Lets burn that house down!" I thought they were talking about a different house but then I heard my door open. I think about getting a gun, and I go downstairs and I realize I forgot to get a gun. [COLOR="#008000"]I decide that I don't need guns I can just beat the crap out of the people I go in my bathroom, and there's a stall in it like a public bathroom, I punch the door off and nobody's in there so I decide that they wont burn the house down if i don't expect them to. I remember that I wanted to eat my fingers, so I took a bite out of my left index, it squished like a gummy and tingled a lot. It tasted like blood but when i looked at it there was only a little skin missing.[/COLOR]

I was in a house and I looked out the window and there was this giant green airplane that took up about half the sky, on each wing there was a white circle with a black star. Some smaller aircraft went past it really quickly and I didn't get a good look at it.

Went to bed around 1AM.

Pre-WBTB

Fragment
Brief impression of a Punch-Out-like video game.

WBTB
Ratio: 6hr/20m
Supplements: None.
Sleep Cycle: Semi-stable.
I got up and walked outside of for a bit, doing plenty of reality checks. I try to make the entire time outside a reality check.
I also review my dreamsign list, trying to commit the top 5 to memory.

Post-WBTB

The Vanishing Plant
I'm walking around in my living room and I do a nose RC out of habit.
To my surprise it fails and I become lucid.
I remember that narration is supposed to help stabilization so I start talking out loud.
"I'm rubbing my hands, I'm rubbing my feet, I'm walking."
I think about what I should do next and consider taking a bite out of the kitchen table, but then decide against.
It wasn't all that exciting last time I did that.
I recall that my goal was to try and observe my dreamworld, to gain an understanding and hopefully a feel for the 'dreamlike'.
I leave through the front door and go outside.
It looks near identical to reality, sunny summer day, except there is a plant nearby that is missing the bottom.
Like in a video game where a texture is missing.
I note that daytime/sunny is one of the top dream signs, and wonder if there are more 'missing textures'.
I also connect this missing texture idea to my top dreamsign which is 'video-games or inspired by a video game'.
"I'm walking around, I'm observing the dreamworld, I'm rubbing my hands," I say outloud, attempting to stabilize again.
I decide that I want to go somewhere more interesting, so I close my eyes and attempt to transform the scene into something else.
I think vaguely about changing the season into fall or winter.
I open my eyes with hope, but the scene only changes slightly. Objects have changed position, but no theme change.
I recall flying through the neighborhood some more, but my lucidity fades.
...
Later I'm in somebody else's house, lucid and looking around.
There is a woman I don't recognize, vaguely Hispanic looking.
"Is there a portal around here?" I ask.
She replies in the negative.
Despite this, I open a closet nearby and try to imagine a green swirly portal inside.
Nope, just closet.
...
I'm at a sleepover at work with my coworker JM.
Apparently we have to sleep there because there is a test we are running.
We have sleeping bags setup on the production floor.
I feel as sense of awkwardness because there are people around us working and I wonder if I should be doing the same.
Recorded on waking at 9:15AM.

Notes
I'm going to start a series of 4 tests for the 6hr/20m/none configuration with this being #1.
Initial impression is my control and dream length were lesser compared to 6hr/10m/8mgGal (Galantamine). This could be unrelated to the configs, and due to the currently only semi-stable sleep cycle.
I want to test whether galantamine is needed for more vivid dreams, and also if my 10m WBTB wake time is limiting my lucid dream experience.
I know that changing multiple variables at once isn't the best science (but I intend to test more configurations later).
General guidance for WBTB seems to recommend much longer than 10m, so I perceive a likely improvement by making it longer, hence earlier testing of this configuration.