lucid

For some reason Lucid dreaming has become ridiculously easy for me. I just lay down, stop moving, wait for the sleep switch that renders your body immobile, and then start dreaming.

It's getting pretty damn cool, actually.

Dream
I'm a student studying Archaeology.. I'm in a cave area that's been excavated, there's a sort of ledge which I'm sitting on to look at stone engravings. The cave is apparently on a beach where an old civilization may have once existed. The engraved stone looks like sandstone. I notice how the inscriptions depict the missing civilization of people that apparently uprooted their lives to move to a special location, except that's not what the official record is. Apparently someone else interpreted it as these people moving to spread themselves throughout the world, but I believed differently. My professor walks in, I mention my thoughts and say that it makes no sense for them to 'spread throughout the world', it was a hypothesis at best and was mentioned (without proof) that these people were the most advanced species at the time, being the first to discover fire and develop basic crafts --- they were trying to say that by spreading their genes they allowed other humans to evolve their intelligence and also discover fire.

Eventually the dream changes, I'm walking with a couple guys to the alleged location that the missing people moved to. It seems like there's a special hot spot of energy... Apparently there's apparently some event that occurs every 10'000 years that will be happening soon (and marks the time the mysterious race of people disappeared). There's some dream backstory about how they stopped demons from invading by fighting them off at this energy hot spot. It's dark outside as we walk...

At some point, possibly prior to heading to the energy hot spot there was an event where there was an old lady in a car. I think I was in the back seat and we could see heaps of birds suddenly migrating in the same direction. Then this old crazy lady called 'Grey Cash' by the village went hurtling by, as if blown away by the wind. This apparently meant that she could sense the same thing driving the birds, a catastrophe.

Back to the dark night where we were walking.. We come upon a house in a forest, it resembles my parents place. I think we decide to go inside. Before going inside I spot a girl walking around, about my age. She has a spotlight and seems to be looking for something. It's not safe out here, the screeching sounds are getting louder and I have a feeling something bad will happen if she stays outside. I talk to her and she says she has been looking for the voices.... They come from no where, she says. I take her back to the beach so she's safe before I head back to the house in the forest. On the way there's a girl I meet who's called 'The Rat'. She isn't ugly or anything (quite the opposite), she's called that because of her skills in infiltration and hacking. She wears a hooded tight jumpsuit and there's something 'futuristic' about her. She takes me somewhere and the place is somehow not of this world... This part of the dream was a bit difficult to recall and even more difficult to describe.

I'm in the house with the other 2 guys, it's dark outside and the room resembles my moms old kitchen before we renovated it. 'Grey Cash' is also there, she is apparently the mom of one of the guys I'm with. Grey Cash apparently needs to go outside and get something from the beach. Wait, what? That's like 30 minutes from here. She leaves though before I can rationalize anything. It's so dark and menacing outside though. I tell the other guys it's not safe outside, they agree. I say "I'll go out and get her. Well.... Not alone of course. That would be dumb" (knowing full well that there's only 3 of us and that the person on their own in a horror movie is usually the one to die). I'm basically trying to edge a second person into thinking that the logical thing to do is join me . I leave the room briefly to enter the lounge (can't recall why) and then return to the kitchen. Grey Cash is back and smiling as if she'd never left. What the? That's not right... My immediate thought is that something is wrong (like she's a ghost or something) and that she shouldn't be able to do that in a dream. In a dream? Uhh... Then I think "oh right this is a dream. Duh." I do a reality check and succeed, I'm still in the kitchen with the other people around me. I immediately try to do the water ball challenge that me and Emnition are doing. Heading over to the sink I cup my hands, planning to manipulate the already-present water droplets in the sink to coalesce into a ball. It works on the 3rd attempt. The ball of water floats between the space of my hands bobbing up and down. Grey Cash was spooking me out in the background as she still had the "Oooo I'm a ghost" dream plot going, threatening to make a nightmare out of a good dream. I turn to her and said 'Fuck off' casually, then flick my fingers at her and she went 'poof', disappearing instantly. Hot damn I'm good. I wake up, pretty happy I did the challenge

Dream
I'm watching TV and it's a news channel reporting on a man who does tourist boat rides down a New Zealand river. He seems to be a bit 'out-of-control' because the boat is skimming against the rocky cliff on one side. He then rams the boat into a rockface, though I'd have expected more of an impact so I thought he put the brakes on or something..

Next thing I know, I'm at the location and the story has progressed. He is wading the water, I'm with a news team and we're watching him as he struggles to dislodge his foot which is stuck. He gets free and continues walking off towards and orange life jacket that's wedged between a crack in the rockwall. Apparently that's why he was driving crazily as he was searching for it. Pretty dumb reason.
I'm kind of the camera in a sense, so what I'm seeing is being conveyed back to the TV. I look down and see HUGE eel heads, there's heaps of them poking their heads out of the rocks in the water. It's incredible because it's a species that is endangered (shortfin silver eel or something)... I hop out of the water immediately, kind of shocked and grateful they didn't bite me. I hear some kind of news person talking into a camera about how we're at the site for the siting of the worlds first fresh water kangaroo. Yes.. FRESH WATER KANGEROO. What the hell? I turn to see a funny looking kangaroo doing a severely retarded paddle-jump through the water. Huh, guess it must be true. I then spot a few more kangaroos, but they all look like different species. Why are there so many different mutations in kangaroos occurring? But then my brain completely tricked me because the next time I look around there's a bunch of mutated seals. I didn't even notice the swap. There's a 4 eyed alien looking seal staring at me.. There's one that looks like it has the face of an asian. Then there's also one that looked almost exactly like a dog which barked at me, I ran away and it chased me. I then decided maybe it wanted me to pet it so I reached out, but someone nearby who had a real dog said that it was a seal and that I shouldn't pet it. I reeled my hands back as she said this, I see my hands in front of my face. Hmmm.. I'm dreaming aren't I? I do a reality check by pushing my finger through the palm of my right hand, it stretches through.

I'm in my room now, definitely dreaming. But this isn't my current room, it's my room from when I was a little kid with a few differences (colour of the room, bed positioning, bedside table and general room content). The dream starts to go dark, fuck. I better stabilize. I make huge force of willpower by straining my brain to hold the dream stable. It's like I was trying to forcibly shut off whatever mechanism causes you to wake up and it only managed to slow down the darkening. As I'm doing this I know it won't work for long and that I needed another course of action to follow it up with, something to restabilize the dream as it wasn't enough to just stay asleep. I decide to 'relax' and release the tension, the world must have been shaking before because everything seemed still all of a sudden. The room got a little bit lighter and less grainy. I look at the bedside table and see a mirror, except inside the mirror is a brighter room. I walk over, pick it up, and then push myself through head first. Half of me from the waist up is in this newer, brighter version of my room, the mirror is caught on my jeans. Damn it. I kind of convince the dream that this didn't happen and climbed into the room properly. Phew. My clothes are inside out though, and the room has a sort of inverted appearance, but the exit and windows are all in their normal places. I should probably do something... I decide to do the waterball challenge me and my dream buddy Emnition are trying. Man this is a long lucid. It feels like a very down-to-earth lucid, as if bending physics would be quite hard unless I did some tricky stuff. I try anyways, I cup my hands in the air as if to summon the water into a ball. I'm facing the open doorway at this point and the background kind of throws me off.. I turn around and re-attempt, facing a lighter and less cluttered background of my rooms wall. Then I say "Now I just need to condense the vapour from the surrounding air", I imagine how this would look in my mind... Particles flying towards a centre point between the space of my cupped hands. Oh look, I'm awake. I woke up very fast :/

D1: I was in prison. I was the Top Dog. I had to figure expenses & inventory for the women. It was a lot like how I do my grocery list. I had to keep starting over because the numbers don't want to add up. Hello dream world, you can't add here! But things were happening so fast. I got interrupted & was told I had to finish in "the yard". Liz from Australia's Wentworth was with me now. She was the one who came & got me & told me we had to go to the yard to finish. I realized I hadn't brought my cigs with me but somehow Mike had bought them for me. Not sure why I was in prison. I start to realize I'm in a dream due to the numbers not adding up but the dream changed on me. I was in the yard but no fence in front of me & it looks the street I used to live on w/ my first husband but the apartment, which was actually 3 apt's in 1 house wasn't there or else it didn't register as there. It looks different now that it was remodeled. Then I woke up.

Wentworth is a lot like "The Orange is the New Black" but in Australia. It's on Netflix. It gives Orange a run for it's money. I think Wentworth is better now! After this dream I couldn't get back to sleep because my house was cold! How ironic is that? They didn't fix my air completely but because we had the window unit going & the temps outside dropped I actually got cold & couldn't sleep. So I got up & ate & stuff. Watched a movie & took a nap. Hence the next dreams.


D2: I was in a school but trying to pass as a kid. (Reoccurring dreamscape) Where I run into my 2 kids which I apparently have only in the dream. I ran into them at separate times. I have super powers! I'll be damned a non-lucid dream w/ super powers! Thanks Nebulus! I can run fast & jump high. It was a rush. Who needs lucidity when I'm doing all this shit. I just went with it! I can also make myself look real young. That came in handy. Too bad I couldn't get that super power in real life. I also had other powers I could tell. That's when things became more lucid & I started to have a little fun in the dream just for myself. I was popular too which was kind of cool. Basically half my dream was lucid. But I got awakened but not sure why. Probably just to pee because I felt like that was it. Usually something else wakes me up or my wbtb alarm. Usually Meesha Cat, but she was all calm today cuz I played w/ her earlier.[

D3: It started out as a chain of sorts because I only got up to pee. But now I ran into this boy but I was watching his life unfold. I was just an observer. He had super powers as I did before. He was dealing w/ bullies which was comical because of how he was handling them. He kept teleporting & me w/ him. His grandfather called him on the phone & I could see his grandfather too somehow. His grandfather told him he needed to trust the things he was telling him but I couldn't here everything. He said he would explain later & the old man had a wry smirk on his face w/ a wink, lol. During all of this the kid was displaying different super powers. Then I woke up.

After the big Spellbee challenge I haven't tried to do any totm. I'll do September though. I just needed some time off.

Non-Lucid-Green
Lucid-Red
Explanation of details-Blue
Side Notes-Purple
Astral Projection/AP-Brown/OOB

D1 - Outside a bar at night i'm Hugh Laurie look a like, sipping at a glass of water that i am trying to make last so I don't have to wander the streets. The bar is just off a plaza down some concrete steps.


D2 - There is a portal of some kind it is like a tube but with the ends twisted like a long balloon. From this tiny portal there is an entrance to another dimension where a woman exists.

Spoiler for Lust brings lucidity:

There is only one part of me that can fit through this portal, obviously and productively LOL
I got intimate with the woman then woke up.

D3 - I had a lucid dream a few years back with some DC woman though she seemed more powerful than a normal human. And it was lucid sex basically and it was very nice, since then I have wanted to repeat the experience. But have seen no sign of anything like that being.
So I tried to go back into the dream again and was lucid straight away. I saw another woman but the dream quickly ended.

D4 - I tried again. This time I was in a picnic spot near some woods and I was lucid again. The same person from D3 was there but she was with her mother and this just did not feel right. So I used mind control on the woman for her to follow me to somewhere quieter. In the woods there were a load of backpackers and stuff and it seemed unlikely wed get any privacy.
So I found I place where there was a dried up river bed with branches at the end that had been used to dam it up (the other side was water). I used my powers to carve out a door from the river bank and opened it into an opening in the earth big enough to get into.
So I was sat in the "cave" in the dark with this woman and at that point I thought, this is crap. And gave up, woke up.

D5 - I'm living in a flat at the top of some stairs to a communal hallway. I go down to check the post and start sorting through the post putting it into piles for each flat. Meanwhile an old Caribbean lady comes in carrying a blown up clear plastic bag filled with orange liquid and some other stuff, maybe fruit.
She is very sweet and starts telling me how her grandchild bought her the liquid, which is for her hair and she proceeds to smear some onto her hair.
Next a oriental lady with glasses and pulled back black hair enters with a buggy and three small children, she smiles.

Because my brother decided to leave his radio on super-loud before leaving, my dream was influenced by this christian talk-show. I dreamed I saw a city in the sky which I thought was 'The Kingdom of God.' I also saw these sheep being slaughtered by these large, black monster looking things.

I stood under the monster and it dropped and large axe on my left shoulder and through me to the side. I met this man who was babbling to me about consulting the FBI for direction on finding the place where Jesus died because it is a government cover-up or something bullshit like that. I saw blood trails.

I also dreamed that I had my laptop in my bed I was trying to check Reddit for something important happening to day. I had trouble getting to the website and it is my own fault I was not skeptical enough of my reality. False awakening then?

No lucidity.

The bright side is that mindfulness meditation helps me fall asleep faster than normal and get these easy-to-remember dreams. Either way, I feel like I am on the right path to master lucid dreaming. The trade-off is that my non-lucid dreams are more 'adventurous' than my lucid-dreams which have mostly been featured in my own house.

So I believe this dream was mostly based on the video game called Heavy Rain, for those who have no knowledge of the game, this is the summary : As a child goes missing, his father tirelessly works to rescue him, while a journalist, an FBI agent, and a private detective try to identify his kidnapper known only as the "Origami Killer". So this is my dream... First person point of veiw : The first thing I remember was opening my eyes to rain. I looked around my surroundings and I was in some sort of park, I think it was the evening or early morning because it was raining super hard and it was cloudly but yet it was bright? But anyway I walked around the area to find something to make this dream forward, that's when I heard yelling. I couldn't hear exactly what the yelling was saying but I followed the sound. I came to a deserted road where a guy was wandering around yelling the name, "Shaun." I stood there for a bit wondering why this guy's voice and that name seem so familiar. Then I realized that it was from the video game I had recently played 'Heavy Rain' I remembered now that this guy was named Ethan, and he was looking for his son Shaun who had gone missing and was probably taken by the Origami killer. After realizing this, I ran after Ethan. "Ethan! Ethan! Wait up, I know about your son!" After saying that. he stopped and turned to me. He looked at me frantically. "Who are you?! And what do you know about my son?!" He yelled as he grabbed my shoulders. "Calm down, I know you don't know me but I do know you and I know who the origami killer is." I said. Ethan started to say something until we heard sirens and a motorcycle. That's when a motorcycle stopped beside us and Madison(another game character/Ethan's friend) started to yell at Ethan. "Ethan get on! The cops think your the origami killer and they're after you!" Ethan looked at me and start to get on the motorcycle. "Wait! Ethan I know everything! You need to listen to me!" But they both ignored me and drove away, I tried to chase after them but it was no use, I stopped to think, I knee that Ethan wasn't going to listen to me so I had to find someone that will. then I remembered about the FBI Agent(didn't remember his name in the dream) who believe Ethan wasnt the killer. I waled around in hope of him popping up somewhere but I couldn't find him. I ended up at some sort of casual resturant and when I went inside I saw two people I was hoping to avoid, Scott Shelby(Another Game character/Private Dectective/Origami killer) and Lauren(Another Game Character/Scott Shelby's Friend) I knew I had to keep it a secret that i knew who the killer was from Scott, so I tried to play it cool. I walked up to them and made it seem like I knew Lauren. I told her if we could talk privately in the restroom and she didn't disagree ( surprisingly) I told her to get away from Scott because he was the killer and I explained all the details and stuff and she believed me. We made a plan to say were are leaving to 'catch up' and leave, then go find the FBI guy. When we walked out the of girl's bathroom, Scott was waiting for us right outside the door. 'I wonder if he heard us.' I thought. "Scott, Alma and I are going to leave, we need to catch up on some old times and stuff, you understand right?" Lauren said to Scott. Scott gave us a bug smile and said, "That's fine, I can give y'all a ride, it'd be rude to leave girls to walk in this weather." "No, That's okay, my apartment isn't that far." I Lied. "It's no trouble, come on." Scott said while walking to his car. We got in the back seats, something felt really weird. "So Scott, what do you do?" I asked. "I'm a private detective, but I guess you already knew that." He said in a cold tone. "huh?" I said. "You know, I wonder how a kid like you, figured it out so quickly." He said. That's when I though, 'Shit. He knows that I know.' that's when I tried to frantically open the doors. The next think I know we come to a stop at some deserted place I didn't recognize, Scott gets off the car and I turn to Lauren. "Okay Lauren, this is what's going to happen, your going to run while I district Scott." I said. she looked at me with tests in her eyes, "Where do I go?" she asked. I looked around and studied my surroundings, there were 5 abandoned warehouses, I knew one of them, Shuan was in there trying to survive from drowning and I had to figure out which one, by just looking at them. so I remembered how the warehouse looked like, it was white rusted with broken glass skylights on top, and there was a catwalk type machine above the warehouse that crushed garbage. After I saw that one warehouse I told her to run to that one and to call 911. She asked, "With what phone?! I don't have one!" I patted my pants in hope to find one and thankfully I did. 'Really?! I had a phone this whole time?' I thought. I gave the cell phone to lauren and told her to hide it. Scott came back to the car and he was fiddling with something, I decided to taunt him, in hope of making this dream move forward. "So 'Scotty'..." He flitched at this name, "...are you going to kill us?" He said nothing. "I get why your doing all of this but its just sad.. how your poor bother told you to live on and your just stuck in the past. You should just move on." He took out his gun and aimed it between my eyes. "How do you know what my brother said?! who are you?!" He said in a stern voice. I Smiled. "Like you said just a kid who figured it out, and who knows more about you then even you do." His hands shook with anger. While he was distracted with me, this gave Lauren the chance to run out of the car. Scott tried to go after her but I quickly tackled him to the ground. He threw me off and took out his gun , I thought he was going to shoot me but he shot Lauren in the head, he fell to the ground and he laughed. "LAUREN!!!" I yelled. My eyes teared up, but mostly I was feeling angry. Scott turned to me and started to point the gun at me. "Sorry it has to end this way, but you shouldn't have stocked your nose where it doesn't belong." I grabbed a rock and threw it at Scott's face, it hit him in the eye and I ran for it. For some reason there was a huge playground so I ran to the top of it. (knowing that Scott was on the heavy side, he would have trouble fitting through the nooks and cranies of the playground) I tried to test my water bending in the rain, but it didn't work. 'Great. One of those dreams' I thought. "Come down here, and I'll make your death fast and painless!" Scott yelled. "In your dreams!" I yelled back. I remembered the phone, and looked to where Lauren's lifeless body was laying and saw the phone lying next to her, I had to find a way for Scott to get on the playground so I can have time to run and get the phone to call for help. "Hey Scotty, did you feel helpless watching your brother drown? You should have tried harder to get your dad to help." I teased. "Shut up!" he yelled. "Maybe you should have tooken your dads beer so he would have chased after you, no?" I continued. He growled and started to make his way up the play ground. "Awh, is someone mad? You know who should be mad? your brother, because you couldn't save him. you failed him. your dad wasn't the one who failed, you were" Scott started to yell and ran towards me, I dodged his attack and made him hit the pole behind me. I Jumped off the playground and headed towards the cell phone, I got to the cell phone and for surprisingly, the FBI guy's number was on the phone, I called it and he picked up. "Hello?" he said. "FBI guy! okay listen carefully, my name is Alma Cross and Scott Shelby is the origami killer, I need help so find this location now and hur-" *Bang* I was shot in the arm. "f*ck!" I yelled. I dropped the phone and started to run, I didn't need to look to know who shot me. I was scared and I need to find a place to hide until the police get here. The only place I could think of was the playground, it was super huge and I knew there had to be someplace in there to hide. I found a little place between some huge poles under the stairs. I didn't hear any foot steps anywhere. I looked at my arm and saw that I was bleeding through my long sleeve. It was so quiet I thought I was safe, but then a hand grabbed me, it was Scott. "Really? you thought you could hide?" he said. "No, I just needed to catch my breath." I said back. With that I hit him in the face and while he was stunned I kicked the gun out if his hand, the gun flew and fell into the holes of the playground. We fount for a bit, both if us throwing punches, and kicks, but knowing him from the game I knew his strengths and skills were far more advance then mine. I was losing painfully, the beatings kept coming and when it finally stopped I could not move. Scott got up and walked away for a second, I tried to use my strength to crawl away or something but I was to weak. I only got a few inches away until a foot stepped on my head. I struggled for a bit until I heard a *click* of a gun. "D-do you really think your going.. to get away with this?" I struggled. I heard him laugh. "I Already Have." *Bang!* *Bang!* *Bang!* I heard. I opened my eyes expecting blood surrounding my body, but no. I looked up to see 3 bullet holes in Scott Shelby. He looked shocked but yet tears weld up in his eyes. His body fell next to me and I tried to get up quickly. I Sat up slowly and looked to see the FBI guy come towards me. He kicked the gun away from Scott's hand and checked his pulse, then he turned to me, "Are you okay?" he asked. I Nodded. (I couldn't say words, I was starstrucked, he was my favorite character in the game) "The rest if the force and paramedics are in there way, your going to be okay" he said with a smile. I shook my head, and stood up. "No, we need to go save Shaun, I know his location, he doesn't have much time left!" I yelled. "Okay, you are injured, we'll handle this." he said trying to sit me down. "No, you don't get it, shuan only has 10 minuets left!"(where that number came from? I don't know I just said that in my dream) "we need to go now!" I yelled. He gave me that, 'shit let's go' face. The next think I know we are in that one warehouse, and I guess we saved Shaun because Ethan was hugging him and the cops were all there and I was sitting next to Ethan and shuan. "Thank you, thank you so much" Ethan told me. I Smiled at him and got up, FBI guy cane up to me and said, "Hey, you did good work, you were really brave, you saved Shaun's life." I smiled sadly, "But not Lauren's... she didn't deserve this." He just sighed, "You did what you could, that's more then doing nothing." he reassured me. Then he saw my shot wound that I sloppily wrapped with a piece of my shirt, and my other injuries. "You need to go to the hospital!" he panicked. I looked at my arm. "Nah, I'm fine really, I can't even feel it." I sai, but that's when my body started to stagger, I fell forward but thankfully FBI guy caught me. "We need a medic!" he yelled. (I felt my self slowly waking up) "It's okay, I'm going to leave, but I'm glad that I helped." I said. I remember hearing the FBI guy yelling, "Alma! Stay with me. Medic hurry up! Alma, Stay awake, stay with me" and the last thing I said before waking up from this dream was, "Bye bye, FBI guy." This was one of my intenst dreams, it actually scared me a bit, but it was fun to go along with it, and I even met my FBI guy (*_*) He's so badass!
If you need more background information about heavy Rain the game, then look it up, if you got question please ask me. well until next time! Bye~

I was in the middle of a city, still daylight but turning dark. I was being chased by a angry mob of people. They wanted to lynch me for some reason, no idea why just kind of got dropped into the shitty situation..

While running from the mob I became lucid. They were closing in on me and I wanted to test some lucid powers out. I was standing in the middle of a street and decided to merge with the road and become part of it using it as a disguise. I didn't know if I could turn myself into the road but I tried. I melted into the road and became part of it. The mob ran right past me, it worked perfect.

I emerged from the road into my normal form. A new crowd of people came up to me impressed with my powers but they seemed to know all about it. I asked them if I could use this ability anytime...they said yes but it would only work when I wasn't dreaming from now on. I asked if I were to be hiding as the road and a car drove over me would I be harmed...they said yes but it would be worth the risk. I agreed and somehow convinced myself this really would carry over to real life and would be a useful power.

A woman then started emerging from the street like I did but she was naked and had pieces of the road stuck to her skin. She got stuck in the concrete, bent over in a compromising position. The new crowd told me she was a evil person who was a threat to my powers and everyone else. This is dark but they said in order to keep my power and stop her for good I had to force myself on her sexually. I said no I'm not doing that. They said I had to and besides it was just a dream no one was really going to be hurt. This made sense to me in the dream so I did it while the crowd cheered me on until I woke up...shaking my head thinking how messed up that was.

I find myself upstairs in a hallway, and I recognize M Street. I do a quick noseplug, breathe twice and I'm good to go. I walk down upstairs hallway and there's a faint yellow hue hanging over the dream scene. I begin clapping to engage senses and increase vividness. Noise doesn't come on the first, but sensations and noise come on successive claps. I continue a few more steps as I rub hands and clarity picks up. I finally reach the rail and get ready for some flight up and over into the first floor entryway. There are glass double doors with glass windows to the right. I notice a resort looking area in the front which seems to be a blend blend of grass, some parked black SUVs in a cresent driveway, and a pool laying beyond. I decide to make it interesting iand go to phase through the light tan wall to the right and remember my dream goal of the reishi forest. I figure I could try taking this route to get there. As I go to phase through the wall, I notice that I'm transitioning into a very thick, high viscosity material and decide to pull my dream body out as I don't want to risk losing stability; I decide to take a simpler route for the moment. I approach back to the glass windows, and simply jump right through to the next area. Instead of transitioning directly to the outdoor resort setting, I enter to another room with a glass wall that leads to the back of a resort area - now containing a large pool in the center with a lounge area surrounding it. I fly over the single dropped step in the middle of the room and through the glass. It's a bright sunny day out in the resort area, and the water of the pool is crystal clear with a hint of blue. I remember the dream goal idea in I had thought about: going into water/underwater. I've never gone in water in an LD, so I use the opportunity. I fly swoop down and glide across the surface of the water, sticking my right hand out and trailing it through. I feel a bit of the resistance and texture of the surface. I then remember hearing some LDers talk about going underwater. I want to experience it, so swoop up, then plunge down into the water, and submerge quite a few feet. I then want to see if I can see as I notice my dream eyes are closed from habit. I open them, but everything is a dark gray murky color with a slight hind of green. I begin to feel myself waking to my physical bodyand get up for the day.

I was at my childhood home there were a group of people there not sure who, we were watching some sport on the TV and after it was done we went to the kitchen (at this point I became lucid) I went along with the dream and started talking to my dream characters saying how this house looks exactly like the one I grew up with, we started talking and telling jokes and laughing later. woke up

Had a short lucid dream I was in the hallway of my old high school, I was walking around just looking. I started rubbing my hands so I can prolong the dream cause usually I wake up quickly when I get lucid. so as I rub my hands while walking I looked next to me and behind me other people were doing the something as me and I woke up

I am trying out the WILD method I am confident that my WBTB skills are on point.I relax, I get all the way up to Hypnagogic Imagery but then lose consciousness. However, the dreams are really vivid.

Long story short, I dreamed I was in my bedroom with a flamethrower. I was expecting that a monster was supposed to come after me and I was supposed to kill it. A fun note about the flame thrower though is that it was a can of his athlete's foot spray that I have in my closet; it just shot out flames though. I felt confident in that moment.

But something was wrong; I heard a struggle in the hallway outside my bedroom door. I turned around and saw a large, dark man in a suit which I immediately knew this was the guy. I felt like a nightmare was imminent because something was off about this guy.

He comes into my bedroom and flame him until his clothes burn off and his skin is midnight pitch-black.

But it doesn't work.

The flames stop.

He tackles me and to be brief, he sexually assaults me. It wasn't some comical event like a lot of men like to joke about. It was slow and disgusting; it felt real, and I was powerless. At this point, the dream was lucid because as the man was pinning me down to the ground on my stomach, I kept trying to control dream to kill him in some form or fashion - to summon monsters on my side or whatever. But it would not happen. He just kept licking and biting my bare left shoulder as I was struggling as hard as I could to prevent him from penetrating me.

Eventually, he got off me and began to walk out the room. He was lighter-skinned and dressed in a tuxedo. I chased after him, punched him in the face and backed off. The dream began to collapse and the man smiled in my direction.

End.

I'm swiping through all the photos on my phone, and am a bit confused as to why there are so many stored on it now. I reason that s took a lot of them without letting me know. I transition to a set of photos of me playing with my dog. I see one where my dog is on her bag kicking me up into the air with her hind legs with a big smile on her face. I see my body suspended in the air above her and start laughing. I want to show it to people at a nearby table. I begin showing it to a DC, and the strangeness of the situation hits me. I become aware I'm in a dream, and ask the DC his name. He responds that his name is Viktor. I then tell Viktor "I'm lucid right now". The man is a very short old black male with a tan top hat and an innocent face. He's sitting at the head of a small rectangular table, and I'm sitting on the side to his left. He looks at me and asks, "Lucid? What does that even mean?". I tell him "Well, this is a dreamworld... as far as humans are concerned" as I start laughing a bit, feeling that it's ridiculous trying to explain my state of consciousness to a man who seems so unaccepting of the fact that that I'm viewing this reality differently than him. He expresses that he's here all the time. I progress to asking him how to make the lucid more stable, seeing this as a good opportunity to learn. He responds that his favorite way to stabilize is to rub his hands. Curious, I ask him what happens if he doesn't continue doing this every so often. He responds that things can get a bit blurry every once in a while being here. He then tells me he likes to apply pressure with two fingers to the base of his skull. I ask him what this does, and he says it will help sharpen vision. I stay at the table for a bit longer and it helps anchor me for a short time. I then feel that i'm waking up.

I descend a couple stairs in front of the house on M Street. I need to make a phone call. I turn and face the group of teenagers that are congregated on the front steps. I begin to engage some control within the dream, and decide to focus on levitating as much as possible. I begin ascending, and it catches attention of a few. My awareness raises more as the levitation stirs associations with becoming lucid. I stick my right hand out and say "I'm lucid". I continue to stare at the detail of my right hand and notice int's very vivid, yet with some small nicks/cuts. I want to test the noseplug right after and see how the RC responds. Perfect breathing, and I realize this is probably my best RC at the moment. I take in the surroundings and the colors are vivid with a slight glow. I peaceful nighttime blue hangs over the scene. I fly away from the group for a bit, and explore the yard area, and take in the vividness of the tall trees. I return to the group after a short time to ask a few questions about dreams. I say they were the ones in the previous dream with the brothers who weren't getting along. They say "yeah, yeah, yeah" affirmatively as they nod. I then ask what they represent. That give a silly/nonsensical response and I respond ..."That's stupid...". The couple in the front look at me and one responds, "Yeah, you're right; it is stupid" as he hangs his head with a slight smirk. I levitate upward, then fly from the patio area out into the center of the front yard, then to the side and take in the view of foliage. I'm taking in the amazing colors and vividness once more and simply appreciating as I levitate. I decide to rub hands to stabilize, then to clap hands afterward. I clap twice, and loud sounds and reverberations permeate the scene. The feeling of levitating is awesome. I don't want to risk losing stability so I go right to dream goals. I remember wanting to go to the Mystic Reishi Forest. I continue to back right of the house of M Street - the first time I've traveled to this area. I notice an incredibly large tree with a massive canopy, glowing and luminescent in a rich red color. I reason this has to be connected/ guiding me to the forest I'm looking for, and decide to let the dream lead me rather than create a portal and try teleporting. I head toward the tree and admire the amazing glow. I lower a bit then turn to my left to see a massive constellation of brilliantly bright white stars in a massive band across the sky. The constellation stretches from the horizon all the way to the apex of the sky and makes the whole area glow in the middle of the night. The view is completely unreal. I soon begin to feel that I am waking. I'm thinking 'I really need to hold through this!' as I go into a white void; I really want to explore to the reishi forest. I wake back to my body right after the white comes on.

Another dream at Six Flags, at least, I assume it was Six Flags, as that's what it looked like: in fact I've been at this exact location in my dreams before. I become lucid and wander around, trying to find some stuff. There's a Christmas themed area. But that quickly bores me.

I find my father (for some reason) and we walk in the park, then we appear at a place that looks suspiciously like a plaza we live by. Eventually it turns into the plaza.

Here are some fragments I remember (all lucid):

I was trying to turn a glass of water upside-down and see if it would remain in the glass just for fun. It didn't. I think my mom complained.

Biting my brother's finger off (????).

I lost my laptop at a restaurant (not sure if it was lucid there, actually).

Trying to go through the mirrors in our living room and failing.

Conclusion: I failed at a lot of things, meaning I have a lot to learn, but hey, that's the process.