lucid

it was dark. The dream clearly was in its infancy stages yet i was concious of this being the case. I heard a high pitched frequency sound progressively getting louder and louder. I stayed calm. I couldn't really move and felt like i was stuck inside a body. So i tried to hover out of my body. I experienced the sensation of levitating above my body (it was still dark so i'm not sure if my body was below me or not) then i heard a strange grindy sort of voice singing in the most horrifying manner "I fell on something dark.....I fell on something dark...." and so on. This voice, much like the high pitched ringing, crescendoed, yet this time I got scared and forced myself to wake up.

Would have been interesting to let that dream form. Wish i would have started imaginging some scenery. I'm sure if i had just chilled that voice would have soon gone away.

I’m with my brother in an upstairs room in my childhood home. We’re sitting across from each other at a desk, and I’m telling him enthusiastically about the awesome lucids I just had. I continue to talk to him and I begin to notice something is a bit strange. My father enters the room very frustrated about something and begins raising his voice. Something clicks at this point, and my awareness breaks through the dream. I stand up, placing my hand out in front in front of him and say “I’m lucid…I’m lucid." The scene has a nice blue hue to it, providing an extra touch of the 'dream feel'. I don’t feel like interacting with DCs at the moment, so I exit the room quickly, cross the hallway, and enter into where my old bedroom was. I consider some dream goals I had written down as I approach the wall, and decide to ask the dream a question. I ask something along the lines of what my destiny in life is/ what can I become. I go to phase through the wall, and anticipate the answer. I enter back into the center of my childhood room, except now it’s empty. [I interpret this as my younger years being behind me, yet my future, and who I become is completely up to what I make of my life; it’s up to my own will and what I choose to put my energy into.] I enter into the hallway, and lose my awareness. I slip into a non-lucid.

I find myself at the top of the stair leading down into the basement of my childhood home.I begin heading down the stairs, and I’m amazed by the vividness of the scene as I stare at the collection of pictures on the wall going down, and get ready to turn right. The scene appears to be an almost exact reconstruction of the real life setting. I realize that something or someone is coming around the corner and I realize it could be anything. I make the turn, and a very young boy with a red polo and blonde hair walks up with a big smile. He appears to be in middle school or so. I’m very impressed by how real everything looks, and am getting a kick out of it. I finally make it to the bottom, and see a few more very young kids approaching. I feel almost as though I’m in a realm with ethereal people and am amazed at how realistic these figures appear. Out of interest I approach the upcoming two figures and pass my hands right through their torsos, and am fascinated by the transparency. I spot the diamond shaped mirrors on the wall in the same spot as in waking life. I decide to look at my reflection. I view myself as a child, roughly in middle school or so, expcept with more lean features as I have now, and shorter hair as I have now. I turn away and continue to make my way into the room toward a couch area. I see a large group of very young kids, possibly in Elementary school. It appears that they’re about to start a video game. I decide to ask them a question that’s been on some of my recent dream goals. I’m appreciating the vividness and stability of the dream, and feel no need to stabilize. I think back to Sageous’s posts and am amazed that he was experiencing states as this in every dream. I think about posting in the WILD class as I used a personal variation of a WILD technique in order to initiate this. I approach one of the youths on the left and ask him what my life purpose is. He begins thinking and chattering to the others then asks as if still considering.’you know my firend?’’ ‘I think you need to talk to him’. This doesn’t make much sense to me, and I reason that it just dream characters. I then turn to another and ask what my life mission is. He talks about meeting and hanging out with a celbrity of some sort. I find this comical again and tell him in a dry humor tone that next time I’m in a life conundrum I’ll make sure to chill with a celebrity. I decide to head away from the group, and work my way toward where my dad’s office. I find that it’s not an interesting area and turn back around, and look toward the wall unit in front of the group of kids. I consider teleporting to a forest at this point. There are many fantasy books lined up, and this reminds me about an awesome druid dream guide figure I met in a previous lucid dream. I ask them if there’s a way I can teleport to the druids. They don’t give a clear answer. The dream begins fading, I make my way to an in-between phase and begin trying to re-enter a lucid. A lot of HI starts forming, and I'm finding the state very easy to navigate as I hold strong yet uninvolved awareness. I soon wake up, not able to chain another lucid at the time.

I find myself appearing into the basement of large structure. It resembles the basement of my uncle’s house, yet a bit larger and more vacant. The dream is a bit blurry and dark, so I keep demanding verbally: “clarity!” “focus!”. I look to where they usual have a TV set up,yet there does not appear to be much in the area. The area feels very empty to the left as well. It looks like there are several room connected to the far end of the large empty room I’m in, roughly fifteen meters in the distance. The dream remains very dim, and I decide to LDEILD into another lucid. I lay down, and keep repeating the mantra to myself: “I’m in a lucid dream”. I return to an in-between state in which I am aware of vibrations within my head, ready for another lucid entry.

I had 1 lucid dream & 1 non-lucid but I lost the non to dealing with life in a timely matter.

I was listening to a meditation by Lilian Eden. She is an almost guaranteed lucid for me of some kind.

Lucid: I was lucid from the very beginning which is rare for me. I was in the total dark but I knew where I was & I knew what was going to happen so I just started laughing. I was about to have the floor drop out from under me & into the water. This has happened before. There is a wet washcloth on my face & I get dropped into a dark pool of water. This time one of my sisters was there & I threw the washcloth at her & told her to not be scared. The meditation ended & I woke up. It still makes me laugh. I'm sure it's one of those things that you just had to be there for the funny part.

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

I fell back asleep this morning while trying to visualize floating on a river. I practice visualization pretty regularly, and occasionally it produces a WILD. When I initially entered the dream I thought that it must be one of the rivers nearby, as the landscape looks the same. I seemed to be floating on an invisible boat, or I just never looked down because my field of vision was just the river and the trees on either side. Instead of moving forward slowly, like floating on a boat, my body felt the sensation of going backwards, and rather quickly, and feeling regular patterns of large swells of waves, almost like a slow, backwards rollercoaster. The scene was in fact similar to the image on a video of a simulated ride. After a little while of really enjoying this sensation, I was plunged into darkness, and had a tingling sensation. I continued to feel as if I were moving backwards, only now it felt more like falling. A tiny fear came up in me and I briefly thought of death. I saw tiny orange and yellow moving geometric figures accompanied by rapid 'tink tink tink tink' sounds as they slid around on either side of my visual field, sort of like a mini tetris game.


Thoughts: The was not quite an OBE, as I did not have the sensation of moving or jumping out of my body as I have in the past.

Bedtime: 11.30pm
Sleep: approx 12am
WBTB alarm: 3am


As I was laying down I had a very clear vision in my hypnogogic imagery of myself, where I looked rather smashing if I do say. Then there was another me behind him in mirror and he (I?) held up another mirror to make an infinite mirror reflection. I could then see a large number of myselves in the infinite mirror, my 'infinite self'. Each one of them was making different movements, like they were all seperate and unique. They were all smiling and waving at me! The vision was so clear I had to double take to question if my eyes were closed or not.

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1.

Non-Lucid

I was at a family lunch at an outdoors setting and someone gave my Mum a lottery ticket for her birthday (happened IRL), it was marked 3333333 which I thought was very lucky. Then I looked at it closer and the numbers weren't all 3's but 3302331 or similar. My family was sitting to the right and then another group of people were sitting on my left. I noticed my friend SZ leaning against a rail with a few guys giving her lots of attention. I asked the guy on my left, who was wearing dark clothes and had dark hair, 'are you related to her'? 'Yes we are her family' he said. Then I looked back and my family had moved to another table. ..FUZZY..
Later the same guy with dark hair was just sitting by himself on the ground and everything was white around. I had the idea, I should go and ask him if he is a dreamer (like in the movie Waking Life), then I should do an RC. At this point I already knew I was dreaming.

LUCID (DILD)

I went to ask him if he was a dreamer and then did an RC (nose block) and confirmed that I am dreaming. ...FUZZY..

Next I remember I was in bed laying on my back, which I thought was weird because I always sleep on my side. I only had faint glimpses of it because I thought I was about to wake up (later realised I was still dreaming the whole time). I tried to project from my body. I was having difficulty projecting, it was only working a little bit. I had some vibrations and acceleration sensations which I knew meant I was about to project. I floated up and felt absolutely amazing, like a gentle orgasmic vibration though my whole body. I felt weightless and started drifting off into the void.

At some point I could start seeing details of a room, eventually I was there. I wanted to go outside but there were bars over the window. I decided to try a new RC I had read about, pushing my finger through the other hand. It didn't work so I dismissed it. I then tried to phase through the bars on the window but I couldn't so I just bent them to make a gap. Outside there was a large apartment building which I marvelled at because it was so detailed. There was also some forest around.

I remembered my goal for the dream which was to slow down or stop time. I yelled out 'stop time!'. I never tested it though so I'm not sure if it worked. *next time I should check if it actually worked*

I walked around very slowly and deliberately so as not to get to excited. There was a shop at the bottom of the building so I went over to check it out. There was a sign but I can't remember what it said now. Outside there was a bar and a man sitting on a stool. I went to ask him how can I stop time. He didn't say anything and just stared blankly into the distance. The dream started to fade so I was grabbing onto the bar and trying to hold onto the dream, but the greyness kept growing so I decided to spin.

After a few moments of spinning I was back to where I had started, outside the first building, but it was night and everything was dark. I wanted to manifest a torch but remembered about the whole 'can't change lighting' situation, so I decided to try to manifest a car with its headlights on. I looked away and then looked back, but the scene changed and I was looking at a small car from a bird's eye perspective. I decided to roll with it so I watched this little car which was in a rally race with some other cars. I watched as they went along and then I ended up coming to a room at the end of the track.

This room was like man cave, it had all sorts of cool stuff in it. There was an old TV which had a black screen and said 'DOCUMENTARY' in white writing. There were some letters on the ground, I looked at one and it had my name on it. I don't know why but I didn't open the letter. There was a weird ornamental candle burning, with about 5 different points that had a small flame. I decided to play with the fire because I had never seen fire in a dream and I thought it could be a solution to the light problem. I found a small clothes peg and tried to light it on fire from one of the points. As soon as I got close to the flame it would go out. I tried another but it went out too. Then the flames came back. I thought it was really weird. Determined, I put it up to the flame again and got it to burn a little bit, but when I took it away it just went out. I kept trying to burn it but it would always go out when I took it away from the flame.

I turned around and a few dogs came into the room. One puppy came up to me which was mostly white with some light brown spots. I cuddled with him and then I realised it was a dog I had as a child, George the Basset Hound. He did this typical growl that he always used to do and I definitely knew it was him. I was so happy to see him and I started to get very emotional and cry. I felt myself starting to wake up slowly. When I woke up I started to cry a little bit IRL. It was nice to see him again.

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2. Non Lucid.
I was going to a public toilet. As I walked in to the toilet I noticed there were two couples having sex in full view of everyone. I went into the stall and from the stall there was a gap where I could still see one couple. They were really going for it. I walked out and the 2 couples came out too with some others. I talked to them and said I was going to a festival, M. I told them about the festival etc. I went to the festival and the setup was awesome at the camp my friends had made. Then I realised I hadn't bought anything and I didn't have time to go shopping. I hadn't even bought food or drinks.

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3. LUCID (WILD)
I was laying in bed (early morning).
I made my intention to have a lucid dream. I started to have some hypnogogic imagery. There was some sort of shiny bumpy golden surface in front of me. I tried very had to focus on it. Eventually I could see more and more detail and then I reached out and touched it. I could see more and more detail and I was outside. I saw a shop and decided I wanted to try some food. I went to the shop and they had a whole bunch of different baked goods on a table. I went and picked a few different sweet buns and a drink and went to the counter to pay. He asked me if I wanted to try these other buns on the counter and I was a bit in decisive about it. I payed with paypass on my card. I tried one of the buns with white icing on top. It was very mushy and sweet and not as chewy as I expected, it sort of turned to goo. After that I woke up.

1. I was walking in a terminal inside of an airport with my friends Patrick, Dylan, Trey, and Treon. "You ready for this 6 day trip?" Dylan asked me as we walked. "Oh shit, I completely forgot to pack 6 days worth of clothes. Fuck!" I said. They all chuckled. I knew I was screwed and I'd end up having to buy clothes with money from my savings account wherever we went. As we boarded the plane I instantly realized how crowded it was. It appeared that we had showed up relatively late as almost all the seats were taken. Each seating section could seat up to 2 people. Dylan and Patrick decided to cram into a seating section that already had one guy in it, so now there was 3 people sitting in 2 seats. Trey and Treon sat in the seats behind them. The next closest open seat was 3 or 4 rows down. "Thanks for saving me a spot guys" I said feeling a little hurt(lmao).
I sat down in the seat next to a random guy and waited for the plane to take off. As I did so I looked around. I saw that it was extremely sunny outside considering the sunlight reflecting off of the windows was quite blinding. I became a little stressed as I thought once more about how unprepared I was. I opened up my backpack and looked inside to see what I had brought with me. As I looked inside all I saw was my phone charger, my vape, and my vape juice. "Wow this is great. I have absolutely nothing I need at all besides my charger" I thought to myself. I then began thinking once more about all the money I would have to spend to get the stuff I needed to make it through this 6 day trip.
The plane started its procedure for take off and I found a wave of fatigue coming over me. I laid my head on the headrest on my seat and closed my eyes. Somehow as I fell asleep in the plane I went into another dream, and I consciously knew this as it happened. Now I found myself walking along the catwalk of an ancient temple like structure. It was getting dark and the sky along with the sun was obscured by thick trees all around. I was walking behind Patrick and Treon, going who knows where. Suddenly lucidity came to me. "This is a dream" I said out loud. "This can't possibly be real because right now I'm actually asleep on the plane, and even past that, I'm asleep on my bed in waking life" I thought to myself. I stopped walking. Treon and Patrick looked back at me. "Aright I'm out, later guys" I told Pat and Treon as I started walking away. "What the hell Cory don't leave" Pat said. "Yeah you never do anything anything anyways" Treon said.
I ignored them and walked into the temple through the nearest door. I walked in through a glass door with a black frame around it, it was quite out of place considering the whole ancient setting. As I walked inside I noticed how nice the interior was. The whole interior looked like a professional office setting. There were offices everywhere I looked, each one closed off by glass walls. The floor was covered in dark green matte tiles and the walls were a soft white. "What am I doing in here?" I said out loud. With that I walked back out the door that I came in from and as I did so I jumped and took flight with an extremely smooth take off. As I increased my elevation rather slowly, I saw a small statue of a heart made out of stone on top of the temple. This instantly made me think of her- the girl I've been trying to find in my dreams forever.
Just then I lost my stabilization and found myself flying up into the air at an immense speed. I was now past the trees and was flying straight up into a dark blue night sky with few but thick clouds. As the dream fully destabilized I woke up, but now I was back in the plane. I found myself rather alert, but without lucidity back on the plane. I looked around too see where we were, but as I did so the plane transformed into a large half bus half train automotive. I looked back behind us as we continued on our way. I saw a large light green tank on the opposite side of the freeway from where we were. It was aiming at a building. "That thing is about to shoot" I thought to myself. Sure enough, the tank fired a missile at the building it was aimed at. "Holy shit" I yelled. Everyone on the bus looked back and saw the explosion, but showed no reaction so the bus was now dead silent.
Suddenly everything started collapsing, and the bus/train driver was now constantly dodging and weaving through falling bridges and cars from the highway that was above us. The ground was also splitting now as well, and many cars were stopping out of no where(The dream was collapsing). I noticed that there was another bus in front of the one I was in that looked fairly similar to mine. The bus driver seemed to be following it in a convoy-like formation. Suddenly a huge part of the highway above us fell down right in front of the bus that was in front of the one I was on. That bus as well as my bus stopped as we there was no where else to go. "Holy shit we're gonna die" I said out loud. Just then another part of the highway above us fell and crushed the bus in front of us as well as my bus.
I now found myself in a void, but only for a matter of seconds. After what seemed to be 2 or 3 seconds I was back at the ancient temple. I found myself lucid once again as I immediately recognized where I was at. "Aright this has to be a dream considering I was here not long ago, and I just know it is." I was walking on a wide path of sandstone that had cracks filled with plant life here and there. Not far in front of me were 2 armed men in military like outfits that looked to be of hispanic descent. I ran and jumped in an attempt to fly, but had no success. I tried twice more and still could not fly. I knew the exact reason was because I just wasn't believing in myself for some reason.
Now I decided to just walk around and explore for the time being. I came upon a mini bridge like structure. It wasn't one that someone could walk on though; it looked more like a sculpture of some sort. The 2 hispanic men were now approaching me at this point. Because I got too intrigued by the sculpture, I lost my lucidity. "Hey guys, what is this bridge-like art all about?" I asked the 2 men. They just stopped and looked at me sternly. Seconds later they pulled out their automatic rifles which highly resembled tommy guns and pointed them straight at me. I didn't stand to wait for an answer from them; I turned around and sprinted away. For some reason the men didn't shoot at me, and I thought I was going to make it out alive until out of no where I saw a grenade land only about a foot in front of me.
I continued sprinting past the grenade and I made it far enough away that I knew I would survive. However, I was still worried about the shrapnel hitting me. I made it through without being hurt at all, but seconds later another grenade was thrown at me, except this one landing a foot or so behind me. I sprinted and jumped to the ground and the grenade exploded. I immediately got up and resumed running as far away from the 2 men as possible. Once more, another grenade was thrown at me, but this one landed about 2 yards in front of me, and by the time I stopped myself I knew the grenade was going to blow up in a matter of milliseconds. I jumped away from the grenade with all of my strength and covered my face and head. The grenade blew up and I expected to be hit by shrapnel, but I was not.
I got up off of the ground and looked at where the grenade blew up. I was extremely surprised that I didn't get hurt. I looked back where the 2 men were, and they had their guns pointed at me again. This time I knew they were going to shoot. I ran and took cover behind a large shelf-like structure that was holding tons of wheels on it. The men started shooting at me just as I got behind cover. Their bullets went straight through all of the tires, and by some miracle I didn't get hit with one of them though I could hear the bullets ricochet off of the metal part of the shelf I was hiding behind.
After a minute or so the men stopped shooting. I got up from my crouched position and saw that my vape had fallen out of my pocket and was now broken in half. "God damnit, I paid 100 bucks for that" I said as a tear streamed out of my right eye and down my face. Seconds later some people and friends came to comfort me.

to bed late (1am), sleep in late (10:30am)

early/middle:

+ at work, my workspace is too exposed, "LinkedIn" [DAY RESISDUE], desk confusion (girl's accessories), hot admin asks me for coffee, turns out we're just getting it from the kitchen

+ (longer scenes leading up to this) sister asking for paper towels, all they have is the roll kind I say, some man comments

+ LD#188 get off small bus with family, carrying lots of baggage slung over my shoulder which gets caught in the door a bit, look back in to find rest of bags and pull them out, standout outside on coast, it's HOT, I think it's going to be sweltering work to carry all these bags around in this heat. Some hot girl up ahead catches my attention, I follow her I notice she's topless, I hold back from engaging right up close to her as I remember the DoubleHelix approach of asking/declaring I want to take a picture of her (ahem), she playfully demurs and keeps moving away, I say how about a picture of you breasts? I realize I'm dreaming and say out loud "I'm dreaming" but I'm in such a hurry to follow her that I quickly lose lucidity.

+ playing backgammon-like game: I have one second left on my timer, I must move FAST if I want to not lose on time, but my opponent does not start my timer when he makes his move, but I still jump for my dice [DAY RESIDUE from "inception"?] and roll and move very quickly. At some point I realize that I've moved twice in a row against the rules and let my opponent move.

late/last:
+ starts out at U lake (boy scouts), low water, climbing over rocks, think what would be a good place to fish. then in house, girl has collection of different high quality recorders, I pick one out to play, and play "over the rainbow" [DAY RESIDUE], long confusing recorder, too many wholes for all the fingers, girl has a stack of them, I think I play beautifully but realize the sound I'm imagining is partly in my head the "physical" sound I'm producing is not quite as lovely. I ask what key is this record in, she answers "C", I look at a fistful of recorders in my hand and read tags, I think mine says "F", I go to a piano and play the C key and hold the recorder in my left hand and finger a middle "C" note with my thumb and middle finger, it sounds very different from the piano C so I look at her and shake my head "no", then I try again and the notes sound the same, putting the recorder back I knock over the container of recorders and freeze in position asking the owning girl for help to pick them up without spilling them to the ground.

Then I'm heading for bed and go through a kitchen area (up a few steps from the sunken living room [DREAM SIGN]), I see a picnic-style table with places set and several glasses full of a red berry drink, and on a counter to the right several pitchers of the same drink prepared for anybody who gets up in the middle of the night and wants a drink. I look at the table and there's a cat on it who knocks over a glass, I pick up the glass and put it back, thankfully it was one of the empty ones.

(possibly from another night, these came to me just now as I'm reviewing dreams/memories in preparation for bed)
+(f) skiing down a tight chute on the mountain

+(f) clearest encounter with dream mom since last year: she's sitting with my dad, I see her, she looks at me and smiles widely, some funny discoloration about her eyes.

I don’t remember anything of the context of this dream. I just remember existing somewhere and feeling the sudden need to perform an RC, so I do. I am already a bit positive that I am dreaming and I manage to push my fingers through my palm. Now I am certain that I am dreaming. I immediately start talking to myself. I keep telling myself that this is a dream, so that I don’t lose my awareness. I think I may have been in my bedroom. I have a bet going with werty52; first person to conjure up a waterball while lucid, wins. I try to produce a waterball out of thin air, though doing it somewhat hastily and stressed. I wanted to get it done quickly, before losing lucidity. I failed to produce even a drop of water.

There’s a transition moment where I’m not sure if I’m having a false awakening. I switch around a bit between being in bed and being in the dream. While lying in bed, my whole body starts to hurt. I notice though that as long as I keep my dream eyes open, I stay in the dream. It’s harder to stay in the dream if I close my eyes for a moment. For some reason I decide to do exactly that, to experiment. I manage to open my eyes again in the dream, but not fully. Eventually the pain I’m experiencing makes me decide to wake up. After I woke up, I had no pain.

I was awake for at least an hour and I’m quite certain even longer. This is because the mosque close to my dorm wakes everyone up to eat before sunrise (it’s Ramadan now), though for some reason they do it WAY early before sunrise and for a very long time. Anyway, it seems that until the end of Ramadan I’ll be performing forced WBTB.

I used to have very frightening hypnagogic images on a regular basis (along with hypnopompic hallucinations), but ever since minimizing my internet use last October, I've only had a few occurrences and it's not something I've really had to struggle with anymore.

And now that I've overcome that, I've realized, like my sleep paralysis, my HIs could actually be a blessing in disguise: a key to both falling asleep easily (when normally it takes me hours to fall asleep) and lucid dreaming. On Tuesday night after seeing a beautiful HI of a humongous whale inside an aquarium [not that I condone whales in aquariums], I slipped into a false awakening WILD. I was in bed and could see my cat and husband in bed with me, but the room was lighter. I realized it was a false awakening when I noticed I could see despite my eyes being closed, and then woke up.

If I work on this, I could turn seeing HIs and having lucid dreams as soon as I go to bed into a regular activity for me. At the very least, it could help me fall asleep more easily, even if they don't always lead to instant lucid dreams. Now that I no longer have to be afraid of my HIs, I can take full advantage of them.

I was having a dream about the PowerPuff Girls. My memories of it are kinda hazy but I remember that we did a bunch of stuff together, like flying around and sutff (I don't really remember that well). Anyway I eventually got lucid and noticed I was in a garage. It looked like the garage in the building that my grandparents live but I tought it was the PPG's garage. I them remembered one of my dream goals (riding a mecha) and tought "Hey if it's the PPG's garage, there is sure to be a mecha or something like that here!". I began searching but all I found was cars. I then tried to turn a car into a mecha. I found a white car that I tought looked different from the others and decided to use it. I decided to use verbal commands.

"Open!"

The car's front opened up. The windshield opened up, kinda like a pair of sliding doors. The seats on the car begun rearranging, as if to look more like a mecha. I got inside it. It was kinda weird inside. I remember there was a seat in the middle, but it was facing backwards and the steering wheel was in front of it. I assumed this was the pilot's seat and I sat there.

"Initiate mecha mode!"

It began to close up and turn into a mecha. I reached up for controls and there where two things where I could fit my arms and control the mecha's arms as my own. I think there was something similar for the legs. I began walking around and it felt pretty cool, I could feel it moving around and had a nice view from the cockpit, although to be honest I had a more japanese-style thing in mind and it was kinda small. After some time I decided to fly up to space, I think I began by jumping and imagined myself flying through space really quickly.

Around here things start getting a little foggy. All of a sudden some people from a youtube channel (the best friends) where there with me, saying random stuff. I couldn't see anything out of the cockpit, so I looked to the side and could see blackness and some bright blue neon lines speeding through. I remember looking foward again and seeing Dr Eggman in space.

After some flying around we landed on a planet, it looked a little like mars, with red soil and orange-ish sky but we were in an area surrounded by rocks and old buildings. There was a green Godzilla there. For some reason, the scale in this point in the dream was kinda weird. I knew Godzilla was supposed to be big, but he felt small. I think we knocked it out and then transformed into some kind of Kaiju.

At some point, I lost lucidity. I was now in my grandparents' living room, sitting on a couch. There were some people around. I my remember uncle and his wife were there, maybe my other uncle was there too. I had a tabled on my hand and on it I was playing my other dream as if it were a videogame. My brother walked in on the living room and said something about a videogame system that emulates other consoles. He was telling us about it and I responded with a snarky comment, implying it wasn't really that good.

I think I woke up shortly after this. It was an interesting dream... my goal of piloting a mecha didn't go exactly as intended. I wanted to ride a huge one and walk around, then fly through space. I'm still happy I got to remember a goal and practice some dream control, however.

June 14, 2016: #3 of 3: With no prior recollection as to how or why, I find myself falling through the sky like a parachute jumper above a dense forest over a sprawling, stone medieval castle. I appear to be approximately 3,000 feet in the air falling at terminal velocity. The panoramic view of the forest and the castle (at about my 2:00) is very realistic. The shock and surprise of falling causes me to become immediately lucid. I am falling, not flying. I have no more control over my flight path than a parachute jumper would ordinarily have. I suspect this dream content was prompted by the Game of Thrones episode I watched with my wife L. prior to going to bed.

The sensation of weightless falling is very striking and enjoyable. For an inexplicable reason I am not concerned about hitting the ground. Perhaps I am wearing a parachute. Instead of feeling a rushing wind, my entire body has the sensation of a very powerful, extremely pleasant tingling. I observe the tree tops rushing up to meet me at a furious pace, but I am 100% aware this is a dream. In order to prolong the sensation of falling and the tingling associated with this, I somehow manage to “roll back” the dream to a higher altitude so that I can fall again. This succeeds even though I don’t know how I did it. I have no recollection of hitting or touching the ground. As with all my non-lucid falling dreams I wake before I hit the ground.

I'm in my childhood home, and approaching the window of my brother's room on the second story. As I begin to head toward the window, my awareness raises and I have the thought that when I phase through, I'll be lucid. As I pass through to the outside, I am floating in the air in the front of the property, aware of the dream state. I announce to the dream 'I'm lucid' to solidify it. I think back to the podcast that made the suggestion for the announcement. I begin floating across the yard while rubbing my dream hands, and consider some of my dream goals. As I run my memory, I decide against it and instead decide to explore a bit and stabilize. Everything becomes very vivid as I approach the sidewalk, and make my way to the back of an SUV parked in the driveway. I approach the trunk, and place my hands on it, feeling the texture. I have the thought that it's incredible that a dream could be so realistic. I continue to stabilize by feeling the texture of the trunk for a few seconds, then continue on and turn left. I make my way into the street, and the dream quickly goes to void. i'm very calm, and simply remind myself that a new dream is loading. I stay in this state for about three minutes, patiently waiting for the next dream scene. I go through periods where it feels as though a waterfall current comes onto my dream head, then periods where it feels like a light current of energy is moving laterally across my head. Finally, someone lightly shakes me and tells me I need to get up. I jolt awake on a couch and ask 'Is this a dream??'. S responds matter-of-factly no... it's not a dream. I take a look around and see the vividness of the scene; it's easy to believe her. RCing doesn't come to me for some reason, and I go on to tell her about my lucid.

I'm in a castle. Someone betrays the count or something and breaks some stuff. Then I'm at a table with some others discussing dream incubation. They say that in real life if you touch or taste some food then go to sleep you'll be so hungry that you'll dream of forks. (Something like that. Recall of that part is fuzzy.) I decide to try it. I smell my soup and go to sleep. Holy crap I'm having hypnagogia. Well I'm aware now. I ride out the noise and just stay cool. I get the feeling I'm in my mum's house on my bed (Not my own. It seemed like nothing unusual at the time). I decide to visualise myself standing next to the bed. Seems like the right thing to do. Then I'm moving towards a light. I suddenly find myself in a black void surrounded by faces of Zelda characters. I remind myself that I'm dreaming so I should stay aware. I hear a voice tell me that the choice we make reflects our deepest selves. I hover over a few like the goron but decide to choose the great fairy (She's hot okay? But seriously I like to think it's because the great fairy can grant cool powers). When I choose I'm transported outside. I get the feeling I'm on a path by a lake and maybe the fairy fountain is nearby in a cave. My fairy (Navi?) informs me we don't have much time left and then I wake up. Thanks Navi.