lucid

1. I hold my awareness through the 'sinking' feeling and stand up with my dream body once I feel I am ready. I find myself in a very dim room resembling my bedroom, yet with a longer extension to the left. I consider where to go, then decide to head through the window to the right and explore outside a bit. I find my way onto the wooden porch attached with a small set of stairs descending to the left. A small yard area with vivid green grass lays beyond. I walk a bit farther and notice that the area I'm in resembles a lodge of sorts. The building is mostly a darker red color, constructed of wood, with many rooms on various levels. I head toward the lawn then look to my left and see a large white square door. I continue on thinking about what I should do in this dream as I make a bit of progress toward the door. I feel the heavy feeling -similar to the last dream - holding me back; it feels like a strong resistance is hindering my movement. I remind myself that it's just a dream, and that everything is taking place in my mind in dream space - I can just will myself forward. I look to the left and notice a turning staircase connecting the various entrance ways to the bi-level lodge. I engage the five senses once again at this point. I continue my way floating up the staircase and head to go into one of the upper level rooms to explore. White light is spilling from under the doorway. I phase through the door and enter the room which is very dark. I quickly enter a void, but am determined to hold awareness through. I engage as many senses as I can, and maintain strong sense of hearing on many birds chirping. The scene begins to appear,and I make my way through a wall.

2. I wake up, hold completely still, recall the last dream, and feel I can enter another LD by relaxing my body once again. I relax and 'sink' until I feel that I have control of a dream body then stand up and walk to the foot of the bed. I do a jumping jack spontaneously to engage my sense of kinesthetics. I begin to head through the nearest wall, and try to imagine myself heading into a natural setting at this point. The dream is not taking me anywhere, and I reason that I don't have a dream incubated within my mind - I think back to Sageous's posts about having a dream 'on tap'. I continue to fall in this void state.

3. I wake up (yet am not fully sure if it was a real or false awakening). I continue the same sinking process from the previous dream, and once again stand up and begin to move around a room closely resembling the previous one. The dream quickly fades and I wake up.

I continue the 'sinking' of my body into the bed, feeling that I can transition to a lucid from this point. I soon find myself standing in a slightly lit bedroom resembling my parents' bedroom in my childhood home. I'm staring at the master bed with dark golden sheets - dim sunlight is coming through the window to the right. I see somebody sleeping, then see a DC which appears to be a younger version of my mom sit up in the bed slowly, eyes fixed on me. I decide not to approach, and instead back out of the room, thinking to myself 'well, that's creepy..'. I head out to the hallway and peer over the banister. The dream space feels very 'thick', almost as thoguh I am moving through glue. I think back to my dream goal and a convo with OneUp the night before, and immediately begin engaging my 5 senses. The dream begins to stabilize a great deal, and I feel I have some control over the length at this point. I stare ahead at the arched window on the 2nd floor wall as well as the door. It's light outside, but I decide not to take this route. Instead I decide to fall back through the wall, and imagine a forest scene as I fall. I continue in a void state for a bit waiting for a scene to emerge, yet nothing comes for a bit. I simply allow the dream to re-form instead of forcing a scene. I reappear in the hallway and decide to float through the wall with the door and window. I fly through and begin engaging my 5 senses again, and am happy with the time extension as I begin to make my way through the front yard, walking and flying low to the ground. I try to feel my breaths, pay attention to the tastes in my mouth, see the colors, and listen to the birds all at the same time. After doing this for a couple minutes, the dream quickly goes void and transition to a FA which only lasts 1-2 seconds before I regain lucidity.

This lucid was pretty short, but weird in its own way. I remember getting up to some balcony on the 4rd floor or so, and there was an alien girl resting there. I just curled up close to her, and it first she became super cautious of my presence, then she went to cuddle me. After a while I got up and jumped down because of some police patrol. I ran around a corner to a spot that had many trees, potentially connected to a forest.
I grabbed a large stick and used it to move without touching the ground, it was night and slightly foggy, a nice atmosphere.
Eventually I looked upon a sinister road and also heard a sinister voice, I briefly became lucid but quickly woke up.

I continue to walk down the outdoor trail in the dream after hearing a boom of thunder and hearing the narrator discuss practice of awareness by a mystic. I'm walking through an outdoor trail in a farmland area and continue my awareness practice. A DC continues to follow me, and I eventually feel as though it's my brother. I enter an area with an intersection in the trail and look left. I see a small white fountain with trapezoidal shape formed intot the front. It's located in a small green field with a structure to the right. I begin to voice how this looks like a scene from a dream I had a while back and begin running my memory. My awareness raises, and I say "this is a dream!" back to the dream character. The vividness of the fountain raises and I take in all thee shapes as well as the layout of the area, thinking back to the previoius dreamscape. The colors brighten, and everything seems to come alive. I levitate up into the air and tell my brother that I'm getting lucid off of the word "dream" a lot now these days. I think back to sensei's podcast and how the word dream popping up in conversation should spark a reality check. The DC continues to trail about 50 feet behind me remaining silent as usual. I turn around back to where the trail is leading, but the dream collapses rapidly and I wake.

D 1: I was in a restaurant than is multi-leveled. My parents were there & some other members of my family & everyone was drinking & eating & walking around. It was more like a party than a sit down thing.

D 2: I was in this backroom of somewhere & I was in labor. I just all of the sudden started bleeding & my water broke. Someone was trying to get me into a bathtub & there were chunks of blood clots coming out of me but in my head I realized I was dreaming because I can't have anymore kids in real life because I had my tubes tied almost 24 years ago & in December I had a hysterectomy. So that made me become lucid but Meesha Cat decided to come & sit on my head & purr & meow so I had to get up & feed her


Non-Lucid-Green
Lucid-Red

I made lunch for D and I. Meat, guacamole, sour cream, and strawberries. We packed it up and left. D filled up my car with gas and he was unhappy with the price. I went into the store and someone thought it was weird there was numbing gel in the infant section and I explained it’s probably for teething. They didn’t believe me and I told them that babies can teethe around year and I know because I went to school and learned that. Then I saw a bunch of celebrities hanging out in the store and the next thing I know I’m lucid. I see Donald Trump and want to talk to him for some reason but everyone thinks it’s a bad idea. I get his attention and he’s trying to get away from me and slip into another room. I don’t know what to say to him. I ask him what he thinks about Hilary dropping out of the final debate with Sanders. I tell him not to give me side-stepping political answers. He basically says that one of them offended his sisters. I go outside and wonder what I should do next. I have a small group of dream characters encouraging me and reminding me of goals. I remember the totm and try to stretch my arms out but it doesn’t work. I start walking up a hill and think of the taste that’s in my mouth. It tastes like a familiar herb. It’s the taste of the flower that I’m looking at on the ground and I know I’ve eaten it in fancy restaurants, but I can’t quite name it. I see my mom and sister which confirms further that this is a dream. I kinda feel bad for not saying anything to them, though. I think of what to do next and exit the dream. I don’t DEILD because I think I’m awake and begin a dream where I write down the LD and am really angry because it’s the end of May and once again, I finished the totm when it’s basically too late.

Dream
I'm travelling outside with a friend, there's sabretooth tiger cubs in the distance, 1 big snow white one. They're up a bit on the hill. It's turning into winter, a snow storm is coming from the mountains. They're getting closer now, they were playing together but they fought a bit with snow white sabre. We try moving in the opposite direction and come near a line of trees. There's a huge bear here, damn. I can sense a sabretooth tiger coming up behind me so I sprint at the bear, barrel roll as the tiger pounces and cause the bear and tiger to fight. Badass?? Absolutely.
I arrive in place where my daughter is staying(?) or a shelter by a mountain. There's a room, I remember my friend Mat staying here and I had seen him on a video recording where he was splayed out on the couch super tired. I think I let him stay at the place since he was travelling. I can't remember when it happened but I'm a little gingerbread sized plastic man who has lost his memory as well, like some kind of evil curse. It's a really deep and sad story (in the dream plot) which I'm also watching. There's a loading bar that shows it's a movie which is halfway through, about 25 minutes. My daughter doesn't know where her uncle is (which is me, since we apparently lied and said I was her uncle and not her dad) and now she believes she doesn't have a dad.. It's because I'm away working and can't be with her to watch her grow up, so she doesn't really know what a is. I can't remember that I'm her dad though (because of the curse) and everything is sad. I remember thinking that I really wanted to watch until the end of the movie, because it's just such a beautiful story. I know how it ends, the father (me) manages to break the curse and turn back to normal, my daughter is super happy to finally have her uncle back, but I decide to tell her the truth that I'm her dad. It makes her so happy to have a dad, and we're both so happy to be together finally. I don't get to see the story unfold though, because I start becoming more aware. I'm lucid in a way, the dream visuals fade but I don't wake up. Then I'm back in the room with my mom, not really remembering the previous plot as I'm doing other stuff. At some point she leaves and I see my friend in these tight jeans, nice . I'm horny so I hook up with her. I try taking off her pants but there's dream lag, and my imagination is 'broken', like it can't remember how to materialize certain features and is in a state of buffering. I understood something at this point about dream lag too, that stability is linked to the rate at which we expand the dream world around us. In an unstable dream we can't load too much or it will crash, but the more stable the dream the greater the load it can handle. This sounds pretty obvious, but it wasn't something I'd ever truly practiced. I'm always moving in my lucids, never just stopping. Usually this is because if I stop then I lose lucidity >_<...

Also, I've had a lot of intensely vivid dreams lately, probably because I've just started working.

This seems to have been a very long completely lucid dream, in fact once more I was utterly incapable of remembering the while thing from the beginning, despite thinking about it immediately after waking up. The order of things might be slightly messed up.

The first thing I clearly remembered was having a small asphalt road in front of me, a small or maybe medium sized city behind, behind that a large mountain and a castle on the far end of the mountain. It was a beautiful day and an awesome vista, the sky was slightly cloudy I think. I wanted to get to the castle, and instead of going the entire way I looked away, and when I looked back it was a lot closer and different than before. I'm not sure how I then actually got there.

I was in the castle in some tower and a toilet room, though the details are fuzzy. Some time later I was in my current home town [K] it was night and I was talking to myself for stability, which worked for quite a long time.

And... since I was too busy and lazy to write this up immediately some details have gone missing. I really need to make a habit of writing down everything within 24 hours...

I moved halfway across the world just a few days ago, so my routine at the moment is very much non existent.


I don't remember a single thing about the setting of this dream. All I remember is that I felt the need to perform an rc. I decide to push my fingers through my palm. It works! I waste no time getting to work. I'm expecting to destabilise soon, so I immediately try to win the bet I have with werty52 of creating a waterball. I think I close my eyes while attempting this. I stretch out my arms, placing my hands close to each other in front of me. I put massive effort into it and I remember something happening, though I can't say for sure that I did it.


I don't think it's a very good sign that I was expecting to destabilise quickly (though that does happen nearly every time I'm lucid).

I'm in the back of a cab with S heading down a very steep hill. We have a cab driver, and the man is wearing a rimmed cap. We're having a conversation about different relatives who live in Europe. I look at her as my awareness breaks through, and in a very collected, nonchalant manner I tell her how awesome it is that this is all a dream. I look around the cab and take in the vivid colors of dark red of the seats that have a slight glow in the dark of the night. I then follow up by saying that it is a DILD we are in actually, and explain to her that it is because I became aware of the dream as it was occurring. I say this with an interested smile of satisfaction. I look to either side of the very narrow road we are traveling down in the dead of night. Closely packed building, roughly 3 stories high, stand crammed next to eachother. The architecture resembles that of 19th century Europe in a city area. Archways over windows and doors are intricately formed into the cement foundation of the structures. The row of buildings - which appear to be living quarters are dark goldden yellow. A couple groups of two to three people begin makin their way up the narrow sidewalk as we make our descent; they are dressed in very old clothing resembling 17th-18th century western Europe. The dresses are gray, and the hats are black. S's face is different as I look back, and it appears to be a different DC altogether. The DC gives an expression as though it is cognitively impaired - not processing any information I'm saying. I still ask the DC to help me stabilize, and follow up by stating I want to see how a DC would do. I then decide to fly up and out of the car to the bottom of the hill, where the street meets another street at an intersection. I turn left and see a group of three people. I fly forward rapidly to see their faces, yet they all vanish into wisps of smoke as I get near. I raise up into the air turning left and gaze town to the two story building which has a small ledge outside the second floor. I decide to stay in this area as I feel this will keep the dream stable for now. I fly toward this white colored second level, and begin thinking about dream flying dynamics, and how the dream space is all just existing in my mind. I make a bit of progress, then quickly enter a void and simultaneously ramp up my awareness in order to maintain the dream. I tell myself that I'm goign to hold awareness no matter what. I hold for about 15 seconds, then feel the interesting transiton back into my physical body. I hold perfectly still for a couple minutes attempting a DEILD.

I find myself aware that I'm in a dream as I'm standing in a dark hallway with rows of doors are lined up on either side. It is the dead of night, and I get the impression that I am in a house. My hands come out in front of me, and I know I need to stabilize as things feel a bit unstable. I keep getting the impression that I'm beginning to feel my physical body and then I'm going to wake. I find myself in a FA for a period of time in which I am trying to re-enter the last dream lucidly (I didn't realize it was a FA until several minutes upon waking for the day). My arm is around S as I begin on focusing and incubating a dream scene and entering lucidly. I close my eyes and notice hypnagogic imagery develop into the dream scene. I am looking consciously aware as I begin entering into a scene with a tall red Japanese shrine. The shrine is situated on a small island floating high in the sky with grass scattered across the ground on the bottom of the floating mini island. Behind the floating shrine sits a massive brown cliff with jagged edges. The cliff rises to the left, far above the shrine. My awareness begins merging with a dream body that I imagine, and I continue to recreate the feeling of the body moving through the entryway to the scene with waving motions of my limbs. I begin this transition into the sky and suddenly wake.

I find myself standing next to my bed facing the wall lucidly aware. My arms come in front of my face, and I say outloud "I'm lucid" with excitement. I am facing a wall at this point, and the room is very dark. My arms have an ethereal transparency to them.I gaze to the right a bit a notice a large doorwary with a thin white frame. The door leads into a square room beyond. The dream feels a bit unstable, and my awareness still needs to be increased. In an effort to stabilize, I decide to try entering a new dream scene. I kneel down, take my right arm and imagine myself carving a cirucular portal into the ground. I trace the circle with my arm and visualize a blue border. The dream becomes fuzzy and I wake shortly after.

I was in this big skyscraper out in the middle of nowhere. It looked like a big business with a whole lot of windows. I was working there doing I don't know what. I came upon this crazy man. He literally looked insane & was acting insane. He was pulling at some wires & I he said something to me but I can't remember his exact words. At this point I realize what is going on. He is trying to shut down the building by cutting off the electricity & in turn he cuts off the air which will also kill him but, he didn't seem to care. I became lucid at this point & actually wake up. I closed my eyes again & go back into the dream & now I'm lucidly back into the same dream. The dream is so vast that I didn't even think about doing a task. It had that apocalyptic feel to it. I realized that if the electricity went off & the air went off it would actually kill everyone on the planet because this was some main terminal for a lack of a better word. So I run down the halls & up the stairs because I don't want to be trapped in an elevator. I find the 2 people in charge & the man doesn't listen at all but the woman seemed to at least be interested in what I had to say. I ran back down w/ her to find the man again. We find him & he has a bloody ax in his hand. I wrestled it away from him & plunge it into his chest. I had a strange sensation because I try to avoid violence when I'm lucid or non-lucid both. It just didn't sit well with me but I liked the idea that I saved all of humanity in a lucid dream. I then just kind of hung out and looked out everywhere because it was just so vastly big! I lastly told the woman I was going to get a promotion & she threw out a ridiculous number & I said no. I told her she was doubling my pay & I was getting extra money on top of that. I started laughing at all of this & just woke myself up. I'd say this was definitely memorable.

Non-Lucid-Green
Lucid-Red

I am in a classroom with one of my teammates at the job I'm working at. He appears to be lifting some sort've equipment. The head of HR comes in to meet him and my manager gives each of us a white card in the classroom. I open my card but I didn't bother to read it and toss it out of my hands. I then walk out of the classroom and greeted the of head of HR. I notice her appearance in face look much different from how I remember it. I went outside which it is night and threw out some old boxes. I came back in the hotel and notice one of my captains silhouette through one of the doors window. I became lucid and realize I am unconsciously thinking about him. I open the door and appear to be at the hotel restaurant. It look a lot weirder but still decent. I grab some food and tried to dodge some of the servers. After that I went outside again and the environment had change. It was sunny with a clear blue sky. Short grass with a wide field, with only one 1 slightly tall skinny tree in the middle with hardly any leaves on it. I sat down near it and poke at the two cucumbers I had gotten. Thinking about what I am dreaming about and how long I'll be lucid.

Seems like I am in the same place. I see 2 people playing basketball at another house. I'm walking outside and ask a lady how to fly if it gets bad. My voice sounds raspy. So I whisper so she can understand. She gives hand motions. Then I wake up.