lucid

To preface this, my work is closing down, so I will be out of a job, so this isn't a completely random topic to dream about. This dream is also quite short in terms of what happened, but the detail I remember is immense, which is why I found it important to record.

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A coworker of mine told me that he knew of a job I'd be able to do in order to earn some money while I look for a new job. I'd be employed mentoring kids. The reason that he came to me with this was due to the fact that he felt as though he would not be capable of handling it by himself.

I first arrived at the workplace, and it was like a massive school campground, with a bunch of cabins, rooms, shower-blocks, etc, very stereotypical. By the time I was there, it was night and I actually got myself lost along the way. I asked for directions and someone kindly led me to where I needed to be. I was at the doors of a large amphitheater style lecture hall where my colleague was standing up the front ready to give a speech. The audience had a lot of people that I actually knew personally in it, and one friend from Canada that I met while on a trip over there. My coworker and I gave a talk and hung around there for a while.

We must have been allocated individual kids at first because the next and last scene I remember was a little one-on-one session with someone. The very strange thing about this scene was that it was set entirely in my girlfriends room. I remember the bookshelves, the small stool she has that she uses as a table, even her bedside table complete with mini chest of drawers. I could also look out through the hallway and see her brother's room, and the hallway connecting them.

I think the person I was mentoring had some form of mental disability, they were actually older than the rest in around their mid to late 20s. They had light brown hair, a thick mustache, beady eyes and big thick rimmed glasses. He told me that he loved magic and I told him that I did as well. He decided that he wanted to show me a magic trick and said he would also show me his favourite and most treasured deck of cards. What he pulled out was a really awkward looking and feeling deck of cards, a lot of them were red and they were all mismatched, cut to varying sizes and with different patterns and faces. It felt absolutely horrible to hold, very uncomfortable. The trick that he showed me involved me choosing a random card, he then stabbed a different card with a pencil, then ripped it off which changed it to my card. Doesn't really make sense but, hey, what do you expect?

I decided that I would show him a deck of mine, and I opened my bag to pull one out. I distinctly remember the bag because it was exactly the backpack that I sometimes carry with me, down to each of the pockets being the same size and in the same position. Even some of the regular contents were in the bottom, which at the present time are a cream and bandage to help manage my eczema. I pulled out a big shrink wrapped package which was filled with 6 decks of playing cards made by a brand called Bicycle, but they are not the standard ones, they are of a slightly different design. There are two designs, one which was predominantly a deeper, darker red than normal and one that was more of a metallic blue. There were three decks of each colour in the packet. I spent a moment trying to decide which one to open and then decided to open a blue one as I had a lot of currently open red ones. At this point I did not do anything with the cards.

I classify this as a lucid as I am fairly certain I became self aware. I had asked the guy's name multiple times in this session, and then my coworker messages me so I could log my progress to him and he asked me which person I was with and I could not at all remember his name. I realised that this is very unlike me, and I started to question whether I was dreaming before I immediately woke.

Again, I should have checked for a false awakening but I have no memory of what happened after I woke.

Dream: I was playing dodgeball soccer in high school gym class. If you were on your own side of the gym, you were allowed to throw the ball and get people out. You could also throw for the soccer net at either end and score that way. If any ball went into the soccer net the other team instantly won.

You could cross the center line, and if you were on the other side, nobody could get you out by throwing the ball at you. Then the game became like soccer. You had to kick the ball into the goal.

I just remember that I went across the line and tried to kick the ball into the goal a couple times, but it kept rolling away/losing control. At some point I wound up bunny-hopping my way around the gym holding the ball between my ankles. I actually managed to score that time.

...

I remember I lived in a minecraft cave base with someone. (Or actually I think it was three or four people.) But we were perpetually getting overrun by big groups of monsters. Not minecraft monsters, just big hordes of random monster beings. (I guess if I had to describe them they were like gray humanoids exaggerated in various ways, like some were overly tall and skinny. Others were large, fat and extremely strong and tough.)

I remember we were fighting them and trying to block off the entrances that they were coming in from, but they kept coming through in new ways. I remember at one point, my friends died, and I tried to flee the underground and get back to the surface. I was running out of the main room of the cave base and there were a big group of them right behind me. One of them said to send in eggman's robots.

I went around the corner and there were two pairs of robots, a smaller pair in front and a larger pair in back. They looked a little bit like star wars battle droids and super battle droids respectively only they were painted black and red.

I wasn't lucid, but I knew that I could use earthbending or that that was important somehow. God dangit, so close! (I guess it was pretty easy to visualize earthbending in Minecraft nonetheless) and I threw stone blocks at the robots. I think I managed to get past them but some of the monsters grabbed me from behind and I lost the dream.

...

It was at this point I woke up for an ever so brief amount of time. I don't think I opened my eyes even. I remember thinking that I wanted to go back into the dream and start over. I could still feel the connection to the dreamworld so I let myself slide back in sideways. Literally it felt like I was moving to the right and the dreamworld was forming around me. I don't think I got excited about the fact that I was WILDing since I didn't realize what was happening.

I arrived on a beach setting. At the same time it was very vivid but kind of dark, as a proto-dream should be. On my left were a bunch of palm trees and a beach cottage. (It looked like one of those old Hawaiian houses or something.) And on my right was the ocean. I remember the sensations started coming in. The sound of the waves, and the wind from the sea. I could swear I was right on the edge of being awake because I could feel my dream body and my waking body.

I thought of Manei (I was thinking about her before I drifted off to sleep last night) and she began to manifest. She manifested feet first, up to her head, as she manifested the missing parts of her were a black outline. I could also swear there was like a computer loading bar in the corner of my vision... She was laying on her back in a beach chair when I was finished. But she wasn't awake/alive at first, but she started to come to her senses.

Just as I was about to say something, I lost the dream and woke up almost instantly. I really tried to go back, but couldn't. Too awake...

NLD (x2=2)
WILD (x1=10)
Advanced Summoning (x1=15, Dream guide)

Night Total: 27

Comments scores brb

10 different people/different entries. =3 points.

Thanks Spock and DreamCafe11 in particular.

7.30-9.15am
Medium LD #399
I am at a LAN party. Someone pulls my screen around and starts asking why I'm searching for darkus something. The page looks like an guild site for an online game. Everyone in the guild has dog avatars. Under the browser window is what looks like World of Warcraft (haven't played in 5 years).

Hitting the space bar brings up a search box, but I hide it and start moving through the world using the keyboard to control it. At some point the dream drags me into the game so I am playing in first person rather than controlling a character.

The game is taking place in a Hogwarts style castle filled with students. AB is with me. Although the whole place still has a sort of Warcraft vibe, the students are human. Maybe this is Stormwind. We head up a circular set of steps in a tower, heading to the top. There are students on the stairs having a lesson.

The steps end in a blank wall. Wait, no, there is a narrow staircase leading up to a hatch in the roof. At the top is a partially obscured sign that says slip, or is it sleep? This makes me lucid.

We run up the staircase and emerge onto the top of the tower. The dream still is formed of very basic almost cartoon style graphics. This is a dream, I tell AB, and start floating around trying to encourage AB to join me in flight. AB then makes a joke about rocket fuel and farts. This makes me laugh.

"You're so immature..." And then I think, wait, this is my dream, which means it's me being immature. Ah nuts.

I make AB float and try to encourage her to fly higher but she doesn't want to.

The tower is perched on the edge of a canyon made from red stone. Possibly some mix of the Grand Canyon mixed with Thousand Needles, from Warcraft, which is still the basis for this dreamscape. Standing at the edge looking down over a 200+ ft drop gives me a twinge of vertigo, and that inexplicable desire to jump...

Only one thing for it... I throw myself off the edge and start to plummet, feeling the wind rushing past me. Before hitting the ground I throw my arms out as wings. The air catches the feathered wings and allows me to glide on the thermals. :wings:

At the bottom of the canyon are a few cartoon sheep. I point at one and transform it into a goat. It turns black and kind of demonic-goat looking with horns and hoofs. Before being able to transform it into a Chimera for the TOTY, it lets out a demonic roar and runs off. Hmm so much for that plan.

I start to walk through the canyon and see a large crowd of people walking in another direction. Thinking that maybe I could combine my goal of turning a DC into an animal to kick start another TOTY attempt, I pick a red haired woman out of the group and lead her to one side.

"Okay, weird request. I need to turn you into a Chimera, which will be awesome fun, but first I have to turn you into a goat..."

The woman gives me a look like, you're insane, but whatever... Before I can do anything else though, the scene fades and despite clinging on for a false awakening, I wake up.

I find myself levitating on a hillside overlooking a descent into a valley below. At this moment, I know that this is not waking life. I am really excited at this point and shout "I'm lucid!" I quickly think of sivason's lesson "Resistance to Shock' and know I need to calm the excitement in order to keep everything stable. My emotions stabilize, and I become clear and focused. I soak in all of the details of this green, rocky hillside overlooking the rocky path to the valley. I continue to levitate ~40 feet off of the ground over an area of the mountain that is slightly cleared of any rock. Sections of grass are scattered around the clearing and the perimeter. There appears to be a small picnic area situated in the corner of the clearing. I get started recalling my dream goals. I shout out to the dream: "subconscious, help me develop my lucid abilities!" I am still levitating as I turn my direction to face upward toward the top of the hill. It appears that a building it is sitting toward the top. I begin rubbing my hands to ensure everything stays stable. After a bit of looking around, the dream begins to dim, and I begin to focus strongly and rub hands. I resolve to stay focused through if the void comes. I hold strong awareness for ~30 seconds through the void, then wake up.

I was in a house, it likely seemed like one of my earlier homes, the house my family used to own. There was someone else with me but I don't know who it was. I looked out of the window, and the scenery was a lot different, I saw mountains and plenty of green out there.
The sun was about to rise and we saw it, but we also saw light of... nuclear explosions, 3 or 4 in total.
(I think it was around here where I got lucid but oddly enough I'm not sure, maybe I already was lucid)
I pointed out the explosions to my companion, expecting some sort of shockwave to hit us, but it never did.
After that a scene in some kind of floating city came, there were many fragments floating around, some with buildings and/or plants. For the life of me I can't remember the transition from the house to that city, even though I think it was only 1 or 2 minutes in the dream. This floating city had mostly dark gray elements and some orange, and I know that orange was the most prominent color all around us, partially from the sunrise, maybe partially from the blasts. It looked a bit medieval and fantasy-like, probably inspired by some game. I moved upwards with strong jumps, like in a platformer. On a slightly larger island, where 2 or so buildings and some plants were, there was a group of people in dark clothes. I went to them and talked about something, I don't remember everything. What I do remember is that I explained the game Sonic Riders to them, and how I would love to have a pair of those floating shoes and how I liked the idea of them more than hoverboards.

Then everything went black and I felt the dream fading, and as usual I struggled against it. It seems I was out of the dream for a short moment but this time I managed to hold on to my consciousness without completely waking up. I'm pretty sure this would've become a FA if I hadn't manage to hold on to my consciousness by a thread.
After some time of focusing and struggling I saw light, and quickly noticed that it was kind of like the light you'd see coming from under and around a door when it's bright outside and you're in a dark room. I reached for the door and opened it, just to see the same thing again. Then another door, and another one. Then, after I think I opened 4 or 5 doors I actually got outside and had full visual input from the dream again. It was cloudy but bright outside, and I was in some kind of village with broad streets and little to nothing happening. I tried to fly, but was only able to float. The last thing I did was changing the sky into a clear night scenery with tons of stars, which looked and felt beautiful, but alas then I woke up for real.

I dreamt I went into exs house using hidden spare key. I seemed to have known he was away camping with his gf for the weekend. I felt anxious about him coming home with me being there but seemed to be just sat watching TV. I then got up to rearrange the furniture because I didn't like the way he had it.
Suddenly it seemed dark and I realised it was Sunday night and he'd probably be home soon. I started to panic and tidy up and turn TV off. I then heard the back door open and him talking to his gf. I managed to just get out the front door and gently close it. But it was too late, I was half way up the road when he came running up to me asking why I'd just been at his house.
I'd been uncertain whether he noticed I'd been inside. He asked me what I was doing. I made up some really lame excuse about there being a few break ins in the area and had heard he was away so I went in to make sure it was secure and put his spare key inside.
I don't think he believed me and I asked him not to call the police. I was really worried now and he just said he'd have to think about it.

I haven't spoken to him for nearly a year and we were only casually dating for around 8months. When I seen him in the dream he looked uglier than I remembered. I don't even know why I went into his house in my dream.

I had a similar dream about my previous ex a long time ago. I'd been with him and lived with him. In that dream, I'd dreamt I was in the house pottering round and then it dawned on me that I didn't live there and had a panic that I needwd to get out without being seen. In both dreams I was in the house alone with a fear of being caught/ not being able to get out unseen.
On a separate note I'd just like to add, I would never break in/go into anyone's house without permission. And also don't have any feelings towards either ex. I just think it's a strange dream to have especially twice about two different people. Makes me wonder whether it reflects how our lives have changed and I'm not welcome/ not happy being in their enviroment/around them. Or maybe a part of me misses being apart of their lives but feels sad because it would never work.

Edit: Rememered a fragment. Something to do with launching a Soyuz spacecraft.

Dream 1:

I remembered I was attending my new summer class. (Over the summer, I have to take a remedial class because advising is a dick and they've managed to get out of giving me an appointment that's a whole 'nother story.) Anyways, I remember that we were inside of this big dome that had a model of the solar system in it, hanging from chains. The class met inside of the sun.

I remember going inside of the sun, there was a reasonable sized room in there. The whole room was made out of white painted particle board. Since it was hanging, it would sort of wobble. I remember feeling like the room was not structurally sound, particularly since it hung over this absolutely huge foyer like room, and it seemed to wobble around (I think it was hanging from chains.)

Anyways I was the only one up there and I was waiting for the other students, when someone told me that I was in fact in Jupiter and not the sun. (None of the planets were painted yet.) So I had to climb over through venus. But the chain broke loose and I was left hanging with my computer in one hand and a rotten white painted 2x4 in the other. Someone said they would call the fire department.

...

I swear this trouble dragged on for quite a long time, jumping from different a Eventually I was riding my bike in (I think London or Paris, it felt like Europe) and I finally dropped my computer onto the brick street and broke it. Then a bus came barreling towards me honking the horn. I suddenly snapped into lucidity and jumped over it. I think I started flying and all these people made a big circle around me and saw me slowly hover down back into the street.

Dream 2:

I was watching the season finale of Survivorman where he was going to Kayak down this river to this abandoned city that had been flooded by global warming. He did. Edward Elric was with him.

I remember a huge block of cement fell on him from one of the buildings. He looked up and said 'That's a big rock'. Then it fell on him and severely injured him. I remember he got injured on his leg too. Ed had to use alchemy to heal him.

Fast forward to to the third day of the survival. I remember they had left the abandoned city because it was too dangerous with all the falling bits of buildings. They got attacked by this witch character that haunted the forest. Then I manifested into the dream and became lucid. I ran at the witch and kicked her in the face. At that same moment she manifested a baseball bat with her magic and hit me in the face.

Ed screamed: "Cross counter!"

I think I false awakened, but I forgot what I false awakened into...

... Actual awakening, WeeBTB.

Dream 3:

I was in my color theory class. I went to the restroom (that was connected to the classroom, weirdly enough.) I remember the restroom had a staircase in it, that was weird. It slowly changed to a gym.

A girl from my old high school was there. I remember there were three treadmills and she was changing the plugs around so that all of them could run at the same time. Each one had a plug in the side that she ran out to an additional treadmill essentially creating a chain. I remember she set mine on a super low speed and that annoyed me for some reason.

We both wound up walking outside. It was nighttime and the college building was alone on a hillside. I remember a ways down the hill there was a road, then a row of thick trees and then a river. I remember I told her not to go into the woods down past the road because there was this restless spirit that lived down there. She did it anyway. I think I saw the spirit take her. When it did, I said something like.

"She was never very bright, but her heart was in the right place."

I then went back up to the building and became lucid. I remember there was this cult in there that was hypnotizing people, and I wanted to free them. It was down in the basement and it was dark, and I was afraid that the dream would lose stability. I remember I was able to crack my neck and glow in the dark. (Internal logic, I turned myself into a human glow stick.)

I went down into the basement and saw the cult. There were about 20 people. (Some of them students from my college) sitting around a pentagram. They all had headphones on. There were also three or four other people there, I think they were.

I unplugged the headphones and all the people snapped out of their hypnosis. I told them to run. They all obeyed and ran upstairs. The hooded cultists started to come after me. The leader of this cult (old, short, balding guy) had this huge trident/lance type weapon. He said he was going to smite me in the name of his god [his god had some name I don't remember]. I blocked the lance and punched the guy. For some reason when I punched him he became naked. (I did not need to see that old saggy cult leader naked.) He flew into the air and landed in the corner of the room.

This other guy came after me and said he was going to punch my lights out. He was much bigger than me, but I tripped him and pushed him into this big banquet table with food for them on it. He asked me why I didn't just accept the fact that there was always bad guys in my dreams and why I would always fight them. I told him that there was no point in not trying to make my dreams a better place, I get lucid, might as well do it. He asked me something about my use of violence and I told him it was because people like him always attacked me first. He didn't like my rhetoric so I threw a cake in his face.

I then remember this girl came out, apparently the daughter of the leader of the cult. I remember she had this very weird outfit on, like the lower half was just like a bikini bottom but the upper half (upper body, arms and head) were like an iron man suit painted black. Six machine guns came out of it (three on each shoulder.)

She shot at me, but I made a force bubble and reflected all the bullets, but I could feel the shield would not hold for long. I jumped clear and ran along the wall to get close. When I got close, I was able to tear two of the machine guns off of one of the shoulders (Think it was her left). I remember on the back they had a handle like a handgun, but a giant minigun barrel on front. I kept fighting the hooded cult members that were just projections in empty robes, and fighting them with machine guns was hard because it would just make holes in the robes.

This other girl showed up wearing a huge green hoop skirt that I think transformed from a more mundane outfit. Beneath the hoop skirt was also the bell of a rocket engine so she could fly, and she had missile silos for breasts. The two began fighting with each other, while trying to escape deeper under the building. I remember there were these metal sharks that would swim around in the air that they were also fighting.

I think I might have gotten distracted and died in the chaos. I was simply observing as a ghost/spirit. When I did, I saw the ghost of the cult leader. He went to a museum hall and used his necromancy to resurrect a T-Rex skeleton, as punishment for his daughter wearing such a ridiculous outfit... I... Uhh... where is this ridiculous plotline going?

...

Just as the chaos was reaching a climax, I false awakened in the back of my friend S's old car. He was driving down a highway in (I think Shanghai) with the top down. I told him that I just had a really weird lucid dream. He said that It was 2:15pm and I had only been asleep since 2:05...


Fragment +0.5
3 NLDs. (Since the non-lucid portion of each dream was fairly substantial, +3)
WeeBTB (+2)
3 DILDs. (Even if they were all short, technically triple lucid +20)
Fly (+5)
Mlsc Dream Control (+5) Making myself glow in the dark. That was weird.
DC Interaction (+2) Talking with the big guy counts.
I'll count the forcefield as invulnerability, even if it didn't last long. (+5)

Night Total: 42.5.

7.20-7.45am
We are in the garage. There is an old mattress on the floor. It is covered in small patches of ice and snow. I make a snowball and throw it at the wall.

My partner AB is here. We discuss her uncle apparently touching up one of AB's younger cousins. (Not true IRL, AFAIK) It is clear AB is very angry and upset about this. We discuss confronting him, but AB seems to have very violent plans, which concern me. Although the knowledge of what he's done sickens me too, I want to protect her from doing anything that would land us in trouble with the law.

The dream changes and has me exploring a bookshop. The lights flicker and go out, but then the power comes back on. After some searching I find the section with sci-fi and fantasy books. There is a book called 'The Cery Spar'. 'Cery' apparently means red. Maybe it was supposed to be 'Cherry'? It has a red dragon on the front.

Chained into
Short LD #398 "Follow Me" WILD
An image of a white ceiling forms. Knowing my eyes are shut, I try to control the excitement rush of an impending WILD (I don't often manage WILD).

Feeling vibrations I wait and allow the dream to form. The I rub my hands to stabilise. A black guy walks in, smiling. He asks me about my holiday in China. It seems I have earplugs in as the sound is distant and muted. So I mime pulling out earplugs to try and correct this.

The guy wanders out of the room, talking about how China is basically like Bulgaria. Heh sure.

The room leads out onto a large balcony on which a friend of mine is sitting having a smoke. He is looking out at the view, so I slap him on the back/shoulder in greeting and say hi before climbing over the balcony and starting to fly.

Below are rows of tables filled with DCs. Some kind of party is going on. This reminds me that mind control was a technique I struggled with last time.

Spotting a pretty blonde girl at one of the tables I land nearby and use telepathy to send her a mental command, asking her to come over. She stands and starts walking towards me but then starts moving a little further away. She glances back at me, then walks a few more steps. She seems to want me to follow. Who is controlling who?

Despite my attempts at mind control it seems she wishes to lead me away from the others. There is now a path leading off into a forest. I give up and decide to just follow along, but wake up after a few steps into the trees.

Background: I fell asleep at 11:00, woke up at 4:30, and did SSILD.

(Some fragments about the biltmore hotel in los angeles)
I suddenly realize that something is off, as I remember my attempt at SSILD. I realize that I'm dreaming, but wake up. However, I immediately realize that I'm in a False Awakening. My room seems black and white, and sort of static-y. I get up out of bed and walk into the living room. The dream has now turned to color. I ground myself. I walk outside and make the sun rise. I then decide to take a walk around my city, Encinitas. As I walk around my block, I admire the realism of everything. I see a black truck drive by, and I can easily read the word "Tacoma". As I walk up the sidewalk to a plaza called the lumberyard, I see an old woman wearing a pink dress walk by. I remember that I've been struggling with dream control recently, so I decide to just control her. I think to myself, "that old lady is going to scream at me." She immediately looks up at me and screams, but I make her stop. As I start walking across the street, I bump into a woman in yoga pants. I'm flustered, and my dream reflects my thoughts by showing an image of a woman in a bikini walking across the street. I put a stop to it though, knowing that I have to do other things, and remembering that sex is quite likely to wake me up. I bump into a man whose face is obscured. He seems to know me. We both walk into a bar, and as I start talking to the man, I realize that the dream is destabilizing. I wake up.

I'm at my house, where there's some competition thing going on, apparently for some reality show. There's a different event going on in each room of the house, and I stop for a bit at each to watch. One was a weird diving competition in a swimming pool full of soup.

At one point, I realize that I'm going to be late for church. I step outside, but the wind suddenly picks up, and I'm being blown sideways while holding on to the doorframe. I work my way across the side of the house, but the wind continually hits harder and harder. I don't know when it happened, but suddenly I look down and realize that my house is flying through the sky. I'm now holding on for dear life.

Just then, it hits me not only how weird this situation is, but also how vivid everything looks. This makes me realize that I'm dreaming. Relieved, I let go of the house and start freefalling. It feels exhilarating, but I think of the TOTM of laying on a cloud, so I try to slow down my decent. It doesn't work, however, and I continue falling.

I splash down hard into this huge purple ocean, but I'm completely unscathed. I have a nice view of the stars above me, and under the water just at the horizon is what looks like a black hole. It kinda sticks about above the water level, but because of the gravity, the water bulges out quite a ways to fully cover it. I look at the sky and see several other small water planets with their own black holes. They kinda look like different levels from Super Mario Galaxy. I decide to try swimming into the black hole to see what happens, but I end up being woken up by my alarm.

DILD - 10 pts
Invulnerabilty - 5 pts
Night 12 Total - 15 pts

1. I was in a huge building. This building was built sort of like a school, except down the entire middle of the school there was an extremely wide large hallway, and all of the classrooms were on the left or right walls of this hallway. The front entrance of the school was a curtain wall made fully of glass. The floor was covered with a dark forest green tile, and the walls were made of red brick. I walked down the hallway all the way to the end and walked into a classroom. The classroom resembled an auditorium more than it did a class. As I walked in I noticed that it closely resembled my Accounting 1 class; there were 4 rows of connected office style desks and computers everywhere where there was a seat. In this classroom the floor was a grayish-blue carpet and the walls were painted white.
After looking around the classroom I went over to my seat and sat down. "Cory, you decided to show up" someone said. I looked at the front of the classroom and saw my Accounting teacher Mr. Wittenberg. He looked the exact same as he does in waking life. "Of course" I replied, "Wouldn't miss this class for nothing" I said jokingly. I then looked around me once more. Most of the students in the class right now were actually in my Accounting class in waking life. I saw Ava, Tim, Sydney, Nathan, and a few others that were actually in the class. I remember just looking at my computer momentarily and not actually turning it on. I got up and went to put my backpack at the back of the class, but I have no idea why. After I placed my backpack along the back wall, I turned around and started walking back to my seat. Immediately as I turned around I noticed that everyone in the class was staring at me with a completely neutral face.
"Why are you all staring at me?" I asked plainly. I got no reply. I looked over at Tim and saw that Ava was literally sitting criss-cross applesauce on top of Tim's head. It didn't make sense, with her weight she should've easily made Tim fall over, but instead she was perfectly balanced on top of Tim's head with no problem at all. For some reason I randomly assumed that because of this, Ava and Tim were dating now. "Huh, are you guys dating now?" I asked Tim as I walked up to him, everyone still staring at me in complete silence with the same creepy neutral look on their face. Tim broke the silence, "You already know Cory Jaron" he said as he pulled out his phone. He then showed me his texts between him and Ava. As he did so I noticed that Ava's name in his contacts had a lot of kissy emojis next to it.
For some reason this saddened me, it was if I had a desire to date Ava, but now I knew I couldn't because she was with Tim(I have a girlfriend IWL, so I don't really have that desire I'm pretty sure). As I looked up I noticed that the entire layout of the room had changed. The room now resembled some sort of fancy candy shop, and all sorts of candy decorations were around the room. There were golden shelves all around the room as well that were holding different types of candy, and many other displays of candy were around the room. "I forgot to tell you guys, I've started my own candy shop" Mr. Wittenberg said. Suddenly I hear a familiar voice not far to the right of me, "Can we have some for free?". I look over and see that it is my friend Josh. "No you can't have any free candy Josh, you have to pay" Mr. Wittenberg replied. Suddenly the bell signaling that class is over rings and everyone gets up and makes their way out of the classroom.
On the way out, Josh steals some candy. The candy he stole looked like bird shaped marshmallows that were blue in color. Josh almost made it out of the classroom, but right before he did Mr. Wittenberg noticed and got extremely mad. "Why are you stealing my candy?!" he asked in a frustrated voice. Josh then walked over to Mr. Wittenberg where he was standing at his desk to talk to him. I decided to go with him to help Mr. Wittenberg calm down. "I can help Josh with this. My chill relaxed funny vibes will cool Mr. Wittenberg down" I thought to myself as I walked over to him. Immediately as I got over to Mr. Wittenberg I tried changing the subject to take his mind off of Josh stealing his candy. I forgot the conversation, but it worked and Mr. Wittenberg was chill again(btw Mr. Wittenberg is only 26 or 28, and he's really chill in WL).
Josh then walks out of class eating the candy he just stole, right in front of Mr. Wittenberg. I was just about to leave class when I remembered that I had left my backpack at the back wall of the classroom. I go back to get it and as I pick it up and swing it around my back something clicks. I am now Lucid. I walk out of the classroom and make my way down the hallway to the front entrance of the school. "Huh, how did all of those people in that class just disappear into their other class so quickly?" I remember thinking. I finally made it down the huge hallway and walked out the front doors. Immediately as I walked outside I felt a cool breeze blow against me. "Alright, I gotta remember to stay and maintain my self awareness" I told myself. I look around too see where I'm at. The entire area in front of this school is a suburban neighborhood. There are rows of nice houses with neatly cut and trimmed front yards, and sidewalks that go down and around every street. I admire how nice it all looks.
Seconds later I notice something flying across the sky at a relatively low altitude. I get a closer look at it and see that it is a flying firetruck with helicopter blades which is making it fly. "Wow, this is something I definitely got to remember" I say out loud. "It's time to fly" I then say. I get a running start and then take off into the air. The way I'm flying is different from usual. I am sort of in a sitting down position while moving swiftly through the air. "Let's see if I can go super high" I say. I flick both of my wrists downward, and due to my expectation, I start to ascend rapidly. Within a matter of seconds I find myself extremely high in the sky. As I'm still flying, I look down below me. I can see the entire neighborhood and it looks fairly small from how high up I am. Realizing just how high up I am I experience a little fear. "What if I fall?" I ask myself "That's a long drop".
I look all around me. Not far ahead of me in the distance I can see where the neighborhood ends and an ocean starts. In this ocean there are many small islands and light orange colored rocks all throughout it. I see one huge island that looks very interesting. It looks like some sort of military base. I fly over the neighborhood and am now flying across the ocean to get to it. As I do so, I look down at the water. The water isn't really blue at all, it's completely crystal clear, but I can tell that the deeper the water gets, the more blue it appears. I land on what seems to be a small landing platform on the island. There is a mountain of rock right next to this platform that has a huge hole carved into it with glass covering it. I find a door and walk in. Inside there is an entire base that looks like it has something to do with military intelligence.
The area that I am standing in as I just walked in the door seems to be some sort of waiting area. Many men are sitting in small gray chairs just waiting. "You're here for the meeting with the Major too?" a man with short black hair says. "I think so" I say just for the fun of it. There is a large man sitting next to the man that just talked to me, and for some reason I assume him to be the mans brother. Just then a group of military personnel walk over to us. They are wearing dark green uniforms and each of them have a few badges and ribbons on them. "The meeting will begin shortly" they say "Come with us and wait in this room". The man and his brother get up and we all follow the military guys into a small room. In this room the floor is complete rock, the same light orange rock that I saw earlier.
On the north wall there is a huge circular hole with glass covering it, just like I saw on the small landing platform. The military guys then leave us and now it is just me, the guy, and his brother. After a few seconds I decide I don't want to wait to see what happens. "Aright, I'm not waiting for this major to show up, I'm out" I say. I then walk out the door and out another door and find myself on the small landing platform once more. The guy that talked to me earlier comes out the door seconds later, "No! Don't leave! They'll kill you for doing that!" he says. "Well then I better get out of here quickly" I tell him. "My brother and I are coming with you" he replies.
I was going to just fly off of the base, but since the guy and his large brother are coming with me I decide to stick with them for the fun of it. I notice that on the edges of the platform there are these weird floating things, and they are the same color as the rocks. "Quick! We need to get on that and get out of here, they are on their way after us right now!" the guy says. On the top of this floating thing there is a spot where one would sit. I go over to it and climb on. I see a spot on this thing where one puts their legs and locks them in place to secure yourself on the vehicle or whatever it is. I put my legs in place and lock them in. Something emerges out of the front of the vehicle and covers my legs with a transparent plastic cover. I press a button a start the thing up. The guy that was following hops on the back.
In the distance I see military guys coming towards us fast in futuristic looking boats with police lights on them. "Go go go!" the guy says. I somehow make the vehicle float more up into the air and start taking off slowly. Just as we get off of the landing pad the guy yells from behind me "Wait we forgot my brother! Wait wait!". I look behind me and right as I do I see his brother jump off the landing pad trying to reach the floating vehicle we were on, but he misses by a long shot and just falls straight into the water. I stop the vehicle not knowing whether I should help him or not. I see the guys brother float deeper and deeper into the water until he finally hits the bottom. Now he's just standing on the ocean floor, and it seems as though he doesn't know how to swim. The ocean floor where he is at seems to be about 50 or so feet deep just judging with my eyes.
The guy on the back of the vehicle with me then dives into the water and swims to the ocean floor to get his brother. I can see him swimming to the very bottom and it takes him a while to get all the way down. "How the hell is he going to swim back up with his brother? The dude weighs at least 400 pounds" I think to myself. Just then I look all around me and see the a ton of military guys advancing quickly towards me. In a matter of seconds they'll be right on top of us. I think about just ditching the two dudes, but I decide not too. Seconds later the guy swims to the surface with his huge brother. I lower the floating craft that I am on so they can climb onto it from the water. They get on(I have no idea how considering this floating vehicle barely fit 2 guys on it at once, I don't know how the thing can hold another 400 pounds) and I ascend into the air and zoom off towards the neighborhood where I was previously.
I remember feeling the speed of the craft as I jetted away from the military guys at what appeared to be full speed. I finally make it back over to the neighborhood and land the craft. I then get off of it and realize that the two guys that were on it with me were now gone. As I look around I actually recognize the place I am at. It looks like a street from my neighborhood. I fly into the air on my own once more to look around. For some reason my flying abilities aren't as good as they were the first time, and I am now flying at incredible speed, but at a really really low altitude. I see that I am approaching a forest. As I look closer at the forest I notice that the trees there have really curly and thick trunks, and there are so many trees that I wouldn't be able to fly through the forest at all without smashing into one of them instantly.
I start to slow myself down, but I am still about to run into the trees. While I try to slow down even further I weave through some trees, but I still end up running into one just before I land. I actually felt a bit of pain/pressure from hitting the tree, but it quickly goes away. I am now back on the ground. I start thinking "Aright let's continue to maintain my self awareness. Oh and I still have to find a certain DC" I remind myself. I take off into the air once more, but away from the forest this time. I see my dad and sister standing on the street where I landed the advanced flying craft from earlier. I land where they are standing. "What are you guys doing here?" I ask them. "Just checking out this cool thing right here" my dad says, pointing to the floating craft(the best way to describe the way these look, is that they look like the flying ships that belong to the droids from Star wars 2: Attack of the clones). I turn the craft on to show them how it works. I then get on it and show them the air propulsion system. I press the wrong button and a jet of air comes out in the front of the craft and launches my sister back a few feet. I quickly turn it off. "Whoops, didn't mean to do that" I say.
I then remember that I am supposed to be looking for a certain DC. I walk away from my dad and sister and walk to a house not far from me. The house I walk up to is tan in color and if I remember correctly, is only one story. The house is split in half, kind of like when two people rent a house and they each get one side. It is now really quiet as I walk up to the door. "I'm gonna find her in here" I say to myself. I slowly open the dark brown wooden door and walk inside. It is pitch black inside except for the light coming in through the door. I advance inside further, the only thing I can make out is a large black grand piano and a small hallway with a window at the end of it that allows a little more light inside. I can see that the ground is made of some sort of fancy carpet that has fancy designs on it.
As I continue walking, I become a bit afraid. My vision is really bad at the moment and I can still barely see anything. "I feel like something evil is gonna pop out" I whisper to myself. I quickly change my expectation, "Actually, its probably going to be my mom" I whisper. Just then my mom walks into the room I'm in from around the corner at the end of the small hallway. "Hello?" she says. "Hey mom" I reply. "What are you doing here?" she asks. "I'm about to go out and chill with the guys" I tell her for some reason I don't know. "Oh okay, well leave your backpack here" she says. I then remembered that I still have my backpack on as well as my black snap-back. "I will" I tell her. Suddenly my sister comes out of no where, but it's not just her, there's 2 other clones of my sister right behind her. One is a bit taller and looks older than her, and the other is shorter and looks like she's 9 or 10 years old.
I walk back out the door and my sister follows, closing the door behind her. I walk over to the other half of the house where the other door is at. "Lets see if we can go in here" I say. "You can't" my sister says. I then see that there is a wooden barricade blocking anyone from getting inside or even opening the door at all. "Huh, that's weird. Why is it like that?". I then notice a slit on the top half of the door. In the slit there is a pair of glowing red eyes looking at me. "What the fuck" I say, startled. "Is this place haunted?" I ask my sister, but she doesn't respond. I then get back on task. I look down at my feet and realize that I am not wearing any shoes, and this bothers me so I manifest a pair of vans. I sit down on the ground, untie the shoes, and proceed to put them on. Inside of the shoes are squishy sole supporters. As I put the shoes on I realize that the squishy supporters are reversed, the right one is in the left shoe, and the left one is in the right shoe. I take them out and switch them. As I do so I see that Patrick is calling me. I don't answer the phone. Seconds later Trey calls me. I still don't answer. Seconds later they both text me asking me to come and chill.
I am just about to text them when suddenly Patrick himself walks around the corner of the house, and Bryce is with him. "Dude what are you doing, lets chill" he says. "Aright" I say as I stand up "But lemme put my backpack on the side of the house so my mom thinks I left it here"(no idea why that even mattered to me at the moment). I walk around the corner of the house and set my backpack next to a dark green bush. We then proceed to walk behind the house. As we get to the backyard I notice that there are 3 really antique cars that someone could get a lot of money for if they sold them. Each car had a white paint job with blue stripes on it.
We walk past the cars and I see not far in front of us there is a huge open garage. "Damn, this garage could fit at least 10 cars in it" I say. Covering about 90% of the floor of the garage is a black mat about 3 or so inches thick. As we get closer to the garage I can see that there are huge fans on inside of it, and these fans are causing dust that is in the garage to blow everywhere. For some reason I was afraid to breathe it in, so I take a step back. "I'm just gonna ask the dream to give me the certain DC" I think to myself, "And hey, I should get some music playing in the background". I turn around and walk away from Patrick and Bryce. As I walk away I pull out my phone and headphones and am about to play some music when suddenly I lose my awareness for a second and wake up.

Note: My self awareness in dreams has hugely improved as well as my stabilization.

Last LD of the night. I begin from the FA following the last dream. I peer around the covers and notice that I'm in a small creepy basement room. I hear a voice explaining something about lucid dreams. Something feels 'unreal' about this situation. I do a nose-plug and breathe. I look up and see a strnge screen high up on a wall and a hallway behind me, to the right of the screen. There is a strange Sucuubus looking figure on the screen, with red clothing. I decide to fly through a window high up toward the ceiling on the left wall, and immediately decide to start working on dream goals. I make it through the window and end up in a town-like area. Stability goes down a bit, yet I rub my hands together, and imaging walking a visulas dip for a bit. The dream continues and I make my way to the top of the building gradually by floating upward. I appear at the backside of a building with trees on either side of me, and a small open grass area in front. I repeatedly shout "Clarity!" "Focus!". with a great demand at the dream /w moderate success. At this point I remember my intent to continue developing my lucid dream abilities. I shout "Subconscious, Unconscious, please help me lucid more often!" or some thing very similar. I make my way to the roof and soar off the building, flying for a short period (this short portion is a bit fuzzy in memory). I land in an open area which resembles my old college campus. At this point I feel intuitively that I should spin to increase clarity. I notice it's working very well and understand I must keep my eyes open and let all the visuals possible flood in. I notice small amber lights hanging off all the branches on the trees. The trees are situated in a row on either side of the walkway. The lights blur my visioin in streaks as I spin. I realize I should move my eyes up and down as well to flood more visual senses in. I couple this with singing. Then with smelling the environment. I stop spinning, and the clarity of the dreams becomes very high, and I'm really happy about it. I begin singing another song as I think it's a great idea for stability! I continue to soar low to the ground and decide to explore a bit. I approach a set of dorm building which are to my left - they have whilte walls on the exterior. I enter and am interested to see if I recognize anyone I know. I see a few people asleep. An old lady smiles at me, and I can tell she likes me. She says, "You know, I'd really like you to meet someone. Her name is [S] (my fiance). I turn, grin at her, and say "I wouldn't worry, I think I will anyway".

LD2 of the night. Details are a bit fuzzy as a FA followed by another LD occured. I am in an area with a large body of cold water, similar to a large outdoor pool. I am drifting around the perimeter looking at all the people inside of it. Something feels strange, so I do a nose-lug and breath!I turn left and head around the corner overhanging the frozen semi-frozen pool. I rise to an area which slowly ascends to the roof of a building. I shout to the dream to help me develop my lucid abilities and channel energy into my mind. At this point, the dream goes void, but I resolve that I will not allow the dream to end. I continuously rub my dream body while holding focus and remaining present. I try hard to stay cognizant. It is still dark for a bit, and I appear underneath a blanket with a FA leading to another LD.

Early LD of the night. I'm talking to a lady who's preaching about a religion of some sort. I shake my head and tell her I'm a lucid dreamer. I tell her "you need to do a RC". I plug my nose, breathe, and become lucid. I start running rapidyly down the street, interested that this scne is a much more hustle-bustle feel than many of my LDs. I find my way inside a building with a window situated on a second story wall with a blue light shining through it. I fly up to float through. I land on a patio in front of a bush resembling an area of my childhood home. I jog my memory and resolve to increase my lucid abilities. I channel electrical energy into my mind to do this. The dream feels as though it's fading and I begin rubbing my dream body to stabilize. It goes void, but I find my way down a city street and make my way up a set of stone stairs toward a hotel. I decide if I'm going to pass through the wall or fly to the top of the building. I also consider making a portal against the wall, yet decide with flying upward. As I do this, a void comes. I begin to visualize another scene to keep going, yet I wake up at this point.

I had a pretty lousy first part of the night, waking up at 4:40 with no dream recall yet. I jot down the time, so at the very least I can write that down in the morning, then roll over and go to sleep.
I find myself in a non-lucid dream. I'm in my room with 3 people I know in real life, they're a couple with a baby. I'm holding the baby, and he's screaming at me and crying. I'm worrying what the parents are thinking, he seems so angry at me in particular. They take him and try and put him to bed, and I realize we're in my bedroom, in my house, and they're putting the baby to bed in my bed. Before this can sink in and I can get lucid, they're suddenly all naked. Baby, mother and father are absolutely naked with a Sims 4 style blur over their parts. I walk out of the room, kind of stunned and unsure how to proceed. I walk downstairs. On the counter, there's a Subway Restaurant cookie in a bag, and for some reason this transfixes me. I have a strong false memory of buying the cookie, but everything about the cookie being there feels off to me. I'm so, so close to lucidity when I'm startled by the baby running down the hallway into the kitchen and the father following. They're still naked and still blurred out. I finally reality check, and of course I'm dreaming. I look around the room for an object to eat before settling on a magazine. I grab it off the side table beside the back door and take a bite. It tastes like when you lick an envelope, but stronger. I take two more bites for good measure, but it's pretty gross. I turn to my mother, who's materialized in my kitchen, and inform her it tastes just like you'd expect paper to taste. I walk out the back door, remembering that i have to drain the colour out of an object. I find almost everything is covered in snow, and therefore already colourless. I notice a blue flower pushing up out of the snow at the back of the yard, so I settle on draining the colour from it. A kneel beside it and start, but once I do I realize it's hard to tell if I'm making progress because the blue is already so light and close to white. I focus on the centre - the flower resembles a daisy with a bright yellow centre - and the colour runs out like water colour paint. I remember that my third goal, a personal one, is to swim. I know I'll need to teleport for this. I fall backwards, but it doesn't work. Now I'm just lying in my backyard in the snow. I start to roll towards the house as fast as I can, picturing a beach. I find myself in a washed-out, not very vivid sand dune scene. There's no water, and I'm not very stable. I don't want to be there. I decide that when I turn around, a new, better scene will form, but don't choose specifically. I find myself standing behind my old elementary school, but instead of a school it's a factory in an industrial area. I decide that I want to fly around an industrial area. During the dream, I felt like this was a goal of mine that I'd decided on ahead of time, but flying around an industrial area has never crossed my mind before. Regardless, I try to take off and am having some trouble. For whatever reason, I kneel down in the grass I'm standing on and punch upwards with both hands. This works very well, and I sort of blast off into the air. I fly over the school and see the name on the side of the building isn't correct. I say it out loud to myself, but I didn't recall it when I woke up. I fly over the roof, which has brown shingles which don't exist in real life. I notice all these things. On the other side of the building are smokestacks, power lines, big factory buildings and all these huge metal spirals painted yellow sticking out of the ground at an angle. They're many stories tall and and more than an arms length around, but they don't look surreal. I fly towards them, Superman-style, but find I'm losing altitude. Instead of being bothered, I extend my arms behind me, like a jet plane. This works better, and I regain altitude and get more control. I fly to a spiral and push off with my feet, doing a back flip then push off another one. I notice two young children, both boys, and their mother. If they're based on real people I didn't recognize them, and the mom was leaning over so I couldn't see her face anyway. I remember my goal to see a recurring dream character once again, the woman who pulled me out of bed during my first ever induced lucid dream and once appeared and vanished a window when I was getting frustrated at not being able to faze through it. Since she never looks quite the same, so I figure that lady could be her. I picture her face as I fly towards her, then make her look up. I'm shocked when she has no face at all, just smooth skin flanked by brown hair. I start vibrating and losing stability and I hear a strong ringing in my ears as the faceless void fills my vision and consumes me.
I "wake up", but it's not a real awakening. I'm in my room but it feels smaller and there's green light emanating from under my bed. It's also pitch black outside. I don't notice this right away, because my alarm was going off. The radio voices were flawless, so realistic, and the clock reads 7:30. I freak out, because I need to be out the door in the mornings at 7:20. As I panic, the alarm stops itself. I look over and the clock reads 6:45. My alarm wouldn't have gone off yet. I nose-plug reality check, and find I can breathe. It's not my normal full breath though, it's raspy I feel like my nose is half plugged. To double-check, though I'm pretty sure I'm dreaming, I push the heel of my fist into the wall. While it doesn't faze through, I leave a deep dent in the wall easily. I get up and walk downstairs. My mother is walking up, so I nonchalantly redirect her down. I am not in the mood for dealing with a DC and the stairs were only wide enough for one. I want to resume my fly. I walk outside and kneel in the grass, repeating my technique from the previous dream. My sister takes off beside me, and I figure it'll be fun to fly around the neighbourhood with her, albeit a version of her entirely in my own head. I punch up, and a huge hydro-electric tower has suddenly materialized in my flight path. I remeber thinking "Who built our house so close to a hydro line?" and losing some lucidity. This actually happens a lot, I can think of at least two or three dreams where hydroelectric towers get in my way when I'm flying. I land on it. My sister has entered one of two tree houses on the tower. Both look like mud huts with thatched roofs, and one is at the base while the other is just above me, maybe halfway up the tower. I decide to climb over to the upper hut. There's only a small step up between me and it, but the step is sizzling with electricity and has a "Warning - High Voltage - Do not Touch" sign, and a protective cage around it on all sides but the one where I need to step. I'm not totally lucid, and electrocution doesn't sound fun. I yell "This tower is f*ing hard to climb! And I can fly! F*ing ridiculous!" I'm not the type to swear, but my anger was irrationally intense. I couldn't think straight and just fly away.. I eventually climb around the box, but by the time I do I'm not lucid anymore. I arrive at the tree house where my sister and friend E are. E says she's looking for a plastic tiger we used to play with when we were little kids, and mom who has suddenly materialized on the porch tells us the tiger isn't really in the tree house, she just told us that to my sister wouldn't get homesick at summer camp. She'd thrown it out years ago. I nod along to this, because in my non-lucid state that sounds logical. The actual director of the summer camp where we went as kids arrives on our lawn and asks if we could add honey to a bowl of lemon meringue filling he's carrying. My father exits the house with a box of Honey Nut Cheerios, saying something along the lines of he took out all the nut Cheerios of only the honey ones were left. He dumps them in the bowl, and the director whisks them into his filling. I wake up for real, at 5:50, slightly relieved I don't need to eat chunky lemon meringue pie. I also had apparently crossed my legs funny at some point, and had really bad pins and needle in my right foot. I kind of wonder if that affected my dreaming.