lucid

Shot

I was inside an apartment following a guy I use to know down the stairs. I had a feeling he was in a gang but was too afraid to confront him. (The feeling that he was in a gang is only dream related)Anyways I followed him but than I stopped."Aren't you coming?"he asked impatiently. I said I was unsure but than he looked mad so I said okay and exited the building but than my dad came from behind calling my name.

"Dad? Why are you here?"I asked.He looked like he was worried and told me he wanted to go with me. I didn't want him to come but I let him. I lost track of the guy I use to know though. My dad just followed me when suddenly people started screaming and running from a man wearing a space suit. He was holding a long black gun and approached us. He kept repeating something too as if he lost his mind than shot my father.

"Noooo!"I shouted angrily looking to the side but my father was gone. The guy than slipped and fell to the ground. (There was some snow on the ground) I grabbed his gun and told him I was gonna kill him for what he did. He pleaded me not to but I pulled the trigger. The sad thing about it was that there were no bullets. I kept pressing it than gave up and threw the gun at his head knocking him out.(He still had his space helmet on and I didn't see it crack but yeah...anything can happen in a dream)Afterwards I started walking in a different direction. It was very dark and the street lamps were dim.

As I was walking two characters tried asking me if they could go inside me. I said no and kept walking. They than tried to force themselves inside my mind but failed. I continued until I was stopped by a sheep doll. It looked kind of strange but not really scary. It was moving and telling me stuff about itself so I could buy it or something like that. I rejected it and kept moving. Eventually waking up.

More Randomness

I was at what was suppose to be my house but it was disfigured. Walls were missing, the floor was higher up than the next room and there was a huge hole on the ground in btw the two rooms. There were people present in the room and a boy who sounded familiar approached me saying "I need to talk to you". I was gonna let him but being in my sleep wear I decided to get changed first.

"Okay but wait"I said now trying to get across to the room to the side of the current room we were in. I managed to get to where I wanted but than I found a rectangular board with a dark green sky and a crecent moon on it. I looked at it thinking of its purpose and meaning than heard a song appear in the background.It sounded new and was in Japanese and english.

Suddenly my father approached me and served me a plate of food with boiled eggs. He kept asking me if I wanted the bigger piece or the small one. I said he could give me whatever he wanted to give me Than I became distracted by a cartoon of Dawn, Eye and I. Our characters were in traditional japanese outfits and were in a forest like setting with a traditional japanese house present too. It was night and Eye stepped in the house. My character just smiled a bit not knowing what to do and Dawn just stood there.

What I recall next is it went back to me eating the food. Than I ended up going to what was suppose to be my old room where part of the wall was missing too. I sat on the bed and noticed a big fluffy orange or white cat lay down on it. Afterwards I heard someone narrating the scene mentioning how if you hold the paw of the cat as you try to sleep it can be comforting. I tried it and it felt nice but than the cat climbed on my leg and started feeling heavy so I got up.

Next thing that happened was I arrived at a bakery. There an employee was left alone and service was slow. I took a icecream cone instead and went to the shop next to it. Dropping the icecream by mistake after realizing I did not pay for it. A boy with a group of friends began to talk about me being careless. I got mad and took the icecream off the floor than put it on his face. He acted like I wasn't present so I just moved on to the next area in the shop/mall.

I was interested in the arcade area and found what looked like a chess game mixed with a pool table game. I was about to play when out of no where a kid I haven't seen in a long time ran next to me and started screaming excitedly."Do you want to play?" I asked him awkwardly. Than a winning tune came out of his mouth and played for a bit. I walked away when another kid decided to play one on one with him. However, I was stopped by a brown pony that randomly broke in and almost crashed into me. I ran around shouting for help and noticed the place now looked like a library mixed with an arcade and a mall.

A dark skinned man wearing black and red armor ran in and started wrestling with the pony. I saw him slamming the pony like it was nothing. His friend called out to him and I tried telling him to stop because he was being too ruff. I ran after the pony when it got loose than the two guys started chasing us. We were cornered in a wall and the pony now became the boy who I haven't seen in years. The man in the armor now took out his black spear. "Stop! Please!"I shouted afraid he was going to stab us both. His friend than told him that maybe he should stop. But than the man in the armor responded "No, I got this. Watch". I than gave up and moved a bit to the side. The guy with the armor took a remote and hit the boy softly on the head than suddenly he started playing a happy tune from his mouth and seemed content. "See!" Said the man in the armor now confident with his own judgement. His friend smiled than I woke up.

The scene is set with me sitting on my couch, playing an Xbox, (particularly odd as I do not have an Xbox), and playing a random Call Of Duty game. I felt quite nostalgic as I had not touched CoD for a long long time. As I was playing I got more and more engrossed in the game, and then suddenly I found myself in the game.

In the game, I was playing in a large multiplayer game, with other soldiers being controlled by other players, however as the dream went on and on, it felt like a much more realistic experience, as though I was actually at war.

Despite it being a multiplayer room, I had a clear mission. There were hostages, and I was there to liberate them. I opted to choose a completely stealth path instead of busting in guns blazing. I spent the first portion of the dream running around fighting other players when I could do so safely, and making my way behind enemy lines. I came upon a treacherous path which was entirely underground and completely riddled with traps. I remember being extremely cautious and feeling the anxiety that came along with that situation. I would sneak along, dodging or disarming traps wherever I could. As I came to the end, I found a large group of soldiers patrolling and decided not to fight them, instead opting to exit the underground path. As I left, the sunlight felt warm and welcome on my skin, and due to the darkness of the path I had just come through, it took a little bit for my vision to adjust. I came out from the underground path into a large stone courtyard with a fountain fixture in the middle.

I decided to sneak around the outside, by the wall and the shadows. I looked across and saw a bunch of enemy soldiers lined up, and it was then that I remembered I had an RPG with me, and I regretted not using it on the earlier group of soldiers. I jumped and fired it, but it missed and did not harm any of them. All this served to do was alert them to the fact that somebody was near. I ran back to the side of a building and found a few dead bodies of my comrades, so I lied down among them and pretended to be dead. I had combat goggles on so they were unable to see my eyes, which allowed me to watch them as they approached. I tried to stay as still and calm as I could, but I remember being absolutely overcome with fear and started to panic. As they drew nearer I realised there was no way they would not notice me and that my only chance would be to surprise them with a fight. I had only one pistol with me and no other weapons. I took a moment to calm myself, and then jumped up and aimed every shot and fired my one little pistol. I managed to hit headshots on each person I fired at, which thinned out the group and gave me a chance. As I started to run around and try to devise an escape route, there was a point that I jumped and aimed my gun at someone and then the dream froze as I thought.

"Okay this is absolutely ridiculous. I am definitely dreaming."

That was it, I didn't even perform an RC or need to in order to convince myself, I just knew.

At that point I woke up and sat up straight away and chuckled to myself, I was in my bed and found the whole thing a little ridiculous. I then got up, got a snack and went to the bathroom.

That's all I remember of the dream.

"BUT WAIT" you say. "HOW DO YOU KNOW IT WAS A FALSE AWAKENING IF YOU ATE AND WENT TO THE BATHROOM?!"

Only later when I actually woke did I realise it was a false awakening because I wasn't even sleeping at my house. I was having an afternoon nap at my girlfriend's place.

The moral of this story is to always, always check if you have actually woken up. Something I've tried to get into the habit of.

I am in my old house in the second floor, it is dark. I’m walking in corridor and I get scare to watch up because I think that it might have ghost face watching me, so I continue walking and get in the living room, there is a sofa. Suddenly I don’t know how, but I realize I’m dreaming. I float down stairs and get out of the house to go in the garden. I decide to fly, so I run and jump but can’t take off. I walk to the gate and watch my house; all the light of my house are turn off. In front my gate there are old cars and among the cars there is a police car. The dream is so realistic that I am a bit confused if that is a dream or reality. I say to myself what can do, and I remember my objective(find my ex and ask a question). I open the gate and start walking on the road I look left and right (I was wondering how would I find my ex). I turn right and get in a building, the inside is white. There is a girl with dark hair in a blue t-shirt(I won’t lie, she was kind of hot), she is following me, because it is her friend. So we get in her house, and there is a bed, she tell me that she has a photo of M(my ex) in her I-Phone. I take her I-Phone. I watch the photo and I see that she has change a lot. Her friend tells me that she will come back lately. I woke up after.

6.55-7.30am
Long LD #397
I was walking down a hill. A couple of dcs walk past. The scenery is amazing. Green trees and mountains on the horizon. Grassland stretching off towards them. It occurs to me this might be a dream so i start taking big steps testing gravity. Sure enough this leads to a floating jumping walk and then true flight.

Time to get going on the new three step tasks. Using a summoned knife (from my belt) to cut into the 'fabric' of the dreamscape, I create a portal/doorway then step through it to another place.

Possibly this new place is a hotel or on second thought a shopping centre. It is filled with dcs wandering around. On the current level are a couple of shops. The next step is unsummoning, something I've not really played with before. So I point at a nearby DC and say "you dont exist". The DC obediently vanishes without any fanfare or explosions... That was easier than expected.

Right. Time control. Next to the shops is a cafe with some DCs sitting and eating at a table. I pause time for a couple of them so they are mid drink or mid bite of food. Then I see an old man walking across the room and hit rewind for him. He starts retracing his steps perfectly, expression still neutral and uncomplaining.

While trying to think what to do next I fly out of the building. Ah yes the week challenge task of turning into a gas. A couple of DCs start talking to me about the weather being so nice. On the other side of the park though a tornado is heading for us. I dive towards it, believing it will rip me apart into tiny gas molecules.

Hitting the tornado makes my conciousness shatter for a moment and wonder if this will destroy the scene. It doesnt. Instead I feel myself floating. Extending my awareness I can sense through hundreds of floating gas particles. My body no longer has a solid form and feels weightless. Each individual part of me is floating and moving independently. It is a weird feeling.

Seeing the tornado whipping back around I remain in its path, wondering how it will affect me now I'm a cloud of gas. It is how I imagine this is what being in a blender feels like... Different parts of me spin in all directions at once, like a violent theme park ride.

After a bit of struggling and focusing, trying to knit the feeling of separation back into a single whole, my body eventually reforms. I start walking through the park. There are go-karts and motorbikes lining up as if for races around a dirt track. I figure it makes sense to focus on other goals... what are they? Oh yeah make something out of dirt and bring it to life was one...

So I move off the track to where there is bare earth and fallen leaves. Scraping the dirt together into a pile I start to shape it into a motorbike. A tiny one. With a figure sitting on it. Cupping it in my hands I take a deep breath in then slowly breathe life out into it. After several breaths the tiny figure starts moving. Putting it down the small bike starts racing around in circles. This has drawn the attention of several DCs who seem fascinated by it.

Wandering off I try to think of other dream powers to use. The park turns into an indoor building filled with more DCs. Among them is a coworker, looking stressed. I tap her on the shoulder. "You work too hard. There is no point in working here, this is a dream. You can relax." (I don't remember her response but she did smile.) I slip my arms around her waist, my mind turning to inappropriate thoughts, but then her husband shows up. Having no desire to fight or see this particular DC unhappy, I leave them to relax and enjoy the dream.

My thoughts of conflict bring a bit of danger to the dream. While walking through this busy building two thugs start following me. The place looks more like a hospital now. Maybe a sanatorium. I turn the corner and find a dead end room with a kinda spooky looking bed with white sheets. The two thugs are blocking the exit. They both pull out straight razors with sharp glinting blades.

They attack and try to cut me. I repeatedly tell them they can't hurt me. The razors leave no injuries or blood on my skin. One of the thugs grabs my finger and tries to shut the razor on it. Nope that doesn't work. Losing patience I start punching them before grabbing one of their razors and trying to slice them up. They turn and flee.

Now feeling, well, invincible I stroll out of the hospital/sanatorium place looking for more fun. I mentally recap what I've done so far, as this has been a long dream. It still seems stable, and I'm not quite ready to wake up yet.

Outside in a market place there are many small stalls of trinkets and wares. One of the stall owners is a pretty red haired woman. Recalling the mind control task I try to send her a mental command to kiss me. It doesn't seem to have any effect. Need to work on that one.

While that DC wanders off a totally different one walks up to me in a small alley between two rows of stalls. This one seems happy to engage in a little adult fun. At the same time I mess around with a little object/dc changing dream control, reshaping and resizing parts of her body. At the weirdest point, she has four eyes in a line on her face. This doesn't seem to distract or dissuade her and it escalates into sex.

At some point this dissolves into a false awakening.

In the final part I find myself still lucid, walking in a park filled with water fountains and lakes. The park is full of small monkeys and birds. One of the monkeys leaps onto my shoulder.

Fun

I was laying on my bed in the darkness of my room.Paying attention to my surrounding for a presence.Suddenly I felt a tall strong woman approach me from behind. I sleep on the opposite side of the wall so I got up quickly and turned around.

" Look at your eyes. Their blue and orange." I said this and the dark woman figure now had eyes like jade`s old smily face avatar. The woman was annoyed by this"No I don`t!"she shouted and began to approach me faster."Yeah they are ! See!"I than moved my hands into a position than pulled them back and a long blue and orange ribbon appeared on the tall dark woman holding her still.

I than got up happily and noticed a portal opening into a different setting.I saw a blue sky, a large white flying ship that reminds me of fox`s ship in melee and floating pieces or platforms that were like stairs to the sky. Just when I was about to jump the woman lost her dark black appearance and jumped at me with a sword. "No!"I heard Dawn call out than she moved back and began jumping on the platforms to the sky.

I began to do the same happily cheering "yeah!!". I even tried grabbing a hold of the woman just for fun. But as I was going up a helicopter got in front of me. Someone ended up pushing me to the side more so I wouldn`t hit the top of the copter."thanks" I said and continued going up. However, I soon lost sight of the woman as I got higher. I had a feeling I was getting closer to outer space but didn`t want to go there so I started jumping down. "Maybe I should just fly to the ship" I thought. Than out of no where a guy who almost looked like Kiro appeared jumping up on the platforms quickly.

Dawn began narrating the scene saying how the guy was doing his best to get up to the top. The guy was now the focus of the dream and I saw in a close first perspective that when he was high enough he jumped. He was trying to get on a white cruise like ship but fell into the ocean.

He than began swimming desperately towards the white ship."Even though my lungs feel like their being crushed I won`t give up! I can save them!" Is what the guy thought in his mind. I could see he was trying but he was getting slower. The scene than switched to his friends who were on the ship.

Dawn started narrating again mentioning how it was too late because his friend who was fighting the bad guy was already badly beaten. His friend had lighter brown hair and had a long white shirt on. He was hanging on a busted part of the ship with scratches all over him and a bloody lip.

"Poor guy"I thought. The guy who was trying to save him arrived on the ship but he looked weak. The bad guy with the black cloak immediately started beating him on the ship. The scene than changed to the inside of the ship where his friends who had some power left were worrying about the situation.

A tall buff guy stood by the door than mentioned how he wasn't going to win. A girl with pink hair than said"All we can do is hope...hope...". The rest began to mumble their own worries."Hope? If it was me I would run out there to save him" I said thinking out loud. After that something else happened than I woke up.
Random Sillyness

This dream started off at a supermarket but than I left the supermarket to go somewhere else with my mom. We ended up in a office where a lady asked me when I wanted to start. That they had a spot open for thanksgiving week. I said no because I wouldn't want to spend my vacation week going to an appointment. She agreed and was about to change the date."wait a minute. Do I have to come here again?" I asked. The lady said no. That having a appointment once a year was mandatory. I than told her to forget about the appointment because I had a appointment this year but it was a few months ago.

The dream setting than changed to a room that looked nothing like mine in WL. I got up from the bed and saw little mice with big eyes staring at me from the other bed a girl was sleeping in. I raised my voice telling her to get up because there were mice on top of her. She got up quick and as I was running through the halls I saw my mom. I told her about the incident and she said that all I needed to do was wash my hair. I than quickly ran into the bathroom, wetting my hair and hoping there were no mice on my head.

What I recall next is being at a basement of a school where a subway system was.There was a pink microphone being kept inside a cabinet. I felt like it was mine than out of no where a girl started laughing at me and calling me a little girl. I grabbed her by her shirt collar and told her that if I liked the color pink and enjoyed singing there was nothing wrong with that. That if she couldn't see beyond the color of the microphone she was stupid".She became scared than apologized.

I let her go and noticed that in a door near us there was a class weeping for a boy who had finishing killing a bully. He felt really bad for what he did. I walked up to the boy and told him it wasn't his fault and that he could be forgiven.( Felt like I was in a dream guiding him with the others at this point.) The rest agreed and began to comfort him more. I than became fully lucid and became more aware of Dawn being in the crowd.He was trying to be positive for the boy as well than sat down.I sat down on Dawn's lap as he was talking to another DC about something.

He didn't seem to mind but than I felt like being silly."I'm gonna fart on your lap."I said jokingly. He than pushed me off and I started to laugh. He said something after that but I forgot what he said. The scene than began to change to the interior of a house. The walls were dark green and the floor wooden. There was a fireplace and furniture matching the color of the wall and flooring. (Dark Green and wooden furniture) The lights were also dim and it was night outside. (The lamps were on)

Dawn was now sitting in a chair next to Manei. They looked chibi and were talking about something. I walked up to them than took notice of a pine forest tree in the house. It was covered in Christmas decorations. "You guys better not kiss when i'm gone" I said than brought my attention to a different part of a room where I felt like randomly placing another tree."Don't worry. We wont. "Dawn said as I was moving around and thinking about furniture moving for fun. Kind of reminded me of the sims.

The next thing that i recall is I false awakened and told my younger brother that I had a funny dream where Dawn made a funny joke. He than became spider man and retold the joke to me. Something about being tossed into the air and being a girl....

Second LD of the night. I'm in a shop in a mall looking at artwork with family. At one point I see my dog laying in the corner and think "there's no way!". I walk away while sticking out my hands and know I'm in a dream. I begin laughing as there is a mini finger sticking out between my middle and index finger. I have an inclination to leave the shop and make my way through the door. I enter a large 2 story room in the mall. The dream feels a bit fuzz, so I begin rubbing my dream body and insisting on focus. I sustain everything a bit as I walk across the room, yet the dream goes void. At this point I feel that I am in the void waiting for a dream to begin. I recall Robert Waggoner's book in which he discusses waiting for dream contents to simply appear when in this stage. I resolve to remain focused. What I noticed was that I could sustain this state if I ignored physical sensations and took a relaxed awareness of my field of vision; similar to an open awareness meditation. I sustained this a bit longer, yet became very startled when my mind interpreted that something was approaching my physical body rapidly (probably my dog poking me with her nose lol). The dream began to fade at this point.

First LD of the night. I am in an area which is a sprawling outdoor area with a row of foliage. I gaze at a tree, and it seems to have a great deal of presence to it. A beautiful hymn begins to emanate from the tree and has an effect on my awareness; it as though it is beckoning me to become lucid. My awareness hits a critical threshold and I spontaneously put my hands in front of me while simultaneously realizing I am in a dream. I say to myself, "I'm lucid". I have the intuition that the essence of the tree is from Reishi mushroom. I am soon in immersed in the vividness of an outdoor dream scene. A great deal of foliage an grass winds around to the right. The outdoor area seems to resemble the yard of my childhood home, with the foliage continuing to wind around, and a large two story structure standing on the opposite end of the area. I fly fairly low to the ground and begin to jog my memory for dream goals. I consistently demand clarity and focus as I continue to drift in the air toward the right edge of the structure. I continue to notice the foliage. I remember a goal in which I wanted to head to a 'Dream Mountain' which I had pictured in my mind. At this point, an image of my waking life DJ popped up in my mind's eye as I began attempting to remember these dream goals. I would learn certain teachings in this location, and establish a dream sanctuary of sorts. I ask the dream to direct me, and get the impression the dream is encouraging me in the general direction I am flying. In this direction I realize that the clearing is on a very slightly elevated plateau within a mountain system. An incredible pink and red sunrise stands off in the far distance of the mountains. Light mist hung over this area, adding to the glow of the sunrise. The dream begins to fade a bit and I ask for focus. I resolve to head to the edge of the structure to meditate and focus for clarity in case a void comes. The dream fades and I wake up. Awesome dream .

I can't sleep.
One of those night's I guess,
Why can't my life be a romance story?

Why can't I end up w/ the one I adore so bad and why doesn't she notice me?

Why do she overlook the way I crave to have her both physically and mentally.

Why can't we piss each other off to the point of almost seperating then I win her over w/ a sweet apology that sweeps her off her feet?

Im in the wrong era looking for something that doesn't exist.

Movies aren't real I guess

that's what hurts.

Reality is what's real

& what's real is that life doesn't always work in your favor.

The harsh reality of life !

Ssild-lucid

The dream started off with me on the bridge Lucid in broad daylight. Inspired by the virtual reality video game called smash I decided to throw balls of light. I did this for a while and then the dream scene changed Timmy within this unusual apartment complex. And seeing what kind of pictures I can find. The first picture was with my dad with his hands in prayer. The second picture was my Dad's friend who had died a long time ago. And the other pictures were just random dream characters who I thought were my relatives I didn't know. I lost lucidity and thought I have awoken. I went to use the bathroom and thought it was weird how even though I peed I did not lose my urge to pee. I thought I must be dreaming I did a reality check and yes I was indeed dreaming. Somehow being in this dream scared me because when I try to remember where I fell asleep I couldn't. I tried to wake up but I felt that I couldn't.

Last LD of the night. I see a man with brown business pants and black shoes winding around the corner. There is an ominous feel to the situation, and I head the other way and up a staircase. As I wind the corner, i instinctively put up my hand where I anticipate the figure and say "I'm Lucid". The figure vanishes. I ascend the steps and begin walking into a square room which extends to the left. There is a small corridor that leads to the right with a doorway to outside. Before making my way to this area I decide to recall a dream goal and work on it. At this point, I didn't want to stay in this yellow-tinged house as it felt very eerie. I ask the dream to help me develop the ability to become aware in my dreams . There is no response. I decide to take it upon myself via a method I had imagined in waking life. I place my hands against my head and picture myself channeling waves of blue lightening/electricity into my mind. I hold the intention to develop the ability to become aware in dreams. At this point I walk toward the corridor and decide to conjure a purple portal to lead me to another dream scene. I point toward the wall and imagine a small oval portal open up with a black center. I cannot recall with full accuracy if the portal appeared in the dream or simply in my imagination within the dream. This idea was sparked from recalling a DV challenge in one of the monthly competitions. I don't walk through the portal at this point, yet decide to phase through the wall instead. The dream becomes very dim at this point and fades. I wake up.

Wow, I keep getting behind. I just got back home after being out of town for 3 weeks. So I've been away from home about 6 of the last 10 weeks. That makes it not only hard to record my dreams, but to have a consistent sleeping pattern and have lucid dreams. The good news is that I did have two lucid dreams in the last three weeks, even though I didn't get to do any scheduled WBTBs. The first dream was short, but I did fly with a family member. The next dream was pretty long. But I don't remember all the details, since I didn't record it at the time. I do remember eating yummy food and flying over my town at dusk going higher and higher. Both very pleasant things to do.

I also remember a non-lucid dream that had Indiana Jones and a dinosaur in it. You have to admit, that combination made for a cool dream. I should have recorded it the instant I woke up. Lessons learned.

Edit:

I just remembered another dream. I was going back to Sri Lanka (I had spent some time in Sri Lanka as a teenager IRL). I was talking to someone about the people I was going to meet. People I had known while I was there. I came up with all these names. I remembered all these facts about each person.

When I woke up it was all false memories. None of the people I had thought about in the dream were real people I had known. It's funny how our minds will come up with long back stories for people and things in our dreams.

Second LD of the night. I am playing an old video game. I become aware that if I make it to the coastline with my character, I will have a LD. I make it, and have a false awakening. I don't accept that it's real as I notice I'm on the opposite end of the bed. I become lucid. The dream goes black at this point and I begin to demand of the dream more focus and clarity. Nothing occurs. I decide to take this as an opportunity to meditate within the dream in order to hold strong focus without any visuals. My focus is single for a short period of time. At some point I am aware I am in a room facing a wall, and I begin rubbing my dream body. A blackout is coming so I begin meditating again. My focus is very strong this time. I become aware of sounds at either end of my point of awareness. I have the thought that it must be a reflection of the lucid dreaming state as represented by a concept of brainwaves. One humming sound appears as 'blue' and is to the right of my point of awareness. The other is to the front left and I don't recall a color. I have a strong awareness for a bit, yet the dream fades after a period of time and I wake up.

First LD of the night. I am with [S] and look at my cell phone which displays: 7:16. I think this can't be, and that I'm going to be late to work. I don't buy it, walk over to the sliding-glass window and just know I must be dreaming. I hold out my hand out of habit and notice minor transparency. At this point I am fully lucid and drift through the glass into an open room with sunlight spilling through the roof of the room. The light was most yellow, providing slight tinges of green as it reflected off of the water. There are large mirrors and windows around the entire perimeter of the room. A large rectangular pool with aqua water sits in the middle of the large room. The realism is simply unbelievable; it appears no different that waking life. I immediately seek to remember my goals and shout to the dream: "How do I develop my lucid dreaming ability?!". I ask a few times with no response from the dream. I look around this sun room with the pool in the center and wonder how long the dream will last for. It feels very stable, and I reason that it'll probably last for a while. I look to the right out one of the large glass windows and notice a large stone figure situated about 50 meters away. It is a cross between a stone Buddha statue and a lion. The stone is a light gray color and positioned next some grass along a row of evergreen trees. I begin rubbing my hands automatically and decide to look into the mirror, remembering typical stories which I've heard in podcasts. I'm interested to see that there is no reflection. Wanting to develop the dream, I decide to phase through the mirror. When phasing into the mirror, my initial impression was that I entered an area resembling outer-space yet with less stars. It seemed as though there was infinite potential in this area that hadn't been tapped, yet my awareness diminished in this void. I feel as though I am aware of eyelids at this point and resolve to keep my eyes shut as I believe I am becoming aware of my sleeping body. It seems as though it developed into dream blindness at this point, and the dream soon faded.

Fragment: Something to do with the Avatar episode "The Fourtneteller"

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Anxiety dream. I was in my college class, and I had to do some kind of presentation in front of the class. I remember I didn't have it/the file was corrupted. Some of the other students (I feel like there was two of every student in the class.) and they all started laughing at me for not having done the project that had been due all semester.

For whatever reason, I decided to pretend to faint. I fell down on the floor and all of the duplicates of the students started kicking me. Supposedly they were dickhead duplicates, like manifestations of all the classmates' evil sides.

...

The dream repeated, only this time, instead of it being a missing/corrupted file, it was because my computer had been dropped/broken. I remember looking at the broken computer and remembering that that was a dream sign. (I listened to my dream signs recording right before bed.) But for whatever reason, no lucidity.

This time, I remember that when I pretended to faint, everyone put me on a glass table. I was afraid I might fall through the table and get cut by broken glass.

I woke up at about 5:00 to go pee and went back to bed hoping for a lucid. I woke up agian at about 6:30 very briefly. I don't remember if this dream happened in the 5:00-6:30 block of sleep or the last block of sleep after 6:30 to about 7:50

I remember it was a dream about Manei. She was the only character present, and I was simply observing her. She was in this abandoned city and she decided to go to the library and since the city was abandoned, they would have copies of her favorite books that she could take and keep for herself. I think Tom Sawyer was the one she wanted to get, but I don't remember.

She walked in and found the book, but when she turned to walk back out, the library had changed the entrance was no longer there. She looked around for the entrance for awhile, but eventually figured she had gotten lost. She took a paper and pen from a desk and drew a map, but eventually she figured the library must be changing because when she re-visisted old locations they were different.

Instead she decided to just head in one direction and eventually she would find and exit. She walked for awhile and found that the library got darker the deeper she went. She had her torches with her and used that to create light. Eventually she came across this huge cavernous room. (Like miles across, there were clouds and an entire landscape in it and everything.) Parts of the landscape were bookshelves overgrown and rotting with vines and trees while others were completely organic.

But in order to get down to the floor of the cavern room (it was this huge drop-off from where she was) she had to take a detour. I remember then Tom Saywer approached on his raft. This was where the mystery of the library had been answered, that apparently characters from books were coming to life and the reason the library was so big was because it needed space for all the book characters. She rode with Tom on his raft for awhile. I remember he played songs with a banjo to keep her entertained, but when they got to the destination, Tom tried to charge her by making her give up her golden necklace and she wouldn't do it, so she swam to shore to get away from him.

Then she was like in this warehouse room. I remember there was like an old forklift with an oak sapling growing out of it and glowing mushrooms and roots everywhere. This evil librarian lady showed up. Apparently she was the librarian before the city was abandoned and her eternal sleep had been disturbed. I remember she had a skeleton body, but there were two smaller ribcages on her shoulders that apparently had belong to the library assistants,and a zombie librarian head with empty glasses frames.

She ran and tried to hide behind a stone pillar. The librarian walked past her and was about to go away when her stomach growled and it gave her away. She tried to project fire from her torches to fight the monster but apparently they didn't work when she was hungry.

She ran away again and fell down this hole into an underground lake. She was in the big cavern room now and swam to the shore where the roof and caved in and there was some grass and apple trees.

I really feel like the whole dream was referencing alice in wonderland or the wizard of oz in some way.

The apple she picked had a realistic human mouth and said: "Hey, whatever you do to me, I'm gonna do to you!" another apple that was still on the tree started talking. "Yeah, leave the poor kid alone!" She screamed and threw the apple away.

The last thing I remember was a mushroom guy with no arms and an elephant trunk came up to her and said something about eating him, but Manei wouldn't do it because she didn't like mushrooms. The mushroom said that if Manei didn't eat her she would be in trouble. A giant grasshopper monster then came and started chasing her. I think it was later revealed that the grasshopper was the lieutenant of the librarian lady and was also hungry and wanted to eat her. There was some dialogue between Manei, an apple and the 30 foot grasshopper about how there was a food chain, but the apple was the only one that wasn't hungry, therefore he was the one who was the most successful.

I became 'lucid' here and decided I wanted to help her out. (I don't really know how to describe it, because I became aware that what was going on was a story that my mind was creating, but for some reason, I didn't think of it as a proper lucid dream because I wasn't a first person character. I just remember thinking of my recording that reminds me that Dream Guide should equal Instant lucid.) I was somehow able to talk to her, and I had to get her out. But because it was a story that had to end it in a way that made sense. So I instructed her to use pages from books to make a giant paper airplane and fly out a hole in the roof. This actually worked, and when she got out there was a third-person version of myself as well as Alduir.

When she got out, "I" Hugged her then proceeded to scold her for not eating well and taking care of herself. Maybe I was just cranky because she got to have a much more interesting experience/dream/story than I did. Then she realized she forgot to get the tom sawyer book.

Frag (x1=0.5)
Dream (x2=2)
WBTB (x1 =2)
DILD... I guess it counts. (x1=10)

Total: 14.5

7.33-7.43am (Yeah 10 mins exactly. That's all I need to get lucid! )
Short LD #396
The computer monitor is an ancient beige cathode-ray-tube monster with terrible resolution. It makes me question whether this is a dream. My hands look perfectly normal though. On the screen is something about a goddess. It looks like proxima midnight, a character from a mobile game.

Closing the computer, I hurry out of the room and down the staircase. The front door is like the one in my parents house, a mix of patterned distorted glass and wood. I phase directly through it without really thinking. Definitely a dream.

The sky is cloudy and it is raining. I feel the rain on my skin. Gentle, warm, spring rain. The rain droplets fall on my bare arms and chest. It is pleasant, calming. For a short time I just enjoy the sensation, practising a moment of mindful meditation.

Recalling my new 3 step I attempt to teleport to a place in China. The attempt fails and dumps me into the void before a false awakening.

Sitting up in a yellow room I find a pair of spiderman pants. I stare at my hands and find they are perfectly normal again. To be sure I try the pinched nose check and it is inconclusive. Maybe my nose is blocked by a cold. While thinking about this I wake for real.