lucid

I'm lying in my bed at my mom's home, next to my girlfriend. It's just like how it's supposed to be. For some reason I'm pretty convinced that I'm dreaming. I decide to push one of my hands through the glass of the window. It goes through. I'm happy to finally be lucid again. There is a blue substance behind the window. Kind of like a body of water, but the texture is as if it has been drawn with crayons. I don't remember every single thing that I did with my lucidity. At a certain point I remembered a lucid challenge I had with werty52: create a flameball in your hand (he has already won that bet). I try to make it happen through several ways. I especially use different voice commands. None of them work. I consider the fact that I'm not believing in myself hard enough to make it happen. I then decide to do something else. I think I'm flying about for a bit. I'm a slightly annoyed by my lack of control over this dream.



Somewhere in a fancy/modern hallway. I guess I'm just observing. Justen, along with a few other guys is in the hallway. They're all freerunners I think. At least Justen is, that much I know for sure. There's a slanted glass wall and he does a run up against it and tries to perform another trick, but he doesn't manage to finish it. He nearly defied gravity there. Then he runs through the hallway, does a round off > back full combo. While twisting in the air he smashes into an art piece that was standing in the hall. It shatters. It was made out of stone or keramic or something alike. It looked a bit like an old Greek head.

D₁-Had a dream that something wouldn't let go of me, in fustration I blurted out,"I don't care if I never dream anymore, this HAS to stop!." Donnovan appeared, he looked really worried and anxious. Cupping my face he asked," You don't really mean that do you?" "No of course not I was just fustrated." I looked away feeling flustered. How come whenever I want to ask him questions I never lucid dream or see him or anything... but as soon as I say i'm done with dreaming or I'm tired of all the cat and mouse play he is suddenly worried... Interesting how the interactions are seemingly one-sided.

D₂-(This actually happened a few days later I've been distracted so the time line for my dream journal is fucked up) Was with my coworker, her son, and her mother. For some reason we were fleeing. At one point I had come back from fishing and was exhausted so I decided to take a nap. Whenever I woke up something rubbed me the wrong way, deciding to stand I was blind-sided and practically tackled to the ground. A guy was on top of me pinning me down telling me to play dead. Squirming to get free he pulled down the mask covering his face and I realized it was Donnovan. Furrowing my brow I heard a man call out,"Is she the one, the healer you've had us looking for?" Donnovan looked at him," Yes its her." Getting up I brushed my clothes off and looked around for my coworker, they had disappeared in the chaos. Glaring at Donnovan I was hoisted up onto a horse. In a language only we knew Donnovan told me to play deaf. For some reason their "leader of the guard" needed a doctor of some sort to look after the soldiers and in the dream I was a renounded healer.

Dream #1: I started the dream w/ being in a group of ppl at a polical event for Hillary Clinton & I was supposed to be applying for some kind of position. Then my cat woke me up again & I lazily fed her & peed & laid back down(less than 5 minutes) & tried to get back into the dream.
Dream #2: This dream started immediately when I laid back down. I still had the last dream fresh in my head. I left off from where I had woken up but now we are going through a wing of this location where there are ER Rooms. It's like a big complex. And nothing really occurred except we were in there talking. Ppl were still trying to convince me to work for Hillary & since I don't like her I'm debating this because the money is good.

Is this chaining? I've done this for years so it just seems like some form of normal for me. Sometimes more than this. Usually it's due to the content of the dream which I'm enjoying & just want to dream more of this. But this time I wanted to go back in because I just wanted to see what would happen since I wasn't really enjoying it & it worked.

Created Sunday 03 April 2016

Today, I managed to get into a WILD state. I also remembered one other dream besides that one, though not as much of it as I should.

Spoiler for Spoilered to save space:

Spoiler for WARNING: Potential Steven Universe Spoilers:

Dream 1 - Gem China Doll

The visuals were somewhat blurred. I wasn't sure where I was, only knowing I was watching TV on a large screen. My brother, Theodore, was also nearby.

Surfed around for a bit before settling on a cartoon. Only, this turned out to be Steven Universe, a show not to our preference anymore. I was about to change it, though seeing hints of the season's end made me delay that if briefly.

Well, Steven was captured once again, being hauled off by a battered and apprehensive Jasper. They arrived within an unknown plane, mostly dark save for a cool colored floor. A tall, bright figure stepped forth from the shadows: Yellow Diamond has returned.

A short dialogue begins, where Jasper presents Steven as a plea in restoring lost honor. Just then, she's impaled by several spears, and (save for her gem) "poofs" out of existence. A pan out reveals Steven's fellow Crystal Gems, Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl, a distance behind, primed for battle.

Steven takes Jasper's gem, and, in an uncharacteristic move, shatters it on the ground, much to everyone's shock. But, as Steven reveals, he didn't kill her, but rather, changed her. Jasper reforms, much different this time, as she now appeared as a life sized, brunette china doll in a black and white dress. The doll's lifeless smile was very unsettling, not helped that it retained movement in its wide eyes.

Not too clear on what happened, save that Yellow Diamond suffered a similar fate. Not much else happened until the dream ended.

Dream 2 - Inedible Snacks and a Phone Call

Scene 1 - A Lesson in Dream Gastronomy
During my WILD attempt, someone walked in to awaken me, and then stepped out. Surely, this was to remind me of some arrangement later in the day. I was annoyed at first, but this got me a bit suspicious. Indeed, after waiting for a few minutes, I noticed a dizzying sensation in my head, a tell-tale sign that I was (near) dreaming. Such joy would've make me jump right into trying stupid things for fun, but I reigned that in quickly in favor of sorting through the TOTMs.

Being the gourmand that I am, I first thought of TOTM number one. And so, I bit into whatever was nearby, the pillows, in this case. This tasted of but scented fabric, much to my disappointment.

I was a bit concerned of my state. So, I got out of bed, opened the drapes, and looked outside. Instead of my backyard, I found an urban area before me, multistoried concrete buildings as far as the eye could see, all under a grey, cloudy dawn sky. That's all the reassurance I needed.

Anyway, directly below was the roof of one of such squared towers. I quickly jumped right out the window towards there, landing safely via a slowed descent. There wasn't much to see, just a mostly flat, concrete rooftop with an occasional steam vent. Painted a few feet within the perimeter was a yellow line, not unlike street lines. The visuals began deteriorating, but a quick hand rubbing fixed that up good.

Once again, I thought to try the taste task, so, I peeled off some of the paint and had a sample. This, I realized, wasn't anything good, just chalk. What a pity.

Not sated, I looked around for something else, and eventually found a small, concrete stone. I bit into this, only to find it was just as it was, looking, feeling (and as difficult to bite into), and, in this case, tasting like an ordinary rock. Had mixed feelings here, both wonder and disappointment on such realism. Surely, it wouldn't have killed me to have it flavored like, say, a rolled hazelnut cream wafer, or a Chick-O-Stick, or something?

Oh, well. Without delay, I moved onto another task: laying on a bed of clouds. I looked up at the storm clouds above, and thought, "I am there", all while purposefully trembling in place (the latter being my personal method of warping). But, instead of that, the visuals, if not the environment, simply fogged up. Before long, I was transitioned without input.

Scene 2 - Fumbled the Call
The visuals were dark. I was back in bed, the poor lighting indicating the dead of night. I was still aware of my dream state.

Immediately, I got up and out the room. I overheard voices from one of the rooms nearby, probably mom and one of my brothers, but I ignored that. Anyway, I went downstairs towards the front door, glancing at the fancy cupboard on my way there. From out the window, I saw a clear night sky, less then ideal conditions for the previous attempted task.

All of a sudden, the environment began collapsing before me, leaving me standing in the void. At this, I prioritized on my personal task: finding my dream guide, by ear, primarily, considering my hindered sight. I instinctively tapped on my temple, which, in turn brought forth a discorporated interface, a hologram of monochrome green text on a black background. A series of about a dozen numbers cycled in view, all to the noise of low buzzing. An IP address, I thought. In any case, after a click, the screen changes, now displaying two very blurred portraits. Was this it? After a pause, I break the silence.

"Hello?"

"Yes?", responded the entity, the voice feminine and sounding beleaguered.

"Are you a dream guide?"

"Yes", she says more impatiently.

I almost freeze from excitement, but recompose myself through heavy breaths. I noticed the portraits were behaving erratically, becoming blurred stains in one moment, and, for a brief flicker, completely clear the next. From this, I could note a dark haired, round faced woman on the other line. What's more, both these images were drawn in, depicting us in some comic-book like style. Anyway, once I'm ready, I continue.

"So... does this mean you'll be my dream guide?" An ominous quiet follows, one that felt like minutes. Before long, she answers, this time, with a more mischievous tone.

"You'll have to find me first."

The screen vanishes afterwards. In desperation, I go in a frantic search, fumbling around in the dark space for... no given reason. Hindsight sure makes this seem ridiculous. Well, I did at least think to brighten the place up, trying to do so through willpower alone. I didn't quite get that, instead finding faint light reflecting off a familiar environment, the entrance to my home, specifically.

But, before I could act, the dream collapses immediately, and I find myself in bed.

1) I was in a class and was asked to read. I looked at the page and couldn't understand the writing, looked back and it had changed. I knew immediately that I was dreaming, but looked at a hand to check and it looked very odd. For some reason I remember then thinking "I'm dreaming" but it shouldn't be like this, and lost lucidity immediately. I was then in a playground and I can't remember anything else from that dream.

2) Looking back over a skyline and seeing a tennis court with 2 high chairs at each end. Then I was playing football with a boy with a tennis ball.

3) Looking at a clockface, it was raised and golden. The clock was really old and in a wooden case. I was fiddling with the mechanism and adjusting how fast the clock was going. Then I was with someone else and it was like being in school we had to collect our drawings from the week, I collected a few they were some that I remember my children drawing when they were younger. Then I was in a university canteen chosing lunch. I looked at all the food and remember it in detail. There was a vegetarian moussaka, a girl sitting to the side had her elbow in the salad of the one I wanted and I was abit annoyed that she was touching it but decided to have it anyway. The serving lady said I had to eat the salad first then she would heat up the moussake. I ate the salad then she took it away to put it in a microwave. I looked at the time and notice dthat I had an appointment and couldn't be late so rushed off and didn't have time to eat. Other things happened that I can't remember. Then I was outside an old people's home and someone had been put into an ambulance thatset off on blue lights, it didn't go very fast and I was discussing with someone about why they bothered using blue lights.

4) I was stood by the front door of my childhood home. There were two black panthers outside, and I was struggling to lock the door so they couldn't come in. Then my family arrived home in the car, I could see my wife looking at the panthers. A young man was then fighting with one of them, he was losing and he was bleeding heavily from his neck. My family came over to the door with the young man, they were talking at the front door rather than getting in and I started kicking one of the panthers. I think I woke up then.

I had a false awakening, I knew I was dreaming because I heard voices from a TV/radio. It was very hard for me to get out of my bed, my body was moving very slow. I kept focusing and once I got out, I walked out my room towards the front door. I counted my fingers on my right hand and their were 6 of them. I went outside and started flying to the right. I then was flying up, and I could actually see myself as I was jumping up, I wasn't wearing a shirt.

Next thing I know, I fall down and I'm on the surface of the moon. I started to fly around, I saw some building, they looked like they were made from moon rock. I landed and wanted to go inside one. Then a bunch of moon puppies started chasing me. They were all blue and looked liked skeleton dogs. They reminded me of skinny ryhorns, from Pokemon.

So I have an insane amount of crap to get done in the next two weeks. But I had to stop by and write this dream down, because it was awesome. This was essentially my first successful WILD.

I only slept 5 hours last night (usually sleep 6.5-7.5), so I laid down for a nap when I had a spare moment - around 1:30 PM my time. I only had 25 minutes or so to sleep. My body has been really tense lately, so I focused on relaxing my muscles completely as I laid there. As I did, I noticed my body going relatively quickly into sleep paralysis. I let myself descend into the dream that followed.

It was hazy and not super vivid, but it was definitely a dream and I was definitely lucid! I found myself falling until I was on a roller coaster with a very good friend of mine. It was a sunny day as well. This roller coaster was cool because I had some degree of control over where it went and what it did. We went through all sorts of environments. As we rode, there were these giant dinosaurs and snakes leaping up trying to eat us. One smaller theropod did successfully bite my arm, but since I had control, it had no effect on me and I really didn't feel any pain. They were all just part of the ride, in essence! For one portion, we reached an apex and then went backwards (sort of like Expedition Everest in Disney World, only steeper). I think music was playing, but I can't remember clearly. We even passed by a giant image of my friend in the air, and a factory filled with inventions!

Unfortunately, I think I involuntarily moved or something, and woke up after that. D: However, I was able to get myself back into sleep paralysis for a few more minutes, and kept my eyes open this time. I stared at the light right above me (in the real world) and saw what looked like a squirrel sticking out of it, as though it were popping out of a hole on the ceiling. It looked around the room curiously. Reminding myself that it was just a hypnogogic hallucination, I attempted to change it with a limited degree of success. It turned into a few other mammals, then a man's face with a beard, then a lady. After that I woke myself up fully because my alarm was about to go off, and my roommate came in right then too.

Freaking awesome! I need to try this WILD thing more often.

I am on the bed lying down thinking about life with my grandmother being dead. I start feeling cold on my left so I turn around to see my grandmother going in to the closet. I see this and figure if she is here that means I am dreaming. I get up and progessively I can feel my lucidity spiking up. I open this white door in the back and found myself in a snowy field with some trees with no leaves on em. I run around trying to use dream control. After couple of tries I check my hands and can see my fingers being bent and having 6. I turn around as I begin to hear a voice. I am starting to lose my focus and see a tekken character. I ran up to say hey as I soon lose lucidity. Lucid Time: 45 seconds

Dream 1 - Plane-jack
I remember being in the sky flying a plane, there's some context about the Joker (from Batman) being a terrorist. There was another plane or two on my side, I think a black guy was the leader of the troupe and he seemed reminiscent of an actual comic character. I think I shot down a couple planes, and then swooped in to land at the airport. It was chaos here because of all the planes getting shot down nearby, I was now the Joker too. I hid my face a bit just in case the security recognized me and snuck out of the building.

Dream 2 - Sex lucid
I was in a house, I seem to remember having sex (non-lucid) and then progressing into the dream a bit more. I walked into a business meeting room with a large oval table and some nice looking chairs seated around it. There was a blonde lady in here which I approached and hooked up with. As this happened I realized I was dreaming, but I had the feeling that by becoming more aware I would wake myself up due to the precarious instability associated with sex-lucids. But it wasn't stable enough regardless and I felt myself wake up, though it was probably a FA. When I woke up I saw next to me my friend Sam, asleep. I woke up properly a while later to let my cat out I think.

I remember I was teaching at my second elementary school. (IRL, I went to two elementary schools. One was from first and second grade, and another was from third grade onward.) I remember I was an assistant teacher for a class of first graders in the first room down the main hall, and my Taekwondo master was supposed to be my assistant.

I don't remember exactly what happened but I needed to get something from the art room. In the dream the art room was where the gymnasium was IWL, just down the hall from the first grade classroom. I went to leave and my Taekwondo master asked where I was going. I told him I needed to get something and if he could just watch the class for a minute. For some reason he started crying because he thought I was quitting being a teacher and leaving him with the kids. I just ignored him and figured he'd perk up as soon as I came back.

(I guess this was trying to reference my waking life work at the Taekwondo studio in some way.)

I went down the hall to the art room. It was very dark in there because they were doing electrical work. The art teacher said she had been expecting me and while she didn't have [whatever it was I needed], she did have an extra shipment of markers she wanted me to have. So she filled up my backpack with them and told me to take them back to the class. She also gave me an AV cart with some video tapes from the school library.

I came vaugley remember coming back to the classroom with an AV cart and told the kids that we were going to watch Kung Fu Panda as part of our unit on chinese culture. I said something about how it was directed by a Chinese woman and was supposedly at least somewhat accurate.

...

The movie was nothing like any of the Kung Fu Panda movies that I remember. It didn't center around Po but rather another bear, a brown bear who also knew kung fu and had shown up from another land. I remember he encountered Po in the woods (who was wearing a cape and straw hat) and the two started fighting.

It was one intense fight too, they were kicking one another through trees and stuff. A thunderstorm started as their fighting moved into a field. They both began employing these energy attacks, kind of like a hudoken that would shoot these little homing energy balls at one another, and making magical shields. I feel like Po projected golden energy and the brown bear projected blue energy.

Eventually they ended up breaking through the ground and winding up in some kind of spirit realm. (I think it started off looking like the spirit realm from the third kung fu panda movie.) But eventually the fight faded out to something else.

...

Some narrator character explained that my dreams have two layers. One layer of dreams is based in reality, while the other layer is based in a sort of spirit realm. The difference between the layers is that one of them uses locations from reality and simply overlays them in different ways to create a slightly different dream experience. The other is a fantasy, where it can be any location. This was the lower layer.

The lower layer is further subdivided into four sections. Mountian, Plains, Forest and Sea/Islands, with a city in a center and each of the four sections spreading out in a 90 degree slice from a central city. We approach the central city. I remember there was a huge spire, it looked like an oil refinery, but had to be over a mile tall. The entire thing was covered in pipes, tanks, girder structures and smoke stacks. There was a transition zone at the cloud layer, and at the very top of the spire was a small compact city skyline of glittering modern glass skyscrapers.

Next to that main city were some huge docks. I remember there were these flying tanker ships. They were sections of huge spherical tanks held together by steel trusses. Four tanks, then a control tower, then four more tanks and a cluster of engines. On the bottom were two glowing blue energy conduits that presumably kept the things aloft.

The world looked fairly sapped of color, everything was yellow, brown and toxic green. Even the top part of the city.

I remember I realized I was flying at this point. I turned away from the city and flew around it. I remember seeing a cluster of volcanoes. But the volcanoes were capped by these oil-rig structures, and the lava was being channeled down the sides into collection areas. I landed atop a cooling tower. (It looked like one of those huge cement towers you see on nuclear plants) I was standing on the edge looking down at the lower levels of the city, where it looked like a shanty/slum.

Someone said something to me about it still being Halloween at the train station. (I feel like it was Marcus.) I looked down at the train station and saw people loading giant pumpkins, three to a car onto flatbed cars of a train. I remember the pumpkins were really bright orange and stood out against the other colors of the dream world. I flew down into what I presume was supposed to be a park of some kind. I remember the ground was paved with rusty metal and crumbling concrete and there were areas of dead trees and grass.

I began thinking clearly and decided to summon Manei. I didn't need to say the command, she materialized in front of me as soon as I thought of her, along with a computer desk, computer and chair that she was sitting at. Apparently when that manifested her in, the computer was disconnected from its power source and she lost whatever she was working on. She threw her hands up in frustration at this fact. She turned and saw me.

Me: "I want you to come with me, I need to be with you alone, so we can talk."

Manei: "No."

Me: "Well then I'm going to look around the city myself. That part sure looks interesting... " (Looking towards a portion of the city lit up with neon.)

Manei: (Still staring at the computer) "No."

Me: "How about some dream reading. (The part of the city that is lit up with neon shrinks and ignores spatial relationships for a second, with the buildings becoming racks of books to read, then reverting to their original state.)"

I look at the cover of what I have taken from the rack. It looks like a manga, though it reads left to right like a regular book. I can't read what it is titled, but it looks like mostly vertical characters, like a mixture of upper and lowercase I's, J's and L's. There is a picture of an anime girl on the front with white hair and silvery blue eyes. She is covering herself with a white blanket. I open to a random page. The right hand page is some kind of advertisement. The page has a red background with black text and seems to be selling some kind of robots. The other side shows the character from the cover, naked, talking to another female character while sitting on a bed for three panels. The speech balloons were in the same weird vertical language.

Manei: "No, no reading, either!" she snatched the book from me and ripped it in half down the spine.
Me: "Well then, what do you want me to do? I'm lucid and it would be a shame to waste it."

Spoiler for Language (And not me swearing up a dream for once):

Manei: She laughs at me. (I feel like a couple of other DCs laughed too even though I didn't see anyone else.) "I want you to come over here and fuck me!"

Me: (Irritated by the laughing DCs) "Well, at least your direct about it."

The dream shifts to my living room. She begins to take her clothes off, and I can tell the dream is starting to lose clarity. I remember we were both wearing disgusting dirty heavy coats from the previous environment. I think I stopped after taking my shirt off and realized there was one bit of business I need to take care of first.

Me: Metatitakiatientes, (I rub my hands together.)
Manei: What are you doing?
Me: Stabilizing the dream before we start. You know how the dream will-
Manei: That's not the right command word.
Me: Yes it is, you're the one that taught it to me...
Manei: I have to go to the bathroom.
Me: Dream Guides don't have to go to the bathroom.

She walked out on me anyway. I feel like I used some trick to fast forward time to where she came back. The dream is still losing clarity at this point.

Me: Wait, you taught me the wrong command? Why? (No wonder that never seemed to work...)
She doesn't really say anything. Everything starts to go dark about here. I snap my fingers and make a small flame to keep things illuminated around us.

Me: Oh well, now it's your own fault we can't do what you want.
Manei: [Isn't the pursuit of selfish desire while ignoring the consequences what dreams are]
Me: [Not to me, not anymore, not in their entirety]
Manei: [Why do you even bother, just give in to me for once.]
Me: [You think I will just accept your mistakes you because of the physical nature of sexuality. I see beyond that. Marcus said it himself, your dream body is nothing more than a facade. It's who you really are that matters, and I will do no such favors for somebody who, on the inside doesn't deserve my affection, regardless of my own desires, or yours. This is exactly what I wanted to tell you about. Your role as a dream guide comes first, and you seem to have forgotten that.]
Manei: [So you're listening to Marcus more than me now?!]
Me: [It's the only logical thing to do, move to a more reliable person for consultation.]
Manei: [You're not very loyal, using an outside source like that to get information.]
Me: [You have to earn my loyalty back. Reliability ranks well above sexual desire.]
Manei: [I want to fix this.]
Me: [Me too.]

I was so intent on the discussion that I realized I could feel my body back in bed, and everything was black now. I thought I would just wake up.



-+-

I think there was a false awakening after this part that resulted in me waking up in my bedroom. I remember something was going on and I had to use my telescope to see it. I feel like there was much more. A 'Dream Computer Error' happened and I took a vacation in the tropics.

For some reason that whole final thought-discussion was undertoned with the idea that Manei was some kind of impostor. I don't know what the heck is going on here, but I feel like I'm about to learn something I don't want to know...

So I was in a dream, and I remember I befriended a bear, his name was Blue and he was a grizzily bear. So I was running around with him in a house when suddenly something caught my eye. I saw the name of someone who I hadn't seen for a long time. I remember telling myself, "Wait, that name...I hadn't heard of that name for almost over a year!" Then it suddenly came to me. "This is a dream!" As soon as I realised, I became lucid and the enviorment around me became dim and dark. And the grizzily bear turned into a teddy bear and fell down on the ground. I looked at it and said, "I'm sorry Blue."

And like always I decided to go search for my dream guide, I ran and opened the roof, it was snowing and everything was cold. Then as I was losing lucidity, I told myself, "No, I mustn't lose lucidity!" I tried rubbing my hands, pinching myself and since nothing else worked. I decided to spin and let myself fall.

I woke up entirely but then as I went to sleep, I went into the dream with complete lucidity! I remember running around town in full speed. then I woke up.

Dild after wbtb wild attempt 🌺
Went to bed around 9 pm and listened to WB audio book
100b6
Had some dreams to record around 2am and lay saying mantras for a while feeling refreshed and awake ...till about 3 - then sat up saying mantras etc in proper wbtb till about 4am.

Lay back down for wild with fan and earplugs and seriously supportive cushy bed I usually set up for wild attempts ✨

Was in a dream where some wise ladies were helping me with an extremely painful lower abdomen...it was very painful and they were caring for me in a very comfortable place. They said they needed to perform an operation on me that had potentials to be dangerous and needed to be very exact with the surgery - They were going to have to knock very hard onto my abdomen at some point and then pull down that which did not need to be there any longer out through my vagina. I am terrified and ask for painkillers and rescue remedy. As far as I can remember I am getting ready for this operation ✨

Later I find myself lucid in my dream - I am speaking with a girl who is encouraging me - ' I am lucid so I know I am dreaming!✨'
' Yes you are' she says
' How can I get better at lucid dreaming? Can you help me?' I ask her
'You get better by having more Lucid dreams - it's the only way - through experience' she replies
'Right - ' I say
' We heard you can fly right? So go and fly!' She encourages me kindly
' Yes I can - ok then I am going to go fly! 🌠' I am exited by her and the kind words she offers me...I feel she knows me well...
' OK bye then' I wave to her and gently put my hands then body very easily and fluidly through the walls that make up the room around us - it's an effortless move of my body throughout the wall, as if my body and the wall are made of the same pure light. I look at my body and at the wall for a few moments and see clearly we are made of the same ' partially invisible light ..,' - nice✨
I move into the sky with a sweeping motion, gently flying not too high but up enough to get a feeling of the vast surrounding land. It's beautiful to fly again ...The light is bright and I feel very at home in the dream ... As I think this I have to be careful as my WL body becomes evident and the bright light comes in - ...I persevere and am steady again with my Lucidity ...

I am suddenly beginning to fly back wards and feel I want to fly forwards towards the most beautiful sight that has just appeared in my view... I don't struggle too much but 'know' I will fly directly towards this magical looking place. And so soon I do - I have never seen anything like it but have heard of Lucid dreamers going to such like magical, heavenly beautiful lands! Wow - is this my opening to such a place 🌅 I can't help but think the girl who told me to fly knew I would see this amazing sight if I got myself up into the sky in fight, I feel very fortunate! The Heavenly Place looks like something from another world - nothing on earth like this - it's Amber and yelled hue's shine out showing a spectacular opening in the bright light that surrounds these twinkling gates. I so very much want to experience this place but as I fly towards it I feel my WL body ... I soon wake into the dream of my WL reality and lie in bed for a short time remembering the spacious feeling, sights I have just uncovered - it's time to get up

🌺I am now determined to go to this place again ....soon 🌺

I emerged from my body on a large plane together with my wife... It was quite work to bring her there. It was featureless black glass like smooth surface And there was abyss on right side in about 25-30 meters distance. The sky was also featureless and black. Our bodies were the only light sources there, shining quite bright to lighten maybe 100m circle around us. It was soft light, it didn't dazzle our eyes.
We communicated directly by thoughts.
At last, I managed to bring you out of body. I told her.
She asked me: where are we?
I feel, that we are in astral dimension. I wasn't in this kind of place yet though. Please try to balance yourself I have problems to stabilize yourself.
My wife was all giddy, running around, looking for something... and she got close to abyss. Then she got scared from depth of it and ran back to me.
I doubt about this. I have only strange dream, she told me.
Don't doubt things here, it is destabilizing yourself, I'm already losing you! I communicated to her as she was less and less substantial. Try to remember this please!I managed to tell as she vanished.
I remained there for minutes... standing still, doing nothing but concentrating and observing my featureless surroundings. Then I was forced back to my body.


Remarks
My wife has no memory of this experience
The only time I managed to have my wife act consciously in astral projection. Even if it is possible that she was projection of my subconscious mind

1. I was at my friend Patrick's house and me, Pat, and Emily we're just chilling. Pat and Emily were playing what looked to be Halo 5 while I sat on his bed watching. Emily was sitting in a bean bag chair and pat was sitting on the edge of his bed. I remember they were playing split-screen and the game had just ended. The leaderboard came up and displayed their kill/death ratio in 3 different rows. The 3 rows were all different colors, one red, one blue, and one gray. I saw that pat had died once that game and now had a total of 66 deaths in his entire multiplayer career. Emily had died 5 times and now had a total of 7 deaths in all of her multiplayer because she hadn't been playing the game that long.
It was my turn to play so I took the controller and played multiplayer solo, so I had a full screen. I remember activating God mode and flying around the map in the game. Suddenly I became a part of the game, and everything looked just as real as waking life. I flew over an enemy base and as I did so, I saw a ton of enemy droid looking robot things. "Be careful dude, the demon robots are pretty violent" Pat said from who knows where. I down below me as I flew over the base and I saw a few robots moving in an erratic motion. They were moving as though they were possessed or having a seizure. It unnerved me just looking at them. Suddenly I found myself getting shot at. Huge missiles started flying past me and exploding not far behind me. I knew I was going to die if I didn't get out of the sky quick. I looked around momentarily. The sky was partly cloudy and the moon was shining brightly. The weather was fairly cold and the constant wind only made it colder.
Not far ahead of me I noticed a huge nuclear power plant. I saw 2 huge reactors and I thought it'd be a good idea to go inside of them and talk shelter from all of the missiles. "Surely the robots won't blow up their own nuclear plant" I thought to myself. I flew down into the left nuclear reactor. Each reactor was painted white with two red lines going across them in the middle horizontally. Immediately upon entering the left one I realized just how dangerous it was. All along the walls were rotating blades and all sorts of booby traps that seemed to be there in order to prevent anyone from going inside. I slowly descended down the many levels of this reactor. As I did so, I accidentally hit one of the huge rotating spiked blades and died. Seconds later I respawned just at the top of the nuclear reactor. Once more I descended into the reactor, but this time I was more careful.
I slowly maneuvered around all of the rotating blades and went down to the 3rd level of the reactor where there was an open floor to stand on with no booby traps. I then realized why I was here- to shut down the reactor. I was now alone walking around inside of the reactor. It was fairly noisy because of all of the blades constantly rotating. On the right wall of this level I was on, I noticed a power terminal. I walked over to it. It looked like a giant futuristic computer of some sort. I turned it on and looked for a way to turn the reactor off. Seconds later I came to a screen that displayed all of the reactors functions. There were tons of functions, and they all had weird names too. At the bottom of the screen I saw a button that allowed one to turn off the entire reactor. I pressed it with my finger and everything powers down. It is now extremely dark and there is only one light on on the floor I am on, and it seems to be an emergency light.
I continue looking at the screen and press another button by accident and everything turns on once more. "What the fuck" I say out loud before quickly pressing the off button again. Everything turns off once more and silence returns. Suddenly the area transforms and I now find myself in the living room of my house standing next to one of the lamps. Wade and his girlfriend Shelby were sitting on my couch and my other friend Alex was sitting on the floor playing with two large dogs. I look over in the kitchen and see my teacher Mrs. Koenig along with Mr. McGinnis and an Assistant principal from my school. "Since when did she have 2 husbands?" I thought to myself "That's really odd". I then noticed that Mr. McGinnis had completely jet-black hair whereas in waking life his hair is half gray. Behind Mrs. Koenig where my sink was I saw that there were a ton of dishes that needed to be cleaned. There were so many that it took up the entire back counter top. All of the dishes were either red, blue, green, or clear it seemed, so they were basically tupperware.
"Cory, these dogs are so cool" Alex said from behind me. I turn around and see that the huge dogs are now all over alex licking him to death. I walk over to them and pet them. Their fur is really soft and white with brown spots. I notice that Wade and Shelby are now cuddling on my other couch. Shelby gets up and tells me something but I don't remember what it was.

2. I was driving a car down what appeared to be a feeder. My friends Dylan and Emily were also in the car with me. I turned right into the parking lot of Kroger, a grocery store. As I did so I immediately found myself having been teleported outside of the car along with Dylan and Emily and we were now just standing in the parking lot. The car, however, didn't stop and continued at full speed into the main area of the parking lot. It was heading straight towards two cars. "Holy shit dude it's fixing to crash!!" I yell. Unexpectedly, as the car approaches these other 2 cars, it seems to acquire a mind of its own and it weaves right in between them without crashing at all. It then swerves around and starts coming towards a red van at full speed not far from where we were standing.
Somebody is driving the red van and they are now pulling out of their parking spot fixing to leave. They see the car coming towards them and quickly pull ahead to get out of the way. The car zooms past it and goes out onto the feeder. I walk up to the red van. Inside of it I see an old man with short gray hair, his wife, and two kids in the back seats. He rolls down his passenger side window. "What the fuck are you doing?!?!" he asks me. "I didn't do anything, I've been standing here the entire time. Why are you mad at me?!" I ask him. Emily and Dylan walk over and start talking to the man.
Just then I realize that I am dreaming. The man is still talking to me but I'm completely ignoring him as I am now looking around. "Later guys" I say to Dylan and Emily as the old man still tries talking to me. I walk down the parking lot and feel the breeze go all around my body. The sky is clear and blue, and the sun is starting to set. A wave of pleasure and power come over me. "Lets explore" I say to myself. With that I then decide to run back down the parking lot with immense speed. As I do so, I start off slow but then quickly gain more and more speed. I can feel the wind now strongly moving around my body and it deafens my hearing. I slow down for a moment and take in the realness of it all. I then take a deep breath and let it out. "Ahhh, this is good" I say out loud. Just then my vision goes out of focus due to instability. I gain it back for a second but then lose it once more and wake up.

I automatically understand that I'm dreaming, and feel no need to perform a RC. I begin by continuously working on increasing focus, clarity, and stability. I'm on a very surreal looking white bridge leading to a white temple on the other side of the narrow and deep chasm. The white temple has intricately carved designs worked through the upper portion of the roof. It is anywhere between 1 & 2 stories tall, nestled into the mountain face. On the other side of the bridge, near where I am standing, a black analogue clock is situated on the upper portion of a medium height tree. I continuously focus on saying: "Eric, Focus!" to gain stability, clarity, and increase mental focus. I decide to use the tree to implement some techniques from my Dream Yoga practices. I walk over to the tree and begin focusing on the tactile sensation of the tree bark. The tree bark is very rough, and contains shallow recess which work their way vertically up the trunk, maintaining slight curves throughout. I feel a whiteness coming over the dream and decide to meditate through it as it appears to be similar to the black void I encounter. However, this "white out" feels different than the void, and I feel myself awakening to what appears to be WL. With eyes closed, I run my memory backwards, and feel certain that it is WL. I go over the sensation of all fingers to make certain before opening my eyes in WL.


*The white temple on the top surface of the mountain is similar to a concept I was considering incubating in which I would ask my spirit teacher how to be wake in dreams all the time. I pictured this scene at the summit of a snowy mountain.

Contributing Factors: Open Awareness Meditation, Mantra: Awake In Dreams, Intention to Wake after dreams
Reishi, Turmeric, Ginkgo, Omega 3s