lucid

Morning of November 18, 2015. Wednesday.



In what starts out as a typical light sleep paralysis apex lucidity state of a perceived sensual nature, my level of lucidity becomes slightly subdued to where I am not as focused on control of any kind.

I find myself walking near either the Hinkler or Chermside Shopping Center (though it seems more like Chermside in some ways, though we have not been there in years). I end up walking on my own (after absentmindedly turning to the right) through a different narrow fenced area while Zsuzsanna is walking more towards the outer exit from the parking area and outside of the “fence maze”.

There are flowers on either side of each fence section and the fence layout is quite complex, with the sidewalk also going at different ninety degree turns over a very short distance. I get the impression that I will reach a dead end near the shopping center’s outer wall (though this is not certain as there may be a couple openings on the side to the internal parking area sidewalk perpendicular to the street sidewalk), though this does not seem that frustrating. In fact, I feel quite blissful and Zsuzsanna and I smile at each other.

My lucidity peaks again and I wake fairly quickly with a bizarre hypnic jerk where both of my legs (I am on my right side) flex up to where I am in fetal position and then they kick out to being straight again (almost like a sideways kangaroo hop). Presently, I cannot recall any other time when a hypnic jerk involved both legs or was of this movement. Zsuzsanna and I laugh then she tells me she had been dreaming about a waterfall. In the more distant past, this type of dream setting was often annoying. It occurred mostly around the middle to late 1980s, I think (though there were earlier sparse instances), and most often features the “fence maze” at ground level on either side of an overpass, often with the exit gate (to the street or intersection) locked when I get to it so that I have to go back around to try a different path.

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Note: Just as I only experience astounding continuously morphing hypnagogic vision when fully awake and just as I mostly only experience blissful (not frightening in any way as others have claimed) states of sleep paralysis (and always try to intensify the states, usually successfully), my hypnic jerks (which are claimed to occur “just as a person is beginning to fall asleep”) only occur after I have fallen asleep and am in a (often only partially-rendered) lucid dream state.

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In my young lucid dreaming career, this was the coolest one.

I was with my friend from high-school (I'm out of college now) Eddie, who was the kid you'd catch smoking pot behind the bleachers. Regardless he was hilarious, and got tons of (hot) girls.

We were at the bottom of a hill and Eddie was on a bicycle riding up the hill. I decided to crank it up a notch and found a motorcycle "chopper" that I immediately hopped on. On the back of my chopper was this girl Lila who was a blonde and stunning. It was at this point I became semi-lucid and I don't really know how. I just demanded that Lila performed reality checks as I started to crank up the hill on the chopper. I was "half in and half out" of lucidity and everything was so realistic around me that I was legitimately fearful of crashing the chopper. Because Lila had no idea what a reality check was I kind of just winged it and said "screw it, this is most likely a dream, how do I go really fast". Then I simply intended to go faster and we zoomed further and further up the hill until we got to the end which turned into a massive jump. We landed no problem and then ended up off the chopper and under a tree on a grassy knoll to the left.

Eddie caught up with us and this was pretty annoying at first because I had already started to put the moves on Lila. Regardless Eddie questioned me about the dream and how realistic going up the hill was. I concurred that everything was ridiculously realistic and I felt as if I were really alive in the dream.

At this point I realized I needed to find Eddie a girl for himself so that I could get back to Lila. I look up the knoll and voila, another girl was sitting there waiting to be talked to. I knew if I just sent Eddie alone, he wouldn't because Lila was prettier. So I pretended like I was interested in this other girl and struck up a conversation about TV shows with her. Eddie followed suit and soon they were like PB&J in conversation; a beautiful strategy.

I made my way back down to Lila who was the fucking coolest girl ever. She had picked out a song on her iPod for us to listen to while we started making out. She was super hot and I felt very connected with her when her earbud fell out of her left ear and I replaced it.

Then I woke up. My mindset was to just push really hard on lucidity and not worry about reality checks. I was lucid and I knew it. Therefore when I woke up this time I had no qualms about screaming "show me something amazing!" This is when the dream played a trick on me. The response I got was from my roommate in the other room who sarcastically said "I'll show you something amazing". He laughed and I felt pretty embarrassed for having screamed that at the top of my lungs. Unfortunately I never realized this was a false awakening. I was definitely still dreaming and the amazing thing was that my dreaming mind could fake the shit out of me.

I got up and started texting Eddie about the chopper dream. Eddie texted back that he was in the process of hooking up with 3 bartenders. But he also admitted that there was nothing like that "oriental dream shit" I had showed him.



Notes: What's funny is how far I strayed from my game-plan on this one. The methodology was WBTB and my intention for the night was to become lucid and do whatever it takes to maintain lucidity. My idea was to do the Carlos Castenada and just stare at my hands producing stable lucidity. For whatever reason this never even crossed my mind during the dream. I think I was a bit too caught up with beautiful blonde girl on the back of my chopper... and in this case, rightfully so. I'm pumped for my next lucid dream =)

17.11.2015

Deactivating a Tower (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

All I remember is that I'm in the desert sector related to Code Lyoko, but I don't feel I'm actively participating in the mission of deactivating the active tower. I see, in first person perspective, some Tarantulas that eventually give up, and see that as soon as they pass a certain point near the tower, they disappear.

It feels as if someone is destroying the desert sector.

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17.11.2015

I Wet Myself IRL Because DC Stalls Me Using a Restroom In a Dream (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I’m with some of the Code Lyoko: Evolution members in a classroom. It seems the setting is in a late afternoon where the sunset is slowly dissipating. The floor is white, and made of some kind of hard-surfaced tiling, and the rest of the room is white.

I’m sitting in a dark-colored chair, and resting on a light-brown table that’s fit for at least 6 individuals. The teacher looks a bit familiar, and has a light complexion. He seemed to be a mélange of one of my boss’s bosses at a retail store, and then one of the principals from the Code Lyoko: Evolution show, and such.


He’s doing something to stall time so students won’t be convinced to leave early until the bell rings. I’m wondering why he’s doing this, as I felt I had a good judgment of when the bell would ring. I looked at the clock at some point that’s white in the background, and has black tick marks and numerical fonts as well.


It seems to be somewhere around 1:20-1:35PM or so; the equivocations with time just made things more obvious. When the teacher was counting down when the bell would ring, the moment he reached 0, he wouldn’t let everyone leave at once. He asked us if anyone of us wants to go to jail, in which we quickly said, or made a gesture of “No.”

He eventually allows us to leave in this false imprisonment nonsense. I go out to the door, to my right, and we’re having a quick conversation over how the teacher was acting weird. I turn to the left, and I see a Hispanic female that I presumed to be in the class we were in as well. She looks like one of my co-workers; short ponytail, red shirt, tight blue jeans, and we’ll just nickname her An.

I asked her why the teacher was so peculiar, and she shook her head in confusion as her retort. I get the strong urge to utilize the restroom, and immediately went into the closest one. Brown walls, white tiled floor, and a really clean restroom. I open one of the doors, sat down for some reason instead of standing up, and started to urinate.

I was feeling a virtual experience of urinating that ended up translating into real life, and mid-way piss, I feel myself urinating IRL while still in the dream, and eventually woke up to take care of the issue.

My first recalled lucid wet dream. Good thing it wasn’t #2.

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17.11.2015

Manager In Charge Makes $$$ From Runescape (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I’m inside a room that has a Wall Street vibe to it where others are congregating for some big event in stocks, or something like that. It doesn’t feel like that at first, but it seems so secretive, cozy, and there’s a gargantuan wide screen in front of us emitting some blue light.


I see a Manager in charge at a retail store I used to work at which we’ll nickname “J.” He seems really enthusiastic, and is wearing a light gray dress shirt tucked in under a black dress pants. His sleeves are folded up to the top of his elbows, and is wearing black glasses as well.

He’s holding some paper, and starts bragging about the success of whatever workflow he, and his affiliates utilized to make money off of Runescape, and maybe other MMORPGs. He eventually shows us the paper, and I quickly glance over without much interest; I could see some golden stars, and a quantity of at least $1 Million.


Then, at some point in the dream that I can’t sequence into a timeline, I was going go into the Bandos section in the God Wars Dungeon in Runescape. I was setting up some overloads, brews, and things of that nature. I was choosing whether or not to use a Legends Cape, or the Bandos cape that seems fairly new. The latter seemed more advantageous stat wise for the Chaotic Rapier I had in my inventory, but there was still skepticism on my end.


I forget what I do next, and felt I spent most of my time fixating on the ideal inventory set up.

Dream 1 - Concert
I remember being at one side of a building which was used for stage performance concerts. It must have been night time and there were people starting to show up. It wasn't a big concert, maybe a couple hundred people that were to fit into this place. The seats available were fold-out chairs and bleachers. I was sitting pretty far back on the bleachers, I looked down at the crowd and saw my mate Zac. He looked up at me and smiled, waving happily, then he turned and sat down on one of the fold out seats at the front.

I have some dream fragments about this dream too:
- My mates girlfriend was managing the show or was a ticket collector? I met her yesterday. I also saw my mate too who I also saw yesterday.
- I remember something about another friend called Giles, but I can't remember what.
- The area we were in was next to Castle St, one of the most famous streets where I used to live.
- I seem to remember something about another friend being the lead guitarist for the band, he plays guitar in RL and was shredding like crazy. His hair was really long too. I remember that the sounds weren't properly matching up to what he was playing.

Dream 2 - Rumpus room
I remember having a very erotic dream... I'll leave out the details . It happens in the rumpus room of my parents house where I lived for a while, but now it's been converted into a flash looking flat. After the erotic part of the dream my ex gf showed up and we started hanging out (I have no idea where the other girl went). I think at the time I was on the phone and she walked around while she waited for me to finish. The phone was a big as a brick though . I remember jokingly throwing something at my ex which made her laugh. I wrote that the phone call had something to do with managing a the concert of the other dream.

Dream 3 - I punch cars? + Hill
I felt like I was very lucid in this dream, I did a short reality check and was pretty convinced I was dreaming. It was surprisingly stable and clear. I was just standing on a normal suburban street on a sunny day and realized I didn't know what to do. I saw a white car approaching on the road, so I walked up to it and swung a left hook straight into it. It shot backwards really fast, but it hadn't been hit into the air which was what I was aiming to do. I then continued to do this a few times... Just hitting cars O_O. I remembered that I was lucid and then.. carried on hitting cars. At some point I think I lost lucidity and the dream led to a grassy slope going downhill by the side of the road. I sat on the grass here and looked below me, there was something going on but I can't remember what. I then saw a road bike to my left and pulled it out of the grass. Turning behind me I saw a couple teenage cyclists who had stopped because one of them had been injured. A scrape on his knee? Ouch. There's a red car behind them which a concerned mother hopped out of.

I really should have written this down in the morning rather than when I'm off to bed again. There were so many people I knew in these dreams :/

Previous DJ entry just posted was current LDs up through 11/15/15 and now going back and posting some old LD's in pictures for personal inspiration.

from 5/5/14





Originally posted as text here: 5/4 & 5/5 Epic Awesome (Personally), TOTM And Beyond - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views


5/13/14




Originally posted as text here: 5/9, 5/10, 5/13 Another Awesome 2 Part LD: Beach in Another Time/Place. - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

10/15/15



10/18/15 dream action DILD = float

10/20/15 no induction but awareness up=Open Beta 1-4 during day, waking life inconsistent=wife jumper cables

10/22/15 dream scenario initiated/general dream sign, odd sign in carnival setting

10/24/15




















10/25/15 LD#1 don't remember trigger but did hand RC. LD#2 waking life inconsistent=little girl outside my bathroom.

11/1/15 I am killed but realize when I come back into the same dream that I am dreaming. 1st time for this exact dream sign.

11/7/15 at least 2 LDs. SSILD/FA theory. LD#1 wild style entry flying through HHs. #2 FA but notice different people that wouldn't be here when waking up at home.

11/8/15








posted written details of the above LD here: http://www.dreamviews.com/tasks-mont...ml#post2178472


LD#2



LD#3







11/10/15



11/12/15 Awesome surreal NLD:



11/15/15



LDs #396-410

Patrick Stewart's hockey gang
I'm in a house with a group of street toughs who have just helped "us" out. I'm in their room, and I see a tiny record player on the bed. For some reason, I think briefly about stealing the record - somehow I know it's valuable. I decide not to - besides just being wrong, I have no desire to cross a group of street toughs - and leave room. As I'm walking out, one of them walks in. He gives me a suspicious look, and I wonder if I have a guilty look on my face from my earlier thoughts. Now I'm in my room, talking with my wife about making copies of records. She's sitting on the edge of the bed working on something, while I'm laying on my side facing her. She doesn't understand why it would be all that hard, saying that surely wax would do the job. I explain that normal wax is too soft, that while it's easy to push into grooves it would deform when removed and so wouldn't be useful for making a good copy. Instead, we'd need some kind of wax that's easy to work with when warm but which hardens completely when cool.

Now I'm at an ice rink watching the group of toughs play a hockey game. I'm excited to find out that they're led by Patrick Stewart - except where I see his name written, it's something like Patrick Steaus. I get a look at his face and - even though covered by a helmet with facial bars - I'm sure it's him. His face is more angular, more lined than I've seen it before, but it's still him. I only got a quick glance at his name earlier, so I look around trying to find it again. I see it out of the corner of my eye - again with that strange almost-spelling - but it always changes to something else before I can get a really good look. Maybe this is his "pen name" that he uses to hide from some of his fame? At one point the names of all the players appear on the wall near the ceiling, moving around in a circle, each name separated from the next by a ♠. Even so, I never get a clear look at the name. Now the game is over and he and his team are skating around the rink on an exhibition lap. As they're leaving the rink I take note of how incredibly smoothly they're skating - it looks unnatural. I also get a better look at their armor/uniforms - they're covered head-to-toe in something that's shiny, hard, and completely black. After they're gone, I belatedly kick myself for not taking a picture - my friends would have loved this. I pull out my phone and open the camera app, hoping my battery doesn't die, looking for something with his picture and/or name. I can't find anything with either. Oh well.


Impressive office
I'm leaving a stairwell and stepping into a long hallway. A foreign couple is pushing a cart towards me, seemingly looking for where they're staying. I move around them and continue on, coming to an open elevator. Looking inside, I see a roughly 10 year old boy. I realize I'm on the wrong floor and decide to take the elevator, but then somehow feel uneasy about getting inside. I realize I'm only one floor down from where I need to be and decide to just take the stairs.

Now I'm walking through another hallway. A light yellowish wall is to my right; the left wall is glass, looking out into some kind of fancy lobby area. Small potted trees dot the hallway. A strange vehicle is coming towards me, and I somehow know it's an automated cart that moves through the halls carrying people and/or things, and that normally it has wheels on the end of long legs (which let it pass over almost anything in the hallway) but that it's currently in a collapsed state. Looking further down the hallway, I see another one coming towards me. This one is extended to its full height and is carrying a handful of people in business suits. I immediately feel that I'm not comfortable with having this thing drive over me and look for a place to get around it - problematic, since it takes up the entire width of the hallway. Thankfully, I realize there's a spot in the hallway in front of me that does actually get quite a bit wider - as if someone cut a larger circle out of that area - and I'm confident that I'll get there about the same time as this thing (it's traveling at about walking speed). As we get closer together I realize that it couldn't have gone over me anyway, since it's criss-crossed horizontal and diagonal struts underneath itself. I'm impressed by its appearance - so spindly, with shiny chrome struts and black wheels that seem much too small for its size - yet it still seems very stable. I move to my right, it moves to its right, and we circle around each other, continuing on our ways.

Now I'm walking through the lobby. This place is gigantic and very attractive. The floor is shiny, pedestals with small statues are dotted here and there, and the walls and ceiling are glass, revealing a beautiful light blue sky. I "remember" that the ceiling didn't used to be this high, that they recently did construction to raise it up, but I can't remember when that construction happened, even though it must have been a significant project.. I walk near a group of seated bigwigs, stopping to hear what they're saying. I notice a woman in a white dress standing nearby - a secretary? - but I don't really pay any attention to her. Individual conversations stop and someone important - maybe the CEO? - starts talking. As I'm listening, I get a feeling that my chest is exposed. I look down and realize that my white button-down shirt has its top button undone, that I'm not wearing a tie, and that I'm not wearing my customary undershirt. All this is odd, but it doesn't explain that strange sense of exposure I just had. I pull the flaps together, somehow feeling self-conscious about actually buttoning the top button without also wearing a tie, then walk off.


Super chase / failed joke TOTM
I'm standing knee-deep in water. I'm in some kind of urban setting, with buildings all around. At least one building directly borders the pool. I see other tall buildings nearby, but I'm also able to see the sky through gaps between the buildings. It's dusk. As I walk along, I come to a strange bump in the water. As I get closer, the bump stands up and reveals itself to be a woman dressed in something resembling Super Girl's costume, with the addition of a mask. She starts playfully chasing me. I generally manage to keep away - neither of us can move well through this water - but she manages to grab an arm or a leg every so often.

Now I'm near a wall (tiled with small green tiles, each a slightly different shade) and realize that I'm dreaming, and if I throw myself through the wall she can't follow. I jump backwards towards the wall, but I have a moment of concern - I judged my distance poorly, and I'm not going to hit very hard. Will it work? I decide it will - this is my dream, after all - and as I hit the wall it shatters and I pass through. For a moment I see only black with green bits whizzing everywhere.

Now I'm seeing what appears to be an ancient monitor. The background is white, and a handful of words and/or a simple graphic (can't remember) is drawn out in giant black pixels. I have no presence here - no body - and this screen takes up my entire vision. I figure this is related to "the void" I've other LDers talk about, and I just need to approach it calmly. I picture the screen splitting down the middle, moving to the side, revealing a new dream world; but all I get is a pixelated animation of the screen sliding apart. I remember that one of the best ways to escape the void is to imagine physical sensations, so I imagine what it feels like to spin around and around.

Now I'm sitting across from Mom at a cafe table. Behind her is a small coat room painted a light beige; I see a coat rack to the left. She looks good, wearing a black and red dress with a red jacket over it. As I'm trying to decide what to do next, I remember that I have dream goals. I remember that the first thing on my list is remembering where my real body is, but I just don't feel like doing "you're not real" all over again. I don't have any recollection of my second intensification exercise. Once I dismiss the "sleeping body" exercise, I remember about the current TOTM, so I ask Mom if she can tell me a joke. She gets a really serious look on her face and says "No ... no, I can't," then launches into this weird philosophical monologue about how telling a joke really exposes the depths of your soul, especially when you're in a dream. I wake up.

During a nap, I talk to my sister, who is being unusually friendly to me at our old childhood place. She mentions she was pregnant at some point, and it confuses me, but it feels good that she shared that with me.

I'm clearing snow on a dark road, light of a car come by, I have to hide, or at least pretend to be 18. (?) I need to keep clearing snow, it's the only way out of here.

I see a mage and a shaman from Hearthstone fighting 5 evil statues, they are hooded and in a ring. As one is defeated a gentle light goes out in its hood. As we defeat three of them, they surrender, but as the mage approached them there is a trick attack and it almost drops us to zero health. The mage calls forth a bright light that comes out of a mirror like portal that banishes the statutes for good. I hear a voice, authoritative, that says that the portal can be used to visit other worlds.

I touch the mirror and suddenly the scenery shifts and I'm by a family altar in a fancy house. I see fancy looking things that look like they belong to my grandma. I step away, is this an alternate reality where my family was rich?

I suddenly go lucid. I look around, amazed at the detail. I yell out "more vivid!" and the house becomes more stable and detailed. I walk around looking around, wondering what to do. I see a little girl and I follow her, just wondering where the dream will lead. I follow her for a while and see my sister. Knowing I'm in a dream, I float up in the air to impress her. She asks me how I did it and I sat "magic".

I go up the stairs, the place is now my friend's parent's old place. I go up to his room, thinking it is empty. My friend is there, sleeping. I try to get him to vanish but it doesn't work. I walk down the stairs and look out the window.

I go on the ledge and decide to fly. David Lynch comes to mind for some reason. I begin to fly, admiring the absolutely beautiful summer day, sun up high and a few trees looking so beautiful and green. I try to fly around, hard to control. I grab a branch as I go down, I sink and sink and the branch bounces back up and sends me into the air. I think of flying to my other friend's place close by. I fly and I'm suddenly by the parking lot of a gas station, a taco truck comes by and sells tacos. I am a but hungry. I wake up.

This was on my day (night) off, Saturday 11/14/15.

Woke up in the morning after full night sleep. Atayed up for an hour or so, took one of my last 2 galantaminds and 3 Alpha GPCs. Watched some TV for 15 min, then wanted to give me enough time to fall asleep before GM kicks in in about an hour after taking.

Fell asleep, then woke up and felt my familiar Head rush. The back top of my head feels ice cold and sensation of water rushing through the water hose.

I knew I was awake, but I say what the heck, I'm gonna just stand up and walk away anyway. I did that then counted my fingers and I was lucid.

I was in some kind of a urban canyon. Between tall buildings and carts full of boxes, just like those in my work. : ( I grabbed a red two-wheeler mid flight and started flying with it higher and higher, over the boxes on the next cart and next one. I was happy to be flying. but srs, c'mooon. Work, boxes, two-wheelers... work... work...work : ((( More like a nightmare. Doing it 6 days a week for real and then have a lucid doing it on a night off. Pathetic. And I did this few times, maybe 3-4 times.

I appreciate the lucids and all. But...

[CENTER][COLOR=#0000cd][SIZE=4]Rising[/SIZE][/COLOR][/CENTER]

I seemed to have 2 dreams, both were in my house, and both were unusually vivid. Probably the effect of WBTB.

More importantly, the second dream started off rather normally, with normal events.. Up until i was answering a phone and i got a creepy response and you can guess how i reacted. A missing piece here, but i remember being in the basement of my house. [COLOR=#0000cd]I realized that it's a dream.[/COLOR][COLOR=#0000cd]

[/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]Unfortunately, i didn't stabilize nor increase vividness and memory..
Right after knowing it's a dream i started talking out loud saying "Where the hell are you? Come out!" because the nature of it was about to turn into a cat-and-mouse nightmare. I was apparently feeling like i'm being chased by someone.

I went through a door that leads outside and there i saw a kid standing randomly, though i didn't bother about him. It was also raining, there was no sun but it wasn't night either. Anyway, here i wanted to fly. And judging by my past experiences of flying, it didn't look like it was going to be smooth. I started sprinting first, then made the leap into the air. I'm now very high up, something i have never experienced before! I had some issues with speed and control but i was able to make it feel better by shaping my hands like a wingsuit would be like. The air blowing into me with my speed was intense, and most importantly was the view from so far up.. Nothing short of breathtaking! I truly felt free in those moments i was flying in.

After a few moments, my senses began fading away, the most obvious sign of dream ending.[/COLOR]

Lucid dare, totm , wbtb , dild
Went to bed at about 10pm after setting some alarms from 4am onward and till 5ish. Was already awake when first one went off and laid in bed warm and comfortable as I listened to the gentle music. Regularly and remembering again and again about wanting to Lucid Dream + goals.

Got up for loo at 4.22am and laid back down in wild dive set up on back. Relaxed well and felt transition to calm delta place ...noise of my bf getting up and moving around started to wake me so I decided to move to find my earplugs with minimum movement - went onto side.

Carried on with imagining me Lucid + goals and regularly doing imaginary tactile movements with dream body (from paradigmeshift and snoops press ups 😉 )

When finally in dream I was in a bed with a friend sitting on me trying to wake me and speak to me as I moved around in bed half in sleep and half awake and drooling a lot 😄
I managed to tell her I needed 5 more minutes so she left me for a bit - I felt myself transitioning into sleep and got up in my dream body - at this point I was still not Lucid but dreaming I was lucid. As I moved around I started getting more Lucid - it was a busy dream scene-with more DC's than usual ... I think that's what prompted me to " Know I am dreaming - yay this feels good"

With so many DC's around I remember the Totm and also RelaxAndDream' lucid challenge ..I see a laptop on a table and go up to it to play some music on the radio-I find it and I listen intently to what it will be as I am supposed to explain the music...it is nothing I have heard before and brings up feelings of the artist Frank Sinatra ...so I play another song it's a lady this time but music of a similar time that I don't recognise again - I feel I have accomplished RAD's lucid dare... Maybe 🌸

I look up at DC is staring down at me so I reach out for his finger and bite it - I look up at him apologetic and say " I dint mean to harm you and you know I would do anything to help you right?" He nods I add that -" he would do anything for me also right?" He nods and we touch fists 👊👊 - feels good💜

I want to complete another task so I ask him to " tell me a joke"
He says he can't think of one so I ask him to " please try " ...then he says they 'brought the flags out' - I said that it didn't sound like a joke but maybe it was to him and he nodded at me in agreement...okay!

I try to remember other tasks and get an incling of a memory about doing something maybe controlling ...with ones mind so I see a glass on a table and make it rise up with my mind and say to everyone around " look I am controlling this glass with my mind!"
I enjoyed this and as I walk out of this room I make me and all the DC's levitate out of the room by telekinesis - feels good 🌸

When I reach outside I remember Advanced totm challenge to crumple up the dream scene ... So I look around and with a sweeping movement with my hands I make a crumpling gesture that swiftly brings all of the the dream scene into a cube in my hand - it looks amazing, this replica of the scene around me sitting in my hand in a small bright yellow cube ... I try again Incase this isn't enough for my wings and the same thing happens again - I am happy with this ...a replica of the dream scene as a cube in my hand (lots of yellow in the surroundings ) yet my scene around me is still here with me ... not crumpled - so I am unsure if I have completed enough for the task - we will see

As I walk on I remember a task Sensei set of creating a paradox - I see a young girl walking towards me and I put up my hand and imagine I have created an exact replica of her face in the palm of my hand - I look but I dint manage -in my hand i have what looks like looks like a beautiful tartan though which is nice but no paradox - maybe she is scotish 🌷

I start to wake up its 6.30am - just enough time to write this up - cool!!!

House full of distractions / You're not real!
I'm with my wife walking through a dark, mostly empty parking lot. Now we're walking somewhere else discussing something music-related. Whatever it is, we have differing opinions.

Now we're in a house getting ready to go somewhere. We need to take showers before we can leave, but first we need to pack a change of clothes. We're in a smallish (10'x10') room putting clothing into small reusable grocery bags, planning to change into them after taking our showers. Now I'm dressed in my bathrobe walking down a long hallway towards the bathroom at the end. I see my sister-in-law (wearing a bluish dress) preparing to sit on the toilet, door still open, and turn around - I don't want to see that. As I turn, I see I'm next to another bathroom, but for some reason I decide to wait for the one at the end of the hall instead of using this one. Now I'm walking through another part of the hall and pass a doorway into a living room. Looking in, I see my children and my sister-in-law's kids (her oldest son stands out in my memory) watching TV. They don't see me.

Now I'm at a coffee table flipping through a magazine. An ad catches my eye - lots of text, very colorful. In fact, the page with the ad seems to be really long, longer than the magazine. Now I'm watching something on the TV. It's some kind of weird documentary. Women in very ornate clothes, with an Asian cast to their features, are swimming with dolphins. They've got something metallic covering the fronts of their torsos - it seems to be that they're making metal molds of their chests by getting in the water and letting it cool the metal against them. Now I'm watching a different documentary about two kinds of bird that are very physically similar and differ only in their behaviors. Both birds are smallish, blue, and seem too stocky. The narrator shows two nests and asks which one is which. After a few seconds he points out that the bird in one nest is making one kind of sound while the bird in the other nest is making another kind, and identifies the breed of each bird. One of them makes a very odd, un-bird like noise for a moment. Something else happens and one bird flies of the nest holding a wine bottle cork, and the narrator comments about the decoy nest and being fooled, that it's really hard to tell a decoy from a real one unless you know that male birds only ever sit in the decoys - but from a distance you really can't tell which is which ...

Now I'm playing a video game. My character is running downhill quickly, and a friend's character is to my right and slightly ahead of me. As I'm running, I see heaps upon heaps of equipment, BL2-style. The equipment is probably 50% white, 40% green, and 10% blue. At one point I see a couple of oranges to the far left but can't get to them in time. There aren't any enemies - just this endless downhill run - very odd. Now we're no longer on the loot covered hill, and enemies are near. I equip a fusion canon and something else. I don't remember getting any ammo for either, but I think I must have. Now I'm firing on someone, but the fusion canon is just a tiny beam of purple light that doesn't seem do anything. The other weapon is also a flop, so I change weapons and try again, still to no effect. I try every weapon I have, and I just get laughed at.

Now I'm dealing with a home intruder, still using the weaponry from the game. Again, I try everything I have, but he just ignores me, laughing, and does whatever it is he's come to do. Now we're in the kitchen. His accomplices are taking a friend hostage, saying they'll release him when I publicly post a bunch of embarrassing information about the current operation. He puts sticky notes on the fridge detailing what I need to release. As I'm looking at some envelopes he left, wondering if the return addresses are legit and could use them to track him down and find my friend, I remember I have a real weapon - not just virtual - upstairs. I run upstairs to get it, afraid of using it, afraid of not, hoping I can get it and get to them before they leave and it's too late.

Now I'm upstairs, standing in front of my closet, and I realize I'm dreaming. I do a quick nose plug RC to check, and it works. I slow down, trying to stay calm but not become too detached. First, I shout "INTENSIFY DREAM!" a few times. Nothing really seems to happen, but it feels good. I take in my surroundings and see that I'm upstairs in a kind of open loft. The closets are behind me, the stairs (and a wall-railing) are to my left, walls are ahead and to my right, and I'm standing on a dark green carpet. The ceiling is very low, and a pair of ceiling fans are hanging down even lower. It's dark up here, so I try to cause one of the fan lights to turn on. Nothing happens; oh well. I remember that I'm supposed to remember that my real body is asleep in bed and that everything I see is fake, so I tell myself that I'm asleep in bed and that everything around me is created by my mind. I really get into it and start getting dramatic. I touch the back wall (which is textured drywall) and shout "YOU'RE NOT REAL!" and the wall moves back a few feet. I turn around and (with no fear at all) grab one of the spinning fan blades, stopping it instantly, and shout "AND YOU'RE NOT REAL!". I place my hand on the ceiling and shout "AND YOU'RE NOT REAL!" and move the ceiling up a few feet. I'm having the time of my life, and every time I shout at something I feel like I'm going to burst with laughter.

Now I notice what seems to be a short pull-chain coming out of what looks like a smoke alarm and focus on it, focusing on my desire to have light, and the room becomes much brighter. I remember that I had three things I wanted to do, and that remembering the true state of my body and of the dream was the first. I try to remember the second, but I have trouble - and I think I'm starting to lose the dream since I think (and don't catch) that I added this goal to the list when I was dealing with the people a few minutes ago. I wake up.


Inappropriate ads
I'm watching an ad for something sleep related - maybe a better mattress? It shows people who are well rested and compares them to people who aren't - but the weird part is that all the comparisons are sleep related. One shows a woman rolling over in bed showing how easy it is for her, contrasting it to someone who can't seem to roll over. Another one shows her sitting up in bed, contrasting to the woman who's slouching. After a few like that, it switches to toilet-related stuff. These ads are actually showing people using the toilet, putting black bars over inappropriate bits. I'm surprised they're able to put this kind of thing on TV, or that people would view the ads favorably. I do actually briefly consider the toilet, but then I remember we have a dual-flush toilet and that doesn't seem to be an option for thees, so oh well.


Battling lava creep
I'm standing with @Jakkarth next to a pond. I know I'm dreaming, but I believe he's also lucid with me, and I'm completely absorbed in the plot of the dream. On the far side of the pond is some kind of temple building. It's kind of like a pyramid skyscraper, looking like a normal office building except for the slight slope to its walls and the staircase coming down the middle of the building. Something like hardened lava has worked its way down the steps and across the water, and it's almost reached us. I believe @Jakkarth and I have had a continual battle against this lava stuff, and that if we don't beat it tonight then we will have completely lost. We decide to give it one more try. I thrust my hands forward (I believe he does the same), close my eyes, and really push with my mind. After a few seconds I open my eyes to see if we've done anything, and I'm amazed at the transformation: the water is now crystal clear, and from what I can see there's no remnant of the stuff on the building. The sky is also a gorgeous light blue, and the sun seems to be hanging directly over the building. It's beautiful, but it's so dazzling I can't look up past the base of the building without being blinded. I try to hold my hand over my eyes, but most of the building remains hidden by the light. I ask @Jakkarth if he can see any better than I and he confirms that the stuff is gone. I'm overjoyed and jump into the water to swim across. Even though the pond is fairly wide I swim across in just a few strokes. I don't know how I managed to do that, but it felt great! I consider that it felt as though I were larger than life swimming across a much smaller pond. Now I'm standing in what seems to be a fire escape balcony. The railing is at the wrong height, as if I'm way too tall for it, as if confirming my theory that I'm too large for this world.


Leaked artwork
I'm looking over a booklet of leaked artwork for a new game. I keep flipping page after page, but it seems to be the same couple of pictures repeated over and over. Now I'm using a blank sheet of paper to write out a spell that will turn someone into an anthropomorphic bear based of off one of the sketches. As part of the spell, anyone affected by this form will be unable to sew.

This morning I had some of the realest lucids in a long time.

I'm at Kings Dominion which is an amusement park and I'm with my friend Ryan under the Anaconda rollercoaster. We're at this sort of food market place where a bunch of people are sitting down and talking. I'm trying to convince Ryan and his girlfriend that we should go on it but they aren't really responding. I start to ride on the Anaconda towards the actual beginning of it thinking it'll just loop and I'll be on it. When I get closer to it, I realize the track is ending and it stops at the end under the place where it normally starts. The dream sort of pauses and I start to get suspicious about this dream.

It starts in my room. I'm laying in my bed but perpendicular to how I usually sleep. My view is of my wall. I'm just staring at it when I start to wonder what I'm even doing. Then, I just remember that I'm dreaming and my mind agrees. I sit up from my bed and try a reality check, I start to breathe with my mouth closed. It works. I sort of cough but it works, so I decide I'm going to explore my house. My mind wants to do another reality check so I imagine there's a mirror on my wall next to the door. I look in it to see I'm me but my hair is sort of shaved on one side which isn't right. Then, I look into my bathroom mirror and see that I look like an old man version of me with white spiked hair. I laugh and start going in between the mirrors thinking its funny while chanting this weird song that I can't remember. Then, I go through my door and look down my stairs. I can hear this sort of noise that sounds like "ticka ticka ticka ticka" really fast. I call someone out and a guy dressed in a horse suit appears smiling at the bottom of the steps and we both start laughing like it's okay. I walk down stairs and there's a couple of guys just hanging out in my house, but it's not my roommates. In fact, I don't even know who these guys are. I remember thinking that these are the guys I'd be friends with if I never met my freshman year friends. We talk about something and then I walk towards the door. The dream starts to collapse as I'm starting to not think this is a dream. I panic and think "no no this is a dream come back to it" and then I reset in my bed. I get up and I do the same thing by looking in the mirror back and forth, seeing that I'm an old man in the mirror again. This past week I wrote an "A" on my hand so that I could use it as a reality check in my dreams so I look down at my left hand where it's supposed to be but instead it's this weird symbol that looks kinda like a "G" but different. I start to think that I'm not doing enough and I should challenge myself to more challenging things so I imagine I'm with Drake and sure enough him and I are in this room at our fraternity house with a bunch of random guys and girls. He talks to me about some things and then him and I are in this laundry room that's long and skinny. There's a black portable speaker thing that I'm playing music all of the sudden. The song is a version of one of his songs but it's different. I felt amazed I was playing a song that I had never heard before. Him and I are dancing around the room with a few other people having fun. We go back to the room we were in and there's people having sex everywhere. I go up to this one girl who's laying on her back with her legs up and this guy is giving her drugs so that they'll have sex. He gives her this powder stuff and puts it in her gums. She starts making that "ticka" noise I was talking about earlier. I remember that I almost decided to have sex with that girl but it was just too gross. I look around at other people having sex and think that it would be funny to see the guy in the horse costume in this situation but he never appeared. I climb on a bed in the room alone and decide I'm just going to have someone appear. I think about it for a while and someone sort of appears but nothing actually happens. I turn to some of the guys and tell them "Hey you guys know this is a dream right" and they just kinda laugh and push it off. There was this excited feeling I had like I was accomplishing lucidity. I walk over to this door and say that I'm going to challenge myself. I close the door and then say, this will now be a bathroom. When I opened it again it was a bathroom! Then, I said this will be my bedroom. I close it then open it again but it was still a bathroom. I try harder and finally it works, my bedroom is now through the door. I can see my bed. I get so excited the dream collapses.

I'm in this place where there's tickets being sold under a large sort of open building that has a roof and large open doors. There's a ticket place and then a place to turn in your tickets to go into the show. The show is ODESZA, but I don't have my ticket. I remember talking to my friend Madonna and some other person which both had tickets in their hands when I realized I didn't have one. They go in and I freak out because I don't want to pay 40 dollars for a ticket when I already had one at home. Somehow, I end up being let in. The way the show works is you sit down on these circular couch things that move you from room to room. I'm alone on one moving down this hallway where there's other couches in line and in front of me. Before the hallway ends the couch sort of follows the path on the ground which spins the couch. I end up in this giant room where there's a stage at the front. This was apparently the pre-show. People are walking around handing out wristband things that you apparently need a ticket to get and stay. They sort of just throw one to me even though I didn't show them the ticket. I start to look around when I notice the bald man is just staring waiting for me to put mine on. I do so and then he walks away. Suddenly, there's this small stage right in front of us with a rock band playing on it. No one really seems interested. We are moved through another hallway and into another room. Inside, my mind is now playing World of Warcraft. I'm this Tauren Warrior tanking in this boss fight. The boss is some weird Cathulu looking thing and he's throwing all of this fire and shit at us. At some point in the fight my character flies up over these dinosaur things that are running at me. I do a couple more mechanics before it ends. Then, I'm walking up the hill to Ironforge. I'm in 1st person mode now. My friend Moo and someone else are walking with me and they ask me a question about the game that's weird. I say "I don't know I haven't played in 3 years." There's realistic guards outside walking around. We go inside and it's just way different than IRL. The auction house is placed over where the bank is with the bank. I fall down to where I see battleground people are. I don't really remember much else.

I'm at a party that is half inside half outside. There's a game where you put a beer can on the ground and then throw a spiked hockey stick onto it. Then, someone jumps on the beer can. This girl jumps on it after a guy throws the stick and then they give it to me to drink. I drink most of it and then my friend Kolby is there next to me. He wants to chug with a few other girls so we do but I end up spilling most of mine because I was leaning over too much. I go to this room and sit down where supposedly the best part of the party is but in reality I look around and everyone is on their phones not saying a word.

Fragment: I'm at my house waiting to go to class. I remember hanging out with a bunch of hood guys so I start walking towards their neighborhood which is towards campus. I'm walking up this hill when I see my friend Chappy walk by. She kind of looks at me and then looks away several times and I just think she's really sober and I'm not. I get to the neighborhood which is to the left of the hill and realize I can't just walk around people's houses looking for these certain guys so I change my mind and walk somewhere else.

Fragment: Really stressed about a test walking around campus. I see my friend Ryan but I act like a don't since I'm from afar. I see my friend Lauren near the stadium and our moms are there talking too. I think there was a dog.

Fragment: Dream where my friend Kolby and I are in this music class though it's taught by my Accounting professor. He's testing us by having us sing by ourselves to the whole class. I start to freak out because my friend Kolby isn't a good singer and I'm afraid for him. Half the class goes and then apparently a couple of days goes by and it's our part of the class' turn. Kolby says that he's sick and doesn't go. The professor asks a random Asian kid to go and he's just really confused. I look over Kolby's shoulder when he's working on some test thing.

I skipped a few days writing down my dreams because I haven’t been sleeping very well but I’m up north now and sleeping like a rock.

-Harry Potter dream where I’m trying to defeat the Dark Lord

D1: I was at some train tracks with 3 other people who I didn’t know but had met in the dream. I was watching them cross the train tracks and trains were coming from both sides(there were two sets of tracks). I yelled for them to hurry up but they were taking their sweet time. They made it across, but I noticed this man, maybe in his late 60’s, sitting on the tracks. I didn’t know if he was there on purpose or if he was going to move at the last second, so I just watched. The train hit him.

Now I was at my house, it was a flashback to before the man had died. I had a “feeling” that he was in danger, kinda like Allison Dubois from tv show Medium. I called his number, which was only two numbers, 75. My dad tried to stop me because he didn’t want me to bother him, but I had to call. He answered. “Hello” he mumbled, sounding very depressed. “I uh.. just wanted to know if you’re okay. It’s perfectly fine if you’re not okay, and I have a strong feeling you’re not.” He says nothing and hangs up.

D2: I was in a waterpark and this girl was telling about her experience drowning. I was transported to a very, very large pool with a huge drop off from the edge of the pool to the water, and very deep water(maybe 100-200 feet). I was terrified. Some time during this dream I was drowning and it felt like I couldn't breathe. I was thinking about how I have a phobia of deep pools and was wondering if there was a word for the phobia, but I realized I was dreaming. The dream wasn’t very stable so I rubbed my hands together and then I yelled “CLARITY” and it kinda felt like I yelled that in RL too. I knew I would lose the dream soon so I decided to jump off the edge because I wasn’t scared anymore. It was a very peaceful, relaxing feeling and then I woke up in a FA and tried to write down my dream.

I'm not sure how I knew I was dreaming, but I was aware.

It was dark; night time. I was in some sort of landscape that was quite pretty, in a bit of a desert area. I looked up to the sky and said, "SHOW ME SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL!" and got a rainbow. A rainbow at night was unusual and strange, but I would not call it beautiful, so I asked for the same thing. Behind me there was a butterfly, glowing a white-yellow color, fluttering in the breeze: it was beautiful. I rose in the air as well and followed it around.