lucid

*Issue with DJ Interface - Unable to color-code currently. Both entries are LDs.
1. The Greek Temple Trilogy (LD)
I'm in the backyard of M Street with B and I'm trying to light a candle with some kind of mini torch with a small gas canister. I sit down in a nearby tent area and show B how by pointing the end toward the sun it created a short beam of glowing light - almost a small reflection of light with particles in it. I place the torch down and notice that it catches fire. I try to put it out and think I succeed, but notice that it catches fire once again. I look to my right at the pool and back at the torch but don't think I'll have enough time to put it in the water before it explodes. It finally explodes and launches very far into the air toward houses in the distant parts of the development. I'm worried that it may bust through someone's roof or hurt someone. I enter the house and begin talking to Brie about what happened. Suddenly I realize, "this is a dream"! I'm a bit excited and start thinking of some dream goals. I remember that I wanted to meditate and also wanted to try generating and then having some chocolate. I search a small drawer in the fridge but can't find any. I still want to earn some points for eating something and notice my mom sitting at the table on the seat to the right. I see her eating a pack of gummy bears with various colors. I ask her if I can have a few and she hands me a green and orange gummy and I begin to chew. I say "holy shit!" with amazement at how intense and accurate the flavors are (1). I'm eager to meditate next so I head toward the edge of the island in the kitchen area and sit down to practice zazen. When I sit, I still have a view of the top of the counter and notice some magazines on top. I realize that chewing and tasting gummy bears while meditating isn't optimal, but I don't want to waste time. I sit for a short bit, but begin to realize that the dream may lose stability soon. I think back to a post Saizphod made recently, referencing Sageous talking about gaining stability. I begin moving my eyes a bit so they're not fixated in real life, but decide to get up. I begin walking toward the hallway, --
but quickly enter a black void. I'm inside the void and maintain determination to make it all the way through to the next dream scene. I ground my awareness and start moving my arms in wave-like motions instinctively for tactile simulation. Nothing is forming and I begin to think back to Sivason's vizualzation lessons regarding starting to form dream scenes. I begin imagining some green and then a tree shaped figure. --
Soon two green bushes appear on either side of me with a medium-tan walkway between leading to a small door. I realize I'm still at M Street, yet in the backyard and to the side. I turn around and see the edge of the yard as well as the fence dividing this side from the neighbor's. I decide I don't want to stay in this area as I'm here for many lucids. I fly over the fenc into the neighbor's yard and the scene gets just a bit dimmer. I see the back of the house and remember back to lucids many years ago in this area (2). I head further down and notice a small pool, now with many red tropical plants around it which resemble the ones from the "Tribal Elixir" lucid. I continue further down, curious to see what's beyond this edge of the persistent realm, which I've never explored. As I reach the end of the pool, the scene get much darker, like in the dead of night. I turn to my right and see a two story structure of white stone which extends quite far to the left. It's a mini mansion of sorts. The top portions is adorned with a row of stone gargoyles. I'm amazed at how vivid, yet slightly eerie this scene looks. I wonder if this an area that I can make a sort of "dream hub" out of for future use, but decide not to as it's a little creepy. I turn to my left and continue to fly farther into the realm. I soon view larger temple structure, one of which is to my left in the distance and contains massive stone pillars with open rooms underneath the room. The entire temple structure is made out of the same white stone material and is shining in dim light in the moonlight. I begin to fly toward this area and notice a figure carved into top portion that resembles a Greek God, similar to Zeus. I fly toward the roof, and the dream suddenly takes control of my flying (3). It begins bringing me higher and higher, and eventually into a sweeping arc above the water and along the coast where M Street was. I see many stone buildings with lights red and orange lights glowing through vertical window openings (4). I want to regain control of the flying and think back to the goal of summoning and or riding a dragon! I imagine a dragon below me and my dream body suddenly goes into a dragon riding position. However, a dragons doesn't visually appear below me. --
I suddenly re-enter the black void state and maintain awareness through. I suddenly see a few colors and tell myself this must a dream forming. I almost lose lucidity but the dream begins to form. --
I'm in a desert town of sorts, almost resembling a bazaar area in India. I'm in some kind of caravan and a driver is taking me on a left curve down a street between a large building on my left and massive tents beyond. There are three very large tents of various colors - roughly three stories tall with a wide base converging to a pointed roof - with a yellow colored tent in the middle. At the end of the road is a shorter and wider blue tent with a larger opening, seeming to contain a small circus show of sorts. I turn to the middle yellow tent on my right and decide to enter. I notice that there appear to be arcade machines as a peer through the opening in the front. One of the machines is blue. I enter and head to the back area. In the back left of this rectangular room sits a crate of stuffed animals. I remember my goal of tyring to summon a small dragon. I believe a see dark dragon figure in the left bin but ignore it and turn around. I try to vizualize and expect a small dragon being in this area when I turn around. I turn around and see the head of a small, pink dragon with a single horn in the middle bin. It's not a living dragon, but it's still pretty cool! I leave it along and think back to another goal of summoning/finding my animal spirit guide. I imagine a small creature begin behind me when I turn around. I try twice but nothing appears as I walk to the doorway of the next room, and I continue to the room beyond. I decide to try to find some chocolate to eat. I go to wooden shelves in the back right of the room. There are roghly three shelves with various wooden items, one of which appears to be a small clock which is face down. I'm unable to find any chocolate. I turn and notice two DCs. I ask them politely for some dark chocolate if they have any. One younger boy, probably 12 years old or so, look at me with kind and generous eyes, handing me a whole dark chocolate bar, unwrapped. I'm taken over by gratitude in the dream. The girl to my right hands me another bar which still has a portion of the wrapper as well as the outer case. It has more texture as well and looks pretty vivid. I say "It's a Valrohna"!. I thank them both and take a bite of the first which has a muted flavor. I tell them if I'm ever in this realm I'll do my best to pay them back in some way. I search my back pockets for something to give them, yet only find a folded piece of paper (5). At this point, the dream fades.

2.The Auctioneer (LD)
I'm in an area which appears to be a mix between an auction house, courtroom, and lecture area. I'm behind a wooden podium. Another DC needs to answer to the authority figure - which appears to be an auctioneer/judge - about something. My turn is approaching. My awareness pierces the illusion and I realize it's a dream right when the authority figure turns to hear what I have to say. I walk from behind the wooden podium with a smile and laugh a bit. I say, "you guys are too serious; this is just a dream". I proceed to turn to the wooden shelf on the left side of the room, the top portion containing an opening, divided into three areas wide wooden separators. I look in the right section and see yellow pieces of cheese which I take a bite of. The dream fades.


Notes:
1. The flavors are way more intense than gummy bears in real life. It's more like a whole mouthful of gummy worms.
2. I haven't been in this section of M Street in probably 7-10 years or so, and it's awesome remembering/rediscovering it while in the dream
3. This is the first time that a dream has taken control of my flying.
4. I almost feel like the dream/my subconscious/substrate is trying to tell something here. Almost as though I way way more potential to build and immerse myself in persistent realms and I just need to believe in my capability. It may have been inspired by reading Hyu's Adventures on dreamviews the night before.
5. The paper appears to be a re-creation of a DJ page that I shove in my back pocket from the night before, to record in more depth when I have the time.

Touched by a Yeti

I have traveled somewhere with a large group of people, possibly by ship. I’m a different person (male, early 20s, with a Spanish-sounding name). We’ve just arrived here. It’s unclear exactly what kind of setting this is, but it’s clearly not contemporary, and maybe entirely fantastical. Everything is currently covered in snow.

I am happy because I have a new sword, and it is awesome. It’s a long, slightly curved blade, and there are etchings of animals on it – wild boars, maybe others. I have it out, showing people, when a strange creature appears – I know it to be a yeti. It’s white and shaggy, but actually a little smaller than an average human – overall, a very vague visual impression. (Although maybe not vaguer than my visual impressions of dream characters in general. Or, really, people in general, as I am pretty much face-blind and have had to work out other ways of recognizing people.)

Anyway. The creature is lightning-fast and moves in unpredictable ways, including short jumps between locations. In the brief time they have to react, people are trying to get away from it, but it just moves straight past them and appears right next to me. It touches my arm, which it does something to me that makes me lose consciousness.

I’m woken up by someone what seems like only a short time later – same setting, only more people are around now, and the yeti is clearly not. I go with some people to have a conversation with someone who can explain what’s going on. The person (who seems a lot like NR) explains that the creature is the guardian of this place, and it didn’t like the sword – or, rather, its symbolic charge, so to speak – what it represented, which was being an outsider here and coming in intending to fix problems as an outsider, without being a part of it, which is arrogance.

This makes sense to me. I now feel as if I understand the creature – not just from the explanation of its behavior but because I can tell that I now have some kind of connection with it. I know that it’s here all the time, even when it’s not manifesting physically. At some point later, as I’m talking with some other people who haven’t yet heard about the incident, I mention the yeti to them, and I turn around, expecting to see it there behind me, and it is – and from their reaction, I can tell that they can see it there too. I also know that eventually, when the time is right, I’ll take the sword out again, and use it this time, but in cooperation with it.

28.5.23

Cycles

I’m in a room in a house at night, sitting at a keyboard. (It does seem to be me this time. Probably.) I’m playing with settings, designing sounds that I’ll be able to use for projects later on. While I’m doing this, I have a strong sense of my aunt’s presence, which seems connected with the keyboard in some way even though she isn’t there in the dream.

Later, I’m somewhere like the dining room table of my current house, also at night. My parents are there, and I’m showing them something on a laptop: a vst instrument that I’m thinking about getting. It is called The Curse. The sound has an evolving quality to it, and it is accompanied by simple images that change alongside it as it cycles through its various stages. It had six different settings, all represented by images of people shown in bright neon outline against a black background going through different transformations. The first was fairy tale-like – that’s all I can remember about it. Another image was of a woman holding a baby: it showed the woman growing old rapidly and then becoming young again as the baby continued to look the same. Some of the images I didn’t see the cycles for were of a young man and woman holding wineglasses in a celebratory pose, and of a woman in a short dress wearing a helmet like the one Athena is portrayed in – one of the only lone figures – and a man and woman I surmised were in some sort of muse/artist relationship, since the woman was holding a quill pen.

1.6.23

Smell Epiphany

I am a different person (female, Asian, maybe around eight years old) living in a house with my family. The house is somewhat similar to childhood home #5, at least in the size/location of the kitchen area. Something is bothering me – I’ve forgotten some of the points related to this – so I go outside to sit by the garden. There’s a steep, rocky slope lined with trees that leads down to a small garden where vegetables are growing. I sit on the slope, shaded by trees, and stay there for a while.

Later, I’m in a building with my father and older brother, walking down a hallway. It’s a busy area, and many of the walls are lined with shelves full of bottles and boxes. He seems to be some kind of medical professional, and he is giving us a lesson, something both my brother and I find boring. He tells us to take a certain amount of a certain kind of powder on a shelf, so we do, putting it containers we have with us. He asks us how we can tell whether it’s good quality or not. I know the right answer, and so I give it: by its smell. He tells us to go back to where we got the powder and smell it. We do. My brother goes first, and when he’s done, I lean down to smell it. The stuff looks, and also kind of smells, like curry powder. As I smell it, I realize for the first time just how many dimensions a smell can have. It’s like a whole world. The idea that people can extract meaningful information doing this was just abstract to me before, but now it’s real.

5.6.23

Also a Couple Lucid Dreams

I won’t describe them in detail, though, since I don’t think walking/flying around and looking at things would make for very interesting reading. The first (10.6.23) had an interesting setting – I get lucid after the dream’s ‘plot’ seems to come to an end, fly through a wall, and start exploring. I gain height and fly around an industrial park at night – brightly lit in different colors, with the reflected light from the overcast sky giving it a vivid atmosphere, while lightning flashes in the distance. I go in and out a number of times and make my wings appear at least twice – notably, just based on my shadow, they seem to be smaller than normal, which maybe makes sense as I can fly perfectly well without them, and so there’s no real need to make them look like they’re actually serving some purpose.

In the second lucid dream (13.6.23), after some dream events I can’t recall very clearly, I’m leaving a school and happen to see by NR looking at children’s artwork hanging in the hallway. He’s wearing a wide-brimmed hat, and so I can’t see his face. I walk past, but then it occurs to me that I should really take the opportunity to talk with him. I turn around and see that he’s begun to vanish, and I realize that I’m dreaming. I decide that I’ll go somewhere else, just leaving the location up to the dream.

I keep walking towards the entrance, close my eyes, and let the dream fade around me. My sense of having a body, and therefore of having my eyes closed, vanishes completely, and once it’s gone, imagery begins to arise again. In a flash, I see bare tree branches in a thick, white mist. Accompanying the visuals is a strong impression of early spring. Then everything comes into full focus again, and I’m standing in a bare garden underneath a bare-branched tree by a pond. I (wrongly) identify this as the backyard of childhood home #5 and am a little disappointed – just think of all the more interesting places I could have ended up. But maybe there will be some value in revisiting the place here in a dream – it’s not exactly one I have good memories of.

And so I walk up to the house, jumping through the garage doors but then opening the one to the inside normally for some reason – maybe I just expected it to be unlocked. The layout of the house does not resemble the one I’ve mistaken it for in any meaningful way other than having hardwood floors. I walk through the various rooms, ground floor first, then upper floor. Nobody is around – I only see a couple cats in one of the rooms. My alarm awakens me before I can explore the whole house.

Biker bar shenanigans

I am in a biker bar that is dimly lit
There were other instances before this that blurred together
I am looking around at the neon signs and people sitting around the bar
All of their facial features seem blurred and misshaped
I immediately know that I am dreaming
Looking at my hands, yup too many fingers and two thumbs per hand
I try to remember my dream tasks and decide to summon
Swinging my hand out and back in I have a gun in my hand
Nope, did that already, I de-summon it while looking at it, just fading into nothing
Remembering I’m in a bar I decide a beer would be nice!
A bottle slowly phases into my gripping hand while I look at it
The DCs around me are staring(through their deformed eyes)
I gather I am putting on a magic show of sorts for them lol
Hold the beer up to drink it exaggeratedly and feel the liquid going into my mouth
It tastes like nothing, like no carbonation or anything, almost like drinking air that has volume to it, I am let down because I wanted to drink something in a dream
It seems to be hard to remember the whole list of tasks from the competition
I remember thinking about telekinesis (this used to be my most reliable dream sign but had the thought the other day I haven't had any TK dreams in quite some time)
Reaching out with one hand I levitate all the bottles sitting on the bar
People sitting around stand up and audibly gasp
Oh boy now I’m causing a scene
I drop them all at once and hear some glass breaking
I walk around the bar just taking in the details
It seems dimly lit and not as clear as I would prefer so I say in my mind loudly “CLEAR”
The picture snaps into focus and brightens some, good enough
I then remember thinking how I’ve never made a portal in dream and that would be interesting
Holding my hand out with two fingers extended like Dr. Strange I start drawing semi-circles in the air
Greenish sparks start coming out of my fingers and I can see the outline of the portal forming
I’m unsure where I want to go, the portal seems to be fading in and out
It is now a large human-sized oval greenish portal like from rick’s portal gun
I sidestep into it without a clear idea of where I’ll end up
The dream pauses/does that screen shake thing that happens when you walk through a portal in VR chat
The dream destabilizes and I lose lucidity as the next dream locale boots up

Fragment

I befriend a younger couple, and the girl has eyes for me
I attempt not to be disrespectful but the guy is constantly leaving us alone
It feels like a survival situation
We have a hole with cargo nets in it we can hide in to be safe

Fragment

of a war game/outdoor airsoft match
I throw a grenade through a window a great distance away, and hear the enemies yelp before it goes boom

Fragment

I am with my friend who has started a fire in his backyard to keep us warm
He started the fire inside a dilapidated shed with no roof and missing a wall or two
I worry the fire could spread
Some time elapses and I go back to his backyard to check on things
The fire has completely engulfed the shed as it was mostly all dried aged wood frames
He doesn't seem to mind much because they were going to have to clear it away anyway
I am slightly concerned at the size of it and people might notice
Then we hear the news playing from inside his house
They are reporting a house fire seen from miles away
They describe the location as being exactly where we are
I think, oh boy here we go
The dream fades while we talk about how to deal with the tall flames

I'm scaling up a building's side and peek inside a small singular window that's extended outwards from the rest of the wall. A guy looking like myself looks back at me from a cozy looking green oriented bedroom. As I move higher and reach an inclinated tile roof I become lucid. I turn around and see two guys in their late 20s dressed in cycling outfits climbing right after me. The guy on the left who's blonde instantly blurts out: "Sensei", while the guy on the right, who appears more offbeat crawling up like a feral animal, rumbles quietly: "hoookiiiiff..." I instantly say out loud to myself that: "Yeah thats not quite Sensei" while still ignoring the other guy not realizing what his rumbling meant. We then stand on the edge of the roof together. The weirder of the two, who I then realize is meant to represent Hukif, jolts his hand towards the ground 4 stories below us and points with a finger. A beam shoots down, and another next to it. Two portals appear, and just as quickly Hukif jumps down in to one them and bolts right back up to the roof from the other one. "Holy shit hahah! That was sick", I say, and Tbox, who has now also appeared next to us agrees excitedly. I go and try copying what Hukif just did, but right as I'm about to hit the portal it shrinks into a quarter of it's original size and half of my body hits the pavement. Ah. I return back to the roof. Then Tbox decides to try something similar of his own from the other corner of the roof and drops himself from the eaves. I know it won't work, and with him no longer in sight I shoot my hand towards his approximate location in the air. He comes levitating back on top of a small portal thingie of my own smiling.

I suddenly "wake up", and now my brother and Hukif, who has turned into a muscular shirtless guy, quickly help me get up on my hands and say in unison the sort of: "We were in the same lucid dream! Did you dream about being on a roof with us? Yeah we did too!" I'm completely blown away, we did it! We shared a lucid drea...! - Wait... I check my left hand, five fingers. I check my right hand. Three fingers. Hah! Alright, back on my feet. We're inside some small yellowish wooden room. "Hukif" and "Sensei" are now outside, apparently wrestling each other. I open the door and sure they are, and now Sensei actually looks like himself from his Discord picture. Hukif then bolts at me and tries grabbing me as well, while shooting fire from his mouth right to my face with no effect.

I actually wake up, but stay focused on the sensation of the dream while ignoring my physical body. I'm back inside the dream. The scene changes completely while gaining extra vividness. We're now standing on a sluggish strand of forest right on the bank of a lake with moss, twigs and all sorts of gnarly stuff covering the place. The people I'm now with are strangers. A lady goes and begins poking around a heap of the nasty stuff near the water and something begins moving where she touched. And further to the left as well, atleast five meters away, as if something big was waking up under the mossy blanket. I see shapes of a giant vulture.

Day-time (Nap)

Lucid in the Manor
I'm outside a manor looking place. It’s rainy. I go around the side and find the front door. I open it and it has a Mario Sunshine style doorway to jump into a level. I jump in.
I'm in my living room, but it is wider and has a tall ceiling.
Much bigger than normal. I put my hand out in front of me and starting counting fingers out of habit. Six fingers per hand.
That’s not right…I’m dreaming!
I do a nose RC several times to verify.
I keep my hands out in front of me to look at as a sort of lucid anchor.
I walk down the hall, but my dream starts to fade before I can save it.

Night-time Sleep

The Secret 10th Dungeon
I'm playing Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. I'm walking on the surface and I get the "new location" HUD text for a new dungeon.
It tells me that it is the Secret 10th Dungeon.
I can see that there is air rising out of nowhere so I jump and activate the paraglider.
It takes me all the way into the Sky with floating structures all around.
I land on a larger structure and the HUD confirms again that this is the secret dungeon.
I'm very excited about this and start to explore.

The Dragon Roost Cup
I see Toon Link (Windwaker Legend of Zelda Style) fly by on some vehicle.
I understand that this is for a Zelda-themed Mario Kart game.
Characters are all riding Sky vehicles.
On the HUD, there is a Dragon Roost Cup title, and others, similar to how Mushroom/Flower/Star cups work in Mario Kart.
Not going to say this counts for Dragon Theme, since it was just a title and reference. Not an actual dragon.
I wouldn't be mad if I'm wrong on this though...

Airship Dining
I'm out for dinner with family. We're walking down the street together looking for a restaurant.
It's a rainy night and my Dad is there with my brother and I.
We are talking about diet, but still decide on pizza.
We come across one, where there is an airship tied down. The restaurant logo is 1800s-ish looking gentleman with tophat.
The quirk of the restaurant is that the airship lands at scheduled times and becomes available for seating, alongside standard ground-seating.
There is a rope mechanic where patrons help secure the airship.

2 Lucids!
Night 1: It wasn’t necessarily a game of Melting Passion (a project I'm working on), but more or so that mixed with real life. The gameplay loop started with me in a warehouse, traveling between areas begging for people to see my work. If it worked out, I attended a business meeting with them. One time I was waiting for a meeting with the OmniLucid staff, and some dude on my discord server kept sending links to torture videos. These things got me lucid, but I just wanted to continue the plot so I banned the people who did it but went to the place. Mzzkc was running things and I gave my business proposition. I was then brought to a room with several other people, including a friend of mine and his brother (who's an asshole). Sat next to this guy but he was sweating like all hell, so I moved to another seat and played with this fidgety thing until it was my turn to go. There was a mirror, it was hard to get the right view of it, but eventually I was sucked into a sci-fi world that I owned. I could ride these coaster things that sped to different parts of the city, with the radio saying my name. It was amazing, though I spent the next couple days with my mother helping her plant a garden.

Night 2: My parents were following a cooking tutorial from youtubers and it was a disaster. If I let them keep it up, they were gonna burn the house down. I saved it and actually made a pretty good meal. Then I was playing a VR game where I was Golden Freddy being repaired. The controls were strange, but I got the game on. Similar to Security Breach I had to destroy all of the animatronics one by one. I left the vr game, and it was time to go to Oregon. I was on the plane and got lucid from the conference. Sadly, I for some reason thought it was the 16th in real life and woke myself up to get there "early"

I'm with a couple of wo-workers and they need assistance with some students. We're in an area near some bookshelves to the right. I see a DC go to organize a bunch on an upper level, but a few get knocked over and many start falling. I turn and my co-worker gets my attention and tells where the help is needed. Another co-worker approaches, adjusting her shirt so the midsection is showing - the other does the same. We begin the transition to the next area and come upon a larger building. We enter and then transition to getting a table for dinner. I discover that my parents are there. We're near the table, but I realize I need to go to the bathroom and head to the back section. I arrive near a large glass window, in an area with a green hue, and something feels strange. I look at my hands. I recognize a couple of scars as in waking life - that's strange... I look at the glass and notice a faint reflection. I have the thought that it seems pretty real, yet something still seems off. I look at my hands again and they appear as they're in a dark shadow. I decide to jump into the glass window, but the contact is hard. My mind isn't convinced that it's waking life so I jump again at the glass windowand go right through, and I'm lucid! I begin flying around outside of the building which appears to be a mansion with a light colored stone exterior. There is a body of water surrounding the mansion with large trees overhanging above the water. The trees are beautiful, with branches colored in a light whitish cream, with gnarled portions. They're all filled with deep red leaves as in autumn. Many of the branches drape very low, hovering just above the water surface. I continue to fly forward around this area, farther down the stretch of water, past one massive branch coming from the bank to my left. I want it to be a bit more vivid, so I stop for a moment and ramp up my awareness. This works to a degree. As I begin to wind around the building, toward more trees and I have the thought that it looks like a previous dream - that it's possibly the the back area of the White Terrace. I make my way to the back area of the building, turn to by right, and notice small pillars on the edge of what appears to be a balcony on an upper level. I fly at bit further but the dream goes to a black void. I resolve to hold my awareness. I continue to move my dream arms as I do so, moving them in circular patterns. After a bit, I lose lucidity and have a false awakening in which my dream journal pen falls to the floor and I decide I'll just get it in the morning. I then wake up.

Didn't have time to upload yesterday as I was busy with friends and schoolwork, not to mention this entry is ginormous! Got some things to explain before getting started:

1) 1PV/3PV = First Person/Third Person.
2) NEO = Non-Existent Observer. I've mentioned it in a few other entries but it's particularly important in this one, so I'll explain it. In most if not all dreams I'm not a part of, it's present. What it is, is essentially thoughts in the back of my mind that I'm not consciously aware of (at the time). (Like making internal comments while watching a movie.) They happen almost constantly, so it would be pointless to narrate them all, but they heavily influence the dream scene, and in the last dream logged here, those influences are important!
3) Watched How to Train Your Dragon 3 on Saturday and got my dragons back


Dream #1 (Non-Lucid):
S was complaining about China and how they treated their citizens. Said they were stupid for going against their word and cultivating more edible food in 2020, that in the long run it would have been better to prioritize profit instead.

I brought up the pandemic and food shortages and they essentially said, "They should have just let everyone die."

"Uh… okay." I couldn't believe they were acting so self-righteous even while saying things like that. I was sure nothing I said would get through to them.

We were in a Japanese-style house and there were various fruits hanging from the ceiling in bunches. I wanted raspberries, but bees were hovering around them. S wasn't scared and picked them all for themselves, so I got stuck with these little duck fruits instead.

(Fragment: Later we were on a mission and transformed into two brothers.)

Woke up at 2:30-ish and WBTB.


Dream #2 (Non-Lucid):
(1PV) I was in a library, on the run from something. I checked out a children's book about dragons eating honey and regurgitating it for their queen. On the same table were chocolate eggs, one with a coating of dark chocolate and a filling of milk chocolate, the other the reverse. Z was gobbling up the former and there was so much drool, it was disgusting.

A girl with long black hair and a yandere vibe came over to us, and I became half myself, half some guy. Someone gave her chocolate glasses with no lenses, (3PV) and the dream turned manga style. Two panels of the guy kissing the girl filled the screen. Except he wasn't kissing her out of love—it was to pacify her, out of fear she would lash out.

It backfired. The dream style returned to normal and she grabbed him, dragging him away. He clawed at the wall until his nails bled, but it was no use. She grew tendrils out of her back and wrapped him up like a python.

My dad encouraged him to "remember the number," false memory or not, I don't know. The girl was casting a spell and during it said "yon" (four), but the kanji that appeared on the screen showed something else. At least the guy thought it did… I separated from him for a moment and as the NEO thought, I would totally die here, if it were me.

He decided on "shichi" (seven), hoping the correct number would cancel out the spell and exorcise her, but before he could voice the second syllable, he was frozen in place. (1PV) A tendril wrapped over his mouth so he could not speak. We both thought, Guess it wasn't that, then.

———

I abruptly woke at 4:30, and for two seconds could not move. I wondered if I'd be frozen until he "won," trying to figure out how I should make that happen, but then it went away. Guess it was sleep paralysis. Wrote down notes and WBTB.

(P.S., I find it fitting how the first syllable of "shichi" is "shi," which is another way of saying four and death )

———

Dream #3 (Fragment, Non-Lucid):
Tons of village people were killed. A little boy was sad about it, but their spirits came down from the sky, two of which were his parents. They gave him an amulet and said if he brought it to a certain person, they could all be revived.

"Really?" he asked. "That's allowed? It's that simple?"

"Of course! Our deaths were unfair, after all."

Then there was something about hypnosis and a girl with short black hair. (Can't read my notes.)

Woke at 6:15 from alarm and WBTB.


Dream #4 (Non-Lucid):
The rooms on the upper floor of my house had become self-help rooms. A young boy was filling out a sign-up form for one of them and had to choose which languages he was proficient in. He chose English and "Barcelona," but felt a little ashamed choosing the latter since he could only speak and listen, not read and write.

He went into the bathroom, the Suicidal Self-Help Room, and disappeared from the dream. There were two men in there, and another guy creaked open the door, peering in at them. He asked, "Do you want to die?"

"Yes," they responded.

"Then, if you have come here despite wanting to die, and make it to the end of this journey, I trust you will come out stronger."

He held out his hand and they took it. Next thing I remember is them doing side steps on top of chairs—one guy was nervous but got the hang of it eventually... so I guess the "journey" was just exercising.

Then I was in my room, except I was a really tall, really wide black lady, and I had zero control over "my" own actions. I think it was the Immigration Self-Help Room, and there was a Hispanic lady of similar size in there. I kept talking to her in an exaggerated accent that mimicked her own, all the while thinking to myself, Why?! Why are you doing this? It's not like it'll be easier for her to understand!

Thoughts I couldn't control responded, But she speaks that way herself.

So? She hears normal English every day, what you're doing is way more confusing! (I was also wondering to myself when my appearance would return to normal.)

In the end I only managed to lessen the accent slightly, and the Hispanic lady understandably stormed out of the room. A minute later, she came back in, glaring at me.

"W-What?" "I" stammered.

She started yelling at me in Spanish, and I tried to explain that I couldn't speak it well enough to communicate, and then we both got confused as to why I was in that room in the first place. But she shrugged it off and continued, saying (in Spanish) that we're supposed to be on the same team and she doesn't need prejudice from me, too.

It broke me down and I started crying, hugging her and apologizing. She hugged me back–I vividly felt her warmth–and told me to go to the Suicidal Self-Help Room (aka the bathroom).

I did, and when I looked in the mirror I was my regular self (albeit naked), and had regained control over my actions. Tears were streaked down my cheeks, so I wiped them away with toilet paper. Then I realized I really needed to poop, so I plopped down on the toilet, but pee came out instead.

Of course, this was not only the bathroom but the Suicidal Self-Help Room, so the guy from before creaked open the door and peeked in. There was also a white-haired man standing in the corner.

"Do you want to die?" he asked, as per routine.

I was still peeing and felt a little self-conscious about being naked, but I took his hand anyway and said yes.

"Then, if you have come here despite wanting to die, and make it to the end of-"

I interrupted him, exploding with laughter. The whole time he was talking I was still peeing, and it was hilarious hearing him speak so dramatically over the sound of it. "It's funny 'cause I'm peeing!"

"Don't underestimate us," he warned, but he was smiling. The white-haired man laughed as well.

"Why is it going on so long?" I exclaimed, and as it trickled to a stop, I woke up at 7:20.

———

That is one of the weirdest dreams I've ever had, and not just because of the naked peeing part. I don't think I've ever had a dream where I was unable to control myself, no matter how hard I tried. It wasn't too unpleasant, but it was definitely strange.

Wrote it down and went back to sleep, attempting WILD as usual.

———

Dream #5 (Lucid?):
The time period was the 1800s, and some guy was taking J and I around town. I think we were his servants or something similar. He kept trying to take a picture of us but wouldn't stop yelling. I told him to stop because each time he did I tensed up and ground my teeth, and I was worried they would break.

After a particularly loud yell I heard a crack, but luckily I had Invisalign on, so it was pieces of that that fell out of my mouth instead of teeth. Still, I was distressed, and cried out, "See what you did?"

J and I left him and went to a shop. I asked the store owner if it could somehow be fixed, but I don't remember his answer and I doubted it, considering the time period.

Some stuff happened and we ended up in a library, searching for glasses on the floor because my vision was blurry and we were too poor to buy a pair. At one point J said to me, "Yeah, you seriously need glasses."

"Not really… if I'm driving, maybe."

We ended up finding a ton, including a "time-travel" pair, particularly under the bookcases. I found it weird, but people were giving us dirty looks so we went outside to try them on. K was next to us being annoying, and I worried she would steal them.

I put on a very tight black pair; each frame was shaped like the Eiffel Tower, and one of the lenses was blurry. I took them off with some difficulty and thought, "These are for skinny-faced people."

I turned back to K and found she had stuffed all the rest in her bag. "Hey!" I shouted, snatching two of the red ones (one of which was the time-traveling pair). She threw a fit, waving her fists in the air and howling like a child.

"You can keep the others, okay?" I yelled, but that made her even angrier. She transformed into a dragon that resembled Toothless, curled into a ball, and covered her face with one wing. You could hear her sobbing underneath.

I started to walk away, but decided it wasn't a good idea to destroy this friendship. I gently touched her wing and said, "Aw, c'mon, don't cry… don't be like Hiccup." (Wrapped up in Toothless's wings.)

She didn't stop, but seemed slightly placated, so J and I left to a train. Except, I have a random memory of being in front of my house and Kagome's mom coming out. We had a short conversation, and next thing I knew J and I were gone from the dream.

Back to the train, Kagome and her mom were running from two different directions to jump on, nearly falling into a pit in the process. Inuyasha grabbed them both and lifted Kagome to safety, keeping the mom held over the pit until Kagome told him who it was. And then all three of them disappeared from the dream as well.

(3PV) I don't remember the events leading up to it, but there was total chaos on the train. Acidic green goo was pouring through the roof, melting everything and everyone in its path. People were screaming and running around and jumping under the train and into glowing red holes, killing themselves to escape.

The main character was a man in a bomber jacket. He went down a short flight of stairs, where the green goo wouldn't reach, due to the captives being held there. It was a small room, and in it were two cages. Each of them held a deformed mass of bloody flesh in the shape of a baby. They crawled around as much as they could, pieces of their body rubbing off and trailing behind them.

They may have been Kagome and Inuyasha, and were rumored to "occasionally have real conversations." (That was not remarkable because they looked like babies, but because the people in this world did not have conversations of any depth in general.) At first they were just apologizing to each other in raspy voices, but soon began to say things like, "We'll never be fixed/let out" and "We should have done it slower."

They were a hideous sight to behold, and two people who had followed MC down were freaking out. MC himself was on the verge of a breakdown, but as the NEO, I thought, No, I don't want my guy to freak out… I don't want him to kill himself. That would be too anti-climactic.

That thought must have influenced him, because for a while he just stared blankly at the babies. But then out of the blue, he became lucid!

"It's okay, guys!" he assured the two people wailing beside him. "This is just a dream!"

Ah, he's right, I vaguely thought, as NEO.

They didn't pay attention to him, and one tried to approach the cages. He grabbed her by the collar and dragged both of them back up to the main train. (1PV) He looked at the doors and forced them open with his mind, then jumped out and flew into the sky, thinking ecstatically, This is a dream! I'm free! I'm free!

He landed on a lamp post and looked out at the station, grinning widely. But then someone snapped a picture of him, and it filled the screen. He was alarmed. Even though he hadn't freaked out on the train, the events had still traumatized him, and the last thing he wanted was to cause a scene. He climbed down from the pole and lost lucidity.

Suddenly he realized he could not remember his name, or who he was, or where he worked. A police officer was standing on the platform, and MC rushed to him, begging for help.

The P.O. turned to him and smiled tenderly. "Glen."

The train pulled into the station. P.O. pulled Glen inside, and was bombarded with questions as they headed to the back seats. "You know my name? Do you know me? Can you help me?"

They sat down, and the P.O. handed him a small green key, presumably a house key. "Of course I remember your name, Glen. I'm on the right side of God." He said it with humor, almost sarcasm. "Now stop messing around."

"What about my work? Do you know my work?"

P.O. hesitated. Both Glen and I as the NEO could tell he was coming up blank.

Glen laughed and leaned closer. "You don't even know that? Are you really on the right side of God?"

P.O. frowned. "Glen, stop. You're going to tip off the 315 out of 415 Orthodox religious people in this small town." (Statistics filled the screen and NEO me thought, Oddly specific numbers, and, They're awfully close–they must be gay or dating. Too bad for them that it's the 1800s.) "You need to be quiet… well, I guess I could be quieter, too."

He sighed and sunk back into his chair. Glen leaned even closer and continued happily talking with him. Even though I was not him (unlike the second or fourth dream), it was in first person, and I could vividly feel the sensation of his hand on his cheek. I could feel his smiling mouth, the creasing of his eyes, even his affection for the P.O. It was strange, experiencing someone else's emotions like that.

———

Woke up at 9:25. Believe it or not, I actually forgot huge chunks of this dream. Couldn't remember the first part for a good five minutes.

I just don't understand how I could watch someone become lucid and not become lucid myself. I suppose I was in the back of my mind, but that doesn't count. As the non-existent observer, I have no idea that I am thinking anything at all.

So, regarding scoring… does it count as lucidity if I didn't realize my own existence? Neither Glen nor I were aware of who the dreamer was, nor did we remember the competition tasks. It was a surface-level lucidity in which he only knew his surroundings weren't real and he could do whatever he wanted. I'm logging it in my LD count because it didn't feel like role-playing (edit: changed my mind after saizaphod comment), but I understand how it could be a gray area.

If it does count, do his actions (telekinesis, flying) as well? Could it even be considered my personal goal, making a dream character lucid?! I need help

Points:
WBTB - 2 points
Remember a Non-Lucid Fragment - ½
Remember a Full Non-Lucid Dream (x3) - 3 points
Dragons Theme - 5 points
DILD - TBD
Interact with dream character - TBD
Telekinesis - TBD
Flying - TBD
Tonight's sum: 10.5 points
Previous sum: 114.5 points
Comp total: 125 points

Non-lucid frag: +0.5
Wbtb: +2

Lucid: +10
I don’t really remember this lucid, but I did realize I was dreaming then woke into an FA.

That is all.

6.12.2023

Pixie, Pixels, and Lucidity (Lucid)

There is something going on where we are shooting bows and arrows. Someone (my Dad?) shoots a target from a long distance away. I try to do the same... There is something somewhere about a doll that looks like an attractive “pixie-type” girl. Someone wonders who she is, and she turns out to be someone else’s sister...Hanging out with Kane Pixels. In the dream, he is my friend. I think there is some girl with us. We are talking about liminal places, and the girl opens a portal into another world. I think we were also talking about writing (I don’t remember what exactly, but that’s what my notes say – if I’m reading them properly. My handwriting is a bit messy again here). We go back outside to the parking lot, and Kane is looking for his truck, I think. This might remind me of one of my dreamsigns: looking for my truck. I count the fingers on my left hand as a reality check. At first I get 6 or 7. As I keep looking, I see a bunch of fingers on my left hand. I become lucid! I decide to look for some Dreamstone. I look around, and see a rock on the ground. It doesn’t look like Dreamstone, but it is a stone, so I try eating it to see if it will do anything for my dreaming. I put it in my mouth, but am unable to chew it. The dream seemed fairly stable, but I think I lose it as we approach the vehicle we were headed towards.

This might have been part of the same dream too, but I’m not certain:

Something about being in an underground zoo-like place. There are cats and dogs in enclosures, and if you look at the back of a couple of the enclosures you can see a curving stairway that goes up somewhere. I wonder where these stairs go. On the way out, we go up another set of stairs. There are some kittens next to the door, and I pet them.

Technical Difficulties

Someone has a kind of remote-control device. It raises and lowers a platform, and I think is somehow useful in research. He gives it to me while he goes somewhere, but doesn’t really explain how to use it. I go to my cousin and try to get him to explain it to me, but he doesn’t seem to pay attention to me. I follow him a while, and eventually give up. I also carry some condiment from one place to another. Now I’m in charge of playing music for some event, and this remote-control device is how the music is played. I mess around with it trying to see how it works. Meanwhile, a girl shows up and requests a song. I tell her I’m having trouble playing music, but I will try to play it for her. I finally find the buttons to press that will bring up a place where I can enter a URL to stream music. I try to enter Spotify, but when I try typing it in, it brings up something else instead.

Cyberpunk Chase & Planet Mu

I am in a suburban neighborhood at night
One of my old friends is with me we are exploring different homes along the way
I gather we are also being pursued by some unnamed force
Random things keep happening, streetlights are changing shapes in front of me
I have an umbrella that has a tv antenna coming out of the end, it keeps getting longer like 15'
Try to show my friend next to me and he doesn't realize what's wrong
I look back and there is a pizza box-looking object now on the end of the umbrella
I wonder why nothing I'm looking at stays the same as we're exploring
We are at his friend's house with his friend sleeping on the couch, we try to be quiet to not wake her up and I wonder if they will be mad we just walked into their home
We go from building to building just exploring the street
The scenery turns into a cyberpunk-type city
Dingy streets with neon storefronts on the street level with high rises surrounding me
I realize I am trying to get a job maybe
I am very dirty like a vagabond with a dirty face as well, they are all put of by how I look
Entering a storefront that almost looks like a bank, I am applying for a loan and they turn me down without a second's hesitation
My friend is an alien now with an orange leopard face and time cop fatigues
The employee of the store are all alien cops coming after us
He shoots them with a red phaser-type alien weapon as we are in a shootout with different colored lasers flying all over the place
He tosses me an alien gun
I catch it midair and begin shooting the guys coming for us
The shape of the gun is compact like a toy with red accents and a short barrel that shoots red pew pew lasers
Seemingly ineffective with a single shot and gather I need to hit them multiple times for the stun to be effective
It feels like we are robbing the bank maybe
I notice other weapons on desks as we make our way through the office space
Grabbing one with my free hand it is larger, boxy, and gray with blue beams
So I'm dual-wielding laser weapons shooting our way out
The room opens up into a quite large atrium with many types of aliens scattered about almost like the MIB headquarters
We are on the 7th or 8th floor overlooking the open area with everyone down below
I somehow am able to change shape into an alien being while I hide
As we're leaning against the guardrail hiding the alien cops are still looking for us
I overhear one of them say to the other
"Tell me why the number one wanted delinquent kid in the city spends his entire time in virtual cafes"
I understand now I am VR-hopping to escape and can choose whatever I experience
The entire dream before makes sense now as reality keeps shifting right in front of me
My friend changes into another alien which is ~3' tall chubby gray with smooth features and large cartoonish white eyes with black pupils
Noticing all the changes I say to them "This has got to be a dream"
He responds "Well, yeah?"
I am instantly lucid but also frustrated because this is not what I wanted to experience
My friend responds "I TRIED TO MAKE IT SOMETHING YOU'D LIKE, WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME!?"
I say "I want the Pearls, I want to be on planet MU"
And he replies "SURE LETS GOOO!!" while waving his arms up with a magical motion
As I turn around the entire scene dissolves and in its place a very scenic ocean landscape manifests itself
All the dozens of aliens that were around us turn into variants of the pearls though none were shaped exactly like them
I see the bright beach in the distance with house-sized shells and a tropical shoreline
We are all in the ocean traveling that way as a group
Realize even more strongly that it's a dream I remember my lucid goals
First, to summon something, I think of summoning the phaser I had earlier
So I swing my arm out of vision intending the alien gun to appear feeling the weight of it in my hand
I swing my arm back and it's there, spinning it like a cowboy I laugh and toss it away
Also remembering I need to fly as well
So I pick up two people on either side of me as I slowly levitate out of the water and fly over the crowd of other beings
We are all still going toward the island now at greater speeds
I am above everyone moving quickly and remember I need to manipulate some elements as well
Tossing the people I was carrying forward I lift both arms from waist-high palms up to shoulder height watching the ocean in front of us swell into a massive quarter of a mile-high stationary tsunami
We are all rising up with the wall of water
People are caught up in the water but I am flying parallel straight up to the top
I fly over the crest of the wave which feels incredibly high up
Doing a sort of backflip turn in the air similar to the way a pole vaulter clears a jump
Feeling the mist of turbulent water on my face from the top as I cross with the water to my back, I am looking upwards towards the dark starlit sky with a bright sun still illuminating the setting
I feel the dream destabilize some so I turn my head to get the beach and shoreline back in my field of view
I am overcome with emotions and a pleasant sensation washes over my body as I freefall head-first down the face of the tsunami toward the island
There are several alien pearl beings on the shore along with pearls around me in the ocean
There is no violent crash of the water as the wave levels out with the ocean calmly again
We are all now just wading water a few feet from the shoreline
The dream fades as I take in the scenery completely overwhelmed with the realization that I finally had my lucid dream
It's beautiful and picturesque, just a sunny day in paradise

I don’t really want to write down the non-lucids right now, so…

Night 7: Nothing
Night 8: 2 non-lucid frags, and a wbtb (+3)
Night 9: full non-lucid and wbtb (+3)

——

Night 10:

full non-lucid (+1)
wbtb (+2)

DILD:
I was in another non-lucid ULTRAKILL dream (seems to be a VERY strong recurring theme).
It was a decently sized room of weapons to choose from, and I decided to physically pick up the nailgun.
Due to having the same thing happen in a previous non-lucid in the night, I instantly realized I was dreaming (+10).
Right after that, my nailgun duplicated into two, so I had to get banish the second one (+5 basic unsummon).
The nailgun is an electronic device, so I tried firing it.. it didn’t work very well, but I tried, so.. (+5 use an electronic device)
The handle of the nailgun also felt weird, so I used dream control to make it feel normal again. (+5 unspecified control)
After all of that, I woke up, DEILDed (+2 chain a lucid), and so began the saga..
The remainder of this lucid is all the work of way too many DEILD chains that messed with my recall. They were all mostly fake chains, but I know that two of them were real.
The first chain I remember was at my grandmother’s house. There was someone driving by, so I thought I’d test my luck against them and fight.
I mind-controlled them to be hostile to me (+5 dc manipulation).
After I fought him for a while, my vision blackened, and I fake-DEILDed into a faint hallucination of once again, an area in ultrakill, yay.
I stayed in that faint hallucination until I felt comfortable enough to teleport out without waking.
I teleported right above a forest, first-thing (+10). I fell down to the forest floor from about 100ft in the air, which might prove myself to be invulnerable? (+5 for proved invulnerability?)
Once I got to the ground, there was eight or so dogs following me and being annoying.
This made me wake up for real, but thankfully DEILDing still worked (+2). I felt my IRL body and dream body separately, and eventually only my dream body, into a scene I no longer recall.
(Memory gap.)
I fake-chain into the final scene, in my house. I see outside, some sort of car chase going on in my backyard.
Decided to grab a knife as defense, and go check out what exactly was going on.
No idea, couldn’t tell what the ruckus was about. I woke up for the final time, shortly after.

———

That was a really packed lucid, after a few days of radio silence.

Adds up to 58 points.

I was at the dinner table with my mother, father, and father's parents. The location I was in felt like the day care/kindergarten place I went to when I was a young child. (Very odd, do not think in my 15ish years of LDing I have ever dreamed of that place, or even a place that felt similar to it.) I distinctly remember the dining room had a very odd feel to it. The room was very bland with white walls, venetian blinds and plain blue carpet with a complete lack or decor. It felt like a hospital waiting room or something. I was eating at a folding outdoor table which for some reason had a sort of padding or cushioning on the surface of the table while the chair was one of those hard folding metal kinds you get at outdoor parties.

I recall I was sitting at the table eating breaded chicken tenders but not feeling hungry. Then my mother came inside from one door and said to my father that the police were outside and wanted to speak to him. I looked at my food and remember cutting the breaded tender apart to see the chicken meat inside with a knife.

Then Robert Waggoner (I have been re-listening to the audible version of 'Lucid Dreaming, Gateway to the inner self) came in the other door. He was portrayed as a man of average physique with gray hair and glasses and said "An expert lucid dreamer would not be distracted by the current elements of the dream, but would instead lucidly aware, choose investigate elements that could lead to introspection."

I became lucid and got up. Realizing what I really wanted to do, investigate why my dream-father was being summoned by police officers. I headed outside to see three or four police cars parked on the lawn of the day care, where the playground would have been. The fence, tree and playground equipment were all gone.

False awakening in my own bed. I got a message on my laptop. Madmonkey had sent me a youtube video. It was titled '10 hours of Johnny Test Screaming'.

DILD 10pts (x1)

The White Terrace
I’m descending a stairwell with a group of DCs, one of which looks similar to a classmate from years back. I begin hopping the rails and swinging down to progress rapidly. I exit to the hallway and try to enter to another vacant stairwell, but the entrance is partially barricaded by a broken door. I make my way in and realize the scene look familiar… like from a previous…dream! I’m dreaming! I don’t want to stay in this area as it’s quite run down and decide to get out. I hear a couple voices which sound eerie for just a moment, but have the thought that it simply doesn’t matter since I’m dreaming – I could even confront them. I fly up to the window above and to my right enter into an area which extends to the left and right with white furniture – mostly couches and tables. I glide forward a notice that several feet forward is a massive drop of about 4 stories to a body of water below. I head to the right and see that there is more of a paved area in that directions. DCs are walking around in this campus-looking area with brick buildings. I turn back around and head into the terrace area to explore. I notice that the entryway I came through appears to be sealed up and the room extends further to the back toward what appears to be an extended lounge area with more couches. I wonder if this could become a persistent dream realm – another sanctuary of sorts to come to return to. I look around a bit but soon decide to work on dream goals. The dream elixir comes to mind and I begin searching for one. I look toward the sitting area on the edge of the terrace and decide an elixir may be there. I move around the seats and approach the table form the far side. I notice a large conch and decide this is it. I raise it and notice some liquid inside. I drink it and wonder if this will aid me with lucidity (which is interesting since I had another DILD right after). I turn and move on from this area to the previous concrete area. I see a DC moving around by a building. I try twice to raise her via telekinesis, but don’t have any luck. She continues to walk in front of a building in the background – what almost appears to be like an unused blacktop area. I move my eyes around the scene in an attempt to stabilize. I think to myself that I want the dream to last for a full hour. I remind my self to focus and increase my awareness. I turn and move around the corner to the next area of the blacktop. There were several dream characters her as well as a little girl who is roughly 3 feet tall with two blonde pig-tails .The girl was crying and I go to go help her out by carrying her to the next area. I lose my lucidity at this point as I continue to carry her to the next area.

Sunrise Harbor
I’m in a small room with a couple of DCs one adult female character is getting impatient and grabs a phone to watch videos. It’s a ghost video and I’m not interested. The voice says, “Are you dreaming?” and I realize… yes! I’m dreaming! I immediately turn and fly out of the area through an upper window in the room. I emerge into an area with stone flooring which extends in all directions, yet further in the direction in front of me toward and area with wooden shrine/hut type structures. It’s dawn and there’s a beautiful amber hue emanating from the harbor beyond.I have a feeling of happiness come through me as I realize I’m lucid yet again. I fly around the stone precipice and think of the moon phase of the dream sanctuary. I see a tree with four branches growing in opposing directions, yet re-converging toward the top yet again. I fly into the center of the branches figuring that I could essentially phase through this area. I enter into this central area and pop out in a very similar area – possibly a continuation of the scene- taking in a further view of the stone terrace. There a a couple of DCs walking together in a group toward my right. In the far distance I see yet another wooden shrine structure with bronze décor woven throughout. There appears to be some kind of contraption in the center which resembles an hour glass. I consider that phasing though this may bring me to the sanctuary. I fly toward the hourglass contraption, and as I do so my dream body and focal point of awareness begins to shrink. Once I reach the device, I re-emerge in a similar-themed area. There is a hallway to the right which I fly down. I remember the summer competition and how one may gain points by interacting with a DC. I ask a question (I believe it was about the route to the dream sanctuary) and she smiles at me. I see another DC and try twice to levitate her via telekinesis, yet it does not work. I begin to feel cold a figure that I could warm myself up by hugging the DC who is wearing thick clothes. I hug the DC and warm up a bit! I fly further down the hallway and the left portion opens up to massive drop into a bay below, probably 8 stories or so. Quite far in the distance sits a wooden Japanese style shrine in the water with blue adornments. I begin to wonder if a portion of this shrine may lead to the moon phase of the dream sanctuary. With this thought, aspects of the front portion begin to change a bit and take upon a bluish lunar hue. I begin flying down into the area, but wake up.

Non-Lucid
I'm in a central hub area which resembles the pods from my work. A group of DCs I'm a part of separates onto three different adventures, each described via white post-cards. My first area is an aquatic area. I begin navigating the area which is supervised by two DCs who roam around the body of water, filled with other DCs. I need to navigate this area a bit more before moving into the next task. *There's a bit more writing, but I can't read my notes from the middle of the night.

I did a Wbtb at 4Am . Woke up , did an assignment for an hour . Then slept paying attention to the ringing in my ears and intent to get lucid . I was having some dream I g
Forgot about and then got lucid in my hostel room . It was dark as usual with faint yellow light . I exited the room and went outdoors . I did not have a goal with this LD as I want to experiment with some stuff to increase dream length . So I decide to take it chill , not rush with stuff and enjoy the scenery .

Now I go outside and see a hostel friend near what looked like a swimming pool . I greet him and see many other friends nearby . The foliage looked great . Cool Breeze was blowing from the west . I took a moment to take in the view . Then I saw some dirty water and my friend was inserting a twig in it to clean it somehow , I offered him help but he denied . The water looked disgusting frankly . Ugly yellow .

Then I walked a bit more and ended up in a supermarket . It was well lit , covered with blues and whites . Lots of stuff and some people with shopping carts running around . It was mostly Uneventful

Then the dream starts fading as I wait . Then I feel just stuck in the darkness . I immediately try to re-enter it and was successful. First Deild in months . I was back in the supermarket and this time an NSFW scene ensues that I won't be elaborating here .