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W.I.L.D. Attempt #4 ~ Since 4 Days Ago, When I Started Lucid Dreaming Again
T.O.T.Y. (Task of the Year) God Of Wine & Extra Adventure Dream
~ Dream #1 ~
100% Lucidity

Approximate Real Life Time: A few minutes

Approximate Dream Time: A few days

Backstory:
At this point in time, I have already woken up many times. In waking life, my physical body was so hungry I had to quit the first dream, and do the God of Wine ToTY quickly.
I live high up in an apartment building.

Story:
I wake up from my bed, and as usual my brain doesn't start any dreams during REM Antonia, lazy brain. I knew it was a lucid dream, so I jumped out of my 2-story bunk bed to the carpet from the second story of my bunk. I looked outside my window. I saw the bright, warm sun glowing in my eyes. It was surrounded by a blue, clear sky with few, tiny clouds. I melted ( went through ) through the window. I floated for a few seconds, and opened a portal into a swampy forest. I looked at the great, dark green wilderness around me, and the low depth of water on the floor of the forest. All I wanted was to have a great adventure, and journey across many lands in one world. While I was thinking about that, I slashed by a sword through my arm. I noticed a dark figure in front of me, and as I started to grab my long sword out of a scabbard, and raised in front of me. I wanted to keep going on this adventure, but I am really hungry in real life, so I decided to save my progress in this dream, and do one of the ToTY Tasks. I opened up a white menu out of nowhere, and I pressed "Save progress" with a saving disk next to it. I closed my eyes. [View the continued version of this dream here.]

Dream Shift.

I opened my eyes, and I saw Dionysus in front of me across a long, wooden table covered with a white cloth. Many people were around us watching us. Dionysus, the wine god, challenge me to a drinking contest. I chuckled, and I agreed. I decided to cheat, because it wasn't specified whether we were allowed to cheat or not. I took my first glass and drank it. I cheated by putting a portal in my mouth, so I didn't technically drink it. However after many drinks, I started to feel drunk and dizzy. I didn't how that was possible. I could see Dionysus also as drunk as me. I thought, "What kind of wine is this?" It was a contest made by a Greek God, so he probably setup anti-cheating measures. I decided to keep going on. As I drank more and more, I started to feel dizzier and dizzier. I blacked out, but I keep going even when I was blacked out. I had to beat him. When I finally regained conscious, I saw Dionysus smiling at me. I didn't know whether I won or lost. I still very lightheaded. Dionysus says that I won, but I was still drinking. Our contest lasted a few days, and during the late night, there would be the most audience watching, and the fewest in the morning. When I woke up, it was early morning, and Dionysus says I won him by a few hours, and laughed because I drank 304 more cups after I had legally won already. When he woke from his black-out, he was watching me drink more and more. We both agreed that I had won, and that he is willing to challenge me again. I forced myself to wake up.

Dream End.

I woke up, and went to the kitchen to get a drink and something to eat. I took out orange juice and poured it in my glass. I swore that if it tasted like wine, I would hate myself for doing that challenge first. Luckily, it tasted fine, and I continued with my daily routine.

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Video Games

I was inside a room with my brother's friend watching me play what was suppose to be
a Wii U game I think. But instead of using the remote I was controlling the character with my body. I was on
rainbow road running and jumping trying not to fall as I collected the rings. The game made me think it was a mix
of Mario kart and sonic. Than after that the game and room changed. I was now playing a game where i was a cave man and had to collect clothes and meat until i arrived at the end of the game.There were obstacles in the game too so it
was kind of difficult. Than my cousin came and asked me if she could play. I told her no and she asked again so i had
to tell her no many times till she stopped.

After that my younger brother came in and my older brother switched the game to what was supposed to be a new super smash bros melee game. I was excited because my younger brother came in and was going to play. I hugged him than chose my character which was a big male jaguar/wolf that could walk. My younger brother chose the character 114 Parakeets. I was surprised and asked him if he chose the 104(Even though it read 114) Parakeets character because he was playing with me. Than i laughed and said how weird it would be if there was actually 104 parakeets flying around in the game.(The 114 Parakeets character was just a guy with a shirt saying 114 Parakeets, not lots of birds flying around)

After that we started fighting on a plane that seemed like star fox's ship, flying in a clear sky. I used the Jaguar/Wolf character I had to pick up my opponents pressing down and B.(We had game cube remotes in hand playing the melee game) Than I was going to throw them off. The Jaguar/Wolf began talking about how it was eager to throw them down and laugh in their faces. My brother's friend and my older brother began screaming telling me not to throw them down. I didn't know how to release them down hard so i tried tossing them but they were able to jump back on the ship. I told them it was cause i didn't know ho to do it than woke up.

Another Dimension

I was inside a room with a little boy and his sister. The boy was misbehaving so the sister tried correcting him but he didn't want to listen. There was also a little girl that came into the scene and she wasn't listening either. Her dad came and made her listen. After that I don't really recall what happened. I think I left and started thinking about dreams and an old childhood friend who I will call H.

The dream began to change and I ended up finding H, my brothers, dad and tall, cool looking anime boys that had purple, light blue, black, red and yellow hair.They were supposedly rich and from another dimension that was a secret. I thought they might have entered from another dimension into the dream world and was excited to meet them.

I started talking to the guy with red hair and he seemed interested in me so i decided i would do my best to make him my bf. I sang a song with him, ate food with him which i thought was Japanese curry and rice and played with him riding on his back. But when i went to another room to talk to H or my younger brother and went back to the room he was gone. I asked the other guys where he might have gone but than decided to go look for him on my own.

I left the place and started walking around what seemed like a beautiful mansion where rich people lived. I start to think where the rest of my family might be inside this huge place and go into the bathroom. I stay there because i start to notice that what I'm wearing is a bit too short. I walk back outside and can hear my cousin and brother's friend talking in a certain room. Than i race down the stairs and end up running into a man who thinks of me as a circus slave/Prostitute. He wants me to go on stage. I tell him no and that i could do what i want in my dream state. I run trying to escape the group of people he shouted to grab me.

I become even more aware after that and decide that when i get outside i would stop running. I end up inside a outside yard. Not much grass but mostly cement and fences around in the rectangular yard i'm in. There are other buildings around it and I find a character that makes me think of Jadegreen. We end up talking about something than I start to notice as I'm hovering in the air another character. I tell her she looks like a shorter version of Manei and overall feel like she is. I tell her to follow me as i'm flying and say "Achi, Achi, Achi! follow me!" without really thinking about it. I apologize to her for calling her that. It just came out. She doesn't seem to mind and I start to think about how maybe i called her that because i heard the word in japanese "Achi" when i watched a video talking about "kocchi" a long time ago.

Anyways I think about Dawn than suddenly a dog runs up to me. I hug the dog that is now licking my face and start to think what if Dawn is the dog. Manei and another person now look at me with a weird look on their faces. I tell the dog to stop licking me than think about looking for that anime character again. The scene ends up changing though and I'am now viewing a news report of a school building in japan that has caught on fire. There was a Japanese girl on the floor thinking of her best friend as she lay on the floor with her broken leg. After that I appeared near what was suppose to be the school but in the future when it was rebuilt. I noticed a girl character staring at me from the park.

A narrator figure announced that she was from the past and that she was madly in love with me. I was upset with that thought and started thinking what if Dawn was really a girl on the inside and wanted to be with me but in the form of a girl. It made me feel uncomfortable to think about that so i decided to fly far away from the dc. I flew through narrow places as the girl chased me telling me to wait and to come back. As I was flying the place was getting darker and it made me feel kind of scared but I decided I would be brave in this dream.I ended up flying into a huge car tunnel and saw a anime boy trying to turn away a large fish that was flying in the area. It was pretty cool to watch but I got the feeling that I wanted to go home and find Eye or the real Dawn.

I flew out the tunnel with home in mind and ended up downstairs. It was dark and I felt like really calling for Eye but decided not to. i ran up the stairs and looked at the window. There was little light outside. I opened the front door than saw a transparent thing in the small hall that had the stairs that led to the other neighbors place. I closed the door and decided not to go outside. I went into the middle of the living room and decided to pull Dawn into the dream through a floor portal. I concentrated on Dawn's energy and put both my arms through the floor. I felt something and i slowly got a signal of a red energy. I thought this was a bad thing because i didn't want Dawn to be a bad entity.

I let it go but than decided to just pull it out full force anyways. The person I pulled out was all red and i felt it was taking my energy so i let go of it. "Dawn, are you stealing my energy?" I asked. It transformed into a small baby and tried hugging me. I pushed it away and thought about where i went wrong in my way of thinking. I made a small prayer for my dream to be clean when i couldn't get the baby to go away. A small piece of the dream setting broke when i did that and the baby fell in and didn't move. As if it was dead. After that I appeared in a small kitchen where a lady asked her daughter if she wanted tuna fish for dinner. Than I woke up.

6:27 AM. 4/12/2015 April 12 Lucid
I became lucid in a bed that was in some kind of scientific laboratory. I knew I was dreaming so I kept saying I'm dreaming. I asked the dream what I needed to do and it replied with instructions at the upper right portion of my vision. There were about 4 tasks. I had already completed the first task by asking the dream what to do. In front of me a door opened and the dream announced, "Good job, now for the next step." I entered the next room which also looked like some kind of lab. There was a creepy looking man in the corner facing the wall and I instantly became scared. I looked at the wall behind me and kept repeating, "I'm Dreaming!" I woke up in the real world and looked over at my window. My vision was swirling and changing and becoming all distorted. After a few moments my vision stabilized and I sat up and performed a reality check to make sure I was actually awake.

4/3/2015 False Awakening April 3 Lucid
I was lying in my bed completely aware. I looked over at my sister's bedroom door which was open. All of the sudden some strange, big lady walked past her door. I was suddenly being pulled to the lady. It was terrifying.

4/2/2015 April 2 Lucid
I remember becoming lucid and seeing one of my old friends (Bryce). Standing in some corn feild that looked like the scene from The Wizard Of Oz where Dorothy meets the scarecrow. I woke up immediately after.

Before this I had a dream that my family was really rich and my dad was secretly a mad scientist. The dream ended with this car chase.

There was also something to do with me trying to hide a bunch of stuff inside an oven. This part of the dream repeated over and over.

...

Something to do with Asokah Tano (apologies if I butchered that spelling.) from the Star Wars TV series.

...

I was in my subdivision. I had this 'toy' rocket ship that could be controlled with this wand remote control. The rocket ship had three engines and wings on the sides along with a pointy nose-cone and a camera dome on top, sort of like a mini cockpit. I could control it by pressing a button and waving the wand around.

I was flying it around but I kept crashing it by accident. At one point, I tried to land it but the pointy nose cone went through someone's garage door and punched a little hole about an inch wide.

I decided it was best to put the thing away before the neighbors saw and got me in trouble so I carried it home. When I got to the front door I put it down and started asking where I got this thing. I said to myself something like:

"Wait a second, I know for a fact that I don't have this toy. So why am I playing with it like it is nothing? I should reality check."

I did a nose pinch RC. I became lucid. I then started hearing my friend S's voice asking if I was there. I asked him where he was. He said that he was on a skype call but had been away for awhile. I told him that I was in a lucid dream. He got really excited saying that I was talking to him through a Skype call in a lucid dream.

I walked inside my house, but I told myself that I would arrive somewhere else when I opened the door, I just saw the front room of my house. I ran a couple of circles around the interior of my house but everything still stayed the same.

I told S that I was going to try and dream spin. Normally I don't have a lot of luck with dream spinning, but it was worth a try here. I spun around in the front room of my house and everything went black. I just saw a mucky haze of reddish colors and heard some quiet sounds.

I found myself floating in the middle of a lake. S asked what I was seeing. I told him I saw some trees, houses and that I was in a lake. S then said that he was bored and was going to get going. I heard the Skype call sign out sound and he was gone. I remember being kind of happy that he was gone, now I could just concentrate on my lucid dream.

I propelled myself across the surface of the water and came up onto the shore of the lake. I looked around. Just a newly-built neighborhood. There was a dirt path leading into the woods and a bunch of trees had been cut to make room for the new houses. I remember looking at the log piles and seeing that the trunks had been cut into really short flat discs, only a few inches thick. I was wondering why the workers might have done this.

I decided I would fly. "Fire Jets On!" I'm going. I remember as I got above the trees. (They didn't have any leaves or anything. I think it was early spring.) I saw this big red sand dune with a few small rock towers on top. I then noticed that it looked like the sky was getting closer in the wrong kind of way.

"Is that a skybox?"

I hit the wall shoulder first ready for an impact.

"Yep, there's a skybox."

I landed on top of the red sand hill. I looked back and saw the other three walls of the skybox, containing the houses, the lake from before, the dirt road and the leafless forest.

I still wanted a way out of here. I remember seeing a blanket with a whole bunch of large quartz crystals laying out on it. I then figured that the next logical thing to do was to try and break the skybox. I picked up one of the largest crystals. It was about 3" wide and a foot long.

I had the inkling that it wouldn't work, and I was really just doing it as a joke. I held the crystal high in the air.

"By the power of this Crystal, I will destroy the evil Skybox. Excalibur!"

I heard a humming sound that grew louder and louder and then climaxed with a glass breaking sound and the sun/lights went out. (Oops, shorted out the lights.) But there was still light. I brought the crystal down and it was glowing in a bluish white color.

The glow slowly faded away from the crystal, but I tried to send more power to it and make it start glowing once more. I no longer felt like I was in the sky-box room, but rather my bedroom. I tried to turn on the lights but they seemed broken too.

I decided to see how bright I could make the crystal glow. I held it with both hands and tried to push as much power as I could into it. It started glowing really bright. Then, all of the sudden it went dark. I saw all of the little cracks and imperfections in the crystal had gone away.

Then the light came back to the crystal with this flame ignition sound effect. There was a little blue sun inside the crystal that didn't fade or die away. It stayed there. The light refracted out of the crystal like a prism into a rainbow of colors around the room.

"Disco Rave!"

I got bored with the dream or was simply pulled into my false awakening.

False awakening. I saw that my laptop was at the foot of my bed and Skype was open. I closed it up and went back to sleep hoping the dream could continue, but it did not.

I miss the wbtb alarm but end up thinking about lucidity and how nice it would be to have one just after pressing the final snooze.

In the neighborhood where I see a family friend talking about something, then someone calls another DC and we head back home. As I get out of the car I look around, my awareness goes up and I realize this is a dream. I can relate the place I am at to a previous dream (near where I was standing when examining the plates possibly after that) and wonder about my awareness then. After giving it some thought, I become convinced I had a lucid moment at some point in the dreams before. A nearby DC tells me it was indeed a lucid dream. That makes me feel even worse that I wasted a lucid moment and didn't do anything.

"If you have a lucid dream, then do a task rather than just lose lucidity" I think angrily to myself. Ok, time to do that right now. I remember the hole task and hastily put my hand in my pocket, trying to get hold of something. I feel a small round object and concentrate on the floor ahead as I throw it forward. This time (compared to couple of days ago) it produces a nicely sized somewhat transparent dark hole. I stare at it for a bit longer and then cautiously jump in. I end up on the ground laying on my side in shallow waters at approximately the same dream scene. The water has some strange properties - it's in partial existence and feels different. I get up and look around. The snooze wakes me up.

Before the first WBTB was a pretty dry and unclear semi-lucid. I recall something having to do with an evil dream character making spikes appear and killing my cats and family. I became partially lucid, to the point of not caring because I knew for one reason or another that what was happening was not a part of reality.

-WBTB-

The second dream was really long. I remember my friend S's comic characters being involved. (But I cant give names or tell what they did at the risk of spoiling his comic. Not that I remember much of it anyway.)

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I was in a neighborhood with one of my college suite-mates. Someone started yelling that we should look at the sky because he saw a jet figher plane. I looked up and saw a small plane fly over followed by a whole squadron of big, slow moving green bombers.

Someobody was shouting that the United States was under attack by another country. The bomb bays on the planes opened and bombs started falling out. I said to my suite-mate that we should try to find a shelter or basement to hide in.

But before the bombs hit the ground they all began morphing into all of these different random things. One of the bombs turned into Santa's Sleigh. Another one turned into a Unicorn. I just remember a lot of colors, and all of the bombs-turned-random things shot off in random directions.

Somebody started getting really excited because they thought that it was the spiritual awakening where magic had returned to world, and all that they had foredcasted and all of the things that had appeared from the bombs were the changes in the world that they had brought about.

I did a nose-pinch reality check and became lucid. I told the dream character I was sorry, there wasn't some kind of spiritual awakening, but rather just my lucid dream. The dream character got really mad with me.

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I was at a train station, but there was no train tracks. This little futuristic pod came along where the train tracks should have been. The door opened indicating I was supposed to get on. But when I tried to walk in closer the door closed partway and a force field projected through it.

The voice of the DC from earlier started talking and was apparently very mad with me for ruining everything for him and telling him that it was just my dream. He told me that I wasn't allowed onto the train until I had an imagination again.

-WBTB-

The third time I fell asleep didn't yield any dreams.

Non-lucid / Lucid / Awake

#1.
I'm walking down some stairs, talking about a friend of mine. I say she's very bossy and annoying and when I look behind me, I see she has heard everything.
A little while later, the same thing happens. I talk about the same friend, say she's annoying and then I find out she's walking in front of me and has heard everything.
She takes me outside to look at an almost empty parking lot. At first I think she's gonna talk to me about what I said about her, but surprisingly enough, she doesn't. I'm mad at her but I don't know why.

.#2
I'm in a big hall, crowded with people, when suddenly Justin Bieber approaches me. I stay cool (I'm not a fan but he is pretty famous and shit) when he talks to me. He says some perverted shit and I get angry. Then he tells me he wants to have sex with me and normally, in a dream, I would agree to have sex with him but I'm still angry and tell him to go fuck himself.

#3.
I wake up in my bed and instantly know it's a dream. My bed, however, is very warm and comfy and I just don't want to get out. I look at a mirror on my desk to see if I can summon something scary because I'm in the mood for some scary stuff but it doesn't happen.
I pull my blanket over my head and just enjoy being in my bed. Then I realize I'm wasting my time in a lucid dream so I jump through the window.
The detail outside is incredible! The streets look just so real and so does the sky. I'm amazed and decide to find Castiel (from the tv show Supernatural). I approach two boys to ask them where Castiel is, but they run away. Before I can run after them I wake up.

Ritual: WTB 12:45am, woke 6am and felt rested enough to do a solid WBTB and WILD attempt. Read LD books for an hour then returned to bed at 7am. I took bacopa, L-theanine, alpha-GPC, and even ventured to add a little galantamine to the mix, breaking open a Galantamind capsule and adding half the powder to my alpha-GPC solution. I lay on my back and counted, also deciding on my intended tasks: muto herbam and my lucid dare. For the hell of it I added in a short mantra on the off-counts: inspired by the DC's weird question last night ("Who is your mantra?") I was using the name of an intriguing DC from a prior dream. I started losing the count quickly and after picking it back up a few times, drifted off somewhere in the 30s. Eventually I woke back up, used the bathroom, and checked the time before lying down on my left side to sleep. It was 7:30am. Woke up at 8am with dream.

WILD: I quickly started to feel promising bodily sensations, able to move in ways I was sure weren't "real." At one point I felt my husband's face very close to mine, thought I could feel his breath against my face, and was afraid this distraction was going to wake me. Feeling a bit rude, I pushed him away. After that he got up and I hoped he had understood my reasons—recognized that I was in the middle of a dream attempt—and wasn't annoyed. Of course in retrospect, I'm sure that none of this actually happened; not only does the geography of the bed make it physically unlikely, but my husband was still fast asleep on his side of the bed when I woke up to write this report.

As soon as I felt I had full bodily control, I started trying to get out of bed. I threw caution to the winds because I've started to suspect that a lot of the barriers to transition are self-imposed. So I got out of bed as soon as I could manage it, and although I felt awkward at first, moving very herky-jerkily as I tried to walk out of the room—a bit like a marionette whose puppetmaster is still figuring out the right use of the strings—I soon got back into the feel of it.

I walked into the kitchen, where my attention was caught by what looked like a big wad of gauze or lace, about 18 inches in diamter. In shape it resembled those scrunchies you use in the shower, but it was much larger and made of lacy white gauze with silver sparkles. The texture was wonderfully detailed, more distinct than anything else in my field of vision, so I decided to pick it up and use it for my first experiment. The simpler of the tasks I had planned was to practice a bit with transformation and with plants, so I held the gauze in my hands and commanded, "Muto herbam," envisioning the form of a long-stemmed red rose.

The material was resistant at first, so I repeated the command a few times and intensified my will. Eventually it shrank compliantly into a red flower, but the blossom appeared to be that of a tulip, so I continued staring at it sternly until it manifested more layers of ruffled petals. I studied it to make sure it was a proper rose and not just an ambitious carnation, and when I was finally satisfied with its form, I lifted it to my nose to smell it. It actually did smell like a rose! This impressed me all the more because I so rarely have any olfactory impressions in my dreams. (Then again, I guess I don't spend much time sniffing things.)

I wondered if I should leave the house to perform my next task. I'm still working on my lucid dare, which requires me to find an camp of elves in the forest and join them in making music. My initial impulse was to leave my house and look for the forest, but that hasn't worked well before, so this time I thought I would to try a different approach and transform the environment around me rather than bodily leaving it. I looked around the room for another plant suitable for my experiment and was pleased to discover a spindly sapling with lots of thin twigs tipped with narrow yellow flowers growing in a pot. I went over to it and commanded "Rego herbam," commanding it to grow into a tall tree. Nothing happened at first, but eyeing its numerous twigs I had another idea for how to use it.

The sapling was slightly taller than I was, so I backed up against it and pulled its flexible branches around me to create the visual impression that I was surrounded by a thicket, once again commanding "Rego herbam." The trick worked! The twigs filling my field of vision became a real thicket in which I found myself hiding on a hillside, trying to remain unseen as I peered down at a large camp of about two dozen people occupying a cleared basin just below me. I hoped they were elves! But they didn't seem merry, and I didn't hear any music. They were dressed in muted earthtones and went about their business grimly.

I can't remember if I actually observed the camp being raided, but by some means I understood that this was a camp of rebels whose people were being oppressed and frequently captured and sold into slavery by the inhabitants of a nearby castle. I was aware that had several been taken away recently, and decided that the best way to ingratiate myself with the camp would be to rescue them. So I transported myself into the castle dungeon and began to search for the captives.

The first door I opened led to an empty room, though it definitely looked like a classic dungeon, with rough-hewn and filthy stone floor and walls. Returning to the corridor, I saw that there were lots of identical doors, and I didn't think I had time to try them all, so I let instinct guide me to another door across the hall. At first this seemed promising: there was very little light filtering in through the tiny windows high in the wall, and in the shadows I thought I saw four figures manacled to the walls around the room. As I walked in, planning to free them, I found that either my eyes had decieved me, or the dream had shifted: the manacles were there, but this room was just as empty as the last. It made me wonder if what I had seen were the ghosts of past prisoners.

As I went to leave the room, I was startled to discover that the door was now half-blocked by a chest-high mound of stone rubble. I started to climb over but it was too steep, and afterward the blockade looked even higher, taller than I was. If I didn't act soon I would be completely walled in! So I mustered my concentration and simply pushed through the pile of rocks. The stone felt very resistant and I had to use all my strength, but finally burst through into the hallway. I was surprised how exhausted I felt after this feat. Given that it was a dream, it shouldn't be any harder to move "rocks" than anything else, but I felt completely spent. While I paused to regain my strength, I heard people approaching from around a corner to my left. There was no time to get away, so I simply held very still in the doorway and concentrated on being invisible to them.

There were three people in all. One person passed by without giving any sign of seeing me. Two others followed, walking together, and to my consternation they stopped at the door, right in front of me. Although they didn't seem to see me, something appeared to have caught their attention (the dislodged rocks?) because one of them pulled out a handheld device and started waving it in my direction as though scanning something. I wondered what would happen if they tried to walk through the doorway. I still seemed to be invisible, but would they be able to pass right through my body? Or would they bump into me? I decided not to risk it, and I was also a little worried that the scanner might detect my presence, so I reached out and grabbed one of the people with each hand. I willed them both to fall unconscious, and they slumped to the ground. The one to the left was a woman dressed in "business casual," while the guy to the right appeared to be a uniformed security guard. I immediately knelt down and hastily stripped the latter of all the tech I could find on his body: earpiece, cellphone, and a few other little widgets that I didn't recognize. I thought I heard another person coming down the hall, so I transformed into a bird and flew out one of the small barred windows high up on the walls.

The castle was on a gently sloping hillside, and I was now flying over a wide rural landscape. At the base of the hill was a wooded region, and far beyond that I could see the curve of the ocean shore. I figured I would still be able to find my way back to the camp, since I had just come from there, so I let memory or instinct guide me. Meanwhile I focused on making sure I was flying properly, since I haven't spent much time in bird form. I alternated between flapping my wings and holding them stiff and outstretched so that I could glide on the wind. I felt like a large bird of prey, and I was clutching the tech I had just stolen in my talons.

I flew over the forest until I saw a clearing below that looked familiar. Descending felt very realistic, because I was circling just like a raptor would, wide at first and then in a narrowing spiral until I landed. To get the attention of the people in the camp, I decided that I should not be an ordinary brown eagle, but a white eagle. Apparently this drew a little too much attention, because on the way down I discovered that someone was shooting arrows at me. I decided I could use this to make my entrance particularly impressive, so at the very moment that I touched the ground I not only turned back into a woman, I also grabbed an arrow that was about to hit me right out of the air.

Earlier I had not made sure whether or not the people in the camp actually were elves, and now that I look around at closer range, I see only round human ears. I approach a couple people who are talking authoritatively, like leaders of the group. One is a capable looking woman with short, dirty-blonde hair. I ask her if there are any elves in the camp, thinking to myself that if I do find some, I'll give them the tech I stole as a friendly gesture. No one can specifically point to any elves, so I ask, well, who was shooting at me? I figure that if there is an elf, it might well have been the one lobbing arrows. The woman points across the camp. Following her gesture, I notice a slight figure huddled on a bench, completely wrapped in a dark grey blanket.

I walk over and lean down in front of the figure, trying to gently tug the blanket aside to reveal its face. It seems shy, hiding its face under the blanket like this, but I soon discover the reason. As I begin to reveal its features, they are the last thing I would have expected. The head is made of molded transparent plastic, with a suggestion of human features on the outside and circuitboards within. It is an android!

The android has a high, almost childish voice, and evidently feels very bashful about its unusual appearance. It tries to prevent me from pulling back the blanket, protesting, "I look repulsive."

I completely disagree, and tell it so: "No you don't. You look amazing." It reluctantly lets me tease aside the blanket to reveal its whole head.

At this point a man walks up to us. He looks to be in his forties, balding, a bit stocky in build, and with rounded features, kind of resembling Rob Corddry. From his dress and demeanor, I immediately intuit that he is the creator of this android. I realize that he would be the ideal person to give the tech I stole from the castle guard.

"I have something for you," I say without preamble, and fill his hands with the little pile of objects.

He looks delighted. "This will be really useful."

We start chatting a bit about the android, and I ask if he knows where to find any elves. He's not aware of any in the camp, but I overhear a snippet of conversation from people standing nearby that I think might be relevant to my question; one of them mentions a place called "Junkyard Bay" and I resolve to check it out.

"What's your name?" I ask the inventor. I feel a bit silly always asking this of DCs, but I like to know.

"Dira," he says. That's how I assumed it was spelled, but from the pronunciation it could just as easily be "Deera." He asks mine, and I tell him.

Dira is looking at me like he finds me really familiar, but can't figure out where he knows me from. "We haven't spoken before this? No beer? No comfort?"

I am perplexed by his laconic queries until I realize that he's asking if he might have met me in a bar or a brothel. I might have been offended at the implications if I weren't so fascinated by his distinctive manner of speaking, so unlike my own speech patterns. How could a DC, a projection of my own mind, demonstrate linguistic traits so utterly unlike my own, to the point where it took me a moment to make sense of what he was saying? It was one of those moments that make me wonder if my reductionist assumptions are correct, but I'm not ready to go down the path of madness without better evidence than this.

I shake my head, since I'm pretty sure I've never met him in either dream or waking life. He asks my name another time, and I repeat it. I've been using my WL name, having forgotten my former resolution to use an alias with DCs.

Dira starts explaining something about the locals: "What's particularly important for the native Ukaran communities is the..." there was more, but it was complicated, and I was still trying to figure out what was going on.

"Ukaran?" I ask, to make sure I heard correctly.

"Yes, the Ukaran and the Utankaran."

I had the impression that he was implying that the Ukarans were the people in this camp, and I'd already seen the problems that they were facing—oppression and human trafficking on the part of the people in the castle. I wondered if the oppressors were the Utankarans. The similarity in their names suggested that they were closely related but (in the manner of such things) probably deeply opposed social groups.

I had gotten my hair done because it was New Year's Eve and I was going out with a friend. I walked into the ballroom and saw Betty White and my aunt, Laura (she's 86 and lives in another state) - she's been on my mind b/c I haven't seen her in a couple of years and I'm going to go this summer at the very latest - I went to Laura, hugged her and asked her what she was doing there. Then, I saw Mom, started to cry fairly hard as I was walking to her because I knew I was dreaming b/c I've been RCing with my parents and my sisters. I woke up before I got to her...and was so disappointed b/c I want to see my parents (who have both passed away in the last few years) in my LDs, I tried to lie still and go back into the dream but I moved and couldn't go back to sleep right away. All three ladies were in floor length gowns and all three looked very pretty. In WL, my mother died three Christmases (two days before) ago and she died from cancer and weighed 90 lbs. and was frail and in pain when she died so I have these horrible memories and I can't hardly remember all the good years - I totally enjoyed my parents. So, even if it was for just a short second, she looked beautiful and healthy and I'm grateful to have seen that.

Dream 2

I don't recall what happened during non lucidity but something happened that made me lucid.
After that I became Lucid and started walking around a huge facility where there were military figures.But I didn't want to be there so I went somewhere else and started thinking about the book I was reading "The Diary Of Anne Frank". I started thinking about the place they were hiding in, how many people must have died, and became scared i might connect with something demonic. (I doubt demons can read minds unless they go inside of you though...That would be pretty unfair.) Its one of my fears anyways so i started thinking about it and suddenly I walk up to a metal silver door that has a small rectangular opening to the side of the door. I try looking through it a bit and see nothing but darkness and can feel the presence of something dreadful inside. I get scared and decided to move away from the door when suddenly I appear on a bed in a room.

To my surprise when I sit up there is a head of a girl attached to my stomach. I slide off and try to get the head off me but than I feel an intense pain in my stomach that makes me bend over. It hurts me too much even if its a dream. Its like having an intense period pain but in my stomach which is the best way I can describe it. I try to get my mind off it but than it feels like someone is stabbing me with full pressure into my stomach. I pray a little thinking about how I may have made a mistake in my way of thinking and wake up just after mentioning something bad about the dream.

After waking up I thought about the dream a bit and wanted to overcome the fear that I had. I wanted to see the good side to the story. After all the girl and family didn't seem like a horrible family in the diary. They sounded like normal people.

Dream 3

I was non lucid inside a school cafeteria with little kids watching them. One of them asked me if i wanted the silver chocolate coins I had. I said she could have it but when she opened it to our surprise it was empty. I walked to another nearby table after that and saw a little girl laying down on the table. I told her to get off the table but than she started looking more and more attached to the table as she laughed with the other kids.

After that I started thinking of how I wanted to see Dawn and appeared in a pretty looking wooden house. I began climbing up the steps thinking about him and began to glow really bright with white light surrounding me. I than started looking more like Dawn as I walked up the steps and had a long sword to my left side. I held onto the sword and began thinking about how good i was doing that I wasn't letting my fear of demons get to me. When i reached the top I saw a huge caterpillar type of monster flying in the air. I was thinking of how crazy it would be if it was a parasite but wasn't willing to fight it.

I backed up in the room I was now in and looked as a black/yellow caterpillar type thing flew in from above and started to swallow or grab onto the other green caterpillar. I was intrigued by the situation but than I appeared near a school [Maybe the recess spot or back of the school] in the snow not lucid. There were kids and parents who had finished exiting the school and were having fun playing in the snow. After I was looking around I decided to rush home through the snow because I didn't want to waste time just looking around since there was nothing for me to do there.

But too quickly I appeared inside my older brother's room with my cousin. She turned the t.v. on and I told her to turn it off because I wanted to watch my show on the laptop. Than after i turned around I appeared inside my parent's bedroom sitting in front of the t.v.There were people dancing on the t.v. and I thought it was Family Ties cast dancing on it. I saw the volume go down and turned to see my cousin. I got mad at her and told her to put it back up. She put it back up, reluctant at first and than everything in the dream disappeared but a old looking somewhat burnt paper popped up.

I realized I was in a dream than and was about to wake up but took the time to read the red sentence on the old looking paper. It said something about finding Wifely's thin cloth. I kept guessing for a bit and when I was satisfied I woke up.

Now that I think of it I probably woke up because i thought it was the end of the dream but I could have probably changed it. Oh well, it was the last dream so it probably wouldn't have lasted long. I also felt a reassuring feeling because I didn't let my fears get to me in this dream. Since

I wish I had more hands so I could give this dry spell more than two middle fingers at a time.

The dream started off with me in my backyard doing random things and became lucid. I might have actually become lucid because I saw a small Chinese girl wearing a school uniform and walking across the surface lake behind my house. I also remember observing the dream sign of everything being foggy/overcast and all of the plants were very green/lush.

I saw her getting closer and for some reason thought that they were a threat. There was a big boulder of pink granite with white quartz crystals growing out of it in the garden in my yard. I thought I could earthbend it at them. I could not.

They came closer and asked me what I was doing. I thought of three questions for her. I asked her the first two questions but I cannot remember what I was asking her or what she answered with.

I remember the third question was pertaining to finding Jack.

"So I'm trying to find Jack? Do you know where he is?"

"Jack?! He's really hot! We should get naked!"

"Nah, let's save that one for when we're doing the Task of the Month." (What?)

I told them I wasn't interested, but they were free to do what they wanted. They started to take off her schoolgirl uniform when I noticed they had a little hanging surprise in their skirt. I pointed it out to her and they got really embarrassed and changed their mind about getting naked.

...

For one reason or another she got very mad started attacking me she tried to kick me but I blocked. They tried to move in and attack, but I flipped her over. I saw that they had changed into a little boy wearing a martial arts uniform and a black belt.

They continued attacking and getting more and more angry. I remember them using this weird spinning kick in the air and I grabbed the person's leg and pushed them back into the wall of my house. They tried one more time running straight at me then jumped in the air and did a flip trying to kick me from directly on top. I stepped out of the way and pushed them causing them to fall over.

(Word of advice, It doesn't matter how good of a martial artist you are, you're probably not going to beat a lucid dreamer.)

In the end, the DC was laying on the ground, appearing as a different boy now. They asked me why I wasn't hitting them back. I told them it was because they were a little kid (12-13ish) and I got a bad feeling from hurting children. I think I started helping them up when the dream ended.

-WBTB-

I was on Skype. My profile picture was set to the picture that DawnEye11 drew of me and Manei. My friend messaged me asking me who Manei was. (Funny I thought he already knew.) I told him to just forget it and I would change the picture.

I started looking through pictures I could use. I remember finding this one similar to my avatar picture but the left arm was robotic and made of a bluish shiny metal. The character had this really creepy smile and the lighting looked off. I thought it looked cool but couldn't remember when I drew it. When I tried to set it as my profile picture some kind of error came up.

-WBTB-

False awakening. I am a young kid (10ish). It is Christmas morning. I run downstairs to see what I got. I remember getting a giant Lego Star Wars Clone Trooper figurine that was about two feet tall. My cousin asked me if she was getting a [some gibberish item] from me. I told her I didn't know.

...

I am in the soccer field outside my old middle school. There is a bunch of playground equipment in the field. I decided I wanted to go on the swings because I always enjoyed going on the swings as a kid. I saw an empty swing-set with big yellow swings on the edge of the playground.

I also made some comment about the children playing while walking over there.

The swings suddenly filled up with people, but there was still one empty one on the end. I got on and started swinging. Another kid asked me why I was on the swings and thought that I might be too old for it. I told him how I always liked to jump off the swing and pretend that I was flying, ever since I was little.

I then jumped off the swing but to my surprise I just floated there above the playground. Lucidity hit me like a truck. I remembered my goal was to find Jack. I figured I could find him by air a lot faster. I took control of my flying, fire jets on. I was only projecting them out of my feet though. I flew a circle around the playground, gaining some altitude and speed.

"Woah! Look at that!"

"He's flying!"

"How is he doing that?"

I remember this big tree that is actually outside my middle school IWL. I flew through some of the branches. I figured I could fly to my house and manifest him there. I remember thinking to myself that I have never flown to a destination before. (Don't know what kind of broken logic that is, I flew to the moon last week.)

When I pulled above the hill to see my neighborhood I saw that it had been replaced with a trailer park and a couple of these weird round glass towers with all of these levels covered in different plant species. Beyond that was a mountain.

I picked up speed and flew up the side of the mountain. The plants began to morph into tropical plants and the sky went from orange to blue. I saw the left side of my vision change to a beach. I thought that this might be a good place to go.

I did a roll to the left and went in lower over the water. I thought I recognized the shape of the beach as being similar to that around the beach resort my family goes to every year. I expected it to show up, but when I got closer I saw that there was just a wooden house there. Nope. I went really low over the water and started running/sliding across the surface.

I jumped back into the air and did a flip and started flying again. This destabilized the dream a bit too much. I remember looking at the sun and saying stabilize the dream. I remember seeing some seagulls coming from that direction too. They flew alongside me. I for some reason had the irrational fear that they would poop on me though.

I saw that I was now flying over an archipelago of tropical islands. I had like eagle vision and it zoomed in and I could see Manei on the end of a peninsula off one of the islands about a mile away. I broke away from the seagulls and pulled in low over the island. I landed and started sliding across the road, still using fire to propel me.

There was a small concrete bridge and I saw a person driving a jeep coming right at me. The beeped and started to swerve off the road. I pushed flames to the side and avoided him.

"Sorry! Sorry..."

I was getting close now, I could see Manei standing there wearing a long blue cloak. Someone else was with her. But as I started to get closer they started walking down the side of the peninsula. I remember getting to where she was standing and looking down. I could see her and two other DCs making their way down the rocks into the ocean. There was also a grove of these bamboo like trees in the water nearby.

I started to follow her, but I lost her somehow and almost fell into the water. The water with all the bamboo trees looked mucky like a swamp. I didn't want to go in it, and I stopped myself above the surface and started hovering. I wanted to fly back up to see if I could find Manei again.

I tried to fly up but for some reason went backwards into the bamboo trees forest. Nuts! Not buggy flying again. I floated gently forward back to the peninsula. I stuck my hands in some sand and looked at the sun agian.

"Stabilize dream."

I picked up some clarity and tried to fly up, but I just ended up shooting backwards into the bamboo tree forest agian. The back of my head hit a tree. The tree (though it was only about three inches thick) broke and it hurt the back of my head really bad.

Spoiler for Profane:

"ASS TITS! I FUCKING HATE IT WHEN THIS HAPPENS!!!" (When I try to fly up but end up shooting backwards. This has happened at least twice before tonight.)

I was now thoroughly lost in the bamboo tree forest. It felt like the forest was swallowing me up. I started to hear some frogs peeping. I grabbed onto a tree and I knew the dream was ending. I grabbed onto one of the bamboo trees and told myself it was time to DEILD.

I saw my vision go to a bunch of concentric blurry colored boxes. A computer loading bar appeared in white. It said DEILD was loading. It was filling up really slowly, and when it got about 1/3rd of the way I woke up.

W.I.L.D. Attempt #2 ~ Since 2 Days Ago, When I Started Lucid Dreaming Again
T.O.T.M. (Task of the Month) Advanced & Bonus Task

~ Dream #1 ~

100% Lucidity

Approximate Real Life Time: Around ten minutes

Approximate Dream Time: A few hours

Backstory:
I live high up in an apartment building.

Story:
After sleep paralysis, I didn't see anything, so I decided to create the dream scene myself. I woke up in my bed and my eyes couldn't see anything within my eyelids, so I melted ( came out / floated upwards & ) out of my body. I immediately knew I was lucid. I was still on the bed, so I jumped down from it on onto the carpet. I put hand hand through the window and melted ( went through ) through it. I looked towards the left of me and saw dark clouds with a tint of light gray and vibrant white. A sphere-shaped object like a white Sun was approximately 3 miles away hovered over the horizon in front of me. It glowed white, and very, very hot because I can feel a bit warm from here, outside my window. I looked around and noticed that all the houses were light free, and dark. It seems abandoned. There was a small pinch of the ocean was towards the right of me, and it was colored light gray. Many may think of this seems a nightmare, but I think it is absolutely beautiful, and amazing. Since I was in the fresh open air floating around doing absolutely nothing, I decided to get that shiny ToTM badge, even though it's almost the end of the month. I re-read the ToTM post with my dream body's mind's eye. I wanted to do the advanced task, and the bonus task ( Secretly, I forgot the rest of the tasks. lol ) So, this was the beginning of my first attempt to do the ToTM. I decided to open a portal to an unknown realm that has an advanced civilization. A purple portal opened below me and I flew into the portal head first.

At first, the place I flew into was empty. Suddenly, a light purple flash of electricity struck the scene, and BAM! there it was ... Castle in the Sky V2. If I wasn't worrying about the ToTM right now, I would facepalming myself and subconscious for having such low creativity. I decided to fly over there, and examine the place a little bit. This place was a bit smaller than Castle in the Sky and had no visible trees. There were only two floors to the place, and each floor was made of curved, bronze arches. There are also ramps on the side of the floating building that lead you to the next floor. The place seemed to be abandoned too like Castle in the Sky. Well, that's what I thought at first.

I decided to examine the arches, and when I got close, the arches opened upwards into a tunnel. When I looked into the tunnel, there were tree roots all around the place inside. I walked further into the tunnel of the arch, and I saw a dark, gray wolf with red eyes and small teeth looking at me. I drew a sword out of nowhere, preparing myself to fight, but I decided to make it friendly because I was feeling nice today. After that, I vaporized my sword into thin air. I started to head back towards the outside, and continued to examine the place. I looked behind me, and the wolf didn't follow me. It was huffing and puffing like a happy dog, now. I smiled back at it. I started to go up to the top floor, and when I got there, I saw a red, glowing, square-pyramid prism on top of a pedestal right in the center. I touched the red prism, and it started to moved the entire building upwards towards the sky, and when I let go, it stopped. Sometime later, I laid down at rooftop with my legs dangling off the building, and I looked up into the massive light blue sky with a few clouds in it. After a while, I got up, and decided to do my next task.

I opened a portal to the ISS station, and I jumped from the rooftop and into the portal. Instead of having a portal delay like last time, I instantly saw the ISS and our white-yellowish sun, then I turned to my right and saw our beautiful Earth. I also just noticed I wasn't in the ISS, rather I was outside of the ISS. Uh-oh. I was orbiting the Earth now. Oh well, I guess I'll take a picture of Earth instead. I grabbed my Samsung Galaxy S4 from my pocket, and looked at it. The time read 6:36PM. Approximately 13 hours from when I was dreaming. I unlocked my phone with a pattern password, and opened the Camera App. Then, I took a picture of Earth, and it saved to my fake phone's memory card.

Since I was done with both tasks and I was getting bored for some reason, I forced myself to wake up.

Dream End.

Remember to comment your thoughts (if you want to)!

I wasn't really interested in my dreams tonight but I'm just going to write a bit about the last dream.

I was with a group of people in an unknown room. Maybe it was a classroom. I took a look at my hands and the tips of my fingers were turning a bit blue. A guy who I considered to be a close friend and older than me told me that he would heal it for me. When I looked at my hands they were turning purple now but than the guy put some weird tiny sea creatures that looked like eels on the tips of my fingers. He told me he had finished healing me and than someone announced that we had to hurry up or we wold be late for the wedding. A girl who I know was present and mentioned that we were lucky to go to Las Vegas to be married and that she wanted to go with us. I said she could and on our way to the plane I saw a box filled with delicious candy. I stuffed my mouth with sour gummy worms but it was so chewy so i spit t back out.

Than we entered the air plane which was a private plane. "Do I really want to go to Las Vegas now?" I thought to myself while looking around. Someone had asked if the plane was safe to the pilot and he said " Of course its safe! Haven't you ever heard of time dilation!? I do it all time." This scared us so we decided not to take the plane with the pilot. We left and were now at a strange tunnel with stone tiles and people walking around. I couldn't find the guy I was suppose to marry than realized that i couldn't because it was just a dream. I ended up seeing a old friend around and just for fun told her it was a dream. She looked at me unsure than just kept walking away. After that I decided to go to a different scene. A tropical island scene. So I went through the walls and imagined myself jumping into a tropical island.

The island appeared and i could see what looked like water rides all around the island. Cartoon people that looked like they were from "The Wild Thornberrys" show were sliding on the rides. I wanted to go inside the water but my butt was stuck in the other part of the dream scene. I did my best to let my mind go and managed to free myself and was swimming inside the water really fast. I ended up in a huge undersea stone building with some modern technology in it though. To make matters worse a red shark appeared out of now where. It looked so real in form that i didn't want to get near it. So I kept swimming away from it and ended up in a really tall tower where I kept swimming around and up. Than I appeared back inside the room where a gray shark was. But it disappeared quickly as soon as i thought about how I already dealt with the other shark. I than noticed a guy who looked Indian cowering beside a computer down below. I felt sorry for him than swam for a bit and woke up.

BTW I took the google Earth Day quiz today and it turns out i'm a cuttlefish. xD Who knew.