lucid

1. I was inside of my house, in my own room playing GTA V on my T.V. Suddenly I become Lucid and I stop and think for a moment. "What should I do?". I look around my room, and as usual all of the lights are off in my house. It is day time outside though so I can see perfectly around my house. I realize that it is odd for my xbox 360 to be in my room. The only time my xbox used to be in my room was when I was a young teen. My television set had the same setup as it did when I was younger as well. I look back at my T.V. screen and at GTA V itself. "That's what I'll do, I'll go into the game itself" I thought to myself.
I then bring all of my focus onto the screen and GTA. Almost instantly I feel myself starting to be sucked into the game. It feels as though my vision is zooming into the game itself, along with my entire body. Now I am inside of the game itself. I look around. Everything has the same video game graphics as GTA does, except for me. I am in a huge city in the game and there are skyscrapers all around me. Each building is a different color. One building is red, one orange, the other green, and alot more other colors. I look up to the top of one of the buildings, "Wow, that's really high" I say. I then bring my attention back to the ground. I look at the street I am standing on and it too has very video game-looking graphics. I then look around me. There are people of all sorts walking around simply minding their own business. There are also cars driving around at about 5 to 10 miles per hour.
I look directly in front of me and I see a girl wearing a short green dress, and even though I am inside of a video game, my animal instincts come to me. "Come on, not right now" I say to myself. But I can't control myself at the moment and I find myself running to catch up to this girl. "Hey, do you want to bang?" I ask. "Sure" she says. Even though we are literally out on the sidewalk in the middle of a huge city, I bend her over and rip off her dress. She then stays bent over but sits on her knees in doggystyle and I start giving it to her hard. Suddenly I go out of 1st person and I am now looking at myself bang this chick in 3rd person. It feels really weird- just the fact that I am controlling my body while in 3rd person.

2. I was outside sitting on the front lawn of a house in some neighborhood. My friend Josh was sitting right next to me. Our job was to watch the house in front of us to make sure no intruders busted in. "Dude, it feels great to be a Lucid Dream Searcher. I mean just think about it, we're constantly practicing to become lucid in our dreams. We'll be master lucid dreamers in no time" I say as I look over to Josh. "I know dude, it feels amazing". I look up to the sky and it looks beautiful. The sun is a dark golden color and a good 75% of the rest of the sky is covered in dark clouds. I look down at the lawn we are sitting on and I feel the grass. It feels like turf and even looks like turf because of how healthy it is.
At this point I am now semi-lucid, but not just quite. Suddenly the front door of the house we are guarding opens, and my Architectural design teacher Mr. Barber walks out. "How's it going boys?" he asks. Me and Josh look at each other. "How did he even get inside the house" I whisper to Josh. "Dude I have no idea" he replies. Just then a helicopter flies over the house. Coming out of the helicopter and aimed right at me and Josh is a red laser. The helicopter never shoots us, but we were scared that it might. The helicopter itself looks like an Apache with heavy machine guns on its sides. After it flies off into the distance I bring my attention back to the house and the lawn we are sitting on.
"I can't wait until I go to sleep tonight. I know being a Lucid Dream Searcher will pay off" I think to myself. I look back at the sky and then reflect upon the situation I am in at the moment. "Wait, is this a dream?" I ask myself. Just then my mom walks into my room in waking life and wakes me up and asks me if I want to go to an Italian restaurant called Carabbas.

Note: this dream felt extremely real, just a bit more real than the usual.

3. I was inside of a classroom inside of a school sitting down at my desk. This classroom was pretty big and there seemed to be about 100 or more desks in this single room. Most of these desks were full. The teacher was in the front of the class talking to us. Nobody else talked while he talked. Through the windows at the back of the classroom, a strong yellow light shone through and left a yellow tint on everything in the room. The teacher finishes talking and I sit at my desk wondering what to do next. I see a girl sitting a few seats in front of me. She keeps looking back at me. She has medium-length black hair and looks like a girl I know from school named Liz.
This girl gets up and walks down the aisle to my desk. "I'm sorry but um, I think you're really cute and I couldn't help but ask....would you like to date me?" she says. I look at her now as she is right next to me. This girl has beautiful blue eyes and rosy pink cheeks with freckles on them. She looks really pretty to say the least. "You know what, yeah why not? Lets date" I tell her. Her face lights up with a smile and she walks back to her desk at the mean time. Before she sits down though she walks to the far left side of the classroom and for some reason picks up a desk(the desks in this school are pretty light, so it's no big deal. I'm thinking she is getting this desk so she can sit next to me?). As she is picking up the desk from the corner, she accidentally tips over another desk and it falls to the ground with a loud bang.
She looks around and I can tell she is embarrassed. Everyone in the classroom looks at her for a second and then quickly go back to doing whatever they were doing. The teacher comes over and picks up the desk that fell onto the ground. I look at the teacher as he does so. This teacher is wearing a tucked in yellow long-sleeved t-shirt with a white tie that has blue stripes. He is also wearing black pants and black shoes.

Dream 2

I was inside a park I think and was doing some type of challenge. I don't remember what it was or if i was trying to battle villains though. After something happened I was taken by a guy to an apartment building where he asked me what I wanted to eat or drink. I ended up drinking something wondering how to fix my dog Max's problem. A girl who I assumed to be the guy's girl friend or close friend got mad because i was staying too long though. The guy said Max could stay with him until I came back so I told him "okay" than was getting ready to leave. Max followed me as I was leaving but the guy kept him from going out. When I left the apartment I was trying to figure out how to leave the building.Than a Mexican lady came up to me with a leash in her hand and said that her owner's dog was depressed. I told her that she could leave the dog at my place so he could run around for fun.

Dream 3

I was inside a classroom and the building was leaning. Everyone got scared and the teacher told us to prepare for a hard fall. I shouted for everyone to lean on the left so the building wouldn't collapse. At first everyone was like "what!?" than the teacher repeated it for me. Everyone leaned to the left and the building was more in balance. Than i told everyone to run out the building and we started running but than obstacles began to appear. A pillar was about to squish me but a guy jumped over me and covered me with his body. I thought how nice it was to have him protect me and hugged him trying not to get carried away. Hugging him felt so nice though. Than i got up and we continued on but the dream ended up taking a different direction. Forgot what happened though.

Dream 4

I was outside in the city about to take the bus with a couple of girls. But they ended up arguing about something shopping related. After someone mentioned it was going to rain and they had to take the bus I recognized it was a dream and left them. I took out my phone and started calling Dawn but i got the dream ending feeling. i decided to hold onto the dream with all my might and than the scene slowly started changing. I ended up in a small room looking at Dawn behind a glass. He was told to stay put and not to answer my call.

I wasn't happy with that though so i took a big screw thing and hit another screw attached to the glass trying to get Dawn out from behind the glass. People tried to stop me but i told them "No!" and kept trying to break the thing. Than the scene changed to my older brother's room. Dawn grabbed me from behind and took me to my brother's bed. Than he turned me around and kissed me. But than this annoying high pitch voice came out of no where and kept shouting "aoi!" many times.(Aoi means blue in Japanese)Dawn disappeared after that than i spilled a glass of chocolate and regular milk onto the floor. I started wiping it down with a cloth hoping it would keep me in the dream a bit longer so i could spend more time with Dawn. Hoping he would come back. But nope. Other dream characters spawned than i woke up.

Mini dream 5

Dawn was showing me how to make a dream journal. He took a yellow folder and broke another yellow folder to make the cover seal for it. He stapled white paper inside it and said that not much people do this but they should try it because it can come in handy. Its also cheap.

Saddest Dream Ever.

Earthquake in Vatican city. I felt the strongest vibrations and then I saw an earthquake in Vatican City. I was in the Sistine Chapel as I looked up at the beautiful artwork of Michelangelo crumble to the floor. Forever lost and turning into dust, I cried out to Jesus and wept for the horrific loss of one of the greatest accomplishments by man of irreplaceable art .

#432 - DILD/DEILD/OBE - 4:30ish

I was having a bad night with restless legs and stomach issues and ended up on the couch. I thought I was hearing noises outside so I was listening as I was falling asleep. At some point I felt the beginning of a shift in my head toward the dream state, but I latch on too soon and it stops. Seconds later, I hear glass break and a rock lightly bounces off my abdomen someplace. I get up and look at a window to see several small holes and cracks. I rush out the back door to catch the vandal and see a preteen boy standing in the neighbors back yard just looking at me. He hits me with another rock and I cover my face out of reflex. I only feel a slight sensation where the rock should have hit me and realize it's all a dream. In fact, I remember that I was literally just now trying to fall asleep and the environment has full on daylight. I quickly find a rock and launch it at the boy, hitting him square in the face. He flinches a bit, but remains largely unaffected. He smirks and picks up a huge red brick. I think, "ok fine" and get a brick of my own. We launch bricks at each other for a few moments and I backhand a few as the come at me, as well as TK to form an invisible shield in front of me.

I wake up into vibrations and relax into the feeling. My legs feel light and floaty and stretch them out enjoying how amazing and pain free they feel. It's been a while since I've noticed SP sounds, but this time I could hear to tones of high pitched ringing. I focus on the sensations for a bit along with general body relaxation. I turn my head too look at the living room and notice how much darker it all looks. I wonder why it's can't just look the same as waking life. I wake up into vibrations again and repeat the process.

After a moment, I am able to get up and blindly go out the front door. I see a few cars passing by on the street, but mostly ignore it. When I step into the yard a look up at the night sky, I see a full view view of beautiful bright stars. They don't look like normal stars but the longer I look the more they change into differing versions. All the while I am awed by all of it and hear a music cue that reminds me of this from Polar Express.

I feel an emotion release of joy and peace and I am reminded of movie scenes where the light shines down from Heaven and you hear the angles sing. I do my best interpretation of it of that mingled with the voices I am hearing in the music., "ahhhh ahhhhhhhhh" but it sound horrible and I choke on the sounds a bit. I chuckle a bit and and continue to admire the ever changing star field though, I've forgotten about the music now. Now, I'd really like see a more realistic milky-way-filled-starry-night, so I focus on it. I see something like what I've seen before only for a fraction of a second and the dream destabilizes into darkness.

I decide I better move on before I wake up and manage I manage to get my visual back. There is a car parked on the road and I leap from where I am standing several yards over to the other side of the car. As I pass over the top of the car, I run my hand over a strange glass sunroof. The car is black and strange-looking resembling one of my son's Hot Wheels. I''m not sure when my transformation began, but as I let out a growling howl I realize that I am now a werewolf. I am over come with a feeling of triumphant power with a hint of harmless mischief. My, that escalated quickly. I look into the driver side glass past my werewolf reflection to see my neighbors from across the street panicking in the car with a look of shear terror on their faces. Unsure what I should do now, I just watch them for a second and am completely surprised then they slowly vanish from the dream like Marty McFly and his family. I decide now to just use my super power to break glass. The driver side, front and back windows go easy like eggshell with a satisfying glass-breaking sound. I move to the back glass and remember a stupid video I saw on Facebook were some dope tried several times to break car glass with his head. I decide it would be fun to do this in a dream and when I raise me head back I see a cracked spot on the glass. Amused, I ram my head right into that spot. The dream goes back.

I have a vividly physical sensation of opening my eyes and find myself sprawled out over the truck of the car with my face resting on the glass. For a split second I begin to freak out as I think that I have been sleep walking and actually woke up outside. The idea quickly goes away as I remember this is and old fear and there is no way that happened. I look now at the main road and see a lot of traffic passing by. I remember a thought I had a long time ago about riding a motorcycle in a lucid dream. I'm not sure that I have ever done that and decide too now. I think I see one in a neighboring yard, but it turns out to be a bicycle. I decide to get one from the road GTAV style. I run out into the traffic and cars avoid me. While I let them pass, I see so many odd cars, again like life-sized Hot Wheels. I watch with amusement until I see a motorcycle coming up. As I passes I snatch the man off with one hand and the bike rolls forward then lightly falls over. The man is so light that I think I could hold him in my mouth like a dog with a rag-doll, but decide I'm done with being a monster and I toss him to the side. I watch him flip end over end as he fades into the night. I quickly hop on the motorcycle and take off. I work the manual transmission for fun and quickly realize I am on a dirt bike. The sound is super realistic as I zoom ahead on the road. The dream becomes way too dark again and I can only see the road that's right under me for brief seconds as I pass under the street lights. I ride for a few moments still enjoying the sensation of speed then, quickly hop backward off the bike as I realize I that haven't thought of my dream goals. I intended to use a pocket hole to travel to ISS with bemistaken. The bike rolls ahead and crashes someplace as I step out of the street. I quickly and blindly reach into my pant pocket. For some reason my hand just doesn't want to fit in there, but I manage to pull something out and slam it on the asphalt. It's a black spot on the road, but looks like it is half faded out of 'reality' much like the neighbors vanished. I decide I could work with that as long as it hold, but it's much too small. I use a pinch zoom motion over the whole and it becomes big enough to fit into. I fall over head first and the second I enter, I wake up.

I just remember waking up at some point during the night when I realized in my dream that I had to be dreaming... When I tried to go back to sleep I had a WILD sensation, some vibrations and stuff. I just entered a lucid dream and then before I could really do much I faded back out. I managed to summon the WILD vibrations again to see if I could have a lucid dream properly this time but I couldn't get into the dream state, I just felt too alert.

These random lucid dreams might be a product of my current workload output for university and the stress associated with it, basically keep waking up during the early morning hours and struggling to fall back to sleep... I haven't even been thinking about getting lucid or recording my dreams, it's just happening.

This is the first lucid dream that I had on 18-03-2014. It was the start of my lucid dreaming journey, so it is pretty important for me.

I have written that I had a bad dream right before that, I did not write down what it was, but I think I may still remember it. I was in my room and there was this guy who ran up to me with a cheese grater and tried to grate my face off or something o_O I woke up.

I walk out of the car and I have my books and bag ready for school. I am in Russia (I was born in Russia but I do not live there anymore). As I am looking around, I see how much some of the things have changed but some things are still familiar. I think wow, I can't believe I am finally visiting Russia again, usually whenever I am visiting Russia, it is in my dreams. At this point I get pretty suspicious and realise that it is a dream. I am finally having a lucid dream!, I think. Instead of just standing around, I turn away from the car, do a small jump and will myself to grow wings (I wasn't feeling confident about flying without wings) and flew up. I see a forest that I've seen many times in my dreams (it is very beautiful and has different coloured trees) and start flying above it. I start losing control a couple of times but I am just really happy to finally get a lucid dream. I look ahead and see a city in the distance. I really want to visit it and explore the buildings - for some reason all these elements from my past dreams make me feel nostalgic. Unfortunately the dream fades to black and I wake up.

This is a digitial painting of the forest I did after I had that dream.

Dream 2

Near the end of the dream I was inside a school building and suddenly Ariana Grande comes in the room. As I'm trying to take control of an evil thing inside a doll or puppet Ariana tells me that she will take care of it. But before she does she asks for a hug. I give her a hug than try to leave the room but the opening in the wall where the door is small and narrow.I squeeze through and meet a child as i'm walking. The child looks like he is 4 years old and I tell him I'm trying to arrive at the place with light. I hover up near the ground and tell the boy to fly like me. His mom comes though and ends up talking to him about something as were moving along. We all than end up at a city where a couple of people are moving a medium sized car around and around in the street. I than notice a dream character that is trying to grab my attention. The dream character is a bald man who looks like he is in his 30s, wearing short pants and a white shirt I think.

The scene than changes after i'm flying above the ground a little. I end up in my parent's bedroom but it looks somewhat different. Another guy who looks like the guy from the dream I had two days ago is there and he has a cigarette lighter. He is showing me how the fire isn't working that well. I tell him okay and to use the other one he has. That is when i go to sit on my parent's bed and see the bald guy usher the other dc to go with him out the room. He closes the door but i can still see him. He notices that I'm staring and does a funny looking thing where he glitches and its like his body is teleporting multiple times in the same spot. Than he walks into the room and jumps on the other bed. Than the bald guy shouts for me to look at him. "There is something coming out of my mouth!" he says laughing. A bit of what I assume to be blood comes out of his mouth.I tell him calmly that I'm not going over there.After that he hits the other guy next to him on the leg than laughs. I wake up after that.

Dream 3

Near the end of dream 3 I was with a group of little kids and a man. The man was saying that in order to stop a heart attack you have to rub the left and right side of your chest one at a time. I told him that wasn't true. He told me to prove it so I took out my phone and searched for a app file that talked about heart attacks.But it was hard to find.Suddenly the place began to be transformed into some sort of game obstacle field. I told the kids with me not to worry and that I'll get them out. A monster came out of a video as a small skull than started transforming into some type of green,skull masked anime monster. It was getting bigger and bigger. I told a little kid with me to not be afraid and that he could fight it. He jumped and tried kicking it but missed. He than ran to me and said he was scared. I said"don't worry. I'll defeat it for you"and tried hitting it but it was really gross looking so I shouted for Dawn to come.

He came and hit the monster. The scene began to change slowly until we were in another room. Dawn than said to me that it was time for him to reset himself. That the only reason he was here was to experience being German again. Someone else than gave me a paper and said that I would have to continue fighting the monsters by myself. I looked at the paper and it said "Dawnyeye11...."and the same thing the person who gave me the paper said. There were 2 smiley emoticons on it too.After that I false awakened in my parent's bedroom and was told by my mom that my cousin was calling me to give me papers. I told her I didn't want the papers than woke up for real.

Ritual: I don't know if it was the jackfruit seeds or a bad scallop, but something I ate last night was brutal to my stomach. It got so unpleasant I that for a few hours I couldn't do anything but pace in discomfort, hoping something would come out in any direction. Finally I threw up, which usually leaves me feeling 100% better, but this was only a minor improvement. I managed to read for a bit, drinking herbal tea and self-medicating with tinctures of myrrh and wormwood. Around midnight I threw up again and finally felt stable enough to sleep. Although my stomach still hurt for a few hours and I couldn't drink much water at first, by the time I woke up at 8am, I was feeling basically fine again. My dream recall was terrible, though: I knew I had dreamed but couldn't pin down a single detail. At 9am I decided to go back to bed for a bit, performed half-assed WILD technique but started dreaming non-lucidly. On waking up my recall was 1/10 at first, but once I managed to recover the location of the dream I was able to follow the thread and reconstruct much of the narrative, resulting in 4/10 recall overall.

I was in my grandmother's house, a common setting for many of my dreams. The events going on were all very mundane... too dull to go into much detail. Briefly, I was looking for some powder that you could mix with milk to make a shake, similar to the Carnation Instant Breakfast packets my grandmother always used to have on hand, but couldn't find any.

I went into the bathroom and finally realized that my location was a dream sign, so I started to look around and wonder if this was a dream. Everything seemed so concrete and convincing that I had my doubts, but then something bizarre happened: I suddenly felt like I was being grabbed from behind by someone putting their arm around my right shoulder, but there was no one in the room with me! I whirled around to make sure and was staring at empty air. A moment later I felt it again even more strongly: the pressure of the arm squeezing my shoulder and chest, and the pressure of a warm body very close behind me.

Ohhh, I thought. I think I know what's going on. I really am dreaming, and my husband has come back to bed and put his arms around me. Upon that realization, I felt the dream fading, and sure enough, woke up in bed next to my husband.

"Are you going to get up? It's 1:50 in the afternoon," he said. I pointed out that I had returned to bed to for extra rest because I hadn't been feeling well last night. I was telling him about the strange thing that had just happened, how I had felt his presence while I was dreaming. I went on to explain how I should have recognized that it was a dream earlier, because my cousins were all much younger than they should be, and my grandmother's house was in the possession of an aunt (long-since divorced) rather than the uncle who currently lives there. My husband apologized for disrupting my dream, but I said it was okay, it hadn't been that interesting.

As we talked, I was looking out the screen door onto our patio. Where I should have seen the pool and cement deck, instead I was mildly surprised to observe a grassy hillside. I attributed this to some lingering after-effects of the dream state, instead of correctly realizing that I had never stopped dreaming all along. In retrospect this is more obvious, because the way I felt my husband put his arm around my right shoulder was impossible given that I sleep on the right side of the bed, so if I'm on my left side there is no room for someone to lay down behind me. I was also relieved when I woke up for real and discovered that it was only a little after 10:30am!

So I had my first lucid dream in several months last night, and I'm really happy I did! It wasn't too eventful, but it was still awesome to be able to experience lucidity after what was probably my longest dryspell in 5 years(aka since I've started the practice of lucid dreaming). So without further adieu:

I dream I'm in a retail store of some assortment(I think a Wal-Mart), and I'm getting some work done(I guess I have a job there in this dream). I'm currently having the worst possible day from what I recall, and working is just a real drag at this point. In the midst of my horrible day, I go and sit down on some boxes to take a break for a moment, and I sigh heavily.

"Can this day get any worse?" I say, jinxing myself.

And sure enough, I hear an all too familiar voice call my name with a nagging voice. I turn and see my old boss from my real life job, Kristina, and she's yelling at me(but don't get me wrong, she was nice from time to time). Upon seeing her yelling at me, I realize just how much I jinxed myself, and I put my head down and sulk.

"This can't be real right now," I say, and I plug my nose.

To my extreme surprise, my airways aren't blocked, and I'm breathing right through my plugged nose. I raise my eyebrows in disbelief, and I decide to double check. I look at my hands, which are pudgy and deformed, and they freak me out a little. I look away from my hands, and I stand up happily. I'm clearly dreaming!

I run over to a different aisle now, ignoring my boss's nagging, and I see some windows high up on the wall. I jump once into the air, and then suddenly I'm flying. I exert as much force as I can, and I fly straight through one of the glass windows.

Outside it's dark and beautiful, and I now have all of this power in my hands to use. I turn around and see some real life friends walking by, and I greet them gleefully. I then fly away and land on top of a rooftop on another building, and I look up to the midnight sky.

I haven't had a lucid dream in forever, so I decide that I can't waste this dream doing something stupid. After consulting with myself, I decide to bring out the nerd in myself and do something for old time's sake. I cup my hands to my side, and I smile as a rush of nostalgia strikes me.

"KA...ME...HA...ME..." I begin shouting at the top of my lungs.

I look at my hands, and sure enough a blue ball of energy is forming within them, and I'm ready to fire. I point my hands up at the sky, and a massive blue beam of ki illuminates the air as it sails into space.

"HA!!!"

After my successful Kamehameha, I stand on the rooftop, and I feel refreshed. I haven't done anything this fun in awhile, and I need to do more in the future.

Unfortunately, my recall is a bit shot after this moment. I loosely remember flying elsewhere and trying something else I can't recall, but that was most of the dream. Nonetheless, I was happy to have a lucid dream again!

Took a snooze on the floor of my bedroom today. (For some odd reason.) Remembered some dreamlets and other tidbits from the nap.

-I was getting some dream music. At first a very odd electronic sounding piece with strange distorted synth sounds. I woke up or lost the dream. I then started getting classical music, I think piano and string instruments mostly. It sounded very unusual though, and some kind of horn kicked in halfway through.

I either woke up or simply FA'd. I decided to go back. I began hearing a singers' voice this time. A male singer, singing away to a happy tune. What he said was either distorted Spanish or just dreamspeak.

-Manei asked me to look at her belly button. She said that she was afraid of getting this condition where you would grow a pair of lips around your belly button. She was showing me pictures of another girl who got it. I looked. Nope. Nothing there. But seriously, WTF Manei?!

I really need to do like a 'The best of Manei' kind of thing on one of the fourms.

-I remember meeting two characters from my comic, Raiah and Maxwell. The two were sitting on the couch playing video games. (Very in-character...) (Raiah is actually one that I have been trying to make into a DC). Maxwell is her brother. Upon seeing maxwell I was upset that his hair was not spiky. (Since his hair is spiky in the comics, it's actually made fun of on several occasions since things can get stuck on the spikes.)

I remember getting excited since this was one of the first times that I had seen either of them in a dream. Maxwell smilled at me and for some reason he only had four really big teeth, two on the bottom and two on top. (What is up with all the body malfunctions?!)

Ritual: WTB 2:30am, woke 7:15. I was stressed over something and felt too awake to go back to sleep right away, so I got up and put some time into a project for work. Returned to bed at 8:45am, no techniques, though I wondered if the WBTB would make lucidity more likely (happily it did) and woke again at 10am. Recall: 6/10.

DILD, "Wine and Cheese": I'm walking down a footpath outdoors, carrying a cat in the hem of my dress. That is, I've folded up my hem to make a kind of pocket with the cat in it. She is an orange tabby short-hair that doesn't resemble any cat I've known in WL. I think she'll probably want to look around, so I try to arrange the "pocket" in such a way that she can rest her paws on the edge of the hem that I am holding and peek her head out. This works for a while, but then I notice that my black inner dress feels too tight around my legs, hampering my movements, and I think I must have accidentally caught it up together with the hem of the outer dress (which is a sheer light brown fabric). In trying to rearrange it so I can walk unimpeded, the cat falls back down into the "pocket," but I figure this isn't so bad, since the outer dress is translucent, maybe she can still enjoy the view.

However, the cat is getting restless, and I remember something I read the other day on the forums: that if you just keep walking or wandering in a particular direction, the dream will destabilize. Well, such a thing has never happened to me before, despite numerous opportunities, but now I've caught a touch of schema infection from reading about it. [I agree with FryingMan that as a community we should try to be more conscientious about making claims that might infect other people's schemas!] So of course now that I'm anxious about it I start to feel destabilization coming on—I need to do something, quick! I notice that I am walking past a little wine-and-cheese shop, so I decide to duck in for a snack.

Almost immediately I start to wonder if this was a bad idea... sitting down for a whole meal seems like a very drab and tedious way to spend my precious dream time. I decide to keep it short and just taste a few things; there's no need to finish after all. So I order some white wine and a cheese plate. The lady running the shop insists that we also try a certain specialty of theirs, which turns out to be a kind of spread that you put over toast. I see that all of these menu options are also listed on a small chalkboard hung over the doorway to the kitchen, though she prepares everything from behind a counter that is in the dining room. She serves us two types of their specialty spread, together with wedges of three kinds of cheese. It looks like very high-quality cheese, and I'm surprised (and a bit dismayed) to see how big the pieces are.

The only seating in the place, which is very small, is a long communal table. I sit down and don't find it odd that I have a dining companion who sits to my right, though I didn't notice her before and my impressions are so vague that all I can really specify (uncertainly) is her gender. The orange cat I was carrying before is on the floor at my feet, and I hope the proprietor won't mind if she sees me feeding the cat little pieces of cheese. I take a sip of wine and a bite of some cheese and I am pleasantly surprised. Normally in dreams my sense of taste is dull and muted, but the taste and texture of this cheese is identical to the real thing. It is a sharp, tangy cheese with a firm, slightly crumbly texture like certain Spanish or French cheeses made from ewe's milk. I feel more enthusiastic about being here now, since I can enjoy a delightful snack without worrying about any extra calories! But on my second bite of cheese, as I concentrate on enjoying it, my perceptions accidentally shift to my real mouth—which of course is completely empty and tastes like night saliva. The dream fades and I very nearly wake up.

DEILD, "Navriela": Luckily I realize that I am not fully awake but just below the threshold, so I think I can probably DEILD. Initially I try to DEILD back into the dream I just left, but it has fragmented beyond retrieval. So I just focus on getting the dreamstate back. Visuals kick in first: I see what looks like the vantage of a movie camera tracking steadily from left to right over something that resembles a grim, minimalist palace interior, perhaps an empty throne room. Everything is smooth and metallic grey and vertical. Probably because I start to wonder what was supporting the camera for this shot, which is too smooth and gravity-defying for a human cameraman, I now hear a male voice off-screen saying, "It is difficult to make a movie like this." I listen and continue to hear voices conversing about the film, so with both sight and sound back in play, I know that dream is kicking in.

The camera has moved right through a doorway into the upper landing of a stairwell, and now I see a slender woman dressed all in silver begin to descend the stairs. To stabilize my senses I study her outfit, and I'm impressed how clearly I can perceive its details. She is wearing a kind of short jacket over a lower garment that reaches to her mid-thigh. It is not shorts or a skirt, however, and as I study it closely I observe a series of folds that suggest the garment consists of a single piece of cloth that was tucked between and through her legs to form something resembling short pants. I recognize this style of clothing—it looks like jongkraben, a kind of lower garment worn by both men and women in nineteenth-century Siam—but I'm surprised to see it in such an unusual context as this medieval/futuristic palace, worn by a pale, lithe, elf-like woman with white-blonde hair. I think I see some tassles dangling from the front, so I circle my perspective (still disembodied) around the woman to confirm what her outfit looks like from the front, and then continue to follow her down two flights of stairs.

At the bottom of the stairs she encounters an elderly but vigorous old man with a long white beard who resembles Gandalf. He starts talking to her and at one point asks, "What is your name?" I'm pleased that he has asked the question I was wondering. There is something so youthful yet elvishly ancient about the woman that she strongly reminds me of Galadriel in LOTR, even resembling Cate Blanchett a little bit, and I half-expect her to say that "Galadriel" is her name, especially now that I'm thinking it. But the dream surprises me, and she answers with something that sounds equally elvish, but a name I don't think I've ever heard before: "Navriela."

I start to think I should embody myself in this dream and work on some task. Had I been a little more on the ball I might have thought to accompany Navriela to a nearby forest to make another attempt my lucid dare, but I am too distracted by my growing attraction to her. I reflect that if I was one of the guys I would surely go "caveman" on her, and this gives me an idea for an experiment: what if I try to become a man? I sometimes identify as male characters in NLDs, but I hadn't attempted this before in an LD.

I imagined myself as a guy and approached Navriela with romantic intentions. She was compliant as I took her into my arms, and we fell together on a bed that was conveniently placed in an adjoining room. I started trying to make love to her as a man, although it was all rather vague and hasty (I don't even think we took our clothes off) and I didn't notice any differences in my anatomy. Nevertheless, there was something very arousing about it and I quickly orgasmed. "It's always so much easier for men," I thought wryly—overlooking the fact that it is always easier in dreams anyway.

FA: I woke up and immediately went to my computer to start writing my report, but I was having trouble accessing my word file. First I tried under "Open Recent," in Word since it's usually somewhere in that list, and when I didn't see it I tried typing the name of the file in the search box, but that didn't work either. I resorted to my back-up plan, dropping to desktop and clicking to the alias of my dream journal that I'd placed there, but even that failed for some reason. Since I actually do often have trouble accessing the file when I'm half-awake and hastening not to lose precious seconds of dream recall, it never occurred to me that my technical difficulties this time were evidence of an FA—even after discovering that my computer was in the middle of doing a full scan of some kind, and that my files were all locked until the scan was complete. Instead, I rationalized this by "remembering" that I had updated the OS just before I went to bed, and that concluded a mass file update was part of the process. Fortunately the progress bar was already at 56% and resolving quickly, so I waited it out. The OS shifted over to the new version, and now a new icon appeared on the top of all my window frames. It was a cartoon-like graphic of a noble male face haloed in a bright burst of sunlight, resembling a demigod or superhero. I figured this was the logo of the new OS, the name of which I knew at the time, but I wasn't paying much attention because finally I was able to open my dream journal file and start taking notes. Initially I started jotting down a lot of keywords and short phrases so I wouldn't lose any key events: "Navriela," and "four kittens" and "wine and cheese shop," and then started filling in the details.

Eventually I woke up again and realized the last sequence had been an FA. Unfortunately my overall recall was now somewhat eroded the delay in waking up properly, especially of earlier sequences before I became aware that I was dreaming. I don't think there was ever a clear boundary or "aha" moment when I got lucid; it just seemed to naturally dawn upon me while I was walking down the path carrying the cat.

NLD: I can partly recall an even earlier scene, non-lucid, where I was in a store, looking through horse halters. I was surprised to find horse supplies for sale at a mainstream store like this—it resembled a budget department store like a Target. I compared several halters but didn't like their quality or appearance. One that I rejected was covered with pale pink fake fur; another incorporated a fly mask but I wasn't sure if the eye holes would fit properly. I ended up rejecting them all and walking away. As I left, I noticed that the halters were on display in the children's section of the store, which annoyed me: why is horseback riding so often pigeonholed as an activity for young children? Certainly it helps to start young, but it takes years of practice to get any good at it. I think it was after walking out of the store that I was carrying the cat in my dress, where my dream report started, but the transition is unclear. I also now have no idea what the keywords "four kittens" was referring to, among all the notes I had recorded in my dreamed dream journal—so there is probably at least one lost scene.

Slave rebellion

The dream started in this rectangular area which seemed to be a deserted wasteland. Sort of like a desert but without hills.. and no sand.. or cacti.. but more like this, but with significantly less shrubs and plants and whatnot. There was more to it than just this rectangular area, but I paid more attention to this place because there were cardboard boxes spread around, each with about 1-2 people in them with orange or grey prison clothes, with me being one of these people. I recognized a lot of people I know at school within this group. Apparently we were all slaves and we had to go to this store to combine items to create this red dust for the group who were enslaving us. So we went to one of the corners of this area and while the place looked tiny on the outside, it was a large store. Nobody seemed to be in this store, so we all took some items to create this dust. Strangely enough, throughout this whole process we weren't restrained by any handcuffs or chains or anything, and also there were no guards watching us. When we realized this, everyone decided to rebel against this group. After that we all took our respective red dusts and left the store to reunite with our cardboard boxes. The dream faded after that.

A majority of the people I recognized in this dream were from my gym class. And recently, we had to do a test in the gym so we had to spread out.. as for the cardboard boxes, our recent science project involved one.

Also, stores. They seem to play a large part of the setting in my recent dreams.. I'll have to keep this in mind.

Very Lucky

The dream started with me waking up in my bed. The door to my room was open and the other room at the far end of mine's door was open as well. Then I said, "I want to practice dream control right now so this has to be a dream right?" What an odd way to start questioning your reality. I then said, "If I'm really dreaming then I could make anything I think appear behind the corner of the far room." But I started to think of something nightmarish, and before I could control myself I looked back towards that corner. Before I could see anything, the dream started to fade out and I woke up. Though I started questioning reality, I don't really think I believed it could have been a dream. I never would think of something scary if I REALLY believed it was a dream. That's probably something I need to work on when doing daily reality checks. I'm just really glad and really lucky my dream faded before I saw that thing..

Wrote my dream down but it got erased because the page closed by mistake. so I'm not going to describe what happened as much.

Strange Whale


-I was inside a city in the late afternoon. The weather was fine and I was looking at my mom's tablet minding my own business. Suddenly a man comes up slowly and tells me to give the table to him. I scream for the police to help me. Than they come and arrest the man.

-Inside my room changing my bed. Its dirty and I plan to wash it in the washing machine but i go upstairs to tell my mom first. She ends up complaining to me about something I did wrong though so I leave.

-I was watching a video of a girl showing her two other friends how she plays the drums. She is moving her head back and forth as she hits a drum with the stick. I than get sucked into the place and her and her friends disappear. After that I tried playing the drums but end up making a lame beat. I press the pedal for a low beat than start hearing the sound of a low bass guitar. There is a nice beat playing which makes me want to play a electric guitar.

I'm outside in my front porch with my father and some other family members/people. I toss something over in the direction of another house porch and mention how a girl is going to catch it. Two girls appear and one of them takes the thing I threw. I than laugh mentioning how It was just a mind trick since the girls their seeing aren't real. I walk to the other house porch and take the thing from the girl. I start to feel sort of bad playing the trick on my dad's old neighbors house though.

-After that I appeared on a bed with another guy. He gave off a kind presence. Like the dc I wanted to bring in from another dream.He pulled out a medium size blue whale and asked me what it was. I said i didn't know since it looked a bit strange. He said something like "Saving the marine life". Than the whale opened it's mouth wide and wind lines began to form as if it was going to suck me up whole. The dc than told me I had to be careful since junk and dirt fly out of its mouth. I started to feel the thing sucking me up so i held onto the bed and put my face down after telling him to make it stop.

Something jumped on me though and I could feel pressure on the back of my neck. I tried to force it off of me but it wasn't working.It took a while but i managed to get it off and noticed the guy behind me. I guessed it was his fault i couldn't move. He than mentioned how he wanted to see star wars 2 and started changing the channel on the T.V. that was present in the room. I lay down and thought about how weird the movie he put looked than woke up.

Bird Poop

-Walked around the supermarket.Ended up in my parent's bedroom with the guy dc from the other dream and more dream characters. I think there were some anime people present. I changed my dream look than started to bake something for the baking competition that was going on in the room. As I was mixing the batter the guy dc was building something. Sadly bird poop and food began to appear in the batter so i quit doing the competition.

I went downstairs to my room with my brother and the guy dc after that. We were looking at old childhood papers and report cards. I noticed one that was mine that had the number 63%. My second grade teacher appeared after that and she started talking about dreams a lot. I became fully lucid when I saw the words ocean and dreamviews on a report card.

The guy dc next to me told her to follow him somewhere. When I peeked through the corner of the wall at them i saw him push her to a corner and start making out with her. I thought how weird it was if they were both guides than looked back in the room i was in.The scene started changing so i asked a young girl ( She looked 10) present in the room if she wanted to follow me. We went out to my backyard and I thought i saw my dog Max. Than i asked the girl for her name. She said "Emma". I tried crawling under the gate than woke up.

I woke up at my school there was an exam.My teacher came to me and said have you done your homework?I told her I did then she whispered to my ears 'you are still dreaming!' I became lucid first my vision went off but I was feeling my whole dream body.I tried to imagine my hands it didn't work sadly :( then I woke up.Afterall it was a lucid dream :))

Okay, I'm new to this so I really don't know what to do tbh.
I can see that people can read and respond to this so i'll just try this.
I had this dream and this is what happened in it:
I was in my house and was sitting on my couch talking to my friend(on facetime ect). She announced the word ' Reality Check ' then I looked at my hands and they were fine, i inhaled through my nose while covering it, I could breathe through it. I didn't become lucid? My dream self got really excited but then calmed down. I walked over to my computer desk and spawned a McDonald's (2 burgers and an ice cream to be exact). I then spawned a door and tried to spawn a DC, I managed to BUTTT I said the emotion wrong and they acted weird then disappeared. I then went up to my room and told myself to wake up which didn't work. I woke up eventually.
I'm really confused because if I were to actually Lucid Dream, I wouldn't of spawned a McDonald's. Instead I would of talked to Dream Characters or tried to fly.
(BTW It wasn't vivid and the dream was in third person or GTA style POV)
Lucid Dream or Dream about Lucid Dreaming?