lucid

Second lucid dream

method used: WBTB
Following the wake which succeeded the first LD at night, I took the opportunity to rate it, then to go to bathroom, snacked two cookies and listened to some ambient music under my warm blanquet before falling gently asleep.

I'm in the room I occupied when I was younger at my parent's house. I stand before my door, opened. No idea as to what triggered my lucidity taking, much less what brought me there. I do not care actually. I hear my mother talking to me and it bothers me. It's like she annoy me from IRL to prevent me from continuing this LD trying to turn my attention away.

But I am determined to continue this dream and to continue to be lucid. I go down the stairs and find myself on the landing, overlooking the living room. From the top of the stairs, I see my mum lying on the couch. She has continued to talk to me from the time I realized that I was lucid until the time I find her before me, a fairly short period of time as a matter of fact.

She finish her speech just when I have her before me with such a sentence as: "Do you know you're dreaming now?” I brush aside her unnecessary speech, I already know that I am lucid from the beginning and what matter the most to me is what I'm going to do now. Probably influenced by the LD journal of another lucid dreamer online, I challenge her to turn her face to another one.

I want her to make it creepy. I want to face fear in dream. Is my lucidity that low? In fact, usually I don't pose a challenge to my dreams excepted in ND. In my LD, the issue of primal feelings like fear and what it is likely to trigger comes second because I know I have control over my dream world.

Moreover, I'm usually the one who decided the transformations of my DC. At least when they don't already transform themselves. I usually don't have this wait and see attitude. Anyway the DC lying 7 ft below me and who is no longer my mother hardly run. She barely manages to do some ludicrous grimaces but it is in no case frightening.

I go down the stairs. I want to try something else. I look at my "mother" carefully, then look under the couch saying to myself that I need my DC turns into what I decide, then look again the DC. It works! The DC is now a beautiful plumpy and smiling polynesian girl!

Without a moment of hesitation, I jump over the couch and find myself above the pretty girl. She really is on board with a special cuddle too. I begin to grope her fleshy body greedily, but soon, as in all of my erotic LD, I get quickly tired with no reason. I don't know which way to take the situation, I am suddently confused and disappointed and I wake up.

First lucid dream

method used: a bit of binaural before I fall asleep
This lucid dream occurred in the first half of the night for no apparent reason. No specific comments to add, so I tell it directly.

No transition with the previous ND. I forgot this one by the way. I find myself on a grassy field dotted with trees and shrubs. I recall my goal readily. This time I said to myself that I'm not going to drop the case before I had my answer from the dream itself. And immediately! Soon after my question at least.

I run, I jump up and down, in a direction, in another. I'm in a sort of wide open glade. I turn on myself, and as the same time, I formulate clearly my question to the dream / subconscious: "What must I do to get what I ask in the dream, in a tangible way, outside of it?”

I have a little trouble vocalizing my request, partly because the formulation itself is complex. This is not just an impression due to the fact that it is difficult for me to gather my wits and to remember everything correctly, as is the case in most of my RL. This is objectively complex.

I repeat again, slowly but surely into a close formulation, stating that I want my answer now, in the RL. Meanwhile, I continue to twirl and turn on myself at the same time. I get on a fallen tree trunk and jump to the other side. I go to the right, left.

This is not a game. I hope to keep myself in the dream and to keep my lucidity that way. Afterwards, from the outside, it almost appears to me as I was unwittingly taunting the dream like: "No! No! No! I stay in this dream! I ask what I want without interruption until the end!” This impression to thumb my nose at the dream is inspired to me from the following events.

At one point during my spinning top movements, I came face to face with two DR about 50 ft from me. They come down a relatively steep slope, a sort of foothill as if the place turns a bowl at this corner. The surprise of this meeting cut rough my dream ballet. There was nobody in this place two seconds before.

I can not see them clearly at the beginning. At first, I rather see them decked out in sorts of medieval or heroic fantasy clothing. They seem to have stopped a few seconds, the time I cue. I'm going the opposite way towards them, convinced that they are the bearers of the answer to the question I asked, a kind of dream messengers.

Arriving closer to them, I can see the stunning realism of these DR. They are not dressed in eccentric costumes at all, but in modern outfit instead. Both are dressed in jeans and long sleeve polo. One in black and the other in gray. Both wear black glasses, they are between 25 and 30, brown curly hair. The DC with a black polo has a very short beard.

I immediately understand I must follow them to get the answer to the question I asked. All actions, words and thoughts in my head follow one another quickly. The expression on both their faces is rather sullen. It is as if I had done something that displeased the dream which in response sent me two strong men to resolve the situation.

This impression is confirmed in the very short dialogue I began with them:
- Where do we go?
- To jail.

I don't let me be disconcerted. No matter where my lucid adventures lead me, I really want to know how continue this dream "movie" but ... back to IRL!

08.12.2014

Throwing snowballs, Gizmo songs and massive six combo of lucid task dares done!!! (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I think I did it again and surpassed my plateau of length of lucid as well as goals accomplished during a single lucid. As I have been saying for the last three days, I had the feeling of a lucid coming, and I did not have a good sleep a few nights ago (getting adjusted to the new house) but yesterday's night I slept well, yet no lucid, which surprised me, and last night, turned lucid.

I remember faintly how did I exactly turned lucid and I neither recall what I was dreaming before that. I believe I was in some wax museum and the sculptures were talking. I exited the museum and, fully lucid I took a small flight to make the dream stable. I was very happy that I turned lucid and that finally I broke my dry spell. The quality of the dream was exceptional and I was exited to get finally my wings back and hit some dares while I was at it. I started to walk down the street. The road was made out of little stones, pretty much like on the roman ages. All the buildings were made out of stone as well and there was no lightning, however, it was a warm morning. It looked something like this:







I started to think about the tasks of the month. I thought of throwing a snowball at a dream character, however, it was warm. I reminded myself that in a dream, all could happen. I started looking for snow, and after walking for a while (I was no longer flying now) I saw a little bit of snow on the road. It was like when almost all snow is gone an melted, that you can find a flake here and there. I turned the corner and I saw a small plaza, that had a decent amount of snow. Lucky me, there was a lot of people around, so I grabbed some snow from the ground and made a snowball. I approached at a female character (no, she did not fell back with her legs in the air first!, and I would have tossed the ball before anything else...) She was looking at my snowball and hit her on the face. She was shocked for a brief moment and then, she continued walking like if nothing happened. (Talk about dummy DCs hahaha.) This officially completed my basic Task of the Month:

Originally Posted by Basic ToTM

Hit a DC with a snowball and report their reaction - (kilham)

It was time for the advanced task of the month. Despite I am almost as Christmas freak as Elf is, I did not feel like going hunting for Santa and sneak into his sleigh and I neither wanted do to do the snow globe task. Only Gizmo was left, not very excited but a very easy task. I saw a store, it was pretty old on the outside. When I entered the store, it looked like a Winery store I worked when I was 18 but much bigger. I told them I wanted to buy a present where Gizmo was wrapped up in. I was taken to the backroom, which looked exactly like the backroom from the Winery store, but much larger. A female employee handed me a green box with a golden ribbon. I felt it was going to be an awesome present for someone, but I knew that my task did not ended here and realized that it was a dream gift anyway, so I could not actually give it to anyone in waking life.

I left the store holding the box, and apparently, no one cared that I just walked by the register without the intents to pay... oh well. There was a bench right next to the store. I could hear a little voice inside the box, like if it was signing. I opened the box and Gizmo was in there, and I believe it was actually the real thing and not a plastic toy. I started to pet it and it felt soft and warm:







I told Gizmo to teach me a new song. Unfortunately, I forgot most of it because there is a long way to go still on this massive dream. But I believe it was something like. "One, two, three, gizmo, gizmo, four, five, six, gizmo, gizmo." Then, I think he sang a mantra from Lord Ganesha, at least, the lyrics were familiar to me, but my recall for the actual song is vague... I remember I sang the song back to gizmo and he was happy. I sang it a few more times to keep it in my mind and write it down once I woke up. Advanced ToTM, checked!

Originally Posted by Advanced ToTM

Find which present Gizmo is wrapped up in, and get him to teach you a new song. - (ThreeCat)

I started to explore the new place I was at. Instead of a roman old school city, I was now in Chicago downtown. It was easy to recognize as I was next to Marina City:







So much for the Roman city into Chicago!! My mind amazes me sometimes! I focused on hitting some of the easy lucid dares for anyone to get more bonus points. At this stage of the dream, I did not remember I had outstanding personal dares to complete. I first though of an easy task, to summon Nfri. Which I did. I rose my hand, sorcerer style and asked for Nfri to show up. A tall and slim female showed up. I could not tell her hair color because she wore winter clothing (once again, amazing mind dressed the summoned dream character accordly to the weather on December at Chicago, lol.) Her clothing was all pink and she was dressed very sexy. She smiled at me and she was standing, which a sexy look. She looked something like this (but her hair was covered, and the raincoat was a clearer pink.







I was happy because I completed one dare already (funny to find upon checking the dares thread that Nfri is a dude.)

Originally Posted by Anyone dare Completed

Summon Nfri and describe how he looks (Nfri)

As this female version of Nfri kept approaching at me, I knew right away what was going on, but my dream quality was high and I did not want to waste time, so I recalled another anyone dare I could get done. I walked by hear and faced her, face to face. She tried to get intimate with me (yes, in the middle of Chicago downtown!) but I refused to interact and just turned her my back and walking away. It was actually easy task, I think my drive to make a big record was strong!

Originally Posted by Anyone Dare Completed

Face an attractive DC and refuse to have any interaction with her/him. (NyxCC)

I kept walking down the street and I recalled another anyone dare. I was unsure if I using my phone as a catalyst for dream control was an anyone or someone's else personal task. I took my phone out from my pocket, which looked like my waking life phone. I was in front of a cross street and traffic was very heavy, but cars were driving fast. I pointed at one of the roads with my phone and with my thumb, I slide it right to left, with the intents to push all the cars to go in reverse. Amazingly, it worked first try, and even more amazingly, no one crashed. I started to swing my cell phone left and right very fast, with the intent of accelerating the traffic, which happened, but neither no one crashed (I wasn't thinking they would crash neither trying, probably the reason it did not happen.) I tapped my screen to see what would happen, and the whole dream froze, I think even dream went silent. The whole thing was frozen. That was some amazing effects from just a phone!

Originally Posted by Anyone Dare Completed

Use your phone as a catalyst for dream control. (Sensei)

It was exciting, but I suddenly found my dream getting obliterated in seconds. I did not have time to even to try to save it.

I had a false awakening in bed, I felt satisfied about the dream and getting two ToTM and three dares done. I reached my journal to write down the dream and tried to turn the lamp on that I have in waking life. (the green one)







Not working. I tapped it a couple more times. Nothing.

I turned lucid right away. I exalted "Lamp not working... hahaha, these lamps always work." My wife woke up and asked me what was wrong, if I was cold or something. I told her that I just got tricked with a false awakening and that I was still dreaming. My wife told me that I was talking nonsense. I checked my hands and indeed I was lucid, they looked like a hologram. I jumped off bed and recalled since I was able to remember the whole lucid dream, I decided to continue my dreaming. My wife followed me, pretty upset stating I was asleep. We exited the house and we were in a modern city surrounded by trees, definitely not the same as waking, proving I was indeed dreaming. Wife kept insisting I wasn't. I rose my hand and pointed at it with my other hand saying, "Do you think my hand is supposed to look like this?" My ring finger was like a quarter inch long. I took of to fly, but for some odd and rare reason, I could only bounce about 10 feet tops or so. My wife kept telling me, "See, you can't fly, you are awake, go back to bed before someone calls the cops." Like if jumping 10 feet was normal. I just walked away ignoring my wife, after all she was a dumb DC reflected by my mind. I saw a UFO saucer gliding above some trees. It was semi-transparent and it was vanishing:







I grabbed it before it took off and I thought of the next dare. To fly to the sun. I felt it would be easy to use this vehicle to get there faster, so I set that intent and the saucer to take me there. It was going at high speed and I could feel fire all around me. Now, the saucer looked like a regular shuttle from NASA. I was already in space and realized I was in my pajamas... oh well, big deal. We were getting closer to the sun and I released the shuttle, as in theory, I had to fly through the sun. I kept flying and I entered the sun. I could see my whole being burning, but it did not hurt, I kept flying until I passed through it and I was on the other side of the sun.







I could see a whole lot of different planets that were not from our solar system. This is nonsense in waking since all the planets surround the sun, but in the dream, is like all the planets were in front of the sun (what we see) and others (unknown) behind it.

Originally Posted by Anyone Dare Completed

Fly into the sun (CanisLucidus)

I felt free, I was away from Earth and I felt I wanted to fly home (not Earth...) and a huge smile and feeling of freedom and bliss surrounded my whole being. However, I recalled right away that I had personal dares and they were still to be done. I freaked out a bit because I wanted to give priority to those and I forgot, so I remembered one of them, and since I was in space, I started to glide north until the whole space turned white, so I asked to be taking to the Creator of the Dream. I was taking to God, or what I had a impression of god, a huge amount of white light, made of pure love, light and bliss, it was a massive consciousness with a very powerful energy. I asked this energy/God, "What does this dream mean?" The creator replied to me, but funny enough, instead of through normal words, he did it through my clairsentient ability (psychic hearing) and he told me, "You are like Messi, breaking records all the time." I laughed because I never thought of it, but it was true that I was trying to break a record indeed, and Messi, just broke another record in the soccer match I watched yesterday."

Originally Posted by Personal Dare Completed

Find the creator of the dream you are in and ask what the dream means. (Marce)

I was happy that my dream was still stable so I decided to go back to Earth to get my two more personal dares done (Too bad I was realizing that one of them was an anyone dare that I challenged everybody else too and that I was missing to kick Dark Vather's ass as it was one of my dares and being at space, I had a golden chance to do it, oh well.)

I flew back to Earth and got very quickly back to it. I entered Earth in a kind of an odd way, shoulder first and I heard a massive noise and saw fire all around me. I was like a fireball and I thought, "This is not going to end well! But I laugher."







A few moments later, I was inside a house (what the heck???) There was some dude who was pretty pissed of at me. He wanted me to study and do my homework (I finished school many years ago, lol.) I wanted to get out the house. I did not feel it had good energy. I feel this house was in the middle of nowhere, somewhere around Texas among massive corn wheat fields. I wanted to explore the area. The dude tried his best to prevent me to leave. I saw there was a bar right next to me. The back of this bar was made out of windows and I could see a ton of futuristic buildings (so much for "middle of nowhere") and a huge pool with a lot of people around. There were three stools and three young woman having a drink. These woman appeared to be also pissed at me. I tried another of my personal dares. I rose my hands and started channeling energy, to the intent to make time go faster.

At first, nothing happened, but then I realized that these ladies looked like they were on their 50s and they kept aging fast. Some shrunk in size and one of them had her hair turn white. I kept pushing energy and set the intent for hundreds of years to happen. I saw through the windows how all of the people on the pool and walking by were also aging. However, they never died, turned into skeletons (or dust, zombies... nothing) they just went as old as you can imagine and even older than that



The building and other inanimate objects did not seem to be affected at all. I was very surprised this worked.

Originally Posted by Personal Task Completed

Force a city and its inhabitants to age in front of you for some hundred years. I'm curious to know what could your mind will come up with when their age exceed the average life span. (Box77)

They all kept aging, getting more wrinkles and looking more like a skull, but they remained alive and they kept doing whatever they were doing prior to do this. I felt it was enough of the aging and released the energy. They progressively went back to their original ages, except for the ladies next to me sitting on the bar, which stopped de-aging at the age of 50s.

Suddenly, everybody got on their knees and started to adore me like I was a God. I believed this was another of my personal dares (without knowing it was my dare, and the requires of my dare were different.) I kept thanking people for adoring me and they brought me x-mas gifts (lol) I felt happy and I thought I had all my personal dares done, so I decided to wake myself up, as I seemed to still be with a decent quality dream, but I was risking too much if I continued working on more dares and not getting my butt out of my real bed to write all down.

Dream 1

I don't remember much. All I recall is there was a part about spongebob.

Dream 2

The setting was at a house I've never been to before. I was with my dad and I remember talking to my brother as well. For some reason my mom grabbed my hand and told me to go with her to the city. There at the city we were walking to somewhere but when I heard the sound of someone running with keys I thought it was my dad and looked back. I saw a man walking with bubble wrap on both of his legs than looked around again to see if I could see my dad. I saw a man running with keys but it wasn't my dad.

My mom than grabbed me and told me to forget about my dad. We kept walking until we stopped at a restaurant. There was two pizzas to the side of the door on plastic plates and two guys talking near the door about the pizza being placed there for a important reason. When my mom and I were going to walk in though I kicked the pizza by mistake. The slice almost fell off the plate so I quickly fixed it and apologized.

As we went through the door the scenery began to form into a wide room where girls around my age were hanging out. I felt weird being there because I couldn't recognize anyone. My mom told me to relax, eat and have fun because she had to go than left. As I walked around i saw there was huge chicken legs and rice being served. I wanted to get some food but the chicken legs looked like they were too much for me.

So I took a fork and tried to put a piece of meat on the plate. But when I got it on I could see a rainbow colored bug inside it and the meat was only skin and fat. It didn't look very appetizing and i found the bug weird so I tossed it away.

When I left the room I think I was being chased by some girls. But I might be wrong. The next thing I remember happening is appearing in a huge place filled with students. I was focused on the students in the computer classroom at first but than I got into a fight with a guy who was holding a laptop. As I was fighting him I thought how cool it was that I could kick him with ease.

When we both managed to kick each other on the ground I realized that I was fighting way better than I should be. Which is what made me lucid.I got up than looked around to see what i should do next. Nothing came into mind other than searching for Dawn but i couldn't.

The scene changed and i was now watching a scene unfold. There was a girl who went to live with her grandma in a new apartment building. But she was only living with her because she wanted her grandma dead. After watching that I ended up in a unknown room on a bed. I could move but I stood still and watched as a dark ball of smoke became a girl.

She was laughing at me and told me I wasn't going to get away until after she was done playing with me. I noticed I couldn't move at that point and decided to call for Dawn and Eye. I focused on seeing them when suddenly I noticed my fingers could now move. The girl was surprised at how I was starting to move but still taunted me.I broke free from it though and tried to poke her in both her eyes. But she jumped back and started to dissapear. I woke up after that.


Dream 3

I was at a house that felt like it was mine but it wasn't. I was talking to my family about something in a bedroom but my mom stopped me and asked my brothers if they wanted a drink. The bottle she was holding was a grape flavored wine. When I saw the huge cup of wine my brother was drinking i told him that it was too much for him. But he disagreed and kept drinking it.

I left the room feeling a bit annoyed and started to look for something. As I started looking around the house i saw jade's avatar in between my father and someone else sitting on a couch. I didn't stop to think about it though and just went to another room to search for whatever i was looking for.

I don't recall what happened after that very well but i think i stumbled upon a old friend and we were talking about something.Anyways at some point i got lucid and called Dawn into the dream. When he came I hugged him and he gave me a interesting looking ring. It was green and had 3 gem stones on it. You could also look closely at the ring and see images of places.

I thanked him and felt like using it as a ring for transport, but i changed my mind. I hugged Dawn again and suddenly got the idea to see how my senses worked in the dream. I grabbed him than started to touch his neck and face. It felt like he was sweaty so i tried to see if he had the smell of stinky B.O on him. XD He didn't smell like anything though. But i noticed that when my nose touched his clothes it felt real.

Dawn didn't seem to mind me inspecting him so i tried to see if i could focus on Dawn's energy signature or something like that. The atmosphere was different for a bit than turned back to normal. After that nothing all that happened. I just remember listening and watching a video of Aladdin singing to Jasmine a song that hasn't been made. Than I woke up.

Dream 4

I was with my mom and I think I was trying to cook something with her.I don't remember the beginning all too much so I'll skip to the lucid part. I managed to find Dawn in my dream again and was with him until the dream scene shifted.

I was now outside walking by myself and saw two girls and a boy walking together. They looked familiar so i asked if i had seen them before. One of the girls laughed and told the others not to say anything. As they were leaving i said i didn't really care and started walking again.

There were writings on the floor and drawings as well. I could also hear a person talking about what it was like to kiss a person.Suddenly I was being pulled to a DC and ended up giving him a kiss. Everything got white after that and the scene burst into a new one. Everything was like a anime, including me.

Dawn separated us and put the boy on the other side of the table opposite of me. The boy almost looked like ichigo kurosaki from bleach and apoligized to me. After that I said sorry too in Japanese and Dawn told the boy to not do that again.Than I woke up.

#387 - DILD - 5:32AM

I went to be late at midnight and had planned to take Galantamine at WBTB around 4AM, but at 2AM I had a horrible nightmare that made me think about the waking life implications. I have been taking 5-HTP pre-bed for depression and it's really been giving me powerful vivid dreams, though non-lucid. I was actually excited to see how Galantamine would work for me now but my thoughts kept me wake for over an hour so I decided it wasn't the night. I felt restless legs starting and I got up to take 1mg Melatonin and 400mg Ibuprofen. I considered trying an induction technique, but I really just wanted to fall back to sleep and stop thinking about stuff. I used randomness to quickly pass out, hoping at least, desire would catch the dream.

Much later, I am on a road trip with some 'friends' (their faces aren't anyone I know IWL) and we come to some city. Springfield? Someone mentions that it should be close to time for them to start filming SNL and they all really want to go. I look at the clock and see it's 4:30. I figure we have an hour before it starts but I realize we aren't that close to New York and something about the time feels wrong. Still, I have a strong urge to go alone so I ignore this.

Somehow I end up in a room with a stage. There are very few folding chairs scattered about in clusters and even less people sitting in them. I think this is very odd, but I continue to take a seat. Amy Peohler is on stage talking with another unknown person. It is some sort of pre-show and they point to a guy in our group. They set up some agreement that he would somehow be apart of some skit. This guy looks vaguely familiar and is wearing a yellow shirt with camouflage pants and combat boots. He has thick curly black hair and looks like a person with a sense of humor. He stands up, salutes, and says, "Yes commander."

I have a memory gap, but find myself lucid from doing some form of awareness/mindfulness. I think I forgot most of this, but I recall that I have been watching the show for what feels like a long time. Amy is gone and there is some other celebrity on stage talking. She looks a lot like Megan Trainor with brown hair wearing some light blue prom dress. As I watch her drone on, I feel like the dream is becoming unstable because I feel like can't hold all of this in my head for much longer. The concentration of sitting here idly while trying to remember all that has been said is way too much for me. I have the idea that I really need to be doing something active to keep the dream stable. I try to think what to do knowing that I should have a goal, but I can't be bothered with it right now. Suddenly feeling outrageously rebellious, I have an idea. I leap up from my seat, run to the stage, plant a hand on the edge, and vault myself in front of the woman. Without hesitation, I grab a hold of the front of her silky blue dress, and pull down. This surprising reveals her naked breast to everyone. I am not sure what I thought would happen but this really does surprise me. She stands there for a moment in shock while I admire her cleavage. I have a mild temptation to have some fun, but I quickly resist and turn away.

I return to my seat and make a grand gesture to the now growing audience. The woman is still standing there unashamed and laughing as everyone else erupts with excitement. As I watch, I purposefully look only at her face and not her bare breasts. Suddenly, blue text appears as an overlay to the stage. It appears social media is blowing up because of what is happening on live television. I can see the comments on Twitter and all of the tagging of other people, @soandso @thisguy @somebody (I can't remember the names). Then hashtags appear #something #lookatthis. Again, I don't recall the actual words and I think was mostly gibberish anyway. I laugh at bit, but but start to really really bad for the woman. It feels like shame and embarrassment and something inappropriate. I don't like the feeling so I decide that I want something really hilarious to show up. As I gently will the dream to respond, I think these words and they appear clearly in front of the stage alongside the rest. I am not sure how this showed up, but its more like my subC put it out there for me: "@ISIS hates Megan Strait. #ISIS" I get the feeling that these people would really hate knowing this woman bared her breast on live television. It's not really funny to me, but I decide this will be DJ entry title. The dream quickly fades.

I have an FA where I am trying to recall the dream and how I even got lucid. I remember as I see the funny camo guy holding a milk carton with the word 'Ninja' on it. He tells me that this was 'Ninja Juice' and as soon as I saw the word 'Ninja', BAM I was lucid. Then, I actually wake wondering if this is true.

I've been following something in the form of a child through a place that reminds me of the Flavian Amphitheatre, though I'm aware this isn't Rome or any other physical place; I'm climbing a spiraling staircase along the outer wall, with the arena far below to my left, and arches to my right looking out onto water, and I've just gone lucid in order to focus on remembering what I'm seeing through those arches. The sky is dazzlingly bright.

As I climb higher, the water is replaced by images of another place. I'm seeing an opera house sometime in the early 20th century, but at impossible angles - I see the audience in their boxes, a row of tables outside the theatre proper, a strip of grass and hedges from the little garden outside the building, all at the same time. The effect is something like looking through a faceted gem or a kaleidoscope, with images from different angles jammed right next to each other. Instead of seeing the walls, I see mirrors reflecting nothing, just bright, shining glass. I spot a man I think of as me, though he looks nothing like me - a young man with white hair, sitting at one of the tables outside the theatre proper and smoking. And as I continue climbing, my perspective moving along the audience, there's a woman in one of the boxes who catches my attention - a young black woman with her hair pulled back tight into a bun, in a pale purple gown. It strikes me as very important that I'm seeing her here in the audience, not on the stage.

I looked around for text in order to get some context, but while I found plenty of writing, it refused to cooperate, even swirling into spiraling shapes before my eyes. I don't normally have trouble reading while dreaming, lucid or not, so I thought of this as being deliberately evasive.

I’ve been doing WILD (Wake Back to Bed) every night for the last month, and I’ve had many OBE’s (just about every night). The trick was learning when and then how to 'leap out'! I think I’ve got it figured out now.

Upon consciously waking from a dream, with my body still asleep, I could feel my body slightly floating on my bed sheets. Great! It’s time to 'leap out' of my body and have some fun! I leaped from my body and landed on the floor, standing beside my bed. Please note another good time to ‘leap out’ is towards the end of ‘the vibrations’. Relax to the point of unconsciousness and then leap to your feet. Do it in your mind, not physically, or else you really sit up in bed, and then you’re totally awake. This is where I kept messing up on early attempts.

One problem, I couldn’t see anything, but this didn’t slow me down. I headed towards the door and searched for the door knob. I needed to quickly get away from my body to prevent me from getting sucked back in there. It feels like there’s some strange force pulling me back, and I feel real heavy and sluggish. I must move away in order for this feeling to disappear. I felt around up and down the door until I found the knob. Found it! I turned it slowly and heard the latch click open and then I walked out. I’m free! I headed slowly down the hallway, totally blind. No problem though, I figured out what to do when you're blind in an OBE. Simply claw away at what’s covering your eyes and remove it piece by piece. I clawed about 6 to 8 times, and then I could see. My house was identical to waking life, but it was very dimly lit, because it was night time, and no lights were on. I walked down the stairs to the foyer and looked into the living room. I was about to focus and ask for improved clarity, plus some lighting, then boom! I was back in bed again. My heart was beating hard and I was breathing heavy. I was perfectly calm in the OBE, but my body half was freaking out for some reason. I need to figure out how to keep this from happening. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

Lucid #259: Flurries on the 58th Floor

I’m an operative infiltrating an office building. My enemies have seen me before and know my face, so I have to enter as stealthily as I can. I enter through some side entrance high up on a section of rooftop, and I have a vague memory of arriving by helicopter. There’s a huge “59” written on the wall -- this is the 59th floor.

I run up, but it’s a dead end that leads back out to another roof. Okay, down instead. As I arrive at the 58th floor, I hear a door open nearby and a security guard steps into view. He looks like an easygoing family man, black, mid-40s, naturally cheerful face. But I can’t let myself get found out. “I’m sorry,” I say, and I rush forward, punching him in the face and then kicking him in the chest.

He somehow bounces away down the hall and I lose track of him. I run down the hall after him, and it twists and turns confusingly as I go. This all seems so strange and I remember that I must be having a lucid dream. In preparation for this dream, I used Dreamer’s goal-chaining technique, and as I become lucid, the excitement of lucidity is followed by the sense of cold, and I remember my intent to summon snow for Dreamer. (She’s never seen snow in waking life!)

I walk through the hall, spending a little time examining my surroundings and narrating out loud that “this is a lucid dream.” Once I feel settled, I tell Dreamer that she’s here in this office building too. She doesn’t appear right away, though, so for now I focus on summoning some snow. I imagine myself smushing up snow in my hand to form a snowball, and as I do that, snow begins gently falling around me as well. The snowball is a little too small and rock-like to be fun, so I discard it.

I walk into an office enclosed by glass walls, and a group of 4 or 5 women follow closely behind me. One of them is Dreamer! She’s pushing a stroller! She looks like herself but older, maybe ten years older than she is now, and she’s wearing a purple head scarf like she came prepared for the cold.



The other women are close friends or relatives, and they’re all here on some kind of important business to do with the baby in the stroller. Amazingly, I don’t look to see who or what is inside the stroller! I say to Dreamer “You’re here!” and do a little ta-daaaa with my hands. “I’m having a lucid dream!”

She laughs like I’m joking and says no, she’s got to focus. This meeting is really important to her. I insist that this is a dream, saying something like: “I was infiltrating this place and then bam! Lucidity! I used your goal-chaining technique, just like the last lucid!”

“Ah,” she says, “like when I had the [???] series!” The other women nod and smile at the apparent memory. “We had some fun with that one!”

“Yeah!” I tell her. “I wanted to show you this!” And the snowfall begins again.

Dreamer looks up and smiles. “Is that snow?” She looks excited and torn between enjoying the snow and following through with the story behind the dream plot. She looks like she's toying with the idea of opening her mouth toward the ceiling and letting snowflakes fall onto her tongue.

I see a handful of people dressed in suits waiting at a desk for the meeting with Dreamer and her posse. I ignore the suits, focusing my energy on the snow, and hoping they’ll fade into the background. There’s a bit more quiet snowfall before the dream ends.

Last night was my second trial of the "phase" method (DEILD variant).
As soon as I woke up in bed (after WBTB), I stared cycling the visualizations and by the second cycle, I got a strong moving sensation. Did one more cycle, the movement sensation intensified and I strongly felt the separation. Was in bed again but I knew sth has happened. Slowly moved my hands together, tried the finger through Palm RC: +
I felt very happy! Feeling and rubbing my hands - that I knew were dream hands - I got up and was in a different apartment. Looked around and there was a window. It was a tall building, so I jumped and slowly hovered to the ground. Manifested shocks and shoes (as I was in pajamas) and walked on the street rubbing my hands and looking at the beautiful sky. I tried the glowing ball manifestation for my shoulder 3 times (the third time the wind blew it away like dust). Then I tried flying towards a tree, but I found it difficult. Then some DC came close and I was tricked into a normal dream...

This dry spell just keeps dragging on and on. Considerable lucidity might mean it's finally coming to the end.

Something to do with three lasers of a particular frequency meeting at 90 degree angles creates a fourth-dimensional bridge.


I am with a few friends and Katniss from the hunger games movies, making our way through the woods. We are talking on headsets as if we are playing a game/in a virtual reality. Somebody asks if we want to end the match and we say no. We then come under attack by an army of small monkeys.


I am in an art supply store with my mom and we are buying paper for an art project. The art supply store is very small in a mall, no bigger than the inside of a CVS (In fact that's what the general feel of the art supply store was; a drugstore). It seems to only have one or two employees.

An employee leads us in the back and begins showing us what they have available in terms of paper. It's not much. What they have looks like shoddy blank newsprint and printer paper. I notice that there are drawings of my cartoon characters on the paper. They weren't mine, but they were committed attempts to recreate some of my most iconic characters.

This prompts me to reality check. A couple of nose pinches settled that. I tell my mom that I am dreaming and that I have to leave.

I step outside and see dream characters walking by. The area outside the shop isn't like a mall, it's the side of a busy road with a downtown New-York ish feel to it, skyscrapers and all. I asked to see Manei appear. At first nothing happened but then she ran up to me as a little girl wearing raggy clothes.

"What happened to you? Why are you so little?"

"Dun Dues Se Carlo."

"Dun Dues Se Carlo?"

"Yeah, Dun Dues Se Carlo."

"What the heck does that mean?"

"It means we caused a problem and now we have to-"

I need to get back down there with some serious lucidity and get these lucid issues worked out.

A little background: earlier today, Dreamer and I were having a conversation where she explained that since her LD rate has dipped a little in the last couple of months, she feels hesitant and less confident about giving advice to others than she once did. This inspired me to remind her how excellent her techniques are!

A few minutes before falling asleep for an afternoon nap today, I quickly used the goal memory and lucidity induction technique Dreamer employed for amazing lucid dreams like this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, and this. (Seriously, if you haven’t read these dreams of hers, they’re literally some of the best LD work I've ever seen!) Please don’t compare my very modest goals to these.

Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

Lucid #258: Exemplar

I’m walking past a bus circle at night, and as I’m passing under an awning, I feel this strong desire to have a lucid dream, and lucidity begins immediately.

The doorway is either open air or nearly-transparent glass and now I’m standing in a high-ceilinged entranceway to a fancy house. A pair of staircases frame the room, one on the left and one on the right. A pair of women in their late 20s are standing in the middle of the room talking, each of them wearing these sort of Christmas-y looking sweaters.

“This is a lucid dream!” I announce both to them and to myself. They turn toward me, curious and interested.

I remember using Dreamer’s technique to tie the excitement of lucidity to another feeling: gratitude. (Gratitude because I know that if I’m lucid, it means that the technique worked!) Now I remember what my next step was. I turn behind me, addressing Dreamer. I don’t see her right away, but get this sense that she’s nearby. It doesn’t really matter whether she’s physically present in the dream, so I continue.

I say something along the lines of “[Dreamer], the fact that I’m here proves that you’re awesome.” I start to say something about how I’m here in a lucid dream thanks to her technique, but I’m losing the dream just a bit. I catch sight of a darkened room up ahead lit by a pair of tall, flickering candlesticks before the dream ends.

I got out the main point of what I was trying to say, but I’d intended to add something like: “Always remember how good you are at helping people. This lucid dream only exists thanks to your advice!”

I'm not going to write more because I don't remember it a lot now and I don't even feel like remembering it. : P Yes, I'm being lazy. Haha

I was protecting my nephew from crazy dream characters.

(12/6/14) So last night i was just minding my own buisness in my dream (I have forgotten what the dream was) and then I do a Reality Check (I usually do hands then nose RCs) I count 5 fingers on my left hand, completly normal, then 7 on my right, I am like "WHAT?!", Then i wake up, not because i was excited, but because my sister was being really loud right next to me

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Thanks for reading!

12/6/14 11:40+ 2:50 early for wbtb but already awake. Wake from OBE style LD 5:10 felt like end of a REM cycle but if so no recall before OBE or dreaming I'm trying to get to sleep. Did my son actually come in the room? Anyway I feel vibrations but nothing happening but remain patient. Eventually decide to nudge vibrations and they get quite heavy...almost uncomfortable but I decide to experiment nudging them harder (eye clench) and I finally feel like I am in my dream body in bed and struggle to get out...nudge vibrations some more and feel ready to roll out and do. I feel a little sluggish like waking in middle of the night so I do glottal - seems to indicate awake. Finger through palm...solid...unreliable. Nose pinch since I am quite sure it is a dream there are no sinus repercussions and I can breathe through the pinch. It always feels so amazing. I start out of bedroom door and it sounds like my son is in the family room watching TV. I float the rest of the way to the front door. There is a chain door latch unlike IWL and I remove it and unlock the deadbolt and as I crack open the door there is a hint of cold air and I find that interesting since temperature is not noticed often. I am only wearing underwear in this dream body. I decide it will be a normal neutral temperature and also wonder if my dream will replicate my son wondering who is opening the door in the middle of the night but I suppress that thought and both work (neutral temperature and no son tugging at my lucidity. I go outside walking again at first. There are fictional neighbors across the street coming home. Night time scene. It is a husband, wife and small boy maybe 5 years old. Young Asian family. They parked in the middle of the street, perhaps only unloading. I float-fly a little slower than desired at first then speed up to get a quick look on my way toward Girl Friday's. Though the woman (the wife) is attractive I decide to continue down the street. I see another lone woman walking towards her front door and I float just above her as she goes in her house and I wonder if the DC will even pay any attention to me but she does looking a little uncomfortable. She has a big vaulted ceiling living room very much like ours and I float up into it enjoying the sensation. A bit of that then I float back down closer to her and whip it out to see her reaction. She acts uncomfortable once again. I decide to leave and as I head towards her door it starts to fade and try to closed eye teleport but I am already back in bed. I resolve to ignore the urge to reposition and attempt DEILD but perhaps a mistake after trying for too long may have been counterproductive and better to roll over and reposition more quickly. I also didn't want to open my eyes to check the time and may place in the REM cycles but later realize it was later after wbtb than I would have guessed. 6am

Semi-lucid with two Tonys. Later Tony was the store owner. Got wrapped up in being caught messing around the front of his house which seemed to pull away what little lucidity I may have had. I'm trying to remember the other Tony but I remember thinking during the dream that it was pretty cool that the interaction with one Tony brought up the dream with the other Tony. Also experiment more with eye clench vibrations. More noticeable while semi-awake when ear plugs are in but still degrees of vibrations achieved so must be a sleep/wake level component to the vibrations as previously deduced.

Wake from LD#2 7:55
Weird colored schematic of a water fountain very vivid and I am looking at a stable image for quite a while before it starts changing. This is more than a dreamlet. I am stationary and just observing and the image becomes the outside of the water fountain and a hand reaching down to push the button. The image is panning out and I am interested to see who it is but it all fades to black. I decide it is time to get back to using the closed eye teleport. Awareness and memory is great. I start to imagine my favorite starting point that lead to some of my favorite dreams (teleport to ocean) but perhaps I focused on the wrong thing (the ocean instead of the beach that often dumps me in the ocean). I stay with it and it almost feels like I am floating in water but when the visuals come back I am laying mostly face down on my bed but it is transparent and there are a lot of miscellaneous things on the floor underneath the transparent bed including small papers like post its and other junk. I decide to do a swimming motion with my arms and perhaps that will take me to a different place. The image below my bed stays static and not moving with my supposed swims forward. This image is so out of this world and very bright but I know that I am wearing my sleep mask so there is no doubt but this is all an odd dream location. With not enough happening I decided I might as well roll out (of this transparent dream bed) like in my first LD. This time the door is straight ahead from my bed instead of up and to the left. I go out and head down the stairs and notice that the stairs are not like my stairs in waking life as opposed to the first LD. It is more of a traditional all white banister of thick block shaped wood unlike my rounded natural oak banister. As I am heading down the stairs I recalled my thoughts after my first LD that I should have tried to do at least one task of the month. I decide that when I open the door there will be snow all over the grass but as I do it is a bright sunny day with green grass and I see people over to the left and what looks like a small child over to the right across the street sitting on their porch. I decide "well there will be a small clump of snow left that hasn't melted" and I look down around the grass in front of the house I just walked out of and I find some melting snow but very little. I reach down and clump it together and it is barely larger than a golf ball but good enough and I pick up a piece of foam laying on the grass to put underneath the snowball so that the dream has no excuse to melt it. The group to the left is no longer there but the child on the porch is still there and I approach. The child is a small girl maybe only 3 or 4 years old and she is adorable blond girls with shoulder length hair. I threw the snowball very softly at her and it hit her in the face and fell apart. Her only reaction was blinking
her eyes a lot because of the snow that got in her eyes. I decided this is just a dream and I should probably give it a proper throw and I clump back together the pieces of snow and throw it properly at her and this time she disappeared with only her small plastic figurines she had been playing with left behind. I decide to take a closer look at the figurines to remember what they were when I wake up and see if there was any significance. There are three; 1 is a standing owl-man (standing more like a man but with the head of an owl) another is a Little Mermaid knock off figurine (didn't look much like Disney's Little Mermaid and more little girl than Disney's) and the third one I forget at the moment. And actually there was a 4th one that became the owl-man but I can't remember what that one was either. The dream starts fading here and I decide to try the closed eye teleport again and it seems like I am staying asleep until my wife moves in bed abruptly and coughs and I can feel that I have fully returned to my bed, to my waking body. 243 & 244

Dream 1

I don't remember the first part. It was long.But at the lucid part I appeared at a wide open field in a line up with armed dream characters.(Swords,spears and guns)I stood in the line for a bit wondering why no one was moving than decided to call to the attention of the people on the line and told them lets go on adventure. They all agreed and we started walking.

In front of me I could see one had a elemental symbol of water and fire on them. I wanted to know what elemental title would the dream characters give me so I asked. They told me that fire was best for me because the way fire builds up and comsumes its opponents. I said okay happily and began to run in what I think was a short pink kimono. But than as I was running a long black limo pulled up and a boy came out of it. He grabbed a girl in the group and than stopped.

The scene began to slowly change as if it was a piece of paper with anime drawings of the event that just played.(Anime Storyboard) I was sitting on a chair with my hand on the paper drawing the rest of the scene than stopped. I felt tired of drawing and turned the television off. It seemed as if the house was empty and I was the only one in the dimly lit house where most of the light came from the window.I woke up after trying to look for something.


Dream 2
I forgot. But I have a feeling there was food in it.

Dream 3

I was trying to fall asleep in the dream.The next thing I recall is appearing in a area that was hard to see. Everything looked blurry and white but I could hear a guy and a girl talking. The girl said she still liked the guy. But the guy said he wasn't into her anymore. After I heard him say that I made my presence known and the guy held my shoulder with his strong hand and slowly pushed me back till I appeared on my bed than woke up. TwT I had to go to school anyways.