lucid

I had a lucid last night I don't remember the vast majority of the dream. I only recall a few key factors. One was I non-lucidly driving somewhere. I remember the speed limit was 50, but I was going about 25 because the entire road was covered in ice. I soon lost control and spun out multiple times.

The next part I remember is actually becoming lucid. I was talking to someone or perhaps myself, can't quite remember. I mentioned the word dream in a sentence and became lucid. I then flew through the ceiling and investigated the area and thought about what I could do. I don't remember anything else from there very clearly.

#266 - Multiple - 5:52AM

I debated if I wanted to add these series of dreams as one LD or not at all because I really didn't do anything in any of them. But still, the number of times I was lucid was impressive since I wasn't really trying. I think the thing the put me in the right mindset what the fact that I watched all the available episodes of Lucidity Web Saga in one sitting yesterday. Obviously, it was on my mind when I fell asleep. By the way, if you haven't watched it you should!
Lucidity: The Web Saga


...Or maybe it was the DayQuil I took before bed?

The first two LD's are a blur. I was tired and didn't record. I’m not sure what I did in the first one but I think there was some conflict with someone. The second, I woke immediately after I became aware. I thought I would totally remember the dream to DJ later but of course, it faded away.

I was pretty pissed about of this and really wanted to try to induce another one but being ill with the flu has made dream recall difficult in general. Induction seemed even more so. I settled for mantra and hoped to DILD.

I am looking out my childhood bedroom window in TX. It's dark outside and there is a Mexican family sitting in lawn chairs facing the street. They seem to be looking up. What the hell do they think they are doing? Oh Yeah maybe there's a parade or fireworks nearby. I dismiss it and move to an old desktop Windows computer. It looks like XP or 98 but something is messed up with the display. The desktop is far too large like it was somehow zoomed in. I am able to pan around but I can't seem to open up the display setting to fix the screen resolution. Right clicking seems useless as well.

I realize that I feel cool air and notice it is coming from the air vent. OH! The A/C is on and my window is open. I move to close the window and feel the mix of cool A/C along with outside heat. That family is still there. I become annoyed this time but really don't want to deal with them; they aren't really hurting anything. Still, It made me mad, so I loudly slam the window shut. I can feel them looking at me but I don't look back as I quickly close up some white curtains and then a second set of red.

I turn and see my bedroom door is open (In this house my bedroom was connected to the kitchen and on the other side the back door.) I notice the back door is cracked open just a hair and I think that I should close it. But... Wait a minute. There is bright daylight coming in the crack. Remembering that the other side of the house was dark just a moment ago, I become lucid, but immediately thrown into a FA

I am fooled, but not fooled by this one. I am still self aware but I don't realize it's odd to still be in my childhood bedroom in Texas. In fact, I think this part is reality. Regardless, I’m not ready to give up so I go into DEILD mode. Vibrations hit and after a moment I get up. This part of the dream is fuzzy and hard to remember, but basically, I just ran around blind for a few seconds until I was thrown into an actual awakening.

I go into DEILD mode again, this time in my actual bed. Vibrations start quickly but its faint. I'm never sure when it's "go time" or "wait time" so I just focus on the vibes until the seem really strong. While I am waiting, I am suddenly jolted fully awake by the motion of my wife turning over. DAMN!

Again, I DEILD and I feel slight vibrations. I wait, but then do not get any more intense. I don't feel I am deep enough in, but I try moving my dream body the way I normally do in this state. Nothing. I try it on the more physical side and my leg jerks and the vibes go away. I try to stay focused but at some point I just fall back into non-lucid sleep.

The next dream reminded me of how completely amazing NLD's can be. Sometimes it's ok to get caught up in the action when the dream is so detailed, plot driven, and completely vivid.

As I am walking down a street in a run down and dirty area of town, I somehow I know the Zombie Apocalypse has happened. I have false memories of seeing lumbering zombies in the dark and know they are only out at night. The daytime hours are completely safe. Still, the world is in chaos and much of society has shut down due to the huge population loss and the after effects of the "shit hitting the fan". This time-line of the Zed invasion seems to be a generation or two ahead with much progress made toward rebuilding life as we knew it. But still, THEY rule the night.

I start to enter a gas station and realize I had been eating some Greek yogurt out of a large tub plastic tub. There's still a creamy feel with some bland taste in my mouth. The store clerk is outside smoking and as I pass. I stop and say, "I'm bringing this in." I don't want her to think I am stealing it when I leave.
"What brand is it?" She asks.
For some reason I have a paper towel around my yogurt and have to peel it back to see. It vividly read's HAMPTON'S OHIO with a graphic logo.
"Hapmton's" I say.
She shrugs, "Oh well we don't carry that anyway."
I nod and go on in.

I spend some time at the soda fountain. I'm not sure if I want Coke or Dr. Pepper. Fountain soda is always hit and miss for me so I take a small sample of both. Neither one taste quite right. Fuck it. I'll just pay extra for the bottle. I remember that I swore off soda, but also remembered that I decided one a month would be the most I ever drink. (True story) I walk around looking for the refrigerated section but don’t see it in the tiny store. Feeling like I surely must have missed something, I look again. Ah! There it is. I have a slight thought of hey that wasn’t there a moment ago, but shrug it off. I take a Dr Pepper from the top shelf.

The scene skips now and I am with my "crew" a ways down the street from the store. Apparently, they stumbled across a stash of explosives and ammo. There's absolutely no one around. We aren’t sure if the owners are dead are just out but we decide it's too good to pass up so we work quickly loading trucks. Theres some strange missiles in this warehouse that we easily move some type of explosive parts from. They look like really large ammunition rounds. I think something seems odd but I let it go. Multiple explosions?

Now we are outside and there is some really loud sound like an alarm. My view has switched to a movie scene. All I can see is everyone looking past the camera, then freaking out and leaving in a hurry. I say something like, "I wish they would just show us already." The trucks leave and pass between two other truck with burning logs on them. I worry that the explosives with go up but they make it through fine.

Now I am back in the action. I realize they left me because of my inaction. I should have ran with them. I finally get to turn around and see what the fear was about. The sun is going down and and I realize that alarm was to give an early warning to everyone so they have time to get indoors.

I panic and run to the nearest building. It turns out to be my old work place back before we moved to a new building. I see my old boss sitting in the break-room with a few other people. Out on the shop floor, I spy Vanessa working. I walk over to her and jokingly say, "Hey, it only took a Zombie Apocalypse to get me to stay here all night."
She totally ignores what I said and replies with a sour expression, "You're signed up for overtime."
Before I can reply Hobbie comes storming through yelling, "I may stay here all night, but if they expect me to work, they can kiss my ass!"
I follow him back to the break-room and yell the same words back at Vanessa.

In the break-room my old boss gives me an evil glare. This makes me wish I was home. I really just want to be with my wife and not stuck here. I quickly decide it's better facing the zombie horde outside. I step out and see it's not quite dark enough for zed to come out and several children are running as fast as they can to get back home. I think about where my house is in relation to my workplace. It's not that far. Maybe I can run for it. I look at the sky. There may not be time. I might have to fend off a few zombies, but I think I can handle it if I have to. What I could really use is a bicycle. There's an abandoned house next door so I quickly take a look around back. To my relief, there is a mountain bike laying in tall grass. I pull it, but notice the front wheel is locked up. I take a closer look once I get it free from tangled grass; the wheel is horribly bent. Oh my God. NO! I begin to feel real fear and panic and I think maybe I can make it work anyway. I get on and try to ride it but the wheel just wont turn. I wake up.

LUCID
*I thought wow I am dreaming while standing in the middle of the street. Then I felt that I came back to my body but I couldn't move. This scared me and I eventually began to move.

*I realized I was dreaming while hanging out in this dinner. I looked to the person next to me and said do you know I am dreaming you up. You are a creation of my mind. Then they said how you do know your dreaming. They also said so your the only one who is real here in a sarcastic voice. Then I started making stuff fly off this table we were eating at just to prove I wasn't joking. Then I stood up and said look at this as I started to lift off of the ground. I started to explain how awesome dream yoga and lucid dreaming was. At this point I was in meditate posture floating around talking. Lama Kathy was there giving me a look like down get so full of your self.

non lucid
*I was ironing my clothing thinking I have to come back to earth and help all living beings. I felt deep concern for my mom and family.

*I remember reading a text on tsok practice and how one should do this everyday. Then there a statue of tara very beautiful and detailed at my shrine.

*I was hanging out with darcy and she told me she has to be with me. She told me she doesn't wanna be with anybody else. Then she laid down on her bed and I rubbed her back for a while.

I got lucid this night again. The way I happened was really smooth and easy. And I guess it seems like it was a DEILD. I'll explain.

I had a pretty nice dream at first.it was about parkour and relationships with girls and a dog. I suddenly felt like I was about to wake up from the dream. I could feel me real body I my bed. I could feel the sheet of my bed, and the covers. I'd idnt panic, I tried to stay in the dream. Or maybe not stay in the dream, I kinda just went with what my mind wanted to do. It went like this.

I was standing outside with a little crowd pele from my dream. There was a dog, who later in that dream had been a girl, my brother, and some other arkose guys. The crowd of people got bigger, and suddenly there were a couple of hundred people. I felt someone grabbing my arm and pulling me away from the crowd. I heard a loud voice say from a microphone, that I was gonna go see Ellen From The Ellen show. I felt like waking up. Being half asleep and half awake (I immediately recognized this feeling), I tried to relax and STAY in the dream. While still feeling my real body in my bed I forced myself to think about the plot of the dream. I imagined me being dragged away to see Ellen, and I kept doing that, until my thoughts got clear. The scene of me trying to find Ellen, got suuuuuper clear, and i could no longer feel my real body. I got lucid instantly, and did a RC just to make sure. I was in a room with Ellen, I turned around and the next thing I knew, she was gone. Well, I went out of the room and went through an open window. There were loads of snow outside, and the dream characters were all dressed in Santa clothes. I didn't mind any of them. I flew onto a small rooftop to get a overview, all whilst think what to do. I tried to remember what goals I had set in real life for my next lucid.i couldn't remember. I saw a dream character fly around with a big red umbrella. I suddenly remembered that I wanted to grow wings and fly only using them. I ripped my jacket and shirt of, and tried to grow wings. I remember bending myself forward and looking to my self side, at my shadow on the ground. I could see big wings grow from my back.
Boom, my alarm clock went of and I woke up.. Nice! I remembered some of my goal. Next time is telekinesis and manipulating matter!

12-01-2014
Had another formidable lucid dream last night. The non-lucid part was about me living in a house with my father and sister. [At some point in the non lucid part I think I lent that new Bleach game to D] I was at uni but the buildings all resembled buildings from my old high school. There were explosions all over and some person was trying to convince everyone to calm down and that the buildings had been standing for a long time and weren't about to go down anytime soon. there was a part of the non-lucid where I was in some sort of game. You were supposed to find the exit using different characters, and there were events like explosions, giant bugs trying to eat you etc. every time you lost you started again. There was only one way out by the looks of things in the game.

The two characters were some guy, and Jennifer Laurence holding a crying child who moved slower than the man. Before this the game was about collecting as many coin thingies as possible. Only everyone thought that this was real life, and some people weren't collecting them because they thought it was a hallucination or something like that. I was stacking cartons of eggs on top of each other. Then I went to a different room and started doing the same thing there with other stuff like ham. When asked what I was doing I explained it to someone from my real life who wanted to join me. Someone else told me that I stacked a bunch of cartons of eggs in the other room, but not in this one like I thought I had. I don't remember much about this part, only that I didn't like it. I did the nose rc and it worked, so I flew out the window.

My phasing wasnt working nicely but anyway I was outside. I saw Chelsea Handler outside looking hot and younger than normal. I grabbed her and proceeding to have my way with her by force like they do on Spartacus. My sister interrupts by appearing and saying she is going to tell on. I fly away with Handler is on my junk. But the dream changes and eventually it appears that all I'm doing is hanging onto the top bunk of a bunkbed in my old room. It sort of comes across as a false awakening. I hear my mother and sister call me from the kitchen asking me when I'm going to " wake up and greet the morning". In my mind I'm aware that its 7 in the morning, a weird time for me to be awake seeing as I sleep so late anyway. So I play along but I have a feeling I'm trapped in a loop.

Seeing my mother in the kitchen confirms my theory, and I scream out at her that I can tell whats going on and that her being there is where they fucked up. She is trying to play it off but she starts hitting me. We're in the living room and she starts attacking me. She says my granny is behind me who then appears and starts at me, but I shout "no she isn't!" So that my granny cant do anything. This is still my dream dammit Im in fucking charge. I fend her off and try fly out of the door but none of my powers are working at all. So I have to run out of the open door. My sister appears so I grab 3 bottles and fight her with them. One falls on the floor and breaks and she gets scared. I tell her not to step on the broken glass and that the red stuff is just ketchup. I leave her and start off with two of those bottles. The path leaving the house is all messed up, several of them are difficult to get through because of this weird game like blizzard thats in my way. I see a full size mirror and look at my reflection as an Rc. Looks really weird and bruised so I try to enter the mirror to end the loop but none of my powers are working.

I grab the mirror and use it as a shield, and one of the bottles turns into a really thin grappling hook. All of a sudden I'm in another area and the dream is very game-like. There was a castle with some guy on look out. He saw me and called the alarm so I used the grabbing hook to pull him down Splinter cell style. I was moving from one side of the building to the other with ease in this game. Pulling down people, barrels of flammable liquids from the top floors which would fall Down and explode everywhere, eventually taking the entire building down. Then I was standing on top of the building with the main boss at the bottom, ready to attack me. He threw like a huge boulder of ice at me and I evaded it. But then the building turned into my parents bed and the guy was right there, throwing underwhelmingly smaller balls of snow. My weapons were gone so I was throwing even smaller snow balls at him in response. Eventually I decided to just jump on the guy. Then I woke up.

Some key things I learnt about this dream: just because I cant use my powers doesn't mean that I'm not dreaming. This new time of dream where I'm trapped in a loop is actually rem state where my waking body can't move and I'm just forced to dream for a little longer. Which is awesome if you think about it. This time I realised the loop was a dream. If I just concentrate more next time, stabilise the dream and behave appropriately I may be able to use the entire length of the dream for whatever I want
Also my dream recall is fucken awesome, and I always write down my dream for the night in one go in the morning instead of waking up at night after each one.

07-01-2014
This one is a doozy so sit back and relax. It starts with me driving in the car with D. We're going somewhere to eat, he's driving and we're on the highway. he goes into a wrong lane and now were on the wrong direction on the highway. He tries to do some handbreak directional turn shit that nearly gets us killed like eight times. The view is of outside the car and we're getting nowhere fast. Eventually he gets us on the proper side of the road and we carry on driving. We get to some shopping mall. We go inside to the spur. He says sit there at one of the chairs, so naturally I assume something is wrong with it. I want to sit somewhere else but all of the chairs and tables are dirty and cluttered. He mentions how we should get yiros so I say lets leave. Im thinking about Cresta meanwhile he was thinking about getting mayfair yiros. I have no intention of driving so far. He gets to the top of the stairs and leaves. But then all of a sudden he's behind me. He's grinning saying I'm not gonna like the fact that I should drive all the way home to change into a casual t shirt and shoes, then drive all the way back to his house. Then I wake up

Or thats what I assume anyway. I'm in my room. Don't remember much of what went on at this point, only that I got out of bed(which was the bed that I slept in at my old house), and that I got a bite to eat from the kitchen. I plugged in my earphones to my iPhone and was trying to search for a song but my ipod wasn't working properly. I didn't even recall the search function existing in that part of my iPhone. I randomly do an RC while passing underneath the burglar-gate in the passage way and after a few repeats I become lucid.

I fly and phase through the gates in the darkness and exit this house by phasing through the window. As I do I hear a woman's voice calling me Chiquita and sounding evil as fuck. As I turn around while rubbing my hands together for clarity I see this strange spanish chick phase through my window(ok my lucidity is not always tops, and the nightmares I have always seem to have the same powers as me) The battle begins. Im pounding on her with punches and kicks while she claws at me or something unremarkable. She creates distance between us and flies to the other end of the swimming pool. She creates a mist around herself and starts throwing ice spears(not unlike the ice spears from Skyrm) But my view was wider than real life because of my lucidity so I was able to evade them. I flew to a nearby tree and tried to punch her as she flew after me.

She dodged and started throwing ice spears without any prior stance whileI was in the air. Due to a lack of mobility I was only just able to evade them. I landed on a tree, climbed to the other side and pushed myself off. In slow motion as she came to the side I was on, now accompanied by her evil boyfriend who looked pissed off at me but not interested in joining the fight I put up my right hand to resemble a ninja seal/sign and shouted "homing mass!!!" It took its time to charge and release but it hit her right in the forehead. Her boyfriend started "trying" to comfort her but he said something about her power level. As I was about to fly off I chipped in a little comment about the comment he made and the couple started arguing.

I flew away from those assholes to get away from them(losing lucidity here) and the boyfriend followed closely to get me for starting the mess. I was in a ships corridors now and I phased through a door the end of a lobby and hid. Dumbledore was standing outside it and knew I was inside, but promised to make sure I was safe. I was forming a strategy of defense when I realised that some other enemy could attack from behind and Dumbledore and I would be boxed in from both sides in this narrow cruise ship. I phased back out of the door to confront the boyfriend myself. I found the girlfriend on a balcony looking shocked to see me. Then the boyfriend flew in. At that moment I felt as if the said events had all happened previously and kept repeating because we were stuck in a loop. The girlfriend(looking normal, less vicious and more like this Megan girl from my old school) all realised that and huddled together, determined to get out of the loop.

I said we would have to change how we respond completely, and behave completely differently. We would have to work together. Then dumbledore came in to help, and some random woman, some random guy, a celebrity, a dj, a bunch of guys from my old highschool(ds), until there was like a school class worth of people in one spot. We all sat down and started watching a movie. I needed the toilet but there was no room to get out without disturbing everyone.

I think this dream was a result of my constant thinking about the time I was on shrooms and thought I had become trapped in an inception like loop were everything was batshit crazy and kept repeating itself. A lot of my fears often end up in my dreams.

05-01-2014
Had another lucid dream last night. Im in a rush but the gist of it is that I realised I was dreaming, tried to wake up for some reason(maybe I was in a nightmare) and it didnt work. I realised I must be in Rem state. So I went to my father and tried to will him into attacking me so I would wake up mhe didnt want to at first. Then when he did he was trying to gouge out my eyes. At the last second I panicked, took a chair and smashed it on him. Then I flew outside, rubbed my hands for clarity, flew around, ran around and on water(my garden had become a giant marsh. Rest of the dream is about braam and smiley.

Going to use my iPad as my journal from now on because I hate turning on the lights at night to write down my dreams. Forgive my spelling errors!

31-12-13
Had my first proper lucid in a long time. I don't really recall the dream prior to being lucid, but when I did the nose breathing check it didn't feel like it was working. I might not have become lucid, but I was already floating in the air at this point. I made damn sure to stabilise the dream by rubbing my hands, and shouting clarity. I flew over the wall and saw some pretty black chick in the courtyard. I attacked her, pulled down my pants and made her eat my ass. But then she turned into a potato. Don't really recall the dream after this, only that I flew off again, and kept increasing my clarity which actually started destabilizing the dream.

The second one I remember was being at trinity again. (Ds of note) Beforehand i knew of a matric dance, and had asked a girl from my old school to go with me and she accepted. Also there was a part in the dream where I had parked my car at the bottom of the schools parking lot. Then later I went into a garage and saw a big red car there. It unlocked when i pressed my key so I assumed it was my car. But later in the dream I realized it wasn't. (I think it was also raining at this point) i had a sports bag full of clothes in it that I had to remove and put in MY actual car. Then after this I was in their school hall. Someone announced that the dance was to begin that night and that we were to sit with our partners. I saw mine but didn't sit with her immediately for some reason.

Third and fourth were about me being taught a sword form by some guy. I was practising with a real sword. At first when I was being shown the form(in my living room ds) My vision kept being blacked out. I woke up afterwards and realised its because I haven't seen the next form yet. I went back to sleep, found myself in the same place. I cant say for sure that i was lucid, only that I knew it would work this time as I was by myself and able to make up the form at will.

A good nights recall for a guy who hasn't worked on lds for an entire year may 2014 be a great one

01/08/13

Ratchet and Templars
I am in a strange place. I look around to see where I am. It looks like a futuristic city of some kind. There are cars flying in the air and robots intermingling with the people. Additionally, the people look like they are various races from various planets. I look around and watch the variety of people and robots, completely disoriented and confused. I turn around and start walking in a direction I feel drawn in. As I do so I almost trip over a smaller robot that happens to be standing right behind me. Oops… I look down at the robot and absently apologize and say excuse me. The robot is about two feet tall and has glowing green eyes.

The robot speaks, he says not to worry about it in a pleasant voice. I am still feeling disoriented, so I turn around to walk away from the robot and walk into someone else. I curse silently at myself that I really need to watch where I'm going. This time I have walked into an alien, though I guess I am not really certain that he is the alien… maybe on this planet I am the alien. The alien is covered in fur and has large pointed ears. He stands a bit shorter than me, probably about five feet tall. Some of his facial features look a bit cat-like, though his eyes are more human like, a bit larger than normal compared to the size of his face, and they are green. He is looking at me with a rather surprised look on his face. He says to watch where I'm going, but doesn't really sound upset. I tell him I'm sorry and then head off to my left after making sure I'm not about to walk into anyone else. I have been waiting for my head to clear, but it has in fact gotten worse. I have quite a headache, so I sit down up against a light pole not far off. I close my eyes and lean back against the pole. I wait a couple minutes for my head to clear, which starts happening. I hear footsteps in front of me and then I hear the voice of the robot from earlier. He says excuse me, then asks if I am ok. He says he couldn't help but notice my vital signs are not normal. I open my eyes and see the small robot looking at me, the covers on his eyes like eyelids give him a concerned expression. Somewhere in my mind I am becoming lucid, and my spontaneous response is that nothing about me is normal… but thanks, I'll be fine. The alien I walked into earlier comes up behind the robot and asks what is going on, he calls the robot Clank. Now I can see he has a rather long tail with a tuft at the end of it and is colored like an orange tabby cat. My head is clearer and now I am feeling more embarrassed than disoriented. I pull myself to my feet, willing my head to stay clear. Now the place smells like a fart. A rancid fart. I look around and see the alien is also sniffing the air. He looks over at me and is apparently thinking the same thing, because he says it wasn't him, he thought it was me. People around us are now pointing up, screaming, and running around. The robot and the alien look up, I hear the alien ask what that is. I look up and see a space ship hovering over the city. The smell gets worse, causing me to feel light headed again. There is a blinding flash of light and then darkness.

I regain consciousness to find I am hanging upside down. I look up and see I am suspended by an energy tether. Hanging upside down has caused blood to flow to my head, and my mind is now clear. I look around and see there are others there with me. The first one I notice is a large, stupid looking guy dressed in green spandex… ugh… Qwark… from the Ratchet and Clank video game series. He has somehow become tangled up in his energy tether. He is hanging like a fish caught in a net. I can't help but laugh at that. On the other side of me is the alien from earlier… Ratchet… and the small robot from earlier… Clank. Qwark struggles pointlessly and ends up even more entangled. He announces that he is almost loose. I laugh again. He gives me a dirty look and asks what I'm laughing at. Apparently Ratchet has noticed Qwark and is not happy to see him. He is pissed off that Qwark is still alive when Ratchet claims to have blown him to pieces. Qwark says he cannot die. He adds that when he gets loose he'll be the one to get out of there, while Ratchet and his little trash can will be stuck there. He wiggles some more and then ends up with his face practically up his own butt. I end up laughing more. He says he sees I can't take my eyes off of him… and he can't blame me considering how good looking he is. I think I might vomit now. He says we can get out of here together and go somewhere that we can be alone. I do vomit. Some gross dark reddish stuff splatters on the floor below. I wonder what the fuck I have been eating to puke up stuff that looks like that. It's moving. I can control it. Of course. It's biomass. My biomass. I am no longer human in the dream state, I am more like Alex Mercer… I am a virus.

Qwark has gone silent now and is looking at my vomited biomass with a grossed out look on his face. Ok… use the biomass. It forms a tendril and reaches over to a control panel at the edge of the room. I use the tendril to operate the controls and deactivate the tethers. Ratchet falls on his face. Clank drops slowly using a rotor like a helicopter. Qwark lands right on his head with a loud crack and falls over, dazed. His face is still practically up his own ass. I land on my face. My biomass returns to me and I reabsorb it. Ratchet gets up quickly and pulls a huge wrench type thing from… um… I'm not sure where from… and charges at Qwark with it. He completely ignores Clank saying maybe we should find a way out of here first and starts pounding the shit out of Qwark. For the first few hits Qwark doesn't respond at all, perhaps still dazed from landing on his head. When he finally does respond, he responds like a total wuss and curls up into a ball. Ratchet is telling him to get up and fight back! Qwark says he would but he sprained an ankle in that fall. Maybe they should arrange a match later… I ignore that for a bit and then I notice there is quite a bit of blood. That strikes me as odd at first… there's no blood in the Ratchet and Clank games… But this isn't a game. Ratchet is still pounding on Qwark, maybe even harder than before, and there is blood spattering everywhere. Clank seems a bit stunned and is keeping his distance. Is Ratchet actually trying to kill the idiot? Maybe… but he doesn't stay a bad guy. He'll always be stupid, but not evil. For that to happen he has to stay in one piece.

So I stand up and use a tendril to pull Ratchet off of Qwark. Ratchet turns around and starts attacking my tendril. Qwark peeks out of his ball hesitantly. Ratchet sticks his wrench weapon somewhere, still not sure where… hammer space? Up his ass? Then he pulls a large gun out of the same nowhere. I see that just in time to use a second tendril to take it away before Ratchet blasts a huge hole in Qwark's face. Ratchet reaches for the gun but my tendril pulls it out of reach quickly. Qwark is trying to get up but he seems to be pretty badly hurt and collapses again. He says something about a maniac but I can't quite understand him. Ratchet is telling me to let go of him. I ignore him for now, trying to think what the situation is. I hear a clanking noise by my feet. I look over and see Ratchet smirking at me. There is an explosion that knocks me against the wall. I look back over at Ratchet and see him throw another bomb in my direction, I use biomass to surround it and contain the explosion. Instead of a big boom this one makes more of a pop crossed with a poof. Ratchet is clearly pissed at me and asks who I am and why am I working with Qwark. I tell him I'm not working with anyone, and if he would cut it out for just ten fucking minutes I could figure out what was going on. Something is clearly not right, and I would have to figure out what had happened BEFORE someone gets pounded into a bloody pulp or blasted to bits. Ratchet tries to pull away from my tendril for a bit and then finally reluctantly says he'll stop attacking Qwark… for now. My tendril releases him. I look at the gun in my other tendril for a bit, wondering again where Ratchet had kept it before taking it out. I decide maybe I don't want to know. I figure he probably has several more anyway, so I return it to its owner. He puts it away and just glares over at Qwark.

I watch Ratchet for a bit longer to be sure he is going to stick to his word, then back to figuring out what is going on. Apparently someone from outside the dimension has been screwing things up. Who would do that? The first name into my mind is Robert de Sable. Templars. They have tried to screw up other dimensions before. By killing random Altaïrs, passing out dark energy to people who can't handle it. And he would surely be watching. "ROBERT!" I call to him, "ROBERT DE SABLE! SHOW YOURSELF, YOU FLAKEY CHICKEN-WUSS!" I get no answer, though everyone there is now staring at me. Qwark has managed to move around a bit to position himself so that I am between him and Ratchet. I give him my best version of Vegeta's "That's pathetic." look. Clank asks who this Robert de Sable is. I tell him that Robert is the one I think is responsible for this. A Templar bastard that loves fucking things up in other dimensions for some unknown reason. Well, this should be easy enough to fix. Just send everyone back to where they belong, starting with Qwark, since his presence is the most likely to create issues… and I don't want to look at him. I focus on opening a portal to where Qwark should be. Nothing happens. Damn it! They're blocking portals, now I am completely convinced it is Robert. Why do Templars always have to do things the hard way?

Qwark says something quietly to me about needing nanotech. I ask what that is, then I remember it is for healing. I say I got something better… but he'd better not do anything stupid. It occurs to me that I am doing something stupid by expecting someone as stupid as Qwark to refrain from doing something stupid. So after reiterating that I don't want Qwark to do anything stupid (as if repeating it would help) I use some healing energy on him. That gets me a dirty look from Ratchet but nothing more. It gets a very interested look from Clank. I scan the area to see if I can find any sign of Robert. I can sense his energy in the area. I am locking in on it when I see Qwark is doing something stupid. He has moved around the outside edge of the circular room a bit. I'm not sure if he is trying to get behind Ratchet or trying to leave the room, neither one is ok. I use a tendril to put Qwark on a leash around his waist. He pulls at the tendril but my virus makes me stronger than him. I comment that I guess expecting him to refrain from doing something stupid is expecting way too much. There is a definite pause before he gives me a dirty look. Ratchet seems amused, though.

Back to scanning for Robert. Found him. I focus on teleporting him into the room. That works. Robert de Sable appears in front of me. He looks at me in an annoyed manner. He asks if I have to stick my nose in everywhere it doesn't belong. I tell him he is the one that needs to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business. But there won't be any wasting time this time. Consume Robert and find out what the Templars are up to. I wrap tendrils all around Robert and prepare to consume him. But there is nothing there! Robert isn't really there, he is just an illusion! A hologram created from Robert's own energy frequency to make him initially look real. I ask if he is seriously too much of a pathetic chicken-wuss to come out and show himself. He says he knows perfectly well what I can do now, and he's not just going to let me do it. He says he is sorry he has to go so quickly, but he has other places to attend to. He says I can't be everywhere at once and then laughs before the image vanishes. I yell at him to come back here, you flakey jerk! But he is gone. Qwark says Robert must have been afraid to face him. It's a good thing I was holding him back or he would have showed that robber a thing or two. I repeat the name to Qwark… Not robber, Robert. Robert de Sable. And you might have killed him… he just might have died laughing. He looks at me blankly. I just roll my eyes.

With Robert gone, I try to open a portal. Still nothing. It looks like we'll have to get out of here the old fashion way. I access the computer. The good news is we're still in the right dimension. Different galaxy, but there is a wormhole within range that would get all of us back to Ratchet and the others' home galaxy. And there are ships docked in the landing bay that can make the trip since there's no way everyone can fit in my Fire Valkyrie. Well Ratchet and Clank would fit in the one extra seat… and I could always strap Qwark to the roof… my Penticon could surround him with a force field to keep him alive… I chuckle to myself, but that stops short when the dream seems to become unstable. Am I going to wake up now? Now isn't a good time for me to disappear. I have the idea that Qwark would ditch Ratchet and Clank behind if given the slightest chance, and Ratchet would blow Qwark to subatomic particles if he got his chance first… I focus and manage to stabilize the dream. I look around and see Ratchet is looking at me really strangely. He asks if I am ok, he said I turned transparent there for a bit. Clank says his sensors detected a dimensional anomaly, but it is gone now. Ok, well the other three can get home just fine using one of the ships in the docking bay. The only problem would be making sure they work together. I look between Qwark and Ratchet, I figure Clank would be reasonable about it. I know Qwark doesn't stay a bad guy throughout the series, he changes. So let's just make that happen a tiny bit sooner.

I focus on the song Touch My Heart to restore the spark inside Qwark to a flame, it isn't hard to do since it was intended to happen on its own anyhow. I think it's a good thing I can fix evil, now too bad I can't fix stupid. Usually a healing spell also affects the way others respond to the person I healed, but just to make sure I send some positive energy through Ratchet as well. Clank didn't seem to think anything about what I was doing to Qwark, but he wants to know what I am doing to Ratchet… I tell him it's a good thing, positive energy. Don't worry, it'll make him feel good. Clank watches closely, but doesn't say anything when he sees Ratchet has no negative reaction. Qwark looks disoriented, though. He is muttering something about helping Chairman Drek meant he hadn't become the hero he'd wanted to be, instead he'd been a villain… I comment if it means anything, I think he was more of a hindrance to Drek than a help. He seems to like that idea at first and then gives me a strange look.

I feel the dream slipping again, and I barely manage to stabilize it. Ratchet says it happened again, I almost disappeared. Clank says that was also when the dimensional anomaly returned. I tell him I know what is happening, it's no big deal, but I have to hurry. I have a computer chip in my head… and its going to download some files directly to Clank. Basically the location of the docking bay and how to get there while encountering as few of the aliens that own this ship as possible… I have a feeling they will be hostile when encountered. And also it contains the location of the wormhole back to their galaxy. It also has the location where they need to drop Qwark off to minimize the effect this mess has on the timeline. Clank seems to understand all of that just fine. Ratchet wants to know if I'm sure they can trust Qwark. I tell him I am a soul healer, I healed some negativity in Qwark's heart so yeah, he can be trusted to not be an asshole. I add that if I could only heal stupid then everything would be great. I am trying to think if there is anything else I need to do before I wake up, but then the dream becomes unstable again. This time I can't stop it… I wake up.

In relevance to the title; often after becoming Lucid I follow the story line from the original dream to keep me entertained. However some dreams don't test you to your full potential, fortunately this one did.

I was having a dream where me and my brother Robbie where on the run from some sort of Korean army, (about 30 blokes, some in jeeps and tanks.) We were running over some hill top with them in pursuit when we came across a little abandoned shed. We ran and hid in the shed, but it was so small Robbie was freaking out. He ran out the shed and unfortunately was seen and shot. More so though they had seen him come out of his hiding place and all stopped outside. I could see through various gaps and holes in the sheds panels exactly what was happening. They knew I was inside and the were coming right towards me.

This was the point where I became lucid as I was panicking and just about to wake myself up, therefore realising that I was dreaming. Now lucid, I stayed in the shed and watched them approaching. As the first person reached the shed he pulled out an RPG, and put the end through one of the holes in the shed right in front of me.

What happened next was inspired by something I had seen in a film; X-men First Class. In it, a character called Sebastian Shaw has the ability to - "Absorb the energy of any impact he is struck by, including not only direct physical blows, but also the impact of bullets."

So when the rocket was fired directly at me, I almost caught the force between my hands and squeezed it down to nothing. I also have a video for you so you can visualise it

XMen Sebastian Shaw - YouTube

After I had effectively absorbed the first one, several more followed, including multiple shots at the same time. Between catching the RPG's I had made a force field shield around me with my bare hands and was sustaining it with my mind. My vision was constantly quite blurred and chaotic, as you can imagine from the video, but I could still see out towards the rest of the army standing in the background a few hundred yards away. I stuck a hand out, whilst deflecting bullets with my other, and literally crushed the remaining men and vehicles at will with my hand.

This happened until there was nothing left but burning vehicles and mangled bodies. It was quite an epic display of power, although hard to describe. Though I did wake up feeling great about myself. Thanks for reading!

Lucid for hours, felt like

Kept checking hand consistently throughout the whole thing.

realized i was in a dream bc i did the pinching the nose and breathing air technique. i did that instead of the hand thing bc i was with my family and didnt want them to think i was a freak staring at my hands. but then when i could breath in, i checked my hands as well. yup its a dream

I lived in a different house it was sort of a city-country type feel. I wanted to show mom really bad that it was lucid and I got really excited and said I could fly. It took me a while I had to go in a different room. Look at my hands alone. Then sit cross –legged on the floor and kind of meditate. Then I could fly if I tried really hard. I showed mom and she was laughing and happy when I flew in.

Then I kind of got stuck just flying in the house. I really wanted to fly outside. I finally managed to do that. I flew out and flew to this random building. It was super high and not very nice. Flew past all the windows, saw people sleeping in their beds (it was super early in the AM), saw people’s homes. Went into one empty bedroom. Found a suitcase. Opened it to see what was inside, interested in my dream’s surprises. LOTS of money, bills and bills rolled in there. Grabbed a handful of fifties. Random giftcard in there. Wanted some hundreds, expected it, found it. I took all the money planning to go on a spending spree for lucid fun.

I stared at my hands a lot for fun. I couldn’t stop counting them bc it was so weird and interesting and kept reaffirming that I was dreaming. I could think very clearly. Was scared I would wake up bc of the thinking clearly but I didn’t. I noticed the architecture around the room- there were weird, roman looking tables that mom had got and they had diagonal marble designs all around them.

I was playing with Trevor and Jackson in the dream, who were in the house. I tried to make Trevor (or Jackson) levitate, I don’t think it worked.

At another point in the dream this guy was like a conducter for the whole city, he made everyone go “uuuuuuuuum ah’ or something and the whole city was humming like that. Alex was like ‘we will find our lost cat this way’ bc apparently the noise was like a racecar and would scare all the cats out.

I was in my room a lot, looking around and out the window. Window to countryside and grass. Room was very cute. Mom was in her striped pjs. Trippin on my hands is so interesting…

Fragment
Not sure what the rest of the dream content was... moret memorable was looking in the reflect of a sliding door and deciding to summon a dream character. I flipped through 5 people in the reflection before I chose one to walk out of the reflection and be real.

Dream
An epic and exhausting dream about an end of world apocalypse where I was constantly on the run from near miss death experiences... Dodging falling debris as earthquake brought down city sky scrapers. There was a cloud of strictnine (what ever that is?) that was toxic and was eating up the east of the city. It was fast spreading to me. I was in a car with other survivors and we were fleeing the cloud.

Soon we came a cross a wide river and some of us gave up hope. I managed to cross the river with 5 others as the cloud killed everyone else on the other side of the river we crossed. We become cornered and 5 of the survivors take cyanide pills and suicide. I am left with a girl to meet our ends.

As we are about to die we teleport to a kitchen where the girls mother is cooking something. The girl and I have a conversation, but suddenly I share the girls thoughts. She groans in despair, realising she has teleported back 7 years in her life to a time when she was locked in the house considered insane. I now share her mothers thoughts and what she see. She sees her daughter raving into thin air when talking to me.

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Surfing massive waves and eagerly walking with a fishing rod to the end of the pier to fish... but I get frustrated because I never get there and really want to catch a fish.

Nap got me a lucid dream!

It was short, but:

Something was happening, like a big fight between groups (which is similar to a dream I had last night), so I was above this house's gate, watching the street. I thought things felt weird, so I looked around and realised it felt like a dream. Jumped up, floated a little, heard kids and remembered the TOTM. I landed to where I had been before, but started waking up. I couldn't see much and was expecting to wake up, but I didn't. I started to think about my dream so far and noticed that I always had someone helping me... Professor Oak from Pokemon. I realised he is my dream guide and called him. My vision was still blurry, but he showed up and confirmed that he was indeed my dream guide. I said I'd look for him next time I got lucid and then I woke up.

*beep* was the hypnagogic word i remember. Soon, a movie screen at a theater was in full view showing...what else but a movie. I guess some chase was happening and the camera showed a top view (like frogger). I tried to flip the camera to first person mode which didn't word, and the car crashed. View then zoomed out to me in the theatre (finally got my dream body) but i guess the chase continued. 2 people entered the theatre shooting stuff at me. i used some sort of hook to escape.

I wanted to find my dream guide, so i kept asking around for a dream shop. I first asked a little kid who gave me some indiscernible directions and mentioned that he was funny. I gave him a high five and focused on how his hand felt to be more aware of the tangible/feeling aspect in dreams. He then told me an indiscernible joke. I asked someone older and tried to shake their hand but they tried giving me a hug...one of those awkward greetings. He said he didn't know. I asked someone else and he gave me clear directions, but I still didn't know the area well. He said he would charge me $50 to take me. I told him that I'd give him $40 if i can hop on his back and he can just fly me there. I guess he was gay because he really liked that statement, and asked, "Where did you FIND this guy?!?" to his friends who were laughing in the background. It never happened though.

I almost visited hell again. From pitch black to red flames. i saw a vague devil like looking character who was spouting gibberish and was tired of his antics so i decided to leave. I've already talked to the devil before. I tried blasting off into space which worked this time and i ended up near some ultra hot star in space near a hippopotamus. I could feel my waking breath increase and i was still LD'ing but was half awake. I wanted to free-float in space longer, but i wasn't permitted the time.

I go to some benches and see a group of ladies there. I decide I am going to fuck the hottest one there. They were all ugly, so i pointed and created a better looking girl. She bent over, and knowing my luck, I thought it would be a guy. I turn her around to see the face, and sure enough........I swear my paranoid thoughts are always fulfilled. I just said forget the fucking.

I am in bed and stupid roommate comes into room. I try telling him to GTFO but i dont want to talk to lose lucidity. I am anxiously swinging my knees side to side wide knives in my palm on my lap. Another roommate comes in and sits down. I finally scream GTFO. one of them leaves. The other one is still there, and i say, "YOU TOO". I then feel someone choking me from behind and I tell them to stop. I tell them I'm gonna fuck them up if i have to get up. I end up getting up and looking at my hands only to find that my fingers are stubs. I realize I'm dreaming and playfully beat my roommates up and fly away.

Actually my plans for my next LD were to go to NYC through a dream door, meet Karlie Kloss (a famous VS model whom I have met within my dreams quite frequently - almost like a dream buddy), go to a cafe, have a nice talk, eat some cake and explore the feelings and sesations within my LDs a little bit more... Not all of it worked out but at least most. So here we go...

It all started as a normal dream. I was on vacation with my family in a poor town in Estonia (I have never been there before - going to 'mildly strange' places all over the world is one of my Dreamsigns), but that didn't arouse any of my suspicion. We walked through this little village. The roads were quite narrow, cars parked everywhere and it was really dim because the houses on both sides of the road were quite high, the sky was cloudy and it was a late winter afternoon. We came to some sort of plaza with a little playground on it. I climbed up the slide and looked around to get a view of what's going on all around the plaza. There were two young guys apporoaching us, swearing in a language I have never heard before so my parents and I decided to leave. At one corner of the plaza there was a bakery. The whole sidewalk and the streets were covered with squishy and old bread crumbs and leaves from all the trees surrounding the plaza. My mum went inside and got us some sort of filled pastries. Right next to the bakery not even 3 meters away there was a candy shop and I really wanted to go inside. The area next to the entry was really small and full of shelves with candies - some of them known and some of them totally unknown to me ('Must be some Estonian candies' I thought). I went further inside and found a hugeeee shelf full with different cans that contained soda drinks from all over the world. This was really cool and I told my mum that I have to buy a few to taste them. The owner of the shop came to us after I told my mum about the cans and talked to us in English - he welcomed us and told us a bit about the village however (luckily) my focus of awareness shifted... to my feet! It was winter and I was quite sure that I was wearing some solid winter shoes to keep my feet from freezing but NO! I was wearing my slippers! And as if that wasn't strange enough I discovered that the right slipper was on my left foot and vice versa! I became very suspicious and tried to change it, but it didn't work. I immidiately considered that this must be a dream, but it was sooo vivid and realistic, but I kept at it and finally realised that being unable to change my shoes MUST be the most obvious sign of a dream that my subconscious mind can give me! I became lucid and instantly remembered to accomplish the goals I have set! I rubbed my hands and closely examined the dark- and light-grey stripes on the PVC floor of the shop in order to increase my lucidity - this worked amazingly well after having some major stabilisation problems in my last two LDs! I walked through the shop and found a window to leave. I opened it, looked outside and thought "OMG, it's quite high! What if I'm awake and die after jumping out!" so I tried to breathe through my plugged nose which worked. This gave me the certainty of dreaming and again increased my lucidity ever so slightly. So I jumped out, walked off and wondered "OK, I could fly to New York City, but I could also try and use a dream door (I have never done that before)" so I considered this option and soon afterwards found a wooden door behind a tree close to my home (I wasn't even in Estonia anymore after jumping through the window!). I went right up to the door with the clear intention of being able to directly enter NYC - I opened the door AAAAND... suprise: I saw the tall skyscrapers, cars zooming by and many people walking all over the place! I actually was in NYC now! I strolled along the streets a little while untill I came to a huge plaza covered in concrete with some trees here and there. At one corner was (who would have expected that after reading my plan?!) a cafe! I went there and who was waiting there for me? Yes, Karlie Kloss! JACKPOT. I greeted her and she was wearing a nice pink top and casual blue jeans - stunning as always . There was a waitress in front of the cafe who looked exactly like one of the teachers at my school. She greeted us and I told her "Hey, Karlie and I will have some cake here!" (I also told her that this is a dream and that she is nothing more than a figment of my imagination. I like saying that to random DCs! She didn't really reply to that. She just looked a little dumbfounded and greeted other customers.) I just wanted to enter the cafe with Karlie however it seems that my subconscious mind took over a little because all of a sudden Taylor Swift came around the corner and greeted me as if knowing me well. She was wearing a black top, Raybans and had her hair cut reasonably short. She took my hand and started kissing me - I was a little shocked to be honest (It was nice and all, but I didn't expect this! I have experienced similar things before - every time I started to lose focus on the fact that I am in a dream, random things and people popped up, annoying my business) - anyway. I thought "whatever! You're in NYC and Taylor Swift just kissed you... Go for it." We made out for a while right on the plaza... which was somehow really crazy. After a little while I focused on the cafe again. Karlie was gone and a guy was sitting in front of the cafe playing on his guitar. I went up to him, talked to him a little and noticed that I started to lose clarity. I rubbed my hands and closely looked at the guy's guitar, but I woke up right afterwards...

All in all, quite a successful LD with some fairly strange occurences later on that really didn't bother me at all. Especially using the dream door was quite astonishing! I'm sure this will be my new ultimate way of getting anywhere I please to go!