lucid

fragment 1:

I was in some school, yes I'm starting to realize just how many school dreams I have. I was trying to read some book out loud but I couldn't read the words and they kept changing on me. This guy next to me was pretty good at reading them and he helped me out. I woke up, too stressful.

Dream 1:

It started in front of my parents' house, I was about 8 years younger. I was hanging out with some old friends from high school, they were smoking a couple joints. I spontaneously became lucid, took a joint, and went to the back yard. there were a bunch of younger kids there smoking weed and doing lines of coke. I was a little shocked, thought they might be a little too young. But I knew it was just a dream and I didn't want them to turn on me since there were a lot. So I just waved and sat down in a chair with my joint to relax. After a couple minutes one kid threw a football to me. He bet me that I couldn't even throw it back to him, he was right. I tried to and it went really far over the house. He was nice about it though, he just made a big grin and ran off to get it. I got up and flew over the house to get there first. On the way there I met another dreamer on the roof top. She asked me some question about dreaming then waved goodbye, odd. I flew down into a random patch of giant purple trees, grabbed the football, and threw it back to him.

While walking back to the house, I imagined what it would be like if my parents came there. I then saw a yellow taxi materialize out of yellow light, decided it wouldn't be the best for the dream, so I made it vanish. I made it re-materialize for a couple seconds just to make sure I could do it again, then made it disappear for good. I walked back into the house and then woke up.

Dream 2:

I liked this dream more, I started out lucid. I was in a forest, in the mountains, wearing an old-lady outfit and a white-haired wig. I looked a little bit like Dana Carvey dressed up as old church lady. These kids drove by me in a jeep. It was on a dirt road and they were going very fast, so I decided to follow them. Edward Norton was with them for some reason. As I walked down the road, I heard a chainsaw off in the distance and trees started falling all over the place. I kept walking though, not worried about it. I eventually got to a clearing and I saw those kids hanging out there, then the perspective changed (I started to get a little bit semi-lucid at this point). I was now watching myself from their perspective. I saw some dude dressed up as an old lady go over and start picking weed from a giant patch of it. One of the cocky, stoner kids ran over to try and steal some. I went back to the point of view of the old lady, grabbed his hand and said, "No you don't, mister". Then they all came over, and some weird DC came out of the forest. The weird DC was called Action Jackson, he was about 3 feet tall, very fat, and he was carrying an enormous chainsaw. Immediately, Action Jackson started cutting down trees. I said to him, "Noo Action Jackson, stop that! Somebody's gonna get hurt". He just stared at me with a confused look on his face and cocked his head to the side. I noticed a giant error sign flashing over his head(It was a triangle with an exclamation point in it). Action Jackson then exclaimed, "I Need More Beef!"

He started cutting off one of the chubbier DC's heads. I told him again, "No, Action Jackson, that's naughty! Bad Action Jackson!" He stopped for a second, looked at me confused, then proceeded to cut off that guy's head until it was completely severed. He came after me next, so I flew into the air but he started flying too. I decided that this was getting a little bit out of hand. I became invincible and let him try and cut my arm, to show him that he couldn't hurt me. That really upset him, he looked both confused and angry. After he realized he couldn't hurt me, he tried to cut off another DC's head, so I took his chainsaw and threw it. It was spinning through the air and it cut off some DC's leg. The DC tried to balance by waving his arms wildly in the air, but he eventually fell on his face.

Since Action Jackson had been dealt with, and the edges of the dream were starting to blur, I wanted to try my third task again before I woke up (Advanced object/DC changing). I decided I would turn the earth into many little earths while I was on it. I put my dream hands together and focused on making the earth split in two with my mind. It started cracking, layer after layer. It happened beneath my feet so I walked over to one side so that I wouldn't fall in. Eventually there was a huge crevice going all the way across the dream landscape. I started to wake up, tried to DEILD, didn't work. Oh well, maybe I'll get it next time

I was in a dream place. I remembered doing MILD, and I was like "oh I am obviously in a dream" without doing a reality check. I was, so I walked around my house telling people they were apart of my dream, and they said yeah but didnt really care. So I decided to find a way to wake up in my future dreams, so I closed my eyes. When I did this I tried to open them, but instead I felt the muscles IRL trying to move but paralysed. I could not see, and could not open my eyes for 2 or 3 seconds. It was not scary, but interesting and so amazing.

I will call this my official fully remembered, in control, lucid dream.

First Dream:

I saw a rabbit sitting in a meadow - a fat one - not the wild ones - like they are held as pets.
It somehow looked sinister - it looked into my eyes and something was wrong.
In the fur appeared (yes - I had noted it not being there before) a piece of paper with handwriting.
And it said, once I had touched the paper and such the rabbit - it would be my curse.
And it was - I didn´t get rid of it - not possible to lock it in somewhere - not even to lock me in somewhere - he always came through and needed to be fed a lot - which was not a nice sight, more like a vulture in eating style. Also it kept looking at me nastily.
When I plotted with a friend, how to kill it - it got aggressive and started biting and being toxic.
We managed somehow, though - to get rid of it - only for me to then have the same problem, just in much bigger with an enormous black dog - sheep-size.
Similar story - but end of the dream was - dog locked in in a car - me feeling safe for a while (why ever - they always broke out..).


WBTB after 6 hours of sleep - in my sleeping position on my stomach WILD try.
This time really concentrating on my mantras and not falling asleep in no time like last stomach try.
Eventually I gave up and rolled to the other side - fell asleep.
Had one of the in the house of this friend´s parents dream - much less nervy than usual.
Actually with a weird twist - I had looked at photos from ages ago, that he made irl, when I finished school.
And I accused him of having made great copies on photo-paper for my friends - and I was supposed to get them later - being "family" - with me it was okay to not be ready, when he said so..
That´s even true - still don´t have them..
And lo and behold - his mother was on my side.

Maybe that was so unusual - don´t know - did a RC - looking at hands and counting fingers - sure enough they got more and more with the counting.
Dream very unstable - and I forgot to stabilize or think of my goals..
Woke up - and was again, which is nice - able to DEILD right back in.

Not much good it did me - again only RC - and I actually must have forgotten something.
Because I had a reason, to want up a tree - and can´t remember it.
There was a leaf-tree close - with thin branches with leafs in my reach.
What I did think was - lucid - I should have the strength to just grab up and up and go up that tree like an ape.
Nope - the last scene was me hanging maybe 1 meter over the ground, having my arms slung around a bunch of branches.

I remember I was kicking the footy around (Australian Rules Football) with the geelong boys. it was kinda a game kinda not, I remember running up the wing and fumbling the ball a lot but side stepping everyone (im confident in the sidestep) and snapping a goal wile Paul Chapman called for the ball, then a friend of mine (not from waking life) was very angery about someone insulting his religion (muslim) I explained to him that he didn't insult his religion and that in fact he miss heard him and he was talking about something els. he eventually calmed down. we walked out of the locker rooms to join the footy boys but a WAFL team had come to train and we had to leave, I recognized the coach from when I used to play from them.

I got in the back seat of the car with the muslim dude and throw my boot into another car and keep my other boot with me. we where driving home, and heres where it gets interesting, I thought "I cant wait to sleep tonight to try to lucid dream tonight!, oh right reality check!" (I was already very suspicious that I was dreaming because when I think reality check I kinda realize im dreaming but its just hard to accept)

I looked at my left hand, normal but I poked my right index finger into it and Valla straight through, I got very exited and started cheering and then I stabilised I looked out the window of the car, we where driving along a road through woods with skinny straight trees, I wanted to leave the car so I though "bust through the roof!" but im new to lucid dreaming and knew I wasn't advanced enough to do that, instead I asked them to slow down (they did but only a little because we where still flying)

I opened the car door steeped to the edge and kinda willed the car away with my eyes closed, I opened my eyes and there I was standing on the road!! yay the car was long gone, I looked to my left, more forest, to my right was like another world, a cartoon one kinda, "cool" I though as I wondered into this world, I keept changing worlds and a saw an art picture of like a giant statue thing crying that I swear and had seen in waking life, then I woke up.

this was only 4 hours into sleep so it wasn't very big or very vivid but hey that was enough to keep me happy

dream signs;
-Geelong boys
-Paul Chapman
-footy
-muslim dude
-Swans WAFL club
-nice green footy oval
- argument
-cars
-forest
-perth city (or felt like it)
-Giant crying

I'm sitting on the couch in the living room of my apartment. The living room is about 10' square. Behind me is the bedroom at about 10x14. There's no door between, and the opening takes up most of the wall so it feels like essentially one room. The floor has large rubber knobs on it that seem like a tripping hazard. That seems unusual to me, so I decide to do a reality check. I reach up and grab my nose, but I can still breath, so I decide I must be dreaming. I push a little with my mind and become lucid. Suddenly everything's in color. I'm turning around the room taking in the sudden vivid colors of reds and blues. I sit down on the floor and run my right hand over the carpet. I can see into the cabinet from this angle but I don't remember what's inside. There's white light coming in from the front window. As I make my way back to the bedroom, Gibbs from NCIS is there. My bedroom is crammed full of stuff. There's a strange foot-powered table saw. Where the bed should be there's a boat with a hammock built into the top.

Someone else comes in through a door that wasn't there before. He and Gibbs and I walk out through this door, and it seems like I'm stepping out of my reality. My apartment was like a sound stage. Commander Riker is asleep on a couch in this room. It's dark. There are no windows and I can't tell where the dim light is coming from. This room is about 12' square. To the left as I came in was another door, with Riker's couch on the same wall beyond it. The other man has a cell phone that can communicate with the waking world, including sending pictures. I decide I want to grab it and send myself a picture of this crazy dream, but he isn't there anymore. Now there's an angry trashcan with ephemeral lightning bolt arms that I have to fight with my mind.

I wake up and decide to try to return to the dream, so I lie very still and try to trace my way back into it. I don't remember the specifics of the rest of the dreams, but I remember bouncing from lucid to awake several times like a rock skipping on the surface of a lake. Inanimate objects kept being turned against me and I had to struggle with them. I think I was chasing the man with the cell phone or the organization he worked for. In the end, the closet doors opened and all of my clothes piled onto me at once until I couldn't move.

I rewrote large parts of this Dream Journal Entry, because the original one seemed a bit flakey. (Most likely because I wrote the original Now, I'm able to properly explain what happened.

Where things get Weird

I was in my front yard, and lucid when two dream characters show up. (They show up in this really cool black car nonetheless) I recognize them as Marcus and this other character that I recently identified and named Jack.
It was at this point that for some reason, I thought of the basic TOTM for this month. To ask a dream character for a present and see what you get. I never said anything out-loud about the TOTM, but I thought about it.
I think Jack is the one who gets out of the car and offers me a small grey gun that he says Marcus invented. (And this is where I think I may have just completed the TOTM.) He gives a short speech about how this is the "next step in personal defense" and asks me to try the weapon out. The weapon looks and feels like the sticky detonator from Halo 4. It has a smooth look to it.
I fire it at a tree, and a large cylindrical grenade sticks to the side of the tree. I pull a trigger, and a number of small fan shaped grenades release from the large one and stick all over the place. Okay, that's a cool feature, but I can't figure out how to make the grenades detonate. Don't know if this is my own lack of knowledge or a malfunction with the weapon.

I false awaken in my own house to find that I have woken up very late on a Saturday morning. Makes sense why I would lucid, so I go downstairs, and go on this site and begin writing a DJ entry for this dream. I then, in my false awakening, go back upstairs and "WILD" back into a non-lucid dream.

I go back into a dream where my lucidity seems very unstable, an anxiety dream about school where I'm stranded there and I need to ride home. Jack shows up again. And let the real weirdness begin.
Jack attempts to convince me that I'm not dreaming. He tells me that my "Guides" (Meaning that he is a guide too now I guess.) are here to help me in waking life. He says I won't be going home for awhile. Telling me that this is waking life, given my groggy lucidity left me confused.
We are walking out of the school. I was at a point where I thought this was RL, and I told him I needed to go get my backpack. He then proceeded to tell me that he was carrying my backpack over his own, took it off and gave it to me. He told me that was in fact a basic test to make sure I wouldn't lose it because of that. So I guess I passed.
We get to the street out front of the school, and we try to get into this other vehicle that's like this very strange tractor type thing. Another detail that I couldn't help but notice, but there was a street named after Jonathan, my dream "Nemesis".
All my regular dream characters, save for the evil one. (Manei, Marcus, and David) started to surround the tractor and get out. There were two more, a younger version of Lia who looked to be about 10, and a younger boy who was probably 6. We get out and we all start to get into this really nice black sport's car. (Is that like my dream character's only way to get around.) I'll really have to draw these cars that I keep seeing. But we have seven people trying to get into this car. I have to sit in the middle of the back. And I don't know where we intend to go.
I'm getting into the back of the car with all these dream characters, and I woke up into my bed.

At my Service

I cannot believe I forgot about this dream.

I was in my school's gymnasium. There were a bunch of people running around and playing with the various gym equipment like dodge-balls and badminton rackets.
Manei approaches me and tells me that I am dreaming.
"Oh... of course I am..."
I do a nose pinch reality check just to be sure. I realize that I am dreaming, but I just felt really lucid. I probably got more lucid in this dream than I did in any lucid dream I've had in a long time. I could really feel the dream world around me. I even thought to myself that my real body is back in bed and this is all a dream, so this was a solid layer 3 dream. (For those of you who are farmiliar with receejones87's layers of LDing)
"Thanks for telling me."
She bows
"I am at your service."
I think to myself for a second. Manei... my dream guide, at my service. Will she carry out any command I give her?
"Jump up and down."
She jumps up and down. Given my dreams take place at about 0.5G's, she is able to jump about her own body height.
"Stop."
She stops.
"What's 7 times 4?"
"28."
Now time to really see how this works. I pick out one of the dream characters playing in the gym. Knowing he is just an aspect of me, I issue this command.
"Go beat that kid up."
She calmly walks over to the dream character, and stops in front of him. She then jumps into the air and spins around kicking the dude in the face. He falls over either dead or unconscious and is bleeding from his nose.

fragment

I tried to WILD, not sure if it worked. The earliest part of the dream that I can remember, I was already lucid. I was at my parents house - I had followed my uncle into the house, he was trying to get back together with an Indian lady. They were upstairs, talking, and I had headphones on, listening to a dreaming podcast! It was kind of like one that I heard OpheliaBlue & CanisLucidus do. I was wandering around the house, trying to think of something cool to do. I went into the room where I was sleeping and looked in the place that I used to keep secret things, hoping I'd find some grand secret from my unconscious. NOPE! Just a bunch of old papers. I laid down on the bed, in the same place and position that my actual body was laying down. It felt really odd, I started to notice my body asleep. I could even hear the breathing. I took off the headphones and the dream started to fall apart, so I did my new little stabilization technique (I made the Ohm sound and felt it vibrate through my dream body and then all over the dream area). Worked perfectly! I remembered that I wanted to do something to get points for the competition, so I made a weed grinder fly across the room. Then I focused on a can of Coca Cola to turn it into a lot of little baby coca cola cans. First it just split in two, then it started to form a lot of little cans as each new small can split into 2 more. Eventually I had about 32 baby coke cans and I figured that was good enough. I then remembered that I wanted to do some Psyblade.

I went out of the room and asked for the Keymaster! I looked around, saw two guys outside, thought about asking one of them if they were the keymaster. Instead, my uncle told me that he was upstairs in my sister's old room, in a painting on a wall. I went up there and found a few paintings. One was of a flower, and the keymaster one was sitting on the floor, in the shape of a portal. I guess I had to fill in where I wanted to go or maybe just draw a doorknob on it. I forgot to stabilize again and I felt a surge of adrenaline. Woke up and jumped out of bed, a lot of energy.

In school. A teacher is scolding me in front of the whole class. I am not sure if this is a dream or not, but take a risk and shout, "Bitch!" This marked the start of my dream. Some classmates fought me, but I won. Unfortunately, I couldnt shoot web or have Wolverine claws.
I got bored and went kissing some girl. What the hell, everything was blur. I couldnt see her face.
Afterwards did some experiments like webbing, then lost lucidity.

After second false awaking in dream i decided count fingers. I had about 7 fingers, and decided to go through a wall. Easy. I was in neighbour's flat. I decided to make snowstorm and a sculpture and wished some free space. I went throgh the wall again thinking about tleport to the nature. In the wall i saw windows with diferent locations and they were like layers. I didn't like some locations, because there were streets, flats, yards. And finally i saw a layer with a summer field. I wished to be there and found myself in the grass. Then i wished to change it in winter and i saw, that from the skyline it changed in white. In ten seconds the white colour came to my feet and i stood in the winter field. The grass was gray and with hoar - frost. I wished snow in the air - it became snowing and i saw that some snowflakes not natural, but like decoration. It was funny. I began to make a snow storm, and had no idea what sculpture to do. Then i was curious what was my snow like. (There was already some snow on the grass) I touched it and it was like cotton mixed with snow and wasn't cold. And i awoke.

#253 - DILD - 4:28AM

I get really annoyed with the quality of DEILDs so I hope for DILD

I am watching Nick and Hank from Grimm talking in front of a building with a covered pick up/drop off area. Nick walks away and I feel that I am supposed to follow him. I feel like this all a video game and watch as he turns right toward another really close building. I wonder what will happen if I turn the other way. I say, "Screw it." and turn left instead. I follow a narrow alley like a hallway between buildings for a few feet and it suddenly stop at a dead end. I am little shocked and hear loud dun dun DUNN music. I figure this part of the game was not supposed to be seen and I broke the rules. The idea of limited environment makes me think of the dreams pace and I suddenly become lucid.

I hurry back to were Nick went but he is nowhere to be seen. I try to think of my goal but all I can remember is my back up plan, ask a DC for a gift. Damn. I really had something in mind but I just can't recall it. I become afraid that I will destabilise by thinking too long on this so I move on. I look around and see that on the side of a building there is a stairway leading up and an elevator. A Hispanic man in a hair net and white uniform walks up to the elevator, pushes the button and waits. I approach him asking, "Do you have a gift for me?" He looks scared and puts both hands in front of him as he starts speaking fast Spanish. The elevator door opens and I walk in giving up on the man.

Inside, there are three or four men. They look like business men in suits but one gets my eye. He's a large ginger who looks a lot like Arthur Weasley. I ask everyone in the elevator but look at the ginger, "Do you have a gift for me?" Suddenly, they all become very nervous and start clearing throats and muttering uncertain words. I wait patiently with both hands held behind my back thinking they surely have something to give me. The ginger starts patting his pant pockets and dives a hand in one. He quickly produces a coin and tosses it in the air toward me. I think that my dreaming eyes will be unable to follow but I deftly snatch it out of the air. When I look at the coin I see it is copper colored. "Oh. A penny." At that, the elevator door opens on the other side and I exit not ready to give up on this.

I am now in what looks like a waiting room lobby full of people. As I stroll through, I spot an extremely beautiful blonde woman lounging in an arm chair. The room darkens save for a beam of light on the woman. She appears to be from the 40's era but looks strangely like an older version of a Disney star who's name escapes me at the moment. I stop dead in my tracks with my jaw on the floor. I timidly approach the woman having real anxiety and shyness. When I get close she looks up at me. I am barely able to speak at first but my words suddenly rush out at the end, "Um hey. Um so...do you have a gift for me?" I give a nervous smile.
She smiles and nods, "Mmmm Hmmm."
I suddenly lose my nervousness at the prospect of sex, "Oh do you?"
She just rolls her eyes and gets up moving to the other side of the room. There is very large purse or cloth bag on a chair. She reaches in then pauses, "Wait. Do you have a gift for me?"
Shit! I am at a loss and begin to act like the guys in the elevator. I pat my pockets finding nothing but suddenly remember that I can just summon something. For some reason I don't want to be a show-off so I use expectation to find a gift sitting in the room. I turn around and there is a couch with people on it. I walk to the end and expect to find the present sitting on the other side. I push past a woman in a chair and reach down hoping it will appear. My hands grasp on a small box and it materializes before my eyes. It's neatly wrapped in white paper with green and red ornaments on it. Yes!

As I walk the package back to the woman I think that I had better decide what the gift is. I don't want it to be something lame. Judging by the size, I decide it should be jewellery. She's now holding a medium sized box wrapped in red paper with green stripes. We quickly exchange gifts and I tear into mine right away. It's a white box with some writing on it that looks a lot like a board game. I squint to read the yellow writing: NATIONAL LAMPOONS AND BREAKFAST CLUB TRIVIA. I ask if this is a board game and she nods smiling. "Thanks!", I say.
She now unwraps her gift revealing a black felt box. (The type you would expect to have jewellery in) Then, she asks an odd question, "Where does it go?"
I am confused and not sure I understand, "What?"
She repeats herself more clearly now, "Where... does... it go?"
Still thinking she is being very odd, I think "necklace" and trace a line on her chest near her neck. I answer, "Right there."
She smiles and begins to open the box as I take the seat next to her. She pauses, "Is it Lavender Ruby?"
I picture a white gold necklace with purple gems. Wondering what the hell is wrong with this woman I answer, "Well, It's um purple. Amethyst, I think."
She lifts the lid only slightly and quickly closes it looking a little disappointed.
Guessing her thoughts, I ask, "You're going to return it aren't you?"
Without looking at me, she gives a slight nod.
I become annoyed and a little hurt at this, "Why are you being a bitch in my dream?"
Her only response is a playful pouty-lipped-look. I feel bad about calling her a bitch and hug her. I close my eyes as we kiss. The kiss feels odd and I suddenly break away.

I think about how this woman is so lifelike but isn't real at all. In fact, she is just... me. I become curious about what part of my subconscious she is so I ask, "Who are you?"
She smiles and responds, "How are you?"
I don't find the humour in this and sarcastic reply, "Haha how funny." I try again, "What's your name?"
This time get a an actual answer but it seems she is lying because she stumbles on the name like she is just making it up, "Amar...rosa."
"Your name is Amarosa?" (Not Omarosa. There was a distinct 'A' sound.)
She smiles at me and snuggles into my chest. I put an arm around her and want to enjoy this but decide this is wrong. I go ahead and let her down gently, "Well, Maybe in the next life but not this one." I push her away and see looks at me questioningly. "I'm already married. Sorry but I have to go." As if on cue I wake up.

#252 - DEILD - 3:09AM

I have a FA and try to DJ a non lucid. My wife starts talking to me and saying something about how she really enjoyed waking up with me in the middle of the night to eat a meal. I ask her if that really happened but she stops talking giving no answer. I become slightly annoyed and ask again. No response. I go back to DJing doubting the whole experience. I notice my journal app has a section for "Magazines" and I can seem to find the area to start typing. My wife starts talking nonsense and I decide this is all a dream. The whole thing pisses me off and I say, "You're not even my wife so leave me alone. Leave me alone in the name of Jesus. How's that?" I'm not sure why I said that but I think it meant it as a mockery or insult.I get up and enter the bathroom. I see my reflection in the mirror and I begin making crazy faces at myself. Then I say something in an impossibly deep voice.

I have an FA and immediately do a nose plug. Have to do several to makes sure but each on blows clean. I get up but this time I am totally blind. I try several tricks but nothing works. So I just start walking around trying to see my hands.

I have another FA and see a red light on the wall. "Jeeeesus. Again?" I nose plug and move out of the bedroom. Some how I see another red light though the door and I think that if I open the door the room will the light up in red. I am disappointed when nothing changes so I stop, close my eyes and do the Nestea Plunge expecting water.

I hear the slash and the sounds of being deep under water. I don't feel wet but feel a sense of pressure on my body. I make swimming motions enjoying the feeling for awhile. Then suddenly, I am in a bath tub naked with no water. I hear a sound like a garbage truck outside. There is a window on the other side of the room and I get up to go look. My wife turns over and I wake up.

Pyramid

Size - same size as (walking) people. It was moving with a group of people. People were in a group-line like a wide gate was about to open so no need for single-file.

Colour glass slightly frosted. Three sides visible with back side clear glass but blue.

light yes

shadow non, like it was bright, sunny, midday.

People walking behind the 5-6 foot pyramid might see this:

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glass pyramid - Google Search

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I can't find a google image of what I saw at the end of my "What's the target, dream" but it was a living, mostly white, glass pyramid, moving with the crowd of people, to somewhere good.

I was looking at the relaxed, happy crowed moving from left to right in my field-of-views.

#251 - DEILD - 2:04AM

I DEILD from a NLD ridiculously easy. The vibrations come really weak at first but I remain patient and focus. Soon the vibes get super strong then taper off. I wait a little longer and begin to see a youtube video about Galantamine. I see large print at the bottom: GALANTAMINE CHEATS. Come guy is going on about cheats to make Galantamine fool proof.

After than nonsense fades away, I decide to move. I have the usual stuff happen and make my way into the living room and head to the door. It's super dark and hard too see anything. As I reach the door I feel a creepy sense of presence behind me. I turn to look and can see a version of my living room with a recliner in it. There is light only on the places that I focus on but I can clearly see my cats looking at me and a creepy toy doll sitting in the recliner. It evil beady little eyes are looking at me. Fear grips me and I begin to panic. At that point the doll and the cats slowly stalk toward me. I try to phase backwards through the door but can't get it to work.

The first and only defence I can think of is to shoot energy from my hands. I put both hands out and they instantly light up with green/blue energy. I make throwing motions and balls of energy shoot at the doll and my cats. Each one misses but lights up the room as they pass. I become less afraid and more impressed with my magic abilities. I have been trying this for so long and now it is effortless.

As the fear fades, I decide to try to merge with the doll and understand what it happening. I stop and relax; waiting with both knees on the floor. Soon, I see a small being emerge from the shadows and bump into my stomach with a tiny little hug. With fear returning, I try to grab it to strangle the life out of it but my physical hands move and I wake up clutching my stomach.

Night 6 (Nights 4&5 uneventful)
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Fragment, I am backing up my car to pick up my mother in law but she keeps reaching out for the car too soon causing me to stop before I get to her. Recalled this around 3:40am during my WBTB. When I go back to bed I do some mantras that "I notice the vibrations" that coincide with me entering most dreams from WILD state...just in case I've lost too much consciousness by the time the vibrations show up, at least that should bring me back to good awareness as I enter the dream. I decide to do some quick SSILD cycles and like FryingMan I decide to experiment with backing off of the cycles and focusing on going to sleep and alternating. I told myself the other day that I was probably experimenting with too many different things but something worked here. It feels like I probably take maybe a little over 30 minutes to get back to REM sleep/vibrations (for me at least) . I am mostly too alert so definitely towards the end I am putting all of my focus on falling
asleep through relaxation. For better or worse I changed positions experimenting with different positions due to a little heel pain that I should probably ice and nip in the bud! I get a longer series of vibrations than normal and I try to nudge them on to peak and push me into the dream but they seem to just keep going longer than normal but eventually they subside and no scene forming immediately, it feels like I'm in the void and I start visualizing a scene with lots of DC's and I settle on a big clothing store that is not too far away so I teleport there and I'm in the store floating just above the ground and it looks like a fairly accurate representation of the actual store except no cash registers at the front just big areas of clothes. I make my way through the store checking out different characters some of them looking at me strange and I start thinking a little more sexually and decide to go invisible. It feels like it worked but I did not
look down on myself I just proceeded. I think that the women's bathroom would be a good place to go but as I start to go in I decide they are not always the most glamorous of places and I back off from there. I find a beautiful woman in the store with really nice brown hazel eyes and I cup my right hand around the right side of her face and can see my hand and she can apparently see me (lost or gave up invisibility or never was invisible) and we do a little dance then I do a little silly dance and I tell her she should do it as well but she looks at me like she is not going to do that, it's not sexy. And she doesn't look like the kind of woman that would try anything silly. Looking back I get the feeling that my lucidity was fading here. Either the dream fades, my recall fades late in the dream or my lucidity does but I'm leaning towards the idea that I faded into a false awakening after the above, but I'm not sure. All I know is I have some additional non-lucid dreams before awakening and recalling, luckily not letting the LD fade from memory
entirely at least! In one of those dreams I was in the old office - the site of which I passed 2 nights ago and thought about - but in the dream it was a combination of the office and a restaurant for some reason. The owner of the restaurant or manager is asking me if I can deliver a couple of packages of business cards on my way out and I look at them and think this is a place in U but I later realized it's in the city several more cities south from there and I said maybe I can get my son to deliver them. How much would you pay him? He said about 7 dollars an hour and I blew that off as an insult and had no plans to follow up with him. I now realize that this is probably day residue from watching a recorded episode of "what would you do" where the owner of a diner or the manager was being rude to one of his workers. Next I saw one of my coworkers eating there on a stool/counter area much like in a diner and he asked me what I was doing and I said I was
just ordering some food and I realized that the time is about 820am (in the dream) and I was supposed to be at work at 8 so as I head towards the back door which is now more like the original old office door and I peek out the back door to see if the boss might be pulling up...when I don't see the boss I run up to my car unlock it with my remote and drive off quickly running late for work to my current office. Hmm... perhaps a false awakening since that is a common theme of FAs - running late for work or school... But it feels like I'm remembering the full dream so I don't know and the running late part and "realization" of being late happened towards the end of the dream not from beginning. ~540 am laying in bed recalling my dreams and jot down some notes in DJ. I drift in and out of sleep and sometime around 630 my wife starts some early morning cuddling and at one point my wife gets a little aggressive and although I'm convinced I'm fully awake I double check with a reality check just in
case and I am indeed awake. I ask her to be more gentle but realize I was probably not responding enough more focusing on getting back to sleep since I get to sleep in later than her and I know she will be getting up to get ready soon so no time for too much with her anyway. 5-10 minutes later I feel my wife get out of bed to get ready and I decide to try to drift off to sleep for another potential lucid dream and I'm finding myself taking a number of minutes to get back to sleep. Wild vibrations again, and again I am not seeing a scene form so I start visualizing the one earlier, the big clothing store and this time I remember the dressing rooms. Last time I was there IWL a cute mom I know was there with her daughter visiting from university who was waiting outside of the dressing rooms so I decide they were there now and I go to check out the mom. I fly up over to the dressing rooms and I can see her in her bra and pants and she is quite sexy I'm floating above
the dressing room area deciding if I want to go down there or move on when I hear what were possibly waking life noises of my son and wife getting ready but I stay calm and I unintentionally but seamlessly teleport back to my house and I go downstairs (in the LD, not IWL) where I was hearing the noise and I see my wife and I tell her let's have a little fun...take off all your clothes and she does and I admire her for a moment and then we do a few things, you know. After a while of that I decide I want to move on to one of my goals to fly to Yosemite National Park. I go out the door and I see the cute neighbor down the street, go check her out for a moment but then move on fairly quickly and I look up at the sky and horizon and think about the direction to Yosemite and start flying at very high speed in that direction. I'm trying to make out some of the features on the ground mostly just green hills and mostly greenish land in a bit of a blur going too fast and it starts getting colder and colder and I decide I am there and slow down rapidly and land on what I decide will be the famous half dome. I can't tell for sure if it is a good representation of half dome because it is gray and snowy all around but I'm definitely high up in the mountains. In my goal I had planned to make it summer if it was not already summer-like when I got there. There is snow everywhere and I think of how Steph was building a snowman related to the tasks of the month that I kind of put on the back burner this month (been mostly camped out in the DILD section of the forums) but sounded fun so I decided to start building a snowman. I built the base snowball about a foot in diameter and then two more each a little bit smaller. I then found two rocks to make his eyes, a stick to make his nose and I was in the process of finding something to make his mouth out of when I started fading back to my bed. I laid still and I could hear my wife going out the front door leaving for the day and figured that may
have been what started waking me up. I tried to re- enter the dream but realized I felt too awake and did not try long. Definitely not a false awakening unless I'm still sleeping right now! Haha. I was so sure I was awake and obviously I am but I should have done my reality check when getting up anyway to catch false awakenings! Too many things that I could put my focus on! Perhaps I should make one point of focus into being kind of like a habit and then move on to the next one but it must still have meaning each time to be effective I'm thinking.

Even though I had a lucid dream my recall isn't great so I don't remember all of my dream.

I was in a backyard at night when I thought "reality check" so I looked at my hands and OMFG they where short stubby, by this stage I already knew it was a dream and gained some clarity, I pushed my finger through my palm and I couldn't believe it "WOW this is a dream!"

I looked at the sky and saw a sky full of stars! I jumped attempting to fly and got some air! probably about double what I can jump in real life I fell very slowly back down. I jumped again and got more air! probably double the air I got before and feel very slowly down again, I jumped again and got soooooo high! I looked down and below me in the yard I was in there was now a big pool, this time I feel quickly into the pool I climbed out and I wasn't wet?! :O I saw one of my mates and said "bodi this is a dream!!" he said "what? no it isn't" I then said wait why am I even talking to you? I pushed him out the way and there was a red car there with more friends inside, they called me over to the car, I jumped in and we drove around (im quite sure I lost lucidity at about this time and slipped into a normal dream consistently I cant remember much els of the dream

dream signs;
-Bodi
-Water
-stars
-night time
-car