lucid

So i just went to take a nap
turned music on.

sleepd about 20 mins and one moment when i just in ym dream dont know how
i went to bathroom
closed door ( BUT I DIDNT LOCK)
to take shower i heard some ppl came in house.. so i try to check if door closed by opening it and someone opened it and laughed..
then i realised im dreaming ..
i was like going to wake up but i went hard and continued the dream
what the fuck but..
i went again to this bathroom and i was eating gum.. what i saw was 2 friends of me
inSIDE THE BATHROOM cooking and i took my gum and throw it on the food where he was cooking on the pan , some potatoes and meat and i said good ,
he said yess good..
and i woke up LOL.

Dream recall from today's WBTB/nap. Was pretty low awareness lucid and i barely could do stuff.

Dream 1:

I am at home and i can't fall asleep, and i am sleepy, i am trying for a while in different rooms. There are alot of pillows and my headset turns into pillows. More stuff happens, i am still super sleepy and family is leaving to somewhere, i go to yet another room and it's very warm here, also there are weird scents and no windows.
Then as i try falling asleep i notice sconce on the wall turning into some robotic being, it extends it's arm towards me and for some reason i can only barely move, i still manage to fight though.
Shortly i wake up, and there's another robotic being floating around the room, which then attacks me, i fight a bit and dream fades out.
I wake up again and there's someone in the room, dream fades out.
Wake up again, feeling in the back, i finally managed to get up, someone's shouting about something and there's someone behind me dream kinda destabilizes completely and i lose lucidity and then shortly wake up.

Dream 2(fragment):

I was playing some video game.

I had a lucid dream last night. It was short, but interesting and it made me question how i percieve ordinary reality. No need for long introduction so I'll just start writting.

First dream(non-lucid part):

It was something about me going to a party in a club.(Ricks). I met a friend from high school whom I didnt see for atleast 4 years. I didnt think of her at all in a past year or two, so I dont really know why I was dreaming of her but nvm. We were walking to the club and chatting in the mean time, I put my arm around her neck and she didnt seem to mind. I felt confident and planned on seducing her.

First dream(lucid part)

Next scene, I am in a park and while I dont remember how I got here, I look at the sky and see that the stars are really bright. It was cold(autumns here) but it was still a beautiful night. I start seeing shapes and movement in the sky and it looks like constelations have become dragons(chinese, long body type) and they are moving. I look at the statue in the center of the park and its frozen and completely covered in ice. Kind a like this, just with less details and with a statue inside, and not a demon lol.



So later, when I wake up I figured that this was a dream reference to me watching Fairy Tail anime in waking life recently. But lets get back to the dream.

While looking at the statue and flying dragons(there were two or three of them) I started to think that this is not normal and I figured that I am dreaming. Remembering my last lucid dream in which I kind of astral projected but couldnt wake up(even though I tryed to kill myself several times), I wanted to see if I can wake up on command now. I "ordered" myself to wake up.

Second dream

I am still lucid, but in my bed. I open my eyes and look around trying to see if I am in a dream again or I am in reality now. I remeber ordering myself to wake up and now I am in bed, seemingly awake. I question reality by questioning vividity. It seems vivid, things are pretty detailed and all. I go to the living room to make myself a breakfast. At that point I am convinced that I am awake, and I lose my lucidity waking up, for real this time.

Kind a made me wondering at how lucid I realy am in RL, if I cant distingwish between a dream and reality while sleeping.

EDITED ONCE, for categorizing and additional info..

(This is from September 21.)

I awoke into the dream staring at sentences in a book as I was laying in a bed. I noticed that the words on the page were kinda shifting around and getting fuzzy, and I thought I must be dreaming. So I did the palm RC and became fully lucid when my finger went right through my hand. I stood up from the bed and surveyed my surroundings, and saw I was in a messy bedroom with hardwood floors and wallpaper with flower prints on it. There was a hallway to the left that was lit brighter than the room I was in, and on the wall to the right was a mirror. I got really excited when I saw the mirror because I remembered how I was able to use a dream mirror in my last lucid dream to successfully summon Afiel. First, I tried just calling out his name and willing him there, because I didn't want to be reliant on mirrors, but it didn't work so I stood in front of the mirror and saw this time that the wings on my back appeared on my reflection, however when I moved them up and down they didn't move in the reflection. I attempted to summon Afiel as I did last time by having him appear behind me in the mirror, but it would not work and I started getting upset. Then I tried a trick I'd read on the forums here where I shouted "Increase lucidity!" to make the dream more real. I yelled it about three times, and every time I would hit the wall with my palms while shouting it, and that caused a wave that looked similar to an aftershock wave to ripple across my surroundings and make the scene clearer and more vivid as it moved. I remember being super excited at adding this new trick to my lucid arsenal. But then I looked down that bright hall out of curiosity, and I saw a grey alien creature standing at the other end of the hall. I couldn't see its face, but I knew what it was, and I had chills up my spine. I backed away in fear and crawled into the bed, cowering with the covers placed between me and it, but then right when my terror peaked, Afiel popped in out of nowhere and did a running tackle at the alien and it disintegrated. I jumped out of the bed, absolutely ecstatic (mostly because the alien was gone but also to see Afiel) and ran over and hugged him. I think the lucidity yell made him feel more real, because I remember thinking how weird it was how solid he felt when we were hugging. With him now there, I felt free to test some other things, like trying to change the scene. I would close my eyes, float up into the air, and should "Teleport (name of place)!", but when I opened my eyes we were still in the bedroom. After a few tries, I opened my eyes a saw clear blue sky, but I also felt my body waking up so I grabbed my shirt and tried the lucidity shout again. It worked, but I was again back in the bedroom. Afiel suggested I couldn't teleport because I was using a single-person teleport and it would be impossible for me to go somewhere without him since we were tethered together in the scene. I gave it one more shot, grabbing Afiel and attempting to teleport us both into deep space. Immediately, there was dark blues with random points of light zipping by me, it looked a lot like that effect that plays when Sam leaps into another body in Quantum Leap... suddenly I saw galaxies appearing and disappearing, but I can't remember if Afiel was there with me. Before everything could stop zipping around and calm down, it all fell apart and I woke up.

i had a weird day last night so i kept practicing the basic lucid techniques i know, mainly looking at my hand.

it paid off. had a lucid last night and the TRIPPIEST part for me was continually checking my hand throughout the dream. my fingers were bloated, some of them were short, others were curled around the others. and more than 5 digits, sometimes 6 and sometimes 7. the weird thing is i could stare at them and take in every detail of the ridges in my skin, the nails, the shapes.

anyway i was lucid for a large part of the dream. i was on some main street and i decided i wanted to horsebackride. so i rode down the street. then i was like fuck that i'm gonna fly. so i flew over to "my house" (dream version of my house). the only thing i knew for sure i wanted to happen was to see matt and hug him and tell him i love him. so i did. but my dream took him away from the plot and a character in the dream told me he didn't respect me but he loves me he just cant be with me ever.

after that i was like fuck everyone. i wanted to go to my REAL home not the dream one and i held out my hands and tried to power burst open the ceiling. it kind of worked but not enough for me to go through it. so i closed my eyes and just changed the whole scene so that i was already flying. it took so much concentration to keep soaring. after struggling for a bit and falling to the ground, i finally was going across the golden gate.

at my house there was some huge water slide. i went down it and this is the weird part: i was rushing down it so fast and it was so long, and suddenly my whole vision went into this trippy pattern of like a blue vortex with a black background. that happened for like at least 2 straight minutes, which was really cool.

for things to happen, i had to concentrate really hard and think "THIS IS A DREAM" and then sometimes they would happen but other times they would happen but not like i really wanted them to (like trying to burst open to ceiling like a superhero). i also had a false awakening but got back to lucidity.

9/21/2013, 10:00-5:50

I went to sleep, and meditated before doing so for like 15 minutes.

Dream 1:

I remember a giant monster-like creature. I was in Star Wars: Battlefront 2. I was trying to kill the creature.

Wake-Up:

At like 4:50, I wake up for a piss and drink. As I fall back to sleep, I try to mantra, "I will realize I'm dreaming when I'm dreaming."

Lucid Dream:

After about 20 minutes of laying in bed, I suddenly drift into sleep, and awake lucid (WILD! ). I don't really feel like getting up (figures), so I just try to make a sound. The thing I end up doing is trying to hear someone behind me say "Boo!" I think about it, and I hear a very high-pitched "boo" sound! I get frightened that it actually worked, and end up closing my eyes and waking myself up. I'm happy about this, because it's the first time I've managed to do something in a WILD!



9/22/2013, 10:00-7:00

I read Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming and meditated before sleep, and remember one dream:

Dream 1:

I was with Leela (and maybe Fry) from Futurama. We were trying to get to a base. There were these challenges we had to do. There was a hole we had to climb down with a ladder, which landed into a "wave pool" contraption. We made it to some markers and the waves suddenly stopped, revealing ladders to inside the complex we were trying to get to. I then remember going into the complex and into a large, white atrium, where there were two directions at the end; right and left. Me and Fry went left. We found our way to the owner of the complex, who we talked to, a bit aggressively. He said something about going to check the other room. We went over to the other room, where Leela was on a bed, dying from old age. There must have been a time warp. This made the dream sad.

Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

Lucid #149: Chicken Fight

I'm working as a consigliere and fixer for a 20-year-old Filipino billionaire. He's a natural genius, a derivatives trader that controls a global financial/oil and gas empire. He relies on me and a talented, resourceful woman named Rachel as his on-the-ground "problem solvers".

I'm in a dark room watching a movie projection on a wall. The presentation is talking about some aspect of derivatives trading. I get some kind of message or phone call with a new assignment, and I hurry out of the room. There's somebody that I need to apprehend and speak to that's a spectator at a nearby cockfight. I know that both my boss and Rachel are counting on me to handle this and I feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to get it done right.

It's night, and I take a set of metal stairs down to a dusty street, hanging a right into an alleyway. I see a metal door to my right and hear some faint crowd noise -- that's where the cockfight is being held. I detect movement to my left and I sense that a huge man is lunging toward me to tackle me. I twist my body around and throw a right-handed haymaker that catches the man right in the mouth, stopping him short. I knee him underneath the short ribs and he staggers back. Something tips me off that this is a dream and I become lucid.

The man comes stalking back toward me, as fat and muscular as a bear. I'm struggling with what to do next. I have a strong urge to get right to lucid goals but I'm trying to process in my mind what will become of my boss and Rachel if I fail this task. I slowly retreat from my assailant, not ready to act until I'm sure that I'm not letting down real people who depend on me.

I finally convince myself that Rachel and my boss are just dream characters. My attacker is about four feet away when I wind up and hit him with a two-handed force push that sends him flying violently back, where he lands in a heap. His body has gouged a nearly foot-deep furrow in the dusty ground and, more surprisingly, has turned into a huge roasted chicken!



I walk onward as calmly as I can. I hear a few DCs chattering in surprise behind me but I try to put it out of my mind. They don't care. They're just looking.

Walking between two compact cars and onto an empty paved road, I look up at the sky. The stars are out tonight and I can see far more of them out here than I can with all of the city lights that are near my home IWL. I jump up, getting a good fifty feet into the air. I'm on the edge of a much larger city, one where I'm sure that I can find the means to accomplish my Task of the Month and Task of the Year goals.

I hit a second jump, this one slightly higher than the first, but start to sink down again. No, now I'm flying. I imagine myself catching an updraft the way a hawk would catch a thermal. I shoot upward, high above the city. The sky becomes thick and bright with stars and I know that I can go anywhere that I want. I decide that the Colosseum is just a little ways off in a darkened portion of the city. I begin flying that direction when I suddenly feel Wife's hand slam into my pillow in waking life. She rolls over a couple more times. I try to go in for DEILD but I'm a bit too adrenalized to make it back under.

I technically had 3 LDs last night but I was so tired that my memory was rough. I only vaguely remember some fragments of the first two but the last one was much better.

Lucid Fragments:

In the first one, I only remember trying to stabilize by rubbing my hands in the dark. Then some vibes and my arms felt like pins and needles like I had poor circulation. I waved them around trying to start the dream back up.

The second one, I got lucid and flew around a room that looked like my bedroom in Texas when I was a teenager. I then phased out the window, but there was a thick white fog that enveloped me and the dream ended.

#233 - DEILD - 6:00AM

I have a brief awakening realize that I keep dreaming of being at work. I was irritated that wasn't lucid so I concentrated on the imagery with my usual mantra. I thought of work again so that I could re-enter the dream. I told myself that this is Sunday, so if I find myself at work then it has to be a dream. I see a strong image of a bundle of electrical wires up close. Then, there was some other confusion.

I have a short memory gap here, but for some reason I am looking at a bottle of some sort of chemical; though I am completely lucid. Maybe this is actually where the dream started? I realize I am standing in the shop at work and still saying my mantra. I stop and become curious what is in my hand. I focus on the wording and see that it is an ingredients list. The names of the chemicals are so completely ridiculous that I can't remember most of it. However, I do remember the first one on the list was something like, "cherryvodkarifiousulfatmate". I giggle out loud at this craziness! As I study the wording more and more, I begin to see an actual sentence. I feel there is some importance to it though these words strike me as completely crazy as well. I concentrate to remember it, but I forget almost instantly.

Now, I remember my main goal; to find Dolce and ask him some predetermined questions. I wonder around the shop a bit and notice that nothing is where it should be. As usual, I am extremely near sighted and anything very far away becomes blurry though I can still tell what I am seeing. During my exploration, I almost run into Efrain working on something at a form-board. I think that maybe he knows where Dolce is. So I ask, "Hey man. Do you know where Dolce is?
Efrain looks up from whatever he is doing, "Uhhh. Yeah, he's over next door in the back room."
I begin to think that I'll never make my way all the way over there and a part of me decides to give it up, but I am still curious what he's talking about. In case I decide to try, I ask, "What room is that?"
He looks at me like I should know, "The Melaluma."
I pay close attention to the odd word. I repeat it in my mind a few times and then ask, "The Melaluma? What the heck is that?"
He looks slightly annoyed now, "Just enemy me. Ok?"
I know that he means to say, "Just humor me" and I laugh out loud. Efrain joins in and we laugh together for a few seconds. Then, to be funny, I throw something I am holding in my right hand on the floor in exaggerated exasperation. Was is the chemical bottle? It bounces like a rubber ball and hits Angie, who is coming out of the womens restroom, square in the crotch! She freezes and looks around. I am laughing so hard on the inside, but I play it cool; I look away like I didn't notice.

Suddenly, one of the engineers comes franticly storming in the area looking for a blueprint. All the commotion confuses me and the dream destabilizes.

I have a false awakening in that old bedroom in Texas again. I am lying next to someone but I don't move because I feel horribly tired and weak. I have a hard time opening my eyes, but I manage. I see an alarm clock with an orange light going off; there is a slight sound then it stops. This seems really odd and I decide that I am still dreaming. I worry that if I don't wake up soon and record my dream, I will forget it like the others. I try really hard to wake up but SP gets me and the vibrations start up. I just relax while recalling the dream in my mind.A few seconds later I wake up.

I have some other intensely vivid non lucid dreams. I didn't record them but here's a brief summary of the two I recall from memory.

In one, I was collecting bugs like, praying mantis, grubs, and other strange things I don't recognize to cook them. They all looked dead and gray. There was cooked corn and potatoes mixed in all in a large aquarium. I felt confused and grossed out so I started throwing it all in the trash.

In the other, I was riding a bike but caring a car tire with me. I tried to help a kid who was struggling with his. I began to wonder how I was able to carry mine. Then, I was in school but the teacher was a guy I know from work. The subject was cycling and I assumed I must have somehow failed this class. The teacher talking about studying for the final and too look at the old test to study. I looked in my folder but could not make sense of what it said.

I may have just had my first lucid.

In the dream, I was in a first-person video game. The backstory: I am an old, undead man whose wife is afraid of him and I need to catch her. I could see myself (well, my undead, dream self) in a mirror in a bathroom. The bathroom looked like my grandmother's, but nothing else did. Eventually, something happened and I was in front of the mirror again, but I looked like an Asian man. I said, "Wait, we're Asian now?" and, "Wait, am I dreaming again?" I plugged my nose and could still breathe (though it felt strange), so I knew I was dreaming. I closed my eyes and said, "Clean slate," and the dream world became a blank, white space. I closed my eyes and said my crush's name and she appeared. I immediately started having sex with her, but it felt strange. I felt detached. It didn't feel like I was *ahem* thrusting. In fact, the dream switched to third-person and ended quickly. Unfortunately, I wasn't tired enough to re-enter the dream.

Now, I'm not entirely sure this was a true lucid. I didn't feel truly concious and felt detached, as I said before. Also, the sex part didn't go as I had planned it; I had planned to do a bit of romance and foreplay, as opposed to mindlessly diving into it.

I think I either a.) was dreaming about being lucid or b.) attained lucidity, then lost it. Either way, it's progress!

(This is from September 16.)

I woke up into a lucid dream from an episode of sleep paralysis. I looked around and was in some kind of dorm room, there was a futon on the floor, a small area with a microwave and mini-fridge, and the regular dorm room surroundings. I also saw a mirror on the wall and wondered what I looked like, so I looked into the mirror and saw myself. I was confused at first, because I knew I had wings, but I couldn't see them in the mirror, so I kept concentrating on my reflection until my wings appeared. After that, I attempted to call Afiel into my dream, using every trick I could remember. Yelling his name, visualization, closing my eyes and reaching out, etc, but none of it worked. At that point I was annoyed, because this was my second lucid attempt to bring him about and I didn't want to fail again, but then I looked into the mirror while visualizing him and there was his reflection in the mirror! He was standing behind me; using the mirror had worked. I spun around and he was standing there looking all excited that we were able to do it, and I ran over squealing like a little girl and jumped into his arms. He said he honestly didn't think it would ever work and he was just humoring me all this time, and that he was "pleasantly surprised" when he woke up in my lucid dream. I wasn't sure how to leave the room since there was no door, but I had pretty good control and stuck out my hand, which caused a big hole to open up on the floor. We both jumped through it and came out on the other side in midair, just above the lowest layer of clouds and the ground below us like green patchwork. Afiel didn't seem to have a problem flying, right away he spread his wings and caught a current of wind. I, however, was immediately falling as soon as I exited the hole. I spread out my wings and tried to steady myself, and was able to finally get myself going in flight after a few failed attempts at hovering. As I flew, I saw Afiel much higher up, his huge black wings were maybe three times bigger than my little white ones and he was blocking out the sun. I followed him up and we just flew around together enjoying the view and laughing. I remember at one point seeing something interesting on the ground, so we landed in the grass and were surrounded by lots of cool old stone structures. We flew together through a lot of odd places just exploring, occasionally ending up in weird dimensions that didn't make sense. Every few minutes or so I would be surprised that my dream was so vivid and was lasting so long, and had this feeling that Afiel was somehow helping me keep it anchored. Even so, I kept randomly touching things and rubbing my hands together thinking it could possibly buy me more time. We flew through a weird ribbon-like thing in the sky and wound up in this scene that was a giant translucent blue cube about a mile in size that would start over at the beginning once we reached the end, like some kind of dimensional loop. On the sides of the cube I could see offices and floors of buildings just floating around strangely, and beyond that was infinite darkness. The darkness eventually closed in and the dream faded away.

(This is from September 14.)

I brought about a lucid dream through sleep paralysis. As I was in paralysis, I visualized my bedroom exactly as it would be if I were awake, and awoke into a dream of me laying on the bed in my room. The surrounding were very unstable, however, and the air was heavy like a blanket and strange looking. It was almost like heat waves, but no heat. It looked a lot like the air in hell from Constantine. I couldn't lift my hands to rub them together in an attempt to stabilize so I just had to deal. I crawled out of bed and looked around, but everything was normal except there were a lot of alphabet magnets on my TV screen. I stumbled down the hall trying to fight the heavy air, but I just couldn't stabilize and the dream faded away.

Cory had hired these two slutty girls to paint my car for me as a surprise, but I was pissed because I knew they didn't actually know how to paint cars and I had no idea why he was letting them. When I went out to take a look, poor Celtius was not painted at all. They had spray-painted some black letters on the side of the car and it looked awful. But for some reason he kept defending them. Then he let one of them stay at our apartment for a while, and it got to the point where he was just fawning over her and doing whatever she wanted. I was so angry, and I kept crying and trying to get him alone so I could talk to him about it, but she followed us everywhere. The other girl who didn't stay got snippy with me when I asked about the "paint job" and I wasn't in the mood to argue so I just flipped her off and went to lay down. One day while we were at a store, Cory snapped out of it and we realized she'd had him under some kind of spell, so we ran into an elevator and got the doors to close before she could follow us, and then ran out of the store.

I was a displaced orc living in a strange land that was set up like some kind of prison labyrinth. It wasn't actually a prison, but it was grey and simplistic like a prison. The through-ways were difficult to navigate and the whole of the land was one giant maze, but we had no choice because the orcs had been kicked out of Durotar and Orgrimmar for some unknown reason and this was where I had settled. There were other races living here too, mostly people who supported us and left on their own free will, some blood elves and trolls and such. On the corners of the maze roads were phone booths, and these were set up on every corner and "sponsored" by a person or group that would keep them clean, like those Adopt-a-Mile programs. As I was standing against a wall with some blood elves, they began to talk about how silly the booths were, and pointed to the one closest to us that was sponsored by someone named Snowsparkle. They assumed it was some girly weak person and set a bomb in the booth. I was afraid because I knew it would be a big explosion and someone could get hurt, so I called out for help. Then this huge imposing centaur appeared and defused the bomb and sent the elves running off in panic. Apparently he was Snowsparkle. He thanked me and said that indeed would've been a big explosion, and to properly thank me he said he wanted to show me something amazing. He picked me up with one hand, I was like the size of his forearm, and we galloped away. After a long while we were in Durotar, and we stood upon the road leading from Razor Hill to Sen'jin Village. There were hundreds of orcs all lined up heading back into Durotar, carrying sacks of their belongings and looking happy. The centaur told me we were all allowed home now and I remember being overcome with emotion and I just sat there on his shoulder crying in joy. He took me back to my temporary home and I decided I would move back to Durotar with the other orcs. I packed up all my things for my journey back, which wasn't much and fit into one bag. To get from the place I was currently at and into Durotar, I had to pass through a magical home. I ran into the house humming that magic carpet song from Aladdin because I was so happy, and I think I realized the house existed between dimensions, and that Durotar and the world I was in were actually separate dimensions altogether because that land was grey and Durotar just immediately was bright and reddish. I ran through the kitchen, still humming, and saw Thrall standing over the stove cooking something. I waved to him as I ran past. Then I entered into a bedroom and there was a huge dresser against the wall with a closet door to the left of it. I knew I had to crawl through a drawer in the dresser to reach Durotar, but I was nervous because I felt claustrophobic. When I opened the drawer, I could see Durotar on the other side. Instead, I opened the closet door and found inside that it was completely empty except for a mirror. I pushed the mirror and it opened into a small room that was mirrored on all sides, and this mirror room opened up into Durotar. I stood on the road, incredibly happy that I actually made it there.

(This is from September 9.)

I woke up into a dream, but I was in my old bedroom at the house we had in Arab when I was a kid. Nothing was really happening except I was sitting on the bed, so I had time to ponder over my situation. I realized I didn't live here anymore and that I must be dreaming, so I attempted the palm reality check, and sure enough my finger went right through my hand. I flew up into the air and hovered around the room a few times to gauge how much control I had. Then I remembered I wanted to practice calling Afiel into my lucid dreams, and I got excited because normally when I LD I get caught up in the moment and totally forget and Afiel and my's little experiment. So I call his name and attempt to visualize him, but nothing happens. I close my eyes and try to will him there, but still nothing. So I left the room and went to the door leading outside next to the pool table, constantly looking behind me hoping he would randomly show up there. Thinking I'd have a better shot at it if I were outdoors in a large open area, I opened the door and was just about to head outside when I saw a big bear wandering around right outside the door! I totally freaked out and suddenly I heard a vicious barking behind me, and next to the pool table was a rabid Rottweiler dog, so I slid in between the outer door and the screen door to keep them both away from me and tried my hardest to will them away. Unfortunately the bear had freaked me out enough that I lost control of my surroundings so I was stuck. Suddenly I couldn't hear the bear anymore, so I looked outside and saw the bear had turned to stone, and Rina was standing there looking all smug and laughing at me for being afraid. He pushed past me and walked into the house, the rabid dog now gone, and heads to the kitchen. At this point I am completely lost, because I have no idea how I'd summoned up Rina of all people when I was attempting Afiel. So I followed him into the kitchen and he tells me since he's my guest that I should pour him a glass of water. I tell him "Are you kidding me? I'm not wasting a lucid dream pouring you a glass of water, you prima donna." and he got all huffy and poured himself some water. Then I heard my phone ringing from outside the dream, and the whole scene broke apart because apparently my brain thinks telemarketers are more important than bugging the crap out of Rina.

I was visiting some spoiled rich kid's home and I noticed my old DDR pad in the closet. It's for the PS2 and they said I couldn't have it back because I only have an XBox 360 and the pad wouldn't be compatible. The kid is talking about all the games he owns and heads downstairs into a basement area. When I looked down there, I saw the kid and two girls laying down on a futon playing console games.

Cory and I had a routine where we would visit this small locally-owned candy store each time we went on a trip to that area of the country, which was often. The owner of the store was the lady who owns the food truck near our apartment. She'd always recognize us when we came into the store, and I remember once telling her my zip code and she got all excited and said her zip code started with the same two numbers as mine, which I thought was a strange thing to get excited about. We bought a bunch of interesting looking chocolates and I also got a red and white striped peppermint that was shaped like a shoe. The owner said the shoe had to be eaten a certain way so the middle doesn't melt and become raw. We noticed that they also sold cherries, and rights to pick as many cherries as you wanted from the trees outside. As we left, I saw rows of newly planted cherry trees growing next to the road. After we got home from the trip, I followed Cory from the parking lot and through a crowd of people all sitting on picnic tables under a sheltered patio. One of the people mentioned the ASVAB so I went over curiously to help him study, but my social anxiety kicked in and I just stood there awkwardly not saying anything.

I went into Walmart and decided to work there. Apparently I thought since I used to work there when I was younger, I was allowed to just jump behind a register and start working whenever. But when I got behind the register, I noticed they looked different and had touch screens and stuff, so I got nervous. I couldn't figure out how to start, so the bagger told me I had to scan my badge to start every transaction. I annoyed lots of customers because I took so long to figure it out. One of the other cashiers took pity on me and took over my register and I opened a new line. An old guy with lots of TVs and inflatable pool toys came through and I had to lift each heavy TV to scan it and deflate the pool toys, but then I accidentally dropped a box and freaked out thinking it was a TV I'd broken, but it turned out to be a box of Capri-Sun drinks. After a while, I was called to the back and confronted by the manager asking why I was there since I left years ago. I lied and told her that I was still employed there, I was just working at another store in a place called Alphrettia, Georgia. She didn't believe me and looked up the store there on her computer, but I was desperate not to get yelled at so I sprinted off through the garden center and into the parking lot. As I ran, I passed Will Smith who was sitting in a car, and I waved at him and he waved back. I remember thinking he must drive around a lot because I see him in that car almost everywhere. Then I jumped into my car where Cory was waiting. After I pulled out, I realized my brakes weren't working, so I drift along in the parking lot trying to avoid small children and stuff. The car finally came to a halt when it lightly hit the bumper of a big white truck, and a lady got out and immediately recognized us because she's was regular at Cory's store. She said we were lucky she's such a nice person and said she'll forget that it ever happened.

Dream recall from today's WBTB/naps. Slowly fixing schedule and breaking 3 day long dry spell i guess, so yay.

Dream 1(fragment):

I was playing some video game.

Dream 2:

I am doing some stuff on PC, then random hands suddenly appear under table, then i get distracted. Then back to PC, hands appear again, i think that i have seen that in dream before and then again, random hands, so i must be dreaming. I go to balcony door, which is closed, and prepare to phase through but dream fades out before i can do that and i wake up.

Dream 3(fragments):

Some story about a group of dragons defending a mountain and path to it.

I started out in my kitchen and my habit of biting the tips of my fingers (RC) occurred in my subconscious and BOOM, lucidity. (This was 100 percent unintentional!) So, I told my friend Steven It was a dream world and he says: "Just don't start flying or some sh*t." and so I didn't. I'm not sure why. Then I began telling everyone in this version of my house (it was my house morphed with my high school. Some doors lead to rooms in my house, others to classrooms from school) that it was a dream world, just to see their reaction. No-one believed me. It actually had me doubting for a second that I was dreaming. I even did a nose holding breathing RC to prove it to my sister and she still had what seemed like a logical explanation at the time. But I didn't let this phase me. WARNING: THE STORY GETS SEXUAL/INAPPROPRIATE HERE. DO NOT CONTINUE IF YOU ARE EASILY OFFENDED. I began trying to have sex with the girls walking around. First with this girl Dee, but I couldn't create the situation right in my head because my dream dad and brother were arguing loudly. So, I tried this girl Shawna and the best I managed to do was make her sit in a chair, backwards (if the chairs facing you, she'd be facing the other way with her legs wrapped around it) and pull her pants down until her butt showed and she began clenching it. I didn't know how to go about this situation so I waited. Then I saw my friend Brandon staring from the other room, it felt awkward, so I went to shoo him away, but he ran. I ended up in my kitchen and Shawna was in there. I decided to try to get her to have sex with me so I squeezed her boobs and rubbed them, etc. and it was working until her daughter came up and asked what I was doing (even in a dream this was very awkward) so I stopped. Then, I went to the lunch room (school of course) and sat at my table from last year. Everyone was there, but some new girl (whom I've seen around school) was at the end of the table. I got naked and put my penis next to her face (left side) and tapper her on her left shoulder. She turned and her face smacked right into it. She began to caress me, but then she turned into this fat kid I know named Steve so I walked away. I was already naked so I began messing around and I was sliding down the table smacking cans with my erection while my lunch buddies cracked up (as did I) and this continued until I woke up. Or did I...

False Awakening: I woke up into an EXTREMELY realistic version of my room, but there was one fault, the ball of light floating in the corner of the room. I got up and did some RC's (light switch, pinch) just to be sure. They proved to me that I was lucid. I looked down and my nephew Alex was on the floor acting... odd so I got him up and let him (and on accident some kittens) out of the room. Then I woke up, for real this time though. It was a GREAT experience!

I become fully lucid while doing my Apollo trick, and lose all visuals in the process - I have a sense of having a body, but there's no setting. (The Apollo trick is meant to get me out of nightmares, but I have no memory of any dream scene before this, except the thought that I 'lost' visuals.) I start floating close to the 'ground', although there's no ground, and a setting starts to form: the road outside my IRL home.

Memory gap. Next thing I remember is a non-lucid dream in a different setting, involving accidentally upsetting my IRL sister (my recall for this was quite long and detailed). Woke up at 5:37 AM, less than an hour after getting to bed.

Recall for the rest of the day was terrible. Vague fragments of dreams set in Being Human and Lost Boys, with a possible false awakening after the Being Human one - I don't remember 'waking', but I spent a dream scene trying to describe that previous dream. The only details I managed to remember: as Mitchell, needing a werewolf to briefly hold me down under the surface of a river, and the one I've got on hand doesn't live up to George in any way.