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Dream recall from today's WBTB/naps.

Dream 1(fragments):

I am at home and there's some talk and stuff, during which i randomly feel that i am dreaming. I go to balcony which is open and fly outside with my wings. Dream destabilizes and flashes and i have to fly through balcony door again, there's a loud humming noise, i rub hands and it doesn't helps. Then i just think 'Whatever' and as i fly around not caring about stability dream stabilizes itself. The outside place is kinda unfamiliar and there's some kind of garage entry on second floor of one of buildings which i find interesting. I land here and remember about TOTM, i run around in quadruped stance a bit, trying to find a good place with wall and ceiling but dream soon fades out and i wake up.

Dream 2(fragments):

I was at home and there was this one plush toy which kept changing whenever i looked away, at few points it was a dragon and at some other points it kept morphing into various pokemons.

Sometimes when I fall asleep I become aware of the in between sleep and not sleep stage, and I get stuck. Frozen it feels like... I actually feel like literally stuck in vibration between two worlds. The only thing is that it's painful. Almost seizure like pain... It makes my head feel like it's going to split in half and my eyes roll back, and I also loose the ability to breathe. I'm afraid! And my body has no control. And the longer it last the more pain I feel and I come out of it... But in some situations I'll be stuck in this paralysis. I've heard voices once, and in another situation also felt a beam of light shining down on me... Very weird.

So I do some research on this "sleep paralysis", never even heard of it, and apparently many people go through this... But it gets creepier... They say it's demonic possession and or they see shadow people and see an evil thing sitting on their chest suffocating them.... This all seems like a horrific drug trip. That you can't sober up from. Unless you wake up.... But the fucked up part of it all is that you are awake... Your body is just asleep. I have yet to meet anyone else who has gone through this... I almost told my doctor until I searched it online and now I know it has a name and similar stories... And it hasn't happened anytime recently... So... We will see if it returns. I'll keep you all posted.

Sweet dreams~

Got random lucid during normal sleep, low awareness though, couldn't remember goals and stuff. The part of dream before it though... quite an experience i should say.

Dream 1:

I was playing a game and apparently it was some kind of MMO, i've just created character and had just starting equipment, which was some kind of dagger. I was playing with somebody and he knew a number of things about the game, and i couldn't even figure out the HUD for some reason. We had to fight through various enemies and during looting i've found random dagger, which looked almost exactly like mine, but i've decided to use it instead. It was dealing massive damage to enemies, even more so than any weapon of who i was playing with.
After some more fights we came across a shop, which was still full of enemies. After cleaning it and accidentally cutting shopkeeper a few times, which he ignored due to being mostly invincible NPC, we checked shop itself. I had like 10k ish coins while other player had like 10 million. He bough some stuff and i've bought custom dagger crafting, menu appeared where i could select a few options and elements and then i've got new dagger, it costed 10k though. Testing it on nearby enemies i've found out that it's much weaker than the one i found, then i figured out how to look up stats. Well the dagger i've found had like +250 to attack, of attack base of dagger being 10... Waste of 10k coins.
We went on further and soon reached some sky island/castle area, we went through a few jumping puzzles and soon were in. There were no enemies here and it was kinda empty. I found two big tall areas with spiraling staircases, one of which had sky embedded in it somehow, looked pretty cool.

Dream 2:

I am at home with family and we are talking about some things, that continues for a while until i hear someone announcing something through speaker from a helicopter passing by, it was something about incoming nuke. Everyone but me starts panicking, and then a minute later, i see a huge missile coming, it hits somewhere nearby and there's sound of huge explosion. More people panic, but i just stay and say "Well then... good bye, this world". It starts getting really hot and soon the 'wave' of explosion itself hits. Everything turns into rubble and people burn to bones. My body is in pain and quite burned, but i am apparently still mostly ok. I slowly walk through rubble, still in pain, soon i reach the 'edge' of explosion, which is still exploding, and i jump out of it. Some random person comes and then suddenly i am in a room with lots of tables, there are other people who survived apparently, or something.
Confused for a second, i think, it could be a dream or something, i ask that person and he says something along the line "Only you can know". Yeah ofcourse, i should do reality check, so i do it and look at my hands, they are pretty weird and different number of fingers so yes, this is dream. I try hard to think of what to do but for some reason not much comes to mind... Then thought of dream food comes and i just go 'Well, why not?'. I ask nearby DC to get me some food of his choice, he goes away and i wait for him sitting near table. He comes back with a glass of what looks like milk, i drink a bit but it don't tastes much, i ask DC what's that and he responds with something along the line of "You should know". Then dream quickly fades and i wake up.

non-dream dream semi-lucid lucid false awakening

(...) With my mom, we see a mushroom explosion on the distance. We can't tell how far away it is, but everybody freaks out with the possiblity of being caught in the blast. After not so long we are hit by a wall of air and debris. I stupidly hold my breath, hoping not to inhale the radiation. But then I think "how stupid is that?" and just accept the inevitability. Then someone starts gathering people on a bus, so we can get the hell out of there. Someone else turns on the radio for news. I then realize something is not right "how did we get hit by air dislocation so quickly, but were not harmed and the EMP didn't destroy the electronics?". I conclude I'm dreaming, so I tell my mother to relax, we're just dreaming and let's use the opportunity to test how we would react in an emergency situation. Then it went from a dream to a simulation drill. LOL

So I had my first lucid wet dream last night.
It started off with me at school I was in the middle of making sinagang (Filipino sour soup) when one of the chefs walks in helps me out and ask me to explain the dish, and after i made it and had him had a bowl of that with rice and we ate the food and as I was finishing up cleaning he came up to me and started to caress my cheek and that's when my fiance came in and gripped my wasit and pulled me to him and whispered in my ear: "You want us both don't you?" I was shocked and nodded my head, and that's when things started getting all hot and heavy. The two taking turns having sex with me and then I took on both at the same time, being bound and gaged and then being placed on a collar and leash and just as Chef finished up I woke up.

Just so you know I'm going to culinary school the chef is one of my teachers.

This was my first time actually being able to do a lucid dream on purpose. And it just so happened to be a nightmare that I've had before.

It was middle of the day I was sitting in a medow with a pond with my right foot in the clear water and suddenly the sun was setting and it started to get cooler I got up and was starting to walk away from the water when suddenly a dark shadow was looming over me. I didn't turn around, but the hair on my arms and back of my neck were standing on end and I started to run to the house. There was a large Weeping Willow and I nearly tripped over the root caught myself before I could trip and I ran into the back door...like literally ran into the back door before I was able to open it and slam it close. As soon as I slammed it shut whatever was chasing me slammed into the door. I ran up the stairs, ran down a long hallway and I could hear heavy footfalls on the stairs. I stopped at a small door opened it, and fell down a long dark tunnel and into dark blue water, I could only see a little past my chest but other than that the water was dark. I heard whatever it was that was chasing me make a horrible growling noise and I dove under the water and swam through another tunnel where I came up for air there was a table with a chest on it, a small night stand with an old school tv with the rabbit ears on it. I don't remember what was on the tv, but as soon as I got to the chest I woke up. Just like always. Does anyone know what this means I've been having this nightmare for the past year, the house is always the same as well as the tree, but everything else changes.

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!