lucid

I have had several short Lucid dreams in the last few weeks that I haven't written down because they were fairly uneventful. But I should have, so I could at least record my lucidity.

This is what I remember from my most recent LD.

I was driving down these streets that were next to a marsh or swamp. The roads were raised on piers. I was getting lost and the roads were like a maze. I kept having to turn around and keep trying to find my way to where I was supposed to be going.

Next thing I know I am on foot. The roads go inside buildings and I am now trying to make my way through rooms. I suddenly just want to get out of there. I can't even remember what I am looking for. Each room leads to another room with no apparent exit.

Finally the whole situation seems too ridiculous and I wonder if I could be dreaming this whole mess up. In fact, I am now completely sure this is just a dream. I turn and see a window with blinds next to me. I jump in the air and fly to the window. I know that since this is just a dream that I can go through the window. I fly through the slits of the blinds (like I had shrunk or the window had grown). I am now outside high in the air near a tall red cliff. I am so thrilled to be out here....flying...in the exact scenery I would have chosen if I had made a conscious decision...

I fly toward the cliff and as soon as I am near I let myself fall. I completely take in the feeling of flight and free fall. The wind on my face....the feeling in my stomach of falling....
But before I could enjoy anything else the dream fades.

Lucid dream AND task of the month! It's a long dream, though, so let's get started... interestingly enough, my lucid was actually in the beginning of the dream, it's usually in the end.

(edit: weird, the first part of it got cut... maybe my iPad is going crazy, so writing the first part again now)

I was at the top of a bridge or something and there were Game Of Thrones people with me. I think they told me to jump, I dunno, I didn't want to, but they pushed me. As I was falling... "FINE, I CAN FLY ANYWAY, THIS IS A DREAM!" and sure enough, I was flying. Once again, I started acting like I was swimming so that I could fly better. I guess this is my flying technique now.

I started swimming/flying too fast and it felt like I was being dragged into outer space because of the velocity. I knew I had tasks to do, so I decided to fly down. Once again, I was going too fast. It was fun, though.

I landed and lost lucidity, but the dream was still the same.

I was in an old house (I think that should be a dream sign by now) and there was a bit of a party going on. Not a huge party, but there were some people on the kitchen. I walked in and got a bowl of cereal because it was a breakfast party.

As I was eating, I looked around and, uh, wait... breakfast party? DREAM! I had told myself right before I fell asleep that I had to sing the ABC song in a dream, so thankfully, I remembered that.

And so I began singing. People around me started singing and dancing to it (I've been watching Smash, so my mind has been into a musical mood lately), it was quite the show. I started laughing cause my cereal changed into letters and they kept changing into random words.

I got to the end of the song and I realised I don't actually know how it ends. I was like "now I know my abc... uh... guys? What comes next?" and they stopped dancing, shrugged and started leaving.

I freaked out cause I wanted to finish it, so I followed them out of the kitchen. When I stepped out of it, I was in what looked like an undergroung bathroom, very dirty and dark. Lucidity was gone.

My mother was there and she was taking a shower. A man appeared behnd her and he stabbed her with a spear. I think I was still a little aware that this wasn't real, because I started shouting that we had to rewind that, but my mum just died. I took the spear from the guy and killed him.

I woke up and tried to WILD. No success. Fell asleep again.

I was with my ex and we were at this huge bus station. She said she had to see something, so we left the place. I told her it was stupid and that we had to go back before the bus left. She finally agreed and... when we got there, the bus was leaving.

I shouted that we NEEDED that bus and a guy who worked there told me we could run after it, cause it was going really slowly. Then he realised it was wrong and he said he'd help us. He called the driver and asked him to stop the bus and wait for us.

We got a taxi (?) from the bus station to where the bus was. When we got there, the driver was restless because there were zombies around. I got out of the taxi and I saw a zombie approaching the window next to my ex. I told her to get out of there, but she sat there, being stupid. I threw myself inside of it and tried to drag her, but the zombie bit her.

I finally got her out of the taxi, but the bus driver took a gun and shot her. I remember feeling guilty because I had failed to save my mother too (even though it had been in another dream). I shrugged and went inside the bus.

When I stepped inside, it was an RV and people were living there. I found a place to sleep and they started talking about missions. There were some rooms and everything, it was like a little house. They told me I had to go to town and get stuff for us to eat.

I said okay and I had a partner. I was driving the RV and she was next to me. I ran into some zombies, lost control of the RV and crashed. We got out of it and it exploded. We werre surrounded by zombies, so we started running and I went inside a store.

It was closed and abandoned, but I found my parents there. They told me they were also on a mission and they were sad I had gotten the RV destroyed, since we all lived there.

I apologised and we started taking clothes, food and soap to take back to the people who were waiting for us. The girl that had come with me found a car:



She said it would be tight, but the group could live there. I doubted it, but took the car anyway and started driving back to the group, the girl and my parents with me.

Dream recall from today's WBTB/naps. Awareness being pretty low again in lucid, didn't even remembered anything goal-wise(though remembered at least something overall).

Dream 1(fragment):

Something about dragons.

Dream 2(fragments):

I am doing something at home and i am on PC, suddenly i feel that i am dreaming and decide to check URL history because i haven't checked internet in dream before, there's alot of links in history but all of them are leading to some site literally called "Spam" and url followed by series of random numbers and letters(like "http:/Spam/AY7D878837JR89E8E8823294/JUFJ8EWJ89EWF" for example), the site itself looks like most generic bland site ever. Then i get up and dream fades out. I wake up.

Dream 3(fragment):

I was in some icy place.

Dream recall from today's WBTB/naps. Pretty low awareness in this second lucid.

Dream 1(fragments):

I am at home in one of rooms and i randomly start flying with my wings which makes me realize that i am dreaming, i notice some family members waiting for something sitting near the table. I recall my goals and about to do them but i wake up.

Dream 2(fragments):

I was in my room there were some mechanisms, then there was some story about some snowy town full of mechanisms. Then all mechanisms explode and i am randomly back at home, i realize that i am dreaming, but still following some kind of dream plot i blame what happened to the town on a sconce in the corner, i jump towards it and start clawing it apart, then i feel my wings and shortly dream fades out and i wake up.

Dream 3(fragments):

Was watching some kind of top-down RPG play and there was some quest and item collection.

9/11/13, 10:00-6:00

Dream 1:

I was in a camp with buildings in the forest. I remember a girl from school.

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I also became lucid around 6:00. I woke up in my bed, feeling the rush of energy. I couldn't decide if I was awake or asleep! I didn't feel like moving to find out, so I woke myself up .

Dream ended - 6.40am
Time Lucid - 4 to 5 mins
Non lucid - grey text
Semi Lucid - red text
Lucid - blue text


I woke up motionless, eyes closed. I changed things up and brought on heavy sleep breathing. To my surprise, I felt sensations and saw a scene forming in the distance (hallway vision), which I focused on. I think I lost the visions at one point but continued the sleep breathing, which brought on a full blown scene in front of me. I now knew I could enter the dream. I stood up and performed a RC (checked hand, extra finger).

I was now lucid. I looked around and noticed that there was a bed from which I got out of to enter the scene (Every DEILD I have had, I have gotten out my own bed and never left my house.) I could hear my dog snoring in my real bed, which transferred over into my dream. I was not in my bed room this time, and saw Kayley in the bed. She was awake, and looking at her phone. I remembered to make sure to try and stabilise the scene. I rubbed my hands together, but it felt strange.. I wasn't sure if this would be enough, so I picked up an object (A glass) and focused on what it looked, felt and smelt like.

I was distracted by two cats play fighting. I remembered to complete a simple task, which was to eat food in a dream. I went over to the pantry and looked for something to eat, to my surprise, there wasn't anything too appealing to eat. I thought I would use some dream control and expect something nice to be in front of me.. didn't work. I saw some hubber-bubber bubble gum, which caught my eye, but I wanted something better!



I checked inside the freezer and saw some ice creams. There were two types, either a banana paddle pop or a magnum?
I could see a lot of paddle pops up the top and a few magnums down the bottom. I must have become semi-lucid as I was contemplating on if the owner of the house would realise I had taken a magnum. I took the magnum and it tasted nice, but expected better. I don't think I concentrated enough on the taste.



I walked outside and it was daytime. I was standing on a padio/deck looking out onto the backyard. The deck was about 2 metres off the ground. At my feet was steps, leading to the yard. The backyard was decent size, and I could see over the fence from where I was. I could see into the distance.

I figured I should try and remind myself that I was dreaming, and focused on my hand. I was really trying to see every detail to it. My hand was pulsating and looked strange. I said ''I am dreaming'' to myself to remind myself, that I was in fact dreaming. Unfortunately this woke me up straight away!


PS. skiesAffinity, I forgot all about the pudding I was meant to eat

Dream recall from today's WBTB/naps. And new kind of WILD/DEILD entry(for me at least)! Also random fragment i recalled from previous sleep.

Prev sleep:

Dream 3(fragment):

Some kind of factory, molten metal.

WBTB/naps:

Dream 1(fragments):

I was doing stuff at home and was typing something on my PC, then i shouted something from balcony and heard some talk outside, then that talk started coming from weird directions.

Dream 2:

I wake up and go back to sleep while trying to DEILD, shortly some voice starts calling, and asking me about something, i feel falling sensation and open eyes, there appears to be hole leading into darkness below me right in the bed and i start falling into it while 'glitching out' aka periodically teleporting back to top like some kind of video game lag. Then everything fades.
I wake up and look at my hands, they are weird so i am still dreaming. I get up from the bed, go into quadruped stance and focus as much as i can while shouting commands, it works out and i start becoming bigger and i feel as my head and neck becoming different and longer, soon i am almost ceiling high. I try to go out through(Pretty big) balcony doorway but dream suddenly fades out and i wake up.

Dream 3:

I am in the bed, looking through window outside. I see the moon, and it's daytime, it's grey and it's moving strangely quick. I think that "if i am dreaming it moon should start moving towards me". Moon suddenly transforms into Earth, or some Earth-like planet, not sure, and starts rapidly getting bigger-closer, surely i am dreaming! It crashes into Earth and there are debris and stuff floating outside and massive earthquake too. It also became kinda low/zero gravity. Strangely my room didn't changed at all. I get up and notice two characters fighting outside in the flight, one of them has black wings. I try to phase through window but suddenly curtain appears in front and blocks my way. Dream destabilizes but i manage to force it back, curtain attacks me by literally trying to cover me and my face, i tear it apart a few times but it keeps coming, then dream fades to black.
Then i wake up, twice.

#227 - DILD - 5AM

I am in something like a large aquarium with my wife and her sister. I have a paint brush that is emitting some form of heat. I paint a random rocks and they form into sculptures of fish. At some point I think that I must need to go up for air but I don't feel like I am holding my breath. In fact, I am breathing normally. I look up and see the surface of the water there is a trickle of water hitting the surface making bubbles. I think, "My other body is someplace else and not in water. That's how I am breathing."

Then it dawns on me that I am dreaming. I know I had a goal but I can't seem to think how to get out of here. I begin swimming around looking for my wife but she has, of course, vanished. I swimming around for a while enjoying the ease of swimming and breathing underwater. I suck in and blow out exaggeratedly. As I swim along the length of the aquarium I notice a wall of mirror. I say, "I am dreaming." As I turn to the mirror and see the smiling idiot version of me looking back. I notice my hair is quite a bit longer and it is waving in the current of the water. Suddenly, the dream collapses and I wake up.

I lay still and recall the dream but before I can record it. I end up in a non lucid dream.

I walk up to a man sitting in a chair. He looks up and I recognize him as CanisLucidus. I start telling him about my LD and how long it took after G. I explain how I really thought it wasn't going to happen.

Me: It took about 35 years to get lucid this time.
CL: Wow, 35 years that's a long time.
Me: Well it was 35 years in dream time. Actually more like 7 hours.
CL: When did I do the TOTM? Was it when I was in Tucson?

I look down and notice I am leaning on some sort of counter top. There is a sicker or button of some sort that read "Tues".

Me: I think it was a Tuesday?
CL: But was I in Tucson? I can't remember.

I have no idea what he is taking about and as I flounder for a response I suddenly wake up just before the alarm clock.

LUCID
*I am lucid in this dream just walking around enjoying the scenery. I keep thinking all of this comes directly from my mind. Thinking I try to look at my mind almost, focusing on the pure consciousness part of the mind. Everything becomes more lucid and stable when I do this. I think should I meditate with in this dream, then I wake up.

Fragment: "So the little girl had a last (something) request."

Buffy setting. Angel has a son (not Connor), and someone is threatening to turn that son into a vampire. The vampire's trying to convince Angel that this would be a good thing - not trying too hard, he intends to do this for Angel's own good whether Angel wants it or not - and Angel's trying to show him why it's a bad idea. He calls out a kid vampire he'd made himself, Angel's holding him by the shoulders and the kid says he died when he was 8, looks older but not by much, and then says "I'm good with math, but facial recognition..." The point is that the brain stops developing before its time.

There were some earlier fragments in that same setting - talking about once-in-a-lifetime perfect happiness vs. just plain everyday happiness, and watching Buffy walking down a sidewalk past a brick wall.

(Woke up. Back to sleep.)

Reading about Josephine Baker, a sister who'd died and a mother she'd admired.

(Woke up. Back to sleep.)

Forever Knight setting. As Nicolas, I'm with some humans in a public place, in a hurry, when just for a moment I spot LaCroix and Janette in the crowd with someone else, a woman either I or Janette turned relatively recently, within the past century or so - I desperately want to be with them. I'd been cut off from them. I can't just abandon my humans here, but I have to at least get a message to them. I make my excuses and head back to where I saw them. (I'd seen them dressed as they did in the 1940s - symbolic for happier times together. Also a connection to a kid vampire, so this dream was probably partially inspired by the Angel one.)

In a hallway. LaCroix was here a moment ago, sitting in a chair at the end of the hall, and I'm looking at a telegram that was on the table next to him. I wonder if that bit about text in dreams changing when you look away is true. I focus on an 8; I look again, and it's a 58; then 8 again, then a Cyrillic н. I guess it's true. (As I was expecting it to change, this seems a bit pointless.) I then resume looking for LaCroix.

I'm riding in a truck with a man who spots a pair of coyotes and stops the truck to shoot them. I knock the gun off target.

With that same man, I'm standing over a pair of bucks who are lying on the ground with several arrows in their sides, suffering because I knocked the killing shot off course.

I'm with someone else, a guy from the city, and watching that man pull into his driveway with the body of a horse in the back of his truck. We're standing in front of his neighbor's house, a chubby, long-haired, middle-aged hippie who is burning something that looks like a sphere of hay the size of a beach ball. The fire spreads to the ground, and then to his neighbor's yard, burning in strange geometric shapes, circles and lines. I start clapping, seeing that man's property on fire. The hippie tells me about a protest he's about to go to, a bunch of people are going to jump off a clocktower, do we want to come? The guy standing with me isn't interested, but I'm up for it.

(Woke up. Back to sleep.)

A man and a woman with accordions warming up for a show in front of a mirror, the man comments on how beautiful the red of his accordion is.

I'm playing a piano duet with that man, and while his part is beautiful to listen to, my part has so little to do that I lose track of where we are and come in late, I play slow and haltingly. I wonder why he doesn't just play the whole piece himself, he could easily play my part with his left hand.

A machete being given to someone as a gift.

My IRL sister S. calls me and describes a place she stopped at as "a Twin Peaks diner." The use of Twin Peaks as an adjective makes no sense to me - what, do they have great pie with a side of prophetic dreams?

Twin Peaks setting, 3rd person, as a disembodied observer I'm looking at the trees along a mountain road, bare of leaves, small and spindly trees, so close together that none of them really had a chance to grow. A jeep comes down the road, driven by the sheriff, with Cooper in the passenger seat. Cooper's talking about how cold it's gotten, and he's pleasantly nervous about his date tonight.

There's an accident of some kind, an earthquake or a landslide, and the jeep gets stuck; the sheriff gets out of the jeep to walk along a footpath into the mountains. Cooper wants to take care of something in the jeep before he follows, something to calm him down before his date. The landslide or whatever it was that trapped the jeep has opened up a second path next to the usual footpath, and as a disembodied observer I think 'You are obviously being invited on a personal quest. Take it.' The sheriff doesn't take it. However, the usual path crumbles beneath his feet, and he lands on the second path anyway. At the moment the footpath crumbles beneath him, so does the road holding up the jeep, and it falls into a crevice with Cooper still inside.

I woke up at around 8 AM and left my room to go downstairs. I realize I'm dreaming as I go down the steps. The dream feels fuzzy but I can still feel the railing and hear the ping of the railing.

I have a FA and am now in my dining room. There is a storm outside, the backyard is flooded and it looks like a tornado is on the house.

After the storm the backyard seems to have changed. I look around and note that the leaves on the tree are a different color and some people's backyard ornaments are missing.

Later I'm in a really weird place that is a combination of a bouncy castle and a candy land. I got here from a mazelike blue building where a DC said something about "my (their) fortress" and I thought "yeah, your fortress" because of how confusing the hallways were.

LUCID
*As soon as I attained lucidity I was given the task of the gatekeeper for school full of kids that were just bombed by one of there classmates. I took the task as real and felt that this was something important. There is alot more details to this dream but I am in a rush.

Non Dream
Dream
Lucid

After numerous fails, I'm trying harder to master stabilization. The first step is to find a nice routine to follow.

I look out the window from my bed to find the sky filled with stars. It almost looks like some of them are moving like water. After I got up and I look at the sky more closely, I could see the Big Ben. I do a nose pinch and I can breathe. I think about what my goal was. I forgot what it was. I noticed I had some glasses on (I don't wear glasses in real life). I took them off but they kept regenerating themselves. I found myself thinking about my body so I decided to let it go. All of the sudden, I floated in the air uncontrollably but was able to lower myself just by imagining it. I was in a house similar to my dads now, in the living room. I finally remembered my goal of summoning a candy and examining it. I took a candy out of my pocket and looked at it. It was a small, clear sucker with a decoration of Snoopy in the middle. I smelled it but it didn't smell like anything. I tasted it but it didn't taste like anything. I looked around and saw a child on a wooden staircase. She was smiling at me. The dream was pretty vivid at this point. She probably wanted a candy. I woke up.

Dream recall from today's WBTB/naps.

Had almost WILD where i got to transition with HH of someone entering room and trying to wake me up, but didn't got any further than that.

Then the second nap, same HH but this time with voice: 'Wake up". I wake up into dream and get up from the bed, i look around and nobody seems to be here and location of stuff in room seems to be different, i shift to quadruped stance and remember about TOTM, going on the walls/ceiling thing. I go onto the wall easily but when reaching the ceiling i get confused my position and then i am back on the floor, well then. I go towards the door and attempt to finish shift, door becomes slightly reflective and i see something blurry and shortly i feel pain out of sudden, then dream fades out. In dark, i focus my will on getting it back.
I wake up and do RC, hands weird so still dreaming, i go towards balco-... well there's no balcony but just exit outside for some reason, on ground level. I go outside and look around then i end up losing lucidity and start walking on streets and talking to random DCs, then shortly i wake up.

#226 - SSILD - 5:49AM

I am playing an old Playstation game, Road Rash 3D. Soon there are impossible turns and only a partial view of the screen. I complain how hard this is. After a little while it turns into a guy driving a some dinky little car. It's like I am watching TV but I am controlling the actions of the actor. It seems British and I realize I am driving on the wrong side of the road though I am already on the left side. Cars swerve all over to avoid me. I shout, "BUT I AM DRIVING ON THE OTHER SIDE ALREADY!" Then, the car crashes and the guy rolls out. Two very hairy and shirtless men rush to him. The driver now has no shirt and smiles real big as he cuddles with the two men. I become disgusted by all the hairy gayness and turn away from the TV.

Now I am in some ally that seems like something from Sesame Street. There are two or three kids near me. There was something about some gang members and I begin to hear really cheesy hip hop music. I note this as odd and briefly wonder how I am going to describe the music in my dream journal. Then something happens.

I turn to my right and see a large trash can full of ice. I assume the gang members did that as their form of vandalism. I suddenly become fully lucid as I use my dream control to change the ice into cotton candy. I reach my hands out to the ice and will it to turn. The pile of ice become blurry and as my vision sharpens back up it now looks like pink and blue cotton candy. I pull out a large chunk of it and hand some to the kids as I shout, "COTTON CANDYYYYYY! I notice how light and fluffy the stuff feels; almost like holding air. Then I say, "See? Those guys weren't so bad after all."

For some reason I felt like my wife had been next to me during most of the dream and I turn to find her. I really want to share my cotton candy with her and boast about what I did. I still have a very large chunk in my hand and I take a bite. It doesn't taste quite like cotton candy but it is very sweet. I follow some narrow passage between buildings and begin to see her in a version of our kitchen at home. I rush to her but at that moment the dream fades and I wake up.