lucid

I dream I'm at my grandparents home and I'm hanging out with a bunch a friends. In the dream I have recently just gotten out of Navy training and so now I'm a reserve(I've never actually been in the military IRL). I remember wearing digital blue camo clothing, which looks pretty badass.

I don't recall what we were doing exactly or who specifically was there, but it seemed like a normal day to us all. Surprisingly, the house was pinpoint accurate to the real life house, minus the fact my grandparents weren't there in the dream. I now make my way over to the window by their back door and look outside. I'm suddenly startled when I see hundreds of armed men parachuting down from the sky.
I'm not sure who is parachuting down thought. Is it our own army? Terrorists? Who??? I now look up and see a Z-11W fly by with a large red star on the side. It's the Chinese! But why?

I now rush back and forth in the kitchen in nervousness. I realize joining the Navy might get me killed now since there's an invasion. I don't want to die yet! What should I do??? I now think about how outlandish this seems. I'm not convinced I'm dreaming but I do a reality check. I plug my nose and I am able to breathe through it. I'm now lucid, and ready to go. I decide that for this dream I shall fight off the incoming invasion. My policy is that I can't cheat(spawn guns, use powers), and see how it goes. I now proceed outside and see a soldier landing in the yard. My friend Frankie and I stop him and I take his weapon. It's an old Kar98 rifle. Strange, being over one hundred years old, and a German gun. I eject one round to see if it even works and it does. I shoot the soldier and then go on a mini spree. I use the last three rounds and kill three more dropping soldiers. Now I put the gun aside and begin to search for guns. I go into the garage, where my uncle is, who shows us his arsenal of guns. He has a bunch of outdated rifles too for some reason(he doesn't own any weapons IRL). However I soon awake.

There's some flyers warning about the invisible people from the community just outside of town, causing trouble. I'm annoyed at the whole us vs. them attitude people always have when they talk about those guys, just going to make things worse between us. But as I walk down towards main street, where a parade is going on, I see a few people from that community outside of town, except they're painted with this strange dark camouflage, makes them look like an oil slick. They're trashing the cars parked along the street. No one else notices. My perspective switches to third person - they're invisible. No one else can see them, the cars seem to just break on their own. Back to my perspective - in the parade, two horses are walking past us, and a camouflaged guy jumps onto one of them and digs his hands into its skull until it cracks and blood runs down. The dream switches to third person, so the guy is invisible, and the dream's focus follows the horse as it rears and falls, and the panicking people around it.

Memory gap, but with the impression that things got increasingly nightmarish from there, a fragment about a cabin with a door leading out onto darkness, until at some point I do the light-of-Apollo trick, thinking that it worked last time I had a nightmare so might as well try it again, and that clears things up, but also wakes me up.

(It had only been half an hour since I went to bed. Back to sleep.)

Fragment: OUAT's Mad Hatter chatting with "Joker," a similar Mad Hatter type character but with a playing card style red-and-black costume.

A man riding in the back of a limo is yelling at his driver to turn around. The driver isn't listening. Finally, the driver does turn the car around, and then stops it - not because of the man's threats, but because they've reached their destination. The man in the back of the limo jumps out of the car, but then realizes he recognizes the place where they've stopped.

He's at the gate to a mansion, a place he's been before. The owner of the mansion is just driving up opposite, and when the owner sees this man standing outside his home, he stops the car and gets out, pissed off. The guy who'd been in the limo has made a few comments in the past about the mansion owner's "perfect wife" which were meant innocently but were taken badly, and also a comment about how he thinks he's going to die in that mansion, which the mansion owner interpreted as an intent to buy/steal that mansion away from him. The owner only recently acquired this mansion, and this wealth.

As he's yelling, I, as a disembodied observer, am noting that he isn't looking good. His eyes are paler, he's looking a little scruffy, and in general, increasingly devil-ish - right on schedule. The rider in the limo certainly thinks of him as the Devil, exactly as we wanted, but the man himself isn't aware of the way he's being manipulated and transformed due to the Faustian bargains he's made, he's completely unaware of any supernatural influence.

A truck driving past crashes into the side of the Devil-figure's car and breaks the mirror. Attention caught, the Devil-in-the-making turns away from the guy with the limo, reaches into the truck and grabs the guy inside - a tall, skinny man with curly red hair, and a strong smell of coal. The cab is littered with cigarette butts and many, many matchbooks from the place where the Devil-figure's wife works.

Fragment: A father paying his daughter to take the boat out at a certain time, the creation of an alibi.

Non Dream
Dream
Lucid

After a routine awakening, I began experiencing the loud ringing in my ears that let's me know I'm about to have a DEILD. I waited until the ringing subsided and carefully got out of bed. I walked into the restroom, climbed up on the counter and phased through the mirror to teleport. Once through the mirror I found myself falling from the high ceiling of a fancy restaurant with shiny blue tiled floors. Once I landed, I noticed the host stand was conveniently near by. The maître d' appeared. I greeted him with, "Good evening sir," trying to sound as stuffy as possible. I was taken to a nearby table. The maître d' said, "Excuse my grammar, sir, but would you like everything with foie gras?" I responded with, "Ah, yes, bien sur!" and he went away. I looked around for a menu put only saw a small plate with miniscule portions of caviar. I don't like caviar IRL so I passed. I decided to look around. Most notable to me was the amount of twins I was seeing. In seconds I spotted 8-10 pairs of twins in the restaurant. Upon seeing I was actually now with a large group of DC's I pointed that out to them. I woke up.

Dream recall from today's WBTB/naps.

Dream 1(fragment):

I was playing some kind of FPS game.

Dream 2:

I am at home in my room, some female DC suddenly wakes up in my bed and complains about lack of lucid dreams, i start thinking that i am DC in somebody's dream... Wait a second, i am one who's dreaming here. I briefly thank DC for this 'sign' and take off right through balcony door. I fly and glide around using my wings and i change slightly, i notice the speed increasing 'effect' from one of previous lucids. This time i manage to control it better though. Everything around is similar to what around my home IWL, except beyond certain point dreamscape becomes more natural with trees and stuff. Then after a while i see black dragon from previous lucids, i fly towards him and try to fly parallel with him, i do it for a couple of seconds then suddenly i am in some other place, at the ground near entrance to some kind of mines and there's DC, i ask him and he says something along the line "It's easy to fool you", and dream fades out.

Dream 3(fragment):

Something was going on at home.

I GOT A LUCID DREAM!!!

First, there was a long non-lucid, though.

I was driving and a friend of mine was next to me. He was on his phone and then he freaked out cause a girl had posted a picture of a guy kissing another guy. He kept saying "I thought he was straight, but maybe I have a chance with him!" Then, he insisted that we had to find her.

Which was okay since I saw her driving close to where we were. She was driving really fast, in a crazy, dangerous way. I couldn't follow her, so I made a turn and then we saw an ambulance and cops in front of our house. I stopped there cause we knew the people who lived there.

They were Will Schuester and Emma from Glee. In my dream, he was our teacher. When we got to the house, we found that she had lost their baby (apparently, she was pregnant). We told Will to stay away from the house for two days that we'd get it cleaned for him, there was blood everywhere. He thanked us.

I got with the Glee kids and I split them in some groups. We agreed we'd clean the house the next day.

I went home and talked to my cousin, we were all living in the same house. I had gone to the bathroom and then my very old grandma opened the door. I was pissed off that I couldn't do my business.

I talked to two of my cousins plus a friend of ours and we got ready to go and clean Mr. Schue's house. When we left, my ex was driving the car. There were some crazy guys messing with us and they said they'd rape me. I made her block their car, they lost control snd a huge accident happened.

We finally got to the house and I woke up.

Now the lucid one!

I had bought this huge machine, it was like a 90s toy. You could out songs in it and then dance to them. I knew that Lea Michele loved this toy, so I took it right in front of her building and waited.

She got home and saw me there with the thing. She freaked out and asked me if she could play. I said that sure, she could. She chose a song and danced (there was no music in my dream, though).

Then, she sat next to me and we got really close. I wanted to kiss her, but I remembered that must be lost of paparazzi around and hesitated. Lea sighed and said "it's hard being alive", and I'm sure she said alive, but meant famous. Go figure.

Anyway, here I was, sitting next to THE Lea Michele and she wanted to kiss ME. DREAM!!!

Me: Well, you do know this is a dream, right?
Lea: *unsure* Uh, duh, of course I do! *looking around, confused*
Me: We can do anything we want to, it's not real.
Lea: So... this is a dream...?
Me: Yes.
Lea: This isn't real...?
Me: No.

Aaand we kissed!

Now I feel bad that I didn't do any of the tasks, but... kissing Lea Michele is always a priority!

I also have two tiny fragments. I remember looking for a bathroom, my dad was helping me.

I also remember being on a bus.

I'm home with a cold, thought of going to work today anyway, but decided to not. I went up around 06:00 and went to the desktop to send some work realated mails I had to get sent and at 07:00 I was done. Why not go try another WILD. I've tried for about 3 weeks now, only rewarded by DILDs so far. I know that your not supposed to do wake related things at all on a WBTB, but I decided to give it a go anyway.

So I lay down repeating my mantra self awareness in my mind and tried to relax one limb at the time until I was completely relaxed. I cant tell how long I was laying there. But at some points I decided to get up and do a RC witch did not work, I wasn't dreaming. So I went back to close my eyes again.

Suddenly I saw a face of some kind in the blackness, a face of a stone statue. At the same time I felt this statue begun to spin around in circles and the face was replace by other shapeless objects. the spinning altered between my body spinning around the darkness and the darkness spinning inside of me. I suddenly saw a woman's figure. I knew at this time it was just a creation of my imagination, so I started to slowly turn it around and change the way it looked, almost like changing a characters appearance in a video game. By now the girl started talking to me and when I looked around I saw the walls in my bedroom around us.

Date: 31st Aug

Pre bed: 200mg valerian, calcium&magnesium

Total sleep time: 7 1/2 hrs

Comments: The night started not so well, as our guest was leaving and traveling in the middle of the night. No, we are not vampires.

Early mini-ld fragment (+2hrs): I am in our family friends' building, it is dark at night and I am running from the thought of something like an alien that can't be beaten up. As I go up the stairs, the last floor keeps on changing. I become lucid but still involved with the dream, I try to figure a way out of the situation. Our family friends (she and him) also appear up there and there are some thoughts of realization? about them and talking. She then says something rude to me that I wonder how to post on DV.

I wake up, still holding the memory of the dream in my mind, at that time fully accessible, but I soon fall asleep. I am woken up by our guest's alarm and we all get up, I have a very hard time falling asleep later. I go into unmemorable sleep for hours.

Fragment: I am angry and break a coffee cup

Fragment: I think I was trying to hook to a dream since I recall doing some repetitive movements in the scene and then the dream fading and I briefly acknowledge this in bed.

Pre ld fragment: I am about the witness a heartbreaking family reunion scene

Pre ld dream: We are in the tram/bus and this woman gives us some brochures with specific info about a female criminal. Nobody knows what this is about just me and my friend. Later on, I am in our old place and want to discuss the stuff with possibly my mom. However, before I do that, a classmate of mine gets me alone in another room, insisting to know what's this all about. I tell him I have no idea and get out the room. I see that he has some spy sound amplifying equipment and I go to my room and look for a some paper to write to mom that he is listening to us. He is also lurking behind the door. I grab a notebook and try to hide it from him.

LD: I am on the street in front of our old home and as I look around, realize this is a dream. I decide I would try to speed fly down the street. I take off and fly at high speed, but the street is not quite straight and I initially have difficulty taking a turn and get off track, then do a bit of maneuvering slightly similar to turning while swimming and am fast flying on the street again. It feels great but the only problem now is I move faster than my expectations so it's a bit uncertain what's in front of me. The street changes to facilitate that and now all I can see is trees on both sides moving closer together and I aim to fly straight in the center of all this.

I slow down, pass through the trees and end up facing something like a lake in the middle of an unknown neighborhood. I briefly wonder whether this would count for summon for the competition. There are houses and buildings to the left. I fly over the lake, feeling as if I am running out of fuel and try to land near the houses/buildings. There is a tall wall that separates them from the lake and I am looking for the right spot. I barely make it to the top of the wall with flying near a house that I like. I take a moment to relax and think about my next steps. The place where I have landed is not part of the wall anymore, but is the top of some structure, as if I am sitting on a chimney. I also perceive this thought as the image of the shadow of me on top of this place, right in front of me. The idea that I get rid of my human shape and jump/float ahead comes to mind.

Before I do anything, I take a look around and see that now am standing on an old bridge where there are the remains of large elephant statues in Indian style as part of the structure. They are extremely beautiful, decorations carved in the stone. I look at another one in front of me and see a date 1995, try to memorize it and as I stare at it the 5 changes into 7. I feel it's not a very good idea to keep staring like this as this may destabilize the dream. I remember CL's tech of boosting dream vividness and want to do that and enhance stability as well. I turn around and now there is a small elephant statue in front of me, so I run fingers on its surface and pat the stone a few times.

Right behind the elephant statue is a street that leads to a small plaza with yet another magnificent statue that I am not sure of what but there is an element that looks like wings with bits of gold on the edges/wing waves. There are lots of kids on the street, I notice they are dark skinned, assume they are Indian. A little girl with short hair and present day clothes comes to me and I decide I will engage in a conversation with her and concentrate as much as possible on that and her features (as if rl). She looks at me smiling, one of the happiest DCs I have ever seen. There is something about that little girl which fills me with both joy and sadness and I ask her "Is this where souls live?", she says yes and goes on that I also live here with her and shows me a building (perhaps close to Italian city style) to my right. She says we live together on the first floor. I am not sure I like living on the first floor, but accept this at the moment as I am very curious to see where I live.

The dream ends and I find myself in bed, contemplating whether to try a DEILD but my nose itches plus I am not very sure I want to mess up this memory. Time to wake up...

I want to thank my mother for this lucid dream. If not for her rambling to me while I was sleeping I would not have done a successful WILD. Her real time voice brought me just enough out of my dream to have a truly awesome experience.

I wasn't really dreaming anything before I herd my mothers voice in the back of my head, talking about who knows what. I herd it, but I wasn't listening to what she was saying when I found myself in a WILD state, except I was coming from a dream where I was dreaming of nothing. Let me emphasize here: I was waking up from her talking, found my mother was in my apartment, then started to go back into the dream before I was fully awake then found myself in a WILD. I decided to put myself somewhere, and found my vision looking down on a blank world. I realized that this world was mine for the editing and started using incredible lucid control to make entire forests and oceans appear out of thin air, then started populating my world with a variety of creatures of my own making. This world was my canvas, and my limitless mind the brush. I was thoroughly enjoying myself, waving my arms like a conductor as things appeared out of thin air on my very own world when I was woken up completely. My brain latched onto the dream as hard as it could before the mental cord snapped and I was opening my eyes to my apartment and a rather annoyed feeling, while my mother was going on and on condescendingly about how I needed to get my sleeping condition under control. The only thought going through my head was how the heck had she gotten into my apartment.

Dream recall from today's WBTB/naps.

Dream 1(fragments):

I was walking on some street and some random dog tried to bite me in the arm, but as it tried it was unable to bite through my skin. I said something along the line "Not you", got the arm out of dog's jaws and continued walking further.

Dream 2(fragments):

I was going through some wooden place and then there was some open area, there was a wall with a barricaded hatch. I tore the barricade apart and opened it. I am looking through and there's a railway with some military people, trees and some tall buildings. More buildings appear as i look around and i realize that i am dreaming.
Suddenly i am back at home, at the kitchen, i talk to family DCs that are here and ask some dream control stuff, then i go into another room with a window and start shifting into quadruped stance, but dream fades out shortly.

Dream 3(fragments):

I am watching some pokemon anime and there was something about turning humans into pokemons and there was some black colored pokemon that was related to that, then i realized that i am watching episode not from the beginning and set it to beginning, but then i also realized that i am dreaming and that i would not be able to finish watching it... Then dream faded out.

I tried to DEILD but lost awareness.

Dream 4:

I am in some game and i am going through level that looks like something from Doom, green walls with pipes. Somebody says something about training course and i enter the passage and get to blow up some barrels using some weapon. Then there's another passage and light turns on as voice explains something about night vision, which i turn on. At this point i realize that it's dream, go out of the area back to the start and turn off night vision. As i return i try to expect that there should be flying course, and i find another passage which leads to the open area. The area is L-shaped and filled with lava at the bottom, walls are green and there are some brown metallic platforms. I take off and fly with my wings, and also feel my body changing shape slowly a bit. I also notice that my wings are black colored. I fly around some more and manage grab into walls to quickly change direction. Shortly i notice that i am slowly becoming slightly bigger as well.
Then some DC appears and says that "She shouldn't have left the cage open", i ask which cage and he answers "Your cage" and then adds that "It would be better for you to be in it", before i can do anything dream fades.

This dream is a very long one, but the first 3/4s of it is just the same basic thing happening. This whole dream my person is played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, for some odd reason that escapes me.

The majority of the the beginning of this dream my character is traveling from her home to another home that I think is a place she plans on vacationing. Her ex husband came along as well and this journey to the vacation home is just a bunch of walking along abandoned roads and talking about random things. When the vacation home is finally reached everyone goes to their prospective rooms and winds down. Mainly I was just walking around the house listening to people talk, and it was when I was sitting on the bottom bunk next to my dream ex husband when I realized I was dreaming, because I am not, in fact, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and I do not have an ex husband in real life. Upon realizing this I went lucid. I got up and started staring out the front wall of the house, which was made of glass. I was watching a bunch of creatures walking around and playing with each other in the front yard when I decided I wanted to create something. I was concentrating, trying to make a creature of my own to play with the other creatures, and I succeeded. Unfortunately the thing I made was more of a giant monster then a friendly creature. It was taller then the house, its hind legs were dog legs, it had long, skinny arms with clawed hands, its head was also canine with sharp fangs, and a skinny neck and body. It walked upright, but it was sort of hunched over, and it was fur-less, with pale white, purple spotted skin. I was watching it run around the yard when I somehow got it into my head that I needed to confront it. I went out into the back yard, telling myself that I was crazy, when the monster rounded the corner and started chasing me. I ran away from it to the far corner of the yard, which was fenced with a wooden fence, when I realized this thing would kill me, so I lucidly made myself impervious to damage. Just in time too, because it grabbed me and started lifting me to its mouth. I stuck my hands out and pressed them against its face, then lucidly gave myself the power to burn whatever I touched. Its face started to sizzle and it dropped me. I came to a sudden stop in mid air before hitting the ground, which was one of the perks of me being un-damageable, then got on my feet and started running from it again. I would also like to mention that my running was fa-nominal; I finally got past my mental barrier of not being fully able to do super human things in my lucid dreams without a mental strain and constant concentration. I ran like the wind when usually my running is very slow, like I'm running under water. Anyway, It chased me around, grabbing me, then when it failed to eat me it would drop me. This happened for the rest of the dream until I finally woke up.

All I wanna say is, Julia Louis-Dreyfus.... Really brain, really??

This is a lucid dream I had yesterday morning. The majority was not lucid, it only went lucid near the end but it was at a pretty good point.

The beginning of the dream I found myself living in a world where everything was still in it's natural state. There were no buildings or roads, the earth felt new. I was living in an ancient forest, and one day while exploring I found the edge of the forest and saw that a family had built a small home. I started to get to know them and eventually they considered me a family friend. I decided to live more in the open and built my living area on the edge of the forest where I could see my new friends. I mainly walked around the families property, watching them farm, when I herd news about something huge being built. I went over and saw that a enormous dam had just been constructed, making the river back up to form a lake, and leaving the land on the other side a huge, bare, hole with equipment in it. I just stared at this with awe, but at the same time I was deeply saddened. I picked my way through the hole, feeling unhappy about what they were doing to nature, when a girl about my age (she was played by my ex friend I stopped being friends with in 2011) asked what I was doing and I told her. She went back home and I followed her, intrigued about there being more people setting near by. I found she lived in a community, but a different kind of community. Each person lived in wall-less square sections that were defined by a black line on the ground showing their living space, but they did have a door that worked, even though it wasn't connected to a wall. There was also some kind of force field that when you tried to look into your neighbors living area it blurred your vision not allowing you to see them. I was standing in the girls living area, talking to her, when I realized that I was dreaming, because nothing like this could ever exist in real life. While talking to her I noticed she looked very depressed and I wondered why. At this time I herd some commotion outside and went to go see. I saw that an asphalt road ran between the two rows of living areas and a bunch of kids from them were out in the road talking about starting a race. They were going to start from this end, run to the other end and then back again. I asked if I could join in and they said they didn't mind. At this point, I didn't feel like running, and to make it more interesting I made mario kart vehicles appear by lucid means. The remainder of the dream was us all racing up and down the road while I used some lucid influence to keep myself from wrecking, and to make it even more interesting by making things like ramps appear. I woke up after we had raced a couple times.

After waking up I talked to my fiancée for a bit then tried to do a WBTB but failed as I couldn't go back to sleep. I almost did it though; I started getting some blurred, dream like visions playing before my eyes but just couldn't seem to fall asleep and gave up.

When I was only a kid. Maybe seven or eight years old. I had a strange dream about leaving my grandmothers house in the middle of the night and walking into an alley way behind her home. There, beneath the street light was a man, waiting for me. I didn't know what think of him. He was wearing a black old fashioned suit and seemed kind of intimidating.

When I walked up to him he made me an offer, I could be an ordinary little girl, or I could walk with him into the darkness and see things and do things no one else could. It was that exact moment I believe I became lucid. I was suddenly aware of my surroundings in a way I had never been before. Everything seemed so surreal and I knew that I was dreaming. But I had a very serious choice to make.

The man held his hand out to me and I felt it was the wrong choice. I became afraid and ran away. As I looked back, I saw the man hang his head and walk away into the darkness.

Suddenly I wasn't so sure it had been the right choice.
To this day I regret that choice. I have been trying hard to get back to lucidity ever since. With very little luck. Nothing but a struggle. I'd like to apologize to him, in the future.

Fragment I
First I dreamed about being on a competition with chopping wood and then carrying it to the finish point. I remember that a friend of mine was there, too. We are laughing while we are carrying the wood.

Fragment II
I think I'm running from some monsters and then being in an apartment. These monsters are trying to get in and I must consolidate the front door to win. It is like a game. I have a success and then I see a big green tick in front of me. It really is like a game! But then a girl with horns break through the door and I fail in defending myself.

Last fragment
I wake up and stay for couple of minutes and then fall asleep, again. I find myself in a dream while knowing that this is a dream, but still not changing the dream scenario. Running along a street, then turning around and jumping on the top of a house, that is on the right side of the road. I get off the house, then find myself on beach. I say to myself that when I go into the water I will obtain full control of the dream scenario, I jump in the water and then I remember being on the beach again, but with two naked girls and then... POOF! - The dream is gone

Dream recall from today's WBTB/naps.

Dream 1(fragments):

I am in my room and i am talking to family member about dreams, then there's some classic music going on and who i am talking to mentions singing, suddenly i hear some chinese song. It's weird and it was coming out from everywhere, i looked at my hands and they were weird, so i am indeed dreaming. I go to balcony door and phase through it, i am about to take off but dream fades.

Dream 2(fragments):

Something's going on and i am going somewhere. Then i am at kitchen, i suspect that i am dreaming and look at my hands, first time they are usual, second time more weird, i go for the window and when about to jump through dream fades.

#222 - DILD - 6:03AM

I am in strange version of work and maintenance is working on some chain to a large hoist mechanism. Travis asks me to help but I don't know what I am doing. I try to get a ladder up to where he is but I can't seem to get it to work right. Soon I give up and he says he's going to go get Jon.

I sit down on the floor and look around. I see Michelle and some other woman working on something at desks. They look like they are writing or taking tests. Then they both put their hands over their faces like Weeping Angles. I find this amusing and want to take a picture with my phone but remember we can't take pictures. Then something starts happening and begin to realize this is a dream. I look around and see Darlene smiling at me like she knows something. I look down and notice that I am laying on my black comforter. Now I get it and I decide I don't like this dream and try and in-dream WILD.

I lay down and spin until I am in the void. Then I find myself in a type of SP in my bed. I feel very hot in my chest and arms. I realize I am wearing a thick sweater and try to take it off but I can't move. The feeling of being hot but unable to sweet is unbearable. I try to move again but can't. I blow on my self hoping that will cool me down. A part of me thinks this is probably not real and I should try a way to block it out but I can't focus on anything else. I try calling out to my wife hoping she will hear me and wake me up. I get out a strained. "Babe. Wake me up. It's so hot." I feel her stir and touch my face, then kiss me. The feeling is numbed and I know its not real. I say, "You're not even real are you?" I feel panicked now and begin to whimper, "It's so hot. It's so hot. It's so hot." I finally wake up not feeling at all hot but I have the sensation of a phantom energy on my chest.