lucid

DILD - Semi-lucid/lucid

I am driving a public transit bus. I feel unsure of my route and wonder why I am doing this. I look around and see that I have several identical maps of the area with my route marked in red. The top of the map says: RED ROUTE I have a hard time making sense of the map since my route is a straight line with a few intermittent side roads. I keep thinking that I should be following a loop. I feel uncertain about the whole thing but keep on driving. I look to see if I have any passengers and see my older daughter in the back. She says something to me.

I realize as I am driving that the first the bus was a manual transmission but now I am on some sort of stationary bike at the driver seat. Instead of pushing the gas peddle I have to move bike peddles. I mentally switch to gas power but the bus stops moving until I cycle my legs again. I realize this shouldn't be happening but I know this is not real and it doesn't matter.

I keep missing stops and have to quickly pull over to let people on. Some seem aggravated at me and other don't mind having to run behind the bus a little. I feel uncertain where I am taking people and weather I will stop at the correct stops. Again I realize this is not real and as long as I believe I am going right, I will be.

Now I come to an off-road area and feel hopelessly lost. Efrain tells me where I should go but we get on some crazy muddy dirt roads. We hit a huge puddle and water splashes my face. I know this shouldn't have happened but I realize it's all fake anyway. At one point we come through a narrow zigzag pass in-between bluffs. I "feel" the bus stretch and morph to fit though. We continue on and begin driving on docks. I feel this has gone horribly wrong so I use a type of TK to move be bus back on a normal road.

Now I am sitting on a hardwood floor. Ron is stalking to someone about the mice getting away again. There is a small cubby with mouse pads speckled with dirt and hair. Someone says something about the mice taking towels with them. I see a spider web with a normal looking spider on it. As the spider moves I see points of light at the end of its legs. I become fully lucid now and think, dream sign! I do a nose plug and blow through but my sinuses feel clogged.

The dream goes dark and I feel that I am awake lying in bed. I blow out my mouth and then my nose. I realize at that point that I am still holding my nose. I try to move but my physical body jerks hard. I wait trying hold on to the dream state

I am fooled by a FA and my daughter brings my son onto the bed and leaves. This wakes my wife up and she gets annoyed. I realize she has gone to work but when I try to move I wake up.

On the day prior to this dream, I'd been on a bus and noticed an angry looking wasp in the window, which is my ultimate terror. Usually you can run away like a bitch hoping the wasp doesn't sting you, but on a 50 minute bus ride you just have to chill and fight the urge to scream like a little girl and hope the wasp doesn't put you on its shit-list.

So after a night of drinking I should have forgotten all about the wasp, but my dream went like this:
I woke up in my bed (like most of my other dreams have started lately) and behold, the area around my bed is full of wasps. Crawling on the walls, on the pillows, on the blankets, on my face, even on my lips. I wanted to die. I had a slight notion that I was dreaming, but I never have control until I perform my reality check, and with a wasp crawling around on my face, I'd rather try to wake myself up. I attempted forcing my real eyes open, which is like a layer outside of my dream eyes - not sure how to explain it, I'm not even sure I understand it.
So I woke up, and again I was in my bed with wasps around me. At this point I was fully convinced the wasps were actually there and it wasn't a dream, but for good measure I decided to perform a quick reality check. Clenched my nose and tried to breathe, and to my surprise, it actually was a dream. I threw my covers off of me and stormed out of the room. I tried to open the skylight window on the hallway, but it was stuck. I gave it a good punch that pushed it open. I crawled out and flew away to explore.

Dream recall from today's naps, pretty unstable lucidity prolly because i went to nap a bit too late.

Dream 1(fragments):

I am at home and there's some stuff going on, then i realize that i am dreaming, but dream shortly fades out. then i wake up and had to go to bathroom. and wake up again.

Dream 2(fragments):

I wake up at home there's some talk and some stuff going on then i wake up again and realize that i am dreaming, i go to balcony door while rubbing hands but dream still fades out.

Dream 3(fragments):

I am trying to nap but i get interrupted by some talk, then i wake up and and i feel my arms are in different positions than where i see them i realize that i am dreaming and get up, i go to balcony but dream starts fading again, i rub hands and jump off the balcony, but dream fades out completely and i wake up[/COLOR] twice.

Dream 4(fragments):

I was at home and there were zombies invading, there were two more people and one of them was apparently infected, we had a great idea that knocking him unconscious would stop infection(Dream logic!), but it didn't worked that well and later he fully turned into a zombie.

Fragment the first:
Long road trip with the roommates. Stopped at an old home of mine wanting to show them our old clubhouse. One roommate fell into a hole and broke her ankle.

Fragment the second:
Found an "armored leech" in an alley. It was roughly the size of an American Football and looked like a cross between a leech, a lamprey, and an armored sturgeon. It attached itself to my roommates shoe (different one from before). She said it wasn't attached to her directly, but her shoe was indeed full of blood from an injury she sustained (her foot had been crushed). I used my healing powers to fix her foot.

Lucid:
I had just time traveled to the future. It was pretty cool. People were zipping around on devices that looked like gyroscopically stabilized electric unicycles. When they ran out of power, they were collapsible and you would just return them to a vending machine. If you weren't done with your trek, and didn't want to walk the rest of the way, then you could get another one fully charged.

I was walking around just taking in the sights when I noticed a checkpoint. People had to walk through big things which looked like the scanners at airports. There was a man in front of me in line with a book. Upon seeing this, the person obviously running the checkpoint (played by Morgan Freeman) noticed his book. He told him that all books needed to be scanned to make sure they weren't contraband. The man inserted the book into a machine, and the scan came back that it was indeed contraband. I too had a book. I hadn't noticed it before, but I was carrying around a graphic novel. I was then asked to do the same as the man in front of me.

I did so, and this time I watched with curiosity to see what the machine would pop up. The error it threw was something like "not biblically compatible". I remember wondering if this was in reference to the Christian Bible, or if it was more like "biblio" as in "book". Seeing as how this was the distant future, both were a possibility.

At that point, Morgan Freeman got on his com and called for a swat team, we were to be arrested as subversives. I suppose he expected us to submit. He was right about the first man, he was wrong about me. I had been moderately lucid this whole time, really just observing. I then took the reins.

Six glowing sickly-green orbs roughly twice the size of basketballs appeared behind me chained to my back. These are conduits to the concept of venom. Everyone was quite shocked to see them appear. Morgan Freeman exclaimed "what the-?" and I issued a palm strike to two people, infusing them with venom. They immediately fell over unconscious. I reached out and grabbed Morgan Freeman, but he merely responded with "You're not the only special person, I'm resistant to these sorts of things."

A smirk crossed my face as the orbs disappeared and reappeared as vivid white. I punched him in the face and electricity surged through his body. He fell over. I then grabbed the heads of the two unconscious people and basically erased their memories of the past couple of hours with a good shock. I was wondering what I should do next when I realized that Morgan Freeman wasn't down for the count, he was trying to get the books transported somewhere so at least they would be separated from us and used as evidence against us.

The machine they were in was housed in a large brick pillar, so now the white orbs disappeared and reappeared as floating brown rock spheres. They seemed rather paradoxical as they seemed to shine stone. I realize that doesn't make a lot of sense, but that's what they do. Now that I was aligned with earth, I pushed over the brick pillar like it was made of straw and retrieved both books. I handed the first book back to its original owner and said "you know, we should probably get out of here".

At that point, I let the reins slip back to my subconscious and simply observed. I was then on a journey with this person to find an equal. It had been determined that I was probably the most powerful person on the planet due to my abilities. We were flying around the wastelands at this point when I came across a small girl fighting a giant ogre.

At first she appeared to only be dancing. It wasn't until the ogre tried to smash her that she did a little hip twist which corresponded to thick vines bursting from the ground up and over her, hardening into wood instantly blocking the blow. She then did a little kick and spin, which caused vines to grab the ogre and throw him. She was apparently the last of the wood dancers and controlled plants with her body. It was apparently a very intuitive process. It couldn't be done with thought. It was done through emotion. She did little kicks, twists and so forth causing the ogre to be smacked around, bound and thrown. Eventually it fled. I doubt she was my equal, but she sure was cool, so I landed to say hello before I woke up.

The first thing I remember of this dream is walking around towards this park and seeing this group. Next thing I remember is just standing still and someone swinging a punch at me, I dodged and swung back, I realized that it was the same group I saw and I thought they were trying to jump us. I had my friends behind me and they were fighting too, after a while the other group were all down, we had won so to say. We were taken to some classroom were they had this sort of scoreboard and was telling us we had won, I thought we had been jumped but it was for some competition that took place because of the government. We were told who we were fighting next and were getting ready, there were people who didn't want to fight and were saying how stupid this was, one of the teachers came in and gave a little speech how it had to be done and that they had no choice. When our fight started we didn't realize who they were.. there were 4 girls and more than 4 of us guys, which seemed unfair so we didn't fight. Everyone had to go somewhere else so we could fight, they led us out the building were I started to recognize where I was. I got lost and couldn't find the rest of the class, I don't know how but I ended up back in my house and it seemed like I realized I was dreaming, I walked towards my garden and tried to make it lighter, then I tried to bring the sun up which didn't work. So I just went inside and sat down not really having any ideas of what to do, then the dream ended.

Fragment: I got included in a new group of people at school, I remember making one of em laugh a lot.
- I was walking out of class and a girl behind me was holding on to my head and we both laughed.

This is part two of the princess in trouble dream I had on the sixteenth of August. Sorry if the first part bored you, it gets A LOT crazier and convoluted the farther in it goes. I am just so excited about this dream, dreams this elaborate and long only happen a dime a dozen with me I treasure them when I have them. Here is the map of the house this took place so you can reference if you want or don't remember it from last time. Click the picture to make it larger, it's kinda small on its own.

Spoiler for dream house layout:

Part 2: Things in the house had become much less depressing after the new guy rescued me from being taken advantage of. I'd see him around the house and we would talk. He seemed so interested in me and nice, I was so certain that he had to like me. I began to notice that my other friend was starting to wonder about mine and the new guys relationship. I could feel that she was becoming jealous of me, but she never let on. She never did treat me coldly or anything, we were much too good friends for that, but I could tell that she was confused. My best friend, on the other hand, got more distant. She would suddenly change direction when I got near her and she would act like she didn't see me. Sometimes I would catch her off guard and we would talk casually, but it never lasted long before she walked off. I was starting to become saddened about what the new guy was doing to my best friends and I, we never had let anyone come between us and all three of us liking him was difficult. Things continued this way until one fateful day.

I always assumed that my best friend's crush on the new guy was unfounded, but I was standing in my room when suddenly this feeling came over me. My best friend had come to mind, and I could sense that something was happening between her and the new guy. Not wanting to walk in on anything, I waited for the feeling to go away before I went to search for her. I found her in her room, sitting at the table looking love struck, yet also troubled. I asked her what was up and she jumped like she hadn't known I was there, then answered "Nothing, nothing at all. Why you ask??" She spoke quickly and my suspicion became fact. He had just got done seducing her. It was this point that the new guy's status with me had gone from a nice, sexy, guy to someone who liked to stir the pot. I didn't mention my thoughts to my best friend and left the room. On my way back to my room I met up with the body guard. He noticed I looked troubled and asked if there was anything he could do. I thanked him but said no. Honestly, I wanted him to help me, I wanted him to hug me, but I only wanted that as an escape from my heart break that the new guy had caused, and I didn't want to take advantage of him. I think the body guard knew this; He kept my eyes locked on his, like he was trying to tell me how he felt through his gaze, but I walked away. I couldn't deny, from that moment a stirring feeling of interest had started to grow for the body guard, but I didn't want to jump from one guy to the next so soon after my deep interest in the new guy. The next time I saw the new guy the air about him had changed. I was starting to see him for who he was, but he was just too dang enticing. I couldn't make myself lose interest.

He continued to pursue my friends and I at the same time, and we were all too drawn in by him for any of us to back off. All the while my interest in the body guard kept growing inside me as well, we continued to have moments like in the small walkway. A time came when my two best friends and I met up in the meeting room to have a girls day and try to move on from our unspoken jealousy of one another. During our hang out, the new guy walked in and proceeded to show the most interest in my other friend, and my best friend and I noticed. He sat right up against her, looking into her eyes romantically, and we became uncomfortable. We took it as the final sign that he had chosen her and our friend day ended. I started to try and let my interest in him go away, and started to gear my full interest in the body guard. I saw him in the sitting room and we had a fun, friendly moment, and I was fully happy for the first time in a long while. We would joke around all friendly like, nudging each others shoulders and laughing. I was in my room one day when the body guard finally got up the courage to kiss me, and it was so great. The new guy never wanted to kiss me, even though I knew he had kissed both of my friends.

Later that same day, I was sitting in the meeting room alone and a sudden sense came upon me. The new guy had noticed my interest in the body guard and was heading my way holding something. He erupted into the room in a fiery passion of determination and threw himself in the chair next to me. He stared straight into my eyes and boldly announced "I want you to marry me." and he pulled out a ring. Total shock had come over me, I was completely speechless. I had abandoned any hope that he would want me, I was sure he wanted my other friend. Then two other rings had fallen out of his pocket and landed on the table. Each had a different color and look then the one he offered me, and I knew they were for my best friends. I wanted to tell him no, I had no interest in marrying him. My mind was geared on the body guard and I was about to decline his offer, when suddenly I found I couldn't say anything. I was absentmindedly nodding my head yes, and he put the ring on me. I sat in a confused stupor as he left the room, and I instantly had a feeling of deep regret for the body guard. It was my lands custom that after a few hours of wearing a betrotheds ring, you were officially man and wife.

I'm leaving my dream here. I don't want to make each part too long and make anyones interest go away. I predict probably about another part, maybe two, we will see. Hopefully someone out there enjoys these, I so really want people to like this dream as much as I do. It just speaks so deeply to me for some reason and I can't get it off my mind. The next part is going to get even more convoluted and hopefully I can coherently recollect it, it kind of starts going all over the place. Thanks for reading

I was on vacation, spending a few nights on a cool futuristic space station. Rather than single rooms for all the visitors, there was one huge communal bed area that was set up like a camp cabin - beds in rows on the left and right side of the room. In between the beds was about six feet of space on both sides to keep your items, and a single nightstand. So when I unpacked, most of my stuff wound up just sitting on the floor since I had packed a crap-ton of stuff. I had clothes and papers scattered on the floor. The room itself was huge, about the size of a small store. but to me I felt really snug and comfy there. As I was sleeping, there was some kind of emergency on the space station, I think there was either spies that had infiltrated the station, or a violent riot involving the station workers. One of the guides came into the communal bed area and woke everyone up and made us follow her as a group out of the area and down below deck, but for some reason nobody was scared and everyone thought it was just a guided tour of the ship. I was super comfortable in my bed and took a while to wake up before heading out with the group, then I realized everyone had packed their bags so I ran back to my bed to pack my luggage up. The group had left without me by then because it was taking me so long. I remember feeling anxious and rushed as I threw wrinkled clothes into my bag and lots of papers and notebooks, then running out after the group. I caught up with them in a big viewing area. We were all standing there looking out this giant window into space that was about 20 feet tall and maybe 50 feet wide. As we looked out the window, two asteroids came flying at us, and crashed right into the window, causing a big hole in the glass before they bounced off back into space. We didn't fly out of the window because there was some kind of Star Trek-esque force field in place keeping the oxygen in. We all totally freaked out and the asteroids started talking to us, mocking us and saying they were going to come back and hit us again if we didn't leave. Our guide scoffed and said they were bluffing because asteroids couldn't change course, so they got angry and kept floating away from the ship. We walked from the hole in the window to an elevator on the opposite end of the room, and I got in it first followed by a few other people in front of me. I felt relieved because I figured if the elevator opened up and there were spies with guns on the other side, they would shoot the people in front of me and I could just fall to the ground and pretend to be dead, and hopefully survive. Nobody shot us but Jonathan eventually joined our group at one point, and people started wondering if I had something to do with the emergency because I had taken so long to catch up with them.

I had a lucid dream, but I can't remember what it was about. In the dream, I was standing somewhere and realized it was a dream, but then the ground started shaking and I heard my cell phone ringtone vibrating through the sky as loud as a jet engine, and suddenly the whole dream shattered like glass and I woke up. Sure enough, my phone was ringing and had ruined my lucid dream! I answered it and talked on the phone for a while, but by the time I'd hung up, the whole lucid dream had escaped my memory before I had the chance to write it down.

Today I had a dream that is resonating in me. I know I have had this first part of the dream before, though I must have forgotten it because I don't have any memory of the last time I had it. In this dream I am a tough princess who has lost her kingdom to an invasion. I am also not myself, I look different and have a different personality. This is an elaborate dream and is very long so I will put out parts. Here is a map of the layout of the house for reference if you want, because I will mention places in the house and it's so fresh in my memory I can put it down. I will also mention that I knew I was dreaming but felt no desire to control anything because I was interested in letting this dream play out. Click the image to make it bigger.

Spoiler for house layout:

The part I have had before: It starts where I am standing in the main room of a house that I procured for me and the rest of the people that escaped the kingdom with me. There is me, my best friend from real life playing the part of one of my best friends, another girl who is my other best friend and kind of resembles my real best friend but she does not exist in real life, a young blond kid with an army hair cut who looked about 16 and troubled, and a body guard/ warrior who had protected me while we escaped. We had received word that one of my fathers court had also survived and he was making his way to us. He was also the only person who had the ability to to verify my inheritance. The last time I saw him he had put the slip in my hand that verified my inheritance but he had forgot to sign it. I was listening to my two friends talk about him, apparently they remembered that they had had a crush on him, when he arrived. I met him at the door and instantly took notice that he was very handsome. He brought his things in and settled into his room (im not sure where his room was. I'm guessing he just stayed in the bottom right corner of the house next to the sitting rooms table), while I walked around the house. I walked up to him after he was done and welcomed him. I got the sense that he liked me by the way he smiled at me and his body language while he thanked me and said he was happy to see me again.

I was feeling light and happy, like how any girl feels when she's just got swept away by a handsome, charming, man and I was strolling slowly up the small walkway through the house when I herd giggling coming from my other best friends room. I looked in and saw the new guy kissing on the neck of my other best friend and grinding his crotch against hers while she sat on the edge of her bed. My happy feelings instantly turned into disappointment and I sped up my walking until I reached the meeting room. My best friend noticed how I looked crest fallen and asked what was wrong so I told her what had happened. She took on a look of disappointment as well and she told me she had also hoped that he had liked her. We sat there talking about how much of a lucky skank our other best friend was when the body guard came in and said it was time to take the slip to a place to get it exchanged for my inheritance.

We all walked there together, the whole time I ignoring the new guy and how my other friend was staring at him dreamily. I noticed that I also had this odd feeling, like a haze of badness was hanging over us. We reached the place and I handed the slip in. Once it was out of my hand the bad haze went away, then returned again when they handed me a check with my inheritance. I remember it was a lot of money but I can't remember exactly how much it was. The whole time I was waiting for my check I noticed the new guy was staring at me with an interested look on his face. This confused me, but I ignored it and walked back home with everyone else.

I was sitting at table in my room, feeling depressed, when I got a strange feeling I was being watched. I looked out my door into the sitting room to see the blond teen sitting at the sitting room table, staring at me with a creepy look on his face. I kept going back and forth from looking at him to staring down at the table when he got up and sat down on the other chair at my table. He told me how he watched me often and that he was interested in me. As he explained this he scooted his chair closer and leaned toward me, which made me uncomfortable. I told him I wasn't interested but he wouldn't hear it. He got even closer and started to stroke my arm slowly while telling me how beautiful I was and I repeated that I didn't see him the same way and I was not interested. He got a dark look on his face and got so close his body was almost pressed against mine, his face inches away while he put his arm around me and started groping me with his other hand. I tried to shove him away and told him to leave me alone but he just kept going and I started to scream at him to stop while I tried to struggle away. I thought he was going to take it farther, I remember wishing the new guy would help me, partly because my character wanted him to and partly because I already sort of knew what was going to happen next because I had this dream before, when suddenly he stormed in and tore the teen off of me. He told him never to touch me again and if he ever saw his face around here he would make him sorry. The teen ran from the house and we never saw him again.

After the teen left the new guy turned to ask me if I was OK. I asked why did he care and he said he felt protective of me, his face had a look of longing for me. My face got hot, and I started to figure that what had happened with him and my other friend was just a fluke when I noticed the body guard standing in the sitting room, watching us with a sad look on his face. Well, when I say noticed, I mean with my senses. I didn't see him physically, I felt he was there. I could feel his sadness emanating from him.

I'm going to end it here because I feel this is already long and I don't want to annoy people, pluse this is the entirety of the part of the dream I have had before and the next part will be a continuation that is new to me. The next part will be out soon for anybody who wants to read more I hope you keep reading, this dream is one of the long, elaborate ones that I rarely get.

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I was supposed to get a message from God, but to get it I had to climb up and down these steep hills. It was dark, and I tried twice to get to the end, to climb the last hill to the top, but each time something went wrong. On the third try, I could feel myself getting somewhere. I just knew in my gut that I would make it to the top. I got excited, and at this point I knew I was dreaming but I didn't care at all. I tried very hard not to lose the dream by being in the moment and not thinking about anything else. I made it to the top! There was a box with a letter in it and the letter was addressed to me. This is it! Finally! I'm going to get a message from God!!!! I pick it up and start to open the letter...

MY FUCK DAMN PHONE GOES OFF

FUCKING PISSES ME OFF

fuckmylife. (this is not the first time something like this has happened)

I'm not physically in the dream yet, I'm watching what this girl I know is doing. She told me through texting on the phone that she was picking up a friend that she was going to have over, and I thought nothing of it, until I was randomly in the back seat of the van she is driving and they don't see me yet. I listen to her tell her friend about me, and then the friend say hold on, and that she knows me, so I look around the car seat already recognizing the voice and I see that it was my best friend throughout elementary school. Then I think about all the ways this is bad, and then they park in the street and get out with bags, and I jump out and before they can see me I hop in the drivers seat and speed off, (here I become lucid, and don't care about the crap that just happened) I realize I'm in a lucid dream car and wonder if this is how it's like to drive a car in real life, I'm swerving but having fun and I'm in my childhood neighborhood so I turn around the block but then I try to do a u turn twice but I can't master this lucid dream car so I get out and summon a bike and continue strolling down the street, (here my lucid dream fades back into a regular dream :/ ) I see other people on bikes riding towards this house on the corner and now it's night time, there's a bunch of teenagers dropping their bikes then walking up to the front door so I do the same because I fit in and no one will notice I wasn't invited to this birthday party, theirs older adults in the garage having beers and watching a tv, I see this younger boy with blonde hair, he walks up to me and asks me if I want him to sneak me some cake and soda, I tell him that would be bitchin, so he goes in and I wait, he comes out with a plate with lemon cake and a can of coca cola. Then he goes back to get him some, I try the cake and it's awful and gritty but I eat it anyway. Then I wash the horrid taste with the soda. Then me and the boy go into the garage for some reason and I can see the adults looking at me weird like they're wondering if I am their child's friend and was invited or not.

Lucid that was mysteriously missing from my DJ

I was laying in bed with each of my parents. But the bedroom bore similarities to my grandparent's bedroom from my mother's side. The one in their old house, that they moved out of like ten years ago. Though there were some differences. For one, there was a rather large TV in their room that seemed to be playing very staticy advertisements.
I get lucid, I think it was through the old nose-pinch reality check. I get out of bed, and start hunting for Lia Manei, my dream guide. (What a twist!)
I decide to use the "behind the door" trick to summon her. I open a door, and this room of the house turns out to be like the guest bedroom from my house. (The door in that room is very weird in that it opens against a wall. I hear her voice, she tells me that she is between the door and the wall, and not to swing the door back closed, because she is changing.
So either I'm a pervert or just in a rush to get on with my dream training. I swing the door open, to find that she is there and very much clothed. She smiles at me as though disobeying her wasn't an issue. Just as I am about to speak, she begins floating towards the center of the room, and she begins to distort.
I am watching this, and the dream begins to lose stability, but I'm not paying attention to this. She continues to distort and begins to look like a mesh of female dream characters, and her body begins "glitching" and blocks and of it are becoming invisible.
She tells me that she is having difficulty anchoring herself to my dreams. That's all she "said" but the way she said it, she was going to be back. Hey, she was in lucid dream #37, so we have that.
Oh yeah, I woke up BTW.

Actually written on 8.12.13

This was the second of two lucid dreams from last night. I'm excited about this new Great Barrier Reef teleport, even if it is very glitch at this point!

Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

Lucid #131: Oceanfront Property

I'm walking through a university when I encounter the same male twins from my previous dream. They're dressed just as before and again they stare wordlessly at me. I remember this from the previous dream and become lucid.

"Who are you?" I ask them.

The twin in glasses only says, "Be careful out there," and together they walk off down the path behind me.

I immediately remember my intention to explore the Great Barrier Reef and leap up into the air to fly. I soar over a few buildings toward a shipping yard filled with shipping crates and huge cranes. I know that I have to be close to the ocean. Somehow the dream loses cohesiveness for a moment and I'm thrown into the void.

Rubbing my hands together, I think of what my fastest way to the Great Barrier Reef will be. After giving my dream body a quick probe, I pinch my nose shut and flop backwards like I'm plunging into water. This works incredibly, and almost immediately I'm swimming through clear blue water again, similar to the prior dream. But as I look around, I see that I'm swimming through an underwater version of my bedroom!

I swim out into the hallway, so surprised to be swimming through my house that I have no idea what to do. I keep colliding with random objects like boxes as I swim and I'm generally nervous about my navigation, so I decide to return to the master bedroom to phase through the window. Hopefully that'll be something like the open sea. I swim back to the window but when I get to the shutters I just bounce off of them. I'm having trouble believing that I can do it or imagining what it will feel like. I make another attempt at it, bounce off again, and worry that I'm going nowhere and that I'll just wake up. Inevitably, this leads me to a false awakening in a darkened version of our bedroom.

Wife has a little "dream checklist" that she's trying to go over with me. "Did you get to the Great Barrier Reef?" she asks, poised to check something off.

"No," I say, disappointed.

She frowns. "Did you ask about the meaning of life?" she inquires hopefully. It goes on like this for a while, but I don't remember what else happens afterward.

This was the first of two lucid dreams from last night, and my first serious Great Barrier Reef attempt.

Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

Lucid #130: The Turtle

I'm swimming in a shallow cove with my 4-year-old son "E". I tell him that he's helping me practice for a planned dream about the Great Barrier Reef and he seems excited to help. We come across a cave just under the waterline, swim into it, and emerge in a cavern where all these other kids are hanging around. I wonder whether all these kids are helping their moms and dads prepare for a Great Barrier Reef dream. This feels strange to me and I become lucid.

There's either a scene change or a memory gap at this point, because my next memory is of walking by myself through the grounds of a university. I pass two men who stare silently at me as I walk by. They're both in their late 20s and look almost like identical twins, except that one is dressed in a suit while the other wears glasses and a flannel shirt. I think that there's something I need to ask them, but I can't remember what it is. (I think I'd meant to ask them the meaning of life for Task of the Month.)

Nearby is a plaza with a tall stone column at each of its four corners. Perhaps a dozen DCs are walking around this plaza, looking happy but aimless. I exchange a glance with one tough-looking DC as I walk across the plaza, and something about him just rubs me the wrong way. I take a half-hearted swing at him, as if I'm trying to slap him upside the head. He ducks out of the way, and immediately I wonder why I would do something like that.

The DC moves aggressively toward me and I move to dissolve this problem that I've caused. I hold up my right hand to the DC and walk casually away, saying, "It's cool." The tension abates and he walks away. Whew.

I remember my intention to get to the Great Barrier Reef. I hulk-jump high above the Earth, knowing that I'll see water nearby. Sure enough, there's a sparkling blue ocean to my right. As I descend, I notice a cute DC standing in the water, waving at me as she watches me come back down to Earth. As I near the water, I realize that she's Wife!

Before I can say anything, I plunge into the water. This is one of only a handful of times that I've been underwater in an LD, and I'm pleased to see that I can breathe normally. I try my voice, and it's perfectly clear: "[Wife]! Can you hear me?" There's no reply and I don't see any sign of her. Okay, focus. I need to ride a sea turtle, find a great white shark, and bite it. Without dying. The task feels really intimidating to me but I start searching.

I swim in random directions for a while until I finally catch sight of a turtle. The turtle has no interest in my company, though, and speeds away from me underwater. I don't have any plan as to how I'm going to catch him, so I just try to swim faster. He kites me along like this for quite a while until I have a false awakening in some kind of hospital.

Wife and I are here trying to improve our dreaming abilities. I'm astounded but pleased that she's interested in dream work now. She tells me that she's trying to hit her REM cycles by setting alarms that correspond with the take-off times for airplanes. Skyler White (from Breaking Bad) walks into our room and starts speaking to Wife in a husky, almost male voice. She's apparently a researcher at this hospital. This all seems strange to me and I briefly become lucid before the dream ends.

So I was at the beach in a truck with some girl that supposably helped me out in some other dream, yet I have no idea who she is. Anyway, we pull up near the water, and there was a lot of people, she says "This is good, stop here.", so I do but instead of changing to park for the car, I put it in drive again... somehow? I was scared and starting running people over and turned and went the other way, people shouted at me :

"Dude, you just ran my hand over, it fell off."

"Holy shit dude, you just ran the fuck out of that guys head over.."

"Your going to be locked up for life."

At this point, I get scared into lucidity and get out of the truck and look around me, I see a dead corpse floating the water, a guys hand fallen off, and some guys head was smashed into the sand. After seeing this I couldn't stabilize and fell out of the dream.

Dream recall from today's nap.

I am at home and some people are distracting me from my nap, there is some talk, i have to do something with some papers and then they leave. After that i notice some candles on table, and that one of them apparently slightly setting the wall on fire, i started thinking about informing someone and almost exited the room, but then "wait a second", i look at my hands and they are weird, so i am dreaming. I stop and recall some stuff to do then i go to balcony doors while rubbing hands on the way. Dream version of my room appears to be using old layout and there are apparently a couple of steps down on the way to balcony door, and also balcony itself has glass walls, some of them are open though.
I jump out and feel my wings, starting the flight. I fly around and soon i am above some other city, with high density of rather small buildings and some industrial buildings, all of them are mostly blocky and squarey. I fly above them while looking around, there are some weird reflective surfaces floating in the air. After a few minutes i spot square opening in the roof of one of buildings and fly inside. Place appears to have mostly metallic walls and some machinery, then as i look around it slowly turns into different room from my home part by part, and then dream fades out.
I wake up and i still feel that i am dreaming, and it's nighttime here this time, i get up and go to balcony, it appears to be same as before false awakening with those two steps and glassed walls, but this time closed, i get to glass, turn around and fall back, phasing through it. I feel wings and start the flight. Looking around, dreamscape appears to be more natural, there are some trees. I fly to the left and then i find some village, there appears to be some wooden water barrel thing, in the middle of it that immediately catches my attention, i have urge to destroy it. So i land and start tearing it apart, it appears to have some mechanisms on top and metallic parts, and it's insides are made of... bread??? As i tear it apart i also notice some DCs walking around. Then satisfied with that being done, i stand up and think about trying some of that bread, but dream shortly fades out shortly.