lucid

The Desert Camp

Lucidis, Chris, and Claire had recently crossed the border into Efile and set out to walk in one direction, which was south. I don't think they really knew where they were going. The map from "The Heart Stone" had no details relating to roads, cities, or geography. I wonder if it's a part of the world that people from outside Efile know little about.

They were traveling through a hot sandy desert. They wore white hooded cloaks to protect them from the heat of the sun. Chris was also carrying a large backpack which likely contained traveling and survival gear. Traveling through the desert wasn't too difficult for them, though it certainly wasn't a walk in the park. It felt kind of like traveling through the desert in Journey (an indie video game).

They didn't talk much and early part journey was pretty uneventful aside from sliding down large sand dunes. Lucidis and Chris found that to be fun. After traveling for a fair amount of time, Claire spotted something from the top of a large sand dune. She activated the visor of her stasis armor and used the binoculars function to get a better look at it. Claire then told Lucidis and Chris that there was a camp and river a few miles to the west.

Initially Chris wanted them to keep traveling in the same direction to avoid getting lost and to get through the desert quickly. After talking it over, it was then decided that going to camp and following the river would be safer. They began to walk west towards the camp and dream time skipped here.

It was now what I think was morning of the next day. Lucidis, Chris, and Claire had apparently stayed the night in that camp. The camp appeared to be the remains of an old abandoned military camp. It was mostly in ruins, but some of the structures were still in tact.

Claire had asked for Chris and Lucidis meet her at a location a short distance south of the camp in the morning. Chris and Lucidis traveled there and what they found was a rather large obstacle/training course. It had what looked to be about a hundred stone platforms elevated above quicksand. The platforms were spaced apart with various obstacles such as rope swings, monkey bars, and balance beams between them.

Claire told Lucidis and Chris to remove their cloaks and to start training. Naturally, Lucidis though training in the middle of a hot desert was ridiculous and protested. Claire told him it that it would help condition their bodies to the desert environment. She also threatened to shoot Lucidis, so he started training on the obstacle course.

After training for some time, Lucidis made it to the far end of the obstacle course and stopped to take a breath. He looked out towards the river and followed the river with his eyes. He looked towards the southwest and saw what appeared to be silvery-blue towers shining far off in the distance. It looked like it was a city to him.

Lucidis called to Chris who was navigating an obstacle a few platforms away. Lucidis pointed in the direction of the city and asked Chris if he could see it too or if it was just a mirage. Chris confirmed that it was real by saying that he could see it too. They worked their way back to Claire and told her about the city. They planned to journey to the city after that, but I think it was around this point that the dream ended.

Non lucid
*Seeking lalucidityjee for advice on what to do and how to go about hiding from the invaders.

Lucid
*I fell asleep with awareness so when the dream started I had a moment of lucidity. This pretty girl walked up to me and we walked together for a bit.

Pre bed: 100mg B6

Dream quality and recall: Dreams were vivid but recall was challenging due to the fact that I continued sleeping after the lds. It took me a while to journal the lds and by the time I did, the non-ld memories almost vanished. Still, taking into account recent busyness, heat and other distractions, I am very happy with the results.

Early dream fragment: It is the 5th of July and I am watching lots of fantastic long-lasting fireworks in the sky

Early dream fragment: I am doing dumbbell exercises, it feels really good

WBTB: Was very sleepy but made an effort to review the tasks. Said a mantra a few times, then fell deeply asleep.

Dream: I enter grandpa's room and discover that grandma has forgotten some kind of a diary she kept hidden behind the door. I wait until she is not around and peek in the diary to find out it is actually my diary. So, I had forgotten it in 2007 and she hid it and has been reading little bits ever since. This is terrible because this diary fully describes my views, plans, etc. I want to take it back home, but my mom comes snooping around, so I have to be careful not to attract her attention.

Fragment: I am with a classmate going to a class meeting. We stop in front of a building.

LD1: For some reason am in someone's store that resembles an outlet of a totally unknown brand. I spend some time checking out clothes, mostly interested in pink and purple ones. There is a cardigan I like but it turns into a net? Classmates are also there, I am trying to get their attention. A woman working in the store comes to bring us what looks like orange juice, but she claims it is beer. My whole class is gathered around something like a long table and we are having a drink. I first wait for everyone to get served but soon notice that some are already drinking. I feel drunk. Other classmates tell the story of a girl with the same name as mine, about how she lived in some city where women are emancipated. I think this refers to me, but later find out that they are talking about another classmate because they say her family name.

I turn to one of my best friends and say to her that we better leave the place and go outside. I am not sure what we did there but I am overly bold and become lucid. I turn back to all the guys from my class that have been passively following me and say some things to them I don't any longer remember. I recall how long this dream has been going and have very little time left, so decide to hurry up. The scenery around me is absolutely beautiful. We just left a lone building and there is only grass around, hills, trees. It seems like fall is just beginning, the colors are very pleasant to look at.

My brain is more asleep than usual and the only task that comes to mind after looking at the scenery is flying to angel falls. (which is so totally CL!)

I lift off and do some maneuvering that I can't exactly recall. I keep on flying over some fantastic hills, but I just feel this is going to end very bad because I have no idea where I am going and I am in the air for too long. (Also my expectation was set very deeply on a subcon level).

I decide to land and end up facing what looks like a small waterfall. There is water pouring over some rocks just in front of me. While I know this isn't what I am looking for (too small), I go as close as possible to this water falling down the rocks, trying to feel the water on me as the dream fades away and I end up in the void.

I spend some time in the void, just waiting there. (I couldn't remember any advice as what else to do, but that was fine)

LD2:It's a bit hard to remember what the first image was that I was looking at here but I am lucid from the start. It is an open area, with lots of vegetation again. I try three tasks, not fully sure about the sequence of but mostly likely in this order.

I look around and see some hills and trees in the distance. Once again it is all very beautiful and this makes me happy. It also reminds me that I was headed towards Angel falls. The vegetation makes it just perfect for the task and I stare there and day dream for a very short while. I feel like I want to rush forward and just get there. However, I just passed a few DCs and I remember I had another task I wanted to do "ask a DC".

I turn to this overweight mid-age woman and she makes some kind of word-like sound like "nah", I ask her where my phone is and she says "outside". This cannot be possible, as I know the phone must be somewhere at home, so I object and ask for further explanation. She says something else that I can't exactly remember but it means that this the answer. I am not satisfied with the answer she gave me, so I look around and there is another DC woman more or less the same type, but different face. I go to her and she makes exactly the same word-like sound like the other one, I find this very strange. I proceed to ask her about my phone and she just answers "but didn't you already ask". Well, yeah, but I want to ask again, and it is none of her business, just tell me where the phone is. I am annoyed with her and start some senseless explaining. After a while, I give it up and move on.

Still in the same place I decide to do the fireworks task and look around for some fireworks to swallow. The problem is that I am not in a room where my mind easily makes all kinds of objects but in the greenery and there's only grass and some small bushes there. I somehow remember I can do a summon from my pocket. I have the memory that my pockets are currently empty but still decide to search in my pocket. It is indeed empty but I manage to scrub something there, I hold my fist tight for a second and then I expect to see a mini-firework in there. Unfortunately, it is just a purple brown pill. I become confused thinking I really had this pill in my real pocket and that's causing the problem. Anyways, I concentrate on the pill, trying to make it look at least a bit like a firework but in vain. Somewhere after this intense concentration the dream fades.

I don't remember anything from the void here anymore.

LD3: I appear in some kind of public building restroom, still lucid, where I am looking myself in the mirror. I feel some pain in my tooth and have a closer look. Yeah, something is not quite right there and that worries me that I might actually have done something to my real tooth. I vaguely remember Penny talking about tooth dreams, and try to ignore the issue. Yet, I keep on checking myself out in the mirror until I zoom in to see and feel my entire row of teeth in a painfully twisted position. Dreams can really get crazy, I think to myself, remembering how Checker's fingers were twisted or something like that.

Finally, I brake my teeth fixation and walk around, trying to exit the restroom. Slightly worried that the dream might destabilize, although there wasn't an indication?, I decide to rub my hands and see if anything feels different. I remark that everything feels absolutely normal, and rubbing my hands on this occasion does not feel different from waking life. I also remember to jump a bit supposedly to stabilize, but it's more like some mischievous act of fun. I jump a few times, although cautiously as I don't want to destabilize the dream by losing the sense of my feet while mid air.

Trying to leave the restroom, I walk around in this building, but get lost in a maze of corridors. I go back, then try again and end up in some creepy looking corridor, lit by a single old bulb, shining bright. The whole place looks like from some kind a cheap movie scene and I don't like it at all. I don't want to be there. I get paranoid, staring at the corridor which turns to the left and soon some kind of a non-human thing is summoned by me.

Before he even has the chance to move closer I know that the only way out of this place is to phase through the wall in front of me and I do so.

I immediately end up in the void, but am still a bit paranoid that this thing might follow me into the next dream. I try to reason this whole situation, that he doesn't exist anymore, and feeling with certainty that once in the void, it is over. From then on, I remember to concentrate on Angel falls and on appearing on top of it. I do my best to create sensations that I am there.

I don't remember what happened, I just found myself in the next scene.

LD4: My memory gets even worse as I fall deeper into sleep. I am on the street, facing some building. My concern at this point is recall. I realize that I have been having dream after dream with no opportunity to journal. I try to remember how many lds so far, four, try to recall some details as I feel they will be lost. Using either my fingernails or some other object, I write down the number of dreams with a key word next to each to help with my recall once I wake up. This whole task is extremely difficult and towards the end of the process I begin to hear non-lucid dream thoughts interfering in my head.

Soon I lose lucidity as a Heroes of Might and Magic scene develops in the building in front of me. There are the two players' armies and obviously mine has been defeated because I didn't send reinforcements, while the other player did. The armies look quite 3D life-like with the largest beast looking quite scary.

NLD: Someone informs bf about his dentist and that some kind of refund is due because he did the dental work in a hurry. Tom Wilkinson is the dentist.

NLD: I am in a tram, there is a strange looking skinny old man in front of me. He is dressed like Gandhi, also has some kind of flat drawers on his chest, as some sort of a medallion. We talk for a short while and unfortunately I can't recall more detail anymore.

Soon the dream ends and I am in my body semi-conscious and extremely sleepy. For some reason my physical body decides to change position, so my legs move. This is what wakes me up a bit more and I decide it is better to journal before I forget everything.

Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

Lucid #118: Water Slide

I'm walking down the central aisle of an airplane when I hear a voice to my right: "Hey [CanisLucidus]! Check out this view!" I look to my right and NewArtemis is waving me over and pointing at the window. "Have you ever seen Los Angeles from the air before?"

"[NewArtemis]!" I take the middle seat and say something about the last time I flew into LA. I talk about how it's been a long time since I was there and ask her what she's doing in LA.

"Same thing you are," she says. "The gymnastics conference." I feel like this is totally unexpected and don't know how to respond. Why don't I remember this? Since when do I care about gymnastics? Art points out the window again. "Look, that's the Staples Center!"

As I'm checking out LA through the window, a flight attendant makes an announcement that the plane will be landing shortly. Art stares at me pointedly, not saying anything. "Am I supposed to be doing something?" I ask, not following what's going on.

"Are you just going to leave your son all by himself while the plane lands?" Now I'm sure that my 2-year-old son "R" is all by himself several rows back. Panicked, I run toward the back of the plane without saying goodbye. When I get back to my row, I see some guy in the window seat and R crawling around freely on the middle seat. The guy turns to me and says something odd, and I wonder whether this is all a dream. As soon as I ask myself the question, I know the answer.

I look out the window again, and the plane is on the ground now. Passengers are starting to stand up at their seats and in the aisle. I stand up in the aisle myself and say, "[NewArtemis], come back this way. I'm going to Angel Falls." Almost immediately she slips past some guy standing in the aisle and appears near my row. I start narrating partly to her but mostly to the dream itself. "Okay, this plane took us right to Angel Falls." We walk through the doorway of the airplane and down a short set of stairs covered by a canopy.

"Can you fly?" I ask her. But I correct myself: "You can fly." And she floats past, bouncing along the canopy ceiling before reaching the end and floating up temporarily out of sight. Now I hear the roar of a waterfall and I'm feeling really excited. I start flying, too, and I wind up bouncing along just like she did before I break out into the open.

The waterfall is there, but it's really just a waterpark slide sitting on an open stretch of runway. The ride's about 30 feet tall, quite steep, and looks like fun. It's got a banner stretched over its exit with its name... something like, "_____ Raging River _____", with a couple of words I can't recall. Art and I fly over to the top of the slide, me just slightly in front. It's 4 "lanes" of slides right next to each other, and I take the 2nd from the left. I think that Art wound up further behind me in the same lane. I reach the bottom, zooming past a couple of portly kids in lanes #1 and #3.

As soon as I hit the bottom of the slide, I hop up again, expecting Angel Falls to be in front of me. And indeed, in front of me is the top of a huge waterfall. This one's got a banner stretched over the top of it, too: "Angel Falls". But it's still some kind of ride, not the real waterfall. It's close. A very impressive, realistic (almost scary) ride, but still a ride. I shout something back to Art about how this probably doesn't count. She says something I can't remember and indicates she's still here.

The dream still feels really stable and vivid, but I'm reluctant to waste any time, so I leap over the waterfall feet-first. Immediately I'm drenched and in freefall. After a few seconds of that, I land smoothly on some kind of big, steep plastic slide and travel along it for maybe another 20 seconds before things flatten out just a bit and the slide takes me underground. I'm still moving at a good pace but no longer at the crazy speeds of before.

The slide flattens out and broadens, and I slide past a few other riders that I'm sharing the slide with. When I feel myself slowing down, I find that I can sort of spin on my butt and gain a little speed. One DC that I pass asks me how I'm doing this and I tell him that I'm having a lucid dream.

After a while, the slide narrows and finally ends. There's a long line of DCs waiting to exit the "ride". I think about whether I should wait in line, then remember that I need to still find the real Angel Falls. I'm thinking about how to do this when the dream ends.

I had a ton of dreams last night, only they were all short.

This one took place after waking up from a short one, so I'd classify it as WBTB.

Length: ~5 min
Type: Lucid

Some guys rolled up in a truck, two of them had guns. I realized this was a dream after cowering behind a tree. I was torn, because I wanted to have a lucid dream, but I didn't want to get shot in it, so I did a RC to make sure. Then I jumped out and tried to imagine them catching on fire, it didn't work the way I planned, but at least something scared them off. Most likely me willing them to go away. Then I flew after their truck a little bit. It was amazing, zipping past the trees like that, floating above ground. Pure awesomes. After that I forget what happened. But those were the highlights.

PS: I'd just like to say the nose RC is the best. There's nothing more satisfying than breathing in through your fingers and realizing your in your own dream.

Edit: Oh! I almost forgot, the reason I was inclined to believe I was dreaming was because there was a girl who looked like my dream sign in the shotgun seat. Plus this whole thing of pulling up in a truck and ganging a teenager was sort of... weird.

Non-Dream
Dream
Lucid

I went to bed after a routine awakening. I lied in bed for a couple minutes, trying to go to sleep. Out of nowhere, I hear a loud ringing in my ears and vibrations throughout my body. After a few seconds of this my body starts to spin. This time, I got out of bed while my body was still spinning as I waited too long last time. I got up from bed and my body was still spinning. I tried my best to ground myself. Once I stopped spinning, I figured I would try to summon a cute girl to play with. I did the behind the hand trick to summon one. I put my hand behind my back. In a second I felt a hand. I looked behind me but couldn't see anybody. I felt the hand though. Somebody's back there. I waited a couple seconds............One of my female workers appeared. Not one of the more attractive ones, but still a good friend.

"Hi!" she said.
"Hi! Where do you want to go?" I asked.
"I don't know. Where do you want to get hurt?"
"I don't care," I said, playing along.
"Lets go to Virginia Beach!"
"Okay."

We walked out of the house. When we walked out we where in different neighborhood I used to live in. There was a cab waiting for us. Co-worker had apparently arranged it.

"This guy's the best! He doesn't care about passing."

We got in the cab and the cab driving started driving. He didn't stop at the intersection though. Instead he plowed through a fence into somebody's backyard, as if it was completely normal. Co-worker looked concerned.

"Hmm...Maybe we should go to Daytona Beach instead."

We continued driving through the backyard, which was huge. Along the way we saw some panda bears and a panther that threatened to pounce on us.

I woke up, lol. You get some interesting results when you force your subconscious to come up with stuff on the fly!

#200 - 5:55AM - DILD - 3 of 3

I'm in the old recliner we just got rid of and it's in the corner of dining room with no table. My wife is talking to me about how she just wants to learn it to be able to change bad dreams. I excitedly say, "Wait a minute.... YOU want to learn to lucid dream?!?!" She walks into the kitchen not saying a word now. Then it dawns on me. "Oh, this is a dream." I feel disappointed now and don't seem to care to do much of anything.

I either briefly woke up or just fell non-lucid for a second here.

I am still in the recliner and my wife points out a window, "Why is the sky red?" I look and see the blinds are open. The sky looks overcast but it's not red exactly. IT'S PINK!I proclaim, "This is a dream!"

I wake up and try to recall the dream. Then I want to DJ but as I am entering it in my device I notice the letters look like gibberish and my vision is in and out. I realize this is my dream DJ so I stop typing and try to just DIELD.

I have a FA and walk into the kitchen. My wife is feeding our son mustard greens. I notice there is a puddle of some liquid under the table and pieces of cooked mustard greens on the floor. I become disgusted at the mess so I get a towel and start cleaning up. I leave the towel under the highchair and wait for them to finish sitting at the table with them.

Feeling bored, I start staring out the window. The sky is pink. I don't become excited this time. I don't say a word. I just slowly walk out the back door, rubbing my hands to stabilize. I notice my girls playing in the back room but I ignore them. When I get outside I remember my task to find NyxCC. I begin shouting, "Nixcy...Nixcy!" I try expectation to think she is just hiding from me someplace and I will soon walk up on her. There's no answer or NyxCC anyplace. Some truck passes by in the alley and I start walking there to look for her. I can hear the crunch of my shoes on the gravel as I walk. Suddenly, I can hear my wife yell, "Really?" I look back at the house expecting her to be at the back door but I don't see her. There is slight guilt that I just walked out on my family to go looking for some other woman. I want to tell her that it's not like that but I realize it really doesn't matter in a dream.

Then, I remember how I found CanisLucius one time. I try to summon a cellphone in my right hand but nothing shows up. I pretend to push something on my invisible phone and say, "Nixcy". When I put the phone to my ear I hear nothing so I repeat the step but this time I don't look at my hands and I begin to feel an actual phone. I put the phone to my ear and hear a somewhat low but very feminine voice. I think her voice must not be right but I just go with it. "Nixcy?" She answers with some nonsensical word groupings. I can't remember now but it was stuff like, Pandemonium Laptop and Parsnip Pretzels (I'm making that up but that was the gist of it)

The dream is staring to fade to dark but the audio sticks. I reply, "Whaaat?" only to get more gibberish. I think that I must have spoken out loud in my sleep now. To check it I say, "What the fuck?" I can still hear my feet crunching on gravel. I feel my wife roll over in bed and I wake up.

7:03AM

I am at some sort of diner theater with my wife. I have some problem with my meal and I am escorted back to the kitchen. Everyone is very kind and helps me out. I am given a wooded plate with a nice salad on it, though I keep thinking it's awfully small for a salad. Someone in the kitchen has a problem and an old woman starts pacing back and forth praying for her. I walk away and see another woman kneeling on the floor holding her hand. There is a broken plate and a little blood. The praying woman rushes over to her. I sympathetically suck through my teeth and say, "Ewwww. Ouch." I tell the waiter that was helping me that I will show myself out. I go through the doors that other people were not allowed to go. I ask if it's OK and no one objects. It a small area with several metal doors with labels. Mostly stuff like "Employees Only". I turn left and see an elevator. I push a button and it opens. When I get inside I instantly know that I am dreaming. I rub the shiny metal of the elevator and push the "1" button. As I wait for the elevator to open again the dream fades and I wake up.

#199 - 5:18AM - WILD - 2 of 3

I realize I drifted off too much and come back a little. I feel tense so I just focus on relaxing my body. I feel like I flatten out and sink into the bed a little. Then the vibrations come. I try to transistion and spinning but nothing will happen. Then I try just looking into the darkness. I see a spot of vision forming but I wonder if one eye opened. I open them for real and realize I was actually forming a dream so I close them again.

Suddenly I am fully lucid standing in the bathroom. My wife is in the next room saying some thing about getting two for one at Sonic. I say, "It doesn't matter. It's just a dream." She replies with, "Well, do you want to go or not?" Not having anything else in mind I decide to go along with this dream.

I move to the door but the dream skips to us getting into the car. Our car is not our car it is some crazy hot-wheels-looking sports car. As my wife puts our son in the car, I summon a key in my hand. I note the odd shape of it but don't pay it much attention. I notice we have manual transmission and I smile a little. The engine sounds beautiful and I peel out of the driveway driving like a maniac.

I at every intersection I peel out driving way too fast. I begin to feel guilty having our son in the car while driving like this but I assure myself that it is just a dream. At that moment I hear sirens and see a cop car on my six in the rear view. I really don't want to deal with this and for a moment I visualize doing something violent to the cop. But no, I don't want to do that either so I just choose to ignore it. The cop is not important. I notice I am driving really slow behind to cars and look back at the rear view. The cop is gone now.

I swerve around the cars and drive crazy some more pulling off several drifts. At some point I see a huge overpass highway in my neighborhood. I laugh at this and just keep driving on. Then, I realize we passed sonic and I do a smoky 180 drifting U-turn. I am about to pull in the parking lot but I suddenly wake up.

I am a little disappointed with this set of lucids. I just couldn't seem to keep the dream together for very long. I experienced multiple awakenings with mild insomnia. Still, it was a fun morning. I think I need to refine my WILD technique. I'm getting really sloppy with it.

WBTB time 3:00AM

#198 - 3:44AM - DILD - 1 of 3

I am at work and I know that it is very early in the morning. I feel like it has to be close to 4AM. I am really confuse why I would be here at such an hour. I hear music and my boss starts singing Wannbe by the Spice Girls. I think she sounds horrible and want to laugh at her. I keep thinking that I just need to get back to sleep if I want to take advantage of my Galantamine night. I think about the cot in the first aid room. Maybe if I ask I can take a nap in there. I picture the room in my mind but it is not right. I can't imagine why I would take G and then go to work during a WBTB. All of this is way too weird. Wait a minute. Maybe I didn't go to work after all! I do a nose plug and blow through. I let out a loud, "Whooopieeeee!". For some reason I think the task of the month is to grant a DC a wish. Was that an old one? I look around and can see the whole shop floor vividly. I spot a random DC man that I don't recognize. He looks a little like Chris but he hasn't worked here in years. I grab him by one shoulder and say, "Hey, tell me your wish." He won't talk and acts like he is purposefully trying to avoid me. At that moment I wake up.

4:32AM

I have a FA. My wife is talking to me in bed and I am a little annoyed because I was trying to WILD. I finally open my eyes and see that my head is at the foot of the bed and I am on my stomach. She is wearing an adult size blue long sleeve onesie. I give her a funny look and she explains that her mom bought it for her so she thought she should wear it at least once.

I try to in-dream WILD now and I get vibrations right away. I transition out of bed but it feels like I have two bodies. One in bed and one blindly walking around the house. I try to visualize but nothing will happen.

Suddenly I am non-lucid sitting on a couch and can hear some familiar country song. There is a random guy standing next to me and my wife in the the bed. I feel hot and notice I have jeans on. I get up to find a pair of shorts out of the dresser. I find my blue and yellow ones that I used to own a long time ago. I change in front of the guy hoping he's not looking. I'm just so uncomfortable right now. I wake up feeling hot.

So after a small dryspell (blamed on various things) I finally got a fairly long lucid (~30 minutes? I feel like it was long, but I don't remember all of it).
Now the problem is the fact that after the lucid, I continued on with normal dreams. So I don't recall all of it.

Lucidity: 5/10
Vivacity: 8/10
Control: 8/10

We're in a plane, and it crashes.
(...)
I somehow get lucid somewhere after the crash; I immediately decide to fly away, but before I do that I realize that there is a lake nearby. I want to waterbend in real life.
(...)
I'm still near the lake, I don't know if I actually waterbent, but right now I'm playing with sand by telekinesis. A random guy walks up to me and asks me if I can teach him how to do that.
So I teach him. I sit down and make just a little bit of sand levitate, explaining that sand isn't the same deal as buses and cars in telekinesis. I don't tell him that it's a dream, because he might just go away if I do. I tell him that you gotta think of sand like water, because it flows and things like that.
Then I make a lot more sand fly, it almost gets to my height (I'm not sitting anymore). It make a snake-like sound.
After that I really make a LOT of sand fly in every direction. There still is that snake sound, and after seconds, I created a whole sandstorm. I don't have to concentrate on making the sand fly anymore, by now it goes by itself, I can hear a strong wind doing it for me.
(...)

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So that was my first time in sand telekinesis, pretty awesome.

DreamLucidAwake

Because I tend to dream from the perspective of other dream characters fairly frequently now, I feel like it would be easier to understand my dreams if they were written in some sort of first person third person mix.

The Heart Stone

This dream was from about 3 days ago, so I don't remember much of it anymore. I feel like it's important to the story though. Lucidis, Chris, and Claire were walking along a stone bridge above the sea. The bridge connected the mainland and a small island not too far off. On the small island was a stone tower. The tower was a sort of college where various things were studied and researched.

Lucidis was holding and looking at a strange stone as they walked. It was blood red and you could see into it a little. It looked like there was something at the core of the stone, but it was unclear. Lucidis had apparently come acquired this stone on a previous adventure, but I can't seem to recall that moment. Lucidis felt like the stone had some importance to it. Chris had suggested taking it to a geologist so that the stone could be identified.

Lucidis, Chris, and Claire crossed the bridge and entered the tower through an open doorway. They went down a set of stairs into a room below the tower. This was where the geologists did their research. There was only one man there who seemed to be the professor. He was sitting at his desk reading charts and graphs. He didn't notice them walk in until Lucidis placed the red stone in front of him.

Lucidis asked the professor to identify the stone and asked what he should do with the stone. The geologist studied the stone for a moment with a lense. If I remember correctly, he said that it was a heart stone. He then said that it should be taken to Efile. Lucidis had never heard of Efile before, so he asked the professor what Efile was. He layed a map of the world across the desk and simply pointed at a part of the map. Unfortunately the map was somewhat blurry and distorted, but a white country labeled Efile could be found in the south east corner of the continent.

There may have been other things that happened, but I think I woke up after looking at the map.

My father is in my livingroom, wearing his long winter coat. I am a bit confused at that, it's summer after all. He wants to throw out a lot of stuff.Then he complains some spices taste like glue. I then start talking to him about something of his that has no place in the living room, but he doesn't answer. At one point, I pinch my nose, and can breath. I become lucid, but I wake up right after.

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Dream
Lucid

I was walking with a huge group of DCs on the shoulder of a freeway when I thought, "I must become lucid. Oh, wait, I'm dreaming! Nice." I remembered the task of time control. I asked a DC for a watch. When I got no response, I quickly thought "Okay, I could just summon my own". I reached into my pocket and took out a small pocket watch. It was just a simple old school watch, one with roman numerals in place of the numbers. I switched the watch to my left hand, looked up at the scene, and tried spinning my right forefinger. It didn't work. I figured I had to look at the watch while spinning my finger like I'd done in the past. I looked at the watch. The time was about 4:20. I tried spinning my forefinger again. The hands of the clock quickly accelerated. Success! After about 15 seconds. My hand became tired so I stopped. The time was about 9:00 now. I looked up at the scene and saw the crowd of DCs had greatly diminished and it was starting to get dark. This was proof to me that I actually manipulated the time and didn't just change the hands of the clock. Satisfied that I had completed the task, my subconscious ended the dream.

I did my WBTB at 4AM but had a mild headache. I listened to a relaxation mp3 for about 30min and felt very close but the earbuds and the sound kept me too awake. I gave that up and rolled over but my headache intensified and I just wanted to fall asleep.

I had a few strange dreams after that. My wife's alarm went off at 6. She kissed me bye and left probably around 6:20AM. I got up to go to the toilet and laid back down. I thought to try WILD again but was too out of it but I at least said some mantra and just set my intent.

#197 - 6:42AM - DILD

I am in bed with my wife in some strange bedroom. It feels almost like a bed and breakfast cottage and we are on vacation. Morning sunlight is shining in as we talk just being lazy in bed. During our conversation I keep seeing a shadow of a little girl outside the window. It looks like my daughter, Dalynn. I ignore her at first but I keep hearing random sounds like someone knocking a few times with long pauses. I tell my wife that I think Dalynn wants in. She jumps up and over reacts being crazy silly. She knocks over some oddly shaped ceramic planter. Dirt and parts of the plant land in the bed and some hits my face. I say, "You knocked over the Bansai tree!" I look and there is some ugly knobby thing on the floor. "Or what's left of it." She hands me the planter with a strange sheepish grin on her face. My ring on my hand hits the planter and there is a low hollow bong sound. Ignore this. She wants ME to clean this up? I become furious and let out a low growl while shaking a fist. I just leave her to the mess and go to open the door for Dalynn.

I walk out a door on the right and turn left. There is some empty and strangle shaped entryway to the front door. I notice a dark hook and wonder why it's there. Open the door and Dalynn says something like, "Tell me about your low prices."
My only response is, "Where is your sister?" I peek my head out the door some and notice a child running toward us in a Spiderman costume. Surely that's not her. I do a double take and now it is a boy of about 5 to 6 years of age in some crappy looking Spiderman/Superman costume. The boy pauses, looks at me, and rubs his nose with the back of his hand before running off. At first I thought it was my ex's step nephew but then the face clears up and I see that it is my son. I turn around and start to say something to my wife about his costume. It's just horrible and I want to know how let him wear that.

Then I realize that he isn't currently that old. He's not even walking on his own yet. I think, This might be a dream. I almost feel embarrassed doing a nose plug in front of my wife but I figure she's used to this by now. I blow through and loudly exclaim, "I am dreaming. YAHOOOOOOOOOO!" The dream starts to collapse right away so I just stand there screaming and shouting like an idiot.


I have a FA back in the same bed as before. I hear a knocking again and I walk to answer knowing that it will be my daughter asking about prices. I just dreamed this. I open the door and before she can speak I say in a cheesy game show host voice, "Ask me about our low prices!" I pause a second. "Oh wait. I might still be dreaming." I do a nose plug and find that I am. This time there is less excitement and I look around to take in the dream. I stare up at a bare tree growing in the yard and think what to do. At this point I hear my waking life son cry out. This doesn't wake me but it becomes very distracting. I know he wont let me dream much longer. I look around some more and see a dirt road and open pasture in front of me. The sky is cloudy and overcast and the air feels cool. There are a few houses to my right. I didn't realize it then but this area is very similar to a childhood town in TX. I notice how vivid and surreal the colors are. It's all very beautiful.

I see a white truck driving in the field and I want to RW fly to it. Again, I try to think of actual goals but I can't seem to remember now. I feel content to just explore this time. I focus on the tail gate and zoom to it, but just before I reach the truck I focus to another point. I can now feel light, cool, misty rain. I realize how odd this is to feel rain when I am dreaming. I smile and enjoy the sensation. There is a mansion on the other side of the pasture. I see manicured shrubs, a fountain in the middle of a circle drive and a large statue of a man on the right. I zoom to the statue and hold on to it as the dream fades out.

I feel like I could DEILD back in but I know my son's awake and I need to get up. He lets out another cry right on cue.

My dream recall has been pretty bad lately, but when I woke up this morning, I remembered part of a lucid dream that I had just had.

I can remember that I was directing a TV show. The show took place sometime in 2030 after a nuclear apocalypse. Because of the radiation there were a strange new form of humans that were fused with plants.
I was filming this one scene where a bully (who was one of the plant fusion people) beat up a little girl who was normal and had just moved into the settlement. They bully had six arms and each of his arms was made out of a small tree trunk.
I began walking along. There was a small tent for those of us who were directing the show with some equipment for filming. There was only one other person who was not a character on the show, because the show's ratings were bad and we had to cut funding.
The only other person was a young black man. When I came along he took out a small knife and began talking about it. I could sense he was going to throw it at me. I can barely remember something else about the knife, I, (Not remembering now) somehow had a hand in it's creation.
He throws the knife, but I am able to bend swiftly to one side completely avoiding the knife. (No kidding, this put the matrix bullet time to shame.) This all happened in probably less than a tenth of a second dream-time. I remember the most was when the knife flew past my head. Even though it was not in my feild of vision, I could sense that it was face down, only inches from my shoulder. Time seemed to stop for that moment.
Time sped up, and the knife hit the center a red and white target behind me.
Something about the situation tipped me off that I was dreaming. I was lucid, but I didn't say anything right away. I stopped and thought about things for a minute. I thought about summoning my dream guide for some training.
No, for some reason I choose to do something that normally just gets me woken up. I'm going to tell this dream character that I am dreaming.
I look toward the other guy who threw the knife at me.
"Hey... I'm dreaming."
The man stops and turns his head. He is wide eyed and looks a bit angry but also very surprised. He then looks at me right in the eye. He has brown eyes.
"Listen to me. There is a storm coming. A clash between good and evil. Be ready."
And while he's saying this there are literal storm clouds on the horizon. Then something causes me to false awaken. I'm at this gas station that I'm familiar with, just outside my own town. I'm no longer lucid and the dream is very unstable once more.
But this is just temporary. The dream provides exposition. It says that there are these suits hidden around the world. There are 20 in total. Ten of them look like this (shows me a white suit, looks sort of like a superman costume, only white and gold. The other ten look like this (shows me a black and purple suit.)
There are ten people who will compete on each team as part of a global conflict. Now people like celebrities and military leaders may claim to be the people that wear these suits, but no. All of the people who will wear them are normal everyday people in the real world.

Erm... ok. Let me just say I'm not interested in your global dream war. I just want to learn how to fly, ok...