lucid

My son is headed to camp this summer with the scouts and I've decided to accompany them on the bus. I know I don't have enough money to actually participate in the camp but I felt like I should come along just the same.

The bus arrives in camp and a sharply-dressed staffer boards the bus to give us the orientation directions. After pointing us in the right direction we all head towards the barracks that will be our home for the next 11 days.

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I must admit I'm fairly upset that my son has brought a huge radio with him and I'm chastising him since I know it won't receive anything anyway. Besides, we're in the woods and I'm sure people would prefer to hear the sounds of nature versus the boombox he is toting around.

Of course, my son protests, and I decide to back off as we enter the main room of the common area. Immediately I realize how weird it will be to have co-ed sleeping quarters but in all honesty that's not important right now. I see that another parent is there with her son and she is getting him ready for his ceremonial swearing-in as the leader of the contingent. I know he's not ready for the position and isn't up for the responsibility but I keep these thoughts to myself.

Turning around in the cramped cabin I find my son has placed his radio on a nearby dresser and has turned on the music. To my surprise it is picking up radio stations just fine, but even more surprising is the TV I see mounted to the wall as I look up. I can't believe that we're in this remote location and the camp has hi-def TV.

My son starts eating a bag of chips and unloading his stuff from his pack. I call him into the hallway and I'm fed up with his constant eating so I start yelling at him though I'm not really upset so I lower my voice and begin talking to him in a more conversational tone. It's good that I did lower my voice as the raised tones caught the attention of the camp scout-leader and he looked worried. My attention returns to my son and then pauses as he turns to ask some of the scouts entering the room about their snacks, bags of chips and goodies that are loaded up by the armful.

"We actually got there at just the right time, "says Kevin, one of the taller and older scouts. "The line was empty when we got there but by the time we were leaving there were fifty people lining up. I'd suggest getting your snacks now while they still have some."

I look at my son, knowing he can probably wait, but then I think better of it and just encourage him to head up and get his shacks now. He heads out of the room and I decide to follow him.

The main area of the camp is slightly muddy from recent rains and hundreds of pairs of boots tromping through the square. The mud continues up the steep hill that leads to where the scouts are all headed to get their snacks. The hill is grassy and has clearly benefited from recent rains but the boots of the scouts have turned the trail into a slippery and muddy path, despite many flat steps cut into the hill to prevent erosion.

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I'm especially impressed with how green this part of New Mexico looks and how nice the air is and I'm glad we're far away in a remote area of the state, distant from all the cities and urban areas that plague our home. My thought is barely finished when I come to the top of the hill and I see the distant vista of downtown Baja, New Mexico, the largest city in the state.

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I nearly gasp seeing the tall buildings and sprawling city laid out before me over the next ridge. My son clearly knew more than I did when he decided to bring the radio on this campout. Even more strange than the view is where the path now leads; We're on top of a parking garage, a muddy trail leading from the hill to the far corner of the cement parking lot. In the corner sits an older man and his friend, two chairs and a white plastic cooler their only equipment.

I approach as my son finishes his transaction and I get a brief glimpse at their offerings. Cold beverages fill one side of the cooler and various other snacks sit on the ground at their feet, slightly hidden by the open lid of the cooler. I'm a bit put-off by this sight and I had hoped for better from a camp that could afford to put HDTV in the camper's rooms.

It's time to head back to camp and I see one of the other scouts from our troop nearby, also ready to head down.

"Let's race!" I call to him and the next thing I know we're both racing down the muddy hillside. I can't believe how fast I can go and after taking a particularly large step I know I'm dreaming. I can see that I'm about to land in a rather muddy spot so I pull up my feet and let my momentum carry me a distance of nearly 25 feet beyond the mud, a great moment of control and satisfaction. I want to wrap up the race in a grand way so I turn sideways and slide down the rest of the slippery hill of mud, a feeling of exhilaration that is as close as I can get without flying. Naturally I win the race.

Now that I'm at the bottom I start to take a look around and I find the camp actually lies on the edge of a suburban part of Baja, the tree-lined streets almost giving the impression of some small town in Tennessee. Slightly in front of me and to my left is a old, brick firehouse, now abandoned, and a pair of railroad tracks lies between me and the building. A couple of cars navigate the nearby neighborhood streets. I feel so odd having a camp this close to the neighborhoods of the city.

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To complete the odd scene, a motorized contraption straight out of the late 19th century appears, an oddly-shaped machine with spinning wheels and a sputtering steam-muffler. The conveyance is clearly designed to travel on both train tracks and regular roads, overly-complicated with gears and flywheels that make approaching it seem dangerous. I watch as the machine rides the rails around the building and then enters the road on the far side of the building.

I take this as my cue to follow the driver and I suddenly find myself in a Chevy Blazer, an older model that is both cramped and over-powered. My daughter is driving and I know she is planning on passing up the strange contraption we are rapidly approaching. My cousin-in-law leans in behind me to tell me that, "Everything will be okay, we can easily pass the machine. This Blazer has a V8 engine and is more than powerful enough to catch it."

We pass up the machine and continue along a road that slopes down towards an intersection ahead, though my daughter shows no sign of slowing. I can see the slightly-obscured stop-sign and I yell at her to stop before we hit something. On cue a man appears running across the road, as far from a crosswalk as he could be, his diagonal path on a clear intersection with ours. I brace myself as we hit the man and he goes spinning up and over the hood, though he shows no real sign of injury and continues on his path.

"Okay, " I'm thinking, "that was weird." We turn left at the new road and I realize we're heading deeper into the city of Baja, a place I've never been and I can only vaguely picture on my mental map as in the northern part of New Mexico. I still can't believe how green it is, but even that pales in beauty to the snow-capped mountains I see to my left, illustrating how high up we are in elevation. To my right is a wide meadow that is clearly a park used for sports like Frisbee and impromptu games of touch football. The air is warm, perhaps 60F, but there remains a little snow along the edge of the field. Every part of me is marveling at the beauty of this place and I start considering what it would take to move there from Texas.

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Sensing my desire to look around and get a feel for the place my daughter stops driving and parks the vehicle right in the middle of the lane, a bit further out from the curb than one would normally park. I watch as she leans out of the door and sprawls out over the pavement, her head in one lane and her left arm stretching out into the next lane of traffic. A car is approaching and I pull her arm back quickly to avoid it being in the way of traffic. My pleas to get up go unheeded and I can't believe she would go to this length just so I can look around at the trees and mountains, a scene I know my mind has created but clearly a place I want to explore.

Unfortunately I wake up, remembering a location and experience more pleasant than I could possibly describe.

May 31, 2013
Lucid Dream 513: Criminals at Large
Series: Fearless, Episode 7
DILD
Technique: ADA



Me, my dad, and brother are in an apartment. There is a dead guy on the floor. I'm shouting to them, "Ok, its time to go. Grab everything you need and lets get out of here now." My dad said, "Relax, he just now called it in, they won't be here for another hour or so." I replied, "They want us caught more than anything, just hurry up and lets go." I grabbed arm-fulls of documents and other things. I threw them in a trash can along with a small napalm bomb. I then lit the trash can and we exited the building. We jumped into the car and pulled out just as a cop was pulling in. I said, "I told you they would be here faster than 1 hour." Several cop cars pulled in and the police entered the building. Suddenly, it exploded into a fiery blaze! We cheered as we sped off into the sunset.

The dream skipped and we were still driving and listening to the radio. They were talking about us on the radio. It said, "R3 has struck again. Their status as dangerous contract killers has been upped to serial murderers." A man along with 4 police officers has been killed. This ups the number to 30 victims in one month." We talked it over and made sure we were burned the evidence and left no tracks. It turned out that one of the officers survived and he had saw my dad's face.

We had arrived at a city and Dad, who was driving, accidentally ran a red light. A cop turned on his lights in an attempt to pull us over. Dad said, "Just relax, he doesn't know who we are. I'll handle this." I cocked my gun and told him to hold on before he pulls over. I'll dive into his mind real quick. I focused my attention toward him and concentrated on the interior of his car (apparently I had super powers ). I heard the cop thinking, "The license plate matches. This is the big one!" I told dad, "He knows! Step on it!" We got into a high speed chase.

The chase went on for quite a while and we couldn't seem to shake him. I shot out several cop car tires, but a new cop car replaced the wrecked one every time. Eventually, we gained some space and bailed on the car to get a new one. Suddenly, the cops came out of nowhere on foot. We took off running and ran into a shopping mall. As we were being chased, I suddenly became lucid.

I told my dad and brother to stop and come join me. We sat down at a table nearby and a female cop came up to us with a gun pointed at us. She told us to get down on the ground. I laughed and said, "Who are you?" She told me she was a police officer and I replied, "I can see that, but that isn't all you are is it?" She looked confused, so I explained a bit more. I said, "Sometimes, I'm a Pirate, or a Ninja, right now, we are Serial Killers. Right now, you are a cop. I just wonder what you were dreaming of last night?" She blushed and smiled as she said, "I was a swimsuit model." I smiled and said, "Dreams are great aren't they?" She agreed and then joined us at the table. I jumped up and proceeded to summon a sword.

I held my hand out and traced the sword with my fingers, it appeared, but looked like it was a drawing. I grabbed it, turned my head away, and turned it back several times until the sword looked real. I walked over to the nearest DC (right beside the cop lady) and swung for his neck. The blade went clean through, but his head stayed on his shoulders. I then grabbed him by the hair and lifted the detached neck from its perch. I then tossed it in the middle of a group of DCs at a table. The head landed in their food and they screamed and ran away. All the other DCs at the other tables didn't seem to notice or care. The cop lady pulled her gun on me and I said, "Remember? its just a dream. You are just playing cop." She laughed and said, "Oh yeah, I forgot." I then asked if I could see her gun and she handed it to me. I immediately slammed the barrel into her mouth and said, "You shouldn't have forgot." I then blasted her brains out. I then began slicing the heads off of random DCs in the area with my sword. I made a game out of it and tried to see how many I could slice with one swing. I managed to take off six heads with one swing at one table. Every now and then, I couldn't cut through some of the DCs. The sword would stop part way through and once I pulled it out, their wounds would instantly heal. Some laughed and said, "You almost got me!" After a bit of more slicing and dicing I woke up.

Series Details
Join all the action in the dream series, "Fearless." You never know what I may run into, but you can guarantee I'm ready for a fight. Stay tuned for more blades, guns, and explosions in this series!

May 30, 2013
Lucid Dream 512: Yoshi D. Luffy
Series: Meiseki na Yume, Episode 4
DILD
Technique: ADA



I just recently started watching the anime, One Piece. It has been on my "Plan to Watch" for a while, but I just now got around to watching it. I'm loving it, by the way. So much better than I expected. Anyway, I was watching it on Hulu when I fell asleep. It played eisodes as I slept and it mightily influenced this dream.

The first parts of the dream that I remember, I'm at some sort of banquet. Its in, what appears to be, some sort of cafeteria. I can't remember about this, but I suddenly realized I was dreaming while sitting at the table. I remember thinking, "Is this the first time I ever became lucid while I was sitting down?" It wasn't, but this thought crossed my mind. I looked around and there were several long tables filled with random people. I looked behind me and there was a wall with many windows. I looked outside and saw a harbor and the sea. I suddenly got the idea to become Luffy from One Piece. I decided to just start acting like Luffy. I looked at the guy sitting to me right and said, "Hey weird guy! When do we get to eat?" I then noticed that our plates already had food on them. I tipped up the plate and shoveled the food into my mouth. Eating the entire contents in one gulp. I then got up and went to the buffet line and started just grabbing food and piling it into my mouth. I heard someone shout at me, "Luffy! Get back over here now!" It was Nami. I walked back over and sat down beside her.

She fussed at me, but I ignored her and tried to look around for something to do. I saw the guy sitting beside me was looking at me out of the corner of his eye. I looked away and when I looked back, he was out of his seat, squatting down in the floor just inches away from me with a big goofy grin on his face. He looked like a pirate. He said, "You ate a Devil Fruit didn't you?" I said, "Yup, I ate the Gum Gum one." He looked like shocked and leapt to his feet. He threw up his fists and said, "You! Your straw hat Luffy!" I jumped out of my seat and put my arms up as well. I said, "You looking for a fight!?" He replied, "So what if I am?" I then threw a stretch punch and knocked him to the ground. He sat up and told me he was sorry. He then proceeded to tell me a story about his whole village being cursed and falling ill. We talked for a bit, but I can't remember what was said. I remember hearing my own voice and thinking, "It just sounds like me. I need to sound more like Luffy." So, I attempted to change my choice to sound like Luffy. To my amazement, it sounded perfect.

I noticed that the banquet was being held by the marines and they had noticed me because I was being too loud. They pointed me out and started running at me. I jumped up and stretched my arm to the nearest door. I grabbed the handle, lifted my feet, and shot toward the door, Luffy style. I ran out of the banquet and down the long hallway. The scenery had changed and I was now in the harbor town in the evening time. Acting like Luffy, I said aloud, "Man, I want some food!" I saw a nearby bar, so I went in. There was no one in here except for the bartender. I jumped up on the bar stool and said, "Give me food Mr." He looked at me and chuckled. He then brought out a plate of food. He said, "This is our special. More food than you can handle I'm sure!" There was fried shrimp, some sort of crazy looking fish fillets, and these huge skewers of barbeque lizards. I ate everything in a matter of seconds and demanded another plate. The lizard skewers were great. Tasted like what I'd imagine barbeque squid would taste like. I've tasted squid before, but not with barbeque sauce. They man brought another huge plate of the same thing and asked me who I was. I told him, "I'm Luffy and I'm going to be King of the Pirates!" He laughed as I downed that plate as well.

As the bartender was preparing me another plate, a female entered the bar. She was clearly a pirate and she introduced her self to me. I told her I was the future King of the Pirates and she challenged me to a contest. She pulled out a knife and started doing the stab between the fingers thing. She was doing it pretty fast. The bartender was to be the judge. She finished and then walked over to talk to another pirate who had just walked into the bar. She told me I could practice before trying to top her. I grabbed the knife and started doing it as fast as I could. Suddenly, it looked like Luffy's Gatling Gun attack. I could see flashes of hands all over the place. The female pirate walked back over and was amazed. She stared in disbelief as I moved so fast it appeared I had 20 hands. I could also hear the stereotypical bouncing rubber sound (boooiiiinnnnngggg) every now and then. I knew I was hitting my fingers, but she didn't knoww I had ate the Devil Fruit. Soon after the chick had disappeared.

I shoveled in another plate of food within seconds and then stood up and began looking around the room. It was full of pirate type decorations and covered in random bounty posters. The bartender began telling me that the most famous of pirates had came through his bar. I told the guy I was leaving and began to strut out like Luffy. He told me to wait and handed me the check. It was $199.00. I grabbed it, walked over to the chick's plate and laid it on top of her bill. I smiled and said, "I won!" He accepted this and I left.

I could feel that my body was rubbery and it felt really cool. I started stretching my legs with my walking stride and just playing around with my new body physics. At some point, Zoro joined me and was walking with me. We entered a big shopping mall and I was still acting like Luffy. Zoro asked me where we were going, I said, "I dunno. On an adventure!" He rolled his eyes but kept following me. I started running and ramming into people clumsily like Luffy and then apologizing. I bumped into a group of girls and one of them recognized me. She said, "Zack? Is that you?" I recognized the girl when I was in the dream, but now I don't know who it was. She was beautiful, that is for sure. She started talking and said that she had never forgotten me. She said that she would just sometimes say my name and think of the old days. I said, "Well I'm different now. Now, I'm a King and this is my domain." I moved my arm around to gesture the entire environment. She looked all starry eyed, so I grabbed her hand and led her away from the other, unimportant DCs. I told her that I'd show her the time of her life.

I took flight while holding her hand. We flew for a few moments and then landed again. She told me it was amazing. I kissed her and whispered in her ear, "You haven't saw anything yet." As we walked, I grabbed her by her waist and began twirling her around. Romance comedy type music began playing. You know, the parts where the romance gets serious progression. The lights were off, but it wasn't dark. White mirror ball lights were spinning around the mall. I danced and lifted her up into the air, dirty dancing style. We passed an ice skating rink that was in the mall. I saw my friend Willow on the ice skating ring and we waved at him as we passed. I lost my lucidity around here.

I was trying to find a place to make love to the mystery girl. We venture into a warehouse, but some lady followed us in and had 3 or 4 dogs with her. One was huge! She told us we had to leave, but I told her we officially worked there and she was just a contractor. I showed her the exit and she left. We had to find a new place because the dogs were rowdy. I found a room that was near one of the exits to the mall. The mall had a christmas theme and there were two nearby workers dressed as elves. We snuck into the room and shut the door behind us. The room was a staged room for Christmas "family pictures." There was carpet a fake fireplace, a christmas tree, fake presents, and a massive bed.

The Dwarf actor, Peter Dinklage, was in this room with us and we were acting as if he had been with us the whole time. I told him that I me and the chick were getting the bed and he had to sleep in the plastic dog house. He got mad and bit down on my wrist. I picked him up, opened the door, and tossed him outside of the room. He started going crazy and tried to get back in the room. He was pounding the windows and pulling the door handle. Suddenly, the mall intercom came on and said, "All shoppers must exit the building. We are now closed." He started crying and said, "Well, that is it. Good-bye my friends." He started to walk away from the door and one of the elf-dressed workers said, "Where are you going?" Peter replied, "I have to leave the mall is closing!" The other elf guy said, "No! This is the best time to be in the mall. You can stay." They got excited and he told the workers that we were hiding in the room.

Me and the chick tried to keep them out of the room by putting strange objects through the door handles. I took her clothes off and laid her on the bed. After licking her for a bit, I rolled her over and penetrated. The workers busted in the room as I was having sex with her and I heard one of them say, in a British accent, "You have to stop right now, unless we can watch. We wouldn't be opposed to that now would we?" I just continued and paid them no mind. I woke during this scene.


Series Details
"Meiseki na Yume" is Japanese for, "Lucid Dream." In this series, I take my passion for anime and combine it with my passion for lucid dreaming. Join me as I explore the world of anime the best way I know how, in my dreams! Stay tuned for more entries to the series!

I was walking down the stairs at my school, in a very blurry dream with S. I was talking with him, and he asked me about what had happened that morning.
I tried to think back, but I could only remember the class we had just come from. Then I started to think and realized that "today" was supposed to be a Sunday.Bam! I'm lucid.
S was gone, and although the dream not vivid, my consciousness was really good.
I started to stabilize. I continually yelled out "Clarity", and commanded the dream to get more clear. Things got a little more clear, but the entire dream scene was still very blurry.
I finally got to the bottom of the stairs. I noticed that the Cafeteria had been replaced by a swimming pool.
I had just finished stabilizing and was ready to practice some dream control or look for my guide or something, but I woke up instead.

So I had a lucid dream, and automatically DEILD a few times and was lucid once again. I usually reenter my lucid's when I wake up from them almost instantly without noticing a thing

I was at my school, and I was leaving the school, I remember being aware I was dreaming and performed some rc's, I done a finger through hand just for the heck of it, I'm pretty sure I stabilized slightly at one point. I don't think I did much, I just remember walking out of the main hall, and noticed a girl looking rather sexy, I controlled my self and carried on with the ld. I'm pretty sure I interacted with somebody too not sure of it was the girl, I think I tried to hover at some point too. I was mostly calm throughout this ld and was just walking around taking things in. I really should have recalled this when I woke up I hardly remember much of it now

My first Lucid dream:

It was in the January or early Febuary 2013 during an afternoon nap. I was lying in my bed in my usuall sleeping position (on the stomach)......
......I am on the small gravel path between small forest called "Smrcina" (I visit this forest since my childhood and it has a strong emotional feel for me) and the rubber factory Saargumming where I am working (glady not anymore now:-)). I hate that factory, as a symbol of oppression, capitalism.
I am going down the forest path towards the factory, but turn left to the empty building abandoned old iron foundry. So far everything in my dream is almost identical to the real world environment.
As I enter the building I am in the room with many 2 floored-beds. It looks like a room in some montain cottage.
I lie in the bed in my usuall sleeping position on the stomach. I am falling asleep and try to seperate myself from my body That day I also read about astral projection. It isnt easy and I feel strong resistance against separation. But I am able to pick up the upper half of my body. Finally I am able to stand up and look around. The part of separation is still mystery for me. It felt so real that I thought I was awake, but more like I was dreaming all the time and was right on the edge sleeping/awake state. My sight is blury and hazy but everything is so real. Now I am realize that I am dreaming. Wow. I am so excited and happy. A look at my hands. They are blury. I thouch the wall. It feels 100 procent like a real wall, but I am not able to put my hand throught it. I go to the next small room and there is a woman sitting on the desk. I go to her and have a sex with her. Suddenly I want the girl name Betka instead of her. And in a second I am having a sex with Betka. It feels like a real sex. Wow. But after a minute the dream suddenly disappear and I wake up. I remember everything clearly even without writing it anywhere.
When I was 18 years old I had a girlfriend and my best friend Tomas cheated me with her. His girlfriend at that time was Betka. I remember I found her attractive but I havent seen her since that time. Maybe a time for a revenge ? :-) BTW: I have sometimes Thomas in my school related dreams. But I am not angry at him. We are still friends at my dreams

Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

Lucid #100: The World Is Yours

I'm flying high in the sky around what looks to be a computer-generated globe that's populated with little dots. I feel like I'm on a plane with Wife but I don't see a plane. It's just me and my floating perspective as we circle slowly and gracefully around this globe.

I tell Wife, "This is a music video for a Phil Collins' song called 'Julia' from 1980." (Not true.) The song immediately starts playing. In it, Collins sings of how this globe is "not CGI" and that the dots represent people around the world. He sings that the dot he remembers best ("the one I best recall") was one of him over the ocean, flying on a plane to be reunited with his beloved Julia.

As the song ends, I suddenly find myself falling downward out of the sky. I hope that this is a dream, I think, and of course it is.

I immediately halt my fall and find myself hovering over a huge, vivid cityscape -- highways, skyscrapers, cranes, bridges, traffic jams, all arrayed for me down below. I want to fly around and explore this city, but when I attempt to fly, I'm unable to move. For some reason, I feel totally confident that I'll come unstuck. Stop asking, I think.

I ignore what the dream is telling me and I imagine that I'm already flying Iron Man-style around the city. A second later, I'm flying effortlessly, cruising anywhere I like. I get briefly stuck a time or two, but I just ignore it, imagine that I'm succeeding, and immediately start flying again. Eventually, the little glitches stop.

I see a tower that I remember from waking life -- it's one that I pass during my commute. I fly up to the top and circle around it. I glide low over roadways and high above a cluster of skyscrapers, then descend back to one of the bridges that spans a piece of some unfamiliar bay.

My confidence is soaring, and I decide try some large-scale dream control. I put my hands out in front of me and then bring them apart like I'm performing the breaststroke. As I do, I rake cars off of the bridge in either direction and dozens of them go plummeting toward the water. I bring my hands back together and I watch as time rewinds and they return to the bridge, unharmed. I fly back toward the skyscrapers, select a pair of them, and then begin moving them up and down, one for my left hand and one for my right.

I look to my left and see an enormous fire ogre (a la "Orcs Must Die") stomping toward me down one of the city streets. He towers over most of the nearby buildings, at least 100 feet tall. I wonder whether maybe I'll be fighting him later. I feel no fear at all. I reflect for a moment about what it would be like to have this much control and confidence in every LD. Nothing could stop me. What sort of things would I do if I had years of this kind of power?

Leaving the fire ogre behind for now, I fly over my city for a while and just let my dreaming brain show me what it can do. I look out at the waters of the nearby bay and think about using all of this overflowing confidence for some Task of the Month parasailing, but the dream soon ends.

Although this wasn't the right location, I did at least successfully find/conjure/whatever NewArtemis. Forgot all about swapping gestures and keywords, but it's all good... dry spell broken!

Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

Lucid #99: Walking the Path

I'm walking a beautiful nature trail. I sense that this is a place of peace and sanctuary outside of a hospital. I remind myself that I need to be sure that I'm not dreaming and I quickly realize that this is a dream.

I hear two female voices from the trail up ahead and somehow I know that this is NewArtemis and her cousin. (No clue whether she even has a cousin IWL.) Art's cousin appears first, with Art trailing maybe 15 feet behind. "Come on!" calls Cousin. "You were right! It worked!"

Cousin walks right past me, saying, "Hey! I'm [NewArtemis]'s cousin. She was so nervous this wouldn't work. She's been spinning her ring nonstop. That's what she does when she's nervous." With that, Cousin disappears from the scene, never to return.

"Hey, [NewArtemis]!" I say, giving her a hug. "Good to finally see you!" ("Finally see you" is a little weird since I've encountered Art's DC a bunch of times -- was I implying this was "the real her" for the first time? Or just flapping my gums?)

"Did you just break your dry spell, CL?"

"I did!" We continue walking in the direction Art and Cousin were going, which has me doubling back toward wherever I came from. "Dude, I'm trying so hard to remember what I was supposed to do when we met up. I remember parasailing but I don't think that's right."

She rubs her forehead or kind of scratches her head. "I don't remember anything either. Definitely not that we're supposed to go parasailing." (Art called this one right -- the parasailing thing was Task of the Month, not anything we'd talked about.)

I hear road noise from nearby and I make some kind of comment about wondering where it's coming from. The scene shifts to where we're walking through the corridor of a hospital. I remember something I wanted to ask. "Hey, is it true what your cousin said? That you spin your ring when you're nervous?"

She shakes her head. "No, that's total bullshit. My ring is kind of loose in the winter though." On the nature trail it felt like spring to me, and I'm able to remember that IWL it's summer.

Art holds up her hands to demonstrate and I see that she's wearing rings on four or five of her fingers. Then she kind of wiggles her hands and now she has even more rings, including a thumb ring. She does this ring reconfiguration trick a few more times and I think it looks super cool. I wonder whether she's got the right number of fingers but she's moving around too much for me to count.

We come to a T-junction where another hall comes from the left to meet the one that we're walking. I see my two boys E and R running off down the hall to make mischief. Art asks why we wound up here of all places rather than the Alamo. I say that I don't know. The dream ends.

Dream recall from today's naps. Today is the false awakening day, and also glitch day.

Dream 1(fragment):

I was playing some video game and there was location in forest.

Dream 2(fragment):

I was in some dark city place.

Dream 3(fragments):

I was at different room at home, i was doing some things and then went to sleep. Family was distracting me and i couldn't fall asleep, everyone was moving furniture around and bed was becoming smaller and smaller. Then i went to different room and was doing some other stuff. Then back in bedroom furniture placement was again messed up. I finally went to bed and for some reason i was hoping to meet Chandelier again. And so it happened, there was loud noise for a few seconds, then it repeated again, and again this time with image getting through, and again and then it was here. I was surprised that it worked but then...
I wake up in another room, my hands are weird so i am dreaming, but before i can get up, my vision freezes and desyncs from everything else i feel, i am confused.
Wake up again, the lights are on, but aren't on, like some kind of lighting glitch? I get up and...
Then there are like four more short false awakenings with similar glitches, variations and furniture changes, after that i wake up properly.

06/01/13

Templars in the Shadows
I am in a strange place. I look around to see where I am. I don't recognize the place. I leave the small room I find myself in to find I am in a large gathering hall. There are quite a few people there. All of them are Assassins. I see a reflection and I realize I am also dressed as an Assassin, so I fit right in. I wonder why I might be there. I start to wander among the Assassins to see if I can find out. I finally spot a familiar face. Ezio is off to my right talking to an Assassin I don't recognize.

I keep looking around and I spot an Assassin that looks off somehow. I get closer to him and I see he seems to be surrounded by an aura of dark energy. That's not normal for an Assassin. I get closer to the strange Assassin. I catch a glimpse of his eyes. They are solid black. That is definitely wrong. He pays no attention to me. He seems to be focused on Ezio. He moves silently up behind Ezio. No one seems to be taking notice of him. Apparently no one else can see the dark energy. He is standing right behind Ezio now. He is about to stab Ezio with his hidden blade but I get him first. The dark energy Assassin collapses, dead. Someone calls to Ezio to look out and someone grabs me from behind. Apparently they think I'm the attacker here... Ezio turns around and looks at me. The other Assassins are telling Ezio I was trying to kill him. Ezio just looks puzzled. He says no, that's Raven, there must be some other explanation. One of the other Assassins points at the dead Assassin and says I just killed him. As if on cue, the dead Assassin changes into smoke and disappears. Assassins are all staring. I hear people muttering, asking what that was. Ezio wants to know what that was. I tell him it was a shadow Templar in disguise. He had been about to stab Ezio in the back. Ezio says that doesn't make sense, either. Ezio says he just recruited that guy, and when he checked him out he was definitely not a Templar. I wonder if maybe the dark energy can somehow fool Ezio's eagle vision. Since he's not used to seeing it. I wonder how to test that theory. I would have to find another disguised shadow Templar. But where would I find one? I look around the room. There are quite a few Assassins, but none of them look out of place. No sign of dark... wait... I spot someone in the corner with a dark energy aura. A female Assassin who is trying to blend with the rest of the group.

I get closer to Ezio. A couple other Assassins don't seem to want me too close to Ezio, they block my way. Ezio comes over closer to me. I point over to where the shadow Templar is and ask Ezio if he sees anything out of place over there. The shadow Templar is with a group of four Assassins. Ezio looks over there and says he only sees a group of five Assassins. Another Assassin tells Ezio not to trust me, what happened to the dead Assassin is just proof of my evil tricks. Ezio doesn't pay any attention to him. He asks me what he should be looking for. I tell him dark energy, one of them is a shadow Templar in disguise. And it's a good disguise. Ezio looks over there for a bit longer. An Assassin pulls me away from Ezio and tells him that the traitor is right here, I am clearly the Templar here. Ezio says no, he is sure I'm no Templar. The other Assassin starts to object again but it is clear Ezio isn't paying any attention to him. Ezio just looks at him until he lets go of my arm and backs off looking frustrated. Ezio turns his attention back to the group of Assassins I pointed out. The question is how to get Ezio to see dark energy. I am focused on that goal when I think of the song Unforgiven II by Metallica. I take this key and I bury it in you... the key to seeing dark energy. Ezio finally says he does see something. The woman, second from the right, has a dark aura... but why didn't he see that sooner? I tell him it can take time to see dark energy when you're not used to it. He starts to go over to the shadow Templar. I tell him to wait, now that he sees them he needs the energy that can destroy them. In a pocket of my robes I find a Witchblade with a light energy crystal which I give to Ezio. He puts it on and then goes over to the small group of five Assassins and I follow him. He directly addresses the shadow Templar. The shadow Templar tries to act casually but looks a bit worried. She points at me and says she can't believe someone she thought was an Assassin had turned traitor like that. Ezio says I am no traitor... and he can see what she is. She backs away a step but then laughs. She gives up all pretense of being an Assassin. She says there is no way the Assassins can win with the power she and the Templars have now. She tries to attack Ezio but he is too fast and stabs her with his hidden blade. She laughs and says she can't be killed. Then the gem in the Witchblade activates and charges the blade with light energy. The shadow Templar stops laughing and says that is impossible just before she collapses and disappears in a puff of smoke. Ezio looks over at me and asks if I see any more. I look around and I don't. I tell Ezio that, and add that now that he has seen one he should be able to see them a lot more easily. He asks where these Templars are coming from. I tell him I can answer his questions but not now, I am about to wake up. He looks at me strangely then I wake.

I was in a library with my cousin and a guy from the building where I used to live. We all kinda grew up together, although I kinda of drifted apart when I was about 13 or 14 (I'm 22 now and I've known the people in the building since I was around 8) while my cousin remained really close friends with all of them.

Anyway, I remember trying to look at the guy, but I couldn't see him clearly because I was not wearing my glasses. It looked like he was pointing something at me, so I jumped to the floor... right before he fired a gun at me. My cousin (who's really tall and pretty strong - the guy is also tall, but not strong - I'm a hobbit) tackled the guy, got up and he had this kind of stake on his hand, but it was bigger than a stake. Anyway, he hit the guy with it and then he sunk the stake on the floor, but also the guy's t-shirt, so that'd be stuck there.

I told my cousin that it'd have been better to have stabbed the dude than his t-shirt, but my cousin looked super sad about having to beat the guy. Then, he told me that the guy was on drugs and that he even had put cocaine on his eyes. I told him he'd get blind because of that, my cousin got even sadder, so I told him that I didn't mean that.

The guy was still moving, so we decided to run. There were many stairs and I always jump down stairs in my dreams... so that's what I did. When I got to the last floor, it was a lobby and there was a bit of a line to get out through the revolving door. I saw a character from One Tree Hill sitting on the floor (I had a OTH marathon very recently), so I joined him. We were friends in my dream, so we left the building together.

He took me to this dining place, it was really cheap, but I think there was tasty food. I remember being happy with what we got. Then, we went to the mall and there were two more people with us. As we were walking, I made a wrong turn and ended up at a blank wall where I thought there was a corridor. I thought "oh, I always do this at this mall, damn!" I often have dreams where I'm at a mall, so maybe I'd been there before? I don't remember, but it's possible.

The four of us were walking around, having fun and laughing, then suddenly, the mall changed. It was still the same mall, but the stores had changed places and the corridors had also moved. I looked back to my friends and there was only one person there, he seemed confused too.

I looked around, looked back at him and said "This is a dream. But there's something wrong with it. Something is corrupting the dream." This friend of mine (I don't know him in real life and, from what I can remember of his face, which is very little, I think that he looked like me) was still freaking out, he wanted to know what was going on. He believed me that it was a dream, but he wanted to know why it had changed so abruptly.

Then, this other person showed up, I think it was a girl, but can't be sure... and I also think that she looked like me. She pointed at this wall where there was a curtain, she opened the curtain and there was a huge tv screen on the wall. I couldn't see clearly what was there, but it was paused and the screen was blue. There was stuff written there, but I couldn't read it, I was too far from it. Anyway, this girl said "There. You have to watch this. The dream changed because he wanted to give you this message." and then I woke up.

It was VERY creepy and I woke up with my heart beating super fast.

LUCID

I became lucid while standing in the dining area of my apartment. There was a rap song playing by rick ross I believe. I thought anything I think of is true in the dream. With this thought rick ross started to chant om mani padme hum just by thinking of it. Then I thought I wanna hear a talk, then something important was said but I can't remember at the moment.

First off I would like to say wow I have been on here in a long time


It figures Sunday is my b day iin rl . I have this ex who pops in my dreams usually only when he is thinking of me sd

I was in my home town and my hubby and I had decided to get remarried . A random young girl decided to buy us wedding rings since our real ones are tattoos she drops us off at a caffe and she comes back with 2 white gold rings and says they are lesbian rings but since yall are so open minded I thought it was fitting ( what the is a lesbian ring ?) I become lucid at the moment I try to put on the ring and realize it is way too big but my hubbys fit his hand just fine they where pretty detailed rings I wish I could draw to draw them. I figure the rings must be the focus in this dream. ( note when I am lucid I still try to play observer in my dreams not disrupting the original flow) ok rings I think then my hunny bunny looks at the clock it is about 10 min. till our wedding so we light a cigg and get ready .This is when it happened I look over at the kitchen swingy doors and there was 2 hands at the windows almost like a horror movie creepy . But I knew what was really on the other side and said excuse me I will be right back to my friends and hubby.
I opened the door and there he was just asking why I would marry someone that was not him . His eyes had a deep sadness that filled my soul with pain . He was in tears and I hugged him He screamed out but I love you we are soulmates you know this . I smiled and took a step back ok fine I will take action I do not normally act upon my lucidity unless he is there so I did
I love you too and I acknowledge you as one of my soulmates you know that But what did you think I was gonna do live on the streets for 20 years just so you could play with my heart some more I deserved a life too you know it is not always about you . I found someone I can love who loves me back You had your chance . I was shocked by his dumbfounded quiet face he didnt say anything and then I walked away ..

I woke up laying on my back and even though I had fallen asleep less than 3 hours before I jolted out of bed I looked at the clock and went back to sleep where I have no clue what I dreamed about .. It always is this ex

05/29/13

Winter Shield
I am in a place I don't recognize. I have somehow become semi-lucid without remembering how it happened. I look around and I see Nomad sleeping in a bed. He is there holding Winter. I stand and watch them sleep for a while, thinking they look peaceful together and feeling lonely that there is no one in this dimension meant for me. I am lost in my own thoughts when I see that I am not the only one watching them. I look around and see there are Templars everywhere. I am not sure what they are doing there but I am sure they are up to no good. I drop an Immortal Fire spell right near Nomad and Winter. The explosion of energy incinerates all the Templars in its path. When the energy fades I see all of the Templars are gone. I look back at Nomad and Winter, feeling a little better. Being alone doesn't mean I have to give in to the Templars. I wait for a bit longer and Nomad wakes up, or more accurately he enters the dream. He looks up at me. I tell him he had been surrounded by Templars, but I got rid of them. We can get right to putting up a shield around Winter. He agrees that is a good idea, first we'll have to go into her inner world. He says he isn't sure what condition the place is in… Since I have never been in there I let Nomad take both of us into Winter's inner dream world. Once we are in Winter's inner world I see that it is in complete chaos. The place is on fire, and there are dream demons flying everywhere. Nomad looks around and then says the dream demons are only DC's. That means her inner world has fortunately not been invaded as it appears. The dream demon DC's are making things a bit chaotic so I focus on two songs at once. Enter Sandman to create a cyclone of energy and Black Hole Sun to draw all of the free flying dream demons into the center of that cyclone. There is a large explosion in the center of the cyclone and the DC dream demons are destroyed. I look around and see Nomad holding on to Winter. I focus on the song Blitzkrieg by Metallica in order to form a defensive shield around all of Winter's inner world.

After that is done I focus on the song Full Moon Light to spread healing energy throughout the place. It flows to all areas of Winter's inner world as well as through Nomad and Winter. Nomad looks upset by something. I ask him if Winter is ok. He says we need to go to the healing glen. I open a portal to the healing glen and we go through it. We are greeted by the Crystal Golem. We all sit down in the tall grass, Nomad is holding Winter close to him. The birds are singing, there are butterflies flitting around as well as some other iridescent insects. An angel is singing a healing song. For some reason the healing energy isn't making me feel any better, I am feeling more alone than ever. So I get up and leave, walking through the tall grass until I come to a small pond.

I sit down on the banks of the pond and look out over the water wishing I didn't feel like crying. But I am alone… so it's ok to cry. So I sit there and cry silently. I don't know how long it has been before someone is beside me. He asks if I am ok. I instinctively try to wipe the tears away, it is a habit for me to not want to be seen crying. He doesn't say anything more, he sits down beside me and puts his arm around me, pulling me close. Somehow the fact someone came to check on me makes me want to cry more, people don't do that in my waking life. I look to my side and see Altaïr is the one sitting beside me. We sit there for a bit until I hear strange noises behind me. Nomad is there, says something about smoking a joint. Winter is playing around with some kind of ninja powers. Nomad says we have to find Ezio. Altaïr says he already knows where to find Ezio. The Ezio we are looking for is from the same world he is from, just a different time period. He said he scouted the area and caught sight of a shadow templar disguising himself as Altaïr, but he disappeared before Altaïr could stop him. A fake Altaïr… that would explain the visions I got of Ezio and Altaïr fighting, it was no doubt the fake Altaïr. Good to know since between Ezio and Altaïr I would tend to choose Altaïr. I wake up, and for a few seconds I still feel Altaïr's arm around me as if he had come out of the dream with me.
 
Shadow Ambush
I am in a city I don't recognize. I look around but I don't see anything that can help me recognize the place. Something about it reminds me of a city from a video game, so I decide I must be testing out the latest virtual reality system. So I set to exploring the town. There are quite a few people wandering the streets but I don't recognize any of them and none of them seem to notice me. I continue wandering until I find several guards that seem to be bullying one man, pushing him around, threatening him… I figure it is probably an optional task to teach those bullies a lesson. So I check for weapons and find I have a sword and a hidden blade. Good enough. I go over to the guards and tell them they had better leave that man alone. The guards laugh at me and tell me I had better move along if I don't want to get hurt. I tell them I don't see anyone around that could hurt me, but this is their last chance to back off. The guards just laugh at me. One of them says maybe they should put me in my place. The guards are now surrounding me, there are five of them. The guy that had been being bullied takes the opportunity to run away. Jerk… he won't even stick around to offer a reward for helping him? Well, kicking these guys' asses should be a reward in itself. The guards are around me with their swords drawn so I draw my own sword. This brings more laughter. One of them laughs and says the little girl thinks she's going to be able to fight. One of them attacks me. I block his attack and then cut him down with a counter strike. The other guards seem surprised I was able to do that. The others attack me now, I dodge out of the middle of the group, using a counter strike to take another one out. Three left, and they're all attacking at once. I focus on one and use a counter strike, turning around quickly to find the two coming from behind me… are already dead? They haven't even hit the ground yet, and there is a man standing between them, the one who killed them.

I recognize that man as Ezio. He is looking at me strangely. Ok… taking out a few guards is easy, but I don't think I'm a high enough level to take on Ezio… but I don't have to. He comes over to me, it sounds like he is going to ask me to join the Assassins, but he gets interrupted by another Assassin running up to him. He says there is trouble, and Ezio is needed right away. Ezio follows the other Assassin quickly and I follow Ezio, since he's apparently going where the action is. We leave the main area of town and end up in a small glen of trees. The other Assassin has stopped and is just standing there. Ezio asks what is going on, who is in trouble? The other Assassin looks up with a really evil grin on his face and says Ezio is the one in trouble. There are Templars emerging from the trees. They all seem to be surrounded by dark auras. Shadow Templars! There are shadow Templars in this game? Then there had better also be magic to defeat them! Ezio is instantly ready to fight the new enemies. I tell him to wait just a second… then focus on the spell song Battery to summon a lightning bolt of light energy to charge Ezio's sword.

He looks at the sparking blade only briefly before attacking the shadow Templars. There are six shadow Templars including the one disguised as an Assassin. The Templar disguised as an Assassin is the first to fall to Ezio's blade. The others has been moving in, but when they see their friend go down so easily they seem to hesitate, giving strange glances at each other. I hear someone muttering about dark energy making them invincible… and a response of just kill them! Ezio takes out a Templar coming at him from in front and then one off to his right in one smooth motion. I manage to take out one attacking Ezio from behind and then counter strike the one attacking me. I turn around just in time to see Ezio cut down the last Templar. Ezio looks around to make sure there are no more Templars hiding in the trees and then over at me. He asks who I am… there was something strange about those Templars, what was it? All I end up tell him is my name… Raven Knight… then I feel like I am about to wake up. I find that disappointing. I don't want to return to my waking life. I realize I have spoken aloud, said I don't want to leave. Ezio says I don't have to go anywhere, but apparently it's not up to Ezio… I wake up.

#188 - 4:06AM - DILD

WBTB time: 2:45AM-3:00AM

I was really tired during this WBTB and could barely manage the 15min though I wanted to go for 30+. I think the tiredness and lack of good technique resulted in a failed WILD and a somewhat sloppy DILD.

I have a false awakening lying on my stomach. I feel like a child again and I notice I must be in my parents bed since my mom is next to me. I feel a finger poke on my back and roll over to see my dad. He says something about sleeping in my own bed and I feel a little embarrassed.

I go to another room that looks similar to a childhood bedroom except the furniture is scattered and out of place. I begin rearranging things and notice a soda fountain glowing in the corner. I think this is really cool and get closer to investigate. My mom starts talking to me from the other room so I leave it.

Now I am driving to work in heavy sleet. There is so much sleet on the road that it looks like heavy snow but the consistency is that of a flavorless snow cone. I try to get up hill and see a truck sliding on ice in front of me. My car dissolves and I begin walking. My sister calls me and starts talking about the weather and asking if I need a ride.

Suddenly I am in the house of the guy that was driving the truck. I felt a little out of place and exposed like I was trespassing. When he and wife looked surprised to see me, I waved and thanked them for the help hoping they would be fooled and go with it. They instantly smile and nod at me. I am annoyed at my sisters constant talking so I tell her I am busy and need to go. Her voice is suddenly cut of with out a good bye. I look at the phone in my hand to see if I had a dropped call but what I see there looks similar to a WiiMote. I shrug and push the power button and put the wiiphone away.

I make my way to the front porch and see my brother-in-law talking to my mother-in-law. I join the conversation and we talk about how I should have just shrunk my car down and put it in my pocket instead of letting it dissolve like that. I realize we are talking dream control and for some reason I say, "I am still dreaming" This surprises me and I think back and remember that I must have briefly lost lucidity. I feel like I have the beginning of the LD in my memory so I put the thought away intending to remember it later. Unfortunately, I have no idea what that part of the dream was now.

I wander off into the green grass of the lawn. I notice it is sunny and bright. Deciding I want my car back, I reach into my pocket trying to summon a shrunken car. There is nothing in my hand but I continue anyway hoping the dream will catch up. I make an enlarging motion like zooming on a touch screen but nothing happens.

I look around and see a really strange looking car parked on the street. It looks like the real life version of the car in Paranorman.



At first I think it's an old Ford but as I get closer its definitely more station wagon like with an exaggerated long front end. I hop in the driver seat and take off. At first the steering wheel becomes detached and floats unconnected. I do a double take and suddenly it is right. I shrug and take it as a strange dream glitch and continue on.

At first I realize I am driving in a suburb but as I set my intent the scenery quickly changes. I am purposefully trying to drive to the Great Wall of China. I don't try to force anything and let the change all with expectation and intent. I see dry grass land and then hills. Then out the side I see something just over the top of a small hill through the tall grass. I catch a glimpse of the Great Wall. I notice the large brown stone bricks with castle like parapets on top.

I become excited and veer off the road to drive up the hill but the car gets stuck on top of large rock and a deep rut. I get out of the car and notice there are people with me. The darkness swarms in but I hold it back and try to get my bearings. My wife suddenly walks up and begins talking to someone not part of the scene. The DC's that got out of the car start talking to me at the same time. I get a double image of two dreams overlapping each other and I become very confused. I relax my concentration and the darkness comes.

I find my self in the void then laying in bed in a REM atonia like state. From some reason I am very aroused and begin visualizing my wife having sex with me. There is no physical sensation but I wait in anticipation. Then I suddenly remember that I woke from a lucid dream. I begin recalling the details and the effort wakes me up completely.

Later I have another long dream about some kids bullying me and I confront them. Then I have to inflate the tires on my car but there is a problem with one of the valve stems. Some friend of mine helps me and I end up getting some contact cement from in the house. I create a gooey clumsy mess and doubt it will all hold. I tell my friend that is doesn't matter since this is all a dream anyway. For some reason I think of all as HI and not a full dream. I sit and wait on the dream now. As I do I begin to notice a strange faint grinding sound. I realize I have been hearing this for quite some time but I just didn't pay any attention to it. It becomes louder and louder until I am awakened by the sound of my wife snoring.