lucid

No supplements this time, I decided to just go clean and see what happens. I did smoke a little during the day, but not much, and not too soon before going to bed.

#1 - How Did This Become About Aliens? [Non-Lucid]

I was at some house party with JE and JG, among other people who I can't quite recall now, and we were all lying around or sitting on this bed in the dark waiting to each get pizza from JG one at a time, or something really odd like that. When he was calling me to get mine I suddenly realized that I was naked and felt really embarrassed, but it was really dark so I quickly made a grab for my pants and cami which I saw on the ground not too far from me and slipped them on. I went over to JG and got my pizza, like in a personal pan-sized box, and then I decided to head out (and the pizza just kind of disappeared in the process). I was walking to the door and this big dog came up and tried to get outside, but I held it back and went out and just started pacing back and forth in front of the door for R to get there to pick me up. I started anxiously texting him, but then after a minute JG came out to tell me that R was already sitting in the car parked in the driveway, even though when I looked a second later I didn't see anyone there.

I went over and got in the car and, down on the street, this car pulls up and a group of mean looking thugs or something get out. We drive off recklessly, swerving and barely missing obstacles along the way, and eventually we accidentally hit some of the thugs. R (though I'm not sure it's actually him) drives us off quickly so we can get away before they come beat the shit out of us and we end up in some frozen and snowy lake, which was the first sign of this kind of weather in the dream. Suddenly I had a third-person view of the thugs trying to figure out who we are, and they were referring to us as aliens (and I had a mental image of me being a humanoid one, while R or whoever looked like Roger from American Dad!) when someone pointed out that there were just some aliens at JG's house, so they decided to go ask him about us. It flashes back to us now except that it's still in third-person and we've become Robin (Cobie Smulders) and Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) from How I Met Your Mother. I could guess who was supposed to be who but I can't really say for sure, I didn't feel a distinct connection to either since this was all very detached still. Robin was freaking out about the situation but Barney was saying don't you get it? Something had to have started all of this alien business, and it might have been there at that lake. However, before he could really go any further with that thought, I woke up.

#2 - Just An Ordinary Office [DILD]

Something led up to this part of the dream, but the first thing I really remember is when me, Butters from South Park, his dad, a psychiatrist, and a cat all walked into this nice little room that was visibly (through the windows) on the first floor of some building we were in. Butters had some kind of supposed emotional problems that needed discussing, and the psychiatrist started talking about how she had the perfect method to make him feel better. It sounded really deep and caring, until she started saying about how wonderful it would be to do... whatever it was (some form of relaxation or self-expression I think, but it's hard to recall now) "as a lesbian". As she was saying all this, I became lucid. Poor Butters was just starting to get really confused as always, and I start petting the cat who's still walking around the room and laughing my ass off at how ridiculous this is. I started thinking about someone I know in waking life who always has stories about how when something funny happens in one of her dreams she wakes up in a fit of laughter, so it made me a little cautious not to make myself wake up but thankfully that never happened. I started observing everything around me just to stabilize a bit, and I decided to go through this other door in the room (aside from the one we came through) that I perceived as leading to the closet, but I wanted it to lead somewhere else.

I opened the door and there was a hallway in it, and as I turned around and it left my sight while I was closing the door, I willed it to lead to some kind of work office. I'm not sure why I chose this exactly, I guess I just thought it would be more likely to happen since I could easily picture it in the kind of environment I was already in. It worked, and I suddenly felt that I was no longer on the first floor of the building. I walked down and this guy walked past me and smiled at me, so I just kind of smiled back while I was still busy stabilizing, but then I decided I should stop worrying about that and just be confident that the dream will hold itself together for at least a little bit. I turned back around and said hey to the guy and asked if I could see his shirt, just to see what it said. It was one of those things where there are two phrases that each have one word the same and in the image they're combined so that they each end up at that word (or sometimes start from that word, but not this time) and that particular word is only written once, you know? The two things it said were "PUSH IT" and "SHOVE IT", with the 'IT' being at the bottom. The whole thing was made out of craftily placed black and orange borders, and I'm not sure if it would have actually made sense in reality or if it just worked because I only focused on one section of the shirt at a time, but I did think it was pretty cool and I told him so. He got all happy and was like "Isn't it?" or something like that, and then walked off.

I kept walking through the office a bit and came across a few people, a couple guys sitting at desks and a girl just kind of standing around. I walked up to the girl and asked what's up, and she says something like they're just hanging around, and then she asks me if I want to dance. I say sure and we do a dorky little dance for a moment (you know when you like just raise your fists up to your shoulders and barely shake back and forth a bit? ), and then she asks me if I want a piece of paper. I'm like um, sure? And she reaches over and grabs one with something on it from a printer that was sitting next to us. I reached out to take it from her but she pulled it back and started telling me something, and I think it was about something I had to do to get the paper, but the dream started becoming flat and seeming distant, and then it faded away and I woke up.

I thought about trying to fall back asleep and go for more, but I kind of had to go to the bathroom when I woke up and I was already alert enough that I knew that afterward I would be too awake to really have a chance at it, so I just decided to fully get up then.

the first half of this dream is a ND. the rest is an LD. here it is. i was in a big city, i enterd a building. inside it was like a fast food restaurant. i seen a 2 male teenagers sitting at the front. they looked like little Evil hoodlums . one of them had a big stack of huge quarters but they werent quarters they were checks on the back. he was counting them most of them had 2.50 to 5.50 $ on them. i asked him if i could have one, so i could get something to eat. he gave me the biggest aditude and was acting like a real jerk i dont remember what he said though. i do remember calling him a little asshole and mooning him and fliping him off on my way out the door . then i ran into a lady and pushed her against the door . i told her i was so sorry :sorry: i was trying to get away from those pricks and i pointed to them. the lady reckegnized them and ran away to get the cops. they came out the door and booked it. they must have stollen those quater checks or something. i got lucid after that and flew way up into the clouds. i didnt want to get involved this time. Then i started singing im dreaming, dreaming la-de-da-de-da yah . then i went down through the clouds i saw an island. i floated above it to see the differant types of buildings. i said to myself which one do i want to go see. i decided to go in front of one that was made from a tree. on the front it said An Inn. with a bell and wierd symboles on it. There was no one around it was a ghost town . The building and stuff looked new though. I started to read stuff i picked up a box of something and read the back. It had the bell and the wierd symboles like the building. I put the box down and picked up a bottle. It looked like a bear and tasted like it too. I read the lable same bell and symboles but there was some fine print on this one. It was starting to get blurd and my eyes hurt. I snaped my fingers and said glasses to make my glasses apear. I put them on thinking it would make things clearer. Oh no it made things soo blury and my eyes started to sting bad . I woke up after that.

February 24, 2013 - 5 hours in - 2 minutes - WBTB, SSILD, MILD, DS

Woke via alarm after 3.5 hours and did about 6 SSILD cycles of gradually increasing length. Afterward I fell asleep to a mantra of "1, I'm dreaming, 2, I'm dreaming, 3..." while trying to visualize each digit.

I am in the other bedroom reading a glossary in a book on the nightstand and three terms each starting with "Dream," one of them being "Dream within a dream," are set apart in the list, with descriptions after each one. 'This kind of thing [of randomly reading about dreams] happens to me a lot in dreams,' I thought to myself. Still, possibly because of the mundane setting, and also because I could remember a lot of what I did recently (whether this actually occurred in the dream I don't know), I was certain it was reality. Still, I thought I would check, just because. I plug my nose and inhale successfully.

What a surprise! I thought to myself, "If this is a dream, anything could be a dream!" But now I am fully lucid and I rub my hands to stabilize. J. is here and I plug my nose and inhale and ask J. what she thinks, but she doesn't react much. I say to her, "We're in a dream right now!" She makes a skeptical yet confused face and says, "Okay."

Next I try the finger through palm reality check. I push the first two fingers on my right hand through my left palm, causing the skin to stretch like rubber and making quite an indentation through the other side. I push harder and feel it push through, but look and see the fingers are now only between the other hand's fingers, not through the palm. I try twice more and get the same results. One last time, I push lower down and with a better angle, and it keeps stretching, but for some reason I don't push through all the way. I guess even in a dream I don't feel like damaging my hand.

She wants to hug me goodbye (like reality) and I unthinkingly comply. As I lean over to do so, I wake up instantly.

I'm in my bed trying to go to sleep, when all of a sudden SP kicks in. I feel like I can't move or breathe, and I'm trying to convince myself not to break it. Finally those feeling subside, and then I feel myself floating out of my bed. "ZOMG epic flying dream incoming"I think to myself, as I feel my soul is leaving my body.

The problem is, no dream really starts. I think I'm just probably in a NREM state, because I keep seeing shadows, and shades of blackness....nothing is really materializing. Suddenly I'm awakened by a sharp pain in my ribs.


Almost

I'm at the supermarket with some guys, and I see one of my classmates. She's looking beautiful, and I don't hesitate to let her know....I'm about to have sex with her right there, and of course I woke up.


Stealing cars

I'm at car dealership in a corvette, and I'm thinking of ways to steal it. I drive it outside of the lot, and try to replace it with another blue car. When I came back to the corvette, it was a different car. I opened it up, and there was some venomous snake there. I was thinking it was a Pigmy rattle snake because I didn't hear the rattle at all, but I saw the fangs. I backed off slowly, while facing it, and then once I got away from striking distance I took off. All of a sudden it starts chasing me. "This has to be a dream" I think, but I'm not going to take my chances.

FA

I'm in my room. I get out of bed, and head to the bathroom...I think I'm dreaming but not sure. I do a nose pinch....no pressure, but can't breathe. Still not sure. I check the mirror. Boils are on my face, and other things don't look right. I do another RC...it doesn't work as expected but I know I'm dreaming. The damn dream fades.

I am laying in my bed just trying to fall asleep. I notice that there are colorful images floating in the darkness of my eyelids which I have noticed in the past but never to this extent. I'm fascinated so I watch them swim in my vision. A very round and mirthful face drifts down from above and fixes itself in the center of my eyelids. I find it slightly peculiar that it is so prominent in my vision when my eyes are closed. It slowly starts to float off to the side. I watch it as it leaves my vision..

I wake up. I'm laying in my bed but everything is SO bright. My sheets and the light coming from my window are the most brilliant vivid white I've ever seen. Suddenly I realize that I must be dreaming. I excitedly pinch my nose and try to breath. I expect nothing to happen like every other time I've checked - BUT I am able to breath! At this point an exultant triumphant feeling wells up inside of me and I have an ear to ear grin. I try to prop myself up on my elbows to look around but it's like I don't have any control of my limbs. I roll over and try to push myself up but my arms just seem to sink into my bed.

I actually wake up. I was slightly disappointed that it only lasted what felt like a minute and a half, but that feeling didn't last long. I FINALLY was able to become Lucid after a few weeks of trying.

This was another one of those lucids where I become aware that I'm dreaming for those few minutes as I'm gradually waking up. The dream usually incorporates some activity in bed, which parallels the feeling of actually being in my bed as I'm waking up. It's really weird, but it is technically a lucid dream because even though I somewhat feel myself in my bed, I also feel someone else that I know not to be there irl. And no, I don't wake up making out with my pillow. I wake up in a normal sleep position. Anyway, this is the type of lucid that got me looking up dreamviews all those years ago.

So all I remember is that I'm hanging out with Drew Barrymore. And I'm a dude. We lie down in bed and start making out, when I suddenly realize it's a dream. I feel really aware, and I can tell that I have a few minutes before waking up. So I take off her shirt as fast as I can.

Spoiler for rated R part:

I start massaging her chest, but there are no boobs. It's like she has a guy's upper body structure. I wanted her to have boobs, so as I massaged each pectoral area, I willed them to plump up. One at a time, it worked. We were french kissing the whole time, which was nice. Her nipples got hard, so I moved my right hand south.

I was almost afraid that I would find out she has a guy's lower body as well, and just when I was about to accept this possibility and just go with it, I woke up. I guess I got too excited, oh well

I'm such a mac daddy

Well, the first thing I remember is [color="darkslateblue"]being at this one little shop that's close to my home. I was bugging the owner about getting me a summer job there, but he only told me that they don't need any help. I decided to stick around anyway, in case he changes his mind.
The shop turned into a small restaurant, there was a staircase in the middle of the room and there were tables here and there, I saw a couple sitting at a table. The whole room was darkish, seemed like it was only lit by candles.

I walked past the couple, on a trail that brought me to a high building. I heard German, I assumed I was in Germany. The building had this arch and under the arch there was some little sculpture. Giving the sculpture something of value apparently brought you luck.
The grass around the arch was green, a very nice and vivid green. There were people sitting on the grass, chatting.

I continued walking the trail, it brought me to a very small, dim room. The windows were slightly foggy, but I could still see the enormous graveyard surrounding the tiny room. I went closer to a window to read the name on a tombstone, but then I saw my reflection in the window and it made me jump. :|

I left the room right away, went back to the restaurant. It was all grey and dark, no lights this time. No people either.[/color][color="seagreen"]
I sat down on the..3rd or 4th step of the staircase and stared at the room through the handrail spindles. I was sort of angry, the dream was so boring. Just for the heck of it, I tried to use telekinesis to smash some large object into the fireplace.
Nothing happened.
I was bummed, I tried breaking one of the wooden spindles. I broke the first one. Then the second. I think I broke another one. After that I stood up and quickly made it to my kitchen, looking for a wine bottle to break. Checked if it was empty..[/color][color="darkslateblue"]and then changed my mind because it would make a mess.[/color] >__>

Yeah nice going. You tried to smash something big into a fireplace, but breaking a wine bottle's just too much.

So, I decided to do another ridiculous supplement test this time. I took 80 mg of melatonin at 9 PM, and I washed it down with thin mints, for good measure. The result was interesting. First of all, my first dream of the night was lucid. That's pretty odd, especially considering the melatonin... not that I really mind. For the rest of the night I noticed that nothing overly trippy happened, except that all of the dream scenes were very, very vivid and had mostly bizarre video game themes. I was also a bit delirious whenever I woke up, which caused me to lose one or two dreams from memory before being able to write them down, so I actually had quite a few dreams this night. And I could've had even more, but I had to wake up early again, so....

#1 - I've Yet To Make This One Work >:T [DILD]

I remember being at a school and walking down a hallway somehow having control over what was playing on the intercom, and I was using it to mess with someone by blasting loud music whenever they started talking. Eventually I got to the class I was walking to and became lucid. I wasn't incredibly aware though, because I kept texting my friend N throughout it, and I can't remember what we were talking about now. At first I just stabilized a bit, and then I kept trying to summon a joint or a pipe into someone's hands so we could smoke, but it never worked. Eventually I just sat down next to one of the guys there and started cuddling with him, but soon afterward I woke up.

And yes, let it be noted that 80 mg of melatonin was not enough to stop me from waking up several times throughout the night.

#2 - Dream Fragment [Non-Lucid]

I think I was playing as a video game character, or maybe meeting one, who was super violent and was accused of attacking someone over one thousand times "outside of battle"...? Or something like that, and I believe there was a scythe involved too, but it's hard to remember exactly.... I almost lost this one, I just barely was able to grab ahold of the memory.

#3 - Bobolo [Non-Lucid]

I was trying to help my cousin K with a school paper based on some kiddie game website called Bobolo that was specifically about some kind of disease or diseases, and I was slowly realizing that this topic wasn't really going to be usable to make a very good paper, but I didn't want to point that out to her because I felt bad that her paper was due the next day. What I remember of the website I could most quickly compare to Maple Story, but I wouldn't say it was exactly like that. There was also some set of medical record scans that I was able to unlock and look at at one point, but I wasn't able to make our what any of them said.

#4 - I Would Definitely Play This Game [Non-Lucid]

I was with my cousin G, who was living at some kind of trailer house I'm unfamiliar with with his immediate family now. We were in his room and I was playing some video game with pretty strange maps. I'm fairly certain that the way I was walking around and the character I was using were based on Phantasy Star Online, but the maps had colored grid squares with area effects that were very clearly (I even remember thinking it at the time) based on geo panels from the Disgaea series. The way the character jumped also reminds me of a Mario game thinking back on it now, but not enough to say it was based on that. I was excited about something on it, but I can't remember what now, and then I logged off and talked to G about watching kids do something pointless (the conversation is pretty hazy in my memory), and then I left the house. I got in my car and started trying to figure out how to get home while blasting some really crazy dubstep song which actually sounded pretty badass, but just as I was starting to find my way the dream faded.

At this point I woke up and, after I got out of my mildly hypnotic state, my libido was running pretty strong. I rolled over and started basically molesting my body pillow for a minute, but I tried to do this passively so the energy would wear off and I could fall asleep again. Eventually I started drifting and had some light hypnagogia, I think of some text or something? I didn't make note of it, so it's hard to remember. And the same with not long after, I rolled over and had more hallucinations, I think it was some kind of ladder pattern running horizontal across my vision, or something... but then my mom came in and woke me up because I have stuff do. Ah, well. Not a bad night.

* ADA + WBTB + MILD after 7hrs sleep this night. Was up for about an hour. Ate a banana and drank cup of herbal tea before going back to sleep.

I'm in a small living room but I don't recognize it. I'm mindlessly walking over to a table with an old answering machine that sits next to a telephone. I start playing the messages on the answering machine. Evil sounding noises start coming form the answering machine and I think to myself 'Evil' and I am suddenly very scared. I wonder how evil could have infected my answering machine. Suddenly I realize this doesn't make sense and I become lucid.

I test this by looking at my hands and predictably my hand looks distorted. It always seems to be a different distortion and this time the odd thing is that my index and little finger are only about an inch long while my other fingers are the normal length. I am positive I'm in a lucid dream now.

I make my way out of the room and down some stairs to the front door. I walk outside and looking up a hill is a large windmill. I try to do my lucid task of trying to run very fast. I think about running very fast up the hill. However I seem to be stuck and actually walking very slowly dispute my efforts to run.

My vision starts fading to black and I wake up.

Well I started out spinning around in some strange area, I don't remember exactly where but this triggered my lucidity as I started questioning whether this was a dream. I performed a reality check a few times and it came up positive so I took a few steps to this support beam and I think I was in some arena type area, I don't remember exactly but after walking to this support beam, this animated drawing of a cartoon woman with blonde hair and a blue blouse appeared on the wall. I took a few minutes to look at it and it's mouth moved like it was alive. then after that I touched it and the whole frame of the picture started moving forward. the drawing stayed on the wall, but the wall which covered the whole of the drawing came out in a rectangular shape. I looked away and then it changes and some butten looking thing appeared, I'm not sure how to explained but I remember it turning from light blue to red after looking away each time.

after that I saw some people and I was looking for some women to kiss and I went to one women who happend to be an old lady with terriblely animated lips which looked like something a cartoon character would have then after looking at the people she was standing with, I saw one old man who was also badly animated, but it was his wierd shaped eyes. First of all his eyes were super small, very beady looking which poked out like bug eyes and they were completely black, like he was wearing black contacts or something. I think I tried to do something but I don't remember but I remember staring at him wondering why people looked so weird in my dreams then the dream suddenly turned into a short nightmare when he suddenly roared at me like he was pissed by my presence. Ity was a scary raor almost unreal and his face looked very monsterish but it happend in a flash cause I woke up shortly after.

when I wokme up I went to record what I remembered in my dream journal. I went to the computer and looked for this site, then for some reason was looking through a notebook and I don't remember if anything happend after that but later on I woke up for real and was surprised that it turned out to be a false awakening.

So last night I had a pretty interesting lucid dreaming experience. I realized I was in a sort of sleep paralysis stage and then eased myself into the dream. The dream(s) weren't that exciting but I played with some lucid dreaming stuff I'd been meaning to try out.

I'm not really sure where I was. It was inside and the lighting was really bad, so I tried to imagine that there was a light, but nothing really worked. I found it really hard to walk straight and kept losing my balance in the same way I do when I'm waking up from a lucid dream.

When I tried to put my hands together, it was like they were magnets that wouldn't let each other touch.

I woke up several times but had no problem returning to the lucid dream each time it happened. I probably woke up and returned to my dream at least three times.

I was finally able to improve the lighting by imagining it was daytime and walking outside.

At one point, when I returned to the dream, I had myself call someone I wanted to show up and they arrived shortly after. When they arrived, I kissed them. Again, it was kind of like when I tried to touch my hands together--the contact wasn't really happening.

I woke up from my dream and was unable to return to a lucid dream, but I did have a very detailed nonlucid dream after that.

Not as much success than previous WILD entry there, but still interesting. I originally planned to do TOTM but i guess i forgot about that mid-dream...

I am in my bed, eyes closed, i feel different somehow and binaural beat i am listening to is ending(it's not looped), i take off headphones and the still head a bit of ending, thus confirming that i am in dream. I get up and recall my goals, i remember to stabilize, i try feeling the bed and i also rub hands. I look around and i am suddenly in a different room of my house now. My next goal was to try phasing through balcony door, but i get a bit puzzled since i am in a different room. I notice a door 'leading outside' that's placed there instead of windows that are there IWL. I run towards it and imagine phasing through it, but door opens by itself as i touch it, so i end up falling.
Mid-fall i try to teleport towards balcony, but fail, then i end up accidentally closing eyes, but after i open them it don't seem to effect the dream and i am still falling. Suddenly i feel the wings, so i slowly glide to the street.
I look around and there are alot of people walking around, i notice that some of them look like my family, but nobody really notices me. At this point i presumably forgot my goals, so i decide to just explore. I also decide that it would be good to move faster, so i start running quite quickly, there's at least a few meters between steps. Dream starts fading out and i wake up.

Non-Dream [COLOR="#4B0082"]Dream[/COLOR] [COLOR="#DAA520"]Lucid[/COLOR]

Ok well haven't posted in a while but here goes. I don't really know the chronological order of these events so my dream may be told out of order. The facts and events are what actually happened in my dream, although they might be in the wrong order, and some parts are also missing as I don't remember the entire dream.

Sleep: 4:00am
Wake 2:15pm

1. [COLOR="#4B0082"] My first dream was in the basement of my moms house, where I live. For some reason instead of one bar under the stairs there were two smaller bars next to this great view of a window thats the size of a jacuzzi? It went from the ground to the ceiling and there were two bars on the side. Both of them had this green tile on top like the bar we have in real life. I realized I usually spent time at one bar and I just was getting comfortable to the other bar when something happened and I went into another room where my mom put in a third bar that was much bigger. It was a big oval and stretched as far as a schoolbus lengthwise. On one side there was beer on tap and my grandparents were testing it out, I asked my mom what happened to the old bar and she said she got rid of it. I felt sad and that was the end.[/COLOR]

2. [COLOR="#4B0082"] The next dream I remember is I was on a cruise. Apparently it was a pretty shitty cruise now that I think about it because it only had rooms on one side and pools on the other. Apparently we were docked in Japan and I was walking in my bathing suit to the pools side of the boat. I was just trying to find a hot tub to get into. The architecture was weird[/COLOR] let me explain the top of the boat in MS Paint.

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[COLOR="#4B0082"]At first I saw a father helping his daughter down the waterfall steps, which was cool and cute at the same time. Then I got into the hot tub, and there was this family in there. The father was sitting across from me, they had a daughter to both of our sides and the mother was sitting on the top of the hot tub. The father started telling me this amazing cop story and I was trying to pay attention so i tried to get comfortable. I tried to get comfortable but I kept leaning towards his daughter and he kept getting more suspicious, I tried to move away but it was just awkward. I looked to the wife and she filled in some of the story while the father told it. I eventually left the hot tub to go look off the side of the cruise ship. It looked like a Japanese harbor, and then for a few seconds[/COLOR][COLOR="#DAA520"] I went lucid. I didn't even try to do anything my subconcious already knows that I am going to wake up if I do anything exciting. I decided to just sit there and enhance the view. It suddenly turned to night and the sky had so many stars and there was a beach way down below me. Shortly after that I lost the lucidity[/COLOR] [COLOR="#4B0082"]and my dream continued.
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3. [COLOR="#4B0082"]I had a dream me and my brother were playing call of duty, and we decided to play this other game. We looked like little slime people, like yellow gum drops except everyone had white hair and glasses, which were supposed to portray they were old. At first me and my brother were racing against each other, and you had to press A fast to win the race. I ended up doing the trick where you put the sleeve over your finger and rub the button across to be able to press A extremely fast. My dad was in the background and said something then asked if he could play. After that we watched another team of two try to beat my and Joeys added score. I handed my dad the controller and that was the end of the dream.[/COLOR]

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i finnish my last dream i posted if any one wants to read the rest. i was with 2 others in a gym or something practicing a new flying method. like how iron man flies. then suddenly the 2 others booked it out a door. then i realized what we were doing we were trying to fly. lucid now i looked to my left and saw a stain glass window. i broke and flew out side landing on the ground. i was in a school court yard. i saw crowds of people looked like they were changing classes. i searched for some one to talk to. i felt my body irl and my eyes felt light like i would wake any second but when. i got paranoid about waking up and started to hear a count down from 48 then 47, 46 but by then my girlfriend bumped me and woke me up. oh well its not her fault

This is the second DV member lucid I've had in a row! For some reason, my subC is teeing these up for me right now, which is cool. Hope it keeps up.

I noticed that I was fairly stupid throughout this dream, including the lucid portion. I took a pretty high dose of melatonin at bedtime, so I wonder whether that was related. Good vividness though!

Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

Lucid #69: The Scorpion

I'm walking through the desert, heading down the slope of a tall sand dune. The sun is high and bright. I feel relaxed almost to the point of sleepiness.

Suddenly, I feel a sharp, painful stab in my foot! I decide that I must have been bitten by a scorpion. I try to remember if you're supposed to die when that happens, but I think maybe it just hurts like hell. When I look down to find the "scorpion", all I see is an unhooked safety pin lying in the sand. The safety pin dances a bit and says, "It's me! Paigeyemps!"

"Yeah right," I tell the safety pin.

"Seriously, it's me!" The safety pin wiggles a bit. "I got shrunk down and I'm too small to go anywhere. So I found this safety pin and I stab people with it when they come by so that they'll help me. I'm really thirsty."

I find this totally convincing and I feel bad for doubting her. "Of course I'll help you! Let me get you some water!" I look around and see that about 100 feet away is the "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign. Oops. I feel silly wandering around in the desert when I'm this close to the Vegas strip.



I walk toward the Las Vegas strip and somehow I find an empty cup and a big bottle of water. I fill up the cup and bring it back to Paigeyemps and her safety pin, feeling like quite the hero. The little safety pin waves around a bit and she says, "That cup is filled with bacteria! I can't drink that!" I'm sort of embarrassed that the cup is so dirty and I wonder how she's able to see bacteria so well. I figure it's because she's so little, but something seems funny about the whole situation. All of this "heavy duty thinking" seems to get my brain into a higher gear and I become lucid.

Even though I'm lucid, I still feel very, very stupid. I think that maybe Paigeyemps could use a bigger signaling object than that tiny safety pin, so I conjure a knife into my right hand. It occurs to me that it would probably be bad to have her out here in the desert knifing everybody that comes close. I toss the knife over my shoulder.

"Hey," I tell her, "I'm actually lucid now! Let me just shrink down to your size and see if I can help." (I wonder why I didn't try to make her bigger instead. ) She says something along the lines of "cool" and I focus my vision on the safety pin, willing myself to shrink down.

The shrinking effect feels sort of like zooming on Google Maps. I focus on the spot where the safety pin is and will myself to move closer and closer to it. There's a momentary visual streaking effect and then everything looks bigger. After a few iterations of this, the grains of sand look more like huge rocks and for some reason they're glowing. From up close, they look beautiful.

"I think it's working!" Paige shouts. "You look much smaller!" At this point, I see a tiny humanoid-looking figure hopping around among the grains of sand! Encouraged, I do a few more cycles. On my last zoom, though, I zoom in on the wrong spot and find her completely out of view.

I call out to see if I can still find her but there's no response. I figure that I'm totally lost. I don't know how to proceed so I try hopping around like a sand flea for a little while. I get tons of height when I flea-hop like this and sand-boulders fly everywhere when I land. This is great! I do that a few more times until the dream ends.