lucid

Method: DILD.
In the dream I'm at a party in a school or something, I don't really remember. It becomes nighttime and I venture out into the attic of the school for some reason. This is when I become lucid and I decide to go find the Lament Configuration (for those who don't know Hellraiser: it's a series of movies and graphic novels about a puzzle cube, called the Lament Configuration. When solved, it leads to the ultimate physical experience. ..in other words: Hell. In the first movie, it's also first used in an attic). It's there, and I know what it can do, so I'm very cautious. But then I remember hey, this is just a dream, so I just grab it, examine it from all angles and just take it downstairs.

While running outside, I remember I still have the darn thing in my hand. It's made of wood (in the movies as well) so I just drop it and it shatters on the ground.

The next "day" (still in the dream), I'm back at the school (ok, no time has passed at all, it just suddenly is daytime) and I decide to fly. I drop to the floor like always, but only hover about 1cm above it. That's odd, normally I hover a few inches. So I push myself up and it works, but not for long. I'm having difficulties staying airborne. I just give up and go inside the school's cafeteria.

There are a bunch of DCs there, and I decide to talk to one of them, a very pretty girl, about my age. She doesn't believe me, as is to be expected, so I just try and kiss her, just for fun. Because, whatever, right? She keeps turning away and I can feel my face sink into her cheek, it's a very curious feeling and I want to explore that feeling a bit more. I want to just pass through people and watch their reactions.

But then I wake up.

It started after I fell back asleep after waking up to my alarm (I wasn't trying).

I remember being in my house, and I was watching some old Christmas movie. I had to go to the bathroom, so I went, and I noticed that the bathtub was full of tiny swimming baby deer. I didn't find it odd, and went about doing my "business". A few seconds later, I glanced back at the bathtub, and it had significantly less deer in it than before, and there was no way for them to have gotten out. So I wound up doing an RC (breathing test), and after a few seconds, it worked, and I became lucid.

The dream started to destabilize, so I started rubbing my hands together. I wound up closing my eyes on accident, but instead of black, I saw a bunch of floating, colored lights. I opened my eyes when I felt comfortable, and I wound up in a fancy restaurant with my parents. I felt numb all over, and still kind of "floaty", so I kept rubbing my hands until that went away. I wanted to get up and leave the building as soon as I could, so I stood up, and my mother commented on how my clothing was "inappropriate", I looked down and it was the same thing I had been wearing in the bathroom scene. I wanted to try changing my clothing, so I looked them in the eye, and said "would a suit be better, like this?", looked back down, and I was wearing a light black suit.

At that point I really wanted to leave the building to explore, but when I started to head for the exit my mom got up and grabbed me by the arm and wouldn't let go, no matter how hard I pulled away. I had the idea to set off the fire alarm to distract them and get away, but the pull station was too far away (it was in the waiters' station), I was still being held, and there were people in the way. But my desire must have influenced the dream characters, because one of the waiters went and pulled the fire alarm. I was able to pull away at this point as the alarm went off. It was a cool alarm too, voiced, went along the lines of "attention all customers, a fire has been reported in the building. Please proceed to the nearest emergency exit" followed by the usual whooping sound. All the characters started panicking and made a mad dash for the exit. I went for the front exit as well, which were glass automatic sliding doors. I noticed that in addition to the usual American exit sign, there were British style ones near the floor as well (been watching too much BBCA, I guess). I tried to get through the exit quickly, but there were too many people to get through quickly.

I managed to squeeze my way through, at which point I was awoken by my sister blasting music from the bathroom. Damn.

I just had my FIRST EVER true lucid experience. It was mostly a dream about my family and everyone jogging around town and at my dad's work at night. Then when I sat on the couch, my bracelet with the words "BRONY" on it was turned into something really weird with a bunch of random stuff on it. So I thought since my bracelet only has the words "Brony" and Rainbow Dash on it, I thought "Hey I'm dreaming!" and ran out of the house with full control at this point, and rose into the air and flew off. (and also scared some joggers along the way). It was a short experience, but I felt so free. It was the first real lucid dream I've ever had. So excited!

Well, it wasn't ACTUALLY a shared lucid, but here's what happened (so weird):

I had a DILD, but I don't remember what triggered it. But I was in my livingroom with my son, and I remember being lucid. And I was talking to Chris about lucid dreaming, and he said that HE was also lucid dreaming right now. In fact, he believed that it was HIS lucid dream and that I was just a dream character in his dream. I said "No YOU'RE a DC and this is MY dream." We finally agreed that we were both having a shared lucid dream lol. So I began instructing him on how to stabilize, and perform reality checks etc. I remember telling him to look at his hands, and I looked at mine, although mine looked fairly normal at the time. Then we got distracted because there were a bunch of dog peepee puddles on the wood floor, so I was getting towels and trying to instruct Chris to step between the puddles. Then I was like "Hold on! We're sharing an LD and I'm wasting time on pee puddles!" So I made to decision to take Chris outside and teach him to fly. Then I woke up.

Ahhhh I was so mad! I mean, I know we didn't actually share this dream (you can disagree if you want, I just don't believe in it), but I really wanted to teach Chris to fly in an LD, while the DC version of him actually believed he was lucid. I think that would have been a cool experience. Yeah it would have been even cooler if it actually WAS a shared dream, but real life Chris has no memory of it. And I don't believe it anyway. I already said that.

Oh and, I have been reading a story where these 2 people keep having shared lucid dreams, and they had the same argument "It's my dream, and you're a fabrication. Nuh uh, this is MY dream and YOU'RE the fabrication." So I blame that dream on that story. Still fun though.

Last night i finaly managed to get my 4th lucid dream after long break!

I used to do reality checks everyday and got no results, but this night somehow i was thinking that something is wrong about my surroundings... So i just thought "Wait a minute!" and yes i just got lucidity, i got exited as usually

So what i decided to do first was to reality check. I knew i was dreaming so why would i do RC?!

Cause i never did RC in a dream so i never knew how i would look like

So i tryed to push my thinger through my palm... And i was always thinking it would go through just like in to the hole or something. But in my surprise it was streching my hand like it was a gum, like sticky thing and is very flexible

So ye, was kinda nice doing RC in dream (FINALY IN DREAM NOT RL )

But after spending some time doing RC in dream, i got scared thought about some scary things, like someone was catching me and i was running...

I knew that nothing wrong can happen to me, since i had previous expieriance with scary lucid, so i could simple close my ice in dream and scream to wake up, but i didn't, i wanted to spend some more time in dream, but ye, i woke up.

But i am still glad that i had my 4th lucid dream.

I don't know if any of you have that strange feeling, like i am in dream and i am lucid, and i scream or yell something loudly and i think that my girlfriend can here me in RL, like i was talking while i am asleep, but this time i knew i was sleeping and i was contacting my girlfirend

Dream 1: Flying (Lucid)
I am in lawn of my childhood house. I can see my brother and his wife in lawn and then I am lucid now. I decided to fly and I jumped and flew then I woke up.

Well i Woke up seeing my body in bed. Now of course i realize im dreaming. I rub my hands and against the Wall but i got somehow impressed with the vividness of it and i decided i dont want to dream like OBE. So i returned my body and this feeling was weird, very realistic.

I could have explored the dream but I'm glad I made some progress.

I think I have both LD and OBE, so I guess it's pretty much the same thing

Dream 1: Tomb Rider Caves (LUCID-DILD+WBTB+awareness)
Me and my two brothers are in a cave like tomb rider caves. And we are fighting with different monsters. And finding a way out from cave. We reached a place where we thought all monsters are finished. Then we feel vibration in ground like any monster is coming. we ran down to other chamber and hiding ourselves but my brother turned on the light and a Big Man caught my brother. I ran to the door and get out to a roof of a building I jumped from one building to others. Then Suddenly I realized that this is a dream. I told my brother that dont worry its only a dream. Then I thought what to do. should I kill the monster or should I go for girls. I decided to go to girls. I am flying and going toward a girl and woke up.

Dream 1: Distorted Reflection (Lucid Using WILD+WBTB+DILD+Awareness)
I am feeling vibrations and rushing noises and feeling like entering into dream and I am aware of everything. Now I am feeling that I am in my dream laying into my bed. I am opening my eyes and I can see that i am in my childhood house. Room is full of darkness. I am getting up and thinking that is it really a dream? I want to do Reality checks. I am planning to do "fingers through hand". I tried but my fingers are not crossing my hand. finger are bend when i pushed to hand. Now I cant open my closing fingers that was strange. There are two dressing tables with two mirrors. I knew that if it is a dream then I will not be able to see my reflection in mirrors. But again it is strange. I can see my reflections in mirrors. But those reflections were distorted. I am confused. And then I woke up.

Dream 2: Accident (Lucid Using WILD+WBTB+DILD+Awareness)
I am in a car. Car is driving itself. It is very beautiful place full of mountains and greenery. Car is coming down from hills. And its kind of flying and loosing its gravity and I am like hanging in car trying to save my self from accident. Then at last my car had accident with a tree. But it wasn't painful. Car is tilt in opposite manner on road. I opened that door and came out. One car hit the door of my car and a man came out from other car and pick me up and taking me to hospital. And I am observing Environment and then i am observing the texture of coat of that man. I saw a girl in a building looking me. I asked that man leave me I dont want to go to doctor but he is not leaving me and the suddenly i saw one more child is pulling me to him I snatched myself from them and went to that building to meet that girl fro sex. But she was with her husband. her husband is trying to scare me but I am not afraid because I know this is a dream. I shifted myself into his husband and finished him and when i tried to seduce that girl suddenly my eyes opened. And I woke up.

Now that I am 20 I think it's time to try lucid dreaming again, last time I tried I must've been 16 years old..
I only successfully accomplished a LD once, If I remember correctly I wasn't really trying to do it, it just came about itself.
I was in what seemed like an Indian bazaar I think I may have been able to fly, or at least levitate a small amount. Suddenly I realized that I was in a dream and as I walked towards the bathroom my lucidity started slipping away from me. At this time I didn't know of any techniques to help me regain control of my dream..

Even though that was several years ago I still remember vividly!

Tonight is going to be the first time I attempt to have another lucid dream in several years. I know I've done it at least once in the past so I'm sure I can do it again especially since I will be consciously trying this time.

I have been reminding myself that I am not dreaming throughout the day, testing myself by looking at clocks, looking at my hands and my arms, and making sure that I can't push the tips of my fingers through the palm of my hand.

I have always found it easy to reenter a dream after suddenly waking up And usually I can continue where I left off.

Keeping my fingers crossed for tonight as it is already 12:30 in the morning!

01/06/13

Where's Nomad?
I am flying in my Fire Valkyrie to the moon. I land on the moon and get out to take a look around. My current goal is to find Nomad because I haven't heard from him for a while. What seems like a long while. I have become convinced that the Templars have something to do with this, and I intend to investigate and see if I can find him. I focus on opening a portal. I want to find out what happened to Nomad. A portal opens and I go through it. On the other side I find I am in a place I don't recognize. It is very green and very beautiful, but I don't see any sign of Nomad.

I wonder why I have been brought here. I am still feeling convinced that the Templars did something to him, and thus I figure they probably somehow interfered with my portal to find him. I'll just have to find out directly from them. I open another portal and go through it. I am in another place I don't recognize. But this time I am not alone there. And as soon as I arrive there are alarms going off, people running around… I wonder where I have ended up. I am in the hallway of some kind of underground facility. Some kind of attack hits me, and it is draining my energy. I look around some more and I realize the people around me are Templars, and they don't look very happy to see me there. I grab a guy as he goes past me and tell him I just want to ask someone a question, nothing more. He looks rather doubtful about that, he doesn't seem to believe me. I tell him I want to know what's happened to Nomad. He chuckles slightly and asks if the nomad has wandered off… that is what nomads do after all. I tell him I want to know what he and his people have done to Nomad. He just looks at me with a blank look on his face. He clearly doesn't know anything. I tell him I want to talk to someone who does know something. A man comes down the hall, he says that would be him. He says he hears I have been harassing his people to find out where Nomad has gone… well, he'll put that question to rest right now. He says neither he nor any of his people have anything to do with my inability to get in touch with my friend Nomad. I don't believe him. I tell him he is lying. He asks if I ever considered that Nomad simply doesn't want to talk to me. I tell him he's wrong about that, and I know he did something. He says no, neither he nor any of his people did anything. Accept that and be gone. And keep them out of my dreams… or they might have to really do something. He is pissing me off. I tell him to stop lying. He says to be gone while I still have the energy to do so. The attack I have been getting hit by has continued draining energy. I tell him I'll show him how much energy I have left… I tell him this is for whatever they have done to Nomad, and I drop an immortal fire right there, the white fire incinerates everything in the area. I am now standing in a ruined underground facility. The attack on me has stopped. I realize part of the reason I am so pissed off is that I don't really have a clue what has happened to Nomad… I wonder how I will ever find out and I wake.

B and E Without The B
I am in the yard of a house that is for sale. My mother is there with me, she says she thinks this could be the house we are looking for. She says we should go inside and look around. I ask if we should really be doing that. She says as long as the door is unlocked we can go in and look around. She goes over and tries the front door, and it opens. I follow her inside and we look around in the house. It is a large and very nice home. I am thinking there is no way we could afford to buy that home anyway. I am about to say something when I spot a cat in the corner of the room. I am officially distracted and I go after the kitty. The cat doesn't run away so I go right over to the kitty and start petting. It is a cute little tabby cat with the softest silkiest fur I have ever felt. The cat begins to purr softly. My mom has left the room to look around some more, and apparently she startled up another cat. A cute little tortie comes into the room.

I approach the second cat and start to pet. The first cat follows me, one cat for each hand. I pet both cats at the same time and hear purrs in stereo. My mom returns to the room and sees me with the cats. She said she doesn't think the cats come with the house. I comment that they had better not be abandoned kitties. A woman I don't know enters the room. It turns out she is one of the home owners. She asks what we are doing in there. I tell her I am loving on her kitties… they are sooooo cute! I scoop the purring tortie into my arms and continue petting. The woman says we weren't invited in here and should leave. My mom says she is definitely interested in buying the place. The woman seems to slightly change her attitude. She is still annoyed at us for being there but is now trying to hide it, she is clearly hoping to convince us to buy the house. My mother and her start talking about money as I continue to love on the two kitties. A third cat enters the room, I put down the tortie to pet the new cat. The new cat is a solid white cat. So many cute kitties! I am in kitty cat heaven! I am loving on the cats when I wake up next to my own pretty kitty.

Ambush!
I am playing a virtual reality version of Assassin's Creed II, but I am playing as a female Assassin. I am walking through one of the cities looking for anything interesting. I think there are still some glyphs I need to find before continuing the missions. So I look at a map contained in my iPad which is effectively disguised as a book. I locate a building that has a glyph that I have not yet decoded and head for it. There are buildings in the way. I am about to start climbing one when someone yells out. It is a guard. I think better of climbing the building as I don't really want to get in a fight right now. But in spite of the fact I don't do anything out of the ordinary the guards seem to identify me as someone they don't like and they come towards me. When they get closer one of them calls me an 'Assassino' and they all attack me. I pull my sword out to defend myself, wondering what the hell they decided to attack me for when I hadn't been doing anything.

I hadn't even been looking for a fight. So I am in a fight now and there are five enemies. I'm used to the fighting system of the virtual reality version so I take them out quickly. Now for that glyph. I head towards the building while staying on the ground so I don't trigger another attack. Well that is what I am hoping… but it doesn't work. I step around a corner and a group of guards immediately attacks me on sight. I wonder why they are doing that. I know for a fact I am not notorious right now… well there is a tiny bit of notoriety due to the previous fight… but not enough to trigger an instant attack. So I defend myself again. By the time I finish with the four that attacked more of them have joined in, and there are a couple of brutes involved so my counter attacks aren't always working. I ask a guard what they attacked me for and he just tells me to give up and die. So I keep fighting until I finally get rid of this wave of attackers. I look around and see everyone is watching me. A couple of civilians run away screaming while one cowers against a building and begs for his life. I put my sword away and tear down a couple posters with my face on them to get rid of my notoriety. I am clear now. But that hasn't helped me in the past. I am almost to the building. I approach the building with the glyph and I find I am under attack yet again. I think maybe this time I'll avoid the attack and just run away. So I do, and they chase after me yelling that I'll never escape. I am about to jump into a hiding spot but then more guards come after me. And more… and more… it seems they never stop coming. I realize I am going to have to fight after all, and now there are way too many of them. I wonder if I'll be able to handle all of them. I check my supply of medicines and find I have a full bag. So I turn and fight them. The ones susceptible to counter attack aren't a problem, though the brutes are a bit of an issue. I get hit quite a few times by them and I have to use a couple of my medicines. I finally win the battle, which I think was against… I'm not sure how many guards. But it seems to go on forever. I wonder if there is any point in trying to get to the glyph I've been after. Is there any chance to get to it before being attacked? I am trying to determine the best course of action when I wake up.

Late entry is late, was going to post it yesterday but had no time to write it.

Anyways was doing more of WILD nap attempts and accidentally fell into too unconscious sleep. Also i guess from now on gonna be coloring dream parts different color like some other DJ writers do.

I was in my room(that looked differently) playing some of old XCOM again, there was battle near large scout full of floaters. Everything went well until suddenly game started cheating with time units, and then everyone started recovering time units during periods of time so the game turned from being turn-based to being real-time.

I woke up, but decided to lie still for another attempt.
Which went successful, starting as an false awakening in my room, i was about to get out of bed and do some stabilization but them some sort of spanish-accent voice said from behind of me something like "easy sparoni"(no clue what that means), the dream faded out and i woke up.

This was the second of two LDs from last night.

Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

Lucid #54: Into the Gray Matter

I'm seated on a train, looking out the window as a grassy landscape rolls by. An older lady sits down on the seat directly across from me so that we face each other. She tells me that she’s AH's mom. (AH is a friend from way back that I've lost touch with.) I'd never met her mom before, and we chat pleasantly for a bit. But soon I realize that AH's mother passed away before I'd even met AH herself.

The mother looks at me suspiciously the moment that I become lucid. She starts rocking in her seat, waving her finger at me, and hectoring me about why I chose that seat on the train and what business did I have on her train, anyway? She's speaking to me so aggressively and angrily that I'm taken aback. My fresh lucidity can't bear up and the scene blacks out. I refuse to believe that the LD is over, though, and I wait just a moment before I hear voices.

Through the darkness, I clearly hear Wife saying, “Sorry, guys, it’s time for bed.” I can hear my kids laughing and running around. It’s very loud and sounds incredibly real. Out loud, I say, “I know that I’m still asleep and that this is still a dream.” My voice, too, sounds shockingly real, and I can’t help but worry that I’m saying all of this in waking life as well.

I feel the kids hopping around me on the bed, but I remind myself that this is just my dream body feeling this, not my real one. My son E bounces nearby, gleefully saying, "Daddy's sleepin! Daddy's sleeeeeepin!" It seems so real that I feel like my lucidity is in jeopardy. I raise my voice until I'm almost shouting, "This is a lucid dream" over and over.

Suddenly, the voices stop and I find myself viewing a simple office that contains only a swivel chair and a desk with a hologram projected over the top of it. The hologram is a fully 3-d, semi-transparent projection of a human brain. I find that by thinking about it, I can rotate this hologram to the left or right.

I have no dream body, but as my curiosity grows, I find that I can move my viewpoint throughout the room, and I zoom in close on the brain. My perspective sinks into the brain itself and I zoom closer and closer until finally I can perceive individual synapses. I see neurotransmitters flowing across the synaptic cleft! To me they look like small, clear beads or little bubbles. I wonder what kind of neurotransmitter I'm looking at.

I watch this strange interplay for a moment, wondering whether I’m looking at my own brain or someone else’s. I travel around inside of this brain for a while before I wake up.

Nowhere near a success, but at least the Task of the Year is on my mind!

Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

Lucid #53: The Cestus

I’m in a bathroom, looking for a stall to use. I don't feel desperate, but I'm not being very careful as I swing one open. Inside I find a guy standing there peeing right into the drain on the floor. I bleat, "Sorry! Sorry!" as I try to hurriedly close the door. But unfortunately, the stall door has completely disappeared, leaving me no escape from this excruciating situation.

I’m embarrassed for him peeing into the drain like a barbarian and I’m embarrassed for me throwing open the door like an idiot. I stand there marinating in the awkwardness for a moment before it becomes so painful that I have a false awakening into...

...the same bathroom. I don't buy that I woke up in a bathroom, and I become lucid. The bathroom is empty now and I’m standing by a sink looking into a mirror. I note that the stall doors are all closed again and that I badly need a shave. I cannot handle the idea of leaving a bathroom without washing my hands, so I'm glad that the faucet works. I don't see soap anywhere but fortunately I manage to get over this.

I head outside into the hall and it looks like the hallway of a dark hotel, deep blue carpeting and flickering fluorescent lights. I can go left or right and I choose left. When I head to the left, though, I see a writhing black cloud of smoke at the end of the hall. It looks like the smoke monster from Lost. I mutter, “I’ll pass...” and head back the other way down the hall.

The electric lights flicker for a moment and then the whole scene starts to darken and press down on me. I rub my hands together and the details feel real, down to the deadlift calluses at the pinky, ring, and middle finger joints. When I do this, there’s an electric crackle and the lights come back on. I walk for a long way down the hall but somehow it just seems to get longer and longer. I want to either find a DC for basic Task of the Month or get to Rome for the Colosseum battle Task of the Year. I start to feel fretful that I'm going nowhere and the scene fades to black.

I feel it coming, though, and I relax and prep for DEILD. Another scene begins to form. I’m walking through a concrete structure that looks like a parking garage or the innards of a stadium. I’m wearing something like a cestus, a nasty-looking, studded leather wrapping around my hand. This isn’t the Colosseum, but I feel like I can turn this into the “Europe” Task of the Year. I’m armed and the location seems like something I could massage into the Colosseum with a little effort.



But I notice that I feel like I’m no longer able to breathe. The breath simply doesn't feel like it's coming anymore. I know it has to be an illusion but the sensation is terrifying. I try to relax and wait for this to play itself out but some part of me panics and I wake up.

Had lucidity for a little while before losing it. I forgot exactly when I had it and what I did with it, but I used it to set up control for when I was non-lucid. It was a mine craft themed dream with better graphics and I had .mod commands for the rest of the dream. I made a fort with secret rooms and trap doors and portals to the ground. I spent a lot of time trying to summon a girl, I was successful, but couldn't get further than that.