lucid

I found myself in my old 6th grade classroom. My wood shop teacher instead of the real teacher was there. The students in the class were all lined up to do some activity on the board. I suddenly wanted to do a reality check, but i couldn't get a good look at my fingers so instead i looked up at the board. a slip of paper was attached to the board with the word "we" on it. I looked away and looked back and instead it said "toon". I knew i was dreaming and imminently ran out of the classroom and tried to fly, with no success.

Okay.
I whined about dry spells yesterday, then I had another brief lucid.
The differences is that I didn't wake up right away and I already knew I was in a dream before I fully went lucid.
The same is that I forgot to stabilize, goddamnit.

I was on the Cave Story Tribute forum. I receive a message from one of the members saying that my signature is against the rule. For some reasons my signature have a Futurama picture. Have I mentioned that I am sitting in the room that I physically sleep while I had the dream? The only difference is that it is now on the middle of a city.

Then my computer acted up, but I managed to close it down. I noticed the light was on for the first time. Then I saw my reflections on the screen and realized that the clothes didn't match up (I wore a Hawaiian shirt), so I became partially lucid. My roommate woke up, which meant a DC added to the equation. He asked me something and I intentionally allowed myself to say something very idiotic, which satisfied him and he went back to sleep. I realized I can't actually speak, and I tried to utter something until I could. Then I did the nose plug and it seemed weird, but I don't really know. I walked out the dorm and counted my fingers, and found out my left hand has extra fingers.

There was another door in front of me, and when I opened it it lead to the outside. There are roads on the left and a power plant in front of me. I jumped down from the fire escape stairway I was standing on. I tried to jump over the fence but it was too tall. Then I tried to find a way around it but I woke up first. Then it dawned on me I forgot to stabilize. Argh.

I am in what seems like a dead town, with 1 building. it's an enourmous Bank, I go inside turn immediately to my left and find an asian trying to drink out of the fountain, its like 2 inches from the cieling impossible to drink out of. So instead of putting my head on the fountain i press the button and let the water descend perfectly into my mouth. I leave the building stand in a empty parking lot and ponder, IM DREAMING! I pinch myself and im off, im not flying but im hovering feet above the ground goin 100 miles an hour using the hills as my park. I stop an look off into the distance, I see cranes construction work and ENOURMOUS mountains. I fly towards the mountains and stop at the bottom of a hill where my house is. I find 2 friends of mine, kevin and someone else. We see a flare pop deep in the mountains, lets go save them I say. We stop at my house and I exit my door with a giant ass TV in my hands, Im about to throw it but realize that isnt right and even in my dreams I should have feelings for others. I set the tv on my porch enter my friends car, take my hat off his head turn around and find a girl riding by. Im gonna get laid before I save this guys life. I basically come straight out and say it, wander off and just before 'we' start I look at the mountains were the flare was. The Flare starts a fire! I see it expand instantaneously, the Northern lights cascade the sky, and a nuke like explosion goes off. my and my friend are blown into reality and I wake up. Conscious.

Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

Lucid #17: Doorway Troubles

We're throwing some kind of huge party at our house. Our den has expanded to an impossible size and is filled with rows of picnic tables, with friends and family all around. I feel the mingled excitement and vague anxiety that I always feel hosting any sort of event. It's fun visiting with the guests, several of whom I haven't seen in quite some time.

"S", a friend of mine, grabs me in order to inform me than an "associate" of his has inexpensive cruise tickets that he would like to sell me. S's associate is a rough-looking character with a plug earring installed in each of his wobbling earlobes. He carelessly dumps his wallet out on the table, telling me that the tickets are "in there somewhere". I find his driver's license, which is covered with uncomfortably personal information, such as the fact that he is an "Atheist" who has a "Vasectomy".

I find a strange little zip-lock bag filled with strips of paper that have different people's signatures on them. It feels creepy to me and I wonder why he would have such a thing. I joke nervously, "A little weird, but at least it's not a bag full of women's hair or something."

When I look up to gauge his reaction, the scene has shifted. I'm now surrounded by a handful of well-dressed police detectives. They chuckle at my comment and I realize that I'm also a detective and we're working together to solve a crime. Fortunately, I still have strong recall of the previous dream scene, note the strangeness of the transition and I become totally lucid. I stop in the middle of a sentence I can no longer remember and say, "And now I am lucid." I nod politely at my new colleagues and get up to leave.

The detectives step aside for me and I see that I'm on the ground floor of a glass office building. Through the glass I see a street scene, cars and pedestrians passing by outside of the building. I walk past a busy cubicle farm, taking in my surroundings and ambling slowly toward the exit.

Clarity is high and I feel super-aware, like the master of my domain. I feel so confident that I have no urge to stabilize. Out loud I say, "This is my lucid dream. It will go at my pace and nobody will control it but me." I feel calm and unstoppable as I walk toward the exit. A woman enters from the street and I nod a greeting. She smiles back and I note that although she is a stranger to me, she looks every bit as real as a person I might encounter during a day at the office.

After the woman passes, I step calmly through the exit. There's a flash of light as direct sunlight hits my eyes and suddenly I'm awake. The calmness is still there at first but it evaporates quickly. My pulse is high (although not as high as my prior LD waking) and I wonder whether that just started. It's inconceivable to me that I felt as calm as I did if my sleeping body had such a high heart rate.

The lucid portion probably went just over a minute. I'd have of course preferred a longer lucid, but every lucid dream (especially a high-clarity one like this) feels like a real victory!

I finally had another lucid dream! In the dream, I was reading a magazine. The magazine had pictures of miniature light-up TARDISes that people (somehow) used to get to sleep. I wanted one.

I got the idea to do a spontaneous RC. I looked at my hand and counted six fingers. Fully certain I was awake, I counted again, figuring I had just counted wrong. Still six. I counted a third time just to make sure, and I still had six fingers.

With no choice but to accept the fact that I was dreaming, I began pacing back and forth across my room (something I sometimes do IWL for no particular reason), talking to myself in a whisper as I tried to recall something that would give it away. The pictures in the magazine had been animated! It had to be a dream!

I did the first thing that came to mind, which happened to be another teleportation attempt. This time, I decided to use a portal. I traced an oval in the air with my finger. A portal (which looked like one from the game Portal) appeared, but the image was very faint, and the portal didn't work.

I resumed pacing/talking (as I've learned that doing or thinking nothing can cause a dream to collapse). I attempted to remember the TOTM, recalled something about a dream journal, then remembered that had been last month's task. Unable to remember the current task (and not wanting to waste the whole dream trying to remember), I returned to what I had previously been doing.

This time, I tried using a door, which I also made by tracing it with my finger. The result was the same as last time, except with a door.

I woke up soon after that.

The dream started out with me in an outdoor strip mall. It was really warm and sunny outside with only a few clouds. I strode down the sidewalk and walked into a small and slightly dim store. There was an old man behind the counter and an annoyingly nice teenage employee. I think i might have been an old man instead of myself. Anyway, i was looking for something in the store, i think it was a cane. while i rummaged through stuff the employee, who was also wearing a red vest, started to ask me if i needed something and kept following me around the store. All the while i was mumbling a rant about the band The Wanted. I finally found a cane. It was was either black with a white handle or vise versa. It also had those suction cup things on the bottom for some reason.
I kinda returned to my normal self and I bought it and started hobbling and walking around like an old person then i guess i noticed my hand on the cane and i counted my fingers. In my dreams i can't really focus that well on my fingers, like my eyes are cameras that keeps shaking and cant focus or something. So at first i counted 5 but i noticed one i hadn't counted and counted again and got 6. I still wasn't sure so looked again and i only had three fingers! My middle finger, pinky, and thumb. I was now sure i was dreaming and i was really happy and just began to walk around, but i still didn't feel fully lucid. There was this group of guys, who were all huddled around a game boy or something like that. They started to argue and i guess that made me mad because i walked over and randomly put one of the guys in a choke-hold. He had mucky curly orange hair that looked like it had never been washed, a brown striped sweater (even though it was summer, i think) and jeans. I stopped and took off my sweater because i was really hot, like i ACTUALLY felt overheated. It felt so cool. I started to play the video game with them for no apparent reason.. I didn't really feel lucid then because that isn't something i would do in real life, and i didn't even really make the decision. But, after i was finished playing the video game with them i felt like i had more control and got up and decided to fly instead. I walked into the middle of a full parking lot (but no cars were driving in or out..weird) I also remember that it was so..sunny. Not like that beautiful sunny you see on a summers day, like the kind of sunny that makes you feel so happy and positive. It lit up everything around me, but didn't cause any discomfort for my eyes and it wasn't too hot either. It was wonderful. I looked up and focused on the single cloud in the sky. I also really wanted to fly through that cloud and see what it was like. I began to run and felt really pumped and i felt the anticipation, like i was really about to take off. Noting happened. I became a little frustrated and tried again, but i was interrupted by this random person who wanted to talk to me. I think it was a girl. The dream ended somewhere around there.

my dream started when i was walking up the street with a friend and we saw the police, they started walking towards other people and just as they got to them they then started chasing me and my friend. we ran up a hill and both became out of breath as we stopped the police caught up with us. they did not stop us and we managed to make our way away from them. i was then in my friends house and he was out the fr4ont and he was telling me to get inside as there were people after me, i lockerd the door and as i went to lock the back door the people were walking towards the house. i looked at one of them and they threw a can of red bull at me i slammed the door to hit the can away and at this point had the sudden urge to do an RC it worked and when i looked up the people chasing me were away. i looked round and there was a table full of food and i remembered eating a twirl in a previous dream and tasting it as it should taste so i grabbed loads of food and decided to eat it all and tasted very good. there wasnt much else to this dream but i do remember a group of people threatining me and as i was lucid i was thinking "they have no chance" my dream started to fade and then i was lying in my bed with my eyes shut.

This one's kind of awkward LOL. Firstly, I wasn't even fully asleep. I could still feel my body in bed. But whatever I was portraying in my mind seemed real. Like It was a dream, but I was still awake. And I remember that if I didn't focus enough, it would go away. The setting was a shower. I wasn't actually in it, but I tried to imagine the sound of the shower going, hoping that my girlfriend was in it so that we could... Nevermind LOL. The point is... I was half awake, and half asleep. And dreaming at the same time. What is this?! It was a dream, no doubt about that. But what exactly is this? Half dreaming? My body was not fully asleep, I could feel my body laying in my bed. But my mind kept dreaming...

This dream is not being rated.

omfg, i finally did it!! just for a minute though, cuz my alrm clock went off and snapped me out of it. but it was cool while it lasted!! before i went lucid, i seen a couple of my friends, including my best friend, and she said, "i got pregnant." and i was like, you did?! and she said yeah and i asked is she took a pregnancy test and if it was positive and she nodded her head yes. and i said wheres the baby? and she said i tore it up already. so i said oh. then i saw my bf and we were at his house and he's usually taller than me when we stand next to each other, but in my dream, he wasn't taller than me, and thats when i said, why am i as tall as yo- ohhh, im dreaming!! XD so he was like yeah... another weird thing i noticed was that none of the lights in his house were turning on and we went downstairs some where (the only light that WOULD turn on was down there) and i said, yeah this isn't your house, and he was puffing out his cheeks like everything was cool. then we were in this weird/cool room with stained glass everywhere and wind chimes hanging everywhere and this origami guy (was made out of origami) had a green balloon in his hand and was flicking it with the other and shook the balloon after he flicked it and repeated. i flicked the balloon as we walked past him and then thats when i woke up. :x pretty weird eh...?

Commentary-
Unlike my other lucids, I don't remember how this dream began. All I remember is how the dream ended and the fact I was indeed lucid.
Lucid #3-
I found myself at a golf course. The course was of the parkland style-lots of trees and open grassy areas. I found that I didn't have any clubs with me so I shouted "golf club now!". I saw a club form into my hands. It looked like a 9 iron. I looked around for a target to which I could perhaps play a shot. I saw a green probably 80-100 yards away beyond some rugged looking mounds and I water hazard. I realized I didn't have a ball. After looking around I tried, just through the power of thought, to convert a small piece of bark I found into a golf ball. But, it didn't work. I woke up from my dream.
Commentary-
I summoned an object! Yay! I'm sure this skill will get better as I practice.

Even though it's not perfect, my method seems to be working for me. I tried to elaborate on my method even more and post it in the induction techniques forum but found I was too lacking in knowledge and experience and was stressing myself out thinking about it so much. I'll stick with the technique I posted in my DJ entry "No lucidity again but a promising idea". I've gotten 3 lucids this past week which isn't too bad I think.

Here is an updated evaluation of my dreaming skill
Lucid Induction Technique-
Reliablity-3
Recall-3
Dream Control-
Enviornment-1
Plot-3
Quality-3

Dream - Lucid

I felt myself falling asleep. I sat up out of my body, and went over to the other side of the bed. I looked around my dark bedroom, and then, decided to look at myself. My body was there, on its back (I fell asleep on my back), peacefully asleep, much different from the last time I had one of these experiences (last time my body was tense and afraid, eyes wide open and terrified). My body wasn't under the covers.

I went up to my body and stroked its hair, and said
"You are beautiful."

Then, I was in a room with Brett, my first long-term boyfriend that I dated in high school. I wanted to fly with him, since he was there with me. I grabbed his hand, and he said something, though I can't remember what; something along the lines of "what's going on?" or "where are we going?" I said back to him, trying to carefully choose my words,
"This is a lucid dream!"
He responded
"Oh right, a lucid dream," like he was agreeing with me that it was, indeed, a lucid dream.
I thought about whether or not he was a DC or an entity, since most of my DCs give me a blank, stupid stare or just outright deny that it's a dream when I call attention to the fact that I'm dreaming.

We then flew up into the sky, where either the sun was setting or the sky just had those sunsetty colors in it. I remember vividly feeling Brett's hand inside mine. We talked as we flew, but I can't remember what about. I then looked up and saw a starlit night sky and a beautiful, vivid red galaxy. I pointed it out to Brett. I thought about how this was the first time I had been able to fly with anyone hand-in-hand. I've tried before, but the person "weighed" me down, or someone else took me up to fly, and while we were ascending, I'd wake up.

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I was in some mountain river or stream or something. This dream occurred during both the night and the day. This guy I went to high school with, Jason L., kept pushing me down into the flowing body of water, onto the rocks, etc., saying things to me as he did so. I don't remember what it had to do with, but it had some sort of purpose. I then remember seeing a body, not sure if it was mine, his, or someone else's altogether, but he/she busted their head on a rock, and bright red blood started to pour out. I started to freak out.

I remember talking to Jason L. civilly in this dream, and I remember trying to get out from under some rock and my vision kept shaking, like I was trying to get out from being stuck underneath a block in Minecraft.

There was a point where I became lucid again during this dream, but I quickly lost it.

There was more to this dream, but that's all I can really recall.

Last night I was lucid for a few short moments. First lucid in a month or so I think. Today I started reality checking again so hopefully I will be lucid again soon I've really been slacking since the beginning of summer and none of my goals are being accomplished and I feel like I'm getting no where lol.

The first part of the dream I can remember, I am on a road next to a little forested area with a pond. For some reason I'm chilling out with Eliza Thornberry from the Wild Thornberries. She tells me that the animals in the area are sad because their pond where they get water is polluted. I walk into the forrest area to the small pond to see if I can clean it up, and I see HUGE oak leaves in the water. A little dog with long hair that I actually saw at Petsmart a couple days ago is trying to drink from the water, but keeps licking leaves in the attempt. I try to move the leaves, but find that when I scoop all the leaves out of the pond there are dark blue Milk crates sunk in the water. Upon closer inspection, I find that the milk crates are full of green and rotting raw steaks that are breaking into little pieces and polluting the water with nasty germs and bacteria. I tell Eliza that there's nothing I can do, and she tries to argue, "But what about the animals?!" and I tell her that it's beyond my ability to clean and I start walking up the street. As I walk up the street I stop and think for a moment that I'm crazy for walking up a street in the dark. Then I realize I might be dreaming. I reach up and pinch my nose, I can breathe! At this point I get excited, "This is a dream!" then before I can do anything about it, a girl comes running at me yelling about something. I'm ignoring her thought bc I know this is a dream and I don't want to deal with her I want to do something, but she won't be ignored! She is reaching out at me and grabs at me, I pull back and then panic for a moment. I close my eyes and tell myself it's ok, K will rescue me so there's nothing to worry about. I feel hands clawing at my face and shoulders. I try to tell myself the girl is going to turn into K, but the clawing continues and when I open my eyes the girl is in fact a boy, but he's not K. I decide to try and run away. I quickly think I can run into a wall to skip out of this dream and into another one where I might find K. The street I'm running on actually looks like the high school I went to now, but I don't remember when the scene shift happened. I try to run through a wall, and instead I find myself faltering and getting dizzy, tripping, and falling against the wall. When I hit the wall the room spins and it feel like the wall becomes the floor and while I can see my fist against the wall in front of my face, I know I'm waking up and I curse and bang my fist against the wall. Then everything goes black and I wake up.

My dreams last night where dull. First I got into an arguement with my wife about her getting mad at me for things she thinks I'm thinking. Then that arguements ran off onto my friend as if he was the one it had started with. It wasn't anything to go into, I think the aggression and poor recall was a result of me going to sleep drunk. Instead of writing down these dreams, I wanted to do something different today!
I want to record one of my most meaningful dreams that I can recall. It lasted about two minutes probably, it didn't take long to show me what it wanted to show me. This dream was one of my stepping stones in the practice of LDing, it taught me a phrame of mind in the form of an analogy.

The dream was simply this; I was standing in front of a window. The window was three times my highth, and had quite a marvelous look to it. Stained glass, with red, blue, green, yellow- all shimmering from whatever was behind it. There was nothing to my left, nothing to my right, nothing below me or above me. All there was, was this window. I didn't know exactly what was going on. All I knew at that point was I did not want to be here. Something about this place made me know deep down that I did not want to be standing here any more. But what was I supposed to do? It was a beautiful thing that was stopping me, am I supposed to move past it? The answer was yes, I needed to move past it. I leaped towards the glass surface with a good jump and shattered all the way through it. I wasn't met by a ground on the otherside, but I began to float in the clouds above the ocean. So much open space, so much fresh air. I started flying through the clouds with a sense of freedom. I could still see the window that was locking me in darkness as I turned to look, so I kept flying. It was one of the most beautiful and peaceful moments of my life to be honest. I believe it was my mind teaching me that sometimes the answer to life and dreams is so simple. When there's something keeping you in a place you know you shouldn't be, break it down. You don't see it now, but there's freedom on the other side. It may look like a beautiful thing that's keeping you back, but the other side is of much more importance. This dream has helped me in a lot of my dreams, when I remember that if something isn't working- it's just me not taking the leap. Something jurassic needs to be done in order for me to understand how.

Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

Lucid #16: Alone in the Dark

A friend is showing me around some mansion, delivering this nonstop harangue about the lack of baby proofing. I'm surprised by how angry she is until we reach a second floor balcony that overlooks a huge courtyard with a fountain. Next to the railing is a strange device that invites a baby to crawl onto it and then extends over the edge of the railing to "give the baby a better view" by dangling them hazardously over the side.

Now that I've seen this dangerous contraption, I get why she's so mad. Now I'm fuming too. But when I'm done whining and stop to study my surroundings again, I notice that I'm no longer in a mansion. I'm now alone on the second floor of a shopping mall. I don't understand how I got there. Everything looks very real, though, so I decide I'm probably not dreaming. I reality check "just in case" and I'm astonished when it fails. I hit a second nose pinch. This also fails and I think, "No way. I just did it wrong." Third try fails and now I'm finally lucid.

I'm shocked that this is a dream and my vision immediately goes black. I start rubbing my hands together, determined not to let this go. I test my dream body in a variety of ways to keep myself tethered to the dream: I rub my hands over my elbows, flick my teeth with my fingernail, lick my arm, flex and prod at my muscles, slap myself in the face. Everything works and I feel solidly locked in -- I just can't see anything. This goes on for quite some time and I'm having trouble staying calm.

Unsure what to do, I extend my right hand and plead for help. "I can't see. Please, somebody help me." Seconds later, someone grabs my hand, gives it a hard yank, and I stumble forward, my vision fully restored.

Of all people, my rescuer is Julia Roberts (an actress that I do not particularly like and haven't thought of in years.) I suddenly feel like a jerk for not really liking her work.

We're on a dilapidated pier by the seaside. I demand "Super high-def!" from the dream scene and everything sharpens nicely. I hear the creak of beams and the slap of seawater against the piers, as well as the distant cry of gulls. I know that I'm right on the water and think of getting to the Cretaceous seas!

Julia Roberts shouts at me that "You're almost out of time!" and runs off down the pier. I run after her, searching for some way to get to the open water. Dream characters peer at me from stalls on the sides of the pier, murmuring incomprehensibly to one another as I pass. I keep running, wondering whether I need to try something drastic to change things in my favor. Soon the dream fades to black, this time for good.

My heart rate's noticeably elevated and I can feel blood pumping through my carotid arteries. I'm too amped to go back to sleep. I wonder: why'd I lose this one? Simple excitement? Succumbing to a false sense of urgency? Or is this all just Julia Roberts' fault? Advice welcome!

Lucid Dream:

I was with an older couple and an older lady that I supposedly knew. We were hiking on a trail that overlooked the lake. The couple pointed out the remains of a 1000 year old Anasazi hogan. I was amazed since I had walked by that spot many times and had never noticed it. Next they pointed out a historic fireplace/pit that dated back to the 1800's. Again I was really surprised that I had never seen this even though I pass this spot frequently.

We continued on this trail. It starts getting steep. I am having some trouble on this one spot where there is a steel handrail and you have to pull yourself up mostly with your hands. But I saw that the elderly people that I was with had no trouble, so there should be no reason for me not to be able to do this.

Then I notice that we are down to lake level and are now in a boat that belonged to the couple. We zoom through a crowded marina. It's like a maze.

I then suddenly realize that I am alone in the boat, and it's about to crash into some parked boats. Somehow I was able to slow the boat down so it doesn't hit too hard. I then find myself trying to get the boat going back the way we came. It's more like a paddleboard now and I am laying on it paddling with my arms.

During this paddle I notice that the water is starting to have some debris in it. I look over at the cliffs and see that some rain water has come through the washes and are now dumping all this dark frothy woody debris in the water all around me. I end up right next to one of these areas and get this stuff all in my hair.

The next part I remember is that I am back up on a dock and trying to get back to the shore. I first am in a gift shop area. I thought it was cool that we had a gift shop on the lake that I had never known about. I then go from store to store and restaurant to restaurant, and then this cool resort with rooms...all out on the lake. I was getting so excited to have found all this. The problem was that it was all like a maze and I couldn't find a way back to the land.

Suddenly I had this thought, "Well, since this is just a dream, I should just fly over everything and then I could get back with no problem."

I have no idea what triggered lucidity, but I was glad to be able to fly. I was obviously not lucid enough to move on and ignore my current dream crisis, but it helped solve my immediate problem. I took off in the air and looked down on the complexity off all the buildings that had been built on the docks out in the lake.

Then I saw a man swimming in the water. I flew down to him and decided to interact with him. He was a little bit older, but still nice looking. I wanted to kiss him, but I didn't want to get in the water again, so I ask him if I could pull him up out of the water so he could fly with me. He seemed to like that idea. So I pulled him and I might have kissed him. But I don't remember where the dream went from there.