lucid

9/15 - Short WILD

Used WBTB for about 45 minutes after waking up at 6

After laying down it took awhile to reach imagery. After reaching imagery the first time I paid to much attention to it and set myself back a bit, the next couple times the same thing happened but after a few tries I made it to a transition. My transition was a flash of white followed by the pattern that is on my blanket. I kept my eyes closed, letting the imagery fade and tried to let my dream stabilize before attempting anything. After waiting for about a minute in a black void I opened my dream eyes and found myself in a bed wrapped in covers. The images were very groggy, as I stood up I kept repeating clarity and my dream became noticeably more vivid but nothing like the level of detail I've experienced in the past. Next to the bed was a large bay window and outside of the window sat 4 empty beach chairs fully reclined on a concrete patio that was surrounded by trees. I decided I wanted to go outside so I tried to walk through the window. My attempt was unsuccessful so I walked back and ran into the window trying to pass through it. This time I slammed into the window, again failing to pass through it. As this happened people appeared outside of the window and began walking towards me. They were nonthreatening and seemed to wonder why I was running into the window. As I began to think about how to pass through the window my dream faded without me noticing and I could hear the familiar sound of my bedroom fan.

After this WILD I attempted two more. Both attempts failed and I slipped into non-lucid dreams that were very odd. One involved a FA that I never acknowledged until waking up and the other involved a group of people and a car pulling up to me demanding that I get in. After declining and walking away I had a small child tell me it was time to go on my journey and that I needed to go with the car.

Both the dreams were very thought provoking and while I did not experience the best WILD the dreams that came following the WILD were well worth the effort put into the attempts.


Notes: WBTB 45 minutes @ 6am, sleep mask, ear plugs, fan

Car Argument (LUCID)

From the back seat of the car, I'm having a minor argument with my parents. The situation seems a little ridiculous to me, and when my mom leans over to reveal completely gray hair done in a long braid, I'm pretty certain I'm dreaming. After a nose RC, I'm sure of it. Thank goodness I don't have to deal with this argument any more. But as I try to figure out how to get out of here and start working on my dream goals, I realize that I'm waking up. The interior of the car seems to fade into the view of my bedroom from my bed. For instance, my mom's gray hair becomes a fold in my blanket. Well, that's too bad. [Thinking about this now, there's a good chance that that was actually a false awakening. I'm not sure, though.]

Snarl

[This dream was definitely inspired by the series of videos called "The Walls 2" recently recorded by Yogscast on YouTube, which I watched the day before yesterday. It also happened quite late in the morning (for me)--around 10:30.]

We're playing PVP Minecraft in 2-person teams. There are only two teams left. One member of the enemy team is chasing the other member of my team, while I in turn chase him. We run back to my team's base, then we sandwich him between us and kill him with swords. Excellent! Now, the other guy is hiding underneath the ground here. There are lots of holes in the ground and lots of tunnels, and it's all very confusing, so we're not sure how to get him.

We decide to build an enclosed room with a roof and a tower. So my teammate and I sit down with the Legos and start working. I begin by making the tower, which is a really tall wall built from 1x2x1 blue blocks. I get bored with how slowly it's going, so I try just spreading the blocks like I'm extending a folding telescope. It doesn't work, and my friend laughs at me for trying. Anyway, eventually I finish the tower and start working on the other half of the roof.

Suddenly I hear a violent snarl and I feel as though my head's been seized in the jaws of a big, angry dog. The snarl continues as it starts shaking my head back and forth, up and down, like a very erratic vibration. I spend a panicked second trying to decide what to do--is my friend playing a prank on me?!--before I wake up. It feels like the vibrations continue for a moment before they stop. I sit for a minute in shock before doing an RC and confirming that I'm awake.

[It's crossed my mind that maybe that was a seizure, but I doubt it. More likely I imagined it. Either way, it was a strange experience.]

*Non-Lucid*Lucid*

I was in another dream when I became lucid and when I open my eyes again, I was in my bed looking at the ceiling. I know that I'm still lucid so I tried getting up. It took a lot of effort to simply sit up because my limbs were really heavy. I also had another problem, I keep on wanting to close my eyes. (In past lucid dreams, whenever I close my eyes, it means I will wake up so I didn't want that.) I was laying in bed again and since I couldn't move, I tried to summon PW here. It didn't work but I was out of my bed. I walked to the door and imagined Tokyo to be on the other side, but it was just the familiar hallway when I opened the door. Maybe it didn't work cause I didn't completely imagine the scene? I imagined PW's house, when I opened the door it's like her house but not really... This whole dream, I tried to keep my eyes open and I'm surprised that I didn't wake up earlier on.

09/14/2012
12AM-7AM, 8:30AM-11:30AM

I don't remember much of the scenes before this, but I do remember one time when a women was asking me- when my baby was coming? So... I think I know where this part came from. Just a day ago I was remembering the day my niece was born. My sister was driven over to the hospital but I was too hung over to get up. But before baby came I got up and rode my bike all the way to the hospital. That was one of the worst bike rides ever, but it was worth it when I got there.

Anyways, I was in the back seat of my mother and father's car. I was... about to have a baby. All I could think about is, something doesn't seem right. I'm prepared to have this baby, but they're gonna have to do a C section because guys shouldn't fucking have babies! In this dream world, it was less common for guys to have babies, but it could happen. Then I began to think to myself... I know absolutely nothing about this or how the procedure is done. That doesn't seem like me, I would have already read everything there was to know about it. Then I slowed down, "Wait a minute." I said to my parents. If this was actually happening... I would be able to remember doctos apointments, and all of this information that I would have learned. I was completely unnaware of this shit.

"OH THANK GOD!" I yelled to the front of the car. I motioned my hand at the car in front of us and the back end was lifted off the ground, then fell back down. "I'M DREAMING. PHEW! I'm not pregnant, I'll catch you guys later. This is a weird dream." I said to them. We were driving through a grassy area for some reason, but I flew out of the window and up into the air. I decided to fly right in front of my parents car for fun, they were driving so damn fast and turning a lot. I looked around and found that this grassy area was just a small island. I mean, small. Maybe the width of a football field. I started flying around in circles over the island getting my speeds down. I then noticed an airplane also circling the island. I went a bit higher and flew next to the airplane.
Then I started playing abound with loops, it's incredible to experience flying in vertical loops. The world spinning around you is so fascinating.
I got bored, and before I left just to excersize my power- I crunched the right wing of the plane in mid flight. Sorry passengers, you're not real enough for me to mind.
I started flying away looking for things, and what happened next will blow my mind for a long while. I came up onto this huge green field, with a whole city of old asian architecture. The weird thing is... I've seen this exactly place down to the placements of the buildings at least three times in a lucid dream. I flew over it, wishing I could draw it in real life to show people. I'm not a good artist. I looked in another direction, there was a huge (I mean huge) mansion. It looked like a royal mansion, sparkling colors and all. I wondered what I would find in that place. There were so many doors, who knows. I'd seen that mansion before, but in a different lucid dream. I've never went in. But that didn't stop me, I kept going until I reached one other dream scene that I knew so very well. I flew over a park area, with a few ball courts. I noticed someone had lost their ball so I materialized a new one and chucked it down towards them. "Here!" I yelled from the air. I flew down to the ground, into a non-lucid dream that I had a few weeks ago. But this time, it was way fucking cooler- because I could cheat.
I knew this part was coming. "Hey, we need an extra- do you play football?" One of the big guys said. "Not so much football, but I play it's cousin rugby." I answered on queue. "Alright, good enough. You're up!"
So back to this game I was. I wanted to try a few things though. Someone passed the ball to my direction. I'm terrible at catching things, so I made it come to my hands right in the touchdown. Everyone was pumped, I seemed to be really good. I wanted to experiment with energy shields. That seems like it would come in handy in some kinds of dreams. The ball was again tossed up in he air, I made a case of blue energy around my body. Confident enough in that, I made anouther one appear right where the ball was coming down over the enemy team. The ball bounched off it like I planned, and landed smack dab back into my hands. This was great. lol.

This is where I stopped remembering. I think my WBTB alarm went off. The night was a success.

I almost had three lds this morning. The first was about 6am, during looking over this big wall at an overly big star gazing universe kinda backdrop, this darkness came over my vision which felt really like my whole head and this is when i realized i was dreaming, this amazing body buzz and warmth pulsated through my body and as it intensified and started to totally engulfed me i began to shoot through this hypnagogic state, but as it seemed like i was going to break through into something like a dreamscape, i got scared and woke up. The second near ld was i guess what you call a wbtb, (sorry im new to this so please bare with me this is my first dj entry) as i was falling back to sleep at around 7am i started to get that same sleep paralysis feeling and so when the buzzing total engulfed me, this time i pushed really hard to get through and the hypnagogia was more like tunnel vision as i flew through, but as my visions started to open up, i felt this presence in my room and in my peripherals and standing over me around my room it seemed fading in were these like spiritual kinda oompa loompas, lol but they werent funny, they were overwhelming and this woke me up. The third was during a dream i was having i guess probably around 8am, i was dreaming that i was in a bookstore buying a book on lucid dreaming, while i was standing in line to buy the book i was playing with this light switch and plug thingy in the wall by the checkout, as a childhood friend got in line beside me, i said hi Chris really exited, but i told him the handshake was coming a little slow because my hand was numb because of electrocution from playing with the light switch and plugy thing, the moment i shook his hand, boom, he disapeared and i became a different person (an older gentlemen that was a scientist) as he/i got back in line the line was much longer and there was a lot of commotion for people wanting to cut in line (someone even flashed a gun at one time) so right before i was next in line, i let these to girls go cut in before me, after they checked out and the clerk was ringing me up, the clerk knew me from coming in to the bookstore and he was making fun of me for buying a book on lding (he was saying that i usually buy Japanese anime books, and i guess he thought that was much cooler) so as he rings me up, i have to press the ok key on the computer to accept the purchase, as soon as i press the ok button, boom, im back in my bed in full sleep paralysis, but this time there was no building up with the buzz, it was full on, as i took it all in for a second, i began to i guess astral project and my body began to rise above my bed, and know with the buzzing and visions it seemed like it was all around my room, i got scared again and woke up. Does anyone know what im doing wrong? or is it just that im new to this?? thanks, Tim

Commentary-
I had this dream on 9/12/2012. At first I avoided sharing this dream because I thought it was too short. But looking back, the dream wasn't too bad and I figured if I was going to number my lucids, I might as well share them all! So, below is lucid #1.
Dream-
I was at a party at my grandma's house. It was pretty random as I didn't know what the party was for and all the characters were unfamiliar. I tried to do a backflip a couple of times in the kitchen to impress the crowd. I failed both attempts and fell on my back. I remembered to rub my hands together for stabalization. I walked outside jumped in the pool clothed. Then a random lady walks up near the edge and asks "What are you doing!?". The dream ended shortly thereafter.

I was in the co-op store and I was the only one. Everything was quiet and slightly dark, I could not see said ghost but I could feel its presence. Its cold, dark presence. It is the first time in a dream in a long long while that I have actually feared something, something I couldn't see, something I couldn't feel. But something I knew was there. Then the dream ended.

It was my Uncles birthday and me and my family had just sat down to eat a meal. Then my Uncle turned up and I asked my mum why I did not know of this. She said she'd told me but I had forgotten and therefore he would have to eat my meal. Not going to lie I was slightly disappointed, even though it was just dream food xD

I did have a lucid on this night, it consisted of me realising randomly, saying "I am dreaming?!?!" Not taking notice of what was around me and then the dream ended suddenly. I think this may have been due to a random rush of excitement or to the fact that I didn't stabilise at all....or have time to.

I was with a friend discussing how my mum had bought me WKD instead of neat vodka. I then left her and walked into a rather large cave. Here I found another two of my friends swinging on a rope swing above a huge pile of rubbish. I asked them to join me in some kind of challenge/quest and suddenly we were above the previous cave on a maze of bridges which lead off to other caves and what looked like rooms. We had to find these enchanted and glowing books but without waking a sleeping monster which we hadn't seen. We all split up, I wanted someone to come with me because I was rather scared again (This seems to have been the theme for this night -.-) But I was brave and ventured into a nearby cavern alone. On the floor next to my feet was a small bookcase and next to the a green glowing book. I picked it up just before one of my friends called out saying they had also found a book. This one was purple and glowing, suddenly we heard a far off noise of something waking up and we had to go. Then the dream ended.

I was waiting for a bus on the city high street, I saw it approach, turn round and head back to the bus station 2 minutes away. The dream ended with me being really confused.


Glad to see my recall is returning after a stressful start to the college year

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Good morning! Got a cold and I had a whole bunch of dreams last night, luckily most of them were kinda fun. Did even manage to get lucid in one. Will only write that one down.

21.00: Sleep

10.00: Mohaha! DILD
I'm outside of my old apartment house with four other people. One of them is a friend of mine and I haven't seen the other three before. I know I'm dreaming and I figure I'll do some telekinesis. I lift the three people up and spin them around. I shove them into huge clothing dryers and close the doors. "Matte no! Just because you can abuse your powers doesn't mean you should" my lady friend says. I let the people go and we start walking down a road. All of a sudden a brown bear starts chasing us. I turn around and put my hand up. The bear runs right into an invisible wall and falls down and starts rolling down the hill. I flick my hand and the bear falls to the side.

10.00: Wake up

Amount of sleep: 14 hours

Supplements: 200 mg B6

That's it!

Keep on dreaming, HARE BRA!

I woke up around 4am to pee, then had a hard time getting back to sleep. Then Danny's alarm woke me up at 5am, then I went back to sleep at 5:30am. Then my alarm woke me up at 6:45am to get Chris up. I set my alarm for 7:10am to take him to school, and went back to sleep. In those 25 minutes I managed 2 short lucid dreams:

When I went back to bed at 6:45am, I got vibrations almost instantly. I had the perfect amount of tiredness from all that waking up I'm guessing. They waved over me a couple times before I was able to focus them over my whole body without fading. As soon as I got it right, I felt the sensation of my body curling up a little, and scooting around the bed, though very subtle. I'm finding that this transition is getting more and more subtle, which worries me. I don't want it to become so subtle that I bare;y notice it and then just have a false awakening. This is the point in time where I would usually have a really intense demon experience, which are obviously hard to miss lol. But vibrations getting ever milder and milder, followed by really faint proprioception is making it more and more difficult to tell if when I open my eyes it's a dream or real. My even worse fear is that I won't feel the vibrations anymore, therefore miss altogether that I'm transitioning into a dream and then end up having a nonlucid/FA. ANYWAY, sorry for the pre-dream wall of text there. So after the vibrations settle, I open my eyes. I actually do it twice because I'm not sure. I slowly get out of bed, but with some difficulty in removing blankets and pillows off of me. I felt a bit caught. Then my body magically rose up into a standing position without me even trying, which was helpful lol. I knew at this point I was lucid for sure. I start walking to the bedroom door, but I feel invisible blankets all over me, and I'm having a hard time removing them. I remember guessing that it was because my sleeping body could still feel them, and it was carrying over into the dream. So I decided to ignore them, and went through the door anyway. This was a good idea, because as soon as I opened the door, the feeling of all those blankets was gone. I think ignoring the problem helped, along with opening the door which acted enough as a subtle scene change to help me stabilize a bit better. I felt like my foot hit a sleeping dog, and then I saw Daisy run up to me, I pet her and let her lick me. I felt her teeth and thought she would bite, but she kept her mouth open. Good girl. I open the front door, and it looks like an overcast morning, but plenty light enough to see. But when I step out of the door, which is usually to the right of the garden, suddenly it opened to the left of the garden. I even had to step over it to continue. As soon as I did that, the sky turned super dark grey, and started to pour down rain. I said "NNnnnoooooooo I can't believe it." I was upset because I wanted to try the advanced TOTM again, but now I could barely see. So much thunder and lightening too. I think now, in retrospect, I would have had a more fulfilling experience if I had just gone with it instead of using all my energy to change the weather. I chanted at the sky, saying something like "The clouds must dissipate, I want to see the sun." I was even singing this at some point. The clouds moved away and showed blue sky a few times, but it never disappeared completely. I got TOO obsessed about having a perfect blue sky when I could have just switched my focus to some other task/adventure. I'm making myself remember this as I type it, because it will help me, and I'm always preaching the same goddamned thing to my DVA students. Anyway, I'm staring hopelessly at the sky, then I woke up.

I start drifting off again, passively thinking about walking around in college. I go unaware, straight into a dream where I'm walking in a stairwell, talking to old college buddies. I was making out with one against the wall and making plans to have sex with him. I become lucid after a few seconds, because I remember that I was JUST lying in bed not moments ago, thinking about this. Super quick DILD, I love it. I know that the alarm is going to go off at any minute, so I just resign myself to some lucid sex. I can't find the guy I was originally making out with, so I searched a bunch of rooms to find someone else. I switch gender and grabbed some other ok-looking guy in the cafeteria. Things were going really really well on the table, but I started losing my vision. I focus really hard to make things clearer, then the alarm went off. Oh well.

I'll record the dreams that came before these when I get home from work, but I'm just so pumped about this one I had to write it down. So my brother Jeremy and I were hanging out down the street from his house having a cigerette. For some reason I remember we weren't wearing shirts, we looked like white trashy corner dwellers in a ghetto or something now that I think of it. But I think in the dream it was just hot and made no difference.

A black guy came up and was standing about ten feet away from us for some reason, he too was just hanging out near the corner. Then a girl walked by that Jeremy knew so he started talking to her. I could tell he liked her, it was his playfully bossy attitude type. He followed her down the street a bit, then we went inside. I noticed there was quite a bit of commotion. The house we were in didn't look much like his, more like my brother Jason's house in shape. I realized after a few moments that our friend Aaron was getting ready to have his wedding! Me and someone else were sitting in a very small room having a conversation, when Aaron walked in with a tuxedo as if he were hiding from someone. I said "Congradulations dude, I didn't even know you were getting married! What are you doing?"
He smiled and said thanks but quickly darted out saying "No time-". Just as he darted out his bride darted in. This was a little bit weirder because her dress was so big and there were already two people in the tiny room, but we kept up the good mood. We asked her, what's going on? She said Aaron and her were dodging in and out of rooms today trying to not let Aaron see her. It's bad luck for the groom to see the bride before the wedding. We laughed and talked a bit. I went to the restroom. Here's where I became lucid.

I was in the restroom, I clenched my nose together- and could still breath. (I am loving these reality check results). I instantly became lucid, and called out "I am lucid! I need clarity!", and I rubbed by hands together. Then I ran my hands across the counter of the sink. It was so real. So I began to think about what I was going to do. I noticed in the mirror that I was thoroughly underdressed. I had a great idea. I waved my hand over my body and was dressed in a brilliant fucking tuxedo. I kept waving my hand over it making it absolutely custom, taking out some tads here and there. I kept waving my hand my tie, I wanted the color to be right. I tried red, yellow, blue, striped, it was incredible. I was having fun with this dressup.
I left the bathroom and my dream scene changed.
Back at my house. I wanted to show off my dream skills to my parent's characters for shits and giggles. I said here mom, let me give you a hand with that (while she was preparing lunch in the kitchen). I made the chicken she was about to grab float over to the cutting board. She wasn't impressed. lol.

My family's friend Lenny was over. I said, Lenny check this out. I made a pack of 50 water battles float up into the air and start spinning. I continued playing with things in the air for a while. Then... I walked outside. This is where it went bad. My subconscious thought I had been lucid long enough, so it decided to scare me into false awakening over and over again.

I walked outside and a girl began talking in front of me. She was a dream figment saying "Once a person has been conscious too long in here, they're never let go." And I began to see other people that began half materializing in front of me, as if they were other dreamers stuck in the dream world. I panicked and woke myself up. I woke myself up into another dream. But I knew it this time, I was used to these kinds of false awakening. I woke myself up another time into another false awakening. Almost panicking then, thinking I was stuck, I gave one last burst of energy to my conscious mind and finally woke up. Great dreaming session, just a strange ending.

well, last night i did sort of a lazy attemp to lucid dream and didn't actually go lucid until the middle of the dream (if thats possible XD) anyways, before i went lucid, i was seeing characters from inuyasha (mainly kagome and her friends) and then before i knew it, i was at my old house in mt.healthy and seen inuyasha running towards me. he greeted me as if i haven't seen him in awhile, and then all of a sudden, i said, "im dreaming!!" and everything brightened up and got clearer and more vivid. and then inuyasha hugged me XD so then i was riding around on his back and forgot to tell myself i was dreaming to keep that lucid stage and eventually lost track of my actions. lol, better luck next time. >3<

I could see bright blue skies out. Midday. I was standing in front of a painted white metal railing. Beyond that was a drop hundreds of feet down. Basically a large canyon. Beyond the railing was a wide ledge. There was a friendly looking guy (DC) standing next to me taking in the view.

I decided to stand on the top rail, since it was not a direct fall. The rail was rounded. When I first tried to stand I lost balance and fell back right away. I told myself:

"This is a dream, why is it so difficult to balance?" - I jumped up again, and this time landed on my knees. I tried to stand, couldn't quite manage it, so jumped back again. -Realistic physics, but I was determined, for some reason..

Finally, I jumped up in one bound and landed on the railing. Looked around. I was stable. Then... I leaned backwards and was able to ease back, flat as a board. No effort. No gravity. I turned to the cool DC guy who was starring at me with interest and said something like:

"Now I got it.. See? No gravity." He nodded with agreement. Impressed, but not excited. I feel like he is a DV's buddy.

I was so swamped from a whole day of school. When I got home at 6pm, I had some dinner, then slept at around 7. I woke up at 11pm and started studying until 5 am (cramming for a major test hehe). I then decided to take a 90 minute nap before I got ready for school.

I lay on my side, really really sleepy and tired. After about two minutes, the hypnagogia kicked in. It was a surprise because I'd never gotten them that quickly before. At first it was a quick flash of a yellow bus. Then suddenly it was like I was running at full speed. My vision was blurry at the sides, and it was like I was in a hospital corridor, with people walking slowly beside me. It felt amazing because within a few seconds, I started feeling air on my face and body. This went on for about a full minute. Then it suddenly stopped, and I was standing in front of a surgery room. I could tell it was a surgery room because it had double swinging doors, and a 'no entry' sign (the red circle with the slash). A classmate of mine came out of the door. She was Chinese and wearing scrubs. At that point I made her vanish, then walked toward the door, planning to teleport through it and into another dreamscape. I woke up before I got to the other side.

The odd thing is, when I woke up, 45 minutes had passed already. This makes me really curious. I was aware the whole time, and I could have sworn the whole thing only lasted less than 5 minutes! I wonder how that works: did everything happen in ultraslow motion in real time? And did my mind just make me think and feel like it was 5 minutes? Weird.

The first part of dream is sketchy. I was pregnant, I know that much, and I was taken to hospital where I quickly had a child. I suddenly realised I would be able to name it, and started thinking of names. The dream then switched and I was pregnant again. This time I could see the baby in my stomach and feel it. I went into labour, and there was an argument about the ambulance. I wasn't allowed in because someone else needed it, so I went on a bus.

I went into a waiting room where other pregnant girls were, and I was the last to be taken to have the baby. They finally thought I must be "holding it in" on purpose. At the end of the dream I realised I wasn't pregnant, so had to explain to the doctors and apologise.

This is something which creeped me out. The dream was so random I never knew it would actually come true.

In the dream, I had gone out to the back garden to see mud all over the path. I went to the spot where I had buried my Russian Dwarf hamster and found he had gone - the little blue house I'd put his body in was empty, and his grave had been dug up.

Slightly disturbing dream. What was more disturbing was the fact that two days later I went out to the garden, mud was all over the path, and I found the small box my hamster had been buried in on the surface. Next door's dog had dug him up.

Maybe it was a coincidence; there was always a chance that if the dog smelt the dead hamster he'd be tempted. But it just seems strange. I didn't know he'd get through the hedge to our garden, or that there was the slightest chance he'd be dug up - maybe I thought it sub-consciously which triggered the dream, and the fact it actually happened was mere coincidence?