lucid

Some things just seem so simple...like this recipe.

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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]I’m in a southwestern landscape, similar to the Arizonadesert, surrounded by scrub brush. Mountains in the distance are purple-coloredin the hazy air. I’m lucid, my awareness brought about by the odd desertlocation. [/FONT][/SIZE]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]In front of me, floating in the air, is a pile of cheese. Inmy mind I understand that I need to eat the cheese. I not only need to eat it…thecheese needs to fill me. I need to become the cheese. It looks like Americancheese and as I consume it my lower body becomes a yellowish-orange color. Italso feels warm.[/FONT][/SIZE]
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[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]Next a large amount of rice appears, white rice, and I mustconsume it just as I did the cheese. It’s steaming and fluffy though I feel noheat as I swallow. Still, it tastes good. The feeling inside me is similar to beingsupercharged.[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]Now that I have the recipe components inside me I know I cancontrol the weather. Admittedly the weather doesn’t change much in the desertbut I now have control.[/FONT][/SIZE]
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I love the characters that pop up in my dreams.

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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]I’m in south Austin and I’ve heard there are some good artexhibits all over town worth checking out. I can’t quite recall who told me butit was one of the parents I know from my daughter’s school. I head north of mylocation until I arrive at a chainlink fence that surrounds a 3-story concretebuilding. The building is non-descript and has no outside signs or markings.From the outside it would appear to just be the shell of a building with darkwindows.[/FONT][/SIZE]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]I enter the building with my daughter who immediately runsfrom my side to explore the art exhibits contained inside. In every direction,yet sparsely situated, are objects and dioramas that express various feelingsand emotions using all kinds of material. Each one has a candle or severalcandles, some of which are not lit. The room is quite dark.[/FONT][/SIZE]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]Walking over to an exhibit along the wall to my right I amfascinated by the detail the artist put into the work. Set on a square base ofabout 9 inches on a side is a small piece of gnarled tree that curls up like amisshapen letter ‘G’ and a number of strings hang from the top curve, eachdecorated with glistening charms and shapes that represent spiritual contentand emotional links felt throughout time by humanity. Sadly the candles are notlit.[/FONT][/SIZE]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]I grab the grill-lighter set on the exhibit table and beginlighting the candles. Only a couple remain lit after a few seconds and I haveto relight most of the candles. I believe they are being extinguished by abreeze coming in through the open front door, though I can recall no entry doorbehind me.[/FONT][/SIZE]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]Looking back I see Mark is there, his typical goofy smilebeaming from his face. He says “Hi” and I reply in kind. I can also see mydaughter running towards the back of the room, apparently intent on going upstairs.I know she will be okay and I turn around to walk towards another exhibit.[/FONT][/SIZE]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]The exhibit I’m approaching is blue, like the previous one,and I become lucid as I reach out to light the candles. Tiny sparkly shapes ofstars and magical symbols dangle from an overhanging piece of metal. As I applyflame to the candles I accidentally set the art on fire. The sparkly thingsburst into a brief flame that leaves them charred and wrinkled. I initiallyfeel bad but I decide I need not be concerned because I’m dreaming and the artalters slightly before my eyes. It actually looks better now.[/FONT][/SIZE]
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[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]Pleased with my contribution to the exhibit I walked on withsome of the other people who were heading out the back door of thebuilding. I was expecting to see moreart out here and perhaps a gathering of people but instead I found a largefenced-off sandpit with people walking their Chihuahuas through a course duginto the sand. It was disappointing.[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]I saw Bo and Luke Duke (The Dukes of Hazzard) and theylooked like they wanted a dog by the way they were acting and moving but I realizedthey already had a dog and were walking it along the course. Being lucid still I thought about finding anew place to go and enjoy but just as I started walking away the dream fadedand I woke up.[/FONT][/SIZE]
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I began in my bed, wearing nothing but boxers and a t-shirt, and I was in a store-- it was a wooden cabin, all one room, and a bar counter on one side. I walked outside into the daylight and stared in awe at how realistic it was. I must have done three reality checks before I finally believed I was dreaming.

I was in a mountainous area. For about a minute or so I just stared off into the wilderness on the side of the road: tons of detailed trees, colorful flowers, and then stared at the scene of the hill-side view across me from the top of this hill.

I finally remembered a couple of dream goals. One was to go nude in a dream, so I stripped down to my skin. These two urbanites (black guys about my age) merely gave me a long hard (hurr) look, and went on. I remembered to try out a hoverboard. I couldn't make the damn thing appear, however I went through the motion of hopping on and riding, and it worked! it was like it was an invisible board. As I reached the bottom of the hill, another guy one a hoverboard (a real one, not an invisible one lol) zoomed past me.

At the bottom this guy with glazed over, green eyes (With NO pupils) walked up to me. I cupped his face in my hand and brought him closer so i could stare at them--they were gorgeous and otherwordly...


I followed the green-eyed one and his friends into the woods at the end of the hill, and things got weird...they climbed up a tree and into this large ( small car sized) walnut and they turned to green fairie-lights and entered the walnut. I climbed up the tree (stopping to admire a couple spider webs that were intricately detailed as well! Fucking awesome dream so far) and when i got to the walnut it was smaller than I expected and I opened it and ate these small fruits inside. as I ate them, they tasted bland, and this story played out audibly in my mind saying

"and they were demons, and like sweets, he was told to avoid them." As I heard it, I spit out the fruit, and it was a mouthful of blood. O_O

Annnyyway, after that I went around a hill and expected a Stargate to be there-- and there was! I couldn't get it to work, but there was a panel on the side telling me the different planets and cities I could go to. As I picked on, Captain Picard showed up to join me (lol)

I got in my impala, which was right next to the stargate, and we took off into this field, and I shifted the gear, each time going faster. Finally I realized we were going up into space, and I shifted one more time and we hit warp speed into space...the feeling of acceleration was INCREDIBLE...

but even more amazing was the visuals my mind gave me for the warp speed...these giant, techni-colored neon bubbles appeared and zoomed past in space...I can't really describe the feeling of awe, but I found a picture that surprisingly give a good idea.



After that, I had a False Awakening where Hugh Laurie, as Dr. House, sarcasticly pointed out that I was still dreaming. Lol

The fruits were

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Good morning! Finally had another lucid! It was short and pretty unstable but it was kinda cool still. Managed to do my task after a couple of tries. Also had a bunch of other dreams I can't really recall much from, so I'll just make a dream list.

01.00: Sleep

12.00: Dreams
*I'm with my brother and two other guys. I'm handing out my soft air guns but realise I barely have any bullets left to play with anyways. "Uh, I guess we can't play then" I say and hold up the bag, it's not even half full. One guy tries to insert the magazine but fails to do so.

*I'm driving an expensive car in a big building. I enter a huge elevator and push the button. The doors close and the elevator goes up, then to the side. I can feel the elevator changing directions and going deeper into the vast building. Eventually I end up on the roof where two guys are. I punch them and tie their feet to a long cable attached to a crane. I push them off the ledge and watch them hang upside down from the crane.

*I'm with my friend Eric and his girlfriend. We're near my grandma's hosue and I figure we could all eat there. "Don't worry, they're nice" I say and knock on the door. My grandma opens and I greet her. "Hey, can we have dinner with you?" I ask and look inside. There's a pot on the stove with some kind of soup in it. "Yeah but there's not enough for all of us" she says. "Alright I'll go get some food and come back later" I tell her and she closes the door. We start walking down a road.

*I'm in the middle of a highway when I realise I'm dreaming. I look around. There's a thick fog all around and I can't see more than ten meters in all directions. The sky is blue though and the sun is really warm. I rub my hands together to increase vividness and to ground myself to the dream. 'Alright, task time, flying wasn't it?' I start jumping on the spot, trying to fly. All of a sudden I can hear a car coming up. I jump just in time to land on the hood of the car and it doesn't slow down. I use the speed from the car to get airborne and soon I'm flying. The dream starts to destabilize as I see some houses coming up. I land on the roof of one.

12.00: Wake up

Amount of sleep: 11 hours

Supplements: Alcohol

That's it!

Keep on dreaming, HARE BRA!

I think I only managed this because I was discussing it with a friend during the day. But anyway, on with the show:

I was in a huge city, not as big as London but a bit older. There were lots of old buildings around but then a tram line running right through the middle of it all. The sun was shinning and families and the people that lived there were milling around doing their jobs, it was actually quite busy. Then for some reason I started thinking about lucid dreaming, I looked around and noticed I wasn't anywhere I recognised. Then again that's pretty normal for me. I RC'd purely out of habit and it failed, I could breath. As I was about to walk off I realised, "woah woah woah wait what?! I can breath?! I'm dreaming!!!! ." But as I started to walk once more my vision went blurry which for me means the dream is collapsing. I hit the floor, desperate to keep this LD in one piece. As I felt the solid concrete beneath me everything became crystal clear. I could see every detail in everything, in fact I think I'd even go as far to say I could see better in this dream than in real life. The colours were so vibrant and stunning, I wanted to stay here forever. Knowing that not to be possible I decided to get moving and try some stuff.

I stood up, first things first go back to basics. I shot up in the air as the knowledge of flying came flooding back. The last time I tried I was still learning but clearly I was done with the basics, I was flying like a pro! Once above the main level of the city I had a fly around both to get my bearings and to get used to being airborne. After some time when I'd got to know my way around a little I landed gently on the turret of a small castle within the city.

Looking over the edge at the rather large drop to the ground I did another Reality Check just to be sure (even though I'd just flown ) again it failed and I could breath through my blocked nose. This was so strange, it all felt so real even down to the slight breeze passing over me. Not wanting to waste any more time admiring I took off again.

This time I flew past a kind of half stadium, the crowd saw me and cheered wanting me to do tricks. Just having mastered normal flying I didn't want to fall and end up looking stupid so I just flew around a little bit. After a while I got bored of entertaining my own brain (they were all DC's after all). I landed nearby on the flat glass roof of what appeared to be some kind of mansion. I spotted something on the floor and out of curiosity I went to see what it was since dreams can conjure up strange objects. As I went over to it I lost lucidity I can't remember what the object was either. But I'm not complaining, it was my first LD in months and for a first one it was pretty amazing.

Fragment: I was hiding behind a hedge from what I thought to be the police.

What an amazing night

DJ

Ok, I ALMOST had yet another WILD. This would have been my 4th one this week, had this attempt and another attempt not failed. So I've had 2 WILDs this week, And 2 almost WILDs. I'm definitely getting the hang of these now. I felt the heavy feeling come across my body and everything, and it got darker and darker... But for some stupid reason, I woke up -__- I dunno why, but I did. There appears to be a... pattern... as well...

WILD, Almost WILD, WILD, Almost WILD, ---

Perhaps this is a pattern, and maybe I'll have another full WILD soon? Idk. But I'm still glad I'm getting used to Lucid Dreaming again...

The precursor to this dream was, I had set an alarm for two AM thinking that if I woke up earlier I'd be more tired and could do MILD and fall back asleep easier. Horrible idea, I ended up waking up and then I just felt restless and didn't end up falling back asleep until like 4:30 AM. Alright anyway so I end up waking back up around 6:40 and then I went back to sleep again and next thing I know I'm in my dream.

So the earliest moment I remember was that I was at the baseball field near my house. I was in the parking lot and I noticed that someone had their car parked directly behind mine making it impossible for me to leave. I was pretty mad about this and I went to find out who's car it was. I ask my little brother who's car it is and he's trying to describe to me the person it belongs to. He says something like "The kid with the hair, the uhhh kid with the red hair." In waking life he does know this persons name but he doesn't say it in the dream. So anyways the person he was describing runs by me and he tells me that that's him. So I grab him and tell him that he needs to move his car now. So then I don't remember why or how but I end up grabbing my little brother and then he starts crying. Then my dad stands up on the bleachers and is yelling at me and he says something about my brother being up to bat. So I get angry at my little brother for getting me in trouble and I storm off towards my car. When I get to my car I end up thinking, good thing this is only a dream. And then I stopped and I thought wait I'm dreaming.. So I ended up being the event that sparked my lucidity.

Alright so I was standing at the door to my car which was now a white version of the bat-mobile with some skulls painted on. Anyways so I got into it while trying to maintain my focus and then magically it turns into a classic dragster, still low to the ground. So there aren't any peddles but no matter I power it with my mind. So I drive it in a circle around the parking lot and then wait to pull out of it because there was traffic. Once I pull out into the street it's no longer me driving it's now some Mexican girl and she sounds around fourteen years old. So then we turn around a street and she says something like, "It's your fault we have to wash it." Anyways then she floors it down the street and I don't really have anything to focus on, everything is blurry. I end up totally losing my focus after a while. And then all I see is blackness and then a percent bar popped up. There was rectangles that were like a teal color and the word percentage was in orange, it started at eighty percent and then went up until it hit one-hundred percent at which point I was reloaded into the dream. This time my older brother was driving the dragster. This time we were on a mountain rode. And might I add that the sky was blue and the sun was out whereas before it was night time. Anyways so while my brother was driving I kept bumping up and down and one time I stopped in the air and was floating. Then the last thing I saw was a list of tasks that looked like my task list from Astrid Task Manager.

Non-Dream Dream Lucid Dream

Dream 1:

I am in lab and I want to take a look at my coworker's (NG) cells under the microscope. She begs me not to look because they are precious but I promise it will be OK. For some reason I put the plate of cells under the sink instead of the microscope and I fill the plate with water - ruining her experiment. I lie to her and say that some new girl bumped me while I was looking under the microscope and that caused water to get into the plate. She gets really mad then turns into a hideous woman who tells me I'm hot.

Dream 2:

I make a trek to Mexico on a motorcycle with my lab mates.

Dream 3:

I meet a beautiful Asian girl on some crazy packed campus - probably UCLA. It might have been a festival. I am playing some weird basketball game in waste deep water - I think this is where we meet. It was love at first sight. She immediately trusts me so much that she gets into my car to drive her to her house. I am driving an automatic black Honda. We park somewhere that resembles a desert and take a very difficult path to her house. I have to climb an almost vertical dirt wall. She had no problem but for some reason I had trouble doing a pull-up. We are worried about rattlesnakes. I crack a few jokes about getting bit in the face (smooth).

We get to her house and start playing video games. One game is a betting game where we bet on whether or not we can complete a maze. Other games were virtual reality. We fall in love but I know that my wife is back at home. I mention something about sex and she tells me she can't or something. I say I know and neither can I. She tells me that she would be content with sleeping on my feet / cuddling like really good friends. This makes me extremely happy - true love.

Dream 4:

I am watching a strange baseball game from the stands. My team (USA I believe) is losing by about 25 runs. Players can choose whether they want to hit baseballs or giant credit cards. The cards are very difficult to catch and the kids are having trouble in the outfield (I think it is the little league world series).

Dream 5:

I am having sex with my wife. My penis is about 5x bigger than usual and I have a giant condom on. She makes me stop because it feels too good and there are people close by.

WAKE UP FOR ~30 MIN

Dream 6:

I get back to bed and start thinking about being at a baseball game. Since the last game I went to was a Giants game I naturally start visualizing AT&T park and the view from my seat. At first it was just a thought then I slowly starting gaining more and more clarity on my visuals. After a couple of minutes I was THERE AT THE STADIUM. AWESOME!!!

I perform a reality check by climbing some rafters above the seats. It was incredibly easy so I concluded that I was dreaming. I take off flying over the stadium - very high up. This lucid is extremely vivid. I want to test the reality of my lucid. I recall looking down at my shadow, waiting for it to appear after passing through the roof shadows and sure enough my shadow popped up right when it was supposed to. I was amazed that my mind was able to produce it so perfectly.

It was a very windy day and I loved feeling it hitting my face when I was flying. I tried thinking about what to do next. I couldn't think of anything cool so I decided that I wanted to have sex. I left the stadium and was flying over the bay. I summoned some hot chicks in a boat but I had trouble stopping / slowing down. I was flying very fast. Each boat I passed I summoned more hot chicks but I couldn't stop. Finally I landed in a boat. I started banging this smoking hot chick but quickly realized that her dad was also in the boat. I wished him away and continued. Unfortunately I "woke up" shortly after.

Dream 7:

I am in bed trying to find a place in my dream journal to record my lucid experience but I there were no available pages. (false awakening)

Suddenly I am in some kind of subway station with my brother. We are trying to figure out how to get to an amusement park.

Then I wake up for real.

I became lucid when I was teaching DCs how to fly, from a sort of weird 3rd person perspective. It seemed odd that I was actually able to fly, so I realized I was dreaming. Once I became lucid, I just grabbed the closest male, and we started making out. He had me shoved up against the wall, and we were french kissing pretty intensely. I suddenly became hyper-aware of the feeling of his tongue in my mouth. Which was bad, because then it grew really fat and really long. I spit it out, and it started whipping me in the face lol. I just kinda squealed and pushed him away. I reached out to feel if he had a boner, and he did. So I said "Watch this.." and I switched gender and pulled mine out. He just looked stunned, and said "How did you DO that??" I said "Well, I'm lucid dreaming, so I can do whatever I want." So he asked "Well I'm dreaming too, how come I can't change my gender?" So I said, "Well, you have to be fully accepting of the fact that your real body is asleep, in bed, and this is all happening in our minds." Then it dawned on me "Oh duh... you're just a DC." He just scoffed at me and stomped of in a huff.

I guess that tiny spark of realization that this was MY dream and those people and the dude with the tongue were just DCs in MY dream, helped anchor my lucidity. Because then it hit me "I want to walk through the mirror again!" I had this all worked out in my mind from waking life: I was going to explain to those "DEILD Demons" that if they don't appear at MY discretion (vs. theirs), that I would track them and hunt them down via mirror portals. 4 knocks is the combination. If they wanted to discuss this with me now, they needed to be on the other side of the door when I opened it. If not, then I'm going in the mirror. I actually said all this quite loudly, in speech form, and my voice seemed to echo for miles. SO I opened the door, and there was a little old man standing there. I asked him if he had a message for me. He looked confused. Now I was pissed, because they completely ignored my request. So I was going to use the mirror in the bathroom, but I got distracted by a larger one on the wall. I took it off the wall for some reason, and was deliberating on where I wanted to put it. Why do I always deliberate over the mirrors before going through? So annoying. I finally set it down, and just as I was about to go it, I WOKE UP.

I think the demons did it. They're so going to get it.

*Non-Lucid*Lucid*

(I woke up at 8, couldn't remember if I had any dreams so I went back to sleep.) I was at the mall with AA and met up with PW. Somehow AA disappeared and AT joined us. PW talked about getting face cleanser while we were walking and I ignored her the whole way. AT disappeared and it was just me and PW, we were silent and it was awkward. Music started playing somehow, to lessen the awkwardness? We waited at an elevator, the floor was shaking due to it. I decided to just stop being silly and told her that I hate it when some elevators do that, shaking the whole floor. I said it like it's normal for elevators to do that. The door open, the elevator was tiny and there were two man inside filming. PW hesitated to get in so I dragged her in with me. We squeezed to the left of the elevator. The camera guy was filming the man on his left with a video camera. The man had his palm pushed against my face. PW and I giggled at first but I tried my best to act normal, she continued so I elbowed her. She started talking to me so I shushed her. We got off the elevator and walked out to the parking lot. People were running to the right or back inside the building. I was going to run away with PW but instead I jumped up to the roof of a car, all the while wondering what the hell am I doing. I was then blown away pretty high and far by an explosion. I was falling now and thought about the pain of landing. I was falling really slowly and my body was light. I hanged on to the edge of a roof, and realized things were surreal starting from the parking lot. There's a bring yellow sign on the building across from me, I keep on looking back to it. I pinched my nose and took a really deep breath. I proceeded to feel the cement roof, I smelled my hand (dusty from roof, flowery from lotion store) and I tried to take in the details of the roof but it was too fuzzy. I blinked and wanted to say "stabilize lucidity", I woke up opening my eyes.

(I tried getting back in to the dream) Fragments: sitting on the street with a bunch of people, lady started talking to me, authorities asked it were alright from the earthquake, whatever happen was not like it. -- I was driving and I pulled up to the curb cause there was an incoming firetruck. -- I got a missed call from my mom, I probably didn't call back.

08/17/2012
1AM-9AM

08.17.2012

Lugia (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

It's night time, and I'm on the upper floor of this random house. It has the default wood flooring that goes longways for each individual piece. I currently have a flashlight with me, since it really is dark, but the light itself is way too dim for me to venture safely in this house.

I have to walk slowly for most of the dream. I finally find the bathroom in this house, and the whole area consists of white....white walls, white tile flooring...everything. It feels so empty, I can't even sense a living soul in this house. I look around the bathroom sink, and find that there are two flashlights for me to use.

There's one that's already on.....just laying at the edge of the bathroom shining at the mirror....laid there convieniently just for me....

Woah....

I get a little suspicious and wanted to take the other one that wasn't on, but I decided I might as well take the light blue flashlight that's already on. Plus, it looked more appealing, even though that itself shouldn't have allowed me to be passive on the fact that it was on already by something or someone.

I look at the flashlight a little bit, and it's so bright that I can even see through the blue layering that covers most of the base and top of the flashlight. It also has a fairly thick black rim around the glass where the light shines. I get out of the room, and I quickly see one child in front of me.

He looks very familiar, let's call him "H." I can tell he wants me to follow him somewhere, and I do. He opens one door, and points somewhere. I go in the room to see where he's pointing, and I hear him mention something about Lugia...

I think he was trying to say something else, but that's the first word that pops in my mind when trying to recall this dream.

I tried to find ways to comprehend what he's doing by pointing at the room. Maybe he wasn't focusing on the toys on the bed, and since it was dark, maybe where I was trying to look at where he's pointing was wrong.

Darn it.

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08.17.2012

VHS tapes (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I only remember going inside the living of a house. It has red carpet flooring, and I decided to check the DVD shelf near the PC on the floor. I didn't realize this could be my mother's sister's house until I recalled this.

I look through random VHS tapes, and I see names of people on them, I think? It was so random, these felt like the type of names you would see on a forum or something. I hear voices, but I can't make a clear distinction of the source....

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08.17.2012

You are One of Us.... (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Before I had this dream, I decided...."Let me turn off my laptop, and everything else in this room." My Blackberry, the chargers for the laptop and phone, and just keep the fan running.


I always keep my laptop on as a way to ensure that when I wake up, I'll immediately open the DreamJournal system by Banhurt, and start typing away as many thoughts that appear in my mind. That's all I've been doing up to this point, well before this point.

And I know this may be just random luck that I managed to become lucid from this dream, but maybe I should try having the laptop off when I try the WBTB. In fact, maybe just not have it on altogether, and resort to traditional means of waking up, the less distracting external alarm that I use to wake myself up for in college rather than the countdown timer on my laptop

Since I don't have to worry about waking up multiple times and forgetting to set the alarm again, I can try it out. I wonder......I've seen threads about electronics interrupting parts of your brain from functioning at a certain time when you need them to, but I never really indulged myself into that belief.

I'll just believe in it now, since I rarely become lucid in the first place, and the moment I turn off the computer and the phone, I wake up 2 hours later and can recall this lucid dream.

I'm outside somewhere, it feels like New York, with the gray atmosphere, good weather in fact judging by how clear the skies are. I feel like I'm jogging or running around this random section. I keep moving forward, ignoring the roads to the left of me because I don't recall seeing any cars passing by. I keep running and using my peripheral vision, I see something blue above me, like a store or service sign.

The whole area consisted of very dull colors, mostly the gray, and I couldn't help but stop to see what's inside this section that looks like those mini-stores in New York. It seems to be shut down, but it's opened. Most of the place is empty, just random objects on the floor. I go inside this area, and eventually find a man sitting down somewhere.

He looks a lot like the brother of a man that I knew in my childhood, let's call him "G."

"G's" brother is wearing a white shirt, with short black pants, and dark colored shoes. I think he's even wearing long black socks. He's probably around the age of 50-60, and still using that "Just For Men's" haircolor like always....*giggle*

Sorry...it's just....ugh, people and their ambition to maintain youth....as your body continues to decay, what's the point? It's like trying to add a bowtie on manure.... Anyway...

I see another man next to G's brother, but I don't pay much attention to him. I realized that being here isn't going to give me something useful to do or experience. So I turn around and try to get out, and suddenly things turn into a mini-maze for me.

I had a feeling G's brother was looking at me, and this feeling of thinking he was doing that started to get stronger and stronger, but I'm sure it's just me being paranoid that he might do something to me...can't really have your back faced on them with the sporadic nature of non-lucid dreams...

I finally get out of this mini-maze, which was just running left and right around wall ledges. As I continue picking up the pace with getting faster, some random guy riding a bike does an insane wheelie stunt, almost coming in contact with me.

Things are going in slow motion for a little while, and I quickly glanced at him. He was wearing a white vest, and dark colored shorts. He was a dark skinned man, and I can't remember his hairstyle. After he disappears, no one is in my way now, and I keep running.

The dream shifts, and I'm suddenly on the top floor of a house. I immediately realize this is my uncle's house when I made a trip to Canada for a week a month ago. There are three doors on the left of me, and I'm currently near the first one (excluding the master bedroom) if you were to go up the stairs to get there.

I decided to check the bathroom, but I can't remember which door I picked, probably the middle or the last one in front of me. I go inside, and I find the bathroom is completely different than the one in waking life. The sink is on the right side, right as soon as you enter the bathroom it's right there compared to having to walk a little bit and seeing it on the left side.

I see there's a green mini-towel, and out of curiousity, since the whole bathroom was white and shiny, the green made a huge contrast. I zoomed in a little it to see if there's any leterring or symbols, and I find that when I turn it around, there's 5 stars.

They are all lined up horizontally, and they have a darker shade of green compared to the thin fabric that was wrapped around the mini-towel. I put it down, and I get out of the bathroom. I see that someone is coming in. I see a small child coming in with someone, and I quickly turn around and find something was weird.

I do a nose plug reality check, and I can breathe through my nose. I couldn't believe it, so I held my nose even tighter than before, and can still breathe through. I continued to feel the sensation of my dream diaphragm contracting to inflate the lungs. I surprisingly kept a calm demeanor throughout the rest of this dream.

Didn't really need to bother with stabilization since the dream itself was vivid and crisp. I can sense that these people are coming up the stairs, hearing the pounding their feet are creating on each step. I can sense that these had to be children, I could sense the enthusiasm.

They finally come up, and the first one that I notice is my grand-daughter, let's call her "K." I didn't pay much attention to the rest of the children, just her. She was very cheerful and happy to see me, completely different than she was in waking life where she was always too shy to talk to me.

Even though I didn't pay attention to the rest of the children, sometimes I wonder that if I did, I could've seen a glimpse of the other children my sister would turn out to be when they get a little older.

I wanted to go inside the other room in front of me, so I forgot about "K" and the other children altogether. I don't know what motivates me to go inside this room, but I opened it and immediately closed it to prevent "K" and the rest from coming in.

I see a bed in front of me, and I think there's a blonde anime girl 1-3 feet in front of me. She has those big and adorable eyes. I forget what she's wearing because her big and cute eyes are luring me to come closer to her.......

She advances to me.....

She tells me,

"You will now become one of us...."

Ho ho ho hoooooo, I like where this is going.

She gets a syringe out, and she immediately stabs the right side of my neck, pushes whatever liquid contained in the syringe, and pulls it out. It actually was painless, and the fact that being lucid and not being bothered by this really concerns me lol.

I think she tries to explain a few more things, but by this time, things start getting a little blurry for me. There's a dream shift, and I'm back in the bedroom again. I see there's someone sleeping in the bedroom.

Things get weird from this point, I can't even comprehend how I come into play this time compared to before. The girl realizes that I'm in the bedroom, I think, and she unfolds the sheets to show herself and turns around and blushes.

She asks, "What are you doing here?" and opens her mouth in shock, and her blushing increases in redness. Then I see there's a person on the left side sleeping on the floor wake up, and he ends up blushing at her in shock. This is the part that I'm confused on lol, was it me, or was it the other random anime guy?

By this time, I decided I might as well wake up, because I started to get worried about what was going to happen. All three of us were surprised to see each other....then again, that shouldn't have been my reason to just wake up lol.

Hit my longest lucid yet this morning! It felt like it might have gone 20 minutes. Very exciting! Go go Intro Class!

Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

Lucid #10: The Horschwager Olympics (Early this morning)

I'm at home in the master bedroom and something tips me off that I'm having a dream. Fortunately, it's daytime but I still feel compelled to leave the house as quickly as I can. (I've been getting stuck in the first scene very often lately.) After having trouble getting out of my upstairs window last time, I decide to dash downstairs and try the front door.

The second floor is a perfect reconstruction of my house, seemingly down to the smallest details. I even have to fiddle with the baby gate to get downstairs. The ground floor, though, has changed into a hot, stifling gaggle of steam tunnels with no obvious exits.

I notice a mirror on the wall and check my reflection. I look like myself but with a pudgier face and feathered, rather flamboyant 90s-looking hair. (Still dashing, of course!)

I return to looking for an exit and spy an old-school cast iron stove against the wall. I see that it has a vent/chimney sticking out of the top that I imagine must lead to the outside. It's only a few inches in diameter but I decide that I can squeeze myself up it and make my escape via reverse Santa Claus.

I crawl through the oven and start willing my way up the vent. It's ultra-confining and hot to the point where I feel some mild pain on my skin during the trek upward. What a way to travel! Why didn't I take the mirror? I operate with a noticeably reduced IQ in my LDs, I'm afraid!

I finally emerge in daylight on a coastal city on a bright, clear morning. It's like a cross between San Francisco and Nice, France. Wife jogs past me and I jog after her through a bustle of dream characters.

As we run along, Wife hands me her iPod and tells me to listen. It's playing some catchy pop number with a female vocalist. It's not my style but it's got this great hook that I can't resist humming along to. As I hum, Wife and all of the other dream characters that we pass start singing as well. The sort of thing that only happens on cheesy television programs and my lucid dreams, I think.

Eventually, the road breaks away from the coast and Wife stops to rest. I decide to go off on my own and try to compete in the Olympics (recent goal.) I walk through the door of a nearby building, expecting to find the Olympics.

A greeter DC guides me into an enormous room that's a combination locker room and ice skating rink. I'm somewhat perturbed to find myself in the Winter Olympics but figure that I can change this later. I grab a duffel bag out of one of the lockers and carry it with me. A harried-looking receptionist and "E" (IWL friend) direct me to go to the second floor via elevator. I ask them what city this Olympics is taking place in. They respond that it is in "Horschwager" this year.

The elevators look dilapidated and out of service. (Doors hanging off loosely, bare shafts visible, etc.) I decide to take the stairs. The stairs, however, are a confusing maze of narrow bridges and snaking archways with sheer drop-offs all around. I wander this maze for a good while, reminding myself that "I'm in a lucid dream, about to compete in the Olympics" but the clock eventually runs out just as I reach a strange, glass-enclosed room. I wake up.

Here was a lucid dream where I had fun but ran into some serious dream control trouble. Still wondering what I might have done differently here.

Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

Lucid #9: Sunny Day "Sleep Paralysis" (August 14, 2012)

I'm walking outside of my childhood home on a bright, sunny day. I'm drinking in the scenery "lucid living" style. I get the sense that I'm dreaming and find myself lucid.

I'm calm and I rub my hands together, enjoying the beauty of the scenery. Everything looks very vivid in this dream, with none of the darkness I'd struggled with before. Just to check, I ask for "maximum lucidity" anyway, but nothing additional happens.

My hands look surprisingly normal so I study the sky for a while, enjoying the look of the clouds and the fact that I can stare into the sun without feeling any discomfort.

When I try to move, though, I suddenly realize that I'm flat on my back, completely paralyzed. It's as if the idea of my physical, paralyzed body is intruding on the dream scene.

I struggle to move for a bit, not succeeding. Finally, I attempt an in-dream out of body exit. (This would be a second dream body exiting what I know is my first dream body -- a delightfully weird idea.) I manage to peel a second set of arms out of my paralyzed arms. As my new head and torso start to exit, though, the dream scene collapses and I'm awake in bed.

This one's a real head scratcher. I'm not sure what I should have done differently here apart from trying not to get that mesmerized by the dream scenery. Perhaps I just need more practice with OBE-style exits.

An alternative idea that I had was to imagine that I'm getting dragged down into the ground. That's a bit too "Nightmare on Elm Street" for me, though, so I don't know!

1. There was a state-wide car show taking place at a park. The location only have one way in or out, the rest was surrounded by massive cliff faces. News was brought that there was a mob king there to kill as many people as he could. He pulled out his gun and started shooting. He came after me but I was picked up in a van and driven to a cliff-edge. I climbed up and out and got away.

2. The city was destroyed through some horrific airplane crashes. I walked with a group to get to the ocean front. When we got there, there was still nothing but a chilly ocean breeze. We walked to the remnants of car signs and headed towards Myrtle Beach. We needed to get on the underpass below us, so we grabbed the edge of a sign and swung downwards and took off.

3. Remodeling the house with my family at my Dad's house. At one point, he got really angry and started yelling at everybody. My sister went outside, I got a cup of water and came back upstairs, and everyone was outside except my dad. I walked outside and they were all smoking a black and mild by the garage. My brother could french inhale like a professional. My dad texted me "LOL ur 2 weird. ily."

4. Woke up in my bed and realized that I was dreaming, following a WILD w/ WBTB. I peered around my room and realized that everything was the same, but decided to re-model. I brought up a computer desk from the basement and put my tv, ps3, and computer on it, invited people over, and gamed. I also placed two speakers in the corners of my bed.

Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

Lucid #8: Black Bronco (August 11, 2012)

I'm in the passenger seat of a Black Bronco that's being driven by Josh Clark of the "Stuff You Should Know" podcast. We're in a gas station and I do not approve of the way he's driving. I'm whining to him to pay attention to what he's doing. Paying no heed, he carelessly backs the Bronco right into this rusty old beater of a car.

In spite of my prior nagging, he is amazed that this has happened. I tell him to shut off the engine and I go to check out how bad the wreck is. The damage looks all wrong to me. The side of the Bronco is crushed in rather than the back. I look at the beater and see that it's completely unharmed. When I look back at the Bronco, I see that it has vanished completely! I'm quickly lucid.

There's a sudden wobble in my vision and I mutter, "Calm down, calm down..." to myself and rub my hands together. Things settle down a bit. I hit the nose pinch RC to make sure my mind's right and start looking at the now-changed scenery.

The beater is parked on the side of a gravel road. It's nighttime and on the other side of the road is a grassy field and some distance behind it a school. I start walking along the road, getting ready to make my next move.

Something is constraining my arms and shoulders. I figure that it's some kind of backpack so I shrug it off of my shoulders and drop it to the ground, freeing my arms. (I don't think to open it.) Shortly after this, I start to lose stability and wake up.