lucid

Last night I had exceptionally better dream recall than before, for numerous reasons. I was not drunk and high when i went to bed... I went to bed around 12:30 and i drank apple juice 2-3 hours before bed. I also woke up 4 hours into my sleep for the WBTB technique.

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I started out my dream lucid but i quickly lost it without doing any dream control into the dream because i could not do anything without almost waking up due to the excitement. I soon forgot I was in a dream, but this is good progress. I woke up in denver and I was in what seemed like a medieval village except i knew i was in denver colorado. I soon saw my family and at one part of the dream we were in what seemed like a big beach store with staircases all over the place. I kept telling my mom i needed to either start driving or take a plane home tonight because i had work at 11:30 tomorrow. I dont remember much else from this dream

2
This might be a continuation of the previous dream or another dream altogether, but i was still worried about getting to work at 11:30. I was with my dad and we were driving to his house, and there was a long drive and i dont remember much of what happened but we got to this nature place and started to walk along this path, which in the dream world you take this long path through the woods to get to my dads house, no path in real life. Then we decided to drive somewhere else because my dad can not walk that far and got to this random house, which i faintly remember was my old friends house. But then we decided to leave to my dads beach house (this is how i know im dreaming a lot of times in my dreams my dad has a beach house, he doesn't have a beach house in real life) but I did not realize i was in a dream. I woke up shortly after this.

[COLOR="red"]Lucid[/COLOR]
[COLOR="blue"]Dream[/COLOR]
[COLOR="silver"]Thoughts[/COLOR]
[COLOR="lightblue"]Hypnagogic[/COLOR]

[COLOR="blue"]I dreamt that I were in a skyskrape and in some way I realised that I was dreaming. I wasn't completely sure, but my awareness felt different so I took a chance. I was working for a booring boss, so I opened a window and told him to watch, then I ran against it and jumped out and I flew![/COLOR] [COLOR="red"]I became lucid and the clearity was incredible and, well let's just say that I was relieved that I was dreaming. Then my biggest lucidity enemy appeared - a hot girl... I thought to myself and also told her to get away. But I couldn't control it. I imagined just for a small second what I was able to do with her, and I was teleported to that thought and I lost my lucidity. [/COLOR]

[COLOR="blue"]I also had nightmare! Wohoo first in very many years. But it wasn't fun to experience it though.
I was sitting with my family and eating dinner, when suddenly a man crush our window and step in, my parents ran, but I thought that if he i in our kitchen he can grab a knife and I can't let that happen. But it was too late...
He chased my mom and he was about to kill her when I grabbed one of the small knifes and pointed it in his back and said "Stop right there, let her go!" He did as I said, my mom got away, but he grabbed my arm and took my knife and pointed both of them to my throat. I managed to run, but now he was chasing me, eventually het got me, but I grabbed is arm and pointed the knife to him and this time I didn't hesitated. I stabbed him it was selfdefence I thought.
To big cuts in his stomach and I was still holding the knife. I told my dad to call the police.
I was in shock, and suddenly the man pulls out his knife and he stab me in the chest.
I feel a sensation of dizziness, and then I faint.[/COLOR]

[COLOR="silver"]Which means that i woke up .. puh[/COLOR]

So these are just some old dreams from my notebook along with some lucid ones I never recorded and therefore I have forgotten when I had them.

Bathroom Wars - 12/31/08
I was at a restaurant of some kind and I need to pee. I tried to find a bathroom yet one didn't seem to exist. I walked down this long red hallway for miles and miles or at least it felt like it. After some time I noticed a DC was walking next to me so I tried talking to him but he would not respond. Soon after a bathroom popped up and suddenly the DC seamed worried as if something bad was about to happen. Then I saw that it was a one person bathroom which seemed to be why the DC was worried. Next thing I remembered was me and the DC getting an an intense fight throwing stuff at each other such as tables and I believe part of it was even a sword fight. I woke up somewhere in the middle of the fight.

Weird Movie Theater stuff - 1/1/09
I am with my dad and today is some special day for the movie theater we are at. The staff want to take a picture with all their customers yet my dad refuses and wants to watch the movie. Skip to half way through the movie and the staff pull the fire alarm to get us out. I woke up as we were going out of the theater.

Google Is Everywhere! - 1/19/09
This dream seemed to be all about google. I am guessing it is from seeing some "what if" thing about companies advertising in our dreams. I pretty much just saw google absolutely everywhere. I saw thousands of books in a bookstore about google, digital clocks that read GOOG where the time should be and even some google stores. It ended with me going to google and several of their websites and that was when the dream was most vivid.

FIRST LUCID DREAM!
I was in Akonsons (a store in a small town in Idaho where I used to live) with my mom and my brother. I randomly became lucid at the realization that there is no akonsons in California where I live now and that I must be dreaming. I decided to do what I always wanted to in an LD which was to fly. I had heard that jumping as high as you can is a good start so I tried it. Unfortunately I doubted myself to much and fell to the floor after jumping about 15 feet in the air. When this happened though, I realised how realistic a dream can be since when I fell it hurt just like it would in real life. The dream abruptly ended here with a false awakening.

First LD cont (False awakening)
I woke up and found myself in the exact same place I was when I fell to sleep. I decided to get up and go to my computer where I browsed some lucid dream sites and then woke up for real. Of course when I actually woke up I felt enraged that I had the idea of lucidity right in front of me in the dream yet did not think to try a reality check where I could have had a second lucid dream right then.

Starts on a beach Inception style

So I attempted a W.I.L.D but when I woke up in rhe dream I was on the beach Inception style lolz so I got up and looked around and thought to myself how did I get here and then realized I was supposed to wake up in my room!* Huh.* Well I looked around and there was a big ship on the sand parked like it was a hotel, people were all around me playing on the beach or just chilling.* I thought this is a dream but why not mix it up?* I seem to ALWAYS attempt control why not go with the dream and explore while aware?

Now in this dream I falsely awoke maybe 8 times...

I go to the ship and walk inside and start to explore but I open a door that looks kinda old and rusted and I see a big sunken ship's cargo hold but it looks like the zombie course from call of duty black ops with the sunken ship in the snow.* I see people being chased by zombies down below us in the big ship and two other kids come up to me and say it looks like fun!* So we go and start to get some zombies to chase us and they do and we see the people that were being chased use a zipline that's out of reach to us and I said hey lets take a zipline!* I point and a zipline appears (see still lucid!) and we jump on it and slide down it and on the way accross we see maybe 10+ zombies.* We hurry to the wall and I said if we don't find any weapons soon we aren't gonna make it.* I run to a tool belt I see on the wall and grab it and say outloud there are weapons in here and what do we get?* 3 airsoft guns...* I grab one and say its better than nothing...* I point it at a zombies head and say bang and he dies LOL!!!* So we keep running and I see another tool belt and I grab an mp-40 that is real but has no ammo...
I seperate from the kids and I run to a door and it leads back to the lobby where I started and I close the door and decide to explore some more.* I go to the beach and same old same old.* I run to the shore and think to myself how much there is to see in my head today when my thoughts are broken by a giant ship being brought in sideways by a giant wave!* People all get up and run to the top of the hill on the beach to watch (but no screaming?) and I do the same.* I then laugh at how random that was and I go to the beach and start talking to this lady.* I said aren't dreams awesome?

I sat down and everything started disappearing and I was worried I was waking up!* I woke up in my bead FALSELY!!!* I thought about recording it but I thought eh Ill just go back to sleep I'm sure I'll remember it.* I get back to the dream the instant I close my eyes.* I wake up on the beach again in the exact same scenario I was when I falsely awakened before.* Some lady was looking at me and said oh good, you're alright!* We all thought you passed out I guess you were just sleeping! Its hilarious how that happened.

I go to the ship again and inside the lobby is a restaurant with a western style design to it.* I go inside and look around then the dream gets fuzzy and then I'm falsely awakened again, then I go back to the dream and I leave the restaurant and go back to the beach and then I get to the shore and I falsely awaken again.* I get mad while in bed and I go back to the dream again.

I wake up look around while sitting on the ground and there is nobody around.* I get up and there is a zombie behind me.* O_O!!!* I jump up and he was just looking at me the whole time!* I run to the boat and I find a pistol and its empty again!!!!* >:-(** I run up the hill and I wake up again...* This time I am getting my phone when it dawns on me, what if I am still dreaming?

I get up and I am!* I go outside, find out I am at my Grammy's house,* explore my street some more, and then I wake up several times falsely and finally I wake up for rizzle.* Interesting to go with the flow sometimes but next time I'll do the monthly task.

This dream I had a while ago, but i thought it would be important to put it in my dream journal as i just realized this is my first lucid dream.

I did an accidental WBTB technique and we were all in a flying wooden ship, it was me and some friends and family. Suddenly some brown hairy orclike people shot us down. Then we got out of the ship which what seemed like a desert. After that i knew the orcs were coming but everyone else was just wandering around. So i started to run away from the ship, and everyone else got killed. After all the orcs surrounded me i started laughing and then i decided to wake up. If i had only known i could change things within the dream i could of had much more fun....

Delted

Color-coding key:
Awake, Non-lucid, Possibly lucid? (not sure), Lucid, Lucid 'dream within a dream,' [Commentary made while awake]

[This morning, my alarm went off at 7:30. I had planned to get up and write, but I still felt so sleepy that I decided to sleep in. I believe I had all these dreams during the extra hour I slept in. Again, I don't remember the transitions that connected them, if there were any, which is why this entry may seem fragmented.]

I'm out somewhere with my parents and T&P [some real-life friends of ours]. We're in a gravel parking lot, getting into our cars to go somewhere. I'm driving my own car by myself. I follow the other car, which has my parents and T&P in it, out of the parking lot and along a narrow, gravel-covered alley. There are two big rocks in the middle of it. I watch the other car drive over them and worry that my car isn't high enough off the ground to clear them, but it does, with no problem.

I have a small patch of thick, dark-brown hairs growing out of a mole on the right side of my chin. I want to pull all the hairs out with tweezers, but I look for the tweezers and can't find them. Later, I look in the mirror again and have a short, but thick beard, with only a couple of long hairs straying outside of the beard zone. I still can't find the tweezers, so I try to pull them out with my fingers, but can't; they're too solidly rooted. I continue playing with those hairs with my fingers as I go about the rest of my day. [Funny how at no point during this sequence did I think to question the situation; I'm a girl! I do, however, find and pull on stray hairs like that often in real life.]

I'm explaining to someone, over the phone [I think], that J&L have passed away. The conversation continues, and I say something about how hard it must be for the other person to find this out. [J&L are the original owners of the house I'm now renting. I've had this conversation over the phone at least twice in real life. Even though I never actually met them, it's still hard to tell people that news.]

I'm in a body of water, and there's this little cartoon guy swimming in the water. He has a mask and a snorkel on. There is a song playing: “let's go swimming under the sea!”, it says, or something like that. I'm following the little cartoon guy as he swims through the water. I have my own snorkel, but no mask. I don't really need it, though, because when I duck my head below the surface, I can see underwater just as clearly as if I were wearing a mask, and the water doesn't sting my eyes at all. Then, the little cartoon guy starts diving deeper under the water. I think to myself, It annoys me when cartoon characters do that when they only have a snorkel. [Somewhere toward the beginning of this dream, I became aware that I was dreaming, but I don't remember precisely when, nor what triggered it.] I want to continue following him under the water, and I think to myself, I can breathe underwater in dreams. My known dream ability to breathe water activates at this thought. I abandon the snorkel and continue following the little cartoon guy. We're in what looks like an ocean. The water is deep blue, and there are sea creatures of some kind swimming in it.

I'm in an unfamiliar bedroom, going to sleep. I even feel sleepy. While I'm getting into bed and falling asleep, I think about the fact that I'm going to be in a a dream as soon as I fall asleep, and that I'm going to be lucid and take conscious, intentional action while I'm there. [I remember having a specific mission in mind, but I don't remember what it was.] After a few seconds, I roll sideways out of bed and know that I'm in the dream world. [I think some kind of dream followed, but I don't remember it now. After that dream ends,] I'm back in the same bedroom again, and I go through the same sequence of falling asleep and knowing that I'm about to enter a lucid dream. This time, I sit up in bed to enter the dream, and then climb out of bed and step away from it, towards the door of the room. I cast a sidelong glance over at the bed and get a glimpse of myself, lying asleep. I quickly look away. I think, I know this is a dream room, and that that isn't actually my real body, but still, it's creepy. [I'm pretty sure I was aware that I was dreaming throughout this entire sequence, even the parts where I was falling asleep.] The reason I know that the whole experience is just a dream is that the bedroom I'm in isn't mine. The walls are painted a dark, cool color, the bedclothes match the walls, and the room is longer and narrower than my real one.

From that unfamiliar bedroom, I walk out into a plaza surrounded by buildings. It is a sunny day. There are signs in the plaza directing people to an area where a birthday party is being held for a child. I walk into that area and find a table with a bunch of party food set out on it. From that table, I take a cupcake and start eating it, without bothering to take the paper off first. I want to take advantage of the opportunity to do that. I know that this is my dream body, so I don't have to worry about the paper doing me any harm, and in addition, I don't have to worry about what the DCs around me will think if they see me eating the cupcake paper. The cupcake itself feels and tastes exactly like cupcakes do in real life. I walk around while eating it, observing all the people walking around and the kids running around and playing in the courtyard.

As I continue to explore the dream environment, I come upon another sign reminding everyone that it's time to go and complete the paperwork to register their cars. I follow the directional arrows on the sign, and end up entering a building that contains an office with a reception desk front and center as you walk in the front door of the building. I go up to the reception desk, tell the woman there my name, and ask for my car registration form. It turns out that the form is filed under my old address from when I was living in Florida. She gives it to me to update. The sheet of paper she gives me is the top sheet of a piece of carbon paper. It's a sheet I already filled out back when I was living in Florida; it has all my information from those days on it, in my handwriting, in blue ballpoint pen. I start working on bringing the information on it up to date.

The top section of the form contains several multiple-choice questions with checkboxes below them. These questions are all about your religious beliefs, and they're really only on the form as a formality. They ask about whether or not you believe in the Bartel Water Bug, and the boxes indicating non-belief are already checked. I read over this section and then start updating the form with my current address, but then it occurs to me to think: Why am I wasting dream time filling out a form? I look up from the paper to see what the woman behind the desk is doing. She has turned away to do something else. I set down my pen, turn around, and walk quickly out of the building while she's not looking.

Back in the courtyard, I discover that the item I've decided [in real life] to use as a totem, which in my case is a thimble, behaves in a very interesting way when thrown or tossed in a dream. Namely, it acts like a magnet. Whenever it comes anywhere near another person [yes, even if the other person is just a DC], it flies away from them as if it were being repelled by their presence. Then it flies back toward me, straight into my hand, as if it were magnetically attracted to me. I encounter a family that I know in real life, walking along the edge of the courtyard. I say something like, “You're gonna get this thing thrown at you,” to the 7-or-8-year-old daughter in the family, and then I throw my thimble at her. When it gets within about a foot of her, it flies away from her and back toward me, and I catch it. [That's the last I remember.]

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Side notes:

When I woke up for real and reflected on the part of my dream where I kept dreaming about waking up and falling asleep within the dream, I thought, "Cool! My mind came up with a kind of hybrid dream experience, incorporating characteristics of the lucid dreaming experience that I learned from Inception (the knowledge that I was about to fall asleep and immediately find myself in a lucid dream, the experience of entering that dream from within another dream), as well as characteristics that I learned from DreamViews and from EWOLD (the perception of rolling out of my dream body and the knowledge that that room was itself a dream)." To those people who looked down on the newcomers who jumped on the lucid-dreaming bandwagon after Inception came out: I was one of those bandwagon-jumpers, even though I tried not to be too obnoxious and annoying about it, and I believe that we newcomers are perfectly capable of learning and growing into the world of lucid dreaming as it is actually experienced outside of the movies.

WILD

I see an image of me swimming through the water....almost feels like a game. Everything transitions perfectly....and I'm actually doing the swimming. I'm in some ancient underground area. The walls are made of stones, and there are painted murals. Just really old stuff. ALL OF A SUDDEN THERE'S A LOUD BANG AND i WOKE UP.

I was riding in a car with my dad, brother, and a friend. I was staring out the window when suddenly I became lucid. I tried to open the car door and jump out but just as I reached for the handle I could feel myself waking up. I tried to stabilize the dream but seeing as I have no idea how to do that I failed. Lucid for 4 seconds, yay

Hey DV. Had two lucids last nice, but sorry, they were too vivid. My recall is a little shot.

Dreamt that there were these hackers in the dream that could change a dream scenario entirely. I was playing diablo 2 type game and kind of knew I was dreaming but not fully. A half lucid. It started out with me in a normal diablo type game. I was going to do a secret cow level. I knew there were hackers in the game and at the right time they told me to prepare for change. The scenario changed and I kinda knew it was a dream. I was sucked into a Mario type 2d environment. I decided to study this weird world and write it all down in detail later. The world was a fast paced moving screen. It was also a mix of sonic the hedgehog. I was be jumping off trampolines and trying not to fall into spikes. I never got low enough on coins to die. After that scenario It went back to a normal world where I was playing d2 collecting items. I told the hackers to do it again because I thought it would make me stronger somehow. It happened again but it was a mix of me at Safeway and un the game. Safeway was a little carnival and the slot machines would take me further into the game. There were others there trying to win prizes. I got into a mini argument with one guy because he won a prize that I wanted. There was one weird girl in the meat section looking at me. It weirded me out a bit. I was preparing to leave Safeway. I talked to a few employees about random things before waking into a false awakening. In this fa I wrote down extreme details of the dream. The dream ended up being over 10 pages long and described all the items I found and every monster I fought.l

Dream; Semi-Lucid; Lucid; Memorable; 1-4 My Recollection;

3; Shampoo in eyes dense packs of amber stars backyard. Lucid trying few things, went flying down the street at night.
Kept having FA's.

Well, due to life getting extremely busy I had to take off a week of keeping up with my DJ, and last night being the first night of the weekend, I got to try again to lucid dream...and boy did I!

1) & 2) Just fragments of the first couple dreams of the night. Can't remember a lot of what I did, but I do recall quite clearly finding a mirror, looking at myself in it, and telling myself that I was dreaming until it sank in that I really was. I went lucid this way in both dreams and then went to do stuff, but sadly lost lucidity again fairly quickly.

3) I was keeping a DJ (yes, in the dream) of the previous two dreams in the night. Suddenly I realized I was still dreaming though, and so I happily marked a third lucid dream for one night...just before waking up.

4) By this point I'd finally gotten enough sleep for dreams to be fairly clear, and so I was wandering through some futuristic facility, unaware that I was asleep, when out of the corner of my eye I caught my reflection in a broken sheet of metal that was dangling from the wall. As I approached it, I began to marvel at how realistic the reflection was...which clued me in that I was dreaming and subconsciously knew it. I repeated the process of looking at myself in the mirror and telling myself quite firmly that I was dreaming until I really did gain lucidity...and this time held onto it! When I looked away from the mirror I was suddenly Adam Jensen, which I found cool and decided to stick with. I was on the basement level of the facility, and I decided there would be a villain at the top level, and I had to get there to stop him from some evil plot. And of course in Deus Ex style, that also meant I had to do a lot of sneaking around to get there. Well, I didn't do the best job at being subtle so security guards caught onto my presence very quickly, but a single punch to the face took each and every one of them out so easily it was almost disappointing. So I let two guys wake back up from the knockout punch and start chasing me, this time with the fun being in finding a way to hide from them. I began to half-fly-half-freerun all over the place until I rounded a corner, expecting to find a door to a crazy room on the other side. I did. Once inside, I was in a room that had its geometry duplicated on the ceiling, making it vertically symmetrical. I flew upside down and stood on the ceiling as the two guys ran inside on the floor, which was upside down to me, now. They couldn't figure out how the heck I was doing what I was, and it confused them enough for me to fly up some upside-down flights of stairs until I reached a pillar jutting sideways out of the wall. I stood by the pillar now, at yet another orientation different from the floor. The DC's were totally confused by this point, and so when they came after me, I simply kept myself on the opposite side of the pillar from them, and eventually they gave up looking for me. Just when they were about to leave though, one of them saw me, so I took them both out and kept going towards the top. Sadly I lost lucidity and woke up before I could get there, but it was still a pretty epic dream.


Here's a basic illustration of the crazy geometry I built into that room on the fly. Just goes to show the creativity the sleeping mind can have! I'd never think of this while awake

I'm starting to get the hang of this!
Anyways I woke up at 2.30 naturally which isn't normal for me, so I thought since I was awake I'd try to WILD even though all of my previous attempts had failed. I entered sleep paralysis within a few minutes and then promptly fell asleep

I found myself in a small corridor made of stone


I was in another castle (starting to become a dream sign) I knew I was dreaming and didn't do RC's or anything. I walked through the square wooden door in front of me thinking I had to get outside and start trying things. I looked to the right, two guards were standing there looking at me. I panicked and immediately killed them both forgetting that it was a dream and that I had the time to try things out. "Not to worry" I said "because I am dreaming" I continued in the direction I was going wondering how I could get outside (My connection to the concious side of my brain wasn't very good so I didn't know much of how to go about things) I kept going until I arrived in this huge cave

I didn't look around too much because I spotted what I thought to be a giant snake over in the corner.

Wanting to have an epic battle like other people have had I went over to it but to my dismay it was only the skin of the huge snake. Then I remembered I killed it in an earlier non lucid dream. I floated upwards and hovered (Not flying!) and started kicking parts of the skin which then fell to the ground in a cloud of dust and for some reason ash. Then the scene changed and I lost lucidity.

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Good morning! My recall was kinda lousy when I woke up, do have a few dreams I recall. Won't go into much detail as I have stuff to do. Let's get to it!

23.00: Sleep

10.30: Dreams and frags
*I'm in a rock band of some sorts. I play the guitar and it sounds pretty awesome. The lead singer wants me to try singing but I tell him I have no singing voice. I try it out anyways and we rock it out. It sounds a bit like disturbed, pretty cool feeling.

*I'm playing Battlefield 3 only I'm actually in the game. Standing by some buildings I kill off alot of people who doesn't seem to see me. A tank shows up and takes aim at me.

*I'm having sex with a girl I don't know. She's on top and not tight at all and it doesn't feel too nice. Suddenly I get lucid. I enter her as deep as I can and she moans. "That's it!" she says and I start pounding away.

*I'm in a car going up a big hill. My friend is in another car on a parallel road. We arrive at a big gate and the guard asks me which school I'm in. I shout at my friend, asking him which school we're in. He says the school and the guard opens the gate. I get out of the car and walk up to a big mansion. In the speakers, someone's bragging nonstop. I recognise the guy they're talking about as my brother's friend. "I had sex with four women last night" he says.

Later that evening he's going to have sex with all of them again. I watch through a window as he walks into his little house below with two of them. The other two are left waiting in the house I'm in. I walk up to them. "Hey, wanna have sex with me instead?" I ask one of them. She seems willing enough, but says no. "Later perhaps" she says. I smooth talk her for a while when the door suddenly slams open. I run into another room and try to hide, but the door to my room slams open aswell. My dad and my brother comes walking in, they put on a weird paper rocket suit on my brother.

10.30: Wake up

Amount of sleep: 11 hours

Supplements: None

That's it!

Keep on dreaming, HARE BRA!