lucid

I was watching TV with my family (as I used to do before I moved to Taiwan) including some extended family and a girl I didn't know. Then I started trying to make energy balls between my hands and suddenly I knew I was dreaming. I sat where I was and looked around, wrung my hands a bit to stabilize the dream. This seemed to put the dream "more in focus" the brightness visibly changed. Then I got up to explore, trying not to get too excited and wake myself up. That happened anyway of course and I woke.

This is my second night trying to get back into Lucid Dreaming. Rereading Stephen LaBerge's Exploring Lucid Dreaming. It's a good sign that I'm not completely hopeless.

This is a really odd dream because, I was more awake then asleep it was almost like I was just imagining it but oh well.
I was in a dodge viper riding down a highway that just went through a flat open plane when I realized I was in a dream. I remembered that I wanted to go through a mirror so I decided why not do it with a car?so I spawned a massive mirror right in front of me and the car went through without any effort. I came out in mid air still at the same speed and slammed into a hill and total'd the car and landed on the ground several yards away at the base of the hill. The hill stood alone in the middle of another plane this time covered with grass. At the top of the hill was my friend and she rushed down to see if I was ok. After she helped me up I looked at her and said "This is a dream!" "How do you know?" she said. "Because, I can do this." I grabbed her and flew straight up into the air spawned another mirror portal and it fell over us. This time there was something different about the teleporting there was a quick burst of colors swirling around me before I came out to the other side. Almost like using a teleporter in call of duty WaW. We were suddenly standing in the interior of a ship on a cat walk there were some other dc's around and my friend said "that was amazing!" So I said "watch this." and I shifted gravity. me and her grabbed onto the railing of the cat walk while the other dc's fell to their death. I reached over to her and when she took my hand I noticed something was different. very very different. the person morphed into a middle aged man who was somewhat balding and the energy he gave off was very evil. I let go of the rail and fell into some water at the bottom and he was already there. I yelled "Who are you!" and he looked at me with a devilish grin and said something. I don't recall what it was but, it was just a smart comment and it infuriated me. He pinned me against the wall and was beating the crap out of me for a while until finally he stopped and started saying something again I still don't remember what it was that he said but, I had had enough I decided to implement some dream fighting techniques. So I willed a piece of metal to shoot through the floor and stab through him. He dangled there impaled by the giant stake and he looked at me and laughed. Just then I remembered reading in one of nomads posts about light energy so I decided to use it I pushed forth with all my effort and the entire ship was flooded with blinding white light. After several seconds I couldn't hold it any longer. The man exhaled and whispered "I'll be back" I felt his energy leave. I woke up shortly after panting and feeling mentally exhausted.

Lucid dream, wewt.

I was in a tower that reminded me of a fancy hotel. It fit the image of the inside of most towers; made mostly of stairs. Not spiral staircase, though, surprisingly. The inside of the tower was all beige and lined with crimson, and had occasional windows, allowing much sunlight through. I was at the top of the staircase, battling a man, who looked like he would make a good movie star, seemingly for no reason.

He had some sort of short, metal stick. Whenever I blocked it; I was surprised that the metal was room temperature instead of cold. I found myself jealous of the man, short sticks were really fun to swing around. He wasn't even using it, barely tapping me when he hit me. I had only my hands, and it was difficult to hit him when the surface was not level.

I was driving him down the stairs, though, anyway. He couldn't do much but block with his stick; the stairs wouldn't let him kick and keep balance, but I could. I kept advancing and he had no chance but to move back.

This will make for a neat DJ post, I thought, ignoring my awareness that this was a dream.

We finally hit the level surface at the bottom of the tower, at which point I hooked my elbow around his neck, sidestepped behind his right foot, and twisted my hip. He fell to the floor and could not recover in time to follow me out the door.

I ended up on a bus without much transition in between. I sat in the front, on the left side. I looked out the window. There were many big, white houses, separated from the road by a series hills with hedges on top.
I looked down at the road, not thinking anything in particular.

Then it hit me.
Duh. Dream.

The dream felt like it was destabilizing; but I caught it.

"Anchor dream," I cheered, getting out of my seat and realizing I was now in the back of the bus. "anchor dream, anchor dream, dream anchor, anchor anchor dream anchor dream dream,"
I was now skipping down the aisle.

Before I could reach the door, the bus disintegrated. I hovered parallel to the ground, and decided to go for a walk.

I saw a dream character to my right, in the forest. I still haven't talked to a DC yet. I crossed my fingers as I entered the forest.

As usual where I live, the forest was not at all dense, but sunny, and made completely out of tall pine trees. The forest ground was covered with a thick layer of pine needles.

I got within three meters of the DC and woke up.

High School Friends
This was a longer dream, I only recall the tail end of it. I am in my bathroom from the Daisetta house where I lived during high school. I am standing near the sink, talking to two old friends from high school BS and TC. We are talking about college. I am bragging that I already finished college before I even got my high school diploma. I explained that I was going back to get another college degree and then I wanted to travel and swim with dolphins. Weird.

Couldn't get back to sleep because my mind felt too alert. I got up for about 30 minutes and then laid down again. I tossed and turned for a while, I don't know how long. Eventually, I drifted into some lucid dreams.

Naked Chicks
I transition into the dream and the scene is exactly like waking life. I am laying in bed on my side, facing the way. Just a bit of dim light comes in from the window. But then there's an interesting different. Two naked girls are on my bed. One is laying on the edge of the bed near the way. The other is on her knees at the foot of the bed and then she crawls over the other girl to the head of the bed. I know I'm dreaming. I can barely see in the dim light. I reach with my hand for the girl who is laying down. I roll her over toward me and run my hands along her body and squeeze her breast.

Rooftops
I transition into the dream and it's my bedroom again. Now it's more light. Sadly, there are no naked chicks. I sit up and look out the window. I phase through the window glass and jump out onto the rooftop of the adjacent building. I jump from rooftop to rooftop, trying to keep control and finesse of my jumps and vision. Then on one roof I see a man learning over the edge with a sniper rifle. I am behind him. I sneak up to him and grab the rifle out of his hands. He struggles with me but I overpower him. I throw it over the edge of the building.

My recall is so horrible for this dream...I don't know what happened when I became aware, or what was going on before it. I do remember flying a lot. I think I was showing off. Crap now that I think about it....I think I had another FA between this one and the one I wrote down.

During this dream I tried for a scene change by flying through the earth, and failed horribly. I was stuck in darkness for awhile....I know I did some other stuff though....I want to say I remember a shopping center or something......yeah....and a kid. I was flying around this shopping center backwards, forwards, and all kinds of crap. There was this one kid who wanted his parents to buy the crappiest cereal in the store, and I told him to stick to the healthy stuff so he could fly around and be cool like me.

THEN after that I had a FA. I was in my bed, writing the number of LDs I had. I wrote 3 down, and it turned into 4. I was watching the numbers change, and then I realized that I don't even write crap about my dreams unless I'm at the computer. Dream ended and it went to the next one.

I'm in my room. The tv is on, and I already know what time it is. Instead of fully RCing, I play around with the electrical equipment. I pull out plugs and my tv is still on. Not only that, my rooms reversed. I spend the time just reveling at the realness.

I'm lucid for the the third time in a row, but I'm actually thinking about the task. I really didn't look too much into the task, but I knew it had to do something with trick or treat, because it always is.

I head outside, and I can see my shadow. It looks like I'm wearing a robe with a pointy hat. So either I'm a wizard, or a kkk member. LOL, I don't care because I gotta get this done before I wake up. My bag is kinda cool though. It's an over sized half bat head. It goes from the length of the ears all the way to just before the eyes, and it's made out of some stretchy material.

Anyway, I head next door, which is only a few feet, and there's no house. The dog who's constantly chained outside is there, and he barks over and over as I approach. There's nothing left but a grave.

I head down the street again and it's the same thing. No house, grave but the freaking dog is there too. I turn around...the dog is still at the last house...wtf. I fly down to the next house because I know I don't have much time. SAME FREAKING THING. Huge grave site with monument sticking out, dog tied up to something sticking out of the ground, but there's a sign. I read it, and woke up.

(I think this happened because I had the holloween town song stuck in my head playing throughout the dream)

Vividness: 9.5
Recall: 7
Overall: 8

Non-Lucid Lucid Comment Aids

Great dream, I knew school life was preventing me from having LDs, you really do need those extra hours.

Suplements: None (had 200mg B6 on the 22nd-23rd)
Mantra: Spent 5 minutes "I'm Dreaming"

Standing in a gloomy corridor, something's off, but I can't put my finger on it. Maybe it is the creepy hooded man staring at me a little way down the corridor. I look down, the floor is patterned in a ugly black and white checker. And the walls a gloomy grey... 'Maybe I'm dreaming', it seems very realistic and I struggle to reassure my self that it is a dream.

Remembering the creep to my left I look up, he begins advancing on me, I panic and start to try the 'finger through palm' reality check, it's not working. I decide to start running down the corridor until I come to an opening, it's like I am in a have collapsed Colosseum, this makes me gain confidence that I'm dreaming and I turn round.
As the man approaches I effortlessly raise my hand sending a large shockwave towards the man, I chuckle as the man flies back where he came from.

Time to work on stabilisation, I tell myself. I shout 'Ultra Stabilise' though cheesy seems to do the trick, I feel alot more rooted, I notice that details came into focus when I shouted it. I want the dream to be more detailed so give it a shot 'Clarify!', the dream becomes so real for a spit second but then defocuses to becoming slightly blurry. After a few attempts I feel that I've got it as detailed as possible and I'm impressed, standing across the room from the ruins of the other side of the building, I can see each piece of rubble.

I hear something behind me, the man's back, I don't want to fight him so I summon myself some angel wings. Diving off the edge of the building I hear him scream at me, but I don't care this is absolutely awesome. At first I have to manually think about flying, up, down, up, down. But I gain the confidence to let the wings do their own thing and it works, I'm hovering with little effort. I see a church and begin to fly around the building, around the large tower, through the arches in the walls. A woman is stood looking out over a beautiful view, I go down to talk to her, but
*BANG*
a large hook is wrapped around me, I am dragged backwards and I catch a glimpse of the man's return, he has a young sidekick now which appears to be wearing multiple glasses. I know I made enemies with him in primary school, so silly.
I fall on to the rough dirt, although I had flight I had little power or speed, so I lose the winds and blast the wire away from me.
'Sean!' it's my brother, he is here to help me. Observing the opponents they appear to have minor dream control, summoning themselves sawn off shotguns. Realising the danger I throw us into the deep puddle river thing behind us, summoning a large pillow behind us just in time to sponge a volley of bullets. In the water it's a mess I frantically attempt to move the pillow so that it protects us, and begin to wade out of the puddle. Grabbing my brothers hand I teleport him away.
A raised shotgun is pointed at me, it's one of those 'have any last words moments'. I summon a crystal shield in front of my chest, muttering words of a spell. In shock this is just a small area of the chest I shout 'shield, surround my body'. It works a treat, running in the opposite direction my wings appear and I head off into the distance.
I stop back at the Colosseum, where I am confronted by the young accomplice, I attempt to make peace but he won't have any of it, he raises the shot gun to me which I quickly disarm.
I am quite angry and unleash a point blank shot to his head, the damage for some reason is minor and heavily grazes the left side of his face.
The dream is fading, I think I am reaching the end of my REM, stabilisation isn't working, so I give myself iron man boots in combination with my wings and fly off into the distance.

[COLOR="red"]Lucid[/COLOR]
[COLOR="blue"]Dream[/COLOR]
[COLOR="silver"]Thoughts[/COLOR]
[COLOR="lightblue"]Hypnagogic[/COLOR]
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I went to bed at a specific time and set my alarm at a specific time, so I sync my biologicalclock with the sun, but I adjusted it a little so it would fit my morning routine, so with one sleep cycle (90 minutes). The way I know this is because of the Bio2 Real Time, Ev's app.
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[COLOR="blue"]I actually remember many dreams, but they are not interesting for you and it's not worth to write all them down, so I will start at the lucid. But I can say that all the dreams were very vivid and most of them felt like I experienced them.[/COLOR]

[COLOR="blue"]Anyhow I had just finished my dream of walking up the stairs to the Eifeltower and it led to the Great Wall for some reason. But the dream changed and I was standing in my school, with my classmates.
I didn't hear them talk, but I heard my friend just laugh to nothing "He he... haha hehe" I noticed that something was strange. I went to the toilet and started to pee. When I felt that I was done, the urge came back, so I couldn't stop pee.[/COLOR] [COLOR="red"]I realised that this was a dream and I knew that I can pee in dreams without doing it for real, so I wasn't worried. I went outside, but I was standing there naked. For some reason my clothes had disapeared.
I was feeling a little embarrassed, but I knew that it was a dream and it was only my classes' dreamcharacters looking at me, but it was a little uncomfortable, so I imagined myself some new clothes.
I saw my friend Felix and asked him for fun "What stabilisation technique do you want me to use?" He said "Spinning" I started to spin slowly, so I could still see the surroundings. When I stopped Amanada was standing infront of me.
I looked her in the eyes and said "Hello!" Then I throw myself up in the air and landed on my back, and it actually hurted a little. Then I rubbed my hands. I don't believe in dream sharing or that stuff, but in this dream I started to consider that Amanda might be herself in my dream, so I told her to count my fingers on one hand. She said "haha why? but ok 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ... 15!". She looked surprised at me and I said "This is a dream! You are dreaming!"
Shortly after this I started dreaming normally again, so I didn't experienced something special.
Although in the non lucid dream after this, I jumped out from a window and flew a broom and I also used the cruciatus curse on a mean guy.[/COLOR]

[COLOR="silver"]I woke up alert and refreshed! I hope that this wasn't a placebo or something, because then Ev might have found the best lucid aid to lucid dreaming! And also I am ranked as a Dream Character on Banhurts Dream Journal program now :D [/COLOR]

Ever since I was a little kid, I've always had very realistic dreams. I love dreaming but honestly, I'm also terrified of it (due to several reasons). So anyways! Enough of me babbling. Onto the story about my first lucid dream!

It happened last Monday. I can still remember the jist of it but not all (GOSH ALISON, KEEP A NOTEBOOK WHY DON'CHA). Weirdly enough, I didn't try to have a lucid dream this time around. I've attempted to do it before out of interest but with no avail.

I was in this inside this old, wooden house with a few people whose faces I can't seem to remember. The mood was really gloomy and dark. I didn't seem to feel comfortable at all (so I'm assuming I was in a nightmare). And then the thought hit me- "HOLY FUCK I'M IN A DREAM".



I got a tad bit excited (like the "jump-up-and-down and squeal" type of excitement) which I then realized was bad since afterwards, I felt that sensation of waking up. So I remembered that old tip I got from watching that Howcast Lucid Dreaming video- spin.

So I spun. Spun like [insert clever simile here], and everything went back to normal as far as dreams go. I calmed down and began to think of the things I've wanted to try doing in a lucid dream.

I had none. Nope. No ideas. None at all. I realized I never really sat down and thought about what I'd do if I ever achieved a lucid dream. So with no clues on what to do, I went with the most common lucid dream ability- the ability to fly.

So I flew. And then went back down immediately. FUCK ACROPHOBIA.

I decided to try out my psychokinesis. I lifted a coffee mug. It was fairly easy to make it fly, but once it was up in the air, it fell back down and crashed on the floor.

And then I woke up. And lived happily ever after. The End.

...

With all jokes aside, this dream made me realize that I'm not cut out for lucid dreaming. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it. But I'm honestly scared of having that much degree of control.

On a side note, I find it funny how the "vividness" is the same for both my non-lucid and lucid dreams. So yep, I'm (probably) not losing anything if I don't ever experience a lucid dream again.

I'll just stick with my non-lucid dreams.

First of all it started as a normal dream.

Then I took drugs in it, something like benthozyme (not sure if it even exists) that were pills that melted in your mouth. And it turned into a lucid. The "drugs" made it hilarious, first I met a golden buddha that rose out of the ground, and I asked it about the meaning of life, and then we had a deep conversation. Apparently being wide is the meaning of everything. Everything is about wideness. There is no length or height, just wideness flipped on its side. Without wideness everything would be 2D and our 3D world wouldn't exist. Wise words from the buddha . After this conversation the buddha went back into the ground, and I noticed the weather was becoming cloudy. So I swiped my hand and the clouds dispersed away, and I set the time to summer, mid-day. Nice and sunny! I then jumped around in a field of flowers, saw a Sherman tank drive past me, played some piano and saw my grandmother, then woke up.

It was vivid as fuck. Perfectly clear and realistic and I could feel everything.

It was a normal dream at first, it was winter and I was flying, then realized that flying = impossible and did a reality check -> turned lucid.

I spent it testing and practising my level of dream control. I telepathically lifted a wooden house into the air by pointing my hand at it and then smashed it down 50 metres further and it turned into splinters. Did it while floating in the air. Multitasking!

And then had a false awakening, forgot to do an RC and went off to tell my buddies on Steam that I had a lucid, then woke up for real.

I'm posting this as one dream because it all happened during one REM cycle.

My family and I, without my brother, are going on a trip through Arab territory through the desert. We need some sort of protection so I try to take advantage of my kung fu skills (I do kung fu IRL) and find a weapon but all I can find are these weird plastic weapons. They have metal blades but plastic handles. There is what looks like a katana but the blade is actually really short on closer inspection and the handle is really long. Then there is another really long handle with a right angle blade on it. Both of the blades are incredibly loose so they are generally useless (not to mention that nobody actually knows how to fight with an awkward katana or an L). After that my dad tries to put on a turban but I tear it off his head saying he looked ridiculous and would get us killed. The turban was a light purple, made of a towel with a very smooth obviously not-turban material.

After this I randomly became lucid and was with my friends K, A and some others under what seemed to be some sort of overpass unlike any I had ever seen before. It was almost completely enclosed, made of really big cobbled stones with giant square pillars and water to the left of the road from where we are standing in a cul-de-sac. There are steps leading into the water between the pillars. I summon a silver Ferrari California and get in with one of my friends, I think it was A. When I get in, the parking brake doesn't work, i.e. when it is in park it moves forward unless I press the brake. I also noticed the shifter, it was backlit with orange light and looked like a manual because it had a bunch of gears, yet it was a straight line so it had to be automatic. I wasn't doing any shifting anyways so it didn't make a difference. I do a lap under the overpass, drifting and stuff. There is a giant truck, I'm not sure if it was on the way forward or the way back which I swerve to the left of the pillar and over the steps to avoid. Lots of drifting going on here. After that, I don't remember how I got there but I was on the side of the highway and I realized I should try to stabilize the LD. So I started doing palpitations and peeking and everything starts coming into focus. My hands are really weird looking, they are red and swollen and my fingernails are really small and keep changing size. I am looking at the large evergreen and pine trees off the highway where I am and they start to come into focus as I continue to "peek". There isn't any shoulder on the highway and there is just a hill leading down to the forest where I am standing. The sky is blue in the background. After that the dream slips away.

I prepare for a DEILD. I see a hypnagognic image which is a square pumpkin face and focus and relax my body to go into another dream. I feel the awesome sensation of falling into a dream which in this case felt like I was falling sideways for a couple hundred feet at high speed. I end up in my bed and RC but it wasn't a dream I think it was because I was worried I would forget everything because my recall has been crap lately so I wasn't too upset.

I was outside on the deck at my dads house. My aunt and cousins were there too. Two of my brothers were in the pool. One of then was making fun of the youngest (no surprise). I went inside and into my room. I needed to present a project to the class that day, and therefore needed to dress up as something. For some reason I had to dress up as a male version of Hatsune Miku (probably because I was listening to vocaloid before bed). I didn't have a costume, so I tried making it. I had a green shirt and pants, but I needed gray and black also. I went back outside and asked my mom (who wasn't there before) if we had any felt. She said we did, and pointed to a basket on the table. I grabbed some and went inside again.

But at that moment I realized something was wrong. I did a nosplug RC and sure enough, I became lucid. I was really excited that my nearly month-long dry spell was over. But seconds later I was back in my bed. I did another RC, and I was still dreaming. I tried to sit up, but I couldn't. My head felt very heavy. I tried slowly lifting myself up, but it wasn't working out too well. I remembered another dream where I had this exact same problem, and decided to take it easy. I did another RC to make sure I knew I was dreaming, and lifted myself up. When I was fully upright, my vision became distorted, like when you cross your eyes. I did another RC... but now I wasn't dreaming.

In fact, I was awake. It all happened so fast. I must have woken up while I was trying to get up and didn't realize it.

dream 1 - MILD. I roll out from bed and try to find Katsuno thru the window. becomes blurry, wake up

dream 2 - MILD. roll out from bed, oh its the room from my home country! I open the veranda window and fly away. when I look on the car window I am wearing sunglasses and black tuxedo suit. I'm expecting to meet intelligent DC infront of me... but there is no feeling that the dream's gonna be epic. I do RC.

then a woman wearing black riding motorcycle comes to me. I hop on the back, and we ride across the road.... she is Trinity from Matrix.

here dream is kinda unstable...

I try to imagine GAMBLER place from Sitewalker's epic dream..... it surely has fancy lighting on the from door... but wake up