lucid

By chance I happened to have a pretty decent length lucid dream, so I'd like to be sure to document it.

The earliest part in the sequence I can remember was some sort of fake Harry Potter movie (during the dream I seemed to think it was the third in the series, but couldn't remember the name), only it starred the cranky-professor-guy-with-the-eye-whose-name-I-don't-remember (that guy from the Goblet of Fire). Anyways, it seems he was going away and people were giving him various going away presents but he was being extra cranky about them. I recall the second to last one vividly; one person (seemed to be a young adult) held up this large, ornate deep green crystal cross with silver metallic edges, stating that he was offering the professor a chance to examine it and that it was a magical artifact that had belonged to his family for many years (it seemed to imply he was some sort of royalty). However the professor cut the student off from his speech angrily, exclaiming that he knew several good men who died in the name of that worthless, magic-less artifact. After that people started to disperse, and an older professor picked up another going away present that looked like a chest and looked as though he was about to leave but then decided to offer it up (saying that after what had just happened he thought the professor wouldn't be interested but thought he might try offering it anyways). They open it, and the chest is empty except for a small recess near the top left that contained a brass metallic pentagram. The older guy asked him if he knew what it was, and the professor replied dramatically that he did indeed know. The camera seemed to look into the box and zoom in ominously on the pentagram; as it got closer you could see that there was a different place on the other side. As it zoomed through the camera shifted to my vision as I saw a group of people walk by and I followed them into what I seemed to think was a hospital. We were talking about some project I was going to work on (it seemed like a job interview?). Inside, we entered some board room through a set of doors and then went to another set of doors along the same wall to let two other people in (I was already with two other people). One of them was Dr. Werremeyer, whom I was happy to see after so long. At some point it transitioned to me at my car at what seemed to be the gas station on University Drive in Fargo that we used to always get gas at. I seemed to think for a moment that my brother was joining me. We got into the car and were waiting there for a while. We amused ourselves with the two extremely short old ladies in the car next to us. At some point he asked me what we were waiting for, I replied that I wasn't sure, that I'd started with 5 professors and now had 0 and that if this was a dream it was kind of a shitty one, which prompted a reality check. It didn't pass (I remember thinking it was going to and being initially surprised that it didn't). I managed to keep focus but immediately getting to work. As I was doing this I was looking across a street corner and there was a lot of Hispanic people walking across the corner towards me. I decided since I didn't like this dream that I'd clean it up a little bit, so I mentally ordered the wind to blow everything away. It became quite a bit windier (as I could notice in the trees in the background), but it wasn't enough to blow the people away. I tried ordering it again and was able to blow a few people off their feet. I incidentally noticed I had a bottle of lime slushy stuff that I was drinking from. I also recall thinking this dream was going on a while (my temporal perception seemed awry here in retrospect) and I should come write about it. Since my current efforts weren't working I tried to get out of my car but somehow got my head stuck in the door and in trying to get myself out I accidentally woke up.

Observation: as I'd previously noted, during a failed reality test my breathing becomes noticeable as the kind of nasal breathing my waking body would experience. This time I discovered that maintaining this nasal breathing sound helped hold lucid focus. I seemed to think this lucid dream was longer, but I can't seem to remember much going on. Anyways, good stuff.

This night was the greatest LD night I ever lived since I started lucid dreaming. I had 5 LDs (which of course I chained, I love DEILD) but in each of them I demonstrated dream control like I had never experienced before.

Dream 1: I start my lucid dream by doing a random reality check in my living room while my mom is watching me. As soon as I realise I am dreaming I decide to go outside. It's night. I open the door and jump in the snow (even though its summer in RL). Then I go on the street and see a lot of cars passing by with many pedestrians. I see a hockey net from afar. I decide to fly by using a special technique specifically designed for my inability to fly (made by Loaf). I sit down as if I'm in a car, use the invisible gas to go forward and tilt up to fly. Once high enough I am able to let go and fly away, but I end up in a big horizontal vortex talking to Nick Cannon. I talk to him about how he is black.

I try to DEILD but fail since I had lost a little lucidity near the end. I go back to sleep.

Dream 2: I have a big non-lucid about me using a teleporting machine, only to find myself with 7 fingers on each hand. I am pissed and decide to try to sue the company who made it, for no success. I never realise that unusual hands is a reality check lol. I talked to my uncle in the middle of that dream, which leads to the 3rd one.

Dream 3: False Awakening. I wake up in my bed and my cell phone rings. It says someone sent me two pictures. I think that its my uncle who sent me pictures of his dog (could have happened). I get up and go in the living room. ALL of my family is there, including my uncle. It takes me awhile to understand but I do a reality check as the dream fades out. I now begin my chain of LDs. I DEILD back into a dream. I am now back in my living room and everyone tells me that the pool is weird. I go to check it and they tell me anyone who goes on the pool floats on the surface. I take a dip myself and float on top of the water. I want to impress my DC family, so I tell them that when I snap my fingers the water will be normal again. I do and they are impressed. I proceed to flying around in my house and my mom asks me how the hell I do that. I tell her I'm just lucid dreaming and she says my brother and sister should try it too. Id rather not, they should go find their own amazing hobby!

Dream 4: As I DEILD in the next dream, I remember that youre not supposed to chain too much or you will start forgetting your first dreams (and I dont want that) which is why when my dream starts off with 2 santa claus puppet, I wake myself up to start off on a clean slate with a better dream.

Dream 5: I am in a restaurant with my family once again, but as soon as the dream starts I completely abandon the plotline to go have fun outside. I have an aversion against doors, so I go through the window of the restaurant even though the door is right next to it. I bump on the window a couple of times before passing through, but I dont care since who can see me right? I dont remember much after that, except that I walked on the street and saw my friend Sandy. Im turned on and want to have sex, so I try to make a Playmate appear I tell myself that when I look behind me, she will be there (and naked). However the Dreamworld has a way of somehow preventing me from having dream sex, maybe because there are so many better things to do. So I fail to make her appear.

Dream 6: I DEILD with the firm intention of having dream sex. I am in a big school filled with people my age. As I am walking the hall I say out loud que jai le gout de fourrer. The girl next to me tells me she does too but shes ugly so I tell her that shes just a DC and im the dreamer here. I choose . I am roaming for a place in the school to have sex "privately" if you will until I end up in a big dark room with shelves. I decide to try to make sandy appear this time and it works. As I'm walking up to her I'm already taking of my shoes and coat but she walks away from me. I follow her and she seems to agree but as she says that we should go in the corner a bunch of girls from the school come into the room looking for costumes for a dance show (wearing makeup and everything). Then theres guys too. Once again, im prevented from having sex. He he

Dream 7: I'm back in the restaurant. For a brief moment I seem to have lost all my superpowers. I cant seem to levitate or fly or anything. I push my finger through my palm to make sure that I am dreaming. Fade out.....again

Dream 8: Had a non-lucid dream about doing homework secretly in school with my friends.

I was at this weird concert of some sort. I went behind the main stage and I was undercover of some sort. The backstage was emptyness, so I left. The concert gym was empty, and for some weird reason I became lucid. The only thing I did was try to observe my surroundings. I saw the floor, and it had a lot of indents, and that's all I saw in my lucid dream.*
My mom was pregnant and is about to deliver the baby in her room. I stayed all night with her, and we waited. Dad was there I think, but he left often to go to the grocery store to see if mom needed anything. This was really weird. It was so late after watching mom that I fell asleep.
I was at the first few days of school with Emmie. She kept telling me how her boyfriend kept sexting her, and I tried to look at her texts but this one guy, her boyfriend, was holding the phone real weird and I guess he was my imagination, but he was holding string that I guess sent the waves of text. We left and walked into this outside area. We then saw her boyfriend.
I was going home, and I think Krystal was at the bus stop with me. I told her something like, I love you or something. But when I walked to my house with my sister I couldn't wait to see the baby. I walked in and asked, so what gender is it? Dad said something like, oh, another girl. I was really expecting a boy.
Way later on, I was at school, on a boat. This dream was AMAZING. I walked into the front of the school, planning the death of a student who made a minor fault to insult me. But I ended up walking in this hall which at the end were these students in shock. This then reminded me of Bioshock, the scene. At the end of the very dark hall with windows to the right of the ocean, there was an elevator. I told everyone to back the fuck up, I've played this game before. But this all looked so unfamiliar. A teacher was looking in the elevator for a student or such, but then something grabbed her and the elevator collapsed. Everyone around was screaming and I grabbed a hammer, and started pulling out the carpenter staples holding the wood boards to the elevator. Everyone was in my way. Before I descended, I made cookies? I knew what I was doing but I guess the cookies were apart of the game. I made two batches, once undercooked and one overcooked. I asked this one guy to try them and tell me which one tasted more appropriate, and suprisingly he said the overcooked ones. Also, the guy to the left of me told me that he was reading the Wiki and it said that I don't need the cookies? I then dived down and descended into the cavern looking for lost people. I came further up and it looked like the new Lara Croft game. Everything was dripping. Hot damn it was scary.

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID NIGHTLY ADVENTURE

Good morning! Didn't get much sleep last night either, but I did get lucid. The dream was freaky, and my recall really sucks. I also had some nightly hallucinations. Monica wrote down what I said, but I remember what I did.

23.00: Sleep

00.15: Nightly Adventure
*I wake up and see bugs in my bed. I can feel them biting me. "Damn, that's gross" I say. "There's something crawling under here." I look under my pillow. "Damn you're gross babe" I tell Monica. "And now they're crawling on my legs aswell..." I sigh loudly and head for the bathroom.

05.10: Fragment
*I'm with my younger brother Morgan, only it's not him. Something is possessing him and I seem to be the only one who knows this. He tells me all kinds of evil stuff and I'm really scared. I try to smack the demon out of him but it won't work. I bang his head hard on some railing, but he just laughs at me. My dad shows up and I have to explain to him what's going on. "How can you know for sure? If I see him possessed, and you don't, what does that mean?" I'm so confused. I slowly get lucid. I start to smile at him. I know he can't hurt me now. "I'm dreaming, so..." I say and he just looks amused. Not sure if I try to use powers and can't, but I recall doing something similar, like I have no power even though I'm lucid.

05.10: Wake up

Amount of sleep: 6 hours

Supplements: None

That's it! Freaky dream.

Keep on dreaming, HARE BRA!

10-08-11 (This might be a non-REM dream) I am at El Castillo, I am hundreds of dreamers floating around the pyramid. I hear a woman's voice shouting “My daughter, she is lucid take her vision” I think am sort of waking up myself, but I try and see if I can lock onto this girl and find a vision “inside the dream” to stabilise. In the meantime I can feel that some of the dreamers, that are me, have found a way inside the pyramid. Everything is growing darker and darker and I wake up.

Notes: Felt more myself and consolidated, completely relaxed about my upper torso after this experience.
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I am lying in my bed and all of a sudden I feel myself being pulled towards the light. I feel somewhat feminine, but I know I am dreaming and I know I am headed for the pyramid. I scream something silly like “Weeeeeeeeeee!” in excitement about actually managing to go there on my first attempt.

Until. I am punched in the stomach on my right hand side it is not a physical punch, in fact it reminds me of of the energy I felt, when I was relaxing my body earlier, except stronger and not under my control.

The energy doesn't stop there it travels in a quick violent wave up my spine and exits just on the left side of my neck, just above the brain stem, cutting my connection to the light and the dream.

Notes: I felt this “punch” for quite some time throughout the night, though this could easily be explained by being in a permanent state of vulnerability to HHs.

These are the first two very short dreams I have concerning this project. It is the first time I have attempted going to the pyramid. In particular the first one could be somewhat significant, seing as others have reported loads of dreamers pouring in through portals and the like.

The rest of the dreams from that night can be found here, though nothing strikes me as out of the ordinary and none were lucid: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/vest...-bursts-22184/

I'm sitting in my room trying to go to sleep, when I realize, I've just gone to sleep. The dream is still in it's infancy so things are just forming. I have no clue on what to do...no goal....no motivation or anything, so I head outside. Off in a distance, I see a tornado forming, and for a second I lose it and think "what if that's going on in real life". It finally touches down, and starts twirling everywhere, ripping everything up in it's path. Eventually it reaches me, and I'm standing directly in the middle of it. I looked up and made a circular motion in the exact opposite direction of the tornado, and it reversed it....causing it to suck back into itself. The clouds formed a dome, and lighting was coming out....the entire scene changed and I found myself in hogwarts.....wtf? All I wanted to do after that was wake up.

10-08-11 (This might be a non-REM dream) I am at El Castillo, I am hundreds of dreamers floating around the pyramid. I hear a woman's voice shouting “My daughter, she is lucid take her vision” I think am sort of waking up myself, but I try and see if I can lock onto this girl and find a vision “inside the dream” to stabilise. In the meantime I can feel that some of the dreamers, that are me, have found a way inside the pyramid. Everything is growing darker and darker and I wake up.
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The HH tests! (the following contains some weird ass HH happenings that deserve attention, especially considering I was lying in bed for almost 6 hours this night without being able to fall asleep)

I am somehow involved with a vampire in need of aid and I am presented with a choice. I can find someone else to help her or I can do it myself. I know she needs blood to survive, though I think I am a vampire myself and I know I am experiencing either HHs or non-REM dreams.

Hence I know I am in no danger and tells the narrator that she can have my blood. So I open a hole in my arm of about an inch in diameter and let her loose.
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I am smelling sulphur, which to my understanding means presence of a demon. I have never experienced olfactory hallucinations before and decide to take precaution. I envision my body filling up with light and address the demon.

“You are not welcome here, you have no power here, this isn't your realm, this isn't your home”.

After having said this in a fairly firm tone the smell is gone and I feel quite relaxed and comfortable.
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I am lying in my bed and all of a sudden I feel myself being pulled towards the light. I feel somewhat feminine, but I know I am dreaming and I know I am headed for the pyramid. I scream something silly like “Weeeeeeeeeee!” in excitement about actually managing to go there on my first attempt.

Until. I am punched in the stomach on my right hand side it is not a physical punch, in fact it reminds me of of the energy I felt, when I was relaxing my body earlier, except stronger and not under my control.

The energy doesn't stop there it travels in a quick violent wave up my spine and exits just on the left side of my neck, just above the brain stem, cutting my connection to the light and the dream.

Notes: I felt this “punch” for quite some time throughout the night, though this could easily be explained by being in a permanent state of vulnerability to HHs.
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I am looking at an apartment for my mate, Tim. He can't be there himself so I explain that to the people who lives there. The house looks crooked and unstable a bit like Charlie's from the movie with the chocolate plot.

I walk around inspecting things while the couple living there tries to sell it to me. I am not particularly impressed and I tell them this. They ask if it is because of the mess and I take a quick look around to see if that could have somehow formed my first impression.

But it isn't the mess. In fact as I look around it the second time it looks bigger than what I have previously thought.

I go upstairs to a ledge and ask how one would go outside to the balcony I saw from the garden. The man explains that you can't.

I explain that I will give my description of the house to Tim, but I find it highly unlikely that he would want to live here.

The man tells me that it is nice that I am honest, so they don't have to guess at my reaction. Then they explain that they are actually owning the place and that it was meant to get rented so they had a little extra for when the baby arrived.

Skip

I speak with Tim and explain how the house looked and he confirms that he would have no interest in living there.

Skip

We are trying to go somewhere and we have a plane, the rain is pouring down and we can't see a thing. We are driving downhill trying to take off, but we don't have a strip and we don't really know what is in front of us due to the heavy rain.

I stop the plane as I don't dare keep accelerating as we are driving blindly. We get out and notice that we have stopped just in front of a high way.
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I am in a shoot em up computer simulation and it would seem like my team can't really get further than what they have done so far. I decide to join in.

The first obstacle is that we have to get to this little bunker on the beach. I have to go into this and do something in order to capture it. I have an old school sniper rifle with me, which I use to shoot a rather large kid looking in the doorway.

I keep shouting to my team that they have to listen out for something, think it may be glass breaking or something, in any case it has to do with the little bunker I am in.

I think we fail the first time, in any case I have to go into the bunker again and the second time we are successful, though the kid doesn't appear from the door this time, but a window which means he has gotten around a team mate of mine who is supposed to watch out for that side.

I miss the first two shots at the kid, but luckily I have an updated semi-automatic sniper rifle now. The kid was ducking down outside the window, dunno if he remembered my previous weapon.

There is a similar station further up the beach and that will have to be our next check point where a similar action will have to take place.

I start out by zooming in to see if I can pick out their shooters. The zoom works different to the first gun, where I got the classical circle vision with a corsair in the middle. However the new gun allows me to see up the hills and my entire field of vision just moves closer. The corsair is a white dot.

I start picking out soldiers who seems dressed like Nazi soldiers. There is a building or a city behind them and this is the final goal we have to reach in order to win. But before that we will have to get to the next station where we have a man under cover or hidden.

I make my way there and make contact with him, but he is pinned down at this moment. He is a werewolf and the only reason the other werewolf or guard dogs haven't picked up his scent yet is that they have been 100% focused on the assault that has been going on thus far.

I devise a plan to get rid of the dogs so he has more room to play. We lure them towards us and drag them down into a black maelstrom that leads them to another world. I jump through and they follow me in. There is water on the other side, which only helps my plan as I am going back through as soon as the dogs are with me and closing up the vortex. I trust this will be done though I have no knowledge on how to actually do it.

Next section is very blurry.

The plan works and we have now taken the next station. Our werewolf goes nuts on the soldiers, but it would seem that they are fairly immune to his bites. I may actually take on the POV of the werewolf as I am biting and tearing.

I get something coming out of my back that I can't quite describe, it may be a pair of extra hands or enhancements or it may even be some form of blades. Though I think in the end it settles for something like steel enchants for my arms.

We are at the leaders base now, there is a metal platform and railing, with stairs leading down to the beach, which is where they were planning to escape to. There are 3 or 4 of them all wearing orange jail suits.

I use my arm enhancements to kick the crap out of all of them. While I do so the perspective briefly switch to 3rd person as I am hovering out over the beach looking down on myself. Focus switch back and I start throwing people over the railing, it is clear that I have won.

I do the same with the leader and jump on him leaning my arms over his throat. At this point the dream has taken on a personal feeling rather than a game oriented and I want to make sure that all the people that have been killed are avenged.

The leader tells me that without my enhancements I can't do him no harm. I keep pushing at his throat knowing that they will be out again soon enough. They come and he gets scared and I push on his throat harder.

My team mates shout to me he isn't worth it but I keep pushing till I hear his Windpipe snap, though I think I wake up at exactly the moment this is supposed to happen.

Whew, another lucid, and a few other dreams.
Right, so tonight, I gace DEILD another shot and I think it just became my favourite inducing technique. I attempted it twice tonight, though it only worked the second time. I set my alarm to go off at 4am. I thought that was enough for me to get decent sleep. I woke up about 2-3 hours before the alarm. After feeling concious, my leg twitched and it was enough to get me out of REM, not too dissapointed, I fell asleep.
My alarm went off, I havent moved or blinked. There was this ringing sound in my head. I started counting to ten. As I counted to 7, I felt that incredible feeling again, only weaker than last time. My body became heavy and numb. I knew this was the signal to do a RC. I slowly lifted my hand and pinched my nose. I could breathe. I was A LOT calmer than last time. I layed on my bed, letting everything to settle. I slowly got up and raised my hands before my eyes. They looked normal, no extra fingers or anything strange. They were blurry on the edges though. As I concentrated on my hands, I tried concentrating on the smell, and sound aswell. The one thing I always seem to forget is feeling some texture and tasting something. With that done, I stood up.
I was infront of my mirror. I looked just like the way I do in the real world (The dream even remembered my new haircut I got yesterday)
Only one thing which was odd was that I was wearing clothes. The reflection behind me was my old wardrobe we had, with a christmas calendar . It's gone now. Everything was still blurry and I was feeling dizzy, so I looked down at the ground. Looked up and everything looked stable. I decided to begin exploring my dream.
I woke up my borther this time and asked him to join me. He did so without hesitation. Since it was dark out, I wanted to use some passive control to make it brighter. As we were leaving the apartment, I told my mom that we were going outside, because It's a beutiful and sunny day outside. The hallway looked normal, but it wad darker. As we were climbing down the stairs, I noticed cows while looking trough the window, alot of cows! We're outisde. The outside looked nothing like I've ever seen before. Some cars, a playground and other buildings. I noticed something strange when I was outside aswell. I was avle to finally move freely, without my hands sliding, eyes closing or any other stuff. Next, I wanted to do something fun, so I thought about lifting a car. I walked to a car and slowly bent down. And slowly but surely lifted the car of the ground. Suprisingly, the car was as light a toaster, even lighter. Then I gently put the car down. I was happy, and continued exploring the world. I asked my brother to summon my best friend to where I was, but he refused. I asked him two more times and he still refused. Oh well, I guess I didn't have enough control. Moving along, I aproached a big red wall. Feeling strong, I wanted to destroy it. I would've done it, if I hadn't lost conciousnes. The dream ended and I woke up to my dad leaving for work again. Still, I was happy that I was able to have a lucid dream.
I also remember a few fragments of dream which I had before this one.
I was on vacation last week. We went to see the Baltic Sea

I find myslef climbing a sand dune for my life, because the water is slowly rising. Climbing was EXTREMELY hard and it felt like something was pulling me down.

All I can recall is just doing a reality check and becoming lucid. That's about it.

Last night (this morning) i had 3 different lucids, but each one lasted only like 5 seconds probably because i was stupid and did no stabilzation on 2 of them

Dream 1: I was sitting on my couch already lucid. I looked around, noticed i was in what seemed like my living room, but there were no doors. I noticed the TV was on, but before i could see what was on, I woke up.

Dream 2: I was laying in my bed, not really doing anything, and did a random reality check. I plugged my nose and tried to breath in.At first it seemed like i could breath, but when i tried it a second time, it didn't work. Then, i checked my hands. All fingers, no deformities, so i figured maybe i wasn't dreaming. Just to be 100% sure, i plugged my nose again and tried to breath. This time i was sure i was dreaming. However, my eyes started to close. I rubbed my hands to try to stabalize the dream, and it seemed to work. Then I tried to slowly open my eyes so that i wouldn't wake up, but unfortunately, it didn't work and i woke up.

Dream 3: I had just done a DEILD and was pretty sure i was in a dream. I plugged my nose, and i could breath! but before i could even think of what to do or even stablize the dream, it started to fade and I woke up. Damn, not having any luck today

Just as a little Prologue, most of my dreams are Lucid as ive found out, so when i found out there was a website devoted to whats normal for me sounded pretty cool :) I also wasn't entirely aware that they were meant to be rare to a degree. So consider this not necessarily my most recent LD but more one that i always think of first when asked for an example.

The dream started off walking by where my Grandparents live which is on Portland just off Weymouth (so by the sea). Prior to going to sleep i wasn't in a particularly good mood which I find affects what i chose to happen in dreams. I was walking by myself on the beach with the shore to my right and decided to draw shapes and faces in the sand.

At this point the dream wasn't entirely Lucid as what i was drawing wasn't under my control until i got angry with what i was drawing, as it wasn't an accurate picture of what i was drawing (being that it was in the Sand) At this point I looked at the sand and started to imagine what I wanted to draw, only to find I had drawn itself there. Its at this point where i think the dream became completely Lucid due to the fact i looked behind me and had stop the tide from moving up the shore and ruining my work, all the while i was drawing what i can only describe as a tapestry across the beach.

The picture contained details of a story with details similar to those of which were part of the reason i was upset prior to falling asleep, but it wasn't me in the picture and neither was the person/people involved in real life. (I dont remember exactly what they looked like now as this isn't recent, but i know they looked like some other friends instead). I continued to draw until I came across a house more inland which i traveled to instantly, to find it was also made of sand. And as an experiment,(which i already knew the outcome of but did so for fun i think..) i picked the house up out of the ground to create another floor underneath to create a three story house as apposed to a two story. (The closest thing i can relate this to in terms of an example would be of Inception in purgatory but also in the film Watchmen where Dr Manhattan creates a huge structure on Mars out of crystal).

It was at this point that i had realised that the whole scenery was made of sand and that everything was of that colour, the only thing that looked the same was the sky, though it was now coloured sandy like Hessian. I saw people in the garden to the side of the house (also made of sand) that i could manipulate and give extra arms and take away features as if with clay. The last thing i remember doing before going to sleep properly was trying to turn one of the people back to real, but could only turn part of them because it felt like i was trying to turn the whole world back at once with every detail as apposed to this once person and then the rest just left me and the dream stopped

This is probably the LD that i remember most from, and hopefully i remember to write them down i'll try and post more on here :)
Happy Dreaming!

I had a dream before I became lucid where I'm in the basement of my house in some strange room I've never seen. I know it's my bedroom, but it had logs surrounding it around the ceiling. One wall had lights shining up it for decor, and I realized you can change the colors and images on it. I eventually started changing the images when I got to this snowy level that turned into Mario Party. I found a hidden trail which led me straight the a star. (I was playing Mario Party with my friends in real life before I went to bed). I left that screen and went to a half torn-down wall with murals of some random friends of mine. They came up next to me and saw that it was turning colors and deforming when they said we should tear it down. I didn't want them to because I really liked the way it looked. I looked through a hole in it and saw what looked like the old Aperture Science test chambers in Portal 2. I climbed through the hole and made my way through a bunch of rusty pipes until I was eventually in the gym of my Church. The dream started fading away at this point.

I think I woke up at this moment, but when right back to bed. I remember a little segment of a dream where I was walking through a forest where I was for sure that Transformers 3 was shot there. Looking back on it, it looked nothing close to what the movie looked like.

That dream eventually moved me to my swimming pool. A bunch of my brother's and I friends were swimming with us and the filter was pumping out water at ridiculous speeds. We started swimming against it and tried making it one of those infinity pools, but it was too powerful and pushed us back. It was also a lot warmer than the water and air around us, and felt extremely good. I went underwater and became lucid because of seeing everything clearly without goggles. I didn't do a reality check because I knew it was a dream strictly on how weird it was. I rubbed my hands together to make things clearer and saw my brother underwater swimming around me. When everything was clear, I looked around and saw that the pool was getting blurry. I started spinning to keep the dream going and went above water to see what it was like. Somehow I ended up next to one of my guy friends who was holding on to a girl friend and I ran over to hold on her too. We got pushed underwater by the filter and I held onto her as long as I could as we sank the the bottom of our now bottomless swimming pools. I could feel I was running out of air, so I tried swimming back up. I was at least 50 feet from the top and worried until I realized I could breath underwater. On the way up, my brother swam by again wearing Ray Ban glasses that are extremely deformed. I go above water and see my sister's ex-boyfriend. I ask him for a bowl. (A few dreams ago, I found out I could get "high" in my dreams. And I don't smoke in real life anymore but I loved the feeling). So he hands me a plastic cup with my old blue bowl in it. I do my thing when I see my neighbor walk over and ask my sister's ex what he has in his "shoelace box". He walks into my garage when I punch him in the face for some reason. He gets pretty pissed so he pulls out one of his guns, which is actually a nerf gun with a cap in the front. He shoots to the right of me to try to scare me, but it's just a little pop and I start laughing. I call him a fake and the dream starts fading away. I try to spin to keep it going, and I start to see a scene where I'm playing bass in some concert. It doesn't fully appear and I eventually wake up.

I haven't been trying to get lucids for a while, but this might jump me back into it.

It's been ages since I've been on here or thought about LDing, but I feel that I should sort my life out and get back into it. So here's my account of my first ever lucid dream that I had quite a while ago. I don't have my physical dream journal with me so this is just a rough interpretation from memory, which is pretty accurate I think.

I was dreaming that I was in my kitchen having breakfast with my dad and brother, but I got handed a cardboard box, similar to a shoebox and I put it on my head. When said box was placed over my head I could see an image of a landscape quite clearly.

After surveying the image I noticed that everything in the foreground had the characteristics of being in the background, but everything in the background had the characteristics of being in the foreground...something to do with focusing and stuff, it would probably make loads more sense dreaming haha.

After having this moment of realisation, I thought to myself, I MUST BE DREAMING, upon which I got very excited and whipped the box off my head. I performed a few standard RC's and confirmed that I was in fact dreaming. Knowing that because this was my first, it wouldn't last very long I struggled to calm myself in order to prolong the dream.

I ended up looking at yoghurt pots and then closing my eyes and changing the text in a half RC, half lucid fun kind of way. Unfortunately the dream slipped away pretty quickly after that, but it was awesome while it lasted.

Onwards for more lucid adventures hopefully!

Hello everyone.

This is my very first attempt at lucid dreaming. Even though the dream recall part went smooth and I actually managed to get DILD near the end, I got overexcited and it collapsed. I've read a half dozen tutorials and hope to get another one tonight. Please, do feel free to comment and offer any ideas.


Dream #1

I don't remember this one very well. I remember that my mother had brought at least five cats into the house. I hate cats.

The cats were scratching and messing up the whole house. One of them (maybe this one was a small dog) peed on one of the red couches we have in the house. I was furious and kept trying to escape the cats all the time, but they were all over the place. Finally, I managed to lock myself in the bathroom. (Non-Lucid)


Dream #2

First I dreamed I was watching the trial of M., a former co-worker of mine, from Hair. (Side note: In real life, I'm a musical theater musician. I'm a trumpeter, and this particular colleague's an actor). Initially I was watching from the balcony, but the view was not very good, so I decided to go down to the theater-courtroom floor; also I wanted to go down because I saw another co-worker, A. L., below, and wanted to ask him something.

When I got to A. L.'s seat, I also saw I. R., yet another co-worker, and he asked me if it was I who slept with M.'s girlfriend, since this was related to the trial (I guess he was being tried for killing a guy ho he thought was sleeping with his girlfriend). I replied that I did not want that kind of karma for me.

After a time when the prosecution and the judge spoke, M.asked to speak. First he thanked the presence of the band that was there, which I suddenly realized I was part of. I shifted over to the edge of the stage (the trial was being held on a stage) to peek under the skirts of the girls walking by.

I can't remember a good deal between this part and the next.

After some time, the scene was turning into a feminine football game. I continued to look for the upskirts . I exchanged comments with someone who sat next to me (possibly still I.R.) saying how much I liked those teams' loose uniforms.

I decided to watch from another angle. I went around the field to a blue ladder in which players ran up and down. I think I bumped into a guy. At that point I realized that there were also men playing on the team. I did not like the view from up there and went back downstairs. When I came down I was approached by a security guard dressed as a player, saying he would escort me out of the game. He said that the boy in which I think I ran into had broken his neck.

At this point, I started to realize I had some control over the environment, but it was very marginal lucidity. I offered the guard a dollar to let me meet the guy I allegedly hurt, and he accepted. I decided I was going to heal the guy with a healing touch. His apartment was on the 275th floor on a building, inside the stadium. The building was an eyesore, looked like it was jumbled out of cardboard. I arrived at the guy's apartment, talked a little with him and healed him with a touch, the way I wanted. Some of his fellows came in to see him.

I left with the security guard through the service entrance, which was far more presentable than the social entrance. So a thought struck me: "What the f***? This place has a much better back than front?!". At that point I fully realized I was in a dream.

In there, it all came back to me; the minutes before my sleep, the "I'm going to remember my dream" repetition trick I'd used, the Dream Views website, the tutorials I read here, and the fact I pulled it out in my very first attempt. I was completely lucid.

Naturally, I was ecstatic. I remembered a tip I read on a magazine that said: "Start out small. Don't try and make a city out of thin air in the first attempt. Try changing the wall color". So I tried to change the wall color from white to orange. It didn't work, so I remembered BillyBob's tutorial on passive control, and suggested to the guard "the wall was turning orange from the sunset". There was no sunset, but at the second I finishing telling that to the guy a blazing sunset appeared at the horizon. "I've made it."

But that last achievement was a bit too much for me. As soon as I saw the wall I wanted to change turning white to shade-of-purple to orange, I felt the whole context dissolving around me and my bed under my chest. "Crap", I thought to myself.


I got up from bed, hysterical from getting the lucid AND vivid dream at the first shot. I went to tell my mother, but she was still asleep. "Odd", I thought, "She might get late for work." But I was afraid to forget my dream, so I ran to the computer to type it down. Luckily I had forgotten to turn it off the previous night, so I went right to typing.

Except I didn't. I couldn't read. There were a series of jumbled, partially-coherent error messages on the screen.


Then I woke up.

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This was a very intense experience for me. I've been up for hours and I'm still excited about it.

August 9th, 2011

First lucid in a few days! I just woke up from it and I'm going to try to go back to bed in a minute as I just came off a REM cycle. I went to bed confident after listening to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra1iWqQBcp4

As soon as I started dreaming, a dream character, I think a friend of mine in a black leather jacket said "I've got a present. You're dreaming." I looked at my hand and had six fingers, and tried to focus on the details of the world around me to clarify and stabilize, but my vision was a little messed up. Everything got really blurry as I said thank you to him, and he was smiling, and then I was in my room.

I decided to try to spin, and sluggishly turned in bed. I then fell flat on my face. I decided to simply go downstairs, but my mother's snoring as obnoxious. Remembering a thread I'd seen, I said loudly "Silencio!" and thrust my hand at the door. No success. I tried again, and then a third time, but the third time I just willed it to happen. This was MY dream, and she WAS going to shut up. She did.

As I went downstairs, I heard a terrible, terrible shriek. I changed my plans on the spot because, honestly, it sounded like a woman being raped, and I couldn't do anything while that was happening. I ran outside and it was night. There were two little foxes being chased by two shadow creatures. The fox-creatures were screaming. I started throwing fireballs at them by screaming "Exterminado!" and had a 50/50 success rate. When they were all dead, I was teleported away to a kitchen where Oprah and a bunch of other women were staying.

Recall is a bit hazy here, but I remember legitimately making penis jokes. Something about my having pig-like genitalia. That sounds pretty disgusting in real life, but in my dream it was hilarious and they all laughed.

In my dream, I felt and saw my leg move and then was awake, open-eyed, staring at my leg.

In the dream I had after writing this post, I was at my home and the town festival was happening. I don't remember much of that. I was back at my apartment and I was trying to leave. The Weasley twins, who were decked out in body mod and other punk-esque wear, needed to retrieve something. Just before my mom and aunt (recurring dream character now) were trying to drive out when two men accosted the vehicle. It was explained to me that they had been harassing my family, so I got out of the car and went over to them with my cousin.

When the Weasleys went to get whatever it was they needed, I stood on the corner yelling at the two guys who'd run up to the car. Over the course of time, eight more people showed up on their side and were becoming increasingly violent. There was a man standing under a streetlight who I assumed was a bouncer. I tried to get his attention.

"Excuse me! Green hat man!" I shouted, but it took a few tries for him to look my way. I said "Can you do something about this? Call the police or something?"

He refused to see the violent situation unfolding and ignored me.

All the sudden, we all started fighting. I wasn't a godlike master of the fisticuffs, but they were extremely terrible and sloppy, so my cousin and I beat them all. The Weasleys came back, and Fred was smoking, but they didn't have anything new. I wondered why they had left in the first place. Four against ten is still unlikely, but I think if we had the goddamn Weasleys with us, we probably would have cleaned up even faster.

I went inside my apartment, very angry. My mother said something to me that was extremely irritating, and I picked up the dish drainer and threw it at her head. She dodged it but it cut the edge of her neck. She came at me with a little peeling knife and started trying to cut me, screaming at me to never cut her again. Then I woke up.