lucid

WhiteRain's Dream

well i finally got lucid on the weekend for a change which is a good start. prior to that i was just in a club with a lot of old mates and also many randoms. there was a football match going on kind of on the dancefloor with everyone watching from the sidelines. i was also kicking a ball around, and although i still had some frustrating balance issues, im definately getting better at doing these kind of things in dreams. even curling in long left footed shots. playing pool in a dream however is still damn hard. anyway the only other thing i remember before getting lucid is talking to miles from home and away. he had been a bit beat up and i told him that he could come and get me for help if he was in trouble again. i also remember smiling at these 2 unbelievably gorgeous girls but also being slightly intimidated.

i was in a corridor with loads of old mates. i think one of them was taking the piss about money and stuff which was funny. then i think i realised that i havent seen this guy in ages so there was a good chance it was a dream. i decided to do a rc by trying to fly but my belief was not strong so i ended up just frog splashing down the corridor. once i started to float i had loads of fun doing this kind of 360 shuffle dance in the air. just spinning round upside down in this tight space was great fun. the only other bit i remember after being lucid was hearing someone mention something about people over exaggerating things. this sent me into over acting mode and i just went off on one over exaggerating things for a while. it amused me at least. unfortunately i dint think about the pyramid while lucid but ill add a little note about past dreams where it has crossed my mind.

about a week or so back on a weekday i got lucid and decided to head straight for the pyramid. i was in a bathroom and i think looking in the mirror really helped stabilise it. either way it was one of those ones where for whatever reason you know that it will last for a few minutes at least. i managed to get out of whatever massive building i was in and decided to try and fly there. i figured if i could just get above the tree line i would just find the pyramid easily. i was running down this road and taking off like a runway. it occurred to me that i could use the towel i was wearing to help me fly/glide so i held it above my head kind of like a hang glider. it helped a bit but i only really got leve; with the trees before it started to fade

Windhover's Dream


bad recall. I travel to somewhere with my cousin and her family for holiday. I take shower in this weird, narrow room...
then we go home. in the car I try to check supplies that I bought for souvenir..maybe books?? I see my uncle or my dad grabbing my youngest cousin.
she looked so light. after I woke up I did WILD and I took the bus to the pyramid. the bus had a commercial poster on its side that says "go to chichen-itza temple!"
had bluish color,,I do not remember exactly. I was the only one in the bus. so I go to the pyramid, see no one. I forgot to call the other dreamers. dang
I wake up

06.08.2011

String of Lucid Dreams - 12-13-14 (WILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I had just changed from my school to my friend's school, though the dream actually took place at my school. I was getting accustomed to a new group of friends, and Hamish convinced me to leave during recess and go out of the school.

We climbed through a fence, and started walking down the street when Hamish said 'Shit! That's the principal's car!' We started running back towards the school as fast as we could. I got back in the gate and walked back up to the group. I asked Dunstan what he'd done, his hand was swolen, he said he'd broken his knuckle. We were standing in a circle beside a tree close to the fence line.

I asked fOrceez where his group sits, but I don't think I was ever shown.

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I wake up and want to write in my DJ. I roll over and open it, take out my pen and go to write the date. What the, it's not the 31st, it's the 12th. I started writing when I noticed -wait, I'm in my bed. I was sleeping at fOrceez tonight. I looked up at my clock, it read 8 : 0~. I did a nose RC, aweosme! I sat up and rubbed my hands and the sheets on my bet, but when I got up my entire body felt top heavy again. I struggled against it and got up and out my door. I opened the door into my hallway, though it was a different version. Everything was poorly lit, with a green tinge. It was hot, and muggy. I felt as though I was in a chinese seafood market. WHOA. My head tilted to the side very quickly, I stumbled, fell down and woke up.

I layed in my bed and did visualisations as I fell back to sleep. I ended up without a dream around me, floating in the void. For the first time ever I imagined a dream scene, I believe it was a beach, in which I was able to simply step into. I remember doing the nose RC in the dream. Yes! I'm lucid! WHOA-

I wake up in a false awakening, in a room with fOrceez, his little brother and two of his brother's friends. We were all in the same room, there was a bed on each side of the room and then 3 mattresses in the middle. I got up and walked down the hallway and accidentally walked into fOrceez parents room, crap! I ran back to the room we were sleeping in and tripped and fell in through the doorway and woke everyone up. Some kid tried to elbow me in the balls, and I pushed him away.
I told fOrceez, "Dude, I just had a DILD and then a WILD!" I got excited and noticed the dream fading. I'm dreaming, shit! No! Don't collapse!

I woke up and stayed still and let my mind wonder. I started visualising. I was atop a cliff, looking over the edge and out at the stars. I look back over the edge and jump down. I free fall, feeling the air rush against my skin. I fall about half way down before I start to catch myself, and begin to float away.

This dream then faded into a non-lucid about being in a bird-zoo at night, I was being instructed by someone to use two axes - one in each hand- to kill as many birds as possible. I was just swinging wildly at birds and they'd disappear in a puff of feathers.

This night made me so proud, I was just so incredibly happy with it.

You may have noticed my name is underwater. That is because my first, (and only) lucid dream was underwater.
Anyway, this is just short, but I was so excited at the time.

Hippos were everywhere attacking people, and eating them, so I decided to run away and get to water (because everybody knows hippos can't swim ) I ran away across town and dived into a swimming pool. Then I remembered
hippos can swim! Now I was lucid, I swam about 5 metres deep, breathing all the way as hippos jumped in. I grabbed a gun, (from who knows where?) and blasted them all. And that's pretty much it.

Dream

I was walking home from school and see some of my friends I say "Hey" and he says "Sup" then I see a 2 girls from school one I just grab and hold. Which is wierd because I don't think she's attractive but by this point I'm not Lucid. Then my mate pops out of a car (another dream sign) that he can't drive. He was waering a jacket that looked like someone had painted on it.

Then some guy I saw from before was getting rude to me (like he used to in real life) he was saying some stuff that I didin't like he knows a lot of guys so I just walked off.

Then I was thinking as I walked down my street "Why am I coming from school if it's Saturday?" Now I'm Lucid, now I'm in buisiness. So the first thing I was look up and the sky was so clear it was unbelievable. The first thing I did was go back and find that boy and fight him. With Bo Staffs he had a friend there who is also my friend but he was just backing the other guy so I fought both of them.

I shot a red chidori (like a hadouken) from my hand and hit the other guy (I need to improve my LD control) then I start parrying and striking, it was really cool. It was like when Neo pulled out the post and fought all the Smiths in Matrix Reloaded. Anyway I keep fighting and the dream fades.

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This comes in an afternoon nap (failed WILD, but was able to DEILD after an unmemorable non-lucid just a few minutes into the nap). I had 3 lucids the night before, so this puts me on a hot streak

I am in the living room of my house, and my entire family is there. My sister (who is 8 months preggo in real life) has two newborns laying on a pillow on the floor. My parents' dog Kobe (a black lab) and my sis's dog Murphy (a basset) are playing with the young ones. I reach over to hold one, and then put it back down. Kobe starts to mess with it, so I move Kobe way and try to roll the baby over.. but something is wrong. They are tiny and I seem to have messed up the face of one! My dad tells me that I poked out its eyeball!! but he seems unconcerned and starts 'fixing' it. I feel terrified that I have irreparably harmed my nephew (or niece, can't tell in the dream), but then I think.. surely I didn't actually poke out his eyeball.. surely... I'm dreaming!

Now lucid, I walk outside and decide to try making a portal- something I have never done. At first, I can't even make a portal of any kind. Finally, I'm able to create a purple swirl in the air. I go through it hoping (but alas, not really expecting) to be transported to a different place. It doesn't work, but *something* DOES happen. As I go through, I begin to feel like I'm moving through clear gel. The air around me is gooey and I find it a little difficult to move. However, I make it through the goo and find myself in the same place (my yard) as before. Meh.

I decide to try walking on water, so I head over to the pool out back. I can't seem to walk on the water, so I decide to try freezing the water under my feet and at least floating or moving around on the ice. I succeed in creating a block of ice, but it's not thick enough, so when I actually try to put all my weight on it, I still sink down into the water. Meh, again.

At this point I say 'screw this' and decide to head off to the Dream World Academy again (I finally made it inside the walls last night). I take off in flight (no mount this time, just me) and quickly see the canyon. I head into it and find the Academy. The castle looks the same, but the water that covered the roof seems to be drained out, leaving a big empty pit with the same octagonal platforms scattered throughout. With no water there, I realize that each platform is also a lift. For some reason, there are no DCs there, whereas last night it was swarming with activity (perhaps because this is an afternoon dream).

As I hop on one of the platforms to take the lift down, DCs suddenly 'phase' into my view. Not as many as before, but some. Some are the same alien-looking beings from before, some appear human. As I ride the lift down, I find myself in a sort of hallway that runs around the perimeter of the castle directly under the walkway that lines the top of the castle walls. I notice a small creature on the lift with me.. a rather owlish looking thing wearing thick black glasses that seem too big for its head. It is very short, almost penguin-like in stature, but with the face and beak of an owl.

I ask the owlkin what its name is.. it says Aloysius (owl-o-wish-us). The word play with 'owl' doesn't occur to me until after the dream. I ask it what its job is here at the Academy, but it simply cocks its head to the side and says very cryptically- 'Many have come before me.' As I begin to ponder this answer, I wake up.

Failed at portals and failed at walking on water.. altho the ice thing wasn't a complete bust. Plus, I now have confidence that I can visit the Academy at any time (after spending 2 dreams simply searching for it). Let's hope the hot streak continues! And perhaps next time I will remember to do the TOTM!! The basic one is so easy but I haven't been able to remember to do it yet

Here's how it began. I walked into my grandparents house. (This was a WILD.) So I already new I was dreaming. I took a box from the kitchen and tried to read the information. It was blurry. A hooded man tried to help me. I said, "I can't read anything in a dream though." The next scene was me outside of a high school. (I'm a freshman starting this fall.) I went up to this group of people. They all crowded over me. I could see their faces so clearly. They were all people I know.

After I left that scene, I was in the high school. There was a class room with disordered rows of seats. A teacher was talking. When I sat down, I knew what I wanted to do. I said something like, "Time freeze." Everything froze, except the teacher. I tried it again like three times, but he kept talking. I wanted to escape, and I knew he wouldn't mind, so I jumped up and out of the window behind me, breaking it on impact. I was running through an open field. I then said, "Super sonic!" And I was running at the speed of sound. After running around for a while, I went back into the class room.

During the next scene, the class was moving to gym. The student in the front opened the doors, but before they opened, I said to myself, "A field will be on the other side." But to no avail. It was just a gym. I ran up to the glass news board and jumped against it. That's the last thing I remember. I guess I need to brush up on my dream control.

8/3/11

DILD

I have noticed recently one way that I have been able to become lucid as I am losing non-lucid dreams. Sometimes I will be talking to someone, and they ask me to repeat something I said (usually by saying "what?"). Right before I say my line again, I realize if I speak, I will lose the dream. If I say my previous line verbatim, the dream will fade out. I can't describe this feeling, but my environment feels like it is on the brink of fading to black. This time, I realized this and altered my line just enough to maintain the dream with some stabilization techniques.

I was able to get my previous portal method to work again. It is now 2/2, and I am excited about it.


The dream started with Jack, and we were barbecuing something outside. The setting looked kind of like my cousins house. He asked my a question and I said my answer. He said, "what?" I became lucid and knew I couldn't resay what I just said. I say something similar and I everything starts to go fuzzy. I rub my hands together and wander off. I quickly lose lucidity as I find a tree stump out in a field. It is a passageway into an underground area. The inside is pretty strange. I can't remember most of the details. Both the entrance and freaky underground room reminded my of Alice in Wonderland. There were goofy mushrooms and plants everywhere. I feel bad for leaving Jack hanging after not really answering his question. I write my answer on a little slip of paper and put it by the entrance of this underground wonderland. I turn around and see Kevin in there too.

Seeing him makes me lucid again. I ask if he knows where he is. He says no. I say hes in a dream and lead him to the entrance. There is a shaft that is about 20 ft. high to the entrance. At the bottom there is some sort of bubble to jump off of to make it out. I tell Kevin how to leave or that because it is a dream, he can just fly. I attempt the jump but it only gets my half way. The bubble threw off my take off when trying to fly. I extend my arms and legs to the side to hold myself on the wall. I ninja warrior myself up and out of the stump, and Kevin soon follows.

We end up outside of this garage area. I super jump onto the wall and talk to him for a bit about being in a dream. I show him that he can fly by taking off. I launch like 100 ft. into the air and then fall back to the ground. I want to show him that I can float, so I try to hover off of the garage to the ground. I am not able to hover as successfully as I planned. I ended up gliding to the ground slowly instead of being suspended in the air. I think it still gets my point across.

I decide to try and make a portal with the same method that worked earlier. I point my hand to the side of the building across the way. I look away so it is just in my peripheral vision. I draw an oval, and out of the corner of my eye, I see a red outline. I look over, and there is a perfect glowing red oval. It looks like a red version of the Portal (game) portals. I now try and decide where it should go. For some reason I want to show Kevin where I used to hang out during high school. I imagine Brendan's attic, and walk through.

It works and I am pretty excited. Kevin walks in and turns the TV on and off multiple times. I ask him what he is doing. He says it will freak out Brendan in waking life to see his TV turn on and off randomly. I think that is genius. Screw shared dreaming; I am going to affect waking life. We also mute another TV, and brendan wakes up. He cannot see us because we are in the dream world (and I think he isn't). We quietly back away down the stairs. He follows us and as I am about to turn and leave, I look back. We meet eyes and he says, "I can smell you." I assume he smells weed. Me and Kevin leave.

There is a party back at our place. I still think I am invisible walking around the real world. I eventually see Mallory (old crush) and I start talking. I ask her if she can see me and she says yes.Once I know she can see me, I lose lucidity. We start talking and sit at a table. I mention that we just found a roommate, and she was upset. She said she was going to take the room. I felt so stupid that if we waited a few more days, Mallory could live with us. I say we could try and squeeze in another roommate. I say our rent is like 320 with utilities for 4 people. So with 5, it would be under 200. (Those estimates and math are completely off.) She is shocked at how cheap it is. I start talking with this other girl and we leave the group. I meant to leave alone, but she left at the same time so we ended up walking together. As we enter the house, I lose the dream.

Okay so I had a lot of dreams and they were crazy.


- It was N's birthday so I drew him a picture and printed it on a bright blue t-shirt. The picture was weird and had like a hamburger and a dress on it and a bunch of other stuff. I took a picture of the shirt and sent it to him, then I realized I hadn't shown him the picture that was on the shirt yet, so I was like "oh I'll upload that now". He was collecting pictures of people's b-day presents for him and posting them on some forum, there were a lot. Later I was at the mall and thinking I should get a better shirt for the picture, and there was someone else there telling me I should.


- I was talking to N on facebook and he had posted a slightly annoyed status, and I posted a comment and added '<33' at the end even though it didn't fit at all. I was hoping it wouldn't annoy him but I was the 4th comment and all the others had hearts at the end too. When it posted though, facebook changed the <33 to a symbol of a heart with another half-heart attached lol, like this:

- Some evil guy had kidnapped N and me and a bunch of people and was trying to kill us. We were in this huge dark room and there was this big screen at the end that was like a portal we had to get to in order to escape. There were lots of obstacles and dangerous/painful things on the way to the portal.

At one point we were crawling on our hands and knees across chunks of metal on a slight hill, and a girl who was also there said a word I didn't understand. I asked her what it meant and she told me it meant crawling, and was like "it hurts if you do it too long". There were other words like that too, like the other people we were with were using a bunch of slang terms I'd never heard and they'd have to explain.

Then I was able to pause the whole scenario and draw new outfits for N and myself and then we would get them when we went back in. So I drew us these weird kinda futuristic outfits, and then decided we needed flying bikes, so I gave myself a lime green one and him a hot pink one.

Then it went back and we were in the room again with our new outfits and bikes. N was flying way up at the very top of the room which was really tall. I was really close to the portal, so I leapt for it, and right as I was about to touch it, it suddenly went all white, then had white bars across it, then shut off, and a booming voice declared, "PORTAL DISABLED".

The screen was on the side of a rocky cliff, and everyone looked up to the top of the cliff to see this horrible blueish sea creature/demon thing with a human face and head. The evil guy, who we couldn't see, was telling us that this monster was going to send us all through 8 challenges to be able to escape. I looked right into its eyes, and its eyes bulged way out and it shrieked loudly, and I saw this vision of how we all might die. I snapped back and realized it hadn't been real, then told N, who was beside me again, that I'd just had a dream about what was going to happen to us.

I don't know if we did the challenges or not, because the next thing I knew, it was all over and I was talking with N [again?] in a very peaceful nice field next to a pond. It was like watching a movie at this point; I saw both of us from a third person POV, though not very clearly, and I knew everything had finished somewhat happily and it was like a nice ending scene. My hair was in a bun with a weird round clip/tie and he had some sort of nickname for me.

Also sometime after it was over, I told him I had added the bikes at the last minute, and he said something along the lines of "hmm yeah I could tell, you should really stick to a theme" lol.


- Then I had a false awakening and "woke up" on the couch in my cousins' house, where I was actually sleeping. I thought 'wow that dream was really intense, I should ask if he had the same one'. [I did ask later, he didn't remember his dreams.] But then there was this thing where I thought maybe he was actually one of my cousins and that freaked me out lol.

Then my aunt was talking about how she could lucid dream, and I was like "me too!" I started trying to WILD, still in the dream, and managed to get partly into another dream a couple times, but kept getting 'woken up' by my cousins (not sure if I was actually waking up irl but I don't think I was). Finally I made it into a dream within the dream and was lucid in the new one.

I was at a shopping centre in my city near a movie theatre, and my aunt was there as well in her pyjamas, and it was just sort of accepted that we could and were sharing dreams. She ran off, and I walked around the corner, touching walls and stuff and inspecting them and doing RCs.

Then I thought of what I read in the School of Out of Body Travel book, about how it was guaranteed that whenever you stared at something very closely for a long time in a dream, it would start to warp and change. I stared at my finger closely for a while but nothing happened, so I started to wonder if I was really dreaming for a moment, but another nose RC confirmed that I was. Then I saw N was there [again :| get out of my head dude lol] so I gave him a hug.


- I then "woke up" back into the FA at my cousins' house, and they asked about the dream I'd just had, so I told them what happened. My mom then said she was making pancakes [she actually kinda woke me up irl to say we were having waffles lol so it got incorporated] and asked if I wanted strawberry, blueberry or both. There was a plastic cup on the table with a few halved strawberries and three fresh blueberries. I ate a large blueberry and it was really good.

I had 3 WILDs after doing assort of WBTB when I had to get up to use the restroom in the middle of the night. Before going back to bed I remember thinking about the task I wanted to complete and I wanted to have a LD after a long dry spell.

Every time I woke up between these dreams I remember saying “And I am back” and wiggling my finger a little (as a sort of RC without too much movement) before falling into the next WILD


FIRST DREAM: Forgotten Tasks Mean Wanting Some Fun :
I could not remember what task I wanted to get done so since hubby was in bed next to me I tried to get him to have sex.

I stabilized the dream by rubbing my hands together and I also looked at my hands and arms. My I was surprised to find my scars were there and so was my tattoo with an added one on my left shoulder, but in the dream for some reason I thought it was completely normal to have and look for this second one. The black ink was faded blue color, however I remember thinking it looked cool like that.

SECOND DREAM: Putty Skin:
I was in bed with hubs again and he wanted to watch something with me but I thought about sex again. I could not do a proper nose pinch so I deiced to try the finger through hand thing, but I ended up twisting the skin between the thumb and first finger. My skin was like putty and I thought it was awesome and wanted to play with it a little more, but deiced not to get side tracked. I soon woke.

THIRD DREAM: Thinking Of A Way To Complete My Task:
I feel the wild come on get a little scared, but tell myself it is ok and not to try to force it. I try thinking about random stuff until I feel myself start to roll off the bed. At first I fight it, but then say I am moving into the dream so it is ok and if not this is going to hurt.

I roll off the bed and find myself in the dream floating a few inches off the ground. Once I realize I am in the dream however I make contact with the ground. I rub my hands together to try to stabilize and think to look at my arms again only to be wearing my pink hooded sweat shirt. I think about taking it off but I do not want to lose the dream so I settle for pulling up the sleeves as much as I can. This seems to work and I head for the front door. It is an all glass door with condensation on it (nothing like RL of course, but I like to document when and how things are different.) I also see lilD (my cat) in the living room where it looks like he is splitting into another cat.

When I open the door I hear mom cough, but I do not get side tracked and I leave the house. Once outside I see it has been raining and it feels like it is a mid fall night. I remember there was something I wanted to do but I forgot then it hit me and I said oh yah out loud. I take a moment to figure out how I will complete my task, I first think about walking and then think about flying, but I did not want to get side tracked with either of these ideas as I wanted to get to where I wanted as fast as I could without having to search it out. I come up with the idea to just announce to the dream world what I would like to do. So I cup my hands to my mouth and yell out I would like to visit the dreamworld dreamviews dream academy.

My dream responds to show me a castle across the lake and I instantly know this is it. Again I think about how to get there. I think I could swim, but felt once more I could get sidetracked and then think about walking there only to say it is too far and I might wake before I get there. I then think since it is a lake why not a boat. After this thought, I see a rather run down dock with a boat sitting next to it. I get the dream knowledge this boat is waiting for me. While making my way to the boat I see another one coming in to dock. In this boat I see an owl and only think it was weird for a second then say well it is normal in a dream. I get to my boat to see another owl there (it looks like the owl in Mancon’s profile picture). I bow my head and say good sir or good mam owl will you please take me to the castle as I would like to see it. The owl bows its head and says yes in a kind of metallic whine. I move to get into the boat only to wake.

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Nonlucid, Lucid, Partially lucid

After a month-long dry spell, I finally had another lucid dream and attempted to visit the Dream World Academy. But I didn't get much further than last time.

August 5, 2011: I am walking down a hallway, looking for something. I open a door and it slides open rather than swinging open. I think this is odd and I realize I am dreaming.

I remember my task and I say aloud that I am going to the Dreamworld Academy castle. I step outside and see a huge black cloud in the sky. I go back inside and try again. This time there is a giant castle that reaches up to the sky, like a single tower. I look straight up but I cannot see the top of the castle.
Then I remember that I had meant to go directly to the entrance hall. I see a fountain nearby that I am going to use as a button to transport me inside the castle.

But instead i just call out my intent, putting my hands up over my head. I begin to fly, then lose lucidity.

I have dropped a notebook. It is floating in water below me. I am floating in the air with an inflatable tube. I let some of the air out to go down closer to the ground. The notepad washes up on a beach.

The castle looked something like this (quickly drawn in MS Paint):

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I was leaving a convenience store with a drink, and I got into a truck with a few old friends. I was in the back (extended cab) with another guy, and there were two in the front seats also. As we pulled out of the parking lot, I saw that the 'road' ahead of us was not much of a road at all, but a mountainside with sheer drop-offs into water and extremely rocky terrain. My friend Joe, who was driving, decided to take us straight down into the worst of it.. prompting us all to grab on tightly to the handholds on the ceiling of the truck. What ensued was a crazy ride that had us all yelling and cussing- partly from excitement and partly from fear.

Then, rather suddenly, I was sitting in the truck- alone- out back behind my house. My close friends Luke and Jake (who are brothers) were outside, and a train was coming through my backyard. Now, there are train tracks very close to my house, but this was a separate set that was coming right through where the swimming pool should have been. They both pointed it out to me and asked "Isn't that odd?" At first, I rationalized it in the dream and told them that the railroad had recently added those tracks.. Then I realized that NONE of the old pool stuff was there, the deck, etc, like it was back to the way it was before the pool even went in. The thought occurred to me that "surely they weren't able to make it look like that stuff had never been here.. and so quickly.." That's when it hit me.. lucid!

I didn't even do my normal immediate RC, I just told them all that I was dreaming. I started to summon myself a flying mount (thanks to my cool experience with one in my last lucid). I spent a good bit of time experimenting with different mounts, and practiced resizing them (and resizing myself some too) to make them fit. I summoned a small dog, then made him big enough for me to ride. I also tried summoning a zebra, but it kept having a dog's head. I was having a hard time envisioning a zebra head, then I looked to the ground and saw little zebra-head plants everywhere (lol), which allowed me to shape the head properly.

During this time I also remembered to try eye drops, so I fished some out of my pocket (I always carry eye drops in my pocket anyway, so this was no dream magic or anything) and put them in. I didn't notice any immediate effect, but after a few minutes, the dream world did become much clearer and more vivid. I think this was probably all in my expectation. I have lamented the fact before that it takes eye drops a few minutes to actually clear my eyes in real life, so that's no doubt why it took awhile in the dream (I was acting on KingYoshi's suggestion to try eye drops in his dream control class).

Anyway, I finally crafted myself a gryphon (of sorts) to fly on, and I headed out to find the Dream World Academy (for real this time, not just get close to it like I have done twice before). I reached the canyon in which the Academy lay rather quickly, but as I got close, I felt myself being pulled down- as if I were having trouble maintaining my flight. I have had some issues with flying in my last couple of lucids (which is unusual for me), and I feared I was having trouble again. However, I looked back and noticed that there was actually *something* hanging onto my foot and pulling me down. I couldn't get a good look at it (I was riding a gryphon after all), but I kicked it loose and suddenly was flying smoothly again.

Almost immediately the forest canopy on the canyon floor (which had harbored the academy before) disappeared and the Academy was in full view! The architecture did not appear to be normal human construction. I was directly over the 'castle,' and was unable to see how tall it was or how the sides looked. It had 6 sides, but was not a regular hexagon. Instead, it was shaped like a triangle except that the 3 'points' of the triangle were actually straight lines, as if the 'points' had been flattened out. There were towers at each of these points, and the walls of the Academy were wide enough for several people to walk abreast freely between the towers.

The top of the Academy inside the walls was covered in a giant pool of sparkling blue water. I couldn't tell how deep the water was, but it covered the entire area inside the triangular walls. There were octagonal platforms scattered throughout the water, connected by a network of small footpaths. These platforms were COVERED with people, conversing with each other in some alien tongue (I say alien because it did not sound like any human language that I have ever heard), and generally busying about, conducting their work. The 'people' were also alien-looking.. light-blue skinned with intense and brightly colored eyes. Several seemed alarmed at my descent onto the Castle-top, and began speaking loudly and excitedly at me in that strange language. With their intense eyes and crazy words, they were a bit intimidating.

Finally, I noticed a large floor lift near one of the corner towers (it had a weird, angular shape. sort of octagonal but not exactly). I hopped on it, and it lowered me down into the bowels of the Academy. I walked off the lift, through a short sloping hallway with a semi-arched ceiling into what appeared to be some type of "control room," though I can't really say what the room was for. It was here that I finally saw humans, including a woman who appeared to be 'Mariel,' whom I had encountered on my previous search for the Academy.

At this point, I got so into the dream and what was around me that I began to lose lucidity. I felt woozy and laid down on a bench along the wall. Mariel began to stroke my back and reassure me that everything was OK. I lost all lucidity at this point, then quickly remembered myself and closed my eyes, relaxed, and opened them expecting to find myself in the same room. I did, but all the people there had changed from DCs that I had not recognized into people very familiar to me. Then.. WAAH WAHH WAAHH, my alarm went off and woke me up! d'oh!

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After waking, I used the bathroom and went back to bed (the alarm was an early one that I intentionally set a few hours before I actually have to get up). I went back to sleep with the intention/expectation of having another lucid dream..

I found myself riding in a car with some younger kids that I didn't know. I got out my cell phone and one of them warned me about a new law that made it illegal to text in a car, even if you weren't driving. I said that was complete BS, but they insisted it was true. I am an attorney, so I asked them where they heard that and exactly what the law said. They handed me a flier, and I was reading it as I got out of the car and walked with them to a swimming pool where a party was going on.

I was looking around at the people at the party, and I noticed that Miley Cyrus was one of them.. I thought to myself.. "I don't know Miley Cyrus.. this is a dream!"

I was already at the pool, so I decided to try some crazy dives using my dream powers. I lept WAY up in the air and did at least 3 somersaults, planning on squeezing in at least 5 before splashdown.. Problem is.. I closed my eyes during the jump and the spinning motion caused me to lose the dream AND my lucidity. This seems strange now since dream spinning has worked to PROLONG LDs for me in the past, but that is what happened.

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Next thing I knew, I was in a new (non-lucid) dream walking down some stairs, but I was holding the same pamphlet about the cell phone law that I was given earlier. I thought 'I was just having a lucid dream a few minutes ago, I wonder if I am dreaming now..' but that didn't stick and I kept walking- remaining in a non-lucid dream.

My phone rang, and the name said Andy Bargo.. I thought 'I don't know an Andy Bargo.. Oh, it must be one of the kids I met earlier in the car." I answered, and it was a different person- an older man that I knew was having some medical issues. He told me a story about insurance companies dicking him around, and asked if we had grounds to sue them. I was thinking that his story seemed pretty ridiculous, and then I remembered (for the second time) that I had been having an LD just a few minutes ago. This time, it DID hit me that I must be in another dream.

I told him he was crazy and I was dreaming, hung up the phone, and starting a convo with the nearest DC about how I was dreaming. He said that was cool, but seemed uninterested. I looked out and saw a pink and purple bicycle laying on it's side on the grass and levitated it. I asked him "Is that bike levitating for you?" He said "No, it's just sitting on the grass..." I started to run some other similar tests to see how he would react to my dream control, but alas, I woke up.

All in all, interesting night. First time I can remember that I had 3 distinct LDs in one night, although the 2nd two were much shorter than the first. I'm glad I finally found the Academy, but I definitely still have some work to do with stabilizing and allowing myself to get into the dream (i.e. play a role and use passive control) without losing lucidity. I can see how people chain LDs from this experience, as my memory of an earlier LD was instrumental in causing me to become lucid again.