lucid

Goals:
Gone With the Wind TOTY

NOTE: I was SOOOO close to completing the TOTY. It's not even funny how close I was. I almost completed it, until a fucking lawn mower woke me up! That just blows so much, it's not even remotely funny.

I start off in the water. Oddly, this is in school(DS). It's the last day, and we're having our Field Day competitions. There's a life-sized chess obstacle course in which we're using real people who're actually fighting! I'm OB the course now. The first person to give their celebrity the ear buds and listen to music wins. They're placed at the top of a tower like structure. The opposing team's celebrity, if I recall right, is Lady Ga Ga. Our celebrity is Selena Gomez. Oh, liking our celebrity. So, we now begin hitting each other and trying to get the iPod and ear buds. I rip through and get them. I start to run towards the tower. Another girl steals them, and climbs. She almost hands the buds to Lady Ga Ga, when I steal them back. I run around and go up the stairs to the top. I hand them to Selena, who puts them in. I look at the iPod, which is a 4th Generation iPod Touch(What I'm typing this entry with!). The song is "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own" by U2. We are now declared the winners! I tell Selena U2 is awesome. She agrees. She then kisses me on the cheek. Okay, like...turn on!
"Well, I'm in a relationship now, so we can't date." Selena says. Okay, at least I have a chance! "But do you want me to hook you up with someone?"
"Hell yeah!" I reply.
"Okay, I'll meet with you tomorrow at your house." Selena says. Awesome! So I go back into the water, which is nice and warm. My older brother comes to pick me up. I tell him that Selena Gomez(he's a huge fan of her) kissed me on the cheek. He actually says he doesn't care, and tells mr about a dream he had. We get home, which is rearranged(dreams). We're in the garage, when a helicopter lands in our drive way. We here Selena's voice. My brother smiles, and we run outside. There are multiple dudes in the chopper with her. She says they're holding her captive. The chopper flies off, but those dumbasses crash it into a set of garages. I speed fly there. Wait, flight?!
"This is a dream!" I say upon landing on the garage set. Time to fuck these assholes up. Selena gets out and runs to me. The guys get out and three of them charge. Big! Mistake!
"Kamehame......" they're wondering what I'm doing as they charge me. "HA!" I blast them all away at point blank range. That had to hurt! I see two more on the ground. I fire a full power ki wave at them and kill them. Then, I see the rest running towards a locker. That's weird, these garages are attached to the condominium, and a bunch of lockers on top. I charge at them. I extend a hand.
"Big Bang Attack!" I shout. They all get into a locker, but they get blown up anyway. Idiots. Shit! I now realize I have to do the TOTY! I have no time to spare! I start taking control of my five senses in my dream body to maintain lucidity longer. The dream now feels more realistic since I did that. I take out a Pokéball now.
"Latios! Go!" I shout throwing the ball. It lands and comes back as a Latios comes out. I put the ball away and go over to Latios. Latios is being disobedient, and keeps staying back. Ah screw Latios, I'll fly myself. So I now speed fly away. I'm looking for the house I remember seeing Rhett and Scarlett at in a YouTube video. Ah-ha! I find it and land. I go up the stairs, as the two of them come out.
"Wherever shall I go? Whatever shall I do?" Scarlett asks in a crying voice.
"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn." Rhett replies. Time to make my speech.
"You don't give a damn, huh?" I say. The two notice me and are paying close attention now. "Do you realize what you're about to do, Rhett? You're about to leave the only woman you've ever truly loved. You will always regret this. And look how old you're getting now! I don't know when this movie was made, but I sure as hell know it was before eHarmony was ma--" My Dad and little brother show up now. My Dad interupts and takes me by force! We're driving, and my Dad keeps demanding I show him my DJ entries. I keep telling him no. I eventually fly away and I'm back at the place. I continue.
"I know this movie was made before eHarmony was! You'll be dead by the time it's created. You'll never find another love. You'll be a lonely man for the rest of your life. You will sit in a--" I hear a lawn mower. It's getting really loud now. I then, awake! I still hear the lawn mower. It's outside, and it woke me the fuck up! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

I found myself in a room, holding a metal bar. I thought that I could be dreaming, so I tested the dream by bending the bar. I bent the bar and realized I was dreaming. I did not know where I was napping in real life. The dream started to fade, I felt myself laying on a bed, I knew it could be a false awakening but I didnt want to destroy the dream on that chance. I concentratied and stabalized the dream. I started walking around and thought it would be nice if i pulled a sword from behind my back. I reached back and grabed nothing. I tried again and nothing. I decided to reach my hand to my hip but alas no sword like last dream. The dream started to fade but I got it back. I then got the thought to take off my shoes, random thought I had and it made sense at the time. I was in the middle of taking off my right shoe and it faded on me, I lost all sensory input. The dream ended.

07-07-11 Lucid: I don't quite remember how I turn lucid, but I am outside and it is misty and raining. I start out wanting to take off in flight, but I quickly realise that the detail isn't all that great so I decide to spend quite some time stabilising. I do this by engaging all the senses and verbally commanding it. There is a wall covered with a bronze layer on lop and I run my hand over it. I feel the water and cool sensation of touching metal in the rain, it is a somewhat grainy texture as well as if sand has been lying on top of it. I keep trying to see past the mist, which produce quite a solid boundary for my area of perception. It does expand a bit, but not a great deal.

After a while doing this I feel I am anchored well enough in the dream to start exploring. So I do just that. I start out with flying through the rain and I realise I am getting a bit cold. I try to focus on increasing the temperature of the winds hitting my body, which in turn makes me think about how cool it is I am able to simulate that (nothing I haven't done before, just keeps amazing me). After a while of flying around and looking at walls and their details I decide to go up the road to some friends' place. I know they have moved out of that place, but only recently.

When I arrive I can see through the windows that there are 3 people sitting in there my two friends and a dad to one of them. I walk through the wall and appear in their living room. I look around and see that the flat is empty bar some boxes and the three people sitting in there. I start taking off my shirt, I don't know why I do this as I have no intentions of attempting anything adult with any of them.

I start talking to them.

“Yeah so we are in a dream, did you know this?”

They respond with a period of speechlessness and attempts at smiles.

“So how does it make you feel that you are just a figment of my imagination?”
“Ronja I would think that you at least would enjoy this experience” (Yeah ok, my logic is probably starting to mess up a bit here)

They provide the same response, and I get a strong feeling of guilt. What if there is something to them that in a sense they are real. I don't have any rights to rob them of their existence. This guild and introspective focus is causing the dream to destabilise, I sense it and get periodic flashes of diminished clarity.

I shout out “Stabilize the dream!” and it gets back on track, but I can feel it is a wobbly ground I have entered (metaphorically). So I spontaneously start jumping around, I realise a bit later that this is actually a good way of stabilising the dream (can't actually remember if it is or not, but it works). I shout out “Increase vividness!” and to my delight I notice that the ground now has multiple little light reflections in the watery areas of the pavement I am walking. “Ooooohhh that's nice” I smilingly proclaim to myself, I enjoy that a lot.

Sooo what to do? I now get reminded of the ToTM and also my idea of chasing down the devil and killing him with the sound of my bass. Yeah that's a splendid idea. I take off in the opposite direction of my flat and I turn around mid air continuing flying backwards. Here I start imagining that I am tightening an invisible elastic string that will send me off fast towards my flat when I let go. This effect does happen, though not as powerful (don't get me wrong I am picking up A LOT of speed) as I would have thought. I decide to take a quick detour by flying upwards and as altitude increases I notice the ocean. It is beautiful with the large steady waves and a sunset in the background. As I am up there the final light of the sun disappears.

I decide to fly down towards it and continue out over the water. And although I am cold I decide to fly down so I am skimming the surface. I can clearly feel the water against my torso, but there is no obstruction to my flight from the water. After a short while I look out over the horizon and it is starting to bend upwards in the sides (The opposite direction to how it would normally look considering the earth is round). Straight ahead of me I sense a big (BIG!) maelstrom and although the temptation of looking at it close makes me fly just that little closer to the edge, I decide it isn't the right time to investigate that.

I turn around and am amazed to find that the vortex is making it really difficult for me to fly away (I am not sure if me thinking there could be a black hole in the bottom of it comes before or after I notice I am struggling to fly away). I remind myself that I am lucid and with a quick effort of will the gravity chains break and I am off again. Although I remember being cold I am thinking to myself that it isn't that bad now. Still I try and think of the temperature of the wind against me increasing.

I fly to my flat and enter from the garden side. I am looking around and can't immediately find my bass. After turning around one more time, with a bit more intention of it being there I realise there are two of them. I start out by picking up the one lying on the bed, but to my surprise it doesn't have a fretboard. I wonder if this will count negatively towards the task as to me at that instance it doesn't really. However, I might miss out on some training so I ditch it and go for the one on the couch, which is pretty much lying in the position it is in real life, although on a different couch.

I pick it up and I strum the strings. The sound is.. well... bassy and to my annoyance I can't really play any grooves on it. Normally in my dreams I can play some funky grooves, but the lucidity is probably blocking it by giving me access to my waking technical knowledge of the instrument (have had it for 2 months and never touched an instrument before). I do briefly strum the different strings and try the fretboard, but I quickly abandon using the fretboard.

The sound of the bass is somehow skewed, it is deeper and more encompassing than normal, but at the same time there is a higher pitched ending tone regardless of the strings I play. The sound does reverberate a bit in my dream body, but not the full on flowing through me I had hoped for when thinking about the scenario awake.

I decide to go and kill some minions. I jump though the window, foot first, bass in hand ready to go murder mobs, bard style! I run across the lawn and I can see a man with red skin on the road outside it. I shout out “Hey! Devil boy!” and start running towards him. I don't actually know if this is the boss I am after, but I believe so at the start. However as he briefly walks towards me and I start strumming the bass he sort off gets knocked out and decide to make a run for it. Now more red skinned humanoids are starting to pursue me, and although I don't kill them with the sound of my bass they do get knocked back. As they come closer from every direction I decide to hit them with the base of my bass (hehe) while strumming a node. This seems to work on some of them, but not all of them (My confidence in the instrument or the lack of it, seems to have carried over in to dreaming state).

After a while they realise that it is stupid pursuing me and I get time enough to run around the corner to find original devil boy (this is however when I notice there are lots of red skinned people and devil boy might not actually be their leader). The dream is a lot brighter now and they are all standing at a bus stop.

On my way around the corner I notice my fingers are starting to hurt and my D string is broken. In fact the strings all look like a mess and I get a brief doubt if my waking bass is all-right. Your fingers in waking life to respond to the movements of your dream fingers (not sharp enough here to realise there is no way I could have gotten up and actually picked up the bass).

I wake up.

07.06.2011

Guitar Task Of The Month (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

After a good long WBTB I attempted WILD and didn't do to bad but still lost consciousness right before I fell asleep.

I woke up and believed that I had failed my WILD attempt. I wondered if I should try again. For some reason I got up and walked out of my room. I realized that that was illogical so I did a reality check and became lucid. I was in the hallway so I walked into the family room. My mom and sister were watching the TV. I thought about how I should spend the dream. I saw the mirror and was tempted to walk through it in an attempt to teleport to my dream guides tower. I decided it would be better if I tried making an energy portal again so I can master teleportation once and for all. Then I remembered the basic task of the month which is to play a musical instrument. I planned on playing my electric guitar. I thought I should do that first because it was a task that I know I could complete.

I walked back down the hallway toward my room. I was amazed at how much it felt real even if the visuals weren't especially vivid. I could have sworn I was awake before I did a RC. I went into my room and picked up my guitar. It wasn't plugged in but I didn't really need the amp to complete the task. I played the Song of Time from Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. One of the notes sounded wrong even though I played it right so I replayed it and it sounded great. Now that I had completed the task I thought I might have some more fun so I plugged in my amp and turned on distortion. I was curious if I could make the notes sound like what ever I wanted them to no mater were I pressed. I hit random frets and imagined a song as I went but it still sounded random. I grew bored and wanted to try teleportation again so I put the guitar down.

I didn't feel like going to the family room so I stayed in my room which has much less open space. First thing I needed to do was to accumulate the energy to make the portal out of. I held out my hands in front of me and imagined energy flowing through my body, out of my hands and into the space between my hands. I didn't see and aura like I did last time. I kept trying and I noticed that my hands were gradually getting fuzzy. The whole dream seemed to be going out of focus. I was to interested in watching the dream get all fuzzy and forgot to rub my hands before it was to late.

I pushed through a mirror, intending to reach the Forest of Denn, but instead I woke up, in a bed in another dream. I really wanted to get to the Forest of Denn, so I tried to dig through the floor. I literally tore at it with my hands . My twin brother entered this dream and helped me hide the mess from our mother, and brought in a man who could fix the damaged floor. My brother said,

"Only when you stand, with your feet upon the frozen river, will you know the thinness of the ice."

I could see an icy river, far below, through the window . So I jumped out the window. I walked out onto the ice. It was thin. I purposefully plunged through, intending to thereby transport myself to the Forest of Denn. I woke up in the middle of a roaring highway . Off the highway, there were children, running to get on a vehicle which must have been a fair ride. The vehicle had a white triangle on it. It made me feel something. I decided to follow this interesting feeling. The triangle looked like it was made of snow. A man said no one else would be allowed on. The triangle seemed to be blowing off as the vehicle began to depart. So, I ran and leaped onto the vehicle as it left. My landing was not perfect . I held on to the side as it sped up. Then I woke up.

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

4; "What do Jedi call normal people?"... Saw girl, playing in snow bus stop, hangin out with Amber.
1; True? Dreams angels....
3; Rage, dodging around trains, working on judo and realm, they where transforming a lot, slept with Rachel, called a train to appear.

Sailor Moon Hidden Objects:
Broken sleep led to broken fragmented dreams most of the night. All I remember about these fragments is the theme of sailor moon and trying to find hidden objects.

that's what I get for watching Sailor Moon before bed

Games for Job:
I remember another dream where I am talking to a manager at McDonald's trying to get a job. I tell him I am a little confused as to why he is talking to me about a job when I did not even fill out an application to get one. He tells me that is strange as one of the workers behind the counter holds up one with my name on it. I tell him my mom must have filled it out and turned it in for me. He and I seem to hit it off really well and I seem to think he is going to hire me. Before I get up to leave he asks me for a favor. I ask him what I could do for him and he says play a game with him. I find this odd he would ask me, but he says no one else will play it with him as he is a master at it, however he likes to play it for fun. I say sure of course and the dream shifts to the game screen. It looks like a bunch of colored blocks and I believe the object of the game is to move the rows and match several of the same colors together in a row. I remember him beating me but having fun playing against me and inviting me back to play with him any time I feel like it.

Recall starts to fade or I wake for a few minutes, but I remember being in a park with my laptop and phone trying to do something, but I do not remember what. I start to walk away from them to see some old man start to pick up my laptop so I run back and yell at him that it is mine and he shouldn't go around touching other peoples stuff. He tells me not to get so worked up he just wanted to see what I was running on it or something.

Recall fades again. I now find my self in my house talking to some woman when the topic of my phone comes up. I start to freak out getting the dream knowledge I left it at the park with my computer for some reason. I turn to see hub now standing beside me and ask if he will take me back to get them before someone takes them. He says he can not as he has some where to go. I then plead with the woman to take me back there as my phone is very important to me. Recall fades and I soon wake.

Cat Blues Fragment:
I am walking home from somewhere when I get to a cross walk and see a few men standing there. They push the button before I can of course but the light does not change, but they cross anyways. The last one looks back at me as if asking why I did not cross with them. Then someone to my left steps close to me and says they hope I was not thinking of crossing also on the red light. I tell them of course I am not thinking about it I am not that reckless. The light changes and I am now crossing the street and walk home I guess it is. It is in an apartment building. When I get to my door I see the landlady there who is cleaning part of the carpet. I look into the apartment to see cat poo in the corner. At this time I get the dream knowledge I had been gone for about three days and start to question her where my cat is. She said she got rid of him at this point I start to freak out on her telling her she had no right and I was only gone for three days. She tells me she has the right because I didn't notify her I would be gone for that long. I then scream to her because I didn't know about it and my mom had just died and I didn't have time to say anything.
The dream continues for a tad bit longer then I wake.

After getting such crappy sleep I try to steal a few more hours in the morning.

Happily Forgetting Tasks Lucid:
I fall into the dream instantly start to question whether I am awake or not. The nose pinch check gives me mixed results which help me believe I am dreaming. I don't want to move too much as I know it will make the dream fade so I try a few stabilizing things first, like rubbing my hands together, looking at my finders (my hand start blinking in and out lol) and trying to look at the details of the dream. Finally I just ask for more clarity. Hub rolls over a bit at this point and says "anything for you." the dream become clear and I can move around without fear of waking. I get up off the bed and move to the door while doing another nose pinch check. Hubs asks me what I am doing, but I just tell him nothing and to go back to sleep which he does! (so happy about this it is never happened before in a lucid.) I leave the room and encounter mom and dad DCs. They try to say hi and engage me in conversation, but I tell them I have to use the bathroom as I did not want to act like a fool if I really was not lucid and it was not yet fully planted I was. I go into the bathroom and do another nose pinch check this time there is no denying it I am lucid, but of course I still doubt it a little so I look into the mirror when dad dc enters saying he has to finish cleaning the pot before I can use it.

In the mirror I expect to see a deformed me, but I did not. I was all happy about this and started to pose in the mirror. I then tell myself of course I am dreaming as my chest is much bigger in RL then it is now in the dream. I get really excited and even jump for joy then remember not to get all excited or I might wake up. I then think about the tasks this month and how I feel they are lame, but deiced to try them anyways. As I could not remember what the advanced task was in the dream I chose to try the basic one of playing an instrument. I know mom had a violin in her room so I exit the bath room and head to her room, but the dream starts to fade. I try to hold onto the dream, but I soon wake.

Task Blues Lucid DEILD/FILD:
When I wake I do not move at all and soon start to feel the vibrations of a WILD. Knowing it is hard for me to move past this stage I start to move my finger a little. Not sure what I was really thing thinking on moving my finger, but it seemed to help as I soon felt myself slip into the dream. (I guess paying attention to my finger moving helped me remain calm and patient)
Once in the dream I do not even perform a check as I know I am already dreaming. I struggle with taking off my sleep mask as always but then ask what the point is I do not need to take it off to see. At that point I can see as clearly as the dream is at this point. As I am moving off the bed I say more clarity please and the dream becomes solid. I have to put my hand up to stop from hitting a now low bar on the bed. I slip behind it and move to the door and exit the room. Once out in the hallway I once more think about the advanced task, but cannot remember it again so I settle on the basic once more. I talk to mom's bedroom only to see here there getting ready to play her violin. I ask her if I can play it for a second, but she tells me no. Rather than use all my energy to get her to give it to me I make another one on the self behind her saying fine I will just play that one. I move to it, but the dream fades too fast for me to hold on to and I wake before I can touch it.

When I wake I lay still again trying to fall back into a dream. I start to fee a weak WILD come on, but nothing happens and I soon get out of bed as I cannot fall back asleep.

It is worth mentioning while trying to fall back asleep somewhere between or after the last three dreams I had a short lucid fragment where I opened a door in the house to an almost dark room with three people in there. I got all excited, but told them I did not need them right now and shut the door.

DG

Lucidity <0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10>
Horrid Nightmare <10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1-0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10> Lovely Sweet Dream

[[Double brackets means that a part of the dream is cloudy, and I cannot remember it well.]]

This morning when I woke up, I remembered my wish to have a lucid dream. I rolled over and decided to attempt a WBTB method that I had read last night. It involved imagining yourself running from your back-yard to your front, in your mind, of course, and just running until you eventually ended up falling asleep and dreaming about standing where you had run to.

I imagined myself running; I hopped my neighbor's fence, and ran down his driveway. Eventually, I was placed in a dream, as I ran down his graveled drive-way. It wasn't, however, his driveway. It was a long, twisty driveway, and I was watching a 20 or so year old woman ride a bicycle. She contacted me through a cell phone and said, "Mr. Ayers, this town is just lovely."

I spoke back through the cell phone, replying, "Yes, I imagined it would be."

She rode along beside the river and made a right turn to drive farther into the city, and I continued watching her... I wasn't quite asleep as my eyes were still opening just a little bit in real life...

Eventually, she said, "I think I'll grab some of those flowers you wanted, now."

I didn't say anything, and she said loudly once more, "Mr. Ayers?"

I didn't speak.

She said once more, "Jordan?"

And I said, groggily, in my dream, "I can't... talk... I'm... dreaming."

And suddenly, I was watching a scene very similar to a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (1) scene. (I played through the campaign of the game recently to get some achievements, I think that's the reason.)

The scene was very small, as if it were not stretched all the way out on my screen. I was looking at my guy, standing in a building, holding an AK74u, and he was simply pointing it at a stack of lumber inside. I was aware that I was dreaming now. I began to listen to my com chatter in the dream. There was a man in the building with me. We were pinned down, and he was leaning against a wall on my left, shots being fired through the window.

I was trying to stretch the window out, make it seem real. I was trying to 'enter' the dream, as I've heard people say. I started getting closer and closer to the window. As soon as it reached full capacity and had taken up my entire sights.

The sound and sight swept over me like an earthquake. The vision became my own, and as real as any day. The sound blurred out and then back in, louder than ever before. It was an amazing feeling.

I moved my gun to the left, aiming over my own guy, out the window. I pulled the trigger and shot, but the resounding BOOM, BOOM, from my gun was so loud that my eyes shot open in real life. I was extremely happy with this progress, however.

I thought this scene would be perfect while I was dreaming it, because I'm so comfortable in this game-like scenario. Over the years I have played so many first person shooters that I thought I would feel extremely comfortable being placed in one. Sadly, the noise from my gun was just a little too much. I also think that adjusting my covers a little bit would have helped, as I was slightly uncomfortable after I rolled back over in real life.

Small lucid about controlling your energy. I was talking to a girl with blonde hair about taking energy from dreamers' attacks, and using it against them. She showed me her energy, and how she used it, and I showed her mine. Hers was colored like vanilla ice cream, I believe mine was purple.

I had 2 false awakenings where I wrote down my dream.


I was with my mom, and we were going across a bridge to a camp. We were one of the first ones there, so we looked around for a place, and we found one. It had an overpass, and umbrella and a swing. Then, a bunch of prepubescent teens came seeking shelter. It started to pour and storm extremely hard.I gave mom 50 cents and she left. I passed out and woke up in a really weird location. I walked a little, and then arrived in a parking garage. There were people all over. I saw people I knew, like Ashley, and Nick B. These people were wandering around, looking for something. I saw this 1 person staircase, that I had to crawl up. It led to the second story, and as I got up there, I almost got stuck, and had to push my self out. I saw Zach and his girlfriend. Zach had given her a white popsicle, which he called an HP bar, and after you ate it it automatically refilled itself, so you got as much HP as you wanted. I then saw Ronnie, and Matt Cook. Later on, I saw Jesenia. Then, I was in a house, and Ally Westfallen was there. She was telling me about when she went on a field trip, she got this funny shirt that had something to do with Haxx0rz. Before all this: I was in a spy group, and we were uncovering hidden secrets from the White House. I believe we were Russian. I was talking to a hacker, and he was telling me that the files were constantly monitored, and that we would only have 10 seconds in and out. As we were about to begin, American spies broke into our stronghold, and began attacking. We started the hack, and got the files. Inside, it was about the Truman Doctrine for the Cold War, and they were forged by Eleanor Roosevelt to start war. Me and my mom ran away, and crossed a bridge...

I was a wizard in Runescape. I had a blue robe on, wielding an air staff, and I also had a dragon dagger. I had just uncovered a teleportation spell that sent me close to home. It cost 10 water runes and 5 earth runes. Bri said she had already taken a picture of the surrounding area. Then I joined about 6 other people. We were going to do a quest, the name was Desert Treasure. We had to go wayy uo into the mountains to get a frost gem. As we went up into the mountain, we stopped at a gate. There was a man sitting there, as if it was a toll booth. We looked past the gate, and there were giant wolves prowling around. The man was talking to some others, and I mentioned to James, "You see those wolves?? They're level 125!" I guess someone pissed the man off, and he took up arms. I had a poisoned dragon scimitar, and a poisoned dragon dagger. The battle raged for a while, going back and forth. When the wolves died, they turned into people, and started battling with swords. I don't know what it is about me and swords, but every time I use them, I had to bend them back into place; they're always extremely flimsy. I was getting better at sword fighting, and as I looked around, there was a black paladin fighting others. He got pummeled and flew into the upstairs of an abandoned house. I chased after him, as he shouldn't have been there to begin with. As I searched, I heard a shower turn on, so I ran to the bathroom. The man was cleaning himself!! I threw him out of the shower and picked him up.

"Who are you?!" I yelled at his face. He told me that he was a robot from the future, who had come to collect something after the battle. Obviously, the battle hadn't ended yet, and he needed to hide. There was more to his story, but I was fed up with him, and I jumped out, leaving him. Earlier in the battle, I was using my staff and casting spells, but now, I only had teleportation spells, so that was useless. There was one main man that I was battling, and there were only about 4 of us scattered about fighting. I knew I would see that man again, as he disappeared. I had dropped my scimitar, and was using my dagger until the end. The setting had now changed to a playground, and I was asking and searching aloud, "Where is my dragon scimitar?" By the end, the two blades had become yellow with some sort of bodily fluid from them. I gave up the search quickly, and I noticed that a lot more people had arrived. More like popped up. I walked toward the group, and stood in the middle of it. As I did, the dream collapsed, but the people remained.

I heard someone yell, "Oh no! We lost clarity. Quick! Dreamer! Visualize the scene again!" And I did, as I didn't want to wake up. That queue instantly made me lucid. It took a few seconds, and I was doubtful, but it reappeared and I was content. Now, there were a lot a lot more people around. This time sitting or propped up against walls. I walked in between 2 buildings, and decided that I wanted to gly. I jumped to the height of the building(It was about 10 feet up) and something up there had caught my eye. I jumped again, this time higher, and.. Yes, it was! There were little kids sitting on top of the building. I told someone at the foot of the building about it, and asked them why, but they gave me a vague answer. I think that they had to escape themselves. I jumped onto the roof of the building, and I looked to my left. A small Japanese girl was staring at me. I asked her why she was up here ,but she simply stared. I noticed how the sky was oddly colored, and walked out to the front edge of the building. I wanted to increase my clarity, so I focused on my hand. I didn't do it at first though, because when I did, the space around my hand seemed to warp in a cool way. I did gain more lucidity and clarity after another try though. I looked up into the sky, and remembered what AL3ZAY had said.

"Pick a space, somewhere within the billions of miles in the Cosmos, and create a spherical piece of land just for you and invited guests." An inner voice told me that it was not yet time for this, so I moved on. I jumped off the roof. I still wanted to fly, and there was a huge auditorium right there, about 25 feet tall. I made it to the roof of that, but still no floating effect. I landed, and looked to my left to see a big group of black people fist fighting. I wanted to work on my hand to hand skills, so I ran over there. I got there, and immediately punched one guy right in his nose. I turned to my right, and evaded a punch. I countered with a left hook. Behind me, a man was shouting a battle cry and running towards me. I jumped and 180 kicked him in the chest. The fight stopped, and the people moved back to form 2 parallel lines.s The 'leaders' were talking back and forth about me, saying that it was uneven now. As I walked down the line, a black girl held out her hand. I took it, and the dream ended.

Dream Lucid Notes

Most of these took place in my house. I went to bed about 8:30 and woke up at 1. I was up for an hour and then did a WILD attempt and DEILDed till 6. Most of these dreams happen in my Home.

I wake up from a wild attempt and go to my bathroom. It's dark and I'm checking the status of my charging MP3 Player. It has all of these weird buttons on it that I don't remember. That's when I hold my nose and breathe. I am dreaming. I can bearly see anything though. I try to fly and can float but can't move very fast. I'm swimming through the hallway and it feels like I'm going through jello.

I make it to the living room and the tv is on. The image is of a talking head but it's very distorted. I slowly fly over to the tv with the intention of flying in but hit my head on the screen.

I wake up, hold still and DEILD.

Still Lucid, I walk over to my front door. I try to say out loud, "aren't we expecting company?" I can't move my lips. I have a terrible stutter. What comes out of my mouth is "UHHHHHH PUUU" There is no doorbell but I open it anyway. When I open the door a blinding flash of light wakes me up.

I stretch for a second, change position and DEILD

I am outside in a field, lucid, but it's dark and the sun is beginning to come up. I can't make out much of anything except Octorene shapes in the sky, like the beginning of hypnagogic imagery. I am lucid but i can't move.

My alarm clock goes off and I hit the snooze and can hold still for one more fragment.

Sitting in with a 1930's style acapella jazz group. I'm singing the bass part. Oooh bom bom bom. OOOoh bom bom bom. OOOh OOOh OOOh bom bom bom. We are in a dimly lit cramped living room sitting on a couch while I pace the floor.

So it was the last day of the holiday I was on. Since there was nothing more to do at this point, and there was a ski center nearby, I thought, why not? It'd be ton of fun.

On the top of the mountain, or whatever it could be called, I had a quick overlook at the whole area. There was a main slope, a slope to the secondary ski center here, and numerous smaller slopes. At the bottom of the mainslope, there was this big building, which had a couple of restaurants and such, so I knew I was going to there later to eat and such. I thought I'd do best going to the secondary ski center first. And I took the looong nearly flat and very wide slope going there.

On the trip to the place where they sold tickets at, I noticed I had left my ski poles on the top of the mountain/whatever. So I had to rent some. The poles were both white. Afterwards I went and purchased the tickets. The lady there unfortunately didn't speak english for some reason, but I managed to mess around enough to figure out how to purchase tickets to the specific area I wanted to ski on. It was now 14:53. I'd better hurry.

I took the first lift up. On the trip I noticed my poles had changed color to pink. Unfortunately I did not reason myself further.

On the second lift, I noticed my poles were now yellow. I thought, what the heck, I'll do a nose pinch RC, and it worked. That instant, I came lucid. What happened in nearly all of my lucids started happening again. The dream was quickly fading away. But I managed to pull it back up with mental effort. I was now there, in the ski lift, looking around. I was in awe of the beatiful scenery around me, snowy mountains, large trees, etc. From the back of the hill, a blimp appeared, a big one. It slowly flew over the lift I was on there. I was amazed at all the detail. Afterwards, I remembered I had some goals to do in my dreams. The first of which was to count fingers. Not a challenge in any way but to just remember to do it. I looked around and had difficulty finding where my hand was. It took a while but I found it. Started counting my fingers. There were 5 on one hand. And on top of that, the ghost image of my hand too. Kinda what would happen IRL if you crossed your eyes. And at that point, I could not sustain the dream longer. And I woke up.

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Nearly forgot to fill this in and it's already 3 hours after waking up so I don't remember all the details of the dream so vividly anymore.

Type: DILD.
Lucidity: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Vividness: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Notes:
This dream was extremely clear, and I completed the basic July ToTM very early, which is awesome. I didn't get to do much regarding the MDP, because I wasn't thinking clearly about how to change the scenery for it.

It was early in the morning. I was outside, and observed that the sky was slightly darker blue, and I could see yellow and orange tones scattered throughout it, not uniformly gradating from the horizon like the colors would do in real life. For the most part, it wasn't too realistic and looked more like a digital painting. Myself, I was standing on a rather unimportant, low-rise hill (about three feet above ground level); it was exactly like one you'd find along the side of a highway. This hill went along the side of, and curved down toward a fairly small parking lot that was only twenty or so spaces wide, and three or four rows deep. Past this long and rather skinny parking lot was the entrance to an amusement park.

This entrance had a tan-colored stucco exterior, and was very simple in appearance: merely a large, light gray rectangular slab that was sat upon four square pillars, which were made of tan stucco. Between each pillar was a turnstile. Extending from either side of the entrance was a brick wall, probably only six or seven feet tall, with big, neat square holes filled with clear glass, almost like windows. On the other side, you could see rides. I can't remember what kinds I saw when I walked over to the entrance. I walked in between the second and third pillar, not stopping at the kiosk to my right to purchase a ticket. Instead, I kept walking until I was only four or five feet from the brick wall.

I looked down at the ground to see a small square hole. The hole went right down into the ground, arcing slightly forward, until it opened up to the ground on the other side. It was strange, because if you were to look down the hole (which was only twelve or thirteen feet, by one foot, by one foot - very tight to get through!) and looked at the gravelly ground, it was lit rather brightly, as if the other side of the fence dropped off to a small cliff, and the ground I was standing on was actually hanging above another area underneath. The hole was lined by thin metal sheets that somewhat smoothed out the insides of it; it almost looked like the inside of an air duct.

This was the entrance to the park. I knelt down and put my two legs in it; I then used my arms to try and push myself downwards, in a pretty poor attempt to get through. I got a few feet into it, but then stopped at my hips because the thing was just too tight to get my butt through. "This is so freaking stupid," I muttered, and pulled myself out with a bit of effort.

As I turned around, [B]I became lucid and did a nose-plug RC to confirm the dream state. I could breathe; this time, I noticed the air was relatively cool instead of neutral like it usually is. But it wasn't cold outside at all; I couldn't even feel the temperature! Immediately after finishing the reality check, I remembered to do the July Task of the Month. As I walked through the parking lot and back towards the hill, I resolved to summon a harmonica. I used basic dream control tactics and "knew" that I was wearing a hoodie (taking objects out of pant pockets often don't seem to work for me), and I also imagined the feeling of pushing my hand into the right pocket, and the reluctant stretch of the fabric. I expected a harmonica to be there.

I could feel the texture of the shirt pocket as I took out a very plain, all-metal harmonica. It was a fairly flat, rectangular piece of steel with slightly rounded corners and a good number of holes on the side, something like 12 or 14 circular ones. The surface was pretty scratched-up, like how the steel back of an older ipod has those light, shallow scratches. I put it up to my mouth and breathed lightly into it, listening to the sound I generated. The tune was simply four notes blended together nicely. Low tone, medium tone, low, low, and then high. It didn't quite have the harsh sound of a harmonica, but the sound was softer and almost echoed.

"Yeah!" I said excitedly, trying to keep myself from getting too excited. Then, I stopped at the foot of the hill and decided to try and continue the MDP, but then thought better of it. I was nowhere near the location I needed, and my dream-self didn't remember that I could just open a door or fly to the location I needed to be in. I decided to leave that for another dream.

I 'woke up' into a false awakening.

I am walking up a hill near the Mountain in New Eden on the Green Moon. Loaf is sitting there in silence.
I stand next to him, and inhale the view. It's breathtaking.

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We communicate telepathically, in images, in silence. We turn, and smile at each other. We are both vampires. I am a dark energy vampire, and he is a red energy vampire. We leap off the cliff, and fly over the jungle canopy to the Land of Nod in which is my Vampire Castle. Sylvia is there, and so is Angel. Angel tells me to stop invading her dreams. I tell her she is on the Moon, we are not in her Inner World. She just says, "Whatever," and disappears. I guess she woke up.

"Who was that?" asks Sylvia, a violet and black vampire.
"She was my lover at one time."
"She seems nice. We were talking earlier."
"She is a lot nicer in dreams. But, she gets confused."

"Oh. And who is this young man?"

"Vampire Loaf."

Loaf looks around, and nods to Sylvia.

Then, we go hunting, feasting on the souls of the damned, allowing them to cross over as we drain their last bit of essence from this plane.

Dream Lucid Me DC

Dream 1:
I was walking to school, but it didn't start till a lot later, so I decided to go to my friends house instead. It might have been 7am (In the dream.) My friends door was open a little and I could see light coming from the left side of the room, indicating that he was awake but his parents weren't. (This wasn't his real home.) I opened the door expecting to see him, but instead saw some girl. My friend walked behind her. I can´t remember much after that, but I think we played some game.

Dream2:
I saw some kind of games title. It said "Chrono god Trigger" After that I was in a room with some people. The room seemed like a some sort of crypt, because there were lots of sarcophagus near the walls. Suddenly a big guy (Maybe skinless.) came in with a black sword. I summoned two keyblades and blocked most of his attacks, but then he started to get past my defense. I got angry, grabbed his sword and striked his back so many times that he started praying me to stop, so I did. Next there was me and possibly that guy trying to get a balloon to a exit without popping it.

Fragment:
Something about 3 characters from Friends talking. (Ross, Joey and someone, probably a woman.)

Lucid:
I can't remember where I were, but I took out a laptop and ordered two tickets to the pyramid. Then I traveled in a train while rubbing my hands to stay in the dream. (Which was quickly fading.) The guy next to me started rubbing his hands too and asked me to give him a couple of high-fives. Woke up before getting to the pyramid. (If the train even was going there.)

Dream3:
I was once again with my friend, playing the same game as last time. We were two characters with katanas that could change powers in a jungle. First we saw some small enemy and attacked it. Soon we lost sight of it and wondered if it was hiding or dead. Then two other enemies attacked us. One big guy and one that was maybe 18 years old. We mostly fought the big guy as the other guy didn't really do anything. I changed my powers to fire and shot couple fireballs at him. They missed and almost hitted another guard. My friend told me not to draw anymore attention. We finished the big guy, but as a last resort he disembodied his hands, which grabbed me and started slowly dragging me to the direction of the other guard. I pushed my legs against a stone block to prevent me from moving. (The hands themself didn't move me, there was more like a invisible bond between them and the body, so that they were attached to the body, but were a little further away from it.) Finaly the enemy died and left behind a yellow heart. (Like heart containers in the legend of zelda, only slightly different design and color.)