lucid

So I woke up around 6:40AM, made myself an cappuccino and turned on my PC to resume some downloads. I went to bed to try WILD. I closed my eyes and started doing [partially] Jeff777's Free Falling technique. I lost track of time and feeling of my body and I entered a dream but I wasn't still very aware. So I went out to the bathroom, when I looked at the mirror I was just like Cloud from Final Fantasy VII, only that I had a black hair. I was admiring myself and telling something like: "Haha I'm so beautiful". When I got out of bathroom some warrior on horse passed through the house giving me a sword that I called the "FRAME". It looked like sword that angels (Or CREDO) in DMC4 had. I got to my room and heard my father speaking. I lied down again and I thought, wait!, I was supposed to do WILD here, I better do a RC. I looked at my hands and I had 8 fingers!!! This was a dream, I was so excited. I thought I try poke hand test, but when I tried to poke my hand a strange light came out of it with high frequency vibration and sound followed by a real pain that I felt on my real body. It almost wake me up. But somehow I stayed inside a dream. Next thing I done was that I produced some strange light out of my hands and played it with. At first it was a dot of light which transformed into 5-6 dots placed in circle who where dancing and I was changing their movements and colors. I froze that dot of light in air and took my "FRAME" sword and sliced through it hoping that I will make some cool attack and yeah, I did! I felt a strong shock-wave as I hit the dot and a yellow light sliced through air and something exploded in distance. As I looked outside the room the whole town was crumbling and there was avalanche going for my room. Normally I would get scared but this time I was sure about myself and I stand there, smiled and stopped time. Everything stopped and turned into a cartoon style drawing. Few moments later the time unfroze and everything came rushing at me again so I stopped the time again. But this time I destroyed everything. The frozen thing cracked like an ice. When that was done I got outside the room and wanted to summon someone to have sex with. I didn't succeed. I thought maybe there are some woman at my brothers place. And I walked down there. As I walked I smiled at myself for fact that I am walking. I thought: "Hahaha, why am I walking? I should've just fly or teleport to my brothers place. But anyway when I entered the place was full of woman and I had sex with everyone of them. There was a one who I liked the most, she had a red-brown hair and had a some butterfly tatoo on her leg. I spent most of my time here having sex..(Ah, well...) and my LD ended. As I woke up I tried to do DEILD, I stayed calm and didn't open my eyes. But I wanted to write this dream so I woke up! Recently I haven't had any LD's and I was happy about this one and it was great!

The Lost Caverns of Pennywise
I am in a forest with MoSh and Asuka. I look around to see where we are, but I don't recognize the place. MoSh asks where this lost cavern of… um… this lost cavern of whatever is. I say it's not far off, and I start looking for a cave entrance. We are at the base of a mountain, so I figure it will be easy to find a cave entrance here. When I finally find it I am surprised to see it looks like it is the appropriate size for a hobbit maybe… it is a tiny hole.

To go through it there would be no choice but to get down and crawl through, maybe even wiggle through on my belly. I point at the hole and tell MoSh I thought the entrance was bigger, but maybe it collapsed. MoSh suggests blasting through, but that would destroy too much, might cause more cave-ins. I said it couldn't be that small for far, the caverns themselves are huge. So it must just be for a short way. I crawl into the hole and down the narrow passage. It doesn't seem very short, of course I am unable to move very quickly on my belly. MoSh is behind me, and Asuka is behind him. The hole we are crawling through is lined with mud. It is getting us filthy, but at least there's no chance of getting stuck. I come to a dead end. Shit! We have to back out?! No… there's a stone blocking the passage. I give it a shove and it falls away, dropping about ten feet down to water. We have reached the caverns. I tell MoSh to jump out of the small passage, there's water below. By the rock landing I could tell the water was deep. We jump into the water with a splash and grope blindly until we find the shore.

It is pitch black down here. I use the spell 'lumos' from Harry Potter, somehow without a wand, and the cavern lights up. It is a huge cavern, I see the hole we entered through on a low area of roof over the water. There's definitely no way to go back the way we came! There are several passages exiting the cavern, and since we have no set destination, we just take the closest one. The cave walls are lined with strange drawings and strange writings, images that clearly depict a war going on until it starts raining and then the rain seems to bring peace somehow. A strange creature is blocking our path. It has huge bulbous eyes that seem to glow with a faint white light, he doesn't seem to like the light I am creating, but he also doesn't seem to know where the light is from. The creature looks mean, like a form of mutant goblin, and it snarls at us to prepare to die. I tell him he can't be serious… if he values his own life, he had better back off. We aren't here to kill anyone, but if you force it… The goblin retreats into the darkness. We explore some more, Asuka finds some flowers growing in a small wet area, the flowers glow in the dark. They are quite beautiful. The goblin also returns with several friends and he repeats his threat. I repeat my warning. He attacks. I summon my Witchblade sword and cut him down easily. This gives the other goblins pause, and they retreat quickly into the darkness.

We find the end of the passage blocked by an ornate looking door, a heavy looking wooden door… seems odd… It takes some effort to open the door, as it seems to be on old hinges that don't work too well any more. As the door slides open the ruins of an amazing city are revealed. It looks like something out of ancient Rome or Greece, and I realize my light is no longer needed. The walls and the ceiling of the cavern, as well as much of the floor, are all covered with those glowing flowers. The door, which opened with difficulty, now slams closed behind us all by itself. We set off to explore the place. I am wishing I could somehow get photos of this place back to my waking life… that would be cool. Maybe I can model something like this… but that will take forever! We keep looking around and we soon find a temple in the center of the city. The temple is mostly intact. We go inside and find there is a woman there and the room is full of treasure. She says we should go ahead and take a share of treasure if we wish… but only the worthy will be able to get across the water. There is a pool of water around the platform with the treasure. The pool is radiating pure light energy. MoSh and Asuka go over to look at the treasure.

I am about to join them when I notice laughter, rather disturbing sounding laughter. No one else seems to hear that. I look around for the source of the sound but I don't see anything. The laughter gets louder and sounds creepy. I look towards a dark arch and see glowing silver eyes through it. A clown emerges, the clown looks like Pennywise from the book It by Stephen King. What is he doing here? He disappears through the arch, I follow him, I don't think it is a good idea for Pennywise to be wandering around here. On the other side of the arch is an abandoned carnival, the carnival has a creepy evil atmosphere around it. Pennywise is standing next to one of those wheels where they tie a person to it and another person throws daggers at it, getting the blades as close to the person as possible without cutting them, to demonstrate the thrower's skill and the courage and trust of the person on the wheel.

There is a man tied to the wheel, Pennywise has cut his stomach open and is pulling out the man's intestines and twirling them around a fork like spaghetti. The man is screaming in pain. Pennywise says I should come over and eat some… YUCK! I call my Witchblade sword back and I slice Pennywise in half down the middle. The scene around me melts and I find myself submerged in the strange fluid formed as the scene melts. It is a thick and viscous fluid, impossible to swim in, like mud. I sink underneath the crap but that shouldn't be a problem, I'm dreaming. But I can't breathe… I can't move and I can't breathe. What the fuck?! I decide the only way to get out of there is to go ahead and wake up.

17.06.2011

Moocher? (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

At least I think I was a moocher in this dream. I do remember being a guy who looked like "The Dude" and who had a crush(?) on a female Elementary teacher. I've been a dude a lot lately. I also remember my apartment being very futuristic. I got woken up after this by Drew.

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17.06.2011

Giant Bugs. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

There are only a few things I remember here. I was talking to my sister on Skype and she was in art school. She was making masks. I also remember talking to Mina but I can't remember what about. The dogs were in it too in that Taiko barked at a green but that left a slime trail on the floor. It turned into a giant Wiggler bug, though and then another, green one appeared and it ran from me while I chased it with a shoe. Then I woke up, not feeling safe from bugs. The sounds of bugs humming and chirping outside is what probably caused that part of the dream, though.

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17.06.2011

Very briefly lucid. (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

This lucid dream was pretty disappointingly short.

Lately, all of my dreams have been interrupted by my dogs, my husbands, discomfort and I can't remember my dreams very well if I'm interrupted.

Here's what I do remember. I remember trying to spin into my dream but I was already too awake by the time I started doing this. Then, I just sort of laid there until my mind wandered and fell asleep.

There are only a few parts that I remember here, too. I remember being in the kitchen were there was a problem with the gas. All of the burners were active at one point. As one was put out, another would light. After messing with the buttons for a little while, I realized that this would never happen (I spend a lot of time in the kitchen) since a lot of the flames were green, pink... colors that wouldn't happen in my kitchen. It was here that I did a reality check and read the 'power button' for the stove (which wasn't burning anymore), looked away and it said something completely different. I tried to do another check and read the time on a microwave twice. I tried to stablize while I was looking at it but I lost the dream when I got woken up by the puppy.

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17.06.2011

Scary doll. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

In the fourth dream I had last night (goodness these dreams are short) I only remember a scary burlap doll at the very end, being mad at a friend Craig, going to Burger King, catching a fish in a pond and putting it in my fish tank and kids skateboarding in the BK parking lot. I remember something like a classroom that Drew and I were in and I also remember choking on some antibiotics. Even the order of the dream is a little hazy, though.

This is a repost because the original was lost in the site crash.

Nonlucid, Lucid, Partially lucid

June 9, '11: I am outside, and lucid. It is night. There are some stars and the moon in the sky. I remember my task and attempt to make more stars appear in the sky, using Active Control and hand movements.
This doesn't work. There is a tree nearby with little white flowers. I shake the tree and catch the falling petals in my hand. Then I throw the white petals into the air and they become faint stars in the sky. I do it again and make more stars. Then I try active control again, but it is not as effective.

I attempt to move the moon with my hand held close to my face and one eye closed, so my hand looks bigger than the moon.
I "push" the moon and it slowly begins to move. It is quite large now, and rolls across the horizon, to the right. It rolls in front of a gas station.

I slowly make the moon stop and roll the other way. It's like the moon is very heavy, so it doesn't stop or move right away. It rolls across the landscape to the left.

Note: Placing stars in the sky or moving the moon was one of KingYoshi's suggested tasks for his class on dream control.

DEILD/WBTB- Exited a dream because I had to go to the bathroom so I did my usual routine and then went back to sleep. 2 minutes later I was in a lucid dream.

I remember waking up and telling myself that I wanted to have clarity in this dream. So I kept using the word resolve to increase clarity, I was screaming it in the dream and it really worked. Everything would amplify once I said it. I first performed a nose plug to make sure I was dreaming, it came out positive so I started by trying to fly. I could never get myself to fly in my dreams so the first thing I did was jump in the air, I floated and came back down slowly. I then got into the superman position to try to fly and it worked but it didn't feel real at all, and I couldn't look around. I then had a false awakening, I suddenly just woke up in my bed from the dream and my parents were yelling at me. I did another nose plug and I was STILL in a dream, so I just kept going and ignored the stupid DC's. Next, I warped through the wall. I Always heard of people doing this and it seemed awsome.. It was
I just walk straight through it and de atomize the door in the process, I could literally de construct things this time. But the wall or door was still intact once I moved through it. I looked at a desk I was walking by and said "resolve" out loud again everything grew vibrant and colorful. I remember there being a golden tulip and some red roses, along with a few pictures of people sitting on this desk. I had nothing left to practice on, so I tried summoning again. I can't quite just imagine it there and it'll be there but going into a closet and coming back out worked perfectly. It even surprised me in the dream when the DC was there... My parents came down while I was talking to a DC and were all pissed because I was smoking moldy weed apparently, they thought it could kill you. I never said a word to them but they just kept going on, I need to learn how to kill my DC's. A bunch of other stuff happened but I can't really remember, I've only been practicing dream control in lucids lately. If anyone has any tips or fun things to do please leave a comment or message me

I was inside a burning building tell my friends and brother to get out. Then I'm outside by a pool I'm also talking to a girl I don't look at her, she is instructing me to eat out a woman in front of me I gladly do. Then the woman changes into a floating bed for a pool "weird" I think to myself then I ask myself if I'm dreaming, then I do a reality check I pinch my nose and breath in it works. I soon become excited and began to try and control the element I shout each, first I shout "WIND!" and shove my hand forward and sure enough a burst of wind with extraordinary power blows in the direction I'm pointing then I try the other element and everyone seem to fail. I began to get in raged by this, I start to scream out in anger and suddenly the environment changes violently, the sky becomes blood red and rains fire, I begin to get louder, I shove both hands forward at a small bridge and it explodes in fiery of fire. I smile and become drunk with rage and violence I began to destroy the world around me homes and woods. Someone grabs and tells no, commands me to stop what I'm doing, at first I refuse then I hear my fathers strong voice. He yells at me to stop and ask me what I'm doing "It is only a dream dad I'm not hurting and body." I say in a calm voice he tells me I'm not dreaming. I'm then ravaged by sorrow and regret for what I've done I began to look at the damage then I wake

I was sitting on my couch, at the living room. I stood up, and looked at a digital clock on the table. We never had such a clock. I looked at it, looked back and looked at it again.
The time had changed, I realised I was dreaming. I went outside. My father went past me. He had to take my sister to classes. I went outside, and stood in front of my garden. I attempted to fly, by jumping and opening my arms. But it didn't work. Another faceplant, just like in my first LD. I got out of my garden, and walked down the street. I was really sad because I couldn't fly, so I decided to materialize a flying carpet. I closed my eyes and imagined a carpet. Opened my eyes, and there it was. I stood on the carpet and it started raising. I flew above my neighbours house, and they were startled. I flew down the street and woke up

This is a repost because the original was lost in the site crash.

Nonlucid, Lucid, Partially lucid

June 6, 2011: I am partially lucid. I see Jacqui and I tell her to go do something. As she walks away she says "Here I go, against my will."

Then I am inside a shopping place, where there are long tables with lots of pizza. As I eat pizza I try to remember the tasks I wanted to do. Nothing comes to me.
I see someone and say to her that I had something to ask her. But then I just continue eating pizza. I eat until I am full.

I step outside, in an alley, and remember my task involving stars and the moon. But it is raining and all I see is clouds. I feel like I really have to poop. A goat person (like Pan) comes at me and I possibly kick him.

Back inside, I am looking for a bathroom. Then I wake up.


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Lucid, and partially remembering my task, I try to put a moon in the sky by lifting a car light into the sky. Then I see the moon in the sky, so I think it sort of worked.
Then I am inside the house, looking out a window. I want to make stars in the sky, but it is bright and sunny outside.

I attempt making the sky darker. I am straining, as if it is difficult to do. I realize I am making it harder to do than it needs to be, and I try a more relaxed approach, like it is easy for me to change day into night. But it doesn't seem to work.

I lose some lucidity and I am naked except for a towel. My brother and his friend show up. I pinch my nose and realize I am still dreaming.
I tell my brother and his friend that this is a dream. I want them to be lucid too. I try to prove it by pinching my nose and breathing through it at the same time, while explaining how the reality check technique workds. I very clearly close my nostrils tight with both hands, and still breath easily through my nose.

They don't seem to understand at first. Then my brother tries it. It doesn't seem to work for them. He ends up blowing snot on himself, then he gets angry, thinking it was a trick, and he chases me.

I was flying around a tropical island.
When I landed, I became lucid. I thought "Well, if this is a dream, I can do whatever I want"
I decided to fly. I tried to fly again because when I was flying I wasn't lucid and I didn't feel how good it was. I open my arms, then I jump, but somewhy it didn't work, I faceplant the floor.
Woke up

3:48 I rem being briefly lucid in a park like grissom with jessica. Im walking with jessica in the park and i believe i fail reality check several times but something keeps making me want to until i start to notice i have six fingers. I almost didnt notice as i was just looking at my hands and not counting at first, but it looked like too many fingers so i counted. I still had a little doubt from the times it failed but the reality check then consistently gives six fingers so i know im dreaming.

When i realize it i start getting a little too excited, the excitement seems to come in like three intense waves before i finally start walking and rub my hands together and keep it from fading. I start trying to do the first thing that comes to my mind which turns out to be shooting a ball of lightning up into the air. I imagined energy flowing to my hands and then thrust them foward but it did not work. I tried using sound effects but that didnt help either. I try a few times but with no success decide to try and fly. I do the energy thing and thrust my hands towards the ground hoping to send me in the air but i just stay there.

When i do this jessica kind of copys me and makes noises moving her hands too which was pretty funny. I rem jessica was talking to me during this all as well but i was just kind of ignoring her. After trying for a while I started listening to something she said but cant rem. I dont rem past this so i must have lost lucidity because i didnt wake up right after this dream.

So a friend of mine who got me interested in this site has been telling me about the whole "reality check" things to enduce lucid dreams, but I've always failed in them UNTIL TWO NIGHTS AGO...

In my dream, I was in this big city that kind of looked like a tiny packed street in China or Japan or something, with tons of lights and words I couldn't recognize on tons of signs all over the place. My friend Lupe shoes up and she's all "hey, wanna go to this knick knack store?" or however she worded it that made it seem like we were going to some junk shop down the street. I said sure and we headed for the store. When we get inside I see tons of shelves and tons of figurines and such but I can't make out what they are or what they mean, but I somehow know what they all are. There's a clock near the door and a few people in the store. Lupe sees somebody she knows in the store and starts talking to them while I aimlessly wander down an isle of knick knacks. I check the time but the clock is all topsy-turvy like I can't make out the exact time every time a blink it changes or the hands move in funny ways (and that's normal for me in dreams, I can never read clocks. That COULD be a reality check but it never registers for me, I just think it's completely normal and that the clock will tell me the time later haha).

I turn back to the shelves and overhear Lupe talk about her class schedule with the person she ran into in the store. Whatever she said made me think, like "hey, she doesn't have that class this quarter" or "wait a minute, she's graduating next quarter not next year" or something that made me realize what she was saying was wrong. And then it hits me:

ITS A DREAM.

HOLY SH*T.

I start floating.

I'm all in my head "woah, I'm floating, this is a dream and I'm floating YES! I can do anything I want in this dream this is fantastic!"

And then like amnesia, I find I'm back down on the ground and everything in this dream is considered "normal" and I'm back to my fantasy in the dream not knowing it's a dream anymore. I just go through the isles, Lupe catches up with me, and we leave for another store a few blocks away. We don't get to it because I "wake up."

BUT I DIDN'T WAKE UP!

I'm in bed, in a room that is basically my apartment but the scenery is mixed with my apartment and Lupe's living room. I sit up in bed, stretch and see my friends Jackie and Sam are there but Lupe isn't. I groggily great them, head towards the kitchen (I'm suddenly wearing a white robe for no good reason), and pour myself a glass of iced tea like I would do if I actually was awake. I nonschalantly tell them about how I had a lucid dream but I wasn't reacting to it as I the actually awake person I am right now typing this. Everything after that becomes fuzzy and then I'm ACTUALLY awake finally.

So basically two momentous things happened that I'm not even sure really happened: a dream within a dream, which I never have, and a lucid dream, which I apparently had. But it was like I only noticed I was lucid for a few minutes and then I was sucked back into the dream reality. BUT after I was back in the dream reality, I had "split personalities" again, where I see myself in the dream doing stuff like I'm narrating or filming it or something but I can't do anything to change its course. Up til the lucid point in the store, I was in my own point of view FINALLY. I rarely have my own point of view dreams.

So I kind of want an opinion... was this really a lucid dream? Or was this my dream person making myself think I had a lucid dream? It's confusing...

TA DA

This one was looong, and ended with me becoming lucid briefly!

It all began with some sort of an excursion with school. We were in some kind of an open room, in the side of a mountain. I think I recognise it from a video game I played a long time ago. I was looking over the edge of one of the gardens and accidentally dropped something, a ring? It fell but I knew where it would be. A girl from my school had also dropped something, and so we asked the teacher there if we could go find it. I got delayed by something, I had to talk to them for a long time on some sort of platform before I was able to go down stairs. It took a long time, and I never actually ended up getting the item I dropped.

Change. I, and four other people are trapped in a facility. There was a lot of the dream I don't remember, something about some sort of red liquid, which foamed up in our mouths. I made a plan to escape and take everyone with me. The whole facility is actually floating, outside the sky is red and cloudy. I remember finding my way into a security tower, which overlooks a landing pad which resembles that of one of the Star Wars movies. I jump out the window and fly away, knowing I'm going to get spotted before I escape. The man who runs the facility sees me and alerts the guards. I see a phone, it looks like the Nokia blackberry copy, on top of some sort of water tank. I know it's the man's. I maneuver to grab it, and I know I'm fading out. I desperately try to read the two messages in his inbox, and try and commit them to memory. I read the first one, but I can't remember what it said.

Change. I'm in an underground facility, the walls are made of stone. I'm Neo, and I'm with Trinity. I immediately recognise that we're in the plot of a movie. We walk to the end of a small bridge with overlooks blackness. There is a small stone door, on a stone ledge, small enough to crawl through. On it are the letters 'SMDSI May Live', or something similar to that. I immediately remembered that it is a movie, and told Trinity that it is the title, 'She Must Die So That I May Live' I told her to wait in the lobby, and turned the other way. I felt horrible.

Change. I think I must have had an FA in which I got up and went to the toilet. It's either early morning or late afternoon, and overcast, because there is a soft grey glow coming in through the window. I look up in the mirror, the bathroom light isn't on and the only light is that which comes through the window. Oh goodness, not again. My mouth was full of the red foam from one of the earlier dreams, and it was blocking off my hearing. I tried to spit out as much as I could, it made my hearing come back buy my mouth still felt full. I look up. What the!? I had hair which went down to my shoulders, and my face looked like that of a woman. Since when was my hair this long, I don't remember! I did the nose check RC, and could breath in. It took a second to click, but I was dreaming! I looked into the mirror, and morphed my looks back to normal, my hair shrank back to it's regular length, and my face morphed back to it's regular shape. I got excited, and tried to stabilise the dream. I yelled at the dream telling it to stabilise, and remembered to use my senses. I rubbed my hands together and looked at the kitchen. The light was on, an older style bulb. I knew to take note of my environment and I looked at the light, it was in a chandelier, which was actually made of a glass floral punch bowl we own, but warped slightly. The kitchen was also bigger than it is in waking life. I wasn't controlling my breathing, I was still too excited.

I wake up in bed, in full SP and try to re-enter, but my mind is too active. I'll get it soon.

[This is both a catch-up post and a repost. Apparently, there was a server crash recently that ate this entry after I posted it the first time.]

Awake, Non-lucid, Lucid, [Commentary made while awake]

Some events unfold that I'm not a part of. [I don't remember what they were now, but there was definitely a plotline involved, and I was definitely just an outside observer.] When these events are over, I find myself sitting in a movie theater, watching the end credits of a movie. I realize that all of the preceding events were a movie.

I walk out into the theater lobby, which is long, narrow, and wedge-shaped, growing slightly wider as I approach the entrance. I walk out through the theater's glass front doors onto the sidewalk. There, I meet up with my parents again.

My parents and I are in a strange, [possibly?] open-air, car-like vehicle with a hired driver. I'm showing them around the quaint, seaside downtown of Lake Worth [which, as usual for me in my dreams, looks absolutely nothing like it does in real life; it looks more urban]. We marvel at the awesomely cheesy anti-drug mural painted on the wall of one building.

[Different dream.] I'm flying above M. Road, traveling north, but facing south. I'm being pulled backward by that unknown, unseen force that so often does that in my flying dreams. I realize that I'm dreaming and take control of the situation by concentrating on the details of the scenery around me, as if I were going to stop to admire them. It works as intended: my backward motion slows, then stops. Then, I start flying forward under my own willpower, heading toward home (i.e., south). As I fly, I admire the rich detail of the scene around me and how much like reality it is.

[Dreamskip.] I'm now in a quiet, peaceful, suburban residential neighborhood, on a concrete walking path separated from the backyards on either side of it by fences. I hop along the sidewalk like an astronaut on the moon, making slow jumps that carry me several feet into the air, then slowly floating back down in an arc. I'm enjoying the fun of being in a low-gravity environment, which my dream environments often are.

I get up onto one of the fences and perform several floating glide-leaps from one parallel fence to another, combining jumping with flying. Then, I decide to try to change the dream environment to a different one by closing my eyes and spinning. I think, If I'm going to do that, I'd better start from a standing start. I jump off the fence I'm on and float gently down to the sidewalk. Once I'm standing on it, I think, Neopia, and close my eyes, but forget to spin around.

When I open my eyes, I'm in a much different suburban neighborhood. I'm standing in the middle of a straight street, looking down its length. It's lined on both sides with brightly colored, two-story houses with lush, green trees in their front yards. It doesn't look much like any of the official artwork of Neopia, but nonetheless, I become aware that this is Neopia, and that I've succeeded in my goal of changing the scene and getting there. I'm so excited about this that the scene winks out of existence after about two seconds, and I wake up. [Sigh.]

[Later, different dream.] I'm attending some special event at a theme park on behalf of [the company I've been teaching with]. I'm with SH and TS [two of my fellow teachers]. We're all wearing our white lab coats, and we're walking across a plaza that has a circular concrete beam running overhead, around the perimeter. I see some friends of mine wearing full rubberhead Sesame Street character costumes, also walking across the plaza in the opposite direction. I say to the young man in the Elmo costume who is carrying the head and looking sweaty and tired, “Hi, Mark. Go get some water.”

There are many other people there, changing into or out of costumes. Many of them are hanging their hangers on the concrete ring. TS suggests that we hang our lab coats from it, but I prefer to go back to the trailer, which [only in the dream, not in real life] has sides with panels that open to reveal closets [like my band trailer did in high school]. I want to put my lab coat there because I can make sure that trailer is locked.

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Side notes:

That first scene, where I realized that everything that had preceded it had just been a movie I was watching, was a particularly cool example of day residue. I had just been to the movies the evening before I had this dream. The recent article about how dreaming and watching movies produce very similar patterns of brain activity has informed the way I watch movies now; I always mentally compare the two experiences. In the movie I watched on this evening (Limitless), the ending felt exactly like being suddenly, rudely awakened by an alarm clock when you're still right in the middle of a dream. It's not surprising that that experience gave rise to an actual dream in which a movie ended and I suddenly realized, “oh, yeah, that didn't actually happen, I'm just watching a movie.” Both within the dream and in retrospect, that realization felt very similar to the realization, “oh, yeah, that was just a dream” that I've often had just after both false and real awakenings. Therefore, that moment of realization within that dream felt very much like a false awakening.

It belatedly occurs to me that Neopia is an entire planet. If I chose only one specific locale on that planet and made that the focus of my intentions, I'd probably have better success getting there.

Without a doubt the best lucid dream I've ever had.

It was incredibly long (as far as mine go anyway, it felt like 10 minutes) and also very vivid and I had full lucidity the whole time. I gained lucidity (don't remember how, just thought of it) on someone's front lawn on a road near my house. I looked at the curb and saw my car. I was with a couple of my friends, A and K. I get an amazing idea of something I want to do in my dream. I open the door to my Pontiac G6, push the button the pop the hood, take out the V4 engine, turn around and pick up a V12 engine which is conveniently laying on the ground and pop it into my car. Of course, it works perfectly. I blaze down my favorite road at some ridiculous speed, having a blast.

A little later, I drive into the opening room of some big labyrinth maze thing. My friends want to get out of the car. I tell them, screw it, I'm dreaming, I'll just drive through the maze. Which I proceed to do. Eventually me and A are on a higher floor of the maze with an elevator. I let K drive the car but he's having trouble navigating. I decide I want to have a meaningful conversation with my subconscious so I talk to A and discuss with him why he's such a cynical person. It's a very interesting conversation and I feel like I've learned something about him through things that my conscious mind missed but my subconscious did not.

I walk to another part of the room. It's a long open hall with no walls, just pillars around the perimeter holding up the ceiling. We're still on a very high floor of a building. I do weird things with my vision, making the ceiling and parts of the room fold in and ripple. I have trouble melding the environment exactly how I want to (I keep trying to do things like the city scene in Inception) but it's still interesting. Then I decide to try something simple. I jump into a fighting pose with my fist facing the ground, and where I'm pointing, the floor gets blasted out. I love telekinesis. Now for my favorite part of the dream. Where I've blown a hole on the floor, there are a couple of bricks still laying around. I point at each of them with a finger and lift them up into the air with telekinesis. Each of my 2 fingers controls one of the bricks, and I have fun flipping them over each other and messing around with them. For some reason this kind of control gives me great joy.

I hear my parents talking downstairs but I still have faint control of the dream. By the time I think of spinning or rubbing my hands together it's too late, I wake up, feeling satisfied and refreshed.

Page 43: LD Dodge

Wednesday, June 15, 2011*

I'm running up the steps of my building when I notice I'm dreaming. As I enter the doorway and run down the hallway I perform a rc. I look at my hand and have a hard time counting my fingers. I look away and back and decide that I'm dreaming. I walk into the kitchen and it's different. The table is not in it's usual spot and is much smaller. My brother Brandon is sitting at the table with my parents staring at me. I tell him "This is a lucid dream, this is a lucid dream". I then start doing a funny dance. I walk down towards the living room and it's quite dark. I'm still reminding myself that it's all a dream and I again begin counting my fingers. That's when my brother Brent questions me about it. I ignore him and yell "Increase clarity". The living light goes on and now it's much brighter and clear. Which helps me to realize only now as I lie awake that my living room was un identical to WL. My living doesn't have a light or a light switch. Maybe that is the dreams way of manifesting my command?

Pretty exited, I try to expect to be standing outside and I turn around. It doesn't work. Now Brandon and Brent are both standing there. I yell clarity now and turn around and the light goes back on. "see" I tell Brent and he laughs "you hit it with your hand". "no, look I'll do it again" I tell him. I back up further away and attempt it again. I yell "clarity now" and turn around, but it doesn't work. I tell them its because it doesn't work in front of others. They laugh at me and leave. I try to remember what I want to do. I think about trying dream sex, but decide it's too risky and I'd wake up. I think of my other goals: increasing my awareness, driving my favorite cars, etc. I decide I'm going to drive so I expect to be outside on the street and I turn around. It doesn't work. I try again and this time try to visualize a street in front of me.*

It kinda works because now I'm standing in a parking lot full of cars. The parking lot appears to be underground. Its dark and a few feet ahead there is a ramp or exit emitting light into the lot. I see many duplicates similar to something you'd see in a video game. There are many muscle cars and I spot a modified camaro and run towards it. I then see an exact duplicate beside it. I remember I want to drive a Satellite or Dart so I turn around expecting to see one. Just like that there it is. It's actually a blacked out dodge charger with the rare daytona package, but hey that's a sweet car too and my dream knows me better.*

I go towards it to drive when a crazy driver starts trying to run me down. I start thinking "WTF why when I'm almost about to drive my car". I reach in my pocket expecting a gun and I start to shoot at his motor. I get into the car where I'm safe due to rollbars and I take off towards the park. I notice it's not like real driving. It feels fake and my perspective is all wrong. I can see myself using either the air filter or flywheel as a steering wheel. When I notice my mistake, I grab the steering wheel, buts it's so small and tiny as is the rest of the car. I hit curbs hard and fly into the air several times. Even that seems fake. Nevertheless, I head down towards the water fountain next to the park. It's down a narrow walkway meant only for kids. I begin telling myself "this is a dream". I do my RC again... Noticing more fingers and counting to 6-7 each time. I want to also do a reading RC, but I awaken in bed.

I run through the dream in my head and before I could reach over to write it down, I awaken again. This time with my head in a cardboard box and my brother standing in the hallway. I hear him telling my parents that I woke up after a while. I could smell cigarette smoke coming from the box. I toss it off my bed and I turn over wondering if I only had this LD due to sleeping lightly because of the box. That's when I awaken for real.