memorable

1/2/2017
Dream One
"Hallway to Haven"

I was walking through a tile and concrete hallway, metal doors and drawers lining the walls, with the feeling that someone(s) was following behind, searching for me. Eventually, while searching for somewhere to hide, I realized that I was dreaming. (Upon going to work, this afternoon, I recognized the hallway in my dream to be the parking garage hallway I normally do my reality checks in, when I'm entering or leaving the office.)

The first thing I could think of to do, with my lucidity, was touch one of the concrete structures and ground myself into the dream. Then, I decided to try and change the scenery. Since I've had pretty good luck with creating and utilizing doorways, I turned to the wall and pulled open one of the panels, imagining that there would be some other, random scene within. I don't believe I waited to see if anything showed up, visually. I just moved my head in and 'dove' into the opening, focusing on the intention to simply 'be somewhere else.'

My forward momentum turned into a headlong dive, and I immediately found myself flying over dark blue ocean in midday. I was moving at a high speed trying to keep myself above the surface of the water. I could sense the feeling of being over the ocean becoming more and more overwhelming, and the water, itself - already a strange and almost 'fake-looking' hue of opaque, navy blue - began to form long strands or tendrils, that rose up from the surface like tentacles as I flew just over it. The entire ocean looked a bit like ferrofluid, writhing and undulating beneath me, and it was starting to freak me out.

I turned to find land, and saw a large landmass in the distance, completely surrounded by water. I flew closer and saw that it was a sort of plateau, with a raised center. The entirety of the surface was covered with lush, green jungle, leading up at a gentle incline - over what seemed like a few dozen square miles - to a central point in the center that housed some sort of large castle or fortress. The closer I got to the raised structure at the middle of the landmass, the more I could see that there was something flying about it, circling over the top of the building. A dragon.

The moment I recognized this dragon for what it was, I got the feeling that there was something large coming up behind me - possibly flying, but that could have been moving through the water but standing tall enough to feel like it was breathing down my neck as I flew. Still flying to the island, now trying to escape what was behind me more than what was in front, I saw that all of the color from the jungle trees and tropical landscape was beginning to 'drain' down off of the mountainous incline upon which the building sat. All of the greens and purples, browns and reds that made up the jungle beneath me now began to run like dyed water, down to the ocean that surrounded the island. (It reminded me very much of the painted field from What Dreams May Come, but after someone would have thrown a glass of water on it.)

I don't remember ever touching down on the island or making it to the building.


Dream Fragment Two
I was at someone's house, cooking. Standing in the kitchen, I spontaneously remembered that I was just lucid dreaming, a moment ago. I became lucid, again, and felt kind of stupid that I'd gone from lucid dreaming to spending a dream cooking. Before I could really think of anything else to do with my lucidity, I woke up.

If I felt Like it

I was in a room drawing with my brother sitting next to me. What I created was a monster that looked like a mutant crocodile. My brother flipped the monster after it came out of the paper and I asked if I put the nose in the right spot. He told me if I felt it was a just reason to go with it but that if I put it there he wouldn't be able to breathe. I than changed the monster again and asked him. He repeated that if I felt it was a just reason.

Control Through Fear

I was walking on a street holding a long black bazooka than turned around to look at my mom. "Why am I holding this bazooka?" I thought, fearing that the worst had yet to come. Suddenly as I was walking,what looked like bowling bowls shot out of the gun and some rose into the air. I panicked while holding it and ran to the other side of the street telling people to be careful.But just as I fell onto the ground I thought they were bombs and that I wouldn't be able to save the kids playing on the street. However, the dc began playing with the balls and as I looked to one in the sky it formed to a soccer ball. A girl helped me up after that and asked if I wanted to play volleyball with them and a group of old actors from Disney. I said sure and followed them to what looked like a wave pool set up as a volleyball court. The wave pool sparked some lucidity in me when it reminded me of wolf lodge water park but i was still not fully lucid.After getting in the water I splashed a bit, feeling the wave on my legs than started thinking about sharks. I thought that if I thought there would be a shark there would be one but it was more likely because sharks populate florida water even though I don't live in Florida. I ended up running to than jumping on a talking floating orange air boat out of fear. He seemed like he was about to play though so I jumped onto the sand until I walked and ended up randomly in a dirty public bathroom in a building.

I was unable to get out because the exit was blocked by Urine and parts from a toilet but I could see a small opening in which I wouldn't mind crawling through so I pushed a part away and forced myself out. I ended up outside near the roof of the building. It was night and there was a character that reminded me of the show " Star and The Forces of Evil" even though I don't watch it. I made the peace out sign to her than leaped off the roof and back to the place I was before. However, the wave pool was gone and a strange couple and their son walked up to me and pulled me into a corner. I had a feeling they were demons even though that is highly unlikely. They showed me a plate and asked me if I hid anything under the plates.
I said yeah, that I hid stuff all the time under the plates. (I don't though. It just proved that I was not lucid enough) They than showed me to a counter where they wanted me to do a task for them that involved setting up cups first. I shook my head and walked behind the son and father, holding onto their shirts. They looked at me snickering than the father pulled out a table with a blade hesitant to hit me with it.

The dream than shifted and I was now in a anime rpg style where the boy was showing me his decaying garden that he had locked up inside his house. (I felt more lucid here and remember looking at the ground and taking note that the ground was pink with green grass and the house was pink and reddish pink. The boy had a light blue robe with white hair and a slight purple tint to him.)He said that the plant's hearts belonged to him as they cried out that they were in need of something. I didn't let it bother me though and went outside with him. It was raining in the rpg world and before stepping back in the boy paused and said that it rained like that because of his sorrow and that not even the plate could stop his tears. I thought about it and told him that I would be the plate that holds all his tears in. He acknowledged my kindness and than I turned into a white cat in a basket while he turned into a white bunny and kissed me. A text saying 5 points than came out. I assumed it was 5/10 compatibility.

Blood

I was in a classroom but stepped out to use the bathroom but when I arrived in the bathroom it was dirty and I could see blood in the sink. I became lucid but still felt a bit scared by the sight of the bloody sink. Once I entered the classroom I said goodbye and took off flying after going through the walls. A girl ended up following me with a knife in her hand though. I kicked than grabbed her as we flew thinking if I could somehow do a DHL mission with the girl but nothing came to mind.After landing on a high platform I saw a few interesting dcs but I forgot what we did. I think I fought with them for fun and lost lucidity but I can't recall.

Notes: I've noticed that my actions and reasoning can easily be manipulated through fear in dreams. I plan on trying to get it under control so it does not.

Hello everyone I just want to say really quick that I am new here and this is my first time posting something, if you could help me out that would be fantastic, thank you. Here are the dreams

I am not exactly sure in which order they were presented, but I believe they could be connected with each other.
My girlfriend Dolly and I were at the mall, it was our first date in real life, except this mall was different, it seemed like we were at the back of the mall. I looked around me and it was one section of everything beauty and cosmetic, I even saw the word "beauty" in big illuminated letters. I was feeling a bit scared because I was about to enter a woman's domain and I was the second guy in that section. Dolly turned a corner but for some reason I had no idea where she went.
"Honey, sweetie, Dolly?" I said looking for her. I saw some guy looking at me, his body language said he was nervous and he seemed uncomfortable yet he shot me a judgmental look as if I am the one being weird.
I walk further looking for her, but I stop and go into an area for those who want to get a massage. I sat down on a couch and there were two Japanese women, for some reason one of them was wearing a stylized mask that had the Japanese flag and other designs I could not begin to describe because there was so much detail and the other woman did not have a mask on. There was one extra person waiting for her massage. The woman without the mask somehow knew my name and asked me a strange question.
"ok (my name) do you prefer hot or cold water" she said as she dabbed a towel into some water, I started to get uncomfortable because the only woman I want touching me is my girlfriend. I started to stutter trying to form words but I failed and then Dolly appeared.
"Hey." she said
"Where were you?" I asked.
"In the bathroom" and that is where that dream ended

New dream.

I am sitting down on a bench with my girlfriend Dolly. The only thing I could see was her and the bench, everything else was blurry. She stood up and started fixing my hair and that is where the dream ended.

New dream

All around me is nothing but sand below me and a cloudless blue sky above me. In the middle was a single giant red mountain. I slowly started getting closer to it. Dream ended.

New dream

Dolly and I are in the mall again and everything was blurry again. She walked over to me and said "This is our wedding invitation." It was a greeting card with a Snow man on it, she opened it and it read "Flirtatiously yours. Dolly"
Now, Dolly is not one whom I think to be unintelligent and she would not put in a card "flirtatiously yours" because that is not what she focuses on with me, flirting is not the most important thing for us even though she sort of does it a lot, but than again I am not exactly sure what flirting is considering I do not know how to do it and I am not a great judge when it comes to knowing when someone else it doing it. I remember feeling disgusted that she considered a greeting card with a snowman on it to be a wedding invitation. I felt guilty for feeling that way when I woke up because I know she would want wedding invitations to be gorgeous, anyway, that was the end of that dream

I believe these dreams could be a message from God, I have my own theory, but I do not want to misinterpret a message from God, so if you could please help me to get it right so I know exactly what it was God was telling me, it would be greatly appreciated.

I become lucid. I remember the advanced totm- ask a pencil to draw something. I find a pencil and beg it to draw something. I close my eyes to concentrate. Instead of black, the background is white, and the pencil starts drawing. It draws a sketch of a room. Happily, I decide to teleport to a random location, and I am in a garden with a beautiful copper beech. I decide to do the addictive activity of flying.

715am wake from first LD; 925am wake from 2nd for late morning LD. I recalled that heavy visualizations were important for late morning LDs and it worked.

* I am on a road driving and people are changing lanes strategically to get around people turning left and to keep moving somewhere in a hurry and at some point I am riding a bike instead and I realize I'm dreaming and I start to fly from the bike but then I noticed the dream visuals lessening a bit so I decided to land. I remember the 3 task of the month goals I had planned on doing first but this didn't seem like the right time to try the alien spaceship one. Even before bed while awake and doing some brief planning I somehow forgot about the translucent forest of Pandora, even though that sounds terrific if somewhat difficult. Anyway, I think of the pencil talk and I reach into my front right pocket with my left hand and my back right pocket with my right hand and they are big and loose and empty and I notice the visuals starting to fade again. I look down to the ground and I say but I think I see a forgotten Christmas present and it forms on the ground in front of my feet. It is wrapped in a wrapping paper more like cellophane and it's a blue color between blue and turquoise on the lighter end of the color scale. I start to open it where the paper comes together and I see that there is another layer underneath and I remove that also to see another layer. I start to realize this could continue forever and I confidently summon a pair of scissors in my hand instantly and surprisingly easily and I start to cut through the wrapping material to reveal a nice hard covered sturdy cardboard box with a lid. When I open the lid the first thing on top or a couple of gel inserts clear and the size of the heel of your foot maybe a bit smaller. Under that is a receipt and I'm thinking during the dream that it would be interesting to report to everyone on DV what the receipt said so I looked at it closely but all I recall is that the price was 89 dollars and with tax it was 95 something. Under some packaging paper in the box eventually uncovering the rest of the item which is a very fancy pair of leather slippers perhaps house slippers. They are a shiny brown leather in a thick leather that reminds me of thick rubber and squishy and they have clean stylish black soles. They seem like a very nice pair of slippers even though slippers are not something I would typically look forward to opening for a Christmas present. I wake and try to DEILD. I get only dreamlets, aware I'm dreaming but not full dreams and they kept dissipating so not counting a 2nd LD here, included: picking up string of lit Christmas lights, chips on big plastic storage container lid eating them, me with a santa bag carrying it, big goblet full of perfectly frozen ice cream sharing with nephew, sled and sled tracks in the snow, thick green shiny and partially translucent rectangular plate. Again each of the above dissipating before the next dreamlet appears.


*Over two hours later I have my second full LD. My earliest recall from this dream was a feeling of boldness to take off flying, realizing I'm dreaming! I am in a beautiful mountainous landscape not very different from where I was IWL this very day before going to bed. It was some of the most fun flying in a long time staying low to the ground flying over green grass and hills and punching the air in Superman flying posture to speed up. After a while, I approach two gigantic trees probably Oak trees or at least shaped like huge majestic Oak trees and the branches and foliage are so thick that it seems to be blocking my path to the mountains I saw on the other side and was heading to before getting caught up trying to get around these tree branches. Perhaps I should have spent some time under the trees, perhaps something to learn, as I do love trees. Instead I turn around and fly behind me planning on looping around but I am now in a neighborhood block scene, still a nice sunny day. I see a woman sitting in a car as I pass the end of the block and when I swing back around the car is gone so I start looking into windows of some 2 story houses and I'm not seeing much so I decide to land and go inside one of the houses which is actually a single-story house. I find the door unlocked and I open the door and peek in. It looks like an old person's house with an old couch multi-colored but mostly tan woven fabric where the colors are woven tightly together and blend in, until you look up close. It is along the wall on the far side of the living room and I see a bed physical through a bedroom door and a recliner chair to my left. This reminds me of my Grandmother's home. There's that distinct smell I've smelled somewhere before that reminds me of old peoples houses, but not my Grandmother's. I decide to go elsewhere and look back as I leave and I seem to see a big colorful face through the curtains, perhaps inspired by the mardi gras figure in the movie "Self/less" seen the day before. I wonder if someone might indeed be home and sure enough an older lady somewhat stocky and shorter comes to the front and I say I'm sorry I came in your home, but this is just a dream. She seems like she wants to talk and this reminds me I have some things I wanted to ask in a dream. I ask her about f she knows how to have very long lucid dreams. In a very thick Eastern European accent she says "you have to remember that in about 4 hours you will be ready to go back to sleep again and when you feel that sadness coming on..." The visuals and her voice starts to fade. Sadness? Seems like a gibberish answer. Also, I won't be ready to sleep again in 4 hours.

Soooo, This one is kinda weird. I was in a skate park doing bmx tricks(I can't do that shit in real life), So i go to the back and then shit starts to get violent. I shot an innocent woman before i had to shoot 5 others with guns. I was using an M16-A4 rifle, Semiautomatic. So the shootout only lasted about 3 minutes because in real life....I know all about this weapon. So, we get away and we are driving away pretty fast but, I feel nothing as i disassemble my rifle and store it away. I notice that its kind of dark but then, there is a bright ray of sunshine just blaring through the clouds. I say to the driver...."I just killed 6 people", and he says, "Yea you did you fucking savage". Then I woke up thinking, Im not that savage lol....Just a Musician.

I become lucid. I decide to attempt to create a persistent world. I shut my eyes and attempt to 'move out' of my dreamworld. I fail. Thunder crackles. I open my eyes and I see an ancient woman yell at me. I am terrified. She has dull purple eyes. I recognize her as t~Dreamer~ My fear disappears. I attempt to wake and go through a near infinite sequence of lucid FAs.

Finally after a month-long dry spell I had my 500th lucid. Woo! Feels like a weight has been lifted off of my shoulders. The lucid was a short one, but I'm happy and excited again.

I'm sitting on a chair and as I look down I notice my legs are that of a woman. I have a short false awakening right after noticing my legs and in the false awakening I'm writing down the incident to my notebook. Another dream begins in which I'm with a friend of mine, Tony. We're standing on an open balcony just right above the surface of a lake. Tony tells me that he could throw his cellphone into the water to make it bounce like some rocks do. I try to shake the idea out of his head, but being the guy who does all kinds of weird and funny things, he tosses it anyway. The phone swings back like a boomerang, hits the roof and then suddenly starts bouncing above the water like a flat rock. Tony is so exhilarated by the weird thing that just happened that he straight up jumps into the water as well after his phone. I can't believe this is happening. I can't wait to tell others what I just witnessed. As he gets back I notice a dim light shining under the surface. I wonder what it could be. The light moves near to where I'm standing and I can see a dangler-fish. Tony must have awakened it and now it's searching for a possible prey. Suddenly the dangler fish jumps against the window - I'm suddenly behind a window - from which I'm looking at it. It falls to the balcony and stops moving. Holy! Now I see another similar creature moving near the balcony under the water. It seems more than three meters long so I quickly "nope" away from the window. I say : "Man eater" to my grandparents who are sitting on a living room, referring to the scary fish outside. I leave the house.

I find myself on a parking lot on a completely different scenery. This is where my other grandparents live. But wait, it's summer. It's as summer as it gets. I turn around, I'm dreaming. I'm dreaming. I try to see if the creature would follow me to the current dream scenery from behind the apartment building, but I find it unlikely. It wouldn't fit to the plot of this dream. 500. 5.0.0 I look down to my hands and they both have the right amount of fingers. Only a slight difference to my real ones. I feel a strong urge to take off to the sky for some reason. As if the sky wanted me there as I look up. I resist the urge and I think that the dream itself might make fly even if I didn't put conscious effort into it. I look up to a nearby tall tree. I want to climb it. No. I look down to my hands again and remind myself with the three-step technique. One - Stop. I don't even consider doing the second or third part, it feels like the stop part is enough for now. I walk to a nearby road and chant quietly to myself :" A door... door.. door." I would use it to teleport. 500. I want to reach Varion. Suddenly I remember Sensei's dare. Oh right, I could destroy the moon quickly before leaving. I try to spot it in the sky, but it's nowhere to be found. I know I could see it, even though it's midday. There's not even a single cloud on the sky though, so I bet there's no moon either. Then I simply start feeling hot. Wow, how can dream heat feel this real. It's summer inside my own mind, how? I stop to feel the sensation. I start taking off my socks because my feet are sweating.

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I become lucid. I am walking down a path, attempting to remember the TOTM. I remember the advanced task(spin and teleport somewhere random). I decide not to because I am attempting to walk somewhere.
I remember my goal to summon my Patronus. I yell Expecto Patronum! several times, but give up after a DC starts complaining about the noise. I decide to attempt it silently, and wisp by wisp, a 'thing' appears.

Spoiler for patronus:

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It appears just like the painting.
Suddenly, as I am still building it up, the dream go's grey. I panic, but quickly stabilise myself. I visualize the scene back, and soon I am back into the lucid dream. Phew! I however decide to not continue the patronus.

This is the second time I've had this dream. Both times it happens in the last home I lived in with my mom and sister. These dreams happened a bit over a year apart.
The first time:
I come home with someone and we go up stairs from the split entry to the kitchen. We hear a noise down stairs from the garage door when I look towards it a man it coming up the stairs worth a knife. I draw a gun and demand he leaves. He turns and runs. I walk down stairs checking for others. When I step in the garage to search another man runs from the basement room out the front door. The house seamed completely locked up so idk how they got in.

Tonight's dream:
Again I come into the same home with someone. We hear the noise except when we look this time he just runs out the door and doesn't try to attack. I draw my gun and search for the second guy and again he runs out the front door. The house was fully locked up.

I woke up realizing I've had this dream before and questioning my self if it was real the first time because I was remembering such detail of both dreams.

21-Dec-2016 - ND - Warriors

ND: I fight two guys wearing nice clothes, one is wielding a big axe

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22-Dec-2016 - No written record

Several short ND and LD - Didn't write anything down so forgot them

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23-Dec-2016 - 1 ND + WILD - The Shadow world

WILD:
Many elements look influenced by Skyrim - environment, town, houses, Necromancer, skeletons
6:30AM, ~30-40 mins

HI, several short scenes, then stabilize LD in my tower, touching walls' stones and looking at objects
In the tower, on a shelf, I find an open matrioska, several pieces, the smallest is tiny, like a hair
I compose it, then look a it, take it with me and step into the portal

I am in a tundra, at night; see several bare trees, little snow, no grass. I choose a direction and walk
After a bit I find a small village, made up of some wooden houses. I also see couple of horses in a stable, very few people around.
I enter a house, meet a girl inside. We exchange few words, then I ask if I can help with anything
She mentions that lately, at night, some villagers have noticed dark creatures. They don't know what they are and have no clue where they come from
I tell her I could take care. Is she available to provide any reward for it ? She answers yes

I am clueless where to start looking for the dark creatures, hope for some guidance, and see a glimpse of a light path pointing NNW
I take a compass, walk following that direction, reach the woods again
The environment is very similar to where I ended up out of the portal

However, near some trees I notice some "bubbles" of darkness floating mid-air
I understand those are portals out of which the dark creatures are coming
The dark portal closest to me grows in size, and a shade comes out of it
It's looking very similar to some videogame monster I cannot identify during the LD, but which I recognize as Guild Wars 2 shades at wake-up LINK

I shoot a fireball to it, but it just passes through the shadow. Hmmm, no way the sword can do anything to it either.
I give up the chances of fighting with just DHL selected powers, and I invoke some sort of "light" power. A white light fills the blade of my sword, which now shines in the darkness. With this light-infused blade, I cut through the shade, which drops to the ground cut in half. Good !
I notice it's kinda solid inside.

I think this should already count as DHL mission, but I also feel there is more work to do. The portals are still there, threatening villagers.
I need to close them, understand the root cause so they won't open again.

I approach the portal, put my right arm through it, I get no harm from it. The arm is looking like immersed in a pool of dark, liquid smoke
I also put my left arm through it. Then I use both hands to enlarge it enough that I can pass through it with my entire body.

Then I cross the portal and reach a place I've never seen, dreamed or read before:

The Shadow world

It's a dark world, but its darkness is hard to describe
It has trees, made out of shadow, like a thick, solid black smoke shaped as a tree
I look up to the dark grey sky and see a totally black sun "shining" darkness
A thick fog is shielding my far sight

I start walking, then look back to see the portal I came through, shining bright light
Inside of it, I can see the forest I left before
I think it will make for a good reference point

After some walking I see a structure gradually emerging from the fog
It's a high, flat wall. I walk toward my right and see its side is open.
Approaching it, I notice it's built of the same substance of the trees, a thick shadow, although it looks more solid
I also see it's shaped as a tunnel, it has the two long walls, a roof, while the two short sides are open
I enter it and see the interior is covered in "stone" slabs, each engraved in characters I only partly know
It looks like a burial chamber. I exit it and walk some more

I approach a tree, and stop thinking that my mind has built all of this
I take some time to be appropriately amazed at this impressive fact
Then, the tree grabs me with its branches. I take some time to look down at the ground
Then think I had enough sightseeing, so I take my light-infused sword and swing it a couple of times
A diagonal cut to the tree trunk makes the top slide down, allowing me to touch the ground again
Then I examine the tree roots and branches, but after some interaction, it dissolves to a thick, shape-less black fog

I understand I again need some direction. I raise my sword, which shoots a straight ray of light towards a certain direction, ending up between some rocks
I walk that way, pass a river made out of flowing black water, thanks to a black wooden bridge
After some more walking, I reach a wooden house. It looks like solid wood, although very dark, definitely man-made

I enter the house. Ground floor looks empty and uninteresting. Looking better I notice a staircase going to the upper floor
I climb it and explore the first floor. The last rooms contains a bed, a man with a dark robe is sleeping in it
I point my sword to him, he quickly gets up
I ask him who he is, he answers he's the Necromancer Antonius
I also question him if he's responsible for the shades invasion, he says of course, shows me an amulet he's wearing, which allows him controlling the shades

I would like to avoid killing him, if possible
He attacks me summoning two shades, which hold me by my arms, I cut them with my sword
I prepare a fireball in my left hand, feel the fuzziness / warmth in that hand, then launch it towards the Necromancer
The fireball hits him, he goes up in flames, suffers a short time, but then summons at sort of shower, which extuingishes the flames

At this point, recall is kinda messy

He orders his helper, which I had not seen before, to do something that would hurt me (what?)
She's a girl, walking at a table, after his order she looks at me
She's dressed with drab clothes, an old ankle long gown
I ask her not to hurt me because I want to help her, she seem not to hear me
I telepathically ask her if she's deaf, she answers yes
I ask her name, she answers "Autière"
I tell her if she's captive here against her will, I will save her, she accepts my offer

I summon a skeleton behind me, he's got a greatsword in his hands
Don't know why I think about this, but I take some time for fun, exploring the space among his bones
I put my finger among his ribs, then my arm inside its rib cage
I put a hand inside its mouth, it bites it, I feel a mild sting in my hand

After that, it's time to be serious again; I summon a second skeleton and focus Necromancer Antonius again
I quickly approach him with my sword drawn, and point it to his chest
I tell him not to move otherwise I will not hesitate to kill him
I take the amulet from his neck
It looks like a bronze clock, opens as a shell
When I open it, dark shades flows out like a fog
I close it back and store it

I tell Antonius I will abandon him here without his amulet, guarded by my skeletons, he will never have the chance to come back to Earth
He protests, I tell him the only other option is dying right now by the sword
Then I take Autière with me, we walk down the stairs and exit the house

While walking to the portal I ask her if Autière is her real name, she tells me no
I provide her paper and a chalk, she starts writing some letters, I clearly read "VELE", then I understand my mind is making up the rest
I try to let my mind go of the control in some way
I ask her to write while I give her my back, but I still feel I'm making it up
Anyhow I read a name, I memorize it, will look it up in the morning

We reach the portal, then the town. I go to girl's house I was before, we enter it.
I tell the girl I managed to take care about the shades, they will never be a problem anymore
Then I ask her for the reward, which she dutifully provides - no details
I summon my tower again and store the amulet there

Then I return to my body, gradually move it and wake up

I am in a retreat setting. There is a guy who has arrived back to meet both me and Louise but also of course continue with his meditation. He has climbed to the highest mountain in Spain and is prepared to put all his differences aside and get back to the thorough job of meditation. He is so joyful and full of respect for us even though he is so much older than us. We are in a small flat like area that is not the usual setting I am use to in retreat. There is an office out the back and a social area in the middle.

We move to an actual retreat and we are sharing about different aspects of our life. We eventually get into a meditation and and after a short session there is a chance to look at some of items on display. I am helping out with the displays and as I get some of the items ready a lady my friend Bernie Jeffrys notices the pain or trapped nerves in my shoulder. She puts a healing hand on it and I go into meditation. I can feel my breathing lightly in a one-pointed way and even when one of the retreatants come up to me asking me about the products I do not answer as the focus and the healing seems so important. The pain moves further up in my shoulder. It has shifted and Bernie looks at me with soft eyes and I say that really helped the pain has moved on to a new stage.


Brian is explaining to me about all these different ritual items. I think he is just talking to me one to one. He starts also explaining the Christmas tree which should be a dream sign but he does it so convincingly I believe it. There is something really magical about the tree as he explains it. When a look back there are lots of other Sangha members at the meeting.

I forgot most of the dream, but for one part. I look around, and I am in my childhood home. I am upstairs, and immediately instinct tells me to run to the attic. All is the same when I get there. The desk, the computer, the chair and floor mat, and most importantly, the smell. That same musky smell from all those years ago, still burned into my mind so that at any moment I now know I can return there in the dream world and simply be. What a comforting feeling. If a place can live on in such purity long after it is gone, it gives me hope that when the day comes and someone has passed in my life, they will still live on in me. Amen.

So, I've not been on DV recently, as I was going through some important family stuff. However, I'm back with a story about my first full, and intentional lucid experience. It felt about 3 hours long, but, as I didn't have my DJ nor Internet, and it happened 3 days ago, I'm only able to remember some bits.

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I don't remember the first portion of it, but I spontaneously plug my nose to do a reality check. I can breathe. What a strange feeling, breathing through a plugged nose. I realize I'm dreaming and attain mild lucidity. First and foremost, I try to fly, naturally. I fall flat on my face. I'm standing up again, and remember reading somewhere that a good way to fly in a dream was to hop, expecting your jumps to get higher and higher as you go. I try it, but my jumping size doesn't increase.

'No matter,' I think to myself. I decide to explore. I don't remember anything else up until seeing the glass building a while later. I imagine that it's a dungeon and rush inside, and I am greeted with none other than the pits of hell. There's a save point, and I recognize that I'm dreaming again, 'catching' my falling lucidity by doing the same reality check, and admiring the hell-room.

The dream restarts, and I do the exact same things, except without lucidity. It restarts again, and I am lucid once again. I head down to the same place, except wanting to go past it this time. However, to my surprise, a rich guy is standing on some boxes with a megaphone, advertising the dungeon. I was angered, and woke up.

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So yeah, that was fun. I'm glad I didn't wake up instantly, though I wish I had taken more time to check out the surroundings. It was also interesting that it restarted not once, but twice.

Went to sleep and dreamt of being in a bunk bed like when I was a kid. It was incredibly vivid.
It felt very oppressive in the pitch dark, closed in by darkness and silence in the room.
(When I was a kid and lived in the countryside it was silent and pitch dark at night).
I could then see myself 3rd person view from above, looking stark white in the dark of the room, huddled up.
In my head I was thinking "come on bring it on, do you worst!" whatever you are. And tensed for something to strike me. Nothing happened.
It was all so vivid and intense that when I woke, my mind was awake but i was still half a sleep.

So when I went straight back to sleep I was lucid.

I was inside a broken down school, there was a dark corridor with a pipe broken spraying water everywhere and broken masonery. Two boys in green school uniform were heading towards me, hands in pockets.
I thought to myself last time I was lucid I couldn't control much, so I took direct action.
Grabbing the first boy that came towards me by the face, I said take me to see the person I want to see, now!
He didn't have much say in the matter,looking at me wide eyed, he complied. We moved on and through some double doors met a giant man about 8 to 9 feet tall, wearing a blue medical gown. We were now in a hospital. He was blind and I could see wounds where his eyes had been. He was very strong, I could feel power pouring from him and without speaking I went with him (there was no need to speak).
We went along a corridor which which led into the front reception area of a large hospital.
There a large number of patients were sat in wheelchairs, in front of a row of glass doors to the exit.
The sun was shinning brightly into the entrance foyer.
The person I wanted to see was there in the closest wheelchair, her hair was fine and blonde hanging straight, she wore a silky white robe.
She got up from the wheelchair and took my hand. The giant took my other hand and we left the hospital and went out into the sun.
The site before me I will never forget. The sky , a beautiful greek blue, and the sun dazzling.
Above was the most amazing site, towering dizzily high above me was an immense floating castle.
The highest towers were in the shape of gigantic eagles. All parts of the tower were so black that it was almost hypnotic to look at them. I don't know if they were black because of the shadow from the bright sun or something else.
We flew together up, higher and higher with a feeling of great power, security and happiness washing over me. The giant was in the lead pulling me higher, then me, then she.
We went higher and higher, this bit went on for a long time, hard to describe but it was wonderful

Had two false awakenings where I tried to write dream up in journal, but was only dreaming it lol