memorable

1. [Non-Lucid] [Vivid]
I'm in a place, there's a lot furniture scattered about (kinda like a storage warehouse) then appears a scared and possibly angry deer, my step-dad Neil is here and is trying to help the deer get out of this place - I am too scared of getting hurt to go near it and help D:. I see the deer approaching so I retreat upon this rather old fashioned rose red padded material chair with wooden arms, then randomly a kid talks to me.

Now we are in our house in the kitchen/dining room with the deer, Neil falls over in a rather bad way and hits his head on the wooden laminate flooring...all goes quiet, then Neil says something and he keeps repeating this word over and over again as if he had some sort of concussion or brain damage, hes not moving and hasn't gotten up - my uncle david has been behind me the whole time it seems, he decides its time for him to go upstairs and wash his hair.

I go into my room and dial 999 into my mobile and 2 options pop up on the screen both of which are not what I needed plus the interface goes all weird...I tried dialing for a second time and paramedic is now on the list so I hit that which I assume sent them a text message or something.

I go back into the dining room and find my cousin Matt sat on the sofa across from Neil, I approach him and he has my mothers hair (this freaked me out a little), I asked..."where is Neil?"...Matt replied "I have hidden him"...I asked where then saw a pile of random Tupperware boxes in a pile where Neil is laying.

Neil gets up (the Tupperware is gone) and I see his skull on the top of his head with blood on it then it was gone replaced with hair and skin as if it was never there. I told him I called the paramedic and he got angry while wobbling all over the place as he is kinda unstable, I here a vehicle park outside, it is an ambulance.

Now me and my Uncle and I are in the ambulance with Neil, Me and David decide to leave so we climb over onto the front seat trying to not hit the pedals and open the front door, for some reason this ambulance is very tall so we had to climb down a rope to the ground to get out.

Fragments:
A shallow river I had to cross.

#266 - Multiple - 5:52AM

I debated if I wanted to add these series of dreams as one LD or not at all because I really didn't do anything in any of them. But still, the number of times I was lucid was impressive since I wasn't really trying. I think the thing the put me in the right mindset what the fact that I watched all the available episodes of Lucidity Web Saga in one sitting yesterday. Obviously, it was on my mind when I fell asleep. By the way, if you haven't watched it you should!
Lucidity: The Web Saga


...Or maybe it was the DayQuil I took before bed?

The first two LD's are a blur. I was tired and didn't record. I’m not sure what I did in the first one but I think there was some conflict with someone. The second, I woke immediately after I became aware. I thought I would totally remember the dream to DJ later but of course, it faded away.

I was pretty pissed about of this and really wanted to try to induce another one but being ill with the flu has made dream recall difficult in general. Induction seemed even more so. I settled for mantra and hoped to DILD.

I am looking out my childhood bedroom window in TX. It's dark outside and there is a Mexican family sitting in lawn chairs facing the street. They seem to be looking up. What the hell do they think they are doing? Oh Yeah maybe there's a parade or fireworks nearby. I dismiss it and move to an old desktop Windows computer. It looks like XP or 98 but something is messed up with the display. The desktop is far too large like it was somehow zoomed in. I am able to pan around but I can't seem to open up the display setting to fix the screen resolution. Right clicking seems useless as well.

I realize that I feel cool air and notice it is coming from the air vent. OH! The A/C is on and my window is open. I move to close the window and feel the mix of cool A/C along with outside heat. That family is still there. I become annoyed this time but really don't want to deal with them; they aren't really hurting anything. Still, It made me mad, so I loudly slam the window shut. I can feel them looking at me but I don't look back as I quickly close up some white curtains and then a second set of red.

I turn and see my bedroom door is open (In this house my bedroom was connected to the kitchen and on the other side the back door.) I notice the back door is cracked open just a hair and I think that I should close it. But... Wait a minute. There is bright daylight coming in the crack. Remembering that the other side of the house was dark just a moment ago, I become lucid, but immediately thrown into a FA

I am fooled, but not fooled by this one. I am still self aware but I don't realize it's odd to still be in my childhood bedroom in Texas. In fact, I think this part is reality. Regardless, I’m not ready to give up so I go into DEILD mode. Vibrations hit and after a moment I get up. This part of the dream is fuzzy and hard to remember, but basically, I just ran around blind for a few seconds until I was thrown into an actual awakening.

I go into DEILD mode again, this time in my actual bed. Vibrations start quickly but its faint. I'm never sure when it's "go time" or "wait time" so I just focus on the vibes until the seem really strong. While I am waiting, I am suddenly jolted fully awake by the motion of my wife turning over. DAMN!

Again, I DEILD and I feel slight vibrations. I wait, but then do not get any more intense. I don't feel I am deep enough in, but I try moving my dream body the way I normally do in this state. Nothing. I try it on the more physical side and my leg jerks and the vibes go away. I try to stay focused but at some point I just fall back into non-lucid sleep.

The next dream reminded me of how completely amazing NLD's can be. Sometimes it's ok to get caught up in the action when the dream is so detailed, plot driven, and completely vivid.

As I am walking down a street in a run down and dirty area of town, I somehow I know the Zombie Apocalypse has happened. I have false memories of seeing lumbering zombies in the dark and know they are only out at night. The daytime hours are completely safe. Still, the world is in chaos and much of society has shut down due to the huge population loss and the after effects of the "shit hitting the fan". This time-line of the Zed invasion seems to be a generation or two ahead with much progress made toward rebuilding life as we knew it. But still, THEY rule the night.

I start to enter a gas station and realize I had been eating some Greek yogurt out of a large tub plastic tub. There's still a creamy feel with some bland taste in my mouth. The store clerk is outside smoking and as I pass. I stop and say, "I'm bringing this in." I don't want her to think I am stealing it when I leave.
"What brand is it?" She asks.
For some reason I have a paper towel around my yogurt and have to peel it back to see. It vividly read's HAMPTON'S OHIO with a graphic logo.
"Hapmton's" I say.
She shrugs, "Oh well we don't carry that anyway."
I nod and go on in.

I spend some time at the soda fountain. I'm not sure if I want Coke or Dr. Pepper. Fountain soda is always hit and miss for me so I take a small sample of both. Neither one taste quite right. Fuck it. I'll just pay extra for the bottle. I remember that I swore off soda, but also remembered that I decided one a month would be the most I ever drink. (True story) I walk around looking for the refrigerated section but don’t see it in the tiny store. Feeling like I surely must have missed something, I look again. Ah! There it is. I have a slight thought of hey that wasn’t there a moment ago, but shrug it off. I take a Dr Pepper from the top shelf.

The scene skips now and I am with my "crew" a ways down the street from the store. Apparently, they stumbled across a stash of explosives and ammo. There's absolutely no one around. We aren’t sure if the owners are dead are just out but we decide it's too good to pass up so we work quickly loading trucks. Theres some strange missiles in this warehouse that we easily move some type of explosive parts from. They look like really large ammunition rounds. I think something seems odd but I let it go. Multiple explosions?

Now we are outside and there is some really loud sound like an alarm. My view has switched to a movie scene. All I can see is everyone looking past the camera, then freaking out and leaving in a hurry. I say something like, "I wish they would just show us already." The trucks leave and pass between two other truck with burning logs on them. I worry that the explosives with go up but they make it through fine.

Now I am back in the action. I realize they left me because of my inaction. I should have ran with them. I finally get to turn around and see what the fear was about. The sun is going down and and I realize that alarm was to give an early warning to everyone so they have time to get indoors.

I panic and run to the nearest building. It turns out to be my old work place back before we moved to a new building. I see my old boss sitting in the break-room with a few other people. Out on the shop floor, I spy Vanessa working. I walk over to her and jokingly say, "Hey, it only took a Zombie Apocalypse to get me to stay here all night."
She totally ignores what I said and replies with a sour expression, "You're signed up for overtime."
Before I can reply Hobbie comes storming through yelling, "I may stay here all night, but if they expect me to work, they can kiss my ass!"
I follow him back to the break-room and yell the same words back at Vanessa.

In the break-room my old boss gives me an evil glare. This makes me wish I was home. I really just want to be with my wife and not stuck here. I quickly decide it's better facing the zombie horde outside. I step out and see it's not quite dark enough for zed to come out and several children are running as fast as they can to get back home. I think about where my house is in relation to my workplace. It's not that far. Maybe I can run for it. I look at the sky. There may not be time. I might have to fend off a few zombies, but I think I can handle it if I have to. What I could really use is a bicycle. There's an abandoned house next door so I quickly take a look around back. To my relief, there is a mountain bike laying in tall grass. I pull it, but notice the front wheel is locked up. I take a closer look once I get it free from tangled grass; the wheel is horribly bent. Oh my God. NO! I begin to feel real fear and panic and I think maybe I can make it work anyway. I get on and try to ride it but the wheel just wont turn. I wake up.

This is mostly a copy of a text file I wrote:

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Earlier dream;

It was as if I was playing a video game in which I could go all around Pennsylvania. So I first went out the road towards the Eagles' bar and it isn't the same in this dream as it is in waking life at this date. I thought of driving the 2000 Honda Insight, Then some people shot at me then I kept going past them and walked around a locked church (Which is not there in waking life that I know of) and then went down to Limestone, PA and met some people at a yard sale at a house near the top of a hill. A father, His son and a woman were all there and they had a black 50s car for sale and I went into their carpeted garage and used their remote-controlled vacuum cleaner (A kid would enjoy this so much) and sat on a couch, My Dad came by through driving And their (Adult) son who wore an orange shirt talked to me and said they'd like to say happy birthday to me. So I turned around in the chair.

(UPDATE, 16/December/2014: I did not have a 2000 Honda Insight car in the physical world when I wrote this nor do I have one now!)
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Dream of Dad driving another odd car (The same as was described in 2014-Jan-15's dream?) and I went into the kitchen fireplace and wind was coming through as the bricks weren't all there between the wall and outside.

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Third dream

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I looked out my bedroom window (Which I found on the first floor with plants outside the window) and saw a double rainbow for a very long distance and other people looked at it too. Later in other dreams I wanted to tell people about it and was trying to tell them! The rainbow started not horizontally as most do but I saw it starting closer to home, In the alley close to the trailer factory? And it went in the direction I call south (Or close to south), Using the waking-life house as a standpoint for compass direction.

I went downstairs to tell my parents about it who were in the living room at one point. But my room was on the first floor?

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I was in the garage (Which was different in the dream than it is in waking life) and someone or some people were there. I at one point put on some other clothing including an "ARMY" Hat to get fat like D. Boon as if I were creating a Rock Band character? I thought of jumping around like he did. I also tried to communicate to someone regarding something but couldn't talk very well. (In waking life my throat was dry; I woke up a few times in the morning.)

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There are dreams of waking up and trying to tell people about that Double Rainbow.

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12-01-2014
Had another formidable lucid dream last night. The non-lucid part was about me living in a house with my father and sister. [At some point in the non lucid part I think I lent that new Bleach game to D] I was at uni but the buildings all resembled buildings from my old high school. There were explosions all over and some person was trying to convince everyone to calm down and that the buildings had been standing for a long time and weren't about to go down anytime soon. there was a part of the non-lucid where I was in some sort of game. You were supposed to find the exit using different characters, and there were events like explosions, giant bugs trying to eat you etc. every time you lost you started again. There was only one way out by the looks of things in the game.

The two characters were some guy, and Jennifer Laurence holding a crying child who moved slower than the man. Before this the game was about collecting as many coin thingies as possible. Only everyone thought that this was real life, and some people weren't collecting them because they thought it was a hallucination or something like that. I was stacking cartons of eggs on top of each other. Then I went to a different room and started doing the same thing there with other stuff like ham. When asked what I was doing I explained it to someone from my real life who wanted to join me. Someone else told me that I stacked a bunch of cartons of eggs in the other room, but not in this one like I thought I had. I don't remember much about this part, only that I didn't like it. I did the nose rc and it worked, so I flew out the window.

My phasing wasnt working nicely but anyway I was outside. I saw Chelsea Handler outside looking hot and younger than normal. I grabbed her and proceeding to have my way with her by force like they do on Spartacus. My sister interrupts by appearing and saying she is going to tell on. I fly away with Handler is on my junk. But the dream changes and eventually it appears that all I'm doing is hanging onto the top bunk of a bunkbed in my old room. It sort of comes across as a false awakening. I hear my mother and sister call me from the kitchen asking me when I'm going to " wake up and greet the morning". In my mind I'm aware that its 7 in the morning, a weird time for me to be awake seeing as I sleep so late anyway. So I play along but I have a feeling I'm trapped in a loop.

Seeing my mother in the kitchen confirms my theory, and I scream out at her that I can tell whats going on and that her being there is where they fucked up. She is trying to play it off but she starts hitting me. We're in the living room and she starts attacking me. She says my granny is behind me who then appears and starts at me, but I shout "no she isn't!" So that my granny cant do anything. This is still my dream dammit Im in fucking charge. I fend her off and try fly out of the door but none of my powers are working at all. So I have to run out of the open door. My sister appears so I grab 3 bottles and fight her with them. One falls on the floor and breaks and she gets scared. I tell her not to step on the broken glass and that the red stuff is just ketchup. I leave her and start off with two of those bottles. The path leaving the house is all messed up, several of them are difficult to get through because of this weird game like blizzard thats in my way. I see a full size mirror and look at my reflection as an Rc. Looks really weird and bruised so I try to enter the mirror to end the loop but none of my powers are working.

I grab the mirror and use it as a shield, and one of the bottles turns into a really thin grappling hook. All of a sudden I'm in another area and the dream is very game-like. There was a castle with some guy on look out. He saw me and called the alarm so I used the grabbing hook to pull him down Splinter cell style. I was moving from one side of the building to the other with ease in this game. Pulling down people, barrels of flammable liquids from the top floors which would fall Down and explode everywhere, eventually taking the entire building down. Then I was standing on top of the building with the main boss at the bottom, ready to attack me. He threw like a huge boulder of ice at me and I evaded it. But then the building turned into my parents bed and the guy was right there, throwing underwhelmingly smaller balls of snow. My weapons were gone so I was throwing even smaller snow balls at him in response. Eventually I decided to just jump on the guy. Then I woke up.

Some key things I learnt about this dream: just because I cant use my powers doesn't mean that I'm not dreaming. This new time of dream where I'm trapped in a loop is actually rem state where my waking body can't move and I'm just forced to dream for a little longer. Which is awesome if you think about it. This time I realised the loop was a dream. If I just concentrate more next time, stabilise the dream and behave appropriately I may be able to use the entire length of the dream for whatever I want
Also my dream recall is fucken awesome, and I always write down my dream for the night in one go in the morning instead of waking up at night after each one.

07-01-2014
This one is a doozy so sit back and relax. It starts with me driving in the car with D. We're going somewhere to eat, he's driving and we're on the highway. he goes into a wrong lane and now were on the wrong direction on the highway. He tries to do some handbreak directional turn shit that nearly gets us killed like eight times. The view is of outside the car and we're getting nowhere fast. Eventually he gets us on the proper side of the road and we carry on driving. We get to some shopping mall. We go inside to the spur. He says sit there at one of the chairs, so naturally I assume something is wrong with it. I want to sit somewhere else but all of the chairs and tables are dirty and cluttered. He mentions how we should get yiros so I say lets leave. Im thinking about Cresta meanwhile he was thinking about getting mayfair yiros. I have no intention of driving so far. He gets to the top of the stairs and leaves. But then all of a sudden he's behind me. He's grinning saying I'm not gonna like the fact that I should drive all the way home to change into a casual t shirt and shoes, then drive all the way back to his house. Then I wake up

Or thats what I assume anyway. I'm in my room. Don't remember much of what went on at this point, only that I got out of bed(which was the bed that I slept in at my old house), and that I got a bite to eat from the kitchen. I plugged in my earphones to my iPhone and was trying to search for a song but my ipod wasn't working properly. I didn't even recall the search function existing in that part of my iPhone. I randomly do an RC while passing underneath the burglar-gate in the passage way and after a few repeats I become lucid.

I fly and phase through the gates in the darkness and exit this house by phasing through the window. As I do I hear a woman's voice calling me Chiquita and sounding evil as fuck. As I turn around while rubbing my hands together for clarity I see this strange spanish chick phase through my window(ok my lucidity is not always tops, and the nightmares I have always seem to have the same powers as me) The battle begins. Im pounding on her with punches and kicks while she claws at me or something unremarkable. She creates distance between us and flies to the other end of the swimming pool. She creates a mist around herself and starts throwing ice spears(not unlike the ice spears from Skyrm) But my view was wider than real life because of my lucidity so I was able to evade them. I flew to a nearby tree and tried to punch her as she flew after me.

She dodged and started throwing ice spears without any prior stance whileI was in the air. Due to a lack of mobility I was only just able to evade them. I landed on a tree, climbed to the other side and pushed myself off. In slow motion as she came to the side I was on, now accompanied by her evil boyfriend who looked pissed off at me but not interested in joining the fight I put up my right hand to resemble a ninja seal/sign and shouted "homing mass!!!" It took its time to charge and release but it hit her right in the forehead. Her boyfriend started "trying" to comfort her but he said something about her power level. As I was about to fly off I chipped in a little comment about the comment he made and the couple started arguing.

I flew away from those assholes to get away from them(losing lucidity here) and the boyfriend followed closely to get me for starting the mess. I was in a ships corridors now and I phased through a door the end of a lobby and hid. Dumbledore was standing outside it and knew I was inside, but promised to make sure I was safe. I was forming a strategy of defense when I realised that some other enemy could attack from behind and Dumbledore and I would be boxed in from both sides in this narrow cruise ship. I phased back out of the door to confront the boyfriend myself. I found the girlfriend on a balcony looking shocked to see me. Then the boyfriend flew in. At that moment I felt as if the said events had all happened previously and kept repeating because we were stuck in a loop. The girlfriend(looking normal, less vicious and more like this Megan girl from my old school) all realised that and huddled together, determined to get out of the loop.

I said we would have to change how we respond completely, and behave completely differently. We would have to work together. Then dumbledore came in to help, and some random woman, some random guy, a celebrity, a dj, a bunch of guys from my old highschool(ds), until there was like a school class worth of people in one spot. We all sat down and started watching a movie. I needed the toilet but there was no room to get out without disturbing everyone.

I think this dream was a result of my constant thinking about the time I was on shrooms and thought I had become trapped in an inception like loop were everything was batshit crazy and kept repeating itself. A lot of my fears often end up in my dreams.

Going to use my iPad as my journal from now on because I hate turning on the lights at night to write down my dreams. Forgive my spelling errors!

31-12-13
Had my first proper lucid in a long time. I don't really recall the dream prior to being lucid, but when I did the nose breathing check it didn't feel like it was working. I might not have become lucid, but I was already floating in the air at this point. I made damn sure to stabilise the dream by rubbing my hands, and shouting clarity. I flew over the wall and saw some pretty black chick in the courtyard. I attacked her, pulled down my pants and made her eat my ass. But then she turned into a potato. Don't really recall the dream after this, only that I flew off again, and kept increasing my clarity which actually started destabilizing the dream.

The second one I remember was being at trinity again. (Ds of note) Beforehand i knew of a matric dance, and had asked a girl from my old school to go with me and she accepted. Also there was a part in the dream where I had parked my car at the bottom of the schools parking lot. Then later I went into a garage and saw a big red car there. It unlocked when i pressed my key so I assumed it was my car. But later in the dream I realized it wasn't. (I think it was also raining at this point) i had a sports bag full of clothes in it that I had to remove and put in MY actual car. Then after this I was in their school hall. Someone announced that the dance was to begin that night and that we were to sit with our partners. I saw mine but didn't sit with her immediately for some reason.

Third and fourth were about me being taught a sword form by some guy. I was practising with a real sword. At first when I was being shown the form(in my living room ds) My vision kept being blacked out. I woke up afterwards and realised its because I haven't seen the next form yet. I went back to sleep, found myself in the same place. I cant say for sure that i was lucid, only that I knew it would work this time as I was by myself and able to make up the form at will.

A good nights recall for a guy who hasn't worked on lds for an entire year may 2014 be a great one

In relevance to the title; often after becoming Lucid I follow the story line from the original dream to keep me entertained. However some dreams don't test you to your full potential, fortunately this one did.

I was having a dream where me and my brother Robbie where on the run from some sort of Korean army, (about 30 blokes, some in jeeps and tanks.) We were running over some hill top with them in pursuit when we came across a little abandoned shed. We ran and hid in the shed, but it was so small Robbie was freaking out. He ran out the shed and unfortunately was seen and shot. More so though they had seen him come out of his hiding place and all stopped outside. I could see through various gaps and holes in the sheds panels exactly what was happening. They knew I was inside and the were coming right towards me.

This was the point where I became lucid as I was panicking and just about to wake myself up, therefore realising that I was dreaming. Now lucid, I stayed in the shed and watched them approaching. As the first person reached the shed he pulled out an RPG, and put the end through one of the holes in the shed right in front of me.

What happened next was inspired by something I had seen in a film; X-men First Class. In it, a character called Sebastian Shaw has the ability to - "Absorb the energy of any impact he is struck by, including not only direct physical blows, but also the impact of bullets."

So when the rocket was fired directly at me, I almost caught the force between my hands and squeezed it down to nothing. I also have a video for you so you can visualise it

XMen Sebastian Shaw - YouTube

After I had effectively absorbed the first one, several more followed, including multiple shots at the same time. Between catching the RPG's I had made a force field shield around me with my bare hands and was sustaining it with my mind. My vision was constantly quite blurred and chaotic, as you can imagine from the video, but I could still see out towards the rest of the army standing in the background a few hundred yards away. I stuck a hand out, whilst deflecting bullets with my other, and literally crushed the remaining men and vehicles at will with my hand.

This happened until there was nothing left but burning vehicles and mangled bodies. It was quite an epic display of power, although hard to describe. Though I did wake up feeling great about myself. Thanks for reading!

I remember being somewhere outdoors and there being an evil hot guy and a hot good guy. The good guy was my boyfriend and i remember i kept kissing him. You k now when someone is about to say something but you shut them up with a kiss? Well something like that. I remember i was doing that because he kept telling me i couldn't crown me and him as the queen and king of whatever party we were at so i kissed him to shut him up and then asked him " Were you saying something?". Then he shut up. Then i was taking a walk and the hot evil guy picked me up bridal style and was carrying me away. Then he challenged my boyfriend to a sword fight like in the old days and who ever wins gets me. Then i don't remember what happened

But also i remember having a dream later that night about me being in a hotel and i was resurrecting a doll into a real girl. Then after that i remember eating and there was a huge open bouffett and there was a lot of amazing food. I remember i was really creeped out. It had an over all creepy vibe to it. Also i remember there was a lot of pollution they were throwing in the water so i went up to the thing collecting pollution and i made sure it didn't go in the water. Then i don't really remember much.

Nap got me a lucid dream!

It was short, but:

Something was happening, like a big fight between groups (which is similar to a dream I had last night), so I was above this house's gate, watching the street. I thought things felt weird, so I looked around and realised it felt like a dream. Jumped up, floated a little, heard kids and remembered the TOTM. I landed to where I had been before, but started waking up. I couldn't see much and was expecting to wake up, but I didn't. I started to think about my dream so far and noticed that I always had someone helping me... Professor Oak from Pokemon. I realised he is my dream guide and called him. My vision was still blurry, but he showed up and confirmed that he was indeed my dream guide. I said I'd look for him next time I got lucid and then I woke up.

I was in a video game-like scene, one on which I would go in a set direction. Instead of going where I should, I turned down a dirt road. It was pitch black but I had a animal buddy to guid me. They a a flashing light that would go of periodically that would allow me to catch up. We got to a building, walked through and opened the back door.

There was a small quaint town. The snow was falling and the buildings had a kind of warm glow to them. My animal buddy turned into a person. We walked into a bar across the street. It had a automatic playing piano. I sat and watched it for awhile.

I was then outside shopping in what appeared to be the old clothing store I had worked at. I got the feeling the sales people were judging me because of the clothes I was wearing. I left to go back to the bar.

This time in the bar the Beatles were there singing all their songs. My friend and I sat beside Paul. I think we took his wife's seat, who wasn't Linda but an old neighbour I had once. I felt like a stranger but we never left. My friend said that I should sing a song. But I told him I was only good at songs like Shes Leaving Home. Then that song came on and I joined in singing but just barely. I kept trying to lay my head on my friends arm but it was too bony. Everyone seemed to have their heads on the tables.

I was back at the clothing store and there was a door that being blocked off. They were supposed to be building hype to the sale items in that room. To be honest though there didn't seem to be that many people in the store. When they opened the door I was first to rush and go crazy, I jumped up on top of a dresser and was rummaging through clothes. But I noticed all the other girls just calmly shopping, talking to each other. Some were at tables eating crackers. I felt stupid acting like this and I got down and a man offered me some crackers. I ate them but made my mouth dry. A lady had marble cheese and she gave me some. I walked to a big gumball machine and tried to see how it worked. I wondered if I pulled the knob without putting money in would get a gumball. It didn't work.

Then it went to a scene of my guy friend. He was climbing huge rope ladders and jumping to the next one. I think two guys were chasing him so he felt really rushed. He got to the last jump but the distance between the ladders widened. He felt as if he couldn't make the jump but the boys were catching up.

1. [Non-Lucid] [Vivid]
I'm at my old secondary school in the corridor looking in at the lift room through the safety glass, I see an old friend, Laura from College (she notices me and seems pleased to see me, I tried not to acknowledge her for some reason) the lift opens and she doesn't want to enter as she doesn't like being alone.

Now I'm in the lift with 3 others 1 of which is an old teacher of mine, The lift start to ascend and it won't stop it just keeps going, it stops at floor 7 (theirs only 3 floors...) then all of a sudden the lift plummets to the ground {I felt like, just for a second, that I was floating, it was so tranquil, so pleasant}, it hits the ground floor, I was the only survivor out of the 4 of us, the lift then ascends for a 2nd time.


2. [Non-Lucid] [Less-Vivid]
Walking down a corridor, there are doors at the end with a small group of people behind them, I open the door and enter, I then go through a door to my right, it leads to a 2 story tall room with a metal walkway leading around the room to the floor, I skip it by jumping over the railing, I go through a door into the next room, theirs like a dance floor in the middle, i meet a guy and he asks what I got so I showed him this card, It was to buy the game Twisted Metal I think, anyway this made me and him quite happy.

Now I'm freaking out as I noticed I have somehow forgotten my laptop, now I can't Skype my friend and will end up incredibly lonely lol, I then remember I bought my Phone so grabbed it.

I notice a guy sitting at a PC desk with a big black screen.

Side Notes:
Really vivid dreams

I could not stay in one dream for more than a minute or so last night . I knew i was dreaming and saw quite a few fun looking dreams but I couldnt stay in any of them. I couldnt understand why I could not enjoy them. I was in the dream and astrally above myself in the dream 2 places at once, It was a strange feeling . I looked for things to help make my dream stable but I watched my dream places and versions of myself float off. as if the dreams were still going on with out me , then my self would be in another dream playing out the dream and at the same time above myself leaving the dream. kinds like I was 2 people at once . I have astrally traveled before and this was not that this was all dream

I know i usually have a bunch of dreams in one night and I am usually lucid enough to know i am dreaming but dream control is something I lack . I jolted out of bed once and went back to sleep . and this kept going on I must have jumped to over 20 dreams in one night .

woke up feeling less rested than when I went to bed booo but weird and had to share not a nightmare either i was not scared at any time in fact all of the dreams seemed like they would have been quite fun. all of the mes looked like they where having a great time

Well I just typed this whole thing and it didn’t save right and now I am starting all over. Going to type on word on my computer then copy and paste. Sucky.

Bed: 1115
Supplements: 100mg 5htp, 250 mg Valerian Root
WBTB: 4 am
Supplements: 250 mg Valerian, 4 mg Galantamine, 500 mg Choline, .4mg Melatonin

I was a little restless getting back to sleep but after about 45 minutes was able to.
I woke up about 45 minutes after I fell asleep not thinking I had slept at all except I remember a fairly vivid dream. I recalled a bit and then went back to bed quickly.

Non-Lucid: I was eating with others and an ex-coworker was among them. I was being very quiet and then all of a sudden broke the silence and asked if they still worked there. I had a hard time conveying what I wanted to say during this dream. The words would come out slurred or very quiet and the DCs had a hard time hearing me. The scene turned into an office type area and we continued to chat about work a bit. I left to look for my room since now I was a hotel . I went up a couple of floors since my room was 501 or 50 something. I passed some stairs and saw a couple more people I knew and said something indiscernible to them as well. I was on floor 5 but it was a bunch of offices and this area I wasn’t supposed to be on. Not sure of this transition but I ended up outside by a bay. The weather was grey and wind. There was a large boat and a bunch of shopping carts lined up in the water, they were moving up and down with the waves. I went around the boat to a pier area. I needed to get across the bay but there was a huge line of people to take the transportation boats across. The line was behind and above me on a wooden dock area. I stood there wondering how I could get across, thought of swimming or taking a different boat but could figure nothing out. I woke from this and recalled for a bit then went back to sleep.

Laying in bed with my eyes closed there was a female with their arm over me, not sure who it was at this point. They had their hand on my boy parts and the dream got a little sexual at this point so to keep it PG13 I thought something was a little strange shortly after this and did a RC.

LUCID: I did some stabilization with my hand for a bit then started touching stuff around the room. I rubbed a blanket on the bed which was very fuzzy and really focused everything. I touched the window which was nice and cool. I was in a cabin type room with wood paneling and tall narrow rectangular windows. Instantly I thought of TOTM invisibility and the infamous girl’s locker room. Fortunately there was a school across the street, unfortunately it was an elementary school and that wouldn’t work. I hit the window with my elbow, broke the glass and went through. The school was till across the street, I was in a parking lot/street area with roads/highways above. I noticed many people around and thought about the new years resolution TOTMI yelled focus a couple of times and it seemed to focus a bit more. I saw a police officer about 100 yards away and was going to ask him. I looked down at my clothes and I was wearing a white shirt. I wanted to be in a suit or something nice. I tried a few times to will new clothes but had no success. I got pulled from the dream but was able to DEILD right back to a scene with a smaller boat. I was headed toward the boat to get in but was pulled back out of the dream. DEILD again and very wary of getting pulled out again I didn’t open my eyes and didn’t move. I was in a boat moving along a canal (feeling). There was a lady in the boat talking about mailing a package and she was concerned with the size and the price of the box. The boat stopped and I was out of the boat. I reached out for something to grab and felt something with my left hand, a rough wall, stucco. I opened my eyes and was solid in the dream. We were at a strip mall type place that was outside with grey stucco. I climbed some stairs in front of me and entered some glass doors into the first shop I found. As I entered the shop there was a rack of coats by the door, I touched them to anchor myself further and yelled “focus” again as I turned a corner. I saw 2 guys and a customer (girl from the boat) at the counter. They were all looking at me since I just shouted a moment earlier. I thought of the new years TOTM again and walked up to the guy at the counter behind the register. I asked him “what is your new years resolution” he was very perplexed with this question. After a few seconds of him thinking he said got out …. “To think” and I said sarcastically “you want to think?”, the then said “ well I have an inspection coming up”…. “To pass inspection”. I was good with this answer and then backed up. I had a plan for the opposite TOTM. I stood on my hand (this was not graceful like I imagined, more like a neck handish stand then a full on hand stand). I said “gravity is reversed today”. This was less dramatic than I anticipated as well but they did float up in thie air like they were in space. I flipped back around content with this and as I left I told them “opposite day is later this month”. Outside I looked for somewhere to do invisible task and saw a lady and two kids go into an apartment area. I flew/floated across the street to an area with houses/apartments. I went into a door. The room was bare and dark, marbled grey and black and kinda futuristic looking. There were many doors but all of them were locked but one. I went in the unlocked one and it was a tv room with a couch and a big dark window above the couch. 2 DCs were in there, one was Eddie Murphy and the other was some Arabic guy. I looked down and had a bunch of clothes on. I took a big snow outfit type of clothing off with some difficulty. I grabbed a football with some writing on it off of the entertainment center and began to toss it back and forth and hold it like I was going to throw it. Eddie wasn’t happy with this and he asked me about my broken window. I said that it didn’t matter anymore. I decided I was going to fly up and out the window. I took off and landed on the windowsill. I think I might have had an FA here but not sure. Behind me I knew it was a counseling session for people who thought they were in dreams but weren’t. To be sure I wasn’t crazy I did a RC again… phew still dreaming. I was perched on the window sill and in front of me was a huge pine tree; I thought of crashing through it but decided to focus on TOTM. Across the street were a dirt parking lot and a restaurant there. I flew over and landed in the lot. There were a few RVs in the lot and the restaurant was a seafood restaurant and it was up some stairs and off of a wooden deck. I decided to make myself invisible then. I closed my eyes and thought about brining my hand in front of my face and not being able to see it. I felt I was invisible and my eyes were still closed, right before I opened them again I thought about people who said that they can’t close their eyes when they are in a lucid or they wake up. I thought about me doing it just finds and at that moment woke up.

This was around 7am and I got up and wrote good notes since some of the details from earlier started to fade. I went back to lay down and hadn’t been asleep for but a couple minutes when my daughter got up. Not sure if the supplements did everything or it was a placebo effect. I am going to keep experimenting every few days.

I had had a massive house party but someone had trashed my house, there was a detective/counsellor (I think hired him, he is a famous actor but I cant remember his name and I was thinking at the time who strange it was that all of a sudden he was a detective) Then as he was asking me questions about what had happened to work out who the culprit was. There was this black guy who I was convinced it was as after the party he looked really shady, but as I remembered more things (which somehow got played out like a flashback) I realised it was actually me that made the massive mess, then somehow I ended up in the same toilet cubicle as the black guy then one thing led to another...

*The actor was Ben Miller

Okay, I may have had my REAL first lucid.

This was part of a larger dream, but I forget most of the details. The important section was this:

I was with two other people. I think a teenage girl and an older guy (who kinda looked like George Carlin, IIRC). We were going to do some sort of thing to help me get a lucid (how convinient). After I "went to sleep" (it really seemed more like a scene jump), I "started" dreaming and the two of them were standing in front of me. Not-George Carlin starts trying to walk me through everything, but I get a feeling of suspiscion and look around the room, ignoring him. I interrupted him and said, "I think this is a dream." I pinch my nose and breathed successfully a few times. I looked at my hand and it was screwy. The two people looked at each other and Not-George said to me, "Well done." They disappeared and I looked around some more, but the far ends and hallways were being engulfed by darkness, so I started spinning, but to no avail. I think it ended so quickly because I expected it to, which I'll avoid later.

I think this was a true lucid because my actions and feelings felt like I was consciously doing them, though the events before and after still give me doubt.