memorable

Wednesday AM 4:40

At a tool making plant or possibly a steel plant that makes large parts for some industrial use. Everywhere there were workingmen and taking plates of steel out of fire pits and all. I apparently became a worker there. My uniform consisted of a rope rug that completely full of dirt and grime. A co-worker asked me: “ whose yard are you going to throw that in?”; I replied: “I am just going to throw it away.” – My uniform that was a rug…

Walking down a dirt road with my friend Mike, from the previous dream circumstances. Mike said to me who is a fellow student: “He’ll gladly take an F for that one; he did it right there at the desk”… meaning a video project. This statement was linked in a way to the previous dream that I cannot recall. Perhaps because I was wearing no shirt and could feel him slap me on the arm as I left my job.

this one is a fragment (obviously). im in a store, and im running or sliding or something down an isle. i then suddenly run into the shelves at the end, and fall over. me and a couple people nearby bust out laughing, i think one was my sister, i get up and try to play it off, like i didn't just knock a bunch of stuff off the shelf. me and a friend then run away, i see a person from school, and i start laughing when she looks at me, like she knew i just ran into the shelf. thats all i remember, it was pretty funny.

As I was waking up from a dream, I had that moment of lucidity that comes before everything is gone. Determined to gain that back, I closed my eyes and kept thinking about dreaming. I'm not sure how I knew when to do this but at the right time I just opened my eyes and *POOF* I'm on the inside of a department store like Wal Mart or something. I began running through the store, taking in the dreamscape around me. Everything looked so vivid and clear, it was so real. The gravity of me running through it was the only thing that felt obviously fake, as I was pretty light and I would basically glide and slide with each stride (LOL rhyme). I stopped in the middle of a bunch of isles and prepared to fly, but the second I left the ground the dream got hazy and I woke up.


Falling back asleep immediately, I find myself in the exact same department store. Without a question I know this is a dream so I start to run again. I don't run for as long this time because I had literally just done it, so I try to fly again. I wake up.


I guess my subconscious is realizing that the department store is no good because I keep figuring out that I'm dreaming. My dreamscape changes to some city in the middle of the night where there are a lot of brick walls and I'm walking with my friends. I payed so little attention to my friends that I can't even remember who they were anymore I decide to do a reality check, since I had just been lucid twice and it seemed like the right thing to do, and viola I'm dreaming again. This time I decide not to fly because I want to stay lucid longer and not wake up, so I just enjoy looking at the darkened city and the odd feeling of being there. I have a false awakening, do a reality check and wake upon becoming lucid. I go back to sleep and now I'm in a similar dreamscape except this time we're all in a car and the guy sitting next to me is someone I've never seen before. He's aware of lucid dreaming and is questioning his reality. I ask him "Are we dreaming?" (notice that I say 'we') and he says "I dunno man, you tell me". I plug my nose and have no trouble breathing, but since I don't usually use this check I'm still doubting it. Then I look at the clock and notice it change to something completely random before my eyes. I say, "yeah, we're definitely dreaming" and check my hands to reassure myself. We wanted to get out of the car, so we jumped out sort of...which was kind of scary. We landed under a bridge and he said "Come one, this is a dream we can do whatever we want!". I'm still unsure for some reason so I count my fingers and get 6 every time. I jump around with him and I remember thinking, "I wonder if this is a real person and if this is a shared dream!". I tell him, "so i this is a dream then i should have no problem doing this!!" and I ran up one of the brick walls. He began screaming at me saying that it wasn't safe anyways. I started to lose control and woke up.

Just for fun I did an RC and I WAS still dreaming, then I woke up again lol.

This is the my first time posting here, and I'm recalling a dream I had about a week ago, so bear with me.

I started the dream playing a defend-the-point kind of game on the computer, with everything other than what was being displayed on the screen silhouettes. My character was a knight in iron armor with a bow and arrows on the left of the screen and I had to shoot at zombies coming from the right side. This all took place in a sewer of sorts. unfortunately, the mouse control was too sensitive and I couldn't aim well (the aim system was like the game "bowman" somewhere online) and three zombies quickly swarmed me. I saw a cut-scene of my character taking out a sword and making quick work of the zombies, 300 style.

This is when I subconsciously became the character I was playing, dream-logic allowed me to see through my character's eyes and think nothing of it, as if the dream started out that way. From there I moved through the sewers and I had two allies, also in iron armor, with me. We found two women in pauper clothing that were covered in frost and freezing. While my allies talked to them, I didn't quite pay attention and I huddled with one of the women in order to keep her warm, and my allies followed suit.

My dream then kinda jumped forward in time, seamlessly, (again, dream logic make me think nothing of it) to where my allies and I were out of the sewer and in a sort of log cabin, around 20 feet square, filled with people. the entrance to the sewer was right behind us, and it looked like the entrance to a crypt. My family was among the people in the cabin, and everyone was dressed up in Renaissance-era clothing and everything felt this weird mix between a re-enactment and real life. While I was with my family, my sword suddenly felt fake, so i threw it on the ground. Someone I barely know from school showed up and was dressed in an agile sort of archer's clothing. He hugged me (don't ask why, cause I have as much of a clue as you do) and I reacted somewhat passive-aggressively towards him, so he and my family scolded me. I felt a little jealous of the person I knew from school.

Through the crowd I saw my allies from the sewers who then had grave looks on their faces, and I could tell they wanted to go and were getting impatient with me. I had this feeling that there was evil about; that some important task needed doing.

I realize now some similarities in the atmosphere of this dream and that of the beginning of the game "The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion," but I'm still confused about that mix of the re-enactment feeling and the grave danger feeling.

Could anyone offer some suggestions on how to stabilize a lucid dream? Also, I don't know whether my dream counts as a MILD or a DILD. What's the difference?
I've been thinking about nothing other than having a lucid dream for the past 4-5 days (Inception inspired me). I didn't see any crazy results until today.


I went to bed at 9:30 constantly repeating to myself “I’m going to have a lucid dream”. I woke up at 3:30 and at first I didn’t recall anything. Then as I lay in bed I recalled my dream about school. I woke up again at about 5 (exactly 90 minutes after I first woke up). And I recalled the dream I had about the police. Then I woke up at 7 and recalled my last dream.

I’m having lunch at school. Then a boring teacher starts talking and so I start jumping off the walls and flying. The teacher asks me “what are you doing?”. And I don’t remember what I replied. Everyone in the room was impressed at my flying abilities. I then landed and did an action roll to impress everyone. They were impressed and I woke up (without realizing an obvious dream sign).
Adam Sandler is in a press conference (like in the movie Mr. Deeds). He is saying that nobody else’s vote matters because he owns 51% of the company (like mr. deeds). Then he complains that his movies have been losing copyright claims and that too many people are watching his movies online for free. Then my dream transitions and I start thinking about movies. I’m thinking about action movies and so I think to myself “chicks dig scars”. Then I’m thinking of a way that I can get a scar so chicks will dig me. My dream transitions to a scene where I’m jogging by a police car. My dream runs though many different scenarios of my encounter with the cop. 1. The cop stops me in the middle of my run and starts talking to me and while he does that the puts his knife against my collarbone and gives me a scar. 2. I run by the police car with a grenade in hand and chuck the grenade into the police car and it blows up. Then I start running crazy fast to get away. In this scenario, I’m an accomplice in a planned assault on the police. They are too busy chasing other bad guys (my partners) that I am able to run away after the explosion without anyone chasing me. Then as I’m running, a police car comes and starts to come up on me. I’m running on the sidewalk so I take a right turn into a side alley. At this point I realize that I’m in a dream so I jump about 20 feet in the air and then push backwards off the side of a building. I end up on the side of a building on the other side of the parking lot. Then I push off that building at a 45 degree angle so that I can fly into the air. I’m having trouble staying in the air so I conjure some wings so that I can fly rather than float. I think to myself “I shouldn’t do all this crazy flying right after I gain lucidity. I should stabilize the dream”. I tried looking at my hands. I tried saying “increase clarity now”. But it was too late. By the time I realized that I should have stabilized, the dream had become to destabilized to continue. Any stabilization ideas?

I’m not quite sure what sequence these next events happen in. I’m also not quite sure at which points I gain momentary lucidity only to wake up immediately after. I do know that I gained momentary lucidity and that I would try to stabilize the dream but it didn’t work. I need stabilization suggestions.

I’m at a library. They mention a book about poor kids in Africa. Then my dream transitions into a documentary-style version of that book. In Africa, they have just finished building HUGE network of nuclear power plants that they use to power their newly built schools. I then transition into the schools themselves. There are kids doing some stuff. Then there was this girl who wrote a paper and I see the teacher as he’s grading the paper. He says “this paper is to P.C.! I want her to write my something dirty”. The next thing I see, is the next paper that she writes. This 2nd paper is all about how awesome the teacher is. The teacher says “now that’s more like it!”. My dream transitions into a conference room. It is a conference room of African leaders. They say that because they have all the nuclear weapons in the world, they should take it over. Someone protests that they would have detonate the nukes which would kill tons of people and hurt the environment. Then my dream transitions to a group of seats in front of a movie projector in the library. I’m sitting in one of the seats and everyone else around me just got finished watching a documentary about Africa. There is this girl sitting next to me. We flirt and then her father comes over to me and gets pretty angry. I put my arms up to protect myself and I end up looking kinda like Steven Hawkings. The dad leaves with his girl and I decide it’s time to leave the library. As I leave, I hear some unkind remarks about how I looked like Steven Hawkings back there. I don’t quite remember how I responded but it could have been anything from “Steven Hawkings is a great man and so am I” to “go f*** yourself*. I don’t think I said any of those responses. Instead I think I laughed with them instead of creating a confrontation. Someone else came up to me and pinched my on the butt. I lightly punched them on the shoulder and said “you pervert”. I got more unkind comments from the morons who have nothing better to do than to bring other people down. I laughed it off again. It really was time to get out of there. I was on the 2nd floor of the library. I headed downstairs. On the ground floor, there was a huge party going on. I walked into the room where the party was going on. Everyone was covered in candy and syrup because there was a massive food fight going on. It was slightly sexual because the girls’ shirts were soaking wet and they were covered in syrup. I remember taking my iphone out of my pockets and setting it somewhere where it wouldn’t get covered in candy and then I joined the party. I’m pretty sure I gained a brief moment of lucidity when I was having a conversation with this one girl but I don’t quite remember. Then my dream transitions into something completely different. I haven’t seen the movie “Alice in Wonderland” but a critic was saying that it was the best movie ever so my dream transitions into MY (completely unrelated) version of “Alice In Wonderland”. I’m Johnny Depp and I’m taking a nap on a magical castle that is moving. The castle is covered in plants and so I see a vivid picture of the soft light-green grass surrounding my face (I’m lying face down) as I attempt to fall asleep. Then the next thing I remember is I’m with 2 other guys and we are in a cave. I think we fell off of the moving castle when it hit a bump. We are all complaining about our aches and pains. I have this huge blue spot on my ankle that does not look good AT ALL. My dream transitions and I’m in a setting similar to the “waking” world in INCEPTION. I am running a dream machine that people hook up to in order to share and experience Lucid Dreams. The machine I’m operating determines the intensity of the dream. There are several different setting and each one has a warning that goes with it. Some are like “DANGER” others are like “caution” and some are like “O.K.”. However, the more dangerous the dream is, the more pleasurable. Also, I have never run this machine before and I’m not quite sure how it works so I’m a little nervous. My mom walks in and she is intruding on my operations. She wants to know what’s going on so I show her give both of us a small dose of what causes the lucid dreams (should have realized I was in a dream). Then we see this huge black guy flash us and I wake up.

((The dates on my DJ have been messed up, because I've been dating my dreams as occurring the night I go to sleep, when they usually occur in early morning, so it looks like I skipped a day but really I'm just doing things differently.))

I know I had more than one dream, but when I awoke from my first dream, I decided to not record it because something about it bugged me, like it was boring or something. All I remember is I was late for work.

1- The Poetic Parrot
There was a brownish orange bird that flew down from the sky and landed on a lamp post. It began reciting a poem. When it was finished, it said, "That poem dates back to... what was it? 18..." All of the sudden, Stewie from Family Guy shouts from his stroller "ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!" The bird was taken aback by this. "Well, you have no pleasure in life at all!"

Dream recall was very bad last night
Only a snippet and a portion of another dream

Snippet: I steal a Porche super car, it's either one of a kind or extremely rare. I escape through a parking lot with lots of cops with flashing blue ad red lights in black and white cars chasing me (we don't have those kind of police cars here).They chase onto the road, I take a side road and it looks like I'm gonna get away but then it turns into a sidewalk which leads back to the road where the cops are.... That's all I remember.


I'm at a meeting with some of my bike club friends, one of them has emptied a pile of stuff onto the table from his pocket or a bag. I take all the coins and start counting them, I make a high tower of the R1 coins and it falls over.... Later we're riding bikes, we're at the top of a steep dirt hill with sandy tracks coming up. We go down one at a time to take turns coming up, C rolls down backwards and almost gets hit by a car on the road at the bottom of the hill. M is next but she uses my bike, because it has the lowest seat. She also rolls back quite dangerously and drops my bike as she starts, I'm not bothered or worried about it at all, she barley makes it up and we have to grab the handle bars and hall her up the last bit. It's my turn and I ask if I can use the other DC's bike (I don't know him). It's a HP2 , at some point the bike develops peddles and it is discussed that I should be fine because I have the right shoes?? I ride down and turn around safely and smugly, I ride up the hill on only the back wheel and ramp over the crest still landing only on the back wheel. I do a bunny hop thing up a step just past them.

This dream is basically a video game inside my head. In fact, I actually remember seeing a flat top-down map from a video game growing into an amazing 3D castle in seconds.

I remember being in my house. Suddenly, we realised that my little brother wasn't there. Immediately, I went into the lift in our house (which doesn't exist in real life), and went down underground into a crazy mystical land. Well, it wasn't at first. At first, it was just like an infinite nothingness, with a 2D map on the totally flat ground. Suddenly, in front of my eyes, the ground expanded into full 3D, building up from the ground.

I don't remember too much from inside the castle, but I do remember being inside the castle in a room with stone walls around me, and a moat of lava between me and a bunch of enemies (who looked surprisingly like Goombas from Mario).

I think I woke up after a couple of minutes of battle.

One thing I can say is that this was by far the craziest of dreams that I've had, and I'm shocked that nothing about it seemed strange enough to go lucid. In some ways, though, I'm quite glad that it didn't. It was a great dream, and by far the strangest that I've remembered yet.

As I dreamt
I found that I could manipulate people, objects, scenarios - I could have anything I wanted - anyone that I wanted - a true love to be specific
It was beautiful and magical..
I awoke within my dream to tell someone else what I could do, the power I had within my dreams, and I again went under - to show them - to prove what I could do -
I remember having the ability to go in and out of the dream world - hoping I could continue to do it...
I was controlling a dream within a dream

So after stumbling upon this site I am really ecstatic that i found it. I cant even remember when last i remembered my dreams. After following the recall tutorial for the first time this is what happened.

27-07-2010

I was in my old home town (which i have not visited in 9 years) for a funeral.. I was very upset because my best friends dad had passed away. I remember standing in line for the viewing before the funeral comforting my friends.. When i got to the coffin to say my farewells my gf's dad was inside the coffin...

After that i walked down to my mom's old work place which was at the post office. I helped her clean the place we didnt say mutch. While we where cleaning people started moving into it, like it was their house.. After that i walked away to a restaurant to have dinner with my friends. Funny enough the restaurant was outside. We chatted alot, athough i cant recall the train of the conversation.. I lost my temper because the food was taking too long...

After that the waiter brought out oysters.. I remember in detail eating them... and talking to my friends..


After the dream i woke up and imediatly started writing it down. It was 3 a.m so far so good

I'm so excited-and p.o.ed. I have been trying to have a Lucid for about a week and on atempt 4 (1-3 were all failures), I had one! It was last night. I have a big 'A' written all over (on my mirror and hand, for example) so that when I see them, I do reality checks. Well because of this, I have been in the habit of doing the plugged-nose-breathing one really often, especially in bed. So I am in bed and decide that I should do one for funzies and don't you know, I was able to breath! I remember thinking loudly (if that's possible) "I'm Dreaming!" and then I woke up for reals.

Special note: If you are reading this and you are a first timer having troubles, I would suggest trying the MILD method. The first 3 times I tried the WILD method with absolutely no progress (granted it was only 3 nights). The MILD worked the first time, even though it was for only a moment.

My recall mantra didn't work last night as I only remember one out of five or so dreams, but it was quite vivid. I'll need to be patient about lucidity.


First thing I remember is coming down an escalator into a really small shopping centre/mall, being led by terrorists. I was with people from my church again, and the first thing someone said was "Oh no, not here!". I had to figure out quickly what was going on, and I had just been plonked here with no memory of getting here, but that didn't occur to me

We were passing some people sitting at a Chinese restaurant, and, as the terrorists were in front of me, I somehow changed one of the lights from green to red, in hope of warning the diners of the danger.

We were led down some stairs in the corner of the shops, to a little hallway with a large metal door at the end. The terrorists, who looked like normal people, were discussing their plan, and heard them say something about detonating so I made a break for the door, which opened up to a small, ground-level carpark with a kid's playground in the far corner. It was nighttime.

Another person from my church was standing to my right, and I went over and talked, then I looked back at the door and all the others were coming out. One of the terrorists had the bomb attached to her.

I went over and said "So there is a bomb under all those clothes?" to which she replied "Yeh... um, you should go over there," pointing to the group of terrorists and church friends (hope there's no connection )

I was on my way back, and the girl with the bomb came towards us really slowly. Someone said "Kevin's dead," referring to my distance from the girl. I turned to see her walking like a zombie towards me, so I tried to run around her towards the fenced playground.

Using my dream-only parkour skills, I tried to vault over the fence, but my stomach hit the top of it so I kind of flipped up. I could her everyone shouting, saying "No! Stop!!" but I didn't listen.
As a got back up I ran for the fence on the other side, and the girl jumped into the playground after me.

I remember getting over the other fence, turning to see her, and I thought she was going to explode, so I pulled myself out of the dream.


So, I'm not sure if she really exploded or not, but at the last second, I knew I was in a dream so I should just let myself get killed.

I totally forgot that I attempted a WILD before I fell asleep. Not because I thought it would work, but why the hell not? So I didn't really have one, but I definately felt vibrations. It was surprisingly a bit frightening. Vibrations, and a purple cloud that sparkled across my vision. There were also, at times, flashes of light, and a noise. But I don't remember the noise. Eventually I got up and went to the bathroom, lol. I also really wanted to open my eyes, but I was afraid that would make me too conscious. Any thoughts on how to improve these things??

Well, I'm brazillian. So, I'm going to write my dreams in portuguese, because it's faster and easier for me.

Old friends - Velhos amigos
(Aprox. 15min)

Ontem, meus amigos da minha escola de música partiram para Xaxim, para participarem de um congresso regional de coral. Com esse fato, sonhei que estava indo me despedir deles.
Ao chegar lá, vi Karol e Drielle (minhas amigas que mudaram de estado no começo do ano, e tenho muitas saudades). Ao vê-las, me emociono muito, e logo corro para abraçá-las. Abracei-as muito emocionado.

My recall seems to be getting better, I've been remembering at least 3 dreams a night although they seem to flow into each other and I do have to wake up between them to remember
Here are the 3 I remember from last night - the last one has a cool ending

1) In the early part of this dream someone I know becomes the head of his family like a maphia family only not into crime and not dangerous, it's set in the city i live. I'm driving around in a jeep, when I spot 2 people I know and go 4x4ing towards them. I get out and have a chat with them showing them the difflock on my new jeep which i acquired in my dream but can't remember how. Later I'm at my grandfathers funeral and my aunt and cousins are talking about how difficult it was to grow up with him because he was a difficult man. The dream is now set in the town where I grew up (huge DS right there) I get in an argument with my mom about how she's just climbing on the bandwagon and judging my grandfather unfairly (this is the second time a male ancestor has come up in 2 nights). To make my point stronger I tell my mom how my relationship with my dad isn't great and I end up getting furious and shouting how he hasn't hugged me in 10 years . The dream fades or I wake up.

2) I've been doing some training with young people (which is my line of work) in another city. I encourage them to start small groups and pair them up to do that. I have an argument with 2 of my friends who are the leaders of the group about my teaching style they say it's to unprepared, I'm saying that it's far more effective than their styles. Later we're indoors and there is a hive of huge bees (some-one else was dreaming about bees). My daughter is there and I tell her to stay away from the bees (this is related to me helping move my dads beehive the day before in RL and then hearing his bees left the hive and were in the tree in his garden). Later I go to bed and there is some weird sexual stuff going on (really weird), it involves no sensation for me but the DC is enjoying it.

Snippet this is either from this dream or the next one : I get fired at work and my friend sets the work computers to download a massive porn database, which will fill their harddrives and use up all their bandwidth. Later I feel guilty and ashamed about it and almost get caught for doing it.

3) My friend is riding my bike with me on the back except it's not DS bike like I've got it's a super-bike. We're riding through a rough area of an unknown town. He's riding pretty good. There are security guards and criminals guarding the entrances to different streets. He turns and speeds through an enclosed arean between buildings. As we exit a gang tries to stop us, He swerves around them at speed and continues. They run to try and head us off at the next turn, I tell him to carry on they'll never catch us but he stops and does a half donut and heads back the way we came, I realize that this is a good idea because they've run off to try intercept us. As we pass the area where they were we head towards a raised highway. There is an old man where the gang was holding a stick with a broken bottle taped to the end, we swerve around him and my friend suddenly stops, partly to let me drive and partly to speak to the old man. He approaches the old man cautiously talks to him and then comes running and jumps on the back of the bike. I take off really quickly and we're riding up this highway onramp that winds as it climbs higher. I overcook the fist turn and bump the curb, we continue to accelerate out of control and hit the next curb square on causing us to ramp off the edge. We nearly make it to another portion of the road but we miss. I realize that we are falling to our death, it feals awesome. I wake up long before impact.

Dream signs atarting to emerge (comment on these is you want) The town where I grew up, My bike (or lack of my bike)
I still don't feel close to realizing I'm in a dream and my only LD was still that FA - help please!!!
I also have a serious problem with excitement ( I can't fall asleep even in the middle of the night )