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Note: I started off with a couple of goals for the night. My first one was to go with MoSh to the Grand Canyon and find a city that is supposed to be hidden there.

Originally Posted by Lonewolf

The Grand Canyon in Arizona has a underground city whose dreaming entrance is a large cave guarded by a tornado/ally. Those who get inside have found their dreaming greatly enhanced including myself. I would strongly suggest you find this place. Research it and you will find there is reports of this city in folklore.

The other goal I had for the night was to do the TotM cloning task by multiplying myself. I was not successful in inducing a WILD, however.

I woke up in bed. I rolled over and opened my eyes. I didn't feel sleepy. It looked like this was going to be one of those times when I wouldn't be able to get back to sleep. Crap… that doesn't happen to me very often, and it seems like it just happened… but now again? I got out of bed and figured I'd get a drink and hope I was wrong. I walked out of my room and into a hall that is much longer than my waking life house. That was odd… odd enough to trigger a RC. I discovered that I was dreaming.

I stopped to think about my goals for the night. My first goal was to meet up with MoSh and head for the city that is supposedly hidden in the Grand Canyon. So I opened a portal to MoSh's inner world and went through it…

I entered MoSh's inner world where I often do, right in front of his house. Everything there was bright and sunny. It was a nice day in MoSh's inner world. I walked up to the front door and knocked on it. The door opened soon, and I went inside. It was nice inside, too. I was glad to see it was bright and pleasant instead of dark and creepy as I have seen it so many times before. Asuka was just coming into the room. She said MoSh had told her I would be over. She had some cookies with her and she handed me a couple. They were chocolate cookies with dark chocolate and white chocolate chips in it… yum… MoSh came out shortly later. I asked him if he was lucid. He said sure. I asked if he would remember this dream. He said no. I told him that wasn't good… do a RC… this is a dream. He said he already knew he was dreaming. I said then he should remember the dream. But for now we would go. I opened a portal to the Grand Canyon. A portal opened and both MoSh and I went through…

MoSh and I were now standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon… and it was quite a view. I have seen it a couple of times, but it has been a long time and its beauty still amazed me. MoSh stood there looking at the canyon for a while. I told him we had better get going if we were going to find the cave before one of us woke up. I took MoSh by the hand and jumped off the edge of the canyon wall. We both flew down into the canyon. I wasn't sure where to find the entrance to this hidden city. I remembered Lonewolf saying something about tornados guarding the entrance… so a wind elemental. But hadn't he also said the tornado was an ally? But an ally to who? An ally to peaceful visitors? An ally to the people who used to live in the city? I wasn't really sure what that meant…

MoSh and I flew low in the canyon for a while. I looked at the sides of the canyon. I didn't see any signs of wind elementals or of suspicious caves. I wondered if we were even going the right direction. I landed on the ground and looked around for a bit. This really stank… where would I go now? I looked over at MoSh. He was over by the river. I went over to see MoSh. MoSh was skipping rocks. I tried to get his attention. He looked over at me and said hello. I asked if he was still lucid. He said sure. I didn't think he was acting like himself. But I was still confused on how to find this city. And about who this wind elemental ally was... or had I read it wrong? Tornado alley? Lots of tornados? Wait a minute… there's no tornado alley in the Grand Canyon! That wouldn't make any sense! I was running out of ideas… the canyon is a huge place. I wasn't going find the cave by looking around like that. I had to use a different approach.

I went over to MoSh and told him I was going to try something different. I took hold of both of MoSh's hands and focused on teleportation. It isn't my strong point, but I wasn't sure how else to track the cave down. So I focused on teleportation, also focusing on taking MoSh with me. I focused on what I wanted to find even though I wasn't sure exactly what I was looking for. I focused on it, and for a bit it seemed like nothing was going to happen. MoSh was giving me a strange look as I was holding both of his hands. He gave me a strange smile. Then the teleportation worked. The scene around MoSh and me completely shifted.

MoSh and I were floating over water… and I had not realized we would be floating. We both dropped into the water with a splash. Both of us came to the surface. I floated out of the water and into the air, MoSh followed me. We were now looking directly at a cave in the canyon wall. We floated over to the cave and landed right in the entrance. It was dark inside the cave. I wondered how far back into the canyon wall it went.

MoSh and I followed the passage back into the passage. It got dark rather quickly. I summoned a light and we continued going back farther. The passage also seemed to be slanted down. I saw writing on the sides of the passage that looked like ancient hieroglyphics. The passage finally ended in a circular room. More passages led off in all directions. There were beautiful carvings, statues, other assorted artifacts. I looked at one of the statues. It looked more like an Egyptian artifact than what I had expected.

I hadn't really been sure what I was expecting, but I think I was expecting something related to native American culture. I looked at some of the artifacts there and then we just kind of chose a passage at random and headed down it. I had no idea where it went or if we might get completely lost, but it didn't really matter since we were dreaming. I looked at some hieroglyphics on the wall. I wished I knew what some of it meant, but none of it means anything to me MoSh and I explored the caverns for a while longer until I realized he was gone. I figured he had woken up. It wasn't very long after that when I woke up.

I was on such a roll when I started my dream journal just over a month ago. Unfortunately it seems the extra sleep I've been getting due to being extremely drowsy from taking anti-histamines for my hay-fever has not brought with it any extra dream recall. In fact the opposite is true; I've had very poor dream recall!

The 3 dreams I recalled during that period were actually quite embarrassing -- even embarrassing enough for me to not want to post them anonymously on the internet! I'll leave you guessing...

Anyway, onward and upward and hopefully to lucidity and beyond!

Driving Scares Me

I can't drive in real life. Actually, it seems I can't drive in my dreams either...

I was driving. I had just learned to drive, I think. The break and accelerator peddles didn't seem to work right. The break was more like a decelerator than a break.

I was driving around, not having a clue how to drive. I kept having near misses with other cars. At one point I was driving over the a bridge near my house and wasn't sure if I should be on the left or right side of the road because I was on the left (which is correct here in the UK) and saw a car coming head on, so I switched to driving on the right and saw a car coming head on again. Stupid roads.

I've always avoided learning to drive because the entire concept freaks me out a little. I've been thinking about it a lot lately though. I should really just get on with it.

My Hypnagogic Parents

This is a bit of a cheat since it's not a dream but a really long drawn out experience with hypnagogic hallucinations. I'm noting this down because my experience with them so far have been pretty simple. This it teh first time I've heard a large amount of whispering voices and felt presences nearby.

Anyway, I awoke early on Saturday and decided to have a lie in. As I slowly fell back to sleep I heard my mum walking around in my room, but I was aware that nobody was really there and that I was actually falling asleep. She started talking nonsense in a kind of whisper. Suddenly I couldn't hear her any more. Then I heard footsteps outside my door walking up the stairs. I could hear my dad whispering nonsense. Then he was silent. Next I heard my mum walking up the stairs whispering nonsense and then fading away. Again it was my dad, then my mum, and so on for what seemed like a very long time.

The nonsense they were whispering was just random sentences, none of which I can now remember other than that there was something about ponies uttered by my dad's whispering voice.

I was outside my house. I looked around and saw the desert around me. Nothing looked out of place, it looked the same as my waking life. I was hot due to the fact it is the desert and it is summer. I wanted to go back inside where it would be cool. I walked back over to the house and tried to go inside. The front door was locked. Wtf? Why was I locked out of the house. I went around to the back side of the house and found the two doors on the back of the house were also locked. Damn! I tried to think where we keep the emergency key hidden, in case one of us needs to get inside and has no keys. I couldn't remember. I looked around, under rocks, under pots, everywhere I could think of that the key might be hidden. No key. Damn… my mother must have taken the key in.

So by now I was really hot. I wanted to get somewhere cooler. I really needed to cool off. I went to the front yard where there is a small pond with a few fish in it. I found it was dry. There was no water in it, and several dead fish were on the bottom. The plastic bottom of the pond was cracked and splitting as if it had been empty for years. I walked away from the dry pond and over to the gate at the end of our driveway. The gate was lying on the ground. I walked down the road a ways. Sooooo hot… I saw some trees all together that gave a nice amount of shade. That would have to do. I went over to the trees. I could feel cool air coming from under the trees. I got down under the tree. The foliage was so thick that I couldn't see through it, but there was a small hole through the plants. I crawled into that hole to immerse myself in the coolness. The hole went on forever… this was weird… and it got me curious as to where it could lead… I kept crawling and emerged in another place where it was dark. Night time? And I wasn't in a desert… I stood up and did a RC… I was dreaming!

I walked across the meadow for a ways until I reached a small rocky hill. I looked up into the rocky area. I was getting a weird feeling about the area. I had the feeling I was being watched. I looked around a bit, looking mostly towards the rocky hills because they provided so many places to hide.

I was scanning the hills when I heard movement behind me. I turned quickly, activating my Witchblade sword in case I was attacked. I paused once I was turned around and then put my Witchblade sword away. I was being followed, but I was being followed by MoSh, not an enemy. MoSh said it looked like I was still mad at him. I looked around a bit more… the bad feeling hadn't left me just because I had identified MoSh. I responded to him in a quiet tone, saying I wasn't particularly upset right now… but this place was giving me the creeps. He asked if the Templars had been attacking me again. I said the Templars were all dead. That was where my negative energy had gone. At least they're useful for something…

It looked like MoSh was about to say something else, but he never got the chance. Someone apparently thought it was necessary to prove me wrong about all the Templars being dead… There was movement in the rocks. Templars emerged from the rocks. There were about 20 of them… not many at all. This would be easy. I formed my Witchblade sword and attacked them. They attacked. Some of them had weapons that looked like futuristic laser weapons, others had swords. I attacked them. Cut through one and ran my sword through another. I saw Templars attacking MoSh… I also saw him kicking the shit out of them. This fight was over quickly. The Templars were lying around us, dead. The bodies quickly disappeared as they woke up.

"Ok…" I said to MoSh, "Now all of the Templars are dead,"

MoSh was going to say something again. I felt the dream slipping away. I tried to focus on dilating time. I told MoSh I was about to wake up… but I would try dilation… but I never even got a chance to get focused before everything faded and I woke.

I used a mixture of WBTB and MILD for this one, since this is my first post i may aswell outline colours i will use
Dream = Black
Lucid = Blue because i like it

It starts in what seems to be an elongated airport corridor, kinda like what you walk through before you go onto the plane. It seems like they all merge into a central area, the area i was in. Since never seeing anything like this in real life and wondering what was going on I decided to try out an RC, I now realized I was dreaming and become "Lucid" well, kinda

For some reason some men came out from one of the corridor exits and appeared to be hostile. I instantly tried Telekenesis and to my surprise, it worked, throwing him against the wall and knocking him out. (Although I should mention this dream was like an extremely badly drawn cartoon, also hinting that i was dreaming.) Although knowing this was a dream i could not manipulate my surroundings or objects, i still had to follow the dream. I continued down a corridor and saw a further two badly drawn characters and decided to use Telekenesis on these two aswell. After this being sucessful, I continued on down the corridor, must have got over-excited and woke up.

The main reason for posting this was as this was my first LD, i heard that some people only stay lucid or semi-lucid for seconds, i was able to use telekenesis on my first try and stay lucid for some time, which really surprised me.

Last night I had three dreams and a lucid!

Tattoo

I was with my brother and sister. We were in a trailer, and they were going to go out for the night. My brother has this tattoo he wanted to add to, and he had this idea to stick eyes in it. My sister hated the idea so I started to design a swirly design to go inside. Later, we were at the tattoo parlor and he came in and got it done.

School?

I was in a lesbian relationship with one of my (former) best friends (who is totally straight.) We had been holding hands in the hall and this girl from my high school jumped out and started attacking her. I tried to defend her, but the more I yelled, the more people came to hurt her. One person ran up and dumped a movable tray with a bunch of A/V equipment on her, and she fell over passed out. I started kicking and biting, screaming as hard as I could, but no teachers came. I can't normally scream in dreams, and this time it was because the girl had her hand over my mouth. They started beating me, and once I stopped screaming, someone came and helped us both. I even think the girl got in trouble, yay!

Camp!

It started out on a plane. There was a large group of us, and we were landing. We separated into groups, and I got the lame no-group group. There was a Pikachu group that my old manager from Waldenbooks led (all the kids in it had to wear Pikachu outfits XD) and there was a Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat group. A friend/musical rival from high school was going to play Joseph, even though she was only chosen two days before it started. She wasn't very good, and sometimes she wasn't even singing. I was pretty upset and wished I could have auditioned instead. I was going to sing after the performance stopped, but got embarrassed halfway through.


My First (more than five second) Lucid!

I don't remember much beyond the beginning of the lucidity. I was with a girl, and suddenly, can't remember what the DS was, I thought, "Oh, that's because I'm in a dream!" And I had to convince myself, like my mind didn't want to believe it. I tried sticking my finger through the nearest thing... I think it was a fence or a wall of some kind. It worked! After that, I tried convincing the girl with me we were in a dream (and in the process, totally forgot to center and look at my hands...) because we were running from someone. She ran ahead, so I went after her. Already it was getting really hard to focus, but up ahead I saw a huuuge building! I remember thinking, "Oh, yeah, this is a dream. I'm gonna run up it!" I had to psych myself up, because I wasn't sure it was gonna work. I picked up some speed, and I thought, "I'm running sooo fast, it feels so great, I can definitely do this!" I jumped to early, and my foot didn't hit the building, but I had gathered so much speed that for a minute, I was running about an inch above the building. All I remember thinking before I woke up was, "If I had a sword, I would be too badass right now."

Dreams recalled: 7

My third night attempting an LD and third night in a row recalling SEVEN dreams, none of them lucid.

Tried falling asleep listening to a uh.... some type of lucid dream music where the beat is supposed to make you lucid, i forget what its called. I couldn't fall asleep for a while and then it felt like I couldn't dream for a couple hours... Good thing the 'song' was only 40 minutes long. I think I'll give up using that already.

Some of my dreams were quite sexual though, so no complaints there.

The first one I was in a Macy's and they had another room with a full sized swimming pool?? It fast forwarded and I was in the pool, then later I was watching 2 girls makeout...??

Next dream I was watching a movie with a friend at a movie theater and the 2 girls from the pool were there with us and proceeded to makeout again lol.

Then I was riding in weird van I think and the driver went to a gas station and kept weaving through the pumps cuz they were all taken. I had a weird encounter with a random person and I put the pump back for them and put their gas cap back on. Im not sure why...

I vaguely remember another one having something to do with an ice cream truck. It didn't last long enough for me to get any ice cream, the people in front of me in line did though.

My younger brother is out of town with his baseball team. I had a short dream that I saw him sitting on the kitchen floor in front of the fridge, in his baseball uniform, talking to our mom...

And the last dream was a short one with one of my female friends that I was texting in a dream the previous night. Except this time we were together. And started making out.... I enjoyed it.... a lot. o.O
My dreams are giving me a crush on one of my friends..........


I'm disappointed at another night with no LD's, but glad my dream recall has gone up from practically nothing (literally) to 7! dreams a night.

There was a group of wolves, they were going to kill another group of wolves. The white wolves were the evil wolves. They heard something in the distance and bounded off to rip it to shreds. I think they were angry that the brown wolves kept piling up the snow. I found bags of snow, buckets of snow that were being filled with a snow hose and dumped them in front of the wolves. The snow didn't pile up, it just melted away.

I was in a trailer that felt like an apartment building. I was hanging out with some old friends of mine who I never see anymore. A cop knocked on the door and burst through into the living room. He was really angry and dragged me outside where he did horrible things to me and then beat me up and threw me back into the house. My friends were concerned and started ranting about police brutality.

The dream slightly changed. Things in the house began to age, my old friends were replaced by new ones. Things looked dilapidated, like they were falling down.

A woman police officer stormed through the door and began poking around. "Everyone needs to get out of here," she announced, "horrible things have happened here." She lifted a rug to find lots of blood.
At that moment I felt a chill sweep over the entire place. I couldn't stand to be there anymore. I felt like horrible things would happen if I stayed.

Summer was waiting outside in a van. She said we needed to get far away. I turned back to the trailer and saw baby cat sitting there. I wanted to cry. She was my favorite cat, and I've missed her so much. I felt like she was trying to tell me to rescue her, but I was already far away.

We were trying to get to Minnesota. We were not sure where we were or what highway we were on. We decided to stop at the next exit we could find. We turned into the parking lot of a dingy looking taqueria. Inside there were several men standing behind a counter. There were no food or drinks inside, just several men in blue shirts with dirty white aprons. They glowered at us as we slowly walked towards them. They didn't want us there. I looked around and felt like this was also a bad place. The ceiling was rotting and seemed it would fall down on us at any moment. The door to what I assumed was the bathroom has black mold creeping all along the outlines of it, I wanted to turn on my heel and run, but felt safer being with Summer. We left quickly.

We got back on the highway. The trailer was next to us, baby cat was sitting in the window, looking straight at me. We passed the trailer quickly.

We stopped a place, a busy street. The wolves were back. The white ones. I needed to stop them, so I started piling logs and trash all along the street, forming a giant barrier. I piled it so high that I had to climb up it to keep piling things on top. Finally, a car came on the other side, angry. Several trucks came and within seconds had all the logs in the backs of their trucks and were hauling them away. The path was clear and the wolves were standing there, facing me. End.

Interesting Encounters at Work:
I was working at TH. It seems that my shift just finished and I was ready to sign out and get my coat to leave. My wife's boss, K is also there. For some reason, I have a bad feeling and I notice that she is looking for something. She had some vertical trays which had some files in them spread out across the bench near the sheet. I decided to help her out and asked her what she is looking for. She looked at me with those eyes and asked why I'm still here. I guess I took it as a message of "I don't need the help", because, the dream skips and I'm walking through the store to the front door. It looked pretty similar to my actual work from what I recall. After exiting the store, I plan to make a run for my bus since I see it coming around a curve. The parking lot and location of the store is totally different. The atmosphere was pretty dark. After taking a right turn from the traffic light, one must go straight to reach a curve. After passing through the curve, one has the option of turning left to either find a parking spot or turning left and continuing straight to reach the drive-thru. They could also continue straight from the curve and take a right turn which would bring them to a bus stop but nothing more. I saw the bus near the curve behind two cars and sprinted around the store. I bent down under the white poles that are in place to prevent cars from coming into the drive-thru without ordering and continued running until I reached the other side and turned left to reach the stop. It would have been much easier to just walk to my right after exiting the store to get to the stop. I ended up getting to the stop just as the bus was able to get there. Along the way near the bus stop, I saw some cans of diet coke in a small box, similar to the one the 24 pack come in and I picked it up and brought it along. As I entered the bus, the driver was supposed to charge me $10 but when he used my card, he ended up charging $100 and swiping it through. I was pretty furious and felt that he did it on purpose because he added the last 0 just as he was about to swipe, since, he already had it at $10. I pointed out his mistake and he printed a receipt that showed that I paid only $0.72 which took me by surprise and I felt as if a trick was being played here.

Car:
I think I dreamt about a car that I was in and was told that I could pass the middle white line.

Thoughts: Well, I thought the first dream was pretty good. Was nice and long with a great atmosphere. As for the second one, it was just a fragment There was also a third which I couldn't remember anything about, but, I knew that it was long as well. Pretty nice to have a long dream in comparison to my previous couple of nights

Cooking:
I was a chef at a restaurant. I think I was dressed all white and dicing vegetables on a white board. I was told by a friend who also works there that a spider at our other location has been suspended for 250 infractions. There was also a TV which might have had something on this. It seems that he was warned about getting close to the food but didn't listen.

Thoughts: Pretty funny dream, suspended spider

Day 2: No LD's last night, and again, 7 dreams recalled.

The most unclear was something about looking in a freezer... I don't remember what was in it.

(I have 2 bearded dragons in my room, and I occasionally dream about them) The next one, one of my dragons was standing up on its hind legs (something they can't do IRL). It was my smaller one, but in my head I knew it was my bigger one(??). I tried to lay him down but he resisted. I was in my basement, then later another dream I was in my room with him. He tried eating a little piece of styrofoam but I opened his mouth and I think he dropped it.

Another dream I had an extra tank(reptile tank), as I often have the wrong number/size of tanks in my dreams. It was empty, except for a bunch of very large crickets(more things that aren't the right size). I then realized that I had this tank for keeping 3 or 4 baby bearded dragons(not IRL). And that the crickets must have gotten so big because they weren't eaten so they had lived for too long. I couldn't see the baby bearded dragons, and worried they had died or were starving because their food was too big. I put my bigger dragon in the tank and he began eating the crickets. Then my smaller one was out of hers and in this one too(??). The larger one chased her for some reason and I separated them.

I then dreamed I was watching a weird show that my stepdad had put on. I didn't know what it was, but as I looked closer it was an old man on a rocky shoreline. He was trying to protect it or something, and was earth bending to push back the tide and make the land stick out further??

Another fuzzy one: I was in my basement with my pull up bar set up, and asked my friend if she had ever heard of a ______ (I don't remember what I said, just that it was something made up). She thought for a second and said something about a pull-up. I said yes and jumped up to the bar(its easily reachable IRL) and did a weird type of pull up(??)

Then I was in some sort of apartment complex and didn't know who lived there. I entered someone's apartment because I thought a friend had told me to but no one was with me(??) It was small and I didn't look around, but went outside on the walkway(it was the second story). I went up the stairs to the third floor and got on the roof, then down, then back on the roof again. I'm not sure why... I got down and went back into the apartment and the bed was in the main room for some reason, and I contemplated doing a backflip off of it. (I can do them IRL) But then I heard them coming home and I slipped out the back door. I went down and looped around another building, then back to the front of the building, although I should have just left. The door was open and it was my friend, in the same room I was just in except it had moved from the second floor to the ground floor(??). I suddenly had a balloon/stick thing in my hand. It was one of a pair that you bang together at sports games to make noise. I had some about 6 years ago, not sure if they make them anymore. This should have been a dream sign, because it just appeared in my hand. It was his, and I said something weird like, "did you lose this?" so they wouldn't think I had been in their apartment. But then I heard my phone get a text message, and my cell phone and car keys were in his apartment(??). He was laughing but knew I was in there and said, "what did you do?" and then there was a really weird lady there and she said it again, "yeah, what did you do?" and the dream ended.

My final dream was a false awakening, and I started writing down these dreams in my dream journal. I woke up later to see the page blank and started over.

Dreams Recalled: 7

4 or 5 were in the same place, but the people, situation, feeling, lighting, time of day, etc. kept changing. Not sure what counts as a separate dream but I recalled 7 distinct events.

I was in a house, one I had never been to. There was a guy my age that I had met 3 or 4 months ago when I stayed in a frat house for a few days at a college I might transfer to. He was talking to a woman about not wanting to give up/share his room. They didn't talk to or look at me, but I assumed me and family were staying there and he had to sleep on the couch or something.

Then I was outside for some reason. I think I was at the same house but I'm not sure... I was pulling weeds and 3 of my friends drove up. I talked to one for a couple seconds and the dream ended.

I was then in a different house I think... I was training for some kind of fighting in the living room. I had strange, large pads on my forearms and was blocking strikes from someone. There were girls my age on the couch watching tv but I didn't recognize any of them. I picked up some things off the floor in front of them, but I don't know why. Then I was watching a commercial on the tv, but the screen filled my vision and I couldn't see anything else. I don't remember what the commercial was about.

Another dream I was still inside, but unsure if it was one of the previous houses, or a different one. I was in the kitchen and it was now night and dark outside and inside as well. I felt the presence of a threat outside, and somehow knew that a villain from Batman, Poison Ivy, was outside and trying to get us (WEIRD!). There were no lights on in the house, and a small girl was near me. She was only 4 or 5 years old. She went into a dark room and I tried to tell her not to, but out of my fear I left her and went back into the kitchen.

Another dream I was texting a female friend of mine, who seemed very interested in me, which made me happy but the dream ended quickly.

And lastly, although I think this was my first dream of the night... I had fallen to sleep wanting to have a lucid dream, but didn't know what I wanted to do. I went with the first thing that came to mind: earth bending from avatar: the last airbender. I was a big fan of the show when I was younger. Not only was my dream NOT lucid, and I couldn't earth bend, but I ended up being attacked by 3 earth benders. >.<


My first night of trying for a lucid dream, no luck. Happy with 7 recalled dreams on my first dream journal entry however.
I'm copying this over from a written one I keep next to my bed.

02.07.2010

Dragon Slayer (DILD)

★★★★★

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

They're probably going to die.

I watch the dragons slowly descend upon two neighbors from inside my doorway. Fearing for my own safety, I shut the red metal door and casually step away.

"Hurry up and get over here." My brother states from his fancy wooden seat at the dining room table.

"There's dragons out there, man."

"Don't worry about that." He brushes me off, as I take a seat next to him. Plopping down in my chair, he starts talking about something in his usual way, but I can't help thinking about that horde of dragons, the ones from the LD I just had a few moments ago before my. . .

DEILD attempt! Right! This is a dream! I realize excitedly. Taking a look at my brother, I wonder if it's Burmes. "Hey, Burke." He looks at me as if I've got three heads. "Sorry, Burnes--Burmes right?"

"No, not exactly." He states coldly.

"Well, whoever you are, you're pretty convincing. You had me fooled for sure." I stand up and head to the door. I figured I'd help out those people in the court. Those dragons did refer to me as prey, after all.

"Where are you going? Hey! Get back here!" My brother shouts at me.

"I'm alright, thanks." I respond kindly, opening the front door to reveal a dragon hanging off the awning over my porch. Leaping out the door, I grab onto its head just as it begins to launch itself toward the center of the court, where those two people still were. Utilizing Super Strength, I break its neck, sending it hurdling onto my car-less, sloped, concrete driveway where it slides down a bit before stopping, dead in its tracks. The rest of the dragons were quick to notice.

One, two, three, four, five, six. . . and probably more just around the corner. Better get started, then. Taking to the air, I pull out a bow from behind my back, and grab an arrow from much the same place. With a burst of will, I light the tip of my arrow ablaze, draw my bow, and aim it at the heart of the nearest dragon, 50 meters away.

FWANG!

My shot is right on target, hitting its mark in the exact center of the dragon's chest. Stunned, the dragon looks down at the arrow protruding form its deep red and orange scaled body. It stumbles forward, but doesn't go all the way down. That's cause enough for me to switch to my Barret .50 Cal. Sniper Rifle. I take a quick shot without scoping, but it goes rather wide. Resigning myself to obscuring my vision for a short while, I peer through the scope, line up the dragon's head in the cross-hairs, and let off a round, which creates a rather large hole in the thing's forehead. Before it can hit the ground, and after dealing with gun's recoil, I put another bullet through its skull for good measure. Yeah, there's no way it's getting up from that.

Off a ways from all this, I see and hear a dragon howl ominously into the afternoon sky. The narrator in my head explains that this particular dragon was upset because his last living brother had just been killed. I was also informed that the dead dragon in question was the one whose neck I had snapped moments ago. They probably shouldn't have started screwing with my dream, if they didn't want me to fight back.

Dropping the gun, I pull out a weapon from a more civilized age (No, not that, you silly Star Wars fan, you). My steel Katana glints luminously in the slowly failing sunlight. The mass of dragons--plus one enraged ex-brother--smoothly move in my direction. I too move forward, as one of them takes out a missile launcher. Oookay? I think as he fires it, sending a missile careening toward me. . . very very slowly, I might add. Watching the missile sputter out halfway and drop to the ground, isn't too surprising. However, I don't expect the resulting explosion to be as large as it is. If I had been any lower in altitude, this could have ended badly. I need to deal with this before things get even more out of hand, and if there's anything I've learned about efficiently dealing with large groups of enemies from my HvZ exploits, it's that you should always rush them before they rush you.

Shouting ferociously, I fly at high speeds toward a dragon to my left. Raising my sword high above my head I scream, "Getsuga Tenshou!" tearing at the air before me in a dramatic swipe. A blue cyclical wall of energy erupts from my blade and flies forward, hitting the dragon and creating a huge gash along its entire body. Feeling confident that would be enough to put that one out of the fight, I turn my attentions to the others around me, just in time to block a claw from removing my head. I back off from my attacker, and start to fly around him, being sure to make a note of the positions of the other dragons. Right then, that asshole with the missile launcher tries his luck at blowing me out of the sky again, but my next maneuver will put me well out of range of the blast.

Flash Stepping into striking range, I unleash a flurry of slashes on my attacker, before Flash Stepping to the other combatants and doing the same. I finish just in time to feel the shock-wave of the explosion behind me. Unfortunately, my strikes barely break through the dragons' skin, and I'm forced backward yet again in order to avoid being cleaved in half. I let off another Getsuga, but this one is deflect by. . . A dragon with two gigantic sabers? Fuck me.

I strafe aerially in a wide arc, carefully watching not only this new threat, but all those still in the fight. It's then I notice the second blade in my off hand. How'd that get there? I wonder for a moment before realizing how unimportant that information is. All I know is that now I should be able to take on that monstrosity slightly below me.

Changing my flight path, I dart diagonally toward the dragon with the giant twin blades. "Getsuga Tenshou!" I yell, but my blade fails to perform the technique. Ignoring my seeming lack of control, I engage her in direct combat. Yet, as it turns out, fighting with two swords is a lot harder than you'd think, even when acting on instinct. Despite my best efforts, each attack I make, no matter how complex, is subsequently parried and met by a counter. What's worse is some of my opponent's attacks actually manage to nick me a bit. What gets me is that here's this target five times my size, I can't even land a single blow, but she manages to make contact with my skin on several occasions!

"Come on!" she taunts me, "Is this the best you've got?!"

"No, actually." I state as coolly as I can in my agitation.

"Well, then bring it!"

Jumping backward, I warn her, "Remember, you asked for it." Then, throwing my arms out to the side, I proclaim, "Ban--kai!"

FWWOOOOM!

The energy deep within me bursts forth in a remarkable fashion, violently throwing about the air around me. My dual blades are now wider, more ornate in design, and encased entirely in glowing, bright, yellow energy. But that isn't the only new thing I have to show off. Moving toward her, my speed is so great that the world blurs around me and she herself seems to be stuck in time. I circle her, once, twice, three times, four times in less than a second, with each pass I cut into her with a volley of slices faster than even I can make out.

"I'm not quite done, yet." I comment with a grin as I slow down enough for her to register where I am. "Reverse Bankai. . . Resurrection!"

At that, my body is covered in white light as I immediately transform. I switch to the third person to get a good look at my new form. I'm completely shirtless, with smooth pale skin, flared white sleeves sporting two lavender and orange squares overlaid on top, and white bone-like gloves. My shorts are also pure white, and my feet and lower legs are fitted in a bone-like material as well; they too bear the colored squares. My medium length green and blue hair spikes out to the side, flowing subtly in the warm twilight air. A metal loop is affixed to my stomach, from which a thick silver chain is passed through. On the end of that chain is my new weapon: a pair of red marble nun-chucks with gold plated tips.

"But that's still not all I've got lined up." The dragon's eyes are visibly wider now as they continue struggling to follow my movements. Reaching my hand to my face, I rip down my Vizard mask. I feel a cold wave flow out from the center of my being; my desire to utterly destroy this creature rises as the numbing current overtakes me. Allowing myself to act on the impulse, I Flash Step in front of the target of these urges, bringing my weapon down hard across her head.

BOOOM!

The explosion from my strike sends overpowering vibrations throughout my neighborhood. Standing behind my opponent now, I slow down time for the both of us and explain to her why she's missing half her face and falling to the ground, while I'm completely unharmed.

"It seems every time this weapon makes an impact with something, it lets out a fairly powerful blast. I'd say the actual force is around ten times as strong as what those missiles your friend was shooting could produce. Luckily for me, this new form has a built in perk that protects me from attacks below a certain level. Unfortunately for you, its limit is high enough to let me use something that devastating as my main attack. I don't think you're body will be able to handle it like mine can. Let's find out, shall we?"

Resuming the flow of the battle, I move back in front of her and begin my assault--and what an assault it is. Every blow from my viciously spinning nun-chucks is coupled with an enormous explosion. Smoke, fire, and smoldering flesh flies around me as I continue my attack, each strike taking a good sized piece of her body with it. She drops her blades, but I'm not just going to let such massive weapons go to waste. Snatching them from the air, I use a bit of chain from my stomach to bind the sabers together, creating a pair of sword-chucks three times the size of my body. Expertly utilizing both weapons, it's only a short time before all that's left of the dragon is an unrecognizable husk of meat and bone.

My brother comes up to me, his mannerisms completely different from before. "Well, if that doesn't scare them off, I don't know what will."

Nodding to whom may have been Burmes, I turn to the rest of the dragons. Staring them down, shock splayed against their collective faces, I instruct them, "Run, while you still can."

The dream fades as I watch these beasts who once thought of me as prey vacate the area with a hurried purpose.

20.06.2010

Revelations (DEILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I woke up from my previous dream. I did not open my eyes nor moved. In a split second, I felt SP and vibrations, a second later, I was back in the dream. Chained from previous dream with a perfect DEILD

I entered the dream fully lucid with crystal clear quality. I fell almost in the same spot were I woke up previously. I was next to the entrance to the car repair shop (where the drift competition took place) The ground was not rainy anymore. It was daylight and I noted a few parked cars outisde. However, this time they were regular cars, not fancy racing ones.

I entered the car repair and there were six female employees.







One of them was very upset because her car was stolen. I called her attention and started a conversation:

- I can help you out to find your car - I said.
- No, you can't. You are just a racer, not a detective - She said.
- But, this is a dream and I can help you out. I know how to in waking life so now as lucid I know as well.

She did not replied. I was thinking about leaving and heading to complete one of the tasks of the year. However, I remembered how Robert Waggoner said on his book that we all must learn to use our lucid dreams for more than fun stuff. So I decided to do a couple of things he advised to.

I talked to a DC that was pregnant. I asked her, "What do you represent?" She replied, "I have six slots." I did not understand the meaning of that, so I guess I will know in the future.

I remember other important question to ask, so I asked to the dream, "Show me something important!" The oldest DC approached at me with a gentle smile. She placed both of her hands on my shoulders and looked into my eyes. She said, "Do you have parents or kids far from you?" I replied, "Yes. Not kids. My parents." She said, "Stay as close to them as possible. In the future they may lose their sanity so enjoy with them now" I was happy because I received an important message and worried at the same time. I knew my mom's parents have a few mental issues and my mom is very nervous. I also wanted to ask them something else, another personal goal, but I felt it was enough information. I did not want to put at risk all the info I got if I forgot.

I planned to leave. I though it was time to see the dinosaurs die from he meteorite and wake up. I did some important homework during my lucid. However, I realized that one of the employees was a beautiful young lady. I wanted to have sex with her so I approached and hugged her. I knew that dream sex could wake me up, so I was looking around to keep focused on the dream and also, I did not want to get too involved to avoid strong feelings. I felt quick sex was the best option. It was just a DC after all. I kissed her and pulled her pants down (we were still in front of everybody, but who cares) I held her and brought her to another room where a small chair was located. I planned to use it. She started to get very excited and happy. One DC said, "Hey, calm down, he is just a guy!" My dream started to vanish. I did not intend to recover it, I had a lot to write down so I accepted waking up.

14.06.2010

The cats, the car and the princess. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I cannot recall the very beginning entirely, but I recall most of it.

I was by myself in the street. I was daylight and the street was not busy. It was warm and I felt the wind blow in my face. I entered a small outdoors mall and it was themed Mexican. There were several acts about Mexican music and stuff. Many employees were dressed like Mexican. I want to point out that the mall were I work in for the Olive Oil store, is Mexican Themed, but the mall in my dreams was different.







There were a few garages on my left and I stopped in one were I could meet some ladies. All of them were very hot, specially, one of them who was 6'03'', blond large straight hair, no glasses in her high 20s. She wore shrink to fit blue jeans and a short shirt that would not cover her body entirely, so she shower her perfect flat belly. All of these ladies knew me for some reason, and specially the tall blond one was attached with me. She liked me a lot. Inside the garage, there was a red car. It had to be a Mustang for the shape it had, but I did not see the make nor the model. The garage was not well lit and it was a little dark. There were also a few arcades, a table and I think a bar. Everything was dusty overall.

I had a conversation with these ladies and we did something else. Here is were my recall failed a little.

I went for a walk with the tall blond one. We were talking about the stuff we could do next. I felt she wanted to go on a date with me and I felt happy about it. Despite the evidence to become lucid here... as in real life, not the hottest woman would substitute my wife. I decided we could go and pick up my brother to school. We went inside a building that was a mall. It was not pack of people, but I saw a few random DC. The school was on the top of the building. I remember I was on the escalators to the last floor. There were small posters announcing deals from other stores, but anything else. A plain cream colored wall. The lighting was clear.

Ignore the lady on the photo, the background is perfect to match with my dream, but that lady is on the way and it will take ages to remove her with Photoshop So she has nothing do to with my dream. (It would be awesome if at least she looked alike like the DC that was with me)







I reached the top floor and there was a small door. Inside, I saw a bell and no one else. I rang the bell and another door opened. There was a big office, almost empty with two seats for people to wait. They were comfortable chairs but I wanted to get my brother, drop him off and enjoy my time with the blond lady. I see a African American employee at the bottom of the office. She had black curly hair and was dressed with a black dress. She was not friendly at all and she almost ignored me. This place also had pet adoption and I saw some cats. There was a small black kitten and she approached me. Now I was with my wife, she was in her real waking life body (the blond one was gone) I was petting one the kitten that approached me. She was almost black with a few white hairs on her back. She looked similar to one of my waking world cats, but with more black hair.







She was purring the whole time and she was very happy with me. I said to my wife, "See... she has a little black on her back, but not like Skitty, she has more white so then is definitely rare" On waking, the way our cat is colored, is odd. The vet said that it was uncommon how her hair was.
I wanted to adopt her and wondered if my cats would like her. I was sure they would, afterall, she is a kitten. I was getting mad for the long wait time there and I called the employee. She told me I had to wait more. I protested saying that it was late, but she kept insisting I had to wait more. I got mad and said, "My brother has 15 freaking years... he is big enough." At the end of the office, on the right side, I saw my brother with his backpack and he was about to exit to the office, but the employee said, "Go back to class!!!" This bugged me even more because my brother was ready to leave but they were retaining him. I wanted to steal the kitten and keep it for me, but I knew that God would punish me if I did so, so I just was about to leave.
I opened the door and the kitten ran out. Now, I was located in a total different place. The school itself was not longer in the top of a building mall, it was a house. I saw a few steps and then the street. It was calm street. I think the street was covered with snow, or at least, the sidewalks. I saw a second cat that came out of no where. Both cats were running but I was able to catch the kitten I liked. The other cat looked very mad and he kept running until he was gone.
I saw an odd guy dressed in a brown suit. He was tall, about 5'11, he had gray hair and a big gray mustache. He grabbed the cat that was mad and left with him. He was smoking a very large and thin cigarette. He wanted me to give him the kitten, but I rejected.

I planned to keep the kitty for myself, after all, he ran away. However, it was not right, so I brought the kitten back to the "school" I rang the bell and entered. Now it was a different scenario. On the left, there were stairs. Each stair was covered with carpeting. There were plenty of decor and everything looked very comfortable. I saw two employees, I think both were females in her 40s and African American.
I asked them if I could adopt the kitten. She said I could. I replied, "Well, when?" She replied, "Whenever you like." I was excited and I said, "I want to adopt it now then. How much is it?" She replied, "Well, we want to mate it first with the other cat, then you might addopt one of the kittens they would have." I was confused, because the cat was a kitten and it would take ages until she grows and mates. In addition, I knew the other cat ran away. She advised me of a weird men with a large cigarette that would cause injuries to cats. I was going to say that the male cat ran away and was caught by the guy, but I left. I sat on a small bench and I was smoking a cigarette. I was thinking about the cats.

I started walking and I was again in a Mexican outdoors mall. It was getting dark, but there were still Mexican acts going on. I saw a few ladies dressed like Mexicans and dancing. One lady was like 8' 10'' and I though, "Creature - Giant Mexican Human" "Creature comes from Magic the Gathering." I think I saw some big male ones as well.
I stopped by a small act, they were two little people dressed like Mexicans dancing over sand. In the middle of a square there was a candle. It was lit. I saw a penny in the floor and I felt lazy in grabbing it. But I knew it would bring me good luck so I grabbed it. As I rose my sight, I saw the garage I was before. I hopped the ladies were inside, but they were gone. Everything was about to close. However, I ended up meeting with them. They were other ladies and the hot blond one was not there anymore. I had a conversation with them, but I cannot recall exactly what we said. I was about to leave but two of them agreed to come with me. I conversed with them, but can't recall.

I was now driving in my car. Both ladies were on the back of the car. One of them was a student, and the other one, was her teacher. It was night now and I was smoking a cigarrette In waking, I do not smoke and it fell to my hands into the companion's chair. I was worried it would lit. I could not grab the cigarrete. I could not reach it. I was driving and I had to let go the wheel to grab it. However, I managed to grab it and I felt better. It fell from my hands again but this time it went to the very bottom of the car. I wanted to stop my car, but I notice I was about to enter the I-5. "Oh dear, now what?", I said. I was driving, looking at the other cars and looking at the carpet of my car. Nothing happened. For a second I though. Well, the carpet it thik, it won't lit. However, a saw smoke. And I saw how the carpet was getting burned. I was worried because my wife would get mad. However, I started to see fire. I was inside a tunnel and I could not stop. The fire was greater and greater until I had to stop my car abrumpty, causing an accident. My car was full of fire now and both ladies ran out. They shouted at me to leave the car.
I planned to stay and blow up with it. I already heard the oil and gass falling from the car. However, I knew I would go to hell if I did that, so I exited the car.
I went to the trunk to grab a backpack while the ladies were freaking out and begging me to ran away. The car was full of flames now so I knew it was about time it would explote. All the cars were stopped.

A saw a bigger fire inside the tunnel as I was running








We were running in the tunnel and when we were about to exit, my car exploted. I was worried that a chain reaction would ocurr, causing several deaths and damaging tons of cars (the tunnel was packed) As I exited the tunnel, two policemen said, "Freeze. Hands up where were can see them." I was pissed because I would go to jail and I though, "Gosh, they are fast, my car exploted and they are already here!!! This is like Grand Theft Auto!" The the policemen laugher and said to the student, "How are you your highness?" I was stunned and happy, I knew she was no princess so they got confused. I was worried if they would notice the damnation that was happening in the tunnel. They asked her, "So, where is your second palace now?" She replied nervously, "In Haity." The policemain said, "Haiti?" She replied, "Yes. Any problems?" The policeman said, "No." And they started to run to the tunnel. We were alone in the street now. I started to worry about my insurance, would they cover the damage of the car? I still had payments on it. I also knew they would spot that it was my car, I doubted that the plate would burn off.

As we were walking, the teacher said, "Why you had to do a last minute check on your work? Don't you trust me?" Then I awoke.

23.05.2010

The Earth melts while I enjoy a chocolate cake in the moon (MILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was at home, in my room. It was day and I was going to leave somewhere with my wife. I became lucid instantly

My wife was ready to go, but I walked around home to make sure my dream was stable enough. I had a small flight around home, but nothing fancy, I levitated a bit and flew around.

I told my wife, "Hold on, this is a Dream and I'm lucid. I want to make it stable first!!" She looked at me like if I was nuts. I remember that I could blast the Earth and destroy it (for the "End of the World" task of the year) I rose my hand and created an energy blast. However, the blast was not stable so I decided to stop and hold tighter to the dream.

I remembered that a user in this forum had in his signature "Pray" as a goal within his lucid dream. I prayed for a few moments to accomplish it (It's not my goal, but I wanted to do it anyway)

I appeared at a theme park. I enjoyed the theme park, rode a few things, walked around and observed how fun were having other DC. I remember the park was very vivid. The sky was very blue, the theme park was crowded of people and I could see a lot of detail.

I remember about doing the task of the year. I thought that a gladiator fight would be easier as I was in a theme park. I started to look for gladiators. I could not find any so I asked a policeman and to a couple of DC. They directed me and I kept walking without any success. I found a kiosk store for Cricket Wireless. One of the employees grabbed my arm and I pushed him abruptly. The other employee told him, "Hold on. Not yet." I asked him if he knew were the amphitheater was. He pointed me to it and asked me, "So, what cell phone do you have now?" I replied, "I have a HTC Mytouch. Cricket does not offer such phone, so sorry." Both salesman appeared sad.

I kept walking and I found a weird restaurant were I was indicated. I asked one of the employees about the gladiators. She told me, "Yeah. It's here." I entered the restaurant and walked down a few stairs. I got to a room with not much light. The decoration was old school. There were a few tables around. The tables were round with a candle in the middle. At the end, there was a small theater. There were Mariachis dancing and singing in Spanish. I asked another employee about the gladiators and she told me it was going to be next. I was a little annoyed because I did not want to wait, I was afraid to wake up. I realized that if I saw the gladiator fight, it would not be valid. I was somewhere in the future and I had to be in the actual time in order to accomplish it, so I just flew away.

I was walking with another friend. I told him I wanted to do the Task of the Year. He looked at me with a weird face. I decided that as I was in the future, I could complete the task, "End of the World" I knew that it was OK if I destroyed the Earth in order to provoke the End of the World. I remembered I could do energy blasts.

I flew to a small building and my friend did as well. I've made an energy blast twice big as a basketball. It looked like this:







The blast was intense, but it had not much color and I felt it was like a bubble. I threw it in the water and I saw it vanish inside the crust of the Earth. My friend laughed at and and claimed it did nothing. I was sure it would damage the Earth but I did not know how, so I told him to hold on.

Suddenly, I see bubbles in the water and my friend says, "Oh... how scary." I replied, "Oh yeah? Just hold!" Suddenly, a giant gaiser showed up. The water was very hot and it reached the sky. My friend said, "Oh.. a geiser. Like if you are going to destroy the Earth like that." A few DC freaked out, but not many. I told him, "The gaiser will raise the Earth Temperature... but one gaiser may not be enough for you, how about several?" My friend stopped laughing and started to worry.

I threw several energy blasts and the same effect happened. All the DC were freaking out, screaming and running. There were several gaisers and the whole atmosphere was turning into a wall of vapor. The heat skyrocketed and the North Pole started to melt. The water level started to raise very fast.

I had an unfinished building on my back, so I started to climb it the same way an ape would do it







My friend came with me until I reached the top of the building. The water level was on my head, so I decided to swim to a taller building. The water was very hot, but it was bearable. I asked my friend if we would have time to swim before everything starts to boil. I get tired of dealing with it and I just jump and reach the moon. My friend followed me. My friend had a chocolate cake in his hands. He claimed it was from his country.

I was observing the fate of the Earth from the moon. The Earth was all blue, I could not see any of the continents. A huge mass of clouds covered the entire earth. This mass of clouds was thinker and thinker until I witnessed the Earth melting itself. The whole planet melted and disappeared.

I was in the mood, enjoying the cake proud of my accomplishment. Neil Armstrong came to my mind, and I though in summoning him, however, I remembered that I was only allowed one task per dream so I passed.

I observed the moon to see if I found someone such Raven or Wakingnomad, but I saw no one but my friend. I could see a few vagrant images from videogames floating around the moon. I also saw a pikachu's head.

I was happy enjoying the moon but I decided it was time to wake up and write down the dream. It passed a lot of time and I was afraid of forgetting it. I summoned a bed, lied down and closed my eyes.

I had a false awakening without lucidity. I told my wife I had to write down my dream. I ran out of my bed and went to the backyard. I sat in a iron chair and used an iron table (classic white garden iron table) I opened my DJ and it was full, no room to write the dream down. I was afraid I would forget the dream so I called my wife for another journal.

She told me that before getting my first journal, I had to remove all the cash and credit cards attached to my dream journal (There were credit cards attached like additional pages of the journal and business cards from several companies) I grabbed a few $20 bills and put them in my pocket while I laughed. The dream vanishes and I wake up.