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Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream

Woke up at 5:25am as was set for my watch alarm. As I did the previous day, before I had gone to bed I had watched videos about lucid dreaming, read about lucid dreaming, and wrote about lucid dreaming, all with the hopes of getting lucid dreaming into my mind and making it happen again. The alarm was set for around 6 hours after going to bed as well.

It worked. To make sure I wouldn't fall back asleep too soon and therefore make use of the WBTB method, I let my watch alarm snooze twice before I switched it off. That ensured that I stayed awake for 15 minutes before drifting back off to sleep. I never actually left my bed because I have found that doing that wakes me up too much, so I settled with sitting up and reality checking and being almost fully awake that way.

Anyway, once I fell asleep, I found myself in a maze of a neighborhood. There were houses with sidewalks that worked like a maze, which led to a pool that had a similar maze around it, which led to a restaurant that was laid out like a maze...it was all very closed in, other for parts of it being open to the sky. Most of it was under a ceiling, though. I was looking for a particular friend of mine, who seemed to be nowhere to be found. As time went on, I kind of started to realize that this situation was not normal. It really pushed the boundaries for me, though, when Africans in tuxedos started to appear out of nowhere. Still, I didn't quite recognize the fact that I was dreaming just yet. I walked up to another friend of mine who happened to be just standing there, and I asked her: "Hey, have you seen A.J. anywhere?" She began to reply with ambiguous and answers that really didn't do me any good. I got frustrated pretty quick, and told her, "Just tell me where he is!" "You can't make me." She replied. "Yes I can!" I said. "I'm dreaming! I can do whatever I want...hey. Wait! That's right! I'm dreaming! This is my dream! I'm lucid!!" Suddenly I realized how out of it everyone around me seemed. They weren't actually doing a whole lot. I walked up to one of the guys in a tuxedo just standing there, and he was still as stone. I noticed how realistic his face was, but as I kept looking, he didn't even flinch or look back at me. Silently cheering, I opened a door and went inside, expecting a bathroom to be there. Sure enough, there was. I looked in the mirror and saw myself exactly as I always do when I first wake up. Hair messy, and in a white t-shirt and green shorts. "Yes! I'm lucid! Oh yeah!" I proceeded to rub my hands and spin around and feel the result, just to enjoy the moment. I was surprised at how everything blurred when I spun, just like it would in real life. Then I started to bump into everything around me just so I could feel it. Then I stopped, laughing with joy, and remembered the reality check. "Oh yes, and I can't forget to try this!" I pinched my nose and breathed in. Sure enough, I was able to do it, even though the breath seemed to be drawn in from another consciousness. I didn't realize it was a mistake at first to reality check when I was already lucid, but it became apparent pretty quick that making myself lose connection with my dream body and re-establish connection with my real body was significantly weakening the dream. My vision began to grow weak. I frantically resumed rubbing and spinning, but it seemed to do no good. Everything went black, and I thought the dream was over. But then, all of a sudden, my vision returned! "Ok," I said aloud, "not wasting any more time here." I took a look in the mirror again. "Better start small...well, I gotta have something other than this to wear if I'm going out there." I thought about how to change clothes without physically doing it. I remembered a bit about passive control and force control and decided my plan of action. "When I walk through that door, my clothes will change to some awesome black outfit." I had Jedi robes or something like that in mind. I walked through the door back outside, and then looked down to see if it had worked. There were different clothes on me now, but it was a green t-shirt and black cargo pants. "Dang it! This isn't what I meant. Ok, when I go through that NEXT doorway, my clothes are going to change to black jedi robes." So I walked through the doorway and saw several of my friends conversing together. I looked to the left and saw a mirror again. My hair had been fixed in the process of changing, but I was still in the same outfit. "Oh come on...CHANGE!" The use of direct force startled me awake.

However, although the dream was short, it was the most vivid one yet, and I remembered much of what I've learned about lucid dreams, so in several ways it was a success.

That makes DILDs = 3

Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream

6:00am - Woke up a bit earlier than was planned in order to try a WILD again. Haven't WILDed since that first time because the side effects frightened me, but after learning of their harmlessness, I was convinced it was worth a shot again.

The way it worked out, I fell back asleep before I could. However, I still had a lucid dream!!!!!! It was possibly the most unlikely method ever for going lucid, too: falling asleep inside of a dream! I was totally non-lucid at first, just going about my house, when the power went out. Real bad. Lights fell out of the ceiling, anything plugged into the wall was fried, etc. So while we waited for the repairman to come, I decided to catch up on sleep.
And then I was lucid!

Being only a DILD, it wasn't quite as vivid as when I WILDed, but it was plenty good for me! I was out on my driveway, and knew I was dreaming. Unfortunately, I didn't reality check because I was so sure of this. The end result was a lack total control and maximum clarity, but I'm just glad I finally had another lucid dream! Anyway, first I had a personal party for success, and then I walked up inside my garage, which was unusually packed with junk. There was no room for cars anymore. Most of it was boxed up, so I didn't bother to look and see inside them.

Then I 'woke up' in my previous dream, not lucid again. I forgot to reality check, of course, so I thought that was it. I saw that the power had not been fixed, so I soon went back to sleep...and was lucid again!

This time I wasted no time. To start off I rubbed my hands together, and that seemed to bring things into better focus. STILL I did no reality check, though...I don't know why I didn't think to do it just to be safe. However, I was out on the driveway again and the garage still looked the exact same. So I went right in there and approached a mirror. "Now for the fun stuff." I thought. I pulled up my shirt in front of the mirror and then put a hand over my abs with the intention of shapeshifting. BAM! Instant 6-pack! Unfortunately, shapeshifting that way, as expected, kind of shocked me awake a bit. Fortunately, also as planned, I was still there enough to spin around and rub my palms together. I began losing vision...things got darker and darker...but I kept on spinning and rubbing. When things got entirely black, I fell over from spinning, which actually jerked me back into the dream a little bit for registering the sensation of falling and landing on rough concrete. I got back up and continued spinning and rubbing, and slowly my vision returned. First all I could see was my foot on the ground, but as my disorientation began to leave, the scene of the dream returned. Before long, I was completely back in the dream, even clearer than it was before! I cheered for my success and then ran back up into the garage and looked in the mirror. Yep, the 6-pack was still there! For the first time in my life, I successfully shape-shifted something without waking up as a result! I went inside for a moment to share my success with whoever was in there, and my family was all there, just gathered around the TV as usual. I think what they were watching had something to do with dreams, because my Mom remarked, "Dreams sure are interesting." I shouted, "Especially LUCID dreams!!!" She replied, "I don't believe in lucid dreams." I laughed, both at that remark, and at the fact that everyone was almost totally inanimate. They just sat there with blank expressions on their faces, only moving their lips to talk, and they didn't even look at each other when they spoke. I refrained from telling them that they were PART of a lucid dream. Instead I went back out to the garage. "Alright, I've got as long as I need here; time doesn't apply. I can go slowly and shapeshift something and then stabilize, and then do it again." So that's what I intended to do. However, I got overconfident and tried to shapeshift far too much at once. In shock I was thrown down to the ground. I tried to rub my hands, but it was too late. I found myself waking up in the previous dream again. The power was on.

Then I woke up for real.

"Number of DILD's since joining," you ask? Now, there have been 2

Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream

11:30pm - Tried the first time in my life for lucid dreams by this WILD technique I learned from the internet. Even though the guide said it normally takes 20-30 minutes, I reached weightlessness after 5 mins. Panicked and forced a wake up.

The time wore on to Sunday: 12/13/09 - 12:30am

Accidentally fell asleep at some unknown time until 4:00am. No memory of sleep or dreams.

At 4:30am, I accidentally fell asleep again, this time achieving lucidity.

First I was in a college dorm, not in body, but spectating like a spirit. I saw a messy desk, covered with pencils, including a single bright red one. The desk was metal and looked to be at least 25 years old. A built-in lamp was mounted beneath the top shelf and cupboard.

Instantly, I was whisked to my living room. I saw a pile of objects that my mind registered as Christmas presents. I was in body then, and handeled each object, finding them to be true to real life things that I own, only these were brand new again. I realized how outdated and deteriorated some of it has become. I saw packaging labels in crystal clarity that I've only seen once my whole life, and some other packages that don't exist, yet they were fully realistic in physics, lighting, and texture. I picked them up, dropped them, spun them around on the glass side table they were on, and found it all to function as expected.

Next I was whisked away to church, where the clarity reached its strongest point. Having not intended to try for lucidity in the first place, I now thought I was there and awake. I was talking to a couple friends of mine. I heard their voices and laughs and saw their expressions and actions in full, accurate detail. Then, another friend of mine walked up to us. "I should ask him about lucid dreaming." I thought, since he is a very knowledgeable fellow. BIG MISTAKE. He replied by going through the steps for having a WILD, directly quoting what I had read on the internet. When he reached the weightlessness part, I said, "That's what freaks me out!" And instantly I realized I was dreaming and as a result of the shock, felt as if I were being sucked into a vortex and put back on my bed.

I was stuck in paralysis. Literally. Couldn't move. A wave of weightlessness started to come over my body, beginning with my toes and moving up. I thought I was WILDing again, but since I had no visualized dream in mind, and rather than go somewhere I didn't want to, I thrust open my eyes and moved my head however I still was able. The paralysis broke when the wave reached my head. Checked the clock and only half-an-hour had gone by; 5:00 am now. I had been a bit afraid that I would get stuck in a dream for a day or more; those fears are now quelled.

I am unharmed; very disoriented, but sitting up for a moment fixed that. Actually, I felt more energetic from that half hour than from a half night of normal sleep.

The process of getting in and out of lucidity still scares me a bit, but coming through it alive makes me more than willing to try again. Besides, lucidity itself is WICKED AWESOME, DUDE!

7:52am - Now that I've fully woken up from my first lucid dreams, I diagnose that lucid dreaming itself has had no negative side effect on me. The lack of sleep is catching up to me, but otherwise I feel fine. Nothing is out of the ordinary for sleep-depravity. I intend to try lucid dreaming again this afternoon, when/where it is safe to give another trial run.

1:26pm - Tried to go to New York and fly over the city using WILD. Didn't panic at weightlessness. Wasn't calm enough, though. My excitement caused my heart to beat very rapidly, almost dangerously so, suspending me in between wake and sleep. I saw the brightness of the New York sky through closed eyelids, saw the faint image of traffic below me on an apartment deck, and heard some city noises, but intentionally left the dream due to heart overactivity. Waking like that faithfully produced a degree of disorientation, but also gave me jitters from working my heart so hard. I MUST LEARN CALMNESS!

Something I just realized is that ALL lucid dreams of mine begin and end with me seeing an eye. It frequently changes shape and occasionally other features (eyebrows, lashes, etc) appear as well.

11:45pm - Attempted to sleep without entering a WILD. Concluded from study that WILD is not the preferable method, and not very successful.
The night wore on, but every time my eyes shut, I'd begin a WILD. Began to fear that I was messing up my brain and wouldn't ever be able to get a good night's sleep again without doctor's aid. Prayed for help which quickly calmed me down and I went to sleep naturally, though it was late.

It all started a long time ago. About three or four months before I came to this site, and before I knew what lucid dreaming was. However, I had been having LDs before I knew what they were. This is what you've all been waiting for. In a dream I had, I was in a valley by a forest and train tracks. I was with some friends. Then, a giant beast and a few other smaller monsters(including one werewolf) started to attack. The giant beast was eating some of my friends(later in my dreams to be something I do)! Then, he picked me up after I tried to run. He lifted me above his head, opening his mouth. Being scared to death, I shouted,"Don't kill me! I'll join you!" Then, he put me down. Then he gestured his friends to stop killing. Then, everyone of my friends ran into a corner. They all transformed to human form. They all ganged up by me. The leader(the big monster dude who almost ate me.), asked me what kind of monster I wanted to be. I said werewolf. So, the werewolf guy transformed and bit me. And that's how I became a werewolf. The dream was so set to my mind for the rest of the week, I guess it was planted to my mind that I'm a werewolf in my dreams. So, I am. I'm pretty sure those guys are still out there in my dream world. Maybe I should meet up with them in an LD.

It started out I was on stage at a Green Day concert. The lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong...well, I think he was just bring fans on stage. It was weird. Anyway, my dad comes over and gestures for me to get down.
"You need to go buy ice cream for Mrs. Smith's kids."he said. I sighed, then did as he said. Oddly, Mrs. Smith had nine kids(totally missed DS), but she only three in real life, and in the dream they were all babies(another missed DS!). So, I journeyed to the ice cream shop. I came in. This place looked more like a burger joint rather than an ice cream shop. I proceeded to the front, where an employee stood(and he looked like he rather be eating broken glass than working here).
"How may I help you?"he said.
"Nine ice creams please."I replied.
"What kind?"
"Uh...(having no clue what they wanted)all vanilla."I said. The guy slowly got the ice cream cones together, and slowly filled them. In the meantime, I dropped my wallet on accident. Then, a girl I know came over, picked it up(and when you think she'd hand it to me), and ran out the door.
"D*** it! That's my money!"I shouted. So, using my common sense, I chased her outside and caught her. I got my money back, and I think she got arrested.
"You're harsh."she said. "Can't spare a dime." She glared at me.
"Well, excuse me! I have to buy ice cream for nine kids!" I said, returning to the shop. I know, I know. When's the werewolf part coming? Well, it's almost here, but I think it's only reasonable to post the whole dream...so sorry. And I know...long dream. So, I bought the ice cream when I came back in.
"Come again..."the employee said like he didn't care(I'm sure he didn't). So, I came back to the concert, and Armstrong was now throwing yellow heart-shaped hand grenades. Odd...very odd. Then, my dad came over with the ice cream receipt.
"You spent that much money...on ice cream?!"he shouted. Now I was p***ed. I walked away. "Get back here!" he rambled on. I ignored him, and continued on. I was a sidewalk now. Then, the world started falling around me, like I was waking up or something. I quickly reacted, by jumping fifty feet in the air! I landed, and the world stopped falling. Then, I realized something: How did I jump so high? I DON'T HAVE the ability to do that! LUCIDITY ACTIVATED! H*** yeah! About time, right? Then, I used the spinning method to do a setting change. I usually go to random places, so I did. I saw a light blue house in the new setting. It was also night time. I went into the house with caution. A woman saw me.
"Good,"she said",you're finally here. Now go fix that pipe upstairs!" I figured I'd just go upstairs, then ditch the place. However, upstairs was a room overlooking a huge swamp. Then, a group of people came in, with my mom included. Oh dear, what now?
"Hey, I have a job to do, and you're all in my way!"I said.
"They're taking you away for tests."my mom said.
"What?"I asked.
"Tests, honey. We think you're hiding something from us and we want a confession.Confess now, or take the tests."she replied. Well, I don't think I knew what I was hiding. Then, I saw a young girl, probably five years older than me. I became hungry for some odd reason. Then, it came to me. Oh yeah...I'm a werewolf in my dreams! I was still lucid, so I knew I'd get my prize. But it was not even dusk yet. So, I knew what I wanted to do.
"I'll take these tests."I said. So, the people grabbed me and transported me to a building. We stopped by a large pool outside the building.
"For the first test,"a man said"We will have you swim to the bottom of the pool."
"How deep is it?"I asked.
"Twenty feet. You will drown, and we will save you before it's too late. Don't worry, our life guards are the best."the man replied.
"H*** no!" I said. I jumped into the pool and began to swim away. Then, that girl chased me. I got to the other side where she was already waiting.
"Sorry."she said. Oh, she was gonna be sorry at moon rise. Then, she tranquilized me with a dart. I fell into the pool...all the way to the bottom. The life guards quickly saved me.
"Ready to fess up?" the man from earlier said.
"No f***in' way."I replied. I had only come here to waste time. Then, when enough time had passed, the full moon would be present, and it would be werewolf buffet time. Oddly, it's a full moon at night all the time in my dreams. Sometimes, I just don"t see it. For the next test, they tried hypnotizing me. They once again failed to make me confess. Finally, as we were about to go to another room for the next test, dusk had ended, and it was night! Then, as I was scanning the skies for the full moon...I awoke from my dream! Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! I was so close! Next LD I have, I'm hunting that girl down! To all of you who read this to be disappointed to see no werewolf action, I'm sorry. But I promise my next full LD will be werewolf filled.

Originally Posted by ineverwakeup13

I dreamed that I was a cowboy. Me and two other guys stood next to some old train tracks. We waited in silence for a train to come. Then, we heard the intense rumbling of a train rushing down the tracks. Soon, the mighty beast was in sight. I signaled the guys, and we jumped in front of it(I know, suicide.). Then, we drew our pistols(and still suicide). We fired with massive power and the train stopped with a grinding screech. We then ransacked the train. Then, the train drove away, and no other harm was done. Next, a train came by and we figured out it was delivering our own things...oops(bad call.). The next train was only fuel tanks. I warned my partners to be careful around these trains. Then, the police arrested us. I was quick to think(even though I was not lucid), and I escaped. There was a nearby school, and I put a fuel tank in it. I threatened to shoot it. The police gave me my partners back and we continued shooting up trains until I awoke.

Originally Posted by ineverwakeup13

So I dreamed I was working for someone, and I was testing their newest invention. It's a collar that can control your mind. It gives you a desire to do stuff. When your desire is able to be done, there is no stopping yourself. The desire put into my collar was to "attack" girls. And by "attack," I mean...well, it's probably something you don't want to know. When the collar activates, it strangles you, then, you can do what ever you want as you normally would, but your desire will stop you. And, you never know when the collar will be activated. So, I'm on the bus, and,well, you guessed it...the collar activates. So now, I'm "attacking" all the girls on my bus. But, the collar had a button, which I could turn myself invisible with. Then, I noticed:Hey, we DON'T HAVE cloaking technology! LUCIDITY ACTIVATED! Another successful MILD! So now, I'm lucid, and I can go do what I want now right? WRONG! The collar was still on, which means this lucid dream is not so 100% lucid! Now, how about that? Being controlled in an LD! So now, the collar's off, and I go home. Then, some girl I know ends up at my house. She had heard about the people who I was testing the collar for. So guess what? Yup, the collar activates, and then, two goons from the army show up with guns! I easily destroy their weapons, and they flee with the girl. I chase them without wanting to. But I was still lucid. I chased them all the way to my school. Then, I lost track of them in the locker room. Two boys came over to stop me, and I beat the crap out of them! I think I even killed one of them! The collar turned off again, and went into the Gym. There were lots of girls leaving the Gym. And yet again, the collar turns on! I'm outside, making a scene in front of all the girls. The collar is strangling me, and I'm trying to pull it off. The girls were dumb enough to stand there and watch, not knowing what I was going to do to them. Then , I shouted for help, and my friend came outside. But it was too late. The collar was in charge now.
"Oh f***!" I said. And then I started to chase the girls. They ran, and separated. I followed a small group of girls, and caught up with them. So, I "attacked." I woke up soon however.

?:Has anyone here ever been controlled in a lucid dream?

Originally Posted by ineverwakeup13

So it started out I was on a small island somewhere. It was a very urban island. Tall monuments and buildings. Then, just like out of nowhere, a godzilla-sized centipede comes out of the water! I nearly crapped my dream pants. Then, it rolled up into a ball and started to roll through the the city, smashing all in it's 400-foot tall path of destruction.
"Run!" a pedestrian shouted. I started to run like a cheetah. Then, I stopped.
Wait, I thought. Centipedes can't grow that large! LUCIDITY ACTIVATED! I new how to kill this thing now. THROUGH THE POWER OF LUCIDITY! Well, actually just the power of my common sense. I went to the airport and got into an F-16. I took off and quickly defeated that 100-legged red beast. Then I decided it was time for a setting change. I changed the setting (without the spinning method this time.), to a suburban area. It was night time. Then, several werewolves surrounded me. They were not in attack mode though. They new I was their alpha-male. I gazed upon the light of the full moon. Then, I started to transform. Soon I was a full werewolf.
We started of by going through the houses. Then we split up. It was catching time now. I turned a corner, and In saw a girl sitting on a concrete bench next to a small wishing well. She got up and walked away. Not so fast, I thought. Then, I chased my prey. I jumped onto her. She fell. Then, I killed my prey, and as all werewolves do...ate it. Typical food chain there. (Loaf, if you are reading this, I shall inform you I didn't turn the meat down this time, and I was lucid, unlike last time I didn't turn it down.) I fled the scene and awoke moments later.

Originally Posted by ineverwakeup13

There I was playing Rock Band in my friends living room with him. I was having fun. Then, we heard noises outside. We went outside, and UFOs were landing! Then as I so randomly did a RC, I noticed my friends house was completely different. LUCIDITY ACTIVATED! Now I had the upper hand.
"Stay here!" I said to my friend. Then I did a super jump into a UFO. I quickly retrieved info from it an got out. I skimmed through the info cards, and then destroyed them. There plan,(Obviously) was to destroy humanity. I quickly summoned a military force, and some jets. We destroyed the aliens. Now we were safe. Then I awoke.

Originally Posted by ineverwakeup13

So there I was sitting in the middle of a death arena. I had to kill three beasts. An Elite from Halo, a Tyranitar from Pokemon, and a Brute from Halo. My supplies were, a DC-15 Blaster Rifle from Star Wars. A jet-pack, a shield, and blue shining armor. These blood-thirsty beasts had me in mind as their next satisfying meal. I wasn't gonna let that happen. They all charged me. I flew into the desert air with my jet-pack, and they all collided. Smash! My jet-pack ran out of juice, so I landed and had to wait for it to power back up. I loaded my rifle, and fired. Several blue blaster-bolts fired and pieced the skin of the tan killer Brute. To my surprise, it died. One down. Two to-
"AH!" I screamed. I felt a piercing pain in my arm. The Tyranitar had bit it. reaching for my dropped rifle, I noticed I had plasma grenades from Halo. He charged at me again to kill me this time. I reacted quickly, I drew a grenade and threw it in his mouth. His head exploded into pieces. And the 600-pound beast fell to the sandy turf, dead.
It wasn't over yet. Now the Elite charged me again. I charged it as well. Both of our heads collided. Then, I used some sort of life-saving move. I was okay, and the Elite's neck snapped. The giant blue beast fell to the ground dead. I had won. Then, I woke up. Two LDs in one night! Awesome!

Originally Posted by ineverwakeup13

So I dream ed that I was in my school. Some kids were chasing me to steal my valuables, which for some odd reason was my school supplies. They chased me up the stairs and they finally took my stuff. They ran off with it. Then, I noticed more stairs. They were never there before. I went up. I saw priceless antiques. There were watches, jewels, everything you could imagine. I saw a watch I wanted. I went to go and take it.
"Don't touch it." A voice said. I turned around and a man in a brown suit was standing there.
"Sorry, I didn't-"
"Don't be child. This is my hidden antique shop. And you may buy one item."he said. I thought, oh, another stupid DC. I didn't have enough money to afford anything there. So I summoned a pistol. Just before I could draw it, my mother showed up! She came up, bought something, and finally left. Then, he showed me some of his cheap antiques.
"Maybe this is affordable." he said.
"Maybe I can give you some free lead!" I shouted drawing the gun. I shot him. He fell down the stairs. Two police men showed up to the body, and of course, looked up.
"Murderer!" one of them shouted pointing at me. Uh-oh. I jumped down off the stairs and ran. Then, I heard gunshots.
"AH!" I shouted as a piercing breath-taking pain seared through my thigh. I was hit. But I was still on the run. I ran up to the third floor. They shot me again, this time in the back. Then, I was shot again in the arm. I ran downstairs. I was shot again. Right in the leg. I ran into the art room. And of course, the first thing everyone saw was the gun in my hand. They screamed. The art teacher calmed them down.
"Hide back there!" he told me. I ran to the hiding spot and sat down. I was now sitting in a pool of my own blood. A friend ran over and sat down to help me. Then, I woke up.

09.06.2010

Why Doesn't Anyone Believe Me? (WBTB)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

After I had my last dream I was determined to have a longer WBTB. I focused on bringing back the beer tap onto my wall. I opened my eyes and began messing with a small square of metal that was loosely screwed into my wall. Instantly recognizing that it didn't belong, I knew I was lucid and decided to tighten the screws to increase lucidity.

My room was so vivid and exact, I didn't want to believe I was asleep. It was the most real dream I've ever had. I got out of bed very slowly. It felt real. I grabbed my cell phone. I didn't know what to expect when I turned it on, but it seemed to function normally until I turned on the camera. I could see through my wall and to the street behind my house. It was still dark outside, and the headlights were bright on the screen of my phone. When I looked up from the screen there were people in my room holding onto handles similar to those on buses. They smiled at me as I understood the fact that I was dreaming and that the dream was stable. I walked out of my room, and to the stairs. I could hear my extended family downstairs. It was time to make a grand entrance. I glided downstairs and touched down like Superman does in the movies, one foot before the other.

I could see my aunt sitting on the couch. I decided that I should show my family that I was dreaming. I flexed my biceps and willed them to grow to ridiculous size. It got a good chuckle, and my dad patted me on the back while saying something about how I was special. I didn't think much of it. I remember walking to the entryway in my house as he told be about a new sitcom that was supposedly the funniest show ever made. I told him I'd give it a chance, but I knew that the show didn't exist.

To explain my next feat, I must describe my entry way. When you walk in my house and look straight up, you can see the landing of th second floor. It overlooks the entryway, and it is guarded from accident by a wooden banister. From floor to ceiling in the open part of the entryway is at least 16'. I wanted to get back to my room in a fun way, so I jumped from the wood floor by the door all the way up to the wooden banister. I grabbed it on my way up and used my momentum to swing myself over it and onto the carpet of the second floor. I strolled back into my room and asked myself aloud what I wanted to do next. The first thought that came into my head was to have my girlfriend come over. I grabbed my phone and decided to meet her downstairs. This time I actually walked down the steps, but I decided first to test my dream strength on the wall by the steps. After all, it wasn't real. I punched a massive hole through the wall, smiled at myself, and went downstairs. My lucidity was starting to fade, because I was losing sight of what I wanted, but I still knew that I was in control.

I went into the garage, and I could see that my youngest brother and my little sister were playing outside. I told them I was dreaming, but they didn't believe me. That attitude changed when I made it rain chocolate pudding. My little brother wasn't pleased, but my sister, Jenna, loved the idea of me making it rain lemonade, so I changed the rain to floating glasses of lemonade. The sun shining through them was pretty, and I stepped outside to get a better look.

The dreamscape started to change, and I was in a backyard with people I didn't know. One was playing a silver trumpet, and I asked if I could play. It's been a long time since I've played, but being a music major in real life, I figured lucid-me would be able to do so. Wrong. I sounded just like I do in real life: so-so. That was the last thing I had control over. My lucid dream was ending, and I had no control over when my college counselor came out of my garage to talk to me about my schedule for the fall. I could see myself following her into the garage, but I was waking up, and that's the last thing I remember.

Originally Posted by Man of Shred

Lots of dreams about picnic tables.


Breaking into Jail

I'm going up a hill with someone. Maybe Alternate Asuka... We enter a building that's like a prison. We are trying to enter it. Some Dcs come up to us and tell us in Kaelin sees us he's going to kill us. I see kaelin come up to us and he says it's ok that we are here but we should leave.

I briefly remember leaving.

Car

I briefly remember visiting my neighbor tony... but later I am driving a car down the street. Tony runs up to us really fast. But he looks like Matt. he has long hair dyed blue. He is smiling and laughing about something.

Jail again.

Briefly Remember leaving this jail with Asuka. We walk down a long path until it's nightfall. I become Semi lucid. I briefly ask how how I leave this place. She says meditate by the tree. I find a huge tree and sit in front of it. I begin meditating. I feel myself merge with the tree.



Don Juan at my picnic table

I'm sitting outside in my back yard. I'm sitting on a picnic table. Very vague dream. But it's more like I am in two dreams at once. In one I'm sitting on the picnic table talking to Don juan Matus. I consciously shift to another dream where I am sitting with Raven Knight at the table. I am relaying the information from don Juan to her. I'm sure the information is specifically for her. But for some reason I have to take his info and then give it to her. Something about how she doesn't have enough personal power to reach him. But he's leaving me with instructions for her from him. I think it's a way to reach him. Since she wasn't supposed to remember the information from our previous meeting with him. He was rather impressed that she was able to pull the information out anyway.

He thinks it could be an ongoing friendship with her. where he relays to her information that she writes down. She may be able to put it down in a book. But first. She must do something for him.. she must follow his instructions he has given her in order to reach him. She must keep and follow these instructions for herself. If she has a super hard time understanding them however, she is allowed to tell some of it to myself, I can give her hints.

Sorry Raven that's the most I can recall.

Alternate Asuka at my picnic table

She's telling me that since I have my Asuka back. She should probably leave and continue her journey to figure out her path. She might check up on the MoSh I visited. But she might look into other options. She thanks me for allowing her to stay. I tell her she's welcome to come by anytime and visit us, just in case she needs support.

Cacophony at my picnic Table

I'm with C at my picnic table. She's telling me that she's not ignoring me. She hopes she wasn't giving me the wrong idea by not getting a hold of me lately. She keeps saying sorry. She says something like there's something that is priority. Not sure. She hopes we can continue our friendship. She then gives me some gift wrapped in some sort of cloth.

Clean

I'm in some place like a garden section of Home Hardware. there is some girl cleaning and doing a really good job. Some lady compliments me, that my girlfriend is really good at cleaning.

Originally Posted by Man of Shred

Not so great Recall last night. Woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't go back to sleep. I'll include some dreams from the other night as well.

Walking

Flash of walking with Asuka in some town. we enter some park where there is some intersecting walkway paths. We take the longer route to talk more.

Brief Lucid

I'm falling asleep and find myself at work. Everything looks different so I RC. but the dream fades out.

note: I should keep RCing at work!

Recalling Dreams From a parallel Universe.

I'm in bed and I start remembering flashes of dreams I had a few days ago. I vividly remember lying in bed and remembering these dreams. But I actually don't remember remembering them. It's like they are my dreams but they belong to someone else. They are my dreams but so foreign.

I get up and Asuka is there. I say. "Are you helping me recall dreams from your MoSh that died?"
She nods. "Well stop it." I say. "It's freaking the fuck out of me. I have enough on my plate as it is already.". She says sorry and starts crying.

Teleporting

I'm outside my house in olds. Some new people are moving in. I try to talk to them but they completely Ignore me. I walk down the street to Uptown.

Later I enter a building. I get semi lucid and find myself in a strange building. I feel like I have to teleport somewhere. I see a yellow box that's finger painted by children or something. I remember I once teleported in a dream by going inside a cardboard box, thinking of the place and then opening it. I go into the box but can't close it. The edges are covered with fresh candle wax. I pull the edges together anyway while wax continually drips on me.

I give up and decide to try and manifest a bigger cardboard box. someone else is with me now disguised as my cousin. It's the alternate Asuka. but I don't realize it's her. She asks me what I'm doing. I say I am trying to teleport to an alternate universe, and I need a carboard box. She says she'll help. We enter another room and find a cardboard paper. for some reason I am writing a message on it. The Asuka says i should give up my message and she'll help me make a teleportation device.


WTF

I enter a building like a music hall. Some strange girl runs up to me and says "OMG you're that awesome guitar player from youtube." She grabs my neck and strangles me while continuing to shout that she's happy to meet me. I have some mixed feelings about this.

alternate me

i am in a familiar bar. I am with someone. Ileave him for a while and go back to the table. He's drinking himself silly. I try and tell him that there's an Asuka he can meet in case mine dies like his did. He drinks more and whines that he'd never remember her anyway. He even ruined all of his friendships with Nomad, Walms, Cacophony, Sererenity, and others. And his Raven is continually trying to heal him in dreams and it's pissing him off. I tell him if he doesn't have his act together by the time My asuka gets her flame back. I'll keep both Asuka's to myself. then I thank him for reminding me where I don't want to end up.

Nomad

Vague dream where I was with nomad and Cacophony. can't remember the details. but I remember it was a good dream.

even tho I am trying to not focus on shared dreaming... I still wind up with others... go figure.

The grounding continues.

Originally Posted by ElsiaStar

My second LD: 12-19-08

OK so it was a school day and a friday. I woke up at 5:30am and immediatly turned on the news channel to see if they closed my school because it was a blizzard outside. And of course we did. Snow day!! Anyways, I went back to sleep and tried a WILD. It worked right away. I appeared in this creepy place with dark trees and I looked down at my hands and they looked odd so I knew I must be dreaming. Then I transported myself to the high school pool for some reason and I started drowning.. thats all I remember.

It was a very short LD and very random, but better than nothing.