nightmare

Most Frightening:
This only lasted a few seconds but I saw a face, ugly and rotted. a twisted beast of anger, hatred, and possibly pure evil.

Second most frightening:
It is my birthday everyone is at my house. We are laughing and having fun. Then terrorists appear and start shooting. They bring a body bag onto the yard, I know their boss is inside. A rotted corpse in an EMS uniform rips out of the bag and threatens me and my family. I am powerless to stop him.

Comments welcome.

Comments non-lucid Lucid

I felt like I have had an introduction to this dream before. I recognized the bridge in it.

A family, which are depicted as members of my family are preparing to stay in a cabin / house on a tiny little island in something resembling to a fjord. The island only had room for a house with a floor. The house was white with dark brown lists. It was a great and wide wooden bridge to get to the island. At the bridge there is an old man with a blanket over him and a cap on his head sitting in a wheelchair. He has two holes where the left eye should have been. As if the eye had become skin tissue and was punctured. But they have said previously in a dream that he was not dead. The atmosphere is hazy, and over the bridge, I see only a mountain sticking up from the earth that goes sky high. The rest is just swamp, not a road even. Further than just across the bridge I do not see because of fog. Around the hut was only heather, all the way to the water.

There was a baby there, portrayed as Stewie Griffin from Family Guy. He played in the heather on the west side of the cabin when I heard some voices from nowhere and he argued with them. He died of some reason and the man in the wheelchair drove him west from the cabin with a pickup truck. On a road that did not exist. Later, the father and daughter (my sister and dad) are discussing something I don't remember, while she looked down into the water on her reflection. They stood on the north east side of the cabin. It felt like she were suicidal. I felt that everyone in the family would die.

Dream skip until night. The whole family sat and watched the reflection of a very similar cabin on the other side. The father explained that the same happens to the cabin as it happens with this. If it burned, this one burned also. I saw that the hut was burning and that this one also did, then the image disappeared. I now have a sort of guided tour of everything in place before I wake up again. Just like as the dream wanted me to remember it. I woke up.

You may call it a nightmare, but it didn't frighten me even though it was some pretty freaky images there. Like the old man with holes in his eye.

So this was disturbing. It was a nightmare not in a fearful sense, but the contents of the dream caused me great discomfort, even upon waking.

I had a dream that for reasons unknown to me, I was supposed to move a dog and 2 cats from a cage they were in, to a blanket outside on the grass. It was horrific because they were sliced in half, yet still ALIVE AND BREATHING, their two halves only hanging on by their spine, which was not cut. So as I'm holding the cats i feel their two halves in various weights shifting up and down in my grasp but they're light so I kept them pretty steady. At one point when I returned for the dog, one of the cats got up and was trying to walk and his guts were slowly drooping out. The dog, being heavier was insanely disturbing and depressing to move because I couldn't seem to find a balance in his two halves, they just kept shifting up and down between my arms and his wiggling was not helping.

I wanted nothing more than to kill them to put them out of their misery, but I just couldn't sum up the ability to do it. I woke up feeling nauseous and with a greater sense and urge for living with a vegetarian or vegan diet. The dogs whimpers still haunt me.

01/31/2011
Dream One (a)
"Extinction-Level Event"

(This was the most horrifying, emotional set of dreams I have had in a while...)

The Earth had been invaded.
High above what could have been every major city in the world, as far as I knew, massive alien spacecrafts hovered. They had come on the scene and looked down upon us, over the span of about 3 days. We never once got to see what these aliens looked like. Instead, they communicated with us telepathically, without ever having to leave their vessels. At first, they didn't say much. I really don't remember if they said anything at all, the first few days. They just kind of loomed over our heads, apparently observing us. Their intentions, at this point, were completely unclear.

Life somewhat continued, even with the presence of our 'visitors,' looming overhead. One day, I had made a few rounds to see some old friends. I know I saw quite a few of my people, but the only ones that really stood out were my baby's mom (who I'll call "G"), and an old "friend with benefits." There was another ex who I believe I might have seen as well, but I'm not exactly sure. Anyway, at one point, G and girl #2 sort of merged and became one person, with different attributes from both (and, of course, I didn't find this strange enough to become lucid ). We went to a fast-food restaurant and either the person on the drive-thru headset couldn't hear me, or there was some other reason why the girl(s) ended up having to go inside through a back door, while I pulled the car around front. Later that night, we were back at an apartment that we were apparently sharing, except I had my own room, and she had one. Despite the knowledge that there were enormous, city-sized space-ships hovering high over our heads, it seemed like a pretty normal night. She ended up going to sleep early, and it wasn't until well into the night that I remembered she had the bag of food with her, and it was now locked away in her room. I didn't feel like waking her up to get it, though, and just shrugged it off. The next morning, she was simply back to G's normal self. All resemblance of the other girl had vanished. It was on the third day (I believe) of their occupation, that the aliens finally decided to give us some insight. Not bothering to pay us any door-to-door visits, the beings simply beamed their thoughts into our heads. We were informed, rather matter-of-factly, that our entire species was about to be exterminated, and that, since they had took up positions that would allow their weapons to sweep over the entire planet, any attempts of escape were completely unnecessary. Armageddon was upon us, and there was nothing we could do about it.

Panic. It barely even had enough time to set in, before the bombing began. Thunderous booms shook our apartment, each one seeming as if were right outside our window. I was absolutely terrified - not so much of death, itself, but the thought of suffering until death. G was, surprisingly, not very affected by the situation. She seemed 100% sure that we were not going to suffer; that it would be quick, painless and peaceful. The chorus of explosions - stomping around the area outside - didn't instill the same sort of confidence within me. With my eyes wide with fear, and my voice the epitome of hysteria, I screamed at her the possibility of our building collapsing, and the two of us being caught in the rubble for God knows how long, our bodies broken, buried, and left to die, waiting for hope that would never come. Amazingly, she responded with a scoff. "Pfft. That only happens in movies," she said. I was floored, immediately switching from frightened to furious that she would just dismiss such a likely scenario. I said "what are you talking about?! Being get trapped in collapsed buildings all the time!! Don't you watch the news?!" My tirade was cut short by a few more deafening blasts, even closer than the previous ones. The entire building shook, and I was actually thrown off of my feet. This one apparently rattled G as well, because we both grabbed each other and huddled together on the bed - our heads ducking in unison; hearts jumping out of our chests with each successive bang from outside.

I was a complete wreck. I don't know that I've ever been so scared. Unable to control my fear, I burst into tears, absolutely terrified of the horrible death that would soon be coming for us. But, once again, G remained rather stoic. She held me close, cradling my head to her, and actually began singing to me to console me! (It was just the most incredible situation, seeing as how I'm usually the one with my head screwed on during stressful times.) Suddenly, there was one final BOOM, right on top of us, and everything went black. (The whole thing reminded me of the final scene in Cloverfield.)

In the 3 or 4 seconds of darkness, I received a message. I can't recall if I saw it in my field of vision, or if it was just telepathic. The message was just kind of 'there.' The message was "You and your daughter..." and that was it. I have absolutely no idea what it was supposed to mean, or where it came from. (Oddly enough, my daughter never made an appearance in the dream.)


Dream One (b) (FA)
I suddenly 'awoke' on the same bed, eyes full of tears. I looked around the room, which seemed completely undisturbed, and found G sitting on the floor. There were pizza boxes stacked on some of the furniture, and G looked as if we'd just been lounging around the house, shooting the shit all day. Sitting up with a start, I frantically asked her about the aliens, and why the bombing would have just suddenly stopped. She looked at me like she didn't have any clue what the fuck I was talking about. My mind raced. I was thinking that there was just no way I could have imagined all of that. With an extreme sense of urgency, I asked her to tell me what the date was. She didn't know it, so I asked her what day of the week it was, and she said Tuesday. Tuesday, I remembered, was the day that the aliens had actually showed up. I had been transported back to Tuesday...but there were no aliens this time! The only thing I could keep asking myself was 'How is this possible??'

G looked over at the window, a bright light flooding into the room. Passively, she said "that's really pretty," and I was immediately alarmed. I looked out the window, myself, expecting to seeing the bright, swelling light of a nuclear explosion, ready to brace for yet another inevitable shock wave. However, there was no explosion. It was just the sun, rising into the sky, at the beginning of this new day. There really were no aliens, this time. I wasn't able to believe - for one minute - that what I had experienced was a dream. Instead, I figured that I was somehow given another chance at life. I had somehow been transported back to that Tuesday, but without the threat of attack. The human race was no longer in danger of being exterminated. Relief doesn't even begin to describe how I felt. I was practically shaking. The emotions flooded back into me, and I began to cry softly. My eyes remind dry, but if the tears had come, they would have been tears of joy for simply being alive.

(When I woke up from this dream, I felt like I had a hole in my chest. I was completely emotionally drained, and I just sat and stared at the floor for a good five minutes. There is really nothing like honestly believing you are about to die, and then suddenly waking up, safe and sound in your bed. I was numb for a good portion of the day, after coming back from this insane trip.)

Ok. I couldn't get on yesterday so...
1-28-11
dream1. I was at Atlantic...or Ardent...records. I watched as Skillet recorded an acoustic version of a song. It was "Never Surrender". Ben was singing. When they were done, Ben told me that he'd sang 2 others and I got this "ohhh" look on my face. THen I woke up.

dream2. I was with a dream version of Alucinor, I think. I asked him when I'd get better dream control. "Alucinor" told me I would get better after a while. Then I woke up.

Last night.
Dream1. I was at my house. I was in my living room. I held a card that had a pic of Frodo and the ring on it. A RingWraith appeared in my house and demanded I gave him the card. I didn't. I ran into the hallway and we began to negotiate. I saw that the door to my room was open and I ran in there and locked the door. The 7ft tall RingWraith said I'd regret that and I pressed my back against the door, to keep him from forcing it open. He punched it open and I hid behind the door, screaming, "Oh please no. No no no! NO!!!" as he thrust his sword into my side and I screamed, "Oh God help me!! GAHHGHGH!!!!" Then I "died" and woke up @ 2:48am, sweating and freaking out.

Hi Guys.
I just started to write my DreamJournal right now because i experienced something completely new this night.
I think actually it has been my next step in lucid dreaming...
Last week i got a quite similiar experience!
So lets start:
Iam reading much about Wild and all the other methods of achieving Lucidity .
Since then ive been starting to concentrate on my state of mind and to repeat the sentence " Am i dreaming right now?" as soon as iam trying to sleep
I mean as soon as iam trying to lucid dream!
The dream started at a huge Soccer Hall. The game which has been played is a combination of soccer and volleyball.
I was going to participate at this game. After a while running around and living this at some parts more or less obvious dream...
I came into a second dream. You have to know that this first dream had been very long and that I somehow ( even that I didnt write my DreamJournal the last few weeks) remembered incredible much. In general i remembered four dreams. Two of them lucid.
Because i havent been lucid in this first dream iam gonna skip further information.
The second dream began when i was driving in a car with 2 friends through a dark forest.
After some time driving a guy occured on the left side of the street.
A small axe was sticking in his body and he was looking quite badly hurt.
I told my friend that he should hit the gas pedal and "fuckin" drive away!
"This is insane!" i said and watched the event happen.
He said that he would like to see what happened and help this guy.
he slowed down and this guy came closer.
After some seconds he almost reached our car.
By coming closer we recognized that something has to be wrong with this fella...
and it looked like he must be a zombie or something similiar.
The driver now startet to get intimidated but it was to late...
The guy reached the car and stopped it somehow!
His skin turned green and he grew immense some moments later.
I started to feel strong fear!
He opened the door with the intension to get to us.
He was not speaking nothing just breathing and coming closer!
In this moment i realized that this cant be real and that i must be dreaming.
I thought " Dont fear anything - its your world your rules your dream".
Accept the fact and just let this moment happen!
By realizing this great truth he touched me and probably killed me and i would have been waking up.
Fact is that my mind state of awareness changed this completely.
I moved into one of those beeings and now knew that i was dreaming.
I changed myself into a human beeing again and started to walk down the road.
I watched my Hands and tried to feel the whole Dimension around me telling myself that iam dreaming and that
i should keep cool all the time - just realx! dont get stressed! dont lose your control!
So i kept moving and now i started to look around me to identify the obstacles and buildings around me.
I noticed that they were build from my memories.
In germany we got this one shop called Edeka but in my dream it has been called edeko...
Just an example for the little tiny differences to the "Reallity".
I tried to fly - like i always do and it worked quite well at the beginning.
Like usually after soem moments my old problem occured that i had to start to swim to fly... I dont like that Boundary but ive got to break through the next days!
So now i thought about creating the reallity around me and came down to the ground.
I thought about a huge mountain with rocks and a great landscape.
I saw how this reality started to rise up around me.
It was awesome!
Somehow without any of my creative intension water began to fill the area around me.
So much water that i was not able to keep standing where ive been.
I got to jump up on a rock not to get into the water.
I thought "hey dude - this is your dream keep the water away!"
but it was impossible. Hitting this rock with my hands created a really bad pain and i was wondering about it cause it has been in my dream and i was conscious about it.
Finally before the water reached me i jumped up to fly away.
Like i told you before it didnt work... so i "swam" some metres up in the air and fell down into the water.
Shortly before hitting the water i realized that i should wake up by falling there. Like i always did in my dream experience before.
So this time i kept lucid and conscoius and hit the water.
Instead of waking up i entered a new dream starting in a Bathroom in a bathtube arising out of the water.
It started quite similiar to this last dream cause i was pretty scared and i got the same fear based feeling in the beginning.
After some thoughts i got me fearless again and stepped out.It was completely dark and i left the room.
There i met a good female friend of mine and we started to have sex ^^ - i was lucid and horny so ... iam not sorry for that.
It was great . Some minutes passed and i met another friend. Talking relaxing and beeing.
Another non lucid dream followed.
I dont care about this one right here right now.
I am not able to show in english how presize this dream has been.
It was incredible.
So much detail and such a long state of beeing lucid over more than one dream.
An awesome experience for me.
It was some kind oft mixture of WILD and DILD.
Cause i got this "hallucinations" fore 1 hour in the sleep paralysis state and woke up after them feeling like i slept but thinking that i was awake.
Then the lucid dream chain started and ihave been lucid for quite a long time experiencing many new things of lucidity.
Thats all i got to say about it.
If somebody got quite similiar chain dreamings please let me know and tell me what you have experienced.
KEEP on DREAMING!
Blessings Chris

Non-Lucid Lucid Nightmare

I had my first lucid and it was the first time I remembered more than one dream. And all of this happened in one night. I think the dream journals must be having an effect. Now I just have to remember to post them on the site.

W.I.L.D

After several futile attempts at wilding I realized that I was not putting much effort into it. I told my self this time I would wild. I lied down and counted my breaths. The first change I noticed was that my breathing became much lighter and easy. I also felt slightly euphoric and numb. I did not experience and of the visual or auditory effects from SP reported by other Dreamviews members. Instead It was purely physical. When I was closer there was a light buzzing at the tips of my toes and fingers. As I got distracted or excited the buzz would fade but I remained persistent. Finally after I got passed the buzzing, It felt like my stomach and chest were being pelted by volleyballs and my back and legs felt like they were lanes for very heavy bowling balls. I was then dragged down into a dream. I instantly knew it was a dream but I was so disoriented by the pelting I received that I panicked and jumped out of my dream bed in my dream room without stabilizing the dream. Every thing was heavily blurred and I felt disoriented. I reality checked immediately by looking at my hands. That was a mistake. I became even more disoriented seeing 8 fingers on one hand. After that I was pulled into my body. I woke in my bed.

My first WILD was very short but I was still surprised how different it felt from dreaming. I am looking forward to experimenting in my dreams when I get the hang of it. I hope the abuse I received in SP is a one time deal.

I figured one lucid for the night was good enough so I headed for normal sleep.

Dream 1- Alien Incursion

I heard noises on the other side of the door, It must have come from the alien ship that just started it's boarding of mine. If I did not lock down the door fast enough the invaders would slaughter everyone on the ship. Everyone new once they enter the ship there would be no stopping them. The door was successfully locked down before they came through. I suddenly heard the invaders attempting to access another door. I ran down the hall and quickly locked down that door too. I looked out the window into space and saw 5-8 hive ship's closing in on my ship. I woke up.

After reading this again it sounds like it could have been a nightmare but I remember being quite calm and relaxed.

Dream 2- Wire across the road/ Allergies

I was walking down the road when I saw 2 kids string a navy blue rope across a road. They thought I was there to tell them to take down the rope but I told them It was fine but they had to move the rope farther down the road. For some reason when it was restrung farther down the road it had feathers on it. A truck drove by and hit the rope and some how got damaged. I went to get the kids mother who's house was next to where they originally set up the rope. As I entered the house the first thing I noticed is that feathers were scattered all along the floor. The mother was standing in the center of the entry way. I was worried that if one of the kids had allergies from the feathers the allergic reaction could be lethal. Suddenly the mother collapsed on her knees looking very pale. She barley managed to say that I had to get the feathers out of the house. Damn I thought it was the mother who had the allergy. As I ran to move her out of the house I woke up.

Dream 3- The worlds weirdest Biology exam

This was probably one of the longest dreams I have had yet. Because It was so long I can't remember the correct order of these fragments.

The main story surrounding all these fragments is that I was staying in an old mansion with my classmates. The mansion in this dream was apparently the former home of Marry Queen of Scots. To pass our Biology exam we had to eat a Pice of Mary's corpse. I should probably play Nazi Zombies in the afternoon.

As we were briefed about how we would eat the corpse, I looked up at the sky. At first there was nothing, then stars in the hundreds filled the sky. They were dazzling. Instead of the blue dots we see in the sky it was almost as if the sky filled with hundreds of suns while still being able to maintain the darkness...

My room mate and I were not happy about the Idea of having to eat a corpse or the pizza our teachers decided to bring in so we agreed on getting some ramen during the night and just fail the exam. We ran down from the mansion at incredible speed. The forest we passed was just a blur. When we finally arrived at a convenient store we grabbed some chopsticks, broke them and then filled the ramen cups with hot water...

Before going out of the mansion I was about to pick up an umbrella until I looked at it closer. The face on the end of the handle was Marry queen of scots. Her face was pale as if she was dead. I think there may have been blood painted on her face but I am not sure. There was also a strand of human hair on it. This freaked me out and made me leave the umbrella where it was... I still don't know why the hair freaked me out more then the dead carved face.

I was in a theme park the next day after the exam. I was talking with my friend again at the theme park next to the mansion. He was complaining about how the rides were old and no fun to ride. I then woke up...

Hadn't had time yesterday to post them, so here they are.

#1 -semi nightmare-

Me, Mike and Amedeo (both friends IRL) are in Goes on the way home. Mike was teasing me because he would be home earlier then me.
So I took a faster route and I could hear Mike say "Damint, now he's faster!".

Suddenly, it starts to rain very, very hard, but I continued down the road on my motor driven bicycle.
The out of nowhere, I'm pulled into the air, onto a rooftop and I'm some weird freaky combination of a bat/vampire and a man.
Then I would fall of the rooftop and the dream would repeat itself, starting from the rain, for quiet some time.

I woke up quiet afraid after this dream, which happend before my WBTB

#2

I don't know exactly what happend, where I am, but I am with my dream girl in what seems to be a bathroom, without a shower, bath an toilet. Only a mirror and some cabinets (the one I have in my bathroom).
I know it is all part of a (epic) story, but I can't remember it.

We can use magic, and she is better at it then me. We have some kind of a remote, with allot of buttons, with which we can change the power of our magic.
She tells me to press "Double", which will double our magic powers. I tell her there's also a "Max" button, but she tells me that would be to much.
Then a strange man comes into the bathroom, he felt evil. We send him away with our magic. I tried to create fire, and although after the "double" button it went quiet well, she was still so much better at it.

Suddenly we are both naked. I saw her cloths lying on the floor, but I can't see mine, they just dissapeared it seems.
She comes closer to me and kissed me on the cheeck, then she looked at the mirror. I see she has an beautifull body.
I feel the urge to touch her, but somehow I make the choiche not to, because somehow, it doesn't feel right.
She had to leave, but she tells me she will come back.

*blank*

I was transfered to another person ( It seems like I'm some kind of apprentice), because "she" is gone.
The new one's a bit nerdy, black hair, glasses and kinda workaholic. She doesn't talk much because she's always bussy.
I walk past her working space and see she's out, probbably on some break, when I see her bra laying around. I resist the urge to grab it and keep on walking.

In this deam, sometimes a could decide what I would do.

#3

Me and 5 other people are on the run from the cops. The only thing I know is that we did something wrong in the beginning of the dream.
We run around some house, and I hope there's an helicopter in the garden.
There isn't an helicopter, but there are 3 jetskis. Where all jump in the water and just when I climb on a jetski, we see 3 more. So now that everyone has a jetski, we make our escape. We dive underwater and ride them for some time, sometimes breaking the surface for air.

*blank*

I'm explaining Mike how we made our escape on jetskis, and I show him how we went underwater and sometimes had to break the surface for air.

Hello, everyone! My scary yet enjoyable nightmares start here: I woke up and went outside my room into the hallway. (Dream, also at my grandmas house) Suddenly, a huge object crashed into the house. To make things worse, I could not move and barley speak. After about 6-7 seconds, a small dog came out of my room. It was very colorful and had HUGE eyes! I very weakly said,"Grandma... Grandma... ." She obsessively could not hear me. I woke up.
The End

Hello, everyone! My nightmare starts here: Me and my brother, Killian, were going to our grandmas house to get new batteries for our Game Cube controller. We get there and our grandma gives us some batteries and we go home but on the way there, unsuspected maintenance is needed on the road. So we ride our bicycles down this eerie forest. We go over this big hill and I fall of my Bicycle. The batteries fell out of the controller and suddenly Killian yelled,"Run MrPWNGE, Run!"(Not my actual name, lol)
I look up and see the grudge but she was a he and he had a knife!
i was stubbed and woke up insistently. Thank God!!! lol
The End

Hello, everyone! This is my epic nightmare: I woke up in bed (Dream, also non-lucid) and I noticed one of my big stuffed animals (Lion) were gone. I go outside my room and into the kitchen and see him sleeping in the laundry room. I slowly walk to my parents room and I don't see them anywhere. I walk back out and trip on something and hear a growl. Take a wild guess what that is. I don't even have to look around, it is clearly my stuffed animal lion. I do a back flip and the dream go's into 3rd person view, also it becomes slow-mode. It then zooms at the lions mouth and my finger, nearly a inch away from biting it off. right before the back flip ends, I do a back-wards kick so I can kick the door open. Kind of a matrix nightmare, isn't it?
After I kick the door open, I close it as fast as possible. I then go to the back of the room to open the closet so I can hide in it. apparently, my family had the intention to do the same! I found everyone, my two brothers, my mom and dad, everyone. They were all just hiding there. About 6/7 seconds later I woke up scared to death! (Hey, give me credit! I was 4 or 5 when this happened! You my think it's funny but to me it was no laughing matter, lol) I was scared to sleep after that but I eventually got over it. One more thing: Read this again with Inception music (cough Mind Heist) and see how epic it is!!!
The End

non dream dream lucid

I was sitting in my room. Everything seemed normal. I left my room and went to the living room, thinking my parents would be there. They were'nt. I went to my little sister and little brother, who were playing in their room. I asked them where mom and dad were. They said that they were probably in their room, watching a movie. So I went in to their room. They were not there. It looked like they had been, but they were not there now. I panicked and called them on their cell phones. Neither one answered. I called my older brother, Zach, and he didn't answer either. I ran back to my brother and sister and screamed, "The rapture happened, we were left behind!" then I noticed they were no longer there. They had gone too. I didn't understand why I'd been left behind. I've been a Christian all my life. I loved God. I was ao confused. I cried and screamed and kicked everything I could. Then I saw my bible, sitting on my bed, and I cried harder. I went over to my window, outside it was a sickly yellow color, and I prayed to God to give me a second chance. I knew he wouldn't. I had missed it. Now I was doomed to the same fate as everyone else who had been left behind. I walked to my school, and went into the band room. My best friends, Emily, Daniel, Keygan, and Jared were there (Jared is also my boyfriend). Both Emily and Daniel are Christians like me and they knew what was going on, but like me they didn't know why they'd been left behind. I looked at Jared and Keygan who were confused and said, "Guys, Jesus came back and took all the Christians. It might seem bad now, but it's gonna get worse." Jared embraced me crying and said, "You were right! All those times you told me about God, you were right! Why didn't I listen to you!?" I hugged him back and said into his ear, "Give your heart to God, he's the only one who can let us survive this. Please. Do this for me." Jared nodded, still crying uncontrollably, and he gave his heart to God. Keygan did too, and he was crying. I reached into a bag I was carrying, it had bibles in it, and I gave one each to Keygan and Jared. Emily and Daniel had one with them. We left the school building and went to my house. We all cried and prayed. I held on to Jared, sobbing into his shoulder. Emily, Daniel, and I didn't know at all why we had been left behind. Jared softly kissed my cheek in an attempt to comfort me. Then they all went to their homes. I felt so alone. My family was gone. I had been the only one left behind. I loved God just as much as they did, but I was so confused. The next "day" we all met back in the band room and discussed who the Anti-Christ might be. We had no idea. Suddenly, someone was in the room with us. He looked evil and we ran from him, going through a corn field and ending up at my house. There we stayed for "days", not daring to leave the house. Outside there were people cutting down the little woods that was near us. We held bible study every day, it seemed to be the only thing keeping us alive. One "morning" I "woke up" and looked outside, the trees there were gone now. Jared walked up to me, and I told him, "What if this is all a dream? If it is, I want to wake up NOW." the dream went fuzzy, causing me to go lucid, and I told myself to not wake up. I looked at Jared with teary eyes and said, "This is a dream. When we wake up, everyone will still be there." Then I embraced him, kissing him slightly. He asked me if he and the others were dreaming too. I said, "I don't know. But if you are, then I hope you have learned from this dream, and that in the waking world, you'll give your heart to God just like you did here. I love you. I'm going to wake up now." Then I grabbed his hand. And I saw myself fade away as I woke up. This was one of the most vivid dreams I've ever had in my life.

[taken from my dream blog at Oneironeer | Exploring Dreamspace)

So I haven't blogged since January 26th, but I've had some "activity" worth mentioning. I was super stoked about my seemingly close NILD (Nap Induced Lucid Dream) variation of a WILD, and although I started this week off swearing I wasn't going to lose sleep and attempt any crazy dream techniques, I was SO looking forward to doing the Wake Back To Bed method of setting my alarm just before my last REM cycle and going back to bed concentrating on lucid dreaming.

My friend and I have been discussing our dreams with each other via text messages, as he lives a couple hundred miles away, and it's been encouraging to have someone else who's almost as crazy about all this as me, to bounce experiences and ideas off of. We've discovered the Airplane Mode on our phones, because we keep sending each other horrible pictures of creatures and fictional mutated profiles and creepy audio clips to scare each other in the middle of the night.

I prepped for Wednesday night. I've read to hold off on Vitamin B until I awake around 4:30 a.m., and to go easy on the melatonin just before you first go to bed. So I took about 6mgs of melatonin. However, feeling like I might've been coming down with a cold, I may have taken some Nyquil also (I don't remember). I wrote in my Day Journal (prime the brain pumps) just before bed, and I was set.

At midnight, I was out like a light. Between the melatonin, sickness and possible Nyquil, it was a DEEP sleep. However, at 1:00 a.m., I opened my eyes, kicking and screaming at the following visage...



I do not remember waking up. I simply remember a strange, asexual mime trying to get WAY to close to me. As I heard it in my head, it was cooing or softly voicing it's displeasure in my feet in it's chest and throat. "OooOOooEEeeeEEooo???"

In the FAR back of my mind, I was glad to be tossed into a horror-based nightmare, because they always tip me off to the fact that I'm dreaming. I then become lucid, and take control of the dream. The creature looked almost as scared of me as I was of it, and it didn't seem like it wanted to hurt me -- but I needed to get it AWAY from me so I could take control. Something strange began to happen, instead of shifting or becoming hazier (or waking up), the dream was becoming MORE vivid. MORE real, despite the strobing lights and darkness.

I could hear my wife calling out my name and screaming, "No! Stop! Stop!", which angered me a bit. Why would you WANT me to STOP attacking this thing, don't YOU see it?! I got REALLY worried. Had I broke Sleep Paralysis and been flailing in our bed? Had my dream research flipped my lid? The creature was now at a legs length away from me, so I screamed to my wife, "WHAT?!"

"It's Matt." I looked at the thing, and didn't understand. At first, it looked like a clean, zombie version of the character Lutz from 30 ROCK (a show that's been turning my brain to oatmeal, as we've been watching WAY too much of it before bed). But now I could see, it was some strange version of my friend, and he was doubled-over smiling and said, "It's just a dream!" and started chuckling. My wife replied back, "It's just a dream," and I thought, "Now my DREAMS are mocking my attempts at lucidity!", but I soon realized that it was my friend, either in a False Awakening... or in waking life.

"Do you wanna get beat?"

He started laughing and my wife said it again, in disbelief, "It's just a dream." I still didn't understand. A charlie horse in my leg started to tip me off and the Rocky shirt my friend was wearing certainly wasn't scary. I could then smell him (ah, the last sense to wake up).

"Supriiiisssse," he whispered. He then mumbled and ran out of the room, leaving my wife and I in the dark. I groaned at the pain in my leg. Chuckled a bit. Breathed. Turned to my wife and asked, "What just happened?"

I used the bathroom, texted my friend, "Where are you?!" and he replied, "In my car, I think I peed my pants!" and I finally really realized...

That had all just really happened.

Now I present to you, the video he filmed of himself scaring me into a near convulsion.

Part 1: The mood starts off in a dark stage like area. Only dim candles light the room. My family and I are sitting in the seats when I realize something dark and gloomy sliding along the walls. The candles, one by one started to fade into darkness. The sounds of a zombie apocalypse rising were coming into play. I guided my family out of the stage area, but they seem not to notice all the creepiness of the atmosphere. It scares me and pisses me off at the same time. My parents are there, my sisters are there, but NOOO. I'm the one who has to half shove them out of the imaginary door. This is where I do my reality check. I can't see my hands, I'm not touching anything, but there are two blurry arms in front of me and my family is making a sort of shoved motion. So we get out of the building and the outside is sort of like a cultural city/marketplace. Judging by the colors, I'd say that the time was about 5PM and the sky is beginning to turn orange. I see a bunch of random people and due to the dream logic, they are my "family." Some of my real family members are in there, but the rest are just random. Two dogs appear, one a yorkshire terrier, and one a much bigger version. Both are making that menacing zombie sound and showing small, but sharp teeth. I guess you can say they've been hit by the zombie virus or whatever. Even though I sort of know I'm dreaming, I run over and stand next to my family defensively. The two dogs run off and I follow them in a quiet and short pursuit. We arrive at this random, fancy house which my dream logic currently says belongs to my Uncle Vien. Vien is up in the bathroom taking a shower while I'm raiding the kitchen looking for something to feed/satisfy the dogs with. You can hear the two eating and killing Vien's real life dog, Cassie. I look through more cabinets and I hear them run upstairs over to the bathroom. Barking begins and I'm viciously tearing through the fridge and even looking at the oven. All I find are pots of cookies and milk. More barking appears and the sound of Vien's voice in the shower is ringing in my ears. "Bad!", "No!", and "Stop it!". I can hear their paws/claws slashing and hitting the glass of the shower door. The running water and the shrieking of the glass is pounding through my eardrums. I finally hear them give up and go down the stairs in record time. I think about trying to climb up the island, but assuming that Vien was safe and that they've been calm, I decide not to. They appear before my eyes and they're looking as innocent as can be. The virus must have left them, I suppose.

Part 2: The area switches to the lobby of an apartment complex. The dogs are still there and I catch sight of my real family going up the stairs, including Vien. The dogs and I follow them up and Kingdom Heart music plays. On the roof of the complex, the sky is full of night light and stars. We spot off in the distance a floating ship with spinning blades on the bottom, allowing the aircraft to hover above. Shadow like monsters and dropping from the sky and it suddenly feels like I'm playing a game of Kingdom Hearts. The dream ends when we are finally surrounded and about to face our ultimate doom. This is sort of like a nightmare to me. It wouldn't be if my family was actually trying to make an effort to save themselves, but all the work was laid on me. So that was pretty much the only pressuring part.

Um, yeah it was about Mr. stinky and I don't want to mention details...
Lucid, yes.