non-lucid

Scolding and a bucket

I'm in a store, at night, it's closed. There's only me and my brother's wife scolding her son about some money issues. I have to clean the bathroom so I go fill up a bucket with water in the kitchen of my parents house.

Asterix & Obelix : Furniture secrets

Asterix & Obelix animation : Caesar talks to an old lady about the indomitable village who stands up to his army. He can't accept that, it makes him ashamed. He wants to know the secret of their strength through their furniture?

Obelix the glutton

Obelix (animation style, but the rest is like IRL), in the garden of my parents house, I'm trying to prevent him from eating something too early (probably red meat), but he's so hungry he almost breaks the wooden fence in front of him.

Baldbox

I’m in front of a mirror in a bathroom (probably at my brother's house), I shaved my head. I’m bald, I wonder how people will react to it, and if hairstyle affects beatboxing. I do a beat of Osis.

Sonus beat (fragment)

The beatboxer Sonus makes a beat, someone reacts to it and is shocked.

Overcoming a fear of heights

I'm in the mountains with a guy. In front of us, two guys quickly and easily cross an unstable black line followed by a black ans orange beam over the void. With the guy we also cross but with climbing equipment not to fall and hanging upside down. We do it again standing up, but shaking because we're so high up. Then I get tired of being afraid so I let out a big scream and cross the unstable bridge, beam and wire but faster. I’m in the flow.

Motivational quotes

I'm on Instagram, I'm checking the account of a guy who makes posts with motivational quotes, including one with the exact image of the bridge from the previous dream. The quote is poorly formulated though. It can be misinterpreted.

Care for asian workers

A woman (probably american) in an office with three asians (two men and one woman) working there. She asks them if they ever turned off their PCs, but no, they are constantly running. She finds it unacceptable, makes them turn it off, and inspects the woman’s body for a medical checkout. She says that her parents should be ashamed. The asian lady begins crying because nobody cares about her health and mental being.

Hypnagogic Imagery: Everyone had collars on their shirts that were named after them. For example, a guy named John had a collar named Jollar. Thanks for that, brain.

I love a woman who can beat me at video games. (I don't know if this was hypnagogia, a dream, or what. That's just what my journal says lmao)

The next note on my dream journal says either "On Choir" or "On Chair"

Vague non-lucid: Pro gray band (illegible) and dude at a quiet auditorium who was praying (?) all boss sings to ??? (illegible)

I mean, yeah, I vaguely remember a dream about an auditorium, but that's it.

Eve's dust

I am a robot similar to Eve (in Wall-E). With my owners we are about to leave the store but I realize that I have traces of dust on my arm. Panicked, I’m looking for something to clean up, going super fast to join my owners as soon as possible. An employee tells me where to find new parts for robots but it’s not what I’m looking for and it’s super expensive. I finally find cleaning wipes.

Mission : kill enemies

I’m on a mission, like in a spy game, in a house. I'm moving from room to room while shooting enemies with a gun.

Deadly seaquake

I'm at the beach, many people are in a yacht, there is an earthquake : the water goes back and forth, which brings the boat on the sand, then on the water several times. People are panicking. The earthquake continues and this time it's a big car that goes back and forth between water and sand. People get run over, some stuck under the vehicle in the water...

Gotta continue to write in my DJ, even after the comp, for the DV achievements !

Stupid King

A new 2-players cards game called "Stupid King". Objective : losing the game by having no more cards in hand. You must have exactly one card in hand before playing your very last turn to lose (aka winning).

Guitar summoning

I yodel beatbox, and tell myself "It would be nice if I had a guitar", then I have an acoustic guitar in my hands and play a melody on it.

Bonus chess

I'm playing special chess with one of my brothers, the board is two pages of a notebook : we each have a knight, and we each go through the boxes of the notebook trying to eat the other. We can travel in any direction we want (with knight moves), but going too far left or right makes you reappear at the opposite side of the notebook. Some boxes give points by landing on it, indicated by a number (1, 4, 6...). There's a place with lots of numbers in it. I try to calculate my way to get the maximum points but we only have 10 minutes each. We play fast, then the page becomes animated, like a video game level, with animations for bonus squares : when landing on it, our knights acquire certain faculties : my brother lands on one that gives him two life points instead of one. But thanks to my previous bonus, I'm able to make his knight become a mummy with 1 pv, freeze him, and eat him with my own knight.

Free drinks and gun troubles

I'm in a restaurant, a woman with lots of money bills in her hand talks about Jesus and announces good news to people, then exclaims that she is paying for all the drinks. Her husband repeats it because there is too much noise, people are very happy. I walk with my shopping cart because I work here, then the place becomes a grocery store. I see a suspicious guy coming through the exit with a gun in hand. I quickly walk and crouch my way out of here, trying to be discreet. I come out but the guy had seen me. *Snarky laughter* "Did you really think you were going to run away ?" He walks towards the fence to close it, I show that I have no weapons on me, then an S.U.V or pickup truck arrives. The guy with the gun accidentally drops my bike (that he stole), and wants us to help him pick it up while he closes the fence. Three guys get out of the vehicle to "help", but one of them hits the thief behind the head. He gets knocked out in return. I try to take his gun off, he tries to shoot the guy down, but no bullets come out. He recharges, I kick his gun at the last moment to deflect the shot, I wake up as the bullet hits the ground.

Unfortunately I have to stay a day or two in settler to work. Disrupting my normal routine. Very frustrating.

Jamie 1

Me and Jamie are in the Wheel of Time books again. Nothing much going on. She is driving a black SUV in the dream. Driving from WhiteBridge to Caemlyn on the road between the two. (I just read the part in the books where Rand and Matt escape WhiteBridge and go on that road.) I'm with her in the car and she's smiling as if happy.

This could be confirmation of her drive bys. I was asking for a dream confirmation that she does so that very night. Still prefer a verbal confirmation. I will ask the Jamie voice to confirm certain things in dreams. Usually she does if it's a simple request.

Jamie 2

Last nights dreams. I was outside. Maybe Jamie's farm. Everyone was camping outside on bunk beds. She was with some girl and ignoring me. They slept in separate bunks, but not together. I was a bit flustered she wasn't talking to me.

Jamie 3

Just an image of Jamie walking by a yellow car and keying it. Was this my yellow Neon? Oh no, she keyed my neon that is probably going to a scrapyard within a year or two anyway.

Woke up amnd figured something was wrong with Jamie in the dreams? (Dream demons, etc) So I prayed about it.

Jamie 4

I'm sitting with Jamie outside her dream house. There is healing energy about. Jamie is staring at the waves of colors that is coming from the healing.

hopefully the dreams improve tonight.

Hypnagogia: I was prompting AI to do something. Don't remember what.

Dreams:

• I had Disney Vacation Club Points -- a total of 10736. I do not do any of that timeshare stuff IRL so I have no idea if that number even makes sense.
• Lady had cargo (???) can't read it
• We found bulls. We were in a crowd, and I was worried about them charging. Suddenly, we were in our house that I grew up in and my parents still live in. I hopped on a fence to stay safe from the bulls, which also had teleported there. My mom said something...illegible. The cart (?) has term lodging (?) 44 (?)
• False awakening in which I checked the time on my bed as 4:35 AM
• Dream of Lagoon amusement park and (illegible) days

No lucidity, but hopefully I will keep up my journaling and other practices up even after the competition.

I am on an unspecified Greek island with people I know to be my classmates. We are outside, in a rocky area - the context is rather vague. We talk. There are also some third-person views of the landscape at some point, which prominently features a volcano.

My father has just invited me to go visit him on Corfu for the week, which is something out of the ordinary. My mother is apparently on a different island. It occurs to me that there’s something symbolic to this - to all of us being so far apart, on separate islands….

At some point, the volcano starts to show some alarming signs of activity. People close to it are running. I’m afraid for them, and hope they make it far away in time - they need to make it past the water separating them from the rest of the island before it gets too hot to pass. But I should be getting as far away as I can too, just in case.

The landscape has a number of small canyons threading through it - the only real paths we can take, which is definitely kind of unfortunate since that’s where the lava is bound to be channeled as well. I can already see it, not far behind a group of people running past where their path intersects with mine. For some reason, I’m sure it’ll only follow one path, so I wait at an intersection, ready to go down the path it doesn’t take.

The group approaches, now followed by a big wheel of flame - just a large circle made of fire, rolling along on its rim after them. But it doesn’t follow the group, doesn’t go down either one of the paths: it stays at the intersection where I am. Not only that: it actually seems to be shadowing my movements. Something clicks. This clearly isn’t the situation I had first thought it was. What now?

I do what feels right: I hook the wheel around my right leg and spin it around. It turns blue when I make contact with it, and as it spins faster, it contracts from being a bit larger than a hula hoop to being around the size of a tire. After some time, I switch it to my left leg and spin it the other direction, and finally, I set it back down. It stays blue and small, and sits there looking slightly wobbly and indistinct for a few seconds before dissipating.

My father has picked this moment to arrive. I start to tell him about what just happened, but he interrupts and doesn’t really give me a chance to talk. It occurs to me - maybe it would be better just not to mention the whole fire wheel thing. He probably wouldn’t get it anyway. I wonder what my classmates must be thinking now - there’s a whole group of them nearby, their attention still focused on me.

I kind of wish he’d just stop talking and at least let me take care of the burns, though. I was doing that with bare legs, and yeah, I can see marks there, even though the burns don’t look too serious, and I’m not feeling any pain from them.

A false awakening after that, in which I make notes about the dream and then various other things happen.

There were so many dreams after that, many of them full of conversations, and without awakenings in between - at least that I can remember - I just didn’t have time to write them down after having already woken up around 5 to record that one. But the last dream of the night involved being in (probably) a gym, where I was doing an exercise that involved jumping over a yoga mat and then jumping backwards to the starting position in a certain posture. NR came over and set a timer down on the floor set for half an hour - an analog device, kind of like a big egg timer. The implication is clear. I don’t think I’ll have trouble keeping this up or half an hour, but there is another problem: I seriously doubt that I’m going to be asleep for another half hour to keep doing it.

Actually, I only stayed asleep for another minute or so. You have no idea how much I’m looking forward to a time when I can devote more attention to dreaming and get back to moments like that actually resulting in full lucidity.

(Additional note: this was not my first volcano dream, but this one was almost certainly triggered by having seen video on the news of the port explosion in Iran the previous day, since that’s what my aunt had going on the TV in her hospital room when I went to visit.)

28.4.25

Hypnagogic Imagery: I saw the letters ZZ, I guess because of sleeping lol.

Non-Lucid: Some show about guys, "gal pals", on a plane with people in economy and others in main cabin. It was not a full flight.

Non-Lucid Fragment: My dad got (illegible -- ants?). Also: Do you want to stay for a movie? I said, well, 7 PM is a little late. He said "We're not getting dinner anywhere so I would keep score, but we would (illegible) cake ? (illegible) later.

Yeah, I can't decipher that one. I'm gonna have to count it as a fragment I'm afraid.

WBTB attempt: Failed. However, I did slip back into a non-lucid, though I have no memory or notes of it I fear.

Not great, but when work keeps me up late, sadly 'tis a gamble.

This was the last night of the comp, I'm very happy to end it with such a crazy lucid ! I did it in two WILD attempts (each 15 minutes) after a WBTB (awake for ~3 hours). First dream is two fragments that I think are from the same dream. Last dream is my lucid. Enjoy the reading 👽

Black = Non-lucid dream recall
Blue = Lucid dream recall

Orange cheese offer

At my parents house, *forgot what happened*, then with people at the table, a man offers us an orange cheese. Apparently, the smell is strong, but I almost don't smell anything because I'm used to strong cheese.

Concrete Minecraft ravine

Me, a man with glasses and a guy from high school in a car in front of my parents house, playing Minecraft, but IRL : I'm going to cut a (probably apple) pie representing our Minecraft world. The high school guy knows I'm the cutting pro, he tells me when to stop, and I cut the pie at that moment. It forms a ravine in our Minecraft world IRL (in the back seat of the car). The man with glasses leaves, and the guy has become another guy from high school. He's adding liquid concrete to the base of the IRL ravine (which is a black iron plank), but I realize that it shouldn't have been concreted. I call the man with glasses to explain the mistake. He tells me to simply make a series of inputs to fix it. I struggle to remember it. We try to remove the concrete, not dry yet.

Road trip on the highway

A group of five friends is traveling in France, in a pickup truck on the highway. The guys are in the open trunk (they could easily fall), one girl is driving and another girl is next to her. The driver almost completely gets out of the window (while still driving with one hand) to film the road trip with her camera on a selfie stick.

Confusing vegetables

I'm a cashier in a grocery store, there are new checkouts where you weigh fruits and vegetables by selecting them on a computer, in a super long and messy list. I'm struggling to find the eggplant. The beatboxer Wing (who also works as a cashier with me) helps me and I find it. But I still need help for the other items, as three annoying pop-ups appear. One of the three teenage guys waiting at the checkout helps me. I have to double-click Delete. I can't find the Delete icon, so the guy takes the mouse and tries to find it in the top right corner of the screen but there's nothing. Then at the normal checkouts, people are piling up at Wing's checkout, I try to call him, as a colleague on the phone comes out of the office. All along I had Wing's GBB25 World league solo wildcard playing in my mind.

Pool quicksand and my crazy restaurant (LD)



In front of a house, half of the garden is replaced with a very deep pool, and where I am is a long rectangular layer of quicksand on top of the water. Some female friends and I pass through it for a laugh, when at one point I sink to the bottom of the pool *dramatic scene*.

Then I wake up in town, when a big agressive white dog is trying to bite my friends (one of them is wearing a hamburger costume). While trying to scare him away, the dog advances towards me, growling. I back away. If he tries to bite my stomach, I could in theory stick my thumbs in his eyes and knee him in the throat (it didn't happen).

Then I'm the owner of a restaurant in town, in a cobblestone alley : an outdoor terrace. I can control a lot of things. I know I'm lucid dreaming, but I don't really pay attention to it, because I'm too busy managing things in my restaurant and near it *forgot what happened but it was chaotic and hilarious*.

I return to my outdoor terrace. The customers are talking about Sping-Ling Ding-Diling : a chinese woman who is literally a thick dorito-shaped pencil. I'd like her to come to my restaurant, but she's at work. Then everyone at my terrace start improvising the same song (which makes no sense, random words) with the music "Come To The Circus (DirtyPaws remix)". First to sing is a woman (probably from Paris) with curly brown hair, a green beret and black sweater, green jacket and green pants, and a glass of wine. Very classy. I'm the one making them improvise the song with my thoughts.

At the same time, I start to accidentally make an evil bass (beatbox sound) when I exhale, snoring a bit when I inhale, and I see my body IRL in my bed from time to time. I'm going to wake up...

Dream 1
I'm on the bus going somewhere and I make friends with some guy. Dean from Supernatural shows up and is jealous. Then I get off the bus and some other guy is there, jealous too (I guess everyone wanted me in the dream, hell yeah dream me). He gives me some card saying he'll always love me.

But then it turns out it's some game and we're just fooling people around us that we're together. We run off and then Tamlin from ACOTAR is there and he ALSO wants me but I'm icked out.

Dream 2
I'm in my family home and it's massive and has ancient egyptian artifacts everywhere. I help turn the tv on because it's not working. Some of my friends are there.

Dream
I'm in school and then I'm running from someone and I'm caught by the mafia and I get on a plane to outrun them but they get on before it takes off and they wanna torture me and my friend.

Dream fragment
- I'm doing target practice in a forest with my bf.

Dream 1
I decide to shoplift something from a brand bc I enjoyed it in a previous dream, I wanted a dark lipstick but I got caught and then the shopowner who was 51 years old suspected me because I wanted a jacket with literal oranges on it. The zipper was half peeled banana though.
I run out of the store and lose him, I'm also 17 in the dream. Papaoutai by Stromae was playing in the background.

Lucid dream
I break into a house to help a squirrel. There are coconuts there. Then I'm in a lambo where I become lucid and try take a photo but it doesn't work.

Dream fragment
- Watching some streamer with my friend who keeps falling off his chair.

My numbering was off. Whoops.

Holy crap, I took up two whole pages of writing. Let's see how much I can actually read from last night's notes.

Maybe the recipe is staying up later than usual + sleeping in later than usual + utter exhaustion by EOD. Plus, waking up multiple times in the morning then deciding nah, I'm going back to sleep.

• Hypnagogic Imagery: Wicked but wand-car. (What does this mean? I have no idea. But I wrote it down with the tag "hypna" next to it, so. )
• Dream: I was playing a spooky backrooms-themed video game.
• Dream: I was with my extended family in a spaceship, trying to make plans. We were hiding under an invisibility cloak that covered the entire spaceship. It was held together by Sonic. (????? What does this mean, version of me who wrote this at 2 AM?!) And then the whole world morphed into a backrooms game (like the earlier dream) and it had spooky noises.
• Fragment: Another dream with "some white dude" (geez lol) whatever that means.
• Attempted DEILD; failed.
• Dream: I was detaching a multicolored gel pen from a wall that it was stuck to, using a pair of scissors.
• Dream: I was taking a survey about satisfaction. It also asked me, "What scares you the most about life?" I don't remmeber what I answered.
• Dream: I was at a POOOOL (taken verbatim from my journal; I think I fell into a microsleep while writing the Os and my hand just kept going) with 2 others, including a lady who was not wearing any bottoms. LOL. We were plotting out our next move, like Pokemon. (???? I guess we lived together, but I don't know what Pokemon has to do with anything) I said "If it's not tropical, I'm not going." One lady in the pool suggested moving to this beach urban city, but it wasn't tropical. IIRC the weather was more like the Pacific Northwest. It was very pretty though, the image that came to my mind, with black buildings, foggy skies, greenery, and the ocean.
• At this point, it was morning, but I kept going back to sleep. I did a series of 4 WBTBs, but they were all extremely short -- I just got up to pee then went back to sleep. I failed all 4 of them. I could have stayed up longer but I was tired and I knew I had work tonight so I had to get my rest when I could. This did allow for more non-lucid recall.
• Lucid Dream: DEILD success but very briefly. T and I were in a house. I had a body pillow AGAIN (is this going to become a recurring theme? ha) and I was surrounded by some weebs "but still in@sure" -- I don't know what the part in quote means. I was confused as to why I had brought a body pillow to breakfast, because that's what we were doing, having breakfast. I remembered that I could teleport, so T and I did so together, back to our hotel room to drop it off. And THEN of course I went lucid. Because my normal reality checks didn't appear in my dreams, but teleportation did, and THAT is what made me lucid. Teleportation. Self-consciousness. And. Freaking. Body. Pillows. Unfortunately, I woke up before I could start my next task, flight, and immediately tried DEILD/chaining.
• DEILD attempt: I felt a lot of pleasant buzzing but still woke up. Need to keep persisting. Trying to relax.
• Dream: I was working at an office, but I kept falling asleep while trying to type terminal commands into Git Bash. I kept messing the commands up as a result. The other employee next to me was tired too. I checked some fun site for some reason, but my dream-boss saw me doing it. Also, there was a choir in the office singing for some reason. Falling asleep in a dream is a weird experience. It kinda felt like just...losing consciousness altogether then re-entering the same dream a second later.

4/21/25

Newly remembered fragment [0.5]:

There is an umbrella/sword/cane thing. I think it might look something like Steed would have in the Avengers.

4/22/25

Fragment 1: Digging (0.5)

I seem to be digging at a pipe in the ground, made of some soft silver substance. I/we dig away at this, and eventually have a squarish cleared spot in the side of a hill. Something might end up being parked or dropped there.

Fragment 2: Working in the Lab (0.5)

I’m working in the lab. My friend Z— is working there too. I’m trying to put something together using an Arduino. Then I go somewhere, and when I come back Z has taken my Arduino to use for his project. I think I need to have the project done soon though, and I’m a bit concerned. He wants to show his mother the project, I think. Some details in the dream involving wires being plugged into things. The potential new Pope is there also.

Fragment 3: Dating Site (0.5)

Scrolling through a dating site. It seems that I don’t know it’s a dating site at first. Actually, it seems to start off as pictures of models advertising some clothes. Some of the models are posing on the hoods of cars, and the light and heat coming off of the hoods distorts the image so that everything from the head to the lower legs is blurred together.

Fragment 4: Square Dance (0.5)

Something about a square dance. Maybe going to one? I don’t quite remember.

Fragment 5: Walking to my Jeep (0.5)

Going to my Jeep. I think, along the way, I (or we, again) pass a table on which a bunch of cats are either being auctioned or judged as part of a county fair activity. Past them, there are some women that look like they are getting ready to model in some kind of pageant.

Fragment 6: Approaching Pachyderms (0.5)

In a field – possibly laying down. There are elephants some distance away, that seem to be approaching us. At first I don’t think they pose much of a danger, but as they get closer it looks like we will need to move out of the way to avoid getting run over. I kind of roll out of the way, and I think get to my feet. Then I see that there are other animals that kind of look like rhinoceros or hippopotami.

4/23/25

Terrible night’s sleep. I don’t remember any dreams, if I dreamed anything at all.

4/24/25

Dream 1: Taking an Exam, and Star Trek Books [1]

I’m taking a test. I start out by trying to go question by question and answer them all in order, but then I realize that I don’t know a lot of the material. Also, the test is several pages long, and will take me quite a while to finish. Then I think the best strategy would be to go through and answer everything I can, coming back to the harder ones when I got the easy ones. I haven’t studied for this exam, at least not very well. There was a textbook, but I didn’t read it all. The instructor gives me a fair amount of time to finish the test, and I wonder if I could skim over the textbook and get a feel for where the information is located so that I can look it up. It’s an open book test…

…I’m looking at books and/or videos, either for sale or to borrow. This place has a bunch of Star Trek books, including collections of the James Blish adaptations. These collections look rather large. I wonder if there are some new ones in here that I haven’t read or seen. One of the books appears to be an adaptation of the animated series. I think to myself that this is how I used to look for tapes of the Avengers TV show.

4/25/25
Fragment 1: Old Office [0.5]
I have a vague memory of having dreamed about the University from which I just graduated. Something about my advisor, maybe. Then there is a memory of my old office, cleaner than it used to be.

4/26/25

Fragment 1: Spider [0.5]

There is at least one spider, under a small box. I think it might be poisonous. I'm lifting the box using a stick or something, I think.

Fragment 2: Batman [0.5]

I’m pretending to be Sherlock Holmes or Batman. Or maybe that is who I actually am. My last name appears to be Batman, and I think about what Batman’s last name actually is supposed to be.

4/27/25

Fragment 1: Overboard [0.5]

Aboard a ship. Pulling on a large flag, which might also act as a sail (though I’m not sure). Someone has gone overboard. This is taking place along the “middle” access area at the debris removal site.


Dream 1: Libraries, Protests, Trees [1]

“Oh, I don’t know how to protest
‘cause I don’t know what’s going on
I don’t know how to protest
And that’s why I sing this song”

I’m singing that song out front of possibly the library. There are other verses, the above might have been the chorus. One verse is about a fictitious Uncle who took risks and lost a duel. “But he knows better now” might have been the last line of that verse. I dance around while singing this, and sing to a guy who is apparently a villain. It seems like there was a whole plot earlier that I’m referring to. Maybe even a movie. I have a cane in my hand as I sing, and I mess with the guy using the cane. This guy is dressed in some fancy suit and is wearing a bowler hat, I think. Like a “Dandy” from the 50s or so.

I had gone into the library hoping to find a place to work on my laptop. I was going to a quiet place on the second floor, towards the back. Apparently this was the children’s section. A bunch of kids are sitting on the floor and a woman is getting ready to read to them. I need to get behind her for some reason, but she indicates that I’m not allowed to be there. This annoys me a bit, but I comply. At first I think I will just go around to the other side of a set of shelves, and am being kind of passive aggressive about it by making noise intentionally to disrupt the reading. Then I decide I should be kinder than that (or maybe I just don’t want to get in trouble), and go to find somewhere else to work.

Alternatively, I might have been singing this song around the time that I was going to talk to some debris removal guys about trees on the property of my grandpa’s house. They had been cutting trees that they weren’t supposed to be cutting, and had been rude to property owners who confronted them about it. I was planning to stand up to them if they were rude to me. I ask one guy about the trees he was cutting, and asked if it was necessary to cut them down. He says something that I have difficulty hearing, and I ask him to repeat it. It’s something about a tornado. He’s telling me that there had been a tornado warning, I think, but it was past now.

…Trying to figure out if/how I can tune into the Bible study or Church service before or after I travel somewhere. I wanted to go in person, but then I thought maybe I could join online…

…Something about a politician somewhere (Texas, maybe?) that is accused of something. I’m not quite sure what it was. Something about getting funding for something but having a conflict of interests…