non-lucid

i dreamt that i was with my dad, damien, carlos, and we were at some sacred lake with all these canyons. they were massive and looked all fiery brown/red. my mom didn't want me to jump out of the boat cause my phone was in my pocket but i was annoyed with her trying to hold me back so i did it and then while in the water i handed her the phone. then i swam over to my dad's group and i think we tried to climb the canyon. i remember catching up with damien later

In the beginning of what was my last dream for the night, I was thrown right into the midst of the deep Atlantic Ocean. However, I was on a small fiberglass surfboard and paddling out west from Europe, heading southwest. (Ironically, I was heading towards Australia, apparently my mind doesn't accept South America as a valid continent.) It was a very calm endure, and lasted a good thirty minutes of rowing and contemplating life, without any strong disturbances. After my arrival in Australia, I quickly entered a community pool, and brought my surfboard with me. Walking casually over to the pool, it seemed logical for me to jump in and use my surfboard. Following this, a majority of the dream was swimming and paddling around, and meeting a few people (whom I can't currently recall.)

My surfboard broke into pieces, and the mood of the pool started to change drastically. It was closing time at the pool, and the colors turned warped. The lights turned off, a majority of the people left, and the colors of the water swirled and mixed different shades of lavender, brown, forest green, and more. Moreover, a diver was practicing in one spot, and asked if I would want to practice with her. Agreeing and seeing I had no where else to be, I dived in and swam in the hurricane of colors, and then abruptly decided to leave. On my way out the door, I got a call from a Government Agency called "Billboard" and answered casually. Apparently my parents were looking for me and I had gone missing. The dream ended.


Note: Do you have a time you have to look at everyday? It's just that random time, twice a day, that you just for some reason always see? Well, mine is 9:11. It's been that way for a few years- when I woke up from this dream, I checked my phone only to realize it was precisely 9:11. Weird, right?

In a wild west-inspired setting, there's someone called 'the Kid', although he's a grown man with greying hair and wrinkles. I'm watching him ride a motorcycle out of town, and I'm thinking that although he may not be a Kid, it'd also be wrong to call him a man, since he's not human.

There's a man and a woman in some kind of storage space, looks like an attic. She's asking if he's ever even tried moving to 'a real town' and setting up 'a real life,' the way she says other heroes have done. He's surprised she called him a hero and says she's got the wrong idea, and that he's not even human. As a third person observer, I'm thinking how cliche he is, the self-loathing vampire hero type. I focus on his appearance for the first time - a man in a red coat, with a face that reminds me of some actor but covered in scars and boils, and I'm thinking that at least this one's not pretty.

There's a dead guy on the floor between the two of them, and now he wakes up. The guy in the red coat picks up this huge sword with a curve in the blade which I associate with beheading, and he says something about how what he really wants isn't 'a real life in a real town'; what he wants is this weapon, automated, on a massive scale. The dead guy says something about being grateful before his head's taken off.

There are people arguing in the town square. The guy in the red coat gathered everyone here and is standing up on a wooden stage trying to talk to them. One person says, "You act like one of 'em, the game's won!" 'Them' meaning vampires, and 'won' meaning won by the vampires. The person he's arguing with says, "You resist 'em, the game's won!" Everyone seems to think it's hopeless. While the guy in the red coat is focused on them, he doesn't see the burned and headless body which is crawling out of town.

(Woke up. Back to sleep.)

Dracula, a girl, and a priest/vampire slayer, in a field in daylight. Dracula's kneeling, and the priest's saying that He often seems to hear him and know what's needed. In response, black shapes fill the sky, blotting out the sun, which Dracula doesn't like at all. As a 3rd person observer, I'm thinking about how this is an interesting switch; normally you'd think of darkness favoring vampires, but Dracula was fine with sunlight. The girl says something about sending him to hell, but she's got it backwards; the priest isn't in the business of damning souls. On closer look, the things blotting out the sun are crows; and then among them appear the souls of all those he'd turned.

I remember me being at home and going to the kitchen and seeing my cousin's from my mom's side in my brother's room and there's a cute guy i don't know there. after that they fight and get ready to go down in the elevator. I tell the cute guy because they are fighting you can stay here for a while, he was like it's fine, and i can't just stay here alone. The elevator gets stuck for a while then goes down

Then i'm walking somewhere and my cousin's and the cute guy are walking in front of me, and i ask them wheat's him name and i feign stupid and i'm like is it something with an A? I guess a few then say Ammar. Then they call him over. Turns out his name is Farouk but his nickname is Ammar and many other names. then i dream that i'm somewhere near the beach and i have to go up fast or i'll drown so i try to climb up but people next to me are getting attacked by dolphins and seals. I see a guy from my school who has made it safely so i ask him to give me a hand. He pulls me up and then i fall back in and start drowning. But then it turns out i'm going to another place and i'm not drowning. Then Suddenly someone is having an underground wedding. It's a girl from my school i think. Someone from my school is suppose to be dedicating a song but she's crying and she's not able to sing it so she gives me the mike and i start singing the song. The words are on the screen and im singing them. After that one of my best friends come up to me and tells me i did great but i messed up some stuff. Then i tell someone else from y class that usually i get so nervous and that's what makes me horrible. After that suddenly it's turned to walk for a cure but it's somewhere else. After that i see all the things that my friends baked that are getting sold. There were colorful rice krispies and brownies and Cinnabon and cinnabon with Oreo and brownie bits. I asked my friend if she made them and she said yes. After that i was pissed off because there weren't any booths for us to sell. Then suddenly i was in a dress and that was one of the things that we are selling. i was tying to get people to buy it. I get a person to buy it. Then i don't remember what happened and i woke up.

This was a weird one. So, I kept on waking up throughout the night, and had a few dreams here and there. This is the most recent one, and the one I can remember. I was at these music awards, and you have to sit on a swing of sorts. It was a bench type of swing, with 3x? seats. I hated siitting there, didn't know why I didn't just sit somewhere else, but anyways, I remember doing that. Maybe it was in a previous dream, or something, because I felt deja vu when I was doing that. But Selena was there, Demi was there, a few friends from school was there. I found out that my friend was also a model, and kept it secret from her dad. Her dad said, "(Name) What the hell are you doing here?" She said, "Dad?"

And for a split moment, the dream showed the text like a script, with blanks here and there. Pretty sure the dad had her phone. And she didn't have acne. "Remember those touch up photos I had? Yeah, I put on makeup." (She puts on makeup to fake acne...)

Then I woke up.

This dream was long, but so unstable and in-congruent that I'm going to have to break up the writing to help to explain it.

My family was taking a vacation. (I swear being on vacation would make an excellent dream sign.) We were in some place that I think was origninally supposed to be like Niagara falls. But a number of things are off.
First of all the area looks notably balmier and almost tropical. The gorge looks way to narrow and shallow (The gorge was about 30-50 feet deep, approximate, and maybe 70-100 feet across.) If you looked to the "south" okay, it looked like Niagara falls. The Horseshoe, American and Bridal Veil Falls were all there and appropriately miniaturized for the gorge. But if you looked "north" you would see another pair of waterfalls that weren't there in real life.
Also, the area looked off in the fact that most of the rocks were a dark reddish color. The area was also lacking the casinos and hotels that I recall. (My family took several trips to Niagara falls when I was a child, I remember the layout of the area vividly.)
But the weirdest part was there was a large section of the cliff that had collapsed, making way for a beach by the side of the river. The beach sloped heavily (around a 45 degree angle) to connect the top of the gorge to the river bank.

My family was at said beach. But it was a nude beach, though only some of the people there were nude. (Nobody in my party, which included my parents and my aunt and uncle was nude.) For some reason, I wasn't really weirded out by this. They also had this other weird rule for the beach where you had to lay all of your valuables and electronics out on a towel. Because of this, I had to put my phone on the towel along with all of my parent's valuables.
I began walking toward the end of the beach. I wasn't really interested in being there. I think I was hungry and impatiently waiting for us to leave the beach to where my parents would take us out to a restaurant or back to the hotel room to eat.

My cellphone (that was laying out on a towel) got picked up by a big wave. I tried to grab it, but there were these big thrashing waves by the side of the river with a bunch of cell phones and wallets in them. (Because logic in dreams ) According to the dream subconscious plot or whatever, this was a common problem on this beach, but it was supposed to be "part of the fun" if your valuables got sucked up in a big wave.
I went and got my parents and asked them if they would help me retrieve my phone. They just got all compassionate for me, and told me that they would try to look for it.

We had driven to this police/information kiosk outside of this big metropolitan city, and my parents were talking to this rather unkind man about how to get my phone back. The building was ugly and bland, and had some resemblance to a waiting room. They went to petty dream-bickering.
Then the man they were talking to went and got his two daughters. They were both wearing airbender clothes. The three of them started airbending at us and throwing us (mostly my parents, however.) into the floor, walls and ceiling of the room.( Gee, if I had a dollar for every time something ATLA related happened in my dreams, I'd... probably still be broke. Also, wow, what a jerk that guy was.)

I was still in the waiting room. Manei was sitting there next to me smiling. (Holy crap, my dream guide is back.)

Hey everyone, I'm new to the site so please bear with me.

I had this dream last night(11/27) and I was prompted to join this evening after giving it much thought.

Long story short, ever since discovering the art and technique of lucid dreaming, I have studied it thoroughly. That was 6 months ago when I started, and I continuously studied and practiced it. Here I am 6 months later with no success, after trying just about everything there is, with the exception of not purchasing any LD devices.

Last night, however, I believe I came very close to an LD.

I believe I was in a crowded park full of people, and I saw someone who I care about a lot. This person I've never met before, but I do know in real life and care about them more than anything. I saw this person and ran up to them and began hugging them, getting choked up.

In the dream, I actually felt the sensation of hugging him! It was such a strong sensation, that I could actually almost feel and recall it this morning.

Other things that no one else would really care to hear, are not important so I won't mention them(lol).

However, I do remember thinking in the dream how that person did not look like how they were supposed to look. Actually, thinking about it now, I don't even think they looked close at all how they were supposed to.

The sensation of feeling them and their hug is a symptom of lucid dreams, correct? And me almost realizing that was not the right person should have triggered it, right?

I also felt the emotions I'm sure I would have felt if I did meet them in real life.

HELP, am I getting close to an LD, after all this time? And what else can I do to have one soon?

Thank you everyone<3

Very Boring but trying to get better at remembering my dreams...definitely not lucid though.
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I Was at some lady's house. Perhaps a neighbor or something. She said she had to change the way it normally looks to make it more accommodating for her ederly parents for a party she was planning to have. I told her the last time I came over the couch was different, it looked more modern and that the current couch looks old. Her house had a lot of shelfs and tables that had no rhyme or reason, like an excessive amount that looked overkill and almost hazardis. I told her it looked cluttered and it was to hard to walk around her place and that her parents may find it difficult to get around. She got upset and defensive and asked me to leave.
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I dont remember what this lady looks like and I dont think its anyone I know in waking life, her face was fuzzy, even upon waking up.
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2nd Dream:
I was at school and ppl had the option to leave at 7:30 but the teacher did not like it. He got a little upset and told us it would
be more convient if we left at the normal time. The janitor was mopping the hallway floors. Some student decided to leave and as he started walking down the hall, he slipped and fell. I decided to wait til the floor drys.

11/27/13 Wednesday

Last night, bed at 2am, no meditation

I'm in Italy. Second time in maybe 2 weeks. I'm at the docs, looking at some ships docked. One of them is military ship, that serves as a museum. Suddenly there is an explosion on it. I see red flames and black smoke. It's already third explosion in the area. Some kind of terrorist attack. (Watched NCIS episode with explosions and terror attacks)

Still in Italy. I have a puppy in my arms. He is not mine, but perhaps rescued. It's a beagle. He has flees, so we are taking him to the vet. Come to a building, with patients waiting on chairs outside and in the doorway. I try to talk to them in Italian. I want to know if I can buy something for the flees in the pharmacy, or if I should see the vet. When we walk inside, the building is huge and modern. medical personal walking busily in the hallways. We find the vet and he takes a look at the dog. Then he puts him in this room sized plastic tube. Kinda like a huge terrarium. It can fold in the middle, one side can slide in the other side. We are thinking about buying it for the dog. Trying to figure out, if it will fit on the back of a pickup. I see the price in italian lira and it's like 39000. I see that in some places it's broken and fixed with black tape. So I'm telling my mom, we could buy it, but not to pay for it more than 1/5 of the asking price.

It was a long time I have spent in Italy this time.

Back into my lucid dreaming journey, and surprise surprise I remembered a dream last night. My recall has been fairly good for me personally even when I'm not trying to do anything dream related, I'm generally remembering either a dream fragment or dream every 2 days or so, which is a whole lot better than where I was at the beginning of this year. On a side note I am also going to start sorting out and categorizing these dream journal entries. Anyway...
Dream 1:
Length: Decently Long
Detail: Above Average
Awareness: Practically none unfortunately, was too caught up in the moment.
It began with me and my brother playing a 3D Mario game with someone else I think, who I might know IRL or not, I don't know, anyway we finished the game, and then he said that we had to find something to be able to keep on playing, maybe for some bonus levels or something. We set about searching for this, but then the dream scene changed. I was now in a cottage/house with someone who I think was my dad and we were watching cricket (which I normally don't like to do). He was telling me all about the game and stuff while I was half listening. The dream scene once again changed, and I was at an Olympic diving pool thing. I'm pretty sure I was still searching for the Mario thing, because I climbed to the top of the platform and dived off, and it felt really important. The dream scene changed for the final time, this time in my old house with my brother and the other guy. We had narrowed down our search for the Mario code or whatever it was, and a ghost/spirit of evil intentions appeared at the front door. We quickly reasoned that we had to have one of us lead him to where the code was, while the other two hid, or something like that. I reasoned it as me and the other guy were like positive and negative charges, and my brother as neutral, so the spirit wouldn't attack him (I know this doesn't make any sense at all. This dream makes no sense to me now, and I blame starting physics this week ). What ensued was a very tense, yet slow chase of sorts, because the spirit was being led directly after us, because it turned out our hiding spot in a wardrobe was where the code was. I distinctly remember before we woke up Me and the other guy hid in the wardrobe, then we pressed this light button thing 4 times and held our breath (I could actually here tense violin music like in horror films here). Then through the gap in the door I saw the spirit, more like a reanimated person then anything else, turn and stare directly at me. He held my gaze yet did nothing, so after 5/10 seconds I slowly ducked out of the line of sight from the opening, then he turned and went to the code. The dream fizzled away after that.
This wasn't a nightmare at all really, just very tense at the end and I woke up with a hammering heartbeat, but it was more exhillirating than scary. I also blame watching Children of Men for that, as that movie was intense

28th November 2013

I am standing in the back garden of an old friend of mine. I throw a bouncy ball and it starts bouncing all over the garden uncontrollably. It hits me in the face a couple times but it doesn't hurt, it's just more of a shock. It appears to be night time and the fence looks a darker maroon than usual.

Strange skip in the dream as I'm waking up, cuts to a weirdly drawn picture of a Castform (Pokemon). I am convinced there is a ghostly presence controlling me as I wake up (?)

I woke up still under sleep paralysis, the first time this has ever happened to me. I was struck by this fear that something terrible was going to happen. It was tough to open my eyes but when I did I instantly shut them again in fear.

I came into care for a rhinoceros with a foot-problem - I took him home - and completely logically he fitted under my kitchen bench.
That was his place then.
From time to time, I had to take care of the foot - and so weird - I read on here yesterday of somebody dreaming of scraping out the hooves of a horse. I vaguely remembered that in my dream. But the fact that rhinos do not have such single hooves, was also available - and I wondered, if I really had the right tool for the job, then.
I got him sorted somehow, though - and he went back where he came from - where ever that was.

This belonged into a first - otherwise very private and problematic themed dream with family and friends from school.

From the second dream - also private - there is a scene, when I was on an excursion from school in winter.
And I lost the others - when it still was hiking in a forest.
It was a mountain then and I had more and more trouble to overcome obstacles and jump down from rocks on good faith more or less.
Freezing - not having the right clothes on.
When I made it down - all were there already - and - they were completely surprised, why I had not skied down, like everybody else would have.
Bit later - another friend of mine with somebody more - came down riding beautiful horses.

And a weird thing with a former teacher flirting with me, when he went with me organizing ballerinas for a sports-lesson - it was kind of appealing - but nothing came of it.
Got the shoes, though.


There was also a Christmas party - but me and friends were not invited to the family thing - family of my first boyfriend.
We sort of had expected to take part and had our own party somewhere hidden in that house then instead - very dull room, no nice food, no presents..
And somebody made a mess in the house, where the family was - getting food for us and running away - and we were wondering if someone would come along and throw us out.
And so it came.



Full of dream-signs..
Full of interpretable stuff as well, but so what ..

Garage fire
My wife just left the house, taking her car. I become aware the garage door opener is still running, so I look out into the garage. I see that it's struggling, trying to get the door down, but the door isn't moving, only shaking a little. Sparks are flying, and I see smoke and flame. Across the street, I see a group of people talking, but they're completely oblivious to what's going on. I hit the button to stop the garage door opener, run into the kitchen, grab the fire extinguisher, and run back outside. Now I'm in the garage, firing the extinguisher at the visible flames. Thankfully, they're still small. I realize that I need to be able to shoot at the base, and I can't do it from this angle. I hadn't realized it earlier, but the flames are coming from the light on the outside of the garage. Now I'm standing on the front porch, looking into the junction box of the porch light. There are still some small flames in there, and I'm spraying the extinguisher into the junction box, trying to fill it, hoping it runs down inside the walls. I think I've got it all, but I know I need to call the fire dept and have them check it out. I'll also need to call an electrician and have them check the wiring, since this was an electrical fire. Since it's in the wall, and the wall is brick, I'm not looking forward to seeing that bill.


Fragments
I'm inside a large indoor complex. The hallways are very wide. I'm in one of the rooms.


I'm in a church or some other kind of large gathering place with some other people. We're getting ready to leave to drive somewhere else, getting directions for the next place (sounds like Mandy's wedding).

First thing i remember is that we were in a classroom and the teacher told us to go out and have sex with as many boys as we could. All of us were in shock. I went out and the school had some sort of carnival going on. There was a cute guy sitting and looking at me. Then his friend sprayed snow spray on me and the snow spray was on fire so i threw my self on the ground so it would get off me and i kind of fell into him. Then he told his friend what the hell man and his friend winked and whispered to him, so i could introduce you guys. The guy smiled and told his friend that he owed him. We sat talking for a while. I decided he was going to be the first guy i slept with for some reason. After that my dad came and we fought and he left. Then me and the guy went to the bedroom and kissed and i don't remember what happened after. Then after that my business teacher was talking to me and he was wearing a The Wanted Jacket. So i told him, wait, you like them too, and he was like i'm their manager so i started freaking out and kept asking him if i could take a picture with him and begged him if he could get them to Egypt. And then i was like i knew he was their manager. He lived right next to them in Sahel. They live near me. It was so weird. Then i don't remember what happened. It was actually confusing.

Date: 11-28-13
Technique(s) used: N/A
Time: 4:00 - 6:31 AM
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In the instant the dream started, I was thrown into a cold, Christmas-themed area. I had an objective - to steal a prized possesion within the walls of what seemed to be a store of sorts.

I walked across ice, feeling a small chill whip around the area. I make my way inside, where it is much warmer.

People flooded the space, which made this mission a bit more complicated. I made my way through the crowds, heading west of the entrance.

Swimming out of the ocean of people, I make my way over to a small section of the store - it connected the room I needed to get to, and the one leading to the entrance. There were many dressers, cabinets, and even a small section for books. Looking around, I saw only a couple of people within the room, and started to go to the objective when something caught my eye.

A young woman walked into the room, along with ehr daughter, just as I was about to leave. She seemed fime, but something didn't look right on her face. It seemed to be twisted and possessed, as if it belonged to a demon. She merely smiled at me, and I smiled back. Must be the watchdog, I thought. If she didn't know that I could see her real face, I'd be okay.

I helped her daughter pick out a book from a bookshelf, and made my way to the next room. This room bolged out forward, fitted with curved windows. I could see the snow and ice outside. The entire room shone an ocean blue, and was filled with artifacts.

I made my way to a small table placed at the center. It shone with a gold hue, bright and beautiful. It was a jar, coated with aged bronze. I lifted it up, surprised at how light it was, and pocketed the artifact.

Making my way out, I reached into my pocket, ready to call my affiliate that the mission was completed. However, when I reached in there, I felt nothing. The phone was gone.

I ran back inside, only to be assaulted with darkness, and woke into the world.