non-lucid

Dream 1 :[COLOR="#800080"] I was in a shop near my house.My mom bought me a lot of chocolate and chips and stuff from there.While she was browsing through the shelves I find myself talking with a girl who was working in that shop..I think I asked her to give me something but she refused so I kicked her saying: Okay,Motherfucker. Then I started to destroy the whole shop and I even stole some things from there.I remember trying to steal a big box full of chocolate but I couldn't so I ran.When I got out of the shop I wanted to go home,My mom said she will stay a bit more because she has something to do.I nodded then I ran home.Once I entered in the living room there was this painting I have in real life but it was in another place than it's original place. The woman in the painting had some red eyes and she was holding something in her hands (I think a dead body) She got out of the painting crawling to me.I tried to open the door but it was locked. Then I woke up. [/COLOR]

Dream 2 :[COLOR="#800080"] I was in my house with a blonde girl who looked like 13-14-15 (She had a round face with some cute chubby cheeks) Then she randomly said : Hey,Let's fly to America. I responded : Okay,But how are we going there? Then she made a tiny balloon appear in her hands.It had a form of a boat.I asked her how we are supposed to go to America with that balloon? She sighed then I suddenly find myself on a roof of a building. I looked around there was a bright city (It was night) With some high-rise buildings. In the sky there were some red helicopters with a big red cross on them (The helicopters were huge) and they keep flying around a high-rise building. I looked at the sky,It was full of stars. I keep saying : Woo,Look at that! And pointing at things.The place was so awesome I almost cried.I then went down and there were some girls I think I argued with then I went in a building that was really shiny and yellow. I keep falling for some reason then I crawled to an elevator and entered in it (It was full of people) Then I don't know how I was outside again and asked someone to drive me to a river. The river looked amazing,I saw the moon's reflection shining in the water. Near the river there was a kind of pool full of mud.The blonde girl jumped in it and then she had a bit of fun but then she was about to drown.She kept raising her hand and asking for help,I grabbed her hand and dragged her outside on the ground and I shook her(She had her mouth wide open) but she didn't responded.I checked her pulse,No pulse. I really thought she was dead But I wanted to call the ambulance.When I wanted to call it the girl woke up,She started walking a bit.Then I asked her: Can I still call the ambulance? She said yes so I called it,waited,Nobody appeared. So I went to the hospital with her and I tried to explain those people there what happened but they couldn't understand for some reason. [/COLOR]

Dream fragment :[COLOR="#800080"] I was on DreamViews chat.[/COLOR]

non lucid
*Somebody was telling his kid that his mom was dancing in the dark and that he would never see her again. This person telling him that seemed to be from some dark world.

*I found a teleportation device but was scared to use it. Someone else used it and teleported to scary location.

Dream recall from today's naps

Dream 1(fragments):

I was typing up some DJ entries and then was discussing spirituality stuff with someone, then i started watching some let's plays and one was apparently let's play of old Spyro 2 game, except intro scene went kinda different and there was different draconic character instead of Spyro and some other new characters, they talked about learning how to use different forms of something. Then i was back at my room, i was about to realize the dream but it faded out and i wake up. I keep eyes closed and try to DEILD.

Dream 2:

I am suddenly in the forest, there's a huge tree, i think something about future i realized that i am dreaming and i have incredible temptation to make huge tree fall down(dunno why), and i literally will it to fall down, and as it does, ground shakes a bit.

Dream 3(fragments):

I was at home and i couldn't fall asleep for nap and i try to find something to do, suddenly Oreo comes in and we have some talk(that i can't recall much), then he leaves and H. apparently comes in and annoys me with some talk about glasses and leaves as well, and then comes back, talks about it again and leaves again. I stay confused for a few seconds.

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[SIZE=1][COLOR=#808080]NON-DREAM[/COLOR] [COLOR=#1E90FF]DREAM[/COLOR] [COLOR=#DC143C]LUCID[/COLOR][/SIZE]

[SIZE=3][COLOR=#1E90FF]I'm in a room with a futuristic video game console. My brother isn't very impressed by this device, so I turn it on to show him what it can do. I'm browsing around on it and eventually come to a Star Wars themed level.
I think, [I]Cool, I'm gonna get to fly a spaceship![/I]
The level starts in a big dark room.
[I]Huh, why isn't this a flying mission? Whatever, this seems fun too.
[/I]I start by sneaking up behind a guard in the middle of the room, I pull out my blaster and fire. Bad move. The guard drops to the floor and the alarm starts blaring.
[I]Oh shit![/I]
A small mobile camera has spotted me. I take aim and destroy it with my gun. Running through the level, I notice some people ahead of me. I pull out dual lightsabers and rush them. I slash them apart and notice more people out of the corner of my eye.
[I]WOAH!
[/I]I jump out of the way just in time! I whirl around and take them out. More and more guards keep coming. I dodge, weave, and maneuver my way around all of their attacks, while simultaneously dealing fatal blows with my lightsabers. After eliminating the guards, I see a dark figure running towards a set of stairs. I chase after him.
[I]I have to catch this guy... I don't know why, but it feels crucial.
[/I]We both get to the stairs. They spiral around and go up for a long way. I'm getting closer. Closer...
[I]C'mon just a little faster!
[/I]We come to a door and he busts through.
I'm faced with a loading screen.
My vision fades back in to the roof of a very tall building. We are in a city, it looks a little like Las Vegas does at night. The roof of the building starts out flat then goes upwards like a ramp. The figure begins running up the slanted roof.
[I]Enough, I'm ending this!
[/I]I rush him before he gets too far and throw him down onto the flat portion of the roof. I jump down and pin him there. I begin grilling him for information. [/COLOR][COLOR=#808080]I don't exactly remember what I was asking him. [/COLOR][COLOR=#1E90FF]He refuses to give in. I beat him with my fists. He still refuses. I grab him around the neck with both hands and choke him. He acts like he wants to talk so I let up. He says something. [/COLOR][COLOR=#808080]Again, I don't remember what he said. It was something that pissed me off though. [/COLOR][COLOR=#1E90FF]I grab him around the neck again, this time with only my right hand. I hold him up in the air and throw him against the slanted part of the roof. He finally gives in and explains. He says that he is me from the future. [/COLOR][COLOR=#808080]I can't remember much after this, so this is where it ends.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/INDENT]

1. Preparing for myth exam, not too confident. Went to the exam room, people (mob) grabbing the textbook. Girl asks me if she should take this old hardcover, I told her it was the wrong edition, but looks good. They started handing marks out. Next exam, suited up, looked good. Walked around campus- water fountain.
2. Genetics exam, went to check time, registrar's website, but can't find it (Searched for a very long time -20 mins according to dream clock) . Can't see very well either, vision gets all blurry- like without glasses. Went to exam anyway.
3. Playing quake 3 with people. Had to find something, a VERY large map. Went deeper. Ashlyn was in a tiny corridor, defending something. Killed her, killed other two people with her. Got the plasma gun. Got the thing. Filled all the ammo up and headed back to the starting point and won the game.

In this dream I wanted to study at Oxford University in England. I was told that I could rent an apartment, but to do that I would need to do all the cooking around 1am. At first I thought this was due to my academic schedule, but no, then I discovered I had misunderstood, and I always could cook, but it was recommended that I do it within 25 hours.

I was shocked by how small a village Oxford was. (Now in waking life I have been to Oxford as a tourist, and it most definitely is not a small village.) In my dream, I could walk from one end of the village to the other easily, and that was good because I was supposed to be a priest at St. John's church which was at the opposite end of the village, and I could walk there. I found out that an important member of the congregation had died, and I wrote to the bishop to enquire whether I could hold a simple funeral service, and was reprimanded in the letter back that for such important people the funeral had to be lavish.

Meanwhile returning to food and cooking, I discovered that there was not a grocery store in Oxford, too small a village for that. So one had to go to the next town over to the store.

In other news, I now was not going to be a priest after all! I was applying for a job as a research assistant. Now luckily this was just a non-lucid dream because few people in waking life ever get a job by explaining that the research of the professor in question does not really interest me, but I can do the job.

Ultimately though I decided that it may be too dangerous to go to Oxford after all, because war was coming. I knew that war was coming because people were arguing more than usual. I thought that maybe I could prevent war from starting in Oxford (how???) but that I was not going to be able to do it nationwide, and thus it might be too dangerous to be there after all. I should go back to the US instead.

Incidentally, this was not my first dream in which I thought war was coming and that thus it would be safer to stay in the US. I appear not to have noticed that I was single without kids and probably significantly younger than in waking life.

1. [non-lucid][game]
Was playing MTA racing around in cars in a not too big square black tiled shiny room with 3 others, there's a small red curve floored room in the back that teleports you to a different area that looks identical to the other area.
One of the others car becomes too damaged, sets on fire and starts chasing us as to take us with him when he explodes, he failed to take anyone with him. I had the same fate and set on fire but I took one of them out as I exploded and died.

Arrgh.

I had some dreams I could remember well as I woke up.

But mysteriously, my memory vanished the time I got up and came back from the bathroom.

I just recall 3 things:

1. I wrote a test to become a baker (what the hell), but I had to answer some questions about french literature (again what the hell?). Naturally I couldn't answer the questions and left without giving the test back.

2. I'm waiting in front of a train crossing, which stands in middle of my street (where there is none)

3. Something about Ninjas. But I can't recall more

So..... I didn't log last night. My past couple of logs have also not been very vivid. So, tonight, i'm going to focus and meditate a little before bed. This should sort of remind myself to wake up after a rem cycle is complete and log instead of being lazy.

Anyway, what i remember:

Defending dagger:
It's night, i'm outside on my farm. Me and a friend are vampires and as a result, my family is planning to kill us, or at least i think that was the plot. So i'm outside with a knife, my family members are running at me and i'm slicing them one by one to wound them enough to stop them. I then wound a little girl pretty badly ( i didn't know i had a little sister in my dream world :3 ). because i hurt her, i can't help but break down and cry.

Then the plot slowly turns to me watching a movie part by part which is being projected onto the lawn.

-fragment:
I was talking with a girl i know about a written drivers test and she said it had like 2000 questions and i was a bit shocked.

(Technically lucid, in the sense that I clearly knew I was dreaming, but there was no more control than usual and no particular moment of becoming lucid that I remember, I seemed to have simply started out that way. Then again, I can't remember how this scene started. Background info: I recently read something claiming dreams usually don't include all 5 senses, mostly just sight.)

I want to test out that bit about how senses work in dreams, so I float up to my bedroom ceiling and run my fingers over the ridges of the plaster. My sense of touch seems to be working fine to me. I even break off a piece of the plaster and taste it - the taste is probably not what plaster really tastes like, and it's very bland, but the sense of taste is certainly present. I decide I need to wake up to write this down.

(And I did. Rather than being any more aware than usual, it seemed more like I'd unintentionally programmed my dream self to complete this task, and my dream self was just carrying out those orders, without me having to take any active control of the dream. I went back to sleep for a few more hours.)

I'm playing the role of Louis de Pointe du Lac and watching a performance of Les Miserables in french. The girl playing young Cosette reminds me a little of Claudia, which makes me remember the songs she used to sing around the house. Their voices are similar. But Lestat's distracting me, talking as we watch the performance, telling me about his run in with Daniel and how he'd given him that 'choice I never had' line. And then he says to me that really, that was something of a lie; Daniel was already 'for the blood' as he puts it, since he'd met me.

Date: August 5, 2013
Method: WBTB & MILD (WILD attempt during WBTB)
Total Sleep Time: Don't ask

Dreamed I was with Beyonce at what seemed to be the circus. She was performing an act on the trapeze where she was suppose to sing at the same time she was doing these amazing flips, all while flying. My job was to toss her the microphone from the ground at the exact moment of a flip and she was to catch it with one hand while holding on with the other and start singing. Well, let's just say I got my part right by tossing the microphone at the correct moment. She did indeed catch it, but she fumbled with the mic and it fell in her lap and she missed her mark. I woke up soon after this, but I'm sure if this dream was to continue, I would have been fired for making the Queen B look bad!

Note: Well, it is no surprise that I am not being very successful with my attempts to become lucid during WBTB. I have never had success with WBTB & WILD, so I believe that I am not really sure what to do except try to stay awake while my body is asleep. I always end up falling asleep and wondering what the hell happened that morning. Lately, my total sleep time is just not enough and I know this is making my lucidity suffer.

Got to do better!

I'm on some unfamiliar street, and I want to get home before all the night people come out because it's almost sunset. I have this map, and I'm discussing with a body-less voice the best route to go, the short one is on a public street and I find that unappealing, but the back way would take far longer, the voice urges I go the short way but i just walk on thinking i will decide when I get to the two ways. I get to the two roads, and suddenly all these people start coming out of no where walking towards me and passed me to go to their homes. I turn to the right which is the short way without thinking, and theirs a lot of people, even more, and some of them walk towards me when they could of perfectly walked around, then I see my dad standing across the street through the crowd and he has a mad look on his face, I start to run through the crowd hoping he won't catch up, but the crowd gets thick and slows me down, then I turn my head and he's right next to me and I flinch, then sudden;y I'm in this office with my dad and there's this other girl and she's talking to this woman at a desk about her embarrassing problems and her voice is so brittle and she's so nervous, I realize this woman is going to talk to me and my dad next, so I try I stare at the door planning to run out. To get the courage to get up, but then the girl is done talking to the woman behind the desk and gets up and opens the door to leave, so I panic and run passed her and I hear the woman at the desk yell something at me.

Dream 1(fragment):

There was something about dragons.

Dream 2(fragments):

Was playing some game and at some point was placing alot of explosives in a bunker and then exploding it.

Dream 3(fragments):

I was watching something about minecraft and then some Yogscast video. Lewis was building some kind of structure out of blue and red grating blocks and then later Simon arrived, twice, and both of them started helping, one of them had slightly different voice. Then there was some talk about some missile launch center.

Dream 4(fragments):

I was watching some series that looked like some series that i've seen in the past, people were arriving at home and welcoming back each other and there was something about some having different personality or something.

Date: 5th Aug

Total sleep time: 7 hrs<

Pre bed: Calcium&Magn, 100mg B6

Natural wakes: 6x, vivid dreams after each, lazy to record, also mislaid notebook

Early dream(+3 hrs?): a memory of a lucid, where I didn't do anything in particular? We were gathered on street around a fountain/pillar?

Dream: An emotional personal dream with a rather unpleasant outcome. Sadness and anger.

Dream: Sitting on the table of a local cafe. My high school classmates smoke cigarette after cigarette. I am thinking about that, blowing out clean air in front of me.

Dream: A bit like a FA, or was it a dream, this was more hearing the dream than seeing it. Mom is talking with dad that she regrets not noticing the details of her dream, because this is the third time she actually has a lucid.

LD: After trying to fall asleep for a while after the natural wake, I catch myself in the midst of a dreamlet. I see my bf already in the dream on the street, but I am still there more of a side spectator than an in-dream presence. My bf starts doing repetitive movements with his hands as if he is entering the dream as well. I concentrate and soon my hands and body appear in the dream. I have a little trouble moving, feel my body slightly paralyzed, but am relaxed about it and just wait. Bf gives me a hand and pulls me closer, which helps me become more solid. He is very friendly and nicer than most of his DC appearances and I wonder whether this could be a shared dream. I walk on the street for a bit, but things destabilize, then the dream is possibly back again. Memory gap?

I have no idea what happened but now am on the roof floor of a building with lots of kids around. I think I lost my lucidity or am quite distracted at this point. The kids are playing with two balloons, one red and one blue, and I am getting closer to the edge of the building as they almost throw one of the balloons too far. I have worries about falling down. Then I go over one of the kids and tell her to turn off/change the music. Here I regain my lucidity as I try to go down while I get a strange fear of heights. I conclude that when people feel this fear they enter a similar to the dream state while awake. Some sort of exaggerated anxiety mood.

I am now one floor below, with my bf and a number of DCs next to me. I decide to ask my bf about the meaning of life. Again, he looks more like himself here. At first he answers something about "going forward", which I very much like. I tell him to repeat it again but instead he says "I like going back and forward" and then blurts out "Money". This disappoints me a bit. I want to get more and better answers so ask another DC. This guy looks falsely familiar and initially gives me the impression I might have encountered a real dreamer as he begins to ponder the question. But then he just keeps repeating "mmm" and "mmmhum" and doesn't say anything. I am annoyed and feel the dream is slipping away as I have been waiting too long. The dream stops but instead of going through the void, I lose consciousness. It takes maybe about 10 seconds and I am back in the dream.

I was in some sort of a corridor before and now I go into the next room where there are a lot of DCs from my class. I want to ask once again, so I organize those DCs which are now around 20 to gather in front of me as if I am about to take a picture of them. I then make an intro and ask them what the meaning of life is. Lots of my classmates raise hands and I select K. who is smiling to answer. She starts a long speech about happiness. She doesn't say anything exciting, just tells me about her life. I have no more interest in getting the question answered. I then address the whole class and ask them if they know what a lucid dream is and if they have had one. A few try to say something, but it is really hard to concentrate as there are too many DCs in the room. I tell them that this is a lucid dream, but then begin to worry that I might actually be having a shared dream with someone and they might think I am crazy. I leave them to talk with one another. I lose consciousness again, the dream is back in a few seconds. (no void)

I am trying to think of more tasks when I see this pretty Asian girl maybe around 20 years old. I start having distracting side thoughts and want to get close to her but she looks scared and tries to run away. I relax a bit and so does she. She lies on my lap as I marvel her beautiful hair and caress her. When she stands up, I notice she is wearing a knee-length dress. I know it is a bad idea to do it temptation-wise, but I just can't resist and start licking her leg. (Yes, I have a problem!) I notice how super real her leg looks, feels and tastes (a bit salty). I am still considering whether I should fully indulge or try to remember and do other tasks, when the dream suddenly ends. I stay still, but am too wakeful to DEILD or fall asleep.

Comments: I did some quick reading related to neurotransmitters and noticed that B6 plays a role in the synthesis of five: serotonin, dopamine, epinephrine, norepinephrine and GABA. So, after the intake of B6 it is likely that my levels of these increase.The usual effects for me are earlier onset of memorable dreams (today first wake was at plus 3hrs), emotionally loaded dream contents (often aggressive DCs, sometimes me running away, i.e. fight or flight response, also some sexy moments), reduced sleepiness/increased alertness. After thinking about the effects, it looks like one neurotransmitter receives a significant boost and influences the overall mood of the dream - dopamine. I feel that this information finally coming to my attention is important as it increases my understanding of dream intensity and may help me eventually achieve better control during lds.

DR1- My Girlfriend (in my dream) and I were looking for a new place to live. We drove past a really nice tower, and I was instantly, and with ease, doing all I could to keep my vibration high so I would attract a living situation that would be best. As we drove past this tower, I looked at the small field behind it, and in the ditch beside the road I noticed a burrow where I assumed that homeless people would sleep. As I looked at the back of the tower, I noticed this tall grass and oat straw covered a considerable portion of the back of the tower too. As we continued driving to look for a place, we passed a town-home complex, that had a stucco exterior. There were these weird unattached balconies, and every one had a large flatscreen TV on it, not any of them being used, all with white screens. I was intrigued by the town-homes but ultimately knew my heart was with the tower. After our cruising, we stopped to ingest some sugar. It seemed like we were doing a drug of some sort, but it was definitely sugary, and it didn't get me high in my dream.

DR2- I was making consistent trips back and forth to do freshwater diving. I had 3 buddies I was diving with, whom I could not identify on waking. I was riding a bicycle to and from the dive site, which was very refreshing.
All 3 buddies were living in the same house as me, and one of their mothers I believe was the owner. She had said she was taking the other 3 on a freshwater dive in a further dive site. She didn't have room for me in the car, and I wouldn't be able to make it in time on my bike. They left shortly, and I went to visit another friend. As I got to my friend's doorstep, one of my old rivals stood in my way. He wasn't aggressive as I remember him from the waking world, almost as if whatever he didn't like about me was not an issue anymore.