non-lucid

in the first dream i was in a kind of forest area with a river (i think)? i was reading a poem that was accompanied by victorian-style engravings. i felt that this poem/drawing was incredibly significant. a sense of nostalgia pervaded this segment.

in the second dream i was on a beach bordered by a forest. it was sunny and bright. i was recording a wildlife video with my phone. i recall swimming in the water while two swans followed me. later i was editing the video to add a title and credits. the graphic design was kind of 70s-esque.

when i had finished recording my boyfriend showed up and i showed him the video. soon we were inside of the video. we were both swimming with the swans when my boyfriend noted two penguins in the water. we were surprised that there were penguins here. these penguins had a large yellow crest and a dolphin-like beak. we decided they were emperor penguins. my boyfriend wanted to go closer but i was afraid they would attack us. i had a vision of large, fanglike spines on their undersides, which were arranged in concentric circles. this prompted me to leave the water and watch them from the edge of the beach.

Dream recall from today's nap. A couple of lucids, ultralow awareness though.

Dream 1(fragment):

I was trying to nap but was getting constantly interrupted in one way or another.

Dream 2:

I was in some modern white skyscraper-style building, there were some anime characters i was talking to and then i was going down the stairs and reached some office-like place. Shortly the building started crumbling, i was going further down the stairs while avoiding holes, then the view switched to third person and i was apparently anime character as well, i was about to exit the building but i noticed child Gaara, just standing on stairs and not moving, i told him to go out but he was ignoring me. I (still in third person)walked back up and tried to move him, but he was like glued statue, i even did ended up doing some quick transformation like huge wing for a second, but all useless. I walked out of building and was back to first person view, i got into some red car and was driving on the road. Then it went back to third person and camera rotated around the car, moving further and further away i realized that i am dreaming but it was kinda 'cutscene mode' and i haven't done much in the end. Shortly dream faded out.
I woke up at home and was immediately distracted by family(As always... That would make stable dream sign but it doesn't happen IWL, so...), there was something about going out of home, i agreed at first but then was like 'nope' and got back home.

Dream 3:

I was in some version of Doom 3(According to dream at least, it didn't looked like Doom 3 at all), in editor mode. I opened level that was one of the endgame ones, which was happening in some tall techno-style dark building. I was noclip flying around looking for boss rooms to check scripts and stuff, i got through some boss rooms and soon i was in some different area, metallic with yellow lighting.I realized that i am dreaming because i had feeling of dream and walked around for some time, navigating through some dark passageways with pipe-like structures in walls and grating, soon dream faded out though.
I woke up and(forgot to RC) was in some restaurant place, alot of stuff was colored white and there were various challenges related to food. I selected one challenge in which i had to bring some food to small cylindric container that sucked in all food that was dropped into it, i filled it halfway through and then i...
Wake up at same restaurant place again, though this time SilentEternity is here... and another SilentEternity... and also another one of myself. We start discussing something and then dream ends.

In this fragment I recall some sort of card game about dreaming and there was magic involved. It does not help that I thought I had written this dream down, but apparently had not.

I saw a dream about a close friend of mine, that [in real world] She had an appointment with me and she didn't come and also hasn't answered my angry messages yet...
In dream I was angry... fortuitous I saw her activities on "facebook" and I understand that she now can answer my messages and she doesn't do this
It was interesting that she also like some post of mine looks like it's a contradiction.

I didn't log much last night, so here's a very brief summary of some dreams:
Spider training: I was in a hollow with my soke and he was training me to use power from spiders.
Online school: I joined some stupid online school.
Flood: It started raining and the area started to flood, water was up to my knees.

Pre bed: 100mg B6

Dream quality and recall: Dreams were vivid but recall was challenging due to the fact that I continued sleeping after the lds. It took me a while to journal the lds and by the time I did, the non-ld memories almost vanished. Still, taking into account recent busyness, heat and other distractions, I am very happy with the results.

Early dream fragment: It is the 5th of July and I am watching lots of fantastic long-lasting fireworks in the sky

Early dream fragment: I am doing dumbbell exercises, it feels really good

WBTB: Was very sleepy but made an effort to review the tasks. Said a mantra a few times, then fell deeply asleep.

Dream: I enter grandpa's room and discover that grandma has forgotten some kind of a diary she kept hidden behind the door. I wait until she is not around and peek in the diary to find out it is actually my diary. So, I had forgotten it in 2007 and she hid it and has been reading little bits ever since. This is terrible because this diary fully describes my views, plans, etc. I want to take it back home, but my mom comes snooping around, so I have to be careful not to attract her attention.

Fragment: I am with a classmate going to a class meeting. We stop in front of a building.

LD1: For some reason am in someone's store that resembles an outlet of a totally unknown brand. I spend some time checking out clothes, mostly interested in pink and purple ones. There is a cardigan I like but it turns into a net? Classmates are also there, I am trying to get their attention. A woman working in the store comes to bring us what looks like orange juice, but she claims it is beer. My whole class is gathered around something like a long table and we are having a drink. I first wait for everyone to get served but soon notice that some are already drinking. I feel drunk. Other classmates tell the story of a girl with the same name as mine, about how she lived in some city where women are emancipated. I think this refers to me, but later find out that they are talking about another classmate because they say her family name.

I turn to one of my best friends and say to her that we better leave the place and go outside. I am not sure what we did there but I am overly bold and become lucid. I turn back to all the guys from my class that have been passively following me and say some things to them I don't any longer remember. I recall how long this dream has been going and have very little time left, so decide to hurry up. The scenery around me is absolutely beautiful. We just left a lone building and there is only grass around, hills, trees. It seems like fall is just beginning, the colors are very pleasant to look at.

My brain is more asleep than usual and the only task that comes to mind after looking at the scenery is flying to angel falls. (which is so totally CL!)

I lift off and do some maneuvering that I can't exactly recall. I keep on flying over some fantastic hills, but I just feel this is going to end very bad because I have no idea where I am going and I am in the air for too long. (Also my expectation was set very deeply on a subcon level).

I decide to land and end up facing what looks like a small waterfall. There is water pouring over some rocks just in front of me. While I know this isn't what I am looking for (too small), I go as close as possible to this water falling down the rocks, trying to feel the water on me as the dream fades away and I end up in the void.

I spend some time in the void, just waiting there. (I couldn't remember any advice as what else to do, but that was fine)

LD2:It's a bit hard to remember what the first image was that I was looking at here but I am lucid from the start. It is an open area, with lots of vegetation again. I try three tasks, not fully sure about the sequence of but mostly likely in this order.

I look around and see some hills and trees in the distance. Once again it is all very beautiful and this makes me happy. It also reminds me that I was headed towards Angel falls. The vegetation makes it just perfect for the task and I stare there and day dream for a very short while. I feel like I want to rush forward and just get there. However, I just passed a few DCs and I remember I had another task I wanted to do "ask a DC".

I turn to this overweight mid-age woman and she makes some kind of word-like sound like "nah", I ask her where my phone is and she says "outside". This cannot be possible, as I know the phone must be somewhere at home, so I object and ask for further explanation. She says something else that I can't exactly remember but it means that this the answer. I am not satisfied with the answer she gave me, so I look around and there is another DC woman more or less the same type, but different face. I go to her and she makes exactly the same word-like sound like the other one, I find this very strange. I proceed to ask her about my phone and she just answers "but didn't you already ask". Well, yeah, but I want to ask again, and it is none of her business, just tell me where the phone is. I am annoyed with her and start some senseless explaining. After a while, I give it up and move on.

Still in the same place I decide to do the fireworks task and look around for some fireworks to swallow. The problem is that I am not in a room where my mind easily makes all kinds of objects but in the greenery and there's only grass and some small bushes there. I somehow remember I can do a summon from my pocket. I have the memory that my pockets are currently empty but still decide to search in my pocket. It is indeed empty but I manage to scrub something there, I hold my fist tight for a second and then I expect to see a mini-firework in there. Unfortunately, it is just a purple brown pill. I become confused thinking I really had this pill in my real pocket and that's causing the problem. Anyways, I concentrate on the pill, trying to make it look at least a bit like a firework but in vain. Somewhere after this intense concentration the dream fades.

I don't remember anything from the void here anymore.

LD3: I appear in some kind of public building restroom, still lucid, where I am looking myself in the mirror. I feel some pain in my tooth and have a closer look. Yeah, something is not quite right there and that worries me that I might actually have done something to my real tooth. I vaguely remember Penny talking about tooth dreams, and try to ignore the issue. Yet, I keep on checking myself out in the mirror until I zoom in to see and feel my entire row of teeth in a painfully twisted position. Dreams can really get crazy, I think to myself, remembering how Checker's fingers were twisted or something like that.

Finally, I brake my teeth fixation and walk around, trying to exit the restroom. Slightly worried that the dream might destabilize, although there wasn't an indication?, I decide to rub my hands and see if anything feels different. I remark that everything feels absolutely normal, and rubbing my hands on this occasion does not feel different from waking life. I also remember to jump a bit supposedly to stabilize, but it's more like some mischievous act of fun. I jump a few times, although cautiously as I don't want to destabilize the dream by losing the sense of my feet while mid air.

Trying to leave the restroom, I walk around in this building, but get lost in a maze of corridors. I go back, then try again and end up in some creepy looking corridor, lit by a single old bulb, shining bright. The whole place looks like from some kind a cheap movie scene and I don't like it at all. I don't want to be there. I get paranoid, staring at the corridor which turns to the left and soon some kind of a non-human thing is summoned by me.

Before he even has the chance to move closer I know that the only way out of this place is to phase through the wall in front of me and I do so.

I immediately end up in the void, but am still a bit paranoid that this thing might follow me into the next dream. I try to reason this whole situation, that he doesn't exist anymore, and feeling with certainty that once in the void, it is over. From then on, I remember to concentrate on Angel falls and on appearing on top of it. I do my best to create sensations that I am there.

I don't remember what happened, I just found myself in the next scene.

LD4: My memory gets even worse as I fall deeper into sleep. I am on the street, facing some building. My concern at this point is recall. I realize that I have been having dream after dream with no opportunity to journal. I try to remember how many lds so far, four, try to recall some details as I feel they will be lost. Using either my fingernails or some other object, I write down the number of dreams with a key word next to each to help with my recall once I wake up. This whole task is extremely difficult and towards the end of the process I begin to hear non-lucid dream thoughts interfering in my head.

Soon I lose lucidity as a Heroes of Might and Magic scene develops in the building in front of me. There are the two players' armies and obviously mine has been defeated because I didn't send reinforcements, while the other player did. The armies look quite 3D life-like with the largest beast looking quite scary.

NLD: Someone informs bf about his dentist and that some kind of refund is due because he did the dental work in a hurry. Tom Wilkinson is the dentist.

NLD: I am in a tram, there is a strange looking skinny old man in front of me. He is dressed like Gandhi, also has some kind of flat drawers on his chest, as some sort of a medallion. We talk for a short while and unfortunately I can't recall more detail anymore.

Soon the dream ends and I am in my body semi-conscious and extremely sleepy. For some reason my physical body decides to change position, so my legs move. This is what wakes me up a bit more and I decide it is better to journal before I forget everything.

Dream 1(fragments):

I was in some dark place, talking with somebody then later i started playing some video game, an RTS of some kind.

Dream 2(fragments):

I was in some metallic corridor and then i entered some big room. Then i used one of monitors in room to control some base in space, that looked like AI War. SilentEternity contacted me and said that it was updated and that AI fleet behavior changed greatly. And indeed, AI ships were more precisely controlled on one by one basis very accurately. i barely managed to stop the attack with turrets. Then after stopping the attack i continued talking with SilentEternity about something, then we with some group entered some kind of 3D game. I was escorting some NPCs through corridors of some spaceship or space station and protecting them from enemies, then we activated some switches that started the travel through space. We had to choose the path and we started to discuss something about dragons and whether to go through dragon land or not.

Dream 3(fragment):

I was playing some hybrid of AI War and some other RTS.

Dream 4(fragments):

I was on certain forum and there was some suggestion forum game about a dragon and i was discussing types of dragons with GWG.

Emotional AI Research
I was working on an emotion recognition artificial intelligence research project which had lots of promise of good success, but no money to continue it. I was like a research student, but well paid, and in fact the cost of keeping me and several like me on the project was too high. At night I heard the AI system say something that made it clear that the computer was depressed. I forgot to tell about this to the researcher in charge, but luckily he discovered it when reviewing security footage. I emotionally felt sorry for the machine, whereas he thought of this as a major research breakthrough.

Lesson Against Racism

I was with my younger son on a playground and he had some stickers, and he all of a sudden said something I think because of something the stickers reminded him of "She should have gotten out of his way because she was Latino." I immediately intervened, "Who told you that?" He said the name of an older kid from our neighborhood who in real life once scared him into thinking that because he touched certain poison berries he was going to die the next day. In the dream my son says "He gave me these stickers." I said "Well, he was wrong to say that. Listen to me: it does not matter what the color of people's skin is, whether they are Black or White or Latino or others. No matter, they are all equally important, and should be treated with equal respect." While I was giving this lecture, I started speaking in a raised voice and my voice carried over the entire playground. On the other side of the playground a teacher was giving a class outdoors to a bunch of kindergartners, and she stopped and had them listen to me. My husband had also materialized next to me (when the dream started, it was just me and my younger son). So my husband said "You realize you just interrupted a kindergarten class? Why did you have to shout that for the whole playground to hear?" Me "The teacher did not seem to mind being interrupted. I think she appreciated the kids in her class being taught this lesson, too."

I then saw the problematic neighborhood kid again. We were in front of my home. He was there, I was, and some other kids but not mine. I told him "If you are hanging out with my kids do not teach them racism and such. If you cannot restrain such talk, I would rather you did not play with my kids." He denied having said anything like that, but I said "I do not trust you. I trust my kids."

Had some non-lucid dreams tonight, didn't remember so much tough.. But i did remember one dream
I was sitting at a busstop near a big road, trucks and cars drived fast here. And there was 2 guys that played with the motorcycles at the road.

The trucks needed to slow done, else they would hit them, but the other trucks didn't notice the slowdown and many, many trucks crashed after each other.
The "force" of the crash made it hard to see and walk. so i decided to take cover or whatever. But then, suddenly the force stoped. It was over, i saw people trying to help
people in the crash, and i hear a man shout: "call after ambulance"

I decided to turn back the time, and i decided, that the motorcycle guys should be somewhere else. And i was sitting with my friends at the busstop.
I asked them, do you know i turned back the time?
- No
and i said: You wouldn't belive that the trucks was crashing if i didn't turn back the time again.

And after i said that i woke up.

1. [non-lucid][false-awakening]
Before I fell asleep I was contemplating whether or not to ring someone on my mobile, I fell asleep and had a false awakening in which I did in fact ring someone...then I woke up to find I never actually did.

Could have became lucid so easily...

I was at school and in the ICT building. I was with a girl who looked like someone I knew but looked kinda different. I don't remember how but I remember her becoming my girlfriend. I just remember talking to her for a while but I don't remember much of this part of the dream.

We walked outside together and were standing in the playground and there were quite a few people around us. I looked at the sky and it looked like a storm was brewing. There were very loud noises and the storm got out of control, I grabbed her hand and we ran into the building, I saw people behind us being striked and falling to their death. There were a few other people with us and we ran down this building, most people thought they would be safe in the toilets so they went there. There was a member of staff telling us to stay here and how dangerous it was outside, I don't remember the girl being with me anymore for the rest of the dream but I'm pretty sure she was around. The storm was calming down and we didn't hear anymore loud noises, some people started leaving and the member of staff told us to get to our homes as quick as we could and to stay there. I sprinted home whilst I saw others casually walking, I don't think they knew what was happening. I got to the shops and the loud noises started again, the storm was brewing, I went near this building which looked like it could protect us, many people did the same. The storm started, and these birds/ravens started flying around attacking people, the birds were coming towards us so I decided to carry on running. Next thing I remember is being home, and I just remember being in my room watching tv eating sweets. I then remember this man, I don't know the transition of how we met up but I remember this man, all I remember of his appearance is that he wore a robe. The man looked at me, deep into my eyes, he said 2 words which I recognized, and remembered exactly what they were when I woke up but I don't remember right now. They weren't just normal words, they had a mystic feel to them. After he said those words, I was teleported somewhere, now I don't remember where he teleported me but I do remember talking to him, he was telling me how the world has changed and that people needed to be educated properly as it is needed for peace. He did say a lot more but I don't really remember it right now, all I know is that he didn't tell me who he was. Next thing I remember is being in a big class in a hall with loads of other people. People were filling in the sheet and saying what they had filled in to the class.

Dream recall from today's nap.

I was at home and thinking about something lucid dreaming related.

Today i dreamt i was watching some familiar faces on portuguese idol contest.
The first concurrent was cunha, he sang and left. The second concurrent was my cousin
vanessa, i saw her interview before entering on the cast, i couldn't listen what she said but.
I went to youtube, that was live-streaming to youtube and i commrented: "That's my cousin!"
I thought what a other ordinary would think of that comment: "so he think we would believe on that?
lets see their facebook. Oh! his cousin is really here on his facebook" i dont remember seeing her singing.
So the next concurrent was my cousin aswell named ricardo he said "I love to play soccer, but i'm giving a try here
at idol contest" And it appeared some scenario where my cousin plays soccer with his friends on a soccer stadium
I was watching this idol contest by TV, but somehow i managed to teleport near my cousin and play soccer with him.
They were all playing good, i was playing bad as hell.

Sleep time: 6 hours
Technique used: MILD

was in the yard of an apartment building I used to live at when I was a kid. It was daytime and my brother was with me. We thought about purchasing the building and turning it into a compound of some sort. We would explore it and have fun. I was talking to him about putting two cement barriers around the property to protect it. I was kidding I think. He went into a blue tent that was just sitting there in the yard. I stood by waiting for him and I fell down. I got stuck and couldn't move..I realized I was in a deep sleep paralysis. I didn't know I was in a dream though I thought it happened because I just woke up from one. I fought it as hard as I could trying to move my arm. I tried to roll and when nothing worked I tried to pretend I saw a snake to try to trick my body into thinking it was an emergency and let me move. When that didn't work I just kept fighting it until I woke up.

07-12-2013 -- Before I lose it, guess I ought to get this one down. I am trying to make left hand turns at busy intersections while on roller skates, I think, and there is a lot of heavy traffic, which is making it difficult. I am doing my best to be quick, and stay out of the way of cars, and move quickly, but while I am doing so, there are others (on skates or boards, or just pedestrians) that are getting in the way or moving a lot slower, or doing whatever else they can to make things more difficult.

I am reaching a couple of intersections like that, and the second one is turning off of Beach Blvd and on to La Palma, heading over toward the Buena Park Mall, and the pedestrians are still getting in the way, and holding things up when the light turns green, but I do my best to ignore everybody else, and just get moving, so I won't be in the way. So I turn on to La Palma, skating as fast as I can, but as I proceed down the block to Stanton, I am now driving the Jimmy, but I find I have a flat tire. It is the front driver's side tire, and I just had it replaced two days ago, so I find myself getting furious that the tire is bad again, already.

So I am pulling the car over, and I suddenly find myself reading a comic book. It is a Spider-Man comic book, and I find that Spider-Man is facing off against Doctor Octopus, and moment by moment the comic is coming more and more to life, and I am turning into Spider-Man, but I only have part of my powers, and Octopus is at his strongest, so I am trying to stay out of sight and catch my breath.

Meanwhile, I am running down the street in a sort of old west type of setting, and I run into this saloon, and find myself running up a slightly curving staircase as I glance over at a stage, and I realize I know this place. I am running through the Golden Horseshoe, even though I am not at Disney. It is not that it is really somehow the Golden Horseshoe, but that the comic book artist copied the building, changed the name, and threw the story in there as a sort of tribute. [It was like an issue of the comic Night Man, which had a running battle taking place in a fictional amusement park ... but if you really know Disneyland, you recognize the ramp leading up to the Space Mountain line.]

Anyway, I soon find myself dodging around back stage behind this Golden Horseshoe look-alike location, trying to stay out of sight and out of mind while thinking up a method of fighting off Doc Ock that will allow me to win. I feel like I need to pull off one of those victories where Spidey tells Ock "You were at your strongest, and I was at my weakest, and I still beat you. I will always beat you. So quit fighting against me!" But I just don't know how I am going to manage it. Meanwhile, Octopus is starting to threaten some of the can-can girls, and I realize that, plan or not, I am going to have to make a stand. So I launch myself at Ock and just start fighting away!