non-lucid

I had a dream that I was going to college. It was like a graduation ceremony, though, except it was for the new students. They started by calling the names of the students who'd earned scholarships, then went on to call everyone else, one by one. There were seats in the front of the room, behind the official people calling names, facing the back, for all the students whose names had already been called. They were also higher up; the room was like an auditorium, where it's slanted, except the front of the room was higher up). It was really exciting when they called my name.

After I'd been called, though, I remembered that I still had another year of high school... but then I just assumed this ceremony was for the students who'd been accepted and would be starting college next fall.

In the next dream, my family and I had moved to a hotel in North Carolina, but I really didn't want to be there. The hotel was not very good, and I assumed the rest of the state was the same.

I woke up from that dream and started writing in my dream journal. I'd written almost one page when I heard my mom call from the dining room to say that breakfast was ready. I told her I'd be out in just a moment and continued writing.

...then I woke up.

In my first dream I had two dogs, which I do in real life, but they were both black labs, while I have two weimaraners. Oh and they could both talk. But no one else knew that, so when we went over to a friends house, I had to make sure they acted like "normal" dogs. We went around my hometown, basically just doing nothing.

The second dream I was at my Dad's house. There was a jungle in the back yard. We went out there with a bunch of other people. We were all carrying machetes, and I have no idea what we were looking for. Then I got bit by snake. I remember the pattern was red on the head and tail, one stripe of yellow about a 1/3 of the way down from its head, and the middle was solid black. It bit me, but just at that instant I cut its head off with my machete. My dad took me to his house, and I remember one of the people saying that i had minutes to live, while the nearest hospital was thirty minutes away. Then my alarm went off.

My normal dream signs (haze, altered perspective) were still there.

Italic Text = Personal Thoughts
Normal Text = Non-Lucid Segment
Light Purple Text = Partially Lucid Segment
Purple Text = Lucid Segment

19th Lucid Dream:
I was back in school with all my old friends and for some reason I had taken my dream journal with me. Somebody asked me what it was and I avoided the subject in fear of them reading my dreams.

After a short while of talking about all kinds of subjects (most of which I don't even recall) we got back onto the subject of lucid dreaming. Apparently one of my friends had a lucid dream by accident and everyone was calling her crazy for thinking she could have had this experience. I whipped out my dream journal to prove to them that it did exist. When they were all convinced we started talking about fun things to do in a lucid dream. Somebody was talking about how awesome it would be to have a really dark and sadistic dream. I decided to see if I could have a lucid nap, so I laid my head on the desk and "fell asleep", despite already being asleep.

There was a pretty instant scene transition and I was immediately lucid. I was at the bottom of this beautiful grassy hill with white fences leading up a paved path and at the top a castle with a huge, grand entrance. I climbed the hill and upon reaching the top I recall reading something about following different signs in a dream for the style of dream you want to have. In this case I had two very distinct paths, an angelic, glowing white entrance to this castle and a dark, dead graveyard-looking scene to the right hand side.

I was compelled to head towards the dark path, considering the conversation I had in the non-lucid prior to this. I jumped down off the small ledge and ended up in what looked like a dead wheat field. It was all dark greys with these blood-coloured crystals scattered around embedded in stone pillars. In the middle was a ruined stone shack and I climbed up on top of it. Below was a cellar which had been exposed, and I was ready to jump down into it.

Before jumping I figured I would reality check to solidify my lucidity. As I did the scene became increasingly vivid and I began thinking about the fact that when I woke I would have to write down this dream in the middle of the class that I had fell asleep in. Not knowing that the previous experience was just a dream and I was actually asleep in bed.

I jumped down inside, it was an extremely enclosed space of ruined stone walls. Through a hole in one of the walls I saw these stones moving about by themselves. I slipped through the hole and on the other side I saw all of these stones come together and form a sort of earth elemental creature. He charged at me but I grabbed hold of his stone hand and swung him around in circles, like I was doing an around-the-world with a yo-yo, and let him go, smashing him into the ground and breaking him apart. He reformed and almost squashed me amongst all of the rocks coming together on top of me, but I ducked and managed to avoid it.

I noticed more of these stone creatures forming to guard this bridge in the distance so to kill two birds with one stone (no pun intended) I ran up to this closest earth elemental and avoided the sword he started slashing at me. I grabbed hold of him again and launched him the other earth elementals in the distance, smashing them all to pieces.

As I started walking up to the bridge, the dream faded to black and I woke.

20th Lucid Dream:
I was sitting in my kitchen with my parents, I can't remember what we were talking about but I do remember the torrential rainfall occurring outside.

At some point the rain briefly stopped before snow started gushing out of the sky. It got increasingly large until snowball-sized snowflakes were falling down. I was convinced that I wasn't dreaming, but I seemed to get the idea to reality check anyway.

As I checked my hands, I was baffled when I discovered I was in fact dreaming. I had to check multiple times to believe it. I stood up and headed to the door, and instead of opening it to go outside like I've done in my previous dreams I figured I would just phase through it.

I walked through and I got the same sense walking through it as I did when I scene transitioned when walking through a wall in a previous dream. All of the images rushed by my view, clearing way for pitch blackness. I was sitting in a sort of void, waiting for a new scene to form but nothing was coming, I was just a floating consciousness in the pitch blackness without a body.

Somehow, I started walking regardless. I was stepping aimlessly through the darkness and trying to come up with a scene that I could create. My attempts, however, were futile. As I continued walking I seemed to just step into the waking world and found myself back in my bed.

09.04.2012

$175 Phone Bill (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I had to pay $175 for a phone Bill, and the due date was today in dream time. My father told me to make sure I pay it off, and I told him that I will, and that he doesn't have to remind me.

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09.04.2012

Kingly Implings (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I'm catching Kingly Implings again in a wheat maze, I'm literally see more and more of them pop up in the maze, and all I'm doing is just feeling as if I'm going to make more cash by continuing to hoard all the ones spawned.

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09.04.2012

Someone's Dream Guide (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I think I summoned a dream guide, but I don't know if it's mine, I think I summoned my father's dream guide, but whoever it was, it looked a lot like Catherine from the game "Catherine."

The dream itself was so random, it's hard to remember anything other than her being summoned, or at least someone that looked like her. I'm confused here...

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09.04.2012

Sex Slave? (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Spoiler for 18+:

I see pictures of someone wearing a black lingerie outfit, and with each progression of the pictures, smaller accessories of clothing start to pile up on them. Apparently the picture the right was a 100% sex slave, and as you go left, it goes down in 10% increments.

The female was tall, had long black, curly hair, and was light-skinned.

09.04.2012

f0rceez Banned someone (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

f0rceez banned someone, though I rather not say who.

He literally posts on a visitor message wall, "BANND"

Yes, without the "e."

Today's recall featured the harmonious symphony of my piano keys. I was playing them at 3 a.m. in the dark to my sleeping roomate. Lmfao! And then I went into a different room because I suddenly became concerned with his ability to sleep. I came back and he was like can you turn and down? I had a waha moment and was like dude ! i didn't turn on the t.v. i "woke up" at 4 a.m. The beauty of it is even though I wasn't lucid I could tell I was closer to awareness because of my surrounding
yeeea.
tonight i will lucid !

I climbed aboard an old steam train, for a tour. I went ahead of the tour, since I knew my way around already. I made it into a race of some sort, where I went from carriage to carriage looking following where I knew the tour would go, being careful that nobody from the tour could ever be quick enough to see me. I now thought of the train as a retired submarine which had been put inland as a tourist attraction. I hopped off, and started running alongside it (it was very long). Since I wanted to run fast, I went on all fours. Realised it was a dream, but was tricked into thinking that if I went fully lucid I would awake, so I gave up lucidity.

Suddenly I was in the back yard of my parents' house, which was actually the art house from my previous dream. Nikolas was with me, and Gordon the dog was there too, by the back fence. Suddenly, Gordon started to vomit profusely, and I quickly took Nikolas inside away from him. We went in by the laundry door, and up the steps.

Driving up Kingscote Cres with parents, turned into house over the road from no. 23. We were going there for dinner. Lady walked out to meet us, somehow walking with her feet upside-down. She climbed on the bonnet of the car where she knelt and did some welcoming ceremony. We went inside. Toured house, which was multi-level, with lots of turning half-staircases. Very modern. Lady told me to keep the children out of her art room, and I understood it was because of what they might see, not for fear of them damaging anything. Some very strange and grotesque art, like that of Richard Upton Pickman.

I am standing on one of those 1700's sailing ships. You know, like the Black Pearl from Pirates of the Carribean? Anyways, the ship is just drifting in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. At least I assume that is where I was, all I could see was waves and icebergs. It was late at night but I could see due to the spectacular Northern Lights and of course the moonlight. I was standing near the wheel, looking out over the deck and the ocean in front of me. I remember feeling anxious, like I was waiting for something to happen. I had no clear goals or really any idea why I was on this ship or how I got here. I was freezing cold and all alone. The wind was strong, but not gusting. Just a constant rush of air at my back. The sea was getting progressively stormier so I went below deck to avoid the wind and the cold spray of the sea. I was going through the footlockers and cupboards in the crew's quarters, when I found an old book bound in some sort of darkened leather. I tried to read it, but the pages were wiped blank immediately after I turned to them. I could see the words for only an instant. I put it back, not wanting to disturb this creepy ghost ship I guess. I turned to leave and there was a large man in the doorway. He must have been nearly 7ft tall, and he was dressed in a captain's uniform. His hair was grey and his face was deeply lined, but his eyes were bright and alert. He was holding a large silver key in his left hand. I asked him what the key unlocked. He said a key doesn't unlock anything, it only locks things. I was confused but it seemed foolish to argue. He asked me to come to the Captain's Quarters for a cup of tea and to chat. I followed him, but the whole time I wondered where he came from. I had already searched the entire ship and found nobody. We sat down at the table and he set down a kettle of tea and two small teacups. I picked up the kettle and poured myself a glass of sand. Bone dry sand, not tea. I looked up to ask him why he had sand in a tea kettle, but I was alone in the room. I freaked out and called for him, but he didn't answer. I opened the door and ran out onto the deck, searching for him. I was alone again. Now the waves were gigantic and crashing down on the deck. I ran up the steps to the wheel of the ship and looked out over the ocean. A wave twice as tall as the ship crashed down on the deck and smashed it into pieces. I sunk into the ocean like a lead weight before I woke up.

I was on some website that was selling replicas of masks from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. Interestingly, the site looked like an IRC client. They were selling masks one at a time, kind of like an auction without the bidding. All of the masks they were selling were the same, at least at the moment I'm not sure which one it was, but my mom and I had supposedly made one already. They were all really expensive selling for over $100 or even $200... until I saw one for $17.

I'm not sure how the next scene is relevant in any way,. I saw a building with a sign that said "like dis if u cry everytim", and a boy complained about always finishing something in 0:07 (as in 7 seconds) instead of 0:06. For some strange reason, instead of saying it out loud, it appeared in a text box at the top of the "screen"/field of vision. Also, I somehow knew it was a young boy (probably around 8-11) speaking even though I couldn't see or hear him.

Next (or possibly earlier, I don't remember) was a fragment involving playing something that was a cross between a kazoo and a train whistle.

I also had one other dream I remember from last night. Many of us were sitting in a circle in our living room, which was much bigger than it is IWL. We were playing spin the bottle, though it was a little different than usual; whoever's turn it was had to spin the bottle three times, then get kissed by the three people it pointed to in order. When it was my turn, the first spin stopped on a little girl, the second on Jonathan, a friend from church, and the third on someone I can't remember now.

The girl kissed me on the forehead, then Jonathan kissed me on the cheek. He had been playing his DS and was still holding it; after he kissed me, the guy on screen said something about how we were 8% compatible with each other, then went on to say something long and completely unrelated, only to repeat it in Spanish before I woke up.

It starts by me trying to fall asleep, but I can't. I hear noises so I go to investigate and my environment kind of changes to my a front yard with a minecraft-like scene with trees and stuff from the game. They are cutting down wood, and begin to come over towards me. They introduce themselves, and one has a very strong accent and says they are from Bulgaria. One girl looks older than the other. One of them starts talking to me, like she's trying to get to know me, but I find it really difficult to understand her. We don't talk to much and then I try to find a way in order to get rid of them, and then another man comes and I assume it's her father. I didn't know what to do, because he insisted on watching a movie and cooking food in my house, and I just wanted him out. He begins to play the movie, and I try to just urge and push them out of the house, but they won't go anywhere.

That is when I wake up. Just curious, is that a false awakening, or does that have another name, when I start in the state of trying to fall asleep when the dream begins?

I screwed up and set the A/C wrong last night, so I woke up at 7 all hot and sweaty and couldn't sleep properly after that. I remember some faint non lucid about discussing the podcast with Jason, and finding a guest, and some misc techniques.

I think I had a FA where I went down the hall and the dog gate was up, but Daisy was out of her kennel. Actually yes, it was a FA because I just checked and the gate is in the other room right now. Damnit, that should have been a dead giveaway for a lucid.

I'll set up the A/C properly tonight, so keep fingers crossed for me. I want to nail these TOTMs

This morning I had a short dream that I was feeling kind of sick. I was rushing around my room trying to get ready because my mother's boyfriend would be over shortly to take measurements of my room. I remember feeling particularly stressed because I was wearing a head wrap and wanted to get into a wig before anyone came over.

Had an older brother who went to some highschool party I was at really on my acid. Ye took four which was way too much. I was with another girl I liked and we were going to go on a date after. I was really excited butz I had to tend to my brother who was at ego loss and was ruining the party. He had all my pez in the car and I had to go get it just in case the police got involved. He was freaking out and having a really good time. I went with a few friends and the girl to my car. When we were down there the giant parking garage started shaking and then falling apart. I froze with fear and prepared to be crushed. I could hear my friends screaming in fear as they were trying to dodge the falling ceiling. We all survived and tried to climb to the top and escape. We had some bikes and were following a trail out. I had to go to my car first and get the pez and my wallet first. I grabbed what I could as fast as I could before it collapsed more and rode my bike out.

Dreamt that I took some special dmt that was really rare and a million times more powerful than regular dmt. I rushed past all the typical hallucinations and went directly back to being. The being was a giant diamond sized living creature that was made of all our combined consciousness. As soon as I connected to it I felt the unlimited energy and connectedness of everything. I was one with the source and forgot all about my past life.

Most of the dreams I had were early morning instead of during the night. I would guess around 6:00 - 11:00. Today is my off day, so I was able to sleep in.

The first one I remember is a Super Mario based game played on the SNES. Strange thing though is that the game itself, instead of being in 16-bit graphics, was played completely in 3D. Though it was different; like trigger-based pre-rendered scenes. The colors seemed to be hues of grey and darker blues due to the fact it was taking place in space or something. I am guessing on a space ship of some kind. I remember most of it was creeping around corners and seeing some huge robots that looked vaguely like another video game character (Samus). It was just weird since my field of vision seemed to encompass the screen. Not much happened other that loosing and the dream scene slightly changes. Now the dream is not a video game at all, but somehow the current character is like a miniature figure of a person sneaking around for some reason. Somehow I knew that it was remotely being controlled. All I recall is that the room had yellow hues and dressed similar to a normal home... In space? Later the scene changes yet to another video game themed dream. (It's been some time since I have had these.) This time mixed with elements of Minecraft, Mario games, and Touhou. Generally the scene was in the actual game viewed in 3rd person. It had strange levels with Touhou bosses that I really can't explain. After each level, I could freely walk to other levels Minecraft style and dig as usual. The only other character I ran into was my brother, Travis. Did not really do much... I wake up and jot down a few notes then fall back asleep.

My last dream was like watching a really bad movie with Santa in it. He was in the United Kingdom in an undisclosed location, but somehow I knew where he was. He was having a weird parade. Things got a bit trippy and I can't recall all of the details, but somehow he opened up a floating box and a puppet-like harlequin thing came out and attacked me in my own bed. How this happened I have no clue, but it did. Finally I managed to smash the horrible thing to pieces and went on my merry way. Not too sure what happened afterward, but there's my story.

... Well, at least recall is increasing. XD I came across a very helpful post that I highly recommend: Linky
=Stats=
Month: Phoenix
Goal: Fix Recall
Dreams remembered: ~2 (+2)
Time: 06:00 - 11:00
Length: Normal
Clarity: Somewhat clear
=End Stats=

Pop Quiz

We have a pop quiz today. One sheet, front and back, short answer questions. There were a few short activities at the beginning of class, but apart from that we have the entire period to do the quiz. Which is a good thing, because I'm having a hard time with it. After what seems like a very long while, I check the time and I see that I still have an hour left to finish. That's better than I thought I had, but it will still be close. Some time later, the teacher (a woman) announces that there are still forty-five minutes remaining. A lot of kids behind me laugh at this. I know it's because they're already done, so they have forty-five minutes to do nothing. Well, good for them, but I know I'll need all forty-five. I keep trying, but I don't finish in time.

After a break, I return to the classroom. One of my high school math teachers is teaching, but he's in a very odd mood. Irritable. Impatient. Sometimes he laughs sarcastically for no apparent reason. He's probably unhappy with the way we scored on the quiz. I try to walk up to him and explain, but he's hardly paying attention to me. Eventually he bursts out, "I'm fed up with"--here he does a violent hand gesture--"mediocrity!" I'm not sure what to say to this, so I settle for saying in an angry undertone that people make mistakes sometimes, and he will just have to deal with it. I go back to my seat. Class starts.

Once, I answer one of the questions he addresses to the class. I get it right. To my surprise, he walks over and puts a jelly bean on my desk. I wonder if he's trying to apologize to me, or if he does that for everyone who answers a question.

Random Video

I've found a YouTube channel that does parodies of and/or tributes to various TV shows. I'm not sure which show inspired the video I'm currently watching. I wonder if it might be Legend of Korra, but of course I have no idea what that show is like. A man and a woman are talking. I think they are (or maybe were) a couple. The man is planning something, but the woman is one step ahead of him: she strips him naked, then tells him that she plans to kill him. Not because they're enemies, but because it is, regrettably, the only solution to a dilemma they've been facing.

The show jumps back in time to explain how the woman engineered this situation. The pair are having another conversation. She promises to show him something if he'll follow her. She also cuts off his clothing with expert use of a whip. He says something about the One Power, but then she reveals that she can channel it as well. The man travels to the location from earlier in the show. As he looks around, the woman appears about fifty yards away. Her arm is raised above her head, seizing something invisible, and it's clear that she got here using the One Power.

The man's chest features some smallish breasts, and somehow this seems appropriate to me. The woman is wearing a white, unbuttoned vest without a bra, and she doesn't trouble herself much about making sure that the vest stays in place. Her breasts are about the same size as the man's.

Frags:

• A vertical antenna capped by a sphere the size of a ping-pong ball sticks up from the middle of a large metal dish. The ball bursts in a sort of molten, fiery explosion. This means we've finally defeated the enemy.