non-lucid

DJ Log: September 11, 2011 – 5:45AM (USA Eastern)
· NON-DREAM · NOTES · DREAM · LUCID ·

I'm working with a couple of friends to move a bunch of old junk vehicles from a junkyard to a large field near my house. I ride to the yard with a friend, then we get into a couple of the old junkers and try to start them. I get into an old yellow Volvo and it fires right up. My friend gets into a blue Chevy Blazer and it fires up too. The Volvo was pretty beat up and had yellow painted plywood for wheel covers.

We start driving these junkers down the road toward the field. We bump into each other a couple of times, then try to drag race. Shortly into the race, the Volvo sputters out and quits running. We try to jump start it and push start it, but it's dead. I decide to abandon the Volvo along the side of the road and get into the Blazer with my friend.

We drive down a small gravel lane and find that it's blocked by a gate. There is a bypass around the gate, so we go around and drive down the lane. There are a couple of old houses and a bunch of junk laying along the road. After driving for a bit, we reach a huge pile of junk that's blocking the road. We get out and walk around, poking at the junk pile a bit.

As we're trying to figure out a way around the junk pile, a defensive dog approaches from the nearby house. The dog runs up and stops at the edge of the lane, barking fiercely at us. A guy in the distance yells at the dog and it turns around and walks away. The guy walks up and asks us, “Where are you going?” I reply, “We're trying to find a way around this pile of junk.” The guy says, “There is no way around the junk pile.”

We get back into the Blazer and prepare to drive off. This time, I decided it was my turn to drive, so we switched seats. I start it up, put it in gear and mash the pedal to the floor. The tires spin for a moment, then it starts picking up speed. I see a Jeep coming toward us, so I steer toward it, playing Chicken. The Jeep swerves away and hits the embankment, nearly rolling over. I continue to speed up and drive straight toward a step van. The van doesn't swerve, but just before hitting the van, I wake up.

I went to bed last night at 11:30, and I woke up this morning at 2:00 AM. I just KNOW that I had been dreaming, which is really weird, because that's way to early for me to be dreaming. The REM part of my sleep-cycle takes four hours at least to really get working, yet I had been dreaming.
Conclusion: I had a dream in layer 1, 2, or 3 of my sleep cycle.
An odd occurrence, indeed.

Aeolar's Dream







I am with this other guy that I found on YouTube, and he is showing me this new Terraria update where they let you build roller coasters. I spawned in his house, and he said that he was collecting Singers & Dancers; they were actually Zombies and Red Demons. As I’m inspecting his house, I saw a bookshelf with 8 books from Hogwarts with various characters’ names on them. There was an aura of argument over these books, and they were arguing about if they were legit or not.
Now, we go down into his basement, and we get on his roller coaster. It was intense. There were parts where we almost fell off while we were upside down, and there were gaps that we had to jump over too. Once we finished, we had to kill this woman that was “The boss”, but we didn’t go through some doors that appeared once we did, because supposedly they would drain all the color in the world. I asked him if there were rail pieces that would slow you down or speed you up, but he said that he honestly had no freakin clue. I asked him how long it took him to make this, but I just got a very vague answer.
We then went to his driveway/backyard thing. I had some inner dialogue about these people called the spell(somethings) and how their advantage in this game was to not tell you anything, and that their dice is slightly loaded. Then, the hedges around me were cut in such a way that you could actually read words, and these words were about the other types of players in this game. It seemed to me like a magazine article, and the people who wrote it hired someone to cut the hedges so that it read out the words. I wondered how difficult that would’ve been, but before I got to really inspect them, the kid told me it was time to leave, and threw me in a jeep. Dreamskip.
I am on this huge jungle tree branch and we just recently found this white book, and another person. This guy accidentally dropped his book down, and lost it forever. The kid with me was laughing about it, and I peered over the edge, and accidentally dropped my book too. There was another branch below us some 200 feet, and the book got stuck in a V shape opening in the branch. Suddenly the book started to slip, and it fell into the fog below. As I stared at it, it seemed to start moving upwards. I willed it towards me, and it flew up very fast. It got close to me, but it just sped way up past me. I looked up, and willed myself towards it, and instantly, gravity dissipated. I was hurtling towards the book, and caught up to it and grabbed it.
But now I didn’t know how to stop. I reached the top of the giant tree, and I tried to grab onto something, anything. The kid was right behind me, and as I looked around, I realized that I shouldn’t be here. I started to get gravity under control, and I hopped along like a space man down this stone pathway. I saw this floating blue square that said “World of Warcraft” on it, and had a picture of the Lich King as a background. I ran through it, and I “Ding”-ed. The path took a left, and ended up in this huge stone castle, in the Ice Crown Citadel maybe. We went to the right from the doorway, and came into a large empty room. We went up some stairs, and took a left, and in this room, there was an awning to the left, some NPC’s, and a floating hammer. This hammer had another 4 awesome hammers, and I took all of them. I talked to this NPC that gave mounts and pets, and I bought a phoenix mount, and I turned into it and flew out the awning into the main hall so ridiculously fast. I looked around this huge castle place, and there were advertisements and things, saying catch phrases like “We’ll give you $1700 if you stay in our hotel room!”
After that, I knew we were in a very special place. I then saw this guy that seemed either a mod or an owner of this place. He was a giant gold angel, and he seemed to be looking for something, or someone. I realized that he noticed that someone was not supposed to be in here. I flew back, and in my inventory looked for the very best hammer, and gave the rest back. Dreamskip. I am still in the castle, but now we are all humans, and we’re near a pool/hot tub. There are a bunch of naked women, but most are surrounding the owner. I take off my shirt, and jump into the pool, and a lot of people jump in alongside of me. We decide to play this game where if someone is holding you, you can’t make a sound. We do this until the dream fades. ^^

I am in a car with Josh & Anthony. Anthony is taking his dog somewhere, and Josh and I wait at the top of the staircase. I had my iPod in, and I took it out, but the music kept playing. I tried to ignore it, and it slowly faded, but when I tried to ask Josh something, I wasn’t able to speak; no sound came out. I asked him why we were here, but he just mocked me.

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Good morning! Tried a new kind of pill that I got, B-complex. It contains most B-vitamins aswell as some choline. Took some extra B6 so the dosage of that ended up on 200 mg. And during a quick WBTB I downed a G+C pill in hopes of getting lucid. Had some trouble going back to sleep which resulted in me succeeding in a WILD! Although the dream was short and only lasted a few seconds. The rest of my dreams were random.

23.55: Sleep

06.00: Gambling
I'm on a cruiseship with Monica. We're in a room full of jack vegas machines. I choose one and she another. The game on the screen is as usual something really amazing and I get very excited as the wheels apparently end up in the right position and stacks. When the stack reaches the top of the screen, a nice tune is played. I realise I've activated the bonus game and Monica walks over to me.

A big cat like monster shows up on the screen and I have to beat it. I hit it with my sword and it gets knocked back. I try to hit it as fast as I can as I watch my money count down. The life is counting down slower than the money though and I'm forced to put more money in. I put almost all money I have in the slot, and finally kill the cat. "Claim the loot" a button says. I click it and I get to pick up a few gold coins. Way less than I spent. "Oh well, was cool anyways" I tell Monica who looks incredulous.

06.00: WBTB 5 min

06.20: Short WILD
I lie still in bed and relax. After a while my mind starts to wander but after ten minutes or so, just before I'm going to sleep, I realise I'm on my way into SP. I relax and ignore the very weird sensations I feel. It's the same as before, muscle spasms. It's a bit hard to relax fully when my body starts to twitch more and more violently, I begin to turn around on my stomach and I wonder if Monica can feel any kind of shaking at all. My elbow and knee joints are affected the most. I start to visualize.

I can see a ladder infront of me. I focus on climbing it. A hatch appears. I lose focus is back in my body. All of a sudden it feels like I've crossed some kind of border, as my real life senses dull a bit. The twitching a bit less intense.

An image of a cellphone pops up. I grab the phone with my dream hands and push my face towards the white screen, entering a bright white corridor. Cool teleportation! I walk a few steps. I can't recall more than this.

11.00: Pissed squid
I'm up on a hill. I'm not sure why, but I feel like digging. I grab a big rock and roll it to the side. I can see something sprawling underneath the leaves. Actually I can see two things. I figure they're lizards as that's the only creature that is that fast. I remove a few leaves and can see something light brown. It looks like a snake and I prod it. Perhaps it's one of those harmless snakes? I stand up and look to the left. The snake is apparently very long. I can see it sticking up on a few places.

All of a sudden it starts to move. I watch as it slithers away, growing in size. What the hell is this thing? The tail is shaped like a squid head and I back away. Oh shit, there's gotta be water beneath me, and I've just awoken a sleeping squid. I head down the hill and jump into some water. I look back towards the squid. Its head breaks the surface and it starts to take in water. Steam rises from it and a second later it shoots out a jet stream towards me. I swim away.

I get up on dry land and head towards our old apartment. My dad meets me on the stairs and some excited dog. I can hear kids playing.

11.00: Bring it!
I'm with my dad and my sister in Monica's car. Two foreign guys in a car behind us, gets out of it and heads our way. I hit the gas and almost run them over. I laugh out loud. Somehow I don't feel like I'm in any danger. I can see a container up ahead and we all get out of the car. It's the container from work, containing all the tools. I bring out my keys and open it up. Inside I find two crowbars and a rake. I give the crowbars away and keep the rake for myself. I start to swing it around and juggle with it to intimidate the two guys.

The guys go away and I walk up to an ATM. The machine keeps spitting out receipts and I can see there's another card stuck in it. I grab it and pull it out. The machine starts printing out euros. They're connected though and look fake, but I grab as much as I can and put it in my big book. Several people in line seem pissed, but I don't care.

11.00: Wake up

Amount of sleep: 11 hours

Supplements: B-Complex + 100 mg B6. 1 x Lucid Dreamer at WBTB

Tasks completed
NORMAL BASIC ACTIVE BASIC PASSIVE ADVANCED PERSONAL

Successfully WILD

That's it! The amount of information my brain received last night was insane. I'm used to having alot go through my mind but it was crazy how much images, dreams and hallucinations I saw. Didn't focus on recalling more than three though.

Keep on dreaming, HARE BRA!

Aeolar's Dream

Sorry, I've been a little off beat with this for a little bit, but I'm back.

I am on a different planet, and on this planet, they are punishing everyone for not obeying the rules. The way that they punish people is by raising the water levels, and doing so again after someone continues to disobey. This has the potential to flood the planet, and the people in control can simply fly away. I go down to this club-like thing, and I am with Edward & Dale. Dale is looking at this German speed boost thing, and I am looking at something more interesting. There are 2 lines, and the people who are waiting in these lines are waiting to get something out of the mystery box. I get in line with another 4 people, and we are color coded. As we are walking through line, I go a bit slower, and to catch up, I jump over one of the lines. After jumping over, these yellow guys get really pissy because even though they had skipped us, I skipped them back.
Then, this group of short Mexican guys came up to me, one in particular, and started telling me how difficult his life is because he didn’t have a job, and that he couldn’t get one, things like that. He said that he didn’t need me to make things more difficult, and I told him that he should go be a sign spinner somewhere, and I go and grab my thing from the mystery box. It turns into a piece of paper, and I hide it from these people by folding it up and then putting it in my pants. I then begin to list other places this man can easily get a job, and before I know it, I am in this plaza place walking around with my longboard.
I walk up to the door and look up. “Tax Firm” it says. I ponder at applying here. I look to the right, and it’s a plastic surgeons office. I walk into the tax firm, and I see another door to the other side. There is a lady waiting in a chair to my right, and a woman in a desk to my left. The place is very spacey, I notice as I exit the building. I go into another building; this one is like a big health food grocery store. I get on my longboard and start riding around. Suddenly, I see Chandler and we Hi-5. I keep riding, and the place turns into a Publix supermarket. I keep riding, and I’m turning so sharply around these corners, it’s crazy. I see someone else from my high school, and I start to wonder if I am in Bradenton. I ride to the meat section, and crash. I jump off my board, and I walk over to the frozen foods section. Immediately I get hungry. “I left my wallet at the beginning,” I think to myself. I then think about going home, but just then, Daniel runs and points at the Totino’s Pizzas in the freezers. I run over to Daniel, and I see Bobbi coming from down the aisle as well. Who would’ve thought that I’d meet them over here? We start walking back, except the aisle is blocked by this big metal platform thing. The dream ends with me trying to get over it

Kaomea's Dream
Notes: I tried to make it there but never did.

Art Museum
I'm standing in some art museum, not exactly sure how I got here. As soon as I become lucid and 'wake up' to the environment, I immediately see this guy in front of me. He's wearing a long sleeved jacket or maybe some sort of coat, I think it's white. As soon as I look at him he raises his right arm horizontally and then emits a white smoke/cloud from his elbow? What the f is that ... ? Before I'm able to react I'm knocked out and lose the entire thing.

Factory
I'm in a factory and watching as someone builds a water contraption. It's made out of steel and the function of it is meant to harness the power of water. I can't/don't do anything and simply watch. After a while I think about how funny it would be to put fish in there and wreck havok but my thoughts are really cloudy and everything seems decently hazy. Funny though because immediately after I thought it, fish randomly appeared in his machine and he seemed pretty upset by this ... but I don't remember deliberately intending them there...

To the batcave! ... or beach house
My head is aching and overall feels like I'm recovering from a really bad hangover. I can't see straight but I can see well enough, albeit it feels like the entire world is spinning faster than normal. I'm on a moped as I regain dream consciousness and speed through a city near the beach. I see traffic lights and speed through the first one, not willing to stop... I can't stop. I time the other lights and catch whatever green lights happen to turn on at the right time. I almost crash horribly as I speed over some metal plate and a rain puddle... I pull myself back up before I actually crash and just nearly miss a couple of police officers standing on the sidewalk. I make it to a beach house...

Beach house
Arriving at my destination, I don't know why exactly I'm here. I get the feeling I'm here because the water holds a cleansing property and clears my energy, aura, mind, everything but I still can't think straight. I grab a bag, my bag? and reach for my suit to put on. I get sidetracked into other things instead of getting into the water. I can't think straight and never make it into the water... only into other areas in the building beside the water.

Please feel free to comment, I'd like to hear your thoughts and ideas on my dreams
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I was in some kind of college (But it wasn't the one I go to) and everybody from my old school was there, also K. was in all of my lessons. There was this one group of people who were my friends and I told them I loved her. Then we went outside and the college was actually a castle as well. Then the dream switched to me in my living room, I was watching a documentary on volcanoes.


The scene then came back to the college/castle and me and my friends were trying to escape, we were running across the battlements to one of the turrets/towers. We got there and this king-like guy walked out and we tried to avoid him but we got found, we kept running along the battlements until we were opposite this house. We were told to jump and hold onto this rope to swing across. I knew I couldn't jump that far, suddenly everything around us was on fire and I had no choice. I tried to jump but slipped and fell back into the burning building, the heat was intense and I thought it was all over but then the people who were with me formed a human chain and caught me. They then swung me onto the house opposite. We were trying to escape to train in something but then everything went black as though to say "two months later" or something like that but it didn't. The scene then switched to me fishing next to the leader of the escape group in the street and he reminded me about K. and I ran into the college looking for her but there were a load of school children getting in my way. I never found her in the end but this strange booming voice said "YOU ARE DREAMING" and then I became lucid! but then the dream started to fade and I frantically started rubbing my hands together, the dream still faded and I woke up. Hooray for my first lucid, even though it was only 5 seconds long. I think the reason I couldn't stabilise it is because I panicked when it started fading. Oh well I have lots more time to try.

Melatonin, b6, tums, egg(choline)
I was next to this grungy mini market with two of these girls. I was holding this bag of cheese puffs and a red bull. In my head I even told myself, this is something a douchebag would eat when about to be killed. We were having fun and all and then we drove over to our black friends house which was a block over. I had the feeling that we were being haunted. Ocassionally I turned my head and I saw a silhouette of this little girl. In my dream I kept telling myself that I knew this is going to be scary but I didn't care. I knew later on we were running from something. The two girls I was with ended up as one, and the black girl was running out of her house with us. We were screaming, running. We ran across the road, it was raining with lightning outside. We were on a porch banging on the door of this girl. We begged her to let us in. The asian girl let us in and she died immediently. I had no idea what was going on. The ghost/monster thing was chasing everyone. It was a pretty full house, and I think that there was a party. We let them die just by knocking on their door. I ran to the back to see if I could hide, but I ended up in the Beast's dog house. I wanted to hide behind his giant dog bowl, but THEY walked in. There were two big dogs looking for food. I opened a can of Pedigree and placed it in one bowl, then another. I felt like they bonded with me.*
I woke up, not like out of the dream but in the dream I woke up next to that grungy mini market. This was sort of like Final Destination I just realized that those two girls were just slaughtered. One of the girls, the bad one just finished stealing some food from that market. I told her to put it back, stealing is bad and I was yelling at her because I was trying to see where we messed up to get murdured in the first place. I put on my backpack and was like fuck you guys, I'm leaving. I ran to the place with the asian girl. I saw that black girl there too and I handed her two slices of cheese?? I yelled at her, "When you get to your house, place both of these cheese infront of your door and DON'T LET THOSE TWO GIRLS IN YOUR HOUSE. WHATEVER YOU DO. PROMISE ME". And so she ran to her house and I also ran off to the next block. I looked back to make sure no one was following me. I went up the very steep hill. I got halfway through and I had to climb. I slid a bit but grabbed onto this patch of grass before I slid all the way down. I was climbing over this fence when this guy told me "hey, do you know about those hauntings?" and I said, I wish I could help you but if you stay out of the way you'll be safe. I climbed over and dodged my way through all these mailboxes and these bikers leaving. I saw the entrance and planned my escape, but saw that one Ron Weasley guy sitting next to me with a bunch of other guys looking at his arm. He was staring at me like he knew what I was doing. I looked back at the entrance and it was a two feet black tube that I had to crawl through. I began to crawl in but it was just way too tight and would take me forever to get to the other side. So I took my backpack off and removed the black tube so I had to get past horned shrubbery. I let my blue backpack and grabbed my bike, pulling it along as I crawled through the tough terrain. I got out and all I could see was steep cliffs and the ocean. I mounted my bike and rid as fast as I could. At one point I had to go up this tube with my bike, but I fell off the edge and into the water. I told myself NOPE I'M NOT DROWNING and bounced back up once I hit the water. *I saw these people on an island who were stuck yelling for help. I KNEW not to help them(yes I feel bad now) because it would be a relapse of everyone dying. So I kept jumping on my bike over and over, knowing not to go too far, because I can't swim. I went to the closest beach and saw a bunch of Samoans then dismounted off my bike really cool. I asked where I was and they told me the Pacific Islands.*
I was in school when I saw Voldemort. He was trying to get into the Chamber of Secrets or something. We all tried to prevent him. I saw him talking to this lady for a school map but I interrupted her and asked if Mr... Was a fat black guy or a fat white guy and she looked at me funny. Atleast I prevented him from continueing.*

Non-lucid, Possibly lucid?, Lucid, [Commentary made while awake]

I'm trying to drive to a destination, and I go through an intersection and end up on a winding road that leads down the side of a mountain to a lake. I recheck my directions and realize that I was supposed to turn right at that last intersection. I start retracing my route and going back up the hill.

I'm at an outdoor amphitheater in Disney California Adventure. I'm way in the back of the amphitheater area, on some bleachers, watching a stage show. There is a bizarre structure on the horizon as you're looking at the stage; it looks like a pyramid with the points sticking out in a bunch of different directions, like what you would see if you put a normal pyramid in the center of a spherical structure with mirrors on all the inside surfaces. The show starts out with red fireworks that shoot out from the vicinity of this structure. The first round explodes in the sky above and to the right of the audience, the second arcs down to and explodes on the round, concrete slab of a second amphitheater behind and to the right of the audience, and the third explodes just above the audience's heads. I'm afraid that I'm going to catch on fire, but I don't.

On stage, there's some sort of announcement from a villainous character in the show that we need to prepare to be tortured. He also says that all the women should stay in the main viewing area, while all the men should move to the building at the back of the theater with the indoor concession and souvenir stands. They all do so. Then, large snakes appear throughout the viewing area. One is close enough to me to touch me with the end of its tail, which I know is poisonous [um, what?]. It's very long and all coiled around on top of itself. I visually pick out its head and tail from among the mass, and try to avoid them as I pick it up and attempt to toss it away from me. This doesn't work. It wraps itself around my waist and legs, binding me in place. I'm scared, but I resign myself to it when I realize that I can't get it off and that it's just a part of the show anyway.

After the show, which felt like it had lasted about 50 minutes, I make my way down to the stage. One of my college girlfriends is getting married here at Disney California Adventure. Several of the other girls from our group are bridesmaids, and they're all wearing long, grayish-white dresses with Disney vacation scenes on them. Two of them are pregnant, including EB. I'm here to attend the wedding, too, but I don't talk to any of them. When the wedding party starts taking pictures, I walk back to the concession and souvenir building at the back of the amphitheater.

My walk there takes me along a gently-curving grass path marked with steppingstones with the shapes of different Disney character heads on them. This path marks the edge of the amphitheater seating area. When I get into the concession and souvenir building, I talk to one of the men who was watching the show. He says the boys had their own torture: during the entire time the show was going on, they were all held in one area and none of them were allowed to pee. I tell him that the free T-shirts can be picked up at the Great American Icee stand, over there.

The dream I've been having fades to black [it may have been the one above, or a different one, I'm not quite sure]. When it does, I realize exactly what's going on, close my eyes, and think, When I open my eyes, I will be back in another dream. I open them, and I'm back at the same amphitheater, but the scenario is different.

[I'm not 100% sure I was lucid for this next part, though.] This time, there are a whole bunch of patriotic greeting cards in boxes at the back. Everyone there has been making them to send to the families of military members and people who died in the 9/11 attacks. Some people are still making them. I see that one lady in the back row has a plate full of lasagna, and take a bite with a fork. She tells me not to eat the lasagna, that it's for the people being honored.

Another show starts in the amphitheater. As it starts, people in front of me stand up, which forces me to stand up, too. I talk with the family to my left. They ask me about a “magic wand” that can be used to uncover secrets and extra content in the park. I point out one that a Cast Member down on a walkway that we can see from our seats is using. It looks a lot like a big, black metal detector, with a bunch of black tubes on top that form a Mickey head shape in the center. It detects sensors embedded in the ground and plays a sound when it finds them. The family climbs up onto the roof of the pagoda structure covering the back of the stands to get a better view of the stage, which is easy to do. I say, “Hey! That's rude!” but follow them up there anyway.

[Later, I had another dream in which I was definitely lucid, but I don't remember how it started or very many of the details. Here's what I do remember:]

I'm in an indoor environment, just walking around and admiring the scenery. I know none of this is real and acknowledge that fact in my mind, but I deeply appreciate how the scenery and the daylight illuminating it look completely real.

When I get to the top floor of the building I'm in, I attempt to fly through the ceiling, but it doesn't work. I just bump into the ceiling, which is completely solid to me. It's a stucco ceiling.

I'm flying around above a city, observing it from the air. Another female dream character [no one I know in real life] is flying with me. I take it slow, finding that I have full control over my speed and direction, but not wanting to do any more than relax and take it all in. I increase my altitude, and the other girl follows. We talk while flying. [I don't remember about what.]

[This is another catchup post.]

Non-lucid dream, [Commentary made while awake]

Night of September 8-9

I wake up in my current bedroom. I go down the stairs and look at a digital clock. As I look at it, it changes from 1:07 [or something like that] to 5:07. I know I have to get up for the day at 5:15 [this was actually true in real life, since it was a Friday morning], but I'm still feeling sleepy, so I decide to just go back to bed for those last 8 minutes. I go back up the stairs and go back to sleep.

I wake up in a different bedroom, in a two-story house [that might or might not have been House #2, I'm not sure]. I go downstairs, and there's a social gathering just getting started. A bunch of my [present-day] friends from church are just arriving at the house. I get into a conversation with my mom and PB on the subject of how important it is to always eat everything on one's plate. My mom says that her father always used to tell her to clean her plate. I say that I learned that it was good manners to do so from reading Laura Ingalls Wilder's books when I was a little girl.

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Side notes:

When I woke up for real, I was pretty mad at myself for having missed two false awakenings, one of them involving the classic dream sign of a digital clock changing the time it displays.

Right after I woke up from this dream, my memory of the exact words of the conversation I had had in the dream was much clearer than my memory of conversations in dreams usually is. I'm writing this on the evening of the following day, though, so I don't remember it as well. The story about me reading Laura Ingalls Wilder as a child and learning lessons about manners and etiquette from her books is true, and comes directly from my real life. My mom has never actually told me that specific story about her and her father – my mind just made it up, but it is consistent with his personality.

[This is a catchup post.]

Awake, Non-lucid, Lucid, [Commentary made while awake]

Night of August 31-September 1

[Fragment] I still have the box I shipped out via FedEx yesterday, for some reason.

I'm outside and lucid. I try to start flying, but am unable to. I move to another spot where I have an unobstructed view of the sky, and try taking off again. This time, I succeed. I think, I have to be looking up at the sky at about a 40-degree angle in order to fly - no, I don't! If I think that's true, then it will be! I can't set limits on it like that!

There is a large playground where I am. I fly toward it and, to my own slight surprise, am able to fly right through all the playground equipment intangibly, with no trouble at all. I get to see the dark-gray interior cross-sections of the upright pieces of the structure. I think, Oh, heck yeah. When I get all the way through the playground, I fly up to get an overview of the landscape.

September 4, 2011

I'm at my current house. My mom has come over to visit. She's sitting on the couch in the living room. [The living-room furniture is set up in a mirror image of how it is in real life. The couch is facing the outside wall of the house, rather than being up against that wall.] I'm upstairs, looking down into the living room. I jump down the stairs and float gently down onto the ground floor, in full view of my mom and all the other guests downstairs, not caring this time about being seen using my dream abilities by my DCs. None of them take any notice of what I've just done or comment on it as being strange. [I don't remember how this dream began, or how or when I realized I was dreaming, but I definitely knew I was.]

I sit down in an armchair to visit with my mom. We're talking about what it's like for me to be on my own, whether I'm lonely, whether I miss her. She asks me, “Do you ever dream about me?” I say, “Yes.” I decide I don't want to tell her that I'm dreaming about her right now and she's just a DC, though. She continues talking to me about dreams. While she's talking, I notice that she has one or two extra digits on each hand, but I decide not to point this out to her, either. I just find it interesting. I didn't know that that could happen to DCs, too.

[Different dream, later on.] I'm in a house somewhere, with my family. We're getting ready to go out to a movie, for which someone else is buying the tickets. I take my phone out of my purse to check it. It's my smartphone that I have in real life. I've set it to display my name as “Danny Boletino,” the name of a character in a heist movie, just for the fun of it.

I'm in another room of that same house, having a quiet conversation with my boss about fishing. He's surprised to learn that the last time I went fishing with him and his family was the first time I'd ever been fishing. I also tell him that I want to go fishing with them again, because I want to get better at it.

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Side notes:

Lots of day residue here. I saw my mom yesterday, and we had company over at our house. However, my mom did not really come over to my house; I saw her elsewhere. Also, one of the last threads I was this one, about looking at your hands to RC or stabilize the dream, so I'm not surprised that that showed up in my dream.

Neat. That's the first time my new smartphone has shown up in one of my dreams. It's been exactly two weeks since I got it, which is also exactly how long it took me to have my first false awakening in my new house after I moved into it (see this DJ entry). Evidently, two weeks is how long it takes for my my unconscious mind to accept something as normal and start incorporating it into my dreams.

So my MILD was slightly more successful this time, in the sense that I actually woke up after one of my dream cycles. Last time I just slept through the night. So I feel like by practicing ADA, frequent RCs, and trying to MILD through mantras before I go to sleep, I am (slowly but surely) getting closer to a LD. Haha wow, I don't think I've ever used that many acronyms in one sentence before.

I'm going to be trying to write my dream journal in present tense from now on, as I've heard it is better for recall.

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In my first dream I am hanging out with the two girls who I have probably spent more time thinking about than any other girls in the world, S and C. (If only N was there as well, it would have completed the triforce of bitterness and pent up whatever). All three of us are trying on identical purple lacy dresses. The dresses are very strange.

In my second dream I am watching 30 Rock with M and Zach Galifianakis. I feel a little weird because Zach's wife is on the show, and I think it must be awkward for him to be watching her on TV since they got divorced. (I don't think he's even married in real life) Zach Galifianakis turns into MC (me and M's friend), and he shoves wooden stirring spoon heads covered in cous cous into M's mouth. I wake up and write down the notes from my dream. I try and fall back to sleep visualizing myself becoming lucid, but it doesn't work.

In my third dream I'm at a sort of banquet put on by my two guy friends G and A. A lot of our other friends are there, along with Emma Watson. Throughout the dream I switch back and forth between being myself, and being Emma. At one point I am going to use the restroom, and all the toilets are really weird boxes on the walls.

That's all I remember. Maybe tonight will be the night for a lucid. I WILL NEVER GIVE UP! Hahaha

Kumara's Dream

Tons and tons of dreams and only a snippet of recall:

Fragment of cruising along the shore of a bay, I might have been flying because I could see over the houses and along the shoreline. Marveling at how beautifully clear and blue the water was, and wondering if the shadows I saw under the water were things like coral reefs and kelp beds or junk put in the water by the residents.

I had a very bizarre dream that I'm compelled to document. It wasn't quite lucid, but...well, read on.

Early as I can remember, I was in heaven in what looked like a cross between a mall and a cathedral. It was very crowded. By chance I found the man who had murdered me in heaven also. I declared that I was going to kill him (smite his soul or whatever) and that the Angel of Vengeance was on my side. After this short monologue I was about to attack the guy, but before I could do anything he stabbed me, killing me. After a short delay I was reborn as an angel of vengeance, called a One (Something--I can't quite recall what, it wasn't "Winged", I think it started with an M) Angel, and not just one--it seems as I had spawned as a squad of armed angels. It seems that this rebirth had taken some time, since after returning the man had been long gone. I searched heaven looking for the man but could not find him. Instead I returned to Earth and, running out of patience, I began to kill anyone who looked like the guy (from the start of the fight to here, the dream passed as some sort of weird top-down camera strategy RPG). It seems that to end my rampage I was returned to Earth with no memory except the name "One (Whatever) Angel". The dream then seemed to follow me on a search to find out what this name meant. I began by asking clergy or people who seemed religious; they all either straight-faced denied that they exist or looked at me in shock and horror and told me to get away from them. As my search went on with no answers I began just asking random strangers (my search took me to a drink stand just as it was closing in what was some in-dream deja vu, as I'd recognized this even from a deep early part of the dream that I don't now remember). Early on in my search I'd come across a girl who had overheard me asking questions at some point and had taken an interest in me. She eventually explained to me that she could help me remember everything through a process that involved dreams (vaguely Inception-style); I seemed to have a vague understanding of this process already and was firmly against it for a while. As time went on and my search for answers grew more desperate I eventually agreed to try it. It was to take place in what looked like some sort of park. As I entered, I came in behind an old, black lady accompanied by a young child. I recognized the old lady as someone I had previously asked about the angel who was disturbed by my question. The child stopped ahead of her and turned around, he asked, "Are you sure you want to do this? It could be the last time..." to which the old lady responded with something about helping these troubled young folk. I followed them to where the girl was waiting for us (I'm going to give her the name Ashley, it seems to fit my memory). In addition to the old, black woman (let's call her Oracle, since she looked like the latter version from the Matrix), Jon Voight was (apparently) helping us. They explained that Ashley would have to sit/lay on top of me in order to merge our dreams and gave me a large bag to put over my butt since apparently the process had several unpleasant side effects (supposedly most people shat themselves upon coming out of it). I sat down on a bench and they gave me some sort of injection and then immediately I was in the back (left) seat of a car, with Ashley sitting to my left, the others in the front (Jon Voight driving). I explained to them that I was once an oneironaught myself and briefly described my first lucid dream. As if to reply and boast of his own lucid dreaming skill, Jon Voight turned his head into an inflated version of Ashley's head. We all laughed, but I noticed that the situation was rather strange so I did a reality check that failed. I quickly exclaimed, "Holy shit, we're dreaming already! That's amazing." Then I looked over at Ashley, who was looking at me also, however she appeared out of it or drunk. I noted here that despite the reality check failing I didn't seem to be able to exert any lucid control; at the time I attributed this to the process occurring in the overarching dream storyline but now that I think about it after the fact it seemed kind of weird. At this point I had a very brief false awakening (I only remember because I awoke to a lit room before actually awakening) which was followed quickly by an actual awakening.

I'm not going to count this among my lucid dreams being as it fit into the context of the dream that my reality check would fail (maybe this also explains my apparent lack of dream control). It was a curious experience. I'm a little disappointed I didn't get to see the end to my search for answers.

whiterains dream

a few memorable moments from last nights random epic. i bought 3 lion cubs even through i knew it was stupid. i had to try and give them to a lion sanctuary in the end and was gutted to see them go, they were really playful and still realy tiny.

at some party/festival and everyone is sharing around food. i giv this guy something and he mutters something abut being allergic and then dies. i spend the rest of the dream in extreme guilt and get weird looks from many of the hundreds of people there. the whole thing has a real set up feel to it, like it was somehow always destined to happen

most of the rest of it was about girls so not really worth writing up