non-lucid

This is tied with my first night for my weakest night yet. Actually it might've beaten it. And I didn't do much during the day either. Was busy. I only get a 1-day weekend this week due to work (really need a new job).

I have not figured out how to have awesome LDs consistently. However, this competition so far has really helped my recall. I am going to keep on this trajectory and hopefully I will start to finally become a skilled lucid dreamer after all these years.

Until then....Here's my tiny little baby entry.

Dream (Non-Lucid, brief): I was lost in a creepy but pretty forest with occasional houses. There were these streets called Drury Lane (but no muffins ) and Creep Lane (how original).

I did see Jamie make an effort for more affectionate dreams but it seemed to backfire?

Jamie 1

I was in Jamie's dream space where there's a house on a farm. I was nervous about going into the house to see her. There were robots doing renovations on some barns. I was helping one of the robots who had an English accent. He seemed to be like the " Stuttering Bill." Robot from the final Dark Tower book. I remember climbing some crazy ladder but that's it.

Jamie 2

I was taking a cross country trip on a Greyhound bus. Crossed the border in the eastern states. Forgot what I did there.

On the way back a bus was full, but I was provided someone with a blue car. I sat in the back. Suddenly Packer was there, the one Mormon guy who went on a mission to Africa. I remember saying to make sure you sleep much of the way. I noticed the roads seemed icy but I trusted the driver.

Packer was now gone and Jamie was in his place. She put her hand over mine. I noticed she was wearing fancy gloves. I grabbed her hand putting my palm over hers and lightly held it. She was like: No! Not that way! She grabbed my hand again and seemed to indicate to Interlock fingers. But she wasn't happy with that either. I was like: I only know 2 ways, what other ways are there? She just looked upset and Impatient with me. I was getting really frustrated.

I woke up to her voice apologizing for the dream. She said I did it right but something else was bothering her, maybe something she did? Still why take it out on me?

Gross

I had a false awakening in the middle of having sex with someone. It wasn't Jamie and it didn't feel right. Especially when I noticed, "Satan," and, "666". Tattooed on their behind. I stopped and began looking for my clothes. The person wasn't upset with me. Still I felt gross and wrong and that what I was doing really wasn't me. I was on the floor looking for my clothes when I woke up.

The wheel of Time

I was in the Wheel of Time books. ( The season ended so now I'm taking up the books. Both reading some parts and audio books other parts ). I'm in the part where Nynaeve wakes up from everyone escaping Shadar logoth. I'm messing with a white computer case by a river. Nynaeve asks what I'm doing? I look around and realize that what I'm doing in that setting must be bizarre. I almost decided to laugh it off and say: you were looking for a white tower. Here's one. But I just woke up.

Bad apple

Jamie asks me to slice her an apple? In the kitchen all the fruit is rotten. I go to slice one and it's rotten. One part looks fine so I try to cut it out. But when I look back it's rotten also.

Still hoping for better dreams.

Coin Search:
I wakeup in a hotel in California, where I just was a few weeks ago.
Out of habit I do a hands reality check. I only have four fingers per hand (no thumbs).
I follow-up with a nose reality check to verify. I can breathe. I become lucid.
I try to remember what I want to do, but the first thing to occur to me is to look for DV coins in my pocket like I planned.
I start rummaging in my pockets and feel a bunch of textures of what feel like large pieces of plastic, but no coin.
I realize the acronym EV I've been rehearsing, means Engage-Verbalize, so I start rubbing the walls and saying "this is a dream, I'm dreaming, this is a dream..."
But my lucidity fades fast.
...
I'm at the same hotel, but this time I'm with my girlfriend, her sister KH, and KH's husband SH.
We're playing a game, where I was supposed to have hidden a number of beers for them to find.
I'm trying to stealthily hide the beers as they look for them, and simply pretend that they are well hidden.
Later I notice that my friend PG is there as well.

Pop-Ups:
I'm at an art contest with my friend JM.
I notice that he has created an epic work of art over time and feel very jealous.
I decide to tough it out and try my best, so I pull out my phone to get a reference picture.
But when I try to open the browser, pop-ups keep appearing where I am trying to tap.
It is very frustrating, and I wake up feeling annoyed.

Got my first LD of the comp ! I was too tired to do everything I wanted in it, but that's still progress. First succesfull WILD of the comp, after my 2nd WBTB of the night.

Black = Non-lucid dream recall
Blue = Lucid dream recall

Super Mario News



A news anchor who looks like the singer Mika is waiting for Trump to confirm a move before he can start the news. A 10-second countdown begins. *Glitching animated image of him* To present the news, he plays Super Mario Bros. There's Bowser as a casual enemy. But the game wasn't coded properly : less gravity so everything is slower, no sounds when Mario takes a mushroom or a star... The presenter still enthusiastically comments the letsplay, swears, answers the chat...

Monsters (feat. Monster)

At my brother's house, in the bathroom, I imagine a streamer playing Tekken 7. Then at my parents house, at night, two nephews are sleeping, I go to the bathroom, but bad thoughts enter my mind : I imagine monsters appearing (a giant purple caterpillar and some others), while "Monster" by Meg & Dia is playing in my head. I brush my teeth and go back to my room, luckily no monsters appeared

Too sleepy to sing along (FA, LD)

At my brother's house, in my bed, some family arrives, my brother-in-law gives me a lamp and some phone chargers, I ask them if it's a dream or not (just to be sure), no answer. Then a nephew comes over to me, I dap him up, and he begins singing. I morph him into another nephew two times. Then I'm alone, still in bed, my hand is very blurry, as if erased. I hear snoring next to me, I'm too tired to continue the dream. I fall back asleep and open my eyes again, wanting to continue the lucid dream, but I woke up...

Lucid dream
I enter sleep paralysis right before entering a dream. Then I become lucid. I ask my mum in the dream to take me to the void but it doesn't work.

Dream 1
Dreamt I was playing a shooter survival game that's kinda like black mirror.

Dream 2
Everyone on my block is given letters with a bomb attached saying we must open them and obey what they say but we group together and decide to not do it.

Lucid dream
In my old apartment with my family with the same people from my block. My cat is there. I change one dream character's age to be older. Then my cat goes missing bc someone opened all the windows and doors and I try find him but there are clones of him everywhere. I grab a lookalike but the character I aged up tells me that's not him so he decides to help me find him. I feel sad for the other cat so I decide to adopt him. We jump out of the window because the DC says there's some lava being held back by ice which is making the environment cold and the only way to fix it is to melt it. So we melt it together so the lava can flow again warming the place up.

I almost lose lucidity so to stabilise it I remember a tip where you give up trying to control the dream and just go with it. I end up meeting one of my celebrity crushes who I literally run into and get a nosebleed from. He apologises.

Lucid dream
In my apartment again. I decide the only way for my cat to be happy is to let him outside so I tell my mum in the dream to only let him out when it's warm. I make eye contact with other DCs in a bus passing by. I try to notice flaws in the environment bc I have a theory dreams follow AI logic where they seem normal but when you look closer they're just generated using what your brain knows to form new locations which have some errors when you look closer.

I enter a bus and try to enter the void by saying "exit simulation". It's dark but not the void. The DCs say it's cool but wtf am I doing.

I get off the bus, someone's drink spills. I'm with my mum and my cat is sleeping in my arms. It's raining and I ask her where we're going. She says here and points to a lake where I see a rickety old house and I'm like HERE? She says no, and points to a hotel next to the lake. We go inside and chat to the lady to book a room.

Dream 1
Awful dream where I'm just arguing with my parents and I felt sad the entire time.

Dream 2
I'm in my apartment again, in a better mood. People are in my home and I fight them off and rescue it. My cat has had kittens with another cat and they're all super cute with different personalities.

Dream 3
Again similar location but suddenly there are 7 kittens, and the darkest one is the best behaved one. I just play with them the whole dream.

Lucid dream
I'm in my grandma's apartment in a random room and suddenly become lucid. My grandma and mum are there. I decide to enter the void as it's my goal. I jump out of the window and fail and wake up. So I re-enter the dream and this happens 4 times. Each time I'm in a different room. In one of them I see a swamp with hippos aside, push away the character next to me and run to the other room where I jump out of the window again.

Then I try to meditate in a dream and it feels kinda cool. The void isn't real but it looks more gray than black.

Then I have a false awakening.

Tarzan beatbox (fragment)



A bearded mixed-race man behind a grocery store starts imitating a traditional dance (or a series of movements) made previously by a spirit/monster but in a modern version while making the Tarzan yell and beatboxing, all while smiling.

My brain loves NOT doing any reality checks in my dreams! I need to drill them further into my subconscious, it seems...practice, practice, practice. I hope I can have more lucids during this comp, but even if I don't, I want to keep these good practices going as I think this will really help me take all this to the next level.

• Hypnagogic Imagery: My brain was trying to write pseudocode for a bug as I was falling asleep, but it was trying to do this using heavy metal growls. It was like the music was playing and it somehow corresponded to my coding. I woke up a bit later, wrote it down, and fell asleep for real.
• Non-Lucid 1: I was at Disney's Polynesian Resort (OK brain I get it, you want to go back to Disney World!) but I had a flight back home in less than an hour, was nowhere near the airport, and I didn't notice the time somehow. I was traveling with some dream character who I knew in the context of the dream. They said they knew we were going to be late, but they were just having so much fun that they didn't want us to leave yet! I was mad because we were going to miss the flight and experience delays with work, etc.
• Non-Lucid 2: I was in the car and some ripped dude was in the car with me. This dude insisted on driving and wouldn't let me drive. Then, somehow, the dream dissolved into some YouTube video I was placed into where some gymbros were playing on a shopping cart at the grocery store. One of them wasn't wearing any shoes and I was super grossed out. I don't remember if I was in a YouTube video, if I was watching it, or if they were just filming one.

I almost remembered a dream upon waking, but unfortunately it left me as I was grabbing my notebook and pen to write it down.

I need to get back on track with the reality checks and the meditation. WILD is still an anti-sleeping technique for me unfortunately. Even after a WBTB.

Pro-vax maths and reverse pregnancy

Adam from Psyched Substance reacts to Dr. Nozman's four-step "breakdown" of his anti-vax video, "with compelled evidence" : four arguments (yellow rectangles on a white background), n°4 : *equations* —> 16 + 16 = 33 —> 33 - 33 = 0 *down arrow* *equation* Except that the final equation has multiple answers, making it impossible. Dr. Nozman's fourth argument doesn't work.

Then two characters are shown : a potato-shaped couple drawn in black silhouettes (invisible skin) on a white background. Red lips and a pink body for the female, cyan blue body and a mustache for the male. People on the internet put them in lots of different situations, two of which are new concepts : the male is pregnant (and disappointed), and another (forgot).

Garden joke (fragment)

A tall bald guy wearing glasses and with bandages on his broken nose tells me a joke in a garden in front of a house. I interact with objects (maybe flower pots).

Yogurt and raisins



At my parents house, eating yogurt and raisins in front of the living room computer, sometimes turning around to watch TV. Some family members are here.

I'm in Iceland getting a ticket to view some kind of large fossil bed in the ground. The whole area is next to a volcano and everything is covered in snow. After entering, I walk around the side and find a deep, perfectly rectangular hole going down about 50 feet. My girlfriend comes up and asks if I'd like to go see the movie they're putting on inside another building. I say yes and follow her inside.

I'm camping out in the woods with some friends. For some reason, I have my tent flattened down with my stuff still in it. The tarp is luckily still over the top but it's all just flattened on the ground. A bout of rain is coming, but I can see blue sky behind it so I don't think it will be an issue.

The Jamie voice seemed to not like my last post. Not sure why. I just go through recall dry spells from time to time. I'm still trying.

Jamie 1

Just a vague dream. There was a McDonald's attached to a Wal Mart. Jamie was working inside but seemed to be avoiding me. I left but went through the drive through for some reason.

Jamie 2

Jamie was walking around a bunch of screens displaying lesbian porn. She was trying hard not to look. But couldn't help herself at moments. The struggle is real.


Jamie 3

Jamie was standing by a white PC case Inspecting it.

Not much. Our dreams seem to lack a certain affection lately. Maybe I'm just not recalling.

Ate dinner before bed but still craved a dessert. I think it affected my dream a little bit...

KFC beef burger



In town with my high school class, everyone goes to different places. I go to KFC. I get a beef burger and cook another steak on the public grill. I add sauces. The food is decent, but the chicken wings, which I didn't see at first, would've been better.

Mop towel game board

I'm a different guy in another family. Before dinner, I suggest we play a board game. My parents don't want to, even though they play it every day. Disappointed, I go back upstairs and wash the large mop towel I had prepared for the occasion, which would've served as a game board.

Dream
I was in some actor's house which had a massive decorated pink tub. I hid in there. Turns out I was breaking into his house bc I was unhappy about who they'd paired him with in his show and I wanted to change it (this justified home invasion in dream me's eyes). I confronted him and asked why producers love pairing people with negative chemistry. However his tv partner was signed on for several seasons so it was hopeless.

I hid under his bed but got caught so smashed his window and jumped out. In the end he forgave me.

Dream fragment:
- I fell onto the GTA San Andreas map from the sky in a Jeep