non-lucid

13-07-11 I am on a beach and there are someone there that I am supposed to remember. The scenario concerns shared dreaming. I turn lucid at some point though the trigger eludes me and the vividness of the dream isn't great. The person running the show isn't who I expected. A couple of other rookie lucids are there with me as well. They all tell me their names and I find it important to remember them, but they are soon forgotten. Was there a Mark in there, and someone whose name begins with an R (Not supprising considering I readh MoShs shared dreaming thread just before bed). In any case the whole thing is a bit difficult to explain. The beach seems to be this gigantic hub and the leader is passing from one person to another assisting them, either with control or something else.

When I step in an start directing the show a bit, it is with great respect for the people around me. I say something like.

“Right, time for dream stabilisation, how do you guys normally do this?”
There may be some mumbling amongst 3-5 people standing by the waves before the answer is returned.
“Have you tried spinning?”
“Think I have done, but not in a while.”

I start spinning, but not your average spinning. I utilise a technique I have picked up in my non-lucids where I gradually spin with my body more and more parallel to the ground. People either try trampling me or try and jump over me and I become a bit playful and start doing some whirled spinning jumps up amongst the people standing right next to me. I turn around and spin around with my back towards the sand. Though this is fun I don't think I am engaging the scenario enough and I soon wake up.
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I recall only the dream after I turn lucid. I may have been lucid prior, but what is written is what I remember. I know that the dream was long prior to what I remember though. I am in some sort of hall. It reminds me of a mixture of a factory warehouse and a sports hall. I think of what the task of the month is and I remember it is about ”where the wild things are” and becoming their king.

I don't encounter any wild things to my memory, but I undertake a quest to summon their king and dispose of him. There are three pre-quests I have to fulfil before I can find him. These three quests will grant me three keys I have to use to get the final key. I start the first one but start thinking that I may not have much time left in the dream, so I decide to cheat by flyng up and grabbing the key from a wooden box with a narrow opening in it. My flying isn't really controlable at first but I manage to snatch the key before I start the descent.

I defy my lack of ability to fly as I head for a risen platform hovering above the floor where the King will spawn. ”I am dreaming I know I can fly!” and this thought makes it possible. There are four boxes on the platform, one at each corner. I put in the key and turn it. There is a mechanical vibration in my hand as I do this and looking out over the floor I can see four elements descending from the ceiling forming a square. I know the king will be in the middle of these. I look around on the other key hole boxes on the platform and wonder why there are keys in all of them, though i reason that if I hadn't cheated I would have had four keys in total.

After a short while the king makes an appearance, He approach from a gate on the lefthand side and as he makes his way towards the descending things he is ethereal at first. I figure I will have to wait until he takes on coporeal form to attempt an attack on him. At first when he takes on bodily form he is naked and very white, sorta vampyrish, however I am dreaming and have no fear so I jump down flying at great speed towards him. When I arrive he has taken on a bunny suit and is slightly fat. I tell him I challenge him and put up my fists preparing for a boxing round.

Before the fight starts we are interrupted though by 3-5 people wearing black cloathing, the leader seems to be a woman. I feel slightly frightful and grab the king and take him behind a shelf.

”Wasn't I dreaming, I am sure I was dreaming, there is no need to hide” I think to myself.

I look at my hand and as I do a couple of extra fingers start growing so I am reassured and take the king and walk over to the people. I also know that I can't really hurt anyone so I talk to the woman and tells her to grab hold of the kings legs.

I grab his head and rip it clean off and I am somewhat relieved that it makes the sound of clothing being ripped as this happens. He was only stuffed afterall.

I start walking towards the gate the king appeared from and think to myself. ”Damn, you got that ”where the wild things are” story completely screwed up, this probably won't count anyways”. ”Ah well it was mildy enjoyable in any case”. After this I wake up.…

I am in a room and a handful of attractive women are there and I am talking to Kaiser about Caroline Loven. I tell him that I have been with her 4 times. I am going through the excersise starting at 5 trying out 3, but decide on 4 (the actual number is 2). I am unsure as to how the conversation arose, but think we were discussing attractive women we had been with.

Skip

I look outside the window and am surprised to see a large red building move towards my left away from me. I think it a bit weird, but quickly someone tell me that TV2 is going to get their asses handed to them for this as apparently they are to blame. I recall the television show and don't find it particularly weird (Would have hated myself for missing this, if it wasn't for the fact that I had already had one lucid that night ^^).

I wrote this some time ago, but not in my offline DJ:

"I had a dream that made me sad when I woke up. I don't remember when I dreamed it, but I recently remembered it. It wasn't the dream itself that was sad, so it wasn't that my day was affected by something imagined. However, the emotions in the last moments of the dream did stay with me at the instance of wakefulness. In the time just after realising you're awake but before you realise where you are, I went from so unbelievably bliss full to hollow and empty feeling.

I don't know how the dream started or where it went to get to this final point - it's probably inconsequential and certainly nonsensical - but at the final point in my dream, I was happier than I can remember being for a long time. My dream was very simple, I think, but since I only remember the last moments I can only say conclusively that the idea was simple. In the dream I was seemingly as I am now apart from one single difference. You may see it as minor or you may see it as major. I was married, presumably, and holding the love of my life who was pregnant with our first child. I remember the sunlight on her face and her smiling. I just felt content, and wished things could stay like this for ever.

Then I woke up. Not like being torn away or fading out but instantly jerked into that semi-concious state, one moment there, the next here. I realised I was alone and wondered why. Then I realised I didn't know this woman and couldn't remember her face. How could I forget her? Finally, full conciousness hit and I remember life as it is. I realised that I had been dreaming. In the moment I remember being the saddest I have been in some time. I remember feeling hollow. Then I got on with my day, and forgot about it, mostly."

That was the most emotially intense dream fragment I've ever had. I don't know what made me remember it now, but when I do remember it, I feel sad. It sounds cheesy, but I can still see her face, when I remember this dream.

So I have been trying really hard to get lucid more quickly within my dreams (as well as increase my frequency of LDs) but all I have been able to do is have more intense and vivid dreams with WAY better recall....which is a step forward too, but I want to get a lucid dream every other night...anywho...here is a dream that I had last night that was real intense and kind of stuck with me.

I remember being in the city that I am currently living in. It was night time. Usually in RL my city is for the most part peaceful, however this was not the case in this dream. My city was almost post apocalyptic looking with abandoned cars at the side of the streets, dozens of sick and homeless gathered around makeshift fires, drug dealers on every corner, and frankly it was unnerving. Me and a couple of my friends from school were on a quest to find some drugs. We weren't planning on using them but for some reason we felt like we needed to find some in order to survive, whether that means sell them for some cash to live off of or doing something else with them. It was super important that we not only find some drugs but also find out who was the "drug lord" that ran the main drug deals of the city. I had the feeling that we were in danger from certain people and it may have been other people or the drug lord himself I am not certain. We followed a local drug dealer to find the drug lord. The dream shifts and we end up in trouble with the same drug lord. I apparently gained information on him that if given to the police would bring him down. And I had planned to do such a thing. Because they knew I had info that would ruin them they were after me. They had tracked down my friends and threatened their lives. They had contacted my employer and threatened him as well. I was caught with no one to trust or rely on. Only a couple people would help me out and they were assassinated. One man, a kind of bigger fellow, said he would help me bring them down. He was driving his car and I saw another car tailing him so I ran after him seeing if I could flag him down and help him before he was run off the road and killed. The car chased him up this sort of industrial/factory/machine hill. A mechanical hill that served some company. He used is truck/suv to drive up this very steep hill dodging machinery while trying to evade his pursuers. I began ascending the hill as well to try and help him. I look up, I see that as he was coming out of some sort of tunnel he had been shot, a sniper from out of no where had killed him. I saw blood splattered on his windshield. Then the next thing I know his suv is being crushed by some of the machines and his body no more. I traveled down the hill and was confronted by 3 women. One blonde, the other two brunet. They were either were very high up on the chain of command for this drug lord or they combined ran the drug operation themselves, I can't quite remember. They offered me a position within the drug operation itself and wanted to talk with me about it over a milkshake, yes like the ones from steak and shake. I sat down with them, fearing for my well being as well as my family and friends who they had threatened.
I woke up.

Dream Fragments from last night:
Fighting a dragon with stefon. Using Tilex on my shower.

Nap:
First dream:
can't remember well: I think there was some fighting. I'm on a boat and important stuff has happened, Mama and Dad were on the boat. I leave the boat and get sick, mama follows and starts talking to me.

Second Dream:
I'm at Home Depot looking for pills to help me with lucid dreaming, I even remember seeing the word "lucidity" on them, but they were for tanning (?). I'm wlking down an Isle putting some kind of lotion on my back for a rash, and when I get to sthe end I hear a conversation. Russel Brand is working at a counter, I walk away because I have my hands covered with lotion. I get the feeling I should go back and when I do Jason Segel is there also. I tell them how awesome they are, Russel Brand acts like a douche, but Jason Segel is real cool. He lets me hug him, and we both go to the bathroom so I can wash off my hands. Half the bathroom is shut down, but I get one of the good urinals and go, while going a girl makes a sex joke (Lotion on back). (Starting to wake up so dream goes weird) Scene changes to a boy asking the girl to wear a promise ring.

This is the dream that made me realize that external influences can influence dreams. At the time I was sleeping on the top bunk.

I found myself sliding down an epically large, curved, black and red checkered funnel. It was so big that as I slid I could only see the horizon of the funnel that I was headed for. The checkered pattern passing me sped up faster and faster and began to hold still and move backwards. (It was like a the effect of a spinning wheel appearing to reverse as it hits a certain speed) The funnel steepened and I soon saw where I was headed. At the bottom of the funnel was an uncovered well. I remember that the well was made of medium sized stone slabs.

As I hit the bottom I was flung into the well backwards facing up. As I fell I watched the stone sides of the well speeding past me and saw the light from the top of the well quickly shrink and disappeared. The stones were now dark and I was accelerating downward. I felt like I was going to hit the bottom and quickly flipped around not unlike a cat. I saw the dark stone bottom of the well speeding toward me and halt as I caught myself on my hands and knees.

I Awoke to find that I had fallen off my bunk and landed on the floor on my hands and knees.

Dream 1

I was standing on a field. I was with my hubby and another man was standing to my far left. I looked onto the field and there was an alien lying down on his back, he was glowing red and his glow got stronger and stronger. There were balloons by the alien and I shouted something to this man about the balloons, I think I told him to get the ones by the alien for us. We ((me and hubby)) decided to go home and check to see if the balloons were ours and the alien followed us. I checked a small cupboard and there was 1 balloon in there, I shouted to my hubby "they haven't moved in here " I went to the back door to check there and heard a dog growling and opened the door with caution. My sight had now gone but i knew a nice dog had come in, I felt it then I shut the door on the other 3 dogs, the nice dog was called sally and it was all black. My sight is now back and I am now back in the main room of the house, my hubby and the alien are both in there. The alien said we will be charged for how long he is here ((lol)) The alien has now changed into a normal man and is wearing a grey uniform with badges on. I looked outside and his white van was there, there was writing on the side of it which said "SPECIALISTS IN GAS, HELIUM......" and something else which i can't remember.

Dream 2

I was tired, me and my hubby had been somewhere and then we went into a room. There was a large white, leather corner settee in the room and a large T.V. Me and my hubby lay on the settee and he put one arm over me and the other one under me, I was uncomfortable so he moved it after i gave him a shove ((lol)). I had my eyes closed and he put a film on the T.V., I heard my hubby say "ang are you awake, ang are you awake" I pretended to be asleep, I then said to my hubby "do you want to turn the telly off while we go to sleep" He had put a scary film on and i remember thinking that i would have a lucid nightmare if i could hear screaming etc. while going to sleep and i didn't want to.

Dream 3

It was raining and I was walking up the street with someone. There were lots of shops along the street, a certain shop caught my attention it was a pie shop or something, there were 3 lads outside the shop. One was tall and looked like a bag-head...the other 2 were short and chubby ((one of these worked in the shop)). I and my friend went into the shop, the shop was very crowded , one of the short chubby lads followed us, he walked in while his mates waited outside. As his mates egged him on he grabbed my ass, i looked down and was shocked, he was holding a white towell when he pinched my ass, i think he had it to try and conceal what he had done. My hubby was working in the shop and was watching when the lad grabbed my ass but he didn't realise what had happened although his face looked curious. This lad then told a worker there that he wanted a pie or a doughnut but another bloke who worked at the shop gave the lad a bollocking and told him he was sacked! The manager then asked him if he wanted a doughnut ((lol)) ...This lad and the other workers who worked in the shop wore white clothing like what a butcher would wear. We walked out of the shop, i was wearing my shiny black leggins and longish white top, i began to pull my top down over my ass incase he done it again

This dream was exhilarating.

Found myself in a square room of a tower castle. It was filled with water about 4' deep and there were random strange DC scattered around. I was close to one corner near a slim stone window with an arched top. Outside I could see the night sky and a bright full moon and a wisp of clouds. Looking back into the room the water was beginning to ripple out from the center and I noticed that there was a circular opening in the roof. We started to swim around in the water. Oddly though the floor was made of stone it was very soft.
Soon a spiraling vortex of water began to descend from the opening in the ceiling. One man stood near the center as the spiral connected with the water in the room and allowed the vortex to lift him through the roof. By now the waves were getting big and cresting but something was strange about the waves. Instead of crashing over like they they do on the beach they were inverted. (If you took a side view of the waves then you would see that the air would be in the shape of the cresting wave and the water would be shaped like air normally would be.)
In effect, when a reached me it would swirl me under and around. it was a feeling almost like flying and being blown around by the wind.

I now have a goal to reproduce these waves in a lucid dream.

Went to bed 1240-1
Goals: teleport
8:17 Me and my sister are trying to sneak up to higher levels in some kind of labratory. I say lab because of the look of the place, sterile white walls and tile, strange machines and whatnot. We are at the bottom on like a service level looking for a way up. We walk into a corridor with an elevator used by cooking staff. The elevator dings and a dude about my age walks out wearing a chefs uniform. I consider trying to knock him out with a chop to his neck but dont do so. He walks out of the elevator looking at me, i move towards it and he pushes the button to close it as he gets off, i can tell he does this to keep me from getting on. I walk up to the elevator as it closes and then turn around. I ask him something and he responds in some made up spanish. What he said was subtitled in my vision too. Another chef, like his boss is now walking around, me and my sister leave this area as the head chef talks to the other one for a bit. We go to another area where i try to jump up to the next level but it doesnt work. I rem thinking i need to get to the next level so i can find a weapon.

*Was talking to my sister about the cat

8:00 AM

I found myself standing just off the curb of a sidewalk at night. The scenery was pretty vivid especially the lighting from nearby from nearby shops, street lights, stars, and incoming headlights. Just to my left was a lady in a business suit, skirt and black shoes. She was facing away from me. I looked over to my right to see a pair of headlights. They were bright and seemed to be headed for me so I stepped up on the sidewalk next to a sighn. I was about to warn the lady when I realized that the lights were slowing down. As they got closer I figured that the car was just meaning to park on the wrong side of the road. Then I saw the man inside what I now recognized as an old station wagon. He was obviously angry.
He was going slow as he came in behind the lady but then stepped on the gas. The lady flew up on to his hood and they both sped around the corner to my left. I could still see the road they were headed down because it there were no building in the way. The the road they were headed on slopped down slightly. To the left of them and in front of me was a recess where there were pick-nick benches. A fenced railing separated me and the drop so I ran around the way the station wagon had gone. Before I got to the corner I saw the lady roll off, across the road and onto some grass beneath some trees. The station wagon sped away and around the next corner to the left next to (where the police station is in waking life)
I ran down towards the lady and saw that she was in pain but not bleeding externally, The area she landed in was park like. Off to my left was a set of apartment buildings that were just off to the side of the side of the recess with the pick-nick benches. I don't have a cell phone so I decide to ring the first door bell to have them call 911. (I think I was dreaming of this set of apartments earlier.. there were some shady people living here). There were lights on inside but still nobody answered. I rang again. A dog came up behind me(was dreaming about this dog before as well) and started snarling. It eyed my leg as I rang the doorbell for the last time. Still no answer but as i looked back at the dog a girl in scrubs came walking up and fumbling with her keys.
I was glad to see her and said what had happened and to call 911. She looked over my shoulder and pointed at the paramedics. Someone else must have had a cell phone I thought. They had already placed the business woman on a stretcher and were beginning to move her. I went over to report what I had seen. One of the paramedics, Ben, happened to be someone from my old church who actually works for UPS. I told him my story, he didn't seem to care to much but I still felt like things would get taken care of.

3:43 AM

Working in a wide hallway with childhood friend Thad. Note: Thad is now working at an automation company I currently interviewed at. Our task was to take a rolling cart down the hallway. Note: The rolling cart is just like the ones that we used to roll around large machines around at my last job. They are made out of steal beams and large casters. they stand about 1.5' off the ground. Anyway the hallway has a simple yet frustrating set of traps. There are two large gates about 1' apart, then a large area with spikes coming up out of the floor, then two more gates. The gates are times so that as on comes up a little the other one closes and visa versa. We settles on taking either side and going for it. For some reason I used a couple pillow to help me slide underneath. We made it to the other side so we could stand up. the spikes couldn't reach the cart. John an old restaurant owner where I used to work was there and he was our foreman. Behind the next to gates was pitch black, maybe a wall.

Ok so it all started in the school corridor lol and someone said "Wee" but I was so scared of the word that I ran away and had to hide then there was this big epic adventure while I was wearing camo gear!

Sorry, cant remember this one very well. lol

There was man in a cave. For some reason it started turning into a monster type figure, though he
wasn't evil.

He slowly started walking out of the cave. In the middle of the cave was a kind of cave doorway
without a door. As the creature approached the cave doorway, sideways stalagtites grew like
cave teeth to block its passage.

Trapped in the cave now, the creature turned around to go back in the cave. With his back to the
toothy, sideways stalagtite protrusions, the creature grew wings on the outside of the new cave growth
while he was on the inside. He was now trapped exactly in place.

I thought there might be some way to free him just by busting up the rock.

This was about the strangest dream I've ever had.


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Someone had robbed a bank. I ended up with the get-away car with two bags of money in the back.
An old ex friend stopped a truck in front of me so I couldn't get away. He knew I had robbed the bank.

He pointed a strange gun at me and told me not to move. My windshield fogged up and I thought about
my situation. I decided I would rather die than go to jail. As the fog cleared, I told the guy my decision.
I backed the car just waiting to be shot, but he never did.

I drove away and drove into a warehouse. Dream skip ~ The dock door was shut behind me.
I saw a trailer from an 18 wheeler outside. It couldn't fit in the warehouse. This is residue from my last job driving a truck. I didn't remember driving the trailer, and wondered if it was full of money.

All of a sudden, it was like a bedroom, but I was still in the warehouse. Someone had set up there bedroom in the warehouse as if they were going to live in it. Then they came around and I was hiding.

Dream skip ~ I am knocking on a door and opening it to see if it is OK to come in. It is my grandparents house. They are very old. I shouldn't have been bothering them. They are gone in real life and I think my subconscious was incorporating that into my feelings.

They were so old that they couldn't enjoy grand-kids. The end of like was a great burden and they couldn't
enjoy other things.

I think i recall dreaming about a TV talkshow. And they where hosting Shared dreamers to come tell their shared dream experiences on TV.

Took a nap this morning.

I dreamed i was in a park talking to people. I was thinking about lucid dreaming and i hopped on my bike to ride away. Then i noticed this huge billboard sign saying : "NOTHING BEATS LUCID DREAMING, DV FORUM"

I'm like.. wow how didn't i notice that sign. I guess lucid dreaming is getting populair if there are billboards like that noawadays. Wait a minute ! I pinch my nose and i'm able to breathe.
But fuck.. i'm back in my bed. I was vaguely aware of that the whole time actually. Seeing both scenes at the same time. I didn't bother pinching my nose in bed. I was pretty sure i woke up. I just tried to get back in the dream, without success.

The last couple of nights I have been trying something like "In the next hour, I will reality check." Trying to activate the goal seeking part of my brain. Then visualized preforming reality check. Still only hitting about half of my goals in the prospective memory exercise. Sometimes less. Not sure if this is for me.

Dreams
I am at a convienience store near where this old video store used to be. Someone in the line asks for milk with something, and the guy on cash says he's leaving soon so he doesn't want to go get it. He also says it will be like $1.50 more. He goes to get it, and I talk with the guy about the bad service. A big guy comes back too, and says to me "You're gonna buy that shit?" I am holding already made cold coffee in a jar. "yeah." Now it gets scary. There is a woman in the shop screaming. She is on the wall like a horror film, and she is about to see herself for the first time. Her face is darkened, there's something wrong with it. There's this demonic blackness on it. I see images of her as a child with the darkened face screaming. I see her trying to punch the image of herself in the mirror with the darkened face. I wake up with my eyes a bit watery because I was scared!

--WBTB--
Decided just to go with the mantra "I will lucid dream this morning or very soon", and visualized the girl screaming and realizing that it was dream. Decided to try WILD a bit as well, but after about 25 mins just wanted to fall asleep so I moved. Can only ever get to a point where I start to see flashes, but then get too excited and it goes away.

Dreams
I'm on the bus and there is a really attractive girl on it too, and she periodically bends over. This happens a lot, but her dad and family is right there so I don't want to check her out which is difficult not to do. She gets off the bus, and the next thing I remember is being at school looking for some attractive girls. I see some of my friends' sister's friends up this circular ramp. I am in a parking lot near my house now, with my dad. I am in the car, and I see this girl from my martial arts club, but she looks older and more attractive now. My dad and I are walking home but he is running now, and I ask him what is wrong. He says nothing, but he just feels the need to get home. He starts losing it or something. He says "In case you snap, I can tie you to this." I am creeped out, and get into a fighting pose. I try to throw a few strikes at him but nothing can land. He tells me if I try to fight him he'll hit back like a wrecking ball or something.

I am thinking that I wake up, but then go to my window. It is wooden with portholes, and I open them up. In my tree in the backyard is a basketball net box, and a huge sandbox filled with cranberries! I remember asking myself if I was ever going to wake up. "This is just too weird to be real." I thought.

Dream - Lucid

I was in a room, talking to a psychiatrist. I was looking over his shoulder a his notes, which he was taking on a yellow sheet of paper. I told him something about thinking I was an addict, and he wrote down a prescription for Paxil on his notes. I felt funny about being prescribed meds, but I wasn't upset (I feel like I might be a little irked or uncomfortable about it in waking life).

I was then in my brother's room. I think I was talking to him about weed. I had my pipe there. It was dark in his room.

Then, as I was walking through some house, I remember Kacey's brother hitting on me, and then my friend Josh. I remember offering one of them a cigarette. I was going to take the tobacco out and put it in my pipe, but then I thought that might be a little silly, so I just offered the cigarette. One of them tried to get me to come into a public restroom with them, beckoning me in as they entered, but I didn't go in. I told someone about it, I think it may have been Kacey but I can't quite remember for sure.