non-lucid

Well, it would seem I was a detective, and there were 2 other detectives. We needed to figure out who broke into this house, and stole some stuff(I knew who it was... because it was like a movie, and showed me who it was... I think, either that or my dream self saw it.. whatever) So this girl with no voice box stole some stuff, and we needed to stake a place out to see if she was going to return it, or steal more stuff or what. We werent staking it out too well, because we thought we needed to be clear on what we would watch on TV (You know, you need to agree on the show..) I thought we could watch Cow and Chicken at 8:00 I think. and at 4:15-4:45 there was a show called The Dean Show, I thought oh we could watch that, but found out it wasn't the "Dean Martin Show" so I decided we wouldn't need to. At some point I guess we knew what our robber sounded like,from a sound clip or something. And one of us morphed too look all kind of weird and distorted. They started talking "Only a girl, with no voice box, could sound like this" so we knew it had to be the suspect who really did rob the place... I think there was a large building and some sort of tree house at some point.

regular dreams: 11-14-10

Dead Body Museum
There was some type of dead body museum outside. Me and my friend Brittany and some other people were outside in a wooded area. There was a pond and in that pond where some dead people's heads. We had to use scuba gear so that we could go underwater and take a closer look at the dead people. First we had to get through a narrow plastic door underwater to get to an open, cave-like area that had the dead remains of some little girls and other people sticking out of the walls. Then we went through a second door to get to other area where there were more heads. For some reason we went into these cave-like things twice, the second time I think it was to show some other people around. But the second time we went in there and got down to the second layer, I got scared for some reason and wanted to get out. When I reached the last door to get out I kept thinking about how my air could run out soon. I think I managed to get out safely though.

Flying/Falling
I was with my sister in our backyard. There was something that I wanted to get on the roof of a random tall house in our backyard. It was like a fuzzy brown thing. I jumped up and flew up to the roof. My mom or sister was nervous for me and didn't want me to go up there but I tried to prove them wrong. I safely made it to the top of the roof and grabbed the.. thing. But to get down, I jumped and tried to fly but ended up falling fast toward the ground and landing hard. It didn't hurt at all though.

Camp
I was at camp with my friends Brittany and Dani. Dani got her own room in a nice white building because her mom wanted her to have her own room alone. It had like four beds in it and was really nice and big. There were some other bitchy girls there who stayed in some other big rooms in the white building. After I went to check out Dani's room, I went to the bathroom that had four mirrors and looked expensive and lavish. The other girls came in. I made fun of them by saying something like "oh hello there, I have to put on loads of makeup because I'm just so awesome and everyone loves me," then left and told Brittany what I said to them. Me and Brittany had to stay in a super cramped small bunk bed thing. That's all I remember.

November 14, 2010

I was in school but outside on the corner of the block. It was sunny outside with blue skies. My friend Lauren and my chemistry teacher were there and we were all doing an experiment for something. Then I saw 3 rolling houses made of different mirrors go down the street. They kinda looked like disco balls on wheels. I walked back to the school and I saw a red and black snake. I asked my teacher if it was poisonous and she said, "I don't know lets find out." So she put her hand by it and squeezed it by the neck and held it. But as I went to pet it it slithered away. The End.

Been out of practice for most of the week. I can see my dream recall suffering. This was a good night though.

Practice RCs, Dream Guide
Method DILD (prospective memory)
Lucidity B
Vividness C
Control B
0626: I don't recall the beginning very well. I'm laying on a bed. My roommate is in the room. I push off a bunch of small wood blocks from the bed and they fall on the floor noisily. Then I pull the covers over me and my roommate leaves the room. I don't know why, but I remind myself to do a reality check. I nose-plug once and don't believe it. I do it again and now realize I am lucid. I remember my plan: do nothing, practice reality checks, let my dream guide find me.

I walk out of the room. I now seem to be in the Daisetta house. I walk out to the backyard and then around to the side of the house. I try a list of RCs. Many of these I've rarely or never done so I wanted to experience what they were like in a dream:

Nose-plug: I can breathe.
Count fingers: I have double-vision as I look at my hands but I still count 10 fingers.
Finger through palm: doesn't work.
Memory: I couldn't recall how I got to this house.

The next few needed some objects, so I walked back inside the house to the kitchen.

Clock: numbers were changing crazily, and I could will them to change.
Text: for double-spaced lines, the text seemed normal. Fsingle-spaced lines, it started to dance and look crazy. But for both I don't recall actually reading or remembering the words.
Light switch: I notice the light turn on and off but the light level doesn't really change. But there was also sunlight coming through the window so I wouldn't expect a lamp to make much difference.

Cool, that was interesting. Now what. I notice my roommate in the house, so I decide to will him to leave. I look at him and imagine that he is about to leave for work. He does starting moving toward the front door and out to a car in the driveway. I follow him with my eyes and my will all the way until he is gone.

Then I recall the bit about letting my dream guide find me. On cue, the door bell rings. I open it and a man enters. He's maybe 35, slightly overweight, with tan skin, black hair, and a goatee mustache. I don't recognize him, nor is he very impressive. He just looks like a random guy. In his hands, he has a brown paper bag. From the bag, he pulls out a candle which he presents to me like a gift. He says something like "Here's something that helps others in your situation." I try to interpret what that means but don't get it. He opens the bag and shows me what else is in there: a bottle of sake and a fried rice cracker treat that you might get at a Japanese restaurant or market. I'm trying to figure out what these things could mean and I wonder if this guy is really my dream guide.

The door bell rings again. This time, it's another man, a bit older than the last, with pale skin and a cleanly shaved face. He's wearing a blue business casual shirt and slacks. I imagine he is an accountant and I vaguely recognize him as a type actor who plays small parts in TV shows and commercials. He doesn't say anything. I look at him and back at the other man. Confused. Not sure what to make of this. Dream ends.

New AA At Work
1207: Living with my mother. New work office. I sense that my work is a TV show and we've started a new season with some new characters and a new setting. There's a new administrative assistant who is an attractive blond woman who reminds me of an actress. I need to fill in a overtime paycheck request form. I do this and give it to the woman. She checks and and sees I forget the date at the top. I take it back and realize I've filled the whole thing in pencil but it should be in pen. I feel embarassed.

Complaining About The Team
0144: In a dark office with Lance. It's raining outside. We are talking about the company football team. The quarterback was replaced by C and we are joking about how bad he is. He can't throw a spiral. Lance finds a radio broadcast of the game on the internet. Our team is losing. Now it seems to be college football instead of the company. We talk about what are team should do. Now it seems to be Starcraft instead of football. Lance says all they do it mass tier one units. I suggest something tricky like a DT rush.

Youtube-
Dreamt I made youtube videos on how to drum and play guitar, but someone stole one of my videos

Sex in the forest, and a haunted house?-
I was in the forest with a girl, (Sorry, no names ) We started making out, and we decided to do it right then and there. Then the scene changed to that of a haunted house, and we were still going at it . Then I was a detective who had just been saved by fox news. It seems I was trapped in the house for 10 years, and it was haunted. As I looked out the window the scene changed and I was in my bed, it was all a dream! I looked at the time and it was 10 AM, nuts, I have to get to school! I kept reminding myself that I had to write this all down in my DJ. When I managed to get to school it was time for my Worlds Religions Class and I talked to my teacher about my dreams, then I woke up.

I was at what was apparently KA's house. It was in some spacious basement. KE and KR were there. We were all hungry and looking for something to eat. I looked in the fridge and saw a cup of chocolate pudding. I really wanted it but didn't impose on it. Then KA was beside me, pulling out a jar of powdered mango pudding from the cupboard above.

"I don't like mango pudding... I hate mangoes!" I groaned.
"Well that's all we have."
"Can't I just find something else?"

I can't remember whether or not she said yes, but either way that chocolate pudding was mine. I grabbed it from the fridge and grabbed a spoon and peeled off the top sticker. It was some delicious stuff.

Eventually we ended up going upstairs and outside for some reason. It was a strange, almost barren and grey city. I remember going up to a concrete building.

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I was outside in some city. There was some girl dressed in black and pink. I was supposed to kiss her or something, but it never happened.

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I was with KR. He was going on the bus with me. We were supposed to make out with each other or something, but we didn't want to do it in public. We waited to get to a more secluded area with the bus. We were passing through a quiet neighbourhood, and I jumped out (didn't clue in to me that I just jumped right through the door, lmao). This caused me to wake up.

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I was at some random house. I think it was a camp of some sort; I was trying to figure out if I had forgotten anything. My mom was there at some point. Then it ended.

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

I'm taking some sort of computer certification test using Prometric's testing software. I get to the end of the test, and the software gives me a message saying that the computer hasn't been recording any of my answers after the first four or five, and there are only 4 minutes left on the test's countdown clock, so there's no time to go back and answer them again. The timer runs out, and the software gives me a big fat zero as a test score. Very distressed, I run down to the end of the row of computers where I'm sitting, which is in the center of a large, open room. There's a desk with another computer on it in a cubicle at the end of the row, with one teacher/supervisor sitting at the desk and another standing outside the cubicle. I tell the one standing outside the cubicle what happened, but I see that the one sitting at the desk has my green-and-white CompTIA ID card right there, with my picture on it and everything. That tells me that I must have passed the test; otherwise, they wouldn't have made an ID card for me.

Guy is there. I follow him into another room, where there is a big, black laser printer. He explains to me how sometimes, the test results get sent directly to the printer without being saved on the computer, and that's what happened to me. I say, “So I didn't just lose an hour and a half of work?” He says, “No.” [In the dream, I actually had the false memory of working on that test for the last hour and a half.]

Woke up at 11:55 P.M. (after having gone to bed at 10:20 P.M.) and was really surprised at how short a time I'd been asleep. I exclaimed, “That was only one cycle?! Wow!” That was a really long and detailed dream for a first cycle. I felt that this was a promising sign, and decided right then and there to try for a lucid dream later. (I'm supposed to be cycle-adjusting right now, but I was feeling impatient. Sorry.) I took some notes, then went back to sleep.

[Fragment] I'm interacting with all the characters from Inception this time. [I don't remember anything we did, except that] At one point, a bunch of us are sitting around a dark wood dining table, apparently in a restaurant.

[Fragment] I'm in House #2, upstairs, and I shoo a cat out of my bedroom. I know that it's already too late; it's been in the room long enough that I'm going to start having allergic reactions when I go into my room.

Woke up at 4:25 A.M., took down some more notes, then listened to the second half of my binaural beats file and did some MILDing. It worked.

I'm following my friend Sam K. and his girlfriend [who I can't identify as a specific person in this dream] through the entrance to a department store in a mall. There are other people in the store. I pass two different old men who are really tall and each have two sets of eyes right on top of each other, and are wearing two pairs of glasses on them. I think to myself, Those men must have an unusual deformity. Or I might be dreaming. I don't attain full lucidity or self-determination yet., though. [I didn't think to RC, either. D'oh.] I continue following Sam and his girlfriend. They start climbing a wide, white flight of stairs up to the second floor of the mall. I speak aloud to them, saying something along the lines of, “Guys! We could just take the elevator!” They either ignore me or just don't hear me.

Very short dreamskip. I'm on the second floor of the mall, looking up at a raised, square, brown section of the ceiling. I recognize it as the ceiling of the mall we used to go to all the time when I was a kid. [Which doesn't look at all like that in real life. Weird.] At that moment, I definitely know I'm dreaming, because I'm somewhere I wouldn't normally be in reality. I think to myself, F*** yeah. I'm here. [“Here,” in this case, meaning “in a dream,” not “at that particular mall.”]

I stop to take a good look around and touch things, to make sure the dream is stable so that I can explore it. [I'm learning to do this as a habit – yay!] I touch the carpet and look closely at the pattern on it. It's dark gray with little rectangular flecks of various colors on it in rows. I start walking around in the mall. Sam and his girlfriend are gone. This part of the second floor is the food court. I cross over the walkway that bridges one side of the mall and the other. There are white tables and chairs everywhere. One of the fast-food restaurants in the food court is an Orange Julius. I pass it, then turn around to listen and watch while somebody makes some kind of public announcement about something. [I don't remember what they said now.]

It occurs to me that since this is a dream, I can climb over the chairs and tables with impunity. I climb up onto a table, walk across it, step down onto a chair, then hop back down onto the floor. The impact feels lighter than it would have in real life. I say something like, “Sure enough, no one cares!” [Wow. That's quite a shift from the respectful attitude I had toward the DCs in my journal entry dated 05-Nov-2010. This worries me.]

I continue walking along through the food court, then think, Why am I just walking? I can fly. I can explore faster if I fly, too. So I start flying, going only a little faster than I'd been walking, and staying at about the same height above the floor of the mall as my eyes are when I'm standing up. [I'd never flown indoors or in front of DCs before, so it makes sense that I would be cautious about it.] There are two vaguely gangster-ish guys in front of me, one of whom says to me, “You're lookin' at me the wrong way.” I ignore them and fly right on past them. I head toward a row of glass-and-black-metal doors hung with dark red curtains. This is the entrance to another department store. Strangely, I find it difficult to fly toward them with any speed at all. It feels like trying to push one pole of a smaller magnet (me) toward the same pole of a much bigger magnet. I realize that it would be much easier going if I started flying backward, so I decide to release my deliberate control over my flying and let myself be pulled backward, just to see where I end up. The unknown force pulls me backward through the air very quickly. Much to my dismay, I wake up. I might have guessed that that was what would happen.

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Side notes:

I didn't wear my cardboard-square bracelet at all tonight, which suggests that it isn't the deciding factor in whether or not I succeed in inducing a lucid dream. It has to be either the MILD affirmations or the binaural beats file. (Or both; how do I know that the combination isn't more than the sum of its parts?)

11/14/2010
Fragment
Basically the same dream as the previous night, except it was a Black & Mild.
(I had been talking to my buddy Josh about how I quit smoking, last New Years Eve, yesterday. I told him about the dream on the 13th. Probably caused me to have it again, last night. Oh, well. As long as I don't go back to smoking in waking life (which I won't), I'm good!)

11/13/2010
Fragment
The only thing I remember is that I was sitting outside, talking to some people, and I bummed a cigarette. After lighting it, I took a few drags, and then said "wait, what the fuck am I doing??" I then threw the cigarette on the ground and stepped on it.

Real life Dream Lucid Dream sign
For me to remember, dreams are #067300, lucid dreams are the color below blue, #4169e1, and dream signs are the light purple, which is up one and left one from blue, #483d8b.

I had another lucid dream today!

Lucid dream
First dream of the night. Awful recollection. I may have had this dream because I realized when I was in sleep paralysis, and repeated to my self that I'm going to lucid dream.
I was in some dream. That's al I remember. I was in a room... I think the color was either brown or green... And it was fall outside. There were 2 windows in room I was in. I was 30 feet or so above the ground. I think I was in a treehouse? Suddenly I became lucid.

Again, I was very excited! I thought of what I was going to do today... (Italics are thoughts) Try and fly out the window? No, rub my hands together first. I rubbed my hands together, and clarity improved a little. I forgot to take in my surroundings. And... That's all I remember.

Drowned in the pool dream
Second to last dream of the night. Very vivid, but I only remember one clip.

I was on a cruise ship sort of place, in front of the pool. I looked up into a long vertical tube. Some pale girl with white hair smiled at me. She was hanging inside the tube, but much farther down than she was tall. There's no way she's tall enough to hang in that tube... I asked her how she did it, and she replied that she hung by her feet at the top. Oh well.

I walked forward to the pool. I jumped in! Some of my friends were in the pool, laughing and playing. One person who I don't like was in the pool. We played games and had fun. The pool was not viscous enough to be water. I could run in the water almost as fast as outside it. Suddenly everyone had to get out. Someone had drowned. It was someone I knew from Boys Scouts. No one was upset at all. We were all just wondering when we could get back in the pool. The lifeguard was waiting for police to arrive. Someone dashed back into the pool. We all told him to get out. He obeyed. I spotted the person I didn't like, holding his breath at the bottom of the pool. He winked at me in a mean way.

Battlefield game dream
Last dream of the night. Not as vivid as the pool dream, but still pretty vivid.

I was playing a game which was like a war simulation. I bought lots of troops and fought. I lost. Afterwards, I thought about why I lost, and I decided bucket icemen were the best financial investments. They threw big fist-sized pieces of ice at enemies very hard. I got a bunch of buckets, and twice as many icemen. I noticed one of the icemen was throwing ice at the girl I have a crush on at school. I told him to stop. There was a fight. I won. Dreamskip. My parents drove me home on the road that crossed through the battlefield, and I told them all about it.

I dreamskipped. I was writing something, maybe a form, I don't know... in a room while the girl I have a crush on was sitting outside. There was a little glass pane, and I could see her face through it. I kept getting distracted, and whenever I looked at her and she caught me she'd smile and raise her eyebrows. I got caught a few times...

13.11.2010

Frieza's Geo-caching contest (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was in a hotel. I was with a group of people and we were with Frieza.







We needed to use our Geocaching abilities in order to find six stones spread around the hotel. I can remember that one stone was Tiger's eye, one was opal and one was quartz. I recalled that I had some success trying to sense the energy of the stones in waking (I was not lucid)

Whoever was able to find some stones would fight in a tournament. The people who was not able to find stones, they were going to die. The winner of the tournament, needed to fight frieza. I walked around the entire hotel. I walked by the breafast area, by the gardens and I found some stones. One of the stones was stacked with several other stones and I was hopping I gathered the correct one. Frieza hided six stones but he did not mention which ones.

Something I cannot recall happened and I needed to prove it. I flew to a beach and there were some folks from a radio called, "El Pulpo" I had some vague sensations I was dreaming and I knew I could fly up to where they were and carry them to the hotel's plaza. I do not claim this a lucidity, my level is greater and it was a brief sub-lucid moment. I was able to prove it with help from the radio and I got an award. I was about to fight frieza and I woke up.

Missed dream signs:
- Frieza.
- The "El Pulpo" folks located in a big pile of sand at several feet.
- I was able to fly.

12.11.2010

Mussels and pizza (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I had a FA in my room and did my morning routine. I needed to drive my wife to work. The dream had a few changes and we ended up in a mall. It was very crowed and I was parked in a spot on the left. My wife told me that if I moved my car to the right, the radio would work better. I got mad at her because the car was already parked, but I ended up moving.

My wife told me she was supposed to be at work so I had to drive her. I got mad because I had things to do and it was getting late. My wife told me to stay at work with her. Her bossed told that they were going to give us pizza and that I could bring mussels.

Missed dream signs:
- The FA.
- Most of the nonsense.

11.11.2010

The motel at the sea (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I needed to evaluate a McDonalds. I had to do three evaluations in there. It became night and there were a lot of DC. I was somehow worried because the time frame was almost over the McDonalds was packed. I was with a female DC and I told her we could just buy three different items on three transactions, but I was unsure it would work.

There was a motel and I had to stay. I met an Africanamerican woman and she escorted me to a room. The room had three beds. Each one was shapped oddly.

I met with my wife and I wanted to find a different room at the motel. We traveled on a floating platform. While flying on this platform, a camera spawned. I knew it was the best chance to take the best panoracic photos. I took quite a few photos and they all looked beautiful. The motel was by the sea and the port was very close.

After this, i went with my wife and we bought some sex toys.

Missed dream signs:
- The odd shaped begs.
- The floating platform.

My first entry in my dream journal i was stuck in some kind of open feild pen with tribal people they call Proto-Humans almost like a zoo i go up to the people they were dressed in colonial America clothing i tried talking to them at the edge of the pen and they were just ignoring me then i start yelling HELLO I SPEAK ENGLISH i have apparently been stuck there for 50 years yet i am 20 then i finally escape gate...and talking to Brenden Frasier dressed up as he was in the Mummy and he walks in and takes me to a stargate that people have apparently not known worked in thousands of years me being a immortal knows how to work it and escapes to my high school everyone there my freind tells me is immortal including me and i go upstairs to meet my girl freind she seems high and starts rubbing up on me and saying IM SO COLD AND YOUR SO WARM and then i wake up after what seems 2 minutes of this happening

Had another lucid today so I thought I'd post. Don't remember all the details. Although for parts of the dream I was lucid, I just continued to let the dream guide me.


I was going somewhere in the car with my mom, dad, and sister, not sure where. We stopped at a car wash for some reason to get food.. or wash our car.. or something. I went outside for some reason, and walked past a little girl and her mother in the back of a parking lot. As I approached her, I rubbed my hand on top of my head in a circle so that she knew who I was. They were homeless, and the little girl said she was hungry.This made me feel really bad so I decided to go to the store and buy a little something for her. I tried to fly on the way to the store by jumping in the air, but couldn't seem to stay up, like usual. It was still fun though. At this point I was thinking "Oh, I know I'm dreaming but I don't care. I never want to wake up." Anyway, I went to what I thought was a grocery store but when I went inside, I saw that it was the same car wash place that I was in before. My parents and sister were there again. I picked out a bag of pretzel-like snacks and started tasting them for some reason. I then picked out a bag of cheese filled pretzels for the little girl and put them on the checkout counter, telling my mom and I was hungry even though the food wasn't for me. I realized that she would also have to buy the other pretzel-like snacks that I had tasted because I had opened the bad. Oh well, I thought. More for the little girl and her mom. I went back to them, flying on the way, but I don't think I ever got to give it to them..