non-lucid

This dream is basically a video game inside my head. In fact, I actually remember seeing a flat top-down map from a video game growing into an amazing 3D castle in seconds.

I remember being in my house. Suddenly, we realised that my little brother wasn't there. Immediately, I went into the lift in our house (which doesn't exist in real life), and went down underground into a crazy mystical land. Well, it wasn't at first. At first, it was just like an infinite nothingness, with a 2D map on the totally flat ground. Suddenly, in front of my eyes, the ground expanded into full 3D, building up from the ground.

I don't remember too much from inside the castle, but I do remember being inside the castle in a room with stone walls around me, and a moat of lava between me and a bunch of enemies (who looked surprisingly like Goombas from Mario).

I think I woke up after a couple of minutes of battle.

One thing I can say is that this was by far the craziest of dreams that I've had, and I'm shocked that nothing about it seemed strange enough to go lucid. In some ways, though, I'm quite glad that it didn't. It was a great dream, and by far the strangest that I've remembered yet.

I'm so excited-and p.o.ed. I have been trying to have a Lucid for about a week and on atempt 4 (1-3 were all failures), I had one! It was last night. I have a big 'A' written all over (on my mirror and hand, for example) so that when I see them, I do reality checks. Well because of this, I have been in the habit of doing the plugged-nose-breathing one really often, especially in bed. So I am in bed and decide that I should do one for funzies and don't you know, I was able to breath! I remember thinking loudly (if that's possible) "I'm Dreaming!" and then I woke up for reals.

Special note: If you are reading this and you are a first timer having troubles, I would suggest trying the MILD method. The first 3 times I tried the WILD method with absolutely no progress (granted it was only 3 nights). The MILD worked the first time, even though it was for only a moment.

This morning I woke up, and I was disappointed by my lack of dream recall from the night before. I know I had at least a few dreams but could only remember bits of one or two. I decided that since I was still somewhat tired, I would take another crack at it.

I laid in bed and attempted to initiate a WILD which I have not successfully done yet. I tried looking for hypnagogic imagery but saw none. Long story short, I fell asleep and into a non-lucid dream. In this dream I was in an airport terminal. It was dimly lit and I remember a significant lavender hue to the setting. I was a bit chilly and as I looked around, I was surprised to see that many people were lounging about in sleeping bags and mummy bags. Some had tents pitched. Somehow, this did not strike me as strange in the least, perhaps as the result of a recent camping trip I'd been on in my waking life. I determined that these families had been holed up here as the result of flight cancellations. My logic was clearly off. Anyway, I settled down in a bed which had been provided for me; apparently I had also been the victim of flight cancellations. I remember seeing a pair of faded yellow jeans and liking them as I crawled under the covers of the large bed. Many other individuals were also in the bed, which for some reason did not concern me or make me feel strange. I remember seeing a family next to me. There was a strange looking father and I vaguely remember a wife and daughter.

This is where the dream got interesting: As I fell asleep within this dream, I attempted what I thought would be a WILD. It was not, since I was already sleeping. This time it "worked" and I became momentary lucid, but without any control. In this dream I became a sort of camera, swooping over fantasy cities in the night. As I zoomed over one city, I located the town center which looked EXACTLY like the town centers from Age Of Empires II. I remember laughing in the dream.

Eventually, the excitement brought on by lucidity sent me out of the dream and I woke in the dark lavender light of the terminal. Then, the strangeness of that dream struck me almost instantly and I woke in my room. The double awakening struck me as pretty cool. All in all, this excited me, even though I was only lucid for a short and uncontrolled period. I have had poor dream recall lately and also, I could not remember the last time I dreamed in color, so the purple of the airport terminal and the yellow of the jeans were good to see. I am excited to give all this another shot tonight!

My recall mantra didn't work last night as I only remember one out of five or so dreams, but it was quite vivid. I'll need to be patient about lucidity.


First thing I remember is coming down an escalator into a really small shopping centre/mall, being led by terrorists. I was with people from my church again, and the first thing someone said was "Oh no, not here!". I had to figure out quickly what was going on, and I had just been plonked here with no memory of getting here, but that didn't occur to me

We were passing some people sitting at a Chinese restaurant, and, as the terrorists were in front of me, I somehow changed one of the lights from green to red, in hope of warning the diners of the danger.

We were led down some stairs in the corner of the shops, to a little hallway with a large metal door at the end. The terrorists, who looked like normal people, were discussing their plan, and heard them say something about detonating so I made a break for the door, which opened up to a small, ground-level carpark with a kid's playground in the far corner. It was nighttime.

Another person from my church was standing to my right, and I went over and talked, then I looked back at the door and all the others were coming out. One of the terrorists had the bomb attached to her.

I went over and said "So there is a bomb under all those clothes?" to which she replied "Yeh... um, you should go over there," pointing to the group of terrorists and church friends (hope there's no connection )

I was on my way back, and the girl with the bomb came towards us really slowly. Someone said "Kevin's dead," referring to my distance from the girl. I turned to see her walking like a zombie towards me, so I tried to run around her towards the fenced playground.

Using my dream-only parkour skills, I tried to vault over the fence, but my stomach hit the top of it so I kind of flipped up. I could her everyone shouting, saying "No! Stop!!" but I didn't listen.
As a got back up I ran for the fence on the other side, and the girl jumped into the playground after me.

I remember getting over the other fence, turning to see her, and I thought she was going to explode, so I pulled myself out of the dream.


So, I'm not sure if she really exploded or not, but at the last second, I knew I was in a dream so I should just let myself get killed.

Type: regular dream.
Lucidity: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Vividness: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

I took a nap a few hours ago as I was tired; this dream is the result of it.

It was light outside, and this light was spilling into the room of this fairly modern house. The room was no more than fifteen by fifteen feet, and there was one square archway in the center of one wall. In the middle of the room was a pale burgundy mat with an intricate pale gold pattern and an old-fashioned dark wooden table with the kind of legs that curl up. The flooring was white marble tile with slightly darker grout; the dark marbling of it was only barely visible so it looked more like basic white tile.

In the left-hand corner of the room, to the left of the archway, was a large potted tree, the dark green leaves amalgamating into somewhat of an egg shape.

Although it didn't happen in the dream, I knew I was following a few cats around the house. I already saw a black one that rolled over and let me pet its belly, but now I was looking for another one. My sister appeared and I asked her, "where's the brown and white cat?"

She pointed behind the tree, and there was the cat, lying down, half-hidden behind it. My sister disappeared and I knelt down to have a closer look. The cat curled around the pot a bit to get closer to me. It was white with a dark brown back, but its most striking feature was smaller dots of orange all over where the brown and white colors met. It looked at me with intent.

I reached out to pet it, but I stopped advancing because its eyes had widened and its ears flattened. Its mouth opened but nothing came out. In a few moments, it returned to normal so I reached out even more, slower this time. I touched its head and it made an evil "mrrrrow..." noise as if to warn me to get my hand off. I took my hand off and as soon as I did that it got up, leaning towards me but not taking any steps. I lunged out slightly towards it as if to say "I'm the boss", towering over it, and it recoiled by flattening itself to the ground and wearing the cutest expression.

4th dream within 2 weeks that I've had about stealing merchandise.

The other 3 dreams were situated in CTcon, the anime con I went to in July earlier.

This dream I was in Wal-Mart.

It was nighttime, and my friend Andre and his mom drove us to the store and I had to buy some things. When I went to the check out I let the other customers ring up my stuff while I looked around some aisles. I noticed a bag of RPG dice (they were 8mm dice too, so clearly something I would only come up with and more suited for CTcon..) and even though the price tag read 1.46 or 2.46 (strange numbers) I felt a huge urge to steal it.

I glanced half way at the dice again, feeling the urge creep up in me, something I started to struggle with. I was wearing a sweat shirt, so I thought okay I'll put it in my sweatshirt pocket, empty it out so it's easier to hide...and while planning this I grabbed it, and my fingers were clumsy this time, and I sort of fumbled with it. My past stealing dreams I was quick and nimble, (although I wonder if being dressed as Rikku from FFX-2 in those dreams has anything to do with it...she's a thief).

I also looked up at the ceiling and noticed about 30 surveillance cameras above my aisle, and there were more mapped out evenly around it, and a security man came toward me as I tried to leave the aisle- he shook his head at me. I said "What?" and he looked at my pocket and motioned for me to give it to him. I emptied my pocket (still managing to leave some dice in there) and handed it, feeling really guilty.

Oh man...

So my first dream was strange because I can't even recall myself being in it. It was basically just like watching an episode of Friends about Chandler...funny though

Dream 2:

I was with my friend and she was basically chugging this Mickie of Smirnoff Vodka. I keep telling her that Grey Goose tastes better and she says that she wants some, so we go looking. We end up going to some basement that's really messy and filled with all these random old toys, decorations and things. Kind of like a basement filled with old childhood memories or something. In there I find Miley Cyrus and she's completely drunk off her ass. She says she wants me to write her some movies to corrupt young children, and I tell her that I will add a shit load of dirty humor in the background where people won't notice. (see Rare's Banjo Kazooie and Banjo Tooie) She has an evil laugh and then for some reason I'm turning this weird Key Device thing attached to a big ball and gold chain.

looked something like this



I'm not really sure what it was supposed to do.





Dream 3:


So now I'm in my friends backyard and with another friend, and he's looking really Grey and pale. He tells me that he's suicidal and so they gave him antidepressants. Then he goes further to tell me that the drugs are making him homicidal and that he has to kill me. We start pacing around the backyard as I try and convince him that he doesn't have to kill me and that he doesn't want to. He keeps dissagreeing and slowly becomes crazier and more bloodthirsty. The next thing I know he's running after me. I bold to the glass door that leads to my friends house but fall. Then I start begging him not to do anything as I cant get up (typical). He comes closer to me and....

I wake up.

In this dream, I was out in my town, and there was a really steep hill, it was also like a slip and slide. There were some other people there who wanted to go swimming in this river, and it looked like a river filled with mud. I slid down the hill on a blue raft thing. After I did, those people came down and said that was pretty cool. I told them they shouldn't swim in the river, and told them about this one river that i normally go to that's great. They didn't really listen. A girl that was there started saying something about my fingers, because one of my nails are infected. I mentioned how I don't like to talk about it and lets talk about something else.

Then I woke up.

27.07.2010

My wife + Coworker + Old ex = New girlfriend (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Not one of my best nights! Four dreams but nothing fancy.

Fourth:

I was indoors. It was a huge place. I had a girlfriend that looked like a female co-worker I had at the olive oil store, but her name was like a real girlfriend I had in the past. At the same time I knew I was married but for some reason I enjoyed this DC company.
We were in public place but there were beds and other furniture. We kissed each other several times. I kissed her around her neck and she avoided it. I asked her if she did not like it, she told me she liked it too much. I was happy because she was Psychic. I was excited that it was going to be the two of us with Psychic abilities at the Olive Oil store and I was not going to be on my own anymore.

She told me she was going to grab stuff and place them on their eyes, then she would kiss me. She went to another room and brought like a Tupperware with onions. She was holding them with her eyes. Then she kissed me a few times. This scene repeated with different colored cans. (Just needed to be lucid for the basic task of August) Suddenly, she took longer to come. I heard like war-cries and I saw like a trebuchet with several people on it armed with swords and shields. In addition, I think it had a canon as well. I was wondering if she had that whole thing attached to one of her eyes. I could not wait to see her again and make out.

A few people came in from a front door. They were referees of some sort. They had a big panel and they announced, "Well, here is the Magic The Gathering tournament listings." I just saw a small basketball field at the end of this big room and I said, "I do not play basketball anymore!"

My DCfriend came back, kissed me and said. Finally, I have the password for the #DVA room for the finals. The password is "Soncha!" As I heard this word, I woke up abruptly, I do not know why.

Missed dream Signs:
- The DC girlfriend of mine.
- The stuff she could hold with her eyes.
- The place were I was itself.

What I would have done if lucid:
- Ask my DC Girlfriend who she really was and find out about what was happening. I am sure I would have discovered something interesting in my subconscious.

I know that I did have a lot of stuff I could have wrote down, but I kept waking up and and going back to sleep, so I didn't get to record any of it. I remember one thing, and if I happen to remember anything else I'll edit them in.


Fragment[s]
-I was having sex with some guy in a pool.
-

27.07.2010

I have a robot that looks like me. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Not one of my best nights! Four dreams but nothing fancy.

Third:

I was living in some sort of College. I shared the room with two female DC. I also could see my body laying down in the bed. It was a robot I had. It was connected to my Droid Cell Phone for an unknown reason.

The ladies that shared the room with me, claimed that the robot was better than me. They said that the robot did not speak and did everything under their command. My robot was able to meditate and dream like I do. Some older friends came to my room. Most of these friends also had one of these robots (but looked like them)

A guy made a dish of pasta for me and he told me I would enjoy it for sure. I decided to shut down the robot that looked like me.

Missed Dream Signs:
- Being at college and sharing the room with two ladies.
- The Robot.
- Old Friends.

What I would have done if lucid:
- Investigate my robot and find out what I could learn from it.

27.07.2010

Psychic training (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Not one of my best nights! Four dreams but nothing fancy.

First:

I was indoors like in a school. I was helping a guy to improve his psychic abilities.
I was able to see his ideas transferring from his mind to a glass.
He was improving his abilities.
We also discussed about dream recall.
I think I was the teacher and my wife was a student as well.

Missed Dream Signs:
- Being able to see his ideas.

What I would have done if lucid:
- Complete the ToTM August.

06.30.2010

Benny (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I layed in my bed in a really small room. I was tired and nearly sleeping. Suddenly Patricks dog Benny came into the room, jumped on the bed and layed down.
I found it stranged and thought about the sitaution and if I should make a RC. But I didn't...

06.27.2010

LOOK (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

My mother came back from shopping. I asked her, what she bought. On the table layed some sweeties, from which I took some.
I went to our storeroom and saw some DVD's lying around. One of them was there series "LOOK", for which I wait to be released in Europe for years now. I was really happy.[/COLOR]

I am at a mall, the reason I am there I completely forgot. For some reason or another, I do a reality check by looking at some dots on the wall, looking away, and looking back at them. Well, even if it was not words, it worked and I became lucid.

After that I decided to not jump into any activities yet, and tried to concentrate more on making my lucid more stable, longer, and clearer. So, I first began by walking very slowly and observing every small bit of detail I saw in the dream world with all my senses. As much as transforming into a wolf came across my mind, I knew these LD exercises were far more important to me.

I looked at a small railing next to an escalator, and looked closely. The light reflected off the chrome railing beautifully. I sat there and tried to smell anything, but I could not smell a damn thing. I figured that was weird, as I have smelled things in my LDs in the past. I thought that maybe my brain assumed malls smell like nothing.

In order to stabilize my LD further, I decided to reach into my pocket to grab a stress ball to squeeze in order to exercise my sense of touch. However, when I reached down to put my hand in my pocket... I had no pockets. All I had was my boxers on. I tried to further summon a stress ball in my hand but it refused to appear. After that, the dream got real fuzzy and I woke up in the middle of the night.


_____________

Next dream involved me going to some costume party. I decided to grab a Predator costume I had.

Fast-forward: I am at the party when I realize I don't have the head/mask to my Predator costume. The people at the college party start to stare, and I begin t feel judged.

Note: Was furious at myself for not trying to DEILD, spinning, or rubbing my hands yet again. I know it works because I have done it in prior lucids, I have just forgotten to for some reason. Even when attempting to stabilize my lucids, they are cut off even shorter. May be due to either me thinking about being asleep too much, or it being the end of that certain REM cycle for the night.