non-lucid

This isn't as vivid as my other dreams, mostly because I didn't remember it until after I'd woken up. I tried several WILDs, but none of them seemed to work. Anyway, here's the dream:

It was a sunny day, and I was warm in my grandparents' house (which, unlike places in my other dreams, actually looked like it does in real life). I remember walking into the porch, and seeing four sets of skis - one for me, one for each of my grandparents, and one for my little brother. We left the house, and outside the door was a ski slope.



We were about halfway up, so we needed to take a ski lift to get higher up. It was a very shallow slope (perhaps because my brother has never been skiing before?), and was very easy to do. I can remember turning and going from edge to edge as I went down.

That's where the dream ended.

I've been wanting to incubate a lucid skiing dream for a while now, ever since hearing that lucid dreaming can feel as realistic as the real thing, as well as reading that lucid dreams can act as practice in the real life. Unfortunately, this dream was not lucid. However, I now know that it is possible to incubate a dream, so V-WILD is sounding much more possible. I'll try V-WILDing tonight, and see how it goes.

My recall seems to be getting better, I've been remembering at least 3 dreams a night although they seem to flow into each other and I do have to wake up between them to remember
Here are the 3 I remember from last night - the last one has a cool ending

1) In the early part of this dream someone I know becomes the head of his family like a maphia family only not into crime and not dangerous, it's set in the city i live. I'm driving around in a jeep, when I spot 2 people I know and go 4x4ing towards them. I get out and have a chat with them showing them the difflock on my new jeep which i acquired in my dream but can't remember how. Later I'm at my grandfathers funeral and my aunt and cousins are talking about how difficult it was to grow up with him because he was a difficult man. The dream is now set in the town where I grew up (huge DS right there) I get in an argument with my mom about how she's just climbing on the bandwagon and judging my grandfather unfairly (this is the second time a male ancestor has come up in 2 nights). To make my point stronger I tell my mom how my relationship with my dad isn't great and I end up getting furious and shouting how he hasn't hugged me in 10 years . The dream fades or I wake up.

2) I've been doing some training with young people (which is my line of work) in another city. I encourage them to start small groups and pair them up to do that. I have an argument with 2 of my friends who are the leaders of the group about my teaching style they say it's to unprepared, I'm saying that it's far more effective than their styles. Later we're indoors and there is a hive of huge bees (some-one else was dreaming about bees). My daughter is there and I tell her to stay away from the bees (this is related to me helping move my dads beehive the day before in RL and then hearing his bees left the hive and were in the tree in his garden). Later I go to bed and there is some weird sexual stuff going on (really weird), it involves no sensation for me but the DC is enjoying it.

Snippet this is either from this dream or the next one : I get fired at work and my friend sets the work computers to download a massive porn database, which will fill their harddrives and use up all their bandwidth. Later I feel guilty and ashamed about it and almost get caught for doing it.

3) My friend is riding my bike with me on the back except it's not DS bike like I've got it's a super-bike. We're riding through a rough area of an unknown town. He's riding pretty good. There are security guards and criminals guarding the entrances to different streets. He turns and speeds through an enclosed arean between buildings. As we exit a gang tries to stop us, He swerves around them at speed and continues. They run to try and head us off at the next turn, I tell him to carry on they'll never catch us but he stops and does a half donut and heads back the way we came, I realize that this is a good idea because they've run off to try intercept us. As we pass the area where they were we head towards a raised highway. There is an old man where the gang was holding a stick with a broken bottle taped to the end, we swerve around him and my friend suddenly stops, partly to let me drive and partly to speak to the old man. He approaches the old man cautiously talks to him and then comes running and jumps on the back of the bike. I take off really quickly and we're riding up this highway onramp that winds as it climbs higher. I overcook the fist turn and bump the curb, we continue to accelerate out of control and hit the next curb square on causing us to ramp off the edge. We nearly make it to another portion of the road but we miss. I realize that we are falling to our death, it feals awesome. I wake up long before impact.

Dream signs atarting to emerge (comment on these is you want) The town where I grew up, My bike (or lack of my bike)
I still don't feel close to realizing I'm in a dream and my only LD was still that FA - help please!!!
I also have a serious problem with excitement ( I can't fall asleep even in the middle of the night )

Awake Dream

So i have to hurry on this post, I won't put all the details down.

I'm in a biulding along with a blonde girl called Anne, Rachel and a guy who I don't know. We run along the passageway, we're on a mission. Anne works in the building but we're breaking in.

She gives me a card to use on doors but it doesn't work, so I'm scared when it fails. I still slip through the door and outside. Outside is near the sea, we hide behind a log. The boy kisses Rachel.

"I would kiss one of you, but i'm not a lesbian and you're not my type. Sorry" I say to them quietly. The guy and Rachel run into the water.

Anne and I see a man running toward us. They're after us. He's wearing a reflective yellow jacket like was builders wear. Anne grabs my hand and we run, but I feel heavy. I can't run very fast, so she drags me along. I see a plank of wood and pick it up, meaning to use it for later, but we opt for two sticks instead.

We keep running along a road, he's far away but getting closer. The next time I look I realise he's on a bike, so I stop and prepare to fight. He jumps off the bike, showing fanged teeth. I hit him a few times but it appears to do nothing.

Then my alarm woke me up. There was more going on than that but I needed to hurry!

library - I'm looking for a book on logic at the library where my friend Sara is apparently working. (should have RCd). I'm with Alphonse Elric, the giant suit of armor from Fullmetal Alchemist (should have RCd). We are antagonized by some strange robot, and I perform alchemy with a set of steel marbles. They go flying across the room at my will. I can recollect them with another action.

sammich race - I'm playing a videogame against a group of boys to win a delicious, delicious hoagie. I win and only have to pay tax.

Devil went down to Shaler - I'm a street near my house, and a vicious mentor is mediating a trumpet battle between me and a friend from high school. I am determined to show her that although we're both good, she's better than me at trumpet. She is convinced that I think I'm the best at everything, which makes us both mad.

South Park - I have a dream where I am sort of watching an episode of South Park from within the episode. Me and three other kids are playing some sort of game that Cartman is trying to ruin. Later, we try to take a kid to the dentist to have a strange robot removed from between his teeth. He doesn't want to go through with it, so we have to force him.

last one - I am driving to the pharmacy at which I used to work with my old boss and his son, who, for some reason, is acting quite rude and spoiled. I try to help him look for his prescription when we get there, but it's not ready yet.

On reflection, the version of the pharmacy is totally different in my dreams from real life. I should probably RC every time I go there or think about it.

Well this is my first dream journal entry, I'm not going to use names, instead I will use abbreviations for privacy related reasons, so if you see just a letter or two that's someone I know in real life.

I dreamed that I was back in college (I'm British, so college, not university, I don't really know what the American counterpart is) studying Archaeology, even though I finished college at the beginning of the summer.

A relatively attractive blonde girl asked my name in my Archaeology class and I awkwardly showed her by pointing to it on a laminated sheet of names on the wall, for some reason I didn't ask hers. Me, E and her were the only people in the class, so we went to an early lunch where me and E saw M leave a room with a big white furry coat.

I then had an ICT/Computer lesson in a new large room with a new bald male teacher. He was examining a popular music essay of mine and S and J were in my class as well as JF. I talked with J about Macs and PCs but ended up comparing them to rice, or something strange like that.

We then went for lunch and I looked in my bag and found a lunchbox which I thought I had eaten in a lucid dream but still had food in (note that I haven't actually attained a lucid dream yet so I don't know where that came from). I then went out and saw JF and some of his friends and J and I acted strange and ate rice/cereal bars but got them everywhere. The new teacher sat on a radiator behinds us and I didn't notice him till they mentioned him.

#955:
Date: July 25th, 2010
Length: 4 minutes

I'm on my college campus (though it doesn't look anything like it does), and I walk into a building. After going up a few flights of stairs, I step into the office of some guy who's apparently in charge of student government. We are apparently friends, and after having some kind of serious discussion, we step out into a sort of lounge with couches where a bunch of other people gather. Everyone starts talking and fooling around, but I feel like I have no connection with any of them, and decide I shouldn't be here.

I walk out the building, and head towards an unknown destination. Along the way, I cross two gas stations that are really close to each other. At some point, in the distance I see a girl I knew many years back, and we wave to each other, as if we see each other every day or something. Eventually, night starts to fall, and I reach a sort of deserted train station. The walls are all very plain and grey, and there is basically nothing around me. I'm just passing through here, not actually getting on a train. I climb a small flight of stairs towards an exit door. However, at this point I'm carrying two large bags, and I can't seem to squeeze through the little door with both of them. I try and try, but just end up kind of stuck.

Soon, a train arrives right next to me (I don't think there even were any tracks, it's like a train just appeared in a small room that was next to me), and a bunch of people walk out. They're trying to get past me to go down the stairs, but I'm blocking their way. After a long time, I think I finally get through the door and back out into the street.



Besides that, I had a dream where my mom came to see my roommate and I, and thought we looked very depressed and though something was really wrong with us, though nothing was. She said she wanted to take us to a sushi bar.

Also had a dream where I started living in a kind of abandoned (but luxurious) house. Two friends came to visit me, and then there was some kind of music video being filmed involving lots of women.

20/2/09 - Rating 5/5
Elementalist

My dream began in a huge subterranean cave and running right down the middle was a huge sheer chasm. The whole cave was packed with people and went on for so long that there were little specs of light from fires in the distance.
Standing atop the gapping hole in the ground someone on the other side was taunting my group and I but being the leader I simply laughed at him and then led the way; falling down into the great void.
I could see above me huge dragons flying over the top and soon people were just pouring down with us. At some point here everyone was either exposed or transformed into purple or yellow blobs that represented what kind of person they were. I was a yellow falling blob, as were all my other followers but most other people falling were purple. We yellows seemed to be the superior minority group and all stuck together as we trail behind a big same yellow colored jelly fish. We sort of clung to it like a way to stay as a group through the void.
Upon reaching the bottom of the void it was all black and everyone seemed to have disappeared in this liquid/black/fog. Using a clicking like sonar I tracked down my followers (now back to normal human form) and we found a way out of the void's pit.

Upon exiting I was alone again but now outside a big, one story apartment complex; all very modern with a garden, fountain and smooth path out the front. I moved inside still clicking absently as I tried to find my people again. I occasionally saw others whom I recognized as purples and just ignored them.
The building was like a really nice dorm with bedrooms, common rooms and a big laundry room at the back. In this back room I looked out a low window to a pool and found there was one of my group standing in the waist high water. Pleased I had found someone I could stick with I climbed out of the large window and into the pool where I greeted the other boy/teen.
He seemed quite pleased I was talking to him and I quickly discovered he had been striving for recognition from me (the leader) but I never paid enough attention to him; his name was something like Alastair. I quite like the younger lad and sat on some nearby steps discussing the new place we were in. We concluded that we had arrived at a training facility for people like us (yellows/purples).
Just then I turned to look behind the boy and see our teacher/Matriarch (dragon thing?) wearing a white shirt coming around the corner. I quickly jump to my feet and yell something like, "Oh damn, get out of here now! You'll lose your form" to the boy; this was because he was in less control than I and may spontaneously transform (dragon?) upon seeing the Matriarch. To get him clear, I threw up my hand and created a wall of air which I elementally twisted to block his sight and jumped into the air myself to fly away in human form.
Having kept my form I wasn't going to risk it and go back so I just kept flying around using my elemental powers. I eventually arrived at a community, outdoor, recreation hut building where I thought to try practicing my fire elemental control. I was great at air, ok with water, dodgey with earth and could just create a few flame puffs of fire. I tried numerous times to hold onto my flame but it just wouldn't work.
Then a girl who had obviously been at the facility for some time now arrived and asked if I wanted some pointers. Feeling much less high-and-mighty now than previously, I humbly accepted her tutoring. She explained how to burn bright/hot and helped considerably; improving my basic fire control greatly but nowhere near as much as her's. She was an elemental melder (purple) and could create/control electricity which was based primarily on fire.
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The yellow/purple distinction was clear by this point.
- Elementalist (yellow) could control air, water, earth and fire at will.
- Elemental melders (purple) could only manipulate two (three if lucky) elements but they could create variations and twists when used together. When moving around the apartment previously, one of the purple people was an air/water melder who's specialty I knew was spontaneous typhoons.
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Not long after I was getting better, a group of half a dozen friends of the girl arrived and they started up a beat using body percussion and singing in a language I had never heard. They really got into the song and started dancing a bit in a small circle. Once the song hit the first main section a new girl created a flame between her hands and twisted it out lithely until everyone in the circle had a piece.
While the dance was going on I vividly remember trying three times to do a double rotation in the air to make a fire spiral around myself but each time I just couldn't get the fire right. At this point I became aware of how high I jumped each time, how slowly I fell and how perfectly/effortlessly I landed. Dream logic took this one to my great air elementalist powers not a dream.
The dance grew and the group threw and manipulated each other's flaming spirals to the music, making it look spectacular. At one point a guy's flame went out but I knew he had absorbed its energy; he proceeded to ark it like a massive bolt of static electricity to the next girl who received it and then her opposite hand lit up in flames.
They could twist and control the flames remotely and freely in the air but mine was only on skin/touch. Eventually, as I practiced and they continued to dance, I worked out that I could burn really bright if I changed the oxygen level around myself; it worked brilliantly, looking really impressive. The first girl asked how I caught on so quick and I explained that I was kind of cheating. Using this new found skill I started mixing it up with aerial acrobatics while spinning fire out around my hands. It was more difficult to focus on my movements while also shifting the atmosphere around but looked and felt excellent.

07/26/10

I try to WILD. I notice the beginnings of HH, let my fingers twitch and decide I haven't reached SP.

I fall asleep. I'm laying in a bed when I feel someone lie down next to me. I freeze, and pretend to be asleep.

I make an impossible jump onto the roof of a barn.

I'm walking along cold grey tiles of a huge grocery store. If I look around, I'll see water flowing past the high windows, held at bay by degrading technology. I catch a glimpse of myself from the third person. I'm a teenage girl with pixie-like features. My shoulder-length brown hair is pulled back from my face.

I turn a corner, shining my flashlight up and down the aisles.

Since I'm a girl, I'm caught up in a rite of passage that all girls in my post-apocalyptic society go through. It's less a test and more of a sacrifice. If all the girls feed the monster a part of our souls, it'll be less likely to kill us.

My flashlight flickers and goes out.

I squeeze my elbow into my side, reassured by the blade I feel hidden under my jacket.

"Come to me, child," says a voice, rasping hollow through the darkness.

The voice resonates like a song, notes ringing through my mind, weaving a compulsion. I let the song flow over my mind like water, leaving my intentions to lie quietly in the darkness.

I let the flashlight fall from my hand. It clatters to the ground, the sound harsh in the relative silence of the warehouse. The music has reached a quiet hum. The flashlight rolls away.

I feel drowsy as I respond to the tug of the song, shuffling my feet toward the back wall of the building.

In one moment, I'm alone. In the next, the monster has apeared before me, a writhing mass of shadows moving toward me and invading my space. It brings me in, compliant, pulling me to the heart of it.

A distant part of me feels panicked and trapped, but I'm ready for this. In one smooth motion, I'm grabbing my blade and rushing forward, slicing through the monster's fleshy heart. Blood bursts from the wound, spraying everywhere.

I lick my lips, and step back, triumphant. The shadows dissipate, leaving the warehouse with the dim, directionless lighting of a dream. The scene starts to fade.

I'm standing in the produce department, wearing a more comfortable dream form, short-haired and androgynous, no longer covered in blood. The dark-haired man across from me looks annoyed as he holds a hand over his heart, willing the wound to close.

My lips twitch. "You lose again, Amon."

The Test. Scare Factor: 5.

I dreamed that me, and two of my female friends went to a groceries store near my house. The dream was very vivid, so I will take this opportunity to bore you with uninteresting details. The door was automatic. There was a 'Vanguard Bandits FTW' poster on one of the doors. (Bet ya don't know this game. ^_^) I looked at it for a moment, then walked in. I could see exactly ten counters, which were somehow both the paying counters as well as the passages for entry. There was a large mob on one of the counters, and I decided that I would go through the mob, as that would ensure safe passage. After two minutes of useless struggle, I finally came inside the store.
It was immense. There were rows and rows of products, none of which I recognized. I now had a cart to put my purchases in. It was a bright red color, and I strongly suspected it being a child's toy. Whatever, I thought. I proceeded to buy some stuff. I remember I got two packets of instant noodles (chicken curry flavor) and four Galaxy Flutes. ^_^ I searched high and low for a juice, a lemon juice, to be exact, but within the huge store, I could find a single effing juice! Annoyed, I looked here and there for anything I could drink instead.
The speakers suddenly announced that the shop was going to close soon, and that, funnily enough, all people who failed to get out will be electrocuted. No one was shocked by this, nor did they dash for the door, but they did hasten their shopping. I ran to the counter, though, where I met my friends again, realizing that we had been separated all this time. We couldn't get out. We tried to force open the door, but it wouldn't budge. We contacted the manager, who informed us that we were waiting for someone to come, before we could get out. I took that explanation as perfectly sane, and then waited for that person to arrive. He never arrived, though. I woke up waiting.

26.07.2010

Weird Couple (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

A decent night. I recalled a total of four dreams. Two whole dreams and two lucids.

Third:

I was in a hotel. There was a couple starting to have sex. Both of them were nude and kissing each other. I was not able to see the scene in detail. It was like censored. However, I was able to see his penis. I wondered why the penis was not censored. They changed their position and I could not see a thing from her. The started to have sex and he was done like in two seconds. She appeared disgusted. However, he said, "We can trade so we both can enjoy!" The guy pulled the penis out of his body like if it was fake.

I knew I was able to pull mine as well, I said, "If that guy can, I can as well." I tried and I was not able. I said, "Why? I am dreaming so I am supposed to do it!" I realized I could do more interesting stuff.

I requested the dream to see my Dream Guardian. A bald male with glasses, about 40s popped out and told me, "I am not your Dream Guardian, Fred will come in a few minutes, however, he likes to play mind games." He told me I needed to wait.

I was looking for black boots to wear and I see that the dream was fading. I tried to spin but I was not able. I said to myself to DEILD when I woke.

Missed Dream Signs:
- Unknown.

Dream Signs noticed:
- Unknown.

Reality Check Performed:
- None. Already lucid.

26.07.2010

Dad is sick (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

A decent night. I recalled a total of four dreams. Two whole dreams and two lucids.

First:

My dad is sick. (nice dad) was sick, he had an odd illness that could kill him, however, he was recovering. He was laying down in the middle of a park.

I said I had two gifts for him. A female DC said that if my gift was a bed, it would be way better. My dad was not rested. For an odd reason we could not move him from there. He said that he was cold at night and he saw ghosts and other entities.

I had a friend who happened to be a doctor. She gave me two Valium pills and informed me that I could give them both to my dad so he would sleep deeply. So I did. I also gave him something else. I was sure he was going to have very vivid dreams that night.

The scenery changed and I was in my laptop. I was browsing the Internet and I found a community board of Astral Projection. As I was entering (I think it was now like a building) I saw someone leaving and complaining about it. I was happy because I knew I was going to improve my Astral Projection ability.

Missed Dream Signs:
- My dad (he is several thousands of miles from me.
- All the stuff about my dad.

What I would have done if lucid:
- Head for a ToTY.

July 26, 2010

Synopsis: Akira characters, role-playing, a scary-house, vampires! And a terrible scheme to make money.

Trouble in Suburbia!
I watch Tetsuo and Yama sneak around an average american suburbia, trying to find Kaneda. After a while I enter Tetsuo's body to steal his powers, but I'm still very much female

Later on, the whole family has hunkered down into one bedroom to sleep. Not sure why. It was very dark and surreal looking. I couldn't sleep, but that was okay because I kept telling myself I have these awesome powers so I don't need to sleep.

I can see the dark hallway from the bunk bed, but not the front door it leads too. A loud banging startles me, and I sink down into my bed. "What was that?" I know I know, I'm such a chicken! Powers..pfffft

Dad pokes his head into the bedroom nearly giving me a heart attack. Why did he have to knock on the front door so hard at 4am when he had the key the entire time! My parents have magically transformed into other people I just take as my parents.

Mom and dad wake every one up, rise and shine, it's time! Time for what? Dad lays out his brilliant plan. Some sort of money scheme I'm not falling for. "All we have to do is put down one million, and we can make thousands!"

It didn't make a whole lot sense then, and it doesn't make a whole lot of sense now

"Wait!" I interrupt them "There's a psychic vampire spying on your plans! He's outside right now, I can sense him!"

I can see with my dream vision a pale sickly looking emo standing gloomily outside our home as the sun rises. (a twilight vampire? ewww!)

"He's a vampire!"

My parents quickly fold up their plans and head for breakfast instead. I fly outside. Mortals and their money schemes were soooo boring. Maybe this vampire will be more exciting company. I fly tauntingly over him.

"Why don't you come up here and fly with me?"

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"Well, you're a vampire, and vampires can fly."

He looks up at me annoyed, black rings around his pale eyes. "I'm not a vampire. And I can't fly!"



What ever, I think he's lying! I just start to fly around. And the 'vampire' just follows me around, I guess he was lonely. I woke up shortly after.

Most of the characters in the dream are what I have deemed "Glow People", they have a glowing line right above their stomach and I think some sort of special powers.

The Glow People bleed from their "weak spots", which are any scars that they have, when they are nervous.

In the beginning of the dream there is a mother, father, and child (I am watching in the father's perspective). The mother is kidnapped by a group of men that are not "glows" and then they come back for the daughter. This same group had tried to sexually assault the mother earlier, but she was able to fight them off.

(Switch perspectives of characters, now daughter)

Years pass by and the daughter is kept as a prisoner by her kidnappers. She escapes during an unlikely fire in a public building.

More years later the daughter runs into a black "glow" at an outside market. She immediately begins bleeding from scars on her face, so now the man knows that she is nervous. The man also knows the small scar on her forehead is from a long time ago, but a large one across her cheek is more recent. The girl feels threatened and flees from the man and then runs into a young, female "glow" in a public restroom

*Wake up*

July 25, 2010

Synopsis: I summon divine power and my dream becomes an adventure - When I woke up I drifted off into a random dream and lost most of my memories of this dream

Night Time Note: I went to sleep and felt like meditating. And then I started to think about all the things that I worry about - job - bills - debt - moving out. I felt fear of something was holding me back.

Summon Power!
My earliest memory is that I was lucid - lucid from the very beginning of my dream. I scream! Summoning divine power to give me strength, courage, to conquer my fears. My dream gets a bit fuzzy.

And instead it transforms into a usual adventure dream. I'm on the run! Of course I always am. I'm powerful and the government hates it. They've sent their agents after me. I don't mind, what can they do to hurt me? Turns out they can try to hurt my friends.

In my dream I made two new friends, a young black woman with curly hair and an asian woman. Now their on the run with me! I can fly, but they can't. Similar themes to Faithful Friends of a Dragon.

The last thing I remember was jumping out a window.

1. I'm watching an old couple do a live broadcast of some comedic radio show. They only get a couple of lines in, the last of which is "He's always so polite," before I false-awaken into my bed. I start to write it down in my dream journal, when suddenly I hear "Habenera" from Carmen blaring in full orchestral beauty. This causes me to check my dream journal, and sure enough, my handwriting is unstable! I get lucid and try to stabilize, rubbing my hands together and feeling the bed beneath me. Things are solid and quite real feeling, and I try to engage as many senses as possible. I start thinking about where to take the dream while still stabilizing, and this continues for a good twenty seconds. However, I lose control before I'm able to do anything.

2. It's after the civil war, and my embarrassed family is ordering drinks from our former slaves who are now free employees of a restaurant.