non-lucid

Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream

Ok, well I'm not supposed to say too much about this, but I've been on a secret mission with LDing lately, but for some reason every time I try to do it, if I'm getting near lucidity I get kicked out of lucidity, and the dream always ends up a nightmare

Last night's nightmare was particularly memorable...I think if I get the chance I'll even turn it into a movie scene.

I was in my room, and at first, everything was normal. But then, I noticed something strange...there was a worm on the ground. Then I turned around. There were a few more. Turned and looked around again, more worms, and even bigger and thicker now! "Well that's weird...how are they getting in here?" I said. Then I felt a sharp pain in my leg. I pulled the leg on my pants up so I could see, but quickly wished I hadn't. About 5 of those huge, thick worms had bitten into me and were now entirely in my leg, eating away at it, visible through a top layer of skin. The other worms were coming near me now, too, and I was surrounded. I dashed for the door, but multiple worms got into me after that, all eating away at my legs and arms from the inside, not to mention the disgusting sight of having a worm bulging through your skin. I may be a guy, but I still screamed. The door slammed behind me, I ran for the nearest person and begged them to help me get the worms out. "You're going to live," they told me, "but there's only one way to get those worms out." "Well do it already! please!" They reached down and pinched one of the worms on my leg. It let out a little, sickening cry and then rushed up through my leg towards my head. It felt so weird and disgusting...but not nearly as much as what happened next. After the worm got up to my head, I started choking and gagging, and then I coughed really hard, and blood came out along with the worm. Then I looked down and saw how many more worms were all throughout my body. There were easily 30 left for me to cough up that way, and then I still had a whole room full of them to deal with! Or so I thought. I turned and looked and saw a million more of them flooding into the house from the outside. There was nothing left to do but run! So I ran for the closest windows and tried to smash it and get outside. But I couldn't. The worms were coming closer, getting into the room, devouring the person who had just helped me. I had only a few seconds left...

...and then I woke up. Man that one really freaked me out! All day long I've felt like I'm feeling those things getting into my legs and arms, even though I know they aren't there...it was just so creepy!

19.02.2009

Train ride (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I start out in this train, and it's got a lot of red colors in it. I must have been working for someone rich, or was rich, because they took me to this really nice room. As I'm facing my bed unpacking all of a sudden someone taps my arm.

I turn around, scared to death because I didn't know there was anyone in the room with me, it's Shanice.

A little while later:

I remember being in this bathroom and I was upset or scared for some reason, and just like the room the bath room had a lot of red decorations in it.

Shift

Now I'm out of the train and on the run. I'm a free runner like in Mirror's Edge. It was awesome 'cause I could jump at inhuman heights. I could fly just like in my old dreams.

I remember that there was this kid and he had way to many balloons, so many that he was flying off. So I jumped up after him to save him. But then after I did that, the balloons carried me off.

Now I remember being on the run, but I could only jump really far and high; I couldn't fly. There where two free runner girls after me. I was on a roof top in mid jump going to the other side when one grabed my foot and pulled me down hard on the first roof.

I was scared to death at this point and it's hard for me to remember what happened. I think it's connected to that same dream that I've had all of my life, one where people take me to a back room for testing or what ever. But that time I got away... Just not for long.

Have not been home for a couple days way too much partying.

06/10/10

The only dream I can recall is

Arrested:

Was at someones house for a new years party camping trip. My best friend Michael was there and we were laying in the grass looking at the stars. There were some light fireworks in the sky and we started talking about girls. We randomly started arguing with people and someone was really pissed at me. Instead of hitting me, they went for my dog and broke her foot I started hitting the person (might have been a woman) and I think they died. I get scared and start packing my clothes up to get out of the place before the police arrive. Right before I am about to leave I see police in full body outfits searching the place for me. They have guns with green laser pointers. I start to turn around and go the other way when I realize I cant escape and start moving towards them.

Tonight I am doing nothing so I can get back on a regular sleeping schedule

6/7/10

Meditation:
Tuesday and Wednesday I have class until really late so I cant meditate those days. I did set my alarm for 3 am to do some meditation. Had a successful wild, but when I opened my eyes to get out of bed there was a giant dog in my room that shared the shit out of me and woke me up. Went to rewild but could not fall back asleep.

Dreams:
Zero recall AGAIN!!! This literally never happens. My recall is normally really good. I don't even remember a fragment of a dream.. not even a single thing. I had five alarms go off. One at 3 am. one at 6 am, 620, and 640 for 5 seconds for a DEILD all of which were almost successful. and one at 7 am. At 7 am I was going to try another wild but was so frustrated with zero dream recall I just tried to sleep and get at least one dream. I think tonight I am only going to set one alarm for a WBTB and see if that helps me dream recall. I tried everything from laying down after I woke up and trying to recall ANYTHING. Nothing

Meditation:

Total time: 30 min

Put my meditation music on and laid in cross leg position. After some time my head started to feel like a big balloon. Then It felt like I was one big balloon floating up. My dog started whining and it put me out of the feeling. I saw a flash on green light at one point and it startled me a little. At one point my ear started itching intensely. I put attention on my body and after a min or so it went away. My mind was wandering a bit so next time I will focus my attention on my part of my body and keep it there.

Dreams:

RAP:

I as at my moms house and she was showing me a bill of 10,000 dollars she spent at Costco. I remember thinking that if she spent that much every week we would be paying 40,000 a month for food! I had some friends come over with Kara and they started rapping hardcore. I remember the raps really well but I don't think its an actual song. Last thing I remember is needing to take money out of the atm.

GF trouble:

Went to hang out with kalee my ex. I had no shirt on and a fat friend of kalees came into her parents house with no shirt on. Her parents saw and started clapping. We had a little competition where we would body slam each other and say stuff like ohhhhhh! what now! The friend ended up disappearing and kalee turned into Kara, a girl I am kind of seeing now. She had a phone call and said she would be right back. Michael my best friend appeared in the room and we hung out for a while. It seemed to be a couple hours later and Kara still had not come back from some guys house and I was starting to get angry. She finally came back and apologized to me for a while. I forgave her and got a phone call with some random guy saying he processed my refund.

I had a lot of dreams that night but did not want to disturb the girl sleeping in my bed. I had a party at my house and did not want to record myself in front of everyone.

WILD attempt:

Tried to wild around 8 am (went to bed around 3) everything was going smoothly, but after 15 min my alarm went off again. I was agitated and ended up rolling over and trying to consciously watch myself fall asleep. I fell asleep unaware

6/6/10

Meditation:

Had a great session today. Total time was around 50 minutes. I laid in cross legged position and focused on relaxing my body. For a while I moved my dream hands in sand to try and actually feel it happening. After about 15 minutes of nothing happening I gave up and just relaxed. I felt a pressure in my head, but it dissipated very quickly. After about 30 minutes something great happened. I realized how good it felt to be in this state of relaxation and stopped trying to do anything and just enjoy this feeling. After about 5 minutes of truly relaxing, I lost all feeling in my body. It felt like I was melting. I ignored these feelings because every time I paid attention to them they would be less intense. I continued relaxing completely and enjoyed the feeling of pure relaxation when I started falling. I felt as if I weighed 1000 pounds and was falling into blackness. This kept going on for a while until I felt nothing. It was a really weird feeling, but it felt as if I was a part of the room. It felt as if I had no body and was just floating there. I laid there for a while thinking I would start to see hynagogic imagery of some sort, but got nothing. Actually, the mediation music I was listening to did sound more vibrant. It was as if some of the tunes were ringing excessively. It was a really good feeling so I just laid there until I felt it was time to get up (had to go to work soon and did not know how long I was laying there)


Dreams:


Very excited for tonight. I plan to set my alarm for around 3 am and do the same meditation I just did and see if I can slip into a dream. I don't have to wake up tomorrow until later so I will also set my alarm for 6 am and 8 am. I have a good feeling about being lucid tonight

EDIT: So I had zero dream recall last night This almost never happens.


WILD attempt:

16.02.2009

Shanice & Tessa: Goons no More (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I and Shanice start out in a room, we are dressed in different uniforms than everyone else. (But the same as each other)
And we're... err... Together... The room looks like a ships storage room. And there was a big bucket of slime in the middle of the room - green slime. And there was a chair in the middle of the room, with a beaten up man in it. Two guys were dunking the poor mans head into the slime, forcing him to swallow.

Dream skips:

We are outside, and the two men put the poor guy in a van, and we get in behind them. The trip only took seconds, but we were outside wall-mart now, (One of my home town stores) and they dump the man in the ally. They tell Shanice and I to take care of him and that they'll be out front waiting. (In this dream, we're like some sort of Tye Kwon Do experts)

I and Shanice don't want to kill the man, so we help him run off, and we decide to hide. So we sneak around front, and hide right inside next to the door. They get tired of waiting, so they start to look for us. They start going down the road after a while to
look farther out. And we head right out side to get some bikes. Shanice grabs a fast bike, and I run over to grab one like it, but this little brat of a kid beat me to it. So here's where I have a bit of control of my dream.

I didn't like the fact that he got the bike, so I rewound my dream, and beat the kid to it this time. And I and Shanice take off down the road to the little car wash. And there's a man getting money to wash his van. He left the door open, so we sneak around and hope in. And drive off. I'm not really in control anymore,
so it's hard to remember.

We get found, and taken to this room, that looks a lot like Brandi's, but with out a bed or a closet. (Brandi is a friend of
mine) And there's a camera watching us. What happens next is hard to tell, all I remember is that I and Shanice kept moving together, turn for turn..... In sync. Creepy.

Note: Shanice is one of my best friends in the whole world, and I met her on a forum. We talk on MSN daily, but we have never met.

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 was in a fairly large computer lab, hanging around with a couple of my friends. The walls were brick painted a solid grey color which would have made the room look like a prison if not for the computers and school-like posters hanging all over the walls. The room was well-lit. Around the walls of the room were long, light turquoise desks and in the center of the room was another one. There were computers stationed two to a desk, with the exception of the center table, which I was sitting at. I was using a white laptop.

I came across this site, although I'm not sure how, of a high-quality video involving a Savannah-like landscape.

It looked very similar to this.

It was in the middle of nowhere. There was a metal fence laid straight across the whole area, and another coming out perpendicular from that one. It made a T-shape. On one side of the fence was a German shepherd dog on a leash, and on the other was a creature around half the size of the dog. It had the face, head, and body shape of a cat, but had the tail and ears of a fox. It had a peppered gray coat with a touch of brown, and had thicker dark, almost black stripes running horizontally along its coat.

It looked pretty cute, but it was snarling at the dog through the fence grating.

Then, it burrowed under the fence (I might add it did this fairly quickly), and leaped right at the dog, biting its nose. It then grabbed onto its muzzle with its paws and didn't let go even when the dog shook it off.

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 was in the main entrance of a hospital. It was very spacious and had a high ceiling, probably three or four stories high, and the color scheme around the room was white, light blue, and some tan brick on the walls. I was standing at the main reception desk (there was no one working at it), and waiting for my mother to come back from work. She appeared soon after and told me that she'd need ten or fifteen more minutes to complete a case. That must mean she was working as a surgeon or a nurse.

She walked away and I was left there alone again, wondering what to do for the allotted time. I decided to leave the hospital and walk to a coffee shop. I wanted that cup of coffee.

Outside, it was daytime, almost cloudy. The sky was slightly pale and there were many clouds covering out the sun's bright rays.

I walked down the street. The road beside me was busy with cars, probably those returning from work at the end of the day. I walked for a few minutes and then realized it was probably time to be heading back. I wouldn't be getting any coffee today.

On the way back, things changed a bit. It was now very windy. But I wasn't the one being affected, nor were the other people trying to get into and exit their cars. It was the cars themselves that were being blown up into the air and tipped over! It was like walking down the street and watching cardboard boxes fly away but instead it was cars. People were holding them down, and I saw my car up ahead (that magically appeared). It was a blue convertible that looked similar to the image below.

I walked up to it and held it down until the wind died a bit, and then got in by hopping over the side and right into the driver's seat. The wind picked up again but I was still in the car, with no way of holding it down, so it began to tip. I quickly got my butt out of there and let it go with the wind. I couldn't drive it, so it might as well blow away.

13.02.2009

Church gone to the Dogs (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I and my family are in church again and we're participating in watching a movie. It's on a small TV in the front of the main auditorium. I'm annoyed that we didn't get to use the projector for this film and am bored with the movie. Toby (my brother) gets bored and starts to complain. A nice couple who are also bored with the movie take him out to eat at a dinner until the movie is over.

I stay behind and keep watching. The movie is about three people and their dogs. I just kinda get lost in the movie and so my dream takes me right into it.

I'm in the 1920s era and I think the whole dream is black and white.

I'm on the run with two other guys and their dogs. At one point I'm, standing next to and old ford pick up with my own dog, Kristi.

I get tired and climb in the back of the truck - which has the interior of my mother modern SUV now. My whole world is now in 2009 at night in an ally. I laid down and listened to the guys talk with another man and watched their shadows on the floor of the SUV as they tried to work out some sort of deal. I pet Kristi and the other dogs while they talked.

I get upset over something to do with the dogs, so I get out and go into the small convenient store near where the SUV is parked.

I look for the man the two guys were talking with and once I find him I tell him why I'm upset. He got very mad and started yelling at me - clearly drunk and I ran out.

I run over to the two guys with kristi in my arms. They're tying boxes with their dogs in them onto motorbikes they must have just acquired. They hand me a rather flimsy box and tell me to put Kristi in it and hop on my own bike.

We drive off and that's all I remember.

11.02.2009

Locked Down Church (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I exit my home which is located in a trailer park. I lived in a silver travel trailer with red stripes around the middle. It looked pretty crappy. I and my family got in the car and we drove down to our church. Once we entered the church what I saw amazed me. It was dusty and tomb-like; there were big stones covering the walls everywhere.

The main auditorium was series of giant stone cylinders that turned. The pews were mounted on one side of the cylinders to our right. I and my family lined up single file and faced the rows of pews. The cylinders started to turn and we walked into the isles created by the rows of pews. After the cylinders stopped turning, we took out seats and faced the pulpit.

After the cylinders turned they had also cut off all exits. The square opening that once had lined up with the out side door was now at my back far left. The lights dimmed and I listened to our pastor give his message.

After we let out of church I'm greeted by the pastors wife in the parking lot. Suddenly she grabs me by the arm and drags me into the church. The cylinders turn again and I'm locked in with her and her husband.

"Even though there church is locked down, we still allow people to leave," said the pastor in a grave dark voice from behind the poolpit.

The lighting all around us was dark and red and the pastors wife drug me to the back of the auditorium. There was still one door at the back wall that could be used. She opened the door and it relieved a deep bottomless pit with green smoke whispering up in short puffs out of it's self.

She pushes me in and I fall very far until landing face down on a soft mushroom like landing platform.

A dark sinister voice from inside the pit tells me to stand up. I and a few other people stand up on this platform.

"The specimens standing are the first to be used," says the dark voice.

All the while I hear another voice howling "give me a statue!"

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I went to sleep at 2:00 AM.

I was riding my bicycle to school. I was in the countryside. The land was extremely flat and covered in green grass. There was a big dark cloud hanging above this. It was quite beautiful. There was a strong wind blowing from the southwest. I was going south, so I had to ride against the wind. I saw someone on a different intersecting with mine going west, he or she had also trouble with the wind. There were also people going in the opposite direction of me and so had the wind behind them. After a while I realised that I should've went right earlier. There was a village in front of me and another road to the right. I took that one. I saw someone else going to school as well. I got to a pretty complicated traffic situation. There was a truck to my left. There were a couple of traffic lights. Some were red, others orange. I crossed the street quite carelessly. When I continued I cam upon a bridge. It was quite steep, so I got off my bike and started walking. There were some other people riding bicycles riding past without getting off there bikes, which embarrassed me a little.

Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream

Wow. I don't know what happened last night. All I remember as far as dreams go is 1) Winning an iPod shuffle from MacDonald's, and 2) Watching the Matrix, or at least it was supposed to be the Matrix, even though it was actually nothing at all like it. No lucids, no complete dream memory...and I remained still and calm when I woke up each time! Somehow I just really messed up with that one...oh well, I guess I'll just keep plugging away. Sooner or later a dry spell ends, right?

Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream

I started to not feel good last night, so even though I tried to LD, I ended up just sleeping all night and not having any lucid dreams. I can only even remember one non-lucid to some degree.

There was some evil woman going around, for what reason I did not know why. But she was secretly following me, and eventually I figured it out. One day I caught her eying me when I was mowing in my backyard. I hid behind a big piece of cardboard that was suddenly there, and knew I had to escape.

Suddenly I was Eragon, so the plan of escape was obvious. I called for Saphira with my mind and this tiny dragon flew over the fence. "What?" I thought. "That doesn't make sense. How can Saphira be that small?" But as she got closer, she got bigger too, so that worked itself out ok and I was able to fly off, the wicked woman shouting curses at me as I fled.

We landed at a train station, I believe, and Saphira became small enough to fit inside. When I was in there, I saw a bunch of my friends, and they seemed to be waiting for me. Somehow they knew about the woman following me and that she wanted to take my dragon. "If this was a lucid dream," I said, "I'd just annihilate her." The first time, it was funny. Now, it's just annoying. Why do I keep talking about lucid dreaming in my dreams and not get that impulse to reality check?? Anyway, I was informed that we had been followed all the way to the train station, and that we had to leave by train as soon as possible. "Why not fly?" I asked. "Because that would be expected." Came the reply.

So we got on a train (which turned out to be a two-story hover train) and hoped we had made our escape well enough. The witch-woman had made it onto the train as well, though, and wasn't going to let us get away. Suddenly in third-person, I saw the witch release a robot drone and send it inside the hover train. The drone flew up around one of the passenger seats and picked Donald Duck as its victim. It sucked Donald up into its main body, so only his head was sticking out the front of the hovering drone. But apparently this totally possessed Donald and made him want to kill me, because I went back into first person and saw the drone coming. Saphira tried to breath fire on it, but apparently it was fireproof. Nothing else seemed to present itself as an option, so I grabbed it with telekinesis and sent it flying out the back door, totally breaking it down. "Woah, how did I do that!?" I didn't have time to figure it out. As the door was blasted open, we all saw the witch outside, being knocked off the back of the train. Everyone ran outside and just looked down at her as she hung on by her fingertips. Of course she begged for mercy and a second chance and promised not to ever do anything like that again if we let her go, but I wasn't convinced. I picked my foot up to step on her fingers and finish the fight, but because my friends were against that, I helped her up instead. But there was a button next to me that would open a door to the lower deck...a trap door in the floor right where the witch was standing. So I hit that button and watched her drop down, and then I closed the door, trapping her.

I don't remember what happened for a while after that, but when we reached our destination, the witch was able to get off the train and come after us again...as I expected she would. We were in some house when she tried to come to the door and get inside. Whoever was guarding the door didn't let her in, of course, and told her that she had her second chance, and she better leave before we changed our minds. Eventually she managed to get inside and somehow we killed her this time.

The dream went into third person again, this time showing the drone flying into a restaurant and releasing Donald Duck. Donald fell from pretty high up, but just bounced off of several things until he landed right in a chair. The robot drone flew down and landed in the other chair, paid for dinner, and tried to convinced Donald to help him avenge the witches death. Donald just got his finger stuck in a hole on the arm of his chair. The drone started getting frustrated with him, but I woke up too fast to see what happened.

Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream

Last night I half-intentionally didn't go lucid. I just needed a break after that last one. I didn't even try to remember my dreams in case they would be similar to the previous one and not something I would want to remember.

But at any rate, I'm feeling much better now and I'm ready to dive right back in!

Here's the one dream I do remember from last night:

Everyone was at a huge pool party. Friends, family...tons of people. And I don't just mean a huge party, I mean a huge pool, too. The pool was way bigger than the little one-story house next to it, complete with water slides and all kinds of other stuff.

After a while, everyone got out to eat some hamburgers. Eating in dreams is always enjoyable, since there are no health concerns whatsoever, not even for over-eating. I remember talking to a couple people over the meal about dreams. One of them posed a fun question. "Hey, what would you do right now if this turned out to be a dream?" We laughed at the idea, totally not believing it could be a dream. I had the impulse to do a reality check, but I decided I didn't want to know, in case I would accidentally repeat the previous night's dream. "Well I know what I would do," said another at the table. "I'd pick you up out of thin air and throw you into the pool headfirst!" Everyone laughed again. "And then it would probably end up being a shared dream." I said. "So he would feel you do that and give you a call the next day, all like 'what the heck was that about?'" And we kept going like that for a while before heading back out.

Weird thing was, when I went back out there, the pool was set alongside a river, and I was in Pandora. "Oh, cool!" I said, still not becoming lucid. I paid no attention to everyone else running inside, grabbing their things, and leaving as quickly as they could. I stopped one of my friends as he ran past, though. "Hey, c'mon!" I said. "Dude, are you NUTS!?" That of course had me puzzled, so I turned around to see what was making him leave the pool. I found my answer not in the water, but in the air. It was a Samson; a helicopter from Avatar. My friend ran away, but the wind from the propellers knocked me down before I could. A soldier riding on it jumped off, grabbed me, and somehow I was suddenly in an RDA uniform. He told me that I had to get a couple samples of plants for him, and then sent me off into the jungle on a Gator (the RDA's water craft). I found the samples and brought them back to find the soldiers shooting at viperwolves or something...I didn't get time to see for sure before I woke up.

Maybe tonight I can go back there and stay awhile...on the Na'vi side!


SIDENOTE: This is officially my 100th post on DV! :bravo: