non-lucid

Bed @ 2310
Woke @ 0145

Real FPS
I'm inside an FPS (somehow I know it's System Shock). I'm near the elevator, and I've already cleared the whole level. Before taking the elevator, I decide to run around this area using a tool which makes the white walls darker whereever my aiming reticle is pointed. Once I've made most of the walls pretty dark, so that they match <something>, I head to the elevator and go to level 3, skipping over level 2.

Now I'm wandering around on level 3. I'm holding down a different button that's somehow leaving a blue trail on the ground behind me so I can figure out where I've already been. I realize that I can't make any progress here - everywhere I try to go is somehow gated, and I know I'm being pushed back towards level 2 in order to get what I need to get past the gates.

Now I'm in the elevator lobby fighting some humanoid enemies. I manage to shoot a couple and then start summoning some kind of power - fire, maybe? Two of the remaining enemies come at me together. I focus my attention on one, attempting to use my power on him, but nothing seems to be happening. The other one manages to grab me and starts to concentrate. Somehow I know he's summoning his own power to use Sickness on me. I panic, knowing that any moment now he'll finish and I'll feel sick, and I don't know how to cure magical sickness. I try to get him off, but I can't. The veins in his throat turn green, and I know he's finished; but I don't feel any different. I wonder what went wrong, but I'm thankful for it.

WBTB, mantras, visualization. BTB shortly after 0200.
Woke @ 640

Quitting smoking
I'm in a guest bedroom somewhere. I see that I have two different lighters and try them both out. One has a nice big flame, while the other has a tiny flame that just barely comes out. I hold the tiny one up to my lips and feel a slick hardness, almost as if it's chapstick. I have the sudden realization that I'm going to have to stop smoking those tiny cigarrette-shaped cigars someone recommended to me since my insurance forbids any tobacco use at all. (I don't and have never smoked, so I have absolutely no idea where this came from ...)

Careful reading
I'm looking at a small 2-row bookshelf. I turn to talk to someone about one of the books I saw and that I've read in the past, and he tells me that I can't really appreciate the book unless I read it much more carefully than I did. I consider telling him that I actually listened to it, but he'd probably be even less pleased, so I don't say anything.

Hunter and hunted
I'm watching a small group of people trying to escape from someone who's trying to hunt them. They're in an area with huge mounds of dirt, using them as cover. Eventually, they find themselves in a small dead-end canyon. They try to figure out what to do - maybe climb the walls? - before their hunter reaches them.

Bathroom drop
I'm in a white tile bathroom fiddling with a hatch on the floor. I'm wearing an experimental bathrobe/parachute combination, and I'm about to open the hatch and drop through, then use the suit to land safely. Part of the test will also be grabbing another guy mid-air and safely landing both of us. I'm a bit worried about the hatch - I don't want someone to come into the bathroom carelessly and fall to his death. I don't think there's any way I can jump while keeping it closed, but maybe I can lock the door, or maybe I can put up some kind of barrier around it ...

Fragment: Something about a breaker box with only three breakers: two on the left, one on the right. The one on the right is currently off, and I turn it back on with a solid snap.

Points: 7.5

12/08/2016
"New World Disorder"

Tony, BR, MR and I decided to infiltrate a Neo-Nazi rally.

We were being led down into what seemed like an underground garage, surrounded by Neo-Nazis. Most were stereotypical - white, with shaved heads - but there were a few minorities speckled throughout the crowd as well. En route to the meeting area, we passed through several rooms that looked as if they were ripped out of the "generic haunted house" handbook; various torture chambers - both physical and psychological - with a number of digital monitors showing compilations of gruesome acts of violence that were, undoubtedly, being performed on the people being held captive within this place.

We were herded into a main room and shuffled our way toward the back of the gathering of maybe a little over 100 people, trying as best we could to blend in as sympathetic to their cause, in order to observe their actions and rhetoric. One man spoke from the podium and, though I can't really remember much of what he said, it was all too constantly met with cheers and chanting from the mob.

Before long, the rallying cries began to take on a tone of suspicion and accusation, waves of negativity progressing through the crowd and making their way back toward us. The group was becoming more and more alarmed that there were traitors or 'outsiders' among them. It didn't take long before we were confronted and discovered to be...disloyal. A long chase inevitably ensued, and we were soon sprinting through the halls of this expansive facility, which was gradually morphing from a dank, dilapidated, present-day industrial setting and into a sanitized, futuristic and seemingly state-funded Base of Operations with grayed-out metal and stone interiors that looked pretty-distinctly Sci-Fi. Armed sentries pursued us while we dodged and darted within the halls, at one point coming to an annex and staring down the barrel of a massive cannon that they had instantly erected in our path before we changed directions and ran down an other hallway before the group of henchmen manning the unnecessarily-large weapon could get a single shot off.

Having split from my group while running, I was being tailed by a small squad of Nazis (now in even more militaristic attire), when I turned a corner of an apartment-style hallway, ducking into the first open door that I saw and closing the door behind me. Inside, I ran into a young woman who was quite startled by my having barged into her room. Frantically, I whispered a plea for her help and gave her a brief rundown of what had happened. Apparently, she was one of many people being held by these fascists against her will, so she was willing to aid me by shoving her into her closet. The patrol kept on searching, so I had to remain in this cramped space for most of the day. The girl ended up taking a nap on the bed across the room, and there eventually came a knock at the door. The guards were doubling back and checking the rooms, individually.

The girl didn't hear the first few knocks, or the demands for the door to be opened. Fearing they were going to burst in and search the place, I picked up a shoe from the closet floor and chucked it across the tiny apartment, hitting her with it and waking her up just in time for her to respond to the guards. She tried to get them to leave her be, but they insisted upon coming in, just before I was able to fully shut the closet door - which the girl noticed. She tried to keep their attention from the closet but, from the darkness, I could see that they were starting to glance over toward my hiding place in suspicion. When they did, the girl raised a huge stink about how they were immoral thugs, disrespecting her privacy. She was even able to call in another female friend to back her up. The friend came in, immediately chastising the guards for being so cruel as the pair whipped up some crocodile tears and began to console each other for this apparently sexist infraction. The newcomer seemed to know all about the rouse, and was playing along perfectly.

It worked. The guards, not wanting to get too caught up in this seemingly-overwhelming display of female emotion, ended up leaving the room without fully searching the place. The two strangers had saved me, and when I was sure the patrol was gone, I set back out to find my friends.

I remember one last fragment about being on the outside architecture of the base, maybe a few hundred feet above ground and cornered by the patrol, yet again. I don't recall how the whole thing ended, though.

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(Possible inspirations: a topic recently came up, where some friends and I were reminiscing on a time when we created fake accounts for Stormfront.com, which is a "White Nationalist/Supremacist" website, and did a hilarious trolling raid on them, some 10 years or so ago. Obviously, with everything that has been going on in American politics, as of late, the subject matter has been on my mind.)

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Dream 1
There's a spider on the wall that nearly bit my friend but we managed to squash it.
I buy a 23 million dollar boat and I knew my dad would get annoyed once he found out as it was all my money and I just wasted it. I decide to go hang out with my friend Lajja and turn up at hers, I end out checking out snapchat as I wander around looking for her. On her feed it's kind of sexual and I'm really surprised by it. I meet her bf and her friend, apparently she'd gone to pick me up so we waited for her to get back. I find that I don't really like her bf, there's a lot of doucheyness about him. Two more guys show up that are the wild ones which bring drugs and stuff, we then all go to a party that Lajja is having. She gets flirty with me and we all a bit of a joke and her bf can't really join in.

Dream 2
I come out of a building on top of a hill, it's night out with the stars shining above. The building looks like an alien building that's round like the generic 'flying saucer'. I look out over a forest that surrounds the hill I'm on, the trees look beautiful as they wave in the night breeze. I look at my hands and become lucid, triggered by the beautiful and realistic scene of the trees in the night..but after 10 seconds I wake up.

It's been a while since I've dream journalled anything - life happens sometimes. I've got 2 dreams in the back log which I'll write up after this dream which I had last night.

Dream
I was in a building, possibly a generic wide open-spaced mall with a blue colour the walls. Me and my ex girlfriend were hanging out here and something happened.. I really can't remember what, as I just remember running through hallways that angled off and winded around. I saw a horseman running past me at some point. I came upon another ex girlfriend but didn't talk to her, it felt like she was looking up at something she was trying to read, like a billboard. I then saw my other ex, the one I was with before. She ran past, I think we interacted a bit and I directed her to safety? The story isn't too important here it seems . I came across my mum right after this and she too was looking up and reading, though I know it was a digital board reading the arrival/departure times of planes since we seemed to be in an airport hallway.

I then made to go across a bridge in the building, leading to another room.. Only when I got there I looked outside to see something so beautiful that it shocked me into lucidity.. Before me was the sky, an incredible colour of blue with orange tinging the horizon. I realized I was on a small boat that was flying through the air, though I was confused as to how this was possible after just leaving a building. I tried to fly out into the openness but I really struggled, I could only fly within the boundaries of the boat, like a bird unable to leave its cage. My struggle to fly made me wake up and I forced myself to remember it.

I'm somewhere close to a beautiful island. I'm watching 2 girls make their way to it on 1 watercycle. They've got an interesting tactic: they are peddling in opposite directions. Somehow it works to keep them going straight. They make it to the island. I'm there myself now as well. There are quite some people here, including my little brother. Despite us supposedly being on the island, we're still in the water. It reaches up to my chest. If I walk away even just 2 metres it immediately becomes a bit deeper. I'm concerned for my little brother, who is a bit shorter than I am. I make my way to him with two floatables. I don't tell him that I'm worried, so as to not damage his ego/trust/whatever. We both hang onto a floatable for a bit and eventually I let go.

There's some guys playing football very close. They're only using one goal, which is a bit small and taking turns at taking penalties it seems, from up close. They're not lining up logically, with people awaiting their turns in and around the goal. Eventually there are two guys my age who are not even playing, but who are frustrated by the inefficiency of it. They decide to intervene. At first they shout for the guys to line up for the penalties and when no one listens, they decide to come up close and give further instructions. I move along.

Somewhere on the island I meet a blind woman. We talk for a little bit. I run into her twice and once into another blind woman. I continue walking. It seems I've reached the limit of how far I can walk here. I see some kind of clinic and decide to go in. It's the only building I've encountered on this island. I walk to the end of the clinic and decide that they have nothing for me and walk back out again. On the way out I see one of the nurses in the hallway. She has a pretty face. She walks out in front of me.

D1: I was initially w/ my family but then I woke up in my dream & someone was grabbing Mike. We are somewhere else now & it's all pristine & white. I realize we've been drugged or something but it's wearing off of me first. I start walking down a corridor looking for a way out but then it wasn't so clean anymore. I was fighting off hands that were grabbing at me. I was being knocked down & had to get up repeatedly. I realize my whole family is here somewhere when I see Mike again but I'm just terrified & just want to get out even though I'm conflicted about leaving them. I know that I can't save them by myself. I finally get outside but there is only old fencing & I'm still afraid. A guy sees me & tells me not to go the way I'm going & points me in another direction. I woke up but fall right back asleep.

D2: I'm back in the dream. I find help but then I wake up.

That was so very weird.

4-Dec-2016 - Meditation in bed


5-Dec-2016 - WILD - More myselves
5:30AM, ~40min
I start LD at home, go to the upper floor, raise an upward conveyor, it reaches a platform with an irregular shape, many people are there.
I understand they are past versions of myself, I talk with some of them, not going to provide details as this is very personal
I use a similar conveyor to reach a globe of white light, representing the "Higher myself"
I look at it from several angles, it consistenly looks the same
I ask some questions, it talks very little, but provides some nice insight and answers, but totally unverifiable details

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6-Dec-2016 - WILD - City of spires
5:30AM, ~30min
I walk close to the sea, then in a desert
I see a middle-east looking city, it's small, walled, it has many spires, domes and minarets
I explore it for quite some time, enter the market, explore the interior of some buildings, the mosque
I look at a black-bearded man wearing a turban, and a woman wearing chador

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7-Dec-2016 - WILD - Genghis Khan

ND: I am at office, discuss with C, tell him I am not going to the office tomorrow

ND: I am at canteen, sitting someone walks by with a dish full of clean rib bones

WILD #1
I am at the office again, I go to A office together with more colleagues. There, I open the outer wall and slide down a plastic half-pipe, then use this for flotating on the flooded street

WILD #2
~45 min
While drifting to sleep, I see a glimpse of myself dressed as a king, ermine fur above shoulders, scepter and crown
I try to retrieve this image again and I am successful.
In order to further anchor to the dream, I observe myself in a mirror dressed in the same way. It works well
I go on with this dream. I walk in a big castle, built with dark grey stone, looking similar to Oblivion Stronghold DLC
Then I prepare for war. I go wear my leather armor, reinforced with iron bristles and plates
It looks very detailed, I am able to well observe each armor piece, manipulate it and try it on
Then I pick up my black bow and sword, featuring an intricately etched hilt
I go to the stables and mount a massive black horse with a long mane and furry hooves

Still on the horse, I go out of the castle courtyard, to a big plain, where an army of thousands of horsemen is gathered
This is just impressive, and I shiver looking at it
Then I walk in front of the army, giving a speech to the left wing first, which is quite surprisingly on the right side
I figure out I will have to make then turn on their heels when marching out
Then I address the center and right wing with increasingly appreciative words
I really feel like a commander leading my army to war, it's amazing
They all scream out, I call my personal guard close and march in the middle of two rows of horses
I take the chance to quickly observe some armor details
The army turns around and we march out
I recommend taking our secret weapon with us: it is a caged black dragon, on a cart.

After some marching, I can see some low hills fading in the distance, very far away, and behind some higher mountains. I know the enemy is waiting for us there
I then call to me a hundred of horsemen, we gallop faster until we see a formation of heavily armored cavalry
We nock arrows and shoot. My first arrow hits a knight at his throat. I see many knights and horses dropping dead
We quickly shoot many arrows, almost all of them hit some target
We turn around and gallop back to the rest of the army. More horsemen gallop forward with me to do the same, hitting and retreating
The knights retreat, exposing the infantry behind them. We then target the infantry, slaughtering them. The enemy almost routs.

From behind the hills, I see a gigantic humanoid figure moving in. It's really enormous, even from a big distance.
I ask our officers to release the dragon, I want to ride it.
Unfortunately at this time the dream becomes a little confused.
I remember some glimpse of the fight between the dragon and the giant, but the dream fades...

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8-Dec-2016 - ND - Car crash + WILD - Attempt travel in the future

ND: I bump the car in front of me while commuting to work, I descend to look, however no big damage.
On the other hand, the rear of my car is heavily damaged, although I haven't noticed anyone hitting me at the back (!!)
I discuss with the people and look at some modules

WILD: I attempt travel to the future TotM. I am in a non-existing room in my house.
I hold in my hands an oval glass jar with a blue cover.
I rotate and manipulate it in my hands, and I know this is letting time outside pass quickly.
I exit the building, in the street I only see normal cars passing by. Evn the town looks pretty normal.

I try again, going to another home. This time when I exit, I look to my left behind some small houses, I see the outline of a futuristic city, a bit faded by distance. It has high buildings / towers / antennas. However it lasts very little, and I cannot reach it again

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9-Dec-2016 - ND - Tomato sauce factory

6AM WILD attempt, fall asleep

ND: Me and my wife need to go to some kind of shop near A, we reach a factory, with several rooms linked in succession. The rooms contain boxes of tomatoes; in one room, they are piled high and create a narrow passage.
After some rooms, we are approaching the next door, but the guy there gently stops us, asking if we need some help.
We tell him what we're looking for, he tells us it's in the next street.
Then he shows us the factory on the opposite side of the street, with its narrow square windows.
We decide it's time to move on, we pass through a rather dark big room, similar to a warehouse, containing tomato sauce bottles for which we are able to check the price, bulks of metal can containing cookies. Alarm clock rings

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10-Dec-2016 - ND/DILD - Car engine stolen -> Land of castles

ND: I am with my family (don't see them), we're in a nearby town I don't know (FM), I've parked the car close to a low stone wall, I want to return back there to check it. Someone takes me there by riding a bike (!!) through a swampy area (!!).
When the parking is in sight I can see my car. However, when we reach it, I cannot see it anymore (!) Two friends, A&T are there (!), we look for it together. They find one which looks mine, but suddenly the ground below it collapses driving it and two more cars down (!!!) I climb on the roof of a nearby car (!!!)
This is all very strange and I do a RC, can't remember which one and result, so I'm still in an ND, albeit more aware

I finally find my car: they've parked a white SUV above my car (!!). I check car's plate, it reads properly and it's correct
The hood is open and the engine is missing: someone's stolen it (!!!). I also happpen not to find my car's remote, the ring on my keyring is open (!!!) In addition, the left rear corner looks damaged (!!)
I think about how to move my car and how to repair it since it's Sunday (FM)
I look for a police officer to stop the traffic and make a delcaration. By coincidence one turns the corner right at that time (!) He's got grey moustaches, he's in a hurry and doesn't want to listen to me, but I follow him and tell him what happened. He suggests me a person that could help me. I go back to the car, a girl with black curly hair tells me to follow her.

She enters some small alleys with tents, low houses, and when she's in a large corridor I think about all that's been happening to me and I conclude I am dreaming !

DILD: I don't know what to do. I find myself rolling on a road, in the distance beatiful hills, mountains and snowy peaks. I observe everything in awe. Cars pass by, even a truck in opposite direction, which I look in detail, it's a Scania.
The road curves left, I notice a beautiful castle on a hilltop, then several more castles close to the road, all different, beautiful and detailed.
I wake up.

WILD: Nothing special, again attempt at future world doesn't work well.
One very strong image of M, a colleague, with some beautiful jewels, a ring with a missing stone, an orange "teardrop" pendant.

On holiday, a man has been trying to do something that makes me feel trapped. He has a longcoat even though it is summer time. Is he a detective? idk some kind of official maybe.
So sitting at a table with him in a large cafeteria with glass doors opening onto a grassed area, bathed in sun.
I pull out a large knife as big as a machete, and plunge it into his neck. Strange orangey blood starts to pool as I push it further in. Fairly sure he is dead., I exit. Escaping from the resort my main feeling is sadness that I did not get a chance to spend time there, on the beach or anything LOL It is now early evening an the sun is setting.

In a classroom, large teenagers are sitting in with my class, the older kids are getting the younger ones to misbehave. They are chewing gum and making noises in class. I'm really annoyed with them.
Finally I look down at the work we are supposed to be doing, it is in latin! and I cannot even understand it.
I tell them to make sure to do their sentences properly with capital letters and full stops.

I dreamed that I was back in Thailand, and we now live at my parents' internet cafe. We have eight cats and six ravens. Two of the cats are calico twins. I was trying to train the cats and the ravens to come to me on command.

My dream transitioned to me being a middle-aged man living in a swanky condominium. I have the power to enter the 'dreamscape' (jeez, I can't believe I missed that dreamsign. I'll have to do reality checks every time somebody mention dreams.) physically, and for some reasons that's pretty important. There are voices in my head of people who is conntacting me through telepathy or whatever, and they weren't impressed with me entering the dreamscape right in a crowd. They said that if I left the dreamscape in public I might cause a commotion, and that I have to hurry back to my condominium. I passed through some people getting attacked by monsters but the voices told me they're not real and for me to keep going. I got to my condominium and returned to the physical world and felt a bit shitty about not helping the people out.

My dream transitioned to me in a casino. I played slots and got a ludicrous amount of jackpot.

In a room off from the bosses office, I am trying not to be heard. There is very little in the room and it is dark except for a window with the blind drawn letting in a little light.
The is an old white landline phone on the floor, the carpet is worn. I wake up.

I re-enter the dream and am lucid. I can see more in the room now, I look closely at the carpet which takes on the appearance of my parents carpet with an intricate yellow and brown (very 70s) pattern.
I try to alter the carpet but only succeed in drawing it out in a cuboid shape. I focus closer on a spot on the fabric but it does not change.
Thinking I should try something else, I go to the door. Open it and enter a corridor with no light except that coming from around the door frame of a door to the right. Entering this room in total darkness, I hear sounds from the kitchen in spirited away, loud and muffled. I make the lights come on and the kitchen changes into an apartment with low level lighting. I am disturbed by the waking world and awake.

It was my first night home for the Christmas break. I wish I could remember this dream better, as it seemed to be fairly eventful and reached new areas of strangeness. I think there is a contest having to do with a train or a railroad station or something of the like. It may be old western times. There are many people I know and celebrities participating in this contest. It seems that the participants are being eliminated quickly, but there is one of them who has yet to compete, and who I have great faith in. This of course is Sting, my favorite song writer. IRL, I read his memoir “Broken Music” over the summer. It influenced me greatly, and I have this connection to him. That connection was evident in the dream; though I’m not sure he acknowledged it. I cannot remember the outcome of this contest. But there are two other instances of this dream that I remember. One of them is me, in a hotel room, high above the ground, in a bright white room. I look out at the balcony. I think there is an ocean. That’s all I can really remember. The other is me receiving fellatio from this brunette girl who bears a resemblance to someone I met briefly about a year ago. Though all goes as it should, several times I think, it is strangely dissatisfying. I remember feeling rather pleased with the state of affairs, as was she, but I do not think I felt anything orgasmic or really significant, as I normally would in this situation. I can remember so clearly the pictures from these dreams, which only makes me long to remember the circumstances and sequences of events.

Cinema
I'm in the cinema in Amsterdam, together with my friend Alif and maybe some others. Alif has just recently moved to the Netherlands. My friend San is working as an employee at this particular cinema and perhaps Erik as well. We're standing by the ticketing machine, deciding on which movie to go to. We're still doubting between the latest Bond and Fantastic Beasts. San already wants to buy tickets for Bond, but I tell him to wait up for a moment. I ask Alif what she wants. I figure she may not like Bond. She's not wearing her hijab like normally. My reasoning is that in the Netherlands she doesn't feel like doing so. Her face looks different without it and her hair has been put up in a crazy hairstyle. I'm looking through the schedule, which only goes until 7pm. For some reason, everything after 7pm is regarded as the next day, so we need to load the schedule again. I ask San, or perhaps a different employee, for his paper version of the schedule, which is quicker. I think, though I'm not sure, that we eventually decide upon Bond. Not that we actually go there?

I'm walking around outside with Alif. We're on the steps of a building now. I get a call through Messenger. It's my cousin, whom I haven't spoken to in many years. It's a very short conversation, as he asks me for drugs. I hang up. I tell Alif what happened.

Watching
I'm watching from a first person view. What I assume to be a plane is flying through the clouds, leaving little sight. It flies just above a house. That was close! Shouldn't it be pulling up? It continues at the same altitude, avoiding another 1 or 2 houses. It turns out that what I'm watching is a guy who is lucid dreaming for the first time. He's enjoying it. Somehow he's made a connection to the waking world and he's telling a woman (his mom?) about it.

Sharing
I'm having a conversation with a woman. We're going to try to share a lucid dream and we're deciding on a location. First she thinks of Rome. Cool city, but I've never been there. Except for in Assassin's Creed that is. I would only know how to imagine the Colosseum. How about Paris though? I'm much more familiar with that city.

The following was--unfortunately but interestingly--a non-lucid dream.

I'm talking to my brother [who is also interested in LD in real life; we recently chatted about it]. I excitedly tell him an idea for something to do in a lucid dream: "Wouldn't it be cool to travel back to the time of Christ and talk to the scribes and Pharisees at the temple in Jerusalem!"

In dream i have made overpayment of 10,000 which is weird as when I woke up on news first item was talking about 10,000.

I had a dc was asking me to fly them up to a high up level of a hotel. They know that I can change the dream and want my help. I fly them up and into the hotel, it has lots of open balconies.
Inside we go to the restaurant and I change the restaurant into more of a american style dinner inside the hotel. They are serving burgers but we want veggie ones so they change before my eyes to crumb coated veggie ones, semi lucid I woke up.

On a very hot small beach it is swelting and we are listening to a guy on a camel. I am so thirsty but there is no fresh water. I say f**k this and a woman with a kid there agrees it is a total rip off . We are expected to hang out here for 4 hours and we paid for this, were off. We head up off the beach and into what seems like the corridors of an airport with lots of glass. Though we were supposed to be escaping by boat.

Created Wednesday 07 December 2016

Numerous dreams identified, including three DILDs, though I can't recall much of the non-LDs.

Scrap Group 1
Walking around my neighborhood. I start thinking of dream signs. This includes being back in highschool and doing poorly in a science class.

Dream 1 - TOTM Advanced Task I - Take 1

False awakening in the master bedroom. After lingering thoughts on previous dreams, I realized the dream state. Made a breath test to confirm as much, which was inconclusive. So, I fell off, and slowly floated down to the floor. That'll do it.

Then, I began "powering up", yelling as I did. There was no clear sign this was working. In fact, I felt I was getting weaker the longer I tried, so I stopped.

Remembered the spinning TOTM. I hovered, and tried spinning in place, but this was likewise exhausting. Within seconds, I was out of breath, and lost grasp of the dream.

Scrap Group 2
More false awakenings in the same location.

Dream 2 - TOTM Advanced Task I - Take 2

False awakening in my bedroom. I stand near the mirror, and try taking my sleeping mask off, only to have it magically slide back on. Clearly, I was dreaming. Still couldn't remove the mask though, so I ignored it.

Before continuing, I rubbed my hands for 10 seconds. Then, I tried that TOTM again. As before, I strained myself trying to spin in place. Thus, I ignored physical movement in favor of willing myself to do as much, yielding much better results.

Cut. I'm flying in a night sky. Dire storm clouds were immediately below me, spinning steadily into a fledgeling tornado. This all felt sorta damp and stuffy. I fall intentionally. Just then, the clouds formed into a creepy robot face. Kinda startling, but I dove in anyway.

Another warp. Projected holographically ahead of me was an unlit plane, the floors formed of dim gridlines. Suddenly, demonic shadows appear. Only their glowing yellow eyes were clearly visible. I had control of a small robot, and commanded it to off to a corner. Tried brightening the place up for a better look, but didn't manage that. Tried brightening the place up for a better look, but didn't manage that.

By then, I noticed my left eye was fast shut. In my attempts to wrench it open, I feel myself in bed, and awaken soon afterwards.

Scrap Group 3

False awakening. Walk down to the living room, where dad and Carl lingered around. Then, they announce finding a bat and hawk in the backyard. That sounded exceedingly unlikely. I realized the dream state, but wake up soon afterwards.

False awakening in bed. An unknown person slid their hand over my face, hampering my breathing. I realized the state, and tried imagining who would be responsible. The dream simply collapses soon afterwards.