non-lucid

Non-lucid, Lucid

.../The further memory I have, I'm in an abandoned farm where its owner is a little nasty guy who didn't take a shower for months, he looks dirty and covered in sweat. His partner gets in place and takes off a sort of leather necklace he's wearing. It's like he hasn't take that thing off for months. I don't like what I see. He goes out where all the vegetation has grown without control. I remember it used to be a beautiful place, I'm sort of disappointed. There are three big dogs out there, when I see a lion hunting down one of them. It takes the dog from the neck and takes it away. I follow the lion until my hand becomes its mouth and now I'm holding the dying dog. I let it on the floor, but it's too late. I put it where the cubs can start to eat it/...

.../Now I'm in a car, with a friend of mine who recently I got to know he loved a Japanese TV series form the early 80's named Sankuokai. He's obsessed with the series and pretends this car is a space ship, although he's driving it backwards. I get concerned we can have an accident because of he's driving too fast. Finally I got to turn the car by changing the position I'm sitting on it. It's better to see things the right way. We get to the end of the road. We get out the car and see some hills in front of us. I remember this city was build upon what was going to be a huge burial ground in ancient times. I tell him, this place is a huge burial ground. Then I turn and see a known cemetery from WL which uses to be in my dreams. I point it and tell him that some disgusting things use to happen in that place when I'm dreaming it. It hits my head all of the sudden, what about if it's actually one of those dreams!? I look at my hand and I confirm it. I tell him laughing, actually it's a god damn dream. He doesn't seem to care. Another pal gets in, and they both start talking. I leave them and go to the cemetery, thinking about my sex drive that uses to screw things up. I walk next to the main gate, when it turns into a window and I see a couple sitting on a table. They don't look interesting, although I think perhaps I should force them to have sex in front of me, I'm sick of my sex drive. I ask them to do it, they don't seem to react. I take their clothes off and put the woman on the man. They start doing something although it's not enough. I'm starting to find the scene more disgusting than exiting. Another woman gets into the room. She looks like she has some sort of skin infection. It's getting worse, but I don't care. I want them to play dirty things in front of me. I lift her skirt, and the spectacle is too disgusting, because she seems to have a serious STI. I give up, I cannot see more of it. I go to the next room. There's a couple of friends from school times, they look better, at least they were the classic lovely picture. I'm not excited at all, I just one to fulfill what I wanted to do at the beginning, so I command them again to have sex in front of me. I help them to take their clothes off, it gets better although I don't feel excited, it's just fun to see that I can control it. I leave them in their game when an ex girlfriend, who appeared somewhere in a previous dream, gets into the scene. She start doing her hotter stuff, but what she says is disturbing me. I try to stop her but she's in ecstasy covered with slobber on a table next to a window. I'm surprised I didn't wake up with all the sex stuff happening around. I'm pleased I didn't wake up trying to control the dream, although I'm disturbed with all the disgusting stuff/...

* Woke up before the alarm clock went off. And couldn't go back to sleep.

3/4 August
Illegal Weapons Dream
Me and a bunch of my friends were down at the beach/harbor. two of my friends were trying to chat up some girls that were there. I was showing my friends my arsenal of weapons I had purchased illegally online. we walked up some stairs right beside the beach and walked for a bit. we arrived at a skyscraper apartment building. My friend grabbed a lock-pick blowtorch combination thing and started trying to get in the locked front door. Everyone was cheering him on apart from me and another of my friends. I did not want to get arrested for possession of the weapons, so my friend offered to get them taken to his uncle who would have them destroyed for me. we started walking down a hill, away from the rest of our friends. I was concerned because his other uncle is a supreme court judge in Glasgow, so i thought he was going to get me in trouble, but he promised he wasn't. There is a blank here and i cannot remember what happened. Then we were both in small cars driving down the road. We reached the bottom of the hill and my friend started driving up another uphill road. I was following just behind but before i started going uphill some idiot crashed into me side on which broke my car. I had to run up the hill. Then i woke up.

School Trip Dream
We were on a school trip to some wilderness trail course. we were about to walk across a bridge. Mr.Coward (teacher at my school) was talking to someone with the same name as me who had an English accent. They were standing just to the side of the bridge start. As I walked past he said to me "how is your hay fever, Cameron without the English accent?" But I thought he was talking to someone else so i kept walking. A little onto the bridge my friend informed me I had completely ignored him and we both laughed. To the left of the bridge the school football (soccer) team was playing. I looked to the right of the bridge and when I looked back my friend Declan who was previously there was not and in his place was some kid a year below me called Jack. he was holding a bib, the ones you wear in PE to tell who is on your team. I don't know which colour it was. Walking along the bridge was Mr.Hughes (another teacher at my school) handing out these bibs to everyone . Before he could get to me i suddenly found myself on the ground below the bridge, while everyone else was doing a "treetop trail". They all had earphones in, which were plugged into the rail that their harnesses were clipped into. When they noticed I was on the ground they threw a rope down so i could pull myself up. Before I climbed up, I took out a plug/socket which was battery powered and plugged some earphones into them somehow. I put the earphones in even though they were not playing any music or making any sounds. When I got to the top somebody asked how I was supposed to plug my earphones. I showed her the socket and we kept on going on the trail. Then I woke up.

I also have a dream fragment of a stone archway.

10:00 PM - 2 grams, smoked, Calea zacatechichi
10:40 PM - 8 mg, oral, Galantamine
10:40 PM - 100 mg, oral, Vitamin B5
10:40 PM - 200 mg, oral, Choline
11:00 PM - 4 seeds, oral, Datura inoxia
11:20 PM - 100 mg, oral, Vitamin B6

This night, I decided to start off my new phase of supplement experimentation with a bang. It may have been a little over eager using three different natural supplements at once, but I really just wanted to see what they would all do together. When I first woke up, I honestly thought that they didn't seem to have done much for me at all, which was weird because I knew they've worked separately for me before. However, when I just lied in bed trying to remember a little more, I started to realize that the situation was actually quite different.

At first I felt like I had barely dreamed, but then I realized that I had actually felt like I was dreaming seemingly non-stop all night, and there were just so many random things going on with so much detail that it was difficult for me to recall it all now without having trained my memory much for this lately. The more I thought about it, the more it was clear that they did have an effect in me. The amount of time I can remember being in a dream is much greater even if much of that is hard to bring back now; the scenery I was seeing was significantly more detailed and involved a lot of natural areas like forests and jungles as opposed to my usual modernized settings; and there were often enormous crowds of people, which for me is a surefire sign of very high amounts of dream detail compared to how I normally get mostly just the key players of people who I don't even really see moving around in the background.

If I had been working on my recall lately I bet I would've been able to bring back something truly ridiculous from all of this, but there will still be plenty of time for nights like that in the future. For now, I'll just give what I can about how this night went. It's going to be described like a series of fragments, as that's the only way I can really remember it, but there was definitely a grand scheme going on that connected all of these events, even if it might've been nonsense.

I find myself walking through a jungle area, down a path which leads somewhere that I cannot see, not unlike an out-of-body experience I have had in the past. Similarly to that time as well, I can tell that something is different about my awareness; I knew that I should be feeling "something", which I can tell now was understanding that their should be some kind of dream enhancement going on from all the supplements, but I wasn't awake enough to put words to it at the time. Perhaps this is when I was first falling asleep? It felt as though the boundary between dream and waking sensations and understandings was a bit less defined during the course of the night whenever I was sleeping a little more lightly.

I was with a dream character who was apparent to me at the time, but I have no idea who it might have been now. What I do know is that we came across a house or building of some kind in the middle of all the jungle or forest area, and for some reason we knew we had to go inside of it. The inside of the building actually appeared to be much larger than the outside had made it look, showing halls that seemed like they could lead down to some kind of school or mall area. I have what feels like a brief flash of seeing where it leads, but I don't recall if I actually traversed any of that area or not. It's quite possible that I did because I know this part lasted a little while, but I just couldn't say. What I do know is that when this mysterious dream character and I finally left, we had armed ourselves with machine guns as soon as we got back outside just in case we needed to defend ourselves, as we had accidentally spooked someone inside the building.

Somehow out of the jungle we had emerged into what appeared to me an enormous stadium similar to a gladiators' colosseum. There were crowds of people sitting all throughout the structure who were cheering on whatever was going on in the middle of all of this chaos. I'm not sure if I ever actually took a good look at what that might be exactly.... I know I was a little more concerned with scanning over all of the people in the crowd, but I'm not sure why exactly. I still had a sense of needing to get something done or avoid someone, possibly carrying on from the machine gun thing before? I started moving through the seats and somehow found the exit to the stadium, though I don't recall quite what it looked like. I know that it took me out to a more foresty area again though with a hill that I walked up, which led me to what seemed sort of like a trailer yard. I was still with some mysterious dream character at this time.

I wandered around this area some more until it opened up more to reveal what appeared to be something like a small town. There were a lot of people walking around, and as I glanced at them something became very obvious to me. I had seen all of these people before, in my own town (a possibly fictitious one). I continued to observe them and noticed that despite this they all seemed to be living lives unlike the ones I had seem them living before, and then I started to connect this to (again, very probably false) memories I had of traveling through other random small towns around here, and then a big picture started coming together that just seemed to make everything fall into place. I turned to my companion, who I then realized was also someone I had met before but who didn't seem to recognize me. I began explaining to him very matter-of-factly that the reason for this must be because all of these towns exist in some kind of magical homeostasis which keeps them running by being inhabited by exact copies of all of the same people over and over, but each of those copies live completely different and independent lives from one another, possibly never even becoming aware of one another's existence. This was also the reason, I continued, that I could recognize my companion but he couldn't recognize me.

If there was any more of the dream after that point, I have failed to remember it. I woke up at that point with some dry mouth and really needing to run to the bathroom, both of which I blame particularly on the datura seeds. It was during this time that I first started to recall the things that I had dreamed after thinking at first that I had basically slept like a log all night. After this short WBTB, I went back to lie down and noticed something peculiar. My imagination was drastically enhanced, to the point that letting visualizations play out actually felt almost like a complete dream, even though I was still aware of myself in the bed. This relates to what I mentioned before about the barrier between awake and asleep being loosened, but somewhere during all of this I fully passed out again.

I am what appears to be just about the same location as where my dream left off before, the trailer park outside of the town. This area actually contained many large trucks as well, and I know that there was some plot that led up to this that I can no longer bring back, but one of the trucks actually started driving off down a nearby road. The first thing I can recall is knowing that I need to destroy that truck before it can follow this large tunnel all the way down to the nature preserve which contained much of the forest that I was walking around in before. I pulled out my still handy machine gun and started unloading into it as much as possible, which actually was slowing it down to a degree, but it was still pulling pretty far ahead of me. There was a sense of urgency, combined with the feeling that someone was trying to distract me from completing this goal. I ran down the tunnel to keep up with the truck and managed to do a considerable (for what I was using) amount of damage to it before it could cross the threshold into the preserve, but unfortunately I could not destroy it in time, and simply stopped driving after it drove through the checkpoint.

The dream suddenly shifted, and I was now at home. The only reason I even particularly remember this part is because after I woke up and saw my cats just staring at me in the hallway it came rushing back. We are unable to take our cats outside at the moment, but in the dream I opened the front door for some reason and the male cat managed to run outside for the first time. I started panicking to catch him and bring him back in since he wasn't even used to being in the outside world, but he understandably kept running away from me so that he could explore. I don't remember how this turned out, but I don't think it was ever resolved, simply transitioning into this next part.

I was back in a place of high awareness of both the waking and dream worlds, but I wasn't fully in either anymore. I could feel myself lying in bed and knew somewhere in the back of my mind that what was happening wasn't real, but it never really occurred to me to think of it as a dream as I also wasn't even participating in that. I had taken on a third-person perspective of the scenario playing out, which was still at my house. It was a short animated clip, and I'm fairly certain that Stan from American Dad! was the main character in what I was seeing. He was talking about something for most of the time (though I felt the emotion of it as if I was experiencing it myself), but what I really just remember is that there was a baby swaddled up in a yellow blanket just lying on the living room couch. It was crying constantly, until he finally picked it up and it stopped immediately, just lying there peacefully. He felt relieved that it had gotten quite, and just held it for a moment to think.

I'm pretty sure that I woke up after that point, which that dream perception just fading and allowing my body awareness to push through to the surface. This was definitely an interesting combination of supplements.... Probably not something I'd try again until I've gotten my vividness and recall back up to where they have been in the past, but it did certainly provide some unique results. I'd say it was a good start to this next run of my lucid dreaming experiments.

Dream - Lucid

I was in a building, working on re-stringing a guitar. The strings were all in place except for one or two. I looked at them very closely, and they didn't really look like guitar strings at all, but different types of silver necklaces. The one I was working on looked like it was made of small ball bearings.



I started to tighten it into place. When I felt it was just tight enough, I started to pluck it. Hmm. It still seemed a bit loose; it gave a bit instead of making a sound.

Then, I was talking to someone about chewing tobacco. I was being told that someone else really likes it to be as fresh as possible. I then had some chewing tobacco, and I put some in my mouth and literally started to chew on it. I then remembered that that isn't how you actually use it. I put it in my lip instead. I wondered why the hell I was doing it, because I hate chewing tobacco, not to mention it's terrible for you.

At some point, I did go back to trying to put the string on correctly.

~

I was going on a trip with my family. I mainly remember my mom being there. We were going somewhere in Georgia, Marietta I believe, and it was tax-free weekend, so the roads were bad, and the town was crowded. I saw many streets with people and cars on them. I remember seeing cars driving up some concrete stairs outside somewhere.

I then saw my old boss, Sherry. She was standing in a doorway, and had a bunch of things behind her, though I have no idea what they were. She was telling me that the roses I was bringing with me should be killed when I was done with them. It had something to do with the chance that the roses could spread something. She then walked away. I couldn't bear to kill roses! I imagined myself purposely killing roses by pulling them apart. I just couldn't bear to. I would not do it. I told my mom I couldn't kill the roses.

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I was observing some dinosaurs. It was daytime in a desert oasis type region. I saw a green parasaurolphus laying down by a lake. I thought about how hot she must be, and how she probably would have to stick her head in the water to cool down since she was cold-blooded.



I then was inside the scene, swimming in a nearby cave full of water. It was a shallow cave, and I was right by the opening. A green velociraptor started to swim towards me from outside. I knew I needed to avoid him so he wouldn't see me. I started to quietly swim to the side. I went underneath part of the rock structure and out of the line of the raptor's vision. He swam past me. I was still cautious so as not to attract his attention.

~

I was working where I am now, but it was ran from the water. Like...being in the a pool and swimming was part of the job.

I was then in a back stockroom. It was absolutely huge, way bigger than IWL. The floors were filthy, covered in grains and stuff to make bread. I thought about how this must attract pests. I also had never remembered seeing it so filthy before.

I was then sitting down in a hallway. I don't remember what I was doing, but I was sitting with my back against the wall. I then saw a small, grey creature about the size of an iguana zooming around the wall and onto the ceiling. I thought that it was a huge spider, but then I thought that there was no way there was a spider that big. It must be a lizard of some sort. It scurried into an opening on the ceiling. I then caught a glimpse of its six legs. Whaaat?! I was thinking about whether or not there was a species of lizard that has 4 legs and 2 small arms, but nothing came to mind. Weird.

I was then telling my boss, Shannon, about what happened. She interrupted my story when I was telling her about it, saying
"A gecko?" as if she knew exactly what it was.
"No," I said, "It had 8 legs! It was a spider!"
I said it had 8 even though it had six. I thought about this in the dream, and how it was inaccurate. I did not correct myself, however.
This seemed to be satisfying enough for Shannon. She did not argue about what it was anymore.

We were then in a pool, and Brandi, a lady I used to work with at my old job, was there as well. Shannon was there also. I was some sort of lead baker. Brandi had been as well, but she couldn't handle it and had to step down. I "remembered" her getting really stressed out. She did the right thing though by stepping down. Now it was just me. I wondered if I could handle it.

There was then a meeting in the pool. I got on a swim noodle and headed over to the group. I did something to try to be funny, but no one laughed or anything. I felt stupid. I then went underwater with the noodle, and it was taking me a way longer time than I thought it would to get back up to the surface. I wondered when my head would break the surface, because I could only hold my breath for so long. I kept thinking it should have already come, and that I would feel it any second.

I do not remember if I ever made it back up or not, because my husband's alarm woke me up.

~

Second time in the past week or so that I've dreamed about having to re-string an instrument. I do not play any string instruments IWL, and have no experience re-stringing anything.

Also, dinosaurs. Fuck yeah!

Morning of August 4, 2014. Monday.



I am on Loomis Street in La Crosse and it seems to be very late at night at first. Eventually there is the knowledge of an explosion to the east. Once again there is, for some reason, a focus on going east on Gillette Street (recently recurring only - though it did recur somewhat in dreams of around ages five to six as well).

There is apparently a nuclear bomb dropped to the east, but it is only a “practice” one that is meant to implement data on some sort of social study. There is no actual danger. However, a very thick but white “cloud” or fog exists in the area east of where I am, stopping precisely at Loomis and Gillette, and it is supposedly very difficult to walk through, which seems relevant to the beginning “test” or “experiment”. Drivers of cars cannot see where they are going, either, other than fairly close to the car, and require bright headlights to see anywhere at all. There is the idea after I try to walk near the area, that it is probably unsafe to even attempt to go very far in the fog. I have an idea that cars may not successfully travel the street and beyond, either. So, the first time I plan on walking through, I change my mind, but I am ready to go through a short time later.

Still, regardless of the problematic nature of maneuverability and lack of visual orientation, a number of people must get to work by walking. Many of them are Japanese and work in the same area at a fictional local business. Most do not seem that concerned about being able to get to where they are going. I eventually walk through the fog again, noticing a few other pedestrians in random locations, a couple of them even walking down the middle of the street. I experience an interesting perception as I enter and am able to find my way through without going off the side of the road. I am aware of an area that goes over a smaller bridge. I end up at an area that seems like some sort of resort and things can be seen a bit more clearly.

In a way, I am surprised that I do not become lucid, especially as I had recently mentioned to my wife that, even though it is somewhat of a movie and television show cliché, certain types of dreams (especially in childhood) have had a mist rise from the ground or floor (but usually only several inches high). I am not sure if this is a “borrowed” cliché that is sometimes utilized by a particular dream state, or if it is just a natural feature of dream states in a metaphorical sense of some kind. As such, it has still never worked as a trigger for lucidity and always seemed a “normal” part of my dream environment in both inside and outside settings.

First thing I remember about the dream I was shopping, first in a grocery store and second in a town near me where I wanted to buy some pastries from the bakery. I don't really remember what happened here though.

Next some guy kidnapped one of my friends brother and also locked up various other people for people to gawk at. I soon realise the situation and start saying that this is completely wrong because humans are not animals and this isn't a zoo. Next some lady came up (who was with putting humans in cages) and every protest I made she would just mimic and I found her really bloody annoying and even said how annoying she was in her face. Soon I was in some field, people were everywhere, including the kidnapper who looked like a teenager wearing a fake beard. I start to trip over or just fall casually and the kidnapper/woman (don't know who) was walking up to me to hurt me.

"I'm dreaming!" I say spontaneously. I soon realise, yes, I am dreaming and told the kidnapper to get out of my dream, which he did. Next I turned to the really annoying woman and tried to throw fire at her, nothing came out though, but the second time round I managed to get a fireball going which was blue and looked really blotchy and not like fire at all. I shot it out and instead of the woman, the kidnapper was in the way but managed to dodge out of the way.

Next I was in a public bathroom, the walls around the toilet were quite short and I wasn't wearing shoes so I had to walk on my toes so it didn't come in contact with the wet and gross ground. After I had done my business, a bunch of year sevens were right outside the cubicle near some kind of shoe-shelf and was talking about getting ice cream sundaes and I was self-conscious that if I stood up to pull up my pants they would see me (even though they could only see my top half). And I woke up pretty soon after that.

I should've done a reality check at that moment, but I've been slacking off in the waking world with RCs (oopsies). But I'm glad I managed to get lucid, I didn't even expect it to happen at all.

August 03, 2014

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I had a dryspell over the weekend (well, correction: I know I had dreams and I remember having them as soon as I woke up, but kept forgetting to write them down, then fell back asleep and couldn't remember them later)

Anyways, these were from last night.



Eye Candy

I was Police Rin. Basically.



I was Rin from Free (the one with red-hair), and I just happened to be dressed in a police uniform like he is in the ending of the second season (what the shit, all of the videos have the audio muted because of copyright... damn... well this one with YMCA in the background fits way too well to pass up, and you get the gist)....

Anyways. The whole gang was there (MUCH to my pleasure, believe me), though I can't remember what they were all dressed as. All I knew was that we were all basically gigolos for some rich woman. We were technically given the jobs our outfits were for, so I had to figure out how to protect the public. I decided to try to come up with a device that could filter the cigarette smoke/smell out of the air. I had been hoping there was a scientist with us, and I looked around for Rei because I felt like he would be a scientist (my dream-mind knew he was a scientist in the ending), but I couldn't find him, though I did find Haru as a mermaid in a tank of water. I was joining him in the tank when I woke up (I was still Rin) ;D





HyunMeMeLOL

I was at my summer internship, and it turned out that I was at the school one of my favorite students from the summer school went to. I was going to be in his classroom, and I was so excited to see him again.

When I got to the classroom on the first day, he saw me and was so excited and came over to me, trying to show me every single thing in his backpack.

Then, during the introductions and whatnot, all the kids were writing their names on the board and introducing themselves, and instead of writing HyunSung, he wrote "HyunMeMeLOL" on the board, said it, and started giggling like crazy. I said, "Is that your naaame?" all teasing, and he kept nodding and called himself HyunMeMeLOL for the rest of the day.

I started talking to the students and interns about the water cycle haha!

July 31, 2014

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Big Building

I was in a large, dark building. It was really dark. I couldn't see much, but I could hear some creepy noises. Did I mention it was dark?

I was with some people, and we had snuck into the building during the day, and then it closed, and so we had to spend the night. This was all in order to meet a famous person that was supposed to be there the next day.





Disney Weddings

I was on a game-show where everyone was given a gorgeous dress, and went off to get married. The group of women in my game-show were all in Disney princess gowns, but like, super fancy and elegant and beautiful. I was in Belle's dress, which made me happy, since she was always my favorite of the Disney princesses.





I took a nap that day after classes, and had this dream about math:

Pizzas

I was taking the math assessment we had given to the 1st graders, except that instead of all the things we had them do, all we had to do was to do math with manipulatives (think base-ten blocks, beans/beansticks, craft sticks and bundles of ten craft sticks ect).

Except our manipulative was french fries and pizza slices. A French Fry represented 1, and a Piece of Pizza was ten French Fries (10). Ten Pieces of Pizza made a Whole Pizza (100). We had to solve addition problems and trade in the answers to collect enough to make a Whole Pizza, at which point we were done with the test.

All I could think about during it was, "God I thought Tim (my Math Teacher Teacher) said we shouldn't use food in our math problems!"

Dream 1
I'm walking towards home and pass through the settlement bottle-o area when I see a car drive passed me slowly. It's a female driving and she's having a good look at me and says "hey good lookin". She parks her car not to far away and walks towards the entrance of the settlement. I'm tempted to go talk to her or at least give her my phone number. I miss my opportunity and even think about leaving my number on a piece of paper and put it on her car, but decide to just not worry about it.

Im at my house now and I'm watching a pornographic film, staring the girl I saw at the settlement. She looks pretty thin and is getting rag dolled a little in the film. The couple are now standing while she is riding him. The area around her pussy looks as if it's caved in, looks pretty strange. It's as if she is anorexic.

Dream 2
I'm in a school room which feels like my old primary school. The teacher has made my seating arrangement at the front of the class, next to some girl. The girls seat is vacant for now. As I sit down I notice that a mixed martial arts fight is on the TV. One man is dominating the other in the fight and the ref calls it off due to the other man not being able to intelligently defend himself. Shortly after the ref walks over to the officials who are outside the cage. He talks to them through the cage with his back towards the fighters. The man who won the fight runs over to the still downed opponent and starts to beat him up again, even though the fight is over. It's pretty disgraceful to watch and not a good look for the sport. The man who won pleads his case with the ref on why he attacked the downed fighter. He spoke in broken English and sounded as if he probably spoke Portuguese.

I start to think about how I've changed since being sick and that I needed to mention to a friend on why my personality has changed slightly. It was Chris from work.

Dream 3
I'm playing battlefield 4 on a map called Siege of Shanghai. I'm in the middle of the map underneath where the roof campers usually shoot from. I have a spray bottle in the hand which has a mixture of vinegar and water. I spray the enemies which temporary blinds them. As they run away shielding their eyes I sneak closed to them hoping to get a knife take down on them.

Dream Fragment 1
Rex goes missing and comes home a little wet. Then lose him again.

Dream Fragment 2
In a paddock and my dog is with a couple animals. They have been transported to another area where we're moving to. The house that uses to be built has vanished. It's as if it had been folded up and transported away.

Side Notes:
Not sure if I heard alarm each time it went off. Woke up a few times and recalled dream but fell asleep in the process. Need to repeat mantras more often due to waking up and not reality checking.

1. I was in some kind of house. It was really gloomy and all of the paint on the walls seemed as though it was faded and dull. I was walking around the house with two people in particular, though I do not remember who they were- besides the fact that it was two women.
We walked down an empty, quiet hallway and the women began telling me about how this house was haunted, and how many people had seen ghosts in here before. We came to the end of the hallway and there was a few closet doors. The women, walking carefully behind me, said that they felt scared and that there might be something in the closet. I walked up to the closet door casually. I told the women, "There is no need to be afraid of something that cannot hurt you." I grabbed the door handle and opened it. Inside it was almost pitch black, but I could see a dark black shadow standing about halfway in in this closet. The closet was quite big on the inside. It wasn't wide but it was very long in length. I looked at this figure, whatever it was, and became curious. However, as I turned around to check on the two women I found out that they had disappeared. This is what startled me. I closed the closet door and went downstairs.
The downstairs portion of this house was ALOT more vivid than the upstairs. Everything had a blue tint to it, as though it was almost night time. The next thing I remember was being on the edge of a wall, and it was really high up. I had a small whale like creature in my arms. It had the head of a whale, and its body had the texture of a whale as well, and it had legs. I was trying to get down from this ledge safely without hurting this little guy. I held on to this small whale creature with one hand, and with the other I slowly climbed down. As I did, the whale creature turned into a baby kitten. The kitten held on to my shirt with dear life. As I got off of the ledge, I grabbed onto some sort of brown cabinet with glass windows. I grabbed onto its door knob and jumped to it. Now I was on the side of this cabinet, and only about 2 feet above the ground. I let go of the knob and landed safely on the ground.

2. I was in school, and some old lady(she looked around 70 years old) was teaching the class. I was doing something in the class and it made her mad. Later after the class had ended, and I was just leaving, a cop had showed up and wanted to go into the classroom. The door was already half way open, so we both walked inside. The lights were off and it was getting dark. The officer had told me that he came in to test something, or check on something. He then walked up to the projector in the classroom and tooled around with it, as though he was trying to fix it, or salvage something from it, I was not sure.

3. I was in the mall with my family.(fragment)

4. I was in a restaurant and I noticed drawings on the booth seats.(fragment)

5. I was inside some kind of old, rusty prison. I got the feeling that I was in another country because the guys in charge here were saudi arabian. The guy that had put me in this prison room was also Saudi Arabian. I stood in this big cell, not wondering why I was here, but only how i was going to get out. I tried climbing out through a small pipe, but I couldnt fit inside of it at all. I looked around and noticed this entire room had a rusted texture to it. I looked at these cutted slits in the wall that were supposed to be windows, and could see that it was bright and daylight outside. I walked over to the east side of this room and started trying to escape. I had found something and was starting to tear apart a window, when all of a sudden I heard the prison warden that had put me in here coming to my cell. I stopped doing what I was doing and acted normal and hid my work in progress.

6. It was daytime, and I was riding with my close friends, patrick, dylan, and trey inside of patrick's dad's truck. Patrick's dad was driving, but he looked entirely different, nothing like he does in real life. The inside of this truck was huge, it matched the inside to a huge suburban. It had 3 rows of seats along with the driver and shotgun seat. The truck had a red paint job as well. I was sitting in the very back row with my patrick. I had found a bag of beef jerky on the seat and starting eating it. Patrick took the bag from me and took some beef jerky as well. I took it back again and continued eating. Pretty boring ride. I had no idea where we were going, and at the time I didnt even care to notice that we were just driving for this entire dream. I looked out the truck windows and saw a blue dune buggy just parked outside in the grass, next to what appeared to be a farm.
After that I continued chilling in the back seat, and my friend Trey had moved to the back with us. I moved to the far right position of the row and saw a poster or Ariana Grande. It was a poster of her wearing a pink dress, and in a kind of seducing position. Trey had noticed this as well and told me that he, "wouldn't mind giving her anal." Patrick's dad got mad when he heard this and told patrick to "shut the hell up", even though patrick didn't even say anything. At this point, we all got really quiet for the rest of the ride.

7. I was on a football field with my close friend Dylan and his brother Jordan. We were passing the football around. Whenever I got the ball, I tucked in my side and ran across the field. Dylan ran with me and I told him, "Wouldn't it be nice if the entire stadium was filled and was roaring for us?" He agreed. As I ran with the ball back to where we were originally chilling, I looked at my arms and noticed that my work outs were paying off, my arms were really muscular and I had really nice biceps. Once we made it back to Jordan, I threw the ball to Jordan. He told us that we were about to play a real game.
We started making our way to the 50 yard line and on our way, we came across my old friend from daycare as a kid, Travis Richie. He had gotten a haircut too. I asked, "hey man, its been a long time, whats up?" He said something and then I brought up how the olden days back in day care were good. We got to the 50 yard line and started assigning positions. I wanted to be a Wide Receiver but instead the quarterback wanted me to take his place and be quarterback. Since I hadn't thrown in forever I declined the position. The quarterback really insisted on me taking it, and he really didn't want to be it anyways. He forced me to be quarterback, but I didn't trust my throwing skills yet so I headed to the sideline. As I did, I noticed that more guys had showed up out of no where to play with us, and they were already lined up behind the offensive line as WR's. I decided to stay and play wide receiver anyways, because it was a long walk to the side line. As I faced forward, there was still some arguments going on- all of which were created by the guy who didn't want to be quarterback. I decided to sit out of this conflict until everyone had figured out what was going on. I looked to the side of the field and noticed other guys were doing this as well. I went over where they were and chilled with them.
Once everyone had found out what was what I got back onto the field as a wide receiver. Our new quarterback decided he was going to throw a deep pass. The play started and our QB threw the ball deep. One of our guys had caught it, and I was right next to him guarding him. We almost made a touchdown, but about 15 feet before we reached the end zone, our guy who had the ball tripped and broke something. Me and Dylan had mistaken our teammate who had just fell as his brother Jordan, but Jordan was on the sideline so it wasn't him. We still didn't know who this guy was. Soon, some medic's came over and treated him and told us he wouldn't be able to come back in for the rest of the game.

8. I was in my house, downstairs in the living room. I only had my boxers on and a towel around me. I was about to sit down in our recliner chair when I noticed that it had a picture of Squidward's face from spongebob on it. I looked at it closely and written below his face was a conversation between spongebob and squidward. I remember reading the word "thanks" somewhere in the conversation, but not much else of it. Out of no where I started getting a random erection(WTF). I decided it was time to go back upstairs to my room because I felt uncomfortable, especially since my dad was in the kitchen, and my mom was watching t.v. I looked at the time and it was 1:25 p.m. As I made my way upstairs I noticed that my mom had moved the couch to where it was DIRECTLY in front of the t.v. There was no floor between the couch and the t.v., and my mom was only 6 inches away from the screen. I asked her what she was doing and why she was so close and she said, "Watching t.v. because I dont have my contacts in." I walked upstairs into my room and put my towel down. I also put down a random drink that had gotten in my hands without me noticing. As I put the cup down I noticed that my mirror was gone, but I didn't care. My room was really lit from the sun outside, and I had my bedroom lights off. I remember hearing random music playing as well.
This is were it gets weird, really weird.
I looked down at my junk and freed it from the confinement of my boxers. I noticed that lights were coming out from inside of my junk(wtf). The lights were changing from red to blue to pink and whatever else. This freaked me out alot. I then "remembered" that I had put something in my junk somehow. I tried getting it out by applying pressure to my junk, but it didn't work. Whatever it was was stuck. I thought about how I was going to have to tell my dad, and "what would he think about it", and that I would have to get surgery to get whatever was stuck inside my junk out, and how the surgeons were going to have to rip open my junk, and how it was going to look afterwards. This was a nightmare. Finally I got so terrified that I woke up, and my heart was pounding. Sorry you guys had to read through that, I thought about just leaving it out, but I am really trying to make my recall better. Once again, really sorry and I know that it was really disgusting lol.

I fell asleep around 02:00 and I had to get up at 08:00 so I didn't have much dreaming.

1. London

I'm discussing cities with my dad and he tells me London is the worst of them all. He tells me it's very grey and ugly. Then I have a panoramic view of a city, I see it as London but there's no Big Ben or anything I know from London. I only see a grey Industrial city.

I think I will use StephL's method to bold competition points so that it is easier for me to add them up.

8/3/14** pre-bed lazily ask my subconscious to look out for any of my dreams signs and I guess one dream sign was part of my first LD and quite a few dream signs were part of my second LD. Several theories worked on tonight: startle induced, clenched eyes vibrations telling me how close I am to sleep, sex IWL and LDs, more simple dream sign alertness. / touring a home converted from a funeral home (casket showcase area looked odd converted - like two odd wings near the entrance. we hurry through like Halloween maze. I joke that I saw something move...then there was...was security in few spots. Last room had a line to next section or home maybe 15 people not bad. / price of corn syrup at a big discount (political/economic/health statement?) / ~30 minute wbtb.. DILD#1 someone won a lot of money and gave me a stack of money(money/treasure dream sign). I look the gift horse in the mouth and this seems to be a good thing for catching signs that you are dreaming. I flip through it and see not all big bills like top one. $300 total I seem to determine. I see a $30 bill! (no such thing in US currency) Aha! I'm dreaming. I will explore this. One bill changes the color picture scene (no unlike NZ dollars) on it each time I look at it, very cool (could possibly fit the photoshop TOTM - BUT not specifically thinking of that). One was a mountain scene, another a forest scene, and then a futuristic city scene. Then I look at signatures that show on US currency. Wife's maiden name was part of name, first name Robert I think, not far from her father's name. I look again...completely different name and it is harder to read and in cursive and I wonder for a second if it is one of the actual names that shows on US currency. Very cool, but goal time! But I get an FA where I am crawling to foot of my bed where phone is charging to record dream but then wake for real. / shorter wbtb the 2nd time, back to sleep with mantra. Too long, shorten it to "vivid..... lucid"...lots of old houses try to find right one (that is our home). Armless monkey looked to be hanging from a poll thingy but closer examination reveals wood carved arms and hands and the monkey attached some other way. he bites me kind of hard and is now loose on the ground.. Warn the monkey that I will have to hurt it if it does that again. Also around house is a temperature box that maintains hot or cold either way - 2 pizzas inside..feel heat from it (I used to have a tiny mini-fridge that also doubled as a food warmer, so there is such a thing). / 2 section amusement park. Sit and wait for a group of four to leave so we can enter the other section (done when full/busy). Lady/worker says you can go in now...stuck in crowded midway area. Watch (son) so he doesn't get crushed. He's younger? / D back already? hmm.. crayfish / dild 2: dreams signs: taking wrong turn/driving, vehicle out of control, parking lot, boldness, security or police, on trip. Although I only got two steps of my longer plan done I was able to mix in some other points. I had planned to also get to step 3 and an attempt at a task of the year and my personal goal (those last two are planned to transition smoothly and quickly between) if I had an epic long LD. But pretty darn good and my best night of the competition so far. Hopefully not too late to get going here. Driving with son in a truck. We take a wrong turn and the truck is going fast and a little bit out of control and my son is concerned. I am NOT concerned and I feel as if I'm already semi lucid at this point, possibly due to a couple of dream signs showing up already. The road becomes a parking lot without driving the truck into the parking lot. The road leads incredulously to some stairs into the mall and I am bold and drive right on down the stairs realizing completely that I'm dreaming now. We get to the bottom of the stairs and get out of the truck and there is a security guard or mall cop and I use my trusty pocket watch to freeze time (&step 1 and Lucid challenge) on him. (I have only used it once before to freeze time specifically but I say I "trusty" because I try to use it to stabilize my dream from the beginning and almost always use it at the beginning of my extended RCs in waking life practice.) I examine the guard a little bit and his uniform looks a little cartoonish and unrealistic. My son says what if you get arrested? I say no worries this is my dream I can make sure I do not get caught but then I start thinking that I guess it is possible to get caught in a lucid dream. It could cause some challenges and I would just have to escape. Sure enough handcuffs appeared on my wrists. My hands are out in front of me. I blast my wrists apart from each other in a feat of super strength and I feel exhilarated! I fly up in this mall and decide to do step 2&mass telekinesis. My first attempt moved a few things rolling forward like a good gust of wind pushing them but not impressive. So I reached back and pushed my hands out in a big shoving motion down towards floor and many things(trash can, stroller, unidentified items) and the entire floor were slammed forward revealing dirt below. The scene goes dark and I remain patient like I have been doing lately. I feel myself laying back in bed but it still feels quite dreamlike and I remain still and patient and I hear couple of knocks to the left of my bed. I decide to do the glottal motionless RC. It is not conclusive it sounds kind of like what it would sound like in waking life if I am not doing it properly. I do the one where I clench my eyes, normally to nudge on the vibrations, and the vibrations are strong which I take to indicate that I'm still quite firmly in dreamland. And my wife starts to move but I assume that it is part of my common false awakenings. I roll over and I can feel that I'm still dreaming and fool around with my wife a little bit . I then start to wake up for real at least partially I think. Perhaps mostly awake this time but I do the clenched eyes again and the vibrations are much lighter but still noticeable like I have found many times when I'm starting to wake up or at the early stages of going to sleep. I find this fascinating and feel as if I discovered an important factor within my transition in and out of dreamland. I will have to experiment some more but basically after a while trying to go back into a dream my bladder got the best of me and I had to get up to urinate and when I came back and lay down I couldn't get any light vibrations at all from clenching my eyes softly or mentally, seeming to confirm that this is a way to indicate closeness to sleep along with heavy vibrations indicating fully asleep or at least at the doorstep of REM sleep. I think that I read someone else mentioning something very similar here on DV.

I decided to begin with SAT (Sporadic Awareness Technique) which seems to be quiet suited for me as I get these moments when I doubt my surroundings. So far no LDs yet but I still hope for the best. I haven't been waking up that often anymore in between dreams which is kinda dissapointing. Maybe I should look up some auto-suggestion guides.

1. New car

My father bought a new car, I hadn't seen it yet but he told us (my family included) that it wasn't really a good looking car but very practical. Suddenly I see a commercial where they show of the car and I must say it was quiet ugly, both the shape and the colour. The steering wheel wasn't round but more oval and was supposed to be more comfortable for the driver. Suddenly I'm in the back and we're just driving down a road with this car in some city.

2. Flowers

It's a seperate dream from the first but we stop driving at some Industrial zone, we get out and walk around for a bit. It's quiet and we seem to be the only people around here, the roads are old and cracked open through which weeds grow. On both sides of the road I can see factories and parking lots I guess. I see a lot of white flowers around and start gathering them for some reason.

3. Waves

I'm somewhere on a beach, it's a small bay and the waves are quiet wild. I get in the water and I'm being thrown around when suddenly a menu pops up and brings up this raft-design display. First I make a classic looking raft which appears in my hands, I get up but it's quickly destroyed by the waves. My second raft is more modern looking using aluminium and a folding system to absorb the impacts of the waves. It goes good for some while and I make large jumps over the waves but after some time and a rough landing it breaks too. I get blown back to the shore and roll on the beach, infact I role back I think 20 meters and see that over the beach a highway runs. After some looking around I find out this isn't a nice beach surrounded by nature but it's actually in the middle of a harbor. I see my dad in the distance and know his cellphone is ringing because my mother is calling him from somewhere else. When he gets to me I quickly tell him to pick up his Phone, he seemed to not have noticed the calls. When I pick the phone and check the missed calls I see that my mother called 54 times. Then I see my mother walking from behind a screen.

4. Beethoven look

I'm with my family and we're getting a tour throughout a new house, however we begin in the cellar. It's dark, damp and there are several holes in the ceiling above. I quickly leave the group and go exploring on my own, somehow I get my finger stuck the hole of a wooden barrel. I wait for some time and call for some help and after some time the guide appears, he pulls me out. Then I notice an old dusty mirror on the wall, after I look into it I see my hair is very long. Like 15 centimeters, I don't like this look and tell my mother I look like Beethoven or Mozart or something. Then I'm suddenly in my bathroom with my mother who's brushing her hair. I ask her to cut my hair but she doesn't seem to be too interested in me.

This dream took place in the mountains. My sister was there even though I haven't seen her in about a year. I was exploring the outside a little bit with her when I found these golden coins hidden in the dirt. They had the names Joshua and Jordan on them. I was putting them into my pocket when I spotted a cotton swab that had been freshly unearthed. My sister's face got all distorted and her eyes widened. She said to me, "Don't disturb that! It is evil O_O...It will be bring bad luck to all women you know". So I covered it back up with dirt and we went back inside. My dad was there with a couple of his mountain buddies. I sat down with them. One guy was telling a really long, boring story when guy #2 interrupted him and started telling his own but with a more animated and charismatic voice. Guy #1 was offended and just kept talking louder, so guy #2 talked even louder. They kept going on in this manner for a couple minutes before I got up and left for my room upstairs.When I got into my room I saw an active blowtorch hanging on a patch of wall that had been charred black. I muttered to myself, "that can't be very safe" so I picked it up and turned it off. Nothing exciting. Woke up

In this dream, I was working for Gordon Ramsay but I realized that he was pure evil and he was cooking evil weapons to control the minds of the public. I remember he had a vortex beneath his kitchen. But I didn't fight him, I just worked on solving these complex physics equations with another chef. I will call this other chef.....John! I had just about solved an equation explaining the seemingly chaotic behavior of neutrons? or neutrinos? I don't know I think it changed between the two a couple of times. But then here comes John with his genius mind telling me that the reason for the anomaly was because there was an opposite particle that wasn't being accounted for. He added these entire other terms to the equation and I was pretty skeptical. He told me that he had won 100$!!!! for submitting this idea and I thought, OKAY you must be right then. Then my dad came out of nowhere and started about Gaussian neutrino distribution and stuff I've never heard of and that these things had been known for a long time and just not accepted because there was no way to prove anything.

Then I noticed my sister! hanging out next to me. I asked her what she was doing here, and she said to me, "I lost my job so I came back early". This made me sad but I was glad to see her.

NEXT DREAM. I only remember being in a hallway, staring out a window, when I realized that I was dreaming. I was about to walk through the window when I woke up.

another dream. This time I was on a navy vessel, traveling to a small country in Asia. I was hanging out with this gay girl and we were having a good time but she was really lonely because she hadn't had a girlfriend in a long time, so I decided to help her find one. We went all over the place talking to different girls until eventually she met eyes with another and the connection was seen. So I left them alone to talk and went over to the stern. We had arrived and there was a dock maybe 30 feet away from us. There were beautiful, naked, bronze women laying out in the sun, enjoying their weekend. I was about to jump off the ship and swim over to them when I noticed these crocodiles everywhere. One of them jumped up and bit off part of my toe somehow. Didn't hurt but I just thought, damn, another scar.

There was also a fragment where I was in an arena throwing fireballs.

I remember watching an episode of Red vs Blue. I remember various parts of it. That's all.