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Key: Non-Lucid, Lucid

Shop

I was a blonde woman. I had just bought a clothing store. I had the idea that every item should be in an individual box when you buy it. People said it was dumb but I was insistent. Over the course of the dream the company grew larger and larger. Eventually there were lots of people trying to buy me out, but I wasn't interested. I was really tired. It was all rather... odd?

Pokeball Flood Escape!

I was in a hotel with my parents. The water started gushing in. It was rising fast. We tried to run up higher but the stairs were blocked by random debris. We would surely drown. I had an idea! What if we were to hold on to a water Pokemon and return it to it's pokeball? Perhaps we too would go in to the ball and be safe from drowning? I convinced my parents it as a good idea and told the Blastoise I had chosen to come out of the ball in about 2 hours. At first I thought we would get inside it's mouth, but I realised we wouldn't fit so just went for holding on to it's shell. We held on to him and we all entered the pokeball with the typical white flash. Hopefully we would've survived but the dream ended.

I like it when it's obvious where my dreams come from. It's pretty simple day residue stuff here. I was watching a program about the Sri-Lankan tsunami the other day and have been getting back in to Pokemon recently.

1) something about Arthur???

2) Playing soccer at the Portuguese club. We're dominating some kids. I'm trying to get my shoes on to play but I notice that they're broken, somehow I will them to get fixed and they do! (I don't become lucid ). The kids we're playing are really arrogant.

3)I'm walking through the mall in my hometown. I think I'm semi lucid or at least dreaming that I'm lucid??? I have a basket ball in my hand and I'm using it to stabilize my dream (I read a tutorial about this before going to bed). If I was lucid I loose it. It's the Derby btw. the two main schools in our town and the rugby and hockey games are on. Gym is winning the rugby. We go to the hockey field and Rowan begins to play, he plays quite well, running fast and falling over while he takes a back stick shot, he almost scores. I'm getting ready to play too when some people on horses come onto the field. It's some other sporting event that is taking place, we lead the horses off.... the dream ends

1) I remember playing on top of some roofs with my friends, I think we are kids. We have like a fort up there. At some stage I am on the ground and some other kids are on top of the roof where our fort is but I'm an adult now (this could have been later).

2)Running somewhere with someone who I know is a genius, we're running through peoples gardens to get to our destination, I trust him because he's a genius. we run into a garden and I see a mother and a daughter that I know doing zoomba in their living room we sneak into their house to try sneak out the back and continue on our journey but they see us. They turn into a different mother and daughter (G and H).

At some point I have a big scab diagonally down my face because I ran into something. I pull the scab off trying not to anyone see but G sees and whispers judgmentally to someone else what I am doing.

We're travelling in D's car and we have to avoid ostriches in the road. We turn left towards mountains (V's farm). I think the vehicle changes my dad and my uncle are there on the left there is a huge platform built onto the side of a mountain, it is Bafana Bafana's south africa soccer team) world cup training camp. It's like a HUGE highway on ramp ending in a dead end. My dad and uncle? discuss how this facility can now be used to bring in money and offset it's huge cost.

I'm in a house still have the wound on my face, I'm really upset about having been forced to do something against my will by my family.

I suspect going lucid a couple times but waking up straight away.

1) I remember something to do with the TV show fringe....

2) I've somehow bought a old trailer/house from an old lady, it needs serious repairs. A repair guy comes to inspect it and as he enters one of the old ladys plates falls off the wall, I notice that she has plates hanging on all the walls and that the top of the walls need repairs, the floor is also wonky. There are cinder blocks and a trampoline holding up the floor underneath the trailer. I remember telling someone that at least once it's fixed I'll have a trampoline . I remember looking around the garden there was a tree and a swingset.

08.01.2010
I was working in a coffee shop that about to open. The only people inside were my mom, a coworker, and me. I was making coffees when I noticed that my very attractive coworker was naked, and I was too. We began caressing each other when I remembered that we were not alone. Then I casually remember that strange, attractive girls are a dream sign, and that I must be in a dream, so that my mom isn’t really in the coffee shop with us. At this point I become lucid. I can’t see anything, but I can still feel the fabric of the dream around me. I kind of freak out and lose lucidity. I had it for maybe two seconds.

Next dream:

I was on the side of a lake, watching boats race. The boats looked like old muscle cars. I decide to walk elsewhere, and I run into Aaron Wilson. I tell him the same story I told him earlier this evening, the one about Mrs. Grimes telling me of Caroline and Chris, when I saw him at Catie’s show. For some reason I decide to look at my watch, and I notice instantly that it is constantly changing. I realize with much excitement that I am still dreaming. I calmly picture my body in bed, and then become enveloped with the dream. This time, everything is crystal clear. I see Aaron as if he really there with me, and I immediately began talking to him. I ask him if he’s had dinner, and we begin walking down a path that appears to just loop around to where it began. The sky looks different, but very vivid. As I take in everything around me, I lose some lucidity. Then Patrick Ellison comes up with a couple other people asking me how to get somewhere or something. At this point I am once again drawn to the strangeness of the dream, but as I become lucid again I start to slip away from the dream, and the next thing I know I am awake in bed.

Note: At the end of my last dream, I awoke to my alarm. It didn’t feel like the alarm woke me, because I woke straight from the lucid dream. It literally felt like teleporting because I was THERE, in the dream, one second, and the next second I was in my bed, with the music (alarm) playing.

Also, I probably lost some lucidity because I had no intent within the dream. I simply wanted to talk to someone and walk around, looking at everything. Next time, I need to be more focused, and my lucidity should remain more constant.

Another note: In addition to not having intent within the dream, I didn’t have a whole lot of control either. I still felt like I was kind of “along for the ride” in the dream, although I was able to control where I walked and looked. The fact that I asked Aaron if he had dinner obviously shows that I wasn’t in complete control (I would rather have been like DUDE IM IN A LUCID DREAM).

Well, I had a crazy thing happen last night. I finally lucid dreamed again (!!!) but when I woke up, I had attempted to type it out in a word document...in my sleep!

Here is what I wrote while asleep. I'll write a proper explanation of the dream and update my sig and all that later (I'm at work right now).

"I started out last night determined to lucid dream.I convinced myself that despite my lack of practice, I would have a lucid dream the following night, as well as a new method-ish thing , a theory perhaps, to aid in other lucid dreams. Tpdau. Today, I have both.

I realized last night (to begin with the theory of induction) that if I repeanough, my mind would try to alter t it patteni eveempted to think it out, the patern would fight hard to change, but I would resist this. Fight hard to change, but I would resist this. After a while, I audibly heard muswas on to something..

That was when I knew I hypnagogic audio, So I began repeating a sequence of images in my head, begarepenough, before long, my brain . Ied fought er ts e pg so, which then immediately resulted in a flare of very visible images. Ately resulted in a flare of very visible images.

Unfortunately, I never got a chance to see if this could be useful for WILD. It sure brought me into the sleep stage pretty quickly, though.

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“You see this camera?” I asked.

The DC's nodded.

“Well, camera?” I asked.

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N caringt guys, well, I realjust going to have to leave.”

“F el! > Don't you want to be with your nieces? These are your family! Why wetld again. I knew it wasa just a dream.

“Actually, I don't care.” I said before walking out the door.

Unfortunately, I ned up somewhere other than England. Everything around me looked like a quilted pattern. Gravity was irrelevant, since up and won looked the exact same.

And guess what? The DC's were there, too! I got out the camera and filmed/narrated my disbelief.

They crowded around me and begged me to go back home with them, and just because I thought it would make for an entertaining video to watch when I woke up, I agreed to go back with them.

It gets fuzzy from here on, but I remember quite clearly being at a party back at the house. I guess the DC's were throwing it to celebrate me coming back. I wasn't in the mood, though. I sat in a corner with my video camera, watching all the recordings I had made and marveling that everything was actually recorded onto this thing inside the dream. It was seriously playing back to me all the stuff I'd heard and seen without changing anything.

I did a bunch of other stuff after this, but I can't remember it any more. It wasn't the most exciting lucid dream ever since I was focusing on recording it all (epic fail there) but it was a nice long one and I was very lucid; no issues with dream control.

Confidence is key, people! I got this lucid dream simply from believing I would have it. Can't wait for tomorrow night! "

I think I'm fighting myself and my recall. I'll wake up from a pretty vivid dream and be too lazy to open up my computer and take notes on it. It is sort of self defeating. I remember that I had two pretty vivid dreams. But this is the only one I can remember and, at that, I can only remember a part of it:

I was at some sort of party in a big dining room. There was a good crowd of people there and it seemed like everybody didn't like me. I remember constantly getting pointed out and made fun of or angrily talked about. I had no idea what I did. I then remember making "friends" with this crippled guy. He had to walk with walkers because his legs didn't work. It was odd. But anyways after talking to him I excused myself to go to the restroom and a moment later he, the crippled guy, comes hobbling in. I remember that I was in the stall and when I heard the door open I knew it was him and I was terrified. He opened the door to my stall and his mouth was taped shut but I could still hear him talk (that shoulda been a dream sign, right there!) but instead of waking up because of the obvious sign he goes to tackle me. Being full bodied I manage to throw him aside.

And then I'm in a hallway and trying to half crawl and half hide. I'm sitting at the corner of a tiled hallway when three women walk by. They are younger, like 19 or so, and completely ignore me when they walk by. I remember hearing them say something mean about me and I took a swing at one of their legs. They round the corner. I turn back to my edge of the hall and see across the hall a group of guys are sitting in desks and some taller man is walking back and forth by them. In my dream I realize the guy in the first desk is Josh Howard, an NBA player. In my dream I remember thinking "This doesn't look like Josh Howard." But it doesn't phase me. I end up grabbing his leg and shaking it and saying, "You're Josh Howard?!" and he nods while trying to pay attention a little bit to the tall man. But he obviously loves the attention. Then I say, "Man, I LOVED you with the Dallas Mavericks in 06-07." He grins, obviously really pleased with this, and nods his head.

And that's that as far as I can remember. An interesting dream. It had my heart going at some points. I really need to work on forcing myself to journal as soon as I wake from a dream. My recall is getting a little bit better but I know I could have so much more written in here.

I'm getting close to lucidity, I think, I can feel it. I'm starting to critically think while in dreams.

Again I didn't have very good recall, I actually suspect that I had a few lucid moments but didn't maintain them very long.

I'm driving a Lexus except it doesn't use normal controls it uses a Wiimote kind of thing. Some of my old school friends are there. Walter from fringe is in the car and comments about the heated seats at some point. We're traveling towards the yacht club in the town where I grew up. Instead we go to my house and I argue with my dad about being late. I try to find my own car to leave and can't find it.

not sure if this is the same dream or a new one... Some girls that I knew from school are at the same house as above, the house and next door are busy undergoing alterations. We go inside... the dream fades

I sky dive with some of my friends into carrington road from very low altitude. One friend opens his shoot too late but lands on it and he's fine. We pack our chutes hoping to find a place to base jump.

But I found a new method which I shall try, discovered by MasterMind from Sweden.

Writing a journal of your WAKING life, just before bed. I'm lazy, and a noisy typist, so I'll just go over the day in great detail in my head.

Hope it works

I used my normal routine last night, really hoping to become Lucid. Alas, no luck.

However, I stumbled across something. I created a 30 minute Isochronic beat track mixed with Pink noise. I started at waking frequency, and descended slowly to NREM frequency with a long stop at the REM frequency. The pink noise in the backround caused a beating sound similar to that of a helicopter, but softer. The purpose of this track was to put me to sleep in 30 minutes. But something amazing happened....

As I was listening, I found these "whooshing" sounds to be fascinating. I concentrated on them.

What I found was that I almost succeeded in WILDing!

As the frequency descended, I found myself in that state where you are on the brink of sleep, and your subconscious mind starts strange threads that make it up to your conscious mind. I think this is called "Transition". They seem strange, which caused me to recognize that I was beginning to dream. I could not fixate on that and turn it into a WILD, but I'm new at this, and feel that in the future, I certainly could.

I can't wait to try it again tonight! If anyone is interested, let me know, and I will post it. I would be curious to see if anyone gets the same results.

All right... This night I lost 3 chances of LD...
The first one: I woke up in the middle of a dream (Midnight Thief), but I moved and lost the chance of DEILD...
The second one: I woke at 7:00am and I stood still. I felt my legs tremble, and I just couldn't move them (SP). So, I used almost all my concentration to fall asleep, and just a bit to stay awake. Then, I found my self moving to turn the TV off (but I did not sleep with the TV on). After a few minutes, I woke and regretted having lost a LD.
The third one: I downloaded the Custom Alarm Clock for my computer. So, I adjusted 45min. before I normally wake up (8:15am). But today, I woke up 7:30am, and I couldn't sleep anymore!

I'm really upset about this... But at least I've managed to enter SP, and now I know how to do it!

Only remembered 1 dream last night

I'm setting up for some kind of event there is some kind of curtain/banner thing that needs to get washed no-one volunteers to wash it... Later I'm in my childhood home people are coming to stay my cousin S will have to sleep in my room. In my room I notice the curtain/banner thing my wife has been chopping green peppers, apparently because my son had holes in his school socks we are being punished by having to wash the banner and bring chopped green peppers to the school. I decide that this is ridiculous and am suddenly at the school fetching my son, I almost leave without talking to the teacher but decide against leaving. I have a word with her that this is ridiculous and that we won't be washing the banner or bringing the chopped peppers. WE walk toward another area in the school and cue up for something on the way I'm telling school kids to take off their school shoes to prove that lots of people have holes in there socks, I only find 1 with holes in. At this point I realize that I'm wearing a school uniform and start to complain that the other parents don't have to wear a uniform (I really should have become lucid here). We get to a place where we have to cue I'm talking to my wife about how the teacher will hate us forever but it isn't the teacher it's another teacher in the school who we know, I tell the principle about how ridiculous all this is. At some point I'm in the very back of the line and we're cueing for registration for a golf day. I'm at the very back with an unknown friend, I feel very intimidated and competitive. I'm showing my driver to my friend. I get to the front and I have been pre-registered and collect my stuff. I go through the stuff it includes pills and tags for your golf bad and other stuff, I organize it into my golf bag... I think I wake up at this point

Well, I finally have a week where I've got enough time in the mornings to work really hard on lucid dreaming...only it's been so long since I last worked at it, all of my more advanced methods of induction are totally failing!

Guess I'm going to have to make like a newbie and start over at the simple stuff...let's see how doing reality checks 24/7 works for me.

I tried to WILD yesterday after work using a nap. I was already tired, so it seemed like a good idea.

I had dinner, took my normal medicine, and then settled down for a nap at around 7pm. My intention was to try this for about 2 hours. The plan was to listen to some Isochronic tones to help me fall asleep (30 minutes), and then have some Binaurals take over in the 7 hz range, and finally a dream trigger to bring me to lucidity. The goal was to actually never fall asleep, but concentrate and move directly into the dream state after 30 minutes.

I did fall asleep, but that was it, I stayed asleep. Even when I knew I should wake up, I decided to go back to bed.

In doing so, I had a series of chained (sort of) dreams. I got up several times during the night (I think the dream trigger was still active, going off every 90 minutes).

Fall asleep, I am at a college. it is a party atmoshpere. Lots of night lighting (all white), but still clearly night. The whole campus is having one big party. I wander around, running into some friends occasionally, and saying hi. I am with friends, but they change who they are throughout the dream, and I'm never really sure. I just know I am with friends.

At some point, the party gets out of hand. People start to get violent. Things are being broken, and people are turning against one another. I run into a cousin. She is very sexy. I wish to have sex with her. She has the same desire. We move to a back room, but are interrupted. It's her boyfriend/husband. I am very bummed out. This guy was a geek in high school! (I'm in college, why is this guy there). He doesn't seem to care what she was going to do. Wake up, bathroom.

Fall asleep, I am back in the same arena, but things have gotten much worse. My wallet, car, cell phone have been stolen. People are walking around with guns, shooting at other people. I am afraid. What am I going to do? How do I get back home? The school is deep in the woods. Someplace I have been before that is far away, and hard to get to. My father suddenly appears. He is drunk and mad (he's never either). He yells at me for something. Not sure what. I run away. Wakeup.

Fall asleep, I am back again. This time I am running with my friends from place to place trying to find my wallet. I run into several black girls. They want to entice me into sex. I follow one of them. It is a trick! They are trying to trap me and keep me locked up! I sneak out by pretending I am not interested in sex. Suddenly my cousin appears. She is ready to go. She presents, and I am gleeful. Again, her boyfriend shows up, but he just wants to watch. I don't know if we started or not, but suddenly I notice she has a long tiger like tail. Hey, that's weird! Then I realize she is a demon of some sort. I run away. At some point, I see her with her boyfriend/husband. He is entrapped by her and her tail, and cannot escape. We feel sorry for him. Wake up.

Fall asleep, Now I am running with more fervor. Something catastrophic has happened. It is global. I don't know what it is. Suddenly flood water appears. We panic. We've got to get out! We see others who don't seem to care. To heck with them! I find a phone and call 911. I somehow get some sort of global command center. I ask what is going on. They say in a very depressed tone that it is happening all over the world. They do not know when they can get to me to help. I hang up in a panic.

I grab a bag of drugs which has been confiscated (don't know why) and run. They chase, but only a little. We get into a Hummer type vehicle just as the flood water picks us up with every other vehicle. We watch ourselves and the other cars move at the will of the flood water, which is moving very fast. We hold on as the ride gets wilder. A turn is ahead. The car in front of gets around it. We get around it, but others are flipped over. (This sounds A LOT like "The Day After Tomorrow").

We finally reach dry land, and I start walking home. I am alone. It is dusk. I will have to walk the equivalent of 180 miles to get home. No one is on the road. I wonder how I am going to get there with just my clothes and no money, cell phone, or wallet. Wake up.

This was a very interesting dream. Lots of danger and sexual desire.

Conditions:
2400 mg of Omega03&6 Fish Oil (JBB)
1000 mg Vitamin B6 (JBB)
Two McDoubles and a Sprite Zero(BB)
Checked hands during the day (DD)
Played on DV forum (DD,BB)
Inner Awerness for 30 minutes (Isochronic descending)
Binaural at 7hz Beat, descending Base from 200 hz to 95 hz over 30 minutes
Alarm at 90 minutes
Fell asleep: 7:30pm
WBTB: Several times.

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JBB=Just before bed after 9pm
AB= At bedtime 11:30pm
BB=Before Bedtime after 5pm
DD=During the day between wake and 5pm

This night I had a lot of fake awakenings, some of them were obviously dreams (like when I woke up and my friends were having a party at my room), but I'm not sure about other ones. I tried WBTB this night. I drank 3 cups of water before going to bed, but I only woke up at 9:30am.
But tonight I'm gonna try it again, and I'm sure I'm going to have LDs!
Still, I don't rebember any dream today. If I do, I'll write them here, and I'll try to translate them