non-lucid

I don't remember anything from early in the night because I slept through the night without waking up at all. The only dream I remember is the last one I had. Anyway, I was at church or something and the priest giving the sermon was talking about how he had been drunk the previous night while writing the sermon. Everyone laughed with him about it while I sat there confused. (Didn't RC... D The dream transitioned to something else. It was weird. The whole area I was in was a huge platform with 2 train tracks. They were parallel to each other and running off the platform in both directions. The area was infested with zombies. I was riding one of the trains into the platform dropping zombies with an M21 like from Left for Dead. I was riding with my legs dangling off the side of the train car so when it moved over the platform, I hopped off dropping zombies as I ran. There was a really attractive girl I wanted to get to know sitting on the other train. After I called out "Clear" to indicate there were no more zombies in the immediate vicinity, I turned around to find the girl and talk to her, only to find the train was departing. I had a though cross my mind, "oh well, maybe I'll see her next week". Memory gets a little hazy at this point but the dream kinda turned into a mix between BF:BC2 and Counterstrike. I was trying to swap equipment packs with someone else by dropping it on the ground and picking up theirs (Just like in bc2). We made our way off the platform into a marshy area below. We were well hidden and I took aim at some combatants above us. Just as I was about to drop one of them, I got hit. I didn't feel a bullet slam into me, but it was more of a vibration like from a Xbox controller or something. I stepped down and looked around for a health pack to heal me. Not finding one, I took a position behind some shrubbery and proceeded to find and engage targets on the ridge.

Now here's where things get hazy. I'm not sure if I really woke up or had a false awakening here. I found myself in my bed, still tired and still wanting to go back asleep. I decided to try to lucid dream so without moving I shut my eyes and focused on my mind's eye (Little technique I read about a few days ago). Every once in awhile, I'd lightly wiggle my body to see if I had control of my dream body yet. It didn't take long amazingly. I was in control of my dream body but in void limbo. I was trying to bring myself into a 3D environment but it just wasn't working. Instead I tried conjuring up a 2D environment, the game "Osmos" I played Osmos in my head for a few minutes, the graphics seemed very much like the actual game though there was some discrepancy as blobs were disappearing and changing size the second they left the focus on my vision. Once thing became more clear and I was actually using my hands to manipulate the game, I looked up and around me. I sat on my family room floor (the floor being turned into a screen). The lights were on and it was dark outside. I took a few seconds to clarify the environment around me, even running my fingers over the plaster wall. I decided to try to summon a DC. My initial attempt failed so I decided to explore the house to find one. I called out a few peoples names to see if they'd show up but nobody did. I got to the stairs and began ascending them. The upstairs landing was gone. I had to make a jump from the stairs to my room over ~ 10 meters away. I tried once and failed then remembered I could easily defy gravity. I walked beneath my room on the 1st level and jumped up. I grabbed onto the door frame and began hoisting myself up. That's when a bright light entered my vision. I stared at it a second then realized it was my real bedroom window and I had woken up.

First dream took place at my house... or rather it transitioned from a wierd apartment complex place to the kitchen in my house. It was dark and raining. There was video camera set up on my kitchen counter pointed out of the kitchen window. I was playing with it because it had a night vision filter on it. There was somebody outside in the yard. I noticed them out of the corner of my eye and spun around but they were gone. I set up the camera to record and switched off the light so I could do upstairs and goto bed. As if out of a horror movie, I looked into the viewfinder. I saw a green and white vision of myself standing with the kitchen window behind me, and a horrific visage, a contorted and rotting face stared in through the window. I immediately spun around and ranto the window. Ready to fight. I rapped hard on the window. There was nobody there, except a little girl who was too short to see through the camera. I rapped on the window again and told her to go away. And then I woke up.

After going back asleep, I found myself in a blueish cave. There were small sharp crystals all over the floor and walls of the cave. There was also a chimera (some sort of monsters I don't know what it was) prowling the cave. I was suited up in armor and boots that could withstand the crystals without them piercing my feet. There were a few other people with me and we were preparing to fight the chimera. I remember slapping it around a bit then finishing it off with a burst of entropic magic (that's what I knew it as in the dream, I think its a schema from dragon age, though the whole situation seemed right out of 'The Witcher'). memory fades at this point.

And finally the last dream I remember was at a vacation house with my family. It was snowing. The snow was thick and came down in larger chunks almost like tears of paper. The bottom of my boots had a layer of ice and as I walked back to the house someone pushed me. I slid and fell down and let loose a string of verbal incendiaries. I don't remember a whole lot else from this dream other than being in a room with a bunch of amputees.

I was at a home depot hardware store and saw a huge rack of vodka bottles. For whatever reason I decided to buy a bottle and actually paid for it with a credit card and even used my own ID to clear it. (Where I live i have to be 21 to buy, and I'm only 20). I don't remember what happened to the bottle, but I didn't drink any of it.
Later on, assuming in the Home Depot parking lot, I was in the cockpit of an A-10. I pitched the nose into the air and gunned the engines. I rose into the air slowly (crashing through a few tree limbs in the process) but ended up about 500 meters above the parking lot. I turned the craft to face the area where I had bought the booze earlier, pitched the nose down and strafed it. I saw the muzzle flash and felt the aircraft buck under me as the 30mm red tracers tore through the air. A loud "BBBBBBBBBRRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT" sound filled the air and I watched the entire area below me disintegrate in a hail of fire and shrapnel. Memory fades at this point.
Later on in another dream I was about to run a marathon or something. My dad was there and I was actually dressed in a US Marine BDU. I don't remember why but a few other people were too. Reminded me of an airsoft pregame.
And in the last dream I remember I was playing Left 4 Dead with a female friend and on of her friends. It was like the game, except much more real because I wasn't controlling from a keyboard/mouse but I was actually in the game. The other guy in the room was a complete moron. Running off by himself and spraying bullets all over the place. I was trying my best to protect my friend and get out of the situation alive. There was a point where I was on point with a shotgun, dropping these mutated pigs that dropped from the attic of the room we were in. I don't remember much beyond this. I'm pretty sure this is roughly when I woke up.

This dream wasn't the most pleasant of dreams Ive had. The first part I remember is fighting in a regiment with a flintlock rifle and bayonet. There was a cavalry charge coming from our left side, and I was standing on the far left. The commander ordered us not to break rank and then the charge hit us. I stood through it, not being hit at all. I saw my regiment torn to pieces around me, so I broke rank and began to fight the cavalry. I used my rifle's bayonet to dismount and kill several of the enemy cavalrymen. Dream fades at this point.

Another part of the dream, I was riding passenger through this weird section of road. It was apparently a timed switch room that was sometimes a road and sometimes a subway rail. I was nervous going through it because the door at the other side took so long to open. I was worried that the subway door would open and that we'd all get creamed by the train itself.

Another part of the dream, maybe the worst. Me and a group of DC's were in this area, not really a cavern but it was some sort of cave or canyon built into a rock table. It was strange. One of the DC's is a girl I know and I spent most of the time talking to her. To my dismay she had changed dramatically and had a bunch of tattoos (I'm not a fan of them). She was apparently a bit of a slut and really just kinda teased me. I spent a good portion of this dream desperately trying to win her affection. I failed and she wandered off.

Next part of the dream I was standing with another DC I know in real life. I knew that neither one of us fit in in the world around us anymore. There was a huge pit filled with water in front of us. I jumped in and swam to the very bottom where I let my body go or something. My perspective went back to the surface but I knew I died already or something. The DC I had been with was just living life as normal but we both knew something bad was going to happen. And it did, the city around us was destroyed by a volcano. Everyone inside died including my DC friend. I was just so devastated at this point and apathetic of my dream everything just kinda faded. I eventually woke up.

The funny thing is, its not great dreams that make me want to study and practice lucidity. Its shitty dreams like these that make me want to so I never have em again.

This night's dreams are definitely going down as memorable. I remember a great deal of them, good stuff happened, and I briefly went lucid (Not in my last REM cycle even!)

The first thing I remember of the dream is being in an underground facility of some sort. There were lots of DC's everywhere. My RL friend was with me (as a DC) and we were looking around the place. We ended up in this room with two other female DC's (Who didn't resemble anyone that I personally know). They joined up with us and after awhile it became apparent that one of them liked me, and the other liked my friend. The environment didn't change much during the exploration, but it kinda did start to resemble the interior of the northern building of my high school. The girl who liked my friend actually kinda brought me to the realization that her friend liked me (I was ignoring the signs apparently). So I went up and grabbed her hand. I'm not going to go into detail of the next few scenes cause it doesn't really belong in a dream journal Now what happened next was the girls had to go, and apparently my friend and I had to escape the facility. There was hulk hogan and guns. Alot of my memory of this dream is hazy as it did occur in one of my first REM cycles, but I remember my friend jumping through blast doors right before they closed. I went back into the facility, found a bag with a handgun in it (with 2 shots). I actually did squeeze of two rounds without the trigger jamming like it usually does in dreams. I met hulk hogan with whom I apparently had a family connection with and we forged an escape plan where he ended up doing a bunch of stuff in character to some of the guards.

Now I don't remember if that was one whole continuous dream or if it was split by when I woke up. I cannot distinguish when I woke up in terms of my dream because the entire dream is blended together in my head (though when I woke up I took about a minute to review it in my head so as not to forget it, ill keep some paper bedside to write it down next time). Anyway, I tried to WILD for about 15 - 30 minutes and after not being able to enter the dream state (though I'm pretty sure i hit SP), I gave up and went to sleep normally.

Outside of the facility was a parking lot, but the whole world was blocky and resembled the environment of the game Minecraft. There was just something not right about it and I finally did pick up on the ridiculousness of the world around me by looking at one of the trees. It was make of blocks, and I could even see the seams between the blocks. Even the leaves were in large 1x1 meter block shapes. It clicked for me and I became aware. I didn't even have to throw down a reality check, I just became lucid. Now what I should have done right then was stop and stabilize the dream. I got excited but I actually didn't wake myself or become aware of my body. I just took off in one direction determined to find my dream guide. I actually saw a few blocky Minecraft people looking at me running and jumping around (half flying). I turned a corner and saw my mother walking in the direction I was coming from. I asked her if she knew where I could find my dream guide, but she just spouted utter gibberish to me and walked away. I walked into a blocky hut that I saw in front of me, and immediately my vision faded and I had a false awakening. Bummer.

I seemed to be back just outside the facility. I was looking at a computer screen and associated my LD's clarity to just sleeping with my eyes open looking at the computer screen or something. I didn't RC on awakening like I should have, I just moved on.

Much later, most likely in another dream cycle I was walking outside a building. There was a tank in front of me firing down the street at another ground of tanks. I threw myself flat and crawled to cover. I looked over at the target tanks and saw men scrambling out of the top. The tank beside me put another round into the hull of the tank and I saw limbs, blood and bits of people explode out ward from the hatches. Thick oily smoked poured from the hatch. I turned away and climbed onto the side of the tank nearest me. It took me down to the wreckage where I looked around a bit. The hulls of the target tanks were crushed and their lifeless operators just sat in the street where the rain washed away their blood. It was pretty nasty. I walked down the street to a building marked 'HQ' Upon entering I received a badge with my name and military ranking on it. I was a bit confused but I just rolled with it. There was a girl i was talking to inside with ranking 11 (my rank was 4). An Asian guy with ranking 101 walked in a little later to cheers of the other DC's inside. Eventually I ended up outside walking down the street. There was also a cat and mouse. I was holding the cat so it wouldn't pounce on the mouse. I could hear the cats thoughts of "Let me at him!" But for some reason I didn't let him. Memory fades at this point.



The next thing I remember is being in line for a roller coaster. Its an updated version of a local one. And resembles it greatly. I climb on board with a few other DC's, the restraints actually close this time and the ride begins. I managed to ride this thing mostly to completion. It had tons of inversions, twists, turns, corkscrews, barrel rolls, and spins. I even got a picture in my head of a dream I had months and months ago of the same roller coaster where I had refused to ride it because it had looked so terrifying. I don't remember the train ever completing its circuit, I'm pretty sure I woke up right before it did.

TODO: RC when I wake up! I think this is what's screwing me out of alot of potential LD's

Woah.. wall of text. I highlighted the beginning of the LD in blue and the end in red just to clarify it in case someone reads it and wants to give me advice without having to read the entire frigging thing.

The first part I remember is being at a largish house where my dad was making breakfast for everyone there. Some friends and extended family were there and the food turned out to be sugar toast that actually tasted like french toast. I remember it being delicious but becoming really thirsty afterward. I sat on the couch in the living room after that with some water (I woke up later really wanting some water, my mouth and throat were all dry). There was a large hyperactive dog running around being really annoying and I don't think it smelled that good. Dream fades at this point.

Another part of the dream took place in a large, post modern city at night. Lots of slums. I remember taking a bus ride in with some annoying bum talking to me from the seat behind me. I disembarked at a parking structure. There was a group of DC's waiting for me. We started up the parking structure to get to the top. I actually remember getting a little excited and jumping onto the ledge near the top (nearly falling off the building). I came back down and the DC's produced a bag of dinner rolls. I grabbed one and started eating it but noticed that the moon was flashing bright colors and each flash came from a different direction. Then it disappeared in shadow completely. I notified the DC's of this and they began to freak out. Then the moon flashed a color again and exploded. The shock wave hit earth fast and destroyed everything, killing me instantly. I remember switching viewpoints to a 'respawn' view which was actually at the core of Earth. I think I hit a button with the title 'respawn' and ended up in a rotating camera around some woman giving birth. The birth date happened to be really close to mine as well, just slightly earlier. (The respawn system apparently not constrained by time). I woke up shortly after this.

Ive tagged this as memorable mostly because apocalyptic end of the world dreams tend to be extremely vivid for me and I remember them for a long time (even when I don't write them down).

The first part of the dream I remember is in my house's living room. There was a girl there, who had some kind of supernatural power or curse (It's a bit hazy in my memory). I was talking to her a bit and eventually just stayed with her through the night. She was in pain and kept warning me about what she could become. Eventually she fell asleep or something and, losing focus on her, I wandered off. The dream transitioned to some battlefield in WWII. I don't remember what side I was fighting for, but it reminded me alot of Day of Defeat. I was behind enemy lines and actually went on a rampage. Something like seven or eight kills, a few of which were handed to hand because the ammo in my loaded mags were exhausted. I don't remember much else beyond this.

Later, another dream. I was at a water park of some sort. A really strange one because all the pools were small and nasty looking. I actually saw myself from when I was young. (Should have RC'd ) and watched myself for a bit before moving into the park. I jumped in one of the pools at one point but scrambled out because of how nasty it looked. I eventually left the water park to get on a nearby roller coaster. It was a big wooden one similar to a real roller coaster local to me. The queue was really themed, it reminded me of some of the rides at Disneyland. The ride attendants kept trying to hand me a 'ride passport' or something but I kept refusing. I got up to the ride eventually with some other DC's. My seat (similar to other rollercoaster dreams) had no safety harnesses or restraints. Before I could get off, the train departed. Either I don't remember the ride itself or it was a really short one. We never actually came back to the station in fact. I just got off. Things get a little hazy here, but the next part I remember is walking into a labyrinth where I had to retrieve some item. The place was terrifying, lots of large bugs on the walls (which actually came up with identifiers when I looked at them). One of these things was 'Fearless Spider' which kept lunging at me, and eventually crawled up the walls onto the ceiling and dropped on me. Nearly pissing my pants and this point, I ran out of the place screaming like a little girl.

Another dream, actually right after I woke up the first time, then dozed off again. I was speaking with a DC girl who I know in real life. I don't know where the dream transitioned but some rival of hers who happened to be a trucker picked us up and started driving. A highway patrolman drove up behind him and flashed his lights, but the trucker didn't pull over. He just kept going. I was eating something at this point and actually made eye contact with the highway patrolman DC and shrugged because I had no idea what was going on. Then the vehicle split in two and I was driving a part of it. I don't know where this transition took place but there was the highway patrolman chasing the trucker, and me with the girl DC slowing down and making a U turn so we could head back. At this point, I woke up.

Non lucid, but I did become momentarily aware at one point.

The first part I remember is being at some conference. I was trying to use a rifle embedded in my laptop to snipe one of the members of the conference sitting across from me. He saw the attempt and raised a blast shield. Everyone fled and my attempt was foiled. I had no idea why I wanted to shoot him, but it might have been from an earlier unremembered portion of the dream. Later on, I was speaking with a female DC in a store. It was late at night so everyone migrated to upstairs to sleep which resembled a Japanese villa. It was pretty high up and had a good view of the surrounding forested area. I actually sat down with the DC i was talking to earlier and played a round of coop starcraft with her. We both played as Zerg, but she had no idea what she was doing. Eventually we both quit and she got into her bed for the night. Feeling a little bold I slipped in with her (wasn't aware or lucid). We adjusted positions a few times and she ended up with her head on my chest and arm around me. I just lied there for awhile savoring the feeling aware that my heart rate was increasing and my breath was getting heavier. She stated this and I noticed hers was too. We started to uhh.. get busy when it suddenly occurred to me that I might be dreaming. Now here's the funny part, I consciously made a decision not to go lucid and to just roll with the dream because it was getting pretty awesome. But about a minute later, I had a false awakening. The room I was in was the same, but it was empty with just me in the bed. A thought crossed my mind to do an RC but I felt too tired to move and... didn't. The dream continued as I got up looking around for the DC girl from earlier. I never found her though I saw a few other DC's in the house. Eventually, I woke up.

Totally kicking myself for the missed opportunity to go lucid after the false awakening! Still, much better dream over my last night's

There was a portion early on in my dream where I was using my computer. For some reason, one of the video cards burned out and whenever I plugged it in the computer crashed. One of my programmer friends was sitting next to me trying to help me figure out the problem. Never did thought as the scene turned into the core of the death star from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. The energy core was shot and began to explode as I fly out of the chamber into the long corridor to the surface. Zerg Mutalisks were hot on my tail most of the way out. I got out of the death star, but it never exploded. Memory fades around this point.

Another portion of the dream: I was dead, or dying or something. There were funeral preparations going on... for me! I was really scared, but I don't remember much from this dream. It's really too bad I couldn't get lucid at this point.

Last dream Very Disturbing: I was babysitting some kid who's mom I apparently knew. The kid kept sneaking red ants into the house via cups with dirt. I kept grabbing the cups and emptying them outside, but on one of these trips, I got stopped by the police. Apparently they were gonna execute me summarily. (Continuation of the last dream maybe? Even though they were in 2 separate REM cycles) My family eventually appeared and were confused but complying with the police. I was PISSED at this point. The officers began to talk to me, in fluent Spanish (which I cannot speak or understand in real life) telling me the process leading up to my execution. I began hurling every verbal incendiary I could at everyone around me because NOBODY was defending me. I had almost given up, when (Starcraft again.. surprise surprise) Protoss warriors swept into the scene and began carving up everyone who wanted me dead. They kept saying I was the 'chosen one from the prophesy' or something, I didn't care. All I cared about was that I wasn't going to die. I even joined in, destroying the ones who wanted to destroy me. It was a bloodbath towards the end, everyone around me except for me, my family, and the protoss, were dead.

Then I woke up.

Ok, I need to play a little catchup first because I forgot to write down my dream from yesterday (Fortunately, I still remember it).

Was riding with my family in our van coming back from thanksgiving vacation. We were driving through a desert (there was moderate traffic) and passed a rocket launch site. A rocket was in the air above the launch pad, but I immediately knew something was wrong, it appeared to be out of fuel. The rocket came weaving back down earthbound and actually crossed above our van and smashed into a cliff to the right. It exploded and tipped over a car behind us. It looked as if they were severely injured inside. I don't remember much past this point (and I'm kinda kicking myself for A CRASHING ROCKET not triggering an LD). Eventually I woke up, but fell back asleep into the same dream. The visuals around me were very Simspon-eque (sharp outlines, and I think I even saw Homer and Bart at one point). Most of this dream is vague, but I do remember an indignant woman yelling at me to call an ambulance because both her arms were chopped off.

Now, for my dream last night.

I read CrazyInsane's WILD technique for lucid dreaming and I wanted to give it a shot http://www.dreamviews.com/f79/**craz...rial-**-87710/, I lack a device that sounds an alarm once and stops so before I went to bed, I looked at the clock on my cell phone and stated "I will wake up at 3:00am" Unsure if this would work or not, I fell asleep. Unfortunately I moved around alot when I woke up this morning so my dream recall wasn't what it should have been. Anyway I remember speaking with some friends about a girl they wanted to set me up with. I was trying to decline their offer because the girl in question is a gigantic slut (In real life). All of a sudden, I woke up! My own alarm clock in my head actually worked... the bad part is, I wasn't able to execute the next steps of the CANWILD method because I woke up in a fairly uncomfortable position and was thirsty. I drank a bit of water, repositioned and fell back asleep. The dream picked up where it left off, thought I can't recall the details, I just know it did. At one point in this dream, I was at my school for something, but again, I just can't remember the details.

I'm going to continue experimenting/practicing using my biological alarm clock, and work on dream recall a bit more (I blame today's fail on having to get up at 6:30 am after going to bed at midnight).

I remember walking down a road with a few other DC's. We were armed and every location we encountered was abandoned (assuming due to a zombie virus). The locations were eerie and quiet. We went to an apartment complex or something and I found a weapon cache in a downstairs room. This is where the dream becomes much clearer for me, or I just remember more of it. I found a .308 rifle and a box of 8 round of ammunition. I start searching around for more but couldn't find any, I found a .308 spring though, and took that. There was an insane DC in the building screaming at us to get out of the building, and eventually we did. WE entered another building which actually turned out to be a bar with a full on party going on. There was a brief tangent where I saw some moron from one of those ghost hunting TV programs battling a ghost with a table leg (What?).
But then something happened, I was standing in a place which appeared close to the student lounge at my school. I don't remember exactly what caused it, but I found the situation and setting unbelievable and RC'd.

Sure enough, I realized it was a dream and became lucid.

I stopped what I was doing and let the dream around me adapt to my new awareness (As I read in one LD guide). I saw flash of silver, several of the DC's disappeared and the dream kind of collapsed but then restabilized around me. The room was less populated. To test out some of the influence I had on the world, I pictured a huge empty parking lot outside the room. I walked to a window, and sure enough, right outside was a huge parking lot with a storefront in the distance. I walked outside intending to use the open area to practice conjuring DC's or objects but something passed in front of my left eye, and I lost all dream vision from it. I tried closing both eyes, and reopening them with the explicit intention of bringing the parking lot back, but when I reopened my eyes, I thought I had woken up and lost lucidity.

The last part of the dream I remember (it was non-lucid) was from the perspective of a pirate captain or something. I met Death who I apparently had a friendship with, either that or he had no power over me. He was actually in the area 'on business' and briefly talked to me and gave me a high five when he left (The high five not killing me).

This is my first LD since joining DV.

This isn't so much a dream as it is an early morning delirious series of waking and dozing visions. It isn't too fresh in my head, but I figure its good to at least write something down.

There was seamless shifting between dreaming state and wakefulness in my bed this morning. I'd be aware of my body and head on the pillow for one minute and the next I would be in this corridor, still lightly aware that it was morning and unable to move freely as in a dream. I woke up again and dozed again seeing this same corridor. Again I woke and dozed but this time I had a vision of zerglings from starcraft. I saw them from a detached aerial perspective, but only briefly as my (real life) alarm went off which brought me into full wakefulness.