CordeliaDivine

First Lucid Dream since I joined this forum! Score!! Ok, LD was short lived though. I saw a contest about testing how long you can stay in an LD, which I'm not sure how you count time in a dream, but I know for a fact this one only lasted a few minutes tops.

The beginning of this dream was weird though. I don't think this was a WILD technique...maybe it was, IDK, but it definitely involved WBTD (?) the wake up and go back to sleep thing. So, my boyfriend was snoring real loud, which pissed me off because I was sleeping so well before he came to bed. I got up and went to sleep on the couch. From there, I started getting real comfortable, sleeping on my side, facing the back of the couch; my back to the living room. So the reason I'm not sure if this is a WILD is because I didn't intentionally stay conscious while falling into a dream. I just remember the very beginning of the dream because it started with me laying on the couch trying to go to sleep. But I kept hearing these voices in the living room, like soft murmurings and it terrified me that "something" might be in the room with me. I lied there on the couch trying to ignore this creepy feeling that I wasn't alone and tried to go to sleep...in the dream. I remember I thought I heard my dog come into the living room. I thought I felt her brush past me in the dream and I heard her dog collar jingling, but I still lied on the couch too scared to move because I still thought there was "something" in the room. This must have gone on for almost an hour (in real time because I didn't realize I was dreaming until later) until I heard my boyfriend getting up and showering like he was getting ready for work. In my dream, I registered that as extremely odd that he'd be up in the middle of the night trying to shower, but I didn't say anything. At that point, I got the courage to get off the couch because if my boyfriend was up then, it must have been safe to do the same (haha, dream logic!).

When I woke up, I was still in my apartment, kind of. The dream environment didn't really shift on me, however it was understood in my dream that the apartment belonged to my friend, Amy. She had some of her relatives over, like a small family reunion, there was music and snack food and what not. I went to the back of the apartment to the bedroom. I passed my boyfriend, who'd just gotten out of the shower, naked with a towel wrapped around his head (he has long dreads). When I got to the bedroom, I "remembered" that I was back there to retrieve this little baby boy, about 12 months old. He was absolutely adorable and a smart baby. He was naked but a diaper, mixed and brown curly hair. I remember he was playing near the nightstand where I keep all of my remotes and chargers and other electrical devices. I picked him up, but he got his foot entwined in the wiring. I told him to shake his foot loose, and he did. I remember being impressed by that. As I'm carrying the baby back to his mom, that's when I realized that I was dreaming!

Sometimes, when I have an LD, I tell all the characters in the dream about it. Especially if I'm about to wake up, I often say goodbye to the characters; but in some cases, like this one, I just keep that little bit of info to myself. I remember thinking, "Yes! An LD! Finally!" I did a little happy dance in my head and started thinking about how I could manipulate this dream. There wasn't much to work with, but I knew I could turn that around. And then...ultimate disappointment. The apartment in which the dream was set was on the 4th or 5th floor of a building. Amy and her relatives were outside on the front porch, which was facing the courtyard, next to the stairwell. From the bottom of the stairwell, I heard this CREEPY ASS VOICE calling my name.... It sent chills through my body and my immediate emotion was a combination of fear and anger. I thought, "My first LD in three weeks and this son-of-a-bitch dream is trying to turn into a nightmare!!!"

So, I thought to myself, this is NOT how it's about to go down. I did what I do best...well, actually I can't even say that honestly because I kind of suck at Summoning, but whenever I have a LD it's my automatic go-to. I say I suck at it because, I can always summon someone it's just that sometimes it's not the person I wanted. So, I have a list of people I like to call on consistently, this group of people are collectively called the Guardians. You can think of them sort of like the Avengers, they're simply characters from a story I am currently writing. It's hard to successfully summon them because they aren't real people and the only thing I have as a visual of them are photos I've pulled off the internet (in most cases). Anyway, the first person that came to mind to Summon (and I had to be quick before this dream turned into a Nightmare on me) was a boy named Will. 17, black hair, blue eyes, tall. However, I didn't focus hard enough because I was limited on time and I was scared of the Voice at the bottom of the stairwell. There came a knock at the door. One of the relatives opened the door and someone in jeans and a blue hoodie with the hood drawn over the head, face in shadow appeared at the threshold. So, I'm thinking at this point that this figure that showed could have been one of two people, this dream could have gone one of two ways: a) The figure could have been Will, who I summoned and then all would be right in the world; b) the figure could have been the evil Voice at the bottom of the stair well and I'd be forced to deal with this nightmare all by myself. Fortunately for me, it wasn't B, but neither really was it A. Because my summoning didn't go to plan, the person that arrived was a blond haired guy with tattoos on his face (nice, colorful tattoos at that, had to appreciate the art), but it wasn't my Will. However! He said he was a messenger and this is the message he brought: "The guardians are coming."

At that point, I awoke. Tsk.