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    1. Eight Months Later...

      by , 07-02-2011 at 03:58 AM
      I'm back, and hopefully for a while! With the difficulties of school and busy schedules, I think I lost interest in lucid dreaming last year, but I was thinking the summer would be the perfect opportunity to build up recall and maybe start having lucid dreams again! Anyhow, I read through my dream journal last night, and did a sorta WBTB, and ended up having a couple fairly vivid dreams, the latter of which SHOULD have been lucid, had I been paying enough attention. Also, I failed to write my first dream down, so now I barely remember any of it. Oh well, you win some and lose some.

      Alaska Cruise (Fragment)

      At 6:00 AM, I'm pretty sure I could have gotten a good couple of paragraphs out of this one, but by now... not so much. Basically, I was on a cruise from Vancouver up the coast of Canada and to Alaska with my family. I think I was looking for someone, or exploring the ship for some reason quite a bit, but other than that, I don't recall much.

      Pulled Over

      This one was a little more bizarre in some ways, and I really should have realized it was a dream. I was at a party, and decided to go ahead and go home early. After saying goodbye to my parents, I started to drive back. After leaving the house, which now that I think about it was more like a small mansion, I began to drive past a small suburb in a valley. The road was one way only (or at least without any yellow lines) and was built into the side of a steep hill. To the left was a decently sized group of houses, small stores, and other assorted buildings. As I drove, I was talking to my dad on the phone (talking on the phone while driving being something I'm sort of uncomfortable with still) who was telling me to come back to the party and help clean up. I told him I needed to pay attention to the road and would call him back, before I broke through a fence into a small industrial/factory area.

      This is where it gets a little weird. It's a decent drop, maybe 6 feet or so, but it feels longer, and a lot bumpier. I try to regain control after landing, swerving a few times and dropping down some other small hills, before finally turning myself around and pulling the car back onto the road. At the same time, I find a gun in my car and decide to reload it (???), and when I notice a lever outside the factory I pull that too. No idea what it actually did, though. Anyways, as I pull up onto the road, a cop is driving by, and I accidentally run into them. Predictably, they pull me over, but somehow the scene shifts back to my bedroom.

      At this point, the cop is interrogating me about why I had a gun (no idea), why I was driving so crazily (talking on the phone), and why I would decide to pull a random lever on the side of the road. At this point, I express the thought that I might even be dreaming, and ask the cop to hit me to make sure. He does, and then I slap my own hand, but I think I feel pain so I decide it isn't a dream. (Stupid stupid reality test! I know better than that! >_<). My dad walks into the room at this point, and says something along the lines of, "What have you done?" I explain that I was pulled over, then the scene shifts again.

      Finally, we end up in the hallway outside of my bedroom. The cop is testing me to see if I've learned my lesson. He places a red, then a green lever in front of me. When I refuse to pull them, he seems satisfied, because I shouldn't pull a lever unless I know what it does. He turns the green lever around, and tells me that if I had pulled it I would have contracted a deadly Elephant STD. (Crazy brain. ) At this point, the dream ends.

      I woke up, and was all, "See, I knew it was a dream!" I was more relieved that it wasn't real than disappointed in myself for not realizing that it wasn't.

      Updated 07-02-2011 at 04:00 AM by 27070

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      non-lucid , dream fragment , side notes
    2. 10/8/2010 Fragments

      by , 10-09-2010 at 04:38 AM
      Last night wasn't very successful, but here's some words that I felt had to do with my dreams:

      Wheelchair
      Field
      Running
      Girl Sitting Down
      Sports
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    3. Lucid 3 and other dreams

      by , 10-08-2010 at 02:52 AM
      Cute Pet

      This was the least interesting dream, but still not bad. I was in a room, somewhat like a pet store, but much more open and empty. There was a cage in the room, with lots of small, furry animals in them. They were somewhat like kittens, though smaller, and with shorter tails. I knew that they were the young of whatever animal they were, though. I looked at all of them, then picked the cutest one up and petted it.

      Caught in the Act

      I dreamed that my dad had caught me asleep with a bottle of lotion. (Yeah, I'm confused too.) I wasn't sure that he knew, so I put it back where I got it and went about my day. Later that afternoon, he confronts me. For some reason, the fact that there was a bottle of lotion in my bed meant that I was looking at porn. He was telling me how disappointed he was, because we had already had a discussion about this before.

      Icescape

      I'm in a relatively enclosed area, maybe four acres total, and open to the sky. All of the ground is covered in ice and snow, and there are lots of hills and crags. Everything has a bluish tint. I enter into a small cave; I'm pretty sure I'm crawling. There's a block of ice blocking a side passage next to me, so I push it through and climb over it. I crawl upwards, until I come to another ice block, which I set on fire until it melts. I crawl through, back into the open air.

      At this point, I think to myself, "I really need to remember this dream!" However, I don't really become lucid, or at least don't act on it. I then slide down a hill, and start jumping around on pillars of ice, opening chests. For some reason, this reminds me of the Legend of Zelda series.

      Failed Summoning (LUCID)

      I wake up in my bed, and without even trying a reality check, I know that I'm lucid. However, I must not be very conscious, or at least I don't remember to do anything that I wanted to or should have done: no stabilization, no attempts for tasks, nothing. I went into the master bathroom of my house, and tried to summon a girl from my school for some reason. I remembered that trying to force your dream to do something will make it unstable, and as soon as I thought that, it did. Of course. Everything got dark, and I don't remember anything else.
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    4. 09/27 War and Peace

      by , 09-28-2010 at 11:52 AM
      Last night was finally fairly productive, dream-wise. I have three, maybe four dreams that I fairly clearly remember (I'm unsure of the number because some may have connected together.) Interestingly enough, I didn't try and do anything different sleep-wise last night; no WBTBs, auto-suggestive mp3's, or anything else like that. I just went to bed, said a mantra, "I lucid dream and remember my dreams," until I fell asleep, and slept through until morning. The only thing that I did differently that probably helped quite a bit was, when my alarm went off, I turned it off and laid in bed for another couple of minutes, to see if anything else would come to me. When I thought I remembered all I could, I recorded a few details of each dream, and got up and around. Here's the dreams, organized into what I think is sequential order through the night:

      Large Library and Gift Shop

      A friend and I are walking through a large library in the middle of the day. There are a few other people around, but not many. From where we're standing, I can look up and see at least three other floors, maybe more. I've been here before, in what I now recall as a dream from a few months ago. My friend and I walk up to a TV which is showing some sort of video concerning the Harry Potter books - a documentary, or history, or making of, or something of the like. We're fairly interested, until we see that to watch the whole thing, we have to spend $95, which isn't going to happen. We begin to head towards the door. On the way, we pass at least one shelf with Harry Potter paraphernalia, such as fake wands and candy from the book. A short, stocky man comes up to us and asks us if we want to buy anything. We mumble a negative and move out of the shop.

      Frustration in the Parking Lot

      Another friend, or maybe the same one, and I are now driving around a parking lot, trying to find the exit. We think we're almost out, but we see that we have to detour up and over an overpass, which will put us completely out of our way. We're trying to get somewhere in a hurry, and we're really annoyed. The parking lot is enclosed within a square of buildings, and the only way out is a tunnel on one side, but traffic is backed up too far, and we know we'll be stuck there for a while.

      Dead Tower

      I'm an experienced soldier, and along with a less-experienced person, am assaulting the tower of a sorcerer or evil being. At the top is trapped a friend of mine/ours, locked in a cage, and it is our mission to rescue her. We teleport (my browser dictionary doesn't know that word?) unto a balcony of the tower, on what is about the third or fourth floor. We sneak in through a window, and look around. The less-experienced soldier I am with is very excited, and states that he thinks the job will be a piece of cake. I get angry at his irresponsibility, and ask him, "Do you have any idea what we're up against?" Looking down, I search for something on the floor below it. Finding it, I point out a huge, red-eyed, black-furred, demonic rat to the other soldier. The rat, of which there are several more, is extremely strong and possessed by a dead spirit. He seems to understand the danger, and starts to shake. We move on up the tower, and my recall ends.

      Battlefields

      This time I'm the inexperienced soldier, and my commanding officer is going off on a general rant on the inefficiency of the training system. He says/yells, "They think that a few months of training in a controlled setting back home is good enough to prepare soldiers like you for the realities of war! Well, it isn't. You need field training, in an actual battle situation, before they should even think about sending someone as green as you out here." Just then, someone comes up and informs us that a battle is about to occur. The officer glares, but permits me to fight. The battle is, for whatever reason, somewhat reminiscent of the first campaign level of a Halo game; the last dream, though in a less conventional battlefield, was like the last campaign level. Going out onto the large field, I have a feeling at least one of our soldiers is definitely going to die, though I don't know where I get this sense.
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      non-lucid
    5. Backyard

      by , 09-26-2010 at 06:06 AM
      I remember three dreams; two fragments, and one longer dream. First, the fragments:

      1) I'm playing the new Pokemon game, which I strange, because I haven't played Pokemon in years. It's a lot of fun, and has pretty good graphics. Go figure.
      2) My orthodontic permanent retainer, which goes behind my teeth, has broken and cracked in a bunch of different places. I'm worried about how to hide it. This, minus the hiding, somewhat reflects a waking life situation from a week or so ago, where one of the brackets broke.

      Now, for the relatively more vivid dream:

      Backyard

      I'm in the backyard of what I guess is a daycare of sorts; physically, none of the people here are young children, but that's what the situation feels like. We're going to eat lunch outside, and I grab a drink from the cooler. The backyard is fairly large, with a few tall trees, a brick or concrete sitting area (maybe 20 by 20 feet), and all around of it grass and more trees. I can't recall an end to it, but on one side is the building itself, which is one story tall and not too wide. I can't tell how far back it goes. There are several other people sitting and standing around, though I don't recognize them. I walk along the middle of the brick section.

      What I had taken to be leaves on the ground, I now realize are GIANT SPIDERS!!!! I have no idea where my subconscious thought that one up, because I'm not particularly afraid of spiders, nor have I thought much about them recently. Anyways, these things looked like blown up daddy longlegs, but the size of a dinner plate, I-kid-you-not. I moved towards one, and it jumps at least twenty feet into the air (I decided it had pulled itself up on a web really really fast. Genius me) before floating back down. I moved a good distance out of the way, because I didn't want it to land on me.

      Next, I'm playing with some sort of legos or blocks with a couple of other kids. Clean-up time is called, so we begin to put everything up. We get done, except that I have a collect of four, rainbow colored plastic semi-transparent cups that I have no idea what to do with. I take them over by the cooler, to someone I do recognize: I'll call him TR. He seems to be somewhat in charge, so I ask him, "Where should I put these cups?" He becomes annoyed, and says, "Why didn't you put those away earlier?" I argue that I didn't have them earlier, then give them to him. End of dream.
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    6. 9/24 Minimal Recall

      by , 09-24-2010 at 11:25 AM
      Yesterday during the day, I felt fairly normal physically, and maybe a little more awake in the morning than normal. I had a few worries and stuff that I was thinking about, but I was able to lay that aside once I was ready to sleep. However, last night was really worse with recall than the previous. I can't even really remember any fragments, and I only have a vague sense of what my last dream might have been about. Here's how the evening went:

      I was working on homework and stuff until close to 11:00. By the time I was ready to sleep, it was 11:15, and I didn't really spend any time focusing on lucid dreaming. I said my mantra ("I lucid dream") and watched the images behind my eyes until I fell asleep, which only took a few minutes. Next thing I remember, my alarm was going off at 5:30. I hit snooze, to see if I could remember any dreams, but no luck. The only thing I realized a few minutes later was that I think the dream may have had to do with math, which was what I was doing right before bed, and that I was thinking about first thing when I woke up (thinking about the subject itself, not really any particular facet of it.)
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      non-lucid , dream fragment
    7. 9/23/2010 More Fragments

      by , 09-23-2010 at 11:37 AM
      Recall for me as of late has been, to say the least, sporadic. I'm thinking it's because, during the school week, I'm probably not getting quite enough sleep, or maybe not steady enough, but I'm not sure what I can do about that. Last night in particular, I remembered two dream fragments.

      In the first fragment, I'm in a huge city, walking around with a gang of kids. (Think the beginning of Ender's Shadow.) The buildings tower over us, and I don't think I can see the tops of them. This is kind of interesting, because as I fell asleep, I tried to visualize a building that I could take an elevator in; I wonder if that affected this dream. Anyways, there are six or seven other kids along with me, and all of us are young-ish; I think the oldest one was about 10 years old. I'm also pretty sure we walked under an overpass at some point.

      The second was less of a full-fledged dream and more of just an image: when my alarm went off, I dreamed that the beeping was actually my computer, and that the screen of the computer was actually melting. Or maybe melting isn't quite the right word; it was oozing an orange goo. After a few seconds, though, I woke up.


      For the first few seconds when I awoke, things looked weird (my clock looked wrong, things were blurry), and I was sort of confused and thought I might still be dreaming, but I wasn't and on second glance things looked normal.
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    8. 9/22/2010 Fragments

      by , 09-22-2010 at 11:34 AM
      It's a weekday (and a school day) so I'm not getting near enough sleep. As such, with recall that isn't the best anyways, I'm not having much luck remembering most of my dreams. I do remember a couple of fragments from after I hit snooze on my alarm for about five minutes. In the first dream, I'm playing some sort of computer game, while in my pajamas. I think it's supposed to be Starcraft, though I've only ever played the first one, and only for a few minutes. In the dream, I'm trying to hide what I'm doing, though I don't know why. In a second dream, or a continuation of the first, I'm in the kitchen about to enter the bathroom when I realize somebody spilled something all over the kitchen floor. I quickly try to clean it up, so I think that the 'somebody' may have been me. However, a friend of mine enters the room and teases me before helping me clean the rest up.
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      non-lucid , dream fragment
    9. District, Storytelling, and Fast Food

      by , 09-14-2010 at 09:29 PM
      14.09.2010
      Escaping the District (Non-lucid)

      NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

      Last night broke a relatively dry spell of dreaming for me. It was pretty exciting - I woke up and was getting around like normal, when I realized, "Oh, I remember that dream. Oh, wait, I remember those, too!" It was pretty exciting, because lately my recall has been limited to one, if any, dreams per night. Well, without further delay, here's the first dream:

      I'm in a small building, really not much bigger than a shack. There are at least two people in there with me, interrogating me. Something happens to distract them, and they leave for a moment. I escape, running out of the back door I know is there. I keep the building between me and the interrogator's trucks, as to stay out of sight. I look back to see if I'm being followed, but so far, I'm in the clear. I run into some woods, where I disappear out of sight.

      I'm running towards a fence which I know to be electrified, keeping all of the people within the District. I poke the fence with a stick, and realize only the top barbed wire is electrified - the rest is not. I try to climb the fence, and somehow balance the stick and use it to climb over, but this plan (obviously) fails. Next, I spot a tree next to the fence, which I climb up, before remembering that there are defenses in place, including razor wire and (oddly enough) shrink wrap to prevent this. I manage to swing around and escape the district.

      I continue to run through the woods, which are more tightly packed than inside the district. I'm not sure how I'm going to survive outside, and realize I should have stolen a book on How to Survive the Wilderness, as if such things existed. Eventually, I come out of the woods into a beach, where I meet an old man. Recall ends.

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      14.09.2010
      Storytelling (Non-lucid)

      NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

      I'm retelling the story of my previous dream to another guy who I instinctively know to be part of my church small group, though I've never seen him before. He's not wearing a shirt for some reason, and I note that he looks pretty strong. As I tell my story, he says that he had a very similar dream. I don't remember his face.

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      14.09.2010
      Fast Food (Non-lucid)

      NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

      I'm standing outside in front of a large building, which I assume to be some sort of government building because of it's size and architecture. Next to me is a friend of the family who we went white water rafting with last weekend. We go inside of a nearby fast food restaurant; my mom is there as well. I'm not really hungry, and the cashier is annoying me by throwing gum wrappers at me, so I don't get anything. She apologizes in a robotic, scripted-sounding voice, not sounding genuine at all.
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      non-lucid
    10. Programming the Planets

      by , 09-14-2010 at 03:34 AM
      Writing the title out like that, the dream probably looks a lot cooler than it really was, but oh well. Me and my friend D (who has appeared in my dreams multiple times lately) are programming in Java. I'm doing my own thing, maybe working on a project for the fun of it, or maybe working on a previous assignment. I look over to her screen, and I see that she is working on a really cool program. It's not finished yet, but it has something to do with all of the planets. Each of the planets, though, has it's own special keyword. For example, on the screen, it may have been something like Uranus - Neo, or Mercury - Aqua. That's not quite right, but I thought that it was pretty cool in the dream.

      The most interesting part of the dream to me, though, was that I had been programming less than an hour before sleeping. I actually had the conscious thought - 'Oh, I know that our dreams often have to do with what we do in the last hour before sleeping, but I doubt my brain will do much with programming. Well, I guess my subconscious proved me wrong!
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      non-lucid
    11. Dating

      by , 09-08-2010 at 11:01 PM
      08.09.2010
      Dating (Non-lucid)

      NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

      I've again not had very good recall the past couple of nights. I really should write stuff down when I wake up, either from an alarm or naturally, because I always forget what I dreamed of by morning. Anyways, this dream was one of those where, when you remember it, you feel really sad because it wasn't true, no matter how possible or not it is.

      I'm in some situation, with a friend who I've had a crush on in the past, though never dated. She admits to me that she really has feelings for me, and I tell her the same. We hug. Next, there's a sort of series of scenes, where we're very happy together. The dream ends, or fades into another.
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    12. Bodyguard and the Mayor

      by , 09-05-2010 at 11:21 PM
      05.09.2010
      Bodyguard and the Mayor (Non-lucid)

      NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

      I'm in what appears to be a warehouse or small factory. There is a large firefight going on around me, and I have a gun. I have the impression that I just entered through a door behind me, though I don't know what I was doing before that. I am not my waking-life self, but someone taller and stronger. I may or may not be an android or some sort of super-human, I'm not sure.

      I am a bodyguard for the mayor, who, for some reason, I know I need to get upstairs past the people I'm fighting with. I do, however, have others on my side. I take the Mayor across the main large room, which has a balcony above, into a side hallway. There are even more 'enemies' here, who I quickly shoot down. We enter into a sort of service elevator, which a make go to the second floor. We come out onto the walkway around the main room. I then jump back down for some reason, and continue to fight. The dream scene changes.

      That scene might have been somewhat inspired by Wanted, which I saw yesterday.

      I'm now sitting on the bleachers of my high school gym, with the newly elected 'mayor' of my high school and a few of our friends sitting next to us. I'm not thinking this is related to the mayor from the earlier dream scene, other then in name. This mayor is more like the class president or a similar office. I'm dissappointed that I wasn't elected instead of this guy, who is really shy and quiet. I decide to leave, and walk out with one of my friends, who tells me that it's alright. The dream ends or transitions into another.
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    13. Illegal Driving

      by , 09-05-2010 at 01:28 PM
      05.09.2010
      Illegal Driving (Non-lucid)

      NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

      I'm hoping last night marks the long-overdue end of my dream recall dry spell. In real life, I just got my learner's permit a few days ago, so I'm still very nervous about driving, which probably led to this dream:

      I have been at some function in my school, but I can't remember what. It may or may not have been actually part of my dream. Anyways, I am pulling out of the parking lot of my school, and onto the main road. Once I get started, though, I realize that I've left my dad back at the school, and I'm (illegally) driving by myself. I panic somewhat, and make a u-turn to go back. Problem is, I somehow get lost.

      Now I'm on a road surrounded by trees, at an intersecting. I think that I'm waiting for a red light to turn green, but then I realize that I only have stop signs, so I should have already gone. I know that the other drivers behind me are annoyed, so I quickly turn to the left, towards where I think my school is. The dream ends.
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      non-lucid
    14. Various Fragments

      by , 08-30-2010 at 11:53 AM
      30.08.2010
      Various Fragments (Non-lucid)

      NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

      My recall has been completely shot as of late, and I don't think I've been helping it out too much, between not getting as much sleep as would be ideal at night, and not even attempting to keep a journal. But here's to me jumping back on the wagon, with a couple of fragments. Hey, you have to start somewhere, right?

      I'm in some sort of field, doing a military drill. I'm vaguely reminded of the training of District 13 in the book, Mockingjay. A siren blares (my alarm) waking me up.

      Sadly enough, that was my most defined dream. Other than that, I just have a couple of images in my head of things I think I dreamed about last night, which are a grappling hook and water. I also think that there was a fairly large dream that I'm not remembering, but it's just out of reach.
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      non-lucid , dream fragment
    15. Lucid Two

      by , 08-27-2010 at 11:49 AM
      So, last night, I had a lucid dream, my second since joining this site. It was somewhat similar to the first one, in that after (or possibly before) a failed WILD attempt. This of course meant that my mind was more than usual on dreaming, and so at some point in one dream I became lucid. After a couple of minutes, lucidity faded, and I don't remember any more of the dream. As for the part when I was actually dreaming... well, that's kind of personal. Sorry. I'll relate a recent non-lucid dream I had, to make up for it.

      The dream begins, and I am playing some sort of role-playing game in the house of someone I don't know. The scene shifts to be 'inside' the game, with me being my character. We are all in a big house on the side of a river, near some think woods/jungle. Everyone has their own small room, and I awaken in mine. I know that there's some danger (though the dream is not a nightmare) so I quickly get up and run out of the house, swim across the river, and enter the jungle. For what seems like hours, I wander through the woods, until I'm sure I've escaped. I then come upon a city, in which I hide for a while. A little later, I become curious and head back through the jungle, more sure of my path this time. I can still see the danger from across the river, so I run back away and don't return.
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      lucid , non-lucid
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