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All I want to do now is have a lucid dream! I was looking through my old dream journals last night in the hope it'd bring back recall and it made me remember some of the amazing stuff I did. I was having at least 1 lucid every week whereas now... well I haven't had a proper one since October

So now I'm really determined I should have more of a chance, but not whilst my recall is non-existant

Back on with the 1 Week Challenge now and last night I remembered 1 fragment but couldn't find my dream journal quick enough so forgot it

Hopefully my recall will return enough for me to have a lucid within 7 days though. I hope to be typing up 2 dreams or more tomorrow evening I also plan to try WILD a bit more at some point...

Okay so I suppose this is day 2 of really getting back into lucid dreaming and it's like I'm having to learn it all again. I don't mind this because learning was a fun and interesting experience but I wouldn't mind starting where I left off a month ago. Oh well hopefully my recall will return tonight!

There is one thing that's going to change now though, this dream journal will be updated everyday whether I had a lucid or not.

Dream 1
I was at my old secondary school in a maths class. The time ticked on to half past three and it was time to go, there were some of my college friends there including a girl in a blue frilly dress with no back. I stood up to go and the teacher said to me "Are you all sure you understand the homework?" and very few people did. So the teacher kept us back and made us do a bit more work until it got to nearly 4 o' clock. I checked my watch and very nearly did a reality check since about 15 minutes had passed in what seems like 2. But instead I just thought that time must have passed quickly because I wasn't watching it. I needed to hurry since I doubted my friends would wait for me if I was too late. I walked out of school and appeared to teleport to a huge place (teleporting- 10 points), similar to that of a warehouse. The shelves went all the way up to the roof and there were loads of them. As I wondered down the narrow isles a employee at the place spotted me and called me over. He was up a ladder trying to pull something off of a shelf, I went and stood by the ladder to see that behind me was a large expanse of bare floor. He told me to stand nearby, so I did and looked back at the shelves. They were filled with old televisions, the big box ones. The worker then pulled one off a shelf and dropped it, the tv crashed to the floor below. He shouted at me saying that I was meant to catch it, So I went and stood next to the shelves. He dropped another one, a big heavy one and I caught it with a spine crushing catch. I put it on the floor and we carried on doing this for a while. Then he started to move forwards and my friend H.T ran round the corner to help, we moved all the tv's that I'd caught forwards as well. We kept moving everything forward so that we kept up with the worker, then I saw a thread of cotton wrapped around one of the tv's. I looked up to see the shelves gone and somebody weaving cotton, to the left of them there was what appeared to be a small tea shop. Outside the tea shop was Santa and the worker from earlier went up to him to ask him if they could use his beard for cotton and he agreed. The then went inside the tea shop. Me and my friend looked at each other before leaving the tv's and following them in. When I got inside I recognised the cafe, I was in Lincoln, in Stoke's cafe. I was asked what I wanted so I said tea. They gave me a silver sachet that was this size of my hand. I went and sat down next to my Grandad and his friends. I opened the silver sachet and found what appeared to be cream inside, this was apparently the tea. I tried it and it tasted exactly like whipped cream. (Eat something- 4 points) (Full dream- 1 point)

Fragment (0.5 points)
I also remember going into a place like subway and asking if they could give me some bread cheap since it was near closing time, the woman behind the counter said "no but you can have a taster for free".

Dream 2
I was in my room and my neighbour came to visit. He came into my room, saw my new shoes and said he liked them. Then he sat on my bed and had a chat with me. This was quite a long dream but I can't remember what was said. (Full dream- 1 point)

TOTAL= 16.5 points

21/12/11
Cannot recall anything, 1 WBTB attempt (1 point)

22/12/11

1 WBTB attempt (1 point)

I was in what appeared to be the turret of a castle, climing the spiral staircase higher and higher until I reached one of the arrow slits with a small area to stand below it. I stopped here and looked out, I can't remember what I saw but then somebody shouted up the stairs and came after me. I tried to run but my legs froze up and I couldn't move. This woman who looked to be in her 40's emerged at the top of the staircase where I was. "We can't have you telling people about this" she sneered. Then the woman grabbed me by the arm and forced me up the rest of the stairs, we arrived in a small circular room. There were chains everywhere and what appeared to be blood stains on some of the walls. I could see what was coming, anybody who walked in here could easily tell that it was a torture chamber. I had to get out, I had to find a way! The woman left no loopholes or gaps where I could run away and she chained me up so that I was suspended by my hands, dangling in the air. She turned around and I could hear her opening a box of some kind, when she turned back around the woman was holding small black box about the size of your average box of matches. It had two metal prongs on the end of it making the object instantly recognisable as a taser or electricution device of some sort. She looked at me grinning like some drugged scientist before sticking the two prongs under my shirt and into my stomach. The pain was intense as the high voltage electricity pulsed through my body. I was squirming and thrashing about madly, trying to lose contact between the prongs and me. I was seeing this in 3rd person view and as the view zoomed out back through the door I could see her electricuting me again and again. Even though in third person I could still feel the pain, I'm surprised it didnt wake me up.
Then I appeared in a corridor with white walls and a disgusting brown carpet. Up ahead the was a 90 degree corner to the left, I turned it to find myself in a room with one long table in the middle. Behind one side of the table was a glass wall, and behind that; nothingness. I looked but there was just a grey smokey mist. Around the table were all my old friends from school having lunch so I went and sat next to one of my closest friends E.G and she asked where I'd been. I was about to say but then I remembered the torture I went through just minutes ago, so I said I was busy. Then everybody finished lunch, got up and started to move around. In all the confusion I bumped into someone (A.W another person from my school) He took it the wrong way and started having a go at me. It looked like he was going to lash out at me but then my friends appeared at my side telling him to back off.
The dream ended here. (Full dream- 1 point)

The torture was terrible, it was so intense it even shows up in my sleep graph

Oh well I'm not going to give up!

A false awakening
2 full dreams
-A wizard and a bush crash
-A snow wolf

False awakening: When it happened I looked at my watch, the time said 7.40am. When I woke up for real the time said 7.15am.

Dream 1: A wizard and a bus crash
I arrived at my village shop to do my paper round, so I collected my papers. Then whilst stood outside of the shop this man recognised me from somewhere and threatened to run me over. He then proceede to get into his car, me being scared I went into the shop to find it filled with people including my brother. Once a few people had left I went outside to find the man had gone. My brother who had followed me outside spotted a can of coke on a bench, he went to pick it up. Suddenly this woman who was smoking a cigarette appeared from around a corner and glared at him in such a horrible way. We then left and started walking back home. On the way back we met up with a few people, one of them was a wizard. We asked him why the woman kept glaring at us and he replied "You must go back in time and save everybody!" Then I appeared on a bus, it was passing through my village but there was no sign of my brother or any of the people I met before. We drove past the large lake in my village and the bus started to lean towards it. Suddenly the bus fell and smacked straight into the ice cold water. The water then started poring into the bus from every angle and I knew this is what the wizard meant. So I started grabbing people and pulling them towards the emergency exit. I couldn't get them out quick enough and the bus was nearly full with water. I looked around and saw a boy about my age running out of air. I swam over and grabbed him, I then motioned for everyone to grab onto each other and I'd pull them up. A few seconds later we broke the surface of the water and then lay on the embankment catching our breath. The boy who I grabbed earlier had swallowed alot of water and was struggling to breath. Two people helped him cough the water back up. On the ground next to the embankment appeared a huge duvet and everybody got underneath to keep warm.
The dream ended here. (Full dream- 1 point)

Dream 2: A snow wolf
I was looking across fields at what appeared to be golden eagles but they were actually coloured golden. Several other people were stood next to me when we saw tigers and wolves come out from the undergrowth at the edge of the field a few metres away. Both the tiger and the wolf closest to me took one look at me. I ran as fast as I could to the nearest tree which I climbed just in time to have a wolves jaws snap shut only centimetres away from my dangling legs. I was in a large willow tree, the one in my garden to be more specific. I was just about to wonder where I was when I slipped and fell a foot closer to the wolf waiting below. Then the branch I was using for support snapped and I fell all the way to the ground landing on my back. I was right I was now in my back garden. I looked to the right to see this huge grey and black wolf standing over me growling. I stayed incredibly still while the wolf sniffed me out, it must have smelt or seen that I meant no harm because it started to lose interest. I moved my hand up and stroked its furry neck, then I got up and walked to my house and the wolf followed behind me. We both went into my room where there was a blond girl waiting who looked about 14 years old, was about half a head shorter than me and was wearing a red top and jeans. (I have discussed this with FelicityPotter and we think it could have been her, unfortunately I wasn't lucid to check.) I started writing things down on paperand glanced to my right to see the wolf looking inquisitivly at me. It was then I noticed it had the nose of a pig but with a third nasal passage. I looked over to the girl who was now on my bed, then I spotted some movement behind my bedroom blinds. It was my mum watching me and making sure I wasn't doing anything I shouldn't be. Then a few minutes later my brother did the same thing and it really annoyed me.
The dream ended here. (Full dream- 1 point)

(Total: 2 points)

1 Fragment
2 Dreams:

• A holiday thousands of miles away in the middle of dreamworld
• Alien encounter

Fragment:
I was given a large flatscreen tv. (Fragment- 0.5 points)

Dream 1:
I was in my house looking up at the stars, then an alien suddenly appeared next to me. It was short, only coming up to my knee cap and as the stereotype of aliens goes it had a huge bald head. I panicked and got scared, so I grabbed some bread and the key to my garage. I ushered it into the garage leaving the bread in there with it, then I shut the door and locked it.
The dream ended here. (Full dream- 1 point)

Dream 2: For this one I did a WBTB at 3.00am but it failed (WBTB attempt- 1 point)
Me and my family went on holiday to a different country and I took lots of £1 coins for some reason. That night we went to a resturant and was allowed behind this curtain which only VIP's are allowed to go and get a free meal. We all sat down at a long wooden table along with several other people and food was put in front of us all. I got something made of batter (possibly a yorkshire pudding) and some meat that looked very similar to sausage meat. It didn't taste of anything. (Ate food- 4 points) My mother had two wine glasses in front of her; one with red wine in and the other containing white wine. She said the white wine tasted horrible compared to the red and she passed the glasses over for me to try. The red tasted normal if not with a slight hint of blackcurrent squash. Then I tried the white wine, it tasted awful and was like sipping at pure vinegar! I agreed with my mother and gave her the glasses back. I looked to my left to find that I could see straight into the kitchens, on one of the worktops was a large amount of fish piled high. They had no skin or scales, they only had bones and there was meat inside the cage of bones. So the fishes bones were on the outside and it had a kind of red meat on the inside where it's bones would usually be. One fish was still alive and was flopping about, then the chefs set to work and one of them grabbed the fish that was flopping about and ripped open it's outer skeleton to get at the red meat inside, it was killed instantly as the chef then pulled the meat out from the fish.
Then the dream jumped to the next morning and I was going for my breakfast in the same resturant, again I was lead behind the VIP curtain, sat down at the table and given a free meal. I can't remember what I had to eat. Then the dream jumped once more, I was in a market place where for some reason I bought a large printer. The money being used by both me and the person selling me the printer, it looked like this:

These were something I thought of in a daydream, not only do they show that you are an archer they show your level of accuracy, the aim is if you can flip the coin, fire an arrow and get it through the hole in the middle then you are a skilled archer. In this context though they were used as a currency.
There was also what appeared to be a small box of cards but it was empty and had the number 92 on it. I think this represented a note, similar to a £5 note. Then workers started loading bits of this printer into the small truck next to me. there was one part that looked like an oversized grenade.
The dream ended here. (Full dream- 1 point)

I became lucid several times during the night, but the millisecond I realised I was dreaming I woke up. There was no time to panic or to stabilize so I'm not going to class those as lucid dreams. Oh well I'll have more tonight.

Right I have now recorded a weeks dreaming, I'm also going to copy this to my dream journal and hopefully gain a few points for it

11/12/11
Cannot recall dream.

12/12/11
A friend was waiting for me outside of my workplace. (Fragment- 0.5 points)

13/12/11
I was on the bus going home, I was sat next to this group of girls who were trying to get to know me. I watched as the bus sailed straight past my stop so I had to get off in the next village instead. Once I got off I decided to go to my friends so I could phone home. Another of my friends was there so I said hi, then I walked out onto a large expanse of patio to find all of my old school friends. Two of them found me and they both hugged me really tightly (They're girls). Then I walked home without my stuff that I had with me when I was on the bus and at my friends. When I arrived home my brother had a load of mates over. I told him to help me move this rubbish and he said no. I tried to compromise with him but in the end gave up. I then wrote a word in alphabet spaghetti but I can't remember what it said. Then I went back for my stuff.
The dream ended here. (Full dream- 1 point)

14/12/11
Cannot recall dream

15/12/11
Cannot recall dream

16/12/11
Cannot recall dream

17/12/11
Cannot recall dream

18/12/11
-Hypnosis food
-Underwater base

Dream 1: Hypnosis food

I was in a shopping centre, there were lots of people around me. Then people started taking this food and eating it (I can't remember what the food was but it was something red and you can eat it in real life.) Then these same people formed lines at the doors, like barricades they stood there in a militant fashion looking quite scary. I also ate some of the food but not enough to be hypnotised, The little amount I did eat gave me an idea of what they were planning to do. I decided I needed to get out so I barged past the lines of people who for some reason had now started dancing. When I got outside I found myself on a tennis court, I ran over to the other side just in time to see a woman follow me out of the door and onto the tennis court. She picked up a tennis racquet and motioned for me to do the same. When I'd got my tennis racquet two people with nets appeared either side of me. The woman served but not with a tennis ball, she used the red food that I tried earlier. They were trying to force me to eat it. I prepared to hit it back with my racquet but the food flew straight into the net which the person on my right was holding. I saw my chance and jumped down from the raised platform which the court seemed to be on, I landed softly on the dust covered ground below. I looked around to find that I was now in a childrens playground, unfortunately the woman did the same and went to stand behind some wickets. I took up the challenge and picked up the cricket bat that was on the floor next to me. The woman bowled, again not a ball but the food she'd also used to serve in the tennis match earlier. I hit the food at a high speed but I caught it wrong and it went spinning off to the right. I got annoyed because I didn't hit it properly and I threw the bat down. Unfortunately a kid was stood next to me and the bat collided with his knee. I made sure he was ok before running off. I ended up jumping on peoples heads to get away.
The dream ended here. (Full Dream- 1 point)

Dream 2: Underwater base

I was running through a forest, dodging between the trees. I came to a large river , I ran to the edge and suddenly appeared at the other side (Teleporting?- 10 points.) I looked to the left to see the arch of a bridge which was half covered by mud. (I realised I'd been here before.) I went underneath the arch to find myself in an underwater base and because I'd been here before I fitted into the team perfectly. The team were a group of 5 or 6 people all of them teenagers who worked in and looked after the base. There was always a large underwater creature swimming around the base. Always waiting for the right moment to destroy the base and us. Today he got that moment, the next thing I know alarms are going off and there is an almighty banging coming from one wall of the base. Suddenly water came flooding in and we all had to swim to the surface. We swam up to the arch which was the entrance to the base. We all made it except one; two boys and two girls, we were missing one of the girls. Since I had already regained my breath I swam back down to help her since she couldn't swim too well and she was rapidly running out of air. I grabbed her hand and pulled her upwards with unbelievable strength (Super strength?- 4 points) considering we were underwater. We both hit the surface at the same time and I held her above the water so she could breath. We all climbed out onto the embankment making sure that everybody was ok and trying to regain our breath. We then got up to find a new location for our new base. My point of view changed to that of a birds eye where I could place the new base. It was a little bit like building something in the sims. We went into our new base which I had place on the edge of a port. When we got inside we looked around, the place was large but nearly bare except for two pieces of equipment. One of them seemed to be a scanner of some kind. I went and plaugged in the other one to find that it was a radar. The screen turned on to show several fish and what seemed to be sharks. Then on the screen appeared something huge that instantly wiped out all of the fish and sharks. I looked out of the top of the base to see a huge monstrous clam that was eating everything that swam by or got in it's way. I quickly alerted everyone inside that we neede to get out.
The dream ended here. (Full dream- 1 point)

NOTES:
The girl who I saved from drowning had long black hair, this seems to be a common theme in my dreams, I have a feeling that she could be my dream guide or someone who means something to me.

Had a terrible week with recall, I hope it gets better soon
Any questions please feel free to reply (cause I know this is a long post)