lucid

DILD#1-I know I caught a FA. The next thing I remember is that I was flying through the air trying to transform into a dolphin. I found a dolphin and was trying to phase into it but nothing was working. I woke up.

DILD#2-I woke up and walked to the kitchen to get a drink of water. Something seemed off, though so I decided to go into the backyard into the night and jump as a reality check. To my surprise, I flew. Looking for solid objects to phase through, I flew to the roof of a building. I found an interesting checkerboard wall that had squares of see through wood. I made sure it was solid by knocking on it before going through. I then flew into a nearby bay where I saw some dolphins before I woke up.

DILD#3-I woke up and did a nose plug to find I could breathe. I went outside and starting thinking about how I could control time. I went out the door and rotated my forefinger counter-clockwise to reverse time which worked. I then rotated my finger the other way while leaning backwards. This caused me to speed out the door without any effort. I flew to find a nice open are by a pool. I put my hand behind my back to summon a dolphin, making sure it was big enough. I ended up summoning a sort of dolphin-eel hybrid. It was plenty big, about 10-15 feet in length. I woke up.

DILD#4-I woke up and tried to breathe through my nose but couldn't. Still, something seemed off so I got up to go to the kitchen to find the layout of the house was different. I see a person who sees me and says "Okay. This guy has been sitting here with a match all day long." I was trying to figure out what he meant by this when I woke up.

During a routine awakening, I went to the restroom and back to bed. I laid on my back and started thinking about what I wanted in my next lucid dream. Before I was even finished thinking, I noticed a neon green blob of color had appeared in the middle of my closed eyelids. Not even relaxed yet, I settled into a bit of a more comfortable position on my back. I focused on the blob of color again, now ready. The blob vanished as stars filled the blackness. An evil sounding voice boomed, "WELCOME". A strong force took hold of me, flying me quickly through space to an earthlike planet. Speeding towards the ocean, the force slowed me down as I approached a small island with a city on it. "THIS IS THE ISLAND OF JOY," the voice continued. I was now in the city by a street where there was a big truck with a sign on top with a dollar amount on it. "IF YOU COMPLETE THE QUEST, YOU CAN WIN 1 MILLION DOLLARS." Yay! Dream money! I decided to play along. The voice then laid out my quest. He was now talking at a pace faster than I could comprehend, but from what I got from it, my quest was to retrieve some sort of object, go down a sewer and come up at an ice cream shop. Before I was sure what to do, I woke up.

I wake up at night and get out of bed. When I look at the time, I notice my clock isn't there. I do a nose plug and can breathe. I have the feeling I'm dreaming so I go outside and try to jump in the air to fly, which I do. I'm surrounded by high rise apartment buildings. I look for a spot that's well lit so I could see the DC I want to summon. I find a nice spot over an intersection. I put my hand behind my back and call for Destiny, the whale shark from Finding Dory. I feel a toothless mouth, and when I turn around, she's there. She was pretty dead on in terms of appearance, although I didn't take the time to look past her head, which was big. She has some sort of package on her head which I brush off. I ask her what her favorite dream was. She sounds like her as well, although she sounded depressed rather than energetic. She says her favorite dream was when she tore her elbow while protesting. Kind of a weird thing for a whale shark to say. I woke up.

My dreams have been a bit dark lately but they're getting better.

In case you're wondering about the DC I summoned, she shows up in the video below from 0:48-1:06. You can see why I thought it would be fun to hear a story from her.

DILD 1
I was at an intersection with my sister. It looked like there was a fire over the hills. We see what looks like a huge rocket fly into the sky. We look at it in awe as it flies around, gradually getting closer to us. We find it's actually more like a car as it almost hits us. I start to think "what if I'm dreaming" and realize I'm dreaming. I decide to attack the car by punching it. "Die! Die! Die!" The scene suddenly changes to me looking at the ground. I see some minty fresh gum, and eat it. Very minty! I jump up to fly but can't go too fast because my body is heavy. I look around and it's very overcast. The landscape had sort of an end of the world look to it. I woke up.
DILD 2
I wake up to the sound of a television. I don't have a television. I realize I'm in my grandmas house and stumble around, feeling dizzy. I remember my dream goal to summon a book and read the title. I put my hand behind my back but feel a hand instead. I spin around to see who it is and wake up.
DILD 3
A young lady and I are racing around a house down some stairs. I realize the house isn't mine and that I'm dreaming. I go outside and put my hand to my side and summon a book. A felt a hefty book and looked at the title. The title was in big letters and was short but I still couldn't read it. I turned the book upside down and could read the title. It read: Old Bot Book. I put it down and tried to summon paigeyemps but couldn't and woke up.

I was at an oceanside boardwalk amusement park. I was thinking it was the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, until I noticed there was no Giant Dipper. In it's place was a giant empty area with a cheap cart train going around. I also noticed I was sitting at a table with a female friend of mine. "Isn't it weird with Giant Dipper not being there?" I asked her. she said "No, it has Herpes in it's place." (Whatever that is) I got up to go to the ocean, which was conveniently right next to me. I found I was wearing a life jacket and took it off. I jumped in the ocean, which was clear, but crowded with DCs. I put my hand behind my back and called for a dolphin. I felt a beak and turned my hand around and the full-sized bottlenose was there. I tried to grab its dorsal fin to ride it but it swam away. I woke up.

I woke up in my bed when I found I had trouble moving. I tried to move and ended up flying out of my bed using my stuffed dolphin. I flew outside in the morning light. I noticed my shadow was that of a dolphin but when I looked at my body it was still human. I saw a freight train moving along. I like trains. I put my hand behind my back to summon a dolphin. I felt it's beak and turned around to see a nice full size bottlenose (about 8-10 feet long.) I tried to grab it's dorsal fin to ride it but I couldn't move fast enough and it ended up flying away. I turned my attention to time control. I saw the train let to a small city with some cars on a road. I first tried pausing time and fast-forwarding time which both didn't work. Then, I rotated my forefinger to rewind and fast-forward time. All of the cars went backward then forward respectively with the direction I spun my forefinger. I was trying to think of my next task when I woke up.

I was in a classroom as I sat down and got my books to start class. I realized I had hardly anything in my backpack. I thought about what I did in the past that made me forget and realized I was dreaming. I decided to stick out my hand and summon a pen, just for fun. I got up and walked towards the door, frustrated that my body was heavy and it was difficult to move. I tried to forget about as I noticed a young lady with short purple hair and a black eye sitting on a cabinet. I greeted her with "Hi sweetie!" and she responded with "Hi! Nice shirt!" I continued towards the door when I noticed a sign on it. I really wanted to remember it. It was an advertisement that said "Doom gloom tomb" or something like that. I woke up.

I wonder what was so nice about my shirt? I should notice this stuff more.

I was riding a bike around an oval indoor track. I started thinking about how this would be a good lucid dreaming technique, just imagining doing something repetitively until I'm dreaming. It dawned on me that I was dreaming. Still riding my bike, I found an exit door and plowed through it to go outside. I got off my bike and jumped up to fly. It was nighttime but it was cloudy so there were no stars. My body was feeling heavy, so flying into space wasn't looking too good. I thought maybe I could go underground into the void and go to space from there. I dove down into the ground and entered a void. As I was dropping, I could hear a fountain. I landed and saw I was now in a huge domed building. Below me was a giant pool with a couple of large fountains and what looked like a track to a water ride. I jumped down into the water and swam along the track. I found that it wasn't really a track, but more a rubber snake. The ride went into another room. I found the ride was like a storybook canal with intricate miniature sculptures of villages along the side. I was able to rotate my right forefinger in order to speed up time to go faster. After a few seconds of fast-forwarding, though it lost it's effectiveness. I was trying to make it work again, when I woke up.

WILD
I was trying to fall asleep my body started feeling heavy. I could hear some soft music and some people passing by outside the house. My bedroom faded into view in front of my closed eyelids. I got up and went outside into the night. I jumped up to fly. I looked at the stars and tried to pick out the one that looked brightest but couldn't. I tried to fly into space but couldn't, my body was too heavy again. I ended up just slowly flying around, exploring the neighborhood. At one point, I got into a house somehow and jumped up to phase through the ceiling back outside. It began to get light outside as I just flew around until I woke up.
DILD
I was looking at an indoor stage, trying to summon a dolphin. I walked down a hall and remembered my dream goal of flying into space. I went outside into the daylight and jumped up to fly. I focused on trying to fly past the clouds, but couldn't. My body felt heavy again. I noticed a sort of mirage in the distance which looked like a giant scene of a woman on top of a man. I tried to fly there, but my body was too heavy. I put my hand behind my back to try to summon a dolphin but couldn't. As I was repeatedly calling for a dolphin, I woke up.

I was trying to get my dog back into the house when I noticed that the house wasn't mine. I jumped up to fly. I was hoping there would be some stars but it was day time. I tried to summon a dolphin behind my back but nothing was appearing, except for a bi-plane that was barreling towards directly towards me. I was trying to avoid it when I noticed I was flying almost directly above a big bay. I decided to grab on to the planes wing as it approached me and used it to fling myself towards the bay. I dove down into the slightly murky water. I was amused to see a group of penguins walking around. I again put my hand behind my back to try to summon a dolphin. One was still not appearing. I called for a dolphin, bubbles coming out of my mouth. An orca appeared out of nowhere in front of me as I also felt a beak on my hand. I turned around to see that the bottlenose I summoned was a bit smaller than me. I woke up.

DILD#1
I woke up and noticed that I could see through my closed eyelids. I got up and towards the back door to go outside into the night. The moment I stepped outside I dropped and fell though the ground into a void. My body was being forced around, first gently, then suddenly shifting me in another direction, before taking me hard and fast. I could feel the G forces being pressed on my body as I looked at the dreamscape passing by, going too fast to identify anything. I waited to stop and feel solid ground. I finally did...directly in front of a guy standing on top of his head doing the spits. I walked around and noticed it was now sunny and I was at a fancy hotel pool party. The many DCs were middle aged and elderly, all in formal attire. There was some light dance music in the background. There was a big curvy pool that caught my fancy. I jumped in and began to swim around, enjoying the atmosphere. Then, I remembered I had dream goals. I scrambled to get out of the pool but woke up.
DILD#2
I was delusional. I had no idea where I was, or what I was doing. I tried to figure out how I got in this confined space at my Grandma's house but couldn't. I was thinking I was having a confusional arousal. This reminded me of dreaming which prompted me to do a nose plug. I could breathe. I got up out of the room though a small door which bumped into a car in the front driveway. I looked for a nice clear area and found one. Finally! No distractions! I got this! I put my hand behind my back and called for paigeyemps. I felt a hand, turned around and it was her. She was perfect. I greeted her enthusiasticly but she didn't look at me. She had a blank stare on her face, looking at something beyond me. I knew this was trouble, she was preoccupied. "I have to go" she says. I tried to stay in front of her but can't go fast enough and she walked away. I desperately cried for her. "No! No, Paigey! Come back! I love you! I love you! I love you!" I woke up.

Revenge of the DC
I wake up and notice I could sort of see with my eyes closed. I get up and go to the front entrance. I decide to try my trusty jump into the void RC which has never failed me. I jump but don't go anywhere. I look through the glass front door and see two postal workers approaching. They unlock the door and open it. From behind them, a man in a Dominos Pizza uniform approaches me and takes two dollars out of my shirt pocket while saying "My money." I wake up.
DILD
I'm walking upstairs with my dad when I randomly start thinking "What if I'm dreaming?" I recall the failure of my last RC and try to float in the air this time, which I do. My dad says to see what the cable cars outside. I fly downstairs to look out the front but don't see any cable cars. I could hear them though. I fly back up to my dad try to figure out what's with the cable cars. I wonder if I should call somebody to figure it out. I wake up.
WILD
I'm staring at the back of my eyelids while falling asleep when I notice some random text popping up in the darkness. I watch the dream being created. I get up from bed with the dream still a bit unstable but I hang in there. I put my hand behind my back with the intention of summoning a random female from DV. I feel a hand and turn around to see an attractive young lady that I don't recognize. I ask her for her name and she says it's Naiya. This throws me off because I don't know if it's Naiya because I don't know what she looks like. I know she's attractive though so I decided to make out with her. She's not into it at all, though. She's just standing there like dead weight. I back off and see she's turned real ugly, sort of like an alien. I'm like fine, be that way. I'll just summon another lady from DV. I put my hand behind my back, feel a hand, turn around and see a clone of the other girl. I ask her why they look alike and she looks at her clone as they both shrug as if to say "Well I dunno!" I've had enough of this and go away to try to summon just a random young lady. I feel a hand, turn around and see an old lady who looks like one of my Grandma's friends. She says greets me enthusiastically and comes up to kiss me. I wake up.

DILD 1-
I woke up to these two big guys invading the house. I tried to stop them but couldn't. I woke up in my bed. Frustrated I forgot to RC again, I did a nose plug. It sort of felt like I could breathe through but I wasn't sure. I got up and walked to the kitchen where I saw a former male co-worker of mine. I went outside into the night and jumped up to fly. I only got a couple of stories into the air when I saw a couple of kids leaving the house, one with money in his hand. I found that he was walking towards me so I lowered myself to the ground. I approached him and grabbed the money from his hand, which amounted to like, two dollars. "My money! My money! My money!" I thought. Then, it hit me that I had dream goals that I intended "What's my dream goal?! What's my dream goal?!" I thought. I woke up.

DILD 2-
I woke up in my bed to find that I could see though the blanket that was over my head better than usual. I got up to walk around. The layout of the house was similar yet seemed a bit different. I tried to do a little jump into the void as an RC. I jumped into the void. I tried to imagine the ocean but the house I was at faded back into view. I remembered to phase through a solid object. I saw the front door and tried to phase though it head on but couldn't. I grabbed the door handle and pulled it towards me until I was able to phase through it. I went outside into the daylight and shifted my attention to summoning a dv member. I tried summoning Ginsan in my eyesight but couldn't. Then I put my hand behind my back and started callin for a random dv member, growing increasingly frustrated that I couldn't summon anybody. I woke up.

I woke up from a dream and noticed I had a steak knife in my hand. I figured that's what incubated my previous dream about an infomercial for a steak knife sharpener. I remembered my intention to do an RC when I wake up. I did a nose plug and could breathe. I looked around and saw that my room was in a different layout. I got up and jumped into a void. From the blackness, I tried to imagine the ocean in order to create one. Instead, I ended up in another room. I tried again and got the same result. I called for a book and reached out to the side to be handed one. It was a somewhat hefty hardback book which had the title "If you're trying to figure out the science of what you're trying to do, slow down. I noticed I had lost my balance and was spinning all over the place. Undeterred, I tried to read the book but it was all too blurry and confusing. I woke up.

I had 4 LDs last night to reach #1000!

RelaxAndDream asked about this LD so I'll share it in case anybody else is curious about it.

I woke up from a dream and heard a child in my room screaming some nonsense. The little (Caribbean?) girl came up to me to where I could see a part of her from under my blanket. I tried to get up but could barely move. I asked her to pull the blanket for me so I could see. She pulled the blanket to reveal a male adult dc beside her covered with white make-up it seemed. I asked his name out of curiosity and he said something I couldn't understand. I asked which country he was from as he spoke with a bit of an accent. He said he was from France and Costa Rica. I woke up.

So, yeah, my 1000th LD was less special that I was hoping it would be. That's okay, though! I had plans to summon and eat a cake and then summon and ride a dolphin in search of a cave to explore, but barely being able to move and being distracted by DCs made a dent in those plans.

5 more LDs and I'll be up to 365 for the year. It's been about 3 in a quarter years since I joined Dream views. When I joined, my LD count was at 20.

As far as LD technique, I've gone back to simply setting my dream control intention and then staring at the blackness behind my eyelids until I start dreaming. With this, I had and caught 3 FAs last night. I've had multiple LDs the last few nights after a dry November and start of December so I'm excited about the future. I really want to get better at dream control and stabilization, though. It's kind of frustrating!