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At some point last night I woke up to hearing rain outside my window. It was coming down pretty hard ( my husband says it disn't rain last night though) When I fell back to sleep I realized I'd entered into a dream sequence and decided to go lucid. I was exhausted last night, I thought to wake myself up and write down the details but I chose not to. I just tried to recall the couple details that seemed worth remembering... But its still foggy, should have written it all down. I went lucid and flew out the bedroom window into the storm. Everything was black and white though I dream in colour most always. I entered a kind of town square where a large statue stood (the statue reminded me of a dream Id had back as a kid, it was also a storm and I was in a bedroom with bunkbeds but it was empty otherwise, the window had been open and the curtains blew in with the rain and wind. I looked out and with a flash of lightening saw a stone angel with a dagger in its hand in a garden) the statue wasn't really a focus for me because I was determined to continue my quest for a spirit guide. I didnt really speak my intentions out loud, just thought them and lightening struck. It was a bit scary actually and I said then out loud to whatever was there that it didn't have to show itself if it didn't want but what was it's name I asked. I got a name. I tried to repeat it in my head and remember it in my dream.. It was Pronounced Hi-dan.. Sounded like Hiedi but not Hiedi. I wondered if it was a feminine name or not because I'm pretty certain I feel a very masculine prescence. Anyway, then I'm in front of a turtle, and it's telling me that it's giving me this thing ( looked like an axe handle maybe but instead of an axe head it has like a cord wrapped around in a circle and there are two ends of the cord that cross at the bottom) and I'm told I can ask for something. So I asked to be successful and have a happy life. Then I think I hit deep sleep again

Not a lot of physical details to this dream. I went into it with the idea of all those subliminal messages and affirmations one can listen to when they sleep. I'm having a nap and I put my headphones on with a playlist from youtube of swlf affirmations on. This stuff usually bleeds through inyo my sleeping mind so I was preparec when it dis and grasped onto the affirmation with a lucid effort to take it a step farther. It was like an inward journey with me taking the affirmation and directing it intentionally into my sub conscience. Of course I don't know how to do that but that's the magic of dreams. You don't have to know how it's going to work as long as you believe it will. I focused as hard as I could on the affirmations, not the dream. It was like sleeping but being completely awake and meditating on a particular thought. I imagined feeling a bit dizzy from the effort of trying to reprogram my head.
I've just read that buhdist monks and eastern Hinduism used licid dreaming as a tool for spiritual cominion and growth. Now Im wven morr interested in what I can do with these dreams.
No time for edits so hope this is legible

This dream is from about a week ago so I don't have the best recall now, maybe I'll start keeping a dream journal.
I was in a large castle that opened up into a pool. I became lucid when I dove into the pool and started breathing under the water. I dove down just to explore because it was beautiful and crystal clear. Somehow I knew that it would open up to the ocean deep below. I swam back to the top , (the castle was familiar to me) and because I knew I was dreaming I wanted to try something I havent done before. I tried to send myself into another universe. Maybe that will seem odd but I'm a curious person and I want to see what I can do. I found myself projecting through space but I didn't find what I was looking for. That's about when I heard the bedroom door open and my husband come bumbling through the room.
I kept still and re-entered back into another lucid dream where I was playing with astral projection. I leave my body and fly in my dreams but I don't know that it's anything astral. I also fly withought leaving my body. I wanted to try astral intentionally to see if I could become aware with clarity of my surroundings. I left my body and was blind. I could only see fog so I decided to focus on my other senses instead. I reached out and slowly trailed my hand through the air, it was cool and felt dampish like I was in a cloud. I felt around and it ended when my I touched anothers hand that took mine. It was warm and that's all I recall.