lucid

First off, I'd like to thank Kraom for mentioning the SSILD technique to me, and whoever mentioned the underwater breath-holding technique on #DVA last night. Now, I did not wake up to journal these techniques (since I was trying to chain dreams together via the DEILD technique), but here is what I remember.

I woke up 5 hours after falling asleep. Began to do the SSILD reps, and when I fell back asleep, I was in a wildly vivid dream. I knew I was there for a reason, sort of a half-lucidity. Eventually I decided it was time to take full control of the dream. The setting was in this wooded area, with log houses and dirt roads. I was flying down the dirt roads and hurling fire at the houses, so I was lucid for most of the dream, yet I never had that "Eureka" moment when I go directly from non-lucid to lucid in an instant, often waking me up. Anyway, walk into a house, and there is a dark room. I remember writing on Monday that I wanted to speak with my Anima. I yelled out "I want to talk to my Anima!" This was astonishing for 2 reasons:
1) I've never yelled out or really used my dream voice before when lucid.
2) When I did this, a wave of color swept over the room.
There in front of me, stood my best female friend from high school. She started talking, but I couldn't make out the words, and the dream faded rapidly.

Normally this is where I wake up. Not this time!
I layer completely still and didn't open my eyes. HI started engulfing my vision, and soon enough, I was in another dream! The only thing I remember about this lucid is that I had sexy time with a smoking hot girl

I woke up early this morning and went back to sleep. I thought I woke up again, and was just laying in bed. All of a sudden, a voice came out of nowhere (sounded like the voice of Barney Stinson, which makes sense because I was watching How I Met Your Mother before I went to bed last night) and said "You're dreaming." I was immediately overwhelmed by excitement and realized the voice was right. I sprung up and stood (or maybe floated) on the bed. I was in a dark room, with no furniture or anything on the walls. I was about to spin around, but the dream quickly destabilized and I woke up.

I'm very pleased to say I had my 2nd lucid in 2 nights last night! The conversation and reading in DV must be helping, and I thank you all.

So I begin the dream driving in my car, looking for a version of a song on my iPhone that was done by an old friend of mine. Keep in mind, he's neither a musician nor someone I currently talked to. After not being able to find it, I quickly realize I'm dreaming. I keep driving around, and eventually pull into a house at a corner, trying to envision my friends being there before I get out of the car. I get out, and Jonah Hill walks out the door! Two of my old friends from high school pull up next to my car as I step out. As soon as I get out of the car, I spin around to try to stabilize the dream (a technique that I forgot last night). Not sure if it worked, I start floating around in the air, doing summersaults and backflips mid-air in his driveway. Jonah keeps telling us to come inside, as he's watching a Steelers vs Rams game. I know this because I looked down and saw I was wearing a Ben Roethlesberger jersey (which I don't own in waking life), and he had a rams jersey. I could see the TV in his garage, but I was having too much fun floating and flying around the driveway. Eventually, I floated up to the 2nd floor deck type of thing. I decided to spin again to try to stabilize the dream more. This time, it backfired. Instead of stabilizing it, the world started spinning as usual. I opened my eyes, and I was back in bed. Did a reality check in the hopes of a false awakening. Nope, wide awake.

Last night, I was successful in having my first FILD (finger induced lucid dream). After doing the finger movements, I plugged my nose to reality check, and I could breath!

Everything was dark at first, but I remained calm, and a beautiful scene materialized around me. The scene formed a long, bleach white path way, with symmetrical white streetlights on each side. My brother was also there from the start. I told him I was lucid, and he did not seem to realize he was a dream character. We started walking down the path, and I saw a shiny, box shaped white house on the left of the path. I told him, "Hold on, I'll be back in five minutes." He voiced his disapproval, but nonetheless, I opened the door into the house. The hallway, like the rest of the dream scene, was very glossy and white. To my left was yet another door, and I opened it and walked through. It looked to be a bedroom from the short glance that I got at it. As soon as I entered, the dream destabilized. I felt overwhelming frustration with myself at this point, knowing this is how my lucids typically end, yet not having done anything supernatural within the dream yet. Next thing I knew, I was awake.