lucid

I walk into something like Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. There are many adults standing at the entrance and I immediately get an eerie feeling. I feel that I have been here before and that there is a menacing overtone. The colors are bright and vivid, but there is a slight sickly hue to them. I look up, and there are ominous grey, swirling clouds above. I get the feeling that this place is designed to lure kids in and kill them.
I pull a small, yellow gumdrop from a bush to eat it. As I am about to eat it, I realize I am concentrating on imagining what a gumdrop taste like. I realize it is a dream and become lucid. I eat the gumdrop anyway and it tastes like nothing. Even though I am lucid, I cannot remember my stabilization techniques or any goals, so I stay in the dream.
Next, I am in a dark room, a secret backroom of the candy factory. Lauren and another girl are there. We have guns and are setting traps to free the kids. There is a door with a glass window on the back of the room. At some point this morphs into another landscape and turns into another dream.

Now, I am standing outside a large building with a group of people. I realized I had fallen back into the dream, but become lucid again. I look at my hands to stabilize,, then shoot up into the sky. I hover for a secon high in the air and look down at the clouds below me. They are turbulent and breathtakingly beautiful. Rolls of grey merge flecks of rainbow.
I find the dream hard to stabilize doing this, so I return to the ground and tell everyone there this is a dream. I attempt to prove it by hovering in lotus position, but everyone seems unimpressed. I then remember I want to find my DG, and go flying around, yelling for him.
I fly through an airport and up an escalator. I hear someone saying "guide" and ask fi they know about my dream guide. They are only talking about tour guides, though

Strange RV and House
I climb in an RV. There are clothes everywhere. I notice that the piles of clothes are organized by color order the exact same way I organize mine - some even resemble clothes I own. All of the curtains are drawn, so I pull them back to let in some light, then head to the front of the RV to drive. I drive with ease. As I drive, the RV seems to be getting smaller. Eventually, I end up walking with a strange, mini RV strapped to my shoulders. I am in a house now and look in a mirror. I am now a boy (who kinda looks like Justin Beiber). I take of the "RV" and go into the nearby bathroom. There are tow doors. I walk over to close the other door. This door leads to another, secret room. I decide to explore. It is an opulent room that looks familiar. A woman who looks a little like Morgan Fairchild is sitting on a couch, petting a Pomeranian. I compliment her on her house and tell her it is like a maze. She says, yes, they designed it that way.
Next I am reading a chart on how this house induces dreams.

Fragments

• A see a vision of "The Star" tarot card and hear a voice saying "Focus on the God of Dreams"
• Boxes
• Glitter explosions
• Alyzarin sends me a "lover" request on DV. (I guess its kinda like a friend request.) It turns out to be a mistake. She ment to send me a request to help her find missing peices of a red shoe.

03.14.12
Lucid
(Sivason posted a technique for retraining your brain to WILD. Instead of doing the technique as intended, I somehow practice it during a FA and achieve a lucid.)

FA - I am lying in bed watching the back of my eyelids, I am surprised to realize that I can easily create light to form a hand and arm. Movement comes effortlessly also. I easily step out of my "sleeping body" and a dream forms around me. I know I am in a dream, but don't realize that the body I just stepped out of was a dream body as well. As the dream forms around me, I realize I am in my room, although some details are different. I step through the mirror in my bedroom. I end up in black void. I stay in the void for awhile, then form a dream around me. I am back in my house again. I keep trying different mirrors in the house, but the mirrors keep putting me in void, which coalesces back into the house. I run into my mom (who lives in another city, not with me) and am surprised that she can see me - thinking she is in a WR body and I am in an astral body. Eventually, I decide to just jump out a high window and fly around a bit. I continue to spend most the dream flying around
I fly through a window of one building. I see a bed with a boy around 12 or 13 sleeping. The bed is next to a glass window with a really great view. I hover over the bed and sit on the window ledge, ready for the next jump. Suddenly, the boy wakes up and asks me who I am and what I am doing here, and tells me he is very sick. I tell him I am a dreamer and can heal him. I place my palm above him and began shooting blue energy out of my palm until he is completely bathed in it. When I am done, he thanks me and tells me he is already feeling better.
I jump out his window and start flying about again. I fly over many breathtaking landscapes. Once is a city full of skyscrapers, only instead of the usual grey, each is a different brilliant color.
I keep bouncing off houses, then realize I have a dream goal. My goal was to visit my dream guide again. I remember Sivason's advice to call out to your dream guide and say "I am ready." I call out loudly as I fly "Dream Guide, please come to me, I am ready to learn." This is one of the first dreams where I can fully yell with my dream voice. I test my newfound voice and yell, "Hellllooooooo!" The sound is surprisingly loud and clear and ripples across the dreamscape. I look around as I'm flying and see no sign of my DG. I am still rather unfocused, even though I am lucid and know my goal. I land and contemplate flying into space, but then realize that it would be rude to call for my DG, then leave.
Somehow, next I am in a large, wooden room. I am not sure how I ended up here. There is a dream plot about the people there throwing me a party. I keep trying to fly through the roof, but keep meeting resistance. Unable to escape, I end up giving into the dream plot. I see a pretty girl at the party, fly over to her, pick her up, and start waltzing with her in the air.
Possibly, still at the party, I am standing on a high kitchen counter, in front of a cupboard. I realize the orange earplugs I fell asleep in are in my ear. I take them out and throw them on the floor. As I do, they turn into shipping peanuts. Soon as I pluck them out, however, another pair appears. I continue to pull them out and toss them on the floor until the floor is covered in shipping peanuts, only to continuously have a new pair reappear in my ear. I consider holding my nose, blowing, and popping them out my ear, but decide to just not focus on them instead.

Fragments

• I have a threesome in a jacuzzi
• Noelle and I are living in a house with a bunch of guys. They are eating and there are dirty socks on the table. I ask them to take their socks off the table.
  Later, the guys put on a show for us where they are all wearing these large afros.

Meeting my Dream Guide
I am at a dreamer's school. I am semi-lucid. I know it is a dream, but don't have complete control. The teacher is an old man with leathery, brown skin. The are other beings with me in the class that resemble humans, but with blue skin. (Looking back, I believe these are Dakinis). I missed the class on Tibetan Dream Yoga. Although I missed the class, my teacher provides me with a strange hat that will aid me in Tibetan Dream Yoga techniques. I tell him I don't deserve this since I wasn't even in the class. He responds that he knows I have the most potential and wants em to wear the hat. He places this strange hat on my head. It seems to be made of brass wires. It sits ontop a piece of the top of my head and circles my face, clasping under my chin. Immediately, my head feels heavy and starts to fall fackwards. I am sitting in lotus position on the gorund and start slowly rotating. I have a sense that I am about to "apprehend the dream". I see the dream dissolving away. A bright, white light starts emanating from my third eye and engulfing everything. I can see and feel my body dissolving away, each part of me slowly wisps away like dust. I am left no body, no dreamscape, no thoughts even, just pure awareness in a white void.

Flying with Dakinis
I am with the Blue Dakinis from the previous dream. I am semi-lucid in this dream as well. We are flying on a platform, possibly a magic carpet. I am able to direct the carpet with my energy.

More Fragments

• I am in a house full of people. Many of teh people there are other lucid dreamers. There are two women there who want to learn to lucid dream. I get a bad feeling about them and feel they want to learn for malicious reasons. I use my energy to send them nightmares next time they sleep.
• Someone gives me Radiohead tickets.
• I am testing out my newly repaired car, driving down a long, windy road. It is a road I know, but everything looks totally different.

• True Blood Dream
• 2 FA's about waking up and writing in my DJ
• A tall, blonde girl has a crush on Noelle. The blonde girl and I are walkign outside a house. We both hear Noelle's voice from outside. She is immediately excited just from hearing Noelle's voice and wants to go inside. When we go inside, she starts trying to flirt with Noelle. I grab Noelle and start kissing her to show the girl that we are together. Noelle, a little embaressed and oblivious to the other girl's attraction, pulls away.
  Later, Noelle and I are in a bedroom together and I tell her that it hurt me when I was kissing her and she pulled away.
• I awake in a bed, well a mattress on a floor. As I drowsily open my eyes, I see a chicken walking around my room. Unsure of where I am, I start calling first for my Mom, then my sister, then Noelle. Noelle comes in and I ask her why there is a chicken in my room. More chickens start coming in the house as well as cats, and one small rat. I go outside and there are lots of chickens there as well. I am afraid that one will peck me. As soon as I feel this fear, one charges at me, attempting to peck me. I leap in the air and land balancing on top of a pole, ninja style.
• I am at a bank negotiating a loan. I explain to the banker that my bank is Citibank and is located in California. He takes me to another banker, but suddenly we are in the food court at a mall. His large bank-like desk is located in the middle of the food court. I tell him as well that my bank is located in California. On his desk are many tiny hats made of straw. Each hat has a country or state on it Since I lived in Cali, he tells me I have to wear the Cali hat. He gives me a little hat to wear that has a picture of a palm tree and the California Bear on it. I put on the hat and walk into the mall's food court. I walk up to a table and start talking to the people there, only to realize that I am wearing just a t-shirt and underwear. I realize that I am in a dream, but am not fully lucid. I decide I want to change my clothes and remember some tips from DV on dream control. I walk into the bathroom and take off my clothes. I decide I want to wear a blue halter maxi dress. I reach behind my neck like I am tying material and create the top of my dress. I guide my hands down my body and as I do, little blue particles come emanate from my hand and materialize into a dress.
• I am following two people up a maze-like series of metal stairs and elevators. I got the sense that there has been some sort of apocalypse or disaster and they are leading me to safety. The pair is dressed in black and grey punk clothes and are both wearing hoods so that I cannot see their faces. They are connected in some way, but I am not sure if it is as brother and sister or as lovers. There are running faster than humanly possible. If I concentrate on them, I can run just as fast as they are with ease; if I look away, I immediately slow down. I look away and start to fall behind and loose them. I ask if they are trying to outrun me. They say no, they are trying to help me. They lead me up a final set of stairs then disappear into a crowd of people. A few minuets later, a large white man approaches me, trying to hit on me and puts his arms around me aggressively. I start pushing him away. Another man, a large black man wearing a cool jacket, tells him to leave me alone. The white guy leaves. I thank the black man and compliment him on his jacket.
• Something about my sister and pink cupcakes.
• Matt S and I are in a large thrift store. We are in some kind of Project Runway type challenge. We are given a rack of clothes that we have to deconstruct and use to make a new outfit. We do this for Matt, then realize that we have to make on for me also. We start mine, but realize the group next to us is doing something similar, so change our plans. This cause us to not finish on time. We have to show an audience our outfits next. I don't realize it at the time, but the clothes are constantly changing through the whole dream.

Loud Girls
My sister, my parents, and I are staying as guests in a large house. There are many other girls around my age staying there as well. They are being rude and disturbing my family's sleep by being very loud late into the night. They are downstairs partying, and my family is upstairs sleeping. One girl refuses to be quite, even after I asked everyone to quiet down. I walk down the stairs and punch her repeatedly in the face, but none of the punches have much effect on her.

Fountains
I am at "work", but everything looks completely different. There are beautiful red and white fountains everywhere. Everyone who is normally a brunette has a large, blonde streak in her hair.

Energy Escalators
I am traveling somewhere with my parents. I notice my luggage keeps changing - and I keep having two mismatched shoes. I don't become fully lucid, but I have a vague sense of it being a dream and being able to control things. I am on a moving walkway. I realize I can change and direct it with my energy. The moving walkway bends and goes up, down, and around. I feel I reach a new level of dream control. Instead of just thinking or willing something to happen, I can feel an energy carrying me forward and begin to guide the energy like levees around a river. As I do this, the walkway changes around me without me actively willing the change. It feels more like surfing, not god-like control.

Fragments

• Another dream about my sister
• A guy with a pickup truck
• A dress with mirrors in the pockets
• A creepy amusement park-like ride

I attempted a WILD, but achieved a DILD instead. My current dream goal had been to meet Nietzsche (my favorite philosopher) and have a conversation with him. At this point in my quest, I had become less interested in talking to Nietzsche, and more concerned with completing a dream goal and learning to find or summon someone in a dream.

I start off in a non-lucid dream. I am in a house when I hear a name said aloud and know it is the name of my goddess. (Unfortunately, the name now eludes me.) I call her name and start climbing up the side of a cabinet up towards the ceiling. I float up and start to push through the ceiling. I attempt to do this with my eyes open, but it produces very strange sensations and only causes the ceiling to move up a bit like rubber. I close my eyes and it works. I start flying around and become lucid while in flight - a startling and exhilarating experience.
I remember my dream goal to meet Nietzsche. Instead of creating a portal like I had previously been trying, or making a magic circle and summoning him like I intended when I went to sleep, I decide to try a different method. First, I call to him loudly, but yelling while I'm flying around somehow doesn't feel right. Also, it is nighttime and I am soaring over houses, so I decide not to disturb my little DC's that might be asleep below me. I also notice that if I concentrate on something else to hard I start to waiver a bit in my flight (which has never happened before). I whisper into the sky "Bring me to Nietzsche."
I dip into the roofs of one of the houses, look around, then leave. I do this to another house and find a group of guys balancing on beams in an attic. I leave this house as well.
I dip into another house and perch on the top of a post of a large, strange, wooden bunk bed. Each bed contains a little girl asleep in it. The girl in the bottom bunk crawls out of bed and looks up at me. Involuntarily, I turn me mouth and teeth into a monsters mouth full of long, sharp pointed teeth, snarl at her and scare her back into bed.
I start to fly away, but am drawn back. I ask the little girl in the top bunk if she knows where Nietzsche is. She sleepily says, no. I crawl down and an older girl, probably their baby sitter, is awake in a chair across form their beds.
I ask her the same question. "Yes," she replies. I ask if she knows where he is and if she can take me to him. She answers in the affirmative to both the questions. She leads me out the room, through a series of rooms, through a closet, into another room. Nietzsche is in this room. Sitting next to him is a younger boy who seems to be taking care of him. His hair is disheveled and he has his characteristic mustache, however, he is wearing modern clothes - a red track suit.
He is sleeping sitting up in his chair. I walk up, sit across from him and try to rouse him. He is very gruff with me. I ask if he is indeed Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. "Yes," he answers in a thick German accent, "What of it?"
I tell him how it has been my dream goal for sometime to meet him and I have been searching for him for almost two months.
"Two months! Humph!" he exclaims.
"Is that a long time?" I ask
"Well, I suppose it is not so bad," he replies.
"Do you have any advice for dreamers?" I ask.
"Just...fix the universe!" he says before walking off, and the dream ends.

After WBTB, I had a second short lucid the same night as Strange Conversations With Sharon.

I become lucid in a small bedroom. There is a large bed with tall wooden posts and a white, fluffy duvet. I climb up to the top of one of the posts then jump off and float down to the bed very slowly, like a feather. I plop on the fluffy duvet and a pillow and the dream ends.

I don't remember the first part of my dream or how I became lucid, but I do remember the moment of awareness and trying to tell another DC. Everything was still kinda fuzzy and not as vivid as it usually is in a LD. I am in a landscape where it is dusk and the sky looks purple. I remembered reading about investigating where dream light comes from, so I start to look around for a moon or light source, but don't see one - everything does seem to have an inherent glow. I remember my goal of wanting to talk to Nietzsche - so I teleport to Germany and his house. As I am traveling through the teleport tunnel I can't remember his exact city or what year he lived and felt like I should have known this to be able to teleport to him. I do succeed, however, and end up in his house. I sit down at a table to talk to him. The dream is very unstable, and I don't remember the conversation.
I walk outside and decide to start looking for a light source again. This time it is daytime and there is a sun, but the sky is strange and there's still a patch of darkness. I feel the sun somehow isn't "real", so I reach up and pluck it form the sky. When I place it on the ground, it looks like a raw egg yolk. I look around, then put it back in the sky - certain that this daytime landscape has an inherent glow also. I lose lucidity sometime after this.

I am in a public bathroom putting on makeup. I walk out form where the mirrors were. Even though I saw the women's bathroom sign when I walked in, there are now guys in the bathroom. I walk out to make sure it is a women's bathroom, but the sign has also changed and now says men's. I walk back in and the bathroom has now turned into a locker room. I realize this is weird and suddenly become lucid.
I then fall through a tunnel made of brick walls with little bristles coming out form them. I feel the dream start to fade, so I rub my hands together. I spin around in the tunnel and the dream solidifies even more. I fall through a portal to a park. The details are very vivid. Unfortunately, the grass in the park is dry and looks like it needs to be watered - not a pretty sight. I see a blue haired girl across the park that I believe is a fairy. I hear a name in the dream, but can't quite make it out - it's something like Adelle, Amelie, or Amelia. The blue haired girl leaves, so I fly to a street where I thought she had walked. I start talking to a blonde-haired girl. I feel the dream start to fade and am aware of my body in bed. I want to have sex with the blonde-haired girl and I wake up.

I am in a bedroom with yellow walls. My Aunt Deb is there along with a man who looks a little like Herman Cain. I don't remember the exact moment of becoming lucid, but realize when in the dream and try to tell the other DC's. I walk up to a mirror with the intention of getting to a higher level dream. I am immediately in a black void. I can't see my body, but can still feel it. I feel that I am traveling through a tunnel. My speed keeps increasing until I fell I am traveling at light speed.. The tunnel ends in a black sea. I must have had a FA sometime after this and lost lucidity.

I had been out of lucidity practice for a while. The previous week, I decided to rededicate myself to the practice. This particular morning I had forgotten I was scheduled to be at work an hour and a half latter than usual, so had set my alarm clock much too early. When it went off, I got up and stayed awake for about 30mins before going back to bed. I remembered to clear my mind and set my intention for lucidity.
I found myself in a non-lucid dream. I was a passenger in a car my mom was driving. She was driving down a highway, taking me to work. I begin to feel tired in my dream and told her I was going to take a quick nap. I lent back my car seat and went to sleep.
I immediately woke into another dream. I immediately knew this was a dream, however, I still believed myself in the car with my mom was my waking reality. The dream in all senses was extremely vivid and felt like a higher level dream. I had a sense of forces swirling around me, as I do in most of my lucid, extremely vivid dreams.
I was in a hallway in a house, with two bedroom doors ajar to my left. I entered one of the bedrooms. I was absorbed with the intensity of the details. I can still recall every detail - the color of the wall, bedspread, and rug, the type of bed and furniture placement. This level of vividness would continue through the rest of the dream and the dream following.
It was a small room with a queen size bed, and had things littered about the room. The bed and the floor were covered in shoes. Most of the shoes were Nike running shoes in a size six or seven. Several of the shoes would flicker and change in details or change into a different shoe completely. This inconsistency didn't bother me, as I knew this was typical of my dreams. I examined the details of the room closely for several minutes - taken with the intensity of the realness. Even though I knew it was a dream - the colors were brighter and I could see more clearly than in my waking reality. Upon examination, I noticed the strange detail the all of the shoes were unworn.
I left the room and walked past the second room to the end of the hallway. I reached up to the ceiling and out of nowhere pulled down a ladder. I climbed up the ladder to the attic. There was a whole other expanse of rooms in the attic which seemed to be a completely other house. The first room had high, unadorned ceiling beams and looked like an attic. I walked through to the second room. There appeared to be a holiday party going on. A few people had on Christmas sweaters. Several where sitting on sofas, drinking. A middle-aged lady with a blonde bob who was sitting on the sofa told me to make myself at home. I walked into the kitchen and poured myself a drink in a plastic cup.
I walked into the next room. I can see outside was a balcony with more people on it. There was an upright piano in the room with an open piece of music on it. I sat down at the piano and played the entire piece. The song was beautiful. As I was playing I could somehow hear it simultaneously played on the clarinet in my head. I felt the song was already in me and the dream was just helping me realize it.
I woke up immediately after playing my song, surprised to be in my bed and not in a car. The song quickly faded from my mind before I could attempt to sing it, play it, or wright it down.