International Oneironaut Shared Dreaming Journal

Puffin's Dreams

Dream fragment 1 (regular dream):

There was much more to this dream, but I can't remember what. From the part I remember, it was nighttime, and I was at the bottom of a sheer cliff; this cliff was probably only 100 feet tall and was made of dark brown rock. In front of me stretched an ocean of very dark water; the sky was fairly dark but not like it would be in the middle of the night, and gradated to a lighter, almost green-blue on the horizon, where the water was. I was standing on a smooth, mint green piece of 'land' which had a wavy edge on one side. There were ripples of white in it, and the entire thing was shiny. I stepped on it and the land cracked into three pieces; two of them were large and the other piece was rather small. I don't remember what happened after that; I know that I didn't end up going in the water, though.

Dream fragment 2 (regular dream):

I was on my bed, and had just 'woken' from a previous dream. I decided to get up and do something else, but I was stuck in sleep paralysis. I got some weird hallucinations; when I opened my eyes near the beginning of the episode, I saw tiny stars from the mario games that were floating near the ceiling. I remember squeezing my eyes shut and being in a large garden with trimmed hedges, light grey stone for walkways, and lots of pollen in the air. That must have been the 'dream' that was forming, but I soon lost it.

I came to the unconscious conclusion that I was dreaming, and tried to snap out of it, on the verge of shouting because the SP hallucinations were becoming frightening (these ones were mostly tactile, not visual - my eyes were closed now). However, the lucidity was ridiculously low, so I will not be counting it as an LD. The viewpoint changed from first- to third-person about midway through the dream.

Dream fragment 3 (very poorly-remembered DILD):

This was a longer semi-lucid that probably clocked in at around 8 minutes, although I can't remember next to anything about it. One thing I do remember is doing the nose-plug RC, but I don't know where I was at the time. Skip a few minutes forward and I was now doing stabilization exercises. I was walking into an underground subway station; it was essentially a large room with a fairly low ceiling; the entire thing was made of darker grey concrete that was almost shiny. The lighting was poor (in other words, dim), with a dark yellow tone to it. The concrete was stained and looked fairly decrepit. On one side of the floor, going from one rectangular hole in the wall to the other, was a clean, normal-looking indent for a subway. I was walking through a tight hallway, made of the same concrete, to get to this room. The hallway was probably only 2 feet wide, and only twice my height. On the left, I was running my hand along the wall as I walked, because it was covered in transparent patches of ice, and white frost that looked very real. I remember marveling at how cold and realistic it felt.