02.03.2010House (DILD) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I was walking home from a set of shops which was about five miles from my house. It was a beautiful sunny day, with a light breeze. I was walking through a suburban neighbourhood, when my friend Darren rang me. We started talking as I walked. A little bit farther along the street, I passed some of the cast of the tv show House. I've never watched an episode of House, and this got me thinking about why I would even run into him here. Then I remembered where I had seen him last- in the signature picture of one of the Dreamviews forum members! He must have gotten stuck in my head, and was making an appearance in my dreams now! I did a quick hand-RC, which confirmed my suspicions. I was still pretty far from my house, in an area which I barely knew. I wanted to get to somewhere there would be some more action, like a friend's house, my own, or the city centre. I decided not to do anything drastic, and just keep making my way towards home. It seemed a shame to waste such a nice day. I stayed on the phone to Darren, mentioned that I was dreaming and just saw Hugh Laurie, and started hovering. I got to waist-height, and flew off. I used my new flying technique, which is to imagine a force pushing me from behind. I can usually get up quite a lot of speed this way. I told Darren about my progress, and that I was on the way to see him- if I could just get there before I woke up. I was flying in the upright position down a hill, and wanted to take a shortcut over a fence and across a field (which would cut a massive corner), but I couldn't make myself go high enough to get over the fence! I told Darren about this and he responded with, "Bad times, man."
02.03.2010Incredibly Real FA (WBTB) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I was up for about half an hour, taking out rubbish and tidying stuff up, tiring stuff. I went back to bed with the intention of WILDing. It felt like a lot longer, but it took about 40 minutes to get anywhere- judging by the clock when I woke up. I got into a lucid dream which I can't remember at all. This was quite a bit before another set of dreams, and my memory of this one has deteriorated somethin' shockin'. I had a false awakening in my old house. This should initially have been enough to make me lucid, but I got one of those strange "false memories", which had me convinced that this was where I had fallen asleep. In reality, I havn't been in that house in three years. I really did think about the possibility of a false awakening, but it was so convincing that I just didn't bother reality-checking! I went to the window and looked out. It was night time. I blinked and opened my eyes widely, and woke up for real. I went for a DEILD. I hadnt quite woken up, but I knew where I was actually sleeping, and could just see the dark grey of the back of my eyelids. I gave no outward indication that I had woken up. I didn't change my breathing, shift position, or even twitch. This time, I didn't do my standard DEILD process of "tactile entry", but acted as if I was trying to do a standard WILD. I.e. just lie very still. I noticed sleep paralysis very quickly. I think it could have lasted up to ten minutes. During this time, I opened my eyes slightly, because I was pretty sure this wouldn't affect my progress. It didn't, and it was pretty weird to peek at the outside world while in such a deep trance. At one point, my face got itchy. I moved my arm up to scratch it. I felt my arm lift, and my nails on my cheek. The itch went away. It was only as I tried to put my arm back that I realised I hadn't actually moved at all. I had been moving my "dream body", and my arm was paralysed. The most bizzare thing was that I had used my non-physical body to successfully scratch an itch! I eventually went into another dream, which I've also forgotten.
01.03.2010Flashing Light (DEILD) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I had a false awakening in my living room. I was lying on the floor, sprawled out beside a Monopoly board. The rest of my family were playing. They asked if I wanted to join in, since they weren't long started, but I declined, saying that I wanted to go back to sleep. This was one of those odd FA's, where you're thinking about lucid dreaming, wondering whether or not you're asleep, but are too drowsy and lethargic to check. I fell back to "sleep" there anyway, and tried to WILD. What actually happened was that I woke up. My mum was playing the piano downstairs- much louder than usual, I noticed. I thought there was no way I would get back to sleep with that racket. I tried anyway, and got some serious dizziness right away. I could feel it in my head but nowhere else. For some reason, my old bedroom popped into my mind, and became very easy to visualise. I imagined myself tapping a rhythm on the desk, and typing something on the computer, which I think included the word "motherfucker", for some reason. :s There was no moment of nothingness, or "zoom" as my visualisations became "real", it just gradually solidified, and I found I could stand up and look around, rather than try to feel everything I could reach. I paused, and realised I could still hear the piano playing from downstairs. I tried clicking my fingers, clapping my hands and fiddling with the volume on my old stereo to turn it off, but nothing worked. Instead, the lights in my room started flashing on and off. But it wasn't just the lights. I looked out the window. The landscape was going from day to night and back again, as fast as the lights in my room were turning on and off. It sped up, and eventually settled at what looked like dawn, or maybe dusk. I turned away from the window, and saw an awesome-looking girl standing in the middle of the room. She was giving me a seductive look. I really wish I could pass on dream sex a bit more often and do something more worthwhile!
25.02.2010Roller Coaster Start (DEILD) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I was just waking up from a non-lucid dream where I was going to a theme park. Parc Asterix in Paris, to be exact. I was looking forward to going back on its biggest roller coaster, so I went for a DEILD. I wound up at the front of the queue with my friend Darren. There were two other people with us who I knew, but I can't remember who they are now. I got on the first seat I came to, and the harness came down. I was sitting beside Darren, who is a fellow adrenaline junkie. We set off with a jolt, along the white/blue track. We had just attached to the clanking chain part when my phone rang.
25.02.2010Jumping to the Party Shack (DILD) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I was making my way down to a shack out in the country, where lots of my friends were going for an impromptu party. The shack doesn't actually exist. I was on foot, climbing down rocky ledges and grassy hills. I'm not sure what caused it, but I became lucid out of nowhere. "Oh, so it's a dream!" I said. I knew to shack wasn't too far ahead of me, so I did a massive jump, like the Hulk. I've found that huge, barely controlled jumps are much more reliable than flying. If I can get a load of explosive power into each jump, I'll go for quite a long way. I soared over some burned out buildings in a field, and a few crowds of people. I jumped again, and noticed the crowds were getting bigger. After my third jump, I landed beside a group of my friends sitting on a ledge opposite the shack. I said hello to them all and looked over. The shack was actually a lot like the Weasley's house in the Harry Potter movies. Every floor was filled with people. Some floors had disco lights flashing and music playing. I stepped off the ledge and floated over (as if there was no gravity) to the shack. I grabbed the outside of a balcony on one of the floors with music. An old friend of mine came out to greet me. "Aryt John, long time no see!" I had always been wary of her in the past, she could kick my ass no problem, and I always got the impression she wanted to. But since I didn't have to worry, we got along well. She helped me over the balcony and we talked for a while. I can't remember anything we talked about though. This dream was in an early REM cycle, and the following dreams eroded my memory of it. After a while I lost lucidity and went into the party.
23.02.2010Step Climbing (DEILD) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I woke up a tiny bit, and wanted to go back in. I found that a dark basement was easiest to visualise, it seemed to come naturally. To get my body involved in creating the dream, I walked up some metal steps. I moved my legs, felt the cold metal rail, and heard the clank as I took each step. I paid particular attention to the weight of my body and the feel of the rails. Feeling things seem to help me best to DEILD- I like to call it "tactile entry". After about 10 seconds, the visualisations became realistic enough that I had completely let go of my physical body lying in bed. There was absolutely no lapse in cosciousness, which I found strange. Usually there's a "zoom" and I'm in, like entering the matrix, but this time the visualisations just became real themselves. I knew where I was trying to get to, and as I walked out of the door at the top of the stairs, I visualised what I wanted to be on the other side, but it was a completely random scene which I didn't see coming at all. I guess I'm not completely in touch with my subconscious brain, it still does stuff without my go-ahead.
23.02.2010Reverse World (WBTB) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I was only out of bed for a minute or two, then again five minutes later. Because I was still drowsy, I can't remember the transition into a dream- I usually only get SP and hypnagogia if I WILD later in the day, I've found. I made a real effort to go and visit my friend round the corner in my dream. I had a number of false awakenings in various people's houses, all within a couple of miles of my the person's house who I wanted to visit, so I set off towards it each time by running, flying low and skipping parts of the journey. The area around me was bizzare. Really mind-blowingly strange. I was using Belfast Lough (which I could nearly always see) as a point of reference to navigate. However many of the streets went in the opposite direction, as in they were mirrored. Once I woke up at the beach. In real life, the beach is a mess, but in the dream, it was wide, sandy and clean with people playing in the sea. Nothing was quite as it seemed. I knew where I was (or where I was supposed to be) becuase of what part of the Lough I could see, so I headed West along the coast to find my friend's house. I passed through a holiday resort which isn't there in real life, and over a couple of ponds. Other things, like hills and roads were missing. I eventually made it to my destination, but the street was messed up. It was vaguely the right shape, but the road was warped, and the houses were a totally different style.
22.02.2010Aaand You're Back in the Room! (DEILD) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I just lost touch with a LD this morning and wanted to reinsert myself where I was. I can't remember much about the previous dream, except that I was in my old house with my brothers and dog, and wanted to go out the back. I woke up as I was approaching the patio doors. I visualised the dream I had just left, starting with feeling the pressure of my feet on the ground. I really "looked" at my visualizations, which quickly became "real". "Right, I'm back," I said to one of my brothers. I slid open the patio door and stepped out the back. The grass was quite long and really needed cut. I had only just stepped out onto it when my dog came bounding over to me. He appeared to be several years younger than he is in real life, and had much more energy. I didn't bother with trying to accomplish anything with this dream, and just played with the dog for about 10 minutes until I woke up again.
17.02.2010Agents (DILD) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I was imprisoned in some kind of facility, and wanted to escape. It all seemed a bit old inside, the carpet was blue, but faded and worn. All the wooden panelling on the walls and walkways looked a bit beaten up. There were maybe fifty floors in the building, all of which rose up around a giant fir tree in the middle. It was as if the building had been intentionally built around this tree. I don't remember breaking out of a cell, but I remember knowing I just had, if that makes sense. I ran through seemingly endless corridors, and became a bit curious about why I wasn't getting anywhere. As I ran, I thought, this is the kind of thing that happens in scary movies, ...or a dream. The next set of double doors I came to were blasted open before me, and I found myself on a walkway near the top of the tree. Round the other side, I saw two agents of The Matrix. They looked up quickly as soon as I saw them. One of them took off his sunglasses and put them in his breast pocket. I quickly formulated an escape plan. I would jump over the edge of the walkway and use the tree to cushion my fall. By the time I was about to jump, one of the agents grabbed my shoulder and threw me backwards. I wasn't having this. I ran at him and kneed him in the crotch. He doubled over, moaning. I then put my hand inside his mouth and grabbed him by the upper jaw. I swung him over my head, holding him only by the jaw, and smashed him through a table I hadn't even noticed before. The other agent looked at me in terror and ran for it. After a short victory dance, I hopped over the edge and landed in the lower branches of the tree.
16.02.2010Guarding the Pope (DILD) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I was the main guard of an entourage protecting the pope in the middle ages. We were on some sort of cross-country trip through dangerous lands. The pope himself was in an armoured horse-drawn carriage. It was black and covered in metal plating. The land we were passing through was like something from an old movie. The sand of the desert and the sky were both an odd shade of purple due to the strange lighting effects. The entourage was about to enter a passageway through a mountain when I heard a commotion up ahead. I looked into the opening in the rock and saw an army of thousands charging towards us on horseback, most of them carrying blazing torches. The very sight of the army turned me lucid and I thought about trying to stop them. It seemed like an ambitious challenge. As they bore down upon me, the first thought that came to mind was Attila the Hun. This was always how I imagined his army. I held out my palm and tried to freeze them all solid, but nothing happened. I really tried to force something to happen, but I didn't expect the outcome. The mountain in front of us flipped over. The entire area turned as if on a hinge and in a few seconds the mountain became a flat expanse of land, and the army was gone.
16.02.2010Self-Defense, Defenceless (DEILD) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I had to protect a female friend of mine from two knife-weilding girls, who seemed to have gone crazy. We were in what looked a bit like my old school, which is where I know them from. I put my friend behind me, then thought about how I should arm myself for best defense. Then I remembered, "What's the point, I'm invincible!" The taller, brunette girl came at me, stabbing and poking with her big kitchen knife, and I just grabbed it off her by the blade. I felt the sharp edge cut me, but it wasn't sore. Then the smaller, blonde girl came at me with her boobs out. I think she was meant to be a distraction for me whilst her friend got to the girl I was guarding. All it did was remind me that I could be "making love not war" with these girls, and that's exactly what I did next.
16.02.2010Air Force 1 (Fragment) (DILD) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID It's been a few days now since I had this one, and my notes are shoddy to say the least! I was waiting to be picked up by Air Force One with my friend Nicola. We were in some ancient ruins which had almost completely worn away, leaving just large stones and lots of grass. Apparently AF1 had been changed from a plane to an enormous helicopter. It had lots of rooms, lots of blades, and was dark grey all over- apart from the front door which bore the presidential seal. It landed at the highest part of the ruins. The wind was unbelievable. It was kicking up sticks and rubble I hadn't noticed before. At the awesome sight of it, I became semi-lucid. I knew from before that it was only there to pick up Nicola, but I wanted to get on board, maybe fly this badboy. A load of marines came and escorted Nicola on board by the front door, and I slipped away. I sneaked past the perimeter the marines had set up around the helicopter and marched towards the front door, which two guys were guarding. They stopped me roughly with the butt of one of their guns. "Whoa guys," I said smoothly. "I'm the sergeant, it's cool." One of them nodded to the other and let me pass. I'm going to have to use the "bullshit-authority" tactic more often... I was raging that I woke up then. There's another entry in my notes which just says: Shopping spree with mark. I have no idea what that means, it hardly warrants its own entry in the DJ.
16.02.2010From A to B, Not Quite (WILD) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I got some serious auditory hallucinations this time. I thought about how somebody on the forums had turned this into music, and right out of the blue, I heard the opening notes of Bryan Adams' Summer of '69. I almost laughed and ruined it because I was so surprised at its authenticity! It sounded exactly like the real song, in mp3 quality as if I was wearing earphones listening to it. I focused on all the different parts of the track, the drums, guitar, voice, it was all there. I just let it play out. Near the end of the song, I moved my arms to a more comfortable position, because I felt sure it wouldn't stop the song, which it didn't. Although, thinking about it now, I could have just moved my "dream arms" rather than my actual arms. I suppose if I was getting auditory hallucinations like that I would have had to be in sleep paralysis, so I couldn't have actually moved... I think. I didn't try to control where I went next, and for some reason I ended up in the Halo 3 multiplayer map, "Sandtrap". I did a quick hand-RC, then wondered what I should do. There wouldn't be much for a lucid dreamer to do in Sandtrap, and I even considered "WILDing" my way out of it- lying down in the sand and thinking about somewhere else. I was afraid this might wake me up, so I thought about other methods. I looked around, and saw a busted-up Banshee. (Flying attack vehicle) It looked like it was still in working order- in the game they fly fine unless completely destroyed, so I got into it. For some reason, I didn't lie prone as one is supposed to do inside a Banshee, but sat as if in a seat, controlling the flight with an xbox controller which happened to be inside, ready for me. A Banshee on Sandtrap I took off into the air, and saw the outline of some buildings at the edge of the map. I thought it looked rather like the houses at the side of a main road I knew, near my house. I thought it would be fun to fly a Banshee home, so I went in that direction. It didn't fly very well. I was constantly boosting to keep it in the air, and it couldn't manage to go very high. I just about made it onto the flat roof of one of the houses, then it gave out completely. I jumped out and let it skid off the rooftop onto the road below. I could see Belfast Lough from the roof, and I was afraid to jump down because it was so high. I may have been losing lucidity here. I walked along the roofs of the row of houses, and found a fire escape at the end. By now, I was so preoccupied with getting down I'd forgotten I was dreaming. I headed towards my house on foot, but then remembered I had left my key in a bank beside those houses. I walked all the way back and had to wait for ages to talk to somebody in the bank. However, they did give me a tall glass of beer while I waited.
16.02.2010Swamp Ride (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I was on an expedition through a swamp, on a weird amphibious bus. We were going from deep pool to deep pool (the bus could only swim in deep water), and the tourguide was getting concerned with the quality of the water. It was a sickly black colour, and bubbly sludge was gathering at the edges, hinting that the water was full of sewage. I was sitting in a seat near the front. I looked down at my feet, and was alarmed to see that water had leaked inside, and was already up to my waist! I pulled out my phone, which was soaked, but it worked fine. I seriously should have become lucid in this one. Two dream signs back to back? Buses and wet phone??
10.02.2010Attempted Astronaut (WILD) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID My very first evening-WILD! The only reason it worked (I reckon) was because I was sleep-deprived from the night before. I had a false awakening in a graveyard, weirdly. I stood up and checked my hand to find several extra fingers. I nodded to myself, satisfied. There was a tall, black metal fence surrounding the graveyard, and I wanted to get outside of it. I could see a city with skyscrapers in the distance, and fancied exploring. I took a running jump and glided up over the fence, landing on top of a bus shelter outside. I stopped and thought for a second, and remembered the task of the year. The city seemed like the kind of place I might be able to hitch a ride to space from, with the view to beating Neill Armstrong down the ladder to be first on the moon. The city centre was definately uphill from my position, so I flew at waist-height up the steepest street I could find, going in the right direction. I flew through a massive crowd of people, all heading the same way. I noticed my youngest brother among the crowd. He seemed to be getting overwhelmed by the masses, so I picked him up and put him on my back. The crowd was getting thicker and thicker as I came close to the building at the top of the street, and I eventually found them all trying to cram into an elevator at the base of a tower. I looked at it, and thought it looked like it could be the kind of elevator that lifts astronauts up to the door of their rocket, so I decided to get on it. "Stand back!" I shouted. "Astronauts only!" Smirking to myself, I wondered if this ridiculous authoritative strategy would work. I never had a chance to find out, as I had a false awakening. I honestly thought it was for real, until I looked around. Turns out, I was lying on a sofa, under a blanket, cuddling a girl I hadn't seen in years. I tried to get up to see where I was, but she wrapped her arms around me very tightly and I couldn't escape. I struggled for a bit, and had another couple of false awakenings in exactly the same situation. It got a bit scary. The room was dark, but there was a spooky red glow. I was panicking a little, recognising a familiar feeling of dread which sometimes sneaks into my LDs- only the ones where I have lots of FAs. I knew how the dance usually went, I'd get countless more FA's, then wake up for real, wasting my lucidity. I pondered for a moment, and decided this would be a tragic waste of time. So I stopped and tried to look at the situation objectively. I wouldn't be able to wake myself up easily, so I might as well make the most of being lucid in my dream. By the time I had gone through this thought process, I no longer had the foreboding feeling, and could start to take back some control. I punched the girl holding me in the top of the head and she let me go. The room was still pretty dark, but I could see that there were some people I knew sitting around a table in what looked like a kitchen area. I walked over and instinctively flicked a lightswitch, which turned on a light above the table. I could now see that I was in what some people call a "sun room". A cross between a conservatory and a living room. No sooner had I taken in my surroundings, than a girl walked over to me with no top on. She asked me to give her a ball that was sitting on the window sill. I cunningly threw it in the air so she would have to jump to catch it. Then I became involved in a conversation about a video someone had on their phone. It looked like it could have been one of the challenges on Takeshi's Castle. I feared that I was starting to lose lucidity, so I did the hand RC. I really wanted to count how many fingers I had, so I spread them out as far as possible. Somehow, this circumvented sleep paralysis, and I moved my actual fingers. Since I had fallen asleep with my head on top of my hand, I felt it and woke up.
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