lucid

CBut I only remember one part of this dream, the last portion. I don't know how I got lucid exactly, I think I was told by some dream character. I was riding in the passenger seat of some type of car. But whatever it was it felt like it was very clean and very powerful.
Manei was in the drivers seat, but didn't seem to be driving. Marcus was in the back center. We arrived and parked at the top of a good sized hill. I got out and began to walk in circles around the car.
The area we were in was totally alien. I got a feel that we were above an ocean, and that there were some pretty high mountains all around us. Lia introduced the location as some place important, as a sort of dream-scape for me. I can also remember the sky being orange with purple and black clouds.
I began to ask her why lucid dreaming has gotten so difficult for me, or something along those lines. She told me to focus in on a water bottle that was in a cup holder in the car we were driving. I used the bottle to anchor myself to the dream some.
(I wonder if the dream is actually saying drinking water before bed helps me lucid dream. Your guess is as good as mine.)
I was about to ask more questions when she told me that our time in the dream was ending and I had to wake myself up right now. She sounded strangely urgent, but at the same time, she said it like she would be back soon, really soon. (Hopefully, I go back to sleep and pick up LDing; I'm writing this at 2:30am)
I obeyed her and woke myself up,but I ended up having a false awakening into the same dream location. Save for my mother was there. I began to tell her about the dream, and recalled more of it than I did now. I became lucid again, and realized this was an FA. I woke myself up for real, but had forgotten most of my lucid.

Fragment

A few weeks ago (in RL) I found a sweatband in my room, and started to wear it around my wrist constantly. My hope was to use it as a "totem" like in inception. Am I wearing a sweatband? Nope. Must be dreaming.
Anyways, I could never find the other one, no mater how hard I searched. I know there were two, because the sweatbands were a Christmas present, as a pair. But... In this dream, I had both.

Snakebite

I was in some suburban backyard type setting. There was a large forest to one side, and a row of houses to the other. Between them were backyards, probably 50-70 feet from the woods to the houses. The sky was a dark blue, and there was a light snowfall, with several inches already fallen on the ground.
The first thing I recall was encountering a snake. It became aggressive and started chasing after me. I wasn't able to run very far until I tripped. I was able to grab its head before it could bite me, but the snake was "lagging" (Fantastic, video game lag in my dreams). But really, in my hand, it was behaving like that.
My mother was there, and I told her to quickly kill the snake. She grabbed its top and bottom jaw, each with one thumb, and killed it by pulling the jaw open 180. But because of the "lag" the snake registered as alive and was able to bite me before dying permanently.
I looked at my leg, and there were four holes where the snake's teeth had gone in. It hurt, but in a strange way that it felt like I could control the pain. I commanded the pain to go away, and it did.
My mother, who was still present, directed me to go to the doctors office.
Now remember how I described the dream scene as taking place in an "alley" between a row of houses and a dense forest. But there was a small two story house built in this alley. It even had a large neon sign on it saying "doctor".
But the house was quite a ways away. I began walking, but it was painfully slow and I seemed to be staggering in the snow. When I was about 1/4 of the way there, I looked again at the snakebite on my leg. I noticed that the skin on my leg was starting to turn a dull red around the snakebite. "Must be the venom!" I thought to myself.
I continued walking, with a somewhat faster pace until I was there. I was standing outside and looked at my leg again. Most of my leg was a dull red now. I knocked on the door, and you'll never believe who was there.
Marcus! "The Glasses Guy" that I kept seeing. I was thinking thinking he's another recurring dream character, and I was right. He turned out to be the "doctor" I was looking for. He took out some high tech injector device with a glowing blue vial in it and injected it into the bite. My leg returned to normal color. Awesome.

I can't remember what happened next or how I got here, but I ended up going inside one of the houses, and the inside ended up looking like the basement of my own house. (We have a walk out basement.)
The strange part was, I was trying to stabilize the dream by touching the walls, so I must have beenlucid. But I don't remember ever actually attaining lucidity before I started to stabilize. I woke up after that.

I can't really remember the first portion of the dream where I actually attained lucidity, but it was outside of my own home. My recall of what happened improves as I went on. The neighborhood looked dark, nighttime-ish where the sun was just starting to come up.
The first thing I can recall was running into another male dream character who wanted to do something called "dream phasing." He looked to be about my age, but was taller than me with curly hair. I had some idea of what that meant, it meant he wanted to change layers in a dream somehow. (Layers in a dream being like in inception where you are asleep and dreaming within a dream.) I was going to journey to the soccer field outside my old middle school to try and build my dream base. I don't know why I'm still fixated on this project.
It was also at this time that I thought about "dream time" and how long a second is in the real world compared to a second of dream time. I thought about doing an experiment where I would breathe out heavily twice, one second apart. But then I remembered that nobody was watching me in bed. I was telling the other dream character all of this. He didn't seem very bright.
He followed me for some time, and we talked. I can't remember about what, after the whole dream sharing thing. I told him that when we got to the soccer field I would help him dream phase (whatever that really meant, he never did really tell me.) before I started work on my base.
He followed me until we got to the intersection between my street and another in the neighborhood. We stopped walking under the lamppost. He started arguing with me that the correct direction to go for dream phasing was left. I was still going to the school that was to the right. He split up with me.
After another minute of walking, I arrived at the school. Because it was nighttime, the dream was very dark. Dark=Not vivid. I wanted it to be more vivid, so I used a voice command. "Sundial" I think it was. From there, I was able to grab hold of the sun with my outstretched arm and move it to a different position higher in the sky using a sort of telekinesis thing. I can remember there being several moons or other planets in the sky nearby the sun. I looked at them and noticed that the lighting looked wrong on them, the wrong sides of the planets/moons were illuminated. I wanted to fix it, but I decided to focus on the task at hand. I may have also done some other stabilization type things.
The area around my middle school was noticeably different than it was in RL. There was a picnic table and a small playground set up on the eastern side, with a fence preventing me going any further than the westernmost wall of the building. There were about 8 or 10 dream characters in the scene, most of them were adults. I didn't want to tell them that I knew I was dreaming, for that may provoke hostility. (Have you read LD#30?)
One more thing that was different about the school, there was this mcdonalds sort of drive-through built into the eastern side.

Now I must have lost lucidity for part of the dream, because for some reason, I recall these portions of the dream being nonlucid. There was a small swimming pool in the area that I was in, (From what I recall, the swimming pool wasn't there for a vast majority of the dream. I think it just appeared for this scene and disappeared when it was over.) with a couple of dream characters. I think S appeared around this time, but I can't remember.
In fact, there was a family here, and they had a couple of dogs. S was talking with the parents in the family about something stupid. and I don't remember what their kids were doing. But their dogs were the really clingy licking type. They had a whole bunch, three of them, and they were big.
They started licking me and jumping up on me, and caused me to fall into the swimming pool. I actually let myself fall in because I wanted to do this sort of passive-aggressive thing and teach the people that S was talking to to control their dogs.
But then, I was laying on the bottom of the pool, and I noticed that I felt my phone in my pocket.

Then there was this thing about me going to the McDonalds drive-through. Other people were going through driving cars. I just walked along the road as if I were a car. But when I came along, the workers from the (I'm assuming it WAS a McDonalds) rolled out a bunch of tall aluminum shelves with food and garbage on them. Something else happened, something pertaining to food, but I can't remember.
I do remember something to do with this eggplant-type fruit that was supposed to be some strange breed of apple. A worker was saying this was the last one that wasn't either rotten or sold, and they were going to have to hope that they didn't sell any between this time and when the next shipment arrived.
I think the existence of the McDonalds had something to do with the fact that the east side of my school is the cafeteria. So the idea was that the McDonalds served the cafeteria food during the day and fast food to people who used the drive-through at any other time.

But I really start recalling things after these non-lucid fragments. S was still there, and I told him I was going to stabilize the dream. I shouted "clarity" twice and stomped my foot onto the ground. When I did, a wave of clarity shot out from around me. It was very weird the way it spread into the buildings and trees around me. When I did it, I also felt the shock of my leg hitting the ground. That helped to stabilize the dream some.
I looked at an empty patch of grass and started.
Me:"Okay, now create a concrete circle."
Nothing happened.
Me:"Create a concrete circle."
S:"Maybe we should try a different location."
We moved down from the grass into a sand gully type thing. (The sand gully isn't there in RL) I tried my dream control again, but nothing worked.
S:"Maybe we can try drawing your base first."
I walked down into the gully, and when I did, I noticed a marker floating about four feet in the air. It looked like a sharpee and was sort of this color. Maybe a little lighter.
We moved into the woods almost and sat at the bottom end of the sandy gully. I took the marker and started drawing an oval in the sand. The tip of the marker broke off. I woke up.

I was having a dream about my cartoon. (Agian.) Once more I was executing non-lucid dream control to make the cartoon. I was thinking about the main villain in the comic, and his robot army. I began to come up with variations for his robot minions, such as having rocket launcher arms or jet packs. (In RL I do a cartoon, and the bad guy has an army of robot minions.)
The dream became animated in that the characters talked, had voices and moved around, but still looked like cartoons. I got to watch the heroes of the comic battle the new robot minions. The new robots posed a real challenge to the animated heroes.


I was taking a vacation with my family in Puerto Rico. (My family goes on a Holiday in Puerto Rico every year in RL) And we were checking into our favorite beach-side resort. (This resort used to be one of my dream signs because I would dream about it SO often.)
We had arrived and it was almost dusk. The dream's recreation of the resort was fairly accurate this time around. (I know the whole place like the back of my hand.) Although there were two big bamboo patches outside the lobby that I didn't remember being there.
And, because I dream about this place so often, I became vaguely lucid. But I didn't really become lucid until later. I can remember pondering my dreaming state while staring at the leaves of a palm tree.
Anyways, I walked around on the beach for a minute, and my parents called me to help move luggage into the room. I went and helped them, I think I made two trips with them until we had everything. We might have had a brief cookout fire on the beach or something similar, but I don't really remember. By this time, the sun was setting and my parents told me to go to bed. I went into our hotel room and laid down on the bed.
It was sort of like sleeping in Minecraft. When I lay down, my vision got darker and darker, and just when It went to black, I woke up with a jolt and it was immediately the next day.
When i woke up on the next day, I felt like the world was more vivid (when in reality the DREAM was more vivid.) I was getting up to walk outside when I woke up.

It was about 5:00am. Still an hour, went back to sleep.

I was at some OTHER resort with my parents as well as my cousins this time. The resort was one of those backwoods-themed places where all of the buildings are made to look like log cabins. The adults were checking in, save for my uncle who was giving me and my cousins a "tour" of the resort.
We were inside this atrium like building. The outside was made to look like a log cabin, as would be fitting for the resort, but the inside was entirely made of concrete, and had all of these platforms and walkways. We were up pretty high too, probably on the third or fourth floor.
The first thing we did was my cousin got interested by this table with a touchscreen on it. Apparently what it allowed you to do was make yourself into your own trading card. The table would take a picture of you what a built in camera. Then you could use the touchscreen to customize your card's stats and abilities. Then, for a dollar you could print it out. (I got to remember that idea, that is marketing genius!)
For some reason, I was interested by this red glowing column that ran up through all the concrete floors. Further inspection revealed that it was in fact (enter dream logic) a really tall coke machine. The money slot and dispensary were on the first floor.
My cousins and uncle made their way down a concrete spiral staircase to the coke machine. I tried to climb down through this weird lattice of concrete platforms suspended by steel cables. It turned out to be too difficult for me to do. I think one of my cousins wanted a soda. On the ground floor, there were two other coke machines that were of normal height.

Later, same dream.

I was helping my dad do something for the resort. Apparently, he had broken some furniture in the hotel room and needed to make it up to the owners of the resort. He wanted to do it by carving a big log bench for the room out of a tree trunk and placing it in the room. (Remember the resort was log cabin/ backwoods themed)
Anyways, he was carrying the log to outside a row of condo-type buildings. They were all built in a big meadow area surrounded by forest.
The log itself I remember vividly because of its massive size. It was probably three feet thick and ten feet long. He had carved four large notches into the log that were supposed to be the seats for the bench, but he was planning on doing the remainder of his work back in our hotel room.
When we got to the room, my dad said he needed me to carry the log the last little bit because there was a step-up to get into the room. I lifted the log and barely managed to fit the entire thing into the room.
Wait a second... I can't lift a giant log by myself... I'm dreaming! (Weird way to get lucid by the way.)
I got lucid. The door to the room closed and locked. The giant log disappeared when I wasn't looking. I stabilized the dream by saying "increase clarity" twice. I looked around the room. It had a log-cabin theme not unlike the rest of the resort. I think there were a pair of deer horns mounted on the wall.
The floor was covered in backpacks and suitcases, as well as piles of clothes, cameras and other sorts of travel gear.
I wandered around the room for a minute. I yelled "I'm dreaming" a couple times somewhere along the way to affirm to myself that I was lucid dreaming. But after a few minutes, I realized I was trapped in the room. (uh-oh)
I decided to try dream spinning. I closed my eyes and tried spinning around. I imagined the beach resort from earlier in the night. I began to see the imagery related to the resort, but I must have either lost it or given up to quickly, because when I stopped spinning I was still locked in the hotel room, and nothing in the dream scene had changed.
I recalled my dream from awhile ago, where I was firebending. Maybe I can use firebending to burn a hole in the wall and escape that way. I recalled the move I was practicing in that nonlucid dream, the spinning fire/lightning kick. I tried to do it, but no fire or lightning whipped off my foot.
I started to get very frustrated with the dream, and woke up not long after that.

I can't believe it. It feels like it's been months since I really had a full-length lucid dream. Now, true, my dream control completely and utterly failed. But, I couldn't care less. If I got lucid like this again tonight... that would be amazing.
If I can start having lucid dreams like this 2-3 times a week, I can begin to grapple with the problems of my dream control. I can revisit some of my old goals and maybe finally do the dream base.

I have been pretty inconsistent as of late in posting to this website. I think I went a good chunk of the summer without posting. But my dream recall has been nearly nonexistent. But I had a lucid dream last night, and it made me think about this website.

Anyways, I don't know exactly where I was, it seemed to be this plaza or balcony type place, built on the side of a mountain. All I can remember was that the entire structure was made of a white metal or ceramic, save for the floor that was made out of grey stone tiles. There were stairways and bridges leading onto different terraced platforms. It reminded me of something you might see in a video game. Also, there were dream characters scattered about in the world, exploring the platform.
Anyways, I just remember getting lucid, (I can't even remember how, I think it was a mental reality check.)
And as soon as I had a good grasp on the fact that I was dreaming, a few of the dream characters approached me, and the looked absolutely livid. On my left was a tall blonde girl, and on my right was a large man, also a blonde. Directly in front of me was a man with short brown hair and a brown vest.
I realized that I would be getting attacked once more. (As of late, I've been getting attacked by DCs when I become lucid, I don't know why.) I escaped the initial group, and began making my way across a narrow passage on the structure. The blonde man caught me and held me against the wall and started punching me. I could feel his blows, but they barely hurt.
I yelled "Time Stop!" and the man froze. I then pushed him off the edge of the structure into a deep ravine. Then I woke up.

Lucid that was mysteriously missing from my DJ

I was laying in bed with each of my parents. But the bedroom bore similarities to my grandparent's bedroom from my mother's side. The one in their old house, that they moved out of like ten years ago. Though there were some differences. For one, there was a rather large TV in their room that seemed to be playing very staticy advertisements.
I get lucid, I think it was through the old nose-pinch reality check. I get out of bed, and start hunting for Lia Manei, my dream guide. (What a twist!)
I decide to use the "behind the door" trick to summon her. I open a door, and this room of the house turns out to be like the guest bedroom from my house. (The door in that room is very weird in that it opens against a wall. I hear her voice, she tells me that she is between the door and the wall, and not to swing the door back closed, because she is changing.
So either I'm a pervert or just in a rush to get on with my dream training. I swing the door open, to find that she is there and very much clothed. She smiles at me as though disobeying her wasn't an issue. Just as I am about to speak, she begins floating towards the center of the room, and she begins to distort.
I am watching this, and the dream begins to lose stability, but I'm not paying attention to this. She continues to distort and begins to look like a mesh of female dream characters, and her body begins "glitching" and blocks and of it are becoming invisible.
She tells me that she is having difficulty anchoring herself to my dreams. That's all she "said" but the way she said it, she was going to be back. Hey, she was in lucid dream #37, so we have that.
Oh yeah, I woke up BTW.

Actually written on 8.12.13

I lucid in a fairly accurate recreation of my house, my backyard in particular. I stabilized with a few voice commands and rubbed my hands together. I can't remember how I got lucid, I think it was with a nose pinch reality check.
Anyways, there was a really long chunk of time where I was just exploring my dream house. There were no dream characters around, also, dream control didn't seem to work. I simply wandered around the house looking for things. The house was fairly accurately recreated.
I kept the dream going long past its usefulness with perpetual stabilization. (You see, I haven't really been focused on lucid dreaming as of late, but I will get more time to focus on it soon, that's something you can be sure of.)
Anyways, I was doing something with sunglasses too. Something to do with trying to make the dream darker or brighter, or attempting a special type of stabilization by using the sunglasses as "lucidity glasses." (My recall has been bad too.)

I was driving my dad's car in some urban area. First on an expressway, but later, I got into a more boulevard like area. After awhile I got distracted on my phone and lost control of the car.
The car spun off the road and rolled over into a vacant lot. I knew that I had lost control of the car under my own fault, and it wasn't the accident. So when the cops and my parents showed up at the accident scene a few minutes later, I pretended to be dead so I wouldn't go to jail.

My mom had singed me up to go to some preliminary military school that only lasted for five days. And (enter dream logic) the military school was held in my own bedroom.
I had just woken up on the third day. I had been sick and asleep for the first two days of the school, but now that I was awake, I was expected to be ready for the class.
After I woke up, I was scrambling around my own bedroom with the other students from the class in uniform watching me. I was trying to get my uniform on while being yelled at by the drill instructor.

I was in some subway station, I think in New York. I became lucid somehow. But this wasn't very good lucidity, this was crap lucidity, groggy and not very clear. And that goes for the whole dream. I was lucid, but I sort of had drunken lucidity.
The first thing I can remember after that was Lia was there. She started teaching me something to do with flying in lucid dreams by having me jump between these two platforms in the subway station.
It's a little difficult to describe, but these two platforms were on either side of the train track by the end of the station. (Where the train goes from the station to the more narrow tunnel between stations.) Also, the platforms were quite a bit higher above the train tracks than the station platform.
Anyways, Lia had me fly between the two platforms several times. Eventually the flying power failed. Lia said that it had something to do with the gravity of the dream rather than the powers I was using.
After the power failed, we walked up some stairs into the city. The city had buildings that looked like New York, but it didn't have the feel of being near the water. (Another thing about dreams, I can have a feel for the area even if I don't look at it.) Also, the skyline seemed somewhat sparse. There were only a few tall towers, most of the buildings were very low-lying.
We began walking down the road. I began using voice commands to change the weather. But the problem was whenever I gave a voice command to the weather, it would change to something seemingly random.
For example, If i said the weather should change to rain, I would get snow. If I asked for clear skies, the weather would change to cloudy.
I was trying to get there to be clear skies, because I wanted to experiment with moving the positions of the Sun and Moon in the sky. Eventually I gave up.
I went into some diner and sat down. The diner had the feel of one of those retro kind of diners we rarely see these days. But I didn't sit at the bar, but rather one of the tables on the front side (not all diners have these, only the larger ones.)
The diner had a very dank feel to it. It was dark, and only a few lights were on. I sat down, and a moment later, a faceless waitress gave me a glass of chocolate milk. (my favorite childhood beverage, admittedly, still my favorite beverage.)
Well it wasn't a glass, but rather served to me in some strange thermos container. The lid was a very shallow white plastic cup filled to the brim with chocolate milk. The actual cup was a much deeper chrome cylinder, also filled to the brim.
Given my groggy lucidity, I decided to try and drink the chocolate milk. But I was afraid that since both ends were so full, I used telekinesis to carefully lift the cup up to my mouth and take a sip.
I was able to do this with both the silver cup and the plastic lid, in said order. But after the lid, I had attracted the attention of some other dream characters in the bar who were amazed that I was able to lift the cup with my mind.

Normally, I don't think my dreams are worth a read, but this time, I really want people to read this dream. It's exciting and has an interesting lucid plot-line. I developed a new technique (sort of) that kept it going for a long time.

Well I'm wasting time and you guys want to hear about my dream.

Ok, so It all started out pretty lame. I was sitting in math class with S. The teacher came in and began talking about what was on today's test. I began to get a little anxious because It was a Monday, and I didn't have a test.
I started thinking about the situation and realized that it was the middle of July...which can only mean...I'm dreaming!
Ooops. I said that out loud, didn't I? (In my dreams, letting DC's know I'm lucid dreaming is a BAD idea.)
The whole class gets up from their seats and surrounds me in a sort of semicircle. I can remember the teacher specifically. He looked like the man from the AI theft dream. (I really need to give this guy a name.)
My friend K (Oh, hey, haven't seen you in awhile.) comes out of the semicircle. She says something to me, I can't remember what.
Then the class tried to attack me. I tried to fire like a laser beam out of my hands, but it didn't work at all. I fought in hand-to-hand combat with a couple of the faceless students. Then, I just started running down the hallways while touching things (this was that technique I told you about, continuous stabilization.) I recognized the environment perfectly. My high school, and the classroom was my math class from this past spring.
I made it out of the side hallway that my math classroom. (My math class was on a small hallway that detoured off the main one.) From there I was able to go downstairs. As soon as I got downstairs, I thought I would be able to escape through the fire exit. But the principal of my school was standing there smiling. I could see the bar to push the door open was nailed to the top of the door and therefore out of my reach.
I began running down the main hallway, knowing there was an exit at the end. The whole school was filling up with panicking students. I'm not sure why they were panicking, but I think they were all trying to stop me from escaping. I saw some students forming a human wall to stop me from running. I was able to run and jump as I got close to the human wall, and kick one of the people over, then land and keep on running. (Another note, Gravity in my dreams can be a bit more floaty than in real life, that or, because I'm lucid dreaming, I do have some ability beyond that.)
I finally get to the end of the hall and go out the door into the pickup zone outside my school. The area around the school is really dark, under some kind of storm cloud. But in the distance, I can see sunlight coming through the clouds.
I make my way down the pickup zone, and there was such an odd assortment of vehicles. Everything from really junky looking old cars to big hummers and small smart cars. I thought about stealing one to get away, before the weirdo eats-you-alive dream school caught up.
Then I see Lia sitting in the back seat of a black convertible. I get into the drivers seat, but as soon as I do, the steering wheel turns automatically and the gas pedal is depressed. The car pulls out of the parking space.


Kindof like this, except a Convertible, so the top could go down.

A robot voice comes on; the car is self-driving. I can't remember what the robot voice said to me, but I do know it was a male robot voice.
I turn to Lia, who is disguised for some reason. She is wearing this bandanna tied around her nose and mouth. Big sunglasses and a blue baseball cap. Unless you're me lucid dreaming, it would be a pretty tough disguise to see past. I asked her some question. I can't remember what it was, just that she nodded "yes" as an answer.
We put the top up and the auto driving car began to take us away from the school. It was here that the dream setting began to look less like reality. The first place we passed was a large hotel building that looked sort of like the Empire State building, only shorter. When we passed that building, I reminded myself of everything that had happened in this dream up until this point.
Some time passed. I was just sitting in the car patiently waiting for us to get to our destination. Eventually, we got out of the dark, stormy gray area and we were in some town. The sun was out now, and the dream was somewhat more vivid.
The town area was overgrown with trees and vines and covered in grafitti as though nobody had lived there in many years. In the distance, I saw mountains covered in rainforest. They reminded me of El Yunque Puerto Rico, where my parents and I vacation every spring.
While we were driving through the town, I continued to make sure the dream seemed stable by rubbing my hands on the interior of the car.

Spoiler for Images that look like this area:

The area we were driving through had this sort of feel to it, only all the buildings were overgrown with vines and trees and such.



And these kind of mountains were on the horizon.

Anyways we had been driving for awhile, and eventually we began going up some of the mountains. When we did, I was taken into a third person view and watched the car as it rolled into a ball and ascended the mountain. The car climbed the mountain very quickly, but I could feel the dream slipping away.
No. I shouted to myself to remain lucid. When the car reached the peak of the slope, it reformed into its normal shape, and me and Lia were deposited on the summit.
I stood there for a few more seconds until she led me down the opposite slope that we had just come up. There was this muddy gully running down the opposite slope. I started sliding down the gully and woke up a few seconds after.

I have a bunch of apologies to make. For one this dream is very strange. For two, I'm a day late, I had this while on vacation in Michigan earlier and the week and we were so busy bikeriding and kyaking that I never took the time to sit down and type this one out.
I actually classify this as a lucid nightmare. The inability to control it and the idea of being attacked by drowning and tornadoes... it kindof sucks.

I'm in some sort of lava/volcano place. I'm walking along on a wide shelf of rock that is angled slightly to the left. I take note that a thin layer of lava is spreading downward (there is a lava river on either side of the rock shelf.) So I know that unless I hurry, I won't be able to beat the lava and get to the other side of the shelf.
I don't make it in time. I decide to turn back. It's too late, lava has flooded the shelf on both sides. I'm trapped. I run through the lava to get to the other side, where I was originally going. The lava hurts my feet really bad to walk through and feels sort of sticky, but I am able to make it.
Once I get across, I see the shelf ends where there is a river of (already, were getting into some dream logic here) blue lava.
I was beginning to get lucid at this point, and had the feeling that killing myself in the lava wouldn't have any permanent consequence. (Plus, I was surrounded by erupting lava and volcanoes anyway, so either way, I was going to die.)
I jumped into the blue lava. It was very painful, but only lasted for a second. I died and became a "soul" that floated up to a safe spot away from all the lava on a small ridge. Once I was deposited there, I was in a new body and became fully lucid.
Ok, I wasn't fully lucid yet, but I knew I was dreaming. All of these computer graphic hologram menus appeared and contained various options that supposedly would allow me to terraform the planet that I was on.
I changed the settings to create a more temperate, earth like planet instead of a volcanic planet. Once I did that, I was in a forest type area with some kind of play structure for kids. It seemed to be wintertime, because all of the trees were missing their leaves.
I began to stabilize the dream using voice commands to increase the clarity. I began to notice that I could feel my position on the play structure (That I had climbed) and could tell which parts of my body were holding the weight. As I finished stabilizing, I noticed a small crowd of 20-some people were watching me stabilize the dream.
When I looked at these people, I couldn't help but think that they were looking for guidance, like I was their dream king or something. Just an interesting thought that I had while dreaming.
I eventually found Lia, my dream guide. But as soon as I found her, she began changing into an older man. When she had finished transforming, (s)he looked like Jonny Cage from the Mortal Kombat games.
Enh, sense when does ANYthing that happens in my dreams make sense anyway.?
All of the sudden I realized that I couldn't breathe. I remained calm and somehow realized that the entire area was actually about 100 feet underwater. I nearly passed out swimming to the surface, but as soon as I reached the surface, the water drained away. I should also note that the water was very clear. I'm not entirely sure how the area got flooded like so.
I think for a few moments somewhere in there I caught a glimpse of my dream "Nemesis" a boy named Jonathan. I think he was the one flooding the area in an attempt to kill me.
The next thing I knew, me and Lia were loaded onto this small iron gondola. There was a very large strong figure bearing armor that looked like the power armor from Fallout. The figure somewhat forcefully put us in, and slams the door.
Ok, no more video game references in this dream, I promise.
The cable car moves very fast, and the cable seems free form, as though it's solid and not tethered to anything. In that sense, it was less of a cable car and more of a... sky train? But no, it was a gondola, not a train.
The gondola follows the rail/wire high above the area we were just in. I can see the play structure was just a small part of a large island. Most of the island was actually made up of abandoned factories and bordered on all sides by docks and huge shipping cranes. The play structure where I had attained my lucidity was in the middle in a small grove of forest.
Around the island there are other areas of land. The island actually divided a river, and there was more snowy terrain dotted with factories and apartment buildings all around us. The river was not frozen.
My attention turns back to inside the gondola. Lia is sitting opposite to me, changing back to the way she usually looks.
Now comes the weird dream guide dialogue. I can't remember why I asked this, but I asked if Jonathan (my dream "Nemesis") was able to leave my dreams and go into other people's dreams.
Lia told me that he could in fact leave my dreams.
I proceeded to ask her some other question about my "second REAL lucid dream" and Jonathan. (My second real lucid dream didn't involve either Lia or Jonathan, it was just dream control practice.)
The gondola was now really low over a road. The road cut through the same sort of snowy forest that we had been in earlier. But the reason I had looked up was that there was a massive tornado just off the left side of the gondola.
I looked ahead, and saw a whole plethora of tornadoes, that seemed to be lining up with the intent of destroying the cable car we were riding in.
The cable car seemed really strong though. We passed straight through the tornadoes and the car barely rocked. Lia told me that the car was very strong, and despite its rusty, distressed appearance, she was no liar.
Then things got really strange. The tornadoes turned sideways and began flailing around like wips. I started the process of waking myself up.
"He's bringing the whole dream down on us!"
The gondola was torn off the rail and flung onto the road below. The car broke open. The last thing I remember was the both of us getting picked up in the tornado before I woke up.

My dream recall has been pretty bad lately, but when I woke up this morning, I remembered part of a lucid dream that I had just had.

I can remember that I was directing a TV show. The show took place sometime in 2030 after a nuclear apocalypse. Because of the radiation there were a strange new form of humans that were fused with plants.
I was filming this one scene where a bully (who was one of the plant fusion people) beat up a little girl who was normal and had just moved into the settlement. They bully had six arms and each of his arms was made out of a small tree trunk.
I began walking along. There was a small tent for those of us who were directing the show with some equipment for filming. There was only one other person who was not a character on the show, because the show's ratings were bad and we had to cut funding.
The only other person was a young black man. When I came along he took out a small knife and began talking about it. I could sense he was going to throw it at me. I can barely remember something else about the knife, I, (Not remembering now) somehow had a hand in it's creation.
He throws the knife, but I am able to bend swiftly to one side completely avoiding the knife. (No kidding, this put the matrix bullet time to shame.) This all happened in probably less than a tenth of a second dream-time. I remember the most was when the knife flew past my head. Even though it was not in my feild of vision, I could sense that it was face down, only inches from my shoulder. Time seemed to stop for that moment.
Time sped up, and the knife hit the center a red and white target behind me.
Something about the situation tipped me off that I was dreaming. I was lucid, but I didn't say anything right away. I stopped and thought about things for a minute. I thought about summoning my dream guide for some training.
No, for some reason I choose to do something that normally just gets me woken up. I'm going to tell this dream character that I am dreaming.
I look toward the other guy who threw the knife at me.
"Hey... I'm dreaming."
The man stops and turns his head. He is wide eyed and looks a bit angry but also very surprised. He then looks at me right in the eye. He has brown eyes.
"Listen to me. There is a storm coming. A clash between good and evil. Be ready."
And while he's saying this there are literal storm clouds on the horizon. Then something causes me to false awaken. I'm at this gas station that I'm familiar with, just outside my own town. I'm no longer lucid and the dream is very unstable once more.
But this is just temporary. The dream provides exposition. It says that there are these suits hidden around the world. There are 20 in total. Ten of them look like this (shows me a white suit, looks sort of like a superman costume, only white and gold. The other ten look like this (shows me a black and purple suit.)
There are ten people who will compete on each team as part of a global conflict. Now people like celebrities and military leaders may claim to be the people that wear these suits, but no. All of the people who will wear them are normal everyday people in the real world.

Erm... ok. Let me just say I'm not interested in your global dream war. I just want to learn how to fly, ok...

It all started out with me riding a motorbike of some kind. I seemed to be nearby my own subdivision, though. But the off thing was that many of the houses seemed under construction. Perhaps in the dreamworld, our neighborhood was being expanded or rebuilt.
Anyways, I can't remember the exact details of what I did. I just rode this bike around experimenting with the handling characteristics of the motorbike. Eventually, I came across this large warehouse building. I rode through it, noticing that the building looked rather decayed.
I parked in the back of the warehouse, where there were a couple small trailers parked in the corner. I got off the bike and began exploring one of the trailers. It was around this time that I got lucid.
The dream was very blurry (I haven't done this in awhile and forgot to stabilize.) And the trailer sort of morphed into what looked like a grandmother's house. (Not my grandmother's house in particular, just in general with the furniture and decoration.)
Two dream characters were present. One was a young Asian boy who seemed really upset. I asked him why he was so distraught, and he said that he wanted to look like his favorite person from Youtube. I explained to him that this was a dream, and that he was in control and had the ability to do whatever he wanted. The boy changed into a much older version of himself that looked pretty much the same.

Then there was this alien character, who looked sort of like ET, only taller. The alien character turned out to have the voice of my mother. In her voice, the alien complained that it was hideous and would do anything to change back to normal. Again, I explained that this was a dream and that anything was possible. The alien character changed into my mother.

I'm not entirely sure of my motivation for telling these dream characters that they were dreaming. Perhaps just my unstable lucidity led me to believe that I was actually having a shared dream. Whatever the reason, unstable lucidity is just the best!
Well my unstable lucidity left me, and came the most interesting part of the dream. A pair of chickens came into the room. And (enter dream logic) I was terrified of them, for some odd reason.
I had an overwhelming feeling that the chickens were aggressive, fearsome, and wanted to kill me. I tried to tell myself that they were just chickens. (Keep in mind, If I were still lucid, I could handle this.)
The smaller of the two chickens jumped at my trying to peck me. I grabbed it by the neck. It struggled fiercely, but I had it contained.
The other chicken suddenly began to inflate. It's eyes began to distend and it's head puffed up. (In a freaky way, not a funny way.) And the chicken began to swell and shake as though pressure was building up. I was getting more and more terrified. I think the chicken exploded from too much pressure and I woke up.

I can't remember exactly what the situation was. I can remember I was staying in some kind of pier or industrial park area. I can remember there being shipping crates that had been converted into houses, and in that sense it was kind of like a slum. I think that there were some people drinking and doing drugs.
It was nighttime. I was sitting around a campfire with some other dream characters, and I fell asleep, Inside the dream.
Only moments only after I fell asleep, I re-awoke into the same dream. It was daytime now, and I could make out more of the area that I was in. There were some warehouses and cargo ships docked nearby.
Then I can recall coming across some dream character. He seemed alot like Bane from Dark Knight Rises. (In fact, he was exactly like Bane from Dark Knight Rises.)
He wanted me to make a decision in his evil plot, and he told me that he was going to have me do it. He led me to the other side of one of the warehouses, where he had wired up three yellow buttons.
For some reason, I wasn't really scared of this character, despite him being a villain. He said that each of the buttons was linked to a bomb, and if I didn't press one of the buttons, he would kill me.
One of the buttons was labeled a remote place. I wanted to press it, but I realized that the button was fake, and it was just painted onto the side of the warehouse.
For some odd reason, the button painted onto the warehouse triggered lucidity. The Bane character disappeared.
I walked around for a minute and focused on stabilization. I eventually came across this fenced off road, and there was a bleacher set up, as though the road had been converted into a raceway.
I found my parents sitting in the bleacher. I can't exactly remember what sort of interaction I had with them. I wanted to try and find my dream guide and get in some lessons. I think I found her just before I awoke.

I was in my math class, supposedly before school began. I was talking with S and A. Then I realized that I was late to my own class and had to leave for whatever reason.
As I made my way down the hall, I did the nose pinch reality check, because I know that being late for class/school is extremely common in dreams. I was very alert when I did the reality check.
As soon as I'm lucid, I say something like "Oh, I'm dreaming!"
"Oh, no you dont!" Said a man's voice, grabbing me.
At that moment, (as funny or violent as this sounds) my school's principal started to attack me. I didn't want to fight him, so I yelled and made a sonic blast that pushed him away without really hurting him.
Three other people came up behind me. I thought they were teachers or something from my school, although they certainly didn't look like any teachers that I recognized. I was still lucid, but for some reason, I didn't use another sonic wave, or cast any magic.
I simply started fighting them in hand-to-hand combat, one at a time. I couldn't really kick, my legs felt very heavy, but my punches (given I was lucid) were devastating and sent my opponents flying into walls.
After awhile, It became clear that my efforts were fruitless. One of the people grabbed me from behind and I wasn't able to move. I woke up after that.

My god, I just beat up a bunch of old people. Part of me is really corrupt.

I was walking down the stairs at my school, in a very blurry dream with S. I was talking with him, and he asked me about what had happened that morning.
I tried to think back, but I could only remember the class we had just come from. Then I started to think and realized that "today" was supposed to be a Sunday.Bam! I'm lucid.
S was gone, and although the dream not vivid, my consciousness was really good.
I started to stabilize. I continually yelled out "Clarity", and commanded the dream to get more clear. Things got a little more clear, but the entire dream scene was still very blurry.
I finally got to the bottom of the stairs. I noticed that the Cafeteria had been replaced by a swimming pool.
I had just finished stabilizing and was ready to practice some dream control or look for my guide or something, but I woke up instead.