nightmare

Something to do with a swarm of large wasps. One landed on my shoulder and I woke up before it could sting me.

Some story about a man who had been doing Xenon gas because apparently it was like some kind of drug (even though Xenon is supposed to be inert and have no affect on humans) and it caused some kind of reaction in his body that caused his face and body to swell up. Now when I say swell up, I mean like 3x size. I'm going to spare you the graphic description of what this guy actually looked like and just say that I woke up after this one too.

I can't recall the entire dream, but the dream entailed me going to progressively higher cliffs around the world and jumping off of them, because I had some insane power to fall from any height and survive. But I began to get the acing feeling that cliffs were a dream sign... so I must be dreaming right?
When I thought of that, I was at the last cliff. This cliff was made of a tan-colored rock and overlooked a tropical rainforest, with a handful of winding rivers going though it. I jumped off the cliff and started falling. But it was a really floaty sort of falling, I was probably only falling about 20 miles an hour.
I actually became lucid while when I was about 2/3 of the way down the cliff. When I became lucid, Some form of dream control became activated, with or without my consent, converting the rainforest into this park area. All of the trees in that area went away, and a grid of concrete pathways spread out in all directions. They left cells, about a hundred feet on edge filled in with grass.
I was able to make trees grow in the cells with dream control. I thought It would be cool to fill the cells with palm trees, but when I tried to do so, trees of every variety, including palm trees filled the cells.
I couldn't really care that my control over trees was as accurate as I wanted. I finally hit the ground and walked along some of the paths. Eventually, I got to the edge of the pathways where they met with what remained of the rainforest.
I noticed there were a couple of houses, one of them I recognized as S's house. His mom and dad came outside. (If I wasn't already lucid, this would have been a dead giveaway that I was dreaming, because S's parents are divorced.)
And for whatever reason, I told them I wanted to play hide and seek with them. I told them that I would hide and they would try to find me. They covered their eyes and started counting.
I ran around to the back of their house where I planned to either fly up high somewhere they could never look or turn invisible. I realized I have no idea how to turn myself invisible. So I used my focus flying technique to fly up onto the roof of their garage, where a large tree that isn't there in RL had grown branches over the roof, and this gave me enough cover to hide from them.
I just hovered there for a minute between the roof of the garage and the tree, as the dream characters tried to find me. They walked around the house at-least twice. Eventually I flew down and revealed to them that this was in fact my dream, and that I had used my flying powers to hide from them. (I'm not entirely sure why I wanted to play hide and seek with dream characters at the time, but looking back, it was pretty funny.)
S's "mom" was very impressed and excited to be a part of this dream, but S's "dad" was very angry that I had "cheated" by being lucid. (Ugg crap here we go again!)
His face and body began to distort in a freakish way. His head grew huge and his body became very small and fat. His skin was as red as a cherry and he was yelling obscenities at me. Let me just say that seeing something like that "realistically" is actually quite scary.
"Stop!" I yelled. "This is my dream, and I am in full control!"
But it didn't work and I woke up.

Fragment: Football.

I am playing football. (Strange b/c I don't even know the rules of football in RL.) We are about to score a touchdown when the other team starts cheating. I don't see how they are cheating at first, but then realize that some of the players on the other team are "football robots".

Fragment: Random

I am feeding ducks cheese bugles. (SERIOUSLY, BRAIN, WHAT THE HECK!?!?!!?) One of the ducks tries to fly away, but I think gets shot by a hunter. The other one starts barfing the cheese bugles back up next to me. They are much bigger and covered in ... duck spit? I don't want to eat them, even though the duck seems to be offering them to me.

Lucid Nightmare: Dentist in math class

I am in my math class. At least two other kids are talking about an assignment, and the teacher is pestering me about something. Eventually she stops and I get ready to sit down, but a dentist comes in and tells me I must have a dental operation.
A large dentist chair complete with instruments appears at the front of the class. The dentist sort of forces me to lay down and leather restraints go onto my arms. The dentist explains that I must have my braces augmented then he will use a laser to kill germs on my teeth.
We cut straight to the laser part. The laser comes down from the ceiling on this robotic arm. The projector is a chrome cone like device. (Another cool sci-fi design) The laser beam itself was actually a purple color. I get to somehow watch as the dentist uses the laser to clean cavities on the inside of my own mouth. But he seems to be making mistakes and having the laser hit my gums. This hurts. A lot.
Eventually, he gets done with the laser. He says he is going to start pulling bad teeth out. He gets a rather intimidating set of pliers and pulls out one or two teeth. This hurts. Even more. He keeps pulling teeth out, and I can feel the inside of my mouth. I'm trying to figure out what teeth he's pulling.
Okay, this has gone far enough. Somehow one of my hands gets free of the restraints and i do a nose plug RC.
I'm lucid, but the dream is really unstable. Heck, I can feel my arm in two places at once, pinching my nose, and sitting by the side of my body under a blanket.
Nevertheless, this dentist doesn't seem to like the fact I've become lucid. He begins to wake me up by casting a magical spell from his hand. I want him to stop (for obvious reasons), I feel for the tray by the side of my chair and grab a handful of dental tools. I'm ready to stab him when I wake up completely.

Well, I had some dream journal entry involving a lucid dream I had the night before last. I can't remember it now, of course. (Lousy Recall) I'll just recap last night's dream with hopes of improving that.

The strange thing about last night was that there were three dreams that were intertwined in a way and I kept going between the three.

Dream #1. I was in a small creek in some grassy field. From the feel of the location and my innate "dream sense" I had a feeling that I was in the baseball field outside my high school. The creek was inaccurate (it isn't there in RL) and was very shallow with a lot of round rocks in it. The water was very cold.
There was another dream character there, I couldn't make them out at first, but I'll tell you more when they were actually revealed to me.

Dream #2. I was in my home town. It was a cold, but sunny day. I was doing something with my taekwondo studio and we were talking about doing some kind of demonstration in front of the entire town. At the time, we were in the actual studio, and practicing like we usually do in class.

Dream #3. I was flying above a grassy meadow. But it looked artificial, it was perfectly flat for as far as the eye could see. It actually reminded me of playing Minecraft on a superflat world.
There was another "presence" in the dream, somebody who I could tell was powerful. They seemed interested in military tactics and combat. They began to use some power to place various types of tanks around the field, and then activated them and had them do battle, while explaining to me the complex strategies that were employed.

Dream #1. I was back in the creek. The hazy dream character was still there, and I noticed that I was near sighted. The dream was only vivid in the... 10 feet around me. Everything beyond that seemed very blurry.
A small green snake slithered up the rocks on the side of the creek and tried to bite me. I fought it for awhile, somehow grabbing its head with my hands, trying to force it away and get it to leave. The snake seemed very strong.
The shady dream character started talking about the second dream, and I went back to it.

Dream #2. I was in the cafe in my town, still with the group from my taekwondo studio. A few of my close friends were there as well. Everyone seemed very confused about this demonstration, and everyone was bickering amongst one another about when it should happen or who should be involved.
I looked at a cup on the table, one of those paper coffee cups with the plastic lids. I began thinking that it was strange... I thought my taekwondo studio just DID their demonstration last month. Before I could question further, dream #3 took hold.

Dream #3. I was back over the field. The presence returned and told me it was going to see how many individual soldiers "the system could handle". It created some kind of general guy, then a ton of soldiers that stood in rows behind him. The presence told me that there were more than three million soliders, but I don't think I was seeing more than a couple hundred.

Dream #2. Back to the coffee shop. I was stepping outside, being followed by a few others. and the bickering had seemed to escalate as though the situation had gotten increasingly more complex. Now we were also going to march in some parade, and one of the kids was sick, so we had to make accommodations somehow. I tried to offer my own input, but it only led to more bickering amongst the other dream characters.
I looked at a bike, supposedly mine, that was chained to a lamp post outside the shop. I began thinking as I stared at the bike lock, about how this sort of petty bickering seems to be one of my dream signs. I once more was about to grasp the fact that I was dreaming when...

Dream #1. I was still holding the snake by the head. This setting became much more clear now. The creek and the grass around it, as well as the sky, that was a dull blue. I was still holding the snake. I decided that I'd had enough and picked up one of the large rocks. I was going to smash the snake's head and kill it.
The distant dream character entered my view. For some reason what I remember about him was his clothes, and how he was sitting. I never got a good look at his face until the very end.
He was tall and thin, and he had a black coat with a gold embroidery on the front and collar. It was unbuttoned showing a white undershirt with large black square buttons on it. And the way he was sitting, with his legs crossed. I only looked at this for a moment, until he got down and stood in the creek with me. (The creek was in a ravine about four feet deep)
When he got down, I looked up at him. I was ready to crush the snake's head with the rock. He just had this smile. It was the most evil smile that I had ever seen. The snake slithered out of my hand and went behind me, and began slithering around on the back of my legs. I stood up and turned around to grab it. It was too late, the snake bit me, and I awoke.

Okay, I am sorry, my dream journal has been acting REALLY flakey lately.

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.

Fragment

I was at the path intersection by the middle school from my old subdivision. It was summertime.

Fragment

I was on some beach or pier looking across a harbor to some high-rise apartment building. It was overcast/very cloudy and raining.

Fragment

Some kind of conspiracy about NASA. Supposedly there had been a shooting at the nasa offices and 26 people were killed. They locked the building with all of the bodies in it. Nobody had found them until "now" and they had all become skeletons. I remember seeing horrific imagery of skeletons and being told the story, that's all.

Dream. (Saturday Night)

I was given the power to create my own planet. I began creating this world with beautiful tropical forests and mountain ranges. There was a large sinkhole that all of this water was falling into.
Eventually some people came along in this high tech vehicle. It was a sort of grayish green color with huge wheels and this large satellite dish on top. When they activated it, it began sucking things twoards it, like some kind of gravity ray. There was a sort of blue aura to it.
I wanted to stop the ray, being the creator. I flew in (I had been flying the entire time I was creating the planet.) But I got trapped myself.

Dream (Last Night)

I was out on the ocean, in a dingy. I think my mother was there, as well as this old man with a beard and a cap on. It was nighttime and very dark. Although there was some light from the huge full moon.
The old man explained to me that there were dangerous snakes in the water. He explained that if they try to bite you, you have to shake them off quickly or they extend their teeth and poison you.
Then, the dingy started sinking. (Of course!) I swam clear and looked around, the shore was only about a quarter-mile away, and I decided to swim. I looked down and saw the snakes in the water.
They were only about three-four feet long and about an inch or two in diameter. They had a black and yellow diamond pattern down their backs. The issue was, there were at least a dozen just in my immediate area.
I felt one of the snakes bite my hand. I shook my hand off and I saw him fly back. When he did, it was kind of in slow motion, and I saw that he did not have teeth, just knobs in his gums where the fangs should be. But the knobs would open and the teeth would come out.
I kept swimming, but there were so many snakes, I had to shake my whole body constantly to keep them from biting me.

Another Dream (Last night)

I was standing on or near the ground. Someone was behind me. They did not show themselves or anything, though they told me that I was dreaming. I could somehow sense that they were behind me.
Then, they lifted me up into the air. We flew many miles up until the clouds were way below us. They said that they were going to drop me, and that I would have to start flying on my own.
I looked down, and realized that I was so high up that I could probably start flying before I got too close to the ground. If not, atleast have fun "falling with style"
When they released me, I fell the entire distance in only a second or two. When I hit the ground, I was paralyzed, and couldn't move. I slowly started sinking into the ground and realized that the ground was turing into small colored squares. It was around this time that I lost lucidity.
I broke through the ground and saw the whole world that I had just been to crumble away into colored squares, until eventually it was just one square and the square slowly faded away.

So anyways, I don't think this officially counts as a lucid dream. Not a good one anyway. It was way to hazy and unclear. I can say I was lucid, but I can't really call this lucid dream on that issue.

I can remember walking home from school, when I looked over my shoulder to see a huge mushroom cloud begin to rise, painting the sky orange. I ran into my house, and I could feel the heat from the blast on my back. While I was running up the steps to my porch, I thought.
"Is this a dream?"
I didn't become lucid. I can remember going inside to find my parents standing in the front room. We all hugged together. I woke up, terrified.

There was a non-lucid precursor to this dream, but I can hardly remember it now. The lucid dream was so long too, it felt like an hour.

As for classification, I would actually consider this an "epic lucid" with my epic dreams commonly being long non lucid dreams. It fits all of the classifications, and then being lucid.

The non-lucid precursor to the dream involved me getting set to a prison for supposedly murdering someone. The world had become like the book 1984, where you were supposedly monitored by anyone. My sentence was three years.
The prison was on an island, but I met up with this young Asian girl who tried to break me out by leading me across this boardwalk at night. On the first attempt, we were caught, but the second time, we broke out and walked back to my house.
When I got home, I walked in the door casually.
"Dad, I'm home from the death camp, two years early too."
It was around this time that I woke up.

I think that this was a DEILD

I reentered the dream somehow, and became lucid. The first thing that I remember doing was yelling "clarity" and touching things to stabilize the dream.
Every time that I yelled "clarity" the brightness would increase for a second or two, then return to normal. I yelled "permanent clarity" and the dream remained vivid and bright.
At first, I tried to find the girl that had helped me escape the prison. For some reason, I had become very attached to her. I tried conjuring her with the "behind the door trick", but I could no longer find her.
Then, for the longest time, I just walked around the house, feeling the surroundings and stabilizing the dream. I was touching door-frames and counter tops. I was kind of stumped on what to do, and I did not know what to make of my time.
The dream's recreation of my house was stunningly accurate. Once again, as I did in lucid dreams #3 and #7, I went around touching things and experimenting, trying to further stabilize and lengthen the dream time.
I can remember meeting my dad in the dream. He was in the family room, and as typical of lucid dreaming characters, he told me that lucid dreaming was bad and that nobody should ever do it.
Eventually, I went outside. At first I wanted to try flying, but later the reason became that nothing was happening. When I opened the door, there was nothing but a white void, as though the dream had not prepared for me to go outside. But things began to form around me. I could tell it was a city setting, but that It looked colorful and cartoonish.
I was able to minimally direct the creation of the outdoor city, but it was frustratingly hard to control. I frowned upon the cartoonish nature of the area, and decided that it would be fun to destroy the city, being lucid.
I looked around. All of the buildings were prominently labeled with their function. (Police station, Fire station, Post office, etc)
I decided to try the fire station first. I held up my hand, and a white laser beam shot out of my hand. It was not a powerful attack, but it pitted and gouged the outside of the building.
"Make the power level 50!" I'm not entirely certain why I said this. It seems to be that when I say something in a lucid dream, it does not get said in quite the way that I meant.
I tried again, and the laser was much more powerful this time. After I was satisfied with destroying the fire station, I targeted this group of dream characters. They looked like some sort of boy scout troop.
But this large, overweight woman emerged from the chaos. She had a very long nose, like a beak. She also had a purple dress, and she looked almost like some nightmare. (Keep in mind the cartoonish nature of this lucid dream)
Beak woman:"Stop that right now!"
Me:"But this is my dream, I can do anything without consequence!" (Like go on a destructive rampage shooting laser beams out of my hands.)
Beak woman:"You think that you can do anything without consequence?! That is not the case in your dreams!"
I could sense that this dream character was powerful, or at least telling one iota of truth. I wanted someone to back me up.
"Alright, where's Lia Manei?!"
Knowing that Lia is my dream guide, she would resolve the issue. This curtain rose at the end of the street,where there was some kind of stage, and she was wearing this broad red hat, and this facepaint over her mouth that made it look like she had a huge, almost creepy smile on. Though I've known her forever now, and I'm accustomed to these costume changes. She proceeded to teleport next to me.
"Lia Manei, This dream character thinks that there is a consequence to me doing whatever I want in a dream. What should we do?"
I said this confidently, knowing that she would take my side.
Lia Manei didn't reply, but proceeded to conjure a tree trunk and have it collapse onto the beak woman. When it fell, I saw her arms become really long, and her hands turned to black claws. She pushed the log off of her and she had become this nightmare monster.
I flew up into the air. I was ready to lash out and attack with my lasers again, but I remembered what it is better to do with nightmares.
"STOP! Your a nightmare! What do you represent?!"
The monster-woman shrank back down, and became a kitten. I flew back down, where Lia Manei had already picked up the kitten and tried to open the cat's mouth to illicit some sort of response. I woke up at that moment.

So yeah, that's it. I skimped on a lot of detail in the beginning, mainly because the dream was so long, and It would have been too long to actually remember it all. But the ending portion, is in my opinion, more interesting than all else.