Dream Journal

Awake|Dreaming|Lucid

This one was very tough to recall, I had woken up and fallen asleep twice, and for a few hours, after having this dream and managed to keep the pieces of the dream in the back of my head. Pretty impressed with how it came out

I start off at work, everything seems pretty regular, things I have experienced while awake in my daily life at my job. I'm getting more orders down than I typically like, but it happens. These orders are for industrial grade batteries that I ship out on small pallets to replace the ones in the machines we sell. I tell my manager I can't keep up with it and that it isn't safe for me to lift this many batteries on my own. I decide to leave the warehouse, which has a slightly different layout, and into the yard outside. I'm with a group of people, who I believe to be the main cast from a movie I watched recently. For some weird reason we start having semi-digital, almost holograph type Pokemon battles with bug catchers. They're like 2D sprites projected and animated into real life in a very weird but somehow natural way. I experience a loop of the same animation of this fat Hiker-type Pokemon NPC, until we move on. We travel through a Skyrim-like plains landscape, with small ponds and giant mudcrabs, which we fight. We also fought a giant yellow Pokemon, with a very vague form that I can't wrap my head around.

After this, I head back to work, except the layout is the reception corridor from my secondary school many years ago. The office ladies of my job are there, sitting on white chairs and giving me fetch tasks. I was given the task to retrieve a bag from a hotel, which I headed over to. It was a massive shopping centre-esque building, like a holiday resort hotel. I managed to get the bag from a massive wall with nothing but doors on it. I call out for the owner of the bag, but I get no response, and deem the bag noncollectable. I place it on a smoking post and move on deeper into the resort, where I find myself in a separate guest-room area with my family at a table eating together in celebration. Most notably, my step brother shows me something video game related, perhaps Pokemon. I decide not to join and instead go further into the building, feeling as if I was there to meet someone. A boy came down some stairs and there were a couple of other people in the small, caravan-sized room. I think I discussed something relevant to the bag I put down earlier.

Moving on from this, I found myself walking down a familiar shopping centre, where I then woke up not too long after.

Possible dream elements:
-Work
-Family
-Skyrim
-Local area - School

Notes:
-I can perform reality checks at work to make this an easy one, though first of its kind since I started this series
-Family, step brother in particular, but no bottled up anger involved this time
-Skyrim yet again, 100% a recurring element for me. Playthrough definitely needed soon
-Another local area in my dream, worth keeping an eye on, but first time I've dreamed of being on school grounds. I have dreamt several times in the last week of students I attended with, though

Awake|Dreaming|Lucid

The dream starts with me sneaking around a set of Skyrim-themed stairs, of which I go up and into a building, also vaguely Skyrim themed. I avoid various guards and I go inside a separate room, where an old, dying man rests in his chair. I steal something from the drawers and alert the cards, then escape the room and outside the building where the stairs are. A guard at the staircase attacks me, I run back inside and hide, where I meet two friendly people - a man and a woman. The woman resembled Delphine from Skyrim. They help me fight the guards around the room I stole from, and we kill a guard firing arrows from atop a wall. Soon after, a large group of maybe a dozen or so varying types of people, presumably the main enemy force of this building, march around the corner from behind the wall with the archer, and I run away as the two friendly people stay and fight. There is a brown-skinned girl among the enemy group who I seem to have some kind of romantic connection to.

I make my way far out of the area and into a forest with a path cutting through. There are fields behind fences on each side of the forest, with trees and bushes between the path and fences. I sneak through the bushes as the large group of enemies march through in search of me. Nearby, I see two dog-like creatures, which run past me and join forces with the enemy group. I continue sneaking in the bushes, following the enemies, when suddenly the brown-skinned girl from before jumps through the bushes to scare me. I jump back but immediately find myself extremely happy to see her, she kisses me and leaves.

Not long after, the view changes into what appears to be an RTS game, similar to Age of Empires II. My troops are fighting a much larger army and losing, my forces wipe a group out but are then swarmed by a massive purple blob and I lose. I end the dream trying and failing to upgrade my samurai.

Possible recurring elements:
-Skyrim
-Sneaking
-Local forest

Notes:
-Skyrim has been a foundation for many of my dreams over the past few years. The sneaking aspect is from my very recent thief/sneak playthrough of Skyrim, and has been present in a couple over the last couple of weeks, most notably in my lucid from last night (Dream #5)
-I might play another Skyrim sneak build soon to help form a reality check habit. Should be very easy considering how common and accessible this element is
-The forest is very similar to a forest nearby to my house, but not the same as in Dream #5.
-My recall is improving very rapidly after coming back to my dream journal format, which is apparent in the length of the text I type. I am almost clearing entire pages in my notebook

First lucid in many years,and the main reason I'm back on Dream Views. Nothing majorly interesting but the thrill of being lucid is what counted for me.

Awake|Dreaming|Lucid

The dream starts with me sneaking around a house-like building, with men on guard wandering around on duty. Anything before is hazy, but I spent a while recalling back to this point. I can vaguely remember a fragment that took place in a Halo: Reach-like area, perhaps linked to this current scene. I was crawling on a higher ground, spying through a small gap between the wall and roof, watching an armed man walk up and down. I was with someone, but I don't remember exactly who, most likely my step brother. I also barely remember some kind of animal/pet. We were spotted as we escaped the building. This section is hazy, but not long after I arrived near my home, where I did some DIY for my Grandmother, and passed through the forest next to my house to do some DIY for an old neighbour who moved nearby.

I headed back to the entrance of the forest and found myself with my step brother, who had a Bannerlord-esque army formation outside my house, opposing a similar army. I went into the forest and decided to try and test if my slow-walk chase nightmares are legit of if it's just the ground's fault. I slipped up and ran very slowly as expected, and concluded it was not the dream's fault but rather the ground I try to run on. Back at the forest entrance again, my step brother suggests we light the army of soldiers on fire - to which I disagreed and insulted him in a similar way to a previous dream - a sure dream element to keep an eye on. I head back down the forest path I had just walked, but after a few steps I become instantly lucid out of nowhere.

I never expected to get lucid so soon after returning - in just five nights after 4+ years. This feeling was very intense and vivid, my first thought was to focus on stabilising. I performed my main reality check and was pretty worried about losing lucidity, so I kept trying to remind myself. This, however, didn't get me very far, as I was distracted by my urge to change my surroundings. I took a few steps, and felt very sluggish and slow - almost like the previous attempts at recreating the nightmare slow-running. After failing to change my surroundings, I managed to create this very strong red tint across the trees of the forest, which shook the Earth as it rapidly grew in intensity. It vanished instantly after I lost focus on it. I ventured, at a normal pace, further into the forest, where I had a semi-lucid sexual urge for some reason. Instead, however, my brain decided to give me a dozen wooden-skinned, blank faced mannequins wearing skirts. I ran my hands across one's arm, intrigued by the surrealism and my lucidity faded rapidly.

I head back, yet again, to the forest entrance where I have a hazy conversation with a bald man until the dream seemingly ends.

Well, this one was really eventful considering how early I am into my return to lucid dreaming. My recall is better than it's been in years and most of the knowledge I learned during my times here in 2012 has stayed with me. Hopefully my next lucid dream will be longer and easier for me to control, and the rest of what I know deep down will return.

Possible recurring elements:
-Family
-Anger, bottled up feelings
-Local neighbourhood

Notes:
-Second dream I have had a negative interaction with my step brother based on bottled up feelings. Present in Dream #2
-Yet another local area, should be easy to form reality check habits this way. This local area is the forest opposite my house

Lucidity notes:
-Everyone vanished upon attaining lucidity, happens almost every time for me
-Control mostly failed, need to improve
-Stability needs improving greatly

Awake|Dreaming|Lucid

I spent a while recalling this one, extracted a fair bit more than usual.

I'm in an unfamiliar city, with a hotel across the road. In the near distance, just up a small hill, there is a warehouse with coffins stacked outside. A weird man invites me to follow him into the nearby hotel, which I accept. He goes first, and pokes his head out of the very top window. I head up there and upon arrival, I look outside the window and see that the coffins in the distance are empty - with some workers moving them. Within seconds, a swarm of vampires of wildly varying aesthetics fly around the top floor of this hotel building, which is now large and open like a warehouse. Many guards, presumably from the opposing warehouse, fight the vampires in an Oblivion-like fight. I decide to join the vampires, and I head down some stairs and out of the building, where I find myself fighting an Argonian female on a path near the city of Windhelm in Skyrim. I win the fight.

Possible recurring elements:
-Vampires
-Skyrim
-Sneaking

Notes:
-Second vampire dream out of 4

Awake|Dreaming|Lucid

I have a false awakening, perhaps not the start of the dream due to being very hazy. My immediate thought was "nah I didn't have any dreams". I start complaining about things, to which my step brother, staying the night in my room, tells me that he's pretty tired of my whining. In response, I hurl all kinds of insults from my bottled up anger.

I couldn't recall anything after that, probably for the best.

Possible recurring elements:
-Family
-Anger, bottled up feelings

Notes:
-Bottle up feelings seems to be something that carries over from reality, I may be able to use this to form a good reality check habit

Awake|Dreaming|Lucid

The dream (potentially, as far as my recall can acquire) starts with me waiting in my local town with old school friends, very similarly to the previous dream. We are waiting for buses, which follow no particular time schedule. The journeys involve random conversations with people I went to school with. The bus always ends up at the spot it picked us up from. Upon exiting the bus for the third time, I hear a cry for help in a nearby, horror movie-esque house, which I go inside and investigate. A woman is laying in a sack, tied up next to a wardrobe - I free her and she reveals to me that she is a vampire. She isn't harmful, but we hear a noise that we believe to be the owner of a house. The vampire says he is a serial killer and likely the one that kidnapped her.

The dream ends here.

Possible recurring elements:
-Vampires
-Old classmates, school
-Local city centre

Notes:
-Two local area + schoolmate dreams in a row

First of all, this is my first post in years. Decided to keep old posts but start from #1 for my recent dream journal. Below is a colour code format to help identify the points of lucidity and which is a regular dream point.

Awake|Dreaming|Lucid

The dream starts in my local riverside village, with a group of who I think were students went to school with. We were approached by a man who would talk about movie trailers, and would show us various ones. Eventually, traits of the movie trailer would merge in with the surroundings - a child-size car driven by two small darkskin elf-like people sped by, crashing into nearby objects. Chaos ensued, as the trailer man mentioned a lack of ice cream was causing issues in the village. Not long after, the group and I headed over to an ice cream stall and worked a shift to provide the people with blue ice cream.

As far as my recall goes, this is where the dream ends.

Possible recurring elements:
-Old classmates, school
-Local village

Notes:
-Not much I can utilise here, but it's a start
-I have been to the local village before in dreams

Awake|Dreaming|Lucid

I enjoyed this dream a lot, but it hurt.

I was at a hotel, which was built on the side of a small hill. It looked really nice, probably 5 stars too. I sat at a table (outside) with someone, and I was playing Pokemon. I somehow had control over the weather, so I made it rain. It's a shame that I wasn't lucid during this dream, I think I almost got lucid at this point. I stopped playing and went out to the courtyard in front of the hotel and started to play music. There was a band playing metal in a playground nearby so I joined. I then left after a song and saw my sister. She offered me a lift back to my house. I sat on the front of her motorbike, which was stupid and dangerous. We were going really fast down a road, listening to metal music. Suddenly the front wheel collapsed and we started to lose control. Within seconds, the bike stopped and I flew off the handlebars at a high speed. I must have flew at least 10 meters from the bike, then I hit the sidewalk, which felt real and painful. I woke up a second after.

Hope you enjoyed.

Awake|Dreaming|Lucid

Been a while since I typed any dreams up.

I was on Neopets, talking to JoeyBelgier about something. He started to get angry at me, which made me confused. I replied to him, trying to apologize for whatever I had done. I then found myself at school, talking to Joey. I can't remember anything other than random blog scenes in my head.

The school dreams are coming back.

Awake|Dreaming|Lucid

Was pretty cool to find some of my old games.

I was at my dad's house, sat on the bottom stairs. My sister came in and told me we were going somewhere, so i followed her out of the house. We walked down a path and reached a bus station, where the bus was just waiting for us. Perfect timing! Although I had no money to get on, so I walked off in rage. I got back to my dad's house, but the inside was my grandma's house instead. I went upstairs and found a room. Inside the room was lego all over the floor and a couple of old gameboy games. I picked up the games and had a nergasm.

Pretty odd...mixed feelings.

Awake|Dreaming|Lucid

Recall wasn't good, but I got 2 recorded down.

I was at a building, which looked like a fortress or something. The walls were white and the whole area was pretty much a country. There were vast fields and a couple of trees around the area. It seemed so empty, so I decided to go inside. I climbed up the right wall and found a well shaped hole. I feel down and landed in an elevator, next to a woman. She started to hit me so I jumped up and tried to push her off the side as the elevator started. It went up (which makes no sense, because I cam from the roof...) and I struggled to fight this woman. I suddenly knew about this scene from somewhere else, but I don't think I have seen this before. Maybe Déjà vu. I punched her in the jaw, then she fell back and got crushed by the rising elevator platform. Her flesh and skin was ripped off and a bloody skeleton was just rattling on the side. Very brutal. After a couple of seconds, the elevator reached the top and I exited out of a little hatch to the left. It was like an air vent or something. I crawled through some pipes and saw a room, with weird claws coming out of the walls. I went past it, the crawled through the entrance to this room. I found a Skyrim healing potion, which looked trapped. Instead of stepping on the floor, I stepped on some boxes just in case. I picked up the potion and crawled back to the pipe. I then headed outside, coming out from the well that I climbed down. I jumped off of the wall and landed on the floor safely. In the distance was a girl, who looked pretty evil. There were people fighting her, so I thought I would help. The girl had blonde hair, a pink dress and she was rather small. I ran over to her and she started to run away from everyone, really fast. I then had a flashback of Super Mario trying to catch Princess Peach. From this point on, the girl was named Peach. Soon, the girl disappeared and a guy in a small Lego car drove out. Everyone was chasing him and I managed to find a car, which I chased him in. I kept crashing but this guy managed to drop kick him out of the car and everyone ran up to him. I had another flashback, but of Bowser talking to someone in a dark room.

This dream was pretty vivid but hard to remember.

Awake|Dreaming|Lucid

This is one of them "OH I HAVE AN AWESOME ITEM!" -wake up- "Oh..." type of dreams.

I was in school, lurking about in the corridors, with some friends. Can't quite remember who they were though. I was holding a really cool katana, with a red handle. The blade was slightly serrated, making it look even more awesome, it was really light and easy to handle too. I looked around and saw this guy run out from the corner of the corridor. He looked like he was a zombie or something. For some reason, I looked at him ready to attack, but put my sword away and said that he wasn't a zombie. He just stood there staring at the wall from this point on. I turned back around an walked into one of the classrooms, only to see Lynn Thompson from cold steel knives. It was cool how I had a sword on me at the time. He was sat behind a table full of cold steel weapons like axes, swords, knives, machetes. I showed him my weapon, he said nothing, I said nothing and I just turned away and spoke to myself. Nice one! I turned back around and noticed that Lynn was actually a DJ, playing death metal. Everyone on the dance floor was playing invisible instruments in time to the song. I believe the song was "The Absence - Wartorn". I then walked over to my family, seeing people at tables eating as if it was a restaurant and a metal club. I started playing an invisible guitar, making myself look like a complete dick. I guess it was okay because everyone (about 30 people) were doing it too. I went outside and started running around the building with my sword. It seemed like I was chasing a group of nuns D:. After running around a few times, I stopped at the entrance and inside was a restaurant, with people sat mainly outside. This old lady asked me to change her food order. It was a spicy dish, but she didn't want it spicy . I walked into the building and then the dream started to fade.

It was very vivid but made no sense and was a bitch to recall.

Awake|Dreaming|Lucid

September has been great for dreams so far! I hope to do the TotM challanges soon.

I was at home with my mum. We were in the living room talking about how a ghost was in someone's house. I kept having, what seemed like, premonitions of someone being killed by a ghost. The ghost was a small girl, with black hair. She kept throwing these two people out of a window on the second floor. My mum went into the porch and i saw some gladius swords in the kitchen. They ranged in sizes. I picked them all up only to be frustrated. They were made of stainless steel, the material used to make spoons and stuff. I carried them over to the dinner table in the living room. I pulled the plastic wrapper from one of the swords (the biggest one, obviously) and noticed a note fall out. I read the notes and it was related to the ghost visions. I had another premonition of a man being thrown out the window by a girl. These swords must be cursed or something. I ignored the note and walked outside, only to see something weird. The sky was blood red, there were dark bushes everywhere and a big stone cave. A typical creepypasta setting. I read another note, but ignored it without a vision. My house had disappeared behind me and I walked towards the cave. I still had the big gladius with me, so I felt safe to go in. The dungeon was full of red and black rocks. There was also a red mist lingering in the air, making it feel scary and dangerous. To the left, not that far into the cave, was a big stone tablet. The tablet had a picture of an octopus on it. My dream guide came out and told me that I needed to kill this octopus with an electric spell, located at the end of the cave. Luckily, the cave wasn't that big, so I could walk to the end in minutes. I reached the end and this fairy popped out and gave me a scroll. I suddenly knew how to use the spell my dream guide told me to use. I headed back to the tablet and used the spell. In seconds, I was suddenly a character from final fantasy, along with 3 other people. We were fighting the octopus tablet, in a final fantasy battle style. The octopus hit us with a huge water blast and our health bars hit 1. We were all on the floor, losing hope as we were almost dead. Suddenly, I was in first person, on my side on the floor. I was looking at the cave entrance, losing vision slowly. I noticed that the cave entrance was shrouded in a thick white fog. I saw a man walk through the cave and I felt relieved, we were saved! I woke up shortly after.

Very odd and scary . I'm on a streak with the fantasy dreams, which happen to be the best dreams. All of them are vivid and they feel so real.

Awake|Dreaming|Lucid

Probably my favourite non-lucid dream ever. It felt so real and I was stunned by the dreamscape.

I started in a car, with my dad. We drove into this village which had a medieval theme to it. There were lanterns, knights, peasants and everything you would expect to be in a medieval village. There was a castle over to the left, and then houses everywhere else. We got out of the car and walked into the castle. The castle was made out of gold on the inside, it wasn't very big but it looked nice and bright. The king was sat in his golden throne over in the distance. We walked over to him, and he asked me to do something. I can't remember what he said exactly but he mentioned a necromancer in the woods. I assumed that he meant for me to find this necromancer, so I set out to the forest located just outside the village. At this point, I was by myself. I walked past the car and then into the forest nearby. The village kind of reminded me of Skyrim a little, because of the housing styles and the paths. I finally reached the forest, it was almost completely blackened from the darkness. I felt a little scared, but in the distance were two figures. An old lady and my dream guide - the blue haired girl. They started walking away from me slowly, so I ran towards them to keep up. I managed to get closer and I suddenly realized that the old lady was the necromancer. The one that the king was on about earlier. They didn't say anything to me, they just pointed in the direction we were meant to go. Just ahead was a stone arc and a dirt path leading upwards to somewhere. I walked under the arc and up the hill, only to find the best thing ever. We came out on top of a small hill. It was quite high up, but it didn't have much space to move around on. From the hill, you could see over the village and out across the forest. That wasn't the best part though, the sky was. It was a mixture of purple and dark blue, making it a really nice color. There were four HUGE moons, which seemed really close to us. One of the moons had a white ring around it, making it the biggest and the most beautiful. I can't describe how amazing the whole place looked. The necromancer tried talking to me, but I was just stunned by the sky and how nice it was. I guess the atmosphere didn't help me focus on what was being said, that felt really cool too. I finally snapped out of it, and listened to the old lady. She told me to examine these statues that were at the front of the hill top. I walked over to them, probably about three meters distance, and looked at them. There were four small figures, they looked like mini totem poles and behind them were four large stone pillars. It was like a tribe had set something up here. I then led on my stomach next to the artifacts and looked out at the village. The lanterns made it lit up so we could see what was going on there. More cars were turning up through the gate and some knights were having a sword fight right next to a car. One of the knights flipped the other one over, causing him to dent the car next to them. The necromancer just smiled at me, like old woman in fairy tales do. I didn't see my dream guide from this point on, but I assume she was stood behind me, guarding us and the hill's slope.

Thanks for reading !

I think there were mysteries in this dream. There were four artifacts next to each other and four moons in the sky next to each other. Thinking about it now, they may have had something to do with each other. I'm probably going to make this my dream spot, where me, my dream guide and the necromancer will stay. We can discuss things and study the moons and artifacts.

Awake|Dreaming|Lucid

I felt really weird at one point in this dream.

I was in the car park located outside the hospital I go to. I saw a dark alleyway going down to somewhere, with lots of purple door-shaped portals. I walked through one of the portals and found a machine. I wasn't sure what it was, so I left it and headed back to the alleyway. I walked through another portal and started to play a game. I can't recall everything, but at the end of it, everyone died on a mountain. I then automatically teleported back to the alleyway. I went back to the machine and there were 2 people there. I climbed under the machine and it started spinning really fast. I couldn't stand up because I would get killed, so I had to reverse slowly. I woke up shortly after.

And that's that. Very odd.