A Penrose Mind

My recall failed me today. Well not completely but this is the worse it's been since I started recording. Right now I'm trying out different techniques of how to become lucid (I can't just try to poke my finger through my hand all day), so if you have any techniques (preferably ones that involve DILD) I'm all ears.

Before sleep I thought about two things, Lucid me and my dream guide. Lucid me I only saw once on the elevator. He looked much tougher than me, and I can't help but think about him. Was he some sort of projection of who I wanted to be? Or is he an actual dream character, one I can have a conversation with? What are his hobbies? What's his favorite colour? Of course I haven't seen him since the elevator, but if I ever do see him again I'll be sure to ask him these questions.

The other thing I though about was my dream guide. How awesome would that be? I know it's a bit early to be thinking about one, and you can't just necessarily make one appear, but it would be nice to have one. Someone to help train me, be my mentor. I'd like some help with this whole lucid dream thing, I have problems becoming lucid in the first place let alone fly. I was thinking about what my DG would look like, would it be male or female? Would it be as tall as me? As old? What colour is its hair? What colour is its eyes? Will it even keep the same appearance? Questions, questions...

Anyway my recall was a bit crap today so I'll try to explain in better detail today.

Fragment 1:
I'm leaving my friends house. It's getting dark out so I start to head home. The neighborhood I'm in is unfamiliar and yet I know exactly where I'm going, it's almost like I'm being drawn to something. It's a suburban area (based off a place I've been before). There various pine trees, houses, and it's very quiet. I see a small girl, maybe 6 years old, jogging along past me. It appears that she is being chased by an old man, but she doesn't seem frightened, she actually seems quite calm. She goes through a shrub, taking a short cut to hide from the old man.

"Be careful!" I call out to her.

Now it's starting to rain. Not to heavy though, not yet. It looks like there's a storm coming in. More and more I'm drawn to this location. I find myself at some sort of corner where several houses are located. I've been here before. Now it's really starting to rain and it's getting really dark. There's no way I'm gonna make it back home. One of the houses, I know I'll find shelter in it. Instead of going to that house right away, I decide to go to the house next to it. I knock on the door and an elderly woman answers.

"Do you know me?" I ask her.

"No." she replies, a smile on her face.

"Oh, okay." I tell her.

She closes the door and I go to the house. The door is open a crack. I peak inside. My aunt, uncle, and cousins are inside. I walk in and greet them. We have a conversation about how crazy the weather is.

Fragment 2:
In this fragment I'm in a different body. I'm a cowboy, and I'm having a duel with another one, who kind of looks like Indiana Jones. At first I completely forgot how a duel goes so I just shot him (though no bullet came out). We then got to each others backs, counted down from ten, and turn around. Then a man from behind us draws a gun and shoots the building to our side. The whole front of the building falls off. We go towards him. He says that the ghost train is here and that we need to watch out. Suddenly, the building (or what's left of it) catches fire, except the whole ding is made of brick.

"See!" He tells us.

"Only the work of the ghost train could do that!"


Those are the only two fragments I remember. Well it's been an interesting, to say the least, week of dreaming. This week I had 15 dreams in total, and two out of those fifteen were lucid. I guess I have a long way ahead of myself.