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    1. Lucid #3 An Exercise in Stabilization

      by , 10-26-2013 at 06:44 AM
      Finally, a lucid dream in which I didn't try to wake myself up, LOL.

      I was talking to some guy I don't know in real life. My recall for this dream is low, so I don't know who he was supposed to be or what we were talking about. It actually seems like it might have been a dream guide, as he was just sort of standing there and letting me do my whole lucid thing. At one point I realized that I was dreaming, and that I was still in the dream. This made me very excited. Finally, I looked around and started to worry that the dream might disappear due to my excitement. The picture did get a little fuzzy, but I focused on making it become clearer, and it worked. And... that's all I remember. Still, it's pretty cool considering that I haven't been actively trying to have a lucid dream.
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    2. Lucid #2: A Stranger's Reflection

      by , 08-29-2013 at 03:09 AM
      This one came as a surprise, as I haven't been doing any LD techniques these past couple of months.

      I was in a public restroom. I thought I had ceased to exist, or something to that extent, so I looked in the mirror to see myself and instead I saw the reflection of a blonde girl I don't know. At first I was terrified because this was proof that I was no longer there, but then I remembered that in dreams one's reflection usually appears different. So, I wanted to wake myself up, but I couldn't, which made me worry the I wasn't dreaming. I ran out of the restroom...
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    3. First Lucid! (And I blew it)

      by , 06-16-2013 at 04:52 PM
      Bedtime: 1:30
      Bedtime snack: a cup of hot chocolate with a large marshmallow
      WBTB: 4:45
      Aids (during WBTB): Mugwort tea (1 tsp. mugwort, 1 tsp. chamomile, a pinch of cinnamon)
      Recall: Medium
      Vividness: High
      Awesome factor: Medium


      Dream 1 (fragment): I was walking through an art gallery, looking at pieces that were for sale.

      Post-WBTB:

      Couldn't fall asleep for a long time, but remained relaxed enough for lots of hypnogogic images/sounds. One was really strange. I was looking at some kind of scene from right to left, but it was choppy, kind of like playing an online game with lag. I had another vision that is part of a series of visions I've been having for almost a year, which seem like they could be (oh please, can they be?) prophetic. Interestingly, mugwort is believed to induce prophetic dreams/visions (though I wasn't under its influence during any of the past visions).

      Dream 2 (fragment): My sister had connected her laptop to a large widescreen TV to conduct her online classes.

      Dream 3: I was K's house (didn't look like it does in real life). W, I, D, and Aunt J were there. They were telling me about a large green parrot they had seen on TV. They wanted to know what it was called. Someone there had a type of Amazon, so I said that if it looked like that, it might also have been one. But if it was bigger -- everyone agreed that it had been bigger -- it could have been an Eclectus, at which point W had something to say about Eclectuses.

      K was in the kitchen, doing something by the sink.
      At this point, I spontaneously realized I was dreaming. NO RCs or anything memory-induced. I just suddenly became aware that I was dreaming (like I did a few times during a nightmare as a kid, at which point I would force my eyes open). So what did I do now that I realized I was dreaming? Told myself I had to wake up, of course!

      I don't know why I decided the best course of action was to wake myself up, even though it wasn't a bad dream. Maybe it's just hardwired into my brain because that's what I always did when becoming lucid during a nightmare as a kid. I thought I was smarter than this!

      Key emotions: none, really

      Updated 06-16-2013 at 07:04 PM by 63380

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