My lucid comeback!

Hello everyone, I must say last night or rather this morning I had a dream that for the first time ever probably was just so creepy and panick-inducing that I was glad to see the morning light shine into my eyes.
I'm not even trying to be poetic here, it was genuinely one of the scariest moments I've ever experienced.
For anyone who somehow wouldn't notice it, it's obviously the third dream.

1. Good start

It's a hot summer day and I'm arriving at school with a bike entering the yard from behind, my sister asks me in an annoyed way if I've forgotten my bicycle lock. Upon noticing I indeed had forgotten my lock I told her I would find a way to fix it. She was quiet angry for me being so forgetful but I quickly walked further past a group of students. The yard was smaller and more densely packed with vegetation offering a nice shade from the burning sun. I walked to the place where everyone parks their bikes and saw one of my friends there, I asked him if he could share his chain with my bike so they would be both secure and he did so without any problem. I walked back to my sister but don't know what happens next.

2. Welcome to the internet

I'm browsing the internet and look around in Dreamviews for anything, I notice that I have a notifications as it shines it's satisfying red colour. It seems a bit bugged out though because it flickers and vibrates a little, when I clicked on it it somehow took me to the Dreamviews chatroom. The chatroom looked very weird, it was green and looked like a hacking-panel straight from the 1960's. Someone wanted to talk to me and I tried responding but the symbols were very weird and I didn't understand them. I quickly tab out and start playing a flashgame about a water droplet that has to punch through a wall of ice while avoiding freezing so you have to find a balance between punching the ice and not touching it. Suddenly I'm looking into some canister that has red pixels bouncing around in it, I call these protons. Then blue pixels show up too that I call neutrons, as they bounce around they form some gas that rapidly expands and eventually makes the canister explode.

3. The creeping darkness

Alright, this is it even though I hate bringing back the vivid memories I think it's best to just write it down and be done with it. Our story begins with me entering an old victorian looking theatre like this:



I enter the theatre from the left uper balcony you see on the picture, as I look around the theatre I quickly notice that it's completely abandoned, deserted yet still in a perfect state. All the chairs are empty until I look back for a moment and when I look into the theatre again all the seats have a puppets in them, even the chairs on the balcony where I'm standing. They're all looking at me, the stage is barely visible and unnaturally dark. I climb over the banister and get on the larger balcony left of the one I stood on first. There's a long corridor leading out of the theatre room, it's very dark yet I can still navigate it. The corridor is in a very bad state, all the walls are damaged and have fungus growing on them, there are some rooms left and right in the corridor but I just walk straight forward. The corridor ends in a small dark room with a single computer on a desk facing the wall. I start up the computer and browse YouTube, there I start watching some video's of Storpy who plays scary games and films his reactions. (https://www.youtube.com/user/storpey) For a moment I forget the fact I'm in a creepy old theatre and I actually laugh a bit with Steve's reactions. It is when he start saying things like "Oh god, there are shadows moving in that corridor." and when he starts screaming in pure terror like I've never seen him do before that I look back and start seeing dark figures move in the corridor I just came from. At first I try ignoring the moving shadows behind me and focusing on Steve's reaction who now keeps screaming. The only thing that's still on the screen is his face-cam... Then I realize the thing Steve is watching through his monitor is the room I'm standing in, I am inside the horror game he's playing. I look back again and notice the shadows quickly flying through the corridor towards me, they scream and shriek in a horrible deafening way. There's no way out of this room other than the corridor, all I can think of is crawl in a corner of the room and wait in a fetal position for my death... Then the screams get quieter, I dare looking up and see that the room is still empty. Without any thinking I just run as fast as I can through the corridor into the theatre, climb back on the first balcony at which point the dream fades into black and I wake up.

Last night was quiet amazing, even with the lack of a lucid dream it was easily one of the best dream-experiences I've ever had.

1. Living the life

I'm in Saudi Arabia and walking towards a plaza filled with chairs and tables of the nearby restaurant. I'm wearing a suit and headphones and just feeling very confident of myself. I take a seat and slowly take of my headphones off, laying them on the table. I order an ice-tea and just relax when a guy walks up to me and asks me to test the headphones. I tell him I could only trust him not stealing my headphones as soon as he took them by ordering a drink and testing them right infront of me. He accepts the deal and orders something to drink, quickly taking his Phone and putting on the headphones. Only he forgets to plug them in, as he starts his music it loudly plays across the whole area making everyone look at us. I try to make him aware of the fact everyone can hear the music but he's quiet drawn back in his own world of music. In the end he notices it and feels very awkward, I understand why.

2. The tale begins

I'm in some parrallel world with my family and we know some of our cats are there too, we need to resque them. I remember the dream starting somewhere in the middle of things, we're descending in the basement of a house. The stair ends up in a waterfilled corridor, although it's a basement and it's completely filled with water as soon as I go under visibility is good and I can see all the way to the end of the corridor. I find a cat along the way that I pick out of the water, a lot of water runs out of it's fur but she seems to be fine. I continue and sometimes have to swim up to breath in a small air-pocket created by the basement's irregular ceiling. After some time I can hear my mother telling me underwater that there's a decapitated bay-head in a large mug in one of the rooms. I look into a few but don't see anything, creepy music starts playing as I keep checking the rooms filled with water that each seem to have a table in the center of them. Then I see a large mug standing on one of those tables, I barely look over the edge of the mug but don't seem to find anything related to the baby. The we go up a stair again and walk straight through a wall like it wasn't even there. It teleports us to the garage of our house, I feel like the mission is complete but then we realize we might've not saved every cat yet.
The dream-plot continues in the next dream but it was simply too seperate to call it a single dream.

2. The tale continues

I make my way upstairs to the kitchen where I meet up with my sister who seems to be very stressed. I calm her down and ask her to make a list of every cat that we have right her right now. After some checking we found out there's still two cats missing, I begin making plans to go back into that world and gather a team that will assist me. I exit the house and go up the street to find members for the team but quickly realize I already have one waiting in the garage at the wall. Before I enter the house again I stop and look at the showcase of the new shop next to our house. I wonder if this thick glass panel could offer a way into the parrallel world. Although my instinct tells me not to walk into walls and glass windows I convinced myself I wouldn't break my nose but instead enter the other world. I march on and collide with the glass surface which seems to be slightly elastic and thus making my impact softer, it feels very hard though. I back of with a groan and check if my nose isn't bleeding. Then I instead shoulder-bash into it but it still doesn't give away. I go to the garage where the teams is waiting for me to walk into the wall first. I'm slightly worried walking into solid surfaces considering last attempt but do it anyway. I shoulder-bash into the wall which almost lets me through but it bounces me off. I try several times but fail each time. Then someone says you should hold a rubber object between you and the wall when going through it. I see how one of the members holds an inflatable mattress infront of him as he goes through the wall Harry Potter style, which he does without any problem. I wonder for a second where I can get my rubber object but I quickly realize I'm already holding a mattress in my left hand. I say "Wait, we don't know what's on the other side. What if there's water, I want something more serious.", I look back and see an inflatable boat laying on the ground. The moment I hold the boat infront of me and I'm standing several meters infront of the wall I feel confident again that I will teleport through it. I run as fast as I can and seem to go through the wall like it's air, I fall forward and land in the boat which now quickly slides down a snowy hill. After a quick check I see that I'm in an indoor ski slope. The boat rapidly descents and I can hear 'Charlie and the Chocolate factory' music playing which makes me laugh a bit. This laughing nearly made me lucid as I actually knew it was a dream at that point but it was more of a daydream that I couldn't stabilize so I woke up for a second and fell back in the dream non-lucid.

3. A dark world

I slip back in the dream but consider this a new chapter in this adventure. The boat comes to a stop and I appear to be in a completely different world. The sky is grey, large islands that lack trees and are just covered with vast planes of tall grass, inbetween these Island massive lakes extent beyond the horizon. At first I seem to be alone but quickly I find small people that seem friendly but somehow everything takes a dark turn and the little people become very hostile towards me. I'm suddenly driving a sportscar down a lone dirt road near the coast of an Island. As I spot another car heading towards me in the distance I hide the car and myself in a large pool of water. The car has no problem driving in or out of the pool and my vision is several meters above the pool as I see the other car driving past without noticing me. I drive out of the pool and think of a way to escape this world. It is also at this point that I consider the cats I wanted to find in this world to be secure and back in the 'real' world. The dream cuts of here but resumes in the next chapter.

4. The exodus

I arrive at a large but mostly deserted airport with the sportscar, next to me is one of the team members who seems to be quiet stressed. We stop at a plane that is standing still on the runway and get out of the car, for some reason we start running towards the plane. During our sprint I can see I accidently dropped a box of cereal, however I ignore it and just make my way towards the plane. A stair goes up to an entrance near the front of the plane, it's a commercial plane. In the plane every seat is empty, we open the cockpit and find the pilot who seems to be very ill. The pilot himself knows his last hour is approaching and his last wish is to make sure I and the other team member get back in the 'real' world. I ask him what we have to do to escape this world. He tells me we need to go back to the car and use certain materials to turn the car into an airplane of some sort. While he's telling what materials we need I remember the cereal box that I dropped earlier. The material we need is in this box and I quickly run out to make sure we have it. Then the dream suddenly jerks forward to us sitting in the car and driving up a parking lot. We're very stressed and know that as long as we stay incognito between the people outside we'll be fine. I start emptying the box and looking at the material. I see some old bolts and screws but I feel like this is enough for us to start working.

Hi guys, it seems my dreams are getting more vivid again and they also seem to get longer again with a clear story-line in them. I actually enjoyed the NLDs upon wakening up.

1. Special ops

I'm somewhere in a dusty basement which seems to be the HQ of a large terrorist network. It takes place in the middle east as we all have our faces covered with cloth and we just look like a bunch of terrorists. I had the option to turn subtitles on or off but turned them off for immersion I think. I only understood small bits of the arabic language they spoke, the other two terrorists that were in the basement with me seemed to be discussing who could be the rat in the group. I tried acting as cool as I could and quietly left the basement, I knew I was a special ops agent. When I got on the Streets I gave the go-code for the army hidden around the city. They begin their assault instantly and when a squad suddenly aims at me shouting me to get on the ground I quickly pull off my headgear and shout I'm the undercover agent. Soon after that they escort me away.

2. This is going well!

It's the first day of school and also the first class, math! I'm sitting infront of the class next to a friend and I feel confident in myself. It's a new year, new chances and I tell myself this year will be easy probably making new friends and becoming popular... Then as the minutes go by I start getting more and more confused by the theory the teacher is explaining, to the point where I'm starting to doubt if I will even pass the first test.

3. Vague

To be honest I really don't know wether the following was an FA or if I did it IRL. I got out of bed and heared the alarm of the dryer, although annoying I got out of bed and cleaned the filters.

4. New layout

It's pause on the first day of school and I walk through the hallway towards one of the stairwells leading down to ground-level so I can enter the yard. Suddenly I notice how a new building has been build from block-B towards the gym. It has a path going over it's roof from block-B's second floor offering a nice view over the entire school and forest around it. I think of how good this place is to chill with friends during these moments. I make my way down and walk towards the very edge of the school at the border with the forst where I for some reason have to crawl with a lot of people towards a desk standing there in the open. When I get to the desk I have to give a document for administration which I can get back at the beginning of the line.

I think I'm having a slight dry spell as DR is quiet bad lately, I've also lost a bit of motivation. Hopefully I will have another LD soon so I can gather some will again.

Dreams weren't very interesting, I was trying to hit some nuts with a baseball bat but I couldn't hit them unless I swung the bat over my head.

Last night I had some very vague fragments of dreams that weren't very interesting.

1. Viva las Vegas

I'm somewhere up high in a penthouse and I can look over a bright city somewhere in the desert that I call 'Las Vegas'. I tell my mother that even though it looks very nice, it's just another city.

Hi guys, it seems that auto-suggestion for waking up after a dream is working but I must focus on my induction techniques once I'm awake.

1. The villa

I'm with my family on vacation in Spain, we own a large villa that has atleast 5 swimming pools (1 indoor) and it has a view over the ocean. I mostly explore the house and get information about why it is build in that way. When evening falls and I'm eating dinner which the personel serves I hear something in the kitchen and decide to check it out. I suddenly get camera-feed of a woman (not personel) drinking from the kitchen sink and also spilling A LOT of water over the edge. Then I enter the kitchen for real and see how it's completely filled with water, the water is atleast 10 cm high and 2 house cleaners are desperately trying to dry it up with towels. Also large pieces of meat or other food float in the water around the fridge which makes it dirty too.

2. What is wrong here?

I just had gym and I'm the only person who's still there, I put my clothes on and have a feeling I'm forgetting something, something important. I'm there for quiet a long time but eventually decide to leave, now I feel like I'm too late for something.

3. The best dream

I'm relaxing at an indoor swimming pool of a house and as I look outside the large windows I see it's completely dark outside. After some time a group of young people (20-25 age) enter and ask if they could make use of the pool. I hesitate but then I remember this is not my house, I broke in here myself. I say sure and tell them I would get my laptop just upstairs. They jump in the pool and have a good time, even though I broke into this house I don't want to steal anything or leave any traces. The whole house has a different layout than mine IRL but upstairs they correspond quiet well. I first look around my sister's bedroom looking for Imacs and go through the drawers. After some time I find 3 Imacs, blue, white and black I think. I pick the blue one which belonged to the father of the house, it had a password which I couldn't find so I put it back and looked in my own room. I wanted to leave a note for the person who slept here telling him to live his live or something but as I was writing I noticed I couldn't read what I was writing and it kept changing letters I decided to just throw it away. I go downstairs which is completely different from IRL where I see some weird things like a door with a large man painted on it which I find funny so I take a picture of it. I look around some more but then I hear the family getting home. I rush to the cellar and tell everyone in the pool to leave now which they do. I run upstairs and the family who enters the kitchen barely misses me. I get to my sisters bedroom and need to get out fast and at the same time quiet without leaving any traces. I was EXTREMELY stressed and opened the window which made more noise than nescessary, once open I had to get passed the mosquito window which I somehow pushed out quietly. The window had a handle on the outside too so I could close it, I put the mosquito window back in and noticed the safety shutters weren't down so I thought of going back in and closing it but my instinct told me to run. I run across the rooftops and through old greenhouses (which a lot of people have here IRL). It's raining and cold but I feel so alive with my excellent parkour abilities. I make dangerous jumps which I execute perfectely I slip on some roof because they're wet but I actually do it in a very controlled way. Running through the upper levels of greenhouses with drops of 20 meters probably. It's difficult to explain the path I took but it was extremely hardcore parkour and I was the first to discover it probably, I also crawled through a lot of openings in the glass walls. when I finally reached the street far behind the house and my own I felt relieved. I was also scared, thinking if I left a trace I would go to prison, my mother was there too and already was suspicious of what I just done. She was very angry when I told her, she asked many times if I took anything or left any traces. I said no everytime and thought of what traces I left, which were none except the safety shutter which I didn't close.

4. The aftermath

I do an interview with the family about if they already knew a burglar had been in their house, the daughter of the family (who's window's safety shutters I didn't close) told me she sometimes forgets to close them anyway. I felt relieved to know they didn't have a clue it was me. Then my family asked me to do the parkour again as they were curious to how I escaped. I followed the parkour again and did it, but I was not as sharp or focused so everything went slower and I sometimes took a wrong turn. It wasn't raining so everything was dry and I couldn't slide on pipes, instead I had to climb on them. I had most difficulties with cimbing up some ropes in an old greenhouse but eventually I got to the top.

Now here's something important, dream 3 was partially incubated by me the evening before. I heared the assasin's creed music on TV and ended up daydreaming doing parkour over the rooftops.

Plan for next night:

-Auto suggest waking up after every dream

-Visualizing a dream in which I become lucid multiple times

- Archief lucidity


Plan for when I'm lucid:

Focus on every detail to find differences between dreams and reality which hopefully will make me more aware of dreams in the future.

So I go to sleep all nice and relaxed using some techniques from ETWOLD, I confirm to myself I will wake up after my dreams which I do. I wake up around 06:20 but before I realize I'm awake I already move a bit, I relax and try the 'counting to sleep' which goes good but distracting thoughts make me unable to pass 40. I eventually fall asleep and wake up to my normal alarm 09:00 and decide to give it another chance as I'm more tired now. Guess what? The alarm of the dryer goes of and once again I'm the only person upstairs, I didn't even bother cleaning out the filters, just shut it off all together. Off cours I was too awake for anything right now and the best thing of all. I forgot atleast 3 dreams I had because of this, atleast we're making progress on the relaxing techniques and auto-suggestion. It's morning as I'm typing this which I don't do very often but I will probably read a lot of ETWOLD today.

Plan for next night:

-Auto-suggest waking up after dreams

-Using the 'counting to sleep' technique

-Archieve lucidity


Plan for when I'm lucid:

Pay extreme attention to environment and any change in feeling that might be different from reality to have more LDs in the future.

No LDs yet but I can feel that the things I learn from ETWOLD will without any doubt yield a better insight in lucid dreaming. So far I'm on page 75 and I'm almost done with the WILD-chapter which has shed some light on things I didn't understand.

1. What about me?

I'm in my own room getting out of bed and I see some of my family walking around eating fries and I ask them where mine are. I get told to get my own, quickly I make my way to my sister's bedroom which suddenly is the place where an old man sells fries. He's not in the room when I'm looking around but somehow I find a small box that has fries in it. It's not a lot and I'm almost annoyed by the fact but I eat the little amount anyway.

2. Run!

I'm flying around somewhere in Austria and see a lot of people, a ton of them. They are with millions scattered in large groups throughout the whole region, on, around and at the base of the mountains. And there's a beast hunting them, it's bigfoot. The beast can run extremely fast and devours humans in their entirety, swallowing them like a sausage. Suddenly I'm on the ground and for some reason have the guts to go near it, it doesn't seem to be too smart as I can get quiet close without it even seeing me. But then it suddenly starts chasing me and my visions gets all red and stuff. Then I look down on myself and find out I'm actually a red T-rex...
I'm back viewing everything from the air and see the beast heading up to the higher parts of the mountains where people have gathered. The people aren't very detailed and merely coloured dots from the clothing they wear. Suddenly I descent into a secret military bunker/HQ and I get a weird and at the same time comedic introduction to the team that has to locate and kill the beast. Suddenly it's time to begin the hunt and I see some soldiers getting into pods that will get them to the surface. When one soldiers gets of the pod on some floor of the base and another one wants to, the other one's elevator malfunction and he panicks in an extremely comedic way. He then gets crushed between the elevator and the floor which I don't see but I can hear the sound of flesh and bone being squeezed. I slightly start to question the fact if this is funny or not.

3. Are you joking me?

I have an FA and get out of bed without any DR, make my way down stairs where I find my mother cooking diner. She asks me if I still enjoy the work I put into my (lucid) dreaming and is worried because she thinks I might not be able to stop it. My sister joins the conversation and tells me it's something crazy people do, then they tell me I talked in my sleep. During this conversation I had my plate in my hand and my mother put vegetables and tuna on it, a piece of tuna fell in the vegetables and she put it back on my plate. I suddenly remember a passage of ETWOLD saying that we only sleeptalk/walk in the second phase of our sleep and thus while we're not fully dreaming yet. I tell this to them and also tell them I didn't remember any dreams this night, only darkness. This calmed them and I ate my diner, shortly after I woke up.

At first when I woke up I only remembered the first two dreams but after following ETWOLD's advice of questioning yourself what you dreamed I suddenly remembered the third dream.

You know, I decided to include a plan for next night each entry as this is suggested in the book and I think it will help with setting up my intentions. I will probably keep doing this until I get lucid frequent enough which is atleast 1 LD per night. Another reason why I decided to do this is because when I'm in bed I'm usually still thinking about what my strategy will be which keeps me awake and makes me feel uncertain about my chances.

Plan for next night:

-Auto-suggest waking up after dreams

-Using the 'counting to sleep' technique as described in ETWOLD which is basicly an addition to DEILD

-ARCHIEVE LUCIDITY

When I woke up I think I remembered some bits of several dreams but I forgot to note them down, off cours now many hours later I don't remember anything! I can say however that for probably the first time in my life I'm actually interested in reading a book. I had only read one real book before in my life which was for school but I'm just so eager to learn more about ETWOLD. I've already gone through 45 pages so far.

I decided to start reading Stephen Laberge's book, 'Exploring the world of lucid dreaming' because I think it might contain some interesting things about MILD and auto-suggestion. Also, as I just saw the 100th anniversary of WW1 outside my window on the old WW1 cemetery. Don't know why I wanted to say that but I think it's quiet weird to think so many people died back then at this place.

1. Fragment

I really don't remember anything of this dream other than the bits I wrote down this morning. It had something to do with drugs, me wearing blue clothing and being both awake and asleep

2. Largest cake in the world

I'm in my garage and I have to transport a cake to a certain location, I know it's for the royal family of Belgium because I start seeing the King in some flashbacks. I use my bike but there's one problem, the cake is 15 meters wide and so heavy it nearly crushes my bike as I somehow put it on the back. I have a lot of trouble keeping my balance as I'm driving down the street and after some time the cake falls of. When I put it back on the bike the cake has gotten smaller, it's now 2 meters wide and I can actually transport it now. When I get to the party I don't really know what happens but when the party ends 2 biker/gothic women take some people hostage (including me) and we have to dance on weird music while also wearing these weird clothes... Oh yeah, the house is suddenly filled with nails so walking away would be painfull.

3. Cats on the loose

I'm standing infront of my house and see 5 cats sitting on a row on the sidewalk. 2 of them are my pets and the others I don't know. I quickly grab the two and put them inside but then I notice how most of the lower part of the house is missing. I see it as renovation and think it's normal but then I notice holes in the door I entered through with the cats must've gone through. And a weird man comes to me and says something but I don't remember what.

EDIT: Looks like something weird happened during posting this entry, it doesn't register the comments which I would've liked cause I appreciate the interest of others but it tells me "Acces denied" when I try to like.

I fell asleep around 02:00 and I had to get up at 08:00 so I didn't have much dreaming.

1. London

I'm discussing cities with my dad and he tells me London is the worst of them all. He tells me it's very grey and ugly. Then I have a panoramic view of a city, I see it as London but there's no Big Ben or anything I know from London. I only see a grey Industrial city.

I decided to begin with SAT (Sporadic Awareness Technique) which seems to be quiet suited for me as I get these moments when I doubt my surroundings. So far no LDs yet but I still hope for the best. I haven't been waking up that often anymore in between dreams which is kinda dissapointing. Maybe I should look up some auto-suggestion guides.

1. New car

My father bought a new car, I hadn't seen it yet but he told us (my family included) that it wasn't really a good looking car but very practical. Suddenly I see a commercial where they show of the car and I must say it was quiet ugly, both the shape and the colour. The steering wheel wasn't round but more oval and was supposed to be more comfortable for the driver. Suddenly I'm in the back and we're just driving down a road with this car in some city.

2. Flowers

It's a seperate dream from the first but we stop driving at some Industrial zone, we get out and walk around for a bit. It's quiet and we seem to be the only people around here, the roads are old and cracked open through which weeds grow. On both sides of the road I can see factories and parking lots I guess. I see a lot of white flowers around and start gathering them for some reason.

3. Waves

I'm somewhere on a beach, it's a small bay and the waves are quiet wild. I get in the water and I'm being thrown around when suddenly a menu pops up and brings up this raft-design display. First I make a classic looking raft which appears in my hands, I get up but it's quickly destroyed by the waves. My second raft is more modern looking using aluminium and a folding system to absorb the impacts of the waves. It goes good for some while and I make large jumps over the waves but after some time and a rough landing it breaks too. I get blown back to the shore and roll on the beach, infact I role back I think 20 meters and see that over the beach a highway runs. After some looking around I find out this isn't a nice beach surrounded by nature but it's actually in the middle of a harbor. I see my dad in the distance and know his cellphone is ringing because my mother is calling him from somewhere else. When he gets to me I quickly tell him to pick up his Phone, he seemed to not have noticed the calls. When I pick the phone and check the missed calls I see that my mother called 54 times. Then I see my mother walking from behind a screen.

4. Beethoven look

I'm with my family and we're getting a tour throughout a new house, however we begin in the cellar. It's dark, damp and there are several holes in the ceiling above. I quickly leave the group and go exploring on my own, somehow I get my finger stuck the hole of a wooden barrel. I wait for some time and call for some help and after some time the guide appears, he pulls me out. Then I notice an old dusty mirror on the wall, after I look into it I see my hair is very long. Like 15 centimeters, I don't like this look and tell my mother I look like Beethoven or Mozart or something. Then I'm suddenly in my bathroom with my mother who's brushing her hair. I ask her to cut my hair but she doesn't seem to be too interested in me.

TOTAL DREAMS: 81

TOTAL LUCID: 4

Average dreams per night: 2,6

Dreamsigns: Prison, school, begin/ending of school (year), danger, stress, friends, night sky, war, alone

Best technique(s): DEILD, SSILD

Personal evaluation: Interrupting sleep with early alarms lowers overall DR and should be replaced with naturall awakening using auto-suggesting.

Goals for next month: 8 lucid dreams and an average DR of 3 dream per night.

Special notes: /

Wow, my first Multi lucid night experiencing 2 real lucids and 1 very short. This also means WE ARCHIEVED THE GOAL OF THE MONTH!!!1!

Although we archieved it on paper I'm still not happy with the result, it was way to sporadic and random. I'd rather have the LDs spread out over the month instead of cramming it all in the first and last day of the month.

1. Blurry night

I'm in my backyard looking up to the night sky which actually looked like the back of your eyelids, didn't saw many stars but I did see a small bright moon. It was very small and I think it was the new moon because of it's thin shape. I'm very disoriented and don't really know what I'm doing there at that time. Suddenly I'm somewhere at a public place with my mother, it's day and she's talking with someone about what I did last night. Apparently I acted like I was Harry Potter the night before and my mother saw all of it, needless to say it was quiet awkward.

2. What goes up must come down.

I'm at some sport park with school and there's this enormous wooden construction, it's not wide or anything just very high. Using your imagination it looked like this 'ITI' with the I's being the two supports and the T being a rope between them going all the way up to the top. I climbed the rope slowly using the technique with your feet and pushing yourself up. Once I got on the top I waited for some time looking around but then I noticed the rope fell of and I was stuck up there. For some reason I knew the exact height which was 28 meters, then I remembered people could die from falls smaller than that. Someone walked past and I asked him to throw the rope up with a hook on the end. That happened in my imagination but in the dream itself the person only started shouting at me for being stupid. I think he was a teacher.

3. A spark of hope.° (SEMI)

I wake up on the side of a street, it's in the middle of the night and I'm somewhere in an arabic looking city. It is extremely dark but once I sit up I think of doing an RC. I do the nose-plug and feel the air but don't completely become aware. I try standing up and walking noticing how quiet everything is before the dream fading away.

4. Come on!* (DILD)

I wake up again in the same arabic city on the same spot at midnight again, I feel more aware and actually make an effort to stabilize. I crawl over the ground for a bit and notice I'm wearing a turban and some long clothing. It last slightly longer than previous dream but still isn't enough!

5. I'm not giving up yet!* (DILD)

Once again I wake up in the same dream and I'm starting to feel angry cause I keep missing these opportunities. I manage to stabilize the dream to a point where I can stand up and actually inspect my surroundings. I'm near the entrance gate of the city but I'm completely alone and it's still extremely dark. I don't think of much to do and the dream ends quiet quickly.

6. I'm the expert!

I'm at school outside and it's early in the morning, the first class is starting and the teacher decides to do it outside on some benches spread out of the terrain. I take seat at a bench with some other students in the back on a grass field and we get an interactive task. Each groups gets a large sheet of paper and on that they must write down some key-words of what they dream about. I quickly announce that I do this very often and I explain the concept of dream-signs to them. Although I tell them very clearly what it is they seem quiet close-minded and one girl looks at me like I'm talking gibberish.
Then suddenly I hear a student on another bench behinds us making a joke about the teacher, shortly after the teacher begins shouting and raging demanding the person who said it to stand up. I'm thinking something like "Why would this happen on the first day already?".

7. The tour

I'm with school doing a tour throughout my home town and looking at historical sites. I'm in the back and suddenly some guy I know from draws a gun at me and shoots hitting a parked car infront of me. I instantly get down and another student thinks this is all funny, he start's shooting too. For some reason I also carry a gun so I get up and fire back but at the moment I pull the trigger the guy jumps away and I hit a friend that I know standing behind him in the chest. I'm like "Oh fuck!", the other guys laugh and one fires at me again at point blank range. I can barely dodge the bullet and it scratches my neck. Then I just walk away and join the group again which are waiting at a corner. I look around and see on two corners where IRL normally two banks would be located I now see two care centers for toddlers. One for those who sleep polyphasic and those who sleep monophasic. It actually says it above the doors of the two buildings.
The building I'm standing against which would normally IRL be a bar is now an empty building with a large open window on the front. It's very dusty so I can only see a bit inside but it's one room with a sky light and I think I also saw a saxophone standing against the wall. The guide tells about how some protestant group met up here to do there things. As I look better through the glass I see a large picture at the back wall, it a picture of a group of soldiers who fought in WW1.

With the end of the month tomorrow and thus also it being time to review the results I think it's fair to say that it's time for change. I already talked about using DEILD for next month and stopping the WBTB-alarm, one of the goals of this month was archieving a succesfull WILD which I won't do next month cause doing a full WILD (not a short one using DEILD) seems to be too difficult in the house during an afternoon nap. I get interrupted constantly and I just don't have such a lucid-desire during the day. Dream-Recall goal for next month will likely be reduced from 4 minimum average per night to 3 because 3 is more than enough.

Anyway, the dreams this night were quiet highly detailed and vivid, able to support lucidity is you asked me.
I woke up once but moved before I realized it, I should really tell myself not to move.

1. Mine(craft)

I'm somewhere deep down in a cave in the game 'Minecraft', I'm digging up resources like Redstone and instead of ore I find complete blocks of pure Redstone. Then I have weird X-ray vision and I can see a bit better in the dark. Some creepers attack me but I can kill them with a sword, in the background I hear some voices of people reacting shouting things like "Oh god a creeper!" or "Watch out!".

2. The old house

I'm in an old house located probably somewhere in the middle of Antwerp during the Victorian era based on the clothing and poverty. I suddenly have two sisters instead of one IRL and the house we live in is in extremely bad condition. It could probably collaps any time, the floors were mostly gone on most levels meaning you could stand on the bottom of the house and look straight up to the roof. My sisters slept on the first floor and I slept in the attic, the way I reached this attic was by climbing a thin make-shift stair/ladder which was very dangerous but somehow I was used to it. The house also felt very cold because of holes in the roof and broken windows, it was probably winter outside.

3. The old/new farmhouse

I'm aproaching a large farmhouse with my dad, there's a snow storm going on and visibility is bad probably 10 meters at most. The house is remote with some fields around it and than a thick forest, at first from the outside it looks very old and maybe also derelict. Once we get inside it is quiet dark and cold, we quickly go around turning on all the heaters which also provides light throughout the house. While I go around turning on the heaters I realize just how large this place is and I think of how nice it could be if renovated. Slowly I realize I'm suddenly in the same house but it is very modern and nicely decorated. On the second floor somewhere in the back of the house I find two rooms which are seperated by a glass wall. The room I stand in first is empty and I think just a lounge corner. The other room which I enter not much later has some fitness equipment in it and upon better inspection also has 2 baths and a shower which makes me really happy cause it seems so usefull. Both rooms have a beautifull view over the field infront of the house which is completely covered in snow. It is evening and the snow storm is still raging outside so I can't look very far outside still. I feel an intense joy as if I own this house and I never want to leave it.