LiveInTheDream's DJ v2.5

Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream

Woke up at 5:25am as was set for my watch alarm. As I did the previous day, before I had gone to bed I had watched videos about lucid dreaming, read about lucid dreaming, and wrote about lucid dreaming, all with the hopes of getting lucid dreaming into my mind and making it happen again. The alarm was set for around 6 hours after going to bed as well.

It worked. To make sure I wouldn't fall back asleep too soon and therefore make use of the WBTB method, I let my watch alarm snooze twice before I switched it off. That ensured that I stayed awake for 15 minutes before drifting back off to sleep. I never actually left my bed because I have found that doing that wakes me up too much, so I settled with sitting up and reality checking and being almost fully awake that way.

Anyway, once I fell asleep, I found myself in a maze of a neighborhood. There were houses with sidewalks that worked like a maze, which led to a pool that had a similar maze around it, which led to a restaurant that was laid out like a maze...it was all very closed in, other for parts of it being open to the sky. Most of it was under a ceiling, though. I was looking for a particular friend of mine, who seemed to be nowhere to be found. As time went on, I kind of started to realize that this situation was not normal. It really pushed the boundaries for me, though, when Africans in tuxedos started to appear out of nowhere. Still, I didn't quite recognize the fact that I was dreaming just yet. I walked up to another friend of mine who happened to be just standing there, and I asked her: "Hey, have you seen A.J. anywhere?" She began to reply with ambiguous and answers that really didn't do me any good. I got frustrated pretty quick, and told her, "Just tell me where he is!" "You can't make me." She replied. "Yes I can!" I said. "I'm dreaming! I can do whatever I want...hey. Wait! That's right! I'm dreaming! This is my dream! I'm lucid!!" Suddenly I realized how out of it everyone around me seemed. They weren't actually doing a whole lot. I walked up to one of the guys in a tuxedo just standing there, and he was still as stone. I noticed how realistic his face was, but as I kept looking, he didn't even flinch or look back at me. Silently cheering, I opened a door and went inside, expecting a bathroom to be there. Sure enough, there was. I looked in the mirror and saw myself exactly as I always do when I first wake up. Hair messy, and in a white t-shirt and green shorts. "Yes! I'm lucid! Oh yeah!" I proceeded to rub my hands and spin around and feel the result, just to enjoy the moment. I was surprised at how everything blurred when I spun, just like it would in real life. Then I started to bump into everything around me just so I could feel it. Then I stopped, laughing with joy, and remembered the reality check. "Oh yes, and I can't forget to try this!" I pinched my nose and breathed in. Sure enough, I was able to do it, even though the breath seemed to be drawn in from another consciousness. I didn't realize it was a mistake at first to reality check when I was already lucid, but it became apparent pretty quick that making myself lose connection with my dream body and re-establish connection with my real body was significantly weakening the dream. My vision began to grow weak. I frantically resumed rubbing and spinning, but it seemed to do no good. Everything went black, and I thought the dream was over. But then, all of a sudden, my vision returned! "Ok," I said aloud, "not wasting any more time here." I took a look in the mirror again. "Better start small...well, I gotta have something other than this to wear if I'm going out there." I thought about how to change clothes without physically doing it. I remembered a bit about passive control and force control and decided my plan of action. "When I walk through that door, my clothes will change to some awesome black outfit." I had Jedi robes or something like that in mind. I walked through the door back outside, and then looked down to see if it had worked. There were different clothes on me now, but it was a green t-shirt and black cargo pants. "Dang it! This isn't what I meant. Ok, when I go through that NEXT doorway, my clothes are going to change to black jedi robes." So I walked through the doorway and saw several of my friends conversing together. I looked to the left and saw a mirror again. My hair had been fixed in the process of changing, but I was still in the same outfit. "Oh come on...CHANGE!" The use of direct force startled me awake.

However, although the dream was short, it was the most vivid one yet, and I remembered much of what I've learned about lucid dreams, so in several ways it was a success.

That makes DILDs = 3