LiveInTheDream's DJ v2.5

Finally, another lucid dream!! Didn't come by the audio experiment, though...I'm not going to try that one again until I have finished creating my own MP3 for the job.

This time, I just decided to give my RC-MILD method another shot, and it passed with flying colors. Click on the underlined text to see the thread about it, if you aren't familiar with how it works. I went through the process right before going to sleep, also telling myself: "Next time I see anything or do anything, it's a dream, because I'm going to sleep now."

Pretty much next thing I know, I'm sitting up on my bed. But I wasn't fooled by the false awakening; all I knew was that I was supposed to reality check when I saw or did anything. "Ok," I said, "I am seeing things, and I just sat up, which is doing something...that means this must be a dream!" I plugged my nose and tried to breath in, but unfortunately I did it way too hard. The whole dream faded out, and came back a few seconds later...only now, although I was still on my bed, I was in the basement rather than my bedroom!

I reality checked more gently, and was satisfied this time with the results, although it was already obvious I was in a dream. I didn't rush around after that; since I'd already nearly lost the dream once, I started out just by feeling stuff and getting really immersed into the dream world. Once off the bed, I walked over to a bunch of pictures on the wall and looked at my reflection in them. I was amazed by the realism of the reflections; it would distort--relative to my position--to the shape of the objects reflecting me.

This made me think back to a dream where I told myself I could not have been dreaming because no dream had reflections that realistic. Being lucid, this only made me smile. I pointed at the pictures and told them: "you're not going to fool me this time!"

But now it was time for adventure. Even though my dream goals had only been thought up minutes before bed, I remembered them very clearly. Basically I just wanted to live through a couple scenes from 'Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life'. I attempted to shape shift into Lara Croft, but that utterly failed, according to my reflection in the pictures. At first I just looked like a totally messed up version of me. I managed to correct that much so that I looked normal again, but I was still intrigued by what happened.

See, when I had shapeshifted, I felt successful. In my mind, I looked exactly like I wanted to. The reflection was what told me differently. So I guess that just goes to show our mental projection of ourselves and what we actually are in the dream world are not one and the same...fascinating.

I knew I didn't have a lot of time, though. The dream was just not that stable, and I knew it. I had it as clear as could be and I was as lucid as could be, but the sleep cycle was drawing to an end. So I ran up the stairs and headed for the front door. Someone stopped me and asked me to set the table for supper, but of course that was not in my plan. "Screw this, I'm not going to spend my lucid dream setting tables!" I threw a glass on the floor to create a distraction, ran out the front door, and leaped into the air. I don't know that I've had as realistic of a flying experience as this before...I really could see forever as I got higher and higher!

For a while I just enjoyed the realistic flight, but then I teleported to the skies of Tokyo so I could find the first place from Tomb Raider that I wanted to re-enact. Unfortunately, I began losing the dream here, so no more did I land than I woke up for real.

Not the longest or most exciting dream ever, but it's been well over a month since I last had a lucid dream that was that clear and that lucid. And since RC-MILD worked so well...heck, I may just stick with this instead of the audio thing!