LiveInTheDream's DJ v2.5

Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream

Two dreams again. I should have gotten up and recorded the first, because it is mostly lost on me now. However, I remember seeing my parents again.

Second dream was a jumble. Pretty much everything I had thought about that day was in there. Eventually it all worked out to me walking into a room with a small conference of some sort; no more than 50 people. The conference ended soon after I walked in, but first I demonstrated this little sticky, square lightbulb thingy that I had, since the conference leader was talking about it. Maybe they wanted to sell the lights; I don't know. When it was done, everyone was to pick up their chairs and stack them in the corners of the room. One kid with blond hair and glasses passed by. "Hey." I said. "What's your name?" I can't recall his answer. "Where are you from?" was my next question. "The Ford." He replied. "It's just a few hours away from Missouri...have you ever been to Missouri? I've been twice." "I go all the time," I replied. "I live in Kansas and I can drive into Missouri in about 15 minutes!"

I was zipped away then to a false awakening. The thought of reality checking crossed my mind, but unfortunately, I simply thought back "I already did!" I got down out of bed and there were several parksabers.com lightsabers on the floor. They too were part of the previous mish-mash of a dream I had just had. All over the place my mind started posing questions. "How do you know you're not dreaming? What about this is real?" but these questions were very quiet and only managed to cause a bright light to blind me momentarily, multiple times, as if my conscious was trying to break through. But the questions never stopped. Eventually, as I practiced with the saber props, I thought, "Well, if these sabers are from my dream, that would make THIS too a..."

And I awoke, reality checked, and found myself to be really awake.

Several other instances throughout the dream prompted reality checks, but I either excused them with "I already did, just a second ago!" referring to what I did right before I fell asleep, or the posed questions were too 'quiet', like a small voice desperately trying to make itself heard, but in the end being ignored.

Oh yes, and my family members were throughout the dream as well.

I think I'm getting close.

Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream

6:00am-Woke up and quickly reality checked my room. Realized I had successfully escaped a WILD night, and discovered that I was back in control; if I closed my eyes, did not fight movement urges, and did not attempt to maintain concsiousness, I could switch to natural sleep on demand. I also realized that I was in the perfect situation for a successful WILD, but chose to rest instead.

10:00am - Woke up again. I guess I was tired from all the hard work. NEVER slept until 10:00am before. Good thing I don't have anything important to do today.

Very little dream recall...

The first dream, all I can recall is a brief moment of being at a computer and looking at graphs with my mom.

One dream was longer, and involved a (fictional) uncle of mine.

He had a big house and threw a party, and even had a music group play. Everything was fine up until this point. We had arrived at the house, been warmly welcomed, and been treated very hospitably, but something about him bothered me. When the music group began to play, I decided I didn't like the music, and proceeded to sabotage the party to get rid of them. Walked in and out of doors in hallways, past several members of my family, trying to find some way to stop the band from playing anymore. Eventually I found several huge objects that I was somehow able to pick up and move without the least bit of struggle. I then brought them all up to the living room balcony and began knocking over the band players by dropping the objects on their heads

Obviously, this was causing much strife with my 'uncle'. He and the rest of my family all cornered me and began interrogating me with questions about why I would do such a thing when everyone had been so nice to us. For some reason I still thought the band and my 'uncle' were just plain evil, but then I woke up. It was a pretty clear dream; it seems I could have entered lucidity, but unfortunately I did not remember to RC.

I remember having more dreams prior to these, but they left my memory instantly upon awakening.

11:30pm - Went to sleep without WILDing intentionally OR unintentionally, without much help. Every time I would begin to enter WILD, I'd see the eye again, staring back at me, morphing into a million different forms, occasionally revealing an eyebrow or other details in the surrounding area. I would then look away from the eye and stop holding onto consciousness and be fine.

Over the night, I had several dreams, but I can only recall two again, in terms of length, in the same order as before.

The first is very unclear...I saw my dad making a statement about my sister that was bothersome. Something like "She's going back to college and is not allowed to EVER leave!" He also decided on a husband for her to be forcibly married to, though I cannot remember who or why.

The second was longer, but not much happened. Most of the time I was just randomly walking upstairs and downstairs, all around my house, not doing much, just seeing people from my family doing various normal things. I saw some history channel thing about trains on the TV for a brief time. One time when I went upstairs, I found an girl that I had never seen before putting on makeup in the bathroom. When I stepped in there to find out who she was, I saw a wedding dress hung up next to the shower. I decided that she and I must be getting married, and she agreed. We hugged and very nearly...did something else, too, but decided it was better just to wait. We decided we'd be married in two days, so it wouldn't be that long. I went back in my room and found that I had a bunk bed all of a sudden. I got on the bottom and she got on top and we went to sleep.

No lucidity--issue was, I saw no doorways in the dream, and my practice has been to RC when I go through doors. I'm beginning to think that my family is a dream sign. I've seen someone from my family in every dream I've had for the past two nights. Interestingly, WILDing didn't bring me any dreams of my family, but since it doesn't require RC's or signs, it doesn't matter.

Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream

11:30pm - Tried the first time in my life for lucid dreams by this WILD technique I learned from the internet. Even though the guide said it normally takes 20-30 minutes, I reached weightlessness after 5 mins. Panicked and forced a wake up.

The time wore on to Sunday: 12/13/09 - 12:30am

Accidentally fell asleep at some unknown time until 4:00am. No memory of sleep or dreams.

At 4:30am, I accidentally fell asleep again, this time achieving lucidity.

First I was in a college dorm, not in body, but spectating like a spirit. I saw a messy desk, covered with pencils, including a single bright red one. The desk was metal and looked to be at least 25 years old. A built-in lamp was mounted beneath the top shelf and cupboard.

Instantly, I was whisked to my living room. I saw a pile of objects that my mind registered as Christmas presents. I was in body then, and handeled each object, finding them to be true to real life things that I own, only these were brand new again. I realized how outdated and deteriorated some of it has become. I saw packaging labels in crystal clarity that I've only seen once my whole life, and some other packages that don't exist, yet they were fully realistic in physics, lighting, and texture. I picked them up, dropped them, spun them around on the glass side table they were on, and found it all to function as expected.

Next I was whisked away to church, where the clarity reached its strongest point. Having not intended to try for lucidity in the first place, I now thought I was there and awake. I was talking to a couple friends of mine. I heard their voices and laughs and saw their expressions and actions in full, accurate detail. Then, another friend of mine walked up to us. "I should ask him about lucid dreaming." I thought, since he is a very knowledgeable fellow. BIG MISTAKE. He replied by going through the steps for having a WILD, directly quoting what I had read on the internet. When he reached the weightlessness part, I said, "That's what freaks me out!" And instantly I realized I was dreaming and as a result of the shock, felt as if I were being sucked into a vortex and put back on my bed.

I was stuck in paralysis. Literally. Couldn't move. A wave of weightlessness started to come over my body, beginning with my toes and moving up. I thought I was WILDing again, but since I had no visualized dream in mind, and rather than go somewhere I didn't want to, I thrust open my eyes and moved my head however I still was able. The paralysis broke when the wave reached my head. Checked the clock and only half-an-hour had gone by; 5:00 am now. I had been a bit afraid that I would get stuck in a dream for a day or more; those fears are now quelled.

I am unharmed; very disoriented, but sitting up for a moment fixed that. Actually, I felt more energetic from that half hour than from a half night of normal sleep.

The process of getting in and out of lucidity still scares me a bit, but coming through it alive makes me more than willing to try again. Besides, lucidity itself is WICKED AWESOME, DUDE!

7:52am - Now that I've fully woken up from my first lucid dreams, I diagnose that lucid dreaming itself has had no negative side effect on me. The lack of sleep is catching up to me, but otherwise I feel fine. Nothing is out of the ordinary for sleep-depravity. I intend to try lucid dreaming again this afternoon, when/where it is safe to give another trial run.

1:26pm - Tried to go to New York and fly over the city using WILD. Didn't panic at weightlessness. Wasn't calm enough, though. My excitement caused my heart to beat very rapidly, almost dangerously so, suspending me in between wake and sleep. I saw the brightness of the New York sky through closed eyelids, saw the faint image of traffic below me on an apartment deck, and heard some city noises, but intentionally left the dream due to heart overactivity. Waking like that faithfully produced a degree of disorientation, but also gave me jitters from working my heart so hard. I MUST LEARN CALMNESS!

Something I just realized is that ALL lucid dreams of mine begin and end with me seeing an eye. It frequently changes shape and occasionally other features (eyebrows, lashes, etc) appear as well.

11:45pm - Attempted to sleep without entering a WILD. Concluded from study that WILD is not the preferable method, and not very successful.
The night wore on, but every time my eyes shut, I'd begin a WILD. Began to fear that I was messing up my brain and wouldn't ever be able to get a good night's sleep again without doctor's aid. Prayed for help which quickly calmed me down and I went to sleep naturally, though it was late.

Thank you for stopping by my second DJ (or Dream Journal, for those of you who are new to lucid dreaming)!

I hope you enjoy reading of my adventures in the dream world, and possibly even learn a thing or two from my discoveries and/or mistakes.
My last dream journal had an overwhelmingly massive (and positive) response; it is my hope that this one will be every bit as successful, if not moreso!

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