MattyB

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{This one is from last night.... 30 may 2012}

(Non-Lucid)

I am walking through a glass roofed arcade type building, with cast iron beams and a large vaulted glazed roof
... Just like old fashioned 'victorian' type shopping arcades

It was very overcast outside, and raining heavily.

The arcade was a meandering curved pattern, rather than a straight line (like a shopping centre)
... The sides of my 'pathway' through the arcade was lined with large Yucca plants in terracotta pots.
The floor of the 'arcade' was pea-gravel, which crunched as I walked on it

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{This one is from two nights ago.... 29 may 2012
Waking life I've been trying to WILD, and have been getting quite close.
So I went to bed at my normal time, with the intention to get 4hrs+ REALLY GOOD sleep,
so that I should easily WILD when I've taken my early morning 3.30 to 4am pee}

(Non-Lucid)

I dreamed that I couldn't sleep for most of the night & that I was tossing and turning..
.. Though the night seemed to pass by quite quickly.. it was soon really light outside,
and eventually was that not far off my normal alarm waking time in waking life
.. I was worried that my lack of sleep would wreck my chances of a WILD.

I even at one point, picked up my mobile in the dream, and browsed a few of pages on the subject of sleep

(I know it was a dream, because...
1) The web pages I browsed on my phone in the night weren't in the browser history
2) On recollection in the morning, it felt 'dreamlike'
3) I 'woke up' when my alarm went off in waking life, without feeling like I hadn't slept

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{This one is from last night....
Waking life A couple of days ago..... I was REALLY stressed on a return work trip by air... Bad days!!!
I had both outbound and return travel days of missing my connecting flights & aircraft breakdowns making me really late!!
Any connection with an unpleasant travel dream???}

(Non-Lucid)

I’m at an outdoor / above ground city ‘Metro’ station. The “line callout plan” at this station shows this is the green line. The station is in a large pedestrianised public open square with a pink and grey granite oval building. Theres hot dog sellers walking around the square and I can smell the food...

The metro train pulls up at the station & I board... Its like a dull white and silvery white two tone train, with a red and blue zig-zag logo on the side... Inside the train has red plastic seats, with blue padded bits in the middle... Theres quite a few people on the train, some are sat, some are stood up hangling on straps and rails... I'm stood up!!

A couple stops down the line, a group of lads get on. They are wearing 'hoodie' tops, track-trousers and bright coloured trainers...

They are being really antisocial and are swearing, making loud personal comments, spitting and generally upsetting all of the other passengers in my carriage. They then start dropping stink bombs...

I eventually get annoyed, and confront them about there behavior... One of them turns around and responds back
“Don’t like the smell of eggs..Tssk … You can S**K my D**K” ... I back down from the confrontation

The youths get off a stop or two later, and I carry on with my journey, shaken..

A few stops later, I get off the train at an above ground station, that I dont recognise
(Journey was above ground a while, then underground for a while, and then back above ground)

I'm in an open air station, in a gorge (~50-60ft deep), with stairs going up the side of the cutting to the exit, and some trees casting some shade from overhead.

I'm lost, and beginning to panic, I find the “Line callout map" on a notice board ... This station isn’t on the line!!
I start climbing the stairs to get out of the station cutting... The closer I am to the exit, and the more view I get of the station, the more I realise I'm lost!! ... Where am I??

Awaken, sweaty!!

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{The date entry of this is wrong, I thought I'd share some of my experiences from before joining the forum!
This one was from around mid March 2012, I wrote it to my PC then, but I thought I'd share it now...}


(Induction type: DILD, Spontainous lucidity)



I'm stood out the open, in the daytime.
I've got a little open camp fire and some sort of animal hide wig-wam type shelter.
My camp is on top of a moorland embankment, the view to the front is to a valley below, while the view to behind is pine woodland.

It occurs to me that all this is 'wrong'.... I must be dreaming... A look at my BIG hands and fingers confirms this... Bam!!! (LUCID)

So, I'm out in the open... with clear daytime sky above me and in front over the valley below... Smell of pine from the trees behind etc...
... I'd allways wanted to try changing day to night or vice versa in a dream...
I tried a few things first that didn't work... Like...

• Verbal commands
• Trying to reach up and pull the sun out of the sky
• Covering my eyes, willing the sky to change and uncovering them again

Time to think latterally... I'm trying to turn day into night... I'll be winding time on a few hours doing that... Dreams are full of symbology... Hows about adjusting my watch, to 'wind on' time to turn day to night..
... For good measure the verbal command 'day to night' as well.

I put a finger through the glass faceplate of my watch, as if it wasnt there!!
I manually start winding the hands forward... Giving the verbal command as well...

The sun quickly sets to the horizon, at the valley, the sky grows dark, and the moon and stars rise
.. The night sky was never like I've seen it before, so 'intense' and beautiful.... I could even see the faint lines highlighting the constelations shapes...

I stare a the night sky, with the brilliant pin-point stars and constelations, wondering the marvels of the universe... I'm pointing out at the sky with an outstreched arm & finger to the constelations I recognise, saying there names. Where my fingers been, left a new star!! I try getting rid of a star, by 'rubbing it out' with my finger... that works!!!

Time to get creative on the night sky!! The Stick-man and smiley-face constelations had to be done!!!

I was happy drawing for a while, and then my dream world just got 'washed out' and faded to black...
... But I don't think I woke up in waking life...

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{Curly brace & blue} .... Relevent waking life details before entry, if appropriate


Black .... Dream body/narative text


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{The date entry of this is wrong, I thought I'd share some of my experiences from before joining the forum!
This one was from around end of Jan 2012, I wrote it to my PC then, but I thought I'd share it now...}


(FULLY NON LUCID)


I'm a centaur, with brown hair... I'm in a forrest, with other centaurs.

Around my neck, I have an amulet/necklace... Which is sitting on my bare chest.
... The 'necklace' bit that goes around myneck is a thin leather strip, just like the leather shoe-laces you can get
... The amulet on the end of the strap is a long and thin green emerald, with tapered ends.
The emerald is set in silver mounts, that are two snakes, one forming a clockwise and the other an anticlockwise helix around the stone. The two heads of the snakes touch at the top, to form the loop where the leather strap goes through.

.... Anyway, the forrest... Its sunny, so I can see shafts of sunlight coming through little clearings in the trees.
Something startles us!! We all gallop through the forrest. After a while, the trees start to thin out, and we exit the forrest, and come out into open grass land, we slow down to a trot as we're out in the open.

The grass is tall (about 2-3 foot deep), and is a carpet of green as far as the eye can see.. The grass sways gently in the breeze.

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{Curly brace & blue} .... Relevent waking life details before entry, if appropriate


Black .... Dream body/narative text


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{The date entry of this is wrong, I thought I'd share some of my experiences from before joining the forum!
This one was from around Christmas 2012, I wrote it to my PC then, but I thought I'd share it now...}


(FULLY NON LUCID)


I'm getting my passport renewed on the same-day fast/expensive service at a regional walk-in passport office.
I wait a while stood at the counter, waiting for my 'new passport' to be returned.

When it comes back it's a cobbled together passport made from an A3 maroon (correct colour) cheap diary, rather than an official maroon EU passport type document.

I flicked through my new 'passport'

• The identity page from my old passport had been cut and pasted (pritt-stick'ed) into my new 'passport'
• The new photograph had been glued onto this page, in a shabby way!!
• The magnetic ink printed footer is gobbledygook (or possibly missing)
• Existing Visa and entry/exit stamps had been HAND DRAWN on random pages, to replicate what had been in the original document.

I query whether the passport was still a usable document in this form, and was assured that it was, because "we've issued it" ... I exit the passport office, through the front door, skipping forward to a new scene..

I'm on a large (long haul) jetliner in twilight (early morning) which is taxi-ing away from a runway just after having landed.. As the aircraft turns away from the runway, I see all of the runway lighting.

Shortly, the aircraft stops at a gate stand and the doors open
I'm first to disembark. Stepping through the aircraft door causes a new scene change...
I'm 2nd or 3rd in the immigration queue at a USA airport (Scene change skipped getting off plane and walking through airport!!)

I wait in line. I get called forward to the the desk and present my passport.
The officer starts examining the passport...


(No recall after that)

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{Curly brace & blue} .... Relevent waking life details before entry, if appropriate

Black .... Dream body/narative text

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The date entry of this is wrong, I thought I'd share some of my experiences from before joining the forum!
This 'crazy' dream was about a week ago..
In waking life, I dont have a games console... Not had one for years since the ORIGINAL chunky Sony PlayStation (One)



(Spontanious lucidity.... Isnt that a DILD? .... early morning ~4.30AM ish)



Im in a big city, with high rise glass sky scrappers, smaller & older 5,6 or 7 floors low rise etc... like New York
In the bottom right of my vision (which is exclusively 1st person), I have a little square map,
in which there is a black dot in the middle which is me... The map scrolls when I move, keeping me centred.

There are green dots on the map, which are other people in the city scene, which isn't very densely 'populated' ...
I'll only see at most 5 or 6 other people in the street i'm in. The people are 'tracked' on the map when they move

A police car passes, on the map its an alternately flashing white and blue dot... Normal cars are just white dots!!

Anyway, I wander around the city a short while, getting used to my surroundings, and it occurs to me that its like 'Grand Theft Auto' with the map.... Thats NOT Normal!!!.... The bizarreness of that cements my knowledge' I'm dreaming!!' (Lucid!)

Incidently, other significant features of the city that occur during my rampage in the dream are, that some of the wider boulevard streets I go through, have 'vintage eastern European type' trams running along there central reservation, they are yellow at the bottom, and white at the top (Just like Budapest trams!!) .... There is a galvanised steel public art sculpture that looks like the M C Escher impossible triangle.

Knowing I'm dreaming... and I'm 'playing out' a Grand Theft Auto type game on foot in my dream...
... but its all an illusion, so I'm free to do whatever I want...

I ... go on a one man (petty) crime wave on foot, snatching handbags, pushing over old men with walking sticks, stealing pairs of jeans & trainers on racks displayed outside bizaar type shops store fronts.... Vandalising phone boxes etc...

Halfway through my rampage, I try to pause the game and then unpause it... It works!! Everything freezes, then continues again!!
The 'game' has pause music, which is an instrumental only version of 'Dont you want me baby', by 'The Human League'

so ... When police car dots appear on the map now, they have a red and blue flashing 'capture zone' circle around them...
... The more bad stuff I do, the bigger the capture zone circles get!... I'm trying to not get caught

So eventually, I end up entering a 'capture zone', the whole map flashes red and blue, and the chase is on!!
... I get chased by a police car, so I run down a cobbled side street with bollards, so they can't pursue me.
... The police get out of the car and pursue me on foot.
As I'm running, I'm trying to keep them away, by grabbing flare grenades and smoke bombs from my belt,
(Where did they come from!?!) and throwing them to distract the police.

This goes on for a little while, then I (Wake up in the early hours of the morning)