Tom's Dream journal

Very quick Lucid tonight,
I was walking around my school and i did an RC, dreaming.
I didn't stabilize straight away but was a little bit frantic.
For the first time in a long time i remembered my objectives, I summoned the subtle knife, again making it materialise out of thin air (Never gets boring ) And then used it, i think for the first time, the way it was intended , as a teleportation device. I cut a square in the air and walked through I was far too excited though and as i came out in the jazz cafe i had intended to go to (Not sure why i thought of that) the dream started falling apart, again i forgot to stabilize.
The irritating thing is that I reckon i could have held onto the dream if i had only stabilized as soon as i knew i was Lucid. I still haven't got round to making to RC list i intended to.
I think i will have Stabilize and anchor at the top of the list, then my Competition objectives, then Hogwarts.
I will have to right it out though.

Interesting night, I got up pretty quickly so recall wasn't great but had a lucid.
I was in a forest and there was a house, two stories, looked like any small cottage.
I was with a couple other people, all figments of my imagination, we were walking through the forest when we were attacked by a random group of people. They had swords but as they came at us i used TK to fight them.Throughout the dream as i continued to use TK i realised i Must be dreaming, no RC or stabilization.
Though i was lucid i again forgot to do any objectives I spent the whole dream in the forest flying and using TK to fight. I remember towards the end i was fighting four really good fighters. I flew upwards and lifted them one by one. And i couldn't kill them. I then remembered the subtle knife, I managed to summon it out of the air into my hand and then used it and TK to finish off the other guys i was fighting.
I have decided to keep a constant list of my top five LD objectives and i have to run through it every time I RC.
The idea being that when i RC in a dream i then go over the list.
Will let you guys know if it works

This was an interesting night to say the least.
I didn't get to sleep for a while as in 11:15 ish i think? So 45 minutes later than i normally am
I set an alarm for 6:50 as i had an EMD the next morning (I go to a boarding school and one of the punishments given is an early morning detention, EMD, that starts at 7:10) So i needed to be at this part of school just below my dorm at 7:05 ish.
Anyway i woke up slowly, rolled over and saw the clock, 7:20
Got dressed as fast as i could (I even used a special faster method of tying shoe laces) and ran downstairs, I got there at 7:25 and the teacher running it was nice and let me do it anyway.
Anyway long story short, when i woke up this morning i didn't spend so much time on recall.
Despite this i do remember one lucid dream and one fragment.

Lucid:
I dreamt that i had just woken up during the night so i made my way out of my dorm down the corridor at night, I saw the fire extinguisher which is red (an RC of mine) and did an RC
Boom, Lucid almost straight away. As soon as i realised i was dreaming someone came running down the corridor, so i didn't stabilize,
Here i lost some lucidity as i didn't stabilize and got caught up in the dream.
i used TK to break the window at the end of the corridor (Im on the third floor up) and then ran and flew down the corridor and out of the window.
I flew around the school buildings and had a pretty good time using TK to lift things like cars, but though i knew i was dreaming i didn't try the things i had listed down, like using the subtle knife. I had forgotten about them in the dream.

I also had a fragment where i was eating a special curry that i have seen recently on a cookery show
Anyway thats it for the night.

Tonight i had one weird fragment, i remember seeing myself in third person, on a cliff
But the other thing i remember was after my WBTB, possibly the best lucid i have had so far.
I was at school walking out to the woods with a group of five or so friends, throughout the dream the group seemed to grow and get smaller and suddenly people who weren't there before were suddenly in the group. Anyway a friend of mine was wearing a red scarf, i have been trying to use red as an RC cue, it doesn't work so often but this time it did. I did an RC, nose plug, and the air rushed into my lungs. I was dreaming.
Straight to major lucidity.
I stabilized by touching the ground and repeating to myself that i was anchored in the dream and that it wouldn't end until i wanted it to. I was on a dirt track running through a forest with beach trees on both sides. I carried on walking with my friends, i started using telekinesis, hitting trees, lifting them etc.
Eventually we came to a town at the end of the path, there was a supermarket which we went into. I carried on messing around with TK moving trolleys and throwing people, I saw a friend of mine in the distance and pulled them towards me using TK. Again we were in the supermarket. It was now dark. There was a bomb in someones trolley that looked like a sandwich, honestly no clue what i was thinking here I lifted out of there trolley into another. Thought i could have some fun watching an explosion. It was a little strange here, i couldn't quite figure out my morales in dreams. Is it right or wrong to kill people in dreams? I would be interested in other people's opinions here.
Anyway after a bit of debating I decided that it wasn't wrong but it just revealed something sadistic about my personality so i throw the bomb out through the roof of the supermarket. It was now night, i went out side by breaking a nearby wall. On this side of the supermarket there was a hill leading down to a river and a large forest of firs on the other side of the river up the other side of the valley. As it was dark i decided to try and get some light. I clapped my hands together over my head and created a ring of fire, i used this to light up the surroundings. Then i saw the bomb go of in the forest.
End of the dream.
Lots of fun

Lucid Dream:
I was dreaming that i was in my room at home. I was in bed, i looked to my right and there was the Lord of the rings Extended edition box set. I was thinking about this before bed as i wanted to buy it on amazon
I then realised i was dreaming, i knew i didn't own the box set, i did a RC, simple nose plug, and then got out of bed. I walked around my house and didn't really do much.
Its a bit hazy and I can't really remember why i didn't do more, i lost my lucidity pretty quickly
I also remember watching myself in some sort of third person in my garden, again very hazy.
As i said i lost my lucidity and after a black period went into another dream.
Hope i have better luck tonight!

So this one was quite interesting.
I was in a city with sandstone buildings, yet they were quite tall.
I was by a lake, on a bench with a friend, we were talking but i can't remember what about,
Anyway, the night before this i had had a flying dream and in this one i also started flying.
Partway through flying i realised i was dreaming.
This is where it got interesting:
I managed to summon the subtle knife, anyone who has read 'His dark materials' will know what i am talking about. I did it by imagining it in a small sheath around my side and jus pulling it out.
Then i started fighting people on rooftops, flying, using the subtle knife and using telekinesis.
I have not had so much fun in a a dream for such a long time, eventually i came to one incredibly tall building and there were two men one the roof.
I remember talking to them and working out that the dream was supposed to have something to do with alladin, can't remember though.
Anyway i kicked one of them of the roof and then the dream ended.

Well, LD count up by one

Only one dream this evening, along with my normal WBTB:
I was at hogwarts. It was great, i mean it was how i picture it in the books not how the movies show it to you. Anyway i was walking around the school by myself, i think i was in raven claw (that would always be my choice), i didn't recognise any of the students though. I think i had a wand i i used it a couple of times, but then i realised that i had to go outside. So i walked down some staircase to the great hall and then went outside. There was a great crowd by the lake and i realised it must be Dumbledore's funeral.
So i ran down the hill to the lake and watched everyone gathering and i remember seeing the tomb, as it is described in the books, White marble. The dream got fuzzy and ended though, which was a shame, i mean it was pretty fun being around in Hogwarts even if i wasn't lucid.

Set myself up for REM-Rebound tonight by shortening my last period of sleep after my WBTB.
Three dreams to report:
1:
I was at school, in our school we have these things called ECAs they are basically activities for people in the school, like cookery or swimming or something. Anyway i was running one in this large building in my school and we were all shouting at each other from a distance Soon it ended.
2:
I was walking through a social part of my school having just one to the school cafe, and i passed a large group of people laughing and such in the hallway. I passed right through them and then went up some stairs to the right. There was a girl in my year there sitting on the steps crying, she was really pissed off with something someone said. I was pretty surprised as she is normally pretty tough, anyway i tried to comfort here but she didn't want me to so i left . Dream ended.
3:
I was cooking with someone from my school who i don't like, it was pretty strange actually. He was telling me how to do everything but it was a dish i do loads and i was getting irritated but tried to just bite my tongue. It went on for a while but was pretty repetitive.
And that is it, i hope that the REM rebound i set up will pay off tomorrow.

Only one sleep and one dream last night, but i have almost completely forgotten it.
I think the problem is that i don't write down my dreams straight away.
I should write them down with pen and paper first before getting out of bed, i always remember the whole dream but then having woken up i forget bits.
FRAGMENT:
A school friend asking me, rather violently, to go to a classroom in my school.
and
Being on a large bridge again, it seems bridges really are a dream sign.

Lots of stuff happened last night. I slept from 10:15, had a WBTB attempt at 5:00 and then another at 6:30.
I dreamt a whole dream until 5:00 and remembered it when i woke up but then i forgot it all i have is a fragment:
Again on a bridge looking out to sea.
Then there was whole dream and a fragment.
Fragment:
I was hitting a ball with a bat, i was in clapham common in London which is where i lived as a child.
Dream:
I was a student studying at a university and i was looking into mountains, there had been a recent happening where a inverse mountain had been made, a sort of mountain shaped crater so i remember flying in a helicopter to take a look, it was pretty interesting, a really fun dream.
The i had a really short lucid dream.
Im in a court house standing in a stand as a lawyer and accusing someone of something, someone watching starts levitating. It starts to get really hazy.
I realise that I'm dreaming i don't even need to RC.
I start walking around the room looking at the people, it looks really vivid at this point, but then it starts to fade. I don't think that i did anything cool, the vividness fades and i can't stop it. Eventually i just wake up.
So quite a lot happened,

Right so i had a WBTB attempt tonight, as i said it is partly natural so as long as i have a mantra on it before bed it always wakes me up around 6:00. Anyway i got only got two fragments tonight:
FRAGMENT ONE:
I was with my parents in a cafe, not at all sure what was going on, i just have the image of there faces and the location.
FRAGMENT TWO:
I was on a bridge, in a car and i think it was the sevens, the one that goes from England to Wales.

Bridges seem to be a dream sign of mine for the moment, i am going to make a reality check focused on them.

Okay right i had some strange results last night.
I slept from 10:30 until about 6:30, had some good dreams in this period however i did not attempt my EILD using my phone for my 6:40 to 7:20 sleep. I dreamt in both of these sleeps though:
Sleep one:
I was first on a yacht. I sing in a few choirs at school and for some reason on the boat i was with the largest of these choirs, sailing to a concert we were going to perform at. The weather was first good and then it got awful. There were strong winds and dark skys (here there are fragments of being on a ship with Napoleon in a strong storm as well) I was talking to my friends on the yacht, we were talking about weather or not we should turn back and call the concert quits, however the teacher who runs the choir told us we would not go back, very stance . Now the dreamscape changes and I'm at the concert, as it is with most the concerts we do, we sing for a very short time and then embark on another very long joinery to get back. It was a very awkward venue as well, incredibly crowded and it took ages for us to file out.

Any way, my parents were taking me from the concert so i said goodbye to my friends and all. Then i remembered that i had forgot to bring any revision for my GCSE exams next week which was clearly awful . Never mind we are only going to tibet for two days says my mother. The travelling is skipped over here and the dreamscape changes to something that definitely isn't Tibetan but is obviously supposed to be, we are in a sort of modern day city but we are staying in a building just outside on a hill, next to the Dalai Lama. I have vague memories of cycling back and forth from the city to the house, but nothing specific. We ate out a few times as well. I also cooked, (interesting to note that the meals were a smoked salmon and potato fish cake with poached egg, which is interesting to note because before i went to sleep i emailed my mum to get the ingredients for this when i come home over the weekend) I cook it and it is great, i have a vague memory of eating it but nothing specific.

Then the dream scape changes again and I'm now out of Tibet (or whatever it was supposed to be) and in a rival schools courtyard. Im there hoping to see a friend and i call up to a window if anyone knows where he is, 'Some jerk calls back that its their prep time so they are all working, he says it like a complete snob, this drives me mad and i rush inside, i then wake up.

Second sleep:
This one is much more hazy, (from 6:40 till 7:20):
I fall asleep and I'm in the strange city which was supposed to Tibet again. Im with some friends of mine from London who i don't see very often and we are going around the city shopping, and just looking for things to do, unfortunately all i remember is asking them whether they like living in a foreign city, REALLY ODD.

Right so a pretty weird night, I'm pretty angry theta i couldn't be bothered at 6:30 to plug in my headphones and set the EILD alarm, i have been getting to sleep at more around 10:45 recently because one of my dorm members keeps going out before this time and getting back late, if it continues i will have a word with him, after all it is the exam period.

I am english so my dates are day/month/year just in case someone is confused.

Notation and explanation of sleep etc.
Dreams
Minor lucidity
Major lucidity
No LCDs from 9:00 till 10:00, got to sleep pretty soon after 10:00 as i had a tiring day. I remember a small awakening sometime around 2:00 but fell asleep until 6:00 i dreamt in this period:
I was on a ancient greek ship, as you would expect from some movie like clash of the titans, there were DCs on the ship with me but no one important and i had the feeling i was in charge of them. We saw a large fortress in the sea. It was made out of stone and appeared to be Roman type architecture i related it to the colosseum for some reason but it was a lot less open. It stood on something i couldn't see under the water, but most of it was out of the water. I remember having very little armour and a bow, i think my mind used Perseus as the basis for my character in the dream as i had a bow, and could fly (i didn't check my feet for winged sandals ) i spent most of the dreams flying around the outside of the castle and shooting arrows a the skeleton guards, through arches. The climax was when i went inside i found a weird creature, now that i think about it, it was a red creature with a humanoid form, horns on its head, wings (dragon like and separated from its arms) and a devil like tail (reminds me of some creature out of doctor who with david tenant and Billie Piper, where Piper goes back in time and changes something and these weird evil creatures are made anyway it looked like one of them ). This bit is a little hazy, but my brother was there (who is 11 so four years younger than me) and he was by the monster and we were all on the edge of some kind of sandy coloured abyss, anyway the creature throws my brother off before i reach them and then i go mad and fly towards the creature, shoot it with an arrow and then cut off its head with a sword (hmmm don't know where that came from) and it falls into the abyss. It turns out the creature was some sort of time guardian and by killing it i rewind time to get back my brother, hey presto and i wake up.
It is 6:05, toilet break, then i fell asleep at 6:10:
This one is really hazy, but i was a superhero and had some vague powers with telekinesis and flying abilities, and i was in some sort of cave, coming from a house in a city, very strange. Anyway after messing around here, i can remember there being a story and an end, but not what it was. i woke up.
I did a reality check to check if it was a false awakening, it wasn't, but i think i accidentally DEILDed and fell back asleep very quickly.
I am squatting in a room with a golden light filling it, no distinguishable walls, but there is a ceiling. There are pebbles all over the floor, i remember falling asleep... ... and plug my nose, the air rushes in. I lift a stone with telekinesis and remember i should try to focus and calm myself and anchor myself in the dream. I start to focus, i close my eyes i can't open them. I rub my hands to try and focus on the dream but my eyes are awake (if that makes any sense) and they feel like a part of my physical body. I try for more than 20 seconds with the hand rubbing and then give up, and lose the dream.
The time was upon wakening 7:25 (I'm in a boarding school so i know in 5 minutes some jerk is going to come around ringing a bell, delighting in our evident misery, and all under the good excuse of waking us up for breakfast so i don't go back to sleep) and i get dressed and write this down on a piece of paper.

Fragmented sleep,
I used LCD screens from 9:00 till 10:00 and could not get to sleep until around 11:00.
I have no clear memories of dreams or of sleeping, as i fell to sleep and woke up in a fairly fragmented manner.