Moonflower

hi i hope i am doing this right, anyways i had a short semi lucid dream last night which i will write here. its not much but I'll write it anyways since its the first lucid dream i have had in a while.

i don't remember much of how it started out but i remember i was in my house and there was someone else there who i didn't know, he started to chase me so i ran to the front door, at first the door wouldn't open and i panicked trying to unlock it by unlatching the lock, i finally forced the latch almost breaking it and opened the door. i noticed that i was running almost in slow motion, the more i tried to run the more it felt like i was trying to run through water. i used the side of the house to push off of hoping to give me more speed and ran into the street. it was there that i started to wonder if i was dreaming, or maybe i was just wondering if i could fly but didn't realize at that point i was dreaming (either one). i tried to fly and to my surprise it worked, i floated across the street and onto the drive way of one of our neighbors. it was then i did a reality check to help me fly, because if i knew for sure it was a dream i could fly easier. at first i had a hard time getting off of the ground, but then i imagined i was getting lighter and concentrated on the sky. soon i was rising slowly at first then faster and faster until i was soaring, at this point i was lucid i believe, maybe not at the highest lucidity but lucid enough to really enjoy it and know i was dreaming. i flew over rooftops and i saw a building by the ocean in the distance so i flew there. one thing i might note is that this time there was no "sky cieling" that i usually encounter i was able to fly freely. i also noticed that flying as high as i could wasn't my goal this time, my goal was just to get away from the person chasing me, i didn't even think about the barrier at first. anyways i got to this building, it was brown and had large windows like in a medieval castle, it wasn't very wide but it was long and tall, i flew into one of the rooms and looked out the window on the other side (i dont remember what the room looked like) i think at this point my lucidity was slipping now i was only semi lucid. i saw people standing around below and they were swinging these orbs on strings, i knew that were magical orbs and this was some sort of contest they were doing. everyone had one of the 6 magic classes just like in Wizard 101 (an online game i play) which were: life, death, myth, storm, fire, ice. i got one of these orbs on a string and started swinging it here and there. unfortunately this is where the dream becomes fuzzy although i feel there was something about a mermaid whose tail was made of a carrot and had lettuce for fins at the end, or was it a merman?

to be honest describing this was quite hard, there are a lot of details i left out, like where exactly the people were standing and what the contest was like, but its something i would have to draw, and i am not good at drawing so, a written description will have to do.

this dream lasted for about 2 to 3 minutes as far as i could tell but i could never tell how long i have been in a dream no matter how hard i try. basically it was a short to medium length lucid/semi lucid dream.

today about an hour ago i attempted another WILD. still no success although i got a bit further (each time i try it i get a little further) and your right, SP isn't necessary for WILD, im soooo glad i found out about that would probably have been waiting for all those vibrations and sounds to indicate if i am near the dream state. i did experience the beginning of REM Atonia though, but unfortunately my foot was in a crooked position and i couldn't help but move it thus ending the attempt, also there planes going overhead. i live near an airport which makes WILD extremely hard, maybe i can time it to inbetween the times they go overhead cause i know their all on a schedule. anyways i am pretty sure it was rem atonia i experienced, i was in hypnagogia pretty deep i had nearly lost consciousness, then i suddenly felt my body becoming numb and a tiny bit tingly, it was a weird feeling but nowhere near as intense as SP which i have or used to have. i could move which is why i tried to lay as still as i could, at first i got excited cause i knew i was near the point where i would enter the dream, and i think that also played a part in the reason this attempt failed. i managed to calm down and try drift back into the state of consciousness i was in earlier repeating "1 i am dreaming 2 i am dreaming 3 i am dreaming" ect, it seemed to work and at some point i felt like i was floating and the feeling of the bed started to fade a bit, but the noise outside was too distracting and my foot too. so thats as far as i got for now but i got soooo close! pretty sure I'll get it within the next few tries now.

this is my first entry here, feel free to comment, i always look forward to feed back.