false awakening

20110815 -
woke at 5am as someone sent me a msg on my phone. Decided I would try a wild, I awoke into a dream but was not lucid I think I had a feeling it was a dream and a few flatters of lucidity.
I was in Vanuatu with some friends from there we were at some sort of club, the building looked like a school building of some sort there were heaps of people there partying. We stopped at an area where they were serving drinks I was buying a round for everyone when I turned around they were gone. I looked around for them but couldn't find them.
I then false awakened – I was sleeping on the floor of my old childhood house next too my bed. There was glass on the floor where I was sleeping and some plastic/glass in my mouth I spat it out. I couldn't remember if I was supposed to get up and got to school or go to work, I was panicking a bit because I would be late and couldn't remember where I was supposed to go. I finally decided I didn't need to go to school since I graduated 10 years ago lol.
I went back into the dream in the same place I wokeup at. There was a staircase going down on the left I walked down I was more-or-less fully lucid now. There were 4 white doors at the bottom of the stairs they didn't have any door handles on them I decided I was going to go in the one on my right as I pushed it open I heard a girl saying 'you need to leave now Leon”. I paused for a minuet and then walked in. It looked like a locker room. There was a guy standing by the door completely naked he look like he was Nordic. I told him to get out and he left. I walk around the corner I sore another naked guy trying to grab a girl she was pushing him off her and screaming at him.I yelled at him to get off he didn't so I pulled him off and he run away she was fully clothed in latex like star trek only in grey she said thanks for getting him off me. Then I woke up.

This is my second night of taking calea tea.

The first night there was an increase in the vividness of dreams, but I can't really remember them I can remember some fragments of several dreams but nothing clear. A couple of normal dreams I can not remember then the first lucid I can not really remember I chained into the second one. about 5am now.

I awake in the dream running down my drive way of my old house where nearly all my lucids happen. As I run out onto the road I think this is so vivid maybe I am not dreaming I jump up in the air and float back down, I must be dreaming, I jump again a few times and start floating up I lose vision but can still feel the road so I keep jumping. I suddenly start getting pulled up faster and faster .

I decide to go along for the ride.

The next thing I know I find my self in a car my dad is driving, we are just in the next street up from where I was. The street is really derelict, there are old car bodies and whatnot in all the yards, and the houses are really run down. I think something like “this street has always been dodgy” ( in real life this is not the case, the steet as pretty nice houses in it). One house looks like it used to be a shell service station, with rusty petrol pumps under the house.

Suddenly my dad speeds through a stop sign I yell at him. He told me he didn't want to wait for the cars,(there was a big line of cars turning) we start arguing. Suddenly he starts driving really erratically, and into the on coming traffic we drive streight through a car.

Somehow I know the girl was just about the get married, she is crying and screaming I think she lost her arm in the crash. Again he drives really erratically into oncoming traffic we smash into a few more cars, he starts going really fast down a hill and skids sideways to go turn into a street he skids for ages and the car breaks down its squealing like the fan belt is broken or something.

He says "well this didn't go as planned" a bus is heading straight for us we are stuck sideways across the lane. I'm not really scared, I don't think I am aware I am dreaming yet though . He finally gets the car going before we get hit by the bus.

We head down the end of the road. there are two naked girls sitting in a booth and there is a barn/shed up the back of the yard. As we pull in the girls morph and cloths appear on them , like genie cloths. We get out of the car I'm thinking where the hell are we and why has dad taken me here. One of the girls tells dad 'Omg what's he doing here, if you want him to have any fun here take him to the 1000 pound women'. I think what? I don't want a fat chick. ( no offence ).

We head up to the shed there are heaps of girls there. I guess they are prostitutes. My dad heads in. There is a guy standing near me he is looking at me with an aggressive grin. I want to get out of here all the girls are coming around me I am freaking out. ( odd since I normally jump at a chance of erotica in my dreams). I see some thing on a bench near by I think it was a wrench I pick it up and go to hit him. Its so heavy I can hardly swing it. There is another guy a big fat guy behind me I swing it at him. He pulls some other thing out and catches the wrench in it's like pliers or something only bigger. (I think to my self that was pretty cool I had like a split mind I was the observer and the actor) We wrestle.

The thing has three hooks wrapped around the wrench looks kind of like snake heads. I start speaking Latin ( like Merlin if you have ever seen that show) and take control of the thing I start moving the 'fingers/snake heads' suddenly it is becoming part of me I fell 'dark' energy taking over me I panic and think 'evil' is consuming me. I start thinking white energy... white energy... I suddenly 'awake' on the floor of my old house my mum is in the kitchen I am rolling on the floor fighting this dark energy and this is where it gets a little disturbing, something comes out of my mouth look/feels like a turkey neck .. I think it's might have been my spine my head bends back and it sticks out my mouth. everything goes red and I think I am dieing in front of mum. I awake with a jolt. relived it was just a dream... its now 5:20.

I'm going to try for another lucid. As I was relaxing attempting a WILD a random dream I just remembered , when I woke up from this one I was wondering if it was a prophetic dream. I was at the gym . The place looked completely different . anyways. I was waiting for a class and no one turned up. I figured they stuffed up the timetable for the Easter holiday. So I start going home as I am out in the yard. The instructor is rushing in. She is telling someone she just had a heart attack. I run in side so I don't miss the class, but it is full already - hope fully she doesn't have a heart attack.

After this I try and WILD some more and got close a few times and many many little dream fragments/HI for the next 2 hours. still have one more cup of tea left for tonight who knows what will happen.

9/03/2011 - I only ended up with a few dream fragments last night but thought they were interesting enough to post.
So I was reading about astral projection over the last few days, and the author was saying that a lucid dream is a facet of an astral projection, i.e. you could 'astral project' to a 'dream pool' as he calls it, or to other areas/levels of the astral plain.
Anyways a key to having a successful astral projection is to have enough energy to do so. He describes a simple 5 min chakra opening/energy raising technique. I gave it a go before I went to bed felt some strong sensation in the base and navel 'chakra' not much in the solarplex, heart, throat and some smallish sensation in the brow and crown. I decided to repeat the process and see if I could get them all to activate, but unfortunately fell asleep ( he did say that doing this just before bed 9/10 times you will fall asleep, I guess he wasn't lying about that).

The first dream fragment - I had an insane throbbing sensation in my forehead, as if I had just done a sprint and my heart was inside my forehead pounding like crazy. I was afraid I was going to die, literally. I somehow knew I was dreaming and made the conscious descion to wake up. I don't remember seeing anything. I woke up with a jolt and sat up, my 'real' heart was pounding, and a slight tingle in my forehead. Then I remembered he said that during a projection it is normal for your chakras to go mental sometimes, especially your heart one, it can feel like your going to have a heart attack. Damn it !.

The second fragment - I'm not sure if this was real or a false awakening, I'm thinking a false awakening, maybe. I 'wake' up at about 4am I didn't have to get up till 5, I could remember heaps of dreams so I started getting them clear in my mind, and was planning to write them in my laptop on the way to work. I remember thinking I had a 'level 4' lucid dream ( this is why I think it was a FA). I remember saying to my self level 4 is when you know you are dreaming but don't consciously do anything in the dream just go with the flow of the dream - Interesting I have been thinking about rating 'levels of lucidity' to try and categorise my dreams better. I wonder what the other levels should be?

Finally I work to my alarm at 5am - I had heaps of dream memories and was trying to sort them out in my mind, so I kept my eyes closed and ignored the alarm. Then for some reason I thought my alarm sounded different to real life so I sat up and looked at it, it looked normal, I looked at the time, and looked away and back again as a reality check it didn't change, I still wasn't convinced so I did a 'nose plug' RC failed damn it, its real life. I turned the alarm on snooze but all my dream memories had gone. And my mind was starting to get full of thoughts about what I needed to do today. - is that a false false awakening

So this chakra opening/raising seemed to increase the vividness of dreams as I did have lots of dream memories, I have used the 3rd eye meditation a fair bit and it seems to increase dream activity. Definatly worth some more playing, hopefully my head wont explode.