lucid

Total sleep: 5 hours
Daytime Techniques: Some self-awareness
Techniques to get Lucid: DILD
Recall Techniques: DJ
Fell Asleep: Don’t know

Dream Title: What would Jack Sparrow do?
Dream:

Went to sleep wishing someone would just tell me when I was dreaming. Wasn’t expecting this XD

I am running through a white tunnel that has flashing lights on it, somewhat like an electric wire or like I’m in the internet? In front of me is a man, dressed in green but he also looks like a mixture between Robin Hood and a Viking.

“YOU’RE DREAMING!”

“I KNOW!”

“I’M GOING TO SAY IT AGAIN BECAUSE PEOPLE NEVER LISTEN!”

“I KNOW I’M DREAMING………………………………………”

“YOU’RE DREAMING!”

“Whatever. I’m going to do dream stuff. Bye.”

“Wait! They’re chasing us! We have to go!”

At this point I am still lucid but I lose control as I go along with him as I watch the dream play out. He leads me to a laptop which has a lot of wires going into the wall. I am supposed to be downloading data from Minecraft. Suddenly, he says “data” in an American accent, which I find hilarious and so I start laughing. I am cut off by the ringing of a telephone, and find that I have one in my hand. It’s an old fashioned type phone, and when I pick it up a girl answers.

“Find the book!”

“Huh?” Looking down I see a slim book in my hands. It had a hard, dark green cover on the front, and the sides of the pages are painted blue. I describe it to her, and she confirms it is the right book.

“They’re back!” Screams the guy and he starts to run again. I get outside and he is nowhere to be seen. Now, I seem to be standing on a deck, looking out onto the ocean. Behind me is the wall of a building and from around the corner come pirates running. I know I have to do something and fast so I think – What would Jack Sparrow do? I turn around and Scooby Doo (The one from the mystery gang, you know) is stood on a pole. He begins to hum the pirates of the Caribbean theme tune (I swear this happens so much) and I quickly run over the tops of barrels in a Jack Sparrow drunken way. I jump into the air and land of Scooby’s back, pushing the pole down. The pirates fall down a hole in the ground and out of the sea a pirate ship launches out, does a flip in the air and then lands and continues to sail along.

Suddenly I am in the water with the whole mystery gang are with me. There is a storm, and we are trying to swim for the pirate ship from earlier, that has now turned into a cruise ship. Because I was the nest swimmer, I was in charge apparently. Also, one of them was talking about becoming a whore when she got on the cruise ship, and another one said “You’ll need a lot of make-up for that”. LOL

I wake up in the study that used to be my brother’s old room, and I wonder why I am laying on the floor. Sitting up, I see that the time is 9.42am. I’m late for school! Quickly, I get my things together that are on the floor. I am searching through my books when I see the green and blue book from before.

“I’m not even awake right now am I?” I groan to myself.

I race outside to Florida and I stop outside a villa that is apparently my Aunt’s. I run inside, intending to find the girl that called me. There is a party going on, but I ignore everyone and run upstairs. Just as I do that, I wake up.

Awake: 6.42am
Vividness: (scale of 1-15, 10 is waking life vividness) 9/1
Awareness: (1-10; or lucid) 10/10
Length: (how long it felt like) 10 minutes
Emotions: I was like WTF! When I found the book on the floor
Dream Signs/TAGS: pirates, green and blue book, theme tune, internet, the mystery gang.

Total sleep: 9 hours
Daytime Techniques: RCs
Techniques to get Lucid: I’m not really sure about this. I tried to WILD, and when I entered the dream I was instantly lucid, so it didn’t feel like a DILD, but it didn’t quite feel like a WILD either
Recall Techniques: DJ as soon as I woke up
Time Fell Asleep: For this dream, about 5.40am

Dream Title: Finding the Dream Army HQ
Dream: (I didn’t have much control in parts of this, so Lucid will be in green, and controlled parts will be in bold as well.)

I walk into a room which happens to be the living room of family guy (I had a goal to be in an episode of family guy and meet everyone, but I guess this doesn’t count because I didn’t stay there long and I didn’t actually mean to go there.), and some of the characters are sat on the sofa. They give me a weird look like they know I’m not supposed to be here. The whole area around me looks really weird because it’s in cartoon, but my attention is mainly draw to the TV for some reason. I don’t even know why. At this point, some men come in (I think from the TV?) and grab me. They drag me away somewhere which I have no clue where it is.

The dream turns to a kind of 3rd person mode (It is also not cartoon anymore), but it’s similar to when you see a movie when they have dropped a camera on the ground, but it’s still filming. The camera has fallen next to some blunt wooden spikes which are part of some torture facilities. Along the bottom of the screen/my vision is a countdown of time that I had been here. The actual place that we are in seems to be like a mine or a wet cave system of some sort. Anyway, occasionally, I see myself being dragged along one of the tunnels. I am interrogated for 12 days, and then tortured for 13. As I am put back in my cell, I notice the angry guard dogs that are barking outside the door.

Sometime later, the boss appears at my door and tells me he has some private business for me to take care of. The dogs are with him, and they try to bite my hand but it just feels like they are licking me instead. I decide to like the dogs. The man points to the spikes where the camera was earlier, and tells me he is going to lift them so I can go to the kitchen. I do a mini jump as I realize I have a chance to escape. The guy looks at me weirdly, but carries on to the kitchen where he tells me that my job is to feed the dogs. He hands me some food which looks more like bird food, and 2 dishes which are about 10cm wide. For some reason, the kitchen looks like my old next door neighbour’s house (The twins). I begin to think that because this is a lucid dream, I need to remember details (like the amount of time I was there for) so I can write them in my DJ. The boss stands here for a while watching me as I formulate a plan in my head. I know now that the spikes are gone, and the dogs like me, that it will be easy to escape. He eventually leaves and I run outside.

However, as soon as I get there, it all becomes cartoon again. This really starts to annoy me, because after a while of trying, I can’t get it to go back normal. Straight ahead of me in the distance is the city that I was going to use to find that guy (Who may be my dream guide.) As I can’t seem to turn everything non-cartoon, I decide to teleport and find the Dream Army HQ. I turn around expecting there to be a forest there. Just my luck, it also happens to turn off the cartoon effect when I do. Walking forward, I see the beginning of the forest, but I large concrete building stands about 15m in. It looks quite suspicious and it is not camouflaged at all. However, I realize that it does have brilliant defenses such as thick walls and guards that are invisible. Stopping just in front of the door, I look up to see a lot of scribbled writing on the wall above it. Most of it is nonsense written backwards, and the only thing I have managed to remember that was one it was the only normal word. ‘Welcome.’ The door, which is more like a garage door (Like shutter that is really thick and a brick red colour), opens to reveal a soldier stood there. Behind him I can see what looks like a locker room. He quickly tells me the password and shuts the door. I realize that this is a memory test. The general now opens the door and asks me it.

“9, octopus, adventure.” I reply, repeating exactly what the soldier had said.

The door shuts again and then re-opens. Instead of a locker room being there like I expected, it is a full blown command center. I step in and the door closes behind me. The room is dark, with screens covering pretty much every wall that show maps, heat sensors and the like. Everyone is dressed in army camouflage gear, and most of them are walking around with papers in their hand, talking about enemy movement and things like that. I tell them that they have a pretty nice set up here, and that I really like it. The general thanks me, and I ask to speak to him in a more private area. We walk over to a table. I start whispering about how I have been sent here by the highest up command that there possibly is. He just stares at me cluelessly.

I have to explain to him how his command center is good, but he doesn't actually have anyone who goes out into the field, which is what I am there for. He nods slowly, but I can tell he still needs more of an explanation. I begin to explain who has sent me, this high up commander person, and I start to think more and more that she is like a woman off Fallout New Vegas.

The dream then fades away and I wake up.

Time Awake: 6.20am
Vividness: 8 or 9/15
Awareness: 9/10
Length: (how long it felt like! Because that matters) Not including the days of torturing and stuff which was mostly a time skip, about 10 minutes.
Emotions: I felt an extreme amount of pain when being tortured, amazed at the command centre, and kind of annoying with the General that was really dumb.
Dream Signs/Tags: Cartoon, Torture, HQ, command centre.

Sunday 24th – Lucid #4 – The Road Trip

Total sleep: 8 hours 30 minutes
Daytime Techniques: Reality checks
Lucid Techniques: DILD, no mantras or anything else before bed. I have started using a Dream Goal Journal in the past couple of days, so that might be helping to get more LD's.
Recall Techniques: Just the usual DJ
Fell Asleep: Woke up at 7.30am – no dream. Went back to sleep thinking of having a LD.

Dream:
The dream starts off with me jumping from the top of the stairs down to the bottom. I am trying to teleport through the floor, but it doesn't work and I just hit the floor and lay there. Retrying it, I hit the floor again and teleport through into a bus, and then I become Lucid. The bus is stopping and we get off. There is a show happening and we are at a farm. We have to kind of sit behind this line, and I try to sit down but this fat kid’s leg is in the way. I push it so it’s bent at an impossible angle, and I tell him he should have let me sit down in the first place. His dad tells him to behave, and his mum apologizes. A second later, I am climbing back over the people who are sat on rows of haystacks, so that I can get back to the bus.

Once we are back, we are all sitting down, I turn to Katie who is sat next to me, and we talk about how cool it is to be in a lucid dream together. She also asks everyone else if this is a shared dream. All of the DC’s on the bus seem extremely real, not like the usual ones, so we all agree with her. At this point, we get off the bus again, and we are at the ocean. We swim around for a bit, before deciding to go and look around the island. Peering over the edge of a cliff, we look down to see and enemy base. It is really pixelated when I look through binoculars, but I announce that I have seen this place before. As I continue to look, we see one of our people being put into a cage with a talking dog. The dog doesn’t seem so bad though so we leave him there.

Again, we all get back on the bus. I start to talk about how if the dream ends soon, everyone should be reminding themselves to do DEILD. I the mention that we might end up forgetting some of the earlier stuff (I actually forgot all the different places that we went to before the show in this dream). Suddenly, someone shouts and we realise that the people from the enemy base are following us.

“Teleport out of the window into the field!” I yell, whilst running down the aisle. I jump and curl myself into a ball and easily get through the window. I land in the field and roll. The rest of the people did the same and we carried on running down a country road. Behind us, we hear the roar of an engine, and a black car swerves around a corner and starts heading for us. I instantly know that they hear me say jump out of the window so they knew where we were. I whisper to Adam to make his next location the ocean, so we can still stick together.

The car gets closer and closer, and I finally whisper at Adam to dive through the road because if we’re going into the ocean, this is the best way to do it. We count down to 1, and then dive against the concrete. Before I know it, I’m in the ocean again, but there is something in the water that I want to get away from. It looks like a structure of this rusty metal pipes. I scream and swim away from it, and then I climb onto the land which has grey colored grass.

As is sit there trying to get my breath back, I look down and realize that the land I am sat on has turned into lasagna. I begin to eat it, but I accidentally knock some of it into the water. A shark with Josh’s face appears and tells me that something bad will happen if I drop any more lasagna in the water. There are a few more awkward moments of me eating lasagna, before I am back on the bus again, and it feels like when credits are rolling down the screen on a movie, but people are still talking. Everyone is thanking each other on the great LD they had today, but as the camera moves to each person, they morph into someone else and become celebrities.
I was going to DEILD after this, but I had to get up.

Awake: 8.50am
Vividness: 9/15
Awareness: 9/10
Length: an hour or 2 (with a few time skips so altogether about 30 minutes experienced)
Emotions: Excited with everyone else dreaming, annoyed at the fat kid and amazed at my teleport powers.
Dream Signs:
- Being in a dream about LDing
- People talking about shared dreams or dreaming all together
- Jumping through things

Notes:
This was really weird. I was definitely lucid in this dream, but it felt like I had no control whatsoever, except for when I was talking on the bus, and the section when I jumped through the wall of the bus and then dived through concrete.

I had another LD last night, but I'm not sure if I would call it a real one.

Basically, I was running down the street where I live, knowing that someone was about to chase me (I think it was my Mum), and I stopped, and reminded myself that nothing could hurt me because it was a dream. When I actually realized it, I kept repeating to myself that it was a dream, but the nose pinch and finger through hand RCs didn't work. I was stood there for a while, waiting for the person who was chasing me to come out, but they didn't.

Then I found a giant doughnut which was about a metre wide, and it had cream/icing around it that was about 15cm thick, and I was trying to see what it tasted like, because I wanted to know what it would be like. It actually wasn't as sickly as you would imagine it to be, it was really nice. My brother was also trying to take it away from me too.

It's like I couldn't make my mind up whether I wanted to leave or wait for the person, and the wait may have caused me to lose lucidity. I'm not sure, I can barely remember the rest of it.

Non-dream
Dream
Lucid

So it's my 16th day of trying to Lucid dream and I've had my first one! I was woken up by my parent's alarm at 6.30, half way through a dream. I rolled over and went back to sleep, but I was thinking about the dream I had just had. So I guess you could say it was a DEILD because I went from a dream into another dream.

I'm in Florida, going to sea world with my parents. we are getting out of the car, and my brother is complaining about having to put on sun cream. My mum points to some clothes in car and tells me I have to get changed to wear some more suitable clothes, which is weird because we were already there. We go on a water ride thing where you are in inflatable rings. My dad is convinced that the ride isn't safe. I then somehow fall over the edge, as my ring tips over, and I am hanging by my foot while still moving along. I then rise back up and get into the ring. We carry on on the ride until we get to the drop, which we go down.

I suddenly teleport to a shaded area, which I think is near the exit of a ride, when my grandma texts me saying she wants to go on the walking dead ride. I am a bit unsure about this as my grandma hates any type of ride.

I teleport again to a hotel, and I am in a waiting area which is near a reception. There is a boy there, about 13 or 14 years old, but the receptionist wont let him in or do anything. I am sat down with my dad, but this boy starts to really annoy us. I can't really see what he's doing, but it feels like he is clicking a pen, constantly. The dream seems to stay like this for a while, before the receptionist sends he away to the elevator and I move on again into the hotel room. This time we are packing clothes, and my mum is trying to get me to switch clothes again.

This is when I'm awoken by my parent's alarm. Thinking about the dream, I go back to sleep.

I am in the kitchen of my house and I immediately already know it's a dream as I enter it. I realize how thirsty I am (I was thirsty when I woke up, but I ignored it), so I say to myself that because this is a dream, I can use telekinesis. I then lift the bottle of orange with my mind, and start to make a drink. Hearing a noise from the hallway, I realize my mum is there.

My mum is looking in the mirror, doing her make-up, and I realize she is completely evil. I don't know how, but I do. I then try to slap her, but because I'm not close enough, I try to slap her using telekinesis. After a few attempts, I realize it isn't going to work. By this point, my mum is glaring at me so much with her evil eyes. I try to run past her, but when I reach the doorway, my dad is there and he punches me in the face. The pain feels extremely real, and I stagger back in pain. They then shut me upstairs.

I realize that this place is evil and that I need to escape, so I think of flying. I remember reading on DV that jumping off stairs can help, so I jump, fully believing that I can do it. I fall down the stairs and land at the bottom.

I quickly undo the door with the key, but my dad grabs me and tries to drag me inside. Seeing people in the house opposite mine, I scream for help. My dad then lets me go, and I run outside, and past the people. I think to myself that the only way I can escape is by flying, so I try to fly over the house in front of me. I end up only being able to do a quick jump, so that I land on the small roof bit of their garage that attaches to their house. My dad begins to climb the wall, but I begin to notice the sky change. I hadn't really payed attention to it before, but it's dark, and I get the feeling of fire, like hell.

Turning around, I see that some kids of dug up the road, to find lava underneath, and were jumping in it. I get the feeling that I've seen it happen before, and I see a close friend of mine trying to do it. I drag her away and try to tell her not to kill herself, but she just tells me that I'm taking away the fun. I find the kid that organized this, and who was making them do it. I order him to stop or I'll call the police. He points out that I can't do anything because I'm in a dream. I start to understand and agree with him, and the dream fades to black.

Then I wake up and it's time for school.