lucid

I accidentally deleted this DJ, so this is a brief rewrite.

I went to a city that was underwater. It was beautiful! The water was shallow in most places, just barely peaking above rooftops in some places, so the sun could shine through with bright golden sand below.

There were two young men employed to take tourists out on a boat. They were hiring more workers and I applied. They started training me for the job and I used my dreamer abilities to cheat around the work sometimes when they weren't looking. At one point for example, I had to pull one of the canoes back to the dock and turned into water my dragon for this, using its massive tailfin to paddle back in record time.

Anyway, some slarms started to go off in the city. Another tsunami was on the way, and the two guys called the boss to tell him they were evacuating. Their boss started yelling at them to stay put despite the risks. He was angry at the evacuation, claimed it was scaring his customers away and he didn't want to lose business, so everyone better stay and run the place as if nothing is happening.

It was nonsense. I gave the two guys a big sum of money (that I used my dream powers to manifest secretly) so they could catch one of the evacuation flights last minute. They happily took that and left.

Another DJ I accidentally deleted. Rewrite.

There were some dilapidated buildings being rebuilt. I was my dragon, flying around the wreckage. There was a shed with a thin, crumbling roof that couldn't handle my weight or it would have caved in. I practiced reconstruction with my dram powers but don't remember much. The owner of the buildings was nearby and didn't seem to mind, but he was mostly in the background.

Next thing I remember was being on the beach with a blond-haired woman who was particularly demanding. She knew what I was and for some reason she felt entitled to using my powers for her own gain! Where did this entitlement come from? Beats me. Lol. I was amused and fond of her energy, though, so I listened to her request. It was.... for a roller coaster.

I don't know why, either.

I informed her that I could give her a roller coater in three different ways:
- If she gives me a location, I will create it from scratch. This is the least ideal way and she might exactly not get what she wants.
- If she has an object of similar size and similar materials (like a building), I can transform it into what she wants with greater ease.
- If she already has the roller coaster she wants, but it's broken down, I can transform it into what it used to be before it broke. This is the best way.

I can't remember what we went with, but afterwards, I looked out at the ocean and thought of disappearing into it, but a new request pulled me back.
She wanted me to physically carry her.
So I picked her up and physically carried her as the tide came in, bringing her to a safe warm cave where I gave her a bed to sleep in, and curled up at her feet (still in dragon form). As I laid there, I eventually woke up.

There's a state of sleep in which you can be aware without perceptions (neither physical or mental). No imagery, sight, sound, or touch. No perception-based thoughts. Just pure existence in the moment.

I got into doing this by accident when using intention for dream recall. So here's what I did, for those who want to try for themselves:

Set your intention to be aware at the ends of dreams. These can be in between dream cycles, when you wake up naturally in the night, or waking up in the morning.
Placing intention on awareness at this time is key. This allows you to be aware between the dream and waking states.
We naturally switch states at this time (going from sleep to waking), so you have a moment of change and heightened awareness going from one state to the next. It's a gentle shift you can influence. Instead of making that full switch, you choose to stay asleep, allowing the dream to have ended without waking life beginning. You'll stay in the in-between moment. It's uneventful, but in a good way—very calm and quiet.

Enjoy!

I was in a building with several families on it. They shared rooms with tapestries separating them for privacy. Nobody worked and everyone seemed pretty happy with their lifestyles, despite having never gone outside. Many generations were born into these communities. They were comfy and didn't have much in the way of crime (at least in the community I was investigating).

There were other buildings like this with other similar communities of families living in them. If residents wanted outside contact, they could get in touch with the other communities using computerized drones.

Sometimes people would transfer between communities, but it was a big deal to do this. That's what they assumed I came from, though nobody seemed interested in asking me anything about the details of my whereabouts. They were just friendly and interested in the new addition to the community. I was well-liked.

The computers and drones kept records, maintained society, and brought in supplies. They provided everything.
Nobody questioned the drones either. They simply regarded them as helpers and protection.

One of the hallways had no lights, so it would appear dark when you looked down the hallway.
I noticed a portal in the dark (it wasn't invisible, just an energy field I could feel). Going through it, I found that the portal led to another connected building identical to this one, but with different people in it.

I can't remember if it was just me that could use this portal, or if the residents knew about it.

There was also a door that led outside. I asked one of the residents about it. They expressed sharp disapproval and acted like I was crazy to even think about going outside, telling me there was nothing outside.

The drones will shoot you dead anyway, they told me.
Yet these drones were protecting them? From what?

I went outside when no one was looking.

Upon stepping through the door, I found myself standing in an empty parking garage.
There were drones patrolling the area. I turned into my dragon and went invisible so they wouldn't shoot.

There was a light coming from one of the car ramps leading down below. I already knew what it was before I saw it, but I went down to investigate anyway.

Sure enough, that's where the universe ended. Everything surrounding this building and the garage was a white void.

There really was nothing outside. Literally.

Accidentally deleted this journal, so I'm rewriting what I can remember of it.

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I was in my childhood home standing on the balcony. I looked up and saw what looked like a cancerous formation in the sky (a patch of red that began to grow).
When the sun went down, some people with weapons and flashlights showed up. My family ducked behind the furniture. I was lucid and decided not to buy into the fear, so I stepped outside, knowing it was me they wanted. They proceeded to kidnap me, having me get into a van.

In the van, I went to the front and saw the driver, a woman with straight black hair. I talked to her, asked what was going on. I can't remember the full conversation and lost the journal for this, but she told me about how she was dying of a medical illness and needed a large sum of money to pay for treatment. Due to unbridled capitalism and its goal of limitless growth at the expense of life (like a cancer), crime was her last resort for health care to save her life. That's why she kidnapped me.

I reached forward from the back of the van (through the little window) and materialized money out of my hands. She was stunned.

I told her that her world is my dream. She was a bit horrified at first, though because she was already facing terminal illness, I think she took it better than some.

I felt like I was going to wake up soon and told her I had to go. I asked if there was anything else I could do for her before I left. She was still stunned, but asked if I could change her hair. So I kept myself asleep for a while to do her hair like she wanted, changing it on a biological level so it would stay permanent.

I then woke up and it was morning.

One hour long dream. I did V-WILD but decided to just pay a lot of attention to the process, feeling it, being present. I've been running lots of tests like this lately to try and get a better idea of how it works.

After doing V-WILD into my bedroom, I climbed out the window. I noted how a lot of things were different in my neighborhood like lighting and rearranged buildings.

I decided to test out waking myself up in a way where it’s more dream body instead of waking (trying to get a better understanding for the difference between dream and waking body lately). I tested to see if I can trigger a false awakening.

Yes! Maybe? I woke up back in my bedroom. I assumed this was either a dream, or I woke myself for real. I did a reality check with finger through palm and it didn’t work.

I was pretty sure it was a dream anyway though. I didn't take the failed RC too seriously, since I know that happens sometimes. I plugged my nose and breathed, that worked.

I proceeded to practice false awakenings a few times. Knew I was still dreaming each time, got a better feel for it.

Most of the time I was with my dream character version of SO. She watched me do all this nonsense lol. Most times I told her it was a dream, she acted mock concerned like half-heartedly gasped. I responded “Yeah, I know if you were my rl SO you would be rightly concerned about me thinking everything is a dream, but since we both know it’s a dream, you’re fine. No need to act all shocked haha."

I eventually woke myself up for real when it felt it had been an hour. My timing guess was right (I seem to still have a good sense of RL time in dreams).

This is an older dream.

I was in a world that had crumbled. Everything was surrounded by a white void, and the remains of the universe floated in fragments through space. There were mountains, roads, cars, buildings, and fragments of asphalt and other materials floating around.

The universe was still in the process of being consumed. In the distance, I could see the edges of the mountains being dissolved by something that looked like a wall of blue electricity or dust.
In my dragon's form, I flew around in search of remaining life, and spotted a woman standing on a fragment of the remaining road.

The brunette woman stood at the edge of the road coming off of a driveway. There was a house nearby that I presume was her home.
She stared out at the dissolving mountains.
When I landed next to her as my human self, she didn't look at me, but spoke.
"This is the end, isn't it?"

I turned and watched the mountains with her, and nodded.
I could feel my body waking. It was morning.
"I have to go soon. Do you want to come with?" I asked her and she looked at me in surprise.

It took her a moment to respond, but as soon as she agreed, I turned back into my dragon and picked her up, carrying her as I traveled straight into the void.

I woke up in my bed. When I looked up, I saw the figure of the woman standing at the end of the bed.
"Thank you." she said and then faded away.

Lost the dream journal to this, going off memory.

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I traveled to a post apocalyptic version of earth. The few people still surviving didn’t know what happened, so I was just there to tell them what caused the world to end—so that history can be recorded and they don’t repeat the same mistake.

I then traveled back to before the apocalypse wiped everyone out (still in the distant future from our modern time), and I noticed Arthur was still on the air.

So, I turned on an episode and… it was bad.

It was unbelievably bad... Instead of having a round head, Arthur had a chipmunk shaped head. Instead of human eyes, the characters all had animal eyes, but they were enlarged to fit the cartoon animal face. Absolutely horrifying. Picture large beady black orbs slightly jutting out of the face with flimsy tacked-on human eyebrows. But they had human mouths…. And teeth. It was hyper realistic, but 2D not 3D. You could see every hair, but smooth areas like the teeth had no detail.

No that's not what started the apocalypse, but dang thank goodness the apocalypse ended it.

Followed a biologist named Ethan to an alien planet. Him and a group of researchers set up a base of operations to study the native wildlife. There was a slothlike creature that he was creating a 3-D model of (they recorded many different animals and plants). They brought a dog with them and whenever I went near the dog, I started levitating. At some point I asked whether there was something causing me to levitate around the dog or if it was a dream thing. Suddenly all of them looked at me demonically and I got scared and either woke up or got a false awakening.

This hasn’t happened to me in a while. I think maybe I broke immersion too harshly and spooked myself.

It was a fun dream though so I decided to go back into it with WILD.

I reappeared in a futuristic version of Earth in which many years had passed. Everything was tightly controlled and monitored. People weren’t allowed to communicate without a device listening and tracking them. The government kept tabs on everything people said.

I decided to look for Ethan. After messing around with my phone a bit, but deciding the phone wasn’t worth it because of the tracking, I looked for him in person. I found him in a truck parked in an alleyway, and told him I could break him out.

He didn’t want to be freed, though. He was worried about the government catching him. Turns out they were following me anyway. They already knew.

So (in my dream dragon form) I grabbed him and flew out of the building.

Outside, there was a shore and what looked like ocean. I started flying over the water in a random direction until I saw some land. An escape, I thought.

I thought we were making it out, but then I realized they had cows on a boat heading in that direction. We were heading straight for a slaughterhouse.

I realized in that moment that there was nothing out here. The whole world head been reduced to this one island and section of ocean.

I was still being followed and they were laughing their butts off at the fact I was going straight for the slaughterhouse. I turned back and was captured. I didn’t want anything to do with the void beyond the ocean, so I just let them take me back.

I then journaled this dream inside the dream and then woke at 5:09 AM real time (checked clock).

I went back to sleep and re-entered the dream again, back to being caught.

I don’t think much happened but they brought me back inside and seemed like they weren’t sure what to do with me. They knew what I was and that I wouldn’t be here long. Eventually I woke up again to 7:00 alarm.

Had some dreams last night were a post apocalyptic thing involving a battle with cyclops people.

There was a family that needed to evacuate their house, and they shoved everything onto this deck that converted into a boat. Then they use the rapids to swiftly exit the area. A lot of people were evacuating like this. Unfortunately, the cyclopses got into the water. One family lost their child.

I turned into my dragon and breathed embers on it (I really need to incubate some new, actually useful powers), which did nothing. It pulled out a gun and started firing at me, so I had to dodge in the air, flying in zigzags.

I proceeded to use my dragon’s tailblade to reflect sunlight into its eyes, blinding it temporarily so I could properly attack.

But I lost.

It ended up grabbing me and was going to eat me, but I stopped the scenario in that moment. Everything came to a halt. The monster just sat there waiting. It wasn't a complete time freeze, but more of a narrative freeze.

It was feeling early morning though so I woke up at about 7:40 AM.

A dream character approached me to borrow my phone (for eBay). As she logged in, I saw her use her own account instead of mine, which was less convenient. So I asked, “Why didn’t you use my account instead?"

She avoided eye contact and uttered a quiet “I don’t know."

So I asked her, “Don’t you know my password?”

She looked visibly shaken by this question and shook her head no vigorously.

"Go ahead and tell me. I think you know it. What’s my password?” I asked with confidence, curious about something.

Visibly shaken now, she read off my password. It was correct, except one or two letters off.
Soon after, she broke down and cried.

I tried to reassure her she did a good job, the guess was mostly correct, and asked her what was wrong.

She cried and told me it was horrifying to her that she was not her own person. It disturbed her that I was in her mind like that. Like a parasite, she said.

I sat down. “Nooo no no no. Look, you’re a part of me, that’s normal." I went on to explain (as I've done many times with other dream characters in the past—this comes up every now and then).
"We're part of a collective, the human race. We’re all just a part of something.” I said, explain it to her as best as I understood it.

She didn't take it well, though. Ran off in a panic.

I looked over at another woman who was standing by, having seen the whole thing.
“Those parts of my password she got wrong… She knew them, didn’t she?” I asked the quiet witness.
She nodded.
I understood that the woman who had run away did purposely give part of the password incorrectly.
It scared her too much to speak the correct word.

I walked outside and eventually woke up.

What is a PR?
PR stands for Persistent Realm and refers to recurring plots, narratives, places, characters, and other elements that "persist" from one dream to the next.

If you've heard of a recurring dream before, this is similar, except persistent realms may not have any psychological basis behind them (you can have a PR simply as a result of incubation/training/intention, rather than trauma or other psychological need for repeated experiences in dreams). There does not necessarily have to be a "reason" why persistent realms exist in your dreams, other than habit and intention.

With persistent realms, you can have positive and fun recurring themes and plots that build over time, so it's not necessarily the same exact events being replayed, but more like a movie that continues from one dream to the next, a second life, or a video game that you pause and continue the next time you go to bed.

If you're thinking "Wow! This sounds incredible! Is this why people want to have lucid dreams?" then you would be right! Many people want to lucid dream just for the purpose of having persistent realms. You can live any fictional story you desire. It is the ultimate form of virtual reality!

In persistent realms, it's common to see the same locations and dream characters repeatedly and eventually learn their names and backstories, just like you would get to know places and people in your life over time. You can frequent the same locations like a particular beach. You can wear the same time-traveling watch in multiple dreams. Characters can remember previous dreams they interacted with you in, and they may refer to your past experiences just like in your regular life. There can be advanced world-building and you can engage in increasingly complicated plot structures.

Persistent Realms can be as simple or elaborate as you want. You can create a whole world, cast of characters, and powers/devices, plots, and scenarios that you return to anytime you go to sleep! Ever wanted to go on an epic adventures with a genie? Journey to the center of the earth to look for treasure? Get abducted by aliens? Or have a dream family? You can do it all with PRs.

We spend a third of our lives dreaming, so we might as well be living it to the fullest extent!

Lucidity and PRs
Lucid dreaming (knowing that it's a dream in the moment) is not required for persistent realms, even though many people prefer it. You can start developing a PR any time even if you don't know how to lucid dream. The only requirement is that you be able to have and remember your dreams.

Lucid dreaming is a great addition to persistent realms, though! It allows you to have greater control over your PR in the moment. You can do all sorts of amazing things with lucid dreaming such as pausing, rewinding, or fastforwarding through parts you want to skip.

Persistent realm elements can also trigger lucidity. If you know that a certain character only appears when you're dreaming, for example, you may become lucid from your own PR since it makes you realize the implications (that you must be dreaming).

Lucidity and persistent realms go hand-in-hand and often feed into each other naturally. If you have lucid dreams, you're more likely to naturally develop a persistent realm than someone who doesn't have lucid dreams. And vice versa if you have a persistent realm, you're more likely to develop "natural" lucidity than someone who doesn't have a persistent realm.

How to Develop a PR
Developing a PR can be done either inside a dream or while you are awake, though I find it much easier and more effective to develop things while awake (before bed is a great time for this, though you can do it any time).

You can either develop a PR from scratch, or work off of existing dreams. I find that working off existing dreams works best, even if the PR goes off in a completely different direction. Using a previous dream to start out with is often the most powerful tool.

Waking PR Development
You can develop your PR any time of day or night, but the best time to do it is night before bed (or when waking up in the middle of the night before going back to sleep).
To develop a PR from waking state, you should do two things: 1. Develop the idea and 2: connect it with your dreams.

Think back to any dream you want to start from. Say you met an interesting dream character a few nights ago (or even years ago) and want to expand on that old dream.

1. Developing the Idea
You can start by developing a part of the dream, like a character. Decide on a name for the character—let's say Sara. Think about Sara's day-to-day life. Imagine what it's like to see Sara go about her day as she drives to the bank, goes to a store, works at the local coffee shop, and meets with her ex who she doesn't get along with. Imagine her stating her name to the bank teller, or greeting customers where she works. Think about what she wears, her name tag, all that stuff (it's best to go with whatever pops into your head first for anything you're not sure of).

By fleshing this character out in your mind, you create a life for her. When you dream about her, your mind will remember all of these connected features and events you set up for the character, and the dream will assume these to be facts of her backstory. Think of it like a computer and your mind is a database. You need to populate some data to give your mind something to process, start dreaming about (the dream can pick up wherever you leave off).

2. Connect with Dreams
As you go through these ideas in your mind, connect them with previous dream elements you've had. Do you remember walking down a particular street in another dream you had one? Let this be the street Sara walks down. Did you ever see an unnamed man in your dreams? This could be her ex. Connect any and everything that makes the most "sense" to you, creating a web of ideas in your mind (this will strengthen your efforts to build a PR).

Connecting ideas you want with things you've already dreamed about will not only strengthen the concepts in your mind, it will trigger the elements to appear in your dreams. For example, the next time you walk down that street in your dreams, you might look over your shoulder and see Sara because she is now associated with that street in your mind. Or you might encounter her ex! Each mental pathway you connect between ideas, the easier to navigate them in your dreams.

Dream formation works with connects and associations between your thoughts, so creating this web around what you want to dream about will yield whatever results you want. The more everything connects and "makes" sense, the better!

Prospective Memory
What we're working with here is called prospective memory. It's a is a powerful tool for actively plan your PRs and make specific elements recur. You can choose to see a specific dream character in your next dream, or revisit a location you've been before. Sure, you could do this on the fly in a lucid dream, but planning it ahead helps to ensure you will remember what you want to do and enhance your dream control (especially in the case of more complex goals).

You can even imagine yourself having a dream while you're awake, and this can become part of your PR lore. For example, if you imagine yourself going to a concert with Sara, the story you envisioned can become canon to your PR—the next time you dream about Sara, she will already know who you are and refer to that time you two went to that concert (when you were awake, but she won't know the difference—unless you want to get meta with your PRs).

Dream Initiated PR Development
In-dream development of PRs can work too. You can do this with lucid dreaming simply by using dream control and engaging in whatever it is you want to do. If you repeat the same activities in multiple dreams, they will easily become habits that repeat naturally over time. The more you engage with something, the more it appears.

Keep in mind that you do not have to control everything. In fact, if you are trying to control every little detail about your PR, you may end up having tension in your dreams. Tension is the feeling of friction or pushback, which dreams manifest as lack of control—causing you to get stuck fighting with your dreams, rather than enjoying them.

Going with the flow of your dreams and letting them unfold over time instead is the best way to go. Your goal is to control things through incubation and natural association, rather than creating tension through force.

Going with the flow can also result in natural PR formation. The act of simply practicing dream recall, journaling, thinking about dreams, and increasing your awareness in dreams tends to result in more naturally recuring PR elements.

PRs also develop naturally from paying attention to particular elements in your dreams, or doing the same things until you form consistent habits/routines. The more you pay attention to certain things in dreams, the more likely they are to naturally recur. Use this to your benefit by focusing on the things you want, and putting less attention onto the things you don't want.

This also goes for PR-formation itself. If you hyperfocus on 'creating the perfect PR', it takes attention OFF of the contents of your dreams. This can result in more meta dreams and tension that prevents you from effectively controlling your dreams.

PR Development Strengthening Tips
- Connect what you want (your goal) with something you already have. Connecting scenery, characters, and other elements from can create a more cohesive structure that makes you more likely to revisit the PR.
For example, if you want to set up a persistent area where you can go eat chocolate cake, think back to a previous dream you had with any building in it. Now imagine that there's a bakery with cake in that building. Imagine walking inside and meeting the chef, who wants to give you unlimited free cake! There's never any lines, and everything you want is on the menu.
- Connect elements that 'make sense' to you. This will strengthen dream plans into something believable that you will have an easier time dreaming about. For example, it makes more sense to find chocolate cake in a bakery than under the sea. So if your goal is to eat chocolate cake, take the path of least resistence and create a persistent bakery in a city or town, not underwater.
Disclaimer: You CAN create fanciful things like underwater bakeries! If that's your goal, it's absolutely doable. I just recommend, as a general rule, sticking with things that "make sense" unless you have a specific other goal in mind, simply because it's easier.
- Associate a feeling. In addition to imagining your senses, you can also imagine the feelings in dreams to help form connections and create PRs based on those powerful emotional connections (which can have incredible influence over our dreams).
For example, a small town bakery might elicit a feeling of old-timey personalized cakes with homemade frosting and higher prices, as opposed to a city bakery where you might have a greater selection of decadent premade cakes at lower prices.
- Take advantage of pre-existing consistency. It's okay to deviate from previous plans, but staying consistent helps strengthen your PR. Personally, I go into PRs with a "don't fix it if it aint broke" mindset. This gives the PR a much more consistent framework (80%+ of my PR formed naturally, and I don't change things unless there's a reason to change them).
- Set intention! Intention to do something in the future is a brilliant tool when put towards dream planning. When you tell yourself x is going to happen, it is surprisingly effective at making x happen in dreams. Have you ever anticipated waking up early to do something you're exited about, and then found that you woke up naturally before your alarm? Even if you aren't a well practiced lucid dreamer, people have a natural sense of intention and follow-through that naturally transfers into dreams.
- Use repetition. The more you think about dreams and develop your PR, the more likely you are to succeed. You can even do it during the day.
Note: repetition that is mindless and devoid of your thoughtful presence is not as helpful. If you are doing something like a mantra, make sure you're being mindful and not just repeating empty phrases.
- Consider details. As you go through dreams in your head, include as much or as little details as you want. You don't have to think in great vivid detail for it to be effective, though you can if you enjoy doing so! Considering details can help reinforce your intention. Be aware that what you focus on now, is what your dream will likely focus on later.

That's is for now. Enjoy!

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Can I change something that already happened?
A: Yes! Even if something already happened, you can change the past, present, and future of your PR. For example, if there was an FBI agent out looking for you in your PR, even if this has been going on for years, you can change it with logical plot twists. Maybe he was looking for someone who looked like you, and realizes the mistake in your next dream. Convince yourself of this new plot twist, form ideas around it, walk yourself through it, and it will occur.

Q: What if I create an ongoing nightmare?
A: The nice thing about dreams is that you have control over them. If there's something from a previous dream that you don't like, you can change it at any time whether during the dream itself or in the next dream. You're never forced to keep the same narrative going. Unlike waking life, persistent dream realms are your creation. You have complete control over it. YOU decide what continues, and what goes away.

Q: But I don't want to control everything?
A: Good point! I personally only plan about 10-20% of my PR. When you develop your PR either inside the dream or when awake, feel free to skip over/gloss over anything you don't want to control. You can set the stage for things as much or as little as you want. For example, you can plan to activate a portal to a magical realm without planning where it goes, and have the magical realm be a surprise.

Q: Why does planning PRs while awake sound like MILD?
Mwahaha! That's because it is. Planning PRs works similarly to MILD technique for lucid dreaming, but instead of becoming lucid, your goal is to trigger, engage, or modify your PR. Here's a guide for MILD that you can convert to your PR goals: https://skyfalldreams.net/guides/skyfalls-mild-guide/

Q: How do I start lucid dreaming?
A: Lucid dreaming is outside the scope of this guide. To get started, I recommend reading a recall guide:https://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/ner...l-guide-94405/
Then, pick a lucid dreaming methodsk like MILD or WILD and you'll be set!
MILD: https://skyfalldreams.net/guides/skyfalls-mild-guide/
WILD: https://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/ner...d-guide-94340/