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Long LD 8.30-9.12am
After many rounds of SSILD, I can hear music, presumably from the neighbour's house, or maybe just random noise while falling asleep. My arm shakes violently. When everything settles down I am lying on my front as if having woken up. I don't fall for it and check with an RC.

The bedroom door is open and the hallway beyond is dark. I walk downstairs and try to phase through the front door. Instead of being outside, it leads to another dark room. A light shines around the cracks of another doorway, so I phase through, this time expecting to be outside. It works. There is a street and a few people sitting around to my right.

My vision is very blurry and box shaped as if staring through a TV. I mime removing whatever is restricting my view and things now look much better.

For my personal goal of using the witcher Aard sign to knock someone down, I need someone standing. On the left is a suitable candidate - a man standing talking to a group of people. I gesture in the shape of the Aard sign. There is a slight glow and the tiniest puff of wind hits the man. Pathetic. I try a couple more times and the guy stares at me. "What are you doing?"

On the other side of the street is a guy sitting next to a couple of stacked wooden crates. He points at the top crate and says "you need the source." Inside the crate there is a green item glinting in the sunlight. It is a large green gel capsule.
"Do I eat it?"
The guy nods. Okay. I eat the capsule and decide to try something else - summoning a sword. I lift my right hand and close it around an imaginary handle. A crossbar forms at the end of my fist and a twisted black blade grows out of it. The effect looks like it is slowly losing invisibility as the full length of a longsword appears. Both edges are jagged and sharp. It looks wicked - evil, and deadly.

Behind me someone laughs. I turn to see a tall, skeletal female vampire with a loose cloak and robe flapping out in the wind. Hmm Igni would be a better sign to use on a vampire. I make a gesture with my left hand and a beam of flame leaps from my palm towards her face. She screams and catches fire. I take the opportunity to slash at her with the sword a few times.

The vampire retreats up the street and manages to extinguish the flames. She looks furious and is screaming at me, fangs bared. I switch to Aard and release a blast of telekinetic energy to knock the vampire down, then jump and bury the end of my sword in her heart.

Feeling euphoric after doing a goal, I walk down the street and see a group of four DCs. One of them is a cute blonde woman, maybe mid twenties. They head inside a house and I follow them. Inside is a living room with comfy looking arm chairs. Well, after that fight, I deserve a rest. So I sit down and one of the DCs adjusts it to make a footrest spring up and the chair back to recline. Nice. Comfy.

Then someone is touching my leg. The blonde woman. Looking down I realise during the fight with the vampire I was wearing just boxers. Hah. Anyway, I make a sexual suggestion and the woman happily complies with my request. * snipping adult bit*

After the distraction I leave the house and start doing a bit of parkour running up the street. What else should I do? I decide to fly and rise effortlessly into the air. I put one arm up over my head and fly like superman, super fast.

Down in a large park area a horde of dinosaurs are attacking the city. Several large triceratops are stampeding through a line of people. I use telekinesis to knock the dinosaurs down and see the people jump up with weapons to strike the downed beasts.

The dinosaur army is being lead by the vampire from earlier. After landing nearby, I look at my hand and repeat my earlier method to summon the longsword again. The vampire advances towards me while her skeletal minions try to flank me to limit my manoeuvres. I unleash fire at her again, and she simply sidesteps to avoid it. We fight sword to sword this time, trading blows until I stab my sword through the side of the vampire's chest and she falls. This time I burn the body with fire. The vampire minions have vanished.

After some cheering and celebration from the nearby DCs I find myself inside a large building with many sets of stairs. Halfway up the seemingly never-ending staircase, the blonde woman from earlier walks past. I stop her for another kiss and we head off to a side room for round two. * another adult bit snipped too *

Once we've finished, I start climbing the shelves on the wall before seeing large glass windows leading outside. I swing and smash through the glass. In the street are a gang of criminals trying to hijack a double-decker red bus. I shift into a wolf and start running and howling at them. They scatter, yelling and running down the road.

I run on all fours in my new wolf form, but get confused about all these legs and get slowed down. A burst of super speed helps me catch up. The criminals are yelling "you're not allowed to be a wolf." Screw you. I can be a wolf if I want. In response, I let out a howling laugh, jump at the nearest criminal and bite his leg.

While ripping at this guy's leg, my phone starts ringing "Back in Black" by AC/DC. I'm not sure if it is from RL seeping into the dream or not, but the visuals and everything are continuing, so I try to ignore it. Then I decide to shout "Hello?" to answer the phone.
"Can you be sure the shop is opening this morning?"
Er what?
I wake up.

Long LD ~7-7.40am
It's bath time. The bath water is slowly draining away though. On closer inspection the plug is blocked with paper. After fishing it out the water drains but then the bath refills itself. I get into the bath and then get the feeling things are wrong. Wait, we don't even have a bath in our house, just a shower. This must be a dream.

I climb, naked, out of the unfamiliar bath and do a nose pinch RC to convince myself. Outside the bathroom is a corridor, and down one end are a group of people. I get a momentary feeling of anxiety at being naked and do another RC to reassure myself that it's a dream and therefore doesn't matter. Yep can definitely breathe through a blocked nose.

Despite the confirmation, I walk the other way up the corridor to avoid the DCs. It leads to a bedroom.... and the first thing that crosses my mind is to summon some company. Looking back at the door to the room, which is now closed, I simply state, aloud: "You know what I like. Blonde. Pretty. C'mon."

A moment later the door handle turns and a short woman walks in. She's wearing a skirt and dark coloured tights. Her hair is indeed blonde and loose, falling to her shoulders. She smiles at me and lets me kiss her. I get my hand under her top to play with her breasts for a bit and then try to take her tights off. There is a bit of awkwardness as they won't disappear, but then we start to have sex. I make the fatal mistake of closing my eyes and lose the scene. After a few moments in the void a new room appears. I phase out through the wall and start flying over a city.

Up on one of the tall buildings a murder of crows are perched. Lazy birds. They should be flying. So I lift all of them into the air with telekinesis and start moving them around in the sky. They are resistant at first and refuse to flap their wings or even pretend, so it's just a bunch of black bird shapes rotating around in the air. Meh. Stupid birds.

I land down in the narrow alley between some skyscrapers and find a street market. There are a number of stalls and the closest one has a collection of small potted plants. I decide to reverse gravity and the pots rise into the air. This panics the stall owner who stares, wide eyed in horror, at his plants floating off to the sky. Then he seems angry, realising it is me.

Time to go! I fly away and leave the city. The scenery changes to a steep green hillside with a couple of trees. I recall my personal goal of becoming a toy green soldier. My usual method of size manipulation is to use my breath, inhaling to grow, exhaling to shrink. I start to exhale but instead of shrinking the ground beneath me starts to lower, until I am standing in a deep pit. The walls are still covered in green grass and my actual height hasn't changed.

I do some quick earth manipulation to reverse the pit back into the hillside, and try again. This time it works as expected, or at least the trees nearby grow to gargantuan proportions. I then imagine myself becoming a soldier and look down to find my arms are now green and my clothes are rigid plastic with few features.

Awesome. Time to summon my army. "Ten-Hut! Line up, soldiers!" I shout. From several small holes in the ground plastic green soldiers start running out and moving into formation. I walk to the front, pretending my legs are attached via a plank of plastic. Before I can order my new army to do anything, the dream ends. Re-entry unsuccessful.

... I had an earlier dream in which I became lucid... involving Drax the destroyer and space ships and fighting and... can't remember any specific details. Dammit


4.50am- 6.20am Medium LD
Looks like a blue pen has exploded all over my white shirt. The droplets of ink are tiny and in a spray pattern down the right side. I am in an unusual office made of several rooms. An unfamiliar DC asks if a particular chair pays tax. What on Earth are you talking about? Why would a chair pay tax? I ignore the stupid question and get on with my work.

On the desk is a notebook filled with pictures and cut out lines of printed text. There are names and captions for some of the pictures. Also, I can overhear a meeting going on in the room above. I try to drown it out by putting my headphones in. Hip hop music starts playing. I try to change the disc and realise the headphones aren't even connected to the player, but the music is directly in my ears not coming from the device.

I start walking out of the office, down a long corridor piled with crates and boxes. The song lyrics mention Men in Black, and the whole place starts rocking like a moving train. At the end of the corridor there is a room with no doors or windows. In the roof is a closed hatch.

As I lift the hatch up to escape the train, it occurs to me that this is all rather ridiculous. Must be a dream.

I decide to do the task of the month and reach into the pockets of my trousers. Both hands emerge with some kind of wrapped spring roll type food. Neat. I eat both and find they are indeed duck spring rolls. Not really sure what to do next, I phase through the side of the train and find myself in a town centre.

The area is brick paved and pedestrainised. People are strolling around and the street contains several shops. The closest one contains running gear. I start leaping over benches and the brick bases surrounding decorative trees. After a short bit of parkour, I wake up.

Long LD
I am out somewhere and realise it is time to go to work. Drive there in a car. We have to go in through security - putting memory cards into scanning machines. My card is broken.

There is a long queue for one of the scanning machines and it takes ages. The people with me go through. Finally I get to insert a small memory card into a slot. The person behind me moans that it went in sideways and has broken the machine. I pull it out and reinsert it. It is still broken.

There is another checkpoint and people move over to that. I tell the security guard that I have already scanned my card and they let me walk through no questions asked. I fiddle with the card which now has bent metal prongs on the back. F***. I bend them back and they snap. Shit. I realise I can swap it for another device in my pocket and just switch the memory chip on it.

Shortly after arriving my friends ask for a lift home. We walk out into the car park and I get into a low wide blue sports car. I start driving fast to get back in time for a nap. Then I decide to run a junction.

It occurs to me this is daft and I should just become lucid and get on with tasks already. Heh. I drive the car and tear up the street for a while. Then I remember three step tasks.

Ahead on the street is a group of horses. I decide to phase the car and myself through them. I drive up behind the horses and manage to phase right through. They are startled and start rearing up.

I see a group of people nearby and remember my second three step and start trying to cast fireball on them. I kinda scorch one guy's T-shirt a bit but that is it. Pathetic. Try again. Nope.

Okay what about lightning. The skies are dark and stormy. I reach my hands up and call the lightning. Sparks appear and shoot down to my hands. I let it go towards the DCs and they say "ow!". Okay so its not that impressive.

I decide to do some fast flying and end up in a weird never-ending building. I head for the patch of day light and keep flying fast... it finally clears and turns into a hill. I fly up it until stuck on a snowy slope.

There is a mountain tracker here. He starts talking about kicking logs up the mountain as a seat. The logs are massive tree trunks. So I try kicking giant logs up the mountain for a while. It is not easy and I cheat to stop the logs sliding back down in the snow, using telekinesis.

Then I get bored and fly to the top. However there is a house there. I want to find a snowy peak. I walk around the house and see a line of DCs moving towards some kind of stadium. There are cars and bikes on the road. I start to run past them, it seems to be taking a while so I start to use super speed to get there quicker.

I reach the stadium where groups of them are seated on enormous stone plinths. I start doing massive jumps between the plinths. Then I tell the DCs how I wanted to fly to the top of a snowy mountain. They're like, "yeah I'm sure there is one around here somewhere". After continuously turning in a circle, finally I see a snow calped peak in the clouds. I start flying fast towards it and then hear a knock on the door.

False awakening. Dad walks in. Tells me it is 11.59. Shit I should be at work. He says its times like this when you wonder what you used to do before work fired you... Uh. Okay then. So I hurry to the bathroom, naked, to pee. And then Dad is standing outside the bathroom door joking about phasers. "Set phasers to stun!" I shout.

6.40-7.12am
Medium LD #401
Something is wrong with my phone. It keeps playing the wrong video or music. Then I see that the curtains have been stuck out of the windows which are now closed, meaning the fabric is on the outside. I open the windows and pull the curtains back inside. While doing this my partner's car pulls up on the driveway so I rush downstairs to open the front door.

Back inside the front room there is a game going on. I collect dice that are scattered on the floor. In a corner of the room is a d10 that is glowing bright white. Dice of power! Alright. I walk through into another room and someone attacks me. I reveal the dice of power clutched in my hand and they back off. Also, in my other hand, a blue triangular stone with a spiral inscribed on it has appeared.

This makes me lucid and after a moment inspecting my hands and arms I look around seeing my sister and another DC. The only exit is a window. At first the glass is solid and resists any attempt to pass through it but after some effort it starts to stretch like molten plastic.

Outside is a garden with a street at the far end. JR and a couple of other DCs are walking along it. Remembering the task of the year I call out for a goat.

From the rocks and bushes at the side of the garden a rather small brown goat tumbles out. It bleats and picks itself up unsteadily. I check it is solid and can feel its coarse hair. "Now unleash the Chimera!" I gesture at the goat and tranform it. It grows to 3m tall and its body turns more lion like while its head and face become an angry predatory bird with a hooked beak.

There's no one here though. "Attack!" I command the Chimera while spinning around and seeing some DCs further up the garden.

The Chimera leaps up onto the rocks and the DCs panic. "Use your lightning powers!" The Chimera becomes covered in an aura of flashing blue lightning that electrocutes several DCs that fall to the ground.

"Use fire breath!" The Chinera spins around and unleashes a flamethrower style gout of flame that incinerates a man running towards it. "Use your poison tail." The Chineras tail whips out and stabs a man in the chest. He staggers and falls down.

The dream is starting to destabilise though... noooo...

Before the final part can be completed the dreams fades. I stay perfectly still and DEILD back in.

The reformed dream has me lying in bed though. Something in my mouth feels loose and I pull out a weird metal bracket. I'm still semi-lucid and trying to get back on track. There is a computer screen near the bed, so I use that to try and control the dream. The Chimera is on screen waiting, like a computer game. I'm about to send it off attacking enemies again when I realise the first part about transforming a goat... so I attempt to turn it into a goat and it shrinks into some weird little squid thing. Uh...

The next attempt has it become a large cartoonish goat, in fact the graphics for the entire dream become 'warcraftish'. A DC tries to distract me by asking something but I ignore them. Waving my hands and chanting some magical made-up words I tranform the goat into my Chimera monster again. It has a similar form to before but more cartoony in fitting with the whole dream.

This time the Chimera is under my telepathic control. Waves of enemies with swords and spears start charging in so I use lightning and flame breath kill them.

The Chimera is perfectly under my control and breathes out an ice cloud that solidifies two more DCs. "Smash the ice!" Dutifully the Chimera raises up onto its hind legs then smashes down on the frozen figures with both front paws.

Oh yeah poison tail... last one. The Chimera has a long lions tail but it is whipping around and is easy to imagine as a snake. It buries its fangs in one DCs neck but now the Chimera and myself have merged into one being and the enemies are swamping me. The crush of numbers starts to destabilise the dream and I wake up.

7.30-9.15am
Medium LD #399
I am at a LAN party. Someone pulls my screen around and starts asking why I'm searching for darkus something. The page looks like an guild site for an online game. Everyone in the guild has dog avatars. Under the browser window is what looks like World of Warcraft (haven't played in 5 years).

Hitting the space bar brings up a search box, but I hide it and start moving through the world using the keyboard to control it. At some point the dream drags me into the game so I am playing in first person rather than controlling a character.

The game is taking place in a Hogwarts style castle filled with students. AB is with me. Although the whole place still has a sort of Warcraft vibe, the students are human. Maybe this is Stormwind. We head up a circular set of steps in a tower, heading to the top. There are students on the stairs having a lesson.

The steps end in a blank wall. Wait, no, there is a narrow staircase leading up to a hatch in the roof. At the top is a partially obscured sign that says slip, or is it sleep? This makes me lucid.

We run up the staircase and emerge onto the top of the tower. The dream still is formed of very basic almost cartoon style graphics. This is a dream, I tell AB, and start floating around trying to encourage AB to join me in flight. AB then makes a joke about rocket fuel and farts. This makes me laugh.

"You're so immature..." And then I think, wait, this is my dream, which means it's me being immature. Ah nuts.

I make AB float and try to encourage her to fly higher but she doesn't want to.

The tower is perched on the edge of a canyon made from red stone. Possibly some mix of the Grand Canyon mixed with Thousand Needles, from Warcraft, which is still the basis for this dreamscape. Standing at the edge looking down over a 200+ ft drop gives me a twinge of vertigo, and that inexplicable desire to jump...

Only one thing for it... I throw myself off the edge and start to plummet, feeling the wind rushing past me. Before hitting the ground I throw my arms out as wings. The air catches the feathered wings and allows me to glide on the thermals. :wings:

At the bottom of the canyon are a few cartoon sheep. I point at one and transform it into a goat. It turns black and kind of demonic-goat looking with horns and hoofs. Before being able to transform it into a Chimera for the TOTY, it lets out a demonic roar and runs off. Hmm so much for that plan.

I start to walk through the canyon and see a large crowd of people walking in another direction. Thinking that maybe I could combine my goal of turning a DC into an animal to kick start another TOTY attempt, I pick a red haired woman out of the group and lead her to one side.

"Okay, weird request. I need to turn you into a Chimera, which will be awesome fun, but first I have to turn you into a goat..."

The woman gives me a look like, you're insane, but whatever... Before I can do anything else though, the scene fades and despite clinging on for a false awakening, I wake up.

7.20-7.45am
We are in the garage. There is an old mattress on the floor. It is covered in small patches of ice and snow. I make a snowball and throw it at the wall.

My partner AB is here. We discuss her uncle apparently touching up one of AB's younger cousins. (Not true IRL, AFAIK) It is clear AB is very angry and upset about this. We discuss confronting him, but AB seems to have very violent plans, which concern me. Although the knowledge of what he's done sickens me too, I want to protect her from doing anything that would land us in trouble with the law.

The dream changes and has me exploring a bookshop. The lights flicker and go out, but then the power comes back on. After some searching I find the section with sci-fi and fantasy books. There is a book called 'The Cery Spar'. 'Cery' apparently means red. Maybe it was supposed to be 'Cherry'? It has a red dragon on the front.

Chained into
Short LD #398 "Follow Me" WILD
An image of a white ceiling forms. Knowing my eyes are shut, I try to control the excitement rush of an impending WILD (I don't often manage WILD).

Feeling vibrations I wait and allow the dream to form. The I rub my hands to stabilise. A black guy walks in, smiling. He asks me about my holiday in China. It seems I have earplugs in as the sound is distant and muted. So I mime pulling out earplugs to try and correct this.

The guy wanders out of the room, talking about how China is basically like Bulgaria. Heh sure.

The room leads out onto a large balcony on which a friend of mine is sitting having a smoke. He is looking out at the view, so I slap him on the back/shoulder in greeting and say hi before climbing over the balcony and starting to fly.

Below are rows of tables filled with DCs. Some kind of party is going on. This reminds me that mind control was a technique I struggled with last time.

Spotting a pretty blonde girl at one of the tables I land nearby and use telepathy to send her a mental command, asking her to come over. She stands and starts walking towards me but then starts moving a little further away. She glances back at me, then walks a few more steps. She seems to want me to follow. Who is controlling who?

Despite my attempts at mind control it seems she wishes to lead me away from the others. There is now a path leading off into a forest. I give up and decide to just follow along, but wake up after a few steps into the trees.

6.55-7.30am
Long LD #397
I was walking down a hill. A couple of dcs walk past. The scenery is amazing. Green trees and mountains on the horizon. Grassland stretching off towards them. It occurs to me this might be a dream so i start taking big steps testing gravity. Sure enough this leads to a floating jumping walk and then true flight.

Time to get going on the new three step tasks. Using a summoned knife (from my belt) to cut into the 'fabric' of the dreamscape, I create a portal/doorway then step through it to another place.

Possibly this new place is a hotel or on second thought a shopping centre. It is filled with dcs wandering around. On the current level are a couple of shops. The next step is unsummoning, something I've not really played with before. So I point at a nearby DC and say "you dont exist". The DC obediently vanishes without any fanfare or explosions... That was easier than expected.

Right. Time control. Next to the shops is a cafe with some DCs sitting and eating at a table. I pause time for a couple of them so they are mid drink or mid bite of food. Then I see an old man walking across the room and hit rewind for him. He starts retracing his steps perfectly, expression still neutral and uncomplaining.

While trying to think what to do next I fly out of the building. Ah yes the week challenge task of turning into a gas. A couple of DCs start talking to me about the weather being so nice. On the other side of the park though a tornado is heading for us. I dive towards it, believing it will rip me apart into tiny gas molecules.

Hitting the tornado makes my conciousness shatter for a moment and wonder if this will destroy the scene. It doesnt. Instead I feel myself floating. Extending my awareness I can sense through hundreds of floating gas particles. My body no longer has a solid form and feels weightless. Each individual part of me is floating and moving independently. It is a weird feeling.

Seeing the tornado whipping back around I remain in its path, wondering how it will affect me now I'm a cloud of gas. It is how I imagine this is what being in a blender feels like... Different parts of me spin in all directions at once, like a violent theme park ride.

After a bit of struggling and focusing, trying to knit the feeling of separation back into a single whole, my body eventually reforms. I start walking through the park. There are go-karts and motorbikes lining up as if for races around a dirt track. I figure it makes sense to focus on other goals... what are they? Oh yeah make something out of dirt and bring it to life was one...

So I move off the track to where there is bare earth and fallen leaves. Scraping the dirt together into a pile I start to shape it into a motorbike. A tiny one. With a figure sitting on it. Cupping it in my hands I take a deep breath in then slowly breathe life out into it. After several breaths the tiny figure starts moving. Putting it down the small bike starts racing around in circles. This has drawn the attention of several DCs who seem fascinated by it.

Wandering off I try to think of other dream powers to use. The park turns into an indoor building filled with more DCs. Among them is a coworker, looking stressed. I tap her on the shoulder. "You work too hard. There is no point in working here, this is a dream. You can relax." (I don't remember her response but she did smile.) I slip my arms around her waist, my mind turning to inappropriate thoughts, but then her husband shows up. Having no desire to fight or see this particular DC unhappy, I leave them to relax and enjoy the dream.

My thoughts of conflict bring a bit of danger to the dream. While walking through this busy building two thugs start following me. The place looks more like a hospital now. Maybe a sanatorium. I turn the corner and find a dead end room with a kinda spooky looking bed with white sheets. The two thugs are blocking the exit. They both pull out straight razors with sharp glinting blades.

They attack and try to cut me. I repeatedly tell them they can't hurt me. The razors leave no injuries or blood on my skin. One of the thugs grabs my finger and tries to shut the razor on it. Nope that doesn't work. Losing patience I start punching them before grabbing one of their razors and trying to slice them up. They turn and flee.

Now feeling, well, invincible I stroll out of the hospital/sanatorium place looking for more fun. I mentally recap what I've done so far, as this has been a long dream. It still seems stable, and I'm not quite ready to wake up yet.

Outside in a market place there are many small stalls of trinkets and wares. One of the stall owners is a pretty red haired woman. Recalling the mind control task I try to send her a mental command to kiss me. It doesn't seem to have any effect. Need to work on that one.

While that DC wanders off a totally different one walks up to me in a small alley between two rows of stalls. This one seems happy to engage in a little adult fun. At the same time I mess around with a little object/dc changing dream control, reshaping and resizing parts of her body. At the weirdest point, she has four eyes in a line on her face. This doesn't seem to distract or dissuade her and it escalates into sex.

At some point this dissolves into a false awakening.

In the final part I find myself still lucid, walking in a park filled with water fountains and lakes. The park is full of small monkeys and birds. One of the monkeys leaps onto my shoulder.

7.33-7.43am (Yeah 10 mins exactly. That's all I need to get lucid! )
Short LD #396
The computer monitor is an ancient beige cathode-ray-tube monster with terrible resolution. It makes me question whether this is a dream. My hands look perfectly normal though. On the screen is something about a goddess. It looks like proxima midnight, a character from a mobile game.

Closing the computer, I hurry out of the room and down the staircase. The front door is like the one in my parents house, a mix of patterned distorted glass and wood. I phase directly through it without really thinking. Definitely a dream.

The sky is cloudy and it is raining. I feel the rain on my skin. Gentle, warm, spring rain. The rain droplets fall on my bare arms and chest. It is pleasant, calming. For a short time I just enjoy the sensation, practising a moment of mindful meditation.

Recalling my new 3 step I attempt to teleport to a place in China. The attempt fails and dumps me into the void before a false awakening.

Sitting up in a yellow room I find a pair of spiderman pants. I stare at my hands and find they are perfectly normal again. To be sure I try the pinched nose check and it is inconclusive. Maybe my nose is blocked by a cold. While thinking about this I wake for real.

7-8.30am
Short LD #395
The first part of the dream I can recall starts in a car, but then the road takes a right and turns into a set of steps. The car vanishes. Punisher (Jon Bernthal) is standing at the bottom. He looks like he has been awake all night, exhausted, beaten up.

Punisher starts telling us about digging holes, and searching for something. I follow his lead.

At some point we end up in the road and I'm now on a motorbike. This makes me lucid because the acceleration is wrong; opening the throttle seems to do nothing. I try to get past a massive lorry and something clips my leg but I ignore it.

Now that the bike is properly under my control the speed is much improved. I try to go as fast as possible. The road also switches from driving on the right to driving on the left, as that's more familiar to me being British.

In order to get some points I need to find some way to do a stunt, but there are no ramps or anything to use as one. The hill is steep and filled with cars to dodge. At the top of the hill there is a tall building and I lift the motorbike into a wheelie while approaching the wall. It starts to travel vertically up. The dream fades before I reach the top.

6.30-7.30am
Medium LD #394
Next to the bed are two small white alarm clocks showing different times. I find my phone to try and work out what time it is. A stream of texts appear. Each text message is a comic book panel though and seems to be a story. This makes me question everything and I do an RC to confirm the dream.

I try to get out of the window and end up in a white void. Pushing onwards leads to a small park with a cyclist and two people in giant panda suits. Er. The dreamscene is unstable and fades.

False awakening. I am able to hold my awareness as the previous scene fades so instantly do another RC and find myself still dreaming. The window of the room is blocked with slats of wood. There is a door, the only other possible exit, but that way is blocked with hundreds of folded clothes. The more clothes I pull down the more appear. This dream is being uncooperative.

Getting angry I decide to punch my way out and do a partial transformation to enlarge my fist and arm, then use super strength to bust open the planks of wood covering the window.

Once outside I quickly summon Hukif, Sensei and Dolphin. They do not appear as expected. Or maybe I don't know what to expect... Dolphin looks kind of vaguely like Thor from the marvel comic books. Six foot four roughly and long blonde hair but wearing a stripy t-shirt. Hukif's avatar is more average height, as is Sensei. They both have strange hair which moves independently, as though alive.

Right let's sort this out properly. I transform dolphin and Sensei into Superman outfits of blue with red capes. Then I turn Hukif into Batman, purely by pointing at each of them and telling them who to become. Hukif's armor looks really cool but it is more like Daredevil's armor from the new TV series: Black and grey with bat ears instead of devil horns. Close enough.

Before the battle can start there is one more thing. I need to transform as well! HULKBUSTER! Throwing my arms down to my sides I feel the metal armor covering them and can feel myself growing and bulking out. Red and gold plates covering me. The fight kicks off and I start trying to hit the two Superman dressed figures with repulsor blasts. (Forgot we were supposed to fight with pillows.) They are nimble and keep dodging. Hukif is kicking arse and throwing batarangs around.

It is impossible to tell Sensei and Dolphin apart now as they have both fully transformed into Superman, but everyone seems to be invulnerable to damage. Superman tries to punch me in the face and it connects but doesn't hurt. Then I decide to activate the armor's boots to get a sudden boost of super speed. This sends me shooting down the road and into a covered walkway area. I try to get back but can't find the others and the dream fades soon after.

6.30-7.40am
Medium LD #393
Spaceship game. I control a small ship trying to stop an unseen opponent from building some kind of bridge structure out of red and white metal. The ship has energy weapons to destroy the structures. For a minute it looks like I've won. Then the structure starts to repair itself. Over on a mountain nearby are small diamonds but they are embedded into the rock and cannot be collected.

Frustrated with this I start to fly the ship up one of the mountain paths. At some point this shifts to me running up the path instead. The path leads to a building with an guard post outside. However the guard implies that there is a rock concert taking place and suggests buying beers and joining the queue. Sounds good to me.

Up on the wall there are a number of cool guitars hanging as a display. Before joining the queue I think about going to the toilet. The door to the toilets is a heavy reinforced freezer door. After opening it, the doorway shrinks to the size of a letter box. Through it there are Chinese/Asian style squat toilets. Well I refuse to crawl through the tiny gap to use the bathroom.

After a false awakening in which AB tries to engage me in conversation about the home insurance - not now love, please! I start to see the beginning of a new dream scene and believe this to be the start of a WILD. (Nope already asleep.)

After the scene stabilises I sit up in bed. There is a young guy sitting across the room. I ask him if he knows where we are, then tell him this is a dream. He nods sagely but doesn't speak. The finger through palm RC demonstration doesn't work... So I pinch my nose to confirm.

Determined to do some more dream control I also show him that my arm passes straight through the closed window and the sill, before grabbing his hand and phasing us both outside.

Without stopping I drag us both into the air to do some flying. The area outside has a few buildings and tall trees. A giant bear seems to be stuck in the tree branches. In another giant tree are some DCs setting up a tree house. They are connecting balloons to various items to float them up into the branches.

Still dragging the DC along for the ride I demonstrate some fast flying but then this becomes difficult as strong winds pick up. The sky has turned dark and cloudy and it begins to rain. The heavy wind makes flight difficult.

To top it all off a giant meteor is hurtling through the sky about to destroy the world. I use telekinesis to stop it in mid air and prevent it crashing to the ground.

A DC tells me that it is in fact the sun, so I change the meteor back into the familiar flaming ball it should be, after pushing it back out of the atmosphere first with telekinesis. Then I sort the weather out and make it into a sunny day by clearing away the remaining clouds and stopping the rain. A small crowd of DCs have gathered nearby. They seem happy with the dreamworld adjustments.

False awakening. We are getting our passports back. Then there is a discussion about fire exit routes.

6.30-7.20am
Long LD 392
AB's parents are preparing for a trip. They are sorting clothes out and packing. I realise some of my dirty washing is upstairs. (It is unclear whose house this is, ours or theirs, it bears no resemblance to either.) I climb up the side of the staircase, holding on to the balusters (yeah I had to look that up) - the vertical railings. On the top floor is a single large room split into sections with large pieces of furniture. A trailing flex and electrical plug is dancing in the air. That's a bit weird. I pinch my nose to RC. This is a dream.

The room has become suddenly populated and there are various DCs sitting on the floor. One girl with long strawberry blonde hair catches my eye and I head over to talk to her. However she seems to already have a boyfriend, as a nearby guy starts joining in the conversation. He is tall and slim, with dark hair. Anyway, so I ask her for a kiss and she agrees. The guy starts suggesting things of a sexual nature that make it clear even if they are a couple they are very open to new experiences. Err well. Maybe later.

A nearby DC starts saying that it is impossible to leave this place. There are no planes, no trains. That reminds me. Tasks.

Remembering the black hole task I ask the girl and guy to follow me. The exit to the room leads via some falling down doorways into a slightly more open space. I then get them to hold hands and explain about the task to go through a black hole. They seem up for trying it with me.

How to open a black hole. Well maybe I can just tear a hole in the universe and everything will get dragged out like a vacuum. So I assume a wide stance and focus, putting my hands together I grab reality and literally rip it apart. A black void opens between my hands and I struggle to control it. It is about the size of a football.

Widening the distance between my hands enlarges it to a big black disc with nothing on the other side. I tell the couple I just met to jump through and they do, one at a time. The girl shouts something like "see you on the other side." It is hard to hear over the noise of the wind rushing past into the hole. Then I just let go and feel myself falling through darkness. As it occurs to me to try and slow my fall I hit the ground. We are in a grassy park on top of a hill. I can see the couple standing there grinning.

That was cool, they agree. We've escaped the dream world to another dimension. The park is filled with DCs which seem to be meditating, and beyond the park is a city made of tall glass buildings. The couple want to go exploring but now I'm hungry to earn more points. We agree to meet later. They pull out their phones and make two buttons pop up on the screen. It says tattoo? with two buttons - yes, no. Yeah why not! I hit yes and the couple say they will go find somewhere we can get tattoos and then text me.

I find a bar and start trying to think of other dream powers to try and recall mass telekinesis/gravity manipulation. I start lifting each patron of the bar into the air and making them glide around as if weightless. This impresses some more than others. When I finally drop them carefully to the ground a blonde woman comes over to me. She seems in the mood for a bit of distraction and I allow myself a bit of adult playtime in the private room next door before remembering the competition, apologising, and then phasing out through the window and wall.

The street is full of bicycles and cars. I steal a bicycle and start to ride for a bit before transforming it into a motorbike by twisting an imaginary throttle and making the noise, forcing it to move forwards without pedal power. After a bit of effort it starts to work properly, and looking down it has taken on the increased size and weight of a motorbike.

The street turns into a busy market. There are crowds of people. I start to weave slowly through them, still on the bike. They get out of the way without too much hassle. After a short time I wake.

5.30-6.40am 11/4/2016

Long LD 391 "Gold Thief"
I am on a bus that drives down an escalator with JR and ST. At the bottom of the escalator the bus stops. We get off and my friends start talking about the hotel. A guy is standing in a booth behind toughened glass. The others check in, then I tell him I was already checked in to room 8. The guy hands over some bits of paper and a key card. I follow ST and JR up a set of stairs that twist and turn, which then leads into a tunnel that is too small to stand up in.

Part-way along this causes me to become lucid. The tunnel is now a windowless grey room. After a reality check I remember my three step task and pick a random wall to phase through. It leads to a grey limbo so I push on until it forms a strange barren desert world. Ahead is a wide muddy track with a twisted tree and a guy standing next to two motorbikes.

Next on my three step is to do an advanced summon. Now that's something which is normally tricky. So I try to conjure a motorbike in the air. It doesn't work. Frustrated I jump on the red motorbike already there and set off. There are cars and a train heading down the street opposite so I set off in pursuit. After riding around after the other cars and dodging a train something hits the bike and spins me around. I head back to the tree.

It would really make sense to try and earn some more points, my mind still on the 3 step tasks but relaxed after the ride. I have a better plan this time, summoning a tree, with a large magical gesture that sweeps my arms upwards. The ground doesn't rumble or split though the tree does phase into existence from the base up. The branches wink in and out of existence then finally stabilise. I let out a whoop 'cause it worked.

OK OK. Three for three? Element manipulation. I look down at my hands and try to summon water in them. I've had luck with fire and ice, even electricity. This one is new. I see my hands turning blue and water like. The blue seeps up my arms and over the two little fingers on my right hand. On the left the thumb and first finger turn to water. I keep focusing on it to make more water and it starts spilling onto the floor. All the water from my hands spills onto the ground... and within a few seconds I'm swimming in an enormous lake.

The water continues pouring from my hands though and the blue takes over everything as I try to fly away.

False awakening. My dad is moving stuff around in my room. I wonder what time it is. They are talking about packing to move to Canada. Wait. What? I pinch my nose. Yep still dreaming.

I phase through the window and into a town. Having completed my three step I try to think of other things and come up blank until remembering to sit on a cloud. So I start trying to fly and find the city doesn't want to let me go. It always forms an unexpected barrier over my head.

I manage to do some advanced fast flying though, trying to build up speed to break through, but this doesn't work. In the end I'm in a room filled with people. I think about how cool it would be to enter somewhere like this at will. To be able to fall asleep and instantly enter this realm. I ask a dc if they can help me to to this but they remind me that you need to sleep first and do a WBTB. This is true.

Well there need to be more task attempts with this epically long stable lucid. So I start to do a TOTY and find a weird creature that is fighting some other alien like four-legged creatures. I try to turn it into a goat so I can then do the chimera task but this turns out to be difficult and destabilising.

False awakening. On my wrist is an enormous fitbit with a smartphone size screen, reporting how long I've been in "dream sleep". I do a reality check and become lucid again.

The surroundings are a mess of streets and Hong Kong airport - a mashup of British and Chinese styles. Looking out of the windows I try to summon rain to make a rainbow for the other TOTY, but the sky turns black instead. No good.

I fly through multiple windows and a metal gate thing that block my path. Finally I find a patch of blue sky with a rainbow and start to follow it. At the point it hits the ground it continues through the buildings and twists and turns through the streets that look more like a typical English or Irish village. The rainbow ends at a pit underneath a house. No leprechaun.

I throw stuff down the pit and start shouting to wake the leprechaun up and also digging at the end of the rainbow. The hole starts filling up with shiny golden coins. There is a grumbling noise and the leprechaun seems to be waking up from deep underground.

Then someone flicks my ear. It's a member of the tour group I met in China. She is Irish. Prettiest damn leprechaun ever! (She might not be too happy about it, but I took it that she was a leprechaun there to defend the gold, as she was hostile. ) I take a handful of the coins and announce I'm stealing them. She says something incomprehensible in Gaelic, her body language angry, and tries to flick my ear again, then I wake.

5/2/2016 (thu)

Long LD 354 "Tank Rampage"
The dream copies our ealier Thursday night tabletop session where we are making up characters for a new Star Wars Edge of Empire campaign. NH is there along with JK and a random guy and a girl. The room is also my bedroom. Having finished my character I lounge in bed listening to the others talking.

In a micro dream I am in a Star Wars themed space port. They have weird model helicopters and boats stuck on the wall. I see some kind of rollercoaster build in to the buildings as well.

The dream skips back to the earlier scene. Bedroom/Living room table.

My model lego quinjet is right next to the pillow and I accidently break it by resting my head on it. Part of the wing falls off and the cockpit. I reattach the broken bits and find lego Han Solo has stolen the quinjet.

Anyway Im desperate to sleep and suddenly hear AB in the next room, along with Star Wars mysic and assume she is watching The Force Awakens. I go ask her if she could turn the volume down a little. The music reduces in volume and I go back into the other room. The others pack up and leave, along with mysterious blonde girl.

After lying down to sleep a false awakening happens. There are people back in the bedroom talking. Also there is a cat and a large grey wolf. I study them and become lucid. Recalling the TOTM I walk through the bedroom wall. It goes slightly black for a moment then I end up in a hospital corridor. It seems deserted. I walk along to some kind of foyer and see my parents sitting in the waiting room. I wave and then run and do some parkour over the packed waiting room benches to get outside.

The car park has a chain fence running along it. I remember a personal goal to drive a tank through a city and decide this is a fence protecting an army base. I rip the fence down like its tin foil.

Inside is a weird white building that reminds me of a mission setting from MGS V. There are guys in military uniform hanging around chatting on the balconies. Possibly they are off duty. I decide to avoid them and try to fly over the building, because there are explosions and some kind of battle going on on the far side.

I try to use fast flying and after a slightly wobbly start launch up over the building. A battle is going on between several tanks. one looks like a small predator tank. I land on the roof, yank open the hatch and jump inside. Things switch to a first person view without any of the controls of the tank. Just as well cause Ive never been in a tabk and have no idea how to drive one. Instead it handles like a reasonably fast car. I head back towards town, following a road that is thinner than the tank but that doesnt matter. I see some vehicles and drive over them, smashing them up. And of course I fire the tanks main weapon off a few times in the direction of various buildings, watching them blow up in unrealistic Hollywood style. Vision goes a bit fuzzy and all visual sensations vanish but the feeling of movement continues.

The dream attempts to trick me with a false awakening. Nope.

I pinch my nose to confirm this is still a dream. The room looks bizarre anyway with stacks of orange boxes on shelves. The door leads into a hospital. Childrens ward. I quickly head through a few corridors to get out when a gorgeous red head catches my eye. Taking her hand I push into the closest room, which is a storeroom and filled with crap. I make a sweeping gesture to destroy it all.

For a moment I hesitate, just staring at her. A weird false memory suggests she is a coworker. (Nope). Also she looks about 18, dressed in green hospital scrubs but she looks to have a great body hidden under those not-so-flattering clothes. She waits patiently until I move in for a kiss, and she reciprocates. I have trouble with my trousers and have to look down to work out how to get them off. She is now holding up a mirror, reflecting the view of my privates back at me. Uh. That looks a bit wrong. I look from the mirror to my dream body and back. The reflection is not me its um... significantly wider, but my dream body seems normal.

On looking back up the mirror is now a laptop screen and the red haired woman is now inside the screen. Dammit. I try to enter the screen. "No! We'll be trapped!" she shouts. "You have to pull me out!"

I try to reach into the screen and grab her hand but can't get through. Frowning I try to get her back into the room with willpower. Her face starts getting dragged into the screen, some horrific special effects that nake it look like her face is dissolving into sand. She is screaming. Shit this isnt supposed to happen!

The scene fades. Can't leave things that!

Its another false awakening. An RC confirms it. I yank open the bedroom door searching for the red haired girl. She is waiting on the other side. She smiles weakly as I pull her into a tight hug and start appologising for what happened. She seems fine so we start kissing again and I get her top off this time. I'm trying to focus on giving her a good time since I still feel guilty about the whole ripping her apart through the screen thing.

I take my tshirt off and she looks at me with a slightly critical eye. Normally I wouldnt give a crap about my appearance but since this is about what she wants... "What?" I ask her.
"Kinda skinny." She says, stroking a hand down my abs.
"Ok, how about..."

My usual dream method of bulking up is to pull in some deep breaths and make some wrestler poses. "Hrrrrrrr! Rrrrrrrh!" This makes her giggle but seems to have the right effect. She seems quite happy with my new muscular physique. Following this we start to have sex but I get the feeling it isnt what she really wants.

We head outside to go flying. I take her hand and lift up into the sky. We head onto the roof of a tall building where there is loud music playing that seems familiar. I start rocking out and play air guitar. The girl is gone.

I head through the streets searching for her and run into a couple of thugs armed with knives who decide to try and rob me. Bad plan. As the first goes to stab me I slow time for him giving me plenty of time to block the strike and turn the knife back on him. The other guy steps in and I repeat this until they both have a couple of nasty knife cuts.

I wake up and consider trying to chain back in but think back on how long the dream has been and decide it might make me forget all this.