lucid

I am in the world of Warcraft playing a new character. I am trying to get added to a guild but realise the guild leader will not recognise this character. The area looks like the centre of stormwind but the character is a Tauren (Horde) shaman called 9ig (pig)?

Then the game forces me out. I am sitting at a computer desk with a small shuttle pc in front of me. I consider buying the latest Warcraft expanions to resume playing.

Nearby there is a stone pillar and a large statue of a fish. It wiggles its eyebrows at me! Must be a dream right? I laugh and try to count my fingers.... eventually realising there are at least six fingers on each hand. This is a dream. In the distance there are red fireworks going off. They look like a hundred hands of red smoke reaching up into the sky then disappating. Wow.

Remembering the bonus Totm I spin and try to teleport to Pandora. I arrive in an animated environment. There are people standing around tables set at the edge of a large room. Like an old banquet hall from a castle. Some of those animated women are kinda hot, but I stay focused on the task.

I walk around the edge. Must get to the forest. Where is it? In a roo. Off the main hall a little child holding a floating glowing flower. Bioluminescence. Wow what's that? Where did you get it?
"From the portal." The kid replies.

I head back and see a set of steps leading down and then a window. Through the window a magical battle is taking place. I dive and phase through the window and start to chase the combatants. There are a group of them. One who is possibly the leader gets away.

One guy is trying to steal a motorbike. Oh no you don't. I punch and kick him repeatedly. Then a kung fu panda shows up! The giant panda is spinning and doing impressive kicks. Not to be out-done while lucid, I do some back and do a full 360 spin kick that knocks the panda flying. Then I steal the motorbike and chase after the leader. I have some trouble with the bike so have to fake it.... making the noise to get it to move.

Then the path leads to a scrapyard. There is a main office, one of those temporary buildings. I see the leader inside. He spots me and points through cracked glass windows.

A forest with weird ice cream cone like portals are hanging in the air. They are plant like structures of red, white and pink plant fibres spun/grown together like candy floss. I phase through the glass into the forest to get a closer look and see hundreds of these glowing tree portals light up through the forest. It looks stunning. But then I wake up.

Before 8.30
Medium LD
After a brief interruption I chain back into a dream, but not lucidly. This time I am sitting on the bed, reading a paperback. My parents show up and start asking about what books I have read previously. Blank memory. Damn. I cannot recall anything. "Something about vampires?" I say, then admitting my inability to recall and blaming it on Aphantasia. -Since my memory is conceptual/verbal rather than visual, I can happily re-read books and re-watch films multiple times.

They change the subject and ask how my push-up challenge is going. I hop off the bed and start doing some push ups. They are completely effortless, as if my body has no weight. Ah. This must be a dream. I continue doing press ups and show off by getting a DC to sit on my back.
"How many can you do?"
"Like this? Infinite."
I get bored of doing push ups and tell them to gather their things. "We're going on an adventure!" I tell them. Figuring it would be nice to include my parents in a lucid dream for a change. (Might keep my mind out of the gutter as well. )

Outside the bedroom is a wide hallway with toilet signs, so I ask if anyone needs to go before we leave. They don't, so I head outside with everyone following me. There is a tornado in the distance and the winds are very strong. I demonstrate my super strength by climbing up the building and then holding on - the winds are strong enough to drag my body out horizontally from the wall.

We continue as a group and find an Indian looking bazaar. One of the shop/stall keepers is my friend ST, and a girl that introduces herself as Helen. I greet them before we continue to where the stalls are clustered around a valley of a dried up river bed. There is a sort of exhibit/display at one end of it, like a small ornamental water feature.

Then we arrive at the entrance to a museum of sorts. Mum wants to look around, so we walk around the various advertisement boards and go inside. The room contains large marble statues. They are around 25ft tall, so I levitate everyone in the group up to get a closer look. Then I sky-swim up and around the room as well.

Down on a table are a collection of orange plastic bags. The text on them reads Civil War. I go open one of the bags and find a special edition notepad and pen inside.

4.10- 5.05
Short LD "Smash the Sky"
I am using a computer. The screen is mostly blue, like there is plastic over it. There are forums showing. I am trying to edit something and end up deleting the entire post. It occurs to me that this is a dream, and a nose pinch RC confirms it.

The room is small and has a couple of windows looking out of the second story towards a street and other buildings. I try to fly through the closed window, phasing through it completely. I am now outside but the sky is a ceiling still. There is a patch of blue sky down the street, but wherever I fly to the ceiling just keeps reappearing.

Finally I lose my temper and hulk out, letting out a roar of frustration and smashing head first into the solid ceiling. It shatters from the impact, lumps of masonry falling everywhere. Then it vanishes. I keep flying up into the sky until everything goes black. Then stars start to appear. The stars seem to gather together as I fly towards them, forming a galaxy. It fades before I can reach it.

Short LD "Triss" WILD
After waiting in the darkness for ages there are sudden screeching noises. Then violent vibrations start. Feels like an earthquake. I remind myself to stay calm. When everything goes quiet again, I do a nose pinch RC then stand up on the bed. Well, the task of the month requires a DC to show you a new method of dream control. So I stare at the door and imagine someone walking in.

A red haired woman walks in. She is tall, slim, oh and distractingly pretty. It could be Triss Merigold from the Witcher games. Damn. Maybe I should have created some trousers first. I stand up as she walks to the bed but without me saying a thing she gets down on her knees... * the rest is censored *

Probable false awakening. TR talking to a guy holding a D&D book.

5.20- 6.40am
Medium LD "Hollow Man"
A bad guy is picking on children and painting their toys black. I try to stop him and we end up fighting. During the struggle I get hold of two of his fingers and bend them back. They should break, but he is apparently double jointed and this doesn't do anything to him. Nothing seems to hurt him. Eventually we call a truce. The main thing is, he isn't upsetting the kids any more.

Later on there is a man sitting at a kitchen table eating half an apple pie with custard and ice cream. Mmmm one of my favourite desserts! I take the other half of the pie and put a big spoonful of custard on it. After the food is gone we switch off various fans and lights around the room.

I head upstairs and find a bedroom. While I'm getting undressed several people enter the room and talk about pouring dettol on me "until it foams." Uhm. Really rather you didn't. I become lucid.

I ask the DCs to show me a new method for dream control. They tell me to take a pen and draw a red cross on a tea-bag. Then put it on the floor, lie down and stare at the cross. Well this is all typically dumb, but I do it. While lying on the floor staring at the tea-bag with the cross on it, I suddenly fly backwards out of my body and become an astral projection.

Or at least that's what I thought happened. It seems more like invisibility though, as my body has vanished. Two of the DCs start arguing about how they didn't follow the instructions right and now the transformation is irreversible. You what? I shove one of the guys and he goes flying into a glass set of shelves. It breaks. Glass flies everywhere but doesn't hurt me. He takes a shard of glass and uses it like a dagger, but he is unable to see me and flails wildly.

Everyone else decides to leave. They run outside and get into a car. Still invisible, I jump into the back seat. Lost lucidity at some point, rest is best described as a false/semi lucid-dream. The road is blocked with parked cars and a van tries to run us off the road. The street is very narrow and when we reach the junction at the end, a digger the size of a house with a snow-plow shovel like thing on the front tries to shunt us out of the way.

The road is now blocked with scrap - abandoned cars, metal poles. A bunch of DCs are starting to move things out of the street. The others from the car start to assist. I try to help, and get spotted by a girl with a camera. Hey, what happened to the invisibility?

It turns out that digital cameras can pick up a faint trace of me, and she is using it to see where I am. We move into a house and a guy starts moving shelves around. I help him, while invisible, which freaks him out. He tells me to stop doing that.

I walk into the next room and find it is filled with people from work. One of them looks at a payslip then leaves it lying on the side. I am tempted to look at it. Before I get the chance, someone attacks me. They are using cameras to track me. At first I just try to stay out of the way, but eventually lose my patience and start throwing the people across the room and smashing the place up.... and then wake.

6.30-7am
Medium LD "Distracted"
We are walking down the street during some kind of carnival or festival. Street performers are doing various stunts. Then I notice a guy with a metal pole replacing these small covers in the ground.

At some point I feel the need to visit the bathroom. I walk over to the urinal, unzip, change my mind and go into a stall. I become lucid and start playing with myself, before realising it would be easy to summon some company.

Leaving the stall I watch the bathroom door expecting a beautiful woman to enter the room. Sure enough the door opens. A slim, slightly Asian looking woman with long dark hair walks in.*...snipping lengthy adult funtime details...*

7.10-7.40
Medium LD "My Subconcious Cheats at Rock Paper Scissors"
I am walking through a city. Most of the shops are closed and there is scaffolding on the pavement. I'm barefoot and decide to go back for my shoes. This makes me lucid.

Heading into the closest bar, I find a DC sitting down nursing a pint of beer. "Rock Paper Scissors?"
He turns and we play. He chooses scissors. I chose rock. Hey I won! We play a couple more times and a female DC joins in for a threeway. The guy cheats by doing paper but with fingers open as if also doing scissors. Wait, what is that supposed to be?
"Hey, you're cheating!"
The guy nods sheepishly and we laugh about it.

I recall the stick-your-head-in-the-ground task as well, and decide to leave the building and try this one outside. However, the female DC follows me. "What are you doing. There's something not right about you."
Yeah, I'm lucid, and about to do weird stuff.

At first it is quite difficult to get my head into the earth. It turns into a sort of handstand. I manage to get my head part-way and make a small hole, but can't get more than up to my eyes. I experiment by lying on my face instead, and this sends me into a black void.

Finally two level-selector style images start floating in the void. I choose one of them, at random since neither look like Candyland, which was my intention.

An old style game starts. I control the character as a distant observer. The levels are set in the countryside, and the aim is to walk along the paths and roads without running into any enemies - in this case giant bugs. It's sort of like pac-man, but with curved paths.

I get to the next level and then a giant flying bug swoops in to attack me. I try to attack it but can't seem to control the character that well. So I possess the DC to gain first person perspective. The attacks of the insect cause a buzzing/vibration in the entire world. I start trying to smash the bug with my fist.

The scene fades. A guy is handing out strawberry laces. I eat some of them, and it is chewy and kinda tasteless, like the real thing. Another person is talking about Swiss currency not having any scratches or markings on it, because it is so rarely used.

5-6.30am
Medium LD "Bicycle Thief"
The dream starts with several false awakenings. In one, I am in a bed in the spare room across the hall from my parents' bedroom. Mum gets up to use the bathroom. I am lying in bed thinking about it being November, and therefore national novel writing month (NaNoWriMo). Ideas for stories float through my head.

Then I am at the side of a road. A guy driving an SUV pulls over to the side of the road, skids to a halt. He jumps out and checks on two young blonde-haired boys in the back of the car. They seem fine, he seems panicked.

The dream skips. I am interviewing a book character about an incident. There will need to be a death, a reason for the interview. The character is talking about an entropy/chaos magician who manipulates probability. "Don't bet against him." The character advises me.

Dream skips again. I am a teenager, back in secondary school. The school has an identical layout to the one I went to. Most of the students seem to be looking at board games. One kid has an emblem drawn on his forehead. It looks like a magical glyph rather than what you might expect a bunch of teenagers to draw/write on someone's head...

While walking around, I am much shorter than the other students. Other students mock me, but I am only pretending to be a dwarf by walking on my knees. It is to strengthen my legs so that I can run faster? There is an important race in a few days, and they won't be laughing when I win it.

We get outside, near the bicycle sheds. A DC runs up and tells me they just saw 'Angel' wheeling my bicycle away. They make a joke about a 'Fallen Angel.' Giving up on strengthening my legs, I stand and run to the wall, jumping down onto grass. Angel is walking towards the gate. I am surprised to see the figure is a woman wearing a long white dress. She runs and leaps up a set of stone ledges.

I begin to chase Angel. It's like running in treacle. A classic dream sign for me. Despite becoming lucid, my focus remains on catching the bicycle thief. I run parallel to the woman and leap up onto the highest ledge in one bound. She is surprised by how fast I managed to move. I grab her and throw us both off the ledge, trusting in my innate lucid invulnerability. While falling though, our eyes meet. She has blue eyes, wide in shock and fear. There is no hate or malice here.

I no longer wish her harm, but it's too late, all I can do is shield the back of her head with my hand at the same moment we hit the floor. Angel is not injured though. She is already apologising and crying. Someone told her to steal my bike? It is locked in another shed?
"Just gimme the keys."
After getting the keys I let her stand up and she runs quickly away, looking scared.

Behind the first shed is another. Both are made of corrugated iron. Rusted but still sturdy. The keys unlock it and my bicycle is inside, covered in chains. Then I turn and see a young Philip Glenister ~18 yrs old, striding towards me. Shirt sleeves rolled up. Fists clenched. Ready to fight.

He is taller and stronger than me, but I'm lucid. I start throwing punches and hit him multiple times in the face and chest. He seems to be getting weaker. Then a right hook comes out of nowhere and hits the side of my head. I stumble back and while still dazed, his left fist strikes out and hits my nose. Next thing I know I'm on the ground. The world is spinning.

The dream destabilises and reforms. I am lying in a chair. The room around me is empty. My entire body aches as I stand up. The bike shed keys are still in my back pocket, which is a relief. He didn't steal my bicycle.

In the next room are people from our class, although none of them are familiar to me. One girl, false memory says her name is Becky, runs up and hugs me. Ow. I do not return the hug, but do not try to break free either. Moving hurts. Among the classmates is Philip Glenister again. Surprisingly, he apologises and suggests we go find my bike.

We head outside down a path lined with grass. It leads between the school buildings. Becky walks with us. Phil makes a comment about her having thick, manly arms.

7.20-7.40am
Short LD "Flowerpot Phone"
There's been a mixup with the hotel booking. AB and my sister are sharing a room, and I have a separate room downstairs with someone else. We are upstairs in their room discussing it. This room has 6 beds. Why don't I just sleep here? They volunteer me to go speak to the manager and sort it out.

The door to the room actually leads out into the street. Now TR is walking with me. Someone drops a phone on the floor - except it is a plastic flowerpot dish. I become lucid and pick it up. Without much effort I turn the flowerpot into a phone and try to call someone. The speaker activates.
"What is the bar code?" The vioce demands.
"Uh... where would I find that information... oh forget it."
I see a set of steps and start to head up them, but a sudden need to cough breaks sleep paralysis and wakes me up.

Had a few normal dreams involving police - wrongfully accused, escaping from prison, trying to avoid the cops after an accident. Hence the last lucid was me getting my own back on the dream police, kinda

30/10/2016
Short LD "Trapped"
I am in a small room that is both bedroom and kitchen. JR is making breakfast and talking about there being special beds for the FBI. Why are the FBI here? Well to sleep. They get the more comfortable beds. Lucky sods.

One of the double beds, identified as mine, has a woman sleeping in it. She is unfamiliar to me. Probable false memory of us being intimate earlier. I ask her if she wants a cup of tea but she smiles at me and shakes her head sleepily. I put some trousers on and go to get breakfast.

Back at the breakfast table the discussion turns to plans: We will go to a seaside town and build great wooden ships, and sell the experience to people (boatbuilding experience?) It will be called Newmark? Also, we discuss how it will be a free place where people can sing whatever they like without comment.

To get to Newmark there is a bus. We end up on the bus but get stopped at a checkpoint. An inspector raises the bus on a giant hydraulic lift. We stand at the side of the road. Ducking down I can see right under the bus. A lorry filled with huge silver containers drives past. I try to move around the bus as the inspector then says they need to repeat the lift on the other side.

The bus falls back down and then metal barriers form around me. I am trapped under the bus. If the driver leaves now, I will be crushed under the wheels. Intense fear fills me but then I become lucid. I try to phase through the metal but terror seems to be holding me back. Smashing the metal has no effect and my shouts are muffled. I lash out and break sleep paralysis, waking with a jolt.

31/10/2016
4-5.30am
Long LD "Doctor Strange"
I am back at my first job. Just been hired. One of the employees shows me around. They take me to the locker room. He tells me that the keys to the lockers must be left next to the light switch. There is a guy standing near the lockers getting changed.
"Should I put on my uniform now?" I ask.
"No not yet."
I put on my trainers though, as we are about to head outside.

The guy leads me to a station where we jump onto a moving train. The door is small and I have to duck down to get through. This makes me lucid. Scenery is flashing past - countryside, at high speed. I jump off the moving train.

Superhero time! And, based on the last Marvel film I watched, decide to become Dr Stephen Strange. My current clothes are jeans and a T-shirt. I change them into blue robes and red cape. Then it's time for some magic. The first few attempts do not work very well. Thin whisps of magical energy appear in the air. Meh.

I do a complicated tai-chi style gesture and yell "Crimson Bands of Cyttorak!" Streaks of red magic fly out of my hands and towards the closest DC, who gets wrapped up in magic restraints and knocked over. He struggles on the floor.

Okay now to test the cloak of levitation. I jump and sit cross-legged in the air, then start to float along the street above the heads of everyone else. Up ahead there are small spaceships being attacked by beings made entirely from magical energy. I attempt to bind them but my spell merely knocks the being to the ground. It shrivels though, from human sized down to a small ball of glowing light. The miniature space ship is falling so I grab it out of the air and put it down. Tiny people climb out of it.

The glowing ball transforms into a small spaceship as well, trying to mimic the other one in the hopes I will free it. You don't fool me. I bite down on the tiny craft and start smashing it up with my teeth. Meanwhile about twenty robed monks have surrounded me. Instinctively I start casting more spells, creating orange glowing glyphs in the air by doing more tai-chi like gestures.

The monks are armed with wooden quarterstaves. I use the glyphs to clear a path and run for it. A castle with 30 foot walls is ahead. I attempt a invent a teleportation spell on the move. It doesn't work, but the cloak has my back, literally - dragging me up into the air.

From up on the castle walls I can see trains shooting past below. The monks have not followed me. Dropping down on the inside of the castle wall I then move inside the building. The roof is a restaurant with people and tables and chairs, all upside down. I begin to wonder which way is up.

On the wall is a picture of a city in a desert. Hmm, I could try to open a portal using the picture. Raising my left hand I notice two magical rings on my first and middle fingers. I start to make a circle in the air with my right hand to open a portal. A spinning red portal of ringed fire opens. I run through it.

There is sand underfoot. In the distance, the city sprawls in the shadow of a collossal sphinx. This must be Egypt. A huge celebration is taking place in the central square. The roads are lined with small merchant stalls. I grab something off one of them but the merchant doesn't even notice.

I recall the need to find an oasis, and head back out into the desert. It looks like a battlefield - there are aged metal objects in the sand - a helmet. A set of angel wings carved from copper, which has turned green with age. The battlefield seems to be haunted. Ghosts rise around me. I wake up.

7-7.50
Long LD "Taunting the Dream Police"
I am squeezing out a tube of toothpaste - it globs out all over the pavement. Bit of a waste... so I start scraping it onto a toothbrush. After getting a massive blob of toothpaste onto the brush, I try to clean my teeth, only to find a rock in my mouth.

This must be a dream. After spitting the rock and toothpaste out, I run forwards and find myself in the centre of a town. People are walking around. Things seem quiet. A tall guy with white hair shouts out to me. He is wearing bike leathers and holding a helmet. He seems familiar.

"Hey. You got a bike?"
"Yeah! Wanna see?" He replies.
The tall guy turns and walks into an alley. A police officer steps in front of me and blocks my path. He is shorter than me and dressed in the full stab vest and uniform. He puts a hand on my chest to stop me moving past.
"...the fuck? This is bullshit." Why are the cops on my case these last few nights? What did I do?

... and I find myself lying in bed. AB enters, talking about buying a DVD. There are a stack of DVDs next to the bed. "Wait... I heard you leave. Why aren't you at work?"
AB makes some excuse and then goes into another room.

Then I lie down and try to go back to sleep. Immediately a scene forms and I realise it was a false awakening and become lucid again.

I summon a motorcycle in the normal way by faking it, moving down the street until the bike forms under me. It doesn't steer very well and briefly changes into a bicycle before getting under control again. A left turn comes up and I run wide. A car revs its' engine impatiently behind me.

Up ahead is a police motorbike. Heh. Time for revenge. I pull up alongside him, beeping the horn to get his attention. Then I raise the middle finger salute and grab a fistful of throttle. The sirens start and the police bike dutifully starts chasing me. We get stuck in a crowd of people who are crossing the road. I push the bike through and ride up to a rock concert.

The road has ended at a railing, so I grab the bike and vault over it. Then slow the descent of the bike and get back on it. I pull some burnouts before riding through an empty restaurant. I phase the bike and myself through a solid door and into a classroom. There are doors. I struggle to phase through them and wake up.

...but not fully awake. Sleep paralysis. Can't move. Even my tongue is paralysed. Three guys lean over me. One has a baseball bat resting on his shoulder. I can't yell out or defend myself. They start beating me with the bats. I dissasociate with my body to block out the pain. Despite being unable to move I am able to move the visuals away, as if watching a TV.

The dream tries to freak me out by playing creepy music and having disembodied heads fly out of the 'screen' towards me. I still cannot move. 'It won't work, you're just hallucinations.' I think. Then I finally wake up.

Medium LD 7.10-7.45ish
While drifting off to sleep images form and this raises my awareness. My whole body starts shaking. I wait for it to finish then stand up on the bed. The room looks deceptively realistic, but something doesn't feel quite right... My body feels too light. It is hard to describe. Is this the fabled gravity RC? I pinch my nose shut and try to breathe. Inconclusive. A hand RC works though - my left hand has seven fingers and two of them are tiny stumps.

I go downstairs. There is no front door, just a hole in the wall. Outside is a small village street and opposite is a large red brick building. I start to fly down the street and see a metal brazier with a fire burning within it. I decide to summon fire and focus the feeling of heat on my hands. They errupt into flames and leave sparks when moved. I throw a fireball at the red building and start chucking around small sparks - mini fireworks. I also try to draw the fire out of the brazier into my hands, but that doesn't work.

At this point I remember tasks and try to teleport to Talis (planet from a recent lucid) by spinning. The song "California here we come" pops into my head. Conincidently, I sang that song in my first proper stable lucid dream, so I always associate it with that.

The dream reforms on a windswept hillside with a row of enormous twisted trees. They look like they have long fought against strong winds - the branches reaching horizontally out in one direction, as if trying to escape, or reach for something.

A couple of people are standing nearby. They look disappointingly human to me. This is not Talis. Doesn't even look much like California. I decide to try the second of my three-step-tasks - unsummoning. Pointing my finger as a guide towards the closest tree, I start to erase it. The leaves and branch disappear. I follow the branch to the trunk and then down to the ground. The entire tree is gone.

At the bottom of the hill is a house with a door. I phase through it, expecting to find a desert, but find a toilet instead. I try to get back to the hillside but end up in a corridor instead. This leads to a small stone room and then the bottom of a square stairway. There is a small wooden cupboard, just about big enough for a child to hide inside. I hear a noise from within it, and am about to investigate but wake up instead.

Medium LD before 1.20am
The first part of the dream repeated several times.

It is night time, extremely dark except for a few lights in the distance. I am hiding in an alleyway. A car filled with gangsters drives by. They open fire with automatic weapons, spraying the bulding next to the alley - a bar/pub? I duck for cover behind some bins.

More gunmen start running up the alley. Crouched low to avoid the gunfire, I flee. The alley leads to a field of tall grass. In the distance is a strange machine. It looks a bit like a tractor, sounds like one, but has a long thin section at the front. It seems yellow in the moonlight. I hide from the tractor, but realise the driver is not part of the gang. The gangsters following me eventually give up and leave.

Then I look back and see a man dressed in blue walking slowly towards where I am hidden. As if he knows exactly where I am. He is not rushing. I break cover and run. The man doesn't speed up. He continues walking at a steady pace, following me wherever I go. Beyond the field are small village streets.

Everytime I look back, the man is there still following me. The closest building is a restaurant or bar of some kind. I run inside and my awareness rises - noticing the feeling of panic and realising this is not real. The man has appeared in the doorway. He reminds me of Khylen from Killjoys - that same air of superiority, the self-assuredness that he can't be hurt. He looks to be late forties, early fifties maybe. Grey hair, pale eyes.

I'm not going to run anymore. I summon a weapon - a meat cleaver - and attack. He dodges all the attacks with apparent ease, but gets driven back towards the wall. Well, this isn't working... I point at him and command him to "sit" like a dog. Obediently, he perches on a chair. It seems to amuse rather than annoy him.
"You're not going to chase me anymore." I tell him, as calmly as possible.
He shakes his head. "Already accepted the contract from 'Smiler'" He replies.
Who the hell is 'smiler'?
"Fine. Chase me if you want. But I don't ever want to see you again. You will always be just over the horizon. Out of sight. You cannot kill me."
He nods. "Okay. I left my rifle in the car. You will not see me again."

The comment about the rifle makes me think my suggestion didn't work. Maybe he's just going to shoot me in the back. Unsure as to where this leaves us, I step out of the room. I decide to try and salvage the lucid by getting off this planet for a while. I take off and go straight up at rocket speed. Within a few seconds I am really high, among thin clouds. Then I am floating in space looking down at the Earth. I recall my first 3-step is to teleport, and focusing my thoughts on going back to Talis, start to spin, but wake up instead.

Short LD Before 6.15
My phone is playing music that won't stop. It is very irritating. The location seems a bit like work. I need to log the tasks that I've been working on, and can only see one thing for the past few days, something that I'm sure is a tiny piece of work. Will my manager notice? Accuse me of slacking off?

Some other work colleagues enter and turn on a device that is playing music. JR is here. We chat for a bit, then it is almost time for work. I head up a flight of stairs an find some old work colleagues including CR upstairs. In another room I find a bed and lie down on my back. Immediately though, CR and an unknown DC enter. CR has dyed her hair dark brown, it is still very long and straight. They climb onto the bed, kneeling over me and start kissing each other...

Watching them gets me very aroused. They must know I am here...? They continue ignoring me though. A strong feeling of jealousy starts to build up inside me. They are so close. After just half a minute of this I'm losing my mind. I'm about to shut my eyes and try to block it out, when finally CR pulls away from the other person (male? female? Do not know or care, it's CR I want so badly). She leans down, hair brushing my face. I feel her lips on mine.* snip *

The dream shifts to a dusty wasteland. Old rusting husks of vehicles are sticking out of the sand. Though the floor seems like sand, the cars and junk are piled so high as to block the view, so I don't think it counts as a desert. Feral dogs are chasing and barking at each other. I am already lucid because there are white karaoke lyrics appearing at the bottom of my vision!

Everything is a bit blurry. Shadows of the crashed planes move around on the ground. A helicopter passes overhead, the noise deafening. I find it hard to walk and stumble forwards. Despite knowing this is a dream, my usual control is lacking. I struggle to stabilise the dream and then decide to teleport out, but wake instead.

Medium LD 5.30-7.50am
I am in bed with AB. There is some snuggling and cuddling. Then I get up and try to use a computer. That doesn't work very well. I move the screen around to see it better. There are plants next to the bed and loose earth. I try to stamp some of the earth into place. Outside in the hallway are voices - AB talking to father.

Then playing chase with an unknown person. We reach the back door. This house has the layout of my parent's home. It is dark outside. They run out into the darkness. I do not want to stumble around in the darkness trying to find them and instead go back upstairs. Upon reaching the attic room - my childhood bedroom - I become lucid. RC by looking at left hand. First finger lopped off halfway up. Cool.

I phase through window. It is light outside, daytime. The village is made up of a few sparse detached houses. I do some flying and then perch on a fence. Groups of people wandering around the village. Large group heading off down road. See them transform into two huge dire wolves.

Decide to haunt a suitable looking gothic looking house. I go inside and become mostly invisible and ethereal looking. I change my appearance to be scary - dead rotting face and sunken dark eyes. Then I lure the people outside into the house.

I wait until they are in the first room then laugh evilly to freak then out. They see me, scream and run outside. I leave the house chuckling wondering what to do next and then wake.

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.