Oneirin's Dreamworld

LD2 of the night. Details are a bit fuzzy as a FA followed by another LD occured. I am in an area with a large body of cold water, similar to a large outdoor pool. I am drifting around the perimeter looking at all the people inside of it. Something feels strange, so I do a nose-lug and breath!I turn left and head around the corner overhanging the frozen semi-frozen pool. I rise to an area which slowly ascends to the roof of a building. I shout to the dream to help me develop my lucid abilities and channel energy into my mind. At this point, the dream goes void, but I resolve that I will not allow the dream to end. I continuously rub my dream body while holding focus and remaining present. I try hard to stay cognizant. It is still dark for a bit, and I appear underneath a blanket with a FA leading to another LD.

Early LD of the night. I'm talking to a lady who's preaching about a religion of some sort. I shake my head and tell her I'm a lucid dreamer. I tell her "you need to do a RC". I plug my nose, breathe, and become lucid. I start running rapidyly down the street, interested that this scne is a much more hustle-bustle feel than many of my LDs. I find my way inside a building with a window situated on a second story wall with a blue light shining through it. I fly up to float through. I land on a patio in front of a bush resembling an area of my childhood home. I jog my memory and resolve to increase my lucid abilities. I channel electrical energy into my mind to do this. The dream feels as though it's fading and I begin rubbing my dream body to stabilize. It goes void, but I find my way down a city street and make my way up a set of stone stairs toward a hotel. I decide if I'm going to pass through the wall or fly to the top of the building. I also consider making a portal against the wall, yet decide with flying upward. As I do this, a void comes. I begin to visualize another scene to keep going, yet I wake up at this point.

With [S] in our room when it suddenly occurs to me that I'm in a dream. I take my focus of [S] and she seems to disappear out of my awareness. I head out onto a calcony in the middle of the night. I jog my memory for lucid dream goals, and remember my intention to increase my ability to become lucid in the future. I intuitively got the idea to repeatedly rehearse the instant of becoming lucid in a dream. I tried to get myself in the mindset and recreate the feeling itself. This is something I hadn't quite thought about in waking life. It was an interesting experience, but was very difficult to maintain focus through it. The dream loses stability and I find myself in a void state. I decide to begin humming to keep myself alert and begin to try to create the feeling of walking to the next location. I end up appearing in front of a mirror wearing a button-down shirt and looking put-together. I say I am lucid and jump through the mirror. I have a FA at this point in which I talk about my LD to [S].

Preparing to get ready to head into work, when it is apparent that a massive storm is approaching when looking out the window. The fact that I instantly knew there was a cancellation at the school just didn't make sense to me. I know it must be a dream, and My hands come out in front of me as I become lucid. I'm unable to see them as it's too dark in the room. I decide to try out a nose-plug as I have never tried it before, and am fascinated at the feeling of breathing through closed nostrils!I stand by the window, but the dream is a bit fuzzy. As I head through the window it soon begins to go to void. I keep rubbing my hands right through the glass portion and feel my dream arm rubbing against the blinds of the window. The sensation stabilizes me in a dimmed out environment for a bit longer. It as though my mind re-creates the visual experience of blinds due to the feeling of them. I maintain this semi-blind state for a bit, then attempt to fly in this space to a location. I feel a sense of a flying motion in this space, but soon feel my eyes and I awake.

Second LD of the night. I'm in a shop in a mall looking at artwork with family. At one point I see my dog laying in the corner and think "there's no way!". I walk away while sticking out my hands and know I'm in a dream. I begin laughing as there is a mini finger sticking out between my middle and index finger. I have an inclination to leave the shop and make my way through the door. I enter a large 2 story room in the mall. The dream feels a bit fuzz, so I begin rubbing my dream body and insisting on focus. I sustain everything a bit as I walk across the room, yet the dream goes void. At this point I feel that I am in the void waiting for a dream to begin. I recall Robert Waggoner's book in which he discusses waiting for dream contents to simply appear when in this stage. I resolve to remain focused. What I noticed was that I could sustain this state if I ignored physical sensations and took a relaxed awareness of my field of vision; similar to an open awareness meditation. I sustained this a bit longer, yet became very startled when my mind interpreted that something was approaching my physical body rapidly (probably my dog poking me with her nose lol). The dream began to fade at this point.

First LD of the night. I am in an area which is a sprawling outdoor area with a row of foliage. I gaze at a tree, and it seems to have a great deal of presence to it. A beautiful hymn begins to emanate from the tree and has an effect on my awareness; it as though it is beckoning me to become lucid. My awareness hits a critical threshold and I spontaneously put my hands in front of me while simultaneously realizing I am in a dream. I say to myself, "I'm lucid". I have the intuition that the essence of the tree is from Reishi mushroom. I am soon in immersed in the vividness of an outdoor dream scene. A great deal of foliage an grass winds around to the right. The outdoor area seems to resemble the yard of my childhood home, with the foliage continuing to wind around, and a large two story structure standing on the opposite end of the area. I fly fairly low to the ground and begin to jog my memory for dream goals. I consistently demand clarity and focus as I continue to drift in the air toward the right edge of the structure. I continue to notice the foliage. I remember a goal in which I wanted to head to a 'Dream Mountain' which I had pictured in my mind. At this point, an image of my waking life DJ popped up in my mind's eye as I began attempting to remember these dream goals. I would learn certain teachings in this location, and establish a dream sanctuary of sorts. I ask the dream to direct me, and get the impression the dream is encouraging me in the general direction I am flying. In this direction I realize that the clearing is on a very slightly elevated plateau within a mountain system. An incredible pink and red sunrise stands off in the far distance of the mountains. Light mist hung over this area, adding to the glow of the sunrise. The dream begins to fade a bit and I ask for focus. I resolve to head to the edge of the structure to meditate and focus for clarity in case a void comes. The dream fades and I wake up. Awesome dream .

Last LD of the night. I see a man with brown business pants and black shoes winding around the corner. There is an ominous feel to the situation, and I head the other way and up a staircase. As I wind the corner, i instinctively put up my hand where I anticipate the figure and say "I'm Lucid". The figure vanishes. I ascend the steps and begin walking into a square room which extends to the left. There is a small corridor that leads to the right with a doorway to outside. Before making my way to this area I decide to recall a dream goal and work on it. At this point, I didn't want to stay in this yellow-tinged house as it felt very eerie. I ask the dream to help me develop the ability to become aware in my dreams . There is no response. I decide to take it upon myself via a method I had imagined in waking life. I place my hands against my head and picture myself channeling waves of blue lightening/electricity into my mind. I hold the intention to develop the ability to become aware in dreams. At this point I walk toward the corridor and decide to conjure a purple portal to lead me to another dream scene. I point toward the wall and imagine a small oval portal open up with a black center. I cannot recall with full accuracy if the portal appeared in the dream or simply in my imagination within the dream. This idea was sparked from recalling a DV challenge in one of the monthly competitions. I don't walk through the portal at this point, yet decide to phase through the wall instead. The dream becomes very dim at this point and fades. I wake up.

Second LD of the night. I am playing an old video game. I become aware that if I make it to the coastline with my character, I will have a LD. I make it, and have a false awakening. I don't accept that it's real as I notice I'm on the opposite end of the bed. I become lucid. The dream goes black at this point and I begin to demand of the dream more focus and clarity. Nothing occurs. I decide to take this as an opportunity to meditate within the dream in order to hold strong focus without any visuals. My focus is single for a short period of time. At some point I am aware I am in a room facing a wall, and I begin rubbing my dream body. A blackout is coming so I begin meditating again. My focus is very strong this time. I become aware of sounds at either end of my point of awareness. I have the thought that it must be a reflection of the lucid dreaming state as represented by a concept of brainwaves. One humming sound appears as 'blue' and is to the right of my point of awareness. The other is to the front left and I don't recall a color. I have a strong awareness for a bit, yet the dream fades after a period of time and I wake up.

First LD of the night. I am with [S] and look at my cell phone which displays: 7:16. I think this can't be, and that I'm going to be late to work. I don't buy it, walk over to the sliding-glass window and just know I must be dreaming. I hold out my hand out of habit and notice minor transparency. At this point I am fully lucid and drift through the glass into an open room with sunlight spilling through the roof of the room. The light was most yellow, providing slight tinges of green as it reflected off of the water. There are large mirrors and windows around the entire perimeter of the room. A large rectangular pool with aqua water sits in the middle of the large room. The realism is simply unbelievable; it appears no different that waking life. I immediately seek to remember my goals and shout to the dream: "How do I develop my lucid dreaming ability?!". I ask a few times with no response from the dream. I look around this sun room with the pool in the center and wonder how long the dream will last for. It feels very stable, and I reason that it'll probably last for a while. I look to the right out one of the large glass windows and notice a large stone figure situated about 50 meters away. It is a cross between a stone Buddha statue and a lion. The stone is a light gray color and positioned next some grass along a row of evergreen trees. I begin rubbing my hands automatically and decide to look into the mirror, remembering typical stories which I've heard in podcasts. I'm interested to see that there is no reflection. Wanting to develop the dream, I decide to phase through the mirror. When phasing into the mirror, my initial impression was that I entered an area resembling outer-space yet with less stars. It seemed as though there was infinite potential in this area that hadn't been tapped, yet my awareness diminished in this void. I feel as though I am aware of eyelids at this point and resolve to keep my eyes shut as I believe I am becoming aware of my sleeping body. It seems as though it developed into dream blindness at this point, and the dream soon faded.

Third of three LDs of the night. I am on a tram on a sunny day when I look toward the window, place my hand against the glass and say "Bam, I'm lucid". (Something just seem to 'click' at this point, as though a critical level of awareness was simply reached). I turn around and decide to meet my dream guide. I am beginning to head through a wall to pursue the goal in another scene when I suddenly realize I actually intended to meet my 'Spirit Teacher' in the dream state. At this point, I dive through a stack of magazine piled up against the wall of the tram. This stack is situated next to a side room which is partitioned by curtains. I attempt to change the dream scene by diving through this stack. It is successfully (The most successful attempt I've had at changing scenes as I arrive in a new location with the intended goal, with lucidity). I find myself among the clouds on a a massive circular stone slab. The stone is engraved with jade carvings - intricate designs weave their way throughout the entire surface which is roughly 75m or so in diameter. I notice epic music playing once on this massive stone in the sky. I notice a female figure sitting cross-legged upon a throne on the far end of the stone. She appears to be elven. I get the impression that this was a manifestation of the spirit teacher I was seeking in the dream. I approach to speak with her, but the dream begins to fade, and I wake.

Contributing Factors
Techniques - All Day Awareness, Meditation, Mantra/Intention before bed, Daytime Suggestion,
Herbs - Matcha, Reishi, Lion's Mane,
Diet - Olive Oil, Dark Chocolate, Cranberry Beans, Coconut Cream

Second of Three LDs for the night. I'm walking through a field with my brother talking about All Day Awarenss as a method to become lucid. At one point in the walk within the grove, I spontaneously turn to him, levitate up quite a few feet, smirk and say "Now I'm Lucid". We are neara a long row of brown wooden picnic tables which were lined up. I had peviously run across all of these as I was explaining ADA. I see him run a bit on the ground as I ascend and say "[B]...if that's who you really are...". Beautiful yellow-amber sunlight comes into the grove, providing a Spring/Surreal feel to the entire surrounding. Rather than continue to fly, I decide to resist the temptation and focus on recalling a goal. I descend to the ground and want to focus on speaking with a guide within the dream. The dream begins to get dim as I walk across the grove along a line of evergreen trees. I remain focused. I begin spinning to change scenes. At this point I feel as though I am in the dream and simultaneously feeling my eyelids. I am very careful with how I manipulate vision within the dream as I become very aware of my sleeping body.

First Lucid Dream of the night. I moved my head a bit upon awakinging and feel as though a great deal of the dream memory was difficult to retrieve due to this. I am lucid in my childhood house with no memory of a definitive starting point. I immediately think to begin on one of my LD goals, and meet a spiritual teacher within the dream. Before taking action, I head to the backyard of the house. I am by the sliding glass door in a very dark family room. I resolve to stay focused regardless of black-outs/voids which seem to be approaching. I continue to remember the exact nature of my goals in the dream, and run through my memory a bit more. I do not do anything to ground myself into the dream at this point as I am too focused on the purpose I wanted to accomplish. However, I am successful in sharpening my awarenss and moving through a period of dream blindness. At one point I head to the kitchen and see my mother out of the corner of my eye. I decide to head to the fridge, and open it. I decide to take a couple pieces of toast and put both pieces in my mouth at once and continue on with exporing. I noticed the strong sense of the class texture of toast on my tongue and on the roof of my mouth. It had hints of butter as well. I head back to the family room around this point and the dream nears a fading period once again. I regain awareness, and I believe at this point I arrive upstairs. I attempt to refocus the dream by changing the scene and continuing on with the goal. I head to the hallway and feel the presence of my brother in his room. I spin to keep stability and attempt to end up in another scene. This is all taking place in the middle of the hallway at this point. I decide that I'll head through the glass window opposite the entry hall as a new scene did not appear. I set my mind to encounter a new scene once I head through. I end up with a vision in the dream at this point as though only my awarenss is present. I am in a new location, with narration from a co-worker (I was talking to this person about dream a couple days prior). She explains that she has gotten good at changing dream scenes. There is a squiggly arrow leading up between a walkway. The walkway is situated between walls of two adjacent walls which appear to be enges of a lodge of some sort. She then explains she likes spending time with her family in this ocation. I wake up around this point. The entire dream felt to be roughly 12 minutes.

I automatically understand that I'm dreaming, and feel no need to perform a RC. I begin by continuously working on increasing focus, clarity, and stability. I'm on a very surreal looking white bridge leading to a white temple on the other side of the narrow and deep chasm. The white temple has intricately carved designs worked through the upper portion of the roof. It is anywhere between 1 & 2 stories tall, nestled into the mountain face. On the other side of the bridge, near where I am standing, a black analogue clock is situated on the upper portion of a medium height tree. I continuously focus on saying: "Eric, Focus!" to gain stability, clarity, and increase mental focus. I decide to use the tree to implement some techniques from my Dream Yoga practices. I walk over to the tree and begin focusing on the tactile sensation of the tree bark. The tree bark is very rough, and contains shallow recess which work their way vertically up the trunk, maintaining slight curves throughout. I feel a whiteness coming over the dream and decide to meditate through it as it appears to be similar to the black void I encounter. However, this "white out" feels different than the void, and I feel myself awakening to what appears to be WL. With eyes closed, I run my memory backwards, and feel certain that it is WL. I go over the sensation of all fingers to make certain before opening my eyes in WL.


*The white temple on the top surface of the mountain is similar to a concept I was considering incubating in which I would ask my spirit teacher how to be wake in dreams all the time. I pictured this scene at the summit of a snowy mountain.

Contributing Factors: Open Awareness Meditation, Mantra: Awake In Dreams, Intention to Wake after dreams
Reishi, Turmeric, Ginkgo, Omega 3s

The following entry is a series of five periods at which I became lucid during the night, possibly in more that one REM period.

1. I appear in my childhood home and my awareness begins to increase. I check hands as a reinforcing RC and notice 6. I walk to the front of the room and consider flying out through the window, but decide against it as to practice & focus on stabilization. I simply becoming more aware of my surroundings as I stare at the corner of the room. I think back to DV posts and podcasts encouraging simply being aware of the dream and heightening awareness rather than influencing and getting swept away; I feel this greatly helped my stabilization & focus, and increased duration. I continue down the hallway and rub my hands a bit to increase focus. I head toward the window but notice a bit of black out coming. Instead of spinning like a typically did in the past, I decided to instead meditate in the dream, meditating through the void while using the mantra "I am dreaming".

2. I reappear in an LD and notice immediately I am dreaming. I check my hands anyway. I decide this time to make it outside and quickly head toward the main entry and continue to walk, paying attention to surrounds closely without influencing. Once outside, I am happy with how vivid everything is and how stable everything feels. I then recall some dream goals I had written down: meeting my spirit teacher/guide. I shout out to the dream yet nothing appears. I continue down the street and look to the left. I see a beautiful forest grove behind the neighbor's house with slight orange amber light coming through. I have an inclination to head toward it and figure the dream is encouraging me there for a reason. I make my way behind the house with a very low flying movement, and continue on into a grove of druid/beastmasters. This area appears to be where their clan resides. I am greeted quickly by a young lean man with short blonde stubble short/med length dark hair, and ragged leather clothes of a druid. He is followed by a company of a few others int he clan which all appear friendly/inviting. I am currently inside their den/tent area waiting by a low table for them to approach. We are in a small room off to the side of the main building, with seats surrounding the table. I gaze into the main chamber beyond, and the walls apear to be adorned with an array of natural tapestry including pieces of animal pelts. There are a few additional members of the clan in the area, including males and females. The young man in front of me is intrigued at my appearance, and I begin to discuss the reality I'm experiencing. We both take a seat. I ask him something along the lines of whether or not he is a guide - he mentions he is confused about the reality I'm experiencing as this is his reality. I soak in the surrounding yet notice a bit of blackness coming. Once again I decide to meditate through. I inform the group that I need to meditate to re-emerge in a dream (intending to return/continue the conversation). I continue to recite the mantra "I"m dreaming" as the void approaches.

3. I know right away that I'm dreaming and decide this time to head into the backyard as I remember the past dreams of venturing to the front. Once I descend into the back, I decide to enter a portal as I want to cover more ground. Rather than create a portal, I simply imagine that the surface of the bush will act as a portal to a nature-based dreamscape. As I walk in, the area becomes dark and unstable. Instead of meditating, I decide to walk through the bush and continue to pop out the other side. I re-enter the void state.

4. I appear in my room and check hands to ensure it's a dream. I quickly head downstairs and decide to simply explore without interfering. I spend some time downstairs (possibly a minute or so, but memory is foggy at this period).

5. Once again I appear somewhere around the upper floor and quickly fly to the frond and decide to ask the dream more serious questions which I have written in my RL DJ in order to incubate/give meaning to the the LD experience. Once I make my way to the street, I once again soak in all of the vividness. The dim reddish twilight makes it's wake through the darkened clouds as it appears to be the middle of night. I shout out to the dream "How do I develop my Spirit the most in this lifetime dream?! How do I develop my spirit to the highest degree in this life?! I wait for a response but nothing audible comes. I notice a pink light appear in the 2nd story window of a house a couple houses down. I reason that this would be a good place to head to. As I make may way closer, I begin to feel as though my body is stirring somewhere else (a strange realization which is difficult to relay) and I begin to transition to waking life. I am reluctant to open my eyes, yet move through a RC. Yes - I'm awake in RL!


Methods: Mantras, Intention, Mid-Night Awakening, Dream Recall
Details: ~5:30am after 6-7 hours of sleep. Roughly 15 minutes
Herbs/Supplements: Reishi, Tian Men Dong, Fish Oil, Apple Cider Vinegar

I find myself in SP after a midnight awakening (induced by mantras) and focusing on recollected dreams. I relax allow my body to 'slide' untilt the lock is freed. I find myself standing in my old home standing in my bedroom. I look out to the hallway to the left: it is dark and I decide not to take this route as the hallway is dark and I feel it may not be stimulating enough and cause the dream to fade. I turn and decide to head through the window as the awesome blue light coming through looks interesting. I stick my head through and look to the right to see a large blue moon. I jump out and glide down from the 2nd story into the backyard and land on the ground. I begin shouting to the dream for more awareness and more clarity and begin focusing more intently. I rub hands as well. I recall one of my dream goals: meet my spirit guide. I head to the left to explore a bit more, yet the dream transitions to a false awakening. I do not catch it as I triple check my hands and the correct # of digits are present on all checks despite looking closely.