lucid

A dream begins to fade a bit, and I suddenly have a thought that I can become lucid if I imagine my hands in front of me. A faded visual of hands comes in front of me and I become lucid as the dream transition into a transition phase/gray void. I can't see anything at this point besides gray, and figure I have the best chance of tping to another scene if I dream spin. I begin spinning, but no visuals appear at the onset. I lose lucidity.

I have a thought about lucidity soon after, and have the thought once again that if I visualize my hands next I'll become lucid. My self awareness doesn't fully come through at this point, and there is a short period of time in a gray transition stage.

1. I'm walking down the stairs to the basement in M Street. Something feels strange, and my hands come out in front of me. I say I'm lucid as I become aware of the dream. I head down quickly into the basement and begin flying across the room. I reach the end with a large wall unit, and begin considering some dream goals. I consider one goal of teleporting to my dream sanctuary. I look at a small black TV and reason that I can jump through to TP. I then decide not to as I feel it might risk making the dream unstable at the time. I turn to the right and consider flying through the nearby door. i head a bit closer, but the area doesn't seem too interesting. I look on top of a stand and see an old school system: a Super Nintendo with Link's Awakening Inserted. I'm fascinated at how it's not real, and decide to smash the whole thing for fun. I quickly transition out of the dream and enter a semi-lucid soon after

I find myself walking down a country road with a green field to my left beyond a wooden fence. It's a slightly rocky area with a descent. I have the idea that I that I can become lucid here, begin to gain some control, and decide to turn left. My self-awareness isn’t coming through at this point.

2. I'm talking to someone who's telling me about a work situation at a school. I tell them not to worry, and that things will become easier for them in the future. It hits me that I'm dreaming, and I become lucid as my hand comes out in front of me. I say "I'm lucid". i tell the DC not to worry because it's not real anyway. I fly out the door and exit the house area. I soon enter into a white void state, and decide on my goal of going to the dream sanctuary. I feel my dreambody standing in a gray void and try to envision a cave entrance in front of me. I then imagine a lit brazier with red flames on either side of me. I resole to hold awareness until a dream scene forms. i continue rubbing my dream body
I lose lucidity for a short period of time

3. I find myself flying down a brick tunnel, lucid, during the daytime. Yellow buses are approahing me. I decide it would be fun to fly right into the roof, do a handstand and bounce right off and continue to fly - I go for it! I continue flying back in another direction toward a second bus, but want to get more serious and work on some dream goals. I fall backward through a wall to try to TP to my dream sanctuary. I spend some time imaginine my surroundings forming high up in a mountain cave. Visuals don't kick in for a bit, and I begin rubbign my dream body. I then decide to go into the second goal of meditating in the area. A mat comes beneath my dream body, and I sit to meditate.

4. Shortyly after, I'm walking down a very colorful and vivid street which intersects another on a busy city street corner and quickly realize I'm dreaming. At this time my hand comes out in front and I say "I'm lucid". I see a man driving a light bronze pickup drive around the corner as I fly toward it. I decide not to go this way, and make my way to the right. A colorful gas station is standing on the side of the road with many people outside. Even more are bustling around on the sidewalk across the street, and I fly through the crowds observing all the faces. I get close to each one and am fascinated by how life-like they are. I decide to fly into one and topple them over for fun.I knock the DC down, and I feel as though I'm going to wake soon. I transition back to my body to wake for the day.

1. I'm walking down a pathway in what appears to be a supermarket/mall area. I wonder why there are such huge containers of ice cream in a massive row of freezers. I realize I'm dreaming! I decide to get some ice-cream; why not? A memory from the previous dream clicks in and I look farther down the row of freezers for slow churned. I stick my hand through the glass and pull out cookie dough. I then decide to pull out some chocolate fudge as well. i walk quickly back to where I came from as I try a scoop. It doesn't taste very vivid, so I quickly ignore the containers and continue to fly down the pathway, past a large man with blonde balding hair. I approach a counter of a small store at a food-court area where one of my co-workers happens to be working in the dream. The dream becomes a bit unstable so I quickly grab over the large glass barrier and pull myself up, anchoring in. I see the face of my co-worker and reach back to see what he's vending. I see that he's making chicken of some sort and grab a piece. It tastes like chinese sweet and sour.
#When you're hungry in the middle of the night, and LDing


2. I'm aware I'm dreaming as I'm in bed. I look over and S is right next to me. A song by 311 starts to play and the room has a very relaxed feel to it. I want to get some lighting going, so I intend some lights to appear as I peer over the bed. A small platform on the ground appears with several small lamps, glowing dimly with interesting hues. i turn over and look at S, and she flitters in and out of focus. I concentrate on her appearing solidly back into the dream again, and she does.

I transition through some interesting void-like states in which I am aware that I can become lucid in upcoming dreams. My mind reasons that I am too close to waking for some reason, and lucidity doesn't come through all the way. At one point I enter a non-lucid and fly down a hallway with an undead wizard standing partway up a staircase. I get an interesting thought right after the scene that if I imagine the scene again, I can have a lucid dream. I re-enter the same scenario, my hands come out in front as I approach the undead figure, and I have a brief moment of lucidity before entering into non-lucids

1. I'm walking around to the front yard of the house in M Street. I'm explaining the previous events of the dream to a DC named alex as we wind around to the driveway. I then tell him about all the different types of things you can do in an LD. As I'm talking to him, I start levitating upward. I tell him this is exactly what would happen in a lucid dream. I do a finger pull and feel some pressure on my index. It feels a bit strange, so I noseplug and become lucid. I continue to raise as I look toward the roof and continue talking to the DC, asking him "Dream Alex, why didn't you tell me I was dreaming?" He doesn't respond, so I ask him again. As I continue to fly upward, I get an image in my mind's eye of the DC quickly running away as if to be found out for not informing me of the dream. I fly high above the roof, but feel as though I am gradually waking up. I realize I may be simply imagining it, so I try to ground myself back into the dream as I enter a strange version of the void which has a dream senses blended with feelings of returning to a physical body that I am partially aware of. I continue trying to meditate back into the dream state.

2. I find myself in an upstairs bathroom on M Street facing the wall. My hand comes out in front of me and something feels strange. I do a noseplug and become lucid. I head over to the mirror and see an accurate reflection of myself without a shirt. It's a bit blurry so I continue to demand of the dream "Dream Clarity, Dream Focus!" The image sharpens up a bit, so I decide to head out of the bathroom and down the hallway. I start talking to the awareness behind the dream and tell it "Subconscious, I'm giving you the power to make this dream last an hour" I continue walking for a bit repeating this phrase but vibrate back to my body, and go for a DEILD. I come close to entering back into an LD a few times through my 'sinking'vibrating' technique, but my mind grounds back too much into WL.

I find myself levitating, and slowly raising into the air above a table at M street. My right hand comes in front of me as I realize I'm dreaming, and I say I'm lucid while my arm is fully extended. I look down at what appears to be a picnic bench with S on the left and a female DC on the right. I do a swooping dive toward the table and fly back wards and upward to return to my previous position. I repeat the flight pattern while telling the two people that they're DCs, and I'm going to begin working on a few dream goals. I fly to the table and see if I can read any new goals that may appear in a notebook. I wake up as I reach the table.

In a random house structure, and my brother and father are nearby in the kitchen area. I'm looking for some olive oil to add while looking through the pantry behind me. There's some tortillas sitting next to everything. As I'm mixing the ingredients into the guacamole, I get a flash that Hey, I'm dreaming! I consider working right away on some dream goals, then think 'hey man there's some guacamole right here, I might as well enjoy some of this first I try to go a little bit quicker, so I pick up the pace with making it and tasting it for a few seconds - it was pretty realistic. The dream fades rapidlyand I slip into a non-lucid which comes close to breaking through before waking.

1. I see a brown leather couch begin to appear in my hypnagogic imagery. I try to slowly phase into the scene. I'm snapped back to WL after a short while, then refocus my awareness. I relax, and the couch appears and becomes ever more vivid. I think to some dream yoga techniques, and go to reach out a phantom limb to attempt touching the couch and engaging tactile sense. I slightly feel an arm come out and begin to rub the couch and feel the texture with my dream hand. The scene becomes a bit more clear and I'm able to slowly slip into the dream scene and become immersed in my dream body. I make it onto the couch, feeling it, then turn around and recline a bit on it. As I sit down my lucidity slowly slips, and transition to a non-lucid shortly after.

2. I'm walking down the walkway in the front of a house, which slightly resembles my grandparents' old house. I see thin metal black railings trailing on either side of the walkway as I descend the stairs.As I descened, I suddenly realize I'm dreaming and bring my right hand out, saying "I'm lucid". I stare at the hand a bit longer to build up clarity. I continue my way down the walkway and decide that I'm going to stay busy and active in this lucid to see how it affects length and stability. I bring my hands out and stare intently, verbally reminding myself I'm lucid and shouting for clarity. I continue walking down to where the black driveway is at the end of the walkway. Three different types of pickup trucks are parked in the driveway. I recall the three goals I set before bed of exploration, eating some dark chocolate squares, and teleporting to a dream sanctuary. I make my way to the first pickup, open the passenger door, and climb in. I enter the glove compartment and begin to try to manifest to some dark chocolate to see how it affects the dream/stability. I unnzip a few compartment of a camera case, but nothing comes out except the large camera in the main compartment. I look into the screen and see a faded image of a female face with closed eyes laying down. I turn around and climb into the back seat seeing if I can manifest a dream character my stating verbal intent before hand. The seats are empty, but I continue to climb back then exit. I continue on to the next pickup, and see the next sitting behind. I try to verbally prep another DC to be in this pickup, but it's empty as well. I reason that I can drive the pickup a bit, but I figure I'll just fly instead! I turn away and fly low to the ground down the driveway. I consider teleporting through a part of the pickup, but decide against it. I float toward the road, eventually land and walk a bit, exploring. i soon wake up.

1. I'm in the kitchen of my home running around the tops of counters and doing back flips off of the top off of my fridge. I'm explaining lucid dreaming to someone in the room, and explaining how they can imagine it being like Neo in The Matrix. After this explanation, I stop and realize I'm inside of a dream. I say "I'm lucid". I consider stabilizing a bit a think eating a square of dark chocolate is a good idea. I go into the fridge and pull out a small container with a few squares. I open and continue walking through the house as I bite small pieces. It tastes pretty close to real life! I concentrate as it melts in my mouth, similar to the dream yoga beginner lessons. I walk down the hallway and approach the front door. I consider opening it, then think Nope!... and phase through the glass. I enter into the front yard and take in the new arrangement of bushes, color of the grass etc.I decide to raise clarity and focus a bit and stabilize the dream. I think back to Nina's Stabilization and Clarity Tutorial and test out one of the techs which I set as a goal. I put both hands in front of me and start demanding clarity and lucidity, over and over. My hands become more vivid and appear life-like. I look up to check the clarity of the foliage and notice it's a bit more vivid too. I progress to another goal and shout to my subconscious to help me become more lucid more often, repeating this a few times. I then ask my subconscious a couple times how to become lucid more frequently. I notice the lucid becoming a bit unstable and start dream spinning to prevent collapse, and increase clarity. I spin many times, moving my eyes up and down my field of vision
but the lucid slips into a non-lucid.

2. I'm in the kitchen of my home speaking to S and her Bro. He's telling me about the web page to the soccer camp he's organizing. I look at him intently, noticing something is strange. My awareness raises, and I put my right hand in front of him and say "I'm lucid" with a smile.I ask if there's any dark chocolate around, or if I have to summon it. They say there isn't, so I begin opening a drawer to pull some out. I pull out the container, but it's just crumbs left. I begin walking to the front of the house, and figures I'll just shake some slabs out of a jacket sleeve in the closet. I try it, but still crumbs. I munch on a few crumbs as I approach the front of the house. I make my way to the front of the house, and head down a walkway which closely resembles that of my childhood home I see a couple crash cans with slabs of dark chocolate adhered to the sides. I decide - 'that'll work' and crack off a huge slab. I become hesitant as I figure there might be a super-funky pungent trash taste/small. I casually dust it and don't worry. It tastes pretty good too, and my clarity raises a bit. I walk a bit further down the driveway
Then wake up.

1. I'm aware of the dreamscape, standing in the back of the living room area in my home. My body is locked in place, but I can see the dark room and all the furniture. I think back to some dream yoga techniques and start feeling and moving 'phantom arms' into the dream scape, feeling them, and then seeing them appear. I begin gaining a bit of mobility and slide into the scene a bit. As I'm transitioning

I find myself in bed. I look toward the headboard and notice a small diamond pattern in the center with a dot in the middle. I notice something is wrong and realize I don't have a headboard!

2. I see S laying next to me face down and roll on top of the cover. I roll onto her as she's sleeping and look down a bit excited. After a few seconds..

I wake up in seems to be WL, and I go for a DEILD.

I realize I'm in a dream as I'm walking through the downstairs hallway of my childhood home. I'm heading toward the kitchen, and look at the counter in the center of the kitchen. I notice two plates with different food. The back plate is stacked with pasta and meatballs, and decide to try to the meatballs. I take one in each hand and look at the colors in depth and notice how vivid the browns and reds are. I go to bite each and am surprised by how realistic the taste is. I eat both as I head into the back room. I notice that somebody made a few trays of desserts, and decide to try some of these too! I grab choose between a few different varieties of donuts, and go for a chocolate one and a filled one. As I'm looking down I wonder how long the lucid will last and wonder if I should stabilize at all. With the thought, the dream becomes a bit unstable and starts to fade. I begin rubbing hands as I go into the void. I start to lose some awareness, and feel like I'm returning to WL, but keep in mind it might be a FA. I stay focused on the tactile sense of the pastry, and take a bite. I hold in the void for a bit.
I have an FA where I'm talking to S about the lucid I just had. Within a few moments it hits me again that I'm dreaming this FA but my lucidity slips quickly.

I continue making my way into the tunnel below the street after exiting the snowstorm. I'm walking with a DC, and we eventually hit an end room. I make a comment that there's not a portal, and wonder what we're going to do. It suddenly hits me: I'm dreaming. I say "I'm lucid" as my awareness comes through. I tell myself that none of this even matters, and refuse to continue with the dream plot. I begin walking toward the exit. I notice I need to go to the bathroom, but continue to ignore it, and it goes away. I continue walking down the narrow tunnel with white walls, and a DC follows behind me. I try to conjure another DC by imagining one visually, but the image does not actually manifest in the dream. I continue walking and decide to try conjuring some food. I decide to create a buffalo wing for some reason, and notice it only tastes slightly like the real thing. The visual isn't very defined. My dream goals don't kick in fully, so I wonder what I want to do as I head farther down. The dream begins to fade, and I wake.

I'm stepping out to the front yard of my childhood home in the daytime. I raise high into the air quickly, and tell myself "I'm lucid" as a concentrate to raise my awareness of the dream more. I continue to raise upward above the front of the property, and fly above the street. I want to test my memory of waking life, and immediately jump to dream goals I have been thinking of. My first thought is that I want to find my spirit guide. I look left down the road, then turn around to fly above a house. As I head above the roof, the dream collapses quickly and I return to my body.

I hold still and set to DEILD. I go through two rounds of vibrations...

And find myself in the front of my childhood home again. I brief memory of my previous lucid clicks, and I tell myself "I'm lucid" again as my awareness comes through. I begin raising up again to continue on with goals. I raise up and turn around, but the dream fades quickly to a non-lucid.

I'm in a one-story structure speaking to S who is sitting on the couch. I tell her that I can teach her how to have an out of body experience. I then put my right hand through my left palm, and realize I'm dreaming! I head by the DC and toward the sliding glass doors, determining what I want to do. I turn left, but quickly decide against staying indoors, and decide to start the search for my spirit guide. I head through the glass doors, and enter an area with a small body of water in the center. The area has a greenish hue throughout it, and has a partial ceiling. I begin to ask for my spirit guide. I stare into the center of the body of water. and notice that a small circle begins bubbling in the center as if the water is beginning to boil down below. I continue to wait in this green glowing area, but nothing happens. I turn around and head out of this area. I continue walking for a short period of time, but head back to the previous room since it was more interesting. The dream begins fading quickly, so I try to stabilize by spinning and moving my vision around. The dream goes to void, but I keep spinning to wait it out. I begin getting a headache which seems to be in the front of my dream head and the dream goes to a non-lucid.

I'm heading through side rooms within the building that sits far above the massive room filled with water. A DC continues to follow me, and it seems that I'm showing him what doors to go through as we rapidly progress from room to room in the old building. As I come up to one of the doors, my hand comes in front of me and I say I'm dreaming. My awareness begins to raise at the same time and I know I'm in a dream. I stop myself before opening the door, turn to the DC following me and tell him that this is a waste of time; let's got to forest area. I open the door anticipating a forest scene to appear, but the door just leads to a another room within the complex. I enter the gray room and make a right, beginning to head toward the staircase. I decide to exit the complex by flying and running. I fly up the stairs and see a small rectangular amber window which seems to be leading outside. I fly toward it to change the scene,but quickly vibrate back to my body.

I'm heading toward the exit of school building, and making my way through the second floor stairwell. I'm thinking about dreams, and becoming lucid in them. As I approach an outdoor balcony connected to this area, it hits me that i am actually now inside of a dream. I Begin to fly over the railing to travel out of the area of the building and toward the forest beyond. The dream feels a bit unstable, and I'm a bit cautious of flying at the time. I want to head farther into the distance to explore the dream scene, and feel walking would be better for a couple minutes until I can build some stability. I head a bit farther, then begin flying, and the dream begins to fade.