lucid

I head out of the back of the ship and fly into the next area which transitions into a wooded area. I reflect on the fact that I'm flying, and realize that I'm inside of a dream. I continue into the wooded area and take in the snowy scene. It is the dead of night, and the moon is broviding a bit of light into the woods. I continue to fly by the pines which are completely bare of any leaves in the middle of winter. I think about how this area is a persistent realm of sorts as it appears to be connected to a portion of M Street. I feel really at peace simply flying and don't initiate any dreams goals. I wonder how long I'll be able to simply explore the forest. The dream rapidly fades and I wake.

I'm in a factory looking area standing next to a wall in the dark. I have a thought about dreams and lucid dreams and suddenly realize I'm inside of a dream. I stare down to where the corridor follows along the wall and see the edge of the large room in the darkness. I appear to be in a factory building with little lighting and vaulted cielings at night time. I remind myself that I have total control and can simply fly up above the wall by thinking I can. I fly upward and grab on to the top of the wall to my right to look over. There is barbed wire, and I launch myself over the guarded wall into the next area of the factory. I descend upon a raised platform in the middle of the large room, and the dream begins to fade. I remind myself to hold attention as visuals begin slipping. I soon wake up.

A heavy set lady is downstairs in M Street at night. She's making a comment about asking someone to pinch her as tough she's dreaming. I tell her with a smirk that you can just do a nose-pinch if you want to tell if you're dreaming. I noseplug, breate and become lucid. I look across the living room and see her in the dark on the far side sitting on the couch. I decide to torpedo-fly over to her to ask questions before she heads out. I zoom quickly across the room and land on the couch. The dream is a bit fuzzy and I want to stabilize, but decide to close my eyes in the dream and try to use body sense and vibration to enter another dream scene. I appear in a void after some time and wait for a dream to form. I stay for a bit longer and have an FA in bed. I'm reminding myself to become lucid in the next dream, trying to drift to sleep in the dream. A strange sounding alarm goes off.

1. I'm in the living room on M street, and sit down on the couch. I think that I haven't had an LD in a while, so I decide to close my eyes and fall aleep as a family member is working on a computer across the room. I begin drifting to sleep in the dream thinking about lucid dreaming. I find myself in another building walking down a corridor and through a door. As I pass through the doorway, my awareness raises and I realize I'm in a dream. I begin flying at rapid speed speed down various corridors and into different rooms. I finally enter a slightly larger room with a stage and some people sitting on stools at tables eating dinner. It resmebles some type of lounge with a live band. I remember back to a dream goal I had wanted to test out, and decide to call out to the dream: "What is my greatest joy?". I await a response, but nothing comes for quite a bit. I decide to wait it out. I'm really interested in a response, but feeling let down by the dream narration when a sudden answer comes. In a ridiculous voice sounding like Kermit The Frog, the awareness behind the dream call out to me in a rapid, sarcastic tone: "...Mac and Cheese...". my lucidty breaks for a short period.
*Later on I ended up waking up for a WBTB and was laughing my ass off from this

I end up back in the living room in M street by the couch. I tell myself that instead of getting up I'm going to sit and go to sleep to have more lucid dreams. I think - without lucidity - that the previous experience was awesome. I sit and close my eyes.

2. I find myself walking down a corridor once again and suddenly realize I'm in a dream. I begin moving through the corridors at a incredibly fast pace in increments, like 'zooming' through all the scenes. I think back to a post in which Zoth posted a video describing this tech. I have good control over the super quick movements, and am blasting my way through all the corridors in the dreamscape. I notice that I can start a mental command similar to a woosh which reverberates into the scene which helps with the zooming. I combine this with quick intermittent movement of my legs and arms, as though sprinting in very short intervals. I once again enter the room from the previous lucid and appraoch the people eating dinner from their high circular tables by the stage. I see that they're eating chicken legs. I'm feeling super hungry, and decide to eat some. I begin eating one quickly and it tastes and feels incredibly vivid; the texture and taste are about 90% similar to waking life. I gnaw on the end of the bone and actually feel the end of the bone crunch and taste it. My front two teeth become very sensitive, and I actually feel discomfort on my teet from it. I decide to stop using dream time in this area, and leave the couples after the second table. I head out of the room and zip down another corridor practicing the dream zooming tech. After a couple corridors,
I wake up - in a non-lucid dream - in M street on the couch. I decide to get to writing the dreams down right away in order to not forget them; I feel that they were awesome. I head into the next room and begin to tell family members that I just had a few lucid dreams.

*First LD of night forgotten upon waking.

I'm helping some students transition through a door in the upper part of a stairwell by making hand signals to them. I turn around in the stairwell to head down, and see a large metal machine. It appears to be long piece of equipment designed to transfer cocoa liquor down a long flow system. I think 'hey this was one of my dream goals before sleep!... or close' as I enter a low level of lucidity. I realize I wanted to go to factory but figure this is pretty close. I decide to taste some of the cocoa liquor so I make a small chalice appear in my hand and scoop some from the metal flowing fountain. It doesn't have much of a taste. I feel the dream isn't very vivid and feel as though it may end soon. I consider my sleeping body in bed. I decide that I could try to pull some bars out of the cocoa liquor while I'm there. I go to reach in but lose lucidity.

I'm looking out the window and into the backyard. I see all the trees in the back of my property in the dark of night and say to myself 'I wish I was lucid'. It hit's me and I say excitedly to myself 'I'm Lucid!' with the realization I'm in a dream. I remember my dream goal right away: studying how my own gravity works in dreams. I make a slight movement upward and completely resist all gravity, and float upward easily. I come down and go for a second very easy jump with very low gravity. On my decent, I phase through the wall to my right and sink partway into the ground, slowly. My visual go into white and I remind myself to stabilize and hold until the next scene. I rub my hands and hold in this white-out for a couple minutes.

I begin looking out to the right window of my bedroom at the neighbor's house. The entire side is an intense, shining blue stained glass, resembling church in many ways. I do a double take, and something feels very strange and familiar about this state. I realize I'm dreaming and begin stand up and walk toward the window. I jump out, but my visuals go white. I stay in this white void area for several minutes, rubbing my hands and reminding myself I'm in a dream. I try intently to wait until the next dream scene starts. After several minutes, I wake up.

I'm aware that a dream is forming within my visual field, and I begin to see three figures appearing. The three are younger males, with one in the front, and two flanking behind him. The one in the front has an organge jacket on, and the three gradually become a bit more vivid. I don't quite feel like it's time to 'walk in' to the dream yet so I concentrate a bit longer. I get slightly excited, but quickly keep my cool and focus. I get some distracting thoughts that tell me I'll lose the dream/that it's not stable enough, but I suppress them for the time, and continue to focus strongly on the figures. The dream solidifies and I simply expect my dream body to be able to emerge seamlessly into the scene. I focus on the front figure and make a rapid approach by flying at him and I'm anchored in. I stand for a moment, and the three disappear. I'm standing in the middle of what appears to be a rectangular grassy field in the middle of the night. Trees surround the entire perimeter, with even larger trees situated beyond the left edge. The tops of the trees have sparse leaves, and moonlight come through the canopy and slightly lights the field. I feel I need to stabilize more and begin rubbing my hands. I continue to tell myself I'm lucid. I look around the field a bit. I then begin to spin as things are getting a bit shaky. I end up in a void without visuals, and continue rubbing my hands resolving to remain in the whole way through. After a couple minutes I decide to use the visual dream yoga techs as this has worked in the past. I make my visual field light blue and begin imagining white birds. I quickly switch to green as I'd rather go to a forest. I try to focus on trees appearing with some success. After a few more moments I appear in a FA where I'm thinking about my last dreams.

I'm approaching a wooden railway that's on the edge of a raised platform. As I approach, I become aware of the dream feeling, and become lucid. I say "I'm lucid" and my overall awareness raises. I continue to jump and fly over the railing, and enter the scene beyond. It's a very vivid beach with rolling, light blue waves and a long stretch of light tan sand. I descend onto the sand which appears to be behind a resort-style area. Many children are playing in the rolling waves, and I can't believe how vivid they are; I note that they're indistinguishable from waking life. I think that I should probably get to some dream goals, but feel that I've ended up in such a cool environment that I should take the opportunity to just enjoy it and explore. I consider surfing on the waves as this has been a prominent dream sign in the past, but I realize I've never actually surfed in a lucid. My body feels encumbered as I begin to walk across the sand, and I remind myself "Eric, this is a dream - you can just stand up and fly".My mobility raises, and I feel that sand beneath my feet as I walk. I stop and simply ground myself, looking around at the people gathered under scattered tents erected in the sand. I focus on raising my awareness and continue to tell myself I'm inside of a dream, and appreciate how life-like everything feels. I wonder if I should focus more on stabilizing, but decide to keep going. I look back at the waves, then fly low to my left. I feel the dream is getting close to fading so I land and decide to trying spinning slowly and rub hands. It becomes fuzzy quickly, so I lay down on the sand and go for a LDEILD. I continuously tell myself 'I'm lucid'. As I close my eyes and focus.. I end up losing lucidity, and enter a dream in which I'm earning points online in my dream yoga class for the lucid dream I just had.

I'm walking toward a sliding glass door in what appears to be the main house on M Street. My awareness begins to raise as I feel 'I've been in this state before...'. I look at the sliding glass door more closely as I approach and see a mist with a greenish hue in the scenery beyond and become lucid lucid at this time. I walk right up to the glass and decide to walk right through it into the yard area. It's darker than usual at night time, and I don't want to waste too much time in this area. I want to get to some dream goals, but want to move to the front first. I consider either going around the house or flying over. I look up and want to do a quick flight over the roof. I begin flying upward quickly while spinning in a couple quick 360 degree rotations. I soon wake up.

I become aware once again of my body in bed and feel slight vibration going through, and intensify them. Sensations fade, yet come back soon, and I once again intensify the vibration in my head as well as the sinking feel. I don't feel it's time to start sliding yet, so I think quickly to dream yoga techs, and decide on using some visual techs to jumpstart the lucid. I imagine some colors filling the visual field, and my mind soon produces a house with a blueish roof and whitish side. I feel it's time to imagine 'sinking' into a dream scene. I intensify the sinking and suddenly find myself ready to stand up from the floor in the front of a dark house. I have a bit of difficulty standing up at first, but tell myself 'Eric, this is a dream; you should have no problem whatsoever standing up.' I stand up quickly and begin to walk into the main entryway of the house. I stare to the other end of the dark room and see some couches and a painting up on the wall. Things remain a bit blurry. I turn right and feel I need some stabilization so I rub hands. I ramp up all my senses at this point to ground in. I mentally tell myself that my body is in bed right now, and I full control in this place. I take a moment to reflect on the implications of my physical body being in a different location, and find it very fascinating. I continue through the walkway and enter to a very large kitchen area. I want to engage more tactile sense, so I quickly drop down and move on hands and knees, feeling my feet, knees and hands coming in contact with the cold white tiles. The vividness increases as I approach the large arched counter-top. I go behind the counter and stand up. I still want to be more stable, and refuse to let the dream fade. I rub hands real quick, then jump in the sink, turn the water on and feel all the cold water rushing around my body. Stability increases as well as vividness. I remember a suggestion in a podcast of eating and engaging up to all five senses. I see a fridge and think dark chocolate would be awesome. I approach the white fridge, and reach in fully expecting a dark chocolate bar. I pull out a cold dark choco bar with sections joining into a square rod. I eat fairly quickly, and remember to engage all senses including hearing. The taste is pretty good actually, and it's cold. I focus on feeling the invigorating effects- another dream goal. The dream becomes far more stable and vivid, and I decide to grab a few more items and continue exploring. I grab another dark choco bark, a chocolate glazed donut, and a chocolate brownie, why not? I place them all on the counter to the left, appreciate the detailed colors, and carry them into the next room. I make I right and figure I can sit by the sliding glass in the adjoining room and watch as the rain comes down. I then turn and see a dimly lit peninsula counter-top with wooden stools pushed into it. The area has a very rustic decor with open space. I get closer and see an empty coffee mug, and realize this is where the family has breakfast. I set all my items down and go to take a seat. I look at the brownie and it lightened in color. I take a bite, but it has the consistency of cardboard, and little taste. I bite once more. I drift back to my body and realize the bed sheets are partway in my mouth...

I'm in a dark room, and I turn over to look at a clock. It reads around 8:15, so I look away and look back. It still reads 8:15. This doesn't make sense as I know I need to be up at 6:10. I check my phone, but the buttons do not light up the screen after several attempts. I'm pretty sure I'm dreaming, so I noseplug and I'm lucid. I turn to me left and take a step, but quickly lose visuals and enter the blackness. I think back to the discussion on the black void vs white void and reflect on how this is the 'black void'. I begin to question access to memory and feel certain that I am in fact aware in this place, and can remember my dream goal of going to a mystic forest or resihi forest. I then wonder about the perception of this memory in the future and how to determine that it's not in fact a false memory... Well, I really feel like I'm here and now inside the void pondering this! I decide to wait for a dream to begin, and use a dream yoga visual tech of turning my visual field green. I then begin to picture myself in a lush forest with dense moss on the trees, and the scene appears in fairly good vividness. The visuals fade a bit, and I start stabilizing by singing a song that comes to mind. My voice is terrible, and I'm finding the whole attempt really funny. I become aware of a bright window to my right after the visuals became a bit dark, so I walk over. I see a rain forest them superimposed over M-Street. It is the most awesome this realm has ever looked. A light green hue hangs over the scene as dawn approaches. A light mist hangs in the air as well. The street is completely flooded with water, and a couple of jeeps are parked. I see the additional tall green trees out in the yard area and jump out the window. I see a three story basketball hoop and decide to swing myself up really high off of the net. As I descend, I use super-reach to grab the bottom of the net, and fling my body onto the black metal rim. I land perfectly and stare down as I stand solidly. I look around at the treetops and decide to fly to the right. I do a loop around the area, and see a bar area below. It reminds me of the restaurant by the bay that I recently took my parents to. A couple workers are in black and white vests behind the low black countertops preparing drinks. I get closer and hear some really interesting lounge type music playing. I turn away for the time and want to focus on dream goals I think back to the goal of consuming wild reishi that gives super lucid abilities. I approach the trees, simply telling myself that reishi will be there - of course it'll be there! Why wouldn't it? I approach and see that the trunks are made of thin metal. I look more closely with expectation and a small dark primordial stage mushroom is growing. No time to make a tea, so I eat it and tell myself it'll contain the super abilities. I continue looking upward expecting more, and increasing amounts begin to appear vertically in increasing size. They are very dark red with a rough exterior texture. I have a few more of different shapes but begin to actually feel my dream body with a 'full' sensation. I don't want any more at this point. I turn away and head back to the bar area. I want to see if they have any cacao drinks available. I fly over and begin looking around all of there toppings, yet only see cheese toppings and other similar condiments. I stop looking, and fly away listening to the music. I head back to the flooded street, really appreciating the greenish mist hanging over thescene. I start thinking of other dream goals I had come up with. I quickly wake for the day.

I continue to feel my body relaxing while focusing on increasing the 'sinking' feeling as well as full body tactile sense. I feel that it's time to start moving a dream body into a scene. I become aware of visuals forming around me, and a lot brown color begins appearing along with a soft looking texture. I find myself laying down in the front seats of a car. I begin reaching for the wooden dashboard with my dream arms as I focus on sliding my whole body over. I mentally tell myself it's time to stand and I'm free to go. I want to phase out of the sedan with brown velvety interior, so I head to the back, happy to have transitioned through the WILD. Once my head backs through the rear of the car, my visuals become very blurry and my movement feels a bit impeded. The dream begins to transition to a white void, and I allow it as I figure I'll just wait for the next scene. I stay focused and decide to try the new stabilization goal of slamming the ground with an open palm, like a 'thunderclap', as opposed to clapping hands. I kneel down in the white void and try it twice, but there's no solid contact, and no sound. I experiment with hand clapping, and feel the contact as well as the loud sound. I verbally tell myself to just hang in a bit longer, and wait for the scene. I begin to notice a few faint colors and shapes appearing very slowly, then a light-walled room forms around me along with a door with sparse paint splatters and a bronze circular handle. A back corner appears along with a few light switches and an exercise bike. I jog my memory for some dream goals and remember the visiting a Dream Shaman in his hut, and eating some cacao. I head over to the exercise bike and flick open the plastic box on the handle for some dark chocolate. There's none inside. I want to stay engaged with tactile sense, so I feel all the light switches on the wall. I look left to the door and decide to head through, and want to head to the Reishi Forest. I close my eyes and imagine a lush forest as I reach out, turn the handle and pull. I open my eyes, but it just connects to a descending staircase, in similar design to the previous room. I walk down and see a large black figure standing midway down. It's a large black wolf. I think back to a recent lucid and want to use a taming chant on it to make it a dream companion. I stick out my hand and chant two syllables which come to me intuitively. It sound similar to "come here" in polish. The large wolf heads behind me and I know that it's loyal now. I continue walking down the steps, but I immediately return to my waking body and have my first experience of my waking eyes spontaneously opening slightly after a dream.

I continue down the stone walkway, and to the front of a two story gray stone building. I understand that I need to enter to attend some sort of committe meeting with several other people. I approach the front area, and am standing between two brick pillars in the front when something feels strange. I see a DC cross the path and noseplug. I become lucid. The vividness of the dream becomes very very high, and is close to waking life. My awareness becomes very high as well. I clap very hard twice and hear the sound reverberate throughout the dreamscape. I shout 'stabilize' right after in a commanding voice. I briefly have the idea of heading into the building, but immediately reason that the plot is a complete waste of time. I begin to work my memory for some dream goals, and am very happy with how easily I can recall all the goals I wrote as well as thought about before bed. I have quite a few at this point, and even think about my previous LD of the night and consider finding another dream beast to tame. I begin walking, then take flight to look at the surrounding. I'm in a large outdoor plaza area, mostly made of light colored stone, during the daytime. There are several tall palm trees in the area, and a two story building in the middle of the plaza qutie a few yards away. Large buildings sit on the outskirts of the plaza, and a few cars are off in the distance. I begin flying a bit higher, and am loving the feel of my control; I can really feel the movement of my dream body gliding effortless through the air in the direction of my choice. I decide to incorporate some slow back flips in order to practice flight skills. I take one, and am impressed by the spinning of the dream scene, and the feel of my dream body as my sense of proprioception raises slightly. I take another right after. I land back on the ground, and begin to think about a couple of sivason's dream journal entries from the previous night. I look down at my vivid right hand and begin to get ready to cast a fireball. I try to feel energy charging in the open palm as I raise my hand. Nothing. I try for some lighting with an outstretched arm, but no luck. I decide I'll probably need more visual work for impressive effects. I decide to reach for an out-of-sight dream item figuring it'll be easy. I think about a crossbow, but reason that it's too big. I go for a gunslinger's revolver, and reach to my back pocket. Nothing comes out, but I make a shooting motion anyway, and see a bullethole appear in high up on the wall of the the gray building in the distance. I fly for a bit longer, toward the other side of the plaza, and skip forward to the interior of the building on the outkirt of the plaza. I find myself coming into a large room of what appears to an elementary school. I see all the students sitting in wooden chairs in group of four at a table. I begin engaging my sense of awareness very strongly. I repeat to myself 'I'm aware inside of a dream right now!' as my awareness comes to a very high level. I remember another goal of simply simulating one of my frequent DILD occurances of simply levitating upward. I recreate the experience, with very good control of the levitation. I continue excitedly telling myself that I'm aware inside of a dream as I look around, really being blown away by the level of awareness, and wanting to reaffirm it to myself I decide to what the 'dream feel' feels like in the present moment and enter a very mindful state. It feels very similar to practicing Sageous's reverse reality check. I continue for a moment, then remember another dream goal I wrote down. I think breifly of going to a lucid chocolate shop, but ignore that goal. I decide to go for another. I begin to ask a child DC what my greatest source of happiness is, but the dream quickly ends midway through the question. I have a very brief semi-FA experience where I hear the re-creation of my alarm going off for work. I ditch idea of initiating a DEILD and decide to get up right away. I look at the clock with a RC, and realize I still have about 30 mins to sleep.

I find myself in a white void with heightened awareness. I do a noseplug and I become lucid. I understand that a dream is about to begin from this state, and want to give it a jump start. I begin trying to visualize some shape and colors, yet nothing vivid is created. I few darker curved figures begin appearing as I try to envision a DC, but nothing solidifies. I decide to simply meditate for the time being. I cross my dream legs that I become aware of, and enter a mindful absorption. A thought goes through my mind that this feels like a waking life mindfulness meditation. After a few minutes, I begin to see a rectangular figure appearing. It gradually begins forming into a sliding glass door. A dream scene eventually fills out, and I have the thought that the sliding glass door probably leads to the backyard area in M Street. With the brief thought, I phase through the glass, and find myself in the backyard of M Street...of course. I'm really enjoying the moment outside on the back patio. The vividness of the dream is very very high, and my mental presence is quite high. I'm very happy just being there. I decide not to stabilize. I remember one of the dream goals of simply walking through a dream-scape slowly, without flying, and simply taking in my surroundings. I feel very grounded and stable in the dream, and love the feeling of actually walking slowly and deliberately through the lucid. I appreciate the small blue tree in front of me which resembles a pine. As I wind around the right turn by the pool, I stare at the dark blue water and the ripples. I think back to sivason journal from the previous night and decide to simply lay down a bit farther down on the pavement and stare up at the stars. I head a bit farther, lay down, and simply gaze up. It feels very similar to stargazing in real life, just more...surreal! It's very relaxing. I get up after a few moments and continue walking around the pool. I reach the other side and lay down once more. I see a small black figure several yards ahead and think of how great it would be to have an astral animal companion in LDs. As I am nearly in a supine position. I am aware of a stealthy,lithe, dark beast - resembling a panther - growl in a deep tone with low volume as it comes by the left side of my head. I notice very thin, light green swerving patterns throughout it's body. The head does not have clearly defined eyes. I actually feel my heart take a sudden pound. I'm aware it's my waking life body responding to the powerful presence of the beast, and quickly affirm to myself that it's just a dream and my entire body calms. I begin to raise and intuitively understand how to tame the dream beast. I stick my hand out and to the right to where the beast is making its way around. As my hand comes out, I intuitively change a two syllable tribal chant in a commanding tone. My head turns as I say this, and I catch a glimpse of the beast. I understand the taming command has been successful. I find myself a few yards up the path all of a sudden, yet the beast is no longer present. I enter a white void for a short period wake up briefly.
*and go for a DEILD