Fragment of Dreams
non-dream dream lucid Would be the perfect WBTB actually. Nonetheless I do remember a dream, just not with too much detail. ------- I am in a store, running around. A DC is with me as well, telling me what to do. I remember walking out of the store and it's during night, but the parking lot is well lit by the lights?
Updated 11-16-2014 at 02:15 PM by 24562
non-dream dream lucid Stayed up a long time again due to Desert Bus for Hope. (Damn they have a nice stream layout this year and I've seen some awesome stream layouts.) I started up my WBTB clock (goes off 4 hours after its started up regardless of when its started up) and went to sleep. Woke up once, 2 hours before the clock, and immediately went back to sleep, woke up again 4 mins before the alarm and closed it. I then practiced SSILD cycles, and went back to sleep. ---- I recall jumping in between falling shipping containers. I then recall gliding down a curved rail that almost looks like a spring. I am then on a menu where OverTheGun is talking about saving the birds or something like that. I am looking through a container with a glass window. Eventually I'm in my back yard, the game having ended. It's very similar to IWL except the house is longer and there's more trees. Everything's also very blue strangely enough. I'm here with the DCs from the ending of the game, sitting in a ditch. There's a bunch of kittens here. I am talking to one DC, and then I start getting aware. I start looking around almost immediately. I then realize I'm dreaming, and I continue to look around for a bit, looking at how real everything looks. I feel the grass and I hear what it sounds like. I then say "I'm dreaming". I then realize that I'm probably about to wake up soon, so I tell the DCs that I'm about to wake up. Everything starts getting really blurry, and I get pulled out of the dream. I then feel myself in my bed. "Don't move! You can still continue! Just think about the dream lightly!" I lay there for a few seconds, before a DEILD begins. I'm in my basement after the DEILD, and I look around. My mom is there, and I yell "I'M DREAMING!" right out of the Stanley parable. My mom comes over and asks what's up, and i tell her "I'm dreaming right now". She starts hugging me and telling me "You're alright!". I feel the dream start to destabilize. I tell her "The dream is destabilizing!" and I start rubbing my hands together. I can feel my hands rubbing together bug it feels very blurry as well. It comes back but its slow. I then get up and look around, and everything looks crystal clear. The basement is much larger than IWL and there's more wood than normal. Most of my vision is taken up by mom though, oddly enough. I ask her "What is the best dream stabilization technique for me?". She doesn't talk, but instead she just grabs me by the nose and pulls me forward towards the steps. We start walking up the steps and I recall the other LD where I woke up walking up the steps. I start thinking "This is bad shit, don't go up there!" but by doing this the dream is destroyed and I wake up. I DEILD again. I open my eyes in my kitchen, on a bed. Already strange as obviously there isn't a bed hovering in my kitchen IWL, and even if there was, you wouldn't want to sleep there. I look around and everything is blurry but I notice that the walls of the kitchen are of the same siding that the living room is made out of. It's very dark brown. I get up and do a nose pinch RC, and I can breath through, noticing the same effect from the last LD. Interestingly I don't slip while doing it as well. I then walk into the living room. Most of the stuff from IWL is here except it has a Victorian style. I look around again and everything is blurry, but I notice that if I stair at the same scene for more than a few seconds, that it becomes crystal clear. Clearer than IWL. I walk into the hallway, and I look around again. It's almost identical to the hallway IWL. There's a vacuum cleaner in the corner, and the white shelf from IWL isn't there. I walk towards the bathroom door, but I don't open it. I notice a towel on the vacuum cleaner, and I look at it. I look at how real it is. I can look at every single thread on the towel with surprising accuracy. I start walking towards the end of the hallway where the steps are, and everything feels completely real. To the point where the omnipresent dream feeling goes away and I have to actually verbally remind myself that I'm dreaming. I then say "This is why you don't just become lucid from any random dream, THIS. Look how friggin real everything looks!". I look at the gate that blocks off the stairs (not that I was planning to go down them). I then turn around and walk back to the living room where everything fades and I wake up again. I start doing DEILD again but I can feel my breathing this time. I then think about it for a bit before deciding to just get up. I then start writing this down. Spoiler for Temp: temporary things: I only remember fragments of this dream. I don't remember how they fit together. running down a metal spring > standing beside a storage container > standing in the night > OTG switching character > end up beating the game. Apparently the end of the game is set in my back yard lol. --------- I am in the back yard and everything is all blue, all of a sudden I become more aware, and then I realize I'm dreaming, just because the environment I know isn't part of real life. The DCs from the dream are here. I don't even remember their names except that a few were kittens. I just kinda lay in a ditch in the back yard (which isn't here iwl) and I can feel the grass. Then the dream starts to fade, and I'm in my bed. "Don't move! You can still enter a dream!" I wait for a few seconds and eventually a dream begins. I'm in a bed. I'm in my kitchen oddly, I get up. I think "yeah these aren't a part of my kitchen. Just to confirm I nose pinched. Everything around me looked completely real, completely immersive. However, moving around into unfamiliar places made my vision blurry. Looking at a scene for only a few seconds made everything crystal clear. I'm not sure if this is how it works, or if I was supposed to be like this in the dream. I walk into my hallway. There's what looks to be a vacuum cleaner with a green towel on it. I look at the green towel and I can see every cloth on the towel. I then look back into the living room, but it's blurry so I turn back to the hallway. I walk towards the steps, and the gate is closed. I look around again and everything feels completely real. "You see, this is why you don't just become lucid from dream scenes, THIS." I then notice that the omnipresent dreamy feeling kinda fades away at this point, and I actually have to remind myself that it's a dream. I wasn't here to go down the stairs, so I turned around back into my living room when the dream destabilizes, and I'm back in my bed. The dream exited more forcefully and I can feel myself breathing. I decide not to have another DEILD, and I get up.
Updated 11-16-2014 at 04:19 AM by 24562
non-dream dream lucid Went to sleep around 1:30 or so, which is a HUGE difference from when I've been going to sleep recently. Woke up around 6:45. Might get another nap after this. I can't help but think that before this, I might've had a lucid dream. Incredibly hazy though. The only thing I can remember is I'm on my couch, and the bathroom light is on. No other light source exists and the room seems to be quite a bit different. The atmosphere is one of uneasiness, but it could quickly turn to anxiety if anything strange happens. EDIT: I seem to remember something else. I'm on my couch, and I'm moving around. There's lots of people here. It's hard to get comfortable. But the main event is to follow. ----------- Visiting Chicago for no reason Recall score: 8 Lucid: no TGMG: no So I'm in Detroit. Lots of brown buildings with glass around us, as well as a monorail track above? We're in a pretty large open area, with lots of space. Lots of DCs around me (including television reporters), mostly centered around a rather large police van which at that point bursts open. Two DCs come out of the back. One looks kinda like one of the police investigator types. Shorter, probably older and lacking hair, and has a really deep voice. The other DC (taller, more mexican looking) is more aggressive, but it seems that the two have been together for more time than you'd think. So they come out and now they're standing in the middle of this clearing with loads of DCs surrounding (I'm in the group). All of a sudden the cop pulls out a pistol and points it at the other DC. So they kinda just stand there for a second. I try to get as far away from their line of fire as possible. Apparently a lot of the other DCs are as its hard to move around even though the crowd isn't amazingly thick. Eventually, and somehow, the criminal guy runs towards the cop, steals the pistol and in what seems like two seconds, the cop gets shot in the head. I'm immediately contemplating running like fuck, before everyone starts cheering. I'm like "wtf" before everyone starts clearing the area. I walk off, but I stay around long enough to see some of the TV stations come and look around. By this time it's starting to get dark out. One of the channel 7 guys comes and videos the corpse of the cop, before remarking "Put this on youtube and watch it become the next viral video". Next thing I know I'm walking down a street. Very brown, the stores are brown, the sidewalks brown, the awning that's above me is brown. There's a handrail to my right that I'm holding on to. After that, I remember my mom picking me up and we drive back home. So now I'm at home in my living room, and my mom is telling me to get ready. I get in the car and then in what feels like 5 minutes we're in Chicago. I get out of the car and look around for a bit at all the buildings. It's really really nice out, early morning, twilighty blue sky, and it's cold but not uncomfortably cold. I seem to recall a slight breeze as well. I'm thinking "There's places here that I don't even remember!". Last time I was here was in 2004 or so. Like the brown building with vertical glass windows and what looks like a wine cork on the top. At that point I start looking at the skyline and thinking "on one of those buildings is the WLS ch7 transmitter!". Of course, we had our own ch7 (WXYZ) but theirs is a lot fancier. At that point I recall a dream fact that WLS and a few other stations moved their transmitters off the downtown skyscrapers a few years ago! I look back away from the skyline and I eventually see another building off in the distance. The building itself was another skyscraper but not nearly as skyscraping as the ones on the skyline. It was mostly blue and glass. It has a red and white tower on it. "That must be it!" I think to myself. And just in front of it I see a lattice mast with three small towers coming off the top. "Another antenna I guess". So I get back in the car and before I even ask my mother to stop and get something to eat, she's already driving downtown towards a restaurant. Not in downtown but close. We stop and get out and walk into a building almost entirely composed of very thick green glass. It's a rather fancy restaurant, with lots of wooden seats and tables. We go and sit on one of the other tables to the side. Lots of DCs around us, all really nice as well. I choose not to really interact, but rather just take everything in. I can't remember what I ate, but I know it was on a plate. Was it fish? Fish rings a bell actually. Was really good. After I ate, I looked around, and I could see outside the building through the glass. Loads of DCs walking by outside. Eventually we walk out and we walk back to our car. And after that, it's back home. I wake up not too soon after. 14 day dream recall: ----------- Themes + route: detroit > swat car > two guys comes out > they both fight for a bit > we're worried if we get shot > one of the two people who came out get shot > it actually turns out we were rooting for the guy that was acting more insane > TV reporters take a picture of the dead guy and make a remark about viral videos > we nope the hell out of there > walking down a street with a ceiling above us > arrive back at home > watch ch7 > mom tells me to get ready > go all the way to chicago (I don't even remember why) > look at skyline > WLS-TV > walk around for a bit > end up going into a restaurant (green glass walls) > eat something (it was on a plate) > go all the way back home > wake up
Updated 11-14-2014 at 02:45 PM by 24562
non-dream dream lucid Once again, I was awake to some insane time. Went to sleep around 5 in the morning. I am in some yellowish transparent tunnel. I walk through for a bit until I somehow teleport to my sister's kitchen. I look around, and the kitchen is a bit larger than waking life. There's carpet on the floor and a sink next to the fridge (fridge is on the back wall in waking life). All of a sudden I become lucid. I increase awareness, and it feels like real life. I look into the living room, and the carpet is gray, and it looks like a DC is watching TV? The window curtains are closed but you can tell its day out. I walk into the living room and all of a sudden I'm walking a dog on a leash in a park of some kind. It's day out, and there's a few trees around but for the most part it's clear. I'm walking on a road, with some kind of ditch running along side it. All of a sudden I see a bunch of cats in the ditch. They're all playing with each other. I kind of lose lucidity at this point, but I still have a bit of awareness. I look at the cats and it seems most of them are white. There's a few kittens around here as well. I then see dog shit on the path. This is all I can remember. I recall other images, too fleeting to actually integrate with the plot. I recall becoming lucid another time but can't remember it. I also seem to remember something to do with SNES games. I would like to note that when I had woken up from the dream, I remembered all this much more coherently, but if you could get me out of bet at that moment to DJ it I'd be impressed. despite all that, this is the most immersive dream I've had a loooooong time. I might edit this post later if I remember something new.
Updated 11-09-2014 at 08:28 PM by 24562