false awakening

14.07.2010

Non REM lucid???? Instant Projection???? FA??? What happened! (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Fourth night in a row with +6 dreams recalled. I think I am getting into my goal of 5-6 dreams recalled per single night. I've been recalling a minimum of 2-3 dreams for over a month! So I am super happy. Not the best night dream-wise though.
First of the night.

I was lying down in my bed and I could see perfectly. I was wearing my total blackness glasses so it had to be a dream to be able to see through them. I heard a voice that whispered in my ear, "You are a genius" I then, was able to see in a 360 degrees radius like if it was an Astral Projection. I suddenly saw a black shadow, it was more of a presence rather than a shadow. I guess it was a dream and not an Astral Projection because it did not feel like in an Astral Projection. It did not feel either like in my regular lucids. But I was fully conscious that I was not awake. I could not move from bed. The shadow did not want to attack me, it was just there, walking up and down my room. I decided to wake myself up. I knew I was not in a REM so it would end soon anyway.

I had a false awakening. I was still paralyzed but I could still see through my glasses. Not as clearly as in the lucid or whatever-it-was. It was not as if I had no glasses like in the lucid, but I could see the shape of my hand. I was bugged and I took my glasses off. I was awakened...

This was very odd. I am very focused in increasing my regular recall from 3-4 dreams a night to 5-6 a night. I am also focused in getting at least one lucid per night or every two nights (so far so good) and also I am focused in Astral Projection. I have been thinking about dream sharing as well. However, as soon as I went to bed, I felt tired so I just planned to fall asleep. I did not attempt WILD nor Astral Projection. I know I was meditating and I fell asleep instantly. I also asked my wife in the morning and she confirmed me I fell asleep as soon as I touched the pillow, so it was not a massive Hypnagogic Hallucition.

Missed Dream Signs:
- None.

Dream Signs Noticed:
- None.

Reality Check Performed:
- None.

12.07.2010

New family member! (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

This was a pretty awesome night. My old record of dream recalled in a single night was 8, I rose that up to 11 Only one of this was a fragment. Three of these were lucid and on one of them I completed one of the Tasks of the Year.
Eleventh of the night:

I adopted a cat somewhere. It was brown and very furry. I was wondering the age of the animal. The adoption process when very fast.
I arrived home and no one was there. I though in saying to my wife that the new cat was her birthday present.

I introduced this cat to my two cats. I had the water spray in my hand and the cats were sniffing each other. I also had two dogs that appeared to like the new cat. The new cat opened his jaws and tried to bite one of my cats. I shot water on him. The jaws were very big and sounded metallic when they closed.

I had a made up family who was sitting in the couch. We had a small glass table in the middle of the living room. These people were very rude with me, but they were petting the new cat. One lady dropped a whole box of Lucky Charms cereals and only picked up the marshmallows. She complained that she did not lemon ones. I though it would be nasty if the lemon flavor was within the Lucky Charms Cereals. She started to pick up the marshmallows and eated them one by one.

Missed Dream Signs:
- The False Awakening.
- The two cats and two dogs.
- The dogs (in waking I have no dogs)
- The jaws of the new cat.
- The fake family..

What I would have done if lucid:
- Find more about myself talking with the DCs.

12.07.2010

I beat Neil Armstrong (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

This was a pretty awesome night. My old record of dream recalled in a single night was 8, I rose that up to 11 Only one of this was a fragment. Three of these were lucid and on one of them I completed one of the Tasks of the Year.
Tenth of the night:

I tried to DEILD from the previous dream, but I moved in bed a little bit.

I was at home, I had a false awakening in my bed but my wife was awake. It was 7am time to wake up but I told her I was going back to bed. I went to the table were I write my dreams down. I started to write one and a friend plus my wife appeared.
My friend took of his shirt and he had a tattoo in his chest exactly the same than mine. Then, suddenly his tattoo changed into a different one, but with the same black and red colors. I found it odd and I realized a reality check.

I look at my hands and I had a lot of fingers so I became lucid. I said, "Ha! I knew it. That tat is not right. I am lucid, this is a dream." I took my blue backpack were I have my cards and left. I flew away and saw the moon up in the sky:







I gained some height and used my backpack as a jet pack. First I flew straight up and then straight. It was hard to fly with the jetpack. I almost hit a building. My backpack ran out of gas so I threw it away and kept flying on my own. I saw the moon and the dream started to fade. I spun and recovered the dream. Slowly the imagenery was back. I was getting out of the Earth and a voice said, "I know what you want. You want to go to Space." As I was exiting the Earth, instead of the moon, I saw another Earth. I though, "Not the Earth, I need the Moon!!!" The voice sounded again, "I know what you want. You want to see the Earth from a balcony at the moon." I was annoyed about that voice messing up. I saw myself approaching at the moon. I saw an odd building. The dream started to fade, so I had to recover it again.

I was inside a building. Everything was metallic and I saw flashes of light. I was like in a very old school first person shooting game, but I had no gun. I heard a lot of loud and annoying noises:







I saw red and blue arrows. Every few seconds, a hatchet with a blue arrow would close. I realized I was in a maze and I had to run to exit throughout the blue arrows. I suddenly saw armed soldiers, but they ignored me. I walked through them. I finally exited and I had a perfect vision on the moon. The voice said, "Oh. Now I know!" I saw a ship trying to land. It was Neil Armstrong!







I flew close to him and placed a flag with my own symbol. He was surprised when he saw me and he said, "You beat me here! How?" I laughed again and hit him softly in one of his shoulders. Then I forced myself to wake up. I knew I chained three lucids and I was entering the dangerous zone for recall. I woke up.

I want to know this is the first time I have a ToTY or ToTM completed without a FA after the lucid!

Missed Dream Signs:
- The False Awakening.

Dream Sign Noticed:
- The changeling tattoo.

Reality Check Performed:
- Hand Check.

12.07.2010

Highway to lucidity. (DEILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

This was a pretty awesome night. My old record of dream recalled in a single night was 8, I rose that up to 11 Only one of this was a fragment. Three of these were lucid and on one of them I completed one of the Tasks of the Year.
Ninth of the night:

I had a False Awakening in my room and I realized the DEILD worked great. A split second later, I lost lucidity. I had to drive somewhere and I was late. I could not see properly. I headed to the the freeway and I took Northbound. I was going to pick up my wife at work. The vision was terrible. The freeway was a lot different than it is for real and I found that odd. Suddenly, I hit a dead end in the freeway and I see my car flying to the pit. "This is not possible!", I said to myself. I affirmed I was dreaming and I jumped off the car and started to fly. I saw my car crush in the ground while I was levitating in the middle of a forest. I woke up"

Missed Dream Signs:
- None.

Dream Sign Noticed:
- A lane in the freeway ending into a pit.

Reality Check Performed:
- None. lucidity triggered.

12.07.2010

I can't reach the Roman Age! (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

This was a pretty awesome night. My old record of dream recalled in a single night was 8, I rose that up to 11 Only one of this was a fragment. Three of these were lucid and on one of them I completed one of the Tasks of the Year.
Eighth of the night:

I had a False Awakening in my room and I went to my regular table to write down my dreams.
My wife shout from bed, "That was so fun!" The sudden shout scared me and while I was trying to retain the dream in my mind, I asked her what was going on. She told me she had a very funny dream. She said, "I was selling a very unhealthy food in the middle of the freeway and several people bought from me. Suddenly, the scenery changed and I was next to a freeway. It was very cloudy and about to rain. The freeway was completely empty.

I found it very weird so I decided to jump. The gravity was weird so I ensured I was indeed in a dream. Eastbound was still empty, but I saw several cars coming from Westbound. I started to fly to get away from there and I remembered the ToTY. I decided to give another shot to the Gladiators. There was a DC that was like a shaman so I asked for help. This usually helps me. I asked her if she could help me to open a portal to the Roman Age. I saw a big iron borderpost. I told her, "I will fly high and you open the portal on the top of the borderpost. Then I will go through it!" I flew and started to fly towards the borderpost but no portal appeared.

We completed various attempts without success. The magician suggested me to use a special ointment to open the portal. She told me that I would need lily flower's oil and olive oil. I summoned the lilies, then I tried to summon a bottle of Rotture Di Oro Olive Oil, however, I failed to conjure it.

I though, "That's it. Stupid gladiators. I will focus on other task and will leave this one for later." I saw the moon and I said, "Perfect" I started to fly to the moon and the dream faded. I had time to remember myself to DEILD.

Missed Dream Signs:
- The False Awakening.

Dream Sign Noticed:
- An empty freeway.

Reality Check Performed:
- Gravity test.

12.07.2010

Wife screws my lucid! (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

This was a pretty awesome night. My old record of dream recalled in a single night was 8, I rose that up to 11. Only one of this was a fragment. Three of these were lucid and on one of them I completed one of the Tasks of the Year.
Seventh of the night:

I had a False Awakening in my room. It was early still but my wife was already awake. I asked her to come back to bed, but she replied she needed to iron. I got mad and told her, "This is the best time for me to become lucid, come on, you want to meet our personal goals, right? I need to become lucid to do that!!! You are going to screw it all up. If you want to archive the plans, I need to be lucid and/or astral project" Lucidity still firing up, but not just yet! (next dream) I looked for another room. I saw my parents room. My mom was not in there. The room was a very huge room with the lights on and classic music going on. They had a black sound system. My dad (nice dad) was lying in bed. The bed was twice the size of a King. I realized they needed loud music to sleep and I could not sleep with such noise.

Missed Dream Signs:
- False Awakening.
- Talking about lucidity with my wife.
- Meeting with my parents (they are 12000 miles from home)
- The ridiculous size of their bed.

What I would have done if lucid:
- Talk with DC to find out more about myself.

12.07.2010

Ignored Mantra (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

This was a pretty awesome night. My old record of dream recalled in a single night was 8, I rose that up to 11. Only one of this was a fragment. Three of these were lucid and on one of them I completed one of the Tasks of the Year.
Fifth of the night:

I had various False Awakenings. I started to write down something in my journal. I was repeating a mantra within the dream about awakening within the dream and remembering a scenery. Lucidity igniting more, but not in this dream yet. I tried to avoid about thinking in other stuff and only focus on my mantras.
While lying down in bed, I felt I was imaging myself writing down a dream seating being my regular table. I was writing them down in my journal.

Missed Dream Signs:
- The FA in my room.
- Not realizing the mantra was said within the dream.
- My dream journal.

What I would have done if lucid:
- End the dream while telling myself to DEILD. The dream quality was low so I would "reset" it.

12.07.2010

Chef's vacation (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

This was a pretty awesome night. My old record of dream recalled in a single night was 8, I rose that up to 11. Only one of this was a fragment. Three of these were lucid and on one of them I completed one of the Tasks of the Year.
Fourth of the night:

I had a false awakening in my room. I was lying on my back and I felt that I almost fell from bed. I woke up and something scared me. I made noise due the scare, but my wife did not wake up. I was planning to attempt to Astral Project.

In this dream, I was writing down a dream in my journal. Basically, the imagery of this dream was me behind my journal and at the same time, I was able to view the dream I was writing down.
I picked up the Chef somewhere in the country. We were going to meet for a week.
I drew something in my journal, which represented the place where I was going to pick up the chef. I drew it for real too:







I was upset about some banners that were at this location. I remember that this place had a room where there was a small lake with a lot of trees and a small rock.
The cheff met with two guys, I realized that the "two" was a dream sign and I noted it as a side note of a missing dream sign. But did not turn lucid for real... here is where my lucidity starts to ignite for the night.
I wrote down more stuff and I woke for real.

Missed Dream Signs:
- The FA in my room.
- My dream journal.
- The two guys plus realized I missed that dream sign within the dream.
- The drawing was made too good over my general abilities.

What I would have done if lucid:
- Head for a Task of the Year.

12.07.2010

Attempting to write down a dream. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

This was a pretty awesome night. My old record of dream recalled in a single night was 8, I rose that up to 11. Only one of this was a fragment. Three of these were lucid and on one of them I completed one of the Tasks of the Year.
Third of the night:

I had a FA in my room. I went to the table in the kitchen to write down my previous dream. My wife just went to the restroom. I went to a different kitchen than waking and I wrote down my dream in a small odd white laptop that was inside a shelf. While I was typing in the dream, i realized I could not take it from the computer, so I closed it and grabbed my paper journal.
I was planning to eat an Oreo when I was done. I tried to walk to the table where I usually write down my dreams, but I could almost not see. My wife had to hold me because I was falling asleep.
She helped me to sit down in my regular chair, but I could not write the dream because I had no vision. I ignored that and I started to write down a dream.

Missed Dream Signs:
- The FA in my room.
- The computer inside a shelf.
- An unknowk kitchen.
- My dream journal.

What I would have done if lucid:
- Probably head for one of the short ToTY. The dream was not very vivid.

12.07.2010

World Cup - Final Match (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

This was a pretty awesome night. My old record of dream recalled in a single night was 8, I rose that up to 11. Only one of this was a fragment. Three of these were lucid and on one of them I completed one of the Tasks of the Year.
First of the night:

I was going to the Pata Negra store, as I had to work. It was day and the Final Match was going to take place to decide the World Champion. As I arrived, it was full of people. I was alone at the store, however, I was happy because I knew I could close up the store and go see the match.
I went to the office and they quoted me a time about when the game was going to start so I could close.
I got back to the store and I was waiting until the quoted time so I could close it up.
The time arrived, I closed the store and went to the restaurant, however, no one was there.
Someone guessed the result of the match.
I had a FA in my room. I was talking with someone about what happened with the match. I started to write down the dream and I woke up.

Missed Dream Signs:
- The oddity of going back and finding no one at the restaurant.
- The FA. I have plenty, so it's one of my dream signs.
- My own dream journal appears on several of my dreams as well.

What I would have done if lucid:
- Probably I would talk with a DC in the dream to find more about myself.
- I would started to DEILD in the dream to start the next one fully lucid.

08.07.2010

Downtown (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Well. Some of a crazy night. I had several FAs and I started recalling only fragments to full dreams and even a short lucid. I am so happy!!! I have at least one major lucid a week and 4-5 minor lucids a week!
Here goes, the fifth of the night:

I was in downtown with my wife. It was day and we were walking. We got to an odd building and she entered it. I was waiting outside. I could see her talking with some friends. I spend a while outside but I decided to open the gated door and enter. Where my wife was talking, there was now a different lady. I entered the building and it was like a hospital. I asked the staff inside if they saw my wife. They had no idea about what I was talking about. I found very odd that my wife left without even telling me, so I decided to look at my hands and RC

I was missing my thumbs so I turned lucid. I was alone now surrounded by skycrappers. I decided to do the Task of the Year, Beat Neil Armstrong down the ladder. The dream quality was low and it did not appear very robust, so I wanted to do it fast. I took flight without a sweat and flew over the clouds. As I was approaching the sky, it would turn more gray and blurry. I felt I was loosing the dream so I decided to spin without success. I decided to crush head on in the ground to do something funny before the dream ended. I started to fly at maximum speed and crushed in the ground. I ended in a False Awakening instantly.

My wife complained about what I just did. She told me it might not hurt to me, but it did a little to her, she felt the crash. The scenery changed and I was alone in downtown again. I called to my wife's cell phone and she replied, "Yeah, I am here. I am buying a lot of octopus and fish!" I was surprised she told me that and I told her, "Don't you think we already bought enough groceries yesterday?" She said something and got mad without a reason. The phone call ended.

I noticed I walked a few blocks away my parked car. I was not used to the neighborhood I was located and I was lost. The streets were crowded. There were outdoors parties going on. I was thinking in calling my wife to meet at some point and look for our car, but I decided not.

I had another FA in a different room. I started to write down my dream and my wife asked me, "Have you had any lucids today, how about Astral Projections?" I told her I just had one lucid right now. My wife woke up and looked a lot different that she is. I made a RC looking at my hands. Oddly, they looked okay and I accepted it instead of doing other RCs. My wife asked me, "So, the RC did not work this time, huh?" She was smiling. I replied, "I guess not. I felt you were different, but now you look normal so it had to be a hallucination." I woke up.

08.07.2010

At the mall (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Well. Some of a crazy night. I had several FAs and I started recalling only fragments to full dreams and even a short lucid. I am so happy!!! I have at least one major lucid a week and 4-5 minor lucids a week!
Here goes, the fourth of the night:

It was a cloudy day. I was planning to have a quiet and rested day. We drove to a mall and parked far from the entrance. We went inside the mall looking for a store. There was something going on with a song that I cannot recall. There was not many people inside the mall and we could not find what we were looking for.

I had a few false awakenings and lost a good piece of information here. Now it was night and it was raining. We had to return to the mall to gather something, but we exited for an unknown reason. I tried to go back to the mall, but I saw an employee closing the doors and locking them up. I was worried because the parking lot where our car was located was very far if I had to walk around the mall. The employee did not allow me to pass. It was windy and rainy now. I grabbed my wife on her back and we started to walk to pick up our car.

08.07.2010

Mid-night call (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Well. Some of a crazy night. I had several FAs and I started recalling only fragments to full dreams and even a short lucid. I am so happy!!! I have at least one major lucid a week and 4-5 minor lucids a week!
Here goes, the third of the night:

I was in my room. It was very similar to waking. We had a phone in the room and it started to ring. It was about 3 am in the morning. It was a call from the Olive Oil store. I could not understand well the phone call, I was falling asleep while taking over the phone. They wanted to tell me I was going to be off someday of these week.

The scenery changed. It was night and I was with my wife. I parked my car in an indoors lot. We were going to a party that was going to take place inside the Olive Oil store, however, the mall was very different from waking. As we were walking to the entrance of the mall, I saw a round table with a few bottles and pieces of bread. One of the bottles was from my store. However, the name was different (made up) I think it started with an M. The liquid itself was orange. It was olive oil with several flavors at the same time.

Here I miss a lot of information due confusion with a real awakening and a false awakening.

I had various FA until the point of confusion. I was checking out in a store. I was buying something I cannot recall.

08.07.2010

My room is a dream workshop! (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Well. Some of a crazy night. I had several FAs and I started recalling only fragments to full dreams and even a short lucid. I am so happy!!! I have at least one major lucid a week and 4-5 minor lucids a week!
Here goes, the second of the night:

- I was indoors.
- A lady was giving me something.
- In my waking room I found people that I have never met. They were writing down dreams for me and for other people.
- These people wrote down about my Astral Projection experiences.
- They though I was Astral Projecting in that moment, but I knew I was just dreaming non lucidly so it was not an AP (funny, did not turn lucid with that!!! This is one of those false-lucidity I read somewhere)
- These people inserted some pictures in my paper journal like if it was a computer. I could see two or three lines of text, then a picture, more text and another picture. My journal was bigger than waking.
- During this entire dream I had several FAs in my room.

06.07.2010

At a hotel in summer (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Fifth dream of the night out of five dreams (three lucids)

I had a FA in a hotel, but I do not recall exactly where. I became instantly lucid. My lucidity was very weak. I had very little control. I realized it was a dream, but I followed the plot of the dream itself.

I flew at a very small height and I observed all the DCs. Most of them, if not all, were female. They were sun bathing, jumping in the pool, playing and chatting. I decided to jump to the pool and breath underwater. I was able to do it. I saw several ear plugs at the bottom of the pool.

I started to mess around with some DC. I lost all lucidity here because I do not recall well what happened, but I was not feeling the same way I feel in a lucid.