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Morning of January 26, 2015. Monday.



This was a type of typical “gadget dream” where most of my dream’s details are rendered fairly close to my perspective with the in-dream environment not being that clearly rendered or defined.

I am looking at a toy that I think belongs to my youngest son. I think it may need to be repaired or at least taken apart and checked. I am not sure what it is meant to do. It is like a large plastic device that resembles a suitcase in some ways or perhaps an older toy movie projector. Inside one part is a VHS tape but which functions as a timing indicator perhaps. There also seems to be an 8mm film of Donald Duck which goes all the way around the VHS tape (closer to the outer edges of the containing section) when the device is working, although I have removed and apparently changed certain parts. Over time, the device just seems to serve as a container for some sort of View-Master-like toys in different compartments. The general appearance and inside changes quite dramatically by the end of my dream.

1. Zombie apocalypse underway. Military is leaving as they feel their job is done but many zombies remain. High atop some buildings someone who was asleep does not believe there are zombies angers a crowd of them and I shout "run!!!" I am on a patrol with two others. We walk past some prostitutes, they accost us and put their hands in our pockets, trying to steal our wallets. I point a rifle at one and we move on. A big burly body guard comes after us and racially insults one of my companions. We are going into a subway tunnel, there are soldiers by the entrance. I load my rifle, an m-14. Clearly cycling the action and removing the magazine. I ask army guy for 7.62x49 ammo, he says he gave his last few rounds away. I tell him I would like a .223 when military leaves, he describes it's virtues for zombie elimination .


2.At the farm with some girl, just hanging out. Talking about staff at work. There is lots of photo equipment lying around. We just talk and eat some food. Think about swimming, but realize "the water will be cold." My uncle arrives with some other sales type guy. They are outside talking. I go to the kitchen sink and peek out the window. I see them talking. One has a purple car parked near where they talk. I go back and we clean up the equipment and mess from eating. Other family members start arriving to do some work on the pool/house.

3. am at work (in a different building) mrs. x tells me supervisor was looking for me, I ask why she is telling me this, another staff member tells me "because he never knows where to find anyone!" I realize that earlier mrs x had asked me to get a candy bar, which I give her, then I walk away. I remember the wrapper, and return to give it to her, saying " this is yours too." Then there is a radio contest and wife wins a fanny pack from morning comedy DJ.

fragment: Flying in a helicopter over woods at the farm. They have flooded with a dark brackish water. I see many alligators lurking in the water. I point out 2 large alligators in a spot near the old woodpile/firepit.

Lucid

WILD (after WBTB):

The dream started with me feeling my body in bed and my dream body simultaneously. I focused on moving my dream body hands and feet until I no longer noticed my body in bed. I then moved to the edge of the bed and stood up. The room was dark, I couldn't see. I shuffled over to the door and started touching the walls and the floor. I then gradually started to open my dream eyes and the room was brightly lit. I suddenly noticed this strong itching sensation in my ear and I thought to myself, "noooooooooo".
Then I woke up and itched it. I started to go back into the dream but B-dog and H-dog jumped up on the bed and started licking my arm like it was the most delicious thing that they had ever tasted.

DILD:

This was an attempted WILD that failed but I became lucid later in the dream.

It was dusk and the landscape was lit up with a warm, orange glow. I was laying down in the back of a jeep with Dreamer and looking out across the countryside. We had been cuddling for awhile when the jeep started to move, someone was driving it. I think it was supposed to be Dreamer's aunt or something in the dream. The car started to move very fast and I felt like we were going to get thrown out the back so I tried to brace myself, but I still worried that the force would be too much and my arm would snap.

I looked around and saw that they were driving after an old man, someone's grandpa. They called him grandpa Pete. He snow white hair and he wore blue jeans with a blue shirt. He was running around the city, trying to run away from something. They kept driving after him while calling out that he should stop running and just get over it. Whoever was driving the jeep started swerving in and out of oncoming traffic. I became lucid and asked them to stop the car. I ran across this huge interstate with 8 lanes of traffic coming at me at 70+mph. I deftly dodged the cars and jumped past a huge truck that barely missed me, then ran up to grandpa Pete. He picked up a tire iron and told me to stay back while wildly swinging it in front of him. I wasn't worried about it. He threw the tire iron at me and I asked him what was wrong. He told me that he was afraid of dying, he said that he was 88 years old and he was probably going to die soon and that he didn't want to. I told him something about life being a circle and that maybe being close to death just meant that he was going to be young again. He liked the idea of that and then he turned into a sand creature as his body melted into the ground. He laid there with his flat, sand body and a huge, peaceful grin on his face. I then decided to go eat some dream food before I woke up because I was right outside of a gas station. Woke up as I walked inside.

red eyes fights for eternity getting punch and kick

Dream fragments Sunday to Monday night:
I was emptying out my husband's pants pockets prior to laundry, but instead of putting the contents aside for him to sort through, I tried to sort through them to determine what is trash and what is not. There were a few leftover pills which were all part of one package but different colors and shapes, and I knew they must be a kind of vitamin pill that changes the composition of the vitamins over time, but he had taken some from the middle rather than taking them in the correct order, and I wondered whether that rendered the rest of them trash or not.

I was an inmate in some kind of underwater prison. But the water level was dropping, and I had hopes that I could in the confusion be confused for a guard not an inmate and be able to escape.

I was a student and I don't remember much except that it looked like we were going to have pasta every day next week, some in restaurant and some in dorm but all pasta all the time.

Failed WBTB around 2am

Fragment:
I thought the renovation was almost done and so did the couple we had hired to do it. But my husband saw that a tile was broken near the fireplace and wanted it replaced. And then he noticed some burned looking wood on the wall that wood need to be sanded down. And he did not like the decorative lobsters.

26.01.2015

1-26-15 Fragments - Checking Lucid Tasks (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Fragment (+0.5)

I was at Dreamviews checking the lucid dreaming contest.

I was checking all the tasks and dares I had to work with.

26.01.2015

Pandora's Box? We are out! Hahaha (WILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Full Dream (+1)
After writing down some fragments I decided to WILD.

After what it felt a couple of minutes, my wife suddenly woke up and started moving abruptly in bed. She was trying to hug me in an abrupt way and she started to pull me, pull my arms and shake my head. I knew I was WILDing a moment ago while my wife was hard asleep plus such behavior is uncommon from her.

I decided to do a reality check (+1) to make sure my WILD worked (+10) and indeed I was asleep. The dream quality was pretty bad, so I decided to go out and get to fly a little bit above the town (+4) in order to make my dream stable (+1) with good success. The dream when crystal clear in no time.

I landed and I decided to make some easy points. So I asked the time to a Dream Character (+2) and he replied that he was going to be late and started to run... whatever.... I believed I had a dare where I had to eat an entire boiled egg in one bite (which in reality it was a gold fish) so I decided to look for a place to eat a boiled egg. I entered in some fast food place that looked like a subway:







I started to ask for boiled eggs, and they gave me a tray with pieces of boiled eggs and random veggies. I tried some for points (+4) and realized I needed the egg to be whole. There was no way to get a whole boiled egg, and I kind of gave up on it.

I recalled it was a good idea to hit another ToTY, so I decided to look for pandora's box. I figured that just summoning it would be invalid, so I decided to find it, like I found that gizmo present in a past task. I went inside a store and asked for them to please give me Pandora's box. They started laughing at me, saying they were out of them and telling me I was nuts. I insisted but then a dream character started to make jokes, and I forgot about the box.

I was then walking around downtown, looking for another store to demand Pandora's box. But I felt my dream fading and for some reason, I did not try to save it, leading to a False Awakening.

I wrote my dream down and relaxed back in bed, setting the intent to induce another lucid dream, when I woke up for real.

26.01.2015

Pandora's Box? It is classified. Have this Sorin's Box. (WBTB + DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Dream happened after WBTB (+2) Successful (+0)
Full Dream (+1)

I was having dinner with my wife at a large table. The restaurant looked very dark and it was cold. Appaently, we were eating nothing and waiting for food, but time passed quicky and sudenly, we already ate and were about to leave. We had two tables in front of us and soon random people started to sit around us, claiming they were our family. Soon, we had a huge party going on and I felt tired and not looking forward to do "family" dinner, especially because I just ate.

I realized that everything did not make a lot of sense, so I realized I was dreaming. I was going to skip on my reality check, but a point is a point, so I looked at my hand to RC (+1) and I had nine fingers in one single hand. People started to talk to me, but I just walked away and decided to take a small flight (+4) to make my dream stable (+1) which I successfully did.

I planned to score a few more points, so I saw a Dream Character and decied to have a short chat with him (+2) he said a lot of nonsense and that he needed money. I decided to basic summon cash from my pocket with success (+4) and I pulled out a couple quarters and handed them to him.

I started to flying away above a large street with a lot of street lamps until I saw a very old store. It was odd and mysterius and I recalled the ToTY for Pandora's box:







When I entered the store, I asked the owner if he could allow me to see the Pandora's box. He told me it was classified and I was not allowed to. I saw other employees walking around some long aisles behind the register. I was sure Pandora's box was in there and I could fight for it. (Dream quality fades rapidly here, and so my lucidity) The owner says, "We can give you a Sorin's Box over there." I figured if it would be valid, but then I figured it wouldn't as it is not Pandora's box. I saw a few huge dogs that were guarding the door and I felt they could be a thread, as I was forgetting I was dreaming.

From here, while I was examining Sorin's box, I woke up.

26.01.2015

1-26-15 Fragments - Psychic teachings (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Fragment (+0.5)

Doing lots of readings and sending healing session.

A spirit that I connected with told me something about chocolate chip cookies.

Teaching people to develop psychic abilities.

A decent night before WBTB turned into a great recall night after WBTB and successful BTS (back to sleep).

23:30 pre-bedtime
00:00 (?) bedtime

06:26

+(f) bunch of dogs digging in a hole in a little hut, "dig dig dig dig dig dig!" someone (me?) says, "where's the hole? where's the hole? where's the hole?"

+ picking and eating red/blue berries from a bush; showing people around AH, our old bike jumps, 'lost my two front teeth"

A number of people are standing around a tangled, medium-sized berry bush. There are blue and red colored berries, I'm looking to try to find the best berries.

I'm walking along the main street on AH showing some people around: we reach the "end" of the street where there is a fairly large dirt pile. I explain that this is a bicycle jump, one of the many that we build on the hill. We walk back the other way towards the berry bush. I'm saying there are jumps all over the hill and we used to ride all over the hill doing this jumps, and that is how I knocked out my two front teeth.

+ kayaking homeschool, fast, sleek kayaks, channels between the reeds, rain

I'm floating through narrow channels of water amongst tall reeds. Children are zipping by paddling kayaks at fairly high speed. They are really good at it. This is a homeschool where they teach kayaking, it's an integral part of the curriculum, you wouldn't be able to do this in a normal school. The kayaks are sleek. Small girls are paddling them, at high speed, I'm admiring their skills. It starts raining, I imagine they must go inside and wait for the rain to stop before continuing kayaking, what will they do inside?

+ outdoors outside building, google project(?), the walls have ears (typos), people digging up, record and print my words

Outside a large concrete building on a sloping lawn with a group of young people, like outside a University building at a college. I'm talking, I'm saying lots of things. At some point I realize that my words are verbatim appearing as text on the walls of the building we're next to. "The walls have ears!" I exclaim. I see that even my mis-pronounced words are recreated exactly using "typos" in the words on the wall. This is some sort of privacy-invading project run by Google. Suddenly a team of workers appears, they begin digging around the base of the building, pulling up plates of concrete. Something we've said is "against their rules" and so they must enter the machinery and erase it from memory.

+ fire alarm/brigade, drive through town (deja vu), moving extremely heavy concrete blocks car prototype ('sorry, no fire'), club house 2 men workers installing diagonal windows ("look out, or they'll 'get' us") girl digs out extra room, keys on shelf, throwing tokens, change shirt, drink of water (dip whole cup?)

I'm a fireman? on a fire truck responding to an alarm, we enter a city and must wind our way in between buildings, I've been here I think, have to find the fire. Arrive at some building and get off and encounter a group of people moving incredibly heavy constructs made from cement/cinder blocks. They are building a prototype (vehicle?) from these blocks, and they're working on solving the problem of the large blocks slipping. Should I help them move? I don't.

I'm replacing keys and a small fob-like device on some shelf, I'm looking for the right place to put them, I see some keys and put them with the keys.

Some pranksters are throwing things at me? I go outside and dip my hand into a pouch by the door and pick up a handful of little stuffed-toy-animal-eyes (the sort where the 'pupil' moves inside a clear container) and throw them at the guys, they're amazed that I took it for so long without responding.

I have to take off and change my shirt.

I'm observing a small side-buidling, in one area two men workers are working on installing large glass windows that are diagonal with the top more outside and the bottoms more inside. If we're not careful they're "get us" and "even we [meaning the guys] are not safe." There are more girls in our group than guys. There is a small room to the right of the workmen's room, it's packed full of some material (crumpled up paper?), and a girl from our group enters this room and starts using her legs as a piston to clear out the room, compacting and clearing out the material. At some point the room is clear, I'm looking at it wondering if she's going to use the room for herself, she discovers me looking in the window into this room.

I'm in the clubhouse carrying a plastic cup approaching a big container of fresh water, I want a drink: should I just dip my whole cup into the water directly? (Is the cup clean?)

07:00 ? up for WBTB

go to kitchen, sit with cat, drink cup of milk and eat a small chunk of rye bread

07:45 ?) back to sleep

Feel deep wells of drowsiness, aim to sink deeply into it and fall asleep fast. I'm able to ignore sound disturbances and fall asleep.

+ bikini block party

I'm outdoors in daylight, one some typical suburban street. All the neighbors are out lounging around. In the middle of the street two girls are lying in bikinis on a very large picnic blanket that extents from the middle of the street up onto the sidewalk. The girls are lying on it in the middle of the street. They say something (but I forgot).

My wife and I are standing in front of a group of girls/woman in bikinis on their front lawn and sidewalk. Farther up the lawn is a very tanned (including the face) of a woman in a sexy black bikini, it's so tight that a camel-toe is very pronounced, and I sneak several peeks at this.

There are two girls at our feet in bikinis, one is on an air mattress, which starts to leak. Did we pop it? I get down on the ground and try to re-inflate it while the girl is still lying on it. I'm blowing into it but air is still escaping, there must be a leak. The 2nd girl is to the right and my right arm is rubbing firmly against her left leg (she's lying on her stomach) and I really enjoy this contact. The air-mattress girl gets up and I keep trying to inflate the mattress, I pat the mattress several times and it seems to me holding air now.

+ red quarterstaff

I'm in a room with a closet. I go to the closet and inside I see a big collection (10+) of "quarterstaffs" in tall leather holsters hanging there. They're all dark with one exception of a bright red one, I snort and say of COURSE I'll select the red one. These staffs have been placed here by (my patron? lover? Some male [ew!]). I take it out into the room and withdraw the staff from the holster. (It's more the size and shape of a Tae Kwon Do stick). At one end of the stick is a gel grip, I grab it and feel for the grip it gives. I notice the opposite side of the stick has a longer grip, it must be the base, I grab a hold of it and get an instant thrill of the sensation of the grip. It's not a gel grip, I notice it's some sort of luxurious fur, and run my finger in it and look closely at it for a few moments.

+ super hero costume leggings

I'm some house, super hero family?, the men need to go out and rescue some of the women(?), I say "bring me my costume" and a guy brings it to me and I start putting it on: it's knitted leggings/hose, of multiple colors like a rainbow. As I pull up the hose over my legs I start noticing imperfections and larger holes in the hose. These were supposed to be brand new! I mention the holes and the guy says "you should have checked them before putting them on."

+ terrifying train ride, fast food leftovers

I'm holding on to the left outside of a large train locomotive while it is moving forwards. The train track has a wall along the left side which is getting disturbingly closer to me, I may be squished! I'm trying to lean my head out farther to the left to look ahead to see if the wall opens up or closes more, but the train is going so fast and there are things jutting out from the wall so I dare not stick my head out and I hold tightly to the train while the wall closes in on me. The train reaches and intersection and stops and there is some director man on the ground, who starts criticizing the train engineer for stopping, my wife is the engineer. The guy says "distracted female driver is not paying attention!" my wife responds by immediately starting the train forwards again, I'm calling in a foreign language "Honey! …. Darling!" trying to catch her attention so I can climb in to the cab. She does not hear me.

I'm on top of the front of the train, slowly directing it along a very curvy path. A sharp left turn comes up, I see the two parallel tracks. I think we can make it if we go really slowly. We make it. We're trying to get back to the street. We approach a fast-food restaurant and I direct the train to drive through it?

I'm walking through the restaurant looking at the tables and the leftovers there. I see a very small mini-cat jump into the leftovers on a table and dig in eating vigorously. I walk by one table and notice it has a small cardboard box filled with one of the specials: a pile (dozens) of small circular meat patties piled deep in the box. Something like this:



+ shark slide hill inflatable ride

I'm riding up a large inflatable slide ride on some inflatable boat. It is a water ride. As we're nearing the top I get concerned about a shark attack. Our boat is near the left side of the water near the "hard ground" and I want to get off because it will be safe there. Right here on the shore in the water is a dangerous position. We right back down the slide, just about all the way to the bottom, and I think how are we going to get back up again?


+ (near miss) the video game that seemed so real (white bladed dagger & short sword, tools, dice, family's voices), touching chairs, digging out wall panels

Semi-lucid. I'm in an indoor location and I recognize that I am not in a waking/"real" environment. I'm amazed at how solid and real things look and feel, like the wooden knob on top of the back of a chair, I touch it and think it feel like waking. I rationalize the thoughts by imagining that I'm inside some ultra-realistic virtual reality video game. There are little cubbies against the wall, and a number of discolored places where I dig into and find items. I find a small white-bladed knife embedded in one of these wall holes and pull it out. I notice grates on the floor leading to passage ways below(?). I continue pulling out white-bladed devices: one has a very short blade, one is longer, and a third one which is an indeterminate device. I hang all 3 of them on my utility belt.

I hear the voices of family members (son S2), and I imagine they're just beyond the wall in the next room. I'm concerned that if they enter in my room that they will disturb this game experience and it will end. (Probably incorporating waking voices into the dream).

I'm back in the cubbies along the floor next to the wall finding things. I find a strange multi-faceted game die, 20-side I think, but it's more egg-shaped than spherical. I also find two normal cube-shaped 6-sided dice. I imagine I must roll these dice and the outcome will direct what I must do next in the game. I put these dice into my pockets which I think are getting quite full.


+ (f) meyer's lemon tree

First dream

I was a Liberal Crime Squad leader. Our goal was to take over the U.S government, and make each law liberal. I have gained more leaders that were responsible for recruitation and other operations. They recruited a few sleeper agents, and we started to build our safehouse. We've bought a press and started Liberal Guardian newspaper.

False Awakening - DILD

I woke up in my bed, and went straight to the bathroom. I thought Why It's so dark here? I tried to turn the light on, but the lightswitches haven't worked. Suddenly I realised that it's a false awakening. I did the nose plug RC and went back to kitchen. I thought Well, I've never reached the bathroom in a false awakening before. Tried to turn the kitchen lights on, but lightswitches still weren't working. I clapped my hands, and lightbulb blinked giving a little light. It stopped blinking when I stopped clapping my hands. I pointed my left hand at the light bulb, and made a gesture showing that I grab it. When I've finally got some light, I've lost lucidity, and it all went into a non lucid.

I was in the bathroom. I was taking a bathe in my t-shirt and underwear, while there were three more persons in the room. I finished taking a bath. My clothes were dry. I went to the living room. My siblings were there. I had to check something on younger sisters PC. I asked why it's turned off. They told me to turn it on. I did it and sat on a wheelchair. Suddenly my teacher arrived there and asked me Hey?! Are you sitting in a hotel room! No! I sat on a nearby sofa, and the teacher sat on a wheelchair. He told me that he has plugged his PC to our, and he had to do something on his PC first. Windows XP intialized. He had a picture of wood as a wallpaper (he's a forestry teacher). I went outside with a wooden piece in my hands. I was hiding it, as if it was something I wasn't supposed to see or have. I went back to home and thought I have my own laptop, why have I wanted to use sisters PC? Dream faded to darkness and I woke up after a while.

in a eternal death state you will never be able to wake from your ultimate fears they will consume your every thought as you die amplified horror will occur as every fear you ever haved

Nap time: 1:45p

Absolutely nothing. Most likely because it was hot in my room, since I woke up kinda sweaty, which absolutely kills my recall 100%.

Wake up: 2:35p

I then took off my blanket and tried to go back to sleep, which took longer than expected.

Nap time: 3:00p

I believe I WILDed in, since I was lucid from the start of this dream. I was in this garden of some kind. Pretty much everywhere I looked was green, but it wasn’t really textured. It almost looked like it was from a video game, since the shrubs were very blocky. I could tell the dream was shaky from the get-go, so I tried to stabilize by touching everything. The shrub felt almost like felt (lol), while the grass had more thorns and sharp things. This stabilization didn’t really work, though, as I soon suddenly lost vision in my left eye, eventually followed by my right.

I woke up into my dorm room (although on the wrong side of the room). My mom was at the door, asking me to send her an email with my class schedule so she knows when to call. I walked out the door into what looked more like my high school hallway. There were a ton of students going to class, most of which looked very distraught. I overheard some students talking about the abusive principal and some of the terrible things he was doing to them. I was kind of enraged, and since I have previous experience with school revolutions, I decided to stand up for everyone. I grabbed a megaphone and started to yell.

“Alright, everyone, enough is enough! Are you sick and tired of the constant torment of going to this school?”

I had a couple students turn around a cheer a little. I suddenly realized that I had no idea what I had just done. For one, I had no idea exactly who this principal guy was, nor what he was doing, so I didn’t feel really qualified to lead an organized rebellion. I started struggling, but this brown-haired girl started telling me what to say. I repeated her statements into the megaphone, and even though they made no sense to me, they did seem to fire up the crowd. After one final rally cry, they burst into a loud cheer and stormed the principal’s office. I turned back to the girl and thanked her for her help.

We walked outside to see pretty much anarchy outside. There were students everywhere protesting and going crazy. There were news vans covering the story, and one anchor came up to me and the girl to ask for our reaction to the groups storming the White House. Yes, the White House. I realized I was probably in way over my head now, but the brown-haired girl responded instead. She sounded like she knew what she was talking about, even though, again, in retrospect it made no sense. During this interview, however, I woke up.

Wake up: 3:45p

2 Dreams: 2 pts
1 WILD: 10 pts
Stabilization: 1 pts

Dream Total: 13 pts
Competition Total: 15.5 pts

This started as though i was playing a game on the computer. One of those 2d 'Destroy the Castle' type games. Through lovely dream magic, it somehow became 3d as I played, then completely changed genres to an MMO and finally became 'real'. For some reason, myself and two others needed to kill a small bird monster and use it as bait to lure out a large one. Oddly enough, this required taking the dead monster down into a labyrinthine tunnel/cave system. As we were traversing the system, the floor collapsed and we fell quite a distance. One of my companions, a rather short guy wearing elaborate robes and a crystalline staff, fell near me. Our other companion, a woman who appeared in her early-mid thirties, who wore garb similar to the man though carried a sword, landed on a level twenty or so meters above. I could not see anything after I landed and was panicking. I felt that I had to return to the surface immediately so I was trying to feel my way around, yet I had a constant fear of falling off an unseen ledge. Both of my companions produced lights and I calmed down. With no way to reach each other, our other companion nodded a farewell and sought her own way out while the guy and myself searched around our level for an exit. The only apparent way to go, besides an ominous looking drop some distance away, was an old stone stairway leading down and slightly angled to the side.

There was a bit of a gap here but I recall yet another maze of stairs and narrow, irregular, hallways. Something happened in there which I don't recall, but I found myself running towards a ledge and skidding to a stop just before plunging off the side. Two creatures, shadowlike in appearance, were not as quick to stop and slid off into the dark. I turned and, gesturing towards the opening I had come from, forced the stone surrounding it to cave inwards, catching one more of the creatures before it could get out. My companion made it out, but I was not happy. At some point during the portion I had forgotten, something must have happened, for he now was trying to attack me. I noticed that he had the same kind of aura as the creatures. I had no weapons, and whatever abilities I had used on the opening did not appear to affect him much. He swung his staff and I was hit by a gust of air knocked past the edge. I grabbed on and, as he was approaching, thought to myself "This can't be happening." following that, I had the feeling something wasn't right. With my hands rather occupied trying to keep me from falling to my death, I went for an alternative RC and tried to fly. That failed, but, knowing that I've never managed to do well at that to begin with, I tried another. Suddenly there was a rather convenient ledge at my feet to stand on. "I'm dreaming." I said. Then, to further test it, I had the ledge move up to become level with the floor. I had it, lucid in a dream. Noticing my former companion waiting rather patiently I decided to have some fun with a magic duel. Things were going well for all of three exchanges of spells and counterspells. Then a new, doglike shadow creature dropped from above, landing in front of me. I panicked and lost any sense of being in a dream as I noticed several of them crawling on the walls. Not really sure how I got out of there, but I ran and found myself near the original entrance we had used when first entering the place.

Waiting for me was the woman who had headed out earlier, she was with a group of five or so others, all preparing to fight a giant birdlike monster that was flying towards us. I had forgotten about the entire thing during my time underground but remembered when I saw it. I don't really remember what happened, but I know I was killed during the fight. I 'respawned' a distance away and was annoyed at the need to travel back to the area. I arrived too late it seemed and had to once again lure out the thing, this time though, for some reason I considered an alternative and befriended the smaller birdlike monster by sharing, of all things, coffee with it. It joined my party and we went adventuring for a while. I don't recall the details.

We ended up in an odd city. A mixture of modern urban and high fantasy architecture. Skyscrapers nestled in with waterfalls, narrow walkways, small fantasy style houses, and the epic scaled buildings common in the fantasy genre. We were just leaving a coffee shop (Odd combo of modern exterior and medieval fantasy interior) when my bird companion was captured by a group seeking to lure out the large monster and I had to catch them before they could get there and kill my new friend. I ended up with the woman from earlier, along with two younger women, three guys, and an odd talking fox (who seems to have played no role as it vanished after the initial scene of setting out). I'm not sure what happened, but myself and four others ended up being knocked off the top of a skyscraper and landed in a lake below. I remember the fall being very vivid, I can still recall the sound and feel clearly. I was simultaneously terrified and thrilled and I do believe I was laughing near the end of it. I hit the water and was disoriented for a moment before finding my way to the surface. I was with two others then, I'm not sure what happened to everyone else. We saw my bird friend being dragged away across a bridge far ahead and above us (how I could see that far I've no idea). I was dismayed, but the two people with me laughed and handed me some odd balloon/propeller contraption with a long cord attached to a pair of wings with a harness. The wings were made of dozens of overlapping, every light and thin metallic plates. I'm not sure how I got the thing on, but I did and we were suddenly trying to get airborne with them, being pulled by the propeller and balloon floating in front of us. The two women were out of the water and away quickly, ditching the propellers once they were up to speed. After several attempts, I was finally pulled free of the water and airborne. As I got up to speed, I also ditched the propeller and caught up with the other two. Just as I was beginning to feel thrilled about flying, my alarm went off.

I repeated this mantra continuously last night as I drove out to visit ‘the folks’. No worries, I was alone. Btw, my wife and son would kill me if they had to listen to this:

“I WILL realize when I’m dreaming, and I WILL BE lucid. I WILL realize when I’m dreaming, and I WILL BE with my daughter.”

I verbally repeated it for 40 minutes as I was driving, just before bedtime. I fasted from lunch until bedtime, and then I ate one can of tuna, 100 mg B6, and a B multivitamin (washed down with a beer). I wrote out the mantra 4 times in my Dream Journal, and I also wrote out in big bold letters, HUG TIME DAUGHTER! WBTB after 4 hours and then I took 4 mg red spider lily extract and 200 mg choline. I had the best dream experiences ever: 2 lucids, 4 successful OBE’s, 3 failed OBE attempts, and 3 pleasant fun dreams, plus one hour in Nrem (the void). I also voice recorded each dream occurrence, immediately after each dream, and repeated the mantra a couple of times. Yes, I briefly woke up about a dozen times last night, but it was well worth it. The voice recordings allowed me to record what’s happened, without completely waking me up, and then I did the written journaling in the morning using the recordings as ‘recall’. Here’s the best lucid dream (I’ll add the other ones later):

I was false awakened because somebody was touching my back. I opened my eyes and I was lying on my left side in a huge bed which I didn’t recognize. About 5 feet away, in this huge bed, was a dark haired teenaged boy, who was quietly sleeping on his back. I stared at him, and thought now this is odd, there’s a teenage boy in my bed, and this isn’t my bed! I quickly closed my eyes, and I figured this must be some sort weird nightmare!

I opened my eyes again, and now the boy was lying on his right side facing me with his hazel nut brown eyes, staring right into my eyes. He had a very slight grin. I instantly became lucid!!! So I said, “Hi!” He casually replied, “Hi.” I quickly asked, “Who are you?” He then said something, and I could hardly hear him because I had my earplugs in, so I sat up in bed and leaned towards him, and I said, “What did you say?” He sat up in bed too, and moved towards me, and repeated his mumbling. I said, “I still can’t hear you?” Then I felt somebody touching my back again! What’s going here?

I said, “Who’s that (behind me)?” Then I felt somebody push against my back, and I could see blonde, curly hair drooping over my left shoulder. Then I heard my daughter say, “It’s me!” I quickly turned towards her and said, “Daughter!” She smiled ear to ear, and then I said, “Give me a hug!” She gave me the biggest hug ever! Then I asked her, “Who’s your friend?”, and she replied, “Huh, Oh, that’s Kenny!” Unfortunately I woke, because it was very emotional, but I stayed perfectly still in bed to try and get back into the LD. No luck, but suddenly ‘the vibrations’ started, and tried to OBE exit, but no luck again. This was a short, but a fantastic LD.