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Had a short sleep after work at 6:30, but I can only just remember a small part of my dream. I was sitting with some friends on a black sanded beach, we where sitting on a big rock watching penguins been plucked from the sea by massive mechanical claws. Nobody seemed to be phased by this (me included), the penguins didn't seem to be bothered by it either, not sure where the claws where taking them too - then I woke up around 10:30.

I wish I hadn't then decided to go out to my friends, I could have easily just stayed awake for an hour then gone back to bed but I decided against it.

Needless to say I struggled to get back to sleep when I got home, wasn't very tired then and plus the heatwave we're having made it even more difficult (we're not use to warm weather in England). However I got relaxed and kept my eyes closed hoping to drift off, then I could hear what sounded like a 'POP'! this scared the hell out of me initially because it sounded/felt like it was in my head (near the top), definitely wasn't from an external source. This was then briefly followed by some very nice swirling patterns which I could see behind my closed eyes, this really took me back to when I tried DMT. The patterns only showed for a little while, I was a little uncomfortable with this and opened my eyes to try and take in what had happened.

I could be thinking too much into the popping noise I experienced, I would love to hear if anyone else has experienced anything like this.

That's all I have for today,

(,")_PaulTech_(".)

1.

Length: ~1 hour
Type: Non-lucid


I was riding a boat with a whole ton of people. I can't remember whether they were in my family or not. But I knew that my Aunt Susan, my brother, and my cousin were there with me. So I sort of guessed we were in the same family. We were going to ride boats, and I started to say "I call the front seat". Because everyone knows its the best on a small boat. Surprisingly, no one argued. We got down and I got in a boat with... my cousin, my aunt, and my brother.

We rode out first and started doing some loops around a island just offshore waiting for the others. Then they came out. It was like 7 boats packed to the teeth with people. My aunt said "Wow, that many of us...". My aunt then got out and said "Well, you don't have to worry about me, I'm walkin'"
That did seem like her, always wanting to walk instead of being transported by other means, but it was strange, because I didn't even know you could walk this path.

Now that's strange in waking life because I had knowledge of a path I'd never taken in waking life, but I knew about it in a dream.
I feel like I'm learning new things about dreaming every night.

Anyways, she hopped out and I took the controls, then I blasted away and the others followed me.

Then, I woke up.

2.

Length: ~20 minutes
Type: Non-lucid

I opened a shop selling souvenir pictures from my trip to Alaska. I was at home flipping through channels on my favorite red couch (favorite couches never chance, even in dreams). Then my brother walked up to me and offered me some money for the shop. I hesitated, then sold him it.

After this, I can't recall what happened, but I do know that I eventually got it back and he was madder than hell at me. Which isn't that weird in waking life.

All that stuff gives me and excuse to not have done a reality check. No dream sign, realism (I was even thinking of setting up that "shop" in real life at Eugene's Saturday market!).

Anyways... go along now.

I'm on a bus ride home. The bus, despite my protests, drives past my stop. Suddenly, lucidity. I immediately decide to indulge in numerous flips, twists and other cool aerial maneuvers, whilst staying inside the bus and, miraculously, dodging my fellow passengers. Haphazardly, but gracefully, soaring through the sky, I return home. I attempt to summon my dream guide, but am instead greeted my ominous, red clouds. The floating fluffs of doom coalesce into Jafar, from Aladdin, in his genie form. Giving a rather stereotypical, but no less disturbing, laugh, he points at a random patch of sky and all goes black, save for some unintelligible, white text at the bottom. A brief and effortless spark of willpower and I'm back home, with my towering antagonist glaring with annoyance at me. He fires an unremarkable, yellow energy blast at me. I psychically grab it and redirect it. Hitting him square in the chest, he tumbles into my neighbor's house. Regaining his composure, he fires another volley and I send it back. He dodges and the house takes another beating. Wishing to finish this fight, I grab onto the fence gate that leads to my home and convert it into a giant slingshot, firing myself at the nigh omnipotent titan. Before I can charge into him, I wake up.

i had to put together some christmas-themed gift bags for my classmates. i was walking to the dollar store, which i understood was in downtown toronto although the area seemed more suburban. it was sunny outside and obviously not winter. i entered the dollar store, which was more like a warehouse. i wandered around for a long time looking for gifts. i purchased some small things. i had to be careful because i didn't have much money. one area contained some creepy old dollhouse furniture. i left this area and found out that my boyfriend was here. we looked at stuff together. i found a pair of fleece pants with airbrushed bears, owls and eagles on them and i thought they were amazing, but the tag said 'size 46' and i didn't know if anyone in my class was that large.

there was a 'computer room' in the warehouse and i wanted to use my computer for some reason. i tried to turn it on but the screen was blank. a tall guy was laughing at me.

i decided to leave, so i walked a block over to the other dollar store. i hadn't gone inside when i realized that i didn't tell my boyfriend that i left. i sat down on an outdoor bench outside of a bar and tried to get wifi on my phone. i sent him a message but i wasn't sure if it went through.

then i saw a bus and i got on it for some reason. the bus took me back home in about a minute (it would be at least an hour in real life!) and i felt really bad that i had left my boyfriend in toronto.

playing Superhero Card Game with Aliens
Playing weird card game with aliens as players and superhero cards. Had to correct the aliens on the value of earth superheroes (they had underestimated them by far). So once we corrected the value of our superheroes, some superhero that had before been completely beaten by the alien superhero in the card game, now won easily.

Theft or Gift
My older son saw that the daughter of the proprietor of a store was pining for a magazine. So he reached into the cash register and used money from there to "pay" for the magazine, which he gave to this girl. Then we talked about whether this is stealing: it was not his money, but he did not take the magazine, the girl is the daughter of the store owner, and my son ment well. I said that he would need to return the magazine to where it was because it was not bought with his money, and this he could not decide what happened with it.

Meeting a DV member and family face to face
I dreamed about meeting a member of DreamViews face to face. I do not know who she was, which user name, but she was a young woman. She had a very weird large family whom I got to meet too because we met at her home. I brought my sons with me. We sat on her porch, but then moved inside. I had a sense of interacting with various weird family members. I had brought my son's school photos with me, and one of the women in her family wanted to see them, but I could not find the actual photos in the lavish gift bundle that I had gotten with the photos. At some point in the dream the young woman I was meeting pointed out to me that my eyeglasses cleaner had fallen out of my purse, broken, and now the liquid was spreading over the hardwood floor. I felt bed about that. As my sons and I were leaving one of her older female relatives kept insisting on kissing my younger son repeatedly - I was annoyed about that. My younger son who is in reality four seemed much younger than he is, and I was carrying him out of some reason. The other DV member and I said that we looked forward to interacting on DV.

Religion Test
Some men talking to me and my family about religion. One of them said that he would want to test my faith by asking questions to see whether I believe them. The first question was actually two questions combined, something like "Do you believe in one God who is separate from all creation?" And I said that while I believe in one God, but he is deeply interconnected with his creation as the Holy Spirit. The man did not like this answer - he wanted faith on his definitions.

My memory of the dream is rather shaky, but here it goes: I was a dwarf living in a dwarf fortress, although everything seemed to be rather manmade. There were a lot of tunnels we used for transportation that were, for whatever reason, filled with water. Strangely enough, I was a wizard.

From what I recall, the plot of the dream goes like this: I'm trying to get through a tunnel, but some construction workers stop me because it's filled with water. I wait until it's ready and go through, and I end up in a place resembling a playground on a giant plate. I climb to the top to where the mayor of the fortress is, and from there I begin practicing magic (essentially I looked for a random critter on the plate and blasted it with a tornado of fire when I saw it). I did this for a while before I went back through the tunnel to my home (which appeared to be the ONLY thing underground). It was connected to several other rooms, sort of like a hotel. A loudspeaker went off and told everyone that a tournament was being held, so I got ready to fight and went to the arena, but I woke up before I could enter.

My magic abilities were similar to using a staff in Cubeworld, and the creatures resembled creatures from Cubeworld. There was also the odd mention of an absurdly expensive "green marmalade" that could be used to tame a "brown forest healer" but I only remember hearing about the green marmalade in fragments (except for a bit where it was announced just outside the arena) and I only saw the forest healers in a fragment once (they resembled the Black Mage from FF1, except their clothes were brown).

Alright, last night I went to bed late as I had a phone call with my girlfriend.
I still got about 8 hours of sleep though.

But I had the most disturbing dream in my life so I won't count this night. When I woke up from it I had no intention to do anything for LD for the rest of the night...and I had trouble falling asleep again.

I won't even write down this dream as, for the first time ever, I'm trying to actively forget this dream. It's just plain wrong and nothing worth to be remembered :/

Dream recall from today's nap.

There was something about dragons.

1. [non-lucid]
I'm walking a child home from his school, he has a white bag with something that looks like sticks of liquorish, he was told he was not allowed to eat them.
As we were walking home he decided to go ahead and eat 1, this annoyed me so I tried to ram him a few times (with my wheelchair) to punish him but it didn't do anything, randomly a woman appeared and slapped him, this seemed to do the trick, we carried on walking home.

2. [non-lucid]
I for some reason end up on a dock unable to get off it because the only way off is via a ladder...I cant use a ladder due to being in a wheelchair so that is quite a problem right there, someone approaches me and its Vinnie (A dick from my old College), he laughed and said something then climbed the ladder.

fragments:
I'm in some sort of game where I am speeding through moving platforms and dodging obstacles
Attacking and killing big n scary monsters in an indoor pool thingy.

Notable Items & People:
Ladder, Pool, Vinnie, Dock, Liquorish Sticks, White bag, Child

Dream of Thursday 18th - Friday 19th July 2013

I was in my room, in the exact same position how I fell asleep. I felt very weak and immediately had this vague feeling of fear, a realisation that something was wrong.
My little brother, my mother and my father (the latter being dead in real life) walked in my room through the doorway (which was in a different position than in reality). Because of the light of the hallway, I could only see their silhouettes. My little brother walked towards me and said: "I'm going to school. Hug?"
Something was wrong. I tried talking, which was very difficult. Which huge effort I was able to say: "J...., I don't want a hug right now. Okay?"
My little brother answered: "Okay", and just disappeared, and so did my mother and father. I didn't want him to be sad, so I said a little louder: "But have fun on school, alright?" No answer. I wondered if it was sufficient to make him happy again.

Then... A hand appeared on the edge of my bed, the palm directed towards the ceiling. The hand was softly moving, gesturing: "More."
Immediately I realise it's the monster and that I'm dreaming. (LUCIDITY)
I try to manipulate my dream and do something funny, so that I'll feel less afraid. I decide to put cake in her hand. Normal cake will be difficult because it's so light-coloured, but against the dark background of my room chocolate cake shouldn't be too hard. So I snap my fingers and make cake appear on her hand. I say: "Chocolate cake, bitch, mmmmm."
The hand disappears under the bed for 1 second, and the monsters says: "Mmmmm", on the exact same tone I had and with my voice. But the next second she's already there again. Waves of fear radiate out of my body. She stands up, and I become even more afraid... But curious as well. Maybe I'll finally be able to see her face, which never happened before. But where her head was supposed to be, there's only some indistinct blur.
Her clothing is very clear and very detailed: I can see that she wears a red schoolskirt, and a black vest. Her legs are not made out of grey and dead flesh, like usual, but are alive and healthy.
She climbs into my bed and desparatly I try to control my fear. She hums a weird tune as she crawls towards me. Right when I think that my fear is gone and my mind is empty, she says in English (not my first language):
"See, you, I'm still drowning." She violently bites the side of my waist and then the dream is over.



Nearly got a freaking heart attack when I woke up, realised I was awake, and still heard the humming tune. It appeared to be a chainsaw of somebody in my street who was sawing a tree. So the humming is not really relevant.
New things: she wasn't dead. This was a very, very alive monster.
Crawling into my bed and biting happened before, though.

Any thoughts?

PS: very angry that I didn't come up with anything better than chocolate cake. Wise lesson learnt this night: food doesn't solve problems.
PPS: I don't count this nightmare as lucid, because I'm always lucid in these nightmares.

Today i dreamt i was giving a walk with my brother and my mom.
My brother asked me if I could borrow him my phone, i did borrow.
I could listen what my brother was thinking: "Should i do it now? is it the right time now?
well i'll do it" he phoned his girlfriend and decided to tell her why he didn't tell her anything
about he being "dissapeared" from their house 2 days ago. His girlfriend monologue:
"What happened to you?"
"Why you didn't tell me anything?"
"I was worried you know?" <- almost crying
**WEIRD PART**
"I wanted you to come home, i want your love" <- crying
"I want your friendship" <- crying
"I want the music" <- crying
My mom tried to talk to her but it was useless, she just continued with this nonsense monologue...
"I want the football" <- crying
And i whispered to myself
"I want a lucid dream"


Technique used for this dream: MILD
Sleep time: 6 hours

I have a bunch of apologies to make. For one this dream is very strange. For two, I'm a day late, I had this while on vacation in Michigan earlier and the week and we were so busy bikeriding and kyaking that I never took the time to sit down and type this one out.
I actually classify this as a lucid nightmare. The inability to control it and the idea of being attacked by drowning and tornadoes... it kindof sucks.

I'm in some sort of lava/volcano place. I'm walking along on a wide shelf of rock that is angled slightly to the left. I take note that a thin layer of lava is spreading downward (there is a lava river on either side of the rock shelf.) So I know that unless I hurry, I won't be able to beat the lava and get to the other side of the shelf.
I don't make it in time. I decide to turn back. It's too late, lava has flooded the shelf on both sides. I'm trapped. I run through the lava to get to the other side, where I was originally going. The lava hurts my feet really bad to walk through and feels sort of sticky, but I am able to make it.
Once I get across, I see the shelf ends where there is a river of (already, were getting into some dream logic here) blue lava.
I was beginning to get lucid at this point, and had the feeling that killing myself in the lava wouldn't have any permanent consequence. (Plus, I was surrounded by erupting lava and volcanoes anyway, so either way, I was going to die.)
I jumped into the blue lava. It was very painful, but only lasted for a second. I died and became a "soul" that floated up to a safe spot away from all the lava on a small ridge. Once I was deposited there, I was in a new body and became fully lucid.
Ok, I wasn't fully lucid yet, but I knew I was dreaming. All of these computer graphic hologram menus appeared and contained various options that supposedly would allow me to terraform the planet that I was on.
I changed the settings to create a more temperate, earth like planet instead of a volcanic planet. Once I did that, I was in a forest type area with some kind of play structure for kids. It seemed to be wintertime, because all of the trees were missing their leaves.
I began to stabilize the dream using voice commands to increase the clarity. I began to notice that I could feel my position on the play structure (That I had climbed) and could tell which parts of my body were holding the weight. As I finished stabilizing, I noticed a small crowd of 20-some people were watching me stabilize the dream.
When I looked at these people, I couldn't help but think that they were looking for guidance, like I was their dream king or something. Just an interesting thought that I had while dreaming.
I eventually found Lia, my dream guide. But as soon as I found her, she began changing into an older man. When she had finished transforming, (s)he looked like Jonny Cage from the Mortal Kombat games.
Enh, sense when does ANYthing that happens in my dreams make sense anyway.?
All of the sudden I realized that I couldn't breathe. I remained calm and somehow realized that the entire area was actually about 100 feet underwater. I nearly passed out swimming to the surface, but as soon as I reached the surface, the water drained away. I should also note that the water was very clear. I'm not entirely sure how the area got flooded like so.
I think for a few moments somewhere in there I caught a glimpse of my dream "Nemesis" a boy named Jonathan. I think he was the one flooding the area in an attempt to kill me.
The next thing I knew, me and Lia were loaded onto this small iron gondola. There was a very large strong figure bearing armor that looked like the power armor from Fallout. The figure somewhat forcefully put us in, and slams the door.
Ok, no more video game references in this dream, I promise.
The cable car moves very fast, and the cable seems free form, as though it's solid and not tethered to anything. In that sense, it was less of a cable car and more of a... sky train? But no, it was a gondola, not a train.
The gondola follows the rail/wire high above the area we were just in. I can see the play structure was just a small part of a large island. Most of the island was actually made up of abandoned factories and bordered on all sides by docks and huge shipping cranes. The play structure where I had attained my lucidity was in the middle in a small grove of forest.
Around the island there are other areas of land. The island actually divided a river, and there was more snowy terrain dotted with factories and apartment buildings all around us. The river was not frozen.
My attention turns back to inside the gondola. Lia is sitting opposite to me, changing back to the way she usually looks.
Now comes the weird dream guide dialogue. I can't remember why I asked this, but I asked if Jonathan (my dream "Nemesis") was able to leave my dreams and go into other people's dreams.
Lia told me that he could in fact leave my dreams.
I proceeded to ask her some other question about my "second REAL lucid dream" and Jonathan. (My second real lucid dream didn't involve either Lia or Jonathan, it was just dream control practice.)
The gondola was now really low over a road. The road cut through the same sort of snowy forest that we had been in earlier. But the reason I had looked up was that there was a massive tornado just off the left side of the gondola.
I looked ahead, and saw a whole plethora of tornadoes, that seemed to be lining up with the intent of destroying the cable car we were riding in.
The cable car seemed really strong though. We passed straight through the tornadoes and the car barely rocked. Lia told me that the car was very strong, and despite its rusty, distressed appearance, she was no liar.
Then things got really strange. The tornadoes turned sideways and began flailing around like wips. I started the process of waking myself up.
"He's bringing the whole dream down on us!"
The gondola was torn off the rail and flung onto the road below. The car broke open. The last thing I remember was the both of us getting picked up in the tornado before I woke up.

NEW FORMAT:
Not Lucid
Lucid
Awake

I find myself in Hawaii for some unknown reason. I'm walking down the sidewalk on a beautiful evening. Suddenly, I start to become really tired for some reason and begin drifting in and out of "sleep" as I walk along. Some people take notice and walk with me and keep me awake. We stop by a ledge and see another one of the islands of Hawaii. There is a battle taking place. I can see explosions and whatnot on the island. Someone explains to me that the Hawaiians and some sort of rebel force are having a war in the state. We now see two rebel tanks coming down the road and we jump for cover. The two tanks pass, and we move along.

Some fragments of the dream in between scenes are forgotten, but I now find myself in the passenger seat of a van on the highway. We're still in Hawaii and the red evening sky is still present as well. As we get on the highway I see the speed limit sign reads 75 MPH. That is faster than normal where I live(usually 65, then 70 on the turnpike). We speed up to pace and move towards a tunnel. We see cars driving crazily on the road, as if they're trying to get away from something. We now swerve out of the way of three SUVs moving the wrong way. Shortly we enter the tunnel which has no lighting in it. The driver turns on his lights and we come to a three way intersection, seeing it last second. The driver spins the steering wheel but can't make the turn, smashing us into the wall. We get out, lucky to be even unharmed. Then a group of armed cars stop just down the tunnel. Armed soldiers come out and begin to open fire, but that is all I remember before awakening.

I had a few dreams last night but they werent long and I forgot them right away due too a lot of noise waking me. I did manage to have one long one though.


I found myself in the back of the truck of my parents, coming back from the grocery store, when I asked them if we could stop by a Walgreen for me to buy something. They agreed and dropped me off at the front. Once I headed inside I went towards the gaming aisle where I looked at a few games and picked one up (cant remember what game) and put it in my pocket. I also picked up a magazine and then walked back outside. I noticed that I mistakenly forgot to buy the items that I put in my pocket but since I was already outside I shrugged it off. When I got back in the car, I started to talk to my parents in spanish about what would happen if a zombie outbreak occurred. I proceeded to tell them that if it did happen I would make my way down to Miami so I can get a boat. Once I told them that, my step-dad laughed and said "A Boat huh?" and then I told him yeah but that they should instead head North out of Florida instead. I think my step-dad asked me if I wanted to see some zombies and I said okay because he went on to a dirt path all of a sudden and down the path I could see a horde of slow walking people heading our way. I suddenly became excited and pulled out a rifle from out of nowhere and began to shoot at them. One of the zombies came close to the truck and my step-dad said in spanish "I suppose you didnt lock the doors" and sure enough an ugly looking zombie lady opened the door and I quickly bashed her in the head with the rifle but it only made her furious so I then followed it up with a punch and she went flying backwards. Once I closed the doors we got out of there and proceeded to head down the road but the opposite direction of our house. My stepdad being stubborn as he is wanted to do a u-turn while driving the wrong way on a one-way street. I told him to just make a u-turn at the next intersection and my mom said "you know how he is". While still in the car I started to worry about the Zombies we just encountered and how relaxed my parents were about it. He finally made the turn but then we wanted to load the groceries on to the back of the truck so we pulled into somebodies drive way. I hid away the rifle, got out, and began to load the groceries but then my mom got out and told me I had to take out the black cover placed over the back first and then put in the bags. I did a frustrating tisk because I had to unclip a lot of buttons on the black cover but then I started to realize I shouldnt complain and be good to my parents. When all the groceries were loaded the owners of the house came out and we thanked them. They began to get in their cars and leave and we followed close behind. Once out I saw a huge crowd of people and cars standing still in the middle of an intersection, the dream became extremely clear and vivid at this point, so I got out with the rifle and began to investigate what was going on. I saw a bunch of people with a lot of fright and worry on their face and remember seeing a black girl with a gun as well. Down the street of a neighborhood I could see a blockade of military vehicles and then a bunch of soldiers moving out while the commander screamed "lets move, lets move"! A garbage truck was stationed right behind one of the military vehicles and at this point there was smoke coming through where the soldiers were running. Everything became really quite and all of a sudden zombies began climbing the truck and gunfire began spurring out. All the people went into a panic and I looked down the road towards my house to see if we can escape. I saw another barricade of military vehicles and I obtained a sense of hopelessness. I woke up shortly after due to another noise in the house.

I... have this strong wish to transform everyday images, the sporadic imagined ones and the thoughts that go along with them, into.. well a dream like the ones at night: into a (visual) manifestation of all the thoughts, wrapped into a whole dream world. I know this is what happens at night, but I seem to be looking out the other end of my subconscious then, and not back onto my everyday life. I want this simple transformation of thoughts into images, essentially into actual daydreams, something that seems to be suppressed in most people generally, and inhibited further through tension and stress etc.
The way I picture it is that I take some Choline, (in some idyllic place or peaceful room), and then start consciously molding my imagination once it comes, expanding fragments behind mere thoughts into lively (as in subtly changing) images, creating spaces beyond all these compressed thoughts and impressions of the day.
Unfortunately I don't dare touch my Choline when I'm under stress, which I always am, and loosen the inhibited images out of hiding, because I fear.. hallucinations. That's what I fear.
My dreams at night are pretty harmless so I don't understand this fear.

But supposing it would actually release such things as visions of horror and violence - are these bad for you?
Because with this issue in particular I feel that dreams are not just dreams.