Level of Lucidity: 0 Level of Clarity: 2 Level of Realism: 5 (levels based 0-10, 0-5 being low - good 5-10 being great - extreme) I had a rough night sleeping and accidentally left my app for reminding me to do reality checks on over night.. so every hour on the hour it would vibrate and either wake me up, or wake me up enough that I roll over and fall back asleep. Dream Fragment 1: I'm with my uncle in his car. My uncle is an extremely southern guy, and loves Nascar. We were driving somewhere down a road I've never seen before, and he begins to talk about how he has a race that he's in and it's in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. Then I woke. Dream Fragment 2: I was in a park like place. I noticed that there was a few dogs in front of me. The dogs were simply standing there and not looking around, not with anyone, and not scared of me. All of a sudden the dog who is closest to me stands up on his back legs, and it looked like he was rotating his front legs so that they were backwards. It was like a trick that the dog was doing for me.. just like playing dead, rolling over, or shaking hand/paw. Then I heard a voice that said something like "Well trained dogs". Then I woke.
Updated 06-15-2013 at 04:22 PM by 63661
Legend: Dream , Semi-Lucid , Lucid , Side notes. Ghost Hunters: I Was in a town. This old man found me and i got to join this team of like teens my age, it was a team of like 4 people including me. We were a secret organization. The old man then sent us out in teams of 2 to go and catch Two ghosts or something similar. This one ends with me and this other girl running into the castle and accidentally like destroying part of it xD. Cook Challenge: I remember getting into a cooking competition with a friend. I don't think i won xD Knights: These knights gathered in my backyard and starting like waging war. I'm not really sure what they were fighting over but meh... Lucid #6: This might have been at the end of the knights dream, im not sure. But i'm on my farm, and i realize i'm dreaming, but everything oddly goes to black and i can't see. Don't know if this is because i'm waking up or because i got lucid and messed it up. Either way, this was a pretty bad lucid dream xD , the last one was really successful compared to this occasion.
Dream 1(fragment): I was playing some video game. Dream 1(fragments): I was in some video game, i was on team and we had a mission to defend the base, the battle was going indoors and mostly in some metallic tunnels, i was switching between a few weapons and destroying enemies. But then later enemy got some vehicles and it become hard to defend, and shortly i have found some awesome tank behind some crates in one of tunnels, that had a few turrets mounted on the sides in the addition to the cannon, including heavy minigun and rapid fire rocket launcher. I started destroying enemy vehicles around easily. Dream 3(fragments): I was searching for something outdoors and then in the shop of some kind, then i was looking around the roof and it started raining, i had to halt search and go back to home. There were some problems with the door and some dude was placing minecraft grass and cobblestone blocks around.
The first dream from last night, the only one that I can remember during my big chunk of sleep, started off with me playing videogames with my coworker and his friends. We've made plans to play Street Fighter; this one is Street Fighter 3, nut not 3rd strike like I'm used to. I pick Ken and I do a lot of shoryukens. The graphics are better than 3rd strike, but the gameplay has changed. My 3 friends pick characters that I have never seen. I remark that I haven't played this one, Street Fighter Alpha (something. This was a dreamy mislabelling). I go to play another game, using a really old PlayStation controller, one which doesn't even have analog sticks and the button layout is wider. There's more space between everything. I choose the controller I'm playing on from a menu (apparently this makes a difference, I think. OK then), and the game starts. After an opening cutscene, I'm left alone in a post-combat shootout zone. I go around and try to collect supplies; even though I know what I need is guns to make it to the next part of the game, I start picking up lots of tiny different syringes, full of veterinary medicine. These will definitely come in handy if I ever have to do ghetto surgery later on down the line. But the needles start to come loose from their housing, and prick me in the leg. Austin comes around---I am with him and Alexander. (It's not a game anymore, I've forgotten about that part and moved on in the dream world.) He says "no no no, THIS is what you need," and I can tell his tone is condescending but good-natured. He already has syringes, supplies, etc. I open up my mouth to show him all the syringes I've packed in there. "Ohhh, Joe." They've made my mouth numb, like after going to the dentist, since they've pricked my cheek. I shake them out and there's a deluge of tiny, 2-inch needles that fall out, covered in spit. We move on. We have salvaged a plane, and Alexander can fly it. But it's not fully functional. We manage to move it over the fence that's blocking us from the next area, then crash land again in some trees. After a small fight with enemy BADDIES (I don't remember if they have guns or not), we get out and start exploring the surroundings. The people who own the property we've landed on are angry; one of them throws a big rock and hits one of Austin's friends (an old friend from Alameda? A teacher?) in the head, killing her. Fury on our parts. They chase us out of their house, which we had been exploring. They offer us some food? The timeline of events gets hazy. The dream ends with the rock incident and the husband chasing me. We try to fly the plane again, which was crash landed in a tree, and it swings around and moves in a disjointed manner, like its continuity as a geometric object has ended. Like when you get too close to a wall in a game and you see the inside of the polygonal shape of your character, where planes extend all around to the edge of the screen because your reference point is now inside, not outside. The plane is not gonna go. The dream ends with the plane out of the picture, perhaps it has flown away, or is trying to, and I'm defending myself in this huge, unclimbable tree against the angry husband, who's trying to get at me with no regard to his own life should he fall. Dream 2: A brief fragment I had after going back to sleep for another 45 minutes or so. A really cluttered managerie of symbols. The dream takes on coherence while I'm at my old home in Moorpark. It's raining, really coming down. There are two mexican kids playing in the garden, which is muddy and sopping wet. I notice that there are tons of dead fish in the mud. "What are you guys doing?" I look closer; it's like they're trying to build a little pond. It's cute, in a way, but they're also killing the goldfish! I go inside to ask my parents if this is OK. No discernible response. I come back outside and pull them down from a set of ladders they have stacked against the side of the house. Still raining. One of them must be 3 or 4 years old. He's only like 2 feet tall. I start to play with them, and it's actually a lot of fun. There's an innocence to them that I love, that sets me free. I walk back around to the other part of the backyard. The hot tub is going. It's still raining. Everything is wet. It's like my whole family is there. In and out of the hot tub. Food. There's a little bench on the side of the deck, and I put my hands on it and try to prop up my body on my elbows. (Apparently this is called an elbow lever. Cool.) It's not too hard, so I go for one hand, but there's a part of the hot tub or a sprinkler or something spraying me with warm water. It pivots my body around the one hand that I have planted. My wrists are somehow flexible enough that I just keep going, facing the other way (towards the hot tub instead of away). I fall into the wet, warm grass soon after, doing a somersault. My dad comes up behind me, and I try to squat him. I really, really want to stand up and put him on my shoulders. I'm almost there. I straighten out my legs in real life, moving around in my bed. But I can't quite do it. I ask how much he weighs now; he says "about 215, maybe a scream over." I know he's heavier. Later on, before I move inside, I see him about to kiss my mom, although I know they are divorced. I think "Is it really that easy? Is that what I couldn't do?" I go back inside. I'm going to take a shower. I'm naked. Two of my coworkers are there. "Oh, you seem to have lost your towel...." "I know." It's alright. Towel back on. Sonny says "I can't tell you how I feel anymore...." And this is SO cute that it makes me incredibly happy. I wake up feeling joyful. Lots of psychological shit in that last dream. It's also really vivid because it happened about an hour ago. I've only meditated and showered before writing it down. My parents and my family are always in flux and I feel like they don't know what the fuck they're doing. Why not have a little backbone and stick to what you want to do? If you feel something, go ahead with it. Otherwise, why did you get divorced in the first place?!? Alas, it's a really complicated situation. The wetness could be my sexuality, which I also know nothing about. Childhood, growth, developing strength, showing off. But what do I have to look forward to? A convoluted adulthood? Damn, dude
Date: 13 June Not very funny FA and LD chain Total sleep time: 4 hrs Comments: Tonight definitely was a bad time to go for a lucid. We had a sleep over guest and I was nervous I had to wake up the same time as our guest and no idea when that would be. I repeated the same combo as yesterday (but had different results?), did SSILD to help with sleep and induce ld. I got into a rather nasty FA chain. The resulting lucidity was not to be envied either. Pre bed: Gingko WBTB: I was woken up, had 1/2 RB about half an hour later. Trouble falling asleep. Fragment: A DC that looks like my father shows aggressive attitude FA1: I am in bed and guest is knocking on the door, saying he is leaving now. I hear him and partially see him, but I also see some other layer with my reflection on it. I decide that I am dreaming the second layer, while he is trying awake me irl. I tell him to leave me alone and come back later because I am just either lucid or missing a FA. FA2: I am in bed, and there is trash, food leftovers and other stuff on the bedsheets. I find it a bit strange but swipe it aside and continue sleeping. FA3: I wake up and go to the toilet. I look myself in the mirror. I look terrible, my face is swollen. I think "What have I done, this is probably because of the supps/RB". As if that isn't enough, I feel a very strong pressure in my head. Ahhhh FA4 and DILD: I wake up and go to pee. Some nonexistent pipe breaks down and starts rhythmically pumping out water. I think this is too bad to be real life, and question the nature of reality. The pipe keeps pumping water, flooding the place, so I run into the room where our guest is sleeping to ask for help. He comes in the bathroom but it is not him at all, but a strange looking DC that has something not very human in his posture? I finally conclude that this can only be a dream. I go to the corridor, the strange DC next to me and an older lady. The dream gets distorted, images from other places appear in my mind, while I am thinking of an efficient way to leave our place. The dream disintegrates. DILD2: I renter some place but the DCs there keep getting in my way so I cannot go as I would like to. the dream fades DILD3: I am in another apartment, a geeky looking DC is trying to get my attention. I don't want to be here. I notice a large cupboard and am tempted to try passing through it. I am mostly wondering if I will be able to overcome the solidity and also see what will happen once I get in there. The cupboard is initially solid, but I push myself forward and it suddenly swallows me into the darkness with a strange gulp like sound. There is something very watery to that ex cupboard space, and I feel as if I am underwater. Very interesting, I think to myself. I swim forward ending in the void, the underwater sensations fading away. Back to my physical body, I may have even moved my real hands a bit while in the void. DILD4: Another dream starts and I am in an apartment again. A number of daring DCs are here as well. I try to go on my way, but this DC woman gets in front of me holding a bread knife. I notice that we are in the kitchen, and try to make her engage in slicing the bread that is there, instead of behaving menacingly. I meet resistance and am unable to control her much. I am adjusting my mood as not to expect her to do anything to me, trying to be as non-reactionary as possible. She has the knife in one hand and gets a cleaver in the other. I struggle with her hand, also attempting to grab the knife from time to time, while being careful not to cut myself. I know this is dream and I don't care so much, but I am annoyed that things aren't going my way. There is someone else pushing me, causing me discomfort and mild pain. I move away a bit, feeling exhausted and desperate. Since the dream is going nowhere, I allow the DC woman to get me, but now she has other intentions. I organize a pleasurable indecent scene and wake up shortly after. I wake up and go to the restroom and check out my reflection in the mirror. I look terrible. I RC. Tired, nervous and annoyed I consider if I want to go back to sleep. Shortly journal, then try to fall asleep but it is too late. This nightmare approximates to official count of 2 Lds? and 2 micro lds. --------------------------------- Date: 14 June Total sleep time: 8 hrs Sleep quality and recall: Deep restorative sleep, below average recall Pre bed: Gingko Bedtime dreamlet: There is a discussion about the advantages of living in China vs living in France. It seems that living in China is much better. I am entering China, zooming in trying to determine my location. Very hard to describe I see the land and plants as if I am on the ground yet it is in the shape of the map of China. There are blackberries that represent each city in China, and are very close together which means very crowded. I realize that I am falling asleep and pull back from the dream, trying to commit it to memory. WBTB: very tired after yesterday's lack of sleep, so I just couldn't do it Dream1: I am on the street and there is a house to my left. Xanous comes from there. We talk about something. A friend of mine comes, I can't remember now if Xanous knows him. Xanous is now gone somewhere. Me and my friend are trying to have a shared dream via DV but actually don't know that we are having a shared dream with each other. What are the odds? I tell this realization to my friend and we are happy. He invites me to his place where I have been in dreams. I check out the furniture. He leads me through the corridor, but I insist on having a look at the bedroom. There is a sliding door, double bed with white bed sheets, and a wardrobe with a mirror to the left. Fragment2: My class meets again, this time boys only. I don't know why I am here and they behave like idiots. I look at them and have a strange feeling that something is not quite right here (as in this is a dream!) but continue being involved in the scene. Progress with goals as the 14th morning: - Do 100 RCs (15/100) * - notice real life DS 100 times and RC (17/100) - 10 proper WBTB attempts -> days (6/10) - 10 morning RCs (3/10) - 2 proper WILD attempts (0/2) - task flexibility - journal flexibility *I am also practicing some ADA, so it is not as bad as it seems, although I need to increase the RCs LDs: 12 (official count) micro-lds: 4 (not counted) suspicious events: 2 (not counted)
Updated 08-23-2013 at 02:47 AM by 61764
Samadhi Raja Sutra Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with qualities that can be seen. Know all things to be like this: As the moon in a bright sky In some clear lake reflected, Though to that lake the moon has never moved. Know all things to be like this: As an echo that derives From music, sounds, and weeping, Yet in that echo is no melody. Know all things to be like this: As a magician makes illusions Of horses, oxen, carts and other things, Nothing is as it appears. The Buddha
Half lucid dream using SSILD and DILD My friend Andrew had a bunch of these cinnamon ropes that everyone wanted, He put them outside of class and I took a bunch while he wasn't looking. Someone then told me I could go to jail for it then I got scared and drove back over this huge bridge to return it. Dan me and Jim and Dan's girlfriend, all at the train station going to concert, girls asks if i can help her with a psycho person and I say I've dealt with that. Later on I look on the news that she was beaten to bits I checked out the scene and it was a car flooded with blood around and chunks of her body being eaten by these skeleton like birds. Then I appeared in this house with Owen Wilson, and was on the phone with him which was weird because he was right in front of me then became lucid(***Lucidity Gained***)walked around a bit, looked at hands to gain lucidity Talked to Owen a bit more and didn't remember a god damn thing he said then lost lucidity on and off, then finally let go and lost it.(***Lucidity Lost***)
Updated 10-26-2013 at 06:10 PM by 62863
somehow i had a long lost son who i never knew i had i am going to see him he is an adult i am going to say goodbye to him as hes ill and dying two elderly people greet me and take me in the room to see him i am thinking how will i know its him it might not be true i enter room and instantly know its true he is exact image of my ex i cry stroke his head and say goodbyes
Oh, hey, I'm back! This dream was so long and detailed that I had to share. It was early in the morning, and Dad and I were driving in his new car. He made a stop to pick up some woman, and I realized that I was now tagging along on their date! I also had to give up my front passenger seat and move to the back seat. I noticed as I moved into the back seat that I was wearing a really fitted leather jacket, something I've never had before. Dad dropped me off at a shopping center that the locals call Four Corners. Somehow, I lost my leather jacket once leaving the car, so I dropped into a clothing store to see if I could get a replacement. When they didn't have anything useful, I went to the next store. It turned out to be a grocery store I worked at before, but it was staffed with people from my current job. I knew something was a little off, repeatedly telling myself, "My shift doesn't start until 4 in the afternoon." (Talk about carrying over intentions into the dream state -- I really am scheduled to work 4 PM until close today!) I worried for a while about finding Dad to take me home in time for me to get ready for my shift in the afternoon. I hung out in the backroom with my coworker Kay, who was monitoring several computers. At one point, she got worried about something on one of the computer displays. A guy stopped by to take a look, and I talked to him for a bit before realizing he was Jay, the new head manager. I decided to leave, but I made sure to take a walkie-talkie with me since they're tougher to find when I come in for the evening shift. I remembered that there was another good clothing shop at the far end of the strip mall on this corner, so I started walking towards it. But there was construction work in the parking lot and the construction crew would not let me pass. I crossed the street, thinking I could get past the blockage from that side. Instead of taking me to the other half of the strip mall, the other side of the street took my right to my house, with my (old) car sitting in the driveway. It was a little odd, especially since I was approaching the house from opposite side away from the main street. But I ignored the odd feeling because I was so glad I wouldn't have to find Dad to bring me home now that I had access to my own car. I went into the house, but instead of the normal interior, there was now the lobby of a large apartment building. There were people meeting there to plan some type of heist. They wanted me to join them. I went up to my room to grab a larger bag and filled it with things we would need to carry out the plot. When I returned to the lobby, the group was being loaded onto buses. We were told that the place was being evacuated because of a bomb threat. I realized as we left the building to get on the bus that we were in the Four Corners parking lot. On the bus, I went through my bag to get the walkie I had grabbed earlier, but instead I found my bag filled with cash. There was a teenage boy sitting in the seat in front of me who noticed the cash, and he asked if I was trying to buy something. I said no, and he turned around to talk to someone else. That's when I realized he was in the middle of a transaction -- the other guy was giving him money in exchange for a small baggie.
This dream was actually very interesting. It all started with me waiting for a train, what was funny is how it arrived. It just appeared out of nowhere, I thought to myself "That's cool" I hopped on and the next thing i know is that I have no idea where I'm headed and why. I hear from an inner voice that i am on my way to a lake of some sort. I accept this and then i realize that I must be lucid dreaming. Instead of taking control of the dream, I just rode along the train (pun intended.) We then take a little break on the train ride and go out to get some fresh air. I am greeted by spirits of some sort. They show me into the train again and tell me to look in a drawer. Upon opening the drawer, i find several small snakes, "Huh?" I didn't get it. And that's all i remember from the dream. I will try to continue it when the night arrives, also... I'll try to fly next to the train this time since I love watching the scenery.
Updated 06-14-2013 at 04:10 PM by 50953
I meant to do MILD after WBTB but I was so tired I passed out in the first few seconds of it. I was in a strange house with two long hallways and an open round room. This room was the largest of all and had glass vaulted ceilings. I had the feeling of great wealth and freedom as I stared out into the night sky. I wanted to expand my house and I had a feeling like I could add on glass blocks like on Minecraft. Then a female DC (I think was probably my wife) started jumping on a giant round purple bed in the room. She said she liked the house the way it was. I noted how impossibly large this bed was and thought it could not be real. I became semi-lucid and for some reason wanted to remember how the rest of the house looked before I woke up. I ran around and got the basic layout before I had a brief awakening. I was going through some underground dungeon slaying monster like creatures. Some looked like organic toy cars about the size of diner plate and I began stomping them. They would squish and ooze something like brains each time I stepped on them. Then I made my way to the boss battle. There was a giant green glowing bowl floating around with neon green liquid in it. I readied myself to fight as I taunted it. As it came at me I threw a fist at it but woke to the sound of a screaming kid. Time about 5AM. That's actually good as I remembered to was trying to get lucid. Took care of the issue and went for WILD. Nope still passed out. I was in the Luling house with some kids. I went outside for some reason and saw there was a large blackberry bush in the front yard. I remember my waking life bush and though they would not be ripe yet here. To my surprise, they were large plump and purple. I pulled one off the bush and ate it. The first one was very sweet and juicy but the next two were a little sour. The bush looked very dry like it had not seen rain in months. I thought I should water it but with that thought I felt rain drops on my arms. I looked up and saw storm clouds and heard a rip of thunder. I woke up to a sound. About 7:30AM - Brief OBE - DILD I stayed still to DEILD I felt vibrations right away. After a few moments I blindly transitioned out of my body and thought I was still in the Luling house. I followed the hallways out of the bedroom. I became confused when I remembered I was not there but here. Back in body. Vibrations. This time only my upper body would come free and I was very aware of the light outside. I got pulled back into my body and I focused 6 ft from the top of my head and the vibrations got stronger. I imagined pulling energy into myself and the vibrations go stronger still. After a moment I tried moving again. I floated up and did the 180 degree turn. I was not expecting that and I slammed back in. I continued to struggle back and forth for several minutes until I heard my son screaming again. All vibrations dissolved instantly and I woke up.
Waking up thinkin wow. 1. [non-lucid] Was in some sort of lab (its small,clean looking and white), theres an AI built into the building. There are these coloured spherical buttons (red, green, blue) on a white dashboard, they are controlled by the scientists and the AI gives the buttons a purpose. Something goes wrong, the AI somehow became self aware and she killed some scientists using the buttons (not GlaDOS). Theres more but its fuzzy. 2. [non-lucid][false awakening] I dreamed I woke up to my leg hurting two times, then actually woke up to my leg hurting. 3. I forgot unfortunatly.
Session 27 on the Procyon AVS, linked in with a WILD and using anchors such as RT linked with finger pressure and MILD intentions. I think pushing forward with the WILD will make a large impact on the other methods as they link in. The deep session on the Procyon will help me get into the right state as well and help train my brain to slow down while using the WILD method which is the opposite of what was happening originally.
To cut a long dream short and get to the point that is interesting... I am in Sydney and have created a new business that has the potential to change the world, the business takes off very quickly and a special dinner event is thrown to talk about the idea. During this dinner I am joined by 8 other heads in their field, each very impressed with the idea and they share stories with me over drinks. After a few drinks an award is offered to me, an apartment that pulls in $60k a year in rent, its on the harbour in Sydney and L and I can stay there as long as we want. The logical part of my brain starts to kick in and does the figures, soon I am talking math with the 'teachers' and they again talk about my idea and the important the Sydney Harbour Bridge played in the formation. As a reward for the idea, they have converted part of the bridge into a very crazy roller coaster ride. This is where it starts to become very interesting. As I look as the bridge I notice about 200 people strapped into the ride, in chairs that you are held up by your shoulders (so to speak) and your feet dangle free. The amazing thing is when the ride starts to move, and I can not explain this in enough detail to share the complexity of what I saw but in a matter of seconds my dream had created one of the most extreme and logic rides on the bridge that looped back in on it self and almost had people hitting each other as they passed through the loop. The amazing thing was that it worked with such accuracy that I was astonished. I was aware it was a dream for a split second before I awoke and the only thing I could think of was, "wow, how did I create something this complex in a matter of seconds. Amazing"
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