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I read about this in this thread by Zoth and tried it out during last night. I woke a couple of times and jotted down keywords like he suggests in the thread, in a mind-map format. It sounded like a great idea as it was quick to just turn on my little penlight, lift up on one elbow (my DJ is next to me in bed), scrawl the words and fall asleep again. (If I wake up too much I struggle to fall asleep again.)

But when I woke up this morning to try and write it out in my DJ I couldn't decipher what I had written. They were just random words and I couldn't connect them to memories. I think I am going to have to write them out in more detail in future. I would really like to use this method.

So these were the fragments I could glean from the keywords:
- I had an argument with my ex (we've been divorced for 13 years, for heaven's sake!)
- I was in a prop plane we drove around some towns and then flew over them.
- I was having a party at my house and stood in front of a mirror on the wardrobe. Didn't look in the mirror
- I was at a concert, naked, and I flew across the front row of people, trying to be inconspicuous (yeah, right, a naked flying woman is really inconspicuous!)

That is all I could extract from the keywords I wrote down. They were all involved dreams with a storyline but I couldn't remember any of them.

Darn recall better get better.

Memory One

Don't really remember much other than I'm playing God and flooding towns with water when I hear my mother calling me for some odd reason. I quickly leave the town to go attend to whatever it was that I was needed for.

Memory Two



This one is a bit more detailed. I was exploring a fairly lush city. The architecture reminds of some of Syd Mead's lighter and brighter works, with whitewashed towers and green parks in between. Out of nowhere, I get this need to rescue a few people and escape the area. One was a little old lady, the second was an engineer of some sorts. The engineer, ready to commit suicide, needed persuasion to escape with us. There were more people in my party, but I can't quite recall who or how many. I was on the verge of getting the engineer to come with us when I woke up.

Conclusion

It's a start, and certainly something I wish I had remembered more of.

I am on my motorbike and am racing against time. /I am with my father and notice that we arenot wearing helmets. I find this a strange occurance and perform a /rc. I realise I am dreaming however the lucidity is low and unstable. I feel a tremendous pull to down "deep within" the dream. something I have never felt in ld before.

I then awake. recall and fall back to sleep.

Starting out with a small low level ld this early into the game is inspiring and lets me know that I will be able to pick it back up again with no hassle.

The pull was a very strange sensation, one that I have not felt before. it was if I were being pulled right in the very essence of the dream it self, not down as such more within. this also felt very natural like it is something that I should know about and follow, however I awoke.

Could this be a new level that I have not seen before? or was it something as simple as my body waking up and my dream making sense of the sensations. we all know how quickly the outside world can impose on the dream.

It's short, it's single, and it's not Tyrion Lannister, but I believe it's complete.

2013-06-03

There was a new game out. Suddenly I was in the game. I was on top of a huge mountain of snow with two others. I took a rope and swung over the edge to find that the top was supported by a thin column and the others jumped off while I swung back and forth a few times, aiming for a ledge, but ended up going down farther each time and landed safely on the ground. There was a baseball diamond with kids running around in front of me and when I looked back, the mountain was a small pile of melted snow.

Well, I meant to post these the day they happened, but the internet went out when I was gonna post them so I am just now getting to it.
Also, these dreams all occurred after I started using the Equisynch brainwave demo, which I find to be very helpful. It is like the binarual beats I had been
using, but professional and much better and more relaxing.

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June 2
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We were having baseball tryouts or something and we were in this
huge gym. I was playing third base, but then I got benched.
Then soon afterwards a ton of other people started showing up
and it was a huge chaotic mess. It was really loud in this gym, and that's
about all I remember for that dream.

In the next dream I was on this train. I remember seeing the year 1935 somewhere.
Everyone on the train were like refugees from East Berlin or something, and they were
mainly little kids. It was wierd though cause there was a DVD player like you would
have hanging from the cieling in a car. I remember trying to play a movie but the
DVD was all scratched. Also, then I remember seeing all these kids randomly having sweet
laptops that SEGA on them though.

Another dream that was SEGA related was this guy giving an interview about the latest Sonic game I believe.
He was explaining something with the rings. I remember that I was actually holding some rings, and there were also
some special blue ones.


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June 2
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We were driving down the highway, when out of no where all of these tornados started appearing! We then pulled off into this little
town. I saw some people get into thier car to try and outrun the tornado, and I don't know what happened to them.
I remember right before our car got hit that I was really quickly trying to put on a coat for some reason.
Then it hit! The car NEARLY flipped, but didn't. Then I was concerend that my car was destroyed, but that was all I remember.

In this next dream I remember seeing someone scraping the side of my Sega Genesis box with scissors! This made
me really mad, cause that is a cool box! Anyways, that's all I remember from that one.

In the next dream I was riding motorcycles with some other guys. I got stuck on this little underpowered 500cc
that was really slow and hard to balance. I remember swerving all over trying to keep it upright.

This next dream I was at my house with eveyone from school. We were split in groups and my group won some award for paying
the most attention or whatever. Then out of honesty we said that we didnt deserve it.

As you can see, it appears that the Equisynch brainwave entertainment is working very well. I am really hoping to start having some more lucids again!

See ya

once again, I've had a random nightmare that somehow ended up as one of Cassandra Clare's books -_-

I was in the perspective of some little girl, probably 8 or 9 years old. She went to the basement and to her room that she shared with her older sister (who was probably 13) her older sister was jumping on her bed, and on the bed of the younger girl I could see the impression as if there was someone jumping on that bed, too. I asked what she was doing, and she said, "Jumping on my bed with my best friend." There was a scene change and I was in the perspective of the older girl. It was the middle of the night, and she opened her closet door. The closet was empty of clothing, but at the back of it I saw a girl standing, her hair was about waist length and black, and her eyes were glowing green. I closed the closet, and when I went to go back to the bed I had a false awakening. In this false awakening I drew a picture of the girl I'd seen, and then another picture of how her eyes looked in the darkness. Then it seemed to kind of melt back into that original dream, and i was staring at that girl. I could hear a voice in my head, but i didn't pay attention to the words it said. I thought it was the girl at first, but then I realized it was Jem as a silent brother (lolz) and apparently there were a whole bunch of shadowhunters there to kill the demon that was there.

Indeed this was one of the weirder dreams I've had, but its the first dream I remembered in about a month since I haven't been keeping my dj up to date e-e anyways, yeah. Thats about it.

*I remeber walking around in japan being very happy to be there. I walked inside a store to buy random items. I gave the cashier money and in return she gave me more money back. I do remember being slightly lucid for a bit but not a full realization. That rarely happens.

I was searching through snowy forest and then found who i was searching for, there was a chase which turned into a shmup level, where i was controlling spaceship flying over some rocky area. The stage was easy but then there were bosses, and they were really danmaku heavy. One of bosses was small and boxey (and if i recall correctly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CET-2zHVFyA was playing) and it had one attack with circular pattern that also had bunch of homing projectiles and also X-like formation of lightning spawning on playership position. I was getting hit but eventually managed to defeat it. Then the view went to normal and i was in some cave and i found someone who was hiding here, he retreated on motorcycle and i was chasing him, then he turned into a car and chase continued. Someone was helping me and we were attacking car from two sides.

I was up at least an 4 hour time basis wen these models were chillin on my best friend couch i was in a trance cuh there was so much smoke in the air they were doing what models do in a fantasy and me and my friend were were converseing about nada damn thing wen these models type women who were jus got done partying were chillin and talking i forget about what cuh i zoned out myself then next thing you know everybody gets home safe lol

Sleep time: 9:15 PM Awake time: 5:50 AM
I can't remember anything other than a FA where I thought that I was attempting the FILD method at some hour in the early morning, but fell right back to sleep instead. I didn't do any of my normal stuff when I 'woke up', like checking the time or writing in my DJ, so I know this was most likely a FA.

I was aware that i was mostly awake and seeing this through a haze.

Sweet night
Someone is whispering sweet night.
I see myself on a flat roof top in an urban place. It's gray and looks like rain. I see myself sitting in a tub with two basins. One large to hold me sitting and one smaller in front of me. The whole tub is shaped like a figure eight. There is lightening but no rain. It's soundless and dry but not violent. A couple bolts are in the sky and the havenumerous branches. The branches meet the metal tub in in and play on the edges. I can see them jumping along the rim. Whispering sweet night. I see a finger, maybe mine, tracing the rim of the tub. Like a figure eight or the infinity symbol. Lightening and the hand. Soundless. Gray, blue, white. Still. Water in tub. Me knees to chest. Everything still. Non violent. Bright lines and trees of light in sky.
Sweet night/sweet light?

I was in my math class, supposedly before school began. I was talking with S and A. Then I realized that I was late to my own class and had to leave for whatever reason.
As I made my way down the hall, I did the nose pinch reality check, because I know that being late for class/school is extremely common in dreams. I was very alert when I did the reality check.
As soon as I'm lucid, I say something like "Oh, I'm dreaming!"
"Oh, no you dont!" Said a man's voice, grabbing me.
At that moment, (as funny or violent as this sounds) my school's principal started to attack me. I didn't want to fight him, so I yelled and made a sonic blast that pushed him away without really hurting him.
Three other people came up behind me. I thought they were teachers or something from my school, although they certainly didn't look like any teachers that I recognized. I was still lucid, but for some reason, I didn't use another sonic wave, or cast any magic.
I simply started fighting them in hand-to-hand combat, one at a time. I couldn't really kick, my legs felt very heavy, but my punches (given I was lucid) were devastating and sent my opponents flying into walls.
After awhile, It became clear that my efforts were fruitless. One of the people grabbed me from behind and I wasn't able to move. I woke up after that.

My god, I just beat up a bunch of old people. Part of me is really corrupt.

Alright. First off, I'd just like to say that these titles are getting progressively more ridiculous, and that I am well aware of the fact. However, they're actually pretty accurate. This dream was a type of battle royale dream and Sawyer was in it as well. Why have I been dreaming about so many male celebrities recently? I don't know. I swear to God I'm not trying. But think about it. So far, I have had Tom Cruise and Josh Holloway ( I saw Sawyer because it looked like his clothes were dirty and all the other fashion that takes place on a nearly deserted island).
Ok. Let's go on with the actual dream.
Now I'm going to completely change topics and start with what I assume has to actually be before the battle royal part of the dream, but on the other hand that's impossible because I remember waking up during the battle royale part, so I must assume that it was before. Anyway, I see what is Lupin in the hallway, from the Harry Potter series ( wtf, celebrities, what are you doing in my dreams?), technically he's called David Thewlis, kneeling over what I think is a carriage containing a baby Harry Potter. At first he's talking to it like he's trying to help it, but then he starts getting angry at it saying stuff like " It was you! " and " You did it, didn't you? " In the meantime I'm watching this from out the bathroom door and uh, pretty confused at that point because it's not every day that you see Lupin getting mad at baby Harry Potter outside your bathroom in the hallway. Anyways, I watch him a bit and then something happens. Now, I don't know If I lit the carriage on fire or Lupin did. Anyway, Lupin left lighting or not setting fire to the carriage. I came out there and tried to stop the flames by fanning air on the carriage. Just like in real life, this never really works, and the only thing it did was make it worse. So I run back to the bathroom and get I think a handful of water, cupping it in my hands, and throw it on top of the carriage, and it goes out. I take it and put it in the bathroom and keep putting more water on it, and while doing this suddenly I hear my parents from downstairs. I get worried because I think they'll be angry at me for the battle royale that just happened, and also because they got my report card, yeah, pretty cliche I know, which had one grade on it that was not so good. So anyway I'm in the bathroom and I think my dad calls me down, he calls someone downstairs anyway and there I am in the bathroom trying to put out the carriage of baby Harry Potter. Jesus. Another thing, I realize that if I was worried that my parents would be angry at the sort of battle royale than that means that this dream must have occurred after that already happened, right? But . . . ah, what the hell.
Let's get onto the interesting part. Myself, Sawyer, and a couple of my friends, I remember in particular JC ( not Jesus Christ, if you were wondering ) and possibly JL, were in the front yard side of the house part by the patio. We were there and I just remember that all of a sudden people started yelling and people started coming after us. At this point this gets really action-packed, and I wish I was lucid during it so I could do the actual fighting ( although, assuming that I wouldn't pussy out, I really need to work on my dream control at the moment). So everybody runs off being chased by somebody. This sort of skinny black man is chasing me, and I'm pleading with him to stop saying stuff like " Come on, stop it man! " and he's still chasing after me. After some of him still running after me, I decide to take my cellphone out of my pocket and throw it right in his damn face. The thing is an Iphone 4, and let me tell you, it made face-smacking history by the contact it made with his face. It stunned him so much that he stumbled aside a little bit, but then began chasing me again. Now, I'm a very fast runner when I want to be and run as a hobby, but for whatever reason in this dream my legs were getting sore and I couldn't run very fast at all. So all of a sudden I kind of turn backward and just elbow or punch him, I don't know what exactly, but he swerves aside and falls on the ground, and I run off. There could have been one more punch thrown in there, but I'm not sure. I run alongside the house past the garage and that area and then reach the front by the grass on the end of the driveway. All of my friends are there and seem to have made it, and I saw Sawyer there just smiling and I think I said something like " Yeah, we made it! ". And I ran in to give him a hug. Now, that might seem like a sort of weird thing to do but you've got to keep in mind that this was a pretty traumatic experience. So I run in for this hug and at the last second, for some reason, I end up just running into his chest. That was a bit awkward, so I say like " Chest bump, hahahahahahaha " and then we actually do chestbump. Now let me ask you by the way, have you ever chestbumped Sawyer in one of your dreams? No? That's what I thought. Then I went over to JL and said something about the whole experience I would assume and she started laughing, probably at me, knowing her. This got me annoyed. I mean, come on, I had just defeated a black man in combat and she's laughing at me? But anyways, I then wandered around I think somewhere around Sawyer again and I can't remember exactly why but I realized I was dreaming and then that I was having a lucid dream. At this point I lifted my hands up to my face to look at them, and did that for a bit. They went sort of grainy, and then I faded out of the dream.
In my complete dumbassery I was too stupid to realize that this was the perfect opportunity for a DEILD, or, if that didn't work, a FILD. However, instead I just woke up in bed and started moving around and the light was too bright for trying a WILD. Next time I think I'll be more prepared, tho. Also, I remember something in the dream about a book store, and if I remember more if it throughout the day then I'll come back here and update it.
Alright, on to dream locations.

Dream Locations

Now I plan to describe in detail two of the locations I have been in dreams so that I might go back there in future dreams, possibly during a DEILD or even FILD, once I get experienced enough to pick my surroundings during them. So, without further ado, let's begin.

• Sleek Ocean City

This was the city in my first dream that was Florida in the dream, but it doesn't look much like the actual Florida so I'm just going to call it this. All of the buildings in this city are white and sleek, some of them tapering up like that building in Dubai that looks sort of like a flame tapering up. The buildings, while modern looking, are not scary or imposing, and there are still normal buildings and trees, probably palm trees, interspersed through the city, as well as patches of forest. I would assume that the ocean must be to the East of the buildings because I think that that is how it was in the dream. I think that that about wraps that all up and is good enough.

• Canyon Mountain

This was also from the first dream. It's pretty much a fairly steep mountain that looks like a canyon further up, and some of it's sides are green. The sky is fairly clear, I think almost completely, and bright blue. Tom Cruise was there originally in the dream but he doesn't always have to be there.

The Anchor Command

The problem with my lucidity in this dream was that I was only able to keep control of it for a few seconds, which is what usually happens. To stop this, I think I should come up with a command that will hopefully stabilize the dream. When I talked in the dream and said " Enhance " or " Enchance Clarity " or something like that, I actually heard myself talking, which surprised me. However, I really think that I should come up with a better command. I've decided that yelling " ANCHOR! " very loudly while at the same time gaining awareness of all around me, particularly the clearness and clarity of what I'm seeing and the sound, will help with this. This will be the command that will literally anchor me to the dream. I also will make it shoot me up a few feet into the air so from there I can start to fly. I also have to remember, next time, that rubbing your hands together and spinning around also can work, and that in the case that I do exit the dream I can use a DEILD, or, if that doesn't work and I wake up, a FILD, to get back into the dream, because I could have done that last night but forgot! Wow, long entry. That's about it for today!

Haven't updated this in a while due to relatively crappy recall for the last month or so. can't seem to maintain a 'normal' sleep cycle and this seems to REALLY screw with my recall. I have had several entries in my physical journal, but typing all of them out is going to be far too much of a pain. I will, however, post the dates of the more than two or so line entries - 5/14, 5/15, 5/17, 5/19, 5/20, 5/25, 5/28, 6/2. I think not posting them here has also contributed to the decline in recall. My comp was down for several weeks though, so I have an excuse there at least.


slept 430am-730am. had broken sleep from 8-11, but remembered no dreams from that time.

There is a montage of several different scenes, but only remember the one that... expanded. A guy is on a tour in the future - the people are on these hoverbike type vehicles (all different - their own i'm guessing) with free range of motion. The guy its focused on started falling asleep on the tour and kinda fell off the other's train and hit a tree branch. He wandered around for a little bit till he ran into a Trex attached to a harness and in a parade type deal attached to several other dinos (more passive) and santa clause leading them. Something my guy did knocked the dino out of his line - it started following the guy. He pulled the T Rex around and did a full on charge of the santa train. Apparently something like that was supposed to happen, but not until the end of the float/parade. The commenters are talking - well, one guy and the santa guy are talking. The trex is referred to as santa's knight. When I was rushing towards him (as the guy on the bike), there was this howooo noise - halfway between a wolf howl and a siren that I was suing to encourage the dino to move ((If you've ever heard the tornado sirens, it was essentially that)). The T-rex was more the stature of a velociraptor.

My old house. My old room. There is sand... The AC kicked out for a little bit and it's *much* warmer upstairs than down. There are a couple of asians in my room with me - they have something to do with the sand - cleaning it? They don't speak english. When I go upstairs there is a doctor that is supposed to give me a shot to boost my resistance to getting allergies to the sand, but all the sand they brought was dirty already. I think this is my fault and feel bad. To test my potential allergic reaction I go through some sort of weird gauntlet that turns into a Monaco ((x-box game i've been playing)) looking 2f thing. When I get through it (after some loud alarm like noises) there is a health/healing for me to use.

There was a large gathering of people. My wife was there. I was trying to look at an attractive girl who was nude and rolled backwards putting her legs behind her head. I got a peak at her vag. I wanted to stare at it but I didn't want my wife to get mad.

Throughout the dream, this same girl had a crush on me, and I certainly liked her. She had long, wavy dark hair. I tried to sit by her the whole dream.

I ended up in a large circle with a hundred people I guess. We were all looking at a wallet and some change on the floor. The wallet represented business, and we were discussing the negative effects of business, or of business on society, and how if someone picked up the wallet, those effects would come to fruition.

The crowd then started walking/floating around the wallet, and I closed in and grabbed the wallet and the change. I gave a "gold" dollar coin to the guy next to me since I got the wallet, just to be nice.

I then started dreaming of Breaking Bad when the guy got some kind of mercury and blew up Tuco's office.

I thought what I had thought the night before while watching a marathon of the show, that he should have thrown that stuff around and blown up more stuff.

I was dreaming him walking down the stairs, but then it was me. Once outside, I still had the mercury in my hands, and thought, I'm dreaming! I decided to fly to get away instead of blowing stuff up. I jumped up and started flying. I was on a hill and saw trees very clearly, but as I started waking up, I got heavy. I started coming down and woke up.

* A couple nights ago I went to a party. At this part I talked to a girl about lucid dreaming. She was very receptive to the information for different reasons. This was a possible reason for tonight's short lucid.

* I woke up to use the restroom last night. When I went back to bed I decided to SSILD cycle for the first time in a long time. This may have spurred my short lucid.

My great start to 2013 I feel was due to logging so many dreams and learning SSILD. I have recently stopped logging regular dreams and have not been cycling. It's time to start cycling regularly, and I may need to start logging my dreams again.