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March 26, 2013 - 5 hours in - 15 seconds - WBTB, WILD, FILD, FA, RC

Every 20 minutes, for a total of 5 times, I had the WILD alarm go off to wake me up to practice it. However, most times I figured on doing nothing, thinking (wrongly) that I was too awake and I should try it some other time. Then I lay comfortably and alternate very, very slightly tapping my index and middle fingers of my left hand.

I do it for maybe 30 seconds, at no time feeling any perceptible change in anything. I see the patterns of colored lights, but I see these when awake and tired also. Eventually I saw a blob of light that seemed in a sense to be like seeing the window through my eyelids, so I waited a little and then tried to plug my nose and inhale. Up to this point everything felt exactly like reality, yet I inhaled successfully. I can hardly believe it - I transitioned seamlessly into a dream!

I think for a second to try to remember my goals, and I think of breaking something. I try to get up out of bed, but feel a 'change' and do my reality check again. I have woken up, possibly triggered by opening my eyes too soon or by other in-dream movement.

During day: 5xRCs including DS review

Dream recall technique: none used, remembered 2 dreams

Total sleep time: 7+hrs

After being too lazy or tired in the last few days, I decided it's time to try to WILD again. Set the alarm clock to wake me 5hrs after going to bed, woke up, stayed awake for a few mins (I avoid waking myself too much because I really cannot fall asleep afterwards), then went back to bed, repeating a mantra. I fell asleep.

Dream1: I am in someplace which is my dream home and I am going to bed trying to WILD, blankets all around me, mobile phones, watches showing the time. Then I wake up in the dream, I am in the car with my dad who is driving me somewhere. How strange I think, I really can't remember what I did or where I have been before that. I look at a watch and it's five hours later than when I went to bed in the dream. “It’s like I have lost five hours of my life”, I am thinking to myself.

My parents are cooking dinner in an unknown building in our old neighbourhood. I want to WILD and initially lay my blankets on the roof of a building, trying to relax there. Somehow I am teleported where my parents are and they make a lot of noise so I can't fall asleep. We watch a large part of something, the size of window, fly off and crash on our neighbors’ roof. It is my fault [of course!] because I have forgotten to close the windows so the wind blew that part away. I remember in the dream that I have closed the windows and start telling this to my dad. We go to my parents’ bedroom where the neighbors are also visible and have a look at the windows.

The wind is so strong that I am afraid that everything will start flying off in different directions. I close the windows, but as soon as I do they open again. The frame looks pretty broken. My dad says he will put something on the windows so the windows can't be used again. This saddens me because I won't be able to look at the sunset anymore, so I tell him. I look in the direction of the sunset and a see a larger than usual sun, more yellowish less bright with some details visible. I remember not to stare at it too long because it's bad for the eyes.

A few blocks away I see a huge tornado just starting to form. Oh, no! It's far but it is coming, so I tell my parents we should go somewhere else. Then I start wasting time, trying to grab my blanket, looking around for other stuff. The tornado is getting closer really fast. It has a scary destructive force, I see it passing over and through a row of houses, there are sound and sight of implosions and the houses are completely destroyed. There is very little chance to make it if we stay in the building. Better try to run outside. So I do.

I find myself in another building, facing a boy. I consider this to be a bit strange but go on my way as I see the scary gray mist swirling around. There is an expensive section in this building something like a cafe for special people. Next to it is the exit. I am running from the windows where the tornado is towards the cafe /exit. I rush through the cafe shouting “Get out, now!” to the woman who works there. There are three very strange looking kids that have been left there by their ultra rich parents. I try to take them with me but they don't react, just stare there with blank faces, so I leave them at the table. One of the employees of the cafe tells me that all is safe outside, so I urge her to look around the corner to confirm. She doesn't want to do that. I do it myself. No swirling or tornado coming yet, so I walk a bit, but as I cross the street I see it is getting nearby, a fast moving mist rather than a tornado, so I launch myself forward, jump some fences and continue running...[end]

I woke up after this, since I had no WILD success again I just decided to sleep some more. I forgot any other dreams. It was time to wake up but I pressed the alarm for one more snooze. 9 mins to go. (By the way I thought I could change the snooze settings but can't figure how to do so). I am not attempting to LD, I really don't care at this point.

Dream2 Snooze DILD: I am in a car parked near my parents' current place, my alarm clocks are all around me again. My teacher is trying to reach me on the phone in the dream. I know that I will soon wake up so I don't bother picking up. I am staring at the sky. Is it a spaceship? A strange object is flying around, it looks like a flying truck, how can that be? My awareness is trying to awake. I follow the flight of this truck until it lands in the yard nearby. At that point I know that I am dreaming! An older DC man is in the truck, he reminds me of some unknown famous actor, also looks angry and menacing. He comes to me looking somewhat aggressive. I am really tired of all the chasing around, so I just intend him to be a nice guy, and to my amazement he decides to take it easy. The car where I am begins sliding down the road, but the yard end/road entrance is too narrow for it to pass. I somehow try to size the car down, it becomes very long and thin and I am amazed at this transformation. I stop the car and go to my room in my parents place.

No idea why I decided to go there. Now, in front of me is a gray cloud forming, starting to look scary. I remember the tornado fear, so this is unpleasant. I am still lucid although getting distracted by the cloud, when I remember not to give in. I try to make the cloud go away. In this case, I am stronger so it cannot do anything and just vanishes.

I somehow start unintentionally creating clouds. Those look like real clouds from far away, different hues and shades on the cloud, partly lit by the sun, etc. I also hear the sound of distant thunder coming from the mini vivid cloud in front of me, I really like that. I am having a moment of great enjoyment creating these clouds making them appear from my hands as if they were a ball of cloud, there is also some dark blue light sparkling. I do this quite a few times until I get exhausted and cannot do it anymore. I am still lucid, but am beginning to lose concentration, so I decide to get out of there and go to the street.

I am on the street. A rather unpleasant looking DC decides he will accompany me to wherever I am going. The only task from my list that I remember to do is to summon a certain DC and ask him a pre-determined question. I start calling out for the DC to appear, nothing. I try again, no result. I ask the ugly DC next to me where is the DC I am trying to summon. Of course, he doesn't know. I don't like that, but I nevertheless decide to ask him the question I had in mind. He answers something nonsensical. I try to have a conversation with him, but I find it hard to hear or understand what he says. We probably exchanged no more than a few sentence and I notice in the dream that I start forgetting what he said. [Very strange, I guess there is place for only one two questions at a time]

I wonder how I am still here on the street for what feels like so long and the dream is still here, I am happy about that. I notice two tall guys with black scarves around their heads walking towards us. I notice how out of order this looks and smile to myself, how easy it is to spot inconsistencies while I am lucid now. I try to stop them maybe talk to them, but they insist on continuing on their way, strong momentum so making them stop is really hard. Still no alarm clock interfering, I expect it to ring any moment. I get distracted thinking and then find myself in darkness, feeling my body. My eyes are still closed and I try to DEILD but no success.

I look at my alarm clock, two minutes to the alarm? I jump out of bed trying to hold on to the dream memory, which today feels very evasive as the dreams begin to erase themselves.

Final remarks: Dream control today was really good, tried out the tips to make the chaser a nice guy, which worked in this LD. I also think that reading posts and this tutorial on dream control http://www.dreamviews.com/wiki/Dream-Control-Tutorial helped!

Practices: ADA, Mindfulness, WBTB, DEILD
While falling asleep, mantra: "I am aware"

Dream #1 - I am with my friend, R__. She's driving a car - one belonging to one of my relatives, according to my dream-memory, but in real life none of them own a gray minivan. We're driving around a mall parking lot. We can't seem to find a parking space. She accidentally hits another car while pulling into a parking space, and I cringe at the sound, but she's more angry about it than worried. She decides to try to use a note left on her windshield to explain why she parked in one of the restricted parking spots, by claiming she can't walk that far, but I don't think that will hold up under scrutiny. She finally gives up and parks pretty far away from the mall entrance. We can see it from where we are, but it's quite a walk.

I briefly wake up from the dream and try to carry my awareness with me into my next dream, using my mantra.

As soon as the dream reforms, I am instantly lucid. I'm inside of the mall from the previous dream, but R__ is gone now. The lucid dream has the crystal clarity characteristic of my lucid. Since I'm not outdoors (unusual), rather than the usual sweeping landscapes and storm-swept skies, instead the architecture inside of the mall is extremely grand. Super high vaulted ceilings, probably 80-100 feet high, with graceful arches carved out of solid pale pink marble and golden inlays. Intricate carvings and sculptures. White marble floors. The whole thing looks more like the inside of a cathedral than a mall.

I look around and think, "This is definitely a dream". I inspect my hand - it's perfectly formed. I do a reality check by trying to push one hand through the other, but I can't. I shrug it off - I know I'm dreaming. I try to fly, and hover in the air above the crowds milling around the mall. My lucidity tends to fade very quickly while I'm flying, though - there's something about not having my feet on the ground that does that. So I land, and then crawl on the floor and inspect the marble tiles. There's grime between them and they feel a little gritty - this place needs to be swept and mopped.

I decide to go treasure hunting. I reach into my back pocket - for some reason, I'm wearing a skirt with pockets - and feel around for a map. I feel crumpled paper and tug. I pull out a sheet of notebook paper, folded in half several times, and unfold it. There is a map on it, scribbled in blue pen, but I can't read what it says. It also has little pictures. I decide that I need to go find a dream character who CAN read it, and if I'm going to treasure hunt, I'm going to do it in style - which means having a whole group of treasure hunters with me. I run my hand along the wall as I walk.

I walk toward the food court - well, an archway I have decided is the food court. The floor slopes downward between it in a ramp, heading underground. I can see tables in the distance. I decide that's kind of boring and want it to be something more exciting. As I approach, it morphs into a Viking style beer hall. I'm pretty satisfied - this is definitely more fun.

I enter the beer hall, which is smokey and full of warriors eating and drinking. There is an empty space in the middle with a fire-pit that looks like it's used by entertainers - wrestlers, musicians, etc. The benches on either side are elevated on steps, sort of like bleachers, so everybody can see. Nobody is performing right now, though.

I see a group of 5 or 6 Tolkein-style Dwarves over to one side. They look like they're having a pretty good time. I approach them and introduce myself. Their leader is a pretty buff looking Dwarf. He has long, thick braided brown hair and is wearing a sort of heavy brown leather harness that has what looks like a lion's mane stitched around the neck and shoulders. He greets me respectfully:
"I am Lokmin, son of (I can't remember his dad's name)." He thumps his chest (which is more Roman, I guess, but whatever).
I hold out my treasure map. "I've found a map to potential treasure, but it might be dangerous."
The Dwarves deliberate over my wrinkled sheet of notebook paper, making sounds of interest and approval. Lokmin looks like he's about to make the decision to follow me...

But unfortunately, we never got to find the treasure. I live near an airport - one of the EXTREMELY LOUD jets that I LOATHE flies overhead, waking me up and ending my lucid dream. I was pretty upset. Even now there's another really loud jet flying overhead. I hate those things, and the airport by extension (it wasn't always noisy here - they moved the flight paths).

I go back to sleep, trying to re-enter the dream, but I'm too irritated to focus.


Dream #3 - I dream that I am taking naked photographs of myself using my laptop camera and didn't realize the curtain across the sliding glass door in the living room was sheer. I figure either nobody saw me, or they didn't care.

non lucid
*Jumped by two blacks dude and prayed to reborn in sukhavati.
*Used a shower that took up the whole bathroom.

Got to sleep later than usual due to some credit card stuff and thus had to use an alarm.

I recall being in cave system of some sort and later there was minigame where i had to control small sphere that moved around area and collected chess pieces, also there were pink chess pieces that automatically collected all other chess pieces on in the view when collected.
Then i had some kind of discussion with LV and there was video of an AI playing through ESP Ra.De.(a shmup game) , the AI's name was 'Queen ESP Ra.De.'.

Date: March 26, 2013 ||| Time Block: 2:00 AM to 10:30 AM ||| Length: 1 minute. ||| Lucidity: level 2/1. ||| Entry Type: DILD ||| Major Methods: BAT

Methods: went to bed while focusing on trying to 'see' out of my closed right eye.

Account:

I plug my nose. "I can still breath through it. Oh man, my reality check failed—cause I'm still dreaming." A look back in front of me and the person is smiling, almost laughing at me, about something.

I wake up later and realize I had totally, completely been tricked.

Tried to WILD during a nap, I wish I took note of what time it was when I started, but it's 2:28 now. I close the curtains, laid down, and started. It was still really light in my room though, and my dog wouldn't leave me alone so I let him sit at the edge of the bed. Basically, there were way too many distractions. I could hear cars outside, it was just the worst time to do it. But I tried anyway.

I layed down, closed my eyes as usual, and put my hands over my chest. Initially I felt nothing, and was about to give up, but I thought to myself "no, if I really want a lucid I have to keep going." So I did keep going. I started to feel vibrations, and then my heart started pounding. I was trying to visualize a bunch of random objects (first a car, then a little figure) but nothing worked. I just waited patiently after that. But then my neighbor's obnoxious dogs started barking like maniacs, so I had to get up. Shame. I'll try a full on WILD tonight with WBTB if I can.

I'm in a parking lot, it's pretty big. It looks to be the parking lot for a walmart type store, A car is waiting on me to pick me up, but I don't want to go, so I start almost skating with just my shoes, I begin gliding as if on ice, I go between car and around planters. Some parts of the parking lot make me pick up speed as if down hill while others slow my pace as if up hill. My fun starts to change when I notice most of the cars have someone just watching me in the driver seats. I stop gliding so close to their doors in fear of one of them opening their doors and snatching me up or stabbing me so I then decide now I want to go to the car that was waiting on me to pick me up but of course now I can't find them.

Me and my sister are on a balcony, I see a woman a man and their two boy children. I pick up binoculars and look at them, because I couldn't get a look at their faces clearly. I know the woman will think I'm a perve so every time she looks up at us I pretend I was looking at my sister through the binoculars, but them my sister starts to walk away and I tell her to stand in front of me so It looks like I'm looking at her when really I'm looking at these people. Then suddenly the two boys appear and tell us they haven't met us yet and that they want to show us something that they show every one they meet. They take us to this creepy attic stairway and tell us to walk up, I'm suspicious and don't want to, plus why aren't they walking up with us, I'm still at the door while my sister already walked to the top, I yell at her to come down and that I'm leaving. I tell her the boys are going to do something bad to us because I was spying on their mom. So my makes an annoyed sigh but I don't car, we leave and I know we avoided something bad. I knew they would lock us up there with something or someone.

BG INFO: I was calling the meteorite 'meteor' in my dream, which is incorrect.
Dream Start-
I started off in a school bus, where there appeared to be about five or seven other kids in it. I then saw that the bus had stopped (It was never moving, I think), and I got up and walked towards the front of the bus (Instability). When I reached the front, I looked out the doors, that were opened, and saw two, maybe three people (adults) standing there. The ones I could definitely see were female,but the other one might have been a male. The second women looked as if she was holding an object (Which was invisible, at least, to me) with two hands that looked (and she held it like) a football. She told me something (I don't remember what) and I seemed to react to it by saying, "Give me the meteor", which she then replied, "-I will,... wait." I repeated the sentence to her and she said, "I will, later, though," I nodded and the other women pointed the second bus (I was out of the first somehow) and said, "Look at... he's <fooling around?>", which made the blonde, skinny boy laugh and sit back in his seat, properly. I then started to wake up, still repeating the sentence, "Give me the meteor."
Dream End.
*Instability - When the dreamer (I) "lags" while moving or looking at something. (For example; If I were dreaming of watching someone, and the "screen" or vision "borders" expand or contract, that's instability. Or if I dream I am walking and I constantly "teleport", that's instability, at least I that's what I call it.
I still had that sentence in my head when I woke up, what was that about?

So, the memory starts with me running from someone through a huge mall (it's like an underground passage), but a really vast one. There I find a girl. She's smaller in stature than me, I feel like I've known her my whole life, but I can't remember her face (she probably didn't have it). She was wearing a dress, a black dress I think. Next thing, we're outside and I'm taking her somewhere, while fighting and killing some kind of soldiers. It was then that I realized I was some kind of a god - not the almighty, but a deity, I had powers. Could switch bodies, I knew things others didn't, called the wind, the water etc. Anyways, I was really, really, really taking care of the girl, I carried her over anything she might have problems crossing. Then we were at a lake, there a helicopter appeared and more soldiers, trying to take me down. Realizing they will not stop until they see me dead, and the fact that my powers were going away, I let them shoot me and switched to another body at the last moment. What happens next I see from near. My new body hugs her and says 'we'll take care of you, it's alrite' and then 'it's me ' Then I enter that body (just a perspective change), tell her to move into my old home because it's in the city, and to make a carrier for herself - I didn't have much time left in that world. I hugged her again and kissed her on the forhead. I can't explain how much attraction I STILL, an hour after the dream, feel towards that girl. And I don't even know if it's a man/woman attraction, it's like (this might sound sick but I can't describe it otherwise) love for a sister, a daughter and a wife combined. The feeling is so strong I can't even make out what it is. Yet it's kinda soothing. Then I woke up.

I'm in the school library where the Freshman orchestra is practicing. I find these pop-up books that illustrate different settings in Discworld and I'm really excited about them, but I'm kind of embarrassed to be seen with them because they look kind of weird from the point of view of someone who hasn't read the Discworld series. I think at some point my orchestra teacher comes and talks to me for a bit.

In a different dream, either I am this little girl or I'm following her story, I can't remember. I might have been switching between those perspectives. She runs away from home and braves the elements to visit interesting, far-off places. I like this dream because for a long time I've wanted to just get up and go/to travel without a destination. After visiting a place that might have been france or germany for a while (she originated in England), she eventually returns home, either of her own will or because her parents find her, I can't remember. She leaves again, though, and this time, her brother comes with her. She makes her way to the middle-east or Egypt, maybe. She gets a hotel room in a tall adobe building, and she looks out the window at the red sky that is turning darker as night approaches. There are some suspicious-looking dark clouds on the left that seem like they might bring rain. Suddenly, the dream becomes terribly disturbing. The brother says something about sacrifice, stabs the girl twice - soaking the curtains with blood - and then throws her out of the three-story window.

In another dream, I'm a school teacher from some time in the past, because not all of the kids are wearing shoes and we're in a dusty, one-room schoolhouse. However, they're all sitting in the floor in rows watching a kid's movie on a TV that seems to have been made in the 90's. I'm breaking apart these big disney-themed chocolates and tossing them to the kids. Once every kid has gotten some, something happens, but I don't remember what. Next thing I know, I am leading my kids on a journey to a new school house, or we're on a field trip, or something like that. All I can remember is that I might have met a centaur and he might have tried to woo me.

I'm in a car and I'm watching a video about the middle school that I used to go to (because my mother teaches there). In the video, it interviews people who work for/at the school, and sometimes Rickey Gervais is interviewed, and at first I think nothing of it, until I realize, and I'm excited that Rickey Gervais has for some reason worked for my middle school at one point. Karl Pilkington is also interviewed at times, but it takes me a long time to realize who it is. When I look up their names in conjunction with the name of my school, I can't find anything on them.

My parents and I are riding in the car (right after watching the video?) and there are two buildings, one to my right and one to my left. We keep driving past these buildings, and each time I think I see someone or something there. The only thing I can remember seeing, though, is Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles at the building to my left the third or fourth time we passed the buildings. Most of the time I saw something, I'd make my parents stop there, but there would never be anyone or anything there. I asked my parents for the names and I looked them up, but I couldn't find anything on them.

In another dream, I'm at this abandoned building (which isn't quite abandoned anymore, since it's become a bit of a tourist spot and there are a lot of other people there too) and there are a lot of owls and maybe some other animals too, that are hanging around outside, sitting on the railing of the walkway that goes around the building and sitting underneath the walkway and such. I think the owls were there because I watched the first Harry Potter movie yesterday.

I was getting ready to go to some ferrari event. I was going to drive down with my dad but I was late. I was gathering my things in a backpack. We were driving an F1 car down, I got in and the floor of the car touched the ground. My backpack spilled some wrenches and my dad asked why would I need those.

We are at the ferrari event and I don't remember too much but we are about to leave and take with us a bunch of standing billboards of video game characters.

We are at home now, I'm in the family room making my bed, and drinking wine. I was chewing on ice I think but i could still taste the wine. I was setting up the billboards.

took:
- no 5-HTP before going to sleep
- 0 dose galantamine + choline
- no Piracetam when I got up
lucid dreaming: 0 lucid experiences
note:
- looks like I was paying off some sleep debt, need to reexamine my getting to sleep routine

So I was standing their at a party in my house not aware of what I was wearing... So all of a sudden some guy yells "PARTY!!!!!!!" and all the lights in the entire house just flashed and came off, it was amazing, then I ran around in the dark finding somewhere to hide. Then I finally found a place to hide, so I hid there for a while and then came out, some guy told me to hide in this hideout but I said, NO. So then I ran and then I jumped on my sister and strangled her, the creepiest thing about that, I saw myself do it. I had no eyeballs, my eye sockets were darkness black and I had grey skin and I was wearing a chain around my neck and I also had long black pants and a short black shirt. Then I went over to turn back on the lights, then one of my friends (wearing the same exact clothing as me) said "I RE SPAWNED" and he put his arms out like he was some kind of monster. Then I woke up happy because I had such an awesome dream. :cheeky:

i was at my grandmother's house & my dad told me that the "liberty tank" had arrived in our yard. i went to look at it: it was a tank with red and blue stripes on the side, and the part where you sit was made of glass. there was a crash test dummy inside and at first i thought it was a real person: it was a young boy with striking blue eyes, slumped over as if dead. i remember thinking he looked russian. my dad removed it and assured me that it wasn't real. we climbed into the tank (the interior was just like the interior of a car) and began driving around. i noticed many people clothed in military uniform and i mentioned that i'd like one of those outfits. my father was driving recklessly and i remarked that he was going 80kmh in the middle of downtown; he disregarded this. we got out of the tank and entered an orange silk tent where there were many foreign people clothed in furs. i remember nothing else.