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Non-dream Dream Lucid Dream

I was able to recall many fragments and one dream where I was in and out of lucidity.

Fragment 1: Trying to take time off of work but my boss wont let me.

Fragment 2: Staring at a huge shelf of new processed food in black boxes with pink writing. There are pink pretzels.

Fragment 3: I am at my bowling league and I realize we always win when my dad rolls a 755 series.

Fragment 4: I am grocery shopping with my dad and we are having trouble with our shopping cart.

Dream:

I am watching a movie when all of a sudden I am one of the characters. I am in sort of a Hunger Games setting with tons of people fighting in an arena. People are trying to kill me and were throwing things at me and it is getting difficult to survive. Then all of a sudden I can fly and I become semi-lucid. A few other people can fly and have other powers but I am the strongest. I am trying to help everybody. I become super witty and everyone loves me. I said "you have to follow the teachings of Buddha to be able to do this" to the people who are flying. I am finally able to stop all of the fighting. I quickly develop other powers just by thinking them (moving fast, slowing time). Some girl is talking about how she needs "sex money." I want to show off so I challenge "I can get your 'sex money' in 3 seconds" (I say this because I can fly, slow time and move extremely fast). The dream ends when I have to put in disc 2 to continue the movie.

Well, unfortunately I was out of town AGAIN yesterday, and just got back a little bit ago, hence the late entry. I keep having to go on all these little trips that are really screwing up my sleep schedule and I am not able to consistently expirement with the alarm or work on any techniques. I think I may have gone backwards a little bit in terms of how close I am coming to success with having another lucid dream. Man, I am so excited for the next one cause now I have it worked out what I'm going to do. Just need a good solid week where I can get in my normal routine again.

Right now I am working on reality checks at key points of the day. The main ones I am working on are whenever I wake up, there is a big scenery shift (going outside / inside), or I go through a doorway. Also I am working on using this alarm. So far I have been able to wake up and turn it on each night I have had a chance to use it except for once. It has also been really good about actually waking me up each time like it is supposed to. The first couple of nights I used it, i had false awakenings like crazy. As soon as I had trained myself to do an RC whenever I wake up though, it seems like my brain is just playing a mean trick on me and the alarm hasn't given me a false awakening since. So that is pretty much all I am waiting on at this point. i think though that if I don't have another lucid soon I am going to look into some other techniques but right now I am really hoping to get this alarm working.

Well, I am really tired so I'm going to bed. Really hope this timer gives me another false awakening because I think i am trained now to take that and turn it into a lucid dream!! Wish me luck.

See ya!

Well this morning I woke up and could actually recall a couple of pretty vivid dream but unfortunately, I didn't have a chance to record anything until now so I can only recall this one dream. Guess what? It deals with yet another fire. Man, these natural disaster things and fires... IDK.

I was walking down this dirt road out in the country. I was all by myself and it was night. Then I suddenly remember seeing this house burst into flames because of lightning. I began running over to this house and I heard music. Then I suddenly remembered that I must of been listening to my mp3 player as I was walking. Sure enough, I had my earbuds in. As I was running I took them out wrapped 'em up. The wierd thing was... i could still hear the same exact music as if I hadn't taken my earbuds out! I thought this was very strange and considered doing a reality check. Guess what though??? Of course silly old me rememberd that this house was burning to the ground and decided I had already wasted enough time so ya... didn't do the reality check!!! I started running again, as fast as I could go. So remember how i have that wierd thing in dreams where whenever I run I seem to 'max out' my speed really fast? Well, the same thing happened here. I remember conciously thinking that I must be dreaming because this wierd running thing was happening. Instead of simply stopping and doing a reality check though I was just so focused on getting to this house I continued on with my wierd slippery feet slow-mo running thing.

ANYWAYS.... I finally made it to this house. By now the surrounding sheds and outbuildings were also ablaze. I remember running over and grabbing this little treebranch full of leaves. Apparently this was the perfect thing to put fires out with. I run back over to the fire and start beating the flames with it. Turns out... it actually put fires out like magic. Wierd... So as I was putting out the flames some other people came over to help out. I told them to go grab some tree branches. Eventually we got all the fires put out and it started raining, extinguishing any remaining smolders.

Soon after, everyone left and I was all alone again. Now, remember that music I mentioned eralier? Well, it had been going this WHOLE TIME! Anyways, still being perplexed by this mystery, I reached into my pocket for my mp3 player. I took it out and examined it. It was displaying all the stuff for the song correctly at first. I looked away for a second and then it was all gibberish. Since I had already considered that i might of been dreaming earlier, this should of been the final tip off. But my brain, being as clever as it is, reminded me that my mp3 player had just undergone a software update and might still have some bugs. I, being the wasy going guy that I am, took this as a good enough explaination and decided against a reality check YET AGAIN!!! Grrrrrr....... rageface......facaepalm....grrrr!!(

*clears throat after akward outburst* So um... ya... anyways.... Then the music turned into this upbeat song that I know really well and I started singing along. I woke up sometime during this and whaddaya know? I found the source of the music mystery in the dream. Somehow my mp3 player had got bumped to another playlist and was playing music instead of the binaural beats. It had just worked its way right into my dream. I guess that is pretty cool now that i think about it. Hehe, gives me lots of ideas once I become proficient at lucid dreaming...

Okay, this is the story of one of my 6 or 7 lucid dreams. This happened about a year ago, but I remember it quite clearly since it is the most amazing non-sexual thing that has ever happened to me.

A little about me first, I love to fight. It's in my nature. I train in boxing, and I LOVE IT. My username "TheSpiderSilva", is actually a reference to Anderson "The Spider" Silva, the greatest mixed martial artists of all time. I could go on all day about my passion for fighting, but I'd rather just tell you about my dream, because the latter might be interesting to someone other than myself.

Since I mentioned Anderson Silva, here's a picture of him doing the matrix on Forrest Griffin:


He's currently 14-0 in the UFC (longest winning streak in UFC history), and hopefully he'll extend that UFC winning streak to 15 tomorrow after his fight with Chael Sonnen (which I'm nervous about).

Another thing about me, in all of my lucid dreams (all 6 or 7 of them), I have given myself the powers of Alex Mercer. He's the main protagonist in the video game "PROTOTYPE". He's an anti-hero, fighting for the good of the world, even if that means killing a few people.

Here is a picture of Alex:


He has a lot of insane powers.

Read about Alex's powers here under "Powers and Abilities", this page also contains his biography in case you want to know about him (I strongly recommend that you read it, because otherwise you might not understand my story):
http://prototype.wikia.com/wiki/Alex_Mercer

There are a few problems that I have with what they say about his powers. For one thing, he can easily lift tanks, throw them, or carry them up skyscrapers. The game won't let you do it, but that's not because he isn't strong enough. In Prototype 2, he easily flings a tank a mile with one arm, and that's without muscle mass (a power he has that increases his strength by a factor of two).

He also doesn't get hurt by bullets and missiles. They tone down his powers during gameplay severely, to give the game balance and make it challenging. He survived a nuke 5x the size of the Hiroshima bomb at the end of the first game.

Now, on to the dream.

I don't really remember what happened at first, but all of a sudden, I realized I was dreaming. Everything got incredibly vivid. The first thing I did was give myself Alex Mercer's powers, and then I went to Manhattan.

It was the Manhattan from Prototype though. There were a bunch of infected zombies, mutants, and the military was also there. I was actually fighting them for a while, having fun, getting the hang of my powers. One cool thing I did was leap off of a building, down towards the front of the tank, grabbed it by the barrel, jumped into the air with it, flipped over, and slammed the tank into a hunter.

In case you don't know what a hunter is, here's a picture:


I killed an infected mutant, and destroyed a tank. Two birds one stone.

I also gave myself a nice little weapon too. I tore the barrel off of the tank and started using it as a baseball bat. I was destroying everybody with it, and having a crazy amount of fun doing it.

I eventually got tired of the tank barrel, so I flung it at an apache (caused it to crash).

Eventually it had gotten to where I was the only man standing. Everyone and everything around me was destroyed (everything was trying to kill me so don't call me a psycho lol, I'm actually a nice guy).

Suddenly, I see something fly over me at a very high speed. It flew over a bunch of times. After a while, I started jumping upwards, trying to grab onto it. I missed the first several times. I eventually timed it right and grabbed onto it.

I noticed I was holding onto a leg, and also noticed that it was fucking IRON MAN.

"What are you doing here?" I asked.

No reply.

All of a sudden, he stopped in mid flight (for a quick second), placed his legs on my shoulders, and pretty much kicked me down, which sent me flying towards the ground. We were a few thousand feet up. I landed on the street, laying in a crater caused by the impact of me hitting the pavement.

"What the hell was that for?" I asked myself.

-TO BE CONTINUED-

I am at the school waiting for my friend Dustin to get done with sax lessons. I am with my friends, David and Leon. We decide to go home without Dustin. They go downstairs and I go upstairs to play video games. My mom walks by with white hair and blue streaks. [She normally has black hair.] I complement her on her hair. I then start to head downstairs. My friend David walks to the bottom of the stairs in his underwear. He starts laughing and says, "I am Santa!" I just turn around and ignore him. [This doesn't feel weird to me because he often wakes up and walks around in his underwear in his waking life. He also acts very stupid when he gets tired.] My mom is there and hands me a bag. I look in it as she say, "I bought you some Gatorade." I look and examine the bottles, each with a different health claim. "Sweet! A different vitamin in each drink!" [I am on a health kick. Trying to drop 71 pounds!] Leon is next to me and leans over to tell me something as my mom walks away. He proceeds to say, "Dude! I just took a shit in your band room!" I look at him and simply say, "What!?" He repeats it again, "I.. Just took a shit... In your band room." I think of how odd that is and wake up.

I am on a train. The tracks are elevated. The train does not have a top. It is simply a floor and no walls. The seats are like bleacher seats but with cushions and elongated, I imagine so people can sleep. There are no other passengers on the train. I notice bags on the train, they are sealed. I being to contemplate the benefits of stealing the possessions in the bags. I decide against it. I begin to wonder how I am going to get home. I decide that since the train is not moving, I should walk. [I don't know where or what home is because I live nowhere near elevated train tracks.] While walking along the train, I stumble upon a wrestling mat. I suddenly realize, I am on this train for the match! I stand on my spot on the bracket that has been painted onto the mat. I am lined up for continuous fights. I match up against a girl about my age with blonde hair. [She is not recognizable from my waking life.] We stand there in our stances. I view this from a third-person view at a side angle. Just before the whistle to start the match blows, I wake up.

I woke up and didn't move and did my own 'roll out' technique which I used ages ago...

It took about 10-15 seconds to get into a fully fledged Lucid Dream. I started rubbing my hands instinctively to stabilize the dream. Then I walked outside and started flying... I was turning heaps in the air, and the dream started fading.. Then I woke up...

Last Nights Dreams

Dream 1 ((sleep paralysis))

I get in bed and lie down to go to sleep. After about 10 minutes I feel vibrations go through me and I hear people talking like at a party or something, I am still aware at this point that I'm lying in bed and then the talking stops. After another 5 minutes I hear music from a fair-ground ride but then it stops. I must have nodded off now.

Dream 2

I'm in my bedroom with my daughter "L", she shows me her make-up on her eyes and says "look, it looks dead nice doesn't it!" I look and think "how the hell has she got my eye-shadow on when I hid it from her?!" ((I bought new make-up yesterday)) it doesn't occur to me to do a RC

Dream 3

I'm on a prison bus with others and we're on our way to prison. There is a man I know well ((only in my dream)) with me and he's also going to prison. I think this man is my boyfriend in the dream. He is sitting on the seat infront of me but is turned to face me. He is holding a big pot full of hot stew, he says to me "hold this a minute" I take it from him and gravy splatters on us both. . He now takes a piece of paper from his pocket and opens it up, he says to me "this is like gold, it's the new plans for the prison, it shows you the secret way out, be carefully with it, you know what to do!" I look at the drawing of the plans and notice that some of the gravy is on the corner of it but it hasn't ruined the plans. I take the plans and think "ohhh god, I don't think I'm brave enough to escape!" I now hide the plans safe in my pocket.
The bus now pulls up at the prison and my boyfriend says "ok...are you ready?" then he winks at me, I say "yes ok" and he smiles and nods to one of the prison screws on the bus with us.

Last Nights Dream

I am at a mans house and I'm here to clean for him. He takes me into a room now and it's really weird in here. There are like swirly lights around and they are all different colours. The floor is made out of glass and there I water underneath it. The walls are also made of glass and they are also full of water.
I feel like I can't really breathe in here so I open a door in the glass wall and walk through it. I now see a man and a woman in a tank but there's no water in it, the man is dead and the woman is lying on top of him half dead. I get some bread and shove it down her throat to kill her, it actually felt quite good when I done this!
I now walk out into the garden, I see a bed and lie down on it. My stomache now feels really tight and painful, it feels like I have a belt pulled very tightly around it but there is no belt. I'm saying to people "I can't breathe, it's so tight, god what is it?" a man says "sit down there and see how that feels" so I sit down on the chair but get straight back up saying "ohh god it's soo painful, it's so tight, what's wrong with me!!" I'm holding my stomache and can't stand up straight.

Last Nights Dreams

Dream 1

My Mom is moaning at me, she says I don't do anything but sing in a stupid band , my Dad now comes over to me and says "I'm sorry sweetheart but I've had to do it" I can see how upset he is. My Dad explains to me about this lottery thing, he apologises to me because he has signed me up for it but it's not with him. I say to my Dad "it's ok, don't worry about it I understand"

Dream 2

I'm standing outside with 2 people and we are talking about my husbands cousin "D" from Newcastle. Suddenly I realise that "D's" dead and I remember back to the last time I saw him which was at his Moms funeral ((which is true)). The girls I am with say "yeah they stabbed him then snapped his neck!" I can't believe he's been murdered and I get upset because he's a lovely bloke then I cry.

This is a nightmare I had a few nights ago. My fiance woke me up and said that I was making strange noises. Usually when I do that, I'm trying to wake myself up.

I remember the dream starting while I was in an old house of mine. There were a few people there from my father's church. I don't really like church people. Anyway. Apparently, it was my job to watch over this one room until my stepmother got back from shopping. There were bunk beds in the room and a dresser, I think. Everyone left the house and I was the only one left. They told me that if I wasn't careful, that I could accidentally invoke demonic spirits while they were gone. They told that the house had been previously haunted. I waited for a little while and stood in the same spot in the room. After awhile of waiting for them to get back, I became more and more uneasy. There was a sense of eeriness flooding the house. I was alone but I felt like I was being watched. Then, out of nowhere, I hear a woman's voice calling my name. I didn't like that at all. It felt like there were tortured souls all over the house and their loneliness pulled on me and drug me down. There were lonely voices calling out to me from all directions and I felt like I was the one who had brought them in. Before I knew it, I was on the floor, on my back, screaming for help. No one could hear me and I couldn't wake myself up from the dream.


My fiance finally woke me up and said I had been struggling in my sleep and wheezing. Thank Christ he woke me. I don't know what was so scary about the dream but it smothered me.

Going to the Moon and Mars

I was at my Grandmothers. I was getting ready to go to Mars, and I was going to meet a friend. My friend, MJ, got in a lunar lander and took off before I was able to tell him I was going to Mars, so he started going to the moon.

I tried to program a message system to advise him. I got a piece of clay and started scratching Send and Cancel buttons. That wasn't working so I gave up. I just wouldn't meet my friend on Mars.

The night prior I had watched a special on a mission to send a lander to Mars.

Copping with Victoria Principal

I was looking right at Victoria Principal. I was telling her how beautiful she was. I touched the side of her breast, then saw 4 people nearby talking, so I quit.

~

I had another dream where I was about to run my fingers through a girls short, blond hair. It didn't happen though.

While I was camping, I had woken up in the morning and not wanting to get up yet I went back to sleep. After this I remember dreaming about me being in some sort of a horse race, like I was a jockey. And then my mom came into the room I was sleeping in having this dream and was talking to me. The dream that I was in began to fade because my mom was talking to me so then I got up to talk back to her. And then I realized that I wasn't actually at my mom's house and that I was camping. So then I actually woke up back in my tent.

My brother and I were inside of a Von's grocery store. We were at the deli inside ordering two orders of carne asada fries one of which with no cheese. After ordering we start walking away from the deli. But we were walking in the wrong direction. We quickly realized our mistake and turned around to walk to the exit since we were trying to leave. The Von's was a Von's that does exist in real life where I live although upon exiting the parking lot seemed vast. My brother and I began walking towards the car that was parked what seemed like a mile away. The car wasn't mine but my older brother's car a Toyota Corolla. My brother was in front of me so I unlocked the car from far away. Upon my unlocking of the car a crowd of homeless people who were near the car started raiding it for anything they could find. So I yelled to my brother to get my knife which was in the car. And he did but when he got it instead of throwing it to me he threw it into the crowd of homeless people. After this since I wasn't armed I got in the car and locked it. The homeless men gathered around the car with what weapons they had. One of them had a pipe, one had some sort of electrical conduit, and the leader had my knife that my brother had thrown. The leader of the homeless men yelled at me to unlock the car door and to give us everything that was in the car. I yelled back that I wasn't going to and so he had the person with the pipe come up and threaten to break the car window and unlock it himself if I didn't. So not wanting the car window to be broken I obliged and unlocked the door to the car. After I unlocked the door I woke up.

When Robert Monroe designed his WAVE CD:s he wanted to let the people learn by their own sensations and instincts so they could learn to naturally expand their consciousness to higher energy systems.

The majority of people who have been using the Gateway experience, including me, started using it to learn to get OOBES.
And to do so I thought I just needed to lay there listen to the tapes and the rest would take care of itself.
Oh boy how stupid can on man be?

I read the Frequent Asked Questions Section and found this:

Q: I’m currently working with the Discovery album. What if I can’t get out of my body on tape
#5 („Exploration, Sleep”)? Should I continue with tape #5 until I do, or after a reasonable time
move on to the next tape?

A: Not everyone will have a conscious out-of-body experience
(OBE). It takes a lot of practice for most, and , many of us have hidden fears that hold us back.
Also, if you try too hard for an OBE, the intense effort can become the very distraction that
holds you back. Be nonchalant about OBEs. They are just a small part of our program of
personal exploration and learning to expand consciousness. As long as you’re thoroughly
familiar with tape #5, by all means go on to the next tape.

So I realize now that OOBE is just a bonus and not as great as the true purpose of the gateway experience is.
"if you try too hard for an OBE, the intense effort can become the very distraction that holds you back."
which is exactly what I have been doing.

So now I did one attempt where I didn't aimed for an OOBE or any sensations of the sort, and instead of just laying there and listen I daydreamed at the same time. When he said go to your Energy Conversion box, instead of thinking about what I wanted to put in it and some dull imagination of me closing it, I imagined that I was standing in a Mayan temple and let my subconscious fill in the rest. I started thinking about a pirate chest and voila that worked as my new conversion box, and I continued to be active in my non-physical space this way and I managed to stay aware through the whole CD which is about 40 minutes, without moving and without the annoying swallowing reflex or coughing.
AND my body was completely numb when I tried to get out of bed, so this was Focus 10: Mind Awake Body Asleep.

I am going to use my DreamJournal as a place to write about my future attempts.

Now I am moving on to the Advanced Focus 10 CD.

I hope this was helpful for Gateway Experience users :)