02.08.2011Progressing quickly! (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I recalled 3 dream fragments last night! 1.) In my first dream me and my buddy G were at my house and we were searching for a way to go climb this building that was on the other side of town. We catch a school bus ride and then get on top of the building where I end up loosing my friend. 2.) Me and some black guy were at the movies and we meet two girls sitting behind us and me and one girl start to fool around and then we find a wat to their house where we stay the night. 3.) I was chillin with 2 guys and a friend(Not sure who and I ended up discovering that I was awesome at beatboxing and I made some beat and the two guys were freaking out because they wanted to record it.
non-lucid lucid TOTM notes After waking up to my early alarm, I went to the bathroom, replied to a couple of threads on DreamViews, and decided to attempt to WILD after being up about 30 minutes or so. I laid down on my back, head slightly elevated and tilted back, and I lay one hand on my stomach on top of the comforter, and the other hand underneath it, but also UNDERNEATH the covers, so that my hands weren't touching skin to skin. My body was pretty relaxed except for a sore spot in my lower back, so I focused my awareness on the tension.. and HI began almost immediately. Mostly swirls and and static, but with faint hazy and fleeting images mixed in. As I watched it (mostly passively, but I admit with a little excitement at the fact that I was getting images but still aware that I was trying to WILD), I knew I was close to SP from the way my body felt (I have gotten this close a great many times), and was going to start a counting anchor, but I noticed that my hands seemed to be touching. Like actually touching skin to skin, even though I knew they were not. I began to focus on my dream hands, trying to move them, rub them together, pull them apart. They felt very heavy, so I didn't think I was quite ready to try opening my eyes, but I WAS making progress. Then, I heard a voice speaking my name.. it was my mother. She was telling me to get up, more urgently with each repetition. I thought- 'oh man, I'm so close to a WILD right now, leave me alone!' and I continued to focus on my hands, hoping that if I ignored her long enough she would give up trying to wake me. She did not stop.. Her voice wasn't coming from inside my room though, it was coming from outside my door. I thought it was odd that she would be trying to wake me from the other room, but she WOULD NOT STOP. Finally, I breathed a big sigh, opened my eyes, and prepared to say 'Thanks for ruining my WILD attempt!' loud enough for her to hear me.. But her voice had stopped. No one was there. I was about to close my eyes again, but something caused me to try a RC. I attempted to levitate the fan on my desk and.. it worked! I was dreaming! At this point, let me interject that I completely forgot that I was trying to WILD. I was only aware that I was dreaming and lucid. After I actually woke up and began recall (which was difficult because this LD led to 2 more), I remembered the transition from thinking my WILD was ruined to realizing it was a dream. It actually took me a few min into recall to suddenly exclaim out loud- 'Oh, I did it!' Very excited. anyway.. I got up and just stood there, looking around, stabilizing the dream (one of the threads I replied to right before WILDing was lucidmax telling me in my journal to work more on stabilization.. so this was my #1 priority throughout). I went into the living room, and my mom was there, so I told her I was lucid dreaming. We had a brief conversation that I don't really remember, as I was focusing on the environment. I recently read about dream mapping, and this was my #2 priority after stabilization. I decided to explore the other rooms and found them to be as I remembered them growing up. I noticed a bag of candy in my sister's room, and I never eat in LDs, so I figured hey, why not, and began eating the candy as I walked around. Cool thing I noticed was that as I took candy from the bag, I could never empty it.. never-ending bag of candy I went back into the living room, and then I remembered (finally!) the basic TOTM to ask a DC to sing to me. My mom was still there so I asked her to sing, but she seemed to not know what to sing, and in the end started singing something I had never heard. It was gibberish, and I thought 'I'll never be able to remember the tune or any of these words, I don't know if I'll get credit for TOTM' So I went BACK to the back bedroom (my parents') and my sis was there this time. I asked her to sing to me, so she turned on the stereo and began to sing along with the song that was playing.. it was a song I haven't heard in 10+ years.. 'Waterfalls' by TLC (don't go chasin waterfalls / please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to / I know that you're gonna have it your way or nothing at all / but I think you're moving too fast..) I sang along with her and we danced like nerds for a bit. At this point I decided to head out back to see what was in the back yard. As I started to open the back door, I remembered something I read in a post on DreamViews and tried to pass through the door without opening it. Of course, it worked, and I was outside. The view was BEAUTIFUL. I was on one mountaintop among many, with canyons, valleys, hills all laid out in front of me as far as I could see, mostly covered with lush green trees. I hopped into the air, and then took to flight, marveling at the scenery. After flying around for a bit, I saw a soccer complex in a clearing where many DCs were playing (in full uniform, with spectators looking on, so they were games, not just practice). I swooped down to talk to one of the players. However, as I neared the ground.. I woke up. Or so I thought.. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- I woke up, disappointed about my LD being cut short. I got up and started to go to the bathroom. On a whim, I tried to levitate my guitar from the floor.. and it worked! Ha! False awakening. After having a chain of FAs Sunday morning and NEVER becoming lucid in any of them (argh!), I felt some satisfaction in catching this one in time. The thought also occurred to me that I may have gotten up and gone to the bathroom many times before during FAs, never realizing I wasn't awake. I went into the living room again and started looking around- working on my dream cartography again. The room was mostly the same, but this time there was a Christmas tree and a few presents, and Christmas decorations all around. I checked out the kitchen, then the hall closet, which seemed normal enough, but way too big to actually fit in the hall. There was no one around, so I decided to head out back again. I tried going through the back door without opening it again... and couldn't. I tried, and tried, and still couldn't. I should have stabilized again at this point, but I did not. Suddenly, I woke up. Or did I.. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- I woke up and my eyes were crusted with sleep. I was on my side, and still frustrated from failing at walking through the door and waking up from my lucid. Then I noticed a small puppy was in the bed next to me and my head was wet, very odd. After rooting out the false awakening before, I was onto its tricks and levitated the puppy. Sure enough, STILL dreaming! As I stood up, my eyelids were heavy and still crusted with sleep. I wanted to rub them and open them wider, but I had this nagging feeling that if I tried to hard, I would open my REAL eyes and be awake. I don't know if this is the case, but I believed it at the time. So I closed my eyes, steadied myself, rubbed the sleep out, and gently re-opened them. I levitated a book on my desk.. and it worked.. Still dreaming. Things were still a bit hazy, though, so I grabbed my glasses from the night stand (I take out my contacts to sleep) and put them on. There, all better! This time, I went into the living room and it was still Christmas. I thought- 'I wonder if I have alot of dreams about Christmastime' My mom was there this time, under the tree wrapping presents. She said to me (jokingly) 'Better be good or I'll take another present away!' LOL I also noticed my mom appeared much younger than she is in real life.. like I was looking at an old photo. I went back into the other rooms, and noticed some differences. My sister's room was the same, but filled with boxes and what appeared to be the tops of a couple of pine trees, except almost all green 'leaves' and very few branches. I went into the other bedroom and my dad and sister were in there. Sis looked like she does now, except not pregnant (in real life she is 34 weeks preggo). Dad appeared as he does now, but with a long fu-manchu instead of his normal mustache. The room was filled with sacks, and Dad and sis were pulling fireworks out of them. Dad started telling me about how he was going to beat her in the firework contest, and started rattling off the names of all the fireworks he had bought and how he would win. It was pretty much nonsense, but his point was clear.. he would win! At this point, I headed back into the other room, intent on doing some more discovery outside the house, but I woke up. For real this time. D'oh! My recall isn't as good as it normally it because of the FA's, so probably more will come to me about the exploration of my house and conversations with my DCs. I'm still pumped about my first WILD tho, and I hope this will carry over to future attempts. It was also interesting to note the subtle changes in the house from one LD to the next. They all happened in quick succession in the same house, but there were furniture rearrangements, and even slight differences in room sizes and walls from one LD to the next. I'm just getting started with dream mapping, but I am definitely intrigued.
Updated 08-08-2011 at 08:10 PM by 48576
Siuol's Dream I used FILD to become lucid. i confirmed i was dreaming, and was in my driveway. i put more clothes on, and then i saw my brother who started to bother me. i ignored him and he disappeared and i jumped onto my roof. i flew off of it into our backyard and into the woods. for some reason the woods in my back yard was a jungle or rainforest or something, and i went past small waterfalls and vines and such. i found one tree overlooking a small cliff, and latched onto a tree branch, turning into a treefrog without really meaning it. there were some people below but i did not talk to them and forgot what they were saying. after i jumped down i found a kind of cement basement thing in the middle of no where and went in it. a man tried to kill me, but another man saved me by pulling me to the surface from a broken wall or window. when i got up a woman shot me and ended the dream. i forgot all of my goals but even though i didnt get to chichen-itza i got to a jungle so i guess i was close.
Thebeastofold's Dream New house huge woodworking shop I was wandering around a huge new to me house when I camer across my mother, she was opening a huge box, i walked over to see and it was full of shingles from our old house...sheesh....she looked at me and said, youd better go see your father......so i turned and walked away and started looking for him everywhere, i finally found a stairway leading to the basement, so i went down and found a hhhuuggeee workshop! every kind of woodworking tool and machine imaginable! my dad would be in heaven if this was real...anyway, i walked to a huge douible door on the far wall and went outside, in the huge sideyard, there was a guy standing by a huge double gate standing wide open, and dad was in his truck trying to back a long trailer ouot the gate, the trailer seemed to be fighting him, he kept going back and forth but the trailer resufed to go out the gate. i went back in and started rummaging through all the drawers and cabinets in the workshop, apparently the previous owner couldnt take his workshop with him i guess, i found a set of drawers full of wood blanks, one drawer in particular had rough pyramid shaped wood blanks that seemed vaguely familiar to me......i kept rummaging and finally headed to the stairs to tell mom I saw dad.... dream shifted mom in mental health place? I walked down a sidewalk and around a left turn and into a big, old looking building, a lady dressed in white like a nurse type outfit saw mr coming and said your mother is over there, and she motioned with her head towards a door in the corner, i went through the door and downa hallway and mom was sitting in a chair in the far corner of the next room, i got halfway to her and she said, "your father has vanished again, go find him...... so i started lkooking through doors aroudn the room and calling him and mom said, "he stole the truck this time.... i'm afraid he wont be coming back...his sister..." so i went through a door and found a tv set and started atching dangermouse! i got up after a few episodes and went outside and stood on the sidewalk wondering where he could of gone this time......and if his sister was involved again... dream shift time to go out to eat i was standing in my living room, and my cellphone rang..my ringtone was my mothers voice saying "one ringy-dingy....2 ringy dingies!" i answered and she said, "go find your father so we can go out and eat......hes probably up in the garage again..." up in the garage? oookkkk...so i go outinthe garage and look arouond, i turn toleave and i hear a noise from the attic.....dads in the rafters of the garage on all fours bouncing from rafter to rafter.....he saw me and said "that really burns me up!" i said back to him...mom wants you, were going out to eat......he said"i cant, the damn lift is broken..." i awoke......
Lucid My brother woke me up and i made sure to stay still. I did a FILD and it felt like nothing happened, untill i did a reality check. i pinched my nose and breathed, and became lucid. i was still sceptical at first, so i continued to reality check, shoving my fingers up my nose, and when i opened my eyes, looking at my hand. i confirmed it was a dream and opened my eyes further ignoring their tiredness, and looked around. They closed but re-opened, and i was in my driveway, possibly from my previous dream. i realzed i didnt have much clothes on (what i went to sleep in) so i picked up some shorts from the ground, dusted them off, and put them on. Eli showed up and was annoying me, so i thought /ignore like i was in a video game and he was gone. i jumped up the front of my house and climbed the roof. i tried to fly and jumped to the other side of the roof, and then remember i wasted another dream like this. so i jump off the roof to the woods of the back yard and actually fly a little. at this point i wake up and re-enter the same dream with FILD. so i try to fly through the forest, but i end up jumping high as usual. quickly it turnes into jungle, and i am climbing up cliffs with water and vines growing down it. i come with a tree with empty bottles on the ends of branches (maybe to catch water) and turn into a tree frog. i see some people below, but i do not interact with them i do not think. then i figure i've been doing nothing for too long, and go out to look for a hot girl, and figure i will enjoy the dream as i look instead of doing a summoning. i do no stabalization and the dream starts to go down hill as i start to use less control. in the jungle there is an underground garage type thing, and a man trys to kill me. another man pulls me out of a window or broken wall back to the jungle saving me, but then some lady shoots me ending the dream.
I was with some people, when one of them told me to climb up this gazebo. Before I could some girl started climbing. So I started to. I beat her up to the top.* It's dark. I hear breathing. I grab my knife and slash out in the dark. I get a French guy, in a chariot, who brings a message for his daughter(previous girl). But she says it is unsafe for him to be here and he must leave. So he and I ride away. We ride o an inn and stop. There we find an french general that wishes o dispose of the french guy.
I am driving along a street and stop or a red light. A cop makes a left from the side opposite from me. After all the cars make there left turns I go. Only the light didn't turn green yet. I look over and see the cop turning around. I star t accelerating. And out run him. And then hide in an abandoned lot. Later on I'm driving and get pulled over by a different cop. He says "I have a couple tickets for you." he says they carry overfrom when I ran earlier. He says "you look recently nervous" I say "I haven't recently been pulled over."
Mark and tim and I are trying to find customers for ANC. We arrive as a truck is pulling into a driveway. He enters his garage. We ask if he wants to buy any services. He asks If there is anywhere more private. We take him to the pg&E service road. It has lava underneath on both sides. The client falls in and gets burned. He starts swimming to the side. But it has a current. He is swept downstream. We run along with him. I touch the lava to see how hot it is. He swims over to a beach. It has water there. It heals his burns.
It was really dark, I was at a dock with Hannah, and my korean grandparents. We were all fishing. The fishing polesvwere pretty much just strings attached to hooks. Harmony spoke a decent English. I fished out this pretty orange fish, and so did Harmony, to my left. They were floating to the top. I decided to put the string to the bottom, but we had to leave. Harmony said that its just going to pick up the ground, so she put a really effort to pull it out from the bottom, and we got a huuuge squid. She let it go though.*We got to their apartment which was suprisingly larger than it normally was. They set up a bunch of pretty food, as if it were Thanksgiving. I saw this really pretty white pumpkin and complimented it. It felt like like gmod Zombie survival map, and everyone was running around a building that looked like the Krusty Krab. There was food scattered everywhere. This one guy was eating everything. I kept trying to run and I think I ended up near the doors of the building. The building was filled with food like giant bananas. The monster caught up with me and the next round was about to begin. He looked at me, and I said I'll stay in the building. He asked me, do you promise? Pinky promise? And I agreed.
So well i sleept alot today .. i saw nice movie before.. so.. what i remember in my dream was.. i was with 1 or 2 friends.. and we wanted to plan steal money or something like that.. so i've planned to him that we dont go to trains cus on trains there are on every vagon 2 police mans. so later i dont know when we meet in train station and we were like 10 friends as i saw i saw 5 greek friends that got busted , so i was like woot. then my friend i dont know maybe he was blazed so , police was trying to catch him , he was running and running and so i did and everyone else.. then we were running and they escaped.. then i stopped running and i went to a room i think and i saw those greek friends.. i said hey waht the fuck u doing here etc etc and he had a ciggaret packet a good friend , he opened . i though wat? he has weed or smth.. in pack nothing was just few cigs but under the pack was 1 joint and so i took it put it under my clothes and run away ;D.. then i woke up and i sleept again and i continued the dream by smoking the joint and woke up again cus i had to go.
These were my first decently vivid ones in a while... some weird shit, bro! So in one of these dreams, I was at some kind of theme/thrill park - but this park was in the forest, and everything was built out of old wood, and the paths were dirt. There was a "ride", or more like a tour, that I went on that involved walking around this old wooden enclosure that was extremely humid. I had some notebooks and back-to-college items with me, and everything was getting all wet and fucked up. It was making me so angry! There were these little Lilo-and-Stitch creatures too (in that they looked like Stitch... never seen the movie) that had these fleshy crowns on top of their heads. When I wasn't too busy trying to save my notebooks and getting soaked by the hot dripping air, I would look up at one of these guys and that fleshy crown would open up to reveal some kind of luminescent glowing fairy thing. Later on, me and another visitor had a great little chat about religion. In other new, I dreamed of going to war. Kind of. This section was wrapped around some kind of conspiracy theory... I THINK it went as follows, kind of: all that our military truly has access to is bows and arrows, and all this stuff we see about guns and tanks on the TV is just a big computer-generated lie, and our military hasn't had access to such technology since the Atlantean War in '92. Anyways... I was somehow armed with an automatic rifle despite this conspiracy, and was involved in a trench-style standoff between my unit and oncoming military. Who were also armed with rifles. The shooting was very video-game-like. With digital crosshairs and such. I took a few out with headshots and it was damn satisfying. Towards the end, there was kind of like a "boss level" where tons of enemy guys rushed at me. I wasn't scared because it had become far too much like a video game. There was also a segment that started out with Dad being angry at me and making me run laps. Don't remember what for. Eventually, that seamlessly morphed into some kind of scene in which I was atop a wooden tower with an annoying woman-friend of mine, while watching a riot/and/or/party burning on the street below us. Burning, like fire. Finally... a really disturbing dream slash nightmare managed to sneak in. It was inspired by my reading about the inefficacy of evil Chemotherapy before bed. (Something to look into, by the way: the FDA works to serve Big Pharma, not the individual: they have been systematically preventing the release of natural and effective cancer preventions and cures for at least the last decade-and-a-half: they profit off of keeping you sick, not curing you...) Moving on, in this dream I saw a bunch of old people thrown into this bare, concrete room as they underwent Chemotherapy and were subjected in their delirium to toxic drugs, pissing all over each other and dying slowly in this cold room, each one blindly hoping for a cure... God, I don't know if I want to go on. :/ Circumstance: 7.5 hrs sleep Hemp protein/rice-milk/tomato/avocado/Spirulina/Chlorella smoothie before bed Woke up around 6am to go to the bathroom, which gave me a good chance to review and commit to memory the first part of the nights dreams.
Updated 08-08-2011 at 07:04 PM by 29285 (Added the 'Circumstance' footer)
Lucidity: 7/10 Vividness: 7/10 Length: ~5 Min. I was lying in my dream bed and went down stairs. There was this girl who was floating around and said that she was lucid dreaming. So I decided to lucid dream with her. A little while later, I felt a hand on my leg. It was another lucid dreamer, but I couldn't see her very well. Only slightly, so I tried to stand up and I accidentally touched her and she freaked. So I flew up the stairs and used the wall to stop. Then flew and sorta walked over to a laptop that I thought was mine and started looking up why I couldn't see certain lucid dreamers very well. Then a little girl came in and her mom and they started talking about the music that was on my laptop.
I was reading my email, I had two emails from nomad. I found it odd that his name in the email had been changed, it was still legible, but some of the letters looked like alt-code letters. (hold alt and press a few random numbers on the number pad) Nomad wrote something about the four elements our dream bodies needed. I remember hearing the words, but I don't remember what they where. the third one was something strange like cheesy carrot. in the same email, there was a giant map of a lush world, I thought it might be the green moon. there was some kind of blue overlay in certain areas. I was being told that the blue overlay shows inconsistencies in shared dreaming claims, and the events in the shared dreaming claims could not have happened. the lush world on the screen seems familiar, as if I have been there many times before.
Raspberry's Dream I can't remember that much from last night, but I was in a field, running around. There were some other people aswell. I remember crawling through a tube and someone pulling me out. I remember going into a chip shop but having no money. I also remember a girl taking photo's. That's all unfortunately.
I am with my friend Will, and he's showing me where his family always goes out to eat. It's an ice cream parlour, but before we could get any ice cream, Will's mom said we had to leave because there were dragons. Will and I left nonchalantly, and started walking to their minivan. We turned left around the corner, and began walking. I started looking for the dragon, and I saw one shape that seemed more defined and bony than a bird should be. I told Will to look, and as we stared at the flying creature, it swooped around and began flying towards us. It's skin was the color of gray stone, and it's wings were brown. On it's spine were small jagged spikes, enough for a person to sit comfortably near the neck. It's aura was forest green. As I was inspecting the dragon, I knew that this one was my companion. I had created this dragon as a baby with my own energy, and it had grown up very quick. As we watched it fly away, we walked to the car. I told Will's family that they need not worry about the dragon, it's no threat to us.
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