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Date:08-28-11
Length: 2 Minutes
Vividness: 4/10

I was sitting at a table just finishing eating as I was talking to this man about how he examined me and learned things about how he examined me and learned things about me.
I got up and staked the plates and picked up the cups.
I walked to the balcony and dropped the cups onto the sand below.
It was a very nice and sunny beach.
I started walking away to put away the cups and my dream ended there.

-frenchblablabla

I've been going over a lot of threads and noticing a trend. People are constantly worried about their methods. They're worried about following instructions to the polished details, when it's that very persistent attitude that I believe is failing them.

Everyone is different, no doubt about that. We all learn differently. And similarly, we all have our own - questionably unique - techniques when it comes to attaining lucidity. Some use WILDs while others might prefer a MILD (I love these acronyms!). But beginners, like myself, have studied other users' methods with hopes of achieving a lucid dream on the first try - most often ending up with a disappointing and demotivating failure.

There is no "perfect" method! The real trick is figuring out what method works the best for you! Of course, beginners need to learn from somewhere - I'm not saying don't learn, I'm saying don't look at it with such a focused eye. Try a few different methods, vary it up a bit, and see what sticks!

For those who are just starting out, here is what I believe is important - remember, I'm not claiming this to be The Method, I just think it makes logical sense:
What is required to have a lucid dream? Well, we need to be asleep. We need to fall asleep before we can be asleep. And we need to be asleep before we can realize we're asleep. If we're focusing so hard with falling asleep, it's never going to happen. If I said, "Don't think about peanut butter!", then you'll start thinking about peanut butter. Likewise, if you're thinking about trying to fall asleep, then you probably won't be falling asleep anytime soon, as you'll be too caught up in thought.

Instead, go to sleep as you naturally would! Cross your arms, cross your legs, curl up into a ball -whatever!- and just relax. Find a way to keep your goal in the back of your head (not forgetting it, just not thinking about it) and let your thoughts drift as they naturally would each night.

Be sure to have plenty of sleep! Go to bed at a reasonable time to ensure you get enough sleep with time left in the day to use on trying your techniques. If you try to have a lucid dream at 9pm, just going to bed, then more than likely you'll fall into a deep sleep because your mind hasn't had a chance to unwind.

Oh! And just because a particular method doesn't work one night, doesn't mean it won't ever work! People have dry spells with lucid dreaming, so it might not have been a good night to try anyway.

Once again, this is all my own opinion. I hope this helps and that you give a few different methods a try and that you find your perfect technique!

I'd really like to hear what you all think

Where Is Denn??

I was in a large open field. There were about 5 guys around different spots of the field each doing presentations of a computer game or something. They were all dressed in their armor and after I had watched the presentations one approached me. He said he really liked my sword. I had one sword on each hip, one was a special scimitar and the other was a very fine looking but not so special short katana. The man was talking about my katana so I said he could have it if he could beat me in battle. He made his way to me, my view went to third person and I saw a man creeping around from behind. They both came on and took me to the ground, after a bit of a struggle I defeated them both and they disappeared. I picked up my swords from the ground and walked over to a friend. Soon we were in my local city running through busy intersections dodging traffic. We got to the bottom of a long street and I stopped, my friends kept going and then for some reason I realised I was dreaming. I walked over to a lady and asked her what way the town of Denn was. I was still in the middle of the city and she pointed in some direction. I could see trees the way she pointed but not enough for a forrest. I ran as fast as I could towards the trees, I ended up on all fours running flat out. I got to a tree but still in the middle of the city. I thought I should climb the tree and get a better view so I might see Denn. Shortly after climbing the tree I could hear a narrator that sounded a lot like David Attenborough talking about how monkeys were introduced from another planet many years ago. They came from a cloudless planet and didnt like it here because we are destroying the planet. Then I woke up

A short non-lucid that seemed to fade within seconds. I'm uncertain of the number of dreams that came to me last night; only remembering a minor detail from one and letting the rest slip into the back of my mind.

The room was a familiar one. A single light sifting between the dust layered venetian blinds, forming a resplendent pattern around the bicycle. Dust particles were swimming through the sun beams trying to catch hold of the rusted relic that stood complacent betwixt a small brown table and an antique lamp about the size of my own slender frame. Umber is a good word to describe it's color. The rust was peeling off in certain areas, lying on the once polished wooden floor beneath. It was a beautiful sight, no matter how trivial it may seem. I was in haze, slowly sinking into that strange object and not wanting to return. My vision begins to fade, leaving the bicycle alone in that sun drenched hallway.

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[COLOR="#000000"][/COLOR][COLOR="#000000"]This is the first control I've had since my consciousness got better in my dreams, besides my DC control

I was at my house, currently in my front yard

I don't remember before being lucid.

[/COLOR][COLOR="#00008B"]I became lucid and was talking to my mum a bit, about how it was a dream, she seemed ok with it. I walked into my carport and remembered the task of the month, I said, "Oh yeah, the task of the month is to telekinesis"

I walked over to a 12 wine rack and held my arm out. I concentrated for a bit and moved my arm up, levitation fail. I tried once more and successfully levitated it, my mum asked me what I was doing and I thought of tipping all the bottles on her. She seriously annoyed me before I went to bed, but I just decided to throw it with my telekinesis and watched it shatter.

I then remembered the advanced goal, to drop the moon...but it was daytime. I tried to make it night, with different methods:

- Turn the sun into the moon - Fail
- I noticed I could move the sun, so I tried to swap them - Got dark
- Extreme time control - Time...Reversal??
- Yelling to the sky - Nothing

I then went into my yard and saw a gigantic hill from my backyard, it looked like it was draw there, not a bad drawing but a masterpiece with good shading. I noticed it had 2 cows in it too. A larger cow came from behind them and ran straight past them, then a huge ryhno-like creature fell from the sky and landed on the hill, on it's back and ran off sfter it got up. Then a strange creature with a sword in it's mouth jumped past a tree and there were slashing noises and a light trail where it slashed, the tree broke up along the, around 5 slash lines.[/COLOR][/INDENT]

Funny thing is, if it were night, I would of been able to crash the moon, because I could move the sun

I've been going over a lot of threads and noticing a trend. People are constantly worried about their methods. They're worried about following instructions to the polished details, when it's that very persistent attitude that I believe is failing them.

Everyone is different, no doubt about that. We all learn differently. And similarly, we all have our own - questionably unique - techniques when it comes to attaining lucidity. Some use WILDs while others might prefer a MILD (I love these acronyms!). But beginners, like myself, have studied other users' methods with hopes of achieving a lucid dream on the first try - most often ending up with a disappointing and demotivating failure.

There is no "perfect" method! The real trick is figuring out what method works the best for you! Of course, beginners need to learn from somewhere - I'm not saying don't learn, I'm saying don't look at it with such a focused eye. Try a few different methods, vary it up a bit, and see what sticks!

For those who are just starting out, here is what I believe is important - remember, I'm not claiming this to be The Method, I just think it makes logical sense:
What is required to have a lucid dream? Well, we need to be asleep. We need to fall asleep before we can be asleep. And we need to be asleep before we can realize we're asleep. If we're focusing so hard with falling asleep, it's never going to happen. If I said, "Don't think about peanut butter!", then you'll start thinking about peanut butter. Likewise, if you're thinking about trying to fall asleep, then you probably won't be falling asleep anytime soon, as you'll be too caught up in thought.

Instead, go to sleep as you naturally would! Cross your arms, cross your legs, curl up into a ball -whatever!- and just relax. Find a way to keep your goal in the back of your head (not forgetting it, just not thinking about it) and let your thoughts drift as they naturally would each night.

Be sure to have plenty of sleep! Go to bed at a reasonable time to ensure you get enough sleep with time left in the day to use on trying your techniques. If you try to have a lucid dream at 9pm, just going to bed, then more than likely you'll fall into a deep sleep because your mind hasn't had a chance to unwind.

Oh! And just because a particular method doesn't work one night, doesn't mean it won't ever work! People have dry spells with lucid dreaming, so it might not have been a good night to try anyway.

Once again, this is all my own opinion. I hope this helps and that you give a few different methods a try and that you find your perfect technique!

I'd really like to hear what you all think

Had a weird and quite amusing dream today.

I am in a building with many people, they are from my school. Everyone is calm at first, but soon it looks like the builing is going to crash down. We try to get out, but now we notice that we are in a labyrinth. I am halfway out of it, but I decide to walk back to place which looks suspicious. There are 3 hidden secrets about that place, I find two of them easily, but the third one is quite hard. I feel like I knew the secret once, and I try to remember. Suddenly I notice a rope hanging from the ceiling, and a weird hexagon-shaped ring was attached to it. I pull it down, and a wall next to me drops down. I get out of the building.
I am walking home now, but with eyes closed. I have a violin with me, and I play it while walking. While walking through a city, I barge against someone, and lose my bearings, so I open my eyes and continue. Still playing the violin, I walk past a few other students returning home. First the make fun of me, but soon they like my music and cheer me on. We are in a dark forest now, it has an odd feeling and looks green and violett, venomous. I stop playing, but the others say I should play a new song. I say "this fits for the situation" and play a tune with an evil feel to it. Before us appears a grim reaper, and takes the other students down.
I wake up in a room with other people, we are sitting in chairs arranged in a circle. A teacher is standing next to me, and saying "you have to believe in the unnatural, it is more natural than the naturality you know". He looks at me, takes out a violin and plays the song I was playing in my dream (not the evil tune). It had a few mistakes, so he tries again and plays it right this time. "That was the song from my dream! Were you with me?"

When I woke up, I could recall what the song was like, certainly nothing I knew. But after a while, familiar songs overlapped my memory, so now I don't know anymore. Remembering melodies is even harder than remembering conversations...

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Good morning! Actually it's almost night time. Just got home from sunny Gran Canaria and even though I intended to take a week off dreaming, I couldn't do it... Yes, I am addicted. Still, it's pretty hard to ignore those awesome dreams you've just had and when you have unlimited sleeping time, it's kinda hard to resist getting lucid. Oh well, I had some really fucked up dreams, and five lucids in total. Here's what I dreamt.

6/5 - Short fight DILD
*I'm fighting two guys when I realise I'm dreaming. They still come at me though and I half-heartedly hope they won't hit me. Their punches stops before they hit me, sweet!

8/5 - Finding my sword MILD
*I'm sitting at a table with three older guys. I have a gun in my hand, and one of them is telling me to shoot him. I check the mag, it's full of bullets. I shove it back in and cock the pistol. I put the gun against the man's neck. "What if this isn't reality" one of the other two asks me. "What if we're dreaming right now?" I say and look at my hand.

I realise I'm dreaming as I count seven fingers. I have a task set in mind already, to find a sword of some sorts. I leave the gun on the table and walk over to the corner. I see a bucket filled with different umbrellas and I know there will be a sword somewhere in there. I search around for a while until I see something wrapped in plastic.

I grab the plastic and I recognise the hilt of a samurai sword. I draw the blade from its hilt. It's a rather short, and very curved sword. I feel the edge and it's razor sharp. One of the men starts talking. He wanted to die didn't he? I slice him right in the face several times and step back. Nothing happens! Either the sword is extremely sharp and a shove will make him fall to pieces, or it's defect.



Looked like this only alot nicer and with a samurai hilt. The sharp edge was on the outside aswell.

8/5 - Flying MILD
* I'm standing on a platform far up in a tree. Several orcs or something similar is coming up through the hatch and I slam a wooden rod into the leader, knocking him off the thing. The rest gets kicked down the ladder. Monica is on a platform nearby. I look behind me and spot a green house with its attic doors open. I jump to it and Monica aswell. We close the doors and windows and await the creatures. I can barely see anything, but I can hear them crawling outside all around us.

"Meat! Give me blood!" my father howls and hammers at the wall from outside. He's one of them. I try to scrape up some meat from the floor with my fingers but I'm just left with some blood. Monica picks up a spine, opens up a window and throws it out. We run to the back of the attic as fast as we can and sneak out through a small door. Down on the ground I can see the creatures just around the corner, I also spot a hole in the hedge infront of us. "Won't they hear us?" Monica asks anxiously. "No, don't worry" I say and run for it.

We keep our heads down while running as fast as we can. I look behind us from time to time to make sure no one is following us, no one is. Two skyscrapers appear ahead and we walk in between them. A few boulders are in the middle of the yard and we duck behind them. I spot someone in the window and I'm sure it's a spy of my mother. I crouch down even more. Suddenly I hear voices.

"I bet they went to the hockey hall" my dad says. Please make them go there I pray for a second. The voices disappear.

I turn lucid. Monica's next to me and we each have a shovel in our hands. I sit down on it, like a witch would a broom, and try to fly. It's not working. I try and try but it's not working. I know I can fly without it, but Monica can't fly on her own. Perhaps I should just leave this stupid DC and fly on my own? I decide to give it a few more tries, and soon I'm flying.

It feels even cooler than flying without anything at all. We both fly around the hills and up in trees, getting cherry blossoms all over. I lean to the right and I fly to the right, the wind blowing in my hair. We arrive at a few more buildings and I fly up one of them. I realise the dream has lasted for a very long time. I don't even care if I wake up by now, would rather not lose my recall.

10/5 - Wtf? MILD
*I'm with my sister Malin in a house. The enemy is in the room next to us and out on the balcony. Malin has some awesome machine gun and she blasts the other room without even looking. She forgets the lock on the gun and it keeps on firing. I have to duck to not get my head blown off. I take the gun from her. I enter the room and spot a guy outside the window, I shoot him in the face with ease. This gun is great! I exit the door leading out to the balcony and it's a wooden dock. Another guy gets his face blasted and I step out onto the dock. I hear a splash and quickly turn around and shoot, my wife. She's hit in the throat. "I forgot you're not supposed to make a noise like that around you" she says, dying infront of me.

I refuse to let this happen and rewind the entire dream. I shoot the first guy and then exit the door and shoot the second.

I realise I'm dreaming.

Spoiler for Wtf? 18+:

A girl right next to me is sunbathing naked. Her sun-tanned body glistening in the sun. I rub her perfect ass for a while, I intend to have sex! She gets up on all four, but there is something brown inside her pussy. Uhm okay... Please don't let it be shit. I imagine it being a brown dildo instead and I pull it out.

I lose the dream, but I don't wake up. All of a sudden I'm crawling on a road. I can feel and see the hot asphalt under me for a few seconds.

11/5 - Ohoy! I'm a super... villain? MILD
*The dream before was about Entropia Universe, a game in which you can collect ore in by mining. This dream is just forming around me and I'm inside of a computer shop. My friend Eric walks in. "Hey Eric! Check it out, I'm not in the dream yet" I say and the second later after taking a step through the alarm beams:

"But now I am!" I have just done some kind of Dream WILD again. Monica is there with me and she is going to mine some ore. I need to find her an orefinder. It looks just like a laptop, only it's green. I know I won't find one there and I don't intend to waste time walking around trying to find one. I grab a regular laptop. "This will do" I tell her and walk towards the alarm beams again. I see a few people holding computer screens and other laptops. Damn thieves! Apparently we're not out of the store yet, and I walk up to one of the big glass windows. I break it with telekinesis and an enormous CD disc falls down from the roof. I grab it with my right hand using telekinesis.

"Now it begins" I say and laugh out loud. I leave the store and head left. We're in a shopping mall and standing in the middle of the main walkway going through it. People are running from something on the right, and to the left is different shops with stands outside of them. I reach out violently with both hands and the stands furthest away explode in a cascade of glass and debris. The huge CD shoots away from me and cuts most of the people in its way in half.

I make a clawing motion with my hands and bring back my arms, the rest of the stands gets completely demolished and the disc comes zooming back. Everyone has been cut in half, not a sound escapes anyone, all I can hear is glass shattering. Monica is right behind me, her powers are meant for something else. We're some kind of super villains I guess. We take a right after a few meters.

There's not much to destroy here, but I spot an escalator and I reach out with my hand. With a single squeeze I leave the escalator deformed out of repair, and glass everywhere. A dead end, another window to break. I break it and realise this window leads out of the building. I bring the disc to our feet and we get on. I make it fly and Monica starts sending text messages. We fly over the front of the building; a roundabout with a few flags in the middle of it, and lots of people entering the mall. Some look up at us while we fly over their heads.

A forest appears and I decide to fly low to keep the dream stable. If I don't focus on anything I will lose it. Monica keeps texting and I'm a bit annoyed. I avoid as many trees as possible but soon the dream starts to fade.

Amount of sleep: 9+ hours every day

That's it! If you're wondering why most dreams were so dark, I think I know why. My current goal is to take over a kingdom with the powers I have, and I really need an opponent to fight. I have been a God practicly in most my lucids and I want competition! I need someone or something to spar against and test my powers. So, one of the goals I have at the moment is to fight someone, this makes most my dreams about fighting somehow.

Keep on dreaming, HARE BRA!

Sweet! So last night, on the night of my birth day (it was like a present ) I had my first LD in ages!

Lucid
Non-lucid
Nightmare
Awesome


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Me and a bunch of mates, went up to this garage, went in, and were looking at the car. It was a ford mustang, gray color. We tried the key, and it worked! We jumped in, and I looked at the steering wheel. It was on the right side. So I Jumped in on the right so I could drive the beast. But magically, it changed and moved on the left. So I switched seats, and moved to the left seat. But again, it moved to the right side. I gave up, and let my friend drive. While we were BOOOSTING it down the road, we saw a few motorcycles. Dirt bikes. To the right, there was a dirt track for motorbikes. So we stopped, got out of the car and looked at the track. And one of my mates, got his bike (Bike, not motorbike) and started pedaling on the track. He was nearly getting runned over by the motorbikes. LOL. Then one radom dude came up and threatened me and told me to give him the keys. I said: "Sure, take them. We stole it, so I don't care.." so I gave him the keys. And followed him all the way to the place where we parked the car. Right next to the car, there was a cliff. So I pushed him down the cliff. He fell but, held on to a piece of mud (LOL?) and climbed back up, and pushed me down. I did the same thing. Climbed back up. But as I was climbing up, I saw a laptop screen, and on it was loaded a site. Dunno what site, but I could tell it was a website. And I was like: "WTF?? Im bloody dreaming!" So I climbed up to the top and I was kind of doubting that I could control my dream. So I tried to fly. I did fly, but it was too slow for my taste. I flew around in circles for a bit and and landed. I wanted to see if i could use supernatural powers. I tried to electrocute a woman with my hands. So I flexed my hands and lightening bolts came out but didn't harm the woman. I was like," Who cares?" and started flying again. I flew over to the bike track and this dude tried to kick a soccer ball at me but missed.
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That was the vivid part. From there on, there was a part where I didn't know If I was dreaming, or If I woke up. It is mainly a blur now, so don't really know what happened at the real end.

Fragments:

Non-lucid: There was a rollercoaster in my backyard and all of my cousins and friends were over for some sort of party. We hopped in the seats and rode the rollercoaster for a few minutes before I hopped off to grab a sandwich. I hope back in with sandwich in hand ate while on the ride. A loop-de-loop was coming up and someone noticed that something was wrong with the track. As soon as we reached the top of the loop-de-loop, the cart came off the tracks and we fell. I got out of the ride and went for a walk.
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Lucid: I was running from a DC that kept chasing me. I was lucid and I tried to tell him to leave but he ignored me. I tried killing him but no matter how many times I snapped his neck or stabbed him, he got back up. I tried to change the setting and tone of the dream by the Winter Wrap Up song from MLP: FiM (sounds ridiculous, I know, but it usually does the trick in nightmares). It worked for a few seconds (night became day, friendly DC's appeared, etc) but then the other DC came back and throw me to the ground. He kicked and stomped on me a couple times and then tried strangling me. I tried fighting back but I couldn't so I just laid there pathetically flailing my arms while he beat me. It was pretty painful, especially when he started stomping on my stomach but there wasn't anything I could do about. It last a while too, most of the time I wake up quickly if I'm in pain but this beating seemed to last forever. I eventually woke up when the phone rang. I felt a little sore for a few minutes upon awakening.
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Non-lucid: My cousin and I had just shared a blunt and we decided to go to this bakery that was close by. Once inside, he went off to buy some food and I ran into Erin (a friend of mine). She was telling me something about her little sister but stopped once she spotted her ex. She wanted to leave so we stepped out, my cousin came out soon after and he had a tray full of cookies, cupcakes, muffins, etc. I grabbed a cupcake that kept changing colors and offered Erin another but she wasn't hungry. Not sure what happened next but I remember we ended up in an airport soon after. I can't remember the rest of the dream.
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Semi-lucid: I was on DV and I posted a link to a song I like (Demons Surround Me) but anderj101 said he didn't like it at all. He then called me a faggot and logged out. I tried to reply but someone had locked the thread already. It didn't seem like something anderj101 would post so I did an RC by counting my fingers and realized I was dreaming. I was about to go explore the dreamscape but I got distracted by a new private message. I woke up before I could read it.

5/1
I'm in some large mansion and there is a war going on inside of the mansion. It's some sort of medieval battle. I look over at a balcony and I see M standing at the edge of it with a bow and arrow. She smiles at me as I try to save her. I sort of become her even though I'm looking at her from my perspective and I can somewhat control her movements. I'm trying to get her to avoid the large hole in the middle of the balcony. Then this girl comes after her and they both jump down the hole which turns into an elevator shaft. It's only 2 floors, so I realize theyre probably fine. M starts shooting volleys of arrows up the elevator shaft. After they stop, I go down the shaft and I'm in a basement restaurant that I've been in in past dreams. Kinda looks like this.



They're just sitting at a table talking, not fighting or anything. I note how its kind of like a movie set.

5/8
I'm exploring a nice hotel with my friend Sean. It's somewhere in a big city and we're surrounded by cool glassy skyscrapers. We're planning as if we're going to dorm there next year. Now that would kick ass.

Later in the dream, I open a fortune cookie. I don't know exactly what it's trying to tell me, but it sounds very sexual. "Man with busty wife and big... well, rub of a question." It makes perfect sense to me in the dream of course. I'm eating chinese food and playing cards with a black guy. But we have too many cards for just us because more people were supposed to come.

I'll finally have time to start doing some dream journals. Here's a bunch that I wrote a while back while I wasn't posting.

4/21
Sitting in my civ teacher's class. This girl who really dislikes me (who got "shitlisted" in class in an earlier dream) comes up to me and starts kissing me, right in the middle of class. Suddenly I'm the DJ for the class, as if its some sort of event. I have my iPod and I put on something by Timbaland. Then I realize I'm not supposed to be the DJ. I'm very embarassed and a scramble to find my ipod and turn the song off, then I wake up to someone calling me irl.

4/22
Had a few false awakenings. I had a lot of important stuff to be doing that I kept thinking I was missing.
Later in the dream, I'm in some dark castle dungeon-like place. I have a sword and I'm fighting this large armoredl bee thing. It's an epic battle somewhere between a video game and a movie. The bee then turns into a huge mechanical ant. I'm slicing away at it but it's doing nothing, so I go into some sort of super form. I look like Twisted Fate from League of Legends



Except with a sword instead of cards. I'm moving lightning fast and I cut right through the ant's armor. Victory.

There's a part of the dream that happened later but I can't really understand what I wrote in my DJ. It looks like "puppy/fish, it goes in goldfish bowl w/ dead fish, drinks half coke half water." Then I had an argument with my dad about shadowing doctors.

If youve seen the latest harry potter movie then you'll know what im talking about.
Dream
Lucid
So the the dream started with me having a wand and i was with my master some powerful wizard. He was teaching me to shoot an electric ball of energy out my wand when some witch wearing a blank and white dress came and killed my master!( in the movie Dumbledor had a wand that was extremely powerful) So in my dream I thought wait my master has a really strong wand so i ran and got his wand. While the witch was talking with her back facing my i created a small orb of electricity and shot it at her it just barely hurt her. And she created this bowling ball size red orb and shot it at my and my reaction was to just smack it away and i did and the orb flew away and i was like yes! Then i Truely believed i had power so i Concentrated and made a huge orb or energy shot it at her and she died!
I eventully somehow i ended up in my complex and so as i was walking to past the pool there was this couple and then they kissed for like a milli-second so i went up to the asked them why the kissed so fast and they said becuase there parents didnt know they were dating. So i told them to hold onto my wand and i stopped time and then there they could kiss as long as they wanted.
Then i woke up.

Choline supplement taken during a brief waking period 3.5 hours after 'bedtime'

(background) Myself, and a few others, opened a school..that was proving to be very unpopular to most of the 'people' in the area.
"Touch lightly with your awareness here, ___, and see what happens" I told my student. As her fingertips hovered over the tablet a hologram appeared. She squealed with delight, much like any other 4 year old girl does and I grinned in response to her joy. "What is special about this" I continue, "is how you see this 'display' both in front of you and in your mind's eye; so later after you go home, you can recall perfectly what you learned here today."
I dismissed her and the other students ranging from childhood to older adults reminding them "to play and always follow where their joy leads them" and closed and locked the door.

I changed..into the face I have had to wear outside the school lately. I look into a bit of reflective glass and see a very very old man looking back at me and I sigh at the sight.
While walking to the back door to leave, I notify 'O' that I will be there shortly and to wait for me. I take a deep breath and walk outside.

I look across the field, and scanned the tree lines at my my far right and left for un-friendlies before started to cross the field. I made a person note to self to mind my peripheral vision. Halfway across, others start milling toward me, quite aimlessly, I hoped, as I pulled a large knife out it's sheath. The red truck that 'O' had seemed very vibrant in the gloom of the surroundings and I was very glad he was there. Looking inside, I focused on 'O's eyes (which were just like my own blue gray) and sent the message " Open up and let me in, you KNOW me". As I got comfortable inside the cab I asked him jokingly "If he had EVER thought in his wildest dreams that we would look like two old men?" We decided that soon we would be seen through the old man disguises and needed a more aesthetic appearance for outside the school very soon.

Dream - Lucid

I remember feeling myself fall back asleep this morning, and I entered a lucid dream.

I felt the tumbling sensation as I entered the dream. I opened my eyes, and was in my bed. I got up and went towards my window. Everything seemed to flow really laggy for a minute, but it fixed itself. I looked out the window. My view was totally different than what it really is in waking life; I saw a road and some stores as opposed to a backyard.

I decided to try to phase through the screen. It felt solid. Instead, I broke through it and flew out the window.

I woke up and went back to sleep.

I remember being on a boat on a river. I remember standing on the edge of the boat next to someone, and watching the water lap up the sides.

Then, I remember seeing myself in a mirror. I looked pretty normal. I looked to my right and there was another mirror with my reflection. To my left, another. I was surrounded by mirrors.

I then remember walking down some hallway and thinking to myself how real and vivid it all seemed. I then decided that I wanted to find out why I am the way I am (big question, I know). I found a surface to draw a portal on. I wrote "why" and drew a huge circle around it. I colored it in, as usual, and jumped through.

I ended up with very little vision. I could only see something in the left corner of my vision. It looked like an upside down picture or movie. I remember thinking at first it looked Egyptian, and then I thought I had just woken up, so I just went back into the dream.

I tried the portal again on wall wherever I was, and entered it again, acquiring the exact same result.

Looking back, I know I didn't wake up after the portal, because I wear a sleeping mask and can't see anything when I wake up.