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Working on getting my recall back up. I think I had at least 3 dreams this night. The lucid is the only one can recall now.

Flying, Office, False Awakenings
Method DILD (false awakening)
Lucidity C
Vividness B
Control B
False awakening. I hear the voice of Collin, an old friend who I haven't seen in years. That can't be. I sense that I am in my bedroom from the Daisetta house. I must be dreaming. It's dark. I try to get up but my body seems paralyzed. I can tilt my head enough to look at my hands. I can rub them. I still seem paralyzed, but then dream time skips a few seconds. Now I'm standing in the hallway outside the bedroom and I can move freely. I walk toward the living room where some lights are on. I hear my mother's voice. Wait. I realize my vision is blurry. I turn back toward the bedroom with the intent of finding my glasses. Collin is behind me and he is holding my glasses. I take them from him, put them on, and now my vision is clear (I love that trick).

I walk out to the backyard, ignoring my mother and Collin. It's dark and very foggy outside. I hop up on the picnic table and launch into the air. I fly straight up about 20 stories and then stop hover and look down to get my bearings. The many houses and street lamps glow dimly in the dense fog. I want to fly to my office. I look south-east to the horizon and see dim lights of a large building. That must be it (IWL, it's much further than that) I fly Superman-style toward the buliding, willing myself to go as fast as I can. I arrive, land outside, and burst through the door with great momentum.

I slow down to see where I have arrived. Entering the main door, the interior doesn't look like my office as I expected. It just looks like a long corridor with generic office suites on either side. More like a prison (which, actually, is still an apt description of work). Not discouraged, I wander down the corridor and follow it a few turns. I turn one corner and am surprised to see my office lobby. Cool! Now I follow the real layout of the office toward RH's room. The office furniture looks very different. The chairs are dark brown wicker and there are big leafy fern plants. It's looks like the decor of a hotel in the Caribbean. RH isn't in her office. Next door, I hear her neighbor's voice saying that RH left.

I give up on RH and look through the rest of the office. I peek over the cubical walls, looking for someone I recognize. Then I jump and balance on top of the cubical wall for an easier view. "Where is BG?" I say aloud. She isn't at her desk. I hear a voice say, "She moved to a new seat." I turn around and see a reception desk that doesn't exist IWL. BG is bent over under the desk, pulling out something. "I'm here!" she says. She stands up and I jump from the cubical wall to land in front of her. It doesn't really look like her, which is a bit disappointing. She is wearing a black dress and her hair is black and styled up. I say hello and grab her hand, so as to lead her around the office as I look for more recognizable people.

Now the dream changes abruptly into another false awakening. I'm laying on a bed. It's light. I look down and I am naked and with no blanket. In the room I see four people who look like old hillbillies. They are dressed in plaid shirts and denim overalls. They look at me and start to walk toward me, very slowly like zombies. Ugh, I don't want to be here.

Dream skips again into another false awakening. I am in my own bed. I tilt my head back and my body starts to sink into the bed.

One more awakening, this time for real.

This is a dream i found saved into my computer from this past summer.. It ties into the mall theme i was talking about in my feb 28th dream

Apparently it all started in France where i was chasing some cat around town and i found myself in the movie theaters watching this whole dream.. but then i left with a friend and we met up with her crush or whatever and went to some pizza shop and it was all french looking , but then my friend and i were walking down a dirt road and came into this shop.. which turned out to be a so called hospital where the patients never leave from.. so were running around in there trying not to get killed lol but got locked in an elevator and we couldnt get out... but then i like flashed into the mall with my mom at sears and it was raining and we were looking at clothes and then the power went out so im like hey! my phone has a flash light so we used that and managed to get talk to some sales associate about something idr and then we got out in the dark. so i started walking around the mall but my mom turned into my friend and we were just walking around but the mall was closing soon and the store we were in turned into Thornes market (a market place i live near) and im like hey this place changed.. i used to play here in this toy store when i was a kid but now its bigger and no toys..." so we ventured our way back into the holyoke mall and examined stores and then the mall was closing so we went back to sears but then we had to wait in line and my friend turned into another person and the line was for like pre marriage photos for some reason so were like oh hey lets practice faces but i got mad cuz every face i apparently looked like a cow boy and im like im tired of this.. i feel like were in the game the sims.. and then i got a nice face down so we got our pic taken and i couldn't make that face again so i did some stupid thing with my hands and the photographer was like hey, this isnt from the old days.. smile nicely and gave us our pic and im like well at least there's only a week more of this and then we walked though sears to get outside and when i got outside my friend turned into someone else again and we were walking through the parking lot and it was dark and raining and the parking lot was make of tiny rocks so it was hark to walk in and we needed to find my mom but then this kid apparently became a zombie and was chasing me through the parking lot but i was faster but he didn't give up and then i realized i forgot my stuffed animal rabbit behind a car so we had to go back and get it and then after being chased forever we got onto cement ground so i thought i could out run him maybe even faster but then he got me so i kicked him and run away and he stayed down but then there was this hole in the ground so im like check this out... and i clicked a button and it light up and turned into a hot tub with all this music and what not but as soon as i got in my mom pulled up and was like hey its time to go! so i started histaricly laughing and got in the car, and she asked how the movie was and im like yeah it was good but it skipped around to different things alot.. i got confused. but yeahh so i thought it was an interesting dream

Had quite a lot of dreams last night that i remembered.. it must of been from all the times i woke up.. and i did happen to listen to a 30 min song from a post i read about dream recall.. apparently the music helps you recall dreams a little better.. but yupp!

Dream Fraction:
Standing in a giant white farm house... looking out the window
Seemed to be on a horse farm, and i could see maybe a racing track for the horses with a white picket fence around it. It was gloomy outside, muddy, and seemed as it just finished raining. It felt like a scene from the movie The Ring.

Dream Fraction:
Left my house but realized i left my laptop open, i had skype on and this website up. I became scared that my dad was going to snoop through my laptop.

Dreams:
I was down by the river, on an island we have, and i was walking through the woods there with a few people, who seemed to be hippies. They were wearing long skirts of that type and tank tops, and they had dreads. They were in reds and yellows. We were following a path that led us to a old fire pit, but it was blocked off with string, rainbow string.
I'm not sure if this led into this next part, but i remember it coming next..
I ended up in my school cafeteria, it kinda looked the same but was still different.. i was with a few friends from school (a girl and 3 guys) and we were in line for a buffet style lunch but there seemed to be no one else, just blurs of images of people. We ended up just getting one big plate that was piled a foot high and sat at a table up against a wall. We then began stacking the spoons and forks on the plate to make a big pile.

I ended up going to my softball game, but i forgot my jersey and i only had a white basketball T-shirt (even though i never played before) but that wasn't good enough, so i couldn't play. I ended up sitting on the bench facing the trees and crying because i was mad. I ended up on the street taking photos on a digital camera with my dad next to the game, and somehow found myself on a yacht with our neighbors and showing them the pictures that i took.

I woke up late for school, and my dad pushed me out the door to get the bus but i was only wearing a pair of old shorts and a yellow V-Neck that i apparently wore the day before that. I got mad at him because of that and also because my legs were to hairy to do that.. ( i was complaining yesterday IWL about that in gym to a friend) I then got on the bus and my dad was laughing because all these new 7th graders were getting on the bus with me and they didn't know what to do, it reminded me of lost fish. After they got on the bus was packed and i called my mom to being me a change of clothes but she said no. We then drive down the street and drive by a girl who i apparently remembered from a few years earlier who was wearing yellow, red, green, and blue Gothic pants that were strapped around her ankles and i said hey its funny how she still has those pants.. Then we go down another street and pick up another girl, Rachel (someone that i met snowboarding this past winter) and she gets on the bus. We drive down the next street and stop, and then i find myself standing in the road with all the other kids. My mom was sitting there in her car and came out to stand with me. i was on the side of the road watching an extremely large Yorkshire terrier (about 20lbs) stand there. My friends sister then proceeded to drive by in a black Outtie and almost hits the dog, so i scream. She stops thinking she hit the dog and backs up. When she did this she hit the dog and for some reason does it 2 more times. On the third time the dog turned into a human man and when she ran it over it struggled and died. In the dream i screamed, terrified, and then i woke up and like rolled over quickly when i did, my heart was beating fast.. I have no idea why.

I was at the mall with my mom and she decided to go into a few stores but i decided to go walk around but when i went to go find her again i couldn't, and the mall was closing so i had to run around the mall turning all the lights on again because they were motion censored. This was the same mall that i had a dream about a few months back, that i got stuck in during a storm and the power went out so it was pitch black and it turned into a nightmare. But yeah i couldn't find my mom, and for some reason the bottom level still had people walking around, that were coming from a dark hallway.

These dream were two long dreams compared to yesterday's 3 dream fragments. It also played out more like a show or movie, not in the first person.
It started out as like a view of a whole bunch of teenagers on an island or a beach somewhere. I don't know where. Then it shows this one kid looking out into the ocean.
It switches view to the direction he's looking and there's a girl in the water (She looked strangely familiar ) And all of a sudden she starts flailing about, apparently drowning. One girl on the beach jumps into the water and starts swimming towards her. For some strange reason, in the next view, the one kid mentioned above is riding piggy-back on this girl as she's swimming They eventually get to the girl but it's too late. Then it transitioned to some youtube video that was very incoherent, apparently commemorating the girl who died...
The dream faded and I woke up. I drifted directly back into sleep into a different dream, but for some reason felt linked to the previous one...
There were these people doing an investigation. There was this woman, who had something jabbed and stuck into her arm. She pleaded to the investigators that it was the end of a pen ( My dreams really don't make too much sense...) ,but the investigators go into the drawer of her desk and find a syringe and a bag of what seemed to be heroine (Or at least my brain recognized it as that.) Then that transitioned to a car going down the Highway, carrying a few members from the show 'Shameless', and then the car got hit by another vehicle. The End

Key: Non-Lucid Lucid

im in some strange place, i can remember it well but it will be to long and to hard to describe it. essentially its some kind of university or something, with buildings like librarys and other things scattered close toghether within a forest with a calm river running through it. someone is chasing me through it, or im not supposed to be there and escaping without getting caught, either one, and i run out of a library and into the river, where i float down on a raft, and the river is in a sort of U shape and doubles back. i guess whoever was chasing me found me, because i was standing in a shallow part of the muddy river, and a man began to stab me, a knife in each hand. and it hurt, or well, it was an uncomfortable pinch. i was stunned, never before in a dream had i really been harmed, and i thought i dont have to take this, its my dream... oh wow im dreaming. once lucid the guy just stop and froze, it was like he was a robot and i just hit the off switch. i was glad to be free, and i started to run, now the wooks was brighter and i could see beautiful mountains surrounding me. then i saw one of those towers for radio or cell phones or whatever it is, and ran up/jumped/flew up it, and looked around. i then jumped down, grabbing the ladder as i went down to slow my fall. at the bottom, i met my grandma who said for me to sit down, its dinner time. i told her no, im dreaming i can do whatever. she got angry and made me sit down, i lost lucidity and woke up.

1. I'm looking into a terrarium full of all different creatures. I remember seeing snakes and hedgehogs, but there were lots more than that.

2. I'm in a large warehouse, and I'm stealing something important. It's printed on a large piece of paper. I put it onto another large piece of paper and roll it into a tube. A man sees me do this, and chases me as I try to run for it. He tackles me and I struggle like crazy to get away.

3. I'm in a hallway somewhere, and all these sexy thin models are wandering around in bathing suits. I look at my own substandard body and feel incredibly jealous.

We are at our summer cottage, by the lake. With me there are my family and some of my friends. There is also a little dog. I stroke it and my friends warn me to watch out that it doesn't bite me. I protect myself with a book. The dog tries to go around me. We circle each other for a while. Soon the dog gives up. We talk something, but I can't remember what. I stroke the dog again, and again it tries to bite me. Soon it gives up. We go for a run. After some time we arrive at a block of flats that looks like my granny's neighbourhood. We go round the building. Soon we see a similar building. We go round it too. There is a glass door. It is open, but I notice that it is the wrong door. There is another door, but I notice that it is a wrong one too. The third door is the right one, but after going from it I am again outside. Now there is a soccer field in below us. Thats where we should go but when I look down I see a fall of at least 4 metres. When I wonder what to do I see one of my friends (that wasn't with us at the beginning of the dream) going down stairs. I go down. There are some children playing. They notice us and start yelling at us that they are playing. One of them urges the others to kick the balls at us. The come closer. I take a ball and foot it. Even though one of the kids is near me, I miss him. I suddenly feel weak and decide to leave. The kids don't follow us. We leave the field. We are now in a dark, cave-like place. There are now six of us. The dark place is a womb and near us, gloving soft milky light, is an egg cell. Our mission is to prepare it for fertilization by removing a chromosome from it, but we can't go too close to it or it will fertilize. I take a long stick and stick it into the cell, removing one x-chromosome. There's some guy that I haven't seen before. One of us dares him to eat the chromosome. He does it, but it doesn't seem to have much effect on him.

I am in an old city. The alley I take ends in a fall. Below me there is a marketplace. When I'm wondering how to get down, two girls go past me, jump on a roof and then on the street below. I notice an iron rod hanging in the air. I decide to use it. I jump and grab it. When I'm hanging there, a woman comes to say to the girls not to jump on the roof. I drop down and notice a friend of mine. The last thing I remember is becoming lucid, though there probably is more that I can't remember.

So last night I could finally recall my dream, but I dreamed that I was in a tall building that was being attacked much like 9/11. The dream would switch me from inside the building to 3rd person view outside like its some kind of movie. Somehow I ended up in the other building before the one next to it collapsed. I have felt so sick in that dream and a million things going through my mind that I am going to die. Before this happened it was night time and I was looking over the city and a air plane was coming and missed the buildings, then it turned around and streaked the building and I was teleported inside of it.

I was in a room with three other guys giving up hope that we would ever leave there, I found it odd that there was a chair that was in the shape of a tipping building. We figured out we where low enough to escape the bottom and people helped us out. One lady told us to run into this building to be safe and we did. The nightmare ended then.

There where other stuff but I don't remember it.

I had this one early this morning, and though it wasn't exactly "scary," it was definitely traumatic.

Dream Notes/Observations

Some friends and I have been invited to a party, in Alaska. We're being rushed to catch the plane (and drink with the pilot on the way), but we have to run some errands first. As we're driving around to do this, I'm trying to convince my buddy not to let me drink too much because my ex will be at the party.

At some point during this I insulted a group of crazy gangbangers, who looked like Rastafarian MS-13. The swore they were going to make me pay, but we sped away in the car.

We get back to my house and my friends drop me off so I can get dressed for the party. I go downstairs and let my ferrets out to play while I get ready (I do have ferrets IRL, and though these looked a little different I knew it was them). While my ferrets are playing two new ferrets appear from nowhere and start playing with them.

After I'm dressed I hear someone break-in upstairs, and somehow I know that it's the gangbangers, and that what their going to do is beat me, make me watch them eat the ferrets, and then kill me. So I try to gather up the ferrets and hide them in the closet, but the ones I don't know run away and I can't catch them.

I just manage to get my ferrets hidden when I hear them coming down the stairs and scramble to grab my sword (an ugly, poorly made black steel blade, not nearly as nice as my sword IRL). I've just managed to grab it and run out into the hallway when they get to the bottom of the stairs. There are 6 of them, and they are wielding hockey sticks and metal bars. I manage to bottleneck them in the hall so they can only attack me one at a time. They hit me a few times, but nothing serious, though there are a few close calls, and after 5 minutes of furious combat all 6 are dead.

I start freaking out about having killed 6 guys, and go up stairs and start pacing. At this point my friends return to pick me up, but I won't leave the house. I try to play it cool, but inside I'm losing it, considering chopping the bodies up to hide them in the yard. After a minute I break down and tell my friends what happened, but instead of freaking out they just think it's cool that I managed to kill 6 dudes by myself.

After a few minutes I decide to call 911 and report it, since it was self defense. The police don't come, but send an investigator: an older woman who kind of reminds me of my 5th Grade teacher. So I take her downstairs to show her the scene, but when we get down there all the bodies have turned into giant badger/dog things. 2 of them are dead, but the other 4 are just severely crippled. One of them has found the two stranger ferrets, killed 1, and is trying to kill the other. I start kicking it to try to protect the ferret, and the investigator gets mad at me, saying something like "This may have started as self defense, but if you keep that up you'll be charged with assault, the law doesn't protect your pets" (though apparently it did protect giant badger-dogs that used to be people). This makes me really angry, and I wake up.

I was sent an errand when i noticed that i can teleport. I did it severally and it struck me 'YOU ARE DREAMING'.
The scene was familiar and I navigated around the scene by teleporting.

I was nervous and thought of changing the dream to something interesting.
I tried re-dreaming a dream that I cherish the most, the most cherished ever. I thought of how I could get to the scene and I found myself in a scene similar to it. I tried feeling the way I felt, tried thinking of her coming; I was hurrying, nervous and never wanted to loose the dream. The dream eventually started to fade and i shouted 'clarity now' and it became clear again.

I left the scene and decided to fly, which i did successfully by bouncing on my feet along the street which ended up in diferent and non lucid dream.

A newbee will always be a newbee what woud i have done to re-dream a dream or to continue from where i stoped in a dream dreamt the previous night?

Thank you for reading . . .

1. One of my friends and I escape from some oppressive desert country and use a vacation house in Colorado as our hide-out. For some reason, I have an abundance of superhero T-shirts.

2. Singing "Bohemian Rhapsody" with a bunch of other guys. I do the lead character's lines, and seem to be the only person out of the bunch capable of hitting the high notes.

3. Something about playing with a rocket launcher.

4. Something about ugly necklaces.

5. I'm stuck at someone's residence with some snobbish former classmates and a handful of little kids. One of them criticizes the way I was eating a popsicle, and others join in on verbally harassing me. I run to find a room that I can lock from the inside so I can be alone, but they keep chasing me. Even when I've managed to lock a door or find a really good hiding spot (even when I'm hiding in my own house), they always get in and start dancing on my head, all while claiming that I'm in the wrong for hiding from them in the first place.

Then there was something about the estimated value of some herb and going to an incense shop to get something to help with meditation, but my alarm clock woke me up in the middle of that.

Dynamite Town

I’m flying! I’m close to the ground, no cars, just a big long road in the country surrounded by yellow and orange autumnal trees. I let my muscles go limp and the wind takes me higher, passed the power lines. If I go too high I get a little nervous I’ll never come back down, so I stabilize myself a few feet above the power lines. “It feels so good to be flying, finally,” I say.The wind is warm and everything feels exhilarating.

A tiny voice in my head starts talking to me: it’s my mom! I lose lucidity. She wants me to go get “Cochla root” for my dad, who has a bit of back pain. I need to go to the medicine woman we see for the herbal nutrition we buy from her.

Luckily, my school is having a trip to the same area today! Now I’m on a bus, looking out the window. We’re here, in the little mountain town where she lives. I call it a “boomtown” but for other reasons: all around us, people are working with dynamite in the mountains to access the gold and coal that are inside. The surroundings are all dirt and mud with laborers outside on this particularly rainy day. The houses are scattered boxes on the fields passed the dynamite lands. The bus rides through on the only paved road I see.

Out my window I see a girl who’s working. I look in her eyes as she works. There’s a connection here, one that I’m uncertain of but I feel something. I want her to look at me, but the bus passes before she turns.



Ahead, the other bus of students is returning from the town, going home. There is only enough room for one bus, but this isn’t a problem in a dream. Our bus kind of goes “over” the other bus, without an accident or anything dangerous, we are on the same track but on different levels of the same road. My POV is inside the other bus as it passes below us. I see Heather sitting alone, crying. I know she’s having an anxiety attack because of all the dynamite and danger around her. Jack is in my bus and starts taunting her.

“Jack,” I say. Everyone on both of the buses stops talking. “Shut the FUCK UP.” He does. We move on.

We get to our destination soon. It’s a old fort house a little ways passed the main dynamite mountain area. Inside, I get a little scared; this is a haunted house-esqe attraction, not an informative guide through the history of the town. Although I’m scared, me and my friend Celina are the first to run in. The doorway frightens us: when you walk over it, it rains on you. This was terrifying in my dream!

We sit down against a wall and let everyone else explore the house. I go into the kitchen where the witch doing all this scary magic is kneading bread. I ask her about the medicine woman and where I can see her.

“You’re on the same road but this is the wrong house,” she says. I feel embarrassed. I sit back against the wall with Celina and text Heather. Eventually everyone has explored the scary house and we leave.

On the way home we stop at a McDonalds and I order two chicken nuggets. I receive my order and they are huge, about half the size of me! I can’t wait to give these to Heather (I’m vegetarian), but they’re really heavy and difficult to pull along.

The scene shifts to me in the back seat of a car. My Uncle Pat is driving. I don’t want to tell my mom that I didn’t get the Cochla root and she’ll have to drive back to the town. I think of ways to tell her the bad news. My Uncle is going really slow and when I notice this, he hits the accelerator and goes through a shortcut home: through a bank parking lot and then through a school playground. Before we reach the playground, my POV shifts to above the car, as if there is no car, only me and him floating (but I still “feel” that we are in a car). We start passing through the fence into the playground and I see a bunch of curved spoons on the ground.

“That’s where crack addicts do their drugs. If I was going to do crack, I’d do it here,” I say.

On the playground, we pass a teenager on a small child’s bike. Now I am riding the bike.

It has backwards peddle brakes which are so foreign to me that I just don’t brake. Instead, I kind of idle around the edge of the playground until I can cross the street. I go for it without looking, and a car almost hits me: it was my mom, we’re both going home. I find this funny.

Peddling home, I stop on the side of the street to collect some acorns that have fallen from a tiny tree. My uncle’s voice booms to me: “Stop, let’s go home!” I tell him to wait a minute and then we proceed home.

Fragment

(Copied directly from my dream journal, I can’t make sense of it)
Me + a lot of people, nighttime, afraid on couches in a big house. Julia. My cat forms into a square of space + I wake up with her still there.

It started like a lot of my LDs do. In the house I grew up in. I woke up at 10:30 AM (Yes, I could read the clock perfectly) and I didn't RC like I usually do. I walked down the hallway and into the living room and saw presents on the couch and chair and thought "That's strange, the only thing I can think of coming up is my birthday and that's more than a month away" I noticed the TV was playing something as I look at my hands because I notice how everything is quite strange and I hear an older style camera flash and see a flash come from my hand. So by this time I know something is strange and I do the Nose pinch RC and realize I'm dreaming.

I walk out the front door and look around. It's a warm summer day (In reality it's a cold and crappy winter day). I enjoy the scene for a second, I look at the trees, the grass, the sky and I get the sudden urge to fly off. But before that I realize that the dream is sort of fading a bit so I rub my hands together and then rub my hand on the truck in the driveway and look around the scene one more time. The clarity has increased dramatically! I was absolutely amazed at how real everything was (Even though I've had many LDs that seemed this real, if not more clear than this). I decide it's time to take off and fly, I start running up the dirt road at incredible speed and jump. I start gliding through the air but then land again. I then remember Slash112 and his liking of Iron Man and thought I would give it a try. I imagine rockets on my hands and feet and aim them at the ground for takeoff. I fly sort of sideways into the trees and up into the air a bit, but then fell into the forest. I immediately try to take off again but the LD has faded too much and I wake up.

I look at my clock and it's 10AM, I do the nose pinch RC again and realize... Sadly, I'm not dreaming

This is my first lucid - or, sort of lucid - dream since I started being active on Dream Views about three days ago and getting serious about actually controlling my dreams. I should note that I have had many, many lucid dreams in the past, but have never very much control, not even over myself. I'm not entirely sure if this was a WILD or a DILD. I attempted a WILD as I was going to sleep last night, and got SO close, but a strand of hair fell into my face, and was driving me absolutely mad, and I had to move. I tried to start over, but the housemates upstairs were making noise and kept distracting me. So I gave up, but kept the thought in my mind, and when I woke up later in the night, tried again. My second time waking up may have resulted in a successful WILD, with me losing some lucidity as I entered the dream, but I'm not sure.

Non-dream
Dream
Semi-Lucid
Lucid

I'm in my bed. There are three others there with me, but I can only hear them, not see or feel them. (They are all "me" but I don't realize this until after I wake up. Whenever I am in bed, I'm talking to them, but can't remember what we were actually saying.) There is a fourth person sitting in the chair near my bed, guiding us through the lucid dreaming process. She tells the first "me" that I am dreaming, and it's okay to get up now. But before I leave the bed, I have to touch my feet together, one on top of the other. (Dream logic...)

The first "me" sits up. My eyes are closed, and I touch my feet together like my "guide" told me to. Then I get up, and open my eyes. I'm in my townhouse room in the "village" on-campus at the university. My guide (who I never try to see, though I know she's sitting on the chair) asks me what I want to do.

"I should make it daytime first."

I try to simply will it to be daytime, but it doesn't work. I close my eyes and spin around, thinking "daytime" and when I stop, the curtains are open and the sun is starting to rise. My guide asks me "what now" and I tell her I want to run around on the walls like the scene in Inception where gravity is changing. She says she'll adjust gravity for me, so I run at one of the walls, and just as she said, gravity changes so I'm able to run up the wall. I do this for a few minutes, and then she says that she will be the one in charge of when gravity changes, so I have to keep up. Somehow I know exactly where she's going to shift gravity to, and have no problem keeping up.

My consciousness starts to "drift away" from the first "me" and back to the bed as the first me decides that she's had enough of this and flies out the window. I'm suddenly back in bed, and the "guide" tells the second me that it's okay to get up now. So I start to sit up, but this me disappears very quickly. Finally, it is just the "real" me left. My guide tells me I'm dreaming, and it's okay to get up.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes. Don't forget to touch your feet together."

I'm very cautious as I get up, thinking that I'm not actually asleep, and that my guide is lying. I do as she says, then stand up.

"Are you dreaming?"

I look at my hands.

"Yes."

After this, I no longer see, hear, or think about my "guide" for the rest of the dream.

I start thinking about what I'm going to do now, but remember that I need to ground myself. I remember the tutorial I read about using all your senses to do this, so start rubbing my hands together, looking around the room, listening. I cannot smell anything, though I try. I can hear "May it Be" coming from my radio, and think that this is my "real" ears hearing it (it wasn't, I did not have any music playing) so I try to "switch" to my dream ears, but it doesn't work. I'm amazed briefly at how clear everything is, and the fact that I can no longer feel my body in my bed (this is something that has never happened before in a lucid dream) I remember the tutorial again, and how it said I should pick something up, like a rock. For some reason, there is nothing in the room small enough to pick up, and definitely not a rock, so I go to the window. I see a bottle cap when I look down and decide that will do. I can still here "May it Be" and look over at the table by my bed, where my radio and lamp are. Seeing the chair where my guide had been sitting makes me uncomfortable, even though at this point I don't remember her, so I look back out the window. I decide rather than taking the "easy" route down, I'm going to teleport. So I step back into my room, close my eyes, and spin around, thinking "I'm in front of my townhouse."

I feel something change and open my eyes. I'm in front of my townhouse, and go pick up the bottle cap. I toss it back and forth a couple of times and "pop" it. Then I forget about it, and start running down the street, just enjoying how vivid this dream is and how for the first time ever, my movements don't feel hindered by the dream. I decide to start flying around and see what's there. (as a side note, either a DC or my DG, who I have never consciously met, taught me how to fly in a non-lucid dream when I was very young, and this has been my main method of getting around in lucid dreams for as long as I can remember, although sometimes I get "stuck" just a couple feet off the ground). At first, I try to go as high and as fast as I can, with the intent of going out into space, but though I try as hard as I can, I can't reach the clouds. So I stop and look around, and notice a mountain in the distance, and wonder why there's a mountain in my dreamworld, which other than this, looks exactly like my university campus. I decide to go check it out, and as I get closer, I see that it is a volcano, with many peaks and a large crater. I love rock climbing, so I decide I'm going to land at the base and climb up it to see what's inside the crater.

On the way, I remember that one of my goals is to learn firebending and waterbending, like in Avatar: the Last Airbender. So I cup my hands and try to summon fire, but it fails. (I think this is because in real life, I was a bit nervous to try, as similar things have happened in non-lucid dreams, and it was quite painful) I then pass another mountain/volcano with water in it's crater, and try waterbending instead. I manage to pull out a little trickle of water, but I'm too far away, and can't get it all the way to me. I can hear "May it Be" again, and start worrying that it's drifting through again from the real world, but then realize I'm not actually hearing it, it's just stuck in my head. I debate whether to get closer to the water, or keep going to the volcano, and decide on the volcano (What are you doing? *slaps dream self* Goal number one: learn firebending or waterbending. *headwall*) I get to the volcano, and find that it is actually made of sand, and is on the shore of an ocean. Someone else is there, and she starts climbing. I follow, and make it to the top in a disappointingly short time. Once I get to the top though, I feel a "tug" and things get blurry briefly. Quickly, I pick up some sand and rub it between my hands, also concentrating on the sound of the waves. But there is another hard tug, and I wake up suddenly, really, really hoping that it's a false awakening, but it isn't.

(note: this is the tutorial I was referencing near the beginning: Extending Lucid Dreaming)

Maybe something about the girl who sits behind me in philosophy.