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AUDIO-INDUCED LUCID DREAM EXPERIMENT ENTRY #2

Ok, I haven't stopped experimenting with this technique (which I'm now not so sure should be labeled CAN-WILD...more like EILD, since I modified things a bit) and I'm going to go on with trying an alarm that will play a sound sometime early in the morning that will cause me to lucid dream without WBTB. I have determined that this is the best possible way for me because it requires no daytime work and only a few minutes of bedtime preparation, plus I don't have to lose any sleep or sleep in late, so I can lucid dream every night once I get this down.

Since I've been gone a few days from the forums, I'll catch you up with a summary of the experiment thus far:

DAY 1: (NO LUCID)
~Determined that WBTB with the alarm woke me up far too much for method to be practical.

DAY 2: (NO LUCID)
~Slept through all alarms, although computer records proved them to have gone off properly.

DAY 3: (NO LUCID)
~Heard alarms while still in a dream; DC told me to listen up because he heard my lucid dreaming alarm playing...but I woke myself up rather than did an RC.

Tonight (Day 4) I'm going to try something slightly different. I think the alarm sound is just too closely related with waking up for me to use it effectively as a lucid dreaming tool. Instead I'm going to try an induction mp3 with frequently-playing recordings of a voice saying 'This is a dream', 'do a reality check now', etc. Instead of the flash-based timer I linked to in my last entry, I'll be using Cool Timer since it better suits my needs. I can set it to go off at a certain time and play the MP3, which I have listened to many times and very strongly associate with lucid dreams, and reality checking (rather than waking up).

The biggest challenge will be getting me to hear the MP3 properly. I've been using a set up where I run a headphone extension cord from my computer and then stick the headphones to the side of my bed (the bed frame is metal and the headphones are strangely magnetic ), but that was just for an alarm sound; I didn't need precision audio. This is different. I'll need to make sure that I can understand the voice without having it wake me up from being so loud.

Could take some experimenting...

September 2nd: I was in an apartment room that was mostly brown (like light brown walls and brown couch) with some other teenage kids that were slightly larger than an average teen (in weight) they appeared to have some metal band t-shirts on that i don't remember. but two of them held mtn dew distortion in 2 liter bottles one of the kids had cargo shorts that were dark blue and he had long, frizzy, brown hair. I asked them where they got it from. and then i thought about how i would get to the store, even though i never been to the neighborhood i was thinking of.

phase 2: I was at a hotel swimming with a group of people in what appeared to be a normal indoor pool. but the ceiling was at least 20ft up the room felt massive. but at one point it was apparently a girls only swim so I swam to an area of the pool that inclined down and went underground. i followed it slowly and it lead to the boys locker room. there were people obviously changing. I went up to a locker and stared at it for a second. (the room was pinkish and had green lines on the wall) I then walked back and went through the otherside of the locker room and went through a short circular water tunnel. It had lead me to a huge set of ivory stairs and some form of wealthy congregation at the bottom on the stairs headed to the left. I knew it was a wealthy event because of the area and the clothes people wore like dresses and suits. I remember one young woman that had brown hair and she wore a silk silver dress that shined lightly she had a fit figure as well. I decided to head to the Right. on the right there was an incline to another area; there was also a white overpass that had stairs on both sides up high as if it were a bridge to somewhere else in the hotel. I kept walking the incline and as soon as i got up I saw a purple and orange sky which seemed very surreal i then got up and saw an above ground swimming pool that was also in ground because it was cemented in. there was a lounge area with tables and umbrellas and then also a bar. the floor was tiled in a checkered form(not fully but sort of) I think. I stood by a guy I did not know at the pool Then apparently over in the lounge section there was a man in a suit that killed another man by breaking his neck. the dream then transitioned to the next phase

* note phase 2 and 3 went together sort of
phase 3: the next phase introduced the people who were wanted by showing their faces the only memorable figure was the girl who had stolen black goggles and had done something else. it showed her (she had brown slightly wavy hair and a nice body. i thought she was hot until later.) wearing black goggles and she had picked her nose randomly. it then switched to her wearing white shades in the sunny daylight, then the sight of vision moved and it paned in on a pool there were the three of the criminals playing a game with inner tubes to get the inner tubes farthest in the amoeba shaped pool. The day was sunny and i stood and observed until pool goers got pissed at the criminals and then a white lawn chair with purple stripes was thrown into the pool. i dove in and went under the chair. apparently one of the bad people in the trio jumped on the chair and i felt the pressure of his weight on my back i didnt wanna die so i fought back but eventually I woke up

This was i think my first WILD since i started practicing. It didn't feel like i thought it would.I remember the sleep paralysis though.

Im at a cheep carnival in the desert (im no good at reality checking) and in a cheep building. Some guy is trying so sell me junk but i refuse. Then he asks for money, so i leave. were walking away from the carnival towards a bus stop (yes, in the desert) and i realize i forgot my wallet and turn back to get it. I cant remember how but i got it back.

My dream completely shifted and im watching a movie, from inside the movie. i have no body. at all. i think the movie is cats vs dogs 2 (which ive never seen). There's a room with a coutch and cheech (with a beard) and the guy who played zoro are casually talking, watching the movie on a tv. I thought it was kinda fun, but then i woke up

Date: 3/09/10
Lucid
Non-Lucid
Barely remembered my dreams tonight, took me a few hours before I remembered either of them.
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I was sitting outside the security building at our school. My whole class was sitting there as well. One of my friends, H, - well acquaintances actually- was sitting to my left and my best friend, J, was sitting to my right. H was staring at my legs which seemed to be unusually hairy in my dream I whispered to her, "My Mum won't let me shave until I'm 16" (What the hell?)) and H nodded sympathetically. Then she leant over to J and said, "Her Mum won't let her shave until she's 16..." J looked sympathetic as well and I felt embarrassed.
^Weird dream... ^
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My other dream I only remember one little bit of it.
I leant into the fridge and looked around it. I was in my kitchen. In the fridge was a 3L bottle of Breakfast Juice. I grabbed it out and shut the fridge. I opened the kitchen drawer and took out a cup and poured the breakfast juice into it. I'm pretty sure my sister was somewhere in the room as well.

My grandma's after me. Both scary and disturbing. I fight her off in my garage (or atleast try to) while im waiting for my buddy Arnold (my partner from a past dream ). She evens tries ruse to fool me. As she walks away, she offers me food. Its probably poisonous, and I see right through it. I tell her and she smiles. Creepy

I think I failed an RC. Not sure. But I was on the street until I went: Wait a minute, how did I get here? I didnt take the bus! Did I RC? Maybe. But im absolutely sure I did not become lucid.

I was lucid, and I was in a dungeon with four rooms. Each room was dark, and in 2D so everything looked very strange. There was no escape from the dungeon. In each room were some items, also in 2D.



The point of the dungeon was apparently to force me to learn dream control. I wasn't sure how I knew that, but I did. The first task was to learn to move objects with my mind. I struggled for a bit before I managed to smash the car into the table. I was able to move things with my mind now! I tried to put the car on top of the table, but the 2D view wouldn't allow that and it looked very odd.

The next task was to learn to use magic. That was easier. I used a yellow spell against an opponent.

I was alone in the dungeon after that, and 3D was trying to overcome the 2D view. In front of me was a TV. It was sort of creepy looking in the dark. It was an old analog TV. I flipped through the stations. Because a lot of the dream was in 2D much of the channels were showing cartoons from my childhood. I found a news station and tried to put my hand through the screen. I was teleported inside the TV and found myself INSIDE of a Spongebob cartoon!!!

Two characters that looked like this were jumping up and down in their living rooms cheering at the television. I was back in 2D land which was really annoying. Dreaming in a cartoon. I reached inside their television to try to get somewhere else but I think I just teleported back to the dungeon.

My dream have been pretty short, boring and similar lately. I keep having school dreams, which I find pretty boring. It's hard to keep journalling when the results are so poor for so long. Anyway...

Dye Your Hair FFS

I was walking to a class at the secondary school I attended. I saw H, except her hair was red. She said hi and pointed out this girl to me and said she had said that she knew me. The girl had grey hair and I didn't recognise her at first because of it, but it was L. I was a bit confused, but before I could really question anything we were in class.

I was in my old Geography class room except doing Maths. There was a diagram on a piece of paper of a circle that was divided up, it wasn't clear to me. I felt really confused. L came and sat near me and smiled. She said she'd help me out because I looked really confused. It was bugging me constantly that her hair was grey.

How Can "She" be Your Boyfriend?

I was at the local post office. I was asking the woman serving there where the attractive woman who used to work there had gone. She said she had quit. She then told me that the other woman was her boyfriend. I was pretty confused...

I was at an airport with my friend Petter. I thought to myself for some reason that I was dreaming. I pinched my nose and tried to breate. It worked. I left Petter and just walked around. I probably should have tried som stabilizing- techniques because I woke up.

Tried to create electricity with my hands, but it turned into an electricity-bomb. It didn't hurt me though. After that I tried to create flames with my hands. This turned into a regular bomb. Turned over a table and took cover behind it. It worked but I woke up.

02.09.2010

Ants! (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was inside my house, at the big window downstairs. My mother was in the room too. I looked outside and saw some small ants crawling between the stones. They were pretty big, but not immense big. There were a couple of ats in a row going between the stones of the ground and the last ant was the biggest. I was very afraid. I went to the other room and looked out the window. The ants there were even bigger, they were almost a meter big. i was even more afraid now, and i was crying. I told my mother that I was afraid. The ants were actually crawling between the surface and under the stones. then I saw shark-like fins coming from between the stones. It had the color of the ants. They went around the stones and when they went around a stone it fell down in a void below the ground. That is when i really became afraid and constantly started panicking. I kept saying to my mother: Mom help they are sawing the stones out of the ground! Then my mother woke me up. It was fun to have the dream because it was vivid, it was a good dream.

09/02/10



I pull myself out of bed, even though I really don't want to. I'm tired, and miserable, and everything's just a bit blurry. I drag myself into the kitchen and sit down, staring into space. Really, this whole thing seems a little... off.

I hold up my right hand. "Two, three, four, five, six." Seems normal. My hands are leaving little motion paths behind them, just like they would in a dream. I dismiss the phenomenon, though. The paths aren't distinct enough to really be noticeable.

Never mind that I'm sitting in the back-room kitchen of the motel my grandparents used to own. Never mind the fact that my grandma sold this place years ago.

I feel shadows forming in the corners of my mind, indicating traces of worm-like creatures on the verge of existence in the other room. I go still. If this was a dream, I could deliberately induce a nightmare. That would be fun.

Maybe I am dreaming. I'm standing behind the glass doors to the patio, looking out over the lawn and the pine trees planted around the perimeter. There's a bunch of things I could be doing if this was a dream.

I hold up my left wrist and bite down on the skin there. I catalogue my reactions. No pain, which doesn't strike me as strange, not really, because I can feel my teeth and lips on the skin there.

I'm tired.

End recall.

Scare Factor: 1/10
Rating: 3/10

Night 1

I had a dream a boring one for that matter. The dream was that I was on the internet and was on this forum and there was a debate going on about how one N.F.L player was better then the other pretty much trolling comments and shit. I woke up and looked at the clock did a RC nothing I was a awake. I went to the bathroom came back fell asleep but like 5 minutes into trying to fall a sleep I felt SP coming up. I was shocked I wasn't expecting this well anyways I went along with it and it was working. But it failed soon after because I was to awake and my body woke itself up. I finally fell asleep and had a another boring dream. I was at school and we were being given a essay and to leave the class you had to right a 10-page essay. I should have woke up the second I heard the teacher say 10 page which is too much. Well everyone was finishing the essay and I guess I was the proof reader for the teacher or the kid who collects the paper. Because everyone but mostly these three girls were giving me their papers. I kept rejecting there papers and saying the had to right a full page on each side. They were getting mad and I was getting anxious on when I was going to leave and that's when I woke up.

2 story lines in which I was able to re-enter.

A Close Game (non-lucid)

The top of the first inning we are on the field. I am in the outfield but we've got an extra fielder. My teammates make a lot of errors but I make 2 diving catches. The pitcher strikes a guy out. They score 7 runs.

My first at bat I get a single and the runner in front of me steals so I steal. We score a few runs.

I make another diving catch.

My next at bat some fat kid tries to bat instead but I tell him to get lost. I take it to a full count, foul one with a defensive swing and get walked. The coach spits in my path so I stare him down. We close the gap, 7-5.

Frags:

1. The other storyline is the collapse of America or something. The wealthy elite jump ship. There aren't even police. Just chaos. I am in some rural area. Some women is attacked by thugz and she tazes them. She runs when she sees me. A car chase with the one sheriff, he hits my car and knocks it into some water. "New American Republic"..."Press Start" I saw. Like is was a video game.

Date: Sept.2
Time: 6:00am

Description: So I tried to use an alarm thing to wake me up in SP, but all it did was wake me up for good. So anyway I went back to sleep and woke around 6 am. I attempted a WILD, I got the vibrations, and auditory hallucinations. Then this dream happened. I lost lucidity quite early, but I was lucid nonetheless.

Dream: I got up from my bed, I did a nose plug reality check and it failed. So then I became aware that I was dreaming. I walked toward my door and tried another reality check, the finger through the palm RC. That also failed. So instead of getting all excited, I just noticed I was only wearing my boxers, so I walked toward the laundry room and found a pair of shorts. I put them on, and ran upstairs and outside. I wanted to fly. As I went into my backyard I passed a "How To" book on dreaming, I didn't pay any attention to it. I jumped into the air, but fell back down again. So I did another RC and it still failed. So I tried it several more times, I couldn't. Even with thoughts such as I know I can fly, and other things. I lost my lucidity right then as my mom and sister were taking out trash, so I decided to help them. (Thinking about it, I should of just ignored them.) The trash was quite full, and smelly. I put the trash out and walked back inside. My mom got a letter, about how messy the schools got after the last class of the year. She seemed annoyed when I told her that it was because of the last day of school, kids throw their papers. She would have none of it. So I go to my front door, and see this kid Omar I used to know, he walks up to me and asks if I have any Gatorade or anything like that, I say no only pop. My dad pulls up my driveway in his car, and my brother Josh right after. I go and pick up the book I saw earlier and flip threw the pages, and see instructions for different things, like teleportation, and flying. I black out, and wake up for real.

02.09.2010

Musashi Revealed (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I'm at some party with my friends, I don't really know where I'm at. I'm with Justin, Tim, and Jeff. Crystal Castles is playing (the 2008 album) on the radio in the kitchen. Everyone is in the living room, hostilities are rising, I don't know anyone here. A fight breaks out, I think I see Justin in it and try to join the fray but Jeff holds me back. I keep yelling at him to let me go, but the fight is over soon enough.

Everyone is drinking crappy Corona, I lost my beer, I keep having these dizzy spells. My friends all go outside through the front door, I'm in the entrance from the front room to the living room where the big fight was.

A bunch of jock kids approach the narrow opening where I am standing, saying something like "Leave or we'll kick your ass" They are all crowded together and pressing on each other like a mosh pit. I grab the first guys shirt and pull him forward and everyone stumbles. Then I push him back and they stumble more. I say I'm leaving and hurry outside into the night. I see Tim down the stairs on the lawn, he tells me to hurry up.
I go down the stairs and realize i left my hoodie in there. I also start thinking about what Musashi would have done when he waws challenged by the room full of people. He would have said something like "I am a Samurai! I'm not going to just run away!" I decide to never turn down a fight again, even if it is with a whole room of people, after all Musashi fought the entire Yoshioka school and won. I must follow the same path in life.

I turn around and head back towards the house. I see only one big guy at the top of the stairs.
"I thought I told you to leave." He says threateningly.
"I forgot my sweater" I say without even bothering to look at him. I walk right past him into the house and find it, then leave.

Outside, it looks like my friends left me, maybe they thought I was staying when the saw me going back inside.
I get down the street a little and I can see them. They are renting a building for the rest of the night, an old man is unlocking the doors.