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I was at an event with a bunch of people I used to hang out with years ago. It was clear in dream-continuity that the same amount of time had passed, and the event was being held near where I live now and not where we used to play.

"E" is one of those people that I have a long and complicated past with without ever actually dating. He and I were going after the same spot in the event, and wound up in a very minor scuffle over it. Unfortunately for some reason we were on a subway platform and I fell down in the tracks.

The floor was a tan, speckled formica with the tracks inset to the point where it was almost flat. The space between the platform and the wall was about ten or twelve feet. E came down to try to help me, but a train was coming. I knew that there would be indents on the wall side that we could stand in to avoid the train and that if we tried to climb up right then we'd get crushed, so I dragged him across the tracks and over to the wall. They weren't as deep as I had hoped -- only a couple of inches -- but we pressed ourselves against the alcoves and held hands as the train rushed into the station.

When the train stopped, we went back to bickering. There was a set of doors down at our level that we used to board the train and the dream started to fade as it pulled out of the station.


I know looking back that those alcoves weren't there until I asserted that they would be, but I had no idea I was dreaming at the time.

I went to sleep hoping to MILD and this was the dream I had-

I was standing in a white room staring at this bookshelf. It had a lot of books then I woke up.

I wake up and lay in bed.

"Raven"

The word appears in my mind and won't go away, Unusual. My thoughts usually fade to nothing in a few seconds. Does this mean I had a shard dream? Hmm, I don't remember anything... I say "Raven Knight" in my head. to my surprise, I get a vague impression of Raven standing in front of me, slightly to the side. I can sense something in her hand, a paper of some kind, I didn't look at it, but I knew it was there. I noticed other entities, but at this point my thoughts where starting corrupt the memory, they may or may not have been there.

Tuesday 17th August 2010
On a dark night myself and my sister were strolling down the path away from a children's park. As we walked, my gaze travelled upwards until my eyes met the night sky and I met a view that was truly the most beautiful I had ever seen.

The dark sky was filled, quite literally, with the brightest, most dazzling stars. No clouds were in the sky whatsoever and I could even see star clusters.

It was then that I decided that I wanted to take a photo of the sky. I pulled out my mobile phone from my jacket pocket and held it up towards the night sky, pressing the button for the camera. But every time I pressed it, the phone refused to take the picture. I brought the phone back down and inspected it; there seemed to be no problem with it and I decided to try again.

However, to my dismay, when I looked back up to the sky it was day, and the stars had gone.

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17.08.2010

Tugging at Heartstrings (Non-lucid)

★★★☆☆

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Originally Posted by Mzzkc

After murdering the Chief of Police's son (before he can murder me), I cunningly convince the Chief to adopt me and another young orphan girl when he starts questioning us.

The earliest I can remember is trying to fit in and out of a "space station" thats on earth in astronaut gear and talking about how I'm gonna have a real problem with claustrophobia. Later I'm cave scuba diving with A, D and C. We have cool masks that enable us to talk and we're squeezing through these tight crevices with our oxygen tanks scraping and eventually we swim into a cavern where we can surface but it only has the one underwater entrance. The dream is amazingly vivid and despite my fear I'm really enjoying it. We swim back, the caves are lit with underwater lighting and the contrast and colors are awesome. We surface on a wooden jetty that is built for scuba divers. As we're leaving Ross and Nick are going in the opposite direction coming from a scuba class in a pool. They seem impressed that I was in the caves. Later I'm back in the caves with them (could have been a later dream cycle)

I wake up at 7am take the kids to school and go to have a nap at 8am since I'm really sick and off work today. I try to wild and get really close but I wake up every time my body does weird stuff (noises etc.) Eventually I fall asleep and dream about playing soccer at the italian club, apparently Sias from 5fm is gonna show up. One of the guys headers a ball and it looks unnatural so I realize I'm dreaming, I do a nose pinch and my consciousness shifts to my real body (I'm not counting this as it was too short)

17.08.2010

Still got the Skillz (WILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

It's been too long since I WILDed, so on the morning of my day off I decided to see if I still could. I'd probably slept for about ten hours already, so I wasn't expecting great things. I lay on my back, but after a while I got really roasting and sweaty so I switched to my side and pulled the covers down a bit. Then I was too cold, so I rolled onto my back again, with my knees leaning against the wall.

I drifted away for a while, seemingly falling asleep naturally. Then some solid hallucinations started and my mind automatically took notice again. I heard a humming, and maybe some music. I listened hard and before I knew it, I was in the passenger seat of my friend's car listening to Johnny Cash- Ring of Fire. To quickly anchor myself I punched the dashboard a few times and ran my hands along it. Tactile sensations ftw. We were driving out onto the motorway from the city centre. I turned to Hugh (the driver) and asked if we could go back into town. There was something I wanted to do there which I cannot now remember! We had a discussion, and eventually decided there was no point in going back in. Dream-Hugh made a good point. I was bemused that my own subconscious had just talked me out of something. I sat back in the chair to think, and started to feel really itchy. I immediately knew what was going on. I must be sweating like a beast under the covers again! I grabbed the dashboard and held on for dear life, but it was too late. I woke up, very sweaty indeed.

I moved as much as I dared to reposition myself somewhere cooler, with my arms above my head. My mind went blank surprisingly quickly, and after about 30 seconds I could see the inside of my mum's car. This time she was driving. I recognised the street- we were heading for the city centre. It was a beautiful sunny day. My mum was driving like a maniac. I actually put my belt on -in a dream- for my own safety! I kept trying to remember what the route should look like, but things kept popping up which shouldn't have been there. A playground from another area reminded me of a street on the other side of town, then a narrow road convinced me we were back on track. I wished I could keep myself focused enough to recreate the area in which I wanted to be from memory, but it was impossible. Every tiny thing I saw reminded me of somewhere else, and the next time I looked up, that's where I was. I sighed. We were now driving through an estate round the corner from my house, a few miles from the centre. Once again, I overheated and woke up.

I wasn't too annoyed about the wasted dream, I was just pleased that WILDing was still open to me.

PART 1 - DAY9

Starcraft 2 Day9 commentary, something about Mutalisks... real life story behind it...

ANALYSIS

Triggered by a comment on the DV forums about Day9 that I made shortly before bed.

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PART 2 - ZEN FOR BROTHER

My brother sees a commercial on TV for a Zen meditation program. It advertises increased productivity, he seems interested.

ANALYSIS

A manifestation of my feeling that my brother doesn't spend his time productively. I don't think it would catch his attention IRL.

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PART 3 - HARNESSES IN THE SKY

With mom and brother... high in the sky, like "top of a mountain" height... in harnesses suspended by cables. Sin (internet personality) teaches how use them properly. Scary and unpleasant.

ANALYSIS

A metaphor for a sense of risk... possibly some sort of preparation leading into "taking the fearful way" below.

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PART 4 - THE IMPENETRABLE PYRAMID

Playing Starcraft, losing to Zerg... there is a pyramid on the map, it's out of place, doesn't belong in the game... it's glowing a neon light purple, possibly pink. It's supposedly "impenetrable."

I hit it (suddenly I'm physically "inside" the game), and a wall caves in. I enter, it's dark, like a tomb to explore.

A giant skeleton statue lifts me off the ground ("telekinetically"), and pulls me flying up toward it.

Next there is a small bedroom... there are old clothes. The previous occupants are long gone, years and years ago.

To get to a narrow closet in the corner, I have to go around behind the bed - and giant sheets which take up half the room - which would be a difficult position to escape from if I had to... but I take the fearful way at each point.

The closet has 2 doors, one leads to next room. There are more clothes left behind, hanging on the closet hook. I look through them, check each one out, the colors.

Suspenders? Old country clothes, possibly farmer clothes...

ANALYSIS

Impenetrable pyramid - represents lucid dreaming, seems almost impossible, a glass wall, trapped in routine. The neon purple/pink represents excitement, emotional stimulation of going outside the norm.

Telekinetic statue - key factor is the sense of flight, reminds me of old childhood dreams.

Old bedroom, old country clothes - a return to my roots, re-experiencing familiar dream sensations from childhood. I remember dreams involving clothes coming to life from back then... this is the reason for the clothes, their oldness is an expression of how long ago I experienced these things.

Fearful way at each point - beginnings of lucidity, semi-conscious decision making!

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PART 5 - JEE AND KEE

Driving with Jee and Kee afterward, I tell them about the whole experience of breaking in and exploring super enthusiastically. I end with "yeah, it was quite a dream"... they don't respond, silent, then they start talking about something else.

Later, walking with them through a jungle area, I see this big (4-5 feet tall) colorful (mainly red, with others mixed) bird with shaggy feathers trying to jump upside down and catch a branch with its feet from the ground.

I say that I like the colors, Kee says the name of bird.

ANALYSIS

Ignored - probably just literal.

Jungle and bird - an expression of my focus on color earlier.

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PART 6 - TEACHER EMAILS

Class, teacher (50s, grey hair and beard, glasses, like "Durant") asks the class for their emails. He hands out sheets of paper for each student to write them on. I'm conscious that the girl sitting beside me might see mine.

One more seat over, "bioking" (email) guy who is obsessed w/chemistry. Mine has "king" in it as well, possibly also something to do w/bio...

ANALYSIS

Was "bioking" another dreamer? Everyone in the class? Have I been enrolled in some sort of "dream school"?

Taking my email - perhaps this part of my mind wanting to "keep in contact"...

Debating, in the analysis portion of these entries, whether to leave ambiguity ("this is possibly an expression of that") or to be more firm ("this means that, period.") Tried more firmness this time, will continue to experiment.

Also, with so much more remembered, it's necessary to write more in point form.

I used the voice recorder for the first time last night, and WOW. HUGE impact. This thing is KEY. Very interested to see how its use will develop over time...

after about a week of trying, I had my first dose of lucidity yesterday night
But still got a long way to go to perfect it!

I was having this long and vivid non-lucid dream. There was this huge function at my old school, sort of looked like a graduation ceremony. I saw a few of my friends there, and some friends from college, who hadnt studied at my school.. but nothing struck as unusual.

I was in this lobby, and suddenly I saw my ex-girlfriend walkin in the front door.
Our relationship had ended somewhat tumultously, so I didn't wanna run into her.. So I walked on in the lobby and see an elevator and walk into it. But dammit she also manages to get in and we see each other, and we both smile.
and at that moment I notice how beautiful she looked. Trust me, she looked more heavenly than ever, and the dream was so vivid I can still recall that face.

Anyway, at this moment I became lucid, dont exactly remember how.. I was looking into her beautiful face and I was thinking "God! I'm dreaming!"
Soon, the dream started to fade as the realization set in.. I didnt want it to end, I tried to stabilize the dream but it didnt seem to be working.. I guess I got scared that I would lose my girl if I thought about it as a dream, and i let my mind go and soon slipped into a non-lucid dream... which involved me having feelings for her again, just like old days, even stronger, and eventually the two of us hugging and kissing,,
and when I woke up in the morning after the dream I was like "God! I LOVE her!!"

I'm happy I got to experience some amount of lucidity, but also sad after seeing my ex-gf.. I'm hoping the dream doesn't mean anything, cause our relationship had gotten so complicated before we finally broke up, and going back to it would only worsen things..

I had a dream last night that i was with my two older cousins in there house, and that they were trying to pull me into a room that i have never seen before, the room was like a surgical room that had a metal table in the middle, they wanted me to help preform surgery on someone and gave me gloves to put on.. it felt wrong, there was blood all over the floor and i knew that they were murdering people..

the dream felt so real and i remember asking myself if im dreaming or not.. i saw one of my friends (that i dont actually know or recongize in real life). and i asked her if i was dreaming.. she smiled at me and shrugged.. i remembered reading somewhere (which i did) that this person looks at his hands when he is dreaming and that if his hands were deformed he knew that he was in a dream. i did the same and looked at my hands and saw that one of my fingers were deformed, i knew i was dreaming and was so happy and kept repeating to my friend that i am dreaming!!, i remember the dream being so real and being in awe of all the detail.. i told myself to remember the dream when i awoke, and i walked around in my dream analysing everything untill i woke up..

The dream was pretty much amazing.. my emotions also changed when i realised that i was dreaming, from afriad to being impressed and happy, the cousins that were in my dream had also disappeared once i understood i was dreaming and could control what was happening.

Had a short dream wherein I copped out and bought Starcraft 2. Was trying to play Zerg but was suffering from some annoying connection issues. I was also annoyed because in the dream version you had to pay in game currency to play practice games.

Also, the apartment I was in was different. The common area was similar, but outside was also different.

I WENT LUCID! Yay, i'm writing this during a very confused WBTB, because I must have had a dream in a dream lol. Well anyway here is my longest and most stupid way of doing lucidity.
I woke up and say it was 1:30 A.M., I decided to check Dream Views on my phone quickly. The damn internet would just not work. I kept trying but it failed. I put the phone down, laughing to myself thinking I should do a reality check when stuff doesn't work. Even though the awakening felt as real as day I counted my fingers (my first of three) I saw my numbers were really messed up so I counted several times. One time it was only 3 fingers on my left. I thought to myself that I could be dream but I wasn't sure. So I got up to go look in a mirror. The bathroom was in the wrong place. I slammed my poor dogs head in this random door that was there. But it was like see-through. I looked in the mirror, and I had a scar on my cheek, and Harry Potter glasses. Okay I was lucid. I left the room to go outside and do the ToTM (if it was a forest I would have done Percy's task) outside was a forest though so I must be getting close. I really wasn't sure if I was dreaming. I was almost outside when my parents called me into their room. (They were acting like it was 8 at night) They asked where I was going, so I was really worried I wasn't dreaming. I said outside, but then the dream started to fade and I woke up.

I can feel myself getting closer to MILDing. Firstly I decided to get my recall back up as a first priority so here's how last night went: During the day I visualised my forest nicely. I used the mantra 'i lucid dream'. And meditated a bit in the afternoon with I simple breathing technique. Before sleep at night I read the 2nd class log. I relaxed, then I said my night mantra for about 3 minutes: 'i will have vivid and interesting dreams which I will recall perfectly'
Then I visualised my forest nicely. I fell asleep.

There were my dreams:
Dream 1: Me and some friends were at a resort. My friend M's party wasn't going to kick off because not many people were coming. S was boring Sprite into a dish, and I was really annoyed. So I wondered where P was because he normally sorted out S. I went for a walk for a bit and when I came back I saw my friend Jono (who is a dreamsign because he has been in all my dreams for a week) I looked at him and laughed because I said sarcastically 'i better do a reality check because I don't know where you came from' and we both laughed because I was so sure I was in reality. The report was exactly like my forest except it was in my forest and everything seemed Green and when I left I was in the forest.
Dream 2: I was in the (distorted looking) school library doing work and I was finished so I was going to leave when I was messing around with P and G. P hit me a little hard so I lost my temper and punched him really hard in the face and stomach. He fell to the floor crying, then got up and ran outside. It was raining and I followed him saying I was sorry and he just kept on interrupting me so I said 'forget it' and went inside to get my bag. He followed but I ignored him. Then I went to my dad, who was fetching me. He was parked in a forest. When I got inside the car I decided to do my visualisation OR my mantra I don't know which. But I tried to open my eyes and I woke up(eyes closed) in rl.
Dream 3: I was at a resort. The 2 kids went off to the sea to play in the water with tubes. I didn't really do much but finally I decided to go too. I went to a store to get some supplies to swim. Tube, grenade and flashlight. Then I went towards the sea, and the dream ended.
Dream 4: Computer teacher would not tell us why we didn't have the IT teacher coming over to our school so we fought with her and eventually she made the excuse 'because he is at a matric dance at the time' (a matric dance is like a prom I guess for anyone who doesn't know) then the dream faded.
Dream 5: this was just a variation of dream 3. Where we just threw some grenades into the sea.

Last night I remember one long dream. I had super powers just like Clark Kent (i'm not a huge smallville fan) I remember using the super speed to save people - it was really sweet that's all I can remember, oh and my best friend who is a frequent dream sign was there.

Dream 1: I was in my old house, my whole family was there. R was watching TV F was in the kitchen. My dad called me to the side and asked me if i completed teh task. In waking i have forgotten what the task was. In the dream i took off a ring which my dad took and then he controlled me. He read my mind and was satisfied that i had completed the task. I left to do another task (which i also forgot in the waking) and when i returned teh ring thing happened again and my dad was satisfied.

Dream 2: This dream took place ina family member's shop, the details are personal so i will not post. The dream was very long and nothing weird happened.

Dream 3: This was another 'episode' of my first dream. Again i completed the unknown tasks my dad took the ring and then i did the second task. The second task involved spelling. I had super powers in both these dreams.

Dream 4: Another version of my second dream, once again personal.

Dream 5: I cannot remember this dream right now so when i have access to my DJ i will post it exactly.

I think these results are great because my dream recall was 0 before i joined DV, then it rocketed up to 4, then it dropped (dry patch because of sickness) to 1, now i'm better and i recall 5 dreams! So i'm quite happy. I read the second class log, and i'm very excited for tonight because i have been visualising stuff for a few years so i'm good at it, i wake up about 5 times a night and i have been lucid before so i know the excitement. I'm hoping to complete teh forest task soon. Then my other lucid tasks afterward would be to:
Visualise myself at school with my friend (who is a possible dream sign) i will visualize doing a reality check, then visualise him giving me a lucid soda (inside joke) the soda tin will be Red - the liquid will be blue - the straw will be yellow.
My mantra during day is: "I do reality checks in dreams"
During night: "Tonight or soon i will lucid dream"