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Created Tuesday 02 August 2016

Spellbee's Summer Lucid Competition 2016 - Entry 4

Not many things recalled this time. Besides the lone DILD, I only have scraps for a single dream. Of the DILD, I probably would have gotten more done if I didn't try to show off as I did. Darnit.

Scrap Group 1
Woke up on the floor of an unknown place. A look at a mirror revealed terrible rashes on my scalp patterned as mattress seams. My brother, Steve, nephew, Arun, and friend, Stan, turn up. A conversation on lucid dreaming and dream control ensues. D'oh!


30 minute WBTB, which instead becomes an hour and fifteen minute long WBTB.

Dream 1 - Summer Lucid Competition 2016 - Day 4

Scene 1 - Black Energy Orbs
The visuals were clear. I falsely awakened in my room upstairs.

On stepping out, I find a surprising figure arriving from the master bedroom: my maternal grandma, who's since passed for several years now. She was wearing a light blue dress with floral patterns. Her presence instantly gives me awareness.

I greeted her, but am reluctant to start up a conversation (still reeling back after a previous dream incident). She smiles back. Next, she hands me a plastic bag full of trash and asks me to dispose of it, to which I agree. I then jump right over the low wall and fall all the way downstairs. The dream blurs up, and I lose myself momentarily.

When I come to, I'm right back in the second floor. Grandma was still standing around. She asked me to remind mom of some mundane thing (groceries or medicine or something). I nodded, and jump back downstairs again. This time, I slowed my fall, and muttered "deeper" to keep stability and anchor myself, which did the trick.

Downstairs. Several figures were around the living room, but I ignored them. As I was making my way out, I thought to summon energy. I tensed my right hand and yelled to do so, but nothing seemed to happen. Tried again, this time keeping my hands out of view and straining myself further. When I looked, I found a reflective black orb of energy floating over my palm. I made it dance around in the air for a while. It rolled off view momentarily, and when I tried bringing it back, it was gone. So, I repeated the trick with both hands. I tossed the spheres, and willed them to orbit around me in a cross pattern to store them for later, but again, once out of sight, they vanished. Ah, well.

I go outside to a much different neighborhood. Instead of a housing complex, my home was located directly in a suburban street. Anyway, as I walk around, I see my younger brother, Jonas, driving a convertible version of his vehicle along with several of his friends. He stops to tell me stern news about dad. That dampened the mood. The dialogue drags on a bit until he leaves.

As I go on, I find a number of figures gathered around a corner. They were reclining and standing on a few disjointed platforms placed over a shallow, muddy pond far below, all covered by a wide green canopy. Many were Japanese kids (hinted at by their conversation) of highschool age , including an effeminate guy in a pink shirt and several girls.

Just realized a storm had commenced. I crept on an isolated platform, only to find it was slippery and dangerously unstable. Around that time, Jonas drove by the area. He momentarily glared at me before driving off. Ah, whatever. To keep from falling, I seated myself crosslegged and floated up towards a railing nearby. I couldn't squeeze between it and the canopy, and so had stop flying to hang on and climb over it instead.

Not too clear on much else. A transition afterwards.

Scene 2 - Castlevania - The Arcade Game
The visuals were slightly blurred. Not too sure where I was. I'd lost awareness by this point.

Someone nearby was playing a supposed beat-em-up Castlevania game on an arcade cabinet. This had the protagonist (not clear which one) fighting monsters while on a craggy beach at twilight. He soon fights the boss, Scylla, who appeared quite different. In this rendition, she had the body, arms, and tentacles of a humongous squid/octopus, the many long necks of a hydra, and giant heads of what would otherwise be conventionally attractive women with a variety of hair colors (at least one blonde, one brunette, and one with black hair). To damage her, the hero needed to outlast a tentacle assault until the creature swooped a head down to bite him.

The dream faded and ended soon afterwards.

I'm off today so slept 9:20pm - 6:30 am

Had 3 distinct dreams.

DR1 10:53pm
I am in a huge place. It's a shape of a swimming pool, with all corners rounded and it's made from yellow/brow/greenish dirt and sand. Has a feel of foundry or some other place that has huge machinery and railings on the floor, walls and a ceiling and deals with molten metal. Somehow I'm flying near the ceiling, or I'm on some machinery being taken to the other end of this room. Trying to figure out something, how to fit some equipment to the one already there or something like that.

DR2 2:57am
I'm looking at some emails that were lost till now. They were send in May (I know in a dream it's already August) but they were delivered just now. I'm reading them. One says something about mom of some kids not being comfortable with some social events done on behalf of her kids.

6:30am
I'm with a large group of people in New York. They seem to be owners of some grocery store and other ultra rich people. I don't feel right among them, they seem to think I belong there. One older lady speaks to me in Yiddish and I'm thinking now they will realize I'm not one of them.

Everybody has a bike now and they give me a different bike. It's ultra slim frame and wheels. They are designed for street races. I'm testing it out as we all start to bike as a group. I'm testing the hand breaks, righ is the back and left is the front brake. I keep my feet down a bit before I sit on the seat to see if it's not too high. We bike through some snow and ice and kids are playing street ice hockey there. Looks like a sports park, because another group of bikers come in opposite direction so I'm not worried that we will disturb the players. I clearly see the snow and ice on the ground and I wonder why, since it's not winter.

02.08.2016

(Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was walking through a forest. I saw a weird kind of moth on a tree. It was actually kinda cute. Then I realized there were hundreds of them everywhere and worms too. They were crawling on me. I tried to run but I couldn't. I had to crawl out of there. They were attracted to a candle I was holding.

My mom had a hair hanging device you could use to have any hairstyle you wanted. For some reason I decided to go with long, greasy hair; rockstar-like.

I was wakeboarding and a kid was driving the boat. He resembled a cousin of mine. I remembered my dad tellig me not to let him drive the boat. He was gonna crash against some houses so I had to pull as hard as I could on the chord and managed to change the boat's direction. I kept pulling myself closer to the boat to board it and stop it.

02.08.2016

(Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was selected for a bottom tier fighting tournament. It was like a mix of MMA and wrestling, as you could use kicks, punches, and grappling, but if you pinned the opponent you atomatically won. I was put against a 30 something year old who had a limp. I felt bad but I wanted to win. I asked the organizers to let me compete in the top tier as I hold a black belt, but they said it was too late. I was called to the ring. The ring was a huge arena with different rooms. I went into a room that was like a desert. My opponent came in and the fight begun. I took him to the ground easily and thought of pinning him, but then realized that if I scored a shitload of points on him they might let me fight in the top tier. I proceeded to score all kinds of points on him. From jumping knees to the face, side kicks, punches, etc. He couldn't land a single punch as I was way faster than him. The fight ended 120-0, I won, but they still didn't let me fight in the top tier tournament.

02.08.2016

Alien Discussion and Movie (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Me and Kate from my physio class were about to watch a movie about aliens. We both agreed that aliens existed and could possibly contact us at some point. However, she held the belief that they would not be friendly towards us, whereas I rationalized that if a being is smart enough to travel across star systems, and possible galaxies, they would probably be smart enough to find a more efficient way to reach their goals through a non-violent way. Kate then used the analogy of Europeans vs Native Americans, and it made a lot of sense that I could be wrong.

The movie started, it was about 4 humans stuck in an alien ship. The aliens resembled huge bugs who used plasma rays to kill.

My sleeping schedule was completely reversed and I managed to sleep for twelve hours recalling two dreams with extremely similar themes, however they were not continuations of each other.

Outside Thoughts/Side Notes Non-Lucid

I was in this world very similar to Borderlands 2, except it was against other people and in this giant world and you had to stay in these checkpoints in a 1v1 for five minutes, whoever was in one for a total of five minutes first won, and I was really bad compared against the other player who was really good at it. Weapons with different abilities were strewn across the map and I started with this weird shotgun that shot acid bullets. I managed to kill him and the gun "leveled up" turning into a normal assault rifle. I also noticed how the opponent seemed to have leveling up guns as well.

Every few times you managed to kill the other player, the gun you used to kill would change and in addition everything had low amounts of ammo. At first I was being destroyed and I struggled to find any ammo. I had a couple of weird rocket launchers but since they were all empty there was nothing I could do. I managed to get to a checkpoint but after a minute of being used the checkpoints disappeared. I was at a checkpoint very close to winning and then my opponent came after me. I panicked and next to me was a sniper, I was thinking it wouldn't be good enough to work but it said it had a 5x weapon zoom so I picked it up. It was a sniper without a scope and looked almost identical to the Longbow. (A legendary weapon in Borderlands 2 that I recently farmed to get). I slightly kicked myself for not becoming lucid after seeing this, I had that specific thought in the dream too!



Instead it was colored blue and when I fired it, it shot like a rail gun (It fired out this massive burst of electricity extremely similar to The Tempest from COD 3) and one hit the other guy resulting in my victory.

I don't recall what happened after that, I'm quite sure that dream had just ended.

My other dream seemed to get inspiration from Borderlands 2 as well, since one the classes has an ability that can create a sort of bubble shield. In addition it seemed stylized quite a bit like Overwatch.

I was again in a video game setting. I was playing around with my friends and every character could change their weapons and abilities. For fun we did a 1v8. I was up against all eight of them. The battlefield was centered around my house (strangely). As soon as it started I started panicking, the entire other team consisted of a special character that used snipers and turrets. (Inspiration from Borderlands 2 about the assassin and commando?). My class was commando (Which normally uses turrets). They were all lined up trying to snipe me but I managed to dodge them. They then all simultaneously deployed their turrets resulting in a massive wall of bullets. In a last ditch effort I threw down my shield and all of the bullets were blocked. They all tried sniping it desperately but the shield held up without a scratch.

(Can't remember what happened immediately after)

I managed to avoid all of the bullets being fired at me and killed off a few of the other players. In the end (More lost details) I killed off the entire team resulting in my victory in such an unevenly weighted match. I was quite proud but the other team claimed that it was a fluke and in a rematch they would win. I accepted the challenge happily, except for some reason the game ended up 2v7. The other teammate I had almost instantly died off and I was left alone. I was cornered by one guy with a shotgun so I threw down my shield. He tried to walk through my shield in an attempt to melee attack me to death. I threw down a second shield within the already existing shield to stop him. It was difficult to kill him but I managed to do so even if he brought me to low health. I stayed within my shield for longer until suddenly another guy with a shotgun started attacking my shields by shooting them a ton.

I felt confident they would hold up but suddenly they shattered to pieces. I was very close to death but I managed to escape. I decided the shields were now useless, and that instead I would use another ability called Psycho. (This ability is also a ton like Borderland 2’s psycho class.) In the end I switched my shielding ability with it and duel wielded some axes. All remaining six members surrounded me about to kill me, but I used the ability and grew in health, size, and damage. I went on a brutal rampage slicing them apart but sadly it wasn’t enough and the three remaining members of the other team killed me.

I'm a bit happy that I was able to recall this much. I can't remember if I had woken up after the second dream kept continuing, but I'm quite confident that the second dream occurred after the first. In addition when I first woke up I wasn't able to recall any dreams but a few hours later in the day something triggered my memory and I suddenly remembered all of these details.

D1- At school im giving extra lessons to some kids. For some reason its to one of the brightest kids but its really simple stuff. I am going through the workbook when a really big hulking kid turns up.
He gets really upset and then angry
I go up to him and despite some trepidation give him a big hug, this fixes things.

[Personal target for competition: Hug a DC ??]

WBTB
D2- back in dream at school. All the teachers are in trouble so the headteacher tells us all to stand in line and tells us off because weve been naughty.
After in the staff room S reminds me of the bad behaviour of a child.
Apparently they jabbed me up the bottom with their finger Oo (new one on me ,lol)
He carries on lecturing me about being strict with my new class.

D3- There is a group of people who have taken on super powers but they are kind of evil They change into looking nasty with a bluey green tinge to their faces. They are rampaging across London. Other groups plan on stopping them. I am telling people that they are not zonbies as they do not know but are people trying to take political control of the country.

D4- At my parents house it is night time but they have left an old style big radio with luminace front outside on the garden fence.
It is blaring out music and I am worried this will disturb the neighbours.
My mother says not to worry the neighbours are either deaf or dead around here.
(It has been very noisy here until the early hours but that is normal here in Spain)
Indoors there are loads of cats. One that I am supposed to be looking after , I an angry with as I think it has made a mess. It turns out it has had a baby kitten.

2nd WBTB
D5- There is a giant either glass with a very wide top, spanning the view or its a fountain as its so massive idk.
I remember I need to do my tasks and the first one that comes to mind is summoning a team member, as Elainey mentioned this one saying she doesnt know what anyone looks like.
I summon lunagoddess and she appears, all very beautiful with long wavey blond hair, only trouble is my subconscious obviously thinks all goddess are big and she appears in the sky taking up all the room. Her head is above the giant glass thing in the sky.
I now wonder what to do, no way am I saying anything is wrong to her.
but I have the idea when you summon someone you go on adventures and stuff and shes just this like head in the sky so I try again.
This time there are four new lunar goddess all wearing red tops and white shorts but human size so thats good.
I then think of another task.
For some reason I think the tasks are in my journal, I open my journal and the lines on every other line start peeling off. They curl up like some of the architectual columns in Barcelona.
They then float off to become sails on a big galleon floating in the sky.
I realise this is part of a power rangers episode and that I am losing lucidity.
I think think think for another task.
I ask luna goddess what time it is
She says time to get new underwear Oo
I wake up.

Morning of August 2, 2016. Tuesday.



I am one of the main partners of an unknown male (who seems to be in a safari outfit at one point) who has been designing and developing a huge strategy game that is played in a wide area with a number of larger pieces. Its playing field is a little larger than our entire house. There are a number of unusual scenes in this very long dream, most of which I can only summarize parts of here.

The game is somewhat like a more complex version of the “Age of Empires” computer game, the only computer game I have played much over the last few years. It features major situations throughout history all occurring in the same time period, it seems.

In one scene near the beginning, the man is talking about how the nuclear plants (of about three inches high), one at the base of a miniature mountain, are the only game pieces that cannot be physically destroyed. He demonstrates this fact by throwing a couple “real” grenades onto the playing field, right onto one of the nuclear plant buildings. After this, I look inside one of them and see what seems to be a few horizontal layers of metal, each layer about a quarter of an inch apart. Apparently, this is done because the game’s nuclear plants are somehow “real” and relate to the game’s resources.

There is a scene involving seemingly modern British royal guards, and one game character going through a sort of red and white striped toll booth but for people who are walking. This seems to be one of the main features of the game at one point (but features and ideas about the game keep changing, including the layout).

In one scene I am holding a couple male characters that are about half the size of a Barbie doll. They seem somewhat lifelike. The situation seems up to me as a leader becomes a slave and a slave becomes a leader - though this seems unexpected on the presumed part of the characters (which at this point may somehow have some sort of sentience). I place the leader in a miniature coffin, though he is not “dead”. This is only for a time. I soon take him out and the game continues, though none of it has any actual continuity.

At one point near the end of my dream, I notice that the entire playing field on its perimeter is shaped like a very odd jigsaw puzzle piece, the border having that peculiar jigsaw look all the way around, though the playing field itself is of an odd irregular shape though slightly like the shape of a pistol overall. The jigsaw shape is as such to fit in with the other components and when a person has all of them, they represent the entire world. I think there are possibly five or six main components but possibly a lot of individual add-ons. It would seem that the complete game would take up the area of at least five houses. I remain in a sort of awe about the man’s work.

I remember I was at nondescript beach resort. I was there for some kind of convention for Skyrim there. I remember making a daedric sword out of styrofoam and delivering it to the convention (don't remember where the convention was taking place, but it was this huge building and seeing the inside it looked like a school science fair, except everything was Skyrim themed, obviously.) I was going back to my room when I recognized the dream sign of being at the beach.

I went inside of one of the rooms and saw it was much bigger on the inside. There was a hot tub and a swimming pool. There was this rock formation in the swimming pool made out of brown rocks that had water flowing down into the pool from it. The walls of the room were all bamboo and wood. I think the bamboo was alive because there were branches with leaves on them that became the ceiling. Also the only light in the room seemed to be coming from the bottom of the pool.

I knelt down by the side of the pool and felt the tiles for some stabilization. I then noticed that I could see my reflection in the water. I somehow got the idea to bring Manei into the dream using my reflection. I tried to focus on changing my reflection into her, and it worked. The reflection solidified and she came up from under the water. She looked a little funny as she retained a few of my dream-selfs facial features, but it was her all right.

I remember the two of us stayed in the pool for awhile and we were talking for awhile (twas about something personal that I was meditating on yesterday, for offline DJ only...) I remember she was talking to me about the seven sins and desires, but I remember thinking to myself that I wasn't going to bother "taking that back with me" when I woke up.

We tried to make a whirlpool in the hot tub by walking in circles and it worked. We tried going the other way and felt the current push us for a bit, but it stopped. There was some significance to the circular motion of the current we had created.

I remember at some point I was asking her if she could touch the bottom of the pool, because I couldn't. I told her that usually she's taller than me and she said she could stand with her head completely out of the water. I remember looking underwater thinking of the dream goal to go underwater and look. (Forgetting that I was supposed to do it in a lake or ocean.) The pool was really boring, it just had a sloped bottom consistent with the surface. It got really deep in one end, I think there was a diving board.

I tried to think of dream goals I had set for the competition. I remembered one of them was to build a sand castle. I could go back outside and do that very easily, but for whatever reason I didn't do it. I then thought of the water-bending goal. I tried various hand motions but it didn't seem to affect the water at all. I tried more of a mental focus just moving the water with my mind instead of hand motions. I think I might have stopped all the waves on the surface of the pool, but I didn't ever think that I had really succeeded.

I remember asking her for help. She said she would show me waterbending and proceeded to splash me in the face the normal old fashioned way.

"That's not waterbending."

She proceeded to spit a mouthful of water at me.

"That's not waterbending either." (Come on, this was one of the first things you ever taught me.)

I began thinking that the dream might be too grounded, too much like reality, and I'm going to need to introduce a fantastical element before I can unlock fantastical powers. I backtracked on my own thought and figured that Manei is a fantastical element, not real in waking life, and she's been right here for like ten minutes. Why isn't it working...?

A chubby guy with a big beard came in and said that I had won first place in the skyrim science fair whatever for my styrofoam Daedric sword. He asked if I really made it in 15 minutes. I had only been dreaming for about that long at this point, and through some error of logic I said yes. He said that the Daedric sword was a level 1 sword and the easiest to get in the game but I corrected him saying you can't get one until about level 40. I started talking with the guy about Skyrim but realized I was losing lucidity, so I stopped talking to the guy and he went away.

I think I falsely remembered a dream goal to ask a dream character to tell me a joke and wanted to hurry up and do it before the dream ended. I asked Manei to tell a joke.

"What planet is the butt of every joke?" She asked it with a big smile like she thought it was gonna be a really good one.

"Uranus." (I made that joke up when I was like ten.)

"I can't think of any more good jokes, my tummy keeps grumbling. I'm so hungry, I could eat a birthday cake as big as you! The next dream is Bartholomew, i'll eat it there!"

I false awakened in the basement of my house. I saw a painting of a giant butterfly on the wall. I closed my eyes and opened them again and the butterfly was real and the painting was blank. It started flying toward me.

I thought to myself "It's just a false awakening, don't be tricked by it." I was about to stabilize and keep a good thing going but I lost the dream. and woke up. It was 5:00am. I waited about half an hour for reentry but decided it better to just get out of bed.

RC/Stabilize: 1pt*1=1
DILD 10pt*1=10
Advanced summoning(dg) 15pt*1=15
DC Interact 2pt*1=2
Ask for advice 5pt*1=5

Night Total: 33

It seems that I'm not in top condition for lucid dreaming or even recall lately.

I recall only a fragment, it was a rainy and dark day. There was something with repairing car and drinking water.

08-01-16 I have been letting my daily routine slide for awhile. The quality of these lucids is pretty poor, but for only my 3rd day of getting back into trying, I guess I can not complain. Hey, any lucids beats the hell out of no lucids.

DILD #1 I am working on a pharmacy computer, but it is an old school monitor and I appear to be in a home. The screen makes no sense. I stop and do a general RC (can I remember how I got here? Is there actual noise? And so on) and decide it is a dream. There are messages on the computer. I wonder what my brain will do with this. I press a button to play the messages. A female voice sounds but is nonsensical gibberish. I look around. I am in a bedroom, and some how know this is Brandy's house. I can see DCs moving around in the front room. I want to do something to score points, but the list is not very clear. Any power will score some, I think? I look at a padded dinner bar stool and place my hand on it. I will push my hand through this. For about a 3 count it resists; I relax; my hand phases through it. I went in the front room and Brandy was talking with someone. I tried to get her attention. Before I fully got her to focus on me I was suddenly outside. I woke up at this point because my wife was getting ready for work. At my best I can avoid waking, but LDing has been much less of a focus with all the Brazilian Jiujitsu lately.

DEILD #1 Relaxed and re-entered the same setting using WILD skills. The neighborhood seems to have changed. I am pretty sure this is a dream, but am a bit confused. In order to RC I attempt to use supper strength and jump crazy high. I spring forcefully up and land on top of a house. Ok, RC worked; this is a dream. I remembered the comp and wanted to score points. I heard a lady scream, so I decided I would play super hero. I started running (no longer on house?) trying to be like The Flash. I got the feeling of moving at super speed and the scene blurred out in lines like it might look from Flash's point of view. Everything went black. No visuals would form after this.

WILD #1 I barely woke for my first WBTB and went rapidly into this WILD. I was laying on a bed, but could tell it was a dream. I look around and am back in the strange pharmacy/bedroom. Again there are people in the other room, but I also see my ferrets are running around on the floor. I did a general reality check and it was clearly a dream (huge parts of my vision was made of deep shadows). I examine a very strange carved wooden bed. I went out into the other room and see someone letting one of my ferrets out the door. I went to get my ferret, but it ran. i ran after it, but then relaxed, stopped and called the ferret, which came to me. I wanted to examine the ferret, as it seemed very interesting. I interacted with the DC ferret for a brief while and thought this was actually very cool, but my wife made more noise and I woke up.

WILD #2 I came out of pleasant H.I. and was standing in a hall way. I knew this was a dream as there was no loss of awareness in the transition. I see a lamp stand type of table and it has a piece of pottery on it. I go up to it and place my hand on the pottery wich seems to be some sort of smooth topped jar. The colors look cool and the feel of it is interesting. I walk up the hall, but it does not seem to go anywhere. The light fades and no more visuals would come.

I remember signing my name over and over multiple times on a sheet of white paper. Somebody there with me commented that the more I do it the more my signature changes.

I walk up to this girl at a party and it ended up being Sabrina. we are flipping out on what a coincidence that is for me to approach her again and it being her. we talked for a little while and she then tells me that her parents do not want her to date me. I kind of observe her actions and noticed that she acts kind of young and immature.

I’m in this alleyway that’s apparently beside my house. There’s brick walls on each side, a couple arches, and a fire escape that’s further up. Three women in Victorian dresses run past me and start climbing up the wall, Assassin’s Creed style. I’m mildly impressed they can be so limber in such restrictive clothing. Under one of the archways, I see a metal ceiling fan, which has been partially covered with strange glow-in-the-dark paper. It actually looks kinda neat, so I grab some paper and tape off of the ground and start finishing the job.

I wake up for a quick WBTB (gotta be quick, anyway, since my job requires me to get up fairly early, so I need all the sleep I can get). I’m now in my college auditorium, where there’s some celebrity singer performing a concert. I’m standing backstage, and I catch a glimpse of the drummer - it’s one of my friends from high school. I’m pretty happy for him - he was one of the best drummers I’d ever seen in high school, and I’m glad he’s doing okay.

I’m now back in my dorm, apparently some time after the concert. I walk from room to room with my laptop, trying to find the best WiFi reception. As I go through the hallway, i notice some girls I know from high school walking through. Weird, this isn’t a co-ed dorm. Oh, I’m dreaming! As I realize this, the hallway transforms into the hallway leading to my bedroom in my house. I rub my hands together, convincing myself this is a very stable lucid dream. I run into my bedroom and try to lift myself off the ground through sheer willpower, but I can’t do it. Huh, I guess not having a quality lucid in forever has really messed with my control. I decide that maybe it has something to do with the low ceiling in my house. I spot my window over my bed, so I take a running start and dive through. The scene switches to slow motion, as I watch the glass shatter around me, with me twisting in mid-air just above the overhang of the first-floor. It’s a pretty neat effect, kinda like an action movie, but everything goes back to normal speed as I roll out onto the overhang. I stand up and find I’m completely unharmed. Guess that counts for Gain Invulnerability. I try once more to fly, this time starting with a jump, but I start to float back down to the ground. I kick my legs in mid-air like a Yoshi, which causes me to stop falling and slowly start floating upwards. It’s not graceful by any means, but it works. As I get slightly higher, I notice the sky isn’t really a sky - it’s more like clouds painted onto a transparent ceiling with nothing but blue behind it. The ceiling is really low, and I bump my head into it, causing me to black out.

I wake up in a strange bed and sit upright. Everything around me looks strangely textured, like I’m in a low-quality 3D animated movie. That can’t be right… I plug my nose to RC, and find that I’m still dreaming. There’s a hole in the middle of the floor, so I drop through it and find myself in a huge cafeteria, where people are eating, but no one seems to notice me. Alright, let’s start knocking out some more tasks. I first go for some telekinesis. I jump up on one of the tables and spot some unaccompanied plates beside me. I reach out my hand and manage to make some of them float. I turn another direction and lift a couple more plates and pieces of food in another part of the room. Having built up my confidence, I turn towards the center of the room, where most of the people are, and stretch out my hand. Suddenly a ton of stuff starts floating - plates, food, forks, knives, glasses, and even a trash can. Everyone starts looking around, wondering what’s going on, while I quietly sneak away, giggling to myself.

I spot a glass door leading to the outside, so I try to knock out my 3rd 3-step task. I blink and do a quick nod with my head, and I’m suddenly on the other side of the door. Outside looks like New York in Tom Clancy’s The Division - there’s snow on the ground, and a ton of large, heavy objects in the street to hide behind. Some guy sees me and quickly points a gun at my head. Luckily, I know I’m dreaming. “That won’t do you any good.” He stops, contemplates for a bit, and then puts the gun down. Instead, he hands me a business card for a special lucid dreamer order of the Assassins. He then darts off and climbs the building next to us, chased soon after by a couple firemen with ladders. At this point I lose lucidity, and the dream turns into a weird movie, where I’m being played by some guy that’s a mix between Matt Damon and Adam Sandler.

2 NLDs - 2
1st DILD - 10
RC/Stabilization - 1
Invulnerability - 5
Flying - 5
1st Step - 5

2nd DILD - 5
RC/Stabilization - 1
Mass Telekinesis - 10
2nd Step - 10
Teleport - 10
3rd Step - 15
Interact with a DC - 2

WBTB - 2

Night 3 Total - 83 pts
Competition Total - 102 pts

Bed at 7pm last night, slept till 3am. Recalled 3 dreams at night when going potty, and one at work later on.

DR 1 - 11pm
Long dream being at work, tediously looking through dozens of boxes for the right product and right code.

1:20am - DR 2
Looking out the window I see some mountains in the distance and I'm trying to figure out what that noise is. Then I see a steep mountain with steep green sides that blows it's top in violent explosion. Heavy smoke, fire, and huge chunks of the mountain are flying through the air. It's all just a block away from us and I tell others we need to leave.

It becomes more urgent when pyroclastic flow gets to the house. It's several feet tall, grey, filled with all kinds of debris. It stops at the wall, but next push brings it inside of the house. I grab my brother and tell him with great sadness that we have to leave 2 cats and our mom behind. As we are walking by the garage, mom is there talking with neighbors and she is in no hurry to leave. Then we see our two cats and I try to scoop them up to take them with us. I think the danger is mostly over by now.

Same time, DR 3
Walking through some cinema like building. There are large circular pods ( like those in divergent which they used for surveilance). You are suppose to sit in them to watch movies. In the middle of the room there is a large screen. You suppose to pick a ganre then a movie you would like to watch in a pod. It's operated with hand gestures (like the 3 drones were in divergent). One persone is standing next to the screen to kinda help you if you need help.

DR4 - recalled at work
We are suppose to get a new bookkeeper

Since I didn't get much sleep last night I decided to start practicing WILD with a nap. I reminded myself about the things Elaineylane told me and made sure my room was dark before trying. I closed my eyes, kept still not moving and waited to see if I would see some type of image. A few quick images popped up but I got uncomfortable so I had to turn and fix my sleeping position. I was now laying down on my back and kept still. I waited.... and a few quick images popped up again but it felt like I was waiting forever so I thought of counting sheep and seeing how long it would take for an image to pop up again. "1 sheep, 2 sheep, 3 sheep, 4 sheep" and so on. During the counts a image of a blonde cartoon chibi girl popped up and I started to hear voices. One of the voices being a lady who said something like "It's disintegrating!". There was also a moment where it felt like someone was trying to kiss me on the lip. After a while I got to 200 and decided to stop saying sheep. Than just kept counting and stopped at 400. By than I felt sleepy but had to go to the bathroom so I got up to use it trying not to get rid of the sleepy feeling but my grandma came out of no where and kind of made me alert.

When I went back to my room I layed down on my back and kept my eyes closed trying not to move. Eventually I got a image of light and focused on it, than I focused on something else and saw it turn into a aqua colored pocket book with a brown stripe pattern. At a moment I also ended up into a quick non lucid dream scene where my brother was talking to me about a black folder like thing on the wall that can hold your stuff but i snapped out of it quickly.I kept at it for a little while longer but not too long. My dad eventually called me saying Dinner was ready so I had to stop.Still It was good for practice. After eating dinner I read the HH images thread on Sageous's WILD guide and realized that the images i saw were forming schema and that one is probably enough to WILD if I am focusing on it and keep aware that it is a dream.Hopefully tonight I will get a WILD with what I learned from Sageous's thread and Elainey. As I'm thinking about this I can't really recall what gave me a WILD a long time ago other than intent but either way it can't hurt to get use to this method since I like to imagine what I want to dream about before bed.