rhill1991

Well, I can't remember much of this one as I had numerous dreams that I can remember and they've all muddled in to one.

Lucid
Narrative

So.. I randomly woke up at 5 o clock after having 4-5 hours of sleep. I knew this was a perfect time to try and jump straight in to a dream. So I laid there, and literally, within seconds, I saw imagery of random objects and locations. Then all of a sudden I realised that I was just in my bed, so I let myself "jump" into the dream.

As I grabbed hold of the imagery, the landscape of a big courtyard come into vision, where the colours of the surroundings got vivider and closer, then the next thing I new, I was inside the dream, looking down at my hands to confirm that I was successful in my transition.

I got the usual sudden rush of adrenaline, and I had no idea what I wanted to accomplish. So, I started to fly around the courtyard. I remembered that I wanted to ask the dream a direct question but I couldn't remember what... so the first thing that came to me was to ask the dream who I was (silly I know) but nothing materialised. I tried asking the dream again, but shouting out, but I felt the dream slipping so I stopped.

I flew around some more and (I think I became non-lucid as I can't remember much). However, the next thing I remember is being in front of a dream character in some complex. I was working for someone, but don't know who. I was interested in looking at the dream characters eyes to see what they were like, but I got a little frightened, and I stopped this. All I can remember is that they were all brown coloured (from my distance that I was checking from).

I asked a DC who they are, and they replied, "I am you". Unsatisfied with this response, I asked for their name and they just looked at my awkwardly and gave a nervous laugh.

The dream carried on and I believe I became non-lucid, but I do specifically remember losing the dream (fading to black, and a rumbling noise) but I focused on picturing my hands and I came back to the dream. However, my lucid state merely lasted for the split second when I was concentrating to get back in to the dream.

A success, nonetheless.

Well, I had this dream about 12 hours ago... when I woke I didn't really remember much I just smiled and knew I had a fascinating dream.

Whilst driving to work I saw an oil tanker... and then my dream came flooding back to me! I can only remember parts of it and I wasn't lucid at all - so this dream description will neither be complete or make sense, but hey, it's a dream journal.

The only major bits I can remember is that I was at my old house with my family and we was in my back garden which was like 100 times larger than it was. Annoyingly, I noticed this but I just accepted it as the norm... Furthermore, there was a very large machine/oil tanker in my back garden that my dad seemed to be particularly proud of.

It comes to my attention that I have seen this garden before with these large objects in them - but once again, I accepted this as the norm and I didn't become lucid.

I remember messing around with some of the oil tankers and it started to make a noise... my mum shouted "Ryan, not this again! Get away!" And we all run in to my house and all of a sudden a massive explosion erupted and shook the house. At the same time I bite my tongue from the force, yeah... it hurt!

The house started to collapse so we rushed outside; suddenly a second and then a third explosion happened and the whole house just blew up, which then in turn, started to blow up the whole street. As we was running away I got this horrible feeling of dismay as I felt like I had betrayed my dad and the thought of how he would react to this situation... and then in my dream self (still not lucid) I remember having a similar situation like this before and my dad wasn't happy then either (but this still didn't prompt my lucid awareness - as I just accepted it as real life).

There were some random car driving and running way at this point, can't really remember.

One more thing that I remembered on my drive to work though, was that, when the house was exploding, I recall seeing a family of foxes (or close to foxes) two large ones and four to six baby ones sitting on some concrete stairs leading to a random house on the exploding street... the baby ones looked so cartoonish in design, however. The funny thing is... I remember seeing these cute animals and thinking to myself "awwhh, they're nice" .... then all of a sudden ... a big part of a house (from the explosions) came down and flattened the animals....

Some crazy dream, eh?

Black - Narrative/Thoughts
Lucid
Non-Lucid

20 October 18:39

Throughout this long non lucid dream I was beginning to get frustrated with the events which were unfolding. I was standing on a ladder leading onto a little house in the middle of a dessert. Then, without warning, I suddenly questioned why I was dreaming.

I thought that this couldn't be real as I couldn't remember to how I got where I was. So I looked down at my hands and I saw that my pinky and ring finger were attached and slightly bent inwards.

I then said, "I am dreaming!" and I instantly jumped into the sky and started to fly. Flying this time came completely effortless. I stopped and thought about the conversation I had when I was awake with my girlfriend and that I wanted to touch something in my dream and feel it, as well as increase the dreams clarity.I wanted to do this, because in my other LD's I haven't done it and I always read about people experiencing touch and increasing clarity.

I flew to the floor and picked up an empty crisp packet that was conveniently lying there. I put the packet in my hand and began to scrump it up. The sensation I felt was just like I experienced when I was awake. I felt the sharp corners against my palm but it felt more "sharp" and just amazing that I could feel such detail in a dream.

I then went to a lake and tried the water, I felt the coldness of the water, but what was interesting is that I didn't move my hands, but the water felt like it was being brushed over my hands as though I was moving them whilst in the water.

I then shouted, "increase clarity!" but it didn't really make the landscape clearer as such, instead it was like a pulse wave emitting from my body and as it went from me, I could see the waves go past the landscape. As it passed some objects, it created new ones, for example, it left a bush in place of a table when the wave passed it. It didn't make it clearer as such, well it may have, but my attention was drawn to how the landscape was changing in front of me.

I think I went non-lucid after this as I can't remember much more. Also this was a dream in the middle of a long series of dreams, so I am quite amazed I remembered it as it was this morning and I have only had the time to write it down now. Very short LD experience, but one of the most amazing experiences ever.

Black - Narrative/Thoughts
Lucid
Non-Lucid

I was suddenly in a falling plane with people I have never met before, but I felt like I knew them in my dream. I remember sitting on my seat, hearing the falling sounds of a plane rushing through the air. I remember looking out the window to see debris and clouds wizzing past. The fear and terror rushed through me as I knew I was going to die.

I then begand to question this reality, as I thought I shouldn't die now. I then realised that I do not remember ever buying a plane ticket or even boarding the plane and for what reason. With this, I did a hand RC and saw fuzzy hands. I instantly knew I was dreaming. The strange thing is, even after this realisation, I still accepted the DC's as being peopleI knew - or rather I was more interested in stopping the plane for crashing and this didn't cross my mind!

I said to the DC's that this was a dream and that I wanted it to stop, I commanded the plane to stop; but it didn't. I commanding it a second time, this time with more force and then everything just froze. The sounds of the plane, the falling sensation, even the DC's froze.

I felt the scene fade to black with a small rumble sound getting louder.

I wake up.

Black - Narrative/Thoughts
Lucid
Non-Lucid

30th September - 08:16

I kept having reoccuring dreams this morning as I believe it was the result of a burst of REM periods as I have had 3-4 hours sleep a night prio to this experience for a couple of nights. I had this dream where I was on a building and we were on some scaffold. I kept having this dream and it was frustrating as I couldn't get off the roof.

The 5th time of having this dream I told myself that I will remember the dream this time. As I was falling back to sleep all I remember is suddenly seeing from a birdseye view of the building I was having dreams about, as I was falling from the sky coming closer to this building I knew then that I was dreaming as I have seen this before.

When I landed on the building I then thought how did I get here and then I completed the hand RC. When I checked my hands I saw seven fingers on my right hand, however, the two additional fingers did not sprout from my palm like the other "normal" ones, instead they sprouted from two other fingers, starting half way up, like a random tree twig.

I then decided I wanted to fly, and without hesitation I just expected to float when I jumped, and I did! I flew around my dream trying to practice what it felt like. At first, flying felt really difficult, like a struggle and it became frustrating, but when I stopepd caring it became easier. I found it easier to "breaststroke" through the air, like when you're swimming and it worked so well. But I was so annoyed with myself because I didn't want to fly like this, as I knew there were cooler ways of doing it and the fact that I looked stupid. I trilled willing to be as light as a feather, and it did work - but for only a little bit.

While flying I then remembered that I wanted to change a landscape in my dream, so I tried this. I closed my eyes and willed to see Egypt and a pyramid. When I opened my eyes all I saw was sand below me and a very small pyramid. I wished for a closer pyramid and it did happen, it grew in size.. but then all of a sudden it disappeared and the next thing I know, I am laying down in a park.

I saw a group of people walk past and I willed to see a sexy girl, as I got closer to this "sexy girl" I conjured up, it was my girlfriend! But she looked a little more fat in my dream but I didn't think nothing of it, and in fact I was happy she was there. I said to her I will walk her home, it was now dark.

I said have you looked at your hands lately? she looked confused at first, but then laughed out loud and replied "oh no, this can't be can it? I am not dreaming, don't be silly". I told her to look at my hands and she did, my right and left hand both had 7 fingers on each hand. We laughed, and then she accepted we was in a dream.

When we got back to our flat (I don't actually own a flat with her, but I knew it was ours) two other DC's were there - and I just accepted them as my friends. They knew I was dreaming and one of them instantly started to fly with me. My girlfriend DC and the random DC looked frustrated, like the fact that we always do this around them and when we're together and it gets on their nerves because we're being childish flying around.

I felt like we needed to stop to get on with the dream so I flew to the ground and walked into the flat. As I walked in I felt the dream slipping.

Visually, I could not see the dreamscape anymore and I could start to hear the ambiance of the room I was sleeping in. Not only this, but I had a loud ruumbling noise as well, it got progressively louder.

I tried focusing on the dream by imagining my closing my eyes in my dreamscape and spinning around whilst saying, "increase clarity". However, I doubted this mantra in my dreamlike state and and thought it was the wrong one so I started to rub my hands together, imagining it. I saw the image of my hands for a split second, and the dreamscape came back into view... but it went as quickly as it came and I woke up.

Black - Narrative/Thoughts
Lucid
Non-Lucid

25th September 2012 - 22:00

The one night I got confidence to attempt to lucid dream (after reading and researching for a month every day at work) was after a very long weekend with my friends drinking from Friday through to Sunday evening. That Monday I was shattered and I came home from work and went straight to sleep at 18:30. I haven’t had recall of my dreams for the past couple of weeks, and I put this down to my irregular sleeping hours.

However, this night, I had a very vivid dream but I was not lucid. I was able to recall points in the dream that happened when I awoke abruptly at 9:30. I was very groggy and I thought I was in a state of sleep paralysis… so in my dreamy like mind, I thought it would be best to try WILD. I lay there dead still and closed my eyes but I can’t remember what I thought of as it all happened so quickly, it felt like a couple of seconds. The outside ambiance noises (the computer being on in my room) suddenly faded away and I started to hear a loud but VERY quick “woosh” sound, I really can’t describe it as I was half asleep and it felt like it happened so quickly.

After this woosh sound came it felt like I was being fast forwarded in a DVD and the dreamscape just appeared from a little dot in front of my eyes and it grew larger and larger in front of me. But it is so hard to explain, it was like it just appeared in front of me and it was all so very quick from the sound that I heard.

I somehow remember thinking to myself that, this experience was very weird and I needed to check if I was dreaming… I looked at my hands (which I have been practicing as my reality check for almost a month now) and I looked down and saw that my hands were very fuzzy and not focused, like if you were to have poor vision and not wear your glasses (I don’t wear glasses, but I presume this is what it would be like). But this was not all, on my left hand, my middle finger seemed to mould into my index finger and it looked very weird, creating four fingers (or 3 fingers, one thumb!)

After this reality check somehow I became so enlightened and I said I am in a dream! I instantly got shivers down my spine, It was weird it wasn’t fully vivid, I saw it was all wispy and wavy; I can’t explain it, like a ghost realm. I knew I was dreaming but I was also cautious. I peered up to see a door. I’ve never seen it before, but I knew that my friend Rich was behind it. As I walked through the door, there he was, sitting in his dark room, he did not look happy. As I went to speak to him and tell him that I was a in a dream, I felt a big rush of excitement and fear, when I spoke to him, it came out as a whisper, in a very croaky voice… but this did not deter him from hearing me, and he said “you can’t be in a dream, are you ok?”
I replied, but this time I did not move my mouth, I was communicating through some sort of telekinesis; and he understood me! I said that “I am dreaming, I can show you, I can fly”.

And with that I jumped in the air, but I felt very weak and not in control fully (the dream felt very fuzzy thinking about it) and I merely stayed in the air for a couple of seconds, before returning to the ground). But this was enough for Rich and he finally accepted that he was in a dream.

Suddenly my friend Brooker comes in and says that I am asleep in my bed, so how am I standing here. I got freaked out by this, but I kept my cool and I said that I was dreaming, and I can show him. He didn’t believe me so I said I can show you. So I did, I made a commandment to fold him up into a brick shape and fly through the glass. And he did, he folded up individually into a small brick shape and then I moved him back and forth through the big gothic windows, with a movement of my hand. I did this four times and smashed four windows.

When I stopped, he got out of his brick shape and he was delighted and he believed I was dreaming. I heard a knock of the door and it shook me. I went to the broken windows and peered down to see who made the knock. It was dark and there were a lot of unknown people just looking up and staring at me. I then commanded to show the person who knocked on my door, but nothing happened.

Frustrated, and without anticipation, I went down the stairs, as I went down the stairs I saw the broken glass I had smashed in the hallway, and three people standing there, staring at me as I walked down. I don’t remember walking past these people then I came against another door. Which somehow I knew my friend Tony was behind there.

Walking into the room, Tony was there and someone random was holding a mirror. I think this was because I don’t want to see a mirror in my dream, as I have been reading about “horror” lucid dreams from mirrors – but not surprisingly, as it was in my subconscious, it came through.

I remember the mirror being 3D and I had to climb over it, not looking in the mirror, I climbed over it but then all of a sudden it went 2d again, and was against the wall. I know in my dream I didn’t want to look in it, so I avoided it. But something compelled me to look in it, so in my dream I looked at my hands to ensure I was in a dream again and nothing could hurt me (I didn’t really consciously do this, my dream just made me do it, and then I thought “ok I’m dreaming”).

My hands still looked fuzzy and the middle finger was joined with the index. I gave in and looked in the mirror. As I looked in I just looked very fuzzy, like how my hands were when I did my reality check. I was smiling and my head was very liquidy. I looked the same; just had longer scruffy hair and I had lots of spots on my chin.

As I looked longer in the mirror, I knew I would start looking for something scary (because I do this in real life, I am curious) and this worried me, so I forced myself to look away. As I was forcing myself to look away I felt my eyes darting around the mirror trying to find something, and I hear a feint rumbling noise in the distance, so I quickly looked away and there was a person right beside me.

He seemed like he had a quite scary face (but I don’t really remember because I think I was coming out of my dream, or losing lucidity). I think he grabbed my shoulders and I said I was dreaming and then all of a sudden I abruptly wake up and have total vision of my ceiling in my room, like my eyes have been awake the whole time.