riverboy

I haven't been able to post much recently because my dream recall seems to have just disappeared. I think there's two main reasons for this; firstly I'm under a lot of stress and secondly now that it's getting warmer I'm waking up earlier and going for runs etc, which means I miss the larger chunk of my REM cycle.

I'm really hoping my recall will come back soon!

My longest and most exciting Lucid Dream!

This dream started off in my flat, admittedly my recall last night was still really poor, but I’m so proud of this lucid dream! There are definitely bits I don't remember as the dream was 45 minutes plus, I remember considering finding my dream guide but for some reason decided against it.

I’m in my flat and T_ is being really hostile to me and really getting on my nerves. He seems to be a physical threat at times so I retreat into my room and lock him out. I then go up to my wall and press my head against it, allowing me to see through. I see that he’s sitting there angrily and I conclude that he’s quite dangerous. I leave the room and he’s standing there being aggressive towards K_ and my girlfriend. At this point I should point out that I am really reluctant to hurt DC’s, I won’t explain my reasoning here but I feel it could have complications. I lose my temper at this point and reach into my back pocket and pull out a (semi invisible) gun, shooting it several times into his face. It draws a bit of blood but nothing fatal. I tell him this is his warning and that he’d better calm down. I wrestle him into his room , showing him that in the dream I have the power, once he has surrendered I take the money on his side to teach him a lesson.
I decide now that it’s time to leave the flat and drop the money on the floor, deciding that it’s not the most chivalrous course of action (and it’s a dream where money is irrelevant). Once I have left the flat I find myself in town which has transformed into a rocky, watery canyon (a bit like a level in Zelda I once played). Once here I step into a bath like hole which is full of warm soapy water, admittedly I find it quite a let down and don’t quite know why everybody else is so excited about it.
At this point I remember meeting a man who was afraid of trains, I see an old steam train go around the perimeter of the canyon. I know that I spent a significant portion of the dream on that train but I don’t remember it now. I think it started in the same station that I dreamt about in my “newquay” dream.
There is a huge boat in front of me and I decide to explore it, this is where things get really fun!! Once aboard we somehow end up at sea and the ship is sinking fast, with water bursting in through the doors of every cabin. Everybody is terrified as they know that they’re going to drown. I realise that this is my moment to do something cool, I don’t even consider whether it’s possible, I just get on with it.
I start walking down the corridors, pushing through the water with all my strength. Everytime I see water cascading in through the hull I thrust my hand towards it and turned it all to ice. I systematically go through the ship and seal every hole, I can genuinely feel the power streaming from my hands. Once I have done this I go back through the ship and systematically visit each of the now-ice-filled rooms. I simply flick each piece of ice and it shatters, leaving the room in it’s original, pre-flood state. There is only one room where this doesn’t work as I realise I only made a doorway of ice and there is still water behind it.

Everybody was so thankful that I saved them and I’ll be honest, it felt incredible. I’ve never had so much power in a dream before, this is the first time I’ve used the above superpower and I also managed to walk through walls at points. I love lucid dreaming.

Dream
Lucid
Fragment

I'm in a Halls of Residence across the road from me and there's a party going on. It's extremely loud and security come up to moan at us. I am at the bottom of the stairs and quickly get the lift up before security can get in. When at the top I find that everybody is hiding "behind" the lifts where there are numerous secret fire escapes. Before long, security works this out and I make a run for outside with an old friend J_D_ who moved to Australia years ago. Outside is a sort of wasteland and we find an upturned car, we flip this over, jump in and drive away.

I'm in my original house reading a magazine. It occurs to me that it is Friday and I should going out clubbing - I've bought a ticket (I did this in RL). I then realise that I must be dreaming because I shouldn't be home until one week later and the club is in my university town. I become fully, vividly lucid, but then it occurs to me that my alarm has already gone off and I should be getting ready for class. I have to wake myself up from a potentially amazing LD

I am at my old workplace as they've hired me again. When I arrive I see that they've no put a huge book/CD rack in the middle. K_ complains because all the girls made him listen to Katy Perry, although I confess I don't mind the song. They ask me to put the CD back in its correct alphabetical place. I find this difficult as the order changes every time I go to put it back (I've heard of this before in dreams but never experienced it until now). I then need some stamps and my boss tells me that can be my job for the day. We eventually find a full book of stamps in the first till and then I have to go around to all of the computers to try and pay for it. C_ gets really angry at me because I try to use her computer and she had her "infrared" set up.

I'm in a lecture at University and a girl starts talking about clothes. She then shouts at me as I always wear "dull, ugly blue". We are each then given a free item of clothing (mine is a white onesie for a baby) and then leave. I am then at H_ House with G_ and C_. We are all deciding what clothes to wear to make this girl shut up. I decide to cut up the clothes I was given to make some long white sleeves, I then wear a red band shirt over the top. We are all ready to leave and go up a hill (similar to P_ town) but at the top C_ realises he is just wearing baby clothes and nothing normal. We have to turn back and get him new clothes.

My Dad is tidying my bathroom and complains that I never put my clothes to wash.

A doctor thinks I have cancer. He uses a geiger counter which indicates that my nose is the source. He then puts a camera up my nose and down my throat to look closer. This felt terrifyingly realistic.

I've been having a bit of a dry spell of dream recall so the last two nights have been reassuring. Glad I had a lucid, it's a shame I had to wake myself up though!

Had pretty poor dream recall again last night, I'm pretty tired at the moment so can't really get pen to paper in time. Hopefully this weekend I'll have something of an REM rebound though!

On the bright side I almost had an accidental WILD when going to sleep. I was doing a lot of deep breathing (as I read about underbreathing during the day) and this really relaxed me. Before I knew it I had the floating sensation and I could feel my eyes zipping around. Probably didn't work as this was right at the start of the night.

My dream recall would have been pretty good last night. Except I only wrote them down in a FA dream journal and not in real life.

Balls.

I'm going to colour code this slightly differently than normal just to make it all a bit clearer.

Waking Life (Top Level)
Semi-Lucid Dream (Middle Level)
Lucid Dream (Bottom Level)

I am walking down a stone spiral staircase with my old media teacher. I know that I am dreaming and don't need to reality check as the environment is one of the clearest I've experienced. The excitement that I may have a vivid, lucid dream for the first time in a while ends this fragment of the dream.
I am in a grand lecture theatre/exam hall. It is all on one level and the walls look a lot like the Great Hall in Harry Potter. There are red drapes and the seats have red cushions on them. I am sitting next to T_ S_ and realise that she is extremely beautiful. I lean in to her and realise I am lucid. "Breath on me," I say "And poke me". She asks why and I tell her it's just extremely important that she does so - I use the sensations to ground myself within the dream and everything becomes extremely vivid. I ask her to kiss me and she does so, it was amazing - better than any kiss I've ever had in real life. Despite the fact we're in the somewhat busy lecture hall we start to make love.
I wake up in what I think is my bed, making love to a brunette girl. She seems shocked I'm doing this and I quickly explain that I was having a lucid dream and that the actions must have carried over to waking life. I am still semi-aware that I'm dreaming as you can see in the rest of this dream extract. We are back in the building with the stone steps and the girl takes me to her class, it seems to have a similar atmosphere to the dream in the lecture hall. I watch from the back for a while and then, when class is over, we head back up the stone steps and emerge at the top of a hill in the desert. Her friend has joined us and we turn to close the large wooden door. As we do so a zombie comes running up the hallway, we just about manage to lock it out.
I have the sudden urge to help and a presence (dream guide?) tells me that I can. I need to find a particular seed and feed it to the zombie people to return them to a human state. Whilst being told this the zombie breaks through the door and bites the brunette girl's friend. She quickly becomes a zombie and I fight her off, trying to protect the brunette. I can't hold them off for long forever before she gets a small scratch. I vividly remember seeing her right eye developing a white sheen and before long she is one of them.
At this point I fly off the hill and over the desert, searching for the seed. When I find it I see that it looks like the head of a venus fly trap but purple, with pink spines sticking out of it. I quickly return with three of these and feed them to the three zombies. Two of them become the seeds themselves and start chatting (I blindly accept this) and when I give the third one to the brunette she recovers as quickly as she changed.
The next thing I know I have taken the two girls back to their dorms and am saying goodbye as I plan to leave for another adventure - the advanced task of the month. I try to teleport there but the dream ends.

Definitely dipped in and out of lucidity in the last part of the dream there but it was definitely one of the best LD's I've ever had! It has also occurred to me that the voice I heard that told me to get the seeds may be my dream guide. I felt a sort of presence (as I have read about countless times) when I was being told this information.

I really hope I find a dream guide, not for the advice, but so that I have a companion on my adventures to share the fun with.

I was extremely, stupidly drunk last night so my recall for this isn't perfect but I'm still ecstatic nontheless.

I remember having a false awakening and I immediately could just feel that I was dreaming. I jumped off the end of the bed and stopped a foot off the ground to prove it to myself. I also recall searching for my dream guide and think I was almost successful. I remember grabbing at somebodies arm through a mirror after shouting "Dream Guide", but unfortunately didn't hold on hard enough. I also recall teleporting myself to a location that I have designed in waking life where I believe my dream guide will be. It was on the top of a hill overlooking the sea, although wasn't 100% accurate. I knew that I had to find a motorbike and think that I did but can't recall for certain.

Lucid
task of the month

I'm so happy!! I've been struggling for ages to get a decent lucid dream that actually lasts and I've finally got it. Admittedly it was semi lucid in parts and my recall for the start is a little hazy (hoping more of that will come back to me) but it was still a fantastic experience and my dream control was great.

Basically I had a nap this afternoon to catch up some sleep with the intention to DILD if I had the opportunity and it all evolved from there. It was a shock to me at first when I started getting WILD sensations and I really enjoyed them this time, they felt really relaxing and comfortable. After this I found that my brain was in imagery overload and imagining loads of random images. One of them became particularly strong - I had found a way to break a simple sweets/toy machine without getting caught and could take all of the contents. This image was verging on dream-level and I hung it to it for as long as I could. After a while I felt myself coming out of the WILD state so refocused all of my energy on the image mentioned above. Before long the scenery started changing without my conscious effort, I still remember Thomas the Tank Engine in there somewhere.

After a while the random colours and imagery had evolved into a dream environment, I didn't even have to bother reality checking etc as I remembered the whole process. I started grounding myself, concentrating on what I could feel, smell and see. Foolishly I tried hearing the outside world too and almost lost my lucidity, but my determination and hand rubbing kept me in the dream. After this I found I could continually do the hand rubbing with an extra set of arms so set off on an exploration.

I was at my University and it looked a bit like the BBC news set. I didn't want to hang around here so headed to the back to find some toilets and check out my appearance in the mirrors. (I've heard a lot of rumours regarding this) A group of woman were approaching in front of me and being really slow so I dodged around them, noticing as I did so that one of the women was sick of the group and slipped into a cupboard instead of following them. When I got to the mirror I saw that I had my four arms. I decided to try and remove two of them and make the remaining ones more muscly. I couldn't do this effectively so instead I enticed the extra two out again and grew all four arms to hulk like proportions. Soon after this I remember I had the opportunity to dream fight but my recall around this point is quite hazy.

I left the toilets and loads of people were heading upstairs to my "flat" where we were going to party. I didn't want to bother with the stairs as I was lucid so decided to fly straight upwards through the floors. It got pitch black once I tried to do this however and it resulted in my first successful teleportation. I simply pictured the room and *bang* I was transported into it. Once there I was alone and didn't know what to do, and then I realised - Task of the Month! To the best of my knowledge the task was to eat a piece of dream fruit and pick a piece of dream fruit (I now know this to be from the dark side of the moon) so headed out to do both of these things. I visualised an apple a couple of times but it wouldn't appear, so instead tried a different tactic of turning away and visualising it behind me. To my surprise this worked really well and I bit into my new found apple with joy. It tasted quite fizzy but was by far the best apple I've ever had. Next I decided to persue the advanced task incorrectly and found a small plant in the hall way, I decided this was enough and tried to grow some fruit on it. I used the same looking away visualisation technique to get fruit onto the branches of the small plant. The first couple of tries yielded mouldy results but by the third try I grew a perfect lemon. I remember vividly how the plant prickled me as it pulled apart the leaves to get to it. After this I decided to practice again as the lemon was quite small, and grew a perfect sized grape instead.

Upon re-entering the main room in the flat I found that loads of people had arrived. I had vague memories of old tasks of the month as I was unsure which ones to do and remembered "kiss a dc". At this point I saw my friend A_ trying to kiss Rolf Harris. Rolf looked really uncomfortable so I went over, hugged him, and pushed Adam away, offering to get them both drinks. After a bit of mingling I realised that I wouldn't be able to recall all of this lucid as it was so long (there's still much I know that I can't recall) and decided to do one last thing. Whilst thinking this I saw Charlie Sheen in the corner with an inflated head - yes, punch Charlie Sheen. I went over, punched him quite hard and he disappeared.

I was so confident of my dream control at this point that I created credits. They were displayed as lots of small white letters in computer font making up the shapes of bigger letters on a black background. They read "This was a Josh production. Thankyou for watching." I then used this to make white noise and voluntarily woke up.

So this morning I became aware I was lucid whilst in a dream and again immediately woke up without the chance to ground my dream. I'm in a miserable mood now.

It was a pretty good night for dreaming other than that though and I supposed the frequency of my lucid dreams must be a sign of progress.

Non lucid
Lucid

This first dream was very much like a movie at some points, I observed the action for a variety of angles as well as first person. I am on a roof of a building. It is one of the garden-like ones that you see in Japan etc on top of skyscrapers, however it is much larger. As I push through the crowds I realise I am being chased down (AGAIN!!) by a man in a suit who is weaving his way through.
The "shot" cuts and I see him nudge a girl sitting on the ground with his foot, he puts his shoe threateningly near her face but she bites it and shows no fear. I assume that she is refusing to give my location. I am aware of the fact that I have great power and can easily fight this man off so vanish the stairs.
At this point the shot" cuts to a birds eye view and I see that the building that I'm on is a mix of modern glass and a temple of stone. The stairs disappear and then I somehow make him aware of the fact that I'm ready to fight him face to face. The "shot" remains bird's eye and I suddenly see loads of squares appear above peoples head's like a video game. Each square spins and the person below it has a character revealed with whom they will fight. This takes me by surprise as I thought I was the only one fighting him. Everybody but me and the man in the suit turns into Pikachu and a huge battle commences. I'm not sure who's fighting who as the Pikachu's electricity all combines and streaks into the air, hitting an aeroplace.
The next thing I know, I'm observing what's happening on this plane. Everybody has been transformed into half-pigs apart from those in first class. A woman leaves first class, unaware of what has happened and see the pig people everywhere. She really needs the toilet so hides until she has a good opportunity to sneak through. Her opportunity arises when a few of the men decide to play a truth or dare like game involving kissing eachother. She makes her move but I don't stay dreaming long enough to see the conclusion.

I really enjoyed this dream, in fact the vividity of dreams is increasing so much that I'm beginning to enjoy most normal dreams as the plots seem so intriguing.

I can't remember all of this dream so will fill in what I assume happened in the gaps in black. I'm at Hurn House and there is a zombie type invasion. We are on the 11th floor flat and a zombie comes stumbling in the house, we instantly leap into action and stuff him in the cupboard, taking great care not to get bitten. We have been out hunting zombies and return. Upon our return we find the door unlocked and are quite worried, we cautiously enter and then see the guy who stayed behind happily playing fifa. With our guard lowered I open the cupboard door from earlier to get food, forgetting the zombie was in there. I have to wrestle him back in before he escapes.

Another enjoyable dream, now for the let down.

I am walking down my hometown's High Street and on the corner I see a red car for sale, its price has been reduced by several hundred pounds and it's covered in bird shit. I have a feeling I saw this car earlier in the dream at full price and in a clean condition. Myself and someone else look interestedly and then continue round the corner. I approach my car now on my own and get it, I know I must take care driving as I've been drinking. The car is behaving strangley and the clutch doesn't seem to be working. I feel somwhat worried as I see a police car. I notice there's lots of space in front of me where I can turn around and head down this street the right way, but I must do it before the approaching bus gets closer or I'll have to wait. The car is still behaving strangley and I decide to check my feet are on the pedals ok. There are four pedals, for an instant I tell myself not to question this and focus on driving in case the police get suspicious. But then I tell myself, "Don't be fucking scared, this is NOT normal." I check again and think "Wow, I am dreaming". The dream instantly disappears and I see the back of my waking eyelids.

My dream recall's been a bit poor ever since my massive recall the other day. Last night saw a small bit of progress, but probably my second worst lucid dream so far.

I'm at my original home and it's my birthday. My parents aren't there for it but contact my via a video link and apologise and tell me that they love me very much. I see at the bottom of my bed that they have left me a present - it turns out to be a huge packet of jelly beans (note - my bedroom is in its pre-decorated state). The next thing I know, I am walking past Costcutter (again! dream sign?) with my sister Z_ and B_. We're discussing the delicious of nature of pork pies. As we pass the shop I see someone I recognise, I double take and sure enough it's Charlie Sheen. I instantly know that I'm dreaming and panic. I scramble about from side to side to find something to ground myself with but much of the dreamscape seems to have disappeared and is largely a blank, white space. I find myself in what I know to be a dream bed and RC again, but it's too late and I awake in my real bed.

At this point I tried to DEILD, successfully keeping my eyes wide shut, however the extent to which I dipped back into the dream wasn't enough so i carried on sleeping normally.


During the day today I decided to have a WILD attempt as I've really been slacking off with this since the start of my LD efforts. I managed to get some very subtle WILD sensations and almost felt myself float out of my body. Again this wasn't enough to completely disconnect or start a lucid dream.



So all in all a day and night of mixed success. At least I managed to become lucid, even if it was brief and at least I began to feel WILD sensations again.

Was too drunk to bother/be able to dream recall last night. It's interesting that alcohol helps my recall, but only to an extent. Perhaps it was the dizziness that ruined it all!

Still, I feel I'm making quite a lot of progress, lucid dreaming has been on my mind a lot lately. I feel an oncoming WILD in the near future.

Dream fragment: I wake up feeling hungover so head to the bathroom for a drink of water which I drink out of my starbucks mug.

Dream fragment (may be linked): I leave my room and see T_ and K_. I am putting on my shirt and K_ mentions that I've been lying about not working out.

Yesterday evening I tried a WILD nap. It only lasted 15 minutes but I felt subtle WILD effects and semi dipped into a dream. I used the visualisation technique which certainly helped lull me to sleep. The visualisation that worked started off as two grey squares which slowly gained detail which I don't feel I consciously added. It turned into the set of Family Guy and we all started dancing, singing a song called "I'm going to reality check at the end of this song". I think I did this as I was aware I was dreaming but wanted to establish it as a proper dream first. Unfortunately I woke up.