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Had two LDs this morning, which is a first for me.

I woke up from the first at 6:35am. It started as a false awakening, but I noticed there were some cardboard boxes on my bed. This caused me to do a RC, and when I could breathe through my plugged nose I became lucid. The first thing I did was look at my hands, but I couldn't see them. I stared at where they should be, and eventually they materialized. After staring at them for a little while they became more clear. I put my hand on the side of the bed and tried to get up, but found myself laying flat on my back with the clarity fading. I looked at my hands again and tried to get up, but the same thing happened. This repeated for a while, each time getting a little further out of bed. I eventually stood up, but wound up back in bed, so I just gave up and teleported myself to the window.

I opened the window shade, and I was about 300 feet up in the sky, half over the ocean and half over a beach with a mountainous jungle in the background. I had wanted to fly in my next LD, so I guess this was a fly or die way to learn. I crawled halfway out the window, but felt the dream fading again so I grabbed the windowsill until the clarity came back. I then crawled all the way out and began to plummet. My stomach lurched like I was actually falling, but I was able to quiet it. I alternated between flying like superman, and falling to the ocean for a while, until I fell close to the surface. I pulled up at the last minute, weaving between wading people in a very uncontrolled flight (I was upside down half the time).

I ended up sliding into the beach near the waters edge. I tried to get up and walk, but I was too dizzy to stand. I ended up crawling up the beach (which was littered with flip flops, beach chairs, and people) towards a little girl sitting in a chair. I stopped and sat down just past her and tried practicing my telekinesis on an empty can. It started to wiggle, then I woke up.

I woke up from the second around 8:15am. This was a WILD actually induced by reading an article on Dream Views. I went in to the dream knowing I was dreaming, but I didn't try to control it. Instead, I tried to convince my girlfriend that we were in a dream. About halfway through, I started to doubt whether I was dreaming, so I tried my normal breathing RC, but it failed. So I tried the finger through hand RC for the first time in my dream and it worked, which felt a little weird. The only aspect I tried to control, was a wave that rushed towards me as I lounged out on the beach. I managed to project a force field around me for a second, but it quickly failed and the water rushed over me, waking me up. However, it was only a FA. I discussed the LD I just had with my girlfriend in the FA, then went back to sleep within the FA. From here, I actually managed to DIELD into another LD that lasted for a little while.

When I woke up for real, I realized I had just had a LD within a FA after a LD, and I had to pause and look around for Leonardo DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon Levitt because I could've sworn I was in Inception. Overall it was an interesting experience.

Had another lucid today. It happened after a particularly crazy and long NLD that skipped around quite a bit, but still managed to keep the same plot line. But I'll get right to it. I was at my workplace, and I was frustrated because the dream wasn't going my way. Somebody tried to interview me, and I said "Fuck off, I'm not interested. This is just a dream anyway." The interviewer asked me what I meant and I responded: "A dream, you know, not real. I mean Barry (from Archer, the tv show) just turned into a shark-cloud for fucks sake!". He asked me who Barry was and I turned around and pointed and said "That's Barry right there!". Now looking at Barry, I realized he was back in human form and went to beat the shit out of him (If you watch Archer you'll understand my hatred of him). But before I could get there I veered off, thinking "not worth it this is just a dream." I sat down at a workbench wondering why I wasn't lucid, and remembered to do an RC. I plugged my nose and took a deep breath in and I could breathe, though it was difficult (my real life nose is a little stuffy from allergies). I double checked and realized, oh, this really is a dream, and became lucid. I quickly started to study my hands, and looking up everything became crystal clear. I looked back at my hands but the dream was getting blurry. I tried taking off the safety glasses and ear muffs I was wearing, but the dream was fading and I woke up. I think the inability to stabilize was due to both my anger, and just being at the end of my REM cycle.

But 2 LD's in my first week isn't bad.

So close!!

This dream started as me playing a video game, so I was kind of doomed to not question reality from the start. Fun dream nonetheless.
The dream started as a downhill mountainboarding/skateboarding game, which was fun to ride downhill, weaving between trees, skipping down rock formations, and jumping off small cliffs. Eventually I came to a city and switched over to my skateboard. After riding around for a little while, I entered a factory and started skating down ramps and grinding rails. At one point in the factory I went through a large doorway and started skating around a small room that was almost identical to a room in the manufacturing plant where I work. I recognized this peculiarity in my dream, but because I thought it was a video game I didn't think anything of it.

Oh well, at least I'm starting to be more aware of my dreams.

This is my first entry since restarting my dream journal, and it was quite a memorable start for me. This was by far the most vivid dream I've ever had, with sensory clarity on par with real life if not exceeding it. The contents of the dream were nothing special however. The dream is as follows:

I started driving with my girlfriend to visit our old high school in New Jersey. Just before sunset we saw storm clouds on the horizon, we pulled over into a gravel parking lot to take shelter in a house. As we stepped out of the car I looked out across a wheat field towards the school. The wheat rippled softly in the wind, the setting sun light tinging it in hues of amber and gold. Storm clouds in shades of pink and blue swirled fiercely in the distance, with intermittent lightning strikes breaking the sereneness of the setting.

We entered the house, and I was surprised to be greeted by some of my fraternity brothers from Florida. We talked for a while as the rains poured down, though I can't recall the contents of the conversation. I soon found myself surfing the internet, watching a video that constantly changed subject matter. After this the rains let up, and I walked outside to start the car. As I was walking, I tripped and stumbled to my hands and knee. My leg had fallen through the earth up to my other knee. When I pulled it out of the hole, my leg was covered in a thick brown mud, though it felt like soft wet clay to the touch.

After a short jump in time, I found myself back on the road with my girlfriend. The rains had returned, and obstacles were soon materializing in the road, a fallen tree, an animal skittering across the road, a crumbling bridge across a rising river. A little while later we came to the same obstacles, and I realized we were driving in circles. A few circuits later, the streets began to flood. My car turned into a boat, and I tried my best to paddle my way through the swift currents. The bridge was now completely destroyed, and ramped down into the river. The sudden incline tipped the boat over, and we both clung to the outside of the boat. With one hand on the boat, I tried to push my girlfriend back inside, but the river was too strong, and soon we were both sucked in. We managed to swim to shore, and I feared the worst for the phone in my pocket, however, when I looked at it it was working.

Then I woke up, very impressed by the vividness of the now obvious dream I had just had.