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    Serenity's Silver Millennium

    July 4, 2010

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    Serenity
    , 07-06-2010 at 02:46 AM (616 Views)
    Slept between 11:30p-10:00a

    After another night of lost dreams, I've decided to stop trying to forcibly DEILD as an induction technique. I'm quite good at using it to prolong dreams... and as a late-morning/not ready to get up yet technique (where I'm also less worried about losing a dream), it's still quite feasible. But there's too much recall at stake to use it as a main technique. I was also trying to "CAN-WILD" (which is like a DEILD... and alarm wakes you that turns itself off and you essentially DEILD, but if there's no dream, it ends up being a WILD anyways). But so far my body proves that when I wake up, I wake up, and I find it hard to re-enter the dream state on command like that. So, I am going to re-take up my habits of WBTB and focus on recall again.

    11:30p-6:00a
    House for sale
    Upset at house being sold to my brothers (Mike, specifically). Some guy was doing house tours. That's all my notes say, I don't have any recollection of this dream!

    6:00a-9:00a
    Flying controls
    I've forgotten what led up to this point, but I was being pursued by some witch. I jumped up off the ground and started flying away. This made me lucid. I Looked back and noticed she was hot on my tail. "I need to make myself fly faster," I thought. Normally, when I fly, my arms are in an upside-down V formation at my sides. I brought my arms straight against my sides, to see if that would improve my speed. No luck. I tried a Superman pose. Still no luck. "I remember reading somewhere that the way they fly is by thinking about their target, and basically letting themselves get pulled to it, mentally... Maybe that'll work...?" I looked at a point on the horizen, and kind of... "set it" with my mind and willed myself to get pulled towards it. I felt a yank from my belly button, like I was on a cord connecting it to the point I set, and I was being pulled towards the point. I yelped a bit with surprise, as it certainly did increase my speed, but it wasn't quite enough. Woke up, anyways.

    9:00a-10:00a
    School mates
    There was some kind of event happening at my school (non-existent to RL). I think it might have been World Cup related. I'm sitting in an empty classroom with Freddy and Corine, from SAIT. We're talking about jobs and I say something about trying to break into sound ops. I look directly at Freddy, because IRL, he does some kinda theatre thing (not sure what capacity, but judging by his FBook posts, it sounds managerial).

    Don't eat grassy snow
    There's another point where I have a snowball in my hand, and I'm eating it. I realize it's all grassy, and I nearly throw up

    Late for work
    Another fragment where I realize I'm late for work. I'm trying to get my uniform together to get ready, but I keep getting distracted by things, which causes me to be more late.

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    Updated 07-07-2010 at 12:34 AM by 28724

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    1. Samael's Avatar
      Yay, flying!

      Normally, when I fly, my arms are in an upside-down V formation at my sides. I brought my arms straight against my sides, to see if that would improve my speed.
      I'm confused. What does an upside-down V look like if your hands aren't straight against your sides? Unless they're behind your back or under you?
    2. Requiem's Avatar
      Is that what you really wanted to do? Fly faster and away? Not confront the witch? Not beat her to a pulp?
    3. Serenity's Avatar
      I'm confused. What does an upside-down V look like if your hands aren't straight against your sides? Unless they're behind your back or under you?
      They're at my sides, but out slightly, like an airplane, I guess... I think I do this because the first dream I tried to fly I ended up losing my balance and I kept rolling in mid-air. By keeping my arms out just slightly, I still get some aerodynamics and some stability

      Is that what you really wanted to do? Fly faster and away? Not confront the witch? Not beat her to a pulp?
      Well... it's WAS only semi-lucidity... I knew I was dreaming and I could control flight and all, but I wasn't lucid enough to kick her ass and do something else

      Whenever you see the red writing, it usually denotes being what I call "plot-stuck lucidity." I'm aware it's a dream and that's about it. I can only act and control within what's already happening in the dream, mainly because I'm not lucid enough to realize I could do otherwise
    4. Requiem's Avatar
      Oh. Right. I see the colour key there on the right.

      Why do you think "plot-stuck lucidity" happens? I know what you mean.

      Aren't we lucid enough to yell "Stop! I need to stabilize more!"
    5. Serenity's Avatar
      Some people just call it low-level lucidity. It is really strange, you would think that if you know you're dreaming, you could just do whatever you want. But I think there's two sides to the coin. There's knowing it's a dream (lucidity) and then there's understanding the full implications of what that means (what most call "full lucidity").

      When I have a low-level lucid, or semi-lucid; usually I have to stick to what is happening as of the point where I gained my lucidity. It might sound odd, but it's like, I get that I'm dreaming, but I don't understand that I can just stop the dream. I get that I'm dreaming, so I start influencing control over the plot I'm in. In case of this dream, I was flying away. I can't fly IRL, so I knew this was a dream, but being low-level, the only thing I could think about was continuing to fly away. Only, once I was lucid, I could control the speed at which I was flying.