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    Cities in the Astral

    I have been LDing sinse 1988 and have had maybe 2000ish. I am starting this dream journal on 02-19-12. Many of my dreams involve otherwordly concepts, such as dream cities that are real and have many perminent inhabitants. I have interacted with some many times, so if the entries I make seem to refer to strange things like 'the 3 women' or 'the monks' just assume they are reoccuring DCs for before this journal starts.

    1. 09/12/14 Freefall Waterfall

      by , 09-14-2014 at 10:28 PM (Cities in the Astral)
      I was lucid for a very long time this night. I prevented the dream from collapsing no less than 7 times. It seemed to get most unstable during sex. At one point I came to the top of a cliff and over to the right side was a waterfall. It was pouring over a cliff that ran parallel to the one I was on. Some DCs were base jumping off of the cliff into a lake below. It is a narrow lake as another cliff is only a few hundred feet across the lake. The colors are fantastic and the cliffs are very high. The whole effect is surreal and a bit breathtaking.
      I for some reason thought part of TOTM was to call another member of DV and tell them about the dream you are having. I pull out a cell phone and give Gab a call. A pleasant female voice answers and we have a short conversation in which I tell her I am about to jump off this cliff. I then jump off and free fall for a while and plunge into the white water created by the falls. I am now down many feet below the surface and the water is kind of green. I decide to try and breath in the water, and it works great. I decided to stay under water and imagine that the current will take me on a fun ride.
      Suddenly the current pulls me down stream and it takes me through a cyclone effect and dumps me out over a drop off into a pool.
      The dream went on for a long while after this, but it was pretty standard things.
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    2. 09/09/14 DC summoning and morphing

      by , 09-13-2014 at 07:29 PM (Cities in the Astral)
      I spent a lot of time in a DILD summoning female DCs. I would know that women were coming around the corner or some such tricks and they would come. I also played with morphing the forms of the women such as looks and breast size. In one scene I opened a shower door knowing a female would be there, but it was a young teen girl. I mean maybe 13 and I do not even want to dream about such things. I imagined that she must just be a short woman and that I misjudged her age. I look at the face and picture a woman in her thirties, and so she is, just short. She has almost no breasts and as I went to change that something odd happened. I could see a frame work like in computer graphic design. I saw how my brain was modifying a line cage outline of the torso to create a 3d effect. This was a layer of awareness below the superficial images that are normal. Very interesting.
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    3. 09/06/14 Ocean Sky

      by , 09-09-2014 at 02:39 AM (Cities in the Astral)
      I was semilucid when I noticed the graphic of the sky were very odd. I pulled full attention into the dream. I was in a room with open sides like an open balcony or something. I examined the sky to see what had called my full attention here.
      It was saphire blue and undulating much like the ocean might, but more in a pattern like hundreds of lave lamps. I was pretty blown away by the impressive visuals. I walked up to the edge and now could see that this building was surrounded by an ocean. I sat on the edge and the water rose up enough to start getting me wet. The combined visual of ocean waves at ground level and that crazy sky were amazing.
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    4. 08-30-14 Dad Appeared, Gave him a demonstration.

      by , 09-02-2014 at 06:50 AM (Cities in the Astral)
      I had been lucid and spaced off. I noticed a pretty gold tropical fish swimming slowly about 2 feet off the ground. I became lucid again and standing behind the fish is my father or an astral entity (the young man from the last dream?) acting as if it was my dad (how died 2 years ago). I gave him a small demonstration of my current skills. I pointed at two small saplings and caused them to whip towards each other (to show fine control) and then I pointed off screen and an image appears of 4 heavy chairs. I cause the chairs to lift up off the ground and slap back against the ground. The chairs were each moving at a different rate creating a cam shaft sort of motion.
      Dad is pleased (I feel it.) I showed a cool method of floating. I stepped up on to the air as if it were solid and floating one foot up (I stepped up), I gently fell over backward and drifted into a reclined position about 2 feet from the ground. I then said I could control the weather. I reached my open hand into the sky and imagined a storm would crash when I made a magical gesture. I made the gesture and a strong breeze starts up and leaves blow around. Hmmm, not what I hoped for, just pretend it is still going to happen. Rain sprinkled down on my face and shoulders. I looked at the entity (dad?) and suggested that I could do more with the storm if I just took a moment. The entity smiled and shook their head no. I stopped demonstrating and the dream drifted into odd stuff I have trouble recalling clearly.
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    5. 08/30/14 Learn new trick- become fluid.

      by , 09-02-2014 at 06:26 AM (Cities in the Astral)
      I ran into an astral being who appeared to me as a young human male. We spent a little time demonstrating what I could do so far as far as floating/flying. I showed him that I could lay on my back and steer myself in any direction, even up over and down, feet first or head first.

      He politely watched and seemed satisfied with my ability. He showed me a new method of travel in the astral or dreams. He became a wave of something between liquid and electricity and sound waves. I was able to copy him and transformed like I would to become an octopus but I became an energy wave and shot forward fluidly. It was something like the way the front edge of water pouring out of a bucket as it moves across the floor. It is hard to explain.
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    6. Jet Speed Training: DILD and a DEILD

      by , 08-23-2014 at 09:19 AM (Cities in the Astral)
      08-21-14 I have been trying to develop jet speed flight that has better graphics. It has been very hard. I had a good DILD and could only go so fast and keep good graphics.
      I eventually woke and did a DEILD. I decided that perhaps hanging on to the wing of a jet would help create a feeling my brain could picture better. I summoned a jet flying overhead but could not catch up to it.
      I decided to go to an airport and start hanging on before take off. I instead found the jet was smaller than me. The same size as the image I had first summoned. I failed to increase the size beyond maybe a van. The piolet refused to try and take off with a giant grabbing the wing.
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    7. 4 DILDs. DC Line up/ many fruit and others

      by , 08-17-2014 at 07:53 PM (Cities in the Astral)
      08/16/14 Four DILDs. I had about 4 nice long DILDs last night. In one of them I just interacted with many DC's. I would create a topless female DC and 'interact' a bit, then "move down the line." The breasts where very realistic and the DCs mostly life like. Some times DCs can be overly robitic, but this was not an issue. I kept this up for awhile, perhaps interating with 6-8 Dcs.
      In one DILD I was at a party and just enjoyed myself while showing of my TK ability, as the DCs seemed impressed.
      In another after a building exploded, I hurried away as I could hear sirens (IRL, but put them in the dream to avoid waking), I went by another party and attempted to transform my sister's body into a much healthier version of herself. It only worked while I focused on it and reverted back afterwards.

      One good moment was using my trick to avoid waking by placing external sounds in the dream. A water pump in the AC unit was very noisy and threatened to wake me. I tried to imagine what it could be in context of the dream. I came up with air swirling around inside a soda pop can held near my ears. I summoned a empty can and placed it by my ear and pictured the noise coming from the air flow, like a sea shell. It was not realistic as both ears were hearing the AC. I summoned another and had one by both ears. That seemed to prevent the instinct to wake from external noise. The cans started having colored smoke come out of them. I went through a few minutes of the dream walking down a street with a can up to each ear, lol.
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    8. Cheating on her With her

      by , 08-17-2014 at 04:25 AM (Cities in the Astral)
      08/14/14 Too strange. I was enjoining a semilucid sexy scene with an old girlfriend. At some point I went for a stroll and ran into the same ex girlfriend, but as a new DC. We fooled around and then I could see the house from the first dream was a back yard neighbor with this one. I felt embarrassed and was suddenly naked with just a towel. I though that I had cheated on one DC with another DC despite them both being DCs of the same exgirlfriend.
      Well, that was odd and I decided to pull full lucidity in to the dream. I became aware and listened to see how much background noise I could hear. It was life like, which is uncommon. I reclined back on the air and floated. Now in high lucidity I found I was unable to remember my real life beyond what would have mattered in the time the dream had been set in. No recall of the last 20 years. Then the alarm woke me up
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    9. Gathering Entities, Improved Phasing, Smelling fish

      by , 08-08-2014 at 07:22 PM (Cities in the Astral)
      08-07-14 I am at work so just putting highlights down. This DILD was very very long, perhaps 30 minutes, and very vivid.

      I am now able to control the actions of upto 3 DCs simply by intent (each as an individual). I have been using this for sexual exploration. Why would I need three sexy woman at one time in a dream? I don't know, just because it is a dream and a little more of a challenge.

      After lot's of fooling around the amount of DCs increased and they all seemed to be going somewhere. I followed them into a building and they were gathering in a large room. I became highly suspcious that I was walkig in on some sort of astral area outside of my mind and that acting up would be foolish. I suspected most of these DCs were entities.

      I had little intrest in what was going on after walking around and observing, so I explored the building until I came to a great sun room with a glass wall and ceiling. I decided to try to pass through the glass, but to focus on not having the wall distort and pull across me like a curtain. I levitated up onto a reclining postion, back down and feet first. I passed out through the wall and then reappeared inside to try it again. Both times worked very well and there was no sense of the wall making any kind of contact with me.

      The only other really intresting thing was that later I was flying around the city and decided to land in a fish pond and try to pick up a large koi fish, just as an odd exercise. As soon as I got into the pond I could viidly smell a foul swampy fish odor and decided to do anything else. Normally I do not have a good sense of smell in LDs.
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    10. TOTM- Photo Shop- Cars

      by , 08-07-2014 at 02:09 AM (Cities in the Astral)
      08-05-14 DILD. Completed Bonus TOTM. I was already in a DILD climbing up a building when I again thought of TOTM. I looked down on a street and thought about what the bonus task might be. It seemed to me that it had something to do with cartoons. Maybe create a cartoon DC? No, but that seems close. It must be something were I need to change an item from realistic into a cartoon version while observing the changes? Yes, it is something close to that. I will start there and see if more comes to mind. I watched as a white van came slowly up the street. How to make it transform into a cartoon version of itself?

      I focus on the shading caused by light and shadow and erase all of that. Now it has a even white color with no shading. I try to imagine this is causing a 2D effect. It works and the van becomes fake looking. It is still driving down the road, but the effect is a bit like a cartoon van driving down a real road.

      I am now down on the street level. I use thought to shrink only the front end of the van. It looks very funny, like a circus mirror effect. I sit indian style about 2 feet off the ground (floating). I start following the van up the street and it turns onto a faster busy road.

      I realize now that the task is not so much change things into cartoons, as just shange things in interesting effects. I do this on perhaps 4 more cars. I try new colors, change the brightness, and metalic glints in the paint, enhance the crome strips. I had great fun with a copper colored sports car. I took a plain ordinary car and changed it to copper, then added a galvinezed effect to the paint. Then caused crome to appear every where. Next I stretched out just the lower half of it. It looked like some weird preditor car.

      I woke up naturally soon after that.
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    11. TOTM- Word-Biork

      by , 08-07-2014 at 01:53 AM (Cities in the Astral)
      08-05-14 This is just a short DILD. The task was to have a DC tell you a word in another language and what it means. My mother siad "BIORK" as in she wants to go to the Biork. I asked her what Biork was and she showed me a big card with the word spelled out on it. I was suprised that it was easy to read and stable.
      I asked her to be more clear, and a image of her going to a place flashed. Ok, so Biork is a place, but what kind of place?

      A place to get food.

      A market?

      No, it is behind the market. You sit down and eat prepared food.

      So Biork means restraunt?

      No, specifically it is behind the market.

      Wait, is Biork the name of a restraunt you like? That would be a proper noun. I do not think that counts.

      It is not the name of a restraunt. An image flashes, this time of my mom going into a grocery market and up to a counter in the market to get food.

      Oh! So Biork = a place in the back of a food market where you can sit and eat prepared food. Much like a deli counter you can eat at.
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    12. TOTM-Failed? Did not know the story or characters. Still cool.

      by , 08-06-2014 at 11:18 PM (Cities in the Astral)
      08-05-14 This DILD was very long and the first stuff has become lost. I stopped part way through to check my recall, and thought I would be able to keep it, but now it is very fuzzy.
      Where it comes into clear focus is a part in a old manor house and me being very sexual. I was lucid and having very wild sex with my wife, when she finally told me that she was tired and no longer into it. Rather than argue, I stood up and created a hallway with people at the end of it. I knew that a couple sexy women were in the group and I raised my hand, which kind of magically summoned them. They came up the hall and with out a question were ready to do/act in any way I wanted.
      The DC of my wife looked pissed at this. I told the dream/DC that I was interested in this activity, that it was clearly a dream, and that in this case if one DC would not play along, well, another one or two will.
      At this point the scene shifts around while I am talking and now my wife's family is all around us. They were supposedly up the hall way. Her father is a conservative Christian type, and being preachy. He is telling everyone that her neice and some man (her neice's husband IRL) are in Texas and having sex out of wedlock. The whole family is supposed to come with him to stop them from their sinful ways.
      The entire room has become some form of flying platform, kind of like a helicoptor, and we are now all flying to Texas. I decide this is a bunch of stupid BS and that I wil leave. Suddnely I am wrapped in tape as if the dream is going to prevent me from leaving this scene. I roll off of the platform and start to fall to get away. I cause the bindings to break loose and start flying.

      Now the TOTM stuff. I decide to try one of the TOTM, but IRL I do not know the story that the task refers to. I am suppossed to go to some castle and find some people and then see where something takes me. Oh well, there is no way for me to do that so i will do a generic version of this. I fly down and see a city of hut type buildings with bamboo constructions and go to the biggest one looking for a king or chief or something. It becomes some sort of feasting hall, like you may see in a primative castle.
      I do find a cheif/king and ask him for a quest. He tells me I should fly to Africa and cut the grass. Ok? I have no idea what that would involve, but let's just see where it takes me. "You want me to fly to Africe and cut the grass? I do not understand, but I will see if I can figure it out. Where are we now?"
      He tells me that we are in the land of the Mayains. I take off flying and decide to try and create a realistic Superman type flight. I picture the globe in my mind, but in hindsight I thought Africa was were S. America is and vice versa. I created images of Myan type buildings and jungle stuff as I flew. When I reached the shore of the Ocean I was starteled by a wonderful visual experience. I was floating in the clouds and could see half of the visuals were of an amazing otherwordly city. It was straight out of fantasy paintings with castles and pillars and cliffside villa. The lighting was cause by that kind of streaming sun beam effect. If I turned I saw a crazy vision of the sea, with hundreds of curling waves and crazy texture. I was in awe. This lasted for awhile while I took it all in.
      After that I flew the rest of the way to Africa. I saw the roofs were thached in grass and landed at an outside restruant. I sat at the bar and considered cutting the edge off the hanging grass roof, but choose to talk with the bar man and have a drink instead.

      Updated 08-07-2014 at 01:06 AM by 12783

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    13. A Dream of a Dream with in a Dream

      by , 07-26-2014 at 11:30 PM (Cities in the Astral)
      07/26/14 DILD. Nice long DILD with lots of scenes and DC interaction. The coolest aspect of this LD was that I ended up in a setting where a female doctor was conducting an experiment involving inducing LDs. The idea was that she would inject a drug in my neck that would send m into a deeper dream. I would have an LD and be able to tell her what I was seeing and doing, and she would record it all. I went along with this to see if I was stumbling on a new way to improve my recall. I got the injection and suddenly was in another dream. I was walking down a rode and it felt different. I went through many scenes while calling out to her what I was doing. At some point I woke up from the deeper dream and was back in the office. I had actually tried to wake up, but just back into the first dream.
      She showed me her notes and all I saw was lines of symbols and numbers. She seemed so proud that she had documented everything for me. I told her I could not read the chart. She pointed to one line and said this is such and such a scene with those 2 DCs. OK, perhaps this idea was not going to work. It was interesting though.
      Next plot points were revealed in which a female assistant had tried to hypnotize me while I was in the other dream, so that I would fall in love with her.
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    14. Color Shift

      by , 07-25-2014 at 01:54 AM (Cities in the Astral)
      07/23/14 DILD I had a nice long one. High points involved practicing a lazy form of travel. I would just float a few inches above the ground and then push gently so that I started drifting. i can now travel down streets at a nice even pace while putting no thought or effort into it.
      In one sequence there was a toxic rain or something so I shifted into the past (actually became a younger version of me) but found it raining pink rain in the past too.
      I had a FA at this point where I could not breathe and felt as if my waking mouth and nose were covered with water. i made myself wake up in concern, but actually it was an FA. I was still in the past and accussed my sister of ruining my LD by pouring water on me. I then realized this was stupid and kept going with my LD.
      In one part I saw children playing in a huge tree that hung over the side walk on an embankment. I went up and checked out the tree and noticed I could not travel further in that direction, but did question it. I just walked a few dozen feet further up the sidewalk and found a way up. that lead to an area with people hanging out on a patio.
      At this point I noticed a huge brownish frog. I picked it up on the palm of my right hand. It was about as big as a dinner plate. I decided to practice fine visual control by making the frog color shift through all of the main colors using the trick I teach in the DVA class on visualization. I was able to use the same mental trick in the lesson to create the colors. I shifted the entire frog through colors including electric blue, viberent ruby red, and pumpkin orange. That was the most intersting portion of the LD as far as I am concerned. Dur~12-15 min

      Updated 07-25-2014 at 01:58 AM by 12783

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    15. Playing with cartoons

      by , 07-15-2014 at 12:51 AM (Cities in the Astral)
      07/13/14 DILD I spent some time working on animation. I used charectors from "American Dad" as I have been watching that lately. I actually created a perfect 2d rendering of Franie, but found moving her with intent to be clunky. Not bad on the graphics ut need work on the actaul animation.
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