Cities in the Astral

07-10-14 No less than 6 LDs this night. I set the alarm for an hour before I had to get up, with a 9 minute snooze I tried DEILD 6 times and 4 of them worked. I just spent the time flirting with sexy female DCs and taking their clothing off. I knew each LD would be short, so I just played around. Lots of fun. I almost stayed in bed longer than I should, as I knew I could have more, but I ended up getting up for work.

07/10/14 After the rest room I tried to WILD and it was swift and easy. I spent much of the dream practicing advanced flying skills. In one part I worked on fine control. I broke out a large window leaving jagged edges of glass. I then practiced floating on my back and feet first. I would navigate in and out of the warehouse through the broken window. In another part of the dream I took a female DC and carried her while flying. I attempted to push the speed up to jet speed while carrying a DC. I determined that it was easiest if I focused on a distant building and was descending rather than climbing in elevation. That makes little sense while awake, but in the dream I was very pleased with myself and kept explaining it to the DC.

07/10/14 DILD I was lucid for the last few hours of the night. I really need to work on my recall. Each time I got up in the night I considered writing stuff down, but was sure I would remember the dreams. Sure, met with that girl and the guy out side of the school, played that game, screwed around doing those things; sure, I got it, no problem, I will not forget. Yet when I got up for the day I reviewed the dreams and they were less clear. Maybe write them down? No, that is fine, I will remember. Now 12 hours later? All vague and dreamy, lol.
In the first half of the night I do clearly remember one amazing sequence. I had been screwing around for some time when I decided to wok on skills. I still have been interested in growing fruit from the sprout to flower, to fruit. I decided to try pumpkins this time. I did it with little to no problem. I focused on the ground and caused vines to sprout and grow with big pumpkin leaves and then flowers. I caused medium sized pumpkins to sprout. Having accomplished that so easily (remember how much work my first tomatoes were?) I decided to play with the plant. I caused each leaf to change into huge lotus leaves, big round leaves the size of garbage can lids. I caused them to swivel around like radar dishes. I then sprouted flowers and caused them to glow amber and look like crystals. At some point I woke up and used the rest room.

07/9/14 DILD I was dreaming when someone offered me a pipe. It was a marijuana pipe. I became lucid as this was out of the ordinary. I have been frustrated by some work issues, so I decided to stay lucid and sit around with the DCs and partying. I inhaled a big toke off the pipe, and actually felt a drug like rush.

07/03/14 DEILD I came back in a car. I was concerned that I had failed to provide a DV member with anything cool or fun. I planted the thought that this is the same sequence with Ophelia and the vague impression of someone appeared by my side. Ok, quick something fun.

I caused the car we were in to start flying. I made it zip up into the sky and then back down. Then I took a corner really fast and made the car go up on two wheels. Definately fun, but let's be fair. Where is the other DV member in this. Really, is Opheia there or not? Take a look, if she really is it counts; if not you are only entertaining yourself.

I look to the side and the entire scene changes. I am alone standing in an alley. I decide to start over and try to find Ophelia and Gab. I just start calling out there names. I have only seen one small photo of Gab, so before all of this I decided if I saw a black cat it might be Gab.

I call out about five times and a black cat comes out of the shadows. "Is that you, Gab?" It comes up to me. Ok, it must be Gab. I pick up Gab-Cat and ask her, "what kind of fun thing should we do Gab?" No answer from Gab-Cat. Oh well, "how about flying?" Again, no help from Gab-Cat.

I carry her and float up into the air to clear a cinder block fence, but tree branches get in the way. I ignore them and they go away. "Ok Gab, here we go!" I take off like a rocket. Imagine how a real cat would react. It was sort of like that. She grips my arm and squirms. Well maybe this is just a cat.

I see a very huge and fancy roof and we land on it. It is now a super fancy luxury kitchen. I set Gab-Cat on the counter and say, "Gab, would you please transform back to a person now?" I expect some awesome visual effects, but then I get the odd thought that watching Gab "change" would be rude.

I turn away and then look back. Gab is now sitting on the edge of the counter and looks amazingly like the one photo I have seen of her. She hops down and is sort of short (5') which I do not know if that is true IRL. She is wearing a very pretty shiny silver summer dress.

"Gab, you look so pretty. What a cool dress."

"Thanks. What should we do now?"

"Well, flying did not turn out so well. Does it count as fun if we rummage around this big mansion and pretend we are not supposed to be here?"

"Sure, what first?"

"Let's eat their food! I bet I will find a plate of hot roast beef." I open a warming drawer and a platter of cold vegies and grease are there left over from a platter of roast beef.

Gab says, "look in the fridge." I do and there is a nice roast there, but clearly cold. I picture it becoming hot. Before I get any results Gab asks," do you just want to snack on Mexican Kia? I have some here."

"What in the world is Mexican Kia Gab?"

"It is a dessert." Now why does dessert sound important? That is a TOTM!

"Sure Gab! Dessert is awesome!" I suddenly wake up again. The day is getting late. I really need to get up and have had five or six LDs. Let's call it good and get out of bed.

07/03/14 WILD I came back from my quick break and did another WILD. I tried to do it basically as if it were a DEILD by focusing on being in the dream I had just been interrupted from. I appeared in a house and Ophelia was there talking to a girl who must be another member. The conversation was about if the girl could have a Dream Views rock band with out getting permission from Alex. The girl left and Ophelia showed me "The Dream Views Club House." I mentioned that it would be cool if we could have a place we all could meet up, but IRL I live in Idaho, which is as far from anything else as you can get in the lower 48. I guessed a real club house would be somewhere random and far away like Tennessee.

We walked out side and were in a private garden walkway between the club house and a fence. Ophelia sat down so I sat beside her. There was a box of files in front of us and they seemed to have to do with DV. We looked and the printed page that labeled the box seemed to make little sense. I tore it in half and we both agreed it made sense now (it still did not). She rested her back against me and relaxed. Umm, ok, I relaxed too and we chatted (not real chatting, but the implication of pleasant chatting and time passing). I felt a warm affection and became a bit uncomfortable as I realized I had begun soothingly brushing a hand lightly over her hair. This was all very nice and totally innocent, but a thought jumped in, "you realize this looks just like Ophelia. You can not do anything too tender and report it, besides as Sensei said, dreaming of other members could be kind of creepy." Darn, time to move this along in a safe direction.

I get up, "Um, Ophelia, I think we should move on and do something else."

"Why?"

"Oh, it is just that we were supposed to do something fun together, and I want to complete the task."

We get up and walk around the corner, and we see another carnival scene. Why carnivals? I was supposed to take Gab and Ophelia to another planet, but in none of the dreams did I think about it. We sit on some steps and look out at passing people in costume. One of them has a very weird creepy mask. I focus in and he passes behind something, and reemerges in a new vamp kind of outfit. Ophelia asks if I think he is supposed to be a vampire. I agree that is it.

We are just pleasantly sitting enjoying each others company again. I say, "I am sorry Ophelia, I was supposed to take you to do something fun, and so far I can't seem to get it right."

She responds, "perhaps just hanging out is fun enough."

I end up waking up part way and am fully aware of my body, but I decide to try for a DEILD and see if I can remember to take Gab and Ophelia to another planet. I succeeded with the DEILD, but never got to another planet. I did however get to spend some time with Gab. I will post that one later tonight after my sisters bonfire.

07/03/14 WILD. I used the mantra again, "Take Ophelia and Gab to another planet." I kind of managed to complete the bonus task, but it was short and the only "fun" activity I shared with a DV member was being at a carnival with music for about 15 seconds. Good enough to qualify, but I followed it up with two much better LDs.
I appear in a grocery store and immediately remember that I want to find Ophelia and Gab. I decide to use a basic summoning trick instead of creating them in front of me. I walk behind the customer service desk (the cashiers are shocked) and use the intercom system. I create the expectation that they are in the store and planned on meeting me here. I announce over the system, "attention shoppers, Would Ophelia and Gab meet Sivason at the service desk. Ophelia and Gab, please meet Sivason at the service desk."
I look around and a pretty woman with long dark hair is walking towards me. I decide this is Ophelia. Now, the woman looks just like photos I have seen of Ophelia, and is smiling. She walks up and in the same voice as Ophelia starts talking to me. "Hi Sivason! Gab could not make it. She is blah blah and had to do such and blah." I did not understand what ever was said here, but decided to just accept that Gab was not coming.
I seem to have forgot in all 3 of these LDs that I wanted to take them to another planet, but did remember we were supposed to do something fun (I hope that is right). I smile back and respond, "That is ok, maybe I can do something with Gab later. Let's go do something fun."
We walk out of the store and I expect to see a carnival, so sure enough there is a small parking lot style carnival. There is loud music and an elephant, plus people and games. I stop and analyze the sound quality. So far the intercom and both of our voices have been near perfect, and yes, the music is too. Suddenly Ophelia says, "Sivason, I really have to use the rest room before we do anything. Let's go back inside first." I find this odd, but she is going so I follow her back into the store. She first opens a tiny door on the bathroom door and peeks through. (?, what ever). Then she says, "be right back," and goes in. I sit on the bagging area of a unused check stand and wait.
Wait a second. Am I actually sitting around in a perfectly good LD waiting for a DC of a friend to use the potty? Just as that oddity strikes me I gain some bodily awareness and realize that I actually do have to go pee. Have I finished the goal? I guess we went to a carnival, but it seems like a stretch. I start to wake; should I DEILD? No, I need to go take care of this and do another WILD after and see if I can pick up from here. Which is what I ended up doing.
I will type 2 more LDs from last night, all part of this Bonus task sequence, but at the moment need to go do 4th of July stuff with my wife.

06-03-14 I decided to try for the Bonus TOTM and got up after 6 hours to do WILD. I set it up with the mantra "Take Ophelia and Gab to another planet." I successfully transitioned into an LD but forgot my goal. I was in a colonial style village. Some terrorists were trying to blow up the court house. A crowd started chasing them. I noticed a long fuse burning going up to the court house. It is a flash back to my last DJ post where I ignored everything the dream set up for me, so I decide this time I will play along and try to stop the explosion. I run up and pull the fuse. I turn to see what the crowd is doing and some woman has lit another fuse. I run towards her and she flees. I go to pull that fuse, but suddenly see that she has lit many fuses that cross all over the place, and looking back I see one reach the balcony of the court house. She looks thrilled and runs off. I chase her and in the next scene the crowd has caught her and two guys.
This next scene is the disturbing part. I am still lucid, but waking logic is very thin here. I push my way to the middle of the crowd, and decide to execute the terrorists myself. ???!!!??? WOW! Ok, the dream is kind of in control now (I recently decided to let it control more sometimes and see what happens, but why does it need to be disturbing?). My weird dream logic is that these are bad guys, this is just a dream, and it may be interesting to experience. I snap the neck of the two men using a martial arts technique. The woman I begin to choke to death (???!!!???). She suddenly has the head of an otter, and it is turning blue and dead looking. Wait, WTF? I let go. Is the crap that will happen if I let my dreams go random? I do not think I like that. She is now on her knees in front of me and seems to feel she should offer sex to save herself. She grabs me and disturbingly I become aroused???!!!??? The men in the crowd obviously intend on taking part. NO NO NO!!! This is total BS. F-YOU dream! I am seizing control again. I allow some free form elements and some part of my brain goes this route. NO!
I erase the entire scene as far as people and colonial style elements, leaving just me and a basic city. I am disturbed. I walk up to a house that reminds me of an old girlfriends house. I go inside and go to the liquor cabinet, and mix myself a drink. Someone is knocking on the door and I wonder if it is Ophelia or Gab (finally some recall of TOTM), but it is the old girl friend. I wake up at this point.

07/01/14 Well a new TOTM (task of the month) thread is up so I decided to do a WILD as I had the day off. I used a mantra "Happy Birthday Dream Views" hoping it would help me remember the tasks. I had a swift transition and find myself in a martial arts studio. People are talking about the difference between Japanese Jujitsu and Brazillian Jui-Jitsu. I just walk out of the front door. I am in a near by city where I visited a Brazilian studio. I am familiar with the area so I take a short walk. I cross the street and in a strip mall I find another Jui-Jitsu studio. I think that it represents the one I have started training at despite its location. I go inside. It is just some mats and people working out and another conversation about the same subject. I go out a rear door finding the whole environment un-interesting. I assume it is just residue from daily life. Behind the studio is just a fenced off area, so I go back through and out the front door.
It is a nice sunny day outside. What was the TOTM? I see some people selling fire works out of the back of a pick up truck with a camper on it. Hmm, it is July, maybe fireworks? No, that was last year, I think we are not doing it again. The people light off a huge rocket the size of a 24 oz beer can. Maybe it is fireworks? I will do something with them just in case. I use TK to seize control of the rocket when it is about 10 feet up. I zip it about kind of trying to scare the people, who run away. I TK (telekinesis) the rocket through the back of the camper and want the fireworks inside to explode. I sense a thought forming "They are not catching," and for about 1 second that is true. I over write that thought with "of course they caught, see the flames, it just takes a second for fireworks to explode." I do now see a flame in the truck. Now explode... I picture the explosion... maybe 3 seconds pass (grrrr). The fireworks do go off all at once, but it is just shooting sparks and flames out of the truck. Not very impressive. Darn.
I walk off along the side of the building because I am pretty sure fireworks are not part of TOTM anyways. The dream now apparently has a narrator. A voice sounds, "the kids were attempting to build a huge firework when it caused a horrible explosion" A split screen kind of effect zooms in on the top of the building I am walking past. It shows kids building a huge rocket. I comment on it being more of a military looking rocket than a firework. The dream starts to shift to the roof. I pull control back to the side of the building. "I said I was not really interested in fireworks." I keep walking. Now I see a boy standing in front of me and a braided fuse going up onto the roof. He lights it. I sense that I am supposed to stop the explosion. I walk right by. The narrator jumps in again, "it is a very slow fuse, there is time to save them." I keep walking. The voice again, "but that building is your new martial arts studio. People you know in the studio will die when the roof caves in!" I respond to the voice, "I said I was not doing anything with fire works. This is a dream, so if the building explodes it is not going to hurt anything. I am trying to remember the TOTM." I do not look back and have reached the back of the building. I turn the corner and the scene shifts.

I am now in a room that looks like part of my grandma's old house. The visuals have gone into a sci-fi fantasy genre. In front of me is some tall wraith lord or some scary necromancer or something. He is holding a staff with a exaggerated Shepard's crook like feature. He is kind of glowing with power and I can tell this is supposed to be very dramatic and frightening. (Perhaps a DG is getting fussy because of the rocket issue?) He spouts some dramatic stuff like this more or less, "Behold! I have finally assembled the pieces of the seven part staff. With this I hold ultimate power and the staff has fused becoming indestructible. Fear me, for now I have complete power over you and all things in this realm!" He really is very dramatic. I walk up to him and snap the curved crook end off of his staff as easy as if it were a candy cane. I shrug and drop it at his feet.

Pretty sure TOTM did not have anything to do with wraith lords. I am not really interested in loud mouth bad guys trying to scare me, so I turn my back on him and try to prevent the thought of him from existing. He is pissed and yells, "Well that last part was just not attached right. I can fix it. I swear to you that me and my minions are going to hunt you down and you will pay for this!" I start flying across a rocky landscape and a thought tries to form, "I wonder if he is chasing me?" I suppress the thought knowing it is the thought that would cause that. I put the wraith lord out of my mind and focus on flying and the landscape.

I want to fly faster. The rocks move by faster. No. Work on this, you limit yourself when flying. I mean really really fast. Just make the rocks zip by in a blur and the wind get stronger to create the effect. You can go as fast as you want. Zip, the scene is cruising by. Ok, but lets do faster, real fast, like a rocket. WAIT! That is it! TOTM involved going to another planet! Hmm, teleporting there would be kind of cheating. I could simply blur everything and reform the scene with weird stuff, but that hardly seems fair. I will fly up into space and after some time traveling past stars and such I will see the planet and travel to it. Yes, that sounds like a good task. I take up into the sky in a Superman mode. I fly fast and straight for a half minute or so. Everything has turned sort of sky blue. In fact I am not seeing much at all, but fairly bright light. Ok, I tell myself that as I approach space everything is now getting dark. I expect the darkness. It does not come. Odd, that should be easy. Ok, no self doubt, now it will get dark and stars will appear. It gets brighter if anything, and I am gaining bodily awareness. Carp. What is going wrong? Try to stabilize, let's see, what can I focus on? I will clasp my hands together. Stupid bright light! Too late, I think I am awake and have left the dream. Yep, laying in bed and the sun light is shining through the window directly into my eyes (and I need to pee badly). DEILD? I move the pillow over my eyes and try to DEILD. No, I really do have to pee. I had been in bed over 9 hours, so I gave up and started my day. Dur~10 min?

06/23/14 I have no idea how to even divide up the night. I know I woke up a bunch of times, but went right back into a clear lucid state. I remember thinking it was uncommon to be so truly aware through so much of the night. I think much of it was other worldly as it had elements of meeting dignitaries and listening to rules and such. I got to display some intense TK abilities to someone on a dais and their court. The themes varied but the ideas were weird and complex such as native vs citizenship. One theme was transportation of non-native trees through gateway like portals. All through out I kept checking to make sure I was still lucid and that I was paying attention However, upon waking my recall was vague and very limited.

Edit: I just gained recall of about 20 minutes of the night. We had been traveling to do some important thing and ended up in a ship wreck. I was with some other floating on a raft and there were dangerous things like intelligent sharks. We snuck across an arctic like sea until we got back to a crashed ocean liner. On board there were many stranded people. I played in a pool for awhile and then went looking around. A cabin had a odd device that had a puzzle of some sort made of wires. I took it apart and found a radio at the center. I turned on the intercom system and experimented with radio stations and seeing how realistic my dream could make music. Later I went around and asked if anyone could make the radio broadcast a help message, and of course the dream provided some 'professor' type who rigged it to broadcast.

06/20/14 The second snooze went off and I DEILD back in, but this time the dream formed in a busy class room. I was not sure what was going on so I just played around. I worked on fine tuning my TK ability. For fun I retended that no one knew why objects were floating around, and I made no motions to show I was diong it. I had a little trouble with controlling small objects in exact manners. I could move things like a little glass vial up and down but trying to bring it up one side of some ones paper held in ront of them and then over the top and slowly down the other. I also had trouble moving it in patterns such as a star shape. I managed the tasks, but a little clunky and sloppy.
A female DC started to act scarred, so I told her it was a magic trick using strings. She calmed down. Now there is a DC who is actually doing stage magic and he comes and grabs the vial looking for the string. The alarm goes off.
The final DEILD takes me back to the same scene. I spent the time trying to manipulate the actions of the DCs using only intent. I did not speak or gesture. It went pretty well. I made one guy reach up and cop a feel on the DC next to him. The receiving DC tried to leave. I made her come back, but she was now a boy. I spent the 9 minutes just doing this sort of thing. When the alarm went off I knew I really had to wake up this time.

06/20/14 Using a snooze alarm for DEILD I chained 3 together befor needing to get up. Each was 9 minutes long.
In the first one the last dream had a concept of escorting a prisioner. I decided not to control it much and instead tried to understnad the theme. I re-entered the dream and was by an airplane and was suppossed to be in charge of flying this prisione to Boise. I looked around the plane and noticed the plane had a cargo shoot, that could be used to parashute out and it had not been closed correctly. I knew in my mind the prisioner had decided to escape that way.
The scene changes and we are on the plane and I see that the guy is a friend of my son. This boy got his teen girlfriend pregnant and is trying to get out of state to avoid being the dad and jail. I talk to him about how he is responsable and is going to Boise. I wish he did not need to go to jail, but he can not run away.
The first snooze goes off and I DEILD but we are now walking along the road in Boise near the airport. He starts to fiddel around with a box knife. I tell him that if he wants to do that then I will have to be armed. I summon a club about a foot long and thump it in my other hand. He sees a hole in at the bottom of a fence and I teleport over to block his way.
Now I am bored of the prisioner thing and tell him I will leave him alone if he will stay to raise the kid. I do not care if he goes to jail, and it is just a dream anyways.
I start flying around alone just for something to do. The second snooze goes off.

06/10/14 This one was kind of odd. I was happily LDing with the DC of my wife and adult child. I was leasurly screwing around, just floating and such basic dream stuff. The DC of my boy starts this hostile line of logic about how I ignore my family with all my hobbies (a real conversation from 2 months ago). He is telling me that here I am sleeping in and just screwing around with this LD crap, not even bothering to do anything special, when I should be spending time with them.
I started to have false memory suggesting that this must be a week end we all had off, and I was being lazy and probably should end the dream and get up to spend time with my family.
I ended the dream and made myself wake up. Darn it! It was just a normal night and the kid has recently moved out of state. Grrrrr, false memories (shakes fist).

06/10/14 I have no idea why I decided to see how good I could get at summoning fire trucks, but mid LD I got that in my head. It seemed like a very specific use of summoning and also a large colorful object to summon. I succeeded in bringing a fairly old fashioned one into the dream, when a stupid dog in the apartment above started making noise. I woke, but used DEILD to get another LD going. I started over and summoned a brighter colored fire truck, but the dog was howling and woke me again.
The final time I got creaive and decided the dog howling was just the sound of the fire truck (another DEILD). I made it appear down the street and come towards me. I was very lucid and in good control this time, so I decided the truck would be driven (the second driver, up top) by a sexy woman. This worked well. The truck pulled up and was modern and bright. It looked great.
I appeared up on top near the woman and started steerig the back half as the truck sped along around corners. I had the sexy woman cuddle up close and act sexy.
Pretty odd goal to randomly pick, but the final version was sweet and lots of fun.

06-03-14 I got up after 7 hours sleep and read about June's TOTM. I decided to go for the bonus aquarium task. I laid in bed on my back and put a pillow over my eyes and ears (noisy here at the apartment). I started counting in my mind and focused on each point of my body starting with the toes and relaxing each as I moved up. I went through this twice, then moved to a mantra. When I was seeing H.I. I moved to my side and transitioned into a dream.

I could see images and they seemed to be from above looking at a house or something with little detail. I decided that for this task aquarium must mean a big public aquarium like they have in big cities, so that this image must be the outside of a large building in which I would make the aquarium. I created a multi level mansion kind of feel and teleport inside the building. I am up on a balcony that wraps around the inside of a huge building. The balcony has fancy wooden guard rails.

Now for the aquarium. Hmmm, perhaps it should be in a swimming pool? Yes, a very monstrous swimming pool, that is the idea. I go over to the edge and expect the entire floor to be a big pool and it is. I jump from the second floor and drop in feet first. I plunged down under water, but have no need to breathe so I stay under water. I want at least one shark, and a shadow becomes a shark swimming towards me. I clarify in my mind that the shark is not a man eater. I want this to be an aquarium people can swim in, so I add a few happy tourists swimming across the surface. Now for fish; I start to imagine schools of fish and they appear. I add a school of large angel fish and something like Moorish ideals. I look the other way and add a school of grey bat fish.

The big swimming pool is complete with fish and sharks, but I want to do a whole public aquarium, so I teleport up onto the lower level deck. I go through an outer door and create an outside garden area with smaller pools. I add some people looking into the pools. It looks very nice (I wish I had stayed and added specific things in the pools, but had more work to do). I turned around and went back inside and up a grand stairway. I had some fun creating a bar/dining area with lots of tourists, then moved on along the hall and made a game room. I could not understand what the games were, but the kids were having fun, and that is what a public aquarium is all about.

Now I have this all going in one visual field (except the outdoors part) and it seems I could add another level. Now, I can see that another grand stairway winds up higher. Suddenly IRL a garbage truck is servicing the apartment complex and I am about to wake up! No! Redirect, quickly! A window,' look, that garbage truck is in this dream' Of course a big aquarium will need garbage service. I look out the window and make a garbage truck appear. See? No external noise, all in the dream, do not wake me up! It works. Now the public aquarium has poor sound insulation and I pretend this is an issue to talk to an engineer about later. Yes, clearly we need sound proofing which explains why I am likely to still hear this dream garbage truck for the next few minutes.

I go up to the third floor. I create a shopping area and decide to get a nice suit so a shop keeper in a fancy suit comes up with a mirror and we discuss what I should wear. I transform in the mirror and go with a dark jacket and purple shirt.

That is the extent of the aquarium I created, after that I maintained the LD for about 15 minutes to half an hour and just walked all around interacting with DCs, and eventually took another swim.