Cities in the Astral

05/25/14 I tell you it is very challenging to do a good WILD with all the noise of an apartment complex in the day time. My upstairs neighbors are freakin loud and I swear someone was using a power saw
I wanted to do a WILD and complete the advanced TOTM before the month was gone. When H.I. hit I created the images and feelings of surfing on a jet plane to account for all the loud distractions, and this allowed my brain to ignore the external world and complete the transition.
I was suddenly laying on my grandma's couch. My sister reached over and tapped me. I started to complain about how hard it was to WILD in this setting, not to mention with her trying to wake me. I realized I was now in a dream. I laid still and waited for the dream to become stable by focusing on one visual item. A fish tank was in the room. As I watched it shifted and was now hanging 1/3 over the couch I was on. The coral life in the tank was getting more detailed and finally was vivid. My sister threw a battery in the tank and I hoped up and went to fish it out, but realized I was starting to believe the dream was real, so I turned and rushed out to start my LD. My mom followed me and was talking and talking and even as I got outside she was loudly talking. I flew over the roof and up but still she talked. I realized the upstairs neighbors were making tons of noise and I had been trying to force myself to ignore them by placing the noise in the dream.
Fine, I guess I need a very noisy setting in the dream or I will be forced awake. I need an airplane, perhaps? There is one, I think as I randomly look into the sky. Sure enough, there is now a distant airplane. I begin flying up to it and put on the speed like a jet. I reach the plane and now see an airport. I fly down and across the more industrial portions until I reach the terminals. I figure I can put on a music show in an airport (to account for the nasty external noise). I go inside and people are everywhere being noisy. Now F@#k the neighbors! The noise all fits in my dream now.
I cause beautiful women to be in the crowd and keep randomly taking one of them as my girlfriend/ dream cohort. I went through about 5 different women in this role as the stuff that was all around (about 10 minutes of LD in here) would distract me, and I would just grab the nearest lady to accompany me, rather than trying to find the same one. I start to look for a place to preform and decide the lounge area is divided by movable walls. I have the first girl go open the walls (and then lost track of her). Now I need a stage. I imagine all the arcade type tables such as air hockey and TK them up against a bar. I jump up onto the stage and cause dozens of DCs to gather around. I test my voice. "Hello! I am going to preform!" Voice is loud and clear and everyone gathers around.

I do not play any interment or sing well so what now. Everyone is waiting. I just make up some words to the army style marching rhythm. "I don't know, but I've been told, preforming music can't get old. I can't sing well, so what the hell, I will just play a bell!" I turn planning on a giant bell being there and it is not. Hmmm, everybody is watching. I just start stomping out the rhythm that people use when they knock (thump, thumpthy, thump, thump,,, thump-thump). Everyone is just looking at me with blank expressions. Lame. Ok, I think that meets the TOTM and I am now uncomfortable.
I jump down and go have a few more minutes of airport based LD adventure. This is when I kept finding new companions and nothing very special happened after this, just random sex and exploring.

I was in a vivid LD and got thinking some sexy stuff would be nice. The problem was when I looked around I was in a Jr High. Being very adult myself, my first thought was that I needed to travel somewhere away from this group of kids. Then it occured to me that Jr High schools have teachers. I caused a very pretty female teacher to come walking up just with my intention. With no conversation I caused her to walk straight up to me and drop to her knees (naughty stuff) and begin giving good oral.
My first feelings were based on her being very pretty and how vivid it was. However, my brain then pointed out that the kids were al stopping and staring at us. Darn it! I am not prude, but that was a buzz kill. I could have made all those DCs disappear, but instead decided to move on and create a better scene.
I walked down the hal and caused another adult woman to walk up wearing a bath robe. I said "let's see you" She opened the robes and again this woman was very vivid, life like and sexy, plus very nude. We went through a door that I decided led to some sort of teachers only area. I created a bed, but had lost track of her. Some other DC guy was there, who I guess represented me and had made her mad, so she had left. No. BS. Start over. Erase the guy DC. Gone. Now a blanket was on the bed, and I said " I am sorry, come back" and she was now under the blanket. I removed the blanket and she was again realistic and beautiful.
I fool around with her but have spaced off stabilizing too long. I realize the dream is going to collapse and stop the sexy stuff. I call out, "ok, I am going to focus now" and try to save the dream, but wake up.

I had been having a vivid semi-lucid about a weird group of people using many ambulances in some sort of spy like thing. I was one of them. At some point the FBI breaks in and has us all restrained. I find the whole game less fun now, so I pull full lucidity into the dream.
I erase everyones bonds and make the FBI disappear. I stand up and announce that I am bored with th egame and will be flying off now. Everyone is like "awww darn."
I fly up and look around from about 100 feet up. I decide to do a TOTM, but can not remember what they are. Wasn't my birthday recently? Yes, so Easter must be about now IRL. Maybe find Easter eggs and see whats inside? Why not? Maybe it is right (nope, not Easter). I land in a pine covered area and easily find about a dozen large painted eggs by searching in the pine needles. They are large like goose eggs and very vivid. I begin cracking them open, but they only contain leaves and other mulch.

05/03/14 I was having a bit of lucidity and randomly decided to attempt the T.O.T.M. I "knew" when I turned around I would be seeing a perfect amphitheater, but instead I was down town in Boise, and across the street from The Egyptian Theater. The theater started to glow and a thought could be felt, "You can perform your concert on the stage of this theater."

Well,,, no, not exactly what I wanted, thanks anyways. I warp the theater and cause it to shift into a outdoor stage. I then float up onto the stage. It is pretty vivid and a huge well lit stage. I pull some light into a sheet and attempt to create an instrument. I first use TK to lift something like a flexible glowing sheet and kind of shake it. It creates a crackling and electronic wave kind of sound. Hmmm, I need to figure out what kind of instrument, but I am forgetting a crowd. I "know" that a crowd will be out in the amphitheater will be there. I look and it is hard to see the crowd with such bright lights on me.

Something interrupted the dream, and I never got back to any of this. Pretty good attempt at my task,

considering it is the first day, I am hopeful for a very awesome LD in which I can really ham it up and do everything in style.

I was doing snooze DIELDs again, but the final time I woke a man was laying near by looking at me. His body was stretched out across a chair. I did not move and he became a baby seal. I was pretty much awake. The seal then became my coat bunched upon the chair.

This LD was very long and I do not remember how it started. It involved one sequence where elf lord types were running around fighting demons. They were clearing out a big castle. I had been wandering and flying and interacting with DC. The recall comes into focus at least 15 minutes into the LD. had watched these elf guys and maybe helped and we were walking up to a throne room we had cleared out. A freight train sized demon zips past us and it is spectral and trailing energy. It makes it to the room before us and slams the door.

The elves are like "rah rah lets get him!" I however am getting less interested in this. Suddenly the door bursts open and the demon is shaped like a freight train, but an elf is riding it. I fly up and out of the building.

I land in a street and take a moment to stabilize. Ok, stabile and vivid with pretty good awareness. I decide to try for a task of the month. Let's see, first step is remember one. Hmmm, something about weather, but what? It is April, so does that help? Valentines Day is in April (LOL). Maybe,,,, Something about astronauts? I will just assume it is a Valentine's day task (opps). I go up to a door and a guy answers. He is older, so I say "Hello sir, I am here to take your daughter on a date." He asks, "Which one?" I say "Either of them, I know them both." He says, "You are so stupid I would not let either of my daughters date you. He shuts the door.

I look up at the sky and it is very vivid. I remember one of the tasks now. I will swim in space and do something? I focus and morph the sky into a vivid night sky with the milky way. I fly superman style up up and away. The visuals are going nuts showing me nebulae, swirling starts and such. I remember to swim. I am floating in the stars and breast stroke swiftly around. I see the moon and consider flying there, but that is not new. I will try some big ego stunt. Maybe playing marbles with the planets. That is it. I pretend I can see mars in the stars. It does not appear. I pretend it did and reach out towards where I am pretending mars is. I just need to fly closer and it will be clear. That works. Mars is before me and I pick it up like a pool ball. I look down and see the solar system. Each planet looks like a model from grade school. I fling Mars at Jupiter and the planets bounce around. I fly to retrieve Mars and when I get it I look around for target. The other planets have turned into sea shells. Hmm, I can also kind of see the shape of streets forming. I throw Mars at a large yellow sea shell and it shatters. I grab another near by planet that also is now a celestial sea shell. I am now in space and in a very dark alley way. The alley is becoming clear and I see a beer can. I throw the planet/shell at the beer can. It hits and I am now fully in an alley. at should have completed one task.

Now can I think of another? What about the Valentine task? Maybe it was give someone a valentine, or ask them to be. I leave the alley and find some DCs and get a pretty lady to walk with me. It is now kind of "Little house on the Prairie" themed. I eventually stop and ask her if she will be my Valentine. She refuse. I think the dream went on, but I do not recall more.

04/02/14 I was doing a series of DEILDs using a snooze alarm. I had already completed 5 o6 short ones (9 minute snooze) when i appeared in a cartoon. I was not truely embodied (3rd person). I just watched and it seemed to be very south park like but with much better graphics. The kid named Butters was going to pull some joke or something and was whispering with a bunch of other kids. Then I followed along as Butters snuck across a lawn with a sign that I knew must say "Keep Away" or spme such. Then he was in the house and the front of him was painted grey. It seems the old man can not see well and butters held up a grey sign in front of him. The old guy was sure someone was there, but if he moved Butters would turn to keep the sign between them. I was very pleased as cartoon lucids are the weirdest thing. The old man yelled for his daughter and that is when the snooze went off again.

03/29/14 A whole night of lucidity, at least it seemed that way. I had trouble sleeping until about 4 hours into the night. After that I was lucid on and off for about 5 hours. I was very lazy about commiting anything to recall. I just was having all sorts of fun, and my level of control was crazy. Everythig responded to my desires at about the speed of thought. I thought about trying to commit the events into waking memory, but decided not to bother. I know I changed a lot of DCs into other DCs and at one point turned the ground to lava (or melted velveta, lol).
The only aspect I cared to pay much attention to was being fully lucid and shifting sleep phases, so that the only visuals were a feild of sky blue. I just accepted that and went about kind of daydreaming for awhile until visuals were possible again.

03/25/14 WILD after 7 hour WBTB. Easy transition. An hour or so of great fun. Played chase with someone. They kind of had a magic battle with me. DC of woman from my past was very realistic. Have been playing with taking a stride and launching myself up and forward, then floating, gliding forward so that each step carries me about 30 feet.

DILD- around 03-19-14?
I was in the middle of an LD and noticed that instead of flying I was really more controlling an image of me flying as if I was controlling a remote control airplane. This made me think of the dream from my last entry. I was now actually controlling a small jet by remote control. I attempted to use the same trick that I explained in the last entry. I switched the prescpective the same way and it worked. Suddenly I was the jet! Sweet, I seem to have developed a new method of control. Still plenty to learn after all this time. What a great hobby.
I flew as the jet for a couple minutes. I had a small bit of trouble banking at severe angles at first, but a small mental adjustment fixed it. I then landed on my roof, but touched down with feet, and was now human again.
The roof was tore up and it seems my house is under construction in the dream world as well as in waking life. I then went on to less interesting things.

DILD around 3-18-14?

I was in an LD and noticed that the car I was driving (racing) was in a 3rd person prespective. It was much more like playing a video game than life like. I would see the car and road from about 20 behind the car. It responded to my intent, but I felt the control was sluggish and I did not get the rush of actually racing a car. I attempted to simply adjust and drift forward into the car. This failed a couple times. I drifted into the car, kind of, but then would be right back to video game mode.
I got irritated and somehow shattered the dream and reformed it. It was much like how I teleport, but also felt like I used a god-like hand to grab the car and yank it towards me. It also felt like like a scratching record kind of effect (like in a movie effect,,,). Everything shifted and the entire dream rippled kind of. Then it did what I wanted and I was in the drivers seat.
I then got bored and told myself the first house I come to will have a hot woman in it. I pulled over and got out. A house formed. I started to walk in, and my mind thought, "what if the woman does not want you?" I simply prevente the thought from forming beyond a fraction of a moment. Of course there is a hot woman,,, yep, my hot wife comes around a corner. Of course she wants me. fast forward through 3 short sexual experiences, very vivid, and my stupid alarm goes off.

01/27/14 DILD I was having a pretty normal semi-lucid about parties and friends, I had not really paid much attention. I left a party on one side of town and then was walking near my home. I decided to grasp lucidity because the change in scene was rapid enough to actually pull my attention fully into the dream. I knew it was a dream, but had not done anything about it. I took a second and changed to full lucidity. Why? was I wanting something? Oh yeah, singing. There was a thread about music in a dream. Take a minute and try it out, you have had lot's of sleep. wait. Where am I sleeping? Not at home. Hmmm, complete blank. Oh well. I took off flying, but in a new way. I threw my arms back and swan dived into the sky. It was very cool. I was moving up like flight, but was blasted by air and my arms and legs were blown back. It felt like I was leading with my thrust forward chest.
Ok, now try singing! What to sing? ummm, ok, just my go to mantra. "Thank you for this dream, my lord, thak you for this dream." OMG! My voice sucks! Wait, just picture that it is better. I try again; no, my voice still sucks! Darn it.

01/17/14 I worked a bit towards doing a MILD and had good success. I had two longish vivid LDs and perhaps 4-5 interesting and pleasant lucid moments besides that. Here is the bummer, I have very poor recall about the dreams. I have not worked at recall in about a month and now I am seeing a deteriation of that ability. I assume if I took some time to meditate and search for the memories I may recover a bit, but I am at work, so I can not. During one dream I wondered if I should repeat the details so I would remember, but decided that the dreams were vivid and fun so I could not possably loose them. Not true! They have become hazy and vauge. About the only thing I remember is a lot of sex with my wife and having to stabilize. I had to stop all together to stabilize one time.

Oh weel. Lesson learned, I can never stop putting effort into recall for more than a week at a time.

01/10/14 I have nott been posting my LDs for awhile because my home comp is broken, but this one is worth recording. I saw the movie Hansil and Gretil, Witch Hunters, last night. When i became lucid by DILD I took off on a broomstick. I flew around like a witch and threw fireballs at fields of amaranth. Later i almost got hit by a biplane when coming up over a ridge. I decided to change to flying a bi-plane. I did stunts and explored the mountains and hillls and part of my city. A very graphic and awesome dream that lasted perhaps 20 minutes.

12/17/13 That's right, 80 freaking minutes (about 50-60 vivid lucidity)! I should say WILD Party and then Porno making sex, but I like how the title turned out. I had already slept about 10 hours, so this was very late in my sleep cycles. I had only had the unimpressive brief LDing stuff so far this night I decided to actually do a full out formal WILD. I lay on my back and repeated "Thank You for this dream My Lord, Thank You for this dream," I faded in and out noticing I had stopped the mantra twice. After about 5 minutes I felt my body trying to sleep, but being on my back was going to slow it down. I had faily good awareness going, so I allowed myself to roll over on my side. I fell into a light nREM sleep for about 5 more minutes. I kept feeling my body shift to get comfy, but I just observed and resisted the temptation to either actually sleep like normal or just get up. Then a deeper nREM state hit and I started good HI stuff and tried to feel myself as a artic wolf running. So far 20 minutes and about 15 in lucid non-REM sleep.

Suddenly I was laying on a couch that was on a porch. I just watched for a couple minutes taking the time to mentally stabilize. Now a couple I had been friends with long ago entered the house, so I got up and followed them inside. I just looked around and interacted with them for perhaps 3 minutes. I had to stabilize, so I focused on the mechanism that locks the sliding glass door (feeling it and clicking it up and down). I then considered making out wiith the female of the couple, but part of me felt that was tacky as he was in the dream. Instead I just went through the glass door and explored a bit.

Before to long, after some floating around and stuff, I came to the outside of some concert hall/restaurant and there are tables and chairs on a patio. Eventually I notice a pretty woman and she is upset. It turns out her daughter is in there and mom is worried about sex and drugs and so on. I offer to go in with her and see if we can find her daughter. The party is basically a wild concert in a small setting and we are soon sitting in some bleacher with her daughter. We talk about nothing (I do not remember details) and I drink part of a beer. There is a cigarette/joint in my hand and I think about how I do not do things like that anymore IRL. I also think drinking beer and smoking whatever this is would not be a good influence on the kiid. Then I decided that as this is a dream, what do I care about influencing a DC. So I drank and smoked a little.

Before long we are back outside and I offer to talk with the girl. I just wanted to test my ability to talk out loud and have a steady train of thought. I did very well and was probably too long winded. I finished up the whole thing on how she would get increasing responsibility as she got older, and also how boys may try to get her to take drugs and all that. I was pleased with how clear my voice was coming out and how functional my speech and logic was. When I started to explain why she should always call her mother, the girl DC disappeared, so I just acted ass if she had not (mom was still there) and finished the last couple sentences.

Mom was upset and said that her daughter had stormed off in the middle of what I was saying. I was bored now of this stuff, so I looked at the mom and told her, "She did not walk off, she just flat disappeared. This is a dream and she simply vanished. I do not know why I would spend so much time talking with the two of you, but perhaps this is some sort of shared dream and you needed to hear what I just said." She looked shocked and irritated and then she stormed off.

I stabilized again by focusing on the table top and tapping it over and over. Now I sat relaxing in a lounge chair outside the party. The porch was still very party like and festive. I saw a car pull up and a woman I seemed to know got out with another woman. I am not sure why, but I assumed she would try to talk to me and I willed her to leave me alone. After a couple minutes in the lounge chair I went back through the doors into the party. It was crowded and some big guy bumped into me. His friends were saying stuff and my mind started to assume he wanted to fight. I attempted to suppress the idea before it could form, but was a moment to slow. The though had emerged that his guy wanted to fight, and of course now he did. I decided that leaving this part of the building and not thinking about him would end it. I turned down a hall and walked towards the restaurant portion of the party.

I heard him and his friends behind me (think about something else, you are creating this). I attempted to think about something else but there he was following me into the hall. He was a very big ugly mean looking man. I turned and looked right at him. I told him in a very clear voice, "You are a very friendly guy and just wanted to say hi." He looks surprised and befuddled but starts to swing at me. I slowed down time and he was moving about 1/8th speed. I simple brushed the punch over and while it was happening, I repeated, "You are a very friendly man." I then let time go like normal. He just smiled at me and gave me a head nod and wandered back down the hall.

I was now in a huge restaurant and there was a great buffet. I wandered around looking at the food. Anything I focused on was very real looking and tempting. I decided I would try a few bites when something external was threatening to pull me into waking life. I was not sure what but I did not think I could pretend it was inside a restaurant. I stabilized using my hands while leaving the restaurant. I was now walking down a road and a motorcycle was coming up behind me. I think externally it was a vehicle engine that was noisy, so I told myself I am going to walk down this road and listen to this motorcycle. I was walking up the other side of the road with the bike behind me but it kept getting louder. I was using this trick,,, http://www.dreamviews.com/dream-cont...tay-dream.html

The bike was so loud it must be coming up right on top of me. I decided that I needed to ride on the handle bars for awhile. It came up from behind and I was suddenly scooped up on the handle bars. I was now racing down the road at perhaps 35 mph and just putting my arms up like the guy in Titanic. It felt great. The noise was still going on and I was wanting to do something else. I reached behind me knowing the throttle would be there. I made the bike speed up and do some wheelies and weave and such. Now this was fun. Eventually the noise suddenly stopped.

With the sudden stop of the external noise, my mind made the bike stop. I started to fly off the handle bars! How to handle this? I summoned a foot or so of water to cover the long straight road ahead of me and hit it like a slip-n-slide. Nice! Zip down the rode I go like a penguin playing on wet ice. I enjoyed this for a few moments and the knew a pol was coming. I went into slightly deeper water and it stopped me. The water felt very goo, so I decided I would look up and see a vey nice pool to swim in. I looked up and two vivid swimming pools were there. They had a chainlink fence around them like municipal pools always do. I went to jump the 16' fence but only made it to where my feet were about 8' off the ground. I was about to scamper over, but dropped back down instead. I then had a small argument with my brain. "What the hell was that? I can jump over the fence, not some sissy 8' half way up jump!" 'That jump was better than any human athlete could do IRL' "I do not care what a human athlete can do IRL. I am going to jump clean over it like the bionic man or something. Do not try to limit me!" 'You could easily walk right through it, make it disappear or teleport to the pools, so why do you care about jumping?' "Shut up. I am going to jump. Yep 6-million dollar man style. Let's cue some bionic man sound effects." The music started and I was read to jump...

Suddenly an ex-girlfriend from long ago was walking up. She looked very vivid, realistic and sexy. I forgot about going swimming. We talked for a minute and she said "I have a family member who came from India to shot pornos for the Indian markets." I never had sex with her IRL and would like to fantasize about this, so I pull a plot redirect like this,,, I answered, "Oh, and you came to find me to be in a porno with you! Great, I will do it, let's get started!" She looked shocked at this redirect, but suddenly this guy was there with a camera telling us what to do and she did not protest. I had to overcome a couple issues. First, this is a very good girl who would not make a porno. Answer: Shut up stupid brain, this is my dream, go away. Second, if she does pornos she is likely dirty and dangerous. Answer: Oh come on! It is a freaking dream, shut up! Third, You know that sex is likely to cause your LD to end sooner or later. Answer, I will take it as a challenge to keep stabilizing and besides, how freaking long have I been in this LD already? Ok, all the problems solved.

The guy explains he wants to film a casual test run with no plot just to get some footage to show his investors. He questions me about the size of my parts (I am not going to tell you the details here. lol) We are on the grass under a water tower by the pools in a park. I am impressed with what happens next. I started things pretty normal and it felt pretty dan real, and the various aspects of the dream were staying pretty stable. I had to stop and stabilize about 5 times. I remember the film guy getting irritated. "You need to stop what ever it is you are doing and keep having sex!" I just thought, what do you know DC? If I do not keep stabilizing you will cease to exist. I am not a porno writer so I do not want to give you a move by move description. We kept at it so long that in real life most women would be hoping you would get it over with soon. I am thinking about 20 straight minutes (minus quick stabilizations) involving various positions and then switching to a more exotic/naughty form of sex. I really wanted to climax in the dream, but it was always just on the verge. I finally gave up.

I got up and just acted like we had finished. I wandered off out of the scene now kind of bored. I walked up to an apartment complex and looked at a door. It was pretty vivid and I took time to stabilize while examining the door. I knocked on the door and assumed a pretty lady would answer. One did, and I went into the front room. She looked a bit like Mary Ann from Gilligan's Island. I said, "My you are very pretty, aren't you?" She came up and started to kiss me. I thought she looked more like a teen, but told myself she is at least a college age girl. What if a DC dad comes in. Shut up, she is a college girl and will not live with her dad.

The gas heater kicks in IRL and partially starts to wake me. I make it the heater in her apartment. The neighbor IRL life starts using a power saw! Crap! Ummm, maybe her dad is out back using a power saw and you two are a couple of teens sneaking? Come on make it work! No, it was not going to work. I guess you always have to wake up sometime.