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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. 10/17/12 Shared Dreaming Exp attempt

      by , 10-18-2012 at 07:33 PM (Cities in the Astral)
      This was a DEILD in the early morning. I remembered that I wanted to contact Link and get a password.
      I tried to focus in on Link. A picture formed and suprisingly it was almost the same as last time. A hand was writing on a ledger, then moving down a line, over and over. Then an image flashed of a meter or gauge with a moving line.
      All of this was reminding me of the theme given in my other attempts, that being lines, and a measurable thing divided into unit like a spectrum or the marks on a speedometer.
      Then an image flash of a white gel like substance, that looked about like vanilla yogurt. I find that odd as the other two drems specifically refrenced a gel or cream like substance. Dur~3 minutes
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    2. 10/12/12 DILD Boardwalk Dogs

      by , 10-13-2012 at 09:07 PM (Cities in the Astral)
      This DILD is worth documenting because of one cute part of it. I was well into a long semi-lucid, when I thought "stop having this line of thought. You are only dreaming this irritating stuff, because in real life...." I decided that despite it being a work night I would go ahead and take control of the dream, because I had 8+ hours time for sleep, and the semi-lucid was already emotionally tiring me out.
      It was on a board walk, but I do not care to document the entire thing (frisbee coaster, surf border, and so on). A pleasent day and TK on a few things, preety routine for an LD. The cool part is at one point I was practicing using my voice, so I was saying out loud what ever came to mind. I passed by a bench and there were three big dogs sitting on the bench. I said out loud "Dogs become weiner dogs" and wave at them. They blurred and the picture reformed with them little. It took about 5 seconds to get them to look like wiener dogs. I took a close look and they even had good detail as far as fur patterns. Two were tan and one was dark.
      Not an amazing thing, but funny enough to bother writing down. Dur~ 3-5 minutes. Alarm interupted it, so I did not give up much sleep either way.
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    3. 10/10/12 Jet fighter DILD w/ 2 DEILD re-enteries

      by , 10-11-2012 at 08:32 PM (Cities in the Astral)
      I had a long string of vivid semi-lucid dreams. At some point I became frustrated with the tedious nature of a sequence that involved carrying furniture. I made the needed change of mind set and became fully lucid. The lucid went on for queit a long spell. I do not bother to journal standard LDs, and much of it was very standard. I started to wake on two occasions, but pulled off the DEILDs by returning to my mantra 'Thank You.' The LD involved basic flying stuff, of interest was one case of getting hung up on a power line. It also involved walking around looking at/for pretty DCs. Scenes took place in both a icce cream shop and a coffee shop.
      The one truely interesting portion was while flying I decided to transform iinto a fighter jet with lasers. I did airal stunts and shot targets with the laser beam. I think this is the first time I transformed into a non-biological form that was capable of action (have been a river and so on). Great fun. Dur ~30 min.
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    4. 10/05/12 Halloween Challenge DILD

      by , 10-06-2012 at 03:14 PM (Cities in the Astral)
      A long string of vivd semi-lucid stuff had gone on before the lucid portion. Real breif,,, old girlfriend tells me her friend got taken in meth raid/ wake up in bed with strange girl/ other women from my past and my wife come in/ lots of hanging out talking/ shifts to railroad tracks with same crowd/ five girls hold me down/ buying a friend alcohol/ wake up from being passed out/ tub is filthy,,, none of that stuff has to do with the true lucid so I will leave it with no details.

      I walk into a small mexican style court yard, but the set up reminds me of another area I was recently in. It is odd so I do an RC. I go and tap my ffinger tip firmly on the wall. It sounds right, but the actual tactile feeling is a bit spongy (dream?). I run the tip of my tongue over my teeth slowly and deliberately and it does not feel right. How did I get here? That makes no sense. RC completed I am fully lucid now.

      A boy walks in carrying odd avacado type fruit. I use TK to fling themaround as a final proof of the dream. One bonces off his head. Yep, clearly dreaming. I go out side and start to fly.

      There is a wonderful castle, so I fly up it. It is fabulous and huge. I explore the outside of it, but when I reach the top I see more floating castles up above. I fly to one and go up it.

      As I reach the top of the castle I staart thinking about what I could do that would be good training or constructive. I think about the DV forum,,, no, Matte is not running a competition. Isn't Ophilia Blue doing halloween challenges? I think so. However, I also think maybe someething cool is going on with all these castles, so maybe I should fly higher.

      The scene turns dark and stormy and phantom figures are flying around and 'spooky' sounds are on the wind. the castles are gone. I guess that is my clue that I should stay focused on the Halloween stuff, so I land. I am on a busy city street. It looks like Mexico again. A cop car goes by annd is watching me. I ignore it, as I do not want my brain to evolve that thought any more.

      I decide on the trick or treat challange as I do not like most spooky stuff. I walk into a store and a DC of my son is there holding a bag. I tell him to hand me a bag. He says he only has one. I tell him another bag is inside his bag and to hand it to me. It works and I now have a trick or treat bag.

      I tell him about the challange and that the neighborhood ahead will be full of people from DV. We enter an apartment building and go up the hall. I am joined by other DV members who are trick or treating. I think Linkzelda was there and maybe Gab (but they looked genericly like tricker treaters). We started reading the names. The first two doors had Adrj001 and some other user name on them, but no answer. The room we went to next was Nitro-something and the door opened, but he was on the bed and a woman was on top of him. He yells out "No one home- no candy here!"

      Wwe go to the next with some random user name, but no answer. Now MelanieB is with us. She looks like her avatar, but wearing a Huck Finn costum and with a fishing pole that has her candy bag instead of a hook. She is frustrated that no one is giving us candy. I tell her that I will go with her if she wants to leave and try another area outside of the apartment building.

      My real life physical mouth is getting dry and the need is pulling me from the dream. I partially wake up and loose the dream state. Dur of lucid portion ~5 minutes.
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    5. 10/03/12 Yet Again Communicating with the Dead

      by , 10-05-2012 at 02:39 AM (Cities in the Astral)
      Wow! I have been actually getting to spend quality time with my deceased father! I knew high end LD mastery would lead to mystical ends, but this is WILD (punny). I have had all sorts of precog dreams, met many entities from astral worlds, and other crazy stuff, but untill May I had no one close to me who died.
      i seem to be able to reach my Dad and spend time with him, although I feel more like it is him contacting me. So, this is the 6th dream in which he has appeared and seemed way more thatn a DC. I have been fully aware that it is a dream and that he recently passe away during the dreams.

      In this one, i was having a vivid Ld and there was a party going on. I was not trying to control anything, as it was a work night and I needed the mental relaxation of a casual LD party. I have only a casual recall of the things that happened, but it was fun and busy. I am not concerned with writting any of that stuff though.

      The realy intense part starts when my dad walked up out of the crowd and puts an arm around my shoulder. It was clear he wa snot a DC. He talked with me for awhile about my life, and we meandeed around the party. Fianlly he says "I have been able to free dive on the coral reefs of the Bahamas and I do weird things like follow the course of green feather duster worms (?what?), it is great!". he said he was going back to do it some more and would see me again later.

      He turned and suddenly walked away and out a door. I followed after him, and reached out for his shoulder. He turned around, but looked like someone else. I have learned through working with dream guides who to see through illusion, and I could tell it was still him.

      I laughed and said "that is funny, like the classic dream image. i follow you, but it turns out not to be you. I am better at this stuff than that! I can see you through the illusion."

      He turned back into dad they way I remember him and looked angry, and said "don't be like this (clingy?)"

      I said "I just wanted to shake your hand and actually say good bye." he smiled and shook my hand warmly and then faded from view.

      I returned through the door into the party, and someone asked if it was raining. They were talking about the tears of joy running down my dream bodies cheeks. I did not care much what happened in the LD after that, and soon lost lucidity. Dur~?10 min
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    6. 09/28/12 Lucid Party

      by , 10-02-2012 at 06:26 AM (Cities in the Astral)
      I only had 4 hours to sleep, so I did not intend on doing a WILD, but I did chant a mantra "Thank You" as I fell asleep. I accidently went into an LD. Many people where around having a party. I started the dream lucid. my first though was "I do not have time for this."
      I considered making the dream end, but relaxed a bit, and went with it. I normally would erase all the DCs so I could be in commplete control. I actually told one DC, "this time you guys can stay, you being here will keep reminding me it is a lucid."
      I just spect some time visiting and showing off that it was my dream by levitating girls and such. I remember looking at my own body and noting it was very life like.
      I did not worry about recall or stabilizing or training, so i do not remember much, but in general it was fun and maybe lasted 10 minutes.
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    7. 09/22/12 Visit From my Dead Father X4!!! 4 seperate LDs last night.

      by , 09-23-2012 at 06:43 PM (Cities in the Astral)
      Wow! I had heard that a LD master may be able to talk with the dead, but I have never had a dead loved one until a few months ago to try it with. This is the second time I have got to see my dad since he passed away around June (3rd if i count one where he was just a DC).
      Last night contained at least 5 LDs and he interupted 4 of them to visit me.
      In all 4 interupted LDs I would suddenly teleport to the house we used to live in together and he would be there.
      Mostly this string of LDs is too emotional and personal for me to sit and go into detail here. I also refused to get out of bed and makke notes as I just kept having LDs, so didn't feel like getting up, so the recall has faded a bit.
      High lights from each of the dreams.
      1st lucid dream) I was teelling him that I was nervous aabout my wife having surgery in two days. I said that I could not stand the thought of loosing them both so soon together. He walked away and busied himself. I thought he may have been frustrated that I was not focused soley on seeing him.
      2nd lucid dream) He took me around the front of his garden. He said something strange as he worked on something. "Don't think I am spending all my time here. I do my thing for about 11 hours and come here for 1"
      I have no idea what that meant.
      3rd lucid dream) I put my hands up on the sides of his face and am amazed by how much it feels like being near him did in real life. I notice he is taller than me, but was not in real life. He asks me 'what?' I tell him, it is just that you died in real life about two months ago, and I am amazed that you are here. This seems like I am actually visiting with your spirit" He looked a little angery and turned his back on me and walked a few feet away. It seemed like he had forgotten that he was dead and I had reminded him. He then muttered "I don't want to be alive anyways!"
      4th) i take a walk through hisgarden and there is a glowing blue/purple lotus plant blooming. this is of special importance to me and my dad. In paintings from India of heaven, the lotus are blue. True lotus never comes in blue, so if you see a blue lotus it is either heaven or a god is standing near them. Blue lotus only blooms in heaven. There was a beautiful blue lotus in my dad's garden.

      The total duration of each of the four dreams varied from 5-15 minutes.

      Updated 09-25-2012 at 05:15 AM by 12783

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    8. 09/22/12 DILD Surgery is Coming.

      by , 09-23-2012 at 06:25 PM (Cities in the Astral)
      Tomorrow, I will have to take my wife to get a surgery. I was in a dream where it was time to take her, and I could not figure out where to go. I did a mental RC analizing the scene and became lucid. I don't want to write down all the details, and I did not bother with getting up to record anything, as the night contained about 5 LDs and I figured if I was on a role, I should stay in bed.
      The highlights as far as interesting novelties goes is I attemmpted for awhile to keep tabs on as many DCs as I could and bring them with me on my quest (walk my wife across dream land and find a good doctor) I managed to bring my wife, grandma, and great grandma (this night was full of dececed relatives) and keep each of their charactors intact for about fivish minutes.
      I did find one doctor, but decided he would not do, so we kept looking, until I eventually lost lucidity. I think it was from my wife (IRL) getting out of bed. Dur~6-8 minutes.
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    9. 09/15/12 DILD Burning Down My Work.

      by , 09-17-2012 at 02:17 AM (Cities in the Astral)
      So I was having one of those nights when you are replaying work or school related subjects over and over. This is a natural part of the learning process, but i hate it anyways. I was not really in the mood to lucid dream, as I needed as much quality rest before work as I could get. I spontaniously became lucid in the middle of repeating a work related taskover and over. I told myself 'stop it, i forbid you from dreaming about work' the image faltered but soon started back up. I tried again 'I need to sleep, stop dreaming about work.'
      The image faded, but as soon as I relaxed it started again. I entered the image of me working and found it was trying to continue the learning phase regardless.

      My hand reached for a tool, so I threw it up in the air and it stuck in the ceiling. My hand reached for something else, so I scattered them recklessly. "Stop dreaming about work, I need to sleep!"

      My hand reached out to replace the tool i had stuck in the ceiling.... So, I sprayed flames out my finger tips, and lit the whole damn place on fire!

      Then I was able to get some quality sleep, with out dreaming about work, LOL. Dur ~3 minutes.
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    10. 09-11-12 Six Hours of Lucid Part 4

      by , 09-12-2012 at 09:02 PM (Cities in the Astral)
      The final portion of the marathon was a DILD. I was trying to tell my mom about seeing my dad in the last dream, when I realized I was dreaming. I have nothing worth saying about this dream. After the last dream I was overwhelmed. I think I just flew around for a couple minutes and lost interest. there were some random scenes and interactions, but after the last dream nothing held much interest. Dur~3-5 minutes.
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    11. 09/11/12 Six Hours of Lucid Part 3 !Visit from my Dead father!

      by , 09-12-2012 at 08:59 PM (Cities in the Astral)
      This was a WILD after I got up and used the rest room following part 2.
      This dream had a very emotional portion. I screwed around again with very basic LD stuff and randomly explored, but I will skip the basic stuff as it is taking me to liong to do my journal today. I ended up hanging out with a DC of my step dad and we were out riding bikes while I had fun moving the roads around and controlling traffic with TK and so on. At some point we went down a hill and a small crowd was looking at some thing. I stopped (bike disappeared) and examined it. It was crazy; a bunch of coral was growing out of a bench or something and a large bright pink spider was busily wrapping it all in a huge web. i called the DC of my step dad over and showed him. The graphics were astounding! I watched the spider for about a full minute as it hurried around and around encasing the live coral in a web. Of course coral do not live without water, but I knew it was a dream, so whatever, I was just getting off on how incredible the graphics were.
      The pink spider became a pink sea crab and the web became the out side of a giant fish tank and filled with sea water. A larger crowd had gathered. It was now just a wonderfully vivid coral reef tank. Someone put a hand on my shoulder.

      I must explain here about my father. my father was a internationally renowned expert on corral reef tanks. He was basically famous in that feild (such a small field, so maybe famous is not the word). My father died about 3 months ago, suddenly, in his sleep.

      I looked and it was my father who put his hand on my shoulder. He was just as vivid as the tank. I assumed he was just a DC at first. he said something like " I have created this for you. Every time you look into a reef tank, know that I am there."

      I said "Oh my god! Are you really here with me in this dream, dad?" he wrapped his arms around me in a hug, and it felt so real and life like, and exactly like it felt to hug him in real life (he was barrel chested). I thin I woke up or lost lucidity after this, but am not sure. Dur~ no idea, poor recall in parts, maybe 30 minutes?
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    12. 09-11-12 Six hours of Lucid Part 2

      by , 09-12-2012 at 08:40 PM (Cities in the Astral)
      This was a DEILD from part 1. I screwed around with flying aand exploring roof tops and basic stuff for awhile, This was a fairly long sequence, but most of the detail is confused. There was a section where I walked through a building and entered a mens public rest room, but a woman was in there. I figured this was a throuw back to odd dreams I had as a kid, based on shyness or something, plus maybe my body needed to pee. I turned and waked out. I ran into another woman and talked to her for a minute, but she seemed like a basic uninteresting DC. I was suddenly in the house belonging to my friend's parents, and a baby in a high chair had turned on a faucet which was overflowing a sink. i turned off the faucet, and went outside.
      It was lovely outside and the trees were real looking.I levitated in a cross legged yoga pose and fflew around for quite awhile. I explored the face of buildings in some quaint business district, but eventually got bored of that kind of stuff.
      I decided to challenge myself. I brought my body into clear focus. I was cross legged and levitating while moving forward. I started making magical hand gestures (mudras) while canting Nom Myoho Rengai Kio over and over. The hand gestures where vividly clear and the chanting was coming out as real audible sound. Eventually I decided to challenge myself even more. I started levitating up side down while moving forward down the street in a cross legged yoga pose while doing both the mudras and the mantras. This worked well and was kind of fun.
      While levitating down the road upside down and doing the other stuff, I had been using diffuse vision to keep the scene stable, by also keepingg awareness on the road. The awareness of the scene had degraded into just the branches of some trees flying by to create the scense of motion. As soon as I noticed that my head was brushing across the ground, and I decided to just land.
      I decided to allow my brain to randomly create a scene with no expectations, just to see what popped up. I was laying on the ground and stood up on a pleasent deserted country road with wooded rail fences and quaking aspen trees. I just took in the beauty of the scene for a minute, when I noticed a young boy watching me. He started to hurry off, but I wanted to see what the DC would say if I talked to him. I caught up with him.

      The DC told me "swimming in the cretetousis sea is very dangerous,"
      What? He repeated that my plan to swim in the ancient see was very dangerous. OH! That was the dream task of the month! Hey thanks random little kid DC! I floated up and sure enough there was a sea shore. I walked into the calm water and explored an under the ocean world. I do not remember how long I played around under the sea, but maybe it could not have been more than 2 minutes, certainly not more than 5, but my recall is a bit confused at this point. I do vividly remember a portion of it. I was looking at small sea life, like minnows and plancton when something stirred in the sand and suprissed me. It was a vividly colored mix between a sea cucumber and maybe a lobster. It darted into a small opening in the reef. Other sea life started going into the opening. 3 other largist critters went in, but I only remember one was a giant herit crab with purple legs.

      I came up out of the water, to find a pirate ship. I decided to screw with the pirate ship, because this was supposed to be an ancient sea, and not a pirate dream. I flew above the scene and attempted to summon a giant lobster. Hundreds or thousands of large lobsters swarmed the ship. Itried again, and a true giant lobster came up from the sea and crushed the ship in its claws.

      Other minor scenes happened, and the dream eventually ended with me and two DCs having a picnic by the sea, eating lobsters. I remeber using TK to pull some peaches from a tree and we sat aand ate peaches for a couple minutes. I only mention this beacuse they were incredible! The juice ran down my chin and thee tecture was so real and the taste was close to as vivid as real peaches. Often dream food comes out bland, but not these peaches.
      Dur~30-45 minutes?
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    13. 09/12/12 DILD Six Hours of Lucid Part 1

      by , 09-12-2012 at 08:07 PM (Cities in the Astral)
      Wow! What a night! I have no idea why, but I basically stayed lucid for 6 hours, for 6 am until noon. It was not solid as I woke up 3 times during this period. I assume also that there must have been portions of normal sleep in there. I will journal it in 4 parts, because each time I woke up would be a distinct dream on to itself. I am going to cut the detail down to a minim and only hit high lights because of two things, I have work to do, and with so much time dreaming the recall becomes non-sequential and confusing.
      Part 1 contains a sequance of sexual scenes with some pretty blonde woman who was in my house. I think seeing a stranger in my house may have been the first cause of me becoming lucid. Basically I see a stranger, relize I am dreaming, and decide to fool around. I am troubled in that we can not seem to get good lubrication and it is holding up the sex acts, making everything akward. After a few minutes she is suddenly gone. I walk around inside the house and she is in the shower. I decide to try and continue the sex action, but again we run into the whole dry problem. I assume my body was trying to hump the bed or something that was sending confusing signals or some such thing. Eventually the woman DC gets sick of the akwardness and tells me to leave her alone.
      The dream progresses through fairly standard LD stuff like flying and exploring, and includes a few scenes inside the back area of a large store, but my recall is missing any good detail about what happened. I eventually end up outside and recognize the large street. I decide to do the task of the month, but forgot what it was! Damn, I walked out into the middle of the street and slowly spun in circles really bringing the details into focus, and trying to remember what the task was. I kind of woke up at this point and laid still in bed. I considered getting up and looking on DV for the task, but decided to do DEILD instead. Then the next dream started. Dur~30 min?
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    14. 09-04-12 Fun witha Mirror DILD

      by , 09-06-2012 at 03:12 AM (Cities in the Astral)
      I loved this experience! I was screwing around in a standard LD when I came upon a mirror. I decided to play dress up/costum in the mirror. I just looked at my reflection and the dream me looked so dashing and handsome. I would warp the cloths into various costumes and they responded pretty well. Eventually my alarm went off. Darn it! Dur~5-8 minutes.
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    15. 09-02-12 DEILD Testing REM atonia

      by , 09-06-2012 at 03:08 AM (Cities in the Astral)
      I had already had 3 DILDs this night, so when I pulled off a DEILD I decided to try something. I had been talking about SP in Mzzyk's thread, and wanted to see if it felt the same in REM as what I experience in nREM during the late stages of a WILD attempt. I focused on trying to feel my body in my bed. Yes, there it was. The dream imagery stayed and was very much REM, but I could now feel my body in the bed. It felt just like a late stage WILD SP experience. Well, would it be able to keep me from moving through concious will? SP in nREM has never kept me from using will to over power the SP. I decided to sit bolt upright in bed. It happened with little effort. Some may be shocked and think I wasted an LD, but like I said, it was the 4th in a night.
      I am not sure if I learned anything, but clearly true REM atonia feels the same as what some members argue is not SP (late WILD experience) and REM atonia has no more power to immobilize me if I use concious will than standard WILD SP.
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