Cities in the Astral

This was a fairly long and disturbing DILD. I won't bother with many details. I did standard stuff like flying and floating up roof tops, eventually I found that the scene was of our old house. We used to have massive hot tub parties, so I went out back with the expectation of there being one. Yep, party in full swing. How about a girl on my arm? Sure, there is an old girl friend, and every one of course is conviently naked. She joins me on the deck.
This girl friend IRL had a very hard part of her life where she ended up on heroin and doing prostitution. The scene switches to my dad's bedroom (dad just died IRL). He tells me he has paid her to do a 3 way with both of us. She suddenly starts giving him oral! Right in front of me! OMG! I am not going to allow this BS from my own dream.
I erase the entire scene in disgust. We are now all 3 out side my grandma's house. She is getting in a taxi and he is paying her. Itis implied that I did in fact take part, but that just irritates me more. I am fully lucid and should not have to witness lame scenes like this. I wake up. Dur~5-10 min.

NOthing interseting in these. Just the basic, hey this is a dream, weee I like flying, and some minor stuff like that. I have poor recall if anything interesting happened, I guess it could not have been 2 interesting. Dur of each 2-3 min.

The dream started with a vivid non-lucid section where I was showing big fishtanks I had built into the wall to a girlfriend I had about 20 years ago. I was actually seeing large silver fish in the floor, and pointing them out. The tanks started leaking and I thought the floor would collapse. I went outside to look into the tank in the floor, and when I came back in my mom was looking for me. She could not see me in front of her or hear me. I became lucid.
I went outside and started walking. The dream started to fade while I was walking by the river, but soon became vivid again. I saw my friend through a window and he came out to talk. I told him I was actually just dreaming, so I had better things to do than hang out and talk. He had a big dog with him and I tried to levitate it. It got angry at this, so I levitated myself instead, and floated away from that scene.
I ended up seeing my wife inside a large room with bleachers. I wil skip this scene as it is just about 3 or 4 minutes of a 3 way wwith her and some random pretty woman. I did not reach climax on purpose, so I could stay lucid. I walked off from that scene. Out side again, I decided to visit a church and find an alter. I immediately found a church and many people inside. I could not really find an alter and quickly lost intrest in the idea. The preacher started talking to me and people gathered around, so I stopped and tried to listen, but it was non-sensical so I went out side again.
I remembered that I still had not completed my 'Shared dreaming challenge' so decided to do that. I pre-assumed that the church I just left was in a pyramid, which I would see when I turned around. Sure thing a massive pyramid was there. I started to climb up the side. It was more ornaate than an egyptian pyramid and was truely massive. I reached the top and the dream tried to fade again. I could feel the four sides and the point with my hands, and used that to bring it back into focus.
I sat on top of the pyramid with my legs around the very point. I called out "I am looking for someone!" and really paid attention to make sure it was audible. It was loud and clear. I called out the same phrase two more times. I then called out "I am looking for the Diplomat" which is my nick name for one of my dream guides. Nothing.
I decided to try and see past the illusion of a created dream scape and just see the top of the pyramid, myself, and what ever would be left that was not illusion. The scene became odd and I am not sure I understood what I was seeing. I sat cross legged on top of the pyramid and began meditating and chanting OHM. It was very cool the way the sound was vibrating, but before too long, my wife got out of bed and that woke me. Dur~15 min

This dream had a large amount of non-lucid content before the lucid portion. No need to desribe it in great detail. Basically i went to a barbaque at my Dad's families and they had an auction game so everyone need to tell how much cash they had, but i only had 3 dollars. then we were in a resteraunt and so on. The only interesting thing is we were going to meet at the park for a Crosby, Stills, and Nash concert and on the way there me and my sister jumped the river, but it did not make me lucid or even RC.
We got to the park and other relatives from dad's family were there. I was shocked to find the band just standing on the grass and only a few dozen people waiting to listen. I sat on a bench next to my sister and fell asleep. I was awoken by a comotion, someone had tried to hit my sister.
I got up and realized nothing was making sense so I did my levitation RC. I floated off the ground and that made me become lucid. The crowd disappearded. I stabilized the dream by patting down my body with my hands. I spent a minute or two levitating quickly through the pine trees, until i came to the edge of the park and saw a tall condo. i decided to see if I could fly in the classic Superman form from the movies, and did it reaching the top floor of the building.
On the top floor i started to go into a third person scene involving the cast of the show Scrubs, but forced myself back into the dream. i jumped down to ground level again. I somehoe felt my sister was on the top level now, and i wondered if this may be some sort of shared dream. I decided to float in a meditation pose up to her window to see how she would react. I talked with her inside the apartment about it being a dream, but she seemed to be just a DC, so I decided tto try and float through the closed window. It worked on my second try, but the screen tore.
I went back down to the park and tried to pass through some playground equipment and it worked, but I kept feeling the objects pull against me. I decided that I should fly to the moon. I looked up in the sky, but it was day time. No matter, the moon would still be up there, so I took off in Superman style. before I got a hundred feet up the DC of my sister ran out and was yelling something about us needing to meditate. The dream end when I stopped to talk with her. My wife had gotten out of bed and this is what ended the dream. Dur ~ 10 minutes.

I got up in the middle of the night and sat in my hot tub, then laid back down for a WILD. I got into REM faily quickly. I was in what lookes like a school yard and people were running as if they were fleeing something.
I jumped up on some stacks of stuff and wen away from the scene back deeper into what now looked like a storage yard. The first thing I noticedwas a giant stack of fireworks! Nice, I decided to light them all off at one time. I took a large bottle rocket and either climbed over or walked through a chain link fence (?) and then I sw that the people had been running from some sort of Asian gang fight. I figured lighting the stack of fireworks would be cooler than trying to understand the gang dream, so i ignored them. I shot the bottle rocket into the stack and ran. I know things happened after this, but I had forgotten to stabelize, and that is the last i remember. Dur~? 2 minutes.

08-20-12 This was my 3rd and final WBTB of the night. I had all ready slept 8+ hours, so the sleep was a little to light. I got into SP and HIs when my body temp seemed feverishly high and my heart pounded. I worked past it by using a method of moving my awarness around my body erasing it as I went.
In strong HIs I started a serious visualization routine of me walking.Soon it became a real dream yet vague, I walked up and down a set of stair I summoned. This is did not bring the dream into good focus, so I did my rope ladder climbing deal. Eventually the dream formed up and random things would block my way, I climbed out around a barrier and sat on it. Things were pretty good so I decided to go have my dream. I flew off of the seat I was on and landed on a street. There were vague poeple there with loud voices. I just walk by enjoying the look of things. This part of the dream seemed to be all colored in mahagony. Eventually I came to the base of a cliff blocking off the street. I decided to rock climb up its face. With in a minute of climbing I woke up. Dur~5 minutes

08/19/12 This was my second WILD WBTB of the night. I was able to enter an LD failrly quickly after about ten minutes of trying to fall asleep. It was not very intersting however. I was able to observe three dream sequences in 3rd person. One was based on a Fred Astair movie clip Debrajane posted, one was of my kitchen and me and my wife making a pizza, and one was just me watching some men talking about random stuff. I had been waiting for the vividness to increase and finally attempted to transition it into a 1st person LD, but somehow thee effort to find my own hand woke me up. I had already slept 10 hours, so maybe my sleep was just too light. Dur~3 minutes.

08/19/12 WILD. I issued a friendly challenge on a thread to show what kind of skill may help people develop shared dreaming, 1st) find or create a pyramid and go to it. 2nd) state out loud "I am looking for someone" and combined) stand on top of the pyramid and say the phrase out loud.
This was my first attempt to complete my own challenge. I got to bed early enough that I would have almost 8 hours sleep when my wife went to work, I got up just before her and stayed up for 20 minutes. I started the WILD attempt and it took about 20 minutes to be honestly fully asleep, but aware. The HIs were not special this time, but I played with trying to shape a pyramid out of the swirling mists. I entered into full REM dream state after about 10 minutes.

I was in HIs when a very bright spot appeared and was unusually stable, so I looked directly into it. I appeared in a full REM LD. I was at a house we used to live at. A kid from my childhood was there and he wanted to talk to me. I had plans so I made sure not to let the dream side track me. I ignored him and walk around out the back door to the front of the house. I reminded myself of what my task was. I decided to test out my voice as a way of stabilizing and getting ready for the combined challenge. I should have said the phrase right then, but was being arrogant and assumed I would be able to do the full challenge, so instead I just said something random, like "hello! one, two, three."

I decided to teleport to the top of a pyramid, but did not take time to really picture one. I instead teleported to the inside of a large building supply store. I think my brain was playing a few jokes on me during this dream! I was in the isle that had large bricks and mortar! I guess because I called this a challenge my brain decided to make it truly a challenge. I saw the joke and found it a little funny (build one!) but, no, I did not feel like spending my dream building a pyramid. I used TK to flip a bunch of mortar sacks around just in response. I started to walk out of the store to see what would be outside.

I could have fallen prey to a false awakening here. I dreamt that I could also feel my cat walk on top of my body and thought he was going to cost me the dream. I realized that the door had been shut and that I had trained the cat not to mess with me when sleeping. At that realization the partial FA stopped and the dream continued.

I went outside and it was a pleasant day on a random city street. I thought that finding a pyramid may show more shared dream kind of skill than to just create one or teleport to one. So I started my adventure. There were some people in the street. One of them was a pretty woman jogging in lycra shorts and basic jogging attire. I reached out and gently stopped her and pulled her close. I thought maybe I would fool around a bit, but realized that is just a classic distraction. Instead I used her as another chance to stabilize the dream and enhance the visuals. I was just very tender and sweet to her, like she was a girlfriend. I ran my fingers across her hair and looked into her eyes. Her eyes were amazing! All the detail was there, including very colorful green/brown irises with detailed lines and dark pupils. The Dc was very animated and we actually seemed to share true fondness for each other. I told (thought at her) about my plan to find a pyramid and she wanted to come along.

We walked down this pleasant city street with my arm around her waist. Very vivid and pleasant! I decided to get back to actually trying to find a pyramid. I decided that the building at the end of the block would have a pyramid roof. I levitated us up there and it was a very cool ornate building like a museum or conservatory. Sure enough there was a pyramid up there. It was part of the ornamentation. I walked up onto it with the woman still in my arms. I thought "OK here you are on a pyramid, so say the phrase." But then I thought about why I was doing this. The whole point was to show skills that would be useful in shared dreaming. I looked down at the pyramid and examined it. It was a perfect lovely LITTLE pyramid about 5 feet across. I then thought, "Don't sell yourself short. The idea was a landmark others could find. This seems like cheating to just get it done with, you owe yourself a real challenge, and you can do better than this."

I looked back up and the woman was gone, and I was now inside the building. It was very nice inside, like an atrium with ornate walls, plants and a pond. Some woman came in and said they had reserved the room and that I should leave. I had other things to do, so I left the building. I walked out into a parking lot full of equipment and scaled a wall using spider climb. I seemed unable to get to a good vantage point, so I started to fly. I got up a ways and saw hills in the distance. I decided that if I looked around a pyramid would be over in the hills. I did see at least two hills that looked a lot like pyramids, so I started to fly that way.

I noticed that I was flying over large buildings and one had a glass roof that was a pyramid. I stopped flying to the hills and landed on it. No, my brain was going to toy with me some more. It was pyramid like and very large and shiny, but it was clearly not a pyramid. It had its sides at weird angles, so I tried to imagine it becoming a pyramid. No luck. I flew around some more and ran into (not hard) a giant glass building that seemed to go up for hundreds of stories and get bigger a ways above me. This looked like a wonderful challenge for my spider climb skill, and I decided the top would either be a pyramid or I could see one from up there, so I screwed around for a couple minutes playing spider man. The glass sides were very vivid and pretty. I finally climbed onto a large balcony. I was still nowhere near the top, so I decided to look down. The city was only about 30 stories below me and the buildings all had cool roofs. I decided to go down again and find a large pyramid roof.

I wanted to have some fun so I travelled the rest of this dream using Spiderman webs. I would reach out and send a tiny filament out that would hit a point ahead of me and swing like Spiderman. The filament was stretchy like a bunji cord and could yank me forward if I wanted to go really fast. When I got to ground level, I found myself in a hotel lobby. I decided to head out side. On the way a woman and a man were sitting on a couch. I took the woman's hand and brought her outside with me. Somehow I had become confused and now thought my goal was to stand on top of a pyramid with a pretty woman (likely because I had just done that earlier in the dream).

We went outside and I had my arms around her and decided to levitate us up higher. The added weight seemed to weigh me down, but I realized that was crazy and then I levitated us both up higher. I saw a nice glass pyramid roof and took us there, but my mind was still playing with me. We were up high on a tall buildings roof with our arms around each other. I looked down and the roof was a 5 sided star shape! Oh come on! It also refused to reshape into a pyramid. I was impressed with how vivid the interaction with the pretty girl was. It felt sweet and sexy, and very real. I allowed myself the pleasure of a nice hug and a few sweet little kisses, but did not intend on letting myself loose lucidity. I only kissed and touched for about a minute.

I then looked around and could see a real pyramid off across the city. Now, that is the kind of land mark I had in mind. I used the Spiderman webs to travel and it was awesome! Before long I was on top of the pyramid. It was not huge, like the great pyramids. It was more like the roof on a large building, but it was large and a true perfect pyramid. I had unfortunately kind of forgotten my goal. I thought the phrase "I am looking for someone." I did not however say it audibly and actually forgot the point. My brain just came back with "OH? Well who are you looking for?" I was not sure. "Oh! That's right. I was supposed to stand up here with a pretty girl!" No, in fact that was not right, but oh well.

I looked down off the pyramid and saw a pretty woman (each of the 3 women looked entirely different) so I used TK and brought her up on the pyramid. We stood on the point and arms around each other we had a big sexy kiss. I actually had thought that was the goal of the dream, so I felt like I had completed the task. Opps, so close. I also decided it had been a marathon LD so far, so why not reward myself with some vivid dream sex on top of a pyramid! That scene went very nicely and oh so vivid! The dream orgasm caused me to loose lucidity, and the dream went on as a vivid semi-lucid. Dur~ 30 minutes

I had attempted a WBTB earlier and just got cool HIs, then I had to stop to go to an appointment. I was awake for 2 hours before I got home. I used earplugs and a face mask and started on my back on a couch. I had trouble disconecting from my body. I got in mild HIs in about 5-10 minutes they included a loud sound like a sword coming out of a sheath, tons of color swirls and finnally images like faces and such. I ended up having to get up and pee, but left the mask on and tried not to wake up any more than needed.
I layed back on the couch. I created the sensation of various things using the visualizing tricks I teach in Dream Yoga. I easily reached a point were it fely like I had wings and was diving and soaring but the visuals just would not come. I am not interested in cheating, and am taking part in Matte's competition, so I did not consider this as good enough. it was great fun and a way to pass the time while waiting for a better sleep phase. I ended up partially waking, so with mask still on I felt my way to my bed.
In bed is where the WILD started getting good. I was able to get back into SP and HIs almost at once. I went back to dreaming in nREM about transforming into an angel and flying doing all sorts of tricks, suddenly I could see landscapes and looked at my hands. The hands were there but all messy and not very vivid. I flew up to the top of a spire of rock. I sat on the spire and looked at the visuals waiting for a better sleep phase, if not REM than at least a latter stage of nREM that would give me the visuals I felt were lacking. I spent this time doing a reality check, as I was getting confused as to what I was doing or how it had happened. First I tried floating and it worked, then I tried grasping my wrist and not only could not feel a pulse, but my wrist swished through my fingers. Then I saw the tips of great big wings and regained full lucidity. I went about stabilizing with a sequance of mudra hand gestures.
At this point I was sure a clear and reasonably vivid nREM LD was taking place as the visuals had improved to what you may expect from a virtual reality that needs improvement. There was color, but most things also were a bit translucent and proportions and depth perception were not very realistic.
At this point I transformed back into my normal self and slowly with careful intention grew a set of wings. I could feeel the feathers form and I kept this up until the wings were huge. I dove of the spire. The wings were really much too huge so I reduced them to about how angel wings look on comic book charecters. I was still not in REM and was a bit frustrated, as this process seemed to be going on and on. I remeber actually wondering if I was having much REM at all lately and almost lost lucidity. I decided I better stabalize again. I landed and used a rope ladder climbing stabalization where I slowly watch and feel each motion involved with climbing. I went back and forth between fancy dives and rolls in flight as an angel and climbing the ladder.
I decided the idea of flying up real high or climbing uo was too time consuming so I went through a sequance of running and jumping off of convienent mile high cliffs.
Funny observations include when I ran if I did not pull my wings in tight I started to lift off before the cliff, and that during one dive I was in a bad position that caused me to free fall. I was hopeful that these random problems signalled the approach of REM. I tried to induce REM which is hard to explain, but it still did not hit for awhile. Various odd things started happening, like voices and random channges in the scenory that would get in my way.
All at one time everything went nuts for a second and I fell out of the air and the visuals went crazy like a blurry colidascope. I was standing in Walmart and my wife was over by the pharmacy, then i was standing there in a sleep mask leaning against a display. I only was confused for a moment, and did a basic mental RC which brought back full lucidity. Here it was! REM at last! How much work to get here? I grew angel wings again, but just had them appear, rather than grow. i wanted to get busy flying. I spent a couple minutes flying very very fast around and over isles in the store and swooped past some women. I decided I should go outside (would have been good to teleport for 3rd task, but spaced it off.) I saw a man near the exit with a fancy white hat so I decide to dive past him and snag the hat for fun,,, whoosh, right over him at very high speed and snagged the hat. I turn over in the air and examined the hat, it was like a cowboy hat or something. Still flying backward I looked for thee man and he was staring at me, but still had a white hat. I threw the hat like a frisbee back onto his head and it merged with the other hat.
I saw a lady going outside so I flew out the exit and landed outside. She was getting into a car. I went over to the car and got in. I tried to talk to her, but my thoughts were messy and I just said some random dream nonsense. She looked irritated to have a stranger in her car. I reached over and touched her, when the scene went all blurry. I forgot to stabilize soon enough.
I was standing in my bathtub wearing a sleep mask and the water was overflowing. I got confused and thought maybe i had moved into the tub and tried WILDing from the tub. I had a FA at this point and did not recover lucidity after that.
Dur~ 1 hour nREM LD and 10 minutes REM LD

Yet again, I would not normally put this in my DJ, but here it is. After my pathetic WILD at 3am, I had set another alarm for 5 am and tried again. This WILD seemed to take less time but still was about 3-40 minutes before a dream started. I hit HIs fairly quick, but really had an unsatisfactory level of SP, which I think doomed the LD later. The HIs this time were less awesome, just red swirls and pulses plus a shifting feeling. This LD started about the same as the earlier one. This time I was watching a conversation in a front room, but I could not change the focus of the visuals as in I did not seem to be able to look around. I knew one of the people was my cousin, but could not see who he was talking to. I tried to hear the conversation, again just blah, blah, blah.
I decided that this was another 3rd person dream and I wanted to be careful not to ruin it. I tried stabelizing by feeling for a body. I was able to pat down my legs, but could not see any body parts. I went ahead and started to try and create angel wings on my non-visable dream body. This felt cool and seemed to work, but I would not consider it succesful as I still could not change the visuals and see the body. I finally tried to force the visual to move and include a clear visual of my hand. This effort caused my real life arm to move and suddenly I could hear the AC and lost the dream. Dur~2-3 minutes.

I would never have put this in my DJ, but I am in Matte's competition, so here it is. Bed at 9:30 alarm set for 3am. Took a shower, and started a WILD. It seemed to take a hour or so, for very little results. The HI part of it was great, my body seemed made up of large soap bubbles all vibrating and giggling around. Then when a dream finally started I was lucid. It was a scene with people talking out side the hotel I was sleeping in, out in front of the reception area. I tried to hear what they were saying, but it was all just blah, blah, blah. I tried to look at my hands and found, I was in 3rd person. I tried visualization to create a body, but ended up thrashing in bed and woke myself up. Lovely waste of an hours sleep time. Dur~2 minutes.

08/02/12 This one is weird enough to be worth posting. I was in an LD in a light grey void communicating with my DG, when I heard a voice. It said quite clearly "This is Linkzelda." I looked towards the voice, but instead of a person, there was a giant rip in the fabric of the astral area me and my DG had been in. the tear in space was pitch black.
I talked towards the void, and said "Did you say you are Linkzelda, off of the internet?" I heard it again "yes, this is Linkzelda."
I said "how strange is that. I don't see you just a weird void."
A very short conversation followed maybe a few sentences about if we would remeber this tomorrow. Then the tear/void was gone.
I am assuming this is perhaps just an autosuggestion event, because we have all been talking about shared dreaming, but it is certainly weird enough to put in my DJ.

After my training on energy barriers was over, I found myself back in the large astral city for the first time in a month or so. What a relief. Work had just been to stressful, I was drinking wine, and I had asked for some alone time to LD strictly inside my own head without any one watching or judging me. I had a little concern that getting back in, might take a lot of A#S kissing.
Two nights ago I started asking to be brought back into the astral, and here I was. I was met by the two young daughters, who form 2/3 of "The 3 Women." This may be the first time they have hung out with me without their mother (? older sister) being present. It was a very pleasant day and they were out for a walk, so I joined them. I admit I acted a bit like a silly fool. I kept showing off stupid things because I was so pleased to be back and see familiar people. I remember showing them how high I could jump. One of them was staying off to the side, like she was not interested in interacting, and the other would just smile. The smile was more of a "how cute, you are acting like a love struck grade school boy" kind of smile. Then I picked her up and said something dumb, like "look at how easy I can pick you up." and I kind of tossed her up about 8 feet off the ground and caught her. Again, a smile like before.
She said they were going to a store. I still do not fully understand how the economy works there. They can of course create dream imagery at will, but they also have an exchange system based on some form of highly stable material. The material can be used to form items and structures and clothing, that exist for long durations, even when no one thinks about it. I can not explain, as I am still a bit connfused. But that is where we were going, a market of some sort.
We had to cross a busy road or something like a road and then the imagery of the market looked alot like a walmart or something with a parking lot.
I kept getting more and more touchy and affectionate with her, and she did not discourage me. Both daughters have on a few occassions made out with me, and i kept wanting to really touch and kiss her, but I kept my compossure and settled for touching her hair and holding her hand.
We held hands and floated together sort of like the scenes with Super man and Louis lane flying. I would reach out my free hand and push off the ground to slowly glide us forward to the market. When we went inside she said they were to get some food. I was a bit confused. I knew they ate food, but had assumed it was just dream imagery food. I had not been aware of food as a substance of the astral realm. I was also confused because the imagery she gave to explain, showed veery plain staple food, instead of high end food. She invited me to come home with them and share dinner.

At this point my alarm went off. I really did have to get up because of an appointment. So i said goodbye and ended the LD. Short and sweet with no real action, but very pleasant. I am happy to have gone on such a nice walk with her.

This lesson with my DG "The Diplomat" involved trying to cconstuct basic energy forms like they use in their structures and barriers. He would almost step inside me and then create a mass of energy so that I could feel what he was doing. Then I would try. I could make my energy vibrate about the same, but at this point, this skill may be a bit beyond me. It seemed fairly straight forward, but after working on it for what seemed like hours, I was still pretty confused. It will take practice, i am sure.

This one is worth adding to my DJ. This is another class session with my DG "The Diplomat", and was another out of phase semi disembodied lecture with constant oppertunities to test my skill. HHe really uses few words to teach so again I can not really understand or teach what he showed me. In the past I had been completely blocked by basic energy barriers used to create sections in the big astral city, and by the external walls of any of these city areas. I have kind of figured out a means of lining up my energy to slide between sheets of energy and could slowly force my way through. However, he spent most of the the night teaching and driling me on a way to alter my vibratory energy to match the vibration of the barrier and easily move through it.