lucid

After a really long dry spell of lucids with some quality I had this dream, which is in many ways a good step forward for me.

I was walking around in the town I lived in before, it was slightly dark and it felt really empty, but it was a pleasant atmosphere. The general color scheme was very bluish, and the sky had a light lavender with darker blue clouds. I turned around a corner to the school I was in before (BKB) and for some reason I suddenly knew I was dreaming. I was pretty offline though, as though I was sleeping inside of the dream, but the routines I trained over the past month kicked in and I remembered I should stabilize myself in the dream when I get lucid. I did so and pulled together all my focus, then I started to walk towards the school, shouting out for my dream guide. I didn't have a lot of power in my voice and there was no response, so I walked a bit further and it became quite dark. I used Lumos one time to light up the place but it didn't last long so I somehow got the idea to summon a "Battle Mag-Lite", a 2m long version of a normal Mag-Lite. I saw some weird person with a futuristic looking armor behind a force field. Then I woke up at once and couldn't get back in.


By the way, if you happen to read my dream journal, this is the first entry I made after moving. So when I say hometown now, it has a different meaning than it had before this entry. If I happen to dream about one of the old towns I will specifically say so.

Spoiler for Improvement Notes:

Broke the dry spell of lucids with a little more quality - Very Good
Remembered routines to fully get into the dream - Very Good
Called for Dream Guide - Good
Got no response - Bad
Suddenly woke up without getting anything done - Bad

It was a long and detailed lucid but I'm not perfectly sure about the chronology of some things and actually I can't remember it too well.

I know that I was on a plaza of some kind of city in the night, I don't know how I became lucid and what exactly happened there but I tried to fly, while looking into the sky, some weird stuff happened, my vision blured and I lost lucidity. A moment or maybe a minute later I was in front of a building and saw another building kind of hovering above and I associated that with my flying attempts from before, did an RC and became lucid again. I tried to summon a clocktower for some reason and then I ran through the city in high speed before I woke up.

I was in my secondary home and something made me lucid (the dream was long and I don’t remember what it was). I was thinking about what I had to do and put great effort into staying lucid. I was thinking about finally summoning my dream guide but my parents tried to get my attention, I managed to ignore my mother, doing a reality check and saying I'm lucid, but for some stupid reason my father managed to get my attention long enough to make me do something related to a delivery. I went outside and there was this black cat, the fur on its head which should be covering the ears looked pulled down, making the cat look like it had 4 ears, it looked fairly weird. I tried to ignore it to get the stuff I was doing done to proceed with my dream goals. It took me a lot of minutes and outside I was throwing some kind of letter into a box. And just when I went back to start calling my dream guide I woke up.

Spoiler for Improvement Notes:

Breaking a long dry spell - finally
A long and stable lucid - very good
Can't remember the beginning of the dream due to it being so long - bad
Annoying dream characters trying to divert my attention to unimportant things - very bad
They actually manage to keep me from doing important stuff - extremely bad
I at least manage to keep my lucidity - good
Forget to use specialized stabilizing techniques - bad
I wake up right when I wanted to start with my dream goals - EXTREMELY BAD

The whole dream I was more or less in my home, in front of my PC. The dream began with a story about a certain something, which itself never appeared in my dream. I was talking to a unknown voice about the fact we hadn't nearly enough Information on this case and got pretty annoyed my staff wasn't able to understand the problem themselves. During that time I remember seeing a big hall, a little like a throne room, and a vase which was related to the information. As I was seeing and being in my room again I suddenly had this tiny crate on my desk, and somehow connected it to that information and the voice, as I opened it I only found tissue in there however, I was a little confused. I looked at my telephones (there were 2 of them, though I only have 1 in my room) and I noticed that the second one had something wrong on the bottom. I compared the 2 telephones and I was right, I took out the wrong part and saw the missing part somewhere but the whole thing made me highly suspicious. I was standing up and going to my door and did a nose pinch reality check. I wasn't able to understand it for quite a few seconds but in the end I became lucid, but my vision immediately blurred.

Then I've got to see phosphenia, like I woke up, however I excessively experimented around trying to get back into the dream. I remember moving my body and I felt it in a really strong and weird way. Some weird images popped up a few times. But after a minute or a little less the dream really ended and I woke up.

Spoiler for Improvement Notes:

Became lucid through noticing a wrong detail - very good
Reality check nearly failed to work - a little bad
Clung to the dream and tried to get back into it, not getting distracted by the probably attempted false awakening - very good
Woke up after a lucid dream yet again without actually getting anything done - bad

The dream started with me being in my room, and apparently we were moving out. My mother kept bugging me and constantly invaded my room searching for stuff and I got really pissed. The scene changes and we are in our new home (which actually is my old secondary home). I do an random RC and notice I'm dreaming, my mother isn't surprised at all. I look at my hands and rub them together to stabilize as I walk outside to try and stabilize further with a WSS, but as I used it the dream faded. Probably because it was at the end of the REM-phase.

Spoiler for Improvement Notes:

Didn't get lucid even after being annoyed in such an unusual way - bad
At least got lucid through a random reality check later - good
Immediately tried to stabilize, with some success - good
The dream stopped not a minute later - very very bad

The dream started with me being in my room, I was in the middle, hidden in a pile of strange stuff, it looked somewhat blueish. A lot of people were coming in but I had the whole room filled with poisonous gas while pinching my own nose (and not noticing I didn't even have to breathe...) so they all died while I just waited there, until the S.W.A.T. came in to stop my evil deeds. They had guns and stuff so I had to came out, I was supposed to kneel on the bed, putting my hands on my legs so I couldn't do anything bad anymore. I complied but I didn't really care, and a moment later I started to RC for fun, the first time in a dream I was looking at my hands as a real RC.
Look at the hand: 5 Fingers
Count the fingers one by one: 6 Fingers...
Look at the hand: 5 Fingers
Count the fingers one by one: 6 Fingers...?
It started to hit me I was dreaming, I tried to see the 6th finger and there it was, in between my thumb and my pointing finger. Suddenly I was on a weird cliff in space, trying to stabilize through the WSS. However somehow it got swallowed up by a passing asteroid, and my lucidity along it. The asteroid was apparently dangerous to a planet which was close so I crushed the asteroid into fine dust with whatever ability, I have no clue what I did. Then the dream became hazy and I only remember random stuff with a weird species, then I fell back into sleeping, probably non-REM.

Spoiler for Improvement Notes:

Got lucid through a new reality check - good
Immediately tried to stabilize - good
Fell back into the dream - very bad

Depleted Coins:
I was walking together with a few other people through a small pavilion like building, and the floor was separated into a few wood walkways and the rest was water. Someone I never got to see in the dream started to throw colorful coins at us (mostly blue and green) but suddenly I remembered something like I already was in this situation some time ago, and I knew the coins were made of some depleted radiating material. We went into some kind of building which partially looked like the changing area of a swimming bath. There I've nearly seen the person who was throwing these coins at us but he was too far away in a dark corner.

Weird ice cage games:
I was in some kind of cage area and there was very slippery ice on the floor, the areas were separated by metal fences. There were a lot of people around and most of them seemed somewhat hostile to me. My mind tells me the dream played in the nazi era for whatever unknown reasons. The people start throwing frozen wine bottles and glowing coal at each other, but primarily at me. However I could move better on the ice than anyone else and evaded every single attack skillfully. Even one of the wine bottles which bounced off of the ground further in my direction.

Land of Trainstations:
Me and my girlfriend were playing around on a railroad, close to a hill. We managed to get a long and really stable cable entangled in a fast passing train and since we had no clue what was going to happen but figured nothing too good if we stayed there we went away. Suddenly we were walking on railroads again and these were built on all kinds of different but mostly soft and slightly humid earth, during that journey we also came across a few trainstations which looked really unique.

At the start of the dream I was entering a train, there was this old man saying something about my family name and a (not actually existent) precursor. Somewhere along these lines I got lucid but the man was tempting me to fall back into the story of the dream, but I kind of refused and started to think what I wanted to do now, due to me having a false awakening without success though.

I was in the back of a car, it was night and my mother was driving. She had some problems with the keys and we weren't exactly driving safe but otherwise nothing happened until I woke up.

Spoiler for Improvement Notes:

Resisted falling back into the dream - good
Tried to think of what to do but didn't manage to do it - somewhat bad
Suddenly having a false awakening due to not stabilizing (as well as the "to be removed" schema of having to stabilize) - bad
Didn't catch up to the false awakening - very bad

Makes the 3rd time in a row, really unusual for me. I was at some kind of party at someones home, a house I didn't know and I was in the bathroom, it seemed unfamiliar. Somehow I started thinking about my situation and the fact I don't have any business anywhere else apart from home right now, so after a few seconds of thinking about it I came to the conclusion I had to be dreaming. I didn't get to do anything though because I woke up.

Today I was again slightly lucid, can't remember too well what happened but at some point I just became lucid. I remembered a forgotten password so I tried asking what it was, but instead of an answer this girl with cat ears pop ups, the (unfortunately fake and wrong) password written on her arm. As she notices I was looking at her she suddenly turns very shy and I just decide to give her a hug, then I woke up.

I had a pretty undetailed lucid, I know it involved some odd kinds of fighting, and me walking through a strange building. As I was watching at some scene I can't identify I slowly became lucid but the scene destabilized, my awareness level was raised the entire time but I just couldn't get back into a dream properly. But I didn't wake up either, effectively resulting in me drifting around between awake and sleeping, aware and unaware.
After quite a while a new dream started but I wasn't aware any more.

I've been in a van with this strange dude and a few rescued people and the planet was in a bad state of disarray. We were driving around searching for other people to pick up. At some point we were picking up people in a zone which became instable while we were in it, so as soon as we could we hauled our asses outta there. The driver at first said he wouldn't do the same mistake again but then decided to drive like a jack ass, starting with crushing straight into a house, partially up the sloping road, partially abusing the staircase of the house with now slightly less walls.
Suddenly I was kind of outside the car talking with the driver accusing him of being somewhat stupid because the car was flat like sheet of paper after his maneuvers.

And again it wasn't directly from awareness, but as I expected I'm getting constantly closer to be able to do that as well.

Everything started with me hearing some music (it was inspired from Eisenfunk), it still was very basic but kept progressing and I saw some simple moving patterns as well. I immediately snapped back into being fully aware but that didn't interrupt anything, I just let the music progress and try to stay still, waiting for stuff to happen. The music became more complex, but the patterns vanished, quite a few seconds later I started to see some greenish patterns, so I focused on what it was and tried to make the picture clearer, with success.

I am lying on the second floor of some kind of open building, the ground is a certain type of greenish roof, a little bit dusty, old and also somewhat bumpy. Since I'm lying on my sidethe ground covers half of my vision, in the other half I see a part of the structure I'm in and a little bit of the sky. I feel that the time has come to move since I'm deep enough within the dream, so I slowly get up. I thought a second about whether I'm dreaming for sure but conclude I don't even need an RC to be sure.

Now that I'm standing I focus a short moment on stabilizing and raising my awareness, than I immediately start summoning the WSS, this time it consists of 6 Pillars, which are however really small (they look a bit like huge Q-tips). They connect to each other creating a ring of light. I seem to be unsatisfied however and constantly try to summon a better one, I use the already existing ones and some strange type of energy but without real success, on my second try the energy I try to send into the sky comes down as something paper-like. Some stuff happened and I know that I made a reality check before I lost lucidity.

I'm getting somewhat pulled into the progress of the dream, it involved eating some potato sticks and apparently me possessing some small dog, using the speaker system of the building I was talking to someone about these things (don't remember it that well). There was also a part involving some kind of skill evaluation with a game, don't know if it was at this part of the dream but since I wasn't lucid then as well I'll just throw it here.

Then someone was speaking to me about the WSS I was trying to improve, and said maybe I should check my eyes, and that he could do it, for some reason I was fine with it but I told him to apply the lucidity visor first, then I woke up however.

Starting with this entry I will make some notes on each lucid dream on how to improve myself and what I could've done better or what I forgot.

Spoiler for Improvement Notes:

Progress throughout the WILD was good - remember
Totally forgot about trying to get into contact with my dream guide - bad
Immediately stabilized and applied the WSS - good
Wasted time with trying to improve the result of the WSS - bad (it's only a ritual to tighten the mental connection to the dream)
Getting distracted by strange occurrences and losing lucidity - very bad
Remembering the lucidity visor - good
Suddenly waking up due to not stabilizing (as well as the "to be removed" schema) - bad
Had only medium control and though to much about what I can do instead of doing it - bad

I was in a building I identified as home in the dream, even though it's a totally unknown place. It was night, everything was pretty dark and the light in the room was pretty dim. There were some plants standing around and I think I remember seeing a bunch of jackets on the wall next to a door which was to my right, the room was pretty long and there was a small window ahead.

Something compelled me to do a RC so I pinched my nose and got lucid. Though at first I wanted to go through the door to my right I went for the window ahead of me with my gained lucidity, I prepared to jump out and did another RC to be sure I wasn't doing something stupid, even though I pinched my nose really hard I could feel my nose in reality being free and taking a deep breath. I tried to hover a bit and that worked, but with my low level lucidity a just fell down like a stone when I jumped. Some 10-15m on my way down I was looking upwards to the window I just jumped out, being calm and just taking notice of the fact I don't get the hang of flying right now. The impact was pretty hard (for the ground) but I didn't feel anything much so I got up and walked around a bit. I practiced some walljumps and after a minute or two I saw this dude standing on a roof. He noticed me as well and apparently thought I was some kind of cyborg or mechanical doll, created by a scientist who also created a similar being that once fought this dude. He was happy to see me it seems, because he wanted a good fight so he started attacking me, my lucidity goes down and I see myself roughing him up good with several interesting moves, partially in slow motion.

This was a particularly interesting WILD-like experience, I unfortunately can't recall as good as I'd like to.
It was in the middle of the night and I was hovering between sleep and being awake and remember being in a swimming bath, underwater within the dream. I was pretty conscious about what was happening at that time and I was switching back and forth between being awake and sleeping. I tried to consciously get back into the dream, with some small success, everytime after a few seconds I could feel being in the water and I could breathe through my pinched nose, but I just couldn't open my eyes, everytime I tried I went back to seeing my room and (as expected) I couldn't breathe during the RC.

At some point I obviously had my eyes open within the dream as I did see the swimming bath, and I know that my awareness was a lot lower that time, but I don't know if that was before or after this experience, or both.


I've been watching the once absolutely tight border between the state of being awake and sleeping constantly weakening the more I got involved with lucid dreaming, and with this I guess soon I really will be able to start WILDing on purpose.

I was in some kind of company building, and the place I was sitting on was very much like the living room in my secondary home, there was some dude staring intently through the window (actually it was a door with a big window), searching for something in an inappropriate way. He was kind of annoying but I didn't care to much, however someone else went there (he had a small dog with him) and opened the door to see what's going on (there was a big dog out there, however the small dog scared the hell out of him, which I found pretty funny). When I was looking outside a moment I saw something shooting star like, but it was somewhat bright outside and due to it being pretty big I figured it was an meteor. Kind of thrilled I went outside to see what was going on and then I managed to spot some planets in the sky, at first only a few, then about 10 which were coming closer. 2 of them were somewhat earthlike so I wondered if one of them was earth, I kinda zoomed in but saw that the continents didn't match earth so they both had to be different planets. Now really excited I ran around with something particular in mind while thinking. I was running across a large plain with several different zones, some even separated by fences, some vegetation here and a few smaller buildings there. There were a bunch of Chinese looking people everywhere shooting with small water guns at people to keep them from moving around, and while some of them thought it was a game, the people in some area noticed something was up when a big wave was coming in, they were trying to do something against it but I figured to keep running, as I was about to leave the place I came to the conclusion I've got to be dreaming so I did an RC and became lucid. The dream was somewhat really instable and I tried at least 3 different stabilization techniques (looking at my hands, rubbing them together and my WSS) without success. At some point I also wanted to go in some certain direction into a grey looking forest for no reason and used super speed and flying with great success until I got tangled up in a tree at which point the dream finally started to collapse for real. I kind of managed to stick to it hard enough so that it just minimized into a smaller window and even managed to force my dream to tell me how stable it was, then I got a big red font across the window, like this:

Stability: 18%

The number was changing somewhere around that value and I didn't manage to pull it up anymore so the dream faded. However only into a false awakening which strange enough I didn't manage to catch up to. I woke up in an unknown room, my girlfriend and some other girl were sleeping in the same room, and I got up to write my lucid down like I'm used to, apparently we exchanged a few words but the dream already faded, and this time for real: I woke up.