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Soo - I gave it a stab and made around 20 intense RRCs in the daytime - and - tadaa!!
Every single time I go to the toilet for example and other triggers - found to my embarrassment, that I have loads of toilets in my dreams.
And I believe it worked almost specifically - with locking a door and myself in somewhere - that brought it over this time.
I had never done more than 8 of the things before - shame on me.

I was having a crazy dream - somebody was after me - a woman - and she wanted to infect me with a disease she had.
Forgot, why she was so angry.
And when I managed to lock myself into a room - I remembered to RC/felt somehow it was a dream.
Nose plug - like also done every time with the day RCs - worked perfectly.
But what came to my mind this time wasn't darts or TOTMs - but dutchraptors 5 lucid criteria.
I knew that I was dreaming - I remembered these criteria - and decided to break through a closed window.
First I touched the glass - and then I just pushed my lower arms through.
What happened when I broke through was, that this window behaved, as if it had been a thin plastic foil with some metal-foil mimicking a mirror then.
So then I was outside and hovering like 2 m over the ground - and wanted to make sure, I know there are no consequences to what I do.
There was a group of people standing about - and I took a long stick from a tree - and poked them.
I know..
At least I didn't care, what they thought of me. They looked a bit afraid, asked what that was all about - but didn't leave.
Well yeah - and I was on the one hand able to contemplate, that it constituted a failure not to do more - on the other hand - I couldn't bring myself to seriously hurt or kill somebody.
With that I lost lucidity.

But a bit later in the dream - again hiding from somebody in an enclosed space - once more lucid.
Again - nose plug - worked a treat.
Once I was out there and had roamed about a bit, though - a DC came along and told me I have to do this and that to solve a real-life problem - pretty convincingly - and I lost lucidity and went about doing what that person had said.

When I woke up - I found out, this dream had started only 2 hours and a bit after me falling asleep.
I put out the alarms then - but got to put them on earlier next night, I guess.

Soo happy!!
From Friday to yesterday I managed to happily sleep through my alarms - darting-party effect, I guess..
But last night - the second I heard worked exactly as it was supposed to.
I use this: Alarm Clock Bud Pro for IPhone
Caught me in a dream, I forgot now - heard the alarm - waited it out - and then:

It was weird - my face was directed to the bed - and I suddenly had the impression I can look through my eyelids a bit like through a camera-seeker - and saw the ground, which was covered in decorative pebbles.
And I made that clearer and bigger and suddenly wuusch - I was there!!
It was not a long one - and I also didn't have something prepared to think of - but it came to my mind, that theoretically I wanted to play darts some day lucidly.

But I stood there and decided to first of all just observe and walk about.
Which I did - and sat on a bench, next to a tree.
There were thousands of ants circling the trunk at the base and it got more and more - and I thought - naa - if I go on watching crawly things - that could turn out nasty (was starting to feel so).
So I got up.
Clarity and vividness could have been better all overall - but when I kept my attention somewhere - it got better - there.
I came to a big villa - found it looked interesting - and went in.
Very beautiful old fashioned house with a lot of wooden panelling and paintings and a huge wooden staircase.
I met a woman upstairs in one room, who first was one - and later changed into another person - both known to me/friends irl - and we talked for a while - intense.
In a way - my lucidity was a bit dampened through our exchange - I knew, it was a dream, still - but on the other hand I took the interactions pretty seriously.

Then I had a dream-urge to go to the toilet - at that moment, lucidity rose - and I thought - lets see if it helps when I go relieve myself on a dream-toilet.
Which I did - and it didn't help - so I gathered, I must be indeed needing a toilet irl.
And let it happen to wake up.
Only to find out - still having an urge - that I didn't need either toilet nor urge - and the urge went away..
Crazy!
Sorry guys and gals - but I find that sort of note-worthy..

I should do more, I guess - but here one dream, I really liked a lot:

I grew up (mostly) in a village at a lake in the Alps.
It is one of my most persistent dream-signs - the whole setting - esp. our old house - but I didn't realize, I was dreaming there again.
So anyway - I wanted to go swimming - but at the lake were tourists everywhere and the water was less than crystal clear and I was disappointed.
But then somebody told me, there would be a lake prior to the big one - directly in the mountains - close to the wells.
There are such small lakes - but the one I dreamt doesn't exist.
Soo beautiful - surrounded by a bit of meadow, which was a clearing in a beautiful forest - and I went swimming and it was really joyful - a great dream.
Swimming I also often do in dreams - and not irl lately - should go to a public swimming pool maybe - I need a bit of workout - always liked swimming.

There is another motive, which keeps returning - me searching a (new) place to live. This was just for staying close there.
So I looked around and found a rock with a hollowness - it was rather small for a house-rock - maybe 4 meters high and as broad - free standing.
With a cleft to crawl through - but inside was a cosy room, which I decorated a bit and put in my mattress and there I had my secret vacation-home in the rock.
I even had a fire-place and there was a hole to the upside of the rock for the smoke to evade through.

Bit later - other people arrived - I kept my rock secret - but the people were nice - and it was clear to me then, that the ones finding that lake were somehow special, interesting people - so I went swimming and talked with some of them - they called it the Ring-Lake - and I wrongly dream-remembered*, that that was indeed the name (I know a part of the original lake, which is called so - but it is just a natural bay irl).

Later a friend of mine showed up and took me with her to a "lake-party" at the big lake - these do also exist and take place every summer.
We got ourselves beer - and I got x-mas cookies (I love them - best sweets in the world if home-baked - esp. the ones my mother in law bakes) but I didn't find/get at my money in my back-pack - so she paid.
Next motive - me searching my - often a lot of - luggage for something and getting frustrated.
Then we watched a theatre-show for children - on very small stools and almost the only audience. The piece had a witch, who looked like these over-enthused esoteric around 50 years old women, I met a lot of through my mother - we deemed her un-impressive and went on.
Then there sat a former boyfriend of mine - and I wanted to talk to him - but he seemingly not with me.
And I also had problems speaking - but tried hard - and woke up from that.
Very unfortunate - because I was starting to suspect something, when I couldn't speak properly - dream time was through then I guess.


Fazit: Incubate your friggin' dream-signs!! And don't just tell yourself - if I see - then I dream - just posted a failure stemming from such under facepalm - but rather mantra myself into doing RCs, if I see/experience xyz.

This dream had almost an overload of dream-signs:

Geographical setting around lake I grew up close to
Looking and finding a place to move in for living
Swimming
Searching luggage and getting frustrated
Ex-boyfriend
Not being able to speak

Six of them in one dream - and I stayed happily non-lucid.

Made a mistake with my alarms - the app needs to be open, for them to go off - I noted, it was not - but my dictation-thing, when I woke up naturally quite late.
Was awake for the next one still then - and the one after that woke me up - and I tried it out as a micro-WBTB with mantra - in the end I fell asleep to a non-lucid.

Buuut: before that was a short phase of - very short - disappeared once I got a bit excited about it - HH!!
And pretty strong ones - bit of vibration and a strong feeling of weightlessness - but at the same time movement - swerving about - even falling.
That was the second time of my life, I had strong bodily HH - any HH, actually - first one was after a longer WBTB and 2 min. of just looking at the back of my eyelids on a WILD try - on my second ever WILD try!!

And such I made a lot of tries the last two months up to half an hour - never again with HH or success in WILD (but quite often with a following DILD).
I guess, I need them some more times, before I can avoid getting so positively excited about it..
This is progress towards WILD, though - and makes me very happy indeed!

It was not on my back but in my usual position on my stomach and turned to the right.
Will copy this over to my workbooks and in the alarm thread also.






*that's a phenomenon, I am interested in..

Found out now, that writing is easier for me than dictating, when in a semi-asleep state - and - using my multiple alarm auto-snooze thing - I didn't get lucid - buut - have fantastic dream-recall for four dreams.

Got them in the book - won't put them over here - private/not interesting/being too lazy, the me - buut:

Got to mention this adorable dream-animal I found and befriended.
It was a bit like a rodent or squirrel - but the size of a dog.
With fluffy and a bit reddish fur and a long nose ending in a cute little black knob - constantly searching about.

It had whiskers almost all over and was vibrating with them and emitting a sort of purring - not exactly like a cat would - but similar.
Oh yeah - and it wanted to cuddle and play all the time - and look at everything with huge black eyes also.
I took it with me to that family I often dream of - and they all were delighted - didn't throw me out for a change..
I'd love to dream this one again!!
Actually - have one for real would be great!

Well yeah - as the title says - I am on about starting activities to induce LDs after having a bit of a break from it for no reason, I could name - so just to revive the practice..
Edit on 27.01.14: It was waiting for finally getting that alarm-app.
Been occupied with other stuff in the daytime - still am - but anyway - back into dreamland it is - I hope.

So - I dreamt about having to do removals again.
I had been living in a flat, which was originally a shared flat with two other students - and I had been alone for a while there.
There was a longish bathroom - a meter wide and some 5 meters long - and something didn't work with water drainage.
I had known that - but used it anyway - which lead to condensation gathering on the ceiling in a way, that destabilized it - was about to come down, when my friends came back from somewhere - was clearly my fault, and I had not cared - was about to move out anyway.
Edit: How nasty of me - can't remember having been really nasty - I now rather remembered, I had not expected something bad to happen - hm... There we go - memory sweetens over stuff - but I am actually happy to really remember that whole story incl. optics - except the faces of the others - maybe much of it also strongly modified memory - but at least I have something, which catches it - I do remember my bad consciousness, for example.
They were pretty pissed off about it..

Then some packing and deciding what sort of action to take - trying to find somebody with a car to do the transport.


Later a scene where I was at my old school - and there was a x-mas service for all of the school in a big auditorium - I decided to leave - wondering, why I had gone to a religious service in the first place.

And wanted to go to a party - and for some reason in the school-toilets - there was make-up stuff everywhere - not mine - and I searched through it to find something, which fitted me - from that I woke up.

There was more - didn't dictate - but all in that vein - pretty realistic and boring.
Naja - I hope I get my auto-snooze installed today - my husband promised, now it would work - what a hell of a mess to get at such a harmless sounding application for I Phone.

Been "terrorizing" dutchraptors LD-God thread for recommendations - and after ages got one from benni - just to run into crazy problems getting it.
So that is why he is on the case - and said with his computer at work - he can do it.
I refrained from trying to understand where the hell the problem with that now was..
Doing some RC-ing - mantras are prepared - and lets see, what the snooze can do - aiming at DEILD - and barring that - WBTB again!!

Weell - I have - after a while for the first time again - journalled per dictation.
Starts with me saying something like mice with bollocks are a means to get lucid..?
Hm.
Will not make a guide on that..

Followed by some more incomprehensible mumblings - then I fell asleep with the micro on - I have a light snore from time to time - otherwise I know now how I breathe in sleep - for imitation-purposes.
Edit: No sleep-talk on that recording - wanted to try and see if I could catch some with micro - quality was quite good actually!
Then after 2 hours of that I woke up - and dictated more - thought, it had been a lot - nope.

Worst of all - I had a lucid moment - with handlooking - and they were almost perfect - maybe from doing handlooking in the day again after a while - but the number of fingers changed on counting.
So. That is all and everything I remember about it.
Also on my own and not from dictation of course - but no connection to anything else - and it only shortly survived the RC.

One dream is so that I can remember it more or less - will leave stuff out though - I have remembered it now after listening to it - so I hope that will be enough.

The main thing was - I had a little hut/house on wheels and could put it where ever I wanted - and had interactions with several real life people.
Mostly positive - some stress also.

I had visualized a darts-venue, I was at on Sunday - and a board - when going to sleep.
Still no lucid darting - buut - I did play darts.
So incubation does work.
Had a board on the outside of my little wooden home - and at a time missed the whole board and smashed in one of my own windows.

Well - there is loads of room for improvement there!

I get sloppy journalling here - but I do a day-journal at the moment - at least started out.
Edit 01.27.14: Well, well, well - I caught around 4 days since that - I can do better! I hope I will!!

Anyway - on Saturday I met a very nice and interesting woman (intellectually interesting - like common interests..) and a hopefully mutual feeling of understanding what the other wants to say.

Last night I dreamt of meeting her and taking up a discourse, we had started, once more and to mutual learning-effects.
I will not get into what it is we could teach each other - but I am pretty sure, it is a good idea to sit together and do this - with a glass of wine and so on - and I think, I am inspired by this dream to put something like it up in real life.

I had several - but one dream of last night I will journal a bit because it was great.
There was a shop, I felt like knowing - which sold little art-objects and handmade clothes.
I was looking through the window - when a woman came out, and said she had seen my little objects from an exhibition, I had also dreamt about sometime in the last weeks.

This dream was very much like furthering earlier dreams - I think, I had dreamt the shop before and explored it - and the one with the exhibition I still remember well.

She led me through the backdoor of the shop - and it was a huge house behind it - getting bigger with exploring new rooms/stairs/galleries.

But first she showed me the tools and materials they used - and then some people showed up and it was a sculpture class.
I had no money - but she said, I take part anyway.
So I did - and later it all turned into an art-academy with lots of very friendly, bit "artsy" and beautiful people.
There were also cafès and a club with bar and I got to meet many people and talked and they showed me their stuff.
I wanted to design clothes and not do more sculpture in the end - and the last I remember was being in a room full of fabrics of all sorts and colour - and I tried to decide on which to want to use.

Very beautiful and vivid dream.

Other people have monsters, dragons or at least a rabid dog to threaten them - me - nope.
I have a horror-rabbit - second time.
Last night I had one moment of semi-lucidity - but was happy with having 5 fingers - got to change RC - my dreaming self knows now the number of my fingers.
They were blurry and unclear - but the fixation on counting was hindering me.

Bit later in that dream - I got attacked by said killer-rabbit - I admit - I am a bit embarrassed by my subconscious choice of opponent..

It was nasty - I got lucid - and then it jumped me and bit into my arm - it hurt!!
I thought about anotherdreamer and his gnawing demons and tried to love it - still hurt - so I rather made a roar and flung it away.
And good was.
And lucidity was also gone..

These are the two dreams from last before last night - Sylvester was properly partied in real-life - so I only have fragments from last night.
Unfortunately do I write out the following dreams only now - there was more about them - anyway - they still belong into the competition - so here are their skeletons:

Dream one:

First there was a text, written by my father, which I had to publicly read - and I wanted to slip out of that somehow - not liking it.
I did read it though - and now forgot, how that went.
Later I had Goethe for a visitor - made him tea, that I remember - and he wrote something for me.
A short story. And I didn't like it either.
But it was dedicated to me - and my father put it into a frame (just one page) and hung it on the wall.
I remember being happy not to have to read that publicly as well.

Dream two:

My favourite dream-house - our old one - and I had separated a two-room-flat from it - freshly renovated.
It was supposedly hindering my mother selling the house - me living there and the flat freshly built.
Yepp - it was partly built onto the house in some way - at attic hight.
With a beautiful mosaic floor.
And I had a sight towards a roof gable of another house, which had united with a tree - and a sentient tree at that - a mixture of gable and fairy-tale tree-face.
We talked - but I forgot about what.
There was also an estate agent wanting to sell the house, who complained about me having left the heating on - I told him that I live there now, and he can't sell the house - he agreed and left.

Sorry for the jumble - but this "time between the years" - x-mas to now - is not exactly well suited for dreaming-activities in my case - too much tohuwabohu going on.

First dream:

Initially - I watched a match of some sort of water-ball with clubs match in a swimming pool - later though - there was supposedly an accident caused by too many people wanting to watch this very match.
Several cars into each other and some 5 people injured.
Ambulances and everything - but in the end - the people were put in regular hospital beds, and rolled over the street to a hospital - where they had to wait in line - and I was watching over them.
One old woman laughed and took out a cigarette and said, how lucky for her and how happy she was to be able to smoke her cigarette like that.
Bit later a physician came - criticized me for not noticing, that they were not hurt (any more..).
But offered me a job, which I declined after the advice from a young female physician coming out to smoke a ciggy too.

(side note: I stopped smoking - I use a vaporizer to apply my nicotine these days - quitting is not easy, don't I know it - but this switch is very easy and no lung cancer etc.. look it up, fellow nicotiners!! Do your health something really good - and the purse, too!)


Second dream:

I was on a holiday - but not so happy with the destination - I remember to later have remembered in the dream a real holiday with a friend of mine from university-times in America - and somehow our driving around so much - from Chicago to Canada per car for example, and camping - was very appealing to me back then in the dream.
I was with a group of people - and first it was sort of a hiking action, very strenuous - and I had to make them wait, so I could go back and fetch warmer clothes - and some searching through things for ages to find something - I seem to really love to dream of searching things..
Maybe that even tipped me off in some way - searching for my group - I suddenly had a lucid moment - RCed - but then found it stupidly, stupidly more important to find them - which I did but lost lucidity on the way..
Later we arrived at night at a cheap-looking tourist market, where tons of knick-knacks were loudly praised and almost pressed on us - to then arrive at a hut with only mattresses on the floor and no electricity. I think, we went to sleep - no FA on offer unfortunately, though - none that I caught at least.


Intro WBTB and hints at third dream:

Since I had this short lucid moment before - I later did a WBTB-try - wanting a WILD.
Partly I could hit myself - partly I really enjoyed it - I got into sexual fantasizing, while still awake - and fell asleep obviously going on with the topic and having a truly amazing dream from it - but I fuu-- ing missed the transition. Or lets say I didn´t care about the transition.
Maybe the closest I came to a WILD...
But definitively the most interesting satisfying and varied dream of this sort I can remember in general.
I suppose the WBTB and stuff brought me this effect - I won´t go into details - but it was a long one - and I sort of had half-lucid clear intentions - to sample as many different partners (all male this time) and "try them out" as were available (lost count..) - and myself. Not ashamed here - but I definitively leave it at what I wrote already.


Fourth dream:

A packet arrived with the post, with a present from a friend of mine in America.
At first - it looked like darts-parts - and lots of them.
I tried to make sense of it - but couldn't.

Then somebody explained to me, what one can do with it.
The main parts were only sticks in etwa the shape and size of knitting needles, metal - and there were tons of small parts - little junctions and rings and stuff from plastic.
It was a super-light-weight construction set for heavy duty climbing use.
With some guys - we constructed it together and they led it up spiralling around a huge, huge tree (small skyscraper-huge).
And the proof how amazing it was, came by a demonstration with leading up animals - there were sheep and dogs and a cow and two zebras and others - they were walking up the construction - some to the very top of the tree.
Sometimes I would like to make optical dream-snapshots - this would be the chief vista of last night for this purpose..
The end conclusion was - this is a perfect tool for breaking into something and causing mischief - or if you had lost your key and wanted to climb into your four-story flat.
And all fit into a handbag when disconnected.

First Dream:

Our old house got a huge renovation - with ripping out cables and water-supply and heating installations.
For some reason, there were many people there for visit - two friends of mine and around five others.
We wanted to play darts and put up a weird contraption on ropes and chains - dangling it from the ceiling more or less, but fixing to the floor.
Everybody wanted to try out my darts - and I was trying out other people`s.
Then mine were gone - big search and turning over everything - it was clear, somebody had taken them - but we couldn't find out who.
I needed them for an upcoming tourney - and in the dream they had been very expensive - and I had not enough money to get new ones.
So I tried out others - but couldn't get along with them.


Second Dream:

I woke up between dreams - but anyway - part of the solution to the darts-loss came in this one.
It was clear that they had been stolen, because I found the wallet, they were in originally lying in the sand of a beach at the lake.
I was there for sun-bathing - when I went into a cafe - I met an old friend of mine - and he invited me to join him and two others on a sailing boat on the lake.
This was a wonderful dream - looking at the landscape, feeling the wind and spray of the water and the sun.
Extremely vivid for a non-lucid - well - for a lucid it also would have been - veery vivid.
Only negative thing, was an argument with a friend of mine already on the boat - why she wouldn't have told me about the sailing and had invited me.
Turned out, she had a crush on that guy sailing with us and was afraid, I might snap him away from her.


Third Dream:

Not sure which - but a German city was laid out like Venedig - with canals for streets.
I had started a job there - but stayed in a hotel for first - it was a bit problematic for me to see through how transportation worked there - came late - but wasn't a problem - to my big relief.
I had to go buy new clothes too - having gained so much weight, that nothing fit anymore (inspiration not hard to decipher - this time of the year gives me an extra 2 kg regularly - couldn't close some last buttons yesterday, too..). The only thing I found was a tent-like jeans-dress - like for pregnant women - great..
What was nice was one snippet from that dream - I saw a dog jump from the balcony of a 4th story flat - into the water - and bouncing back out - up to a balcony on the opposite side of the street on the 2nd floor.
Then the dog told me, that this bouncing was a speciality of these canals - and that he would always do it like that to visit another dog.


There was more to the dreams - but - while posting a lot - I always get a bit nerved by writing DJ and rather hold it short and do not give it much effort to make it nicely written - maybe later - not much time, though - and need to do it for the comp..

I have markedly more recall then usual - and - I am probably too lazy to explain, where all the stuff is connected to inputs/outputs/experiences from yesterday - but loads.
Maybe I make this: * whereever I see connections.

First Dream:

I was in a club with my husband - a punk band was playing and people jumping about doing pogo.
When I wanted to the bar - I threw myself into that and got pogo-danced to my destination - was the only way to get somewhere.
We met a girl later, who told us, she got thrown out of a squat by the police - but dream-logically - went with us to show us the place. Somehow she had gotten it back, because it was so loud there, nobody wanted to rent it.
It was a really nice little one-room affair and she had a high-bed* platform installed almost over the whole room.
I was also looking for a flat in that expensive city - and thought - why not such a thing, not directly at a big street - but the size would be okay.

On the way to our small hotel - I lost sight of my husband and searched the streets - but I found him back.


Second Dream*:

I was visiting a friend and her family - rather her and her children.
And I had given as a present to one very young girl a box with something like Lego.
She had been somewhere to play with it with others and their sets - but being so young - the mother had gotten her home earlier than the whole children-play-meeting ended.
I convinced her, that in actuality - there had been no reason to take her home so early - she was a bit unhappy.
But she also had gotten a pair of some sort of rodents - they also looked a bit like finches - and we played with them - the mother had a book about what to do with them/how to care for them.
This whole dream got to do with Alric´s Santa thread..


Third Dream:

I was on my way home - and saw about 30 children in FDJ-uniforms (former DDR/east Germany youth organisation - I am from the west, though) being marched by a militarily dressed and behaving woman from a house on a hill into the streets.
They all had small posters, on which there was advertisement to smoke tobacco and drink alcohol.
Didn't even make sense to me in my dream..
Maybe a missed opportunity for RCing.
Then my bike broke down - I tried to repair it - and hurt myself and was dirty from that already - when I decided to take the subway.
Now it got really nasty - once I went down the stairs - it was a horizontal shaft, where I only could rob on my stomach.
And worse yet - there was about 10 cm of really horribly stinking old urine* standing in that tunnel.
The rationalisation then was, that it was not the subway, but some sort of public toilet.
I didn't have any strength left to rob towards the light.
Luckily I woke up.
Just as one aside here - reading The Lies Of Locke Lamorra at the moment - where somebody gets put in a barrel with horse-urine to drown in - which he doesn't - but anyway.


Fourth Dream:

Once more at the house of the parents of my first boyfriend.
This time - another guy was the one, on whom the constant blame was cast - and rightly so - he just lived there uninvited and constantly nagged for money and help, because he was supposedly orphaned - but he was in his 20s - and from Poland, and couldn´t go back and lalala.
There were several episodes - one was the family and me playing solving optical puzzles - there were cards, which supposedly belonged in a certain order - and one should stick them together as they fit.
This was very difficult - always, when we thought, we got something - there was a little mismatch somewhere.
The geometry of this is hard to explain - like a card-house a bit - but with slots..
And the prize for just putting together something was getting a good coffee from the new maschine.
Mistake - and you got only sugared milk* instead .. (*got that yesterday - hubby not getting along with the new espresso-machine of his parents..).
There was an episode, where I found out, my ex would love freckles in girls - and I have 3 and a half myself in summer - but I found a lotion, which promised to produce more of them.
I didn´t use it though - afraid to look like an idiot.
When the mom said at another point - this Polish guy would be a pest - but having me around would be neutral - but nothing nice either - I went out to pick her some flowers.
Suddenly my ex was also there - and he showed me a hedge where hundreds if not thousands of poison dart frogs were meeting to find a partner - in all colours - it was beautiful!!
Later we also met a friendly dog the size of an elephant being walked on the sidewalk.


There is actually much more - I´m lazy writing.
I will add two fragments later on.

Somehow, I didn't care much about recall lately - meaning I didn't mantra on it or anything.
But yesterday I thought - come on - you can do better than that - and just told myself so before sleep.
It might sound as if I wanted to brag - but honestly - I do next to nothing in the moment - maybe one RC a day and some affirmations when lying in bed before sleeping..

Memorable was the sight of these frogs:

Soo happy - pure DILD without WBTB - I recognized being at my childhood home with my mother.
Did RC - and actually I have been thinking, that my fingers being not countable might be pure expectation - since in the past I had just seen my hands normally.
And so it was - counted 5 fingers on each hand - I knew somehow I was dreaming anyway, though - and convinced myself with nose-plug.
I stabilized with handrubbing and with turning around slowly.
I had read, that the spinning, which is meant to stabilize should be done slowly.
And it worked - seems my brain produced ever clearer surroundings by me relatively slowly turning around and taking it all in.

I did this twice more in that dream, and found it a real help with sub-optimal optics.
I mostly did have suboptimal optics - but could freshen them up like this.
This time I started out with remembering, what my goals were.
And they were step two for comp. - basic summoning, and then I wanted transformation in that arctic wolf.
But the snowman also came to my mind.

So I started by imagining a necklace a bit like the one from my last lucid in a drawer.
It wasn´t in though - but a chaotic assortment of socks and gloves and folding umbrellas.

So I tried it with the door of the house - really convincing myself, that a certain friend of mine would stand on the other side.
I hope it counts, that another guy stood behind that door??

So then I went out - left that guy standing - he wasn´t overly animated anyway - and went out.
Flew around a bit - looking for snow - and it worked again, that from seeing something white - I was able to transform the landscape a bit in the difference into a winter-scene with thick snow lying on the ground.
No need to let it snow.
On the way - twice a DC wanted to lure me into doing something else - but I told them, I had no time.
Then I tried to transform into an arctic wolf.
The only thing I managed was feeling white hair growing from my body everywhere - and that took ages - somehow I gave up - thinking - common - December almost through - do at least that snowman.

And I did - a small one - maybe 40 cm all in all - but from real snow, and this time I had some stones and branches for a face and it looked nice and friendly.
Then I animated it - that was quite easy - I just pretended it was a dancing decoration snowman already - and it started dancing - it had two snow-ball feet (not from me..) and hopped from one to the other to a melody which he somehow caused himself.

Very happy with the achievement - I woke up.
Probably somehow on purpose - having thought, I had done all there was to do in that LD.
Weell - I don´t regret it.

One normal dream:

Something I have dreamt before - I had finished school already - and had gotten a good mark overall - but suddenly this was not enough for some reason and I had to do the last class again.
With younger classmates - some people I knew from real life, who were much younger than me.
I was angry and not motivated and didn´t attend most classes - being on the lake instead etc. - not accepting this sort of.
But when I had to attend - I suddenly wasn´t able to follow the proceedings - and got more pissed off, they made me do it again.
There was a bit more, which I want to leave out - also not nice.
In the end I got thrown out, because of misdemeanor - and it was unclear if I could go to university with what I got.
Dream ended before I could find that out.
I wonder, why so many dreams go about school and old friends from school - and comparatively much less with my actual recent friends and my husband, with whom I really spend time - also older jobs are not represented accordingly..?

First Dream:

I was in a cellar to find x-mas decoration - and a coffee-pot.
There were several cans of colour - open, and a bit dried up already - but I thought - great, now I can try out painting something with acrylic lacquer - and started painting on a wall in that cellar.
It was colours swirling into each other - and eyes - many different eyes - different sizes - some small and almost hidden - and a big one.
Then my grandma came down - asking for the pot and the deco - and I searched for quite a while, till I was happy and thought, I had found everything.
But the pot was not working - it was suddenly supposed to be a water-cooker as well.
Also it was not greeted with approval, that I had stayed away from the gathering so long..

Second Dream:

The second was going slate-driving down a mountain with a friend from school - nothing really special happened.
Except that we had to fix it, because we broke it in a curve.
Afterwards we were at the restaurant/hotel this friend´s parents have in real life - again some sequence with searching a toilet - otherwise - not much more there in my memory.

I stupidly only write it now - but driving down to Bavaria and family lalala..


Last night - nothing..
Slept only very little - no recall.