non-lucid

3 dreams and 1 fragment - not so very satisfying..

#1) I was in my old school in the evening. There were Christmas festivities - a concert in the big hall and in some rooms there was food and chocolate St. Clauses - I was there with a friend, and we decided it is all boring and we go somewhere else.
When we came to the street - my friend took a strange vehicle - it was blue, a platform and something to hold on to on wheels. Now I think of it - it was like pallet transporter without something on it - or just one palette maybe - but all blue metal.
I asked her if it was hers - she said no - but took off with the thing and me on it in quite some astonishing speed.
And after not long, she had huge problems coordinating the thing - several almost-crashes.
In the end I jumped off and got on a bus, but that was so full, my face was pressed to the glass and everything else to other people.
Very happy, when we were finally where I wanted to go - the house!! - and I jumped off.
So this nasty house evaded my notice again.

#2) This was something with me finding a new domicile again. Very sweet - like in a garden colony almost - there were really small houses, bit Louisiana style - and they all had verandas and happy people sitting on them and having neighbourly chats and wine and food.
When I walked down this avenue to my house - a police officer came up to me and said, they would need me for asking questions about somebody else living in the vicinity.
I told them, I just moved in and don't know anything.
Then they asked me to come with them in one of the other houses, to take part in an observation.
So we went there - and they had built a fire right in middle of the room on the floor, with sand and some stones as a base.
And I thought, now this is clever - seems the houses had no heating - and I planned to do that at my home as well - studying the rather crude construction.
I was thinking, but this must be dangerous and illegal - but since the police themselves did it - it must be okay after all.

#3) This one was me being out drinking beer in a traditional Bavarian facility, lets say it so, after having gone hiking. It was then about where the best route for hiking and the best facility would be, so we went testing - some of the places do exist - it was actually not so much testing, but me viewing the possibilities with myself and the others in it from sitting there.
Bit weird - but I have that sometimes - I watch parts of the dream as in a movie.
There was a very attractive guy as well, with huge beautiful brown eyes - but I didn't talk to him.
Neither to a group of ex-colleagues, whom I rather tried to avoid - really disliking the one woman, who was their chief-hen in a way.
But I did talk quite extensively to the waitress, who told me about her sick daughter, and I tried to give a bit of useful advice.

Fragment:
I have a plan for a portal for my next LD - and lo and behold - I dreamt something like it, without getting lucid. Otherwise I can't reconstruct much - but I was walking, and like so often searching for something, when I came to a highway bridge, under which I found the portal, inlaid in a concrete wall.
It was pretty much like what I visualize - 2.5 times 2.5 m diameter, round, grey and with a middle bar and some decoration - but very unostentatious.
Yupp - don't think, I opened it - I guess, I would remember that.

Ah - but the good thing about this just came to my mind now:
I don't need to pretend-remember the portal in my next LD - I have seen it before!!

#1) Later more - It was weird - about what you can do with electricity and children - supposedly for their good..
#2) Later more - This was me on a quiz-show and in the end in an animated argument about hypnotizing animals with Joe Brandt.

I did a WBTB 5 h after going to sleep - first tried for WILD - but turned around after a while and be-mantrad my dream-signs. At bedtime I took 6 mg Melatonin - which left me completely fresh and awake today - not like with the 15 mg at all. Seems a good dose to me.

Tadaa - LD - actually this was just about the first quarter of my extensive plan - but I got it done exactly as I wanted to that point - the real adventure part is missing unfortunately:

These dreams with the old house used to make me sad - but now that I detect the thing more and more often - I look forward to them.
What led up to it, dreamwise, I can't remember any more - I was inside my old room when the realization came to me.
So first of all I counted fingers - 5 each - but I knew it anyway - did a nose-plug afterwards, which left no doubt open.
Then I started what I had planned as step one intellectual stabilisation with a bit of physical at the side.
I looked about and rubbed my hands - but mainly I told myself, who I am and what I am doing - dreaming competitively - having a plan.
I went through my plan and added up points for the maximum strike, having read that maths can make you clearer - also told myself, there would be no reason at all to wake up and that I should regularly re-stabilize to not loose lucidity.
I think, this intellectual stabi was quite good.
But then the phone rang - and I had a friend of mine on the line, the one, who is also interested in LD - and I was convinced, that this would be the first LD - real life connection - bubbling over full of revolutionary spirit.
In that talk - I suddenly lost optics - I concluded, that I had closed my dream-eyes to concentrate on the conversation, and put up a real effort to open them back up - what I finally did open, were my real eyes..
Not a big problem - DEILDed right back in.
Again RC and stabi - being sure of myself mentally - I stabilized the senses.
Including eating a jelly ball lying about - it tasted like sugar and cherry.
Then my grandma came in - I told her I got no time - got to go flying and teleporting to Nasqueron.
So I went outside, there was a spring-meadow with white and yellow flowers.
I jumped in the air and air-swam about a bit to have that over for the three-stepper - but I had planned on getting myself a flying carpet or platform to air-surf with, per basic summoning for the further planned journey.
So I pretend-remembered, that I had left it between the trees in the distance - went there and searched - and I found it - hovering maybe 10 cm over the ground.
It was a silver surfboard - I had been picturing myself surfing the air - but hadn't consciously pictured the Silversurfer.
I can't cease to be soo amazed at with what ease such things work!!

I stepped on it - but while trying to get it going where I wanted it to - I woke up.


Sooo - I'm going to wildly RC away today - and have a real incentive now to not botch my WBTBs with being lazy and turning over to sleep on.

Only recall again..

#1)
I've been visiting a friend - she got a call and had to go somewhere and asked me, if I could take care of her two kindergarten age boys.
So I say yes but over time, more and more children arrive and it is supposedly a birthday party - big chaos - I try to call the mother, but the telephone doesn't work, and I can't leave there.

Meanwhile the main problem is, that there is no cake and no present and nothing - I run up and down and try to prevent some accident or other from happening, and mess up cake-attempts repeatedly, rummaging around the flat, if I can declare something as present. That took a while, the rummaging, but I only found a lot of strange stuff.
In the end, I made a quite nice cake, a flat round thing with lots of something like sugar icing, but you could model with it - it worked like sand.
Yeah - it was like a snow-white sandcastle actually - I decorated in a sort of dripping fashion - like you let yoghurt viscose sand-water drip.
And red cherries.
They liked that.

#2)
That one was great - very, very vivid - again something with strange beings - not aliens this time, but some sort of age-old highly intelligent earthly species.
They were a bit less than a meter high, very round, almost no legs but big feet and beautiful big eyes - their fur was beige with a brown stripe down their belly - I actually forgot, how their arms were - even if they had arms - probably they did..

They had been secretly inhabiting the mountains for millions of years, so they said. And they contacted me and a group of people, in order to find an assortment of different substances, which represent the essence of the colour of the earth to our human perception.
It is pretty obvious, where I got that theme from - pertains a lot to the science-dogma thread.
We travelled and through beautiful landscapes - but devoid of vegetation.
Almost like on another planet, but not quite.
There were planes of differently coloured ground - stone and sand and also a white plane - like chalk.
We had something like a 3D pie-chart with compartments, where to fill the probes in, and which would in the end perform a computation to give these beings some sort of significant insight - shame I forgot their name -they gave it to me.
We managed to fill it up, and it spun around, and produced a result - to the delight of the beings.

#3) Something boring and frustrating - I was together with one of my ex-boyfriends, and we were having problems and quarrelling - I know, this isn't much of an info - but this was private stuff and mainly talking - and shouting and crying. Since I need every point - I take this in anyway - soz.

Okay - was a bit too busy and also lazy to journal the 3 from the night before the last one.
I have notes for this, though.

9/10:

#1) Back in school and this unfortunate topic again, that suddenly my certificate wasn't valid, and I was supposed to do the last class again - together with another woman, of whom I hadn't thought in ages.
I was running about and trying to avoid having to do it by talking to teachers, I had forgotten about also.
Sat in a physics class as well, and had desperately tried to understand something, but didn't, and wanted to keep that secret.
So not so fascinating all.

#2) Also set in that region, my dream-sign-region of Germany, but I didn't notice it.
Unfortunately the house itself didn't show up (hiding from me, you stupid dreamsign - are you??) - but I was on the job of convincing my mother, that she can easily make a living with her spiritual healing delusion there, and that she shouldn't sell the house and stay.
Since more and more rich and rather bs-susceptible women would set up a holiday residence there. To make my point, I took her to a quite successful woman, peddling in crystals, angelic messages and sacred herbs.
Among the latter - again they show up - blue bell-flowers.
Unfortunately, my mother hated "that witch" after not long an exchange of philosophies, and my scheme didn't work out.
Should have tried out the flowers in some way, now I think of it - I will include them in my ds-zoo.

#3) That one was better - very vivid and beautiful - while nothing much happened - I had lost my way, to where I stayed in an unknown city, and came across a really huge building - it was supposed to be a medieval cathedral (I know..), and it looked a bit like St. Peter - or a castle with a dome - from the outside, but all neglected and partly in ruins. I should have been able to take a guided tour, had I not again missed the time and entrance.
But I managed to creep under a metal fence into a romantically neglected garden and from there into the "cathedral" with the help of a kitten.
It was famed for being able to enter and leave where ever it wanted - not only there but anywhere.
It chirped like a bird and asked a lot of me - seen from an inner yard - the walls were missing - and it kept jumping ahead and disappearing and reappearing wildly.
Bizarrely - one sight was of a modern bathroom, wall missing to the garden-side, and I took a while to ponder, if they really had two showers and a bathtub in one small room, and if that was a good idea or not. Anyway - I just roamed about in the complex - doesn't sound special - but was beautiful.
Now I think of it - I didn't get to see the cupola from inside..


10/11

#1) I was in a new city for a new job and went shopping - upon entering a boutique, they told me, that in the basement, there would be a sale because the original shop would have gone belly up.
So I went down, and there was almost nothing left, but many people shuffling through the stuff.
Strange things - big cooking pots with garish flower design, huge plastic smurphs (supposedly very rare and precious), scaffolding material (? but people were buying it), glass-pearls - all ugly, tons of brown or grey coats with fake fur - finally I found a rack with rather nice clothes, just to see a teenager convince her grandmother to buy all the remaining reasonable stuff for her.
I know - were it not for the comp, I wouldn't journal such rubbish..

#2) I went with a friend to a pretty posh party - marvelling at how there could be so many beautiful and stylish people in one place. Turned out they were all some sort of artists - my friend had started working as a designer and thus met them. I felt quite uncomfortable with not having anything to contribute to their intellectual topics - about authors and plays, I had never heard about - turned out my friend was responsible for the costumes of a theatre performance of theirs. And they were missing an actress.
Persuaded me to jump in for that role - I agreed, but it didn't come to that.
We drove to the location, and the stage wasn't free, so we watched that play - some sort of comedy with Stephen Fry (loving this guy, the me).
I tried to find him afterwards, to get to know him - but - who would have thought it - I couldn't find him.

#3) Next missed dream-sign - visiting an old ex-boyfriend of mine - first he taught me a nice computer game - it was like go, but with stones in many different colours, and they all did something different.
In the dream this was easily understandable, but I can't reconstruct any of it.
His younger brother was very sick and I took it upon myself to treat him for it.
It was some sort of infection or maybe malign tumour.
So I did this and that - and it worked, but afterwards I had to search my body for something really nasty - like thick black hair, 2 cm in length - these came out of my skin at some maybe 15 places.
But it wasn't hair, but something parasitic - I had to pluck them, they were a bit squishy and came out of pores with a little plop - brrrr - disgusting!!

Well - conclusion from these two nights - only really enjoyable dream was the exploring of the domed antiquity with the chirping kitten.
Lots of failed attempts at something and frustration and even a little nightmarish touch with these parasites.
And loads of undetected dreamsigns.

Included in this night's competitive dreaming: a WBTB fail

Dream one:

It all began with me being on a science expedition in South America, looking for the mysterious beings, which had been reported to splash about in a broad and deep waterfall and sing to each other.
We found them and they looked quite unimpressive - rather like some sort of mobile coral - 20 cm times 10 cm small and consisting of brown lamellae forming a bunch of flutes. Just that - no heads or eyes or anything. They let air through themselves and did some compressions and so produced their curious singing.

Despite being wordless - they gave us to understand, that they are from a planet in our solar system - we knew, which one was meant, but I have no correspondence to a real one, from what followed.

For further exploration a rocket-launch-pad was erected - looking more like a dangerous fairground ride, which shot a sort of train in the sky at an angle.
I was a bit afraid of that and not on the first mission, but took part in a further one - I really dreamt this roller-coaster feeling in the stomach, when we accelerated.

Its a bit weird then - it feels as if I had later remembered having been on that planet when I was back, but I don't remember the stay per se.
Really weird - I remember telling somebody about it, being back down again - like a false memory - and that was accompanied by pictures, too. The planet had a fluid brownish red surface - that's all there was.


Dream two:

Nothing out of the ordinary here - once more removals to another city and looking for a flat.
I found something in a beautiful, several hundred years old, but huge house.
Inspecting empty, architecturally pleasing flats - another dream-sign of mine - same as me emptying out an old residence - there was a bit of that as well later.
Also happens often - I find such a flat higher than ground floor, but over the time of inspection, there always comes about a connection to a terrace or garden - to greenery outside.
It's in real life so, that I really insist on having a balcony at least.
So it was here - a balcony sort of morphed into a terrace over inspection - and it was soo beautiful.
A little inner yard with really old trees and wines and flowers, architecture a bit damaged in a picturesque way - a bit of an enchanted spirit. And my blue bell flowers again - could also be a dream sign.
Once I like a patch of greenery - they are almost bound to be somewhere, too.


Dream three:

Started with a bit of an argument with my partner - then we went to a public swimming pool - an indoors facility with a wondrous basin.
It was sloping pretty steeply, maybe 40 m long, and sported some waves and whorls, but had a rather still surface overall.
Theoretically the surface shouldn't have been staying like it did under normal gravity, since it wasn't a river, wasn't flowing through.
And I even thought about that - but of course decided, this must be some new entertainment technology..
We had lots of fun and frolicking - having the whole thing to ourselves later ..


Dream four:

I was visiting an old friend of mine at his parent's house, and they were hanging in his ears about marrying a suitable woman. He had broken up with his girlfriend, who was a complete bore, but would have fit right in concerning social status and financial background.
Was one of these strange dreams, where something is told and at the same time I can watch it like a movie. Here it was the mother, explaining how it all should be.
We got a peek into the lives of two daughters of a bank-director - bit ridiculous, like checking what sort of watch they wore, if they had impeccable style. Beautiful they were, and a story of a maritally created business connection of the families was spun out.
He didn't want either of them.

Ah - it's already a bit late, that I try to reconstruct this dream now - but it was really memorable, because I was leading a logical argument, and pretty complex for a dream.
No - not philosophy or theoretical physics - pearl-jewellery..

Jewellery keeps showing up in my dreams - I don't even wear any most of the time.
But I used to - I collected necklaces - unusual ones and used to always wear one.


It was so - I had given a game, a bit like Connect Four, as a present, but with water in the columns, and many different coloured plastic balls. You played it by levelling out the water, on which the balls swam with turning three way handles.
Then I tipped it over, and while collecting the balls back together - more and more jewellery made from these very little glass pearls showed up.
Many pieces - they were coming from my luggage - and it came to me then, that I had brought them to sell on a market the next day.
Something along these lines:



Then came this mother and made a snide remark.

She said, it would be obvious that I would have made them myself.

As in crooked, and it was clear to me, that she didn't like it either - not a classy sort of style.
And I was guessing, she knew, that I was aware of that style-deficit.

Then she stormed off somewhere.

And I was left explaining to her son, friend of mine, why this comment had been nasty on several levels.
He needed convincing - that was a real longer back and forth and I remember it exactly:

First of all - there was hardly anything crooked on them.
Secondly - such jewellery is always handmade.
Thirdly - I had never said, whether I made it, or hadn't made it myself.
Fourthly - I felt insulted, that she thought, I would have spent hours, weeks, probably rather months, on making such things - it was really a lot of stuff.
Fifthly - she somehow seemed to know, that she would insult me with attributing this style to me, so I was partly thinking, she might have well known, it wasn't my work, but said it to be nasty.

I find it remarkable, how much logical thinking and organized argumentation I was able to put up.
Can't even find a flaw - I dreamt her saying it - so I guess it's only reasonable, that I understood what she meant.

But I like, how much colourful complexity, I dreamt up again - see above - there were maybe 50 such pieces.
I really don't like that style - but anyway - lots of detail.
The game at least looked great!

Not sure, if I can transport, what I am on about - but what I really find astonishing is people claiming their non-lucids would all be totally bizarre and they would loose their rational minds.
Bullshit in my opinion - the overwhelming most of it is very realistic, and I function nicely in the situations - only the over-view-awareness is lacking.

Got to say - very happy with my recall lately - despite not writing anything down - only going over it in my mind.
When I do that waking up in the middle of the night, I mostly forget them again.
But I anyway feel, that I have lived in the night - if that makes any sense.
It's not that nothing has happened - I believe I gain a feel for dreaming like this from the forgotten dreams as well.
Still suffering my pretty nasty cold - lots of people down at the moment in Berlin.
So that means - it would really surprise me, if I got lucid - maybe night after tonight I will be feeling up to further activities. Yesterday I simply fell over backwards in my bed, where I sat/lied all day anyway.

Having a cold - I decided against any activities, except bit mantraing on dream-signs, when going to bed.
But I will do my peppermint WBTB, when I'm able to normally breathe again!

So anyway - I could write a lot around this - has to be a draft now, I am tired.

But the basic thing was - without concentrating on lucidity, let alone the TOTM of skiing up a mountain - I did part of it again - obliviously. The first time I had been non-lucidly operating on myself.
Now - both topics are pretty unusual - I guess there is a connection.

I was back in my dream-sign area of choice - it was winter, and I was out on my own with not regular skis, but ones for ski-walking, or however that is called in English.
This on the background, though - that I wanted to impress somebody by my unusually sporty behaviour.

Normal all - then comes a vertical rock wall covered in snow - and first I think, this is not possible.
It's maybe 8 m high, supposedly something natural - it went right down almost vertically again on the other side, but there it was more like only a very difficult piste - not true 90°.

I went back at least twice, too - after my first adventure - I went into a cosy Bavarian pub and met friends and this guy, and was bragging, that I made it up that wall.

I had taken a run at it, and sort of hacked them in in v-steps, and probably flew a bit on the side.
I took this guy back with me there, he was really fast - and for some reason, I was there later with my mother, and it was dark and cold and dangerous - there were supposedly wolves around at night.
I even saw two - but very far away - and I wasn't afraid for some reason.

What is even freakier - in a following dream - this wall appeared again, but in spring, and it solved itself from the ground, and in the end it was from stone and came "from the heavens".
Had a lot of holes - like almost a web only - and a hermit!!
A friendly old man - maybe 8 m up in the air, in a white bedsheet..

And something else to the side of it - also reaching far up and up - but forgot, what it was, and most that dream anyway.

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.

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..

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.