memorable

Now I was not actually Mr. Bond himself but it was action packed with lots of guns, explosions, and ... um... you know, that other thing James Bond does a lot of. So, we were all hiding out in the basement of this warehouse. Then this lady comes around the corner. (she was on our side though) As she walks towards us she pops two bad guys in the head that are about 100 yards away without even looking AND using a pistol. Then we all ran up the stairs to a bunker type room. Then everyone kind of dissappeared and I was left alone with this chick that was trying to get information out of me. (was I duped by my own side?) Anyways, she was trying to get me to say something (idk what) by doing what she did best. *winks* I held firm though and wouldn't speak. Then she called in reinforcements and i had about 5 girls all doing thier stuff trying to get me to speak. *DISCLAIMER Ya I know this would be the ideal dream for some of you but personally I found it pretty wierd and wish I had become lucid so I could continue on w/ my quest from the last lucid dream* So ya, I held out though and they released me. I was then standing outside my own HQ and the commander guy radioed to us that we all needed to go to our offices. Then we all pulled out computer keyboards, typed in our passwords, and a jetpack came out of the keyboard. We were all headed to a portal thing to take us to our offices and then we were under fire. Someone already at the protal fired back and drove them away. Then they got sucked out of the portal and I jetted back to save them. Then we all made it back safely. We were then talking to this monkey. We could understand it but only if it talked really slow. So, someone built a translator thing so it could talk fast. Then I went out on another mission with the monkey radioing me info. My codename was "Ru 2" and he was "Ru HQ". He asked me for a comm check and then I woke up.

Method Used : MILD combined w/ couting self to sleep, leading to false awakening, leading to dream realization

Note: THis dream was actually on the 16 but I don't know how to put it into my journal as such. Also, I was really tired the 17 and coudln't recall any dreams.

In reality I had fallen asleep but in the dream I it felt like I was still counting to try and have WILD. Then in the dream I remember my dad randomly coming upstairs and ruining my efforts by saying he was going to go pick up donuts and coffee for breakfast. *lucid dreaming cue # 1* My dad wakes me up at 11:00PM to go get donuts and coffee???? Well, feeling frustrated that now I had to recount myself to sleep I decided I would just get up for a while and read some out of the book because I was pretty frustrated at having been woken up so close to success. As I went to get back into bed though I looked down for a second and when I looked up my bed had moved clear across the room to where it was before I rearranged and cleaned my room the week before. *lucid dreaming cue # 2* I began to think that I was possibly in a false awakening and began to question whether I was dreaming and had actually fallen asleep. Before I came to a conclusion though I decided I needed to brush my teeth. (You know how dreams are. It feels perfectly logical to do some completely random thing.) Anyways, when I had finished brushing I got a drink out of the sink to rinse. When I brought my head back up though all the stuff that had been on the counter (razor, toothbrush, etc...) had vanished. *lucid dreaming cue # 3* I began thinking, "OK, this HAS to be a dream". Still not completely in control though I decided to go back to my room and go to sleep and try to have a lucid dream. (wierd huh? i knew it was a dream but wanted to go try and enter another one). Anyways I climbed back into bed and went to set my MP3 player for 15 minutes. When I looked at it though it was playing movie soundtracks. (That particular player though only has the binaural beats on it.) *final cue*This is what finally made me fully aware and in control. I realized what was wrong and was like "screw going back to bed... IM DREAMING!!!!"

I instantly thought "hmmm.... what should do now that I FINALLY am having a lucid dream?" I came to the conclusion that I would go visit my favorite movies and video games. I ran downstairs and out the door. As soon as I got outside though the dream started to fade. It was probably due to the fact that I was SO excited and that I just went from being inside a dark house to dawn outside. Thankfully though I had just read how to counter this in the book. I just looked at the ground and and told myself that I was dreaming over and over and that THIS was where I wanted to be, not awake. It worked and the landscape stabalized. I began running down the street not entirely sure how to get to Green Hill Zone. (ya I started with the video games) I figured if I kept running I would make it there. I wanted to see how fast I could run in a dream. It was probably about double my actual running speed. I just remember when I was running how vivid everything was. I wear glasses and in the dream I remember looking through them and everything was clear. Then I looked to the side and it was blurry, just like in real life!

Anyways, as I was running one of my friends passed me on a bicycle and asked me where I was going. I said "What are YOU doing here? This is MY dream and I dont' remember asking you to show up! (I sure can be rude in my dreams can't I? But you know, kind of wanted to explore on my own) But ya, I'm headed to Green Hill Zone. Wanna come?" I started running again and then my friend stopped me and reminded me to fill out the necessary paperwork. I asked him what the heck he was talking about and he said I needed special passports to get there. I told him he was crazy because in real life such a place wouldn't even exist and since this was MY dream I could go wherever I wanted. Then he asked me to help him fill out his paperwork. I told him I was going to leave and so I did, continuing my quest. As I came to an intersection where there is a big hill and you can see the county road go for miles, the dream started to fade again. I ran back a little ways to try and stabalize things. I tried spinning and layed down on the ground. It worked! The dream returned in all its glory and I started running again. Then my friend passed me on his bike and insisted I help him fill out his papers. I tried to make him just disappear so I could get going again but I wasn't able to. Frustrated, I told him to go away and let me enjoy my dream in solitude. Then a big gust of wind came and blew all his papers away. Soon after the dream started to fade again. I went to collect his papers and hoped that reading all the scrambled letters would help. I found one of the papers and the dream was nearly gone. They were legible at first but as I spun to regain lucidity they scrambled. In the dream I remember conciously thinking that my brain was being a real jerk and playing tricks on my attempts to retain lucidity. With one final spin I tried to stay lucid but fell to the ground. I accepted the fact that I was going to wake up and passed seamlessly to laying in my bed. I woke up and the recording took 20 minutes!

P.S. If someone knows how to change the date on the entry please let me know.