non-lucid

Last night I had a false awakening and another fragment.

False Awakening: In reality I had been woken up by my alarm clock to go to school, but I managed to hit snoozw and go back to sleep. In the dream I was very tired and dragged myself out of bed. I remember looking in the mirror and I was only able to see my legs for some reason despite the mirror being on my dresser. I can remember thinking that this was very strange and began to wonder if I was dreaming, but decided against it and went to take a shower.

When I got to the shower though... it was gone! There was a sign saying Death had taken my shower (similar to the Pardoner's tale) and so I went into the hallway outside my room. Then their was this other random shower there but for some reason it was really creepy, just the lighting I guess. Despite this being a dead giveaway I was dreaming, I was too out of it in the dream to realize and then I was awoken by my alarm clock again.

Dream Fragment: I was at my grandma's house and I was in the basement watching tv. I think I was watching History channel or something about tanks from WWII.

FYI before I get into this dream too far, this one was so awesome and personal to me... I am only going to write down a general outline of it.

The first thing I remember is that I was standing on a dam between a lake and these huge, open plains. It was sunset and the sky was a beautiful red with some clouds. However, I somehow learned that the world was about to end, that very night, due to a huge meteor that was going to strike the Earth. I went to see who had caused this and when I found them, they said there was nothing they could do. Ready to accept my fate, I went back to this lake and just waited for the inevitable, deciding to be at peace by just relaxing in the sunset by this lake. However, right before the meteor hit, I became lucid for a couple of seconds. Intead of seeing this as the end, I saw it as a way to accomplich my dream goals. Maybe... if I concentrated enough... when this meteor hit... I.. could... meet.. them...BAM! The meteor hit before I could concentrate on creating a new scene for after everything was destroyed. My lucidity was lost although I was still aware that I needed to find them, I wasn't really aware enough to figure out a creative solution.

Anyways, after the meteor hit I ended up at this strange hotel place. I could remember that they should be there if I just kept looking. I frantically began running as fast as I could go throughout the entire place, but no luck. Eventually, I ended up heading outside to this huge market area that was very nice and relaxing, well, if it hadn't been destroyed by this meteor. The strange thing was... it seemed like I had been the only survivor and the whole world was wiped out, but I managed to survive. Anyways, an immense sadness overcame me as I walked through this destroyed market. I couldn't help but stop and grieve for all the lost sould who, an hour before, had been part of this thriving market area. I also feared, that since it appeared I was the only survivor, the one I was looking for had probably been lost as well. I simply sat down and began weeping.

I then had one of the most intense flashbacks of my life. It went back about 6 years. I would of been about 10 I think and I was strolling through this same market area. It was so beautiful and peaceful. Everyone was just strolling about, buying this, looking at that. Then in the flashback, the one I was searching for appeared. Although I had never met them, they came over to me. Then we went about through this market and spent a very nice day together. This all occurred in the flashback. When it was over, I rose from weeping and pondered the flashback. I was still somewhat aware at this point, although I felt utterly hopless being able to actually find them in the dream. I was still awestruck however at how wonderful the flashback had been. Although it was more like watching a movie, it really inspired me that it would still happen, although maybe not in this dream. I then proceeded through the ruined marketplace, feeling a very intenst mixed emotion of being extremely sad and still hopeful at the same time. Sometime during my walk, I woke up and recorded the dream. When I woke up, I had tears in my eyes and I was breathing very heavily. I felt so amazing though, like... i don't know, it was just one of those dreams that makes you feel amazing for an entire week.

I am now very hopeful for my next dream that it will happen.

Well, last night I my homework was amazing lacking, so I was able to go to bed around 9:30 instead of the typical 11:00. I blame my AP Chemistry for causing my late night excursions. I mean really, should it take me from 4:30 (when I get home) until 10:30 to get my homework done? Ah well, at least last night was better. Anyways... dream time!

#1 - I remember this one started out and I was in this little byplane, way up in the sky. I was in the bak seat and whoever was in front was driving. Anyways, we decended in for a landing on this REALLY short runway (it was more of a stop and fall out of the sky deal). We managed to decend very nicely though and we were coming in for a smooth landing when I randomly went against gravity and floated straight up out of my seat. I looked down and realized I hadn't had my seatbelt on but I was still puzzled. Either way though, it was quite interesting although I'm not sure why I didn't see this as a good opportunity to become lucidl. I then went and explored this farm we had landed at and that is all I remember.

#2 - This dream had a strange feeling to it. At first it was like I was working on my game, typing away at some code. Then I guess I ran the project or something, because then all I could see was a screen with Sonic running along. It was one of those wierd things though where it is like you are in it, but you still have control with some invisible keyboard type device. Anyways, the other wierd thing is that the game was 3d (mine is 2d in real life), it was in this level called Crisis City (which is also not in my game) and it was the little chubby Sonic from the 90's (I'm using Modern in my game). Anyways, this level was going on for a REALLY long time. I swear, it was like I was there for an hour just going through this level. It was like I could see the end the whole time but in slow motion or something. Anyways, I FINALLY made it to the end and that is all I remember.

#3 - I think this dream was my failed attempt at a DEILD last night. I think i tried to re-enter dream #2 but this is what happened instead...
It was still a 3d Sonic game, except now it was Modern and on some level from Sonic Colors. Anyways, now I was at my computer watching a playthrough of this game and then the guy got to this part where he would not stop complaining about some really random glitch. He basically went and found this one area where if you boosted or something at the right time one of the enemies would get stuck in the ground by a couple pixels. Even though it didn't affect the gameplay at all, and was just one of things that you would usually laugh about and move on, he just would not stop complaining about it. It was then really wierd because I kinda just hopped through the screen or whatever and somehow fixed the enemie's placement with my invisble keyboard again. By this point it was more like I was in the game again and the playthrough guy wasn't there anymore. I seem to be having these invisible keyboard dreams a lot recently. Hmm...
At least i got some good dreams last night.

I can't really recall much from this weekend because I was up really late both nights working on the game.

1. I was driving home from somewhere and I parked in the garage. I then remember going to clean out the car and finding something I hadn't seen in years. It was a Happy Meal toy that to this day I wish i still had... it was one of those LCD Sonic games from 2003 I think it was. I remember being quite happy about finding something from so long ago and went to turn it on only to find the batteries were dead.

2. I vaguely remember I was at home playing Sonic Unleashed and failing horribly. Whenever a quick-step area came up and you had to push the right buttons... I was way too slow at it and couldn't make any jumps or anything. I then remember finally getting a little better and getting a couple combos, but not enough to make it through the level with any style.

Well, the first thing I remember about this dream is that I was in the lobby of this movie theatre. It was a super fancy one too, which was really cool. I then remember going in to see the movie and it looked similar to my basement, where we have our large tv set up. Anyways, then the lights dimmed, and I turned around to look at the crowd. It was wierd though... I was all by myself! As I lookeed on, the whole theatre opened up into this endless black landscape.

Suddenly, I heard someone falling through the air and I looked up, although it was too dark to see anything that was farther away than a couple of feet. Anyways, a second later whoever had been falling hi the ground with a thud. I went over to see who it was and it was Sonic! (I think I am getting a little too into this game I am making. Sonic seems to be appearing more and more in my dreams but I guess it's always fun to go on an adventure in your favorite video game )

Anyways, I asked him why he was falling through the air and he said that old Eggman was up to his usual evil deeds, and had thrown him down here. Turns out that this theater was actually this huge dungeon area and we were locked in here. (don't ask me how it went from a theatre to a dungeon. Just happened) Then there was this really bright light, like someone was welding or something, but then it went away like nothing had happened. I honestly have no clue what it was all about, although it was now brighter and we had sunglasses on, looking like bosses. We then decided we needed a way out of this place so we went off to explore the dungeon and find a way out. Soon after we set off, I think I woke up cause that's about all I remember.

This dream started off in these ice caves that were way underground. I was with some other people and each cave had lanes carved into it and we were all racing eachother through the cave. We made it to the bottom and then began the hike back out. When we reached the top we found another series of caves and all jumped in for another race. It was pretty fun because it was just a big slide basically, and it went REALLY fast. After making it to the bottom of these caves, we hiked back out and made a strange discovery.

So now the year is back to 1989 and we are all actually over in Japan testing out the Sega Genesis, which is soon to be released in North America. We had actually been sent inside the console itself to see what it was like. Since we all had a great time in the ice caves (which were the inner workings of the console) we said it was ready to go. Then they asked us to hop in for one more test, to see how a future game they would be releasing was going to go. I then climbed onto a little platform thing and shrank until I could fint inside the console. I then remember going inside and feeling the freezing cold. It was so realistic! Anyways apparently the year was now 1991 because we were now testing Sonic the Hedgehog. It was still basically the same though because we were all just sliding through these caves, although now there were loop the loops and stuff. Anyways, I then remember getting separeted from everyone and ending up way down inside this one cave, carrying a book. I had to meet someone there and give them this book, but I was starting to get really cold. I just left the book there, hoping they would find it. As I climbed my way back out, I woke up to the alarm although unfortunately I couldn't recall the dream to re-enter it for a DEILD. Still a cool dream though.

I can only recall one fragment from last night.

I was in my room and I was training to be an astronaut! It was wierd cause I wasn't realy official or anything, just kind of like NASA went "Oh hey, let's send some random guy on the space Shuttle" (Yes I know it's retired but that's what it was in the dream). Anyways, I then remember seeing myself and the other astronauts in the space shuttle from a third person view. 0_0 We then launched and started gaining speed. Then we stalled for a minute and randomly picked up speed again. That's all I remember.

Well for some reason this past week I have had pretty terrible recall and no lucids. I honestly have no idea what was causing this, but I also was struggling with waking up from the binaural beats and starting the alarm for a DEILD. Last night I was able to recall some dreams but I didn't have a lucid. THe alarm woke me up for a second though but I couldn't recall a dream at that time. Anyways, now school is starting so I am just praying that it doesn't affect my dreaming abilities because this has seriously become a pretty major hobby.

See ya.

Awareness - 8 / 10
Control - 7 / 10

I was at my house and it was night. I heard a commotion outside and decided to go investigate. Then I saw these two huge robots running towards me, trying to kill me with these giant hammer things. I started running as fast as I could go to try and get away. As usual however I had the running speed limitation thing when my dreams aren't lucid. Anyways, I kept on running but they were closing in. I circled around a tree and one of the bots went one way and one went the other and they collided on the other side. This gave me some time to make a break for it. However, they quickly got back up and resumed thier chase.

They were super close to catching me and then out of no where Sonic came in. I was like "What the heck??" But at that point I was desparate to get away and went along with it. He grabbed my hand and we went zooming away from the bots. Have to say it was kind of scary moving that fast but at least I wasn't going to get pancaked by those robots. Then we went out over the water (cause you know Sonic can run on the water) and the robots follow us, leading to thier demise (caus you know huge ol' robots CAN'T run on the water ) That is about all I remember.

Awareness - 7 / 10
Control - 6 / 10

Well, I was in this huge city and there were a bunch of people walking about on the streets. Then a huge storm came in over the city and settled over the bay. (The city was a coastal one). Anyways, then this HUGE, and I mean HUGE typhoon came in and started sucking up the whole city! It was wierd though cause it seemed to be just teleporting them to another dimension rather than killing everyone and destroying everything.

Anyways, I went to see how I could stop this. Then Sonic came along, seeing if he could help. We went around behind the storm and found out it was actually a giant machine sucking everything up!! We made a plan that I would go deactivate the machine and shut off the vacuum mechanism. It turns out that it had a self destruct if it was shut of though se we had to be careful. Anyways, once I had done this Sonic would dash in and help people get out before the machine exploded, while I continued attempting to shut the rest of the machine down and try and keep the self destruct from going off.

Anyways, we went about our plans. I went and foud the controls and and shut it down. With the vacuum safely turned off, Sonic was able to go and start helping people out. I then said I had found a way to shut it down for good without it self destructing, however, anything still left inside the 'vacuum bag' you might say would be lost. There was a timer however so we had to be fast. Just as the timere was at 00:30 left Sonic said everyone was out. I shut down the machine and the day was saved, although now half the city was gone, but at least eveyone was safe. Only way to make that dream better would be to of been lucid but oh well, still an AWESOME dream.

Well, I can really only remember one fragment from last night.

I was with a friend and we were in San Diego. I asked him why he had asked me to come on this trip with him and he said I would see once we got there. We walked downtown to the House of Blues for a concert. It wasn't any concert though, it was Sonic Boom 2012! I told him it was awesome he had gotten tickets for it and invited me. I was ecstatic! Anyways, we went inside and stood near the front with cameras in hand. Then the concert got under way and it was awesome. I woke up at some point when the concert was going on.

Awareness - 9 / 10
Control - 9 10

Although I did become lucid in this dream, I am not counting it because I kept slipping in and out of lucidity, and was never quite fully in it.

Anyways, the first thing I remember is that I was walking down main street. I had apparently just won some big grand prix thing and was headed to the celebration. I went up to the stage and accepted my prize. Then, instead of dunping Gatorade on me, everyone threw mustard and ketchup on me instead. It was kind of wierd but I didn't mind. Then I started walking back and then one of the people from my pit crew came over and the dream faded a little bit. I wondered what was going on and then he said that we were in a dream. I asked him how this was possible, and all he said was, 'go see for yourself'. I went over and asked someone else and they started talking with a baby'like voice I couldn't understand. I was now convinced we were in a dream and was lucid, but only for a couple of seconds, not enough to work on dream goals or anything.

Then the dream shifted and I was now out in the forest at night. I was with some random chick who I was apparently in love with or something and for some reason we were just sitting out here. I then became lucid for a couple of seconds (idk how though). Anyways, I then went on and tol her how since this was actually a dream, I was in love with someone else and basically dumped her. Then things got really wierd. She suddenly turned into a vampire and came to try and bite me. I said ("Back off bitch! *pardon the language* I'm in love with someone else and you are just going to have to deal with it!") Then she just randomly dissappeared and I was left there in the rain. I also lost the lucidity I had.

From this point the dream got pretty personal for me, so I don't really want to go into detail. I will just say that I was REALLY REALLY REALLY close to finally meeting someone from my dream goals. I saw them in the dream and became lucid again. I was so excited! They were about to walk by me and I was going to talk to them, but then I woke up. Aaahhhh so close!!!!!

By the way, sorry I always leave yo uon these cliffhanger endings whenever I come close to this dream goal, it's just really personal for me. But I guess we all have something. lol. That was a very good dream though, at the end anyways.

Awareness - 8 / 10
Control - 6 / 10

The first thing I remember in this dream was that I was riding this elevator on its way to leave a mineshaft. It was really creepy though because it was open and you could fall off really easily. There were a bunch of other people on it too and then things got really crazy. Boulders and stuff started falling and people were being decapitated, and limbs were being severed and it was just a gory mess. Then we made it to the top finally and all seemed well again, like nothing had ever happened.

I was now in the desert and had just heard on the news or something that this guy had invented a new type of mining machine or something that could find natural gas way more efficiently than current processes. I thought this would be a good thing to have in the world and remember going and asking the President (although he was just some random guy) for funding on the project. We went and got the scientise guy and began working on setting up the mining facility. Then the dream randomly shifted for a minute to this crazy scientist guy who was oging to try and keep us from getting this thing built, lest we actually help the world. (lol the guy reminded me of Dr. Eggman from the Sonic the Hedgehog series. lol he was bald and fat.) Anyways, he was working on some teleporting device thing that would somehow stop us. That is about all I remember.

Awareness - 8 / 10
Control - 8 / 10

Although I like hunting, and I like Ford trucks, I am by no means a redneck, however, this dream just had the perfect combination of things for me to classify it as such.

So the first thing I remember is that I was my house and my friend came over to spend the night. My parents were gone so we dicided it would be fun to randomly go sit at the end of the county road in the middle of the night. However, not only were we going to go just for the heck of it, we were going to take shotguns and .45's just in case any sort of game happened to walk by. But, that's not all. We weren't even going to get out of the truck! So we loaded up and took off. My friend drove while I sat in the bed holding a 12 guage. We got to the end of the road and and just started waiting.

After a while of sittting there, I finally saw a deer walk by. THen an elk came a few minutes later. For some reason we didn't shoot them though. Then out of no where a mountain lion appeared and just stared at us. Then a bear also showed up and we started feeling uneasy. THen the mountain lion started walking towards us. I was just about to shoot it when my friend freaked out and threw the truck in reverse, knocking the gun out of my hand. I told him to just floor it and get back to the house. That he did, and we just made it back as the sun started to come up. Now the mountain lion had just randomly dissappeared and we felt safe again.

Then however, another vehicle pullled up, as if it had followed us the whole night! At first we thought about going up to them with guns (which we now randomly had back) but, using my better judgement, I decided maybe we ought to just talk to them. There was a man and a woman in the car. The woman got out and it turns out she was my friend's real mom, as if he had been adopted at birth or something. Then he got all emotional and ran off crying. Anyways, then the lady came and talked to me, saying we had to go find my long lost cousin or something. He was believed to be missing in Hawaii, and she said she already got me plane tickets!! I was pretty excited about that, so I jumped in the car and started driving us all to the airport. That is as far as I can remember.

Awareness - 8 / 10
Control - 9 / 10

So the last time I had a dream that felt as if there was a dream within a dream, I made a thread about it and was repeatedly told that this was physically impossible. However, it seems to of happened again!

The first thing I remember is that some of the people from my shared dreaming group I recently joined were with me and we were all at this nice hotel place. We all decided to try and have a shared dream, and went out by the pool and all went to sleep.

I then remember seeming to have another dream after falling asleep by the pool. I walked around for a while and coming to the place our group is thinking about meeting, and eventually ran into one of the people from my group! We exchanged a password just to be sure we had actually met in the dream, and then I woke back up. I was now back at the pool and everyone else was getting up too. I went over to the person who I had given the code to in the dream and asked them if they knew what I had told them. Turns out they DID!!! I don't remember what the code was, but in the dream I remember they repeated it perfectly and presto... shared dream! After amazing everyone with this, I think is when I woke back up into real life.

Overall I have to say, that was a VERY COOL dream. I don't know why everyone keeps saying it is impossible to have a dream within a dream, because this seems to be the second time now. maybe the scene just changed or something to fool me into thinking it was a dream within a dream, but whatever it was, that is what it seemed like. I am now really excited to attempt the shared dream with my group, and to get an explaination of this whole 'dream within a dream' thing.

See ya