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Method: DILD
Recall: great
Lucid Ability:6
Vividness: Average
Dream Length:Long

I find myself walking the halls of some unknown building. Everything is dark, bland, mundane. There's a fat lady who's super pale. I can see the blueish green veins all throughout her face. "Maybe everyone works the night shift here", I think to myself. I head to a bathroom. Two people are talking about me, and one guy is suspicious of what I'm doing there. One lady says "he's not going to do anything to you, he's a miracle christ child". I don't want to start any trouble so I let it slide. She says it again though, and heads into the bathroom stall. Some guy goes in after her....does whatever he has to do, and then another guy heads in. The guy sitting asks if I'm going next. Disgusted at the whole ordeal, I tell him no.

I stood up, and headed to this huge black sink. The bathroom attendant was there watching me wash my hands. Theres another guy handing out free Gillette razors for the people that are in there. The attendant looks at me and says "is there something wrong?". I'm fighting gum thats stuck to the upper right section of my molars. My hands are clean so I dig in there. Finally I get it out and toss the gum into the black sink and tell him "Nah, I'm good". I head outside, not knowing that troubles would ensue.

My teeth feel funny. As I brushed my tongue across my molars, I noticed several were loose. I noticed the wisdom tooth was about to come out. In fact, it was split in half. I wiggled them, and tried to evenly get both loose. Then I finally spit it out. I felt other teeth become loose. I started spitting them out. I spit out some sort of white flat square that had a sand dollar pattern on it. I picked it up, and some of my teeth. WTF....maybe I can get a doc to fix this. My cousin shows up.

He's dressed nicely, and is with some random DC. He starts saying he hasn't seen me in forever, and wants me to get back into music. We're walking and talking, and a girl catches my eye. I continue on, and apparently he turned around and started talking to her. Theres two of them, so I'm thinking wingman mode. I actually recognize one girl, and she's trying to set him up with the original girl I saw. I could hear her saying something about "black guys".

Something happened.....either something in the conversation, or the way we saw those people twice, but I'm not really sure. I just know I knew I was dreaming.

I walked up to girl, grabbed her and flew up in the air with her, and landed. (I was really thinking about doing an inverted spinning suplex on her her at first, but she seemed cool) I tried it again, and noticed when we reached a certain height it felt like we were just standing because I had pressure on my feet. Some random DC flew up to where we were, and tried to take her, and I flew back down with her. Never saw that DC again. I tried something different. I laid down on my back, and asked her to get on top of me. She straddled me and smiled. We flew up and down several times, and I noticed I didn't feel the pressure anywhere. Then she started getting freaky. I guess plan B we on her mind, and just when I started to give into what she was doing, I woke up.

Dream of October 9th, 2010

Well….. I’m making progress. ^_^

Last night I attempted a WILD, but it didn’t work, although later I ended up having a DILD. I can’t quite remember how it happened because I had two dreams last night and in the first one I was lucid.

In the dream I was at a house where a lady was and maybe my sisters. The lady that was there ended up chasing me, but I can’t remember why. To escape her I flew, which caused me to suddenly realize, “Hey, I’m dreaming”. Strangely, I started to feel almost like I was dreaming and awake at the same time, like I could feel light near my eyelids in bed, so I tried to concentrate on the dream and make it stabilize, and I tried to remember my goals. After flying for a ways I either teleported or my flight just brought me to a different area. The area I was in was quite dark, and I think I was in a building. I tried thinking about my goals again.

The first thing that came to my head when I was thinking about goals was making a portal, and going to Hyrule. I had imagined many times in waking life how I would make a portal. I would draw an oval like shape in the air and then the air would shimmer inside the oval and on the other side I would be able to see my destination; it did not go as I had planned. When I went to draw the portal a blue marker materialized in my hand. I used the marker and drew an oval in the air. The air did not shimmer like I had wanted, and when I put my head through the floating oval I found that I was still in the same area, but I was determined to make it work.

I took my head out of the floating drawing of an oval and then I focused my will and tried to rub the area inside the oval as if I were trying to defog a window; it worked. The area I had rubbed started to become a semi-transparent image of a underground tunnel. Rubbing the air was difficult, for I had to focus to keep my hand from just going through the oval, but I managed. Eventually I had a big enough area to go through and there was now a clear opaque image of a scene on the other side. Now I had to figure out how to get through the floating window; I decided that I would break it.

I smashed the floating window and bits of glass, or something of that nature, fell onto the ground. Now it seemed like there was a big hole floating in the air. I jumped into the hole. Once I was through the hole I saw that I had indeed made a portal, for I was now in a completely different area, but unfortunately not in Hyrule. I remember running or flying down the tunnel after that and meeting some enemies but I can’t remember what happened after that, and think it might have been because I had woken up.

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My second dream involved a game. There was this shadowy inky stuff that infected people and somewhat controlled them. I was flying around in the area, which was a valley with a crater lake on one side and a tower on the other. I flew by the tower when the black goop tried to attack me. The goop was trying to control me but I wouldn’t let it. I flew away and saw a group of people who appeared to have been infected by the goop and some other people who weren’t infected. The two groups started fighting each other and I could hear the infected telling them “Join us, give in”, or something of that nature.

After that the dream turned into even more of a game, well, more like a game editor. My sisters were there and they were telling me what to make. I was able to use the characters and set them up in different areas, change their personalities, and basically just change the whole story. My sisters and I ended up deciding on a story about a large black dragon, and soon after I woke up.

Method: DILD
Recall: average
Lucid Ability:7
Vividness: good
Dream Length:long

I'm driving down this road, and things just feel off. Nothing is responding to what I'm doing in real time. I'm sort of realizing it's a dream because at this point i'm thinking, "maybe I went to sleep in a car, and the movements that are going on in waking life, are the ones that the car is doing". I pull up to a house, and go into a mailbox. There are two dogs in the yard. One is tied up to a dog house, and the other one is actually in the house. I when I went for the mailbox I was hoping his chain wasn't log enough. Surprisingly the dog didn't even bark at me. I pulled out some letters, and noticed there were some dollar bills in there. I grabbed most of them as well.

Some lady approaches and says "that money is from M". "She wants us to build a cabinet with it", the lady said. I put most of the money back in there, and asked her how much is it supposed to run you? "40 dollars, and all of it in that mailbox", she said glaring at me. I told her that there was only about seven bucks in there, and I'm sorry for grabbing the money. Then I told her she's missing a few dollars in there.

here's where I start figuring things out

Some random DC walks past me, and I have a white kid with me. The kid starts following the guy all the way to the door, and the man shuts the door, before the kid can enter. He turned around, and headed over to me and started pouting and eventually crying. I picked him up and told the lady "he's never done that". Then I suggested that everyone who's supposed to have access should get keys. She told me she already ordered colour coded keys for us, and she's just waiting on them to come in. I headed off hoping she wouldn't notice I snatched a few dollars. I picked up my son and hopped on the motorcycle......

Why am I driving a motorcycle? Why do I have a white kid as a son? Where the hell am I? Why did the kid pop out of nowhere? I gotta be dreaming. I didn't even RC, I just got on, and started driving down the road. The controls were so weird, and none of the buttons on the handle bars did anything. I continued down this dark road that reminded me of a back road near my house, and figured out that it would talk me back to my house. I slammed on the brakes while rotating the bike 180 degrees. I stopped perfectly in the middle of the road, and started going back the other way.

I noticed everything started getting brighter, more vivid like I was supposed to head in this direction anyway, but I had to dodge traffic the whole time. Apparently this street was either one way, or I was going so fast that It seemed like some of the trucks had stopped. I tried telling myself that when I pressed one of the buttons, weapons would fire, but it did nothing, so I continued dodging them until I got to the end of the street.

There were two corner stores by each other, and I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do. When I got closer I noticed there was a cop car at one of the stores so I decided to head there. I hopped off my bike and started cursing at the cop, and he said "I'm going to have to take you in". I put out both of my hands, and he grabbed my wrists, and I immediately broke out of the wrist locks at the same time, and palm struck him in the chest. The cop went reeling back several feet, and said "oh no, we got one of those guys". His partner approached me from the side and I immediately back fisted him the face, crushing his cool cop shades into pieces.

As the other one approached, I unleashed a combo of punches mimicking some of Genes crazier moves from Godhand. I started out with a right to left jab in his chest, and hit him with a couple of overhand rights and lefts, and finished the combo with a one inch punch. Then I headed right back to the other cop, and hit him with some of the most ridiculous moves. I yes man klabammed him twice, eye gouged him, and windmill punched him. I used another one inch punch was hoping he'd explode like in the fist of the north star, but the guy was just dazed and bleeding from both ears for a while. I went back to work on the other guy until the dream ended.

Method: DILD
Recall: average
Lucid Ability: not tested
Vividness: good
Dream Length:Long

I was a Fort Irwin heading to a night time field training exercise. I thought it was really convenient how I ended up at the starting location after practicably wondering around the desert lost. There were a lot of soldiers there, and we were all in our desert camouflage.

I noticed that I didn't have my beret on so I started looking in my rucksack for it. I pulled out one that had sergeants rank on it, and I pulled out another that wasn't mine also. I told the sergeant to look at his beret and see if it's mine. He swore up and down that it wasn't, and took the one I was holding. I started looking for the other one and I couldn't pull it out again. Some officers walked by and I saluted them, and they told us the mission was about to begin.

We headed into a building, so there really wasn't a need for headgear. And we were issued M9s, and given water canteens. Each room had a different objective. The first one involved treating patients and fighting germs. There were these bugs on the wall that everyone was firing dummy rounds at. We headed to the next room, and this guy started lecturing us. I placed all my stuff on the ground, and the teacher asked me was I sure that I was going to leave my stuff there, and I asked him how long was the class. "About 30 minutes", he replied, so I told him yes. He started talking about a scenario and asked me if I was use my water, and I told him yes, and I drank it. He said the water actually had something I can't remember inside it, and I died from it. He said I failed, and everyone else failed because they didn't say anything throughout the lecture.

We get to another section that involves some natural water slide. At the top the water is very foamy, but down at the bottom, the water was clear. I went all the way down, and some girl was asking me if I'd drink it. I told her no, because of how it looked up top. There were rows of tables where we were at, and I was looking for a place to sit. I sat next to a girl who looked familiar. She had the last name "Augmon" written on her uniform. Everyone was singing a song about something, and things just got a little weird.

scene change

They're showing this one guy kill all of these middle eastern people on tv. He climbs up a building and starts shooting them, but non of them are running. There is a radio tower that looks like it has collapsed that he starts shooting at until it falls into the crowd. I see my pops come out there and start talking to the man peacefully, and I'm trying to get what he's saying, but the people in the room are being to noisy. I shhsh them, and I realize that I'm back in the previous class room, but theres cake and other food sat out for a party. The way the guy killed all of those people seemed too unrealistic. I still don't get it yet, until I start looking for clues.

My rucksack has my papers from when I got out of the military, so I'm searching for them. I pull out something that has the date, and it looks like a receipt. Some sergeant comes up, and tells me to do something, and I tell him that I already got out. I hand him the papers, and he tells me that I'm still supposed to be in until next year. I look at the papers, and I cant read them, but they've completely changed. There are random papers on the desk. I look at them, look away, and look back at them, and I notice entire paragraphs and handwriting have changed. I told him that I was dreaming. The guy doesn't believe me, so I ask him to read the paper. He starts mumbling off what it says, and I stop him mid sentence and say "okay, look away, and look back at the paper". He does so, and he's just about to read it, but he can't. Now he thinks I did something to the paper. I told him If i wasn't dreaming why would I be able to do this, and slapped him in the face as hard as possible.

Another sergeant came up, and I showed him the same paper. He was even more difficult to convince, but eventually he realized that he was just a part of my dream. I walked around a little bit, and the dream started fading.

Method: DILD
Recall: below average
Lucid Ability: 6
Vividness: below average
Dream Length:short

So during some awful dream sex that I don't even want to describe takes place, some muscle bound DC interrupts me. He starts talking crap about how much better he is than I, and I cant do anything about it. My first reaction was to punch him in the face. My right cross was completely ineffective. He's laughing at me, and talking more junk. I swing again, and nothing. I can hear one of the DCs pleading to him as she says "stop messing with that boy". The DC says he could kill me if he wants to. I yelled at him, "if you can kill me, then do it!". He tried to get me in a standing choke hold but I place my left hand near the side of my face and stop his constricting movements. He's still talking crap right now, and it's so annoying. I punch him in the face with my right hand several more times, and this time his head is shaking. The third time I punch him it fees me, and he says some more crap. The next punch I threw slung him across room, and he got up and continued barking.

The female dc is still pleading to the DC to leave me a lone at this point like I'm loosing. The DC finally re approaches me again, and does nothing but talk junk. I started punching him over and over, and each blow would stop his sentences short. By now his head was spinning around like a sprinkler. I felt like I was more in control in the dream at this point, and it started fading out.

I had a lucid dream! I was flying, and knew I was dreaming immediately because I was flying I enjoyed this immensely because I was not shocked, and it didn't hit me like many members report, I wasn't over excited, and I didn't wake up. That was one thing I have tried to focus my intention on, approaching lucid dreaming with a calm and stable mind. So, I'm flying with my arms at my sides, parallel to the ground gazing foreward, going a little too fast for me to control, but I do forget to stabilize before trying to accomplish my goals so they don't work unfortunately and I lose lucidity within probably fifteen to twenty seconds. I was flying over a hilly grass area near a very large and beautiful tree, it was daytime. I first tried to change my altitude and method of flight [like hovering, or doing somersaults, etc.] but was unable to, and then I tried to "Earth Bend" like in the animated series Avatar, but I don't recall being able to move anything with my mind. So my next area of concentration will be dream stabilization!
[Sorry for the long post about a 15 second dream, but I feel quite proud and exhilarated from my experience, and overjoyed that I am moving closer to understanding the dream state]

In the dream immediately following or connected to the LD, I meet up with people I live and work with, and we are driving through rolling countryside along the coast of some huge lake or ocean. It is sunset and breathtakingly beautiful, I feel comfortable and adventurous. We pass through several cities, some we pass around at a height while still in the car. The cities are filled with large buildings seemingly made of adobe or concrete, very circular like Indian temple-skyscrapers, with a feeling reminiscent of elven towns from Lord of the Rings. I ask the driver town names and she gives some names of towns in the state where I live, which I do not notice. We come to a building in a town and enter and it's a type of leisure club, semi circular in design and spiraling upward, long decorative diamond strings hanging down like a mobile in some art museums or libraries. It seems there are many live performers/magicians performing strange things [though I do not remember] One of them gives me some type of small cellular type device connected to a balloon that looks like a large lightbulb. Holding it causes me to fly again, and I am soaring gently over the many people, and fly up through the building, very dark and intimate feeling with red and black tones and candlelight , filled with mystique. I come down to the ground, grab another and fly even higher, and I seem to be the only one flying though I am not a spectacle and I don't mind at all .

After flying I sit down with two old men/magicians/performers with beards, like monks or gurus, sitting cross legged and excitedly tell them about the lucid dream I had just experienced, how it felt and what had happened. They look interested and listen attentively, but do not say much - they sit and smile gently at me. As I look at them I am filled with peace and comfort, they give me a sense of encouragement and approval. When I finish my dream, and finish telling them breifly about the concept of lucid dreaming, one tells me, "well, that sounds like a dedicated task."

I had several more but must leave now, will update more later in the week since I have no internet access except the library, and will also enter in some memorable dreams from the last few months. Thanks for reading, I'd be glad to get any comments or encouragment or advice.

Method: DILD
Recall: Below Average (spotty)
Lucid Ability: 7
Vividness: average
Dream Length:unknown (long)

I don't know where this dream started, but I remember being in a war torn city, and even old people carried weapons. There was this one in particular who was firing off a machine gun from behind a construction road block. I don't know what she was killing or aiming at because I was heading in the other direction.

I picked up a stick and by the time she stopped firing and I asked her where to go next. Two areas look like they lead to more rural areas. The lady said one direction lead back to where we came from, with a bitter voice. She then said another leads to the forest but there are tons of zombies there, and I wouldn't last a second. She pointed to the last path which was apparantly the safest, and told me I'm stilling going to die, but I should try that one. At this point I had the feeling I was dreaming, but I wasn't sure. I headed towards the general direction of the two paths, and there were people standing in a wrap around line. All of them were going to take the safe path. Some group of people were heckling the stick I was holding, and once again they were telling me I wasn't going to live. While trying to keep the suspicions of the dream low, I hopped out of that line and headed off in the the dangerous forest. I wanted to kill some stuff.

scene change? gap in recall?

I'm down the street from my house, (lucid) and some DC is just being annoying. He's all in my face, talking crap over and over. Finally I started body slamming the guy. It was like picking up a pillow case. Each time, the guy got up again, and kept on harassing me. I decided to end it. I grabbed him by the back of his head and shoved his face into the ground. The ground turned into sand and it was smothering him. I watched his arms and legs struggle for a while and stop moving. I let go, and the DC got up again, but he was headless. I sighed, and walked off...ignoring him. I threw a portal on the ground and jumped inside.

scene change.

I'm viewing a wire frame roller coaster. And I'm placing all the parts where everything is going to be, and then my POV is actually on the roller coaster, but the dream fades.

Lucidity: 6/10
Vividness: 5/10
Length: ~5 min.

A huge building was to my right and a parking lot was to my left. Across the street was my friend Kaleb, I ran over there to tell him that he was dreaming. So I got over there I said "Kaleb, hey what's up?" He didn't say anything. Next thing I know he starts to earthbend at me. So I tried to earthbend back but it didn't work. I took a few seconds to try to concentrate but still no luck. So when he finally put the god damn rocks down I went over to him and said "Hey Kaleb, your dreaming. Come on look at me, become lucid." I talked like that for like 10 seconds but he didn't go lucid. I was hoping that I was having a shared lucid dream, he kept mumbling "No, no, no, no" over and over again. So I grabbed him and we ran very fast across the street. I was like "that's cool" so I tried to fly this time. I picked Kaleb up and I ran and jumped. Flying into the sky, then my feet started to hurt and it started to rain. I didn't think about it but I turned around in mid-air and changed the scenery. I was sitting on a chair and someone else was in a bed, smiling at me. I was like "stay there OK?" He nodded. I was in a farm house. I changed the scenery in front of me and behind me successfully. Then someone knocked at the door, I appeared down there and some broad wanted my help. I was like "OK" and we were in a black car driving. Somehow I just knew that I was in Europe. Probably because of the snow. Then I was in a different car with some blonde broad yelling "he was a nice man, how could you possibly lock him out of the school?" at me. I said "I'm sorry OK" then she calmed down. Then
I asked her "Miss, what's your name?" "Mrs. Akinson" She replied. My math teacher. Then a car crashed into us then I was driving. When I woke up I tried to DEILD. But it didn't work. The End.

Oh yeah. Two nights. Two DILDs. Not DEILD like I would appreciate it, but two LDs nonetheless Not only that, in this one stuff HAPPENED! Not much, but STUFF! I dont remember much about my non-lucids, but who cares?

The DILD: It is unclear how I ended up in this dream. The time was 2:50, but I dunno if I checked my real or dream watch. Im unsure about wether I got up from a false awakening or woke up, fell asleep and THEN got up. Anyway, I get up, go in the living room. Gabriel is waiting for me there, on the couch. Apparently he stopped at our house on his bike. At 2:50. Ok. Then I suddenly realise that dreaming is pretty much over now. U can forget DEILD for today. I dont like that, and tell my mom that its 2:50. It is day outside though. We chat for awhile until he leaves to Gab's house with...an 8 year old version of me. Im kind of half aware that its me, but I still wonder about how I never met what appears to be my lil bro. I ask if I can go with them, and mom says yes. As I am walking in the hallway I go: Oh lemme guess this is a dream. Yup. I do various reality checks, like turning a light on and off. Then I try to fly thru my window, fail, and walk outside. Instantly its dark outside again. Damn it, I kinda wanted daylight. The cats stalking the door, but it doesnt matter.
Here is the place for lots of firsts. I encounter my first beautiful dreamscape. As I am walking outside, it starts to snow. Glowing, coloured snow. Its awesome. The trees are also covered and glitter in the night. If I could paint, I would paint it. Thats not my skill, though I am wearing a snow suit that seems to disappear and pop back up at times. I levitate for the first time. In the middle of the road, I do a backflip on my back and land floating two inches from the floor. Nice, but far from satisfying. Then as im floating I cant quite control it and get back on my feet a couple of times. So i give up and try the finger thru palm RC for the first time. I didnt know how it felt. So I remove my three pairs of gloves and push my finger. After a while, it pops right thru. Cool, but time's up. Already. I remember thinking: Awww, its over!

Other crap: FA where I push down a bunch of round candy thinking il pick them up in the morning.

I had a DILD Last night!! Yay! I had a weird night. I woke up randomly at 7, didn't do anything because I was too sleepy, woke at 8:30 with alarm clock but don't remember it, and woke at 9:30 ffeling gooood about my dreams!

I have a big segment and three little ones but I cannot remember when they all happened or how they connect because I remember only that I remembered it all after waking up the last time...I will write the 3 short ones first and then the last one.
Bold- Dream, Blue- Lucid, Normal- non dream.

It was my birthday party. People came t my house. I didn't care about most for some reason, and only cared about my best friend. Me and him found rafaela candies and went to hide them for later consumption but ended up eating them in my laundry room. We went to the bathroom He did his business and I washed my face. I don't know why but we wrestled a little and fell into the bathtub. We got out of the bathroom and it was one of my friends' houses. We played video games. One of my friends was there but he said a few mean things tome. There was another guy that was very nice to me. Everyone went on the computer except me. I played a single player spy weasel game where I had to infiltrate some place and steal something, similar to the intro of Inception. I was doing very well and People came from the computer to watch me. I got caught and hid in the shadows. The main bad guy caught me and I killed him in the game. Then, the kids disappeared and my dad and step-mom appeared. They offered to go skating and I accepted. First though, my stepmom was a little ill and she drank water with medicine in it. As she was about to drink, it turned into tonic water. We went outside and started skating on a strange road. The roller blades turned into ice skates for non ice surfaces and we started to speed skate. We skated so fast that we rose up above the clouds and were flying as we skated. The clouds became Ice and we were skating on ice now. It was breathtakingly beautiful. Pink and purple sunrise sky and up above transitioned to black from outer space. I looked back down to the ice and the surface looked like an ocean. my stepmom skated faster ahead, I couldn't keep up and my dad fell behind. I started using my hands to dig into the ice to help go faster and as I went faster I flew up higher and into space. It was cold and I saw a frozen ship fly by me. The gravity was weird and the ship could fly... I drifted back down the the ice clouds and caught up and so did my dad. I fell through the ice at a weak spot but flew up again by skating faster and wanting to fly up. Then, we decided to go down to earth so we punched the ice until wwe fell through and gently drifted down the a road I saw at the outskirts of Kiev, Ukraine. There was snow far off from the road all around but right by the snow were brilliant gold flowers that shone brighter than I have ever seen and the trees were green. Forest on either side. It was surreal and beautiful- the snow, the golden flowers, the trees. I was enjoying it a lot. We eventually reached the first city buildings and the city looked like Chicago. I guess setting change? Winter and snow were gone. I stopped under a roofed building. My parents skated on and were soon gone. Randomly, I realized I was lucid. I remember thinking that all of this was so surreal and amazing. Then, I thought "hey, I'm dreaming" in an obvious sort of way like only an idiot wouldn't know with all of this. I yelled increase lucidity but it didn't work very well. I was too excited to remember to stabilize and do all of those things. The first thing I could think of was the forest task. I closed my eyes and wanted to be in a forest when I opened them but that didn't work as I was still overcome with excitement. I looked around and saw a forest in a city park just beyond a building. I flew over the building and as I came closer, I saw that the forest had thinned. It was thinning as I flew closer. Then, as I came even closer, I saw that the forest diappeared and in its place stood a neat row of trees. Just one layer and row. Between them and around were little neat cofee shop tables and people were sitting doing their things. When they saw me, everyone got scared and ran. I kept my mind on the task and suddenly, the dream was less stable and I lost some control. I couldn't fly very well then. I persisted and flew around the trees, weaving in and out and then above the trees. I could only fly for short bursts, so I flew by boosting up a bit, and then gliding down and repeating. A woman and her two kids ran after me right under wher I just flew screaming religious things and cursing my flying as work of the devil. I didn;t care. I thought that now that the task was done, I needed something else to do. An idea popped into my mind. I said, "I want to meet my dream guide". Suddenly, a pair of clever looking triangular eyes appeared. It was surrounded by a sparkly orange mist or aura. Reminded me of the cat from alice in wonderland. I asked it if twas my spirit guide and it replied, in a very deep intriguing voice, "Perhaps" and then vanished. I flew back to the start of the row of trees and as I was flying above a low rooftop, a parkour kid started running alongside me. Then, I woke up.

I am super excited this morning to share that I've had a DILD, my first one since joining the forums! What's very interesting is how this LD came about, I'll give what I recall from the series of dreams that led to it here:

The first dream was a long, brutal one - I was held captive in a maximum-security prison that was also a ship, but I knew I was innocent. I recall a couple of scary, brutally realistic scenes including one where a guard held a gun at me and told me to "start counting" bc they wanted to make sure I wasn't harmful. Luckily, he didn't shoot. (Thinking back, it would have ruined everything if he did!)

I found an audio device on this ship, from which I was able to send a message to someone that would help me escape. From there I don't really recall how it happened, but we broke free and got to land to run for our lives.

Just as I was escaping, BOOM - I woke up.. Or did I? I thought I had woken up, but then I was talking to someone who I couldn't see bc it was totally dark. I said, "I am going back under" kinda Inception-style..

As I "went back under," another dream formed where I was on a ship that looked like a bus steering toward a larger cruiseliner-sized ship. I guess the false awakening had triggered the logical part of my brain, bc it gave me inspiration to do an RC... Unfortunately, my right hand had 5 fingers. BUT, my left hand looked weird and had another tiny finger growing in front of my eyes out of my pinky - I really had failed an RC (the first time ever for me, since previously I gained lucidity randomly and just kept it moving) and I was LDing!

I rechecked both hands just to make sure - yup, it was a dream! I got excited that I had finally caught myself in a dream, but stayed calm enough to remain asleep. Once we got next to the cruise ship, I decided to explore and do what I want bc, hey it's my dream. I hopped onto the cruise ship and went into a door leading up some stairs, suddenly there were tons of dream characters around me. One asked me something about shoes, which I repeated back to her in an annoyed tone - I guess I felt a dream power trip! Since I was annoyed, I tried to slap a guy in front of me but my hand was slow so he backed away in time.

I got a little ambitious at this point, I could have just explored the dream to see what I'd find - but I wanted to know I was in complete control. So, of course, I wanted to try to have sex. I guess I got a little greedy bc the moment I found a beautiful dream woman and tried, I woke up..

However, I really just had another false awakening, where a friend's voice and another voice were talking about the sequence of events that happened to me, saying that I had to go thru a horrible experience (prison) to gain full freedom, awareness and awakening (escaping prison, false awakening and LD). I agreed, but I wanted more - I told them I was "going back under." Only this time, it turned out that I woke up - in real life.


I apologize for the length, I wanted to describe my LD even though it was a very short one. It happened after a couple of days where I've been doubting my ability to LD, now I'm back in action! I would analyze the dream, but I think it speaks for itself and I'm actually going back to sleep soon to try WILD. I can't even imagine 2 LD's in one week let alone one day, but you and I both know that we are damn sure going to try our hardest, me especially after my first LD in about 2 months!

Sweet dreams all!!

-DC

So I have never done any sort of lucid dream and I am just getting into it. I keep failing at attaining lucidity by doing a DILD for the last few days so I decided to try a WILD. So what I tried was I went to bed at 12 am and set my alarm for 6:30 am, i woke up had a coke and some chocolate. I set another alarm for 7:30 am, once that alarm went off I went back in bed and lied on my back. I just relaxed and focused on my breathing as much as possible. I kept thinking I starting to vibrate but it was just my pulse getting stronger and stronger. I can literally feel that im not going into sleep paralysis for a long time when ive read only takes like 15 minutes. I get up and look at the clock and its been 45 minutes. I am now posting this in hope someone has some advise for me cause ive lost a little bit of lucid motivation. Any advice would help, thanks.

This morning I experienced sleep paralysis for the first time. That led into what is either a lucid dream or an out of body experience, depending on how one wants to look at it. It started as a normal dream; I was at a friends house and we were playing with our pets. I laid down on the floor and closed my eyes, to rest I guess, not sure. Then I heard this loud mumbling sound in my ear. I thought it was just my friend messing with me, he jokes around like that. I swatted above my head to swat him away but there was nothing there. The noise stopped when I swatted and I think that is when I realized I was dreaming. I just lay there with my eyes closed and before long it happened again, it felt like someone's face was right above my ear making a mummbling sound. When I tried to swat I couldnt move my arm. I recognized this as sleep paralysis and knew what was happening. When a person experiences sleep paralysis they cant move and it is common for them to have hallucinations like mummbling or incoherent talk.

With difficulty I did manage to raise my hand and swat. Again there was nothing and the noise stopped. Again I just lay there and before long that feeling was back but this time there was a panting in my ear like a dog panting. Not only could I hear it, I could also feel the dog's breath on the side of my face. For a second I thought it might actually be my dog but then I decided that was very unlikely because this panting is another common hallucination. I tried to open my eyes but I could only open them up a crack and couldnt see much. When I tried to sit up I felt something pressing down on my back, it felt like the front legs of a large dog. As I continued straining to rise there was a strange and uncomfortable sensation in my back. I think Ive felt that sensation before, maybe when I was under the influence of salvia. With considerable effort I finally managed to sit up, and when I did I saw myself still laying there in my house where I sleep. My body had its eyes open and was looking in my direction but I couldnt tell if it was really looking at me.

With a little more effort I was completely separated from my body. I was elated to be LDing, or something similar, again. I tried flying right there in my house. With a couple of hops I was up and floating next to the ceiling. I flew through straight through a closed window with no problem and I was out and up. I barely cleared the top of a sweetgum tree by my house as I headed south-west. As I cleared the top of the tree I called out "Guru Rinpoche are you here?" because I decided last week that the next time I had a lucid dream I would try to locate this deity. This is the second LD in a row where I have had the presence of mind to pursue a spiritual goal. I saw my dad's tractor and I saw neighbors' houses and other familiar things. It was lovely! There were dark, stormy looking clouds to the west and for a second I felt concerned about lightning but then decided nothing could harm me. After flying just a short distance I started to lose altitude. Through a large force of will I shot up higher into the sky, up into dark clouds where I could see nothing but very dark gray. I wanted to keep the ground in view so I dove down out of the cloud. Once below the clouds I again began to crash and this time came all the way down to the ground in a forced landing. I was in the field west of my house but not as far from the house as I had actually flown. I tried to fly again and this caused me to wake up. When I woke it was 9:30am, about the time I usually get up. In the future when I am forced out of the sky like that Im not going to try flying again, maybe that will make the dream last longer.

Notes:
This sounds like an out of body experience, however there are things that might be taken as evidence to the contrary. Last week I got a hair cut, but this morning when I saw my physical body in the dream it still had long hair. In the dream there were dark storm clouds in the west, but when I woke up and looked outside the sky was clear in all directions. In the dream I saw my dad's tractor in a place it probably wasnt, however its possible I confused this for another tractor that might have actually been in use at that location at the time of the dream because when I woke up there was a man cutting our field. In the dream the sweetgum tree had some red and orange leaves like it does in early autumn, however right now the tree is all green.

The thing pressing me down is an interesting topic itself. People have reported such phenomena for centuries. In the past they usually thought it was a demon or witch. Was it trying to keep me in my body? The noises and panting might have been attempts to wake me? Maybe its just a phenomenon with out purpose?

Brandon
8-9-2010

09.06.2010

109: 6.9.10; 12:00PM Miscellaneous Mischief from Clyde, Revisited. (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I dreamed I was going to hang out with some guy, but found I'd have to run through a garden to get to him. I jumped and floated, and got lucid all at once. I took the opportunity to float over a truck in the garden. I met up with the guy, and killed him by whipping knives at him. I ran through the garden and found a paper I'd written for school - which I promptly set on fire. I found myself singing a little and enjoying it a great deal, and wanted to put myself onstage with Protest the Hero. However, things went blurry and I went into a false awakening.

26.05.2010

104: 5.26.10; 7:07AM Part 1: Stained Glass Transformation + Dreamguide? (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I had a rather lengthy and detailed dream, so I'll try to recount as much as I can remember.

I was in a cafeteria with giant windows on one wall to let sunlight in. I became lucid at some point and tried shooting the windows, which produced no results. I realized that I didn't want to waste the dream trying to shoot stuff, so I ran toward the windows, wanting to make them stained glass. I lost lucidity here and the dream transitioned to put my somewhere else.

I recall waking and thinking that I'd run into a dreamguide in this dream, but I fell asleep while trying to recall the details, and now don't remember anything of the dreamguide, except that it wore white clothing, or was at the very least associated with the colour white.