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Before I make an actual entry, I'm just going to put a sort of update in here to document where I am in my dreaming journey. I started this account in 2010, almost 6 years ago! I haven't posted anything in years, mostly because I became a regular weed smoker, and my recall fell apart. I quit smoking 6 days ago, and I've been having many intense vivid dreams since then, due to the REM rebound. This made me want to get back into attaining lucidity, but I am so out of shape in terms of recall and practice. Last night I went through and read my entire dream journal. Most of the dreams I had forgotten, but when I was fresh into the site, I was attaining lucidity (or at least fragments of lucidity) pretty often. Most of these instances I had forgotten about. I imagine once I get back into the routine of recording my dreams and doing regular RC's throughout the day, my recall will return to the way it once was and hopefully beyond.

I haven't recorded a dream in a long time.
Have any of you seen the movie "Waking Life"? It's about lucid dreaming, and the importance of dreaming. We're watching it (for some odd reason) in my Creative Writing class, and it made me want to get back into lucid dreaming. I think it's dumb to be wasting my sleep, yano? If you haven't seen it, the video is on google videos. Here's the link! Waking_Life.avi
Seriously, watch it. It's amazing so far.

So let's try this again.

Woow, ok so since camping, I haven't recorded my dreams.... I'm going to put down the lucid dream I had while camping, and then my dreams from last night.

August 6th
1- Camping Lucid
I am trying to escape from my dog who is trying to kill me. We end up in a stairwell and I'm trying to keep her back while her jaws snap at my face. Suddenly, a train blasts through the stairwell and kills us both. I float above the train, and realize I am dreaming. I end up in an unfamiliar kitchen. I look at my hands to stabilize the dream, and everything becomes clearer. My cousin is suddenly beside me. "Maggie, Maggie! We're dreaming!!" I shake her. She seems to be brain-dead, and she only speaks in wails. "uuuUUUUUuuhhhh". Ok, no fun there. I leave the house and decide to visit my cousin Nikki. I climb up a palm tree and jump to the next, and continue this all the way to her house.
[By the time I got there, I had lost lucidity, and because I didn't record the dream, I don't remember much of the rest. I know it had something to do with the radio? Or music?]
2- Tiny Baby
I am at my aunt's house and I am faced with the choice of aborting a baby (even though it was already born). If I abort the baby, I get a lot of money. But if I keep it, I get to keep a good conscious. What really doesn't help is that the baby is very ugly. It looks like a cabbage-patch doll. I decide to keep it. Somehow it is my child, even though I don't remember ever conceiving it. Anyway, later in the dream it is very very small, small enough to fit in my hand. There is some guy stalking it and I have to protect the child, but I keep dropping it and it gets a lot of bloody noses.

August 11th
1- Short Lucid
I am in target, and somehow I attain lucidity. There is a lot of noise and it is hard to concentrate. I stick my hands out like Moses and command that all noise stops. It does, except for a woman speaking on the PA. "This is my dream and I have complete control over your volume!" I exclaim, but to no avail. I lose lucidity and forget the rest of the dream.
2- Where's My ID??
I am at Lover's Lane, a 18+ store, and they need to see my ID. As I am looking for it, the woman at the counter is trying to show me a chapstick that Madonna uses which kills worms. She is rubbing it all over the counter talking about how effective it is, but I am kind of grossed out that A: it's been all over the counter and B: the counter has worms on it. Anyway, I can't find my ID so I tell the woman to finish her explanation when I return with the ID. I run back to a hotel where my family is staying, and I'm trying to find which room we're in. My brother spots me and starts chasing me. I get into the room and lock it, but he somehow gets the door open. I'm searching all over for my ID, and IRL I hear my mom calling me to wake up. "Oh, I'm dreaming." I say, and try to wake up.
I can feel myself in the bed, and my body feels tense. Now I am sinking into the bed.... Am I awake?
2- Walmart Fight
I open my eyes, and I am in my bed, but my bed is in Walmart. My mother is standing next to the bed. "Finally, you're awake!" Am I dreaming? I look at my hands and they're all wrong. Just to be sure, I pick up a nearby squirt-bottle filled with water and spray my mom in the face. "NNOOOOO!" She screams. She grabs a water gun and hides behind one of the aisles. My brother appears with a larger gun and he, too is trying to shoot me. We're running around the store shooting each other with water, when I find a giant water gun with a bat on the end of it. There are children getting their picture taken behind a curtain, and I run towards them to beat them up (don't know why...) This is when I wake up.