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    Purpose
    Dreams, notes, and other experiments to assist in achieving high-quality lucid dreams on a regular basis.

    Terms
    Reality Check (RC): Action used to evaluate if one is dreaming. Common methods include plugging the nose and testing whether it can be breathed through, as well as inspecting one's hands for irregularities compared to waking reality.

    Memory Lapse (...): Where memory ends for a given stream of consciousness. For example, going to sleep in a dream and waking up in the dream later with no recollection of the sleep.

    Dream Initiated Lucid Dream (DILD): Lucid dreaming type that originates from the dreamer regaining awareness from within a dream.

    Wake Initiated Lucid Dream (WILD): Lucid dreaming type that originates from the dreamer maintaining awareness from waking near-directly into a dream.

    Wake Back To Bed (WBTB): Sleep cycle interruption technique used to achieve lucid dreams.

    Legend
    Blue: Denotes regular non-lucid dream recall.

    Purple: Denotes lucid dream recall (formerly Orange).
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    1. Night of Wednesday 7/17/24

      by , 07-18-2024 at 08:30 PM (Dreamlog)
      Fragment:
      I'm in a big open convention space, with thick carpet and lots of red/gold colors.
      It turns out this is a hotel, where there is a mixup with where we were supposed to stay.
      I'm on a school trip with the cast of My Hero Academia.


      Grocery Store Flight:
      I'm in a grocery store that reminds me of one I went to as a kid.
      I'm running a sort of tower defense game, where people (mobs/creeps) will attempt to make it past my shelves and reach the goal.
      I add some bricks to a back area, forcing a specific path.
      I also formulated a strategy where I would add a block completing a blockage, waiting for the group to move, and then remove and rebuild it on the other side creating a loop.
      ...
      I'm seated at a small table with a coworker, face to face.
      I'm giving her a status on something quality related.
      She happens to mention lucid dreaming as a topic she is interested in.
      "Oh yeah! I just had one of those last night!"
      I pause, and with all the mental quickness of a drunken sailor, come to the conclusion that since we are talking about lucid dreaming, perhaps I should complete a reality check.
      I plug my nose and try to breathe. I can...but I don't draw the conclusion...then I do a second check and it falls again.
      "Hold on, am I really dreaming right now?"
      I look at my hand as a third check, and sure enough, I have five fingers plus a thumb.
      This is a dream!
      I immediately take off and start flying [1]. As I float into the air I wave to my coworker.
      "Have fun working!"
      I fly off into the heights of the grocery store, and happen upon a ledge high above the shelves.
      I start going through what I need to do for goals, and remember my first goal is to summon (I forgot that I already achieved this in my last lucid).
      I decide to try and summon a puppy. So, I wish for a puppy to appear on the upper ledge area when I land and it comes fully into my view.
      No puppy. Boo. However, there were vases all around, so I decide to break them for fun.
      I lie down on the ledge, and remember that I was trying to teleport before.
      New tactic: I'm going to lie down, pretend I'm on grass, and then hope the rest of the scene transforms to match.
      It doesn't. Boo. I also find some doors and try to use them to teleport. Nope.


      [1] Fly.

      Updated 04-01-2025 at 05:27 PM by 99808

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      lucid
    2. Night of Tuesday 7/16/24

      by , 07-18-2024 at 08:04 PM (Dreamlog)
      Before WBTB

      Fragment:
      I'm at work, being questioned about a quality process. LC is there, gesturing toward an area of the production floor.
      There is a grid of square objects that I'm not familiar with.
      We're at the part of the floor where the fitness section used to be.
      Feeling is neutral.

      After WBTB

      Smol Pup:
      I'm driving with my girlfriend around our neighborhood. I asked her why we are out here, and she doesn't know.
      Later I've walked down to town and wandered into a store.
      My arm is resting on a side table, and I notice a small puppy's tail wagging and hitting my hand.
      He's a small little guy, and seems happy to see me. I feel a strong emotional bond immediately, but I don't RC.
      I start talking to the store clerk, and they are trying to sell the puppy to me.
      There is a second puppy, that is bigger, but also cute.
      ...
      I tell my girlfriend about the store and she wants to see the puppy, so we go back.
      We go back to the store and there is a back area with a bunch of cages and even more cats and dogs.
      There is a security guard there that isn't happy about our trespass, and the fact that we woke up the animals.


      You Can't Hurt Me:
      I wake up in bed, but I remember that I had just been doing a WBTB, so I do a nose RC.
      I can breathe.
      I'm dreaming! But my body feels really heavy. I remember what I read recently:
      The first thing I should do is take stock of the situation to help it stabilize. So, I stay in bed.
      "This is a dream. I just became lucid. I'm in a dream bed in my dream house."
      After a few moments, I try to get up again. It works. My body is free.
      I get up and out of bed. Closing the door behind me, I notice that the hallway is dark.
      "Lights up!" - but nothing happens. Oh well.
      I turn the corner into where my kitchen should be, but there is a wide open living room-kitchen setup.
      It resembles my landlord's setup, with the kitchen on the right and a bigger living area straight ahead.
      My girlfriend is on the right in the kitchen, my brother is further back in a living area, and his wife is further back in another den area.
      I try to make my girlfriend naked by looking at her and then looking away, but no cigar on that.
      I recall that I should start going for points...what was my three-step? Summon! My first step was summon!
      I vaguely consider what I should summon, and decide on a weapon.
      I think about a machine gun, and when I turn to look at a nearby kitchen table, there it is [1].
      I pick it up and it reminds me more of a paintball gun than the real thing. Whatever. I don't actually want to hurt anyone here, so I start dotting the ceiling with bullets.
      The gun makes a muted sound, and leaves perfect bullet marks like in Goldeneye 64. My brother notices me doing this and asks me what the hell I'm doing.
      He pulls out a desert eagle and points it at me.

      "Go ahead and start shooting. This is a dream. You can't hurt me."[2]


      Come at me, bro.

      He starts unloading his weapon into me, and I feel nothing [3]. Rather than shoot him, instead I grab him by the leg and start throwing him around like a ragdoll [4].
      He doesn't end up injured, but this does end the altercation

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSbc1vn6O6I
      Not going to lie, it felt pretty damn good.

      Then I make my way over to a side room where my girlfriend is and do some naughty things with her. This wakes me up.
      I'm back in bed, but I remembered I was just dreaming,
      so I do another nose RC[5,6].
      Still dreaming! I'm super excited that I had hit two out of my three tasks (I've never completed the three-task before!) but I forgot the middle one is "ask for advice" not "interact with a DC".
      Regardless of that, I decide that I want to try for #3: a teleport.
      I get up easily from bed this time, no body calibration needed. Though in retrospect maybe some stabilization would have been good.
      I open the bedroom door and enter the hallway. I decide that I will imagine Silverlight Forest on the other side of the wall, just out of my view.
      Rather than try the slower "turn and wish" method, I change up my style and take off at a sprint around the corner as fast as I can.
      I'm thinking "Forest! Forest! Forest!" hoping that I can finally make the teleport work.

      I accelerate to super speed [7], and the world starts to morph around me. I'm going so fast, I should have hit the far wall of the house by now, but nothing is impeding my motion.
      I get excited as I see a spec of green. Then another. And another. A green plains zone starts to form in front of me. It has World of Warcraft graphics.
      There are Fire Elementals dotted all over the field. The visual is now half house and half Warcraft, with digital blocks transitioning between the two.
      I'm excited that I'm going to pull off a teleport FINALLY!
      But before I can slow down and settle into the scene, I wake up.


      [1] Reality Check / Stabilization
      [2] Basic Summon
      [2] Interact with a DC
      [3] Gain Invulnerability
      [4] Super Strength
      [5] Catch A False Awakening
      [6] Reality Check
      [7] Super Speed

      Updated 04-01-2025 at 05:27 PM by 99808

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      lucid