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Quick Eat the grape!
20/06/20
Lucid# 4 - DILD

I’m at a counter, I think it’s a pharmacist though it could be a food counter as I’m eating something. I’m standing and waiting and over hear a lady behind the counter talking with a customer. “You have to be aware” she says “yes you have to be aware”. I note what she says seems a little odd and then it clicks! “Aware! Be aware! I’m dreaming!” Just like that I have become lucid and it startles me almost. I look around to see if I really am in a dream but I don’t need convincing I just know I am. Then I feel a little distant and fuzzy and know the dream is fading. “Stabilise”! I say aloud and it seems to work for a few seconds but then the feeling comes back and I feel a trembling in my body. I rub my hands together and things become settled again. I rush now to become more connected with my environment and start by feeling a plastic barrier next to me and feel the smooth plastic and the flat, wooden top it has. I keep moving and think “so cool! I’m doing this again!” but also remember not to get too excited. Then I remember I’m eating something and start chewing. It’s already mushed up in my mouth and I’m not sure what it is. Maybe pizza? I then remember dream food is supposed to taste amazing. This tastes good but nothing special. I then see a bowl of grapes on a stand and think I have to eat something new. I hurry to chew and swallow the food in my mouth and then pick a nice juicy black grape from the bunch but as I do, the fuzzy feeling comes back and the image starts to fade. “No, no, no!” I think but it’s too late and the dream ends.

Analysis: A lucid! It was short which is a shame. I really struggled keeping the dream stable. Maybe excitement got the better of me? The realisation was a amazing though. I didn’t even need to reality check I just realised as the women repeated “aware” just like I did in my mantra during my WBTB. It must have seeped into the dream and makes me wonder whether it was close to being a WILD? It sort of startled me and I was like “oh yeah! Of course!” Maybe that’s why the dream felt so unstable and the shock nearly woke me. I didn’t have time to focus on any dream goals I just tried to keep it going. So annoying that I never got to taste the grape! What did it taste like!!! I need to try it again in another dream.

Waking Notes:

Stability: Low
Control: Medium
Clarity: Medium
Awareness: High
Length: Low

Trigger: DC repeating my mantra
RC: NA
Length: 30 seconds approx.
Goals: none
Techniques: WBTB/ MILD
Time: 6 - 7am
Lucid count: 4

In the slow long grass
16/06/20
Lucid# 3 - DILD

I’m making my way hastily from a large building with papers screwed up in my hands. I haven’t had time to fold them or put them in my bag. There’s no time, I feel like I have to be quick and get the papers home before I am stopped. I feel as if at any moment some secret, shady organisation is going track me down and stop me as if this is all a big conspiracy. I now start running down a wide flight of concrete stairs and weave in and out of crowds. I quicken my pace and hope it doesn’t draw too much attention. It’s then when I reach the bottom I arrive in a large courtyard almost like the front of my old high school but full of long flowing grass which blows around and looks like grassy waves. everything has become dreamlike and it is now in slow motion with a slight de saturated and grey tinge to everything. I know I’m in a dream but I don’t quite comprehend what that means. I run into the grass but I’m only able to move in slow, jerky movements as if I’m wading through water and every step is twice as hard as if a force is constantly pushing on me. “Feel the grass” I tell myself and do so. It feels so real as I run it through my fingers. I look around and notice how real everything else feels as well. it feels like waking life. I look up at the sky and I can’t believe all this is actually in my head. Im everything I can see. I am one with it all. I then notice a large arrow in the grass made out of rocks. I wonder if it has been put there for me to follow? It feels almost like it’s a video game and the arrow is a side quest. “Another time” I decide and carry on towards the exit to the courtyard in front. I turn back and look and now the front of the arrow is broken and I wonder if I had misread the sign. I make my way painfully slow to the front gates and the exit. I see a big slope to the left leading down to a river. “listen” I tell myself and listen to the sound of the river.
After I have lost lucidity and I’m in a room laid on a floor, I have the papers. I then feel an odd sensation in my mouth, I feel with my tongue and I’m missing a tooth! I can feel the gap and gum underneath, it feels saw and tender but I think it’s normal.


Analysis:
I’m not sure why I was running away but it felt like I was escaping and people would be looking for me. Then it just transitioned seamlessly into a lucid moment. I remember the slow movements and the effort it took to move forward. I’ve had this sensation before whilst trying to run in dreams as if I’m trying to move but it’s as if I’m half frozen. Then I seemed to be telling myself to do ADA. I felt the grass, listened to the river and looked at how real everything was. The flowing wave like grass came from a real video I saw on Facebook before bed but I barely looked at it for longer then 5 seconds. The arrow was also interesting and I wonder now what would have happened if I had followed it? Maybe the dream wanted to show me something? I didn’t really have much conscious control though and I wish I had done a reality check, it probably would have stabilised the dream more and made me in control. Instead I sort of slipped back into a normal dream at the end.

Waking Notes:

Stability: Medium
Control: Medium
Clarity: Medium
Awareness: Low
Length: Low

Trigger: Spontaneous
RC: NA
Length: 1 minute approx.
Goals: none
Techniques: WBTB
Time: 6 - 6:30am
Lucid count: 3

The Pregnant man
11/06/20
-vivid - semi lucid

I’m sat on a sofa in a living room among a few other people. Just then the door opens and in walks one of my old friends who is male. I’m shocked to see him (I haven’t seen him in years) and notice he is holding his belly and has a round bump sticking out? He’s pregnant! I can’t believe it and now wonder if he has always been a woman and I never knew? “Your pregnant, how!?” I say in disbelief. “Hips syndrome” I think he says and I see he has child baring hips as well. “Don’t ask!” he chuckled. It’s all really really weird and I suddenly doubt everything. I chuckle to myself in shock. “This is a dream right?” I say. “This has to be a dream?!” He just looks at me and doesn’t answer. “It has to be!” I look around and at the sofa I’m on, it’s my parents sofa with all their big cushions and looks so real. I then look at him and ask “seriously tell me honestly, am I dreaming?” He doesn’t answer and just looks at me with a pleasant smile. I then look at my hand and see how real it looks. There’s my wedding ring. I close my hand and try to make my ring disappear, which is my chosen reality check. As I open my hand though the ring remains. I do another quick one and the ring doesn’t budge. I conclude this is real. After I put my hands on his bump and it feels really warm and I can feel a sort of hot stomach ache in my own belly as if the baby is inside me. “Whoa I can feel it, like really feel it!” I say with amazement.

Analysis:
So close to lucidity here. I heard a story about a pregnant man who was formally a woman on the radio yesterday so that came from that and I guess my old friend was just a character inserted to play the part. I can’t believe that moment I almost became lucid though! It happened! I questioned my reality and it was triggered by the weirdness of the situation but the reality check failed! I had heard this could happen so time to mix it up and get some new checks going. I haven’t been doing them frequently so was this was a good wake up call that I need to practice more otherwise they won’t work. So annoying, I was semi lucid and remember how real it all felt at the time and how vivid that moment was.

First Contact with Unconscious
02/06/20
-Lucid #2 - WILD

My 6am alarm wakes me up and I cant recall any dreams. I feel Frustrated by this and worry as well that I wont be able to fall back asleep.

Suddenly I awake in my bed as if from a dream but my eyes remain closed and I can’t recall a dream? I must have fallen asleep I assume and now my consciousness has switched back on though I don’t feel fully awake. I notice everything feels hazy and dark behind my eyes, almost unstable. Instantly I know I am on that brink between awake and sleep and it feels almost hallucinatory. I then begin to focus behind my closed eyes just experimenting to see if I can do a WILD. Within a few seconds the darkness starts to feel like it’s vibrating! I can still feel my body and want to know if I am in sleep paralysis so I think about moving my finger to find out but I stop, not wanting to wake myself up. The vibrating feeling intensifies and I start to hear crackling in my ears as if a loud radio is being tuned up and down next to my head. It’s really surreal and I feel a little scared and I worry I’m going to experience something frightening. I decide I want to stop and wake up but suddenly I hear a braver version of myself tell me to “relax, don’t panic and just look ahead and think about where you want to go in your lucid dream”. It comforts me and gives me the courage I need to continue. I look ahead and can now make out a very vague grey circle in the distance. I imagine it’s the moon and I wonder if I can go into space and experience one of my dream goals. I instantly re-consider thinking that would be way too extreme for my first WILD experience. The feeling escalates and now I feel as if I’m been sucked through a dark portal and a moment later I find myself in a dark street rushing at speed down a narrow path. It takes me a moment to understand whats going on but then it clicks, I have just entered a dream! The transition was so seamless I didn’t even notice it. I am now fully awake and lucid and appear to be riding a bike at speed down a narrow path. I look around and I’m in a quiet, English village at night, lit only by street lights. It looks like my old neighbourhood from my childhood and the street is somewhat familiar but looks a little different. It’s completely deserted and I’m the only one there. I get really excited and laugh to myself in triumph and disbelief at what’s just happened. I did my first WILD and awoken lucid in a a hyper realistic world! I remind myself not to get over excited otherwise I may wake up and begin rubbing my hands together to stabilise the dream as I had learnt. I then remember what I came here to do. I wanted to have a conversation with my unconscious mind. To do this I remember other dreamers said you shout questions at the sky. But the street I’m on is too narrow and the sky obscured by houses. I know I need to go somewhere more open and so I say to myself “when I go around this next corner there will be an open space”. I carry on down the deserted road and as I turn the corner on my bike I see a wider path and beyond a large round culdesac waiting for me with a direct view to the sky. It’s perfect. I rub my hands together again to stabilise and notice I can ride the bike with no hands? I look down and I’m surprised to see I’m not riding a bike at all, I’m just sat in mid air floating down the street as if sat on an invisible bike! As I reach the culdesac I come to a stop. I pretend I’m still riding a bike and hold the handles and pull the breaks to stop. It works and I dismount. I now make my way to the round open space in front of me and clap my hands and yell “Stabilise!” I had heard that can help too as I really don’t want to lose lucidity here. I then decide to increase my awareness and begin touching things which Im also told should help. I make my way over to a house to my left and I feel the conifer bush that’s there. It feels completely real and my mind is blown by this. I then touch the bricks and feel their rough texture. Finally I run my hand along a cube shaped letter box which is wet and I can feel the cold water. I scoop some up and let it trickle across my hand and spill through my fingers. “This is real!” I say to myself in wonder. Once more I have to tell myself to relax and not get too excited. I then stand in awe for a moment and look around and can’t believe that this is all going on in my head right now. I picture myself sleeping in my bed whilst all this is vividly happening in front of my eyes. It’s completely surreal and I hope thinking about it doesn’t wake me up. I keep walking and reach the culdesac and step out onto the open road as if it is a large stage just for me. “Unconsciousness!” I yell to the dark sky hoping it is listening. “It’s me!” I yell as loud as I can and my voice seems to project louder as if on a microphone. There is a calm and eerie silence and no response. I look to the sky and see dark blue clouds above and behind what appears to be faint glowing blue grid lines as if it’s all some kind of computer simulation. Little trickles of electricity shoot across each grid line and hiss, crackle and buzz like electrical circuits. It feels like I am within a powerful and magical place, my own brain perhaps and though my unconsciousness hasn’t responded I can feel it’s there hiding and watching me. “I’ve come to speak with you!” I yell out again. “Will you speak to me!?” There is another pause and It appears I may be wrong and nothing is there. Suddenly a deep sounding and wise voice speaks back from the sky and sounds a little like Leonard Nimoy. “Yes. Atlas” it says as a flash of blue light appears behind a cloud showing me where he is hiding. “Atlas?!” I shout back and wonder maybe if that’s his name? I am then distracted by some people stood behind a house window, they aren’t looking at me but I worry maybe I’m making an idiot out of myself standing in the middle of the neighbourhood yelling. It’s then I remember this is a dream and I shouldn’t feel embarrassed. “We’re all under Atlas” the voice says. I am confused and don’t understand his odd words. “Ok...”? Is all I can think to respond and during my confusion the dream fades. I wake up...

Analysis: There’s lots to analyse here but I’ll try be brief. The WILD really did come out of nowhere, I must have half woke up from a dream. It was really weird, it was almost like my dream woke me up and said here you go here’s the door now just figure out how to get in. I was fully conscious with full waking memory during it and remembered all the steps perfectly and they worked perfectly. It was unbelievable. There was a moment when I felt too scared to continue. The experience felt so bizarre and I worried it was only going to get weirder but it didn’t it became somehow peaceful and exciting. I willed myself to continue and I succeeded. The dream setting was familiar and looked like an alternate version of my hometown and was maybe a nice comfortable and calm place to have my first WILD experience since I chickened out of floating through space. I was oddly riding a bike? Or not a bike! I don’t ride bikes in waking life so I think It could have been my minds way of interpreting the fast flowing movement that came with entering the dream. It’s definitely the most vivid experience I’ve had. Everything was so stable and felt so real! My memory was working excellently as well and I remembered to stabilise and go after my dream goal to speak to my unconsciousness. It was an amazing scene when I tried to speak to him. So eerie and silent and I could feel something powerful was lurking behind those clouds. The electricity flowing through the sky felt like a representation of my brain neurones and made it feel like I was in some amazing space within my own head. Then there was him. That voice, so powerful and wise yet somewhat nervous to speak with me. I really felt it was just me and him, a one on one first meeting. I really didn’t understand what he was telling me but the words were intriguing. If it hadn’t have perplexed me so much I may have been able to stay lucid longer. Now I’m an atheist and not a big believer in spiritual signs nor the idea that there is some unconscious mind that’s communicating with me in my dreams but it is fun to imagine that it could be something more.
I spoke to myself in the mirror before bed and made my intent to speak with my unconsciousness as if he was a person in my head. It appeared he heard my call and awoke me from my sleep and provided the gateway to meet him in the form of a WILD. I then spoke to him as I had intended and it was almost like I was in a darkened area of my brain, which he had allowed me to enter. He then spoke to me hidden and powerful like a God. I even think I’ve met him before in another dream years ago when I was a child. He spoke in cryptic wording and spoke of Atlas who in Greek mythology was the Titan who held up the celestial heavens. “We are all under Atlas” he said. Did he mean we are all under the heavens? Was it his way of describing something beyond this real world? You could interpret our meeting as something really profound until you start looking at the experience with a more critical eye. Let’s be honest. I went there with the intention of speaking to him so my mind was most likely making it all up as I went along as it’s what I expected. It’s probably why he made no sense and took so long to respond. He was also exactly how I imagined a powerful subconscious God would appear and seemed a little too perfect along with the setting. Then there was the Atlas comments. Did I just miss hear him say something else and then the dream just went along with the whole Atlas thing? I may not believe that there is some sentient being visiting me in my dreams but it is still a vivid conversation with my own mind and that in itself is incredible!

Waking Notes:

Stability: High
Control: High
Clarity: High
Awareness: High
Length: Medium

Trigger: Awoke from a dream
RC: NA
Length: 4 mins approx.
Goals: To speak with my unconscious mind
Techniques: DEILD/ WILD
Time: 6 - 6:30am
Lucid count: 2

- Heavy emphasis on ADA & RCs in the evening
-Slep through the night with Low recall
-Woke from a 6am alarm

The Jack Nicholson horror film
26/05/20
-Vivid - NLD

I’m in my living room at night with my wife when suddenly an unknown and paranormal force begins to knock us about the room. It’s terrifying and this force is invisible. I’m even thrown and flipped over onto my stomach. I become half paralysed and all I can do is reach out to my wife with my hand and move my lips slightly. Thinking this is the end I try to say “I love you” to her but all that comes out is a faint whispering breath.
Suddenly I’m back on my feet and trying to unlock the front door so we can both escape. Luckily we get out before it attacks again. After a moment outside we go back in the house as we believe we’ll be safer inside as the evil force has got out as well. I begin locking the porch door in a panic and tell my wife to check it’s definitely locked. I then lock the front door but it doesn’t work and opens again! I try again and it locks the second time. We know something is outside and wanting to get in and feel afraid and helpless. I quickly run to the living room realising the window might be open and It is! I hurry to shut it and an evil looking man who is a scarier version of Jack Nicholson from the shinning is there and grabs the window at the same time as me. I pull as hard as I can and get the upper hand, closing and locking the window. The man then looks through the window with a crazy, grin on his face. “Here’s Johnny!” He says almost mocking me as he pretends to be Jack Nicholson. I hurry away and find my wife in the hallway. I say “We’ll be fine if all the windows are shut”. She asks “what are we going to do if he smashes a window?” Disheartened but trying to brave I say “If he does, you get the baby and sneak out the back and get as far away as possible and call the police. I will... I will do what I can”. I feel upset saying that but my braveness feels heroic and sacrificial which gives me a sense of pride. She looks at me with pure love for saying that. “In fact call the police now” I say realising that would be smart. I go upstairs and check the window in the Babies room. It’s closed but I look through the blinds and see if I can see the man. He must be still at the window downstairs and I can’t see him from this angle. I then go to the kitchen. Jade is cooking and chopping onions as if nothings wrong! I then realise the kitchen window is open! “The window!” I say but my wife doesn’t seem bothered. “I’d rather him get in then have the window shut whilst I’m doing this”. she says. I run to the window and try to shut it but the man is there and this time gets the upper hand and gets through. I am scared and react by grabbing an electric toothbrush and stabbing him in the eye with it. I then turn it on which creates a big bloody eye socket as it vibrates. I say something like “Can you help me!” To my wife but she doesn’t. “I don’t like horror films” she says and just like that the terror of the dream melts away and I suddenly think we’ve paid to have this experience as if renting a movie!? My wife isn’t bothered by it so it all stops suddenly. Jack Nicholson still with the toothbrush in his eye leaves and pulls off a fence panel in my garden. He looks back at us and knows he’s defeated. “Wrong house anyway, I was looking for Mr. Bruntons!” He says as if telling us it’s time for him to move on to his next victims. We smile and watch him go through the fence. The ordeal is over.

Analysis: Wow I loved this dream! It was my first official nightmare since I started my journal but it was so vivid with a mostly coherent plot and I remember it so well and that fear was so real! Again there are some major recurring themes. The evil attacker/ intruder theme again along with this bizarre not been able to lock doors problem? I think this must stem from me locking the doors every night before bed? Still it’s the 3rd time this has happened and needs noting as a serious dream sign. It was a mostly scary dream but was funny how it fizzled away into silliness at the end. The most interesting part however was the beginning. That invisible force, throwing me around, pinning me down and making me unable to move or talk?! It had similarities to how people describe sleep paralysis and I wonder if it was some lesser form of it only within a dream setting and not my bed room? It’s not the first time I’ve experienced this either and may have been my transition from waking to dream as it took place in my house? Interesting though very frightening at times.

Rabid Dogs in Tokyo
Vivid - NLD
20/05/20

I’m with a friend walking down a back alley towards a road. The setting is hot brown and dusty and reminds me of Spain. A vicious looking stray dog begins barking at me and comes running over not aggressively but defensively. I quickly jump on a nearby dumpster in fear and now more dogs have appeared all around me. Realising I can’t stay up here forever I get down and carry on cautiously. Now there are loads of big stray dogs coming over and surrounding me. I start to regret coming this way but it’s too late. They are all following me at my heels and barking and growling. I smile nervously but I am scared they’re going to attack and bite me at any minute. There must be ten dogs now! I keep my arms in the air protecting my fingers and making sure they can see I’m not a threat. I keep walking slowly and don’t run as it may provoke them. The pack is now circling me as I move forward and I keep an eye on each dog. I see one in front of me growling viciously. It’s teeth are out and snarling and it has one white eye. It’s quite scary but I remain calm and keep walking.

Later I arrive at a bus stop with my friends and the dogs are gone. We are in Tokyo and the rest of the people at the stop are Japanese. I see a Japanese man crossing the road in a suit, he is hurrying toward us and suddenly falls back on his bum in the middle of the road. He is in pain and can’t move. It’s then bystanders point out in a panic that a bus is coming straight for him! I look and see a bus is coming but it’s not quite here yet. I believe I can make it in time and since nobody else is helping I dash forward onto the road and grab the mans hand. I hear the bus horn sound and know it won’t stop but I have enough time to get him and don’t panic. I pull him up quickly and together we stumble onto the pavement and the bus goes by. The man is panting and relieved. Nobody seems to react to what I did but I feel like a hero.

Later we are in a tightly packed Gondola train. I look through the window and see we’re going higher and higher and now above some of the skyscrapers. It’s Tokyo at night and it’s quiet and eerie and the city below looks futuristic like Blade runner and made up of cold blue metal skyscrapers. I can really see the size of the city from this view point and notice the train system is all above the sky scrapers. Its amazing.

Analysis:
After a recent dog bite nightmares about dog attacks have been common though they usually involve the real dog that bit me. He wasn’t here this time and maybe why I wasn’t as terrified as usual. The second half had some nice travel type scenarios which were fun. Futuristic Tokyo Felt extraordinary to see and it was nice to feel like a hero at the end.

Hello New York!
19/05/20
Lucid #1 - (DILD)


I’m stood on a busy city street and it has a New York vibe about it. I see one of my childhood friends and see he is a paper boy. He has finished his round and collects his cash from a man only all he receives is a postcard. He is angry and rightly so. I’m shocked he did all that work for nothing! He walks away and is now in front of me. I go after him but as I leave I realise my foot is caught on a random one strap over the shoulder bag which is now looped around my ankle. I call out his name but trip and stumble clumsily over the bag as I walk forward. I am then out in the city street and appear to have a bunch of friends with me. I am still tripping over the bag which I can’t shake off my foot. I stick my leg up and try to shake it off and say “Bloody hell!” In a rather comical way. I then stumble and catch myself on a spherical stone on top of a wall. It shakes me and now I look at my surroundings and see a massive city square bustling with people. I look up and see towering skyscrapers, neon signs and a large blue universal studios globe hanging at the centre. It looks as if I’m in Times Square? “New York?” I say perplexed surprised to be here. It is in that moment I turn to my friends, still holding the stone sphere, with the bag around my leg and I realise how bizzare all this is. “I’m dreaming aren’t I?” I ask as if I need confirmation from them. I hear their laughs and they all think I’m been silly but I’m not. It all feels odd. I look around again and the whole city looks real and it feels as if I’m really here. I doubt I am dreaming for a moment and then remember the reality check! I look at my hand and see my wedding ring. I close my hand and know if I open it and the ring is gone I am dreaming. It all looks so real though that I doubt it will work. As I open my hand I’m shocked to see the front of my ring has vanished and the ring finger can’t open fully and remains bent and crooked as if glitched. I feel an overwhelming sense of amazement and begin to laugh with shock and joy. I throw my arms up and yell “waaaa-haaaaay!” I’m over joyed that I’m finally having a lucid dream! I remember if I get too excited I may wake up so I quickly rub my hands together to stabilise the dream as I had learnt. I then decide I need to start moving or I risk waking up. So I set off and begin walking with a skip in my step and letting out a shaky breath of air as I try to calm my excitement. The setting has now changed to night time without my realising and I walk down the busy open square probably with a huge grin on my face. “Hello New York!” I say taking it all in. I then see a yellow taxi cab and inside I see a friend and her baby smiling back at me. “Oh it’s you! Hello!” I yell and wave at them finding the oddity hilarious and equally amazing. I don’t know quite what to do with myself and randomly decide I want to skid around on some ice for some reason since there’s so much space. Only there is no ice? I don’t see this as a problem and put my hands out and effortlessly begin spraying ice from my finger tips which seem to stiffen and tingle as I do. I am amazed and a little in disbelief that it worked and how easy it was and watch it hiss out of my fingers and hit the floor. It sticks and begins to spread and twinkles with a frosty sparkle. I hear the friends I was with in the back ground talking. One asks “Do you think I’m dreaming too?” “Yeah probably” another replies. Now my ice is done and I go to skid but it’s already vanishing and not slippy enough to skid on. So I use my hands again and this time cover the patch in water first then add the ice after hoping it will freeze it. It works and now we have a large ice patch to skid on. I jump in triumph and hope I may stay in the air levitating as I do but instead gravity brings my feet back to the ground. It didn’t work but I think oh well one thing at a time. I then skid across the ice effortlessly and beckon my friends to do the same. They do and I see them now. I don’t really recognise them but one looks like the bully character from a series I’m watching. I am so giddy and tell them to keep going. “skid!” They do but they don’t seem to be having any fun and only doing it because I say so. This disappoints me a little and then. I wake up.

Analysis:
So this was my first lucid dream after beginning practice. It took me 9 days to accomplish and to this date is still one of the best I’ve had. It started with me noticing the oddness of the bag that wouldn’t leave my ankle followed by the realisation that I was in New York even though I don’t live there and never actually been either. It was a strange feeling as everything felt so real so how could I be dreaming. Thankfully a successful RC confirmed it and I was jumping for joy but managed not to wake myself up at the same time thankfully. For my first real lucid I had surprisingly good dream control and was able to use ice powers expertly and even used my imagination to solve a problem by freezing water to make it slippy. It was very stable and I felt fully awake within the dream and was an amazing first glimpse at what could be achieved.

Waking Notes:

Stability: High
Control: High
Clarity: High
Awareness: High
Length: Low

Trigger: Noticing Dream oddity
RC: Successful hand check
Length: 3 mins approx.
Goals: To become lucid
Techniques: WBTB, MILD, RCs, ADA,
Time: 6 - 6:30am
Lucid count: 1

- Heavy emphasis on ADA & RCs in the evening
-Slep through the night with Low recall
-Woke from a 6am alarm

The Road to myself
- Vague

I am stood on the main road in my village at night. It’s eerily quiet and completely deserted. I stand in the middle of the road and feel excited I have the whole space all to myself and want to do or act something out and can’t wait to have fun. Just then a van pulls up with headlights on. I get nervous and think he may be here to cause me harm. Feeling vulnerable I hurry home, dashing a little as I do to get away faster. As I walk up my street I see a hospital worker heading to his car and know it must be early morning.

Analysis: The very first moment I felt a hint of lucidity. I couldn’t recall what I wanted to do on that road but I’m sure this was me wanting to experiment with a lucid dream though I hadn’t fully become lucid at that moment. It soon turned into a scary scenario though with the threatening and mysterious van showing up.

This is a Highlight real of my Dream Journal. I’ve selected the dreams both NLD and lucid that I have found the most fascinating, exciting and even terrifying! It’s a journey into the universe inside my head. I hope to update regularly as I progress on my Lucid journey.