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Method: I AM, WT c.530am (7 hrs), lucid around 7.00? Sun morn lie in
Comments: Short - of interest just because of the main character - been watching 24 series back to back with my wife....now taking a toll on my dreaming life too!

The vibe has gone off, I've listened to the audio and am dozing, already having had a 'proto-lucid' fail (interrupted HH). But then as I am dozing a vivid dream scene forms around me, I'm in a whitish office/apartment and Jack Bauer from 24 is there - he starts talking to me - all earnst - about what needs to be done to save the president - I am somewhat amazed that the dream has solidified so much that I can see and hear him as if he were real and in front of me, I panic slightly, but fight it off, then rub a chair in front of me, but then I start thinking about that I don't know how to anchor the WILD - confusing myself that this is a different process from normal stabilization of a DILD - and - I loss it in the introspection, back to the void, try spinning but too late....

thoughts - given the number of recent proto-WILD fails - this was pleasing, and fun to interact (briefly) with a DC like jack bauer - but too brief (again)

Method - interuppted sleep (travel lodge). BT - 12.00ish - LD around 5.00
Comments - I think there must have been some noise from outside my room (perhaps another guest leaving and closing their door in the corridor) that got incorporated into the dream as the falling debris - certainly this seemed to totally change the direction of the dream.

Longish NLD I am rushing around trying to find some stolen cutlery, I pop out onto Gamul terrace in Chester and am about to search somewhere else when I hear this whizzing crashing noise, I look around immediately. I am looking down hill across the medieval walls and over the river dee to an open field and see a piece of wreakage scream down from the sky and smack into the earth around 50m away with a sort of BOOOM. I kinda of gasp and my brain rejigs and I look up and there is this massive 747 jet liner with smoke pouring from its partially missing wing roaring downward toward the earth. It is so close, so breathtakingly real I think WOW - holy crap I am about to see a plane crash from 50m away - and then I think 'its a dream - and its that simple I'm lucid. I start spinning around. I been thinking about trying this as opposed to rubbing my hands and in fact I do both. I can feel my eyes flick back in forth in my head (I speculated about this and it certainly feels very real). I start to panic abit about being alone in the big lucid world but keep going, controlled spin and rub. The visuals have stabilised somewhat and I slap the terrace stone work. (The plane is now nowhere to be seen). But I appear to be completely deaf. I decide to go flying before I lose the dream and jump and drift up, I seem to have little motion, and I think about NyxCC's and my conversation about the lack of tactile sensation with flying. But rather than lose the dream all this introspection (+ a bit of a hangover!) lead me to stay in the dream but lose lucidity. The NLD continues for a few minutes before I wake up.

Thougths - the plane crash - the sound of the first bit of wreakage slamming home, then seeing the jet following it at a breakneck speed was so realistic, so awe inspiring it remains an incredibly vivid image - as real as any 'real' memory. It really gives me a buzz as to how 'real' dreams can be.
Also the OKN eye movement during the spinning was really interesting - will try again soon.