Venryx

Date: January 9, 2013 ||| Time Block: 10:00 AM to 11:00 PM ||| Length: 10 minutes. ||| Lucidity: level 3/2. ||| Entry Type: DILD ||| Major Methods: WBTB

Methods: woke up at 9 or so; went to the bathroom; was resting in bed just thinking about random things, although also with the suspicion that I might have a lucid dream.

Account:

I had another lucid dream this morning by accident. I had just been up for a minute or two, to go to the bathroom, before going back to bed to complete my sleep. (I had stayed up late on an assignment the night before)

I can't remember earlier than this point, but I was standing in the forest of the woods of our house in Superior, and I knew at that moment I was dreaming. I walked out with Monica into our backyard, and stood there, so happy to see our land again. I saw the young pine tree, and the garden, and the bonfire pile, and the unused railroad ties, and the long uncut grass, and the forest behind it all with Aspen and Pine trees, and the rope swing on which we used to play. I was pretty happy, and as I looked around I saw a black bear! Knowing myself to be dreaming, I thought I might as well do an experiment. I walked right up to the bear, and encouraged it to bite me by putting my hand up right in front of its mouth. To my mild surprise, it did nothing, and remained sitting on the railroad ties just watching me. I thought that was rather nice. As I stood there, I realized that my vision was a bit fuzzy. I performed some stabilization techniques, and they helped a little, but not much. I let that rest, and turned back my attention to the bear. And it started speaking, and asked me to bring it to the rope swing. I thought I might as well, so I picked him up and starting bringing him over. As I did so, I felt as my vision degraded even further. At some point, it was gone entirely. With only my sense of touch left, I struggled but managed to get the bear on the swing, and then immediately dropped to the ground, and began feeling myself and my surroundings, in an attempt to recover my vision and anchor myself into the dream. It worked for a few seconds, but eventually I woke up.

I opened my eyes, and my sister Chrissy was lying in a bed to the left of mine. She started to talk to me about something, and was very distracting. I said, "Hold on, I need to make sure I'm awake first." She paused, and I plugged my nose. And I could still breath. My goodness, that's an odd feeling! Widening my eyes, I stood up and announced that I was dreaming. My sister seemed mildly pleased, saying something like, "Oh, that's nice!". I walked out of the room, and explained the same thing to my siblings. They were mildly pleased as well. I walked down the stairs, and did stuff that I can't remember anymore.

And then I woke up. And I was lying in bed. And I plugged my nose again. And I could still breath! My goodness, a lot of false awakenings lately. Anyway, I tried to get up, but unfortunately I couldn't move. "Oh man, sleep paralysis again!", I thought to myself. I tried moving my arms and legs, alternating them, and trying surges of force, but they all didn't work and I remained in bed. Remembering the notes on sleep paralysis, I tried the next time to start rolling, off the side of my bed. For a split second it seemed to work, regardless of my sleep paralysis I was making it towards the edge. But then I re-realized I was still in sleep paralysis, and my movement stopped. *sigh* Ruined, again, by my negative expectations. Knowing that I couldn't move, I began to try plugging my nose again. And what's very strange is that I felt two bodies. I could totally feel the body that was stuck in bed, motionless, but simultaneously, I could feel the arms and hands of an, almost imaginary body, which I was using to plug my nose. Anyway, I moved this imaginary hand, by will power, up to my nose, and plugged it completely. My body had the feeling of oddness to it, that I felt earlier, and I knew that it was working successfully (it was making the dream more vivid, and thus, I was beginning to be able to move again). The problem's that I woke myself up. And this time for real. Oh well, it was pretty neat anyway to see our backyard again, and it was kind of cool to talk to the bear. Maybe next time I'll make it last longer.