Second Reality Experiences

I don't remember how this dream started. I had an entire dream segment before I became lucid that I have no recollection of whatsoever. All I can remember is everything turning black and me fighting to save the dream like I always do. I need to work on recognizing I am in a dream BEFORE it ends. It seems like lately I've just been becoming lucid the moment everything fades away.

The dream reappears. I am standing in an apartment. I can tell we are several stories up. From the light coming in the windows I can tell that it's in the morning. There is an Asian woman folding clothes in the room and doing other chores. Her hair is tied back and she is wearing a white tank with black pants. She's humming a song I don't recognize. She comes up to me and spins me around trying to get me to dance with her. There's also a little girl in the room i assume is her daughter. She looks about 3 or 4 and is wearing a red dress and has her hair made into pigtails.

"What is your name?" I ask her.

"A," she responds

Wow, that was really unimaginative. It was kind of hoping I could interact with a more intriguing DC, or maybe find my DG. I ask her again what her name really is. This time she tells me it's "Tequila," which I find even weirder.

"You know that's a Mexican liquor right?" I say.

I bump into her daughter on accident and she whines to her mom that I was hurting her. Then the dream ends.

I had a few dreams last night and thought I would post them. I think they make up in quantity what they lack in quality.

1. I am at a NASA building. I am touring the place with several students, listening to lectures. A blonde guy in front me jokes about how he made out with a boy who was a goth kid. I remember thinking that he definitely wasn't as straight as he claimed to be.

2. I am at a Best Buy party. Food was ordered in. Each employee had to pay two dollars to eat, so I go to a cash register and take out change for a ten. My dad showed up, and we all sit at a large round table to eat. My Dad talks politics with my manager - Andrea. He asks who would go to war with the Middle East first : Europe or America? I say Europe because of the close proximity they have with each other. For some reason I had no recollection of our current war. I was thinking of the game Risk...My dad finishes his food early and leaves. Afterward Andrea comes to me and asks if I minded if she took pictures for our family. She knew we were having problems with my dads side of the family, with my stepbrother and half-sister. I thought that was nice of her and agreed. Later my dad tells me we couldn't take the pictures because my stepbrother died of developmental problems.

3. Summer had some sort of eye surgery that went wrong, removed her cornea, and left her blind. I was the one taking care of her. I lift her up and tell her that this is how things will have to be until the end. Her mom and James are with us. James is laying down on the ground and Summer gets annoyed with him and stands up trying to stomp on his arm.

4. I am at Bahama Breeze sitting on the deck outside. The new employees are being coached by Tabatha. I overhear a couple of the employees discussing how payouts and tips are handled at the end of a shift. I walk outside and the area around the restaurant looks like a desert. The sand is a mixing pattern of hot pink and yellow. A black thunderstorm starts brewing in the distance. I see my old friend Shay about 20 yards away.

I become lucid. Everything immediately becomes ten times more accurate in clarity. I can feel the strong breeze coming from the direction of the thunderstorm. There are weird cactus-like shrubs scattered about that are about 6 feet tall. I look at Shay again, and behind her (probably a mile away) a huge tornado had formed.

She waves at me, "This way Nick! Come with me!"

I am a little hesitant because of the tornado, but I know it's a dream so I run toward her anyway. The moment I reach where she is standing though, she disappears. Then I begin to float away. I can feel all the wind around me still. I decide to let my dream carry me where it wants. I float over the desert. It becomes night and I am dropped in an alley next to a building. Above the front doors I see a lit circular sign that reads "Pink Panther". Before I can take any further steps the dream ends.

Red Lobster seems to be on my subconscious a lot lately... Probably because I used them as a reference for one of the restaurants I applied to...and when that restaurant called them, they were told it had been too long since I had worked there for them to give a reference for me (only 2 years). So I didn't get that job - and I guess my subconscious mind just hasn't gotten over that. But this dream ended up being an exact play by play of me confronting my general manager LeeAnn about this happening.

I walk up to the front doors of the Red Lobster I used to work at. I look at the sign at the right of the door that displays the name of the general manager who works there. LeeAnn's name is still there - good. I go inside and look to see if I can find her. The layout is definitely different than what I was used to when I worked. I spot LeeAnn in the doorway to the kitchen. She has an apprehensive anxious look about her, which tells me she probably knows why I am here. But unlike on the phone, she can't exactly ignore my presence. She sits down with me at one of the empty tables.

"How are you?" I ask her.

"I'm good. Look. I have to cut down right to the chase. I can't give you a reference from me. It's been too long since you've been here."

"It's only been two years though," I say, "I wanted to transfer to a Red Lobster where I live now, and I couldn't find any that were accepting transfers. So I applied to Best Buy and was hired there. I've been with them for two years, but I've always wanted to go back to serving. Now that I had that opportunity, I couldn't get hired because you guys refused to give me a reference!"

"Yeah, the other managers told me they get a lot of reference calls about you though."

"Why does that matter? To be honest, I know I was a great employee. I gave you 2 MONTHS notice when I left. I never made any trouble for you and always did a good job."

"Well, why get back into serving again?" she asks.

"Because it's the best pay for the time spent working that I can get right now. Not only that - you get to interact with many different people and it's never boring. It's fun, and not monotonous whatsoever."

She laughs, "You are so passionate about it we should get married!"

We get up and walk together, down a corridor and into a seperate room. There is a queen bed in the middle and I can see my friend Brittany laying down in it. She makes a joking comment about how me and LeeAnn better not be having sex. LeeAnn gets out a piece of paper and asks what I want her to write for a reference letter. She ends up writing down a list of good qualities I have. I don't remember what exactly they were. I just remember that I wasn't too impressed - but it would do.

Brittany speaks up to her, "Don't forget to sign it for him!"

She quickly signs it and then hands me the slip of paper. I feel accomplished right before I wake up.

I have a sit down with my old general manager of Red Lobster to try to get back working there again. She hires me. When I show up to work for my first day I ask one of the servers if the menu is still the same from when I worked there. They tell me it pretty much is and hand me a menu. I look it over and find that not much has changed at all. I go through the selection of sides in my head. Baked Potato, Mashed Potato, French Fries, Broccoli, or Rice...still got it! I look at what starting section they put me in, and it's a really shitty one... not near the windows at all - where most of the customers like to be to see the water. That's expected though, they needed to start me out easy. I also notice next to my name on the seating chart the written words "Only 1%". I assumed that that meant I only get 1% of my pay or tips which is extremely disappointing but I am sure it was only for that day because of starting. Suddenly I have to use the restroom so I enter the bathroom. The stalls had no walls and after I was done I was thinking about what an invasion of privacy that was.
I look down at my hand and realize I have a dark grey smudge on it. I go up to the bathroom sink and see that the dark smudging is also all over my face. I try to wash it off but somehow it gets all over my clothes. Shit! I pump some soap hoping that it might help me get rid of it all faster. My clothes get all wet, but after a few minutes of washing, I end up looking somewhat okay. I walk outside and the speak with the hostess - a thin girl with blonde, chin length hair.

"Hey Nick, I sat you but no one knew where you were and we couldn't find you. So I had to move them to someone else's section. Also, some of the servers say you need to give them some tables anyway so they can make money."

I look at her. "I don't care what the other servers say, sit me anyway. And let me know when you do. I'm not going anywhere."

I walk around and notice there are some stairs that are leading to a basement with dancing music blasting inside. Since when did Red Lobster get a night-club? I walk down there and bump into my old roommate Amaliah on the way.

"Hey! I didn't know you were here."

"Oh I come here all the time! I love this place! Let's go in!"

I follow her inside but it's very dark and hard to see. An Asian guy walks up to me that I recognize as one of my coworkers.

"Follow me Nick." he said.

He leads me to another room of the nightclub and then the dream fades. The moment everything turns black I realize I am dreaming

I start spinning and fighting to save the dream now that I was lucid. I keep thinking that I want the dream scene to change into something beautiful. When the dream finally does re-appear I am in a hilly countryside next to a flowing creek. There are miniature horses grazing among yellow flowers. They are about the size of toy dogs. Very cute. I stabilize the dream a bit and admire the clarity. Everything looks and feels so real. Even the water from the creek which I put my legs in feels nice. I see a few baby ducks waddling through the grass. It's very relaxing. I try to pet some of the little horses but they are skittish and run away from me. A few of them jump into the creek and swim to the other side. Then everything disappears and I am back awake in my bed :/

Summer asked me to help a friend of hers she knew to move into her new home. I thought it would be a great way to earn extra money so I agreed and showed up at her house. It was a huge blue home that looked like it was self-designed. I walked into the home and there were bout three different cats hanging around. They were long-haired, like my cat Luna, and I decided to pet a few of them. I looked around at the interior of the house. Everything was very open and spacious. I walked up to the owner and complemented her on the design. She had most of the decorations up. There were still many boxes and bags all over the place though. There was a man she introduced me to who was also helping her with the moving process - probably to lift the heavier furniture. I asked her if she knew Summer well and that she was interested in how things were coming along. That seemed to remind her of something and she hurried off into her bedroom. I almost followed her inside but stopped at the door thinking she might want privacy.

"It'll be just a second. I'll be right back." she told me

When she came back out she had a small digital camera. She took a picture of her newly furnished living room.

"I'll give you a copy of this picture. Show it to Summer. I want her to see how the place looks now!"

After that I helped her gather a huge trash-bag up and put it on the side of the road. It was raining outside.

"When do you want me to come back?" I asked her.

"As soon as the weather lets up. Probably tomorrow morning. You'll be spending the night a few times to watch the house as part of the deal as well."

I agreed. After I drove away I worried about how I was going to get off work for that time. The dream then ended.

Two poachers had killed a massive lion and it was lying dead and floating in water in a large swamp. They were upset at each other because they didn't know how they were going to carry it out of the place. Not only was the body heavy, it was submerged in water so it felt like a nearly impossible task. At some point I became lucid.

I walked into a large building next to the swamp. It ended up being a 1920's train station. It was decorated nicely. For some reason there were bookcases with large books and odd assortments of things you would picture in a study room - such as telescopes and globes etc. Everything was perfectly new and well kept even though it had a definite 20's feel. Swing music started playing in the background and I started dancing to it counting the correct steps we used in swing dance in high school. Shortly after that an older lady DC walked into the hallway from a seperate room. She was probably in her 50s or 60s but still looked very pretty, like Jessica Lang, and was also dressed to fit the vintage look of the place. I walked over toward her.

"Do you know who I am?" I asked her

She cupped my face in her hands and I could see tears forming in her eyes.

"You don't remember, do you?" she said.

She fell to her knees and just started sobbing. I felt so much sadness and sorrow emanating from her. I didn't know what to do - I really did not know who she was or where I had seen her before. I knelt down and kissed her lips. I don't know why. It just felt appropriate at the time - as if it were to say I was sorry. As i did that, everything faded to darkness and I woke up.

Ok, tonight I had the first lucid dream in months because I've actually had time to focus on getting back into it. It wasn't a very long experience but I am happy I have started the process. Each dream gets longer and more detailed and then boom I get a short lucid experience. Hopefully this follows with longer and longer lucid ones as well. Here is my color code for all further dream entries.'
Red is for when I am not lucid. Blue is for when I am lucid.

I was in an apartment, in what was supposed to be my bedroom. The TV was on the dresser and a Lady Gaga concert was playing on the screen. It was a new single from her that I did not recognize, but it sounded pretty catchy. She had her hair in a short ponytail and was wearing a purple rock-star dress that reminded me of the 80s. I walked out of the back of my room onto the balcony. I tripped and fell off onto the ground below because the railing was missing from the sides. I started walking through the grass when it struck me as odd that there would be no railing on the balcony. Wait a minute! I'm dreaming!

I immediately became excited. I started walking fast. There was a white sign up ahead. Just to make sure, I did a RC. I looked at the lettering (I couldn't understand what was written there) looked away, and then looked back again. The sign had disappeared altogether the second time. Now I knew for sure. The dream started fading so I started spinning and rubbing my hands together. It took a good minute or two of this before the dream re-appeared. I was laying in bed. I sat up and rubbed my hands again for good measure. The dream stabilized a little bit and I could see more clearly. The floor was concrete and there was an orange plastic chair with metal legs next to a cheap, dusty looking table. There was a small TV stand at the foot of the bed, with one of those old tiny analogue televisions. I stood up and walked over to the table. I picked up a small clipboard that was laying on it, and felt how realistic it was before I set it back down. Everything felt stable enough to proceed. I wanted to find a DC to interact with. I walked out of the bedroom and across a short hallway into another bedroom whose door was left open. There was a man sitting down on the opposite side of a bed who quickly stood up as I entered the room. As soon as I saw him everything immediately went black and I woke up.

I was in the passenger seat of Summer's car - she was driving. We were in a city that I imagine looked a lot like Paris. There were cobblestone roads and bright street lamps lighting up the alleys. We decided to stop at a drive-through cafe to get a couple of sandwiches. However the man who worked there was obnoxious and started yelling at us about being closed and that he didn't have time to serve us. Summer called him a fuck-face and then we left. We drove to our place, it was a nice studio flat with wooden floors and a stone fireplace. My snake Virgo was out of his cage and was curled up on the floor. I went to go pick him up but he tried to bite me several times (my snakes are always aggressive in my dreams) so I left him alone. We also had a pretty large black lizard walking around. I tried to pick him up too but he sprayed this pretty strong musk that smelled like bleach.

"At least it smells clean," Summer said, and shrugged her shoulders.

It smelled clean but a couple of droplets got into my mouth and it tasted horrible, bitter, and disgusting.

"Hey Summer. why don't I go down the road and stop at one of the cafes there? Ill find us something to eat." I figured we were living in an area that probably had some kind of small restaurant on every block. There was bound to be something.

"Sure" she said.

The dream faded away.

For some reason I was moved into a new neighborhood. I remember walking around and the neighbors next door to me lived in a Spanish Villa-type house with a balcony and vines growing down the walls. They were a celebrity couple - I don't remember who. I had the ability to fly and there was a huge antique warehouse I was flying over. There were a lot of power lines though that I had to avoid. I remember hitting a couple of them but I wasn't shocked - because like a bird, I was not grounded. Then I started falling and i held on to a piece of jump-rope that was tied to one of the power lines. I slowed myself and when I hit the ground I was still holding the rope, but I felt no electricity which I thought was odd (but that still didn't trigger my lucidity). There was a little girl who caught me flying. She found out my little "secret". Her two front baby teeth were missing. She let me know that it was okay and she wouldn't tell. She also said that all young kids had the ability to fly and that the talent fades with age and we forget how to do it. There was another little girl DC that went out of her way to find my dream journal. I think it was lost in the pile of antiques that was in the warehouse. She was my boss Shannon's daughter and she looked exactly like the chubby blonde girl from the movie "The Help". She had my dream journal in her hands but never had the chance to hand it to me, and I remember worrying that she would read it and how I had inappropriate adult dreams that were written in there. Shannon showed up and was trying to get her daughter to stop spending time with me and telling her that "there were a lot of new people she should meet in this place". I think her daughter looked up to me though and didn't want to make friends with anyone else. Then I left and sat down on a bench next to my brother and sisters. A picture was taken of us, and then the dream ended.

I was at a marina. There was a boat and the guy inside had a loudspeaker connected to a microphone that he probably used for guided tours in the bay. He was making jokes with an attractive guy in a jet-ski next to his boat. I don't remember the words they exchanged. The guy with the jet-ski had black hair and a goatee and was wearing a dark wetsuit. I remember he waved at me. Another person appeared who had long brown hair and was fairly stocky. I remember thinking he was my brother (even though he wasn't Jared and I have no other brother than Jared.) He said something to the guy in the wetsuit about meeting at the hill. I knew they were referring to the hill across the marina, so I made a gigantic jump across the water in the marina and landed on it. It just so happens that this hill was in the backyard of my mom's house. Then the thought occurred to me that it might be creepy and stalker-ish to keep following these guys around so I went into the backdoor of my home. My mom was in the kitchen cooking some type of macaroni pasta. My "brother" in the dream came inside shortly after me.

My sister Ashley was driving me to my dad's house. When we parked in front of the garage she pulled out some double-stuf oreos from her purse and we ate them. I talked to her about my horrible middle school past. In particular, I told her about a time when I came and sat at my desk in one of my classes: (There were a group of snotty "popular" girls standing next to me. One of them told the others "Let's get away from that boy who talks like a girl!" and they all followed her away from me. - I was a late starter in puberty and my voice took longer to change than most of the other guys) After that, she told me how the friends she has all loved me and that "people who hang out in bookstores are the type who would make great friends for me." Then my dad pulled up in his truck and we got out of her car.

I was watching TV with Ray. There was a documentary about Hitler and the Holocaust showing on the History Channel. I turned to Ray and said "Isn't it odd that Hitler was able to do all of these bad things without a lot of protest from the German people?" He just nodded. I watched the screen and it was playing a scene from that time - silent and black and white. There were Nazi soldiers shooting at civilians who were walking by. A man fell down and at first I thought he was shot - but really he was sprayed in the face with some kind of molten metal. It spread from his forehead over his right eye and I could really sense the pain he was feeling.

I was in a police station/jail. I remember there was a black guy that had blonde dreads who kept staring at me and I thought it was odd. I was with a black family who had a little girl who was probably 2. One of the police officers was talking about some of the inmates that were pulling up. As they were walking into the building the little girl (I think her name was Ruby, it was something similar to that) She ran away and out into the main part of the prison. She saw something she wanted or someone she wanted to play with, I forgot what it was. Her parents and everyone started chasing after her. The prison kind of transformed into something else. Like a mall or something. There was chaos everywhere, people running and screaming like something bad was happening (although I don't really remember what that was). I felt connected to that little girl for some reason, as if she were my sister. So I was running everywhere screaming her name. Some kid came up next to me and asked who I was looking for. I told him and he said he saw her and pointed me in the right direction. I ended up coming out of the building into a wide expansive hilly field. There were still people running around crazily. Then I noticed some weird doglike creatures walking around in the distance. They were about the size of cows and had elongated necks and bodies. That was my trigger to become lucid.

That was too strange for me. Although I knew I was dreaming, I decided to keep going with the plot of the dream because I wasn't really prepared to do anything else. I saw a girl on a horse riding toward me. I jumped on and said, “Alright, lets go find this girl.”As soon as I did the dream faded away. I kept rubbing my hands and chest and body, trying to hold onto any tactile stimulation from the dream. Then a new dream scene appeared. I was in a driveway of a home. I walked through a small corrider (between the garage and the house) and came to a large lake in the backyard with a dock. It was in the evening and the sun was setting. Very picture perfect of the kind of place I would love to live. I leaned against the wall just looking out at the water. I could see a small boat way out in the distance. I felt very relaxed and content. I marveled a little at the clarity of the dream. Then it faded and I woke up.

Lucid Non-Lucid Thoughts


I was on a cliff overlooking a waterfall with two other guys. I did not recognize them but they were my friends. There were lots of people below swimming in the water. The water was really clean, almost like pool water. One of the guys that was up there with me decided he was going to jump from the cliff into the deep end. But there were a lot of rocks on the way and I was worried he wouldn't make it. The other person there dared him to, so he jumped. Right before he was going to hit the water he landed on a large rock and face planted into the side. He kind of dragged along the rock and seemed to pass out. I was really upset, thinking that he might have died. But as soon as I though that he looked up smiling and said he was alright. He then stood up and jumped away from the rocks. I remember right after that happened a man in a suit started yelling at us saying that we weren't allowed to jump from the waterfall and to get down. I turned around to come down the slope and accidentally slipped and started falling right toward the rocks so I tried to "slide" down grabbing on to anything I could on the sides to help break my fall. It worked, and I landed on a ledge safely, but I was still in trouble because I was still fairly high up and there were still a lot of hard rocks right below me. For some reason there was a ladder to my left hanging loosely on a nail or something. I hopped onto it and started swinging it outwards. Somehow I was able to swing out far enough to where I could jump out of the ladder into a safe area. As soon as I was in the water I was pushed downstream of the river and the two guys I was with followed me. I asked one of them why it took me downstream so fast. He just replied that there was a strong current today. I remember he kept trying to tickle me from behind. The river changed from being natural to being kind of artificial and man made. I remember there were tiled walls on either side of me. The water also began to get very dirty and gross. I put my feet down and touched the floor. It was very slimy. I told the two guys with me to be careful and not touch the bottom because it was disgusting. Then I woke up.

I was not lucid at all in this dream. I've been focusing on school and work so much I haven't had time to concentrate on my lucid dreaming. I'm trying to start it back up though, and it all starts with dream recall. I feel that even when recalling non-lucid dreams I get a strange satisfaction. I don't really know how to describe it.

Since this is my first entry, I will start with the last dream I wrote down in my physical dream journal.

Ray and I were canoing down a river in the middle of the afternoon. I jumped out of the canoe and swam to shore. In the distance I saw an island (called "Monkey Island" in the dream). I wanted us to go there. It was huge with large mangrove roots sprawling all around and a large central tree bursting from the center. As I reached shore I noticed the water began rising. I was losing places I could hold onto or stand on, and remember being afraid of alligators in the water. That was when I saw my dad on his sailboat and my brother on the shoreline opposite of me. I swam over to them and that is when lucidity hit me.

I decided to do a little exploring so I dove beneath the surface of the river and saw the one of the most beautiful landscapes my mind has ever come up with. I was underwater, yes, but everything was crystal clear as if it were air and it wasn't exactly underwater because I saw birds flying down there as well. To be more accurate there were dolphins, stingrays and other water-life swimming/flying through the area, along with those birds. The land below all of it looked extremely similar to the grand canyon. It was absolutely stunning. I resurfaced and grabbed my sister Ashley. I told her to come down underwater with me and we both went together. We were having a great time. A large group of stingrays headed straight for my sister and I remember she was hurrying to get out of their way - afraid of being stung. But they just brushed by her gently. Several platypi did circles around me and swam away. I can't explain the feeling of it all, just that it was wonderful and innocent, like the feeling a child would get about going to the beach for the first time. After spending some time down there, Ashley and I got out and discovered a nice house built into the cliffside next to the river. We entered it and as we did the house broke itself off and began slowly drifting away, as if it were being held up by balloons. I looked at her and said "Isn't this exciting. Our journey is about to begin.". By this time it was already evening and we were passing over many houses with their lamp-posts on. I looked around the house and made the dream become more clear. I told my sister that I loved her. She replied "Aw, I love you too."
I then said "You know we are dreaming right?"
She gazed out the window and said "I know."
I looked at her and asked "Well...Will you remember all of this when we wake up?"
She just grinned at me and gave me a face that said I already knew. This wasn't the real her. She couldn't remember something she wasn't actually doing.

SO that's that. I woke up shortly after. I didn't manipulate any of this... I just lucidly went with the flow of the dream.