lucid

incredibly clear lucid last night. im at this swimming pool/shopping complex in manchester with a mate (MF). we walk into a part of it we are not supposed to and security pull us back. after a quick search they give us back our stuff. suddenly i notice im missing my clothes. i grab a towel and jump in a lift. my mate starts laughing at me then when he jumps out the lift he realises he is naked too. we look at each other and go ahhh it must be a dream.

were in this square in town and there are amazing old architectural buildings around. i float around a bit then decide to go for that swim. then we are on bikes and searching round the outside of the complex/ there is some kind of animal park there, with fenced of paths to walk down with horses and stuff a bit like a petting zoo. there is a little pile of puppies on the ground and they look like some of them are badgers.

my mate swerves to avoid another biker and his bike flies of down this ravine. luckily he manages to bounce himself off a tree to avoid falling. when he gets to his bike he whacks it golf style and somehow manages to land it right next to me.

inside the complex is a 1st story room with large glass windos each side. there are 2 similar buildings across each street on each side. as the swimming complex starts to close, people start to file into this room for some after hours activities. it soon becomes clear that its some kind of swinger club as people start displaying themselves to each other across the street. i have a little look but then decide its not for me right now and make my exit.

back in the shopping part and i have this weird link to a repetitive past dream. i am trying to buy this weird tv, which is portrait shaped, makes lots of weird noises and lights, and best of all comes with this egg which grows into an amazing worm/caterpillar type thing which eventually becomes some amazing bug. kind of like the screaming bug on simpsons without the screams. the tv and bug are from a dream where i am living at college in this row of chalet type houses.

i meet wayne rooneys brother when i decide that i will have to order the tv later. i tell him that im here with wayne? for some reason... wayne turns up and has a bit of a fight with his near identical little bro. i try to leave the complex to get my car but the entrance foyer is starting to get rammed with people heading up to the swinger area. lots of my friends are their. also there is this one guy from school who i go up to and ask him his name. his says yes thats me and i just call him a massive cunt then walk away. also Si C is there with mates as i try and squeeze past them. Fi is also there and i chat to her briefly.

i finally make it out of the complex and ask a guard what is the best way to the car park. i go round the back and side of the building and remember that we are parked in this sandy area. i drive around it and eventually we come to a track which leads to a beach. people have left loads of stuff on it like kids bikes so i have to drive very slowly and carefully as they move them for me and i weave inbetween them with just my foot on the brake which only slows the car down but never quite stops it. as i pull into the beach i drive over this black guys wallet/phone or something. i hope that the soft sand will make sure they are not broken, but as it seems he hasnt noticed i try and just get away with it sneakily... cant remember much else for now

finally nailed 2 of my most repetitive yet hard to remember dreams. both based in a similar building complex which feels like manchester. sometimes its a bar, sometimes a commune/manor sometimes a garden centre type place. first one last night it was this adventure themed bar. the adventure was that there was a big river system inside the complex which people would go down in small canoes to get a thrill from trying to escape the massive saltwater crocs there. was pretty terrifying at times but its almost like everyone knows its a dream. the crocs are massive and so much faster than anything else.

second part and the complex has been abandoned, probably because of how stupid a business idea it is to feed your customers to saltys me and two friends decide to take it over as a kind of free party venue. the building is often different but usually has the same centre room with stairs on both sides, stairs up to that room from the door on the street, and a staff/chill out room on the left as you go in. we got someone to dj and the music was pretty great from what i remember. the place started to get absolutely heaving which is when i started to have doubts about the whole thing. it was so crowded it was hard to move at times, yet everyone was enjoying themselves. i was still letting people in off the street, including this priest looking type and a girl who was crying. the packed staff room suddenly empties and these two girls pin me up against the wall which was pretty much the end of that part.

later i am outside and my doubts start to grow. the safety of the whole thing and my responsibility for it plays on my mind. then the building starts to leak stuff and the whole thing feels like its going to pot. i just decide to stop focussing on that dream as ive lost control of my positive outlook on it.

i end up back inside the complex except this time it has more of a sports hall feel. one massive room that felt really familiar is this football room which is on a massive slope for some reason (dreamsign). im trying to form a new team for some reason and have poached pepe reina and luis suarez from liverpool along with some old teammates of mine. this is a major dreamsign that i missed, yet i was fairly lucid for many parts of the previous dreams

2 interesting memories of this weekends dreams. firstly i got lucid in my most recurring park/festival dream. i was with russ and bruce and just had a sudden realisation. i was in the park and we were facing a cliff. i stabilised by clapping and prepared myself to learn something as we approached a group of people on the edge of this cliff. this is a good sign because sometimes i will turn away or be overwhelmed when it feels like im about to learn something. anyway dont remember much else from that dream.

last night i woke up then managed to go straight back into a lucid. i just imagined myself flying, pulling myself through the air and out of my body. suddenly i found myself floating above the gardens of my local town centre. it was real as this is now and some lads were joking with me saying i would have to fly higher than that to be able to escape. escape what i dont know but i just had a little banter with them then it fades. so great to have that repreated reminder that literally all you have to do to have a full on wild is to just focus on doing something in a dream while forgetting about your physical body

woke up realisiing i'd had a great long dream so thought i better write it all down now while its still fresh. woke up later and realised i hadnt woken up at all and hadnt written anything down in real life.... doh

basically i was in hatfield with loads of old mates getting to know the old group again. there was some sort of sports clubhouse and my mate was guiding me around and showing me where the keys, lockers and all that were. later we met up with the group and i remarked that one of them hadnt aged at all- major dreamsign missed there. the main bit i remember after that was trying to fly with craig but he felt like a bit of a dead weight so it was tough. one of those shitty flapping flying dreams where you get very little back for all the effort you put in. most of it was set by the river i hatfield which was lined with gigantic redwood type trees and was generally an amazing bit of parkland. wasnt really a proper lucid i suppose although i knew i could fly and take others with me

great long lucid last night. pre lucid i was walking through a forest with a barn owl. then i was by a ravine with a mate and a girl in front. i said to my mate something like havent we seen this in a dream before, to which he dismissed it and carried on walking. i knew it was a dream and launched myself off the ravine backwards..? i caught up with the girl and walked her home, stopping on the way with loads of distractions. we got to my place and i took my shoes off. i was losing lucidity, and as it was quite wet, when she had to leave i thought i had to go and put my shoes back on to walk her home.

when she was gone i was in a place that was bit like a terraced stand. again the feeling of overlooking something made me realise i could launch off it. i started to tell people around me that it was a dream. one guy shhhssed everyone else so they could hear me. itold him he shouldnt have done that because now what i was saying would be rubbish. i wxplained that it was a dream and one guy said ok then well why dont you just do something like its a dream. i said ok, then everyone elses doubt started to spill into me. i said to him that its easy to control a dream when you are on your own, but it is much harder when you ae surrounded by loads of skeptical dc's. i was going to just jump off the terrace to prove it, so they lined up this little deep pool at the bottom for us to land in. this put me off further as it was a cold night and i had a long way to walk back wet. its crazy how lucidity comes in waves and just dissapears for short times.

anyway i knew i couldnt fly properly at the time so i just ounced down the terrace steps getting higher each time and then proving it was a dream by bouncing high and landing on my head. there is a bit of a gap now and then i remember having seena film called "return to bril castle" which had really influenced this dream. ive never seen the film but the tv i watched before bed definately played a big part.

i was cd shopping, which is odd because ive not brought a cd for ages, with someone else i know from another place on the net. we bought some similar cd's but they all got mixed up and we spent a while trying to get the right ones. i think at some point i threw some liquid off the building i was in. this caused loads of people to be pissed at me, but i was just acting like a dick and treating it like it didnt matter at all. of course it didnt really matter but maybe i should just explain myself better next time. even if its just because it is so much fun to explain to the characters that it is a dream

sweet series of lucids last night, but memory is getting hazy now. one bit i was talking to this woman and her girl about obe's astrals etc. when the woman said she didnt believe in obe's a had to ask her where she thought her body was now, or what body did she think she was using now. she still said she didnt believe so i just explained that she was basically saying she didnt believe in dreams and left it there. i spoke to her girl insted who seemed to agree that when she dreams she is away from her real body somehow, and i said that i guess when we are flying around in our dream body, that is essentailly what astral travel is.

had a couple more recurring bits. one was a party for me when i dont expect that many people to turn up, then eventually it gets quite full. one woman there was impressed with something i was doing and offered to give me a cheque for 100k to carry on my work. not sure if it was the garden work or just the dreaming stuff she was impressed by, but eventually the offer was withdrawn for some reason. this pissed me off but the party was still good.

it was in this block of flats and a group of tourists turned up. they were from jamaica and eventually turned into the west indies cricket team. by this stage i was flying around looking at things that i had previously planted around the town. there was this awesome 'guava' tree with massive purple fruit on it that was just so beautiful. shame it wouldnt grow here in reality..

the next bit was another recurring place, but i think it doesnt really have a deep meaning to it, just a place that has formed in my mind that i like and revisit. after the place had changed back to a place more resembling reality i asked a guy if he knew the place i was talking about. it was like a bar with a big blue menu screen behind the bar and the music playing was heartbeats by the knife. the bar was kind of part garden centre as well, and we were getting things for the garden and even large daisy like flowers seemed somehow miraculous to me however i still didnt really get lucid at this point as i was earlier. reminded me that i had one earlier in the week where jools holland was presenting a tv show in front of 12 foot daffodils

had a good dild early in the night. managed to stabilise through touch while flying but didnt stabilise lucidty enough so flew off and went back into au unlucid series. more metal based reality checks and deepening next time

couple of very short lucids this morning, thanks to finally being able to drag my ass out of bed early for a good wbtb. first one i was walking through a tube station in london and a friend walked past who ignored me when i called her. this got me lucid but i failed to stabilise it.

second one i was in my front room and there was a parrot/kakapo ( major dreamsign) on the windowledge outside. it was feeding its chicks and suddenly they all burst into the room which was pretty awesome. they went back out and i looked at them and the youngsters turned into different kinds of birds which got me curious, then when one of them became a tortoise it was pretty clear it ws a dream. again though i failed to stabilise because im a bit out of practice, but it was a great dream and further proof that its fairly simple to get lucid as along as i make the effort

still having really long rambling semi lucid dreams. i keep getting lucid, but never for long enough to acheive anything because the dreams are so crowded with people that i get distracted all the time. main bits i remember last night are flying with a few other people, and practising for it by jumping repeatedly without actually touching the ground. this was because i could somehow feel this electric charge like feeling which seemed to be powering flying. it seemed like these jumps were somehow charging the ability to fly.

they sill all have school/holiday type vibes and last night one ended with me trying to get to an old mates birthday party.

also ive been having a recurring dream i had forgotten in which i have a false awakening, and tihnking im awake, i explain the previous dream to whoever is there, but i am so absolutley 100% sure that it happened somewhere sometime that it almost hurts. probably just memories of past dreams that make themselves feel real when you are still dreaming.

its been very odd lately because i thought that i had never forgotten being lucid in a dream before, because usually its towards the morning and i will wake up and recall it. however lately ive been remembering throughout the day little moments where i had been lucid the previous night. makes me wonder what else i could have forgotten

a bizzare but fun one today. starts with being in some big hall with a lot of people there. one really odd character was throwing mince at people and then started to become more violent and throwing chairs and things. it seemed he was gonna hurt someone so we decided that we had to do something. i got a chair and we chased him. eventually cornering him, i stuck the chair over his neck pinning him down. he turned out to be made of mince ( i guess this all may be something to do with eating alot less meat lately?). he kept escaping so finally i put him in a bag and told a mate to go and put him in the freezer. after a while i asked him what he had done with him and he said he had put him back in his room, but only in a bag. we went back to his room and he had just put him in a bag in his drawer which made me crack up laughing. anyway he was just a pile of mince by now so no longer any threat it was hilarious to me so i recounted this story to the people there, starting off with you wont believe this because its so stupid but im going to tell you anyway...

there was a bit earlier where i was back at my old football club, and this girl asked me if i remembered her. i knew i knew her from an epic holiday dream i had about a month or two back, but this didnt get me lucid yet. somewhere along the time when i was telling the story of the mince man, it became clear that i was dreaming. it wasnt the clearest lucid, but it was based in a holiday party dream, so my tasks just went out of the window as i tried to just stabilise it enough to make it last longer and just go with the flow of the dream. in my mates room there were 2 girls (ors, marm) dancing in a wardrobe, and even though it looked too small in there, i thought i had to get in on that. we danced for a bit then it felt like time to move onto another part of the holiday. everything just felt so loving, like we were all on the same wavelength and there were no issues between anybody that we could all just share all this fun together. i got told that i seemed to have so much life, and as this was from someone with plenty of it themselves it just felt so nice and reassuring. ive definately had alot more energy lately and went on an amazingly long ride yesterday without getting at all tired. i definately feel that dreams can somehow effect your real life energy because sometimes they drain me whereas recently they have just energised me.

i found a mate who had the key to our apartment. (by this time i was semi lucid, but lucid enough to remember to keep stabilising) i put the key in my wallet and walked off into the dream with the 2 girls. i remember dropping the key and then finding it again, but sadly like too many other dreams, do not remember getting back to the apartment, and just remember partying with the crowds of people there. the only dream goal i really got to do was just walking around practising trying to find the things and people that i was looking for at the time. this was pretty successful and all in all a pretty amazing lucid that was one of the first times where i didnt have to trade off between the epicness of the dream, and my lucidity in it.

tech: just some mantras before bed, some tactile/visual visualisations and a wbtb after 4 hours sleep and a brief sit in bed while waking.

just had a lucid which blew my freaking socks off.

prelucidbefore i was lucid i was in this bar/shop. it was like tescos crossed with my old local the bull. people were working and i was training. all i remember was that it seemed odd that it was all sales based when the only real work to do was cleaning. unfortuately i spen a good few minutes of the dream cleaning up tescos i remember that someone was growing fruit so i told them they should come and see my roof garden (real) where ive got raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, currrants etc growing. when it felt more like a bar there was an old friend there who i got on well with. she was friendly as ever and it was all going well. when she left momuntarily my mate JC asked me about her. i just said something like 'well its always been a kind of 60:40 thing between us really. he then went 'oops shes right there' and she was right behind me. this upset her and she stormed out.

i followed to explain what i meant even though i wasnt entirely sure myself. she seemed to think that i was just rating my chances of a shag to my mate, but it wsnt like that at all. i explained that it was more like because we were always in different places, i had never rated the chances of it happening until then. this didnt help and because i had hold of her gently, i t must have seemed like i was the bad guy to these passing 3 blokes. they started to attack me with whatever they had (golf clubs) but i immediately recognised the main attacker as an old school friend. i told him it ws me but it didnt help!! he kept on hitting me and i could feel it a bit, but it didnt bother me. i managed to get hold of one of the clubs and miraculously took out the 2 others with one throw. this just brought further spite from the rest of the bar crowd and they all circled on me. the growing unease made me really assess my surroundings in a heightened fight or flight manner. it slowly dawned on me that i was just in an internal vision of my fears creating

lucid part this was finally enough to send me lucid. it was very tough though, and i feared that in the face of all this, i would just wake sraight away if i allowed myself to believe in the dream. somehow i managed to stabilise while getting lucid otherwise in wouldnt have worked. i looked at my mate (DM) and told him it was just a dream. he said it wasnt (or stronger words ) but i tried to show him. finger through palm failed miserably as it was already too stable for that. instead i just floated above the bar so the whole pub could catch on.

I was in a very crowded pub, so it was tricky to just ignore people amd do my own thing. this didnt matter though as floating in front of the bar was enough to prove that it was a dream to eveyone. plus luckily it seemed to help them to forgive me for whatever happened with the girl. i stabilised by rubbing my hands on the bar and peering round at everything quickly. they all responded well and asked me how they could stabilise it. once it was solid enough i said to DM that i was going outside for a quick fly. he joined me. along with a massive stream of people who flowed out of the pub. it was raining so i had the beautiful experience of stabilising a dream with the coolness of the rain. i took off and about 10 people took off from below me. a little mid air spin helped to make the flight so stable. normally i dont even get to land, but this was different. this is only the 2nd time i remember flying with other people, and the sight of them taking off below me was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. i pretty much cried with joy, then flew around with a mate like superman. in fact i think he had a superman top on at one point.

back on the ground in the galleria, and DM saw a video game he wanted to play. i warned him that if he got too into it, the dream may fade. i said if there was any chance that the real him may remember it, that he should just concentrate on remembering it should he feel it fading. i spoke to another mate, then turned round and DM was gone. i found him playing ping pong a second later though. I spoke to Luke and asked him if he was a lukid dreamer. he said of course, so i just repeated that if he may remember it to get in touch.

back in the pub and it seemed that a whole new bunch were up for some fliyng. i took them outside and there was a group of girls who i just explained to that they just have to try learning to float first. one girl jumped up then floated back down and bumped her ass it was funny but i could see she was trying so i held her hand and gave her a slight boost. she was fine after that and started floating around.

i floated past another mate of mine CS. greeted him by his full name and told him i thought i had seen another old mate nearby. we went over to meet AjG and it was him with his crazy beard under some kind of helmet. it seemed he was part of some protest, although it was impossible to tell the police from the protestors. i'd like to think this was a good future sign. i hugged him and he shook me around the big ol crazy bastard. this was finally enough to destabilise the dream, although for once i knew this was going to happen so i managed to stay completely still. it didnt help much and i felt little conection to the dream after waking so gave up on the deild attempt and ran downstairs to post this. i dont think it helped the deild attempt that i woke up completely on my front. i felt no vibes or anything although by this time its likely that i had used up my lucid energy if thats possible

mostly a semi lucid this one. went down to london to a place that was apparently westminster abbey. except it dodnt look anything like it, which reminded me of visiting similar places in london before. the architecture in my dreams is just mind blowing. i could just sit and look at the buildings for hours. even though they all seem to be kind of royal themed, which isnt my thing, its almost like the history is woven into the tapestry of the buildings design, and just a quick glance tells you so much of the story somehow. anyway westminster abbey looked far different as if it was made by hand from mud thousands of years ago. symbolism which i didnt really pay attention to was all overt he thing and the bit i remember was like a huge coin/seal type thing underneath a large window.

inside was a kind of gathering going on. it started off as a catholic mass type event, then progressed into an african style dance, then into a full on drum and bass rave. the mass was weird just for the hypnotic effect it had. everyone was doing this slow waving of theyre arms in the air, and even my dad was joining in who is even less religious than me. i took the piss a bit, but wasnt threatened by it so remained mostly respectful to these weird ceremonies. at one point in the rave this weird guy was going round telling people to quiet/sit down which was odd. he was still dancing so i took the piss and went over to him and told him to sit down like he had been doing. this got a laugh and we just started to dance really weirdly. like a floating robot dance later on the setting switched back to my house. i was with ug and we were laughing about the similarity between some church events and good old rave parties. god is a dj and all that shite. a bit like this video



in fact i even remember doing some of the mcing from this vid in the dream the dream ended with my floating round my house in semi lucid state as the party wound down. i remember seeing some more amazing architecture and relaying my past dream to some people so its another dream within a dream fail for me which i must work on. rc rc rc!

awesome series of lucids/semis last night. i think the lucids may only have started on a slight awakening. i was flying when i woke, so all i tried to do was to forget about my real body and put all my focus into aggressively swimming through the air with my dream body. this worked brilliantly and i was back flying. the most memorable parts were being in school and preparing for a dance-off. somehow winning respect off lots of younger students. dont remember dancing though... then i was going on a night out/festival with mel and ryan, very old friends from school. after that i thought i had woken up in the dream. mel was on telly and i was saying how it was odd that i had dreamt about her and here she was on telly........ anyway i think she was getting famous for singing or something although on the tv she was being played by this older wag type lady.... i went to the computer to see if it was actually her. this was a very odd and long little false awakening so i must do more to remember to check where i am when waking and especially when recounting a dream as i often seem to do this in non lucid falsies... hmm alot more been forgotten.. may add more...

wbtb-indirect techniques

i was having a little party at my house and then a load of gatecrashers turned up. i was in the porch struggling to keep them out. something to do with my cousin being friends with my uni mates made me catch on and become lucid. once i was lucid i just decided to open the door and face the attack. they just kind of went through me and faded away. i could feel it wouldnt last that long as it was a bit noisy in my house. there was a classic ibiza house style tune playing so i just danced for a bit to celebrate my return to lucidity and getting over a vivid nightmare scenario.

later on i wasnt lucid but still managed to explain to a group of mates in a pub, the whole debt scam and how to avoid payments. then we were all in libya (watching too much news) and escorted around the place in an armoured vehicle. somehow we were standing in for gaddafi or something. i remember thinking that this was a plan to get rid of me, so should use this fear as a dreamsign.

there were plants and vegetables growing on the side of the road. i didnt stand up for gaddafi but still explained that compared to our leaders who destroy all sorts of countries around the world, he probably wasnt even as bad. there was anamazing carrier green eagle type thing which transfixed me as my mates ran for cover

i managed a dild from an ultra realistic dream for a change. was back at school and in a class about peoples physical issues like manboobs etc... i realised that the class was bollocks, which first led to a minor strop from me and almost walked out, then i realised that it was a dream. i explained this to the rest of the class who all dismissed it until i proved it by floating. i said to them that they were all free to sit there and waste the dream sitting in school, but i wasnt going to waste it but was going to go outside for a fly, and anyone who wanted to join me was very welcome. one of the lads seemed scared so i just said well dont you ever fly in dreams, and he said yes but not when he knew it was a dream. eventually one of the girls said can she come along. i took her out of the window without having stabilised the dream. as we got outside it started to fade and i pretty much woke up.

fortunately i remembered how to get back to it easily and was back in exactly the same situation. now however more of the class had joined us and all wanted to learn how to fly. this meant that the pressure was really on, but fortunately i could still do it. we all joined hands and i floated a little to show them how it was done. some responded well but others didnt manage it so i took them seperately and encouraged them to just jump up and down on the spot and concentrate on a feeling of floating, and just that if they know they can do it, then they will. i showed them how to just tuck there legs up and they started to get it.

back in the classroom i needed something to confirm the dream so i looked at the teacher and her eyes turned into cartoon type eyes. ive never had anything cartoon like in a normal dream so this was a nice surprise. she introduced herself as willow w something and i shook her hand which cemented the dream and my lucidity. i remember looking at everyone and noticing that i could see a pale white aura around everyone, with a white patch above some peoples heads. also there was an authoratative type guy there who was very interested in what was going on. he introduced himself as eric pickles. i knew the name but could not place it. i found out today that eric is a uk mp, and i was reading some posts by a guy named pickle yesterday so that is probably where that came from.

meanwhile the girl who had wanted to fly was fading out of the picture but straining to stay in the dream. i put my hands on her back and tried to bring her back. i encouraged her to rub her face and her body and this seemed to make her look solid again and fully back into the dream. some of the girls were worried for her, but i assured them it was ok. whe she was back, she went outside and started flying around like crazy which was awesome to see. i joined her and flew about nature for a bit, feeding birds and stuff.

i think thats all the key points but the order is probably a bit out as i had a gap between dreaming and write up. must remember to stabilise before changing environments.. the only thing that makes me wonder if it actually could have been a partially shared dream is that when teaching people, it made it so much harder to stay in the dream, and really felt like i was lending them energy. still experimenting and awaiting any kind of confirmation that dreams have any relevance to reality though... i left an image on the whiteboard and told them to use it if any of them remembered anything