Thread: You dont have to go...

From the earliest point that I recall of this dream, it starts at a house that I'm unfamiliar with. This part is pretty hazy so everything is going to be ambigous but, a lady wanted me to help her walk her cats on leashes. I take one of them out in the back yard. It runs at half-speed towards that fence and I ran with it so that it wouldn't hit the end of the leash hard and I figured it wanted some excercise or to investigate something by the fence. When we reach it, the cat leaps up and over the fence I feel tension the leash and panic because I think it might've just hung itself I let go of the leash and jump up to pop my head over the fence. The cat is on this giant type of see-saw, walking back and forth. Relieved I decide that the cat is ok to roam on it's own.

I had to put this dream together backwards and in pieces so I'm kind of assuming the order of events and relations. I believe I was friends with the lady's son. We decide to head down the street to the store, possibly for cigs. My uncle points the way and he's with my alcoholic grandfather who has emphysema both from my cuban side. Suddenly I have old fashioned roller skates on and I'm going down hill. My grandfather has rollerblades on. The landscape was pretty familiar the hill was just like the one on my street when I lived Germany. I put the brakes on the bottom with ease, my grandfather can't figure out the brakes and puts the skates sideways like ice skaters do and he then falls over. But he gets up laughing, he seems perfectly fine. He's in way better health than in real life and actually speaks a bit more english.

The store had a sign that said "PriceMart". Along the way here I had lost track of my friend but I think I ended up with one of the cigs he was smoking because I now had two going. I think it was suppose to be kind of like a mall except no one was in there except this middle aged woman and me and there were no stores except for the one at the end. The lady was kind of ahead of me and she set down her purse and started doing something to her shoe. I walked past and suddenly she yelled out to me in German, I hesistated and decided to keep walking but she called out again so I think about replying with kein sprechen sie deutsch. I really can't I just got by with reading and figuring it out. But in my dreams I always have a tendency not to speak and the dreams I had earlier that night my voice was distorted and the words didn't come out smooth. So I go back, she makes me sit down with her and gets real close to me. Very uncomfortable, she suddenly goes in for a kiss, I cough out a bunch of smoke in her face and mouth and stand up.

Next thing I know my friend and I running down the corridor. I look to the side and I noticed a small lizard with his head cut off which gave me a feeling of disappointment at how cruel some can be. We run into my friend's mom. She's with the lady. The woman claims to a be mountie.(A lot of countries getting mixed up in this dream) My friend's mother and us are living there under fake visas/passports. We're getting deported.

Here I have a false awakening. I realize that I should just go straight back into the dream and try get lucid. I grab a sleep mask that I dont have and have never seen. I put it on a lay down, a couple seconds laterI open my dream eyes. I sit up and do an RC and become lucid. Immediately everything starts spinning. It's so confusing I can't tell if I was spinning or the walls are spinning but this has happened in two other dreams. I take deep breathes trying to stabilize but I don't see any progress, kind of panicked, I stand up thinking that if I just try to go on with dream like nothing was happening it would stop. everything sways and I stumble left into the futon then I fall to the right into my entertainment center. I stumble out of my door and see my brother laying his bed drinking something. I throw the hat that had suddenly appeared on my head at him and then fall on my ass. I get up and everything has calmed down except from the moment I saw my brother I was sure he thought I was trashed and somehow it kind of got into my head that I might be. I walked over and sat on his bed feeling drained and he puts his hands over my shoulders to the back of my neck checking to see if I was alright, he said something about the back of my neck being really hot or tense, I can't recall. I told him I think I was lucid sleep walking and he agreed that is what it looked like and the dream faded out.

Alright, my 100th post and another LD!

For some reason or another my two friends patti and julie and my brother were sleeping in my room with me. My perception of everything started feeling really weird and I told them I thought I was in REM. Even though I was awake.

Strangely enough something glowing green/yellow started whizzing back and forth across my vision. It looked like some kind of tiny fairy or pixy. I let it land in my hand and bring it to my ear. Whatever it is tells me to go back to sleep and I'll have a Lucid Dream. I tried just that, yet I had an FA and didn't even think of RCing.

I heard someone at the door. I go to answer it and it's a salesman, he's trying to sell IDs. I kind of laugh and let him go on with his pitch. He shows me an ID with my face on it and in the dream I correlate it to the day I got my haircut. I tell him thanks but I already have a driver's license and a couple school IDs and I really don't need anymore. Before the salesman leaves he grabs a bunch of food. It really was quite a lot in this big tupperware container. I noticed he also took the last homemade chocolate chip cookie and I got kind of pissed and was complaining under my breath and let him out. Oh, and the whole time my friend ashley who appears frequently in my dreams was behind me wearing a UCF(my schools) cheerleading outfit.

Somehow I had yet another FA and I went to turn on my light so I could record the dream in my journal. The light didn't work, I got fairly excited and did the nose breathing check to discover I was in fact dreaming. I felt the world tilt like it was going to start spinning on me again so I laid on my back and relaxed. I stared at the ceiling and focused on the thought teleportation. Gradually a light and a square evolved on the ceiling. I thought about traveling back to my old highschool, I figured it would be a great place to interact with people. I went head first through the tunnel but came out upside down in the new environment but I floated and righted myself smoothly before touching down.

The new environment was very strange and looked computer animated. I have a theory that it was suppose to be the lucid crossroads but I didn't get a good look before it changed. Either that or I just have bad recall for that part. Anyway, I'm suddenly in front of a giant big screen T.V. It's a video game. From what I remember I was chasing down this fleeing galatic criminal in his spaceship and the way to fly my ship was to use arms to point the directions I wanted to fly in and to shoot I was either throwing or punching.

I beat the game fairly easy and then looked around realizing I was back in my room. I decided I needed to fly. Walking out the door, my mom was sitting on the couch and she asked "Going to class?" I replied with a "nope." She smiles at me and says good, I thought you were about to go in your boxers. I looked down and sure enough I was but I decided I didn't care. I was about to close the door and she then asked "If you aren't going to class why do you have a calculator?" Again, she was right!!! I decided to just leave so, I smiled closed the door and waved a six fingered hand at her through the window waiting to see if she would notice. No reaction.

Out on the street I did a few running attempts at flying only to do some nice big graceful jumps. Right when it came to me to try to fly Leo style I really did wake up.

Alright three short LDs. I'm sick with a fever so sleep was weird and restless.

I was aware I was about to dream in half-assed WILD so this environment that was suppose to be room appeared. I think I've seen it in other dreams. Anyway I looked around couldnt find anyone and woke up.

The second one I became lucid while I was driving, I immediately hit the e-brake and pulled some tokyo drift action through the intersection. People started honking at me so I held the finger out the window and continued speeding. I hit a bank flipped through the air really high to where I could see the end of the dreamscape. Then woke up when I hit the ground.

I began dreaming in another version of my house. It was pretty fancy, I guess I got some interior decorating skills in my subconcious. Anyway, I went outside and failed some flying attempts and then asked a DC about a dream guide and he instead suggested I should start some sort of lucid dreaming club in my school.

Alright, I had a Lucid Dream but it's pretty hazy, especially at the start. I remember bits and pieces like spinning and fog. At one point I was even dragged by some figure into a room where we wrestled over two guns but I think that was a point where lucidity had faded. I remember seeing the muzzle of one and it was fake.

Anyways, first off it seems lucids for me always start where my family is and what always seems to be a house but it the dream it always gives me the feeling of my home. I saw my brother and asked if he happened to be dreaming too thinking it might've been a shared dream but he looked at me weird and I realized that I had woken up earlier when he was already going to school. I looked at my hands out of curiousity and they looked more realistic and stable than usual but my fingers looked like nubs and were short. I went outside where it was night time and began walking. For the first time I actually remembered a lucid task given out by Seeker. Except instead of Lucid Crossroads I chose to try to find the Lucid Capital. I can't remember what thread I read that from, somewhere in the beyond dreaming forum. I realized my walking was actually more like a gliding movement with no real contact so there should be no reason why I couldn't move upwards and I did. I floated upwards yet I was tilting I pointed my arm in the direction I wanted to go. It kind of worked but the whole dream scene was getting warped and distorted. I heard a lot of people cheer, "Happy New Years!" and I woke up shortly after that.

Then I had a metaphorical dream about my friend. I was flying a jet with a few wingmen, the air was full of other weird kinds of aircraft. I kind of feel like I was watching all this through a couple perspectives, eventually one of the jets drifted in front of a school bus airplane(hahaha) he got out of the way in time but one of the engines failed and he was spun into the sea. Very Top Gun-ish. The next couple scenes were radar and video reviews of the crash. Then I was trying to explain to his girlfriend that his lazy flying had caused the crash but she wasn't paying any attention to me. It's all very obvious because he's the only one of my group of friends who hasn't done anything since high school and kind of just lives at his girlfriend's house who is graduating at the end of the school year. I just never had such a clear cut symbolic dream before.

I had a lucid dream while on vacation and I didn't have my dream journal with me so a lot of the lucid details are gone but for some reason I remember the pre-lucid part.

A bunch of people including me are having a snow fight in my backyard (in Florida? impossible lol.) I went inside, used the bathroom and I was washing my hands, I looked up at the mirror to see my brother standing next to me except our reflections were switched around. It showed him standing where I was standing. This caused me to go lucid and I vaguely remember just knowing I could fly and going right through a window the rest of it is just a blur but I feel like I did more or actually flew somewhere.

It starts off with me back in high school. It's the end of the day this part is all pretty hazy, a bunch of people go their separate ways to do their separate things. I get home and it's my old house from my childhood again. Across the street at Miguel's house there are tons of police cars and news vans. I get out of my car stuffing weed into my back pocket being paranoid.

I go inside my house and ask my mom what was going on. She tells me juan-jose is being charged with something related to spying and contracts. It didn't make sense. I couldn't decide if I should call miguel and tell him his dad is being arrested but I did, my cell phone kept switching to a different contact at the last second and the call and end call buttons were switched around.

Getting frustrated at this point I actually woke up for a second or two but didn't let myself move a muscle and forced myself to re-enter the dream by just imagining and kind of replaying it in my mind. I'm sudden;y back in the dream but now I'm in miguel's driveway and he is leading the way into his house. I put my hand on his shoulder and tell him not to worry about anything. I let him go into his room or his parents room I'm not sure. I go into the living room to see an ibanez guitar ready for me to play, anticipating the need for an amp I just think to myself that there has to be an amp near. Yup, a nice marshall amp right behind it. I plug in and start messing around. It doesn't sound at all the way I want it to, and not nearly loud enough. While fiddling around with the knobs my alarm goes off and I have to wake up and go to class.

Yay, I finally got out of that mini-dry spell. This lucid dream was actually more of a unintentional WILD. I woke up suddenly not sure if I had been dreaming but I was definitely in SP still so I didn't even attempt to move I let myself relax and wait for the dream to come. It was probably a minute or two but suddenly I feel my body lifting up and orientating itself it different ways. I was floating around my room but not of my own free will, it was just happening. Suddenly, I'm under my futon and I feel myself sink through the floor.

It's dark for a second or two but then it was as if the darkness was just clouds and fog because it started dissipating revealing stars. I was flying. I can't remember if it was the moon or the sun on the horizon, it would make more sense to be the moon but I vaguely recall something kind of large and bright. I kept trying to fly toward it but I've never been good at controlling flying.

Eventually I had floated down to the ground and landed just in time to witness Big fat leprachaun bully stealing Lucky Charms' pot of gold. He ran inside a factory and locked himself inside. The other leprachauns asked me to retrieve it for them, I immediately started walking toward the factory and then stopped. I turned around and said
"Yeah, I'll help you guys but only if you guys help me by appearing in my dreams and let me know I'm dreaming."
The leprachauns looked at eachother like I was asking for something innconceivable and then I sadly woke up...

Alright another lucid dream, I'm not sure exactly when I became lucid but walking around this empty house I suddenly realized it. My friend goose shows up and I follow him around I think he might've been showing me stuff but the dream felt faint so I was just focusing on rubbing my hands and trying to focus on making things brighter. I here something grinding and suddenly flames are shooting out of the floor. I kept focusing on trying to make them go away but I gave up and left the room. I suspect that my parents were using the coffee grinder and it affected my dream. I even came up with that idea in my dream because I had been awake 20-30 mins earlier finishing my WBTB when I head them getting up and walking around.

As we left that room, I saw my old friend Lucius. I was pretty excited and almost forgot it was a dream, I was joking around with him saying he must be really busy or didn't like me anymore to not make a roadtrip to see me. He was apoligizing and saying that wasn't it. I got distracted by two new DCs one of my friends and then my dad came in holding an absurd amount of groceries in brown paper bags stacked on eachother. I decide that I'll go outside to attempt some flying again and see how they react.

I step outside and for the first time I'm actually aware of wind. I felt wind rushing by my body and was amazed how real my mind made it feel. I climb over the railing of the balcony and realize we're on the second floor of a beach house. I realize I had been hearing the sound of waves crashing in the back of my mind. I let go of the rail and float about 10 ft above the ground and look to my right to see a huge huge huge tidal wave coming. I almost felt kind of panicked, I tried to make myself fly over but like always I can't get myself going in any directions and I just kind of floated up. I got high enough to simply break through the top of the wave as it crashed down on the house.

Beyond that wave there was tons of floating debris including bulldozers that somehow were also floating. But somehow the house was still perfectly intact. My friend who had followed me out there was drenched. I began trying to fly towards the bulldozers but I then had 5 rapid disorienting FAs. They all happened in a room that was suppose to be mine but I kept feeling like something was wrong and was trying to find my Dream Journal but kept finding other weird items laying next to my bed including ratchet sockets I used for gravity bongs.