Thread: You dont have to go...

7/6 to 7/7
The dream began with me holding my dream journal in my friend's apartment complex. I was hanging out like usual when my friend Roger snatched the journal. I became furious when he started trying to read it and began wrestling with him and cursing him out. I yanked his glasses and smashed them and finally I got it back but a scene changed occured. I was hanging out in an unfamiliar house with my friend Lauren and a few of her friends. One of them took a liking to me and was cuddling with me at one point she became too serious for me when she said " I just want to feel you breathing." So I got up and went to the bathroom where I began staring at myself in the mirror. I felt so close to figuring out that I was dreaming when my cell rang and awoke me...

7/10 to 7/11
I was laying in bed in my old room that I haven't seen in five years. Again my dream journal was in my hands. I think I was about to begin reading it when my friend Brian busted into my room tweaked out on something. So I got up and we took a trip out to this rail station. We didn't have money for tickets since the machines only took euros so we went back to my house where I found out a couple hurricanes were converging on Florida from the north, which I know makes no sense. My mom and I decided to go out and smoke some bud at my uncle's house but apparently him and my cousin quit and really didn't approve so I left there and saw a house that I thought was under construction but there was a hookah out on the porch so I decided to investigate. I went in the house and heard loud music coming from the room. I heard the door open and a girl singing so I paniced since I had just broke in and ran to my car and just drove like a maniac over hills and across construction lots till I woke up.

7/18 to 7/19

I had a vague dream where a new family guy episode was being done and a few of my friends and I were voice acting for some extra parts. We were doing a read through but I kept losing my place and the page numbers kept changing which is an extremely obvious dreamsign but I still failed to LD.

The next dream I had was just plain fun. I had an upgraded dirt bike that somehow could fit me and two other people. I was flying down a major road when a car traveling down the wrong side of the road in my lane with something covering the wind shield. I easily dodged it and countinued into a neighborhood where my friend lived. For some reason he ended up tearing up my bike. When he reassembled it wasn't the same. the left grip was messed up and the bike height was maladjusted and I think it no longer fit more than a single rider. Also throughout the dream it automatically ran but I couldn't figure out how to start it, I kept looking around and suddenly noticed an on and off button which I should've also recognized as a dream sign.. I was kinda pissed about it but I drove it around for awhile dodging obstacles so I cooled off...

I have pretty good dream recall, atleast two a night but I still haven't been able to pick up on dream signs or perform RCs in my dreams even though I do RCs in waking life all the time. Kind of frustrating. For instance the other night I had a particular dream that I was reading through these forums when I came across a thread that my friend was participating in. Yet it wasn't really related to dreams, I think it was more of general discussion about some kind of disease. Guys ended up hitting on her and I kinda got irritated. The dream was interrupted by someone in my room but The fact is that the whole dream entailed me reading and I didn't notice anything strange with my reading comprehension or words changing. I actually end up reading a lot in my dreams and words never change so it's one RC that doesn't work... What am I trying to get at? Im not sure.

<span style="color:#FF6600">whoa whoa whoa... I did a WBTB this morning mixed with SILD and an attempted WILD. The WILD failed but I fell asleep. I began dreaming that I was stopping by my old elementary school to see my brother(which is wrong he&#39;s in high school now) He was excited for a pancake lunch and some sort of crazy game. My friend miguel popped out of nowhere and very excitedly started talking to me. He had just gotten back from camp where had been a counselor for a month(in reality he&#39;s still in camp) I started asking him about it and he said he&#39;d tell me later and that it had been a touch period of sobriety. A lot my friends actually had appeared at this point and I began trying to follow them. I went through an exit door and seemed to be at my old middle school but pretty different. There were crazy staircases and there seemed to be no logic to where they led or how to get down. In my search I got some free candy from a kid that I never really got to know.
I continued on and ran into a couple who were holding hands. Im not sure if I knew them but I started walking and talking with them(my dream&#39;s vividness was going up and down) The girl started trying to hold my hand and it made me uncomfortable since her boyfriend was right next to her. She then started to pinch me a lot, hard. It was increasing the vividness and my dreamself got frantic to get away from the pinching. I eventuallly stumbled across one of my missing friends and he was puking his guts out in a toliet, the reason is unclear to me. Miguel and Chris were with him, Chris began pinching me till I had fallen to the ground and was begging for it to stop, suddenly they disappeared.
I quickly forgot the recent events Then I came across some crazy magnets and for some reason stuck them in my mouth. They were little dots but eventually I spit them out and started sticking them on a white board while sitting down in this weird room that reminded me of my house&#39;s laundary room. Next to me were my friends Kathleen and Darby. I started complaining to them that I think I actually swallowed one. The looked a little worried but we chatted then I noticed out the window that trees seemed to be spinning around us. They were just drifting every which way, I looked back to Darby and Kathleen and said "everythings spinning" yet nothing in the room was spinning they got worried and I began swaying right where I was sitting. It started dawning on me that I was dreaming so I began repeating to myself "Im dreaming, I have everything under control" until everything went black and I awoke in my room with monitors hooked up to my heart. I was still wearing the clothes I had on from the scene before. At that point I realized I was still in the dream but my clarity and focus keep wavering the room was changing and doctors were appearing and I awoke.
I&#39;m not sure if I made myself wake up because the lack of control or if it was just time to wake up... So that&#39;s my first recorded moments of lucidity... Not really a lucid dream but close.</span>

Congratulations on your kind of lucid dream. I had a dream recently where I was barely lucid at all but lucid enough to make myself climb up a giant rock thing.

Also I can tell that you&#39;re a Zeppelin fan. Right on.

Originally Posted by EVIL

Congratulations on your kind of lucid dream. I had a dream recently where I was barely lucid at all but lucid enough to make myself climb up a giant rock thing.

Also I can tell that you&#39;re a Zeppelin fan. Right on.
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Yeah man, thanks. That particular lyric almost describes what I think it&#39;d be like really LD.

I&#39;m in gainesville in the dream. a lot bud deals going on but I&#39;ve quit recently just to clear my head and get some focus in life but in my dream I I guess I kind of lacked the will power. One funny part was this kid trying to put mayo in the bag to get more weight( I know wtf mayo?) Anyway it we happen upon a party with a lot of people I knew from high school. My one friend who is always the wasted chick at parties was ofcourse wasted and puked so I was kind of keeping an eye on her and letting her guide me around the party. Suddenly I awoke with my head on the counter in a chair wearing just my boxers... I was like what the hell? I must have been extraordinarily trashed cause I couldn&#39;t remember a god damn thing and not a single drink. I began searching for my clothes and for some reason there were a lot laying around. My friend who owned the house just got back home from whatever he was doing right when I found my pants. The typical day after a party convo ensued. I kept asking what I had been doing and he was almost like he didn&#39;t hear me asking that and would just say something else. Also when I first awoke I immediately looked at the clock to figure out why it was so quiet and no one was around. It said 2:39am... It didn&#39;t change or anything it was totally ledgible. Ofcourse, I didn&#39;t look at it too long.
So I start driving home to Orlando but somewhere along the way I totally get off track and end up in who knows where. Im in some random town just making random turns when I suddenly see a sign saying orlando with an arrow so I follow it and suddenly im at an airport but plane is delayed since it&#39;s without a pilot. One passenger is claiming the ability to pilot but for some reason another airline that he had worked for refused to let him fly for something he did. Anyway I go through the gates just to end up back in my car driving across a long bridge the lanes are suddenly blocked off and highway patrol troopers are making us use the emergency lanes on the side. I always have trouble navigating cars in my dreams so I merged very poorly hitting some cones which made me extremely paranoid driving by the troopers since I&#39;m pretty sure I had weed somewhere in the car. Nothing happened and I checked the ashtry and sure enough I had like 8 roaches from blunts and my joint papers were just laying in the seat. Also somehow I was driving from the shotgun seat, strange. I called my friend chris to ask him about what happened to me at the party he wasn&#39;t really answering either and suddenly he put some girl on the phone that I guess he had just started dating but I began losing focus and I kind of just dropped the phone and stopped talking to her. So I was driving a long roads that definitely don&#39;t exist and I saw sign for Duke University which is just weird. So many dreamsigns I think just caused me to suddenly wake up...

I had an almost successful WILD attempt a few minutes ago.
The imagery was more vivd than ever and I felt some vibration through the left side of my torso but I kept through it.
Scenes kept fleeting through my mind and it was hard to resist the urge to try to remember or focus on what I just saw.
But I think my friend who loves to just drop in on people without warning came in... that or it was sounds from the WILD I still can&#39;t figure it out.
My dog had been barking, I know that was real but I&#39;m good at tuning that out then I thought I heard a door and then I thought I heard my room door but I did I have earphones in playing that type of SILD track. So... I dunno, I guess I should call him and find out since that occurence completely took me out of my WILD. I couldnt keep my mind clear after that.
Very Frustrating&#33;&#33;&#33;

EDIT: dammit it was all in my head he was at the bowling alley&#33; Now Im pissed off that I lost focus so easy.

AGHHHHHHHHHH&#33;&#33;&#33; second failed WILD today&#33; This one was probably even closer. The HIT was amazing. With each exhale I was seeing the most colorful smoke rings. I guess I smoke too much if that&#39;s what my mind associates with breathing but I was definitely enjoying it until my damn cell phone rang. It sounded louder than Ive ever heard it. There&#39;s even a thunderstorm going on but it mixed in with that lucid track I was listening to but this just penetrated deep into my conciousness.
Alright well i&#39;ll try it the old fashioned way. Just fall asleep...

My dream recall has been total crap the last two nights. Not a single dream... I can understand the first night, I was kind of drunk but last night I didn&#39;t drink or smoke at all. I did all my usual methods, SILD, MILD, WBTB with WILD.
I think I woke up after a couple dream periods but as I laid in bed I couldn&#39;t recall a single concrete image...

I had my usual halfway success of a WILD. It&#39;s almost worth attempting just for the HIs. Just waves of color and some subtle vibrations of an arm or leg. My mind gets to the point where it trails off with the counting and I always restart or wait awhile to see if I fade into sleep but I pretty much just hit a brickwall. Oh well hopefully this was just a two day dream dry spell.

<span style="font-family:Times New Roman">This one was pretty short but had a moment of lucidity. I actually had this on friday but haven&#39;t had a chance to get to a computer and type it.
It began with me being pretty much non-existent viewing things from a third perspective. I really can&#39;t remember any details about the man himself. But at this subway station a train had just pulled in and the doors opened to let him on and right inside the small train section was probably around eight people who he hated, was annoyed by, or who had wronged him. I&#39;m not sure how I knew this and there wasn&#39;t one recognizable face except for Morgan Freeman the man who plays God in Bruce Almighty and somehow I know he was playing the same role in this dream because this was suppose to be a temptation for the man since he was now armed with a gun. Morgan Freeman is the first to speak saying "you wouldn&#39;t go on a shooting rampage now, would ya?"
Im sure there was more context to this situation than I remember but suddenly I&#39;m watching the dream from the man&#39;s perspective. Right before that happened I suddenly had become very aware of my environment and it&#39;s dream like qualities which is probably why my brain switched me into a body. Once I was in body I immediately began repeating "I&#39;m in a dream, Im in a dream" without even doing an RC I wanted to do one but my body wasnt listening I tried to look at my hands or something and I was straining to accomplish something or focus on something when suddenly I&#39;m staring at my ceiling. I had woken up and my eyes were wide open without me remembering opening them. It was strange, It wasnt an FA though...</span>

All I can say is hellz yeah&#33; I just had two LDs after WBTB. Of course both were short but incredible.

<span style="font-family:Times New Roman">The first I was playing Star Wars Battlefront II. This level was strange and pretty vertically oriented so I noticed an imperial guard on a distant lower lovel and whipped out my precision pistol to take him out. I haven&#39;t even played that game in awhile but I was definitely missing a lot and was having trouble keeping track of his exact location when it dawned on me that I was dreaming. Im not sure if it was the bad aim or the unknown level but I got excited. I looked at my hands for the first time ever in a dream and they were morphing incredibly. I was really paying attention to the left hand that had only three fingers with one extending even longer. Yet as usual everything in the dream starts swaying but already this is better than my others because I actually have control of my body and was half attempting to stabilize so for few seconds I was wildly looking around the room with tunnel vision. The dream faded away and I was seeing some HIs while my body felt like it was flying head first on a wild ride till I awoke.</span>

After I write this all down in my notebook I head back to sleep because this had taken place like five minutes after a WBTB and attempted WILD.

<span style="font-family:Times New Roman">I wake up in my futon and my friend miguel is sleeping in my bed but we both happened to be awake for some reason. So right away since he was the first to show me Waking Life and talk to me about LDs I was excited to tell him about the one I just had. I was explaining the amazing vividness and feeling and the crazy hands and when I look at my hands I pause kind of dumbfounded and say out loud,"Actually, I&#39;m dreaming right now." the DC miguel was immediately gone from my mind and dream. I began rubbing my hands together and really just trying to focus and stabilizing and keeping this dream. It was hard the fear of losing it was constant. I eventually got up and headed towards the window. It was night time and truth be told I was a bit scared of the dark in my dream. I guess cause I actually realized that anything coould just pop out of it. So I closed my eyes a few times and focused on it being daytime when I looked out the window it was definitely strange. The sky was divided in weird angles of day and night. I walked away from the window and decided I definitely needed a change of scenery the room was too dark and small. I tried some spinning but I was still in the room but atleast the sky had turned normal again except it was still night time. I decided to check out my mind&#39;s take on the moon since I was definitely just in awe the whole time of this being something in my mind. For some reason I just didn&#39;t expect it to be so real especially when compared to non-lucid dreams. Anyway so I look at the window and the sky is totally clear but every inch is filled with bright distinct stars. Just amazing. I couldnt find the moon from my vantage point but dream suddenly became unstable and I awoke...</span>

I never knew what people meant when they said it&#39;s more vivid than reality...The colors and textures of everything was just so alive. I still havent got eight hrs but I think Im too excited to go back to sleep.

Originally Posted by DyerMaker

<span style="font-family:Times New Roman">I was really paying attention to the left hand that had only three fingers with one extending even longer.</span>[/b]

lol ALIEN

Originally Posted by DyerMaker

<span style="font-family:Times New Roman">and when I look at my hands I pause kind of dumbfounded and say out loud,"Actually, I&#39;m dreaming right now."</span>[/b]

wow, that&#39;s a &#39;handy&#39; little dream sign there (pun intended ), but seriously, it&#39;s a key to help you attain lucidity and you can incorporate that into your daily RC&#39;s

so bravo man&#33; keep looking at those hands

Ok well I&#39;ve only slept for about four hours so far. I&#39;m pretty tired but alert and awake at the same time, for no reason at all really but I figure that I&#39;ll type up some dreams I had monday night since I&#39;ve yet to have any tonight and after Im done Ill attempt a WILD.

Miguel, Chris and I decide we&#39;re gonna go skiing. In Florida? kinda impossible but in my dream there was definitely a snowy mountain in the horizon. I don&#39;t recall who was driving but definitely not me. They make fun of me driving the slowest out of all us but this was fast&#33; This icy bridge was leading straight up the mountain and it was snowing so I was a bit uneasy especially when we pass some police with their lights on pulled over to the side. A really common occurence in my dreams but IRL it happens so often as well. We didn&#39;t even really slow down but they didn&#39;t leave their parking places.
We finally arrive at this resort. We rent skis for an amazing price of &#036;1.53 but there&#39;s a good reason why. They&#39;re really just short old wooden planks. I keep trying to hand the cashier two dollars but I keep handing her weird amounts and she keeps handing it back for me to try again. So many obvious dream signs *sigh*. Anyway, my friends denise and michelle are there to watch some kind of show and they had BBQ with them so I made some weird BBQ chicken wrap.
After I was done Miguel and Chris come by in their laser tag suits and lasers. Not that I ever play in real life but it&#39;s a sweet idea. Skiing in the dark(since it was now night time) and playing laser tag all the way down the mountain. So I put on this hat that had fake dreads coming out of it and starting heading out. I never got to do it because I woke up couple moments later but it would&#39;ve been an awesome dream. It seems the main event of dreams never really accomplishes it&#39;s self before the end.

A couple fragments that I hadn&#39;t recalled came back later and I wrote them down but now I still don&#39;t remember them in detail. I wrote something about a UFO dropping off alien kids and me chatting with skater that looked like a cross between one of my friends and Rune Glifberg.

I had four unrelated small dream fragments one being in 3rd perspective but it was definitely interesting just for the scene I remember of some hardcore girl spray painting the V for Vendetta sign in a bus window. The Bus driver strating yelling at her from the otherside and she proceeded to moon him and spray a marijuana bud in detail on her ass cheek with just that red color.

A longer one I had involved this prison in a suburban home&#39;s back yard. A few of my friends went to make a break for it but I was too scared because I was sure they&#39;d shot. They went for it and suddenly I watching from the otherside of the fence as they start tryin to pull away in the get away car when this random old man came out of the house and started shooting out the back window with some kind of automatic rifle. I&#39;m sure someone had to be wounded or dead, so I ran over there to see them all perfectly alright. So I jump in with them as well as two other friends behind me. It was tight squeeze in a white honda civic my friend miguel has that IRL has two doors but here it had mini half doors for the back seats and the passenger side remain opened since it was so crammed and people were sitting on eachothers laps as we got away.. I dont remember where it went from there.

<span style="color:#FF6600">Alright, yet another Lucid Dream&#33; This one was quite different than my previous ones. I had amazing control compared to my previous attempts. I don&#39;t remember how the dream started but it almost seemed like I was aware it was a dream as soon as I started. Like an accidental type of WILD. I looked at my hands and noticed too few fingers and one was actually branching off the side of another. I&#39;m not gonna type what I did for the first part of the dream, too explicit but it resulted from some activity earlier in the night.

I soon realized I was really wasting this experience because I could be doing anything. My brother walked in my room and we always kind of play fight so I did that with him a little bit just to see if I was a lot faster in my dreams but it was kind of inconclusive because I wass just twirling around a lot not doing anything. I think some girl DC asked if I was hungry so I said, " Hell no Im not hungry, this is a dream." It just kind of popped out, a weird response.

Anyway I decided I really wanted to see how well I could play guitar in my dreams. I focused on making a white Gibson Les Paul appear in the corner of my room but I guess since I wasnt breaking visual contact with the area. (Im kinda afraid to blink or close my eyes in my dream because when I open them sometimes my real eyes open and I see a weird layering of my dream eyes and real ones and then wake up or just wake up.)
So like I was saying, it wasn&#39;t appearing but I suddenly realized I heard a DC playing music in the room next to mine. So I headed out there noticed there wasnt an amp looked away and looked back to find one now there. I took the guitar away from the DC and he just seemed to disappear. I looked at it closely and noticed it was actually a white Fender bass with six strings. I figured that was close enough. Also there were like ten picks held between the fretboard and the strings but yet they strings still played just fine. I played a little, a pretty cool riff just came out automatically. I heard my phone ringing but didn&#39;t even bother to look at it but the ring was quite interesting. It was all these rap songs blending into eachother some I recognized and some I didn&#39;t but I cant recall any of them now. This kind of distracted me and I decided I was bored.

The idea came to me to attempt to fly, so I opened the window next to me and kind of made the screen fall out just by thinking about it and climbed out onto my street. Everything was much larger held so many more occupants including my house. There were a lot of cars parked out in the street. I just kind of skipped then jumped hands outstretched and launched about 15 to 20 feet in the air. About level with the rooftops. I kind of hovered and drifted unsure on where I was planning on going. I suddenly remember Leo talking about flying while sitting in that kind of meditation position. I did that and started slowly drifting back down to the ground. I did a couple more long slow graceful leaps and decided to just back inside through my backyard. I ran into my friend denise. I think she said something like "Alan, I haven&#39;t seen you in a while" and some figure in the background said "It&#39;s cause he didn&#39;t want you to see him crying about not really flying." I was just like ok weird and walked inside without saying anything. There were people around and a plate full of brownies. I got curious to see if I could taste. I grabbed one and it was kind of hard and just weird. Someone told me they were cinnabons after I ate one and I looked at the plate and they were now cinnabons. Also after passing a DC I had this weird impulse to just slap him and see what the reaction was. As soon I thought I did it and none of the DCs acted like it even happened. Pretty strange, I woke up shortly after.

Everytime I felt the dream kind of fading or was worried about losing lucidity I just rubbed my hands together and said aloud to myself . "increase clarity, increase vividness, stay lucid." It didn&#39;t really increase anything but kept the dream going. </span>

HAHA wow&#33; You did alot of cool interesting shit in that dream. Sorry the Gibson didn&#39;t appear, but a 6-string Fender bass doen&#39;t sound too bad.

And lmao @ you slapping a DC....messing with them is so fun ain&#39;t it?

Good call with the hand rubbing....your hands really seem to help you lock into lucidity, always remember that.

I had a couple short low level lucids this morning when I was trying to sleep off my horrible hangover. It was probably magnified since I hit my head hard against a corner of a table and split my eyebrow open. Anyway...

<span style="font-family:Times New Roman">The only one kind of worth mentioning began at this nice house. Now that I think about it, it was pretty similar to my friend&#39;s house that I was at last night and I think these two older DCs might&#39;ve been his parents. I knew I was dreaming but I couldn&#39;t confirm it my usual way because the house was extremely dark and my mind was still very clouded from alcohol so I couldn&#39;t see my hands. I went over to try to turn on the lights so i could see my hands which is redundant now that I think about. I couldnt adjust the light level so it was an RC enough. Dr. Phil appeared out of nowhere and I really despise that man so I just walked into another room. There was this kind of porcelein vase type thing except it was actually a retractable bat. It was pretty weird and no I wasnt going to use it on Dr. Phil and I have no real idea why that appeared. It was a kind of limited environment and since I couldnt focus or anything it was pretty much like a normal dream and I just woke up. It&#39;s disappointing that I couldnt use it to it&#39;s full potential, damn partying.</span>

Originally Posted by DyerMaker

I had a couple short low level lucids this morning when I was trying to sleep off my horrible hangover. It was probably magnified since I hit my head hard against a corner of a table and split my eyebrow open. Anyway...[/b]

dude, you ok?

<span style="font-family:Times New Roman">Dr. Phil appeared out of nowhere and I really despise that man[/b]

lol you sound like my boyfriend

There was this kind of porcelein vase type thing except it was actually a retractable bat. It was pretty weird and no I wasnt going to use it on Dr. Phil[/b]

LOL

and I have no real idea why that appeared. It was a kind of limited environment and since I couldnt focus or anything it was pretty much like a normal dream and I just woke up. It&#39;s disappointing that I couldnt use it to it&#39;s full potential, damn partying.</span>
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yeah, well it&#39;s cool that you could have even low level lucids while inebriated...too bad you couldn&#39;t see your hands...next time, see if you can make it so that the retractable bat has a little light bulb on the end

This was probably the most realistic Lucid Dream I&#39;ve had to date. My first LD was really surreal as in everything looked like it had been painted by Dali.

Anyways, my friend came over because he didn&#39;t want to go to church with his family so he made up the excuse that he had to work and instead came over and slept on my futon. We had been out partying late so I was pretty exhausted. So I told him I was going back to sleep to hopefully have a LD.

So when I close my eyes I very quickly start seeing colors and imagery so I figured if it&#39;s coming this easy go for the WILD. SP set in faster than ever before and my body began vibrating, I never really experienced that part before. I even heard like a gunshot but quickly realized it was probably in my head so my eyes had only half opened. Suddenly I felt as if I could just open my eyes and I&#39;d be dreaming so I did exactly that.

At first nothing looked out of place. Miguel was sleeping on my futon still. My x-box games were laying on the floor. I did an RC, my hands looked normal but I was convinced it was a dream still so I looked again and I had the classic finger growing off another finger. I tried sticking my thumb through my palm, I could see the thumbnail on the other side but it wouldnt go all the way through. I didn&#39;t really feel anything. I don&#39;t know why I decided to do so many RCs because I already knew I was dreaming. I also did a breathe through nose while holding it which was really weird because I could feel my real body breathe through my nose and it was fairly stuffy since I have allergies. I looked at the x-box game cases again and realized I couldnt read them.
I tried waking up miguel because I&#39;ve really been meaning to conversate with some DCs. He wouldnt wake up he did the same thing as he does in reality, mumbles something turns over and goes back to sleep in a second. Disgusted, I threw a hackysack at him and walked out of my room. My house was much larger and had extra rooms but the weird thing was there was this very pretty young woman with short brown hair with a dark forest green hair band in it. She had a loose dress because she was pregnant. It all matched very well. The dress made her look very elegant and graceful. Im not sure what she was doing in my house and I was trying to figure out how to begin talking to her when miguels alarm went off because he really did have to go to work at 2. So I awoke without getting to speak to her.

Alright I had an LD earlier in the night but Im just gonna type this last non LD real quick before I lose it because I have class soon. Ill come back and edit this after school.

I&#39;m not sure whether it was California or Hawaii but this was my most beautiful dream that I can remember. So vivid so real and just an amazing landscape. We were at the beach some of us were drinking beer while others were really intent on just surfing. This girl I know IRL who looks hawaiian and is from hawaii is actually a mix between cuban and japanese i think but she&#39;s very pretty. Anyway, she lent me her surfboard.

So I rode out to these most perfectly formed waves. The sound of them crashing was piercing, like nothing I&#39;ve ever experienced at the beach. I even commented on it aloud to someone who was paddling out with me, can&#39;t recall who. I tried a couple never really catching any. A couple other people paddled out to where we were sitting on our boards to talk with us. Amanda(hawaiian) was among them, I noticed she was having trouble staying afloat after awhile so I gave her my hand but that wasn&#39;t really working so I just relinquished her board back to her. I started doing the egg beater motion with my legs that I learned at the water polo club but it never really worked for me but here in the dream it worked perfectly, my uncle was out in the water with us and gave me advice to hit the 2 o&#39;clock position with my legs. Made sense in my dream but not really in reality.

The sun began to set yet it wasn&#39;t like a normal sun. Have you ever seen a sunset when the sun is filtered by clouds and is a bright red? Well it was like that but no clouds at all. The whole landscape was cast in a red and yellow light, the water was getting dark but people were still surfing and still catching waves. My friend Kevin got Chris to stand on the board in the shallow(physically impossible it sinks) and then pushed him out straight at a wave yet he turned 90 degrees at the last moment and actually caught the wave. I began hooting from my position, craziest thing I had ever seen.

Sometimes my dreams lapse into a non-existant third person perspective. This happened and I was watching these two random dudes who had a spot on the beach about twenty feet away from ours. They had come across something red and plastic in the sand and began digging it up. It was a ball, more like a toy. When I was a kid we had this type of plastic ball that you would put a water balloon in and play hot potato and when the timer ran out it would pop the balloon soaking the holder. It was similar to this because it squirted them as soon as they dug it up.

Im not sure if my dreams jump a lot or I have lapses in recall but suddenly we are in a beach house. My friend michelle was on her bed crying face down with a bottle of Captain Morgan in her hand. Someone told me that her favorite teacher from high school Mr. Kalik had died. In reality I don&#39;t think such a teacher existed but michelle does have a bit of drinking problem, not as much as before where one time she actually had some pretty bad alcohol poisoning at the beach from drinking Captain Morgan, that&#39;s the last time she ever drank it even though it was her favorite drink for a couple years. A whole bunch of people I use to party with in high school where in the beach house. I decided to eat some breakfast so I sat down at the table next to three heavyset african american ladies I have never seen before. Strange. I just kind of ate and suddenly my phone alarm started going off with a weird song I had never heard before, well atleast that I can remember. I didn&#39;t really pay attention to the lyrics or anything, I was just trying to turn it off and then I woke up...



Alright, separate dream from earlier in the night where I became Lucid. Weird part was that I really had to kind convince miguel and ryan to leave so I could get atleast eight hours of sleep before school.

Alright, it starts withme trying to get miguel out of the house because ot was two hours before school and I hadn&#39;t slept yet. We got in our usual little fist fight. I&#39;ve known him since I was four so we don&#39;t mind beating eachother up as if we were brothers. I got him with a good hit and he yelled aloud waking up my everyone in the house which strangely enough included his younger sister. She ran out of her room I guess thinking miguel had slipped on roller skates she had left by the front door. Miguel immediately tried playing it off as if that is what happened to make her feel bad. Since everyone was awake now they kind of forced me to watch a movie with them. I think Tom Hanks was in it.

I eventually got them to stop it because when it looked at the clock it said I had ten minutes before I was suppose to get up for class. The funny thing was that it didn&#39;t say a time it just said 0:10. But that didn&#39;t even cause me to become lucid. I don&#39;t know why I decided to try to go to sleep for ten minutes but when I closed my eyes I thought I had just begun to dream so I did an RC. <span style="font-family:Times New Roman">The nose check proved I still could breathe through my nose and then I tried the thumb through the hand but that one didn&#39;t work but I noticed the veins on back of my hand were a vivid green. Very low lucidity because I immediately went for sex.</span> I think it&#39;s probably because of this girl in real life who wanted to sleep over last night but I really did need to wake up early. In the middle of it, Bam a False Awakening&#33; That&#39;s the first time I&#39;ve ever had that happen.

I awoke with my family and I liviing in a poor area. My dad came in to tell me to pick something up. It seemed he lost a lot of weight because his shorts were loose exposing part of a large yellow stain on his right hip. It had an iodine look to it. I got out of bed and instead went out onto the porch directly from my room. Yet the porch was actually a common area for this group of houses. A balding man was walking down some stairs into this common area. I let him in the house because he had great news, He was getting married. The story behind it was really strange. Apparently, she was having some kind of fit, a panic attack or a massive headache, I can&#39;t recall. But he used some form of art, I think it might&#39;ve been a combination of poetry music and paint to propose and cure all at the same time. He told us the wedding was at 4:30 but we should come over earlier and have some tea with him. Suddenly a little girl runs in wanting to show me something. She starts this routine I can&#39;t remember the first action but the 2nd was he spinning and saying she was a canoe then she stopped and her features had changed with her nose upturned a bit and weird teeth. She then declared she was a pig. Then her features changed again with her lip kind of curling up and the nose changing even more and then she declared she was a rhino which she really did look like one.
I kind of walked away from it disturbed just to end up seeing my brother watching a video of a toddler doing the same exact thing except even more dramatically. I then woke up feeling quite weird.

I immediately went for sex. I think it&#39;s probably because of this girl in real life who wanted to sleep over last night but I really did need to wake up early. In the middle of it, Bam a False Awakening&#33; That&#39;s the first time I&#39;ve ever had that happen.[/b]

aw man, that&#39;s a pisser =/

but congrats anyway on all the lucids, good work&#33;

The most amazing afternoon nap of my life&#33; Haha, I came home after class with a major headache from walking around in the blazing sun all day and not enough sleep.
*Note: This dream is extremely long&#33;&#33; I&#39;ll do my best to make it interesting or atleast readable.*

3:10-4:55

This dream started out with a bunch of people fighting in the night around an abandoned warehouse. It was almost like a superhero movie except everyone had super physical abilities. Alright, stick with me this all gets weird and jumpy. Batman was involved and I&#39;m not some comic nerd it was completely random&#33; I watched as a woman who seemed to be a vampire flew at him from the rafters he quickly stabbed her a couple times with something and she was thrown onto some platform where she struggled to get back but quickly died and decayed with two huge holes in her midsection. The dream gets foggy and goes into a little interlude

Im suddenly snowboarding. Carving downhill in this half-pipe that turns towards the end. As I approach I get the sudden urge to just charge the curve head-on and ramp out. I gain speed and launch amazingly high, I feel my guts get knotted up, who the hell knows whats on the other side. It could be a cliff but I was praying for some soft powder and a gentle hill. Luckily, thats what I get along with a smooth soft landing. An awareness begins creeping in my mind. I&#39;ve only been snowboarding a few times, I&#39;m definitely not this good. I notice this subdivision sign is half submerged in the snow I still feel a nagging feeling in the back of my mind as I approach this to ramp it as well. This sign is down the street from me and there is definitely no snow in Florida. I&#39;m lucid&#33; as I launch everything fades to darkness.

My brother is in my room. He is drawing in my dream journal. I keep trying to tell him about the dream and want to write it down but he isn&#39;t really paying attention to me at all. A lapse in the dream occurs..

Two guys around my age looking similar to how I do are with me as we are chased by three men with guns shooting at us. We have super human abilities again. I&#39;m able to extremely quick dashes, I&#39;m a blur. We&#39;re running up hill from this winding mountain road where it seems we had abandoned our cars. I was dashing from tree to tree as bullets flew everywhere. We reach a level area and I heave myself over and land in a pool. I forgot to add a couple points. One, I wasn&#39;t feeling any serious danger. Two, I was holding a beer the whole time and when I landed in the pool my body went under but I managed to keep the beer out of the water in my victoriously raised hand. Once, I got my head out of the water I yelled to the others, "Yes&#33;&#33; I didn&#39;t spill any of my beer&#33;" We where then chased inside the empty two story house, they busted in after us as I hid outside a window one man stuck his head out the window I quickly jumped on him pulling out through the window without myself falling. This was from the second story right over the driveway. He died on impact, the other two rushed to the balcony to see what happened. I heard sirens, I gave a glance behind me and I could see cops driving up the winding road but one had already arrived and was parked in the driveway. I dashed to him and told them that the two men had shoved the third out the window. I don&#39;t know why I was scared of getting in trouble they were the ones shooting at us. They arrested the other two men. They were part of some arabic mafia type thing, pretty high up as well since they were related to the boss.

A black limo pulled up and a heavyset asian man got out and held the door open for a girl. It turns out I killed her brother and she is the daughter of the boss. Of course I was still sticking to the story that they threw him out the window. I gave her my condolences, a hug, and a kiss on the cheek. She wasn&#39;t into the family business and the man with her was her bodyguard was a mole into organization from the government. They asked us to go on a ride with them so they could explain things. We all agreed. In the car one of my companions mentioned I had been shot but another special ability of mine was hyper-healing. I lifted up my shirt to see two huge scars around the bottom right-side of my rib cage. The man told me he too had abilities. When asked he said his mouth wasn&#39;t real. I just looked at him blankly, what could he possibly mean by that? One of my companions said he was willing to bet it was real and the man replied with this, "In my lifetime I&#39;ve lost about nine dollars in bets but I&#39;ve won so much more with this bet." His mouth did appear weird, surreal, almost like a goldfish. Lucidity decided to strike.

I calmly let them know that I had somethings I needed to do so I would be leaving this dream. I then performed my new formed habit of sitting in the medatation position and floating away. I watched the limo continue down the road as I floated and began speeding up in the opposite direction. I randomly land in this multi-level city. I looked at a building to my right that appeared to be a store, the letters on top simply said "Women" and then below it just said "1-33". I have no idea what that meant. The streets were empty no one was around, this city just had a decaying Dr.Seuss feel to it. I looked at the railing in front of me that separated me from the lower city levels, it had letter magnets on it. Most of it was just gibberish but a phrase existed among it. I can&#39;t recall which way it went but it either said, "Who&#39;s God?" or "There is no God." I actually laughed aloud at my own lack of faith but at the same time it was almost a chilling experience. My lucidity level was just about the highest it&#39;s ever been. I decided I needed to talk to DCs about myself so I turned around to see a young blonde woman sticking her head out of a door beckoning to me. I walk in to the building and we sit down in the first room which was plain with two chairs placed next to eachother. We sat down and she wiggled close to me. Obviously making advances which I quickly put a stop to. She said, "You&#39;re not interested in sex?" and I replied with "No, Im trying to make dreams cleaner. I want more substance." She looked at me and said "Well, shouldn&#39;t you be cleaning then?" It didn&#39;t occur to me until I wrote it down in my journal that she was actually referring to my previous statement. In the dream I simply laughed at her and said "No, there are far more important matters at hand&#33;" I thought she meant cleaning my room or something. So I asked her the first thing to pop in my head, "What is my mind like?" She got up and said, "That&#39;s easy, I&#39;ll draw it for you, it&#39;s the office I work at." Kind of puzzled it was almost too much for me to take in at once so I tossed that statement aside. I followed her into the next room. There was a table, she sat down at it. Took out a water color brush and began drawing blueprints to a building. She then said, "It&#39;s the office of a genius." Looking at the drawing still I didn&#39;t make the correlation until I woke up that it was the same building I had walked into, I was too focused on what she just said. "Wait, what did you say?" I said. "You can&#39;t be surprised to know you&#39;re a genius." she said. I paused trying to figure out the implications of this and said "If that were true I&#39;d be able to just rattle off a whole bunch digits of Pi right now because I&#39;ve seen it in a book." (not sure what that would have to do with anything, I thought I could pull up any memory of anything I had seen) So I said aloud, "3.1417..." couldn&#39;t think of anything else. Im not even sure it that&#39;s even right. She laughed at me and said "What meaning would Pi have to you?" I then noticed several older people had entered the room. One man looked like Sulu from Star Trek and don&#39;t judge me yet&#33; I had just watched the roast of William Shatner the night before and everyone was ragging on Sulu hardcore for being gay. I&#39;ve never really watched Star Trek. So one man jokingly(I hope) said "Hey, it looks to me as if Alan would appreciate some head" The man started approaching me and I quickly recited my earlier answer about sex and wanting to keep this dream clean. I was trying to be inoffensieve besides I&#39;m not gay. Still waiting for this women to be done and explain the drawing I then noticed a two liter of clear soda with an illedgible label. Curious to how it tasted I began unscrewing the cap and the dream began fading. I quickly tried a bunch of stabilizing techniques, I began breathing deep and focusing on the details of my hands but they were changing rapidly in front of my eyes and I lost the dream. I guess it had been going on long enough already.

I wonder if the town was suppose to be a model representing my mind...

Last night was my only available party night of the week, so I ended up sleeping on my friend&#39;s couch. I woke up around 8 am and was drifting in and out of sleep. Pretty seamlessly because I was actually getting confused about whether my actions in my dreams were making my body do it in real life as well. I was aware of my real body breathing...

<span style="font-family:Times New Roman">I can&#39;t remember how the dream started out, I might&#39;ve been lucid as soon as it started for all I can remember. After reading a thread yesterday about dream guides I decided to seek one out for myself to help me lucid more frequently. My dream was hazy from the booze and thc but an awesome trick just randomly popped in my head. I pretended that the fog was due to these invisible glasses over my eyes. So I would hold my hands up on either side of my head and pretend like I was taking glasses off and I would see a shimmering shape of them in my hand and the whole dream would become a lot clearer. I did this pretty often and it really extended the dream. But the dream was just me walking the streets through different scenes finding DCs and asking them to help me find my dream guide. I never found the DG. But a still relaxing dream. I liked walking through it enjoying the atmosphere and the fact that I was lucid and not getting tired by walking.</span>

I had this pretty cool dream during an afternoon nap yesterday. I usually can&#39;t get the motivation to write it down in my real journal and then come here and type it but I had an LD this morning so since I&#39;m on this DJ...

2:40 to 4:30pm 9-1-06

I&#39;ve noticed this to be a really common dreamsign for me recently, It started off in the house I use to live in like six years ago. The dining area was an added section of the living room, essentially the same room. Over the dining table was a giant disco ball with bright lights. I remember my mom worrying that it was a little tacky, hahah. I assured her it wasn&#39;t because I love the 70s. I think it was those exact words.

Anyway, my friend jeremy showed up while this was going on so I decided to show him my "70s room". It was kind of 70s style but a bunch of modern posters and technology were mixed in. A huge flat panel TV sat playing some rockin&#39; music video with a wailing guitar so I brought out my air guitar skills and was real into it. I even jumped up onto my doorframe and used my legs to hang upside down from it while playing the air guitar still. Something I&#39;m sure I&#39;m not strong enough for in real life. I get down close to the T.V., The volume was way up and jeremy was trying to tell me something. It sounded like he was apologizing for not hanging out last night. Apparently Briit and Ash said he didn&#39;t seem to have as much fun as he use to when I&#39;m around because I dont drink and smoke as much. I didn&#39;t seem to take any offense to that but it doesn&#39;t even really make sense. So I turned down the volume. He commented on some band that was on the Laptop&#39;s Desktop. I can&#39;t remember what it was, possibly Against Me?

So we leave because Jeremy is really intent on getting this new tattoo. He&#39;s certain that only a select few artists can pull it off. He calls a shop and asks if they can do this "speciality tattoo" is what he called it. The dream at his point had pretty smoothly transferred to me driving between the hills that were a good size but the fog was thick and low. I kind of tranced out looking at this hills while jeremy was on the phone with a girl at the Tatt shop. I could hear her voice as if she was in the car with us talking to him. Her voice and just the attitude or manner of her speech was like velvet. The only way I could describe it. Dark, smooth, soft yet strong. It sounded like a flirty banter was going on between the two. I hear her reccomend a place to get the tatt done that might be closer. She asks how far it&#39;d be for us. I look at jeremy as he looks up at the fog and says "The otherside of the atmosphere.." He just trailed off in a trance. The woman on the other line is saying "Chris.., chris..., what are you doing?" I nudge him and snap him out of the trance and he says "Oh, I don&#39;t respond to that name.."

From there I left that dream some how into this seemingly post-apocalyptic one. People were back to bartering and tribes. One group was next to this green ford truck and trying to grill on this exposed rock ground. It was grooved oddly enough fitting the chicken legs and breasts perfectly. I&#39;m not sure how it was even heated. I was viewing this all from a third person perspective. I remember them saying something about cooking Bald Eagle eggs for the greater amount of yolk per egg or something. From there some narration took over kind of back tracking to cause of the state of the world. The narrator said he knew something was up with this one man. He knew the man was on mission, he noticed him constantly winding something up as a nervous tick. The imagery changed to this hand drawing some kind of tube in a tunnel of sorts. I drew it my journal when I woke up. I dont have any idea of the significance. I was drawn out of the dream by a pain on my left ear from the sleep mask. I was moving my arm to take it off before I was out of the dream and I remember as soon as I was opening my eyes I was realizing I was leaving this dream.