2 Dreams... One Vivid, the other not so vivid
Had a couple of dreams a few nights ago, but due to a large volume of work and crappy internet, I've been unable to enter them into my dream journal.
First one was the vivid one, and it was a fairly relaxed dream as mine usually go. It just started with me in a car with my dad, driving down a motorway, and we were just talking. Nothing weird or strange about it at first. Eventually, we came to a stop and we got out of the car and began modifying it, until the car resembled a shiny, silver version of a SR-71 blackbird. Me and my dad then get back into the car/SR-71, and we just fly off into the sky, having some fun before landing back down on the motorway. We then see some traffic coming up ahead so we just take to the skies.
Second one wasn't so vivid, but I was in Germany, and the Nazis had come back, turning the world into a hell-hole with a shade of greyish green. Plus, they were hunting down and capturing anyone who had powers or had diabetes (why diabetes, I don't know). And since I had powers (can't remember what powers I had exactly, but I was always naked, and whenever I needed to escape, I simply jumped into a river or canal and swam underwater to safety), I was on the run. I was with a group of people (and in the group of people, was the DC I keep seeing in my dreams, the dark-haired little girl, but she didn't do much in this one), and we were all hiding in this building. The building itself had loads of escape routes, including a canal for me to dive in to, so when the Nazis came, we all split up and I dived into the stream, not surfacing until I was all the way out into the countryside. And then it just ended...
Both weren't LDs and if anything, I'm just getting more and more intrigued with this DC I keep seeing within my dreams. Could she be my dream guide?
Two dreams, one normal vivid, one WILD
Okay... two dreams I had, one a normal chase/battle dream, and one WILD which I did this morning. I'm so happy that I managed to have another LD, so I hope that I can continue doing this more.
First dream consisted of me being a sort of leader for this group of people, always looking out for them, and generally taking care of any problems. However, fighting breaks out on the streets, and it turns out my group of people are being targeted, so I start leading them all to safety, risking my own life to keep them all alive. I even start taking on gunmen/snipers/soldiers barehanded and killing them, one of them I simply sneak up behind and then grapple on until his neck snaps. After dodging sniper fire, eventually managed to lead everyone out of the city and into safety, but it turns out one of my friends had betrayed me, so me and a few others who stayed behind got ambushed. So eventually, we are all being lead into the woods, with that friend coming along with the soldiers to watch my execution. I call out to him, shouting why he was doing this? "Why are you doing this? What have I and my people done to you for you to do this to us?". And he just turns around and says "You're scum... you're all scum...". So at this point, its obvious I'm going to die, so I make a run for it. However, that 'friend' then turns to the soldiers and tells them to chase after me as he keeps up to me, and all of them do, leaving the others behind. So then I decide to use this so to let the others escape, as long as they only want to get their hands on me. So as I run through the woods, I get up onto this wall that runs along it, and my mate tries to cut me up by climbing onto a ladder onto a bit of wall in front of me, but I simply kick him hard on the head and keep on running. Somehow, I free myself from the cuffs and soon enough, I'm running through the streets of the city I live in, crossing streets, despite buses and cars going by, and notice in the crowds, agents chasing after me. I pretend to ignore them and as one approaches in front trying to clothesline me, I simply dodge his arm and in one swift movement, I use the momentum of my body and the way it was turning to pull off an amazing punch, which completely knocks this agent out. I then run onto this demolition site, climbing over the rubble, and then my mate is there holding a metal pole. As he runs closer and swings the pole down, I pick up a smaller, but chunkier and heavier pole and parry his swing, so we are 'swordfighting' with metal poles, with everyone watching. After a while of intense fighting, the scenery changes, so we are back in the woods, still fighting with our metal poles. His pole however, suddenly becomes a long, thick stick, so immediately, I parry his swipe, grab the stick and then break it into several pieces. I then proceed to beat the shit out of him until my people come, wondering what was going on. After finishing having some payback, I give the guy a bit of his stick back and tell him that he's not welcome here anymore. He then walks off in shame and I walk reunited with the group of people I managed to protect.
Another normal dream, but one which had a lot of scenery changes. Again, I seem to fight incredibly well in my dreams, not experiencing any of the slow limbs others seem to get when they try to fight in their dreams. Anyway, onto the WILD I had, which I achieved after waking up at 6:30 am and staying awake for half an hour. I then went onto saying repeatedly in my mind "I am dreaming" and just visualising things with HI until a dream stabilised around me. I was lucid for most of the dream, I but then lost it towards the end... just ending up going about the dreamscape.
*Lucidity begins here*
After just observing my HI take on evanescent scenes or images, I notice a certain scene of a beach stabilise around me, and all of a sudden, instead of observing the scene, I'm sitting on the beach, with a cool, salty breeze blowing onto me from the sea. It was just before sunrise, so it was slightly dark, but with a beautiful sky. I smile to myself, realising that I am within a dream, so I make sure I keep myself calm and just rub mu hands together for a bit. I notice the dream become a little more vivid, but it was already very vivid to begin with. I get up and decide to walk down the beach, passing an occasional DC as I walk down the wonderful, sandy beach. It was like some of the beaches I used to go to when I was on holiday in the Algarve in Portugal, so I walked up to the dunes, and just explored the edge of them, coming to some large holes into the side of the dunes. I knew these would be impossible to have in real life, because it was in sand, but I just looked inside them and then walked off. After rubbing my hands a bit once more, I decide to see if I could fly. Holding my arms out to the side, I just imagine myself lifting up into the air and soon enough, I'm doing so, and I begin to fly over the beach and into the sky, nearly touching the clouds. Soon enough, I come to fly over a city, so I decide to explore it and I descend into it so to see what was in there. When I land, I begin to just walk around the streets and through the crowds.
*Lucidity ends here*
I lose my lucidity here (I think... well it felt I had), but I'm still walking through the streets. The dream is still very vivid and I end up coming across an open air computer games tournament. So I walk up onto this scaffolding for this construction site, and just watch people queue up to get on the consoles so to show off their skills. Soon enough, I walk off after watching the tournament and my dream ends.
I'm so glad I managed to WILD this morning, really ecstatic, since I got my first properly induced lucid dream. I'm definitely gonna be doing more of this.
Trouble in The Jungle (non-lucid)
Just an update to my DJ, as I should really be more focused on cataloguing my dreams.
It kinda started with me walking down this jungle track with this 18th century army (the uniforms, muskets... the lot). Except this was no normal jungle, it was positively lethal. As we marched, one by one, soldiers would be picked off or killed by the strange flora in the jungle. One guy in front of me had this spike shaped fruit drop down from the canopy and impaled him through the shoulder. After a harrowing scream of pain, the soldier's body turned to ash. Quite disturbing, but nonetheless, we all marched onwards through the jungle.
Eventually, we came to a proper paved path which cut it's way through the jungle. Soon enough, after regrouping, we marched down this path until we came to a clearing. However, as I was the scout/point man, I heard some voices, so I signalled everyone to stop and hide. However, as we hid, a soldier behind whispered into my ear "it is imperative that we are not spotted. If our position is discovered, the success of our mission will be compromised". After he said that, I saw this tribal kid approach on the path, and I suddenly realised how exposed I was compared to everyone else. Knowing I was going to be spotted, I ran out of the bushes and down the path, attracting the attention of the kid, who failed to realise where everyone else was. As I ran down the path, I eventually came to a crossroad. Stopping, I looked around to decide where I should run, but when I looked to my left, I saw the same kid. However, he was completely unarmed, and I remembered I had a flintlock pistol, and also about how important it was nobody knew about the army advancing through the jungle (what the mission was, I never found out). Pointing the gun at the kid, he would suddenly run away, and naturally I chased after him. Shooting the gun, I missed the shot, and as it was a flintlock pistol, I only had one shot with it, so I threw the gun away and continued to chase the kid. As we ran down the path, we came to the roadhouse in which the path ran through the house. As the kid ran through the archway, he saw a bunch of tools being hung on the wall. As I came closer, he would pick up a machete before turning to face me and coming at me. Suddenly being confronted, I looked around for a weapon, seeing what I can only describe as a saw sword... saw blade, but with a hilt and guard..... picking that up, I would then block and parry the kid's vicious but wild swings. However, I would then counter a chop of his, momentarily stunning him with a cheap punch to his face, before bringing the sawblade into a vicious horizontal slash that pretty much disembowelled him. The kid would drop the machete before wrapping his arms about his stomach, trying to prevent his guts from spilling onto the ground. Then he looked up at me, and gave me the most haunting look I'll probably ever see. Turning away, the kid then walked slowly off into the jungle, still clutching at his stomach.
****ing hell, I felt so guilty after that look, so I decided to follow the kid (not exactly hard to do so... simply followed the trail of blood). Still holding onto the bloodstained sawblade, I eventually came to another clearing, this one with a large, murky pond in the middle of it. And by the water's edge, I saw the kid with two adults and another kid. As the kid clutched at his stomach and guts, the two adults, which I assumed were his parents, were lecturing him on something, whilst the other kid simply gloated and looked pretty smug. All the while, the kid I disembowelled was holding his guts and was asking for help. At this point I was getting really pissed off, but then this massive claw came out of the pond and caught the kid, dragging him into the murky depths of the pool. I was completely shocked as I did not see that coming, but all the while, the other kid and the parents were screaming away in horror as blood slowly began to stain the pond water. Soon after the kid went under, this monstrous crab rose out of the pond, and in one of the claws was the kid's body, which had been torn in half. By this point, I was really upset and angry, so dropping the sawblade, I looked around for a better weapon. Upon seeing this large axe embedded into a stump, with one swift movement, I tore the axe from the stump and ran straight towards the crab. Jumping into the air, I landed onto the crab's back, and brought the axe down onto the thick shell with all my might, and I ended up nearly cleaving the monster crab in half.
As the crab pretty much lay dead with a massive split down its middle, I approached the kid's torn body (everything below his chest was missing :( ), dragging the axe behind me. As I came closer (out of guilt and sadness), I would see that his eyes were still open, with the same haunting expression, except they were looking straight back at me. At that point, I wake up, still feeling really guilty for what happened in the dream... sucks to have such a vivid, but depressing dream.
Toxic craters and Crazed School Girls (non-lucid)
A non-lucid... very vivid, but I don't seem to remember much of how it begun.
Basically, I was on a computer with my mum and dad, looking through a Google Earth, and as we searched over the world, suddenly the screen took us over some location labelled "Toxic Crater". As it zoomed in, we would suddenly find ourselves on a mountain ridge. As we walked over the ridge, we would see this desolate, grey land, in which in the middle of it, was a crater filled with blueish-green water. We would walk down the ridge and eventually around it, continuing to walk by this gorge. When I turned around to look back at the crater, I suddenly found myself looking at a school building. My parents were gone and I was in a grey suit (which was the school uniform). The building was very post-modern in architectural design, and loads of other pupils were entering the building. So, I followed everyone in.
However, as I went inside, I realised I didn't know which classroom or which lessons I had, so I simply stuck around with a couple of familiar faces (which were old school friends of mine) and ended up in a rather packed class. Sticking around, I talked to my friends (don't remember what was said), but when the teacher came in, he saw me and then pointed out where I was supposed to go. Going out into the corridor, suddenly I heard some girls shout out "Look! There he is!" and began running towards me. Thinking "Oh shit!", I turned around and ran through the school building, trying hard to find the classroom I was supposed to be in whilst avoiding the hysteric crowd of school girls. Eventually, I made a few turns and went into the toilet, waiting inside until I made sure I heard all the girls had passed by. Venturing back out, I would then find the classroom. As I stepped in, there were no desks, simply boxes piled up around the room, and various people where sitting on the boxes. One of them would say "Welcome!", but soon afterwards I would wake up.
Peculiar dream, but failed to realise I was dreaming in it. Oh well...