Thread: Caradon's Lucid Dreams

A Lucid Dream
Sunday/April/20/2008
Lucid Dream # 29 of 2008
Anxiety induced Lucidity
No reality check needed
This is the last part of a longer dream.

I find myself in the dark corridors of a sewer system, filled with murky disgusting water.
I'm in the water swimming through it, trying to find my way out. I'm in a hurry because the water level is rising, and if I don't get out in time, I will drown. My head is above the water, and getting closer to the ceiling of the corridor with the rising water. I suddenly think " what am I so afraid of? This is a dream!"

Lucid now, it feels as if I knew I was dreaming the whole time. But it just now fully sank in. I realize I have the ability to breath water. I'm a little grossed out at first because it's sewer water. But I try to forget about it, knowing it's really just dream water. I lower myself into it more, so that my mouth and nose are fully submerged. I open my mouth wide, and I can feel the water flow in. I then inhale deeply and I can breath the water fine! It's a very strange feeling. I then let myself sink completely under, and begin swimming along fascinated by the strange feeling of breathing water. It gets really dark. For a moment I can hardly see, but I don't worry about it and just enjoy the feeling of swimming and breathing.

After a little while, I'm able to see fine again. And I find myself in a hallway, no longer even underwater. There are doors along the hall, and everything is still really gloomy and creepy. I somehow know there are zombies about, and I will be running into some. I enter a room and I can see a humanoid shape on the other side of the room. I can't see it very well, because of the darkness. But I think it's a zombie.
without warning it charges at me lightning fast. Lucidity faltering a little, but not enough to be afraid. I pull my arm back ready to punch it in the face when it gets close enough.

Just before it gets to me, it stops in it's tracks. And I can see that it's not a zombie after all, but an old man. The old man tells me I should wait here, and he walks past me and out into the hall. I wake up before I can do anything else.

i have never had a lucid i had one nightmare right at the end i came lucid (it was also bad cause it was a nightmare) that sucks! i keep having nightmares ( stupid horror movies!) anyways keep up the good work you have some really uh...interesting dreams!

Originally Posted by bradysimpson

i have never had a lucid i had one nightmare right at the end i came lucid (it was also bad cause it was a nightmare) that sucks! i keep having nightmares ( stupid horror movies!) anyways keep up the good work you have some really uh...interesting dreams!

Thanks bradysimpson. I appreciate you reading and commenting.

What are you doing now to try and induce Lucids? If you have any questions, and if I can help you in any way let me know. nightmares can be a good way to induce Lucidity. I used to get Lucid that way a lot. It's not often I get scared enough for it now days though. But I wish I would.

A Lucid Dream
Friday/April/25/2008
Lucid Dream # 30 of 2008
Lucidity trigger unknown
I woke up to my alarm clock with no recall.
But after a moment of digging, a Lucid Dream came flooding back to me.

The first thing I remember is walking very quickly through an endless labyrinth of corridors and rooms. Even though I don't remember anything before this moment, in the dream I'm aware that I have been Lucid for a very long time. I'm thinking about how amazing it is that I have been Lucid for so long. And the dream is so stable, that it feels as if I could stay here forever. But, since I'm now thinking about waking up, I begin to feel myself starting to wake up. But I'm able to keep myself in the dream by shifting my mental focus in a way I don't know how to describe. The dream stabilizes and I continue on.

I'm going from room to room just wanting to see whats beyond each corner. And looking for something interesting to come up. But then, I decide I want to be outside. And with that thought I am able to find a way out. Once outside I'm on a residential street. there are houses all along the street, and I now get the idea that I want to go into one and mess with some DC's. Or find someone nice looking to play with.

I pick a house and run towards a window. I jump into the air and hit the window feet first. I pass through the window and into the house. I must have just phased through it. I don't remember that part very clearly. Once inside, I find myself in the same endless labyrinth of corridors and rooms. No DC's to be found. I start thinking about the beautiful scenery that can be found in dreams sometimes. And think about looking for one of these kinds of scenic dreamscapes.

Not sure why, but I decide to do an RC. I pinch my nose, and start to wonder if I'm really dreaming. Because I can hardly breath through it. I try again, and I can definitely breath through my pinched nose, so I know I'm still dreaming. But I can barely breath through it. Then, I abruptly wake up.

I remember I woke up here, but I don't remember actually being awake. if that makes any sense. I didn't even make a note in my journal of having a Lucid Dream. Which I most certainly would have done. So I think maybe I had an FA. but I don't remember that part either.

Nearly had three Lucids last night. But Just happy with the one I got though.

A missed opportunity
I let my dog outside. I go looking to bring her back in the house but I can't find her anywhere. I'm looking all around the house calling her, and I'm afraid she got out of the yard somehow. At some point as I'm looking for her I do a random nose RC, and I can breath. But i don't believe it. Even though I do it a couple times I shrug it off. I actually think that the possibility of this being a dream is so slim, That i find humor in the idea.

I look in the window of my three season porch, and see that somehow my dog got back inside with out me noticing.

I wake up pissed off at myself for missing the chance to get Lucid. Use the bathroom and go back to sleep.

A Lucid Dream
Wednesday/April/ 30/2008
Lucid Dream # 31 of 2008
Reality check induced Lucidity

I'm having this dream about being on a space station. There are problems and we are trapped there. It's like some space adventure movie. There are others with me, and I see that they are doing some kind of drugs. It's something Psychedelic. They offer some to me and I decide to take it.

Tripping now, the things I see, there are no words to describe. The way people begin to morph and change, and all sorts of random scenes flashing by my awareness. All I can say is WHOA! You would have had to see it to believe it.

After a little bit of this crazy tripping stuff, I decide to do a reality check. Not sure if it was completely random or not. But I can breath through my nose. Again I don't believe it, but I remember the last dream I had, and this time remember to try pushing my finger through my hand. I start pushing my finger into my palm. It doesn't want to go through, but I really want this to be a dream, so I keep pushing as hard as I can.

after a lot of pushing, my finger begins sinking in. Now knowing for sure I'm dreaming, happiness washes over me. and I keep pushing my finger all the way through. All the strange hallucinations are gone now, and everything is normal. No longer in a space station either, now just in a house. There is a girl in the room near me, and I show her my finger sticking through my hand, and tell her this is a dream. She believes me right away.

I walk down stairs, and I see my step brother. I tell him this is a dream. he tries to push his finger through his hand but cannot. He shrugs his shoulders and walks away. I say"Look." And I do it again. I have a lot of problems again, takes forever but my finger goes through, and pushes the skin on the back of my hand up in a really strange way before going completely through.

I see that the girl has come downstairs. She is still Lucid as well. I tell her I'm going to get naked and go outside freaking people out. And I ask her if she wants to join me. She thinks that sounds like fun, and agrees to come with. I notice that all I'm wearing are pajamas. And I get out of them pretty easily. The girls takes her clothes off too, and we step outside.

We are in the front yard of the townhouses that I grew up in as a kid. There is a wooden wall, don't know what it's for, to block sound maybe.(It was there in real life.) I jump up on the wall and balance across it. A and do a flip off the top of it. I start doing flips off the sides of walls and trees. Then I decide to practice my TK a little bit. I use TK to levitate myself into the air, and up above a tall tree. I come to rest on one of the top most branches.

The girl follows me up, and I put my arm around her and we just enjoy the view. There are people below shooting off fireworks, and even though it's daylight I can see the brilliant display of colors. there is another tree nearby, the leaves are beautiful orange color, and I can see a glow shimmering around them, as if the tree has an aura.

The thin branches of the tree we are on begin to sway with our weight, and we begin to swing back and forth really far. For a moment, I'm afraid the branches will break, but I decide that they wont. Things change on me, and the tree breaks free from the ground, and becomes one tall pole with no branches. like a telephone pole, maybe even taller.

And I now use this pole, to pole vault across the land, with the girl still hanging onto it too. It's so fun, I stick one end in the ground, and swing up high into the air. Then come down in an arch. the distance I travel with one vault is very far. And I keep repeating it. I get a momentum going so fast It's incredible. I think to myself that this has got to be the best way to travel through a dream ever.

Eventually I come to this tall building, and I let myself slam into it. I stick to the wall spider-man style, and let the tree/pole drop to the ground. On the wall near me, is a rack with a sword on it. The blade has a slight curve to it like a samurai sword. Only it's a lot cooler. I reach over and lift it off the rack, then push off the wall doing back flips until I hit the ground on my feet. I begin swinging the sword around, playing like I'm some sword master, until I wake up.



Pole vaulting part two
I'm climbing on some tree, when it looks as if someone had cut through the tree with a chainsaw near the bottom. It's a smooth cut, and the tree slides off the stump. I remember how I was just pole vaulting this way, and begin doing it again.! Just flying across the land again. Even though I have a clear memory of the last dream I don't quite get Lucid this time. Should have, oh well.

A Lucid Dream
Friday/May/2/2008
Lucid Dream # 32 of 2008
Random reality Check induced Lucidity

I'm in my car on the street outside my house. just getting ready to pull into the driveway when I randomly pinch my nose, and I can Breath!Lucid, I Stop the car and get out. It's night and I can see lights on in the windows of the houses along the street. I get curious about whats going on inside those dream houses, so I become a peeping tom and walk p to the windows and look in. I see people inside but nothing really interesting. I walk from house to house looking in the windows. after three or four houses, I forget that I'm dreaming and start to worry about getting into trouble.

Don't really remember anything else about that one. Later in the night, I did another random reality check and became Lucid. But all I can remember about that one, is doing the reality check and being surprised I could breath. And I didn't count that as one of the seven dreams I recalled last night.

A Lucid Dream
Sunday/May/4/2008
Lucid Dream # 33 of 2008
Dreamsign noticed
No reality check needed

I'm in a work setting and I notice I'm dreaming because of something I'm not going to mention. But then I think I lose lucidity for a minute. Then the dream shifts and I'm back in a scene from an earlier dream with a low level of Lucidity. The scene was of being on the edge of the ocean. With crazy tidal waves and surfing going on.
But things are pretty calm now.

Behind me is a huge wall, with a stairway leading up behind the wall to the top of it.
And in front of me is the ocean. The water level is rising coming up to the wall and getting higher. I feel like my subconscious mind has complete control of his dream and wants me to face a fear of falling. Like it's a seperate being from myself. I feel like it wants me to dive off the wall into the water. (actually I was sure of it.) I somehow knew that's why the water was rising, to push me up the stairway to the top of the wall.

I climb the stairs, and am hoping the water level will be deep enough. Once to the top of the wall I look down. The drop now is so far. And also, The scene has changed. My subconscious wants to make it harder for me. There is only a small square of water off to the side. It's going to be very hard to hit it. I'm very scared at this point but I'm still planning to jump.

Suddenly I think, "wait a second... I'm Lucid!" I shouldn't be scared at all. But at the moment I still am, and I'm shifting nervously from foot to foot. I'm thinking to myself that I can't believe I'm so scared and I know I'm dreaming. I start thinking back to all the nightmare scary situations I've jumped head first into with absolutely no fear at all in Lucid Dreams.

Slowly the comprehension that I'm not really jumping off anything sinks in. And I think about how I'm still laying in bed. And there is nothing to fear. Now I'm ready to jump. I look down at the small square of water, that's at an odd angle to hit. And I think. "Well, if I'm supposed to be facing a fear here I'm going to do it right."

I make my dive. I leap off the wall, but I no longer care about hitting the water. I've decided to aim for solid ground. At first I have my hands out in front of me like a diver. But i then decide to make it even better. I put my hands to my sides so that I will hit the ground head on.

But without even trying to do it, my descent begins to slow, so that I'm falling in slow motion. When I finally hit the ground head first, it's pretty gently, and I just tuck into roll and sit up. But for some odd reason I now have the idea that my dog has been left outside and I need to wake up and get her. I stand up and instantly wake up.
And dog is not outside.

A Lucid Dream
Tuesday/may/6/2008
Lucid Dream # 34 of 2008
Spontaneous Lucidity?

I'm running fast down I paved trail though the woods. I feel like a can break the running speed record. I think that what I need is a big hill to run down to really build up momentum. I come out of the trees, and on my right is a wide open field with a huge grassy hill in the middle of it.

I must be aware I'm dreaming a little bit here without really noticing. Because I think about how it's cool that I was able to summon the hill when I came out of the trees. Kind of like how I've read about people trying to create what they want on the other side of a door before opening it.

I head for the hill, when full Lucidity washes over me. Exhilarated, I pick up speed running faster and faster. Shouting for joy,"This is a dream!" I shout it about three times before I come to the hill. I was planning to run down the hill. But now, with full Lucidity my game plan has changed. I'm moving so fast, that it takes only a matter of seconds for me to run the length of it.(Which is considerable.) Once to the top I leap off it, and begin to soar into the air watching the ground drop away below me. I only have a brief moment to enjoy the amazing feeling. Because I wake up.

A Lucid Dream
Monday/May/14/2008
Lucid Dream # 35 of 2008
Lucidity trigger not sure

I had a few good opportunities that I missed while at the cabin. And some really fun dreams in general. But I had this Lucid..

I don't remember the first part that well. I have a strange disembodied perspective, and I'm flying around this tall building. There is somebody standing on top of the building getting ready to jump. And I'm shouting "Jump" over and over. And I'm thinking that I would jump no problem.

The next thing I know, I have my body and I'm jumping from the building Lucid. I let myself fall end over end. But my perspective shifts so that I'm watching myself fall. And I'm thinking how cool that looks.

Near the bottom of the building is the ocean. And This part I remember very well.
I'm suddenly flying inches above the surface of the water. Just flying along fascinated by how the water looks. It's very blue, with rippling waves.

After a little bit of flying along, I remember how I froze the ocean in a Lucid before. I decide I want to try it again. To see if I can do it twice, or if last time was just a fluke. I reach out one hand and touch the water. At the same time I force the water to freeze. It works, the water around my hand becomes solid. And the frozen water spreads out in every directing from the point where my hand made contact. Until the entire ocean is solid. It happened so fast, that it only took a couple seconds.

I step onto the solid water and begin walking across it. I wake up shortly after I begin walking.

I only slept a couple of hours last night, and didn't remember anything until my alarm went off. I pushed snooze and then had this Lucid.

A Lucid Dream
Friday/May/16/2008
Lucid Dream # 36 of 2008
Recurring dream noticed
Reality check induced Lucidity

I'm back at my old cooking job in Colorado springs. It starts out that one of my co-workers needs some help cooking, So I jump in and give him a hand. But he disappears, and it's just me now.

I'm actually not doing to bad for dream cooking. I'm having a difficult time of it, but at least I'm getting stuff done. I'm having a hard time remembering how to make stuff. because it's been ten years since I cooked here. There are two omelets that I'm preparing. One is supposed to be a veggie omelet. The other a ranchero omelet.

I roll them in seperate pans, but they kind of fall apart. I figure I'll just put enough cheese on them so no one will notice. I forget which one is which, and I finally decide that they are similar enough that I will just put the ranchero sauce on one of them, and call it a ranchero omelet.

At this point B the waitress says, "I'm still waiting on that side of three." (she means a side of three small pancakes.) I'm thinking oh crap, because I don't remember putting the pancakes down. But I look down at my grill and see two rows of three pancakes. They are starting to get a little over cooked. I pick up my spatula and flip the pancakes onto a side plate, and put them in the window.

When I look out the window and see B standing there, I get a sudden deja-vu. I remember dreaming this exact moment a couple weeks ago, with B there. I decide I want to tell her about how I dreamed this before, and now it's happening. I say " hey B I need to tell you something." She says " hold on I'll be right back."

Once she walks away, I decide I should do a reality check, Just to make sure I'm not just dreaming this again. I pinch my nose, and I can breath!

Lucid, I hold my nose closed for a moment longer. Yup I can definitely breath through my nose. (I was pretty surprised. I have not gotten Lucid that way for a while.) I think," yeah that makes sense. I never moved back to Colorado. I'm planning a trip to the cabin in Minnesota!" I forget about trying to cook, and walk off the cooks line. I walk through the kitchen and say,"hey look!" I have my nose pinched and I'm taking deep breaths to show everyone.

I'm still carrying an omelet in a pan, and I think about eating it. But I then just toss it, pan and all, right over my shoulder. I don't even look to see where it lands. I walk around through the back of the kitchen, and into the prep area.

At this point B the waitress returns and asks me what I wanted to tell her. I begin explaining the whole thing to her. But I don't finish before my alarm clock goes off again.

I push snooze again, hoping to re-enter the dream. It almost works too. I enter the same work place and I'm walking through the dining room when I do a random reality check. I become Lucid for a split second before waking up.

Lucid Dream stolen
I'm so pissed, this would have been my 37th Lucid in my nap today.
And I was focusing so hard to induce it.


There is more to it but I'm just going to start here.
I'm in an apartment and there are windows covering an entire wall. Outside it's raining, and the wind is blowing the curtains around because a couple of the windows are open. And there is rain water blowing in and getting things wet.

I don't seem to care to much about the water, but I push the curtains aside to get a better view. There is this beautiful mansion across the way. It's made of red brick, and has white trim and round white pillars on the front. There are wolf status in strategic places, as if they were gargoyles. I'm struck by the beauty and detail of the place, and just want to sit there enjoying the view, and watching the rain.

the lights are on, and in an upper level window I see a gray wolf staring out. I think it's so cool that there are status of wolves all over, and wolves inside too.

I don't remember why. It may have just been random, but I do a reality check.
I pinch my nose and I can breath! There is no resistance at all, it's like my nose isn't even there. I'm not sure I believe it at first. I try it a couple more times, then I decide to try and push my finger through my hand to confirm it. And erase all doubt.

Just as I'm trying to push my finger into my hand, through the window I see this girl I used to know, walking up to my door. I bit frustrated by the distraction, I decide to keep my mind focused on the fact that I may be dreaming, as I open the door for her.

She says that she saw me in the window and wanted to say hi. But she is busy and has to go somewhere else. I say hi, and nice seeing you again. Then close the door as she walks away.

Not forgetting my reality checking, I pinch my nose again and hold it. I breath in and out just fine. I now believe that I'm dreaming. And just a second after I become fully Lucid, Somebody comes knocking at the door of my house, making my dog bark, waking me up!



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A Lucid Dream
Wed/May/21/2008
Lucid Dream # 37 of 2008
Overly intense image noticed
Reality check induced Lucidity


I'm in the back yard of the house, only it doesn't look anything like it. I'm on the side of the yard farthest away from the house. But the yard is huge now, now is so much space between me and the house.

There are construction vehicles in the yard. They are very strange looking, nothing like anything in real life. One is like a back hoe, but so much different than a real one. It's like a super technologically advanced one. They have dug up the entire yard.

At first I'm confused about what they are doing, but then I realize they are putting in a pool. (Not describing this very well.) The yard is completely torn up now with giant pits. I'm standing there watching, and the scene is just so intense and vivid, that I'm just kind of stunned and amazed by the whole thing.

The yard is so wide now, and the way that everything is dug up, makes me feel like I'm standing on the edge of the grand canyon or something. That's my exact thought as I'm standing there viewing it. That it looks like the grand canyon. (that should give an idea of how intense the scene was.)

far on the other side, I can see my Mom, step Dad, and Aunt, all sitting together. They can see me, and one of them waves. I wave back. I see the back hoe driving backwards towards one of the pits. I yell for him to lookout, because I think he will fall in. The operator just looks in my direction and continues backing up. And to my surprise, he drives the thing backwards down the vertical wall of the pit.

I decide I want to get to where my family is, So I begin to run around the side of this whole canyon yard thing. As I take my first few steps, I also decide I need to do a reality check, because this is all just a bit to much. And the scene is just to real to be real. I pinch my nose and I can breath!

Lucid right away, I continue running around to where my family is. It does not take me long to get there. Once there I shout "look Mom, tricks are for kids!" And I jump up onto this wall and do a back flip off it. Then I do it again shouting tricks are for kids again. My aunt laughs thinking it's funny. For the moment I decide not to tell them it's a dream this time.

We all walk into the house. Apparently we are having some kind of family get together barbecue. As I walk into the kitchen, I'm thinking how strange this all is. I know I'm dreaming, and I'm just going with it. Hanging out with my family, like a normal every day thing. I'm wondering what I should do, I can't really think of anything right away.

I see my sister slicing onions on a cutting board. I guess we are having hamburgers on the grill. I'm thinking" what the hell, should I just sit with my family and have a burger, or what?" Most of my goals have slipped my mind, And I don't see any random exciting thing to do.

Then I remember that I was thinking I should start paying attention to details again. I have not done that for a while, and I think it will help me take a more clear memory of the dream with me. I look around the kitchen, and I'm just so amazed by every little detail. I can hardly believe it's not real. I notice the napkin holder, and salt and pepper shakers on the table. And the light blue table cloth with little frilly things on the edges. (isn't really on the table in real life. It's just wood.)

I open the refrigerator door, and look inside. I notice a bag of hamburger buns in the frig. (don't really keep buns in the frig. ) They so real, I decide I want to touch them to see what they feel like. I pick them up and squeeze them a little. It's so realistic I'm just amazed. Even the feel of the plastic bag they are in is just perfectly real.

I notice that my hands are dirty, and I have gotten dirt on the bag of buns. I set them on the table, and my mom walks by and says" nobody is going to want to eat those buns after you put your dirty hands on them." " I'm just examining the details of things, because this is a dream." I reply.

My sister notices what I just said, and looks over my way and asks "this is a dream? I say "yeah," and I tell her to pinch her nose and try to breath through it. But her hands are busy preparing food. So I pinch her nose for her. She just shrugs her shoulders like she didn't notice anything. So I pinch my nose and show her that I can breath through it. I'm about to show her that I can push my finger through my hand when I wake up.

A Lucid Dream
Wednesday/May/21/2008
Lucid Dream # 38 0f 2008
Best dreamsign noticed
No reality check needed

I'm in a huge stadium for sporting events or concerts. I'm not really sure what was going on at first. But there are a lot of people milling around. The first thing that I remember really well, is that I have skis on. I'm skiing across the floor of the stadium, and there is a big snow hill on one side of the place. I ski at it really fast and try to use it as a jump. But I don't hit it right and just slow down, and come to a stop at the top of the hill.

I notice on the other side of the stadium is a white ramp. the ramp has a curve at the bottom where it touches the floor. but then it angles straight upwards like a vertical wall. Now I know what to do, I use the hill I'm on as a down slope to get my speed up. by the time I'm on the floor of the stadium I'm moving so fast, and picking up more speed as I go.

I hit the ramp, and it shoots me straight upwards into the air, far above the floor of the stadium. I arch backwards, and do a flip and a twist. And I'm now flying across the stadium, in the direction I had came from. I look at my feet, and my skis are actually twirling like helicopter propellers. As I begin coming down about to land on some big square thing, I'm like oh wow, This is a dream!

I land on the square thing, then jump off it onto the roof of a bus. Then jump off the bus onto the floor. I see somebody standing near by, and I say, Oh my god check out this jump. I ski over to the snow hill again, jump and ski down it again trying to get even more speed up. I hit the ramp again, shooting into the air. but this time I'm not able to do a very good flip. So I land and try it again.

this time I do the best jump yet flipping and spinning high above the stadium, and flying across to land on the big square thing again. As I land this time, I look up and notice the stadium is packed with spectators, and they are all standing, and Cheering, and clapping loudly. I'm thinking "Whoa They really liked that!" The guy I talked to before, looks up at me and says," be careful that you don't fall off that thing." I say don't worry, I have the ability t fly." I jump off the square thing and levitate in the air, Just hovering in one spot.

The guy starts talking about "Chris Angel mind freak" Who can do stuff like that.

I lose Lucidity at this point. I somehow forget I'm dreaming. The doors of the stadium burst open and the police come rushing in. Somebody shouts, "There is a bomb!" the bomb squad, all decked out in there space suits find this bomb that some terrorist had put in the stadium. I'm about to run out of the building, when I notice that there are cages of cats an dogs.

I run back in and start opening cages letting the animals out. And I grab a couple of cats and carry them. I think they are going to start scratching me, but they don't.
I get outside and into a car, then wake up.

some cabin vacation stuff. Spring of 2008.

A Lucid Dream
Friday/May/30/2008
Lucid Dream # 39 of 2008
Spontaneous Lucidity (sort of)
Basic task Completed

I'm climbing a tree down near the pond by the cabin. I look out over the water, and I see that it's an ugly green color. I remember how I froze water before, so I wonder if I can change the color to blue. I look away and look back at it, trying to will it to change.

Then I think about how interesting it is that I'm trying to change the color, and I'm not even Lucid. Then, suddenly, "Hey this is a dream!" I think about diving into the water and going for a swim. But I hesitate because I get the feeling that that's not what I really wanted to do with my next Lucid. I Just sit there in the tree for some time, trying to think of what I wanted to do next.

Then I think that I wish I had paid attention to what the Lucid tasks were for this month. Then, "Oh yeah, eat something inedible. That's simple enough" So I take a bite out of the nearest tree branch, chew it up, and swallow some of it. But it tastes so awful that I start spitting the rest of it out. It tasted worse than any real tree ever could, I think.
After that I either woke up or lost Lucidity, I don't remember.

earlier the same night.
I'm walking down one of the trails by the cabin. But I get confused because the trails don't look right, and I can't figure out witch way to go. I decide I need to do a reality check. I pinch my nose and I can breath. But I wake up right away.

Tuesday/May/27/2008
I'm walking by a pond back in the woods. I see what looks like some strange creature crawling along the ground. But when I Look again I see that it's just a fallen tree. I decide I need to do a reality check. I pinch my nose and can breath, but I wake up.

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I'm in the cabin. it's dark out and I can see a cars headlights outside. The car is just sitting there. It freaks me out and I wonder what they want. I look again and I see a park bench, and what I thought were headlights, is just light reflecting off the bench. The situation strikes me as odd, so I pinch my nose and can breath! I'm Just thinking about what I'm going to do when I wake up.

Thursday/May/29/2008
I look at my watch to see what day it is. The date says May 37th. For a moment I'm really confused thinking how can it be the 37th of May. Then I realize it's because I'm dreaming but wake up.

Sunday/June/1/2008
On my birthday I see two bald eagles circling the pond. It's pretty ,I never saw them there before. Then when I go to sleep...

I'm sitting outside the cabin, and A bald eagle keeps soring down at me and flying just over my head. I'm not afraid of it, I feel like it's trying to be friendly. The next time it comes by I hold out my arm to see if it will land on it. And it does! I'm like, "holly crap, I have a wild eagle perching on my arm! I really need to do a reality check now.

I remember reaching up to pinch my nose. But I can't remember actually trying to breath through it. I'm not sure if I did or not, because I got distracted by the Polar bear! Just at that moment a polar bear comes up to me from behind, and starts rubbing it's head against my shoulder. It's very friendly and lays down next to me.
Then a lion comes up to me on the left side! When I see the lion I really start to get scared, thinking that any moment one of these will go wild on me and attack.

I suddenly panic, get up, and run for the cabin before they can start trying to make a meal out of me. Once I enter the cabin I wake up.
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There is a DC that tells me that I need to face my fear of falling off a cliff. he instructs me to get into a car, because he is going to drive at top speed right to the edge of the cliff, and stop at the last second. I'm a little worried, but I trust him for some reason.

I get in with him, and we race to the cliff. I freak out a little when we pass the point where I believe there is no way to stop in time. Without slowing down we come to the edge. The front of the car goes over, and my stomach goes into my throat. But at that moment the car instantly stops and is pulled back from the edge. The DC congratulates me on facing that fear.

The Later the same night...


I see something odd and make a comment about it.(I can't remember this very well.)
But after making the comment, a DC tells me that I should do a reality check so I pinch my nose. I don't get Lucid, I can't even remember the feeling of when I pinched my nose. So I'm not sure what happened.

The DC asked me if I did it. I say yeah, and I show him. I pinch it again. He asks, " But did you breath through it?" He seemed to be incuraging me to keep trying it. because I was not doing it right. That's all I remember about it.

WILDING
I found it pretty easy to clear my thoughts enough to WILD while I was out there. Most were pretty brief. These to were the best ones.
I enter a scene where I'm inside the cabin looking out the window fully Lucid.
Down by the pond, I can see a black bear, and a deer just wandering around. Fascinated, I watch them through the window for some time before waking up.

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I enter a scene where I get up to use the bathroom fully Lucid.(because I really had to go. it was early morning and I had been sleeping for a while already.)

I open the bathroom door, and see my Mothers dog looking up at me and wagging it's tail. I say hi to it and scratch behind it's ears, thinking that it's cool I'm WILDING and still in the dream. I try to use the bathroom but remember it's useless. So I walk back out. I think I woke up about there.

Lucid fragment

I'm in some room when I pinch my nose to see if I can breath. I don't know if it was random, or if I noticed something out of the ordinary. But I could breath through it perfectly. Surprised, I do it again and become fully Lucid. I leave the room to go looking for something fun to do.That's all I remember, I have no idea if I woke up, or if there was more to it.

A Lucid Dream
Monday/June/23/2008
Lucid Dream # 40 of 2008
Best dreamsign recognized
Personal task completed

I'm running down I side street, towards a little convenient store to buy cigarettes. It feels good to run I'm enjoying the feeling of the exertion, and of how good of shape I feel. I start to wonder why I want to by cigarettes and pollute my lungs, when I'm feeling do good. I decide that one or two smokes won't hurt.

Also, as I was running I had Lucid Dreaming on my mind. I can't remember my exact thoughts though. And I didn't do an RC. I come to a cross road, it's a busy street and the store is on the other side. I don't know why, but I suddenly believe that if I want, I can leap the entire road, over the cars and all. All I need to do, is believe that I can, and I will be able to.

So with all my strength, I crouch and leap into the air. I soar high above the traffic and over the road. Instantly Lucid, I shout," woo hoo, this is a dream!" I actually clear the entire store, and land on the ground on the opposite side.

I enter the store and immediately start to lose Lucidity. It's so real I start to doubt it's a dream. There are many people, and they all seem so real. But I don't forget RC's! I pinch my nose to check, and I can breath quite well. There is no longer any doubt, and I'm proud of myself for believing the nose RC on the first try, I only did it for a second.

I now remember what I wanted to do in my next Lucid. I look at my wrist to see if I'm wearing my watch, and I am! (The reason for this task, is to get myself used to looking at my watch in my dreams. Next time I do it, I want to take note of the time and date. And notice anything strange about it.)

There is a long checkout counter, with a woman standing behind it checking out customers. I walk around to the back of the counter, and I also see another room behind the counter. I enter, and it's like an employee break room. There are many employees sitting around. The woman at the check out counter enters the room, and begins talking to the employees. (Apparently she is the boss.)

She is nice looking, and I think it would be fun to have sex with her right here in front of everybody. But then I think, That it could ruin this dream, and I want to have something better to write about. But I can't resist the urge completely, and decide I will just do a little fondling then be on my way.

So I begin fondling her, instead of resisting, she seems to like it, and leans into me.
But that only lasts for a moment before I wake up. Though I'm quite happy about ending this dry spell.

A Lucid Dream
Thursday/June/26/2008
Lucid Dream # 41 of 2008
Best dreamsign recognized
No reality check needed

There was more to the beginning involving smoking pot with old friends, and trying to walk the dog on a muddy flooded trail. But I'm going to start it here.

I end up driving along in an RV with some family I don't know. I'm sitting in the front seat on the passenger side. There is a man driving, and the rest of the family is in the back. The family is mostly women, but there is one young boy.

As we drive, there are large patches of fog forming in seemingly random places along the highways. I don't know why, but I know that this fog is a supernatural fog.
The same fog from the movie, " The Fog." The RV enters a patch of thick fog, and visibility drops to zero. It gets dark and all I can see out the windows, is a thick swirling white.At any moment, I know we are going to be attacked by evil ghostly specters.

I begin to freak out, and I start swinging my arms wildly, and screaming and snarling like a mad demon myself. I think, what I'm trying to do, is build up enough adrenaline so that when we are attacked, I will unleash my own mad fury upon our attackers. I turn and scream at one of the girls behind my own seat, and she cowers farther back into the RV.

Just then, the man driving says,"I no longer have control of the vehicle." Some type of entity that lurks within the fog, has taken control of the RV. We break through the Fog, and are driven over the side of some cliff or something I'm not sure. But our entire RV is suddenly flying high in the sky. I look out the huge front window, and can see the ground that looks like thousands of feet below. There are mountains and valleys, and houses scattered here and there.

As I look down, and out the window, I think to myself. " I should be taking this a s a dreamsign." Even though I don't think it's a dream yet, I loudly state, This is a dream!" I'm just kind of pretending because this is what I always say when I get airborne like this. But as soon as I say the words, "this is a dream." It instantly triggers realization, that this really is a dream.

I repeat it a few more times. And each time I say it, I become more Lucid. Until I'm 100% positive I'm dreaming. I still have the crazy adrenalin in me from a moment ago. But now it's even more amplified from the thrill and excitement of knowing I'm dreaming. I start laughing hysterically, and snarling like a mad man. I stand up, and step right through the front window of the RV. My absolute certainty, that I can pass through the window, causes the glass to not even be there at all. I step through with ease.

I stand up on the edge where the windshield wipers should be. And I think about diving off and free falling. But I don't, I've gone a little bit mad with power, and I decide to mess with these DC's. I climb up over the windshield, and up onto the roof of the flying RV. I walk to the back, and I'm not sure how, but there is this long, red, cape like cloth, attached to the top of the RV. I have a hold of the tail end of it, and I'm using it as if it were the reins of a horse drawn wagon.

I pull and jerk on the cape, making the RV tilt in an alarming way as we fly. The whole time screaming and laughing like a psycho. And I can hear the DC's screaming in fear inside.

I drop the cape, and lean over the back of the RV. I can see a couple of the ladies near the back window. I reach through, grabbing one of them by the arm, and pulling her out. I let her go, and watch her fall. The height is so great that I never see her hit the ground. She just gets smaller, and smaller, until she disappears from sight completely.

I crawl down the back, and through the window. Again entering the RV. The man in the driver seat, turns to face me. He has his arm outstretched, and has a hand gun pointed at me. He begins firing the gun, and my complete lack of fear, renders the gun useless. The shots are loud, but as far as I can tell no bullets come out at all. I don't see any, and I don't feel anything hit me. Finally the gun just clicks, because he emptied it.

He looks at the gun confused, then tosses it aside. I now turn my attention to one of the ladies. I decide to try something I have not done since the old days. I reach out with my mind using TK to make her remove her clothing. I don't get that locked on feeling I normally get when using TK. But something works, because she begins taking her cloths off. She has stripped to her underwear, when I start to wonder if doing this will cause me to wake up. And of course as soon as I think that, the dream fades and is gone.

A Lucid Dream
Monday/June/30/2008
Lucid Dream # 42 of 2008
Random dreamsign recognized
Reality check induced Lucidity

I'm in something that is like a cross between a freight train, and A semi-truck. It is driving on the road like a truck, but it is pulling many boxed cars like a train. Inside the cars, it's some kind of factory. And I'm working in this factory. It's hard to describe, everything is very changeable, and changes constantly. The car I'm in has no roof, it's open to the sky. there is one other person with me.

There is a conveyor belt type thing moving a long line crates. I see a crate fall off onto the floor, then reappear on the belt, and then fall off again. It does this several times. I'm very energetic already, and I shout in jovial way. "I wonder if that's a dreamsign!" I pinch my nose and I can breath! "It is a dreamsign!" I become Lucid right away, and don't bother RCing again. I climb up these square box like things that are all over the place. Then, on a whim, I decide to ask the DC that's with me a couple of questions. I'm thinking of the old interogation task questions. I shout to the DC, "what's your name?"

He doesn't seem to hear me at first so I shout it again. Finally he says something strange like "Noodly," or "Nedly". I can't remember exactly what it was, but it sounded like that.

Just after asking him this question, I notice something overhanging the road. It's almost like a bridge across the road. But it seems like a blue wall. I'm standing up high, so that if I don't duck down I will hit it. I decide to just let the truck slam me into the wall, and see if I can phase through it.

I get slammed into it, but there isn't really any force. and instead of me going through it. The wall just moves along with me, and becomes a part of the truck. I find this curious but then return to my questions. To the DC, I ask,"Why am I here?" "I don't know," he replies. "I know why I'm here," I say. "I'm here to play!"

I then pick up something out of a crate that looks like a soup can, but it's the size of a paint can. I hold it up, turn it sideways, and push my finger into the bottom of it. My finger sinks all the way into it, and it feels much like when I push my finger through my hand. I then push all four fingers into the can, then begin pulling them out.

When I pull them out, my fingers all stretch cartoon like. Then they start to become kind of translucent and kind of dissipate like wisps of smoke. Then my hand is normal again.

I look above me, and see this parallel bar. It's something like you would see at a kids playground for doing pull ups. I jump up and grab it, then spin myself feet over head, doing a kind of flip, and landing on top of the wall that had become a part of the truck.

I'm now on the roof of the truck, and look around for something fun to get into. I see the yellow arches of McDonald's down the road aways. then I look down in front of me and see the white cab of the semi-truck. I decide it would be fun to let this truck run me over.

I jump off the top of the truck, landing on my back in the road. I try to angle myself to get run over by the tires. The tires of the cab run over me.(No big deal.) But I then slip in between the wheels, so that the truck is going over me, but the tires are not going over me. I look up at the bottom of the truck as it is passing over, and I wonder at the amazing detail, of all the parts on the bottom of it.

Then, without warning, the dream just fades and is gone.

A Lucid Dream
Monday/July/7/2008
Lucid Dream # 43 of 2008
Best dreamsign recognized
No reality check needed

I'm in a medieval setting, and in the army. We are getting ready for an attack by an invading army. The dream, and my perspective, are both shifting around a lot. so it's a little hard to describe the beginning. But the invading army attacks, and their numbers are much greater than expected. The side I'm on wears red armor, and carries shields trimmed with red. The attacking army is all in blue.

My perspective is kind of floating all around the battle field. The scene is very vivid and realistic. the front lines are slamming their shields into each other, and trying to hack and stab through any openings they can find.

My perspective spins around, and I'm off to the side of the battle field, near the leader of the red. He is worried and trying to figure out what to do, to keep from being defeated. The expected reinforcements have not arrived, And he is no longer expecting them.

Just then I hear a horn blowing, and over a nearby hill charges a single knight on horse back, with a lance pointed in the ready position. He races past us, and disappears from site. We are like wtf, just when we thought the calvary had arrived...

But then comes the thunder of many charging horses, and over the hill rides a stampeding wall of lance bearing knights. They come right at us, and I wonder how we will avoid being trampled in the charge. But they somehow get past us and plow devastatingly into the enemy infantry.

My perspective spins me away and up over some hills, as if I was watching a movie and the camera is flying me away to a different scene. Then, there is a scene shift and I'm stepping out onto some deck/balcony. And for a moment I believe the view from the deck is a movie I'm watching.

The scene before me is a magical fantasy world, and I am just stunned with disbelief.
I realize that I'm not just watching a movie but it has come to life, and I am in it now.
Before me is a hill slightly sloping down to the waters of a lake. The lake is huge, I can't see across it, but the area is surrounded by a think green forest. off to my right and left, are these structures I'm not sure how to describe. but they are a dark color and they have a Japanese architectural look to them.

I somehow know that this is the land of "Kryn." The setting of the "Dragonlance Chronicles." You can't even imagine my excitement over being here. I run up onto the edge of the deck and leap onto one of the nearby structures. I run across the edge of it's roof, and leap across to the edge of the next one. I'm so emotionally charged, that I feel goosebumps flowing over me in a wave. And I'm nearly in tears of joy. I keep repeating, " I'm really here!" over and over. I'm so excited to maybe see some of the characters. Like Flint Fireforge, Or Tanis half elven.

I run back the way I came, and I leap the gap between the roofs again. And when I do... This is a dream! Since I was already aware that I was in a world other than my own, the realization was not much of a shock. It was a very smooth transition to Lucidity. I land on the roof I was leaping to, and look down to the land below. I can see an elf going about his business, and I marvel at how realistic he seems. He is shorter than an elf of Kryn, but I know he is an elf because of his pointed ears. he has white hair, and is clothed in gray.

I have so much pent up energy, that I just want to dive head first off a high place. But my rooftop is not all that high from the ground. I dive off anyway, and hit the ground in a roll. I'm so thrilled, and can't figure out which way to go. I'm looking around all over taking everything in. I'm torn to what direction to take. because I'm afraid if I go one way, I may miss something awesome from the opposite direction.

I look to the forest, and wonder at the amazing creatures I may encounter there. I end up making my way to the edge of the lake. There is a picnic table half in the water. Out in the water, there are two girls swimming and I briefly consider trying to have sex with them. But I immediately discard that notion, not wanting to ruin one of the most magical Lucids I've ever had. ( Being in this world Lucid is like a dream come true for me.)

Now, in the water, I see this beautiful naked tiny woman with flowing golden hair swimming by. She is no larger than one of the fingers on my hand. I scoop my hand into the water beneath her, and lift her out of the lake. She fits right in the palm of my hand, and she rolls over to face me. but she has now transformed into a miniature human baby. And as I watch, the baby transforms into a white, featureless, snake like thing.
And it then begins to twist around on itself until it knots up like a pretzel. a little disappointed about what happened to the woman, I set the thing back into the water and it swims away.

I then decide to jump into the water and go for a swim. I make a few swimming strokes, then I decide to do some underwater swimming. I dive under and open my eyes. it's a little murky but I can see. I swim through green and yellow sea weed type stuff. I see an underwater ridge, and wonder whats on the other side. But I decide I don't want to spend my Lucid under here, and rise to the surface.

I make it back to shore, and walk back up the sloping hill towards the elf that I saw earlier. I see this red lawn mower, and decide to practice some TK, and maybe do some flying after. I reach out with my mind, and I'm able to lock onto the lawnmower. I easily levitate it into the air. I hold out my hands in a wizardly kind of way. pretending to direct the hovering lawnmower using my hands.

I walk up to the elf, the lawnmower floating before me, and say." Greetings! As you can see, I'm a very powerful wizard." (I've always wanted to play the all powerful wizard in a fantasy realm Lucid.)

But just then, the dream fades and is gone.

This was one of my favorite Lucids ever. Not because of anything that happened in it. But just because of the pure magical feeling of being in that world.

Missed opportunity
Wednesday/July/9/2008
Failed to believe reality check.

I was having a strange dream about my house being on some body of water and was sinking. the water was rising above the windowsills. I have a false awakening, and wake up in bed at home. I get up to use the bathroom, and while in the bathroom I do a random RC like I always do, and I can breath. There is no resistance at all. This confuses me because I just woke up and don't think I'm dreaming. I do it again and can still breath. At this point I really want to believe it's a dream but I just can't believe it.

I look around the bathroom, and everything just feels too real. I think, "is there some other RC I can do to confirm it." I remember to try pushing my finger through my hand, so I try it. My hands feel really numb and tingly for some reason. (My real hands were probably falling asleep.) I push my finger into the palm of my hand, but it won't go through. I remember that sometimes it takes a minute and I have to really push hard. So I push hard and twist it back and forth. It feels like it's about to slide through, and I'm almost convinced I'm dreaming. But just then I get distracted and have a strong urge to go out into the living room.

I go out there and I notice something strange with the sliding door. I mess with the lock, and slide the door open. I only opened it a little bit, but my dog goes running outside. She does not have her fence collar on, or her normal collar with identification tag either. she takes off running, and I go after her. I yell at her to stop and come back, but she doesn't listen. I see her run out in front of a bunch of cars.

Then I become partially Lucid, because I'm so horrified seeing her run out into traffic that I can't believe this is really happening. I decide it's not real and turn away, deciding to ignore it and go back into the house.

As soon as I get back into the house I wake up. So I'm not sure if that was about to turn into a full blown Lucid or not.

Sort of Lucid
It all started when I was high up on this rock formation jutting up out of a lake. The surrounding landscape was just amazing. I had this beautiful sword, there was something about it, not sure how to describe it. But high up on my rocky perch I started doing this sword dance, swinging and twirling it around like an expert. And I was spinning and dancing around.

During this dance I went into a meditative state, falling into myself and gradually feeling as if I had become one with my environment. At some point I suddenly became aware. This is strange and hard to describe. I wasn't actually aware that I was dreaming, but it was basically the same thing. I was even thinking of myself as Lucid while in the dream. But I believed myself to still be in the waking world.

I dive head first off my rocky perch, doing several somersaults and landing and leaping off other rocky outcroppings, until finally making it to the waters of the lake.
I hit the lake on my feet at a run, and I run across the surface of the water until I cross the entire lake without getting wet at all.

There is a building I enter, it has many corridors and high ceilings. I run up the walls, and crawl across the ceilings. And I fly down the corridors. At one point while flying down a long hall, I contemplate my Lucidity. I think about how I am fully Lucid, and have control of this environment and how cool it is to be Lucid in the waking world.

At this point I think maybe I'm actually dreaming, and how awful it would be to wake up from this. I then make the conscious decision to keep believing I'm in the waking world, because, I don't want it to be a dream, and then have to wake up from it. (It was actually more fun thinking I was awake anyway, because it was exactly the same as being in a Lucid Dream.)

There are people in the building, and I tell them that I have discovered these crazy abilities because I have become Lucid, and I've come to understand the relationship between my mind and the surrounding environment. And I tell them that I can now even walk on water. I invite them to come and see me run across the lake.

I go outside, and a crowed begins to gather. Now I begin to doubt myself, thinking that now with an audience I will probably just sink into the lake. But I still have my sword, and I take a moment to fall back into my sword dance/meditation. I return to that feeling of oneness, and I know that I am in complete control. I have the world at my finger tips. I take off with a burst of energy, literally skipping over the surface of the lake. I make several trips across and around the lake before finally waking up.

This was a really long dream. There was more that I did not describe but that was the basic outline of what happened.

I've been getting frustrated working as hard as I have to get Lucid and not getting any Lucids over the last week. I think Junes dry spell is still having an effect on me. I was almost in give up mode last night. I think that's what triggered that last dream.
Though my efforts have not be futile. My recall has just been amazing. I've been remembering most of them easy, and they have been very vivid, and very surreal.
So I can't complain. even without Lucidity my dreams have been fun.

I had a very surprising discussion with an intelligent DC in a none Lucid last night. She could see into my mind, and was giving me advice about myself and my life. I can't even really describe what happened well, it was a very odd experience.

A Lucid Dream
Sunday/July/20/2008
Lucid Dream # 44 of 2008
Best dreamsign recognized
No reality check needed
at the cabin

I was having a crazy adventure dream. It was "Raiders Of The Lost Arch"/"Tomb Raider style" Not going to go into all the detail before getting Lucid. But there was this ancient structure like a pyramid. Only it was shaped more like a cylinder. It was buried, but I triggered some kind of mechanism that made it rise from the earth. There were other people involved. Once inside there was much adventure involving deadly traps, dark corridors, and searching for some particular artifact.

Eventually I have the treasure and I escape the place. I get in a van and I'm taking the artifact someplace. My driving is strange. It's like I'm sitting in the back seat leaning over the front seat trying to steer. I'm having a very difficult time driving this way. i can barley control the van. I'm going out of my lane and through on coming traffic, but I manage to get back in my lane.

after a while of struggling with the van, the van transforms into my bike.(I think it was the leaning forward position I was in that caused this.) I'm riding my bike as fast as a car, and the road becomes hilly. Not high hills, but series of steep rolling small hills.

when I reach the top of one of these hills I pull up on the handle bars and catch air. But I keep rising higher and higher. I'm a little scared at first because I'm getting too high. Then....Lucidity washes over me. "This is a dream!" I no longer have the bike.(not sure what happened to it.) But I begin to fly down to the ground. But the land is pretty barren. It's mostly desert as far as I can see. But it's a beautiful orange rocky desert, with interesting rock formations.

Scattered here and there, seemingly many miles apart, are little groups of buildings that are kind of like farms. I change my mind about landing since there isn't much in the area, and I start to rise higher, and higher, until more of the landscape comes into view. off in the distance I can see water, like a lake or something.

I begin flying towards one of these little groups of buildings to see what I can find to get into. Flying is so easy in this dream. I don't even have to consciously control my flight. I just automatically move in the direction I decide to go. As I get closer to the buildings I can see what look like a herd of black and white cows along the ground.

I then start to think about waking up. And as soon as I think about it, I wonder if the thought will make me wake up. I watch to see if the dream fades, then the scene flickers off for a brief second like an electronic image, then comes back stable. I think about trying some techniques to stay in the dream. So I pinch my nose and I can breath!... Oops, wrong technique lol. Then I remember. "Oh yeah." I start rubbing my hands together. It feels interesting, realistic, but I'm doubtful that this could keep me in the dream.

I continue my flight towards the buildings. I'm almost over them, and getting ready to land on one of the roof tops when I do wake up.

Partial Lucidity
Monday/July/21/2008
at the cabin

I'm near the ocean and I decide to jump in for a swim. I do, but I immediately get sucked away by currents. Before I know it there is no land in sight, and I have no idea which way to swim to find land. I start to get scared when I become aware that the ocean is symbolic for a certain stage of sleep. And the way I got sucked out to sea, is kind of like the wooshing away feeling you can get when WILDing. And then just as quickly the currents woosh me back to shore, and another scene. though I don't remember what happened next, I may have woken up.

Todays nap WILD
I'm able to keep my mind completely quiet, thinking no words. I start to get what I think of as sound impressions. (when sounds begin to enter my mind, but they are not quite sounds that I can hear yet. I feel them more then hear them. It's strange being able to feel sounds, but that's the only way I can describe it.) I'm hearing/feeling the sound of saloon style piano playing. And even as I listen, I'm thinking how strange it is that I'm feeling the sound of the piano more than hearing it. But I can feel every note. Every now and then I hear different voices saying short random sentences.

The dream begins to open up to me, and I feel as if I'm smoothly stepping into another world. At this point I become strangely emotionally moved. I'm WILDing, and the feeling of closing my eyes and stepping away into another world has me feeling so happy that I feel like crying. It's hard to describe what I see as the dream begins to open up. But I see kind of a rectangular light in the darkness, the light is a doorway into the dream world. And the darkness is kind of solid, and I can walk toward the door. I make my way to it, but I think my emotions become too strong causing me to waken.

Yesterday I had some really cool Batman HI. They were like short little bad ass adventure dreams. Though I wasn't Lucid through most of it.

That was a great movie.

A Lucid Dream
Friday/July/25/2008
Lucid Dream # 45 of 2008
Malfunctioning device noticed
Reality check induced Lucidity

I think it started out as a false awakening because the first thing I remember is coming out of the bathroom of my house. There is something wrong with my vision, everything is blurry. I see what looks like the shape of a person sitting at the kitchen table. I struggle to see who it is, and I decide it's an old friend of mine named Steve.

As soon as I decide it's Steve he stands up and walks in my direction and says hi to me. Yup it's Steve I recognize his voice, but his hair is different. He goes into the living room, and so do I. My vision clears up somewhere around here but it seems dark still, so I go to turn on the light.

I flip the light switch but the light does not come on. Jokeingly, I say, "Hey Steve, the lights not working. I better do a reality check!" I Pinch my nose and I can breath!
It's like my nose is a little stuffed up but I can breath through it.( My nose has been getting stuffed up a little when I sleep lately.) I do it a couple of times, and I can breath each time. I say, " Steve, I think this may be a dream." But, other than the fact that Steve is there, the dream looks and feels very real. (I hate trying to get Lucid When dreaming I'm in my house. It's just too familiar of a place.)

I decide to try the light switch again. I flip it up and down about four times really fast, and nothing happens. I now decide it has to be a dream!, But I'm still only about 99% convinced. There is still a slight doubt. But at this point a start to feel like I'm waking up, and I think, " Crap, getting Lucid again and about to lose it. I actual feel my body roll over in bed, even though I'm still in the dream standing in the room. (It's a very strange sensation. I'm not even sure if I actually rolled over in bed while still sleeping, or if I just dreamed that sensation.)

But then I wake up frustrated. But... I'm not sure if I actually woke up for a second and then fell right back to sleep and reentered the dream, or if a had a false awakening. But, momentarily, I find myself back in the same room with Steve, no longer Lucid. We are going through my DVD collection looking for something to watch, When I Pinch my nose and I can Breath! ( I'm not even sure why I did it, I think I may have sort of remembered the previous events, and needed to do an RC.

Again, it's so real that I'm not 100% positive. But I decide I'm going to believe the RC, because I can remember all the times I didn't believe it, and it was. I decide I had better hurry up and get out of this house. Maybe if I get out of here it will be easier to believe. I walk out of the room and hurry out the front door.

I decide I want to go around the back, but first, I leap into the air and begin to fly...
Now there is no longer any doubt at all. If I can fly, I know it's a dream! I begin flapping my arms to gain altitude . It works really well and I laugh at myself for flapping my arms like a beginner. But I decide why knock it if it's working? So I keep doing it for a little bit. But after a few moments I quit the arm flapping and fly normal.

I fly around the back of the house and I can see my sister an Mom sitting out on the deck. The deck is on the upper level of the house so it's pretty high up. I fly across the back yard and I'm about eye level with them. I say to my sister. "This is a dream! Pinch your nose and see if you can breath!" I remember how in previous Lucids people have not listened when I tell them to pinch their nose. This time is no different, she just stares at me. I take this to mean that she does not believe me.

I fly up onto the deck. but I don't land. I just hover there in front of my sister. I ask, "How do you think I can be floating in the air like this?" She gets a confused look and says. "I don't know, the wind maybe?" I find this answer to be very funny.(there isn't even any wind.) And I ask," How could the wind possibly be holding me in the air?"

I don't wait for an answer though. I levitate up and stand on the railing of the deck with my back to the drop below. I do a back flip off the deck and fly off across the yard. I think about flying higher and away from there. But I just play around there. Doing several back flips off the deck, and flying around the yard. I hear my sister ask my Mom. " What do you think about what Caradon is talking about?" " I think It's just wonderful." I hear my mom respond. Their conversation amuses me, and I just continue playing around enjoying myself for a little longer before waking up.

A Lucid Dream
Sunday/July/27/2008
Lucid Dream # 46 of 2008
Best dreamsign recognized
Reality check induced Lucidity

The first thing that I remember is that I have this little BMX bike. I'm riding it on a sidewalk along a road, and going up a big hill. The hill is actually a bridge that goes over a highway or something. The hill is pretty steep and I'm having trouble. My legs seem barely strong enough to turn the peddles. So I climb slowly, inch, by inch.
( This is reminiscent of riding up steep mountain trails in Colorado.)

I finally make it to the top, but my front tire hits a pot hole or something. The bike flips over forwards sending me over the handle bars. I lie face first on the ground for a moment with the bike standing upside down on top of me. My step dad and my Mom are at the top of the hill. My step Dad says. "Your getting to old to be doing that." "Nonsense." I reply, as I get up and back on the bike."I think I should be wearing a helmet though."

At the same time I say that, I take off dashing down the opposite side of the hill.
Now, the down side is covered in a thin layer of snow, and the terrain ahead is a little hard to see. Like the sun is going down and the way ahead looks smooth when I know it's not.

I decide to just brave it and bomb the hill as fast as I can. I get a lot of speed and the sidewalk begins to turn to the right, in a gradual curve. I'm going so fast that as I try to make the curve, the bike begins to slide sideways. But not to the point where I'm out of control. I drift smoothly around the curve.

I then come to a cross street, but there is snow piled up across the sidewalk from a plow going through. I pull up on the handlebars and smoothly hop the snow pile, plunging into the snow on the other side and continuing my race. Thrilled at that little jump I want to jump some more.

I'm beyond the hill now, but I still have my speed. The road ahead suddenly has these small rolling hills like in a the Lucid I had last Sunday. I decide I'm going to try and jump the space between two of the hills, using the opposite side of the second hill as a landing ramp.

I hit the first hill and pull up on the handle bars as hard as I can. I catch air big time, And shout. "This is a dream!" But for some reason full Lucidity does not wash over me the way it normally does in this situation. I repeat it several times trying to let myself become fully Lucid. I finally just decide to do a reality check to be sure. I pinch my nose and I can breath!.

Now fully Lucid I lose the bike somehow. And for some reason I think this is my second Lucid of the night. ( I either did not recall one of them. Or I was just thinking that, because my last Lucid was so recent, and I was thinking it was the same day.)

I begin flying back towards where my Mom and step Dad are. The scene has changed a little, it's kind of strange. There is a ceiling above me like I'm indoors, and outdoors, at the same time. The ceiling is pretty high though and I fly along it occasionally stopping on it, and sticking to it, hanging upside down and looking around.

Eventually I make it back to Mom and Step dad. They are off to the side of the bridge in a wide open area that has huge walls on each side. There is a tall tree that has grown up to the ceiling so that its top most branches are pushed up against it and bent over. I fly into the branches, pushing through them as I make my way along the ceiling.

I yell down to Mom and step Dad."Look at me, this is a dream!" I then land on one of the walls, which are far shorter than the ceiling, but still quite tall. Deciding to show off, I leap off the wall doing a long drawn out flip across the distance to the wall on the opposite side of the area, landing on my feet atop it.

I hear my step Dad say,"Not bad, not bad at all." I smile, and a second later, the dream fades and I wake.

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I slept from 2:30 am to 5:00 am. Got up and took the dogs walking as the sun came up.(dog sitting parents dog for a few days while they are out of town.) Went back to sleep at 8:00 am and slept until 1:00 pm. This was the last dream before I woke.