Thread: Caradon's Lucid Dreams

A Lucid Dream
Sunday/October/4/2009
Lucid Dream # 42 of 2009
An in dream WILD

This is a another strange one. When I woke up I thought that I had actually WILDed. but after a few moments the first part of the dream came back to me. I'm a Little confused about how it started, but I'll try and describe it as best I can.

The first part of the dream I was at home playing some motorcycle racing video game. I remember having a hard time controlling the motorcycle, then losing control of it and crashing.

Next thing I know I'm trying to WILD. I'm not exactly sure if I actually woke up first. Because I don't actually remember stopping what I was doing in the dream and laying down. But the next thing I know I'm laying in bed trying to WILD. I have a shiny piece of metal in my hand, and I decide I want to make the metal into a sword.
I don't even know how I am able to do this, but I simply look at the metal an form it.
The metal stretches and grows, forming into a long blade. And I now have a beautiful sword. I get out of bed, and I'm standing in my room swinging the sword around.

I then decide that I want a warriors bow. I look at the sword, and I am able to will it to slowly morph into a bow. It's so weird, because it's like I am able to sculpt it. I don't even know how to describe it. I just suddenly knew how to do it, and the metal just conformed to my thoughts, molding into what I wanted. The bow is a metal as shiny as the sword was, and there is a carving of some kind of bird of prey on it. Just like I wanted. I turn it this way and that examining it in fascination. I pull the string back, and it's so taught that I can barely pull it back. But after some struggling I manage it. And I think that this will be a very powerful bow. I feel the end of it touch my leg, and I marvel at how real and solid it feels. But I know it's just a dream bow, and should not be solid at all. I hold up the bow with my right hand, and sweep my left arm across. My arm passes right through the bow as if it is not even there. But then using my left hand I grasp it at the same spot my arm just passed through, and it is now as solid as real life.

I start walking around thinking wow, I'm having a really successful WILD here, and I wonder why I'm not waking up. Now I am expecting to wake up any moment, and I just kind of walk around waiting for it to happen. And it shortly does.




In my nap I had some kind of semi Lucid that I don't recall very well. But I know that Moonbeam was there. And I remember crawling around on the walls like Spider-Man. I'm not sure if I was actually Lucid, But I know Lucid Dreaming was the topic of the dream.

So, you WILD'ed in your dream?

I went to sleep in a dream, and had an extremely vivid lucid dream, then woke up from that dream, and was back in the original dream.

I wonder what would happen if I fell asleep within a dream within a dream?

I award you 2 skill points for Weaponscrafting!

Just caught up on your journal. Nice work with the sword. I'm hanging out for a cool lucid experience like that.

Jeez I've had to re-evaluate my reality test ritual though. Check out my latest journal entry. What a debacle. The digital watch test finally failed. I've changed back to my LED Galaxy watch (the one in my signature video). Hopefully this will be a lot more difficult for my brain to replicate I just can't believe the numbers remained stable like that.

Originally Posted by WakingNomad

So, you WILD'ed in your dream?

yeah, That's basically what happened.

I went to sleep in a dream, and had an extremely vivid lucid dream, then woke up from that dream, and was back in the original dream.

I did that recently but the lucid part was very short.

I wonder what would happen if I fell asleep within a dream within a dream?

That would be weird.

I award you 2 skill points for Weaponscrafting!

Thanks. That was pretty fun, and not the kind of dream control I'm used to having.

Originally Posted by DreamQueen

Just caught up on your journal. Nice work with the sword. I'm hanging out for a cool lucid experience like that.

Thanks.

Jeez I've had to re-evaluate my reality test ritual though. Check out my latest journal entry. What a debacle. The digital watch test finally failed. I've changed back to my LED Galaxy watch (the one in my signature video). Hopefully this will be a lot more difficult for my brain to replicate I just can't believe the numbers remained stable like that.

That sucks that that started happening with your watch. I just took a quick peek in there and saw that you made it work again. That's cool. I'm going to catch up on your journal more fully tomorrow. (Which will be Monday. )

A Lucid Dream
Saturday/October/10/2009
Lucid Dream # 43 of 2009
Best dreamsign recognized
No reality check needed

I'm outside walking. I'm on my way back to a house where an earlier part of the dream took place. I start to run. I am able to run really fast. Up ahead is a series of three small hills covered in grass. They are not much more than mounds actually. Each one is just a few feet high. But the distance between the first one and the third one is pretty good. I decide I'm going to make a leap off the first one, and try to come down the back side of the third one.

I run up the first mound then leap into the air, giving it with everything that I have. I guess I had a lot because I go soaring into the sky. Instantly Lucidity washes over me, and I'm like woo hoo! This is a dream! There are houses below, and I'm at a pretty good height. I fly for some time, but it's not like I'm making myself fly. It's more like the momentum from my leap is carrying me. I have my arms out like wings, and I'm just gliding on the wind. It feels really good, and I'm thrilled to be finally getting Lucid after working at It so hard all week.

Lucidity wavers a little as I see the house I was originally on my way to. The front door has a swinging door like they have on the entrance to restaurant kitchens. I dive bomb to the door, slamming into it and knocking it open. I fly into the living room, then spin around and hit the couch with force, sitting down perfectly and knocking the couch up against the wall. There is someone on the couch next to me that I seems to
be familiar to me. Then I wake.

Other points of interest from last night.

-I'm in a restaurant eating. Through a nearby window I can see the parking area, and where my car is. I see some crazy driver in a big truck start crashing into my car repeatedly until my car is just totaled. Then a tow truck pulls up and drags my car away. I'm like wtf is going on. After I see my car is gone I think to myself that that was so weird that I should have done a reality check. But don't do one now, thinking that I already missed my chance. (I've done that several times the last couple of days. stupid.)

-I'm walking through the parking lot of my work. On my way into the building, a little red car about runs me down. I jump straight up into the air, and the car passes underneath me. I land perfectly on the opposite side of the car. I then go into work and tell some people about what just happened. But when I tell the story, I'm aware that when I was jumping over the car, I was dreaming. But I decide to leave out that little detail in the telling.

A Lucid Dream
Sunday/October/11/2009
Lucid Dream # 44 of 2009
Bathroom dreamsign recognized
Reality check induced Lucidity


False awakening
I wake up and get out of bed. I go into the kitchen to get a glass of water. But before I get the water, I hear a womans voice calling my name. What the hell is that? I leave the kitchen and walk towards the bathroom. (Unsure if I was going there to look for the woman, or if it was because I needed to use it.) I open the door to the bathroom. It's kind of dark but I can See a little. There is a woman standing in front of the toilet with her pants down. "What are you doing in my bathroom!?" I ask. "And for that matter, why are you pissing standing up?" Then I get a better look, and I can see that this woman has a dick. This is too weird now. I pinch my nose and I can breath easily.

Lucid right away, I leave the bathroom. I walk upstairs. As I do, I try to think of things to do. Can't really think of much. But I remember to try rubbing my hands together. I rub them together and it feels weird to me, just because of how normal it feels. I walk into the living room while rubbing my hands. I see that my mom is sleeping on the couch. (Weird.) Well, she isn't really sleeping, I can see that her eyes are open and she is watching me. I pinch my nose again, and I can still breath easy. (It's actually weird that I can breath so easy, because when I wake up my nose is stuffed up.)

These FA's are so weird. I just kind of slowly walk around the living room tripping out. Well, This is going to be an exciting Lucid to read about, I think to myself. Just wandering around my house in a daze. But then I decide I don't care. I'm in a dream, and I'm Lucid. That's all that matters to me. I see that my mom is still watching me. I can tell that she is getting weirded out by the way I'm acting. She starts mumbling something to herself that I can't understand. But I think I catch her say, "What is he going to do?" " I know that this is a dream I say to her." I then start to walk out to the front porch. But just then I notice another stairway leading to another upper level that does not exist. I decide to go up the stairs and see what's up there. Half way up the stairs I start to worry about waking up, and I think this caused it to happen.

After that I have a hard time getting back to sleep. Several times I start to fall asleep, enter a new dream and become spontaneously Lucid a few moments into the dream. This causes me to wake up. It takes about three hours for me to properly get to sleep again.

That's funny that you were concerned about if your DJ entry was going to be an interesting read. One of my best lucid dreams, I was walking around touching things in a house. It was so amazingly realistic feeling.

Here's a synchro: I just had a very long chat with a transgender relative of mine the night before last about being transgender.

Originally Posted by WakingNomad

That's funny that you were concerned about if your DJ entry was going to be an interesting read.

A lot of times when I'm in the dream I start thinking about how I'm going to describe certain things in my journal. So I guess I just started thinking about it.

One of my best lucid dreams, I was walking around touching things in a house. It was so amazingly realistic feeling.

I've done that a few times too, It is really cool.

Here's a synchro: I just had a very long chat with a transgender relative of mine the night before last about being transgender.

Interesting. I don't even know anyone like that. It seemed pretty random.

Originally Posted by Caradon

A lot of times when I'm in the dream I start thinking about how I'm going to describe certain things in my journal. So I guess I just started thinking about it.


I've done that a few times too, It is really cool.

Interesting. I don't even know anyone like that. It seemed pretty random.

Everything is as random as the clouds in the sky.

Originally Posted by Caradon

(It's actually weird that I can breath so easy, because when I wake up my nose is stuffed up.)

I find this really interesting.

It makes you wonder: When you do the nose-plug RC, is the air we're perceiving ourselves breathing real? Is it the actual air that our waking world bodies are breathing, or is it just another illusion - fake air brought upon by the expectation that we would be able to breathe in this assumed (even if only subconsciously) dream?

If the latter is true, wouldn't the nose-plug RC be just as prone to failure as any other fallible reality check?

Hmmm...

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

I find this really interesting.

It makes you wonder: When you do the nose-plug RC, is the air we're perceiving ourselves breathing real? Is it the actual air that our waking world bodies are breathing, or is it just another illusion - fake air brought upon by the expectation that we would be able to breathe in this assumed (even if only subconsciously) dream?

That's a tricky question. I think it can probably work both ways.

If the latter is true, wouldn't the nose-plug RC be just as prone to failure as any other fallible reality check?

Hmmm...

Yes, your right about that. The nose-plug RC sure is prone to failure. I've had lots of problems with it over the last year. So much so that for a while I quit doing them altogether. The first time it failed on me was during a bear attack dream of all things.

For a while there I was having such success with doing random nose reality checks in dreams, that I just started doing excessive amounts of them every day. I believe It's this excessive RCing that caused them to start failing on me. That last Lucid was actually the first reality check induced Lucid that I've had in a while. I've been trying to use my watch to RC, but I hardly ever remember to look at my watch in dreams. So I've started doing both nose RC, and watch RC together. The problem, is that I've so thouroghly trained myself on the nose-plug, that in my dreams when I want to check if I'm dreaming, my first instinct is to always reach up and pinch my nose. No matter how many watch RC's I do during the day.

Luckily, I don't always have to rely on those kind's of RC's to get Lucid, but they can sure help. Have to find the medium ground somehow. Do enough to remember them in the dream, but not so many that they start to fail on you.

Originally Posted by Caradon

After I see my car is gone I think to myself that that was so weird that I should have done a reality check. But don't do one now, thinking that I already missed my chance. (I've done that several times the last couple of days. stupid.)

Argh! This happens to me IRL sometimes but I've learned it's never too late to do a reality test. Check out this...

Originally Posted by DreamQueen

Next thing I know I’m up out of bed and I'm walking through to where my computer is to switch it on. However much to my annoyance somebody has messed with my computer bigtime. There’s all these weird things plugged into it and the monitor has been shifted to a ridiculous position where I can only see the top half of it. I start trying to get everything back to the way it was. After a short while I think ‘Damn, I should have done a reality test to this. I’ve taken far too long about it. If I was dreaming I would have moved on by now. Oh well, I’ll do one anyway even though it’s really too late to say I got this cue. I’m going to have to sharpen up my reality testing though.’

I look at my watch. The numbers are going completely mental.

I of course went on to have a lucid dream!

Originally Posted by Caradon

Well, This is going to be an exciting Lucid to read about, I think to myself. Just wandering around my house in a daze. But then I decide I don't care. I'm in a dream, and I'm Lucid. That's all that matters to me.

This made me lol! I've had similar thoughts in dreams, like, 'Jeeze I better quickly do something so I've got something to write about' hehe But you're right, just being lucid is cool. In fact one of the coolest things I've ever done in a lucid dream was simply to stand and look at my dreamscape. It was amazing. Too often we think we have to carry out behaviours that are impossible in the waking world but it can be just as amazing to just appreciate the dream environment as that is when it becomes most vivid and clear.

Originally Posted by Caradon

The nose-plug RC sure is prone to failure. I've had lots of problems with it over the last year. So much so that for a while I quit doing them altogether. The first time it failed on me was during a bear attack dream of all things.

For a while there I was having such success with doing random nose reality checks in dreams, that I just started doing excessive amounts of them every day. I believe It's this excessive RCing that caused them to start failing on me. That last Lucid was actually the first reality check induced Lucid that I've had in a while. I've been trying to use my watch to RC, but I hardly ever remember to look at my watch in dreams. So I've started doing both nose RC, and watch RC together. The problem, is that I've so thouroghly trained myself on the nose-plug, that in my dreams when I want to check if I'm dreaming, my first instinct is to always reach up and pinch my nose. No matter how many watch RC's I do during the day.

Luckily, I don't always have to rely on those kind's of RC's to get Lucid, but they can sure help. Have to find the medium ground somehow. Do enough to remember them in the dream, but not so many that they start to fail on you.

Yep, the nose plug test failed me on the 14th February of this year.

Originally Posted by DreamQueen

So I do the nose pinch test...

I remind myself to pay careful attention as I pinch my nose and try to breathe. Unfortunately even though I am dreaming I cannot breathe at all. Each time I pinch my nose my airway completely blocks off just like when I do this in RL. I try a couple of times just as I always do but because I cannot breathe I do not become lucid. I just decide that I'm doing a RC in RL.

After that I had to alter my reality test routine. That's when I switched to using a digital watch. It took me twenty-one days to get lucid again. Like you, I had been so used to reaching automatically for my nose when I needed to do a RT. I came to the exact same conclusion that you did, which was that my brain had learned to simulate it. I even worked out how many nose pinch tests I'd probably performed based on how long I'd been using it and the average number of RTs I did per day. I can't remember exactly the number I calculated it to be but I know it was at least a thousand. My brain was just doing what the human brain is so good at: learning and adapting.

I actually gave up the nose pinch test altogether and haven't done it since 14th Feb. I found I just needed to break the habit altogether or I'd keep reverting back to it in dreams.

Anyway, still loving your journal. I love sitting down to read your latest dream. It always puts a on my face and inspires me to get lucid again. (I got lucid twice last night but both were fizzers. About to go write them up anyway)

Originally Posted by DreamQueen

Argh! This happens to me IRL sometimes but I've learned it's never too late to do a reality test. Check out this...

You're right. It never is too late to do one. That's just stupid dream thinking on my part. I've been in the process of getting my motivation back. I think I've pretty much gotten over the things that have been distracting me, and causing such a bad year for me. That stuff happening in my dreams is just part of the process of getting my Lucids going again. It sucks when you miss out on an opportunity, but that just keeps me motivated knowing I'm right on the edge of Lucidity like that.

I of course went on to have a lucid dream!

Nice work with that. The times it happened to me I woke up pretty quickly after it happened anyway, so it didn't matter much.

This made me lol! I've had similar thoughts in dreams, like, 'Jeeze I better quickly do something so I've got something to write about' hehe But you're right, just being lucid is cool. In fact one of the coolest things I've ever done in a lucid dream was simply to stand and look at my dreamscape. It was amazing. Too often we think we have to carry out behaviours that are impossible in the waking world but it can be just as amazing to just appreciate the dream environment as that is when it becomes most vivid and clear.

Yeah, I just want to be Lucid. It's great when spectacular things happen, but sometimes it's just enough to know that I'm in a place where I can do anything I want. Just having that feeling is magical enough, even if you don't do anything.

Yep, the nose plug test failed me on the 14th February of this year.


After that I had to alter my reality test routine. That's when I switched to using a digital watch. It took me twenty-one days to get lucid again. Like you, I had been so used to reaching automatically for my nose when I needed to do a RT. I came to the exact same conclusion that you did, which was that my brain had learned to simulate it. I even worked out how many nose pinch tests I'd probably performed based on how long I'd been using it and the average number of RTs I did per day. I can't remember exactly the number I calculated it to be but I know it was at least a thousand. My brain was just doing what the human brain is so good at: learning and adapting.

I actually gave up the nose pinch test altogether and haven't done it since 14th Feb. I found I just needed to break the habit altogether or I'd keep reverting back to it in dreams.

Well I was using it successfully for more than a year before it ever failed on me. That's a lot of deprogramming to do. You do really well with the watch RC. I've been working with it for a year, and only used it in dreams a couple of times. I'm not going to give up on it though. But I've decided I'm not going to give up on the nose RC either. It will probably always be my favorite RC. As long as I don't over do them they will work fine. Anyway, I don't want to rely too heavily on RC's to get Lucid. I like it better when I get Lucid without them. I never even used them at all until reading about the nose plug here at DV, I really wanted to try that.

Anyway, still loving your journal. I love sitting down to read your latest dream. It always puts a on my face and inspires me to get lucid again. (I got lucid twice last night but both were fizzers. About to go write them up anyway)

Thanks. I always enjoy seeing your nice comments.

I had some brief Lucidity yesterday night too. But it was in an emberrasing situation that I'm not going to mention.

Last night in a dream I was talking to someone about Lucid Dreaming. It probably could have turned Lucid, but the conversation was interupted and I was unable to get beck to it.

Damn choppy recall last night. I stayed up too late again, and only slept about two hours. I had a lot of dreams in such a short time, but I can only remember bit's and pieces of them.

At one point I got Lucid spontaneously. I remember the moment Lucidity washed over me pretty well. I almost lost it for a second, nearly changing my mind. But then was like, yes I'm dreaming! That moment felt really good, but I have no clue what happened next. I tried hard to bring the rest of it back, but I could not recover it.

A Lucid Dream
Sunday/October/18/2009
Lucid Dream # 45 of 2009
Unsure how to classify Lucidity trigger.

This is the first recalled dream of the night, and it starts out with some weird stuff that is difficult to describe. I'm not exactly sure what the heck was going on actually. But the first thing I remember is that I'm with Chief, from "Battlestar Galactica." We are in some place, like some kind of corporate office building or something. We are undercover, pretending like we are supposed to be there, but we are not. We are actually on some kind of mission to get something that is being held secret by the corporation. I'm not even sure what this is. Chief knows more about it than I do, and I'm just following his lead, and helping him out.

We end up tricking some woman that works there into giving us access to some safe like thing on a wall. The chief and I begin trying to break into this safe. But it turns out that the woman was onto us, and unknown to us, she has gone to alerted security. Before we can get the safe opened, security shows up and has surrounded us.

Scene shifts. We have now been arrested and are in court. We have been found guilty of crimes against this corporation. Scene shifts again.

We have gotten away somehow and there is lot of really weird images in my mind about us trying to hide from those who want to capture us. Until finally the dream stabilizes into a scene where we are hiding in some house.

But those who want us captured have found out where we are hiding. I see a bunch of cars pull up in front of the house, and I make a run for the back door. But as I open the door, I see that an agent already has already came around back to block our escape. I run out the door anyway. I attack the agent, punching him in the nose as hard as I can, several times. This doesn't do much, but his head snaps back when I punch him, and he stumbles backwards just a little. But it's enough for me to get by him, and I make a run for it.

I run across the yard, but just then a bunch more cars pull up, blocking my path. I run right at the cars, then jump up and slide across the hood of one of them, which is a fancy sports car.( My slide across the hood is like something I think I have seen in a TV show before. Possibly "The Dukes of Hazard." )

Once on the opposite side of the cars, I give the driver the thumbs up signal, because I'm feeling cool about my smooth slide, and I like his car.

It's about this point that I'm aware that I'm dreaming. But It's that natural type of Lucidity that I get sometimes when I'm doing well with my awareness work. There is no sudden rush of realization, it's as if I have been Lucid all along. A large group of men carrying shot guns have exited the cars and are about to give chase. Even though my Lucidity level still seems kind of low, I have no fear of these people, and I find much humor in there intent to try and capture me.

But I decide to turn and run anyway. Wanting to turn this into a fun chase, and play with these guys. I run out onto a wide many Lane freeway. As I do, my Lucidity level becomes higher, as I know I do not have to fear being run over by traffic. I can see semi-trucks coming down the road, I run towards them planning to try and grab onto the side of one of them, and pull myself to the top of it. Behind me, I can hear shot guns being fired. I want to get to the trucks before the men overcome me. Not so much because of wanting to get away, but because I think it will be really fun to be running across the top of moving semi-trucks, while being fired upon by pursuers.

But now I get that slow dream running that I almost never get anymore. (Especially in Lucids.) And I can't get to the trucks before they pass. But no worries. After the trucks pass, there is now a train coming! Perfect. This will be way cooler than running on trucks. Excited about the train, I no longer have the slow dream running. The train is moving fast. I run right up to it, grabbing a hold of a ladder that is on the side of one of the cars. I climb up, and get onto the top of the car. My pursuers are firing their shotguns as I start making my way along the train. But then the dream fades to black, and I'm awake laying there with eyes still closed, I try to pull myself back into it, but to no avail.

A Lucid Dream
Monday/October/19/2009
Lucid Dream # 46 of 2009
Best dreamsign recognized
No reality check needed

I decided to risk a short WBTB, so I did a five minute one. This is the dream I had immediately afterwords

This actually starts out as a roller blading dream. I'm at the park preserve racing really fast on the paved trails. There are other people roller blading on the trails too, but they are going too slow, and are getting in my way. I get going so fast that I can't make the curves, and I keep going off the trail into the grass.

Next thing I remember, I'm no longer on roller blades, but riding my mountain bike. I'm at the top of a really steep forested hill, with a narrow dirt trail going down the side of it. I start down the trail, it's slightly sandy. I try to use my brakes to slow my progress, but the brakes are not working well. I pick up more and more speed. I come to a banked curve in the trail. I lean into it as hard as I can, but my speed is so great that I ride up the side of the embankment, then fly off the back side of it, shooting high into the air.

"Woo hoo, this is a dream!" I gain such a great altitude, it's amazing. The trees are so far below. I think about how I was just talking to Oneironaut about this kind of experience in my journal. The moment feels so good. I let my bike fall away from me, and I begin a backwards end over end free fall back to the ground. I fall a ways, But I wake before making to the ground.

A Lucid Dream
Thursday/October/22/2009
Lucid Dream # 47 of 2009
Best dreamsign recognized
No reality check needed

The first thing I remember is that I'm driving my car. I know that there was more before this, but I could not bring the rest back. I make a right turn, and I'm now driving down a paved park trail. I have to swerve around some woman that is walking down the trail. The trail makes another right turn, then goes right up the side of a tall building. I seem to be in a hurry for some reason, and I drive right up the side of the building really fast. When I come to the top of the building, I don't stop, but going flying into the sky.

Somehow my car disappears, and it's just me flying into the air. At first I get a bit frightened, but then I realize I'm dreaming and it's all good. Thrilled, I decide to fly higher. But as I look up there are power-lines above me. I will fly up and around this last row of power-lines, then I will very high in the sky. I get past them, and now there are more power-lines above me. Oh yeah, I got the annoying power-line thing going, I think to myself. I've forgotten about that. I have not had that problem for a long time.

I continue to fly up through them, not really annoyed. I'm overjoyed to be Lucid, and in good humor. Far below there is some woman watching me. I think, that it's the same woman that I had passed earlier on the trail. In my thrilled frame of mind, I'm yelling all sorts of things down to her. I can't remember everything I said. Near by, I can see this telephone pole thing. It's actually a really tall wooden tower with power-lines connected to it, and stretching out in all directions.

I fly up onto the top of the tower. As I land, I yell a smart assed comment down to the woman. "I bet you have always wished you could walk up here!" But then the tower begins to tilt backwards. It's almost as if my weight is too much for it, and it starts to fall. I run upwards along a beam, as the thing is slanting and beginning to fall faster. I'm falling backwards too, and I get that weird feeling in my stomach, like when you go over a a hill real fast. But then I jump off backwards, flying into the air, and I watch as the entire contraption goes crashing to the ground.

Next I see a tall tree with lots of thin, overhanging branches. I dive for one of the branches, grabbing the end of it, and swinging towards the ground. the branch I'm swinging from becomes more like a long vine, and I swoop down along the ground, then continue arching upwards along the side of some building. I swing g all the way up to roof level with the building, then let go of the vine branch and land on my feet on the top of the building. After landing I abruptly wake up.

I got too caught up in the moment to think about my tasks.

A Lucid Dream
Sunday/October/25/2009
Lucid Dream # 48 of 2009
Lucidity trigger unknown

It starts out that I'm walking with my dog. My dog is off her leash, and running ahead. I keep calling for her to stop, and come back, but she keeps going. There is a couple of narrow streams, side by side, and beyond that, a river. There are some people unloading canoes by the river, and my dog jumps across the two narrow streams, wanting to go visit the people. I am able to jump across the streams and follow.

Once there, I can see that the people have a very large dog running loose. Their dog is damn near the size of a small horse. Crap, their dog and mine have faced off, and it looks as if their dog may attack mine. "Oh no you don't." I say, as I run up and wrap one arm around the big dogs neck. I don't know what exactly I'm going to do against this huge dog, but it is going to have to get through me before harming my dog. Fortunately, it turns out that this dog is friendly and is just playing around. I let go of the dog, and I hear a woman say. "I wonder how big this dog is going to get when it is fully grown?" It's not grown!? I reply. " No." She says. "We have only had the dog a short time, and when we got it, it was tiny. And it's taken just a few days for it to grow to this size." Now, we are no longer along side a river, but inside these peoples house. There is a bit more conversation that I don't remember very well. and I leave the house.

Outside, I am by the river again. My dog is no longer with me. I seem to have forgotten all about her as I head back. Now, there is a bridge crossing the river and I start making my way across it.

Some woman is now walking along with me. I don't know where she came from, It's as though she appeared out of thin air. But I don't even think about that as we have our conversation. Somewhere about here, as I'm walking and talking with this woman, I'm aware that this is a dream. It's that natural type of Lucidity again. there is no sudden rush of realization, It feels as if I have known all along. But my Lucidity level seems rather low. The woman, and I, have been discussing telekinesis. I don't remember everything about the conversation, but I remember telling her that I was pretty rusty with TK, and that I need to practice more, to get up to par with it. (I don't even remember what she looked like, but I get the feeling that she had dark hair.)

We have crossed the bridge, and are walking along the river on the opposite side. For some reason I know that there is stuff at the bottom of the river. I reach out with my mind, trying to use TK to pull something up from the bottom of the river. My first attempt fails. I'm lagging behind the woman a little, as I do this. I try again, concentrating real hard. I got something. I pull it across the surface of the water towards me. But I don't remember it actually rising up out of the water, it's more like I pulled the thing right out of the air. It's a small statue of a dragon. ( It looks much like one that I have in real life, only the dream one is kind of a strange shade of green.)

Once it's in my hands, I show it to the woman. "Look what I pulled up from the bottom of the river for you." I say, as I hand it over to her. " That's really cool." She says.

Suddenly we are no longer walking along a river, but are in the middle of a series of freeway lanes. It's a very complex maze of roads that would only be found in dreams.
I decide to play with TK on the cars. In a lane right beside us, there is a lot of oncoming traffic. I use TK on the next car coming towards me. I stop the car in it's tracks and push it backwards into the cars coming behind it. I keep pushing and pushing, and all the cars slam together and begin piling up in a large heap. I hear the woman gasp, and I can tell that she is concerned about the people in the cars. "Don't worry," I say to her. "They may not know it, but they are in a dream and can not be harmed."

Now, directly in front of us, is a cart coral. Like in a grocery store parking lot. there is a long chain of carts parked in the coral. I use TK on the carts pulling a bunch of them out. I decide this is a good time to practice precision TK control. From the line of carts I have pulled out of the coral, I split that in half, pulling them apart again. I then push the remaining carts back into the coral, joining them back together with the carts left in the coral. I continue to use TK on the carts I have out. (About five of them maybe.) I levitate them into the air, and try to throw them into the traffic of another nearby freeway lane. I make the carts fly all around, but now I'm having difficulty making them go exactly where I want. every time I throw them near the traffic, I lose control of them, and they veer off in another direction. I struggle with this for a few moments until I wake up.

After this dream I could not fall back to sleep again. I kept directly entering dreams, and then becoming Lucid right away, and waking up. I had only slept four hours and was annoyed about this. I eventually give it up, and get up and take the dog walking.
I decide I will just work at getting Lucid again in a nap, and it worked. The first double Lucid day I've had in a while.

A Lucid Dream
Sunday/October/25/2009
Lucid Dream # 49 of 2009
Best dreamsign recognized
No reality check needed

I'm standing at an intersection, waiting for the lights to change so that I can cross the road. I'm hungry and I'm on way to get something to eat at one of the many restaurants on the other side of the road. A car stops, I'm pretty sure it's Yurithebest who is the driver. (forum member.) Yuri says to me, " If you want to get something to eat, you had better hurry. All the restaurants are about to close down for the night."
I take Yuri's advice to heart, and I run across the road. There is another service road, and I continue running down that. I see another person in a car that I recognize, and wave to them as I continue running.

I have no idea why I do this, but when I come to a curb, I use all my strength to jump into the air as high as I can. I go flying above the trees and I'm Lucid. "Woo Hoo! This is a dream!" I'm aware that this is my second Lucid of the day, and was successful with my plan for a nap Lucid." I fly over the top of some trees, then land on the roof of one of the restaurants I was looking for. I run across the roof and leap off it into the air again. flying high, and then just gliding on the wind, circling around until I slowly come to the ground. I run across the ground and leap high into the air again, and glide on the wind some more. My flight is not too controlled, it's more like the momentum of my leap is carrying me. and I drift on the wind until I come to the ground again. And again I do the same thing. I just experience the joy, as over and over again, I leap and fly above the trees and buildings. This dream lasted quite a while, and I loved it.

A Lucid Dream
Tuesday/October/27/2009
Lucid Dream # 50 of 2009
Lucidity trigger unknown

I've been dreaming about being in a mall most of the night. Even after waking, I keep going back to the mall. Must be because of reading Moonbeams journal yesterday.
These are the most boring mall dreams ever, though. The first one started out that I was shopping with my mom, and I was just following her around as she looked through cloths. I was really bored. Then, after waking many times and reentering this dream. I'm eventually on my own. I'm walking along looking for something interesting. I come across a western clothing shop, and decide to go in a take a look around. There is lots of sued leather clothing, and cowboy hats and stuff. I pick up one of the cowboy hats, and think about a time as a kid when I thought cowboy hats and boots were really cool. As I examine the hat I realize that I still think they are cool, just not cool for me to wear.

I leave the shop and move on. I follow a corridor, And somehow as I'm walking I again smoothly naturally am aware that I'm dreaming. But Lucidity is very low. I think about how these dream mall corridors can go on forever. I'm in a hurry now, I want to explore this place. I come to a place where I thought there would be a corridor expanding into many more mall places, But it is just an elevator. I skip the elevator and look around. I think, maybe I should have gone into that elevator. Dream elevators always get me Lucid. I need to hurry up and find a way to get Lucid.

I see a doorway leading into a place I'm not supposed to go. Cool, I'll go there. I enter the doorway and I'm walking down the halls of what seems a lot like some medical clinic. Hey, I know. I'm going to spin to try and keep myself in this dream long enough to get Lucid. I do a kind of lazy twirl. After one complete rotation I stop. Then I think, wait a second, I just spun to keep myself in a dream. I am Lucid! duh!

Now I'm 100% Lucid. And I happily continue my exploration of this place. I quickly move along, down stairways, and around corners. I think It would probably be better to be outside, but I'm enjoying this place, I don't care.

I come to a room and enter. I pause to take the place in. This room strikes me as very beautiful. It's some kind of auditorium. It's hard to describe. It's an elaborate design. the floor is broken up into different levels, with stairs between each one. I really like the colors of the place. The place is many different shades of browns and gold. And the way the lighting is, it kind of gives the place a magical glow. The are some benches, and what looks like trash cans near them. I run towards them and do a running dive over the cans, land on my hands and tuck into a roll, then spring back up to my feet.

Just then a woman comes walking across the room. I can tell that she works here. She has blond hair tied back in a ponytail. I notice loose strands of hair hanging down on the sides. What she is wearing is almost an Indian style outfit. Tan leather looking skirt. But it is somehow made to work as a business type skirt. It looks very nice on her. As She walks past me, I say to her. "This is such a beautiful place." Then on a whim, I say. "But not nearly as beautiful as you." I'm wondering what kind of reaction that will get. She looks at me and goes. "Pft, what ever." Then haughtily walks away.

She opens a door on the other side of the room and enters. The door closes behind her, and I decide to follow. I don't remember much about the room we have entered, my focus was on her. But I think it was just a small ordinary room without much in it.
I think, I shouldn't be doing this, risking waking myself up. But the dream is so vivid and stable feeling, that there doesn't seem to be any chance of that.

The woman doesn't notice right away that I've followed her. I walk up behind her, reach down and lift up the back of her skirt. I expect her to freak out when I do this, but she just looks over her shoulder at me as if curious about what I'm doing. I see that she is wearing a thong under this skirt. It's kind of a cross between a blue and green color. I reach down with my other hand and feel her ass. I'm so fascinated by how realistic her skin feels and looks. It doesn't take much fondling her, before It causes me to wake. Stupid.

I had more than an hour before I had to get up for work, and couldn't fall back to sleep after this. So I just decided to get up and write it down. Yay, counted nine Lucids so far this month. It's the most I've counted in a month since January of 2007, when I counted ten.

Brief moment of Lucidity
Not officially counting
Wednesday/October/28/2009
Bathroom dreamsign recognized
No reality check needed

I'm at a restaurant with a group of people. I really need to use the bathroom.
I go into the bathroom. The typical, and annoying, dream bathroom stuff is going on. I try to just hurry up and go, and get out of there. I become aware that the problems are because this is a dream. But I really need to go, and for a moment I keep trying to. But then I become more Lucid, and I know that there is no point in trying to go in a dream. I think, that if I keep trying, I'm just going to go in my bed. So I give it up.
I leave the bathroom, and forget that I'm dreaming. There is some person that was in the bathroom, that made me angry. I tell him that I was thinking about putting his head through a wall.

Later I remember trying to do a random reality check during a false awakening. While
trying to take dream notes. I'm not sure what happened with that, I think I just woke up.

A Lucid Dream
Friday/October/30/2009
Lucid Dream # 51 of 2009
Lucidity trigger unknown

I'm being held captive by some crazy doctor/scientist. The doctor has a crazy nurse working with him too. And they are using me for their experiments.There is some stuff that goes on that is so demented I'm not going to write it down. A lot of the scene jumps around a lot anyway, making it difficult. But eventually, the doctor ends up trying to inject me with some concoction he has made, and has put into a syringe. This is not going to happen!

I fight back. Scene jumps confusingly around a bit, and I eventually have the mad doctor down on the examination table, and I am trying to get him strapped down. Apparently, I have managed to inject him with the syringe, and the doctor is unconscious. But before I can get him strapped down tightly, the doctor begins to wake up. But he is no longer alive. He has become a zombie!

I struggle with the straps a bit more, but then give it up, and look for a weapon. The closest thing that I can find, is some kind of surgical scissors, with long sharp blades. I open the blades, and shove one of them into his head. But even with his head impaled on the blade, he is not dead, and still trying to get up. Damn, I know you have to kill the brain, to kill a zombie. I pull the scissors out. I don't remember how I did it, or what I used, but next, I have the top of the zombie doctors skull removed, and his brain completely exposed. Next, I shove the scissors directly into his brain, and begin cutting and stirring all around, kind of like scrambling eggs in a bowl. I cut up his Bbrain until it's nothing but oozing mush. I'm not even sure if he is dead, but I run out of the room, and out of the building.

Once outside, the theme of the dream has completely changed. I'm In some walled in, fantasy style city, that is very beautiful, and difficult to describe. It's almost futuristic looking, but at the same time ancient. With some qualities of ancient Rome. There are people running every which way, and trying to hide in shelters. There is some kind of invasion about to take place. A soldier walks by, and I hear him say something like. " No army could ever penetrate our city!"

But I can see a crowd gathering on a raised area, near the back wall of the city. They are all looking over the wall and pointing excitedly at something I can't see. Just then, I begin to hear a horn blaring. A long drawn out. "Wooooomph." Oh shit, I've heard this sound before. Then, a giant machine rises up over the wall. It has three, long spindly legs, and is so tall, that it over looks the entire city. It's "The War Of The Worlds" alien machines attacking.

It's about here that I think I start to become very partially Lucid. A sense of both terror, and exhilarated excitement overwhelms me. I'm afraid of these machines, and yet at the same time, I know I've been here, and done this before. I will be OK, I just need to get to the main gate, and exit the city, before that thing begins vaporizing people. I know I have a few minutes to get going.

I begin to run as fast as I can, which is incredibly fast. As the main gate comes into view, I can see crowds of people rushing them, trying to get out. And the gates are just beginning to open, Oh so slowly. The hell with this, I don't need to wait for those damn gates, and crowds of people to get out of the way. I make a giant leap into the air, soaring over the heads of the crowd, and briefly landing atop the wall. Then I leap off the wall, landing on a grassy plain outside the city.

The first of the crowd has just managed to exit the city too, and wee are all running for are lives. We are all running super fast across this beautiful green landscape, like one hundred miles per hour. I still feel like I've been here, and done this before. I think it's my sense of familiarity with the situation that brings me more fully into Lucidity.

I'm not quite sure how it happens, but now, the crowd of people, and I, are running back towards the city, as if charging to do battle with the aliens. Even though I am now aware it's a dream, the momentum of events, and with the running too, I continue to get sucked along with the story. Running, running, running. So fast across the plains. The plains become rolling grassy hills, and I leap off the top of one hill, back flipping high through the air, then coming down on the backside of another hill, running down it. As I flipped through the air, I hear a DC yell up at me. "That's the way to get your blood going!"

He is right, my excitement is beyond words. As I continue to run. I leap off another hill, much higher into the air now. At this point my Lucidity is pretty much complete. I can remember all the work I had done all day long, and the previous weeks to induce Lucidity. And I feel as if I can get here anytime I want now. This is my place. And it is all worth it.

As I begin to descend back to the ground, I skim across the top branches of some trees. I hear the same DC shout, " How's your blood feeling now!" "It feels great!"
I shout back. I land and run some more. Many times, leaping off of hills, and flipping through the air, as we make our way back to the city.

But, unfortunately, Once back in the city, following events has caused me to lose Lucidity. At least I don't think I was Lucid anymore. I was still no longer afraid, and quite sure of myself, though. I run and dodge through a panicked crowed. Giant machines are firing laser beams. people are exploding into dust. I meet up with some woman I seem to know, and am talking to her. about what, I don't remember. Other than it was about the situation. As I talk to her, somebody shoves me from behind. I ignore it at first, but then I get shoved again, and again. Very angry now, I turn to confront this person. It's some man. I grab him and slam him into a wall. I grab him again and throw into Walls several more times, then just start beating the shit out of him. I wake up during the process.

After I finally fell back to sleep, I had some partial Lucidity in some other dreams too. But nothing worth counting.

A little annoyed I don't have anything worth counting this weekend. But it wasn't a completely unsuccessful two days.

Sunday/November/1/2009

-I enter a building. As I enter I do a random reality check, looking at my watch. Lucid, I take a moment and try and figure out what caused me to RC. Then I wake up. I don't even remember what my watch looked like. I just remember looking at my wrist and then knowing that I was dreaming.

-I'm looking out a window. There is a lake surrounded by forest. There is a speed boat crossing the lake. The image strikes me as so beautiful, that it is probably a dream. I watch the boat crossing the lake in a kind of half aware state, then the scene fades and I wake.

-Recording a Lucid Dream in my online journal. I look and see some comments from a member that I never saw before. The person has drawn a picture of my dream. The picture is of me sliding down some hill in some candy land type dream-scape. And I think that it's a good depiction of the Lucid I just had.

-A very vivid conversation with my step brother about Lucid Dreaming. He tells me that he has learned to Lucid Dream. He describes how he became Lucid in his last dream, and about the tasks that he completed. Then we have a discussion about The Lucidity Institutes dream light mask. I remember the conversation in detail, but I don't feel like writing it all out.

There was some lost recall where I know I was dreaming about Lucid Dreaming more, and possibly some more Lucidity too.

Monday/November/2/2009

I'm at home. I'm aware that there are people coming for me. I don't remember who, or why, but I want to be gone when they get here. I get some stuff together and leave the house. I begin running, super fast again. I'm going so fast that I cover great distances in moments, I zig zag across the countryside to be sure I lose any pursuit.
Suddenly, I'm back in my house again. I'm aware that the reason that this happened is because I'm dreaming. I'm still compelled to run away, and very annoyed that I have to start over. I realize that instead of running away, I should just change the scene. Since running got me nowhere last time. I think about The Cusp's comment about being more efficient about going to the moon. And since I had just inadvertently teleported back to my house, I feel as if I could easily change the scene to where I want to be. But I open the door and step outside. Once in my yard I completely forget about that I'm dreaming. I see a path leading into the woods. I follow the path, and it leads me to an interesting non Lucid adventure.

Too bad I lost Lucidity, this could have been a good one.

- A barely recalled Lucid sex dream. Not really a sex dream, I just remember being with a naked female and trying not to get too involve with her, so that I don't cause myself to wake up. I remember carrying her and setting her down somewhere.

-There was a couple hours of bad recall. I know I was still dreaming about Lucid Dreaming. And I'm pretty sure I was Lucid through some of it. I remember returning to a place I was earlier in the night. And I have a vague memory of telling someone that it was a dream.

I'm probably not going to take a nap today, and just try and get to sleep early.

A Lucid Dream
Tuesday/November/3/2009
Lucid Dream # 52 of 2009
Lucidity trigger unknown

I had surprisingly great recall all night for not taking a nap earlier.

I was having this crazy adventure about collecting some colored magical crystals. There was this huge beautiful mansion, where a lot of the last part of the dream took place. It was one of those elaborate dream places that could just go on forever. There were some bad people that lived here, and me and this other DC had infiltrated the castle to find and collect the final crystals. There was an earlier part where I was aware that I was dreaming, but full Lucidity didn't come, and I lost it as I continued with events.

The DC, and I, find the final crystals and leave this place, only to discover later that we had accidentally left some of them behind. "Crap! I will go back and get them."
Alone, I return to the mansion.

Back at the mansion, I'm searching rooms. I enter a room and it's a little too dark. The lights are on, but they are dim, and not giving off much light. Somehow I'm aware it's a dream. My Lucidity is very partial, but I remember some people yelling "Light" when they want light in dreams. So I yell "Light!" I'm so surprised when the lights get brighter and the room is now lit up nicely. It works! And when this happens I become fully Lucid. I yell "Light!" again, and it gets even brighter. I go into another room. This room is also kind of dark. I yell "Light!" and all the lights in the room get bright and lighting everything up. Cool, this is awesome! I start running from room to room. each time yelling for light, and each time it works.

I wonder if it will work the opposite way. I yell "dark!" And the lights dim. Cool! I yell "dark" several times and the lights get dimer and dimer. Until I yell "light" again, and everything lights up again. I then run around a little exploring this beautiful place. It's so amazing, I could spend all night here exploring this place and never get tired of it. It's as huge as a castle, But more homey like a billionaire's mansion. Many wide, dark wooden stairways, with beautiful railings, and carvings.

A DC enters through a doorway, he looks like a butler or something. I wonder if my commands will work on DC's too. So I point at him and yell, "DC lays down on floor!" It works! The butler lays down on the floor on his side, and curls up.

I laugh at him as I run up one of the beautiful flights of stairs, leaving him laying there.
As I run up the stairs, I remember my task to look at my watch. (finally!) I look at it, and it says 22, and a bunch of scrambles numbers after that. Cool! I turn it aside and look at it again, more scrambled numbers.

Then I remember my second task, to practice spinning again, to prolong the dream.
I enter a room, planning to spin when I get in there. But I'm distracted by some woman. The room is like a kitchen. I look at my watch again, and it says 8:52. I'm disappointed that it looks normal now, so I turn it away to see if it will change. It does. it changes to like 8:57. I'm satisfied with that. Meanwhile, it seems that the woman has been making cookies. And she is asking me if I will try some of the cookies she made.

"Sure" I say. I'll try your cookies, but only if you take your shirt off. So she starts taking it off, unbuttoning it from the front. I'm only half paying attention to her, though, thinking that it's funny that she is doing it. I'm playing with my watch again. I decide to take off my watch to see how realistic it really is. It has a Velcro strap. I unstrap it and pull it off. I'm wearing a long sleeve shirt, and I'm fascinated at how realistic the strap feels as it slides across my skin under the shirt sleeve. I hold the watch in my hand, and I notice that the woman has taken her shirt completely off. She is wearing this really ugly bra thing I'm not really sure how to describe. I'm don't think they make anything like it in real life. (But I wouldn't know.) It is a tan color, though. I wake.