Thread: Caradon's Lucid Dreams

A Lucid Dream
Saturday/November/1/2008
Lucid Dream # 64 of 2008
Spontaneous Lucidity
Finger biting task attempt # 1

The first thing I remember is that I'm behind some short concrete wall. There is some kind of military battle going on. I have this huge machine gun on a rotating tri pod. I have the gun turned all the way to the right and I'm firing down a road, at some target that is beyond my line of vision. I can't see that far down the road because there is a building to my right that is blocking the view. But I know attackers are coming from that direction. So I'm just firing all out down the road.

I end up spraying the wall of the building to my right with bullets, and I'm Lucid for just a second here. When the bullets hit the wall small chunks of concrete are broken off, and they spray me like shrapnel. I'm aware I'm dreaming and I think about how fascinatingly realistic the effect is. I even feel sharp points of pain where I'm hit. Nothing real uncomfortable though.And I look forward to describing this in my dream journal.

Still must have been a fairly low level of Lucidity though, because I forget about it right away, for now, and jump back into the action. I jump over the wall I'm hiding behind.(Not sure why.) And I begin to make my way in the direction of the attackers. But as soon as I do I see this man come running at me with his arm back, like he is going to throw something at me. I realize he has a grenade!

I jump back behind my wall but the man follows me. I see a hand gun laying there, so I pick it up and begin firing it at the guy as he comes at me. I hit him in the stomach but he does not stop. I keep shooting him all over his body, but he just keeps on coming towards me. I wonder why he is not going down. but even as I wonder this, I see him transform before my eyes. His face becomes an ugly purple color, and he now looks dead. and he has a big afro for a hair do.

I realize that I did kill him, but he died and became a zombie! No wonder he's not falling. And at the same moment I realize he is a zombie, Full Lucidity spontaneously washes over me. It's not anxiety induced, because I really was not all that frightened.
The afro zombie guy is now stumbling towards me in a very zombie like way. And I have this moment of very fascinated joy. Here I am, fully Lucid, face to face with a real zombie! (Well, as real as can be anyway.) I've never seen a zombie while Lucid before. and I'm quite thrilled.

For a moment I wonder if this is going to turn into a major zombie adventure. I then remember what I planned to do if ever I was Lucid in a zombie dream. I hold out my arm to the zombie and ask, " hey are you hungry? Here have a bite." But when I say this it reminds me of my task to bite off my own finger.

So I pull my arm back and put my finger in my mouth, and bite down. My finger feels kind of like hard rubber, and I can feel my teeth sinking through it. I almost bite all the way through, but I can't quite get through the last little bit. So I bite down as hard as I possibly can, but I just can't bite completely through it. eventually I give up. (Going to try it again though.)

I look back at the zombie, who is now doing something very odd with his own hand. This is very difficult to describe. But I'll give it my best shot. It's like the skin of his hand begins to peel back on itself, and becomes almost like a liquid form. his entire arm becomes this rolling liquid mass of skin, that begins twisting and turning around itself, in very psychedelic patterns.

I stand there staring at it, I become sort of hypnotized by the ever changing psychedelic mass. My vision begins to get kind of tunnel like. And I notice that things in my peripheral vision are beginning to blur and distort. but the image in front of me remains very clear and vivid, and is getting bigger all the time. Then I think, " wtf am I doing!" I forcibly make myself look away, and I even shake my head to clear it.

I turn from the zombie and walk away. Everything is back to normal now, but the zombie continues to stumble after me. OK this zombie is starting to become a pest, I think how annoying it will be if it keeps following me trying to grab at me. Time to use a little TK. I begin to reach out with my mind, intending to send it flying away.But just then I wake up.

Well, I've been sick all week but I'm ready to try getting back in the game. I have a little over a month and a half to get a good momentum going for the new year.

A Lucid Dream
Saturday/November/8/2008
Lucid Dream # 65 of 2008
Malfunctioning device recognized
reality check induced Lucidity

This dream takes place at the town houses again. Not sure exactly what was going on before I got Lucid, But S from work is there. It's like we had just woken up or something. I remember walking down stairs with S and she lays down on the couch with a blanket. I walk into the kitchen for some reason, I can't remember why. But it's kind of dark so I flip the light-switch. the light switch doesn't work right. I see a very dim light come on, but no where near the area I'm trying to light up.

I get a little confused about it and walk into the living room. I flip the living room light switch, and the same thing happens. I see a very dim light come on outside one of the windows. I say to S, "Check this out." And I flip the switch a couple more times.

S gives me an odd look and starts to get up from the couch. I realize that she thinks that this could mean we are dreaming. As soon as she stands up she does a nose RC, and I do one as well. And can breath!

Lucid, I say,"hey, we're dreaming!" "Lets go do something... hurry up!" I pull open the front door. A blast of very cold wind flows over us, and it's just gloomy and all together nasty outside. (Just like it's been all week in real life.) I'm wearing nothing but a T-shirt and I feel very cold.(Edit: Well, I think I had pants on too. lol) I don't even want to go out there.

I say to S, "that feels way to cold to be a dream!" S agrees, but it doesn't change our belief that it really is a dream. I decide that I'm going to try and change the weather.
I suck it up and step out into the cold. I try to deny what all of my senses are telling me, and I start happily jaunting down the sidewalk, pretending it's a beautiful warm and sunny, summer day. I even start singing," it's a beautiful summer day."

The sun never comes out, but I do stop noticing the cold. I try to think of any tasks I wanted to do, but my mind is blank. I can't think of a single thing. I do a slow cartwheel. Pausing upside down to stand on my hands for a moment. I do one more then start walking back in the direction I came.

I see some big dirty log on the ground, one end is splintered with a point. I lift the pointed end up, propping the wider end against the ground. The log feels heavy, and dirt is getting on my hands, and crumbling off the log to fall to the ground.

I'm thinking about falling onto the pointed end of the log, trying to impale myself through the stomach. But I suddenly feel like I've done this kind of thing way to many times already. And it seems dumb to waste time doing it again. So I throw the log aside. I also take note of many other long branches laying on the ground near by.

S is standing in the doorway of the town house. I hear her say." I don't like this dream, there isn't anything to do in this one." So I say," lets go run through the town until we find something interesting to get into, there is always something interesting to see around the next dream corner." But I wake before we can do anything more.

A Lucid Dream
Friday/November/14/2008
Lucid Dream # 66 of 2008
Spontaneous Lucidity

Well last night my subconscious was really working hard to get me Lucid. I had several dreams that were the perfect conditions for me. ( Thank you Subconscious!) And I had a False awakening that I woke up from a Lucid, and got up and marked it on my calender. But when I actually woke up I couldn't remember the Lucid, so I may have lost one. But the FA turned out to be a prophetic dream anyway, because later I became Lucid spontaneously.


First, my alarm clock goes off, waking me up. I push snooze and fall back to sleep, entering a dream. It's a winter night, my car is parked along side a road, and I'm scraping snow and ice off the back window. As I'm cleaning off my car Lucidity spontaneously washes over me.

I stop what I'm doing and walk around the front of the car, and into the road. There isn't any traffic. the first thing that really catches my attention is the realism. I'm wearing my winter coat. The coat is unzipped in front, and hanging loosely off me, and I'm struck by how realistic my coat feels on me. The side pockets are even bulging because of my gloves stuffed in them.

I'm standing in the middle of the street looking around, every thing seems so perfectly real to me. I can see a train crossing the road a ways off, and I take note of the traffic lights. I don't understand, I have to ask myself, "why do I think I'm dreaming?" I have no answer to that. There is nothing at all that tells me this is a dream.
And yet, somehow, I know beyond doubt that this is a dream. I don't even need to do an RC. I even know that I'm sleeping in snooze mode, and will be woken by my alarm within ten minutes.

This time I remember to spin, and I do a week little twirl, My coat flapping as I do. I remember The Dream Views Task of the month. "Follow the yellow brick road." Even from the dream state this seems like a dumb task to me. I think,"Well, I'm on a road but it's not made of yellow bricks." I briefly think about how to go about creating this yellow brick road, but then shrug it off, I don't really care about it.

I remember a mall from the dream I was having just before my alarm went off, and I believe it to be near by. I think, it will be fun to go exploring the mall Lucid, so I start going in that direction. (Thankfully, I don't feel cold in this dream.) As I start walking towards the mall the wind begins really kicking up. It gets so strong that I can't even walk into it.

I give up trying to walk, I have a different idea now...

( An image from another Lucid just popped into my mind! I was running, trying to get somewhere. And I know I was Lucid. That's all I got though.)

Anyway, back to this dream.... Instead of trying to force my way into the wind, with each hand I grab the unzipped sides of the front of my coat, and pull the coat wide open like a flasher would. I then lean forwards into the wind, and the wind catches the inside of the open coat like a set of wings, lifting me a little ways off the ground.

I begin to fly around completely out of control. I'm not even really trying to control my flight at all, I'm just riding on this powerful wind. It feels so real! The wind scoops me up, and I tilt and wobble. I'm pushed sideways, then lifted up a little higher. Then I lose the current and drop fast towards the ground. Than catch the wind again and get lifted and blown around some more. I never get all that high, but just having fun being blown all around the road.

I still have the objective to make it to the mall though, and I eventually set down. As soon as I do I see the entrance to the mall right next to me. Cool! I somehow summoned the mall, I didn't even have to go find it.

I enter the mall, and it's lit up real bright. A real contrast to the winter night I was just experiencing. I take off my coat and throw it to the floor. I can still notice the realism of how my cloths feel on my body. I'm wearing my gray sweat-shirt and loose pants.
I think about getting naked and going streaking through the mall. but I'm afraid I'll wake up in the process of taking my cloths off. ( Should have spun again right then.)

I kick off my shoes and pull my socks off, and I decide that I'll just kind of casually pull off an article of clothing as I go. If I end up nude cool, if not, oh well. I see a huge colorful Christmas display. With a tree, fake snow, mechanical props, a few elves, and a Santa Clause. I decide I want to go walk through the artificial snow barefoot to see how it feels on my feet. But just then I wake.

didn't make it to the alarm.

Well, subconscious was working hard to get me Lucid again last night. It literally tried throwing me off of several high and beautiful waterfalls. But I wasn't having none of that. I managed to stop myself from going over, and climbing down the rocks instead. If you have ever seen the new "Raiders Of The Lost Arch" movie. You know where I was, I was going over the three sets of falls from that movie.

Then later I did become Lucid during another dream that turned into a flying dream. But I didn't get Lucid until the last few moments, and My Lucidity level was kind of low so I'm not going to count it. But it was a very spectacular dream. I did some end over end free falling through the most incredible mountain canyons while people watched from observation decks along the cliffs.

Wow! You record your dreams so beautifully. This journal is fantastic. I'm going to read it all at my leisure. You really capture the feelings and emotions of what it feels like to be lucid and your dreams sound very similar to mine.

Originally Posted by DreamQueen

Wow! You record your dreams so beautifully. This journal is fantastic. I'm going to read it all at my leisure. You really capture the feelings and emotions of what it feels like to be lucid and your dreams sound very similar to mine.

Thanks for reading, DreamQueen, and the nice words. I do usually try and get across what I'm experiencing in the dream as best I can.

I saw your comment on my journal in Arne's thread too. Thanks for that. I need to try changing the scene the way I did in that dream again sometime soon. That was the only time I ever did anything quite like that.

I have not been online all that much lately because I've been just working hard at getting another good Lucid streak going, and have been trying to avoid distractions. I want to start the new year well. I had a short one last night.

If you have a journal here I'll check out yours one of these days soon, too.

A Lucid Dream
Thursday/November/27/2008
Lucid Dream # 67 of 2008
Spontaneous Lucidity

This one was very short because I got over excited and woke myself up. But I'm going to count it because I worked so damn hard for it.

I'm dreaming of the townhouses again, only this time I'm outside, in the back. Where the property ends there is a kind of wild area of land with a dirt path that leads through a short woodsy area, and into a city park.( I used to play around there as a kid, building jumps for my bike, and riding my mini bike there too.)

The first thing I remember about the dream is that I'm standing on the path. I don't remember why, but I start to run down the path in the direction of the trees, intending to run all the way through, and into the park. As I near the trees, I spontaneously become Lucid. I'm so excited to be finally Lucid again after almost two weeks of intense concentrating, and so many close calls every night.

I shout woohoo! This is a dream! I run a little ways farther picking up speed, then leap into the air. I begin to rise above the tree tops when my explosive excitement causes me to wake up with a jolt lol.

A Lucid Dream
Sunday/November/30/2008
Lucid Dream # 68 of 2008
Lion dreamsign recognized
Reality check induced Lucidity
First successful use of watch RC

This one took place between six and six and a half hours into sleep.
And after my second ten minute WBTB.

I'm on a passenger train with my family on some kind of trip. Some really hard to describe things happen. First of all, the train tracks in front of us looks more like a road, and there are cars and trucks driving in front of us. They are kind of getting in the way of the train.

Things get really weird here for a moment. I'm a little confused on what happened, but I suddenly have this odd perspective. It's like I'm looking through a satellite image of the surrounding area. Everything is in a kind of infrared, There is some kind of cross hairs thing, with checkered lines and a circle that is zooming around and locking on to different things, like some kind of tracking system.

My perspective kind of shifts, I smoothly rise up above the train as if I'm flying. I have a clear view of an amazing hilly landscape. It's odd because everything is in reds and yellows according to their heat signatures, but I can easily tell what everything is. There are a lot of trees and cattle in fields.

The flying perspective causes me to think maybe I'm dreaming, but it's a fleeting thought and I don't become Lucid.

Next thing I know I'm back in the train and I'm seeing everything normal again. No more odd satellite imaging. I'm talking with my mom about where we should get off the train. I seem to know exactly where we should be going, and I tell her that we need to stop and transfer onto another train.

As we are having this discussion, our train passes by some open field. And out the window I see lions! lots of lions. They are both male and female. One in particular sticks out in my memory. A very large male with an outrageously wide frizzy looking mane is standing out on some wide flat rock outcropping, with the wind ruffling the hair around his neck. It looks like an image from the Lion King or something.

As we are passing them by, I point and say,"Hey, look there are lions!" Nobody pays attention to me at first, so I say it again. Then I remember! seeing lions means I should be doing a reality check! I pinch my nose and I can breath! but barely, It just feels like I don't have my nose closed right. I try it again and I can still breath. Not fully convinced though, I look at my watch. I don't remembr what the hour was but the minutes displays 02. I turn my watch away, and turn it back. 03. Surprised I wonder id maybe it naturally turned over because of the seconds hitting 59, Which sometimes happens to me. So I look at the seconds, and the seconds are in the teens somewhere. I turn my watch away and turn it back real quick. Now the minutes displays 04.

Lucid, and truly amazed because everything including my watch seems so real, and I have never witnessed this phenomenon before. I do the Watch RC several more times in fascination, every time I look a different number is displayed. I then tell my brother I did an RC because of the lions, and the RC's say I'm dreaming!


There is a door on the side wall of the train, I jump into it intending to either phase, or crash through it, I don't really care which. But I hit the door hard, it feels quite real. I mange to pull the door open, then jump out. I hit the ground and bounce and roll a little. The ground feels pretty hard when I hit it, and I begin to have doubts even though it didn't hurt at all, like it would have for real. Nah, I know this has to be a dream.


I find myself on a bridge crossing a narrow river, the water below is like a cloudy baby blue color. I climb up onto the railing intending to jump off. But I now begin to have doubts again, and I think I had better not jump until I'm completely sure. So instead of jumping off into open air, I just jump straight up. And yes! I remain airborne much longer than I would if I was awake, and I recognize that dream floating feeling.


So I land on the railing again, then leap off, floating over the river. On the bank is some protruding tree stumps and roots. I land on them, jumping from stump to roots to stump.

I now see the train I jumped from, which has now become a black car. It is pulling around into a parking lot on the opposite side of the river. I jump, then levitate over the river. I watch as the doors of the car open and what is supposed to be my family members getting out, but they are now just random DC's now.


I land and cross a road, walking in their direction. Then I think," I know what will get their attention" It's TK time! I reach out with my mind, easily locking onto the car. I fling the car upwards into the air with great force, sending it flying straight up, then release it. the force of momentum continues to carry it higher for a moment, then it begins to fall, tumbling end over end as it does.


I see a man moving away fast, and I worry that he will be crushed, I didn't really want to hurt anyone, just freak them out. I shout,"Hey! look out for the falling car!"

It doesn't occur to me to stop the car in mid fall, as I easily could have done. The car crashes to the ground, narrowly missing the man. I then have another fun idea. I reach out with my mind, again locking onto the car. I pull the car towards me with the same kind of force I used to send it skyward. The car comes at me at high speed, and when it gets near I pull my arm back and punch the oncoming car as hard as I can. I feel as solid as iron, the car may as well have hit a brick wall, or thick tree. the front end crumples inward, and it comes to an instant stop.

I raise my fist in the air in the direction of some watching DC's, and begin to do a little dance and sing the words, " I am tough enough" ( I Think I heard a song like that before.) The DC's laugh at my silly antics.

I look to my left, and there is a building with a door. Above the door, is a big lit up sign that says "EXIT." (Odd to have that on the outside.) I reach out with my mind, using TK I rip the sign off the wall, slamming it to the ground. A few pieces break off from it.

I then decide to levitate all the DC's off the ground. But the thought alone must have done the trick, because I look around and everyone is already floating on their own.

I see some people walking down the road a long ways off, and I wonder how far my TK can reach. So I try to use it on them, But I guess just a little bit a doubt made it so I couldn't do it. I just couldn't get that locked on feeling on them.

After trying this for a little bit, I start to think that I should be waking up now, because I've been in this dream for so long. But I don't wake up instantly. But a weird mental thing occurs and I end up forcing myself to wake on accident.

A Lucid Dream
Wednesday/December/3/2008
Lucid Dream # 69 of 2008
Spontaneous Lucidity
First real success with spinning

This one took place about two hours into sleep. And with no WBTB's

It's early morning and very dark. I'm in my car driving to work down the same road I do every morning. There is only one difference. The road is completely torn up do to construction.( I've been thinking that there are probably plans to widen this road out.) And in the dream I'm surprised that they have started it so soon, and that they had gotten so much done over night. There is no pavement at all, I'm driving on dirt.
And the remains of the torn up road are piled up along the sides of the road.

In real life there is a bridge that goes over a highway that I have to cross on my way in to work. When I get to this bridge and begin to cross it, for no apparent reason I become Lucid.

Once Lucid, my car, completely unnoticed by me, is gone. And I am now on foot.
It's so dark now without the headlights of the car, that I can hardly see at all. I can barley make out the railing of the bridge. I step up onto it and look down. Instead of a highway, like in real life, I know that there is a river far below. But looking down, all I can see is blackness.

I think that it will be fun to jump into darkness, and into a river that I can not see. So I leap out and begin to free fall. There is no longer any visual at all, it's completely black. But even with nothing to judge my speed by, I can feel myself picking up speed, falling faster and faster. I begin to tumble, and I realize that it would be a simple mental trick to make it so I never hit water, just fall through darkness until I wake. But That's not how I want this dream to end.

Even without being quite sure how I do it, after this thought, I make the fall end. With a "splash" I hit the water never even seeing it coming, but I knew I was about to hit anyway. Still blind, I feel the wetness wash over me, and it's not as cold as I had feared it may be. Remembering a time in real life as a kid, when I fell off of a rope swing into the nasty Mississippi, I gross out and swim in a panic for the shore.

I can now barley make out the shore, and the dark outline of trees. Once to the shore I climb out. I am now beginning to really dislike this darkness, I don't want my entire dream to be like this. I begin telling myself that the morning sun is beginning to rise, trying to make it so. I jump into the air, and fly to the top of one of the trees, coming to a rest in one of the top most branches, with though thought of the rising sun continuously on my mind.

Once in the tree, I remember that I want to practice spinning.(mainly to help keep me in the dream.) So I spin around once, and what little visual I actually have, begins to break up with the spin. As this happens, it occurs to me, that I may be able to use this to break up my perception of darkness, and bring on the rising sun.

And when I stop, to my complete surprise, I'm thrilled to see that the sun is just beginning to rise! It's still fairly dark, but the darkness has lifted a little. Just like the first signs of morning. Thrilled, I spin again. And when I stop, the sun has come up a little more! So I spin again, and again, and again. With each spin it becomes brighter, until it is full day.

Now I stop and look out, and think."Now that's beautiful!" I have never been so happy to see the sun before. I also notice that I am no longer anywhere near my house, or my work. I'm in a completely different country. I see fields with rows of planted vegetables, with small patches of water here and there. like ponds, or small lakes. There are wooden structures, more like huts, and wooden walkways between them.

There are oriental people wearing loose gray robes, and those saucer like hats on their heads, walking among the the planted vegetables, and the wooden walkways.
I notice that they are walking kind of funny. Like in those Japanese fantasy martial arts movies. where they seem to be able to almost fly. for every step the people take they float a few feet before touching down again.

I now remember another task I was thinking about earlier in the day, I look down at my tree and think about using TK to pull the entire thing out of the ground and fly around while remaining perched on my branch. But when I look down and see the tree firmly planted in the ground, for some reason, at least at this moment, I feel like this will be impossible for me to do, so I don't even try it.

Then I start to think about waking up, and I do.

A Lucid Dream
Sunday/December/7/2008
Lucid Dream # 70 of 2008
Dreamsign recognized ?
Reality check induced Lucidity

This one took place eight hours into sleep, and sometime after my second fifteen minute WBTB.

I don't remember much about how the dream started out, but I was walking along with an old friend of mine. We are having a conversation about something. I don't remember what we are talking about. The first thing about the conversation that I remember clearly, is that I was surprised by something that was being discussed. And I remember saying to my friend," That is so strange! I think I should do a reality check!"

I see one of those outdoor vegetable stands, and there are bananas on display. I have this strange idea of eating one of those bananas for a reality check.( I guess I was thinking that it wouldn't taste right or something, I don't know.) But instead I pinch my nose, and I can breath.

I decide to believe the RC right away, and I think about how I'm glad I'm not letting myself doubt it this time. My friend is still with me, and we enter an apartment.(which I guess is supposed to be mine.) As I enter, I think about how I shouldn't continue with the dream events.But I'm compelled to show my friend something that had to do with the conversation that caused me to become Lucid in the first place. (Still don't know what it was though.)

Once in the apartment living room, I run up one wall and kick off, doing a back flip and landing on my feet in the middle of the room. Remembering my recent success with spinning, I decide to try something a little more ambitious, spinning myself back outside.

I deeply inhale, then exhale, sending a wave of relaxation through my body as I exhale.( It's something I have not done in a dream for a long time, it's an interesting feeling.) I then spin once, but when I stop, I'm still in the same room. ( I think there is a fine art to spinning just the right speed, and in combination with just the right thought/feeling in your mind when you do it, in order for it to work. It's something worth practicing.)

I give up to easy, and start playing around more with running up the walls and doing back flips off them. I'm overly concerned with how it looks when I flip through the air. I ask my friend to watch me, and tell me about my form. I do several more flips, trying to tuck into as small of a ball as I can as I spin through the air. I don't get any real feed back from my friend though.

I then give up on that and go into the other room. I grab something off a shelf that looks like a VHS cassette. There was something about this that I wanted to show him. I take it back to where he is and throw it to him. Instead of catching it, he ducks in surprise, and the cassette bounces off the wall near him. I find his reaction funny.

Then that stupid thing happens where I accidentally make myself wake up.

It's like I flip some kind of switch with my mind that causes me to wake up. It's kind of like a reflex, and hard to stop once I start to do it.

A Lucid Dream
Friday/December/19/2008
Lucid Dream # 71 of 2008
Best dreamsign recognized ?
No reality check needed

I forgot to mark the time on tonight's Lucids, but I only slept four hours, and no WBTB's.

The first thing I remember is being outside somewhere. There are several people around. There is a car, and one of the people is a cop, or someone in authority.
Someone has been killed by the cop, there is a body laying on the ground. But The body suddenly gets up and attacks the cop. It's not a normal zombie, it's a rage virus zombie!

The cop has some strange device, it looks sort of like a very large fire extinguisher. He points it at the attacking zombie, and fires a blast of sound! The sound is so loud that it blows the zombie guy back, and knocking it down for good.

Meanwhile, a man and woman has gotten into the nearby car. Somehow the woman has gotten infected by the virus though, and starts going berserk. But the cop fires a blast of sound at her, somehow knocking her out of the car. ( I forgot to mention that it's night, a little dark but easy to see in the immediate area.)

I begin to hear lots of snarling voices, and I realize that there are lots more rage zombies out there, and they are coming. There is no way the cop with the sound blaster will be able to stop them all. I notice a guy on a small white and black tractor. he is riding in the direction of the snarling rage zombies. I think he is crazy if he thinks he can run them all over with the tractor.

But I have mistaken his intentions. The tractor has a long arm, with a wide pincer at it's end. The guy rides the tractor out a ways, then touches the pincers to the ground.
bolts of what looks like lightning discharges from the pincers as he drags them along the ground, tearing open a hole in the earth.The hole grows into a long crevice,and expands into a deep rocky canyon. It's miles long, and the rage zombies can not get across.

I now have a disembodied perspective, and I'm floating around and over the canyon. There are giant stone gargoyles on each side of the canyon, facing each other. The distance between their noses is probably the shortest distance across.
I watch as one of the zombie creatures walks out across the nose of the gargoyle on the opposite side of the gap. the thing does not even look human anymore. I can tell it is trying to work up the nerve to jump across.

I'm starting to feel a real sense of vertigo, and fear, from the crazy heights perspective. I watch the zombie jump the gap, he makes it, hitting the stone nose hard. It begins to slide down the nose, desperately scrambling and clawing at the rock as he tries stop himself from falling.

Then for a second I realize I'm dreaming, rather than watching a movie like I had thought for a second there. And I think," No wonder everything is so three dimensional."

Then I'm not sure if I wake up or what, but the dream shifts to another scene where I'm watching all this on a big screen TV, no longer Lucid.(at least not fully, I'm not really sure.) I'm going to skip over some of what happens next, because it's just too much.

I eventually get sucked back into the story and I'm working with some older man. We are fencing off some area in hopes of slowing the zombies from getting to us. (The fence starts where the canyon ends.)

We ride back in some cart thing, and to where there are other people. there is an outdoor picnic pavilion type thing, with an overhanging roof. Underneath the roof are a series of white wooden walls. I don't remember why but I end up on top of one of the walls, and I'm jumping across to each one.

I'm suddenly surprised to find myself jumping a long ways, too far to be normal. I point out how far I can jump to one of the people there. Then I remember that gravity does not work the same in dreams. It's not like I just became Lucid, it feels like a knew (at least a little bit) all along. Gravity is now completely gone, and I float kind of out of control like an astronaut in space. Kind of up towards the ceiling of the pavilion, and out. I catch my toe on the underside of the roof and pull myself back in.

I float back over the walls, and I tell one of the DC's that the reason for this happening is because it's a dream. I tell him to pinch his nose and see if he can breath. he does not do it at first, and I remember the theory that DC's don't like to listen, or help. I decide I don't want to believe this. And as soon as I think that the DC says, I tried that already and it did not work. But he reaches up and pinches his nose anyway, and breaths in real hard. I can hear the air going in but it sounds weird, like the air is going through a bunch of boogers.

before I can do anything else I wake up

I get up and use the bathroom. Lucidity seemed to come to me so naturally in this dream that I had a feeling that I would be getting Lucid again. I was correct.

A Lucid Dream
Friday/December/19/2008
Lucid Dream # 72 of 2008
Spontaneous Lucidity ?

I'm driving my car down a freeway. Eventually the car is gone, and I'm skating down the road on my feet. there is some guy on the side of the road with an outrageously large push broom. the push broom has a handle so long it can reach all the way across the road. As I skate by, he sweeps it across the road trying to knock off the road. I manage to avoid it somehow and continue on.

My cell phone rings, and I reach into my pocket and answer the phone. I don't remember who it is, but it's somebody I know, who asks me what I'm doing. " Oh I'm just skating down the trail on my feet I say." I notice that there are two other people with me now, and I look down and take note that I'm now on like a paved bike trail and moving along at good speed.

At some point here I become Lucid, along with the two DC's that are with me. It's a smooth natural transition into Lucidity. No shock or surprise involved at all. A little bit of what happens here is missing. I'm talking to the two DC's, they both know it's a dream without me telling them. We were discussing Lucid Dreaming, but I'm not sure exactly what was said. up until I remember one of the DC's asking, " But how do you fly?" And we have now slowed down to a walk.

I get kind of excited and say, "I use TK to fly! Like this!" I jump into the air and send myself flying straight up, high above the roof tops of the nearest houses. Then I stop and hover looking down and them. " they look up saying,"Wow that's so cool."

I shout down to them, " Do you want to know whats even more fun than flying though?
Falling!"

I then let myself free fall. I tumble and roll, and hit the corner of the roof of one of the houses. The impact spins me around, and I then slam into the ground. I get up laughing. I notice I still have the phone in my hand. "hello" I ask into it. There is no answer. I see some little girl standing a ways off watching us. On impulse I throw the phone in her direction. I was not really trying to hit her with it, but it ends up smacking her right in the face. "Shit, oops!" I'm surprised I hit her, but then remember that because of it being a dream odd things like that can happen.

Lucidity wavers a little bit, because for a moment I worry about her big brother or dad coming after me. The two DC's and I make a run for it, but when we turn to run there is a train crossing the road, blocking our escape.

No problem though, I have full Lucidity again, and I know I can just jump over the train if I want. This now sounds like a really fun idea, I now plan to jump over the train, maybe land on top of it. But before I know it there is no more train. It was the shortest train ever!

I have the feeling that there is electrical current going through the track, like hoe they show subway tracks in movies sometimes.(I've never seen a real subway, except for the sandwich.)

One of the DC's tries to jump over the track. He does not make it, falling flat across them. He gets hit by a blast of electrical current that knocks him several feet into the air. "Ahh" he exclaims. The other DC and I bust out laughing, it was such a comical sight. And I wake up laughing.

wow mate your last dream was very fun Must be awesome showing off dream powers to DC's. One of my dream goals is to show off my powers to DC versions of my classmates.

Originally Posted by yuriythebest

wow mate your last dream was very fun Must be awesome showing off dream powers to DC's. One of my dream goals is to show off my powers to DC versions of my classmates.

Hi yuriythebest, Thanks for reading. Yeah, that was a pretty fun one. It's always fun showing off to DC's. That would be cool getting Lucid during a school dream. I've gotten Lucid while having work dreams quite a few times. That's always fun too.

A Lucid Dream
Sunday/December/21/2008
Lucid Dream # 73 of 2008
Anxiety induced Lucidity
No reality check needed

This one took place about six and a half hours into sleep, and after three ten minute WBTB's. It did not last long, but it was long enough to face and overcome a nightmare.


I'm on a place like a beach, though the ground is not sand, it's hard dirt. I am making a camp fire, My mom is sitting near by in a lawn chair, and my brother and sister are standing near by as well. We are near to a large body of water. There is plenty of sticks and leaves around and I'm gathering and throwing them on a small flame, trying to make it grow before it can go out.

I'm having trouble getting the fire to grow. I continue to work at it, when I notice that the fire had fallen, like into a hole that opened up beneath it. I look down into the hole, it's pretty deep, but only about as wide around as an average camp fire. At the bottom of the hole is water. The water is churning and bubbling, as if the fire that fell into it caused it to boil.

I now notice that the dirt of the inside wall closest to where my mother is sitting, is beginning to erode, crumbling and falling into the water below. In horror, I realize that the hole is about to grow wider, and fast. "Mom! get up and move away, quick!"

she is not paying attention to what I'm saying, but after a moment turns to me not understanding what I'm fussing about. I'm beginning to panic, and I repeat," get up and move away! Painfully slowly, she begins to comprehend whats going on and gets out of her chair.

Now the scene starts getting crazy, the place we are at is some deep underground cavern.(I'm not sure if I noticed before this point or not.) Much of the earth between us and the the larger body of water has now been eaten away, and it's like we are at the edge of a crumbling cliff.

"Run!" I shout, and turn and do just that, with my family following behind. when I turn to run, there is a corridor with towering rock walls on each side, and I start running down the corridor. I turn to look back, and huge slabs of the earth behind us are falling away now and the water is rushing in. I run faster, and around a curve in the corridor. I don't think we will be able to get away.

Suddenly, full Lucidity washes over me. Instantly I stop in my tracks, and turn around. (Running away is not an option!) Instead, I run back the direction I came, head first into destruction. I'm not sure what I'm going to do, I just know I'm going to meet this head on. I run past my family, and in a kind of stunned manner, I just say once as I pass them,"This is a dream."

As I run by them I feel a little guilty, feeling like I should be doing something to save them. But I realize such things should not matter in a dream. As I come to the area of ground that is being torn apart, on impulse, I leap of the edge. Not even caring if I'm able to fly or not. But I do fly, and I fly out and over the water that has become a rushing river like wave, that is eating everything in it's path. I see a rocky ledge on a wall high above, and I make my way in that direction, intending to land there and decide what to do next.

But I wake before I get there. I tried to fall back to sleep and try to get Lucid again. But I was no longer very tired, and was thinking about this dream too much to fall asleep.

Wow!!! How awesome and liberating that you became lucid in that last dream! I had a similar experience a few nights ago and made a thread about it. Will PM you the link. It's pretty heavy going, but a good example of how lucidity can completely liberate you!

Hey, I only just saw your reply above just now because you wrote in my dream journal and so I clicked on yours. You sound like you have so much success with lucidity. Mine is crap at the moment. I really want to be having one every night (but then who doesn't??). I'm sooo addicted to LD. Sometimes when I'm out somewhere and I haven't been at my pc for a few hours all I want to do is come home and jump onto this site! I just can't get enough of anything to do with LD

Originally Posted by DreamQueen

Wow!!! How awesome and liberating that you became lucid in that last dream! I had a similar experience a few nights ago and made a thread about it. Will PM you the link. It's pretty heavy going, but a good example of how lucidity can completely liberate you!

Hey, I only just saw your reply above just now because you wrote in my dream journal and so I clicked on yours. You sound like you have so much success with lucidity. Mine is crap at the moment. I really want to be having one every night (but then who doesn't??). I'm sooo addicted to LD. Sometimes when I'm out somewhere and I haven't been at my pc for a few hours all I want to do is come home and jump onto this site! I just can't get enough of anything to do with LD

Yeah, when I was a teenager I used to get Lucid during nightmares all the time. I really love getting Lucid that way.

My success rate varies from month to month depending on how strong my motivation is. But since retraining, I have been getting more every year so that's good. Didn't quite hit my goal for this year though. Oh well, I'll just have to make up for it next year.

I know what you mean, all I really care about now days is getting Lucid. And my dog of course lol. Being on the computer actually causes me to lose concentration on inducing Lucids, So that's why I'm not on as much. And I have some lofty goals for 2009. So I really have to get my but in gear.

A Lucid Dream
Wednesday/December/24/2008
Lucid Dream # 74 of 2008
Random reality check induced Lucidity

This one took place about an hour and a half into sleep.

I was having a strange dream that I had recently gotten married. I'm sitting in a room with my new wife, her best friend, and some little girl is running around. My wife and her friend are getting ready to go on some trip without me.

I pinch my nose and I can breath through it. I try it a couple of more times and can still breath. Confused and not fully convinced I look at my watch. I turn it away and back.
The minutes changed from 34 to 35. I look at the seconds and they are at 50. It should not have changed. I try it again but I'm having a hard time seeing the numbers, the lighting is weird and I'm not sure. Thinking it probably is a dream though, and wanting it to be, I stand up knowing how to prove it for sure. I push my finger from my right hand into the palm of my left. My finger sinks in and all the way through.

Sure now, I tell my wife and her friend it's a dream. " I just did three reality checks and they all passed." I demonstrate by pushing my finger through my hand again and showing it to them. I now notice the little girl staring at me with the most strange expression on her face. Hmm.. how to describe it? It was a kind of fascinated happy lit up expression. I could tell the look was not because of just finding out it's a dream. It was more like she was excited for me, for figuring it out. Because she knew all along, and she was fascinated by my reaction to the realization.( It was very odd and realistic.)

After a moment I forget about it, and ask them what they think we should do, because I have no idea at the moment. I then say," It's cartwheel time!" I do cartwheels out of the room and into the hall. I'm in an upstairs hall, and there is a beautifully detailed dark wooden railing, and then a stairway leading down. I grab onto the railing and do a handstand on it, looking down the stairs to the lower level.

I hold the hand stand for a moment, then let myself down, then follow the stairs down. I'm about to go outside, then stop, trying to figure out what I want to do with this dream. I remember I want to practice my TK so that it becomes so natural that I hardly have to think to do it. I reach out with my mind and easily levitate a nearby table, then I do the couch.

Then I do start to walk outside. At this point I see the women have just followed me downstairs. The front door is open and I'm just outside the house, I decide to use TK on my dream wife. I reach out with my mind to lift her. She is wearing a white dress, and instead of lifting her, her dress starts going up lol. I readjust my focus and she is lifted into the air with her dress billowing around her as if there is wind blowing up there.

I make her fly out of the house towards me, and once she is outside I make the mistake of wondering how long I can stay in this dream. It actually felt like I could stay in it forever, but thinking about it I wake.

It may have been the end of the REM cycle though, because I had been in the dream quite a while before becoming Lucid.

I've just read the first #52 posts of your Journal (was planning to take a break at 50 but it was so enthralling I couldn't resist a couple extra!)

My favourite posts are:

#10 - I so want to do this!
#11 - A very cool dream.
#17 - The egg cooking dream is brilliant. I love the detail you experienced and the fact that you were so convinced it was RL yet you persisted with the RCs. I find that the moment I achieve lucidity is best of all when I'm considering whether I'm dreaming but am believing I'm not.
#31 - I love the girls' reaction in the locker room when you suggest it could be a dream. Classic. I love it when DCs don't know how to respond to me once I've figured out I'm dreaming.
#44 - What a sweetie not to put your boss into the whipping machine ha ha
#47 - Hilarious! One of the best LD stories I've ever read!
#48 - Fascinating how you thought the DV member was really in the dream with you. That's the sort of thing that would confuse me when I'm lucid too.

Great reading!

Originally Posted by DreamQueen

I've just read the first #52 posts of your Journal (was planning to take a break at 50 but it was so enthralling I couldn't resist a couple extra!)

My favourite posts are:

#10 - I so want to do this!
#11 - A very cool dream.
#17 - The egg cooking dream is brilliant. I love the detail you experienced and the fact that you were so convinced it was RL yet you persisted with the RCs. I find that the moment I achieve lucidity is best of all when I'm considering whether I'm dreaming but am believing I'm not.
#31 - I love the girls' reaction in the locker room when you suggest it could be a dream. Classic. I love it when DCs don't know how to respond to me once I've figured out I'm dreaming.
#44 - What a sweetie not to put your boss into the whipping machine ha ha
#47 - Hilarious! One of the best LD stories I've ever read!
#48 - Fascinating how you thought the DV member was really in the dream with you. That's the sort of thing that would confuse me when I'm lucid too.

Great reading!

Thanks, glad your enjoying it.

Originally Posted by Caradon

It's so dark now without the headlights of the car, that I can hardly see at all. I can barley make out the railing of the bridge. I step up onto it and look down. Instead of a highway, like in real life, I know that there is a river far below. But looking down, all I can see is blackness.

I think that it will be fun to jump into darkness, and into a river that I can not see. So I leap out and begin to free fall. There is no longer any visual at all, it's completely black. But even with nothing to judge my speed by, I can feel myself picking up speed, falling faster and faster. I begin to tumble, and I realize that it would be a simple mental trick to make it so I never hit water, just fall through darkness until I wake. But That's not how I want this dream to end.

Even without being quite sure how I do it, after this thought, I make the fall end. With a "splash" I hit the water never even seeing it coming, but I knew I was about to hit anyway. Still blind, I feel the wetness wash over me, and it's not as cold as I had feared it may be. Remembering a time in real life as a kid, when I fell off of a rope swing into the nasty Mississippi, I gross out and swim in a panic for the shore.

I love this. I usually have some anxiety with situations like that, involving water, in my dreams - even when lucid. The falling through the black void would have been awesome, but landing in a dark river, even lucid, might have ended up as Hell for me. Haha.

I love that you punched that car in the previous dream, too. Good stuff man. Keep it up! It's been too long since I've made my rounds and read journals, so I will be catching up on yours soon.

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

I love this. I usually have some anxiety with situations like that, involving water, in my dreams - even when lucid. The falling through the black void would have been awesome, but landing in a dark river, even lucid, might have ended up as Hell for me. Haha.

I love that you punched that car in the previous dream, too. Good stuff man. Keep it up! It's been too long since I've made my rounds and read journals, so I will be catching up on yours soon.

Hi Oneironaut. Thanks for stopping in. I've been planning to check out your Lucid Dream journal too. I'd like to read them all! your dreams are always so fun to read. Plus there are so many great ideas to be found in your dreams. You always have such awesome control.

The dark river probably wasn't the most pleasant of dream moments. I guess I wasn't really afraid of it, just grossed out because of thinking about the Mississippi. The river is pretty gross in my part of the world.

That car dream was fun. I felt so powerful being able to throw the car around so easily. I love TK!

A Lucid Dream
Monday/December/29/2008
Lucid Dream # 75 of 2008
Spontaneous Lucidity

This is another one that took place about an hour and a half into sleep. I actually got Lucid several times the last two nights, but this is the only one I'm going to count.
I would have counted yesterdays nap Lucid, but it was too odd and confusing to record properly. If I can't record it I'm not going to count it.


This one starts out really strange too. I can't even describe how it starts out because it was so weird.

At this point I'm already aware that I'm dreaming, but my Lucidity is very low. But It gradually becomes a very high level. I'm in a very large circular chamber There is lots of marble and white columns, like some kind of place in ancient Rome. There are platforms around the outer walls of the place. And there is a person on each platform. Only they are inhuman people of all different species. More like creatures that you might see in Star Wars. I am standing on one of these platforms

In the center of this chamber is a giant, living, moving, female being, that is like a marble statue. I'm aware that this is some type of goddess, and she is very angry. She is going berserk, shaking her head violently, and her eyes are bugging out of their sockets. She is about to unleash her wrath on somebody in this room, I don't know who.

I decide to try and calm her. I try to use telepathy, reaching out with my mind the same way I would if using TK, only I'm sending her my thoughts. I don't remember my exact words. but I silently tell her how much I love and worship her.all the while sending a sense of calm along with my words. It works, she visibly calms and looks around the room unsure of who it is that is communicating to her. She says something about somebody talking to her, and I send her a few more soothing words.

I then leap from my platform, flying up and around the goddess. My Lucidity Level begins to get a little higher, and I realize that I have nothing to fear from this being. I am the only god in this dream. I fly up and land on the top of her marble head. (yes she is that big, a towering being filling the chamber. The top of her head is a wide platform I can stand on.) I play around a moment, doing a handstand. I then think,"Wow I've been in this dream a really long time!" And my Lucidity level now becomes very high.

I realize I should be doing something other than getting caught up in the dream plot.
I leap off her head, flying to the ground. I see a corridor leading away from this room, and I move in that direction. I start to stress out because I'm not sure what to do next. But then I relax and decide that this is such an amazing place I'm in, I'm not going to try and do anything. I'm just going to go exploring. Just for fun I pinch my nose and breath through it several times, enjoying the sensation of it.

I think about how amazing it is that I'm Lucid again. I look around and I'm just blown away by the scene. There is sooo much detail and realism. It's like I'm in some kind of museum hallway. There are sculptures everywhere, and the way the place looks is just beyond words. With all the marble and white stone architecture.

I think about how this place will be gone when I wake, and I have a hard time comprehending that. I see a wooden sculpture of a horse and rider on top of a pedestal. I walk up to it, examining the detail. I look at it real close and it is so detailed that I can even see the carving marks in the wood. I touch it and it feels just like wood under my fingers. I make a fist and tap on it with my knuckles, and it makes a very wood like sound. This place feels just like a physical environment to me. But I know it's really as insubstantial as a thought.

I continue down the corridor, there are windows here and there. I look outside and the first view is of a cloudy dismal day. I come to a small room, walking through it just checking out all the different sculpture exhibits. Some are mundane, but others are beyond words to describe. I continue along the corridor exploring room after room. Each room is more fascinating than the previous one. I look out another window, and the view is of an ally like place. Only it's designed in a way to be as fascinating as the corridor I now walk.

I suddenly become aware of the fact that I really need to pee. I think of just going right here, But I'm Lucid enough to know that peeing in a dream won't matter. I try to ignore it for a while, and I think about what Cusp always says about focusing on something else to change it. But I realize that will not apply in this situation, because it's my real body that has to go.

It gets so bad that I almost give in and start going, thinking it would be funny to pee all over this museum. But I stop myself, knowing it won't give me any relief, and may even cause me to go in my bed. After a little more of this I wake up.

I knew I shouldn't have drank that last cup of hot chocolate before going to sleep on top of too much water lol.

wow Caradon that was a very cool dream (the one in the alien castle + giant statue goddess)- regarding peeing in dreams- I once peed in a dream and it did offer me relief in that dream so it's actually a useful thing to do- once I woke up though the 'heavieness' returned and I had to pee again- I was also slightly afraid that by peeing in the dream I'd have peed myself in RL but luckily that was not the case. Cheers!