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Still working on re-acheiving lucidity, but that didn't happen last night.

Dream:

I'm driving out of town to see some friends of mine, a married couple. They don't know I'm coming. When I arrive, they're living out of a garage or storage space off a dirt and gravel road. They're dressed up very nice, going out for a special occasion. I'm imposing now, it's awkward because I've traveled too far to turn back but I've made the mistake of simply showing up without warning. Also the sun is going down, and I don't have anywhere else to go. So they head off for their evening as planned, and I stay on the dirt road.

I'm in an antique store / market / warehouse. I've been here before in dreams, but never in my waking life (once again). I feel like I work here, but I'm also roaming around the place like I'm a customer. A familiar friend from my past, a loud semi-alcoholic yet entertaining guy, is working there as well. I get the feeling he owns a section of the building. For some reason I remember airplane propellers more than anything else being around at this point. Maybe airplane parts in general. We have a conversation, about what I don't know or remember, when the male friend from the earlier scenario shows up. We overhear him complaining about my showing up. I confront him to apologize and explain that I know I'm responsible for causing a problem, but he goes off the deep end and causes a scene (something this individual would never do). He can't seem to get over his anger towards me. I feel very very bad. He storms out, and the building is suddenly in ruins, as if it had been that way for years. People have left, my loud friend is still around but had lost his mind, and wandered the building like a ghost. There was sunlight coming in from a rather large missing section of a wall. I walked toward it and there were men working. They were cleaning up the debris. Couldn't tell if they were demolition men or just cleaning up. It seemed natural to them that I was there. end.

Whenever I dream about this particular warehouse type place, time moves around in a strange way. Once before I dreamed about this place and time moved across a span of a century and a half in a few moments, I remained static within it. The same thing happened here in this dream, where I remained static but the building and people around me changed. Though it wasn't as linear as before this time, it was this or it was that at any given moment I turned around.

Last Night, I had a dream in which I nearly achieved lucidity.

Dream:

I was outside, in a park like setting. Earlier I had been trying to get a concert, it was late at night then. But now it was dawn, the sun was orange and shining like in some old 70s photograph. I was with some friends and we were getting drinks from a stand. I noticed there were a lot of people inside the stand, more than was necessary. Then I realized it was basically my old job, when I used to work in a drive-thru coffee shop. Some police were accusing my friends of being on drugs, and I felt a bit high myself at the suggestion.At this point I began to question my reality. I stared at the sun, to see if I would shut my eyes. I didn't, it was just brilliant orange-pink. I instinctively commanded "lucidity now, increase lucidity", the colors became much more brilliant. I began to believe it was the effects of the drugs I had supposedly taken in my dream, and attributed it to that for some odd reason. My lucidity dissolved.

The only method I've been using is where I question my mental state continually throughout the day, building that habit. Once in a dream state, that habit remains and then triggers lucidity. Better luck sustaining it tonight...

Eureka.

I had a Lucid Dream last night. I have no idea how it could have happened since I wasn't even trying. It just happened on it's own.

It was one of those dreams where everything was sort of constantly moving, changing, fluctuating, so it's hard to say what was happening exactly. In any case it's not important - at one point I was in the mountains, and I was jumping from cliff to cliff. I had a moment of lucidity where I jumped up every high as a test, and thought "obviously I'm dreaming". I was very happy that I did this, and told myself the classic "Lucidity Now", which actually didn't work, I think I was trying too hard to control things which is mistake number 1. I fell back into the dream.

Trying to understand how this happened, I can only describe the conditions before I fell asleep that day. I was very tired, having gotten up early for work that day. I worked long hours, had some wine with dinner, and slept on my couch instead of in my bed (not a wine related location). I had a lot of different dreams that night, I guess I was catching up on some REM sleep.

Maybe the fact that I had a lot of different dreams back to back had something to do with my realization of being in a dream state, triggering the lucidity. who knows.