Raccoon('s) City of Angels.

[Raccoon]

[ Bwahaha, two references in one title. ] New to the site, but I see this as a good thing for me to do, considering im often forgetful. Having this here will also make me remember to write down my dreams, so that I can add to this. Hopefully I *remember* my dreams tonight. I have a plan, lets see if it gets me lucid. I dont expect that for a while yet, but its worth a shot. EDIT: 2/22/08 3:35 AM Awesome, plan is as follows: B-Multivitamin and a Fish Oil 1000 washed down with Arizona Green Tea, im going to listen to the 'Ultimate Lucid Induction' mp3 and fall into bed. Only flaws I can come up with are bad luck or not having enough of either of the vitamins in my system. Morning will tell. Oh, and pen/paper beside the bed. Wish me luck! EDIT2: ****. Green Tea, while delicious, will make you need to pee. Maybe its for the better, that the pills will have had time to enter my system. Starting over with the mp3 and then hopefully sleep. EDIT3: Okay, in the military we do a thing called an AAR, which is just a review of the good and bad things. Good- One of the better nights sleep Ive had lately. Bad- No recollection of any dreams. Why? My best guesses involve not waking up at all during the night, and possibly not reaching a deep enough sleep.. I origionally tried to fall asleep around 10 PM, and due to one thing after another woke up around 1 AM for a phone call and didnt fall asleep until.. 5AMish? Not a good night for dreaming. Recognizing problems and moving past them.. Ill try using an alarm to wake me up 5-6 hours after I fall asleep and see if I can remember a dream. Ill move on from that point.

[Raccoon]

Okay, Day 2. Trying to sleep, couple B-Vitamins and FO1000's hours ago. Alarm set for 4 PM, listening to the mp3 in bed. Journal beside bed. ??? Profit? ( I hope. ) EDIT: And.. Nothing. Multiple wake-ups, I roll over to the pen and paper, and nothing. Its like Im not dreaming, really. Everyone dreams, blah blah blah... Its kind of discouraging that im not remembering something. So I had to go babysit early this morning, and this afternoon, took a nap. I dont know if it was a dream or even lucid.. I want to say I was in control and random things were happening but I was thinking and responding to them. Is that a lucid dream? Regardless of what it was, heres what I remember- I was sitting in a vehicle ( Car or truck, dont remember ) talking with someone when something that looked like a zombie. We were fighting it when I woke up to the phone.

[Raccoon]

Okay, so I had a few more dreams yesterday, but the notes I wrote down for them were literal gibberish.. Not even worth the time to type in here. I dont remember too much of last night, except for one where I was hanging out with an old friend of mine named Heather.. Hmm. Quick interpretation tells me that the dream was acting much as real life had a few months ago, no matter how hard I tried, I was never gonna get her because there was always another guy there. My biggest problems are going to be reality checking and actually taking over my dreams.. I normally just follow along for the ride. Looking at this one, the entire thing could have used an RC, and I knew it was somewhere that didnt exist. Along for the ride -_-

[Raccoon]

K. Been gone for the past week to work at my military unit.. Most of the nights of sleep were poor, and probably not helped by use of alchohol. SO. I do remember I had an interesting dream this morning, though I didnt have a chance to write it down. No lucids yet, though I havent been trying. Oh, and lots of random reality checks during waking life. Starting to be a habit, and going from what Ive read thus far, thats a really good thing. Im expecting to be gone again, but ill try to do better to write down my dreams. EDIT: At my aunts house still, and had an interesting enough dream. Pretty much summed up as living at my moms house again, even though it was a new location. My mind is telling me ive moved back into the same situation, I think.

[Raccoon]

So, I may have had my first Lucid Dream this morning/afternoon. ( I sleep on a fun schedule, hush. ) Notes that follow are exact out of my notebook. -- 22MAR08 ( SAT Morning/Afternoon ) Duration: Medium/Long. Went on more than a few minutes, it felt like I remember the flying most vividly- large, long staircases almost straight down, that I merely ran to the edge of and jumped. I occassionally had to slow my descent using my "wings" ( werent visible, but I knew I had wings. ) (Flying felt similar to helicopter landing, actually. ) Entered a roon with three (?) other individuals- one was a little girl, one was a normal sized guy, the other was a large bouncer sized guy. The little girl was my target, I needed to get her away from the guys. I remember seeing a snowball and fireball thrown at me, and mimicking the actions and returning fire. They hurt where they hit, and flying around the room made me a difficult target. I got in at least two good hits on the big guy, normal guy was flying around a bit too. Details are fuzzy from the rest of the fighting. I dont know if it was before or after the flying, I think before- Furious fighting in a hallway, running from something or another. Got kicked into a wall by something that reminded me of a very large bird, and attempted to be trampled. Couple points- Flying/Running- I was moving fast, it seemed. Either the others couldnt match speed or couldnt pursue. I didnt think I was going that fast, but thats all relative too- I could have been moving so fast that I was barely visible, or sputtering around thinking I was fast. Again, relative. I wanted to move, for now I assume it was top speed. Ha, combat played like Oblivion. ( Spellsize, movement. ) Similarities dont explain the other people, though. Used Oblivion as a lens to see the spells/etc. through to make it 'visible?' Possibly. Got the feeling that the normal guy was a caster of some sort, or strived to be one. The large one may have been a shapeshifter, he tried to grapple and crush me repeatedly without really succeeding; twice tops. The little girl is the enigma of all this, I dont know if I was trying to save her from them, or if she was the boss of it all. Possibly a ruse to disarm me that I didnt bite? I really dont remember enough. AAR: Flying- Easy. You know the feelings and have done it enough. Speed- I remember wanting to move, but I wasnt pushing for max. Attempt top speed flying and ground. Dogfight- Did the guy want to fight in the air? I dont remember. Fighting- I know I threw a snowball and then a fireball, couple hit targets. No idea how effective or how much they hurt. Conversation- There was one, but it wasnt audible or out loud. Telepathic? No idea, really. Next question- Was it Lucid? I dont know, not knowing what to expect. I was fully in control, it was not like watching a movie- I was there, I was thinking, I was acting. Which made the flying sequence awesome. N.Q.- Who Were the other individuals? Werent all that threatening, so I guess they were my own. I had no fear of them, and I cant remember a reason I would fight them or want to. Second thought, I think they instigated the fight and I returned fire. Who, and why, remain though. Op1- Was trying to save the little girl. But, how did I enter her dream? Op2- All three were simply dream characters of mine. Op3- All three entered my dream. Big guy and magic guy were working together. Little girl is unknown. ************************************************** ******* 4 Pages of text. Most of it I remembered, some bits I had forgotten ( the magic guy flying? ) and after two hours of driving, a bit more thinking on all of it. I dont know how much more aware I could get, really. I know I was thinking of what to do next, which to me makes it a lucid dream- any other dream, its simply watching a movie and seeing what happens next. So, my first lucid dream. Yay. Still have a few questions unanswered- I dont know who the people were. If it was simply a lucid dream, then they came from my mind and I fought them. But targets from my mind would have been engaging, I *wanted* a better fight than I was having. If I could have forced it, I would have. Thats one strong point for the my characters/others arguement. Next question is, was it *my* dream that I fought in? That leads to how would I have dreamwalked, not knowing how. Regardless, I had a lot of fun with it. Looking forward to either the characters coming back or others coming to visit again.

[Raccoon]

I was busy earlier today, had an interesting dream last night- From what I remember, there was a group of people that were familiar to me ( could remember names, recognisable, etc. ) that were eating some sort of food, and then had the ability to change into an animal. I dont know why, but I was afraid they were going to kill me the entire time. I ate a piece, turned into a bird, and flew as fast as I could out of the house. Either it had a time limit on it, or I lost focus or something, but I landed and they brought me back. More flying! \o/ If I remember more Ill add it. That would be a cool one to have continue, find out what was going on.

[Raccoon]

Alright, had a short, very short, lucid sex dream this morning. Ill say this- if you are someone trying to have a lucid dream to have sex, your body doesn't know what to expect because you haven't felt it. But yeah, its just as good, when you know what to expect. Oh, and I figured out what the flying sequence of my previous dream felt life- a PS1 game series I loved the hell out of, called Armored Core. <3. Anyways, yeah. Im still around. No other notable dreams.

[Raccoon]

So, I found out a bit of info through talking with a friend of mine- The little girl, in my first lucid dream? A friend of mine. [ I had given her the link to this site, when she started reading it- ] By her descripion, went into a trance ( for about 5 minutes, other people in the room freaking out around her ) and saw the entire dream through her eyes. [ Later that night, ] We talked for a few minutes, and have likely candidates for who it was trying to screw with one/both of us. So, it wasnt a NightStalker, and for those of you who are upset/mad/surprised that I had a lucid this fast ( Was about one month of working on it at that point ) I want to re-emphasize that Ive not only studied other things before, but that this situation wasnt a normal one either. If someone was to visit your dream, youll know. Become lucid and do what you need to.. Dont worry about the how of it, just do it. When I was fighting, I didnt worry about what I needed to do, I took my best options available. You may make a mistake. You may actually feel pain ( I did. ) Hell, you may wake up with physical marks that will be explainable as bruises. Do what you need to. No more, no less. [ Also, I'm up for practicing. Come have fun. ]