Bayne's Dream Journal

[Bayne]

Hi everyone. I just joined this forum but I've been reading through it for quite some time. I didn't join because I never really felt the urge to reply to any of the topics here. I'm actually migrating from the ld4all forum. I've been obsessed about LD'ing eversince I got my first one on a Sunday morning when I was a junior in highschool. A dream of where I was flying over a mountain, it was the most exhilarating experience I've ever had. Now I'm attending the Art Institute in SF of CA, my first year, and still striving to master lucid dreaming. So far, I've had almost no luck but every now and then, some of my dreams inspire me to strive for it again. I used to have excellent dream recall when I first began trying to lucid dream, but now, I rarely have any, even after keeping a dream journal for 2-3 years. I guess it's because I've been on and off recording my dreams. Well, here I am for my next attempt to get my vivid dream recalls back. Maybe knowing that I'll keep a journal here will help me to recall them better. It's getting late so I'd better be off to bed, here goes to yet another journey, wish me luck!

[Bayne]

note that I write my dreams in the present tense. I found that this makes rereading them later more interesting. I am driving through the curvy roads of a forest. I think I am on my way to a friend's place which I think is a dorm at UCSB. He calls me on my cell and lets me know that his cheap BMW car is waiting on the road. As I clear the forest, the road is along the edge of a cliff on an enormously tall prairie formation, gradually ascending. I see my friend's car at the side of the cliff. I stick my head into the driver seat's window and say "Hey man!" in a happy and surprising voice. For some reason, he's sitting in the front passenger's seat and he's with two other friends who are sitting in the back. I assume their from UCSB but one of them looks familiar, I think to myself "Svetlo?" They look to be tired and slightly annoyed, maybe because they were waiting for me. I think to myself "but I arrived right after I received the call in my car.." The cliff we're on has nothing to protect cars from falling off. The environment here is amazing! I look toward the edge of the cliff and can see the ocean and its horizon. The strong blue of the summer sky has dark clouds looming over the sea. As the clouds travel further away into the distance, they open up letting the sun's rays hit the ocean surface. We get back into our cars and as we arrive at our destination, I realize that the houses and apartments are right by the road. I see people everywhere, most about the same age as I am. We get out of our cars and as I get out, I feel a cool breeze blowing at my face from the direction of the ocean. I begin to envy my friend's place. We walk over to a stone fence/wall that surrounds some of the house's yards and lean back on it facing the horizon. Everyone around me is talking with someone but I stay silent and feel a little uneasy. One girl is sitting to the left of me on top of this stone fence rocking back and forth. Suddenly she loses her balance and is about to plummet down backwards when I quickly grab her leg and save her. I expect her to say "thank you for saving my life" but instead, she only says "thanks" as if nothing had happened. Later I'm acquainted with a female friend of my friend and we go to hang out at her house. I'm surprised at how big her house is. I could tell by its architecture that it wasn't cheap either. I tell her I need to use the bathroom and she leads me there. I go in and take a leak but I still don't feel relieved. Dream ends and I wake up.

[Bayne]

Wow, it's been a while since I had my last lucid dream. I'm glad I haven't completely lost them yet. As soon as the dream begins, I know right away that I am indeed dreaming. I'm standing inside a structure that looks like a casino parking lot. It looks like I am at the very bottom floor of it, not underground, just floor one. There aren't any parking lot lines or anything. It's like an ancient ruin that was restored; the walls, floor and ceiling are cement-like but have a yellowish orangish color as if there was moss growing on it. There are also rays of sunlight shining through the gaps between the columns supporting the structure. Anyways, in front of me is this short and stubby Golem like character. I approach him and hold my hand out and ask him what his name is. He shakes my hand and in my mind I hear his voice saying "My name is Marvin." I reply, "Oh cool, you're telepathic huh?" and he answers "Yeah." I look to my right and see far in the distance the same Me and this Marvin character speaking, except my back is turned toward me. It's like watching myself in 3rd person view. I suddenly remember I wanted to fly so I face Marvin again and tell him "Let's go flying!". I grab his hand and just as we're beginning to float, he stops me and says "It's not time for that yet" and I wake up.

[MidgetsInStupidSocks]

Flying, eh? No fair. You get flying, and I just get flat tires. Oh well, I guess that's the difference between 3 days, and 3 years of this stuff.

[Bayne]

This lucid dream happened randomly as I was trying to get back to sleep. Another one of those lucky WILD naps. anyways, here it goes: I felt strange sensations as it began... and then suddenly I got a lot of rushing noises and the feeling that I was falling. I heard a lot of rushing noises with some weird yells/screams in between. Instead of focusing on it, I just rode it through til I was in a large city or something. At this point I still couldn't see anything very clearly but I knew I was in a city. I was still able to hear the radio in the realworld that my mom had left on but that didn't make my dream unstable or anything. I didn't want the lucid dream to end so I decided to imagine I was flying and tried to create the sensation of flying. It worked after a while and I felt the wind rushing around my body and I was feeling weightless flying straight up in the skies at full speed! As this was happening my vision began to clear up. I was with a companion it seemed because as I was flying in loops in the sky, through the clouds, I was flying after someone. Then, randomly a bunch of jets were flying towards me like the kind from the XBOX360 Live arcade game called Ikaruga, white with blue stripes on them. They were small enough to destroy with my bare hand as they were flying toward me in a line. The explosions were disturbing because I didn't want such violent things in a lucid dream so I stopped focusing on the jets and flew in a different direction. I flew some more as fast as I could in the sky and came up to the guy who I was chasing, except now he was with someone else. He looked like the main character from the movie Groundhog Day. He was floating around in the sky with a relaxed and careless expression. I remember that he was wearing a black suit. I suddenly wanted to eat cotten candy so I imagined it popping into existance and it appeared, floating around in the sky with me. Then I created a handle for it so I could grab it and eat it... then the dream faded away.