Thread: Licity: The Inner Workings Of My Mind

Fell asleep at at midnight, got up at 5 for a half hour WBTB, then slept until 8.

I couldn't recall any dreams, but I woke up with a very neutral feeling, not like the usual emotions I have after coming out of a dream.

The Statue Competition

I dreamed that I was the police chief in a large city. The city was about to open a museum about law enforcement, and I was asked to make a statue of myself. My competition was a female artist who may or may not have also worked for the police department. Time passes, and I win the contest. The two of us proceed to work together to make a statue of another police officer.

False Awakening

I (falsely) wake up, and open the drawer next to my bed to get my physical DJ and pencil. Leaving the drawer open, I set it on my bed. Something suddenly distracts me, some kind of noise from outside my room. I pause for a moment trying to determine what it is.

At some point after taking out the DJ, I actually wake up. I know this because I look down and see that the DJ is in the closed drawer.

I wanted to kick myself after this one, why didn't I try a reality check right when I woke up like I always do?

Reality check right after waking! Gosh. I should start doing that. Good idea.

My recall has been way off all of a sudden, kind of a dry spell, but for recall, not LDs. I should buy some more apple juice...

If you see this color, the events written in it are lucid.

Testing

This is my favorite dream yet, as it is the first LD lasting longer than 10 seconds!

I am at one of my old schools, taking some kind of major test, probably a midterm or final. The label on the test says Reading, but the questions are math problems. The test has about 90 questions, but the numbers are out of order(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 63, 37, etc.) Because of this, I think I am finished with the test after only a few questions. Once I realize my mistake, I only have a half hour left. I am freaking out, working. For some reason, I am working outside, and get a sunburn on my neck. At some point, I give up and look for something else to do. One way or another, I am arguing about the test with two of my friends. I suddenly ask for the time. They are both wearing identical watches. They read the time, and I only have 5 minutes left! I panic again about the test. I decide to officially give up.

Next thing I know, I am at a different friend's house. He is nowhere to be found. I am playing a Dreamcast game. I then stop playing and walk down the hallway to his living room. On the way, I am thinking "Haha, Dreamcast, maybe I'm dreaming."

I do a reality check by trying to push my finger through my palm...

AND IT WORKED!

I am literally jumping around the room with excitement, but stop when the dream starts to fade. I grab a wall and feel the texture. The tactile stimulation stablizes the dream. I move around the room(which has abnormally weak gravity by the way), touching pillows, walls, and lampshades for stability. Once I am stable, I put my finger through my hand again. I swear, my finger coming out the other side of my hand is the weirdest thing I have ever seen. I pull it back out, and get an idea.

I know it's not good to try something big in your first LD, but I decided to try some sort of control. I don't remember what I attempted, it might have been a scene change, or a summoning. Whatever it was, it didn't work. That was when the dream ended.

My favorite dream yet, and my first meaningful DILD.

Factory

I was dreaming I was in a factory tour of some kind. I was watching a video about how the builder was one man that dug a hole in the ground for the factory to go in himself. I had a really vivid scene where I was helping the guy start construction. He had just started to dig the first hole. He had been explaining all of the different tools he was going to use for the job. He sounded a lot like he was giving an infomercial.

He is using an edger to dig for some reason. It stops working, and he asks me to clean it. I leave and return with a garder hose. I begin to use it to wash some of the internal parts. I am also pretending to be Billy Mays, coming up with new ways to sell an ordinary hose. We are laughing like crazy, then I wake up.


Talk about weird...

Nice job on that first LD! Yup the old finger through the hand trick... that's how I first intentionally RC'd. :3 Definitely lolled at the dreamcast part... gotta love that Sega.

I'm reading over my written DJ, and it is looking like Dreamast might actually be a dream sign.


Dancing

Crappy recall. I was visiting Maryland. And watching someone dance. That's about it.

Discovery

Another bad night for recall. Either that, or a short dream.

I dreamed I was a scientist working with chemicals in a laboratory. I had just discovered the chemicals and material that made refrigerators possible. I also invented a material called "curtain".

Been a very long time since I last posted, I think I might just post the epic dreams here. This one is the best dream I had in a long time.

Case #1: The Pool, The House, and The Door

I am a friend of a member of a New York police squad that is in charge of investigating a death. I do not know the details, but I know that the death is wrapped up in a bunch of other issues.

A location involved is a house with a swimming pool, which a dream memory says is rare in this part of the state. The door to the house does not open. The owner house, a woman with red hair, is linked to the crime in some way. We find out that some sort of spirit or ghost affects the place. If you move toward the house, it is possible to walk on the surface of the water. The proper way to enter the house is to do this while whispering "Jessica, marry me." The owner's name is not Jessica, which I found strange. After doing that, press yourself against the door and you phase through it.

There is a play at a theater at some point in the dream, the lead actor and actress being an older couple. The couple are involved in the crime too.

A subplot in the dream is that Briana, a person I know, and one of her friends are part of some sort of honor ceremony, like a college graduation. Briana's parents work a lot, and she is afraid her mother won't be able to come to the ceremony. In the end, I go to the ceremony to see her mother arrive. Everything is happy for a moment, and then I feel a huge surge of adrenaline, as I think I solved the crime.

I race back to the pool house and cross the water saying the words. I lean against the door and... nothing. "What do you want, a bribe?" I ask. Then I fall in.

Suddenly it is nighttime. The house I entered has a staircase directly in front of me, with a closed door to my right. A light is coming from the crack beneath the door, and I think it is a bathroom. A wide room opens to my left, but it is dark and I do not look in. To the right of the staircase is a series of doors down a hallway.

I feel threatened for some reason, and note that a screen door was behind the unopenable one. In this dream, I am stronger than I am in waking life. I wrench the screen off, intending to use it as a shield, but it is too unwieldy and I set it down. I notice a cane in the corner, and I hold it like a baseball bat.

I move up the stairs slowly and see a huge bedroom at the top. It is empty and has two doors leading off, one at the far side, one on the same side as the stairs. I go to the far door and peek through just long enough to see the old couple taking a bath together. I close the door before they see me.

I suddenly forget all about the crime and remember the owner is a friend. I don't want to scare her, and I am unsure if I should wait inside for her, or go out and come back in once I am sure she is out of the bathroom. On my way to the stairs, she comes up and greets me. We are talking like old friends when the other bedroom door opens. Inside, a man on the police squad is loading clothes into a suitcase. I assume the room was for rent.

The woman comments on how "I might like to go into Brook or Manhat and see some old friends". I realize that this woman is also Briana's friend's mother, and that the friend is probably asleep in one of the downstairs rooms.

I now see a group of children in the corner of the room, probably about 10 years old. They are playing a game with some electronic device. It emits a series of beeps, and you have a button that mutes it when held down. The objective is to hold down the button just long enough to block out one series of beeps, and nothing more.

Despite the kids making a lot of noise, I fall asleep in the dream and wake up for real.