5triker's Lucid Dream Journal

BTW: I have far to many non-lucid dreams to record them all (about 2-3 biggies a night, i'd be here all day recording them!) so i'm just going to record all my LDs, and perhaps very odd non-lucid dreams...!



Non lucid part in black
Lucid part in blue



First Lucid Dream, whilst trying, (27th July 2008) (DILD):
Firstly recorded on paper, then decided to do it on the website (easier to find :)):

I was in a armored car with the heroes cast and a few of the 24 cast, when it was ambushed by 20+ armed guys on motorbikes :(, and one guy in a sports car (looked like the Stig from top gear). This all took place in the dead of night in what looked like New York city :shock:. Anyway it wasnt an overly vivid LD so the lucidness was a bit vague, so i went with the dream an awful lot, but still had a fair bit of control.
The armed guys forced the car into an alleyway, killed all the people i was with :(. However i managed to escape out of the alleyway, and on the main road. At this point i was surrounded, and they all started firing their guns at me. Fortunately i seemed to have matrix-style dodging powers :D, and when they were reloading i thought it would be funny to see it i could make the guys disappear. Well i did one better and made most of them explode, lol.
After this i started running away from the rest of them, and the guy in the sports car. I ran onto the footpath were trees and lampposts protected me and stopped the car running over me, however the motorbikes were catching up on me. So i made a faster sports car appear and made a break for it :). In the end i managed to lose them. This is were the dream ended.
It was really brilliant, i especially liked the mixture of tv shows and movies within the one dream :D, and the amount of control i had.

2nd LD (30th July 2008) (DILD):
In the days that followed i tried every night to do WILDing, using 'Billybob's' guide. However nothing was triggered, and i only had one DILD, in which i stopped the dream and tried recounting what an LD is, and for some reason this woke me up :(.

3rd LD (3rd August 2008) (DILD):
Just there i had a much more vivid and proper DILD :D;
I was in the middle of a mild nightmare (of being hunted down by my relatives, lol) and for some reason i suddenly became lucid... Well, naturally, i stopped the dream to established a decent 'lucid hold'. So i recounted again what an LD is (but didn't wake up). At this point i wanted to try to complete one of the monthly tasks (eat some intangible). However i did something that i realize now shouldn't have, i tried to make everything just disappear, lol, to create a new landscape, not releasing of course how difficult this would be (to think of virtually nothing, as dreams are your thoughts at the time), well to cut a long story short the dream fell apart . And then something really odd occurred; i had a very vivid 'false awakening' (i think its called). Where i 'woke up' (not lucid) in my bed, although felt awake and started to write down about the lucid dream i had, and after finishing this, i really woke up, dreadfully confused, lol:D.
All-in-all i think LDing is brilliant, and i cant wait till i have my first WILD.

4th LD (3rd August 2008) (DILD):
After writing about my very vivid lucid dream i when to sleep again, and had another LD, lol! This one was far less vivid, i only had a slight amount of control. And i was seeing my character in the 3rd person, who in this dream was 'Dr House' out of the American tv series, lol :D! I remember being able to control my character and i was vaguely aware it was a dream, although woke up before i could do something useful or of interest :(.

5th LD (DILD). Today, about 2 hours ago, i had (by far) the most vivid and aware LD i have ever had!! :D

The dream in which i DILDed was very blurry before i attained lucidity, i cant even remember what it was about... However i attained full lucidity and i was completely aware of what was happening :D.
Unfortunately very soon after i attained lucidity everything started to go very blurry again (odd colors and images started to intertwine with the original dream landscape, and fell my real self outside of the dream). At this point i remembered reading on the forum something about rubbing yours hands together can pull you back into the vividness of a LD. And sure enough when i rubbed my hands together (whether my body rubbed its hands together or my brain just simulated what would happen if i rubbed my hands together i don't know. But it certainly felt like i rubbed my hands together with the warmth that seemed to build up in them) it brought the LD into even more vividness than before :D.
At this point i remember being in a luxury black car on a motorway with people i didn't know. So i tried to stop the dream, it didn't work but the car pulled over. Whilst this was happening i resighted what a LD is and that this was all in my head...

When the car pulled over i seemed to appear in a different place, just outside the Spanish villa that i spent my holiday in, with friends, a few weeks ago. The villa was a town house style villa arranged in a resort with other town house style villas. I got out of the car, stayed outside and started persuading the people in my dream that i am dreaming and that they are not real, just part of my imagination (this didn't go down to well, :D lol). So i started changing the peoples' clothes the style, the color, ect for a laugh :D. Soon, however i released it was getting darker, and i thought it would be the perfect opportunity to complete this month's challenge (Eat something intangible). In this case i would try to suck darkness though a straw to bring the dream back into daytime, lol :D (i devised this plan when i was awake because i vaguely remember a cartoon character doing something similar).
So i tried to make a straw appear in my pocket (as i read about doing it like this), however this did not work. So i just made the straw appear in midair. I put the straw to my lips and sucked (the other people in the dream were watching this and laughing at me!) however, annoyingly, there were clouds in the way, and instead of sucking away the darkness i sucked in the clouds, lol :D. They didnt taste of anything they just had the texture of the cream on top of a cappuccino :D.
After sucking the clouds i couldn't manage to suck in darkness :(. I tried a few times but just couldn't.
After this i could feel the dream coming to an end, so i decided to see what 'sexy-time' :D felt like in a lucid dream, lol (call me shallow and all that...). So when walking though the door into my villa i thought of a super hot chick to appear. And sure enough :D... Anyway we started having sex in the bedroom... and very quickly i release something was wrong i looked down at her and realized she turned into someone else!!! (Much like what happened to Tom Cruise in 'Vanilla Sky', when he was having sex with Penélope Cruz and she turned into Cameron Diaz, lol). Well, she started screaming and i started screaming lol, i quickly got off and started putting clothes on. At this point the dream felt so real, i wanted to do a reality check to see if i was dreaming. But at the same time i didn't want to wake up if i was dreaming. I herd footsteps running toward the door, but i wasn't dressed!! So i said to myself 'if this is a dream i would be able to put clothes on myself and make her disappear.' I stood in the middle of the room and done a jump and twist to put my clothes on (like in the computer game 'SIMs'). Unfortuantly this caused me to wake up :(!!!!

This was by far the best LD ive had, as i felt so alert and it was so vivid. I just wish it didnt end so soon! :(.

I've just read that a good reality check to use without waking yourself up is pitching your nose. If you keep breathing though it then your dreaming, if not your awake.

I only put this here as a reminder to me :D!

Finally after 9 days of non-lucidness i just had a lucid dream! :D

I was in my computer room, hiding from buglers who were trying to enter my house, lol :D. I was still typing and chatting away at my computer, for some reason i felt really safe in there. However at this point i thought, wouldn't it be bad if one of the buglers got a ladder and climbed up to my computer room window. At this exact moment my thought happened.

For some reason this triggered me into lucidness, maybe it was because when i thought of something bad, it happened. I didn't really feel very stable in the LD though, still doubts of, 'dream or not', kept in my mind. So i decided to do an odd RC that i heard about on this site. I looked a my computer room digital clock, and in my mind was the thought that when someone else done this particular RC the numbers on the clock turned into different numbers and symbols very quickly, so naturally they did. 'I'm really LD,' i thought. At this point i made the buglers disappear and i said to myself this is an LD, everything here is in my mind, nothing is real'. To prove to myself my hold on the dream i made a giant spider appear and then made it explode, i don't know why i did this but it seemed like a good idea at the time, lol :D. Next i went down my stairs, and i thought it would be a good idea to change the scene into a carnival scene, the house scene started to blacken and i felt myself drift. However half way through i changed my mind and i stayed at the house scene :?. I went to my kitchen and was about to go outside to try some monthly tasks, when i heard, what seemed to me at the time, as a door slam in reality outside my dream. 'It was too loud and natural to be within the dream,' i thought. This startled me and i woke up, but not violently.

I semi-woke up, i didn't open my eyes or have a chance to move. In reality i couldn't move! I think this was sleep paralysis, although i don't know if this is possible after a dream, ill ask the forums later. So when i woke up i couldn't move, and i thought, 'possible SP,' so i thought i would give WILDing a go, and try and enter my previous LD again. Unfortunately i knew it was close to my alarm going off for college, so i had to get up there and then, DAM! complete missed opportunity :(!
But i did learn one thing for my short SP trip;
:shock: DON'T SWALLOW IN SP, OR WHEN TRYING SP, IT STOPS THE CYCLE REALLY QUICKLY!!!

BTW none of my parents were up at that time, so i don't think anyone from outside my dream slammed a door at all, very odd :?. I'll ask about it later.

Its been a week or so from my last lucid. In this LD i think i tried too hard to gain too much control and in the process woke myself up... :?. Or perhaps the LD just 'ran out' as i spent so much time gaining the control, I'm not sure...

Anyway, i remember being with my mom in a derelict house. We started to be chased out of the house and appeared in my backyard, we climbed over our 6 foot fence. Into where normally our neighbor's garden is, but instead it was a race track, lol :D. My mom and i both got into go-karts, i got the really fast go-kart (some sort of Formula 1 go-kart) and my mom got the shitty one ^^! The people who were chasing us got into a Maclaren SLR Mercedes. I'm pretty sure they kill my mom in the car/go-kart chase (this didn't really phase me, lol :D) and continued to chase me, however when i began to pull away from the car i slowed down and suddenly became lucid! Woop, Woop :D!

At this point the dream became far more vivid and i felt very lucid. So i stopped the go-kart and a got out of it. However only when i got out of the go-kart did i realize i was in the middle of a large European city road with about 10 people from school surrounding me. I seen the chasing car come toward me again and i decided to slow down/stop the dream. So now i did my normal thing of resighting what an LD is and that everything is in my head, i also kept rubbing my hands to keep the dream really vivid. After this, i made the chasing car disappear, and also made a few of my school friends disappear too. I did this because i wanted to start afresh so i could do 1 of the monthly tasks, and also to get a really good control of the dream. Unfortunately a few of my friends wouldn't disappear, i figured it was because there was still too much attachment between me and my peers. So i started doing things i normally wouldn't do to them like punching them, kicking them, ect, whilst saying 'they are not real, just figments of my imagination.' I think i managed to make nearly all of them disappear, but then i decided just to drive away to a different part of the city. I ended up in the middle of a large crossroads between 2 main roads, oddly though, in the middle of the crossroads was a movie set. I got out of the car and walked toward the movie set, which consisted of many lights and cameras (which were off at the time). It got very dark, very quickly at this point so i tried to make the lights of the set turn on, but they didn't. So instead i tried to make the sun appear in the sky, but it didn't. So finally to try to make the dream lighter i said 'and God said, let there be light and there was light' lol :laughtillhurts:! Unfortunately this is what caused me to wake up :(. I was pretty pissed off when i woke up becasue i did very little in the LD other than trying to control it :(.

When i woke up i tried some WILDing but i couldn't do it, once again :pissed:!

This one is an all-round odd dream/LD.

Ok, so i was in the middle of a dream when a friend of mine, in the dream, started talking to me, and keep saying, 'this is a dream, your dreaming'. Naturally i became lucid. At this point i tried to do my routine that i always do once lucid; stop the dream and resight what an LD is whilst rubbing my hands. However before i had a chance to do this, i switched to another dream, which was non-lucid :(.

Now this is were things become odd... In this non-lucid dream i appeared in (or around) a concert hall where Coldplay were apparently going to be playing. When i was in the concert i keep thinking to myself about the previous LD. I was very frustrated about not being to stay lucid in the LD, in my non-lucid dream (complicated, i know) lol! Its almost like a complicated false awaking. After this i was still unnaturally annoyed at not being able to stay lucid, and not being able to figure out it was a dream sooner (in the non-lucid dream), ironic lol! And then eventually i was woken up by my alarm, i found this all very strange as my non-lucid dream felt so real.

HAD THE BEST LD YET LAST NIGHT :boogie::boogie:!!!!

The only problem is that i did so much cool stuff its difficult to recall it all, lol!

Right, it started with normal non-lucidness. I remember my friends around a car, and then i got in the car (in the front seat), my friend's sister was driving. She suddenly went really evil (lol), sped up, shouted random abuse at me and just before she was about to crash us into another car i turned lucid :D!

We crash into the other car, i had to act quick (no time for stopping the dream). I went though the car window screen, i tried to keep my cool (otherwise i would wake up). So mid-way through the air when i was about to hit the ground i started to do neo-matrix-style flying, but still skimmed the ground. At this point i was in a 3rd person view of myself for a brief second, and released that i was neo! (black cloak and glasses etc.) :D. All this really got my confidence up in the LD, i felt as though i could do anything :D! However when i tried to land (this is were sections of the LD begin to get a little fussy) i think i land in an enclosure full of zombie-like people! I think i manage to fight them off as i didn't wake up, although i can't remember.
The next thing i remember is being obsessed with completing the advanced task. I 'appeared' in a small, dark room, with a small table in the middle. Lying face up on the table was a square mirror, slightly smaller than the table. Somehow when i looked down at the mirror my full body reflection appeared. I cut the mirror in half so each half of the mirror had half of my original reflection, but my reflection (although should) didn't move. I then broke the two halves of the mirror in pieces about the size of dimes. I could still make out my reflections easily. The two halves then turned a slight different color from each other and my half reflections started moving away from each other, by means of the mirror piece moving. It looked very realistic as the reflections on the mirror also seemed to move within the mirror as well as the moving pieces. I felt this still didn't count as having yourself in two different locations, so i made my view point change (as if i was one of the reflections. I then tried to merge it with the other reflection's view point, via a split screen. However they seemed to blur into each other, but i was still able to see each point of view easy, when i wanted, (almost like the way you can change the focus of your eye to see objects further away making closer objects blurred and in your peripheral vision.) I then moved the reflections away from each other, seemingly longer than how long the table was. I reckon the reflections ended up about 20m from each other before the dream moved on .

BTW; don't ask me why i tried this method, it never occurred to me before. I just don't know lol!

The dream seemed to move onto a medieval-style siege battle. I was hiding at the opening of a large forest, in some bushes. The open was facing the town that was being sieged. I remember seeing trebuchets launching large masses of fire toward us, that were destroying the town. I also remember seeing the town trying to fire fire-arrows back. It gets very blurry again after this. However I remember suddenly seeing another me walking through the town, or possibly i caught a glimpse of another me just outside the town (again a bit blurry, maybe should've rubbed my hands or something). Anyway, i then shifted my view point to the 'other me'. And was able to control him, i then tried to merge the 2 view points of me together into a split screen. However the two view points merged like they did using the previous method. I moved my 2 characters about a bit, i walked the 'other me' around the town and 'forest me' into the forest, i remember being very excited about this. The dream then changed scene, and i completed the advanced task, again! Best, LD by far as i had so much control and confidence :D:D!

I think i then woke up

Forgot to mention i had another LD last night after waking up from the first :D. This one was predominantly sexually based (I'd rather not expand, lol :D). Although i remember rubbing my hands together at the beginning, and there being tremendous detail in my surroundings. One example in particular was me walking bare foot on a tiled floor, and me being able the coldness of the floor, and the exact sort-of sticky/grip-like feeling you get when walking on a cold, solid tiled floor. Very realistic if i do say so myself :D!

So 2 full LDs in 1 night, I'm going well :D!